skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't edit this comment anymore so I'll just add here that I misread smcleod's comment – I thought they were implying that most people don't use computers/laptops these days, something that I've heard in tech circles before.
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> The case hinged on article nine of Italy’s constitution, which protects symbols of the nation’s cultural identity and historical memory. A related law allows the country’s public institutions to request concession fees for commercial reproductions of artworks of cultural heritage, regardless of their copyright status

Lots of discussions here on copyright but the ruling doesn't seems to have anything to do with copyright per se. Also, playing devil's advocate here: agree or not (I don't) is not uncommon for portrails of cultural/historical symbols to be regulated, just look at the ban of nazi symbolism in - Germany (Italy also bans them, but not - finland for example).
I'm using "display:flex" on almost everything, and as you said, flexbox is suitable for almost every situation. Also, for anyone struggling with flexbox - I use this tool to streamline the process: https://flexboxcss.com
I’ve owned 2 cars with radar. I’ve been in at least 2 others owned by family with radar.

None Teslas. None had phantom braking.

Tesla may have solved their issue (no 1st hand experience) but having radar shouldn’t have caused it if implemented properly. It’s clearly possible, seeming every other brand has managed.
You might be interested in `dfdx`, shape checked deep learning in rust:
https://github.com/coreylowman/dfdx.
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Better than Hughsnet which was the only option for a long time other than cellular.
Saying only the wealthy and top 5% of students should receive higher education is unhinged. That might be a popular opinion on HN and libertarian land but no one can seriously argue that with a straight face lol.
At the risk of sounding like a smartass...AI? seriously its worth thinking about.
If you're comparing against 3-4 years ago, CPI says inflation was 18-21%.

So if it's actually 25-30%, that's a significant level of error but not an enormous one.

CPI says that, of those four years, almost all the inflation was in the middle two. So when it says 3.5% since last year, that's not a crazy number, it's more that it's hard to determine/remember which part of the inflation happened in exactly which month. Comparing today to 3-4 years ago is a better option for both accurate numbers and accurate memories.
Heard from someone you should call your local IRS office instead. Less time on hold. I haven't tried, myself.
Blocking a lane or driving much slower than speed limit without stopping on side to let everyone pass.
i use safari on macos. i got a mac in college when i needed a laptop that could last all day. only macos with safari can handle that. all my bookmarks are synced to my phone. why would i use something else? so google can track everything i do and my battery can last half the time?
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Counter data point:

I am an excellent navigator but can't recognise people I know on the street, even if I know them reasonably well. If I know I will be meeting them, and I know them well I mostly recognise them but even then I am sometimes surprised when they show up and say hello to me.

Celebrities is even worse...
The Mach E has auto headlights with the same setup you describe. It’s a 4 way dial. Off, auto, parking, on.

Every time you start the car it’s in auto.

I’ve found it to be a perfect system. On the other hand a family member’s car has it but acts more old-school. It stays at whatever you last set. Last set to off? Stays off. Makes it easier to forget.
Counter data point:

I am an excellent navigator but can't recognise people I know on the street, even if I know them reasonably well. If I know I will be meeting them, and I know them well I mostly recognise them but even then I am sometimes surprised when they show up and say hello to me.

Celebrities is even worse...

(Good) navigation is not really about recognising landmarks (although that helps) but about having a mental version of the map of the place you are in, with you in the centre. Think of it like the GTA mini-map that live updates as you walk around.
I think that comes naturally to some people and just does not exist for many others.
Sorry - correction, I was talking about Leptos:

https://book.leptos.dev/view/01_basic_component.html
Your inappropriate mockery notwithstanding, that was exactly my point. I'm happy you agree.
i would rather eat my thumb than run a container of anything on a macbook air. 8gb of ram is not for bloat-lovers. it works great for web dev.
Really? I saw phantom breaking all the time from both Toyota and Hondas. Typically on a slope, with something like rail crossings where the signals got a little squirrely. having the same glitch across multiple vendors with different implementation makes me think it's more a basic physics problem.

Regardless, the Tesla vision system - love it or hate it, is doing far far more safety systems then radar only based systems.
I distinctly remember working at a company where I had to upload the new assets for our rounded buttons, which were a grid of 3x3 image elements.

LOL clearfix.

I also never really had to fight with IE 6 compatibility, but when I fought it, it fought back hard.

Also explaining to designers why we can't do translucent backgrounds (also IE 6).
Hi, Vlad. We've met before, I'm the person whose 70-year-old mother is using Kagi. I also have actively been trying to move people to Kagi for some time - even paying for their accounts. The biggest block I face is not brand recognition. It's a lack of An Android app.

To move my mother to Kagi, I had to install Brave Browser on her android cell phone, make it the default browser on Android, change Brave's default search engine and create a desktop shortcut to it.

Android is ubiquitous in Brazil. I won't be able to move much people to Kagi with a process this involved.

Happy to chat further about this topic if you wish, privately or publicly.
Works great, thanks for setting it up!
Or maybe it’s you doing the demonizing of “political provocateurs”?

Notice the phrasing, if you are against immigration, you are demonizing IMMIGRANTS. Not for instance the politicians who set immigration policy, it’s not them being demonized, it’s the immigrants being demonized!

Immigration being a net benefit to the economy is also a given. It is still a consensus to have immigration. Even far right parties want immigration. The question is more that if you take in more and more immigrants do you have unending economic benefits for the average member of the population and is more immigrants simply always better regardless of who they are or what they do?

We got to the point where immigration levels in Canada in 2022 were such that the population expanded by 2.7% year over year, which is enough to double the population in 26 years, despite the population having well under sub replacement fertility. Is that too slow to reap the real economic benefits of immigration? Should we ignore the provocateurs and believe studies and try to double the population every 13 years?
Having worked with these kinds of systems, it can be difficult to tell from the driver's seat the actual effects of that change. It may have reduced false positives and true positives. It may have simply moved the false positives into scenarios you don't encounter. It may have not affected the true positive rate at all, but might have made positive identification slower and thus violated a real-time constraint elsewhere in the system leading to accidents. I've actually seen this last one root caused before.

The only people who have the data to know whether removing radar was safety net positive or not work(ed) at Tesla and can't say. Even then, they probably wouldn't know whether the system could have given better results with different changes.
A system with lidar would have definitely detected the obstacle and braked. For a lidar, which is an active sensor, it doesn't matter if it's daytime or complete darkness since it makes its own light.

FSD is inferring distance of objects as it has no direct measurements. It's a real challenge in darkness since camera is a passive sensor and it has to rely on visual cues. I believe BlueCruise is using a radar, but I'm not sure how robust it is.
good thing we can all spend our money on whatever brand suits us, eh?
> I lived in China for 9 years and always found the internet, even for going just to Chinese sites, to be really slow.

Did you have your VPN / proxy on? That might be one of the reason as Chinese internet is only fast for traffic within its borders. Traffic that crosses borders are super slow in terms of throughput AND latency (if not blocked altogether). If you have your VPN / proxy on, your request basically crosses the borders twice before it reaches the destination web server.

Another reason I can think of is the mobile ISP incompatibility. For some ridiculous reasons, most "foreign" phones' (iPhones exempt) do not have full radio coverage when connected to CMCC.
Same thing has happened to me. FSD sounded the alarm and hard braked on a dark two lane highway. I couldn’t see why until I fully passed someone dressed in dark clothing who had just crossed the road. I was paying full attention and never saw them. They were probably a couple hundred feet from the front of my car.
Ask HN: Simple API to extract web article text?
I'm working on a consumer facing project that involves analyzing text from web articles.

Does anyone know of an API that can handle the text extraction part automatically?

Ideally the API can take in a URL and just return the main text content of a website, even for sites with slightly complex layouts.

For example: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/technology/personaltech/smart-glasses-ray-ban-meta.html

We're most interested in an API that has a decent free tier + usage-based pricing (at least for overages).

So far, most of our searches have turned up website scrapers that return HTML that needs to be further parsed (ScrapingBot, ScrapingBee, Scrapingdog, etc.), or services that are prohibitively priced (Diffbot).

Next, we're looking into Apify, but maybe we've missed something?

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
Tesla FSD (but not autopilot) deliberately tracks the car in front of it, as well as the lane and tries to follow that car (and takes it as a safety signal and slows when the car above swerves out of the lane). It's interesting behavior, and usually annoying, but this is why it's there.
I'd prefer an error for this over instructions about it.

Though one interesting use for this, you could use this behavior to encode which class the caller uses to call your inheritable method, but it's already sounding pretty gross.
The centre-left populist in Canada Trudeau also curtailed immigration.
Mapping JSON responses to OS APIs is the easiest part. It's trivial compared to understanding what users actually want.
You actually take this at face value?
Totally makes sense to me. Capitalism is intrinsically unattractive to those who do not wish to sweep broader perspectives on emotion-management under the rug.. (how to extract utility from lossy information channels, basically). With that framing, extreme progressivism horseshoes into haute couture.. PGs cringe-blogging just pales -- an utilitarian reading of Wodehouse requires taking the Edwardian aristocracy seriously as intellectualls,just like, unintentionally/ironically, PG invites the best of us to skewer YCs practical ideology with postvonneumann paradigms
Wow this is super helpful. Very grateful for your time. There's a lot misinformation floating around.

And since I only verbally admitted to the TSA agents smoking a joint in New York and was kind of coerced into it no other way to dispute it then the waiver? I didn't have anything on me nor do I really use marijuana
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Those working in resource extractions and the trades are some of the most objectively productive sectors of the population, even more so than computer scientists.

It has definitely been noticed how immigrants don’t tend to work in the trades. It is one of the key issues reducing support for immigration due to a shortage of tradesmen and housing only becoming more extreme when you take in doctors and computer scientists instead of carpenters and plumbers. If these governments took in more people who actually were skilled tradespeople, there likely would be more support for immigration, but I honestly think the people who set immigration policy are mostly white collar types who do not respect tradespeople or understand the desperate need for them and just see them as uneducated bogans to turn your nose up at. It’s incredible to me how you observed one of she biggest problems with contemporary immigration but completely misinterpreted the situation instead of thinking “hmm, why are all these Australians working in a different line of work than me, maybe they know something I don’t!”

Canada only instituted a category based immigration system specifically to take in more tradesmen to START to remediate this problem in May 2023. If we were taking in way more tradesmen a long time ago, contemporary political issues wouldn’t even be issues because as we took more people in they would have been building enough houses for their countrymen to keep cost of living under control.
I am. I don’t think ADAS system should just be able to be blindly unleashed on the roads without some sort of standard testing for minimum safety/non dangerousness.

But above I was just arguing slapping a word on the end doesn’t release you from responsibility.
A $25T hit: Global warming is coming for your home
If you find some problem that plagues millions of very smart people, and your thought is "technology could very easily solve this", the first thing you should ask yourself is what you're missing.
And what do you accomplish by said tailgating?
Damn it. I knew it was too good to be true but bought something cheap from Amazon anyway. Turns out it was cca. VIVO Gray 250ft Bulk Cat6, CCA... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FIMM8WW

It’s been working okay for a year now. Is it one of those things that will fail or maybe I’ll get lucky and not have a problem?
It was all hype. There's barely been any A.I product that has been hyped and didn't turn out to be subpar a few weeks after.
Ehh. I had the same streach of road that resulted in three phantom breaking situations (one of them not in a tesla, but in a toyota). Steep descent on a road with a rail road crossing with exposed rails. No issues at all once the vision only upgrade hit both my M3 and MY (which has HW3). It's possible that they put in some other fix at the same time, but they stated at the time that sensor fusion was a big reason for phantom breaking, so I take them at their word that this was fix.
Agreed, it is just as serious as the war in Ukraine.
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You can also use something like stubgen to generate function definition signatures for dependencies for mypy to validate, then make your own changes to those files with better types if you wish.

I don’t think it’s very scalable, and having the library itself or a stubs package come with types is the only “good”-feeling route, but you at least have a somewhat decent path to still getting it decent without any intervention on the library’s part. It may even be sufficient, if (like in most situations) you only use a few functions from a library (which may in turn call others, but you only care about the ones your code directly touches), and therefore only need to type those ones.
Or unboxed his Dreamcast. :)
So, neither that article nor you substantiate the "_technically_" part of the argument. It's obviously true that autopilot will routinely disengage in circumstances where collisions are imminent, either because the car isn't responding to the controls (e.g. in a spin) or because the driver grabbed the wheel or hit the brake, which overrides and causes a disengagement.

But you and Motor Trend are going farther, and implying that this is some kind of trick invented to reduce the number of accidents reported. Which (1) clearly isn't working, since the NTSB got reports about the accidents, (2) isn't substantiated by any reporting about the company behavior, and (3) is directly contradicted by the one place where Tesla does make public numbers about AP safety. They explicitly say it includes all accidents where AP was enable within 5 seconds of impact.

To wit: this is a conspiracy theory, and you need to stop repeating it.
Good luck, Asmara is a nice city, I like it
I'm wondering if we'll ever see Houdini make its way into browsers. The idea is that instead of modern CSS, the browser provides a bunch of hooks for various parts of its layout engine. You can then provide custom code that uses those hooks to implement any layout system you want.

CSS is big and complex, and it still needs to support the whole legacy of web applications going back forever. Most applications just use a tiny subset of CSS. Houdini could allow smaller, faster layout engines with none of the legacy stuff. And because your app ships its own layout engine, if there's a feature you want, you can just add it to the layout engine and it'll instantly work in every browser.

I have no idea whats happened with it though. Now that flexbox, grid, sticky and a few other things are in all browsers, CSS feels good enough. But maybe I'm lacking imagination.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Houdini_API...

Oh, it looks like chrome and safari both already support a lot of Houdini: https://houdini.glitch.me/
It annoyingly hugs the right side of the lane for some reason, especially when you're activating BC. Once it goes far enough right it works well. There's a few spots on my 20 minute commute that it likes to disengage because they repainted lines and did a shitty job but that isn't strictly the car's fault.
> that's prooobably? why array indexing traditionally begins at 0 (I'm totally guessing).

More than just tradition, it’s because (at least in C) if a is an array, it’s effectively just a pointer and so a[i] = *(a + i) (which means the i’th element of a is just the contents of memory address a + i). In particular, we have a[0] = *a.

The first element of the array lives at zero offset from the address pointed to by a, so is considered the ‘zeroth’ element.
My comment wasn’t for your benefit.
It was depressing realizing that our medical system is ordered against the benefit of the two principals, the patient and the doctor.
> A car stopped on the highway with no warning lights or anything in center lane, at night

Basically every uber driver does this, double parking wherever they want. So L2 systems need uber detection.
I have a keen sense of orientation and direction. I don’t know my innate physical situation however I know I’m an “observer” personality. I am always aware of my surroundings and often people watching, etc. As a kid I just stared out the car window and noticed everything. Then I quickly correlated everything (I’d see a random sign and know to ask for ice cream because the ice cream shop was near, stuff like that.) However, I grew up during the paper maps era and sometimes I’d just take note of street signs and intersections because I was usually helping my mom get unlost.

My wife on the other hand I think I know well enough to say she’s completely oblivious to her surroundings and wouldn’t venture far from home without a GPS. She’s definitely not an observer (ok, sometimes of other women’s clothing if anything) but oblivious is the best word I can use to explain it.

Our 5 year old son is like me. He observes a lot and especially when on drives. It helps we never allowed screens in the car and he’s just bored, which is good. But he notices all the things around places we frequent and also likes to look at the GPS screen and tell what every indicator is.

I don’t know what my point is other than maybe some people just find it more interesting and try harder / practice more from an early age ?
there's little room for "deserving" anything in traffic other than honking
There’s a blurb underneath the title linking to third party page. This page is selling a really quacky looking book, that has no obvious connection to the author of this article.

Is this an ad? It doesn’t look like normal ad placement. It looks like the author of the article is promoting it.

And it seems really quacky.

I wish substack was clearer on whether this product is endorsed by the author of the article.
Every browser engine said no to that nonsense.

The core issue iirc was that one of the major use cases for SVG was map/navigation systems where a number of environments required fully standardized systems. But they didn’t want to say implement a full browser stack”, so they just came up with their own “networking api” that was just “sockets!”.

A lot of this work predated html5, and the subsequent rationalization of web specs such that (for example) the xhr API was not fully specified, and it was not a separate specification from the rest of the browser stack, so SVG couldn’t just do what they could (in principle) do now.

The SVG WG was not the most functional - i recall that something a subset of the committee did at one point was to after the end of one person’s work day they rescheduled a meeting to later “that day” (while they were asleep) and took a vote without them present.

A number of other choices were made to the detriment of the spec for specific use cases (the various performance profiles have fundamentally incompatible rendering behavior rather than gradual decay, etc)
I would like to ask anyone who knows medical policies: can we not have cap on accepted medical school matriculants each year? Can we have a system where if you are qualified to attend medical school, let as many of them attend as they can so free market mechanism plays in this career path just like we have in graduate school?
Is there a framework for finding a product?
Heh my kids ever so gently asked me to stop gaming with them because I was perpetually lost in open world games or so bad in a gun battle i contributed negative value to the team.
Well, maybe it’s just personal preference, but I use Dutch and English (a closer language pair than FR/EN) on Android and iPadOS, and it works great for me.

Of course, you still need to switch for CJK languages (because they need an IME), but that’s a given.
I did a hack job to rewrap my house with Cat6a a few months ago (three drops, all ran outside). Part of me is interested in fiber, and saying "next time, we'll do that", but it seems like the termination stuff is non-obvious.

The equivalents of "cut a 3.75 metre cable that's a perfect fit for this space, then crimp on RJ45 jacks" and "run the bare cable through the wall and then punch-down on a keystone jack to snap into a wall plate" involve much more expensive tools and far more skill.

There's probably a market for a "boxed kit" designed to reduce footguns-- steering someone into a specific range of cables and connectors that make sense together, and perhaps offering the fusion coupling tools on a rent-and-return basis because most home users are not going to need them more than 3 days every 5 years.
Any uptick on this project? Seems like a great way to generate prompts without writing prompts.
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Maybe not optimistic about Reagan.

> On January 20, 1983 we read “THE HUMP: TWO YEARS OF REAGAN DONE AND TWO MORE TO YEARS GO.” He was of course to be disappointed in this, and Election Day 1984 is colored a somber black. In April 1986, however, the calendars begin a month-by-month countdown: “Thirty-four months of Reagan left!!!”