skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Vim and Dvorak. It only took a couple of weeks to get used to. Never felt a need to customise Vim to change any keybindings strong enough to do so. And am happy I didn’t. For all these years I’ve been using them both together with just the default key bindings.
"Well it most definitely will cause unrest/revolution if it stalls the economic cycle where people can't get food.

That's happened enough times in recorded history to have a solid causal link."

Examples? Genuinely curious
Ask HN: What are some great software engineering blogs to follow?
Hey everyone,

I'm currently combing through my bookmarks and was wondering what programming or software engineering blogs I should look into?

If you have any Python or Go resources, that's a plus!
> The new Apple Vision Pro arguably has a better set of cameras, sensors and signal processing than a Tesla

And it costs about 9% of what a new Model 3 would run you. It's also coming to market almost 5 years after the Tesla HW3 stack that runs almost all cars on the roads to which you're making the comparison.

> My argument on autonomous driving is that it can't just match the safety of the average human driver. It needs to be 100-1000x better, unquestionably better for everyone, always.

That sounds like maybe a marketing argument? You're saying that if it was only 2x better at some visceral metric (total traffic deaths, say) that you think people wouldn't accept it and it would be regulated out of existence, either by liability concerns or actual lawmaking?

The counter argument is that those metrics are, after all, visceral. The US has 40k traffic fatalities per year. You really think the government is (or courts are) going to kill a technology that could save 20k people every year?

No. "Merely better" is the standard that will stick.

> I think that's probably only achievable with LIDAR

Everyone on your side of the argument does, but frankly this has become an argument of faith and not substance. LIDAR capability has become a proxy for "not Tesla", so people line up along their brand loyalties. For myself, LIDAR is actually the technology looking like it isn't panning out. It's not getting cheaper or more reliable. LIDAR autonomy isn't getting better nearly as fast as vision solutions are iterating.

Most importantly, LIDAR at its best still only gives you the 3D shape of the world, and that's not enough. LIDAR doesn't help with lane selection, it doesn't help with traffic behavior modelling, it doesn't help with sign reading. It doesn't help with merge strategies. All that stuff has to be done with vision anyway.

The "don't hit stuff" bar has, quite frankly, already been crossed. Tesla's don't hit stuff either. If you give them LIDAR, they.... still won't hit stuff. But all the work, even for LIDAR vehicles, is on the camera side.
“ The fixed sort solutions for sort 3, sort 4 and sort 5 discovered by AlphaDev have been integrated into the standard sort function in the LLVM standard C++ library3.”

Not exactly what the title would lead you to believe.
I don't disagree with the ultimate point (that an Apple Car might be expensive) but it wouldn't be for this reason. (Almost?) All cars come with some sensor/display package at this point. Let's say that costs, on average, $500. The Vision Pro costs $3500. So the MSRP of a Hyundai Ioniq 5 might go from $41,000 to $45,000. If that gets you a car with a ridiculously better set of sensors and displays, that hardly seems "very expensive" by comparison.

Again, I'm not arguing that Apple might not make a number of other design decisions that could lead to the car costing much more than that. I'm just saying that the cost of the Vision Pro sensors won't be the reason.

And to be clear: I don't think the Vision Pro implies that Apple would needlessly increase the price of a hypothetical car. The Vision Pro is as expensive as it is not because of some perceived "Apple Tax" but because Apple had a vision (ahem) of what they wanted to build, and it was at the very limits of technical possibility, and they chose to release it now (2024) instead of five years from now. For comparison, the original iPad, which was anticipated to cost a thousand dollars, shipped at half that price.
I'll be happy to do this because when Musk claims some kind of achievement with respect to morality there is a much better than even chance that he's lying based on past performance. Of course it would be nice to be able to cite a bunch of peer reviewed articles but both Musk and Trump should have lost the default levels of trust that people still seem to assign to them. They've been caught in blatant lies so often now that I really don't see why they should be given the benefit of the doubt, in fact it probably pays off to assume they're lying and take it from there, especially when it is about stuff that makes them look good for which they do not provide hard evidence.
The change hasn't happened yet, so it's premature to say the employees have gone along with it (which in many cases means selling their house and moving city). In fact, I don't think any of these calls to RTO have actually been successful.
Cities of the past are nothing like those of today. Nor the lifestyle of them.
> there is constant transphobia against Asahi contributors on display on this site

Could you be so kind as to link me to an example?

People have discussed Marcan's anime alter ego, certainly, but I've never seen anything transphobic in the slightest. Maybe it's all flagged before I get to see it, but I honestly can't figure out what you might even be referring to. I enjoy reading Asahi updates when they come up, so I am unsure how I could be missing something so 'constant'.

> It’s not limited to the Asahi project, either. The site isn’t safe for queer folks.

As a 'queer person' myself, I find that statement utterly ludicrous and I reject it completely.
The situation is not that clear cut. From the linked article:

> This appearance of an unedited version of The French Connection on Disney+ casts doubt on the assumption by some that Disney - which now ‘owns’ the film following its purchase of 20th Century Fox - is to blame for the unannounced cut.
You seem to have very strong opinions for someone so ignorant regarding the basic facts of this case.

Snowden was basically locked in Russia by the United States -- the U.S. wanted to pin him as a scary Russian-affiliated actor. And they did.

Maybe that should give you reservations about which country is the "MOST historically abusive surveillance state."

Or maybe you've just taken U.S. propaganda hook, line and sinker.
I’m surprised that the price of an airline ticket has not tracked the increasing weight of the average passenger over the last 50 years or so, since I presume payload weight is a significant factor in fuel consumption. I wonder if the average passenger payload for an aircraft has actually increased or not? Is it that some passengers are much slimmer thereby negating the effect of the contingent that has gained weight. Do heavier people not travel as much as lighter people?

I’m also old enough to remember this fatal crash, caused by exceeding TOW and botched maintenance.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Midwest_Flight_5481
Both vi-style and emacs-style key bindings work well under Dvorak without alteration. (Why are people capitalizing it? It's not an acronym, it's a name.)
I grew up during a time when the principal way to see older movies was on broadcast television. Not only chopped up for commercials, but, as I later learned, with many critical moments removed.

Years -- decades -- later, when I returned to some of these on disk or unedited streaming, I was surprised to discover how much I'd missed. Not just nuance, but entire cultural portrayals and statements that had been "washed away" by the banality of commercial television.

I was both pleased to discover these "new" (to me) pieces of interest and more thorough reflections of culture, and rather disappointed to observe how -- for me at least -- the cultural conversation had been quasi-lobotomized in the interests of some externally imposed lowest common denominator.

A part of public, commercial copyright should be that the covered work, as provided to and subsequently incorporated into the public culture and dialogue, cannot be removed from public access (if still for a "reasonable" fee).

There are TV shows I cannot meaningfully discuss with others who did not see the original broadcasts, because the music that played an essential and culturally relevant / connected role -- as important as the role of a principal character -- has been swapped out due to "rights" issues.

Sorry, nope. You contribute to such a cultural icon, and your contribution lives on in perpetuity. Let whatever contracts be negotiated within that context.

Sound trivial? We are talking about shows that would affect observable traffic -- on roads, in public establishments, etc. -- because "everybody" was home watching the show. (And who knows how much productivity was "lost" to water cooler conversation, the following morning?)

You don't get to just "disappear" culture...
There's a popular work that comes to this conclusion in its beginning chapters [0]. The basic premise is that the act of science and knowledge acquisition cyclically devolves into ideology and is then disrupted. Typically those who initially disrupt a scientific dogma are not treated well. Eventually the old guard literally dies off and the new ideas can begin to take hold.

[0] The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, T. Kuhn
Wow, I had to check the math and with my assumptions it does in fact take >2 hours of minimum wage labor to power a CFL for 1 year ($7.25/hr, 0.14$ KWh). It's much higher than I expected. I had the notion that turning off CFLs was hardly worth my time but that's not entirely true.
References?

"Nonverbal communication and deception" - https://www.paulekman.com/blog/nonverbal-communication-and-d...
Unfortunately yes but compared to the bombastic (delusional) positions and claims of many crypto enthusiasts with crypto replacing virtually every technology platform, currency, and complete worldwide domination displaced people are (fortunately) a tiny "total addressable market" (yes, I sicken myself calling it that but I don't have a better term ATM).
> Why does he deserve special treatment?

First, a fair trial is not "special treatment". Second, because every U.S. citizen is protected by the Bill of Rights. There was a non-zero chance that had Snowden not fled the country he'd be quietly moved to Gitmo and never heard from again.

I may be reading this wrong, but, it sounds like you're not in favor of the actions Snowden took. I couldn't disagree more. He tried to raise the illegal operation he was a part of to the higher-ups, through the chain-of-command, and he was ignored. The public deserves to know that the U.S. Government was blantly breaking the law and spying on everyone, everywhere, all the time.
I know of quite a large company - the second largest employer in the US that have thousands of Macs and come with Office. Do you really think that no one has been using Office for Mac and Microsoft has been selling it for 35 years?
Nuggets, Culture, and the Benefits of Co-Location
Can’t agree more. Disgusting.
Authoritarianism. And it's rampant everywhere.
Chances are you won’t ever need those pills provided that you survive beyond age 5.
Getting English translation is a good idea, but it should be "hold down 5 seconds" to reveal -- Allowing it to be shown instantly might actually slow language learning. Users should be allowed to struggle a few seconds first (struggle === learning) before translating.

Alternatively, it might be nice to be able to translate only individual words. If I understood 60% , inferred 35%, and was clueless about 5% of a foreign text, I think I'd end up learning more by using the smallest amount of translation possible and only translating the word I was stuck on.

It would also be nice to see support for more widely spoken languages. Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, and Hindi could be your killer apps -- If supporting non-latin text is a bottleneck, you could launch these languages in beta with some features disabled!

Overall, great product OP! This is definitely good enough to start charging for. Spending 5 minutes a day speaking Spanish is a very appealing idea for me. As silly as it sounds, I'd try selling door to door (in person) for the first few users. I think that could be much more effective for early stages. You should also consider adding a intermediate tier for people in lower income countries.

I will keep your site bookmarked -- I tested it for Spanish, but the language I really want to learn Arabic. If you can add Arabic language support, I will be the first person to sign up!
But how would you do this? Sensor fusion with inertial sensors is well understood, how do you fuse g into the equation to improve things?
Startup Incorporation for Founders: A new handbook
Hello HN! I'm one of the founders of Clerky :) For the uninitiated, we're one of the most popular ways for startups to incorporate (and get all sorts of other legal paperwork done).

We've written a handbook about startup incorporation and I wanted to share it with all of you :)

There is, of course, a lot of content about startup incorporation out there already. Why did we decide to add to the pile? Honestly, I often wince when I read what's out there, because so much of it is misguided or just plain wrong. A lot of it is people with no legal expertise regurgitating the same (often misguided / wrong) information they've read/heard elsewhere. Basically, the setup for the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, except the culprits are content marketers instead of the media.

We also felt there was a need to have something comprehensive. While there's a lot of bad information out there, there is also a lot of great, accurate information. It's just usually spread across various blogs from startup attorneys, which makes it difficult to get a comprehensive view. With this handbook, our goal was to provide a central resource covering everything you need to know about startup incorporation.

A few content-related notes:

• We mention this in the handbook, but this is all written with US-based startups in mind. We fully recognize a lot of founders are elsewhere, but there's just too much to cover if we were to expand the scope to beyond the US. Sorry about that!

• The word "startup" means different things to different people. We use the word in pretty much the way PG uses it here: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html

• As the name implies, this handbook is narrowly focused on startup incorporation. A lot of people don't know this, but there's a lot more to forming a startup than just incorporation, like setting up a board, issuing stock to founders, etc. We previously published a handbook called Legal Concepts for Founders, which touches on those topics: https://handbooks.clerky.com/legal-concepts

On more of a UI-related note, some personal pain points that we tried to address with our handbook design:

• It's easy to jump down to a footnote and jump back up to where you came from (just click on the footnote number).

• Every subheading is link-able, as are any callouts that you might want to link to.

• We've been very generous with linking to glossary terms so that readers can quickly learn what they need to know in order to understand what they're reading. The challenge was that regular link styling would leave the copy way too busy. To solve for this, we made each link look super close to regular text so that the linking isn't distracting. That way readers that are puzzled by a term, who might be looking at it more closely anyways, will be able to click through and learn more, and other readers won't be distracted by the link styling.

I'd love to hear any thoughts or questions about either the content or the UI! I'll be here all day to respond. Also happy to answer random questions related to startup law.

Thanks :)
Yes, I do think that is a valid complaint.
> Every single article that gets to the frontpage will have dozens of vile posts in the deads and a couple sprinkled inbetween.

But that's why they're dead. Turn off "showdead" if you don't want to see them.

The ones that aren't dead, I would assume the moderators haven't seen yet and/or haven't received enough flags yet. Moderation is hard.
This is an incorrect reading of our report. Twitter has scanned for CSAM using PhotoDNA for years, and is an early member of the Tech Coalition of companies working on this issue.

What we discovered is that, since Musk's takeover, that Twitter's CSAM scanning failed and was not noticed by Twitter. They fixed it several weeks after we notified them, and then shut off our API access to prevent further research.
I wonder how GP would feel about his neighbor operating a meth lab.
I'm satisfied with Zabbix too. With something like what OP described, I'd always be worried some integration between all these 'moving pieces' could break and my monitoring would be down without me knowing. Definitely appreciate simplicity with regards to monitoring.
Really depends on what your job is.
Wait until neuralink becomes a real thing.

Do I want it? Of course not.
Yes, maintaining your proficient in QWERTY is only a matter of not stopping to use it altogether when switching to a new layout. It'll just be a matter of time spent to become fluent in both. I recommend Colemak however.

I personally didn't maintaing typing on QWERTY, interestingly my brain still has the QWERTY mapping for tablets.
US had intelligence of Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream project
I think current funding mechanisms for science select for non-independent thinkers. At the beginning of the scientific era, most researchers were funded by patrons, which supported much more independent research (at least, independent of other researcher's opinions, not the patron).
>Would there be confusion?

No, but it would be unusual. You don't hear people using a term like "crypto brothers", for instance. "Bro" carries a different connotation, and it isn't a positive one in this example.

I don't think it is simply an abbreviation in this case.
Maybe the increased weight of passengers has been offset by increased jet engine efficiency?

Just a guess...I'm not sure if it's true...
I'm disappointed a the hashing is just based on training on microbenchmarks and SMHasher, rather than designing a fast _provably_ universal hash.
Suites like SMHasher are never complete. They are just trying to catch the most common weaknesses. If you train on the test cases you'll only get an algorithm that passes the tests, but people can always find a set of values on which you will do badly.
> There is also a lot of garbage of the "yeah, duh, of-fucking-course" variety. studies like "negative interactions with community reduce feelings of belonging" ... uh yeah, no shit sherlock.

I think these studies are useful, first of all to test whether it's
actually true because sometimes "well du'h" turns out to be wrong, but also to
quantify the exact effects. Is it a large effect or a small effect? How large
exactly? Which factors exactly contribute to this effect? What exactly is the breakdown of the effects? It might be possible that 20% of the people are effected by it and 80% of people are not; or perhaps everyone is effected by it.

There's often all sorts of non-obvious nuance that's possible, which can be very significant.
Meta has consistently tried to drive the price of their headsets down compared to the competition. They weren't looking to build the expensive high end groundbreaking hardware, they are looking to make cheap ubiquitous AR/VR so that people can access the "metaverse" which is the real platform and product that meta wants to control.

So no, meta's play was never "groundbreaking hardware", it was making the hardware better while keeping the price accessible to normal people. Apple hasn't even entered the competition there.
> I don't know why you are looking at 1440p (2560 x 1440) as the m1 here is running at 1440x900.

Ah, you are right, I messed up with the resolution.

> The m1 gpu is broadly equivalent to a gtx 1650 in a host of benchmarks.

Which ones?

> This is getting less than half the fps a gtx 1650 does at these settings, and I am being charitable.

... without having to emulate both CPU architecture and graphics layer.

I mean, this is not really a debate. DXVK is not comparable, Wine does not do the same either. We are talking about translating both CPU instructions and graphic API calls in real time, good enough that a triple A game runs without any modification on a laptop with 16GB of shared memory.
Organized gatherings are always going to attract more attention. Especially if they involve singing during a respiratory virus pandemic. There were some pretty good outbreaks related to group singing, as I recall.
It’s not whether you or I get value out of it. It’s unethical to talk about people you’ve managed publicly. Most managers won’t even get into details in a private reference check for liability and ethical reasons.
Correct. Apple Vision (AV) is also AR first which will help people remain present in their environment. Will it work that way in practice remains to be seen.
> it's just been improved

This is a debatable statement. Personally I want to see the original artist's intent, warts and all. It gives insight into the cultural sensitivities, or lack thereof, of an era before I was born.
I wonder if they just trying to cut out slurs for the sake of cutting slurs, or if they do not want to portray cops as racist.
Strawman argument - nobody is claiming that stacks of GPUs are people.
I'm near Mansfield, Ohio, working outside actually. The haze is really wild, and I do smell some smoke on the wind. I didn't find out about the fires until last night. I'd been working outside yesterday as well and the thickness of the haze was eerie. It's strange today, too. It's a beautiful day, but now knowing what the haze is from it's pretty ominous.
Good grief. Seems like a reasonable proposal for a 17th century slave ship but thats about it. The Ars comment about just horizontally stacking passengers is pretty apt.
>Building, maintaining, and renovating property

Workers do all that, not landlords.
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts on the Big Island
Show HN: I was rejected by Codecademy 3 times, so I built one with an AI tutor
How are hyperparameters tuned for GPT3.5, is there any leak on the method they use?
I'm surprised they only report results up to sort5.
It seems at that level, you could just iterate through all possible programs.
AI generated code seems more interested once you get to 10+ values, where classical methods break down.
When I was learning dvorak (more than a decade ago) I bought a cheap keyboard at a garage sale and rearranged the keys.
An easier approach is just to get stickers.

I used that trainer keyboard for a summer, until my typing muscle memory was updated to dvorak.

Since then, I don't look at my keyboards while typing, so the fact that the keys are labeled for qwerty doesn't really matter.
All of my grocery shopping is done on my supermarkets website and sorting by unit price brings up the price per pound or ounce or whatever that products unit of measure is. For paper towels it returns $ per square foot, so even if the product size is different the price per unit of measure stays the same and makes it easier to comparison shop.
NL national security law to grant automatic permission for targeted surveillance
The tax breaks I have seen that are similar to this only care about where the employee is working, not whether they are in a home or office. So if that was really the motivation it would be a reason to require employees be located in a given area, not require them to come into the office a certain number of days per week. Without you citing the specific tax breaks you claim are the issue I'm very skeptical that they are the cause.
The Illusion of Moral Decline