skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The silver bar on the left of the vehicle controls the steering by pushing or pulling it towards or away from the driver. The linkage is exposed as well.
Fair example, although from what You are saying it looks more like its about using features that might not yet be available in os webview.

But the parent post, as well as 'other stories' I see sometimes talk about using certain, 'frozen', older version to ensure compatibility, essentially stating that new releases break some stuff. So i was more asking about such cases
The posted article doesn't have any relevant content ("Try unlimited access Only $1 for 4 weeks"), but based on the headline all I can think is please please pretty please maybe this time the government can perhaps let some defaulting actually happen? Of course we know the answer is always going to be more money printing to support the rigged heads-they-win tails-we-lose game, and the whole point of this article is part of the media push to make that happen. The main question is what related sector of the economy they'll ruin in the process.
Obviously self driving!
Related:

- https://www.driving.co.uk/features/charging-electric-car-loo...

- https://artsandculture.google.com/story/ge-and-the-electric-...

More photos of women and the GE Electric Car ca. 1912: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gereports/4993857638/
Reflecting on 2023
I think a repeating timer acts as a calming or focusing tool for some. I don't advocate it personally, unless your life or work schedule must be ruled by the clock.

When I say "write everything down" I mean use the lightest of note taking. It can be a bullet point for the day, or an expansive note on a particularly difficult technical challenge, there is no one set way of approaching this.
It’d really be ahead of its time if the next photo in the series was: “Woman curses at phone when charging app requires update to function”
2024 will make for an interesting year for the debt world. Seems like everyone and everything has debts coming due. Commercial real estate no exception.
My hypothesis is that the community is not the community the earnest users thought it was. There is no metric I'm proposing apart from whether the people complaining would actually value the community in the first place if they had an accurate understanding of the type of people the community was made up of.

Lets say you go to the local comedy club and do your act. You aren't a professional comedian, but you want to do comedy for fun, and it's a social experience where you get to interact with people. You work from home and social outlets are very important!

You do this for years, getting feedback from other comedians and enjoying yourself. Later you decide to buckle down and watch the great comedians at work. You watch the top performances by the top comedians, and to your horror you notice something disturbing. The other 'comedians' at your social club are just reading lines they copied down from famous comedy acts they watched on Youtube, verbatim. In fact, out of hundreds of other amateur comedians you had been having drinks with, and being proud when they praised your act or gave feedback, maybe one or two of them were actually writing their own material. They are all faking it to get social credit in this club.

At what point was the club ruined, all along or when you found out?
Editor-in-Chief here, happy to answer any questions!

Of interest might be my blog post on how SE runs on a small VPS using classic web tech: https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-...

(This post is slightly out of date as there is a database now; but it's used for managing Patrons - and soon a cover art listing and approval system - not for serving the actual ebooks, which are still served as described in the post.)

Our volunteers have spent the last few months preparing a few notable books published in 1928 to be released today, Public Domain Day. Those are the top 5 books in the ebook list, starting with The Mystery of the Blue Train. Check them out!

We welcome new contributors if you'd like to work on producing a new ebook. In the next week we'll also have a brand new cover art database launched, so if you'd rather help by cataloguing new cover art for future ebooks, get in touch at our mailing list!
My gut tells me they may never end up being very useful. something about the intrinsic downsides to any analog computer. which if you are not familiar, is that analog computer components must be far more precise than their digital counterparts.

Counterpoint: some of the most interesting classical algorithms, such as transformer-based neural nets, appear to work well with far less precision than expected. For that matter, the first perceptrons were analog... and of course, so is the one that everybody is trying to emulate.

As a measure of signal-to-noise ratio, numerical precision in the classical domain may correspond to other attributes in other domains. It may not be a productive thing to focus on.
> Fructose is usually considered healthier than sucrose or glucose - the whole "natural fruit sugars are OK" premise - though that seems likely to be nonsense given it's immediately and easily converted to glucose after you eat it. I don't know of any argument that says it's poisonous, or in any sense worse than glucose. That also seems unlikely to be true for the same reason - it's immediately converted to glucose.

Fructose is metabolized by the liver[0] ~identically to ethanol. This is why Robert Lustig (the Sugar: The Bitter Truth[1] dude) argues fructose is a poison, and taxing it like alcohol.

AIUI it's arguably the cause of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-alcoholic_fatty_liver_dise...

Your comment strikes me as confusing several factors... fructose does not turn into glucose upon eating it. But something like that is applicable to Sucrose vs. HFCS, rendering them ~identical in consumption (a split of glucose and fructose). That's orthogonal to what the body does with the fructose though.

Furthermore it's intact fruit that is seen as healthier because of the dietary fiber, not because of the fructose. The fructose is always a problem for the liver to deal with when absorbed. Fiber helps by slowing/preventing its absorption, in the best case letting it reach the large intestine to turn into flatulence via guttural flora before the body can absorb it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose#Fructose_metabolism

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
It's been the official line forever.

Not only that but also using quotes for every occurence of the word 'reunification' is not really subtle...
For SBCs that can run Linux, such information can be found on Armbian and DietPI forums where usually they discuss porting and availability of kernels and/or other software.
> Turn on the subtitles on any of his videos (particularly when there are multiple speakers) and you'll see the effort that goes in to it.

He actually did a video on subtitles recently, "Why don't subtitles match dubbing?":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU9sHwNKc2c
I’ve also been watching Tom Scott since he started, and love his content. I’ve put a few others that I enjoy below, that also produce what I consider to be high quality and entertaining content. Mind sharing any others?

Nile Red

Nick Zentner

Practical Engineering

Real Engineering

Ivan Miranda

Joe Makes

Tom Stanton

Veritasium

Numberphile

Deep Sky Videos

Objectivity (Honestly all of Brady’s channels are great)

3Blue1Brown

CGP Grey

Undecided with Matt Ferrell

The B1M

Kurzgesagt

Scott Manley

PBS Space Time

Deep Look

Looking Glass Universe

Institute of Human Anatomy

Smarter Every Day

Be Smart (formerly Its OK to be smart)

I’ve also recently started watching Scam Nation, which is a walkthrough of various magic tricks, in a relaxed setting. It’s not as dense as some of the others, but very good.
I do it only for myself, and as supporting evidence when it comes time to negotiations, or a CYA moment, and if it has reached a CYA moment, I am usually putting one foot out the door anyway because the working relationship is probably deteriorating.
A local portable toilet rental company uses the Eastman-Kodak [1] calendar (13 equal months; numeric dates always fall on same weekday; New Years Day is not in any month).

They do this for profitability, as it allows them one additional billing cycle per annum. I feel it's dishonest, they feel it's "business as usual."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
I still hate that I can't just use a credit card + pre-auth (or even cash!) at an EV charging station like I can at every single gas station. The data! It's! Important! To! Investors!
Japan's flying base stations set to take off in 2025
> There's some evidence of worked beads and jewellery going back up to 70ky; there's no reason to suspect that fabric may not be similarly old, or even older—it's simply labour-intensive to manufacture (so scarce to begin with) and doesn't last much longer than a human lifetime.

There's an interesting recent PBS video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opg6RO9cYnk
The current Copyright is broken - literally everybody except some evil cooperations and their corrupt politicians agree to that.

We all have ideas how to fix it - very simply could be to go with Authors life and when the art is sold it goes down to 10-25 years. Thats it. Simple.

What seems to be unsolved is HOW we actually get to this point. It seems to be impossible to get enough money to outspend the evil cooperations in buying politicians, so what do you suggest?
I read your comment in the “Simpson comic book nerd” tone of voice.
Can someone give me a practical use case where this adds a net benefit to society?
It’s also built into emacs: I believe it’s called disassociated-press
If it makes any difference (agree, it's strange to post this article in particular given its date and small scope)...

Vietnam is still consistently engaging in rolling blackouts, as how I interpret them. But it really shouldn't be impacting corps at the moment - It seems to be limited to residential areas and infrequently (a few a month)

More apparent strain on their grid compared to neighbours. Still, it really makes you aware of how robust the UK grid ostensibly is.
But my experience is limited given I've only experienced one or two suburbs per country, for limited periods.
As long as your hearts content isn't commercial
SC-GS: Sparse-Controlled Gaussian Splatting for Editable Dynamic Scenes
How I destroyed the company's DB (a stupid SQL mistake)
I wonder if the office owners are connected enough politically to get a bailout?

Not an expert so I can only really pose the question.
erm, it's existence provides to scammers.

unless you're proposing it's use in detecting itself is some how symmetrical, which I really don't think is anything but unproven conjecture.
That's not what the post above you is talking about. "Endless scrolling" was never even mentioned
Which network are you considering for your DIY air quality sensor? They mention on a slide:

- https://sensor.community/

- https://luftdaten.at/

- https://openair.cologne/
Educause also has a partnership with InCommon that uses Sectigo to issue certs. I work at a relatively small school and we have thousands of certs issued by effectively Sectigo. I'd imagine there's lots and lots of Educause members that are taking advantage of this.

https://www.educause.edu/about/incommon

https://incommon.org/certificates/faq/
Ideally we’d follow in Norways’s footsteps and mandate that new charging stations accept credit cards but that’s probably a lost hope with electric cars being a culture war issue in the US these days.
> But the difference is that generative AI leaders literally think that they are about to create a techno-utopia

What honestly baffles me is that not even those are presenting a positive vision for AI.

On the contrary, the main PR angle of "generative AI" leaders right now is the "AI is a critical danger for humanity" doomsday cult. The one "positive" spin on this seems to come from the e/acc faction of the cult who frame it as some sort of natural evolutionary progression: "sure, AI will wipe out humanity, but that's actually a good thing".

But both the e/alt and e/acc legs of the cult seem to agree that a) AI is a threat to humanity, b) It's inevitable that AI will become more powerful than humanity and c) we nevertheless have to build it for some reason.

If the two publicly visible mindsets of its thought leaders are "cold-hearted Manchester capitalist who wants to replace even more workers with machines" and "tech-pyromanic madman who fears his soul to be eternally tortured by an AI unless he brings that very AI into existence" then it's not exactly a surprise if the tech is received negatively.
> * the notion that anything digital can be easily faked seeps into the wider consciousness the better. Trust nothing.*

This is a society-destroying idea.

Most of us, especially younger people, only know how to vote, where there are wars, or even what our parents are doing by using digital media.

If digital media becomes untrustworthy, everyone will live in a warped and fragile alternate reality that no one can agree on.
Stephen Baxter's "Manifold: Origin" novel also describes the potential lives of non-Sapiens hominins, including their inner thoughts. I'm not sure how well researched it was, and the whole thing definitely has a more science fiction than historical fiction background, but it was an interesting (albeit not a very happy†) read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_(Baxter_novel)

† None of his books are. But they're still very good.
Do you normalise / deduplicate / otherwise clean up the xml or json files?

I'm thinking of visual studio solution files which were XML that picked up a lot of spurious churn when written by visual studio. A formative moment was discovering that colleagues edited these by hand to remove some of the noise when checking them into source control.

XML has a canonical form idea, sorts attributes and similar. Mostly wondering if opening the trees of emitted xml/json in a diff tool is a vaguely credible way of diagnosing whatever seems to be going wrong / rolling back one part of a change made in the GUI tooling.
The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love (2021) [video]
The 'tech' comparison in TFA only applies to computer hardware for the guidance computers. I'd be keen to know more about the engines, the fuels, the materials, the construction techniques, etc.
They explicitly exclude computational notebooks in this paper (see page 5). While they don't mention org-mode I'm fairly certain that a significant portion of org functionality can be understood using their concept of reforestation, at least for org-export functionality.
I would say that "mostly" is an incredible achievement. Most feature work done in software produces zero to middling desired outcomes.
I'll be your friend. What's up?
The metrics are every high, but those basically mean nothing. I've seen more than one person claim its not very good with English, but better in Chinese.
The site is smooth, but it causes the fans on my laptop to start spinning. I closed the tab and the fans stopped. I'm on a 2014 MBP w/8GB RAM running Firefox, but it is still plenty fast for other React websites.

I wonder if it's the animated wallpaper that's causing the fans to fire up.
that's all good but does it have FSD?

Jokes aside, it is enlightening to see how far we have come. Just 10 years ago, seeing a Tesla in SF bay area would be a topic of conversation. Today, I have two Teslas parked in my garage and yesterday when we went for a NYE party, 80% of the attendees drove Tesla (or Tesla drove them ;)
It doesn't sound like much, I mean what does a billion buy you these days? A couple of villas and a yacht and you're done.

Also, according to TFA, this is about 600 buildings, of which 224 might be problematic. What happens when they are not refinanced? They are owned by the bank just the same.
I would love to hear how people are building HTPC/media streaming setups using this kind of stack in 2024. I am very interested in replacing all my aging fire sticks with something custom built.

Was considering just doing some RPi based dongles on bedroom TVs and a higher spec gaming PC with Steam Big Picture on the main TV, but with all the innovation recently I feel a bit of choice paralysis.

Anyone willing to share what their setup looks like, or what they're planning to do in the coming year?
I do. Bread is easy and not lot of active work: make the dough the night before, bake in the morning. About 15 minutes labor. Stock: make a batch once a month and if necessary supplement with store bought (you can find stock with almost no salt and no sugar). Pasta I make only for special occasions due to the labor involved and it's trivial to find pasta that has 2 ingredients.
Snow White the character was in the public domain long before disney made the movie.
It would be funny on each new version to list "sped up rendering by 2x!" in the change log.

And each time you just decrease the animation durations by half. :)
This is really nice! I didn't mention in the post, but my family friends originally switched from a Secret Santa for the kids in the group to White Elephant, because as people got older it became much harder to buy them things they like.

I think your approach might also help people learn what they like themselves - within my family, the answer to "What do you want for your birthday?" is almost always, "I don't know." Will suggest it!
Amigurumi (Japanese: 編みぐるみ, lit. "crocheted or knitted stuffed toy") is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small, stuffed yarn creatures.

Had to look that up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amigurumi
> The 2022 Nobel confirms reality is non-local

No, it doesn’t do that, the public presentations around it are a bit misleading. What Bell’s theorem says is that QM is incompatible with local hidden-variables theories. In the Many Worlds theory, however, local realism is retained despite Bell’s theorem: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/573382. My guess is that Einstein would have come around to that view, as it fits his philosophical thinking.

That being said, the 2022 Nobel price was for the experiments conducted over a time span from 1972 to 2015, confirming Bell’s 1964 theorem. As such, there aren’t any recent major new insights. The latest experiments closed some remaining loopholes, but basically only confirmed what had already been generally assumed for a long time.

All of this doesn’t change what QM predicts. It just limits the space of possible underlying theories that would explain QM.
Extroverts do this a lot: talk about how important people and relationships are to them, and then extrapolate that this must be true for everyone.
It doesn’t matter that some ships weren’t nominally owned by Israel but in reality owned by shell corporations in turn owned by Israel-supporting billionaires.
Great list and the majority I watch also. But you are missing Technology Connections. You'll probably find them interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/c/TechnologyConnections/videos
I think I've noticed this most with SD NTSC and DVD MPEG2 transfers of B&W film. It's much less of a problem with HD Blu-ray versions.
How about city mayors looking at their tax receipts trying to balance their budgets, that's going to provide major political leverage.
Aside from the fact that is will be easier to scam people, I fail to see benefits. We can already translate everything with the same synthetic voice
True! But this video from what I saw did not mention it (or maybe I missed it?). It came off as something that was intended to be approachable for the general population, and I don't think the general population sees illustrations of traditional granulated sugar and sugary drinks and thinks "Oh they're actually talking about carbs in general".
Ouch. The base vehicle of that year wasn't very good, so I hope they changed the engine to a Subaru or something reliable. My grandfather was a Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep dealer mechanic.

Also, you just described every other vehicle in Texas: jacked up, souped-up, with mud tires, and glasspacks.

In a war zone, low-observable, quiet, and high performance are better ideas.

Also, I'm hoping for quick COTUS 2024 aid package to UA. Slava Ukraini!

PS: What the heck is a Canadian SWE doing delivering vehicles in UA? Must be really, really good $$$. ;@]
Quite good actually when you use the forward+ renderer (vulkan) and do the little things properly (using multimeshinstances or shaders heavily instead of tons of direct meshes, using occlusion culling properly, making sure you have multi-threading enabled, run physics on a sep proc, etc). I'm evening running with full dynamic global illum and loving it.

I'm not trying to prematurely optimize but my game worlds are very large, (I have a working to scale earth for example) (oops, forgot to mention, to get good large world behavior, compiling with double precision is a must! (https://godotengine.org/article/emulating-double-precision-g...)) so I've been watching lots of GDC and other talks from AAA titles and how they do their rendering pipelines, and my conclusion is that shaders are really the powerhouse of gamedev these days and anyone interested would do themselves a favor to start learning the quirks of your engines shader language now.
A recent test drive:

https://youtu.be/Xzk6acQO-KQ
> based on the headline all I can think is

It's good that you're open about only having read the headline. Another user posted a link to the full article text: https://archive.is/VYBn9
> let some defaulting actually happen

Do you realize the impact this would have on pension plans and mom and pop investment portfolios too? It isn’t just Bezos and other billionaires who would feel pain - it would be a lot of regular folk getting annihilated financially as well.
So cool. Thanks for making it!
And suddenly it becomes a bit weird:

https://docs.myshell.ai/tokenomics

Tokenomics

Disclaimer: MyShell is currently in the testing phase, and the content of the whitepaper may be subject to change in the future.

$SHELL is the token used for user incentive, governance and in-app utility.

The total supply of $SHELL is 1,000,000,000
Unlike US home loans, commercial mortgages are almost entirely interest- only. That means developers of large properties tend to have low monthly payments, but face a balloon payment equal to the original loan the day the mortgage comes due.

That is an odd detail I was not aware of... this seems to be a significant advantage for commercial mortgages over residential ones. Are they less leveraged or something? That doesn't square with the "40 per cent of office loans on bank balance sheets were under water" statement later in the article.

This is not driven by fundamentals; this has everything to do with financing costs going back up

Seems like a disingenuous statement. Demand for office space has fallen. And according to the article, demand was overstated when these now-due loans were originally made.

“Everyone will blame Covid [for] the losses,” said John Griffin, a professor at Texas university. “But Wall Street’s aggressive underwriting of commercial mortgage debt is going to make the situation a whole lot worse than it would have been.”
Writing a TrueType font renderer
Hi HN, happy new year!

TrueType is really a neat and fun format, packed with esoterica. This post gives some background on the problem of text rendering in general, explains how TrueType works under the hood, and contains lots of tidbits that I hope will be interesting.

There’s also a bunch of screenshots of the in-progress renderer stumbling over itself. I hope you enjoy the read!
I don’t see Steve Mould and Technology Connections, but thanks for your list :)
That means nothing if one uses an inefficient language for both inference and training and the slower language will still bottleneck the ONNX runtime FFI calls and on top of Java's own garbage collector.

For those that care about performance know that the worst case is taken into account regardless if it is written in C++ for both memory and runtime performance.