skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not at all convinced about the inevitable success of the Vision Pro (which I maintain is in its current form, a dev kit being marketed as a mass-consumer device), but this just isn’t true.

To use a few examples that have happened after Apple Maps:

* The Apple Watch — Apple was at least 2 years behind other smartwatches when it launched in 2015 and now it basically owns the category. The first version wasn’t quite there but they nailed it with the series 2 and the pivot from fashion to fitness.

* AirPods - tons of companies had been trying truly wireless headphones for years. I know, I had tested basically every option commercially available. Although imperfect at launch (and the software got better over time for once here), AirPods from the moment I first used them in September of 2016 was category defining and the absolute best truly wireless earbuds you could get on the market, at any price point — even tho the quality was mid. Even now, you can do better than standard AirPods for the price/performance, but it’s hard to top AirPods Pro 2s unless you want to spend significantly more money and sacrifice ecosystem niceties (assuming you’re an iOS user. And the Venn diagram between people who are willing to spend over $250 on truly wireless earbuds and iPhone users is basically a circle).

What I do think is instructive about the Apple Maps example is that when it does come to services, and I put generative AI in the services camp much more than hardware, is that Apple is not best-in class at services at all. As a package, Apple services can be beneficial, especially if you’re part of the ecosystem - but even tho I pay Apple $38 a month for Apple One Premier, I’m still paying separately for Spotify, Dropbox, OneDrive (part of Office 365 but still), and Netflix (and a bunch of other video services) and I don’t think I could reasonably drop any of those services in-place of just using iCloud/Apple TV/Apple Music, etc. My parents can (except for Netflix/prime video), and Apple services are definitely “good enough” for a lot of people in the ecosystem, but none are best-in-class.

Unclear if they’d be able to be “good enough” to displace other generative AI services here or not, but to your point, Apple Maps still hasn’t gotten over its bad launch. And Siri on the phone is still dog shit. Siri is so bad that I won’t even use it on platforms where it is objectively good, like Apple TV, unless I specifically remember to.
Very interesting! It doesn't seem to be the default yet, at least not for anything I use. Glad to hear we're making progress though, if a bit slowly and behind other nations.
That's not true. Payments in EUR have to follow these rules.
Yes, I had them in mind. I have to check my own biases because I think [my distro] is of course better suited and more mature, but I really don't get it.

I personally think the community management, and XDA-forum-esque development ecosystem really ties into the conditions leading to the "crisis" that affected a certain first gen SBC/phone device.

I'm absolutely convinced that the first SBC manufacture that embraces tow-boot/nixos is going to find themselves with a dedicated, loud fanbase. NixOS or Guix on these stupid SBCs is end-game. Whether it's vendor BSP or upstream, it's trivial to share work and share output images. And, it makes it trivial to side-by-side vendor+mainline configurations, thereby further putting pressure on the SBC manufacturers to actually upstream their work or contract Collabora to do so (see: rock5b).
Thumbnail for that video is literally "Eliminate stress in seconds", but is an 11 minute video.
Better than competition on who can get away with burdening their customers with the slowest transaction.
Might void your warranty and there’s no guarantee on quality for components. There’s a lot of juice flowing across it.
Why Is Japanese Fruit So Expensive?
The relational approach requires flattening JSON or XML into a table. Which is far from ideal, I agree.

What you are suggesting sounds more general purpose, but also significantly more complex. A table of data that passes through transforms is quite easy to explain to non-techies. I don't fancy explaining your approach to a non-techie.
I know there's only so many names in the world but this is going to completely ruin searches for the Unison file synchronizer: https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison
DNA codes for a lot more than just genes... you're just conflating several unrelated concepts. For example, regulatory regions don't care about codons at all.

If you're just saying "genes are defined in units of codons", no complaint. And the biophysics of synonymous codons are highly complex; in most cases, you can substitute them in and get the same exact protein function. There are lots of papers about corner cases in specific proteins, but it's still correct to say that synonymous codons code redundantly (this is a well-established fact of molecular biology).
If they’re paying for it, why not just build another dam?

It sounds like the problem is that electricity is being priced below cost.
Considering the fact that the commenter's father lost or wasted all of it, he'd have probably been better had it sat in a checking account for the intervening years. Or under a mattress in wadded up dollar bills. Even if you're completely clueless about investing and you just walk into your bank and ask to talk to someone about what to do with it, you'd still come out ahead even if they push you towards mutual funds with excessive fees. Pretty much anything would have been better.

I'm not a parent, but I have trouble imagining how I'd ever feel comfortable directly managing my (hypothetical) kid's earnings like that. It just seems like, no matter what you do, you're creating a dynamic that could undermine or outright destroy your relationship. Especially if some of those investments go poorly.
> My gut tells me Cloudflare workers are some type of low-code solution.

Cloudflare Workers hosts servers written in JavaScript / Wasm.
Emirates to send own engineers to Boeing amid safety concerns
> Orange Pi

> AMD Ryzen

I guess that "Pi" branding has come to mean ... small computing of any kind now? Or maybe I'm just out of the branding loop and "Orange" is more meaningful than Pi and thus they should have just omitted the "Pi" part
Previous standard of NACS? NACS is the Tesla charger.
You might want to read philosophers in general, such as Seneca or Epictetus. I personally like the stoics like Marcus Aurelius and his book Meditations.
Note the original name: Turn- und Sportabteilung ("gymnastics and sport division"); before coming to power they, unlike some modern groups, weren't willing to openly call themselves a paramilitary organisation.
The article addresses this; the fine for violating the state law is a meager $500. They pay it and go on with their day, continuing to violate it.
I'm confused: Is this GPT-4 or GPT-3.5? The last reasonable answer I found (I forgot where) mentioned that they only downgrade it to v3.5 during peak hours. Still, even if it is v4, it seems to behave differently. The copilot should somehow be added independently to the LLM leaderboards.
This might be an option you turned on? I don't experience 2FA for paypal... But I'll probably go fix that today.
Yes, but that's because in the Netherlands, after that period, you cannot fire an employee without cause, and firing for cause requires a sub-district court proceeding.

In the US, if someone only reveals that they're a tremendous asshole to months into the role, you just fire them two months into the role.
MON just means that there are a certain number of VORs that aren't going to be decommissioned. it's not a different kind of VOR. and they're decommissioning all of these VORs precisely because GPS is so reliable.
I'm sorry to say that the aggregator site won the link lottery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39286751
You do not in fact get free work.
Of course it did. If you give poor people more money they will on balance have better lives. Left unaddressed are questions like: How does giving free money compare to spending the money on directed social programs? What is the optimal amount to give?

Also, am I reading this right? "Individuals who received the stipend reported increasing their monthly income by 36%, from $1,200 to $1,640, compared to the control group, whose income only rose 9%." They gave them $500 and their income went up $440. Is that before or after the $500?
>The dual loop seems designed for people with more elongated heads.

As the owner of a long head, I definitely struggled with feeling like I couldn't get the VP to sit right for my eyes with the solo loop. The dual resolved that easily.

Then you get to have the single loop as new fidget toy.
Boy, these injected prompts make me angry.

I think it's fine to notice bias in datasets and the world. And, it's fine with me for different groups to try and 'correct' that bias. In the US, you can probably already imagine some wildly divergent political viewpoints that might like to 'correct' things differently.

To my mind, though, secret injected prompts are evil. They are anti-human, in that they presume to choose on behalf of a person. It shows a complete lack of wisdom regarding the diversity of human experience, and a lack of empathy regarding the diversity of human perspective.

Yo, OpenAI - publish these please, so that people know what they're getting. I don't mind a company feeling so strongly about equal racial representation that they require "Use all possible different descents with equal probability. Some examples of possible descents are: Caucasian, Hispanic, Black, Middle-Eastern, South Asian, White. They should all have equal probability." -- This isn't the most logically specified instruction, but I'm personally fine with that being a company's viewpoint, and a viewpoint they force on their customers.

What I'm not fine with is the secretive injection; these tools are too important to be used in such a way that the owners of the tools can secretly pre-adjust outcomes without disclosure.

The world spent quite a lot of time digging through Facebook's election engagement with ad targeting -- what will we do when we learn a popular LLM provider has been injecting political directions / slants ahead of an election? Or allowing targeting in the pre-prompt injection as a way to make money? There's just quite a lot to look out for here, and a good start would be a transparency commitment from market leaders.
Happy to hear any feedback!

Got pre-built binaries here: https://github.com/thekashifmalik/kbackup/releases and it should be pretty easy to install/build using Go too.
clickhouse is phenomenal
EVs are popular in Norway. NORWAY.
>> Stopped reading right there.

You really shouldn't comment on posts you haven't even bothered to read.
Regarding the labor force this was taken directly from the article and quoted by the energy minister. I imagine they have more insights than we do regarding the proposal.

I understand your comment, and I'm agreeing that it should be investigated but I disagree about it being "nasty".

B.C. is not incredibly populated and also they are appealing for cheap electricity.

Asking for the power they want is a substantial undertaking that would cause higher utility prices for everyone living there.

If the cause somehow out-weighed the potential of higher costs it would be fair, but it's not.

Allowing this without investigation and diligence would be "nasty"
Wow, I had no idea it was a thing !

Thank you very much - I will definitely watch some of those.
The CCS spec allows for 500A and 1000V, so even more. Tesla gets around their 400V battery by using 620A+
I've heard him say that REAMDE was his attempt to write an airport paperback. I don't think he succeeded there, but Termination Shock does work as a light thriller so maybe he was taking a second swing.
There were a number of headlines a while back about ChatGPT suggesting recipes that could create chlorine gas, create a poison, called for human flesh, and others.
Well, one for each side that can field a media organization. :D
I can't even read your post past the first sentence where you say you had 5 cars in 12 years. I've been driving for 13 years and in that time owned and still own two cars. The first was bought used and is from the late '80s and the second was bought new ten years ago. I will drive them both until they fall apart (and am basically in the middle of fully rebuilding the first one with new/upgraded everything).

What I want is like the 90s Buick LeSabre of cars or Lexus LS 400. Boring, comfortable and indestructable. None of the EV manufacturers are producing anything remotely close to that right now.
Some of you might remember that in the "Ask HN: Do you have a problem you'd pay to have taken away?" discussion, I asked for a Cross-platform statically typed 2D&GUI framework.

I finally found a pretty good candidate in the form of the egui rust crate.

1. It's Rust, so statically typed and there's great tool support. I personally would have preferred C/C++ for ease of interop, but Rust is still way better than JavaScript, both for tools and for embedding.

2. It's built like immediate mode GUI but with a few convenience helpers, so it is in style quite similar to React in the sense that nested UI elements are just function calls with child parameters.

3. It uses OpenGL or WebGL, meaning the rendering is done purely in the GPU. Fonts are pre-rendered into a texture atlas and then that is used while aligning to display pixels to keep the text crsip.

4. It re-renders only when things change, i.e. when you move the mouse or type. But it still has convenient little helpers for animations.

I also said "suitable for games, paid upfront and not phoning home" and this one is actually built by someone with experience building games and game engines ... and I'd say it shows. The whole thing just feels so much more interactive than pretty much any JS framework I've used recently.

And it's open source.
Well, it's a service for banks that will allow them to offer their customers realtime transfers between banks. Just like ACH. I don't use ACH directly, but I do use it through my bank all the time.
In the graphics benchmarks it performs mostly worse than the 5600g/5700g. That's pretty disappointing 3 years later.
"Updating" in the phrase "Software updating" as a status message isn't a gerund though. It looks a lot like a gerund but it's really a casual form that drops the rest of the verb "[is] updating".
How did you manage the terminal? How do you use it?
Jumping to a wider memory bus is most feasible in product segments that already use soldered CPUs and RAM. PCs have been reluctant to drop the sockets/slots until recently, and only then in thin and light laptops. In systems that don't have discrete GPUs, Intel hasn't been applying competitive pressure against AMD's integrated GPUs.

So it's really been a question of whether AMD could spare the cash to tape out a larger laptop chip with the goal of cutting off the low end of NVIDIA's dGPU sales for laptops.
> If so, what's the intuition?

HSV closer resembles physical properties, for most natural things. Hue and saturation variations are usually meaningful variations in the actual material. Brightness variations often end up being mostly about lighting, rather than the material. It can be surprisingly effective for simple segmentation [1], which is why it's usually the first one implemented in computer vision classes.

Our eyes have RGB sensors, but I would claim I perceive the colors in my surroundings in something like HSV (although, that could very well be from the way I learned colors). And, I think this makes sense: if you're looking for something, you want a color perception that's not overly sensitive to lighting conditions. RGB is directly related.

[1] https://medium.com/neurosapiens/segmentation-and-classificat...
You can regulate it pretty easily with appropriate pricing.

The problem is that plenty of jurisdictions are willing to price industrial rates quite low for the sake of jobs and jurisdictions are in competition for those. So "wasteful" is largely determined, as far as the government is concerned, by whether a lot of jobs are produced.
Gravity's Rainbow and The Diamond Age certainly both feel like they'd have been better books if the author could keep his fetishes to himself...
Lagging indicator. Hertz is dumping their Teslas and canceled their purchase of 65k Polestars.
Related:

Should error messages apologize? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7561139 - April 2014 (45 comments)

Should error messages apologize? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5012203 - Jan 2013 (46 comments)
Podcasts predate the iPod by a couple months.
Not a rope-making expert, but I attended a workshop once. With three holes you can twist the strands together and get a three-strand rope in one step. That's how the (early-modern) process I observed worked. I think doing it the way you suggest (which certainly makes sense - I'm not saying that's not a reasonable hypothesis for the one-hole devices) would still require a multiple-hole device later in the process.
Andreessen Horowitz's crypto boss isn't backing down
Yes. delta-rs is a Rust-based implementation of Delta Lake.

The existing version of pg_analytics uses delta-rs to manage Parquet files stored within Postgres. In the future, we plan on integrating external object stores. This means that you'll be able to query any Delta Lake directly from Postgres.

Iceberg support will come later, once the Rust implementation of Iceberg matures.
It's nothing like a forced technology transfer at all. The US isn't acquiring TSMC tech in any manner what-so-ever. It could hack TSMC - as China does the US - if that's what it wanted.

The US is adding such domestic manufacturing for strategic national security reasons: namely, a modern tech-heavy economy can't function without the chips that power it. And yes, of course it pressured TSMC to contribute to that.
Off the top of my head, working in an emergency department of any major hospital is guaranteed to be filled with emotionally-difficult circumstances. Yet we don't ask doctors, nurses and technicians personally invasive questions to determine their ability to do their job.
For someone starting a job in an emergency department, having prior personal experiences with life or death situations is a very poor indicator of ability to handle that type of pressure in professional life. So why is that relevant to office jobs?
No. Banks can charge for non-instant transfers, and many do.
No, they are exclamations!
Nikon Z9 goes to space, NASA send new cameras to ISS
I personally don’t think is significantly better (own all the headsets since DK1) in terms of comfort. In some aspects worse. Yesterday had to change clothes to use the AVP because my pajamas don’t have pockets for the battery pack. Each headset has a different set of annoyances. not sure AVP is net positive in comparison.

Wearing a headset / computer on your face is a cost (vs wearing nothing) that the value prop gotta offset. We’ll see if it is a net positive, worth the tradeoff for a significant amount of people. Previous evidence indicates it isn’t.
How do you get it installed for $420? You can barely get an HVAC technician to come and say hi for $420 in California.
Recipies, first miniboss in the AI revolution.
Huberman passes studies conclusions as settled science.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Charging_Standa...

> In response, in November 2022, Tesla supplanted its previous proprietary charging connector,[10] sometimes informally called the Tesla proprietary connector,[11][12] with a new "North American Charging Standard" (NACS) and opened the standard to make the specifications available to other EV manufacturers. Unlike the Tesla proprietary connector which uses CAN bus to communicate, NACS uses power-line communication (PLC).[13] Like CCS, NACS uses the ISO 15118 protocol, making any CCS vehicle electrically compatible with NACS.[14] Only a simple pass-through adapter is needed to make CCS vehicles compatible with NACS. On the other hand, Tesla vehicles built prior to 2021 are incompatible with CCS and require an ECU retrofit to become compatible with CCS.
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This is good to know. I think a lot of people are tired of wasting their lifespan on grinding lc-medium/hards.

Is there a website with a list of companies that don't participate in the leetcode/FAANG interview process? I feel like there is a need for one.
i discovered rainbow yogurt warrior
> These are the ones who Hammerstein avoids

My experience has been that aptitude can be developed. In the context of "low experience" (generally junior engineers), the ones that succeed are the ones that put the work in to learn and get better.

But I can appreciate Hammerstein's perspective, especially if there isn't an added nuance of Carol Dweck's "fixed" vs "growth" mindset. A high drive, low aptitude individual -- seen through a fixed mindset lens -- is indeed dangerous!
Alright. So the CCP is even lazier and doesn't bother with creating their own sites, but buys access to these branded localized sites, and posts their content that way. Or "Excelsior Partners" is just another CCP front, and those kmong listings are a scam in itself.

Otherwise, how would you explain 24 pages of CGTN propaganda?

In either case, it's a clear link to the CCP. This is no different to what they do on social media as well. They use all established platforms to broaden their reach.
Launching Copilot on my iPhone, I see an on/off switch "Use GPT-4", with it defaulted to off. Switching it on, Copilot says, "Nice! It will be fun with GPT-4 . Responses may be slower while being creative. What do you want to explore today?"
I'm not moving goalposts. For this entire time I've been trying to explain why a situation can arise like this one where Adafruit, a US company, ends up selling something for more money than some no-name Chinese sellers, and that it's not price gouging just because they're selling it for more money.

The only explanation I can think of for your strong opposition to what I'm explaining is that I think you might be working with a different definition of "price gouging" than is commonly accepted. Price gouging is when a seller raises prices unnecessarily due to an increase in demand or a decrease in supply (like when some places raised the price of toilet paper early during the covid pandemic). I've repeatedly tried explaining why that is not what's happening in Adafruit's case -- Adafruit's prices are a result of the fact that they're a very different business than no-name Chinese sellers on Aliexpress and the costs that they're getting goods for can be higher due to their needs (this is why I was talking about the wholesalers that Adafruit deals with). It's perfectly rational and not "mental gymnastics" -- this is common business. This is also why most stores that are not national chains have higher prices than national chains (and Amazon, for that matter, though that's messier since they also have third party sellers). Again, this isn't price gouging -- they just can't get the goods they sell for as cheap prices as national chains.
That reminds me of Shopify's "Story of your life" interview.

Tell me everything about your life, what did you like in elementary school? High school? Tell me all...
You can make EUR transfers to anyone in those 27 countries.

"Euro Transfer" as in SEPA means that the currency of the transfer is set to EUR and that currency exchange is not part of the transfer itself (it can be done at originating or retrieving bank when the account involved is not in EUR, but the transfer itself has to be denominated in EUR at entry and exit from SEPA system)