skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting test for them. Essentially, it's a free hit - low expectations, few constraints, lots of latitude to throw out prior work, open ended opportunity to be creative and innovate, a clear baseline provided by Apple for them to benchmark success against and little to no regulatory scrutiny. Basically, one of the few opportunities they will ever got for a zero baggage, green field project where, if they actually have the talent and the will power, they could hit something out of the park. Will they do it? Will they not?
That’s literally the one I was talking about, it will still permit hybrid and there is no requirement for everything to be a BEV
I built ExploreHere | Markers App (iOS), two years ago to help fill some of the void that FieldTrip left. It has over 200k historical and interpretive markers so you can learn a bit about whats around you.

Based on feedback from the community, I'm currently working on an Audio-Guide version that generates and reads interesting stories aloud to you as you drive, all hands free! If you're interested, I'd love to send you the beta and see what you think!? https://testflight.apple.com/join/ExaAqkU8
No idea. I left, and given that my hometown is shrinking at the rate of about -0.75% a year I’m not the only one.
Fair enough yeah previous submission marked as 1984.
Same as for :

> My solace is that in a real conflict, all of that red tape would be put to the side and people can get about building things.

That's just not going to happen. A real conflict would involve nukes, and the war would be quickly over.

I doubt that something close to Vietnam can happen again either. (And even for a 2nd Vietnam, I doubt that any significant artillery would be used when, as you point out, missiles are an option.)
You're (perhaps unintentionally) conflating interpratation with inference.
AWS EC2 instances for a big web app. RDS MySQL database instances. Identical setups for development/test, staging, production, with dev/staging using different databases and not allowed to process real payments and so on. Every developer has their own work instance. Deployment is `git pull` with an occasional database schema update/migration done with SQL and tested like any other code. Scripts automate most of this.

I wouldn't change anything. I prefer the control of managing the server at the OS level, but I'm not interested in managing hardware anymore so AWS can do that.
Box Office is not the yardstick disney uses, that's just the first phase of the disney wheel. They make oodles of money in merchandise and theme park content that's based on the same (expensive) IP as the movie. When they don't break even on the movie, they'll generally break even or make money on the IP behind the movie.
The number pedestrians injured in the us by cars annually is around 60k. We're already pretty used to it. So yes, if automated cars reduce that to say 6k a year, that's still a win. As would be 30k, but lower severity injuries.
Some people grow gardens. Some rebuild cars. Others 3D print things. Others yet enjoy woodworking. One the grand features of our current society is you're not working 14 hour days, seven days a week in a factory. Without a doubt, there are those working multiple jobs and still struggling to make ends meet. But, fortunately, many are able to work a single job and live a relatively comfortable life. Those that can often have hobbies. It helps them unwind and maybe even enjoy life a little since otherwise so much of it is spent working or sleeping. It's downtime and largely considered positive for mental health and, consequently, one's ability to contribute to society.

Most people aren't solving deep societal needs in their free time. If you want to limit it to software, most of us have jobs that hardly improve society or the planet. Most open source code isn't advancing society. What I don't understand is why you've singled out the participants of this particular project for your ire.

I don't know any of the individuals involved personally. My guess is they're not the ones that built physical products with PFCs, ran coal-powered factories and operated strip mining operations, designed nuclear weaponry, or even fly personal jets. I'd hazard to say your average front-end developer chugging through batteries with inefficient frameworks is doing more harm than this project.

If your aim is to clean up the tech industry, I think that's laudable. I believe tech people have for the most part shirked their own contribution to our carbon footprint or other societal needs. But, I think you'll find there are much bigger targets actively doing harm (or certainly not helping things) regularly because it's profitable and/or convenient.
I'm in love with this idea but the interface is just so clunky. Clustering needs a bit of massaging and zooming in and out should be smoother. Also labels and clicking on places without opening a new page would be great.
Google is printing more money than ever before.

Google could likely fire 1000s more and it wouldn’t change their trajectory.

Same with Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon etc.

Their core businesses are massive empires.

They can make so many stupid mistakes, hire inept layers of management and still cash billions.

They can randomly fire 5% of their workforce with roll of dice. There is enough redundancy and resilience that they’ll bounce back.

We, the average working joes are bound by gravity. We can escape into space, but with immense force and spice of luck. We have to work for money.

Mega trillion corporations are like black holes. They curve space time so hard, money works for them.
Related:

McDonald's Sales Growth Slows as Mideast War Hurts Results

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39267801
There's no lens of "good" or "interesting". Its just whether something is in wikipedia. This site is showing us that existence is wikipedia isn't that high of a bar to distinguish that something is actually interesting.
Tidal Music SDK
For the $3.99 one, it just becomes a bundle when ordered together. Also works with six piece nuggets. I’ve seen it on the menu in the store but it’s not incredibly prominent. And, in the app it’s basically just undocumented and the price drops when they’re both in your cart. It also doesn’t count as a promo in the app, so you can order more than one bundle and even use a promo with it as well.

https://imgur.com/a/2OOF8Fm
Do you always advance to the next stage? If so I appear to win by just clicking "drop" every time.
They can campaign against EVs, and their propaganda isn't any worse than the pro-EV propaganda that's circled around, most of which ignore very inconvenient facts around the cost-value of EVs. Given that, I have no problem with Toyota being anti-EVs and handing out information on why they are.
Cyclists do this all the time in SF. Afaik an "Idaho stop" is not legal here, despite it being common and often unsafe for obvious reasons.
Well, I seen many times, when one people lie to other people. You are very special case, you lie to yourself. Sure, in democracy you have right to do so, as you wish.
California has Idaho stops, so cyclists not stopping at Stop signs IS following the rules of the road (if the Cyclist did yield and just also didn't see the Waymo car).

Bicycles starting on the side of the road can ofter get side swiped because they're in car blind spots because they don't accelerate fast enough. Going faster makes them more visible for cars.
>which might be 2.5 km above sea level in Finland (what with all the steep bits and everything).

Steep bits? Are you thinking of Norway :-) there’s no steep bits in Finland, highest point above sea level is 1324M!

There was even a Norwegian campaign to gift a mountain for its birthday https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37662811
It would have to be provided if the cyclist sues Waymo and reaches discovery.
> it will still permit hybrid

article says plugin hybrid, not just hybrid, which is kinda loophole.
Your second link describes itself as "a 1,000 megawatt energy storage project".

I'm interested in how much energy the site can store, about which there is no indication on that page. Do you think maybe they mean 1,000 megawatt hour?
Seems likely the team was gutted specifically because they are refocusing on a new strategy.
I prefer to think of the history of the 20th Century as The Great War plus repercussions.
I support you in that, but this really shows that you're just outside of their target market.

Did they lose a customer?

McDonald's, Taco Bell, all of these fast food places which people are mentioning are just jacking prices, well they're already everywhere. It seems to make sense that when you've got total market penetration, the final thing to do is milk your customers for all they've got, and I think that's what we're seeing here.
Looks like the Waymo vehicle was turning after an all-way stop sign?

Is this a good representation with the blue car being the Waymo and the truck being the red car?

https://taylorkinglaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/4-Way-S...

Wonder why it was cutting so close to the large truck's back while accelerating during the turn that it couldn't see the cyclist till it was too late.

Them saying the car braked only after the cyclist was fully visible is additional cause for concern. Those are precious fractions of seconds. Doesn't Waymo use LIDAR? Shouldn't it detect the partial cyclist as a solid obstruction and start braking before the object recognition kicked in and recognized it as a cyclist? What if it was a trailer?
Ask HN: Any previous experience with interviewing.io dedicated coaches?
interviewing.io[1] lets users to practice mock interviews (coding interviews) with peers or professional interviewers. These interviews are anonymous.

They also offer mentorship sessions with “dedicated coaches” from FAANG or other backgrounds. They claim 99% satisfaction rate and 82% of success (landing a job in the desired company). It sounds really vague and difficult to verify due to the anonymous aspect.

Does anybody have previous experience using this or similar services, or an opinion or advice on the matter? I was thinking if this is worthwhile or just pointless - it’s quite expensive.

[1] https://interviewing.io/
Can you describe how you use that with what software packages?
Not legally. There was a failed push for this to become law in the past.
Unfortunately the vast majority of people who need money don't get as much as they need. :(
Yes, thank you! Zepto is great and it's nice it's jQuery compatible. I've used it before and liked it.

However, I guess I was thinking something a bit more modern -- adding more advanced functionality than what jQuery has. Like more array methods for elements (e.g. `pluck` elements based on property values), reactive data stores/templating, a mutation observer helper.
While renting does typically cost more than owing, from a purely financial perspective, in practice you can argue that the difference is simply what you are paying the landlord for the services they are providing. The landlord is responsible for maintenance, taxes, insurance, and more. Not everybody wants to deal with those things. The landlord might be more efficient at those things too, especially in a rental apartment.

AWS might cost more but it provides a lot of benefits that are hard to assign a dollar value to.
Yea no.

If that was the case, then Hakka wouldn't be so overrepresented within the CCP.

Deng Xiaoping himself was Hakka, as were most of the the core CCP leadership until recently [0]

Hakka is the primary language spoken in TW after Mandarin btw.

If you're a fellow Bay Area native, maybe visit Fremont or Richmond District in SF sometime and actually learn about us Asian subcommunities.

[0] - https://www.jstor.org/stable/654189
Read to the end... https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111892646485958733
Cool "Try Again" simulator.
Thanks, haven't used GCE in nearly a decade, might give it another shot.
> In the EB-5 real-estate investment program, the government doesn't hand out money here

The government is handing out value here. What's the difference?
Seeing your work get canned is not fun.
I wonder if short range radar or sonar can help tell if there's something behind a large truck with the wave or sound reflections. If bats can do it, why can't computers?
The Dean responded in the comments of this post.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/02/06/its-bezzle...
I don't see how anti-missile technology isn't basically perfect by now - if a CIWS radar can track literally the (relatively) tiny bullets it's firing then it's trivial to track a missile (and you can always fall back to optical/IR); if it's trivial to track a missile then just scale the system up and build a megawatt chirped-pulse 'blaster' (outputting through a phased array so you can track and retarget instantaneously), that causes EMF above and beyond anything that's shieldable, you can only make a missile so heavy after all.
The title is a reference to the common meditative practice of counting sheep to help one go to sleep. The implication is that androids, being electric, would possibly count electric sheep. The title implies a deeper question, that being whether machines are capable of dreaming, and if so, whether a machine that dreams can be considered human.
> Why do this though from McDonalds point of view?

Same as every other org that incentives you to use channels that leak your data. They use it to extract more value from you, whether it's selling your data, buying your data from other vendors to augment their first party data, or a combination of both.
I just saw a markdown mode show up today, but only partially, like bold and italics in markdown
You are right, but wouldn't it be lovely to have a programming language to reduce our reliance on lawyers? (e.g., some logic language in a civil law system)
This is one of those things that should be legally required tbh.
I'm working on a version of this now called ExploreHere | Stories. It's an iOS app where you drive around, and the app generates stories based on what's around you (data pulled from various sources), puts together a single unified story, and reads it aloud to you.

If you / anyone else is interested in beta testing, let me know, I'd love to get some feedback!
FYI - “Keys()”, “Values()” and others have been pulled because they’re likely to be implemented using the new range-over-function paradigm.

They were included in the experimental packages on google.com/x.
> I saw a team lose its sole TL with a decade+ of tenure on the team, then turn around and hire 4-6 people to try and catch up.

My god.. That's pure ineptitude and I'm sorry for anyone at that company right now. This basically sends the message "doesn't matter how good you are, we're going to spin the wheel every so often and if it lands on you you're out"
> so many people

Meaning shares holders, of course.
I mean... All of these things would be understandable if we actually studied the humanities. Not the modern humanities foisted upon us today but real classical humanities.
Kronos,UKG Consultants, Data Entry
Seeking any remote payroll , hr software consultant type roles. Or people lead roles that are remote. Something HR remote based would be amazing even data entry would be amazing .
RIP, Autodesk (the company) was such a big name in my early years

I never saw early autocad, here's demo https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Apb5ayyCHaE
Disney had a group looking at NFT and metaverse initiatives, but as far as I have seen, they all got canned in last year's layoffs. manager and everything. The company is huge, so it's not impossible that other group like that might remain employed there, somewhere, but at the very least the interest have waned.
NVidia's target market is GPU heavy workloads where the CPU is mostly for corrdinating the GPU-heavy work, moving data from IO to GPUs, etc. I've often seen in large-scale ML training that the CPU is mostly idling. Idle to the point where I've wondered if Presto/Spark workloads should be co-located on the idle cores for large $$$ savings.
He's a Troll and authoritarian.
At first he was kind-of entertaining, but he's full of himself and thinks he knows it all.

And his stupid, nonsensical editor wars.

The more I watched him to more u disliked him and eventually unfollowed.

And his noob topics are boring as well.
He's pretty much the average HN user, only more experienced.
He believes the hype.
Like htmx is hyped so he does htmx.

His streams provide nothing for me in terms of new information that us useful.
It kind of is, it injects the `tabgod` function into the window object of every tab. I could put something like this in the script for my blog:

if (typeof window.tabgod === 'function') {
tabgod(
(tab) => tab.url === 'https://bankofamerica.com',
() => { /* absolutely nothing good */ },
}
}

Keep in mind any network requests running from the script directly in the page will happily send your cookies, so this makes it trivial to gain unauthorized access to people's accounts. Any site you visit while running this extension can basically access your private data from every other site you happen to have a tab open for, and send requests impersonating you. It could also install a keyboard logger, etc.
I have genuinely wondered this about myself
See their net income and profit margin trends:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DIS/disney/net-inc...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DIS/disney/profit-...

Doesn’t look so hot for the last 4 or 5 years. They went from earning near $10B per year to less than $3B per year.
You just described why I use slim-lang in all of my projects. produces clean, correct HTML with zero noise.

Ends up eliminating 50-60% of the code, and the time for writing and reading it.

As for jquery I haven’t needed it much since stimulusjs but loved it whenever I used it.
>So by virtue of being democratic enough that they didn't melt down

Also, don't underestimate the value of being a highly populous country on a prosperous landmass largely isolated from the rest of the world by a lot of ocean.
> 73% of white people voted for Trump

Are you counting the black people that didn't vote Biden as white? After all, if you don't vote Biden, then you ain't black.

Get over yourself. You aren't any better than all those deplorable your mocking.
>the logo on the steering wheel is jaguar. that's a bullshit image, right?

waymo has a whole bunch of Jaguar I-Pace SUVs. https://waymo.com/blog/2018/03/meet-our-newest-self-driving-...

It's a getty image. they're usually pretty good about disclosing whether an image is a real image or a composite.
I could easily see someone preferring macOS to Windows, with how ad-ridden and pushy 10 and 11 have become. To me it would’ve been more understandable if someone preferred Windows back in the days of 7, which I liked even as someone who’s long been disinclined from Windows.

For macOS vs. Linux it’s more fuzzy, but there are still some ways the macOS experience is a bit smoother once everything is up and running, like dodging the tinkeriness of X11 and awkwardness of the transition from X11 to Wayland… for example, you’ll never see blurry XWayland windows because someone forgot to update Electron.

That said I haven’t hackintoshed in several years. It stopped feeling as necessary after M1 came out, with my reasons for doing so being lack of power and bad cooling endemic to late 2020s Intel Macs. These days I use real Macs alongside a custom built gaming tower running Windows and ThinkPad X1 Nano running Fedora.
If I recall, Alexa Presentation Language, the way to define UI for Alexa skills, is also some unholy JSON nightmare.

JSON is great for programmatic manipulation, but horrible to read as a programmer.
I enjoy my apple products and am perfectly fine within their ecosystem. I also appreciate naysayers who shit on their products whether with good reason or not. I think counterculture or contrarianism is a necessary force.

The louder they are, the quicker the progress towards something better. Keep up the good work.
Exactly.

I've been using the HTML version (https://mail.google.com/mail/h/) but now they're threatening to shut it down too. First it was January, now February. I wonder why it's still up but don't have hopes that it'll stay up for long.
Okay, so it's a real image but not of the incident?

Edit: I still have my suspicions it's not even a real image but a composite, getty or not. The shadows from the cyclist don't match that from the cars.
I’m curious, how did they find you? Did you put your profile in “who wants to be hired”?
Has anyone tried and had that response?
> And on top of that, I'm far less interested in the footage than I am the telemetry. What was the state of the gas and brake, what was the steering angle, how long was it from detection to action. Those things concretely answer the question of "would a human have done better or worse in this situation?"

You absolutely cannot answer that question without looking at the video and considering how easy or hard it would have been for a human to detect (or suspect) the cyclist in that situation.
No it doesn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop
I might be a hopeless optimist, but I don't think a USN/USAF/USMC vs PLAAF in SCS/Taiwan situation would escalate to nukes. At least, I don't think it's likely. Definitely a nonzero chance, maybe a coin toss, but Taiwan isn't core territory for either Power.

Invasion, now . . well, there's the magic power that comes with having 'em. No one invades you, ever.

Also,outside factors could change the math here, like a megavolcano under the west antarctic ice sheet or something that raises ocean levels by meters. That redefines "back against the wall". If your country loses all access to fresh water, well, you might as well be under occupation or destroyed, so you might use your nukes aggressively. Just don't accidentally drop them in the water you're trying to get.
Strong, yes. It’s certainly possible to have binding sites that prefer larger molecules. However, I’m not sure you’d be able to do so while still being able to function as a polymerase. That’s the thing I’m thinking about. You have to have an enzyme that will preferentially bind a labeled nucleotide, while still being a good polymerase. And because the resulting enzyme should still be a good polymerase, it would likely also maintain good binding affinity for unlabeled nucleotides.

I’ll mention that your example of a protease is a good counter example — the function of the protein is to bind the larger peptide and cleave it. The evolutionary pressure was to bind the larger molecule and release the smaller (cleaved) ones. Here, the evolutionary pressure was to bind the smaller (unlabeled) nucleotide to build the DNA strand. This is a complex reaction that involves a lot of ligand binding and intermediates. Trying to add a function to preferentially bind a larger fluorophore labeled base seems like it would be overly disruptive or at least reduce the rate of polymerization.

I don’t know enough about the structure of DNA polymerase to say how feasible this really is — but the extra bulk of the fluorophore seems like it would cause issues.

But, is it possible? Sure! This is biology — there is always a way (or three)! I’d expect for there to be a way to generate a polymerase that does this via mutagenesis. But it would be very difficult and probably more expensive than the prize.

If they were able to keep the concentration of fluorescently labeled nucleotides higher, this wouldn’t be an issue. But due to the technology choices (one tube reactions, laser release), they are stuck trying to get a better polymerase.

I certainly wish them luck, I’d love for this to work for more than 5-6 bp.
Guiglielmo Marconi
the caption says it's a file photo from november 2023...
Who was a key player in ensuring the web is worse do you think?
Sweeney is certainly in charge. By all accounts he’s still got a controlling interest in the company.

Disney got themselves a board seat, one assumes, and some IP sharing.