skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do some things really well. I like the speed and effectiveness of the sync across various devices and OSs, like a personal pastebin.

I have a subscription, and was hoping that they'd converge towards something like a wiki, where the notes can link to each other. The suggestion seemed to be rejected out of hand, maybe it's just not their vision. It is mine, though, so I have migrated to Joplin, and expect to let the subscription expire at this point.
Caltrain killed more than one person per month last year. We continue to run it. This puts a ceiling on the economic value of a life in California.
That's not how it works. But I'll bite since you seem to follow a religion here - you can follow market talks from other end, revenue. It tells the same story, eerily so in fact.
I’m an SF resident that is an anti-car as anyone but this is so misguided.

The real problems are:

- vehicles owned and operated by a single driver. These take up precious space for parking instead of living

- auto accidents due to human error. Tired, drunk, texting or just aggressive drivers cause auto accidents.

The slow streets movement is great. Put up cones where all cars can’t use certain streets.

Self driving cars and the companies behind them haven’t earned all our trust yet, but the sooner society shares robo taxis as a replacement for single owner vehicles the better.
This is something I thought about a while ago…

In London as in many other cities, on a Friday night, large parts of town basically turn into a giant open air pub. No one would drive there voluntarily but there’s the occasional Uber / Taxi / Delivery / Maintenance driver passing through at a crawl. People will get out of the way but it’ll sometimes require creativity to get through.

It would take a real asshole to deliberately cause trouble for some low paid driver and fortunately there are few of those in the general population. People can empathise, “guy’s just doing a job, no need to be a dick, hang on I’ll move my pint…”

However, given the amount of crap people have to put up with with the likes of ‘unexpected item in bagging area’ from the supposedly smart and better machines then I feel like the ‘asshole to a machine’ threshold is much much lower.
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I see other people have done minor rewrites, but the post does mention reordering branches, so the obvious question is whether there was any attempt to use PGO, which is an obvious first step in optimization.
DNS is good enough for companies, governments, schools, organizations, military etc. Not to mention that most other identities are tied to a DNS identity of some sort. Sure it’s not ideal as something completely trust less and distribute like PGP, but it’s been 33 years and no one can come up with a decent UX for that because it’s not really possible. $8 a year is a barrier to entry, especially if you consider people in economies where that’s significant. But that’s when you tie your identity to someone else like gmail.com or yahoo.com or bsky.social. When you can afford it, you get to manage your own. it’s good enough.
Mandatory fines in the seven figure range would maybe be a sufficient deterrent, on account of most people probably not even filing claims, and less people disputing a denial.

The penalties need to be extremely harsh to make up for this imbalance.

Another solution would maybe be to not require people to claim by law, and make it mandatory for airlines to pay this out themselves. Combine with airlines having to self-report every flight and its on-time status to a governing body, which can then audit their honesty in this regard.

The current system, while better than nothing, is in all honesty inadequate.
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Right, I could say some nonsense about how your politically polarised mindset blinds you to obvious facts. It'll be very persuasive I'm sure. Instead I'll believe a bunch of dentists who have no expertise in neuroscience to put aside their egos and come to a consensus. Just a couple more decades no worries. It's like some Idiocracy thing where some group convinces a population to put a neurotoxin into the water supply. Art imitates life I guess, the movie did come out later than this.
No I'm specifically addressing OPs point about drivers pulling 14 hour shifts - that's easily regulated everywhere. Anything beyond that is your interpretation.

>>It’s near impossible to simultaneously compete on cost and have safety

....airlines exist and compete on cost with extremely stringent safety requirements?
And this is nasty because?
There's also a dashed line coming off of, Greenland is it? I'm not aware of anything that might refer to... Maybe the person who drew that map intended to evoke possible routes with those dashed lines.
See also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621757

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36616037
https://www.androidpolice.com/google-street-view-germany-aft...

Actually, the people did adjust.
I was on a delayed ICE, and they handed forms to every passenger. I found the process straightforward.

I don't live in Germany though, so I've only had the single delay.
It might not be dead, but it has definitely dropped the ball.

My timeline on Bsky somehow always show people taking a dig at other rivals, and self congratulations. People regularly diss twitter, Mastodon and now the feed is full of people dissing on Threads. This bsky-is-not-twitter identity that bsky network latches onto will be detrimental to itself.

Also there are no federated servers anywhere in sight so far.
Mastodon allows you to both run a server on your domain and move to a different one.

This isn't unlike running your blog and I'm pretty sure there are solutions like WordPress.com that run it for you with your domain.
Because the tech is crap and will remain crap - the vehicles aren't suited to be allowed on public roads. Nothing to do with business models.
That's a different level. Sure, there are and will be laws that regulate self driving cars. We will change them over time.

What I meant by people adjusting is that self-driving car will stop being something people have some kneejerk hostile reaction to.
I had a German friend who grew up in Rwanda, each time they’d go through Paris/CDG, at least one piece of luggage wouldn’t arrive. Years later, a network of Paris people was snatched in CDG. But it keeps going on.
I'm reminded of jaywalking. Pedestrians had the right of way until the marketing departments of automotive companies decided to turn walking on the street into a crime.

Public sentiment can be easily manipulated with sufficient resources.
This is amazing! Thanks for the effort!

I missed the original thread, but would be happy when you include my blog as well :)
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Or perhaps you are the one who doesn't get it? With so many books/courses/AI available online, you can learn for your entire life without needing to go to school for it as long as you have curiosity and movitivation.
If your goal is to learn and get educated, you don't need college.
College is mostly for getting a job and socialize with your peers(which is more important than most people think).
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That is just dumb and overly reductive. There is just lot of properties about programs that can not be expressed to compiler with portable ISO C but could be exploited for optimization. Of course reducing portability progressively improves situation, like using GCC extensions or machine-specific intrinsics. But even then its ridiculous to claim that C compilers could in general case generate true optimal code.
I’ve wondered by watching the SF rollout of more autonomous vehicles if there is central monitoring of many cars by humans.

While not fully automated, one or two people could monitor a fleet of hundreds of cars for problems with the vehicles and send one or two human agents in the field to investigate and fix.

Still stands to be wildly more efficient than a normal car ownership.
The identity layer should be built as a blockchain. Ignore the cryptocurrency connection, focus on the distributed decentralized identity ledger.
It is rare, and is probably due to a combination of green tea and weight loss. However, the effects are catastrophic, and it worth pointing out before someone decides to use tea extracts to "protect" their liver.

There are more cases that appears through cursory review of the literature, as most go unreported/unpublished. I have seen one case myself, and the person barely survived.
I doubt it. There are so many TLDs now that everyone can have a reasonably decent domain on a thematic TLD. All of those have premium pricing schemes that are unattractive to domainers for the really good domains.
"About 900 U.S. forces are deployed to Syria to work with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces battling the Islamic State militants there."
> I am saying that S-Expression aren't any kind of 'primary' representation of your program in a modern Lisp. Especially a compiled one.

Besides pointing out like others have that pretty much all Lisps have an interpreter that stores programs as s-expressions, why do you think compilation makes making a DSL in Lisp harder? Do you think you somehow need a parser all of a sudden?

> My point was that homoiconicity is a surface level property that you could bolt on to eg C or Cobol, via a simple pre-processor, and it wouldn't change those languages much.

Writing in C instead of assembly does not make your processor more powerful. Similarly, when designing languages, homoiconicity allows you to work directly with the AST in a way that is most ergonomically simple. Saying this is a surface level thing is an understatement
Hah, great catch! I missed the news on this!
This story and the resulting discussion here on HN are such a great example of data mining with statistical methods. The researchers found a non-obvious result using statistics. Now we're all speculating about the underlying cause, trying to apply our domain knowledge to explain the result.
Markets are not even the thing. Nerds need to get to grips with ethics or at least social signaling.

E.g. how much of an burden is a service allowed to be on society at large? Most of the "disruption"-based startup models are based around exploiting some rule that societies had before that. If you have to trick society into using your service, consider you just might be on the wrong side of history.

Without knowing the details, when a nerd friend talks to me about a fictional self driving taxi start up, the first thing they would need to convince me of is that such a thing is even benefitial given the fact that it is space that is limited on city streets. Then I would have worries a out how that corp is socializing part of it's costs (by using public roads, by usings ways of attracting particular workers etc).

Don't get me wrong, those might all be ways to make good money, I don't dispute that. But as someone living in a city my stakes are different. I want to be able to get from A to B without being stuck in traffic with 100 empty cars, where the workers receive low pay and the road wear costs are paid by my taxes.

Sure, it is harder to find a way to earn money from which all people profit, but it is not impossible. If your corp is acting like a leech on society, don't be surprised if it is treated as such.
Google Street View returns to Germany after 10 Years
I think back in the day it was recommended to have at least 5 liters per adult triops. My tank was around 100l and I usually had at least a handful of them. Always females only; the males somehow never made it. They would only get eaten by their peers once they died of other causes. Maybe yours were lacking some protein in their diet?

First time I hear of anybody keeping Hydrae as pets.
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Not how that works, friend. Neither data nor debate. You can't hoist talk to another sphere and continue, but even if we do there's a way back. Let's dove.in, shall we? Data is accurate, reported by numerous providers. If you don't trust any of data providers you can always compare revenue size of two companies where AMD accounts for CPUs and those deaps with console manufacturers as well and still doesn't come close, in fact percentage relative still holds. Consoles are B2B deals, people don't buy consoles because AMD. Same for mobile or apple (to a degree, because apple sells apple), as well as integrated Intel GPUs. Where consumers and businesses have a direct pick and choose - they did, and it's Nvidia for the better part, 80%+ part.
I did the same for a delayed, then cancelled flight.

I might not have bothered, except they had us waiting for almost 12 hours in the airport, then another 12 hours the next day.
There is no universe where Teams can be described as "good enough". It is without question the worst piece of software I have ever used.
It's easy to posit yourself as taking the "necessary risks", but you haven't demonstrated that:

- nuclear energy is the only way to fend off the climate crisis

- unsafe nuclear energy is the only way for nuclear energy to fend off the climate crisis

- the risk of unsafe nuclear energy is lower than the risk of the climate crisis

Until you do that I will prefer the lower risk option.
Maybe to your travel destinations but that is definitely not common.
Only issue with that thesis is that HN hates 100% of the things that it comes across.
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Best way to add it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627385
Sure, here's mine: https://www.alexghr.me/.

I've been running this site since ~2015 (same CSS for at least 8 years now) but there's not a lot of content on it. I've been trying to get more into it recently though and I'm posting TIL-style content :)

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Please, am I the only one who found the last few pages of this story as meaningless word salad? I enjoyed Flowers for Algernon so much more, it moved me and OK, made me cry. This one started with the same premise but had to force myself to finish it. However I did enjoy Tower of Babylon by this author.
Ohhhh! Thank you! Looks like I need to do this too for mine! (https://biggles.games)
Maybe you can write a detailed blog post that compares making a DSL in lisp and a language of your choice. I would love to read it
Perhaps this is a highly sensitive topic in Southeast Asia and even an oblique, plausibly deniable allusion to it comes across very offensively. There are similarly highly sensitive topics in the US.
Ted Chiang has the incredible ability to paint extraordinarily compelling speculative fictional worlds in such a condensed package, and in a way that ties in a philosophical component while still hewing towards the "concludes in a way that is surprising yet always inevitable."

While my favorite is probably Story of Your Life, Understand is damn near my second favorite, or rather probably was before I got to Exhalation and realized just what he had done there. (To pull at the thin threads of what constitutes consciousness so deftly...)

But there are so many great examples of building these compelling, rich tapestries, with enough world building and exploration to draw you all the way in. Tower of Babylon, Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate... just phenomenal pieces that stick with you long after you've read them, and are something to savor.

Separately, I was so pleased with how Denis Villeneuve (and specifically, Eric Heisserer) adapted the screenplay for Story of Your Life, to create such a phenomenal transition to film in Arrival... it seemed such a complex concept that could easily collapse for want of oversimplification or trying too hard, and instead it was such a faithful reproduction... ended up being one of my favorite science fiction films of all time.

Damn, I love Ted Chiang.
But that's not what GP was talking about. They said "the US has been the most friendly empire". It doesn't matter if a lot of empires were worse.
We are also in a transition period when most people and media have not realized this yet.

Yesterday, I read an article about Tour de France stage and it linked to about 4 tweets with videos which are not playable without an account.

I just hope this gets noticed by mainstream media and they change their practices instead of assuming that everyone has a Twitter account.
Show HN: RightHand – an LLM powered assistive tool inspired by injury
I had a bad mountain hiking accident a bit over two weeks ago and in the mean time developed this go based assistant/automation tool. LMK what you think!
Can one create and run unprivileged LXC containers easily now? Last time I looked, some years ago, there were some problems (at least in stock Ubuntu) and you practically had to run them as root.

BTW, what does migrating LXC to LXD mean? I always used just LXC, and thought LXD was something at a upper layer to help manage them but you still used the same LXC containers underneath.
> why should governments support infra built for private companies like this?

corruption?
Because many borders in Asia are still in dispute, similar to how Europe was prior to WWI.
It’s ironic that “safe street” activists are protesting against technology that produces safer streets.

“That one time the self driving car blocked a fire truck”, sure, but statistically on a per-rider basis are we seeing more or less harm/mischief than with human drivers or taxis? I haven’t seen any credible analysis of this question.

Similarly “they killed one person”, ok, how many human drivers killed pedestrians last year? You’ll find it’s more than self-driving cars, but again we need the per-rider (really, per passenger-mile driven) statistics.

A general pattern - even if self-driving cars were 10x safer, there would still be pushback if they are sub-human in any single niche case. We will cause many (thousands) people to die by being irrational like this.

Not to dismiss the concerns - they just need to be quantified and taken in context.
Such a good story, thank you for posting it, read it the first time in Story of Your Life (Book), but always lovely to reread it.
A fun little story, especially in the era of folks talking about alignment/AGI/superintelligence, etc...
> Is the uint8_t just "no point in using something bigger" or does it likely help the compiler? Does/can the signedness matter as well as the size?

In a good world you could use just uint_fast8_t and compiler would optimize this question for you. In real world I don't think compilers are smart enough, or there are too many other constraints limiting them :(
This sounds like GNOME tracker[0]. At least for the data collection/ db side of things.

[0]: https://tracker.gnome.org/
The idea that GDPR is a nightmare to navigate is entirely fud. It's pretty clear and the case law has in the main been established. Most of the time when people are saying that it is a nightmare to navigate what they actually mean is they don't like the privacy protections that it gives to EU data subjects and the implications for the data harvesting they want to do as part of their business.
I see no moral problems paying OpenAI for GPT Plus. it helps a lot in development. Their free speech-to-text 'whisper' is really good too. I'm going to use it + small local GPT for voice control.

> I can currently run some scary smart and fast LLMs on a 5 year old laptop with no GPU.

And, something useful or just playing? I played with local models, and will keep playing, training, experimenting. It's interesting, but not a solution, not yet.
Thank you for taking the time to share this with me. I really appreciate it. All good and important pieces of advice.
That's not an edge case in the law, that's a limitation in your system.
Apptainer works the same way as Docker. It just makes using it for distributing applications more convenient.
I’m assuming the state legislature would have to then vote on this edit, right?
Jack provided the initial funding 2 years ago, but despite all the chatter to the contrary, it doesn't appear to me that he's involved in the company much these days. On Bluesky, he's not very active, and it's not clear he believes in the platform. His most recent post (https://bsky.app/profile/jack.bsky.social/post/3jy3cth45t22r) was 23 days ago, and states that Bluesky "isn't a [Twitter] replacement". He seems to be much more into Nostr these days, judging by his tweets.
That wasn’t phrased exactly right; the point is that those who benefit from formal education are those generally motivated to seek knowledge on their own. (Similar: it doesn’t matter what parenting book you read, the fact that you wanted to be a better parent makes you a good parent.)

Throwing masses of disinterested students through 4 years of classes doesn’t benefit them the way everyone hopes.
Thank you for this, yes the church helps quite a bit here, with the community and the activities for the elderly. Appreciate you sharing the advice and experience.
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Sorry I gave one like 2 days ago. I think it has a 14 day cool down.

Hopefully someone else here can give you one and set you up today :)
So remove it and add it back in.
'Let it be known that maps shall not contain dotted or dashed lines in the count of nine. Nine dots or dashes shall not be allowed in order to protect the sovereignty of our waters. Seven or ten is fine but not nine or dangerousely close to nine, like eight for example.'
That's very interesting. Somehow, not in an unkindly sense, I can't help but feel it's a bit like "prompt engineering". Thank you for sharing your experience.
I just came across this phrase in a top ranked travel blog post.

AI penalties are clearly not ready for production if they miss this phrase.