skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Important detail: He is on the street not because he is destitute, but because the government entity that owns his lab (SPHCC) forced him to temporarily relocate for renovations without providing a suitable replacement lab. There's probably a lot more drama beneath the surface of this story.
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/HWY24FH006.aspx
Just an aside, this is my only account which I humorously thought I would name throwaway when I made it 5 years ago. I have repeatedly regretted the choice, even if using a better handle I still probably would have posted this. Also, it is not in my typical wheelhouse of comments, but I was on my 3rd scotch and soda, so it’s came out relatively coherent.
Remembering Joe Rosenberg, a Wall Street Veteran and Man of All Markets
Ask HN: What are top advice you give to your yunger self
Here is mine
1 be brave
2 be open to lean new thinks
3 always keep your faith of allah
Right. They _are_ probability, they don't _do_ probability.

This is like saying biological organisms don't do controllable and on-demand mutable DNA storage retrieval. It's like... yeah...
Switching to a different backend seems overly dramatic. But configuring some caching seems like a pretty obvious improvement.
I don’t understand why people have such high expectations and demands from OSS volunteers.

They are people doing this for free. They have no obligation to pass off their work in any particular way shape or form when they no longer want to do it. They don’t owe you or anyone else a smooth handover (or literally anything else).

Maybe they just burnt out so hard that even finding a replacement is too much work. Maybe they’re just not passionate about the project anymore and can’t be bothered. Maybe life is just a lot for them right now. Whatever the reason is, it’s nobody’s business but the maintainer.

If you care so much, you are free to take it over (like this post) or just fork it and continue it yourself.
Yea, it's gotten to the point where recent cars are such a minefield of misfeatures and unwanted features. Traditional car buying sites like Autotrader need to offer better filters. I should be able to check a box that says "No touchscreen," "No microphone," "No cellular connectivity," "No telemetry," "No account[1] required" and so on. Without this, you need to filter by year, but that's not really precise.

1: Aside: The idea of having to have an online account with the manufacturer in order to use a car is so ridiculous, I can't even believe I'm typing it.
We recent;y let our 1999 Honda go, which we bought used in 2007. Our choice for a replacement was no replacement. We've been able to just go car-free. The current state and expense of car ownership just doesn't provide enough benefit to us to be worth it.
Subjective but I feel like it is less harsh on my lungs secondhand too
i mean, who doesn’t enjoy winning a lottery? now you can play every time you use your device!

(in all seriousness, voice devices are a crucial affordance or adaptation for some disabled users. i ordered one of these (somewhat impulsively i admit) to evaluate it for a family member with a neurodegenerative disease who uses alexa to a degree that seems almost insane to me but it allows him to navigate his daily activities.)
>Not true. How would people look up cases online if that was the case?

Have you ever used LexisNexis or WestLaw? It's not an SQL database of facts from a case. It's literally just string searching. Do you have any experience with the legal industry at all as you repeatedly make statements about what lawyers would/should/could do?

>While others are on-prem servers the state/county runs. But they definitely use databases and computers lol.

The assertion wasn't that lawyers don't use technology, the assertion was that lawyers do not abstract the facts from a legal case into a database for querying. That you suddenly do not distinguish that from the general use of databases at all is asinine and not conducive to conversation because it's such a ridiculous stretch of what anyone could have meant, let alone what was actually written.

>I think you're missing the point - you act like I'm suggesting AI replace the entire legal system when I'm talking about a tool people would use instead of older tech like a SQL database and UI.

I'm not suggesting that at all. I'm suggesting that the limited utility you think is there, isn't.

>Nothing will satisify the neo-luddite take, just watch from the sidelines I guess!

Rude and unnecessary.
Good lord people are so pissed off about the t-shirts!

Everything about the t-shirts has already been argued to death, maybe just relax and don't participate in the internet hate machine?

(and, yes, I'm a Kagi subscriber. I'd say the same thing if I wasn't a Kagi user though.)
From just thinking about the architecture of Rama I feel it would scale very well.

Data parallelism and partitioning and sharding is a very effective scaling technique.

Nathan, I would appreciate writings about the mental model of mapping software to your mental model of implementing behaviours in the streaming data approach because it is a different paradigm.

I can't read the DSL yet and know what is going on!
It isn't true, though.

https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2020/06/racial_disparities_traffi...

> Blacks were 63 percent more likely to be stopped even though, as a whole, they drive 16 percent less. Taking into account less time on the road, blacks were about 95 percent more likely to be stopped. Blacks were 115 percent more likely than whites to be searched in a traffic stop (5.05 percent for blacks, 2.35 percent for whites). Contraband was more likely to be found in searches of white drivers.

> “So, black drivers were stopped disproportionately more than white drivers compared to the local population and were at least twice as likely to be searched, but they were slightly less likely to get a ticket,” Shoub says. “That correlates with the idea that black drivers were stopped on the pretext of having done something wrong, and when the officer doesn’t see in the car what he thought he might, he tells them to go on their way.”

(Even if it were, the SEC still isn't allowed to warrantless raids on white people just because they statistically commit more white-collar crimes.)
I think the geosynchronous basic idea of translation is that: Human languages consists of words that describe an action(verb) or a thing(noun) forced to be arranged according to a known ruleset(grammar). Words are all orthogonal to each others and are all clearly defined, except there are redundant definitions(synonyms) that serves no purposes. Noam Chomsky is ever correct and as he argues the language must be hardcoded in brain so every languages must be the same logic and apparent differences must be merely superficial that's officially hard science. Right? ...

And I find it hilarious how thoroughly wrong above is, as the real version(that I believe) is; there are always some conceptual overlaps between two arbitrary cultures(as we all live on Earth so far), so a lot of concepts in one also sometimes work in the other if reasonable mappings can be made up and fabricated. Where there isn't an overlap or the mapping cannot be mutually agreed(i.e. things that don't translate) it just mottainai-ingly falls apart.

This version lines up with the below too:

> (...) so translating things from Japanese to English is essentially a game of trying to figure out what the original text is trying to say.

This cannot be required if words, sentences, or possibly even logic had real correspondences between English and Japanese even if there were some words that had no direct counterparts. Word to word transpositions, sentence capture and replace, some additional surrounding texts, together should make up perfect translations without use of human creativity yet that doesn't happen, it always goes down to speculating on broader intent and translators ghostwriting on behalf of the original author - at least when it comes to between English and Japanese.

If only everybody could just take that.
Just a thought experiment. I was implying that chess is a game, not a board. That game can be encoded/coded without any need for a Z variable, can't it? My Rook doesn't go up and down an ladder, it doesn't need a 3D array to record its position. So that's 2D + Time, or 3D. YRMV.
> SpaceX is launching Sats for them,

Sats they are building.

> can't make shells for a war that literally at their doorstep

By they are making tanks and armored personal carriers. Just to name two things.

> S. Korea indirectly supplied more 155-mm shells for Ukraine than all European countries combined

S. Korea has a neighbor that they have reason to believe will invade if they don't have a good defense program. Thus S. Korea needs the proven ability to make enough shells to hold off an invasion even when there isn't one - if the invasion happens they will need those factories working overnight. The EU didn't think they needed that so they invested elsewhere.

> has to rely on the US for boats.

Many of the US navy boats are designed in Italy. Italy also builds a lot of boats.

> barely has a navy that can patrol waters literally next to them and <snip> Has fewer Carriers than single nations

They don't need them - the US is patrolling the oceans. If they have a problem in Kenya (random country I can spell) they will call the US to take care of it for them.

The world is connected. The EU doesn't need to do those things you name. They do other things instead and buy from the US, Korea, Japan, New Zealand... , while those countries buy from them.

Though I would agree the EU underfunded their military over many decades. However that is not the same as the EU building nothing.
Most of PRC energy mix is cheap domestic coal, which they have in essentially endless amount. PRC also generates ~2x more power, that's not something US relaxing enviromental policies can overcome. PRC has many cost advantages stacked in energy/inputs/capex/labour/production/process and just sheer scale. That's where you get into personell costs, moving bodies to build new capex, assuming there's even enough qualified expertise.

That said, in a sufficiently serious war, IMO there'd be homeland attacks on critical infra, be it cyber or long range strikes, so it's really about who can survive/operate/recover from capex attrition fastest.
Yeah, we wouldn't want local communities to make decisions about how to protect themselves and their environment. That's madness! They'd probably decide to interfere with some business' god-given right to plunder the commons.
I guess I need to explain: That was an expression of admiration.

I'm saying I like it.
sorry, are you asking why tech influencers aren’t in a different profession?
The best part is they're willing to grift people to shill it to their local homeowners association to deploy them privately! for a whole $50.

https://www.flocksafety.com/refer-hoa-board
Not even, this person is complaining about the color scheme options in multiple threads.
The field didn't just show up out of the blue. People around the world have been researching it for decades. A lot of them now want to come work in the US because this is where the money and opportunity is.

Take a look at the current AI landscape in the US. Almost everyone at the top of the field is a first generation immigrant, who managed to make it in while the process was still easy. It's wild that people see the clear benefits of their work to the economy and to US supremacy and then turn around and say that we need to stop importing talent because it takes away domestic jobs.
That's how nobility and fiefdoms work. Not capitalism and democracy.
MTG Arena, the new digital client for the Magic the Gathering trading-card game, uses CLIPS to implement the actual game-rules based on the English text of the cards. Magic cards are written using a very standardized language (look at custom-card communities and discussions around "templating"), but the fact that they've had such success with this approach is incredibly impressive to me.

It also leads to some really funny bugs that arise from grammar ambiguities - things like a card that says "[...] then put them into your hand" and the game losing track of what "them" refers to and putting _all_ the cards into your hand.
Exactly, it’s interesting that ‘llms can’t x’, with lots of effort trying to demonstrate it, comes up so often, when we know from first principles they can’t do anything but run a Markov chain on existing words. We’ve managed to build something that is best at fooling people into thinking it can do things it can’t.
> The full chart shows a sudden drop of about 9% market share for Google from March going into April 2024. Meanwhile there are significant [ed:sudden] gains for Bing and Yahoo.

Would the headline benefit from reflecting this?
> Kagi seems nice, but it's run by the kind of lunatic that will spend a significant fraction of the company's budget to buy a t-shirt factory to make t-shirts instead of

He made a post here explaining that it worked out cheaper that way, and that it hasn’t risked the company. Not that I agree with the decision, but you are painting it in a very bad light.

Kagi is a massive breath of fresh air, putting us, the user, at the helm again. We can choose what to personally up- and downrank, whether we want listicles, long or short site previews, the quick answer LLM is easily available, etc etc etc..

It has been a very very long time since I’ve seen a software product that is such a joyful improvement over all its competitors.
I like the idea behind systemd. I don't have an axe to grind. I don't want SysV init or whatever you might think.
Like I told - there is problem with threshold changes. If the thresholds are manipulated then it will lower also reported crime rates but the apparent crime rate based on personal experiences circulating in the population will paint a different picture. For example if somebody gets mugged but the value of the loss is below the threshold then it will not get reported but the crime still happened and the fact is shared in the population and this affects the perceived crime rate within the population.
Again, LLM search does some nice things that google search doesn't, but that's also because google search sucks.

Google search has been "llm based" since around 2019 - they've integrated BERT embeddings of your queries for a long time!

Having those embeddings plug into a text generation final layer instead of a retrieval infrastructure isn't somehow magical. ChatGPT only seems better because it's not filled with crap the same way google and bing are.

With that said, search does a lot of things that chatGPT is simply not good at. "Find a hardware store near me". "How does a E15 lightbulb head look like versus the one in my hand", etc.
Man, that keynote vibe is creepy.
So socioeconomic status doesn't apply but all the things we associate with socioeconomic status like segregated neighborhoods and underinvestment of communities do? Very confusing report.
Allow me to drop an alternative theory for this mass firing.

Tesla had a large layoff several weeks ago. Some execs pushed back, requested waivers or flat out refused to comply. Elon says: can't give me 20%? How about 100%.

This is all about sending a message to executive staff about who is in control. Not about the business unit, not about performance.
Definitely on the roadmap. Thank you for your feedback!
Company Revives Alan Turing as an AI Chatbot, Outrage Ensues
Show HN: I made a site for sharing 'work in progress' updates
I've always been fascinated by seeing other people work. Not just their end result, but the process that got them there.

Over the years builders have become more willing to share their process. But those updates were scattered throughout the web on different blogs and social media accounts.

So I made a social network, very similar to Twitter, focused solely on answering the question "What are you working on right now?"

Throughout the day people share small updates of what they have completed. I find it both interesting and motivating to see people make progress on their projects.

It's mostly bootstrapped startups, but there are also some authors writing books and people working on various hobby projects.

https://wip.co

It's invite-only at the moment to protect the community from an influx of new users (sorry!), but curious to get HN's view on this and whether they'd consider joining such a platform.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/road-traffi...

> Every year the lives of approximately 1.19 million people are cut short as a result of a road traffic crash. Between 20 and 50 million more people suffer non-fatal injuries, with many incurring a disability.

(for disclosure, if anyone is confused about JoeAltmaier's reply: the above link wasn't initially in my original comment - I had edited it in shortly before refreshing and seeing their reply)
Zilog Is Killing the Z80
> Kagi seems nice, but it's run by the kind of lunatic that will spend a significant fraction of the company's budget to buy a t-shirt factory to make t-shirts

I thought this was a weird joke while reading but apparently it is true. I like it though. Only a lunatic would dare build a paid search engine and actually manage to find users in 2024.
Hi friend, I found your idea interesting. I'm an entrepreneur and I'm looking to make friends who also want to venture into technology, and this idea could help a lot for those who seek it.
There is 'the Office" episode where Michael asks Oskar if he prefers not to be called Mexican.

Not complicated,stupid.
Ah, but there is a known strong correlation between poverty and crime, and strong correlation between race and poverty. Any conflation of correlation with causation between race and crime is exclusively an attempt to obfuscate a racist political stance.
Standard Twitter conversation: blue check guy posts very surprising conclusion. Very surprising conclusion is widely shared. Six inches down the thread, someone points out that this is obviously far too surprising to be real. But if you aren't a member of Twitter all you can see is posts[0].
If you asked a person to give you a random number between 1 and 6, would you accept if they just said a number they just came up with or would you rather they rolled a die for it?
Implementing soon!
I observed the same thing happen for YouTube videos in the last couple of years and it drives me crazy. I don't need 20 different comments fishing for likes that try hard to compliment something, and point out how this creator does something that others don't. They're everywhere!
You asserted that, "the percentage of daily miles driven where FSD can perform flawlessly is likely less than 5% of total miles".

If FSD can operate in situations such as the one in the video, you are wrong by at least an order of magnitude. And FSD does not have to perform flawlessly to perform better than humans.
No, it doesn't.

AT commands also don't make it onto your phone line, after all. They're for communication between a host and a modem/baseband, not between a host and another host or even two modems.
Which low end jobs ceased to exist?
No, it does not.

Why do you think technical documentation and medical diagnosis is similar to what judges in courts are doing?

OK, so why do lawyers and doctors get it wrong all the time then, if it does?
...Zhao is widely reported to have an estimated 90% stake in Binance.[1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/30/binance-founder-changpeng-zh...
Yes, mostly, but south doing badly is the result of things going wrong, and a lack of help from the EU.
Akiya houses: why Japan has nine million empty homes
The thing is you are allowing your client to do things without you saying to do it. That means you trust whoever is sending that link. To render you have to run a bit of JS and grab some other URLs. 'running' is probably not a great term for it. In this case if I were an attacker I can basically cause your mastodon client render without the users doing anything. I would call it a possible attack vector. Instead of the originating client rendering it and sending a picture along with the URL, it is telling the other side 'hey here is a URL' then the client own its own going to get a new snapshot. Some sort of render needs to happen for that picture to be created. In the second case that means if I were a sneaky sort I could send a link out to a group and I know an exploit in the mastadon render code I could cause interesting things to happen. I could also use this to attack sites. If I get into a large enough group I could basically spam the group with a bunch of URLs and cause a DDoS to any victim site I want.
> What is missing in the first case that wouldn't allow you to perform such static analysis?

Type information. The only type info the compiler has is "integer".

> It has a keyword to identify initialization of an enumerated set (iota),

That's not a type.

> it has an associated type (E)

It still only has the one piece of type information, namely "integer".

> and it has rules for defining the remaining items in the enumerated set

That's not type information

> That's all C gives you.

No. C enums have additional information, namely, which other integers that type is compatible with. The compiler can tell the difference between `enum daysOfWeek` and `enum monthsOfYear`.

Go doesn't store this difference - `Monday` is no different in type than `January`.

> Warnings are not fatal.

Maybe, but the warning tells you that they types are not compatible. The fact that the compiler tells you that the types are not compatible means that the compiler knows that the types are not compatible, which means that the compiler regards each of those types as separate types.

Of course you can redirect the warning to /dev/null with a flag, but that doesn't make the fact that the compiler considers them to be different types go away.

Whether you like it or not, C compilers can tell the difference between `Monday` and `January` enums. Go can't tell the difference between `Monday` and `January` constants. How can it?
I'm not a Kagi user, was unaware of the whole tshirt controversy until this thread, and personally I like the kind of lunatic that decides to buy an entire tshirt factory instead of having someone else print them. A man after my own heart
> We could solve a lot of other big problems w/ those engineers.

Most hardware folks are underpaid as is outside of aerospace and defence. What you are asking would put them on food stamps. There's a shortage of capital and low interest rates, not hardware talent.
SUID mechanism doesn’t always “elevate to root”. It’s a mechanism to “run as another user” and with SGID allows great flexibility in user permission management. You can allow all kinds of (responsible) user switch tricks for multi-admin servers and multi-user systems.

Focusing all of this to sudo and framing SUID as “just implemented to enable sudo” is not painting the correct picture.

Moreover, removing SUID breaks tons of mechanisms and scenarios.

Security of sudo can be debated, but evolving current sudo to a better state step by step is miles better than banishing and rebuilding it and making it dependent on systemd + polkit. systemd already breaks tons of UNIX conventions and way more complicated than it should be.

When you think, it sounds like “conquering” another part of user space mixed with NIH (and we know the best), and making systemd more entrenched. systemd is already a pretty large surface area to attack to begin with.

XZ back door reached SSHd over libaystemd. Do we need another “integrated target” to attack in Linux?
And what has it to do with wide spread blatant shoplifting affecting many US cities?
Kagi does almost everything right, except being run by a someone who seems unfit for it.

I'd want someone who is ruthlessly focused on growing the core search product. Focus is about saying no - I don't want a CEO distracted by a bunch of bullshit.

I think it's a good time to eat Kagi's lunch as well.