skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the tracks are a severe safety and performance issue, even after $6B in upgrades. The construction cost already puts the system at the edge of insolvency, even without considering operating costs.

I agree they're doing well by US standards.
Top link in there is about switching to windows. Which really is switching to WSL, at which point why even bother with the windows portion if you are developing for the web.

As for the switch to android, the article can be boiled down to: I never really used any iPhone only features (iMessage, airdrop, handoff, iPhone exclusive apps) and therefore it was easy. Except for the one (Photos) which is going to be a nightmare to have to manually migrate.

Big old nothing burger.

That being said, I would never trust Google Photos with storing my photos, especially since there isn't an equivalent desktop app like there is for Apple Photos. I'd likely move to https://www.photoprism.app
Another way to look at this is that a lot of content is not well organized.

For some people, this is an inconvenience. For some people, this makes the content impenetrable.

In a learning context, most people benefit from better organization and concision. Some people benefit significantly more than others, and they’re called out here.
Paul Sutter's new book seems very timely https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538181614/Rescuing-Science-Resto...
I finally solved it after many rearrangements. As a hint, try making a roundabout in the bottom left...
PHP has:

1. https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-2/ - coding style guidelines that are then used in tools like phpcs for automated linting

2. phpcs allows for defining additional rules that can be used in automated linting - https://gist.github.com/andreyAndrienko/19941c4b621f3212976a...

3. phpstan used for static analysis of files, allowing for defining architecture rules like: "this method cannot be used" or "this class cannot be used in this folder"

4. phpat (https://www.phpat.dev/examples/) (and architecture plugin in pest - https://pestphp.com/docs/arch-testing) allowing for defining architecture rules
"Back in my day..." we had registers that held the money that customers exchanged for the goods. Servers could write down orders on small pad and hand it to the cooks. There were lots of ways to not close your business because the phone company wasn't working. The move to cashless society has many pros/cons, and this is just showing a glaring item from the cons list. You live by the sword, you die by the sword. Some of us prefer some shields and armor though

Edit: it's so ancient that even I nearly forgot about them, but credit cards used to work by having the company take an impression of the card, then send in the receipts. sure, it might take a few days for transactions to complete, but it worked for several decades. there are fallbacks available to us, if we would just decide to allow for it rather than just failing
Steve Jobs is on record that Apple doesn’t care about being first (to market). They care about being the best.

This is why secrecy is a huge part of their culture: it allows them to spend years doing R&D work on multiple prototypes until they land on something they think is better than what is already out there.

If they can’t make it work due to the laws of physics (e.g. Apple AirPower) or indecision (e.g. Apple Car), they can shut it down without much fanfare and move on to the next secret R&D project.
The author of this article and quite a few people in this HN thread all seem to be mainly looking at Vision Pro through the lens of VR gaming. Why else would the author return his Vision Pro?

What makes Vision Pro truly interesting to me is that we can replace our laptop screen with a view containing a larger display and multiple ancillary displays.
Some software might even get more readable by using minification and this tool afterward :-D

At least it would bring some normalization to variable and function names.
Y Combinator's Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself
America's Plumber Deficit Isn't Good for the Economy
No. And this doesn't add anything constructive to the discussion. Please review the HN commenting guidelines (link is at the bottom of this page).
> > But the vast majority of people want to have real in-person human interactions when they're out in the world.

> I don’t buy this. So many people walking around absolutely glued to their smartphones.

I think it is right-ish, and just needs refinement:

Where people have to have human interactions when they're out in the world, the vast majority of them want them to be real in-person.

If I choose to interact with someone, or accept their attempt at interaction, I don't want a device between me and them. I often don't choose that, but this doesn't minimise my preference for non-tech-filtered integration if interaction does happen.

If I'm out on a trail run or trek I'm perfectly happy to exchange pleasantries with others out and about, I'm quite happy to give directions or similar assistance to a tourist while meandering locally (if asked politely, otherwise you will get sent well out of your way), but far less so if they are not looking me in the face.¹

> especially with strangers, service providers, “NPCs”, …

…, bloody survey people, charity muggers, those who think that because they believe [deity] loves me I'm somehow beholden to care, local press outside the station when I get off a train delayed by a significant incident, …

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[1] caveat: I'm away that some people are very uncomfortable with direct eye contact, that is quite different from not entirely paying attention because of a bit of tech.
Tonality is nuts. One of the first things you learn is that the questioning ‘ma’ can also become ‘horse’ or ‘mother’ given a tone.

“Māma qí mǎ, mǎ màn, māma mà mǎ” - “Mom rides a horse. The horse is slow. Mom scolds the horse.”
Yeah, it did. This type of stuff gets flagged pretty hard so I’m not surprised.
Add "getting distracted by hideous vanity projects like the Cybertruck" to that list.
I could not find on https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app yet

I'm sure I didn't edit it from the original, so that would be the HN's auto edit doing its job. Let the mods come in and make the title better.
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Yeah what he does and what he says bears no correlation. White noise.
Realtors reach settlement that will change how Americans buy and sell homes
You're thinking about this from a technical perspective, but the tech is the easy part. The content, and therefore structure and logical chunking of the metadata, is far more consequential than the number of images. I've seen people in academic environments pour tens of thousands of post-doc-hours into cataloging a few thousand images:

https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/
Gotta have the kid kicking your seat from behind, and the dude a few rows up who's on his phone the whole time too. Just can't replicate that with AVP.
>What is the human predicting there?

Their next action - word put on page, and so on.

>Why would it need to be a prediction task at all?

What else would it be?

Note that prediction in LLM terminology doesn't mean "what is going to happen in the future" like Nostradamus. It means "what is a good next word given the input I was given and the words I've answered so far".

>How about a dada-ist poem? Made-up words and syntax?

How about it? People have their training (sensory input, stuff they're read, school, discussions) and sit to predict (come up with, based on what they know) a made-up word and then another.
It'd be hard to make it worse than modern forensic "science", which is almost never falsifiable and always executed by someone being paid by an organization with an interest in a particular outcome.
Well, enough people found it to get >330 comments, which is a lot.
Can you clarify? I'm not sure I understand.

iOS and Android both have Focus Mode:

https://blog.google/products/android/android-focus-mode/

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-a-focus-iphd62...

I guess I don't use this feature when having a conversation with another person because it would require me to get out my phone and change modes when the conversation begins. That's too much of a barrier. In some settings, though, like when going to watch a movie in public, there's a dedicated window where people are expected to shift their phones to a socially acceptable mode. I do respond accordingly in those situations.

With AR, it would seem this process could be automated through facial recognition / voice detection. If there was a setting that said, "Don't notify me of text messages when the system detects I am conversing with another person. Do this automatically" then it seems quite practical to have that enabled. It also seems reasonable that it would be implemented because the concept of "disable notifications temporarily" already exists on phones.
What everyone else says about talking with people is the best advice. But if you don't already do this, try watching your local nightly news in English. It'll give you examples of vocabulary, grammar, and things to talk about with people.
Hey. Kudos on the launch. What makes getprops different from the likes of litellm/ portkey ai? More deeply, would like to understand what’s your right to win/ unique insight in this increasingly crowding market if you are pursuing this as a startup?
Except what is the benefit that it’s providing, that people asked to have solved?

I feel like if you went up to someone and asked “how can we improve this social interaction?” Literally nobody would suggest strapping a screen to your face anywhere in the list of improvements.

Here’s some other technology improvements:

What would make your TV experience better?

* make it bigger
* allow it to use the internet to watch infinite shows
* make it cheaper
* make the colors brighter

What would make your analog home-phone experience better?
* make it portable
* make it smaller
* allow me to save contacts within it
* allow me to take other notes
* now that I have this little thing in my pocket anyways, make it do more stuff

Then when we think of the problems that lead to AR being the solution, it’s almost entirely related to business problems. Surgery, manufacturing, carpentry, construction… all would benefit from a HUD that tells you what to put where. Those are real benefits.

But anything that people would do in a social situation? Almost never will the answer to a human interaction problem to be “attach a screen to your face”. In that scenario, all of the solutions are really in search of a problem.
After a bit of searching, I think this is the relevant paper for the database+technique: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037907382...

> geoFOR: A collaborative forensic taphonomy database for estimating the postmortem interval

https://www.geoforapp.info/machine-learning-model
Fine-grained control over various GC phases and decisions (such as the level of parallelism, max pause times). Until Go 1.19, it was even missing a max memory limit, and even now it only has a soft memory limit.

Additionally, of course it would be nice to have more GC options, such as choosing between a throughput-oriented GC design and a latency-oriented one, having the option of a compacting GC of some kind to avoid fragmentation, or even having a real time GC option.

Go has chosen a very old-fashioned GC design with very few tuning parameters possible, but even so it only exposes a very basic form of control.
Oh, yeah, I discovered this not because I thought staples would be stronger but because I built one shelf first and was tired of trying to nail those stupid brad nails in by hand... so for the next shelf I pulled out the staple gun. Was so impressed with how much more rigid it felt that I went behind the other shelf and drove a bunch of staples through the backing cardboard :)
Spoiler alert: in puzzle #3 what properties does the "track switch" piece have that makes the sphere take the turn instead of going straight on its way back from the bouncer? Doesn't look very physically correct.
Part of me is jealous of people who liked school this much.
There would be revolution in the streets tomorrow if the average person understood where money comes from and how it works. Once a group of people is wired into the free money pipeline they will do ANYTHING to make sure their supply is not cut off.

The USA has been printing and giving away free money for 30+ years now. The recipients of those funds have proven again and again, they will and do commit heinous crimes to maintain their position.

1) The legislature - Law makers have been captured through campaign contributions. In MOST cases a law maker has no say in how they vote, they are told by their campaign managers.

2) The judicial - Similarly judges tend to run for their seat every 4 years. In family court any divorce attorney worth their salt is donating the maximum amount to every judge every time they run. Then when they are in front of the judge in court just a thumbs up and a nod is enough to remind the judge who REALLY got them elected.

3) Corporations are DONE paying taxes and have been for a long time. Successful corporations have figured out how to siphon money from not only their customers but their employees and the federal government as well.

4) The money supply and system in general is fucked beyond repair and anyone willing or able to point that out is going to be on the "kill list".
Yes, I can't log in now. so just move to:

https://spacevim.org/git/repos/SpaceVim/
Whoa. I haven’t thought about Steve Pavlina in over a decade. It’s neat seeing him pop up. (He’s the polyphasic sleep guy, right?)

> It is absolutely imperative that you develop the habit of making decisions as soon as possible. I use a 60-second rule for almost every decision I have to make, no matter how big or important. Once I have all the data to make a decision, I start a timer and give myself only 60 seconds to make a firm decision. I’ll even flip a coin if I have to.

This might be a good idea for most decisions, but not big ones. It’s roughly how I lost $11k in Gox. In my case, I was reciting one of my father’s favorite phrases: "he who hesitates is lost." Be sure to think more carefully as the decision gets larger.
> We need cars buit like the ATX computer standard

Isn’t the controller area network an equivalent standard for interop? What’s keeping someone from offering a physical button that signals toggleLatch to the device providing glovebox services on the CAN bus?
Musk keeps talking about the $25k EV but I have a feeling he's sandbagging it and it will be close to $20k. I say this because Tesla now has all the tech to produce cars in the simplest and cheapest manner with slightly lower quality versions of the bits and pieces that are now going into their premium cars. Ie slightly cheaper versions of the motors, battery packs (smaller but fast charging), interiors, window etc. All in the form of a modern Tercel.
An alternative interpretation of the comment you're responding to is that you can do the same things in R, so no reason to switch.
They do, but those "Reporting Summaries" are useless makework, IMO.

First, you fill them out after the data has been collected, analyzed, and written up. It's perhaps helpful as a reminder to include a few tidbits in the text (e.g., the ethics approval #), but literally no one is going to fill this form out, realize the sample size is way too small, and....abandon the manuscript.

Second, you don't actually want people to comply with the instructions. For example, it asks for "A description of any assumptions or corrections, such as tests of normality". A decent number of statisticians argue that you shouldn't be using normality tests to choose between parametric and non-parametric stats. On top of that, nobody actually writes out assumptions behind OLS in their paper either.

I am deeply skeptical that this cookie-cutter stuff actually helps in any meaningful way. It feels like rigor-theatre instead.
Violent online content 'unavoidable' for UK children
They're not abandoned; just unused in the middle of the night.

I'd love to watch a satire where eco-terrorists in cat suits attempt to do what you're suggesting though.
Will a gun protect you when your car accelerates to 150 mph directly into a tree? A couple micrograms of toxin being sprinkled into your coffee? The CIA had a heart attack gun 50 years ago. Not difficult to imagine the capabilities they have today.
> Yes, they came in and disrupted everything

This entire pursuit of disruption has become just a red flag to me. Are there industries that are desperate for an outside company to come along and change the status quo? Absolutely. However, the SV "disruptors" have soured my view altogether on their willing to just be a bull in the china shop looking to gain notice/investment, yet ultimately not actually providing a good service/product/etc.
There would be revolution in the streets tomorrow if the average person understood where money comes from and how it works. Once a group of people is wired into the free money pipeline they will do ANYTHING to make sure their supply is not cut off.
The USA has been printing and giving away free money for 30+ years now. The recipients of those funds have proven again and again, they will and do commit heinous crimes to maintain their position.

1) The legislature - Law makers have been captured through campaign contributions. In MOST cases a law maker has no say in how they vote, they are told by their campaign managers.

2) The judicial - Similarly judges tend to run for their seat every 4 years. In family court any divorce attorney worth their salt is donating the maximum amount to every judge every time they run. Then when they are in front of the judge in court just a thumbs up and a nod is enough to remind the judge who REALLY got them elected.

3) Corporations are DONE paying taxes and have been for a long time. Successful corporations have figured out how to siphon money from not only their customers but their employees and the federal government as well.

4) The money supply and system in general is fucked beyond repair and anyone willing or able to point that out is going to be on the "kill list".
For floating point? Are you sure?
I feel like I could do that for a UK undergraduate course without issue but they'd block you doing it because they want the tuition fees for every year.
Tell HN: Redpanda is spamming emails taken from GitHub profiles
On my email that is just publicly used on my Github account I have repeatedly received marketing emails from the company behind Redpanda since 2021 without ever consenting to such and without any way to opt out. Replying to the email that I wish to not receive them has not helped. The newest email from this year has a “Not interested” button, so apparently they have learned a bit. Let’s see if it actually works.

I can not imagine this shady tactics get much love from developers, rather they probably turn away people from trying your product, at least for me this is the case.
10 shipwrecks from 3000BC to the World War II era found off the coast of Greece
Did the news agencies bother to confirm whether this woman knew John Barnett?
Sounds a bit apologetic. I don't think that the ecosystem decided. The language creators decided, and the ecosystem couldn't do much about it.
Show HN: Open-source, browser-local data exploration using DuckDB-WASM and PRQL
Hey HN! We’ve built Pretzel, an open-source data exploration and visualization tool that runs fully in the browser and can handle large files (200 MB CSV on my 8gb MacBook air is snappy). It’s also reactive - so if, for example, you change a filter, all the data transform blocks after it re-evaluate automatically. You can try it here: https://pretzelai.github.io/ (static hosted webpage) or see a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73wNEun_L7w

You can play with the demo CSV that’s pre-loaded (GitHub data of text-editor adjacent projects) or upload your own CSV/XLSX file. The tool runs fully in-browser—you can disconnect from the internet once the website loads—so feel free to use sensitive data if you like.

Here’s how it works: You upload a CSV file and then, explore your data as a series of successive data transforms and plots. For example, you might: (1) Remove some columns; (2) Apply some filters (remove nulls, remove outliers, restrict time range etc); (3) Do a pivot (i.e, a group-by but fancier); (4) Plot a chart; (5) Download the chart and the the transformed data. See screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/qO4yURI

In the UI, each transform step appears as a “Block”. You can always see the result of the full transform in a table on the right. The transform blocks are editable - for instance in the example above, you can go to step 2, change some filters and the reactivity will take care of re-computing all the cells that follow, including the charts.

We wanted Pretzel to run locally in the browser and be extremely performant on large files. So, we parse CSVs with the fastest CSV parser (uDSV: https://github.com/leeoniya/uDSV) and use DuckDB-Wasm (https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb-wasm) to do all the heavy lifting of processing the data. We also wanted to allow for chained data transformations where each new block operates on the result of the previous block. For this, we’re using PRQL (https://prql-lang.org/) since it maps 1-1 with chained data transform blocks - each block maps to a chunk of PRQL which when combined, describes the full data transform chain. (PRQL doesn’t support DuckDB’s Pivot statement though so we had to make some CTE based hacks).

There’s also an AI block: This is the only (optional) feature that requires an internet connection but we’re working on adding local model support via Ollama. For now, you can use your own OpenAI API key or use an AI server we provide (GPT4 proxy; it’s loaded with a few credits), specify a transform in plain english and get back the SQL for the transform which you can edit.

Our roadmap includes allowing API calls to create new columns; support for an SQL block with nice autocomplete features, and a Python block (using Pyodide to run Python in the browser) on the results of the data transforms, much like a jupyter notebook.

There’s two of us and we’ve only spent about a week coding this and fixing major bugs so there are still some bugs to iron out. We’d love for you to try this and to get your feedback!
Handwriting may boost brain connections that aid memory
I have that exact icon theme installed, so I went and checked, and you're right. Most of the cursors look to be in the 160 KiB range (which includes all the sizes together), with only the ones that include animations getting into the MiBs
What's the difference between Latitude and Streamlit?
Ask HN: Open-source alternatives to Tenable and Qualys
I'm looking for modern alternatives to do automatic pentesting/red teaming that are better packaged than Nessus and other more traditional software. So far I've found tools like katana and nuclei but reporting is still manual.
This is definitely a blast from the past, I remember reading this within a few years of it having been published in 2007 or so (has it really been that long?!) Re-reading it now I seem to have internalized a lot of the same ideas into my day-to-day work unconsciously or subconsciously, whatever it may be.

Regardless, there are a lot of ideas in there that sort of seem quaint now with the deluge of personal development youtube videos and influencers, but those seemingly now-quaint ideas really are fundamental to doing good work: know what you need to work on, keep a simple list of what needs to be done, only focus on one thing because your multitasking skills aren't, be adaptable when obstacles pop up, "begin, the rest is easy", "do the work or do nothing at all", optimize your diet and exercise which makes things so much easier.
A professional hit can cost as little as a few thousand dollars. The persons who do it for that kind of fee aren't the sharpest tools in the shed.