skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truly autonomous cars could drive you cross country while you work, eat, sleep and consume entertainment all within the car. With those kinds of efficiencies it's pretty attractive regardless, but very short charging breaks would be even more attractive.
Wildly different, sure, but deeply, deeply connected which is why I include them together. There is no reason we can't decrease poverty AND inequality. In fact decreasing inequality would in turn reduce poverty if done correctly.
for some reason it wasn't working before, but it works now.
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They say that in lucid dreaming you can do "anything" you want, right? Now what if I then decided that I can now solve this mathematical problem which I haven't so far been able to. Would I be able to?
P4Merge (https://www.perforce.com/products/helix-core-apps/merge-diff...) is a similarly powerful (and similarly ugly) tool for plain text diffs and three-way merges. It’s free, and though the 500 MB download includes Perforce, you can install P4Merge by itself. Unlike Beyond Compare, though, P4Merge cannot highlight syntax in the compared files.
Ain’t there no more.

Like a New Orleans section would say.
Types of Solar Panels Made Simple: A Beginner's Guide
OpenAI's embedding model works up to 8,000 tokens. The sentence-transformers ones are mostly smaller than that, though there's a new model that just came out that can handle 8,000: https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v2-base-en

People tend to "chunk" larger documents - the chunking strategy that's best is very dependent on what you are using the embeddings for. I've found it frustratingly hard to find really good guidance as to chunking strategies.

I've had good results for Q&A chunking my blog content up into paragraph sized chunks, as described here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/23/embeddings/#answering-... - but I'm not ready to say that's a universally good practice.
This is funny

Under: 7.1.2. Poorly understood terminology
>This is what happened with “session”. When OSI named this layer, it had nothing to do with sessions in general, but with very specific issues connecting a terminal to a mainframe.
[...]
What we think of as sessions (as in HTTP) are actually called associations in OSI, and is assigned to the Application Layer #7.
The Jaguar iPace is a full 4-door SUV, not a hatchback or a Rav4. Just because the rear hatch tapers down doesn't make the car smaller from a safety standpoint.

Jaguar iPace: 4800lbs, 79inch wide, 183 inches long

Pacifica: 4500lbs, 79inch wide, 204 inches long

Toyota Highlander: 4400lbs, 76inches wide, 194 inches long

Chevy Bolt: 3500lbs, 69inches wide, 163 inches long

The iPace might be great for LA but for SF it's totally inappropriate.
Perhaps unsurprisingly seems like Mobile Safari doesn’t support WebTransport (“Variable WebTransport not found”), but website looks great!
Because every update of the browser something changes. Like an extra bar here, collections there. Just keep the browser an application to browse the web. If I want split screen I'll open 2 windows. If I want to take a screenshot I'll use the OS' feature.

Why are they even paying developers to duplicate these Windows features?
It's not great. It reads like some angsty nerd who really doesn't like the idea of something and has spent an inordinate amount of time trying to explain why it's wrong and why his solution is better. Sometimes that works, if your name is Locke or Marx or something, but this writing really doesn't say "genius" to me.

Moreover, I have not heard anyone but myself utter the word "OSI" out loud in 8 or 10 years. Maybe it's still a thing in academia, but it's not in corporate or open source worlds. I don't know if I've met more than 2 people in 5 years that know how TCP works. It's just a magic tunnel that HTTP somehow uses under the covers. So I really don't get the need or purpose for this document. It's like describing in excruciating detail that what you know about the ancient Egyptians is a lie, because that's somehow going to be necessary for somebody?
I'm sure all the bigger ones had looked at the possibility before, but it's only natural to revisit it when something horrible like this happens to a competitor.
In the wee hours catching a train and bus to get home is kind of annoying in Malmö. Mainly the buses basically stop running more than once an hour between 1-5am.

Most US towns are basically uber/taxis only at that time. I live in Austin where you could theoretically be one of the lucky 1% of the population that both lives near a train station and wants to go somewhere near where that train station is. Even then you can’t use the train past something like 11pm on weekends. Capmetro’s hours are a pretty decent source of consternation for us here
As models go it’s pretty good, and no one has made a better one. Seriously. The layers are all useful concepts to know about and discuss, even if in some cases it is most practical to blur the lines or outright combine two of them into one protocol. You will at least know that you are doing so, and you will know to point out _why_ you are. But nobody has ever determined that it is _always_ best to combine two of the layers (which would really amount to proving that the two are in fact the same thing). But since nobody can prove that it is _never_ a good idea either, it remains a model and not a theorem with a proof.

Edit: but I will also say that any test or certification which focuses too much on the OSI model is also suspect. I don’t know what test you’re about to take, but plenty of people will sell you certifications that in the end are meaningless.
Waymo did run over a dog https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/06/a-waymo-self-driving-car-k...
Have you ever tried heated yoga? Apparently it is very popular in Houston -- as if the oppressive heat outdoors wasn’t enough.
Thank to your suggestion, I figured out a workaround:

- RememberOpenedFiles = true

- RememberSettingForEachFile = true

- RestoreSession = false

So Sumatra will open the new file without the ballast of the past. But if you click on an old file, it will open and go to the last position for you to continue. Right now one can not change the number of recent files list, nor can one replace the frequent access list with recent list, but I can live with that. Hopefully somebody could make these options.
…why?

I get range anxiety is a thing. But no one needs that kind of range in a car.

Why not make it 400mi/650km and save a ton of weight? The battery here gives double the range of an Accord. Who needs that?

Less battery is less weight. That’s better for tires, roads, charge times, brakes, accidents, acceleration, drivability, cost, and probably more.

250mi is plenty. For most even less. But there’s a psychological factor, I get that. Outside something like a truck that’s going to get a very low mi/kwh when towing no one needs that much battery.
> On December 18, 2010, just after 6 pm New Zealand time, the last of IceCube’s 86 strings was lowered into the Antarctic ice.

Huh, did it use NZ time for everyone else? Or is it cleverly localised?

I would've thought that the South Pole base would be on a US timezone.
Washington State, in particular, has a very broad public records act.
There are studies out that say sauna use 4-7 times a week 19+ min at > 175F reduces all-cause mortality. Maybe from heat shock proteins?

I would imagine heat + yoga will also increase your core body temperature and may do the same kinds of things. plus exercise.
I'm not bullish on self driving cars, but that's a bit unfair. If their car performs better than 50% of the population, then that sounds like a success.
Are you ok? Would you like to place a bet on China collapsing within two years? How about $10k?
They did actually release phones running Android with a Metro skin:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_X_family

https://m.gsmarena.com/nokia_x-6067.php
I think the main problem with the Sounder is not a lack of density (Seattle and Tacoma are both plenty dense; also both the rail corridor and the rolling stock already exist; only missing expensive part is the crew) but rather it is on a very congested freight corridor (particularly the north part to Everett) owned partly by the freight company. So it is hard for Sound Transit to negotiate more usage of the corridor for increased frequency.
Cybertruck was confirmed to use 800V packs so they'll light up the network for use soon hopefully.
America has loads of cities and metro areas with way more density than European cities with effective rail systems. You’re right that it’s hard to change due to historical choices, but it may still be worthwhile to transition as soon as possible rather than continue down the wrong path.
Good on them. I removed the Twitter integration from all my projects two weeks ago.
Another confounding factor: getting out and doing something in a group with other people. Sitting on a waitlist for two weeks gives ample opportunity to sit at home and stew. Having the impetus to do something can have a big effect on its own.
Border Cafe was cheap, good and fun - perfect for a broke college student. I remember the two hour plus wait lists for tables way, way, back in the day. Friends and I would go to the book and record stores while waiting. It was a great way to spend an evening.

East Coast Grill is irreplaceable. Schlesinger's inventive mix of tropical flavors and and bold style made that restaurant a special treat at every visit. Whereas others would drag their parents to Henrietta's Table or the like, I directed all outside buyers of meals for me to ECG. I learned I loved fried plantains and anything marinaded in molasses&lime.

The Martini from Hell was undrinkable.

If you don't have Schlesinger's cookbooks, I would recommend them - they are excellent and straightforward to follow.
4 seemed like it could be an add-on to 3 (the reward was less plot-based, but more crates with special items)
What were the companies you contacted asking for? Someone to do a project? someone to fill a job position? Someone asking how to do a WP site?
> The intrusiveness of KYC/AML for example is out of control too

Mostly because pressure from the US. Which is lame af but the US is pressuring sovereign countries to crack down on these things; it’s no different outside the eu (well, there are exceptions, but I doubt you would want to live there talking about totalitarian regimes). Even HSBC, the traditional aml culprit, adheres to this crap even in their home territory under USA pressure.

> I'm ready to get the fuck out

Please do, see how much you enjoy it. I have lived in every continent and the grass looks greener, but it’s not. If you don’t try and just sit here being annoyed, you’ll never know though.

In the meanwhile, vote for the people that are in favour of democracy and privacy.
It's still quite meaningful. It's the distance you could allegedly drive without recharging.
Now just need a Waymo invite code :)
That's just very misleading though: the 980 miles battery in a light, compact EV, eg, M3, isn't going to deliver the same range in a pick-up truck, eg, the Hummer EV.

It's just an open invitation for abuse (and has already been abused by battery makers like CATL who recently announced a new improved LFP with 4C charging and 750 miles range??).
Because all models are wrong, but some models are useful.

OSI is a useful model, especially at lower layers, because it covers the abstractions from physical to network to internet to protocols, and that is a useful way to think about things.
Overall this is helpful, but it seems a bit ranty, and doesn't do as much as (for example) John Day's Patterns in Network Architecture to provide a positive alternative model.
Tangentially related discussion from the other day: since Android isn't meaningfully open source anyway, why doesn't Google strong-arm the vendors into shipping N years of updates? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37967608
I spend 3 hours (2x(1h subway + 0.5h electric bike)) commuting and 9 hours at work everyday. Should I move to reduce my commuting time?
Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python
I have tried MicroPython a little, but managing the subtle differences tends to throw me, especially since I update DOS scripts only irregularly.

The LFN issue is funny! I do know that the older available PYTHOND.EXE also returns

>>> ImportError: No module named encodings

on `import encodings` unless I run DOSLFN.EXE beforehand.

I think I understand that your *nofreeze.exe is the fast version of the application,
and requires DOSLFN, the standard library in a separate directory structure, and specified with %PYTHONPATH% for `import encodings` to work.

Anyway, your *freeze.exe application has no external dependency aside from standard DPMI extender, is portable, and is great for my usage. Half a minute to start up in a virtual environment
is perfectly fine, since I develop the system administration scripts on a more modern machine anyway.
Likely because it alleviates the need to always be charging, whenever you're not on the road. Not having to make special arrangements for a charging station at work. Or for example, sharing a charging station at home instead of requiring your own, because you only need to charge every other day, etc.

It would make owning an EV less tedious.
kubernetes, spanner, bigquery, gfs etc etc. a lot of stuff gets ported from google internal to google cloud and then turned into a product.
towing + cold most likely?
Oi what the fuck, you weren't kidding
I suppose that's the issue with JS, a map and an object are the same thing. You write this code to evaluate objects, but you're thinking maps.
I'm also a sysadmin who unfortunately found that attitude familiar. Some IT groups really do create these toxic environments where it's common to make fun of the people they serve.

I certainly don't expect IT groups to bend over backward for every request or be polite in the face of real abuse, but the toxic shit that is said at the water cooler is never that. It's literally insulting people's intelligence or taking pleasure in people's pain, especially if it involves exercising their power over users.
no drm on gog. On sale now $6.59

https://www.gog.com/en/game/fallout_new_vegas_ultimate_editi...
I sort of agree that "OSI" is really weakening his argument, and that he could take clearer aim at the classical Internet layering model (network, transport, application) --- even that simple layering is obsolete now. But it'd still be a straw man! We even run DNS over HTTP at this point.
If you want to think about the correlation between hard work and income, watch someone operating a jackhammer and then visit a golf course.
And modern humans still process text as if we’re reading a teletype :)
Way too expensive for a service that will soon be irrelevant
I really don’t like how black formats list that ends with a comma differently from lists that don’t. I hope this either didn’t make it to ruff or can be turned off.

Either way, it looks like an interesting development!
Those chargers already exist. Tesla vehicles are limited by their 400v electrical system. Porsche already charges faster for longer via an 800v electrical system.

You also have to remember even 10-80 throttles SIGNIFICANTLY over that window as the battery fills. The higher speeds will run for longer on a larger battery assuming it is designed with sufficient cooling - one of the features of solid state batteries is supposed to be the ability to charge at higher rates for longer duration.
Ironically, I've heard some flavors of "US is going to fall over", for at least the last 40 or so years.

If you're not going to pay attention to current events, you should at least see what the smart money is doing. And right now, the smart money is climbing over each other to get out of China.
These days yes but in the olden days no.

Brisbane City Council used to sell tickets with a magnetic strip that would be read and written with how many trips you have can take on the ticket.
I remember that quite differently. Windows Phone 7 lacked many basic functions like Bluetooth file transfer, the audio player didn't support gapless playback, alarm clock could not turn on your phone (a staple Nokia feature), Internet Explorer was always behind in supporting web standards (and Microsoft did not allow other browser engines). WP7 didn't even support front cameras until Mango Update.

The snappiness of apps was also hindered by network I/O in the UI thread (I mean wtf Microsoft).

WP8 did some things better but it was too little, too late. Nokia at some point bitterly complained about Microsoft's inertia in getting important features implemented that Nokia needed in order to sell phones (besides the apps, but that is another whole can of worms). https://www.techspot.com/news/53405-microsofts-slow-developm...
Are there any reliable statistics of something like accident per mile driven that compare between autonomous vehicles and human drivers?

What I found so far is this:

- Waymo and Cruise have driven about 8 million miles driverless (mostly in San Francisco) and reported about 100 crashes (mostly minor like scraping shopping cart, etc) and many that were fault of another car. (as of September 2023)

- Apparently a human drives am average 100 million miles between fatal accidents. In that case we do not have enough data, yet.

I'm not sure what to think. Is the rate of accidents a cause of concern? Or is this blown out of proportion and driverless cars are actually safer? Or (most likely) we simply do not know, yet?
A generation before it was just sitting kids in front of the tv…
I’ve not tried it but I’d like to.
I always thought this model was pretty worthless. I remember when they tried to apply it to the internet. It didn't quite fit, but they needed a model because intellectuals.
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> It also launched on Product Hunt, check it out via https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hacker-news-top-archive

I would love to hear what you think about it!
> Also, Sky has horrible software/infra.

That’s how SportsNet is in Canada for the NHL. It isn’t terrible, but it’s pretty bad and they’re obviously taking advantage of their monopoly (for broadcast rights) to foist a low quality, premium priced service onto the public.

ESPN+ in the US costs half of what we pay for SportsNet in Canada and it’s better quality. I can’t coax a 60fps stream out of SportsNet while a 720p60 ESPN+ with upscaling on an Nvidia Shield looks very good.

So, in Canada you don’t have any good options. You either pay for the legit service that’s terrible quality or you get something that’s grey market (ESPN+ via VPN) or flat out piracy.

Over the last 3 years I’ve spent more on piracy than what a SportsNet subscription would cost. My money is there for them to take if they can ever deliver a product that’s not absolute trash.
Great! That would take only about 200 subjects. Though I'm sure you'd rather have a more meaningful sample size, so let's say 2,000 subjects.

You'll need to recruit therapists to evaluate them all, before and after. That shouldn't cost more than about a million dollars or so.

I'm pretty sure there are also doctors involved at various points in the process. I imagine you'll want medical checks before and after, just to make sure nobody dies on your watch. That shouldn't cost more than another million or so.

Let's get applying for grants!
No, she complained that she didn't get the VP job. That's L10. That she was passed up for promotion and that someone else didn't deserve it as much as she did.
Vector DB Benchmark (ClickHouse vs. Postgres vs. Others)
If they understood significant figures, it would be less suspicious. Besides, when a vendor uses their own special metric, instead of a well known standard, I lose respect for them.
> If you look at history, the biggest changes that allow people more free time to spend with their children or otherwise, are technological ones.

There's also the 40-hour, 5-day workweek; the end of child labor, parental leave - those developments, and more like them, led to more time with children than the mechanical loom.

In fact, as technology has improved, it's possible that the proportion of children with a parent devoted full-time to them has decreased (because now families need two incomes).
> SOMEONE has to invest for that progress to be made.

History often has cases where the surrounding context/infrastructure/market/culture just wasn't suitable for an invention to take off--so it fails--and then somebody 5-100 years later tries something almost the same thing and it becomes a wild success and they get all the credit for it.

For example, look at the AT&T Picturephone from ~1964. [0] Even if someone from today time-traveled with the benefit of ~60 years of economic and technological hindsight... do you think a strategy of "just keep investing--somebody has to" would been enough to make the video-phone a widespread and profitable thing in any reasonable timeframe?

I'm pretty sure you'd go quite bankrupt first, just trying to stay solvent while making hundreds of other enabling-inventions and cost-savings in a wide range of fields while completely replacing global infrastructure.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQMnlKMFD8M
I found it rather unpleasant, but I only did it once. Maybe I'd get used to it. But 90 minutes of yoga is a lot when you're not used to it. (And I say that as a marathon runner who regularly exercises much longer, but different skills.)
I did it once. It certainly does make life look brighter once you're no longer trying to do a downward dog with your own sweat running into your eyes.

It's like my favourite metaphor for hiking.

There's two monkeys in a cage. One monkey starts repeatedly hitting his head against the bars. Bang. Bang. Bang...

...the other monkey, puzzled, asks why he's doing that.

The first monkey pauses, and turns towards him.

"BECAUSE IT FEELS SO GOOD WHEN I STOP."
What a shit stupid company or its administrators. This story is now a news item (ABC) and also now here on HN and who knows what other social networks. The losses in business are going to be a hell of a lot bigger than the idiotic and (based on what I've read about their invoicing of this customer) fraudulent "gains" they were expecting with that $35,000.

If I were the CEO i'd fire whoever was responsible for this sleazy little idiocy and backpeddle as fast as possible publicly.
no offense but to expect audio to work via bluetooth seems like a reasonable and prudent expectation. little portable bluetooth speakers for 10-20 bucks from aliexpress work seemlesly.
> It then pulled a bit into the left lane abruptly and I didn't get why until a split second later a skateboarder was crouched down and went by on my right against traffic.

Wonder what it would have done if it didnt have room to pull into the left lane without hitting a car. Or perhaps another skateboarder.
Replacing bus drivers with computers won't make them any more attractive as workspaces. There's a reason musicians don't actually like touring.