skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HVDC is not a silver bullet.

Converter stations are very expensive and also take more space. You need one every time you tap in/out of the transmission line, great for point to point links say Offshore windfarm to major IC, but general transmission gets tapped into and out of much more frequently. Even if today you plan for this link to be P2P from city A > city B today what happens tomorrow when someone builds a generation plant, or a new town, datacentre campus on that route?

The "efficiency" gain is debatable, you do lose less on transmission but you now have this cost of getting from DC>AC AC>DC which costs roughly 1.1-1.6% - in the grand scheme of things for most schemes any overall efficiency gain is marginal to nil.

Overall the most flexible thing to do is build AC at the highest voltage your towers/interconnect points support (and consider increasing that).

In the UK we are building more lines and converting more substations from 275KV to 400KV.
It doesn't make sense unless zooming out shows some higher level representation of the code.
It feels like most people aren't actually reading. They are showcasing the current technological improvements. They did explicitly say its not enough and are just a prototype to showcase what they have so far.
The brand isn't doing so hot and is on the decline while their competing platforms (Steam, Playstation, Nintendo) are posting record numbers. They've started releasing their in-house developed games on their competitor's consoles because sales on their own platform are so abysmal. Analysts are saying it's likely that Xbox is going to exit the hardware business unless they can turn things around in the next console generation.
> Tom seems a bit cavalier.

We should all aspire to be more like Tom.
> Generative video models like OpenAI's Sora clearly have a world model as they are able to simulate gravity, collisions between objects, and other concepts necessary to render a coherent scene.

I won't expand on the rest, but this is simply nonsensical.

The fact that Sora generates output that matches its training data doesn't show that it has a concept of gravity, collision between object, or anything else. It has a "world model" the same way a photocopier has a "document model".
That's some Sicilian Mafia "offering you protection" type of situation!
By this logic, holding someone against their will is illegal too. When a state does it, we call it incarceration. Is it wrong for the state to sanction incarcerating someone?
I think that train left some time ago.
Imo this "mobile AR" is a stupid product category. This category is like Apple Watch on your face. You get to look at notifications, AR popups, messages and so on. It's mostly for consuming light-weight content on the go. First product in this category was the Google Glass. This category focuses on mobility, instead of pushing computing capability.

In another category, we have PCVR and Vision Pro, which are optimized for high-end computing experiences, and compete with high-end PCs with multiple displays in terms of capability. This category pushes the boundaries of what's possible to do with computers, and has the chance to elevate productivity to a completely new level. There aren't yet any devices / software that do this, but the idea is there.

These two categories might converge into a similar form factor somewhere in the far future, but as of now they represent the polar opposites of computing experience. However, I simply don't want the "mobile" experience in my life at all, and I don't think anyone wants it.

When I'm moving or spending time with friends, I try to put away all devices, and expect everyone to do the same. Also, I hate notifications and pop ups, and definitely don't want them on my face. On the other hand, when I'm alone, I want to immerse myself in CAD, programming or games, and I want to use the most capable devices and software. Only PCVR and Vision Pro are devices which might elevate the experience beyond of what we have today.
I've significantly improved the performance of queries by undoing someone who did #5 when it wasn't strictly needed. Sometimes breaking a query into many smaller queries is significantly less efficient than giving the query optimizer the entire query and letting it find the best route to the data.

If you've done #5 without doing #6 then you'll likely not see that you're doing something not optimal. My advice is avoid premature optimization and do things the most straight forward way first and then only optimize if needed. Most importantly, don't code in SQL procedurally -- you're describing the data you want not giving the engine instructions on how to get it.
Java and Kotlin are used for apps. Rust is used for new system software.

Across Google, Go is used for some system software, but I haven't seen it used in Android.
I think the prizes I've seen are generally in the range of $300-600 cash value. To get it you have to sit through the hardest and most annoying sales pitch imaginable. I did it once. I was never tempted even slightly to buy their scam, but it was so miserable to sit through that it's not something I'd ever do again.
They already need to be kept away from vegetation to prevent faults.
Ollama post: https://ollama.com/blog/llama3.2
Have you considered opening a high interest account for the inheritance?

Inflation is a sad fact of life.

A funny picture that would get a heartfelt laugh out of most anyone this year, could be eliciting as little as a sensible chuckle 30 years from now!

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Just by looking at a period of 10 years back compared to now, we can see a stark difference between the meme collections that families kept at home vs the meme collections of families that kept their memes in Meme Bank.

There are two factors that contribute by an outsized amount to the lowering of value of the meme collections of average Joe over the years:

Firstly, resolution and compression artifacts. Where ten years ago a 640 by 480 pixels jpeg would have garnered applause from the people you showed it to, the people of today expect more. And all you’d be getting today for that once glorious meme, would be responses asking you “y’all got any more of them pixels?”

Secondly, stale pop-cultural reference. That meme you’ve got referencing a scene from a movie from last year. Yeah, it might still be funny today. In thirty years, usually not so much.

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That case is even worse as it rested fully on the testimony of the other robber, which he made to get a lesser sentence and later rescinded:

> Prosecutors had no forensic evidence connecting Allah to the shooting. Surveillance footage at the store showed two masked men with guns, but they were not identifiable.
The state’s case rested on testimony from Allah’s friend and co-defendant, Steven Golden, who was also charged in the robbery and murder. As their joint trial was beginning, Golden pleaded guilty to murder, armed robbery and criminal conspiracy and agreed to testify against Allah. Golden, who was 18 at the time of the robbery, said Allah shot Graves.
So the argument is because the vulnerability lifetime is exponentially distributed, focusing on secure defaults like memory safety in new code is disproportionately valuable, both theoretically and now evidentially seen over six years on the Android codebase.

Amazing, I've never seen this argument used to support shift/left secure guardrails but it's great. Especially for those with larger, legacy codebases who might otherwise say "why bother, we're never going to benefit from memory-safety on our 100M lines of C++."

I think it also implies any lightweight vulnerability detection has disproportionate benefit -- even if it was to only look at new code & dependencies vs the backlog.
The concept of scamming wasn't invented on the internet. People have been getting conned ever since money was a thing (and probably well before that).
A lot of producers that want to make longer content about a topic at some point dual upload or switch to nebula, as far as I can tell in my interest niches. Not sure if there are other platforms.

(I also like to watch a lot of those oldskool slow nature documentaries while coding. In Germany, arte, NDR and WDR have some nice ones in their media platforms.)
Any people here who tried it and have gotten temporary or permanent relief?

What about insurance? Do they pay for it? Last time I checked it was EXPENSIVE.
I mean, these things are probably close to the physical limit for how small and light they can possibly be.

Without relying on a tether, there's only so much you can do. You have to put some compute, battery, and optics somewhere. The optics in particular will always be fairly large just due to the physics of light and lenses.

The only way I can see us sidestepping these problems is by putting the optics somewhere else and using a fiber optic tether. Even then, you still need some optics in the glasses to project onto the display lenses.

Maybe someone will figure out how to do a transparent OLED display on the lenses directly. Even then, you've cut the bulk required for optics but you still need somewhere to put the electronics. A tether is really the only way to go if your concern is form factor.
> possibly playing a game of "truth or dare"

(Also not defending these laws/the decision there, but) I'm not sure why this is phrased as merely an allegation by the prosecution, since this is what transpired even by his own account.

"One Friday he and some friends were hanging out on the pier on Redondo Beach. He claims he was "playing a stupid game of truth-or-dare with a friend" when he approached a group of kids whose parents had left them eating pizza at an outdoor table and asked them for a slice."

https://web.archive.org/web/20230408113219/https://www.smh.c...
Because if you are a high level executive and you are transparent on those things, and if it backfires, it will backfire hard for your future opportunities, since all the companies will view you as a potential liability. So it is always safer and wiser option to not say anything in case of any risk of it backfiring. So you do the polite PR messaging every single time. There's nothing to be gained on the individual level of being transparent, only to be risked.
I hate having to use a bunch of temp tables, but I regularly run into queries that would never finish if you let the query planner do its thing. Like compilers their ability is highly overrated. Meanwhile, microsoft places constant warnings against trying to even tune their query planner because it supposedly knows best.
'I understand sending money the first time, but how do you still fall for it the 6th time they ask you to send more money?'.

I think that falls under the "sunk cost fallacy". Like they are thinking "Well, I've invested so much money already and I'm so close to the payoff now, I may as well send a little more"
The displayed images are not light fields, just regular stereo 3D. However, the waveguides are holographic. So it's technically correct. And the displayed images will look like the hologram projectors seen in popular movies like Star Wars, so it's not misleading either.
Phlex: Object-oriented HTML components in Ruby
That post seems to be in free-fall for some reason
I suspect the motion lag from “inside-out” tracking (compared to valve index or vive, which was tolerable) was enough to induce nausea, at least for me.
Blocking WPengine should make everyone aware of what the real problem is: more than 40% of the sites on the web run not only on WordPress but on one man's whim
mmm honestly at some point i was wondering if it was actually possible to lose. i tried actively and it took me sooo long. Felt like the numbers were actually coming specifically to help you have moves
> they think “this is enough”

That is literally the opposite of what Meta is saying. In fact they aren't even releasing this pair because they know it's too chunky.
As I understand they are going to be stop being non-profit soonish now?
They don't give the death penalty to teenagers making 'silly mistake's. It's a sentence not handed out without weighty thought and only to those who knowingly and intentionally take life.

I'm so tired of the "next Einstein" pithy replies. These are adults who have done heinous crimes against innocent people. Justice requires severe consequences.
When multiple senior people resign in protest, it's indicative that they're not happy with someone among their own ranks who they vehemently disagree with. John Schulman and Greg left in the same week. Greg, opting to choose to take a sabbatical, may have chosen that over full-on resigning which would align with how he acted during the board-ousting - standing by Sam till the end.

If multiple key people were drastically unhappy with her, it would have shaken confidence in herself and everyone working with her. What else to do but let her go?
It's unfortunate that a lot of the messaging has shifted to he's innocent, where I believe the right message (and far less viral message), is the government has not shown enough evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the death penalty is warranted. I don't believe in the death penalty because I don't think the state should have the authority to execute citizens and even moreso when a very high bar of culpability hasn't been reached.

In this quest for vengeance I think people forget these rules are in place for the State to not abuse it's powers. I'm not against the death penalty because I'm a hippy vegan. I'm against it because I don't think it's a power the state should be able to wield.
Are you talking the PC version? Or the on-device meta OS version?

Because I haven’t seen a song of the week anywhere.
Masimo CEO Joe Kiani resigns amid legal dispute with Apple
I guess I'm the only one, but I love these. They seem so fun. I would definitely rather have glasses than to carry a phone around with me.
The disparity between size of the promise and the ambiguity of the business model creates both necessity and advantage for executives to leverage external forces to shape company direction. Everyone in the C-suite would be seeking a foothold, but it's unlikely any CTO or technologist would be the real nexus for partner and now investor relations. So while there might be circumstances, history, and personalities involved, OpenAI's current situation basically dictates this.

With luck, Mr. Altman's overtures to bring in middle east investors will get locals on board; either way, it's fair to say he'll own whatever OpenAI becomes, whether he's an owner or not. And if he loses control in the current scrum, I suspect his replacement would be much worse (giving him yet another advantage).

Best wishes to all.
The mystery of 0.866025403784438646763723170752936183471402626905190314027903...
The math isn't that hard.

But not knowing how to answer explains well the lack of reasoning in your first statement.
Discussion (39 points, 10 hours ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41646238
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...

a historic reminder
That's pretty cool! I was playing last night and implemented resumable downloads[0] for pip so that it could pick up where it stopped upon a network disconnect or a user interruption. It sucks when large packages, especially ML related, fail at the last second and pip has to download from scratch. This tool would have been nice to have. Thanks a bunch,

- [0]: https://asciinema.org/a/1r8HmOLCfHm40nSvEZBqwm89k
Doesn't (dyst)OpenAI have a clause that you can't say anything bad about the company after leaving?

I'm not convinced these board members are able to say what they want when leaving.
The "GIF" is a video. You are watching a bunch of advertising videos. 115 MB isn't really very much in that regard.
True! But society can move backwards sometimes, todays smartphones are growing and and each generation of BEV gets heavier!

Something in the collective unconscious is screaming "put the biggest brick you can make in my hand and give me a main battle tank to go to TJ's." and industry is happy to oblige!

Maybe wearing a gigantic ugly thing on your face that beeps and has flashing lights isn't such a far step
Linking to my thread from yesterday, there’s definitely memory safe systems programming happening over there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41642788
At a guess, by pointing out the "Gun-Free Zone" signs.

Edit: No longer a guess, https://babylonbee.com/news/chicago-schools-gun-free-zone-si...
hey thanks for your message! I am using the API that's here: https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/

From my understanding, it's used a lot by moderators. It's likely that they may block me since I do not pass any authentication or identifier info, but I don't think it'll happen soon as my use case is extremely simple (knock wood).

I query it as such: https://www.reddit.com/r/earth/top.json?limit=50 and then parse it on the front.

During my testing, I was blocked only once and that was because I ended up querying the same URL too much, which in normal usage shouldn't happen.

The previous iteration used a library called snoowrap (https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/snoowrap) which is unfortunately archived now.

Thank you for the feedback about the image context!
I’m curious why you don’t consider Saks a department store.

Do you feel the same about similar stores generally considered upmarket of Macys? Bloomingdales, Nordstroms (which you did mention), Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, to name a few.

YMMV but I wouldn’t consider Macys to be a “high end” store.
The screenshots look the same to me?
This isn't a visualizer. It does something JQ can do (although faster).
Can autonomous driving turn ride-share into profitable business?
Speaking for myself, I'd keep working even if I had 100M. As long as I am healthy, I plan to continue on being productive towards something I find interesting.
From a first look, code generation is done with llama 3.1 405B. Screenshot analysis with llama 3.2 90B.

Prompts: https://github.com/Nutlope/napkins/blob/f6c89c76b07b234c7ec6...
Age of Mythology: Retold is surprisingly playable with a controller
Nova is also modern and actively developed.
>... and says a lot about the audience here that you're all oblivious to this fact.

What does it say beyond, "This person doesn't pay attention to high fashion", and why does it feel like you're judging people for that? Who cares if people aren't into it? To my mind, your comment says a lot more about you than what ignorance to high fashion says about others.
I've never seen a single timeshare that makes sense in terms of cost to value ratio. There's always a more flexible/cheaper/profitable way to do whatever it is you're trying to do than a timeshare, unless of course you're the one selling it. Very fair to call it a scam.
I would love to have that neural wristband released as a standalone product. I could imagine it acting as a sort of third/fourth/fifth shift key. Easy extra few degrees of freedom for an input device, for regular computer use.
Content describes a place in media in a formal way, by saying where it goes and what its role is. This way to categorize "content" makes it a form.

It's similar to how Content Management Systems used to manage the layout and navigation of a website, but never managed the content. They accessed the content that came out of the database, but surely there had to be an author to manage the content. The CMS did everything but.
I've been an engineer and a PM in Scrum, Spiral, and Waterfall teams.

That daily meeting can either be:

- One where, participants feel as if they are reporting to some person of authority who is there to judge them, but not really help them much, if at all.

- Or, one where everyone feels like the meeting is for their benefit.

One person (usually a manager) that feels too senior / detached to participate will quickly turn the meeting from the latter to the former.

If someone is in a daily Scrum meeting, then they must share with everyone what they did yesterday, how it's going and what they're going to that day. If they don't, then they shouldn't be in the meeting - they can get all the information they need by looking at the story board or meeting notes or reach out directly.

For distributed teams there are some wonderful tools to collaboratively participate in daily meetings. These tools will speed up the whole meeting, making it even less tedious than before!

Once everyone is participating, then it becomes possible to move beyond "worked on bugs" or "worked on AB-24132" to something more descriptive. Personally, I think of the daily meeting as the thread that connects the events of the previous day to the goals of today. It should feel like a story that you are living, and not some dystopian nightmare where everyday is just like the day before.
It's corporate bullcrap, you're not supposed to believe it. What really matters in these statement is what is not said.
I think that's a realistic scenario. They will certainly attempt to use the data accessible by XR devices to make ads more effective. Actually succeeding at doing so seems realistic to me, too.

Whether the legislature has notably limited data collection for ad purposes by then - probably not.
It's pure speculation that the partial DNA profile recovered years after the murder came from the murderer.

The police recovered the murdered woman's property from his car. How did it get there? Either it was an elaborate frame-up or a career criminal murdered a woman and stole her property.

You (and The Innocence Project) apparently think that DNA must be found at the crime scene in order to convict. But is it the case that DNA will always be found? I doubt it. To me, the detailed testimony of Williams' girlfriend combined with the dead woman's property in his car puts Williams' guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. I'm disappointed in The Innocence Project -- seems like a lot of spin in that link.
So basically astroturfing? Does this type of activity automatically get flagged? I wish there were a way for us regular users to be able to detect this. Otherwise, we end up with these discussions where people conclude that something is, say, a widespread mentality in the U.S, or a "Silicon Valley thing", when in reality it could be a small number of bad actors.
This is a very bold take on Infra management which has become a real PITA even at small orgs - Cloud really did a number on us.

One thing I'm personally wondering about is whether I can import my Terraform state file - because that'd be a pretty good starting point for many orgs.

Regardless, I'm curious how this pans out. Though we've had a few different iterations of IaC in the past decade or so, the infra crowd has been known for being sceptical when it comes to adopting new things than your usual software engineer, especially something that is more like a step change than a gradual evolution.

Very happy someone's taking on this task with a very fresh approach.
Yes, the ol' Dropbox "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account" comment. Even after 17 years, people still feel the need to make this point.
Imre
I understood you were using an analogy. Didn't even occur to me that Windows was actually being used.

However, I did come away thinking there are other dysfunctions at play in all of this. Perhaps an excessive amount of wheel re-inventing.