skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google’s robocars seem to be taking a very conservative approach to integration with the motoring public.

Don’t get me wrong, I irrationally hate the robots, used to see them all the time around Phoenix, was actively gunning for them and only had one time I could have rammed one[0] with it not being my fault. Which says a lot because it was (well, still is) a life goal to take out a robocar so I was really trying.

I used to see them doing a bunch of really stupid stuff but never anything that was outright dangerous, relatively speaking. One did stop in the fast lane when everyone was zipping by at 70+ because it couldn’t figure out how to merge into the left hand exit ramp but plenty of snow birds do that too so it’s not completely unheard of.

[0] (un)fortunately I was behind on my rent and couldn’t afford to spend who knows how long dealing with an accident investigation so the robot got to go about its day unmolested.
> The reality is people don’t want to pick their favorite community,

> Communities are not siloed independent bubbles. People are Venn diagrams of lots of communities and interests. Selecting a username can be difficult, deciding which community you want as part of your identity—even if you can change it—is too much. The act of choosing a server has kept more than a few people away from Mastodon.

This is an extremely valid point and I know many potential Mastodon users that have been turned off because of it. It would be like tying your identity to a specific subreddit. I like football and tech and travel, but I don't see why I would want to link my identity directly to one of these interests. And yes, I understand I can still communicate with other instances or can change my instance if needed, but the fact this even needs to be qualified is friction, especially for new non-technical users.
> It seems to me that if Mastodon grows, there’s lots of income potential.

That is 7 years of "If", and all we get is instance takeovers, [0] where companies buy and own the users on multiple instances from the admins.

If you are an admin with 1M registered users, you can sell them to the highest bidder. If you are a user, you get nothing.

So much for the nonsense of "Social networking that's not for sale" as a tag line.

[0] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mask-network-acquir...
They did not "fall" for the sham - they were willing participants, and are only upset because their collaboration via negligence was exposed.

How many stories did the NY Times, WaPo, NPR, CNN and other "venerable" media institutions get so badly wrong in the other direction? Or not even wrong, just truthfully and extensively reporting on some crime or abuse perpetrated by non-whites against whites? And blaming it on anti-white racism?

E.g. the recent shooting of a 6-year old white girl and her parents, after a basketball rolled into their black neighbor's yard [1], got only a brief mention in one opinion piece in the Times (the gist being we should blame guns, not race), while Ralph Yarl got at least nine separate articles.

It seems that which incidents become part of the national conversation on racism, and which are just "random", is heavily filtered. Seeing this filter, how much should we still trust them?

[1] https://breaking911.com/6-year-old-girl-2-adults-shot-after-...
Really? I'm happy to help: miles@sada.com
If you think in these terms you're better off staying on Twitter and that's completely fine.
7) Google and Microsoft become dominant in the space and make deliverability harder for everyone who doesn't want to jump hoops to make their server deliverable, and even for those who do, sometimes it is literally impossible. For those who want to play the game, they do, but most people move to Gmail and move on.
I would guess it’s a culture war thing, Elon isn’t toeing the line with a vocal minority that’s influential on the left.
>all devices after that just ran Windows.

Yeah, funny how the eeepc was showcasing all sorts of things in both Linux and even in an Android system which all mysteriously disappeared once Microsoft got their vice chairman in a back room and laid out exactly what the penalties were for making Windows look bad. Even the extremely ancient and nerfed version of Xandros those netbooks came with was running circles around Windows Vista and then later Windows 7, that Microsoft actually brought Windows XP back out of retirement and extended its lifespan to have something that had anything close to performance. (Too bad even XP was horrible at font rendering and so many parts of the system were hardcoded to use nasty looking fonts with no scaling. Gnome 2.x was clearly superior to XP then.)

The original article has been carefully bitrotted so I had to go to the wayback machine to get it but here it is: https://archive.is/QZHWh

It's stuff like this that makes me laugh when people try to pretend that Microsoft "loves" Linux now. Yeah, Microsoft loves Linux the same way that a boa constrictor gives people "hugs" around the neck.
Vaguely reminds me of late 90's early 00's articles saying linux was doomed lol. The reasons are all similar anti-open source reasons. General disregard for personal responsibility and ownership along with preference of the masses towards ease of use.
Kubernetes is from Google.
I'm confident there will be competent LLM's that don't do product placement. Margins will be worse than current search paradigm but that's still billions in profit a year. I'm not sure why anyone would use big tech's product placement AI when there are marginally worse options available that aren't mind killers.
Most revolutionary technical changes like this tend to hit a plateau in progress right after they hit the top of the hype cycle. It’s unlikely that AI/ML will be an exception.

Not bad news for anyone involved in this work, though. That period is when the real business and societal changes happen. It’s also when most of the money gets made.

People and businesses need time to test new technology and adapt it so that it works reliably for their specific use cases. GPT and other LLMs are no exception.
I had no idea lit was mainstream. I started using it a couple of months ago, and, as a back-end developer, it was pretty simple to set up get started.
> When it comes to scaling more cognitive tasks, Kasparov won the game of Kasparov vs. The World, where a massively parallel group of humans led by four grandmasters tried and failed to play chess good enough for Kasparov. Humans really scale very poorly, IMO. It's not clear to me that, say, all Meta employees put together, collectively exceed John von Neumann for brilliance in every dimension

Are there more example for/against this?
1) Other manufacturers don't have restrictive geofencing like DJI - it's not a regulatory issue, but liability.

2) DJI's flight restrictions are determined by DJI, not the FAA. They don't align with each other, so you end up having to keep track of and comply with two airspace systems.

That's why I abandoned DJI for my business use. I wasn't able to take off to cover an event at an airport for which I had FAA approval. DJI gave their approval... but the code didn't work, and it required that I have Internet access on the phone I was using to fly to boot.
This is a convention we've already adopted but we haven't had the chance to do a clean sweep of the rest of the codebase unfortunately. You're right though, it's one of our biggest hurdles to upgrading.
The US Air Force experimented a bit with highway landings (in the US) recently:

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2721902/a-10...
You don’t need to convert every potential customer when you are the biggest and most profitable streaming service. The bigger risk is losing that position when paying customers go to co prying services.
Ask HN: Device case prototyping and mass production
Hello I'm looking for a strategy and advice on how to make a case prototype for a device that really needs one. The current device manufacture stoped producing their cases. And far as I can see on the internet NO one is making them.

The device in question can fit in your hand and its not a phone.

Ideal case would be rubber with hard plastic on the outside of the corners.

Can I 3d print rubber now with hard plastic?

Please advise.

Thanks
First season is OK. Same for Ted Lasso.
One thing I've kinda admired about IKEA is that they are super straightforward about what materials their products are made out of. Literally everything on their website says exactly what it's made of. If you want stuff that lasts longer, you buy the stuff at a higher price point that's made of solid wood, if you are on a budget or don't care about the longevity of it, buy the stuff made from particle board or compressed cardboard. It's not so much that the materials have changed, it's that people are buying the lowest end products and then complaining that they aren't as good as the higher end ones, when IKEA sells a whole range of different quality products. And honestly, their lower end products are usually cheaper and better made than the equivalent versions from other retailers. Those cheap IKEA bookcases are far superior to similar versions from Walmart or Target despite being essentially identically constructed.
I do not know how a team of peers can deal with a bad team member; this is a good point. But on the other hand, I've seen teams that do have underperforming developers despite also having a manager. So a manager is no protection against underperformers on a team. Getting rid of people is hard.

As for conflicts or personal crises, what _does_ a manager do? If Bob from the api team doesn't tell the team he needs a couple of weeks off, and the team does not collectively plan for what to do in his absence, then how does a manager help? I've been on a team that had a developer whose contract was running out and could not be renewed because of the max number of years a person can be employed by that organisation. This was known years ahead. No transition for the ownership of the library he was developing had been planned, despite the crucial nature of that library, and despite a manager being around. Two, in fact.

As for a good developer who has hit the ceiling in an organisation, I find it hard to believe that a manager who relies on that developer to move the project forward will be any more likely to advise him to look for a better place elsewhere than his teammates would be. I think it's up to the developer to appreciate his situation and how happy he is where he is (and to start looking if he isn't).

And, since you offered different scenarios when things go sideways, how does a team of developers deal with a manager that is underperforming?
That's all great, but...

> Microsoft is a cool company, and I'll die on that hill.

"cool" companies stagnate. Remember, Microsoft was that "cool" company who left us with rottin IE6 until competition came.

So let me channel Ballmer, leader of said cool company: COMPETITION, COMPETITION, COMPETITION, COMPETITION, COMPETITION, COMPETITION.
That makes our world better.
If they merge user accounts but you can support for older products or other game changes it's possible people would be ok with that
There are. They tend to lag a little bit when a new model comes out, but AFAIK everything is eventually unlocked.
It’s taken me half a lifetime to even learn enough to start to appreciate her wisdom.
No coincidence that a lot of the web3 grifters have pivoted to hyping up AI.
> The prediction database is small enough that you can bundle it with app and run all prediction locally.

I don't think this is necessarily true. It really depends on what you're trying to predict. That said, I would agree that it should be 100% optional for your keyboard to have network access.
The Verge is a opinion rag that is masquerading as a journalism source.

All their tech reviews are low on the technical aspects, and high on things like "this phones bezels are wayyy too big"
Ah yes youtube, not a core product /s
“I wonder if, say, a bonobo throwing shit at a whiteboard full of titles as a method of deciding what projects to make would have more or less success than all of these other ‘deciders’ who think they know what people want or don’t want.”[0]

[0] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/netflixs-...
I think over time we will eventually set the beginning of “agriculture” to be in the age of fungi. The more we learn about trees the more they resemble an evolutionary step up from lichen.

Lichen is a symbiosis between fungi and single celled chlorophyll owners. Forests are multicellular lichen. Like the cyanobacteria, trees can often function without their host, but they do better things with them.
Jokes about them going to war, specifically.
Jup, gp was talking about unregulated markets. Those surprisingly often have winner take it all outcomes. I don't want to go back to company towns.

BTW back to the current situation with streaming services, we nearly would have had the same with movie theaters. But United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. shut that down, thankfully. Wouldn't expect such a ruling these days, though :(
> They’ve clearly used and reproduced his content

Used? Yes. Reproduced? I don't think that necessarily follows.

> I don’t know, but to claim that they’re just storing a url is bogus.

They're definitely not just storing an URL, but claiming that what they're storing is some kind of "copy" seems equally bogus.
A better description would be "Card Payments 101 for a Developer". There is more to payments than just cards.
Flush your Amazon credentials now
>“At the time, our client had refrained from asserting this claim, but now feels unable to be lenient here. She incurred legal fees for defending against the obviously unjustified warning you issued, which our client will not bear herself.”
No.

But I'd absolutely love to see one of the big guys try this, it would be super interesting to watch.
It's much like open source vs corporate, but not quite. The bazaar really is better than the cathedral.
That doesn’t provide the full understanding you might think it does. For example: define ‘right now’.

Instantaneously, music is a single sound pressure measurement. That doesn’t have a Fourier transform. It doesn’t have a frequency. It’s just a single sample.

Fourier transforms work on functions. Typically functions in the time domain. And typically (but not always) on that function within a bounded range of time. And the result is another function, this one of frequency.

A spectrum analyzer, though, is showing the Fourier transform of a short snippet of some music. Then a moment later it’s showing you the transform for the next snippet.

Looking at a spectrum analyzer makes you think a Fourier transform is itself a function of time (to some vector of numbers perhaps?). That is not the case. So looking at a spectrum analyzer can give you an incorrect intuition for what Fourier does.

But you can do a Fourier transform on the whole of a piece of music. You’ll pick up frequency components like the overall beat, the bar structure, the verse/chorus alternation.
You have to love that under "Why was X cancelled" they basically just compliment the show runner and actors for their work or cite "creative differences", rarely do they actually provide an actual explanation, such as "The show had to few viewers".
I can't see the dang product in the first 5 seconds on the product page. Sure theres a dim shot of it folded if I scroll down (although its covered by popup consent forms), but I want to see the drone clearly without sitting through an artsy video. Something like the second and third picture on https://store.dji.com/dk/product/dji-mavic-3-pro?vid=137691 showing it folded and unfolded are SO much better
I never knew he made a whole open source project for it, nor that it was even a library doing the animation. I thought he hand-animated his videos. Brilliant.
Rather than motivating environmental conservation out of some species-level nostalgia for "the biodiversity of our youth", there's another, forward-looking motivation for it: the species that evolved at the same time we did — our "evolutionary cohort" — are the species of our own Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness. While they may not share our ecological niche, they all share a dependency on the same air mix we do, the same temperature ranges, the same water osmolarity and pH, etc.

This implies two things:

- Insofar as we want to keep the Earth a good place for us to live, we can measure our success by the number of our evolutionary cohort of species that stick around;

- Insofar as we plan to live in space, terraform other worlds, etc., it's only animals of our evolutionary cohort that will be able to comfortably survive in the places we optimize for our own well-being. If we increase global CO2 levels here on Earth to such a point that species on Earth that like our current air mix begin dying off, and we see an evolution of replacement species that prefer higher CO2 levels (and we ourselves retreat to dome cities or something to avoid that fate); but then we later terraform Mars to have the environment of Earth ca 5000BCE; then the species that inhabit Earth by that point, won't be able to be transplanted to Mars. Only the species we had conserved — keeping them in the dome-cities with us — would be able to be transplanted.

(Another way to say that second one, is that if we screw up the Earth's environment, but later fix it, we'll lose biodiversity twice — we'll have killed off our evolutionary cohort with the screw-up, and we'll kill off the newer-evolved species with our "fix.")
And the mil-spec hex wrench _definitely_ doesn't have any sort of ergonomic grip, so you'll have grooves in your hands before you get halfway done assembling the guard shack.
To Type or Not to Type?
I'm currently quite early stage on the frontend work for my project, at a point where it wouldn't be too much hassle to convert to typescript although it would be some.

My backend is c++ and I use some Rust for tools where they have a better library than c++ (rare), so i'm not averse to strongly typed languages, but those languages were built with types from the ground up.

I see a lot of debate on this topic and a common reason given for using typescript is it helps working in a large team, I am working solo so this isn't a benefit for me.

It seems like the whole web scene is moving towards typescript but my gut is screaming no, there's just something off about it to me, it feels like a never ending afterthought, strapping on types to eternity.

Is it unnecessary overhead for minimal returns, or am I missing something?
Math education in the US is pitiful. The last attempt to fix it (common core) mostly emphasized memorizing arithmetic facts. Like anybody doesn't have multiple calculators in their pockets.

I'm all for teaching arithmetic, but emphasizing the algorithms and how to prove them correct should be paramount. Teaching arithmetic in various bases is important, as should be the basics of numeric analysis. Formal logic should also be a core math subject.

But no, the USA has to teach subjects as were common in the 1920-1950 time frame, in the same manner as back then. This is a consequence of "home rule".
From second hand reports - I don't have, nor do I plan to have an account - it looks like the user experience on bs is worse than even Mastodon. Similarly limited character counts, no options for formatting text, no editing, etc.
Tangental, but this article deserves huge credit for having code containing the main point right at the top allowing the reader to derive the main point in < 20 seconds. I wish more written content was like this. Brilliant.
Personally I don't think it is so clear cut. The value of in-person instruction is in being able to ask questions, and a good instructor will then adapt the content to help answer your questions and give you a rounded understanding of the material. Youtube videos are amazing in several respects (thinking of the reach and production value of 3b1b, for example), but being able to ask questions of a knowledgeable expert is valuable imo.
>The problem this time is twofold: the rise of conspiracy theorists in the Republican Party, who refuse to even acknowledge the problem, and the stranglehold that globalist neoliberal corporations have on the economy.

Well this time it's a lot worse because not using CFCs had a comparatively small impact on the world economy, with a big payoff.

There is currently no realistic path to keep somewhat decent living standards for the number of people we have, while ramping down the world economy sufficiently to battle global warming.

Even if everybody turned vegan and stopped flying it wouldn't be enough.
> their citizens revolt at not being able to buy Windows or Office.

The UK will probably allow those to be sold.

If MS refuse to sell them, the politicians will just spin it as Microsoft vs the UK and get everyone worked up over “sovereignty”. Maybe even fund and promote a standardised Linux Desktop distribution to replace Windows … which has a chance to spread in popularity worldwide.

Either way, Microsoft might be jeopardising future sales of its products in the UK by going on the offensive. It might also make other countries’ governments warily of the company and impacting sales in those countries too.

It would leaves the market wide open for their competitors to claim without any resistance from Microsoft as well.
That's the interesting thing here. Unlike recent regulatory actions by the EU, there doesn't appear to be a solution provided other than to let the UK CMA make business strategy decisions for Microsoft.

I don't think it is necessarily how Microsoft will proceed, but it would be irresponsible for them not to consider such an approach.

I also do think the CMA is overplaying its hand; sooner or later they will make a decision like this and a company will pull out of their market. Alone, they simply don't have the economic heft to regulate global companies domiciled outside their borders.
> Training an AI on an image would not be covered by fair use doctrine.

Do you have a link to a court decision to that effect?

How, specifically, is "training an AI" different from "training a person" here?
They make them, they just aren't standard equipment. They also reduce flight time and agility, and in come cases can interfere with your field of view.

I've got hundreds of hours flying quadcopters at this point, and the only times I've ever wanted prop guards on a photo drone have been for flying indoors or very near hot air balloons.
What's throw me off of the 'the Cia did it' is that the authors left clues, and the operation wasn't that tight.

It was tight enough, sure. BTW that's way there is no way Russia did it, their opsec is shit and they get caught by osint all the time. But not as clean as what some alleged Cia operations are (like what happened to French assets in Libya, Clinton's e-mail hinted it was an op, yet without the leak nobody's would even think USA was involved). This was sloppier imho.

It still can be US work, but I would be surprised if it were a federal agency.
The design of everything requiring internet access and APIs to do various things. In your example my guess is the settings is checking for updates in the background. Most web service APIs are pretty fast and a 200-500ms response time is actually good. Its just that if everything requires checking some API or logging into an API or whatever interaction with an API (personalized ads, etc.) then that all stacks up.
And these are files I could attain for free by visiting the site and right-clicking, correct?
> Even hobby movies are done to make money.

Not all of them.

Thos who do want to make money will need to adapt to other business models - probably something closer to crowdfunding or patronage. How exactly is irrelevant for copyright reform as the law should not concern itself with protecting specific jobs.
You wouldn't want to use pine boards anyway, you'd want to use plywood, likely with a cabinet grade veneer for the outer veneer, unless you were going to paint it.