skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
San Francisco is a postcard from a driverless car future. Here’s what it’s like
> Maybe programming in another few years will just be glorified autocomplete and little more.

It won't. For the same reason code generation from UML diagrams hasn't replaced programmers [1]. Or why business owner/analysts don't write acceptance tests in Gherkin (Given-When-Then).

Though some tasks that programmers had to do manually in the past may be automated (not the first time).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26934795
It's important to take this decision in the context of the CMA's wider investigation into "Mobile browsers and cloud gaming"

https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/mobile-browsers-and-cloud-gamin...

They intended to investigate the cloud/mobile gaming and App Stores, plus look at mobile browser competition (or lack their of on iOS).

Sadly Apple, clearly feeling threatened by it, forced it to be stopped on a fairly stupid technicality. Hopefully they will be able to relaunch it soon.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-wins-appeal-against...

If this decision re Microsoft+Activision is anything to go by, the wider investigation and potential regulation coming from it could have been very impactful.
Can you crawl websites on a private network not accessible from the outside (by downloading a tool that would run inside the network for example)? Your front page says "any url public or private" but it doesn't really answer that specific question.

I think a tool that would work inside corporate networks, and maybe be runnable on a simple notebook without requiring admin privileges on Windows, would have a significant market.
Sure, but if the fine is non trivial, Microsoft could file a lawsuit. It would also be a bad look for Britain to effectively extortionate foreign firms to keep doing business in the country. Whether it's called a "legally approved levy under xyz law" or a bribe to the government is beyond the point. It's the kind of thing you see in corrupt third world countries.
They would be running in a browser, and you can just deny it getting location information, but in general, apps have access to much more raw data than a tab in the browser does. It's also possible, in theory, to run a PWA in a different browser which masks your information.
happily for you, you have the problem AND the solution!

next time, (besides using gloves for once) drop a blob of shellac on a shallow container with flexible sides (silicone or any flimsy bottle cap). After a few hours, take off gloves and thumbprint for several minutes with very light pressure on the blob of shellac. after another few hours, tie some nylon ties to the side of the container and tighten every now and then so that the end result is a convex plane with your finger prints. you want it slight convex but still mostly plane.

Done. now wait for that to dry. apply some harder finishing synthetic laqueur to preserve it longer. just keep that in your pocket and you will be able to unlock most phones.

note that some phones (correctly) do not mirror your prints, thought most do for some reason... for those you will have to first cast you prints and then cast the reusable token. which make getting a convex token in the end easier tho... but for the dozen of devices i've tested, they all mirror just fine.

... and that's reason #1239090 why using biometrics as passwords are a really stupid idea. it's only good for convenience shortcuts, so fine on phones, bad on anything else.
Fraud detection refers to identifying and preventing fraudulent activities or behaviors within a system or organization. Fraud detection aims to identify and prevent fraud before it causes financial loss or other negative consequences. Hence, fraud detection analytics has become significant across different sectors.
Happy Manjaro user here too. Settled on it after some Cinnamon bugs got me annoyed enough.

Only issues I've had are between xorg and wayland. Had to switch to xorg on a fresh Manjaro GNOME install last month, because Wayland screensharing still requires hopes and prayers to get working.

Also: Be careful switching GPU types.
But would have prevented many players from actually enjoying Blizzard games. Personally, I am not interested in purchasing an Xbox or installing Windows on my PC, even if the merger is finalized.
This is an abhorrent response from LAION, I could image such from a large corporate, but a non-profit generating 'models for democratization' (their words). I guess they think that others data should therefore be included without restriction? My hope is that this is just over zealous 3rd party IP lawyers, not their actual stance on the matter.
Nice idea but full of dark patterns that made me not trust them enough to actually test the product.
Tech is a rare industry where you can easily pivot into it later in your career, start at an entry level position, work your way very high up the ladder and get paid very well along the way.

I know folks without a college degree that started as tech support reps who worked their way up to senior roles in big tech that make multiples more than most physicians I know or others that had to go down a rigid path to get to where they are.

The industry favors eager people who are hungry to continually learn and grow. While there can be short term bumps in the road, those that fit these characteristics have and will continue to do extremely well.
Abstract

The rapid development and application of foundation models have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence. Large diffusion models have gained significant attention for their ability to generate photorealistic images and support various tasks. On-device deployment of these models provides benefits such as lower server costs, offline functionality, and improved user privacy. However, common large diffusion models have over 1 billion parameters and pose challenges due to restricted computational and memory resources on devices. We present a series of implementation optimizations for large diffusion models that achieve the fastest reported inference latency to-date(under 12 seconds for Stable Diffusion 1.4 without INT8 quantization for a 512 × 512 image with 20 iterations) on GPU-equipped mobile devices. These enhancements broaden the applicability of generative AI and improve the overall user experience across a wide range of devices.
Show HN: An interactive map showing live wind farm generation in Great Britain
GB Renewables Map an energy experiment created entirely in my free time (day job is visualisation at Octopus Energy).

It's an interactive map showing live generation for major wind farms in Great Britain, showing what each wind farm is generating both now and in the past, and where that generation is physically located.

Animated weather data is from WeatherLayers and shows current and historic wind conditions on the map, providing context to wind generation around the country.

History mode allows you to go back in time and see wind generation and weather conditions for a particular date and time. It's great for exploring days of record generation, such as the 21.6GW record on January 10th, 2023!

Prediction mode lets you see what wind farms are estimated to be generating using current wind conditions and model based on historic generation and wind speeds. Is a wind farm generating as you expect, or is there something to look into?

An experimental feature allows you to see what future wind farms could be generating today (or in the past!) if they were already built and operational. If you click the "sparkle" button on the map you'll get to see what the upcoming 3.6GW Dogger Bank wind farm is estimated to generate if it was operational today.

There's an "About" section on the site that goes into detail on the various public data sources and how some of the features work. I also document a lot of this on my Twitter @robhawkes if you're curious.

This is just the start and there are many more features to come!

Please let me know your comments and suggestions.
It improved suddenly in the third season, I was about to give up.
Comparing Log Levels Across Languages
Wow, so you worked on this project? That's awesome! Congratulations on making it to the moon!
Will this prevent the merger from happening in other markets too?
I don't think it's fair to compare the "little" 3GW with the total energy production. This is still power that must be replaced by coal and thus CO2 emissions. Yes, its 6% compared to the total energy production, but it's still extra unneeded CO2 in the atmosphere
Yes. And one of the first things Microsoft did when they bought Bethesda was to remove their games from GeforceNow.
Passkeys don't require any cloud provider.
Moreover, if you're working on a desktop app, you don't want to introduce an extra dimension where bugs can be present. I've seen people downplay this, but differences in browser behavior is absolutely a source of potential bugs / was a source of much frustration for me when I worked as a web developer.

You want everything to be as deterministic as possible. If you ship an app today, you don't want to have to deal with future updates potentially breaking your code. I pretty strongly feel that OS-vendered web browsers executing desktop applications is a fundamentally flawed approach compared to the alternatives, it maximizes useless churn.
This looks like a very interesting paper that takes the rare approach of actually trying to understand what all the cool new language models are doing at a fundamental level.

Does anyone with more knowledge of the relevant mathematics (group theory and so on) care to chime in?
Before the paid/pro plan, Telegram was definitely burning a hole in Durov's wallet, but now without knowing how many people have subscribed to the paid plan, it's really hard to say. How do these pirate streams work on telegram? Are people using video chat to steam through the app or are people just sharing links?
We only need identical clones . Everything else is mediocrity
I realize that Linux wasn't made for containerization originally and that's why it's so so painful to nest containers, run them without root etc. But I wish we'd already live in a world where all binaries (maybe with the exception of command line tools) ran containerized by default and I, as the user, had to grant explicit access to files, network, hardware/devices, etc. Not just for security reasons (though it'd be nice if `npm install` and `pip install` couldn't mess up my entire system) but also to make external dependencies more explicit.
I listened to the article yesterday when it was broadcast on NPR, and noticed it was largely focused on starter IT roles and not software engineering.
Which kind? For example, can you name a difference between Python and C semantics for % op (if any).
>You carry the keys to your home everywhere, don’t you?

Nope. If I don't need my car keys I don't carry my keys. I do tend to carry a small wallet and my phone but also carrying a separate hardware token routinely would actually be a pain for me.
Can I ask how you end up caring about Scottish league? It's quite rare for there to be any interest in it outside Scotland or Ireland, and rarer still for someone like that to support a team other than Celtic.

As an aside, I am both delighted by Aberdeen's win over Rangers this weekend and nervous that our next game will be against Rangers @ Ibrox. I imagine they'll be pretty fired up judging by how many still-angry Gers fans I've seen trolling Aberdeen FB groups :D

Btw you might like the r/ScottishFootball subreddit. I’m not really a Redditor but its a pretty fun place with some good banter
How does https://passwords.google.com work then?

I think the default behaviour is not E2EE.
> Though no idea how realistic this is

They promise to start delivering power in 2030, and estimate the project cost at 16bn dollars or something along those lines.

We all now how well it goes with mega projects :)
No. It's only relevant in the UK. If other regulators want to go forward with it then they can.
> The British economy cannot work without Windows PCs, the Office suite, and Azure and OneDrive.

It would be a pain but they and everybody else would find ways to cope with that.
https://www.gog.com/forum/fallout_series/new_vegas_music_is_...

I haven’t played this game so I don’t know what I’m searching for but this was my first result. Seems on the money, no?
> Can you be confident that AI won't displace you in 10, 15, or even 20 years?

1) No, but I am nonetheless skeptical of AI-takeover in general — I'm in the wait-and-see camp and so wouldn't be put off by the might-happens.

2) If one were AI-alarmist, is there any profession you can be confident will not be displaced by AI in 10, 15, or even 20 years?

3) Confession: I'm retired and no longer have any skin in the game.
Because the UK is going to impose extortionary penalties on one of the largest corporations of its no. 1 geopolitical ally at a time when it needs the US more than ever (trade, AUKUS, Ukraine/NATO, F-35s, etc.) and jail their execs. Rishi Sunak would never allow that to happen.
What's really scary is how account access can be lost in retaliation for exercising your rights as a customer (e.g. chargebacks, "too many" returns, lawsuits, etc).

As FAANG expand into more parts of our lives there are more and more things you're legally allowed to do but shouldn't do if you want to maintain access to all your shit. The TOSs of these vendors can become a de-facto legal regime that limits your rights in new and exciting ways.
This is almost like the "penalty for false DMCA" argument that is often made.

It's not clear they were wrong to do so, the photographer did cost them legal fees for something that is explicitly legal.
Ive been reading every line of this blog for a week trying to get it to work — and failed.

The goal is container driven development. But if all my dev tools are inside a container, how do I iterate on building new containers within a container? This is the core feature I wanted.

But unfortunately, this challenge proved way too difficult to pull off and nothing seemed to work for me.

My guess is these setups heavily depend on the host machine and how podman was setup on it which breaks the entire value of using container driven dev.

https://bower.sh/opensuse-microos-container-dev
Title is incorrect, this is not a general outage. There are two separate issues:

europe-west-9 (Paris) has been physically flooded with water somehow and is hard down. This is obviously bad if you're using the region in question, but has zero impact elsewhere. https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPf...

There is a separate issue stopping changes to HTTP load balancers across most of GCP, but it has no impact on serving and they're rolling out a fix already. https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/uSjFxRvKBheLA4Zr5q...
Yeah, there isn't such thing as an unencrypted disk at Google. Most things are encrypted multiple times in different layers before hitting physical media. Not E2EE which is a serious concern, but definitely encrypted in some form in transit (exceptions for intra-datacenter transfers) and at rest.
Jam.py Application Builder
`pipx` seems to be a good solution for containing Python dependency clutter.
good systems have disconnected incentives and connected outcomes.

the same way advertisement upholds political correctness and same-thinking and make criticism harder, based solely on self interest and "not being demonetized by youtube", a journalist having clicks as the only metric will benefit whoever can spend money not caring for clicks to push an agenda to select the click-driving crisis du jour.
If you’re on an instance that got the post (by someone following them, someone following someone who boosted it, through a relay, by someone having visited it before, etc…), then yes, it’s cached and you can see it through your instance, usually by pasting the link in the search bar
It isn't, though, when they haven't been blocking Sony from making significant purchases.
SV is really failing their community lately. First with SVB and now with the job market. People outside the valley are largely still hiring developers. East coast is pretty hot still.
https://wiki.python.org/moin/DebuggingWithGdb lists the GDB debugging symbol packages for various distros

FWIU Fedora GDB now optionally automatically installs debug syms; from attempting to debug TuxMath SDL with GDB before just installing the Flatpak.

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2021/09/08/debugging-... (2021) describes more recent efforts to improve Python debugging with c extensions
> profit generating employees

Good professionals are being hit by these layoffs, but I suspect the vast majority create little to no value for their employers.
> No, renewables are easy to regulate and nothing about them is slow.

Renewables are among the slowest power sources to ramp up production. Which is complicated by the fact that they are intermittent.

> That is, why there is a need for a huge buildup of renewables.

1. At what cost

2. What happens to generation on a quiet night?
At least Paris is red, what's the last time you saw more than a green dot with a little exclamation mark on the AWS status page?
No, mass layoffs are happening because companies overhired like crazy. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-faceboo...)

Meta / Google employees 2019: 44k / 118k

Meta / Google employees 2022: 86k / 190k

Even after these layoffs virtually all companies retain way more employees than they had three years ago.
Did you just make all of that up? Prevailing opinion is literally the opposite of what you are claiming.

"Still, despite Starship exploding, the launch has been mostly hailed by experts and fans as a success. Above all, it's been framed as a necessary "learning experience," in the words of former NASA official Daniel Dumbacher, speaking to The New York Times."
I thought this title meant cancelled I literally felt the blood leave my face
France needs to and is decarbonising. Electricity is perhaps the most important (because of electrification) but it's not the only sector. Plus France's electricity has always had the last 20% to deal with.
Thank $deity someone did. Microsoft owning both the biggest platforms and the biggest publishers is a glaring example of what anti-trust regulations should exist to prevent.

Every anti-trust regulator in the world would have auto-blocked the merger after 5 minutes of examining the situation. Unfortunately actual anti-trust enforcement seems to have fallen entirely out of fashion.
As a software developer,how do you test your design?
It is said that it is better to find finding defects earlier in the process.
What is the most efficient way to do it?

Eliminate potential bugs in the program earlier in the process. i.e to avoid programming by coincidence

Anyone want to chip in ?
At this point it kinda looks like Netflix directors are purposedly trying to kill the company. No way these people can be this bad at managing a company.
Personally, I like having Trace & Debug, though I could do with just one in a pinch. In particular Trace feels useful for some types of library code.
Info seems the right level for startup notices and anything that happens regularly.

In practice I don't find myself using Warn very often. Error seems straightforward, but I have a tough time wrapping my head around Critical, Alert, Panic, Severe and such. I would love to hear about someone who feels like they're effectively using those levels.
Lack of sun/wind in Denmark correlates strongly with lack of sun/wind in Germany and surrounding countries. The importing of electricity works precisely because the surrounding countries still have the "baseline" power plants the article dismisses so boldly.

Transmitting electricity over larger distances remains very expensive, which is why the idea of using the African sun for Europe (e.g. Desertec[1]) has stalled [2].

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmcgdh_0gyo
Professional services abound for Amazon land grabbers seeking legitimacy
Musk criticized the old way as an elitist “lords” and “peasants” system

Which he is now perpetuating by gifting the checkmark to "lords" personally selected by him.

In other words, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss --- yadda, yadda, etc., etc..

Thanks Musk for proving for all to see that those who complain the loudest about "media bias" are some of the biggest purveyors of it.
> I know folks without a college degree that started as tech support reps

I know a few as well ... but that was decade(s) ago. I'm not sure the industry is still as hurdle-able as it once was.
You heard right :). This also extends (in those latitudes) to sea lion researchers, elephant seal researchers, and more.
I guess the Xbox Game Pass subscription service can be considered a 'cloud gaming' service, and IIRC most concerns were about CoD vs Game Pass (e.g. if a new CoD game is available on Game Pass on day one of release that would indeed be an unfair advantage).
I'm just glad Activision doesn't get paid out. What a terrible company it has become. Really wish they never acquired Blizzard.
> 2) If one were AI-alarmist, is there any profession you can be confident will not be displaced by AI in 10, 15, or even 20 years?

Many; Dentists, people that fix your AC, electricians, etc, etc.
The state space still grows like 2^n in the number of qubits. Again, all this mapping does is rename some variables from "imaginary number" to "degree of freedom on an imaginary system". But, the computer doesn't care what you call your vars.
There's network alert on the whole of EU because one of the regions in EU is out.

A case of "need to drill down"
Show HN: Forest Admin Cloud
Hi all, Sandro here, founder of Forest Admin. We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Forest Admin Cloud (https://forestadmin.com/cloud). With it, you can instantly create a fully-functional admin panel without needing to start from scratch or use an internal tool builder, no BS!

The magic of our technology is that it automatically generates a custom user interface and all the necessary API endpoints for it to generate your admin panel. Whether it’s to read data from your web app in an organized way, to manipulate it, to trigger actions, to configure complex workflows with a granular permission system... Forest Admin has everything covered to accompany very early-stage startups to huge scale ups (+2k active users on the same account for our biggest customer!).

We believe this is a game-changer for the market, as internal tools become increasingly popular. An admin panel is meant to be the heart of your business operations, and it deserves a proper product reflection. Much in the same way that Salesforce and HubSpot develop products for their CRMs, Zendesk and Front for support, etc. These are all internal tools, but specialized in a specific field, allowing them to go much further than what a person could create with an internal tool builder.

Our lumberjacks and lumberjills are really working hard on that product. The road is still long to become ISO-feature of Forest Admins self-hosted (which will remain always available). We are actively working on new features that will bring maximum flexibility and autonomy as quickly as possible, through no/low/full-code functionalities.

If you have 5 minutes to spare, it would be great to give it a try. And if you have any feedback, opinion, or advice - please leave a comment below! Our whole team is watching this thread, awaiting for interaction :)

https://forestadmin.com/cloud
A pretty good investigation into this matter - "segfaults in Java (redux)":

https://www.lukeshu.com/blog/java-segfault-redux.html

Read the prior article for some context, too ..
Better IDE autocomplete.
Sadly most of the time I write a prompt it seems to take forever to respond and most of the time just eats my prompt without producing further dialog, rolling back to before I wrote it. It's cool but frustrating when I have to sent each response 5 or 6 times before it will go through with no error message. Also the characters and items buttons are greyed out