skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't. Are you telling me that you look at this and think "what a lazy design"?

https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/04/sacred-modernity-b...
> you have to assume I’m an uninformed moron to believe it uncritically

> I believe you are being willfully disingenuous so will not continue this conversation further.

Wow, such hostility. I'm not being willfully disingenuous; you just have a short temper and have a hard time staying civil, but I'll give you a second chance and try to respond in good faith here.

> Maybe start with: Labor unions, manufacturers throughout the supply chain, maintenance vendors - you know entities with actual money and financial interests.

Sure. Pork barrel politics all around.

> Also, local constituents and representatives where the train service happens to go, like it or not the train service is hugely important to the chamber of commerce in general of a place like Syracuse for instance where an air carrier just pulled out and one of those destinations is Chicago - it matters not much from optics that the journey takes longer than 100 years ago.

I just looked up flights between Syracuse and Chicago, and I can find multiple affordable nonstop flights: https://www.kayak.com/flights/SYR-CHI/2024-05-25/2024-06-01/...

Amtrak (which doesn't provide working deep links, and doesn't let me look up routes unless I turn off my ad blocker) offers a 13 hour overnight train at roughly the same fare as that two hour flight. What practical customer value is Amtrak providing on this route? Maybe train service between Syracuse and Chicago was faster 100 years ago, but it wasn't as fast as as a two hour flight, and it's not going to be. So who actually cares, aside from train geeks and, as you pointed out, people with a vested interest in federal pork?

> Moreover, the companies and organizations that are involved and do exist don’t magically disappear in any imagined privatization future.

I think a lot of them do "magically disappear" if they're dependent on government subsidies in order to remain economically viable!

> I also have a hard time believing that a motley bunch of train geeks somehow has any pull over the ReDUcE GoVERNmENT SpENDInG crowd.

Please, look at any graph of government spending over the past century and then try to tell me with a straight face that the "reduce government spending crowd" has any pull at all. Government spending does not get reduced. On the other hand, the federal government still subsidizes useless train routes that nobody needs, like the Syracuse to Chicago service you pointed out, or the Seattle to Chicago service I pointed out.

> The NEC is profitable if you hand wave away most of the costs like maintenance, and the infrastructure so the those brand new trains they just bought (the $10 billion spend just after Mr Andersons tenure, so as not to derail your narrative) can go more than 80mph (there are still major chunks north of NYC that can’t manage that).

My claim here is that you can make up the shortfall by eliminating all the useless routes that fail to compete with other modes of transportation. Maybe I'm mistaken about this, but you haven't really shown me hard numbers that account for the elimination of useless routes.
Pre-python 3.2, the format used for representing `str` objects in memory depended on if you used a "narrow" (UTF-16) or "wide" (UTF-32) build of Python.

Fortunately, wide and narrow builds were abandonned in Python 3.2, with a new way of representing strings : current Python will use ASCII if there's no non-ASCII char, UCS-2 –UTF-16 without surrogate pairs — if there is no codepoint higher than U+FFFF, and UTF-32 else.

See this article for a good overview of the history of strings in Python :
https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-behind-the-scenes-...
When it comes to consumer tech, convenience beats everything else, period.
The second statement was specifically about when the DCO is in effect. The first one is about when it isn't.
There are no rules in love and OS wars.
Cofounder of Websim here. Right now it's not clear that there's any eval for a language model's simulation capabilities. Internally, we've (vibe) tested Llama 3, Command R+, WizardLM 8x22b, Mistral Large (first version of Websim came out of a Mistral hackathon) and GPT-4 Turbo and found them all lacking, due to either meh website outputs or mode collapse from reinforcement learning (lack of creativity and flexibility). That also may be a "skill issue" thing because our system prompt is very much optimized for Claude 3's "mind." We'll release functionality in the next week or two that lets users update the system prompt, in which case this may be less of an issue

Claude 3 has a much broader latent space, and seems to "enjoy" imagining things. It hasn’t been banged into too specific of an assistant shape, and doesn’t suffer the same degree of “mode collapse” https://lesswrong.com/posts/t9svvNPNmFf5Qa3TA/mysteries-of-m...

Even Sonnet produces mindblowingly good outputs (https://x.com/RobertHaisfield/status/1774579381132050696). Haiku is capable of producing full websites with insightful and creative content, even if it isn't as capable as Sonnet/Opus. For example, I found Curio, an esolang where every line of code is a living, sentient being with its own unique personality, memories, and goals, mostly by browsing around with Haiku (https://x.com/RobertHaisfield/status/1782586807261233620). Although Haiku tends to perform better when it is few-shot prompted with outputs from Sonnet or Opus earlier in the "browser history."
For many people, that’s true. But not for those who care. The other metrics are under my control, and I actively scramble them to uselessness. An IP address … I can’t do much about.
Ultimately, lack of traffic. During Blekko's lifetime Google went from paying people less than $10M/quarter to send their search traffic to Google to over $4B/quarter to do that. If you are ad based you need traffic to serve ads to.

At some point a pay for search model might emerge that has a big enough audience to support a company but that time is not yet here.
CMU or UPenn for CS Undergrad?
I got into both but I'm really confused on which school to pick. I'm not really sure about what I want to do with my career. I would like to work on some of the startup ideas that I have or maybe work in finance/AI space.
UPenn:

+ Possible double degree with Wharton

+ Less stressful/more social life?

+ More prestige in VC/business world?

CMU:

+ Better professors for CS/Better CS Education

+ More CS Prestige (#1 for CS)

- Stress culture

Would I miss out on any CS opportunities (jobs, interships, startup opportunities) by going to UPenn instead of CMU?
The ghosts of India's TikTok: What happens when a social media app is banned
How much energy can offshore wind farms in the US produce?
wait until turbo tax comes in hot with their lobbying efforts - didn't they manage to prevent or diminish a free tax filing service already a few years ago?
On Google Pixel 8 (IDK about other Android phones) you can press the power button + volume up button to launch a pop-up menu with the following options: restart, power off, lockdown, emergency.

If you select lockdown you'll be required to use a pin or password to unlock the phone.
maybe they plan to adopt mojo
We're done here. Go back to the top.
Yes, I should add a ratio filter.

Probably a dropdown with the different options, like the Panel Type.

That will need a bit of tinkering, as the ratio is not a readily available parameter, but need to be calculated on the fly and then put into the right bins like 3:2, 16:9, 16:10 etc.
Interesting, will try this. I imagine "symmetric" is not the correct term, but what is? I imagine there are constraints on types of random variables for which this will work, but I haven't looked into it deeply.
Welcome to the wide-gamut test page
It is bonkers that the IRS cannot prefill information for the majority of Taxpayers.
Iommus are very common on PC grade hardware, as well as premium smart phones. They just aren't that common on lower end phones and iot devices, but pcie is also fairly uncommon on those devices which makes your comment a bit confusing.
Sanctions are government interference.
Building an on Device Face Recognition App with the FaceOnLive SDK on Android
I didn't qualify to use the site, but it's definitely a step in the right direction. Everyone agrees that doing taxes should be free and easy, like nearly every other country...
Due to the anti-consumer behavior of all mega-corps, presume the worst.

If a person chooses not to connect TV to the internet, how can I know with 100% certainty that data extraction is not occuring over Bluetooth?

Samsung could have a contract with Amazon where Samsung puts Bluetooth readers in all Amazon delivery vehicles to aid in this data retrieval.

It's not that far fetched since Google has mappings of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signal locations.

A TV manufacturer puts in the back door so the pair screen doesn't appear under certain circumstances.

I don't know and I don't have the time to research what the operating system on a TV can all do.

All it does is make another hole in the Swiss cheese model. I don't need a smart TV being the reason why an important account got compromised.
I don't get this. People who don't use the software can't hack on it? Since when did software engineering not get repetitive? I have contributed to langchain, for example, without ever doing as much as an "import langchain" outside of debugging. I feel like people are making a heuristic out of negative recall bias here. And why I am so concerned is, it destroys an entire gateway into open source. An entire gateway which is pretty common for people from developing countries. They don't have local mentors, open source would probably be the first time they will have access to real programmers (I've personally been there).
People Can't Care About Everything (2023)
> There are people who do not drive or fly but use trains.

So this isn't about providing people with access to transportation, because people do, in fact, have access to other transportation options. It's about catering to the whimsical preferences of people who like to ride trains. I don't think catering to those whimsical preferences is a necessary public service.
The problem with stuff like that is that you'll still have the law enforced, just in a haphazard way. So everybody is doing it, and most aren't any worse off for it, but some end up with their lives ruined, largely at random.
> Out of 500 cats and owners, only 30 completed the entire trial,

Now test the 500 owners for toxoplasmosis, and correlate.
You don't actually have to do any of that work if you don't want to. Half the open source software companies have that as their business model -- you can take the code and do it yourself or you can buy a support contract and they do it for you. But then you can make your own modifications even if you're paying someone to handle the rest of it.
Note that pressing the power button 5 times on a Samnsung phone calls 911 rather than lock your phone. To lock an android phone like this you need to bring up the power menu and select "Lockdown mode". The only way I'm aware of to bring up the power menu is to hold the power button, and the default seems to be to not show the lockdown button; it needs to be enabled in settings. Also, by default holding the power button brings up a voice assistant rather than the power menu, leaving no way to access the power menu at all, so this needs to be changed to show the power menu in settings as well. And even after all that configuration you need to be looking at your screen to hit a little touch target to trigger a lockdown. This seems like a really poorly thought out panic button.
I think it's valuable for brainstorming and refining my texts. As a non native, it helps me immensely in correcting errors and sometimes weird phrases that I accidentally translate literally without noticing. But it's only helpful when I know enough about the source material to judge the output. I wouldn't trust it e.g. in sieving through other people's ideas or applications
How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles
Note this is only available in the pytorch variant [1], not the original numpy interface that it is based on [2]

[1] https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.einsum.html

[2] https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.einsu...
> I believe Hubris doesn't even allow new kinds of processes at runtime; all possible executables must be determined at compile time.

Correct. From [0]:

"Hubris is an aggressively static system. The configuration file defines the full set of tasks that may ever be running in the application. These tasks are assigned to sections of address space by the build system, and they will forever occupy those sections.

Hubris has no operations for creating or destroying tasks at runtime. Task resource requirements are determined during the build and are fixed once deployed. This takes the kernel out of the resource allocation business. Memories are the most visible resources we handle this way, but it applies to all allocatable or routable resources, including hardware interrupts and memory-mapped registers – all are explicitly wired up at compile time and cannot be changed at runtime."

[0] https://cliffle.com/blog/on-hubris-and-humility/
This is stupid and reckless advice. The perfect is the enemy of the good. Practically nobody will set a robust, multi-character passphrase and use it dozens of times a day.

The vast majority of people will never be troubled by law enforcement; phone theft is much more common. Shoulder-surfing someone’s password and grabbing their phone to run out the closing subway doors has been A Thing for decades now.
I’ve been twice in USA recently and I didn’t see that anywhere.
I appreciate the analogy, they compare dissimilar things with a common attribute.

What was the common attribute? Can you finish articulating what was asked?

Is it difficult for you to talk about sex work and women? Because I would like to have that conversation, it was an interesting prompt
A new barbershop in Denver is staffed with formerly incarcerated people
Because sometimes people do bad things in ways that are hard to prove, but they still happen.

The Catholic priest makes sure he and the altar boy are the only ones in the church. The coworker who makes unwelcome advances is careful to do it verbally when there aren’t witnesses. The abusive spouse leverages psychological traumas to make their partner feel crazy.
Typical distance between any two stars in the Milky Way is 5 light years, which at 1% speed of light would take 500 years to get there. Assuming 25 years per generation, that represents a travel time of 20 human generations.

That's like a family from the 1500's committing for their children and 19 following generations to live on a shitty rocket. They'd have just arrived.

I wonder what 500 years of food, water, and oxygen looks like for a civilization-founding crew. What's the backup plan if the target planet isn't livable? Cyanide tablets?
Do you plan on integrating? Or just staying in expat circles? Are you already bicultural? (do you know how to code switch?)

You will never become more than paper-Swiss. I don't mind: like the old saying about fish and water, I've learned much more about what being american is from being here than I had in the Old Country, where it was just implicit. (What does being "fully accepted" mean to you?)

I've found people very welcoming, but (a) part of what I didn't like about my birth culture was the superficiality, and (b) how open and welcoming you find people probably goes in direct relation to how well you adapt. Treat people like NPCs and you'll be treated like one in return; treat people like people, and...

There are many good books for expats on swiss culture. I threw mine away after a few years, but you might want to read a few (and as I said, come and try day-to-day life for a few months) before attempting to make any big decisions.
Offtopic: an adaptive 1-, 2-, 3-column layout in the wild. Wild.
why are we inspecting the intentions of the contributor so much? Why do we need to show this piousness in our reasons to get a PR merged? Don't you see the unnecessary barrier here?

Edit: Changed author to contributor as it can be confused as the author of the article.
Unfortunately, a closed game studio
Depends on your scale. On one hand, all institutions are oppressive at some level. On the other, Christianity is the foundation of the free society you (most likely) live in.
> There is no way to “fix” the problem and resume the task. This was a conscious choice to avoid some subtle failure modes and simplify reasoning about the system.

One of Einstein's famous quotes is, "...as simple as possible, but no simpler." I'm pretty sure this design violates the latter portion. I'm not interested in operating environments that can tolerate no real-world chaos, and I'm not aware of any commercially viable realms which would either. What -- push it back to the init system to keep trying again? But by what mechanism would that strategy be able to understand the fault that occurred, in order to try again better?

Anyway, kudos for purity of conviction (I guess).
Sure, the survivors can swap to a new brand. Shame for everyone who died in the cholera outbreak though.

Better hope that new brand isn't just the old one with a new label slapped on.
So was IBM on computers; then, new interesting computers happened, such as the ones from DEC with ITS and WAITS, the whole AI and network/multimedia with them instead of the crappy batch job based computing with punchcards...
I can't wait for a libre, RISCV alternative to Intel/AMD shaking up the grounds of the propietary computing.
I’m really enjoying his posts on this
No. It was that easy to mine bitcoins back then and just throw them away. Interesting but worthless at the time.
Surging auto insurance rates squeeze drivers, fuel inflation
This is eerily similar to the privacy argument "well I don't do anything wrong so I have nothing to worry about". The problem is you don't decide what should be hidden and what should be available, the state does, and things can change quickly. Having said that, it would be easy to change your security settings as known security threats become apparent.
There was also quark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(TV_series)
I like that Google Maps now lets you view a time in the past of a location on Street View. I hope this serves as an archive of sorts of how things used to look, at least from the outside, for decades/centuries to come.

If the various locations I’ve lived and visited become unrecognizable like this, at least it would allow me to get a glimpse of how it used to look.
"Auto insurance rates rose 2.6% in March and are up 22% from a year ago."

"Progressive’s profit jumped 50% and its revenue surged nearly 18% to $62.1 billion in 2023. Wall Street expects its profit to skyrocket nearly 80% in 2024 on a 14% jump in revenue."
I've put a bunch of rPI zeroes throughout the house with varying degrees of success. Works best with the home assistant beacon on my Galaxy watch, it's likely tile tags will work better.
The only downside is that the PIs require an external Bluetooth dongle hooked with a USB extender, because of wifi interference.

I used raspberry so I can use room-assistant for home assistant. You could probably hack it up with a bunch of ESPs and a central server to aggregate it all. Then trilateration should be fairly simple.
I totally agree. Here's a library that basically does that: https://docs.xarray.dev/en/stable/
Why not just use LibreOffice?
Huge HN discussion: [0](537 points, 3 days ago, 371 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149095
so this is subtle and persuasive rhetoric .. let's look more closely.. "most people" divides the public into "us vs them" .. "factor arrests" immediately and implicitly makes the dividing line into "law abiding citizens" and their implied complement, criminals.. "can happily" inserts an emotional component into the divisive classification.. "use biometric unlock features" seals the statement, firmly cementing "law abiding us people" against "those other people who obviously have something to hide"

in short - no. A broader view of human nature, and the relationship of an individual adult versus the state or corporate status quo .. says that no, an individual person with rights and privacy does not have to acquiesce to draconian surveillance state record keeping.. and asserting your rights to not participate does not make you a member of the criminal "them" class.

Secondly, snide and smug assertions made in public that do associate privacy and individual rights with criminals, might be made by exactly those who are promoting these kinds of systems, for profit.

summary - no.
Because that’s the job. If the police want to be respected again, they need to earn it by proving they aren’t all what everyone believes them to be. Responding to criticism by ceasing to do the job is just earning more hatred.
> Seeing the #4 contributor to Nixpkgs [...] leave

He was actually #3. The nominal #1 'contributor' is a CI bot that auto-updates packages.
Apple Vision Pro used to treat laparoscopic sigmoid colon cancer
As a musician, sometimes sound designer, and web developer, I find myself wondering which of these ideas could be migrated to web apps. I definitely agree with the article's premise that sound is often eschewed in software, and I think they make some nice counter-arguments to support more sound in software. However, sound on the web can add significant bandwidth to your app, and the fact that it's very uncommon makes me wonder how easy it would be to get users to be willing to interact with sound controls in a web app.
Add your web site to https://hstspreload.org . Problem will be solved.
This last year when filing my taxes with a paid turbotax product some value was auto-filled and looked about right. After submission I was notified that the IRS rejected my form because the field was wrong. They did not correct the field or otherwise communicate what they believed the value should have been. Tracking down what number they actually wanted there was a hassle.
So... they have on file what they expect your taxes to be, will reject your filing if you get it wrong... but won't just use their gathered values to do your taxes. Very frustrating.
i am in a similar situation, but i find that the most help people need is to sound off their problems and get someone to look at them from a different perspective. you are not giving them directions, you are just pointing out things they may not have considered. usually the people already made a choice or have an answer, but they need someone to confirm that it's a good one.

when you are alone facing a problem, sometimes it is difficult to sort through it all, and then it helps to have a second person to confirm things, or help you step through the problem with a fresh mind until the right solution becomes self evident

in summary, you are not sharing your knowledge but your experience and the wisdom that you have acquired over the years. and a lot of that is not specific to your career but simply a factor of being older/ having worked longer. in theory any 50 year old could be a mentor to any 30 year old. we just seek out people with a similar background because it is more likely that we understand each other.