skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great advice. I do plan on getting one above 2022 cause I like the digital dashboard design better than the big round useless dial in the middle of the car.

I have heard that they generally have a lot of issues though. I also plan on just getting a certified pre-owned to at least give me a few years of warranty service so that I don't have to deal with it myself.

I also hope to just sell it after a few years and get the electric version. I'd get that now, but the mileage is pretty bad. Hoping that it gets better.
What do you mean "dragged into this against their will"? Who was forcing Nintendo to add lootboxes to their mobile game, or adopt shitty dark patterns to coerce children into buying them?
There needs to be definition of "exceptional". Most "exceptional" use exemptions rapidly become routine...
I don't think it's a fork, but prominent Elm developer/author Richard Feldman has been working with and hyping up Roc: https://www.roc-lang.org
It’s not social media, it’s social awareness of the exploitation of youth to prop up elders who contribute nothing but marching orders that, conveniently, prop up elder investments.

It’s being mocked over the environment. All they get is tough love as a generation dies off leaving behind the worst ecological mess any dying generation has left behind.

It’s being swindled by one socialized loss to enable private gain after another; sports stadiums, healthcare… etc

It’s teen women watching bodily autonomy taken from them by a bunch of leches.

And, the worst part, it’s the apathetic public following orders. Feckless society afflicted by learned helplessness; all the white collar workers who can’t provide anything real for themselves. Imagine being on the hook to coddle that?

This culture is a joke of self absorbed primates who ramble in high minded praise of their intelligence. War is peace and exploitation by aristocrats is freedom.
Maybe not, but a human at Uber responded within 15 minutes when a ride I had booked drove away from me just before pickup. They canceled the original booking with no fee, then sent another car to pick me up and gave me some Uber credits.

That's 1000% better customer service than I'd ever expect from big G. Google would probably charge me a cancellation fee for not taking the trip, shut down my account for having the temerity to complain I'd been stranded, and then followed up with automated email confirming they made the right decision after review.
Except this is more akin to "don't serve food that was left under room temperature for a day" than an arbitrary procedural US-rule.
That microtracking made a lot of tiny and very cool niche consumer packaged goods brands a lot of money in the early 2010s. They can't afford to use untargeted TV advertising like the mega brans unfortunately, but Facebook did a great job helping them connect with their niche. It's much harder for new brands to get started these days.
Once they align into monopolistic cartels and integrate with government, that all changes - and that process (which took place for example in Germany in the 1930s) is well underway again. In such situations, corporations can direct governments to deploy their military forces for their own benefit.
Well there two different Larses. There's the young driven, actually trying Lars of the 80s. He was great, AJFA was pretty ahead of its time as far as metal drumming goes.

Then you got the ageing, not keeping shape, rich Lars who's become somewhat infamous for not being a very tight drummer, and that's definitely been true for several periods of his later career.

He's also well know for having a somewhat unconventional and mechanically inefficient technique. This was fine when he was younger, and less fine once he started getting older.
True. But please consider the difference the social background of the people makes. If you are financially secure due to parents (or whatever) you can easily accept positions with a low payment and do your best to get into a promising tenure track.

So maybe it is only partly about exploitation, but also about applying a social filter.
What does it mean for a SDC platform to "win"? They either drive safely or they don't.

We're setting up for the biggest "winner take all" product-market fit in history.

Besides, ~99.9% of people won't have the expertise to make an informed decision on which provider to use (if they even have a choice).

The only losing scenario is if one is particularly bad, leading to a ton of regulation (like a FAA for SDCs).
"First is the reality that everyone targets Ubuntu first [...]"

Imo this is changing. You're seeing it happen even in this thread.
The definition of "domestication" in this article does not seem to have anything to do with living with humans. It says bonobos have self-domesticated.

I'm honestly not sure the term is even well-defined.
With Google's reputation, I'd expect them to provide terrible customer support and then also just let the whole thing stagnate after the initial splashy rollout and it had to be maintained.
Really sad to see https://sso.tax/ being employed here. Please let your customers use your software securely.
There's toxic culture in a lot of fields and there's one common denominator.

Can't wait for AI to take over every field it can and push out the corrupting factor - humans
> things like Monero or Ethereum

I guess it comes down to how far you're willing to stretch "like" there. Progress is glacial, but crypto is becoming more useful. Meanwhile, traditional finance appears to be getting worse. Eventually those lines will cross. Although I doubt the cryto's of that time will look very much like what we have today.
Not to detract from your point, which I agree with- it's very arguable that the order is wrong. The Patriot Act was written and ready before 9/11- it just needed a catalyst to allow it to be passed.
Replicating Uber is hard because it's a 2 sided market - you need to convince both users and drivers to sign up and neither will if the other isn't there already. But that's not a problem for Waymo because they control the driving side. They simply need to get users to sign up.

When you have something unique and useful, people will sign up.
My traffic history: started in August 2004, up to 15,000 pageviews/10,000 visits/day at the 2013 peak, when blogs were at their zenith.

I'd get 10 or 20 comments/post, often.

Then a slow decline until January 2015 when I became clinically depressed and barely functional such that it took everything I had to post one sentence/day just to show proof of life.

I recovered completely in October 2016 and resumed multiple posts daily as is the case today.

Traffic when I started back in in late 2016 on a regular multiple posts/day basis was around 100 pageviews/day.

Current traffic is about 600 pageviews/day, with 5-10 comments/week.

Still, a couple times a year some popular blog/website picks up something I've posted and links to my post which results in a sudden spike to 3,000-8,000 pageviews that day, with a regression to the norm over the next week or two.

One thing I find interesting is that things I post today I would've posted back in 2004, and vice versa.

It's amusing to discover a couple times/year that something I'm about to feature or just featured appeared 10-15 years ago.

Occasionally a reader from back in the day will point this out, to my delight.

As best I can tell, the only popular one-person blogs that still update regularly and go back as far as I do are https://www.swiss-miss.com/ [March 2005] and https://kottke.org/ [1998].

I take pride in publishing daily including weekends and holidays, unlike pretty much every other blog/website.

Always something new at boj if you can just make it through the night till the next morning....

As to making money from the site: when I started I thought perhaps I could do that, so the guy who set up my blog (I have 0 technical skills or knowledge of coding etc.) made it so I had Google AdSense on my homepage along with an Amazon Associate banner/link.

At the blog's peak I was generating about $300/month from each of those two sources, with a couple anomalous checks from Amazon in late 2014 for $2,000-$3,000.

Just when that happened is when I got depressed, and income collapsed to the point that I removed all ads from my homepage and left AdSense up on individual posts.

Currently Google deposits around $120 into my bank account every 6-12 months, though I may have failed to update my AdSense agreement such that my Google payments are kaput.
> Big companies have big legal organizations and they don't actually operate that differently from the IT orgs that so many of us on HN are used to.

Well, if you are referring to IT organizations in firms in the tech industry where that’s the core business (i.e., a value center) you are wrong, they are run more like IT orgs in non-tech firms (cost centers), vigorously minimized to be a bit smaller than they should be to handle routine day-to-day needs effectively, with new, emergent, and non-routine work outsourced.
"Bush sculpture moderation" is a great term! I'll add that to my lexicon.
its gonna come out of 4chan
It's difficult to claim that any system is 'certifiably broken' until you can actually point to an actual effective real-world implementation of a 'better system' (pareto or otherwise), no?
Progress on self-cloning crops: Q&A with an MIT plant biologist
As always with these things, it is important to keep in mind that there as some underlying physical restrictions.

The static pressure (1750 Pa) doesn't tell you much, if that happens to drop to near zero as soon as any measurable flow starts. With a power of 1W, the theoretical maximum flow at that pressure is 1.21 CFM, but it is probably much lower in practice. In any case, it is meaningless to quote the pressure without the CFM.
If you let people read a file, then they can copy it (2006)
That's totally wild. A huge part of my experience is trying to cram my thoughts into words that so rarely seem to fit. Makes texting (or any text communication without other context) stressful
I disagree completely! There are preferences of course but for instance US Southwestern cuisine with the burnt flavors ("charred") appeal to a wide swath of people and the French AFAICT from a lot of visits can't stand it.

If you read Julia Child she is emphatic that onions should almost never be browned.

Guess what? I brown onions in my French recipes (rustic, eh?), and I char my peppers. I would submit that la comida de la gente is likely more plebian than fucking elitist French cuisine, no?
Is there a GitHub repo or similar effort where people have been working on this?
Uh, you might actually want to watch some of these videos. You're right it's not everyone, some people are doing the whole 'this is why it works'. But there are a lot of people who are very mistaken about how a lot of other people make music.
Yes, caramelized onions are sweet.

They are not "better" or "worse" than fried onions, they have a very different taste.
Rapid population bottlenecks can easily cause non-linear evolutionary change by drastically changing the histogram of phenotypes.
According to Linkedin 54% of Uber employees (48,000) are in operations roles.[0]

I suppose some of these could be drivers, but I believe Uber's biggest department is operations, which is one of the reasons it's so expensive to enter new markets. Can't scale operations in the same way you can scale development.

Google would have to do something similar to launch their own ride-share app powered by Waymo, so could make sense to just keep Uber in the middle.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/uber-com/insights/
Signature tells you who signed it.

Of course, if you haven't put any effort in system to end-to-end verify whether it's right signature it doesn't matter.
If this is topic is new to you, it is worth checking out some conversations about inner voice over at reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/nosurf/comments/10tnb8g/do_you_have...
I just started following Bryan's journey two weeks ago.

I didn't get the same impression as you. I always thought it's implied he's talking about what's good for him, not all people. He then uses that as a framework for something others could pickup and incorporate in their lives.

I like the iterative nature of his work - he always tries to improve the recipes and supplements he takes.

I always see a lot of negative comments about the guy here on HN, and he's basically hacking his own body and publishes everything for free[0].

[0] https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.co/
That's not really how modern banking works anymore. The vast majority of loans aren't funded by customer deposits.
You choose to believe a more convenient truth. I don't think I could say anything to convince you that things aren't always getting better and that every step we take isn't objectively forward facing. Case in point you just straight up don't read unless it suits you lmao
> Academia places unrealistic goals on brilliant people and pays them so meagerly that they have to often find other sources of income

Early in my career, I considered (with an MS in Electrical Engineering, but with 4 years of professional programming experience) a switch into law. Big firms hire (or did in the past) people with tech degrees to do patent work and will pay a salary plus pay for law school.

When I joined the big firm, there were about 25 people in my role. I was the only with with an EE or CS degree/background, the only one without a PhD, and the only one with actual post-academic work experience. For me, it was a 10% pay cut before accounting for law school tuition, similar benefits, and an small increase in hours. For all of the PhDs, it was essentially a 100% raise, substantially less work, and superior benefits.
Google Bans ‘Downloader’ App: TV Outfits Claim Browser Violates Injunction
Show HN: Veml – Vector Embedding Markup Language
As a serial business owner and principal, it's crazy that anyone expects me to agree to boilerplate contracts without negotiation. Boilerplate is a first draft as far as I'm concerned.

Who is to say what is substantive to me?
Sunflowers are an excellent study in juglone. Juglone impedes many plants from sprouting, so sunflowers are described as weed repellent.
science boasts empiricism but the institutions who 'teach' science don't have any empirical basis on how to do so efficiently

yeah, its outdated, has been for a while
Here are some more reputable sources for this story:

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136912

https://www.scidev.net/global/news/prepare-for-disease-deadl...

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230523/WHO-chief-World-m...
Will be interesting to see how interface standards develop across the database ecosystem. I want to write my UDFs once and run them on multiple platforms
Wouldn’t the best way to fix this be to just require anyone selling cow’s milk to put ‘cow’s milk’ on the label?

Have you ever bought goats milk by mistake ?
I've been writing a lot of OCaml lately and I'm impressed with the state of its LSP and development experience. I've had no issues with the LSP, dune works great. Having to use both opam and dune is a bit confusing, but it gets the job done.
Indeed. It is a clear blanket clause. Nothing changes, but at least they (EP) tried. I am increasingly starting to think that the Council is the root of most problems in the EU.
Yea, gocql works fine.. the CDC on golang is pretty good as well

I asked for support on twitter for some specific load tests, go 2 detailed responses
in a day.. only later did I realise, both by the CEO of the company! :D
https://archive.md/BzNgh
We’d like to present you the .veml [Vector Embedding Markup Language] that has the potential to greatly enhance the editing, use, and sharing of vector embeddings in various applications.

Adoption of VEML brings many benefits, like:

1. Standardization: VEML provides a standardized format for pre-processing and editing vector embeddings.

2. Interoperability: It ensures better interoperability among different applications and systems that utilize vector embeddings.

3. Extensibility: Just like XML, VEML has the potential to be extensible, allowing users to add new tags and attributes to represent additional properties or metadata associated with the vector embeddings.

5. Machine Readability: A well-defined markup language would also be easily parseable by ML, ensuring efficient processing and manipulation of vector embeddings by various software applications.

We'd love to hear your thoughts.
Automated Scientific Discovery: Equation Discovery to Autonomous Discovery Sys..
Nestbox Builder
with those resources, you can give me the Uber app from 2010.

consumer expectations are much higher than 13 years ago and that's not going to cut it.
It is question asked by the soup thrown at paintings in museums recently. Like saying "Why do you consider that paintings must be protected and not the possibility to keep living on this planet ?" At least it is how I interpret it.

It is about rules elaborated by an educated society. Not perfect rules, but at least rules that preserve what this society consider "important". Many example show that humans that live in a given place are very well aware of how important is a "healthy" ecosystem and give rights to "a good life" to this ecosystem: Wanganui river in New-Zeland, lac Erie in US (this attempt failed), constitution of Ecuador, etc... Elinor Ostrom wrote interesting about this rules (governing the commons), she had the nobel prize for that.
Do you separate the value of Bitcoin from the value of Binance, and Binance's coin?
We get sub-ms response time on a table with over 250 million rows. We have a covering index for all high-volume queries, running on rds (aurora) with 16gb ram.
there was a run recently, everything was paid out and life continued normally. the binance CEO actually encourages this as it's a stress test [1].

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-community-members-disc...
United States vs. One Package of Japanese Pessaries
It's some serious irony that after all technological advancements we are returning to the very first naval navigational principle, dead reckoning.
I'm not sure whether I agree or not, but as a reference point, Socrates comes to mind - should he have stolen off with Crito instead of taking the hemlock?

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-ethics-shorter/#12
By that logic, people who have an injury should just be euthanized?

Obviously, you wouldn't do that. Neither should we let species die off deliberately because we currently assume climate change will threaten their habitat. We do not know. We have the power to shape climate change to some extent. The trees might migrate all by themselves. We could possibly find a new habitat.

"Ah, fuck it, it's hard" isn't the answer here.
Sure, if people always went the extra mile to provide the best experience, things would be better, but that has nothing to do with SPA versus MPA. Some things by default are cheaper with SPAs, some with MPAs, so the default annoyances are different - but neither gives a great experience for free.
"autonomous" vehicles are remotely monitored and controlled. that is just not part of the marketing.

the big blocker, and why autonomous/remote vehicles are not being rolled out more widely, is that remote requires lots of very reliable low latency bandwidth.

5G (mmWave 5G in particular) is a key enabling technology. until you get mmWave 5G or some comparable technology the bandwidth for remote at scale doesn't exist.
I have used PhotoSync App(not free, this is not a promotion) for transfers between iOS, Android, Windows and Mac. It also supports transfers via (S)FTP, SMB or WebDAV, hence Linux (I have not tried this).

https://www.photosync-app.com/home
There may be other apps that set up a server (i.e. http, ftp ...) on the phone. Ask Google.
No need to disentangle it. You would be integrating the linear motion with the accelerometer they are developing and use it with a gyroscope that measures the rotational motion. Then the full 6 degrees of freedom are measured. We already have very good gyroscopes that measure rotational motion (such as Fiber-optic gyros [0]) with really high stability.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre-optic_gyroscope
1) the server signs what's uploaded using one or more TUF keys shared to RAM on every pypi upload server.

2) the client uploads a cryptographic signature (made using their own key) along with the package, and the corresponding public key is trusted to upload for that package name, and the client retrieves said public key and verifies the downloaded package's cryptographic signature before installing.

FWIU, 1 (PyPI signs uploads with TUF) was implemented, but 2 (users sign their own packages before uploading the signed package and signature, (and then 1)) was never implemented?
I would say the job market is another stark differentiator. People with BS or MS degrees in CS would end up owning a job that an academic would have to wait until a tenure-track job to earn. The difference is CS jobs are obtainable right off the bat, while the tenure-track professorship requires a solid 8-10 years post graduation.
Is there a handy list of companies owned by Meta? I had no idea Giphy was one of their properties.
Are we truly 'inattentionally blind'? Revisiting the 'invisible gorilla' study
I like exceptions. You can't get away from them, I know Haskell tried, Rust tried, they still have exceptions (perhaps they call them by a different name though). May as well make that system generally available to programers. They also allow you to have the Erlang/Elixir philosophy of happy path coding, "just let it fail", by using a high level exception handler and then just coding the happy path underneath.
> There's another angle to it too - impatience. A big part of my resistance to asking question is the unpredictable, and usually large delay between me asking, and getting any kind of answer. This applies to community Slacks, Discords, etc. Thing is, if I have a question to ask, I usually need the answer right now. If I have to wait, I'll context switch, which is deadly for whatever I was doing at that moment.

Bingo. If I'm in the zone in terms of flow, have the right level of caffiene, etc., having to stop and chase people -- then wait -- breaks that flow. In many cases, it simply punts the flow until tomorrow, or the day after.
Is there some specification what embedding space the vector is in?
Given that most major (in terms of usage) open source products are little more than commercial collaboration between large corporations (e.g. the Linux kernel, clang, Kubernetes, the various Python ML libraries) I'd say that much of the open source community is quite directly made up of corporations.
Preventing teenagers from doing things that adults can do is pretty normal. They can’t drink, smoke, or drive until they’re old enough - at which point we decide it’s their life.

To some extent, if adults want to drink from the firehouse of poison we let them.
> Even if it was true, it's on Microsoft for doing that, not DR-Dos for being incompatible.

Why should Microsoft have gone out of their way to make windows compatible with some operating system it was never designed to run on?
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. - written some 2400 years ago
Indeed, somehow or other I found a perfect combination/distillation/outlet for:

I really like to write about things that catch my interest

Being an enthusiast

Being extremely interested in people/things that are surprising/clever/beautiful/original/funny (not all at once necessarily)