skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really, really bad in Eugene, Oregon. And Salem is a mess too. But the Portland metro is by an order of magnitude more populous. It's also desperately underfunded, and it's got a situation in which the populace mostly hates the police, and the police feel the same way back. (Which led to an amazing announcement during early Covid, when people were being assaulted and houses broken into all over the city):

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/portland...

This effect hasn't worn off. And the combination of lawlessness and drug availability in Portland has led to a massive influx of people from every other part of the country that has less tolerance for a combination of open drug use + antisocial behavior. I don't think support services even register as part of the draw. There are no cops here and drugs are everywhere, it's open season on people who own property (still), or just anyone walking down the street with $10 in his pocket.

It's a separate subject whether the Portland police are essentially allowing this because (a) they're pissed off at the DA who won't prosecute anyone they arrest and (b) they're pissed off at the denizens and (c) they can't even hire anyone from Portland itself, since Portlanders hate the police so much. All those are basically true, and they're holding the city hostage by not doing their job.

But this is why it doesn't work on a local level. If half the junkies in Idaho weren't robbing people here to buy fentanyl, they'd have to rob people in Boise. White America did not give a fuck about the effects of street drugs on their loved ones when only Black Americans were enduring the crack epidemic. They only started to care once it affected their neighbors and their kids. Shipping those all off to the one place in the country that allows reckless abuse and has no enforcement is a way of washing their hands of their problems and blaming "liberal cities" like ours.
They asked him why he hadn’t been able to come up with a better joke to address that question. He replied with a laugh “no, but nor has anyone else”.
This planet harbored life for billions of years. Our modern civilization is few thousand years old, broadly speaking, we only industrialized two hundred years ago, and suddenly we have "limited time"?

I wonder if you realize the reason our time is limited is because we keep multiplying indiscriminately, thus destroying our entire habitat and exhausting our resources.

And your solution to multiplying indiscriminately is to multiply even more indiscriminately all over other planets.

Our time is not limited. Nor is our ignorance.
> Where else do you get 64 GBs of unified memory attached to a somewhat capable GPU?

AMD has many APUs with decent GPUs, you won't run CUDA on them but the graphics capabilities are there.
I used to use Grooveshark back in the days, while it had it's own warts it was amazing for its time. I was sad to see it go when it went. I'm mainly using SoundCloud for my techno needs these days as Spotify can't seem to recommend me new music.
https://mixedname.com started as a command-line script to name our child, then added more languages and put up a web interface (actually nothing is dynamic all pages are precomputed)
Advent of Technical Writing: Facilitating Ideas
I would be astonished if there is no spec for the maximum allowed latency in Carplay/AA.
A really big part of the bond between my girlfriend and me is that we are almost the same age, from similar families and had all the same TV and radio growing up. We actually have very different musical tastes, but we both know and like all the familiar stuff from the 90s.

I've had many relationships where we've been very different ages or grew up in different countries and it's surprising how much is missing from such a relationship. I could always tell this by observing former partners relish talking about this stuff on the occasion they meet someone in their own group. I, of course, couldn't join in.

The fragmentation started in the 90s, though. Already there were kids who had watched the football last night. Or they'd seen something American, like a film. These were available on subscription only TV (which I thought only rich families had, but, in fact, it was mostly families bad with money). More and more stuff went to paid TV, like cricket and boxing, that used to be available to all. Then you had kids who had inexplicably seen all of something like South Park despite it not being on any public channel. It steadily grew from there to the extent I wouldn't even be surprised if kids from non-football families don't know what Manchester United is, for example.
> we're not in an anglophone country, so delivery

I’m not sure not having those things is at all unique to Anglophone countries
If you stack transistors, the process node will indeed go smaller than a single atom, even a hydrogen atom.
> Mistral is doing the exact opposite and everyone is talking about it.

Everyone is currently talking about it because they got a massive investment and people started posting links. However, no one was talking about them 2 weeks ago.
And Python itself was released in 2000! No wonder everyone has abandoned it these days, it's ancient!
I don't like the tone of the article

Or when do Apple’s supposed corporate principles demand it no longer take the 30% it enjoys from sign-ups to X’s premium services?

Why the snipe at Apple's principles? They sure like money, but it hasn't stopped them from blocking countless apps in the past.
Tbf we just saw SpaceX launch two rockets, which both failed, for 2 bln dollars per rocket
A static site generator: https://hi.imnhan.com/s4g/

Not the most original of ideas, but I was really sold on djot [1] and wanted something less fussy than pelican [2], so it just happened.

[1] https://djot.net/

[2] https://getpelican.com/
Nope, isn't as easy as it has been during the 90s.

Ever had to deal with abominations like CAN-but-not-really-CAN like PSAs own VAN? Having to find out which model has which bus? Non-standard size cutouts / bays?
Alone the FW versions i had to test of Alpine / OEM adapter products to get steering wheel controls working. The PDC i couldn't.

And MOST is a different topic.
Go for it, this will force X to provide a better web app (isn’t too bad today to be honest). Not sure Apple would want that.
And also he's going to jail instead of being deported to where he came from. I have to say the American justice system terrifies me.
ever tried Snapchat ?
It is fixed on the OS level, but some people claim hybrid apps are indistinguishable between native apps. Except every time:

- Swipe LTR (on a LTR locale) does not go back

- The back button's size is exactly as big as it looks, instead of extending quite a bit below it's visible box in the navigation bar
First app: not available in your country (Romania). Sounds very useful.
Ask HN: What kind of AI thin wrappers do you wish was available?
Feels like there's a lot of potential for useful AI thin wrappers, but few are gonna work on on them because they don't make defensible businesses. e.g., thinking about things like using LLMs to sort my email, do internet research, but don't really want to have to maintain something prod ready.
This article introduces the concept of ephemeral preview environments, which are temporary, production-like environments created per commit to facilitate easier review and testing before merging.

It highlights the benefits of shifting the review process to a "pre-merge" stage and introduces Preevy, an open-source CLI tool by Livecycle, designed to easily provision, manage, and expose ephemeral environments for containerized applications in the cloud. The article provides a step-by-step guide on using Preevy with GitHub Actions and AWS Lightsail, emphasizing the simplicity, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness of implementing preview environments in your CI/CD workflow.

The walkthrough covers the installation of Preevy, creating a profile, setting up AWS permissions, and creating GitHub Actions workflows for deploying and tearing down preview environments. Automatic notifications with environment links are also discussed, making it convenient for team members to review code changes before merging. The article concludes with an invitation to explore Livecycle and star the Preevy repository on GitHub.
Solomon Asch's classic conformity experiments revisited, scientists stunned
Too Many Records is awesome -- just installed it and I think this will help me in selecting records for my weekly vinyl gig. Great work.
Hey there everyone, now that AI can "see" very well with GPT-V, I was wondering if it can interact with a computer like we do, just by looking at it. Well, one of the shortcommings of GPT-V is that it cannot really pinpoint the x,y coordinates of something in the screen very well, but I solved it by combining it with simple OCR, and annotating for GPT-V to tell where it wants to click

Turns out with very few lines of code the results are already impressive, GPT-V can really control my computer super well and I can as it to do whatever tasks by itself, it clicks around, type stuff and press buttons to navigate

Would love to hear your thoughts on it!
Then the gate’s closed.
Kubernetes is supposed to make these things easier, and it very much can (and do for many). Containers are great, microservices on the other hand just seems like a way to decouple things so nothing can be verified AOT
Yes I strongly agree. I remember a friend bought coloidal silver cleansing spray at a pharmacy. She thought it was a normal antiseptic spray and used it to clean her kids wounds. She was very surprised when I explained it was just overpriced distilled water. I'm in Europe so there were no health claims on the packaging but other than that there wasno way to know. It is especially confusing in that case since silver is a real antiseptic, so it's not like obviously non plausible.
> The ground crew that check people's papers during boarding are not the same crew who are on the flight

Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't
I highly doubt that a manufacturer can release an Android phone that does not have Google Play Store app but does use Google Play Services. We have evidence that Google prohibits even releasing other models w/out Google Play store if it wants to make Androids with Google Play.
That's an older article, but the point of calling the current Italian government neo-facist isn't necessarily wrong:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/09/gi...
> Our time is not limited.

I didn't word my comment as a question, but I'm genuinely curious what makes you say that with confidence. I don't think we understand all threats to our existence beyond geopolitics.
Don't the snapshots make it much faster than without?
Or just push the button on your steering wheel and use voice control. You (mostly) do not have to touch the screen at all.
I'm not Italian or an expert in neo-fascism, I'm just going by what I've seen other people say. Even Wikipedia calls them neo-fascist, and it has a few academic sources backing that up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Italy

Regardless, they are pretty indisputably on the very far right of the overton window
The writers didn't get screwed, though. By paying upfront Netflix completely absorbed all the risk. The writers just decided they wanted to have their cake and eat it too.
Just that at least in my country (not US), the left is slowly encroaching into a daily dictatorship on how to run our lives - and that includes regulations which might seem rosy to the general population but really hurt the people with disabilities. They don’t understand them, nor their families, nor care to listen and understand - they just legislate to show their audience that “they care”. And that includes photo ops and empty promises every four years.

“Zing! dang! Thank you madam! Your money is on the dresser. See you in four years when is reflection time”
OpenRed is basically this. It is a reddit app that parses the html instead of using the api so the dev can keep it free. It is a bit buggy but I use this over the official app because you don't get ads or random posts from subs you don't subscribe to.
Thanks and I agree. Especially because it's easily scalable to longer contexts. It's trivial to use the "framework to" run the tests but I cannot prioritize it right now so either someone will have to pick it up or I might get a time slot further on. I just wanted to publish the idea.
> I and HN haven't been brainwashing you that the world is sure to end because of AI doom for the last 5 years.

Do you actually have a definition of "brainwashing" that isn't equivalent to "convincing" here?

I really shouldn't engage with you because you seem far more interested in the emotive connotations of words than the actual meanings of them but I'm admittedly a bit curious if you are aware of what you're doing.

(You clearly don't have any actual knowledge on the subject if you think there's any profit involved here, I know a lot of rationalists, our net donations to MIRI is $0. Various anti-malaria causes? Likely over a million)
It must be a fairly high maximum, or the car companies just pulls a Volkswagen every time Apple comes by to check.
Yes, this was also my experience reading the list. Apparently I'm even more bubbled than I thought.
I played it a the computer games museum in Berlin a few years ago. It was a very fun experience. I battled my wife who jumped when the first eletric shock hit here :D and lost afterwards against an employee there, who was quite resistant to any damage ;)
He also showed us the first aid section next to the machine.

For everyone having the chance to play with it: do it :)
I’ve built hyperfocus.health to fit all my needs while coding: unskippable eye breaks, CSV time-tracking and micro-tasking.

It’s available on macOS in the App Store. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hyperfocus-2/id1621523525?mt=1...
It wouldn’t. It would be a logistic curve. Pretty much everything people call exponential should actually be logistic
Same here with a BMW and iDrive8.5 I’ve never used CarPlay with it. BMW infotainment system just works, and its navigation system is superior to Google Maps (more up to date and better high traffic alternatives). Said that, I’d still like to have CarPlay in case BMW stops updating its system after 5-10 years.
I don't think that's right. VAG's software is terrible and crashes all the time.
I've been locked out of adjusting my AC on a long drive because the infotainment system crashed.
The difference is that you do not necessarily need dedicated opcodes to implement a specific instruction if you can implement it on term of other generi opcodes. With no dedicated hardware, the cost then is only negligible ROM space, and not so neglegible encoding space.
Same. It's a bit weird to write a whole article on ads on the Internet and not mention ad blocking once.

I don't want to see ads, any ad, ever, and so far I'm succeeding, but I wonder how long this is going to last.
>support for Hamas attacks once the retaliation has stoked up hate is inherently going to be strongly affected by views shaped by the large-scale invasion and bombing

In September 2022 armed struggle was the most popular option for resolving the situation, support for that went up in Sept 2023. [1]

"32% support and 67% oppose the idea of a two-state solution"

Palestinians don't like their governments, this does not mean they would have governments that acted substantially differently. Support for violence is widespread and predates the Oct 7 attacks and Israeli response.

> Before this, the poll above shows people wanted them out, per above.

The older survey above did not address violence. Not liking your government does not imply that you oppose all of their general positions.

1. https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/955
Sure but who wants that? GM could be right that people want a car that hasn’t been enshittified.

The problem with chasing $25bn in subscription fees is you don’t know the opportunity cost of alienating your customer base.
There’s no AGI to create, like “AI” it’s not actually a thing other than a fancy buzzword to attract money.

There are just ML algorithms and humans who (mis)use them to benefit or harm.

Where you may be right is that it will certainly help a small number of already rich and influential people concentrate even more money and influence. However, whether it will lead to any qualitative change is dubious as far as I’m concerned.
I agree with this, but like most projects someone needs to take the wheel and cut lots of red tape slowing us down.

It seems like in the recent past this was much better understood than today.
I wrote a mobile app for managing all my clothes and tracking what I wear every day (I’m heavily into avant garde fashion).

Used it every single day for almost 4 years now, and it gives me informed decisions on what I rarely wear, my favourite combinations, value for money, and what clothes I should consider selling or donating. It’s been great to reduce my consumption and keep a closet only filled with items I can pair well with
My attempt at an animated tesseract from a while back: https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/yLbQpKq

I'll be honest: I can't visualise anything beyond 3 dimensions, so I have no idea if my attempt even comes close to being accurate. To me the result looks like a spinning cube which also thinks it's a torus trying to eat itself. I think the cube should be trying to eat itself in (at least) 3 directions as it spins in 4d?
You're asking for legislation, but what we have seen coming out of the government are laws looking to make it easier to get access to data. Unfortunately, companies are all we have right now.
Why did mfr's GPS cost thousands as an option or subscription for 15 years while Garmin Nuvi portable devices for three hundred dollars ran circles around built-in units?
The Gameboy Mini Camera: iPhone Lens and GB Cartridge Unite
Mobile: Two RSS readers (one for news, one for videos), calendar, text editor, spending tracker, several games, wifi remote controller for esp32cam, euro coins collecting tracker, moderation tools, web browser.

Desktop: git client, music player, video editor, text editor, calculator, schematic capture and simulation soft, perfboard designer, to-do, spreadsheet, and about 30 one off tools and chrome extensions.
$40 bucks on fiver gets you a better management system than what GM will develop.
- I've created a shopping/recipe app.

An app that supports a database of nutrients, recipe ingredients, supermarket shopping links.
Something like "give me 10 balanced[1] meals, give me the shopping list with no duplicates and links to supermarket X"
Nothing new, but all other apps I've tried are always missing something I want.

- Started creating a repo of NuShell scripts to scratch my own itch

I added things organically (when I needed something I tried to break the action into smaller functions). By the end I had quite nice library that dealt from Kubernetes deployments to Linux hardening.

[1] According to my own criteria...
- A tool for extracting ingredients and steps from recipes [1]

- A tool to transform paragraphs from a single Notion page into a microblog (html + rss) [2]

Both are done with Clojure because they seemed like a good opportunity to try something new.

[1] https://pretty-recip.es

[2] https://franz.hamburg/atoms/
A small website to tell me when football games are on the radio/TV.

https://wirelessfootball.co.uk/

All the existing feeds were either per channel or overwhelmed with ads.
> Apple sends the message to your phone.

The "send" part I understand. What I don't understand is the "store" part.

And is the Apple's routing even needed? Web push notification don't need Apple, Google, Microsoft or Ubuntu between the web app and you. Can't app push notifications work in the same way?
So many interesting things here! I've created quite a few things, but the ones I still use at least every week (some every day) are:

- Budget Zen: https://budgetzen.net - Simple and end-to-end encrypted budget & expense management. (OSS and self-hostable, web + PWA, and is also a profitable product)

- LockDB: https://lockdb.com - A CLI & NPM + Deno package that makes event locking easier. (OSS and self-hostable)

- Apollo: https://apollowrites.com - An affordable brand copywriter for blog posts and articles. (web app)

- Loggit: https://loggit.net - Simple and end-to-end encrypted life tracking & logging. (OSS and self-hostable, web + PWA)
He will very likely be deported if he has committed no other crime, but first, they have to figure out where to send him.
I had this need!

Did you opt to blacklist words with vowel combinations that should not be transformed, or whitelist those that should? Or something else entirely?
They can alter the logic of instructions that are microcoded: it is literally the equivalent of a small program, with loops, conditionals, etc.

Of course the ability to modify non-microcoded instructions is significantly smaller and limited to what was planned for at design time.
Ask HN: Which Photo Verification Service Does Hinge/Tinder Use?
It’s kind of neat because it doesn’t check your id but verifies you’re a real person.
Seems like a sign that the medium is finally maturing to me. Imagine if people only ever read new books.
I've always thought that you could probably just walk off somewhere else once you're on the tarmac.
Not my experience. Maybe you just worked at some terrible companies with terrible people.
It’s documented that Apple offers deals to companies to keep on using the App Store, or at least stick to its payments (Netflix in particular refused a sweetheart deal).

If Spotify and Netflix were not on iOS I’m pretty sure lots of people would go look for an android. Not everyone, but a percentage above 0 (and probably above 2 or 3 percent I bet)
I stand corrected but your "False!" is in bad form.

Here's the docs, search for Epic Games Store in this FAQ. They waive the 5% royalties when sold on Epic Game Store. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/faq
I do wonder about the CAN bus. there's no access control on the CAN network, there's one shared bus for the whole car, and any controller can starve the bus by spamming with a high address, unless that's changed.

you'd hope that there'd be some kind of filtering to prevent the infotainment system from sending (arbitrary) CAN messages, but I recall some crazy demos of researchers pwning a car's accelerator after rooting the center console.
A link to a reddit post (with no discussion) which links to this repo

https://github.com/confident-ai/deepeval
Because leetcode-style interviews don't measure if you're good at your job; they measure the absolute entry bar for developers: the fact that they're comfortable enough to solve simple, abstract problems using a programming language of their choice. I'm not sure why would you want to remove that entry bar legally, but working in a team of developers that are not proficient with code sounds like a bad idea. Unless you envision a team in which a couple of people do all the coding and the others just have "good ideas", which is an absolute, utter nightmare.
I'm curious why leetcode-style interviews should be a proxy of gender / age / race though. Only old white guys are allowed to leetcode?
Breaking: millennialist group behaves similarly to other millennialist groups.
But that's Twitter/X labor, not the App Store labor, the App Store should ideally be a glorified S3.
As long as companies like Google, Meta won't succeed in pushing new web standards that make ads impossible to block.

But even then, the browser can prerender the page use AI to find and remove the ad and do the final render. :)
It's legal in Europe to claw back wages if they prove you have been absent from work. Granted, they'll have to sue you for that, but they'll win if your time sheets how you never showed up even though your contract said you should.