skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paint protects steel. A frequently painted steel bridge can last centuries.

As always, lack of maintenance and poor design choices (use of corten steel) are the culprit.
> if it’s possible for Microsoft Azure to be the hosting provider for very important systems ie government, medical, then yes, these could impact a high degree of quality of life for people, even now or in the future.

If you design a system that could cause significant personal harm or a meaningful degradation of quality of life for someone due to cloud provider downtime, you're just a bad engineer. There's no such thing as a data center that's failure-proof. If someone's well-being depends on a system, it's simply negligent to be intolerant of failure conditions.
The absolute state of American manufacturing
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40010047
Not wrong. Laziness just like 23andme. Didn't move to 2FA until after the attack.

> As a part of our ongoing commitment to information security, we have enabled two-factor authentication (2FA) for all Roku accounts, even for those that have not been impacted by these recent incidents. As a result, the next time you attempt to log in to your Roku account online, a verification link will be sent to the email address associated with your account, and you will need to click the link in the email before you can access the account.

> We understand that 2FA adds an extra step to the login process. That’s why we’ve worked hard to make it as simple as possible. If you need assistance, please visit How to sign in with two-step verification on our Customer Support site for more information.
Must be regional then I've heard it several times and read it many times before this article.

It's definitely much less popular than hit by but that's not shocking. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=socked+by%2Chi...
Thank you! I’m going to add it into my list but I can’t promise right now.
It's ragebait, but for your information, the "Ticktocker" knew how to manually release, she choose not to because the power was on and she did not want to damage her Tesla, as Tesla say to not use the manual release while the power is on. It was her choice to stay in the car and to avoid damaging it.

But 40 minute for a software update, hopefully during that time they execute test batteries, else it is shameful. Rule of thumb: if your update take as much time as compiling GCC does, its too long.
Thanks to the Streisand Effect, I've installed this. Seems to work pretty well on the few sites I've tried. Hopefully the maintainer can find a new home and let people know on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B
The problem with everything is capitalism
Thanks! I will also change that.
Being strungout and shitting on the streets is a crime though, so I'd take it if they enforced that one...
so who wants to join the wow server I setup this weekend? ;)
Thank you for recording with us! And good luck with this product. There's definitely a bunch of use cases for scrappy prototyping or early mocks!
The problem is, there are many customers. You should listen, but that doesn’t mean you have to agree with everything or submit to every demand. I for one find Orion useful and it would be a bummer if it was scrapped because of a single comment on HN. Also, “I lost faith in a company because it made T-shirts” sounds a bit hyperbolic to take seriously IMO.
The purpose of a Motion to Reconsider is to delay an approved motion from taking effect until the end of the following business day if an absentee can be convinced to join the quorum:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconsideration_of_a_motion#Le...

Here is the roll call on the 212-212 tie vote on the Biggs Amendment which would require a warrant:

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024114

Thirteen members did not vote on that roll call. Any one of them could tip the balance:

Babin Republican Texas Not Voting
Gallego Democratic Arizona Not Voting
González-Colón Republican Puerto Rico Not Voting
Grijalva Democratic Arizona Not Voting
Lesko Republican Arizona Not Voting
Luetkemeyer Republican Missouri Not Voting
Mooney Republican West Virginia Not Voting
Payne Democratic New Jersey Not Voting
Perez Democratic Washington Not Voting
Plaskett Democratic Virgin Islands Not Voting
Radewagen Republican American Samoa Not Voting
Strickland Democratic Washington Not Voting
Wittman Republican Virginia Not Voting

All but one of these representatives did not vote at all today, which means they are likely not in Washington. Hopefully one or more can be convinced to fly there in the next 48 hours.

The exception is Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who was on the floor today and voted on every measure except the Biggs Amendment. This means she effectively voted against it. Her district covers the southwestern part of Washington State (Pacific, Chehailis, Lewis, Clark, Skamania, Wahkiakum, and Cowlitz Counties). If you live there, give her a call at (202) 225-3536 (from here: https://clerk.house.gov/Members/G000600 )
App developers and Apple/Google

Manufacturers and Retailers

There are lots of examples of people who produce things being beholden to a few companies that controls the distribution channels.

A more interesting one is small businesses and payment processors which don't control the distribution but rather keep them operationally dependant on a product they control a monopoly over.
Attaching to the roof requires screwing fasteners through the metal in fairly arbitrary positions based on the underlying framing. It’s not going to be easy to have electric connections.
The tradeoff has been in time investment. It takes very little time to get the gear and materials needed to start working on Mythic Dragonflight raids, while Heroic and Normal can get started even faster and are actually quite easy by comparison. Meanwhile in Classic, the skill ceiling is low but the time investment is through the roof. My first time in Classic was SoD and just leveling to 25 was damned exhausting. I can't imagine going to 60, and I can't imagine the materials and money I'd need to seriously consider raiding.
All this is true, but naturally the projects that can scale are going to be getting the majority of dev attention since those can be used for large scale private server projects like Nostralius. There’s not nearly as strong of a “market” for servers intended for small friend groups.
My wife and I travelling together will still sometimes use an AirBnB over a hotel but mostly when we're staying more than a few days and don't want to deal with eating at a restaurant every day or there's a very nice location. It's still easier to find comparable out of the way places on AirBnB's in quite a few spots, especially when you're far enough out of town that your next closest competitor tends to be more traditional vacation rental cabins etc.
Vision loss isn't new to humans, I wonder what our ancestors did before glasses were more commonly available. Did they move on to different kinds of work, or find workarounds to their tasks?
Thank you! In the short term, I feel like that might require too much work comparing to adding new languages but in the long term, I might add a functionality for that.
Misleading headline. A more truthful one would be: Biden pays off 7.4B in student loans using taxpayer money. Banks are the winners here.
I just want to be able to browse the dependencies of my repo with a web UI. Show me a tree of dependencies in my repo, filter for ones that are outdated, expand them to show what would be in a dependabot PR (the keen description it generates that contains all the release info and links to changelogs and whatnot). Then let me open a PR (or tell dependabot to do so) with the click of a button, or ignore it with another.

The current workflow where dependabot just spams an endless stream of PRs is not optimal. I don't need any new features from dependabot, I just want a better UI.
> Rather than begin applying for warrants, the government has circumvented the ruling in many cases, buying up GPS data from companies that consumers largely believe are tracking them purely for advertising purposes.

> “They’re buying data. That’s what they’re doing,” says Warren Davidson, a Republican congressperson from Ohio. “They’re structuring markets to collect the data and they’re circumventing the Fourth Amendment. We need to turn that off.”

This is also a big part of the problem, imo. It is too easy for apps to request a cocktail of permissions (including location data) when an app is installed; then users never revisit those permissions after the app is used once.

Meanwhile the app is constantly tracking users locations. And selling it to third parties, which sell it to gov’t orgs.

How can mobile devices be updated to make users more aware of these problems? Maybe iOS and Android can, once a month, pull up a dossier of you on an app-by-app basis or something.
Something like 20% of the bridges in this country are 10 years or more past their design lifetime and mostly not due to be replaced any time soon. You think they're keeping on top of painting every one? Saying preventing corrosion is as easy as slapping on paint is like saying computer security is as easy as not leaking your password. There are a million things that could happen, many of which are outside what any single person could control.
This sounds like a snake oil sales pitch
Not for Hawaii but I'm not homebody I do travel and look at AirBnB vs Hotels on most trips.
No, not right now.
Stanford, 1968. From there on I continued to learn to code wherever I went. The darn field would not stop changing every 6 months or so! Same thing today. My current side project constantly demands I learn something new. Maybe it's time to stop and learn something else.
Thanks for holding them accountable. This stuff is such a needless barrier to care for so many people.
To add to this, not everyone needs to pursue the same kind of work. As a more experienced mapper I make a point of allocating my time toward what I think of as “scaffolding” tasks that enable others’ mobile contributions—geometry, wide area edits, alignment, navigational references, model clarification, or anything that might trigger new quests in StreetComplete or declutter formidable ones. It’s gratifying to have exposed new opportunities for mobile contributions and see the questers begin filling them in.
Yes, I know. The GP comment was arguing for every person for themselves on this stuff.
Hmm. I wonder if adding an air-to-water pump to the existing loop, before the boiler, can be made to work? Perhaps with a microcontroller intermediating the thermostats on both to turn each on at the ideal time?
Yeah, their client was pretty bad, especially on macOS where it would sometimes get borked in a way that needed a full OS reboot to start working again.
This website is absolutely cursed. Ad upon ad upon ad (I am on iOS, so no ad blockers).
The UI of Devin is quite nice. Anyone knows to what degree it's inspired by other tools on the market?
Word on the street is that either Israel or the US is going to get hit by Iran within two weeks. I'm pleased that they pushed this through honestly instead of waiting for said attack to take advantage of the inevitably hysteria.
This is a good article, but I think the "future of web development" is using native web APIs for like 99% of everything.

I'm really sick and tired of framework churn at this point. I don't like any of the options. I don't want React, Solid, or Htmx. I don't want Turbo or Alpine, I don't want Svelte or Solid.

I don't even use Lit anymore most of the time.

Give me vanilla* or give me death!

* (and a smattering of _very small_ libraries which do only one thing and one thing well. Signals from the Preact team is pretty awesome in this regard because you can just use the signal/computed/effect however you like. Create your own component architecture. Stick 'em in custom elements. Anything. We need a lot more of that!)
I did! I want to switch to Mixtral-8x22B, time permitting. During the development of Stream of Consciousness I already swapped LLMs twice. This space is moving incredibly fast.
What a racist and bigoted perspective. I'm so sorry.
Thank you! Sorry for the problem. I will check it out.
man, I'm glad someone find this interesting so that I don't have to.
I'm not sure that's correct. Hallucination definitely implies some sort of connection to reality, confabulation does not, it implies some kind of hard to detect error in stitching memories together coherently
“While this is already impressive, it gets even better.”

I can almost hear “and if you call now, you get this amazing towel for free!”

But judging by the comments here, it seems I’m more sensitive to this tone than most.
As with databases it always depends, for maximum insert performance you'd actually often go with random uuids so you dont get a hot page.
StreetComplete is really nice
How much would you drop for a lifetime license of a product like this?
Took only a few minutes of going through the few McMansions of the area... 27.2742469, -82.3742776
ED = Erectile Dysfunction

Did not read past that.
1) A bad system of elections that tends to result in only two viable parties that substantially differ in policy positions from their own voters. Our system of elections drives that outcome.

2) Cowardice. Being personally punished (say, by losing an election) for problems caused by too much spying or too much military spending or too much surveillance is vanishingly unlikely. Being punished because something bad happens and maybe that thing you voted against would have prevented it? That’s possible.

3) Probably blackmail campaigns by various law enforcement and spy agencies, aimed at politicians. I very much doubt that sort of thing stopped after Hoover was gone, or that the FBI was the only agency to engage in it. I guess the “how we got here” for this part is failing to aggressively dismantle the whole tainted edifice and start from scratch back when that was feasible, and failure to keep those agencies on an extremely tight leash.
We can build housing very well. It’s a matter of cost. Labor is not cheap. Have you tried to price out construction recently? You don’t need to take it from a random comment on HN. Price the market and see what it tells you. If you happen upon a magical reserve of cheap labor though, please share with the group, as we’d love nothing more than to pitch in and make our housing problems melt away for everyone.
GrapheneOS is a good start. It isn't a complete answer, but it does put the user in a little more control.
This article is a little old.

First thing that isn't correct or changed since this was written:

> There don't seem to be any existing built-in or extension functions that support generating UUIDv7s in PostgreSQL. To generate a UUIDv7, the function below could be tweaked in order to support the correct formatting.

This is the extension I use until UUIDv7 native support lands in PostgreSQL https://github.com/fboulnois/pg_uuidv7. As for native support, it's definitely underway, though it seems to have a few issues keeping up with the version 17 target release: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/47/4388/
> Though you are set up to build an LLM with this if you train enough data

But you aren't. No amount of data loaded into a trie will turn the trie into a neural net.

> The library is not going to provide a `chat` function like GPT,

Providing a 'chat' function is nothing to do with what a LLM is. Here's the first sentence from the second paragraph of wikipedia on Large Language Models: "LLMs are artificial neural networks." When someone points out that you wouldn't use this kind of library to create an LLM, you generally say something about how you think they're complaining that it doesn't chat with you. It's not about chat, it's about the fact that the functionality you've written about has nothing to do with the way that LLMs work. LLMs are artificial neural networks. What you've written is a trie, not an artificial neural network. Artificial neural networks need fast matrix multiplication, not tries.
Interestingly, IP enforcement relies on globalization, which has been on the wane since Xi cemented his autocratic powers and the US began its trade war under the Trump administration
What're your thoughts on using the "GPT" prefix for open source projects? If they're successful, will OpenAI go after them, and can they actually enforce this trademark?
My co-founder and I are working on a cloud startup (we have a registered LLP in India), and after launch, we want to register in the US through Stripe Atlas/Clerky. It seems easy enough (as non-residents) to open a company bank account in the US too.

In the future, we plan to apply for the EB-1 (based on your suggestions in previous threads to others) to live in the US.

Is it okay to register and operate a US company from India for now, when we plan to apply for an EB-1 in the future? Or could it be detrimental for future visa applications or any other reasons?
Reading jsonb from SQLite three times faster
ah, yeah their instagram integration is often pretty rough.
It's time for another post in my virtualization and containerization series. This time, we're diving into Podman, a tool that's shaking up the container landscape. How does it stack against Docker? Let's find out! Podman, like Docker, manages containers, but with a twist. It operates without a central daemon, offering more control and security through rootless execution. Plus, it plays nicely with OCI standards, ensuring compatibility and easy migration. In essence, Podman and Docker share the goal of simplifying container deployment, each with its unique approach. By understanding their differences, we empower ourselves to choose the right tool for the job.
Memrise is shutting down community courses
Memrise had provided a feature to add non popular languages to it's language learning app. Both website and Mobile app. It was incredibly useful. Now that memrise is shutting down the community courses, are there any other service or app that can be used for language learning? I know, Anki exists. But a dedicated web-app with mobile app will be better.
Usually what this means is some small little team within those companies either signed up for a trial (using their @fortune.com email address) or they use it for some small little project. Pretty common marketing technique for startups. Not totally honest, but not totally false.
I get the feeling it's for fun. It's a maker's project, not a preppers project.
Google's RecurrentGemma brings advanced language AI to edge devices
There are always unknown unknowns in trying new designs and/or materials. Even with all the simulations and calculations, nothing beats experience.

Sure, novel things should be tried, but in a conservative manner. Overdesign first, then optimize iteratively. Because failure costs lives.
Having never read this, current Texas anti-trust lawsuit. [1]

Alleges quite a bit, yet the main four in the article are.

1) Google says it runs a Second Price auction, but really runs a Third Price auction, ignores the 2nd bid, and takes the difference for (shifting purposes). Telling a Publisher they made $8, when they would have made $12.80.

2) Google inflates bids of buyers "to ensure their advertisers beat out bids from competing buying platforms". Artificially making their platform look better economically. Was individual cases, yet now alleged to be a global pool of stolen Publisher money.

3) Gaining access to Publisher's ad-spend behavior with Dynamic Allocation, and then using the info to make sure rival platforms seemed less competitive by manipulating and inflating other bids. Make sure they always seem to lose by $0.01 on every bid.

4) Forcing Publishers to accept Dynamic Allocation by punishing them with the maximum allowed revenue drop for Bernake (40%) while inflating competitors. Notably Machiavellian that there was a known allowed revenue drop. "We're bein nice, we'll only cut you 25%"

On a slightly different topic, made me wonder how many investment firms artificially lower rates on funds to scrape a bit of profit off the top.

[1] https://texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/... (note, the child-support location is really weird)
The US is worried that if even private journalistic entities are strangled to death, then it will have to stand up a national news service like the BBC and won't be immune from the "state sponsored news" label it loves to apply to other countries.

However, Google's interest, despite being entangled with the US quite deeply, is to not spend money to save the ecosystem. Most likely, they have their own plan for this eventuality. After all, if they would be single-handedly supporting multiple news companies, why shouldn't it be its own mega-news company and keep the additional revenues?
I was also shocked to see this number given how frequently the product is mentioned on here. Makes me wonder what the Venn diagram of HN and Kagi users is like.
Short answer for why they would is the economy broadly can't sustain rates this high.

But I think it's worth considering there are many that subscribe to the theory the Fed has almost no control over long term rates (mortgage rates being one type of these), which are set by the market alone based on inflation + growth expectations. [0]

I think it is inevitable that issues like this thread and others whereby many businesses and individuals cannot cope with debt service (see record high credit card delinquency rates) [1] and inflation, along with near record low unemployment means economy will hit a brick wall and prices and rates will fall, regardless of what the Fed wants or does or says.

This is already part of the reason long rates have been underneath short rates, as market has been pricing a slowdown for a while, and Fed wasn't able to set long rates above where they put short.

Additionally, to the degree Fed can influence long rates at all, some would argue raising short rates very high very fast (yes of course to counter inflation) itself can depress long term growth thereby beyond some threshold lowering longer term rates if market expects lower growth.

[0] https://medium.com/the-investors-handbook/why-the-fed-doesnt...

[1] https://archive.is/s14dY
> Banks are the winners here

Not really - banks would have made money on something else instead.

The real problem is that universities are making money off selling trash to children not old enough to drink yet.

Before loans were guaranteed, there were some checks and balances for how much trash universities could sell and at what price, but now that politicians have figured out there's nothing stopping them from taking money that's not theirs and paying it off to universities, the only losers are those who consume the trash and destroy their lives and their descendants.
!RemindMe in two weeks
In newer versions of Android, apps which are not opened by the user have their permissions automatically and periodically revoked. So they no longer have the permissions, and when reopened, the user needs to grant the permissions again interactively. Presumably to solve this.
Preaching generative AI in 2019 is like telling everyone how great Radiohead is in 2009. The writing was on the wall; Google BERT came out a year earlier, Tensorflow had been part of computer-vision pipelines for almost a half-decade and GANs were "so last-year". In a lot of ways the industry was already going through a practical AI transformation, driven by workflows that leveraged autonomous feedback loops.

Compared to the industrial and military adoption of AI, 2019 is comically late to the party. The idea of a machine generating text was about as "wildly ambitious" as a knife cutting bread. Imagine the wonder on their faces if you demoed a Markov chain to that crowd.