skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's a well known crook.. he's been repeatedly indicted for serious financial crimes but due to his position in government, the charges either were dropped for nonsense reasons or just never prosecuted for over 9 years...

https://apnews.com/article/paxton-indictment-texas-d5e57fc6c...

Then afterwards nearly a dozen of his staffers whistleblew to the FBI about his relationship with an Austin-based real estate developer who was committing serious crimes with Paxton's blessing and likely with kickbacks --

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/07/ken-paxton-impeachme...

That developer was indicted on a number of serious Federal charges where it came out that he renovated Paxton's home for free and covered up Paxton's affair with one of his other staffers: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/08/nate-paul-indictment...

Which ultimately resulted in an impeachment trial where the Texas GOP compeletly beclowned itself to acquit an obvious crook because they agree with him politically.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/16/ken-paxton-acquitted...
I think the authors should mention the background story for how this project originated at Google in Google Research (UK). Tried browsing through the Github project page and didn't see any obvious references, aside from the committers list.

AFAIK, the first time I heard about "Project Oak" was about four or five years ago.

This predates Apple's Private Cloud Compute.
So 35k people have a mandatory Udacity course? Gen AI has gone from the cool kid to corporate check box in record time.
Which part of the world do they live in?
A deal this large. No way it was given to foot soldiers to close. This was a back channeled deal between S&P and ACN. Bonuses for the C-levels. Pumping the stocks for both companies
The Framework 13 has a new high-res screen
Indeed, some US residents do travel outside the country occasionally.
> 1. Its fine to implement this as a web service. It makes it much more flexible to implement in multiple locations. (CLI, website, other backend)

Rating an API specification using a set of rules based on opensource linter is a trivial task which can be easily implemented in such a way so it can be used both offline and online. Relying on a service adds additional latency.

> 2. Its something someone spent time making, that could help you, that theyre giving away at no cost. Future aside thats a nice gesture that should be celebrated.

Feedback was asked, feedback was received. Running the service which does server side processing costs money. There is no free lunch. They are providing the CLI so why not implement it directly there to save the costs?

> 3. OpenAPI specs on average are not precious, not very valuable to other parties.
>4. If yours is, and contains super secret proprietary information you can't afford to leak, thats ok, you do not have to use this.

That's why there should be Terms of Service - they need to say how they are going to use/process my data on their servers. I know how much value my data has and I want to know what I am signing for.
If you really like a video and want to watch it later, it displayed the video ID.

I really like the no pausing / everyone being in sync aspect, it's maybe the best feature
The reason these fires are more concerning to consumers is that people would prefer their car to catch on fire when they are operating it as opposed to being left alone in a car park.

I suppose technically it’s safer to have a larger chance of combustion when you aren’t operating the car, but it also adds to a sense of “this thing is a bomb that could go off any time”.
Agreed, my recommendations are extremely narrow. Usually videos from the same three content creators, and ones that I've already seen or in there chronological queue that I already plan to watch.
At the point someone is using a different format, they’ll likely pick something explicitly structured. Like everything from JSON, to Yaml, to Protobufs, or hell even XML.

DSV seems like worst of both worlds. Not really structured, AND also not really viewable/editable by lowest common denominator tooling.
The productivity of bottom of the barrel code monkeys benefits from generative AI.

They produce shit code in bulk. The worst thing is they produce shit code faster, but copilot may actually improve the quality of the code.
I’m obsessed with The Curse of Knowledge. I see it everywhere, especially in tech. It’s the reason why so much code is impossible to understand, why documentation is terrible, why users don’t understand how to use your app. Person A assumes that Person B understands the same things that Person A does, but they don’t, and confusion ensues, and even worse, people are usually blind to the misunderstanding.
Fun fact, as a owner of a GMC auto I got a innocent looking email about the discontinuation of the Onstar Smart driver service which was the service in question that violated many US laws and sent data to insurance companies without customers authorization. I hope this hits GM really hard as this type of behavior will never cease until massive amounts of money is extracted from the perpetrators(GM etc).
This would seem to counter “This allows actors that have not been designed to work with each other to communicate, just by sharing the same tuple space.” Alternatively, I don’t see the big difference to just using separate message queues with pattern-based retrieval. In the end, you always have to design who communicates with who in which format.
It seems like random videos are being played from many years ago and/or getting live feeds of some stations. Does everyone get the same selection of channel feeds?
What I am really missing is a "Play random episode" or "Randomize episodes" button on TV shows. I want to just flip on Seinfeld or Family Guy and watch random episodes, not in order. Such a missed opportunity for Netflix, etc.
> Anyone have experience with these sort of services?

Quite a bit. Often if you request removal or opt-out, you'll reappear in a matter of a few months in their system, regardless of whether you use a professional service as a proxy or do it yourself. The data brokers usually go out of their way to be annoying about it and will claim they can't do anything about you showing up in their aggregated sources later on. They'll never tell you what these sources are. A lot of them will share data with each other, stuff that's not public. It's entirely hostile and should be illegal. I am trying to craft a lawsuit angle at the moment but they feel totally unassailable.

I'm extremely skeptical of any services that claim they can guarantee 100% removal after any length of time of longer than 6 months. From my technical viewpoint and experience, it is very much an unsolved problem.
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Their modeling will penalize safe drivers who have to deal with non ideal scenarios. The OBD2 accelerometer modules are a bad idea when you live in an area where traffic and road design requires bursts of acceleration to make turns. You're going to be lumped in with the bad drivers when the data is not comprehensive enough to separate good from bad. Nor will they put in the effort to ensure fair driver ratings with thorough analysis of the data they do have.
This reminds me of Neverthink tv, which basically did the same thing except (recycling youtube videos into "tv channels") with heavy manual curation of content.
I believe there is an accessibility setting for the visually impaired that puts a 4x2 grid of pressable squares on the phone screen, and users flip their phone and use it in portrait mode. This might be iPhone only? I remember in the video for this that iPhone accessibility was much better.
I might recommend sending to the landing page or a description, I am not sure how many folks will install a TestFlight without more information.
Why not add a link to the video instead of just the id?
> Management teams in office buildings and apartment complexes across South Korea are mulling measures to address the risk of fire after an electric vehicle (EV) explosion led to the evacuation of more than 200 families.

What are the probabilities going to be?

If I buy a condo in a new 5-story building, built over a garage with EV chargers, will I have a good chance of being displaced by EV fire within 10 years?
This looks very cool - but I'm hesitant to sign up without knowing how you make money. Is it PFOF? Transaction fees? Flat fee?
An L1 is an inter-company transfer visa. A US company can hire you in Europe and then transfer you to its US location/office under an L1 visa. This assumes the goodwill of your employer to apply on your behalf, but if you are getting/got a PhD, and have some supervisory responsibility, you'll probably qualify and the personnel folks will know the process. Ultimately, though, it's up to them. YMMV.
Bravo: Biased locking for reader-writer locks
The fires are different, way harder to control and are happening on different situations with vehicles that are mostly new, under warranty and without a clear cause.

This is a problem to be solved, and that with careful application of research WILL be solved.

Simply pretending it doesn't exist doesn't help at all.
No no no, you can't compare the ICE risk. an ICE car sitting in my garage has basically zero chance of catching fire and burning my house down while my family sleeps.

What this incident shows is that with an EV, charging in the garage as its supposed to do overnight, that chance is >0.

That is an enormously BIG DEAL, and will matter to a huge number of consumers and lawmakers alike.
Plasticy-looking hype watch
Vertical Integration. Android is anything but integrated with all other computing devices I use. Neither with my Mac nor with my Windows PC. It's also not playing well with my firetv the only half decent integration is with my Sonos speakers and that's more on the apps I use than android itself. Hell it doesn't even integrate well with my pixel watch...
I also use vim (or neovim). But that doesn't mean that I believe in modes or that neovim/vim is a good editor.

I think there is some kind of psychological thing driving this. Like subconsciously, I came to the conclusion many years ago that "real programmers" use vim or Emacs, and then consciously decided that the default keybindings for Emacs were slightly worse.

So for decades I have been trying to learn just enough vim to get by. But practically every day I miss my PC keys for things like selecting text.

At least three times I have got my keybindings the way I wanted and then after a new install or something just decided to deal with the outdated way that vim does it.

You have to realize the context that vim was invented. There was no WYSIWYG. People were used to things like 'ed' where everything was a command. Just being able to stay in a mode and move around freely on the screen was a big deal. The terminal hardware didn't even have a way to hold a key combination.
Which part are you saying wasn't direct? The VW->emissions step, or the emissions->life shortening step?

I could understand arguing the first one, but I think the subterfuge makes it pretty much a direct action of VW.

I don't think there's a reasonable argument that the emissions didn't directly shorten lives, even if you think the precise number is impossible to calculate.

From your post above it sounds like you're arguing the emissions->life shortening step, and you haven't really given a good explanation why.
Why? You'd probably have better outcomes for everyone with more information. Unsafe drivers might start reigning in their bad habits because it is costing them money every month, and safe drivers will save money. Seems like a win-win. I'd love it if my dash cam could do ALPR and send a video to the registered insurance agency when I see some absolutely ludicrous driving.
that seems a bit more likely than having just one, all the time
I see eventual consistency here as a bit of copout. it really does limit the applicability of the approach by making really not obvious when things are starting to decohere. Someone else mentioned Alvaro in this thread, and I think thats a really fruitful body of work to look for answers that don't require a strong central serialization agent. Monotonicity, vector clocks, multi-panos style domain partitioning, these are partial answers for making this kind of thing be a foundation you can reason about and still scale.
Yeah but someone has to overcome their ego before being willing to license the tech for their most hyped feature... We'll see how long that takes.

Adding sensors would indeed be an easy W.
Discussed at the time:

A different kind of keyboard - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28611632 - Sept 2021 (147 comments)
I think it's because Google could make a great phone, but choose not to. They keep adding gimmicky features that myself and apparently many other HNers don't care for, while core functionality is neglected and often regresses.

I own a Pixel 8 Pro and it is without a doubt the worst phone I have owned in at least a decade. The amount of bugs for such an expensive product is mind boggling.

One of main features is the camera but I've found myself taking far fewer photos with the phone than I expected I would, mainly because the camera UX just kind of sucks in a 100 small to medium ways that add up to an unpleasant experience. Just for example: you need to reenable the manual focus slider after ever picture, focus peaking is flawed and impossible to disable, there's a very noticeable lag with the telephoto mode when adjusting the camera, setting are buried in several different menus, and more.

The only reason I would even consider another Google phone after this one is that the phone landscape has gotten pretty bad as a whole. Samsung phones have their own list of flaws and I won't buy a phone that Apple dictates what I can do with; and those are the alternatives for buying a nice phone that I'm aware of, but if anyone has other suggestions I'm all ears. I loved LG phones and wish those were still around.
Look up 2-key macro programmable keyboards, and maybe replacing the switches with low-profile ones, and you're good to go.

Something like
https://www.tindie.com/products/anavi/anavi-macro-pad-2/
This is super nerd interesting and everything, but does this have any real effect on everyday life?

I am very supportive of advancing science, but I just wonder if this is the top prioriy for spending in the current world...
I hope wherever money they are saving trying to enforce this lawsuit, lose 100X in lose subscriptions and PR. It's so mess up, where a company can enforce contracts from an unrelated service, just because they are the same holding company.

This is the type of behavior antitrust authorities should enter to break the company in different entities.
https://archive.ph/e3k4U
The title would be better if the original acronym capitalization was kept. "DUNE" not "Dune". I clicked through hoping to find out about a collaboration between geomorphologists and particle physicists. Still interesting but felt like a clickbait title.
I know it's no way possible to add any Hollywood Movies, but if it's possible it would just look like a real TV
WYSIWYG democratised computerised printing and other areas, arguably providing the backbone of the PC revolution.

You're mistaking Microsoft's specific implementation fumbles with an interaction mode that helps billions of people every day. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, there are plenty of good WYSIWYG implementations out there.
I tried for Typescript and was likewise surprised when I opened the code; it leveraged a lot of dynamic features that felt unnecessary in code that was already templated.

I think the code might be the result of dealing with highly variadic endpoints (e.g accepts either JSON or XML, and accepts either basic auth or OAuth, and produces one of 4 different response objects), combined with trying to minimize the bundle size for browsers. The code looks extremely lean; I wouldn't be surprised if more explicit code was 10x the size.

That doesn't really explain the C# code; I'm not a C# dev, but I wouldn't expect "lines of code" to directly impact performance the way it does for browsers.
Teaching the rubber duck to talk back
> Apple has its own issues. And if I'm not mistaken, you need an iPhone to use an Apple watch,

that's a feature, not a bug
What do your extensions do?
Too many Waymo robotaxis arrive at the overnight parking lot at around the same time, after their shift, creating congestion in the parking lot. It takes those robotaxis around an hour to self-park, during which they're moving forward, then backward, breaking, flashing blinkers, beeping, honking, etc. Each would be able to park quickly if it weren't for the other robotaxis. The noise, lights, and commotion keep neighbors awake. Make sure to watch the video ("it's f@#king 4am").

Douglas Adams would have gotten a kick out of this.
> Rust's old sorts, both of them, get this right.

And the newer sort in the stdlib does too, right?

Link https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1dl079x/the_rust_stdl...
The difference is that Roman sculpture is revered for it's ingenuity and craftmanship at a time where that style of sculpture was being developed with the more limited resources they had back then, and it often depicted important motifs from religion, society, etc. Whereas this is just a copy of that with limited cultural relevance (no one is going to be talking about Priscilla Chan in 20 years, let alone a couple thousand).
This is great, exactly what I was looking for, but how do I know I can trust you? I'm a bit hesitant to wire large amounts of money to a startup.

Also, how do you make money?
Who is ‘I’?

If you mean ‘nilkn’, the presumably human created HN account ostensibly still operated by that same sole human being, writing their own thoughts down and not on behalf of other entities, then thanks for providing an excellent demonstration.
Like many large companies, Microsoft uses PHP internally. From word of mouth I believe it drives some services in their cloud platform.
Except the other way around.
Good feedback. Ideally we have a few case studies actually showing the impact we generate, we just have to complete a few of those first.

We've been open to working with customers on a trial basis also. This price is mostly based on industry comps for other optimization tools.
STD Doesn't Have to Abstract OS IO
In an efficient market safe drivers wouldn't be compelled to subsidize unsafe drivers.
This looks pretty cool. One issue I have from just a cursory glance is that the IO capability includes things like `print` and `echo` [1]. If the context system can't differentiate between `console.log` and `fetch`, then it's a little less useful for me.

If there was a way for users to define their own coeffects then you could sidestep this issue, but I saw this quote in one of the design documents: "Runtime will have a native knowledge of each co-effect. We will not allow co-effects to be defined in user-land code [...] An important aspect to note here is that certain co-effects that need deep support from runtime such as io and pure will need to be implemented in the runtime" [2].

[1] https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/contexts-and-capabilities/availab...

[2] https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/blob/master/hphp/hack/doc/H...
This binary classification into safe and unsafe does not match the signal, which is incredibly noisy.
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Excellent recommendation. I'm always impressed by how thorough and fair the hosts are. In their recent episode on "The Anxious Generation" it honestly feels like they did more research than Jonathan Haidt did when he was writing it.
EV battery fires are currently significantly harder to deal with than ICE. The concerns are warranted and require fire departments to develop new tactics to deal with them.

Effectively, the batteries hit a point where they thermally runaway, catch fire, and won't go out until their temperature is reduced to below the thermal runaway threshold.

This currently requires a massive amount of water, like on the scale of dumping the burning vehicle into a lake or pool.

However, solid-state batteries ought to eliminate a lot of this concern.
The imaging reports are being imported, but not the images.

The bigger issue is that clinical imaging is done due to medical indications. Medical indications dramatically confound the results. A key element of the UK Biobank's value is that imaging and ECG are being done without any clinical indication.
For one it would throw off crawlers looking for these AI generated images

It would also throw cold water at "artists" who believes AI is stealing art somehow when they do it regularly by copying other artists style or work to be "inspired" by.

Very annoying bunch just like the getty image type of outfits that deploy these tools.
Why not provide it to them all then? Have you considered piping your results to a (possibly cloud hosted) dashboard that might offer (possibly aggregated) real-time cost estimates to people higher up the corporate chain? A high-level view of the cost of what is being created, if you will.
If you're willing to tempt fait, the best way to 'opt-out' is to tell people, when they call asking to speak to 'your name', that 'your name' sadly passed away recently.
Restricting insurers from using relevant data to calculate risk premiums is not the way to subsidize people who live in an area where traffic and road design are subpar.

If there is an unfair situation that needs to be rectified with a subsidy, it is best for the subsidy to transparent to prevent corruption.

For example, the knowledge of this subsidy can help propel political change to remedy road design so that some people are not driving in unsafe road designs.
Typically an ETF takes a management fee of 0.1-0.5% of assets per year. I expect this build-your-own-ETF to do the same, with fees on the higher side.
Are we reading 'The Mind of a Hacker'?
For a free as in free speech pixel art editor, check out LibreSprite (a fork of Aesprite): https://libresprite.github.io/
If they want a summary judgement they could just start off by pointing those things out, like not being an accurate defendant.

Maybe they did in the actual court filing and the rest is just “but if we are a defendant here’s some other ways we covered our ass”

I’m going to go look. Id feel a lot better if the media is the problem here
Are you thinking of the Million Veteran Program? All of Us is readily accessible to most US institutions and is rolling out a plan to expand access.
> The quick movement of the ball also makes it harder to spot CGI errors IMO. Whereas if you have to fake the bins, you also have to deal with camera zoom, exposure changes, etc. that happen throughout the clip.

Way back in the day, Michael Crichton's Rising Sun, it talks about primitive video editing (when some people are editing the video scene of a crime). Looking at security camera footage over a period of time is monotonous, but harder too is also editing the audio. You could stare at the screen and still easily overlook a glitch, but a hard cut/slice in the audio will catch your notice even when only minimal attention is being paid.