skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and gives us a name to actually blame.

Understanding the dynamics is great, and we can learn from that, and apply it to other situations.

As for who to blame for something a company does, shouldn't outsiders blame the entire company? That's our interface, and also how we can hold the company accountable for its collective behavior.

It's also a defense against scapegoating: it wasn't just one person who made a unilateral decision, and everyone else -- up to and including the board, as well as down the tree, to those who knew and could walk and/or whistleblow -- was totally powerless. The company as an entity is responsible, and a lot of individuals were key or complicit.
People on this site have a really annoying habit of taking a selective quote to destroy any context. I think it actually is bad for writing, protecting against motivated mis-quotes is not something good authors worry about.
Could say the same of many acquisitions. Cisco used to do the same thing.

It is sad that ctrl labs got eaten by fb/meta. It used ML to sense your arm movements (and one employee figured out how to have a virtual 3rd arm).

Collected by zuckerberg and disappeared.

(and if it does come to something, you'll need to log in to use it)
I don't know "numbers", they're probably not very high, but I have seen exactly one person walking around with one on Times Square.

I feel like that's been the discourse around it though, that this is something you're supposed to wear all the time and it gives you a proper augmented reality experience. Maybe that'll be the case eventually but I do not think we're there yet.
Maybe this isn't as common in your region, but just about every library I've visited provides social services for the homeless.

If you search /r/libraries you'll find first-hand accounts from librarians who are committed to serving homeless patrons, even though they didn't sign up for a social worker role. Honestly, I wish I could allocate MORE funds to those kind of people instead of the grifters who profit from the "homeless industrial complex."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/us-libraries...
This e-reader is quite dumb and only talks to the world via propietary GUI app so I don't think it had a friendship with a selfhosted Calibre. There is a hacked python module to pilot the e-reader but some extra glue would be needed. In my case my data model is laptop first and then have backups on other places including NAS, after, so I prefer to have Calibre in laptop. I can map a NAS path to a laptop folder and Calibre sees it as a device, with a nice send-to-device button. So I just need to end the glue to sync the e-reader with the NAS. Calibre automatically converts EPUBs to pdfs. Having bought a Kindle DX back then, I can even setup a Calibre DRM plugin with the Kindle serial number, buy an e-book in Amazon, click on the AZW file, and have a PDF generated automatically :-) For papers, I prefer to manage them separately.
For starters, they own Rivian, that makes those vans.

You can ignore any environmental impact, the main driver for this is that it's much cheaper to operate an EV van for last-mile deliveries.
I thought about trying to use "sunk cost", but I usually see it written as "sunk cost fallacy" and that's a (closely related, but) slightly different thing.
At least it'll look nice on a shelf thanks to Teenage Engineering's good work :)
I've also noticed that I'm getting top results from companies who definitely have big AdSense spend, theres likely a bias or ads aren't labeled at all. However, with some companies I sometimes find that the page being listed often doesn't even exist anymore or is simply just a title of an article who's keywords match popular searches but there is actually no content or blog post, just a title..This SEO strategy somehow can get you top ranked on Google these days. Yeah RIP Google.
"Linkbait" implies it's hyperbole, but I would argue that the headline is a perfect description of the argument being made here.
Super interesting article, as a native english speaker who lived in Japan for many years and speak Japanese fluently, he pointed out a lot of things I always took for granted in Japanese (and never recognized as unique). One things I was hoping he would point out, and that I always found extremely unique in Japanese, was the giyongo (basically onomatopoeia). Japanese uses these extensively and the sounds can have extremely sensory driven meanings. They use these giyongo to describe physical textures (tsuru-tsuru is something smooth and slippery), hard to describe souns (pera pera is the sound of speaking a foreign language), flutently), actual sounds (tatata is the sound of fast running), a general feeling (bisho bisho is the sound of being soaked), specific actions (gussuri is the sound of being out cold), even specific emotions (zukizuki is the sound of extreme pain). There are hundreds if not thousands of these and I think they also make the language, as the author describes, 'rich and quirky and different'.
I see "too big to fail" most commonly referenced when talking about the GFC of '08-'09. Nothing there happened because big players bought out smaller ones. Lehman Brothers wasn't even big, comparatively speaking
Many people want immersive computing, for sure.

But whether today's technology can actually deliver that (at any price point) is what everyone is arguing about.
Sounds about right. When my '96 BMW 328 finally met the pothole from hell, I was on my 5th clutch at a little over 500,000 miles.
872 in that list. It would be interesting to see how many of those exceptions are actually common and relevant to everyday speech.

But yeah, even taking that into account, Japanese is a trainwreck compared to Chinese.
You still need a memory controller, you still need to get to that controller on the edge of the die. And going to RAM more often will surely consume more power.
This seemed like an inevitability given the reliance on enterprise customers and the move to maximise the revenue from Terraform with the recent license change. They have made a round of layoffs, so at least some cost saving has already been done to make it more appealing for a sale. The main challenge from an acquisition like this will be maintaining the community around terraform providers, if that drops off, i'm not sure there will be as many developers coming into the hashicorp ecosystem.
honestly, 99% of the time I don't need search. I want AI. I don't want to have to use a weird syntax to 'talk to a search engine'. sometimes I don't even know what the word is that I am searching for. I want something I can just ... talk to.

I use to use search every day, now I use it about once a month.
One action served to de-escalate, to keep the Israelis from actually starting a war. Which these powers would almost inevitably be dragged into.

The other would almost certainly end up being called WW3, and would likely involve at least a limited nuclear exchange.
Because it will be taken down from Github.
Perhaps more importantly, Vault.
People would just buy a head unit for a fixed price, and use the built in screen only for adjusting aircon and whatever is vehicle-specific. Also carmakers would never give up to have a total control over their car screen like this. They are struggling for a decade now with more and more horrid iterations, with no end in sight.
They are almost 100 years old which is an accomplishment. I wonder how many they have left. I bet a big chunk of that depends on companies still running AS/400 systems.
They said they weren't involved. But they were involved in protesting. Does standing in front of a doorway require a comlpicated planning initiative?

There is absolutely nothing they could have done other than speak about it. Which is all they're being accused of anyway.
Reminds me of Steve Paxton, an amazing dancer who passed away recently. He led a project called “Contact Improvisations”, which became a movement form called Contact Improvisation. He taught some classes and many others contributed. 50 years later, it’s still going strong. But, he didn’t embrace this role of “Contact Improv guy” that was really available to him. He just kept doing other stuff, even as this community exploded.

I think that’s partly the nature of pure researchers. They usually have something more interesting to them than what they got famous for, and they probably don’t want to lead an organization. This is different from BDFLs like Guido van Rossum and Rich Hickey. Neither type is good or bad, and I appreciate them all.
Still don't get why JetBrains hasn't been folded into the Alphabet family yet.
I expect it (or at least I hope) to be really hackable.
Big if true.

Could set back the AI device hype 5 years back after Humane getting exposed as another scam.
Arithmetic doesn't require any sort of critical thinking at all, so the point is moot. Advanced maths do, but those aren't usually taught in K-12; however, not getting those critical thinking skills young can make it more difficult in college to apply what you've learned to more complex problems. I'm speaking here as someone with a math degree who tutored college level mathematics for 3 years.

As to the other point, you're right that many teachers don't encourage critical thinking or individualism. That's a fault of those teachers, and of our society that tends to frown on questioning authority.

All that said, kids who only socialize with their own family and maybe their neighbors don't develop the skills that come with having their views challenged and needing to defend them.
> relative to those old dunderheads babbling their opinions about users.

Why did I read this in Connie Sacks' voice talking to George Smiley (The Alec Guinness one)?

I'm sure they'll get Karla (Raghavan), in the end. It's his fanaticism that will do him in.
Any background on how the code got leaked? Insider? Hacked servers?
to reduce the chances of GitHub taking it down, perhaps? not sure it'll help though
Computer viruses need to get an ability to mutate by themselves, improving the code overtime though.
Show HN: Moto – A GPT car inspection helper
I purchased a car from a private seller, but it had trouble passing the state inspection, even though the car is in perfect working order. Each of the 50 states has different regulations for what is required to pass, making it difficult to find exactly what these regulations are.

I created this GPT-based tool to help people avoid the same issue.

If you're interested in similar applications, sign up for my email list at: https://moto-email.vercel.app/
why are you assuming they care to do any of those things?
Kagi is still a good search engine though. Hopefully they continue to improve that part too, even if they do AI stuff.
> Remember that many people are not buying cars for themselves but for other people, usually family.

Can you explain this? I guess maybe the devil is in "many"?
Those numbers are very inflated, tho. A lot of Charge Point locations aren't open to the public. Some Ikea stores in the US use them to charge delivery vans, and those aren't open to the public.

I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla has more public chargers than anyone else on this list.
It buys time for them. GitHub will have a lengthy internal discussion about DMCA takedown requests and the fact that the code isn't on their server. During this time it'll give the HN and reddit communities time to grab the link and redistribute.
https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-was-diagnosed-wit...
this is such a tiresome criticism. "this would be better if it were more boring" yeah okay and 4 people would read it and 2 of them would fall asleep during
At least we still have OpenTofu. I wonder how the rest is going to get forked.
If you liked monkey ball you may like Marble Blast, it even runs on web https://github.com/RandomityGuy/MBHaxe?tab=readme-ov-file
Yeah I agree.
The personal tone makes it clear that this is the authors’ opinion and not unbiased fact.
I thoroughly enjoyed the article and the writing style.
Excellent job.
This seems like an odd thing to blame Apple for. They never provided those buttons and dials.
That's a pretty big, and IMO false, accusation to throw at Israel.

Unlike abstract "opposing colonialism", which I assume lots of people would get behind, I assume others, like me, find the specific case against Israel to be completely different in many relevant ways.
You could look at the effectful library: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/effectful-core-2.2.1.0/d...
I have long suspected there is more to it than that, the giveaway being that once you are in what is currently the Alphabet level executive group a fundamentally different set of rules and standards are applied compared to what is considered allowed in Google, and these two did not used to be so divergent. This is a far dirtier game than many want to accept.
As somebody who uses "weird syntaxes" to create applications every day, I like having the option to use a specific language that offers the ability to more precisely describe the parameters of my search.
When I travel or go on vacation for like three days I try not to do anything
https://github.com/RandomityGuy/MBHaxe?tab=readme-ov-file

You’re welcome
Libraries have more than Harry Potter books. They have books that allow people to learn skills that would be valuable in getting a job. There are meeting rooms and events. My local library has a ESL program to help people with their English skills, which can help make them more employable. During the heatwaves last summer they were telling people who couldn’t afford AC to come to the library to escape the heat, which may have saved some lives.

Libraries can help get people to the point where fewer people need the food bank. Maybe you should see what the library actually has to offer before you try to cut it from the budget.

There are so many other areas to find room in the budget without cutting libraries.
> what logic leads to this conclusion?

Any decent book about Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
Some will call it scam, some will call it MVP
Not that strange if you think about the nature of transformation Google went through. With time they grew, hired more administrative staff and executives with fetish for growth and shareholder value which caused a fundamental shift in incentives and they reduced themselves from an innovative tech shop to an ad selling business.
Sad but common and as old as Jack Welch style capitalism where engineering excellence gives way to corporate greed.
Potentially due to the threat of DMCAs. Pixeldrain and Mega are widely used in piracy and sometimes leaks like these, considering they are not known for complying with them most of the time, unlike GitHub.
Not that I really want to defend someone who mugged me, but to be fair I don't think he knew it was an iPhone. I keep mine in a case and they grabbed it out of my hands pretty quick and ran. Even if they knew it was an iPhone and that I was going to lock it once I get home, I doubt he would go "Oh shit, is this an iPhone? Nevermind, you can have it back".

Fun fact, when I got home, I of course locked it right away, but I got my wife to call it to see if we could get ahold of the mugger, and we did, and he said he would give it back to me for $300.

There was no chance in hell I was going to give him money and reward extortion, and I had no guarantees that even if I did give him the money that I'd get the phone back anyway [1], but I suppose that that's still a market right? I suspect at least some percentage of people do end up paying just to minimize the headaches of having to buy a new phone. I'll admit that while it was never really "on the table", for just an instant I did consider just paying the guy instead of having to buy another expensive phone while unemployed.

[1] In this case I am principled to a fault. I have a very strong "I will not be extorted, I will not reward extortion, and I do not negotiate with terrorists" policy in my life. It's one of the very few hills I will actually die on, and it's bitten me a few times.
I’m failing to identify the benefit for the buyer here. What’s your reasoning?
This is in MA, there's a significant race related stuff here. He had some class on ballet, the entire thing was about the girl who was the first black ballet dancer accepted into some prestigious academy. There was pretty much nothing about the dance itself at all.
I have a grocery store literally downstairs, and I sometimes pay someone to deliver bags to me.
Hangul is an exception to many similar "historically true" patterns mostly because it was created so late. Hangul is more a single person's well-educated effort, not something that emerged over time from various local customs. The castle I grew up near is easily 150+ years older than Hangul.
While entertaining it doesn't actually say anything about what the villain guy actually did, am I crazy? There's 2 serious charges he levied to google.

1. Ads look more like results.

2. Google results got more useless spam.

While 1 is kinda icky it's not that big of a deal, especially since I use an adblocker... and for 2 why does the author think this is the fault of google? Does shittier results increase in more people using google? I feel like it's the opposite, this doesn't seem right to me. Can it not just be that spammers and SEO freaks got more sophisticated and the problem got more challenging?
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... and trillions in trade to China. US could cut trade ties with China.

This seems to apply to many conflicts, e.g. Sudan. The US could intervene. Now you might say "US tried something similar and that was not exactly a good experience", but the US certainly can intervene. Or, in Lebanon the US, and all countries in the UN security council promised to intervene (and disarm Hezbollah), but just don't do it.
Rather like some different kind of work, agree
Everyone I've run into in the hospitality industry gets NATO phonetic. Hotels and airlines, in my experience, but I assume it generalizes.

My wife thought it was crazy the first time she heard me use it. Then she realized that they all understand it too.
In that logic, someone removing their websites robs Google of content.
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What I'm trying to say is that a bad situation like those provoked by El Niño can always turn into a catastrophic one by bad decisions, that aren't related with climate change. Without this tragedy of commons situation with every farmer and company and pool owner using as much water as possible, the problem would had been much more bearable.
I believe you're being unfairly downvoted. While true that Teslas and other fully electrics, due to weight and torque, /can/ go through tires faster than a fossil car. If you don't drive like a psycho, and rotate the tires in a timely fashion, they last as long as any other tire in my experience.

I drive year-round in a cold/hot climate with winter tires (because I'm too lazy to do the seasonal swap out). It is pretty hard on winter tires to run them in 100F days. But, so far, in the last 7 years of winter tires, I've gone through 2 sets.

Tires are the least of my annoyances with Tesla. Lack of quality control, lack of good customer service, and a fascist dictator at the helm have all prevented me from considering another Telsa.
It cured my investment interest in it.
I am not sure if this would be a problem with wireless as well, but I've had very inconsistent experiences having Carplay start at all using a dongle. I'd say right now it works about 70% of the time, and about 25% of the time when it doesn't, I can get it working by unplugging and re-plugging after the car is on. The rest of the time I have to stop the car and start it for it to work. This all started about a year ago though. (2022 RAV4 Prime, multiple iPhone and iOS versions, genuine Apple lightning cable, both with and without an extra Lightning->USBC dongle.)
The death of the 60/40 portfolio
Meh. I don't think they ever hid the fact that the device is basically a ChatGPT wrapper. As long as it can achieve what it advertises, who cares how the backend looks? At least it has the decency to charge a reasonably price ($200, rather than $700 + subscription like the Ai Pin).
"Use code: RFC9899 at checkout for 15% off your order"

A reference to their video IETF Celebrates The Standards [LIVE at Demuxed '22]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAkAMDeo_NM
No, never. This would mean to concentrate only to customers with Apple devices. Why should a carmaker do this?
Kotlin and Android Studio are intrinsic to the Android development experience.
And OpenBao's fork of Vault. There are non-IBM companies on the TSC.
Ironically, IBM is behind the Vault fork (OpenBao). Way to negotiate!
Understood!

But zipped files are super fishy though. What if this repo is spreading malware?
There are many of these ambiguous pairs: B/P, F/S, D/T, M/N, Q/U, ...

The end-to-end transmission can get really bad when you combine several different filter stages, such as a speaker's mouth being injured or obscured, a narrow channel like telephone or radio, noise, and a listener's ear losing parts of the spectrum.

As the sound transmission gets worse, you can get more rhyming ambiguities. Effectively, the consonants are lost in a bad channel and only the vowels come through. In an American English accent, I think these are the groups corresponding to different vowel sounds: A/H/J/K, B/C/D/E/G/P/T/V/Z, I/Y, O, Q/U, F/L/M/N/S/X, R. "W" stands alone with multiple syllables.

Depending on the kind of transmission problem, these groups can start to split apart into smaller subgroups based on which of their sonic differences make it through to the listener.
Also.

But if you're blind, I bet youd hate the UI you cant see and you've memorized changing under you.
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We already know that the large action model would not be available at launch, but I wonder how well it does works as an AI assistant.
> I disagree. It delivers too little for the cost

I feel like this is a rephrasing of the same thing. If it delivers too little for the cost it costs too much.
I agree - and flagged it as a result. It is clearly a hit piece and has promptly even made it to Prabhakar's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabhakar_Raghavan
I understand that roundabouts are supposed to be better, from a traffic-engineering point of view, but as a driver I hate them.
> This often makes the healing process lengthy and even frequently irreversible

something was lost in translation
Intuitive Calculator for Tattoo Price
BTW aren't old loom machines and the patterns they could do considered to be one of the oldest form of "programming"?
If they targeted you specifically because you had an iPhone to steal (or really, any Apple hardware), that would be dumb. If Android phones were easier to unlock when stolen, and could be confused for iPhones, that makes more sense. The extortion thing also makes sense, but I don't think many victims would take the chance that the situation would become worse after that (when handing over the cash).
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I do think that machine-verified proofs in strong systems like Lean are far superior to proofs merely verified by humans. Humans are amazing, but they also get bored and miss details.

This isn't just a theoretical claim. People read Euclid's Elements for over two thousand years before noticing a missing axiom. That's the sort of basic mistake that any properly-working machine proof verification system would immediately reveal. Published math proofs are often later revealed to be wrong. The increasing sophistication of math means it's getting harder and harder for humans to properly verify every step. Machines are still not as good at creating proofs, but they're unequalled at checking them.

There are "competing" systems to Lean, so I wouldn't say that Lean is the "one true way". I like Metamath, for example. But the "competition" between these systems needs to be in quotes, because each has different trade-offs, and many people like or use or commit to multiples of them. All of them can verify theorems to a rigor that is impractical for humans.
As simple as that