skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has to cater to its reputation of biggest destructor of products
Google needs to toss Sundar and get a competent CEO who can forcefully smash the org back into line.

Google has turned into these little micro clusters of ideologies and functional philosophies, leading to a horrifically fragmented mess of google branded products. All which come loaded now with end-of-life anxiety as google just farts out products that seem to dissipate just as fast.

The fact that most google apps function better on iOS than Pixel phones should be enough to get any sane board to take action. This is without even mentioning the disaster that search has become, or completely dropping the ball on LLMs.
The second hand drawn map shows the source pumping station at the Sea of Cortez.
The removal of the AnyList integration drove us to get an Alexa assistant device in the kitchen. It still works there

Never thought amazon would have the better assistant ecosystem. Google already has my email and calendar and other stuff, Amazon I have to auth into them like a third party. But it's become true
I just bought skirt steak for $7 a pound at my local mexican grocer in Chicago. Not even a sale, that's just the normal price.
"nuclear weapons proliferation,..."
Seems like we got that anyway thanks to the military industrial complex without getting much in the way of nuclear energy generation.
> These were _incredibly obvious_ duplicate entry errors when the Post Office investigated but they blindly took the system as perfect and automatically assumed criminality on the part of the postmaster

They did not blindly take the system as perfect, but instead they were well aware of the errors and instead decided to bully the sub postmasters and gain bonuses for successful prosecution. They knew exactly what they were doing and took pains to hide any evidence of the shortcomings of Horizon.
I'm an "overhang" bear, while incremental progress will be made - it'll come at too high of a cost. The larger, slower, more expensive models have limited applications(mostly fine-tuning the economical ones) so there will be ultimately less investment. Unless there is a new unlock, we'll be left with mediocre 3.5 models for most real-time apps and excitement will fade.
It is 100% a safety valve. Humans have an inherent negativity/risk-aversion bias. Those who didn’t were weeded out of the gene pool. If someone comes up to you with a crazy sounding idea it is far more likely that they are wrong and you shouldn’t trust them. It’s one reason why obvious seeming innovations take so long to become widespread.
I haven't played a video game that was better or more immersive than Tarzan. I hypothesize that artists, like Burroughs, could have more success than they are having today.
We don't know what will be at the end of this. It seems that the OpenAI folks are endlessly pursuing the technology of AGI without actually working on making sure that AGI benefit "all of humanity." They haven't even articulate what it means to benefit all of humanity.
Yes, right. It seems like some sort of desperate, last-minute thing to fling in someone's face. "Oh yeah? If you care about nature so much how come you're in favor of these giant things that slaughter birds? I guess we can safely disregard all your arguments."
PSA: there is an Android application named "Google" (sic) which is a browser, but it's not Chrome. This browser application stores every interaction (browsing history, etc) on the server-side. My mother-in-law uses it .. to buy sweaters from bloggers? She uses it for everything. And yes, she thinks the internet is just named Google. :(
I would go on a rampage.
From https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.8451...

“ In general, anthropogenic activities pollute the coastal marine environment, altering the environment’s physiochemical properties and resulting in changes in marine communities. Physiochemical conditions can be altered by the presence of pollutants, hypoxia, organic enrichment, decreased hydrodynamic conditions, and, more recently, brine discharge (de-la-Ossa-Carretero et al., 2016). Salinity elevation in receiving soil and water bodies and the territorial consequences of brine with high total dissolved solids on benthic marine life close to the discharge site are the most important environmental challenges associated with brine disposal (Miri and Chouikhi, 2005; Panagopoulos et al., 2019).”

Lots more detail in the article on studies of specific populations as well as discussion of mitigations and alternatives.
Isn't that the same story with Vegas? Would it exist without the hoover dam?
Out of interest, has anyone successfully used an ESP32 on a commercial project, or are these intended primarily for hobbyists?

Also, what would be considered the go-to chip for commercial applications?
My experience as a pizza-delivery guy is about 50 years out of date, but tips were few and small.
He should take into account in 3 months the time line will accelerate 20% and compound it and do a discount to present and give a more accurate answer.

Let me do his job for him: 90% AGI will happen by 2030.
By the same token, the destruction of the earth is directly against the interests of pretty much all financial players, therefore environmentalism is not a concern because the market will self regulate.

...is the response with the same level of nuance as is present in your comment.

Human incentives are much more complicated than that. The incentives that capitalism creates are much more complicated than that.
> The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max can be configured with up to 1 TB of storage.

On the flip side, apparently the base-model iPhone 15 Pro comes with zero storage upgrades. You get the same 128gb base-model storage as the regular 15, and the 256gb entry model is reserved for the Pro Max. A bit surprising, given that iPhones don't support expandable storage.
> What purpose of the LGPL is defeated?

The purpose of /which/ LGPL? And that's the thing. After GPL demonstrated that it had teeth and got some case law underneath it, the "family" of derivatives exploded, each one of them identifying as "open source" but each with their own additions, removals, modifications or other opinions on what "freedoms" they convey (mostly removals).

There are those of us out here who believe that the core purpose of all of these licenses were defeated a long time ago when all of this legal swizzling first began. I personally hate GPLv3, AGPL, LGPLv3, etc. with a fiery burning passion; thank god we were able to see some transformative projects emerge under actually free licenses before everything got ruined.
Ok this keeps happening. I posted this exact URL 3 days ago.

Shouldn’t the same URL submitted again redirect to mine?

Is there a certain cutoff when someone else can submit the same URL?

(I’m not complaining, I just want to understand what the rules are)
Is there an app that monitors your apps to see if any have been sold to such unethical companies to alert you to delete your accounts with those apps?

That would seem like a useful app.

Frankly Apple and Alphabet should offer such a service but I don't have much confidence that they will.
wow. I'm the creator of hnhiring.com. Interestingly enough yesterday I made some tweaks to the trends page because it was quite slow, now it's much faster.
"Hey Siri, set 10 minute timer". But I suppose you meant for Android ?
Or they’ve dual licensed the libraries in question.
Blocking the EB GC applications of an employer that had layoffs screws over the employee, not the employer. If anything, the employer gets to have that employee tied to them for that additional time, regardless of the desires of the employee to move on.
inflation is always measured year over year if the timeframe isnt specified
Linux Gains an Open File Server for Tractors and Agriculture Machinery
I have a garage and my car won't fit in it because it's filled with crap.
Incentives and the Cobra Effect
Wind turbines are not very friendly at all to oil-and-gas drilling!
Awesome! I haven't talked to a real live environmental scientist in a few months. What aspect are you studying?
Chernobyl was good then?
An indoor-only rescue cat takes a cat off the street, keeps it from killing wildlife, AND gives it a better life.
Don't the nearby homeowners usually get paid if they're really close?
> What's appealing about this? I don't know, but billions and upon billions are being poured into it and many "smart" people are striving for it.

Men's way to "give birth"?
Describing Azure as a dumpster fire doesn't strike you as hyperbolic? Could you elaborate?
That's what's so insane about it all :)
Broke: Reading books or attending classes on philosophy and cognitive science to learn from hundreds of years of combined research from the world's greatest minds.

Woke: Pulling up a new theory of intelligence and for why everyone else is too damn stupid for "fourth order thinking" out of thin air, talking to it about an LLM and deeming it so important it has to be shared with an online community.
It sucks you guys home in on some weird issue for every promising technology.

He literally addresses brine in the article.
What's a tech trend you're skeptical about, and why?
"Creator of product topping Hacker News"

I can't help but find this funny
On top of what you mentioned in your first sentence, any ideas to improve discoverability are horrible. I hate it when Alexa does not play my podcast right away but explains to me how I can change episodes. I despise Alexa for telling me that I have some notification before starting my timer. And so on - any voice only attempt to explain me something without me asking for it means adding a lot of friction between me and my goal.
I recommend The Guardian's podcast episodes covering this:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/jan/08/revisited...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/audio/2024/jan/08/revisi...

Also some Private Eye podcast episodes:

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/49

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/95
Have you seen Solitaire by Bruce Schneier [1]? There are issues with it, but it is still interesting.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/academic/solitaire/
Chamath Palihapitiya incubator using AI for 90% discounted Enterprise SW
I'd recommend pirating it and it's easy enough to find through the usual trackers.
If the rich are not consuming in proportion to what they have, then what do they do with their money? Right, they invest it. And what does that investment create? Jobs, factories, lower costs, and new opportunities for all. The fact that someone was able to accumulate wealth shows that they know how to use it to generate a return. For the economy in general, it is much more beneficial to have people with skin in the game to invest their own money, instead of the government wasting it in bureaucracy.
I read the title of this and thought - yes - at last - Google are going to be integrating LLM capabilities with Google Assistant to make it really really useful instead of occasionally useful with a side helping of frustration at how little it understands.

Instead this seems to be a list of useful features that are being taken away!

I'm disappointed. Google employ some of the best AI/ML engineers in the world and they are making assistant worse rather than making it a showcase for what LLMs can do.
That only holds when 'o' and 'f' are both boolean "flags" taking no arguments. If 'f' is more like --file=x then it takes an argument.

More specifically, getopt(3) in POSIX lets programmers very this by giving a format string. "o:f" would make your example parse as "-o" "foo" while "of:" would make it parse as "-o" "-f" "oo" and an "of" format would make it parse as you describe, "-o" "-f" "-o" "-o".

( darnir mentioned parts of this above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38968612 using the term "single character flags" to indicate no argument. )

Also, while --long-option is GNU, gcc which is perhaps the aboriginal GNU command-line utility uses single dash as in, e.g. `gcc -pipe`, though it also accepts `gcc --help`. CL syntax remains quite varied in the wild.
Haha is good you aren’t the judge, even I don’t think that’s fair.

They should be forced to closed immediately or be nationalized.
I've been meaning to get around to trying an Apple HomePod Mini, the AnyList integration on my iPhone works okay (thought as an infuriating two-step process, "Hey Siri, add to shopping list" ... "milk") so hopefully it would be replicable on the pod, too. Seems like the least worst option.
US banks have lot of things missing compared to European ones, like going personally to the US bank office so you can do SEPA payment.
"reading through this entire blog post" ?

Is

"The Physically Embodied Bear"
"95%+ will include taking physical, real-world actions."

not a mention of "construction, manual labour, mechanics, welders, painters" and "blue-collar workers" ?
Note how this might be "Wifi 6", but it's still 2.4Ghz only and as far as I can see still single antenna (making most mimo functionality useless). Target Wake Time looks like the only feature that might be useful (reduces battery consumption substantially), but few applications can make use of that yet because your product still needs to work if the user has an old router which doesn't support it.

Other ESP32's in the range don't get more than about 20Mbps throughput under ideal conditions, so it probably isn't exactly a beast in the wifi performance department.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't the same silicon with an upgraded firmware to enable this new functionality.
But „the focus of archaeological research and academic consensus“ is unrelated to such a broad statement on a supposedly eurocentric view. It‘s like saying we just discovered a new planet last year, very surprisingly, considering the fact that „we“ made Galileo recant. Out of touch with reality and at least 20 years late.

Then, David, I‘m not sure where you are from and perhaps in your country what you call „software developers“ (a term which seems to conveniently exclude yourself, guessing from your username) are _usually_ uneducated people living under a rock, but let me inform you that where I am from this is not the case and many have a wide range of interests and are certainly as qualified as anyone else to have an opinion on what is not a subtle detail of archaeology research but a topic of general interest that happens to be closely connected to politics.

So the original comment raised a valid point, worth discussing.
Found the Croatian cop.
Do you think I'm part of the editor cabal? If so, what qualified me? If not, do you expect my changes to this article to be reverted?
The full quote is even stranger.

> We have a Eurocentric view of civilisation, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilisation

Why do we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilisation? They found a city with buildings and roads. That's an entirely traditional Eurocentric definition of civilization.
This feels like it belongs on /r/iamverysmart.

Most people don't argue within moral frameworks. Most people don't live logic-based lives. Most people prefer happiness to correctness, peace to progress, and quietude to justice. This is a very difficult thing, and not a very good thing, for those who want change.
Auqui-fire?
Not sure if your comment is positive or sarcastic. Are you familiar with Scott Alexander's writings?
I think most people will only rent a non-Tesla once. If you don’t have the option of charging at home it’s a truly miserable experience. It made me convinced the charging network is the missing piece.
Ask HN: Is there a service for uploading Markdown files that render beautifully?
I currently have an `,upload-gist` binary to upload files as GitHub gist but that isn't very beautiful. I also have my own website but there I haven't built the infrastructure to upload files easily.

I'm searching for a place that:
- uploads/hosts my Markdown files
- provide a permanent URL
- is beautiful & minimalistic
If anything, Scott is underselling himself, and could probably argue circles against the average educated person.

Debates are the rationalists bread and butter, and you should expect them to be better at you the same way you would expect a trained boxer to beat you in a fistfight.
The DSL for foldMation uses https://github.com/mationai/mation-spec . I created it since I couldn't find anything out there that is similar, allowing me to specify a well structured data with English-like readable syntax.
Or this: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38084734>
Many years ago in a team meeting, I was explaining the need for an additional bit (yes, bit) to our mainframe programmer, because the value had three positions. I then explained, we'd use ternary math on it. HE WAS DEEPLY OFFENDED. Left the meeting telling us we weren't allowed to just invent new math.
I saw an ad on the London Underground recently from a brewery that included "AI." It's starting to feel a lot like the dotcom/crypto bubble.
Jail is not enough of a deterrent for the kind of enormous damage some of the involved have caused to society. For such large-scale, fully intentional, proven harm to society out of nothing but self-interest over a long period of time, stronger penalties than jail must be applied.
> Kia Rio 5 door

You missed a very important bit: 'old toyota-level reliability and longevity' ;)
Lemmy does.
I never got why people choose citi. They don’t offer best lending rates, they don’t have a vast ATM network, their credit card benefits are worse than chase/amex, etc. seems they aren’t really amazing at any particular segment but meh in all.
Fortran is hardly dead, but neither is it is well.

On the plus side, Fortran has more actively developed implementations than any other language. It is critical to some of the most important applications that exist. One can write code in the portable subset of Fortran and extract very high performance from very expensive HPC systems over many generations of processor and systems architecture.

On the down side, advancement of the language has become moribund -- the last major standard was in 2008 and the two revisions since then have been minor. The standards committee creates new features from whole cloth without prototyping them, and without fixing the bugs in the spec when bugs are discovered eventually by implementors. There has been no standard public test suite since F'77, so implementations vary. There are highly portable features that are not standard and there are standard features now that are not portable.

I'm working hard to try to improve this situation on the compiler side.
> What I'm waiting to find out is why the Post Office managers were so desperate to protect the reputation of Horizon, that they were willing to risk being charged with perverting the course of justice.

They received bonuses for each successful prosecution and it would be career suicide for any of them to blow the whistle.
Even if I'm personally paying for a premium account I do think that unpaying users still have two reasons to 'complain'.

1. There's no real competitor to Youtube so if you disagree with a certain thing but still want to watch how to fix your dishwasher there may not be any other place to turn to.

2. There's only one payment model. Someone who maybe follows a single type of video and doesn't watch videos every day still have to pay the same amount as someone who watches multiple videos per day.

I really hate the second point since so many services these days use that model (especially newspapers, just let me pay per article).
Show HN: Hatchet – open-source, event-based workflow engine
Hey HN - over the past few months, I’ve been working on Hatchet, which is a workflow engine meant for event-driven applications. Workflows are triggered by user-defined events (along with schedules and cron jobs). It bundles a web UI for observability and has several integrations built out (Sentry, OpenTelemetry, Slack).

It’s very similar to using an SQS + EventBridge + AWS Lambda stack, but uses worker pools to process functions instead of isolated function invocations. Some features that Hatchet offers:

1. Publish, react to, and query events using the Events API [1]

2. You can define services via `worker.NewService` which can run a set of methods. For example, you can define a `users` service which schedules user notifications, creates a user sandbox environment, processes user events, etc.

3. It’s designed to be modular, so you can plug in your own task queue implementation or event storage repository. I built it using Postgres and RabbitMQ, but would love to support better event storage via Clickhouse and other message queues.

4. Workflows are declarative, which means you define the structure of your workflow when registering them with the Hatchet engine. This means that each workflow run is predictable and executes an immutable workflow version.

It currently only supports a Go SDK but Typescript and Python are on the near-term roadmap.

Looking forward to hearing any questions or feedback you have!

[1] https://docs.hatchet.run/go-sdk/pushing-events
My favorite video game is Tetris, and I don't think it's a coincidence that it was produced by a society that placed consumer choice low on its list of priorities.
Wow, what a fantastic post!

The author, who holds a PhD from Caltech, proposes taking advantage of the decreasing cost of solar power to enable a new age of clean water abundance in California, sustainably, with the potential for massive revenues and profits at all steps in the value chain. Even if the author's calculations are off by a factor of two, the proposal looks like it could work. At a minimum, it merits serious consideration. The status quo will not solve our pressing environmental problems.

The main challenge an innovative large-scale project like this one would face, I think, is a regulatory bureaucracy which to me often seems like it was designed for the technologies and infrastructure of the 20th century, not for those of the 21st century. I shudder to think of, say, inspectors who are highly trained on narrow technical matters, but who lack a fundamental, multi-disciplinary, big-picture view of the entire project, deciding whether to approve individual tiny little parts of it.
>engineering trains you to have a very black-and-white right-or-wrong view of the world based on a few simple formulae, and this meshes with fundamentalism better than it meshes with subtle liberal religious messages.

Back in the usenet days it was taken as given that any creationist was also an engineer. Creationism was nice and neat and logical unlike that handwavy big bang thing that was probably dreamed up by woolly headed academics with no practical experience.
I'm saying that the huge salaries in cushy jobs has disincentivized creativity and pioneering.
the intent of the project is the conversion of a saline lake to freshwater, not the creation of a saline lake.
No we didn't. Not even close.
When the main debate is over what the language is called, it's a sure sign the actual tech is shit.
A few things that can help with memory:

- spaced repetition for stuff that you use sporadically. I use Anki, it's great. For how to use it, this article is great: https://borretti.me/article/effective-spaced-repetition. I've found a positive feedback loop where the more I know how to do things without looking anything up, the more I use the CLI, the easier I remember things, the more things I discover, etc. I read once that when learning a new language, you should aim for content where you know 80%/90% already. It seems to be true for learning the CLI, and especially for integrating that learning into my day to day job.

- sd (https://github.com/ianthehenry/sd) for lowering the cost of creating a "documented alias". Before that I made aliases with either alias, or bash functions, all starting with "," to quickly see all which are "mine" (I read that trick in an article that I can't find), now the more complex stuff is in sd with some documentation.
If we produced a gigawatt of energy by cleanest way possible, where do you think this gigawatt ends up? Some "energy dumpyard" somewhere outside the solar system?