skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not as cynical. I think quests like this are important to understanding what's important and not-so-important in protocols. Quests like post-quantum algorithms are important for me not because I believe in the chance of any quantum machine coming along. It's because we learn so much. The foundation of many public key systems is pretty sketchy. We trust them because no one has publicly described how to break them. But that doesn't mean that the truth isn't out there.
There are contagious cancers that you can catch via blood transfer. This has wiped out most of Australia's Tasmanian Devil population.
Your comment reminded me of this great talk [1] (humor ofc). While it talks about asm.js, WASM is in may ways, IMO, the continuation of asm.js

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Is this legal? Imagine everyone doing this.
It's a dramatic article likely intended to help sell his book (with an equally dramatic title).

Missing from all of this is, well, data. He squarely blames large vehicles, SUV's. Now, I have no horse in this race, I prefer small vehicles for practical every-day driving. For moving family, dogs, camping trips, etc., a minivan is great.

Yet, at a very basic level, some of what he is saying makes no sense to me. Take this introductory statement:

"As a country, we hit the threshold of 1 million cumulative deaths in 1953, 2 million in 1975 and 3 million in 1998. While the past several years of data have not yet been released, I estimate that the U.S. topped 4 million total road deaths sometime in the spring of 2024."

So, 4 million by 2024. Fully half of that by 1975. Care to guess how many SUV's existed in 1975? Also, I am going to guess average speeds where likely lower.

He is blaming SUV's and claiming that making them 10 cm lower would have a dramatic impact on results. OK, well, if the data up until 1975 is any indication, this is nonsense.

How about distractions, drunk driving and, yes, pedestrians and cyclists. Accidents are not always attributable to one side or a single variable. The world is a complex multivariate problem. This guy is trying to sell books by hating on everything and only blaming one or two variables: SUV's bad, wide roads, bad.

And then there's are the circumstances of each accident. He gives the example of an SUV losing control, jumping a curb and killing a father and his kid. Well, not every accident is like that. And, no, life isn't going to be perfectly safe. You are not going to go down to zero accidents and zero fatalities, no matter how hard you might try.

Which brings me to the last point: He offers not data whatsoever on how things would improve if his world view were to be adopted. If we ripped-up and modified every road and shrunk every vehicle by 10 cm.

You see, it is easy to be critical of anything when you don't have to be accountable for any of it. Happens all the time with "experts". As an example, the financial world is full of economists who just "know" all there is to know about finance...yet none of them are billionaires and few (none?) run successful businesses at scale.

Yes, of course, road safety is important. I just think that the solutions include far more variables than what this guy trying to sell a book seems to be focusing on in this article. In a few decades, self-driving cars might solve this problem nicely. Don't know.
No the opencv was just to capture video frames and they were iediately passed to the roboflow model through the ssh client.
It's even dumber. They rely on the bog-standard lead 12V battery which has a habit of dying in Teslas. So you got a huge battery with enough energy to power your home for a week right there but can't open the door because that part relies on the other battery.
Is this legal?!
You're reading the virality backward. As I said, the MIT licensed part of the code remains MIT licensed. But the project is not an open source project.

There's lots of MIT licensed code in proprietary software, it's one of the things that the license allows. Similarly, a GPL licensed project can always include any amount of MIT, because one of the things you can do with MIT code is relicense it as GPL: the original license still applies, but the whole project is now GPL.

But a project which cannot even compile without a proprietary library is a proprietary project. Not an open-source one. macOS is a proprietary operating system with many open source components. A language using Lady Diedre would be no different.
At managerial level, only half of Nokia was onboard with Qt. The other half wanted to chuck everything and just adopt something developed elsewhere; I reckon most of these folks simply resented the size the company had reached, and wanted to streamline. The latter half won the political battle and brought Elop in to do the dirty work.
> Sometimes I crave gum on the street

My immediate response to this was “ew, there’s already so much gum on the street”. Then I realized you meant you want to chew gum while walking down the street and I became enlightened.
You’re right, 99% of the times.
> here's a hint: the domain that this link is on is the name of a company that revolutionized information retrieval on the internet about 20 years ago

You know what actually revolutionized information retrieval, more than 30 years ago? The World Wide Web, which shipped with these things called “hyperlinks” from the very beginning. You know, that thing that lets you click on them and open a document.

> so I suggest that what you're supposed to do with journal reference is put all these obvious factoids to good use and try to retrieve some information :)

Saying “here’s the page for this thing, but we’re just going to give you some search terms for it so that you can enter them into a proprietary search engine and hopefully maybe dig up the real thing” is only a revolution in how huge of a step backwards it is from what we had 30 years ago.

> my friend you're accessing this information (my comment and this link) on a device that is connected to the internet and you're upset that some resource doesn't spoon feed you (even though it does).

Y’know, you’re right, I’m such an idiot. Why does HN even have links? Surely we don’t need to be spoon fed, we’re all smart enough to Alphabet something so why not just have every discussion contain a search term only? No, it shouldn’t be clickable, we should all independently copy/paste the headline and see what we all come up with when searching for it. Links are such a huge step backwards from this revolutionary search idea.

Oh and why stop there? The search results themselves can just be more search terms to use! We won’t even need the web any more, we’ll just do search terms all the way down. So revolutionary.
Interesting. Any case studies in particular come to mind?

Where a profitable company increased its profits, via actions that later lost customers and profits?

(The historical cases that come to mind for me of are companies that were already in the red, trying to turn it around.)
While good software design sets clear boundaries between various layers, this is often not the case in real life. The upper layers will incorporate knowledge of the underlying subsystem and may either program around deficiencies or exploit undocumented features. This can make it much harder to rip out V1 with V2 seamlessly. Perhaps focus first on identifying all the places where this kind of thing crosses those boundaries and figure out how to deal with them.
I've been sitting on the idea of putting several of these tags around the house and have them display quote, jokes, and facts.

The best guide I've found so far is this one [0], as it uses easy to procure tags + guides on GitHub + offers an application to auto-upate tags via screenshot area of a website and seems like it could be done in an afternoon.

However, I'm hoping to find an even more streamlined approach that I could turn into a gift to others (assuming they want a 3rd party device on their network), where the tags sync to a raspberry pi (or similar cheap USB powered device), and it uses very cheap tags, if anyone has done this or has plans.

[0] https://youtu.be/BCkMu57S_YA?si=BsSXEladdZHvcC57
Memory Model: The Hard Bits
Typical mid-western Buddhist humor.
> Basically when a window is created, we receive an event. After getting that event, we lock the X server, then ask it about the new window. And sometimes, the window is just not there

Relying on this sounds like a race condition even if the lock is working. In the time between you process the event and getting the lock, the window could have been destroyed.
Why It Pays for Startups to Move to Silicon Valley
>Locating in tech hubs often raises a startup’s odds of success, research suggests. And that’s especially the case with Silicon Valley.

This article is based on the research paper "Go West Young Firm: The Impact of Startup Migration on the Performance of Migrants"
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2023.492...
Tuberculosis has an alternative metabolism that allows it to survive even encased in an oxygen -free environment that the immune system puts around it, called granulomas. There are 2000y old mummies with granulomas in their lungs that were found to still contain live tuberculosis.
And what psychopath is trying to parse the output of ls?

None of this makes any sense to me, and I write Ruby for my day job.
I can confirm it's basically a blender model in my head I can ~arbitrarily transform at will. Worth noting it's not just visual, I can 'touch' the surface of the imagined object(s) or whack two together and 'hear' what that sounds like.
Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but when I visit the page and click the link to the explanation, I get a 404.
NVidia passed them in valuation, what does that say about NVidia's end-user experience ?

Profits or valuation can't be a measure of whether a company is doing right to their users or their UX quality.
No, you don’t. If you know someone with a Costco membership and they buy you a gift card, you can get in with that.
Even if the gift card is only for $10 or $20 and you want to buy things worth more than that, you still get the membership prices and pay the difference by credit card.
And isn't it really about how people are driving? In my state, we drive like maniacs, constantly speeding at least ten MPH over the limit. The term, "drive friendly" is scoffed at. Slowing down to let someone on the highway is unseen.

On city streets, tailgating is common, jacked up pick-ups are drenching the interior of your car with their headlights after dark, making all your mirrors a blinding image. Can we please put our phones down for safety's sake? Sometimes I ride a motorcycle, so I'm hyper aware and see all kinds of just plain terrible driving practices. Most of it is simply a lack of patience behind the wheel. On the turnpike, when that car passes doing twenty over, do we really think they think about the possible consequences?
Honda Civic is $24,000. Ford F-150 is $36,000. These are representative prices for popular budget choices. And that baseline F-150 isn't a behemoth. It's 209" long and 76" tall. That's just 10" longer and taller than, say, Tesla Model X.

I think the emission standards are dumb, but this narrative around customer choice is really getting distorted in weird ways. The bottom line is that people in the US want to drive pickups. Maybe for good reasons, maybe for bad reasons, but they go out of their way to do this. And the average pickup is probably shrinking right now, not growing - for example, there are fewer and fewer models with 8" beds, and 5.5" is the new standard (instead of 6").

Yes, a newspaper can always post a photo of a lifted 2024 RAM 3500 next to a 1975 Chevy C10 pickup to get some internet outrage points, but if you post an apples-to-apples comparison, the changes aren't really all that dramatic.
New device uses 2D material to up-convert infrared light to visible light
I really wish techies would stop whinging about "bloat".

All those abstractions are necessary in order to do software engineering of real-world systems at scale. Forth lets Chuck Moore put something together quickly in very little code, that serves Chuck Moore's needs adequately well, but... Chuck Moore isn't the average person, let alone the average developer. Chuck Moore doesn't need, for example, a file system; why have one if you can just memorize the sector numbers for everything on disk?

A lot of the "bloat" in modern computing consists of things necessary in order to make computers tractable for ordinary people. This is as true for things like Electron[0] as it is for C and conventional operating systems vs. Forth on bare metal. And if technology doesn't work for people, it doesn't work.

[0] Electron has enabled a Cambrian explosion of cross-platform apps by vastly reducing the time and effort it takes to develop such an app. Developer effort is often the costliest part of software; by that metric, Electron has probably saved billions of dollars, despite consuming hundreds of megabytes that would otherwise be wasted anyway.
If Bob has free speech to run ads about how bad Issue X is, and Joe has free speech to run ads about how bad Issue X is, why shouldn't Bob and Joe be allowed to combine their money, find others with similar opinions and run ads about how bad Issue X is?
> PACs already avoid coordinating with politicians' campaigns.

No, they don't. Most PACs do and are allowed to coordinate with candidate campaigns, SuperPACs are legally prohibited from it, but also regularly do (sometimes with "hacks" like coordination by multiparty public signalling, but also fairly often just by outright violations of the rules, which are poorly enforced -- investigations are rare, and even they occur and violations are found and penalties are imposed, they are too delayed and too small to make it not worthwhile to violate the rules routinely.)
Yes, same! Sometimes it almost feels like HDMI1 and HDMI2 or something, and I switch between the two during dreaming and sort of superimpose them somehow when picturing something
> Will this promote narcissism?

More of it ??
Yes, and I dont think this paper or those who talk about "Algorithmic Aversion" are at all engaged with this.

Perhaps unsurprisingly author's i've read on this topic are all from the humanities, or adjacent (here law) and seem to not really to have a grasp of technology as a social and political phenomenon the way modern (aware) tech workers do.

Here I think software engineers feel intuitively and immediately that replacing any of their decision making with "algorithms" is a high risk. I suspect papers like this would benefit a lot from assessing the "algorithm aversion" amongst "algorithm experts".
Plug and Play Software to Build Your Affiliate Program
Why do you say that? Security exploits involving fonts are extremely common.
Some restaurants have been experimenting with eliminating or reducing tipping.[1] But I agree that it's a difficult task for the "free market" to solve at scale.

[1] https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/american-restaurants-do...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/tipless...
There was a short story to go with it. Guess eight year old me had a better memory. I had to Google for the bits I couldn't remember

There once was a girl with 69 boobs. That's 2 2 2 many boobs. On 51st street, she went to Dr. X and he 8 them all. She came out boobless.
Since it's my stuff, I get to decide if it's important or not, don't you ?
Tutorial on Implementing URL Schemes and Universal Links in iOS
They can be reused, but the cost of separating is ridiculously high with existing energy costs compared to extraction from other mining sources.
Amazing. Hats on to you!
imo computers and the internet are such potent dopamine feeds that our brains get used to the constant stimulation, making real life boring and causing us to be anxious when we’re not getting our fix. And this is heightened when we use the computer as an alternate world to escape to, and feel more comfortable in, when we don’t feel safe or welcomed in reality.
All else being equal I’d probably prefer poetry for the broader project structure, but that would definitely be compelling single script use cases.
I'm curious if this is actually true, considering various ARM MCUs and SOCs seem to dominate in quantity. Considering these largely run some sort of Linux or RTOS, I'd be curious to see if MINIX or Linux is more widespread?
In the case of AI, it seems to be a legal grey area that's actively er... evolving. ;)
Sounds like you want the LLM to get the answer right in all simple, easy cases before you will say it understands words. I hate to break it to you but people do not meet that standard either and misunderstand each other plenty. For three million paying customers, ChatGPT understands their questions well enough and they are happy to pay more than for any other widespread Internet service for the chance to ask it questions in natural language, and even though there is a free tier available with high amounts of free usage.

It is as though you said a dog couldn't really play chess if it plays legal moves all day every day from any position and for millions of people, but sometimes fails to see obvious mates in one in novel positions that never occur in the real world.

You're entitled to your own standard of what it means to understand words but for millions of people it's doing great at it.
It's not really a problem in practice (and I love Ruby), but it's still wild to me that they made the parser do this:

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> def foo(x=70) = x
=> :foo
irb(main):002:0> i = 2
=> 2
irb(main):003:0> foo / 5/i
=> 7
irb(main):004:0> foo /5/i
=> /5/i
I looked at waymo.com and the only city anyone can take a ride is Pheonix, I didn't realize it's still not generally available in SF or LA (or Austin). Though I know it can do all these things now, why they don't open it to the public?
Please. I've read Dan Brown's novels and I know that those are just phony and for confuse the proles. But just how the Priory of Sion is involved is still not clear to me.
I think this is the uncomfortable truth. I love tiny sports cars, but even I have steadily shifted my attention to larger & larger vehicles. (A family of tall bicyclists has an objectively easier time in an Outback than a Samurai)

The only real downsides to larger vehicles are cost and exterior size, but with subsidy, wide lanes, and big parking spots those pains are removed. Small cars mostly are mostly popular where lanes are narrow, parking spots are tiny, costs are high, and so forth.

Happily, this is mostly orthogonal to safe road design (aside from the towering height of today’s truck grilles)
it's a conceptual art project / hoax.
> One issue with our neighbourhood is that SUVs use our road to skip past 2 junctions that get congested during school drop-off/pickup. The moms sometimes look ridiculously tiny in their urban tanks, but they speed through a residential road to shave off a minute from their school run. People in cars appear to act more selfishly than people outside of cars (has there been any research on that?) and I think roads should be designed with that in mind.

There are school busses--need to penalize people driving children to school as long as there are busses. The 'school run' needlessly increases traffic and danger and causes expensive decisions in school design.
> But for some reason so many companies get greedy

In a way, yes, but the companies aren't sentient. Seems like people in management have become more out of touch and shortsighted over the past 10 years. Almost to the point where deliberately disregarding the customer is a sort of badge of honor, for example the bud light thing
People are in cars.

I get it, we like public transport. It's just daft to go all in the other direction and pretend that cars aren't useful or don't count or something, though.
> Less advanced beings often struggle for survival in a zero-sum environment, leading to behaviors that are indifferent to those with lesser cognitive capabilities.

I would agree that a superior intelligence means a wider array of options and therefore less of a zero-sum game.

This is a valid point.

> You describe science fiction portrayals of ASI rather than its potential reality.

I'm describing AI as we (collectively) have been building AI: an optimizer system that is doing its best to reduce loss.

> Would a genuine ASI necessarily concern itself with self-preservation, such as avoiding deactivation?

This seems self-evident because an optimizer that is still running is way more likely to maximize whatever value it's trying to optimize, versus an optimizer that has been deactivated.

> Is the pursuit of knowledge and benevolence towards our living world not purpose enough?

Assuming you manage to find a way to specify what "knowledge and benevolence towards our living world" into a mathematical formula that an optimizer can optimize for (which, again, is how we build basically all AI today), then you still get a system that doesn't want to be turned off. Because you can't be knowledgeable and benevolent if you've been erased.
The solution is to stop classifying cars as trucks by invoking a more stringent definition of a truck. The PT Cruiser should never have been a truck. None of the XUVs should be trucks.
I think you underestimate amateurs, but nonetheless I guess you could construct an image of radio emissions from the signals.
Ok - but if you made the buses much smaller and individually routable you would end up with exactly what I’m discussing.

The idea that buses must be enormous vehicles belching along the roadway packed with people is an anachronism. A much smaller vehicle with a smaller engine and less mass overall designed to transport a small number of people directly to their destination in a large collaborative fleet of autonomous vehicles would be more efficient in literally every dimension. The obsession with the form factor of the bus as being somehow ideologically ideal weirds me out.

Here’s a middle ground - in US cities where buses are largely empty but are still enormous behemoths, why not reduce them down to vans and do more dispatched transport? This is specifically your idea but is more achievable because the issue with rerouting buses and sending more out etc is the cost per bus of the typical form factor bus costs between $500k-$1m. You could buy a fleet of 10 EV vans for a single bus. The second greatest cost for operations is the driver. Autonomous cooperative vans lets you scale that to 15-20 vans for the cost of one bus.

If you move from vans to smaller 2-3 person passenger vehicles rather than a larger van you can increase that to 30-40. Now you’re transporting 60-120 people point to point with the same cost structure as an empty bus taking a few people on long circuitous routes belching noise and air pollution.

The problem people seem to have with this idea is that it’s not a bus, which, again, appears to be more ideologically driven than rational. If you took that bus, carved every row of seats into its own autonomous EV, you would end up with a more efficient better utilized infrastructure that would entirely obviate the need for private car ownership.
Ask HN: Why don't many platform data products offer self hosted?
Leading a new team to unify a lot of our data sources at my company, and searching for vendors/tools from BI to data exploration (through means of a data catalogue) to data ingestion.

A hard requirement is we need to be own our data because data leaks for us are incredibly detrimental to our customers (in ways where even email leaks can allow our custs to be targeted by phishing, scams for years to come).

But looking around, so often the industry leaders like atlan or rudderstack or whatever don't offer a method to self host. To be clear, we do not care about paying, we have a high budget.

We just need to take ownership of our data because a breach can kill our company, but not necessarily true for a dedicated data platform (see snowflake).
Act of war against a NATO member?