skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Has literally anyone spent money on the metaverse?

I guess people buy their vr headsets, if that counts. I'm not too familiar with what the "metaverse" entails though...
A top auto safety group tested 14 partial automated systems – only one passed
On the Chrome extension, the top HN comment was pointing out that it doesn't show change in owners, but change in the owner's key, which makes it susceptible to false positives and false negatives. Does the Firefox version work any more reliably?
Now I can farm out scut work to Devin lol.
Correction: we won't.
I posted a link to the spec sheet in these comments and the certifications are shown. If your concern is the Li-Ion battery itself, that's a fair question.
> fact remains that single cities in the US - NY is hardly the only example - have budgets, manpower, and weaponry that exceed much of the world's nation states

And I'm contextualising it. Given its population and economy, the NYPD should have the resources of similarly-sized nation-states.

> we're the third highest in percent of GDP spent on cops

America is definitely over-policed. I'm not sure New York is.
Moving trees north to save the forests
In my observation of non-native speakers working & living in the US (a group to which I belong), there's also something special about number-words. If you are a non-native speaker, even if you boast near-perfect English pronunciation and fluency, and are accustomed to using English in all aspects of your life, not just for communication but for e.g. personal note-taking, and even if you haven't spoken/written your native language with anyone in months, the moment you need to count (a sizable enough collection), or you need to enter on your computer a numerical passcode received on your smartphone, you (most likely) find yourself reverting (in your (sub)vocaliztion) to the number-words of your mother tongue, because doing the same thing in English just feels so much more cumbersome.
So apps can be used to target people for nefarious reasons.
At this point the EU just needs to shut them down completely, or make their business completely unviable.
State of the Terminal
TIL. Reading up on it a little, I'm surprised the class-action settlement was just $40M: https://www.videoadvertisingsettlement.com/
> It said the 62-year-old had died from a "self-inflicted" wound on 9 March and police were investigating.

I wonder what gave them the conclusive evidence that the wound was self-inflicted.
A piece of information in this article which is not in that article:

> The family says Barnett's health declined because of the stresses of taking a stand against his longtime employer.

> "He was suffering from PTSD and anxiety attacks as a result of being subjected to the hostile work environment at Boeing," they said, "which we believe led to his death."
I'm becoming more and more afraid of flying with each passing day. And this fear sometimes hinders my life.
I’m curious if you’re willing and able to share: Are you using FoundationDB as the data store for Antithesis?
Or someone with an interest in making Boeing look bad, such as Comac or a foreign government that wants to tarnish the reputation of one of America's largest exporters.
And now and then you encounter a web form in the .fi domain that rejects "," and expects ".", but does not tell you that that is the reason for rejecting your input. The web "designers" that deploy such crap in .fi should be sent to Siberia.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476139 but many other possible ad-hoc informative pieces of info are out there from googling around
Refusing is easy. As about two dozen attorneys have told my family members in their case after taking tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars of their money:

"I can no longer represent you in this case."

As for your friend, I'm not even sure I care unless this lands squarely in his practice area. Once it gets to court NYPD's lawyers could just say some handwavey "homeland security" shit and your judge might just piss their robes and rule against you.

In civil matters it's always better to seek agreement outside of court.
Sure if you want to stop and fiddle with Excel.

If you want to just double click and get to work, no.
> will the NYPD start patrolling airports in Europe and flights to the US?

To my knowledge, the NYPD doesn't patrol outside its borders. The international offices are for coördinating intelligence.
The investor money running out is a likely outcome which will push ai prices higher and change who uses it.
My reply is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676638
Coming from 1password its often painful.

Start editing an entry, click outside the bitwarden extension window to go copy something you want to save and bam, windows is gone with your data. I don’t remember how 1password was dealing with that, but I never had issues like that with it.

View/Edit page look the same. How many times I have been clicking on the fields trying to edit them to realize I’m in view mode.

Create a custom fields hidden type, want to generate a password? Well, you can’t. You need to close what you are doing (don’t just click outside the window) save, go generate the password. Copy, search, view, don’t forget to edit, paste your password.

There is so many things like that. I hate bitwarden.
> Seems like a cell to me?

It's a cell, but the (informal) idea is that a big living thing is made of a lot of small cells. If there is a catastrofic extintion and only these things survive, would and alien biologist clasify them as a huge cell or as a blob?

> How is it clear that it evolved from animals? It seems like clear protist to me.

My bad. You are right. I probaly mean from a normal living thing with small cells with only one nuclei.

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Side note: I'm not sure it's related, but as a curiosity, our muscles have cells with multiple nuclei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_cell

> Skeletal muscle fibers are made when myoblasts fuse together; muscle fibers therefore are cells with multiple nuclei, known as myonuclei, with each cell nucleus originating from a single myoblast. The fusion of myoblasts is specific to skeletal muscle, and not cardiac muscle or smooth muscle.
Unless of course the robots built the gardens thereby driving the cost of gardens down to amounts accessible by UBI. Or so goes the theory.
Just a thought from someone who speaks English and a smattering of Spanish.

If the child can correctly express the idea/intent they want and be understood then arguably they have learned that part of the language. Sure it might not sound how an adult would be likewise they probably don’t in their native language either right?

I doubt anyone is saying that kids learn to speak the language perfectly but clearly there is a pattern where by they are able to understand and express themselves faster than adults - even if they sound childish still.
> NYPD is famously full of criminals

There are ways to hold lawyers accountable that sadly don't exist for cops.
Solar in Congo: Threading the Financing Needle
In Congo, a hard-fought solar investment shows a possible path forward despite financing challenges.
"just a re-write"
I wouldn't say it's the reason, but wouldn't mention the career breaks and especially the explanations of burnout and anxiety. While these are quite common conditions, I think explicitly mentioning them would still be considered a red flag for many employers. If you do mention the career breaks, I would put them outside of the companies. Having them listed under a company is strange unless it was an leave of absence granted, but even so probably not worth mentioning as you wouldn't have been working during that time anyway.
> MDM them

Many of us cannot afford the luxury of working overtime as tech support for relatives. I personally do not even think I can do a good enough job at that for myself, in fact—I would have to be a professional information security researcher.

Furthermore, I am sure if there is enough misplaced outrage, MDM will be unable to restrict this.

> But we do not need to surrender in the war on general purpose computing for it.

Where is that war? General purpose computing is everywhere, with all of its associated benefits and liabilities[0].

iOS has more or less been the only island where it is reliably not an option, that making it preferred for the reasons I mention.

[0] How many of us literally airgap machines that run unvetted code (at least once you realize that all vitalization and containerization is circumventable), not letting any personal data on them? How feasible is that with a phone, and by an average person that is not exactly infosec-savvy but who is obligated to have a phone to simply get on with daily life?
I am making a sales pitch on behalf of all the projects I mentioned (not just the one I'm involved with).

I see LLMs failing at coding daily (one of the "perks" of working in the space), and I'm incredibly bullish on this approach.

And I don't think it'll replace humans or junior engineers. As programmers, we've been "replacing" ourselves since the days of assembler that replaced direct machine coding. This is just another iteration of it.

(if you do want a sales pitch, here's one: https://twitter.com/senkorasic/status/1765769482985722267 )
Distributed systems and concurrency
I remember reading something about how difficult it was to get flash to render correctly on iphone hardware at the time because it had no hardware support and software emulation was slow and terrible at best.

But this is only a vague memory of some article in a magazine or something similar, so take it as anecdotal at best.
I'll take the other side of the bet if any will offer. This guy won't be disbarred. Will play on manifold markets or with real money here in SF. Up to maybe $1k. They are not at any risk.
>- Small module completion. I write an interface of a class/struct with it's methods and some comments and tell it to fill in. A recent one I did looked something like (abbreviated):

Are they considerably better than existing non-AI tools + manual coding for this? In VSCode and Visual Studio, when working with an interface in C# for example, I can click two context menus to have it generate an implementation with constructors, getters, & setters included, leaving only the business logic code to write manually. You've mention you have to describe to the AI in comments, and then I assume spend time on a step to verify the AI has correctly interpreted your request & implemented.

I can definitely see the advantage for LLMs when writing unit tests on existing code, but short of very limited situations, I'm really finding it difficult to find the 55% efficiency improvements claimed by the likes of GitHub's AI Copilot.
No, I’ve seen this pattern as well. Will apologize and then when you ask to continue it will have a change of mind and refuse again. It’s a bad RLHF/AIF loop that it gets stuck into.
We will probably see more of this. Unfortunately, from what I've seen, crypto has attracted a very un-savory crowd.
The escape symbol lets you ignore any non-special character, not just newlines: https://github.com/sixarm/usv?tab=readme-ov-file#escape-esc
lol I was on the same boat until I sinked it all together. I ended up wasting more time arguing with the LLM chat than doing anything remotely useful. I just use it for reference now, and even that I am not 1000% sure.
(2) is a big ol' bingo. There was a race towards the bottom line of higher spatial and time resolution over the past 5 years (claims along the lines of "higher resolution means higher accuracy!"), which led to an awful lot of products that are nothing more than naive interpolations of coarser data. So couple the perception of "better"/"more accurate" products with a wholly insufficient technical approach to realizing this and you have a perfect storm for end users to feel that weather forecasts are getting worse. They just over-promised and under-delivered because many people who entered the field from outside of it completely underestimated how hard it is to push weather forecasting technology forward.

(1) is irrelevant for weather forecasting.
Veg diet reduces inflammation in gut, hence reduced gut brain axis bad chatter.

Meditation

Belief in a higher purpose

Yoga/exercise
If you are so sure this is happening you can just buy some stock or calls on these AI companies and you will become a millionaire, no need to worry about your job.
That's a funny example. Because prior to around 2007 phones looked very different than they do today. And prior to that, I think it was difficult for people to imagine a phone would fit in your pocket, and more importantly, what that would mean for follow on effects, like instagram or tik tok

unless you were being sarcastic.
Driving someone to suicide is also a direct cause of death, and should be treated as such.
We evaluate engineering performance at Gusto
It seems to be wrapping drizzle, with astrodb just being a way to deeper integrate it into the framework and adding some ease of use features. Also seems like a nice way to support the development of astro by using their hosting service.
> So that the consent agreements and cases arose as a result of antitrust regulations is true. But when you say "the legal theories of when and how to apply antitrust regulations" has changed, that is not supported by the consent agreement because those agreements are not enforcements of antitrust regulations.

You seem to be implying complete independence between something being the results of antitrust regulations, the results of the enforcement of antitrust regulations, or the consequences of theories of how when to enforce antitrust regulations. For people who speculate that these three things might be related to each other, your argument will not work.
I'm not saying that they wouldn't. I'm saying that they shouldn't.

The client isn't the only person with things to lose here, it's their sources who are at risk if he loses the case.

The client wouldn't pursue it for journalistic ethics reasons.
And it likely is: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/12/australia/latam-airlines-flig...
> allowed them to split up (Baby Bells)

That's some pretty baldfaced revisionism you've got going on there.

They were ordered to do this by a court: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=120938923478579...
Thank you!

It does say which sounds really ominous: https://imgur.com/a/w8M0wcE

The link on the page points to https://docs.github.com/en/apps/using-github-apps/authorizin... which basically says the app can do whatever whenever.

I think if the wording was different I would be able to successfully pitch this to my work.
Dark Sky didn't have "powerful forecasting." They literally just had a simple computer vision app which used optical flow to track blobs and weather radar, and then they extrapolated those blobs forward.
MLOps tool KitOps now open source
lol.

hopefully whoever is in charge of your country has put a lot more thought into the future of work as automation comes for white collar workers.
> Have we?

Yes.

> Our supply has been getting tainted with worrying levels of trace contaminants.

Note that I wrote "oxygen" not "clean air". You're not literally asphyxiating, you're not even close.

> https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/imminent-risk-global-wate...

"""Globally, 2 billion people (26% of the population) do not have safe drinking water and 3.6 billion (46%) lack access to safely managed sanitation,"""

As you quoted me, most of the settled world. Most. As in, more than 50%.
> police were investigating

seems to be antithetical to

> conclusive
Scrap bins are where you throw parts that fail quality control. If you have no part at all and your management doesn’t allow you to halt production you might install a failed part and pray.
Minds: Launch a social media app in minutes for web, Fediverse, iOS and Android
Yep. The tech may be more mature and less prone to breakage, but the fun of creating, the joy of stupid games went with it for a lot of folks.
I'm not sure how you can say they aren't alternatives, they directly market themselves as alternatives. The first graphic on the capnproto site compares it to protobufs and was itself created by one of the original protobuf authors as I understand it (Kenton).

Flatbuffers immediately compares itself to protobufs as well on the front page.
In terms of my "off ramp"?

I have a multi-part plan.
Immediately, i'm working to get closer to the business. To be closer to the position of defining requirements, not implementing requirements.

Secondary, i'm experimenting with ideas I hope can become a business.

as a final fallback, I have a hobby woodshop in my basement, and I love making furniture.
Since there is no mention of FDT (Fast Data Transfer) [1]

Amazing software (transfer performance wise) written (unfortunately in) Java :)
Unintuitive CLI options, but fastest transfer I have seen.

So fast, if I don't artificially limit the speed, my command would sometimes hog the entire local network.

-limit <rate> Restrict the transfer speed at the specified rate. K (KiloBytes/s), M (MegaBytes/s) or G (GigaBytes/s) may be used as suffixes.

[1]
http://monalisa.cern.ch/FDT/download.html

PS: It does cause file-fragmentation on the destination side, but it shouldn't matter to anyone, practically.
Too many nitrogen together make you go to the list of https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo... I'd try to be far away from a planet with living things made of nitrogen chains.
Pilot saying instrumentation failure - https://www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/i-lost-my-ability-to-fl...
Regardless, as a practitioner in the Quality field, I find the timing exceedingly suspect. Even if Boeing did rip him a new one in deposition, (which 32 years of employment and a documentation heavy culture more than equips a legal department to do) you don't close the ticket until it's resolved. He may have intended to do this all along; but not before all the dirty laundry got aired.

There is no way that any of this doesn't smell to high heaven. Not with a Federal criminal probe in the wind.
After further thinking back on this, it wasn't just survival from predators. It also had to do with the sharing of resources with different broods. At 13/17 combos, the overlap seems to balance out that each brood has the resources to continue with low risk of sharing. Every couple hundred years seems to be far enough that the species is not at risk of competition ending one of the broods.
Another post has this part: https://jacobian.org/2021/may/25/my-estimation-technique/#5-...
> Refusing is easy

Nobody claimed otherwise.

> not even sure I care unless this lands squarely in his practice area

He asked a litigation partner who represented me the one time Nassau County police got cute with me. In that case, we weighed being aggressive after the department pulled its accusations and I decided not to pursue given my financial condition. Were that to happen today, I'd decide differently.

> your judge might just piss their robes and rule against you

Sure. And I'd have wasted time and money and possibly more.

> In civil matters it's always better to seek agreement outside of court

Constrained to the case or controversy, sure. But that isn't always the entire picture. Seeing that context is what separates the great lawyers from the commodity ones.
A lot of Astro news for the last 2 days:

- 4.5 release

- Volar $10,000 grant

- Astro Studio/DB
Was there a clean-up effort afterwards around town?

At least snow melts and evaporates, but dead bugs all over the streets?
Serendipity and Remote Work
Generac-type natural gas electrical generating units wired into the power panel are increasingly popular in new housing developments of a certain financial range, and retrofitting of homes with those is happening too. Presumably the gas companies are expected to have functional pumps even in electrical outages. If a solar charged battery system like the Sunverge is used there is no dependence on external sources during an outage.
The NTSB is bearing down on Boeing to give up the names of the staff that worked on the Alaska Airlines aircraft whose door plug blew out. At this rate, Boeing wont have to worry about whistleblowers. The investigation alone will be enough to open that can of worms.
OpenAI announces GPT-4.5 Turbo
> I am intrigued by what kind of drugs the PR team at Apple is taking

No drugs. PR teams write what helps their company to succeed. They don't have to believe into what they write.
> What will be left? Where will we be? Just stranded without dignity or purpose, left to rot when we no longer produce value.

Nobody stops you from paying $1000 for a shirt made by artisans right now. Do you want to?

> Our governments and society have made it clear, if you don't produce value, you don't deserve dignity.

It's not somebody else who decided that. It's you.
> If you want anything good, yes. If you just want something ...

You don't even need AI for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_poop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skibidi_Toilet

The idea that AI isn't going to be used as a creative tool too and that it won't lead to more and better art is a defeatist, Luddite attitude.

Similarly shaped people thought that digital cameras would ruin cinema and photography.

> Short-term, this is going to funnel resources away from the people with good taste.

On the contrary - every budding film student will soon [1] be able to execute on their entire visions straight out of the gates. No decades of clawing their way to a very limited, almost impossible to reach peak.

> it might help collapse the entire "creative industry"

The studio system. Not the industry.

> new gatekeeping strategies from the wealthy and connected, and business as usual.

Creatives have more ways of building brands and followings for themselves than ever before. It's one of the largest growing sectors of the economy, and lots of people are earning livings off of it.

You'll be able to follow that steampunk vampire creator that's been missing from the world until now. Every long tail interest will be catered to. Even the most obscure and wild tastes, ideas, and designs. Stuff that would never get studio funding.

As a creative, I'm overjoyed by this. My friends and I are getting to create things we never could make before [2].

[1] This and next year.

[2] Just an inspiration / aesthetic sample, but we're making a full film: https://imgur.com/a/JNVnJIn
Yeah. Like you would think you could just look at reflectivity data to determine whether or not it's currently raining, but at most places you are far from a radar site and even the 0.5 degree tilt is scanning a mile above your head. There might be rain there, but is it reaching the ground? All you can really do is guess.

If you're interested in providing on-the-ground condition reports, install mPING: https://mping.nssl.noaa.gov/

I keep this app on my homescreen and try to report when very light rain starts, since it's not always obvious from the reflectivity data. Ultimately the user reports get fed into things like improving the model, and more data is always good.
It would be fine if they didn't.
It's Time for the Chicken Tax to Die
> not saying that they wouldn't. I'm saying that they shouldn't.

You said it would be grounds for disbarment.
This is why we must stand out in some way, for example, to a future employer when applying for a job through a big competition. And how important luck is in many similar situations. Therefore, winning a competition, as well as getting or not getting a certain position, does not define you
Proven technology, maybe, but proven product-market fit for the kinds of things Facebook is using it for? Their linked blog about AI features gives examples "AI stickers" and image editing... cool, but are these potential multi-billion dollar lifts to their existing business? I guess I'm skeptical it's worthwhile unless they're able to unseat ChatGPT with a market-leading general purpose assistant.
I would love to use an open system on every smartphone but: Can I use my banking software with all the security bells and whistles?
I would definitely build a separate shed out of concrete blocks to keep it if allowed.
Here it is in one static image: https://i.imgur.com/qJsTjpp.jpeg