skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guess what they're going to come for next?

Tangentially, I remember how utterly disgusted I was when I first started seeing people on Reddit chastising others for rooting their Android phones. They'd keep saying that it's a "security risk" for me to have root... on MY device. I can feel my blood pressure rising just from typing that...
The time savings alone is the yuge factor IMO.

People talk about "oh I don't want to spend 15 minutes charging at a supercharger on road trips". Yeah, I'd rather do that once in a blue moon rather than the weekly drive out of my way to spend 5-10 minutes at a gas station with semi-sketchy people loitering the area. Or deal with the ever-changing gas prices that go up every time a dictator in the middle-east sneezes.
What can you do in Perl that can't be done in Python? Everybody has bought into Python nowadays. Even Program Managers can bash out Python scripts.
The ADL also defines racism as something that only white people are capable of.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/us/anti-defamation-league-rac...

They changed the definition in 2022 from: "Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is the belief, most of the time based on racism, that different races should remain segregated and apart from one another."

to "The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people."

There is at least SOME nuance here.
> Having a narrow mandate to physical mail is sort of holding the US Constitution to an arbitrary limit based on year or era.

Welcome to the current Supreme Court era of Historical Jurisprudence. If the founders didn't believe it (in their American Mythological head canon), then it's unconstitutional. Disregard the fact that many of the founders perceived the Constitution as a living document that would change with the times.
I expect them mostly to know, and for those that didn't know trucks are categorized by payload to learn it from the comments, like this.
They trust the certification body. Either you demonstrably know the electrical code or you don’t. And the union requires its members to have their licenses (save for apprentices — but they can wash out).

Imagine how much time we could all save if an impartial body certified developers can do breadth first search or reverse strings. No need for all of those phone screen and first round interview questions.
IBM already did it as well.
Let's see... If we privatize roads and every owner (pinky promise) only makes everyone pay basod on vehicle weight... That almost sounds like a tax based on car weight.
I’d download a car, if that’s what you’re asking.
Well, we humans also failed to find an algorithmic solution for our brain playing Go. I mean, the way AI and our brain work are mysterious. Surely at different level/layers but both share the mistery.
Click on Gordon and the Xen Alien after you have gotten the crowbar.
Saying this is sudden would be an understatement.

Sam Altman spoke at an APEC panel on behalf of OpenAI literally yesterday: https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1725318771454456208
Spitballing, but I think they provided shelter for a lot of them. No idea if that would significantly impact NYC's budget
I just had a house built. I am 99% sure looking at all the pics I took it is not stapled in. The tricky ones are the ones where they decided to drill a hole thru the 2x4s in the wall about every 4 ft... Now I am not saying they do not do that (different areas have different ideas of what is 'right').
Must be nice :). I wish I was in that 40%
Did you read the Tweet Musk was replying to? What he said was much more broad and hateful than the much more specific opinion that "It's okay to be white" is not usually used in a hateful way. Musk chose to be broad on purpose - it's a common tactic for this kind of provocative shitposting. I.e., purposefully declining to distance yourself from obvious implications like any honest person would with just a few words or choosing a different context for your comment. The result is that your social/political enemies get (rightfully) upset with you, but you've left yourself a margin in which you can use weasel words to defend yourself and claim that your critics are trying to censor your innocent speech, or whatever.
Everything in NYC is expensive. We spend almost $40,000 per year on each public school student. Construction is hugely expensive. The Department of Corrections has 1.4 corrections officers for every person incarcerated.
I had an economics professor who commented offhand that, while we spend so much energy debating wealth transfer from rich-to-poor (or vis versa), the entire US economy is functionally built to transfer wealth from young to old.

Part of the reason affordability is so bad is that we have one of the largest, wealthiest population of non-working adults (retirees) that has ever existed in the world ever. And US financial policy specifically encouraged real-estate to be a primary vehicle for that wealth.
This part is actually pretty OK. Google takeout takes time but if you have the app set to upload originals that's what you get and you can download it any time you want, so if they make a drastic change you'd still have all the old photos.
I’m all for keeping the original title, but thanks to your comment I’m one of “today’s 10,000” to realize what that term means. And I grew up around trucks!
Uh oh. Did I miss some scandal? What's the subtext?
>Missing from this story is a third, even more fortunate group: the rapidly growing number of Americans who own their homes outright.

Missing from this story is a fourth, the even less fortunate group: the rapidly growing number of Americans who have never owned a home and know better than to try. The growth of this group is likely what's causing the growth in the relative proportion of home owners who are mortgage free.
An RCS app for iOS wouldn't make iMessage Android compatible.
Does anyone know of any photo management projects that include integration with recent ML models for classification and captioning?

It'd be awesome to have a system that could automatically generate (model versioned) CLIP or SAM embeddings as metadata for your whole library, for downstream plugins to work with (for deduplication, facial recognition, semantic search, text search, etc.)
NYC is housing migrants in hotel rooms that it pays for.

https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20230926176/hou...

Some hotels are charging the city $300 a night.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-09/nyc-migra...

A billion here, a billion there... pretty soon you're talking real money.
> The union leadership didn't unilaterally decide to go on strike. Tesla's "happy workers" had to vote on it and decided to.

I can't find information that confirms this.
Ask HN: Java 21 virtual threads concurrency model
In Java 21, virtual threads are mounted / unmounted on carrier threads for execution and there usually are multiple carrier threads in the JVM. This still remains a multithreaded concurrency model. Is it not possible to provide an option wherein a parent virtual thread and all its child virtual threads be mounted on the same carrier thread? In other words, carrier thread affinity. This would result in a simple single threaded concurrency model (and one could have gotten away from using locks and synchronization). Thanks.
Any quick googling will return numerous stories about this. Here is one that estimates it at $5,000,000 a day that NYC is spending.

https://nypost.com/2023/03/03/bidens-migrant-mess-costing-ne...
VRAM is not the main constraint, is it? The computational power of any of the new graphical cards (beside from the highest end models, where the VRAM is the actual constraint, like RTX 4090s) is absurdly low on the stuff that actually matters (tensor cores, cuda cores, etc.). They are graphical cards, equipped with consumer grade VRAM (instead of HBM) and IMHO it will take a very big shift before we see them being used as real AI accelerators.
A lot of American cities are experiencing budget shortfalls thanks to the WFH trend and other factors, and it will exacerbate problems with many important and popular services.

Here in Boston, we just found out that the estimated cost for fixing the subway system is $24.5 Billion (https://www.universalhub.com/2023/maybe-if-we-held-bake-sale...). It's been neglected and mismanaged for years, and no city or state agency can come up with that kind of money (it's about half of the commonwealth's annual budget).

The NYC subway is in a similar situation, but at a much larger scale. There are similar problems all over the country - see "America’s Trains and Buses Are Speeding Toward a Cliff"(https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/05/americas-mass-transi...)
Personally I hate the fact that libraries have become de facto homeless shelters. It gives them a constant background noise of danger and a lot of these people just sit around watching softcore porn on youtube. I think you'd see more library attendance if the places felt safer to leave kids at alone
GCC-specific features are explicitly documented in their manual, and they can and should be used if one is fine with one's program being tied to that compiler. Best example: the Linux kernel.

On the other hand, Linux kernel developers have also been burned by GCC changing what it does regarding undefined behavior (the infamous not-so-corner cases of C/C++). They expect GCC to be sort of like an assembler, which does the most straightforward thing in case of ambiguities. Instead, GCC is an optimizing compiler that is expected to deliver high-performance code for general-purpose programs. It treats undefined behavior as opportunities to enact optimizations. What it actually does is also usually documented, but also here different people have different expectations about what that implies.

The GIL is an implementation choice that was put in place by Python's developers for simplicity's sake. It is important to be aware of it because it has huge performance implications, but it is unwise to rely on it for semantics. Especially since it has not exactly been a secret that various parties would eventually like it to be removed. Anyways, the GIL has very little to do with Python's semantics. User code is racy with or without the GIL, which is actually the point of TA.
For all the chatter on HN, Europeans in general drive quite a lot. It's fascinating to hear people rail against cars here, and then step back out into meatspace. I just chuckle at the contrast between the dreamers on Reddit/HN and folks in the real world.
> If I’m buying a car, I obviously want the largest car I can afford

Is that obvious? I guess I'm weird, as I always want the smallest car I can get that gives me the features I want. I'm constantly annoyed that I end up in larger cars than I ideally want because that's basically the choice I'm given.
The "name ends with s" rule is surprisingly permissive -- I'm surprised an organization that claims to work to protect the apostrophe would allow one to be stripped of its due support 's'. And without an analogous rule for non-name nouns ending in 's', it's just needlessly inconsistent.

Protect the apostrophe! Demand the rightful 's'!
You suggested that is what it is not, but then went on to say that is what it is. You just did it again.
Surely there are other cuts with less impact. I suspect many more users would rather they redirect the ample Private Foundation funds for "NYPL LIVE" stage events (December: "Lesbian Poetic Traditions") to staying open on Sundays.

But Library management wants to host cool friends AND generate angry voters.

I see this pattern often in government budget showdowns; the tiniest cuts produce outsized service impacts.
It is the nature of Twitter to divorce things from context. It's a micro-blogging service with a strict character limit. We can't expect people to seek out context or nuance in that ecosystem.

If one can't comment on something without opening up one's comment to accusations of anti-Semitism (a problem most people on Twitter do not have), when one is the owner of Twitter, perhaps one could stand to comment less.
Mini's 'Go-Kart Fun' Won't Go Away with EVs: Mini Exec
I think we should stop factoring our tires. EVs chew through tires because they’re heavy as hell.

If we play at being objective and get caught leaving bits out, people shut down and label you a liar.

I presume brakes and tires partially cancel out, depending on car model. Some vehicles do engine braking automatically (mine does).
World of (Warships*/Tanks*/Warplanes). Basically, Wargaming.net games that aren't Master of Orion.

* These are each game lines with three entries each
It's still a proprietary license, so what was the point?
The `tracing` ecosystem is IMO pretty good, and even works with Sentry for various frameworks (well largely it's all tower based anyway)

Not sure what you mean by monitoring. What do you expect (and do you have any examples where other languages provide monitoring solutions?).

Security wise, I've not had any issues finding crates for specific things I needed either, but security is a broad domain (so what did you find lacking in particular?)
Hardly. Yet another storm in a teacup to drive up emotions again. Hence 'pause'.

Pausing advertising for Twitter / X to clean up the mess on there and once everyone has calmed down for bit and is fed up with the coverage of Elon Musk 24/7 in their heads, Apple (and IBM) will continue to advertise once again, business as usual.

I'm yet to see the uproar by Apple fans of Apple's so-called 'ethics' in China whilst they're profiting and benefiting from forced labor, just like when Facebook was called out for profiting from a genocide.

Exactly. There is none.
>decades because the only force acting upon carmakers is the desire of the car buyer.

Trucks, and perhaps some cars also got bigger also because of fuel efficiency regulations (CAFE) that require a larger footprint if gas mileage is worse. They had to make for instance the Tacoma much larger to match a barely changed engine. And foreign small import trucks were stifled with the chicken tax, pushing consumers towards Americas McGigantic brands.
Recently the editing tools have gotten much better too. I have sometimes made photos look better(to my liking) on google photos android app than using a dedicated desktop software.
Our libraries do a lot of activities aimed at pre-schoolers. Those activities are best scheduled during school hours so parents can attend while their school children don't require parental attention.
What?

Never seen this happening. In contrary still not every team is doing code review and plenty of people regularly fix bugs in production.

One ex colleague invalidated all apple device certificates, didn't get fired.

A previous tech lead wrote code which deleted customer data and we found that a half year later, no one was fired.

And no one got fired at a code review.
You can pay a flat fee to put your house in mls without an agency - it’s couple hundred bucks
You're right. I did not see the announcement [1] before. This can possibly make all the difference.

[1] https://rocket.rs/v0.5/news/2023-11-17-rwf2-prelaunch/
> Sam Altman will depart as CEO and leave the board of directors. Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, will serve as interim CEO, effective immediately.

> Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.

Wow
> "Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI."

Wow. Anyone have any insight into what happened?
Who were on OpenAI's board?

"OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner." [1]

[1]https://openai.com/our-structure
Wonder why they don't include AirBnB in that? Oh, yeah, I forgot, they're totally not a hotel, right?
I am, and honestly… my city keeps raising the taxes so damn much that I wouldn’t say I am just swimming in cash.
the truck itself weighs only 9 tons, it's the battery that weighs 65
Wow. I wonder what "really" happened.
Now this is going to start up all kinds of speculation.
Well, it shows also how crazy difficult that is.
Even better, when they hear commercials for America's best selling half ton truck, did they really think it weighed 1000 lbs?
PhotoPrism[0] does facial recognition and semantic search ("Your pictures are automatically classified based on their content and location. Many more image properties like colors, chroma, and quality can be searched as well.") Duplicate detection only finds exact matches.

[0] https://www.photoprism.app/features
What I was saying. They were waiting for around two months now.
This got some attention on HN at the time (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15520390), but since then, I've improved the wording, layout, and page load speed, so I thought I'd submit it again.

A few of the numbers are out of date. L3 cache sizes seem to have increased pretty much in accordance with Moore's law (about 3 doublings in 6 years). L2 and L1 sizes not so much, but those caches tend to be per core, and we have more of those now. I believe the other numbers and general observations in the article hold up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/5kcqx0/discussio...

submitted 6 years ago This is the quote from Yalu's website. ( https://yalu.qwertyoruiop.com/ )

"my patches and additions on top of Ian's code are licensed under the ABSE ("Anyone But Stefan Esser") license. note that an additional exception to the license is added, forbidding use/redistribution of said content to his trainees as well, but only when in a 5 mile radius from "Stefan Esser" or while holding any sort of (video)conference/chat with him."
Oh well, Sam's always got his creepy crypto eye thing to fallback on.
>Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.

Strangest thing in company's PR when they're thriving!
My understanding is that today's HDR sensors and displays can do ~13 stops of dynamic range, while humans can see at least ~20, though I'm not sure how to translate that into how much additional bit depth ought to be needed (naively, I might guess at 48 bits being enough).

I don't see why we'd stop at 60fps when 120 or even 240 Hz displays are already available. Also 8k displays already exist. The codecs also have tunable quality, and obviously no one is sending lossless video. So we can always increase the quality level when encoding.

So it's true in 2023 (especially since no one will stream that high of quality to you), but one can easily imagine boring incremental technology improvements that would demand more. There's plenty of room for video quality to increase before we reach the limitations of human eyes.
If they threw him out this suddenly, I think we're going to find out.
NYC has a "right to housing" law that requires the government to provide a roof for anyone who needs it, including migrants. With the recent influx of migrants this is causing unforeseen spending that will total $5bn in 2023.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/nyregion/adams-nyc-migran...
No kidding, it seems more like a plug for the podcast than the app.
Which is notable because Sam Altman is on said board, so he got outvoted.
I'm not excusing it. I'm saying "do not take it personally" is excellent advice.
"Practically all of the US" includes nowhere I've lived, and I've moved around a fair amount. Some places are worse than others, but sidewalks are very much a thing more often than not.
I hate to be the harbinger of bad news, but...

This is the era in which we should all re-calibrate our baloney sensors to be less benefit-of-the-doubt.

The benefit of the doubt is giving the fascists room to win.

p.s:

> I only see some allegations that link to other allegations.

Yeah, Twitter is pretty shit for discovery these days since Musk broke the way it works without being logged in under a Twitter account. I solved that problem by not caring; I quit Twitter years ago and I'm not going to re-up to workaround it getting worse.

It turns out I don't actually need to know everything everyone says on a topic. I can choose to ignore the signal on Twitter as "Too broken to care."
It would be crazy to say anything other than pause. Why lock yourself in to some kind of permanent decision regardless of anything that changes?
I suppose that works for cookie-cutters where the union treats people as directly interchangeable. Maybe that applies to the majority of union jobs?

I imagine that wouldn't extrapolate to careers where there's a component of soft skill, or hiring for potential?
WOW! Clearly some funny business going on at OpenAI, as people have speculated. I always assumed Sam Altman was too smart to be in a situation like this. I have heard grumblings about suspicious corporate structuring, behind the scenes profit taking, etc. All speculation though.

The All In podcast had some words about this a few months ago, though they spoke in generalities.
This podcast, and all the others at https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/ are fantastic!
Well, this has me concerned. There were times when it felt like OpenAI at large was trying to swim one way, while Sam was trying to swim another. In those cases I always thought Sam's direction was the better one. From the outside this seems like a pretty big loss.
Definitely just a lay person but I seriously doubt that figure is as large as a soaked sponge...
Want a conspiracy, I wonder if some of these negative thoughts are driven externally (external countries). It is cool to hate rich people don't you know.
There's an obvious need to "use that term", given that it's in answer to a question from someone who didn't know what the slang term meant. So clear communication is one reason.

But otherwise, yeah, if you want to disagree with people by calling them derogatory names, you're right: "strikebreaker" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
There's a nonzero probability that Worldcoin's shenanigans are correlated.
> Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.

Ouch -- were there any signs this was coming?
If I released a game on PC that required a peripheral, like a racing wheel, does that make it not a PC game?
How's support on Linux?
Insurance is shooting up to the sky as they have to write off entire cars over minor damage because they dented the battery and this shit can't be fixed.

I'm hoping we'll see improvements to the designs here, e.g. modular replaceable batteries, so that if the battery is damaged in a collision there's a $1000 cost to replace one of 4 battery modules, rather than a $40000 cost to replace the entire vehicle.
The Black Mesa Xen levels are one of the best things I've played recently, and sucha monumental improvement. I loved the whole sequence to bits and got stuck thinking about it for days after I finished it: it just feels so right now.