skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it recycling that needs to be implemented or go ever deeper at the source and crack down on disposable, unfixable, ephemeral gadgets?

IMHO, the answer should be "crack down on disposable, unfixable, ephemeral gadgets" and quality decline in general. There are all kinds of apologetics defending disposablity and lack of repair-ability, but it's all bullshit to justify the enshittified status quo.

Appliances should be designed to last 25 years. Even if that means the up-front cost is more expensive, it's better for everyone except appliance salesmen than buying 5 appliances that only last 5 years each. Large manufactures should be required to provide a stable supply of repair parts. Any tech that can be made reusable should be made reusable. And I'm personally fine with an unwieldy government bureaucracy to bully our fine corporations and their executives into compliance. They've shown they need it.
Since we’re off HN topic anyways, can someone ELI5 why Israel blockades / occupies Palestinian territories? I would think given the treatment of Jews during WWII that there would be a special desire among Israelis not to treat a group of people poorly based on immutable facts like ethnicity. I understand the hatred of Hamas but don’t understand depriving Palestinian people of medicine and clean water and free movement.

For what it’s worth I have made a good faith attempt to answer this for myself and quickly got bogged down in information about the Ottoman Empire, etc etc which I can’t imagine is a real justification today.
I know, because there was a teacher at my high school who had prescription shaded glasses for his condition.

Screens emit less intensive light than ambient on a cloudy day. The teacher in question couldn't even go outside without his glasses.
>Then they leave when they've made it, burned out, or start thinking of a family.

They then post negatively about SF online for the rest of their lives.
How much tampering happens in space?
> Does anyone suck at that?

Does android even have native OCR? Last I checked everything required an OCR app of varying quality (including windows/linux).

On ios/macos you can literally just click on a picture and select the text in it as if it wasn't a picture. I know for sure on iOS you don't even open an app to do it, just any picture you can select it.

Last I checked the Opensource OCR tools were decent but behind the closed source stuff as well.

Random google result of OCR on android (could be outdated) - https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/10te5et/why_oc...
They’re typically called scramble crosswalks. The most famous one is Shibuya scramble, but they also have them in LA.
Fun question. There are a couple options:

(1) the more straightforward (but less powerful) option is to use the dynamic bounds for a slider. Here, "a" is set to animate, but the bounds don't let it move if b=0: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/mqhhpso67r

(2) the more general feature that allows for complex scripting behavior is called "actions." Here's an example that uses that, where it's more of a genuine play/pause: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/gzqwx36lo0

It's a beta feature that needs to be enabled, but anyone can turn it on. More here: https://help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407725009165-Acti...
Good point. Customer service is non-existent with Google as well.
The number of places where you can reliably walk out onto the street and hail a taxi is pretty small. Everywhere else, the relevant decision is whether calling a dispatcher or using a taxi company's app is faster/cheaper/more reliable than Uber/Lyft.
$1M Revenue With 0 Employees
> But it seems like they’re respected if you install large flashing lights that the pedestrian can activate.

I live near one of these and not even the strobing yellow lights are always enough to get drivers to yield. I've never once been able to cross when cars are present without fairly recklessly walking in front of them.

Maybe I'll have to try the brick method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEI8ppiMzZM
If you make inferences from non-public information (e.g. talking to the CEO) you can freely trade on that, provided the CEO hasn't shared MNPI with you directly

This is pretty much the literal definition of insider trading, but feel free to follow this advice if you plan on having a long discussion with the SEC while they audit all of your trades for the past decade.

And these communications are not made public and shared with other investors.

This is false. IR departments will only discuss information that is already made available to investors, through press releases or public compliance filings (such as SEC filings). They absolutely will not provide nonpublic material information just because someone asks, and in the event they do so, it's literally their job to provide an investor communication so that the information is publicly available.
Yeah that's fair, being kind to yourself is often somewhat forgotten, even if it is just as important as being kind to everyone else.
Eh there are certainly places for that mentality, but I prefer working with engineers and in places that do the opposite. Sure you can use the finest wood on the back, and polish the underside beautifully, but your beautiful chest is probably either never going to be bought or ripped apart and the wood reused for a chair. A lot of times, the fancy back of the chest is a complete and utter waste of time and effort.

Good engineers have to know when they're building a beautiful chest for public display for 20 years, and when their customer doesn't even know if they want a chest yet. It's a matter of context and being aware enough of the business circumstances to make the right decision.
Westinghouse is owned by Brookfield Renewable Partners and Cameco.

Cameco is the second largest uranium producer in the world. Brookfield Renewable Partners owns and operates a lot of power generation. Both are Canadian where there is a huge pool of both power generation and specifically nuclear power generation talent and experience. As an example until 2016 Canada had the largest operator nuclear power facility in the world, several provinces are currently in the planning phases of SMRs, and Canada will be financing CANDU reactors in Romania.

It's safe to say they see some sort of advantageous vertical integration of the supply chain, as well as believing regulatory and economic outlooks being good.
Qualcomm laying off >1,250 in California
Show HN: AI Parking Signs Reader
To clarify: under the laws linked above, jaywalking is categorized not as a crime or misdemeanor but as a traffic infraction, just like breaking the speed limit or failing to signal a turn.
I was going to say that no one said everything had to be only open source, but of course one person did say that, but hardly anyone else.

And getting Jeff'd is not a problem. If you care about getting Jeff'd, then you simply want to sell software instead of create software. So go forth and sell, and don't pretend all the people who wrote those open source licences and live by them just somehow don't get the realities of life. They do. In fact they get things people like these guys don't. It's fine to have that weakness and just decide to sell under the traditional 80's terms, but don't pretend it's required and forced upon you and anyone else who chooses not to do the same somehow doesn't also live in reality.
When my teen would be up in his room with headphones on, I would flash the bedroom lights remotely from downstairs. That was his cue to come downstairs for dinner or so we could figure out our weekly schedule or whatever.
> taking the time off doesn't even seem like an option

You don't get what you don't ask for. If you're asking and you feel like you're being overworked and reasonable requests for breaks are denied too much, work on finding somewhere more reasonable. Sure, easier said than done, but worth it to at least try in the long run.
It generally doesn't make much of a difference for sentencing how many counts there are; like charges group under the US Sentencing Guidelines.
No. It's more like what the following piece of code produces:

def convert(xml):
import re

parsed = re.split(r"(<.+?>)", xml)
output = parsed[0]
tags_with_pos = []
for i in range(1, len(parsed), 2):
tags_with_pos.append((parsed[i], len(output)))
output += parsed[i+1]
return tags_with_pos, output
> Towing and ship-breaking is a costly process, and the Navy has previously paid ISL large sums of money to recycle its ships
Precisely the exact opposite is true.

There are countless software projects that have never seen the light of day because the developers spent all the time polishing the back of the cabinet (and the product managers designing the door handles), and nobody did anything about the actual drawers.

You've seen the survivors of the process which have ugly backs of the cabinets because the developers started on the actual drawers and, because more likely than not it was somebody elses money paying for back-of-the-cabinet-polishing, and they got stopped at the end.

Also, if I have to delay the building of my kitchen because the cabinets are late, and I call the shop and they cheerfully tell me that they were ready yesterday but they haven't finished polishing the backs, oh man, I don't know how happy am I going to be about their excellent craftsmanship, you know?
Presumably everyone in the Holodeck will be simulating everyone else as being slightly worse off than them.
It’s a different situation computationally. Transformers are asymmetric: hard to train but easy to run.

There is no such thing as an open source Google because Google’s value is in its vast data centers. Search is hard to train and hard to run.

GPT4 is not that big. It’s about 220B parameters, if you believe geohot, or perhaps more if you don’t.

One hard drive.
You mean

- cloning the repo in github to your own fork

- cloning your fork locally

- pushing to your local fork after you've made your change

- opening a PR

Which is the expected flow for any project you're not already part of, ie all of them.

The email workflow:

- send an email

I can't fathom how you can say the email workflow is more complicated.
>but a common claim is that many of the most important AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are located in the city, so there's a bit of an AI boom going on.

I think the stronger claim as to why SF is the hub is: where else is the center if not there?

Seattle/NY/Boston/Austin/LA/Miami has some activity (probably in roughly that order), but hard to really call them the center of anything.
Yeah I've done meross homekit switches for all of our light switches. There's one that needed a reset (via the button on the outside, easy as cake). I didn't notice for weeks because it works like a switch when you tap it. Switches are the best place to add smarts and they gracefully degrade just fine. This midwit fix involving remote controls to turn on lights STINKS. Hell, our bedroom fan has that just because it's a 2 wire fan and I hate it.
It's not to make money, it's to do work. That's where the money comes from.
Right, but the fact that running it on a Pi with Linux is the "much more pragmatic solution" is already ruling out about 90% of the US.
Kali is the Hindu goddess of time--also of death but we'll ignore that for now lol--and she is a "she".
Why and How ChatGPT Works: Building 5 LMs at Increasing Complexity Levels [video]
Public transit is far more able to support disabled people than private transit - public transit is coupled with dense space. Every train and bus I've been on in this century supports wheelchairs.
TDM seems difficult with the long time delays to satellites, but maybe. LTE is pretty flexible and can use bands as small as 1.4 MHz.

It was only 1G and 2G (GSM) that needed to avoid overlap.
My dash cam filled with video of cyclists riding in a car lane beside a protected bike lane, and otherwise ignoring signage (stop and yield signs, signs stating road exceptions where bikes must use and share the sidewalk with pedestrians instead of the road) is definitely not ridiculous.

Also hilariously “why do cyclists not use the bike lanes” is a top alternative question result when searching bike lanes. Clearly this is not some random anecdote. Cyclists frequently do not use the bike lanes, and I am absolutely not anywhere near the only person to observe this frequently.

Never mind that:

-Protected bike lane implementations often congest and slow traffic, which increases idling and carbon emissions no matter how many people say they’ll bike if it was safer. They won’t get their fat ass off out of bed 40 minutes earlier. You’re kidding yourself.

-in colder climates, they’re useless for 50% of the year and exceptionally increase carbon footprints

-some cities don’t actually observe reduced injuries from protected bike lanes (often because cyclists are extremely prone to ignoring the rules of the road), and cyclists disregard their own safety and get slapped by a turning vehicle, for example. We often see the excuse that “cars should pay more attention” and they should, but also, motorcyclists have built a sentiment that you have to “ride like you’re invisible”, whereas cyclists tend to “ride like you’re the king of the road”. This is not just a car problem, but an arrogant community with a lack of self preservation problem.
It was not near crossing, surely :)

But like, German do not actually respect all the posted rules. Nec
ver did.
> Does android even have native OCR?

Tesseract? https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
Be aware of data prioritization with MVNOs.

Mint uses the T-Mobile network but is one tier below T-mobile subscribers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/oaophe/data_pri...

Lower QCI values are better.

> QCI 6 is applied to all of T-Mobile's postpaid and prepaid plans (except for Essentials) and Google Fi which also has QCI 6 as well. This means if you want the absolute best from T-Mobile, you want to get a plan directly from them. Even their cheap $10 prepaid 1GB Connect plan has priority data.

QCI 7 is applied to T-Mobile’s Essentials plan as well as all MVNOs (besides Google Fi) such as Mint, Metro By T-Mobile, US Mobile GSM LTE, and Tello.
One main idea of EA is that you should make a lot of money in order to give it away. The obvious problem is that this can serve as a convenient moral justification for greed. SBF explicitly endorsed EA, Will MacAskill vouched for him, and I understand he was widely admired in EA circles. And he turned out to be the perfect incarnation of this problem, admitting himself he just used EA as a thin veil.

What would you count as evidence that effective altruism fails?
This is much better put than I could have said.
And there is no telling who'll buy it... probably a company like Comcast / Xfinity which is already universally hated.
Why aren't there more 80% jobs?
Yep, and they have spin off boards from FC but they are all a shell of itself. It's interesting how it goes around again.
Since we just asked you to stop doing this and you just did it again, I've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37817068

Not cool. And it's not as if you've lacked for warnings:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37202760 (Aug 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35558080 (April 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29923717 (Jan 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29123203 (Nov 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27216698 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26440096 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24562304 (Sept 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
One of the best things I did to make myself somewhat immune to this stuff:
1. Decouple my phone number from my carrier by transferring my number to a low cost VOIP provider such as voip.ms, jmp.chat..
2. Switch to a prepaid plan and pay for a whole year for a good deal. Pay as you go plans are also a good option.

I pay less than $20 a month for a few phone numbers and 5GB data per month. It is also a more private solution since the carrier does not know who I am. I can switch providers with relatively low friction.
No, not soon.
Ninety percent updated in a week – Alan Pope's blog
Right but in the same way I can end the contract and walk away at any time, I would imagine it's totally kosher for T-Mobile to do the same. It's not like either party is locked in.
Absolutely but adderal for breakfast, lunch, dinner and as a sleeping pill is probably rather rare.
One of my favourite things about (desktop) Geogebra is its ability to export to tikz. Making complicated geometric shapes in a latex file can be done so easily with Geogebra. Perhaps not as elegant as Castel, but still quite nice.

https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/
Article is from 2021 (this information should be in the title).
Not all companies should go public. Lego is a classic example.
I don't think they're different. I think in both those situations and today they all had a small chance of kicking off WW3. If we keep rolling that D20 eventually we will roll a 1.
Well, it was apparently upheld twice on reexamination, where they could have fixed that. The problem is more that the bar for non-obviousness is so low, it's basically on the floor. Paired with a discipline (software development), where independent reinvention is common, this is just a recipe for disaster.
I’m happy to hear that you’ve agreed to teach them all as the alternative path. Have fun!
> While per-token inference costs for fine-tuned GPT-3.5 is 10x more expensive than GPT-3.5 it is still 10x cheaper than GPT-4!

Not quite accurate; finetuned 3.5 is only 4x cheaper than GPT-4. Cost per million output tokens from https://openai.com/pricing

$ 2 - GPT-3.5
$16 - finetuned GPT-3.5
$60 - GPT 4
He's active as u/astro_pettit on reddit.
Sorry this is not quality journalism and you misunderstood the message further.

1. The meeting tool place after the commission made it's proposal, meaning that contrary to the way the article sets it up, the meeting couldn't have shaped the proposal.
2. The screenshot of a meeting report states that Europol wants access to the same info as Member States for specific cases, contrary to your summary it doesn't say anything about access to all data.
3. That police agencies want to include further areas into the legislation is not unusual. That doesn't guarantee it will happen, nor does the police body speak for the executive or legislators or represent the EU views as a whole.

I do think the proposals go a bit too far, on the other side the whole tech world assumption that anything has to stay lawless is just absurd. No one can deny there is a problem with pedophile material and to say to protect the purity of free speech all such issues have to stay unaddressed is just a position blind to reality.
In the future sending a WhatsApp text message such as "I stand with Palestine" will have the police knocking at your door with an arrest warrant in hand. I think Germany or the UK will be the first places to implement it. The spirit of the Gestapo and Stasi lives on.
> It reminds me a bit of the idea of "shared space" which is a recent concept that is actually claimed to make streets safer.

It's a 1990s concept from France. It was implemented in the 1990s on Theater Way in Redwood City. CA, and did not work well. One side of the street has a curb, but the other side does not. Vehicle traffic was allowed, and people could get out in front of the movie theater. The other side of the street, with no barriers, had cafe tables.[1]

This worked badly. The cafe tables kept creeping outward. Some auto traffic was too fast. During COVID, the outside seating kept growing into the roadway. Plastic bollards were erected to discourage non-delivery traffic. Overpowered electric bikes zooming through became an problem. Police cars were sometimes deployed to block the
roadway. Then plastic Jersey-type barriers were set up at one end, but not filled with water, so they could be moved for deliveries. Currently, one end of the street has been torn up for installation of some kind of raiseable barrier.

[1] https://earth.google.com/web/@37.48560402,-122.22909676,5.07...
> Remember that Moore's Law is over in the sense that transistors are not getting cheaper generation after generation, that is why the NVIDIA 40xx series is such a disappointment to most people.

I am unconvinced by the idea of trying to redefine Moore's Law to be about MSRP. The NVIDIA H100 has twice the FLOPS of the A100 on a smaller die. That's Moore's Law, full stop. When NVIDIA has useful competition in the AI space, they'll be forced to cut prices, as has reliably been the case for every semiconductor vendor for the last 60 years.
OpenAI plans major updates to lure developers with lower costs, sources say
I'd never heard of that systemd trick. Interesting, thanks.
> It's such a natural extension of the phrase tech debt and succinctly gets a point across.

The metaphor of interest was the whole reason that Ward Cunningham initially coined the term "tech debt":

"Technical Debt is a metaphor, coined by Ward Cunningham, that frames how to think about dealing with this cruft, thinking of it like a financial debt. The extra effort that it takes to add new features is the interest paid on the debt."

https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html
It is a slog trying to keep electronics out of the landfill. This year I have repaired:

Two switch joycons with failing internal flexible cables

A failing switch joycon battery

A dehumidifier that failed due to a faulty on/off switch

Two Casper lights with failing internal batteries

I do my best to research and buy stuff that is somewhat repairable but it is a slog and in many cases a leap of faith that the item be repairable and have parts you can hack or buy.
Thanks! I will pass those on
how is this different from Infisical?
When the actual fix (improving the lives, discipline, and care provided by their parents) is untenable, other lower effort solutions start to become more attractive. It's unreasonable to expect schools to correct for a poor upbringing.
Is amber passable as a last resort?
> on the other side the whole tech world assumption that anything has to stay lawless is just absurd

This is not the whole tech world's position. Why make up an equally bad opposing position instead of just saying "this regulation is going too far"?
If I have to go through the trouble to opt-out of this, then I might as well go through the trouble of contacting and joining another carrier (Mint, Google Fi, Pulse, whatever). This nonsense helped me realize I'm already paying too much with T-Mobile.
This is like saying automakers destroyed the trolly system. It was the people that did this by popular opinion. Most people in the US use cars, like the convenience of cars, and will vote in a car centric manner. Blaming automakers is just absolving the people of blame.
Happy with Tello: https://tello.com/
The brand also becomes a reinforcing moat in an interesting way when you become a household name. When your employees think to themselves "I want to send a quick video update to team X" and they instantly default to downloading Loom, IT's decision for which vendor to buy a solution like this from is practically made for them.
The correct career choice is to seek organizations whose values align with yours as much as possible.

Life is too short to spend most of your waking hours surrounded by people whose beliefs go against yours.
I'm absolutely not saying Amazon is playing fair here, but ultimately, if you're just a middleman, someone's going to try and cut you out of the transaction. The only safety is having some sort of unique value proposition. Either you make it yourself and control the supply, or you do what you have to to make customers want to buy from YOU.
Other countries that pull it off do so in extremely YIMBY ways: they simply build enough housing that market rents fall.

This debate over "public housing" vs "more landlords" is kind of dumb; both operate by increasing the supply of housing and rely on fundamental market factors to work.