skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s not much correlation between density and quality of public transit.

If you look at a top 10 list of best transit systems, you’ll see medium density cities like Oslo and Helsinki right beside Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Or within the USA, compare Miami to Seattle. The only difference is that one city decided to build mass transit and the other didn’t.

It’s entirely possible to build an appropriate transit system for any type of city.
Writing negative replies on bugs like this isn't constructive (like #c89).

Browser engineers have an extremely difficult job. The codebase is incredibly complex (they aren't just copying data from one system to another - it takes years to get up to speed in just a small area of the codebase) - any change (even improvements/fixes) risks breaking websites.

You might think you are complaining to a faceless organization, but in reality your really just talking to 1-2 people. Be kind. Each time an engineers gets dumped on you risk them throwing in the towel for good (engineer burnout is real), your bug will very much not be fixed then.

Engineers like fs@ are one of a kind and experts in their area. (fs@ implemented SVG favicons to Chromium for example - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=294179 ). As the web platform is so expansive there are really only a few people in the world at one time who understand various problems deeply enough to make progress on a fix.

What does help? In this particular case - if you are affected by this bug starring it helps. If you can kindly describe how this affects you - that also helps. The Chromium project actively tracks highly starred bugs. (Keep in mind the project also takes into account "gaming" the count so getting 100 people to star the bug mindlessly wont help).
I'm surprised he doesn't rename himself X X X.
Being annoyed by obnoxious nondescript clickbait titles is not the same as being offended by them. Respect my time and use a proper label for your content if you want my click.
I'm afraid I see many similarities with that older wayward cousin, John McAfee.
I truly hope Musk finds help, or finds that his coffers are harder to deplete than Johns, but it's not looking good.

"we", the hacker-crowd, indeed have some lessons to learn here.
Fireball Lights Up the Skies over TX, Al, GA, MS, LA and FL
I want very similar to this but for shopping without a car.

Like, if I want to buy something big from Walmart or Costco (to keep to generic shop names) and it does not matter if I am on a train/metro/subway for 10 minutes or 20 minutes, but it totally does matter number of transport switches of bus->subway) and walking is really bad.

So, it would make sense to go to a very distant shop, but that is right opposite the direct train.

Does anything like this exist (for any city really)? The algorithm must be quite similar, but with different graph steps weighted differently depending on method of movement.
Going just by your description this sounds like they are doing operator learning. It's actually a very old idea. The proof that started operator learning is from 1988 I believe. Mathematicians have been playing around with the idea since 2016 at least.
>they should be paying out if they are training on data owned by someone

Virtually everything you "know" is because of current and past humans. Have you been paying everyone for all of that?

If you want to be a great author and you read books by great writers.. then become a successful writer, are you paying all those authors for training you?

I realize there is a difference with being able to absorb bulk data and all that- however, at the core the argument is still the same.
What javascript was that, or did you create your own? I did not find any from this post.
Low-effort comments are against the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's possible to voice disinterest in a thoughtful and substantive way. The GP comment (and arguably your reply) does not.
Perhaps it's the "being human" piece that's important for determining whether royalties can be skipped or not?
When will he change his name into Elon MuX ?
It’s the 50% drop in revenue with no viable path back combined with the huge brand damage he has done that is causing people to say it’s dying.

The only question left at this point is how soon.
The patch for this exploit is to load AMD's updated microcode.
I suspect you are right. The systems are clever compromises against the affordable technology options of they day. What feels clever/satisfying will differ by era. Or, as I assume you are anticipating, kids these days also have their own good and interesting ideas.
So why not call it 'biometric identity' just like everyone else?
It feels really strange to see this known issue go unaddressed for such a long period since Chromium is the current market leader.
Supercool.
I am guessing this is a feature aimed to be a more casual way of "tweeting", given that Twitter is under the rubble right now, and competitors want to take their best chances and see what works
> Twitter was only profitable for one year while it was public (2018). It's not like Elon could make that much worse.

That's like saying that because a company is profitable there is no room for improvement. There is a big difference between making $1 a year and making $1 billion a year, and same that there is a big difference between losing $1 a year and losing $1 billion a year.
I kind of agree about rap, and more agree about mass media. More broadly I'd say popular music has eaten poetry. The ballads all got instrumental tracks. Maybe poetry faded because broadcasting became easier. High-bandwidth information beat out low-bandwidth information, because it concentrated more stimuli in a single medium.
> but I don't understand the business loss when a bunch of IT professionals move their conversations to a private server.

Why pay (as much) to advertise to an empt(ier) room?
"older devices often cannot support the (security) upgrades"

As developers & builders we all know this is mostly bullshit, why do we accept this as consumers?
All the stuff coming out of the Koka and Effekt development.

In particular last week i read their FBiP2 paper
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2023/0...
Boring bluster.

I link to my citations, including to the patent literature, and you ... have nothing to back you up.
Probably still can't believe nobody likes his cool domain name.
I guess the WWE Attitude Era still exists.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=130573...

Vector GPU Rasterization in Chrome is still broken on Apple Silicon Macs. Has been for more than a year.
This screaming about how "more people die from cold" is a common climate disinformation "talking point" within the social media cesspools, often accompanied implicitly or explicitly by some nonsensical logic about how it means that "global warming is good". Seeing it reposted here without context is disappointing.

The source (of the twitter post) seems to be Patrick Moore of the fossil fuel funded Heartland Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore_(consultant)

It should be obvious that trying to understand weather-related deaths is a good thing as these direct heat and cold related deaths should be generally avoidable. However, parading these carefully chosen statistics for politically and financially motivated climate change denial is shameful.
I wonder if this affects "Airwave", which is the UK's national public safety network (based on TETRA). If it does, then ETSI has some answering to do. If we used export level crypto on a piece of critical national infrastructure, we're just idiots. It also further reinforces that weakening crypto is almost always a bad idea, as you'll end up using it yourself for interoperability's sake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airwave_Solutions

EDIT: It looks like Airwave uses TEA2, which isn't backdoors but is definitely vulnerable to the other issues such as the oracle attacks (with complete plaintext recovery).
I laugh when I see these because I've witnessed the process that leads to them. It goes something like:

1. Relatively confusing UX is designed and built.
2. User testing or executive review concludes the UX is relatively confusing.
3. Product Manager says "We'll build a slideshow/interactive tutorial!" to solve the problem.

The process and end result is completely understandable. It's hard to rehash a design when you've already built it and gotten buy-in.

I want to spend as little time as possible with most tools (especially enterprise tools), and so often these interrupt my work.
Yes, we had months of replacing hundreds of motherboards one summer. At least Dell stood behind their machines and coughed them up readily enough.
But it's far more satisfying to blame some change you don't like on $EVILCORP than a more complicated narrative that revolves around people as a whole preferred something different so it didn't really make sense for government/a company to keep pouring money into a pit to keep a small minority happy.

The story often goes that someone destroyed a fully operational system for profits when in fact the system was badly deteriorated and not really used a lot.
I'm thinking more about business processes rather than protocols. I don't think most project involve devising new protocols. If I want to diagram the steps involved in, say, onboarding and nurturing a user, then the flow will rapidly approach a cyclic, undirected graph.
Can't say that here. You'll be downvoted as trite and cynical.

IMO, it's all headed for the graveyard.
Actually someone described this phenomena really well: we are all tied up (psychologically, socially, economically) by these billionaires and the visions they bring up to us, that we let ourselves seduced by the spectacle, while surrendering our common sense and critical thinking, void of power, action, consciousness. The reality is that, even you fuel a revolution somewhere, there are massive opposing idiots out there willing to kill themselves for being quoted by musk etc. So just enjoy the ride and try to navigate this world as billionaires do: profiting from the stupid - but be cool & polite ;) not saying they're not driving innovation, but they're machiavellic the rest of the time (we are all the same, but for others it takes longer to realize). sure, downvote me, at least you have this power :)
You forgot Xhamster
I don't really care about petty arguments between the contributors. Is the information available there reliable or not? If not, can you suggest an alternative?
He also named his son X, and his daughter Exa. It seems to be a kind of fixation.
I think that "/improve" can improve if in addition the developer can give a hint or request what to improve.
Would be great to see such contribution to the open source
I like Draw.io for UML but I recently found it easier to do a sequence diagram showing a Stripe integration with actors, activations and notes in a few lines of Mermaid markdown on a GitHub readme:
https://github.com/hbcondo/revenut-web#-workflow

But that diagram just renders as code via GitHub Pages:

https://revenut.com
> Fwiw even prior to his defunding moderation it felt like one of the meanest places on the internet, I don’t see much of a change.

The meanest place on the internet is EJMR, the forum economists use to find job offers. Not joking.

The reason for this is unclear except that it's the most conservative social science.
I avoid using oddball Unicode characters for this reason,[1] but I also feel like at this point the can of worms has been unleashed, and the screen reader authors are going to have to adapt to a more hostile environment.

It seems like one approach might be something like this, assuming none of them are doing it already. If this is TLDR, the key feature relating to the topic at hand is the point about handling mathematical symbols, so skip everything except that one.

* Pre-parse the entire page and count the number of characters that would be read using a multi-word description. While doing this, create sub-counts of characters that fall into each Unicode script (Latin, Cyrillic, mathematical notation, etc.).

* If the number of characters that would be read using a multi-word description exceeds a user-specified threshold, prompt the user for how to proceed.

* First, tell the user how many different Unicode scripts (and blocks if necessary[2]) are contained on the page. For each set, prompt using the following logic if the user hasn't already set a default:

** If a script/block/whatever consists of abstract symbols, like the mathematical set, offer to read it using the closest approximation in the character set it's derived from. e.g. for 𝕏, read it as "X" instead of "mathematical double-struck capital X". Read both 𝜸 ℾ as "gamma" instead of their lengthy "mathematical..." descriptions.

** If a script/block/whatever represents a spoken language, offer to do one of the following:

** Read it as if spoken by someone fluent in the language.

** Precede it with "the following [n] [script name] characters" and read each one individually, without any leading per-letter indicators, e.g. for "ΑΒΓΔ", "the following four Greek characters: alpha, beta, gamma, delta". Optionally include per-letter capitalization indication, but only if the user has previous enabled that option.

** Replace it with a count and the script name, e.g. "five hundred characters of Chinese script". Provide a way for the user to interrupt the narration and expand that section instead of omitting it.

* Allow the user to store all of the prompt answers as defaults and not prompt them again unless the user resets the option. e.g. "always read mathematical symbols as the closest Latin letter approximation".

* Maybe remind the user that it is an option in edge cases like "this entire page would be read as 'a series of 53,198 symbols you've suppressed reading'".

[1] One of my first full-time jobs, decades ago, was doing UI development with a focus on accessibility.

[2] Pretty unbelievable that the Unicode consortium has taken the position that an apparently unlimited number of stylistic variations on Latin letters should get their own Unicode renditions, but that basically every other culture's character sets gets merged into one style of character even if there are extensive historical reasons to have different renderings, and also has the time to keep adding corner-case emojis, but can't be bothered to provide a single way to easily differentiate "Cyrillic" from "Latin" as well as differentiate "mathematical notation" from "Latin".
A lot of this depends on your threat model and how much of a target you think you are.

If you are worried about your safety, it's better to leave than figure out workarounds. And it's likely easier to get out before things get bad; consider going on an international vacation --- if things look fine, enjoy your trip and go back; if not, figure out what comes next from there.

If you aren't really worried about your safety, but just want to avoid getting hassled about communications and don't want to lose communications with the outside world... Definitely do encrypted messenger stuff. But also, try to set up alternate communications. Even though they're not hard to block, many government shutdowns don't block fixed line internet service, land line telephones, or international voice calling. If you can setup a dial-up internet account with an ISP in another country, you may be able to use that from your landline even if internet via domestic ISPs is all shut down. Of course, if the regime is interested, your telephone company would have records of the calls (at least destination and length) and that might get you put on a list.

But also note, if most of your contacts are local, and local communications are disrupted; having access to international communications doesn't help you communicate with your contacts, unless they've done the same thing and the more people who have set it up, the more likely it is to be noticed.
*GASP*

Dihydrogen oxide is also used to contaminate our food, spike our industrial solvents and found in nuclear reactors!

Even in form of a pollutant that is being spewed out from those pesky hydrogen-fuel automobiles.

Its pervasiveness is worse than poisonous CO2!
> He sees the X vision to make Twitter become the Everything App

Seems easier to do that without buying Twitter. He has enough reach that anything he talks about gets fanboy traction, there's no value into Twitter's infrastructure for this, and converting tweeters into everything app users is possible, but a stretch.

Plus the ship has sailed for an everything app outside China.
In both cases it's impossible to reliably measure

Just look into the endless pit of nothingness, the void that is a myriad of vacant, rent-by-the-hour hotel rooms, that is the average person's eyes!

There is nothing there. I think they're all chatgtp clones!
now do TSA locks
ten fingers, ten toes, base ten arabic numbers
As usual. Made by an US company (Motorola)
Intrinsic managed to purchase Vicarious AI for so little money that my options were completely underwater (by a sizable margin too), so I guess that works.
The simple UI was great for onboarding people but, now that the audience is saturated, they can be taught new features.
I'm told internally at Reddit there's a group called Reddit X working on the next big thing which recently got disbanded.
Stylometry.
I vote super cell rain showers destroying infrastructure faster than a economic regeneration rate.
MUX is already trademarked by Mux.com. I doubt the owners would be enthusiastic.
>had been gifted the wealth elmu was

How much wealth was he gifted with? Order of magnitude would be a sufficient response.
I mean, yes, kinda, but the sheer scale of what AI can do vastly, vastly changes the impact on society.

To give another "scale makes all the difference" analogy. Very early on when Google Maps Street View was originally released, there was debate about whether it was OK to show individuals faces. In the US at least, the argument went something like "People are out in public, they should have no expectation of privacy. If it's legal for a person to take a picture of someone else on the street (which it is in the US), why should Street View have any privacy concerns?"

The difference is that while I may expect that other people may see and even take a picture of me if I'm outside, that's different from making my picture searchable, geolocated, instantly available to billions of people across the world and online forever. And I think it's totally rational to think these 2 different situations require different approaches.

Lots of our previously common, intuitive notions of what is OK can change greatly when large scale automation enters the mix.
> You cannot transform a mathematical structure. The only thing you can do is find another structure with linked properties. But both structures are immutable.

I think you're conflating the structures that describes mathematical structure with the structure itself. Like I said, mathematics is the study of structure, so the syntactic elements you're used to interacting with are themselves structures that describe other structures. These syntactic descriptions have isomorphisms to the underlying structures they're describing, but they are not the structures themselves (map is not the territory, etc.).

Mathematics is larger than this immutable descriptive layer IMO.

Edit: as a more concrete example, consider how we model mutable data structures and stateful session protocols in programming languages. One way is to project these into an immutable trace, as an immutable description of the object's state changes, but that trace is not the underlying structure. The underlying structure itself is still mathematical, but mutable, eg. cellular automata.
Perhaps you should email press@twitter.com to let them know.
fs is a legend
I remember a thread a while back where someone found out that ChatGPT refused to output the "litany against fear" from Dune.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36374429
Yeah, the whole point of reusability is cost efficiency. If your system is less cost efficient but technically reuses the vehicle, nobody cares (aside from maybe some checkbox-ticking federal bureaucrat).
correction: it's not 0. It's null. Null to 360 to One. I think Zero comes after One.
Many banks, including very large ones, already have some amount of stuff running on public (& private) cloud infrastructure. Many other banks are preparing migrations. I, too, was surprised by this, considering only a few years ago they were very reluctant to even buy software from anyone who wasn't on a very short whitelist.

In the end, I guess it's all about the money ... and that includes the money it takes to find and train mainframe devs.

Source: spent a significant part of my career in fintech.
> fortunately it is easy to solve with zero knowledge proof technology

I don't have enough intuition around what zkp can/cannot do. It's hard to take his word for it.
Google X doesn't really need brand recognition, because they're supposed to pump out brands, not be the brand. IE Waymo, verily, etc.
Application Performance
Their comments seem fine to me? They pretty clearly explained the reason for their dislike of the name - if anything, their ability to do so concisely should be praised
Might you post a screen recording?
What I don't see mentioned in the article is that most birds seem to live on a much faster timescale than humans. If you record and slow the song down, you can hear far more nuance in it.

BTW the Merlin app mentioned in the article is fantastic. Having it for birdwatching is like having a GPS map in the city, especially when paired with a good directional microphone. It only tries to identify a bird itself, though, without attempting to decode the type of the song.
Hollywood’s Future Belongs to People – Not Machines
Your statement does not represent the opposite of what enumjorge said.

Not having a PR team in front of him and being off the cuff is exactly how he cultivates his brand and has a large cult following.
> Elon is doing what exactly what he said he was going to do but you are twisting into some bizarre 'Death by Private Equity' that doesn't make sense because you don't like elon? Isn't that the gist of it?

Exactly. It was going to eventually be rebranded as soon as he acquired it. Not sure why HNers here are seemingly very surprised about this and still screaming at the changes?

But it is quite funny to see lots of HNers here already showing signs of memory loss in less than a year since he made that comment with lots of emotional reactions to the news.

> The anti-elon pr campaign is no different than the anti-zuckerburg campaign.

Absolutely. I remember when the 'anti-zuckerburg' campaign of HNers and the media all screamed and attempted to prothesize the death of Meta Platforms when it's stock plunged to $90.

Even before the layoffs, Zuckerberg was the 'villain' somehow and is somehow called by the most angriest of people a 'Nazi'. Now it is 200% up in less than a year and now the media's opinions have changed like the weather and are now cheering him again.

Today, Elon is somehow now the 'villain' of the year because of the layoffs and buying Twitter and now they are even angrier that Twitter / X did not 'die' immediately before 2023 as incorrectly predicted. So every speed bump Elon makes to Twitter / X is now 100x magnified from now on by the media.

Either way, the predictions of both the deaths of Twitter / X and Meta Platforms by the media and on HN has always been greatly exaggerated.
> xvideos

It's a funny joke, but is actually one of the main reasons I stopped using Twitter. The onlyfans spam got really bad.
That's not the German system I remember. In physics at least there was graded homework, it was just not required. The grading was actually invaluable because they prepared you for the actual exam you were going to get (can vary a lot between professors even for the same subject).
Yeah, they released 20 million mosquitoes in Fresno

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/14/googles-life-sciences-unit...