skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is extremely hard!

Dealerships don't make most of their money (or any money, really) selling cars. They make their money from service, and selling info to 3rd parties (ever notice when you buy a new car, you will receive mail from SirusXM for a year after). In order for this to work, their systems are all tightly integrated. When you buy a new car, the dealer will know when you're due for service. When you have your current car serviced more than a certain amount, the dealer will know you're in the market for a new car.

So, it's not possible to swap out only the service management piece of CDK or only the sales piece, or only the CRM piece. They all have to work together. The reason I know is I happened to contract with the IT department of a very large dealer network at the time they were undergoing a migration from Reynolds to CDK. A year into the migration process...they pulled the plug. Moving even from one large incumbent to another was too much work.

Good luck breaking in on that as a brand new baby startup! I think you'd probably have better luck completely disrupting the car sales process from the ground up.
Do you know if Hermes is OK with people purchasing with intent to immediately resell?

I think I remember reading that people have "gotten in trouble" (i.e. block-listed from future sales) for being suspected of this, but I might be confusing it with some other company.
https://archive.is/Kal3q
In Xorg timescales that's probably one of the youngest bugs :D
It's already put me off flying completely.
The majority doesnt even use most of the features they have on their smart phone. Rate of tech change does not mean people learn faster. People still take time to learn anything new. And the majority hardly have any interest in what mesmerizes and fascinates technologists. And rightly so cuz tools are meant to have purpose. Most technologists these days build shit cuz its possible to do so not cuz they have thpught to deeply about what people actually need. This gap will grow as rate of tech change increases.
There is no WMR though.
> Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision.

> the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean

Correlation != causation.

Nor to mention that any causation could be the reverse. Finacial success leaves on freer to adopt diversity.
Leaking URLs to the Clown
Why post a paywalled article?
Even though it sounds like the journey was the goal, you may want to look at TouchDesigner, which is a powerful tool for this use case.

https://derivative.ca/
> Because typing code without help is like trying to cook without recipes – you end up with something incomplete and probably unpalatable.

I think this statement is more personal than the author intended
Guess all of the companies doing that must have missed the memo, though I guess how dire the situation is was more or less known pretty early on: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02479
But WMR was removed from W11 so it's useless for many AR/VR games/apps.
I'm not sure thinking of the robots as "increasing safety" is a useful mindset. They increase the chance of rescue. If you needed one in the first place, it's because you unintentionally neglected safety well before they deployed the robot to you.

Anyways.. as an aside.. if it's just about getting flotation devices out to them faster, why not a "life jacket cannon" mounted to the beach? If you really want to make it something to write home about get the guy who was dropping hats on heads the other day to make a robot that drops life jackets on the heads of people flailing about in the water.
Ah, the games people play when they have too much money.
None ad infested link — https://archive.is/0PTMp
They are both trained on the same virtual reality.
I only save what I can fit on my browser bookmarks tab. Anything more is wasteful.
Efficiency reduces resiliency.
This isn't really a robot, more of just a remote-controlled boat. Still cool and a great idea for helping people who are drowning, of course. But seems misleading to call it a "robot", which (to me at least) implies some level of autonomy and more tech than you'd find in toy RC cars from 30 years ago.
Please don't post dismissive comments about the rest of the community and please especially don't do it repeatedly.

There's an entire spectrum of views here. Singling out the segment that you most dislike and overgeneralizing from there is something that many readers do*, but it leads to low-quality, irritable comments and those lead to lame discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
If they only used live PhD-level human discourse, over topics that had been, or can be peer-reviewed in advance[0] before finding its way into a database, it might be more likely to seem more intelligent than training on average everyday data.

Don't get me started on how much less advanced you should expect if random internet data is given any weight at all.

[0] Rehearsal might be good, it could even include PhD's in Education since teaching the machine could almost be considered equivalent to professors preparing a curriculum for teaching regular students.
Nuclear engineer dismisses claim that modular reactors could be viable soon
fvwm, customized to be basically a kiosk-like desktop with a few large buttons for different use cases (each one a virtual screen).

Currently on debian, don't remember which distros I used initially. Probably started on slackware.

For email, mutt & emacs. Although both are heavily customized to have simple and minimal commands available, so a regular mutt or emacs user would be a bit lost.

I can't stress enough the power of customizable software! The ones on list list (fvwm, mutt, emacs) are prime examples of excellence on this front.

There is nothing worse than "opinionated" software that doesn't allow extensive customization. Even worse, when they change interfaces every time a new PM joins the company. For older people, any change in interface is a huge setback. There is unappreciated value in software than can be fully customized and then left alone.

The one and only change I made to the setup over the years was to remove the connect/disconnect icons for the (dialup) modem when I upgraded them to DSL and even that small change took a months before they stopped asking about it.

The most problematic part of this stack has been the browser, which I can't keep static and has changed a bunch of times in the last ~28 years. To the extent possible I configure the toolbar to be minimal. But the basic functionality of clicking on home button and back button hasn't really changed in the last three decades and that's basically all they need, so it's been manageable.
A german jobs site ran a memorable ad campaign [1] that imagined vending machines and other appliances contained a person inside doing the work. It seems like one of those things that maybe played better in online photos than out in the real world, but the creativity in the ad spots was over the top!

1. https://www.designboom.com/design/jobsintown-campaign-life-i...
>The digital world feels increasingly dangerous and ephemeral. If I have something written with ink on paper I have certain guarantees:

Fair but paper comes with a significant drawback of poor discoverability. I've had to dig through old aerial survey photographs taken before digital photography, and combing through the indexes to find what I looking for was an adventure unto itself. Never would've been able to do it without help from the librarians, and there's only one archive where that information is stored.

And digital format can be more readily altered, but it can also be more easily backed up or have redundancies. There's ways of managing digital's drawbacks, and ultimately I think we're probably better off having digital formats then just reverting to alternatives for the most part.
40% is also the typical government spending as the share of GDP (more in the EU, slightly less in the US). Being concerned with what taxes the rich pay or don't pay directly is just populist and not very interesting. The assets they own generate the taxes. I am more concerned with social mobility, which is decent the US, worse in Europe. As long as a decent chunk of billionaires are first generation, it's not a bad state of affairs.
For a STEM student, in the US? I’ve never heard of an unpaid internship, sounds like a scam.
2017 iPhones don't share any sheet metal with 2024 iPhones the way Teslas do [1]. Yes iPhones share similar design language but their design has not stood completely still for a decade.

Other car companies are evolving their tech and their designs, while Tesla is seemingly only doing half of that.

[1] Unless we want to count the iPhone SE, their cheapest budget-oriented phone, but that only proves my point further that new designs are valued more.
Have yet to try to hand the gate agent my laptop screen to scan. Will try!
Did they ever get around to three-way merges? That's a must-have if you use Git as a VCS.
Initially all companies that were defined as gatekeepers under DMA were foreign, but on 13.5.2024 Booking.com was designated as one as well. They are a Dutch company.
It is striking how thoughtless and vitriolic the left has become. Doesn't bode well for November, does it?
> Hiring Policy Based on Meritocracy

Surely should be: Hiring Policy Based on Merit
The behavior should be the start and the end of the regulation. No need to specify AI, algorithms, etc, at all.
Interesting, going to try this. Now I am manually styling my demos, but this would make it much easier!
> With digital systems, this can be mitigated (rate limiting, encryption and least privilege information sharing, audit logs etc.) to an extent.

None of those measures do anything to prevent someone from taking a picture of the screen, which is the same sinking boat you describe.

I think you are insightful in identifying care as the key principle. My argument would be that care is more easily achieved by smaller groups working on smaller populations using fewer components.
AFIAK FDA doesn't regulate what you, yourself, are legally allowed to consume but rather what companies are allowed to market as drugs and legally distribute as such.

For example you can bring your own non-FDA approved drugs with you to the US for personal consumption. I found the following document, section 9-2 covers this topic: https://www.fda.gov/media/71776/download?attachment
I don’t see why they couldn’t do a sealed aluminum top. I remember they used to do that for frozen lasagna.
You keep saying things that don't sound like anything at all like what TLA+ is.

Humphrey's Personal Software Process is just another project management methodology; nothing do with this topic.
one of my favourite games ever was "railroad tycoon 2"; it was not a particularly deep railway simulator, but it was a superbly immersive treatment of "railroads helped settle a continent". few games achieved that sort of immersive feeling for me, civ 1 and stellaris are the other ones that come to mind.
Indonesia’s Emergence
> Stone, the former Microsoft executive ...

is there a name for this reverential referring to a former job? ... stereotypical example would be the investment banker turned oyster diver.
The ocean is already contaminated with dimethymercury (and cousins) at large scale. Unclear the exact mix, but around 45,000 to 80,000 tons from human sources. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_mercury_pollution#:~:.... ]

That is why eating too much Tuna will give you mercury poisoning. And the Nazis literally used nerve agents (Zyklon B) among other things. Nasty nerve agents (and most household pesticides) came out of WW2 research largely done by the Nazis (through Bayer, as it turns out).

And the moment anyone got wind of an attempt to try to do such a thing, enough humans would go to ground you’d never actually succeed. Hell, enough are probably already under ground for whatever reason you’d never succeed even if you did manage to catch the whole world by surprise and somehow actually release it all at scale.

The Nazi’s did not fail because they failed to try to kill humans at scale. Frankly, they did it at the largest scale since probably Ghenghis Khan. Certainly in a far more industrial fashion.

The issue is that it’s actually really hard to kill a lot of humans. Something that personally warms the cockles of my very human heart.

Embrace your ancestry of murderous (and loving) hominids, and aim to use it to make things better. Rejecting it is a false path.
Creating a computational simulacrum of consciousness means nothing for our understanding if we don't understand biological consciousness, it just means we've created a very capable computational system. As someone with a background in both computer science and neuroscience, the approach of abandoning the brain to go play with our toys strikes me as profoundly arrogant, and more importantly, missing the point.
The case for not sanitising fairy tales
Speaking of beach safety, this reminds me that I've been meaning to buy one of these. https://kingiistore.com/

I totally understand that not everyone wants to wear a life jacket all the time, me included.
Neither I nor the author are saying that the dysfunction is beautiful, just that a country can be both dysfunctional and beautiful. I think it's a pretty extreme viewpoint to say that any dysfunction negates everything else beautiful about a country.
The Company Men
Talking about phone charging in this context is like discussing airsoft pellets in a conversation about war munitions. It's patently absurd. Please do not perpetuate the idea that a low current air core transformer charging a phone is in any way invisibly harmful. It's not.
Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography (2017)
Reminds me of Dan Luu's article I read this morning: https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/

I think part of why we underestimate difficulty is, it's hard to see anything but the happy path. The complications are harder to anticipate. And for each of the solutions to a problem, we also only think of the happy path to solving it. And so on.
Good. Finally. So much more efficient than a human on a paddleboard.

I wonder if it a drone could complement the technology by quickly dropping a flotation device while this robot or a recuer arrive to escort them.
A utility script I wrote in 2008 and eventually gets copied over in backups that I restore, despite being 7 or 8 systems ago. "dedupe.php"

It very slowly and inefficiently compares hashes of files in its directory (and subdirectories) and deletes duplicates. I don't think I've actually used it in years, but it invariably gets restored along with some old family photos that happened to be in the directory it lived in.

Ironically it is older than any of the files remaining there.
That isn’t what most people think of when they hear “democracy” in the context of describing countries like the US as a democracy. Lay-usage and expert usage are in accord here. It means more-or-less liberal and with voting that significantly affects how the state runs and/or who runs it. That’s all, and that usage doesn’t confuse anyone. If we didn’t use “democracy” for that we’d just have to come up with something else, because it’s a very useful term to have. But everyone just uses “democracy” and that works great.
Take a page from every sports stadium in the country... instead of launching T-shirts, launch a foam vest of some sort. Clearly you have an issue with hitting someone in the head with something hard, but probably the bigger issue is launching something that isn't very dense through the air.

Quad copter that flies out seems ideal.
> In all cases the bias originates from human behaviour. The one advantage of AI being used is that now that bias is surfaced.

I think that's an odd way to look at it. The bias originates from the training data, which was what - idle conversations on Reddit and other similar content pilfered on the internet? The bias is doing some harm in places like that, but we're now using that to make real decisions. That's... worse.
Testing for Bird Flu Is Too Slow
> Why assume that good people are only driven by money and pay?

Ah that's easy: Because CDK Global does not utilize the kinds of technologies or operate in a market where it would attract engineers who'd take the job out of passion or curiosity. It's a dime-a-dozen Enterprise Java shop that sells software to car dealerships. It is also not a startup that offers you equity upside.

If you want a job where you get to write Spring Boot Java that gets deployed to AWS for a "mature" employer you're spoiled for choice; and orgs with the same tech stack will pay 30+% more.
I stand corrected, thank you :)

I always thought that `eval` in CL was an un-idiomatic and fairly expensive operation, even for code that is not compiled. You learn something every day...
OK. You're right. I don't know what I'm talking about, and you win the Internet.

Cool. Have a great day!
A template for architecture communication and documentation
This is a semantic argument, but defining "safety" as mitigation and prevention of harm is valid.
This feels a bit like blaming the victim. There are any number of things that can go wrong which may or may not be under your control. Specifically, the Great Lakes are more like seas than lakes. They have rip currents that can unexpectedly get you into trouble.
Depends on the person I guess, but yes. Humans are more accurate for now.
ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40648960 - June 2024 (337 comments)
Reach. Throw. Row^H^H^H Robot. Go.
Arstechnica has a solid write up. He did a lot of work making linux wifi and driver ecosystem significantly better.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/larry-finger-linux-w...

I remember cursing ndis wrappers and Broadcom wifi ecosystem a long time ago, Larry helped fixed that, and mentored many others along the way.

quote from the arstechnica article
"In a 2023 Quora response to someone asking if someone without "any formal training in computer science" can "contribute something substantial" to Linux, Finger writes, "I think that I have." Finger links to the stats for the 6.4 kernel, showing 172,346 lines of his code in it, roughly 0.5% of the total."
What a ridiculous response from cloudflare. They absolutely do have the ability to whitelist an IP address, and asking someone to go to every site that’s protected by cloudflare is so stupid that it’s funny they even suggested it.

“Just go ahead and call the site owners of the 750,000 websites you’re currently blocked from accessing.”
Table of contents is the feature that, in my opinion, ought to be implemented as a part of the web browser instead of within the document (I was told that Dillo apparently did at one time (but no longer does, although I suggested to them to add it again), and it is commonly implemented in Gemini browsers, though). This would also be true of page progress, linkable headings (the document author would need to give it a ID, although the browser should then handle the rest), link preview, and markers for external links. This should also be true of fonts and colours, too; the document author should not need to specify them. Some of the other things they mention, are things that would be helpful for the document author to handle, though.
There are many reasons why a life jacket cannon is a terrible idea. How do you get perfect accuracy ? People that are drowning can’t swim anymore in many cases, they barely have energy to stay on the surface. So you can’t be off by 10 meters.

They also won’t have the energy to put the life jacket while already in the water. And while life jackets properly equipped around your torso make you float correctly, barely resting your arms on a life jacket is not terribly buoyant.

You need to account for wind, not just to aim, but also because the life jacket will drift away. And as it happens strong winds are responsible for rip currents and waves which is very often what causes drownings in the first place, so wind is the default environment, not an edge case.

Waves and surface currents have a strong chance of carrying away the jacket before the drowning person can get to it.

A system that can be course corrected to account for all of those parameters seem the best, its rigid, so will provide buoyancy even when just holding on the device, it’s also big enough to support more than one person, many drowning events involve more than one person (often someone that was initially trying to help end up getting themselves in trouble).
it is the same model. in order to buy a birkin you need to buy tens of thousands of dollars of less desireable Hermes product.
Wtfawry is a simple philosophy for building software fast
Sounds a lot like getting a mechanic in the USSR.
> My countertop convection oven

Thank you; I'm with you! I'm not sure I could even bring myself to buy one over it. (I decided not to on cost vs savings basis before having to make that choice, since time to preheat isn't something I generally care about so that's not a benefit to me.)
> Relatively obscure language

Lua is among the most used languages in existence.

It's probably the most used language by under-21-year-olds, and almost certainly so for under 16. Roblox is absolutely enormous.

It's the usual choice of embedded scripting language, so a great number of programmers who don't use it as a daily driver, nonetheless learn it to modify this or that program. Being a very simple, minimalist language, this is easy to do.

It's true that it's missing some affordances which you'll find in larger (and frequently less efficient) languages. You'll end up doing more iteration and setting of metatables. That bothers some people more than others. These are the tradeoffs one must accept, to get a 70KiB binary which fits in an L1 cache while being multiples faster than e.g. Python or Ruby.
Anyone else think 30 days is just not enough notice before shutting off access for a paid app?

I totally understand free users getting a shorter notice period, but there's almost no instance where a paid user should get <60 days notice before being forced to migrate off a product they're using.

This sort of thing leads to a lot of mistrust in trying / using a startup for anything remotely important.
I would say if German english (Denglish) would pick up French english Idiosyncracies and vice versa, so if the speech patterns aren't just a result of making mistakes in a foreign language, but if they are acquired by other speakers. The Euro-English article gives as an example of Euro-English "Planification" for "Planning" which seems to stem from french / spanish https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/planification . So if the Germans start using planification they would have learned it from the french/spanish Euro-english speakers (I never heard "Planifikation" in German although its actually a word in the dictionary, I looked it up). And that would mean that certain Euro-English features propagate throughout Europe and are more than just Denglish/Frenglish/Swenglish and more than just English-learners messing up vocab/grammar.

While we are talking about language, there definitely are also those folks who move abroad and after a few years when they return they have picked up peculiarities of the language of their host country. The daughter of a neighbor moved to Paris for example and after a few years she started to sound more french. Still spoke perfect german but with an accent. Similarly a coworker who is a US expat in Germany told me he caught himself using some Denglish constructions.
English today is a delightful, expressive train wreck of grammar and spelling madness. But Old English really was not. It was a much more earthy, simple, and consistent language. Old English had a total of about 40,000 words. Today's English has almost half a million.

I'll take the opportunity to plug a fantastic podcast on the history of English, creatively named "The History of English Podcast".

https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/