skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, I am not an Apple user and do not have a dog in this fight. But it is abundantly clear to me that iPhone users cannot easily swap between competitors the same way that McDonalds customers can eat every meal at a different restaurant if they so wish (in fact, McDonald's is usually right next door to numerous competitors, making this maximally easy).

Apple has an entrenched audience, as is unfortunately inherent with operating system and platforms, and that comes with certain legal responsibilities. If Apple doesn't like those responsibilities, they should get out of the OS/platform space.

But this is the same argument you have no doubt seen many times, which you dismiss as "dishonesty". That is your prerogative, but most onlookers are going to see this as an attempt to get out of having to present a convincing argument, most likely because you can't.
> I hope the author continues down this path and writes more about the experience.

I appreciate it=) I definitely want to write some more stuff up, in particular how code organization changes when you can tag and add attributes to definitions.
Surely there are seals suitable for methane?
A notable member of the Operations-Research community, which lies to one side of the computing community in the related field of (linear) optimisation.
That new group is people who aren't at the frontier of trying out new tech.

The way this will manifest is the drunk idiot who'll puke all over the car. The bored asshole who carves his initials in the seat. The edgelord who gets their jollies out of destroying other people's stuff.

Good chance you had some in the original group as well, but early adopters are usually mostly people who deeply understand tech. Once that falls away, you have a less thorough understanding of tech, and a very surprised realization that booking something under your name that has cameras all over will likely result in you being held accountable for what you did. But after you did it.

How that'll play out in the long run is anyone's guess. If Waymo maintains rigorous enforcement and the courts actually play along, it might just work out. It's still going to be capital-intensive because we seem to have created a world where being a major asshole in public without consequences is kind of an entitlement people expect to have, and Waymo will need a very strong "yeah, not here" vibe to prevent that. Which requires a number of high-profile incidents.

Yes, the subtext of the question likely was "are you discriminating against the poor!?" If it was indeed, the answer to that question is "no, the ride pricing will do that".
"Tesla Robotaxi unveil on 8/8"

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1776351450542768368
Even if everything you say is true (and FWIW I think you're exaggerating a lot), so what? None of that makes them not journalism or not free speech. They're clearly not a spy agency. They published important facts and that's something we should be grateful for; that they did so for their own purposes, and may have chosen not to publish other important facts, does nothing to diminish that.
Calling the US corrupt when the world looks like this is just not something I can take seriously: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
There do exist companies trying to compete on chat and complaining about it, I'd guess. (Whereas Gmail is doing fine and Thunderbird is free.)
> This move by the EU is good, but too little too late

You should be thankful at all this is happening. On the other side of the ocean bundling office and teams is still perfectly legal.

I wonder why nobody at the US antitrust office has said anything at all.
Yeah it's totally usable as is but we're nearly finished with a new system that has more granular controls like delete, preUpdate, postUpdate, insert, and read. We'll still support the existing rules for backwards compatibility.
So the plot of Halo 1 was always pigeons? Hmm
No, Waymo is not driving remotely. Remote operators can only answer simple questions. They're at the point of commercialization so it's all about unit economics. There's no point in driving remotely especially since it does not scale cost-wise.

Waymo is geofenced, but within its geofence it requires zero human intervention. Tesla on the other hand is famous for mistaking the moon for a traffic light. Saying "Tesla has so many miles on YouTube" is hilarious because first of all there are channels with lots of Cruise & Waymo footage too, and more importantly it's not the # of miles that matters, but the # of non-trivial scenarios you can handle.
I assume the ternary weight’s memory representation requires two bits, so why do they use only three values instead of four? OTOH, I’m not sure what fourth value would useful for LLM models doing math with -1, 0, and 1. Infinity? NaN?
It was just in the news recently, a NASA request for proposals:

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-exploring-alternative... ("NASA Exploring Alternative Mars Sample Return Methods")

The latest Mars rover has an (IMHO, purely performative) function for collecting samples that, in theory, could be retrieved for Earth return by a separate lander in the future—one that hasn't been budgeted or designed yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseverance_(rover)#Samples_c...
Are you saying that there are times when a Waymo car's ability to respond to events is at the mercy of a random Internet connection? What happens if the safety driver is steering remotely, from another town, and there's packet loss for a couple of seconds in the middle of a curve?
I've found like three things to turn off. Finding one was easy. But to root around looking for things to turn off is not hard but time consuming & elaborate.

Here's the eight step process to turn off Voice assistant and that seems like just one measure. https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-stop-your-android-ph...

Battery drain hasnt been night & day different since starting to disable stuff. It's just unclear what is and isn't actually disabled.
> electrised

How did we wind up with electrified? Where did the f come from?

EDIT: I guess this [1].

[1] https://www.etymonline.com/word/-fy#etymonline_v_38227
Yes, it prevents the house with the battery from being a tax on the grid. However, the capacity factor of both the solar and the battery is less than if they were deployed centrally.

Again: residential solar isn't worthless, but in many places we've reached the point of diminishing returns where any additional capacity is much less useful-- unless there's an ancillary benefit that justifies it (like backup power for your house when deploying storage).
Simplified Chinese is the most efficient language, besides the 30 MB fonts. But there's no reason to use any font besides Noto Sans.
It’s not only Teams. If I send a meeting invite from my gmail with a Zoom link, it gets replaced with a Google Meet link.

I have to Slack a Zoom link to everyone before the meeting every week.
I remember being introduced to HyperCard and the idea of linked cards- hypertext, in other words- blew my mind. I imagine it was a lot of other people's introduction to hypertext too, even if they didn't realize it. It was the Adobe Flash of its era.
So if a country has laws written by democratically elected bodies - and people break those laws, they shouldn't be imprisoned if the law calls for it?
that's the key point. a crash at 5 mph is inconsequential next to a crash at 50 mph.
Not really. Tesla's maps experience is miles away from Google Maps on CarPlay. CarPlay has some other goodies that would be nice to have if it wouldn't ruin main Teslas experience.
A Leap in Engineering Just Made Solid-State Batteries 100x Better
I was effectively hard-unschooled during my teenage years. I can't really complain about the experience. Most of my time was spent playing video games, reading, or debating people online in forums. I got my GED when I was seventeen and went to college. I had strange ideas about what college was (namely, I thought the PR copy universities provided was the "real thing" and was sorely disappointed to discover what amounted to an adult half-way house for professional employment rather than an actual place of learning).

In retrospect and purely on educational and financial grounds, I regret attending college, as I could've obtained the same information by paying for a community borrower's pass from the library to the same effect but without the pedigree.

My parents didn't do it for any ideological purpose; we simply lived in a bad area and they couldn't afford the tuition the Catholic schools were charging. My other siblings were sent to the local public high school, which was (and sadly remains) the worst in the state. Their life outcomes were much worse than my own.
I’ve watched Waymos navigate the Tenderloin. It doesn’t get any more random than that.
I rode BART for a year, every day something bad happened
Still a branch, I think. https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla

Not sure if there is any relevant reason for this to be posted at this particular point in time. The most recent early-access build is from 2022: https://jdk.java.net/valhalla/

Edit: regarding replies about the recent update date -- that update date is tied to the linked Jira issue (https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8251554) and the only activity four days ago was adding links to some related issues. There were some updates to the description two months ago but the History view makes it difficult to determine what those are without manually copy-and-pasting the old revisions into some sort of diff tool
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults to Wayland on Nvidia
I tried reporting a phishing site to DO recently and I was quite disappointed at the response.

With regards to AWS, I have most of their IPs blocked because so many attacks come from there.
Seems like a massive stretch to insert Tesla into the conversation.

Waymo has been building up to this for years in San Francisco. Cruise has been looking for a new CEO for many months. Rivian has been in well known financial trouble.

I don’t think anyone’s worried about a Tesla robotaxi. It’s another vaporware in their long list of vaporwares. Going by their FSD track record, that thing won’t exist for a number of years.
AF2 and 3 both make accurate predictions of novel folds, and the larger community has confirmed this.

AF3 stands as one of the greatest achievments in machine learning/structural biology we've yet seen.

They do remove duplicates by sequence similarity (filtered PDB).

Please assume the DM folks really do know what they are doing.
Nobody would use Teams over Slack (especially from 2019-2022) if it wasn't part of O365.

My company switched us off of it and it sucked. But it was included in our E5 licenses :)
Alexander Nevsky is another great movie that he directed. The Battle of the Ice was the prototype for a lot of epic movie battles.
How much Google says it'd cost to fulfill Epic's biggest demands
To simply dismiss Pinker as a moron either means you haven't at all read any of his books, or you yourself have a rather moronic definition of stupidity. You can disagree about many details in "Better angels of our nature" and debate future trends in interesting ways, but it's definitely not the work of a stupid individual. All the contrary, it's well thought out and highly robust in its arguments.

Also, "everything is relative" is an idiot's way of saying something something meaningless while trying to make it seem incisive. Yes, many things are relative to others, but there are also objective measurements and visible differences between material aspects of the world, past and present especially. Feel free to live with the violence and material resources of a 16th century peasant, with no access to modern amenities for a few months and see how you rethink "better off" when considering most of mdoern life (even for a majority of poor people)
> It's perpetually insipid, like watching a puppet show try to adapt Shakespeare.

I don’t know about you but I would absolutely watch a Muppets adaptation of a Shakespeare play.

When it comes to adapting classic literature they’ve given us the best adaptations of A Christmas Carol and Treasure Island.
I bought my refurbished HM Aeron second hand from a chair repair shop in New York City five years ago. With WFH and all I have been using it a lot in the past five years, and it has held up well. Worth every penny.
Of course! I should have just guessed they'd already have something like this.

We either need to port ALL of Glamorous Toolkit to mainstream langs or we need to convince all our employers to switch to Smalltalk. I am not certain which of those is possible or easier.
Just work in your car using a mobile hotspot and leave work 30 mins earlier. Works for any white collar job assuming you have a reasonable employer.
uh, in southern california there used to be an unspoken rule: if you can't pass the driver's test with freeway included, you go to NorCo and take the test there. No freeway - the hardest thing is the "parallel park and reverse" which is just being told prior "when you pull over, take as long as you need to get as parallel as you can to the curb, then just go in reverse, look over your shoulder, and don't touch the wheel." Well, that and you automatically fail if you hit a cow.

Freeways in CA aren't the worst in the country (lookin at you, TX), but they're still not easier than surface streets, especially during off-peak hours.

Can you expand a bit on why you feel freeway driving is "easier"? the only thing i can think of is you're much less likely to get into a head-on[0] collision.

[0] apply directly
Reminds me of playing around with the WIMP on an Acorn Archimedes in about 1990, making a trivial app in BBC BASIC V that put a bouncing ball on the icon bar. Good times.
Ask HN: Why does office printing suck so much?
At work we have three Bizhub C258 printers, managed by IT
staff. If someone were to measure their availability, it would range
from 10 to 30%. There is hands down no tech I deal with on a daily
basis that is as unreliable as office printing. Just some of the issues
I've encountered recently:

* No paper cause the person(s) whose job is to deliver paper isn't
doing it.
* Paper jams. Self-repair is possible but the error message says the
plates are "extremely hot". Surprised that hasn't been the
subject of a "hot coffee" lawsuit.
* Lack of ink causing unreadable gray text.
* Tilted pages becaue the papers weren't perfectly aligned in the tray.
* Printer mysteriously printing multiple pages on the same paper.
* Printer mysteriously flushing the print queue.
* Login error: invalid user.
* Login error: invalid password (no way).
* Connection timeout: Network unreachable.
* Only prints first two pages of pdf.
* "Ghost printing": Printer makes printing sounds but paper with no print comes out.

Why is no startup addressing this? Imagine all business people running
late to meetings because their printer is a POS. Contracts lost cause
the printer fucked up double-sided printing. Must be billions here...
Does Uber regret shutting down its autonomous efforts? The problem has emerged as a tractable one. Or were they just too far behind and the capital expenditures too high to even remotely consider continuing? Does Uber exist in ten years?
I rarely use a CDN for that reason; I prefer to have the libraries hosted with the site.
This article refers to something occurring in 2014 with State Department email credentials and somehow loosely connecting that with the 2016 DNC email leak.

Besides showing that email is not really that secure in the first place (and evidenced by Ms. Clinton's own maintenance of a personal email server), it doesn't show any evidence that Cozy Bear was behind the DNC leak.

Assange himself seemed to implicate Seth Rich, a DNC staffer who was shot twice in the back in a mysterious murder in July of 2016:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/will-jul...
Yeah, I've ridden with two cool drivers with history degrees, one jazz musician from Ethiopia, and one who I'd already met elsewhere. Zero interest in riding in a Waymo. (Disclaimer: Alphabet shareholder)
I would consider this an example of a safe exposure to allow the immune system to exercise, rather than a serious disease, unless the plan is to literally to make children grow up sickly and malnourished.

Children who grow up with serious diseases (i.e., diseases that cause them serious health problems) are weakened for the rest of their lives, which leaves them more vulnerable to illness later.

That is not the goal of this therapy. They will keep the parasite population in check (e.g., by using parasites that cannot reproduce on their own) to ensure that the patient's health is improved by the treatment, not worsened by it.
I wish. When our bundles are being deployed globally and regularly opened on out of date phones and desktops, it can't be avoided yet.
The apollo guidance system was one of the first production deployments of Kalman filters. Here's the source code: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar... (it was used for star navigation, not sure about the lander).
It was very accessible and I think it really made a difference that it appeared on a new computer that was supposed to represent the future of computering (i.e. had a GUI) yet was not meaningfully programmable out of the box, unlike the supposedly obsolete 8-bit computers it was replacing which came with BASIC. HyperCard looked like a thing that could fill that same ecological niche.

Edit: A bunch of takes from a few weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40294301
Teams on iOS used to chew through batteries like candy. It's supposedly better, but I really should have paid more attention to my battery life when I uninstalled it after leaving my last job.
Layoffs, industry safety, and where we go from here
I just set polyfill.io to Untrusted in NoScript.
Why Is Everyone Getting Sick? Behind the Global Rise in RSV, Flu, Measles
I've had a dude with a Tagalog accent take over the speakers in my car and asked me and the folks I was inside with to leave because I decided to clown car it with friends visiting from out of state. With that said, there for sure is someone monitoring, but it's similar to how checkout at Amazon Go stores went.

I'd be curious to know how this monitoring scales over time.
Giant chain hamburgers coming to a waymo near you. Available in all rides longer than 7 minutes.
Hi, I'm the original author of the polyfill service. I did not own the domain name nor the GitHub account. In recent years I have not been actively involved in the project, and I'm dismayed by what's happened here. Sites using the original polyfill.io should remove it right away and use one of the alternatives or just drop it entirely - in the modern era it really isn't needed anymore.
Was there a law against being armed in the airport dropoff/pickup area there?
> “When I first saw it before filming, it was all alone, no peds, no other moving traffic. So, I don’t think it was yielding for any of the peds, just stopped for the steam.”
Put a pin in this comment and look back on it. Americans of all people should understand that people are willing to suffer worse material conditions for the sake of freedom.
Great job at explaining the complexities in this topic.
You haven't driven on 101 in SF, I take it.

10 mph would be a great average speed, usually.
This makes Java better in some fundamental ways, but I'm failing to see what advantages it has over C# outside of the JVM being supported just about everywhere (which is admittedly a pretty big deal in itself).
No just for mental sanity but online safety.
There's been a recent update to the proposed syntax & semantics, as indicated by the date on the JEP.

When I noticed the "preview feature" wording I went and tried running it with --enable-preview on a mainline OpenJDK build, but value records still didn't compile, and then I went back and saw that that wording has been on the JEP for some time.

There are also more up-to-date Valhalla builds available at builds.shipilev.net, but I'm not sure if there's some specific reason they haven't updated the EA page in years or if it's just not a priority.
AMD did go after intels server CPUs in the 2000s, with quite a bit of success.
I imagine the cars all head to some centralized location for cleaning and whatever other maintenance. That probably makes cleaning a very economic, factory-like procedure. Beats something like Uber where drivers have to bring their cars to a car wash or whatever (although presumably the Uber drivers aren't being paid to wash the cars because they aren't employees, so the unpaid labor there gives Uber an advantage).
I'm glad you know exactly what happened, what it was capable of, etc, despite not working on it, and not asking a single question of those who did!

This follows right in line with the rest of your approach.

If you want to know things, it works better to ask questions than make assertions about what other people did or didn't do.

Nobody really cares about the opinions of those who can't be bothered to learn.
Cruise did not help themselves. The market is open.
> the Waymo ADS’s perception system assigned a low damage score to the object;

and Tesla would do better how in this case? It also routinely crashes into stationary objects, presumably because the system assumes it wouldn't cause damage.
The professional approach is to add the English requirement to the style sheet and ask them to resubmit it accordingly to the submission guidelines.

To be more polite, run it through Google Translate yourself and propose text that isn't broken English. Sometimes they're just terrible at English and are reluctant to translate it.

I wouldn't be surprised if the commits are just "aaaaaaaaaaaaa" or swearing in another language.
Take a look at this chart going back ~3Y: https://ycharts.com/indicators/nvidia_corp_nvda_data_center_...

Their quarterly data centre revenue is now $22.6B! Even assuming that it immediately levels off, that's $90B over the next 12 months.

If it merely doubles, then they'll hit a total of $1T in revenue in about 6 years.

I'm an AI pessimist. The current crop of generative LLMs are cute, but not a direct replacement for humans in all but a few menial tasks.

However, there's a very wide range of algorithmic improvements available, which wouldn't have been explored three years ago. Nobody had the funding, motivation, or hardware. Suddenly, everyone believes that it is possible, and everyone is throwing money at the problem. Even if the fruits of all of this investment is just a ~10% improvement in business productivity, that's easily worth $1T to the world economy over the next decade or so.

AMD is absolutely leaving trillions of dollars on the table because they're too comfortable selling one supercomputer at a time to government customers.

Those customers will stop buying their kit very soon, because all of the useful software is being written for CUDA only.
The data should be archivable immediately, no need to wait for 24 years. It likely already is legal. It was never illegal to record a broadcast, so it should be legal to have a copy of a Netflix film for personal use.
Tonnet – mini experiment in colors and sound
My company uses Gmail and zoom and zoom is integrated into the new event screen. I've never seen a meet link on anything.
Show HN: SmokeScanner – Using cigarette price arbitrage to find free flights
Copyright does not make it illegal to archive. There should be a better exception about how to make accessible archives in case the source goes down I agree. But it should be nothing to do with copyright term.
Honest question, what is the GC situation like on .NET? (Granted, it's easier to reduce the need for it with widely available and integrated inline types.)
I assume that any large scale colonization of space will involve deeply modified germline humans: reduced oxygen requirements, greater tolerance to radiation, fewer rigid bones, tolerance to many forms of low gravity, loss of ability to live on the surface of a high G planet. And I guess an increased tolerance to boredom given how long it takes to get anywhere when minimizing energy expenditure.