skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OSM is still way way better than both.

When I walk in the mountains here I am walking in a big empty green square according to Google :S Same with Apple.

Meanwhile OSM knows every little trail including surface and gradients <3 It's amazing. And I can turn on layers so I only se the things I need and not everything else.
I and my wife have used this many times when traveling in Japan. It is useful for the shopping suitcase, i.e. the big check-in one that collects the souvenirs, cosmetics, food/wine, electronics, etc. that are going home with you. It only needs to arrive before you depart a city, so that you can add some items and send it along.

Even if you don't buy stuff when traveling, if you would want certain gear for some legs but not others, you can use it as a locker, i.e. moving the hiking boots into your carry-on before the Mt. Fuji leg, putting the heavy winter clothing in after you leave Hokkaido, etc.

And in contrast to luggage handling in the U.S., Japan's luggage handling is quite cheap, usually on-time, and always handled delicately with very little risk of loss or theft.
Strange. This looks very much like the kind of open source project which should have no trouble monetizing itself. I can understand why projects that are geared towards corporations and VC-backed startups would struggle to find funding due to monopolization and anti-competitive forces but this one doesn't make sense. Does it mean everyone who doesn't work for a corporation and isn't engaged in the fiat monetary ponzi is broke and can't afford to support such projects or pay for add-ons?
Thank you, the e-commerce example is definitely something I hadn’t thought about. Having high quality imagery helps make sales but comes at a cost. Looking around at some sites I buy from, I think I can squint and see this “out in plain sight”.
I'm going to guess it went something like this:

They kept on adding visual features that work independently, making all their own API calls, one after another, got it looking good, and moved on. That's as opposed to creating a cohesive rendering pipeline that deduplicates effort and accomplishes the same.

On top of that, and most importantly, I doubt they allotted time to refactor and optimize, or... they allotted it after release.

If you thrash Unity's APIs hard enough, which in turn thrashes the underlying vulkan/DX level APIs, clever drivers aren't quite enough to keep the GPU loaded with useful work.

There's probably a long tail of other stuff they need to profile and tweak to get a better balance of performance to visual quality, like changing the precision of shader calculations, tuning level of detail, and so on.
Would you mind noting how recent the data loss was?
It’s great for hiking along a route
"Accepting the limitations of birthform betrays a lack of imagination."

- Civilization: Beyond Earth
I don't think that's true. Most people who play PC games are Steam users, and they're playing a huge variety of games: pretty much any game that's not exclusive to some other store.
In addition to what others have already mentioned, https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp... says "The X.org display server is deprecated, and will be removed in a future major RHEL release."
I don't know about this specific bird, but many birds have what are essentially biological compasses built into them.
that is my point - in order to stay up, the bird would need to either flap its wings for 700 miles non-stop (unlikely) in order to maintain velocity difference between it and the ambient air OR glide which basically means he was not traveling at the speed of ambient air, otherwise there would be no lift pressure generated on his wings and he would drop to the ground
> > Can use advanced Python libraries like numpy, pandas, matplotlib.

> You're a data scientist and this is not "Python".

Pandas and matplotlib, are a weaker case, maybe, but numpy is fairly broadly used (math being a core part of computing) library outside of just data science.

E.g., this tutorial on building a roguelike in Python has two direct dependencies, tcod (a library specifically to support roguelikes) and numpy: https://rogueliketutorials.com/tutorials/tcod/v2/part-0/
Plus extensive musculature at the new shoulder joint and reinforced bones for the new muscle attachments. I won't be first in line.
This is great (I love WebAssembly). I just wish there was a way to run WebAssembly somewhat consistently between browser, linux/win/osx and Android. It seems like this fixes the browser and linux/win/osx part but no Android. Frameworks like emilk (i.e. egui with eframe) can do all three but packaging is rather complicated. This solves the packaging aspect with no solution to Android. Eh, maybe one day we will get there.
Indeed, "Do you use source control?" was one of Joel Spolsky's 12 questions - in fact, the first of those questions - to judge the quality of a software team in this 2000 article: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
It’s called in-context learning. I wouldn’t call it a trick so much as the most exciting and useful feature of LLMs. A lot of research is being done to expand the context window which would allow you to prime the model with entire books or codebases. GPT4 has a max context window of 32k tokens up from 2k with GPT3.5. Whose to say iteratively shifting the output distribution isn’t a form of learning.
you misunderstood the concept, brought in your own windmills, and then successfully attacked them. I guess it generated an interesting subthread, even if it did derail my point into the tired "internet ain't what it used to be!" direction. god, I was hoping what I said was more subtle than that. other people in the thread have done better, even managed to use google to search the original posts on oblomovka so that they can reflect on the point, instead of just typing things.

but to your "people's internet" point, the real communism has clearly never been tried! it's not the people that want TikTok, it's the power structure. left to their own devices they built cathedrals!
Sticking with Unity probably killed them. They might as well have deved another engine.
> ...and knows why you should probably used comprehensions instead.

This. The author does not seem to know that (1) reduce is not a built-in function anymore, and (2) map and filter were also planned to be removed from Python 3 [1]:

> About 12 years ago, Python aquired lambda, reduce(), filter() and map(), courtesy of (I believe) a Lisp hacker who missed them and submitted working patches. But, despite of the PR value, I think these features should be cut from Python 3000.

> Update: lambda, filter and map will stay (the latter two with small changes, returning iterators instead of lists). Only reduce will be removed from the 3.0 standard library. You can import it from functools.

[1] https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
> I wouldn't read too much into these stats.

This is probably one of the best public sources of data we have on the topic of what hardware actual PC gamers are using.
I did provide a link to Statista, which has statistics on OS usage of software developers
> Could I ask you why you didn't consider doing so when you first encountered this problem?

Thanks for looking into it. I have a filed a bug against Rust before, but that was a clear bug, not a poor error message. Remember, the only time a user sees something like this is when they are trying to do something else. The only reason I looked into it just now is because you explicitly asked.
Full demo would probably be more interesting.

If I had to guess, the vast majority are males in the 35-50 range.
This is likely a consequence of a recent legal ruling in favor of blind test takers who may not be able to draw the diagrams needed to solve these problems.
It's a matter of compatibility and bug fixing. Might be not a problem at the moment, but over time a dead project will degrade and make problems. So if one starts now, they can also just start with the more active project. After all there is AFAIK no disadvantage in using VM over GM.
That's amazing! I'm glad you've found it useful for your own endeavors.
Perhaps a result of overcharging lithium cells? That's known to cause metallic lithium plating, definitely not a normal or a desired state in a Li-ion cell.
So, in other words, if this technology pans out, this could be possible https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Goro
I see this a lot too. It makes password spraying very easy. I don't see anything in the article about remediation. Do you have any info for disabling it?
> Eyes connect to one of the best diagnostic systems in the universe.

These eyes, and the attached brains, can safely study the images that the aformentioned cameras send back to earth, and spend their valueable brainpower developing ever new and better robots instead of worrying about unpleasantries like explosive decompression.

> governments explored but private companies promised the reward settled.

The problem is, there is no reward to be had on Mars. Zero. Zilch. Nothing. The red planet has nothing to offer that isn't already available in abundance here on Earth. What there is an abundence of on Mars, is cosmic radiation, toxic perchlorate salts, microabrasive powdered regolith, planet-wide dust storms, and many many many ways for would be settlers to perish.

> But we should grow and expand as a species.

Absolutely. The thing is, trying and likely failing to somehow establish a colony on a dead, irradiated, freeze-dried wasteland isn't exactly going to help us much in that regard.
Have you seen Michael Levin's talks about this subject before? It's his team's original research.
There are whitebox Windows laptops, OpenWRT routers, Arduino boards, ArduPilot drones, etc. It almost sounds strange that there are no prepopulated 12U racks intended for OpenStack(is that still a thing?)
> But Gannett insists the articles weren’t AI-generated. In a statement to The Post, a spokesperson said the articles — many of which have now been deleted — were created through a deal with a marketing firm to generate paid search-engine traffic. While Gannett concedes the original articles “did not meet our affiliate standards,” officials deny they were written by AI.

> Meanwhile, AdVon Commerce is open about its use of AI. On its LinkedIn page, the company says it uses “AI solutions for E Commerce.”

> A Gannett spokesperson took issue with the Guild claim that the writers weren’t real people, pointing to the LinkedIn page of one AdVon Commerce writer whose name appeared on a Reviewed article. At the top of his account, that writer touted his experience in “polishing AI generative text.”

> This isn’t the first time Gannett has found itself answering embarrassing questions about AI practices. In August, Gannett attempted to automate high school sports coverage at some of its papers with AI-generated articles, only to pull the experiment after it produced error-ridden stories.

It's like we can't trust mass media anymore.
The problem is the UI won't be smooth on VRR displays unless they implemented some clever workarounds. Your mouse cursor will only update at the same framerate as the rest fo the game. Even budget gaming monitors these days support g-sync, freesync, or both, so it's no longer a problem that only affects a small % of users with deep pockets.

The only workaround I can think of that wouldn't also defeat the point of having VRR would be to add some in-engine low framerate compensation artifically boost the reported framerate to a multiple of the real framerate, but I have yet to see any games that actually do this.
It is closed. There is a lot of ham radio software that isn't open source. And a lot of open source isn't developed openly. You would think that all of it would be open source but I think a lot of hams didn't come from software world.
Why not sell licenses? Perhaps they could have nominal benefits that are low impact on the maintainer, like early access to various things? Maybe foosel doesn't want to run a business, but given the choice between doing what I love and avoiding some administrative overhead I think I'd always choose the former.

I'm reminded of what happened to the creators of Dwarf Fortress and it's hard not to recommend some form of commercialization for projects that need financial support.
I agree completely. I attended a conference one year, where for unusual reasons I have not seen replicated since, colleagues seemed to gravitate around coffeeshops and teahouses instead of bars and it was a revelation.

I've been a long time tea drinker but had never thought about some alternate universe where everyone was up late in a different sort of setting. It was a small difference that turned out to not actually be small at all after all.
One more thing, I suspect you can also find these in proof/axiom systems.
> The question here for me is does this 'everyone' include the entity that made, invested & owns the device in question

Yes. Apple heavily benefits from market standardization and interoperability: from transportation, to currency, to electricity, to the web. That standardization prevents other companies from heavily abusing Apple in ways that would probably have prevented the company from ever rising to the prominence it is today. Apple the company benefited from antitrust when it was younger, particularly antitrust around Microsoft. Without that market interference, it is not clear that Apple would have survived long enough to launch an iPhone in the first place.

Now that Apple is as powerful as it is today, in a few areas it would like to avoid interoperability and it would like the ability to lock-down the market and to lock down devices that consumers own -- extracting additional value from those consumers against their will after the device has already been purchased by restricting the user's freedom to control their own devices.

But what's good for the goose is good for the gander. It's enormously hypocritical for a company that was historically an underdog that benefited dramatically from interoperability between computing ecosystems to now claim that no one else should get the same benefits.
I've found that the scale these start making sense is only a handful of racks. We're not talking full DCs, but a room in a building or some colo space.

And beyond that, there's all sorts of weird environments that need a lot of local compute. You'd be shocked how many servers are on a cruise ship for one example among many.
A simple 16-bit VM in less than 125 lines of C (2021)
Not sure why this was flagged dead. It's a fact that some birds are sensitive to magnetic fields [1]:

> They do this with the help of the magnetically sensitive proteins in their eyes and the magneto-receptive cells in the vestibular nucleus in their brain.

[1] https://phys.org/news/2022-02-compass-birds-ways-foreign.htm....
That's what I'm pointing out though? That it is runtime type validation and not type safety. They are two different things, the only common is the word "type". Please read the comment again.
Auto Execs Are Coming Clean: EVs Aren't Working
This year levin's lab has been on heavy presence online.. don't know much more.
> Under macOS (LLVM 15), I get that clang doubles the capacity and add one

That’s interesting, why add one? Is there something to suggest this is better than simply doubling in real world scenarios?
I really like the company name! It's like hexadecimal notation with IDE!

It's high time the datacenter takes a more holistic approach. For years I have been thinking that it's silly to stick a bunch of tiny fans in individual servers when one large impeller pulling air from an inclosed rack would be more efficient. Imagine large fans with ducts that come down to each rack or row of racks. Current in == current out; so a large diameter fan (5 feet) coupling down to small hose (10 inch) means the air moving through the small end will be really moving fast through those components!
I agree with all of this except the first sentence. Weather people understand all this too, but forecasters were genuinely shocked by the speed of the transition from tropical storm to cat 5 - a process that they're used to observing over days suddenly took place within hours. Knowing a thing and seeing/experiencing it directly are very different.

I'm shocked myself by the degree of devastation, and suspect the reported death toll is low. Some of the damage can be ascribed to corruption and lax building codes, But the sight of multiple recently constructed high rise buildings completely trashed has to be sending a cold chill down the spines of insurers and emergency planners.
Yes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protes...
Not in American public opinion, but the US government has a very supportive relationship. So I guess it depends on what kind of support we're talking about.

https://www.state.gov/united-states-saudi-arabia-relationshi...
discovery is still an issue for this particular example.
> Regulations intended to help smaller companies enter the marketplace “very frequently can also be used by incumbents to gain advantage over their rivals”

But how much do we care if %x of users switch from coke to pepsi? If regulations help produce genuine alternatives that would a watershed moment as the current actors have users pretty much locked.
he's

- very patient
- much older than it appear (his research is already on trial in the lab maybe :)
- has found the way to make days longer than 24h, he's on 1330 podcasts a week
And we have 10 to 20 years before effects from current emissions are felt: https://earth.org/data_visualization/the-time-lag-of-climate...

As COVID-19 showed us, humans aren't great at dealing with delayed effects.
A few notes to be aware of:

- if you're sending your luggage to the airport, check the deadline for sending, depending where you are sending from it could be 2-3 days before your flight

- hotels I paid at were cash only for this service (one of the few things I paid in cash, but likely depends on the hotel)

- some hotels did not take payments for sending, only supporting cash on delivery, so if you're sending to another hotel you should check if they will accept it

Sending from a convenience store is another option if those two last points are problems.

Another thing I thought of, the two times I needed it, the hotels sold cardboard boxes (a few hundred yen) and provided packing tape for free.
The Two-Board Knot: Zoning, Schools, and Inequality
Odd that it took three years for anyone to notice, if they cared that much.
The entry about numpy, pandas, and matplotlib also seems ranked way highly, if you ask me. I was using those to great effect as a young physics student almost a decade ago, long before I knew what a decorator or context-manager was. Yes I was probably googling a lot, but then again I still am.
Thanks for the pointer. I'll look into this.
I think what the previous poster is pointing out is that Box<Rc<Foo>> is an unnecessary double indirection.
Bobsweep still sells some that don't connect to a network. They also have an online store with spare parts.
Nickel and cobalt aren't a problem at all. Neither are necessary for current lithium batteries. Graphite is a manufacturing problem, not a material one.

Batteries have no bottleneck. Just lots and lots of things one can improve a bit with some amount of work.
I’d also add Microsoft’s hostility to open source back then was a factor: they told you that real developers used things like Visual Source Safe, which were expensive and terrible. VSS had global file locking - literally people yelling over cube walls “who’s working on <file>?” - and was slow and unsafe (the only VCS I’ve ever seen lose data irrecoverably). Needing to run the servers wasn’t something the average developer wanted to do, either.

That doesn’t excuse not using version control but after working at a couple of Microsoft shops I understood why some people stuck with the “period zip file” approach 10-20 years later than the Unix world.
I personally believe that there are real silver linings to this. It's anecdotal, but I've seen people who don't normally reflect on their lives actually start to contextualize their role as workers, even if through fear of disruption.

Pointing out that it's not inherently AI's fault, more the way we've constructed our society - that the underlying goal is not to sustainably maximize wellbeing but to maximize wealth created (which leads to no safety net to keep the labor pool large and incentivizes the creation of AI to replace people cheaply) - is as important as dispelling "sci-fi self-awareness and autonomy" fears when talking about AI.

And there have been much stupider "public discourse" fads. They're not going anywhere and I'll take what I can get, honestly.
By most reports I'm hearing lately, it's doing quite well, better than Google Maps in a lot of ways. I don't have an iPhone, so I can't vouch for it myself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38032540

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37764369

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37759964

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37750465
Astral: A Deno-First Browser Automation Library (Now with Sandbox Mode)
Ignore the storm for a moment, and ask whether a bird can fly for 7h+, either from flapping, gliding, or navigating updrafts. The answer is yes, that's trivial for many many bird species, especially those with a propensity for ocean travel. The storm then just changes the baseline ground speed.
Now there's a future society you don't see written about: a standard part of a marriage is the partners exchange immune-compatibilized gonads with their genetic material, so if one partner dies the other still retains the ability to grow viable off-spring from the pairing.
Oh sweet cheese and crackers...
In Japan, foreigners need to carry their passports at all times anyway.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/27/how-does-gazas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_2023_Israel%...

I did a quick search for this. Seems like there's some controversy over the numbers, even though they've tried to back it with evidence. That's approaching 5x the official numbers of Israeli casualties, so even if its been inflated my 3x is probably already low and out of date.

Now you might take that figure with a grain of salt, I cannot verify it and wouldn't trust it at present. However, there are plenty of individual stories being reported by agencies I have enough trust in (and some of which I wish now I had not read). You can't accurately shell buildings in a densely built up city like Gaza. Israel told people to move, but there are credible reports that they then attacked people in transit, shelled an area near the south they'd asked people to move to and shelled a refugee camp.

I'm sure that in every case Israel will argue they had intelligence. But I don't think the families of those who see their kids killed in those strikes are going to care. They're just making the next angry generation by applying indiscriminate vengeful violence.
100% - referencing SaaS is just me being narrow minded. Your example hits close to home for me. I feel that the more creative people (like but not limited to technical folks) can try new things without economic penalties, the more we all benefit from the inevitable innovations. Compared to how things worked when I started I love how inexpensive experiments are today, even the ones that don’t “blow up”. I totally see your point, too — there is still some weighty risks and egress costs can be one of them.