skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Add tram rails and you have the perfect mix to scare away urban cyclists from some roads. I went around the center of the city I lived in when I had to cross it in some directions, because of those death traps.

An example https://maps.app.goo.gl/bgqmJhuaGvpfqeLz6
Note the asphalt poured between the stones to even out the steps. It cracks and goes away and the steps are there waiting for wheels. The rails too.

In my experience: small cobble stones like the ones in many of the pictures on the right column of that side don't age well with traffic. They start to move and eventually pull out. Smaller stones are worse. I drive regularly on plenty of examples of that. Stones should be very thick to stay in place because they can help each other not to form an angle with the surface of the road.

Large stones like the ones in the Street View I linked are better at staying in place but they must be thick too and when they move they create a significant step. I don't like to drive over them and I don't want to be a cyclist there.

If you zoom the stone roads in that website you see that they are not very even. Asphalt also has the purpose to protect the layers below it. If it's not replaced before it starts to crack it's like having many small stones. In both cases, stones or asphalt, water enters the gaps, washes away the material under them (sand, gravel, rocks, whatever) and heavy traffic makes the road bumpy. The only solution would be to remove the surface layer and rebuild the road, but nobody does it AFAIK. They just peel off the asphalt and lay new one. It's back to cracks and bumps in a year or two. At least it's faster and quieter to drive on than stones.

For me, asphalt on every road except pedestrian areas.
I have seen several videos of people actively driving while wearing the headset. Not sure why you think it is staged.
Get a router that has a VPN, or put a VPN box behind the router and port forward
This is really cool and useful for legitimate purposes. This is the future I don't want to live in
The text of the article seems to directly contract the headline.

The author's phone spied on him, determined he was in the same household as his wife who had been searching for a Dremel and then it later showed him an ad for a Dremel. If that isn't spying on you to show ads, then what is it?
Thanks.

That’s the thing: I’m in the US.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39258546
FLTK is permanently stuck in the 90s. It doesn't have full unicode support, right-to-left & bidirectional text, and doesn't support accessibility tools.

Not to mention that development has been stagnant for 15 years since it's flagship application (Nuke), was ported to QT.
Sounds pretty fun. Maybe not if you are an organizer though.
Mission. Purpose. A North Star (whatever those are for you, or your team).
I'm not too surprised as long as the initial cost is less than concrete.
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> Rather, it creates a time to reflect on the cost of taxes and their value proposition.

Create time? It uses up my time, leaving less time for reflecting on public policy, or anything else.
I'm formally self-employed but it's actually a means of keeping talent from emigrating by granting tax benefits to people like me.

I do side gigs when the opportunity arises, but more often than not I don't have the time for anything but my main thing.
To put some additional context around this, per the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median US household has ~$12,000 per year of excess income after all ordinary expenses -- which includes buying iPhones, nice cars, healthcare, etc. The percentage of US households with no capacity to save at all is <15% in US Federal Reserve studies.

Americans just have relatively poor savings behavior. They've always had the ability to save much more than they do. I think this partly follows from the reality that the US has not had a genuinely bad economy since the 1930s. It is a long unbroken chain of prosperity with the occasional minor blip, which changes the culture's relationship to money.
Your story reminds me a bit of what the working environment of Atari was like according to those who were there during it's heyday.
anyone know how close the kernel/drivers are to mainline? loads of Linux epub/cbz/RSS/etc reader apps are already friendly to small screens, would be lovely if i could just throw a minimal OS on there and rsync my media onto it without going through hoops or fighting the vendor's OS.
For my expense sharing app [1], I added receipt scanning [2] in a few minutes and a few lines of code by using GPT 4 with Vision. I am aware that LLMs often are a solution looking for a problem, but there are some situations where a bit of magic is just great :)

It is a Next.js application, calling OpenAI’s API using a plain API route.

[1] https://spliit.app

[2] https://spliit.app/blog/announcing-receipt-scanning-using-ai
Absolutely! With only a few dozen lines of context to pick up the syntax, copilot is already able to make useful contributions like configuring regulators and filters.
Not sure - did Popcorn Time ever allow streaming torrents through the browser itself? Some torrent sites today have a streaming section where you can browse a catalogue and watch torrent videos right in the browser itself. Check out https://ferrolho.github.io/magnet-player/ for an example of this.
Sorry, shareholders. gg no re
I thought it would be funnier if she was packing her clothes in luggage and she threw her keys to him as she said "I'm leaving you"
I've built a sales bot that would go over a predefined sales scenario like a real human would, being able to jump between steps and work with any complications real conversation would throw at it. It would appear fully human to whoever converted with it. Unfortunately, it was never deployed in production due to business reasons.
If I were judged by my first year GPA I'd be homeless. Instead I'm really quite successful in spite of my first try (and miserable failure) at university.

When I went back and was paying for tuition out of my own pocket as opposed to magic sky money falling into my lap from the US Dept of Education, things were a LOT different.
I mean, I dispute your implication that he's not destroying twitter (I mean, ever since he took it private we don't have hard numbers. But that itself doesn't suggest _good_ things).

But aside from that, and the two examples above,
1. x.com (the original)
2. tesla has been killing way more people since he retroactively became a founder (there was a delay while existing products moved through the pipeline)
3. solarcity
4. optimus
5. neuralink (well, ok, it hasn't failed yet. But _I'm_ not betting on it...)
6. the Tham Luang cave rescue
7. crypto
8. his relationships with his kids / exes

TBF, spacex appears to be his baby, and it has done _much_ better than I ever thought it would. There are rumors about the existence of a whole team there preventing him from breaking things, and personally, I believe them. But I have nothing _remotely_ like proof. And even if those rumors are true, spacex appears to have been his idea, he hired the first batch of people, etc. He can definitely take loads of credit for it, even if I don't think he deserves as much of said credit as he clearly thinks he deserves.
this is pretty cool, I've seen a similar project already, I think it's called SQL translate
While I agree with you, this is an inherently political discussion. Having a phrase thats easier to remember (due to alliteration) and easier to conceptualize (of course I should be able to repair something!) might give it ever so slightly more of a chance to get past the collective apathy.
"Turn your head left and right" probably has less than two years left to it as a security measure, and I feel I'm being generous on that. I seriously can't imagine that we've made it as far as we have with this sort of AI, but that's the wall we're going to hit beyond which math simply says "nope, you can't do that". "Take a picture holding the ID" won't have much longer.

The simple truth is that remote identity verification of this sort may simply be impossible in the near future. There's nothing intrinsically identifying about a video stream. It's just numbers. It isn't something you have, are, or know. We were floating along on "it's really hard to forge" but that on its own is not one of the ways of authenticating someone.
It's a bit silly to pretend like the Vision Pro was destined for surgeons and rocket scientists. We did the same cat-and-mouse routine chasing down real-world workflows in Windows Mixed Reality, and the US Army was the only organization willing to foot the bill. The idiots are likely Apple's largest market, here.
I’ll admit I forgot they kept test optional - I’ll celebrate when they bring it back, not when elite schools whose purpose is to segregate and enrich the few do it.
For the last 4 years, I've been working on app that help solo founder like me to manage their project but intuitive to use on mobile. Finally get the app ready for private beta soon, so lately my time have been focused getting the word out about the app.

App Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSiHWdoekCE
So, question. In the US the middle class thinks about building wealth with investments. Do you instead prioritize purchasing assets with allowable debt that you would struggle to pay without inflation? Like, wealth of reputation rather than account size?

How do banks actually make money if they get these losing loans?
Why does Rust need ISO standardization - what is blocked by the lack of ISO standard?
I don't know if you have much experience running non-profits, but giving an overly large one-time grant to an org which isn't necessarily prepared for it can be a fairly bad idea and often leads to the org doing mad yo-yo things and ending up penniless.

Spending money requires a certain amount of structure and process, and it takes a while to adapt to a money windfall. Going from a little money to a lot changes an org very significantly.

Granted, I also haven't looked much into the Rust Foundation, but I'm going to assume a $1 mio is significant for them. Google can always donate more down the road when the investment pays off and is digested usefully.

(Edit: The Rust Foundation had an income of $2.89 mio in 2022 and $2.56 mio in 2023 according to their annual reports. $1 mio sounds about right for what they should be able to usefully handle, from the gut.)
Obligatory HN question. "What do they need 5500 employees for?"
I've created just-tell-me [1] that summarizes youtube videos with ChatGPT. It's built with Deno, uses TypeScript and is deployed with Deno Deploy. It's open source, you can run it from CLI as well [2]

[1] https://just-tell-me.deno.dev/

[2] https://github.com/franekmagiera/just-tell-me
Platformer's Casey Newton on surviving the great media collapse; what comes next
When looking for a monitor:

> 1k = 1920x1080

> 2k = 2560x1440

> 4k = 3840x2160

[even though it's not usually referred to as 1k, but rather 1080p directly]
A lot of them are garbage when it comes to user provided photos. Names are difficult because they can have near-infinite variations (unlike words).

Have also had a provider that insisted on sending in a picture of a barcode for something (too many users entering in the values wrong), but on their side, it was just a human typing them in, and still made an error.
They’re cheap until the management realizes they just spent a year (so like $300k) educating their devops how cni works and they bounced to faang or some other startup so the project needs to be scrapped or restaffed again and started over. That’s where the services come in. Also yeah it’s well known ICs view saas as direct threat so everyone tries to skip them and go directly to KDM. That’s the reason nearly all enterprise software is pain to use
As plenty of others have said - nope, dissaving is very uncommon word. As a native American English speaker, I don't recall ever seeing it either.

One clue for future reference - the linked article had to clarify the meaning of the word _in the title_. That strongly indicates to me that, even if in certain areas the word is well understood, the author expected there to be confusion.
C++ and RUST interop with async is very nascent. Hope this helps to make improvements in this space.
Firmware can sometimes get a bit complicated due to third party IP used and whether that can be opensourced, but within those constraints this is the ambition.

I.e things like memory controller setup and link training is often constrained by the IP vendors on whether you can share it in source form.

Good news in general though -- there isn't a lot of firmware on these cards in the path of the workloads, most of it is around system management and thermals/power.

Terminology-wise some of pieces in the code base are called firmware, but are loaded at runtime and built as part of the usual build process. It's more of a linked-with-the-workload libraries than resident FW. (There's some of both though).
Thanks for the links! I'll read them :)
No they are supposed to put their sob story and life’s traumas that shaped them into their college essay.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MyD0m7JXgjA
They can always read the book, as I suggested, and make their own mind up. They could do that with the other books I mentioned as well!
Reminds me of some of the Glassholes I met back when that was a thing.

Take that stupid fucking thing off your face when you're talking to me. All you're proving is that you have $1500 to set on fire.
Yep.

Quality isn’t free and native applications provide quality (reliance, performance, integration, usability).

The platform issues just moved to WebKit, Blink and Gecko. New platform issues and the web developers complain like application developers ;)

Companies favor the web usually to lower their own cost, give them control over users and being free of rules. Users pay for it. With higher hardware requirements (Electron), loss of data, loss of control and the absence of usability. And as states above, a website shall not stress my CPU or RAM.

The worst example is Microsoft Teams.
The best example is your preferred Matrix client application.
Hi, I thought that may be useful to some of the data folks here.
A tutorial on how to create beautiful line charts in matplotlib, in the style of OurWorldInData
Isn't solving this as easy as just not having VCC + GND on the pins next to each other?

If you shove data in the middle, you're never going to short VCC + GND together. your data line shouldn't care about being high (5v) or low (gnd).
“Sometimes”?
Exactly. Some exchanges let you kyc with a US ID but you still need to use a VPN for a foreign IP address
A number that scales with pixel count is even more markety. Pixel width or height is a much better metric for quality.

But if you want to go down that path, instead of trying to redefine k just use megapixels.
Yeah, agree. I had ninja edited that in there but not in time I guess. And as I posted elsewhere, the disk they're using is very slow. And ideally your access patterns are more similar to what the other commenter had with COPY, but that's a whole different issue.

AWS will happily sell you bargain bin performance at enterprise prices if you don't understand what you're buying. There's a reason they're almost a $2T company.
I hope he can succeed. Language diversity is generally good, but it does look like an uphill battle
Rust's std lib approach is the best way to approach a std lib (IMO). Even in java world, some dependencies end up being the defacto standard while others end up dying off.

The JDK has a bunch of garbage in the JDK that people shouldn't use. That stuff has to remain due to strong backwards compatibility guarantees.

Rust's approach means that non-standard stuff that we end up realizing is a mistake can quietly die off.

Now, should it be larger? Probably. I'd prefer if rustlang had a standard async/await implementation rather than leaving it up to the ecosystem. But I don't think rust needs, for example, a gui api (like swing or awt) in the standard library.

I'd prefer if rust was managed a bit more closely to the way java is managed today. Java doesn't pull in new apis willy nilly, but the ones they do pull in end up being things that have broad appeal and utility. Rust could take a look at common crates in the ecosystem and start pulling those in to the standard lib.
I tried the dual loop and it ended up being more uncomfortable. It's really down to each persons build. For me I couldn't wear without a light seal, my eyebrows would touch the glass, and kinda already do with the normal cushion.

Once you figure out how to get it just right it's pretty easy to stay in it for a lot longer. I went about six hours yesterday without any discomfort (I did get a smudge on the lens and was too stubborn to clean it).
E) This factoid is a tautology because any bucketing by income will put more savers in the big income bucket and more dissavers in the low income bucket. People have periods of saving and dissaving over any typical life course, most notably a long period of dissaving at the end called retirement.
The CAs have been hacked. Multiple times, in several different ways. And that's just the public ones we know about, which I have no reason to suppose are all of them or even necessarily a significant fraction of what we would consider compromises. At the scale of "everything done on the internet" or "all the money" you can't wave this issue away. It is difficult, if not impossible, to build a security system that is more expensive to break than "all the money and value in the world".

A government identity to do business with the government might just about be possible. A government identity to cover everything done by everyone everywhere is not. The value of cracking that system is just too high.
That will be interesting soon when 80% of your code will be ai-generated black boxes…
for me, the article cut off after this paragraph:

OnlyFake lets essentially anyone generate fake IDs in minutes that may seem real enough to bypass various online verification systems. Or at least fool some people
Wow, I didn't know this! I mistook it for 1440p (that's what my monitor is). I figure that it might be between 1080p and 4k that it was synonymous with 2k, but I'm mistaken.
I'm loving that Rust is getting more and more support
You're asserting a dichotomy that I didn't make.

Often, writing is like a connect-the-dots drawing where those points are the written details and the point is the overall shape. Yes, there is a "main point" that is not those details. But it's the details that convey it. Subtract all of them, and the shape disappears.

For any given reader, some of those detail points won't resonate with them and will be basically ignored. But as long as there are enough other details, they will still trace the right shape and get the overall point.

A big part of the art of writing is figuring out which constellation of details will lead to the right shape being traced in the minds of as many readers as possible.
Good. I understand that deception is necessary in cases like undercover investigations, but the practice goes far beyond those scenarios. Not just interrogations, either.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/michigan-case-offers-pub...

> Brian Chaney says he asked for a supervisor during his arrest in Keego Harbor, Michigan, and Police Officer Richard Lindquist told him that another officer present was in charge. The problem: That second officer was not a supervisor or even a member of the Keego Harbor Police Department. Lindquist was never disciplined and his chief says that while a suspect has the right to request a supervisor, what the officer did was OK.
The war against standardized tests has far more to do with black students performing disproportionately poorer on them. Many people are unwilling to acknowledge the multitude of cultural and socioeconomic factors responsible for that and instead want to simply chalk it up to racism. And so there's a war against any admissions policy that results in disproportionate racial outcomes, until we're left with admissions policies that are openly racist in order to achieve race-based results.
I guess it means they're not testing on logic in the math exam, or are verbal scores predictive of coding but not logic scores; maybe it's more of a G factor.
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You actually make a very fair point, the only downside of pirated comment is that it comes from a very dubious sources, and sites that are loaded with spyware and whatnot.

Then perhaps s.o. would argue that these all are much harder to get done with free tools or by oneself, but I can definitely argue that having a nice personal cloud which allows video streaming is more than enough for most occasions.
Absurd news article generator using local LLMs. I wanted to create a static website from the articles, but ultimately didn't think anyone would give a damn. In the same vein I create a person + CV generator, and a group chat between simulated crazy people.

I made a private Discord bot for me and my friends to talk to, that also generates images using SD 1.5 LCM.

The self-hosted backend uses the ComfyUI Python API directly for images, and the LLM part uses oobabooga's web API.
In person kyc then a soul bound NFT for online ID
How is that different from cars that project information on the windshield? The virtual windows are right there in front of you where the road is, not a smartphone that you have to move your eyes to.

(This is an question, not an argument. I don't drive, so I honestly don't understand).
Pros: Vertical scalability.

Cons: All your async code becomes full of data races.

I suppose adding multithreading to the Node ecosystem would be as hard (if not harder) than removing GIL from Python. At least Python has locking primitives. Node, as far as I know, has none.
I don't think it makes sense to expect integration
tests have 100% coverage, which is what you would need.
DocuSign Falls on Report Bain, Hellman and Friedman Are Losing Interest
UPDATE: a fix was released to remove the extra delay and the video on the blogpost was updated to show the new fast-loading version
VC funded and looking for growth opportunities is far different than building a long term sustainable business. The carrot in the business model leads business decisions in very different directions and your setup is different to meet them.

Are there opportunities for VC funded with growth expectations in this kind of business?
How to Create a Secure, Random Password with JavaScript
Bigger yet by far https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_the_First_Qin_Emp...

He of the terracotta army. Not excavated yet for fear of damage, but I would so love to know...
You and me both, buddy. You and me both.

Elon fans are the absolute worst.
Maybe one day, but I’ve asked the various models basic EE interview questions, and it’s painfully obvious that while it can make a paragraph that has the right words, it’s incapable of reasoning spatially, or describing complex connections. My job is secure (for this year).
Could you link the story? - e: looks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39259093
Halfway through the article has a list of "VPNs" to keep you "safe" from tracking.
Feels pretty disingenuous.

I get this is a popular topic ("your phone is listening to show you ads").
And already had some non-technical friends ask me about it.
So at least the article gives a detailed explanation about targeted advertising and fingerprinting.
I don’t consider it ironic. My opinion is that both fast paced development and careful rigorous development can produce innovation, but often of a different kind. You can have both and they don’t have to negate each other. The development pace at companies like Google have contributed to changing the world just like NASA has
There is zero chance that strapping a giant rectangular box to your face is going to considered anything other than very weird by the majority of people.