skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of those things you listed are totally normal for people to DIY. It's kind of bizarre to me that you think otherwise. It's like when Randy on South Park teaches his kids to call the handyman to fix the oven door. Or there's a handyman on youtube who's talked about being called and charging people like $500 to push the button on a GFCI outlet. It's hard to believe he's serious. He's also talked about being called by millennials to change smoke alarm batteries.
I've been trying to think of a micro-example from some refactoring I've been doing lately.

Long ago somebody made a Thingy.find(...) method where you can pass all sorts of optional arguments to filter which Thingy comes back, like Thingy.find(primary_key=1) or Thingy.find(owner=123, active=true) etc. That complexity made it flexible for people writing caller-code, because they wouldn't need to alter the method to satisfy their future arbitrary needs, they can just pass whatever key-values they want to match.

However now some original invariants have changed, and now I need to go find all the places it's being used ("flexibly") and reconstruct the caller's intent, because in some scenarios the correct return value is going to be a list of multiple results instead of 0-or-1.

In contrast, the task would be easier if there was a named method that captured the intent for the 3-4 distinct use-cases.
> I suspect we will need to move from sequential modelling to graphical modelling to level-up again, though.

Out of curiosity, would you mind elaborating on this?
> technologists don't think about the consequences of what they do before they do it

Software "engineers" are not part of a professional body at all, let alone one that espouses ethics. That only seems to happen in professions with a high risk of lawsuits due to customer death.

How deeply would you expect an interior designer or a landscaper to think about future consequences?
> Yes, but I think the other lesson might be that those black box machine translations have ended up being more valuable?

The key difference is how tolerant the specific use case is of a probably-correct answer.

The things recent-AI excels at now (generative, translation, etc.) are very tolerant of "usually correct." If a model can do more, and is right most of the time, then it's more valuable.

There are many other types of use cases, though.
CarPlay features in the instrument cluster is already a thing in some cars: https://youtu.be/HB4CODQmYl8?t=140
Somewhat agreed (I prefer the Tesla infotainment system over CarPlay, but they both have their own advantages, despite being imo equally good overall), but I would say it’s not super relevant to the argument. And only because Tesla infotainment is the only car manufacturer’s first-party infotainment system I’ve seen that can hold a candle to CarPlay. Not a single other one I’ve seen was even close. CarPlay was the best I could hope for, because anything that was first-party (excluding Tesla) was absolutely awful.

I don’t remember which specific brands had CarPlay and which ran their own infotainment systems, but I remember a couple years ago visiting dealerships of BMW/Mercedes/Honda/Toyota/Kia/Subaru/Ford and walking away either relieved that the car had CarPlay or internally cursing at their first-party infotainment system and promising myself to not even bother trying next time.
Zitron spends paragraphs trying to convince the reader that Google Search sucks now mostly because of the efforts of one person.

I don't understand the correlation isn't causation argument in this context. If no one ever tried to convince others of their thesis, with numerous arguments, what's the point of writing?
Looks like a cornucopia of nice programming language features, including one that's in Ada that almost no other language provides: integer subset types/range types. Definitely promising.

The documentation is very jittery/laggy while scrolling on a phone though. I don't know why that's about, but it's distracting.
> most engineers are drawn to complexity like moth to fire

Unfortunately, Google evaluates employees by the complexity of their work. "Demonstrates complexity" is a checkbox on promo packets, from what I've heard.

Naturally, every engineer will try to over-complicate things just so they can get the raises and promos. You get what you value.
Ask HN: Who are your favorite tech youtubers
Would love to hear since we all love to watch youtube when it comes to learning new stuff
Doesn't ADA have some method of checking if the input/output of a function is within bound? Can't remember if its a runtime or compile check however.

But the concept of function contract verification would be interesting.
counter point:

Boolean logic/heart of computation philosophy isn't what's left over after higher abstraction levels have evolved from binary -- still need associated 'rules/terms' ways to impliment/make use of logic & rules/terms.

Just provides common reference/bridge between things that have abstracted rules/terms and implimentation/usage under different disciplines.

Would hazzard to guess idea of requiring classical concept of philosopy would be to have common reference point(s) between engineering & non-engineering disciplines.
I’m not calling it flag sort.

It’s an in-place bucket sort which is interesting.
> He brought a noise machine

Is that slang for a radio?
Speaking of erudite wankfests! :)
I’m curious, but honestly I don’t see any automaker ever playing along.
Open source Android Auto server
So... obviously SOAP was dumb[1], and lots of people saw that at the time. But SOAP was dumb in obvious ways, and it failed for obvious reasons, and really no one was surprised at all.

ML isn't like that. It's new. It's different. It may not succeed in the ways we expect; it may even look dumb in hindsight. But it absolutely represents a genuinely new paradigm for computing and is worth studying and understanding on that basis. We look back to SOAP and see something that might as well be forgotten. We'll never look back to the dawn of AI and forget what it was about.

[1] For anyone who missed that particular long-sunken boat, SOAP was a RPC protocol like any other. Yes, that's really all it was. It did nothing special, or well, or that you couldn't do via trivially accessible alternative means. All it had was the right adjective ("XML" in this case) for the moment. It's otherwise forgettable, and forgotten.
nice! (I notice WebGPU support is now up to somewhere around 60% of all browsers: https://web3dsurvey.com/webgpu)
Isn’t that a recent renaming though?
> and doing so isn't really in their interests, outside of Apple users who might refuse to consider their cars without CarPlay 2 support.

I would be interested in CarPlay 2 if I were buying a new car when it’s out. Infotainment is still a huge weakness in many cars, and is definitely a plus to many users. Carmakers are free to ignore it of course, but unless they are maybe Tesla, they have no good reputation to rely on in selling their own custom infotainment experiences.
Why not use plus codes? They're well-integrated into Google Maps: https://maps.google.com/pluscodes/
Some rare earth metals (such as neodymium) are about as rare as nickel or zinc.

Perusers of REM articles should have on hand the following chart (rare earths in blue, commercially impt elements in red).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...

And the ones mentioned in the article are more abundant than silver. This is not to say that they will be easier to extract than silver, but it does give a perspective.
Some really great changes to the technical side of the game.

This update comes with a full refactor of the item system in the game, changing the rather arbitrary NBT format items used to use, to a more modular components approach. As well as being more performant, components are a great benefit to datapackers and map makers, as they now can customise item behaviour in ways previously impossible without modding the game. One example, the "food" component, can now be added to any item, which will make it behave as a food, allowing it to be eaten by the player.

While it does break a lot of old maps / datapacks, this opens the potential to do a lot more with the vanilla game.

Really great seeing the game slowly become more data-driven, and less hard-coded, with each passing update.
spot on. i don't ever hire career programmers who don't at least tinker once inawwhile to stay ahead of the curve. i also tend to shy away from windows users (need at least some cli experience to debug in prod). and if they are ok getting paid in crypto, that's also a good filter
Apple Reportedly Developing Its Own Custom Silicon for AI Servers
Love the interactive diagrams explaining Git
Orange skies engulf Athens as dust clouds blow in from Africa
> Or the employee agreement you sign includes a notice period of 6 months from either side.

Those are illegal in at-will states.
The key takeaways:

> There were more than 1 million international students here in 2023, up 245 percent from a decade earlier and 60 percent since 2019. Canada, a country of 40 million, had roughly the same number of international students last year as the United States, a country more than eight times its size.

> Immigration Minister Marc Miller said last month that Canada would for the first time set targets for the number of temporary immigrants. He had already announced a temporary cap on undergraduate study permits and increased the amount of money that international students must have to study here.
The ministry also barred students in programs run by public-private college partnerships from applying for postgraduate work permits. Some, Miller said, run “the diploma equivalent of puppy mills,” offering poor curriculums in exchange for the prospect of permanent status.

This isn't just a housing or infrastructure problem, productivity is also tanking. These strip mall college degrees are effectively worthless, and these programs function as a backdoor mechanism to suppress the cost of low-skill labor. Why invest in automation or equipment when you can just hire more cheap foreign workers?
Capitalism is not supposed to increase salaries forever. Certain regions are more developed in certain industries and can demand higher salaries in those industries. Thus people move where the jobs are. Brain drain is perfectly consistent with capitalism and an expected affect.
Ummm, no? Sort of. First we don’t really know much about CarPlay 2. It was announced in 2022 but hasn’t been detailed yet. However, all the assumptions are that it runs of your phone just like CarPlay 1, but with more control and integration in the car. Nothing I have seen from Apple or others suggests that Apple is building an Android Automotive-like product. I.e: Apple software that runs off the car itself. Also it will be very unlike Apple to sell software that car companies run, which is what Android Automotive is. Unless the plan is to sell an iOS box that car manufacturers integrate into the car. But I haven’t seen any thing that suggests that.
> Using English, instead of C, to get a computer to do something doesn't turn you into a beaurocrat any more than using Python or Javascript instead does.

If one uses English in as precise a way as one crafts code, sure.

Most people do not (cannot?) use English that precisely.

There's little technical difference between using English and using code to create...

... but there is a huge difference on the other side of the keyboard, as lots of people know English, including people who aren't used to fully thinking through a problem and tackling all the corner cases.
wow, this inspires me to find something like that on coursera
15 years ago, I used to keep many tabs of youtube videos open just because the "related" section was full of interesting videos. Then each of those videos had interesting relations. There was so much to explore before hitting a dead-end and starting somewhere else.

Now the "related" section is gone in favor of "recommended" samey clickbait garbage. The relations between human interests are too esoteric for current ML classifiers to understand. The old Markov-chain style works with the human, and lets them recognize what kind of space they've gotten themselves into, and make intelligent decisions, which ultimately benefit the system.

If you judge the system by the presence of negative outliers, rather than positive, then I can understand seeing no difference.
It doesn't work at all. Doesn't even exist in Safari anymore because they ditched the old implementation and are rewriting everything.
The thing is . . . human curation is an algorithm.

And businesses tend to seek more profits, in part by cutting costs. So what's the obvious way to cut the cost of an algorithm that involves a bunch of slow, unreliable meat?
To be fair, this appears to be a case of greed:

> Kearns sought $395 million in damages. He turned down a $30 million settlement offer in 1990 and took it to the jury, which awarded him $5.2 million; Ford agreed to pay $10.2 million rather than face another round of litigation.
Most surprising for me is the humor part. Let a normal everyday Japanese person watch ANY of the greatest US comedians of all time (translated or not) and they just won’t find it funny. Now use the techniques in the article with ambiguous meanings and they will be rolling on the floor laughing. This works in the reverse too, westerners won’t find everyday Japanese comedians funny (it is pretty much untranslatable though).
That’s true for all providers isn’t it? Unless you have your own server setup.
>they went the heavy ski mask strategy with 2 hour battery life.

You mean ski goggles.
Until Kagi becomes popular. Then the same "SEO" bullshit that plagues Google will bite Kagi too. Right now Kagi is too small to make it worthwhile to spend resources "optimizing" for it.
Lloyd’s of London is a large insurer and is very interested in the potential liability that they are exposed to from the various insurance policies that they’ve underwritten.

In 2013, they published a report[0] considering the effects of solar storm risk to the North American electric grid.

tldr; it’s all about the transformers

[0] - https://assets.lloyds.com/assets/pdf-solar-storm-risk-to-the...
I stand by my statement.

Look at the BeatBuddy. It's one of the most successful projects to come out of the whole crowdfunded hardware thing.

Look at how much money he raised and then how much more money he needed in order to get it finished and how long it took.

If $2K vs $200 prototypes matter to you when building a hardware product, you're in deep, deep trouble.
Paywalled but if it’s about geothermal or some sort of tied heated system, no (at least meaningfully). Electricity is work. Anytime you convert heat into work, you pay the entropy tax, aka Carnot efficiency. Whenever you have heat or a source of heat dump, it’s always better to use it as heat rather than work.
Microsoft and Meta reinvented themselves a few times over. At this point Windows is just an legacy business unit for instance, and Meta literally changed name to mark the turn.

Oracle, IBM and SAP have the advantage(?) of being heavily business focused from the start, and I don't see them ever die a natural death in our lifetimes. As long as they have the money to outbribe the competition they'll be there, and it will require a small miracle to break that loop.
I agree, except I don't think it is a "weak value-add". It only takes one missed flight for it to be worthwhile for me.
No chance just move on
@ work in the summer months when i go for my daily walk at work - i frequently block my ears from the sound. I live and work in Western Sydney.
No, a white noise generator. May also generate other sounds, e.g. babbling brooks, rain on a roof, or other similar things.
Discussed 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40097681
"...since only 21% of people will buy a car without carplay"

That statistic is complete bullshit.
Only 21% of people will buy a car without car play? Maaaaybe new cars. Maybe.

I sold cars up til a few years ago. Countless cars got sold where Bluetooth itself barely works, and people are basically fine with it.

People buying used cars will take Bluetooth as a nice perk, but to think they make major decisions based on carplay in a 2015 Chevy Volt is funny.
I think there is a large demo of people now who actually prefer to watch videos in portrait.
Capital doesn't place too much emphasis on borders. When a person can double or triple their salary just by moving a few hours south it's easy for all the capital to get concentrated in one place (namely the US)
Reddit turned to trash as Twitter did last year and neither deserves your content or your traffic.
Being any but a handful of species is basically living in an actual horror movie 100% of the time.

Those few, just part-time.
We had a 2014 that suffered from this. It some touchscreen that was basically useless besides showing the backup cam and a few random, infrequently changed settings. However, replacing it was essentially impossible it also served as a critical system for a few things.

By contrast, my 98 Jeep and '08 sedan were both easy upgrades to modern head units with standard DINs.

Not having CarPlay/AA was actually a massive reason I wanted to get rid of that car.
what do you use for search instead of google/bing? is ddg the best of the worst?
Maybe even google no longer cares about shilling it (thinking it a loosing battle now).
Congress passes bill that could ban TikTok after years of false starts
Service-to-Service Zero Trust
I'm not really seeing why safety or emissions rules drive up the price of a car? Backup camera sure that's an extra $200.
That also sounds a lot like Blockbuster.

Google continues generating profits out of inertia and a lack of a better alternative.

It went for “don’t be evil” to “a necessary evil” (just until something a little better appears).
https://archive.is/mLMxe
So look at banks or militaries - two scenarios involving a lot of risk hinging on identity. What do they do? They use computers for that stuff now.
> Phrases have properties other than their literal meaning. These can be both important to an author's intent, and hard to get across;

Personally I prefer footnotes in those situations. I'd rather have a few sentences that explain the nuance an author was trying to convey with their word choice that a native speaker would have picked up on rather than have a phrase thrown out entirely and replaced with some alternative localization that might be familiar in an effort to try to capture the same "feel" but barely comes close to what was actually said (if you're lucky).
The draw is that wireless charging is faster/easier than plugging, or so I understand.
> Yes, prices will go up when demand goes up

Even better, prices are going down while demand goes up. Economies of scale is working wonders. Also, all the forecasts I've seen expect lithium ion $/kWh to keep dropping until 2030 despite increasing demand. Maybe this blog post is correct but I'm inclined to ignore such doomsaying because of the poor historical track record of such claims, and the sheer volume of lies surrounding EVs and renewables. Such claims need extensive receipts if they're to be taken seriously.

In the case of grid storage, there's also substitutes (sodium ion, redox flow, pumped hydro, sand). If lithium ion becomes an issue and the market prioritizes other types, economies of scale will again come in and assist the cost curves of these alternatives.
If they did that, everyone would worry about registering all the domains with a Levenshtein distance of 1 from theirs, in case of typos.
OpenInterpreter – Natural language interface to your computer
Elektron Digitakt II More Memory and Stereo Samples
Isn’t that quite saying the opposite? Or are you clarifying something the article got wrong?
Seems like it should work for arbitrary byte strings (any charset, any encoding)but obviously the performance characteristics will differ because of non-uniform distribution. But that happens even in ASCII.
Looks like a great competitor to apple neural engine!
OT, but Got banned from hinge after buying a 6 month subscription. I was reporting profiles that seemed too attractive to be real that I would match with instantly and they would immediately ask me to text over google voice and other text forwarding services. No explanation given. Ban appeal overruled. Thanks for the $180.
Sure, but that's just auto manufactures largely sticking to a legacy system because they don't need to improve.

As soon as customers demand better, there will be better/easier integration between the two components.
The barriers are dissolving! 4chan by way of reddit on HN

Age of Aquarius, or barbarians at the gate?

Shrug emoji
Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers
Forgive my shortsighted thinking, but how does this lower healthcare costs? It was mentioned as a main point, but I'm not sure how banning noncompetes would impact that.
> When a person can double or triple their salary

Erm, this is my point, no?

This large a differential between Canada and the US has persisted for decades.

Why?

You would think that the US would have drained Canada of the personnel sufficiently to cause salaries to match by this point.
> In finance

This would better written as: In 0.01% of finance jobs...
Finally, a principled company no longer participating in the corrupt D.C. culture of "lobbying" politicians. Politics as no place in the workplace.
The real problem with real world is that it is so boring most of the time.

Well designed video games can be hard or even harder than real life but they give you constant endorphins or dopamine hits to keep you going.

And you can take a break from video games without any negative repercussions.
The article says byd Q1 sales are up 13.4% year over year while Tesla sales are down 8.5% yoy
Looks like they repurposed Movidius SHAVE architecture and added a systolic MXU. Makes sense, if they can sort out their software story
The difference is you can work around those patents*
Issues with "Ethical" Image Generators
I ran into indirect realism quite a while ago, I think in neurophysiology or ethology to begin with. (A percept relating to an object is not the object itself).

Not sure why you bring up that and CWA here at this time though. Does it have something to do with falsifiability from your perspective? I think falsifiability is more of an OWA kind of thing though, isn't it? (The idea being that you never have sufficient information to know if something is true, only if it is positively false. That sounds pretty OWA to me, right?)

I'm interested to hear what you mean by "and the consequences" , because I truly have no idea what you might be seeing, and I'm really curious now. I get the impression you see people making certain kinds of mistakes?
They certainly can, but to build two you first build one. And if that one is not profitable, why would adding another one make it so? You could say that building 2 parallel tracks is not significantly more expensive than building one, and when you have the 2 you need less slack in the system, so you can have closer to 100% utilization rate. Yes, you could gain some economies of scale, but the fundamental problem remains: if you cross the canal, you just float on water; if you decide to use this alternative, you need to unload the ship, load 20 trains, run the trains for 300 km, unload them and load them on another ship. To be competitive with the canal, you need to do this for about $200k. The $200k should cover the operating costs (fuel, labor, equipment depreciation), the maintenance costs, the insurance costs, the capital costs and hopefully should include some profit.
Must be nice to have a bonus. Never worked in a place that had one!
I can see why Texas is excited to ship folks north.
Was it intentional to reply with another no true Scotsman in turn here?
"Stabilising critical mineral prices led battery pack prices to fall in 2023" (https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2024/trends-in...)

Chart: Price of selected battery materials and lithium-ion batteries, 2015-2024: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/price-of-sele...