skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Maps does offline routing. It doesn't do traffic routing but updating routing is better than nothing.
Incipiens / DataToVideoEncoderDecoder
Every day now there are new AI models especially LLMs, which might warrant some consideration from a wide part of the human population. In a couple years we will have multiple new announcements per hour and we might need some earlier models to evaluate these new developments and test them. For Phind-70B in particular, I hope that lmsys will share a version that will be part of the human evaluation leaderboard so we get a rounded evaluation. But for code assistants there should be a totally separate impartial evaluation benchmark, ideally still human judged for another year or so but eventually maybe some way of having the models fighting out competitive coding battles that they can help create.
I do and that’s actually a great comeback because that was also deeply uninspired.
Base64.ai Document AI Plugin for Chat GPT
Base64.ai Document AI released a ChatGPT plugin that adds new capabilities to GPT, including understanding over 2,800 types of documents, a versatile OCR in 160 languages (including handwriting), document type classification, data normalization, facial & signature recognition, and barcode & QR reader for all file formats (PDFs, images, zip files, and more).
thank you for clarifying, the grandparent comment made no sense
I hope someone comes up with a multi-protocol social server. Bridges are a bad architecture for decentralized systems, because they introduce single points of failure. I can understand using a read-only bridge to mirror content from external resources, but if the other side speaks a federation protocol you should find a way to communicate directly so you don't have to worry about intermediary failures.
You'd have better luck with an LLM with HTML/JavaScript/CSS.
They support for-if from python, too: https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/#loop-f... but I haven't tried the "recursive" keyword to know if ansible supports that. I say "ansible supports that" because they don't just drop jinja2 into ansible and call it a draw, they have a bunch of custom execution integrations: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.16.3/lib/ansible/...
A bit by Chappelle on this

https://piped.video/watch?v=0XLUrW_4ZMs
Log Structured Merge Tree
Upper Story’s Turing Tumble and Spintronics are solid favourites in our house too. Weaving a graphic novel into the instruction / tutorial book is a brilliant tactic which really helped my eldest grasp the concepts covered.

Spintronics also helped give me a new perspective on electrical current, current division and capacitance. Seeing and feeling resistance in the chain, how little/no load results in high current (chain link throughput) was more valuable than the “water in a hosepipe” analogies I learnt in my University EE classes. Really looking forward to induction in the expansion set.

I was curious about the company, and discovered that the co-founders are a husband and wife couple who were in engineering and education respectively before starting the company. I’m glad to see they are able to operate profitably without listing on Amazon, and hope they continue to release more excellent educational engineering toys that I can explore with my kids.
"Silhouette" was a surprise when I'd learned of it a few years back.

The backstory: he was a financial minister and an advocate of austerity, such that when the practice of creating simple, cheap, shadow-profile head portraits of people emerged, his name was applied to them.
We're probably already at a point where we can't just make them larger - human births are horrifically dangerous compared to other animals, likely because the heads are so big.

Greater neuron density is probably still possible though. Just need to evolve to normalize the greater nutrient requirements.
This looks pretty compelling! The best of controlling your own data and a global, network-effects-compatible content approach. Seems like a win for users if it gets adopted.
Why would it accept black then?
Ok, since you don't want to use HN as intended, I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
This is one of the most interesting differences I often notice between users who rarely leave the city and those who routinely leave. Offline functionality often seems unnecessary at best and absurd at worst to the former group, while the more rural/remote the person the more they value offline functionality. For the most extreme example, talk to the average person who lives outside of Anchorage or Fairbanks in Alaska, and they only really care what the app can do when it's offline as that is it's assumed status when on the go (disclaimer: I moved out of alaska a little over 5 years ago so things might have changed somewhat).
I once brought a carry on full of random electronics/cables, including a partially disassembled desktop power supply in a "custom made modular plastic enclosure" (read: box made out of Legos, complete with a Lego door for the cables to pass through). To make matters worse I was in a rush while packing so the cables were a huge tangled mess.

They flagged it for further inspection, unsurprisingly, but the agent was pretty amicable, I didn't really get any grief
Nothing against Bluesky, but I think we are all a little jaded after seeing decades of the "embrace, extend, extinguish" pattern.
Works with very narrow set of hardware when stars align correctly and there is not too many spots on the Sun. Usually utterly useless in practice
Getting the answer and working backwards teaches you to use what others have created in novel ways to find new solutions to old problems. Figuring out the answer for yourself (with some minimal guidance) teaches you toy problems with answers have answers. We should strive for the former.
I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as videos
Concorde maybe? SLAM/Nike-X? Ford Nucleon, nuclear jets, NERVA? Local city LRT systems that are still human-driven despite automated trains being available? Moller, autogyros, and all the other flying cars and jetpacks that have come along before the current crop of electrically powered multirotor systems? Lysenkoism (rejected modern agriculture), maybe— Well, that one backfired. Citizen access to fully automatic rifles and missiles, at least in most countries? And lawn darts, in other countries? Cryptocurrencies and blockchains, outside of their little bubble? Social media in general, currently, in that there's signficant and growing pushback after seeing its consequences, even if it's still also widespread and entrenched.

Other comments mentioned CFCs, cloning, chemical weapons, DDT. To that, let's add: Trans fats, Soylent, hydrogenated vegetable oils (butter's still going strong), bisphenol A in food and drink containers, veganism, rare earth metal extraction (and pollution, on US soil). Electric cars (at both the start and the end of the twentieth century!), zip fuel, most types of advanced fission reactor design and probably a couple non-nuclear renewable power plant types as well (up until recently).

The question's kinda paradoxically framed. If everybody just outright rejected the technology from the start, then it didn't get the chance to be all that "disruptive", even if it could have been. That makes it hard to think of good specific examples, but technically feasible and socially disruptive technologies get dropped for lack of interest all the time. If we blindly developed and proliferated every technology, without regard for its consequences and for whether people even want it or if it helps people while keeping harm to a minimum… Obviously that strategy would entail a.. casualty list.

In fact, maybe you could even say the default reponse to disruptive new technologies is "no". It took a lot of true believers and investors/wealth inequality to get ML to the point it's at now. And even then, it's most likely still heavily subsidized (I.E. operating at a loss, economically unviable so far), and the vast majority of "humanity" doesn't really understand, doesn't care about, or actively doesn't want it.

The fact that a relatively tiny portion of society is able to force it onto everybody despite that is a property of currently existing power structures, not an intrinsic feature of humans or of all potentially socially disruptive technologies.
Unless your time is borderline worthless, obviously yes.
> Is that realistic? Intuition is telling me that's very idealistic but I'm prepared to be surprised

There are many markets where this is the case. Which trucking company has significantly more than 15% market share? Which law firm? Which car insurance company? Which university? Which construction company?

Nearly all of the consolidated industries got there through some combination of mergers, vertical integration and regulatory barriers to entry. Even some of the "natural monopolies" like last mile telecommunications are only so because of regulatory choices -- the natural monopoly is actually the roads, which the government owns, and if they provided easy and affordable access to roadside cable trenches there would be much more competition for data service.
I find such investments often have unexpected returns. At worst, I did something nice for someone.
What's the story behind those characters? Did old APL machines have custom keyboards?
Yale Brings Back SAT Testing as Best Way to Predict Success
Congratulations on the release! If I may ask a question - is it possible to register an account without a phone number on a 3-rd party server?
Ah yes, built to last 40+ years in a metal enclosure. Love it.
Someone has been working on a bridge between BlueSky and Mastodon, and uh, it has generated a TREMENDOUS amount of controversy on the Mastodon side.

I have my own biases so I don't want to describe it further than that, nor link to it directly so as not to cause even more disagreement, but the controversy does not seem to faze the developer, so I believe you will have your wish.
I have not used Codeweavers for many years, because I have switched to LibreOffice after it became able to convert well enough most of the MS Office documents.

Nevertheless, before that I have used Codeweavers CrossOver for some years, mainly to run MS Office on Linux.

During that time I have been very satisfied with Codeweavers CrossOver, because the latest MS Office Professional versions available in those years were running under Linux at least as stable as under Windows and for some operations they were even faster than under Windows (presumably due to the faster file system).

Earlier, during the Windows XP days, running MS Office Professional with CrossOver on Linux was even much more stable than on Windows XP, because before many Service Packs have accumulated fixing tons of Windows XP bugs, it was not unusual for MS Office to crash, even if such events were much more rare than with older Windows versions, like Windows 98.

At least at that time when I was still using CrossOver, Wine supported well only older MS Office versions and had some problems with the latest.

Even if I have no longer needed their product for many years, CrossOver remains one of the few software products that I have purchased for which I consider that the price paid for it was completely worthwhile, because it did exactly what I needed and what I had expected.
Guinness World Records' 'oldest dog' Bobi stripped of title
Well ... let's be honest: SMS 2FA shouldn't be a thing.

TOTP or stronger, please.
Any worries naming it the same as https://strada.hotwired.dev/? I realize they aren't related problem spaces, but naming collisions still aren't ideal.
Hilarious, given how many real world problems start with the "answer" and the actual question is "how do we get there?".
Archive version: https://archive.is/yNsyW
Broadcasting to an Amazon IVS Real-Time Stream with Whip from OBS
This would be more "create, extinguish", because there's no existing AT protocol network to embrace.
Yeah, I was thinking of a different book. Here's the link to the other one:

https://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Programming-COMMON-LI...
His lawyer said in July that Burke got the clips by following a hyperlink to the live video feeds which required no username or password... but the FBI arrested him today.
Our Company Is Doing So Well That You're All Fired
And my point is that, as a Palm Pilot owner, it just wasn't really a very satisfactory solution at least for me and a lot of other buyers. It really took cellular networks and various other innovations before it was satisfactory for a mainstream audience. Sometimes technologies just aren't baked enough to be interesting even if there aren't any real alternatives.
Ye sure. Maybe I could argue "nature is the third party punnisher" is a bit too reductionist, but I get your point.
Fun read. I haven't used Java in a long time, so even the "idiomatic Java code that would pass muster with any seasoned Java developer" was a bit shocking.

I know it's a cliche that someone brings up Rust in any programming thread, but I can't help myself. ;-) Several of the techniques here are easy enough in Rust that I just do them routinely.

* Rayon makes it easy to process line-wise in reasonable-sized chunks without allocating a string per line.

* The standard integer parsing stuff takes a slice, not an owned string.

* The standard hash map doesn't have the same expectation "that we pass in an instance of the key class that is equal to an existing instance"; you can call HashMap<String>::get with a &str. (One limitation is that std::collections::HashMap::entry does expect a K, so there's some redundancy if you need to insert afterward, but you could drop to hashbrown::HashMap::raw_entry_mut to avoid that.)
Bad dog.
How much of that money the sequels earned was simply because it was piggybacking on the established decades old Star Wars IP, even though the movies were crap? But that train already lost all of its inertia. People don't go to se Star Wars IP anymore.

I also went to see some of them and was disappointed and gave up on Star Wars.

You fool me once shame on you. You fool me twice shame on me.
Did they complain you didn't speak with the correct English accent too?

I always find it hilarious when Americans talk about English accents and seem to think there are one - or maybe two if they've seen any period movies or Mary Poppins -, given there are several clearly distinct English accents in use in my London borough alone (ignoring accents with immigrant origin, which would add many more)
Being jaded is understandable, but because this critique is generic, it is applicable to literally anything and everything. I don't see how you can ever get something that's considered good if you always assume it will turn into something bad regardless of its current stance.
Did the previous movies have similar marketing spend? Apparently they spent over $350 million marketing The Force Awakens: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/12/star-wars-force...
This is super cool! I've often been frustrated with the lack of complexity that NC/LC solutions offer. Look forward to playing around with Strada!
So, are they implying that the chat bot is not capable of open and honest communication?
Thanks!

Yes, it's totally up to a PDS operator to decide how they create user accounts. It's also not required on the Bluesky PDS service any longer, in most cases.

By default the self-hosted PDS requires an invite code, to prevent random people from creating an account. Later other options will exist, including OAuth support which is coming soon.
I am very excited that this shipped! I believed the team would pull it off, but there's been a lot of skepticism, some justified, some unjustified, IMHO. Hopefully this will assuage some people's concerns.

I am unsure if I am going to run my own just yet. We'll see.
It's not just the internet, and I'm increasingly finding the crap online and off to be insufferable. However, enshittification has been a great antidote to media addiction. No sense turning on the TV or going onto FaceTube if the experience is absolute crap.

I'd much rather actually do something that just veg out watching TV.
I'm not familiar enough with the topic to know if you're correct or not, but I don't watch his channel to see his project work out, seeing him learn small things along the way and share that journey but also him connecting with himself and the community around his land in unique ways through his project is intriguing and hopeful. A mad dream pushed forward by a mad man, which may not come to fruition, but it's a whole lot more entertaining than watching people take on small projects that are guaranteed to succeed.
Exactly. If an insurance company writes rules for a company to follow, it is a good thing. If the government writes those same rules it is a bad thing as the goal is not to reduce the number of thefts but rather make whole the people that get their car stolen and have the money to sue
You had concrete car parks? When I were a lad, we had to inherit from car park and implement parking spaces ourselves. And if you had an overflow you had to walk -2147483648 miles to work.
You've rediscovered another essential portion of Lisp: the smug lisp weenie.
nixes do actually have a cd command. I see your point though, I think the reason I'm on Linux now (well, currently macOS actually) is that I've switched way back in middle school or so.

Still, I think Windows nowadays is hostile towards both nix and old-time Windows users. I kinda wish ReactOS was more active so that people who are tied to Windows ecosystem have some sane alternative.
Maybe not perfectly level, but more so when colleges did not look at standardized test scores.
This really shouldn't be the only way to verify its you if its going to prompt you every single time.
Posts that were written in $Year1 but got updated in $Year2 are a perennial edge case that can break either way.

The article itself still says 2020 so I guess we go with that for now.
> If the prompt is in English it should presume an American/British/Canadian/Australian nurse, and represent the diversity of those populations.

Don't forget India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the Philippines, all of which have more English speakers than any of those countries but the US.
>You need to join Discord to access the feature

Seriously?! Will this trend ever dies?!

I don’t want to use discord, can’t they just make a simple request form? Whenever I see “join our discord” for anything in any service I just never use that service, keep it as an option for whoever wants to hangout there just don’t make it the “only” channel of communication!
In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility
https://archive.ph/yIgqX
Why We Need Tradition
A fair interpretation, but consider the work the artist is known for: https://www.maggioregam.com/artists/42-alberto-burri/biograp...

Did he see the disaster as an opportunity to ply his trade at an even greater scale? Sixteen years after the earthquake, he was asked not to build a memorial, but to help reconstruct the new city. He declined and created this piece instead. Your quote in context:

> mayor Ludovico Corrao called upon numerous architects and artists to help with reconstruction efforts. [...] “We went to Gibellina [...] When we finally arrived to visit the place, the new city was nearly complete and full of new pieces. ‘I can’t do anything here,’ I told him immediately, ‘let’s go see the old town’. It was almost 20 km away [...]
Anyone tried Phind Pro? The benchmarks are never useful to compare things. I think they're kind of overfit now.
"i was poor, but nobody is THAT poor" is a bad argument.
Organize your peers to make it possible
A garage is just an office for people who can't afford one yet. Let's not overthink this.
History has shown that only the top 1% have benefitted from the invention of the textile mill.
Most likely that was me being slow.
Thanks Steve! You've been very fair the entire time and your feedback/thoughts have been helpful.
What you're suggesting is certainly possible - and no doubt what Google would claim. But companies like Google could trivially obtain massive representative samples for training of basically every sort of endeavor and classification of humanity throughout all of modern history on this entire planet.

To me, this feels much more like Google intentionally trying to bias what was probably an otherwise representative sample, and hilarity ensuing. But it's actually quite sad too. Because these companies are really butchering what could be amazing tools for visually exploring our history - "our" being literally any person alive today.
I use the "don't recommend channel" a lot with youtube if i see stuff I don't like.
It's not the bookends themselves that's the issue, it's the coarseness. Celsius is too coarse because it's extrapolated from 0-freezing and 100-boiling points. People can generally feel the difference between 1˚F increments, and roughly two make up 1˚C diff. Also, you can't really say "in the 70s" etc with Celsius. I watch a foreign weather report and that entire country is in the 20s ˚C for an entire week.

It's a minor difference either way, but I'm not going to switch to something slightly worse.
Is that a direct quote? I don't see it anywhere. What I do see is

> Because the PDS distribution is not totally settled, we want to have a line of communication with PDS admins in the network, so we’re asking any developer that plans to run a PDS to join the PDS Admins Discord.

https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation

This is much more reasonable than an actual gate on the feature.
After using re2c, I actually think it should have been built into C. Why?

- Because Ken Thompson was co-inventor of C, and he ALSO brought regular languages to computing. IIRC he basically wrote the first version of grep, and compilers like re2c use the same automata-based methods as the original grep.

https://www.oilshell.org/archive/Thompson-1968.pdf

- Because C is really bad at string processing. Regular languages would be a huge improvement. Looking through the implementation of most shells should convince of you that.

Thompson also wrote the very first Unix shell, of course! https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/08/history-trivia.html
The actual 'garage startup' is bit of a myth, played up as a rags to riches story. Most startups happen in personal spaces like bedrooms or home offices or rented offices and are often better funded than you might think. Or the 'garage' was just a very temporary thing and mostly for storage/laziness/clutter. Even Woz debunks this:

“The garage is a bit of a myth,” Wozniak told Businessweek. “We did no designs there, no breadboarding, no prototyping, no planning of products. We did no manufacturing there.”

Today a "garage startup" just really means they're just starting out, self-funding, or under-funded.
It was broken like DRM is broken - by design.
> A little bit less anger is called for here. I'm not an American voter but this sort of thing is just a turn-off and pushes people away into the extremes.

Fair enough, my apologies. However the "Ironically the government could dramatically improve matters by interfering in your private life less" is a direct libertarian dog whistle.

And my complaint about 40% tax isn't complaining about the tax per se, but that I want a proper social net for everyone. Instead, we're getting a social net for almost nobody.

The republican party is also joined at the hip with evangelical christians who would love to create a Margaret Atwood-ean Handmaid's Tale country... In fact, they're a good step there at the federal court level and most republican led states. This is definitely separated from taxes, since this is turning everyone into stasi-like informants. Reducing taxes is not going to reduce higher profile women being found guilty of "murder" over abortion.

Again, the better solutions here are to flea to a democratic state, or leave the country to a less shitty one. (Again, I reject the idea that all countries are roughly the same.)