skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US largely doesn't have that. As a German where you got to have your vehicle inspected for code compliance every two years, watching US dashcam videos is completely amazing - some of the shit you're allowed to put on roads there would yield you actual prison time if you tried it in Germany, and not to mention that there are states that do not require a general liability insurance - here it's mandatory to have coverage for at least 7.5 million euros in healthcare, 1.22 million for property damage and 50.000 € for financial loss (say, lost income because the car of the other party is a work car and they need to rent a replacement). Most insurances go above and beyond, standard is like 50 million € of coverage - to hit that, you'd need to crash into a tanker truck on a bridge which then falls down onto a residential home and exploding, or similar sized catastrophes that almost never happen.
> not giving people lung cancer

I've seen far less reports of soot and smog in recent years (though it's still there), and it's the same with vaccines: People don't remember how bad it was and then argue against the thing preventing it. Also: smog and soot deposits don't care about state borders.
We're speaking English in this conversation, not Latin or French. The word "exploit" clearly has a significantly negative connotation that is not appropriate in this context.
Show HN: I made an iOS app that puts motivating quotes in your widgets
Hey HN,

I love a good daily quote for motivation and inspiration so I made this app to submit to a hackathon.

It has a quote library with thousands of quotes that you can browse and save, then turn into pretty word art using a fun little editor. Once you have a cool design you can set them as iOS widgets, export as wallpapers, social posts etc.

It also has a quote of the day feature that will send a curated quote as a notification on a schedule of your choosing.

All SwiftUI, Firebase, usual indie iOS stack.

It's fun to use and can feed you a daily dose of motivation when you need it.

Launching on Product Hunt today too if you want to support:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/quotable-3

Thanks all,
Jack
I'm using an even more nerdier variant: Subscribing via RSS feeds, then downloading as MP4s.

Having a small backlog of video files in the file system shows how great file systems are compared to a subscription feed on a web site: You can pick and choose your next video, you can sort by different criteria, you can tag then and/or put them into folders and you can do that all one the fly.
Brilliant write up!

I do not really understand the "Sorting unknown uint-struct blobs" point.

Could you give an example or explain in more detail, what a "unknown uint-struct blob" is?

The odd/even advantage could be put even stronger, because every additional bit you know from the little end gives additional information about the number's divisibility. For example, one bit tells divisibility by two (aka ofd/even), two bits tell divisibility by four, and so on.
> On the occasion he made a very poor analysis of political and social situation of an African country

Cultural sidenote:

I do the same (although in personal conversation; I would obviously never do that on Youtube). I am very happy to espouse on topics I have little knowledge of, as did most of the community I spent time in when I was in grad school. This is looked down upon in most mainstream cultures, but it's actually very helpful. If I espouse something incorrect, someone can correct me. I learn something. It's a form of constructive / interactive learning which I find hyper-productive, and we did that all the time.

It's also helpful in social situations. The point isn't to convince you of something, so much as to communicate the state of my brain to you. That makes it much easier for us to debug who is wrong where.

Of course, that's completely incompatible with:

> he got very angry at me

Conversations got heated but never angry. There's a distinction:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/opinion/sunday/kids-would...

What I struggle with is that in mainstream Western culture, this mode of communication comes off as arrogant, and conveys many subtexts which I don't want to convey. Part of that is that we expressed too much confidence when making those statements, but that's maybe 10% of the problem; even expressed with modesty, it mostly breaks in mainstream Western culture (and 90% of the other cultures I've been in; parts of Eastern Europe tolerate this a little bit better).
It's Time to Build but Build What?
What else can they do? Check out from life? Or bankrupt themselves on principle?

Honestly, fuck on-line platforms and their arbitrary bans. In meatspace, you can't be just banned from a store, or a store chain, not without a criminal record at least. Sure, user accounts are governed by vendors' ToS, and any store can ban you from their loyalty card program for any reason, but off-line, those are all incidentals not required for completing a purchase. On-line, identity, security, and optional marketing crap got bundled together into a single "account". It's a historical accident that needs to get corrected, possibly by regulatory means, to harmonize it with the general expectation that the store can't refuse you service for extra-legal reasons.
> the modern ones break in really really expensive ways right about the time your warranty ends (60k)

bullshit, common rail turbodiesels with EGR+DPF have been around for decades. they had some issues at the start (like all new tech) but now the longevity is similar to modern turbo petrols
It is not a model, it is "just" using openstreetmap labels.
What paradise are you in, protecting from noise pollution?

I am in Europe and an opposite problem is that the emission control systems of recent (gasoline) cars are not noise insulated... After you stop a car, it is random artillery for two hours (apparently as they cool down from temperatures of many hundreds degrees).

(Edit: I just replaced 'the opposite problem' with 'an opposite problem'... Former form was misleading.)
Good point, here's an estimator, have at it: https://github.com/mlco2/codecarbon
AI tool cuts unexpected deaths in hospital by 26%, Canadian study finds
My biggest critizism of A/B/C is it is always either a delusion, lie, or manipulation. People that talk frequently about "A players/employees" are almost certainly not the ones hiring them. Why? "A players" don't work someplace where they are not respected and ground to dust as a non-owner. That means at best the best employees are "B-players" and probably most of their staff is actually "C-players"

"A players" know their worth and go somewhere that either has prestige, high pay or work life balance and respect. Like all such places in my experience Mrbeast does not appear to provide those things to all but his inner circle. Which by the way an "Inner circle" is a hallmark of places that like to make noise about A/B/C dynamics.
Linkedin is worst platform, no.1 OSINT tool for spearphishing.
And this is of interest to whom??

medication abortion uses many drugs to reduce pain and anxiety.

Medication abortion is the termination of pregnancy by using medications to induce a process similar to a miscarriage.

It is an alternative to uterine aspiration (also known as aspiration abortion, suction curettage, dilation and curettage, dilation and evacuation, procedural abortion, or surgical abortion).

Medication abortion and uterine aspiration are both safe and effective procedures for appropriately selected patients seeking pregnancy termination.
I never understood HNs fascination with BEAM family. I feel like very few people people here actively use it for anything even remotely intensive - it simply has too much of a runtime bloat, as slow as Ruby in low concurrency tasks, and Erlang is often too unwieldy.

Go aside, it's as if everyone hates getting things done in a delightful way, which is why I find this top 5 leaning a bit too much towards the quadrant of PL elitism and historical status quo adherence at the same time. Not to mention the drawbacks of JVM, which is by all means a stagnating ecosystem, despite the work to catch up with the rest, it might be a little too late.
Safe breaking distance is 2 seconds of travel between two and the car in front of you. In my experience almost no one ever follows this guidance and therefore yes, the rear-ender is always at fault.
But then you couldn't scroll and the punchline of even scrolling resetting your timer would be lost.
Since you mention r-transactions (which is specific to SEPA): the SEPA rulebooks are surprisingly easy to read (e.g. for SCT[1]). For the US, NACHA maybe publishes similar specs? Neither are Swift though, for that perhaps https://www.swift.com/standards is what you're looking for.

How the actual settlement happens (e.g. RTGS/Target 2) is a bit more involved, and you won't find that in these rulebooks.

[1] https://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/what-we-do/epc-paymen...
You should check out this article: https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/08/us_china_chip_wars_id...

There was some news a while back that they had mastered making ball point pen tips. But you gotta keep in mind that these efforts have to be sustained long term and have to be a self-reliant economy on their own.

Anyone can compete short term if you fuel your efforts with mountains of debt. But China's debt level (shadow debt included) has reached a breaking point. How many chip company bankruptcies can they take before the efforts break down?

China can use a lot of "tricks" with their economy, since they're so authoritarian. But they're not THAT special. Their economy is not magic. The local governments have an insane amount of debt now, and they're in a situation where they can't make as much money off land leases anymore, so they have to raise taxes to avoid becoming insolvent. Yet foreign companies are already moving factories out of the country, so how can they stay competitive while raising taxes? This was already a huge debt, it was just never on paper. Now that debt is coming due.

Keep in mind that the local governments are often involved in financing China's domestic industries..

Think about how the outlook would be if SMIC was in any other country. How would a chip company ever survive producing near cutting edge chips without a strong international market and high margins? If a western country bought hundreds of insanely expensive chip manufacturing machines that ended up gathering dust in a warehouse, it would be considered insane. This isn't sustainable.

China has a decent domestic market, but it's very hard to sustain good margins there. Margins they desperately need to sustain an industrial effort that is being run in a much less economically efficient way than the western chip industry.
Which of these trains is for the developer edition of firefox?
With the simplified form of the binomial for n equal to k:

∫(0 -> x)(p^n)dp = ∫(x -> 1)(p^n)dp
[p^(n+1)/(n+1)](0 -> x) = [p^(n+1)/(n+1)](x -> 1)
x^(n+1) - 0^(n+1) = 1^(n+1) - x^(n+1)
2 * x^(n+1) = 1
x^(n+1) = 1/2
x = 1/(2^(1/(n+1)))

Was I wrong? Have I been wrong for decades now?
The richest business in history was the Dutch East India Company. The richest below them are the Mississippi Company, rounding it out with the South Sea Company. Within the top 10 includes oil companies, who exploit our future for profit, and Big Tech, who exploit us for profit. Is it any surprise most of the richest companies in history exploited human capital for massive gains?
Tone of your post is really strange and condescending, not sure why. You made a statement that I, in my work, very often see people make when they first start learning about embeddings (expecting words that we humans see as "opposite" to actually have opposite embeddings), and I corrected it, as it might help other people reading this thread.

> Firstly, you can choose what you embed the word with, such as "Article Topic:" or "Temperature:" to adjust the output of the embedding and results of cosine similarity to be relevant for your use case

As far as LLM-based embeddings go, unless you train the model for this type of format, this is not true at all. In fact, the opposite is true - adding such qualifiers before your text only increases the similarity, as those two texts are, in fact, more similar after such additions. I am aware that instruct-embedding models work, but their performance and flexibility is, in my experience, very limited

As for the rest of your post, I really don't see why you are trying to convince me that LLM-based embeddings have so much more to them than previous models. I am very well aware of this - my work revolves around such new models. I simply corrected a common misconception that you gave, and I don't really care if you "really think that" or if you know what the truth is but just wrote it as an off-hand remark.
Which doesn't make any difference in the context of their discussion, it's still mass produced and sold in supermarkets and thus by definition not obscure/unique/for initiated only.
5 AM. On my treadmill. Sipping on my favorite plant-based, gut-friendly health drink.

As I kickstart my day, I'm reminded how a healthy, thriving "ecosystem" is essential – both for me and the little people in my organization. Just like gut bacteria keep everything in balance, it's the insignificant little people and their micro-moments of trust, support, and empowerment that help our team thrive.

In People Operations, it's not just about strategy – it's about ensuring that every single person (yes, even the smallest gear in the machine!) feels valued, appreciated, and happy. When their needs are met, the whole system runs smoother.

Grateful for every, single, one of you who makes this place what it is. The work you do, no matter how big or small, keeps us all moving forward!!

#Leadership #PeopleOperations #GutHealth #HealthyTeams #ThrivingEmployees
Quoting Umberto Eco: "You are not Proust. Do not write long sentences."[1]

[1]https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/umberto-eco-how-to-write-...
never mind a "big" difference, I would be surprised if it made a "measurable" difference
What you're saying is that the high quality educational content is subsidized by the trash.

It doesn't make it net-bad. It makes it an ad-supported educational resource. Is that surprising, given that it's owned by an ad company?
You're in good company: Bjarne Stroustrup, Rasmus Lerdorf, Anders Hejlsberg, Peter Naur, Dunham...
how sooner will I see the stuff if I use this tool?
When you start "rolling coal" all the "gains" by removing the EGR and PCV will be negated since you will be lining your valves with tar and ruining the oil.
Compute creep is a joke. It’s only a problem because we allow incompetent programmers to abstract away their inability to code efficiently.
This entire blog post assumes agency that you, the EM or Team lead, rarely have in an organisation that is on a "wartime" footing. It's cosplay.

Real wartime footing:

1. Direction and technical decisions are driven by priorities of board-level members and often arrive in email form late on Friday evening. The entire organisation is expected to pivot immediately. A new senior leadership team member starts scheduling daily read-outs on project progress, and half the organisation spends the weekend frantically hallucinating project plans into Google Sheets.

2. Engineering staff react with dull-eyed disbelief on Monday; they knew this was coming, because the same thing happened a month ago, and six weeks before that.

3. Emails come from HR that there are are new, even-more-labyrinthine approval processes for expenses, and shrinking budgets for anything not directly related to whatever the projet du jour, which will be fed enough to make it look like it's succeeding until the next Friday evening email kills it.

4. There is wide-spread burn-out across Engineering teams, and people are reduced to reactive, sarcastic automatons.

5. A creeping understanding seizes the better engineers that things cannot improve; they sign articles of Armistice, pretend to comply, and start interviewing elsewhere.

6. An email arrives on Friday night...

> Focus on the positive aspects of the job that can be taken for granted, like the opportunity to work on cutting-edge challenges, the company's still existing perks and benefits, the amazing team you have, the chance to work with a modern tech stack, or how your product is helping its users. Showing your team how you appreciate what's still good can help with morale.

If HN supported gifs, there'd be several in this spot.
AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off (2022)
"Conceivably a geological process, but very finely tuned in so many ways..."
> We're encouraging immigration to drive our economy

But this is an official communication in Europe - we need the numbers to grow. Rapes, shootings and bombings are a small price to pay for ever-increasing GDP and next bonus for CEOs.

> It sucks when someone is outcompeted by immigrant labor, but that should probably prompt some self reflection -- how can someone new to a country substitute into their job?

By being cheaper and agreeing on worse working conditions. Privatizing profits and socializing losses. Liberal credo.
Stories = Requirements Engineering

Assigning Points = Roughly estimating how long it takes you to implement it

Allocating Work = Well... allocating work

Standups = Talking with your colleagues about the current work and clearing problems

Reviews = Showing your results

None of that seems unreasonable. The only thing that kinda sucks are the rigid sprints, because they just cause artificial stress by setting unnecessary deadlines.
Easily missed, as far as I can tell, the only indication of this is the 'Best of IFA 2024' SVG and a small hashtag at the bottom saying 'IFA 2024'.

There are also incorrect implications it seems, that you can order this from outside Japan by quoting the price in USD rather than JPY.

I don't mind the low-depth trade show coverage, but I would expect it to be a bit more clearly signposted for anyone who doesn't understand the acronym 'IFA'.

Overall though, Gizmodo has really crashed since Gawker got acquired, and most of their writing is now minimal effort. I haven't quite got as far as unsubscribing to their RSS feed, but that's mostly through pure apathy, rather than a desire to keep seeing their drivel in my reader.
AI use cases in software development other than coding
What workflows are you using AI for in your SDLC?

Here are a few from Dan Leshem's workshop:
1) Adding context to issues (AI searches codebase for relevant files, searches tech stack for related issues, adds information to technical specs)

2) Turn meeting to release. Use AI meeting transcript tool. Have AI summarize and turn into draft technical specifications. Review. Have AI turn into implementation plan. Review. Have AI implement and create PR.

3) Create self-healing CI/CD. Using CircleCI etc, when pipeline fails LLM analyzes run logs, generates troubleshoot report and suggests or commits possible fix.

4) Generating changelog for stakeholders daily/weekly by collecting PRs and issues.

What other use cases have you found apart from building apps from scratch? Particularly for backend developers as there's lots of front end examples on the internet.

With o1 + Fine some of these workflows can really deliver.
Yeah, I think so — I'm guessing he's far more vibe than argument, and I'm failing to resonate with the vibe, so it just feels like static?
Do you think it was a durability issue or would this have happened to any laptop?
Yes! Something similar to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Pilot. Beware of Space Junk
Constraints and Guarantees
so, things that are in no way agile but want to call themselves agile
Other bc's are centralized and don't need it as they can just revert or change their state.
> deep into a headlong rush toward annihilation in the name of profit.

Poverty, illness and starvation are the default state of mankind and the fact that almost nobody lives in deep poverty any more is because people get up in the morning and work hard to produce value.
[1], [2], or a combination of both?

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma_Linda,_California#Water_c...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma_Linda,_California#Seventh...
I couldn't think of a reason why any executive institution is legally allowed to take the video down.
Some parts of the emissions control systems (I was informed by competent technicians, but not yet adequately "educated") work through burning extra gasoline and fuel - they are active, they use energy.

The extra intake may seem pretty dramatic - though of course full data for comparison should be in order... It should be possible to compare euro-4 vs euro-5 model consumption through spritmonitor.de (through selecting by year) - I have no time right now but may do it later, and possibly report.
Thanks for sharing the story. Despite the whole TCO being higher, I wonder how the 8K to 6K reduction happened.

On AWS, fargate containers way are more expensive than VMs and non fargate containers are kind of pointless as you have to pay for the VMs where they run anyway. Also auto scaling the containers - without making a mess - is not trivial. Thus, I'm curious. Perhaps it's Lambda? That's a different can of worms.

I'm honestly curious.
I live in the center of an EU capital and there are three main sources of ICE noise:

- motorbikes (with modified exhausts or not, at high speeds the engine itself is loud enough to disturb sleep of thousands of people)
- 'sport' car abominations with intentionally loud exhaust and engine noises
- some diesel cars (old vans etc) are very loud, in this case it's just the nature of the diesel engine.

At least the first two cases should be prosecuted by the police and new vehicles not registered. But never have I seen/heard this level of noise being due to an emission control system, in a stopped car.
A convex function is open to the top, like this:

\ /
\ /
\ /
\/

If you connect any two points, it lies outside the curve. Which is basically the intuition for Jensen's inequality: if you go partway between two points it's above the curve, so the weighted average of the curve at those two points is bigger than the curve at their weighted average.
It's just fast food content.
I'll be 60 in a couple of weeks time (I hate typing that - get off my lawn etc!). I know I'm not less productive now than I was 10, 20, 30 years ago. Maybe a bit more cynical - but then I can hide that with humour.

The one think I do feel strongly is that my current FTE job is my last one. Ageism is a real issue, when it comes to finding a job in tech when you're in your 50s; running the recruitment race in my 60s is not something I want to face. Which means I feel like I've lost the chance to walk away from my current job if anything goes wrong.

I get my pension in 7 years time: I'm looking forward to it already!
not everyone likes to run a charity, some have a family to feed
Yea, obviously not, but the smaller problems this bigger project was composed of were things that you could see anywhere. I made heavy use of string manipulation that could be generally applied to basically anything
Different EU city here, exact same experience. People tune their shitty 25cc motorcycles to sound like a jet engine, people tune their shitty 1200cc cars to sound like a jet engine, and that's 99% of all vehicle-related noise right there.