skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been doing Django for most of the last 10 years and I love it. I love Python. I love how well made are most of its core parts. And I love how some 3rd party packages (DRF aka django-rest-framework, django-filter, django-storages) fill the "missing" gaps.

That said, boy does Django must change it's current strategy...

RoR and Laravel have been getting all sort of goodies baked in the framework itself such as tasks queue, nice admin features, integration with frontend technologies (scss, js, even jsx/tsx), even entire packages to manage payment systems, mailing and so on... Good quality features that are ready to use and are integrated inside the framework, which easy to use APIs and fantastic admin integration.

Django devs, on the other hand, have been (imho) ignoring the users (devs) and have been denying any and all attempts at bringing something similar to Django. There are at least half a dozen packages for each "thing" that you want to do, and some are in a very good shape, but others are just hopelessly broken. What's even worse, because they're not part of Django, most of the time there are some edge cases that just can't be implemented without subclassing Django's core.

One of the most recent examples being Django's support for async operations. Except that Django itself doesn't provide a nice way to create / expose an API, which is why people use DRF. But DRF doesn't support async, which is why you need to add "adrf" (https://github.com/em1208/adrf) to DRF. But adrf doesn't support async generic viewsets, so you must add aiodrf (https://github.com/imgVOID/aiodrf) to adrf. But aiodrf doesn't support (...) you get the point. You end up in a situation in which you're pilling packages on top of packages on top of packages just so you can have an asynchronous API. Madness.

Supporting scss it another example of pilling packages on top of packages. It just never ends...

I can't express the desire I have for Django to start integrating packages into its core and get on par with RoR and Laravel.

/rant
This is a ridiculous, apples-to-oranges comparison. You’re comparing fully driverless miles to driver assist miles with humans actively preventing accidents without controlling for any variables.
Why are the tying laws not enforced in the US, or Canada, or the many other jurisdictions where it's illegal for a monopoly to tie products together; and why does it not apply to the tying of Word and Excel or other apps in the Office suite that use to be sold independently and complete with independent products (Lotus 123, Wordperfect)
Let's assume there was stuff that needed to be leaked in the public interest: we have a perfectly good counter example which is Snowden.

You know who didn't go to jail? Glenn Greenwald.
Orders of magnitude more capable than the best cameras? I wish. I need corrective lenses for my eyes to even work at all. With that fixed they feed my brain an image that's upside down, black and white except in the centre, which is covered in blood vessels and which has a blind spot. They also take a long time to adjust to sudden changes in lighting conditions, don't do any true depth sensing, suffer frequent frame drops and can't run for more than about 20 hours at a time before they basically stop working.

My brain tries to hides all this from me, and makes me think that I see the world in glorious 3D technicolor all the time, but that's a lie as revealed by the many amusing optical illusions that have been discovered over the years.

Meanwhile, today I used ML that knows more than me, can think and type faster than me, which is a much better artist than me and which can read and react far faster than me to visual stimuli. Oh, it can also easily look in every direction simultaneously without pausing or ever getting distracted or bored.

Somehow it doesn't feel like I have a big advantage over computers when it comes to driving.
Overthrowing Our Tech Overlords
I'm personally wondering when nVidia will open an AI AppStore, and every app that runs on nVidia hardware will have to be notarized first, and you'll have to pay 30% of your profits to nVidia.

History has shown that this idea is not as crazy as it sounds.
Birthday parties are invitation only. You get to choose if you participate. Capitalism is compulsory. Not exactly a great comparison…
> I think this article would be better if it ignored the issue of proving termination.

I agree; that part went on so long that I got bored and stopped reading before the article actually got around to saying anything about type inference.
Even ignoring all the public changes to the tech industry, wouldn't we need another whistleblower to even be able to tell that there hadn't been any internal change to what they considered acceptable behaviour?
I think that is a very un-serious argument with no consistency.

Microsoft has always sold a cheaper "office suite" without outlook. What businesses have historically bundled and not bundled is irrelevant to what is best for society going forward.

Surely there were many features that many software businesses add that weren't there before. What if Microsoft relabeled Teams to be part of Outlook? Like they made Calendars part of Outlook. It all feels like starting at the result and working backwards towards a justification.
Yep. And so does unpkg. If you’re using JavaScript code through unpkg, you’re still using npm and your code is still bundled. You’re just getting someone else to do it, at a cost of introducing a 3rd party dependency.

I guess if your problem with npm and bundlers is you don’t want to run those programs, fine? I just don’t really understand what you gain from avoiding running bundlers on your local computer.
Great explainer here, it's a deep dive on the subject and people working on it: https://www.noemamag.com/a-digital-twin-might-just-save-your...
Actually, why would it be low? Dispatch? Accounting? Automatically handling invoices?

There's plenty of reasons why a tow-truck company may want a server.

Regardless, clearly I was talking about a tow-truck company buying a tow-truck and not a server, as I was trying to convey that the dollar amount isn't obscene for a small business to handle.

As I am sure you're aware from your stated field of work that far more money than $2.5k is going into tools & such.

Nothing with regards to my comment was to suggest that the service one would be paying for here is worth that money. Maybe it is or isn't, that not I was commenting on.

It is purely that X amount of money was not unreasonable for a small business to expect to expense.
> If you say a function has type a->a (for all a), it only admits one possible implementation... except for bad ones, like 'undefined' or an infinite recursion - both of which termination would catch for you.

To be super-pedantic, it only admits one possible denotation, assuming termination. There are an infinite number of implementations that waste finite time on something useless before returning the argument. We usually don't talk about those, because... Why would you write code that does that? But it's worth keeping in mind as an edge case in this sort of discussion.
GM's Cruise names former Amazon, Microsoft Xbox executive as new CEO
arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16860

Website: https://cambrian-mllm.github.io

Code: https://github.com/cambrian-mllm/cambrian

Checkpoints: https://huggingface.co/collections/nyu-visionx/cambrian-1-mo...

Data: https://huggingface.co/collections/nyu-visionx/cambrian-data...

Benchmark: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nyu-visionx/CV-Bench
Is this the Hamas that the New York Times and Haaretz said Netanyahu sent the head of the Mossad to Qatar to encourage Hamas funding last Autumn?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...

Please don't give me any lectures about the group fighting alongside the PFLP for Palestinian liberation against the genocidal colonial invaders.
In regards to your choice to focus on the necklace, all you've done is shown yourself to be a prude.
Bad Advice (2021)
Local self-hosting.
Check out massgrave.dev - helps with licensing. It's hosted on GitHub so it must be fine! :)
This is 2+ months old
Definitely for browser extensions. It's become more difficult with needing to set up CORS, but like with most things that are difficult, you end up with developers that "open the floodgates" and allow as much as possible to get the job done without understanding the implications.
Thank you very much. You can also select multiple parts in the results table by clicking the corresponding part numbers. Then, you can ask Seeker to compare them and tell you which candidate is the best for your project. I find it very helpful myself since I used to read many datasheets to determine which part to use from a shortlist.
Blue Origin filed to the FAA saying they should cap SpaceX's Starship launches
>Why are the tying laws not enforced in the US, or Canada

Regulatory capture and legalized corruption aka "lobbying".
> HD Mapping is great when it's accurate and available. But it requires a ton of data and constant updating, or the car will get "lost," and realistically will never be implemented in general, at best in certain cities.

Waymo have said time and again they don’t rely on maps being 100% accurate to be able to drive. It's one of the key assumptions of the system. They use it as prior knowledge to aid in decision making. If they got "lost" whenever there was a road change, they wouldn't be successfully navigating construction zones in San Francisco as we've seen in many videos.

They can also do constant updates because the cars themselves are able to detect road changes, self update maps and rollout changes to the entire fleet. See https://waymo.com/blog/2020/09/the-waymo-driver-handbook-map...

At this point, the whole “HD maps are not practical” is just a trope perpetuated by the Tesla community for years.
The linked code is actually just for the variables in psql (the commandline tool). For the code parsing input to the SQL-level bool datatype, it's

https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend...

which uses

https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend...
> For one, frame rate and processing rate on human eyes is way higher than cameras.

I don't think it's exciting to say that you must have theoretical parity with something to use it for this use case. Tesla's solution monitors ~6? cameras at once with accurate depth in each. That's 6x more views than a human can see. I wish people would stop comparing apples to oranges.

> Robotaxis need to avoid any accident that a human would be able to avoid.

I never said anything to the contrary. Animals get hit all the time, not just because a human wasn't paying attention.
I have to do a double take on Google, Duck, Brave because even the search results and content farms are spitting out AI hallucinated nonsense.
indeed thanks
We need more of his type of self-interest and less of the kind shown in the Panama Papers and Epstein flight logs.
I'm puzzled someone in the macOS department made it a priority to fiddle with adding some border to QuickLook when there's so much stuff broken in macOS (and QuickLook itself)
I can guarantee you that the startup folder still works fine, but in some cases you must create the folder.

Microsoft does not screw around with backwards compatibility. There are multiple ways to start applications on launch now, including the user or public user startup folder, registry entries, and via scheduled tasks.
As someone who recently discovered the wonder of birds, I love the example they offer for a website built with notion: https://www.birdingnyc.com/.

But the URLs are brutal when you navigate to an individual page, like the song sparrow page: https://www.birdingnyc.com/My-spotted-birds-1c7d9d506ecf4802...

The URLs are even messier than those on Medium. Yikes! Of course, this doesn't matter for a hacky cool personal site like the example.
What a 1930s Car Crash Looks Like (19s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki9fDmBTX7w
> And in an Apples-to-Apples comparison, WhatsApp fared far worse than Telegram on privacy, and not to mention its parent company.

I'd like to see that comparison. Considering that WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, and Telegram persistently stores almost all of their users' messages on their backend in a way that lets them read them, I find that very hard to believe.

> So I dont need to press an extra button.

Nobody presses an extra button, especially not one that opts you out of multi-device support.
In fairness, he's been busy with another legal battle that he appears to consider a matter of life-and-death.

(I don't buy the argument that it was actually that, but I'm willing to believe that he convinced himself that it was).
There is one, you can add all sorts of third party add-ons to Teams.
Where does that end? Is Paint ok to have installed by default? You can generate images in it now using some sort of credit system, so it’s not totally free. Should Adobe sue?

I just don’t get the EU’s overzealous regulations. Who is being hurt by Teams? Slack/Discord/Zoom? I doubt any major companies are using Teams just because it’s installed. They may be using it because it’s part of the Office Suite, but shouldn’t they be allowed to bundle that? Should Adobe not be able to bundle everything in Creative Cloud? It just seems so arbitrary.
Another downside of SRI is that it defeats streaming. The browser can't verify the checksum until the whole resource is downloaded so you don't get progressive decoding of images or streaming parsing of JS or HTML.
Once-in-a-lifetime nova will appear in Earth's sky
There is a big difference in cost to store data and have data to be available for access.
That's an interesting analogy, but I thinks it's a stretch.
You’d think they’d contract with some hacker group or government and use it as a vector to inject something more nefarious if money was their goal
No shit. The only real surprise is that it took years for gov officials to recognize this. On the other hand, Teams is the worst thing that could have happened to work communication efficiency.
There might be more but this is the one I remember:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808 The gist is Cloudflare has undocumented traffic limits. If above a sales person will push you into an enterprise plan. Then if you go higher you’re told to upgrade again. Nobody knows what the limits are and the sales person will not tell you either. One user wrote “From personal experience I know that 10TB per month is like 30k/year”.
Years ago I had terrible DNS service from my ISP, enough to make my DSL sometimes underperform dialup. About 1 in 20 DNS lookups would hang for many seconds so it was inevitable that any web site that pulled content from multiple domains would hang up for a long time when loading. Minimizing DNS lookups was necessary to get decent performance for me back then.
Don't think most Digital Nomads in South Korea pay any South Korean taxes
But can your app be integrated into Windows with equal footing as Teams?
Great video. Seeing what it looks like inside with the phosphor and the mask was so enlightening. I also recently watched the one by Technology Connections, which was quite good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4UgZBs7ZGo

I feel like I have a much better basic understanding of CRTs now. They felt like utter magic before. Now it just feels a bit like magic. The only thing that still confuses me is how the electron gun itself actually works. I don't really get how electrons are being shot at all and why we can shoot them in a beam.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zj7ei5Egk8&t=106s

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KHB2F8R4o8

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWtGwW_e56w
> I always prefer to self-host my dependencies

Js dependencies should be pretty small compared to images or other resources. Http pipelining should make it fast to load them from your server with the rest

The only advantage to using one of those cdn-hosted versions is that it might help with browser caching
Normally people get a tracking bracelet and they have to check in every few days but are free to go otherwise, given that you know, they haven't been found guilty of anything at that point - being kept in a tiny cell in isolation for 23 hours a day for 5 years is reserved for the worst of the worst criminals, people who even in prison are extreme danger to everyone else - it made zero sense to keep him locked up that way.
Companies can iterate on their products much faster if they're not required to publish all of their functionality as public APIs. Once the APIs have been published, it's much harder for them to be changed.

Doing this also puts them at the mercy of whether or not client applications are willing to support their new functionality. Maybe YouTube wants clients to adopt some feature, but a powerful client application doesn't like that feature and so won't support it.

The protocol/platform lock-in is a problem, but preserving companies' ability to iterate quickly on features is also very important.
While it's all thermodynamic deadweight loss, if I have to choose between them I'd rather the machines were destroying just machines, not the humans.
Great video and explanation, but he still doesn’t really explain how the magnets in the monochrome CRTs actually draw the image. How do they know where to point? How does it move so fast?
The key features of Teams are having your files and calendars in one spot. It's more than just a chat app, which I feel like HN folks miss the mark on.
As others already mentioned, Uber does work in SKorea (or at least Seoul), altough it's not really an uber, afaik its just a proxy for kakaotaxi while using Uber's interface
> you just need to double the density, which is easily done by eliminating exclusionary zoning

I think you should double-check the numbers on this before you assert something is easily done. I live in NYC--are you saying we should live in half the space that we currently live in? A 400sf 1BR apartment should now be a 2BR apartment? Please draw a functional layout for this apartment.

And to what end? The population of NYC is ~8 million. You think the population should double? Where are all of the new people moving from, and what should we do with the houses they are currently living in? You don't need to double the total supply of housing to dramatically affect the housing cost--you just need to increase the supply of housing for the people who are looking right now, which is a much smaller number than the total number who live in the city.
Why are you so confident that AGI, or a human brain, is necessary to be able to drive a car with only cameras?

I get annoyed with statements like this because technology changes and advances so quickly, and Tesla has made substantial technical leaps in this field of machine learning. They have the state-of-the-art vision -> voxels/depth models and are only improving.
Volkswagen will invest up to $5B in Rivian
The Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse [video]
A commentary on the state of music today from an industry professional.
I wouldn’t point to LastPass as an exemplar…

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/1/24146205/lastpass-independ...
I'm just speculating here, but I can envision a few ways of dealing with the cost problem in scaling an HD mapping-based robotaxi fleet:

1. Robotaxi companies might simply stand to make enough money to cover the cost of routine HD mapping. Anywhere the revenue of putting taxi services in a new city outweighs the cost of implementing the necessary updates sufficiently, won't companies do it? We could think of these companies as having similar economics to Uber, but replacing the cost of paying drivers with the cost of routine HD mapping updates.

2. Smaller towns have less frequent construction, so the update costs might be lower as you target less dense areas.

3. I could see a single company that specializes in providing routinely updated maps to a variety of fleet-operating companies. This could potentially be a utility or somehow subsidized by the government. It would also be possible for government to coordinate construction with HD mapping updates. After all, by lowering the rate of accidents and decreasing square footage devoted to cars, governments have a vested interest in seeing robotaxis replace human-owned and driven cars.
This is just going to create a perverse incentive to create really fat clients.
He kind of did a service to Khan by beating the far right candidate.
Yes, 4o was downgrade for me.
Ray Kurzweil's new book was released today (2024-06-25.) Thoughts?
The whole human in the loop thing sure seems to be getting quieter by the minute.
The US government needs to prosecute actors who infiltrate secure systems with the aim to leak state secrets as a way to prevent this type of behavior from happening in the future. Say what you want; even if the premise of leaking is seeking to enrich the interests of the public--there are many state secrets that are secret for very good reasons, such as protecting the lives of informants, diplomats, etc.

There were many documents that WikiLeaks released that seemed to have been released under the auspice of "full transparency" but really served no public good and inflicted a lot of harm. Releasing the names of afgan informants, cablegate, that airstrike video where journalists were killed (can't remember the name specifically), etc. I just don't know if I agree that the public should know everything.

Think about the case of the NSA--yes they were spying on Americans in egregious ways and overextending the scope of their mission and authority. But at the same time, we do want a lot of their methods to remain secret. They have thwarted many potential terrorist attacks since 9/11; and if we, and our adversaries, knew exactly how and who they were spying on--I'm sure Americans would be less safe.
It would be really cool if you could read out the state of the grid as well. You could then use the display as SRAM. Would look very cool as part of the world's slowest microcontroller.
That's 5 years in jail (and in isolation 23h a day) without trial however you look at it...
Cool investigation into the guts of macOS. I had no idea symbols were still present for production builds in macOS and that they are so easily 'hackable'.

I hadn't noticed before, but it is very strange to round corners of images in QuickLook. Apple should revert this change.
Again, another claim that a brain or AGI is required to drive a car. Does anyone have any research to cite that establishes this seemingly known fact?
I don't understand how bundling Teams has pushed competitors out of the market. If anything it should make competitors more appealing, as they don't require the bundled MS software?
It’s not an either or thing. Do both. Good sites are small and download locally. The CDN will work better (and be cheaper to use!) if you slim down your assets as well.
> people want Windows to be evil so they oversell the issues.

This, is it exactly.

Microsoft makes some very bad decisions, do not get me wrong. I agree with you and I think this is the core of why people complain so vehemently about Microsoft.