skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For your daily commute, you really do just want to "take the train".

If the train is broken or the workers are on strike, that will be reflected in the unexpected absence of live trains listed.

I pull up Google Maps and plug in my destination when I'm running around the city. I don't pull it up when I'm leaving my home to go somewhere I've been 500 times before.
*server-side
Ironically, some physicists (specially maintaining webpage for their project on CERN) might actually have to tweak the button sometimes. But usually they rarely do it and usually without being asked /s.
Seems wild right? Would you believe that there’s a male contraceptive that’s been actively used in other countries successfully for over a decade, is easily and painlessly reversible, and non-hormonal?
I really like the idea if file system over durable objects
Poland has an exorbitant amount of free radio stations, like 100x more than in most other countries. Like they have the youngest population in Europe (heavily catholic, no abortion rights).

They had the first techno radio stations, and of course they'll have the first AI automated stations. The question is only if it's good enough. Because the competition there is fierce when every 10th student broadcasts his own radio stream.
Safe Rust looks absolutely painful painful compared to other safe languages.

Correct C is not actually hard to write. It can be somewhat hard to convince oneself that it's right.

That's an important difference. Not all C has to be correct. If it's experimental or exploratory code that'll be thrown away. If that just works on one machine or on particular inputs that you care about, or it only certain specific environmental conditions, that can be fine.

Correctness is more than just memory safety and avoiding overflows. They are still bugs in programs and languages that avoid those problems.
The UN rapporteurs who were tasked with overseeing the sanctions that the US effected against Iraq for the first one. And that was before the war. For the rest, use your imagination.

...

Its 20 years after the war. There are still people who think that those who read their comments are dumb enough to get gaslighted on this topic.
The open secret of open washing – why companies pretend to be open source
Ask HN: ML models to teach the AI bot to overthink?
As i see, "attention is all you need" but not quite. As a human, we often overthink, too. So my expectation is current AI bots should think humanly by overthink or overabstract things, too. How do you think and what do you think of this ?
I have a simple question. Suppose that to answer a question I can use different phrases, I know the answer but I have several ways to express it. Then a LLM in this case produces tokens with high or low entropy?

Edited several times: I think to avoid this problem the answer of the LLM should be constrained in expression (say Yes or No, fill the blanks, etc). I think in that case we would have a decreasing sequence of the entropy for next token predictions.
I'd be curious if you have any insight on why the tracking apps for buses are so inaccurate - OneBusAway but also Google maps and the others. The estimates are often off in one way or another and sometimes a bus just doesn't show up at all. I assume the problem is with the source data but I'd be curious if you have insight into just what causes it to be so unreliable. I'm in Seattle FWIW
Yeah. Lets ask...

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/homesick-for-a-...
Do you happen to have purple hair and wear all black clothes with as many piercings in your face as you can get? /s
Every raspberry pi, from Zero, Zero W, Zero 2 (great name guys), Pi 1, Pi 2, Pi 3, Pi 4, Pi 5 and every variation are all general purpose linux computers that can run pretty much any code you can run on a normal linux computer. They are all the same compilation target IIRC. If you wrote a program for the original Pi, you could have run it on every other Pi without modification or recompilation, depending on peripheral specifics I guess.

Are you getting confused by the 2040?
Yeah, I'm also not sure what the author is talking about, std::vec also does amortized allocation and never shrinks. There are a bevy of more complicated vector classes in Rust if you need different behaviors, but off the top of my head I don't know why std::vec wouldn't work here.
I think I would count alcohol consumption as “eating” in this context.
A related question: a union in a private business is balanced the company's financial health and the risk of bankruptcy. What about union in a government? The government won't go under, at least very unlikely. So, the union can just keep increasing its influence and demand. How would we balance their power?
Isotope ratios are very easy and reliable signals compared to impurities. Impurities can be all over the place depending on where the materials were mined. Impurities could have also been added inadvertently during the casting as well.
Higher quality clothes like in the past might be nice. Stuff seems to fall apart so quickly these days.
As a exercise I created my own password manager in response to the license issues with BitWarden last week.

Its rough, but functional, an exercise not a real product, never expected to be a real product.
https://github.com/funvill/FancyGorillaPasswordManager

The tech is easy. Website, Browser extension, iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, MacOS apps done in less then a day.

Gaining trust is hard, who is going to trust a random guy on the internet.
The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ with Up to 26 Tops
The latency on the examples seems quite slow, around 7 seconds to a full load for me.

https://gitlip.com/@nataliemarleny/test-repo
Very British :)
Ask HN: Where can I find pitch decks of SaaS startups for some "inspiration"
On top of that, there’s the added complexity of global supply chains and digital consumption. Imagine rationing electronics or internet
Show HN: Create Waitlist Pages
I decided to launch FastWaitlist because I was facing a problem with validating my own product ideas.

I noticed the lack of tools that:
1. Let you create waitlist pages fast (always faced complicated page builders)
2. Have conversion optimized templates (we have 5 and we're planning to add more)
3. Support custom domains

That's exactly why I launched FastWaitlist.
It has solved a huge pain point for me and I hope it'll do the same for you.
Definitely! We're focused on launching right now, but once we have more bandwidth, we'd be happy to do it.

I believe our changes are solid, but they’re tailored specifically to our use case and can’t be merged as-is. For example, our modifications to libgit2 would need at least as much additional code to make them toggleable in the build process, which requires extra effort.
Accurately predict when to send queries to an LLM vs. a human expert
The client apps can pretty easily be forked and maintained. We probably wouldn't see much feature growth but I also don't think we need that so much. Lots of OSS projects have been messed up by fundraising and communities often just fork them and keep them around so I'm not too worried. Besides, garbage features could probably just be unsupported by Vaultwarden, which has worked extremely well for me and been nothing but stable.
Synchronous Buck Converter for 12V/5A Output
> C and Rust have different aliasing rules, with Rust's being much more restrictive.

Rust is more restrictive by default, but C's restrict keyword lets you opt-in to strict aliasing semantics in exchange for unlocking compiler optimizations that would otherwise be unsound, so it's not like you're free from having to think about aliasing in high performance C code.
Do they recycle or just burn it for energy?
My small experience with seeing a ghost was that it appeared out of a mist. The white sheet could be a figurative way of portraying that. But there was a face too, and that stood out most starkly. And the gaze, when it fell on me, was electrically frightening.
> > This is FUD. Who or what speeds up to 55 mph to enter a rotary? How is it that the posted limit and presumably map data indicates 55mp seconds before the rotary? What do you expect FSD which is training on humans using vision and the maps to do? I saw a dinky little rotary sign AT the rotary. I'd slam on the brakes or have an accident too.

This is a laughable hot take. "seconds before".

Watching the video, it starts with him at 43mph, and he drives at 55mph for FORTY SECONDS before encountering the roundabout.

All these clowns saying "Oh, in the real world he'd have slowed down for that roundabout".

No. He wouldn't have started slowing down two-thirds of a mile away (40 seconds at 55mph). This is a garbage argument.
https://archive.is/0fjW1
Thanks for the reading, it’s nice to learn about these kinds of experiences from a time I was still too young to code.

It inspire me to remember and look for the books and tools I used when I first got exposed to programming in college.
Heavy irony here
I think "doesn't engage the language center of my brain" is more accurate (and less pejorative) than "mindless". It certainly engages spatial reasoning and some logic.
If my Tesla swerves into oncoming traffic with no warning and I get in a crash, who is responsible?

If my Waymo ride does the same, who is responsible?
People eternally hoping that some new trick will finally make the other people understand how their side of the story/argument is one and only truly truthful. I guess this is old as mankind.

With your argument, the problem happens when given person goes to Fox news in the first place. Selection of the source has already been made, with its biases. Not much you can do or expect after this point.

Also, who curates the curator? Again an age old problem with no real, long term working solution in sight. No, you should not expect some statistical model to hold your hand through vast internet, while giving up any form of critical thinking, reasoning, or I guess any cerebral process altogether. Ultimate laziness. Since we know how much money there is in diet fad business, its safe to say this above will find its non-tiny desperate crowd.
In the future, "no AI" will be a badge of premium quality a bit like "organic" is today.
The way people reacted to even small-scale inconveniences in recent years highlights just how much has shifted since the 1940s
Github doesn't stop me from making an infinite number of git repos. Or maybe they do, but I have never hit the limit. And if I am hitting that limit, and become a large enterprise customer, I am sure they would work with me on getting around that limit.

Where does this fit into a product? Maybe I am blind, but while this is cool, I don't really see where I would want this.
> With mixlayer, because the round trip time to the model is so short, you can alternate between appending known tokens of the JSON output and values you want the model to generate. I think this works better than constraining the sampling in a lot of cases.

Wow, that is a much more succinct way of describing it!

> We haven’t built a state machine over JSON schema that uses this approach yet but it’s on the way.

Really this should just be a simple library in JS and Python. Schema goes in, state machine pops out.

Complications will be around optional fields, I'm not sure offhand how to solve that!
it’s more the unknown effects. It’s not clear this stuff is actually inert.
100% cotton can be waaay comfier than poly blends. Just depends on the weave/wash
Accurate SLAM with accurate semantic tagging would be a big deal, yes, but this project still relies on pretrained data with COLMAP so how is that relevant to your comment?
Many people do not want to eat how they do, the just cannot help themselves
Don't forget to checkout the past (excellent) articles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sig7.se
Hacker attack causes log-in problems for Swiss media
Drafting was taught in my high school through the late 1980’s, and into college in the second half of the 80’s. However, in 1986, we had CadKey for the IBM PC, which could work with an optional mouse. The students who could afford a mouse had an edge.

Drafting by hand is a lost art. It was fun - annoying when you made a mistake using .5mm HB lead and had to scrub the snot out of the paper to fix it - but something very real to it all
If there is anything I know deeply in my bones, it’s that if there is something that is good for a huge company, it is likely bad for everyone else. The inverse is also usually true: anything that is bad for a huge company is likely good for everyone else.

The motivations of a huge company like Amazon are reliably very different than the needs of anything else. So much so that you can count on what a large company wants to be always bad for individuals or groups of individuals, including the group comprised solely of the employees of the company.
mseal() and what comes after, October 20, 2023: https://lwn.net/Articles/948129/

mseal() gets closer, January 19, 2024: https://lwn.net/Articles/958438/

Memory sealing for the GNU C Library, June 12, 2024: https://lwn.net/Articles/978010/
Unnecessarily racist and anti-white.
Why would engineering (of anything!) be a valid approach to some problems but not others?

If I want to move cars across a body of water then engineering is a great approach. Why would it not also be a great approach if I want to change my eating habits?
If only I had a pound for every discarded vape canister littered on the ground I've seen in London over the past few years. Will the ban fix this? I barely even know what a vape is.
Astronomers Push FCC to Halt New Starlink Launches, Citing Environment
Electric vehicles have extremely precise traction control due to the nature of their motors so even with higher torque they keep traction much better than their ICE counterparts.

EVs are also heavy and might wear tires quicker in braking situations though.
Is there a good book that describes everything we need to know?
Maybe this depends on the application type. I've written a lot of each, and maintaining anything involving concurrency is worlds easier in Rust, since those tend to be the most painful and time-consuming bugs to fix. It's got a learning curve, isn't a particularly easy language, and a big chunk of the "community" sucks, but most of the places I've applied it have been a net hassle savings.
How does it foster a community? I don't think I've connected with anyone on here beyond a single thread in the few years I've been around, and I consider myself a typical user

Not looking for a fight or anything. I'm just curious about different perspectives and definitions of social media. The responses so far have been interesting
OP here. That’s expected for now, and we’re working on a solution. We didn’t explain the reason in the post because we plan to cover it in a separate write-up.
Maybe we should define household first.

Are we talking about HN households or average Joe‘s
Rust/C++ interop is in fact complex and not obviously worthwhile - some of the underlying mechanisms (like the whole deal with "pinned" objects in Rust) are very much being worked on. It's easier to just keep the shared interface to plain C.
> October 2024 — I added #8, improved line wrapping with text-wrap.
Unwanted desires are extremely uncomfortable.
How is that relevant to Private Cloud Compute, though?
> So if everyone would stay up to date in their boosters and continue masking in public places, we may be able to get rid of it in a couple of years.

By that logic we'd have gotten rid of the flu. Vaccines for rapidly mutating viruses like flu and COVID can't keep up and remain an epidemic. The only disease we've actually been able to eliminate worldwide due to vaccines is smallpox. We'd have gotten rid of measles too if crazies hadn't decided the MMR vaccine causes autism due to criminally fraudulent research.
TL;DR: Erlang/Elixir/etc are high level languages and the virtual machine they run on, the BEAM, is optimized for speedy IO but is not so great when it comes to intensive CPU tasks. You'll want to write the latter in a good systems language which is what libraries like this provide (you get C bindings out of the box, I believe).
Here's an experimental implementation, reveals the water cells around any revealed boats:

https://lukerissacher.com/battleships?revealwater=1

Not sure I like it, kinda makes the starting puzzle noisy/crowded.
Sophisticated may be a good word from it w.r.t. one of the historical uses of the word -- a thing with apparent complexity, but not necessarily a lot of depth.

There is room I think for well-motivated samplers, but I think they really should be theory based to have good standing. Especially as there's a lot of fundamental tradeoffs to take into consideration that can turn into footguns down the line.

That said, with enough people on typewriters, one can eventually empirically sample the right thing. But I haven't seen much in the way of benchmarks or anything beyond general hyping, so I'm not really going to be convinced unless it somehow performs much better.

(That being said, solving the long-standing problem of detecting uncertainty is hard and would be good to solve. But people have been trying for years! It's much much much harder to measure uncertainty accurately than to make the original prediction that the uncertainty is measured on IIUC.)
> However, he "official" versions (for example from the PLO)

The PLO recognizes that Israel has a right to exist and has abandoned official "armed resistance" approaches. They understand that this never worked and ultimately only hurt the Palestinian people.

I'm explicitly talking about Hamas and making a clear distinction between them and the Palestinian people at large.

> use the phrase to call for a single democratic state for Arabs and Jews

That was suggested in the past and has gone back in vogue for some extreme liberals but it's probably not what any side wants. I don't think it's something that's workable. See Lebanon as a case in point where three different conflicting cultures are constantly violently clashing.

> This is of course also in line (albeit in somewhat simplified form) with the version one sees almost uniformly on the streets these days, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free", and if you ask people what they mean by that, most of them will tell you something equivalent to the PLO version.

Well... What *some* people mean doesn't really mean anything. There was a Nordic Journalist who recorded pro-Palestinian demonstrations and the Arabic slogans people yelled were VERY different.

But even without that. Hamas is looking at these protests and seeing them as Israel losing support. So they keep fighting, keep holding hostages and keep sending children as carriers. Netanyahu points at these demonstrations as how the world is turning anti-semetic so Israelis MUST fight for their home. And yes, Israelis 100% hear "Palestine will be free of Jews". Trump is pointing at them as a failure of the liberals...

These protests are only helping bad people and increasing strife. If they were indeed pro-Palestinian they would carry both flags in support of a two state solution. They would also support the cause of returning the hostages. They are now for peace, they are anti-Israel protests.

> Meanwhile since 1977 Likud has used essentially the same slogan, but in reverse, minus any aspirations of democratic equality, and with racial supremacy baked in: "Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty."

That was not an official slogan but yes people on the more extreme right did sing it. People still do and also say worse things. There are several big problems with whataboutism... Palestinians are the weaker part of this situation, violence will always end up worse for them. That's why the PLO abandoned that approach (at least officially excluding lynch mobs), it doesn't help Palestinians to keep that rhetoric.

Also the Likud was the party that voted to leave Gaza. That included Netanyhau who signed that law. A PM who originated from the Likud offered a Palestinian state in 2008.
> just people who have no one in their personal lives to connect with (e.g. nieces, nephews, family, friends)

I have no facebook account. I choose to have relationships with my family members and distant friends through physical contact by meeting up and talking regularly on the phone. IMO typing short text messages to people and 'reacting' to theirs with emojis and thumbs up is not a real relationship.
Speaking for myself, I 100% would have bought an iPhone Mini, but I purchase new phones on a 5-6 year cycle. My iPhones were the 4S and the XS.

Now that I'm ready to buy a new iPhone, the Mini has been discontinued! I think the Mini would have been and in fact was successful, but it's not successful "enough" to justify a separate model – they must have observed that people "like me" would still buy a flagship iPhone, even though we aren't 100% satisfied with the form factor.

Apple would rather have us buying a higher-margin flagship model and have an NPS of 65+ than a lower-margin mini model with an NPS of 80+.

My friend with similar instincts as me recently got a refurbished 13 Mini instead of the latest flagship. I'll probably get the flagship, because I value the satcom a little bit more than the form factor.
Nix is the future gets another meaning if you know that nix in German means nothing.
That used to be true, but now we have reasonable model checking tools for C. It's possible to write safer C without the cognitive load of Rust.

https://www.cprover.org/cbmc/
I would find this slightly useful, I live in Madrid. For most of my trips I take the metro; I have two lines nearby, and they are frequent enough that I just show up. But there are a few parts of town that are just not well connected to my place by metro. If I want to go to Atocha, Cibeles or Piramides, the bus is better. But I have three buses that take me to each of those places, and they show up every 25 minutes. If I'm going there, I want to know which stop will have a bus soonest.
> so head takes all of it

Maybe you implied it, but adding to the 'going up' case, there is bullet ricochet -- also reffered to as skipping or bouncing bullets -- that makes it so that bullets will ricochet out at a shallow angle and ride out the wall or floor, making your head hittable without even aiming at it.
Here is a instructional FBI video talking about it.[0] And a more modern take.[1]

[0] https://youtu.be/7tUW0cUkNv0?feature=shared&t=240 (I think the date is wrong, other places mark it as being from 1974-5)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT219NKPJh0
Grammars are best but if you read their comment they're apparently using ollama in a situation that doesn't support them.
I see you haven't launched yet so that's fair. Looking forward to trying it
Got it, that all makes sense. My concern is not someone maliciously attempting to infect the software / hardware.

My concern is that Apple themselves will include code in their officially signed builds that extracts customer data. All of these security measures cannot protect against that because Apple is a "trusted software publisher" in the chain.

All of this is great stuff, Apple makes sure someone else doesn't get the customer data and they remain the only ones to monetize it.
Not the main purpose of the article but they mention they were working on a notetaking app oriented towards developers - did anything ever come of that? If not, does anyone know products that might fit this niche? (I currently use obsidian)
Smoking causes lung cancer. I don't smoke, but if they found a cure for lung cancer I would celebrate that rather than griping about "personal responsibility" or whatever it is your grievance here is.

This thing objectively and subjectively improves the lives of the people you share this world with. If you have a problem with that it might be time to turn your gaze inward.
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