skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3 minutes can't be the case for On Star systems where you need to have an account, etc
El Chapo’s sons built a fentanyl empire poisoning America
> One of the things that amazes me about Tokyo is how many cars there are. For being the best public transportation system in the world.. people still have cars. To the point of installing parking lifts in their (tiny) homes!

Tokyo has a similar number of cars per capita to NYC (~450) - which is still almost 50% less than the U.S. average (~830). The size of the cars also makes an enormous difference to safety (pedestrian and driver) as well as environmental and road maintenance costs.

> Except people overwhelming DO choose cars. This isn't because they've been hoodwinked into it.

From my perspective it's not "hoodwinked" so much as 70 years of car dependent infrastructure development and car companies practicing capitalism. Most Americans don't think twice about it. Maybe we would if we had a viable alternative... Ironically, developing for cars was supposed to make us more free, but now it's the only option in most of the US.

Notjustbikes has an interesting video about car size in America - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
TLDR: they're getting bigger, more expensive, and less safe, with little extra utility.
Once I sunk a day into a take-home test. It went well, and I got to chat with a manager for half an hour. They said they weren't interested with no added context. Setting aside that take-home tests favor people who have time on their hands, the time investment can be very asymmetric, and it doesn't scale for the candidate.
The Comedian is the ultimate corporate man
Do you realize how absurd a leper colony for tech addicted young adults would be?

I’m happy to take the downvotes caused by leaving off the /s!
Walmart takes fintech plunge into Mexico's risky marketplace
I'm sure themedia is the media
Apples “move to ads” is barely noticeable (today)… like Googles product strategy.

But yes they’re moving into ads. It seems to be “over the top” revenue for them, not a core revenue stream like Google. Apple is basically taking any free internet connected endpoint they provide and tossing ads in (news in stock app, App Store, etc?). It’s annoying but it’s nowhere near as invasive or impactful as any other advertising giant (Google, Meta, Amazon, etc). They’re also way less invasive at tracking you - but they’re as equally opaque at telling you.
I know many people who used to be in Tony’s orbit, and a few in his inner circle — and describing it as a cult is actually quite accurate.
According to the email I got from Tesla about an upcoming end of free Premium Connectivity, Music Streaming still works when tethered to a smartphone.

The main drawback of letting the subscription lapse is loss of live traffic data on the map. The other lost feature is satellite view maps. Everything else works when tethered via wifi.
You said "symbiotic," not me :-)

I would describe the relationship as mutualistic: both parties benefit, but not necessarily proportionally. And they don't need to benefit proportionally, but there's also value in highlighting the disproportionality: it behooves the OSS community to remember that extremely valuable ecosystems like GitHub and GitLab derive a significant amount of their value from the continued (and mostly passive) goodwill of the community.
Drugmakers set strategy for legal fight against US pricing regulation
Yes, the article is combining suicide and murder to come up with a combined "gun violence" metric. It is not a relevant statistic when talking about crime specifically.
They did discover several galaxies beyond redshift 11 that Hubble cannot see. I'm not in the field, but venturing a guess here that they might want to prioritise getting images of known objects first, because there must be so much active research that can immediately benefit from the new detail. Over time I hope they will dedicate time for some wild hunches like Hubble did and open up something yet unknown.
There has been a lot of confusion about this but it is actually overexposed pixels deleted in software. From the lead author of the paper:

https://twitter.com/AndrasGaspar/status/1655680076103716878
Do you have evidence for that because psychologists disagree with you.

But let's pretend they don't. I'm all for universal mental health care. How does that help? What can we do to curtail gun violence, if we take the stance that it's a mental health issue? Evaluate everyone before letting them buy guns? Sold! Hell, I'll give mine back (after I've damaged them beyond use so no one can have them in the future).

We can play "Is it mental health?" all day but even if it is and we're going through a period of collective psychosis, I don't see how addressing mental health could ever really help here.
Just look up Julian Assange for the worst case scenario.

His fate is almost certainly worse than death.
This link is neither about Godot Engine nor a thread.
devils advocate: command completion is bloat. discoverability papers over poor documentation. All of this enforces the bad habit of expecting the software to hold your hand everywhere.
It's one of those "seemed like a good idea at the time" things from when the internet was essentially a bunch of universities and a lot less hostile. Originally this was all just wrappers around telnet.
Realms is on Java too.
When a person uses the phrase "No true understanding" I can tell they don't know what they are talking about at all.

It can engage, use, explain, transform and apply highly sophisticated concepts, philosophies, styles, and models of the world in writing. If that isn't understanding...
Yeah, some type of practical knowledge is interesting in it's own right, and some other type of knowledge could be only described as "Not all scars are on the outside".
Heat Waves Fueled by Climate Change Topple Records Around the Globe
Home Prices Fell in Third of the U.S. During First Quarter
You can also [buy a Klein Bottle from him](https://www.kleinbottle.com/). I'm very happy with mine.
I personally like having a car with these, but I'm not convinced it will be the death of GM like people predict.

>GM was not affected by PRISM, so they could make claims of having a privacy oriented vehicle. That messaging does really well on HN and I imagine other communities as well.

>The other thing is deeper integration. Yes it sounds like a security nightmare, but you will get additional features this way.

>You also write your own future. If the tech duopoly decides to do something like forbid alternative web browser engines, you don't need to bend the knee.

Not to mention, if every car has a generic infotainment screen, it makes the car less unique. Cars are all about the marketing and if you can make someone feel like they are cool for driving your car with the infotainment screen, you can sell that car.
The Labor of AI Trainers – A China Perspective
I'm surprised they haven't added support in Finder for the iPad to just show up with direct access to its file directory. Surely you must be able to directly move files between an iPad and a Mac that don't require going over Airdrop or iCloud?
Gestures are way more comfortable for me than a button ever was.
This is professional grade software and you won't pay $5 a month? Which you can cancel whenever you're not using it?
Neither will work by themselves as far as censorship goes because it's not just DNS, but either can solve some minor geofencing annoyances like Qt blocking access to https://download.qt.io or Spotify pointing their podcast CDN to 127.0.0.1 when using major DNS providers.
You probably could sell your Zap/Make workflow
Hi all, I'm Louis and new here.

I've built quickapi.io for the last two months to scratch my own itch:

I've been building multiple Zaps and make workflow, as well as API to experiment with GPT in the last few months and wondered if I could sell them.

The thing is, to sell an API, you need to set up some complex code and infrastructure around it.
Just the fact you need to build user authentication and management, billing, credits, and metering for every API seemed crazy to me. So I build QuickAPI to take care of that.

Here's an example: https://jobtitlesai.com is a simple machine-learning algorithm to classify job titles. It uses QuickAPI, so every time someone signs up, he immediately has access to an API dashboard to manage his subscription and credits.

I'm considering addressing the no-code/low-code market where more "techy" developers can easily sell their work to "less-techy" people who want to build with it.

If you had a platform that lets you paste your bare endpoint (without auth, billing, and that just does its core thing), how would you use it? What would you sell? To whom?
But in Old German, the prefix ir-/ur- meant "thoroughly", from Proto-Germanic uz-, meaning "out", ultimately from Proto-Indo-European úd-, meaning "outward"/"upward", which is also the origin of the English word "out", as well as the prefix "or-", as in "ordeal". Proto-Indo-European coexisted with Ur, and it doesn't really make sense that Ur would lead to the PIE prefix úd-.
Curious case of Martian traffic in Linux
Ethically speaking, you owe your employer the labor you promised for the wages agreed on. If they ask you to care about a data policy, and they're paying you to care, and you took the money, then you should care.

Morally speaking, you can decide that the employer doesn't have loyalty to you, so you won't have loyalty to the employer. But if that's your morality, then there is no rationale for being either loyal or disloyal, because you'll just mirror what someone else does. This makes the decision less meaningful than tossing a coin; it's a morality of randomness, which is dysfunctional and anti-social. It's better to live your own principles (such as loyalty) regardless of whether someone gives you the same back.

Practically speaking, doing your job the way your job wants you to do it (caring about data privacy) helps you in your career and improves the business, and improving the business keeps you in a job and again helps your career.

It's also a quarter of your life. Don't you want to do your job as well as you can, so that all that time wasn't a waste?
How exactly are you getting "should have resulted in thousands of cancer deaths"?

A population of 100,000 should expect to see 144.1 deaths[1].

If you evenly divide the study group into two 52,500-sized groups(treatment + control), each group should expect to see 72 deaths. A 12% drop in one of the groups is 8.6 deaths. As a colleague would say, that's very few clams from which to make a chowder.

Perhaps the researchers are using more advanced tools than I am, but even assuming a 12% difference between treatment and control does not result in a chi-squared test with any reasonable significance. ie: the null-hypothesis(there is no difference between groups) cannot be rejected.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/update-on-cancer-de...
But that would be so...human.

I really believe that Jamaica saw such a musical explosion (and continued cultural dominance) because of the "human" view of music creation. So much was about borrowing or reusing or repurposing. Lyrics subtly changed from other songs. Reusing melodies from other songs. Purposely having multiple artists do their take on "riddims" to make the song their own. It let anyone contribute and it increased the amount of creative production, not reduced it. And, what do we get out of subtle modifications and copying of previous tunes? A genre.
I bet the story about Odessey is not the same kind of discovery, more likely a re-interpretation. Unless they showed that Odessey is actually faked by someone in 1694 or something.
I mean, they’ll shut it down eventually, because nothing lasts forever. But that’s a different claim than “this is part of the plan to shut it down in the next few years”.
Reality models mathematics! That’s a great way to put it. That’s why there are no perfect spheres in a material world—yet billions of material entities teleologically approximating spheres. Clearly the ideal sphere is ontologically prior to any specific material approximation.

You have immense respect for the humanities—but will casually call me a lazy hype monger? Pity.
And incredibly inaccurate.
Link to the ImageBind site: https://imagebind.metademolab.com/
The parable of the Mexican Fisherman:
https://aliabdaal.com/newsletter/the-parable-of-the-mexican-...
This is pretty cool, thanks for sharing.
Pandas AI: make data conversational
Pandas AI is a Python library that integrates generative artificial intelligence capabilities into Pandas, making dataframes conversational
> Despite having no other Apple devices in our household, we've been using and loving AppleTV

Does that work okay? I would worry that you needed an iOS app to configure it or something. It works as a totally stand-alone device?
At some point we'll be saturated enough for that "Polite Society" we've been promised by being an "Armed Society" will kick in and we're all gonna feel pretty dumb. Any day now. Any day.

/s
Netflix adds on average about 1 show per day. It would be incredibly cheap to have an intern just watch the credits and write down the names. Maybe you get a second intern to doublecheck their work. Sure buying access to an already compiled database would be preferable to making your own, but even that's pretty cheap. For IMDB a million api requests per day costs $45/month - if we assume 3600 shows, 5 seasons per show, 10 episodes per season, 300 credits per episode that works out to less than 2 months of api requests, or about $90 total (substantially less assuming you can retrieve multiple credits with a single api request) to create a database for their entire catalogue. I've got more than that in my wallet right now. Of course you probably need an engineer to write a script to make all those API requests and at that scale it will take a little time to write and some effort to maintain, less facetiously it's probably going to be comparable to the cost of a few interns. Still, this is definitely not an insurmountable barrier for a multibillion dollar company.
In that circumstance, I've heard that vitamins and supplements can be tricky; the additional nutrition may feed the cancer, before it feeds you. Just one more factor to consider.
I tend to insist that database tables are collections of global variables, and the worst kind of global variables because they're persistent (reboot won't fix them), they often affect multiple application instances at once, and application compilers can't help you verify them because they're usually in strings. Stored procedure languages have a little bit of an advantage here, but there are so many disadvantages that it's hard to recommend them.

Your best bet when writing SQL in strings is make it "greppable". Naming a table "user" is very convenient until someone asks, "What will be affected by this change to the user table?" and you're stuck with needles in a haystacks. Tossing in a tiny prefix e.g. "tblUser" will annoy some people but then your signal-to-noise is ideal.

But yeah, concatenating bits and pieces of text together into queries can rapidly escalate out of control without a conservative/judicious approach.
The Hubble deep fields take many days/weeks/months of exposure time. The deep fields released from JWST so far have been just hours long...

There are a lot of different proposals being rapidly shot in these early year(s) of the telescope. Later on there will certainly be longer exposures.
"But what really separated all the losers from those who had been able to amass a large fortune was a whole lot of lucky breaks in a row."

"Zappos, the company that ultimately made Hsieh famous, wasn't his idea."

"Over time, Hsieh's interest in junk psychology extended beyond happiness and into even stupider realms. He became obsessed with Neil Strauss's "The Game," the infamous guide for so-called pickup artists which taught men how to manipulate women via techniques like "negging" and "peacocking.""

"When Hsieh ultimately embarked on an ambitious project to revitalize downtown Las Vegas and turn it into a new tech hub, he boasted to a reporter about how he had used methods from "The Game" in selling his vision for the city to potential investors."

"But ["Wonder Boy"] did not give much of an answer to the question of how and why so much of the press and the public got suckered in by Hsieh's generation of tech evangelists. cD-"
I'm surprised you've never experienced this. Even names often require an explanation, because the pronunciation is insufficient to convey which words (i.e. characters) are used.

>Mandarin can be written phonetically perfectly fine

It can, and I use hanyu pinyin daily, but my point is that given the small space of possible sounds, it often has a great deal of ambiguity, and is mentally taxing to read. Have you ever tried reading an essay or book in pinyin? With syllabic spacing? There will be many places where it is simply not possible to know for certain what a particular word is. And then there are text books, scientific books.

Chinese characters do indeed have strong historical and cultural value, but that is not why they are still around. They are still around because they are essential to the written language.
But thats not how it goes. They will pay 10-20% over market of wherever you live.
This statement makes me question what a normal social life is, or isn’t.
As a developer, I get it.

As a user, fuck subscriptions. Subscriptions just cause me to move all my tooling to open source variants over time. Developer livelihood is not my concern.

Maybe OSS with a Pateron-style model is the way forward?
> However, when the studies were divided according to whether vitamin D3 was taken daily in a low dose* or in higher doses administered at longer intervals*, a large difference was seen. In the four studies with the infrequent hogher doses, there was no effect on cancer mortality. In contrast, in the summary of the ten studies with daily dosing, the researchers determined a statistically significant twelve percent reduction in cancer mortality.

What exactly is the recommendation here, low or higher doses? or something else because Im struggling to understand this
I don't have a course but this sounds like a good idea. I would try researching content creators and then offering to do their courses for free. I will note that this is probably not going to help you become a software engineer but could help you grow an audience.
https://www.imagebind.cc/
A senior-ish CV would be needed to pass the initial screening I suppose, and I suppose it would depend on the exact skills and current demand. Yeah, pretty much anywhere (except the few countries covered by US sanctions) but they try to persuade you to adjust your rate based on where you are located.
Maybe some people are already subscribed to Total Crap under a different name without realizing it.
D3 (animal-based) > D2 (plant-based) > D1 (synthetic), at least in humans if you read the literature, that is.

The fishy thing is how actual scientists do whole studies using only D1 and then draw conclusions.
The size mentioned, 4k@24” is properly sized for 200% with perfect quality. So no shenanigans needed.

This size is very difficult to find these days, presumably because people don’t understand this. Or hardware co. mgmt didn’t.

TL;DR A 4k monitor should be the same size as HD, with 200% scaling. 22” aka 56cm is about right.
Permit me to quote the article you’re commenting on.

> 10. Ataraxia (Greek: ἀταραξία)
> Ataraxia literally translates as “unperturbedness”, but is generally considered as “imperturbability”, “equanimity”, or “tranquillity”.
Yep, I totally forgot about this use-case, but there were plenty of situations where it would've saved me. With one a couple a years ago that I vividly remember.

I volunteered to edit a demo video for our internal hackathon project, and had both an M1 iPad and a new macbook. I wanted to go all out on the video just for the fun of it, and I still had some of the final cut pro muscle memory from many years before, even though it was a much older version. iMovie proved to be extremely inadequate even for some basics (on both macbook and ipad). iPad had some third party options, but they were all either unwieldy or expensive or various other issues. For macbook, there were various alternatives (davinci, etc), but they either had similarly high pricing or various other limitations or an insane learning curve (which i don't mind usually, but not in those circumstances). Final Cut was only available as a full-priced option. I would have easily been willing to pay $10-20 for one month worth of access for this project, but no way I am paying hundreds for that. Ended up using iMovie and making the video that i absolutely hated and that wasn't resembling anything I had in mind for it at all.

P.S. I am genuinely baffled by how terrible iMovie is compared to its big sibling Final Cut Pro, given how amazing and well-rounded GarageBand is compared to its big sibling Logic Pro. GarageBand is obviously not competing with Logic Pro, I was just trying to illustrate that Apple has those hobby->pro creative app relationships (iMovie->Final Cut Pro, GarageBand->Logic Pro), and the GB->LP one is imo fantastic overall, and both products are shining in their respective tiers, and I get a good use out of both of them. But with iMovie->Final Cut Pro, I am pretty much fighting against iMovie even for some basic things and would rather deal with Final Cut only. And yes, for basic video editing, I still miss windows movie maker (the newer MSFT replacement for it, Clipchamp, is the worst out of major basic video editing software i've ever used).
Cheers, UK. I suppose one visit was sufficient.
Yes, people keep saying LLM tech is laughable because it can't solve for cold-fusion or some nonsense in a single prompt.

In reality, all it has to do is replace a crap ton of white collar "lgtm and pass it on" jobs that exist with minimal transformation or logic applied. This is a crap ton of people
> you can't realistically do programming without Google these days.

This is really not true.
Try it. It's not that hard, and will likely make you a better programmer.