skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Launch today" is a very undesirable constraint for this goal. All of the probes that have escaped made extensive use of gravitational slingshot effects, which are only available during favorable launch windows.

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

Long story short: they plan these out for decades at a time, and take your best shot when the planets align, literally.
It is likely an important issue because of the downstream consequences of such a severe trauma.
Description says:

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FAQ says:

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Only "free tier" is available.
I think this type of capability will make a lot of image generation stuff obsolete eventually. In a year or two, 75%+ of what people do with ComfyUI workflows might be built into models.
But what's the end goal and audience here? I don't believe people will resonate with robots making "um" and "ohs" because people usually resonate with an artist, a producer, a writer, a singer etc. A human layer with which people can empathize is essential. This can work as long as people are deceived and don't know there is no human behind it. If however i find out that a video is AI -generated i instantly lose interest in it. There are e.g. a lot of AI-generated architecture videos on youtube at the moment, i have never wanted to listen to one, because i know the emotions will be fake.
https://cdn.openai.com/o1-system-card-20240917.pdf

Check out the "CoT Deception Monitoring" section. In 0.38% of cases, o1's CoT shows that it knows it's providing incorrect information.

Going beyond hallucinations, models can actually be intentionally deceptive.
You need to be careful with some circumstances. I recently had to fix up a case where someone had tried this with a recurring local date. Something needed to happen at 4am local time every day. They had converted 4am local time to UTC based on the timezone offset on the day the config was saved. This then restored incorrectly when the timezone offset changed because e.g. a DST transition.
> First, let's not forget that jaywalking is one of those "crimes" that is used as a pretense by police to harass people, usually young people and people of color.

But let's also not pretend that decriminalizing jaywalking ends this harassment. In 2023, California decriminalized jaywalking when it's not dangerous to cross. But police have still used jaywalking as a pretense for stopping (and assaulting) people. https://missionlocal.org/2024/09/sf-violent-jaywalking-incid...
But will people keep buying AMD GPUs as gaming tech advanced and AI tools like LLM start getting integrated into games to make their worlds more realistic and expansive?
> As the district court correctly ruled in the alternative, the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule supports denial of Maher’s suppression motion because, at the time authorities opened his uploaded file, they had a good faith basis to believe that no warrant was required

So this means this conviction is upheld but future convictions may be overturned if they similarly don't acquire a warrant?
> Nevertheless, the behavior of large groups of people can be described quite well using mathematical models.

The whole article is amusing. What absolute fucking puffery lmao.
non-trival yes, but still small enough for a hobbyist. my desktop box has 96GB of ram and I don't feel special about it, nor was it expensive.
16 x 7 = 112 days, I’m not sure I understand your comment? Even if it was business days only, 5 x 16 = 80 which is still above the minimum needed.
Time zones _without_ DST would be relatively easy to deal with. The answer is not "abolish time zones", it's just "abolish DST".
Wow, an intersection like that in the USA would have at least one road rage death per day from violently impatient drivers.
> That' assuming houses don't go up in price though right?

No, it isn’t. You can invest your savings. If you had put $2,500.00 a month into SPY500 since October 2009 (15 years ago) you’d have $1,388,302.13 today.

https://dqydj.com/sp-500-periodic-reinvestment-calculator-di...

> Also I think it's pretty rare for people to have the mental fortitude to save 2.5k a month for a house on top of living expenses, rent, and trying to build your retirement / savings / emergency fund.

How is saving for a house “on top of” literally “saving”? If you can save for retirement, savings, and emergencies then you have the mental fortitude to save for a house. People are bad with money, we know that. One of the best examples is buying a house they can’t afford.

> It's definitely possible but I think it's out of reach for the average person.

Yes, agree.
See, this is a real video. Compare it with the obvious cgi fake that was put out a few months ago by Figure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1QZB5baNw I still can't believe how noone has called them out on that one.
I use Fastmail, and have found their Android app to be functional, but lackluster (no offline access being one of my biggest gripes). I hadn't used Thunderbird on the desktop in a good 15-20 years, so I figured I'd give this a try.

It is very snappy (unlike how I remember desktop Thunderbird all those years ago), and seems to work well so far, though it's a little bare-bones feature-wise. One thing that is unfortunate is it doesn't appear to be able to recognize Fastmail's "pinned" messages and map them to "starred" messages. That alone will keep Fastmail's own app on my phone.

Fastmail also has different actions for marking as spam and reporting phishing; I'm not sure how effective the latter is, but of course Thunderbird doesn't support it, as presumably that's a Fastmail-proprietary thing.

I'll probably keep it and see if it can serve as my daily driver, with the Fastmail app as a fallback for pinned messages for now.
Yeah, it was nice having a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It's on the chopping block under Project 2025:

"the next conservative President should order the immediate dissolution of the agency—pull down its prior rules, regulations and guidance"

So don't get too used to your new financial data rights. We'll know Tuesday if you'll ever get a chance to apply them.
That's a very big maybe. The LLM experience locally is currently very very different from the hosted models most people play with. The future is still very uncertain.
Hey can someone else double-check that the formula being used on Page 2 for Perf/Dollar is actually making sense?

They had three measures:
A) Flops. Operations per second.
B) Cost. Dollars per hour.
C) Runtime. Seconds per task.

I expected the formula to be Flops/Cost, resulting in units of operations per dollar.

Instead it was computed as Flops / (Cost * Runtime), to get some units that don't make sense to me — operations * tasks per dollar seconds?
As far as I know, NYC is unique in that pedestrians do not have the right of way. Everywhere else you must legally stop for a pedestrian but in NYC you don't. (edit, since people seem confused: This doesn't mean you can run them over. It just means you don't have to stop if you are going to block their path. Everywhere else, you have to stop if you are going to block a pedestrian's path, no matter where that pedestrian is.)

They have to do this or people would just block all traffic all the time.

So this really is just to stop racial profiling. It's really not going to change much in the day to day goings on in NYC.
My read of this article is that the main problem comes from black plastic that claims to be made of recycled material being contaminated.
Ask HN: What's Going on with the US Economy?
Just saw the news about Dropbox doing 20% layoffs. There have been at least 600k to 1 million people laid off since 2022. While job market is absolutely bonkers, I saw on LinkedIn that US is posting strong growth.

How is this possible? Granted tech is only 8% of US job market, but layoffs in tech are due to stagnant market and state of the economy if we take reasons given for layoffs seriously.

Stock market is up but people can't find jobs. Are we in a state that we dont need these jobs anymore in tech? Are more people going to get laid off leading to '07-08 style recession?

Are we seeing meltdown due to AI in realtime? I can't make sense of anything going on in the US economy.
ALL my black plastic utensils are OXO and I'll be damned if I'm throwing them all out. They'll have to pry them from my room temperature dead carcinogenic fingers.
>I tend to find table aliases a step down in readability

I suppose it depends on your database, one of the ones I work with all the time has crazy long table and view names and aliases make resulting SQL more readable.
Yes yes, the person outside of a car must provide deference to the car owner. Poor people serve the rich.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41915187
psychohistory
At a former employer I (voluntarily) left. I ended up spending a good couple hours driving my 7-year old laptop which I rarely used to a FedEx dropoff and I'm sure it was promptly recycles. But I wanted make sure all the loose ends were tied up.
Good riddance. Crosswalks at intersections are nearly obsolete due to the thick A-pillars in modern cars. I would rather have mid-block crosswalks with warning lights and traffic calming devices.
I work with AI models all day every day, keep up with everything, love frontier tech, I love and breathe LLMs. And I, like OP, haven't seen the need to upgrade from the M1 MBP because it runs the small 1-7B models just fine, and anything bigger I want on some GPU instance anyway, or I want a frontier model which wouldn't run on the newest and biggest MBP. So it's not just us Boomers hating on new stuff, the M series MacBooks are just really good.
It's a spectrum. E.g. in Russia it's illegal to cross the road if there's a crosswalk or intersection visible from the point where you cross it (and cops will fine you for it - or rather, attempt to extort a bribe).
I am absolutely flabbergasted at the fact that Chrome extension security is the way it is, considering how much Google spends to keep chrome secure.

How is it, in 2024, users can still blindly install malicious software directly into their browser from a web store with Google’s name at the top of it?

This goes to show even the most cautious and conscientious of users can get caught out by their extension changing hands. What, is Google expecting us to review our extensions, and their permissions, and their authors, and their authors’ associated businesses, every time we want to use our computer?

Additionally, are we even able to review the source code of extensions if they are not open source?
It's hard to tell from the article - is it still a violation if you don't yield to traffic with the right of way? If so, that's how jaywalking works in the vast majority of places. If you cross and imped the flow of traffic with the right of way, you are jaywalking and will be ticketed for it. This is just standard in most places.
They announced earlier in the week that there will only be three days of announcements
Electrifying ships could be cost effective by 2035, study says
All hardware has limits. Which ones are you hitting every day?
A simpler explanation would be equally effective campaign management for each party. If both sides were optimally competent at adjusting their message to attract voters, they would tend toward equal portions of the vote. Of course, that's less interesting than modeling voters as a spin glass.
It's not a democratic process. The gerrymandering, electoral college, all of it is trash.

Not to mention the core parts of the system such as identification are completely outdated.

We should have had ranked choice voting years ago at the very least.
Over $2bn in state and federal subsidies - https://archive.is/g5Gnb

https://imgur.com/a/XYSSnTQ
Traveling in Germany where there is a culture of biking and walking I found that jaywalking is never the less very much frowned upon by regular people and they see it as a transgression of norms.
What do you mean? Information about previous layoffs is all over the news, social media, and dedicated sites like Glassdoor. Only a fool or someone really desperate would take a job without doing a thorough background check on the company first. And while I sympathize with workers who have to take whatever job they can get, that doesn't apply to most HN users.
"Second, as a veteran jaywalker, my rule of thumb is that if a car has to hit their breaks even a little, or otherwise alter their trajectory, you're doing it wrong."

You're doing it illegally in most places. If you imped the flow of traffic with the right of way, that's still an offense in most places. The article isn't clear if it's still a violation in NYC, but I bet it is.
I know people get frustrated with broken appliances and electronics, but I feel like once you look at the forces involved it seems fairly obvious that it'll happen:

* Environmental regulations require additional or more complicated systems - which adds points of failure (IE: Variable-speed motor controllers, Exhaust Gas Recycling, etc). They also require other changes - like using lightweight plastics where metals would have been used previously. Plastic fan blades crack, metal ones don't.

* Consumers, on the whole, only care about price and features. Those are tangible. Some people care about things like maintainability and longevity - but they make up a tiny, insignificant fraction of consumers. Thus, companies optimize for price - even if it comes at the cost of longevity. Any company that doesn't quickly loses market share to global competition from dozens of others that are more than willing to make that sacrifice and offer a better deal.

Those two factors explain everything about why modern appliances fail the way they do.
Paranoids' Vulnerability Research: NetIQ iManager Security Alerts
It pains me deeply that they used Autodesk Fusion in one of the app screenshots. It is by far the worst piece of software I use on Mac OS.

Wish the nano-texture display was available when I upgraded last year. The last MacBook I personally bought was in 2012 when the first retina MBP had just released. I opted for the "thick" 15" high-res matte option. Those were the days...
> I would fully support shutting down dozens of streets that cross-cross the city to through traffic and dedicate them to biking and pedestrians.

I dream of this version of SF...

Given the size of the city, and amount of pedestrians and general walkability, I'm always amazed at how hard it is to get a pedestrian street here and there.... Even the peninsula is starting to get them in a way we seem to not be able to.
On street parking really is the worse as a pedestrian. Yes, you can technically cross at any intersection in Seattle, but cars are parked so close that they won't see you unless you poke your head out. A lot of pedestrian problems could be solved by getting rid of or severely restricting on street parking.

Also, drugs are a huge issue. We have a lot of pedestrian/car accidents, something like 70% of them involves controlled substance abuse from either the driver or pedestrian (and much of the time, its the pedestrian). Fent really is a big problem.
> US is installing solar at a rate of about 40GW per year so we need to 2X it, not 10X it

2x means no carbon reduction. 3x means we can close coal by 2040 and decarbonise by 2082 [1]. And “panels are easy.” (We’re not 2 or even 3x’ing deployment inside a decade [2].)

Now look at batteries. Assume we ban EVs and send 100% of production to utilities. 10x.

Solar + wind with batteries only means we burn natural gas. It’s based on the same faulty logic as the failed nuclear-only strategies of yesteryear. It’s what we’re doing right now, which is why we’re installing about 10 GWh a year of natural gas over the 40% it already commands and why trillions are being invested in new natural gas infrastructure [3].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_of_the_Un...

[2] https://seia.org/research-resources/us-solar-market-insight/

[3] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
Are people really willing to commit code that was only reviewed by an AI? I personally wouldn't trust that for anything that is customer/revenue impacting. Obvious bugs and defects aren't all that hard to catch in normal code reviews but subtle race conditions/deadlocks/memory errors can be very tricky, do you have examples where it shows it can catch those?
In countries where open police corruption is more routine, cops love enforcing such laws because it's a very low-effort to extort bribes. Not even because the fine is significant, but because the procedure to pay it once given a ticket may be rather onerous compared to just handing over a banknote and going on your way.
All they did was release technical drawings for a proprietary connector they designed to interface with their products. That's not what "open source" means. They're not releasing any schematics for their products. This is purely so you can build devices that can interface with their proprietary connector, which will be financially beneficial to them as most people probably do not own a Beelink PC.
Glad you made that work but that's counting steady job, steady health, no kids, cost of living staying the same the entire time.
The weird thing about these Apple product videos in the last few years is that there are all these beautiful shots of Apple's campus with nobody there other than the presenter. It's a beautiful stage for these videos, but it's eerie and disconcerting, particularly given Apple's RTO approach.
Not having an automatic transmission means there are less ways in which a manufacturer can screw up your car's performance in the name of emissions.

This is obviously less relevant in America where you can still buy fast cars without being murdered by taxes.
The new mac mini also has an M4 Pro that goes up to 64GB.
Out of curiosity, what is false positive rate of a hash match?

If the FPR is comparable to asking a human "are these the same image?", then it would seem to be equivalent to a visual search. I wonder if (or why) human verification is actually necessary here.
1TB+ iPad Pro can be a fanless machine with a matte screen
I'm similar

I have all relatives set up with a separate browser for e.g. banking, and it has no extensions at all

then the usual internet browsing one with the security nightmare than is the chrome/firefox app store
The harshness of sentence is not for the action of keeping the photos in itself, but the individual suffering and social damage caused by the actions that he incentivizes when he consumes such content.
I still don't understand why would you buy a Mac if you want to run Windows.
I can't help but agree with you.
First H5N1 Detections in Swine
The thing is these tech companies don’t have a lot to do with the normal employment statistics. For instance Facebook hires so few employees that it could fire everybody but it would not (directly) move the needle of unemployment statistics nationally.

The media has been all over the issue that conventional statistics don’t show the economy as bad but many people think that it is.
We've learned it because we've seen this movie many times over the past couple of years (the catalyst perhaps being Musk's decimation of Twitter): it's become acceptable -- and perhaps not only acceptable but expected -- to suddenly cut a significant percentage of your workforce in order to "drive growth", with some BS platitude (the details of which vary a bit but they all read pretty much the same).

It's not venom, it's an appropriate response by workers to the "shareholder-value-at-all-cost" race that the industry finds itself in; an industry that has prided itself, and often built companies on, values that are the opposite.

That, and the fact that CEOs have no accountability for these decisions.
> Needless to say that’s not the case with GPUs and a lot of people that make the AMD vs Intel comparison don’t seem to understand that.

What needs to happen for GPUs to become as interchangeable as CPUs? What are the leading signs that this is becoming possible?
But...

"The beauty of the gravity assist is that you use the gravity field of a large body to change course. A common misconception is that the gravity assist increases speed, but it actually leaves speed unchanged. It's more accurate to say that the gravity assist changes direction, since velocity is both a magnitude (speed) AND a direction."
I think I get it, but it doesn't help the image that there are some who are so obviously abusing the system.

Everybody knows who they are. Everybody can see what they're doing, how they're using their position to avoid putting anything back in to the society that's made them all that wealth. And nobody can point to something and say "There! That exact thing right there they're doing should be illegal! Make a law!".

It's frustrating.
It's ineffective, you need more stages.

Tsiolkovsky's equation shows how much dV you get with a given wet : dry (empty) mass of a rocket stage. Very quickly it's becoming very inefficient.

Unless you are talking about some untested rocket that dumps empty fuel tanks in pairs. (Like in the dV book by Daniel Suarez).
Nowhere do you have the right to drive into a human being, whether there's laws against jaywalking or not.
I think we pretty much agree, but it's not a scientific result to say that race is a social construct and that racists leverage science incorrectly. Someone isn't acting in the role of a scientist by making those refutations. I want to make that distinction because otherwise, people have misconceptions about what it means for something to be scientifically validated. Not to say that scientists are trying to deceive people by involving science, but in some sense deception is the result, and I feel like (no strong evidence though) that leads to its own problems.
Been testing Fedora 41 Beta of KDE Spin and it is very very good. Still like openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma desktop more but yeah can also highly recommend Fedora 41 KDE Spin.
Ask HN: What has AI shown itself to be for you? benign or evil
> It’s not like programming languages support representing 61-second minutes anyway

This is not true. Someone already noted that Raku supports leap seconds. I think this may be partly my fault, because Perl 5's most popular datetime library, `DateTime.pm`, supports leap seconds.

It's my fault because I created `DateTime.pm` and implemented its leap seconds support. In retrospect, this was almost certainly a mistake. Almost no one cares about leap seconds. It just produces all sorts of weird confusion. Like why does adding 60 seconds produce a different result than adding 1 minute, but only rarely?

And it makes the code _way_ more complicated, especially since I wanted to validate whether setting second to 60 was valid.

This seems simple. Why not just look up the leap second table and check? Well, the `DateTime` constructor takes time components (including `second => 60`) and _any_ time zone. So we have to convert the date/time passed to the constructor to UTC in order to do that lookup. But doing that conversion ... ended up involving values that include leap seconds because of historical reasons.

It's a huge mess for very little gain.

As to Raku, I think it's stdlib datetime library borrowed from Perl 5's `DateTime.pm` quite heavily so it inherits some of the same bad design decisions.
> The severance package is great!

that's a function of how low the bar is in the US
Erm, "Assigned" in this context is not new: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca5/17...

"More simply, a hash value is a string of characters obtained by processing the contents of a given computer file and assigning a sequence of numbers and letters that correspond to the file’s contents."

From 2018 in United States v. Reddick.
Cheeky bugger, you are
Plus the cost of houses which will definitely go up
What do we expect from someone who says C/C++?