skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While whatever EU regulation root cause of this is likely annoying and overbearing, I personally hate the embeddings of Google Maps into Google Search results.

This is true for both maps and photos of restaurants which expand in a tiny popup rather than the full screen view you get on maps.

Because as is always the case with these kinds of product embeddings, the UX is always subtly different, and a bunch of features are missing.

If ever I search for something that I realize I'd like to view in maps instead, I click the top bar "maps" to redo the search in maps and then have a consistent view.

So at least in this particular case, i don't think it's a big loss.
hell yeah, keep on writing!
>> Q. And Penguin Random House pays Amazon to improve its search results?

>> A. There is something that is available to our publishers, it’s called Amazon Marketing Services, AMS, and all publishers can spend money and give it to Amazon to have hopefully better search results.

>> — Markus Dohle, CEO, Penguin Random House

Wait, "hopefully better"?

What the hell is Amazon selling, magic publishing advertising snake oil?

If I'm paying for placement, I'd expect something more than hope.
That IT is lagging behind in Germany is something that is known, but it affects more corporations in adopting new innovations. For example, I know many companies couldn't yet make a decision about ChatGPT because of GDPR concerns. As a normal user, I haven't felt much limitations in using new products and technologies in Germany.
Can't help but feel for the publishing industry considering how shafted they got by tech.

You distribute books all over the country? Amazon can do it better and cheaper.

You print books? Well we have e-books now.

You have a massive back catalog? Google just scanned all of it.

You do marketing? Authors now have their own followings on social media and can reach them directly.

You give cash advances? Fans on Kickstarter give 10x more.

What's sad though is that publishers have historically had one power that would have been unassailable – editorial judgement. They could have sustained their brands on quality. Imagine a world where you wanted something good to read, and among all the garbage out there saw a title and went "this one is by Simon & Schuster, it has to be good". Instead they went all in on pulp bestsellers and celebrity memoirs at the expense of actual good authors, and here we are.
Afaik, some container ships are made much larger than what will fit through the Panama Canal. If you are shipping from China to anywhere in the Indo-Pacific, you don't need to worry about canals.
They hit $1b in revenue on their store last quarter. I'm not sure how you evaluate that but it's something more than "not biting" I think.
X vs. the Australian Government
Was the link an ad intentionally? Or was it a copy/paste error?
I don’t have the link anymore. I’m on another machine now so don’t have access to the browser history.

But there’s lots of no embed videos on YouTube. You can also just try it with one of your own videos.
SNES emulation is extremely accurate at this point - any modern/reasonably competent emulator handles this correctly. Shoutout to Near (RIP) here - they wrote an article on Ars which documents how we've reached this point.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-...
If Apple was willing to pay fair prices, they would do the work in a country with strong laws and strong unions not allowing such things to happen.
This is amazing. The movement is very similar to movements in VR worlds. Would be awesome to integrate with the VR web apis to play this on an oculus as well.
It’s me. I’m No One.

Because I buy them every week. So does my wife. I guess we are No One.
> Expressif does a fantastic job on documentation

As far as I know this took them a while to learn. In the beginning they were your typical weird chinese chip maker, but people volunteered effort into documenting their products because they were just that good. Now they've learned to do it themselves and can probably help M5 with it too.
did you chance upon @MentourPilot on youtube and his breakdown of the MH370 investigation + recent update?
If not, I am afraid you may have another hour to spend, but its very likely you have already seen this.
> We know about the bolts because a door blew off a plane mid-flight

We know about the bolts because a door blew off a plane mid-flight and there are reporting requirements when that happens. Then there is an investigation.

When a door falls off a car driving down the road, the driver picks it up and puts it in the trunk and has it reattached or replaced. Whether they even file an insurance claim depends on their deductible and either way nobody is doing a root cause analysis to prevent it from happening again.
To be fair, the outsourced tasks seem to be for edits, and not for original artwork.

There’s a lot you can hide with outsourced software engineering. With animation it’s all on display.
Why not really? Remote editing through ssh is vscode's superpower!
The older I get, the more I appreciate being able to select a larger font with my Kindle. I love books, but the accessibility features of a modern ereader are pretty great too.
Commercial drivers license
Decentralized Trustless Bridge for Ethereum Full Node
The problem is that "maps" in the top bar is also missing. The only way now to search for a map is going to maps.google.com and search there. I find it actually very annoying.
> OP I'd also like to hear yours!

Today I gave some thought to what would be a fitting name for my boat (if I were to rename it).

One option: the glider pattern from Conway's Game of Life. Instantly recognizable by true hackers, just a weird symbol to others.

Of course a quick check on Wikipedia. Know that I'm always interested in things small / simple / computing, so... cellular atomata. Which led me to varieties used to simulate or help understand biological systems ("systems biology" - if only that field had even existed back when I left high school).

From there on: artificial life, Core Wars & co, self-replicating machinery, and... Astro-chicken (deserves a HN post of its own, imho).

Btw. it's amazing to see how many big, open questions there still are, related to the origins of (biological) life, and evolution. Eg. full simulation of a single cell organism: never been done (too complex).

Next up: a cup of hot chocolate.
FBI and friends get two more years of warrantless FISA Section 702 snooping
Vision Pro is way way better than the alternatives.

And the original iPhone was almost unusably slow and really didn’t do much.

Waiting half a minute for NYT to load and then seeing constant checkerboards got old very quickly.
So you are ready to go then:

https://www.rayneo.com/products/rayneo-air-2-xr-glasses
Sea transport costs order(s) of magnitude than land transport. I don't know about canal transport.
read "the sarah book" or "crapalachia" by scott mcclananhan if you want to read fiction from a living author that should be included in your reading list for the past 5k years of language arts.
Books are like the wayback machine. You can reread authors as they actually wrote their oeuvres without editing from modern day overzealous publishers who censor or otherwise alter the originals.
Just rack-mount a hundred iphones. :-P
They're back. At this point it might be worthwhile switching off new account registrations for a while?
> Can't help but feel for the publishing industry considering how shafted they got by tech.

Publishers have been shafting authors for centuries. I'll shed no tears on their behalf.
Anything based on JH7110, of which VisionFive 2 is most mature.

As well as anything else in opensbi upstream.
Now that's one tricky rabbit hole. If you are planning on buying a camera, the deliberation seems to be a part of the shopping process.
Post buying though, the differences seem either very important, or don't matter at all. Depends on how serious you want to get with the cameras.
In Poland we publish 9000 new books each year, of course initial runs are like 500-1k copies. Not sure how it breaks down in detail on types like science publications and else but average person reads 1 book a year, avid readers read 7 and above but they are 1% of the population.

Just some stats as I watched discussion on this topic. I think the question was rhetorical but feels like a nice thing to add.
Lol, they realize it's a sell-or-ban bill, right? Kind of a moot point when you realize that TikTok as we know it will continue, just without a connection to the CCP. Even if they do ban TikTok the company, the engineers/ML scientists who developed the recommender system powering TikTok still exist, so worst comes to worst someone makes a new company, hires the engineers, and off to the races
Organized crime doesn't want attention from people with power to cause them problems.
Time to hook up my Quest 3 to my PC. Cheers
extremely trite
Is it? My last dentist did it
I'm in a very heavy library family; we are checking out and reading a few hundred books per year between all of us.

Yet we still buy a few books, and I bet that if we made an inventory of the books we currently own that are in the house, it would number in the hundreds. But... most were purchased secondhand. I take my daughter to the bookstore every few months; it is always busy. While she is browsing, I also look around. I'd buy half a dozen or more books on each visit if it weren't for the price. At retail price, books aren't a good deal. Even buying a paper copy of a public domain book will run $15-20. Why?
Only the ones with guns and shovels.
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You seem to be conflating two wildly unrelated concepts here.

This discourse is (very specifically!) about identity papers, not sanctions or any other form of government use and abuse of power.
With that art direction you can release game on Steam!

There are some games made in JS with Electron.

And I wish your team luck with your consultancy bussines and making interactive experiences.

But I think you can achieve something in game dev as well!
Is My Khan Academy Profile Resume-Worthy for a Web Developer and Game Developer?
Generate code for declarative language instead of programming language
I hated the terms "blog" and "podcast" when they were new. I thought they were so dumb and unnecessary. But they are useful to describe actual things happening in the real word. This is just how the intersection of words and technology works.
> the air traffic control system is not inherently governmental. Doing what Paul did for 30 years is not an inherently governmental activity. It's safety critical.

That's absolute nonsense, I'm wondering what angle she's playing here. If it's safety critical, such as ambulances and functioning stoplights, that's what makes it governmental.

> You can't make those kind of investments if you're a government agency, you have to pay for things up front, nor can you make the kind of incremental improvements that air traffic control needs.

Sure you can. Look at healthcare.gov, or TSA.
wtf is up with all these bots ?

it's ironic they decided to do this on a post about LLMs. Are they feeling threatened that LLMs are taking their jobs ?
Somewhat surprised to not see Valve in there, especially after Steam Link showed up a handful months ago.
@dang (I hope it's okay to just that you, my nh reader doesn't seem to have a report button)
New vapes have Bluetooth on a small chip that tracks # of puffs remaining. Being sold for $40 bucks a at store.

Crazy that we have disposable one use electronics now.
A lot of what you describe, like constant anxiety, stress, and taking everything too seriously (as if the consequences of mistakes are too grave) may come from childhood trauma, CPTSD or emotional neglect. There are many communities online that discuss these specific things in that context.

You seem to touch on similar themes with your point 7 about societal programming and later with the point about cheating yourself. Acceptance is key in healing from emotional neglect and so is developing self-worth, stopping self-abuse, or "cheating yourself". Specifically through suppressing your interests, self expression, hiding your flaws, and how that both comes out of low self-esteem and reinforces it.

So you are spot on. But this seems tailored to a person who has suffered through this kind of abuse. I am saying this as both someone who has experience with emotional neglect and a video game designer. I think the article applies more closely to the former experience than the latter.
> when we're a true interstellar species

If we can harness all of the energy and mass available in our solar system, we [1] can likely compute more than several galaxies full of classical humans. We might even begin to test the edges of physics.

Maybe we don't need to go anywhere at all. Maybe we [1] have all we need right here to become literal gods.

[1] Our digital descendants. Humans are very much fit to the gas exchange and metabolism envelope of our gravity well.
Thanks for sharing this! Is it open source?
I know you are trying to be flip to make a point, but people absolutely do come to casinos to drop thousands of dollars into slot machines, and the fraction of the floor devoted to penny slots (now 25c or even 50c) is only a small share of the overall machines.

But places like Wynn and Caesars don't put all of their marketing efforts behind promos to get people into their building who only have $50 to their name.
Masayoshi Son is listening intently.
You don't know anybody that don't do siesta when on holidays, not during normal working periods.

In the cities, people do not stop working midday to nap. Now if you are talking about rural towns, that is another thing.
I do the same - I far prefer paper books for reading, and mostly because it makes an enormous difference in my ability to focus.

Re: the ecological side - I'm not actually convinced that a paperback book is markedly more of an ecological burden than an e-reader and the rest of the associated infrastructure. I think it's possible the e-reader pencils out in the long term, but I think a full lifecycle accounting of the energy and resources required to create, use, and dispose of an e-reader would be markedly higher than one would suspect, and I think people replace them more often than necessary.

Books, on the other hand, are trees. Bury 'em in your yard when you're done with them and the fungi will know what to do to recycle them.
Strange! I did encounter some errors submitting and had to retry a few times.
I use my iPad and my Kobo for digital reading. I have paper version of "important" books (stuff I'd like to read if I don't have power), but some are unwieldy (Algorithms by Cormen et Al).

I prefer e-ink for reading, but it's too slow for my learning workflow. I highlight and mark interesting stuff, that I export later to condense and reflect upon. And that is cumbersome on an e-reader. There's also the matter of size. I generally like the PDF version of technical books as they're typeset well, but my e-reader is too small for them. So I use my iPad for those (Distraction is handled by the fact that I read those in short focused sessions).

But for fiction books, the e-reader is perfect. I don't highlight text in those books, I just read. Any other operation is slow enough that I just can't fiddle with it. And it's perfect for long sessions of reading as it does not project light in my eyes. It's light, so I just bring it with me everywhere.
Yeah, take that experts!

We're just going to throw the bottles in the trash like the plastic and fossil fuel companies always wanted us to do.

That'll show them!
Depends by state. Florida has lawyer ads. “Have you argued with a woman” ads.
there's a Lynne Truss joke in there somewhere..
Do you think of cable/satellite/streaming tv in the same way as Spotify?
Why WordPress? I'll take a simple static website over wordpress anytime.

With wordpress:

- you are now suddenly also a database administrator

- the different people touching the admin interface will break things in subtle ways

- welcome an incomprehensible security nightmare into your life

Yes, wordpress is extremely easy to set up. Maintain? Nope!
Yeah screwing with your muscle memory is a really bad thing to do for pilots because that will be there for you when you need it the most.
Beatrice is a happier, more felicitous, name
What Comes After Internal Developer Platforms?
Yes, but also there are currently so few components to pick from. SoC is definitely some kind of variation of Snapdragon XR2 unless you're Apple.

Can't go into high-end because for a device to make sense either an existing ecosystem around it or high confidence in one appearing. If you tell me that I can buy a 3k dollar vr headset that can run current quest library, I would pretend you're joking.

Mid-end is where we're at right now has/had very small margins because despite it being mid-end - you still have to use high-end components due to lack of options.

I can see someone like Porsche Design making a "high-end" headset (in terms of price, components would be the same). The only option for low-end is to use components previously used in mid-end that would need to compete with used previous gens since they would be nearly identical on the hardware level.
Books are a vestigial organ. Nobody uses books as their primary mode of accessing information about the world anymore.

What is interesting is that the cultural mores around this vestigial organ have persisted to such a great degree. Harry Potter Books are a psycho-social mechanism of self-construction more than an actual work of fiction. The phenomenon of "I am a bookish person who reads Harry Potter" as a psychological thing that people do is larger and more significant than the actual story of Harry the young wizard. Likewise, the phenomenon of "I am a successful luminary who has written a book" is more important than the actual content of the book itself. Celebrities paying ghostwriters to write books and going to book signings to sign a book for people who will never actually read the book. A perfectly airtight simulacra.
you really should be factually correct when dunking on something

It hasn't been called Oculus for ages and it doesn't require a Facebook login. Meta accounts are stand alone and completely different, you can create as many as you want without giving your identity, just an email address, you don't need to link it to anything.
And Florida. Most popular billboard ad is a lawyer ad.

I’m glad WA banned them.
Thanks; this is helpful. Looking up what sanctions compliance/export control professionals proactively do yields a ton of additional information.
The books sold through Apple Books are all sold without DRM. That's pretty standard now.
Hello, I’m no-one.
Blue state moment
If true, that would be utterly dire for Tesla. 200 miles per disengagement is _bad_.

Cruise doesn’t report disengagements that I can tell, but Waymo is at ~17k per disengagement, WeRide is at ~21k and Zoox is 177k.

Nissan is at 284, and Apple is at 142, so that would put Tesla about there in performance. That’s a couple of orders of magnitude off from the other players.
Most of the microplastics in our groundwater comes from landfills. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602440/) leached plastic pollution into spoil and air is a big problem.

Incineration isn't perfect either (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489...) but it seems like burning wins over landfills as long as there are very strict requirements for emissions and the ash/filters are properly collected and disposed of. It seems like the best thing we can do is reduce the amount of plastic being made and introduced into our environment, but since we don't want to go without it we should try to get as much use out of what plastic we've made as we can. The break down of plastics into microplastics is inevitable one way or another.
Thanks for sharing this here! I'll try it tomorrow as it's late night here.

Sorry to see this post is getting spam bombed for some reason :( Because it's one of the most interesting things I saw in the last days
Two lifeforms merge into one organism for first time in a billion years
Trust in the recursion
You really have to write it for yourself if you want to keep going - unless you're lucky or have a large following already it's hard to get a lot of readers. I've written stories and serials and posted them on social media, my personal site, etc. (I release them as Creative Commons works) and few people read them. Self-published authors who want to make a living typically have to do a lot of promotion to get a chance.

Also there are times when I decide I want to read my own stuff for entertainment instead of a published novel. And the joy I get from that keeps me writing.
I'll have to assume you aren't too familiar with Mexico then.
> How much new information is there published in book form each year which the average person needs to (or wants to) read?

> How much leisure time does the average person choose to dedicate each year to reading? How do they decide which book(s) will be selected for this?

I mean, the thing is, people aren't reading books, they're reading instagram. We haven't substituted one knowledge-accumulating method for another, we've replaced books with social media. If you want to talk about which one generates or propagates more information-as-knowledge, that's an interesting conversation, but I think the effective mechanism here is someone figured out how to hypercharge the dopamine roller-coaster to a degree that books just can't compete.
It’s also a highly effective sorting algorithm - anything still talked about ten years after it came out is probably worth some time.

I will say that it seems entirely possible to relatively quickly see all US animated kids movies …
Nope, but there is cafeteria :-P
Hello:

I share your feelings regarding these platforms. I am the owner of several trademarks legally registered in my country. I have tried by all means to secure the username on X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok among others without positive results. In fact, my requests comply with the terms and trademark policies of these platforms. It is very frustrating and fills me with helplessness that these platforms ignore these legal aspects, they only respond automatically and without legal foundations.

In my particular case, the usernames/handles I claim are inactive for years, with no posts.
>places like Wynn and Caesars don't put all of their marketing efforts behind promos to get people into their building who only have $50 to their name.

Exactly! Caesar’s current $10 no-deposit bonus is meant to attract whales, obviously

https://www.sportsbookreview.com/casino/bonuses/caesars-pala...
The papers detailing the research were published in the scientific journals Science and Cell.

https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(24)00182-X.pdf

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk1075