skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just an observation, some colors completely wash out before others. Like 00d000 is solid green, but 0000d0 is a nicely shaded blue for many patterns. But depends on pattern (looking at bright squares).
Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out (2012)
Supersonic rounds make a distinctive noise that machines could reliably distinguish from fireworks (humans can learn to do this too). But distinguishing arbitrary subsonic ammo vs. arbitrary fireworks seems like it would be at least an order of magnitude harder & I don't think it could be made 100% reliable
Concrete is pretty limiting.
Amusingly that’s not a nuclear plant pictured; looks like coal. I don’t think we’re going to see a general nuclear renaissance in the US, but it has its part to play. Co-locating with a massive data center can make a lot of sense.
“a million things that will never happen”

Like cameras and AI used to enforce the “not allowed to sing while driving” policy for Amazon drivers?

The only way to make sure things never happen is by worrying about the worst possible misuse of the technology. Because someone will misuse it that way if it gets him money or power.
Not OP, but I would guess he is talking about completing an unprotected left by pulling out into the intersection, waiting for the opposite traffic’s light to turn red and for those cars to stop, then completing the left as the cross-traffic’s light turns green.

It’s kind of sketchy and probably legally dubious, but it’s the only way to turn left on busy intersections without a protected left. I’d feared that a Waymo would get stuck in such situations indefinitely, but they seem to be perfectly comfortable performing these left turns as a human would.
Just build it into the floor like they build truck scales into the road.
Alternative transportation like light rail or subway are centrally managed. Government is totally legit in monitoring that infra and can shut it down at will to disrupt protest.
Not a redis guy, but I worked on MySQL for quite a long time. the interesting part in KubeBlocks, in my point of view, is they wrap engine-specific differences in 'Addon' . And I checked their impl for MySQL Addon.

I like their idea on hwo to modeling datebase topologies and behaviors. for instence, parameter configurations. seems they have tuned parameters for MySQL replication clusters (e.g. they render parameters w.r.t resources)
Uber had one fatality, yes, but the investigation into that fatality showed fundamental issues with their approach: https://www.jefftk.com/p/uber-self-driving-crash

If instead it had turned out that their system was well built but ran into a freak edge case, I doubt they would have shut down.
Because hypotheticals have a process of moving into "stuff that's happening", on the timescale of years, decades.

Once it's starts happening, speak; if speaking doesn't work, fight; if fighting doesn't work, move. This works.
We eventually realized that the "API server" was actually just a DBMS all along. And once that was realized, it was realized that a DBMS sitting beside another DMBS that deals with the exact same data is rather silly, which is now leading to:

1. Let the clients connect to Postgres directly.
- or -
2. Cut Postgres out of the picture and double down on the homegrown DMBS.

Some are going the #1 route, others #2. Where #2 is opted, SQLite is a convenient engine on which to build upon. It may not be perfect but it is what we have. Keep in mind that this realization on a grand scale (I'm sure some noticed many years ago) is fairly recent, so there is a lot of experimenting going on to figure out what works and what doesn't.

It's the natural cycle of computing. What is old is new again.

(Replace Postgres with MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, or other DBMS as you see fit.)
Good point, I’m not too worried at this stage but if they send me something I’ll just change it to something else
I would write that comment if it was a long enough list of single line var assignments with enough complex ones that each have a comment like this one.

I will als name each db table column in the correct order by its correct name right above that what decided the value.

// id

user_id = getUserId();

They serve as dividers.
LakeHarbor: Making Structures First-Class Citizens in Data Lakes
Couple notes for newcomers:

1. This is a VLM, not a text-to-image model. You can give it images, and it can understand them. It doesn't generate images back.

2. It seems like Pixtral 12B benchmarks significantly below Qwen2-VL-7B [1], so if you want the best local model for understanding images, probably use Qwen2. If you want a large open-source model, Qwen2-VL-72B is most likely the best option.

1: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2-vl/
I have not tried it, but this person has claimed to have improved his formulation of iron gall ink to no longer eat away at paper: https://simplifier.neocities.org/irongall
I'd rather wait for the self-driving transportation we have to actually be used and built: trains and subways. It makes nearly zero sense to replace single low occupancy cars with the exact same occupancy but orders of magnitude more cost and blurred responsibility.

> I assume that safety will only increase as the proportion rises.

I assume that safety will drastically decrease as self-driving cars are introduced.
They weren't forced to dissolve the project. They gave up. Uber had already lost their founder at that point. The new management wasn't serious about self driving and they were likely already looking for an excuse to get rid of it. If Waymo had a single fatality today after years of safe operation and with determination to continue it would be a completely different story.
Onshape has been my cad software of choice for all my local 3d printing needs. It’s honestly pretty damn good.
I'm curious, how do duplicates make it to the front page? My experience in submitting links that are less than a year old, the submission gets rejected and you are pointed to the previous submission.
I'm the author. I've been blogging for almost 23 years. I think newsletters are better than blogs because delivery into an email inbox > delivery via an RSS feed.
While the article has some good points about the importance of emotional intelligence and awareness, I'm skeptical about the idea that we can simply "choose" to be thermostats. Humans are complex and emotional creatures, and our emotions can be triggered by a multitude of factors beyond our control. The article's suggestions, while well-intentioned, feel like a form of emotional labor that can be exhausting and unsustainable. Can we really expect people to be constantly "on" and aware of their emotional impact on others?
> I wonder if there are better options available today

Rp2350. That’s what I’m basing my next revision of this project on
I think the statistics they use to compare to human drivers are slightly misleading. They compare to the average human driver. I'm not sure I would entrust my life to a random driver, who could be a teenager who just got their driver's license, a 90-year-old grandma, or someone with prior reckless driving citations. For comparison, here are the requirements to become a taxi driver in San Francisco: [San Francisco Taxi Driver Requirements](https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/taxi/become-taxi-driver).

In conclusion, Waymo, being a taxi service, should compare their safety record to that of human taxi drivers.
I think plenty of companies would like to spend time training but aren't able to because the budget is too small. Still makes Sony reasonable for the shortage as you say.
I think that would be a fascinating comparison.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a top x% of drivers would outperform Waymo at this current juncture. (Especially perhaps in things like heavy rain).

However, I’ll use myself as an example. I’ve driven over 1.2 million miles over the last 17 years. (It may be closer to 1.5 million but I’m only counting miles on vehicles I’ve owned as that’s easier for me to calculate quickly ).
Without an accident.

I know that I get tired and my driving skills drop[1]. I have to sneeze or cough and they drop. I’m on a long continuously straight road, stressed about xyz and they drop.

Self driving cars won’t necessarily have the same short comings.

Even the self driving features that my car has (very limited, 2023 Infiniti Q50 Red Sport 400) are better at times then I am. (Though it often will wait far too long to brake in my opinion when using the auto cruise even at maximum distance).

However, I do think humans have advantages too in some situations. (If you can on average track what’s around you and try to think as close as possible to 12 seconds ahead…. If you haven’t try it sometime on the highway. )

[1] perhaps luckily, I have a tendency to drive slower when fatigued. However at times I’ve pushed it, realized I’m going 15 mph below the speed limit, and realized I needed to not be driving. I also know that when not fatigued my lane assist will usually trigger 0 times on a normal 20-30 mile drive. When fatigued, it may begin to trigger once every 10 minutes. To clarify, I’m not out of my lane, but I’m moving out of center.
Have used https://github.com/redotvideo

You may wanna move this post to "Ask HN:"
City roads are subject to the exact same risk.
Ha yeah I think it was called Piranha solution - thanks for the nostalgia! :)

Yeah you're right getting threatened by a knife isn't very exotic
not to be cynical but yet nother Scrum-based project management tool that promises the moon but delivers a watered-down version of Asana/Trello. 'Unlimited team members' is just a marketing gimmick - what about data storage limits? How does this tool handle large-scale projects with multiple stakeholders? And what about integrations with other tools? The 'AI-generated changelogs' feature sounds like a nice-to-have, but how does it actually work in practice?

I'd love to see some real-world examples of how EnkiTask has helped teams achieve their goals, rather than just a laundry list of features. And can we get some transparency on pricing? 'Pay-for-task packages' sounds like a great idea, but how much does each task cost, and what's the minimum commitment?

Overall, EnkiTask feels like a me-too product that's trying to ride the coattails of more established players in the project management space. I'd need to see some serious proof of concept before I'd consider using this tool for my team.
The verification that the user downloaded the app from the Play Store has hardly anything to do with DRM.

They claim its raison d'etre is allowing "better download metrics" and control on the kinds of devices allowed to run the app; those reasons hardly justify forcing going through the Play Store (and having, and associating, a Google account).
Relevant article: https://racketmn.com/the-history-behind-minneapoliss-alphabe...
That's just a local problém, there's no such shortage in Europe. Guess I'd just need a really cheap shipping option to the US to make some profits ;)
Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
On 1, technology sometimes brings a worse than humanity could not even anticipate.
must've been another company then which i got confused with the name
Let me get this straight, you spent a bunch of time and money on a 12U rack, a bunch of Unifi switches, and a bunch of cameras, and you're just now realizing that you need to set up VLANs and firewall rules? That's not a "homelab project", that's just a bunch of stuff you bought and now you're trying to figure out how to make it work.

And what's with the obsession with aesthetics? You spent a bunch of money on fancy cable management and patch panels, but you're still using a bunch of ugly, exposed cables. It's like you're trying to make a statement about how much money you have, rather than actually building a functional network.

And don't even get me started on the DNS settings. You're using a custom domain name for your Synology NAS, but you're still using DHCP to assign IP addresses. What's the point of having a custom domain name if you're just going to use a dynamic IP address?

I'm not trying to be mean-spirited, but this post just reeks of "I have a lot of money and I want to show it off". If you're actually interested in building a functional home lab, I'd be happy to offer some advice. But if you're just looking for a way to justify buying a bunch of expensive networking gear, then maybe you should just stick to playing with your toys.
I'm in the same boat, got a battery replacement last year and am struggling to justify the expense but the satellite piece + AI integration may clinch it
This was observed at least in 2022 [0], and wasn’t fixed until earlier this year [1].

My point was that any company willing to ship a product that is lacking such an incredibly basic part of the language does not deserve respect. These are deeply unserious people.

[0]: https://github.com/prisma/prisma/discussions/12715

[1]: https://www.prisma.io/blog/prisma-orm-now-lets-you-choose-th...
2 miles of proposed subway tunnel, which is why the DTX isn't getting built.
Anyone know why the hardcover isn’t available until April 2025?

I was super excited to read this book but I hate buying kindle books as it’s easier to share real books.
My utility bills seem to arrive without issue.
People still complain about the tailwind build process and I agree and would not use it bc of that except.. Tailwind has had a stand alone executable builder available for a long time. (Including at the writing of this article)You can just drop the exe and either add it to your path or run it directly. No node or npm/npx needed.

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/standalone-cli
> It’s tragic that many lives will be lost due to the fear-driven slow rollout.

Sam Peltzman showed with statistics that the FDA's mandate of "safe and effective" slowed down the development of new pharmaceuticals past the point that there were more deaths.

He took it to Congress, who simply latched on to "safe and effective" as an obviously good idea, statistics be damned.

"Regulation of Pharmaceutical Innovation", Sam Peltzman
https://www.amazon.com/Regulation-Pharmaceutical-Innovation-...
> “Whether it’s for games, films or anime, we don’t have that much IP that we fostered from the beginning,” the company’s chief financial officer Hiroki Totoki told FT. “We’re lacking the early phase [of IP] and that’s an issue for us.”

I read this from Playstation before, but the quote makes 1% more sense when it's expanded to anime and films.

It's still stupid because they are doing the exact same thing in film as in games these days: relying on Spiderman (among other 3rd party franchises) to basically carry their portfolios with some of the best talent in the business. It seems like their narrative doesn't match their actions.

(I won't be too harsh on the anime sector, because being realistic: 90+% of anime are adaptations of something else and manga/ln properties do tend to actually stay in ownership of the author).

>with costs ballooning 40-60% due to growing budgets in Japan and a limited number of animators in the anime industry.

One look at the budget of an anime and the compensation of an animator and these claims instantly shift to "animators finally getting tired of being abused". Even the games industry can't compared to how utterly grinded the animators are, while paid even worse to boot. That's a very deep topic to go into itself so I'll just say that the structure of the anime committee needed to die yesterday. It's a borderline cabal.

Someone wanting a deeper dive into the structure can watch this video as an introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iExwO1v_V-s
I remember animating things years ago when I used Macromedia Shockwave. One of the first things I learned about was tweening, where you had a start frame and end frame and the software just animated the gaps for you so your animation worked. If there were software that animated whole frames with this in betweening process, I foresee that becoming the new way to do things. Hopefully software like this makes its way into open source tooling where others can take advantage of it. Maybe it even already exists by now. :)
You apparently read what you thought I was going to say and not what I actually wrote. This does not even begin to approach an accurate assessment of what I said or meant.

I'm saying that too many people in this forum are too comfortable completely ignoring the harm that Tor causes, and in order to make a good judgement call about whether to run an exit node the harms need to be surfaced. Full stop.

Everything else that you and others in this thread read into my comment is on you, not me.
Author here. Interesting perspective. I won't say my writing process is as ... meandering as what you describe, but I definitely write on a wide variety of topics.

If you look at my personal blog (which this post is on) then I have followed some of your pattern--it covers a lot of stuff that happened to be interesting to me when I was writing, but is not interesting to me now. But I still read some of them and am impressed by what I wrote. The technical ones don't age well, but do show some level of expertise, especially around communicating technical concepts. I'm a generalist, and it shows.

What I've done is had a second focused blog which I commit to for years, but not forever. The constraint is good for me, both beforehand ("is this something I want to write about for 2-3 years at least" culls a lot of themes) and during it (nothing like writing about something from N different ways to force you to really understand it).

I've done these blogs on:

* permaculture

* vericomposting

* advice for new software developers

* customer identity and access management

These wax and wane and I have shut many of them down as my interests, jobs and focus change.
Ha, I've been looking for an inverse ackermann instance for quite a while. Thanks
I think it’s Waymo 6 accidents, not .6 if Waymo has ~1.2 accidents per 100k miles.
> `ORDER BY (enabled, ts, id) POPULATE AS`
> `SELECT * FROM peerdb.public_goals;`

With a materialized view like that, a simple "final" for deduplication won't work anymore, right? And the other two deduplication methods will probably cause performance problems on large-ish tables.
It's less emotional labor and less exhausting the more you are aware of your emotions.

You can recognize the stimuli and rationalize it before becoming upset.

The more you do it, the easier it becomes and the less stressed you become.
Looking badass but hear me out. You don't need any of these unless you just want to spend $2-3k+. A simple Sonicwall router + 2-3 wired devices are more than enough setup. For wifi, a cheap TP-Link mesh works well which only costs $30 to upgrade per room.

For commercial clients, we use the Unifi series and are very happy with it. I won't use Unifi for home because its strength is too high and I am very paranoid when it comes to signals blasting and penetrating more than a drywall. Wifi shouldn't be strong enough to be picked up outside of my house and I accomplish it with weak tplink per room mesh units.

I don't remember using more than 350 mbit data transfer over my ethernet since my internet speed is capped at 350 mbit. My NAS is connected to my SonicWall directly and can reach maximum read/write speeds (for cloud backups).

I'd invest that money in the stock market and make money instead. But I get it. A hobby is a hobby.
Holy cow, dude. I feel tired just reading that post's title!
tweening is indeed a fundamental concept in animation, and it's great to see you're nostalgic about the early days of Macromedia Shockwave.

I think you're onto something with the idea of software that can automatically animate entire frames with tweening in between. This could potentially revolutionize the way we create animations, especially for tasks like data visualization, scientific simulations, or even video game cinematics.

There are already some tools that can generate animations using tweening, such as Blender's animation tools or even some proprietary software like Adobe After Effects. However, I'm not aware of any open-source tools that can do this on a large scale.

That being said, there are some interesting projects like OpenToonz, which is an open-source 2D animation software that uses a tweening-based approach. It's not exactly what you're looking for, but it's a good starting point.

I'd love to see more open-source tools that can automate the animation process using tweening. Do you think this could be achieved using machine learning algorithms, or would it require a more traditional programming approach?

Also, have you explored any of the newer animation tools like Houdini or Nuke, which have some impressive animation capabilities? Maybe we can learn from their approaches and apply them to open-source tools
That's a significant factor here in Taiwan, also.
> The market is definitely going to choose Waymo.

Given the tendency for premature HN opinions that are absolute to often swing the other way in practice, I'll be curious to see how this actually goes.
For example, the UK has a rate of gun deaths that's 86 times lower than that of the US, while Japan's is 1351 times lower. [1]

The "cat is out of the bag" theory is easily disproved by looking at the post-WW2 years, when much of the planet was awash in guns and other weapons. Most places got cleaned up, and there were few mass shootings after that.

Maybe you can 3D-print gun parts, but not the deadliest kinds of ammo.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
What's a brand that regularly available in stores that you like?
I think he meant the Indians working in the Middle East.
Sextortion scam includes new threat of Pegasus–and a picture of your home
ur absolutely right that a simple FINAL clause won't work as expected with a materialized view like this, since the FINAL clause relies on the underlying table's ordering to eliminate duplicates. With a materialized view, the ordering is based on the enabled, ts, and id columns, which might not be the same as the underlying table's ordering.

As for the other two deduplication methods, you're also correct that they might cause performance problems on large-ish tables. The DISTINCT ON method can be slow due to the need to sort the entire table, while the ROW_NUMBER() method can be resource-intensive due to the need to assign a unique row number to each row.

one possible solution to this problem is to use a combination of a materialized view and a secondary deduplication method. For example, you could create a materialized view that includes a ROW_NUMBER() or RANK() function to assign a unique identifier to each row, and then use a secondary query to eliminate duplicates based on this identifier.

you could consider using a different data modeling approach, such as using a separate table to store the deduplicated data, or using a data warehousing tool that supports more advanced deduplication techniques.
If your budget is too small for training its too small for running a business outside of 1 person.
> I also recognize the profound economic incentives that work against that free exchange of information, and I'm not offering a solution, so grain of salt and all that.

I would argue that there are "profound economic incentives" for an individual to free their content, or at least copy/edit/publish it on the web as well as on the platforms.

The platforms bring reach and an easier interface, but freely available content gives you dividends for years.
Heh yeah you have to click through to find it.
All you need is CRUD
What specifically was not as good on the tp link omadas?
I think the hardest part is defining exactly what private equity is. It's a boogyman at this point.