skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was on a team building tweet tiles[0][1] which required a cross platform UI system that would allow 3rd party developers to register a schema that would be used to render a custom UI under certain circumstances (usually by including a link in your post). We made it to beta, but never beyond given the internal turmoil.

We considered Adaptive Cards, but ultimately decided against it in favor of our own schema especially since we already had platform specific UI libraries.

Why?

Adaptive cards proved inflexible for uses not part of its core capabilities.

Adaptive cards doesn't allow for interactive elements IE charts or graphs with tool tips.

Adaptive cards doesn't appear to be well maintained or supported for ongoing future needs.

There were some other reasons but they are fuzzy a couple of years after the fact. This was one of the most fun projects I've worked on, I had to write a mini parser which is always a fun exercise, and I think it had massive potential. Would have been a very cool project to ship to prod fully but it wasn't meant to be.

[0]https://twitter.com/XDevelopers/status/1585707921433923585

[1]https://twitter.com/ashevat/status/1562862418514288640
The human drivers with worse response time?
Do you mean Redox OS? https://www.redox-os.org
Are you trying to suggest that the warning label that CA added is more similar to the banning of social media for students than banning books in schools, and banning the discussion of certain topics in schools?
When you make claims and people ask you to back up those claims, it is reasonable for you to do so. Expecting other people to do the work to back up the claims you are making is not really the ethos of this forum.

If you are asked for sources and are unwilling or unable to provide them, people will (rightly) ignore your claims.
Computers have been around for 40 years. TVs even longer.

We would know pretty definitively if they degraded your eyes.

Do you have some evidence we are all missing out on ?
I'm not stepping back from anything. Plenty of critics have hated films that end up being cult classics. A critic is no substitute for individual sensibilities. You can defer to them all you want, doesn't mean it's a great way to develop culture. But it is a great way to develop an insular culture.
> Because Xi ham-fistedly forced through a badly-written security law [1] and intervened in its politics [2]. It’s like stupid Tiannamen Square.

[1] has no mention of Xi. [2] is in 2021, way after the protests/riots.

I have reliable sources (not mass media, especially not western mass media) telling me that the security law was championed by the Hong Kong government (Carrie Lam in particular). The Chinese Central People's Government was not actively involved until the whole thing spiraled out of control.

I won't/can't tell you how involved I was in the events, but Trust Me Bro ™ I'm not just reading the news and coming to the conclusions that I wrote.
It seemed to me like Loongson was sort of a "compliance" product. There are no doubt plenty of "we want to own the ecosystem end-to-end" forces who have cheque-writing authority within China. They'll bankroll homebrew parts even if they aren't really competitive to achieve that goal. Or it could be more based on their willingness to play a longer game-- they can take 20 years to get to competitive if they have to.
Smaller (unpretentious ) joints seem to be the sweet spot now. If there’s truffle-something on the menu it’s the wrong place. Five guys is absurdly pricy for what it is. McDonald’s is way overpriced for what’s still the same factory burgers that used to cost a pittance 5 years ago
Nix+Tilt
Anything new here? Or is this article just aggregating every piece from the last month about layoffs, the leaked memo, discontent, boring etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39101384

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39125467

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39260956
Yup. Nobody bought one and said, This sucks, but it’s the future… It was great on day one.
As someone who bikes on 17th street regularly, cyclists rarely stop completely. Most treat it as a yield (myself included) because it's a pain to start+stop at every stop sign.

But it's on the rider to make sure you're on the same page as the other drivers at the intersection, which some bikers don't and just blow through it without checking.
NZ is even lower per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w... so unless there is a big difference in the manufacturing sector specifically, it's probably also cheaper there
If there was a hero named in this era of web development it would not be jQuery, it would be these guys.
Angular pixel resolution on AVP is about as much better than a Quest 3 as the Quest 3 is over a Rift S. Sounds pretty incremental to me? Where's the revolution here?
I don’t know about California but that’s legal where I live. Vehicles on opposite sides of a 4-way stop can enter simultaneously if both are going straight.
That’s a cool idea.. something perfect for an LLM, as it needs context to be accurate.

You should be able to create a service wherein you select text and it swaps out predefined acronyms and then replaces your text.
> whatever algorithm is being used to remove people

Different functions/teams/departments seemed to use very different algorithms, suggesting there was just no leadership at all. I posted a separate top level comment, but seeing one function do last-in/first-out and another jettison its most-tenured (most expensive? non-pristine HR record? who knows!) folks makes it hard for employees to understand what the new rules of engagement are.
Sorry for the flippant comment - I wasn't just referring to the code and apps running on your phone, but the servers and cell towers that collect tons of details about you. Plus, the physical emanations as your phone connects and responds to signals from 4g, 5g, wifi, bluetooth and more.

A secure OS is cute but so what - there's a million other ways to p0wn your privacy.

On the plus side, the digital trail is so intense, citizens have a pretty robust alibi against being framed. For example, sure someone could borrow your phone, but they'd have a real hard time using it exactly the way you do, from accelerometer data to swipes to individual apps and and and...
It's relative. No-one else has produced a media franchise that earns as much or more than Disney any more recently.

Disney has also produced some of the most recent highest grossing box office films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films. Again, this is relative. We've just had a pandemic followed by writers and actors guild strikes.
Are you implying that we shouldn't be concerned about automated vehicles hitting cyclists if the cyclist wasn't following the lawn to the letter?
Have a look at my Split Browser WebKit (still alpha): https://niutech.github.io/splitbrowser/
When I was 10ish, I got a burger from McDonalds that was probably more bacterial slurry than mystery meat by weight. I really should have gone to the hospital since I couldn't keep fluids down for the better part of a day, and the stomach cramps from the dry heaving were bad enough to keep me out of school for most of a week.

McDonalds can shove their app the same place they get their "food" from.
The world in which the story is set is mostly devoid of living animals. Consequently, owning an animal has become a symbol of wealth and status. Naturally, most individuals cannot afford such a luxury, and a whole industry of robotic animals has emerged to cater to the less wealthy segment who want to pretend to own an animal. The protagonist of the story even has a feud with his neighbour about the authenticity of their respective faux animals.

At some point, the protagonist comes in contact with a number of humanoid robots (androids). The theme of the book is very much about the blurry lines of what makes a living thing be alive (is the protagonist's own ultra-controlled life even called living?). So the title could be interpreted as "Do artificial humans have the same aspirations as us?", as in what's the difference between them and us.
This is pretty dissonant for me. AWS certainly has a lot, but I wouldn't describe any of it as being easy or making sense. It's all poorly integrated with UX that is just a hair above adequate. The documentation is generally pretty decent though, I'll give you that, and it's nice that everything has an API, though true to form, the client libraries for those APIs leave a lot to be desired.

But I haven't used Google Cloud extensively, so I don't know if it's even worse.
I don’t know anything about this situation or how these imports work, but I know from adjacent work that companies usually self monitor for violations of sanctions because the consequences of sanctions evasion can be extraordinary. It’s often less about having been caught but demonstrating proactive measures. I would further not be surprised in the least if they did have to supply a BOM with country of origin for every car imported not just for sanctions but also tariffs.
I guess I misunderstood what you are getting at. In my mind, hiring someone who has never used X language but can, in general, solve problems and program so we'll hire them and they'll learn X language was what I thought you were talking about.
It's unlikely someone could bypass SSH key auth and the phone number thing seems lie it could be used against you more than it would ever be useful.
Same, I take the wiggle all the time and definitely bully cars into letting me keep going :/
Cynical answer: a big key is less scary to the soccer moms buying this stuff for their kids (than a sword).
Yes, they definitely have full footage. I would appreciate seeing it.
/s ?

Did you just ask if the endgame is humans getting used to cars crashing into them?

Thanks for the chuckle.
I would love to hear some stats on how many car/bike collisions happen every day in SF.
I don’t understand? The problem isn’t that 155mm shells are inferior tech or not fit for purpose; it’s the US let it’s capacity to manufacture them wither.
If you don't build it, chances are someone else will, especially if they openly see you as an enemy.

But, by all means, keep working on countermeasures.
> I really wonder what the economics of this is.

It could be largely that they're socializing their customer base to the app because that's how customers will need to order in a few years when robots make the food and AIs run the drive-throughs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJxBySZwBAI

Also walk-ins force the use of the human-based service model that they're presumably trying to phase out over some time period.
Just firewall off most of the world when you won't be accessing your server from there.

Also look at fail2ban. Maybe portknocking also.
According to the Waymo description, the cyclist was behind a truck, and not visible to the Waymo car.

If that's true, then a human driver likely would've done the same thing: take its turn at the stop sign.
I would note this is called multigenerational living arrangements and is and has been the norm for almost all the world throughout history, sans a few decades in America.
Spoofing radar signals isn't exactly new, and the ability to do it on the ground (so to speak) shouldn't be surprising. The military has been doing it for decades.

Also, it doesn't take nearly the sophistication of the system demo'ed here -- a chaff canister released into traffic would, I imagine, play twenty kinds of havoc on any autonomous driving system that relied on radar.
Some more anecdotes from then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30150343
> you must have capacity at least 4*Y

with x4 in theory ISA VGA could never produce more than ~19fps

How do you explain Doom running at 32fps https://thandor.net/benchmarks.php/vga/vga?a=69&c=0&o=0&s=Su...

and again this https://github.com/mills32/Little-Game-Engine-for-VGA-EGA does vsync locked 70fps full screen scrolling on 286 with VGA, and 35fps on 8MHz XT.

>They said about Zorro III 32-bit bus, which is not ISA, if you cannot see such obvious thing yourself.

https://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/component/k2/item/141-c...

"GD5434 Bus:ISA 16bit, VL-Bus, PCI"

I dont see Zorro in the supported Bus type. VL-Bus is not some special custom Intel 486 CPU bus, its a name for an industry standardized way of attaching memory mapped peripherals. There are even 386SX motherboards with _16bit_ VL-Bus slot https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/alaris-leopard-486slc...
I really really enjoyed the piece[0], but boy, you think this is bad, wait until we're exchanging missiles with a peer military. Hundreds, maybe even thousands, of missiles[1] in the air at the same time, in a kaleidoscopic dazzle of altitudes, velocities, sensor profiles. Every combat simulation seems to turn into what you might call a "magazine fight" - i.e., who runs out of bullets first.

We'll probably burn through the RAM/SM inventory in weeks . . but not before leaving a whole bunch of ships with empty magazines, because they can't UNREP top off their VLSs. We're just now getting a taste of this problem in the Gulf of Aden, and that's in an AoR surrounded by safe/friendly ports, versus a bunch of Iranian second stringers.

This is the core reason for the "Replicator" initiative in DoD, but, Pentagon being the Pentagon, their "replicator" systems are on course for being too expensive by orders of magnitude. They need to get focused on cheap commodity DEWS, and do it yesterday; the fact that a teenage youtuber[2] hacked up a kilowatt-class DEWS capable of burning 2-3mm steel at 200m says to me - emphatically - that there is ZERO reason to not have these things ALL OVER THE DAMN PLACE. Having air defense missiles and light strike also being built on commodity would also be dandy, but harder, and also not as critical as getting mass defensive DEWS CIWS up.

[0] DoD procurement and business process is . . it's something else. I'm not sure I can communicate it to outsiders. Fighting inertia inside of defense organizations has basically turned into my career focus, although in a tiny little bubble of technical content production, and at the cost of chopping a zero off my salary. I think, at the end of the day, I'm just tired of twenty million dollar PDF files - that are also late, and wrong.

[1] I'm including armed UAS in this. They're basically missiles built on dual use chassis - the more fight you fit into commodity UAS, you get exponential returns. China's close link with their dual use industry gives them a depressing advantage here, but that might be a double edge sword in a EW-heavy AoR.

[2] https://youtu.be/xNmbvaUzC8Q?si=FZcAwGRTLjyNlrQu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_sealant
There was an embedding example: https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-example
Gourmet food has higher margins with same amount of cost or less.

They are pushing the limits until people complain. People complained, they reached the limits.

If your customer or employer isn't complaining slight about your price, you're leaving money on the table.
A *must* read.

When I recommend this book to people I like to say: "it was talking about TDD, modularity, iterative development, and all your _cool things_ back in the 80s ...".

Good programming ideas are nothing new.
RIP John Walker. His fourmilab site is a surviving relic of the old web. Full of interesting stuff.
https://archive.ph/ukatP
> If you use the app, you can find surprisingly good deals every time, especially if you can take advantage of 2 for 1s.

This is rarely true in Canada anymore.
It’s not that the US doesn’t produce these weapons as much as Eastern Europeans approach to modern warfare is yeeting rounds 24/7.
Waymo needs to do nothing to avoid this in the future if their vehicle was following the rules of the road and the cyclist did not.
or maybe, Cyclist Hits Waymo
> It is pretty common to see people go from the opposite side of a stop sign since it's "safe", even if it happens to be against the rules.

Where is it against the rules?
Artillery had become a niche branch in the Western doctrine, and people didn't see a point in investing in large-scale shell production. Air forces and guided missiles had replaced artillery in many of its traditional roles.

In the Soviet doctrine, artillery had a much larger role. Both Russia and Ukraine inherited that doctrine, and they went on to fight the war they were prepared for.
Part of me certainly hated myself for not stopping to read right there.

But it's an interesting approach despite the bad writing: if you fill a 1400m shaft with a dense chain of buckets (my term, they seem to call them vessels) you'll need a surprising low amount of mass throughput for a given amount of power flowing in/out. Because there is just so much in transit at any given point in time.

A naive implementation would quickly run into limits in rope strength and the like, but the schematic drawing suggests that the system they suggest consists of a chain of shorter loops, each just carrying whatever low number of vessels is easiest to engineer, and handing them over bucket-brigade style. This sounds complicated, but a similar thing is routinely done by gondola lifts with intermediate stations between separate wire loops (but here, handover could presumably be done simpler and in less maintenance-demanding ways because latency is no goal at all). So you'd design a system that works for three loops in a shaft not much deeper than a deep cellar and then scale it out to a very deep mine.

The power in/out is simply the throughput of a single stage times how many of those stages can be stacked in the shaft (or rather: hung to the sides of the shaft on top of each other, they'd certainly not be stacked in the statical sense). And if your battery is ever considered full but you still have extra energy to store, you could always decide to dig more horizontal tunnel, like when the mine was still serving it's original purpose. All you need is room (and transportation) for a larger spoil heap in the sun.

Digression: it's hot down there. Could you, with sufficiently insulated pipes, spin up a geothermally powered loop of air where the hot air carries moisture up skyside? If the sand is drier on the way up than it was on the way down while discharging you could theoretically end up with efficiency > 100. (in reality, more energy will certainly be lost to uninvited water finding it's way down, but perhaps this geothermal harvest could help battle the losses to water ingress)
It can be safer, but it's definitely not safer to do this if you're right behind a big truck that blocks other cars from seeing you.

There's a right way to Idaho stop, and this ain't it.
Yes. I appreciate the political reasons for wanting zero accidents, but fewer, less deadly accidents than if a human were behind the wheel is what the goal really should be.
A reserve of good bacteria to repopulate your guts in case you consume something bad that needs to get flushed out. Aren't tonsils something similar?
Prior to the pandemic an average of 1.4 bike accidents per day - https://www.mjqlaw.com/san-francisco-2022-bicycle-accident-s...
I have attended this lecture in person, it was amazing and informative.
Can you explain? That doesn't really make sense to me.
In 2014 I could get 3 tacos and a can of Diet Coke for $5 in East Palo Alto. These were real tacos made with real meat. I think Taco Bell in the same zip code and time frame would probably charge ~$3 for a fountain drink, and the tacos would be... barely edible.

I think tacos and a coke will set you back ~$12 in most taquerias these days, but yeah, it's way better quality than any fast food chain.
Exactly, that's why supporting Ukraine is extremely important. As long as the aggressor still thinks there's a chance to conquer more territory, the war won't end.
It should probably be restated that instead of the conflict in Ukraine catching our production capacity off guard, that rather it was our production posture along with denuclearization and disarmament of Ukraine that set the stage for the conflict.

I’m not a “team America world police” advocate, much more the opposite. Even as stated in the article, most production is more interested in a deterrent. Hate ‘em or hate ‘em, nukes are a deterrent to open war. Reference our posture toward retaliating against Iran-backed groups this week.

Russia didn’t like a nuclear neighbor, it said. So the US brokered a nuclear disarmament of Ukraine with the interests of reducing the tension (sic) with Russia, and on the assurance of support from the US should they need it.

The stage was set on the thin hope of peace.
Totally, we can get dinner from Chipotle or any of the local real food places for less than we can get a meal from taco bell.
Fortnite generated $5.5B in 2023 alone and is estimated at over $20B in lifetime revenue
>Waymo personnel called police.

well at least the industry has learned something from the cruise incident.
Cyclists, careless or attentive, are people not things.
As a cyclist I can't wait for these things to get more drivers off the streets. They're way safer than the average Californian.
The site is missing attribution, then, which is required by OSM's license (see https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright )
And their consistently very very good
Well let's not get crazy. They don't deserve to suffer but they are a long way from being sapient of having self-awareness.
(1984) or this edition (2004)
>The government never seems to learn though

What makes you think that? It takes two to tango. Jon approve all these questionable requests/grants/loans say its too hard to manage, then since the watchers dont want to punish the watchers when they have you resign in "shame" there will be a cush CEO job with a ridiculous salary at a company you have no qualifications for.

Wont people ask questions about how someone incompetent got to such a position.........................
> this is a perfect opportunity to release the full video of the incident

I hope they’ve released the full video to investigators, but they’re in a tight spot — SF city government is looking for reasons to come down harshly on the company, and trying to sway public opinion ahead of the city’s verdict won’t help.
> I really wonder what the economics of this is.

They _really really really_ want you to have the app. It's coming from very high up; make the phones as indispensable as possible. Really glue people to them.

Absolutely rinsing people who refuse to engage in the app economy is one of the ways of achieving compliance with that goal.
I have myself found out very confusing that nobody ever seems to suggest that maybe Pichai isn't steering this ship very well...
> One of the things I have trouble understanding is why "rural mountain towns near large population centers" are exploding in the West, but not the East.

The skiing sucks? Never skied out east, but I understand it's basically ice skating. But that's hearsay.
I hope regulators watch video from the vehicle and think, “damn I would not have been able to react that fast. Sure we can make these things even safer but it would be immoral to block waymo’s operations as it would certainly increase harm.”
>Study unravels the complex relationship between brain connectivity and ADHD

https://www.techexplorist.com/complex-relationship-between-b...