skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, Uber used to just be what Uber Black is now, if you remember. I'm sure that both the consistency but moreso the average quality of Waymo will eventually decline (although the experience will of course always be more consistent than Uber). They aren't going to maintain a premium brand because they have billions of dollars of engineering costs that they need to amortize over the biggest possible pool of revenue.
Rust I think covers most if not all of Ada features you mentioned
I copy pasted the text from the PDF mentioned in GP comment for those as lazy as myself

I cleaned it up a bit but didn't notice that bug of 2 letters. I used Preview for macOS, for what it's worth. I also wonder why it swapped two letter words

The original had a `<!-|if IsupportLists]->[NUM]) <-[endif]>` for each bullet point which I found interesting, haven't seen that before in emails

Link to pdf: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/mu... (reference page 40, exhibit 2)
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That's only true if there's competition with similar costs, though. Uber and Lyft can't reduce prices without collapsing, so Waymo has no incentive to charge anything less than what they charge minus one cent and they'll have all the demand they can handle.
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How would they get paid? Almost every bank in every us-allied countries would have to comply to hand over the money. The US banking regulations apply overseas because those banks want to interact with US entities. That's the nature of the US-Dollar economy.

Are you a French wine maker that wants to sell to America? You better be using USD with a friendly bank to pay for things like import fees/tariffs (or the American company you work with better do that). Sure you can deal only in Euros if you want, but at some point there's a conversion to USD when you sell to Americans. Middle Eastern Oil Company? Same thing. German Car company? Same. Brazilian fruit farm? Same. How about importing your Coca Cola products, and iPhones? Buying ads from Google? USD and a US-friendly banks are everywhere in the global economy because the US is such a big market.

Those banks will be banned from US commerce if they work with the NSO and don't hand over the NSO's money, and will lose tons of "innocent" business (like those nice wine makers in France). Their governments probably have treaties with the US, so they don't have a legal choice anyways. The US influence is viral.
I see in the Telechron ad in the article that they are based in Ashland, MA. Ashland cites as their claim to fame that they are where the electric clock was invented and last time I was there there were signs to that effect at the town border.
Go interfaces are not ducked typed.
If I make a mistake like this, please correct me. That's one way I can improve. This attitude of just not correcting people is idiotic.

It's on the person receiving the correction or criticism to ignore it if they wish. Not on people to be silent.
Just yesterday, walking in the inner sunset neighborhood of SF, I saw an old lady in a 1980s Volvo come to a 4-way stop. She looked really old, as in probably even 90+. She wasn't sure about the rules of the stop sign: she came to the stop and was hesitating to go. Other cars were waiting for her and some of them started just going through, creating a very dangerous situation. Eventually she mustered the courage to just make her turn. That made me think: her life would be so much easier if she didn't have to drive at all to go run her errands. She was creating an unsafe situation for everyone, not just herself.

The City (SF) has a fleet of transport vehicles that transport Seniors (old folks) around town. It would be much more cost effective to just have a bunch of Waymos available to Seniors.
Recruiters via LinkedIn. In a pretty niche area so pretty small world vibes. Also means there is no BS like filling in forms with duplicate info in cv or fake postings
it's more like, in a world with thousands of oncologists that treat pancreatitis cancer, saying: You should go to one, I'm not going to recommended mine in particular, but I went to one and she cured my cancer, so maybe you should give it a shot.
Piece with less detail than the source linked from the article: https://www.together.ai/blog/stripedhyena-7b
Because they are being sued in the US over conduct that happened in the US? It’s really not very difficult or special.

They can of course choose to ignore the lawsuit, if their principals want to never enter the US again, which is frankly recommended for all their employees given their operations are prima facie criminal in nature.
You can basically say that about everything running on a computer. The types in any language aren't a thing, it's all just bits going back and forth.
Thank you. Links like that are why I read HN. That video is totally unique.
I have some bad news for you about the types in Python--which, for the record, I really like and have made me willing to write Python!--if your objection is that the types are "just an illusion". Much like Pydantic, good use of TypeScript types involves shape validation on input.

(I have worse news for you about C or C++ or anything that isn't typed exclusively based on how wide its register is, but that's nitpicking.)
I would be very surprised if they were. Sanctions are no joke and there are plenty of Five Eye-aligned shops with similar capabilities.
What they can do is trivially reroute cars from the suburbs
- a level of supply control Uber can only approximate with surge pricing.
> In that case, if PWAs were good enough on Android and they could avoid the 30% cut, why bother making native Android apps at all?

I don't want to skirt too close to HN guidelines here, but I'm genuinely curious if you actually read my comment or not.

This is exactly what I asked you. If PWAs are (as Apple claims) good enough alternatives to the app store, why isn't anyone using them?

You can complain about Electron, but developers build Electron apps. They don't build PWAs. Because Electron apps are actually a feasible alternative to more native GUIs, and PWAs are not. The question you and I are asking (why isn't anyone using PWAs) reveals exactly how bullcrap Apple's legal arguments about PWAs are. They are not reasonable alternatives to the app store.

> All of the HN commenters blame mean old Apple for holding the web back

I don't blame Apple exclusively for holding the web back. They're a part of it, but so is Google. I don't think I've ever had much good to say about Google on here, and as the US and EU are actively proving right now, it is possible to pursue regulation for multiple companies at the same time.

> You have much better ways to track on the we[b] then through native apps - at least on iOS with a much better permission model.

This is not true by any metric. Native apps have more access to fingerprinting vectors than web apps do, are capable of requesting deeper levels of user information like contacts. Native Facebook on iOS got called out for injecting custom code into the in-app web view when users clicked on links within Facebook for 3rd-party sites. That's something that's not possible to do in any modern web browser.

Native apps are indisputably easier to use to fingerprint and track users on both iOS and Android.

Even if you're unfamiliar with the technical side of this, you can still think of it this way: if apps like Facebook had an easier time tracking you on the web than on mobile devices, they wouldn't try to get you to install mobile apps. They would force you to use the website. The reason why Facebook ships an iOS app is because it is easier to track you via iOS than through the Facebook website.
Steel-reinforced concrete does not perform well in salt water.

You can use modern concrete without steel and build things about as good as Roman concrete. You'll pay a whole lot more than reinforced because you'll use at least 3x more concrete and limit the shape -- only arches. Compare Prague's Charles bridge[0] to Seattle's West Seattle bridge. Or compare the windows of the Roman Pantheon (uh, none) to those in any skyscraper.

You won't have as much self-healing in salt water as some Roman concretes. But modern concretes also have far more compressive strength.

You can still buy lime mortars and build brick masonry houses, if you want to pay for the labor; the materials themselves have never been cheaper.

[0] Yes I know it isn't Roman nor especially made of concrete but there's a lot of good information on its construction and it's basically the perfection of Roman-style bridge building, and without reinforcement you need to build just like that.
Waymo is not public transport in the sense that most people mean it, which describes only state entities, as opposed to the private sector. Public transit exists to serve the public good, doesn't need to turn a profit, and is accountable to government (ideally elected) officials. Waymo is a for-profit entity that can do more or less whatever it wants within the bounds set by CPUC. I think it's a net good, but it's still private industry.
> the dogma of RESTful APIs consistently push the complexity of data synchronization to the front-end.

Sigh. I guess we'll never clarify this point but... as originally defined, RESTful APIs bear no absolutely no resemblance to modern HTTP APIs that happen to speak content-type: application/json. REST means (quite literally) returning hypermedia representations.

To be clear, the industry adopted a dogma of "HTTP JSON APIs" and called it REST by shear mistake. I'm not just pointing out a naming error - these JSON APIS do not follow REST. They have consistently pushed the complexity of data synchronization to the front end. 100% on purpose in most cases. And we're paying for it. Author nailed that part.

But that's totally different than REST. The REST hypermedia approach has explicitly outlined a viable alternative to this madness! Keep state on the server, make everything a representation of that state, then transfer it as requested over HTTP. The word "REST" had been hijacked to the point where it literally means the opposite of what the author intended.
They demonstrated that throwing $12 million worth of silicon at the problem beats a benchmark, which, of course, it does.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39432384
https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/blob/main/doc/format_overvi... is a pretty detailed but good overview. The highlights are variable size DCT (up to 128x128), ANS entropy prediction, and chroma from luminance prediction. https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/blob/main/doc/encode_effort... also gives a good breakdown of features by effort level.
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Maybe they’d have a chance to get upset if they weren’t annoyed by you bringing this up every time?
eh, you're both right. It's a 100% reversal of their decision to remove PWA support, but it's 100% consistent with their previous excuse/reason of it being too hard to support multiple browsers.
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I don't see how opening it makes it safer. It's very different from security things, where some "white hat" can find a security, and they can then fix it so instances don't get hacked. Sure, a bad person could run the software without fixing the bug, but that isn't going to harm anyone but themselves.

That isn't the case here. If some well meaning person discovers a way that you can create a pandemic causing superbug, they can't just "fix" the AI to make that impossible. Not if it is open source. Very different thing.
> or in non sunny California conditions at all

It does at least rain in San Francisco, and I've taken Waymo in the rain. It did more than fine. Plus, you know, night time.
For things where you actually care about lossless you probably also don't care about HDR.

HDR is (or can be) good for video & photography, but it's absolutely ass for UI.

Besides, you can just throw a gainmap approach at it if you really care. Works great with jpeg, and gainmaps are being added to heif & avif as well, no reason jpegxl couldn't get the same treatment. The lack of "true 10-bit" is significantly less impactful at that point
No, it's just you.
Yes, it's public transit. Public doesn't mean "there aren't any rules" it just means public. You can't light barbecues in my local public park, and the bloke who tried to knife a bus driver isn't allowed to ride the public buses here.
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#!/bin/sh
read x
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|grep -Eo "\"body\":\".+\"readTimeMin\"" \
|(echo "<meta charset=utf-8>";sed 's/\"body\":\"//;s/\\//g;s/\",\"readTimeMin\"//')

echo https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/ar-BB1jbRw3|1.sh > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm
links -no-connect -force-html 1.htm
links -dump 1.htm
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You need bisect only as a last resort. Effective use of git blame, git log -p -S <keyword> etc has always been enough for me. Also, the projects I work with take 10+ minutes to compile even when cached, so doing tens of builds to bisect is much slower than just hunting for strings in git commits and code.
someone needs to get the seniors in and out of the cars...
I worked a 4 day week for over a year while the pandemic was going. I'm not sure about total output, but per day, I was definitely more productive since everyone had different days off.

I got paid for 1 day LESS, so I eventually went back to 5 days. I'd rather get paid for a full day of work, while we all slack off a bit.
Dart is a really good example. A dead language but somehow it was created by Google, what gives?
What you said is true but not to the extent that you might think if you are used to the legal systems of countries like the USA or UK.

Since Brexit, almost all EU member countries follow the civil law system (the only member country following common law that I can think of is Ireland, not sure if there are others). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_legal_systems

Additionally, there is no official doctrine of precedent in EU Law per se https://academic.oup.com/book/32630/chapter-abstract/2705268...

TL;DR - the authority of the courts in Europe is not the same as in USA or in the Commonwealth countries.
they have internal control systems that respond a lot faster than that. 100ms is 6 entire cycles of a 60-hertz sine wave, an utter eternity compared to the control mechanisms required to follow that sine wave up and down with pwm/pdm. the 150ms number in that brochure probably has to do with computer networking software, not the battery pack control system itself

but the power conversion control system is relatively slow, taking hundreds of nanoseconds to respond (ten thousand times faster than a few milliseconds). the battery chemistry itself responds enormously faster than that when the current drawn from it changes; the only thing that limits the electrochemical response is the capacitance of the electrical double layer, which in a battery (as opposed to a supercapacitor) is on the order of one nanofarad per ampere. so the tiny changes in the overpotential that turn the electrochemical reactions on or off can take place in well under a single nanosecond

so saying 'chemical batteries that can react in milliseconds' is understating the speed by a factor of ten million. that's like saying 'jet planes that can fly meters per day', 'supercomputers that can do dozens of multiplications per minute', or 'skyscrapers that can reach tens of microns in height'
The book was written well before modern terrorism.

The Jihad in Dune had obvious parallels to the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate - previously unknown warriors appearing out of the desert and conquering most of the Roman Empire. So it was based in an era where the idea of holy war was quite different.

On top of that I think that the audience of SF literature are a little more open minded than the average movie goer.
The difference is that in actual mountain climbing, people are usually experienced and equipped to gauge the risk of a fall and operate well within their range of capabilities.

Via Ferrata is technically easy enough to attract less experienced people and steel ropes and ladders offer a false sense of security vs being the lead climber on an alpine climbing route with 60ft of run out above an anchor you built yourself.
I think this is important but also hits the trust problem: open shorteners are basically training users to be phished but a controlled namespace doesn’t have that problem. Ideally you can use a domain you control for everything to get full control of your reputation while still retaining the flexibility to redirect links as needed.
Indeed, there is special equipment required (the jargon/name escapes me at this moment — it’s been years) to connect a generator to the grid and that also automatically disconnects it if it gets too far from the grid frequency.

IIRC the USA grid SLAs are/were not a simple 60 Hz but 60 times n peaks over some period (10 seconds?) dating back to the era of synchronous electric clocks bc changing load could provide some wobble. I am sure it’s possible to provide tighter conformance these days but I wonder if it matters.
i agree that you can say things that are totally false that use some of the same words as the things that i said
Before implementing SRP, our authentication flow relied on email verification.

The general inconvenience of waiting for emails aside, this flow also had the potential to lock out customers who were using Ente Auth to store their email's 2FA credentials. So it was important that we fixed this.

Once OPAQUE becomes more mainstream, we will very likely adopt it.
Because they know it’s overvalued & will want to jump ship immediately
forgot to mention, that because of its power and thus "un-knightly" character the crossbow was banned in 1096 by the Pope.
I think nobody in the EU can make such assurances. It's a law, and courts will decide if apple is following them.

The European Commission announced a few days ago that they will look into the decision of apple to remove PWAs, so they more or less announced they are trying to fine them because of it.

Which means that completely removing PWAs could be the more risky choice instead of keeping them Safari-only. Completely removing PWAs already started an investigation. Keeping them Safari-only might not start an investigation at all, so it might be the lower risk.

After all I think Android also has a Chrome-only implementation for PWAs, exactly like Windows, that runs PWAs on Edge. Also back in the days when Microsoft had to give users a choice to use another browser than Internet Explorer it was also not possible to exchange Internet Explorer as the engine for many system services that used the system web view component. I think it's still the case with the current Windiws WebView2 based on Edge.