skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do Angelinos find this embarrassing? I find NYCs crime spike and our failure to build rail transit at the rate of my grandfather. Do angelinos feel that same internalization?

I think the mayor does, but the populace seems happy w/“my house got more valuable, who cares about the homeless encampments?”
here's a link: https://libgen.rs/search.php?req=System+Design+Interview&lg_...
Yeah, but he could also just not have said anything, right?
Ask HN: Give 8 year old access to Chat GPT?
My 8 year old daughter loves using Chat GPT / Dall-E to generate images. She also loves to ask the AI questions.

Has anyone given their child access on their own device (she has an iPad) and had any good / bad experiences? Any thoughts on how to do this in a way that doesn't expose her to everything in the world?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrfVIbXKqtg
Great, thank you! Syncing metadata may be a dealbreaker for me, but I'll be thinking of Bracket as we build solutions going forward. Cheers.
I'd take that bet. I know 3 different law firms with deep pockets that know that when Disney loses the case they will have to pay all of the lawyer fees.

After all, that portion of Mickey Mouse will also be entering public domain, so Disney won't own Mickey exclusively anymore either. Same as the non-red shirt version of Winnie the Pooh.
He doesn't always leave some footwork up to the reader.

Take this passage, for example, where the term "Clearing" is expanded upon:

> The UCC facilitated banks clearing each others’ checks. (“Clearing” is a magic finance word. Clearing a check refers to completing the process which the check agrees to: the writer sees money leave their account and the person depositing the check sees it enter theirs. This is much more complicated than it sounds in this quick gloss.)
Comment removed, didn't notice I was responding to the troll again.
I've lived in lots of locations around the Bay Area over the last 20 years and I didn't have fiber until a year ago when I moved to Oakland.

According to three speed tests with the command line speedtest application I am getting these speeds with Starlink:

Download: 59.79, 88.52, 104.76 Mbit/s

Upload: 6.45, 11.42, 15.79 Mbit/s
I'm glad to see people like you that understand that computers are ultimately machines that we put electric current (limited by our infrastructure) in to, and even with optimal efficiency (which we are no where close to), some math comes out. This year we all learned that a lot of what we thought was human thought can be expressed as math. Cool. But we can't scale that any higher than the physical input to the computer, and the physical heat dissipation that we can handle either. A 100% occupancy computing device is effectively a radiator.

So singularity people think 2 fallacies:

1. That it is possible to write an exponential function that somehow scales to asymptotic

2. That it is possible to write software that is so energy efficient that its output somehow exceeds the power draw

1 can be redefined to say "effectively" vertical. Ok. Cool motive, not a singularity.

2 can be handled by pumping more and more power in to the machine and building new nuclear plants to do so. This is what Microsoft is doing today.
Is it not because the manufactured stone requires manufacturing. So a lot more exposure to the raw materials during the manufacturing process?
Just take what it does and add -er.
Sure, although it does often seem that the convention we have around it amounts to a de facto rule. And I really struggle to see how this article passes the usual test of "satisfying intellectual curiosity". It's mostly an emotional appeal that doesn't give much information. We certainly know that atrocities took place on Oct. 7 and I'm sure none of us are surprised to hear first hand accounts from the Palestinian side that are also horrific.

As many people have pointed out, the article comes from a heavily biased source. Saying that the article itself is interesting, regardless of the source, not only appears to overlook the quality of the article's content, but it also glosses over the harm that referring to biased sources does to the conversation. It seems like way oversimplifying the way that fraught conversations like this tend to go to just claim that the article itself should stand on its own. And, again, it could easily be argued that this article, in fact, doesn't stand on its own.

Also, in this moment, referring me to a list of past instances of people claiming that "HN is getting too political" feels pretty dismissive. I don't doubt that people have claimed that in the past, but that's not some sort of balm that makes me feel any less justified in claiming it now.
You can do that with the pass through on the quest 2. It’s not pretty mind you. But it’s not intended to be anything more than safe guard in case you wonder outside the play boundary you defined.

I’ve got to say, the Quest 2 is a really nice device. It’s obviously not super high quality compared to a lot of other headsets on the market but its compromises are generally well thought out.
Just FYI, in case it makes a difference to your assessment of credibility, but this is the same commissioner who opposes net neutrality, wants to rework the CDA to deal with the way "the far left has worked to weaponize social media platforms", hopes to have TikTok banned in the interest of national security, and appeared on Fox News to talk about how "the far-left has hopped from hoax to hoax to hoax to explain how it lost to President Trump at the ballot box".

When you say it is most likely political, it certainly is, because Carr and Simington (who was rammed through the Senate at the last moment by the Trump administration) are pretty much the definition of partisan. People who were paying attention to the development of this situation back in 2020/21 saw it coming.
Fiber can even run aerial on those same power lines. It doesn't have to be buried, which could help some of the more remote areas that already have power.
Watches are common, indicators are common, warnings tend to be very last minute.

I consider myself a very weather aware person living near the edge of tornado alley in Dallas, I get all the alerts, generally keep a strong watch on radar development and storm arrival times (hail is just as much as a concern as tornadoes).

In general if there is a detection of a rotation or a strong hail core on radar, emergency sirens will go on near the affected area. Sometimes it just happens too fast, so if there is another method like the article sounds to detect a strong potential a tornado is forming it will absolutely reduce casualties.

As an example I lived through in October 2019. There was one hour between a Tornado Watch being issued and when the EF2/EF3 hit the ground. Watches generally last a long time and cover a large area so they aren't particularly helpful to me other than to indicate to 'check the radar on the regular'.

Because I was already glued to my phone I saw the warning right away, I was able to text friends that lived a few minutes from the tornado touchdown point that there was a tornado right next to them. Their sirens hadn't gone off yet, by the time they had taken shelter they heard the sirens and the wind kicking up right after. They got off light on damage compared to the rest of their neighborhood but I can't imagine someone out walking their dog or running an errand and then only having 1 or 2 minutes to find shelter. I'm still amazed this thing didn't cause more injuries particularly in the early minutes when the news crews and meteorologist were playing catch up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_October_20...

Maybe this tech would have helped give a clearer indicator versus the usual approach of waiting to see something on radar or manually spotting it. Or maybe some storms will just form too fast to have any useful indicators.
very allegorical
My favorite part of the 6502 is that you can write the instruction set as 4 columns by 8 rows, and see the really simple pattern.

https://pastebin.com/rCN932a0

When you see it in rows and columns, you can see how you have these addressing modes that correspond to the row number most of the time:

0: X,indirect

1: zeropage

2: immediate

3: absolute

4: indirect,Y

5: zeropage,X

6: absolute,Y

7: absolute,X

Then you can see that Column 2 is the arithmetic instructions: ORA, AND, EOR, ADC, STA, LDA, CMP, SBC

And column 3 is the Read-Modify-Write instructions: ASL, ROL, LSR, ROR, STX, LDX, DEC, INC.

And that fourth column of invalid instructions turns out to be a combination of the second and third column, effectively doing an arithmetic operation and a RMW operation at the same time, even for addressing modes normally not supported.
Show HN: Monito v2 – a browser extension for software testers (and more?)
previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27023366
Software timelines are notoriously hard to forecast because you're essentially trying to predict how long it will take to do something nobody has done before.

So you look at what's left to do and as long as you don't run into any unforeseen issues you say, looks like about six months from now.

Sometimes you don't run into any unforeseen issues and it turns out to be about six months.

Sometimes you do, and then it takes longer. So a year later you found an unexpected problem that delayed you by a year. Someone asks you how long you think it will take again, that issue delayed you by a year but that was a year ago, so you say, looks like about six months from now.

Eventually the estimate will be true but nobody knows when because nobody knows how to make an accurate estimate. Because you have to know how hard it is to do in order to know how long it will take, which nobody knows until after somebody has actually done it.
I meant the FBI raid had nothing to do with Google shutting him down. Also, the article did not say he was using Google as a backup.

BTW, one can go directly to a store and buy a new computer and start downloading.
A downgrade from UMDs? Perhaps you're referring to the density of textures and newer, more demanding game engines, because the UMDs were such a pain. Trying hard not to get hyperbolic here.
I hope it's better on iOS.

On Android, you have 5 tabs at the bottom: Home, Feed, Search, Library and Upgrade. Having Upgrade in the same place that nearly all other apps have a Profile/Settings tab constantly trips me up. I'm actually a Next Pro subscriber too, so it feels a bit shitty to devote so much of the experience to extracting more money from me.

And... well let's look at some user tasks:

Task 1: Go to the app's settings

Settings is only found on one of these tabs! Which one would you guess?

That's right! It's Library!

Task 2: View your SoundCloud notifications

Notifications is also only found on one of these tabs. Which one? That's right! It's Home.

Task 3: Start casting

Casting, perplexingly, is offered on the Home, Search, and Library tabs, but in different locations.

--

This is exacerbated because each tab remembers your drill down independently, because after you leave a tab on a particular drill down, and you return attempting to access one of the top options, they won't be there any more.

That upper right corner is the second most likely place to have a profile/settings menu, and they technically do have it there, but it's split up bizarrely and completely inconsistent throughout the app :*-(

I constantly have to retrain my brain to deal with these things, and it's really only a challenge in this app.

There are some other smaller things that annoy me, like how the "Showing last 7 days" time range selector in Insights (for artists) opens a full screen picker, but if you use the Back button in the upper left or you use the back gesture, it skips back to the previous page instead of closing the full page selector.

I'm sure there are more but honestly just these are enough to irritate me whenever I use it.

All this said, there are a lot of cool parts of the app-- the scrubbable waveform in the playback drawer is really slick, and though tapping on the large background to pause isn't the most discoverable, it's also very cool that they managed to have zero buttons on this view and for it still to be quite capable. It's also really responsive and not very error prone to open and close the drawer by gesture, even though swipe left/right are track skip gestures as well.

And Soundcloud's "Playback History" is something I wish literally any other audio/video app would add. But I just lost how to access it while I was navigating around. It's in there somewhere.
It probably depends on the weather station. The cycle time on those pressure sensors can be ridiculously high and still give decent results; you really only need one measurement per minute. But that should be just one firmware patch away from being a solved problem.
I used it to read some webnovels a few months ago. It's much better than other machine translators (like google or deepl) but it's a bit tedious to use because of the character limit.
same here. - I don't live far from you, in a town of less than 1000 people - and more than 40 miles from even a modest-sized city - and we now have 1GB symmetrical fiber-to-the-home for less than $100/month - and it hasn't gone out even once in over 2 years.

It can work.
It is implemented in most of the world outside of the US.

It is scary that the info you need to deposit funds into an account in the US also allows you to withdraw funds from it.
But it's not actually written in C89. It uses POSIX threads, flexible array members, anonymous unions, bitfield members that are not int, declarations intermixed with statements. And that's just what “gcc -std=c89 -pedantic-errors” reports.
It seems that for some reason, my firefox is stuck in software compositor. I am getting:

WebRender initialization failed Blocklisted; failure code RcANGLE(no compositor device for EGLDisplay)(Create)_FIRST 3D11_COMPOSITING
runtime failed Failed to acquire a D3D11 device
Blocklisted; failure code FEATURE_FAILURE_D3D11_DEVICE2

I'm running a 3060
I love the UI, It is simple and clean; it reminds me more of Hacker News
I've been shamed for using LLM's heavily despite my productivity being through the roof.
Should we short Amazon then?
> Its a car and motorbike mecca.

I'll say! In high school and college I had a 1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 and I grew up on Highway 9 in Ben Lomond. I went to college at Santa Clara University and continued dating someone who lived off Highway 9 in Boulder Creek. I got to rip it over HWY 9 a few times a week! Such a lovely drive. Tho I lost a dear friend to a car accident on that road and I slowed down a lot since then.
Because cheques are unreliable, insecure, slow, inconvenient and expensive, and electronic bank transfers solve literally all of those issues. What kind of a stupid question is that?

Do you think cheques are not processed by computers?
Tip: If you are adding a self-critique step, show the model the initial output as if it is evaluating something from someone else (i.e. "grade this answer from a student") as opposed to from itself (i.e. "you wrote this, is it really correct?").

As you correctly note, humans have a problem with admitting fault. Especially the case online. But humans online are very ready to correct others.

That's exactly the kind of larger abstract pattern in the data a model would emulate.
I'm a k8s expert so I wouldn't pay to outsource that part. If I'm going to pay someone else, I don't want to be thinking at that level and more likely join one of the most popular servers with good moderation and policies
I do agree. It's hard to get an unbiased assessment of how many developers are actually using generative AI (copilot/chatgpt) for work, and in what capacity they do use them. Anecdotally, at my org of ~40 devs, we encouraged everyone to try out Copilot and let us know if they wanted a full license; only 2 people took up the offer, and they use it either for generating unit tests or translating English data logic to pandas syntax (which it does seem quite good at!)
MSVC lacks some C99 features like variable length arrays and complex numbers. There's always a work around, but wouldn't want to use that compiler for C unless I had to.

Going for C89 for a truly portable project is probably fine.
In HN people have low expectations for google so a limit seems reasonable to us. Google behaving shitty doesn't surprise anybody here. But what about with the normies? Google has deliberately cultivated an image of extreme technical capability with the normies. Google have deliberately convinced the general public that Google are basically internet gods who can do things no other company can, using their computer wizard magic. A normie can therefore reasonably believe that google could store a petabyte for them, when more technical people should reasonably know that google has limits. These aren't contradictory.

If Joe Blow's computer shop down the street offered "unlimited storage" then normies would understand that to be bullshit. But when Google gives that offer, it's taken literally because Google. And this is Google's own damn fault, their PR teams built Google's reputation to impossible heights deliberately.
The FCC canceled Starlink's welfare check on August 10, 2022.

Elon took over Twitter on October 27, 2022.

Where is the coincidence exactly?
I said the same thing when they made compilers and cobol
Where do you think the term daily grind comes from. People used to grind their wheat everyday and then use it for cooking/baking.
I had read about a competing technology that was suggesting NeRF's were a dead end

but perhaps that was biased?
> They are standardizing around k8slens instead of kubectl. Why, because there are things you can do in k8s lens (like metrics) that you'll never get a good experience around in a terminal.

It looks like a limitation of the tool, not of the method, because metrics could come as CSVs, JSON or any other format in a terminal

> I'm pretty much the only one still in vim, I'm not giving up my efficiencies in text manipulation.

I love vim too :)

> I don't disagree with you, but I do see a trend in preferences away based on my experience, our justifications be damned

Trends in preferences are called fashions: they can change the familiarity and the level of experience through exposure, but they are cyclic and without objective.

The core problem is the combinatorial complexity in the problem space, and 1d with ascii will beat 2d with bitmaps.

I'm all for adding graphics to outputs (ex: sixels) but I think depending on graphics as inputs (whether scriping a GUI or processing it with our eyeballs) is riskier and more complex, so I believe our common preferences for CLIs will prevail in the long run.
This link to what DoD uses:
https://defense-update.com/20060107_feature-ugs.html
the parents bear responsibility too, they are the ones responsible for feeding their kids. Poverty gets in the way, but poor parental choices and neglect share the blame. (I know personal responsibility is too passé these days, so sorry to bring up the topic).
Yeah, it's weird how I didn't care about school at all when I was younger, but now I feel like it would be absolutely amazing to be able to learn all of this as it is. I think it's mainly though because I've experienced more of "actual life" and trying to survive on my own so all of that speaks more to me. Otherwise it seems like it's clueless theory I am forced to learn, but now I can relate my own life's experience with it.
Strange dark pattern. Both have prompts without submit button.
iAPX has been dead for almost 40 years; there probably won't be much confusion.
People are not allowed to be proud of their work anymore?
Also, is there a particular reason he uses obscure words like "infelicity"? I'm a native English speaker and I think that is the first time I've heard that word used. Is it really that hard to just use "misfortune"?
Hah! Ok wow yeah I can see that documenting it would be a total pain to the benefit of exactly no one. Cool little project though.
> Fundamental phenomena would either exist or not exist, including the phenomenon of first-person experience.

Why do you think first-person experience is fundamental? It seems to me it's way more likely to be an aggregate phenomenon, like fire. There's no low level fundamental fireyness, it's a chemical reaction like any other, we humans just label reactions that meet certain criteria of scale, setting, and composition as "fires".

> Some supporting evidence is that first-person experience in sentient systems, as far as I've observed, is usually motivated to preserve sentient systems

I suspect this has more to do with the fact that you are far more likely to observe systems that seek to preserve themselves, since they are more likely to continue to exist. It doesn't indicate an emergent behavior of sentience, it's just observation bias.
Yeah to expand on that a bit, I think VCs have a portfolio of bets and need extreme, outlier wins in order to come out ahead. So even if the scale doesn't make sense for a business, VCs will push them to pursue it because it is optimal for the VC.
Considering most of my arguments are self-evident, no. I'm not going to provide research to prove that... let's see, "bumper stickers are attached to cars," or that "official road signs are easy to read at a glance."

Try providing some evidence of how "highly regulated" billboard distraction levels are and I might take this conversation seriously.
What kind of modes does the viewer cycle through when I press the space key?
Sure but the panel discussion was talking about consumer release of self driving cars, which really requires level 5 capabilities in a wide variety of conditions, not just ideal weather.
It is May. I have no fingers. You're a very good Kalman filter. You get a prize if you filter well.
I mean, credit cards do it with tokens, so at least part of the industry moved to something like that already.
lol it actually did and now I’m gonna read more about upserts!
I don't think HN is sleeping on generative AI - it's been fairly prevalent near the top of the front page.

I agree that some creative fields are going to start feeling real impacts, not necessarily because models have gotten super creative, but they're becoming more practical for rote tasks which otherwise might "pay the bills." For example, Google's recent work on style alignment: https://style-aligned-gen.github.io/ .
Hilariously, I did replace all my VHS with DVDs. I didn’t make that mistake a third time with blurays.
Yep!

speedtest -f json -I eth0

I also test the WISP connection on eth1
I use Django ninja because it’s minimal and uncoupled from everything else. Like the framework it is based on fast api.

Coupling to the ORM the api contract (schemas) is much closer to Django rest framework than id like.

My approach is to have a schema factory that takes query results and outputs instances schema models. The schema handles all the contract level validation.

What benefits do you reason your project brings over my approach? I’m genuinely interested in a technical discussion. Not starting a flame war or baiting you.
> My big city in Poland tried several times to get public-private bike sharing. It ended the same: company ceases operation after few years and take all bikes from the streets. People get nothing while millions already spent.

Is this an argument for public-private deals?