skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the spirit, but don't like the unintended consequence that it would create a stigma around sedans -- "oh, those are the cars for the bad drivers". We need to do something that makes SUV drivers feel ridiculous and humiliated. Or, failing that, just make it expensive: Weight and size dependent tolls, say (using the fourth power of weight, possibly, to match road wear equations?). Or just fewer lanes in which those vehicles are allowed. "You don't get the elite lane."
Would that have been in the late 80s-90s? I wonder how Bell Labs was doing then, after the AT&T breakup.
The Reason Why Feature Heavy Languages Suck
I thought "ah nice, maybe a mapbox alternative" but it seems not to be the case unfortunately
Chroma looks good. https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma
10k+ stars, very easy to use, and can be used as an embedding database
I mean, I am the strongest local LLM advocate you will find. I have my GPU loaded with a model pretty much all day, for recreation and work. My job, my livelihood involves running local LLMs.

But it's intense, even with a very finicky, efficient runtime on a strong desktop. Local LLM hosting is not something you want to impose on users unless they are acutely aware of it, or unless its a full stack hardware/software platform (like the Google Pixel) where the vendor can "hide" the undesirable effects on system performance.

I think that's a reasonable generalization to make.
We’ve been doing that for dialup internet for decades.
Nice! It's super useful in fish, good to know it's in zsh too
I really wish the first part of this article had an explicit "Here is how you get started" section. I just about missed it because it's a paragraph that links to a support article. If they want people to actually use this stuff, why not make turning it on front and center?
Interesting (side note) as I read all the commentary here: As people (obviously) are reacting to the particular "group psychology", or personality or culture here within HN, many commentators are heavily apologizing for not having specific links or attributions available. And I understand why now: Too many neurotic or OCD (or selfishly angry) individuals who will downvote in a heartbeat if the comment isn't to their supreme liking. So, to prove that point, this comment will (most likely) get downvoted into oblivion. I like free commentary sections that don't show off "commentary powers". I once asked a simple innocent question and the downvotes simply drove me to stop trusting anyone here... really sad, since I am an intelligent person with feelings and with curiosity and VALID opinions. Sorry that this rubs the weird people the wrong way. Just sayin'
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There's way more to legal work than filling out forms. The AI is going to replace legal assistants, not the attorneys themselves.
GP, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the idea is an open source GTIN dataset.

I have no answer, but am also curious now.
Do you think a backdoor can be found in modern chips simply by testing? And even if, that enterprise grade products are tested that deep, let alone consumer products?
I've had both happen unfortunately too.

Click the X, it instantly asks you for your password to update.

Click the X, it for some reason decides that means it needs to open the Software Update settings screen. (and no, I'm not accidentally misclicking. This happens daily in an OSX VM I have on my M1)
Can't even buy the MPV in the US anymore...
Thing is, once you have 1) and 2), the added complexity of bringing in, integrating, and writing for a different tool to achieve 3) begins to make little sense, when you can just go along and do it just as well in rspec anyway... It's a matter of balance and heavily depends on the project.

> if you're still at Datadog

As a matter of fact I am:

curl -s https://github.com/DataDog/dd-trace-rb/commit/176c642ca73679cabc5fa1a113bc9b600aa04dcd.patch | grep '^From:'

Shoot me an email if you feel like chatting.
I think this was made in bad faith.

Some of those are not excuses, but facts of life.

- If your IP transit provider doesn’t support IPv6 there is FA you can do about it. Linking to HE is just a bad joke. Not only are they a bottom of the barrel provider, they also have a very sparse network of POPs.

- not all vendors support IPv6 and, yes, there are bugs.

- if there is no RoI in moving to IPv6, pouting about it isn’t going to make a difference.
then what imparts the "unique" characteristic?
YAMLScript now exists: https://yamlscript.org/
Someone in 2006 asked what Apple would bring to the cellphone market, too.

The issue with Apple and the automotive market is the units don't have enough turnover for Apple's business model to thrive.
We can also just ship it with a browser?! Oh wait!
...what?

If you've got back, hip, knee, or ankle problems, then trying to bend down into a low car is an undignified exercise at best, a struggle at worst. A CUV doesn't have that problem, you just sit into it like a chair.

For a family with young children, securing child seats into a CUV involves a lot less bending over then in lower car. Bear in mind that many child seats are 40 lbs.

If you live in a snowy area, the greater ground clearance makes it less likely to get stuck in residential roads that are lower priority for snow removal. You also have better approach angles as well, which can become a concern if you live in an area that's very hilly with steep driveways.

You probably don't see advantages, and that's fine. But that doesn't mean they don't exist.
Note GTK3/4 doesn't have true fractional scaling. What it does is scaling up to 2x and downsample to the required resolution. This is not that visible but it does produce some blur, along with the performance overhead. Qt5 doesn't support it either, though Qt6 does. Of course we'll see improvement, but I doubt it would get to the same level as Windows in the next 5 years or so, which is a long time.
Look up shaken baby syndrome https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402
The only way to reverse the trend is to create a motocross hitch that doesn't pulverize the suspension of a car/crossover.
This is my take as well.

CarPlay takes in a bunch of input from various sensors / cameras in a car and gives back “drive” or cruise control commands that are at level 3+.

Replaces the existing software for both the infotainment system and “cruise” control.
In the Norwegian traffic law, it specifically says that you are to slow down in areas with children. So "the child ran into the street chasing a ball right in front of my truck" isn't a valid excuse, as that's something "to be expected" when driving in a residential area.

At least in theory. Unfortunately the cops here almost never wants to prosecute cars hitting kids or pedestrians. There's always an excuse. "The sun was in their eye", "kid didn't wear high vis (it was daytime)".
Everybody said the USSR was collapsing and it kept growing until the country collapsed. China’s GDP numbers are notoriously opaque and difficult to vet. It’s no different than saying Los Angeles is going to get flattened by an earthquake. Its inevitable but good luck predicting it.
It's government regulations that made trucks get this big, most people simply buy what is available in the form factor they like.

Lots of Americans want smaller trucks. I just saw a Netflix show where a main character prized his old Toyota pickup. This is also evidenced in the importation of Japanese "K-car" trucks.
Browser engine diversity will arguably become more important than browser diversity if Google tightens the right screws at the Chromium level.
With KDE Plasma 6 release just around the corner, it would be great to see more distributions providing KDE desktop environment as equal to GNOME, instead of "spin".
ohmyposh is a prompt theming engine, not a plugin manager. But it is a great way to find a good prompt or create your own.
If you haven't come across https://ditto.live, definitely check it out. They've put a lot of focus on this case.
Waymo is level 3 at best. It is active in 1 flat city right now (and partially in another), and needs frequent interruption from remote drivers to get it out of hairy situations. You really think it will be fully rolled out in the 10 most populous cities in America in the next 6 years? You really think it'll work without any human interaction (local or remote)? This thing won't last 5 minutes in NYC or Philadelphia .
I regularly pass people on the right and then cut them off getting back into the left lane just so that I don't have to be stuck behind someone I can't see around.

The tinted front/rear windows really piss me off because they make my drive more dangerous for very little reason. I'd make them illegal if it were up to me.
The Cybetruck's obnoxious hood height[0] and curb weight[1] all but guarantees that it's dangerous for pedestrians. Not that singling out Cybetruck is completely fair, all large EVs are strictly worse for pedestrian safety due to their weight.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2023/12/05/with-litt...

[1] https://www.autoweek.com/news/a46013576/tesla-cybertruck-spe...
Hopefully the sync tech being developed for it is solidly open, but it's good to have access to your data regardless.

The thing that always bothered me about that article is:

> Notably, the object server is open source and self-hostable, which reduces the risk of being locked in to a service that might one day disappear.

It appears that the object server is neither open source and nor self-hostable. The repository that they link is mostly empty. It has a rich version history of "releases" that only change the changelog file.

I assume the article was accurate when written, and have always wondered what happened. So I suspect mongo rewrote the git history to remove the code when they bought Realm. Was it ever open source? Did they intimidate people into taking down forks or did nobody bother?

I do see an edit to the README around that time adding that a license is required to run the self-hosted server. It is dated about two months before the linked article, but they may not have noticed or it may be back-dated:

https://github.com/realm/realm-object-server/commit/fc0b399d...
True, I was thinking more of Windows and MacOS.

I chose FreeBSD for a few things like jails, ZFS as first class citizen and no corporate "invented here" crap like snaps.

But I really hate coming back to my pc after a few days and find that it has rebooted to install an update, all my open work be damned. There's no good way to turn that off, nor the telemetry.
In the first two cases as well, because if you take more time and invest more money for search, in expectation you find more qualified people without optimizing for the DEI tradeoff. We can't compare "DEI + more search" with "no DEI". We have to hold the amount of search constant for an objective comparison.
Ask HN: Can AIs Self-Develop Their Own Personalities?
Curious to see your thoughts on the self-development of AI personalities, specifically if it's possible for AIs to self-develop their own distinct traits through interactions with both humans and other AIs.
It's insane how much bullshit is on their home page. Can someone explain what the hell are "smart spending" and "integrated cards"?
With the amount of time he's put into VR over the last decade I think it's fair to say he's as much an expert as anyone else at this point.
And then, people start using reflection (Java), vtables/dynamic lookups (C, C++), eval (JS, PHP) and similar constructs (a lot of languages have them), and suddenly tree-shaking falls apart.

Tree shaking shouldn't be necessary in 2024 anyway.
Hmm. I'm not sure how true that is, but that might be a perception thing because hoods have gotten longer and windshields have gotten more slanted. Being farther from the front of the car/windshield makes your view angle smaller even if the height of the window hasn't changed.

Surprisingly, sloped windows are more of a safety thing than a fuel efficiency or aerodynamics thing. If the windshield is too sloped, it acts like a wedge that throws air up above the car and causes a ton of turbulence. It's more important that the airflow stays stuck to the top surface of the car, and a steeper windshield helps with that.
You think it's all dudes driving these things though? Surely yeah, that's the case for big stupid pickup trucks. But SUVs are driven by anxious Starbucks moms. "I need to feel safe." Hausfrauenpanzeren.
Neat! I completely forgot about that, and it's nice to re-discover the gripping hand.
Apple can literally buy that expertise with petty cash.
"downgraded to Level 2+ autonomy"

"The car will use what is known as a Level 2+ system, the people said. That’s a downgrade from previously planned Level 4 technology — and, before that, even more ambitious aims for a Level 5 system."

Wow, what?

Level 2 is "lane centering and adaptive cruise control." Those are standard features these days.

"After the initial car debuts, Apple hopes to release an upgraded system later that supports Level 4 autonomy and additional regions."

Oh like Tesla and "Full Self Driving"?
> We need to do something that makes SUV drivers feel ridiculous and humiliated

Oh, that couldn't possibly have any side effects.
You are not kidding haha, I saw the article and immediately thought the same. I use a Dell Latitude as my work computer and run it with Linux (Mint). It is a constant struggle between battery life, sleep states (lack of), camera not working, bluetooth not working and whatnot. I still prefer working on Linux than suffering the UX trash that is Windows, but god if there was some paid Linux version that prevented all the necessary tinkering :(
Apple Music now lets you create collaborative playlists
Fluorinerts with very low global warming potentials have been invented since then.
In Europe vehicles like the Humer electric can't even be driven with a regular license because of its weight (3500kg is the limit). It's basically a large truck and requires a much more involved license.
Yeah, contemptuously painting a diverse group of people with a broad brush as pernicious -- History has something to say about this mental move.
Why is Waymo so slow to roll out?

Pick an optimal path for each metro, only operate on good weather days, roll out nationally.
its effectively their competitor
The UK NIH unfortunately has a reality ignoring relationship with "homeopathy" and other "alternative" medicines, up to and including the current king being a vocal Proponent of using more alternative medicine to reduce costs and improve health.

It's not great.
Wait what, China has by significant margin the second largest software ecosystem in the world, and in VC terms is comparable to the US.
This is cool! OpenStatus (https://www.openstatus.dev/) is another project thats aiming for something similar
Tree Style Tab user?
Can you send someone to my house to hit my current laptop with a baseball bat so I can justify an upgrade?
Speaking of Keybase, is it still supported? I just launched mine after a multi-week hiatus, and I'm getting an error: "x509: certificate signed by unknown authority" Hmmm.
Not exactly a wafer but once I tried to create a very powerful LED bulb by combining LEDs of multiple 10W LED bulbs close together and yep, it got very hard to cool it down. I wasn't expecting to get that hot but later once I gave it some thought, I said silly me of course it would be hard to cool it down. When you put together multiple elements that heat-up, the radiator-to-heater ratio quickly deteriorates.

And now when I've red the title, the heat was the first thing that came to my mind.
Did you respond to the intended comment? Seems unrelated to mine
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/14519765?visit_id=6...

AFAIK, this is geo limited to the US, at least for now.
They do claim that this asteroid is somehow unique.

The best I can guess is that 8 of these have been detected before they hit, but only this one was detected 3 hours before it did. The rest must have been detected with longer or shorter times before impact (presumably longer).

Alternatively, perhaps it is unique because of its small size, at only 1 meter.
Disagree.

this is a founder pushing back against having a leadership caste that can’t actually do the work to drive the business forward themselves.
You can still get something like a 90s F-150, but it's now called a midsize truck. The main difference is that the bed will be smaller and the interior will be larger. There are even some smaller unibody trucks like the Maverick coming on the market.

What you can't seem to get is something like a first generation Tacoma or 90s S-10 without 4WD that's low to the ground. All of the newer trucks have very high bed sides that make loading them from the side a huge pain even if you're tall.
20K amps (!!!): https://vimeo.com/853557623

They use probably the fanciest piece of rubber (and metal) ever made to pass the power in frontside to the die.
Not really, it just spends a lot of time waffling on about bus networks and mobile IPs and then makes some weird claims about the IETF that don't seem to match reality.

v6 is designed the way it is precisely because it needs to run on the same networks that v4 does, and v6 is a better design than v4 in our world because our world has completely outgrown v4.
He became expert in the domain enough to decide to walk away...

He's now working on a startup in the AGI field, which will also probably go nowhere for him.

He gets to work on things that excite him - what a place to be in life. We can all envy that - but he's not very good at gauging problems and consistently underestimates their difficulty/time-to-market.
For at least one country on the list the scaling is only for egregious violations.
> Youtube isn't a social network.

Certainly seems to be one to me?
Yup. 10% industrial, ~45% jewelry, and ~45% bullion. Jewelry's use of gold is speculation just like bullion. People want gold or other precious metals in jewelry not because they provide the best physical properties at a given price-point (there are many superior alternatives), but only because such materials are expensive, ie. they speculatively assume the high prices will stay high and/or continue to appreciate.
Always stare into the void^H^H^H^Hdoor plug and projectiles will merely hit the back of your head.
Quicken is a money management firm, of course they will use FUD to sell their products
While I mostly agree that the hardware and UX challenges are mostly out of his domain,

> It requires engineers to ship high FPS and low lag to prevent nausea to a degree unheard of for PC gaming.

This is very much Carmack's speciality, and why his focus was on making mobile VR happen [0]. There are very few people who can outperform him at that, and most of them worked for Oculus :-)

[0]: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/q-a-carmack-reveals-the... (this predates the Quest, but it should give you an idea of the problems he was tackling)
The problem is a lot of people that want to purchase a home know it’s a scam and the owners of homes want to perpetuate that scam because they bought into it. Guess who has more political clout.
Here I am the one to bring up AI, ugh. I get a sense that, of all things, LLM's actually encroach on legal professions the most (aside from copywriters). But this is from an outside perspective. Any insights?
I like the idea of a hybrid of client-side software that optionally uses third-party cloud storage for cross-device sync. NetNewsWire, ByWord (markdown editor), and Scrivener are some examples. Older versions of 1Password also had this, but I don't know if it still does anymore.

Some of these programs managed this better than others. NetnewsWire and 1Password seemed to just work. Byword and Scrivener had occasional sync conflicts that had to be resolved. In general, though, this seems like a nice system: if you (the user) are subscribed to cloud storage, then you get syncing without paying for an extra service. If not, you can still use the software without syncing.
You don't need an LLM to figure out what a certain field is. It's like choosing the 18 wheeler to drive your kids to school...
Are they doing fine if there will be 500,000,000 fewer Chinese by 2100?
iOS devices are vastly more attractive to bad actors than Macs have ever been. At least get that right.

Then you might want to take a look at some basic business courses on how pricing works. You seem to be operating in the paradigm of commodities being sold by weight.

Take a look at things like service bundles and differential pricing, and you'll start to understand that these kinds of arguments aren't the 'gotcha' you think they are.
> Although Fluorinert was intended to be inert, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory discovered that the liquid cooling system of their Cray-2 supercomputers decomposed during extended service, producing some highly toxic perfluoroisobutene.[5] Catalytic scrubbers were installed to remove this contaminant.

With that much constant heat, what chemical might be best/most practical I wonder.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novec_649

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluoroether
U-M Maizey AI: Generative AI for University of Michigan Fac/Staff/Students
What on earth happened to good ol' checkboxes?
It's not that simple. The Go compiler uses a main package as its entry point when compiling a binary. A module can have a many main packages each using different subsets of the library packages.

So there are two choices here:

1. The Go compiler complains about code which is unused by the current main package.
2. The Go compiler tries to find/compile all main packages every-time.

Both of these options suck.
This is not even cynicism, it's just grasping at straws.
The Dark Forest hypothesis is absurd
A product description is available if you click the “View full details” link to the bottom right of the Buy button, which leads to https://migswitch.store/products/mig-switch-pre-order. I agree that that information should be more prominent.
They wouldn’t be the first. The Audi A2 launched without a bonnet you could open. Oil changes were done using a hatch in the grille.
Not sure I sensed anything to be lashing out, so let's focus on the math:

"$82 million would be invested to connect a further 16,000 homes and businesses to high-speed internet across North Carolina.

The Federal Communications Commission's Brendan Carr pointed out that by dint of simple arithmetic, the cost per location would come to $5,125."

Let's keep it simple and say 5 people per house. That's ~$1,000 per person, which doesn't sound ridiculous. That said, it's only 16,000 people.

So perhaps there's some political / media axe grinding going on here?
Maybe this is the way. We should run ad campaigns emphasizing that large, high vehicles are for the physically infirm. Make them as sexy as walkers with toilet seats. Show images of doddering old people getting into them.
Hum... Regulators are inefficient. Regulations exist for stopping society from getting stuck into suboptimal Pareto equilibria.

So you don't want regulators to do things that are not their minimum job, but anybody with a general argument against regulation is just trying to rob you.
They're separate, but one owns and controls the other. I'm not seeing how pointing out that they're separate (a point on which I don't believe anyone here was confused in the first place) adds anything material to this exchange. "Boeing decided something", in a business strategy context, is just shorthand for "the people who control Boeing decided something", because Boeing doesn't ever decide anything. It can't.
Dude, it actually is zero configuration lol. My devices assign themselves an IPv6 via SLAAC, and they are reachable from other devices via devicename.local.

Macs and iPhones have relied on mDNS for years. Windows supports it. Android supports it since 2022. Linux has avahi.

If people could look a little further than the tip of their nose, they’d realize how much easier it’ll be to explain to people to just type in alices-iphone.local instead of trying to find the IPv4 address first.