skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was freaked out back in Jan, but now I believe it will propel white collar jobs. We just need to wait until someone starts selling Raspberry Pi of robots, things you can assemble to do physical tasks. That will unlock a significant advancement.
InputGPT Query ChatGPT in any input area
I make a windows/mac systray APP which let you query LLM from any input area.
In Belgium the phone company (wholly government owned) charged an arm and a leg for ISDN BRI, so I never got one installed.

We lived far from the exchange (5km), which at first was still a rotary when my BBS went up so it wasn't even an option. I can still remember weeping with joy when it got replaced with an Alcatel System 12 cause of my new transfer speeds and reliability.

Funny thing, the rotary switch was in a building next to my high school, you could see the vertical rotaries from the street next to the main entrance.
Laggy on mobile devices also.
Of course they -should- get more. But the economics of uber aren't working for either uber or the drivers.

Uber is super convenient. And also (used to be) super cheap. Cheaper than taxis, because a) they used VC money to cover costs and b) because they moved vehicle costs to the driver.

Driving is fundamentally underpaid (it's basically unskilled labor) but if you ignore vehicle costs (which most drivers do) it looks OK. Factor In vehicle costs and it gets bad. Remove all job security and work-place benefits and it's, well, not good.

So uber loses money, the drivers lose money, (or, more charitably, are just badly paid) - the real winners were riders.

But the free money is over. So the prices are jacked - the first time to make Uber profitable, and likely the second time to keep drivers from abandoning the system.

Customers will bleat, but the -economics- don't lie. It costs a lot for the convenience of anywhere-to-anywhere-anytime-by-yourself transport. If it's not costing the rider a lot then someone us getting screwed.

Sure, removing labor will change thd equation (self driving cars), but I fear even then the ancillary effects of "riders with no adult supervision" will add a lot of overhead.
Im not sure that it goes unnoticed. People are literally asking for it. Not necessarily the particular event you mention but generally for the government to expand power with the expectation that they can do more good.
Yeah that is a personal preference and I certainly don't disagree that proper clothing can make cold winter feel much better. Then again, I'll spend 3 hours straight outside in 110+ afternoons in Phoenix working in my backyard and it doesn't bother me too much since I stay hydrated, sunscreened, and may jump in the pool on occasion if necessary. The big difference to me is that warm climates don't have the other non-temperature things that get in the way when you are on foot. I'm talking about snow, icy sidewalks etc.
I just don't understand how anyone with a shred of intelligence could even think of this law and not immediately realize it's a shakedown.

Your policymakers are either

- earnest and incredibly stupid

- malicious and only somewhat stupid

There's just no in-between here. A child that has done ten minutes of research on the issue could realize the problems with these bills.
How many people do you know that get paid just because they “think” certain way? Most of the time it’s combination of education, determination and practice to achieve something.
In this regard more accurate comparison would be sport, where you have to actively work on your body, unlike sex where being born with certain body and features is enough.
Token Theft Playbook
It's crazy that basically no "fast Velomobile" is in the market. Something shaped like a velomobile (goes 100 km/h downhill by gravity alone), but some what bigger, with a motor and more safety features.
What I don't understand is where there seem to be two versions of google maps. Sometimes I can get streetview, but if I access it about half the time I can't.
I think when the parent wrote "us" they were referring to humanity. My doormat has a non-zero chance of killing me, but zero chance of killing humanity, for example.
Well, it’s not built for you. Cows may not like milking machines either, but the farmer doesn’t care. Google Maps exists to further Google’s surveillance platform and search monopoly. User preference is incidental.

It’s just like Internet Explorer on Windows 20 years ago. Microsoft only needed to make a good product long enough to leverage it into their other monopoly products, then they no longer gave a shit. We can hope Google Maps suffers the same fate.
i mean the rest of the dissertation, not its abstract
did you ever try the cytocomputer

(i think your text means that rucker tried the cam-6, not that you did, but i'm not entirely sure)
Ahead of Time: On Poetry and Mourning
As an actual West Australian who grew up on first nation land and had two sessions passing through a two week quarantine airlock as a result of work related out of country trips .. your links (brownstone & rebekahbarnett) are hilariously distorted over the top point of view opinions from what was a surprisingly small percentage of people who got very worked up about sensible precautions with overwhelming support.

As a result of having a two week isolation period in the pre vaccine times western australia spent most of the COVID years operating maskless with very few actual cases.

Once vaccines became available something like 98% of the state population had at least two shots (a very percent with three) with no spikes in death or disease (ie. no excessive side effects).

All of that made a good contrast against the rates of death and hospitalisation seen in (say) the USofA.

Of course there were some very vocal holdouts who foamed at the mouth about workplaces requiring proof of vacination and of course they have blogged at length about the inhumanity of the atrocities they have endured.
> The free market wasn't solving that problem.

By the definition I learned in school, that's not a free market, precisely because it can't scale on both supply and demand sides. If it can't be (if factory startup costs will always be too high) then that's an argument for regulation to offset the problem, but it's not a free market problem.
Most Bösendorfers play like nice, tame European pianos. The average American Steinway "booms" more.

However, the extra low notes on their oversized concert grand do boom quite well. I have only been able to play one, though.
I need this in my life... "I know I dropped the presentation somewhere here"
Oh shit, forgot about Arkells. My wife went to high school with the bass player.
You can often see a p-hacked study from a mile away because they measure large numbers of unnecessary variables. They then pick those 4 variables that yield a probably false signal and publish on it. One would think these would never pass peer review, but they're regularly peer reviewed, published, and then, shockingly enough, fail to replicate. Hypothesizing after the results are known falls in the same bucket here. This is why pre-publishing kicked off, yet it's also hardly a savior.

The point I make is that peer review can not be guaranteed to 'fix' science in any way we might like. The Sokal Affair [1] has now been replicated repeatedly, including in peer reviewed journals. The most recent one even got quite cheeky and published it under the names "Sage Owens, Kal Avers-Lynde III" - Sokal III. [2] It always preys on the same weakness - bias confirmation.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

[2] - https://www.nationalreview.com/news/academic-journal-publish...
Can confirm, work in a top physics university in the lab. It is not a rare sight to see equipment from 10, 20, 30 years ago still in operation. Though it really depends on the equipment. Optics? They don't really go bad if you treat them right. Electronics? You'd be surprised as the quality of design and fab went into that plastic box that looks older than you.

Really physics discovery is partially limited by equipment, but in my time in the lab I have seen great physicists get remarkable results with equipment or setups that I personally thought was not up to the task.

As to college level experimental physics lab: the goal is not to get you to reproduce the nobel winning results, but to learn how to think like an experimental physicist. To hunt down issues, to calculate sources of error, to find out that some guy keeps running the microwave while you are taking sensitive measurements and that it actually impacted them and how.

It is the unimaginative or poorly taught that think the experimental physics lab in undergrad isn't important.
Abusers, rapists, serial rapists, and human traffickers love abortion, because it allows them to destroy "evidence" (unborn children are not typically given a dignified burial, their dismembered, bloodied human remains are painstakingly reassembled in a lab on-site, and then they are hucked into a barrel and carried away in Stericycle vans as "biohazardous waste").

If an abuser can hustle a pregnant mother in for a quickie abortion, the clinic is happy to accomodate him, and then Mom is back on the streets or back into the brothel and making the big bucks. Turning one or two tricks will pay for that abortion, easily. But of course it's preferable that the child didn't live, because we can accurately predict that they'd have a sort of unhappy life, after all.

Abortionists are state-sponsored serial murderers, by any definition, and of course a couple of them have been caught in the act, such as Kermit Gosnell.
Related:

How Java’s Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere (1998) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6585828 - Oct 2013 (72 comments)
Every dentist I went to when I was younger told me I have cavities and wanted to start drilling; my parents and after that me always said no. I am 50 now and have 0 cavities (or any other teeth or gum issues). Always wonder how many people have their teeth messed up for life without any cause.
The share to the driver is so small I can’t believe they get away with it (Lyft too). In SF I often see drivers accepting their next fare while I’m in the backseat. A ride that will cost me $15 might get them $6.

I know Uber’s part here is not trivial (it’s good software and they do support, etc) but surely the driver should be getting more like 80% or even 90% given that it’s their time, their equipment, etc. Most other marketplaces take smaller cuts.
so true.

on mobile the interface of waze is just cleaner.
> Then leave. Live in a cardboard box. Go work in a warehouse. Go to Alaska and work on a fishing boat. Go to Omaha, Nebraska and work at a McDonald’s. Nobody made her do this “job”

But I’ve seen many, many stories with similar tone from people who have done all those other things. Sex work frequently calls on people to do something that may be the farthest from what their emotional desire is at the time, but that's…not uncommon for work, especially work that is low paying (or highly paid largely because of the adverse conditions and not a high entry skill filter.) And living without work in a capitalist society ("live in a cardboard box") is…well, not an improvement, which is why few people with a choice choose it.

> she did it because she had low standards for herself and found sexual validation of strangers easier than grinding out a living like other people do.

Providing sexual validation for strangers is grinding out a living, and, regional variations in legality of particular patterns of doing so aside, isn't any less so than any other service work.

> “I once watched a fast-food server placate a violent customer with nothing more than her voice and a stale honey cruller at her disposal.” This is given as an example of a “skill” that should be considered admirable. It should be considered unnecessary.

It is both admirable and something that should be unnecessary.

> No one should be behaving violently towards fast food workers

That people shouldn’t be behaving violently towards fast food workers doesn’t make fast food workers with the skill to deal with that any less admirable.

> and if they do, it shouldn’t be fast food workers who are placating them

That someone else should be protecting fast food workers from situations like that (which, again, shouldn’t happen in the first place, so no one should need to) doesn’t make fast food workers having the skill to do it themselves less admirable, since we live in a world where it both does happen, and other people mostly aren’t there to do something about it.

> We could just close fast food restaurants at night.

Not sure how “people who would be fast food workers don’t have jobs” is an improvement here. Though it increases the number of people whose best option is sex work.

> We could put people in jail for a long time if they behaved poorly towards service industry employees.

There are plenty of acts (including “violence toward service industry workers”) already subject to substantial incarceration. That doesn’t protect people from them happening. Punishment is very poor prevention.

> Her fond and admirable reminiscence of this act betrays her inability to imagine a society with actual standards for its residents

No, it “betrays” her sense to admire people for their ability to live in the real world, rather than a fantasy ideal one that does not exist.
HN doesn't have 30% of the market for social media. SO might have >30% of whatever vertical they are, but that's not obvious to me.
well when they started, the whole concept of ridesharing was unproven. They didn't just set out to replace taxis, the idea was to offer a service initially so cheap that people who otherwise wouldn't even think about getting a car, would start doing it on a regular basis (same with Eats). So yes, i'm pretty sure they have been subsidizing rides, and in certain markets probably still are. So now the question is: can this market - where some people even grew accustomed to commuting to work on Uber - sustain itself, or is it too expensive and people will just revert to the old mode where (outside of NY) getting a cab was a rare event.

tldr - i don't think it's the staff that's the expensive part. Also, they do a bunch of non-trivial things with maps, etc, so not quite a simple crud app.
Women can call more of the shots in places where it is legal like Nevada or other countries. Not saying it's a perfect system but the alterntive so far has been a trade that is controlled by criminals, bad customers, and law enforcement.
The entire Canadian media ecosystem is collapsing. This is a desperate last shot at salvaging a few newspapers. This is a rounding error of a rounding error for Meta.

The Canadian media is almost universally right wing. Helping these outlets survive is almost certainly against the governing parties interest.
Empty comments can be ok if they're positive. There's nothing wrong with submitting a comment saying just "Thanks." What we especially discourage are comments that are empty and negative—comments that are mere name-calling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20090206141746/http://www.ycombi...
This article seems to explain the differences:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/meta-australia-google-news-can...
Place and route would be just as much of a nightmare as it is on FPGAs. Sure, you measure latency in cycles instead of picoseconds, but you probably can't solve a larger fraction of netlists.

You definitely need a new language to program it well - one where latency is not defined.
I'm skeptical that young people fare much better. Google Maps feels like it's in constant tension between all the super powerful features it has, and some PM who wants the UI to be as minimalistic as possible. End result is inscrutable.
It looks very barebones at the moment. Looks like they've just pulled down a tower-lsp boilerplate, the parser crate has a little bit more in it.
Also not an expert but I can imagine that models with a lot of binary and/or non-linear variables will work much better with genetic algorithms. In other words, genetic algorithms are strictly more powerful than linear regression.
I feel like in the limited set of possibilities of a human in space operating bespoke space based equipment, they aren’t much different than a robot with a given set of programming and plausible alternatives to take given certain outcomes. A human in space is still going to do probably only a few different protocols even in an emergency situation, protocols that need to be remembered and rehearsed and carefully followed, while you are perhaps taking on multiple G’s and scared for your life with little time to think.

Think of it this way, the only advantage a human might have in space over a human on earth with an xbox controller or a predefined program for a robot is to do something in the event of a communications failure. However, a communications failure in outer space for a human mission probably means the mission has critically failed in some way and the humans are probably doomed without a link to mission control.
Agreed, except for the use of "diffuse" where "de-fuse" (or defuse) was meant. Tiny subediting error.
> we (google) give our product away for free and so do our competitors.

This is hogwash though. They take an 80% cut of the advertising profits (could be more now, this is just my dated figure that I know from a decade ago). Are the courts really incapable of dealing with an ad-supported monopoly in 2023?
Remembering the Slip: the Manhattan street that birthed a generation of artists
I feel there are a number of "modes", or, I don't know, "levels" maybe, that offer different features and are not intuitive (for me). I think a long time ago, you were either on the map, or you were in navigation, or you were in Street View. But now I get the impression that there's steps in between, like: you have maybe soft-selected a route, but you're not quite in navigation mode, yet you're unable to drop a pin somewhere else, so you have to go back without knowing how many steps exactly, that sort of funny business.
> Does Safari still support FTP?

I don't think Safari has ever supported browsing FTP (it used to hand off FTP links to the Finder, but apparently even that has been disabled now?), but the macOS Finder can still mount an FTP server as a network drive.
You know that phone books existed before Google, right? Your name, phone number, and address have not been considered private for most of history.
wasm isn't compatible with asm.js or with js tho

they could have totally made it forthier if they thought that was a good idea, but their objective was rapid generation of efficient, secure code
Well I didn't say there's a law that the dealer has to ask for ID, I only said that the dealer might ask for ID. Particularly if you're not paying with a stack of cash up front, they'll want to know who they're dealing with.
It's inflammatory, but this website is worse. There's some video playing of a stranger eating mustard skittles taking up the bottom quarter of the screen.
YouTube is the new FB newsfeed. On a personal note, I wholeheartedly hate their half-assed approach to parenting controls.
It was, in retrospect, a weird time. Because absolutely yes, everyone knew it was unsustainable and could not logically last forever, yet I think it lasted long enough that we forgot that part, and got used to it, and here we are. Very similar (intimately connected in fact) to the low interest rate world we also started to think was normal.
Yeah we really need to expand what counts as monopolization, and, you know, actually trust-bust like we did at the turn of the last century. It's getting ridiculous.
But a milking machine that spills half of the milk doesn't help the farmer nor the cow.
> Precooling isn’t effective

Interesting, PG&E tells me to do it when the temperature is expected to be high. I've done it on occasion and it has seemed to work. I'm sure it's a YMMV situation, depending on insulation and other factors.
It surprised me to see people changing into what looks like ice skates and another holding what looks like a hockey stick hitting a puck in the 1500s.

https://www.wikiart.org/en/pieter-bruegel-the-elder/ice-skat...
I really want to know why Google maps is slow on a $3500 laptop with a huge Nvidia card.
I see that note, and the wording on it confuses me. My recollection, and some confirmation from this article [1], is that I was using handyPrint when connected to the mac via USB. At the time of the blog post I wrote, I was switching from usb to ethernet, and discovering that I didn’t need a separate computer to make the bonjour / mDNS announcements.

It’s still reliant on the printer handling the correct print protocols (so that CUPS isn’t needed to translate), but my specific printer did work.

https://www.macworld.com/article/673717/how-to-add-airprint-...
Asked Yoda. Sense this makes not said he.
Impressive! But slow.
https://archive.is/os2JU (link without unclosable eyesore autoplaying video. Talk about irony)
SoundMind Increases the Efficiency of Deep Sleep
This made me laugh out loud, at the sheer political naivete.

Office workers earn more because they do jobs more similar to the jobs of those who allocate money.
> Alphabet in the US would just spin off 3 "competitors" and be done. All 4 would then be subsidiaries of the holding company and they still collect the money.

Right, because a judge would look at a company holding the same market through subsidiaries and not throw the book at them. IANAL, but AFAICT the wording in the law doesn't even distinguish one company vs a group acting together; why would that make a difference?
> They are free to enter “bing.com”

And people were free to download Netscape.

But the thing is that people don't type "bing.com" nor "google.com" because they just use the browser search bar and don't bother with what search engine is being used.
FTC/DOJ not investigating doesn't mean this isn't a flagrant monopoly that would be prosecuted by a non-corrupt FTC/DOJ
Society doesn’t need to accept their profit motive
Of course... the specifics of routing so many rides at scale is certainly non-trivial. But in 2019 they had 26k employees, 32k in 2022 according to https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UBER/uber-technolo...
> For example, if a girl preferred traditionally male activities, today that is 1 of 2 criteria she needs to be considered as having gender dysphoria, while in the past she’d be called a Tomboy before.

Sorry, I don't have the energy to respond to the other stuff, but I really think you're mixing together the criteria for adults with the criteria for children.
Google Maps is actually one of the few Google properties that has not got bad. I appreciate their reviews since they don't have Yelp's problem of extorting businesses.
On earth I agree with your second paragraph, but not in space. Humans can’t do anything and everything in space. They are limited to what is possible through the tooling, and in an emergency they aren’t going to be operating off the cuff but following carefully rehearsed emergency procedures anyway.

I just haven’t heard an argument that its worth the risk to life having some utility inherent to a human in space, that you cant otherwise get with some sort of remotely operated device. Unfortunately a lot of the decisions with the apollo mission wasn’t necessary purely scientific, it was designed to achieve military and political objectives too, so its hard to say if having astronauts were strictly necessary. Or if they were necessary with the technology of the 1960s, its hard to say if that would continue to be true today given advances in both robotics and computing.