skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tires used to be made from natural rubber, not the modern synthetic stuff we call plastic. Similarly, cellophane wrap (Saran wrap) and cellophane tape (scotch tape) used to be made out of plant fibers.
Many French villages have adopted this slightly differently: there's one traffic light on the entrance to town, and it turns red if you're going more than 50kph after the village name sign (equivalent to a 50kph speed limit sign in France).
Show HN: Selfie and 1 minute = fun Halloween AI profile picture
No we shouldn't, unfortunately, cameras fail trivially in uncommon-but-definitely-yearly weather scenarios in ~all environments.
Vicarious embarrassment
Uh, why is Cipro bad? From the wikipedia article about Cipro: "It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. The World Health Organization classifies ciprofloxacin as critically important for human medicine. It is available as a generic medication. In 2020, it was the 132nd-most-commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 4 million prescriptions."
It’s slightly worse than a junior developer, and just as confidently incorrect, but much faster to iterate.

Either is better than no assistant at all. With circumstantial caveats.
So... You confirm that you are writing for each other.

If it's like a liked-in account for developers, it explains very clearly why journalists use it so much. But this is not the use people claim to get from the platform. On that account, linked-in is way more honest.
IMHO it's fine to have a certain jargon within the context of "things neural nets do" and comes from the days of Deep Dream, when image classifiers were run in reverse and introduced the public to computer-generated-images that were quite psychedelic in nature. It's seeing things that aren't there.
There are a lot of counter-intuitive pre-IPO behaviors.
Another one is to raise a huge amount of cash through unnecessary funding rounds.

You would think that massive dilution for no gain would be a bad idea, but there are usually a lot of perverse incentives at play
This kind of argument-against-perfection / argument-against-absolutes is so transparently useless. It may be that I've just been noticing it more, but it seems more common lately.

Perfection of any kind does not exist in the physical world, so any test against perfection will fail - it's simply a matter of phrasing to choose what you want to identify as failing.

The test isn't whether All or Every such-and-such meets some test, it's the current state (do many or most meet the test?) and the direction (are more or fewer meeting the test?) that matters.
I think it's pretty selfish of you to assume that it's in a city's best interest for you to hit green lights.

This project can be an excellent tool in a civil engineer's toolkit, but that doesn't mean that every intersection should be perfectly optimized for traffic to always flow unobstructed, especially around hot pedestrian areas and busy hiway entrances and exits.
Wasn't trying to bolster anything in any direction. Was just sharing what I've seen through a first-person lens. Good luck.
They're repeatedly suggesting things like this until the MPs are confused enough and vote yes. At least that's what happened with the copyright directive.

Just like with the migrant quotas that Hungary and Poland are boycotting. Meanwhile, the far right gets more votes because people are fed up with this BS and naïve enough to vote for them.
I think it has to do with being morphophonemic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography#Morphopho...

"This means that the spelling reflects to some extent the underlying morphological structure of the words, not only their pronunciation. Hence different forms of a morpheme (minimum meaningful unit of language) are often spelt identically or similarly in spite of differences in their pronunciation."
Last I looked, Xcode still doesn't support this. Having it present in the .gitconfig breaks SPM for initial clones and updates.
What about dementia and Alzheimer’s?

https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/news-and-events/recent-...
This looks great! The main potential use for this must be for VR video with 6 degrees of freedom. What they have now does an incredible job of conveying space, but feels a bit limiting when your view doesn’t translate with you.
It also has very real dialogue: https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/realistic-aerial-combat-m...
No, we cannot build trustable anything.

The best approach is to assume it is compromised and take steps to limit the potential damage.

The Germans assumed Enigma was secure, and as a result lost their U-Boot fleet and lost the Afrika Korps. This was despite a lot of evidence that it was compromised, but they kept using it for critical information.

Code-breaking also cost Japan the battle of Midway.

People should just assume their phone is infected with Pegasus.
Simulating a Toy Economy
I wanted to understand where supply-demand curves came from, so I made a small simulation. As these things have a tendency to do, features kept being added, and now it's at a point that I think others might find it interesting. Let me know what you think.
> parts of the open internet are being "attacked" and dismantled by [...] greedy capitalism

So same as the last 20 years, then?
4 should be - bandcamp employees vote to unionize. Epic can't let that cancer spread to the game devs so they sell it off as quickly as possible.
Well, it's your mindset, so you answer that question, don't pin it on me. If the GBR truly had no impact on the wider ecosystem, would you choose to let it die. What level of impact would it take to care, its minimum usefulness to you. The status quo environment is the only one we know civilization to flourish in, as it was a remarkably stable period, so it's self-evident to me that we should be keeping as much the same as it was around the time the Industrial Revolution took off if we want to preserve as much of the climate as possible. Would you raze the Louvre and replace it with a server farm if someone said that space would be more useful that way.
Can you please make your substantive points without snark or name-calling?

Perhaps you don't owe the devoid of meaning and humanity in their lives better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's politics all right, but not because fossil fuel subsidies are "popular." It's because the wealthy and powerful who run things make a whole lot of profit off of fossil fuels and subsidies.
OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring Software Engineers in the US
Why use AI at all? An algorithm informed by traffic sensors seems perfectly sufficient and more reliable.
Yes, in a later version of the book, Norman differentiates between signifiers (which we might now call perceived affordances) and affordances. However, the HCI field and UX field has by and large not adopted signifier as part of its vocabulary, and most people use affordance to mean the perceived relationship rather than Norman's original definition.

It's also worth pointing about that the original definition of affordances, by Gibson, is about animals and their relationship to their environment, which can be quite broad in its totality.
Show HN: AI Generated Sprint Reviews
Why did we build this?

Simple. Dev team leads spend way too long pulling together updates and sprint summaries every other week. Our AI Sprint Reviews automatically create human-readable summary of what was accomplished each sprint, along with a list of completed work thats grouped by theme (eg. bug fixes, new features, tech debt, etc.)
> A slow car is a safe car.

A slower car is less likely to severely injure you than a faster moving car. Your safety factor has possibly improved to an unknown degree given the particular intersection, roadway configuration and angle of incident, the car has in no way "become safe."

> I've often wondered why lights don't seem to be timed in cities for how long it takes to walk a block

The energy stored in a 3000lb+ object moving 30mph is far greater than the energy in an 150lb object moving 3mph. The overhead of having to start and stop movement as a pedestrian is not comparable and won't rise to the level of design criteria the way it will for vehicles.
The middle light in a traffic light is called yellow in the US, and orange in (some parts of?) Europe.
Facebook probably has a shadow profile of me even though I never made an account. "Just stop using the service" demonstrates an incomplete grasp of the problem.
Show HN: Migrations, statistics on infrastructure migrations from HN posts
You don't need low income housing. Just make government housing at market rate. If you really want to be kind, offer it at maintenance cost. Even if housing prices don't fall(they probably will), they won't rise faster than inflation if the market is sufficiently flooded. Eventually wages will catch up to prices. Yes it will take a long time, but that's why we need to do it now. No. Twenty years ago.
Beyond that, they don’t need a reason at all. Imposing one’s beliefs and opinions on a neighbour is the kind of intellectually stunted behaviour that we’re struggling with as a species.
I rage when I'm sitting at a red light and there's zero traffic utilizing the green for 30+ seconds.
NixOS hardening with (slightly wonky) tests[1], in case anyone's interested.

[1] https://gitlab.com/engmark/root/-/merge_requests/395/diffs
Madoff got charged with securities fraud, investment advisor fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, false statements, perjury, making false filings with the SEC, and theft from an employee benefit plan.

Holmes was charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Ellison is charged with wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy.

I feel like Madoff are in a way different league than Holmes and Ellison. Ellison also didn't come up with the scheme (unlike Holmes and Madoff), and didn't even get equity if I read things right. She might be able to just don on her Sunday finest, cooperate with the feds and play the "I was manipulated by this megalomaniac douche" angle, since they were in a relationship and all.
That is a bit of a diversion, as you could have picked a tech stock that went to zero, as well.

That said, sibling post disputes if the factoid is even true. So, not clear what the full point is. I am personally sympathetic to the idea that dividends used to be one of the defining differences between profit and non-profits. You have to get into buybacks to fully see the differences today, I think. And that does feel like a very different thing. The argument doesn't get any favors from false factoids, though. :(
Generalized robotic skills may have just been solved.

The paper

https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/B...

Explanation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZdytTKeGYM
Kansas courts IT systems offline after 'security incident'
You want to sell when you can show growth because that justifies a higher multiple. If you're cutting people, it means you don't have enough growth opportunities to use those people for. It's the opposite signal.

You might need to sell, which may change the calculation.
Very cool, glad to see interest in this space. How does this differ from SkyDweller?
Crunchbase says that was a Series A in 2010 with no further rounds, so I don't think that's inconsistent with my original post. They took some outside investment early on but their path looks nothing like the classic VC-funded growth trajectory.
Probably something like "a software that I can freely use without exposing myself to legal risk".

(This is just me describing reality. My private software is under AGPL to a significant extent, but I understand why my employer's legal dept does not like AGPL.)
Calling Python a meme language has to be one of the more hilarious things I have read on HN!
I can't remember where, but it was a fairly typical form where you put your name and information, upload your resume, required fields have a red asterisk, and the LinkedIn profile was required.

Now, I have no idea how much parsing they actually did; you might have been able to put "asdf" to make it validate.
They aren't actually trying to fill the position, it is just an add masquerading as a role.
It's easy to be picky about nutrient density and sustainable farming when you have a full belly. Modern farming techniques have saved the lives of millions of people who would otherwise starve to death.
I'd believe that, there's also a trend towards Airbnb over long-term rentals adding to the problems
Slate is far left leaning, and growing more extreme with time. See https://www.allsides.com/news-source/slate. I'd take that article with a heavy grain of salt. They also use two data points of failed moderation (not a lack of moderation) and try to paint the entire platform based on it. That happened plenty under the old regime as well.

If the actual journalists paid for the blue checkmark, that'd solve the issue wouldn't it?

Twitter prior to Musk was a sinking ship (cancel culture exaggerated the problem). Asking people to pay is one of the attempts to solve that problem. If a journalist is unwilling to pay, they're going to be deprioritized and can't really complain about it. But Twitter has been very open and transparent about the need to reduce bots by paying for the checkmark.
I understood it as "the way to show that you are a trustworthy journalist (and therefore attract both willing publishers and willing sources) is to be seen on e.g. Twitter/X, reporting things." So like, yes, there's a performative aspect that you do for other journalists, but its not solely that. Its not Linkedin for journalists. Its the equivalent of having a very robust github profile that's stacked with your own content.
Browser Company engineer here. Thanks for reporting! This is neither normal nor expected.

If you don’t mind, could you try the same test after temporarily disabling all extensions in arc://extensions? “Arc Helper” processes are used for both renderers and extensions. We have seen many cases where extensions behave unexpectedly.

The crash dump we upload for diagnose, when you first restart the browser after a crash happened, is a json file of about 100KB to 200KB similar to IPS files you see in the MacOS Console app, so they can’t be what is causing this.

If you need to send us any data you don’t want to share publicly for privacy reasons, feel free to create a bug report using Arc itself, and we can follow-up there.

Thank you!
I've found it's highly area dependent. Basically the entire midwest is very MS heavy, and C# is still king.
The blog post speaks quality, but what's truly great is that the author knows when/why to stop the adventure.
https://www.pamelazave.com/faq.html - FAQ Sheet on Feature Interaction

> What is a feature interaction?

> A feature interaction is some way in which a feature or features modify or influence another feature in defining overall system behavior. Feature interactions are especially common in telecommunications, because all features are modifying or enhancing the same basic service, which is real-time communication among people.

> Features are popular because they are easy to add and change. The dark side of features is feature interaction, which is implicit in feature composition and therefore difficult to understand. [emphasis added]
Sounds awesome! Would love to chat, email in bio.
I enjoy visiting shlinkedin.com from time to time!
The context here is that Czech Pirate Party is part of Czech government coalition[1], so they have more leverage than you could have guessed if you don't follow Czech politics.

The council referenced in the post seems to be Council of the European Union[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Petr_Fiala
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union

For the overview of the legislative process, see:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-co...
Money talks and Monsanto is not afraid to use it. Lobbyists are the answer.

- https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/16/revealed-mo...

- https://ahrp.org/a-profit-enhancing-policy-shift-trumps-publ...

- https://corporateeurope.org/en/2016/10/monsanto-lobbying

- https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/youll-never-guess-how-much-b...
Extremely difficult? No. SponsorBlock already removes in-stream ads. If things get more complicated, ML will be employed. It's an arms race but so far things seem to be on our side. Long-term, I don't know.
I'm confused. I thought that reproducing a study was pretty much doing a peer review?
My favourite is listening to the Nothing Much Happens podcast

It's a podcast where the host reads a soothing story she wrote where very little happens

Themes include a huge range of topics such as working in her garden, stuff she sees while hiking, preparing a gift for a friend's wedding, etc

The stories take placr in a village called Nothing Much. Each story is independent but there are recurring characters

I often fall asleep before the episode ends
If you want to be constantly irritated, read about Rosalind Franklin. (And yes, I know she died before the Nobels were announced, that's not the point.)
It's free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHil4Y4r3Wk
> I've been using StackOverflow for 15 years.

I guess you and any experienced user know the "meta game" of allowed questions. Survivorship bias, kinda.
Partitioning Processors for AI Workloads
If you want portability, keep in mind that the man pages specify that you should use sigaction instead of signal when using a function as a signal handler rather than SIG_IGN or SIG_DFL. [0]

[0] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/signal.2.html
> Yes. I will watch it for free as intended, nobody posted the content to be YouTube premium only, so I won't pay for it, I will watch the sponsor segments though.

Fair enough, but the grandparent's point was specifically about circumventing the ads, no? At least that was what I was addressing.

> It's like paying the mall because the comic book shop I like is inside the mall, so that the mall can finance and advertise all the things I hate in life, while also killing the exposure of the comic book shop.

But you're fine with some percentage of whatever you spend in that store going back to the mall in form of rent? Seems like an accounting detail to me.
> your life would be improved if there was less crime, fewer homeless, safer neighborhoods, etc

Where is the evidence for that?

US to my knowledge is the world leader in both state and private donations and various support programs value (per capita).

At the same time crime rates look much worse than in many other poorer countries.

I cannot imagine how can one even measure any meaningful correlation and isolate signal from the noise of thousands of other factors entangled in any society.

As far as I know major religions advocate for donations as being essentially a voluntary act.

Which is important, because it makes me (as a moral agent) free to choose who and how I prefer to support based on my own perceptions of better good and prefer people really in need to lazy bums gaming the system.
"By continuing to use Bandcamp, you agree..."

What's an artist who depends on the platform to do?
If you discuss this on the internet, shills come out of the woodwork immediately to promote glyphosate. I've never seen such astroturfing for any other topic. For example, there are a handful of super user accounts on reddit that pop up at all hours and only discuss this topic and use extremely well researched talking points and citations.
Yeah, I listen to NPR.
Here you go: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe5017
Mitre would probably still file a 10.0 CVE based on this report
Yup. I installed LinkedIn not long after it was a thing, and just kinda clicked through the sign up flow. To my horror, it contacted every single person in my contact list telling them I was on LinkedIn.
I came to ask this. I assumed it's en passant, which is likely not to be implemented if castling isn't.
Love this channel. You may also like Anton Petrov's for this.
The city I live in is just about perfect with the light-controlled intersections. Seriously, I love this place. A few reasons:

1. At night, many of the intersections here go red for all directions, and will immediately turn green for a car as it approaches. If you're going the speed limit, you don't even need to slow down. (To be clear, it gives you a green before you would ordinarily need to start braking)

2. Protected left turn signals are only installed where they're appropriate. The last place I lived just threw them up at every single intersection in some sort of ass-covering maneuver. Here, if the intersection is low traffic and has good sight lines, then you make your left after yielding to oncoming traffic.

3. The timing is super tight. I regularly notice cross-traffic signals going to yellow just as the final car passes through the intersection. I'm not sitting there wondering, "Green for who??"

4. If I enter a protected left-turn lane while the cross traffic yellow is lit up, it'll still give me the arrow. Everywhere else I've lived, I'm "too late" and have to wait for an entire new cycle before I can go. But here, as I'm passing over the induction loop, the controller instantly queues me up before the oncoming thru traffic.

I've been half-joking that I'm going to write a love letter to the municpal traffic engineering department, but I really think I should. I just keep noticing their work, especially when I see how bad it is in surrounding cities.
So it uses a part of the Signal protocol. That is interesting, and I did not know that, but that does not mean it uses the Signal protocol in its entirety.
Too bad their prices for lossless downloads for the quick searches I just did are outrageous. Don't even need to get into the very limited catalog.
The end game isn’t embedded stream, it’s attestation
If LZMA is your intended target, I more strongly suggest selecting a more modern container such as the 7z archive format.

Someone selects a zip file not for it's compression, but for how widely accessible it is. Most likely this involves basic compression on text files, error detection checksums, and storage (no compression) of already well compressed images and possibly videos.
I don't have a facebook, but I don't think I post anything that's likely to get me fired to any social media. However, there's sort of a difference between "not being fired" and "being hired".

My political opinions are pretty normal (basically typical American lefty), and if my employer were to find a blog post I wrote about universal healthcare or something it's doubtful that they'd fire me. That's a little different than me plastering "BIDEN 2024!!!" all over my resume, and that's why I utterly hate LinkedIn.
Unfounded concerns about PV module toxicity is slowing decarbonization
What kind of cred does the street give for making stuff up and posting about something that doesn't work? Seems like that would be one of those things where nature takes care of itself by weeding out these players.
It wasn't just that. Twitter labeled them as "state-affiliated media" and threatened to do all kinds of other nonsense like give their account away.
anodyne, great word
There are multiple Firefox’s extensions redirecting Youtube to alternative frontends, including with embedded videos. Some are even balancing automatically.
Texas also produces more non-renewable energy than California.

Texas gets 8.5% of its energy from renewables. California gets 16.5%. (The state with the most from renewables is Washington with 50%, followed by South Dakota at 43%, and Maine at 38%).

For electricity the US average is 39% from renewables. Texas is a little below average at 33%. California is at 49%. (Highest is Vermont at 99+%, South Dakota at 83%, and Washington at 82%).

In terms of CO2 Mt/TWh the US average is 402. Texas is 428. California is 229. (The best are Vermont at 5, Washington at 100, Oregon at 143, and South Dakota at 145).

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_electri...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_electri...