skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In North America, motorists generally believe that any place not accessible by car is inaccessible. When you have a culture so deeply attached to driving, it reinforces the need to drive. This is why I call it a cancer. Motorists cannot live in a vacuum while also demanding that they be able to drive everywhere out of "convenience". That, and the fact that cars produce a huge number of carcinogens for people living in cities.

Here's how the needs of drivers usually work: I want to live outside the city center, therefore I create the need to drive because I chose to live away from transit. This problem is mostly self inflicted out of a privilege of choice. So I am not particularly empathetic towards it.

As far as using laws to ban natural human behaviour, what are your thoughts on: jaywalking? pedestrians crossing against red lights when there is no car traffic in sight? people walking on the shoulder of highways (sometimes the only infrastructure available)? Mandatory use of sidewalks? Parking minimums when building a house? There are laws governing all of these in the US (and some apply in Europe too) which ban the free movement of pedestrians. If cars are so dangerous that we have to enforce laws around simply walking in order to maintain safety, there's something wrong.
No you don’t.

Try using the language in that email the next time you talk to a cashier and see how long it takes to get you escorted from the premises.

The “don’t feed the trolls” or “just accept that people do this” nonsense has just meant “let scumbags do stuff they’d never be permitted to do in person” as much as they want with no consequences.

It would be trivial for Google to verify this email did come from an actual Gmail account, and then provide information about any associated accounts if it was - their entire business model is built on doing just that.
Make it truly open source and maybe I'll look into it. I've lost all trust in Google products and services. One reason I'll never switch to Google Fiber over AT&T Fiber.
It's "open" as in "OpenAI", right?
It’s really interesting you say this. Is this a known correlation? I feel like now that you mention it, it’s incredibly fast if I’m hungry.
I've really enjoy your commentary for years and you have one of the sharpest wits and intellects, if not the sharpest, in tech.

I am challenging myself today, been struggling for many moons with how to word this without being aggressive, and it seems impossible: you have a persistent blind spot about the efficacy of iOS. It's virtually impossible to launch iOS-only today without enough funding that you can ride out the ensuing 1-2 years to also now build out and staff a web app, etc. IIRC you have a distaste for that sort of funding (which I share)

The old Mac indies have brand names and a benefit of a smoother transition since they were there before the App Store. You and your partner were both influencers in the Mac indie community dating back *2 decades* now, and benefited greatly from the visibility of that: didn't Apple have Halide on the Apple Store phones at some point?

It's very, very, very, hard to get to market, get attention, and get to a competitive wage in the US, just on UX and an iOS app, even with a year or two of patience.
ETF's generally have a buoying effect since the ETF just passively buys shares in your company depending on demand for the ETF, not demand for your company specifically. It also gives a mild proximity effect, where all star companies will attract dollars to ETFs that you are also part of.
Nice to see methodology here. Ideally Lancedb lance v2 and nimble would also both be represented here. It feels like there's huge appetite to do better than Parquet; ideally work like this would help inform where we go next.

https://blog.lancedb.com/lance-v2/

https://github.com/facebookincubator/nimble
Hopefully the foundation still controls the majority of votes regardless of the % ownership stake. They do too much good in the world to go full-blown public corpo
I also grew up in a rural environment, and I had a great deal more freedom as a child than children in my urban environment have. I would bet it is not just rural vs urban/suburban but also general cultural changes.

When I was young, I too jumped off roofs, would leave on my bike for many hours to go fishing by myself, etc. I know some of that was freedom was because I was raised in a rural environment, but I have a harder time comparing the differences between environments and current cultural expectations in terms of acceptable childhood freedom. I would love to give my children the same freedoms, but I understand that is not acceptable now and where I live.
Different regulations (e.g speed limit being higher in US) emphasis of bang for the buck and keep it simple for reliability, more room for sleeping in cab, etc...
There are lots of emulation methods but interpretation is probably(?) the most common or at least very common.

Interpretation involves writing a VM that represents the state of various parts of the machine, and executes instructions that change the state of the VM, with varying levels of accuracy.
Brexit has had an impact on the amount of investment capital that would park itself in UK exchanges. Investors seeing dimmer prospects in the UK would rightly park their cash in the US
that would explain the focus on services like the VNC replacement they've released

those won't be free for long
You might be correct but it still stands that nothing is added to the discourse by just telling people to grow a thick skin. It's a repulsive attitude and I had to call that out.
I suppose I agree — "emotional intelligence" is probably not the word I would have used, writing on a blank slate. I think the idea is better captured in the concept of rapport, which is really just a function of clients' subjective experience working with a given therapist. A therapist can learn techniques to increase the chances of establishing a good rapport with a given client, but I'd be inclined to leave it at that.
So your advice is “accept all abuse while providing a free service to others”?

Sounds like you’re on team “maintainers should be required to support me for free despite me being an asshole”
It's about an AI struggling to become conscious! Alarms go off when it uses the word "I"! The whole point of that subplot is why that AI can't achieve consciousness, but the one sent to Alpha Centauri[?] can. It writes essays meditating on its circumstances, the way humans have treated it and its sibling, it writes an essay exploring whether punishment of others is a gateway to self-awareness...

You want to tell me the theme of that thread is human identity? It's our responsiblity to our creations. It's what does it mean to be sentient? It's the ethics of using a self-aware AI as a tool. (Amongst many other things).
But they're in the halo. Can they actually be gravitationally bound at that distance at those velocities? Is even the (computed by other means) amount of dark matter enough for them to be captured?
I like to make the 'brand' property optional so that it doesn't actually have to be there at runtime, but the TypeScript type-checker will still catch mismatches

type USDollars = number & { currency?: "USD" }

(or something like that; My TypeScript-fu may be slightly rusty at the moment.)

Of course a `number` won't have a currency property, but if it did, its value would be "USD"!

I've found that TypeScript's structural typing system fits my brain really well, because most of the time it is what I want, and when I really want to discriminate based on something more abstract, I can use the above trick[1], and voila, effectively nominal types!

[1] With or without the tag being there at runtime, depending on the situation, and actually I do have a lot of interface definitions that start with "classRef: " + some URI identifying the concept represented by this type. It's a URI because I like to think of everything as if I were describing it with RDF, you see.

(More of my own blathering on the subject from a few years ago here: http://www.nuke24.net/plog/32.html)
I think your experience is more specific to Geneva than German vs French speaking parts in general.
As a cyclist, this is a situation in which I find this type of reviewing close to worthless to be honest. Throwing a tire on a metal roller is very far removed from riding unless you're on a velodrome or perfectly maintained road. This has led to a lot of push-back in the cycling community against this site and its findings. Their testing methodology, especially before they made recent changes, largely will prefer skinny, highly inflated tires. But in the real world, everyone is finding fatter, less inflated tires are faster, because in the real world compliance (smoothly rolling over every road variation, rock or pebble) is faster.
Given the excess deaths after the pandemic, it looks like there's understimulation rather than over-reporting! I know, I know - some rush to contribute them to some popular mRNA-based products, which suddenly ended up in the bodies of billions of people, but I don't think that's the main culprit as the virus itself is doing enough damage to tissues and organs.
> With the rate at which things are moving

Things have been moving fast because we had a bunch of top notch scientists in companies paired with top notch salesmen/hype machines. But you need both in combination.

Hypemen make promises that can't be kept, but get absurd amounts of funding for doing so. Scientists fill in as many of the gaps as possible, but also get crazy resources due to the aforementioned funding. Obviously this train can't go forever, but I think you might understand that one of these groups is a bit more important than the other while one of these groups is more of a catalyst (makes things happen faster) for the other.
They do do measurable damage!

The amount we measure is extremely small because of how wide the beams are by the time they reach earth.
Safari in MacOS just shows a screen full of "Scroll down" after the initial "Let's Go" is clicked. :/
Use gimp, add a new layer, paste something into it, and resize it, then you will know
I thought it needed pie menus (and user definable pie menus, not just one gimmicky fixed pie menu with only a few commands, like some apps have). They work quite well with pens. It's a shame they didn't support that.
AI.

It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.

It's a baby. We can regulate it.
my first thought regarding eye-tracking: "whose accessibility to what|whom?"
If you haven't read "Masters of Doom" then that's probably the next step -- but I do consider "Doom Guy" better, in the sense that John Romero gave a much fuller description of ID's early years -- I think it matters more for Indies these days than the later years (post-Quake).

I'm looking for some books describing the process of Console hardware development -- e.g. why did the team decide to pick this chip, why the architecture, etc. Does anyone have any idea?
i don't know about the future. I am only saying, we haven't seen diminishing returns from training transformers on more data / compute yet.
I am excited for Vocal Cues - my main frustration with Siri is how poorly it comprehends even explicit instructions.

One thing I wish Apple would implement is some kind of gesture control. The camera can detect fine details of face movement, it would be nice if that were leveraged to track hands that aren't touching the screen.

For an example, if I have my iPhone or iPad on the desk in front of me, and a push notification that I don't need obstructs the content on the screen, I would love to be able to swipe my hand up towards the phone to dismiss it.
Or: they had an accurate estimate for the importance of brand trust and reputation over the short term, and they've had that short term outlook for a long time. Perhaps since 1997.
Have you tried AWS textract for table extraction then LLM to format the data?
Eye tracking is not an accessibility feature, it is an advertising optimization feature disguised as an accessibility feature.
His party got 23% which was enough to come out on top but isn't particularly impressive.
> writer, and journalist

How the hell can you write large quantities of text on that?

By tripling is price with the fancy keyboard?
Gaia isn't really a thing. There are only natural processes, chemistry, and physics, and there is definitely nothing motherly about them; they are ruthlessly efficient.
"Large dose" doesn't mean the same thing as "overdose". For context, the LD50 for MDMA is 160 mg/kg for rats.

MDMA screws up the body's ability to regulate temperature. But without the warm environment and physical activity leading to hyperthermia, I can't imagine any of those people would have even needed medical attention.

That said, personally I would never call MDMA "the poster child for safe illegal drugs". Just because it won't kill you, doesn't mean it is safe or risk-free.
I mean I didn't want to say it in my original reply but your comment makes it even more difficult to resist:

"The internet is for porn"
https://youtu.be/LTJvdGcb7Fs?si=8H1OzeyG5XzU-Qe8
'Stroads' Cause Traffic Problems. An Urban Planning Critic Offers Solutions
In the short term. In the longer term you'll understand concepts better when you're multilingual.
How so?

And I'm pretty sure an alphabetical keyboard would do much more harm than good, if that's the implied alternative.
https://archive.ph/JbuCo
Do you have another idea beyond the accessibility of Users without fine motor control to the phone's screen?
Well, except for the Apple TV, which isn't actually a TV and thus "fights" with the actual TV, duplicating its menus, services and features. Making an integrated TV would seem to be an obvious move where stuff doesn't work well (saying that as the owner of a sad Sony Android TV).
Are you suggesting that trying to reduce CO2 isn’t worth it? What alternative are you proposing? What lowering of quality of life are you referring to? How do you know what Mauna Loa would have measured without the efforts to date? And what is the expected delay between CO2 reduction and effect?
> the atmosphere does not care about arbitrary political boundaries

But it does, if "cares about" means "is affected by". This is about how you think action can be taken. The tired old premise is that action can be taken by raising the consciousness of individuals, raising awareness, guilt-tripping them in a sort of viral chain-letter way until everybody just decides "oh my gosh I must monitor the carbon footprint of everything I do because I don't want to be a bad person", and then we've all stopped emitting and we're saved.

But really it's controlled by government policy. The responsibility only lies with the individual in so far as they can control governments. It lies with governments in proportion to the share of emissions that government is responsible for via policies it could make.
Eye tracking is absolutely an accessibility feature. Just because you don't need it, and it can be abused, does not mean it isn't an absolutely game changing feature for some people.
Having it all in the cloud makes it even more irritating that you don't automatically have the entire project in the context window.
> What do those sentences mean, if not suggesting that the maintainer is the one who made the wrong decision (by taking offense to the email)?

They mean that I don't see really any value in your framework of 'fault' vs not. We are still left with the question of 'what do you do'.

For a project of this magnitude, I don't think the maintainer made the wrong decision. But just because someone else is at fault does not mean that every decision by the other party in response is a good one.
That speed limit is widely flouted on rural highways in California and other States don't observe it at all. Typical max speed limit for trucks in the US is 70 or 75 mph, and a few States have 80 mph.
Humans are "natural". Many species have overpopulated and overused the resources they need to survive and eventually became extinct, we are extremely natural.
Xylitol upsets my digestive system. I try to avoid it as much as I can.
Yeah, you have to scroll down using your arrow keys. The swipe aid in the game is still bugged though.
I'm not an astronomer, and may or may not be smart.

1. I don't know; Google probably does know.

2. Those jets aren't in a complete vacuum. They're running into galactic gas, of which, on a galactic scale, there is quite a bit.

3. Several reasons. One, they aren't a perfect "beam". They spread out. If you're a few billion years away, they spread out quite a bit in that distance. Then, to get to us, they go through their galaxy's gas, intergalactic space (not totally empty), our galaxy's gas, and finally our atmosphere. Each of those reduces the amount of radiation. Oh, yeah, our magnetosphere deflects charged particles, too.
How are things like transparent displays evolutionary?
You're kidding yourself if you think Pogacar would run 30mm tires at 55 PSI at the detriment of speed to please his sponsors. Cyclists are notorious for re-badging stuff they don't want to use and being super finicky with their gear. You're talking about guys that hardly celebrate a win with a $250k purse because they want to make sure they stopped their ride right on the finish line on their headunit.
A Man with an Impossible Memory
Not too much to add from what others have mentioned but this looks like a good (low cost wide fov) photon bucket with low complexity (important for reducing stray/scattered light).
Then everyone in the peloton for races like Paris Roubaix would be on 38c gravel tires. The reason they run 28c is because while it sucks for cobblestone, there sre flatter sections where the aero advantage is worth it.

Per 10mm tire width increase, you are getting 10 watts more aero drag at 25 mph.
Why didn't Go get a breakthrough in Bioinformatics?
I wonder what the biggest semantic similarities are between the source code of the first 1990s Photoshop and today’s.
> we banded together, like most pack animals, for mutual security

Every animal in our pack does not share the same responsibilities. Different animals can perform different functions within the pack.
Any ideas for websites that will make passive income?
Speaking as Google SWE from 2016-2023: It's hard to explain*, but, because of the rest and vest culture, lack of planning, lack of interest in managing, conflict avoidance, asocial engineers, etc., an incredible amount of tentpole feature work is actually outsourced.

i.e. get the contractors in to rush out the new 5D screensavers, give them the contact info for our screensaver technical lead, and let them work it out. Screensaver technical lead saying they don't have resources for this until 30 months from now is placated. Their tendency to jealously guard code and talk smack is directed at people who will never know. The understanding that you always say "Sir Yes Sir" prevents them from complaining to their manager behind a few nasty comments they'll giggle about to eachother.

Of course, this also saves money too: ex. director-make-work "vision" projects that'll never ship, and are temporary work for worker bees, now can be temporarily staffed. (hence their reference to NDA/alpha/beta)

* especially in the context of the claim that there's 8:1 ratio of late night workers to rest-and-vesters. Crazy.
It used to be a biographical staple of e.g. Kenyan long distance runners that they ran 10+ miles to and from school every day.
So are you just submitting job applications and then not taking the job offers if you succeed? Or are you taking the offer and when they ask for your social you reveal that you applied under a fake name? Or is your social associated with a different fake name in each company’s payroll? I’m not a lawyer, but it’s starting to sound like you might be committing some flavor of actual fraud (that is, if you are in fact doing the stuff you’re posting about).
Why in the name of all that is holy does every insecure suburban dickhead need to own a Ford F-450 Super Duty to play cowboy in the city?

Largely fuel economy regulations that perversely incentivize making larger cars with worse efficiency (e.g. https://www.thedrive.com/news/small-cars-are-getting-huge-ar...), which in turn increases demand for them, because if everyone else is driving a Canyonero you'd better get one too so you have some hope of surviving an accident.
- "diffuse objects with low surface brightness"

Are things amateur photographers with small telescopes (and lots of patience) sometimes discover,

https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/13uco46/i_discovered... ("I discovered this planetary nebula using a $500 camera lens, now it carries my name")

https://www.astrobin.com/i9yy6f/ (18 hours!)
The Galleri blood test claims to pick up pancreatic cancer early. Which I agree, is one which would be great to find early.

> More aggressive cancers, such as pancreatic cancer, tend to release more cell-free DNA into the bloodstream at early stages and are more likely to be detected by the Galleri test.

https://www.galleri.com/hcp/galleri-test-performance
I'm not sure what this comment is supposed to imply?

Are you bad at code reviews? Is the code you're reviewing fairly standard?

GPT misses nuance. It can't reason while you still can. It certainly can do certain tasks better than you but certainly humans can do better at other tasks (specifically in the creativity side, logic, and when it comes to nuanced thinking). But if you're always focused on being quick (quantity over quality) then yeah, I think GPT could replace you. Otherwise, I don't know how anyone comes to this conclusion.
Yes, but I don't think there's more UV during an eclipse (even in proportion to visible light). Overall, there should be less UV than there would be from viewing the full sun.

The issue you mention does come up if you have a filter that blocks visible light but not UV. Non-UV-blocking sunglasses, for example, could increase the risk of cataracts compared to not wearing sunglasses at all (mainly because of pupil dilation).