skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a homemade motorbike built around a 1900cc car diesel engine.

My favourite bit of the video was around 13:05, where the builder mentions that car clutch springs are much stronger than bike clutch springs - cars use a single plate clutch, versus a multi-plate motorbike clutch, so it requires very stiff springs to get enough friction. To overcome this, he tried various arrangements of levers and hydraulics with no luck, so the eventual solution was to cobble together a mechanism where the cable from the clutch lever pulls a chain, which spins the input shaft on a power steering motor, the output shaft of which pushes a metal rod, which pushes on the hydraulic clutch master cylinder, which pumps hydraulic fluid to the clutch cylinder to open the clutch. It's a delightfully heath-robinson-esque setup.

Also, the hoses which would have run from the engine cooling loop to the heater core now feed straight into the metal tubes of the handlebars, for toasty warm hands in winter!

There's a separate video here covering the gear lever mechanism - motorbikes normally use a sequential gearbox with a foot lever, whereas this gearbox is out of a manual car, and apparently figuring out how to adapt the latter to the former was one of the hardest things to design. The final gearshift design uses a combination of a foot lever and knee paddle to drive the forward/back and left/right motions of a manual gearstick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC9pCAnBihk

And of course there's a video of the whole thing being ridden here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeKVedTpo0c
"Unknown CSAM" just means scanning all your files with AI to judge content. They can't be searching for infringing material that they haven't seen before, they'd have to train a model to interpret images.

Which means lots of people are going to end up flagged for pictures of their own kids, because just about every parent has nude photos of their children somewhere.
There are two kinds of personalization in a [CAR] [T] therapy:

1) using the patient's own cells [personalization of T Cells]

2) customized therapeutic genetic payload, per patient [personalization of the CAR]

There are current competing factions for #1 - where cells are from just the patient ["Autologous"] (safer, slower, more expensive), and where the cells are from a universal donor ["Allogeneic"] (possible immune response, but can be manufactured at scale).

The therapeutic payload is a DNA sequence encoding a synthetic chimeric receptor ["CAR"]. This sequence is customized based on the details of the patient's particular cancer, but are common across many people. If the cancer has an excess of "Protein X" on it, then the CAR sequence is designed to target Protein X. All patients with a similar cancer profile receive the same CAR sequence as a payload to the T cells. This too could be personalized, to not just profile the _class_ of cancer, but particular to that _specific patent's cancer's profile_ - but this is not yet feasible given the turnaround time to build, test and evaluate a new genetic payload in the context of a person's specific tumor cells.

This particular therapy has the cells be from the patient (personalized), but the CAR sequence provided to the cells is common for all people that have the same cancer profile (semi-personalized). In this case, the cancer profile includes those that have an abundance of the protein called Claudin-6.
Tons of people used things like alumni addresses (or were somehow loosely connected to a college) well before Facebook was opened to all emails. Except at the very beginning, membership wasn’t that exclusive.
An AI revolution is brewing in medicine. What will it look like?
Show HN: RustPython for FreeDOS with W2c2
UK NCSC and GCHQ's Thoughts on Child Safety on Commodity Platforms (2022)
Are you kidding? Let some contractor a local government hires copy your drives? Those people will be incompetent at best. Protecting your property isn't "trolling".
Google, not OpenAI, is a Google-killer
Late to the party but Duolingo is pretty good.
How will a new tech emerge if they have to use this tech?
I think you are confusing the ideas of "anything happen" with "if the worst case scenario happens". There are plenty of examples that disprove your theory.

And even in the worst case scenario the farther you are away the better.
> If any app developer believes that they are better able to implement a secure codec than Apple or Google, I have a bridge to sell them.

Google isn't the only one providing system codecs on Android phones.
Do they not feel the sting or are they immune to the venom?
"Revenue was $56.5 billion and increased 13%" So that's why the mail app will start showing ads in 2024...
God, I miss the days when we'd have actual press releases and news stories, not just an unreadable chain of tweets with crappy pictures of powerpoints...
I use everything to create newsletter/podcast content and Bard is consistently the best for me. Then Claude and Bing, and ChatGPT last. By a mile. I have ChatGPTPlus, with chat access to GPT4 but not API access to GPT4.

Just got access to Bard API and hoping that continues delivering what I have been happy with...
They could try, but Canada’s talent pool is a lot smaller than the U.S.
The solution to poor quality information is more speech, not censorship of what a private party deems "incorrect".
Have you stopped beating your wife yet?

I don’t see using an LLM as a coding assistant as “lying” anyways.
Looks cool, I’ll check it out, but please consider making the content denser on mobile. 3 posts take up my entire screen, which is just too much real estate and makes it tough to get a good overview without having to do a ton of scrolling.
I don’t care who’s “responsible” if it means people are getting into preventable accidents.
Is there an RFC out for this one?
It looks atrocious though.
> I feel like if you didnt do something shameful then theres nothing to be called out for

"Shameful" is not objective. It's moral fashion, that can change very quickly.
Because you can go to a shop and buy a Windows laptop for 300 dollars. No Mac is as cheap as that.

And subjectively the UI of a Mac is worse than Window's. I liked the menu at the top only on the original Mac with the builtin 9" screen. It started to be a bad choice on
the next models with a larger separate monitor. And Windows' UI is worse than the customized Gnome desktop I've been using since 2009.
That's a press release.

Why is anyone paying attention to it?

In their original press release they didn't even mention dragging the pedestrian. Here they've only mentioned it because they were caught red handed by the DMV.
The elephant's reaction to fear of humans might not be what you expected though? Do they flee humans more often than they charge?
I've seen Zoox cars around Seattle recently while walking around. Can't tell if there's a safety driver in the car, but haven't looked that hard.
I'm not having a dig at you for being young, I'm explaining it's not a Gmail problem. I had to move on from my lycos.com email address too but that later you do it the harder it is.
My hot take is that servers could potentially last longer than 6 years so it is all really just accounting. Or at least is was never as short as 3 years.

When we were in a low/zero interest rate environment - there was a growth at all costs mentality among investors (and therefore management). Since investors didn't give any bonus points if a company was able to operate profitably - might as well depreciate to the max allowable by accounting law and not show a profit. In fact - not showing a profit was actually seen a positive features/badge of honor for a stock.

Now that interest rates have gone up, investors care about ability to generate current cashflow/net income and are prioritizing rational PE ratios - depreciating expenses over a longer time horizon (closer to reality) makes sense.
As a laborer it’s enough that they tax income. I don’t want an added “wealth” tax on my savings accounts or wherever I park money.
> I feel the world is spinning faster, and new tech comes out faster.

Isn't it because it's precisely the opposite? Moore's law stopped a while ago, at least that's what a lot of people think.

So much of the new tech now seems to be around GPU's and LLM's, but that doesn't affect the Google Search or YouTube or Docs servers. So they just keep humming along as usual, with a totally different set of new-fancy-tech servers spun up for the new fancy stuff.
were they stacked tho
Hyundai follows Lucid partnering with Saudi's PIF to build a manufacturing plant
US should do the same. So should f’ing Australia. I dream of the solar farms you could build in the outback here.

You could have end to end mining, production and installation of solar power plants and start exporting. Imagine then sending that energy over to europe to power their night too!
If the AI is right 99% of the time, what are the odds a human detects the remaining 1% rather than just being complacent?
Interesting, UFS probably means something different to me than it means to you, for me it spells Unix File System, the bug report lists it as some hardware variation that I'd never even heard of today.

Did you see the follow up comments by the way? Compared to trying to get support from a commercial vendor the FOSS world never ceases to amaze me with the degree of effort people are willing to make to get other people on the way again.

So, let's strike 'a couple of years old' and add 'anything mainstream that is a couple of years old'. We're going to end up with a very long definition if we have to add all of the possible exceptions but I suspect there are more devices capable of running Linux by now than there are of running Windows!
I mean Snapdragon's chip won't ship till mid next year. Apple's chip is over a year old. Not sure this is that much of an accomplishment. We'll see how it competes against M3.

Hopefully Snapdragon will have user replaceable ram and hard drives.
I mean, there's a whole stretch of Lake Merritt where people go park and hotbox their cars and the drive away every single day. That doesn't make the news even though the consequences of riding BART while high are much, much lower than the consequences of piloting a car while high. And I'm sure you've seen the videos of people driving up to do what the kids these days call 'bipping' (a.k.a. snatch and grab).

Making the news isn't really a good indicator of risk here.
According to the sibling link to the Deep Space Network <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37995866>, the updates did in fact travel through our air first :-D
Supporting a wide variety of pmics in bootrom is quite a bit of work, and can be an attack surface. Hardcoding pmic details in bootrom sounds nice. If I worked on Qualcomm boot and they did 1-3 but still made BR have pmic flexibility I would br annoyed. Though if you work on boot you’re always a little annoyed.
Instagram introduced ads 10 years ago
Then of course if minimizing accidents is really what you care about there's something easy we could do right now: just mandate all vehicles must have an breathalyzer ignition. We do this for some people who have been convicted of DUI but doing it for everyone would eliminate a third of fatalities.

In a similar vein, if we put geo-informed speed governors in cars that physically prevented you from exceeding, say, 20% of the speed limit, fatalities would also likely plummet.

But people haaaaate that idea.
None of this is open data. Open data is data that's released on a discretionary basis; often times a FOIA request for the same data found within open data has a legal requirement for redaction. We see this happen all the time. What's worse is that at the executive level, eg chief data officers are often forbidden by legal teams from interacting with the media and adjacent orgs. I've literally been told by a CDO that they cannot speak with me.

My go-to phrase for open data is, "open data is a lie". Because at the end of the day, we have zero legal recourse to validate that what is provided through open datasets is complete, both in terms of available columns and available rows. Very rarely will it ever be explained why, or even if, information is missing. And the subsequent effects of that lead to a deep public misunderstanding of what's going on. And much of it is intentional out of explicit fear that the public will misinterpret the data. So we go through FOIA instead and we end up going through legal battles. There's a reason I've had to do ~10 FOIA suits.

tl;dr: open data is nice, but its lack of rigor and accountability makes it effectively useless for anything that requires depth.
Make 5 the new "lol"
There's also loads of crossover with the tooling they use to run all their own services.
David vs. Goliath on Product Hunt
After a full day of grinding I’m going to bed feeling defeated. A VC-backed company overtook the small Swedish startup Zaplify (me) as #1 on Product Hunt at the end.

But hey - I’ve heard HN miracles happen every day. Will David win over Goliath after all?

Let’s see when I wake up in 7 hrs.
One thing the presentation highlighted in contrast to Apple is how dependent Qualcomm is on Microsoft, Google, and the smartphone/chromebook/PC manufacturers. Looking forward to seeing this thing in the wild.
A 10x difference between net worth MEAN and MEDIAN is incredible. Then separated by race, we see the staggering effects of past inequality.
China's Country Garden risks default after 'missing bond payment'
Radiation Therapy and Me (2014)
> Me: Seriously? A linear accelerator? So, subatomic particles are going to be sped up to, like, 99 percent of the speed of light? Right here?

> Them: … yes…

> Me: For me? To zap my cancer? An actual linear accelerator?
The point of the cloud is that you can use it to achieve high reliability. It's not that people who use the cloud are too dumb to run a server, it's that they don't have the time to get in the business of being a server farmer. The cloud is good when you have more money than time.
You "make" an argument, you don't "do" it
Also not a fan of NestJS, having used it on multiple projects in past job.

I'll tell you what. If you must work with NodeJS, IMHO you are best off just keeping things light and simple.

NestJS is not good. I've used it professionally a few years ago for several services, and it was overly complicated which would be fine if the performance was okay - but it was not good either. And don't get me started on TypeORM or Prisma (or ORMs in general). So much wasted time and effort hammering down performance issues. The NestJS docs were also not that great and required having to dive into GH issues or source code too much compared to other frameworks.

I eventually rewrote the services to use express + kysely + zod + msgpack. There was clear separation of concerns with layers which made both unit and integration testing easy. IMO attempting OOP in JS comes with additional complexity/overhead and performance implications due to overly complex inheritance.

When in doubt, KISS.
A Tesla Y weights 4400 pounds and a ton is 2000 pounds. So two tons actually.
Instead of pointing out the problems, which provides nothing constructive to the discussion, can you please provide alternate countries which you believe might be better.

In addition, can you please also outline the problems of these countries, so we can properly evaluate and understand their problems objectively.
Honestly, who cares? Corporate engineers using NestJS to move POJOs around is not hurting anyone.

As always, pick the right tool for the right job - let's stop the cargo-culting.
couldn't agree more.
From another point of view, it's time to end the dominance of company G, it has been killing the internet for too long: google ads are now just G tax.
Oh played Kirby’s Adventure so much with my cousin on the NES growing up. Fond memories.
I'm still upset that they threw away the original mission and the targeted userbase during the shortage. Makes all this talk about "the user" rather distasteful. The whole point was to make computers available to the underserved and then they went and threw away the underserved to serve their business buddies.
https://kagi.com/fastgpt?query=What+exactly+is+the+chat+cont...

Kagis' FastGPT is pretty good in that regard (it uses kagi search + claude from anthropic) and it's really fast. Their other AI search/chat which is in beta currently (for ultimate users) is even better IMO.
Update from SiFive via Ian Cutress. Looks like 20% of employees are being laid off.

https://x.com/IanCutress/status/1716921169553887296?s=20
If this ever happens to you or anyone else here, drop them a message with the date/time/place that it happened, and they will watch the footage and probably adjust stuff to not be scary in the future. Without human feedback, it's really hard to program a machine to understand "scary", even if the machine has calculated that it won't hit you.

https://waymo.com/contact/ is the place to go.
Two really popular locations, 3 miles apart, with a direct bus route servicing them and still 40 min travel time. This doesn't work:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Dolores+Park,+Dolores+St+%26...

I'd argue that we'll be able to make this much better with driverless cars than with public transit.
(On average), for a walk to the stop of 100-200 feet the bus would need to stop every 200-400 feet. 300 ft seems to be roughly 100m, which is probably much too short a distance still. 250m or ~800 ft aligns better to my experience with cities with good transit, and in the worst case scenario you have to walk 125m to your nearest stop.
MUST swear
On the contrary, even areas of the city considered "dangerous" are mostly not. The media likes to make these places sound like war zones because that sells.
Hot fuzz: Cascade finds dozens of RISC-V chip bugs using random data storm
This morning my coworkers rode in together in a Waymo. One told me it was $16 while an Uber would have been $35.
Nope, as that's basically like being struck by lightning. Needs to be both common and punishing, as that's what the doomsayers are claiming is inevitable.
I really hope if anything that seeing so many occupant-less vehicles on the streets makes us collectively realize how inefficiently these vehicles are using a scarce, congestion-prone resource in a way that wasn’t as visible with Uber/Lyft.

I’m generally a pretty low-stress person, but seeing traffic issues caused by multiple empty vehicles aimlessly meandering through the city is really starting to get to me.
I have to say, Seattle seems to have some very cooperative clerks. Here requests for large datasets (or extracts thereof) are more likely to be denied based on various phony reasons or the copying valued at ridiculous prices nobody's backing down from. That you got this data without involving at least one appeals process is pretty good.

That said, I mostly only make "difficult" FOIA-equivalent requests. Routine requests for specific documents are mostly no trouble here.
I would love a Thinkpad with this in it and Windows 11 on ARM.

If it worked as well as a mac did and had the same or better battery life.
> I think Moore's Law was always going to kill CE. It has several limitations that could not be worked around and were irrelevant 25 years ago but very relevant today.

CE6 and 7 were a complete ground up rewrite from the CE5 and earlier versions. They didn't have any of the limitations that previous CE versions did.

> In a world where Apple just stripped down their desktop OS to make a phone OS,

My understanding is that iOS is so seriously stripped down compared to macOS that while the kernel is the same, the entire runtime is so different that it may as well be a different OS.

And I don't think Apple hasn't tried to keep releases between the two synced up (maybe they have? No idea honestly), compared to Windows Phone which was merged closely with desktop Windows.

In all honesty, Microsoft had so many resources to throw at the problem, that keeping the teeny tiny kernel team for WinCE employed was not worth losing the entire mobile market by forcing the OS teams to merge and then rewrite everything, poorly at times, from the ground up.

Of course lots of Microsoft politics got involved, including killing Silverlight (which tl;dr is why corporate web apps are written in React now, killing Silverlight basically lost MS the entire internal LOB app market), and forcing a brand new API to be designed.

On that note, by the time WP8 released, the OS was missing key APIs, was hard to write code for, and would only fall further behind Android and iOS.

Eventually the WP platform team did get into a good release cadence, but by then the market had been lost.

IMHO at that time Microsoft didn't understand the importance of regular timely releases to keep them in the news. Apple released a new phone, and a new OS version, yearly. Around 2010 MS was still doing "big bang" OS releases with multiple year gaps in-between.

I worked at Microsoft at the time (started my career in Windows Mobile, then Windows Phone), and people kept asking me "is Windows Phone still around? I haven't heard anything about it in forever", with "forever" being more than a year.

Everyone complains about how new phones come out every year, but if a manufacturer skips a release year, everyone assumes that the phone line is going to be discontinued. Developers stop writing apps for it, and no one wants to buy a phone that was released 16 months ago. Heck after about 8 or 9 months people know that it is time to either "wait for the next model" or "wait for the big discounts".
I live in a 30kmph zone in Switzerland and it works fine. I'm not sure what the problem is.

It's a really common speed limit in Europe/UK and is suitable for residential city streets. On Geoguesser I have seen similar US streets that are 40mph which looks completely unsafe.
You're worried about the microplastics seeping from your mechanical keyboard?
GOOG's cloud was up 22.4% year-over-year.
MSFT's cloud (Azure) was up 29% year-over-year.

If you're trying to pass/catch up to second place (MSFT), growing 6-7 percent less than second place doesn't help.
TridentKV is LSM-tree based (i.e. it's "LevelDB in the large" just like BigTable is); it's only "read-optimized" in the sense that it tries to minimize the costs that LevelDB's high merge depth imposes. It still doesn't architecturally make the read-latency/write-commit-latency trade-off in favor of read latency. One could call TridentKV "as read-optimized as a write-optimized KV store can be."
If you don't like being called racist, perhaps you shouldn't be engaging in racism.
I don't think we should cheer up and encourage what is effectively a one-world government to pass totalitarian laws.

You know, even if you're a socialist, deep inside you that they'll never ever be going to stop at confiscating 2% of the billionaires' wealth yearly. It shall quickly become: "confiscate 2% of everybody's wealth yearly".

Do you even realize the kind of totalitarian world we already are living in for such measures to even be thinkable? (btw it's the same kind of totalitarian world where the five eyes or nine eyes or whatever-eyed monster can team up to plan to ban E2EE).

The OECD passing a law so that companies, worldwide, do pay 15% tax and socialist economists writing "15%, far too low" is the worst of the worst nightmare.

That's basically a one-world, socialist (believe me, many didn't vote for that), government pulling the strings.

I fear the horrible future my kid is going to live on a planet with such minded people.