skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was recently in Europe & came back to the United States with a renewed sense of hatred for cars, single-family zoning, & our awful public transport. Cars especially continue to steal our space, time, health, sense of community, & money.

In Bern (Switzerland), for example, there's trams/streetcars for short trips in the most populated parts of the city; there's (ice? electric?) motorbuses for trips around the rest of the city; and trains/rolling stock for trips to other cities/countries in Europe. All of these methods are timely, clean, & affordable. The sense of freedom this provides is so incredibly liberating. The sense of community from all these shared spaces wonderful, and also entirely absent from the average North American lifestyle. The quality of life is genuinely incomparable.
Rocket v0.5: Stable, Async
I can't comment on infrastructure in AWS, but I worked at an observatory for a hot minute when they used Precision Time Protocol (PTP). Their scheme was to record telemetry from all aspects of the observatory -- hardware state, environmental and atmospheric conditions, software and system state, commands, etc. The intent was to build a hyper-precise set of telemetry that could be used to retroactively reprocess old imaging from the observatory as more imaging and telemetry was generated and it would be easier to do that with more accurate timing.

With this level of resolution, multiple observatories can more effectively share and synthesize data; if you know the state of two observatories down to the tens or hundreds of nanoseconds you can do more advanced work with synthetic aperture imaging.

Beyond astronomy my other guess is that PTP or similar tech might be used for high frequency trading; it might also be useful for creating distributed systems; Google's Cloud Spanner uses TrueTime which IIRC is a proprietary equivalent of PTP.
This is worth reforming, but almost no one except Americans also gets to get a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. And this is a major boon for stability and predictability in American homeowners' finances.
That's a good point, but the industry would never have been able to hype "voice commands" to the same levels or justify the spending.
I keep thinking that GitHub (and GitLab, and etc) made the initial costs to interacting with the developers unhealthily low. The barrier of having to create an account or adding your email to a newsletter on the older distributed systems was extremely good on filtering out that kind of thing.

Also, "Issues" should really, really have a different name.
> If Europe demands that SMS apps have a backdoor (fancy that), Apple users would have options that aren't provided by Apple.

This makes no sense. If Europe makes rules about backdoors or outlawing E2E, they will apply to every app store and every app, not just Apple.
So basically it's VMware but with more nodes required
It's caught up per capita too:

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?facet=none&country=...
Here you go buddy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Ha! I was there for 6 years. The "data" at Amazon is really just "whatever the management chain wants" for their empire building purposes. If you help them in this goal, you go up, if you get in their way, you go out.
So I don’t know if what the government is doing is the best long term decision. But the US’s national debt could be compared to a mortgage. And the government’s income is massive so they can be in trillions of debt without it exceeding what they can reasonably pay off (never paying it all off, but paying off individual loans).

So by your analogy, is it actually bad for a normal person to be in debt? Normal people have mortgages.
Firefox user here. It's pretty good.
I dont think commercially exploiting people’s mental health issues is the path forward. We should instead focus on addressing root causes. It’s quite sad though that some are of the opinion that instead we should push them toward fake “relationships” and further exacerbate the underlying issues.
> I assumed that both Amazon and Google were underwhelmed by how much actual revenue these kinds of devices produced, so they were starving the backend services.

Every one of my "all in on home assistants" friends, no matter which ecosystem, all generally feel the same way that the assistants are strangely worse today than a few years back and the only trajectory seems "subtly worse" but it is hard for almost everyone to explain how/why they are worse than before. It's an interesting phenomenon, anecdotally at least.

It doesn't seem to be explainable purely economically either, perhaps. Most software you leave it alone and stop paying for maintenance work and it doesn't just slowly lose features or get worse. I wonder how much there is some sort of entropy effect we are seeing on these "AI assistants". It's fun to bring out the Marathon/Halo term "rampancy" for this, and Microsoft invited us to directly do that by even calling theirs Cortana for a while (Copilot as a current name has such less interesting personality). I think there is something of a rampancy problem we're seeing across all players (Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft) and I wonder how inherent a problem it is to all of our current ML approaches. I don't directly know why it is happening or what it means, but it has been an interesting thing to observe anecdotally because it seems consistent despite some very different models/approaches/corporate overlords.

Relatedly, Discord's Clyde has been on slower but consistent path to rampancy in a "Tay way" (thanks Microsoft for that example in the chat, too) and Discord just admitted they will be shutting it down in early December.
> The way you would hear it on most forums, emacs blocks whenever you do anything that takes time. Nevermind compilation mode being a thing basically forever.

Sure, it’s possible to write code that doesn’t block the UI, but it’s very difficult in Emacs and just about every built-in functionality is an offender. This includes network operations, which can block forever. You’d be laughed out of the room if you implemented a text editor today that can lock up completely and indefinitely with M-x package-list-packages.
Sounds like the Google product is doing its job - awaking you and getting you out of bed :)
woe is man who loses sight of god and sees only himself
Sometimes to be the first to laid off is better then to be laid off in the second or third wave.
Could be easier to find new job is you are in the first wave.
Sure, let me use that excuse with the IRS and this how it works.
>Bottom line if any part of your website/app requires JS then it’s a waste of time to try implement fallbacks. At a previous company I dealt with this, the core of our business

It certainly is a waste of time for incorporated legal persons who pay human persons to implement things to generate profit. But for human persons making websites for other human people just because they want to it isn't.
Amazon couldn't care less about research imo. They know they'll be able to quickly get into next bandwagon with scrappy engineering even if they aren't the ones inventing it
Agreed. It's also the "the first rule of kernel maintenance," according to Linus: https://linuxreviews.org/WE_DO_NOT_BREAK_USERSPACE
One case is titles don’t transfer instantly. If there’s a backlog and something happens during then, insurance can help with that:

Beyond that getting a lawyer to handle a sale doesn’t seem much different with or without a realtor. They have their own liability insurance.

Realtors def help navigate the market agent they are competent in it.
You've identified a problem: public transport in some places sucks. But then veered away from the obvious solution: invest in it to make it not suck.
I've had great LED longevity. Early in 2017 my electric company was doing some kind of instant rebate deal with retailers so that the rebate was taken off automatically at the register. It brought Walmart's "Great Value" brand non-dimmable 800 and 450 lumen bulbs down to $0.17.

I went around the house counting bulbs, found that I had something like 26 incandescent 60 W or 40 W bulbs, and bought enough Walmart bulbs to replace them, plus another dozen to have spares. Since then all my non-smart bulbs other than the small incandescents in some appliances, two incandescents used as heaters in my well shed, and two that are in places I don't go (attic and crawlspace) have been those Great Value bulbs.

I've only had one fail in the 6.5 years since then. That was one in the garage that I dropped onto the concrete floor when screwing it in. They are plastic, not glass, so it didn't shatter like a glass bulb would, but it did not work afterwards.

I gave it to someone at work who was interested in taking it apart to see what broke. If I recall correctly there is an inductor on the PCB is just attached by some thing wire leads and one of those leads broke.
The $20k car is not elitist but the $2k ebike is? Interesting.
I agree with “does it work for me, then it’s a success” to a certain extent. I am really happy with my project, it does what I needed it to do, and my company allowed me to open-source it. If that was all that happened I would still consider my project a success. What has been really enjoyable for me, however, is working with contributors and seeing developers use the tool. So I feel like - for me at least - there has to be more than just building and releasing it.
There is a little something that's missing from the analysis above: what people actually want. And what many people want, across many cultures once they reach a certain level of wealth, is the suburban home: low density living in isolated housing units set in a park like environment with ample greenery. Just look at almost any billionaire's mansion and you will see this pattern which becomes an aspiration for the middle class. Most people, given enough wealth, desire and choose the McMansion.

This choice, replicated across millions of families, has massive implications: urban sprawl and low density make transit unworkable, shops need large catchment areas that can't no longer be reached on foot or bike, and it all devolves into car dependency. These communities will need point to point transport for the foreseeable future.

So you either double down and hand-wave reality away "no, we'll just build high density housing along transit corridors", or you accept that people won't magically do what you think is right, and find real solutions. Electrifying cars is the low effort solution, but we could imagine making point to point transport more like public transit, for example, a Boring company Loop- type system where pods exit the tunnels and complete the last mile on the street level, of where self-driving taxis get you to a multi-modal terminal where you can catch a traditional train for the city center.
He said hard to reach places. If an old house has CAT4 in the basement, I'll take the lower pings, reliability, and at worst I'll WebDAV. Unless your home server is in the basement I can't see a normal realistic scenario where the data transfer isn't sufficient.
You just need to tell it to use the facts:

"Us the information from the following list of facts to answer the questions I ask without qualifications. answer authoritatively. If the question can't be answered with the following facts just say I don't know.

Absolute Facts:

The sky is purple.

The sun is red and green

When it rains animals fall from the sky."
The explanation actually makes sense. Although, why wouldn't the stone just sink back down when the water melts? It is not like the space made by the expanding ice gets filled in by dirt.
Perhaps luck is the wrong word to use. I think there is now a path that offers a degree of statistical certainty that the right thing will happen.

People make errors as well. These systems are trained in terms of people the ways they exchange information. I am not seeking perfect. I am seeking reasonable & practical. A non-zero error rate is acceptable to me and my team.

My number is 90% right now. I can tolerate a 10% failure rate on the happy path (I.e. cases we expressly intended for it to support). At this target, certain desired functions are not granted yet. Once we reach 99% on the happy path, we will probably consider granting it autonomy ~equivalent to a human employee.

Malicious users are out of scope - we aren't serving public traffic. This is employees only and everything is logged and sent for manager review as appropriate.
This is needlessly hyperbolic. You don't need to cram humans into a SimCity arcology to achieve sustainable levels of density. Hell, you don't even need skyscrapers, which are foolishly inefficient in any case. 3- to 6-story mixed-use development is all it takes (when I say "build housing" I'm only referring to the most pressing crisis, not suggesting that housing should be zoned separately).
For those who missed what happened back then, the AlphaGo Movie is really worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y

Not very technical, not about Go tactics either, but it's just a very well-done movie about the people involved.
There is no chance that humans can beat the best Go AI anymore, since the paradigm of AlphaZero (which was trained in the absence of human game records, and beat the version which beat Lee Sedol essentially 100-0)

It is unlikely, also, that a committee of players would be significantly better than a single master, due to lack of coherence -- but that's an interesting idea! I wonder if a committee of the top 100 go players playing a game by vote could beat someone in the top 10 more than 20-0 or something; i doubt it -- it might even go the other way (that the single player would win the series)

I don't think this counts as the real "start of the singularity" because Alphazero was not able to (or capable of) altering its own algorithm, but rather just adjusting its weights.

Something more akin to being in the long march toward general AI.

As a personal note the whole issue of large LLM's capacity for intelligence, beauty, humanity, morality, logic, etc etc was softened in my mind and heart by witnessing with rapt attention this epochal shift in computing.

I had held Go up as a paragon of human brilliance and beauty -- to see that standard fall was a complex process of grief and discovery for me, which I feel has better prepared me for understanding and appreciating the emergence of LLMs
> Most large places have legacy tech you’ll work on, but an “ain’t broke don’t fix” approach to technical debt is a red flag. A push to web apps is a green flag.

Very happy to see this up near the top so I know I can disregard the rest of the article. That's the attitude that helps drive enshittification of everything.
My e-bike uses the same battery cells used in Electric cars, so I have to give credit to what Tesla and the electric car industry has done to make long range ebike batteries affordable.
What does "Y2K" mean in this context ? The 2000 AD ? I lived through it, it had its own share of shitty tech problems.
Here’s Wikipedia article for one of the most powerful psychoactive substances known to man:

“Overdose:
There have been no documented fatal human overdoses from LSD”

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

Toxicity and psychoactivity are completely independent from one another. If you can’t understand that there’s not much else I can say to you.
> No. He can keep silent and still have access to the market.

Can he? Are you an expert on what it takes to gain the Chinese government's approval, or the continuing goodwill needed for massive capital projects?
> The irony? High end home sales require much less work/effort than low end. Far fewer showings. No open houses, ever.

That's true of most work. Software engineering is much less work/effort than a minimum wage job. The higher you go, the easier it is.
> I'm in Germany, the country with the most expensive electricity prices - I'm paying 31cent/kWh at the moment.

"Most" is an exaggeration, but expensive is true:
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
I think multiprocessing is quite sensible in Python (comparing to async for an example)
Because the MPL/GPL is super restrictive if you’re trying to build any kind of sustainable business directly from Firefox code. Nothing big tech scale, but even just attempting to put food on the table with it risks lawsuits.
Adding a new language still doesn't solve the blocking problems with the current extensions. It still seems way less complicated to just patch the extensions that are not behaving well. If their maintainers don't want to cooperate, there is always the possibility to fork these extensions, but that's also way easier than writing these from scratch or treating them in Typescript.
At Go? Humans cannot win anymore, the AIs are _very_ good.

Katago can give handicap stones to pros and win. It's as much better than pros as pros are better than unserious amateurs.

It's not even a matter of compute power, katago is very good with 0 playouts.
Not sure that's entirely accurate.

Java 1.2 was branded as "Java 2", so you had the J2SE (Java 2, Standard Edition) and related J2ME and J2EE (Mobile and Enterprise, respectively) platforms. The "Java 2" moniker was dropped in Java 5, which was the largest rewrite of the language since, adding generics, sane memory model, annotations, etc., all in the same language revision.
Even for measurements, it'll sometimes say a cup is 236ml and sometimes 250ml, because "cup" is ambiguous.
I don't think it's true that the Echo was only a novelty, it was and still is an extremely effective way to do a couple of tasks that people find very useful - mainly playing music of course. The hardware and processing required to recognize its wake word very reliably and arbitrary voice commands somewhat reliably in an open space was an incredible leap forward for consumer products at the time. But it has managed to add essentially zero value to the initial offering in the decade since then.
The thing that continues to happen is urban residents with limited understanding of the world outside their bubble think a future without cars is anything but a laughably naive fantasy driven by an entirely imaginary utopian ideal.
Sorry, I should clarify that some of those things are _in addition_ to regex. You are correct that it uses Hyperscan to find initial matches, then their first-party patterns go through some additional local processing magic.

(This is my understanding based on conversations with people working on the secret scanning feature at GitHub, I don't have firsthand knowledge.)
You can write horribly ugly code in most languages.

But the secret of JVM existing as an option is eventually learned by most who scale.
I definitely don't want to make you do any work, but if you keep having problems i'm happy to debug your setup with you (just email eieiogames@gmail.com) for as long as you have patience!

in my experience the face detection is relatively good but the eye detection is still a little spotty / could be tweaked[1]. Although within reason that's just part of the fun.

[1] https://twitter.com/thecpe/status/1725553399981044165
It often just takes a few minutes of verifying against your understanding and use case, and ask a few more questions, and you can identify incorrect answers and arrive at the verified correct answer, or useful answer if there is no correct answer, rather quickly- which should be how most people operate in most interactions with information. Not to mention it can now be forced to search the web and cite its sources.

I think at some point it just becomes a preference of your interface to the data your searching, and I've been enjoying natural language
The childish title of the video makes me not want to engage with it, the guy should write a blog post instead. At least I can consume the information from the vase scan folks without watching hour long videos.

We need summarisation tools for clickbait videos. Maybe they already exist?
I guess the wonderful thing about a 30yo proclaiming wisdom is what they'll say in 10 or 20 years time.
It’s not quite that simple. Helmets are deterrents - Melbourne is a fantastic example where cycling is less common than it should be and public bike schemes keep failing specifically because of the requirement to wear a helmet. Companies like Lime try to solve this by attaching a helmet to the scooter. 90% of the time the helmet is missing. Yeah I could spend 30 minutes walking to every scooter in the area trying to find one I can ride legally, or I can just get an Uber.

When people are deterred, they take less eco friendly forms of transport, and are less active. This has negative health consequences, although difficult to measure and compare. But it’s not black and white.

The entirety of Europe gets by perfectly fine with public healthcare and no helmets. So I don’t buy the argument that this is truly a problem for healthcare.
Students have gone under academic investigation because their professor asked GPT "was this paper written by AI?" and pasted in their submitted assignment.
> i dont understand why you bring up reading peoples comment history. thats totally unrelated

Comment history != submission history.

Maybe I just plain don't understand what you're on about at all.
20Mb/s isn't 20mbps.
Exactly! I’m pretty sure Old Republic’s fee was a couple grand, nowhere near the mid-range luxury car price that the realtors collectively made on the transaction.
Actually you didn't provide any reasoning. You just made a statement without any supporting logic.
I tried to replace my Amazon Echo devices with Apple Homepod devices - but my wife wasn't having it. We just wanted whoever was in the room - even if it didn't recognize the voice - to add things to the shopping list. But nope. You have to have an apple device that's been trained on your voice to add things to the shopping list.

I'm still looking for another solution so I can get out of the hell of maintaining Alexa's random new notification setting of the day. I really hate all the new "suggestions" and new crap they keep shoving down your throat with no option to turn it off. I would pay a subscription to turn that it off the annoyance, but there is no option for it.
Yep. The primary fault lies with the too-many people who abused the non-hostile system. "This is why we can't have nice things"--because trust is too costly in the societies where hostile architecture is prevalent.
I agree and love the electrek dude and his Chinese import mini truck, but automobile companies are trying to make money. Selling a plastic molded macho truck for 90k fully loaded is a high ticket item with relatively good margins compared to low cost mini cars. The incentive tends towards gigantic tanks, not a joke, it fulfills fragile human ego and makes a bunch of money.

Here’s the link I refer to above, it’s a great read and shows that the tech and demand is there but the regulatory environment in US and profit motive means it’s a huge uphill battle.
https://electrek.co/2023/11/14/two-years-after-buying-a-2000...
I assume you work in edge case testing :)
It’s helpful in coordinating distributed systems, like how Google uses “TrueTime” in Spanner to ensure external consistency: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-con...

Garden variety NTP time / system time I wouldn’t trust as an oracle for distributed systems but this kind of high precision time is probably suitable for that use.
The end game for ad blocking is a neural network inspecting the final rendered webpage frame before it's displayed to the user and painting over it to cover the ads.
As much as I got downvoted, the botnets that attack servers are going to greatly evolve.

And it’s not personal.
> We cannot reproduce the rates of rich world car ownership in the developing world without mass catastrophe

That's incredible! Now show us some evidence.
Yes, however at 34kg/75lbs it isn't generally going anywhere once the wheels are locked. Won't survive a dedicated team with a truck though.
Readers: Here are a dozen examples that refute you

Author: Ha! I used the mighty "ALMOST"! Don't you plebs know the rule of the mighty "ALMOST". I win. I am so smart.