skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that, but it doesn't answer my question. Is there a crosswalk button without traffic lights? Are there lights but you still need to carry a flag? What exactly are the function of the button and the flag in this setup?
For decades in Boston, many lights were programmed to send cars through active crosswalks on left turns. In some cases, the only place for a car to go on green was through an active crosswalk. Maybe the worst examples have been ended over the years[1] but "concurrent signaling" has been an absurd signature of callous safety-hostile traffic design right up until this year.

"Turns on red are extremely dangerous to vulnerable road users: a 1980 Insurance Institute of Highway Safety study found that they increase pedestrian crashes by 60 percent, and bicycle crashes by 100 percent." [2]

[1] https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2021/11/04/lawsuit-flawed-...

[2] https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/06/15/guest-column-why-bos...
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader Brings me back
I also didn't know this until I saw an Urban Ranch video where they have a goose with an injured beak, so they're feeding the animal manually until it regrows its beak.
I'm no mechanical expert, but I wonder how you prevent damage to the motor if the wheel encounters an obstacle when it tries to rotate (against a curb for example) or if it's forced to rotate by an exterior force.
That's what I was getting at, thanks for the reference!
It’s called noise reduction, and has been done by the most primitive cell phones since forever.
What you wrote puts a shiver down my spine. If I can't disclaim any sort of warranty, and my FOSS has a bug which a company incorrectly thinks is nefarious code, what defense do I have should that company decide to sue me? (Or threatens to sue me unless I fix the code to their satisfaction.)

I thought I could point to the explicit disclaimer of warranty&usability, the lack of a contract between us, the lack of payment, and the lack of copyright permission to even use my software unless they agreed to the license terms, as an absolute defense to request the court to dismiss the case.

And now you suggest it might be otherwise, and I might end up paying a lot in lawyer and court costs over years?

Has anything like this ever been taken to court?

For example, was there any legal liability for the people who added the Bitcoin miner to event-stream?

Or the denial-of-service caused by colors.js?

It comes down to what specific law is broken, and where the person is living. Extradition requires the crime be illegal in both countries, yes?

And who says the nefarious code must be hidden? What if it's described in the CHANGELOG and documentation? Because I know few people read those.
Update: I looked at various settings, and found an account Ana Petrovic listed as Payment Account Admin. I have removed it now and set 2FA requirement for all the changes.
This is not an extension. It's some other kind of plugin or weird hook. They tried disabling all extensions first thing.
Yeah, check out some of the showcase I posted above with some more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38482347
Untyped Python: The Python That Was
Yeah. I was hoping for a list of hacks that got promoted to standards. That would have been a really cool read.
Not "Jewish community". "Jewish communitIES". The first wording means all jews. The second leaves reasonable doubt that the author meant all jews, and not just some of them.

Please honestly ask yourself why are you so morally convicted about something you did not quote accurately. I do not imply your bad faith, but something's obviously gone wrong here worth thinking about. Perhaps your anger was actually masterfully manufactured.
Driving Tesla Cybertruck: Everything You Need to Know [video]
That would be nice if it were true :(
Christian homophobia comes from historical homophobia. Before Christians there was homophobia, it wasn't invented in the Bible. The Bible was just used as a justification for homophobia.
There’s not likely to be much freedom to be had in space or on Mars, in a situation where life support systems are fragile and need much more protection from careless/reckless individuals.
Ya the uncritical acceptance of these very non-technical articles on HN is a little disappointing
One example would be if you define one set A to be "less than" another B if A is a subset of B. Then ∅ < {0} and {0} < {0, 1} but {0} ≹ {1}.

Such a thing is called a partial ordering and a set of values with a partial ordering is called a partially ordered set or poset (pronounced Poe-set) for short.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partially_ordered_set
Ah, an abandoned extremist Q site.
I don’t think anyone cares about what is written here.
Or just code that works and nobody wants or needs to spend money on changing. I've written such code, very crappy stuff. And then coming back to the client many, many years later, finding it all just humming along, driving their business critical applications without it or the computer it runs on ever having been updated once in 5 years or so. I was so surprised, and a bit scared.

Sometimes when you don't change anything, it just keeps working.

So I guess that makes it a very boring:

code that can't be read won't be changed and will not be relevant for long, but not always
You're saying that the reason for the slow compilation speed we see here is a commitment to keeping the compiler fast. That's not a logical sequence of thought.
Good luck capturing a sprint finish with that kind of camera.
Did they ever invest much into it? As far as I understand they got the core components from Spyglass Inc. and avoided paying licensing fees by giving it away for free.
By this logic any other country than the US should ban Facebook and YouTube?
This is how image generation works for DALL-E 3 via ChatGPT.
Free speech also means that the gov can't dictate what apps I run on my phone.
I'll take this bait :) why do dinosaurs that can read and create clocks have two elevens on the clock face (instead of one ten and one eleven)?
If you're into horror comedy movies, be sure to check out Rare Exports [1]. It combines some of the folklore with the commercial father christmas.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Exports:_A_Christmas_Ta...
I can't comprehend how that kind of bug even happens. Not that insulin pumps should have any bugs, but it doesn't even sound like an integer overflow or use after free which is "understandable". Are they doing some kind of scuffed string parsing?
I kinda like that scenario!
The Shuttle had a similar problem to the F-35. It was designed to do everything.

I have no idea if anything linked to the US military could design a specialized device in the last ~40 years. But if you just took the bay out of the Shuttle, you'd get a much more reasonable design.
Linux/Xorg/Firefox/KDE
Paddle coordinate gets updated only when I release the paddle window.
https://nitter.net/CleanPowerDave/status/1729784959890506150... says China will likely install 240GW of solar this year, which is about 90% of what the entire world installed last year.

I agree that the piece sounds as if it's trying not to mention renewables.
>Yeah, but given they seem to be proposing that the UK change from its current natural position, to what would be permanent BST, it seems daft.

They're not, though? The UK would be on UTC/GMT rather than BST.
Welcome to this side of the shop, I hope we can all make you feel welcome. :)

Bad news: too few experienced ops people became one less!
Pre-Scheme
Neat summary. I think many developers experience the degree to which biz and user diverges as a source of problems: the more divergence, the more problems.
The entire financial industry disagrees. Also can I interest you in coming out of retirement to explain your cobol code to other developers?
Communication Is Action
it's kind of trivial today.

the first layer could be a mix of nlp and zero-shot classification to clarify the nature of the request.
Then using LLM deconstruct the request into several specific parts that would be sent to specialized LLMs.
Then stitch it back together at the end again with LLM as the summarization machine.

Problem is running so many LLMs in parallel means you need quite a bunch of resources.
You probably don't want to use a small ICE at each wheel though.
Highly recommend this irreverent podcast by 2 engineers and former NASA contractors. They get out above their skies on some topics but the shuttle content is fun.

Episode 1: Why do Blake and Craig think the Space Shuttle was stupid?
https://youtu.be/KRlD8SdFmaE

Episode 18: Challenger
https://youtu.be/H98IGl7pSfQ
I have no idea, but yiyan is short for wenxinyiyan（文心一言), which roughly translates to character-heart-one-(speech/word). Maybe someone who is Chinese could translate it better. So I don't think the name has anything to do with the model.

I do wonder what their backend is. They have the same 3.5/4 version numbering scheme that ChatGPT uses, which could be just marketing (and probably is), but I wonder.

EDIT: fixed my translation
Modulo now in low-light, moving scenes you actually get a decent photo. It doesn’t happen in good lighting, and this whole article is bullshit.
Market opportunity for a stainless steel sloped "Cybercup"
It was like reading a Sherlock Holmes story where they just decide to put Moriarty in jail and that fixes everything, but Holmes doesn't actually figure out what was going on.
wow - this was a great walk down memory lane. I remember using all of them, particularly tables for creating complicated layouts. it worked beautifully but was an unbelievable pain to maintain when making layout changes. what's wild though is that this technique eventually went way beyond the category of "hack". slicing tables into layout became officially supported by major software such as dreamweaver (big at the time) and photoshop! yes, you could open a static design in photoshop and use the "slice tool" to cut it up into an HTML table. good times...
In Defence of Doubles
From what I recall from aforementioned incident, I was not able to reliably prove that client app (Eclipse) really used Windows' curl (I would have guessed that such software would have it's own internal stack for network connections, but my knowledge in this area is non-existent), only that it exhibited suspiciously similar problems.
So I came to conclusion that it either uses that CURL or CURL that is similarly broken as the Windows' one. I was unable (or more precisely haven't even tried) to swap Windows curl with the "better" one to see if it fixes Eclipse Maven. Result back then was only that HTTP2 was disabled on the Maven server and all (windows) clients (both of them) were happy. (Other might become less happy since it presumably slowed something down.)
>On a more serious note, this list highlights how development without standards leads to control information being encoded in various tolerable side-channels.

I don't think it's a lack of standards, it's more of a lack of necessary functionality. If the thing you want to do isn't an addressed feature, you'll do it one way or another creatively. Standards provide rigidity that create this situation to begin with unless the standard is mature enough that it captures all the potential needs, especially in cases like the web where your often locked to some standard that may or may not suit your needs. In other spaces, you usually have enough options that one thing or another is flexible enough you can do what you need to do and go with that choice.

Having worked in research long enough you'd be surprised how often something someone wants to do requires some hacky technology approach because many standards exist around business/consumer interaction and systems built around that, because that's where the money is which drives those standards and feature sets.
Nassim Taleb talks a lot about this.

How extremists are using free speech to undermine democracy and turn the West into an authoritarian regime.

"The Jihadi next door" is a good documentary exemplifying this, how ISIS supporters in UK are using UK's freedom of expression to recruit people for ISIS while openly stating in public in front of the police "the ISIS flag will be flown over 10 Downing street and UK will implement Sharia law".

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jan/20/jihadis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTweBFyb01w
to correct your error: nontechnical skills like marketing, grit, forgiveness, and negotiation are far more critical to business success than any technical skill

my single comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38479157 got flagged, i think, for being extremely rude, not for failing to communicate

you are the third person here to incorrectly attribute to me an undervaluing of non-tech skills, but that's on you three, not me; you're just pattern-matching what i said to some kind of stereotype and guessing what kinds of opinions i might hold on questions i haven't talked about. it's as if i had advocated abortion rights and you attacked me for advocating gun control

but i'm not in favor of gun control, and i value non-tech skills very highly. you guessed wrong, and you should be ashamed of yourself for falling into fox-news-style stereotype-based reasoning instead of thinking about what i actually said

the particular communication skill i need in this case is the skill to avoid communicating with people who will ignore what i actually said and substitute something they would prefer to argue with
> Also recently released: Yi 34B (with a 100B rumored soon), XVERSE-65B, Aquila2-70B, and Yuan 2.0-102B, interestingly, all coming out of China.

most AI papers are from Chinese people (either from mainland China or from Chinese ancestry living in other countries). They have a huge pool of brains working on this.
One of my clients is convinced that a short hunk of JavaScript code that nobody can clearly describe the behavior of is their most valuable asset.

Non-coders are weird.
If you're going to downvote an opinion, at least say why.
You’re presuming technical problem people have superset of skills of nontechnical people, or you that a company only needs technical skills.

There are very little businesses where the latter is true. For the former, no one can be good at everything.
Supporting all validation libraries with Superforms v2
Not crazy at all. Even the most cursory application of individual tutoring in today's mass education settings comes with a 2-sigma disparity in outcomes compared to ordinary teaching. And that's disregarding everything else that might have been different about these elite tutoring practices - including, yes, a less standard and more creative education, compared to the modern focus on one-size-fits-all.
I don’t think it is……….. yet.

In a couple of years as people get their head around how it can help and where it can’t then sure it will help.
a CPU would work fine for the 7B model, and if you have 32GB RAM and a CPU with a lot of core you can run a 13B model as well while it will be quite slow. If you dont care about speed, it's definitely one of the cheapest ways to run LLMs.
Yeah this is what I think as well. Certainly regulation won't be avoided now, and regulators will (or should) know not to trust Altman to contribute to developing it.
ah, I expected article talks
about this is too cheap or AI eat our lunch, but it is about carbon.
What a cheap blanket dismissal. Regardless of the affiliation of the site (which I neither know nor care) it links to sources that can be trusted:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/percepto-to-create-fleet-of-ro...
https://bostondynamics.com/products/spot/
Q5_M on Mistral 7B has good accuracy and performs decently on a CPU too
> ravynOS (previously called airyxOS)

Subjectively, I find both names terrible. There’s zero chance I’ll vocalise either to someone and they’ll know how to spell it. The current one in particular is bound to have people typing “ravenous”.

But the idea is interesting, and even though the screenshots don’t yet inspire confidence (the typeface is too thin, folder icons are too square, …) I wish the team the best of luck in making their vision come to light.
DARPA eyes creation of next-generation semiconductor manufacturing hub
Couldn't agree more. Thank you for saying this.
openchat is very impressive indeed. I think it may be better than Mistral, while comparisons are not always easy.
I’m not weighing in on the right or wrong of people using TikTok or where, but let’s not fuck around on ByteDance being the social media arm of the PRC?

I did years at IG, we knew who we were competing with.
I’ve thought this would be a good application of AI. Stats will be very interesting to see!
Also A Rainy Night in Soho
When I reached the "Stroke of Good Luck" title, I put down my phone and tried to think what it could be based on what I know before the reveal.

It was really hard to generate thoughts of the form "subsystem x causes the crash" and not of the form "try to do experiment x next", but here's what I came up with:

- a headache trying to think about it
- if it's not an extension, it's likely another piece of software that has code running in the browser, like PDF plugins used to before Chrome started handling PDFs itself
- the crash is in one of the browser subsystems, so either in the JS engine, the GPU code, the layout engine, the parser, some format plugin (video? pdf?) or the network code. Some format plugin is most likely of these to only crash for tech support and remote developers but not devs

Seems I was pretty close. After doing this exercise I would probaply have compared lists of installed software between staff who see the bug and those who don't, which would have solved it. My takeaway is that Zen debugging (just thinking what possible causes the seen behavior could have, without atking any new actions or measurements) is useful even when it seems completely useless and causes a headache.
> I'm convinced that North America will only get its act together when gasoline reaches $9.00/gal.

What if North America successfully moves from petrol-powered cars to electric ones, and autonomous vehicles get rolled out, and in the end the sprawling development and the reliance on vehicles remains just as entrenched?
> We're still dealing with the fallout insane Russophobia that was engendered in the US halls of power.

Living in a country that is at war with Duchy of Muscovy (AKA Russia) for the last 500 years... There's plenty of reasons keeping them at bay. Industrialisation of USSR by American capital was one of the grave mistakes that brought WWII. Please don't do that again.
> Remember when our browsers defaulted to gray backgrounds? That was weird, right?

better than white themes we have today
I think the police/insurance topic will be a big deal soon. I still remember the first building inspectors walking around with digital cameras, and of course when smartphones with "good enough" cameras came they started using these...

Now if society (including the courts) learn that the photos might not reflect reality, photo "evidence" could face issues being accepted by courts...
> At what point did we lose our ability to enforce our own desires through violence?

Judging by reports of violent crime, it would be a stretch to say that the “right” to exercise violence when your individual will is otherwise thwarted is very much still possible. I mean if someone wants to gun down their Amazon HR person or manager, there is little to stop them. It won’t end well for anyone though.
ExifLooter has released on Kali Linux
https://twitter.com/aydinnyunuss/status/1728809531306811515
Oh, this makes a lot of sense actually. I never use those anyway, but I will try and observe the next time I see one.
I just meant the yoke -- variable ratio steering would still work with a wheel, right?

I'm skeptical but I can see the potential benefits of drive-by-wire, definitely. The yoke, nope (except maybe for racing drivers).
Remember when we rounded corners using images placed at each corner.

It was a nightmare.
It's quite possible that it has a ST-4 style guide port, which simply has 4 pins for slewing in each of the 4 directions + 1 common pin.

https://astrophotosite.com/tiki-index.php?page=ST-4
Is this considered as absusing the GitHub CDN? The project is not open source, butis using GitHub for hosting so many videos.
If only they suggested more than the same three or five songs by bands.
Presumably, the flag is to increase the visibility of a pedestrian to increase the probability that a driver notices them.

The crosswalk buttons work, the traffic lights turn red, but that does not mean a driver will pay attention and check for pedestrians.

Right turns on red lights are allowed. As are left turns on greens, while the walk signal will simultaneously tell a person they can walk across the road. In both cases, the traffic light does not stop the driver, the driver has to be actively checking for a pedestrian.
The update to the old IEA misprediction of solar graph found in that thread is illustrative:

https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FGADZCdnWEAA6XhK.jpg
It's important to separate Duchy of Muscovy which is philosophical successor of Golden horde from Russians as in Kievan Rus and Ruthenian people who live(d) in western part of modern Russia.
For those not from AU, the PB/5 [0] is an icon of design history.

[0]: https://theconversation.com/sublime-design-the-pb-5-pedestri...
Was this a more economical approach than launching those missions on an expendable rocket, and just building brand new satellites?

The shuttle program launched 135 missions at a cost of $209 billion (2010 dollars).
The French too.

Beats them being some total bores, with a sorted domestic life and bank account.
AI gets MAD after being tricked into making a choice in the Trolley Problem
Why not code? Why exclude that?

If you want to see the stuff I've created, the links to my website and GitHub is in my profile. It's all free and open source software. I'm not a fan of advertising either so I try very hard not to post my stuff here unless it's directly relevant to the discussion. I don't know about "good", that's for others to judge.
Ah! I mean, only two years old, but OK ;P. Regardless: my point stands that you can trivially store and work with timestamps in SQLite as they are simply a real or integer or text; like, the idea that you need a special timestamp data type or you can't work with such values in an engine that only two years ago got support for checking the types at all and encourages you to just write code is highly strange.
Yeah, it shouldn't be too difficult to build this with python. I wonder why none of the popular routers like https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm have this feature.

> Problem is running so many LLMs in parallel means you need quite a bunch of resources.

Top of line MacBooks or Minis should be able to run several 7B or even 13B models without major issues. Models are also getting smaller and better. That's why we're close =)
> No photographer thinks images the they get on film are perfect reflections of reality.

More importantly than that: framing, exposure, aperture choices by anyone not simply shooting with their camera in the Auto mode.

* https://petapixel.com/digital-camera-modes-a-complete-guide/...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_dial

* https://photographylife.com/understanding-digital-camera-mod...
But Mistral 7B has horrible writing. This, for my tests, wrote actual sentences that made sense. Which IME for 7B is extremely impressive. Writing is still far worse than GPT 3.5, but well, 7B.
It does not contradict the Twitter post.

They're saying that since there is a confirmation screen, it's the user's responsibility to catch the bug.

this-is-fine.jpg
In general, traffic light synchronization is very important to optimize street capacity, but it depends on heuristics limited by the sensor, modelling, programming etc. resources.