skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this article and the reality of what they said https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/continuing-ou... seems to be far off
The geometry argument was not as simple as you suggest.

There was a necessary precondition: "there's ultimately a limit to how effective personal cars can be when population density exceeds a certain level".

That's the opposite of implying that one form of transportation works best everywhere.

FWIW, in some low density areas the most successful form of public transit is the ferry, which carries kids to school, people to work, food to the stores, and more.
Step 1 is identifying the problem, step 2 is trying to fix it.

I was an absolute door mat style of people pleaser. I just started saying no to people about things that were low-risk, and seeing what happened. I still get massive anxiety from it, but I can say no like a champion now. Probably a little too often, if I'm honest.

I did not seek out therapy, but probably should've.

If you're looking for advice - spend some time on this. My experience is that people who have negative personality traits, and try to blame the way they were raised, are not taken serious as adults in the working world.

If you're not looking for advice - then just tell me to fuck right off back to where I came from. No problem, either way.
> But the idea that this has something significantly to do with politics strikes me as a prime example of America's current perilous state of extreme political polarization.

Just about everything in business has to do with politics. It might be more apparent today because the pretense that business != politics has been dropped. But businesses have always taken a strong interest in shaping public policy, just look at the number of business executives have also served as Presidents/Congressman/Cabinet members.

And not just because it's good business to shape public policy. These people also take an active interest in shaping the moral fabric of America by enforcing their values through government influence..
I don't know what Google is going to do with it, but Bing is absolutely ruining their search engine with AI. You search for something, AI starts typing out an answer in a typewriter effect. Since AI, I can't trust anymore that the snippets shown at the top are verbatim quotes from a human-written article or something the AI came up with (not considering they could be quoting an AI-generated article!). At the bottom of the search page, where the "next page" would normally be the rightmost button, it's now the "chat" GPT button. I misclick it every time I want to see the next page. I bet that is driving up some metrics and making some engineers really confused about why people keep clicking the chat button and then not chatting.

Overall this all feels so unimaginative. With all the resources these companies have the only solution they can come up with for the search problem is "just throw AI at it." I could come up with that. It's not clever.
Christ this is dark! Imagine a world where everything and everyone will be judged, ranked, evaluated, hired, fired, maybe even as a partner or friend by these AI's.

Unfathomably grim even if the alternative is rigid low skill bureaucrats.

I find LLM's extremely fascinating but if this is the end game i really hope AI free zones will emerge.

You can already see Gen Z being obsessed with face ranking filters, "looksmaxing" from data points and using filters day to day. It's dark.
can't justify bloated salaries without it
I was thinking Idiocracy. Time to use AI to generate enough blogspam about the benefits of watering plants with gatorade to "poison the well" of datasets used for future training.
FWIW, power of attorney expires at death. You would more likely need proof of appointment as executor/administrator of the estate.

Given that they've mentioned they said

> If we are able to move forward based on our preliminary review, we will send further instructions about the remainder of the process, which will include obtaining a U.S. court order.

It would make sense to talk to a lawyer about what kind of court orders might be appropriate, and get that going sooner than later. In the absence of more specific instruction, it makes sense to do something that makes sense, and they'll respond through legal channels. OTOH, it may be more cost efficient to just sell the phone as-is for parts.

However, it's quite possible that the design and implementation of the phone means there is no mechanism for Google to bypass Factory Reset Protection without some heroic effort (replacing the secure elements would probably do it)
Yup that’s how it works in NL. My wife uses the Tesla app to start a supercharger session with her Mach E
There's an HTTPS version of this URL; please change it.
The first large C++ project I worked on in mid-1990s was basically preserving a bunch of archived copies of the source tree. CVS was a thing but not on Windows, and SourceSafe was creating more problems than it been solving.
the whitehouse says i should RiiR
Go look at the CVEs and github issues of modern C++ codebases. Your statement is nonsense. Chromium is still plagued by use after free. How high do you set the bar? Which codebases are we allowed to look at?
> Things have been too good for too long in InvestorWorld

That's not by accident and it's been at the expense of non-investor world for a long time.

What we're seeing is finance capitalism suck surplus value from every piece of the Earth it can. We're still burning more fossil fuels than ever before [0] despite the now visible risk of climate catastrophe. I believe we're likely to see investors continue to become irrationally wealthy while increasing larger and larger pools of people a driven into ever increasing situations of hardship.

I see no signs of the madness stopping until both human and planetary resources start to buckle under the pressure and refuse to give yields they once did. The article repeatedly mentions crypto as though it were an obvious bubble, but bitcoin is near record highs and even Sam Altman's bizarre world coin is at extreme record highs, COIN is up 200% in the past year.

The bubble won't "burst", it's just that increasingly less people will be invited in.

0. https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels
You're the only one who takes this 'war' seriously. The rest of us here are adults who can appreciate all desktop environments, even if we don't personally like to use them.

Go annoy someone else.
The “Signal protocol” only specifies how encryption is performed, but WhatsApp and Signal have very different protocols for actually transmitting the encrypted messages (I think WhatsApp was at one point based on XMPP, vs Signal is a bunch of protobuf blobs over a websocket)
I can't say that I agree with you in the slightest.
> Last summer, when I valued Nvidia in this post, I found it over valued at a price of $450, and sold half my holdings, choosing to hold the other half. Now that the price has hit $680, I plan to repeat that process, and sell half of my remaining holdings.

Well, it looks like he lost a lot of money
I think you meant 'employer'.
My personal UI preferences aside, one place where KDE is ahead of Gnome right now that matters a great deal to me is support for fractional scaling, especially supporting different scaling factors one different displays (laptop vs monitor).

KDE seems to have this working pretty well, whereas Gnome does not and it isn't clear when they will get there.
WA is already e2e encrypted. They mostly use the metadatas to extract information about you.
ex: Last person you spoke to each night ? Might be your girlfriend / boyfriend. (obviously it's not perfect as if you live together)

I trust Signal to not abuse of these metadatas, but if I can't be sure that my message sent on signal are going to be read on the signal app. Isn't it worst ?
Are the mold that grow at acidic pHs common in the household?
> The government could then save money and provide better service for menial tasks such as "what permit do I need to do such and such"

Yes, but apply Murphy's Law. They could also automate something like appeals to eminent domain claims and make it impossible for you to fight. Imagine being told the family farm that's been passed down over 5 generations is now going to be claimed by the government and turned into a parking lot for a new "justice center."

When you go to appeal, the hyper-efficient but devoid-of-empathy AI bot just says "sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
People make a similar defense of Paramount's Halo.

>An emotionless supersoldier mary sue? It would never work as a TV series, we need to explore the spartans' emotions!

And so we get some garbage that misses what was beloved by fans and features Master Chief with his helmet off, being sad on the subway. Feels like it's written by people totally unconcerned with the source material, just like Apple-Foundation.

Unlike Apple-foundation, glimpses of what a proper Halo adaptation could have been exist:

https://youtu.be/XRMUYpH7bQk
https://youtu.be/SyOAdrxlPVs
https://youtu.be/40jdpzrpIps
https://youtu.be/P63er_GRH1o

I'd trade the whole apple-foundation series for two minutes of content by people who cared about the books.
It's not unusual to price products and services differently in different countries.

Flights from NYC to LDN might have different prices for example.

Taxes, business model, demand etc

Some countries don't get the Pixel discounts available in the US. Black Friday isn't everywhere.. Same with availability of Apple Care
if you buy into Tailwind you probably won't think of using sub grids. But it is really nice to use sub grids and css variables to achieve amazing results
your statement

> They [firstborn children] literally have zero siblings.

strongly implies children with siblings are not firstborn children.

As I said elsewhere, your thought process is all over the place. If you meant that firstborn children don't have _older_ siblings then you chose a poor way of communicating that.

But to rebut your statement, as someone else pointed out, firstborn children would often have cousins and neighborhood kids watch them.
This was my job at Cisco. But it was a C code base, which used nonstandard compiler extensions, and so could not be built without the legacy compilers with their locally made extensions. Also the "unit tests" were actually hardware-in-the-loop tests. And the Makefiles referenced NFS filesystems automounted from global replicas, but none of them were on my continent.

Fun times. Don't work there anymore. Life is good. :)
One of the Nazi officers Gemini produced appeared to be a young Jewish woman. _None_ was a white man. You might want to rethink what's useful for education.
Setapp is opening its subscription-only iOS App Store
Sheesh. Isn’t this the easiest type of application to just cache the reads and queue the writes, then you can scale horizontally easily.
Ask HN: Recording Calls on iPhone Using Bluetooth
Has anyone tried making a fake Bluetooth "headphones" that forward audio to some real device and recording it in the middle? Avoiding the requirement of a 3-way call.

I have given some thought to getting myself an iPhone, however I can't get over it not having any kind of call recording readily available in Central Europe, at least not any I'm aware of. And this thought crossed my mind, I don't know how to even search for it, so if anyone has tried it with any outcome, success or failure, please let me know.
It's a weird argument to me that somehow obtaining a Java runtime environment is easier than getting a binary for a Scheme interpreter. I think most people who aren't already Java users would find the latter easier, not the former.
Indeed. I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed right now with tasks assigned to me by the government, but I don't think I can say "no" to filing taxes and accounting paperwork, even when they make it continuously more work to do so. So now I'm off to the post office to have them verify my identity as part of a mandatory process to access their online tax-payment system.
I had that exact discussion with someone else a while ago. And when you actually go through the chromium memory bugs, it's 100% avoidable with an absolute baseline of competence and not using ancient bugs. It's unfair that C++ always has to compete in its state from 1990s against languages in their current iteration.
Well I definitely disagree on that. I fall more on the side of “use them for regular errors too” because IMO anything that reduces boilerplate is a good thing. But I also don’t like “magic” so it’s still a bit in tension in my head
Are you actually using this in a non-trivial application?

The recurring complain I hear about scala are the bad compile times. I haven't used the language much, so not sure if this only applies to libraries that heavily use compile time metaprogramming.

But I really love that with modern tooling we can get a sub-second editor->browser feedback loop even for a three year old medium-large project on modern hardware. This was primarily one of the reasons I avoided Kotlin+Gradle JS target because among other issues the feedback loop was 2-3x slower.
What a beautiful company.
Very cool!

What would you say is the selling-point of Marimo compared to Jupyter/JupyterLite?
It’s your well? That sounds like it’ll just result in Gatorade replacing water for crops even sooner.
Yeah, I really feel this a good way to divide developers into two types. There are those like me, to whom the philosophy of discourage foot guns systematically sounds kind of brilliant. To put it in flattering terms, it's pay a short term cost for the long term and hard-to-perceive but very real benefits (making certain categories of errors completely extinct). To put the other side in flattering terms: they're not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, and never compromising on their vision because the tech is holding them back. I think the latter is definitely dominant in the discipline. I'm glad that at least Elm carries the torch for the former though.
WordPress is an open source project that anyone can host.

That 40% number is probably true for WordPress installations.

Not all WordPress installations are hosted at Automattic (the company). Thus it's hard to understand how 40% of all websites using WP will give a huge payout to Automattic for sharing their customers' data (which is minor subset of all WP installations out there that make up that 40% number).
Not exhaustive but a lens , but the 3D rotation groups SO(3) is not simply connected.

The antipodal points Pac-Man and so while a 360 degree rotation is considered 'invariant' that only holds for rigid objects with no connections.

Rolling up a hose, twirling a baton, or the belt trick shows that 720 is the real invariant rotation.

Merge and Delete those two points at infinity and you get a donut.
In the transition from pre-internet to modern times, I have found my experience with both California department of motor vehicles and the tax board has improved significantly. So much less traveling to crappy offices and waiting in hours-long lines. I still wouldn’t call it great, but it has objectively improved.
Isinglass; Or, the Many Miracles of Fish Glue (2020)
And yet my mustard bottle uses a simple hole and I'm frustrated by the current ketchup silicone cap requiring too much pressure and over dispensing on the initial squeeze. So, worse!

Is it really necessary to do all this engineering for this??
This is a fiction. You assume the government will provide better service. Instead (from a historical evidence and performance perspective), cuts will be made, service will degrade, and those who lied to champion the changes will not be held accountable.

Who will be held accountable when these promises evaporate? My problem is not with innovation, it is with falsehoods and lack of accountability for those falsehoods.

Edit: As PheonixPharts says in another comment:

> All these jobs being "replaced by AI" are simply being eliminated with the consequences of them being eliminated ignored. Customer service jobs aren't being replaced by AI, companies, like Klarna, are just giving up on customer service and using AI to increase their perceived value rather than reducing it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39554367

You don't need an LLM to do that. You can ignore your customers just fine without it. Cut out the performance art, go straight to zero without it. It is still mostly a powerful search engine backed by the equivalent of a knowledgeable, not a replacement for human support. If the human is not providing what is needed, that is a system failure, not a human failure. This tech augments the human, it does not replace the human.
Who's Investing in Carbon Removal?
The entire list is just one huge Nirvana fallacy. Okay, so Esperanto is not literally perfect, it has some flaws... and therefore we should reject it, and instead use some language that has 10x or 100x more of exactly the same flaws? How does that make sense?

Some of the objections, I am not even sure what the author tried to say. For example, point 01a, Esperanto has only 5 vowels, while English has 19. Uhm, interesting, but... are you saying that more is better? I guess that would be a subjective choice: more vowels allow words to be shorter, but are difficult to learn for people who do not have such vowels in their native language. So it is not obvious whether 5 or 19 is better; probably depends on whom you ask.

Point 01b, Esperantists from different countries pronounce the sound R slightly differently. Well yes, that is what you inevitably get when people from different countries try talking the same language. Do you think their versions of English are the same?

Point 02d, Esperanto has accented letters that do not exist on English typewriters. Sure, Esperanto and hundred other languages. What's your point? Is a language universal only when it uses English alphabet? Also, this is not a problem in practice, you either install a keyboard for the language (just like you do with every language other than English) or simply use the "x-method" (write accented letters as letters followed by "x").

But most objections are simply of the kind "I would do it differently". Cool, go ahead and design your own language. Then wait to see it reviewed by someone like you.
Never understood spreadsheets. Why would you assume data fits in a 2d-array? And why put heterogenous data in that 2d-array in blocks at different x,y offsets?

The future is tensors ;)
It hates busses worse if the busses are regular enough not to be annoying.

If the busses are only every couple of hours, they might get packed, but the number of nearly empty busses driving around would amaze people.

Example: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58861#_idTextAnchor012 where busses beat personal vehicle but only slightly; compared to rail transit it's obscene.

But that's because the average transit bus has 8 passengers and gets 3.4 mpg! https://afdc.energy.gov/conserve/public_transportation.html

Even if you "fill" the bus to 40 people, it still is matched by a car with 5 people in it.
> Doesn't that assume that people will forever be better learners than AI?

Better creators, not learners. AI can't create, it can only remix what's already been produced by humans. Human progress is created, not learned. The olds who are conditioned to try new things when an existing solution doesn't work still have the capacity to create something new (wholly new, not just remixed new).
Your spreadsheet experience was plugged by "no first-class Python support"? What makes Python special here?
I was surprised when someone told me that KDE is the biggest open source project in existence after Linux kernel. But indeed it looks like it. They are trying to reinvent the entire desktop computing stack in-house. This is what Apple does but without the corporate. I hope they succeed so I can have my fully free and thus user-centric desktop on par with proprietary offerings.
it goes more than 3 columns, its more like drill-down view and very handy... its something i miss from macos too

https://www.lifewire.com/use-finder-views-on-mac-2260734
A tool that is incapable of creating images that conform with objective reality and/or history seems like a pretty useless tool.
Anyone who works in AI, especially very closely with models, will tell you that it's not capable of really replacing any jobs yet.

All these jobs being "replaced by AI" are simply being eliminated with the consequences of them being eliminated ignored. Customer service jobs aren't being replaced by AI, companies, like Klarna, are just giving up on customer service and using AI to increase their perceived value rather than reducing it.
agree, the show betrays essential principles of the trilogy. Why even have psychohistory at all if you’re throwing away everything that stems from it?

especially sad, considering that it has a solid cast and looks beautiful
Ask HN: What Is Disinformation?
Honest question, I’m puzzled at the of disinformation calling in the recent years, and not all of it is disinformation or lasting disinformation, meaning, sometimes what is called disinformation today could be a known fact in 3 months time from now.
In this timeline... FTL was discovered in 13004 BG (before guild) and 12200 BG was "The Empire of Ten Worlds" followed by 11200 BG which was "The Empire of a Thousand Worlds"

It wasn't until 7593 BG when I.V. Holtzman was born. 5022 BG was "The Empire of Ten Thousand Worlds".

The order of the mentats was established in 1234 AG. In 2800 AG you have the beginnings of the Zensunni Migration. 7193 AG was Zensunni on Rossak buying passage from the space guild to Arrakis.

Paul Atreides was born in 10175 AG.

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FTL existed before the guild, it was mediated by computers and wasn't entirely safe.

There are about 10,000 years between the founding of the guild (and safe non-computer FTL) and the events of Dune.

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A page from the start of the timeline of the Zensunni Wanderers history - https://i.imgur.com/Xw8qbpO.png
That RDP screen sharing is very interesting. Does it require an open session attached to a real screen, or is starting headless remote sessions possible?
(2020) and HN probably automaticall removed the exclamation mark in "Draw!"
I'm pretty sure Denis Villeneuve has said on the record that he plans on adapting Dune Messiah if the movies are successful, which is a great bookend to Paul Atreides story.