skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does seem on the road that many people lose the ability to predict 30 seconds in the future. That car in front of you has 10 feet to move? GO GO GO! Wait, it only moved just 10 feet - BRAKE BRAKE BRAKE!

I think it can fun to be the driver that smooths out the shock waves, so I do largely agree with your point. Though, all things being equal, double following distance and that will double the length of a traffic jam. Longer traffic jams are more impactful - it takes longer to get through them & the longer traffic jam distance is more likely to cause back-ups on on-ramps and in turn to the surface streets leading to those on-ramps. Which is to say, a higher prevalence of grid-lock.

The AI crowd is right to say that with 100% AI cars, you can have smooth and fast traffic with impossibly tight following distances. I do believe you need some impractical necessities to accomplish that though.
You’re getting towards something that actually caused me to drop out of college 2 decades ago. The essay then (and possibly still now) was the primary means by which any of my non-math classes seemed oriented. I’m not an essay writer. I can sometimes give 500-1000 words on a topic because I tend to be terse, and found I was always being given poor grades for “not following the assignment” which would usually be 2000-2500 words. I just couldn’t do it.

In the end I dropped out because the point of college wasn’t “learning” (which I was) but rather “how good are you at playing college” (which I wasn’t).
"Static Site Generator as a Service."
It's forced us to pay more to retain staff in certain sectors which now have skill shortages since leaving the EU. That could be a good thing depending on if you're the person receiving the pay rise.

I have no strong opinion on Brexit, but one of the reasons I was opposed to it was because it allowed us to import cheap labour into the NHS. This is something we are now struggling to do and will likely mean we will need to pay NHS workers more to attract talent from elsewhere in the world.
MSX was really a little too little too late. The BASIC interpreter looks nice and MSX-DOS was CP/M compatible. I can almost imagine a past where something more like MSX2+ came out much sooner and you could program it with Turbo Pascal.
That would have kept me occupied for a long while. The problem is you have to square that with a world where the Macintosh came out in 1984 and the Amiga in 1985.
I agree that's how it should work, but the TX law that the article quotes changes that rule to make the owner of the vehicle at fault for self driving failures.
> I’m surprised people in the fields and levels you mentioned have to put off buying a car for financial reasons

The monthly cost reaches $1k a month in 2023 (parking+interest+insurance).

We all can afford it, but the question is why spend $12k a year on transportation when Caltrain+BART+Muni+VTA and Uber come out for less.

> buying a 25K

The average new car in 2023 is $48k, and the average used is $26k. With used you end up paying more in insurance and get worse financing.
Why didn't Theresa May implement that policy if that's what people were voting for? Sounds like pretty fucking stupid leadership to me
That didn't really matter.

The result of the Miller case placed the decision back in the hands of parliament.

They then overwhelming chose to grant the Government a carte blanc to trigger Article 50. They could have chosen to impose conditions, or even refused to pass the Article 50 notification Bill.
Marriage doesn't have to involve God, and securities fraud doesn't require "legally binding statements" to execute. Once you take away the hyperbole, there's not much left to examine here, except to ask what is fascinating about it.
> If a user seeks verbatim content from sources like The NYT, responsibility could shift more towards them.

gee why didn't the piratebay think of that

"we're just a search engine, if you search for Disney movies that's your fault, you even agreed to it in our terms of use!"

ChatGPT wouldn't be useful at all without mass unauthorised use of copyrighted material (same as the piratebay)

just ChatGPT has been tarted up with a facade of respectability
yeah, if you're not trying to replicate design blunders like the 99/4a you can probably do a lot better; the mup21 showed that if you're making an asic and willing to depart radically from the conventional wisdom you can get a crtc and a one-clock-per-instruction† 20-bit cpu with a pretty high clock speed into 7000 transistors, less than a z80

in the crtc design space i think there's significant unexplored territory around polynomial interpolation that could allow you to get by with a lot less memory than you need for a whole framebuffer. but it'll probably stay unexplored because it's nowadays a lot more practical to just whack a up5k or something in there, and that has plenty of memory

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†offer not valid for addition instructions, additional stack manipulation fees may apply, multipliers sold separately, your mileage may vary
Only if you triggered some risk checking systems.
I didn't need to provide anything when I signed up this year.
I haven't personally used it. However, I did watch a guy build from scratch his desktop client for his VPN using wails (https://wails.io/) + Golang. It actually went pretty smoothly and quickly. And he did it for mac, windows, and linux. Here's a link to his project since it's open source: https://github.com/tunnels-is/nicelandvpn-desktop

When I did build a production app with Electron (a few years ago granted) I ran into distribution difficulties as well. It's doable, but it was a pain. Specifically what was a pain was auto-update.
The USB driver scene on windows is confusing and sometimes even dangerous. I've seen some students unable to use Arduino clones on windows when they worked perfectly on Linux. I then found this: https://learnarduinonow.com/2014/10/24/does-windows-ftdi-upd... (TLDR: windows auto-installs a driver that will brick your device if they think it is "counterfeit") and decided plugging something other than a storage device (if you trust the system to be free from viruses) on a windows machine is something that should be done as a last resort only.
Second that but I hope your joking calling it a documentary.
But what if you knew that your water pistol is rendered as a gun
Another automatic option for achieving these air quality goals is to use an HRV/ERV for continuous fresh air in the house, as they do in Passive House construction. Doing heat exchange between the outgoing and incoming air makes it a very energy efficient system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_recovery_ventilation
https://www.zehnderamerica.com/heat-recovery-ventilator/
> But telling women to be responsible mothers is not as politically easy as telling men to be responsible fathers.

But as I said, we do that already, and far more directly as part of women's healthcare. It is not a men's health issue, so it can't be done through existing systems. The effectiveness of telling women to be responsible mothers, which you objected to earlier, does not negate the fact that we do tell them, so your political narrative does not make sense.
I don't understand how snowflakes are different to each other and yet also symmetric. Are they always symmetric?
They could be construed to advocate for more decentralized power production in order to be less vulnerable to targeted strikes in times of conflict. That doesn't rule out decentralized nuclear power production, though that has its fair share of trade-offs and unknowns. Depending on how one weighs those it might end up implying less nuclear.
Twitter Was 2023's Best Movie Theater
The real 'problem' is how do we navigate the present and near future where much more than physical labor is being automated? This is where we need sustainable solutions. The rough road on the way should also be smoothed out so as not to disrupt so many lives, but it's good to keep a perspective what and why we're doing these things.
Swift Shift makes moving/resizing windows on macOS much easier and faster
Looking for those tiny arrows or title bars always felt broken to me. With Swift Shift I can just assign a keyboard shortcut for the window to follow my mouse
Models, Large Language and Otherwise
Well, it goes to show that if you're a neighbor of Russia you have to be either a member of NATO, or have nuclear deterrence - it looks like that's the only thing that keeps Russians in their borders.

Putin decided to go to the Nazi Germany playbook and turn the Russian language into a casus beli to invade countries, as he could claim Russian speakers are in danger and he would proceed to annex land (Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine).
I’m very much with you. Since most languages I know of are written with combinations of ordered glyphs, they all get rendered the same (although I don’t handle about 20k current Unicode characters of the full 400k+, and none of the grouping really works, so RTL languages would be a mess for individual words).

However, this is exactly where I want to go. A dictionary is a cyclic graph of words mapping to words. That means there’s at least one finite way to visit every single node and give it a position, with a direct relationship to the words that define it, and those words that define them, and so on.

This creates an arbitrary and unique geometric structure per language, and if you get fancy and create modifiers for an individual’s vocabulary, you can even create transforms for a “base” dictionary, and the way someone chooses to use certain words differently. You would be able to see, but likely not understand, the “structure” of types of text - poetry, storytelling, instructional writing, etc.
I've never washed an egg in my life and don't worry about food poisoning from this. The risk of the food part getting contaminated in the brief moment when the shell is broken seems vanishingly low. I think it has more to do with people not liking that there's occasionally a feather or speck of sawdust or chicken poop on the outside of the shell.
This is a fun comment because you make him sound like Lex Luther.
My suggestion would be to travel the world, and see how people live in places with different margins. Life is sort of okay. Look at Soviet-era Eastern Europe, India, the diverse approaches across Africa, China, the rest of Asia, etc.

People get by. There isn't a sudden collapse or implosion.

It's also easy-to-manage. If there are suddenly a lot of electrical fires, regulators will step in before it goes out-of-control.

For my personal tastes, the US is too liability and safety-conscious on a day-to-day level, and not nearly safety-conscious enough on a system level. Risks like fires, where I live, are small enough that I'm not worried about them.

Antibiotic-resistant super-diseases? AI apocalypse? Thermonuclear war? Cyber-Armageddon (where every network-connected device is maximally bricked in the span of 30 seconds)? Climate change? Some weird super-pollutant? Systemic economic collapse? Civil war? Genetically-engineered super-bug? Running out of water in Arizona (or your other local issue)? ...

We have major disasters typically around once a century in any given location (WWI/WWII/30 years war/Bubonic Plaque/hurricane/etc.). It's hard to predict which one will happen; some are very unlikely, and some are pretty likely. If something hasn't happened in 50+ years, we stop worrying about it, and we completely ignore future previously-impossible risks.

I'm much more worried by those sorts of things than by fire safety.
Figured out the deal and then gone back for a do you want this vote?
NAFTA is designed to remove barriers to trade
EU is designed to create common rules or quality standards which if you fail to pass you cannot trade. AKA Trade barriers!
Why, because it’s rational? A visual expression can be produced in court. A verbal promise is binding n some US jurisdictions (e.g. California) but hard to litigate when you can’t subpoena the witness.

Also in a contractual matter (such as marriage), if the “exchange of value” or guarantor is entirely mythical how can such an agreement be binding? It’s not like the injured party can collect from the guarantor.

That’s why some contracts require a payment of a dollar (e.g. patent assignment to your company) so it can be “for value received”. Now if you’re a cryptoweenie I suppose you’d say that the “fiat dollar” is just as mythical…good luck litigating that.
Because we took back control from the unelected Eurocrats to give to elected leaders like May (appointed after tory MPs had a public spat), Johnson (after a few thousand tory members with average age 64 got to vote for the funny man off tv), Truss (selected by MPs) and Sunak (just appointed by the tory back bench as nobody else seemed to exist)
Spain does not have many reactors, five I think, making up ~20% of the total power generation of the country. They also source their fuel from other countries like France, UK, or Russia.

In contrast, the domestic renewable energy industry is growing steadily and is arguably one of the leaders among EU countries.

I think they will be fine.
Documentaries to watch in the new year
Laptops have advantages though - for a remote team, they're often a lot more convenient. A lot of people don't have space for a full permanent desk setup for a work desktop on top of their personal use - UK houses aren't huge!

Desktops work if you have an office, but our dev team is entirely remote. But you can't take a desktop into a meeting, or take a desktop on the train to our office for in-person meetings/events.
I'm no financial expert, but Googling copyright tax lead me to this:

> In general, copyrights and patents generate royalty income reported on Schedule E, Supplemental Income and Loss, unless it is characterized as business income reported on Schedule C, Profit or Loss From Business (Sole Proprietorship). However, who owns the intellectual property, i.e., the creator or the party who requested its development, also determines the type of income reported. The proper classification of royalties also affects the recipient’s tax liability in other ways, including self-employment tax, investment interest deduction limitations, and the new 3.8% net investment income tax on unearned income.

Seems like that is already the case.
Oh boy lots to unpack!

* If we subscribe to principle that "legal system impacting everyone equally" and "personal religious beliefs" should be separate (and I do!:), then "vowing before God to stay with someone" should indeed be "legally absolutely meaningless", unless you also enter in a bespoke legal contract, understood by both parties to be such, with details on what happens when two parties want to terminate the contract, jointly or individually. Basically, if you want to talk "legal contract", let's talk legal contracts, which are rarely truly inescapable and have well established means of binding and exit. If you want to talk divine commitments, by all means, but that's really between you and your divine being of choice, and it is my understanding that most divine systems handle such cases appropriately (whether by eternal damnation or multiples of readily-available virgins, et cetera:). Just, let's not mix them up to make some vague points.

* "Smiley Picture" and "funny written scribble" (a signature) have similarities. We readily in most legal systems accept "if I use a funny written scribble to really really mean something, no take-baksies!", then what's the real difference to smiley picture?

* Or put it another way, what are the first principle under which a signature should count for something, or a written expression, that a emoji, used to convey same meaning, should not? I.e. if I ask "will you deliver to this contract", and you text back "Yup!" or thumbs up emoji, what is the difference? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/thumbs-up-emoji-...
Anything that was first published 1927 or earlier in the U.S. is not copyrightable. The cutoff will soon roll over to 1928.
Why is no one able to describe all this with more concrete ideas, like this is how you store data, this is how you connect and query - and how fast those queries will be (ie transactional speed vs "analytics" speed).
I wish they’d use AI to translate the English language sentences into different dialects of English. It’s hard enough learning German without having to do it via American English.

Just going automatically down the route of “cut costs” speaks to a lack of imagination.
There was a great line I couldn't remember from "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
We could get inspiration from the case of the record industry against Napster, or cabs VS Uber. Both parties are somehow abusing their position, but the world is moving on. Rent seeking is probably not an absolute source of wealth after all.
Feedback Patterns for scalable and resilient apps (2022)
> normally only when something changes

Do they bother? Throwing a dozen windows together is really easy.

> For a rotating persistence-of-vision display you need to redraw everything as soon as it's physical position has shifted

You do have to redraw. Which means you have a non-moving buffer that covers the entire display area, and you have to render it to the screen every frame.

That's one big quad. A scaled up SNES could do that with mode 7. It's utterly trivial.
What was the combined budget of Cambridge Analytica?

If it was any less than 1B GBP, you cannot be in a good faith suggest that it played more than a token role in either Brexit or Trump.
Feeling fat, tired and flat!
Milo Janus is where it's at.
Keeping trim, healthy and slim, Milo Janus you're in the swim.

Your new life is waiting to begin at Milo Janus,
Get in shape will see you through thick and thin.
Everybody! Start your day, shed pounds away.

It's all for your common wealth.

The only thing you have to gain is your health!
> probably more a matter of exact license

Yep, they were freewared.

> quality

I have the experience with Flight and Steel Sky only, but they are good.
> Basically we reclaimed a bunch of political powers (the non EU immigration not being one of those), and now only have ourselves to blame for how we exercise those powers.

100% agree. I'm not in favour of reducing migration, but assuming the UK public wanted to reduce migration to say ~100,000 as the Tories promised, we would have struggled to do this while in the EU.

I think a lot of people wrongly thought that our membership in the EU was the reason net migration was so high, in reality is was simply that our politicians wanted it to be high and therefore found other ways to keep it high after we left the EU.
> we’ve been very public saying we want Iceberg/Parquet to be at or as close to parity as possible with our native format

Thats great to hear. Would this mean that external iceberg tables would have the same performance as native table ? My impression of parent comment was that, eventually there would be no such thing as 'native format'.
Really interested to see public statements by snowflake to that effect, would love to share that with my team.
> You cannot be angry at them for giving you exactly what you want.

What they want and were sold is a working fuse... which this is not. If I starting calling myself a medical doctor and advertising cheap surgery I would hope someone would try to stop me.

You can't claim to be empathetic and expect everyone to be a domain expert in absolutely everything to avoid getting poisoned, burned or killed by sellers lying to people.
I’m looking at Polestar (like Volvo it’s owned by Geely, a Chinese company) and Tesla. I love how Tesla drives, but the focus on the touch screen and lack of things like grab handles or CarPlay really turns me off. I’m hoping another make drives close to the Tesla but has more “normal car” kind of trim.

I’d love to test drive a BYD just for fun. I was in mainland China a week ago and rode in a few different domestic electric cars when taking DiDi (Uber), from BYD and others. All pretty great experiences, good build quality. A surprising percent of the cars on the street in Kunming were electric - maybe 25%. A friend of a friend has one and loves it. Hopefully they start selling in the US soon.
If anyone is interested in copyright law I would recommend a free CopyrightX course from Harvard ( https://cyber.harvard.edu/teaching/copyrightx ). During the course you gain insight into the legislative side of copyright matters.
While the UK had plenty of exceptions keeping the currency is not really the most telling IMO. Look at Sweden and Denmark, they both didn't join the currency union (is that the correct English term?), but sentiments are strongly pro EU in both countries.

From the outside it always looked like British politicians used the EU as a convenient scapegoat much strongly than in most other EU countries which caused much of the population to have strong negative opinions. I think in many of the other EU countries this tactic has died down significantly at least within the major parties.
In the US, NYTimes editions from 1927 or earlier (1928 in two days time) are out of copyright and enter the public domain.
A visual approach with nodes and arrows gets around language syntax issues. However it comes own challenges, e.g. descending into a spaghetti mess if you aren't careful.
oh, yeah, for sure, once you're trying to generate a separate pwm waveform for each pixel, you need something more sophisticated than a 74hc595 driving the columns. aside from the ws2812 approach and the cpld/fpga approach, these days you can get custom led driver chips that do this, a separate pwm waveform (or sometimes programmable current sink) for each output pin, driven by daisy-chainable shift registers with multiple bits per pin

one quibble. if two 32-pixel-wide panels are daisy-chained, doesn't that mean it's sending one 64-pixel-wide row one pixel at a time, which gets shifted through the first panel into the second one?
Not any more: https://www.scummvm.org/news/20231206/
Link for reference:

> Bingxing Wang's awesome driver[0].

Windows Precision Touchpad Implementation for Apple MacBook family/Magic Trackpad 2

[0] https://github.com/imbushuo/mac-precision-touchpad
The rhetoric aroung gig work routinely repeats this "be your own boss" language, too.
We have an entire legal framework revolving around the dissolution of marriages and the surrounding issues. Its kind of a big deal (and has nothing to do with God, who the government does not enforce contracts for). Churches can (and do) enforce the "until death" vow part by treating divorcees differently within their organization.
'only'???
Do you happen to have a Nix flake for that egg setup?
It's the dark side of the cult of entrepreneurship built into the reaganite American Dream.

If the path to happiness is material success, and the path to material success is entrepreneurship, anything that looks like a shortcut to entrepreneurial success must be Good.

I mean, even here on HN there are plenty of people who put money into startups that predictably died - often not very different from thinly-veiled scams to provide founders with income. And let's not even get into cryptocurrencies...
Visarga's comment is equivalent to comments that neuroscientists make, as I showed earlier, so inferring that it means, "How hard can it be?" is your mistake alone, not visarga's. The voters agree.
Mytaxi (freenow) was founded the same year as Uber.
Cool seeing https://github.com/sharksforarms/deku in the wild
They should phase-out fossil fuels first, then. I'm so tired of "wind and solar instead of nuclear", while fossil fuels are still burnt.
Are you looking for British English instead?
I recommend zmwangx/ets package, it is the modern version of ts. I'm using it in CI/CD pipeline in gitlab for debugging performance.
when you open it in a new window it lets all the content out ;)
I completely agree.

Betamax says that a technology which has significant non-infringing uses is not inherently infringing.

We've already got precedent saying that AI generated works don't accrue copyright protection, and by the same argument the act of generation by the AI expresses no intent, so infringement or otherwise must be down to the human using the output because the black box itself has no agency.