skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a single mentioned of HTMX[1].

That's a real bummer as it's really the only modern web technology that's getting me hyped. Let's move it all back into HTML. I'm begging you all. Please, let's move back to markup.

[1]https://htmx.org/
I meant that they are equivalent in a very fundamentalist sense.

You have input, taken by sensors, converted into usable form by a processor. There is no fundamental difference between visible light and radio waves, per se.
That sounds a lot like the usual piracy advocate excuse "they're not losing any money through piracy, it gives them free exposure".
In my view, the higher-level issues with the FSD Beta program are:

- A failure by Tesla to view the system that they are developing as what it really is - a physical safety-critical system and not "an AI". Those two are distinct systems as, with a physical safety-critical systems, the totality of the systems safety components cannot be fully expressed in software - neither initially nor continuously.

- To build on that point, Tesla is not allowing the Operational Design Domain (ODD) via a robust, well-maintained validation process determine the vehicle hardware as the ODD demands it to be. Instead, Tesla is trying to "front run" it (ignore the demands of the ODD) by largely focusing on hardware costs. The tension from failing to recognize that is why Tesla, in part, has a long history of being forced to (somewhat clandestinely) change the relevant sensor and compute hardware on their vehicles while promising to "solve FSD" (whatever that means) by the end of every year since around 2015 or so.
I totally agree. I always thought Cortana was a strange choice for a voice assistant. Maybe the engineers were trying to slip a hint past their business overlords - don't trust this thing, it doesn't work for you but for "the greater good" of Micro$oft.
> They'll just turn down the meeting request, tell your supervisor what you've done and you'll suffer either real punishment or be unofficially 'punished'.

Well, I'm not scheduling a 1-on-1 to discuss shitting in their lap. I'll dangle some kind of carrot they can't help but go for.

Sure, after, I will probably lose my job, that's understandable; We're well past the point of civility then anyhow -- after all, we're contemplating shitting in someone's lap or bleeding onto them to potentially pass blood-borne diseases to them.

> Generally you just don't get time off, or maybe you can take the time off without pay (if they're extra generous). Such is life in the USA, there is no response: You will do what the owners of capital say, or you will go hungry.

I'm well aware, as per your opening question -- I do live in the US. What I'm trying to get at is that it's long past time to be despondent about this. It's time to be angry. It's time to shit in _someones_ lap.
That’s pretty interesting but also, how often do you find yourself needing to send a single capital “R” in practice?

I mean, I assume at least once since you know about it. But for me, I don’t think I’ve ever typed a singular capital R anywhere on purpose.
Yeah, there's not way it's easier than using rpm/snap/flatpak
It isn’t as though there isn’t an internal and governmental testing process in place to ensure a reasonable level of safety.

I suppose what you’re saying is true, in the same sense that using any modern computer technology which has software in it’s stack, which hasn’t been formally verified, is fundamentally unsafe.
Even with those things, humans crash into fire trucks too...
Why not set up different users to do different tasks?
> Twitter market cap is $40B.

That might be what Elon paid for it but, if all the recent news articles are to be believed, it's now worth less than 1/4 that.
Current generation deep learning systems rely on supervised learning, which requires human labeling.

This is one argument for vision alone. It’s easier for humans to teach the deep neural network what to do if they both see and label the same thing.

It’s harder to build labeling systems that work on representations that humans don’t understand like point clouds or noisy depth maps.

That isn’t to say that other sensors including radar, gps, LiDAR, other spectrum, etc don’t help.

But you have to develop more complex labeling methods or move away from supervised learning.
Wasn't it somewhat of a natural progression? The world was making multiple major discoveries, tons of new developments in pharma and psychology research, the space race, plus how Telecom, satellites and radio communications impact on spying etc.

It makes sense that spies would dream up some super drug that makes people talk. The El Dorado miracle pill to solve hard human problems... you combine that with technological exuberance of the era and cold war pressure, it makes sense.

You don't need to have Nazi imports or any one motivation to explain why they tried.

The circumstances of them unethically testing it on civilians is another matter.
> What exactly makes it hollow?

The fact that it is nonbinding resolution ritually offered every year, connected to no substantive action.

> Or do you call war crimes perpetrated in Afghanistan by the US and its allies a genocide too?

No, because “genocide” has a definition, and its not synonymous with the broader category of “war crimes”. Attempts to destroy a people as a people, as Russia is fairly overtly doing in Ukraine (accompanied by propaganda, as such efforts often are, denying that the identity sought to be destroyed is legitimate) is genocide. Other war crimes – which Russia is also committing Ukraine – are, well, other war crimes.
You can already tell ChatGPT to create text for your slides. But creating a presentation, at least for a professional talk, is much more than throwing slides on the screen. The slides are the easy part. Creating a compelling talk with good pacing and delivery takes work.
I'm a Reddit Mod and no issues with their web and app. It's basically very hard to moderate with third party clients, so there is no choice but to use their official platforms.
I get the (new) mobile site with it.
At least require the apps to all have an option to automatically withdraw any funds sent to the balance, at least within excess of some marginal amount. Let them leave the option disabled by default, but at least it gives us a reasonable way of not needing to constantly remember to withdraw funds.

One additional benefit is it would put some pressure on the apps to offer practical incentives for users to maintain a balance instead of using the automatic withdraw option.
The hub was built to emulate the behavior of 10base2 and 10base5.

10base5 was the original inch-thick coax, and adaptors actually drilled into the cable. I have found 10base5 taps in odd places over the decades of my career.

10base2 was coax cable that we recognize, and there were t-connectors that allowed two cables to link into a host's network adapter.

The ends of the cable were capped with resistors ("terminators") that would radiate network traffic into (a very small amount of) heat.

This model uses CSMA/CD (carrier sense mutiple access/collision detect) very literally. Any station could transmit at any time, up to a maximum of 1518 bytes, including the Ethernet frame header. Transmit collisions were detected as frame size overruns. If the cable were too long, the ends would see correct transmissions, but the middle would see collisions. This explains the 500 and 200 meter limits of 10base5 and 10base2.

An understanding of this original topology and its limits is informative in the reasoning for modern Ethernet.
Old habits die hard I guess ;)

Btw, had a classmate in college we called chungi (pronounced choon-ghee), we made some cool school projects together, including a videogame

Thanks for the nc recommendation
>Interesting, are these in underserved areas? I just went through interviewing for a new job and despite being in an in-demand subspecialty with desperate employers the most I got was a dinner after the 2nd round interview but no one covered my travel. Do you mind if I ask what kind of physician she is? I clearly picked incorrectly.

Pediatric Emergency Medicine. All in cities large enough to have a children’s hospital, so basically minimum metro populations of 500k or so.

>is there age-ism

I’m sure there is, but not really at the principal engineer level from what I’ve seen. Mostly there’s an assumption that staff plus engineers will skew a good bit older.

I think the issue is that everyone cargo cults FAANG interviews. They get so many applicants that they can afford to treat very senior people like new grads, and that attitude trickles down to most other companies.

From what I observed early in my career, there was definitely a time when higher level engineers escaped the FAANG style hazing process. But slowly more and more companies have started putting everyone through the whole thing.

I’ve been at companies where leadership tried to force very well known engineers with decades of experience, hugely popular open source projects, multiple famous talks/blogs/podcasts etc… to do weed out take home assignments.
Just responding to the headline, Cruise just started rolling out service to the whole city of San Francisco. Before it was limited to areas and times that were hard to take advantage of, but now it's opening up to the whole city (still late night only) so it's started competing with Uber-Lyft for late night rides. we'll just have to wait and see what effect it has on the transportation system as a whole.
I've been trying to cut Reddit usage since I first heard about their impending IPO a few months ago, actually. When they killed i.reddit.com and the /i suffix, it tripped my alarm bells and I realized I shouldn't keep relying on Reddit for much.

I've successfully eliminated it from most of my recreational time, but Reddit posts are still often useful when I'm debugging an error or researching a purchase. When that happens, I'm glad I have the /.i suffix set up on my phone and old reddit redirect on my laptops. Quitting cold turkey is hard anyway, might as well use any hacks available that make the site easier to use while I cut down my use.
I got to experience the old VAX-based system for a few years, before it was migrated to Oracle Peoplesoft in 2011 (?) - which created as many problems as it solved.

Interestingly, I'd never heard of the telnet interface to course registration before today. I did hear about the modem bank - and being the one with the old laptop (2006 vintage), got to use the modem with the campus's 5-digit dialing to get a session on it. This was, by far, more performant than trying to use the Web interface that everybody else was hitting, but interestingly it also didn't have the silly "we're closed from 6pm to 6am" stipulation.
He said it, because reddit was always friendly and now they're doing a 180 on them with very short notice; no time to phase customers out or spread some of the cost out, just BAM "you get 1 month to switch to the new scheme or adios losers". Public companies have to basically become fascist to do what wallstreet expects of them, which is to let beancounters rule all decisions rather than listening to engineers and other employees.
Fixed. Forgot that I made that GitHub repo private a while back. :)
The admins like it the way things are. You won't get any relief from them.

If anything, expect things to be like now, but more so. They clearly intend to increase the intensity of the policies you dislike, they just haven't figured out how to do that yet.
I'd say the calculated decision was making it available to civilians in the first place:

>After Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a Boeing 747 carrying 269 people, was shot down by a Soviet interceptor aircraft after straying in prohibited airspace because of navigational errors,[42] in the vicinity of Sakhalin and Moneron Islands, President Ronald Reagan issued a directive making GPS freely available for civilian use, once it was sufficiently developed, as a common good.

That's the neutral phrasing on Wikipedia. The actual announcement: https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/statement-depu...

>In their recent statements on the Korean Air Lines tragedy, senior Soviet officials have shocked the world by their assertion of the right to shoot down innocent civilian airliners which accidentally intrude into Soviet airspace. Despite the murder of 269 innocent victims, the Soviet Union is not prepared to recognize its obligations under international law to refrain from the use of force against civilian airliners. World opinion is united in its determination that this awful tragedy must not be repeated. As a contribution to the achievement of this objective, the President has determined that the United States is prepared to make available to civilian aircraft the facilities of its Global Positioning System when it becomes operational in 1988. This system will provide civilian airliners three-dimensional positional information.
Depends on what you mean by doing good.

I was smart, but didn't care and never studied a single day until I dropped out as a HS sophomore.

I did go back to a CS program at some point but did not graduate.

But I've always learned stuff on my own.

I have zero degrees today, but I have a better position and salary than a lot of people my age with masters.
I'll take the devil's advocate here.

Why should the employer pay for work that isn't being done?

If you rent a car and it doesn't work, would you pay for it?

If you rent an apartment and its unfit for habitation, would you pay for it?

If you go to the store to buy a product and it's not there, would you pay for it?

It's different if the illness is work related, of course. And it's beneficial to society if people can be sick without worrying about losing income, but is that enough to make employers pay for it? And it also doesn't seem like equal pay for equal work if worker A is sick 2 days a year and worker B is sick 20 days a year, they do about the same amount of work on days they attend and get paid the same amount anually.
This. I’ve long thought that you get better users when you filter out the people who both need the site to be pretty and are incapable of tweaking it on their end.
My 2 cents on AI-assisted code authoring:

First time I got my hands on Github Copilot some time ago, I intentionally chose something "odd" (so no CRUD API in X, Kafka stuff, sorting algorithm) so I chose to re-create some Excel sheet alike UI in React & Canvas.

First everything proposed was misleading but after the first couple of lines, it astonished me by really proposing things like nested loops for iterating over a grid (surely, I used an according function name). I came quite far (for a quick test) with marking single and multiple cells and being able to drag the marked area and double-click for text input. Then I realized it was about time to invent a proper data model and stopped it there.

All in all, I'm using it for like 50% of daily coding, but it's frequently misleading in subtle tricky ways that I expect to be quite dangerous especially if using it for tests as well (need to double-check if it's not BSing me twice). Debugging code is already a big drag in our work and I'm somehow not happy with debugging AI-generated code.
> Twitter market cap is $40B.

No, its not; not being traded on the open market, it doesn’t have a real market cap. It may have once had a $40B market cap, but that doesn’t mean it does (or would if it were on the market) now.
> the CIA, any other agency with the power to "classify" things, is a direct and ever present threat to not only liberty but the underpinning of democracy everyone claims to support.

The part I put in italics is too stringent. National security quite obviously necessitates classification. E.g., Turing's classified Enigma team was definitely less of a threat to democracy than, say, the WWII equivalent of an HN public bikeshedding marathon about how best to use the newly discovered codebreaking to win for the allies.

What matters is what happens when we discover abuses. E.g., AFAICT nobody from the CIA has been held accountable for what was documented (when not redacted) in the Torture Memos that came out of Feinstein's office. That kind of lack of accountability is a threat to democracy.

But it in no way implies that nothing should ever be redacted.
> We have a WireGuard mesh internally

I’ve got one too, and I ssh over Wireguard to various machines in the mesh. But I’ve been thinking recently that one big shared Wireguard internal VPN that lets every machine get access to all ports of one-another is really not ideal.

And in light of that; if my Wireguard setup was more strict, then perhaps I would not even need ssh. But on the other hand I would prefer to keep my defences deep. I sleep better knowing that even if I mess up something with the Wireguard setup and the listening ports and addresses for host logins at least everything still has ssh protecting it.
https://mofinetwork.com/
Looking at their little toy simulation, one thing jumps out at me. Is there any particular reason that we should expect the labyrinth to not be pathological in its shape? Does the universe somehow owe it to us for it to be traversable?

One could, for instance, design the shape of the labyrinth such that most of the little jiggling dots not only can't make their way out, but also get trapped in a direction very far from the actual truth.

I hope that the random nature of the universe takes it a little easier on us than that.
Moot point when computing is incredibly efficient when compared to heavy industry.
These and more.

By releasing an API, and letting third party developers pick up the slack, the community grows and the main company doesn't have to invest as much themselves into this annoying UI stuff. And even if their own efforts are misguided, there are other options, so people stick around. Once they've decided they got all they need from the third parties, and users are too attached to leave, they cut off access. It's a rug-pull from under the people that helped build the community up so I can see why it feels like a betrayal.

While they have technically not 'cut off' access, they chose their pricing for a reason, and it will have this effect. As to whether third party apps are superior, to me that's a side issue - if main-Reddit makes a user-hostile decision, their site and app won't support ameliorating that since it goes against their plans. Third Party apps can and do, which is beneficial to users.
Is it possible to transfer learning from vision to LIDAR? Maybe if it's possible to map visual images to LIDAR images and vice-versa (by running a car with both cameras and LIDAR and learning their associations)
Somee MacBook Pro models also incorporate a feature called "Battery Health Management."It can help optimize the charging patterns based on your habits and usage to reduce the wear on the battery over time. It may slightly adjust the charging levels to prevent the battery from staying at maximum charge for prolonged periods (to stop battery aging).
I got hired 3 times thanks to HN, all in very different ways! But they add up to most of my career:

- In 2014~2015 I released a CSS library (Picnic CSS), which was fairly rare back then, and reached the front-page of HN. Through that post I got contacted by a US dev offering me very interesting freelancing work! That also made me realize I could make in 1 month of international work what would take 3-4 months of a local job through the degree I was studying. We collaborated in multiple projects.

- In 2019 I joined Standard AI through their announcement in the monthly "Who is Hiring?" in HN. TBH it was amazing work, we had a great small dev team in our location and I learned and grew a lot. I've done some of my most challenging (in a tech level) dev work there.

- In 2023 I joined Keeper through HN's "Work at a Startup" program where I had created a profile. It was the only time I've been contacted from a company through the program, but magically it was just when I was looking for a new job so it was a pretty good match. So far it's been pretty good!
Somewhat off-topic but congratulations, you have re-implemented (in the small) the search engine that powers HN. I say this as an employee of the company behind that engine, and I say this as someone who is intimately familiar with the codebase and with how the technology works.

With a little more effort towards scalability, and with some input from a devops co-founder, you'd be on your way to launching a state-of-the-art, market-competitive search engine.

My employer won't be too happy seeing me post this, but I don't care, this needs to be said.
I don’t find it amusing or ironic. That both of those things are true at the same time is telling. There are too many self-driving cars in certain places like SF. This is noticeable, and is a problem, because self-driving cars are incompetent drivers. This, it certainly seems, is a major problem that will be with us for some time. What we were promised is far away.
One of the things every epidemiologist I worked with urged during the pandemic was universal sick leave.
This implies that they can create a piece of software as intelligence as the human brain. Absolutely absurd reasoning. If they are being serious with such a statement then they are complete fools. More than likely they are just making excuses for why they are being cheap. Still fools, but maybe not complete fools.
I’ve had the opposite experience in recent years: Excess management and limited engineers leads to a desire to do deals, make contracts, and buy external solutions for everything. In many cases the integration costs are assumed to be $0 and we spent more time trying to make an external tool do something that could have been built in house in the same or less time.
> How are people getting their email address wrong so often?

Invalid generalization from the process of signing up for email itself. When I sign up for Gmail, I choose an identifier I don't control (and computer says no if I get it wrong). Then this becomes my identifier. Likewise for usernames. So if emails are now usernames, why would the same process not apply? I choose an identifier I don't control. I put "@gmail.com" because it says to use an email address and that's what email addresses end with. Computer doesn't say no so I must have done the right thing. Rinse and repeat.
"Credit to X"
Not to mention, dude was milking his supporters to buy him that [1] XDR

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/kf4ucn/thanks_to...
"Adequate" is an interesting choice of a word when describing something's safety record.
That error happens because your browser is broken. I had the same issue because my image viewer assumed i.imgur would always serve images but they've recently been serving redirections and html (presumably to force people to see ads).
Every living thing is just trying to tap into the great waterfall of entropy to spin their wheel for the little time they can.
Here's a list of subreddits that have gone private or have announced plans to do so on June 12. (self.ModCoord):

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/13zr68f
They also don't get fixed just because people keep whining. Nothing is going to change, any more than when people complain about Facebook design changes or whatever. The answer is stop using reddit. I already shredded my comment history[0] and deleted Apollo from my phone.

[0] https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
This is so crazy, never even realized how complex location tracking is...
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I am not bullish on brain-computer interface