skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And 36% don't know what the question actually means.
Amazon absolutely requires sellers to supply FCC certification and Suppliers' Declaration of Conformity documentation for FCC regulated devices. You can report any noncompliant products to them and they do remove them.

Just wait till you learn about say, product liability, CPSC regulations, "voluntary" safety standards, and so on
This is the sort of simulation/game, like Dwarf Fortress (especially older versions) where I don't have the slightest idea what's going on, or how to make things happen, but am still having plenty of fun.
> yet some how these ones still track you anyway

There is tracking and tracking.

Google Analytics tracks you across the internet and collects all sorts of private and public user data and metadata, analyses behaviour, correlates with other metrics and sources of information (like ad campaigns), etc.

Plausible and co tell you there were X users with an average of 30s spent on page Z. Which Google Analytics also does, on top of the other things.

Yes, it's technically "tracking", but if you thing it has much to do with the first one you're fundamentally misunderstanding analytics and tracking and thinking in FUD terms.
Nonsense. Almost everyone who deliberately increases the supply of something does so in an effort to get paid for creating more of that something. Diminishing the price is at best an unintended second-order effect.
I keep seeing this argument that there is value out there, but for normal people all we are seeing is spam, cute ai cat pics on different social medias, can you please give a few examples of fields/problems where AI has been really helpful.
Culture is hard to change.

The police in my western town began as a protection racket. Businesses wanted someone(s) to do something about drunks and brawling. So they deputized some bouncers. But they couldn't (wouldn't) pay much. So these newly minted cops got entrepreneurial. Then they branched out into prostitution. /1

Sheriffs in the South started as militia and slave catchers.

Texas Rangers started as body guards and quickly transmuted into a paramilitary unit to hunt and kill Comanche people.

Thru the North East and Rust Belt, the robber barons paid cops to violently suppress labor.

Etc.

Old habits die hard.

--

1/ Seattle Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Police Payoff System in Seattle
https://www.amazon.com/Seattle-Justice-Police-Payoff-System/...
This is already the best API testing client that I have found. It's lightweight, it's snappy, it's intuitive, and it can run on a VPS out of the box over an SSH connection, no proxying needed.
Microsoft and Apple drop OpenAI seats amid antitrust scrutiny
Here's to hoping the current talent bleed doesn't affect on the Argo Workflows/Events/CD or Numa Projects.
The projects have a hard maximum income which is close to poverty. They have to breed crime because it's the only way to have a decent-ish income without being kicked out.

It didn't use to be this way, it was possible to live in the projects with a middle class income, and crime was far lower then.

Also, there was as a result a severe lack of funds for maintenance and operations because rents were no longer high enough to cover maintenance, which causes a downward spiral in maintenance and enforcement.
Many years ago when I was a teenager I worked as a swimming instructor. In my experience, most black kids were terrified of the water and getting them over that fear was vital for teaching them to swim. Some white kids were similarly terrified, but not as many. It was something like 8 in 10 vs 2 in 10. I don't have an explaination for it.
This was my attitude when I stopped maintaining a large open-source project that I had created.

None of us last forever, in life or even just in this industry. To have brought about some sort of positive change is more than good enough.
I get your argument but I see real value here.

Texting yourself is an imperfect solution to the problem. Note taking apps like obsidian also have "labor" in that you have to pick a location for your note, maybe navigate a folder structure etc. This is a "stream" of notes which is closer to how some of us work. I sort of want my reminders to disappear upwards into the past and not clog my interface, but still be searchable.
> So if we have three trains in close succession and the first derails or loses power, the second is not allowed stop because there's a train behind it?

The second is allowed to follow the 'train ahead derailed' plan, which presumably will involve stopping at a rate that the third train can also achieve.

If comms is maintained during the event, new plans can also be made that are maybe better (eg. maybe try to brake harder than the guaranteed minimum braking)
Thanks for giving me a specific example. At this point in the evolution of web standards and their implementations, that kind of UA check is stupid enough that I can believe there is at least some level of intent to not also making assumptions about available features on other browsers.
Currently I use a personal Discord server for this. Will give this a shot, seems really useful.
> Loblaws is being boycott by a minor dwindling political party, with no impact. Six months ago, Loblaws' stock was trading at $126 per share, and today it's at $164 per share, a 30% increase. Loblaw's market cap is now $50 billion.

My primary interest is in the psychology of fairness and boycotts—I don't know how successful the boycott will ultimately be. Nevertheless, I also found the lack of impact on Loblaw's stock interesting. But does it meaningfully index the impact of the boycott? One could argue that the C-Suite's primary job has become financial engineering, and Loblaw did initiate a share buyback plan [1,2]. Stock buybacks have become the C-Suite's favorite financial engineering/stock market manipulation tool since they were legalized.

I think you're correct that there is plenty of blame to go around. But rather than increased taxation, I would argue that the government's allowance, or perhaps even facilitation, of the level of market consolidation we have today in the grocery retail industry is the bigger issue Canadians should be angry about.

In any case, I'm more interested in consumer perception, which doesn't perfectly reflect objective reality. Researchers have shown that consumers overestimate the impact of profit-seeking and underestimate the influence of inflation and increased costs on prices, making managing one's brand image more complex. However, as indicated in this quote from the article, the role of profit-seeking was clear in this particular case:

> The media reported that Loblaw’s intention behind the 50% discount discontinuation plan was to match higher competitor prices on near-expired foods.

1: https://www.loblaw.ca/en/loblaw-companies-limited-enters-int...
2: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/loblaw-initiates-share-buyba...
Though tagging is only available for the (kinda pricey) Premium subscription.
It does seem to somewhat skew the aim of the site. Account for all the black kids riding rings, account for those near depth, and then watch to see which changes. I got bored before I found any variation on the theme.

I did find a couple where you could tell which kid was going to be in trouble long before it'd let you click them, which I found interesting.
This was my first thought also. Its not physically isolated
I suppose the extreme version of the parent comment's vision would be to develop entirely new neurological circuits that can process, interpret, and integrate some arbitrary new source of data in the world. I agree that that's kind of unimaginable now, but give infinite monkeys infinite typewriters and one of them will probably hook up the company's sales data to a new section of cortex just to see what would happen.

I read a more interesting takeaway, perhaps: that we can — and do — develop new "senses" for any given signal we can perceive. A possibly-shoddy example of this is what social media does to us: the social networks provided everyone with a novel social sense, and indeed everyone who uses social networks perceive and attenuate to that sense in different ways.

This has practical implications: given that we don't have infinite cognitive capacity or even much moment-to-moment bandwidth, we should be careful about which of these digital senses have our attention.

There're obvious links here to "augcog" (augmented cognition; [1]), but also I feel like Ackoff's five assumptions about "management misinformation systems" are relevant somehow[2].

Interesting to think about!

[1]: Especially DARPA's work and similar — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_cognition#DARPA's_Au...
[2]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2628680
Better article with more information:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2024/07/08/girls-...

> In an email Monday, founder and CEO Adriana Gascoigne said “Girls in Tech will be closing its doors due to a lack of funding in 2023 and 2024.”
Sorry for the judgement of the lack of "substance" of the comment, but to my defense I see this kind of comment all the time under almost every post (including this one), and it is not always obvious unless pointed out.

And this is in no way dismissive of the work. I can definitely see the value in this -- I am just saying many people don't wish to see this, which many people apparently agree based on the number of votes.
I'm more perplexed that the parents of these kids let them go in the pool.
The 1-minute (or less) headways on London Underground are precisely because of signal modernization over the past couple decades that has moved certain lines beyond purely fixed-block signaling.
Honestly I love the direction and I do this all the time.

If you could 1) integrate directly with iMessage so I'm literally just texting and 2) have your interface provide me some sort of LLM summary tool/weekly digest/remind me of things smartly (I dunno it's up to you to figure out), I'd probably do this.
Show HN: Tabgrab – easily manage the browser tabs from the command line
Hi Everyone! I want to share a tool I built to solve one of life's great annoyances - managing browser tabs!

tabgrab is a command-line tool (CLI) to save the URLs from the tabs of an open browser window on macOS. URLs from every tab can be saved to a file, copied to the clipboard, output to the console, or all 3. A custom prefix (such as a leading dash "-" or asterisk "*") can be added, which is convenient for dumping a list of tab URLs into a bulleted list. To get fancier, a custom template can be specified to include the tab's name and url and format as desired (e.g., as a markdown link). Importantly, tabgrab can also reopen all tabs from its own output.

The tool is intentionally lightweight, focused on doing one thing well, which is managing the ever-growing number of tabs I open. Right now the implementation is macOS specific, but I'd invest the time for cross-platform support if there proves to be sufficient interest.

https://github.com/dkaslovsky/tabgrab

I wrote this tool for my own use but have expanded and polished it in the hopes that others might find it useful as well. I'd love any feedback on areas of improvement! Thanks!
If work from home is as productive as in the office it will grow. If now it will shrink.
I had a set of cds that went with an intro to music theory textbook around ~2009. It did also made heavy use of indices in tracks to do exactly the same thing. My car stereo listed each index as a track.

I wish I could remember the name of the textbook because I really liked a lot of the baroque music on the CDs and can't remember who they were by or the titles of the songs...
Is there a distinction between them as far as "women in tech" goes? The ratio of both compared to men is pretty much the same.
FarmPunk
It's usually the weight of my whole hand. I touch type, but my hands are usually tilted to the exterior. So I hit keys like Enter, Capslock, Shift, with the side instead of the tip of my fingers. And I don't mind sliding my whole hands if I'm going to use it repeatedly.
You're revived in the year 2190 by a totalitarian communist state specifically so that they can have a show trial and then torture and execute you.
Feds who forced Ukrainian investor to sell rocket company backtrack years later
How to Move a Smart Home
The picture showing the flow of people reminds me of Alexey Titarenko's "City of Shadows" - http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/cityofshadows - both creative long exposure photos.
I can't read past the first tweet. Big brain Enron Musk still hasn't fixed this.
I think that's not something that can be avoided, unfortunately.
Any number of things could cause a train to suddenly stop. A mechanical failure, derailment, collision, a wagon could get detached...
On roads we have millions of vehicles, carrying on average a very small amount of people, around 1.5.
For efficiency sake we have accepted the risk of staying within reaction distance instead of stopping distance between vehicles.

It is a tradeoff between the safety of lives on board and traffic requirements that is relatively easier to accept when the average number of people involved is low against massive speed and efficiency gains.

The same cannot be said for trains though. Modern trains carry upwards of 1000 passengers, often at high speeds and without all of the safety and retention systems built into modern cars.

Having one or multiple trains with this large amount of people onboard be involved in a sudden catastrophic accident is possibly not worth the efficiency gained by thess than one minute separation.

Unfortunately we cannot just think about a normal scenario of simple deceleration
How to Feed the Olympics – Step one: Get 3M bananas
The aspartame is the ass-part-ta-me.
Others have pretty well covered it, as it's a normal part of the primary-school curriculum in much of Western Europe.

At minimum, I'd love to see survival swimming, treading water, basic pool safety in kindergarten (age 5).

We could also add the above to Head Start - that gets pool safety done earlier for disadvantaged kids (who are less likely to get it from their parents). Most of my peers start pool activities when their kids are infants and continue through swim team in primary school, but that's a very middle-class thing and costs a good bit of money/time.
The author teaches physics at a college, so I’m not sure why you say this is unrelated? The article is largely about her career path and how she ended up as an author and teacher.
That's a completely fair response I think, but I'd argue that language evolves, and meaning changes. Words and phrases we use now mean totally different things to what they meant 10-15 years ago, and that meaning is driven by common understanding.

Using the original intentions for Open Source is well and good, but do you think Richard Stallman foresaw IBM being the primary funding mechanism for GCC in 1989?
Nice to see AMD finally doing something about competing in the compute market (LLM being the hottest thing at the moment)!

Though apparently MI300X is a fine product as well. But it still needs code.
What's the story behind this? Did they get enough warning beforehand?
Whoever wrote that section on wikipedia didn't do a great job. They're mentioned by name when they were against the launch, and they're "Morton Thiokol leadership" when they change their mind. It's technically true but misleading, I was so confused reading it I had to reference the Roger's Commission report because I thought (correctly) that Kilminster was one that faxed in a signed recommendation to launch to overrule the engineer on site.
Ask HN: Best Use Cases for LLMs
I’m seeking advice on the scenarios where large language models (LLMs) shine and where they may not perform as well.

What types of problems have you successfully solved with LLMs? What are some common pitfalls or areas where they tend to underperform?
> You have to pass them through all the generators just in case; each generator decides whether the file contains anything that it knows how to expand.

The C# approach for this is that code generators operate as compiler plugins (and therefore also IDE plugins, so if you report an error from the code generator it goes with all the other compile errors). There is a two-pass approach where your plugin gets to scan the syntax tree quickly for "might be relevant" and then another go later; the first pass is cached.

A limitation of the plugin approach is that your codegen code itself has to be in a separate project that gets compiled first.

An argument in favor of separate-codegen is that if it breaks you can inspect the intermediate code, and indeed do things like breakpoints, logging and inspection in the code generator itself. The C++ approach seems like it might be hard to debug in some situations.
HR, outreach and/or recruitment departments organise those sorts of things and you may just be selected because you are photogenic. Also, serious scientists are not above self promotion; it's arguably their most important skill.
I think it was there to show she is a teacher, rather than a scientist. The legend says so. The image itself is of a very typical teacher. It didn’t bother me in any form. It not even looked as “high-brow” to me (a serious picture of her looking to the horizon or a typical “writer pose” looking into the camera would look more highbrow to me)
That's pretty awesome. I think I asked a question that was too open-ended of the officer and it ended up cutting him off mid-sentence.

I wish I had time to play with this right now. Good job!
First ESP32-P4 Dev Kit Now on Espressif Website
How/where can you use it for free? Code editor plugins etc too?
Awhile back I was on project A that got absorbed by the management of project B. Project b mandated that all engineers wore pagers. A guy on project A decided he didn't want to. The job he was hired for didn't require it when he was hired, and if the pager went off, he'd just have to call someone on project B anyway.

He said no. Got fired.
Benjamin Bloom on Automaticity: "The Hands and Feet of Genius" [pdf]
It is not safe. If your train crashes into a truck, or derails, or explodes, all trains behind will crash into it if they are nearer than their own breaking distance. This is not possible in a classic block system: the block is freed only when the last carriage of the blocking train has left the block.
Have Magnetic Monopoles been discovered yet?
The market for people transport is huge. Imagine the cost of all apartments in manhattan @ $3000/sq foot. Now imagine the cost of the same apartments built in upstate new york @ $250/sq foot.

A transit provider who can get people from a house in a rural area to manhattan in 15 mins can pocket that difference, which is huuuuge.
I don’t. I canceled my OpenAI subscription and shifted that $20/mo over to Anthropic.
I had an in office mandate about two years ago. I ignored it, I’m still employed in the same org.

It was quite odd. My boss told me to come into the office. I explained how I didn’t want to do that because of personal and professional reasons, I think a pretty rational case. They gave a vague reason “leadership wants it.” I was friends with their boss so I asked the superboss and they said they don’t care.

I never came in. My boss never said anything. Not sure if they didn’t notice. It’s quite possible since I rarely interacted with anyone in person even when in the office. After six months of that, I moved to a new position in my org that is remote friendly.

I think this worked because I’m a “digital worker” who basically just shells into stuff and write code and attends meetings. I don’t actually do anything in person.
"They have a floaty thing, they'll be fine."

"That's why we have lifeguards."

Etc. They probably don't know any better - that's how they learned to "swim" and they didn't die, so here we are.
Running out of money is a common cause of business failure, non-profit or otherwise. Seems like their donations dried up with the economic slowdown.

I'm sure they'll be back up and running once things pick up. Orgs such as these are easy to restart.
Yes.

They obviously aren't what you would find in any university class, where you do things like derivations and don't just write random formulas on the blackboard. So it is a staged picture just trying to show off to people who don't know any better.
Funny you say that when capitalism has no morals beyond profit.

Just have a look on what Boeing it's doing.
Not a comment, but a request for clarification: I'm losing the thread of the conversation here: is the choice between free transit and non-free transit?

(I think that guess is wrong, which is why I'm asking... "free vs non-free" is a useless dichotomy when there are plenty of ways to charge people fares, some more profit-extracting than other, and when I live in a town with a paid system where homeless people surf in the buses all day because it's the only way to get to the few places to use the bathroom...)
My cursory understanding is that Silo is a developer of LLMs that run on top of compute platforms. Isn't the problem with no one using AMD's accelerators the fact that their programming environment is sub-par compared to CUDA, or even Apple's?
As a counter: I love the concept, I often message myself not because I don't want to use another app, but because I like the workflow and the UI. Most notes app work with a concept similar to files organized in a structure (be tags or folder) instead chat app are primarily chronological, also the UI is more oriented for quick addition than most note's app; I get that this don't make sense for everyone but an app like this is exactly what I want.
There was also a good chance that the flight successfully would reach orbit. Then what?
In fact, we consider a marriage successful if it ends in the death of one of the partners.
The popularization of computer science degrees absolutely did push down the price of software engineers on average. The Big Names in SV are outliers; the rest of the industry employs us at wages far closer to other professions than they could a generation ago.
I've been developing software for a living for 40 years now (even longer if you include when I wasn't developing software for a living) and I feel that the pace of change has dramatically slowed down in the past 10 years:

- We've stabilized web front ends

- Mobile application development has stabilized

- Architecture patterns are well-known and there are plenty of (now legacy) products with which to implement them

- Ditto with integration patterns and APIs

- We finally have security figured out (OAuth) and I now have the means to identify and authenticate a person who's not even in my own repo

- We have tools such as Copilot taking the grunt work out of coding - leaving developers to work only with the most interesting bits

- I could go on with lots of stuff that has now matured

I feel like it's easier than ever to develop software, and like I said, the pace of change is rapidly diminishing. I think software development has finally become a mature practice. Admittedly, that takes some of the fun out of it, but we knew that day was coming anyway, right?
> Onion architecture etc. is a long-term strategy that mainly benefits the company/project owner, but not the individual contributor. So it basically has to be forced upon programmers, who will resist it in every way possible, because they have no real incentive to use it.

Although I was aware of it for a while now, I had never seen this misalignment (between what I called ease-of-writing and ease-of-maintenance) stated so clearly in so few words. Thank you !
Looks like a consulting company[1] at first glance. Also, empty HuggingFace account[2].

[1]: https://www.silo.ai/
[2]: https://huggingface.co/SiloAI
Summary: Most studies agree that rent control lowers rent for those in the rent controlled housing. But it also decreases mobility (can't afford to leave the low-rent apartment), decreases housing quality, decreases construction, increases rent for those not in rent-controlled housing, decreases supply of housing, and increases misallocation. (It also seems to increase home ownership, though that is less clear cut.)