skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been advocating for railside cameras so that the driver can see things further down the track. The accidents happen at crossings of which there are relatively few.

If you put a cam and a computer with a crosswalk it can rigorously figure out (and transmit) someone is crossing the road. Very much more so than a vehicle approaching from around the corner.
Vanilla Python Packaging
Hm. Someone whose entire article is about bad UI design makes it impossible for me to make the way-too-large fonts on the page smaller by using the controls my browser has specifically for that purpose.

I haven't even read the article yet and I'm already skeptical about this author.
“This time is different” in one fundamental, methodological, epistemological way: we test on the training set now.

This has follow-on consequences for a shattering phase transition between “persuasive demo” and “useful product”.

We can now make arbitrarily convincing demos that will crash airplanes (“with no survivors!”) on the first try in production.

This is institutionalized by the market capitalizations of 7 companies being so inflated that if they were priced accurately the US economy would collapse.
This is such an insane mentality for a rank-and-file employee who does not have significant upside tied to the business. If you're the sole shareholder of the company and there's some technical problem causing it to stop making money, then I can see it having a stressful effect on you and your health. If you're a worker bee who got 0.00000001% of the company's equity (if you're lucky), why oh why would you let the company's problems cause you to miss sleep and have a literal heart attack?
Has anyone tried the other buttons?
then buy a vegetarian/vegan pet :) rabbits, mice, hamsters etc.
Information-Theoretic Measures Reveal Grokking Is an Emergent Phase Transition
Looking forward to this - very in line with the philosophy my wife writes about https://busydoggie.com/home/blog/
Earth observation is still growing. And it seems to be an area where countries want to have the own capability for national security and prestige reasons.
Yes, usb4 standard includes host-to-host, which sets up IP networking between computers.

And yes there's lots and lots of file share over local network apps. That would just work.

Intel Thunderbolt Share adds their own ways reimplementation of something like MediaTek CrossMount, a set of standards atop UPNP to share sound cards, screens, input devices. From the article:

> It’s really going to offer users an easy, fast, and efficient way to do more with your two PCs by securely sharing screens external monitors, keyboard, mouse, storage and all your files,

Intel Thunderbolt Share (ITS) has shown up a number of times, and this elementary confusion with base USB4 capabilities persists. ITS seems semi cool to me, just, 100% would rather have a protocol than a piece of software. Super glue usb-ip to mdns or UPNP, and be real about it. ITS feels like a cheap substitute of the real deal: Software as a Protocol Substitute.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=thunderbolt%20share&sort=byDat...
Maybe it's meant to be annoying so you get Premium
Front end is more specific than conventional – it has a graphical output, and is thus closer to 2D game development than to the “conventional” data structures and algorithms way of programming.
This is not at all the same news.
I completely disagree - internal tools and high usage, open source, public tools used as marketing serve vastly different purposes and require vastly different workflows. Doing a great job for internal tools can leverage other internal processes, training, access control, implicit understanding, documentation, and aligned workflows. Many issues and bugs can be avoided or papered over and major changes can be forced onto users if necessary because of a shared understanding and a direct communication channels.

A great public codebase likely needs to be more understandable, more generic, more self guided, more error proof, more auditable, and more pluggable. Additionally, supporting popular open source at all comes with a deluge of requests, demands, audits, and obligations.

I expect these two converge as your "internal" consumer base grows big enough but for a small, cohesive team an internal-only codebase seems to me like a much much easier beast to tame.
This car with no seat belts, no airbags, and no ABS is just price discrimination! Strangely, no one seems interested in celebrating the implied discount for not having safety.
It is like Chekhov’s Gun, but probabilistic
> For officers, much of their training is done on the ship via self study in their spare time instead of in a classroom

The problem here isn't "instead of in a classroom", it's "self study in their spare time" instead of "learning by doing the job under the supervision of more experienced people". The way I learned to drive ships was by driving ships under the supervision of more experienced ship drivers. Sure, there was some classroom preparation before that, but the biggest value add was the supervised hands-on time.
You'll see this occasionally when you print out a value that contains optionals in the console. But in 10 years of writing Swift code, I've never had any reason to interact with the underlying enum case values.

I'm not sure why this should be surprising—the unwrapping operators are clearly syntactic sugar regardless of whether they're implemented in the standard library or in the Swift compiler.
The same reason that the ULA launch system costs more than SpaceX.

Cronyism.
No, they don't. Not unless you want to sabotage your own career.

There is a limited set of journals for a specific area of science, and you need to publish in the most reputable journal possible. There is only a very limited choice here in most cases.
The main issue I see is one of privacy and government control. Kill switches, speed governors, cars communicating with other cars … soon we’re on the doorstep of the same ability the CCP has to restrict transit.
I know it's different, just trying to find the closest modern comparison. You bring up Elvis and the Beatles, but they still matter to quite a few people. This ship does not, and that doesn't mean it's worthless, but it does mean that it's not a national icon that the president should step in to save.
As someone who deals with application support, another big reason is SSO is such a support nightmare. No one wanted to touch SSO tickets because of how frustrating they were to deal with. People wouldn't follow the instructions. Microsoft/Google moved something in their portal and we didn't know so instructions were useless. Microsoft/Google would be having issues and we got tickets because they were still working until tokens expired. Their Admins would turn on 2FA and when their support desk got "Cannot login to $OurProduct", they would just flip it over to us without caring. List goes on and on.
Sells a lot of v2x chips tho
Hang on, there's a few inaccuracies here (I think, since I only played mainline Dragonflight but not Remix, but at a relatively sweaty level for a non-competitive m+ player)

> They dominate roughly 30% of the screen real estate (when presented in volume), smack in the center.

Pretty sure this is customizable. My loot toasts are relatively discrete, I can put them wherever.

> Similarly, if you log into a zone, particularly a quiet zone, it's not uncommon for the screen to explode with alerts telling you of all the rare monsters that are simply sitting there because the zone is very quiet for players.

This sounds to me like you're using the addon SilverDragon which is deliberately obnoxious about alerting you to rare monsters, but with it you can control every aspect of the alert, when/where they occur, or disable them entirely.
> agita

Interesting word, thank you!
Or a racing team
Quake 3 and it's descendent games (including the amazing Tremulous) were such an amazing time to be a gamer. The servers built their own communities, and were really just a blast to play
If it only Cheyenne city specific decisions then maybe it will be fun. The spectacle it creates should be very entertaining. On the flip side however Cheyenne is the state capitol. If it's outcome bleeds into state politics then it will affect me. I doubt any of my community are even aware of this. The decision to do this and decisions the big data chat bot makes along with the fallout should find it's way to the Cowboy State Daily. [1] Plenty of people read that and watch their YouTube channel for weather news. The naive and hopeful side of me wants to believe they are doing this knowing it will blow up and create a spectacle to put the AI running this or that discussion to bed.

I am still waiting for ChatGPT to do what I have been asking for since it was first conceived. It needs to be able to accurately cite all of it's sources and what logic was used along with a detailed audit log of any human tuning to reach it's conclusions, given it's big data this should be easy. A human can be excused for not always have sources handy unless they are writing a thesis. Big data has no good excuse that I am aware of.

[1] - https://cowboystatedaily.com/
The other problems with capturing peoples freedom of movement, is the liability it creates in insurance and or legal accountability.

It will lead to countless edge-cases that usurp normal judgement by rational drivers. Example: "The school bus stopped on the railway crossing, because some drunk in a Tesla passed out in the turning lane."

What a silly policy from naive nerd hubris. =3
It's egregious that this conservancy group can waste the time of the city's government on something that is trash when A) there is a LOT of historical shit that needs preserving in Philly and B) the city has •actual• problems (highest rate of extreme poverty of any large city in America). Something tells me if I parked a "historical" no-start '88 Ranger outside of a board member's Main Line McMansion that it would be promptly removed.
I'm sure it's not why he does it, but I just nominated ankane for the Rails 2024 Luminary award, if anyone else wanted to express their gratitude.. https://rubyonrails.org/2024/8/2/nominations-open-for-2024-l...
The average time between two buses (based on the Poisson model used in TFA) is N minutes. But you are more likely to arrive in a long interval than a short one. So if you turn up to the station at a random time, the average time between the last bus that departed before you got there and the next departure, is 2N minutes.
Thanks, very interesting. One senses a nor entirely harmonious relationship between RPi and Broadcom.
Any chance of a Firefox extension?
This comment is not correct.

Java uses mixed Latin1/UTF-16 strings. The Latin1 mode is used for compact storage of alphanumeric text as the name suggests: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/1ebf2cf639300728ffc02478...
Oh but I did. In the second sentence.
https://archive.is/s1atW
We are not on the doorstep, we are very much already there. And we do. Quiet Skies exists, and all intercity Amtrack trains fall under TSA as well.
> Optionals were a 2-case enum the entire time

Why the drama, of course it is, what else what it be? The same is true for other languages, eg Scala.
Here's some good news: your license for Windows 11 is probably good for Windows 10 as well. Grab a Windows 10 install media from Microsoft and do a clean install on the drive.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...
I'm not sure what you think the alternative is. The US is huge compared to any similarly developed country. Is the answer huge cities right next to thousands of square miles of untouched nature? That hasn't happened in any society on the planet.

It sounds like you just want everyone to live in a city and take public transit everywhere but cities are awful for your mental health[0] and most people in the US do not want to live in a major urban area. You can't have a huge geography and rural or suburban life without private vehicles.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7892359/
By we you mean anybody besides you? Complain-driven development.
Honestly a neat idea, making cars not run into each other seems like an almost trivial idea to implement if they can talk to each other.
> During rush hour most people are going from their homes to places of employment, which are generally highly concentrated.

This isn't as true in Dallas as in other places. The QoL associated with some of these problems in Dallas is part of the reason I left, so you're preaching to the choir, but the sprawl is intense.
San Francisco Officials Call for Citywide Ban on Right Turns on Red
also, aider has added experimental support for prompt caching: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/issues/1086#issuecomm...

I really like the control you get with aider over the LLM context. You can /add or /drop source code, markdown notes. You can /clear the chat. /tokens shows you the context and the cost, you can see what each prompt will cost you.

I find aider best used in conjunction with a git diff view in VSCode, I run aider with --no-auto-commits and then manually review each time in VSCode.

I'm keen to learn any AI coding workflows if anyone has any links. I've benefitted greatly from tips such as using type hints and documentation for the LLM's benefit.
How Sad Do You Feel?
At the risk of sounding like "that guy", is this not common knowledge? I don't write a lot of Swift at all but I've read multiple introductions to the language's enums which are some variety of "those Optionals we've been using for a while? They're just an enum with syntactic sugar!"
Pentagon UFO expert says secret group has 'non-human material'
> If you actually want practical and safe self driving cars widely deployed

I can't speak for everyone in this thread but personally this sounds like a nightmare. If we're dreaming about possible future worlds that are better than what we have, I'd rather have less or no cars. Much cheaper to maintain, not hackable.
Why would Article Galaxy be shut down? It makes it easier for Elsevier's articles to generate revenue:

https://www.researchsolutions.com/
> So it has all the same combination of winners, plus you.

And the same is true when you condition on having at least one winner. One winner doesn't change the odds of other people winning.

[edit: this may not be correct, never mind "In your example it doesn't matter whether you condition on A winning, on B winning or on at least one of A and B winning."]
It has the propulsion system of a Midway-class aircraft carrier.
You're thinking of NS Savannah.
It's a bad system and you should feel bad for using it.

By all means charge enterprises more, but base it on something else, headcount, revenue, non-profit status...whatever.

Every time I hear about a data breach I wonder if someone avoided perfectly reasonable SSO protections because of this tax.
And you use the passwords from the cloud to test your ability to restore from backup? ;).
It will just be the new victim blaming: the cyclist got run over because they didn't have an expensive responder on their back!
A standard bar of 400 troy ounces is 12.441 kg, 27.4 pounds. Prices are over $80 per gram.
Imagine a Slack AI attack vector where an LLM is trained on a secret 'VampAIre Tap', as it were - whereby the attacking LLM learns the personas and messagind texting style of all the parties in the Slack...

Ultimately, it uses the Domain Vernacular, with an intrinsic knowledge of the infra and tools discussed and within all contexts - and the banter of the team...

It impersonates a member to another member and uses in-jokes/previous dialog references to social engineer coaxing of further information. For example, imagine it creates a false system test with a test acount of some sort that it needs to give some sort of 'jailed' access to various components in the infra - and its trojaning this user by getting some other team member to create the users and provide the AI the creds to run its trojan test harness.

It runs the tests, and posts real data for team to see, but now it has a Trojan account with an ability to hit from an internal testing vector to crawl into the system.

That would be a wonderful Black Mirror episode. 'Ping Ping' - the Malicious AI developed in the near future by Chinese AI agencies who, as has been predicted by many in the AI Strata of AI thought leaders, have been harvesting the best of AI developments from Silicon Valley and folding them home, into their own.
I wonder how they’ll treat his Roth IRA?
that's great. what other strategies did you use to get the first clients? or was it just the pure bliss of making such a great product it spread by word of mouth?

thanks for answering! very kind
> for example pushing a 12gen Intel chip above 300W

And pushing 13th and 14th gen chips into an early grave! /s
I have no answer, but this got me thinking: is the overpass's road a similar physical width as the highway?

I've been on some bridges that have two lanes with a very narrow shoulder that then then merge into a single lane (with wider shoulders) at the end of the bridge, with the asphalt width not changing too much. I've always assumed that was so traffic could continue flowing on the bridge should one lane become blocked for some reason. Off the bridge a car can pull off the road if there's a problem to let traffic continue passing. You can't really do that so much on a bridge.

But I'm not a traffic/road engineer so that's just speculation on my part.
Ask HN: Good books about SpaceX and New Space?
After watching a video on Youtube by Perun about New Space and SpaceX I was hooked to read and learn more about SpaceX. Despite its newest turn into far - right I still think Musk was a great entrepreneur.

So I bought the book Liftoff by Eric Berger but I was disappointed by the shallow content. Neither I had any deeper comments on the space market before SpaceX, Musk in the book is basically a genius without any mistakes and no technical deep dives into rocketry.

So maybe the community might suggest any book, podcast, documentary, film, video game etc. about SpaceX or/and New Space? (ok, no kerbal space program ;)

Market structures, early days of the company/companies, maybe the good and bad sides of Musk personality back then. Plus points if they look outside of the US.

Language I can understand : German, English, and more or less French or Polish.
Your counterargument is invalid. The most advanced human intelligence invented (or discovered) concepts like multiplication, pi, etc., and created tools to work around the ways in which these concepts aren't well handled by their biological substrate. When machine intelligences start inventing biological tools to overcome the limits of their silicon existence, you'll have a point.
I get that there's some correlation between hacker culture and piracy and free as in gratis.

But lately I've seen a flood of flat out complaining about things costing money.

As software devs we should be for software having a price tag, not against it
I think the key thing to understand is that there are never. Full Stop. Any meaningful consequences to getting pwned on user data.

Every big tech company has a blanket, unassailable pass on blowing it now.
I wouldn't want all cars to accelerate simultaneously since I don't think they can all brake simultaneously
> I can look at a CVE and determine for myself and my organization whether it something we need to care about.

Yes, but one can envision a scenario where everything gets a CVE number and you, or members of your team, spend an inordinate amount of time looking up CVE numbers. Then along comes a service that you have to pay for that scores each CVE number for you. Due to any lack of discretion (in a database maintained by "experts"), you'll pay with your time, or your money.
*Building the line* has a massive environmental impact, so they're not wrong as such.

The risk of course is doing what has been done with HS2 in the UK, all the environmental damage before killing most of the project and thus no end benefit*.

* Unless you count enriching your tory donors by selling them the cancelled land secretly within hours of cancelling the project.
The "T" in TFA stands for "The" so this is sort of like saying "ATM machine."
My favourite is CVE-1999-0524, people can tell the time set on your system with ICMP Timestamp messages.

Someone's added it to a commercial security scanner recently, so we have a lot of "severity 1" tickets to disable it.

Yes, severity 1 for something that's been there for 25 years. Very important CVE obviously.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0524
I meant there's few trucks during rush hour. Overnight it's a different story. Last month I was going down south I-35 around midnight and got stuck in construction traffic in Waco and it was about 80% trucks.
Is it possible the value of a dollar and the value of a unit of physical gold both changed?
I don’t see this as a good thing. HelloSign was acquired by DropBox and is basically a stagnant has-been, and their security incident doesn’t give me confidence that acquisitions are in good hands there either given the lack of a transparent root cause analysis.
> The issue here is that the checkbox doesn’t match the exact state it’s supposed to represent…

This can all be fixed. E.g. disable the checkbox while it’s processing; or show a small loading indicator; make it impossible to click the checkbox repeatedly. Etc.

A frontend update that doesn’t wait for the server is nice, but only when server state is irrelevant. If the user wants to know about the server state, then the UI should always indicate that.
This is a solid objection that I hadn't considered before!

Why isn't SAML SSO mandated (either literally or my convention)?

Practically speaking, as someone who spends all day trying to convince developers to implement SAML SSO, I really wish this were the case :)

I think in practice, software vendors correctly assess that relatively few of their prospective customers actually care.

If many small / price sensitive companies really wanted SAML SSO from their vendors -- if there were really meaningful demand -- I imagine we'd see more pricing plans with SAML SSO bundled into entry level tiers.

As for mandates, this is a challenging ethical question. I don't think it's necessarily obvious in all cases that some institution should impose safety regulations upon us.

There's clearly some set of risks we accept, and some set of risks we don't accept. And we all draw the line in different places.

This is pretty obviously true. Not many of us worry about objects randomly falling off buildings. We don't all wear helmets all the time. It's certainly a risk, but do we really care?

I think the revealed preference from many software buyers is basically ... no, they don't care about having the security benefits of SSO.
I realize this question is likely not to be appreciated by many, but do you not know whether your dog is male or female?
I don't mind governors, you can set all US cars around 80 MPH without putting any cars on the Internet.

The risk to privacy isn't a government nefariously shutting down my car, it's a bunch of corporations trading my personal information, and I'm already losing the war
Most authors are rated based on the journals they publish in, and the most prestigious journals are typically from predatory publishers (Elsevier, Nature etc., yes I know that predatory journal is typically used in other context).
Just launch it from Alicante, by the time it makes its way to Sicily it should be good, right?
My understanding is that latency is usually a much bigger concern than raw computing power when doing audio processing. GPUs are great at doing large batches of computation, but aren't as good at doing lots of small batches with low latency, which is what audio processing tends to be.
Article Galaxy contracts with publishers to allow them to resell papers[1], they aren't depending on a shaky interpretation of copyright law to resell digital goods. Which makes it even easier for the big publishers to cut them off, or raise their rates if enough universities try to switch to pay-per-article.

[1]https://www.researchsolutions.com/about/publishers