skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, a big beef for me is trying to get to a "Input Source" menu in my Honda. I just want to change from Bluetooth (Spotify to FM radio).

Tiny field, not an obvious button, hard to hit while moving. Takes way too much time or effort. Meanwhile trying to do it in my wife's Mazda 3? Just press the big FM button, can't miss it, and can feel for it.

Repeat ad infinitum for other functions. The touchscreen is great for when I'm in the driveway and want to change settings but otherwise terrible for everything else.
I couldn't disagree more. If anything, the city should separate the docks from the bikes, so more companies can compete with their own bike services and infrastructure could be shared and companies taxed to expand it.

then the city could place these docks on literally every block and companies could provide the bikes and service to rebalance the bikes on the docks as necessary. that environment would result in more variety of bikes (cargo, electric, tandem, etc) with more frequency and cheaper costs, as they wouldn't have to be concerned about political nonsense on getting the docks setup to begin with.
Governments taking hostages aside - risking your employees security like that is extremely irresponsible from Google.
Deutsche Bank to cut 800 jobs after strong first quarter
It's not that easy, those places were built as offices, not apartments, they don't have a lot of the things that are required to be liveable.
'Fat' and 'ugly' are not grotesque words, they are unkind. If you want grotesque, look up 'hassan's rumpus room' from Naked Lunch. Should be around page 60 or so.
Why stop there? They should pay for every new yorker to have a car and even a private jet too. /s
I think it might also be the privilege of software engineers speaking. You can literally get another job, a permanent position with benefits, if you're unhappy with your current position. You probably just have to change your linkedin status, write a few former colleagues or tell it the world via twitter.

This is not possible if you're working in the kitchen or cleaning. Sucks for you, right? You must be in this situation because you've chosen it, you can just switch jobs otherwise.

In a world where you're only surrounded by tech workers your whole world might become tech with an occasional ring from the food delivery man the only contact with the outside world. I've never been in silicon valley but that's how I imagine it to be.
I'm not sure.

There was an opt-out telemetry proposal in Go [0], which caused a huge backlash. The proposal authors were so focused on the benefits of the telemetry, that they did their best to invent all kinds of very convincing arguments why their telemetry is okay, useful, not intrusive, etc. etc. They completely ignored the ethics of the problem - that they are not entitled to users' data without consent.

It took a very dramatic reaction from the community to convince them that adding opt-out telemetry without users' explicit consent is a bad idea, no matter how "non-intrusive" and "helpful" it is.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
Setup Your in House AI Slack Bot for Data Analytics in Natural Language
A tutorial of setting up your slack bot for data analytics in natural language, so people do not know SQL can do analysis themselves.
If every system has a web browser that handles WASM and program develop paradigms shift to primarily utilize it, then programs by default are cross-platform and memory sandboxed.

Sounds a lot better than today.
What a strange proposal. If bike sharing is “a bank propaganda program,” and you think your peers agree with you, why not propose the city provide it? The New York City budget is over $100bn a year.

> Citi pays $20 million a year for the rights to Citi Field, and that's just regular signage on a stadium where men play the world's most boring sport

Citi Field gives Citi an exclusive, branded venue to take clients and cut deals. You’re not going to win M&A business with a free bike.
The point I’m making is that most people aren’t buying $110 phones and keeping them for years and most people making what the stereotypical HN user makes also isn’t buying $110 phones.
In remote areas, Starlink is probably a better bet than 5G to allow for low latency, high bandwidth use cases.
If this is where you're at (both in terms of issues your seeing and not seeing the value in GPT4 like lots of us), then I think you probably should stick to Bing AI Chat for a while? The landscape is changing super fast, so things will be different in a few months, but for most people MS offer a decent service.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Bing+AI&showconv=1

It does come with an Edge requirement and a MS account requirement (and I've seen reports that you can fudge the Edge requirement with the correct User Agent, but I haven't tried it).
I agree. What I said is completely valid and I am being DV'd. And the minute I start talking about just the possibility that 5G could be harmful or used against us people think I believe that they also have nanobots in vaccines.

If someone wants to criticize the idea that 5G could be used for greater intelligence gathering please have at it. Otherwise, your DVs just make me more paranoid.
I've tried but there's not enough momentum on this issue. Nobody cares. Can't find anyone who cares about the issue AND has the power/ability to cause change. There's no law too against this AFAIK. so there's no way forward that I can see.
I like your analysis, but I love how it leaves GenXers out of the picture. Typical.
I am inexplicably reminded of the following great quote:

> As an European it was always hard for me to understand American culture. What was fascinating for me is that they like bragging about their freedom which was weird for me, because I didn't think that I have any less freedom than them. I always thought 'What is the difference'. However after this game I finally understand it. NA is just so fucking free.
I work for a db vendor and Acid compliance (also implemented with MVCC) is a big selling point.
Yet, most use cases I later see don’t require such rigid controls on updates.
This means customers are paying for this as transactionally consistent updates are more expensive than eventually consistent ones.
Are Software Platforms Inevitable?
Bike availability and quality is already bad enough. I can't imagine how bad it would get if suddenly the program was free.
It was blocked because the CSU wanted to win the local election in Bavaria by blocking "ugly" wind turbines.
Langforge: A Toolkit for Creating and Deploying LangChain Apps
Bought a 2023 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV. The software UX is so bad and the car's systems are so buggy. One example is that if you don't shut the door all the way and shift into drive you get a beeping sound and a big red message that says

SHIFT [p] into range

I don't understand what that means. Is it telling me to put the car back into park? Why not just say the door is open? My '05 Subaru had lights on the dashboard that showed each door that was open - a really sensible way of indicating what to do without having to read anything.
I'll save you the click: this is an extended rant about Elon that never even mentions the Starship launch pad after the title and its accompanying image caption.

Which is probably just as well, because not only is it highly unlikely that Elon had anything to do with its design, but SpaceX was well aware of its flaws/risks and was already working on a better version. But it wasn't ready in time, and this particular Starship would be destroyed in the test regardless, so they launched anyway.
Facebook has a history of letting crime groups operate even if they are obvious and don't even try to avoid detection: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/04/a-year-later-cybercrime-...

Is it really surprising though? Criminals, including pimps and child rapists, still watch ads, "engage" with the platform and increase the user numbers, and even encourage their peers to also join/engage with the platform. For something like Facebook surely it's a no-brainer to not miss out on all this "engagement".
In my experience syncing with pCloud is at least as good as with Dropbox. Google Drive is still quite bad.
Telling people that the thing they want is stupid, won't stop them from wanting it.
One way StuphOS handles streaming application state: http://thetaplane.com:2184/stuphos/wiki/OnlineCommandInterfa...
I guess that's what we get when a rotary encoder is much much less expensive than a 4-6 gang potentiometer. And I also feel your pain with the car "booting up" phenomenon. I don't even have a particularly tech-heavy vehicle and upon starting the car the entire infotainment system feels like booting up a packard bell in 1996.
External NVSwitch (for more than 8 GPUs) isn't available for purchase yet. But even now you typically buy your A100 or H100 training GPUs in servers where each GPU has an individual 400 Gbps Mellanox networking adapter, then connect them in a sophisticated switched network that provides full throughput between all GPUs of the cluster. The deployment is not that custom, typically you would let Nvidia and your vendors implement their reference design for you: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-superpod/ Then run an open-source software stack on top of CUDA etc.

I don't know how well the TPU hyper-torus interconnect performs, but the networking topology seems to be less general than switched NVLink or InfiniBand.
I'm not quite young, and I do understand that the world is different. I have lived most of these changes as an adult, and believe that the world is worse today than it has been, if for no other reason than a complete inability to escape connection to society for any reason thanks to technology.

But.

Yes, these things could happen before social media. Like most things, social media has absolutely amped up the effects, but this existed before.

Hell, go all the way back to the Red Scare and the various black books that existed in the, what 1940's and 1950's? Say the wrong thing in the wrong place and you were immediately labeled a commie and shunned.

That's what I'm saying. It has always existed. I just think it's a "bigger problem" for people now and there is more push back on cancel culture today than in the past because it's the previous mainstream that is being cancelled instead of an already at-risk community.
It's probably as simple as 'cargo vs cmake'. wgpu-native is a regular cargo package which is straightforward to integrate and build. Google's libdawn is a mix of cmake and Google depot tools, which makes the same process anything but trivial.

I don't agree with your take on WASM though. Emscripten does a pretty good job of making developer's life easier.

(there's also a real need for a medium-level cross-platform GPU API which abstracts over D3D12, Vulkan and Metal, and WebGPU seems to be the most robust option for this at the moment)
Pretty disingenuous to not provide the next sentence as well.

“All those billboards, roaming constantly, for just $10 million! They've also literally inserted a bank's name into the mouths and lives of countless New Yorkers and tourists. It's in the lexicon! How much is that worth? Citibank is getting an incredible deal, and surely they know it.”
I've never seen the option to use a style using the UI. When using the API directly, it is possible to specify system messages that influence the overall behaviour.
It is interesting to see things that were part of your youth be revised - I say this to offer no firm opinion, just express curiosity.

Does anyone know of a place on the web documenting these changes? Or how I can best tell when the video I'm watching was last modified?
Because if you have a website you are legally liable for what someone else posts if you don't remove it within 24 hours of a report, which makes running a social network impractical. (NetzDG, KoPl-G, Digital Services Act (DSA), etc)

Having actual free speech would solve that (and a lot of other problems).
What’s the maintenance on something like this.

This seems like a fun opportunity for a billionaire to buy as a personal residence, Stark Tower style.

The top few floors can be a penthouse and helipad.

It looks like the most expensive personal residence for sale is $250M [0] so this would be the most expensive to date. And would require renovations.

But I can’t imagine any company wanting an office tower any longer.

[0] https://robbreport.com/shelter/homes-for-sale/gallery/most-e...
Misaligned Incentives in Dev Tool Businesses
> much easier to set up syncing between multiple machines that may not belong to the same user

I always thought this as one of the bigger value-adds of Dropbox; easy cross user management and sharing.
It was the same with the initial rollout of 3G. There were all kind of crazy ideas for what this would enable, strange form factors of phones and so on. It usually takes a decade and turns out more boring, but in the end it _will be_ a better network. Nobody wants to go back to EDGE and many application now do rely on robust LTE.
In the US maybe.
In Europe, at least here in France, there is plenty of 4G plan costing 25€-30 for 250Gb, 300Gb or even no limit
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Not just that, though? I thought the comparison with the cost of sponsoring Citi Field was instructive - compared to that it does look like the advertising benefits to Citi from the deal are outsized, and there is a competitive market for this kind of sponsorship that should allow the dept of transport to extract more value.
I read the report and there's nothing there that can be used to argument in favor of what you're saying.

On the same report they point out 3 improvements for releasing the source code:

- provide access to git or the VCS they use

- allow usage of tools that do dynamic code analysis on compiled code

- provide access to 3rd party libs referenced in the source code

They didn't say the machines that compile the source code had internet access; they explicitly stated those machines had network access (which is completely different); they might have access to local network and it's expected so they can fetch the libraries needed for compilation.

I can't deny that a supply chain attack might be possible by corrupting one of these 3rd party libs, but there wasn't anything on their report that is as bad as you make it out to be.

Also, I can agree that the auditing should be more transparent, but I can't help but think that imagine if the army had access to the whole source code, how they would try to come up with a supply chain attack just to mess up the elections to favor their candidate?

EDIT: I know this is a biased website but read what TSE replied to the army's auditing: https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2022/11/10/tse-responde-a-no...

EDIT2: just to clear out, there were several different auditors when they had the auditing session, including universities and the federal police, the source code was provided to these auditors in 2021 and none found the issues the army pointed out. It's even pointed out by TSE that the army had access to the source code at the same time the other auditors had.

EDIT3: https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ultimas-noticias/2022/1...

There's nothing to worry about. There were public tests that provided full access to the source code and the army boycotted these tests, then they produced their own report, bringing up issues that could definitely be done during those public tests they decided not to participate.
I think this poster's point is that almond milk uses an insane amount of water relative to what it produces -- a problem for a region having notable shortages of water.
Because you can go to prison for saying things.
Isn't this just a function of prompting? ie you can give it the style and voice you want the reply in before asking it to do something.
What game? Also, NA meaning North America? Why would Mexico and Canada be lumped into it, they don't have the same constitutional protections that USA gets.
Sure, not everybody is going to share my opinion, and many if not most iPhone users aren't informed enough on the matter to even have an opinion.

My mom doesn't even know the word sideloading, but it doesn't mean she wouldn't benefit from being given actual ownership of her device.
Certainly explains the deluge of "back to office" propaganda in the last months, lol.

Good riddance to all those who think it's a good idea to build office buildings instead of residential units.
PSA: Google Authenticator's Cloud-Synced 2FA Codes Aren't End-to-End Encrypted
It probably isn't much more expensive to just build a new building on an empty lot or other easy to demolish land if you can. You need to spend a lot of money to buy the existing building/land, basically gut everything inside until it's just a concrete shell and then rebuild everything into a residential design (electricity, plumbing, insulation, elevators, garbage disposals, amenities, windows, etc.). Then you probably still get apartments that are worse in design than a purpose built building so won't be worth as much.
This is nonsense.

It is obvious to me that any bad PR is orders of magnitude worse for the business than the potential benefit of having even hundreds of thousands of criminals "engaging" on the platform.
As has been discussed here previously at length [see also https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/11/upshot/office...] newer office buildings are difficult to convert to housing because of their layout (and 350 California looks modern). Older high rise offices are still expensive to convert and are pretty much limited to luxury apartments as a result but are better from a floor layout perspective.

(It's also an open question whether housing demand in the downtown area will stay so high if a lot fewer people are going into offices every day.)
This is what Chicago is doing. They're converting a ton of office space into housing.

https://www.marketplace.org/2022/10/04/chicago-iconic-office...

San Francisco hates housing though, so it doesn't seem like anyone is actually considering this there.
What's the game that quote refers to?
It does have an auto mode.

But also, you can now adjust wiper speed / interval on the steering wheel in a Tesla without using the touchscreen.

Feature was actually added a just a few weeks ago in a software update.
Afaik, one of the largest blocker for wind in bavaria is the 10-H rule: the distance from a wind turbine and the closest residential building has to be more than 10 times the height of the wind turbine.

This does not exactly seem a concern focused around industry.
Who said it was? Do it anyways. The cost of having an empty building in a big city is high. Getting some more people in there is good for the city, so the city should help. Having the downtown area decay is bad bad bad. But I am sure the owners are exploring every option they can. But to me the answer is simple: figure out a way to make it happen.
Luckily I'm also a shareholder.
> The Ottoman's purpose was to destroy any marker of civilization in the land they had invaded.

This demonstratably isn't true. They were destroying cultural artefacts, but occasionally so and often as an act of retribution.

So no, the British have no business and no excuse that they are still keeping the Parthenon Marbles.
In most EU countries, you can’t publicly insult the country politicians.
e.g. Plumbing throughout the floor, single-occupancy bathrooms, windows in the center, HVAC and utilities that can be metered and operate independently from other "units". This kind of building is a lot tougher than say, a pre-war office building like you might see in NYC. Those ones tend to have more "rooms" and sometimes center shafts, whereas these newer ones are a bunch of stacked up wide open floors, with elevators, mech, and bathrooms in the center.
Yeah, really.

"Other alleged Secret Geniuses[…] Elizabeth holmes, SBF, Adam Neumann". Major eyeroll, here. Two of those three are criminal fraudsters who never even had a product.

And while not a outright fraud, even Adam Neumann can't claim success. He spent what, $20B of other people's money in order to create a $300M company? Not exactly hard to become a millionaire if you start off a billionaire.

You don't have to like Elon, but Paypal actually is a real service. Tesla became a major car manufacturer under Elon's watch. SpaceX has succeeded fantastically.

One of these four people is not like the other.

You don't have to like him. But reality is there even when you ignore it.
Not sure why you're bringing up drugs here. We're talking about webpages, not substances directly altering your neurochemistry.

But yeah, indeed - usually it's a fault of parenting. Instead of properly teaching about the dangers and responsibility (in case of weed/alcohol, or finance) they made it a tabu.
A 20% shift in sales is enormous. Orgs I've worked for rejoiced over 1-2% increases in sales.
The "Greens" just brought the coal phaseout forward by 8 years which, based on your figures, suggests they just saved 13,000 lives. Nice work.

https://www.politico.eu/article/german-government-coalition-...
>Imagine if Egyptian law enforcement had the wherewithal to go after every nation and organization that's plundered their funereal monuments

That would be pretty unjust considering that the funeral monuments don't belong to modern Egypt, as they were constructed by a radically different people some thousands of years ago. And at the time they were taken by British colonists, Egypt as a nation wasn't a thing either.

So we have three separate entities: Ancient Egypt, whatever Egypt was when the British took some ancient artifacts, and then the modern nation of Egypt.

Maybe the most just thing to do would be to find the descendants of those who were buried with the artifacts and return them their family heirlooms? Or no, perhaps those descended from the artisans and slaves who created the artifacts?

But what of the invaders of Egypt seeking to destroy the artifacts? Should we give them the artifacts? Destruction is perhaps undesirable, so maybe we can place them somewhere in the world with the best steward?

Does this mean my family can be repatriated our ancestral lands in northern Cumbria? If we get to play that game, you may not like how it works out for you.

Or maybe we can stop looking at history with a modern, nationlistic lens. Stop looking at it with our modern sense of values. Stop trying to apply our modern sense of justice and misbeliefs about what did and didn't happen hundreds, thousands of years ago.
If you can speak English and German you’re 80% of the way towards Swedish, honestly. ”Hej! finns det plats för två? En hamburgare och en kaffe, tack.”
> There are issues with crime of course

Here is the crime stats for SF, more property crime in SF and less violent crime in SF compared to there cities, and it seemed to peak in 2020 decreasing since then:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francis...
Nothing. I used those words to distinguish from the other kind of shallow geothermal in nongeologically active areas.
GPU cluster scaling has come a long way. Just check out the scaling plot here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM
Have you presented this to LibraryThing?
I get the impression you’ve never driven in the rain.
Author here. This is me thinking out this thing I see happening a lot where incentives of some dev tool end up leading to things going sideways over time.

TLDR: Aligned incentives lead to good outcomes. Everything else is a problem waiting to happen.

What do you think?

I don't think a VC-based dev tool company is necessarily a problem, as long as they thought through how it will play out. I wish companies would talk about this more explicitly.
I like that we are moving away from (fake) nanometers and giving names to process nodes instead; comparing different technologies by Xnm was completely broken.
That happened. Can’t recall the source however the UK was spying on US citizens and passing to the US through a “Five-Eyes” agreement.