skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ever wondered why, despite the existence of freight trains, there are still so many long-haul trucks driving around?

You don't think there aren't tons of spurs that drop 3-4 car loads of cargo on a semi frequent schedule? that there aren't spurs that move massive amounts of goods both in and out of production facilities?

Just in Time moved a lot of cargo off rails and into trucks... that market is going away now as more planed and centralized logistics comes back into style. Transport costs were out of control but no one was paying attention to them... not the case any more.
Unless I miss something, having this type of local news on the Hacker News homepage is surprising.

IMHO, it falls under the category of "boat programming" (https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/14486/174092). That is, it is only thanks to the "Bay Area woman" that it grabbed some attention of the Bay Area-affiliated crowd (if it was a "Budapest woman", it would be treated, factfully, as local news).

In particular, it falls short of the HN guidelines of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".
> tough on immigration - all while his government gives every illegal immigrant free hotel accomodation and a huge weekly allowance higher to make them come in the first place.

Ah, a tabloid caricature.

The UK government would love to stop paying for asylum seekers (NB during this status they are not illegal immigrants), but cannot work out a way to do so that is actually legal under ECHR (and the various UN conventions on refugees). While their asylum case is pending, the government does not allow them to work, and they're not even allowed to seek private rented accomodation, so the government is obliged to look after them, which they do in the minimal possible way. Meanwhile their asylum cases drag on, which is good for nobody, but the Home Office is unable to process them at a reasonable speed.

The inability to even secure a working deportation process results in hundreds of thousands of people - humans - being stuck in the system.
JPMorgan Chase: stress test losses should be higher than what the Fed disclosed
> we’ll end up in a position where the public are clamouring for blood

I would like to be as optimistic as you are. Simply the history of these things is not making me so.

Grenfell Tower, a terrible fiasco 7 years ago. The inquiry is still plodding on. Who went to prison for that one? Some folks who tried to scam compensation money for themselves. But nobody from the companies who sold the flammable insulation.

Contaminated blood scandal happened in the 70s and 80s. By the time the inquiry finishes (if ever) everyone who will be implicated has long retired.

Undercover Policing Inquiry? Still ongoing 9 years on. No end in sight. Again if it ever finds anyone responsible will there be any repercussions for them?

In the case of the Hillsborough disaster the police leaders were not prosecuted until 2017. 28 years after the incident.

Justice delayed is often justice denied in practice.
Good luck in your studies and plans!

I can't answer you about Kaggle competitions as I never was involved in any but I imagine the novelty would be in the way people encode the datasets and maybe the cost functions they implement but the models themselves are probably based on already established archs
> Then why are you writing C? You could be writing some other, higher-level language instead if performance is not your top priority.

If performance is your top priority C is also the wrong choice.
The article does not name any of the cloud services used for command and control though it does list some IPs for a small cloud provider from Germany called Pfcloud UG. I doubt they're really a problem.

The greatest threat to the internet currently is not the malware concealed behind cloud services but cloud services themselves breaking the distributed nature of the internet. Some of the clouds, particularly those that flare, just have too much influence and control of internet networking and should be split up. I can't even access congress.gov because it's behind cloudflare. They are running a very effective and very long lasting DoS against millions of americans preventing them from accessing government services and information.
Unjust enrichment makes sense in different contexts.

Dine and Dash doesn’t involve a formal written contract, but the implication of sitting down in a restaurant is clear.

One of my neighbors let a family member build a house on their property without explicitly gifting them the land and you can see the inherent conflict involved when the land owner knows and approves what’s going on.
I really like an expansion of this idea that I heard somewhere awhile back:

Keep a few significant problems in your mind...and also keep a few significant solutions / problem solving techniques in your mind. Then when you encounter new problems, check them against your set of solutions and see if any of them apply. Also, when you encounter new problem solving techniques, check them against your set of problems to see if they're applicable. Whenever you encounter a new problem or solution that seems unusually significant, add it to the list that you keep track of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BYW4YYqG5A

“1200 Japanese workers convert above ground train to subway line in just 3 hours”

Agree that the naysayers should pause while Japan attempts the feat. Their aggregate engineering capability speaks for itself.
Which is to say, language is a tool for rigorization.
If this is actually possible (not vaporware) then it means we're on the verge of replacing short regional "hop" flights with electric planes, leaving liquid fuel only for long range air transport.

Assuming at least a decent percentage of the electricity is low/zero carbon that would dramatically reduce CO2 emissions in air travel.

Of course all aviation is only a few percent of global CO2 emissions, so it's not the sector of most concern.
That's a very good range within Europe.
For America it's too short, as the USA is about 5000 km coast to coast.
> Snowden did both “legitimate" whistleblowing

No?

> "As a legal matter, during his time with NSA, Edward Snowden did not use whistleblower procedures under either law or regulation to raise his objections to U.S. intelligence activities, and thus, is not considered a whistleblower under current law.” (p. 18)

> "The Committee further found no evidence that Snowden attempted to communicate concerns about the legality or morality of intelligence activities to any officials, senior or otherwise, during his time at either CIA or NSA.” (p. 16)

https://intelligence.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Snowden_report_...
Yet another tragic victim of 1-indexing. But nothing tops Jesus, born in year 1.
Walgreens plans store closures as CEO says consumers 'stunned' by prices
There's an easy way to eliminate unspecified behavior in C or C++: Have a compiler flag to always issue warnings for it and treat those warnings as errors. That doesn't require any language-level changes to implement.
And on a similar note :

Pi seconds is a nanocentury!
Good that this frame of reference is hn and not some random website where people have no connection to ml...
>The title almost makes it sound like the house was mistakenly built in the bay area instead of Hawaii.

Funny enough, Mountain View is right down the road from there: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_View,_Hawaii

Way better farmers market, too.
This is a common class of problem with this kind of system. The state level public defender offices are mandated to exist since Gideon v. Wainwright, but the courts aren't really in a position to dictate budgeting. Legislatures could e.g. require budget parity with the prosecutor's office, but largely don't want that because helping accused criminals is politically unpopular.
Xenon is also produced as a fission product in nuclear reactors. In fact, if you're not careful it will accumulate and inhibit your nuclear reaction. In German, the term for this is xenon-poisoning.
Hey! From the Cerebrium team here!

So our costs are based on the infra you use to run your application and we charge per millisecond of compute.

Some things to note that we might do differently to other providers:
1. You can specify your EXACT requirements and we charge you only for that. Eg: if you want 2 vCPU, 12GB Memory and 1 A10 GPU we charge you for that which is 35% less if you rented a whole A10
2. We have over 10 variety of GPU chips so you can choose the price/performance trade-off
3. While you can extend this on the Cerebrium platform, it cannot be used commercially. We are speaking to Deepgram to see how we can offer it to customers. Hopefully I can provide more updates on this soon
That's only partially true if you are West of the Mississippi.

When I fly in and out of Cincinnati (where I live) I very often get routed through Chicago, which is under 300 miles away. This thing could make the trip three times between each recharge.

Cincinnati to New York is under 600 miles, still within this aircraft's range with lots of safety margin.

New York to Miami is a little over 1000 miles, which is probably too far with safety margin but close. That's a hugely popular route.

The big elephant in the room in terms of energy is that we have no energy problem. None. Zero. Free energy rains from the sky all day long and we have loads of wind, hydro, and nuclear power too. What we have is an energy storage problem. Fossil fuels are so popular because they are conveniently stored dispatchable energy, not because they are just "energy." If batteries get good enough we are done.
PS. I realized the above advice is not consistent.-
Contra chatgpt's characterization of Mohammedanism as being about submission, xhaxha

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40761037
No, bringing them in is policy, because they have a shrinking population from the low birth rate and anyone with an inch of ethics left 10 or 15 years ago (I was the last in my school year to do so)
Hold the button
It's an alternative. But not cheap!
great series of posts, i went down a similar path recently for a slightly different use case - i did not use axolotl though, i was worried about missing out on understanding some details due to potential abstractions. it's great to see documentation on how others tackle similar problems, i documented the process i went through here - https://atredis.com/blog/2024/6/3/how-to-train-your-large-la...
That's wild, he got 10 years with a nolo plea just for threatening a school clerk over the phone?? Yeah, terrible lawyer.
> It is pretty well established now that this was indeed the case.

It is not. The title of your linked article is "What Gorbachev heard" - why speculate instead of asking him? Gorbachev, Shevardnadze, Yazov and other top USSR officials have all said that there was no such thing. Gorbachev even went on to explain why it couldn't have been even in theory: democratically elected leaders can't give any promises beyond their term limits. Shevardnadze, the foreign minister of USSR at the time, gave a lengthy interview[1] where he described how the soundbites you quote were related to German reunification and have been taken out of context. His successor Kozyrev, the first foreign minister of the Russian Federation, has been even more direct and called people who keep pushing this narrative idiots. In 1990, nobody in USSR's leadership expected the USSR and Warsaw Pact to collapse in such a short time, let alone negotiate how Europe would look like afterwards. It simply does not fit the timeline nor the way diplomacy is conducted. It's a textbook example of a hoax.

Beyond that, whatever happened in 1990 was superseded by a written treaty between NATO and Russia in 1997, before anyone from Eastern Europe was admitted, in which Russia reiterates the "respect for sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all states and their inherent right to choose the means to ensure their own security".[2] Back then, Russia was still receiving food aid from the US, and was in no position to make any demands. The rewritten version of history that has that fictional promise at its core was invented in mid-2000s.

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/interview-with-e...

[2] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_25468.htm
The fault lines between unconscious understanding and reality come into focus when writing code. Intuition is fantastic for one big idea, or a few medium-sized ones, but struggles to remember lots of details.
I've done some work with big hospitals on big campuses. Back in the day, the physical plant people were lifelong employees and they knew where all the bones were buried. They worked closely with design and engineering teams, and they had long term relationships with architects and engineers.

Big construction projects also routinely did as-built drawings, and this was a cost built into the contracts. So if the physical plant people didn't have, or had lost the record drawings, they knew which architect or engineer to call. This happened all the time. I can recall pulling out a drawing from the early 80s to answer a question in the early 2000s.

However, all of this was a cost center. Starting some twenty years ago or so, everybody has been rooting out these cost centers as cost-cutting measures.

Institutional knowledge is an unquantifiable asset, but it's far, far, far from zero. You lose it at your peril.
Don't get too sentimental. Windows 98 didn't really have any real memory protection. Meaning every process could modify all kinds of memory they shouldn't (kernel, other proceses, etc.). Hence kernel panics (aka "blue screens") were quite common. They usually happend multiple times a week. Auto-save also wasn't really a thing. I still have a "CTRL - S" reflex whenever I have some form of editor open.
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... that wasn't there before?
There weren't tons of details to pin down. IIRC, the question was the structure of benzene, which was known to be C6H6, but nobody could figure out how to make a carbon backbone six atoms long that would take only six hydrogen atoms. Hexane, for example, is C6H14.

Kelulé's dream was of six snakes in a circle or hexagon, each eating the next snake's tail. He turned that into the (correct) idea of the benzene ring - six carbon atoms connected in a circle. The only remaining detail was that it had to have alternating single and double bonds (and even that was wrong - the double bonds get smeared out, so that it's more like one and a half bonds between each atom).

So I'm not sure what you mean by "all the details". There were very few details. "Connected in a loop" was the only thing that mattered; it explained everything.
It was a repaving job, just the top 20centimeters removed, and new asphalt added and some cement blocks/barriers, edge pieces etc.

I was just comparing a project length (while price should also be compared) between a private business needing something done and government needing something done.
Julia Evans blog post [1] on the same topic, contains some more useful options.

[1] https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/02/16/popular-git-config-options/
The refugees are not a "policy", they're a crisis which the government has completely failed to deal with.

The Home Office is more and more aggressive every year against legal immigrants. People complain about illegal immigration but fail to actually do anything about it, more from incompetence than anything else.
I have no ties to the bay area, I upvoted it because the mistake was a classic off by one error.

> “Mr. Lawrence testified he built the home on Lot 114 instead of Lot 115 because he counted out the lots using the telephone poles,” the court order read. “But he built the home on the wrong side of the telephone pole.”
Here's the photo of the supposed remote control: https://www.24sata.hr/tech/p-robotaksi-pa-ne-ide-siri-se-det...

It does look suspiciously like a 'bellybox' remote control.
Sure and the mass of a package is what? 50lbs max?

Long distance = High volume = weight/mass.

The laws of physics aren't changing any time soon. redirecting a cargo container like a box shooting through a warehouse would not end well for some portion of the system (including the contents)
I think the "reasonable" solution GP is after would be to just allow the land owner to keep the house, if she so desired.

Given her plans for the land however, I can see why she wouldn't be interested in that.

Basically there are 2 reasonable solutions as I see it, the one described above, and the one that actually happened per the article.

The developer suing her for being "unjustly enriched" is just pure madness. Had they not done that, they might've gotten away without having to pay for the demolition at least, if the landowner didn't object too harshly to a "free house" deal.

Which totally should've been the landowners call of course.
At this arguably late stage though, a design alone is worthless

How are they planning to put the road hours into legal certification in key jurisdictions?

Further, how should national governments standardise the accreditation process for new autonomous taxis outside the SF - now American - autonomous vehicle bubble?
Density is far more efficient on a per-person basis though, in terms of energy and land usage.
In a different blog:

https://workspace.google.com/blog/sheets/new-innovations-in-...

"Building on improvements like smooth scrolling and expanded cell limits in Sheets, today we’re announcing that we’ve doubled the speed of calculation in Sheets on Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers,"...

I assume this is 2x the speed of their current JavaScript code.
I am not a PHP developer, and our php code is all third party apps.

Do you have any write ups on PHP tooling? My feeling is that php tooling has a hard time handling stateless images, you often need to install plugins to php applications with a GUI with no good way to do it in a build process. Config of php applications is always an mix of php.ini and database config, often making monitoring a case of writing custom http requests and html parsing. I am not that happy with Java but there are many things it get right especially in tooling.
> or keeping better records

I think the issue is that those historical records are simply not available and the best you can do is record whenever you dig out something new..
I feel like there should be a much stronger effort to solve optimization problems with ML enabled guesses. It's arguably the most important problem to be solving to improve ML itself.

Humans, for example, can provide extremely strong guesses by just eyeballing travelling salesmen problems without doing any calculations. If we could use ML to take a problem and guess how to reformulate it with 95% of the search space cut out, we would be in a much stronger place. My gut says this should be theoretically possible and is probably the mechanism that under the hood biological learning systems use to such a great effect that its ok to just use greedy and less efficient methods to do last mile of optimization without something like backprop.
All (99%) the music I listen to is remixes, all (99%) the writing I read is fanfic.

> Right now, AI is taking people's original works and rehashing them in a way that directly competes with the original work.

Good. Taking people's original works and rehashing them in direct competition fosters, not harms, cultural flourishing.
He always insisted he hadn't threatened her- just used choice words, but it was reported as a threat. I remember that after this, every phone call he had was recorded. Every one.
For many assets yes, and it's something I do quite regularly.

But many assets (especially CSS) rely on relative files - and we have apparently collectively decided that directories or other bunches or files is somehow a totally different thing than a file and need fundamentaly different logic - so just using the CDN makes you not have to worry about this.
> So put a sorting conveyor belt at the end of a train line?

Done right, a conveyor can fairly seamlessly branch off at arbitrary locations along the way. Individual items can fan out onto smaller sub-branches without any significant delays; a long train has to stop and start to accomplish the same.

I think the main challenge here would be the maintenance of such a thing. Rail requires plenty; a conveyor has many, many more moving parts over hundreds of miles.
Nice to hear from teams building with Wasm GC. They bring up the "shared everything" proposal [0] for enabling heap objects to be shared across the threads. In addition to this, I'd like to be able to share the contents of a packed array, such as a (ref (array i8)), with the host. Right now, only Wasm memory objects have ArrayBuffer access in JS. Providing the same shared access to packed GC arrays would unlock things like WebGL, WebGPU, and Web Audio for Wasm GC applications. I made a "hello triangle" WebGL program with Wasm GC awhile back, but there's no way that I know of to get acceptable throughput when working with GPU buffers because they have to be copied byte-by-byte at the Wasm/JS boundary.

[0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/shared-everything-threads/blo...
Looks like that particular Gadgetbahn is not going to go anywhere: https://www.blick.ch/wirtschaft/cargo-sous-terrain-entlaesst...
Complete eradication should never be a goal though. There are extremely reasonable forms of undefined behavior that the compiler can use to optimize your code.

It just has to be known that tripping those guardrails is undefined.
This is a thread about US laws and about whistleblower protection for pointing out when US laws are broken.

A nation state ignoring other nation state’s laws during espionage happens all of the time. Every country has a CIA/NSA equivalent that constantly breaks other’s laws.

This extends to many operations. Lookup “diplomatic immunity” to see how this concept even extends to people in country.
It's a cute remark, but why is 50 minutes the right cutoff? For a technical talk it seems long. For an entertaining keynote it seems short. Movies are 90+ minutes.
Two Killer Asteroids Are Flying by Earth, and You May Be Able to See One
Um... am I missing something? Legalities aside, how does one download a car? Is that actually a thing?
Doesn't seem to go anywhere in the end: https://www.blick.ch/wirtschaft/cargo-sous-terrain-entlaesst...
Sort of, what I've been noticing is that it's considered a background skill. Until the database and your queries need to be optimized for higher load, then suddenly everyone wants a DBA.
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Electric carts on a track. Oh so it's trains. They invented trains again.
True. At some point, the illustration of the thing becomes the thing.-

PS. I am fond of "confabulation" meself, for AI-generated slush.-
As developer Claude code generator 2x better than gpt4o, of course it subjunctive but Claude much consistent for me.
We will see how this plays out. I'm not sure what options C has though, while remaining backward compatible. They removed gets (which cannot be used safely) in C11, but most things people don't like in C it is really hard to figure out how to make an alternative while still being C (that is compatible and looks like existing C)

C++ is actively working on profiles, and if you enable the right profile many of the easy ways to be insecure are not longer possible. Or at least that is the goal only time will tell if they make it in, and then more time if they are both used and make a difference. However C++ developers have long said "No naked new/delete", data structures where the invariant (length...) is enforced - thus a profile can remove new/delete and the places where we now know the data structure invariant isn't enforced while still being a usable language.

Because of the above anyone who is in C++ objects to phrases like "C and C++ or C/C++" - C++ is trying to leave C behind expect where compatibility with C is required.
There was a tutorial at the Prefect Summit this week, video should be available soon, and lots more coming. Probably our most pressing request!