skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought users were prompted to give permission for this already? I get asked if I want to give “local network” access to apps sometimes (- lot these days actually) which I take to mean the ability to see local WiFi hotspots. I almost always deny this (and after reading this just turned it off for Spotify). I think the dialog that asks for permission could be improved, though, as most people don’t realize this can be used to deduce their location.
> but hydrogen has the advantage that it's cheap to store for weeks or months at a time

Where did you get that idea? Hydrogen is extremely hard to work with and really really wants to escape from any containment vessel you put it in. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403212...
> TL:DR; Apps can access the nearby Wi-Fi hotspot SSID and MAC addresses through an API that is intended to help with connecting to hotspots. Then they can use this info to look-up in databases that collect SSIDs based on their locations.

This is the whole story. Thank you for writing it, and sorry that you're getting downvoted for it.

> I'm sorry you don't like it but that's the truth, the author left out crucial details to make it juicier

I wish there was a way to know when people had downvoted with "this is true but I don't like that it's true".
I hope the cheap money era is dead but it seems like the Fed is already planning rate cuts ahead of the election.
Didn't even need to extrapolate future potential. The world of supercomputing was massively sunsetting the old vector processors (Cray, Sparc etc.) and switched to commodity x86 hardware back in that timeframe when CUDA came out. Perfect opening for a new vector processor on steroids, for which the chip development was already payed by gamers...
Wasn't it ever thus?
While not inaccurate, this point is tangential.

The lack of affordable housing in Portland drives homelessness; and being homeless pushes people to use meth during the night to stay awake so they can protect themselves and fentanyl so they can feel joy while living in truly wretched conditions. Keeping people off the street by building affordable housing and preventing people from despairing avoids a raft of social ills.

That said, per your point decriminalization of possession and public intoxication, measure 110 was a poorly written law that should have decriminalized drugs after harm reduction, substance abuse clinics, and housing options were in place first. The current situation wasn't guaranteed to happen; unfortunately city and county leadership like to wear their pants on their head instead of actually getting work done. This was as much if not more of a failure of governance to execute as it was a failure of policy.
> Gavin here is talking about the development of system software, where the requirements are perfectly clear, rarely change

This is not true.

I've had requirements change on me before, and I alluded to this with one tiny phrase:

> It can happen in two ways: the problem changes (your liability increases) or your software becomes less useful (your asset depreciates).

(Emphasis added.)

Code liability is directly tied to both the code and the problem. If the problem changes, including requirements, your liability increases.

I still suggest that people design though; the act of doing so sometimes reveals flaws and ambiguity that can be worked through early, even if only partially. And design does help keep your mental model more correct.
I would like to think the best way for Storage isn't a a giant battery somewhere ( although we could certainly do that with Hydro Dam ), may be something like a Tesla Powerwall that could work 20-30 years minimum, minimal to zero fire risk. All the homes could then install their own and take advantage of the cheap electricity price at night or in other hours. It would ultimately serve as the biggest buffer to any surge in energy usage.
Many of us have severe allergies.

I came to the conclusion about these drugs on my own years ago.
It is also important to note that the US population is higher than ever.

My comment is being downvoted, could someone please let me know why I am wrong?
Real estate should be an investment, it drives new construction, it just shouldn't have the ridiculous returns that it currently does.
All bad code is tech debt, but not in the sense that it was consciously chosen. We usually only talk about the cases that currently limit progress/quality. The interest rate varies on where that bad code lives and how cumbersome it is to work with. If it's in an area with frequent changes that are incidentally difficult to implement, then it's high on the tech debt list.
Cash invested today by VC is likely still committed capital from before this slowdown. With corrections in valuations, with high interest rates available in FDIC insured accounts, and the public markets overall performance, I don’t see venture capitalists attracting much new investment anytime soon.
Maybe they'll do like the bird site: Nostr -> Noster -> Z
You have to add in nurses, techs, administrative staff, etc... It could easily be 40% to 50% of total spending, so the parents point seems valid.
Richest country because money is king, not people.
The air molecule collided with the inside of the balloon, and escaped out the opening.
Yes, that's exactly the kind of "mechanical" version I was talking about. The article goes on to describe the challenges I was talking about:

> Still, computer-generated voices have long struggled to hold the attention of listeners for long periods of time, and to overcome the ‘uncanny valley’ effect of synthetic human speech. Human intonation and inflection are notoriously difficult to predict and replicate.
I'm not sure it matters - it's not a technical-heavy flaw in Apple's security. He either recorded people putting in their unlock codes, or straight up asked them what it was. The reporter doesn't have to be very technically-minded to follow.
Fair distinction. But even in the hard money lending case, the implication is that money is being freed up to circulate. More velocity leads to more inflation
As much as I hate Elon, I do think that a proven 'better than a human by [X]times.' is a fair metric...as long as it is independently verified in ALL situations AND the company takes responsibility for the outcome.
> The aftershock of the Cruise car dragging someone shows how far one accident can sully a company.

Cruise's problem was hiding the footage from the regulators. As the saying goes, “It's not the crime, it's the cover-up.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/gms-cruise-robotax...

> In a Dec. 1 filing recounting how Cruise handled disclosures about the accident, the Public Utilities Commission asserted the company tried to conceal how its robotaxi reacted to the accident for more than two weeks. Cruise didn't provide the video footage until Oct. 19, according to the regulatory filing. The cover-up spanned 15 days, according to the PUC, exposing Cruise and GM to potential fines of $100,000 per day, or $1.5 million.
> cost us Y lines of code

I don't like these rules of thumb that when taking literally screws us. Some manager is going to want to minimize locs now.

Code suckiness per feature is a qualitative measurement. I don't think there should be any allusion of absolute numerical scores for that property.
>> a lot of it is also just teaching you how to learn and how to think critically

It does not appear that this is happening in government run schools as prevalently as you may want to believe.
I have no explicit evidence. I suspect its a combination of "head in the sand" and "I have no voice". In practical terms, you have no control over your country's future. Your vote is insignificant relative to the populace. So your next move is manage yourself and your families affairs and hope for the best. Frankly, the US's debt will crush it in the near future. How near is the question. There isn't much I can do about it. So, I put my head down and hope the fallout doesn't impact my family as much as others.
That "GT" method seems even better, we should just use that. /s
Yes our public schools are doing a poor job. And given the majority of kids go to public school; that is where the attention needs to be directed.

The problem is also that homeschooling has massively different outcomes for different kids. For some it’s a positive, for others it deepens divides.

Homeschooling is worse than a bandaid solution, and a regression for many kids. We can’t ignore those who are hurt by an ongoing deregulation of our educational system just because it works for some.

And worse, we need to look closely at how that system is being abused by those with specific agendas.
Snorting salt water works for me though it's very unpleasant. Very spicy food/capsaicin as well.
Population has also increased from 300 million to about 340 million, or more than 10%. Nothing else changing, we'd expect the number of homeless to be 10% larger than in 2007.
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"Can you actually run your software on your laptop?" has become one of my interview questions for that reason.

I think a lot of dev shops just genuinely don't realise it can be done.

I've never been in a startup right at the beginning, but I don't understand how a stack would ever be allowed to transition away from being locally-runnable.
> We really need a nationwide push to fix this.

"Four states accounted for more than half of the nation’s homeless population" (California, New York, Florida and Washington) https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/states-with...
What does that have to do with physician salaries?
Everyone can learn quantum now, and we have the test scores to prove it
Thanks, that's valuable feedback. I do have huckridge.com (a Wordpress site), and some others like huck.sh (which mirrors huckridge.com), but I've been using Notion and Dropbox so as to focus on my product and outsource stuff that wasn't in my core competency, if that's the right word.
True, though at least I can say from myself that after prolonged use not using it for a few weeks has no adverse effects (unlike classical decongestant sprays).
Politicians write government policies, corruption and a distracted public causes them to write bad policies

People will always try to corrupt a powerful force like government.

You can cry, shoot VC, destroy them, jail them, whatever, there will always be this VC class

Politicians should be held accountable, they got the vote, they got the protection (police, bodyguards, secret service)

If they betray people for money, then that means they write bad policians.

In CCP, there are a ton more corrupt businessmen who’d love to write their gov’s policy in everything. Yet CCP successfully controls them, breaks them up, write pro consumer policy.

And heck they are run by a dictator !

American politicians have no excuse to write bad policies, its those politicians who should be held accountable, VCs will always try to corrupt politicians, if not them, than foreign governments will happily pay up and take that spot.

It’s not an excuse
If a corrupt gov makes bad policies

Then that’s it.
It. Makes. Bad. Policies.
You could say that, for commercial purposes, AI actually did land with ChatGPT. It existed long before that, but that was unquestionably the event that started diverting billions of investment dollars into AI applications.
The problem I have with that argument is what's the comparison to, say, drunk driving or impaired driving?

While a car "dragging" someone can be traumatic and horrible in it's own right... objectively, if we could get rid of thousands of deaths a year in exchange for fewer "mishaps"?

In 2021 2,116 people age 15-20 died in car crashes. 13,384 people for DUI related deaths in 2021. 42,939 car related deaths.

If we could exchange 42k deaths for 1,000? wouldn't that be worth the tradeoff?

Basically the trolly problem where you have to choose between letting a train go forward and kill 5 people or hitting a button to change tracks and kill 1.

If we can get into the "9's" in accuracy and trust bypassing humans... why wouldn't we?
I should monitor the github issues / discussions
I also use Readwise Reader and the speech update they dropped a month ago made great strides towards AI reading.

It’s just missing some UX improvements now, mainly the ability to continue playing across multiple articles. It’s also not smart enough to skip boilerplate junk that appears on top and bottom of every newsletter, which is easy to skip over visually but a pain when read out loud.

A while ago, Amazon tried adding TTS to kindle and got immediately slammed by the publishers, so they withdrew it. However, with the current state of AI, I think users will start to demand it as a standard feature of anything they’re reading. Not only can it read at human-like capability, it can do so in any voice theoretically. Soon you’ll also be able to pause it and ask questions about what it just read or to summarize the rest of the article and so on.
>The new data comes at a crucial time for the self-driving industry.

Which is by the way, a good reason to be skeptical of it. I remember talking to someone who worked with BMW on their self driving a long time ago and their take on Tesla's self driving effort was (a) It's fine for Tesla to have a bad reputation for safey but BMW simply can't choose to get a bad reputation for safety they sell far too many non-autonomous cars and (b) It's actually not fine for Tesla (and others) to be rushing ahead with self-driving because they will kill people and they're just as likely to kill the whole self-driving industry at the same time.

I have no doubt that even if the data looked terrible, Waymo would find a way to spin it to look safe. I also have no doubt that even if the data is good, it's not indicative of self-driving being safer in the average situation.
While impressive to be boring electricity use was about 30GW but direct heating by gas and oil consumption was another 150GW or so. Heat pumps might reduce that in theory but still quite a way to go...
Waymo has done this for their simulations (a kind of game I suppose): https://waymo.com/research/block-nerf/
With AI, I'm less concerned about the sore parts of the app than previously. Waiting for better versions should lower the cost to address it even further.

Probably not the most professional way to think about it but it seems like this will be the case.
One should realize that what they call ‘track user locations’ is actually ‘get a list of visible SSIDs’.

Should be behind a permissions check, but not the end of the world.
I’m tragically far from being a kid and I didn’t understand the reference. Would anyone be kind enough to explain?
> they were in the right place at the right time

Yes, and it takes lot of effort to be in the right place.
Covid can indeed persist in the gut, but it just causes gi symptoms, and the virus is undetectable after 10 months

https://www.cell.com/med/fulltext/S2666-6340(22)00167-2

So, I suspect your symptoms may be due to another mechanism.

What is your resting heart rate, and how is your sleep?
I looked at mmwave stuff for my own setup but I just couldn't get over it triggering on things like ceiling fans etc moving, curtains rustling.

I think the idea of presence detection is such an interesting problem, really an AI camera is the best solution but nobody wants cameras all over their house. There's also thermal imaging with sensors like MLX90640 which is a very low res thermal sensor.

Seems to work pretty well for the most part, had a bit of a play with it but not actually built something to be put in the home yet but the only drawback is static heat sources like radiators obscuring moving heat sources like a person.
That’s for sending and receiving local network traffic, eg. talking to devices on the same subnet, and discovery of Chromecast and similar targets.

Edit: AirPlay does not require this permission.
Like I said, yes, in emacs it is technically possible.

But you still have to redo the keymaps defined in every package you use; and you have to know what they are in the first place.

You can replace single bindings one at a time easily enough. You can't change them all without a two-step effort. We could eliminate step one for anyone, like me, who's is interested.

There's a reason that evil-mode took so much effort to put together, and it still has serious edge cases. I want to make my own original modal editing keymap. I have tried many times, and given up. It's too much work to both see what to change in the first place, and to remove the default; and that's what it takes to just get started!

Picture this: you are learning to use Emacs for the very first time. What are you learning? Today, the answer is C-n, C-x C-s, etc. My alternative is to learn the functions instead. If you don't have an opinion about what key should be bound, then use someone else's config. This way you can actually comprehend your entire configuration! It doesn't need to be mandatory, but I would love the opportunity.
From the NY Times obituary of Tom Jones, writer of the book for the long-running musical "The Fantasticks":

"""

As Mr. Jones put it in his memoir, "Sometime during my sophomore year at Coleman High School, I became a 'character'" -- wearing bow ties and a straw hat to school, smoking a pipe, signing his articles for the school newspaper "T. Collins Jones, Esquire."

"Even now, nearly 70 years later, I can't help but stop and wonder what the hell I thought I was doing," he wrote. "Even more, I wonder at the fact that the other kids -- farmers mostly, and ranchers and 4-H girls -- took it all in their stride."

In 1945, when he enrolled in the drama department at the University of Texas, "for the first time, there were other people actually like me," he wrote. "Here, marvel of marvels, everybody was T. Collins Jones, Esquire."

"""

Perhaps this kid will get to the university and find his tribe.
I would absolutely be concerned about a flashlight app doing all the nefarious things. A flashlight app? Today? Still? Really? It's one of those apps that's absolutely useless since the OS provides this feature natively now. It is absolutely the type of app I would assume has no reason other than harvesting data.
Because no one is using them probably :D
> I’ll happily wait in the tweaker line for my pseudo.

HA! Indeed! I got a three pack from Costco. Should last a while.
Unless you’re invested in real estate in which case your incentives are to keep the system in place.

That's the hard part. I imagine most homeowners are of the idea "I got mine, who cares about anyone else?" We see this line of thought in many parts of politics. Honestly, I'll take a bath on my home value if it means my kids, their friends, my niece, etc. get to secure housing. I don't care. Hell, I might find myself in a hard spot in the future and I don't want housing to be an issue. Housing is so important to one's dignity, ability to work/access some services and safety. There's no reason people should be collecting houses like baseball cards.
yes, including NVIDIA
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Indeed. My Walgreens has a whole section of clearly and not-clearly labeled homeopathics for these symptoms.

People want to buy them and they won’t get hurt, let em, I guess.
I think they stopped the washing-kind of recycling in favour of just recycling the material in the early 2000s.
> However the author forget the mention that you need to apply and get approved to use this API.

And? How is this any better? e.g. if I'm a dissident/etc. in China I would be much concerned about government affiliated large corporations being able to track my location than some random private developer (not that this specific API really matters that much if you're using those apps anyway).

> I find it dishonest and alarmist.

I find it a magnitude or two less dishonest than Apple (a company supposedly focused on user private) not informing their users that this is happening and directly requesting their consent.
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The gaping loophole in the Fourth is precisely what this article is about. It's not about "knowing the rules", it's that this rule doesn't apply here.
I take it to mean that it will scan my lan (plus tailnet?) for services. Like a Hue bridge or a Sonos speaker or a Chromecast etc.
They were drugged; they didn't "get drunk".
Have you actually driven in SF? There’s plenty of rain in the winter and the roads can get quite interesting. Right turns that are actually 170 degrees and a 15% incline. Red lights that are way off to the side and obscured (one on market right after you turn right exiting 101). It’s honestly a pretty good stress test as far as American cities go.
It's not richest per capita though, it's 9th. Still wealthy, of course, but population matters.
You can run atuin locally or synced for that feature. Atleast, that is how i have been doing it up to now.

https://atuin.sh/docs/
The differential compared to France for most other jobs in the healthcare sector is similar to the differential for physician salaries?
And heroin. And Percocet. And OxyContin.
The Likud party also uses "from the river to the sea" are they 100% antisemitic?
Not if there's a "moat". Which could be unique expertise in making the thing, or through some government enforced monopoly like trademarks (i.e. "brand") or copyrights.
We haven't found a system that is both good at creating wealth and also distributing it (for large, diverse societies).
I think that's oversimplifying things. The acquired podcast has covered Nvidia's different growth periods in depth. I highly recommend anyone interested to give them a listen:

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-gpu-company-1993...

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-machine-learning...

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nvidia-the-dawn-of-the-ai-e...
At least it’s not IBM, I suppose!
Big whoop. Consent is paramount and the assumption here that apple and you have aligned interest is pretty darn weak argument.

The only thing of note here is that apple don't want you do know about it, which kind of circles back to aligned interests...
Lies and overpromising. I can say with a brutally straight face that our 2024 base-model Subaru Impreza's Level 2 features are safer than my 2018 Model 3's Autopilot. Less unsafe disengagements, less yanking the wheel random directions on strange markings, no sun-based issues.
Thanks for the link! Yeah editorconfig is definitely a move in the right direction, but there are still the problem with LSP mentioned in the blog post which editorconfig does not address - Many language servers take in project-specific configuration for the language server itself and at the moment this is not standardized anywhere to declare it in a generic way.
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IME certs are good for two things, novices who lack fundamentals and vendor partnerships (discounts and/or feature access that requires N certified devs/admins/etc.).

There's also the case where documentation is poor/nonexistent, but the vendor charges customers for 'training' and all of a sudden useful resources become available. I've always felt it's a weird way to treat _already_ paying customers, but seems common in the networking world.
Hard disagree. Like with everything, there are multiple factors at play, but at certain size, decisions almost don't matter, because there is no one to upset the apple cart.

As a counter, look at MS, they have been around for more than 10 years and there is plenty of luck, hubris, good decisions, bad decisions that did not matter, because they effectively held a dominant position.

Being dominant equals to luck.
I think one nuance that is missing here is what "product" means. In the most broad sense, tools such as bc and dc are indeed products. However, I think the discussion of technical debt tends to focus more around larger scale products created by commercial development teams. That certainly affects the nature of technical debt.
Curious. Why are single family homes unsustainable?
You could browse the fiction shelves at a local bookseller; they may have things approximating what you seek.