skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would you describe a rock sitting on the top of a mountain? It is not moving relative to the matter around it, but it certainly contains quite a bit of energy, in a variety of different forms.

I am trying to recognize that even in that rock, energy is dissipating in multiple ways, and any number of different events can lead to it dissipating in different ways.

I suppose you can say that the individual atoms composing the rock are moving, but are those movements connected to the potential energy it has by virtue of being far from the relative minimum in a gravity well?

That rock could fall down the mountain mostly intact - a highly energetic event, compared to being eroded away chemically by rain over millennia.
This is incredible news to me, as someone with horrible tinnitus, I'm choosing to take this to mean that some day we may even have a treatment. If I ever could hear the sound of absolute silence again, I think it would reduce me to tears for a while. Hearing a ringing sound everywhere you go isn't literal torture, but it's maybe just below it, and I've been living with it for the past decade thanks to poor choices in the military.

I recognize that they solved a completely different issue, by the way. But the fact that it's possible to do this means to me that a different treatment for tinnitus may some day also be.
I'm pretty sure there is no such "guarantee". You can definitely Apple has a track record of supporting 7 years and I have absolutely no problem with that. Samsung and Google actually say they are committed to 7 years of support for the latest phones in their official document.

Also the rest of the industry is not 2. 3 years is very common these days for phones, 5 getting more common. And for computers... Many business computers are supported for a long time, and Windows is famous for its backwards compatibility and support (Windows 10 is supported till 2025, 10 years from its release).
I prefer not to calculate but in the range of 20 to 40h a week from 2017 but a big part of that time doesn't go in creating code but talking with people, supporting them, write stuff, improving other bits and bolt.
Ask HN: Do you like to use REST verbs
Interested in thoughts here: we're considering rolling out a new REST API, and curious about your preferred way of interacting with REST APIs: in particular, HTTP verbs (mostly interested in POST vs PUT vs PATCH). I’m familiar with the descriptions for the verbs but curious if you have preferences for when to use these or which to throw away. For example

- I’ve noticed Stripe only has POST operations, even for idempotent actions; no PUT or PATCH. I've never understood why except either for consistency purposes on some "legacy" API they built or because there's a good reason for never using these that I've never considered

- Elasticsearch/OpenSearch have POST and PUT on some operations and on occasion it indicates idempotency, but some POST operations are actually idempotent while some need to use PUT. I'm familiar that Elasticsearch implemented GET with HTTP bodies but that's not historically well supported by Javascript, so POST actions were added even for some of those GET actions

- I’ve heard some developers argue that having PUT and POST makes it more difficult to use because now you need to know the verb for each API and others argue on the flip side that it makes it easier because REST semantics follow for those that are familiar

- PATCH operations are relatively new, and I've heard they aren't always well supported by e.g. some corporate firewalls

Do you prefer the unique "right" verbs or do you find it easier to assume POST is for all "creation"/"update" actions?
Tesla clearly wasn't overvalued when it was only worth $55B though, at least not now with the benefit of hindsight.
My glb files seem to be invisible in this build for some reason. Opened the same file in blender and it looks fine.
I like json a lot.

That said, I think json would benefit from only two things:

1) comments

2) allow extra commas, like ["a", "b", "c",] or {"a":"b", "c":"d", }

or more properly:

{
"a":"b",
"c":"d",
},

EDIT: and json5 does both, plus a few more niceties. (hmm. too much?)
Indeeed, I feel there's a defense mechanism in there about the implicit menace in someone doing something beyond your own ability.

Unycicling is easy to put down, but take the message above about running barefoot.

Seeing someone doing something unusual like that, something that people "just don't understand" leads to uncertainty. "Why I don't do that?", "Why I can't do that?"

And since as men we're culturally primed to rubuff such doubts, the response is ridicule: "Because he looks silly, and I'm smarter than him", "Bet he'll get scared if I stomp", etc.

People are so insecure sometimes
That is also a very reasonable hypothesis. It would be interesting to know the economics in this case, if that turned out to be true. Spinning up an entire automotive engineering R&D division seems like a very expensive way to generate patents.
I doubt they’re into the billions on R&D.

The project could be 7-10 years old but they didn’t start on day one with hundreds of people. Let’s say a core of ~50 people for 5 years as proof of concept then ~350 people for another 5 years at 300k per person on average, that’s a 600 million dollar investment.

Sure they could have a larger team, but they also don’t pay testers anything close to 150k year.
It's also a useful tool in science. For example, we do not know and cannot prove the one-way speed of light, only a round trip speed of light. That light travels at the same speed in all directions is just a useful application of Occam's Razor; it is effectively unknowable and no experiments have yet been devised that can falsify the alternatives. Having a set one-way speed of light is a convention
I rented a Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid on my last business trip. No snow (SW) but a mix of suburban and rural roads and I was surprised at how much more fun it was to drive than the RAV4 I had on my last business trip (not to mention the giagantor 4Runner I rented over the winter break - to stop that thing you pass a motion, second it, send it to the executive branch and then hope it gets signed by the time you get to the stop sign at the bottom of the hill, but I digress). Modern minivans have apparently reached some odd pinnacle of car evolution right as they are going extinct. I imagine there's an alternate timeline where we have jetpacks and a general cure for cancer but only farm hands drive pickups...

(And you definitely don't step down into anything to get into it-quite the opposite. The driver's chair even auto pulls back to let you in which is definitely geezer friendly : )
Does the app store structured text in a structured way? You probably need to for this to work the way you want.

We are writing a version controlled database (Dolt) and we recently implemented automatic merging of the contents of JSON documents, seems related to what you're doing:

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-01-16-announcing-json-merg...
125% and 150% are really common for available laptops though. The former for the 1920x1200 13-14 inch laptops, the latter for 2560x1600 15-16 inch laptops. iOS doesn't do fractionally scaling, only 2x, and Macs are all designed to run at 200%, though you can set it to 175% or 150%. MacOS looks equally terrible at 125% or 100% (this is due to the lack of subpixel rendering, but I digress)
Other replies are going hard on the initial assertion but missing the point, on which you're totally right. There is no reason where it's theoretically advantageous to give the government an interest free loan (overpay on your taxes) and get it back later in refund form, than to simply not do that and have the money in the meantime. Take the money you were giving to the government and put it in a savings account instead, and now you at least have minimal interest. (Hell, take it and put it in a safe and at least the government doesn't get to spend it on $thing-you-disagree-with-ideologically.) There's no difference in what you can do with untouchable money in the government's pocket vs. untouchable money in yours.

Whether you have the willpower to not touch it instead of increasing your food budget from $10 to $11 or whatever is a different story, and speaks to the mentality: if you never got the money in the first place, you can't be tempted to spend it.
The areas with no lines - that's areas without ANY infrastructure or just areas where OpenStreetMap has no data?
Anon Boeing engineer reveals why the 737 door blew off
Yes, that's how the current rules work.

The rules are wrong, but you are correct on how they currently work.

The fact that tax basis doesn't account for inflation is an intentional hidden tax and another example of evil against the population.
OptOut: A Series of Writing Contests for Web3 Hacktivists by Āut Labs
Could be a positive but is it? What does a non-toy problem requiring a bit of logic programming look like? Perhaps a routing or a scheduling problem? Would you not use a MIP or a constraint solver for that? They are typically callable from host languages.

Too easy and you don’t need logic programming, a bit harder and you reach for proper solvers, so where does embedded logic programming fit?

Prolog takes the view — and mostly exists in the wild — as primarily a non embedded general purpose language. For some applications — eg a stock exchange or an airline booking service — it makes a lot of sense. You could write a web service in Prolog and then call it from other services not written in Prolog.
This would be create an incentive to attack a competing company until you breach it 5x, causing its destruction. Competitors would be attacking each other nonstop.

Like 3 check chess, but in Delaware.
As that article says, there aren't many factories for what this is cost effective. (If energy costs are too low for it to be effective for aluminum smelting, you won't find many alternatives.)

What really means that it's a job for the government. Because overbuilding on solar is a social safety matter, and it will probably never be profitable. (As also is storage for long-tail events.)
Show HN: Ondsel ES – An open-source engineering suite
Ondsel has release version 2024.1. Ondsel ES is based on FreeCAD with many UI improvements and the new assembly workbench. It includes the lens PDM service for collaboration. Still early on for us but we're making progress.
One thing that makes companies focus so much on hiring senior devs is tech stack complexity. Resume-driven development overcomplicates it, and then only senior devs are able to work with it.

On the other hand, nimble companies that resist the complexity urge and keep the tech simple (KISS principle) will have an easier time working with less experienced devs. I've seen some great examples of profitable bootstrapped companies running their apps on Heroku with a small engineering team. Frameworks like Rails and Elm help a lot as well.
Audio Atrocities
Unlike Tesla, they'd definitely ship with LIDAR sensors. Honestly, lowering the bar makes me think that they're actually serious about this, they want to make an Apple Car even if it can't hit their original goals.
The issue is the obsession with benchmark datasets and their flaky evaluation
1 is a bad conclusion.

While we can get to a post scarcity society where people can live for free without a job, there are still going to be economies around "liberal arts". You cant realistically say "hey replicator, give me a usb filled with music that I like". You would have to find out which music you like, and random search on this is not really enjoyable, which would then means that there is economic opportunity for discovery, e.t.c.
In my fantasy world a company gets nationalized after the nth breach and we have a well-run federal department of IT with competent and engaged staff
https://www.yaml.info/libraries/index.html
They just a remote wipe which surely a company that size is set up to do.
Hence the want(ed).
I don’t think I agree because it’s like saying accounting is just elementary level addition, subtraction and multiplication. But elementary school kids can’t do accounting.

DL requires a certain degree of mathematical maturity to grasp.
if you are already running backends in smalltalk, which implementation are you using?
>Some of us in fact do avoid wearing logos.

That's me
You probably know about all about meniere's. If not, have you tried going off salt?
How does whatever you're talking about differ from the thyratrons that were used in early vacuum tube computers and decidedly do not scale to THz clock frequencies?
Not to forget the ubiquitous small delivery vans all over Europe that seem to work fine for craft folk. Not everything that's been turned into a culture war by those who are up for profiting needs be.
I was not asking about this particular post, sorry
It sits in the online casino's site. Some sites require you to play through the bonus once, while others allow you to withdraw directly once you reach a certain balance. For the ones that require you to play through, I just play the bonus through low-volatility slots.
I think if this was truly the case then wouldn't ML algorithm development be a solved problem with AutoML? I don't think AutoML is close to ubiquitous which means there must still be value in heuristics and a deeper understanding of our tools.
Unis are small, slow and safe.
As a teenager I would go out for a ride, put it on my shoulder for hikes and then ride it back by bus.
So when you take the novelty off (and as a rider, it vanishes quickly) it's just a very fun and convenient bike
I think its monomorphization: Attorneys::<General>().
Boeing writes a lot of code in Banagalore iiuc and has an office there right around the corner from Infosys.
But isn't the Apple way to combine hardware and software better than anyone else?

I've only ever bought an Apple tableet for my wife, so I've got no bias here. But I'd be keen to see what they can produce. If only to differentiate the market up a bit ... it's as boring as hell at the moment and why I haven't pulled the trigger on one.
I literally took a waymo this morning. What are you talking about
> I really want to see the docking station that can double as an eGPU using the FW16 discrete GPU module

Yes! As another owner of the FW13, if they released some kind of external adapter for the FW16 GPU I'd definitely purchase the GPU and the adapter the day its open for sale.
if apple starts doing the massive capex investments to try and build an auto manufacturing plant, investors should sue to stop the from taking such an enormous risk.

I think the game is simply that they don't want to admit it's a stupid idea and so they're keeping it on life support.
What else could you do to test it besides it works for me and this test said it's good at talking?
I wonder how much of that is over-optimization for sequential reads. When I was working in filesystems (back in the spinning rust days), I saw some code whose job it was to prefetch the next several hunks of data when you accessed data - It was a scaling algorithm, so if the block you were accessing was already in memory it would read several more hunks, and the next time you accessed from that same sequence it'd read 2x more than that, up to a fairly high limit - It made sense in this context to, shortly after a file was opened, just read the entire file into memory if it seemed likely to be used in short order, because disk queue latency was often the major limiting factor.

What this meant was an at least 2x and often 100x read amplification for truly random reads. There were some heuristics to disable that, too, and then drive controllers started doing this directly so some code to managed that interaction, issuing more early in the "pretty sure we want to read more" path but dialing back the scaling. I would not be surprised if this type of logic is implemented into modern SSD controllers directly. When you issue a random read, it actually reads several sectors ahead, just in case those are the next requests.

If we disabled that - How much faster would the random reads path be? How much slower would the sequential be? I suspect (very heavily, given the availability of enterprise drives with precisely this kind of tuning available) that there's a lot of tradeoff to be made.
Every year spent in school or university improves life expectancy, study says
it'd be a fascinating feature - a random number on the face of the watch - especially on a mechanical one
Appeals Court: FBI's Safe-Deposit Box Seizures Violated Fourth Amendment
Considering the current offerings for IoT SoC boards with a <$20 Price point, a minimalist web framework really isn't necessary.

https://wiki.luckfox.com/Luckfox-Pico/Luckfox-Pico-quick-sta...

<$10

https://www.waveshare.com/esp32-s3-zero.htm

<$5 !!
https://www.waveshare.com/product/esp32-c3-zero.htm
Wow the cynicism. Waymo is successfully providing self driving rides TODAY. Tesla is actively trying to leverage their lean manufacturing prowess to provide this service en masse via FSD.
Not necessarily, when I left a company (to take a break) continuing with COBRA was ~$3400/month, the direct marketplace insurance was ~$3200/mo.
Yeah you shouldn't be able to see your car's shadow (cast by the car behinds headlights) on the road in front of you when your headlights are on...
"No one knew what the iPod was for either" is a sort of Godwin-for-Apple-speculation. Once you cross the Rubicon where that's invoked, with no other argument provided, it's been signalled it's rational to connect any dot.

But yeah, it's novel that Tim Cook's Apple would lean into something Wall Street would abhor - a low-margin capital-intensive business - for something that sounds out of date (L2 in 2028, n.b. Mercedes is at L3 on highways, even assumes liability. Elon would tell you Tesla is L3, YMMV)
Webcams and mics will always be shitty on a laptop.

But speakers should be an area of focus.
Check the article's revision history; it's public. It was simply called "variability hypothesis" from the article's creation in 2007, and in September 2018 the additional name was added.
Dear god no, I hope they don't bring this to my local post office on Hawai`i island. Nothing against EVs, but our local Post Office is way too small for the tens of thousands of residents it serves; the parking lot is nearly always full already. My wife and I have to go together so I can wait in the 45+ minute line while she drives in a loop around the block. I can just imagine the EV drivers camping out in the lot, and how quickly the chargers would likely get vandalized.
...that still doesn't mean they've stopped as a practice, on the whole, or through other intimidation methods. Hell, I'd argue that its current and subtle manifestation is more harmful on-the-whole than it used to be. Like, sure, the DHS voluntarily releases information, but that's discretionary and at their will. Eg, I sued the Chicago for database columns and table names after they argued it would be a security risk -- DHS gives that info about their own systems voluntarily. And that's even with case law from an ICE lawsuit that says schemas are exempt.
The most frustrating thing about the climate change discussion for me is that everybody's focused on the high effort, low impact changes. There are millions of hectares of rainforest being torn down every year... maybe we should turn our attention to that?

SAF will allow us to stop taking carbon out of the ground, but it does nothing to take carbon out of the air.
Why not Matroska? Should have the same capabilities, but a much bigger open-source ecosystem.
I think a big difference between ML and regular programming is how the components at scale make the systems viable. When I was learning computer science, it seemed quite intuitive to me that you would start out with assembly, then go to a C like compiler, then abstract that to a JIT/dynamic type language, and go from that to the UI. I could see how each step in the layer added value and presented its tradeoffs.

Contrast that to ML and even though I have done a large amount of work in it (in both university and in industry), I still can't fully appreciate how the building blocks interact to form an entire system. I find that I use intuition from other systems I have read about or implemented (e.g. decision trees and tabular data, ReLUs and images) to reason about the results in new systems and guess at better configurations and architectures.

Might say more about me, but I always found ML was a "start big and go backwards" deal whereas computer science was a "start small and go forwards" deal.
I like 4, that's pretty random.
Probably not. It can technically be sold and brought, but the people that want it would never found any.
Moreso comprehend it. It seems impossible to suggest that a person could learn to vocalize language but not to understand those vocalizations. It may be impossible in spite of what it seems.
I built https://www.CheckYourList.app originally for myself for spontanous checklists that I go through regularly. Happy to say it just passed $500 a month recently :)
TLC Trip Record Data
I'm deeply uninterested in continuing to have this discussion with you.
Absolutely. I love seeing people find success with their creations.
Do you have a point?

Yes. I'm showing that the commenter does care about one example intelligent life!
I like how, depending on your zoom, scrolling makes a giant image cover the text you're trying to read, which never comes back.

Fun.
Yeah I know, but my problem is it would crash or artifact with native wayland, or at best break gpu acceleration completely.

Edge handled that better, for whatever reason.
If you need to understand what a particular person is thinking, then text they wrote themself can tell you a lot about that.
If "the singularity" is a real thing that can happen, it seems like there is an incentive for species that fear "the singularity" to preemptively wipe out any civilizations they find which seem close to achieving AGI
It's been reported that the remote operators can't drive the car, they can only guide the decision-making process.
Neurobiology of Pathogen Avoidance and Mate Choice
That implies OpenAI wanting to host all your data somewhere in their vector storage.

The real issue is actually Google Cloud or AWS having a vector search solution. Or companies having a Lucene-based search engine or existing DB for vector based search.
Kinda neat to turn on the Navigable By Boat filter and zoom in on England to find where I live, and all the 2500 miles of actually connected and navigable English (and Welsh) canals and rivers I’ve been on over the last seven years.

Or course there’s also a whole lot of “waterways” that sure as hell aren’t navigable by any boat that can support a human, but might have been at some point.
Same--folks are generally interested and/or amused. It's been ages since I unicycled in public [I'm not great at it], but none of what's been posted here about reactions surprises me.
I do agree with them on that, that's for sure. The VR market is minuscule and even the "market leaders" get chump change compared to smartphones and laptops, the market penetration is very low and worse than that, is looking like a flat curve now.

I don't know what will work to commodities VR but the current platforms just ain't going to cut it.
This is what I do with Firefox developer edition. It doesn't have that problem where it refuses to work if it's been updated in the background, it just adds a little green dot to the hamburger menu that indicates that it wants to restart at your leisure.
specially if you spend 2000 years... I think I meant 200.
For fast-charging, the Cybertruck battery is an incremental improvement, not the leap everyone wanted. For longevity and cost? The rest of the market can't come close. Tesla's secret sauce is being willing to do things nobody else will do, change the paradigm, all that stuff MBAs want to do but don't know how to do.

However, more people are making EVs, so Tesla is using its biggest advantage (supercharger network) to essentially force every other EV buyer to witness what competence looks like. Great move.