skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plenty of Europeans live in sprawly cities too.

It's just a subset of upwardly mobile, single, and high earning Germans who say otherwise on social media.

Try taking public transit in working class neighborhoods like Barkarby, Nyberg, Nieuw-West, or East London, Ealing-Southall, and Tottenham. It deteriorates to American level connectivity outside the affluent center.

But they won't listen. They'll just bury their heads in the sand and when people who look like us bring it up they try to gaslight (edit: or downvote to oblivion).

It's like talking to the Cambridge-Somerville-Brookline crowd - "Oh we support Sanders but we won't send our kids to the public schools that just so happen to have Somali, Eritrean, Arab, and El Salvadoran students" or the Palo Alto crowd - "Oh, we'd rather send our kids to Palo High instead of Gunn High because of 'pressure' and by the way make sure to roll up the windows in East Palo Alto"

Ime, Western Europeans act the exact same if not worse (because of the gaslighting). At least the AfD, Front National, and the Brexit Party are upfront about what those people think about us.
The implication is that the nurse should NOT have told the fat and possibly diabetic patient to "stop eating cupcakes"??

This is complete insanity. Brought to you by your friendly cupcake company, pharma dealer, and dialysis provider.
Its from the guy who made the animations for the original "Cosmos" series by Carl Sagan!!! Also the shots of the Library of Alexandra in its full glory.

Amazing stuff for the 80's. In fact you often see worse today. I always wondered who and how they did those. Thanks for posting this.
To Get Ahead, First Get to Zero
The idea of completely clearing your inbox seems daunting, even to the most adept digital natives. Especially these days, where emails are pervasive and unrelenting. Getting to Inbox Zero can seem like the holy grail of email management.
So you want someone else to run it so you can just be part of a community? Seems selfish.
Sorry, I loose respect for those defending Amazon. Terrible behavior towards their workers, push against consumer protection, and anticompetitive antics like price-fixing highlight their deplorable behavior. They only way I do business with them is taking their money and not giving them a penny.

Their Walk Out technology original statements and working reality show they find with grifting to prop up their image.

Here is good example of economics. How much is a $25 Amazon gift card worth? Some it many be $25 and others it is $0, and in-between for people looking to off load their gift card for pennies on the dollar.
Eh, I just wanted to migrate to this, a lot of threads recommend it as the best way to effortlessly set up Wireguard. WG-easy, Headscale have their own set of problems. I guess there will be forks.
> We want to be able to handle up to 30k location updates per second per node. They can be buffered before writing, leading to a much lower number of IOPS.

> This storage engine is part of our server binary, so the cost for running it hasn’t changed. What has changed though, is that we’ve replaced our $10k/month Aurora instances with a $200/month Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume. We are using Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) with 3000 IOPS and are batching updates to one write per second per node and realm.

I would be curious to hear what that "1 write per second" looks like in terms of throughput/size?
I think it will likely work well for certain categories or topics, but will likely stray very far from truth for medical or nutritional topics.
AI eye-tracking to determine whether child has autism
I do have such a machine but I’m using it to collect shoppers future behavior to inform advertisers in the past how to best target them in their future purchasing. Turns out even better than tracking them in the present!
It’s funny that Google researchers use gpt4 to generate the question bank.
If they're blocking these programs by the name of the .exe file, then wouldn't a new version still be blocked?
I am super interested in this, and would love to to hear if people have any user experience with the tool thus far. On paper, it hits all of the right notes: full git compatibility so I can silently use a superior tool, Rust so it is cross platform, deliberately thought out UI.

The one thing keeping me from taking the plunge is I (probably my bad workflow) really lean on editing a bunch of code and then selectively committing individual lines (eg I am editing foo(), but I see comment string for bar() is wrong. I tweak both, and when I get around to it will selectively make two commits from the edited lines). It seems like this workflow is a bit more painful to hit. At least, there is no visual tooling which is going to understand jj right now, so it is up to me to do that commit surgery.

I thought this[0] jj tutorial does a lot to sell the experience.

[0] https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/introduction...
EBS latency is all over the place. The jitter is up to the 100ms scale, even on subsequent IOPS. We’ve also had intermittent failures for fsync(), which is a case that should be handled but is exceptionally rare for traditionally-attached drives.
I've used this before and it's great as a "reverse tunnel" when you have a VM in the cloud that does allow configurable port forwarding/firewall rules but need to connect "peer to peer" to a customer in a workshop who has the typical "my router blocks everything and we aren't going to spend the time supporting every workshop's possible inbound network connection setup".

It helps for "flipping" the "server connects to client".

But... it gets detected as malware really easily haha
That largely isn't a controversial opinion. "Less sugar" is basically standard medical advice.

It's not a conspiracy you don't see loads of research on it. It's already been done. It's bad for us. We know it.
That's actually the beauty of git, and any other DVCSs. It's one click to "fork" with lots of other forges as well.
Down with KSH!!! I worked for a place that used it heavily. When Suse removed the old KSH from their OS, it broke a lot of scripts. This taught me the importance of portable scripts. I do my best to write my shell scripts in POSIX compliant Sh these days. Sometimes I need Bash...
Shameless plug for an alternative?

> WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create a personally managed full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN with ad blocking capabilities thanks to Pi-hole, and DNS caching, additional privacy options, and upstream providers via Unbound.

https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole
Honda has some deals with Chevy ATM that are bizarre. But I really like their ICE cars and it’s sad they aren’t bothering with EVs. An EV civic would be awesome.

I’m not worried about going green, I just prefer the EV driving experience. I know that’s a bit selfish, but many car enthusiasts after trying EVs can’t go back to ICEs, let alone hybrids.
There has to be a fallback like SMS and/or automated call.
The more I learn about AI, the less confident I feel that we'll solve the bias and hallucination problems. A lot of these "in the future we will..." predictions assume a linear path towards progress, while the actual path is looking more and more asymptotic.
Fragmentation is good IMO. That gives more oxygen to the low-level innovators.
It also means that designers will own more responsibility and become closer to a researcher who is paired with a AI partner. It's an upgrade in prestige.
I guess, but there may be (is, in my opinion) something mystical about higher non-spatial, metaphysical dimensions, and I think the difficulty one experiences conceptualizing a 4th spatial dimension can be useful in attempting to conceptualize the possibility that difficulty also exists in conceptualizing these non-spatial dimensions.

Or in other words: People don't think it be like it is, but it do.

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/012/059/the...

There is also something mystical here (the "nothing"):

> there's nothing inherently mystical about...
> The user desires to interact with this button because they want what it offers.

The button says only "Under attack?". How is that an offer?

> After finding Cloudflare, they can immediately see a button that solves their problem

But this button label just asks a question. How is the user to know a press will solve their problem?

To me it looks like clickbait trying to sell something.
one spiral does not have radial symmetry. If i take the union of that spiral and that spiral rotated by 2pi*k/n rotation for each k, I get n-fold symmetry.
For UK banks on my Graphened Pixel 6a I can use the apps for HSBC, First Direct, Barclays, NatWest, RBS, Co-Operative Bank and Metro Bank with no issues, and have only had trouble with the Lloyds Bank app as of an update from maybe 2-3 months ago which throws an error saying they've detected I'm using a jailbroken/rooted device
I have a conjecture that aphantasia may be overrepresented in software disciplines. It seems sensible to me that a field which is almost wholly abstract would select a higher proportion of aphantasic people than average, as it would be of no hindrance. (I would expect the same from mathematics and maybe some sciences, but I'm not a member of any such community so I wouldn't know firsthand.)

Again, just a conjecture, but it would help to explain why we seem to come out of the woodwork in such circles so regularly.
A good GenerativeUI product depends on a datasource for the AI to have some working history to make decisions about what kind of interface to show a user.

An A/B test needs thousands of samples in some cases to make a determination about which is preferred. A generative UI would be like running 100 simultaneous a/b tests for your users.

I would think you would need a significant amount of traffic on the order of millions of users to be able to determine to some degree that one UI configuration is better for a particular type of user.

Without the data to know what works the AI will essentially just be randomly generating UIs for each user.

Defining an outcome is actually one of the hardest problems in AI and even in organizations. While you think startups can easily just say "make the UI that gets the most revenue" that isn't necessarily true. For example if a terrible user experience results in more short term revenue but your users die out, that isn't a good outcome for the company. Or maybe you have a free tier that you want people to use for network effect, etc.

So it is very hard to have a single number to use for outcome. If every user has a different UI, then it also becomes hard to spot things that go against the company's interests, etc.
I’d argue the opposite. This happened, as how I understood it when it was explained, is that while code gets lots and lots of eyeballs, non- trivial make files get little to no real review as it’s often hard to reason about them. The exploit took advantage of going where the security was weakest. The more AI is involved in reviewing all aspects the better off the process will be, especially the tedious and boring parts of all this.

I expect we will see a spate of security bots looking at all manner of things in the process as a reaction to all this.

Ken Thompson’s issues with trust will still apply. However these issues are with us with or without AI being employed.
we have invented write concern = 0
There’s no way there will be any robotaxis from Tesla this year or next or the one after that. FSD is not a level 5 system, and by the looks of it seems increasingly dubious it’ll even reach level 4. Source: I own a Tesla and get FSD subscription for a month every year. I like the car, but I do wish they’d stop their FSD scam and focus on plain ADAS instead
> we’ve replaced our $10k/month Aurora instances with a $200/month Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume.

Without any intent to insult what you've done (because the information is interesting and the writeup is well done)... how do the numbers work out when you account for actually implementing and maintaining the database?

- Developer(s) time to initially implement it

- PjM/PM time to organize initial build

- Developer(s) time for maintenance (fix bugs and enhancement requirements)

- PjM/PM time to organize maintenance

The cost of someone to maintain the actual "service" (independent of the development of it) is, I assume, either similar or lower, so there's probably a win there. I'm assuming you have someone on board that was on charge of making sure Aurora was configured / being used correctly; and it would be just as easier if not easier to do the same for your custom database.

The cost of 120,000/year for Aurora seems like it would be less than the cost of development/organization time for the custom database.

Note: It's clear you have other reasons for needing your custom database. I get that. I was just curious about the costs.
It's definitely not a black and white thing but a (flexible) scale: a noticeable variation of intensity can be felt when practicing an activity demanding an intense visual focus on a specific object (e.g. painting): an stronger-than-usual visual image can be recalled effortlessly, at least during a few days.
Tesla is stuck with him and that will be the end. I do wonder why anyone with talent would work for Tesla at this point. Such a polarizing thing to have on your cv.
Apple licensed images from Shutterstock for AI training
curious to hear does anyone know what the mentioned alternatives are? a super simple to use wireguard control plane is super valuable and PiVPN seemed to fit that gap perfectly

unfortunate that it's come to an end but it's nice to hear the maintainer moving on in such a positive way :)
A good introduction to aphantasia (I'm a total, multi-sensory aphant): https://aphantasia.com/guide/
The Chinese EV makers will deliver it, as they already have vehicles at that price point. Their barriers here are buildout of repair/service infrastructure, and tariffs/US auto lobbyists.
Just work to where you can outrun your fork. It's difficult but doable.
In addition to the other replies: No, aphantastics (nice word!) aren't unable to do it, much like almost anyone can become amateur-level competent at almost anything if they put in enough effort.

But it's a matter of talent, and you're missing a big component. That can be made up for in other ways, though I think it'd be hard to reach the peak.
Well they said ~40 bytes per update, so 30k * 40 = 1.2MB/sec… so quite trivial.

They also said 30GB per month which works out to 0.7MB/sec if load is perfectly constant.
I'm not sure the degree to which insurance companies are legally allowed to share information such as aerial photographs with each other.

When I worked at Google I knew a developer who was building a prototype service similar to Google Flights, except for auto and home insurance. I don't think that product ever shipped.

The dev on that team told me that a key thing they learned while doing the analysis is that the optimal strategy with auto and home insurance is to automatically switch providers whenever it's time to renew.

It could be because your current company has collected things about you that they aren't allowed to share with other insurance companies.
Years ago, a conclusion of automatic translation projects seemed to be that these systems didn't need to understand much or anything about a new language to do a half decent job of translating it. All that was needed was a sufficient body of material already existing in multi-lingual form - such as international standards, international organizations proceedings, etc.

Was this ever attempted for translating from one programming language to another? (Except multi-programming language examples are usually not straight translations, they are re-writings from scratch nominally to exploit each programming language strong points and in practice often not even doing that.)

Is DNA/RNA sufficiently comparable to a language? (Except that there is no multi-lingual equivalents there which seems to be where the LLM approach comes in.)
even if it is different companies, not sure if it makes a difference... it just encourage bad practices.

AKA.... don't look at the small picture.
I see your point about how many individual, large changes came around in the world between 1930 and 1990. Indoor plumbing, air conditioning, radio, TV, transistor, commercial air flight, space travel, helicopters, nuclear energy, cell phones.

But the Internet and social media have truly shifted society.

Social media has entirely transformed how people interact with the world and discover new things, for good and very much for bad.

People born past 2000 never knew a world without computers in every classroom (or in front of every student). Most never experienced having to be at home to receive messages from people, unless you went to their house. Needing to plan ahead with people when to meet. Everyone in society watching the same shows (mostly).

I think AI will fundamentally alter the world, like the Internet did. We're in the infant stages.
> don’t use different names for the same thing.

But if there ARE different names, call it out in the introduction, and state which one you will be using.
I've increased my income roughly over 20x over past 20 years, its not impossible. Still doing same 100% employed java dev role as on Day 1. I've moved employers and countries few times, did some consulting too, purpose wasn't the money per se but when choosing your next employer salary is a good general indicator of how well you will be treated.

Started really low since I knew I wanted the job and it would be temporary, didn't have any students loans (Europe baby!), and eventually ended up in position that pays better than 99% of software devs in Europe. Not most rewarding work, but its just work for me, life that matter happens for me when I log out.
How long until this team isn't profitable and is let go anyway?
Sure, if you define "collective of american voters" as "5 unelected people", then sure "enough did".
It's only a brand, there is almost nothing in common between local branches.

As for ING - about 4-5 years ago it was possible to spoof the check but about 3 years ago they went full bonkers and if you didn't get the app from playstore (so for example aurora) it refused to launch...
In my experience large Microsoft customers deployed applications with SCCM, now perhaps moving to Intune. Distributing MSIs via group policy is fairly primitive compared to what endpoint management platforms can offer.

But my point was that large commercial installer kits were always required to produce MSIs, in the absence of something like the WiX Toolset.
The problem is asking people to close their eyes. Most visualizers don't need to close their eyes to visualize, and many state that they can visualize even better with them open. Everyone sees some form of black/Eigengrau when they close their eyes.
> Hard to believe that it actually reached the Small Claims Court

It's easy to file a small claim in the UK. More info on the process for England & Wales here: https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money

> let alone succeeded!

The article is light on details, but it sounds like the parties settled before any hearing or ruling.
It took a few decades to get this bad, it'll probably take a few decades to get good again. But if you never start, it'll never be good again. And people were displaced to build highways, why would you rule that out for mass transit?
Yes. The user is living (i.e. working) in the moment, and so should your text.
I mean if you spun up Postgres on EC2 you would be directly writing to EBS so that's not really the part I'm worried about. I'm more worried about the lack of replication, seemingly no way to scale reads or writes, beyond a single server, and no way to failover uninterrupted.

I'm guessing it doesn't matter for their use-case which is a good thing. When you realize you only need like this teeny subset of db features and none of the hard parts writing you own starts to get feasible.
There's research that people with aphantasia are over-represented in STEM fields: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/people-with-aphantasia-are...
The author does note in the writeup that they are comfortable with some (relatively rare) data loss; like server failure and the like. Given their use cases, it seems like the jitter/loss of EBS wouldn't be too impactful to them.
Apache Cassandra could be a good fit here. Highly parallel frequent writes with some consistency loss allowed.
the team supports the subscription model of the future. until all potentially “saveable” games are saved, or at least those over a certain popularity threshold, there is customer value to be squeezed.

all the old content is valuable, because it doesn’t matter what you play, or if you play.

as long as you pay.
If I cannot see - with my eyes there and then - a scribble happens.

To sort of expand: I'm old enough that a diagnosis makes zero difference. But it does explain so much.

When misophonia became a thing it explained so much of my reactions to certain noises, that I was not alone.

Just knowing that others are experiencing the same removes some of that aloneness.
Curious, can you name this institution that only allows the app to be used as the second factor without fallbacks?
https://archive.is/FPzmd
The good content has not disappeared. So it is still google going to shit if it can't make up what is good and what isn't, which was the reason people started using it in the first place 25 years ago.
They're gone since Vista (2007), I think. Widows now stores thumbnails in the user profile folder. But the stigma lives on.
Yeah, we always knew there were. Open source can't stop existing because there are bad actors.
It doesn’t seem like a MEMS given its mechanical nature would be a reasonable thing to build into a contact lens - a chemical battery can be built into the lens in a way that it’s totally unnoticeable especially if the electrolyte is supplied by the eye. I wouldn’t be the first one to try it on but by the time it reaches me I’m pretty sure it won’t corrode my eye out.
Specialist AI doesn't scale. When you train separate models, each one starts from scratch, so you get no transfer / informative priors. So your specialist models wind up collectively scaling much worse than the power law of the generalist. And because of that, your collection of specialized models winds up being leapfrogged by a generalist model which avoids being 'penny-wise pound-foolish'. In the real world, boundaries are not sharp, and everything is "hallucinations of modern artwork depicting polypeptides"; this is precisely why GOFAI approaches failed!
they will probably just run emulators for that
Kind of misleading to not include the cost of developing it yourself.

I think everything is cheaper than cloud if you do it yourself when you don't count staffing cost.
You are correct to say that the distinction between fine and commercial art is beyond an artwork's practical utility, but I think we could both agree that the market price of art does not necessarily equate to its overall social value. That is what I was getting at. It's more about economic markets not capturing social value, and copyright's role in protecting economic value to the detriment of social value.

Outside the scope of my comment is whether copyright is even capable of protecting social value (I tend to think it isn't), but if it is, W3C should be the organization that steps up to make the attempt.
They are not wrong. Insurance with perfect info ceases to ne any form of a recognizable social good. In fact, it just becomes indistinguishable from a sanctioned form of populational segregation, instead of the pull-a-long stick-with-carrot through which risk is mitigated against long tail events through active propagation of best practices as a condition of coverage.

Insurance companies should be exposed to the same level of risk as anyone else, which includes having things boow up in your face if you mismanage your float.
The only working "big iron" I'm aware of in a museum is the LCM's PDP-10. The museum is still closed, unfortunately.