skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we all learn that heat rises in grade school but it’s not an instantaneous or perfect process teleporting heat from the unit into the upper atmosphere. Most AC units are not on the roof of a tall building with nothing around - they’re in a window, car, on the ground, etc. and if you’ve ever walked in a city you can feel the difference it makes when you walk near or even under one. Even if more heat rises, a very noticeable amount diffuses into the surrounding environment and that encourages more people to turn theirs up, generating even more waste heat.
Yes, I often remote unwashed and unclothed and toss on a shirt, shaved and combed when I zoom as those have a known schedule.... - usually
My take: you don't really own something if you can't sell it.
See: movies, ebooks, etc.
> reporters found it to be a great way to get breaking stories out in the public sphere.

Isn't that how it is still used? At least with a weather bent? That's about all I ever see in my Twitter feed is information about upcoming weather risks, with far more detail than you get from your usual weather forecasts.

It's great and I've been able to learn a lot more about the weather because of it.
We also have rules about welding car gas tanks, and for similar reasons.

One of the virtues of bikes is how easy they are to service or modify at home. It's great to tinker with motors, wiring, switching, transmission, and brakes. Unfortunately, LiON battery packs have invisible failure modes that involve burning down the building.
By 2017, Lufthansa had paid €75,000 to the family of every victim, as well as €10,000 in pain and suffering compensation to every close relative of a victim.

Wow. These compensation amounts seem… incredibly low. Is this some upper limit under German law? I’d have assumed compensation would be in the order of €1m.

[*] https://www.keystonelaw.com/keynotes/how-is-compensation-cal...
> the car inched forward

It felt like more than a few inches. (I'm not splitting hairs here, I really do feel it was qualitatively significantly different from your description, which made it sound like the car was cautiously starting to move just a bit.)

> and Elon immediately put on the brakes. The situation was no more dangerous than when a human driver mistakes which light is theirs and does the same thing, which happens pretty regularly in my experience.

When humans make this mistake, they stop the car themselves. When this car made this mistake, someone else (Elon) had to stop it. These are not equivalent. In the former case you can argue no accident was going to happen, but in the latter you can't.

> that this is a test version of the software isn't irrelevant, it makes a huge difference—I am much less opposed to internal company testers who know what they're doing

This is on a public road. Try pulling this off (well, please don't) in medicine and see how it goes.
In HF the limiting noise is not receiver generated unlike in microwaves and (ideal) capacitors and inductors don't generate noise: resistors and active components do.

However a sharp notch is a real pain to make in analogue domain. Lots of stages, temperature changes the component values, and things get bulky.
All I'll add is that whether or not that specific example holds up today matters little to the wider point: which is, that the language makes promises, and you need to verify each claim due to the repeated [0] ambiguity/inaccuracies about them.

[0]: Across the span of the 2019-2022.
Doesn't seem like clickbait, given that the entire premise is contained in the title.
FWIW Google Workspace is indeed a subscription - it’s their business-focused offering, whereas Google One is consumer-focused. That said, there’s nothing preventing individuals or families from using Google Workspace - I do, and have for over a decade.

Workspace allows you to use your own domain and provide email/collaboration services for a number of people under the same domain.
I think there's a difference between not having the skills to repair it and being prevented by some arbitrary barrier put up by the manufacturer. I can't repair my car's engine, but that's just because it's complicated and I don't have the skills. That's different than if the car manufacturer requires that a code that only licensed repair shops have must be entered into the car's software, otherwise when I open the engine casing (I don't know if that's actually a thing, but substitute real car repair words as you please) the car stops working.

A standard that says you can make products as complex as you want, but you can't do things specifically intended for the sole purpose of blocking repairs seems fine to me.
'Protect' mexico? Like russia is 'protecting' ukraine?

If you read up on US-Mexico history, you'd realize mexico needs protection from the US and nobody else. But your point is ultimately correct. We'd never allow any power to establish a presence in mexico. Not for mexico's benefit but our benefit. Even if mexico wanted to form a military alliance with china or russia or north korea, they wouldn't be allowed. We'd invade and 'liberate' mexico. This applies to canada and the rest of the western hemisphere. If a foreign power is occupying mexico, it will be the US and nobody else.

If you ever read a headline : 'Mexico establishes joint military base in chihuahua with china and russia'.

The next day's headline will be : 'US brings democracy and freedom to liberated Mexico.'.
We need to develop tools and theory to facilitate that. Wikipedia's online governance model is completely vulnerable to attack to the point that it's almost shaped by attackers. Not a lot of good online models of governance even exist outside of Debian.

It's a hard problem, which is why real-life protocols like Robert's Rules of Order are so large and complicated when their aims seem very simple: to allow a group of people to agree on a course of action.

edit: Community Notes and other (open) algorithmic governance that is designed to withstand certain classes of attack are clearly an advance over simple voting systems. Robert's Rules use overlapping votes within votes within debates of motions, repeals, and amendments. The structure of every RR vote is determined by a mechanical classification of the thing being voted on, including the amount and type of notice that has to be given before the vote, and whether representatives of general membership get to vote, majority or 2/3rds vote/majority-of-membership, etc.

I think we should start from there, and take advantage of the fact that meetings can be distributed, continuous, and concurrent online to simplify them. RR is the way it is because they all met in one place to talk about the same thing at the same time, and didn't have the internet or any of our cool devices.
Has Tesla built an entire "staging town" where no unsuspecting public is allowed to enter in which they test their cars? No? Then I would definitely call it "testing in production"...
No, they really have that right. Messing around with e-bike battery packs without the right tooling, and without knowing what you are doing is a large risk, much larger than other DIY risks.

I've built a 2.2 KWh pack and spent weeks preparing for the build and did that in my own house in a spot right next to a door just in case I f'd up. Which I didn't, but I was fully prepared for that. You should never do something like this in an apartment building, any more than you would start a metal welding shop or a chemical plant in your living room. The risks are not compatible with shared accommodation.
The tile is going to be vinyl peel-and-stick. The real stuff is too heavy and expensive (and sharp).
It is also illegal for them to strike without going through mediation, etc. Pilots are allowed to vote to go on strike at any time (and they can have picket lines as if they were on strike) but they cannot stop showing up for work.

Pilots are one of the few professions that are covered under the Railway Labor Act, so federal mediators have lots of power to reach an agreement between airlines and pilots
That makes sense, but it's the opposite of what you did say.
Why is it not integrity to use the system to maximize the benefit to myself? Insurance carriers and the medical-industrial complex are notoriously byzantine, and so if anyone can navigate those waters and improve their outcomes, and extract the maximum value of care for themselves, then I think that is exactly what one should be expected to do within the bounds of the system they are given. There is nothing dishonest or "gaming" about it.
Yeeeeah there's plenty of stories about raw meat like that unfortunately.

We had (have?) a scare too; at christmas our company did a fancy gala dinner party, and the starter was a fish tartare of sorts. A few days later my GF had diarrhea, turns out there's a parasite in that type of fish that causes it days later.
This appears to be a way to avoid paying severance. I'd expect any decent employer would offer employees the choice to leave with appropriate severance if they were going to do this to them.
"Oh my God" does not actually refer to any religion or deity. In common English parlance it is exclusively used to convey shock or disbelief—as seen in this article.
It sure would be nice and just if the schools had the means to provide the personalized tutoring most children need to understand. Reality is that the parents do that - and yes, it is an advantage to children with parents able to invest time and skills in their education.
Yeah - I should probably have pointed out more clearly that the author there seems to be a bit of a partisan jerk... I did see it, and I did try to point it out, but obviously not well enough.

The point I was trying to make was that there are such large differences in between the translations, and the thread does contain the same passage from multiple translations.

But, again - poor choice of link to illustrate it with.
I like the AGPL. The intent of AGPL is to encourage openness and collaboration, not to restrict or burden software developers. Many great projects choose this AGPL.
That’s what I’m here for, thanks for digging it out
Worth mentioning that essentially all professional astronomers / astrophysicists consider this person a grifter.
It’s amazing that he keeps getting so much press though, would love to learn his secret.
> Even in the case they know what they are doing, they shouldn't be testing a deadly vehicle with potentially broken software on heavily populated public roads.

This is another way of saying that self-driving vehicles shouldn't exist at all. At some point we have to test them on public roads, preferably before putting the software into the hands of regular users. If you ban even internal company testing, then what you're saying is that self-driving vehicles should never exist.
First off, I'm sorry your mother is going through all this and it's great that you're doing your best to support her.

My one contribution is this: get her familiar with technology for blind people BEFORE it gets too bad. It is so much harder to learn after. There's a lot of good tech out there for disabilities. But a lot of it is not intuitive and it takes a while to learn.
A wet bulb event occurs when the combined temperature and humidity (the so called "wet bulb temperature") exceeds the limits of human physiology, causing humans to overheat and perish even in the absence of any activity beyond basal metabolism.

I'm not sure it'd look like the "bodies in the street" image GP likes to call up, but yes, a prolonged wet bulb event would result in mass casualties.
http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/

This is one of the things where the details of the "booting civilization" situation matter a LOT. If you can find a Blu-ray player, it'd be much easier for you to make something like Breaking Taps did- no need for a projector or computer, you could even do this by hand using an optical relay.

However it's VERY hard to make an appropriate UV laser[1], and it's very hard to make a photoresist that works in infrared where a CO2 laser is easy to make. In that case you have to use a projector.

For a while I've wondered how feasible it would be to use an electron microscope to just ablate everything. Shockingly easy to make for such an excellent instrument.

[1]: Ironically the easiest type of laser to make is a UV nitrogen laser, but it's extreme power and short (nanosecond) pulse time mean you can't use it for this: http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/lasercn2.htm#cn2cn20
The tech fanboys who don't exist
My family has a genetic disorder very similar to Stargardts disease which is a form of macular degeneration (loss of central vision). I have it, my mother has it (who is technically challenged/stubborn... lol), two of her brothers have it, her father had it, etc.

MY mother is also an avid reader but the disease is progressed much too far for her to read anything without a powerful magnifier and even then she can only read 1-2 letters at a time which is too slow to actually read a book. What she has done is change to audio books many years ago.

In Canada we have the CNIB (Canadian Institute for the Blind) that can facilitate purchase (at a discount if necessary) and training/setup of specific readers designed for the bling/near blind. They have a library of books that can be loaded (for free here for people who are blind/near-blind). She will 'read' 1-5 books a week depending on what else she is doing. I would be surprised if there was not a similar organization in your country. Most libraries here also have free audio books that can be rented/borrowed.

The device is a Victor Reader, https://store.humanware.com/hca/victor-reader-stream-handhel... and although is quite expensive has simple enough navigation that even my mother can use it. It's quite robust, she just recently replaced hers after nearly 8 years of daily use.

I would highly recommend you get her familiar with/using such a device BEFORE she is seriously visually impaired. It's always easier to learn those sort of things while you still have sight and are younger.

As for the 'crosswordy' stuff, I see two options,
1. go digital and get her TV (hopefully larger size) hooked up to some sort of computer that she can access them from.
2. If they are only available in print, there are CCTV magnifiers that can help people read/use books. https://store.humanware.com/hca/low-vision-reveal-16.html Again, crazy expensive.

I'm just starting my serious degeneration (still have my drivers license but likely for only a few more years) but I'm using large monitors (32") and handheld magnifiers (many types, here is my current favourite but it's heavy https://www.lighthousecanada.ca/bright-field-magnifier-with-...). For me, I 'lose' the location of the mouse pointer and thus have significantly increased the size and contrast of it. There are many enhancements on Win10/11 for the visually impaired. You can also even get specific software that will read what's on the screen and, as long as you are already familiar with how computers work, can still use a computer even totally blind. Phones are the same. Get to know the features before losing significant sight as they are finicky on something like a phone.

Good luck with your mom, I know the struggle with someone technically challenged and, with my mom, stubbornly thinks it won't help her at all so she doesn't even try... Sigh....
> The younger generations are significantly fewer in number, they will need fewer apartments to live in.

Not necessarily, living space per person could increase faster.

> all funded through mortgages

All promised future work is debt by definiton. with real estate being 70% if Chinese wealth, it has to be public debt, whether in the form of mortgages or government debt.
Right, its not like hundreds of people's lives are in these pilot's hands. I can't imagine what a depressed pilot might do..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
Maybe want to fix the title "Looking" -> "Losing"
Your post basically says "it's bizarre you're expressing your opinion, don't do that" - that is not healthy for productive conversation (ironically op's point about those products)

It's ok to express negative opinions about why one doesn't use something. Other people benefit from learning from a valid dissenting view
It uses a lightweight ML model to calculate image similarity (cosine similarity of the image embeddings), so it will work on reencoded jpegs and such. The similarity threshold for detecting duplicates is configurable, so you can play around with it if the default doesn't work for you.

It also displays file size & dimensions when reviewing duplicates, but doesn't use that to determine similarity.
> AI will never be better at avoiding a playing child who accidentally stepped on the road as an average human driver.

What makes you so confident?

I'd argue for the reverse-- there is absolutely no way that humans are able to compete long term, because human reaction time and focus/attention is inherently limited-- as soon as computer vision starts to outperform, humans will NEVER become competitively safe drivers again (could be 5 years, could be 50, who knows, but this seems EXCLUSIVELY a matter of time, especially considering the progress we made in the last decades).
It is complicated, and many people speak English differently (generally more casually) than they write it (or should write it if they're concerned with rules). As for prepositions and sleeping, I sleep in bed, on a mattress, between the sheets. ;-)
> When humans make this mistake, they stop the car themselves. When this car made this mistake, someone else (Elon) had to stop it. These are not equivalent. In the former case you can argue no accident was going to happen, but in the latter you can't.

This is not nuanced enough. I've been in a cab to JFK in the snow and the driver was speeding around a turn that the car started sliding and eventually crashed into the side of the road.

There are now over 40,000 car accident fatalities in the US per year. So no, humans make mistakes that they cannot correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
Valid content in your criticism is missing.
Looking at the picture, it appears there is a boxed steel frame underneath. Probably in case of damage you just take it all apart and replace the entire cast aluminum piece.
Temperature and humidity are high enough that you can’t cool off naturally via sweat. I would suspect most people don’t realize that’s even a thing. I’m from Texas, and everyone thinks they’re heat adapted and tries to act macho. A lot of people would just stay outside and keep working, ignoring any warnings they received.
> Creators have no chance of building a legitimate brand

This sentence is only correct if you affix [on the platform] to the end. There is nothing stopping these creators from creating their own websites and using TikTok and Instagram to market themselves in much the same way they do now, directing viewers to their own website rather than OF.

I don’t think the algorithm game is the driving force of viewership. I think it is the content creators “advertising” via TikTok and Instagram followings.

Honestly it seems OF has the least platform control of most “social” sites.
Twitter is working just fine.

And since the service is going to be run by a rich jerk with his or her own opinions that they think are facts, it's refreshing that the rich jerk in question is extremely transparent about what those opinions are now.
> AI will never be better at avoiding a playing child who accidentally stepped on the road as an average human driver.

Very hard to predict what will be possible with AI in 10 years time, but I wouldn’t bet on humans here.

Humans have a number of disadvantages compared to an AI agent in this scenario - they look at phones, get tired, technically have slower response times…

And then AI has seen tremendous advancement in the last 3 years with it basically smashing a load of tasks that were thought to be entirely ‘non-automatable’ by many people.

Plus think about what has been achieved in the self driving space in the last 10 years and then imagine what can be done in the next 20. It’s probably not a 1-2 year thing (imo), it’s probably a 10-20 year thing (but again totally unpredictable! Maybe 5 maybe 50!).

And self-driving without operating cooperating alongside human drivers just won’t happen from an infrastructure perspective.
Well, they've made their "you don't own it" at least transparent by only ever selling you a license. This in itself is problematic-ish but still not as underhanded as physical products that you fully own.
No need for a super computer.

The 7B model should run on fairly reasonably priced GPUs. So if you have a desktop PC you can probably get a second hand GPU.

My MacBook Pro runs the larger model fine, wouldn’t call it a super computer, but I do think it’s a rather expensive machine.
Twitter’s real value was its “global RSS” nature. You could get short, quick updates about local news, published papers, sports events, political happenings, and more.

It made it easy to source info from your followers (or their followers) quickly. Think Ask HN but broader.

Activity on Twitter is down now, mastodon and threads aren’t cutting it. There’s more activity on LinkedIn but it’s quite phoney.

I genuinely feel that Twitter provided me with useful information from people of interest.
Obviously they have, so please don't degrade the discussion like this. Lithium Ion packs are far more dangerous than gas stoves or general use of electricity. If you don't recognize that fact then maybe I should send you my safety notes regarding lithium ion battery packs? This stuff is so unstable that I'm kind of on the edge of believing that we probably should have never used this tech to the degree that we do, and as these systems get older you can expect more and more of them to develop issues.
No, strings are passed by reference, it's just that the string type is immutable. Passing a string to a function doesn't create a copy, but there's also no way for the callee to modify the object that the caller points to.

It is true that C# has value types that are by default passed by copy, though.
The internet hive mind is the PR team. They’ll flood the zone with FUD better than any PR group because they aren’t accountable.

It’s almost as bad as gun people arguing about gun minutiae. Was it autopilot? enhanced autopilot? Vaporware FSD that was sold but people didn’t realize does not exist? Real FSD that is in “beta”?

Just like how reporting of some dude shooting up a nursery school will get derailed about mansplaining semi-automatic vs burst fire, anything Tesla must dissemble through the various bullshit.
I’m wondering if Mojo will become the next Fortran or the next Python.
There are probably a handful of incidences like this, and statistically several where this was the truth but we have no way of ever knowing (e.g. MH370).

I'm not sure how it could get any worse than this? At the end of the day you will never have a system that will protect you against a homicidal pilot. The closest you can get is requiring two pilots in the cockpit at all times, but if the bigger and stronger of the two wants to kill everyone anyway, there's little stopping them from just trying to kill the other pilot first while the door is locked.
Yeah I should have given up on Android development when they deprecated the menu button and broke all my apps back in the day.

Should have learned - instead I kept updating on the treadmill until a few years ago luckily got a web gig and never looked back.
This should be a threatened backstop if the market fails to meet this need. The latter is preferable, of course, and should be incented.