skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And its doubtful any statistics from the German side can be trusted. In more than one occasion, I've personally experienced delayed and cancelled trains that were shown as running on time in every information system. DB either doesn't know where their trains are, or is continuously fudging the numbers.
Big oof!
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25228089
Unibench: Vision-Language Model Evaluation
Once I put an old Galaxy S3 in a plastic box to protect it from the environment and with a small solar panel on top to power it. I compiled Cuberite and run a small Minecraft server on it dor a while. It was a funny litte project.
Which is the mistake Colin makes - an incorrect assumption on the basis of no actual evidence but a vivid imagination and a lack of exposure to women about the globe.
Yup - I think it's time to unsubscribe and touch some grass. Been a captive of entertainment for too long.
> I don't think there's much of a change in meaning here.

Thanks to agree that it was unnecessary to change the title then
The trend of simultaneous blog and video posts is so nice.
The idea we have of "Generational Wealth" depends on compouding returns and compounding returns require perpetual economic growth which is something that in a sufficiently long timeline is simply not possible.

Also, on capitalism, economic growth is also dependent at some level on population growth.

Eternal life would probably require some kind of socialism.
Excitement, superstition and great insecurity: global consumers' digital world
Interesting. Would that be doable at a VLSI scale? I imagine that for large scale analog computers (like, neural networks) all these trimpots would become a challenge...
Not really. 1) Their most prosperous years happened before the wellfare movement. 2) Their economy is hardly more robust than the US.
> but I'm surprised to hear someone think that it's not even "barely usable".

write performance oriented and memory safe C++ code. Current coding assistants are glorified autocomplete for unit tests or short api endpoints or what have you but if you have to write any safety oriented code or you have to think about what the hardware does it's unusable.

I tried using several of the assistants and they write broken or non-performant code so regularly it's irresponsible to use them.
As a mountaineer, you play with this dichotomy safe/not-safe continuously and simultaneously.. but there comes a point sometimes where close calls add up the stammering indecision enters in, and at that point, in my opinion, you have already been defeated by the mountain. The indecision itself will consume too much of your energy and attention to perform the task even at a risk you could normally tolerate. Your judgement is too compromised to trust, and hubris and self-promising gets people killed.
I read somewhere once that if we removed all disease and consequences of old age from the equation, life expectancy would be about 400 years, but at some point you would die due to some accident, violence, or natural disaster. Wish I could find a source on this, maybe an actuary can chime in.

I don't need immortality, but I could do without the long slow failing of my body until it gives out around 80 or so.
Interesting culture if that's seen as a punishment. In my school half of the kids would try to be a minute late (so they can't enter the school and 'have to' slack off the whole day).
Turns out I've never in my life had a successful cold caller reach out to me, I guess. I can't think of a single reason in 2024 that a random telephone call would get me to part ways with my money. In fact, I've had very few instances where a salesperson adds value to a transaction period.
Wanting people to have longer attention spans is not an actionable choice on the menu. But it can be a goal/target.

This is where preferences meet reality. How do you influence the world to work the way you want it to?
That was an incredible read. Even though I don't think I entirely agree with the author(I am an immigrant myself and do feel grateful for my new home), it was still a worthwhile read.
Sorry, why is stasis a simpler position than change? Change happens all the time. Phenomena end. If a match burns out, the simpler assumption is that the flame has gone, not that it persists in some imperceptible fashion. Likewise, if a human body shows no sign of consciousness, and the brain -- which at the very least seems to be heavily implicated in the phenomenon of consciousness -- is showing no activity, it seems reasonable to assume, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that consciousness is absent: even more so if the brain is decayed or destroyed.
I think the idea that news does things for ratings and therefore money is not really true. Control of the narrative is vastly more lucrative for other stakeholders in these organizations. Some of these news organizations like the Washington Post for example lost $77 million last year. Fox news fired Tucker Carlson, the most popular news anchor in the channel's history. This is not an economically driven business, at least in terms of the news outlet's own profit and loss.

Non-profits give away billions and billions for non-economic reasons, they'd probably fund these loss making news outlets, and they indeed fund many non-economic advocacy organizations because they help them change the widely believed narratives to support their respective missions.
Surely that's not the whole story, though.

In your example just consider what a German gets from their contribution to the state compared to the USAian. I'm particularly thinking about universal health care and free higher education.

According to numbeo.com, the cost of living in the US is 26% higher than Germany (the US is more expensive in almost every metric).

It's not just Germany that's both easier and less expensive to live in, either.
I’m not sure you understand what I want then. I never said I want the US to have the same level of public transit ridership as the Japan, or replace all car journeys with trains.

I was specifically responding to a quote that trips of 50-300 miles are too long for public transit. That is demonstrably untrue around the world.

And using that as a justification to try to solve the problem using personal airplanes instead of real working solutions that scale to high capacity at low emissions seems silly to me.
> What's your opinion of John Oliver? I just watched a YouTube video of his show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqK3_n6pdDY. It seemed pretty good, but I'm also very ignorant.

"Between the years 1939 and 1945 more than 6,000,000 Jews died amid a global surge of fatal diseases." is roughly the level of factual accuracy in that specific episode.

In general, I think even without familiarity of the topics discussed it is easy to see how in every episode John Oliver cherry-picks statistics, presents the opinions of individuals as facts or as widely held opinions and slathers the whole show in adjectives so you know exactly what is the correct opinion you are supposed to hold.

I quite enjoy the show as entertainment, but I would not turn to it as a source of truth or to become better informed about a topic.
Dungeons and Dragons?
Also not considering that it's not that salaries in the EU are low compared to global standards, it's that the USA has absurdly ridiculous salaries. The outlier are US salaries, no other country (I think not even Switzerland) can get that high.
I think this makes a common mistake that this has anything to do with "journalists these days" or editorial slants or anything else.

I mean, go back and read some random New York Times issues from the 1950s and you'll see the same thing.

The simple reality is that there is not enough happening every day that is relevant to our lives that people actually need to pay attention to.

If you're not actually making some change your life, your diet, your finances... SOMETHING...then the news is just entertainment same as watching a Sunday morning cartoon.
No idea, but seeing how often they show it, I think they agree it's abusive.
If it's a single file you could just make it a download.

There's also the newer file system APIs (though in Safari you'll be missing features and need to put some things in a Web Worker).
> Alternatively, you include information about the user of the model as part of the context to the inference query

That was sort of implicit in my first suggestion for an objective function, but do you really want the model to be optimal on a per-user basis? There’s a lot of bad people out there. That’s why I switched to an objective function that considers all of humanity’s needs together as a whole.
The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors."
-Thomas Jefferson, 1807

As a result of this thread I looked into the first US newspaper and discovered it was shut down after one issue because they printed something a governor didn't like, lol.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publick_Occurrences_Both_Forre...
ZCZC is the Start of Message signal for a few protocols, including NOAA's SAME, which seems relevant here as this is a NOAA broadcast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_Area_Message_Encoding
Show HN: I made an app to make blind lovers more racional
With findredflags.today you can evaluate a message that someone send you with a simple print.

Just print the message upload and it will give you the redflags present in the message.

Its free to use :D
> The assumption being that the most likely case someone would recycle a drinking glass is after breaking it and they don't want their workers getting cut.

All the places I know (Denmark/Germany) the glass you want to recycles is getting dumped in containers where it breaks most of the time when you toss it in.
Thanks for chiming in here. I use Monarch and didn't realize there was a Sankey visualization. Actually I didn't know what that type of visual was even called before this post.
In an area like C++ driver development, 51 isn't a handicap. It's a bonus. Experience matters there.

So, yes, you can find work with that background. It may take longer than it takes someone with 5 years of experience, though...
can you give an example of what "in this manner" might be?
Future coding where developers only ever write the tests is an intriguing idea.

Then the LLM generates and iterates on the code until it passes all of the tests. New requirements? Add more tests and repeat.

This would be legitimately paradigm shifting, vs. the super charged auto complete driven by LLMs we have today.
I had the same underlying reason to stay informed and also quit reading the news.

It's certainly jarring to hear major events like the assassination attempt from friends and family first, but it's very reminiscent of my experience before the rise of internet news.
Economical with the Truth
ParadeDB hasn't apparently read the AGPL and is spreading misinformation about it in that blog. I'd be happy with an AGPL future, but that's not how it arrives.

For example, they wrote, "Thanks to the copyleft provision, cloud vendors cannot easily resell our project without our consent", which is nonsense. AGPL blocks proprietary modifications that Amazon tends to make, but it is entirely trivial to "resell their product" without their consent.
See if he/she is really being toxic or is just in your eyes.
Or vice versa.

With a 2nd opinion.
The reward function could be "pass all of these tests I just wrote".
> So yeah, the EU outlaws some bad behavior, but also lots of innocuous behavior, with a “spirit of the law” enforcement regime. So nobody actually knows what’s legal.

There are edge cases but the directives are quite clear most of the time. It's much better than regulations that are interpreted literally, and have huge gaping loopholes to be exploited by companies spending millions on lawyers.
Opinions on customer feedback. Better tools than email blasts/surveys?
In my last venture, I thought emails and surveys were such an outdated format for me to get feedback from my customers. Wanted to know what people thought of a Reddit like website as an alternative. Would love general feedback on the problem, but I built this in like 2-3wks using a Reddit clone if you like the initial idea: https://www.thecontor.com/
It definitely doesn’t have as big a problem with manufacturing outrage “news” out of nothing at all, like Fox does (and its pal, AM radio). They’ll routinely report ordinary things without history or context in order to imply they’re both new and bad (and they may be bad, but not for the reasons they imply, which often simply aren’t real)

I sometimes wonder if people who compare things like the daily show or John Oliver to Fox News have watched Fox News at all in the last 15 years or so.
Automated API documentation generation for Laravel
Part of the premise sounds appealing. Is it only using AI summarization? If so, I wouldn't go for it.
Doubtful. This is the same mess we've been in repeatedly with 'low code'/'no code' solutions.

Every decade it's 'we don't need programmers anymore'. Then it turns out specifying the problem needs programmers. Then it turns out the auto-coder can only reach a certain level of complexity. Then you've got real programmers modifying over-complicared code. Then everyone realizes they've wasted millions and it would have been quicker and cheaper to get the programmers to write the code in the first place.

The same will almost certainly happen with AI generated code for the next decade or two, just at a slightly higher level of program complexity.
Because what they get away with is abusive and shows no regard for consumers.

Your comment reads like you ignored all of the context of my comment.

It's like if your favorite restaurant served really good burgers for $1000, but if the pickles and lettuce fell out and you tried to put them back in, the waiter would come over and slap the burger out of your hand and make you spend another $1000 to get a whole new burger.
I've also had trouble having assistants help with CSS, which is ostensibly easier than performance oriented and memory safe C++
> except that I'm not pissed off as much

There's a radio show in the mornings in my country that I call "the hour of indignation". A "news" presenter rants on for many minutes about something that is very wrong with the nation. There's another one later in the day, so I think this radio station has a lot of success making people mad.
I agree that social media is largely junk, especially getting news from social media. Personally, I have just eliminated any _real time_ source of news. I control (instead of an algorithm controlled by corporate policy) what I want to catch up on.

Want to catch up on Olympic event medal status for my home country? Sub to the email newsletter.

Want to follow politics in your state? Sub to the email newsletter at local and state orgs.

Want to follow updates in tech industry in general or a specific subfield (ie, nanotechnology, or the latest hype?). Sub to the email newsletter.

With this method, I can choose when to catch up on these topics. Sure, I might be 1-2 days out of sync compared to the news junkie. But with this method I can at least guarantee a variety of sources come out and get a much better view of the issue. Rather than the often sensationalized version presented at _real time_.

One very hilarious instance of where real time junkies got it very wrong: JD Vance, the VP choice for GOP, was allegedly sexually involved with a couch. Original author of post cited a random page in JD Vance’s autobiography in tweet. What was clearly supposed to be a joke, but turned very viral.

“Influencers”, comedians, and I think even some mainstream news outlets ran with it.

I don’t recall _when_ it was debunked, but had to have been within 24 hours of that tweet.
A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks
Everybody knows that. It still looks like doll hair because of the pattern of the implants.
It looks really really cool. I'm really loving the "An abstract orbital map" example.

I am curious to know, what prompted you to make this framework?
The page is so utterly confusing. I’m just going to quote sections of it:

> Pricing

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> No Login

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> Is there a fee for this service?

> No, the image compression service is completely free to use.

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> See the results for yourself. Use our tool to compress a batch of images and compare the before and after. No commitment required.

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So which is it? Is it “100% free” or is it paid? Did you launch it, or is there a team behind it? Are you just copying generic marketing copy?

I looked at your HN account, and recommend you read and follow the HN guidelines lest you get banned:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Transparent AlON-- aluminum oxynitride (on HN frontpage at some point today!)-- can also be 3d printed with a very similar process (much higher temps though!)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09552...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266653952...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41186708

>Because of its relatively low weight, distinctive optical and mechanical properties, and resistance to oxidation or radiation, it shows promise for applications such as bulletproof, blast-resistant, and optoelectronic windows.
I'm quite happy with mine[0]. People don't notice unless they knew me before.

[0] https://i.postimg.cc/13tjX46q/before-after-hair-transplant.p...
Sea Lions with Cameras Map the Ocean Floor
I just don't think there's a clean systematic answer to the problem, its a trust issue. Even if links to data sources are required you can find a data source with statistics to support almost anything. Especially when it comes to non-rigorous survey statistics that can be gamed to death or interpreted in a million ways, and that type of junk data is the bread and butter of political hacks
nothing to see here. this was a 5 on the scale and you should not expect any major earth shattering waves.

there are earthquakes everyday here.
The HN title is shorter and avoids the vague author description of "Nobel Prize winner" and the biased adjective of "brilliant". So it's pretty typical for a HN link.
Dont forget blind people "hating" on bionic eyes and similar nonesense. And no, you haven't understood the underlying issue at all. All you can do is claim a minority group isn't quite in their right mind, thats pretty sad to read. Maybe you can read up on Ableism, but thats not the whole story. Tech based implants are very poor quality-wise. Bionic eyes have a few hundred pixels across, and hearing implants sound quite harsh and unnatural. What those minority groups are "hating" on (what a strange way to put it) is them being forced into this, without seeing a lot of gain. I am blind 45 years now. If someone would force me into a bionic eye, I would need the next 10 to 20 years at least to learn basic reading. I'd have to start at the very basics, and its likely too late for me to adapt to the visual world. My way of dealing with things, as a native blind man, is superior to every technology you undisabled people can give me. And if I decline, you say I am hating on technology. This is soooooooo fucked up, you have no idea.
A random tip for the thread: when looking for glass or other small objects, shine a bright flashlight parallel to the floor: all detritus is made visible by casting longer, harder shadows.
I Do Not Use AWS Load Balancer for My ECS Containers
The USA has the freight problem because trains can't pass each other unless there is a siding long enough for the train that is being passed; and the freight trains are too long.

Where there's double-track (or more) it's not as big an issue because the train can pass on the other side of the track (tracks are often handled as if they were a road with one lane going in one direction and the other going the other way, but you can swap around with signaling).

The other major solution (bandaid) is to add dwell time at stations so that there's room to make up - the timetable says when the train will leave not when it will arrive, and if it normally arrives five minutes early, it just waits; if it lost time and arrives one minute before departure, it will just be there a minute and the lost time is made up.

But while that may reduce the "worst case" scenario, it does make the average travel time longer.
I think it can work, but will require a very well designed set of rules.

For example, with fact checking, some fact checking is easy. Eg if an article says "the unemployment rate last year was X%". You have to do some research to determine what measure of unemployment they're using, but boom, you can say it is factually incorrect if no measure lists that number. This process is even easier if it's linked to the data source. These are likely the only types of facts that can be checked. This is limiting, but at least it creates some sort of check on what feels like a runaway industry.

Statements like "he was the best president since X" is an unverifiable statement. "best" isn't qualified. An article with a statement like this should immediately be dinged. And it's fine to have a site that makes statements like this! But just not a news site.

Things like bias or swing are not really possible to do as part of this. This is mostly trying to make it matter when news sites drop their standards.
Neon64: A NES emulator for Nintendo 64 with save state
The kind of mob “protection” that no one needs
Do they offer an offline viewing option to subscribers?

Apple News does offline reading FWIW.
I'm not, protocols like these already exist and since this is ProtonVPN's own protocol all you need to do is block the IP addresses and it would be useless anyway.

It doesn't work against GFW nor in Russia. I've seen some people saying they're having issues in Iran as well.

If you had a protocol like this combined with something like MysteriumVPN (which has "decentralized" VPN nodes) then yeah, it'd probably help.
Link discovered between sensory neurons and breast cancer metastasis
Energy efficiency might end up being the final remaining axis on which biological brains surpass manufactured ones before the singularity.
Are you assuming that Windows and electric companies are all run by people knowingly making decisions to cut corners and put the company at risk?

Leaders of an electric company shouldn't be held liable for a lightning strike that starts a fire, for example. But they should be held liable if they purposely decide not to spend the money it takes to maintain power lines and a tree branch that should have been trimmed falls and starts a fire.

There would be consequences of such a system that change what we have today, but I wouldn't expect that to mean we couldn't possibly have things like electric companies.