skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you make valid points about the downsides of "influencer culture" and usage patterns of some forms of social media.
BUT.
I'm think the term "social media" is too broad to be useful in this kind of critique.

This conversation we're having is a bit meta, but it's also "real", to me. We both considered Cal Newport's stance, Matt Green shared some thoughts about it, and Chris Weekly responded to it.
Those are real people interacting in a potentially useful way.
Being "addicted" to ideas and conversations is not necessarily unhealthy.
/$.02
Still not a problem for Meta/TikTok/YouTube though, as people go there to consume content on purpose. But I agree, will be fun to see how Google and others will deal with it.
Waymo's remote operators are still sitting in an office intervening and as a passenger you don't even know that it's happening
SuDROID: Windows and Linux script to streamline rooting of Android devices
Browser password managers and their related files are the usual targets of the sophisticated malware creators. Not many people use good master passwords either if any.
Sounds interesting, but I don't quite understand what it specifically is. What problem is it aiming to solve?
There's apparently some dealings in process due to the tariffs being imposed on moving final assembly or trying to use their local petrol manufacturing as a leverage for avoiding the tariffs. No idea about what'll come out of it though.
> Yes, why would it not be? It’s still skin in the game. [...] and will take the loss personally.

Because there isn't any loss overall? His compensation went up 63%, what are these losses you're talking about?

If his total compensation actually went down, I'd totally agree with you. But it didn't, which is why I don't understand how this is seen as "great leaders punish themselves".
The proof in the pudding is in the tasting.

I'm making no judgement(s) at all. I'm observing that it was downvoted and flagged and is now dead, which is the judgement of HN collectively, not my own.

If you feel that your comment is flagged in error, please contact hn@ycombinator.com

It may have been a very fine comment in another context, but it appears to not have been a good comment on HN, as determined by HN. What other metric would apply?
I get that, but do you think it is so different that they can not have different modules in the same IDE? I mean, visualstudio, for example, supports all languages from the same IDE.
> highly RF reflective

What do you mean, exactly? Most of what you can find in the forest is 'RF reflective' because of the water contents - the trees, the grass, the ground. What's the proposed detection method that is going to discern a reflection from a small PCB from a reflection from a large tree trunk?

edit: first, the camera isn't a retroreflector so you can't just light it up from any direction and get a strong reflection. Second, the kind of equipment that would give you good directionality with a static target is some next generation beam steering radar, that stuff is so expensive you're better off walking around with a 4K camera and then processing the footage with an image detector to find possible matches with images of trail cameras.
That is very good. The last year has exposed quite a few problems for Israel.

* The IDF isn't very good at what they do. I can say this from the perspective of a solider, technician, and military officer with 27 years military experience. The IDF lacks precision and discipline. It comes down to intensity of culture, training, and inclusion. Currently the IDF looks like the Russian army in their over use of artillery, disregard for civilian casualties/property, and the inability to quickly seize tactical objectives at minimum cost. This is fundamentally a cultural problem that Israel is not interested in fixing, which is why this is spilling into the West Bank even though there is no terrorism in the West Bank.

* Israel is far too reliant on external military support for a variety of things, most especially munitions. If the US turned off that pipe the IDF would almost instantly be completely screwed.

* Israel does not seem to have a clear goal in their military objectives. What precisely do they want to accomplish? Everybody is watching and nobody knows what Israel's desired end state is. This is why so many people, whether right or wrong, believe Israel is pursuing genocidal and mass-dislocation goals.

* Israel is damaging its relationship with its closest allies. If the US got tired of Israel they would be in very hard times from both a military and diplomatic perspective even if not attacked by any nation-state. That should be worrying because from the US perspective Israel is a shitty ally compared to just about everybody else in the region, specifically: Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain. We even get far more out of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. If relationships between the US and Iran chilled then what does the US need Israel for?
The semantics can certainly be argued, but a type system is sort of on its own tier of as far as language features go. Most importantly, there is only going to be one backward incompatible change which is the spec syntax, otherwise it is just leveraging how we already write Elixir.
Community servers will definitely be the answer for this in the long run.
Oh, i can solve this: You will understand his work better once you step out of the narrow category of your work domain model.
I’d advise you to ignore lay explanations of the space - outside of the industry most of the discourse about self driving cars is poisoned by Elon’s deceptive presentations and his followers who parrot what he says.

If you want a grounded explanation of how Tesla’s stack works, follow @greentheonly on twitter. He’s a Tesla reverse engineer who regularly posts about the software that’s actually running on the car.

If you want an explanation about how real AV companies stacks work, I’d read Sebastian Thrun’s robotics textbook - then imagine what’s outlined in that book but with ML plugged in to a ton of spaces throughout the stack. This is also similar to how Tesla’s stack works, btw - greens just good to follow because a lot of people refuse to believe Tesla isn’t running some kind of “LLM but for driving” fully end to end black box model.

Tesla won’t launch a robotaxi anytime soon because they can’t use remote support or HD maps - although I think they’ve been stepping up their mapping efforts. Even the demo at Universal studios a few weeks ago was HD mapped - per @greentheonlys twitter.

I worked in the space for years and have seen the internal of both a traditional robotaxi company’s stack and Tesla’s.
What are the "arbitrarily complicated" cases of lifetime annotations? They cannot grow beyond one lifetime (and up to one compilation error) per variable or parameter or function return value.
Show HN: Lithent" JSX-based virtual DOM library for lightweight
"Lithent" has implemented the bare minimum functionality needed to create and update virtual DOM in general (we only need to know 'render', 'mounter', 'updater', 'renewer', 'mountCallback',
We should probably look at developer salaries / hourly rates rather than GDP. Most of the people in developing countries don't need IDEs.

But yeah, if you work for low rates, then you have to work more hours to pay for your tools.
Scaling Points in a Specific Direction
That number needs to include car depreciation + any remote 'safety drivers' + the maintenance depot overhead + fuel and insurance + any other costs that scale with the number of cars then.
Among them, eventually, will be modern medicine if we manage to preserve it long enough and share it widely enough.

By suppressing the consequence of genetic predispositions and vulnerabilities, it lets those genes propagate more freely and invisibly than they would have been doing before. It helps individuals and communities today in a way we can't possibly refuse, but sets up the species to become perpetually dependent on an elaborate, brittle medical infrastructure. Genetic engineering and eugenics could eventually address that, but those invite scifi horrors of their own. We seem to have set ourselves into a bit of a trap.
GPU Reshape Beta 2 Release
> avoid asking people to do surface mount unless it is reasonably straightforward - it was never meant to done that way.

This is the kind of comment that I was hoping to read here. Would you mind elaborating? What is considered straightforward? Can a PCB be designed or printed in such a way that makes it straightforward to surface mount components? Does the number of PCB layers factor into this?
> What am I missing?

A use-case for the <> "eventually" operator.
Is it reliable enough that you don't need to supervise it? What's your estimate of the miles per intervention?
I would recommend watching this video, where the same YouTuber is using FSD which takes an exit and needs intervention to avoid running directly into a divider.

https://youtu.be/LbCGAN6Pk_c?t=2026
But is there an evolutionary pressure in this direction because of the decrease in need? That would be Lamarckian then. I wonder if certain traits need evolutionary pressure to stay stable, and otherwise degenerate in some specific direction.
No, I would say you were describing WHATWG and their HTML5 specification (now called the HTML Living Standard)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHATWG

The Web Platform Incubator Community Group is "a lightweight venue for proposing and discussing new web platform features" within the W3C

https://www.w3.org/community/wicg
I'm not clear on what you mean. The definitive example of evolution that I was taught in school was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution, which is easily described as you just stated it.
For a real number `x`, does computing `-x` require "taking apart the real number and fiddling with the sign bit"? I think of negation as a real operation in R, namely a reflection about the origin, and conjugation a a real operation in C, namely a reflection about the real axis.
Then you’re a rare corner case that’s served by something third party.
This is basically RPA with LLMs. And RPA is basically the worst possible solution to any problem.

Agents won't get anywhere because any user process you want to automate is better done by creating APIs and creating a proper guaranteed interface. Any automated "computer use" will always be a one-off, absurdly expensive, and completely impractical.
Possibly related [1]

[1] - https://www.kvpr.org/health/2024-10-11/photos-of-dead-cattle...
> Tesla reverse engineers regularly look inside of what’s running in the cars and that’s not the case at all

How are they doing this on the software stack? Any references?
It would have been a very different place.

In the IBM compatible world, the clones drove down the price then drove forward progress. It is doubtful that much of a clone market would develop in the Amiga/Atari world since the parent companies were already competing against IBM compatibles on price. Without clones to break free (as happened in the IBM compatible world), there wouldn't be clones to drive forward progress. I'm not even sure cloning the Amiga would be practical. Apparently Commodore had enough trouble "cloning" the Amiga (i.e. developing higher performance, yet compatible machines). Without the clones driving progress, companies like SGI and Sun would likely still be in the picture.

If Amiga/Atari domination somehow did happen, I suspect the CPU situation would be flipped around, with Motorola having both the incentive and finances to continue on with a fully compatible 680x0 line of processors and Intel chasing after its own equivalent of an 680x0-to-PPC transition.

As for the retrocomputing thing: DOS/Windows 3.x nostalgia is very much a thing in today's world. In that alternate reality, they would likely be higher profile (as Amiga/Atari are today).
Riot has a notoriously toxic work environment, and recently has had massive rounds of layoffs[0]. And it’s extra bad for women, like at most game studios.

[0]: https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/2024-rioter-update - 11% of staff let go
KeepassXC also doesn't have templates for things. It's in the works. When it comes out I might take another look at it.
Except they can't make the kinds of safety critical interventions Tesla driver's in the seat can make i.e. prevent accidents. That's just physics.

We know exactly how their remote operation works: https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/
It’s running in the browser but connected to a VM, right? When you say crashed, what did it do?
Thanks for the reference! Looks like an intriguing book from a glance at the contents pages
Actually most of my code serves no practical purpose, like this hamster: https://codepen.io/Ma5a/pen/ExqWGGM
or these pandas bumping into each other: https://codepen.io/Ma5a/pen/WNEBqPO

But I learn a lot from it, and it indirectly feeds into my day job.
My almost post-social media life has been interesting. I ditched Twitter, came back to it briefly, then ditched it again when it was purchased because I found my mental health growing increasingly fragile with the constant outrage, the need to keep track of who the main character of the day was or risk the ire of your circle, and the increasing filtering of my timeline.

I quit Facebook, other than keeping an account for announcing major life events to the older people who were still on it, because I was frustrated that I never received any posts from family or close friends in the heavily filtered timeline, I kept receiving time-sensitive posts (say about a hurricane event) for weeks after the post was no longer relevant, and Meta's increasingly metastasized privacy practices.

I joined Mastodon and found a calm, down to earth, almost boring place. The decentralized nature of the platform certainly means there are some not-at-all boring parts of the Mastoverse, but it felt more like being in an old-style forum than anything else. I'm still there, though my participation isn't significant.

I tried Blue Sky because all my Twitter people were there ... and it was IMMEDIATELY like hitting a drug after being off it for a while. It was all about main characters and outrage.

For me, in hindsight, it was like sitting in front of a slot machine, feeding in quarters, waiting for one to win. And watching people who did win inevitably milkshake duck themselves out of favor. It was briefly an amazing, buzzy world to share both humor and excitement about whatever events you wanted, but that certainly didn't last.

I don't miss it.
Ah I see that makes sense! The adapters are indeed a big annoyance with the zeros. The 3A+ doesn't have ethernet either though (like none of the A models).
This comment brought a smile to my face.

When I showed the machine to my son, Nate, a mechanical engineer, he thought it looked like something from a 1950's sci-fi movie like "Forbidden Planet". Back then, plastics were high-tech and new, and with the acrylic domes, the Satoshi9000 would not look out of place on the set of that movie.

He suggested that every coffee table should have one!
> The idea that watching a video triggers some waste clearing mechanism is pretty wild.

It kind of makes sense. We can look at images of food and get a physical reaction like hunger, or look at macabre images and feel disgust, or stare at animations for one minute and then be affected for many minutes afterwards when we look away.

It doesn't surprise me we're still discovering new mechanisms for triggering physical reactions in our bodies.

Edit: I do agree it's pretty wild regardless :) Especially wild if we're finally discovering mechanisms that have useful effects, not just "fun" effects like visual distortion.
Study: DNA corroborates “Well-man” tale from Norse saga
Exert from that same wiki page about the anti-McCollough effect, I may have the two confused.

Given that AMEs do transfer interocularly,[8] it is reasonable to suppose that they must occur in higher, binocular regions of the brain. Despite producing a less saturated illusory color, the induction of an AME may override a previously induced ME, providing additional weight to the argument that AMEs occur in the higher visual areas than MEs.[8]
I like to think I have a pretty sharp eye for LLM output, and nothing else in the article raised any alarms for me.
If you want books that can help you learn to think, you can't do better than the classics. I suggest Plato's dialogs or the Analects of Confucius. You may find them more accessible than you expect. They were excellent teachers.

Here's a good translation of Plato by Benjamin Jowett: https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/plato-the-dialogues-of-pl...

And one of Confucius by James Legge:
https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/legge-the-chinese-classic...

Both translations are from the 19th Century and so have entered the public domain. But both are also often considered the best English versions of these works, even today.

(Note you can download a facsimile pdf of the original book, and print it out as you go. I prefer to read anything long-form that way. Better for concentration in my opinion).
They got the simulation based inference going though, right? How high can they crank up the energy and still have that work?
> just that it's reassuring that the signal is so strong that you can see it by eye

It's really something when this happens. I worked on a big neutrino experiment searching for theta_13, where our goals were to (a) determine if theta_13 was dead zero or not (being truly zero would have a Seriously Major Effect in theories) and then (b) to measure its value if not.

Our experiment was big, expensive, and finely tuned to search for very, very small values of theta_13. We turned the thing on and... right there there was a dip. Just... there. On the plot. All the data blinding schemes needed to guarantee our best resolution kind of went out the window when anyone looking at the most basic status plot could see the dip immediately!

On the one hand, it was really great to know that everything worked, we'd recorded a major milestone in the field (along with our competition, all of whom were reading out at basically the same time), and the theorists would continue to have nothing to do with their lives because theta_13 was, in fact, nonzero. On the other hand... I wasted how many years of my life dialing this damned detector in for what now? (It wasn't wasted effort, not at all... but you get the feeling.)
Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity promote scientific racism in AI search results
I think it only costs $2000 - https://store.nanoporetech.com/minion.html which is pretty amazing
The issue with the MP4 format not opening has now been fixed, and I’ve released the update, so it should work now.

down.blue could indeed also solve my problem, but I hadn’t come across it before.
A Senior SDE at Microsoft makes ~~$332k/year~~ US$241k/year. Median income per person in the USA is $42,800/year.

https://www.levels.fyi/companies/microsoft/salaries/software...

You're solidly upper class if you work at big tech. Nadella isn't trying to lead people making $42,800/year where a 6.5% decrease in salary can literally be the difference in homelessness. He is trying to lead wealthy software developers where $20k is painful but not life-altering.

It's a bigger issue that the median American salary leaves practically no room for someone to cut their income due to performance. If the only way to survive is to constantly lie about your performance to get an extra couple of bucks, people will do that regardless of what the CEO says or does.

Ideally, we would live in society where everyone had slack in their compensation. This would let more CEOs lead by example.
If it turns out LIDAR 3d mapping is needed, how much is camera-only data worth?
Why are we not considering banning plastics in most household items?
Alphaguess: A Word Game
Astronauts return from nearly eight months on ISS after Starliner problems
I’m working on Webwright which presents as a shell. It’s on GitHub.
No. This has been answered multiple times up and down the thread.
The context is inaccurate because it is actually dual licensed so thinking about GPLv3 alone is not painting the whole picture.

> The default license throughout the repository is your choice of GPL v3.0 OR
BITWARDEN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT LICENSE unless the header specifies another
license. Anything contained within a directory named bitwarden_license is
covered solely by the BITWARDEN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT LICENSE.
> Reddit feels like it’s growing but I think that avoids the worst of social media.

Really?

Reddit is a cesspool because they drove off the power users in favor of normies who won't block the ads.
He uses math term to explain the math. No way i will use that method to understand the subject.
Demystifying Large Language Models for Medicine: A Primer
What's interesting to me about this is that from what I understand, lifetime annotations are not present in Rust because of a desire to include information for the use of developers, but because without them the compiler would need to brute-force checking all potential combinations of lifetimes to determine whether one of them is valid. The heuristics[0] that the compiler uses to avoid requiring explicit annotations in practice cover most common situations, but outside of those, the compiler only acts as a verifier for a given set of lifetimes the user specifies rather than attempting to find a solution itself. In other words, all of the information the compiler would need to validate the program is already there; it just wouldn't be practical to do it.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/lifetime-elision.html
With 700 cars, 100MM is $140K per car per year so that should be covering direct car non-employee expenses.
Embargo ransomware analysis exposes developing toolkit of new group
> The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests:

> Tammy M. Scott [lead author of the paper] reports financial support was provided by American Pistachio Growers.
Bird scooters operating margins are very good if you only measure specific locations on specific times of the week.

It is risky to ignore total profit and loss of the entire company
The cassettes sounded awful on day one, and rest assured they didn't get better with age. (Neither did the capstan in your cassette deck, which I'd suggest checking to make sure it isn't turning into goop that will literally ruin your tapes for good.)

Meanwhile, my CD-Rs are still fine, but then I didn't buy the cheapest ones I could find.

Out of all the 80s artifacts that hipsters could resurrect... wow, just wow. Cassettes. They could have brought back designer jeans, off-the-shoulder blouses, normally-aspirated V12 Ferraris, and cheap cocaine... but no, they decided to rehabilitate cassette tapes. This truly is the worst timeline.
The 0+ HFT Strategy
For puberty blockers, "reversible" just means that discontinuing the blockers will unsuppress the hormones that the blockers suppress, allowing them to gradually reach normal baseline levels. It doesn't mean that the downstream effects of doing this are reversible.

There is a developmental window that opens during puberty that cannot be returned to later on once closed. That is, the blocked part of this pubertal window is not deferred: it's forfeited.

If a child is on puberty blockers for a significant period of time during this, they risk lifelong infertility and anorgasmia, underdeveloped sexual organs, undermineralized bones leading to osteopenia and osteoporosis, and potential brain developmental defects.

None of which is reversible in adulthood.

As an analogy, hypothermia is "reversible" up to the point you're about to die of it. This means that you can raise a hypothermic person's body temperature back to its normal setpoint. However, this does not mean that if you get gangrene from hypothermia, the dead tissue can be resuscitated and brought back to normal function. This is not reversible.
I genuinely don't know
VaultWarden is great. But I don't use it, because I trust Bitwarden's infrastructure more than my own, for now at least.