skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US (outside of possibly NYC) existing rail transit isn't especially money or time efficient. Trains require expensive dedicated right of way and don't take you directly from where you are to where you want to be. Trains are also highly susceptible to delays because they can rarely circumvent obstructed tracks. A single sick or disruptive passenger can delay hundreds of people. Waymo vehicles take you from exactly where you are to where you want to be on existing roads and can alter their route in the case of obstacles.
I would love to see this happen. How do we actually bring a class action or some other thing that effectively means they can't do this anymore?
Maximum Power Principle
Yes. And?

offshoring was a good thing. bringing in millions of immigrants (for the sole purpose of driving the wages down) was a good thing, but now that it's your jobs that are on the line now, it is le bad and should be immediately banned, right?
The type of marketer or program manager who comes up with an “unlimited” offering usually has a very limited imagination for exactly how much of something a customer could really use.

These types usually have no sense for what limits their business could actually handle, because none of their current customers are using their service to anything approaching its operational capacity. And they probably don’t have any SREs to ask for stress-test data, either. So “unlimited” for them, just means “use it like everyone has already been using it and it’ll be flat-rate instead of PAYGO. Or go wild and use 10x or 100x that.” It doesn’t even occur to them that it’s possible that someone could use e.g. 10000x existing usage.
This is silly. The email in the screenshot shows the Google Workspace Enterprise Standard package, which is clearly documented as 5 TB/user limit.

If the complaint is that at some point in the past it was unlimited and Google switched it to have limits, then we can talk about that (and we have in numerous other threads over the last 2+ years).
> If you generate a new pub/private key pair per post, if desired the poster could retain the private key and still prove they wrote it later

Digital signatures can't prove authorship that way, though. If I write a message m to you, you can be certain that I sent you that message, but not that I was the one who originally wrote it.

> You fundamentally can’t be able to both verify a given individual signed something AND have who signed something be actually anonymous.

Exactly: Signatures without any concept of signer identity don't make sense.
I don’t have a problem with that if it results in funding fusion research properly for once
I'm surprised more conservatives in the West don't like it. It's the ultimate individual independence from the government and corporations. Individual sovereignty over your energy needs. Instead they want to rely on a foreign dictator and government-funded transmission lines. Bizarre.
Their endgame is usually to build a product that they can abandon.
Yep. I've also worked on "serverless" projects where similar or more time is spent on IaC (Terraform, etc.) compared to application development. All this effort for something that barely gets any requests.
Only a matter of time until semi-autonomous hunter killer drones are perfected for mass deployment.
I heard Tesla has no real FSD. Just a broken prototype with customers used as Guinea pigs.
Question: this seems to take the port as the primary entry point of communication which means you need to be running a web server?

This adds a lot of cold start overhead? Instead of directly invoking a handler.
Hadn't heard of this nonprofit before, so did some digging.

Founded by Brian Blase, "special assistant to President Donald Trump for economic policy" 2017-2019, and some of his personal op-eds are readable here. [0]

[0] https://www.nationalreview.com/author/brian-blase/
>Although it does somewhat depend

Not "somewhat". Almost entirely
Both of you are correct; it may have been an intentional choice by your team (since, otherwise it would go to a private onedrive, not a shared OneDrive).

It's also true that Documents are linked to OneDrive now in corp environments.

I think there's a way to disable it, but of course there's a different setting for the Office Suite, they also default to OneDrive.
Whole home generators are miles cheaper than a solar-battery setup. I can get 10kw of backup power tied into my house for 5k with an automatic switch, but that barely covers the labor costs for a solar system, and you still have to buy the rest of it.

Sure you can DIY it and get close, but most people are not going to do that.
I usually use stash for this stuff. But alternatively you can commit and then come back and squash / rebase to clean up the commit history.
I've always wondered what they meant with that slogan, but now it makes sense.
> men drive progress and war drives progress, and both of those things are debatable

I'm fairly confident that the progress mentioned in the article is meant as technological and maybe social progress. How would either of those happen without being driven by humans, or another hypothetical technological species?

In terms of war, I don't see how it's debatable. It may not be the only driver but it's definitely a strong one. It may not be progress towards something you (or I) desire but it's progress nonetheless.
They are an excellent writer, so it's a loss for them to leave, but I can't shake the feeling that people who look for a sense of community in an OSS project are barking up the wrong tree.

Can it exist? Sure, but it seems to have a lot more fragility for various reasons we can all guess at. I don't think your local book-club or whatever community has the same weaknesses.
> The money must be going somewhere.

> with the appropriate kickbacks to the local politicians
> "What would the system’s structure need to be so that <some feature> would be no harder to implement than necessary?"

This sounds good, but in my direct experience it is really really hard.

For example, sometimes you have a feature that is really easy to add. Just add a new argument or keyword or command and implement it in the guts.

But every once in a while you get a beautiful architecture that has a "direction" to it. And a horrendous requirement comes along and breaks everything. For example, port it to macos. Or add and call this third-party library. Or break it up into an SDK, a CLI and a web service.

sigh. guess that's why this kind of career keeps you on your feet.
If nobody cares at all who signed a message, you don't need a signature scheme.

> 'this whole charade is pointless ... but it does solve this somewhat tangentially related problem ... kinda'.

I'd assume it isn't – why else would they be doing it (other than for compatibility with some package distribution scheme that, for other use cases, enforces the existence of a signature, which is arguably just a special case of "you don't need a signature scheme").
When I was a kid, I was asked “how do you read so fast?” often and I would always proudly report than I can scan paragraphs and filter out the useless ones without reading them.

For example, I was reading some Pratchett and noticed that I had no idea how the protagonist ended up on a cliff (?). And then realized that I had automatically skipped the paragraph that talked about the cliff ascent, because it was “just a scenery description” and therefore useless.

I also remember having a long argument with my ex-girlfriend about the style of journalism where articles start like “I entered a small, dimly-lit room and Mr Brown, age 53, stood up from his massive oak desk and [blah blah blah]”. Like, this is all just fluff, I want to know what Mr Brown says and thinks and that’s all. I didn’t realize people might actually imagine the scene and enjoy it.

Going back to books — I think I care about how the book sounds more than I care about the plot or the vibe. I loved Lolita solely because the narrator was constantly playing with words, for example.
This is the best piece of writing I've ever seen on the topic of migrations, could not recommend this more highly.
When I rebase I diff after each rebase to check that the only diffs are the ones I intended. So I, the committer, have seen all my rebased commits.
I would rather work full time now than part time in the 50s, I think. I haven’t lived in the 50s though so I can’t say for sure.
I know next to nothing about CPU architecture so please forgive a stupid question.

Are you saying that the x86 memory model means RAM latency is more impactful than on some other architectures?

Is this (tangentially) related to the memory mode that Apple reportedly added to the M1 to emulate x86 memory model to make emulation faster? - presumably to account for assumptions that compilers make about the state of the CPU after certain operations?
Yeah I would think that if you just wanted an amazing image from a PS1 or SNES then you'd want a regular aspect ratio anyway. If I was going to plunder eBay for such a thing I'd go with a Panasonic SuperFlat.
The minimum cost of running a task on Fargate is under a dollar a month. If you’re a AWS company, you can get cheaper if you take the lock in (not that there’s much lock-in with Fargate)
Except they do - case in point:

Ownership of the private key (of the original pub/priv key pair) is as strong a verification of ownership as crypto can provide. And the private key could just as easily be signed by the ‘public’ key pair, which is signed by others if you wanted some web of trust whatever. While not requiring disclosure or external per-key signing or validation of the posting keys.

And someone being able to provide that private key on demand, would allow them to de-anonymize themselves if they wanted, without anyone else being able to force themselves to do so - by say resigning the message with a different nonce/padding, same key pair, same cipher text. So they could, if desired, prove to someone else they wrote it, while not having to disclose the private key.

And they could prove to themselves (trivially) that it was their post that made it intact to wherever it was supposed to be posted. And everyone else could verify the post hadn’t been tampered with, without having a clue who made the post. (And yes, someone could duplicate the post with their key - but the original poster could detect that!).

But no one could force de-anonymize them, or impersonate them in a way that would withstand that verification.

Seems potentially useful, no?
This isn’t an interesting line of thinking because it depends entirely on your definition of conservative. There’s nothing surprising (or interesting) about a straw man.
Lots of surplus power in any ICE vehicle.

1 HP is over 700 watts.

A few extra HP to generate power isn't any big deal.
A version of this, https://hckrnews.com/ , with nightmode and filters would probably get you some upvotes, but life is short and I think you should focus on something that makes you money or your relationships, not fleeting internet fame.
https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/tourism-satel...

Shows profitability for tourism around 20% in New Zealand - although that's on the back of some pretty crappy service jobs.

Elsewhere in the report it implies that the government makes more than 20% (15% sales tax GST, plus other taxes).

I'm not a huge fan of tourism as a sector because it's so cyclical and paid service to tourists is often unpleasant. Although tourism is likely better than some other export earners... But tourism is a more significant earner for Greece: ouch.
Unless the action is idempotent, it shouldn’t be a link. It should be a button in a form instead. The form can POST to your main server which can do whatever work is required and then send back a 302 response to redirect the user to the file on the other server. You probably don’t want search engines clicking on it and triggering whatever work you are doing on the server; using a form prevents that.
Quite that factoid. How do we know which it is? ;p

Guess it goes both ways... which is kinda worse.
The glass has to be thicker, thus more weight, to withstand implosion from the vacuum it is holding.
Thank you! This is so helpful.

It's also interesting to see what temperature value they use (1.0, 0.1 in some cases?)... I have a feeling using the actual raw probability estimates (if available) would provide a lot of information without having to rerun the LLM or sample quite as heavily.
Composite modding another Atari, because colors are hard
Thank you for saving our water!
When it was originally announed in April: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571925 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40010047 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40027182

- "Not shocking. Their VPN app sucked ass."

- "Yeah, their client was pretty bad"

- "You couldn't choose a server outside your country"

- various takes and jokes that Google discontinues a lot of products
I mostly agree with the first bit.

Re: advice, well, there could be, but the people who put these things in place aren't necessarily thinking in those terms. They're thinking about a statistical edge and acceptable negative outcomes on their end and no one else's. They're not maximizing what's good and helpful for you unless it helps them also, they're probably maximizing short to medium term profit seeking. Computers are an amplifier of human bad behavior.

See also, "computer says no": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_says_no
Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
SF is worse, except for the snow.

You can complain about Boston drivers, but they are pretty predictable compared to SF tourists.

Snow is an issue, but they'll get that done.
I have an hard time coming to terms with this platonic view of the mind, as if our minds where some kind of extradimensional aliens playing with this sandbox of "undifferentiated quanta" sometime called reality.

I understand how it make sense saying that the concept of spedrunning is completely absent in Ocarina Of Time and only exists in the player playing the game, but I do not see how this would be a good philosophy to apply to ourselves.

I confess that I have a particular aversion to this specific philosophy/POV because I feel like it is riding on the respectability and "coolness" of science to sound more serious while being just another metaphysics without (IMHO) any* particularly good qualities.

* Ok, I admit that it has at least a good quality: it is a good example of a non-religious metaphysics to give to people that cannot imagine a non-religious metaphysics.
Fully powering off the camera will help, but I imagine with direct sunlight going through the lens and hitting the sensor the heat could still damage it, despite it not recording.
They don't tend to operate anywhere it might snow.
What about the economies of scale? Does/did residential solar create enough demand to ramp up utility scale production?
I think one of the most obvious, major benefits of war is the trillions of dollars that's put into the military-industrial complex every year. Whether war actually breaks out is irrelevant, if the interests involved can make people believe it's always inevitable, so let's keep pumping money into it.
It's exciting to see Waymo and self driving technology in general doing well, but the analysis on the broader implications fell flat for me. Claims about improving commutes or being more effective than mass transit need to be substantiated - there's a ton of stuff out there on traffic engineering, mass transit, and urban planning that can help perform these sorts of analyses.

Some thoughts:

* For the purposes of transit efficiency, self driving cars are very similar to Ubers. They have a low passenger density (being a regular car), and once the passengers disembark, they still take up space on the road with 0 passengers. Better experience and lower costs will basically just induce more demand over more efficient mass transit options. If you imagine everyone at a bus stop ordering an Uber, or have ever seen the flurry of Ubers after a big event, it's clear why self driving isn't really addressing the core issue.

* You can't really make direct cost comparisons to the infrastructure costs of bus lanes or subways like that. Infrastructure is ungodly expensive in the US, yes, but there are very well understood reasons to make dedicated bus lanes and subways: they don't compete with cars on the road. They're high density transit options, so having more reliable service will impact a lot more people (and reduce car congestion on the road!) A rideshare service is wholly unprepared to deal with the transit demands of a larger city, and imagining that we'd replace existing mass transit options with it is silly.

* I don't really understand the point about suburbs. You can already get that experience today by ordering an Uber to and from work. If there's more demand, it's just going to make traffic even worse while promoting more suburban sprawl.
phrasal portmanteau. phrasmanteau?
Thanks! I think you're right.

To go beyond my original question:

In terms of how I have thought about them before, webhooks are similar, but not quite the same thing. I've really only dealt with webhooks when the response was delayed because of a need for human interaction, for example: sending a document for e-signature and then later receiving notifications when the document is viewed and then signed or rejected.

I haven't experienced much need to make REST APIs async, only in cases where the processing was generally always very slow for reasons that couldn't be optimized away. I haven't seen much advocacy for it either.

However, if we think about lambda-based clients, then it makes a lot more sense to provide async apis. Why have both sides paying for the duration, even if the duration is relatively short?

update:

Whether or not it's cheaper for the client depends on the granularity of the pricing of the client's provider. For AWS, it seems to be per second of duration, so async would be more expensive for APIs that execute quickly.
Mip-Splatting: Alias-Free 3D Gaussian Splatting
My hack is being just young enough that having a Facebook would make me feel old.
But I'm addicted to the feed!
I had that model too, acquired back when university classrooms were ditching them in favor of their first slimmer LCDs. I let it go during a move, and have missed it ever since.
> Imagine Windows if they invested in their customers rather than their stock price and ego. Imagine if they became a bastion of privacy and security. Imagine if they became someone we could trust.

You're missing the point. Think of the actual Windows user: it's not the average joe/jane that get the oem laptop with windows pre-installed, it's the big IT departments that are going to not only ship tens of thousands of windows machines (with "professional" tier licenses) but also the whole bundle of expensive shit (office, outlook, teams, office364, active directory and the whole thing).

Have you focused on those customers?

Ok now think: what alternatives do those customer have? Pretty much NONE.

If you're thinking GNU/Linux you're being unrealistic. GNU/Linux on non-tech workers' desktop will always be ready next year, every year.

If you're thinking Macbooks... No IT budget is deep enough for that.

Microsoft has no need to worry about their customers as Windows users. They have no other place to go anyway.
> Those cars need to be electric, due to the power draw of the computer and sensors.

They don't need to be electric. You can make electricity out of gasoline with an ICE engine. This is not a problem in reality.
Same with EVs. You can generate your own electricity a hell of a lot easier than making your own gasoline.
Why would they make bows and spears, but not guns? That seems a fairly arbitrary technological line to draw.
> The core principle of computer-science is that we need to live with legacy, not abandon it.

Say what? The -singular- core principle? Of computer science? I've never seen this principle written down in any computer science book.

Compatibility is something that users -and therefore vendors- care a great deal about, but don't confuse that with computer science.

At any rate C is inherently unsafe for a lot of reasons that cannot be made to go away.
Unlimited has never meant unlimited in its truest sense. It’s just that the consumer tends to have their own natural limits, whether that’s time, or attention span, or the human body’s ability to ingest liquid.
I've been taking Waymo in LA for about half a year now, and I love it and it's a great party trick (always pick up my dates in one lmao), but a handful of times it's (a) accidentally blocked traffic and gotten incessantly honked at (kind of hilarious considering there's no driver), and (b) went the wrong way on a one-way back alley and got stuck when a lady was going the opposite direction lol. Again, kinda funny when she started honking, got out of the car, and realized there's no driver. In the latter case, we actually had support call us in the car.

I think if there's something weird/bad going on, someone manually takes over (but not sure if that's confirmed or not). Still a cool experience, but the real world is a lot more complicated than it first seems.

Even with all that, it definitely feels like the future.
GCP/Gdrive/Gdocs is not putting ads anywhere, and the list can go on. what they are doing, they are looking for other streams of money
In the era of the atomic bomb, conventional war no longer takes place directly between tier 1 (nuclear) powers because the rulers can’t have that. The rulers on both sides ultimately want to enjoy their wealth and power. They want to go to the brothel at the end of the day. So they won’t risk getting into a nuclear war. This is even truer in the era of Globalism where enjoying wealth and power generally means enjoying the benefits of the global supply chain: yachts, supercars, travel, exotic imports, etc. A nuclear war would disrupt all that. It would make being an oligarch a lot less fun, so they will generally avoid messing with the world at that level. Finally, in the era of the atomic bomb, conventional warfare (sending your tanks and battleships against your enemy) is obsolete for tier 1 powers. If you are a tier 1 power and another tier 1 power starts sending tanks your way, you send off one nuke to nuke all the tanks. Conventional warfare is not obsolete for tier 2 powers since it’s all they have. A tier 2 power battling it out in conventional warfare against another tier 2 power means something. Conventional warfare means very little to tier 1 powers. Tier 1 and tier 2 powers play by completely different rules.

As a result, conventional war only takes place now on tier 2 (non-nuclear) lands. If there are sabers to be rattled between two tier 1 powers, the rattling will happen on tier 2 land, usually with tier 2 powers being the primary warring parties (proxy war). You also see tier 1 powers making the occasional move but always against tier 2 powers only, e.g. Russia -> Ukraine. If Ukraine had nukes there would be no war in Ukraine. Notice how it’s war IN Ukraine: on tier 2 land. If Ukraine managed to make it a war IN Russia, they’d be nuked to oblivion.