skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that, in general, you don't want to testify period. Even just being called as a witness is a difficult thing to do, as you are entering an arena that you are almost certainly not practiced at. You will slip up and say some things wrong. And you will have a hard time keeping your composure and actually connecting with the attorneys, judge, and jury.

For a witness, this really just means more stress than you were likely expecting going into the process. For someone actually involved in the trial, I imagine it is everything multiplied.
Similar problem for people this close to the financial edge: saying "I want exactly $23.46 worth of gas" because thats all the cash they have, a penny more wouldn't fly. Much easier and safer to ask the attendant to preload the pump with that amount and run it down to zero than to try and get as close as you can with the trigger without going over.
I hope that no CEO reads your comment otherwise all the guys that have mandatory RTO are screwed XD
He's white enough.
> If the engine is able to always operate at peak efficiency, there is little reason to bother with batteries beyond a bit for handling transient peaks.

My thinking here is that most of these theoretical cars would spend a good part of their life only operating on battery power - basically, all of the home-to-work-to-supermarket-to-home trips would be pure electric in my mind. So much so that I've wondered if the ECU would need to occasionally run the ICE for a bit just to make sure it doesn't ever spend so much time without being turned on that entirely different problems arise.

> it's sorta the worst of both worlds

I get this. This idea is very much the best of both worlds/worst of both worlds depending on your point of view.

> more expensive (since two drivetrains, essentially)

I'm not sure about this. I think the right comparison here is to imagine a battery that has (say) 25% of the range of a Model 3 battery, but is (say) 30 or 35% of the cost. Based on EV battery replacement cost, could you buy a cheap 3-cyl ICE engine and generator for that? Intuitively this feels possible, though I'll admit I don't have access to the data to be able to say, for sure how these costs would compare at scale.

> A constant RPM motor for an extended period isn't a super enjoyable sound, either.

The sound should be similar to the sound a pure ICE car makes on the freeway when on cruse at a constant speed and not changing gear. Yeah, you'd need to tune the exhaust to make sure the sound is pleasing, but this feels like a solvable problem also.

(As an aside, sorry if it feels like I'm hassling you. I'm honestly not, this is just an idea that has lived in the back of my brain for a bit and I'm enjoying the discussion.)
Why does a migration tool need to be subscription based? One time fee should be enough.
Everyone is saying "is AI better" not saying humans are good.

As terrible as humans are we do have a very important trait. Being able to handle unexpected information efficiently.

All the current AI models do have ways of slightly generalizing but only slightly. You still need to effectively train "when there are cones you need to switch lanes" and "when there are barriers you can drive on the line" kinds of things.

And while yes everyone mostly talks about low stakes examples that is mostly because the high stakes ones haven't been handled by AI yet.

E.g. a Tesla driving under a semi because it thought it was a billboard.

I look forward to any replacement to human drivers (although eliminating cars from Metro areas would be much more efficient I digress..) but autonomous vehicles need to be better before they can be that.
I had this same thought after reading that line. I started thinking about where the complexity should live, if not with the developers. My conclusion is that it should live with whoever has the most 'skin in the game,' or the largest stakeholder of the enterprise. So, the CTO, CEO, Founder, Director, etc should "own" the complexity?
This is correct—CA Vehicle Code § 21950. Unless the pedestrian literally jumped in front of the car, the car needed to stop, even with a green light. Of course, the actual application of the law can be subtle.
How do I know they are "high quality"?
Yes. Check out solvhealth to find urgent care places.
The thing that stands out to me is that the driverless car parked on top of the victim until the fire department arrived and extricated the victim. There are few vehicle-pedestrian crashes where the offending vehicle parked on top of the vehicle and wouldn't be moved; screaming bystanders are usually effective at compelling a driver to roll off the victim.

This isn't a simple matter of "humans good drivers, robots bad drivers"; it's an example of "humans can improvise and respond reasonably to novel situations; robots cannot reliably interpret and respond to novel situations."
With regard to Free Will, there is a little intellectual dodge called the Compatibilist solution (popularized by Dennett), which says you really feel like you have free will, but you do not. Also see Sam Harris and Robert Sapolsky on the topic (but note Dennett strongly disagrees with Harris, he has no choice, it could not be otherwise :)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/

The feeling of Free Will is bootstrapped from making decisions in a complex world. The subconscious makes most decisions automatically, based on left-brain exploitation of the current situation for survival. The timescales are too short for slow consideration to have an evolutionary advantage. Any imprinting of this instant behavior is made by stress hormones, which enhance memory retention for unusual or extreme situations.

However, the right brain is tasked with fitting actions into a wider context of long-term survival. It can run what-if scenarios, imagine different courses of action, and different outcomes. Its view of an action is always in the belief that something could be different next time, so something could be different last time - I could have done something else. But this is false, the left-brain was in control, and the right brain just provides post hoc rationalizations for those forced actions.

So, approximately, Free Will is the story the right brain tells itself after the left-brain already made the decision.

For more on the split brain aspect of this, see McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary and The Matter With Things.
The worst is is you have to enter all your skills in some CV-builder, and select your choices in tons of select boxes.
Not a single top level comment condemning the moron that hit a person and drove off which speaks volumes about how low the bar is for human drivers.

Waymo can’t expand soon enough.
Just a personal anecdote, but miss-timing your button-press sometimes results in a car-wash being added to your pump charge.

I was trying to hit skip or cancel or something (this was in the Before Times, barely remember what it was asking) and what was the skip button became the "Yes, I'd like a car wash" button as the next ad started. I always suspected this was a bit of Dark UI level trickery, but could also have just been unfortunate button selection between two separate ads.

Since then, I just avoid those buttons when ads are playing lest they get me again!
It hard to argue for any reliable indication of accuracy. What does "less than half a percent" success rate even mean? What if you're sampling an interval where there is no crime? How would you know that the model "failed"? How does "less than half a percent" compare to other means of prediction — like following the gut feeling of an expert?
Just had a call with an old classmate that works in the same department (and even same division). He recounted another fun anecdote: The PhD students in the department had set up a room to watch the Nobel committee’s press conference as usual. They were pleasantly surprised when their professor started talking from the room next door. So she kept her cool to the very end. :)
Bernie Madoff got 150 years for various crimes related to his ponzi scheme.
Making or using generative ‘AI’ is, all else being equal, a dick move
If you have 2 companies interested, I'd tell them both that you have other companies interested, make me an offer.

Edit: as a rock-bottom baseline, try to figure out how much time and money you've spent on this and use a rate like $150-200/hr to get a bottom number, assuming you'd have no further involvement. If they want you to commit to future involvement, it's more of course.
Show HN: Wild Moose – Autonomous agent for production debugging
Hi Hacker News! We launched an autonomous agent that helps debug production issues, and we’re curious to get your feedback.

Today's GenAI devtools, such as Copilot, are limited: they are great for writing code, but we all know that programming is only 20% coding, and 80% debugging.

So how can GenAI be used for debugging? As opposed to code completion or test automation, production debugging is not about generating text. Debugging is mostly about root-cause analysis. We realized two things:

1) Generative AI is drastically changing the way we work with data, thanks to its ability to not only generate queries, but also run code and analyze unstructured data. This enables building better data-exploration experiences with far more intuitive interfaces.

2) RCA is all about exploring different types of data. When you don’t know why a transaction was dropped or which customers are affected – you explore metrics, logs, your code, other people’s code, old slack messages, and whatnot, to figure out what’s broken.

Putting those two together, we built an autonomous agent that helps debug production issues. Our LLM "moose" (ok, it's corny but we like it) connects to your logs, metrics, and other observability data, and lets you extract and analyze them by conversing with it. Once it gets a task, it will start reasoning, invoking APIs, and running code, until it comes back with an answer.

For example, when requested to “show me IDs of transactions that took over 1 minute today”, it will fetch those transactions from Datadog for you. You might then ask it if long-running transactions correlate with a metric such as DB CPU load. It will fetch the metric values, visualize them on a graph alongside the long transaction frequency, and give you the answer.

Our software both runs code and invokes API calls; the interplay between these is nontrivial to design and a fertile ground for innovation. There are “textbook” solutions to let agents write and run code (open sourced by, for example, Open Interpreter), and also to invoke tools/APIs (for example, Gorilla). But doing both together is harder, and yet required. We welcome your thoughts on this!

Try our tool with your Datadog’s logs and metrics >> https://app.wildmoose.ai/slack/install

Setup demo >> https://www.loom.com/share/9a4adc39806742c48d14cdd39da6e560?...

If you want to see other integrations, or have ideas for features, or you’ve spotted behaviors that seem off - we’d love to hear. Hit us up in the comments!
This is all from a managers perspective, which I suspect is the main reason we disagree.

From a coders perspective, using sub-optimal tools and churning out boilerplate day in and day out makes the difference between keeping a job and looking elsewhere.

Which turns it into a managers problem, because if your developers are not happy, you won't be either in the long run.
It’s more about sustainability.
They're debuting the features on a silly live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7koAGLf0EE
Or, in some cases, just less packaging in general. Plastic is so cheap that it's seemingly used "because we can" in many instances. How important is it that nobody else's fingerprints are on the case of your brand new DVD?
Yes, so concerned, they have their names on their doorbells everywhere.
> To successfully use an abstraction, you need to understand the problem the abstraction is trying to solve and also understand how the abstraction has solved the problem.

Not just abstractions, but just about everything we use. For example, why were arrow functions added to JavaScript? After all, everything you can do with arrow functions you could do previously without arrow functions. What was the problem that arrow functions were trying to solve and how do arrow functions solve that problem? I wish MDN was updated so that at the top of every page it first gave an overview of what problem this particular feature solves and how it solves it. Including how the problem used to be solved with "old" syntax and why this new syntax is preferable. And when it is not preferable.
Paramount uploads Mean Girls to TikTok across 23 video clips
I want this for LLMs. Having that much less of a memory footprint would allow us to put more models on a GPU at a time, and assuming the clock could keep up it could more than make up for the loss in inference speed per individual model
It's not needed for EVs, they just work, though with faster drain and slower charging speeds (though battery heaters/conditioners help mitigate this). Batteries wear out more quickly from long-term cold exposure, which is why I said "year round subzero temps". For typical American winters, even up here in Minnesota, it's not a significant issue.
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/36411/healing-of-b...

Seems like it's true!
Of course EAs are now betting on their messiah's prison sentence.
Best one I saw was an SSID of "C:\\Virus`567*76.exe"

No jndi hotspots
As someone else in that space in the mid 90s I would agree that it was pretty remarkable nearly 30 years ago, especially considering the competition.
I think it's still hard to say which policies would be effective. I think CO2-equivalent emission taxes are a good starting point

It might also be possible to put a recycling fee on each produced device based on the retail price and the amount of damage it would cause to the environment if the device was dumped in the environment

When a device is then handed in for recycling the company is refunded the fee minus the cost of to handle it at the recycling facility

On the downside that could also encourage companies to create products that are replaced before they are no longer usable, though honestly we already have that problem. It could maybe be prevented by lowering the fee based on how long the company commit to supporting the model with software and replacement parts
Bringing the water in that pool into orbit will set you back a couple billion dollars.
Hi, one of the authors here!

The tool is open source and doesn't require any subscription :)
I agree, realistically this is just going to make training sets less findable in mainstream knowledge, but I think writers being against it regardless makes sense on principle. I, too, would be pissed af if someone took say, my fingerprints, and started putting my fingerprints on random stuff and places where I wasn't.
- Tool chain issues. Similar to the blog Nzen posted in a comment here, upgrading compilers could be a pain if breaking changes were introduced

- Poor ecosystem fit for an enterprise environment. We weren't willing to write libraries for some of the things we needed to support: DB2 access, SOAP, etc. Ended up writing C# wrapper services for a lot of that early on

- Poor library ecosystem in some cases. What felt like a good choice would be unsupported a year later

- Perhaps our own fault for committing to using Reflex for a heavyweight frontend. The team did an amazing job, but supporting GHCJS, the tooling around it, and trying to get faster dev iterations became a huge drag on the team

- Indirectly had to support it due to Reflex, but Nix. It's another rabbit hole that requires collective interest and a willingness to peel back the layers to make things work. Was another drag on the team

At the end of the day I'd say the biggest problem was cultural. I firmly believe that in order to have a successful Haskell environment, you need devs committed to the language and would label themselves "Haskellers". My team learned it and became expert engineers, but they are by no means Haskell language pros who thoroughly understand the inside outs of the language and its myriad of extensions. It's just a tool to them and they only used as much as they needed to.
Having whitish skin is pretty much the only criteria for whiteness in the modern world.
There seems to be a cabal of downvoters who, I assume, truly believe they are entitled to drive like complete jackasses.
Apply to Procter & Gamble, and as part of the application itself enjoy being put through 1-2 hours of ambiguous personality/morality testing and Mensa-style math, memorization, and logic puzzles! With adaptive difficulty!

It's the most surreal and absurd experience. There are actually prep courses you can pay for just to improve your odds on the P&G testing process just to get someone to actually see your resume. Be warned though: if you don't score sufficiently high for the position you've applied to, you're banned from applying for any job at the company for a year!
I must say this is the biggest issue for me too. A upgrade path for the device (like framework provides for its laptops) is the biggest missing feature for me.
Yes . . . I don't think I have spent less than 1 hour on any serious job application I have done. It usually takes multiple hours. My spouse is in Academia, and her job applications take days!
I guess unrestricted access to the highest paying job market isn't for everybody.
Thanks for the context, it explains a lot.
“Comedy Writing with Small Generative Models” by Jamie Brew [video]
great now time how many hours HR phone screening, hiring manager phone screening, take home tests, (multiple) all day onsite interviews take if you want to follow through on like 3 employers.
Probably they know their own technology well enough to understand that it's not really fit for purpose, still they will try to sell it anyways to stupid corporate CEOs.
Why we're no longer using Core.typed (2016)
New Gmail protections for a safer, less spammy inbox
"A company giving customer funds out as loans is fraud."

This is what banks do though, no?
It only makes sense to treat it as "10 years" if it's actually useable for 10. For me, the specs make it a non-starter on day 1.
Same. I'd absolutely buy one if they had this basic feature.
Inject chaos into AWS Lambda using FIS and a Rust layer
Its completely the freedom aspect for me. Sure, Apple wont let me down because that would impact their business, but what if they did? Its also a thousand times better to be 100% sure you can modify your electronics without any fear of getting rejected like its vehicle insurance.
I once worked on a project where a critical system started to leak memory during a critical weekend-long event. We basically took shifts every 4 hours to log into the boxes and manually rolling-restart the affected services.

We did find and fix the leak the following week once the event completed and traffic dropped to normal levels. But sometimes, you got to do what you got to do to keep the app running.
These are all good suggestions, and I have incorporated many of them in my life.

Even still, food is often grown with and amongst contamination. Your friends and family probably don’t care or know as much as you do, so you get a nice dose when you are over for dinner. So much food is transported in plastic because it is cost-effective. It’s in the water at this point.

Furthermore, in my personal experience, I can get obsessive about avoiding plastic/PFAS. People do not like to be lectured about plastic and PFAS so it is socially draining sometimes.
People who live out in the country, outside the city. I'm sure there are some still.
I think it has to get really bad before they pull the store (a store takes a lot of money to install).

Usually they just offset the losses by raising prices.
The Surprising Benefits of Laziness [video]
Many people here have sold and moved to one of the many beautiful towns on our island that are closer to nature, cheaper, and easy to “buy up” in terms of lifestyle. In turn, that has dramatically boosted prices in those towns.

Hypothetically (I expect the inverse to happen), if my value increases at this rate until my kids are moved out, I can sell this place for $1.5M. That would get me a LOT of house in one of those towns. But why? Who does that benefit? And does it push locals out of those towns, over time?

I don’t want to maintain some kind of housing homeostasis where values remain the same and no one moves. But the time scale here is ridiculous and it’s dramatically changing my region in bad ways, and I don’t see any net positives outside of very few people’s bank accounts.

Yet like I said, I do expect it to go the other way. I expected to lose 10% by now, not gain it. There should be a correction at some point, or things are going to be radically different where I live very soon. People are really at their limits.
Maybe fear of litigation from a liability lawsuit if the employee is injured or killed.
What I'd love to see is state-based migrations similar to what Prisma offers - but that can handle, views, functions, and complex logic that references other things - and have it be smart enough to change those as well. Or at least walk you through any dependent changes. I'd pay for that.
Trying to take something you didn’t pay for certainly seems like stealing? You can rationalize it how you want, but it is what it is.
Arc browser built-in AI features [video]
Albert, I must assume this was targeted at my comment to ask for an enumeration of businesses enjoying the model espoused. "Do your own homework" is fine if the objective is clear; it wasnt (to me at least) and I wasnt sure where to start. Thank you to the OP for adding that list!
Some folks just have the ball and are running with it. The complexity of the language is growing even if you use C99. Just look at https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language it's quite a bit bigger with the new additions. The C additions are going beyond their original scope of 'only things major compilers have already implemented' as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37379297 The Battle over Books3

122 points | 29 days ago | 130 comments
everything you have used as an example is not a free market, it is government interference.

1) slavery was enforced by the government who had use of force to compel. There was no voluntary two party agreements.

2) countries are governmental constructs with barriers enforced by use of force. A polish programmer cant work in the US due to governmental interference.

Now that the borders are wide open expect to see programmers exploiting the work loopholes to get work visas that allow them to work at market wages.

there is no perfect information and there will always be mismatches. But in a free market those mismatches are temporary. Also the market may be valuing things other than technical prowess (e.g. english proficiency, understanding of cultural norms etc)
I think p5.js [1] is difficult to beat when it comes to in-browser creative coding, games included.

Daniel Shiffman has a YouTube playlist of various videos about making games with p5.js [2].

There is also p5play [3], which was made specifically for educational game development.

[1] https://p5js.org

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaGK-fj-BAM&list=PLRqwX-V7Uu...

[3] https://p5play.org/index.html
> I know that I found myself in a conversation with a ranger when I found out I was participating in an non-permitted event (even though I was explicitly told otherwise)

This is what I read. You didn't know you were attending a non-permitted event (I.e., "accidentally attended an unpermitted event"). Obviously you knew you were in attendance, but not that the event wasn't allowed, just like you said. Not sure how I could possibly be "reading into", sounds like I got it exactly right. I also understood from your original telling that the ranger knew you had no idea what was going on. It's more alarming that the organizers got more severe punishment than you, not less. Nothing you've said makes a max $1k fine less insane.
As you just said. You walked out with a new phone. Imagine if you didn’t have to replace an entire phone over a broken triviality.