skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the option is a choice between going possibly hungry for the day, you and your family, and not going hungry then that is not called financial illiteracy.
When I was in 5th grade, HyperCard was akin to early software development for me. I would spend hours after school creating games and choose your own adventures. You could put in goto statements, loops, animations, simple functions (play this sound when clicked and then go to this page), and more. I was totally hooked and it probably led to my passion for BBS development.
> We’d bet that Apple is paying Ubisoft, Capcom and 505 Games to port the titles over so that the tech giant can use them to showcase its latest devices

Lol, no way in hell Apple is paying them to port. At most they'd forgo some of the 25% App store revenue.

Apple always have a way in making their partners suckered into a bad deal. (Look at Goldman Sachs).
I see that too on Statists for example, which doesn't state a methodology that I can see but I suspect it's users (every Gmail account?) or 'I have used Docs/Word365'.

This site claims Office365 absolutely dwarfs Google Workspace in # business customers/licences , which is more in line with my expectation: https://www.bybrand.io/blog/market-share/amp/
i am reminded of how we quite having biodegrade chip bags for sun chip when people found them to be too noisy. like sure lets give up environmental friendly alternative to the plastic chocking the planet just because the bag rattles a little more. maybe a minor annoyance is worth the hassle to not kill the only functional biosphere for our species can survive in.
I'm deeply skeptical of this one since all of the kids I've known to be home school were socially and academically well behind their peers.
All it takes is one competitor in a hot space to get companies offering venture-subsidized prices, like we've seen when rideshare and delivery companies. And though the upfront investment may be huge, the price per trip can end up close to zero, unlike rideshares and delivery which have a much higher floor.

Not that there's any competitor that seems even close to Waymo.
In that case if the car isn't able to decide what to do, it stalls in the middle of the street. Happens all the time in SF.

It's probably not accurate to say that the remote operator is "steering" though. It's more like pathfinding.
$49.99 for a phone game? There's your problem. It's $49.99 for the same game on Xbox or Playstation, where you can play it with a controller on a much bigger screen. Normally you'd be playing it with the sound from your TV or headphones, on mobile you've usually got no sound or earphones. It's like David Lynch said, "You'll think you have experienced it, but you'll be cheated. It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real!"

The controls look terrible as well, really complicated. It's like porting Excel to iOS, it works but it's clunky as hell because that's not what it's designed for.

Basically nobody who owns a PC or console would choose to buy a full-price port for their phone, and not many people who don't own one would be interested because of the price.
> "We have managed to ban chemical weapons. laser blinding weapons and biological weapons on a global scale."

Bret Deveraux made a very compelling case that those bans only happened because those weapons were largely ineffective: https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
Drone Adoption Favors Quantity over Quality in Warfare
The idea of declarative config is that empirically programmatic config was bad at scale.

If your config is the source of truth of what your infra should be, then you can use source control tools to roll back to a known good state, or to binary search for when a problem was introduced.

If you use programmatic config, then you can't find out the intended state of your system without executing a program. You can't grep through program executions in a meaningful way, especially at scale. So you can't do even simple things like search for a string.

Guaranteeing termination is helpful, but it doesn't solve the main problem that programmatic config puts a large complexity barrier between you and the ability to understand your infrastructure.

Tools like Helm give up a fair amount of this declarative benefit. And IMO that's one of the reasons why it's almost always a worse experience to use a helm chart than to just render the chart once and for all and forget Helm ever existed.
The "in this arbitrary programming language we've never used before" was a common occurrence. At some point, we were given a PDF manual of some MIPS clone as well as a simulator.

In University, you were supposed to just pick these skills up all by yourself.
An article about Neko and historical archive: https://github.com/eliot-akira/neko
Desktop goose [1] was mildly popular a few years ago

[1] - https://samperson.itch.io/desktop-goose
That's right, I forget SpaceX is ultimately focused on Mars missions. I mostly hear about them now in relation to their role in the upcoming Moon missions.
I definitely think that UX is an underappreciated area for machine learning data. I want to make a set of libraries and tools that make it easier for people to work with ML data in the browser. The first step of good data science is to become one with your data.

I started with parquet because most datasets for modern LLMs are in parquet format. But there are other formats like JSONL which are common too.
I use Teams from Chrome&Firefox on Linux without a teams account. I've attended 100s of US State government agency meetings this way, for many years.
As parent didn't follow up: I confirm this isn't the hash in a magnet URL.
Yes, but the question is what are the odds that some random archive will still exist 100 years from now if no one is allowed to copy it?
I am not saying that Turing incomplete languages don’t or can’t be a good fit for this task.

However there’s no reason we should rule out general purpose languages.

We have a lot of configuration based IaC and configuration tooling a la jsonnette and cue and yet these are riddled with their own problems and DX issues.

Anyways we don’t need to see eye to to eye on this but I respect your position.
TVs for most of their existence were simple devices, with mostly a few different consumer relevant parameters, which were mostly objective.

Apps on the other hand strongly reflect the philosophy of usage, control, privacy etc, and the design aesthetic of their creators. Different countries/cultures have radically different philosophies, and old countries have aesthetics that go back thousands of years. Using apps from the creators of a different culture almost certainly causes significant friction with your own culture's philosophy and aesthetics.

To give a related example. I don't know Korea, but many in the English speaking world are marginally know of Japanese TV shows - you know with the crazy antics. Imagine that you were forced to consume only that form of TV, and how jarring that would be compared to your own philosophical and aesthetic inclinations. The same with Apps.
yeah we weren't supposed to force the plane carrying the president of Ecuador to land so we could search it for Assange yet we did that anyway.
Giant thread the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40756176
I don't see why Tesla can't handle those scenarios if they also use remote operators. I wouldn't be surprised if they do.

Btw Waymo is nowhere near achieving unit economics. Their cars cost like 5 times what Teslas cost, and the sensors require a lot of upkeep and maintenance.
It's probably a little bit better since a car is a closed environment. That won't save it entirely, but it'll at least mitigate the issue I expect as compared to e.g., a public bus.
Google did this with Meet. Bundled, over-ride zoom invite with Meet and other stuff that seems very similar to these MS moves. Wonder how/why they don't get similar treatment.
They literally bought Xilinx for their software engineering team. That's at least a thousand firmware engineers and software engineers focused on software stack improvements. That was two years ago. And on top of Xilinx they've been hiring staff like crazy for years now.

The issue was that they basically let everyone go who wasn't building hardware for their essential product lines (CPU & GPU) other than a skeleton crew to keep the software at least mostly functioning. And as much as this seems like it was a bad decision, AMD was probably weeks from bankruptcy by the time they got Zen out the door even despite doing this. Had they not done so, they'd almost certainly closed up entirely.

So for the last ~5 years minimum now they've been building back their software teams and trying to recuperate what they lost in institutional knowledge. That all takes time to do even if you hire back twice as many engineers as you lost.

And so now we are here. Things are clearly improving but nowhere near acceptable yet. But there's a trend of improvement.
I've never heard of anybody complaining about Django per se having performance issues. When people say Django is "heavy weight," I tend to think of how it bundles a lot of stuff for you, which can make it easy to build an app; while, at the same time, if you end up deciding you want to step slightly off the garden path and do things juussssst a little differently than Django wants you to, you're probably gonna have a bad time.

OTOH, Flask is too small to impose much of a conceptual framework on you, and SQLAlchemy generally feels like a fairly thin layer of Python syntactic sugar over top of SQL. When I write queries in SQLAlchemy, it seems like they always tend to come out looking more like what I would write in plain SQL than queries in Django do. Granted, both ORMs can start doing things like joining tables behind your back, which can certainly cause performance problems, but that's a problem that's common to both, and not just Django. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The artifacts weren't in a stasis field when they were buried in the ground: they were decaying there too. Whether that was faster or slower than after being excavated and stored in a museum depends on the artifact's composition and the properties of the place it was stored. I guess in a museum, however, they're somewhat more susceptible to damage or theft since now people know about them, or they could be damaged or destroyed in a war.
I remember Docklings, a feature of early OSX that let devs put mini-apps in the Dock. I had one showing uptime, undoubtedly just piping the output from the CLI command. That was one of the early steps toward my interest in the CLI, which still wouldn’t be realized for a handful of years. This is a great throwback with more capability than those had. Very cool.
I think you're giving the TBD a bad rap. Both were fundamentally obsolete aircraft at the start of the war for their primary role, and both were unsurvivable when used in that role.

The Swordfish acquired a somewhat mythic representation from performance early in the war, but that performance was a result of FAA doctrine rather than any particular characteristics of the Swordfish - the FAA was really the only service to take night carrier operations seriously pre-war, and most of the successful Swordfish operations were conducted at night. When operated in daylight against competent air defense they were just as vulnerable as the TBD.

Where the two also differ is that the TBD was soon retired completely following the slaughter at Midway and replaced by a much superior platform (the TBF/TBM), while the Swordfish was moved to other roles (e.g. ASW) as it was also replaced (also by the TBF/TBM in many cases). In no small part that was because the FAA needed everything it could get, and the failure of the intended successor (the Fairey Albacore) left them with no other domestic alternative.
It's been a _really_ long time since I've seen that cat. Thanks for the memories.
I’m pretty sure there’s also a very-much-not-fine-print notice about iCloud Photos when you set up a device, and you can easily turn iCloud Photos off. The only part missing is that you can’t enable iCloud Photos but choose, per photo, whether to sync the photo.
I would like to see video of an equivalent incident.
A is the only thing we'll be able to do in the next 500 years, if that helps.
My dad was so angry when I installed this on the family Packard Bell
Loneliness trajectories are associated with midlife conspiracist worldviews
At the end of the day? Yes. No, the world ain't fair.

Whoever makes a permanent presence on the Moon first gets to decide what everyone else can do there.
This interaction suits me perfectly! It's easy to backtrack and start a new discussion with the AI from somewhere in the past.

It's just a little uncomfortable to use the mouse for this, I would prefer it to be as smooth as some whiteboard Apps.
Deer flies: how to deal with them? (2005)
I ask about the tools I will be using during the interview process. There are several that I refuse to work with and will end the interview at the next possible polite point if they are required. Microsoft Windows is on my blacklist.

The entire point of private retirement accounts and transferable skills is that you aren't required to stick with one employer. If your employer requires you to use bad tools then find a better employer.
Thats silly. The cars are private property and full of cameras being monitored by a tech giant.

I’m sure the account agreement is going to require you to to accept being charged egregious bills for damaging or dirty-ing the cabin
Every rider’s identity is known. That’s going to play a huge role in how people treat them.
Have something wild for you: https://github.com/skynettx/dosraptor

Also is available on Steam, but it seems like it might just be the original DOS game wrapped in Dosemu.

So many hours spent playing this game when I was a kid. Thanks for the memory!
You mentioned them all mockingly. If you weren't trying to suggest none are viable, you need to reword.
> Each pixel is either on or off.

Or traveling. I imagine if you wanted to you could position the disc at any point between “on” and “off” by constantly flipping it back and forth.
What significant documents about Russia did you provide that Wikileaks refused to publish?
The way you describe it, it sounds like the problem is a lack of parental involvement and not necessarily the schooling system itself
My main objection to something like this (and cheers this person went to great lengths to fix it) is that as shipped you can't tell the difference between an image with square corners that got rounded off by QuickLook, or an image legitimately with rounded corners that looks like QuickLook. It shouldn't have been necessary to go to such trouble to turn that option off, one which will easily interfere with the workflow of a graphics professional.
The idea is that the private key is stored outside of your configuration directory (e.g. in your OS's keychain), so your dotenv file can contain encrypted key values without leaking the value itself.
Assassin's Creed went for the obviously optimistic $50 but the other games mentioned were priced lower and still performed poorly. RE4 Remake is $30, Death Stranding is $20, and RE Village is just $16.
> it's not really possible to reduce the entire model down to "current state, desired state, next action."

This is basically how control theory works in general though. You have a state, a goal, and a perturbation toward the goal. I think this is the right level of abstraction if you want a powerful and flexible tool.

> it's not really possible to know how the various components will interact....Introducing a VDOM / reducer paradigm (like react) would go a long way towards solving these problems.

I think the problem here is that the physical characteristics and layouts of the machines makes such a huge difference that it would be prohibitively costly to virtualize or simulate this in a meaningful way. So instead, people use subsets of the physical structure to verify that configuration states work. You do this by having `dev`, `staging`, `prod` environments, using colored deployments, canary analysis, partial rollouts etc.
This is completely unsurprising, who is the target customer here? Someone who knows about Death Stranding but doesn't have a PC or console to run it? Someone who loves Assassin's Creed UbiSlop so much that they want to play it on the train? All these games all but require actual controllers and have some level of commitment to them which limits where and when you can play them. I have no doubt there are people who have problems this solves but obviously it's not very many.
It's true that not all of them would be crashes, but many would be, because, well, the car was about to crash. The car isn't just joking around when it swerves towards some parked cars.

> The only way to get a true comparison of data is to compare robotaxis with robotaxis.

100% agreed. And so far, Tesla hasn't taken the step of actually letting the cars be driverless.
> Things are clearly improving

How long am I supposed to wait, as my still-modern AMD GPU sits still-unsupported?

The anecdote above doesn't even sound like there's any improvement at all, let alone "clear" improvement.

And with Zen in 2017 and Zen+ in 2018 the counter is past six years at this point since the money gates opened wide.
Again, they don’t drive or steer remotely. What sometimes happens is a multiple choice question is presented to the operator in an ambiguous situation:

<photo of construction zone>
Can I drive through here?
[Yes] [No]

When this is happening, the car is stopped and lets the passenger know that it’s reaching out for remote help to figure out what to do. For me this has happened two times across my 125 Waymo rides (571 miles) so far, and was resolved in under 20 seconds. Though I must say, 20 seconds feels like ages when you’re in the car and blocking traffic!
I’m not sure what this is supposed to prove? There are lots of different messaging apps with very high market share in the US versus a WhatsApp monoculture. A lot of people using SMS are actually using iMessage, and historically one of the reasons it’s won is because US telecoms went to unlimited SMS messaging when competing with each other, whereas foreign monopoly telecoms charged prices per SMS making messaging apps on data more competitive.

iMessage is a better experience and also degrades gracefully to sms for people who aren’t on the platform, unlike almost all other messaging apps where I have to make sure they have the app installed.

Facebook messenger has like 50% market penetration with its own suite of features. Snapchat is next and offers a very different user experience.

Apps without compelling reasons to exist like Google allo lose.
One blog post lacking in any detail is not being open about how it works, and I think you know that. I was very clear in the kinds of detail I think they should legally be required to provide to operate on public roads.
That's my biggest concern too. My fear is in 20 years nobody will be excited to go in these because the interiors will be whittled down to dilapidated NY subway seats.
i was never clear on how you can charge a foreign national on foreign soil with a US Crime but that doesn't seem to mater when your the US. dont piss of the US government and dont piss off the MPAA Kim Dotcom and Assange were both charged with breaking us law while not residing in the US, being from the US, or committing their alleged crime in the US.
For scheduling, I just guessed at the weights - the interval to the next review just increases geometrically at a different rate for each difficulty rating. I'll probably run into ease hell issues but it hasn't happened yet. I tuned the weights by intuition over the course of a few days until I arrived at something similar to what I had in Anki.

Mobile support was a concern of mine as well but I just took the easy way out and make a simple SPA in javascript and futzed with the CSS until it looked good on my phone (also mostly ChatGPT). One explicit design principle was that I will never support anyone but myself, which simplified things greatly. The SPA interacts with a little CRUD app that uses a sqlite database to store my cards and activity.
Nah. Strong claims require strong evidence.

Your claims that all this is easy and entirely possible - has no evidence, because near as we can tell we haven’t seen anyone visiting us or anywhere we’ve seen with any of these setups. And we haven’t successfully gone even beyond our moon with a manned mission.

I don’t think anyone is claiming intergalactic colonization is impossible.

All I’m saying is it doesn’t seem worth the cost, by any metric we currently have, or
straightforward to actually do, based on our current understanding of physics.

And that there are a lot of real issues with trying to do it that would make it unlikely to succeed if we tried right now, without making it even more costly.
You can find hierarchical work cultures with impossible deadlines all around the world, not just SK. The difference seems to be that the government sector and the chaebol take up such a huge share of the "IT" market in SK, that there really isn't much space left for startup culture to make a difference.

Kakao used to be a cool startup, but they've been trying hard to emulate the chaebol once they became successful.
I have never seen this either. I am usually not a heavy zoom user, but I went through a relatively busy zoom stint the last 6 months or so - with links both in free gmail and in google workspace.
Before changing your life, go ask people in Real World Jobs how much they’d like to sit at a computer for 35 hours a week and make $200k or more.
I don't know if they're wildly different at this point. Sitting in the shotgun seat, comparing the latest FSD vs the latest Waymo, on the same pickup and dropoff in San Francisco, I couldn't tell much difference. On the one hand, Waymo definitely chooses slower, quieter roads, and weird pickup/dropoff points - which means it's a slower ride. On the other hand, most people don't have access to actually try FSD so they rely on videos which are typically older FSD versions and spliced to only show "highlights" instead of being a raw 20 minute ride footage video.

I don't think we'll actually know until Tesla has an actual robotaxi product. When Cruise had one, most people who had tried both Cruise and Waymo said Waymo was better. That was my opinion as well.
While you're right, in the specific case of navigation apps (Google maps) or apps that need navigation data (uber), it's typically because of the Geospatial Information Management Act. High-quality mapping data isn't allowed to leave the physical borders of Korea so most foreign companies just stop trying. Nowadays it's just protectionism, but the original justification was to make it harder for north korea to aim artillery.
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I've heard "Autopilot/FSD has improved a lot recently" or "the next release is going to be a huge improvement" many times from Tesla superfans. And certainly there has been improvement, but it's still at a stage where it's making very basic mistakes in operating the car.

It's not even at the point where the challenge is handling weird edge cases with construction or strange intersections, it's still struggling with not running into parked cars and walls. How many years do you think it should take a self-driving system to be able to handle those basic tasks in the general case? Because Tesla has been working on self-driving for almost a decade at this point, and they still seem to be barely past the starting line.
I am confused by this comment. Was your startup not affected by the previous 10+ years of Microsoft chat products? Examples: Office Communicator, Lync, and Skype for Business. I fail to see how Teams was the "nail in the coffin".