skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59qgzzSD1tk (linked from the OP) it got a Guinness world record a few weeks ago.
HOA's that exist for the management of the common areas of a shared development and, when the development involves one or more multi-unit structures, for managing issues that relate to the shared structure are not an awful concept.

HOA's whose charters allow them to, and who actually do, act to regulate things like the aesthetics or worse specifically negating functional utility of non-shared parts of the property when there are no structural or safety impacts to the share infrastructure are awful.
I had my first ride in a Waymo car today. Despite closely following the field, nothing prepared me for the sheer magic of it. It just worked. After my fourth ride in a single day, all I could think was "hot damn!." It's easy to forget that, for most people, this is still the stuff of science fiction. Does it have room to improve? Sure. But today's experience was fantastic. I'm eager to see testing in my medium-sized Midwestern city (with all the snowy goodness). Also, the roads in SF are wild. I used to think Omaha streets were chaotic, but every visit to SF reminds me how much I appreciate the space and sprawl back home.
Restrictions from government are supposed to be reflections of the voters will.

This huge price-fixing case might give a clue to the seeming upset in your puritanical conception of "supply and demand"
It's a demonstration of extremely fast and precise motors.
challenge accepted!
This would only work in serious tournaments.

In casual games this would just get dickpics or players pointing the camera into the table with not enough other players to care about it.
Are you a human (being hired to work with humans), or an API?
Projects like these attract attention at trade shows. Probably for their servomotors and controls division, because their customers will be interested in doing similar high-speed manipulation for more practical applications, and showing off that you can do this using these products gives a good feel for other things that you might also be able to do with them.
softaim is much more ambiguous without handcam.
I have used and tested several Linux distros, from Debian, Ubuntu and Mint to Fedora and Arch. I personally don't like how much time and energy it takes to configure and maintain them, and how there will always be some hardware incompatibility that we are just supposed to suck up.

But Microsoft has become ridiculous. All they have to do is keep one stable base and only add compatibility and stability updates, but they insist on adding meaningless garbage that slows everything down and makes it difficult to work. I used to think it was common sense that for software as critical as Windows you should add technological improvements without disrupting existing users' workflows. These geniuses do the exact opposite - use the same legacy platform they've been using over decades, but drive random silly design changes that only serve to piss existing users off.

Ah well.. here's to hoping the influx of new users to desktop linux ends up convincing hardware manufacturers to give first-party support. Once W10 ends support it's done for me.
Everyone in science works hard. Only a few get lucky. People get scooped every day.

Source: spent years looking hard for hibernation promotion factor in P. aeruginosa ribosomes via cryo-EM. Got a PhD and worked a whole lot of 16 hour days. Never got lucky.
Thanks Dang! I found the original one my brain was going stupid over.

I couldn't use Google to find it... Google's advance search only goes up to a year ago. Kinda scary how we can lose knowledge like this...
Not only effort: millions and millions of public and private dollars wasted on followup research on a false premise, all so that an author could get citations. What a cost.
AI is testing boundaries of Human IQ
> Do you have any doubt that Russia has been interfering in US politics for well over a decade?

You mean through completely accepted and legal campaign donations to pretty much every major politician? Oh no wait that’s AIPAC and Israel and “just fine”. You mean through bots that post shit on FB right?

I don’t care for conspiracies, but I do wonder why American politicians don’t try to stop donations from foreign government institutions to politicians in general. JFK was on track to do just that before he was murdered.
When it's used as a tool that makes it impossible or very costly to switch from what such tool is tied to.

To give an example. If CUDA wouldn't have been tied to Nvidia hardware, developers could use CUDA on any competing hardware. Being tied limits the choice. That's the essence of lock-in damage. Development tools should be development tools, not ways to control the market.

That's why there is value in something that breaks lock-in - that improves competition.
I copied the initial/naive code presented and discovered that the compiler has clearly gained a few smarts in the last 3 years as it no longer bothers generating the fractal, unless you actually save to disk.

If you want to skip saving the image, you can use std::hint::black_box to give a hint to the compiler to be pessimistic:

let img = std::hint::black_box(algo(w, h));
So do wars, usury, trading people like property, and many other things we're trying to grow out of as a civilization.
t2p is a very important metric.

this would likely only work with a stronger reputation and ban system.

i wonder if handcam would make it harder to evade a ban?
> Functional municipal governments handle garbage collection, building recreation centers with pools, cleaning up green spaces when people dump tires, mowing overgrown sidewalks and controlling vermin.

They don't generally do any of those but the first on private property, except maybe (for the cleanup tasks) after citing and fining the property owner for failing to do it in addition to charging them the cost of having it done, and they often do the first only under a contract with the property owner, so that with a shared structure with a common set of bins, the contract would need to be with an association responsible for the shared bins.
Metal allows Apple to squeeze that extra performance out of their devices.
They have full control over, and can implement whatever they need to deliver Apple Vision Pro for example.

With Vulkan, they would have to wait for a committee to approve required changes, and still they could not probably optimize it to match their GPU an CPU hardware profiles in such an efficient way.

And not least at all, to optimize the developer experience and tools. Apple GPU debugging tools are probably the best tools you get for graphics development debugging, and you get that only on macOS.

IMO Metal is a nicer API than Vulkan. At the same time, you can ask, why should Microsoft get to keep DirectX, and not just write a Vulkan driver ?
kernel level is bullshit and unnecessary
Each of the things you listed should either be against the law or not be against the law, and that should be the end of it.
The issue here is broader than that.

For example, Google uses "Android Integrity" (remote attestation) to lock out competitors to Android and Google Play. If you want to create a competitor, you need it to be compatible with existing apps or you can't get off the ground. The customer who adopts your alternative system wants to install the app for their bank and if it doesn't work they regard your system as broken and stop using it. That's fine, Android is open source. You can implement compatibility with existing apps.

Only now Google's servers tell the bank's app not to run on your competing system, because it isn't Google's. But the apps aren't going to specifically target your new system until you have users -- which you can't get without apps.

This is a very different problem than DRM, because people variously find ways to break the DRM, and they only have to do it once to unlock everything. Even if the vendor patches it, it's too late, all the content is already on the pirate sites.

Whereas with attestation, it often gets cracked, but then it's only cracked most of the time. Every once in a while, at random, your competing device breaks and you have to wait a few days for someone to crack the attestation again. Which normal users are not going to put up with, so an alternative competitor can't gain a foothold. That is a serious antitrust problem.
> As a compiler target

Not as a compiler target. I doubt most projects exclusively use ORMs and never use SQL as a query language as intended. Also it's not just programmers using SQL inside of programs -- I teach SQL to accountants and they run their own queries. Any SQL alternative needs to be something accountants can learn.

I use an ORM all the time but I wouldn't use an ORM for reporting queries. Absolutely nobody abstracts over SQL for general purpose querying.

> But now we circle back to the original posts – there is no good vector for anything else to bring said receipts. SQL has things completely locked down, effectively, which you suggest can only be overcome by becoming more popular than SQL, but, again, popularly is impossible before wide distribution.

You've got it.

> So the only possible way off of SQL is to convince the SQL crowd that an alternative is possible in hopes that they will consider opening things up.

That's not how things work. You build something amazing and find a way to make it useful today. This is nothing new, it has been done through the history of technologies. This is how we get new programming languages, new protocols, and new standards. You could have said the same thing about x86 but ARM found a niche and expanded it. Or JSON vs. XML.

> It is...?

Is it? I don't know what you mean.

> Why it but not some SQL alternative?

I never said it couldn't be done -- it just hasn't been done. Any alternative to SQL has to have all the positive features of SQL and be a significant and obvious improvement. The majority of alternatives I've seen are intent on being radical redesigns. Rust, as you said, is not really radically different from C++ -- they just removed most of the footguns and design problems.

Any alternative to SQL needs to find a way to be immediately useful today. This is how NoSQL solutions became popular; the solved a real problem and I could use it today within an existing environment. But NoSQL is not a replacement for SQL -- it was just a replacement for tasks that an RDBMS was never good at in the first place.

But I think the idea of someone just building a better query language in their basement, posts it to Github, and we should all just move over is pretty unrealistic. I could build one of those tomorrow if I wanted.
> Prices are set by supply and demand, not by whether the seller has decided to be evil or not that day.

Whether and to what extent the sellers in the market have decided to be evil is, in fact, an aspect of "supply", which is simply the function mapping the terms of sale (in simplest terms, price) to the number of units sellers are willing to sell on those terms.

This is true even under perfect rationality, since deciding to be evil is just a way of describing someone whose utility function gives high positive value to something that the person making the description sees as a source of strongly negative value.
Sure, the Russian lobby is waaay more powerful than AIPAC. /s
Feynman came up with a potential test by tracking the things he could and couldn't do while counting seconds (via internal monologue). He found he generally count not talk while counting.

He then had others try and found that one of his mathematician friends was able to talk just fine while counting because it turned out he was counting visually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4y0EUlU-Y
Although it's probably the worst article of the three, that one is at least available for people to read, while the ajc.com (i.e. the OP) and thebignewsletter.com (i.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40562834) submissions are not. So I guess we'll merge the comments thither and re-up that one. Thanks!

(I've copied over the title of this one too, since it seems clearer)
Sometimes we just need to understand we donot have all the information before we give subjective opinion with incomplete information
I used cloud9 about ten years ago and it worked well. Think it was in Michael Hartl’s rails book - was bummed when the site was purchased/changed and whatnot.
Don’t use one anymore or since
This really makes me feel old. I just don’t see the utility in any Meta product at all. And this kind of thing makes me realise that point even more. The #enshitification continues.
So they can sell giant expensive industrial robotics.
Gemini as Extension on Chrome
This. The next time, there's a real disagreement in trade policies, Europe is going to be fucked. Microsoft does have access to literally everything and no one even seems to understand that, because no one understands what "cloud" or even just "online vs. offline" means nowadays. It's a bit scary.
Their search is downright terrible. That's the only real negative I've found, aside from not having a few gTLDs, but that's just the game.
By pirating, you mean running modified binaries from unknown sources? Morals aside, how is that safe, secure, or even convenient?
This is a fantastic example of how seemingly simple programming tasks can teach deep concepts. His methodical approach to uncovering edge cases and alternative solutions demonstrates the importance of critical thinking and comprehensive testing in software development, a valuable lesson for all developers.
Do we even have good measures of life expectancy? In pre-modern times, infants often died with no official government or church records to record that they ever existed.
Just got it fixed, thank you!
"boiling frog" is debunked.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Family-friendly policies are investments that bear fruit 20 years from now, far too long a commitment for our short-sighted governments.
So about ~5% of their quarterly earnings.

https://searchengineland.com/google-ad-revenue-q4-2023-43704...
Nobody randomly picks a side. People who can’t make well-informed decisions simply follow the lean of whatever biases they have. Slightly hawkish or conservative? Pro-trump. Bleeding heart? Pro-Palestine.
The article frames it as though everyone who is skeptical in this new space race is also anti-astronomy from the examples it uses.

I think this is a false premise. Plenty of people love astronomy and the insights it has given to other worlds and ours, but are skeptic of what building and expending rockets can do for the world, except launch monitoring sattelites, tourism, and eventually the ability to build starships.
A fellow HN reader I know in a Covid Cautious online community shared your comment with me, and I just wanted to come here to say that you’re not alone.

There are some of us who stay largely indoors and only leave the house for essential visits, with a respirator. I’m one of those people.

I don’t know if you’re able to find a local community that’s cautious too.

But if you want to talk, I have contact details in my bio.
zstd supports shared dictionaries easily.

It also has vastly superior compression and performance, compared to gzip, even without.
https://www.pdmi.ras.ru/~arnsem/Arnold/arn-papers.html says 1999 so I guess we'll go with that unless someone finds an earlier reference.
Mother hits out at Meta over sextortion death data delay
Really? It seems obvious to me.

Many people enjoy feeling superior to others, and have zero qualms about behaving immorally or against the rules. Some even get off on it and enjoy the challenge.

We see this behavior everywhere in real life as well, but it's much easier to achieve in a virtual setting. Whether that's by harassing someone verbally, or winning in a game by cheating, it triggers the same pleasure receptors for these people.

A psychologist could explain this better, and I'm sure this has been studied thoroughly.
I would say that statement comes out of people's ignorance not out of informed knowledge. For those that even do know feel helpless in the face of industry standard treatment of privacy.
Computer Industry Joins Nvidia to build AI factories and data center
During COMPUTEX, CEO Jensen Huang, announced that big shot companies like ASRock Rack, ASUS, GIGABYTE, Ingrasys, Inventec, Pegatron, QCT, Supermicro, Wistron and Wiwynn will deliver cloud, on-premises, embedded and edge AI systems using NVIDIA GPUs and networking.
for all we know this is one of their test cases
>Nvidia had nothing to do with their failure, unless they had some sort of high-level mole in AMD's driver teams.

I wonder why Jensen wouldn't help his cousin Lisa Su with a good advice :)

In general it isn't surprising that hardware companies like Intel and AMD fall at software - just talk to any programmer at such a hardware shop. What striking is that Jensen is able to have such a prominent and huge software development in a naturally hardware company. NVDA is the only hardware company where my programmer acquaintances don't complain about it being a hardware company.
If you don't need ipv6, best just to turn it off and forget about it.
Sometimes it may timeout, and I am working on fixing this issue. Thank you for your feedback.
"Poor" on its own generally refers to monetary cost, which is what I responding to.

I agree with you. Time poor is a definite problem, even (or especially) among people that aren't money poor, and it comes with its own Vimes's Boots analogy. For example, the many articles we read here about the centralized service of the week creating some kind of problem for their users, which could have been dodged with a little outlay of time to make better tech choices in the first place.
(2019). Original submission was discussed at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21500434
I have been very satisfied with Fastmail.
> imagine you had a way to make a stock go up or down based on what you said

Please add "and you are a normal citizen, not a hedge fund, not a bank", because the latter subjects are allowed to and routinely do trade and influence the market.
When you get caught up on the hustle of modern society and lose yourself in modern technology, it's so easy to forget that you are a part of a larger whole and there is more life on Earth besides human.

For some reason knowing that other animals exist just for the sake of existing and even sleep off when life gets harder gives a new perspective. I feel that we humans use too much knowledge and complicate problems even when there's a simple solution. I think that our bodies are highly intelligent and humans intrude a lot in it's natural functioning by inventing too much techniques and methods. Like I want to stay awake, drink coffee. Drink coffee, get insomnia. Insomnia leads to unhappiness. Take insomnia meds, get withdrawals. Generating more problems along the way while forgetting what the solutions were even for in the first place. If we just listened to our bodies signs, it pretty much tells us why you you are lethargic and need coffee
in the first place.

Sometimes we should just trust nature to do it's work. This article was a refreshing read.
People are individual, some really don't mind offering their privacy for lower costs (their data is mined and doesn't belong to them) or additional features.

That doesn't mean it should be the norm though. If enough people actually care about their privacy there is the possibility for cheap, privacy invasive and expensive, privacy respecting products to live in the market.

Shameless plug: I launched Cognos[0] a few days ago that encrypts your AI Prompts and Outputs. No risk of leaks/hacks/being used for training.

If you like generative AI but are worried about putting all your data into ChatGPT and don't know how/want to run inference infrastructure yourself it could be something for you.

- [0] https://cognos.io/cognos-beta-is-live/
It kinda does, though. It's why I stopped self-hosting. I bet if you emailed my gmail address it wouldn't come through, even through no fault of your own.

You can have DMARC, SPF and DKIM all correctly configured on a clean IP and some mail server at Microsoft will still drop your mails because it's having a hard day and it feels like it.
You're partially right, and I've stated many times that I think Israel has acted in morally wrong ways for the last 15 years of Netanyahu's rule.

But I think it's important to understand that the reason the Israeli electorate went down this path is because of the failure of the peace process in the 1990s and 2000s. The Israeli public multiple times elected leaders pursuing peace. Even former right-wing hawks turned around and pursued peace. And some things came out of it, like the creation of the PA which gave limited self-governance to the Palestinians.

But eventually, the Palestinians turned down what were perceived to be very serious and generous peace offers by the Israeli public, walked away from the negotiations, and started a terrible wave of terror attacks.

Similarly, Israel removed all settlers and all army personnel from Gaza, the result of which was the election of Hamas, with a sworn mission to destroy Israel, and constant rocket attacks on Israel.

So the way the Israeli public (correctly) sees it, there is no "partner for peace", and even when peace was very seriously pursued and positive steps taken to give Palestinians what they ostensibly wanted, the result was violence directed at Israel.

That is why there was a turn away from pursuing peace and just trying to "live with the situation".
These and your past few posts are obviously ChatGPT, but you posted something real only an hour ago, and your account is years old. So what's the deal? Why are you doing this?
There’s a difference between impersonating someone with the explicit intention of falsely giving the impression they are involved in a project which they are not, and simply hiring an actor (or a voice actor) who can give a performance that’s similar or reminiscent of another.

> You've never seen it, huh? Google is super easy to use.

Please stop acting like an asshole.
As a pedantic HN commentator, although I'm willing to believe the author of the review has taught Spinoza, they seem to be guilty as well of their own charges: in particular, "In Spinoza, God is all things, as opposed to God being a higher order of being from which all things emanate" is what secondary sources would have one believe about Spinoza.

See thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39885475

(There is a formalisation of Spinoza in there somewhere; being an HN commentator, I believe I may have a better one, but as I've been faffing about* too much on HN instead of trying it it has yet to be written down. To this particular point: in Spinoza, some things are dependent upon other things, and all things are dependent upon God, but God only depends upon God, so we can clearly say (a) God is not all things [having a difference which witnesses the inequality] and (b) God is a universal [for any metaphysical x, x transitively depends upon God], and can arguably say (c) "[whether] God or all things" is metonymy, for there is a 1:1 relationship [in Spinoza but not in Aquinas] between creator and creation. Can we draw any connections to buddhist philosophy?)

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWGrcz4sOiw

* my current nerd-snipe is a decrypt; anyone have hints as to the steganography in:

BEARER IS A FRIEND. I CANNOT WRITE MUCH. WILL YOU BE READY TO MEET A TRUSTED INTERMEDIARY SO YOU CAN GIVE ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS TO HIM NEXT WEEK? I HAVE NOTHING MORE TO SAY.
I don’t know much about Rubik’s cubes, but isn’t that quite a limited number of moves as seen in the video? As a demo for the electronics and control systems, it’s great. But is it really that impressive from solving a cube that it got done in a blink of an eye?

Genuinely curious, as I’ve always been skeptical of claims of world record cube solving times, if there is a heavy reliance on the starting position, and that isn’t consistent.