skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese EVs are so cheap and incredible I think its likely they get a custom vehicle built by one of them.
Very exciting time for a geologist! Once every few hundred years I'm guessing?
He made his fortune on broadcast.com, notable only for its acquisition price.
Not to suggest that you shouldn't opt out for any reason you want, but the mm wave scanner doesn't use x-rays. I don't think the x-ray scanners were ever widely deployed and none of them are in use anymore. You're exposed to so much radiation just sitting in an aircraft at 35,000 feet that anything beamed at you during security screening would have to be of very little consequence.
Sure, Uber/Lyft have thus far been successful in claiming a really big share of the margin.

But there's still not too much margin when the driver needs some comp.

Waymo, on the flip side, has a lot of capital equipment added to cars to depreciate, but it's gotten way cheaper and stands to get much cheaper still.
You wouldn’t ban a sponsor, but a team. People typically refer to a cycling team by a sponsor’s name, but teams can (and do) change sponsors from season to season (or sometimes even within a season like “Jumbo Visma” -> “Visma Lease a Bike” did this year between the Giro and the Tour).

Jumbo Visma is the same team as Visma Lease a Bike. They have the same riders, managers, athletic director, staff, etc. Just a different name on the jersey.

As for how a team is banned: you simply ban them. In most of cycling you need to be a member of a team (professional) or club (amateur) to even enter a race. Your racing license will name your team/club. If your team is banned you may not register for the race.

Also, at the World Tour professional level, your team would have several cars driving within the race to support riders with food, bottles, and mechanical assistance. Since the race will be on a closed course, only official vehicles can drive with the riders. Even if started the race, you would be at a serious disadvantage to race with no team support.
I'm not following the British Armed Forces in any detail...but my impression is that their need for "moral leadership" from the top is even more dire than their need for money. (And maybe a lot more honest suppliers, peddling fit-for-purpose kit.)

For a sample: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/26/morality-and...
It appears to be entirely futile to contribute anything of value to any group project on the Internet. Every project is taken over by a group of apparatchiks and 80% of the energy goes into "who has power".
Tangentially related: Could this be weaponized? What's stopping a malicious actor from purposely creating a lot of debris in orbital space for the purposes of knocking communications down? Is there a plan in place?
Google invested in Anthropic: https://www.google.com/search?q=google+invests+in+anthropic
I combine uBlock with NoScript, and it’s life changing. YouTube has never loaded faster lol
It sounds like you should precompute the duration available at offsets, and let yourself, not simply: search for the first good enough slot; but: retrieve the smallest satisfying interval from a list, precomputed to some acceptable count.

If it's not worth doing that pre-computation, as your trials have shown and others say, ordered maps might be the best available.
You can be assured the component manufacturers would happily sell "certified" gear, and lots of us would buy it imitating our heroes etc. The parts can be identical to the parts used in training. Said certified gear can meet the olympic standards for data integrity. The cycling industry adores selling "pro" gear to amateur customers and the associated markups (UCI approved!).

This is not that different to amateur motor racing, where its expected you only bring a helmet that's certified by an external body (Snell/FIA etc). There are generally only a handful of pedals designs in use in the pro-peleton today, so not like we are talking about moving a mountain, and the UCI already regulate a lot of existing parts.

As I said, I suspect this is not the main problem with this approach, there are likely many other much better reasons why this isn't a good idea.
Imagining the endgame of the US-China rivalry
Isn't this the plot of Dr. Strangelove? If they do decide on that strategy, let's hope they don't keep the news for a special occasion...
I don't agree with cutting mental health services and don't believe that it is equivalent to giving free money to people.

> they're dead weight in companies and vampires on romantic partners

This is trivially avoidable in both cases. The Offspring have a song that comes to mind.
Lots of developers think that. When you've got a working mental model of how software functions, generally, you interact with computers completely differently. Most people don't even think about 90% of the interfaces they use— from text messages to microwaves to ordering kiosks to car radios— specifically because UI design is light-years beyond what it was. You want to see what usability looks like without interface design? Look at FOSS... And guess how many non-developers use end-user-facing FOSS apps? What about big ones like Firefox and Blender and Signal? As in, the only ones that have any nontechnical user base? They're almost exclusively run by foundations that employee product designers and UI designers for their important features.

As much as developers like to imagine they're somehow experts on interface design because they've used so many interfaces and understand the tooling, empirical evidence points to the contrary. I worked as a developer for a decade before I moved to design, and I hate to say it, but damn near 100% of the confidently stated interface design knowledge among developers is because they haven't learned enough to get over the dunning-krueger peak, and echo chambers like this only reinforce that.
According to NASA: If the debris is <600km the orbit decays within a few years. >800k can take centuries and geostationary objects on the high end (~36000km) can take thousands of years.

Most of the debris is in LEO so it could take decades to centuries for the debris to clear out
Interesting point: tons of GPU and cloud capacity is being built out, and will probably not be useful for their intended purpose. However, it does mean that if you can think of something to do with a bunch of cut-price cloud GPU capacity in a couple years, you might have an opportunity.
You don't need to collect them, just perturb their orbit enough that they burn up in a reasonably short time.

Still not viable I assume, but...
> If I end up paying for your domain after a malicious move I coukd as well try to milk it out and may recover my cost by burning through your brand image. If I actually got more from it than expected, I'd rince and repeat making people's life miserable. Same way if an attacker got tesla.com by pushing enough, they might extract more value from it than a flailing Tesla could, and the customer base would be worse for it.

"Someone might get angry about this tax and do something malicious" is an argument you can make about any kind of tax.

We already have to deal with people squatting domains, and we have laws about trademarks, libel and so on. A tax on valuable domains ought to reduce domain squatting (since it makes it harder to just hold a domain that you're not using, you'd be paying every year) and reduce the market price of domains, which would increase competition and be good for customers. If someone manages to make a viable business out of buying up domains whose owners have been lowballing their value to keep their taxes low, fair play to them, they'll be helping keep everyone honest and keep domains in circulation in the market (but notice that a business like that is only going to be viable if they can sell the domains on to someone who can actually use them pretty quickly, because every year that they're holding them in inventory they're paying the taxes themselves).

> As a society I think we don't want to encourage adversarial pricing on taxes, the same way property tax isn't just based on raw demand (or even linked to it at all depending on the country) and has elements of controls to prevent too much gaming of it.

The current property tax regime is exactly the kind of failure I want to avoid; those "controls" are what leads to all the gaming that locks up our property market and means young people have no hope of ever owning anything. A more raw market-based system would be fairer and more effective.
Try asking a trans person to compare their experiences before and after being out.
They have for a long time, but it's only an issue if you share a file publicly.

If you just keep files private on your Drive, or share them with specific other accounts but not to anyone with the link, there's no copyright scanning.

All of this makes perfect sense because Google doesn't want people using their Drive accounts for mass sharing pirated content.

While if you're just backing up your CD's and DVD's for personal private use, everything works fine, zero problems.
That’s what their new vehicle platform is. It’s from Zeekr. But there are concerns around tariffs on Chinese built vehicles. I don’t know if Waymo gets an exception because technically they “assemble” their sensors in the US.
For people who complain about the LinkedIn feed, I agree it’s almost entirely useless, but I wonder what people would prefer as an alternative? If your answer is “no feed” you can accomplish that by exiting the app when you’re done with it. It’s pretty clear the only purpose for the feed is to deliver ads, but I wonder how much revenue that really makes.

I would prefer the app was rearranged though. It’s core functionalities are 1) update my profile 2) chat with recruiters and 3) search for jobs. It doesn’t need a feed, it doesn’t need a video tab.
I heard they have $23B sitting there doing nothing
The term is accurate if for no other reasons than:

- Methods utilised during abortions are also utilised in non-abortion treatments particularly where the fetus is nonviable or has already died, including miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and fetal demise.

See: "In Oklahoma, a woman was told to wait until she's 'crashing' for abortion care"

Statton ... learned she had a type of molar pregnancy, in which some of the tissue is cancerous. ... Her doctor told her she was at risk of hemorrhage and even death, but that she couldn't get treated there. The treatment for a patient in her condition is a dilation and curettage or D&C – an abortion procedure that clears pregnancy tissue from the uterus. Over the course of a week, again and again, she says doctors told her they could not care for her. After a week of being transferred to three different Oklahoma hospitals, Statton says her doctors actually suggested she leave the state and go to a place where an abortion is legal.

<https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/25/1171851...>

- Non-abortion treatments and procedures are increasingly withheld from pregnant women out of concern that they will be interpreted as abortions, as they in fact have been.

See again above, also "Roe is over. Prison sentences are on the way." <https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/abortion-laws-punishin...>

- Medical facilities and doctors are closing and/or leaving states in which strong anti-abortion laws and prosecutions exist.

E.g.,

"Idaho is losing OB-GYNs after strict abortion ban" <https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/regional-news/2024-04-08/...>.

American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC):

There have been several nationally publicized incidents where women experiencing pregnancy complications were turned away at hospitals due to fear that performing an abortion would be ruled as illegal.

<https://www.aamc.org/news/what-doctors-should-know-about-eme...>

"Texas AG threatens to prosecute doctors in emergency abortion" <https://www.reuters.com/legal/texas-judge-allows-woman-get-e...>
Different students respond differently to such methods.

Personally, I dislike, and don't learn well with, the kind of teaching where I'm given a small piece of information, expected to do a task, and repeat over and over again until something clicks.

Yes, in theory it's supposed to be engaging, and encouraging further learning with all the dopamine hits, but in reality, you don't know what constitute a "reward" for an arbitrary human being. Sometimes, these well-crafted steps are just noisy to me.

What works well for me is to get the big picture first. Give me the map first, and then let's talk about how to get from A to B.

For example the author talks about how his daughter's focus instantly improved when the approach was changed to be more hands on.

I had the opposite experience learning the violin. Most of my teachers were very keen on students immediately start trying it out, after one demonstration, or even no demonstration, and I often felt it difficult to grasp what the hell I was doing. The most effective teacher I had was one who's more willing to talk about things before hand, and answer my questions with seriousness, and at length. To me this is the more engaging and effective approach.
Russian assets: how and why to seize them
What happened to the days of showing multiple routes and getting to choose?
The fact that it takes $20k to run your own SOTA model, instead of the $2B+ that it took until yesterday, is significant.
C++ Windows/Linux/macOS X Port of Russell Nelson's Freemacs
> You have to know at least a little bit about bike racing to know that the Tour de France is the most prestigious event but everyone recognizes "Olympic gold medal," doesn't even matter what sport.

This depends a lot on which part of the audience (in particular nationality) you are talking about. I'd say that in Germany (and of course in France) the Tour de France is much more famous for road cycling than the Summer Olympic Games.
Yup. Instead of Digital Rights Management we have Digital Restrictions Management masquerading as it.
Linux: Ecstasy and Agony of Living with It
None unless you are prepared to spend 5+ years. Macs just don't have flops.
> This is such a gigantic unforced error

No doubt.

> it alone is really grounds for his dismissal.

Tesla shareholders have the most skin in this game, and based on the recent pay-package vote, they strongly disagree.
Ask HN: How come I can't send a VK.com video link via text message?
I use AT&T, and the recipient has Verizon. While it shows as sent on my end, they never receive it, despite multiple attempts.
It can absolutely be weaponized. That's one of the big reasons we stigmatize ASAT weapons tests so much.

But grounding humanity is bad for everybody. GPS and weather satellites are nice.
> The failure of the Falcon Heavy to generate demand

My understanding is that Falcon 9's thrust has increased to such a degree over it's lifetime that it is capable of taking over most of the missions which would have previously required Falcon Heavy. Recovering Falcon Heavy's central core is also significantly more challenging than a typical Falcon 9 launch due to the increased velocities achieved, increasing cost of the heavy further. And it's fairing is no larger than that of Falcon 9, further reducing it's utility.

Starship is another beast entirely, with none of those limitations.
I get one or two recruiter messages a year, and I’m in the market for a job. Posts mentioning how many contacts they make me wonder what’s wrong with my profile.
There's a Feynman brain virus that reshapes "fiduciary duty" as "profit for shareholders uber alles".

While institutional shareholders generally mean your boss is an excel sheet seeking profit, the only "duty" to shareholders is still "do not defraud them". They can, of course, seek to change the board though...
Every “genie” lift has the same key
Most “skyjacks” have the same key, there are maybe 3 iterations.
Tractors have a lot of similar if not the same keys
RV handle locks (not padlocks) have about 8 different combinations - they are color coded. Eg your RV has the purple or green key. Dead bolts are unique
Every single RV storage lock is the same, if you have an RV look at the storage lock and if it says “ CH751 “ , well now you know :)
I dunno, somehow the conclusion that an infinite alphabet requires symbols to grow arbitrarily large to allow them to be distinguished from the others doesn't seem quite as interesting as the conclusion that all written alphabets are finite.

I mean clearly you can design an infinite alphabet by just using numbers for all symbols and writing the numbers in whatever system you want. Sure some symbols will require more paper or their details become too small to see, but it is still an infinite written alphabet.

The more obvious argument is that an infinite alphabet is pointless because nobody can remember an infinite list of symbols (hence any practical example of such an alphabet must have some rules to reduce the symbols to a finite set of atoms). There's nothing theoretically impossible about one existing.
Yeah, that doesn't surprise me at all.

For me, the UK government quite literally took away my EU citizenship. Something I was making use of, and had significant life plans for. I am far fucking beyond not impressed about that.

In the meantime I've returned to Australia and am getting things done here.
One thing I'll be curious about here over the long run is what winds up being the actual effective cost per mile of a taxi-style ride - my understanding is counting deprecation and repair costs, Uber's pricing has already been at or below cost, and most drivers are effectively underwater when you price in the cost of wear and tear on the vehicle itself. Custom-built ultra-high-duty-cycle vehicles a la the mail trucks and the London cabs should help here, but I think it's an open question just how cheap you can really make a ride, and I'm not sure the meat in the drivers seat is the primary driver of cost at this point.
I don't hear anything I care about, or that anyone should care about, under the "except" column.

Don't target that market if you don't like the terms. Someone else will. I will.
While the Dresden bombing raid was devastating in terms of human lives lost, it doesn't rank equally high with respect to percentage of buildings destroyed.

Far less people died in other places but far more building damage got done (e.g. Würzburg, Pforzheim, and/or large cities hit by dozens of major raids like Hamburg, Cologne or Berlin).

None of this, though, justifies razing Warsaw. Atrocities don't "balance".
The third point is also why I don’t trust Elon’s leadership anymore. It’s too impetuous these days. This is true of how he runs Twitter as well as Tesla.

The first two points are also very true and emblematic of a company following their impulsive leaders whims.

The biggest refreshes any of their models have gotten since launch are either very negatively received (yoke without steer by wire, removal of stalks) or have been cost cutting measures.

Highland Model 3s barely moved the needle for anyone who isn’t an active Tesla observer. All their resources have gone into the cybertruck and robotaxi.

I disagree though that they’re learning to be a car company. I think they have shown they can sell multiple models. However the problem is they have poor leadership. They’re now stuck in the same rut as many of the Japanese brands are when they hyper focused on certain aspects of their business.

Elon is hyper focused on cutting costs and refreshing their models goes against that. Whatever mid life crisis has entrenched this immature side of him is reflected in the company. It needs to mature itself into a company that can deliver across the board in the way they used to innovate and I don’t think they can do that with him at the helm any longer.
Can this business make money? How much has been invested so far?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI (One of a series)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2rI-5ZFW1E

A few videos on why this is (and I apologize for my language) incredibly selfish and idiotic.

tl;dw Owning a car in an American suburb is extremely expensive, and (especially if you disagree) your pleasant commute is likely being heavily subsidized (particularly by less-well-off Texans who you are forcing to live in worse conditions, and to pay proportionally more of their income to cover their own car dependency).
Traditional OCR neural networks like tesseract crucially they have strong measures of their accuracy levels, including when they employ dictionaries or the like to help with accuracy. LLMs, on the other hand, give you zero guarantees, and have some pretty insane edge cases.

With a traditional OCR architecture maybe you'll get a symbol or two wrong, but an LLM can give you entirely new words or numbers not in the document, or even omit sections of the document. I'd never use an LLM for OCR like this.
Great, now release the datasets used for training your AI so everyone can get compensated accordingly and ask that your competition follow suit.
only 129 out of >180 affiliates voted and barely 2,400 individual votes were cast, which apparently meets their self defined quorum of 2% of eligible voters.

this new global council would take over a bunch of functions setting overall strategy, allocating funds, setting technical priorities (which the foundation would be responsible for implementing and maintaining), and overseeing affiliate organisations. the existing foundation would be left with running and maintaining the software, legal items (trademarks, organizational compliance, etc), and fundraising.

the council would be 25 members: 12 at-large, 8 from affiliate groups, 1 from the existing foundation, and 20% (four initially) selected by the council. then every 18 months to council could increase its own size by up to 25 new members to a max of 100 without any requirement to maintain the existing distribution of seats. as far as I can tell there's no term length or limits and no requirement for regular elections. just a self-evaluation every three years.

overall from this outsider's perspective, the charter seems to describe broad powers without many specific constraints or responsibilities. I can understand why one of the foundation board members called this a power grab. without recall votes, regular elections, or other accountability mechanisms, I can also see how this structure would make it relatively easy for a clique to take over the global council and entrench themselves. with all that funding on the table, it seems like it would be a ripe environment for corruption and nepotism.

not saying the foundation is good or bad, but this proposal seems like a half baked idea at best. it reminds me of the sort of power structure shenanigans I've seen from university student union boards and the like.
Is this even remotely true
>> sorry, I don't have the time to explain things more than that, for a trivial matter like this.

>Au contraire! You're contributed more to this sideshow than anybody: context I was fully aware of when I asked my rhetorical question.

>Au contraire!

Merde!
Mon Dieu!
Gesundheit! (Hey, Duo, you buggy bro! that's DE, not FR)
:)

I can talk fancy French too, with the help of my French mistress, aka Google Translate(ss) :) :

ton discours fantaisiste ne me dérange pas, mon garçon

original in English, by me:

your fancy talk does not faze me, boy

https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=fr&text=your%20fancy%...

>sideshow

if it's a sideshow, why did you participate in it? you are a serious guy, right?

me, I am a dumbass, and just having fun.

>context I was fully aware of when I asked my rhetorical question.

I don't believe it. you are trying to CYA.

but anyway, rhetorical questioners should expect to get any kind of answers, including unexpected ones.

see ya.
ciao.

wow, those last two words of mine, they kind of rhyme.

I should take up a career as a poet, since it's already a vocation, after I've spent some of my millions taking a vacation.

signed,

- funster.ai

in Westminster, bye bye.

# everything has to be AI nowadays, otherwise people don't pay attention. that's the usual convention. it's a source of dissension.
Yes, a decade ago, a lot has changed since then.