skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like this bill was written to generate headlines more than anything else. There’s been a huge uptick in pedestrian/biker fatalities in my area (South Bay) over the past 5 years. Even in my neighborhood, a group of students got plowed through at a cross walk while they had right of way (my son bikes w/ them each morning, but was home sick that day; all lived, but bones broken and PT for some). Excessive speed was not a factor. In any event, very few of the pedestrian incidents were directly tied to speed. Lack of attention, not fit to drive (age), and DUI are almost always what’s listed in the police report.
Either way, if the goal is simply to throw some regulations for a technical solution at a complex problem, then maybe focusing on inattention/distraction would be more useful. For instance, I’d be okay with being nagged by a chime (like w/ unbuckled belt) whenever my attention was not sufficiently on the road.

Here’s my (biased) list of more productive suggestions to tackle:

- make it legal for LE to pull over and cite cars for front window tint dark enough that pedestrians/bikers cannot see the drivers eyes (it’s now common for soccer moms at pickup to be rolling with 15-20% on fronts). And FFS just go ahead and impound anyone with a dark tint on their windshield. If repeat offender, impound vehicle.

- Lifted trucks should require DOT-approved pedestrian-friendly bumpers or brush guards when driven on public roads. Additionally, inspect stamp during Smog testing to ensure they are DOT approved. If a lifted truck, or one w/o DOT-approved (off road) brush guard, is involved in accident that results in injury directly attributed to the modifications, charge owner with criminal negligence.

- Require DMV road test every 10 years for license renewal; every 5 after age 60, and every 2 after 80.

- Require cars to pass a basic headlight alignment test during smog testing. Aftermarket LEDs in halogen housings would be automatic fail. Registration cannot be renewed until corrected.

- daytime sobriety checkpoints in neighborhoods. It doesn’t even need to be a test / checkpoint. It’s insane how often I see/smell cars driving by my house w/ drivers vaping cannabis to “take the edge off” after work (or whatever I’ve been told).
There's an option in the Xiaomi Home app. Three dot menu -> Screen brightness.
common sensw guys

Google is capital G

Kagi is lower case g
I'm saying the system of belief brought along with it social mental healthcare that is now missing since we rejected the system of belief.
Helix is awesome, fast, elegant and works everywhere.
I wonder what unique selling points Zed has that could motivate me to switch?
Sure, theft is bad. The question is how do we disincentivize it. Risk = punishment * probably of being caught. If the probability of being caught is low then the risk can be justified. If the probability of being caught (and successfully prosecuted) is 1 then even short sentences become effective.
> software is its tendency to mutate in ways I don't like, outside of my control.

Totally this. I'm actually migrating my org away from gitlab to self hosted gitea for this reason. We are all pretty fed up of the UI changing all the time, the UX complexity, and constantly being pushed towards CI features we have no interest in or need for. I don't particularly like the look of what's been happening on github either. Gitea - even on a frickin nanode - is way faster and more responsive than our paid gitlab service. The only tricky part is reorganising a large number of hierarchical groups to the more flat organisation of gitea.

Once you are already running a bunch of infrastructure, one more server is nothing. I've also found it much easier to take on new services once I moved my backup strategy to ZFS, where the entire backup is at the storage layer and databases no longer need special treatment beyond tuning for an atomic file system.
I think the problem is that if you can't fix whatever is causing your body to attack your own pancreas first, it doesn't really matter if you're able to slowly regenerate the insulin-producing cells - you can't make any headway.
I think the clever ones learned a while back that market research is more important than R&D, so now they make trending products like mini sticker printers, battery packs and Stanley knock offs.
"can"
Yeah and it's an awful idea to not have any crew on a train. They should be shorter and have people that can be there for emergencies.
You must not have traveled much. Go drive in France or Italy and you'll realize how courteous American drivers actually are.
My understanding is that the vast majority of their revenue is used to pay Google and Microsoft for access to their indexes though.
Ah, I'd been thinking it must be a device somehow related to manufacturing bullets (but how? was the question) -- it hadn't occurred to me that it could mean the pointy tips of bullets themselves. And thank you for the book recommendation.
Data analysis shouldn't be rocket science
If you do that, you'll lose other features, like "auto" mode where it varies the fan speed depending on the amount of particles in the air, or the ability to control it remotely. On lower fan speeds it's essentially silent.
I recently saw someone do the opposite - Uncrop Bollywood movies into vertical format.
You can with browser extensions, fwiw.
It shows 65% being infertile within 4 months and some hadn't become fertile again thereafter. Totally aside from side effects that seems to me to be useless.
This is such a non-issue.

1. I live in the EU and I would worry much more about my country/Union spying on me than foreigners.

2. In the same token I trust Yandex much more than Google. And yes, I am competent enough to make that assessment. The same goes with using the world's best antivirus in Kaspersky vs. using something weaker from Five-Eyeish+block.

3. Yandex Browser is technically good. But the main killer feature for me is having the address bar on the bottom of my screen. This should just be a common-sense default for mobile browsers, yet it is't.
I have been to both France and Italy.
Gergely Orosz has a good post on this where he splits it into companies that have engineering as a "cost center" vs. a "profit center" https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/profit-centers-co...
> Moreover, the costs were predictable: for a given year and # of users, you knew exactly what you’d be spending for that level of support. No surprises. No unexpected weeks of having a developer doing nothing but troubleshooting a failed migration on a team-essential service.

This just doesn't hold for SaaS. That's the promise of SaaS, but again, IME, it is not how it happens.

I spend a fair portion of my time … I'd say ~1h / week, sometimes 0 but sometimes >>0 … dealing with SaaS systems not behaving the way they ought to. But unlike "owned" systems, often I'm stuck playing support ticket monkey — if the SaaS even has a function support system — and trying to get somebody else to care enough to look, often trying to get somebody else to care who you have to influence indirectly through some "customer success manager" who cares only about closing this ticket as soon as a technicality¹ will permit.

To me, SaaS & owned are nigh identical in this respect: it boils down to the quality of the actual thing at hand. Some owned systems I've used are rock solid: they do their thing, they're more or less bug free, they consume essentially none of my time. But some owned systems are just a time drain. SaaS is the same way: some are rock solid (I'd put S3 in this category) and some are simply not; I know a good number of my support tickets correlate to the same system.

¹Particularly version churn: "we have problem X" → "oh, you're not on the latest version of the SaaS ticket closed → we upgrade → we reproduce X on the new version → refile the ticket → "oh you're not on the latest version of the SaaS".
Loads of towns around Boston have the exact setup described above.
Try this one: https://helix-editor.com/
> Still, despite being high-status, well-compensated jobs, those doing DEI work endure extensive burnout, resulting in high turnover, and have an average tenure of only three years.

....what? Three years is really long?
Ethical machines?
That's both hilarious and absolutely amazing. Finally a movie where I couldn't predict the ending :)
I would recommend kopia, which afaik has a similar feature set approach and a very easy to use gui. I recently used it to convert my 10 year old backups into one store. Dedup worked great.
Great explanation, also link to the documents: https://www.ycombinator.com/documents
That's so sad. I'm pretty militantly anti-spider but jumping spiders, despite seeming like they were sent from hell to terrify us, are just little furry big-eyed arthro-bros
Yes, it does. You can even convert old repos (the docs mention how to do this) though you'd better set aside some time for that.

I use it weekly for system as well media backup (yt-dlp for some YouTube content as a hedge in case the channel is ever unavailable in the future).
And they would be losing money with every user then. It costs them way more than that just to pay Google and Microsoft their fees.
I managed to filter that, geeksforgeeks.org and towardsdatascience.com out with Kagi. It's quite helpful being able to slightly reduce prioritization on a per site basis so that instead of showing up as top result it'll be buried a bit but still accessible.
It's the lifetime of the product, not the lifetime of the purchaser -- as long as they're updating that product, you can keep on using it.

For that matter, you really can keep on using Prompt 2 for as long as you want. Someday it'll probably stop working after an OS update, but the version that works on the older OS will always be there, working on any devices you keep at that version.

It feels wrong to tell Panic "I gave you $10 for this a decade ago, you have to keep updating it forever for me".
> a lesser concern to me than some of the other potential side-effects of some of the biosimilars

Biosimilars as in, Infectra vs Remicade? I haven't heard of anything in that vein :O
If you add more than a handful of plugins in any of these IDE layers for Neovim, like LunarVim, LazyVim, AstroNvim, &c., it can slow things down to an unacceptable level quickly.
Most programmers I know prefer macOS above all other. Is it different where you’re from?
If you find macro shots of their faces too they kinda look like dogs with a few extra eyes
Why not add some extra instructions to that emulator too to speed things up? And increase the word length of the CPU by 56 bits or so?!
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This seems like a tautology because what we think of as a good “experience” is something that lets us get our work done quickly. No one ever said a tool had great devex but was hard to get stuff done with.
Wait until you hear about the demo scene!
Quite likely. The Tektronix Industrial Park is only a mile or two from there.

There's also a museum that may be of interest here: https://vintagetek.org/
Has broscience gone too far?
Thanks, that explains a lot. I hadn't really considered that the giant greenhouse had to be nearly airtight, rather than just directing air towards the chimney, and yes it can't be built piecewise and get a useful smaller version.
There isn't any rational reason that an AC motor with a few resistors/potentiometer with a filter isn't the cheapest. DRM would involve DC power which means a transformer is required as well. Unless there was a good reason to have a DC motor, this wouldn't even be an issue for anyone who can combine a box fan with a filter.

I was building a DIY filter and took apart a purifier and was disappointed at it not having DC for me to connect my esp to for a sensor to check the purity.
I had a similar experience with one many years ago, but with the differences that it happened on a chair, and another fly tried to save his "buddy", which I had never seen before. It was like watchin' somethin' from the Nature channel unfold right there in "real life" in front of me. Smartest little spiders I know of. Amazing little critters for sure.
I don't think anyone would argue the masses care about this. It's overwhelmingly clear that they don't (see: iPhone sales)

That doesn't mean that it's not a worthwhile goal.
I most definitely agree overall with the premise due to the inclusion of open source in the discussion.

Since I believe that open source is that almost perfect compromise between ownership and paying for a service.

Usually it's been the piggybackers that have been one of the driving force of "ruining" the red hat model of providing the support as the main revenue stream.

Setting aside that, I believe however this is also comes down to what the industry kingmaker (i.e. the ones who provide the services) promote as their promise to the developers.

As an example, unity saw a massive shift away due to the decisions of including new ways of monetization of the developers.

However if say Google, Amazon or Microsoft would've done a similar drastical change a lot would probably still stay with them because of the general requirements needed to run your own cloud but also because it's more "expected" despite how frustrating it is.
One change which would have to be made is here in the Midwest, we grow a lot of soybeans and corn. We feed most of it to animals. There are likely better uses for that land, especially when talking about modern corn as it is so nitrogen hungry that nearly all farmers apply high nitrogen fertilizer...which runs off into the rivers and causes the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

So, so many things could be better if we reduced meat consumption and transitioned to growing food humans actually eat. But...it's unlikely to happen for an equally large number of reasons.
Fascinating. How effective was that? Were there really no guns?
Reminds me of shader wars
I’ve done a bit closer to 300k but I can’t say any of the times I went over the speed limit were necessities like the person I responded to was claiming. There was a single time where I sped up to avoid hitting something - pickup truck right in front of me on the 405 had a mattress fly up after a strap broke and I gunned it to go under before it came down, but I didn’t go anywhere near the freeway speed limit because the only reason I was that close was because we were all stuck in the slowdown approaching the 55 interchange.

So that’s almost once in my life where the movie plot scenario came close to happening. Over the same time period I have known 3 people who were killed and half a dozen people who had life-altering injuries due to being hit, and speed was a factor in all of those cases. It’s not as fun as pretending you are shaking the terrorists gunning for the president but that’s the threat I worry about because it happens orders of magnitude more frequently.
> Apple Glasses is something they should already be working on and releasing sooner then later.

My point is that AVP is step 1 of working on and releasing Apple Glasses. Rather than start with whatever minimal features they could fit into wraparound shades, they started with the feature set they wanted, built the minimum hardware that could do that, and from here out will keep iterating and improving until they eventually fit it into a pair of glasses.

In other words, it only looks like and functions like a VR headset by accident; the form is a side effect of the current hardware, and the VR functionality is just a nice bonus on top of what they actually wanted to focus on.
If that box is sealed, it has someone else's address on it and you make no effort to return it to them, then you are inarguably a thief. It's no different to taking a parcel from someone's porch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_by_finding
> In his prototype, he faked his invention, which is why he refused to let anyone near it, and answered only in mystical vagueness to questions.

I was the happy attendant to a demo given to a wealthy friend who was asked to invest (alongside Pieper). I'll let Jan take the secret to his grave but the writer of TFA is spot on, he faked it, but he really did believe that he could make it work. It's a very sad story.
iOS Sideloading in Europe Will Still Involve App Review and Fees
Something's off here - bullet shaped bullets didn't appear until 1820 or so, musket balls preceeded .. but this is an excavation of a 14th century workspace with pre ballistic armor.

I'm tempted to think "bullet points" is either something lost in translation OR (it happens) a transcribed into text NOTE that indicated the list should have been made as bullet points.
I don't think religion is the major factor there. Losing religion is lagging behind these social changes. I mean, anecdotally, I'm not religious and my wife is fiercely anti-religions and we have 3 kids and she doesn't work. We just decided to step outside the rat race we felt we were in and lose some of the lifestyle people seemed to think was so important - moved away from the city, only had one car, didn't take overseas holidays.

There are quite a few people in the area I'm in who have made the same choices, some are religious, some are not. And we're still in touch with plenty of folks who match what you describe and they don't want to give up the career/city/car/lifestyle. Again, some of those people are religious and some are not.

You could make broad strokes about the relationship between religion and social culture but I think in your comment you have the relationship inverted. When you have religious freedom religions are an expression of the social culture of their members, they are not an enforcement of the social culture on their members.
Why aren’t you supposed to look up at the sky?
CHM: "Apple Mac at 40", with members of the original Mac team [video]
> Piracy is an age-old occupation, particularly prevalent in places and times when large gaps have separated the rich and the poor.

The NY Times says it's not the fault of criminality, but of income inequity!

> But filched cargo can be hard to get a handle on; it shape-shifts, in effect. If you’re buying brand-new speakers from someone’s trunk in a parking lot, you can probably deduce that there’s a good chance they were ripped off. But the anonymity of the internet essentially launders stuff.

What a bad example! The "Speakers from the van" scam usually involved cheap "AliExpress" Speakers that the seller makes the buyer _think_ are expensive, misappropriated speakers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam

It's sad what's happened to the NY Times. I dropped my subscription two months ago -- and I had subscribed continiously since 1980.
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Always remember: If you think the current world is bleak and problematic, ask yourself how many time travelers prevented an even worse situation.
Are these libraries for connecting to an ollama service that the user has already installed or do they work without the user installing anything? Sorry for not checking the code but maybe someone has the same question here.

I looked at using ollama when I started making FreeChat [0] but couldn't figure out a way to make it work without asking the user to install it first (think I asked in your discord at the time). I wanted FreeChat to be 1-click install from the mac app store so I ended up bundling the llama.cpp server instead which it runs on localhost for inference. At some point I'd love to swap it out for ollama and take advantage of all the cool model pulling stuff you guys have done, I just need it to be embeddable.

My ideal setup would be importing an ollama package in swift which would start the server if the user doesn't already have it running. I know this is just js and python to start but a dev can dream :)

Either way, congrats on the release!

[0]: https://github.com/psugihara/FreeChat
SimpleX Chat v5.5: private notes, group history and a simpler UX to connect
I deeply disagree with the author. Costs are predictable from one year to the next, true; but you are beholden to the vendor, and the vendor may even effectively hold your data hostage.

Vendors can and do get greedy, and if you're deeply integrated with them then untangling those integrations and migrating elsewhere becomes a big job in and of itself. I've had my share of experiences where enterprise SaaS vendors try to squeeze their customers after they effectively become a single source.

I am not at all opposed to SaaS, and use it at my organization quite effectively. But you have to choose carefully. In many cases, the vendor will become a partner, and it can become a pretty abusive partnership.

On the other hand, when you own it, at least you KNOW you own it.

And this isn't even taking into account the quality of the product itself. We have vendors that, like others complain here, just delight in changing UIs and offered functionality left and right, deprecating APIs with two months' notice. We have others who behave like grownups.
Software is a tool designed to help solve a problem. Tools need to be reliable. The thing is, at least in the MS-DOS/Windows world I grew up with, software was stable in that if it worked for you now, it would work for you, for decades.

We can't trust our operating systems to do their jobs, and this is deranging conversations about software. You shouldn't need to update software other than for bug fixes, or to get a newer, better replacement. It should be entirely optional.

You should be able to just download anything off the internet, and try it out, like we did back in the 1980s with floppy disks full of software.

Instead, we're all afraid to even open the wrong email or web site. We're in a Black Mirror[1] version of the world in which everything but the operating system is supposed to be extra careful, and get blamed if the OS doesn't do its job.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror
Yes, these are some of my favorite threads on HN.
You clearly don't understand how routing (and the Internet) works. My IPs are useless because I can't force the victim to route to them.

I similarly won't be able to force the victim to route their traffic to IPv6 addresses that I control.
works fine for me. think i had to change my DNS when i encountered issues in the past.
I think that's just them trying to limit what the others can get away with, as well as limiting the competition they have to deal with because the open source models end up as a baseline.

OpenAI etc have to reign in how much they abuse their lead because after some price point it becomes better to take the quality hit and use an open source model. Similarly, new competitors are forced to treat the Facebook models as a baseline, which increases their costs.
Mister Rogers exhibits the most radical interpersonal philosophy I've ever witnessed: he mastered taking everyone for who they are.

It's the most profound kindness I've ever seen practiced as a way of being.

So, yeah, it's a little uncomfortable.
Are you stating that this specific machine actually does this, or are you just theorycrafting that a hypothetical machine could do this?
I wonder if those sounds could have been explained by the presence of the fireworks? I could imagine fireworks exploding inside the building could have made sounds similar to helicopters or jets.

Especially because there's no sign of them on the videos.
Workers Need to Fight to Make Sure AI Works for Them
I know it grounds inside the brick but does the connector have a third pin?
From 4 days ago, the paper that this implementation is based on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051279
I’m not making any kind of statement as to why we consume meat or whether we should, just making an observation
If you value kindness, consider empathy. The person you're somewhat haughtily tone policing is obviously annoyed about wasting a totally unnecessary amount of time on something ultimately useless to them.

And the feedback was constructive (and easily actionable): be upfront about the very limited platform support, don't waste people's time.
Buying almost anything on Amazon makes it clear that shanzhai products are basically the norm rather than an exception these days.