skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is one downside. Here in Australia, the walk signal does not happen unless you press the button. The unwritten convention is that if you are the first to the button, you will press it. Others arriving later will not press, for fear of looking like untrusting fools.

This works fine 99% of the time. However, sometimes my wife will be there. She never presses the button (because she’s ADHD and always forgets), but stands nice and close. A pile of pedestrians will mill around, the lights will change, and the walk signal will stay red! Someone will then annoyedly step in and press the button approximately 20 times while everyone waits for another light cycle to complete.

Her other trick is to enter an elevator and press no buttons. Eventually the lift will go somewhere, but she is often surprised at the destination!
I think like most things on HN, people are confusing the people here are a much smaller percentage of the population and the majority of the world does not think like HN. Most people don't care one little bit about what the camera does. They only care that it shows them a picture that looks like what they saw. Does it hold up to further scrutiny? Maybe not, but these are also not the people that will be scrutinizing it. Unless they take a picture of their cat and it ends up with the head of a dog, the "your moms" of the world are not going to care.
This is what fair competition looks like. Of course it is “another store / launcher”. But People just happen to like steam so they don’t freak out.
and you could invert X :)
I think Ford should counter and start putting the estimated savings in horseshoes and hay bales in their vehicle pricing.
Is this going to be less than $12K? Looks pretty expensive to me.
The author is missing one law of design that should be explicitly stated here: different things should look different and things that look different should be different. The example under "Don’t dance all over the color wheel" is a great example of a violation of this rule: it goes from showing five different things in bars to showing two groups of two plus one different thing (or a group of two and a group of three, it's actually not very clear). One of those interpretations is wrong, or unuseful, and careful color choice can make the right inference the correct inference.

This mistake is repeated in several places. But there's an example of where it's done well just below the heading "Avoid bright, saturated colors", where the colors suggest a relationship that in fact does exist and is meaningful (Asia is in blue).

And note that this isn't about banning similar colors from use. It's about what goes wrong when they're used in proximity, and exclusively so. (By chance a couple times in a big graphic is fine, since there are many places they won't be together, so no real implied relationship exists.) Of course using similar colors exclusively distant from each other is a straight-up confusion risk, so it's still an issue.
I don't mind if cars drive through on the walk phase as long as they slow to a crawl and make sure no one is walking first. Sometimes the road is very much clear because the person has already crossed, there's no need to hold up the cars.

And I say this as a pedestrian, I walk to work. And I am afraid of getting hit every day but for a different reason. The crosswalks are in the stupidest friggin spots, around a bend in the road, and cars are apparently allowed to park right up against the crosswalk so if even want a hope in hell of being seen you have to walk part way onto the road, and peak your head around the van that's blocking the view for both you and oncoming cars, and then hope they can see you around the bend in the road.
could this be as simple as...a python script which takes an artist - using python discogs_client and just scours every label mate of that artist and feeds itt to you - made more intelligent with acoustic fingerprinting...and a tiny bit of human intervention? :)
Probably, although an altruistic motive of accessibility was likely involved too.
Fantastic explanation. Does it surprise you how timing circuitry evolved along with with CMOS density or does that just follow? Or require a lot of engineering talent?
> Denouncing histrionic culture before launching into paragraphs about "crazy women" via lolcow.farm

This is what I'm talking about. I wrote one paragraph about them. The rest is anecdotal.
The Chromium source code is also available, not sure why they said they couldn't look at it. If it replicates with Chromium you can dig right in.
not to mention starlink is massively successful.
SD1.x is around 1.1B parameters including VAE, SD2.x is slightly more (uses the same UNet and VAE, but a bigger text encoder; not finding stats as quickly as I'd like), and SDXL is 3.5B parameters (single model only, but StabilityAI's preferred base + refiner model setup is effectively 6.6B parameters -- some bits are shared.)
> When did any of this happen.

So the Level 5 ‘robotaxis’ that were promised to be delivered in 2020 by Elon Musk are now delivered and are on the roads then?

I would also be annoyed if I was mislead into buying something that did not function or did not exist as advertised.

That is deceptive advertising, which is frequent with Tesla’s FSD scam.
$12k Patriot missile? You are off a couple whole orders of magnitude.
I wonder why GCC/LLVM don't set these options by default and leave it up to every single distro and upstream project to set them.
There was no fraud in any of this. People made the reservations after saying signing an agreement that said that the specifications may change.

> buying "robotaxis" which fully self drove themselves into oncoming traffic.

This doesn't even make sense as they haven't released any sort of Robo Taxi yet.
A single patriot missile is estimated to cost $4 million USD

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/patriot-missile-ukraine-explain...
Are you saying this fills a niche?
I've also seen this trend, and if you hate Apple style UI (like I do) this trend is infuriating
Weapons systems used to be pretty hush hush. I wonder how much of the information you see these days is propaganda designed to mislead.
The money is fully refundable, and the people who signed up agreed to the terms. There is no fraud there. They can still get their money back if they are tired of waiting.
If you read carefully you will see that they said the bug didn’t replicate with Chromium
I started coding in C.
Things were difficult to me.
Luckily we had a good professor who switched our programming learning to Pascal. That's when coding started to be clear and simple to me and for my classmates.

Niklaus Wirth has done an immense work. From Euler to Oberon, passing by Modula, he is a great visionary and a decades determinant mind.
Aren’t they using guns to fight cheap drones, at least for cities in Ukraine ? Eg Gepard.
My semi-educated guess is the heavier weight of the vehicle means the wheels can bear a bit more weight.
Quantum particles can feel the influence of gravitational fields
Yeah. If you have a SaaS that has product-market fit, you are way ahead of the game.

Cash cows don’t have to be agencies, but agencies are easier to spin up than a SaaS.

In terms of nomenclature in general, productized consulting is a thing. Whether you can spin a healthy amount of recurring revenue from it depends on the SaaS product.
> Our culture needs to confront the fact that people are tired of their attention being diverted from their goals every day just so some dumb companies can remind us they exist.

This seems like an argument against non-targeted/contextual ads only? Because goals and ads can align.
I used to use i3 on a ThinkPad x220 and agree that they are less useful on small screens.

My experience is that they are also just productivity theater. You feel more productive with the snazzy shortcuts but its very rare for the bottleneck in a workflow to be window management. Most people probably lose more time overall managing their config files and looking up the shortcuts they forgot.
Great quote!

Engineers do very well in Leadership/Management/Marketing/Sales/etc. which i consider ancillary domains in the Tech. Industry.

The reason is that Engineering is primarily quantitative and hence Engineers are taught to breakdown their Problems into smaller pieces and solve them one-by-one by using constraining/limiting abstractions so that each piece can be solved and then integrated into a whole.

In Non-Engineering fields this problem-solving approach is never taught and enforced. Most parameters are nebulous/qualitative/interlinked and more heuristics/opinion based with the result that they never learn to break a problem into manageable pieces and solve them one by one.
It's only hush if it's already exclusively contracted to the DoD. If you're trying to sell a system, you were always hyping it up.
> Source for calling it "almost unknown"?

I see what you did there!
India launches global repository of Digital Public Infrastructure
It’s hard blocked on any corporate devices where I work.
I have added the source operator for you, so you can search in specific news source. Like: https://qdorks.com/q/RW69pYt754wX

Just add sources and change the keywords to your liking.
"Scramble" is a funny term for that. I guess it kind of looks like the pedestrians are "scrambling" to an outsider but hopefully most of them know where they're going and aren't scrambling.

I think that author likes to make up words, like "Stroad".
A couple big/strong open models that have just been released the past few days:

* Qwen 72B (and 1.8B) - 32K context, trained on 3T tokens, <100M MAU commercial license, strong benchmark performance: https://twitter.com/huybery/status/1730127387109781932

* DeepSeek LLM 67B - 4K context, 2T tokens, Apache 2.0 license, strong on code (although DeepSeek Code 33B it benches better) https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/1729881611234431456

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.

Personally, I'm also looking forward to the larger Mistral releasing soon as mistral-7b-v0.1 was already incredibly strong for its size.
Out of personal experience, open source LLMs did not yet reach the quality of GPT 3.5, despite multiple claims with dubious benchmarks. That said, they are already useful as of today and can even run on your local machine. I regularly use them with my Neovim plugin gen.nvim [1] for simple tasks and they save me a lot of time. I'm excited about the future!

[1]: https://github.com/David-Kunz/gen.nvim
I find it funny that you are discussing how to block YouTube ads —- when you can just get YouTube premium. Makes me ask the age old question: how can creators supposed to eat?
Directed energy (laser) will solve this issue, so that Patriots are only engaged for expensive planes, while lasers will destroy drones and cheap ballistic rockets
It's a pain in the ass to set up sometimes, but you can pretty much always get better battery life in Linux nowadays. Even with hybrid graphics laptops.
Bug in YC Co-Founder Matching
When you click on a LinkedIn link in co-founder matching website profiles, TWO new tabs with the same LinkedIn profile open in the browser.

Is it a bug or a feature?

MacOS X 12.7.1; Firefox 119.0.1 (64-bit)
"India has successfully deployed projects such as Aadhaar, a mammoth digital identity project, and Unified Payments Interface (UPI), which allows real-time money transfer to bank accounts using smartphones, at scale. These two initiatives have played a crucial role in the development of the country's digital ecosystem. For instance, UPI recorded 11 billion transactions in the country in October 2023."

I am not sure whether the former can be considered a success.
and the drones are apparently $50k not $300!
If you can see Venus transits you'll be able to see these. Multiple daily, dozens to hundreds the farther out you are from the innermost orbit.

The amount of energy that hits the surface in a year is what determines habitability. The effect of these eclipses is cumulative. It shrinks the habitable zone the more rings you out into such a configuration.
Are there reasons this fly lengthwise? Can't it be made like a boolean of rocket and katana and flown sideways?
It's kind of nice to still be able to steer a car that is disabled and needs to be pushed around. Not always feasible depending on the disability, of course.

Yes, tow trucks are great, but sometimes it's handy to push a car out of the way while waiting for a tow.
Automakers have been towing each other's vehicles and comparing to Porsche for decades:

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/08/32/5f/08325fd8b2a6e882b2a6e9ff8...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j-qy1s1RIM
> Apple's horrible tech featured in the article had nothing to do with the lighting.

Of course it did.

iPhones take an “exposure” (scare quotes quite intentional) of a certain length. A conventional camera taking an exposure literally integrates the light hitting each sensor pixel (or region of film) during the exposure. iPhone do not — instead (for long enough exposures), iPhones take many pictures, aka a video, and apply fancy algorithms to squash that video back to a still image.

But all the data comes from the video, with length equal to the “exposure”. Apple is not doing Samsung-style “it looks like an arm/moon, so paint one in”. So this image had the subject moving her arms such that all the arm positions in the final image happened during the “exposure”.

Which means the “exposure” was moderately long, which means the light was dim. In bright light, iPhones take a short exposure just like any other camera, and the effect in question won’t happen.

(Okay, I’m extrapolating from observed behavior and from reading descriptions from Google of similar tech and from reading descriptions of astrophotography techniques. But I’m fairly confident that I’m right.)
Sure, you can skew the orbits so that they're not on the same plane, but you'll get partial transits and full transits the closer you get to the intersection points, and I don't know what this would do to the gravitational mechanics of such a system.
Haystack testing on GPT-4's 128K context suggests otherwise: https://twitter.com/SteveMoraco/status/1727370446788530236
Did you miss the part about being 2.5x more likely to kill other people, as in, not the people in the truck?
So why didn't they do anything about it?
I think it does fly sideways when it is at speed. It's just VTOL when gaining speed altitude. (That is my takeaway from watching the video)
> Americans that were eager to get a low monthly payment on cars/house

You're still describing relatively rich people. Those price increases really hit everyone else hard.

Moreover those loans are small fry compared to leveraged investment.
This is the exact kind of crap I remember from TV ads for trucks in the 90s. This is cheesy garbage.
My high school started offering it's first programming course in 1988. It was in Turbo Pascal, and it was being taught by a math teacher who knew absolutely nothing about programming and was learning out of the book (Borland Turbo Pascal 5.0 [still have it]) at the same rate we were. The classroom was basically a computer room lined with PCs that we all sat in front of. These PCs were equipped with 5 1/4" drives as well as 40 MB hard drives. Being the "hackers" that we were, we downloaded the original version of nethack (early rogue offshoot) off of a BBS with our 1200 baud modems, brought it to school on 5 1/4" disks, loaded it onto the hard drives, and started playing it while the teacher sat at the front of the room with her nose buried in the book, trying to figure out how to learn enough Pascal to offer instruction. Unfortunately, after a while, these mysterious black rectangles started randomly appearing on the screen, and the PCs started experiencing performance issues. Nobody could figure it out. After many months, it was determined that we had infected all of the computer with the Jerusalem virus (in 1988!). Soon after, a school-wide prohibition on installing your own software was implemented (though not followed).
They will not solve this issue because laser weapons will not work when light is defracted (fog, heavy clouds, rain), and they will not work against targets beyond the horizon. It's not a technology hurdle, it's a physics impossibility.

Interceptor missiles are here to stay. Lasers will accompany them but never replace.
While everyone is focused on the technological aspects and how much more secure Olvid can be, let’s point out the obvious fact:

It’s French!

The French government is picking up a French solution built by a French company.

I doubt that the decision was as much technological as it is obviously political.

Unfortunately this is a common pattern in Europe, especially the bigger states like France and Germany.
Highly recommend https://radix-ui.com/colors
No, lasers will not be a sufficient defense against ballistic missiles. Lasers require time to burn through the target. With ballistic missiles, they're facing a target traveling 5+ times the speed of sound (ie. little time), that also has heat shielding on the bit that's facing the target. Not to mention adverse weather conditions. And missiles w

Lasers will, however, be very effective at SHORAD, especially against cheap drones, rockets, artillery shells and cruise missiles, in the proper conditions. Iron Beam is projected to cost $0.50-$1.00 in electricity per shot, compared to a $50-60k Iron Dome interceptor missile (which is already insanely cheap for what it is).
I also learnt Turbo Pascal before Turbo C (in high school days: 2001-2004).
Eventually I knew C had a major selling point: Linux/Unix.

Pascal? Limited interest among system/OS kernel programmer nowadays. Still a fine language for building applications, though.
I don't see the "speed up" problem but I get the "I have no idea if you intend to stop, or turn directly into me".

These people drive with speed right up the stop sign, don't turn their blinkers on, and then with 40% probability, turn anyway. So whenever I get to that intersection, if I see a car approaching there, even if they don't have their blinker on to indicate they might want to turn where I want to walk, I wait to make sure they come to a complete stop before I enter the intersection. Sometimes the buggers will just start turning slowly into the intersection as I'm still walking. It's extra great when they start blocking cars going the other way.
Sytemd BSOD
"I Saw That Stories Could Have an Impact."
Pandora still gives the best recommendations. I doubt the Music Genome Project will be matched by a purely computation analysis any time soon.
Especially considering how their name and brand are in the dumpster, and likely won't recover. Their cars will be targeted for break ins for a long time to come due to how viral the vulnerability is, regardless of whether or not the model is actually susceptible to it.
There's another startup, Aptera, which is ostensibly still working towards producing a vehicle using Elaphe hub motors. Interestingly they are efficiency focused so I wonder how the motors are working out for them in that respect.
I sometimes pretend like I'm going somewhere else if I want them to go first.
Try to cram 7 or 8 people and some luggage into one of those and that 310hp won't feel so powerful anymore. But the handling will be even more terrifying!

I hate getting one of these as a rental instead of a van.
Any suggestions for creating training data? Did you just manually create your own dataset or did you use any synthetic methods?
At least in Germany (where I live), it is entirely normal for the pedestrian lights to be synchronized with the road parallel to it, meaning that turning cars will cross the path of walking pedestrians. However, by law pedestrians have the right of way in these situations (since cars are crossing their path), and generally that is being respected. I'd say that's what sets it apart from the US in that regard.
We even have right on red in some metro areas, though admittedly that's where things can get quite dangerous at times.
Show HN: Australian Acoustic Observatory Search
The Australian Acoustic Observatory (https://acousticobservatory.org/) has 360 microphones across the continent, and over 2 million hours of audio. However, none of it is labeled: We want to make this enormous repository useful to researchers. We have found that researchers are often looking for 'hard' signals - specific call-types, birds with very little available training data, and so on. So we built an acoustic-similarity search tool, allowing researchers to provide an example of what they're looking for, which we then match against embeddings from the A2O dataset.

Here's some fun examples!

Laughing Kookaburra: <https://search.acousticobservatory.org/search/index.html?q=h...>

Pacific Koel: <https://search.acousticobservatory.org/search/index.html?q=h...>

Chiming Wedgebill: <https://search.acousticobservatory.org/search/index.html?q=h...>

How it works, in a nutshell:
We use audio source separation (<https://blog.research.google/2022/01/separating-birdsong-in-...>) to pull apart the A2O data, and then run an embedding model (<https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06292>) on each channel of the separated audio to produce a 'fingerprint' of the sound. All of this is put in a vector database with a link back to the original audio. When someone performs a search, we embed their audio, and then match against all of the embeddings in the vector database.

Right now, about 1% of the A2O data is indexed (the first minute of every recording, evenly sampled across the day). We're looking to get initial feedback and will then continue to iterate and expand coverage.

(Oh, and here's a bit of further reading: https://blog.google/intl/en-au/company-news/technology/ai-ec... )
Maybe you should get in touch with the people who run that site.
Would love to hear from you if you'd be interested in chatting you can find us on the discord or outreach [at] supernetworks.org. I assume your comment is about SPR's micro-segmentation and not the blog post if I understand?

SPR does support mesh nodes with backhaul which is currently for PLUS members -- however, we have not explored supporting multiple independent routers with micro-segmentation.

Would love to hear your use case, we have an API which should already make it possible for users to automate and code up what they need to sync up disparate SPR instances on distinct routers, for example.

For affecting the 802.11 spec that's out of scope for our reach today.
"Stroad" seems like a funny term at first, but watching the video about Stroads is almost as radicalizing as trying to push a stroller anywhere (or, frankly, taking a young child anywhere at all without a car).
People might grow to like the Cybertruck. A yellow xTerra looks like a normal car now, and I remember them being totally bonkers.

But a Cybertruck is always going to look like it wandered out of StuntRaceFX.
Apple loses on Appeal, CMA can restart investigation into browsers
In a victory for consumers and developers, London's Court of Appeal has ruled against Apple and in favour of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), allowing the CMA to reopen their Browser and Cloud Gaming Market Investigation Reference.

This is important as, Apple has effectively banned third party browsers via their 2.5.6 rule.
stem splitting makes me feel that way - i feel like legal music protection is just going to be turned on its head...when people can now sample JUST jimmy's guitar, just cobhams drums...JUST elton's piano...i wonder if its already happening under our noses?
Jep when it comes to represent data the colors should not be “beautiful” they should be distinctive and meaningful

There are quite good color
maps for presenting scientific data which takes most of your points into account, I personally use the „scientific color maps” for representation: https://www.fabiocrameri.ch/colourmaps/