skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not so sure about that. The North line connects to Edmonds which is a major ferry terminal used by a fairly large number of people on the Kitsap peninsula, Port Townsend etc. plus another ferry terminal on Mukilteo for Whitby island. These are major connections which are unusable in the 4 trains a day frequency (Sounder only runs 2 trips and Amtrak Cascade the other 2; latter does not stop at Mukilteo). The link is good and all that but it won’t reach Everett for another 20 years and it won’t connect with the ferries either.

The South direction is a little better (and is improving even further with more Cascade runs on the horizon) but it is the same story. For example, Pyuallup and Sumner are both decent sized towns wit centrally located station, which won’t get light rail and the 1 line won’t reach Tacoma until 2035 at least. There is also a decent transit center at Lakewood, however I would argue it should probably be better to run the 620 all the way to Tacoma, from where Olympia people could jump onto a Sounder or light rail.
As always the question remains - who has the omniscience and privilege to define disinformation?

Orwellian.
I'll go with "the world DOES need startups et al". I feel that one fundamental problem for humanity as a whole is the number of steady giant businesses that really don't need to do much. They have a good old process, that they can slowly - and only as necessary - iterate on. This is NOT how progress happens. So yeah, actually the world needs the few people who will notice that this or that giant slice of business is stuck and needs shaking up. THAT is how we move forward in the last few decades.

So, for one example, taxi services were complacent. And Uber and Lyft shook that up. Are Uber and Lyft perfect? No. But that's not the point. The point is that now even taxi services work better.
There's a setting for this: https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/settings/#format-skip-magic-trai...
To other folks reading this: like any sustained practice, you're going to need to do it more than once.

Come back to this after a couple months of sustained practice and maybe you'll have a different perspective.
Sure. Sometimes instigators are seeded throughout a crowd (especially crowd of protesters) to get them to shout certain things or steer the protest in a certain way/direction.

Humans also have vestiges of herd behaviour. For example, if one person decides to cross the intersection on a red light (especially pedestrian) then more people are likely to follow even if they would wait for green light otherwise.
> I'm not sure a machine would have noticed an odd lump next to a lamppost, with a civic rubbish bin next to it, in the rain.

As opposed to what? You don’t have RADAR, or LIDAR, or echolocation, or any other way to “detect” a person in the road. You have human vision.

This is the idea behind Tesla FSD. If human vision is good enough, computer vision is good enough. We have cameras that can approximate human vision. All the other companies using sensors are doing so as a crutch, because they didn’t have the chops to solve the vision problem.
Thanks! We merged the threads into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37513791 (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37986610).
I think that the "OSI" he's speaking about isn't an engineering tool, a thing people would use to construct systems; rather, this "OSI" is a way of modelling systems that exist — systems that, of course, were not implemented by people thinking about OSI. It's an analytical modelling tool, a thing applied to a system retrospectively in an attempt to understand it, break it down along abstract rather than concrete lines. Like the various flavors of literary criticism.

Except in the case of OSI, it's not a reputable analytical tool from the perspective of actual academics; it's rather a discredited one. Instead, it's only lay-people with an outdated view of the state-of-scientific-practice who attempt to apply the discredited tool. And this article is an attempt to get those lay-people to stop doing that.

Compare/contrast how the layman may often think that Freudian psychoanalysis is still in use in psychiatry — and may even try to apply it themselves to understand someone's motivations. Much to the chagrin of psychiatrists.
Same applies to EVs.
I assumed so from the title and almost didn't check out the video when YouTube recommended it yesterday. Really glad I still did. As usual from Veritasium the video included a lot of interesting historical context that I had no idea about.
S3 as the universal infrastructure back end
tbf I'd guess that bikram also benefits from the heat stress element, like sauna. Which is basically "free" cardio.

I'd also bet that it synergises well with yoga, as yoga is a decent mechanism for encouraging blood flow throughout the body.

I love lifting and think there are some really great elements. While ego lifting is bad, lifting a number is such a strong personal development feedback loop for most people but it's not for everyone: my partner is scared to get big, my mum and brother currently are nursing various MSK issues and can't really lift safely without serious modifications that need supervision. Meanwhile yoga, or better baduanjin (qigong) are far more accessible systems and bikram is a nice way to passively introduce extra challenge to the body and mind.
Engineers are significantly more expensive than chauffeurs, especially since the chauffeurs get paid roughly minimum wage - or less. I too am very curious where pricing settles out.
Oh-Auth – Abusing OAuth to take over millions of accounts
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37513791.
This has been posted repeatedly before:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
a) Share some anecdotes as I was lucky enough to get early access by simply applying through the app. b) I'm a believer/early adopter and as such I guess I've enjoyed sharing my experiences.

It turned out I was wrong about the windscreen wipers. LIDAR from other vehicle tripping the rain sensors.

In any event, I do wish Waymo the very best. They aren't just trying to do something hard, they are doing it whilst getting lots of opposition from SF gov. Whether the business model works - time will tell.
This is just crazy. So this can happen basically to ANYONE for any/no reason !!
I have done this for 30 years now, but with a twist; I get clients for consulting, learn their business and then build software to help them and sell it to them and their competitors. My first products from 30 years ago (in pascal/Delphi) still sell. I am currently consulting for 5 clients and building a new product; keeps me up to date and the work interesting.
I thought the problem with Uber’s self-driving initiative was that they didn’t know what they were doing, except for the main guy who stole the IP from Google.
They could have accepted the Intel's offer buy them. Too late now.
In what temperature, gradient, tires, road type, traffic or speed? kWh is better.
Social media influencers who are paid to lead crows to buy products/services by acting like they are customers, despite never spending money themselves come to mind.
I'm conflicted about it. On the one hand, I'm angry that society would simply give up and leave people behind. On the other hand, societies have always done that in one rationalized way or another, and at least this way is slightly more honest and compassionate.
Why did you type three paragraphs of nothing? What is the 'correct' way to frame this question?
He has a bitcoin and ethereum address. Unfortunately no monero, but you can swap in and out of monero without KYC or login using one of the services listed on kycnot.me. Alternatively, there are zero-knowledge mixers on ethereum such as tornado cash (still legal in the UK to the best of my knowledge).
Can I ask what model you have?
It has two arms at right angles to each other, and measures the difference between the two length changes via laser interferometry. This gets you the component of the wave polarized along the corresponding axes.

No clue why GP thinks it "shouldn't work": it's an extremely difficult engineering problem, but the physics of it is relatively straightforward.
And now that I’m hungry and fantasizing, Flints BBQ on Shattuck in Oakland. Ribs in peace.
It’s funny, Judas is used as an adjective in other contexts too, like a Judas gate, Judas hole or Judas window, the last often abbreviated as just “Judas”. Are there others?

Then there was that short story by George R. R. Martin, “The Way of Cross and Dragon".
Having played around with embeddings and built a few production use-cases with them.. They are awesome and enable a lot of cool applications. But, if you're building in a particular domain, you'll hit limits with any off-the-shelf embeddings model. One way to think about this is that the off-the-shelf embedding models have a lot of dimensions, but some of those dimensions may and some may not that matter for your application (classification, content similarity, clustering, etc). In other words, a vector may be close to another vector in dimensions you don't care about.

I look forward to seeing better tooling and literature around fine-tuning embedding models.
> [OSI's] negatives far outweigh its positives. OSI is not theory, it’s not a framework, it’s not helpful, it’s not a standard, it’s not anything those who use it claim it to be. Anything you teach with the OSI Model can better be taught without it.

This is a naive understanding of the OSI model, whose primary virtue is not any specific detail it expresses, but instead its ubiquity.

The only way to successfully replace a (clearly entrenched) status quo is to make the positive case for the new thing, which has to be just obviously and significantly better. Pointing out the flaws in the current thing is never convincing, and never a winning strategy.
If one is going to argue for a layers based model the OSI model is still a particularly poor choice vs something with at least relevant layers such as the 4 layer model commonly referred from TCP/IP. It's been the superior model to reference for decades.
Litigating accidents will cost more because suddenly it's not "partner" at fault but your own people. Also, someone's gotta buy that new yacht somehow...
There are considerations beyond just comparing the number of collisions. If a human driver causes an accident, they can be held to account through a legal process. If a self-driving car hurts or kills someone, who is held accountable?
Game of thrones had the wall to send unwanted men to. Looks like westeros had more compassion than canada.
Players that care about input lag. It's especially true for versus fighting and shoot them ups (check games by Japanese company CAVE) that are highly competitive genres, but when you're used to genuine hardware input lag is a pain, even for the simpler game.
Wikipedia agrees

'The station uses New Zealand time (UTC+12 during standard time and UTC+13 during daylight saving time) since all flights to McMurdo station depart from Christchurch and, therefore, all official travel from the pole goes through New Zealand.'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen%E2%80%93Scott_South...
> I had to learn “new to me technology* as part of my job for 25 years on the job.

Right, I'm saying that's a rarer privilege than being able to do leetcode or similar (whether during work hours or not).

> None of the behavioral traits I mention have any correlation to intelligence. I didn’t wake up one morning and learn how to communicate effectively .

If you think being able to communicate effectively has nothing to do with intelligence you're crazy. (Of course, it probably has have even more to do with having a common class experience than with intelligence)
No one (sane) is arguing for a Gini coefficient of zero. Some people are going to have more money.

But the false dichotomy that Randian villains use is that it’s either that or fucking go wild.

Vast wealth inequality is almost synonymous with capture.

Rich people capturing the levers of society and then advantaging their dumbass kids and friends is like, what actually happens.

The diversity poetry is a crinkly piece of tin foil everyone is supposed to look at while the profits get privatized and the losses get socialized.

I’m all for capitalism if we can figure out how to do it without connections and shit being what really matters.

But everyone who touched Loopt should have gone bankrupt, not like, take over the world.
Do you have a blog or website?
This is it for me too. It feels like it's jamming something new in my face every single day. I want a web browser, not an endless stream of crap I'm not interested in.

There was a point in time where I didn't bother installing another browser on Windows computers. That's far in the past now.
And “Toms” - The Little Garden on El Camino in Mountain View with the wall of Sun Microsystems business cards. Some folks (no doubt still around on HN) started an ISP in the Bay Area named after it.
I wonder if this will become new pedestrian behavior? Once people learn that waymo will stop for them no matter what they can just cross in front of it.
Only if there is one engineer per car
Terminology like "layer 4", "layer 7" and sometimes "layer 3" is often used in documentation for things like load balancers, vpns or other tunnels, etc. As a specific example the documentation is for layers is split into layers 4-7 that roughly sort of match the OSI model. Except not really, because the OSI model doesn't really math tcp/ip. And the first feature listed on the overview page for an AWS ALB is that it does "Layer-7 Load Balancing".

I have no idea why we continue to use thes numbers instead of saying the protocols or a more descriptive name, like transpory layer or application layer.
When I think of philosophy of software I think of the operative semantics of programming languages, model semantics, Quine, Church, Barwise & Perry, et al.
That wouldn't even come close to being "the oldest math text"...?
I am happy to officially introduce Emitbase — an open-source alerts platform for developers. I am launching it as a beta and am seeking feedback. I welcome any suggestions for improvements, reports of bugs, or any thoughts that come to your mind.
Charisma is very valuable.
One important point is that the judas goat doesn't know they're a judas goat, so as long the influencer just thinks they're living a rockin' life, but they were put in that position by someone who really knows what's going on, then I think this works.
Car sickness happens when reading a book as well. It's your inner ear being out of sync with what you are witnessing. Which is why looking out the front window helps.
Exodus (Video Game)
Whereas parameters generated on the fly don't?
https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/ /q photon, black hole, antimatter / Dirac sea / condensate / superfluid / quantum foam, Planck relic / microscopic black hole, dielectric, FTL
The modern government of the UK has, as far as I can tell, become a raging pseudo-fascist nanny state of grotesque proportions. It combines the worst aspects of old fashioned authoritarianism with smothering feel-good nannyism to repress individual freedoms in all sorts of creative ways that serve every side of the bureaucratic spectrum while persistently moving the ratchet forward on fundamental state power.

That a country which for centuries was considered a bastion of fundamental individual freedoms should pass hideous deformities of the rule of law like the Terrorism Act (among the other things they've been doing) is sad.
What you really mean is that you don't understand how LIGO works and neither do any of the reporters who try to explain it. And so the explanations that are available in public do not really give an insight into what is happening.

That's unfortunately true for a lot of physics. For example, there are very few good explanations available for what is electric current and it is pretty funny observing even people with lots of experience offer the same lame, false explanation.
This is the story of the programming world.

Tons of concepts that masquerade as "theory." Big words and "epiphanies" that make programmers loyal to the concept in the same way people are loyal to OSI.

Design patterns,
SOLID,
etc.

All bullshit akin to color theory and OSI. Big words and bullshit. At best you can use these things as rules of thumb. They work somewhat. But overall they don't.
It's far from ubiquitous though. It breaks down as soon as you enter the real world. It's simultaneously too vague to be useful for talking about specifics and too inaccurate to be useful for talking about generalities.
Do we actually? European cities that I have been to all have zones with nothing but apartment buildings in dense urban configuration that go on for miles. I've never seen something like that in the states outside of NYC.
> If the documents contain a variety of ideas

I've found chunking by sub-headings works really well.

But here's a dirty secret I've learned as a writer: Your document can only ever contain 1 idea. That's the most that human readers can manage.
I think Ousterhout has interesting approach for software complexity and it's causes. In a nutshell, he suggests it's composed of (cognitive) dependencies between the software components, and obscurity. If anyone has more reading suggestions which have focus on software complexity, I'd like to hear about them.
Love that metaphore, thanks :)
> check whether or not it's half by dragging the highlighted section over the other half

This is genius, I'm going to do that from now on (and have more reason to be annoyed at the inability to get a perfect split on discrete characters).
whenever Bill Watterson crosses my mind I always hope when he passes away that Calvin and Hobbes doesn’t fall into the hands of a corporation.
>> Flags with single character shortcuts can be easily combined—symbex -in fetch_data is short for symbex --imports --no-file fetch_data for example.

I pretty much use argparse for making all my CLI tools, but I dont know of an easy way of doing this single character flag thing. Is it possible/easy with argparse?
That one was so great, passed around in a number of circles by the credulous. It was a magical time!

Also makes you think.
One of my favorite renderings of this is in this article [1], that shows the relationship between the Delaunay triangulation, Voronoi diagram, a relative neighborhood graph (RNG) and the euclidean minimum spanning tree (EMSP) of a set of 2d points.

I have a theory that the union of the edges of the RNG and EMSP could be used for automatic navigation between widgets in a GUI: combining the two, there's always between 1 and 4 edges coming out of every point, and so each of them could correspond to a direction key up/down/left/right according to some simple heuristic.

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1: https://axltnnr.io/2018/Triangulation/
Yeah, the physics is straightforward. Even "laser interferometry" is super simple to explain. It is getting enough resolution and noise immunity from laser interferometry where all the interesting stuff is.
Tesla's mileage numbers are meaningless because the human has to take over frequently. They claim credit for miles driven, but don't disclose disconnects and near misses.

California companies with real self driving have to count their disconnects and report all accidents, however minor, to DMV. You can read the disconnect reports online.
I was in that boat. I went on a 'hiking' trip (day hikes, nights in a hotel) for a week. Waterfalls and/or ((mountain+hill)/2)-top vistas on each trail. So far I'm 2 weeks without my daily 4am session of involuntary absolute despondency.

Worth a try if you can swing it.
I believe Waymo cars are now part of the Uber network. So hopefully soon that data should be available. Hopefully it is released.

https://waymo.com/blog/2023/05/waymo-and-uber-partner-to-bri...
Why? They’re 5 years old. I dgaf what their opinion is—smoking is bad. Period.
>Not everyone lives in the US or Australia or Canada

Hence, segment the market.

>there‘s convenient public transport for long distances.

Public transportation has good use cases, but also terrible use cases. It is good if you don't have stuff and are going to an urban center,which covers a lot of needs.
If you want to clean out your mom's house, or go camping with friends,it sucks
Ubiquity isn't a necessarily good thing.

It depends on the type of person you are for this analogy to work but...

Religion is ubiquitous and it is largely just inaccurate made up fantasy stories posing as truth. It's generally not good from this perspective.

OSI is religion. And like religion, it is ubiquitous. Is that a good thing? I'm not sure.
As a side note, and from personal experience, repeated cycles of sauna and cold plunge does wonders for the well-being.
> Said another way, LIGO can't work because the ruler itself is squashing as space squashes, so you can't measure if space is compressing.

I think the chief confusion here is that you may be thinking the light arrives at the detector in the same amount of time regardless of spacetime curvature. That is, the the ruler is itself squishing.

But what needs to be considered is the constant speed of light.

This implies that what happens is, in the presence of additional curvature, and constant speed of light, the additional distance traveled will have appeared to slow the light.

In the laser interferometer this registers as interference.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ajZojAwfEbs

It is also worth noting that any claims of detection are thoroughly investigated and confirmed with other detectors.

> It is difficult for a single LIGO detector to confirm a gravitational wave signal on its own. The initial discovery of gravitational waves required that the signal be seen in both detectors (Hanford and Livingston).

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-is-ligo
Spotify Is Eating the Entire Music Business
You do understand that in many places (and certainly in the U.S.) a criminal conviction, even a minor one, can mean the crushing destruction of your professional career, job prospects and all sorts of future opportunities. It's a shit show of a discriminatory system that keeps this alive but it's what it is and very real.

For millions of people it would be a disaster that you don't just smile your way out of with some optimism and a laughingly good story. It's not just about "don't live in fear", Instead it's often a harshly practical matter of "oh shit, i'm going to jail for months, the bank will foreclose on my home, my job will fire me and my kids are fucked".... You might be okay with that, but it's no fucking joke for many, no matter how lightly they try to take the burden.
I never thought about the charging problem. In SF, where do Waymo cars charge themselves?
Things I don't know how to do
Wait really? Genuinely curious. Do you think $2B was worth it?

Like I just implicitly assumed that that is way too much money for the value it provides but admittedly I didn't think much about it. Can you quantify how the benefit might be worth that much?

I think Cruise Automation has roughly raised that amount over it's entire lifetime. Even if we had to fund 10 of those companies for a similar amount, that seems like a better investment than the dozen or so subway miles that would fund.
Same. The only one I missed was the donut/mug.
Solid state buttplug
> It might be a relief to sustain yourself using your mind, but without the constant pressure for novelty.

I had a friend (now passed away) who had been a nuclear engineer but gave it up to work in some 3 star restaurants and then open up his own where he worked as the chef (his wife ran the business).

I didn’t get it, and asked him once if he missed the engineering. He said that he really liked going home and knowing that nothing was due the next day: for him every day started anew.

I couldn’t stand the idea of that, but it was enlightening to get that perspective.
Probably the best book I’ve read on this subject. There’s a lecture by the author[1] as a quick overview of what the book is about.

[1]: https://youtu.be/bmSAYlu0NcY
Someone who desires undesirable things is never “smart.”

Thinking so is how groupthink works.