skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can grow your own food, or trade with a neighbor or buy at farmers markets etc. Also, there are thousands of options where to buy food so there is no corporation oligopoly that can ban you from buying food.

Same for clothing. Housing you pretty much always buy from a private individual, never from a corporation.

Contrast these to a dystopian world where you're only allowed to make transaction with a credit card but visa & mastercard (private megacorporations) decide to ban you. That's it, you're basically not part of society anymore. (Sure there's discover and amex but their acceptance in most places is low.)
> I'm not sure what Apple would bring to cars

The world's first non-repairable car. Minor fault, major accident, or inevitably-degraded battery? No problem!, just throw it away and buy the latest model, like you would with a phone or tablet! You wanted an upgrade anyway, didn't you?

(Meanwhile, Apple will keep boasting about their green credentials...)

What about consumables?... You'll still be able to change the tyres, brake bads, and wiper blades. But Apple will take 30% from every sale/service of these items, and the vehicle won't start if you install non-genuine-Apple replacements. (And then there's the chargers... don't expect to be able to put electricity into that battery without Apple getting their god-given 30% cut)

Starting at $99,999 for the base model (50 miles range). A maxxed-out model will do 750 miles, but they're really going to make you pay for those battery up-sells, and the well-glued-in battery pack is non-upgradeable after purchase.
I don't have enough time left on this Earth to explain the concept in a way that politicians could implement, I'm in my 40s. In my preferred alternate universe, Keybase was sold to a benevolent billionaire. Or more realistically, a normal billionaire who intended to run it at a loss until he could leverage it to effect world domination, but managed to mess it up somehow and get it nationalized. Or something. I can dream...
Did you see point#1? The homes aren't in locations ideal for raising children in any case.

You need a good school district if you want your child to growup smart. Retired folk having 3x homes in lower-educated areas is fine for retired folk. But that doesn't mean that those homes are immediately useful to a new family.

Building new homes (and cheaper homes) in the better school districts makes more sense overall. Some neighborhoods naturally become "retirement communities" but kind of a ghetto for education (ie: young couples try to escape those areas due to poor schooling).
well, they're too hard for me to solve on my own
China's population drops for second year, with record low birth rate
https://jstreb.hgreer.com is my lastest fun project, and it's seriously just javascript. Originally it depended on math.js for matrix operations but I ripped out that dependency and wrote my own linear algebra code for about a 20x performance boost.

For actual work, I've got one in sqlite / flask / htmx, and another in tensorflowjs + react + tanstack + firebase. I'm having opinions about the latter- a recent meeting started with me putting the url for the home page into a browser and then counting out loud until enough of the serverless stuff spun up for the interface to load. I got to 24, which was past "making my point" into "awkward"
an API to group your browser tabs..?
Tesla cars have poor build quality, average interiors and awful after-sales support.

So there is definitely room for Apple to take the Tesla route but improve in those areas.
They're not HP's printers - they're consumer's printers, manufactured by HP. If a random hacker did this, they'd go to jail. Since HP has the same claim of ownership over these printers as a random hacker, I expect HP's offices will be raided by the police under CFAA and mass sabotage charges any moment.
> it sounds like they are grooming a generation of super-micromanaging executives

My read from the linked example was the Director built a tool outside of the critical path that was a quality of life (performance) improvement. This is a prime example of code that leaders should be writing - the team isn’t blocked by them, they can put it down at any time, they maintain familiarity with the tools and codebase (both the good and the bad), and if it lands then the team is uplifted.
What airplanes do you like flying on? Just out of curiosity.
Personally I think VR is outside the domain of expertise of 3D games and game engines. To think that VR is within that domain is exactly the error -- VR as an overall product requires different consumer behavior than buying a game for a PC you already have. It requires buying a new kind of device or buying into a whole new form of interaction. It requires remembering to use that device and think about what games you have for it. It requires engineers to ship high FPS and low lag to prevent nausea to a degree unheard of for PC gaming.

Facebook's VR plan seems to hinge on being "even more ubiquitous than mobile" <https://officechai.com/learn/mark-zuckerbergs-email-explaini...>, which is a level of constant use that 3D games don't really have.

I am not a VR or 3D game expert, but even I can list other key differences. I bet you can too if you try. I think those are reasons to think VR is not really the same domain. I am curious what you think.
or even a lawyer for that matter

Fix that and it'll provide answers for the rest of your concerns.

If you're doing something for those pilot customers that they could sue you about, you want to understand & control your exposure to liability BEFORE something's gone wrong.
Show HN: FitCrumbs – Outdoor workout companion for your Apple Watch
Hi HN,

I am an avid runner and I wanted to bring some of my favourite features (navigation and route building) to my go-to smart watch, the Apple Watch.

So far the app is focused around features that bring the most use for me in my day-to-day training: route creation; navigation on the watch (also offline, without the phone); easy upload to Strava

More features are in the working, I'm open to any ideas or feedback :)
Yep. Who would have guessed 25 years later I'd be bored and then a year later this packet showed up at my doorstep? It's oddly perfect timing, around all the AI discourse. :)
go vet -basilisk ./...
I get what it does, I've seen demos and it is no doubt impressive, but I have no personal use and don't see the point of giving them any data. I'm not limited in my current workflow and prefer official docs over the LLM interpretation of those same docs. The real satire are all the comments on any problem asking "have you tried GPT", more annoying than the Rust community.

What do you use it for that you think would benefit me?
There are many working systems that are small enough that they don't need any hierarchy, and function just fine.

Larger systems do require some degree of it, yes. But the ones that have more hierarchy and where it is more rigid, inevitably end up with more of this kind of thing.
Google Terminates Appen Contract
Appen manually tag and categorize data for ML, and have played a role in preparing data for products like Bard, and maintaining search result quality whenever manual work has been required.

Last year (for the first time ever I think), the contractors working through Appen got a pay rise. Now they're gone.

Given how important this work is for Google I wonder if they're brining it in house? It seems strange they would outsource something like manual search quality ranking.
The wii news channel did this! It was a cool way to learn the control and interact with the news.
PHP (Symfony) on the backend. I just can't get used to Node and I don't like Python for web development.

I don't do frontend anymore but when I do it's pure JS and Bootstrap/Tailwind.
Comparison of home detection algorithms using smartphone GPS data
if they did not share our "peculiarities" we would not even be able to recognize them as intelligent and certainly could not communicate with them any better than we can with an automobile, powerplant, or transistor*

That doesn't seem quite right. A 1980's automobile, powerplant, or transistor couldn't make mathematical inferences, guess what you might want to hear, then compose a novel poem which makes sense in a requested style.

the current nonsense about "intelligent" with current computer programs is an inexcusable marketing sin and is invariably a form paradolia

I don't think this comment is going to age well.
> Not MAX's yet

That's not correct. They have 220+ Max 8's in service.
You can make Benchy float by slicing it with solid infill in the bottom/rear, and minimal infill everywhere else:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6076719
Really? I would have assumed that attorney is one of those jobs that is going to be hugely disrupted by AI. Should people new to the field bother if they aren't going to be top X% (5? 10?)?
Inspired by the previous post, I made a version for the round Garmin watches. [0] I also tested and added support for a few ADS-B data providers. Unfortunately, the Opensky data in my area is quite poor and I couldn't display as much detail info compared to adsbexchange.

0: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/9e5f8f12-0369-46af-bd50-d...
When you keep shipping the same kinds of bugs
I wasn't ignoring that. Ford is likely to be the single source for any replacement displays especially if each vehicle model uses a different dashboard layout. Even if they standardize displays across their entire product line they would likely still be the only ones selling or stocking replacements. This makes it expensive to replace when the vehicle "owner" has a critical problem with the unit installed at the factory and needs a replacement.

As far as the oil pan, the design of the pan probably makes it too complex to manufacture at scale in a material that is more durable. It is not a simple cake-pan style reservoir. It has mating surfaces and ports that would be difficult to reproduce in metal. Here is the TSB that Ford techs need to follow to accomplish this temporary repair.[0]

[0]https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10164470-0001.pdf
Spatial VLM: Endowing Vision-Language Models with Spatial Reasoning Capabilities
I absolutely adore the simplicity behind this: Energy must balance, so it flows from high concentrations to lower concentrations. Things that help that flow are selected for.

From that springs everything we are. Utterly amazing to me that from a gradient plus some random chemicals plus time equals humans, sex, violence, loss, birth, love, games, music, and so much more.

All just to help the earth cool down a little bit faster.
CLI utlility to find resources usage information and running time
So, i was trying to get the execution time to start measuring performance of origami and found out that `time` command is rather imprecise.

Then i made a utility to track to exactly time spend by a program, along with some other resources utilization.

Sharing here. Maybe you are into that stuff as well :)
Depending on how far they're willing to go, they could replace some with Embraer E195.
Yes; in many cases, if there are two tasks that hold some piece of data, the compiler cannot, at compile time, when to free that data, as it doesn't know which of the two tasks will finish first.

That means the lifetime of that object must be tracked at runtime, with a garbage collector. This is where you get Arc (or shared-ptr).

I'm not sure how you would safely solve this in C++, but FWIW, scylladb is a high performance database that also makes use of shared_ptr.
> Seems policies haven’t changed at all.

Yes and no.

CUI was created: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Unclassified_Inform...

The number of SCIFs increased a ton, especially in contractors being allowed to have their own SCSI rooms. The number of clearances also went up a lot, and the cycle time on granting a clearance got much faster. Overall some things got relaxed, other things got stricter, scale increased everywhere.

IMO the biggest factor in the increase is just the ever-increasing DoD budget
Is it? Wikipedia[1] puts Porshe's Operating margins at loosely 16%. Which isn't bad for auto probably but isn't great for tech.
The issue with VR is that it almost entirely doesn't require his type of expertise for it to succeed. It's almost entirely a hardware problem, in terms of cost, wearability/usability, quality, along with the other issues like nausea etc. None of which Carmack's vast expertise lends itself towards. Writing an app for Netflix isn't exactly using his skills.

We see this often with engineering types, many of us included. Vastly underestimating difficulty of challenging problems and naively believe they're simple to solve.
It's not just because of this fact. It's also because trucks and SUVs are exempted from fuel efficiency standards that apply to sedans. So out sedans go, Ford doesn't even bother with them at all anymore.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/07/trucks-ou...
It's been popping up for me daily or so for about the last week. Hitting "X" makes it go away without installing. Still on Ventura on my 2019 27" Intel iMac. (Maybe Intel/Apple Silicon is the bug? Already updated 2023 MBP to Sonoma, can't easily test.)

1. Automatic updates set to "on" (because automatic updates only installs point releases, not major revisions).

2. "Updates are going to be installed tonight. Install now?", or words to that affect. That's the usual message for point release/bug fix releases. Oddly, when I click "Details", there is no point release and just the Sonoma upgrade. This seems to be a bug, IMO. The "upgrade to $LATEST!" should be a different dialog with different wording.

3. System Settings still shows "software update available", with the red "1" badge, when Sonoma is the only update. This seems to be a bug as well.

IMO, some state-dependent $THING got hosed, and now things are just a little off on my machine. this manifests as an unwanted OS upgrade for some, and just general "that's not...the way it used to work" others like myself but no forced upgrade.
Groups and Group Convolutions
Which is a hack that amounts to throwing one's hands up and declaring, "we couldn't make it work properly".
Why would there be wear in metal? Maybe from hands over years?

The peg spacing is a very good point and maybe the disqualifier.

I'm very dubious about the knitting claim. Woven textiles seem to go back 27,000 years. Knitting is just weaving, with fewer steps, using sticks.
> Aren't they available? Just take apart a used MacBook for a retina display, or take apart a Boox 13.3" tablet for the eInk display.

Yeah for sure, what I meant is that DIYing a fully custom screen with a custom resolution etc isn't very easy :)

If you're buying a panel or scavenging an existing panel it's much "easier". Of course that hasn't stopped youtubers from designing their own 7-segment LCD panels... (example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zoeeR3geTA or https://youtu.be/ZA5vlDdpbkw)
Wagons are heavier and less aerodynamic than sedans. When coupled with the same engine they are less fuel efficient (compare the E450 sedan to wagon). The fact that they are heavier and sell poorly means they will only usually be available with the large(r,st) engine (no E350 wagon in the US).

Note that I used the Mercedes because it's the only non-compact wagon I'm aware of for sale in the US.
I would go one step further, saying that proper verification is prone to fraud because of failure in government (in the US; not sure about other countries). It still baffles me that identification typically comes down to two things: social security card and driver's license, and both are managed by agencies whose primary objective is not identification. IMHO, it's time for a single agency at either the fed or state level that's in charge of just identification. That's it. Fund that agency and let them do it properly. However, inevitably someone will scream "Big Brother!", and we'll end up back where we started, with this Rube Goldberg system that basically leaves individuals to fend for themselves.
1. glove knitting

The dodecahedron Wikipedia article already mentions spool knitting [1]. This awesome video shows knitting for different-sized fingers on a 3d-printed replica [2]. An initial question could be whether 6 equally-sized holes align with each other, or if there are 12 different hole sizes for finer sizing options (hard to tell from internet images). And as for no wear on the tool, hardness of wool << metal. It's not as if the dodecahedron is being used as a pulley block.

2. Hair braiding

layer8 mentioned these dodecahedrons being found in wealthy women's graves; I'd offer they could have been for braiding hair -- seemed important to wealthy Roman women back then [3].

Speculative scenario:

Could sit in a chair with back to a table (or just lie down on the floor), with hair strands laid outward from the person's head. Selected strands are pulled through the dodecahedron tool, and braided. The dodecahedron tool moves incrementally away from the person's head as the braid forms. The knobs on the top-side help organize each strand, and the knobs on the reverse (bottom) side creates standoff for the braided hair to emerge. Hands-free tool for making perfect mini-braids.

I wonder if some statues might be realistic enough to depict braids [4] (and from similar time periods as dodecahedrons' manufacture date) to match with a 5- or 10-strand sinnet pattern (e.g., ABOK#3037) [5].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron#Purpose

[2] https://youtu.be/76AvV601yJ0&t=517 | from: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/514246/are-roman-dodecah...

[3] https://unpodipepe.ca/2017/01/31/hairstyling-ancient-roma/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_hairstyles#/media/File:K...

[5] https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Ashley_Book_of_Knot...
London has enforced a Direct Vision Standard [1 example image] for big vehicles. I hope my city will soon as well. Having large trucks, trailers etc. in the city with no visibility to pedestrians is a death trap.

My city's new trash truck [2]. Instead of the standard "high" trailer seating above the engine, it's now down on a pedestrian level and can see clearly in what's normally a "blind spot" when turning right.

[1]: https://fncdn.blob.core.windows.net/web-clean/1/root/direct-...
[2]: https://storage.googleapis.com/smallstep/sites/33/2022/02/Re...
> Tesla has already brought minimalism to cars,

I certainly wouldn't call that minimalistic. Do you mean the exterior surface? The controls, UI, etc. are complex and difficult. People can even open the door the first time they ride in one. The big screen and all its software are not minimalistic.
Empathy goes both ways.

I think "tired maintainer" is narrative device to elicit empathy, so I don't necessarily believe this is true of the author, but if maintaining an open source project makes you tired, maybe don't maintain an open source project. Maintainer is a different role than developer, and I think a lot of people who get burnt out on maintaining open source are burnt out because what they want to do is write code and build things, not manage projects.

My perception is that many (not all - people can be pushy) communication and overwhelming problems in OSS projects are the result of suboptimal upfront communication - as well as a pernicious, persistent mythos around how OSS development actually works in practice. Basically, a lot of maintainers feel like the problems in OSS are a result of users/contributors not understanding what they need, but quite often, maintainers do not really understand what their users/contributors need as well.

For example, the author mentions the following as the list of things people are often pinging about:

> Want a feature to be landed
> Want a bug to be resolved
> Want your PR to be reviewed or released
> Want to have updates and followups for something
> Want to contribute and waiting for the maintainer’s update

I would expect most OSS projects of a reasonable size (where volume is an issue) to have a contributing guide that describes:

* How new features are decided, planned, assigned, implemented and shipped
* How bugs are triaged, assigned, fixed and shipped
* How PRs are reviewed and released
* How and when updates and communication are provided
* What contributions are desired, and how best to go about providing those contributions

Importantly, when these things are clearly documented (and that documentation accurately portrays the goals and working style of the project), the community will be able to help point out when someone isn't playing along and help them toward the right path.

---

FWIW - the author appears to be a maintainer of nuxt and unjs, who actually do this very well. They're contribution guide is worth emulating for other large OSS projects: https://nuxt.com/docs/community/contribution
Isn’t this what a PWA is?
Urban agriculture's carbon footprint can be worse than that of large farms
It doesn't say "available for purchase." It says "will be commercially available for passenger use in major cities."

Waymo is already there, in at least 2 cities but not all weather conditions. Expanding to 10 cities and all weather conditions in the next 6 years sounds more than plausible.

I had sided with Atwood (skeptic) but now it seems like Carmack "has already won".
If you are into coffee and/or moka pots, make sure not to miss the Moka Pot series by James Hoffmann:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxz0FjZMVOl1Zot3qiJ-w...

It is a series of four videos about the Moka Pot and, as is always the case with James Hoffmann, it's fascinating and interesting.
The Rise of the Internet of Agents: A New Era of Cybersecurity
"Passenger use" is the bet -- not purchase.
I don’t see clear licensing on any of this, including the synthetic dataset.
Toyota has plants in the US; I assume they make the Tacoma in the US, which should avoid the chicken tax?
I'd claim that the Rust philosophy is "the general case is undecidable, but if we restrict the scope to 90% of the cases, we can automate the checks and give you an escape hatch for the remaining 10%". I personally appreciate that approach because the remaining 10% of cases are actually uncommon enough in what I do that I don't have to even think about the problem most of the time.
I think these 'push back the release' reports are mostly just sensational reporting. Apple is constantly adjusting plans for things that aren't ready to be made public yet.

Part of the reason they are so secretive is because anything that hasn't been announced yet is subject to change and they don't want to promise something until they are certain they can deliver it.

So unless they actually announced a release date, they haven't 'pushed anything back'. This is just an internal review being leaked in a sensationalist way.
> Actions have consequences.

It’s not clear to me that this is the case here. The people responsible for ruining Boeing are all still fabulously wealthy and will be for generations. I guess you could call only having 20 lifetimes of wealth instead of 100 a consequence, but I certainly don’t see it that way.
You can, and people do, dispute flags by emailing hn@ycombinator.com.

"Foo is down" posts tend to be offtopic because (a) there are so many of them, and any kind of repetition makes a story less interesting for HN; and (b) as minimaxir pointed out already, there's usually no other information than "Foo is down", so there's no basis for a substantive thread. People then end up arguing either generically about Foo, or they get mad about flaws in the status page or something.

What is interesting and tends to do well on HN are the post-mortems that sometimes show up after an outage, explaining what happened.
How is Apple going to have better quality? Apple specializes in making devices with almost no moving parts. Mechanical products are very different.
How's your experience with Firefox in ChromeOS compared to Chrome ? Doesn't it feel second class ?