skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if the government doesn't provide infrastructure for you to use, then you have no choice but to jaywalk.

What I think is crazy is all of the cities that just don't build sidewalks. I understand in certain rural areas, but yeah, many midwestern and southern cities are downright hostile to pedestrians.
Love this idea -- you have a typo in tools "Satble Diffusion"
> Those $100 face-value tickets were selling for 10 to 50x their price on secondary markets. Either she truly believed her tickets were only worth $100 (unlikely), or she was deliberately underpricing to maintain her image as an artist who cares about fan access.

No, those $100 tickets are mostly worth $100. There are a lot of reasons why someone will overpay to get a ticket; but don't delude yourself: If Taylor Swift decided to charge $1000 for each ticket, many less people would go. She might sell 1/10th of the tickets, and it would be a wash, she might sell 1/3rd of the tickets, and make more money, or she might sell 1/20th of the tickets, and make less money.

What drives the price of the tickets up is scarcity: Once the venue is sold out (or close to sold out,) it's useful to only sell the tickets to people who really, really want to pay.

Edit: I should add that, unless I really want to see an artist, I tend to buy my tickets shortly before the show, and only if they are a reasonable price.

For example, last summer Green Day & Smashing Pumpkins was $200 / ticket. I kinda wanted to go, but I didn't want to pay that much.

In contrast, Weezer was $70 a ticket and playing around the corner from my office. I went to Weezer. (And wished I bought a floor ticket sooner because the Flaming Lips were the opening band.)

Had Weezer charged $200, I never would have gone.
Do kernel-level anti-cheat measures even work if I'm running Steam as a Flatpak + Using the game under Proton? I (naively, perhaps) assumed the security sandboxing model of flatpak would restrict that level of access.
Taiwan's Race for Secure Internet Detours Around Musk's Starlink
When leaders without the requisite technical knowledge are making decisions then the question of whether AI is capable of replacing human workers is orthogonal to the question of whether human workers will be replaced by AI.
It excels at particularly text and scene composition, as well as being able to generate vector graphics. You can use it through their website or through fal.ai https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/recraft-v3/playground.
Interesting, this looks well thought out, will have to give it a try.
The solution for this is to make it so the cars physically can't go everywhere they want to go. Meaning, instead of a highway designated for freight, use a rail.
> Half the tourists go there by private plane. Ballmer's son took his super yacht there with a harem of models.

Sounds great apart from that bit.
State sponsored actors only target a few people and they only send the backdoored version to their target list.
That the opinions of most educated people are absolutely hilarious, when they need to reason about s.th. that is not their area of expertise.
Well, I guess I should have written in the OP, that I do both conversions at the time of the query. It's useless to try storing the UTC. It needs to be JIT.
With their hidden camera in the bathroom.
> December 25 (when Jesus is believed to have been born)

I don't think anyone actually believes Jesus was born on Dec 25.
It feels like AI writes about 25% of my code. Libraries and frameworks make most of the code obvious, most of the time I'm not creating anything, I'm figuring out what the library author or language designers wants me to do.

Over time you learn to work with the style of LLMs and architect stuff in an even more obvious predictable way, which seems to reduce bugs by a lot and make adding features easy, since the AI is trained on established codebases and knows what I might need later, rather than just making tiny spike solutions I have to rewrite.
CUDA + ThunderKittens 4.5 hour tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcpEl0cGCC4
Yeah okay, I understand pedestrian visibility. But cross walks have nothing to do with that really?

Like it's a place where you (usually) stop and when you are stopped, pedestrians can go.

I don't see how jaywalking would be better than a dedicated place where pedestrians are expected to be. Thick a-frames or not.
Sometimes. In the face of entrenched competition, you can't be just a little bit better. You have to be a lot better. And in a way that said competition can't easily match (or exceed).
Yes, I believe it is irrefutable that burning fossil fuels is continuing to degrade the environment. We can look at it. Silver did not used to tarnish! (It reacts with atmospheric sulfur released from burning coal.) Look at the AQI in any city — it’s wrecked. Compare highway versus 500 meters away. Burning gasoline and coal are toxic and disruptive to health.

But we can’t tax them because then… people would use them less. Yes, that is the point.
I still have a cast iron skillet, but I mostly stopped using it once I got some carbon steel pans. In my experience they beat cast iron in nearly every way. I only use my cast iron now if I need a huge amount of thermal capacity (like pre-heating it to make pizza on or something) or for the presentation value.
You are comparing apples to oranges.

Unemployment calculations from data recorded during that time have since changed. The same unemployment numbers are not the same mathematical objects being compared.

At this point, we can never know the true scope of unemployment to make any comparison definitively, because the measurements no longer accurately collect the necessary information for such a comparison.

You don't see engineers turn sampling data into an average rate of change, and then use it for safety-critical applications that require instantaneous rates of change.

In my previous response, I said unemployment today isn't counted after 18 weeks, so you should be aware that these objects are not the same.

Just because you have no visibility on a problem doesn't mean there isn't a problem especially when objective measures indicate there is a problem.

No definitive comparison can be made objectively, claiming its not even close would involve delusion when no external objective comparison can be made, definitionally.
and it is a cat and mouse game between cheat and game devs
> a judge still needs to issue a warrant for the police to actually go and look at the file

Only in the future. Maher's conviction, based on the warrantless search, still stands because the court found that the "good faith exception" applies--the court affirmed the District Court's finding that the police officers who conducted the warrantless search had a good faith belief that no warrant was required for the search.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make but in this context there is no difference. If you know someone is cheating, you prevent further cheating by banning them.

Now I'll ask: how do you detect someone wall hacking automatically? No human review and no false flags. Go!
Build in Public – October Report
October has been a long but productive month, filled with both challenges and new beginnings. I kicked off a new side project aimed at creating a tool to collate all support sources for users.

Highlights of the Month

Exploring Custom Email Support: I started the month with the goal of building custom email support through domain integrations. After a lot of trial and error, I ended up going back to the basics and rebuilding the tool from scratch. I decided to start with the simplest form of support source—widgets—and built from there.
Tech Stack I’m Loving: This month, I’ve come to appreciate my current stack even more. Working with Svelte on the frontend and NestJS on the backend has been a rewarding experience.
Personal Development

I revisited two books, Show Your Work and Deep Work, and have been actively applying the principles I learned. These have been invaluable for keeping focus and sharing my building journey more openly.
Goals for Next Month

Deploy the Project for Feedback: I plan to launch an early version of the tool and gather user feedback.
Continue Sharing the Journey: Building in public has been incredibly motivating, and I want to keep this momentum going.
Weekly Demos on Hacker News: I aim to post weekly demos on Hacker News to engage the community and gather feedback.
Thank you for reading! I’ll be hanging out in the comments for any questions or feedback—looking forward to chatting with you al
Shouldn't that be detectable?
> Correlation/Causation: lots of things in graphics rendering work because of observed phenomena.

As we are moving more and more towards physics-based rendering, engine are shifting from imitating what's observed to properly defining the world and its interactions and get realism as a byproduct.

The traditional (cheap) way of lighting stuff is to model ambiant lighting as some constant, regardless where light actually comes from, and render shadows as dark patches. It is not at all how physics work, so you need an artist with a good sense of observation to make it look right. The artist may suggest some blue tint for the shadows because it looks right.

The physical approach is to start with just the sun, no ambiant light, and simulate Rayleigh scattering, which will naturally give you a blue sky and blueish shadows. An artist can still be involved, but his job will be more about stylistic choices and evaluating corner-cutting techniques.
> (e.g. the "360" parking view which IMO could be a bit better, although I feel like I'm parking in gta 2)

FWIW Tesla doesn't have 360 parking camera support. They have a digital visualization and a few cameras pop up, but no full 360 camera setup.
I am curious what are the deliverables from RL after spending all these money? Have they calculated the real ROI?
The 96GB option was with the M2 Max and M3 Max chips, not the M2 Pro or M3 Pro.

DRAM chips don't just come in power of two sizes anymore. You can even buy 24GB DDR5 DIMMs.
It seems like with the electoral college, the needs of most of the country are being foresaken for the satisfaction of the coastal cities, if Trumpism is to be believed.
The biggest giveaway the kernel level anti cheat is stupid is that Easy Anti-Cheat works on Linux without kernel level access.
Sounds like the context window is getting pruned. Start a new chat fresh after you make significant changes.
On the other hand an aimbot can operate purely on informations you /need/ to send in and out to the physical machine (input peripherals and the screen), so there's that...
I'd suggest the bigger factor in those layoffs is the money was made in earlier covid years where money was flowing and everyone was overhiring to show off record growth, then none of those employees had any justification for being kept around and were just a money sink so they fired them all.

Not to mention Elon publicly demonstrated losing 80% of staff when he took over twitter and - you can complain about his management all you want - as someone who's been using it the whole way through, from a technical POV their downtimes and software quality has not been any worse and they're shipping features faster. A lot of software companies are overstaffed, especially Google who has spent years paying people to make projects just to get a PO promoted, then letting the projects rot and die to be replaced by something else. That's a lot of useless work being done.
Wait until Trump is in power and corporations are masterfully using these tools to “mow the grass” (if you want an existing example of this, look at Putin’s Russia, where people get jail time for any pro-Ukraine mentions on social media).
If we were being secretly controlled the world would be less of a shit show.
If you sell a ticket with no ability to transfer it, this stops scalpers. Certainly, it destroys secondary value of access to the event, but there are always tradeoffs.

Edit: @margalabargala Great idea.
I know. Can they do anything other than obnoxious Californian? The vocal fry is off the charts.
They also invested early in battery technology. China was able to build a competitive battery industry with state support and little environmental protection.
Even his chosen appointee was a big fan of $1 fines to companies who defrauded customers. One of great 'victories' of the small government types who've been in power is rendering many of the agencies they were responsible for to be completely ineffective. Why fight to protect the CFPB if they're a tool of the companies they're supposed to police? It's extremely important to keep these agencies independent and aggressive in seeking justice/recompensation.
Fair enough. I can't find the data, but I'd be curious to see a list that splits off vehicles for work purposes compared to personal. There are various tax benefits to "100% work vehicles" that people claim.

> They're roughly comparable to the BYD Dolphin in size.

I haven't see this car in person, but it sounds like you're describing a kaicar compared to a subcompact?

The Seagull is 3780 long by 1540 high.

The Yaris (XP210) is 3940 long by 1500 high.

The Golf (MK8) is 4284 long by 1456 high.

The Accent (HC) is 4190 long by 1450 high.

The Corolla (E10) is 4370 long by 1435 high.

The Polo (MK6) is 4053 long by 1438 high.

I did pick length and height as what I suspected to be reasonable for estimating "size" based on volume here. They're all within 50cm in length, and the Seagull is the tallest of them. So what defines the sizing class here?
On the Commodore 64!
Mac OS calls home every time you execute an application.
Apple is well on its way to ensure you can only run things they allow via app store, they would probably already be there if it wasn't for the pesky EU.
If you send your computer/phone to Apple for repair you may get back different physical hardware.
Those things very much highlight that "your" Apple hardware is not yours and that privacy on Apple hardware does not actually exist, sure they may not share that data with other parties but they definitely do not respect your privacy or act like you own the hardware you purchased.
Apple marketing seems to have reached the level indoctrination where everyone just keeps parroting what Apple says as an absolute truth.
On Towards the Stars: An Almost Complete Strategy Guide to Civilization 6
This comment, and your downstream replies are very clearly against the guidelines here. In particular, it is flamebait. You're effectively guaranteeing that this whole thread gets flagged and buried.
Always had ansible playbooks run against the server..

Here is a basic example:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...
These tools also require the developer class to that they are intended to replace to continue to do what they currently do (create the knowledge source to train the AI on). It's not like the AIs are going to be creating the accessible knowledge bases to train AIs on, especially for new language extensions/libraries/etc. This is a one and f'd development. It will give a one time gain and then companies will be shocked when it falls apart and there's no developers trained up (because they all had to switch careers) to replace them. Unless Google's expectation is that all languages/development/libraries will just be static going forward.
That makes sense, but it definitely wasn't what the artical said a few hours ago. It looks like it has been expanded quite a bit since I read it.
Does any Linux kernel level anti cheat exists ?

If you're running under proton, it can't work. Proton/wine are not virtualizing a windows kernel, they are intercepting syscalls/library calls and running the equivalent linux code.
This analogy can have two opposite meanings. Drug dogs can be anything from a prop used by the police to search your car without a warrant (a cop can always say in court the dog "alerted" them) to a useful drug detection tool.
I am telling you that "layoffs" are the mechanism by which silicon valley makes just cause termination culturally acceptable. If a silicon valley firm decided to fire the bottom 5%, they would lose huge amounts of talent that doesn't want to work in a "competitive" environment. If the bottom 10-20% happen to get "laid off" every 3 years, that's just an "unfortunate oversight" and a "management oops" that they take "full responsibility" for.

These layoffs do not generally happen when executives and companies fail; they happen as a matter of course. They are, of course, accompanied by rhetoric about executive failure (again, a cultural cover), but nothing more. When executives actually fail, executives get fired.
Good old Microsoft Sam? It'll sound like Stephen Hawking is reading it to you!
> 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 don't think there's anything proprietary going on, so I did a quick search. Fastmail supports JMAP [0], and JMAP [1] supports setting special keywords [2] for a message to mark it as spam of phishing. It may be possible to get this to work.

[0] https://www.fastmail.com/dev/

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8621.html

[2] https://www.iana.org/assignments/imap-jmap-keywords/imap-jma...
I didn't know anyone outside Google actually used that...
> MacBook Pro with M4 Pro is up to 3x faster than M1 Pro (13)
> (13) Testing conducted by Apple from August to October 2024 using preproduction 16-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M4 Pro, 14-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 48GB of RAM and 4TB SSD, and production 16-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 Pro, 10-core CPU, 16-core GPU, 32GB of RAM and 8TB SSD. Prerelease Redshift v2025.0.0 tested using a 29.2MB scene utilising hardware-accelerated ray tracing on systems with M4 Pro. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Pro.

So they're comparing software that uses raytracing present in the M3 and M4, but not in the M1. This is really misleading. The true performance increase for most workloads is likely to be around 15% over the M3. We'll have to wait for benchmarks from other websites to get a true picture of the differences.

Edit: If you click on the "go deeper on M4 chips", you'll get some comparisons that are less inflated, for example, code compilation on pro:

14-inch MacBook Pro with M4 4.5x
14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 3.8x
13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 2.7x

So here the M4 Pro is 67% faster than the M1 Pro, and 18% faster than the M3 Pro. It varies by workload of course.

No benchmarks yet, but this article gives some tables of comparative core counts, max RAM and RAM bandwidths: https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/10/apples-m4-m4-pro-and-m...
That is a vast oversimplification that discounts the incredible geopolitical changes over the past 40 years.

But at the end of the day, we're protecting our own interests.
It only works on Linux if the developer allows it, because it's not nearly as effective on Linux. Rust (the game not the language) uses EAC but doesn't run on Linux by choice for example. Neither does Fortnite. Apex Legends uses EAC and does run on Linux, and now nearly every public cheat for that game targets the Linux version because it's such a soft target.

I don't really like the status quo of installing random kernel-mode crap either, but nobody has a compelling answer for how to not make cheating absolutely trivial without it. Usermode anticheat barely does anything, serverside anticheat can only do so much, and the only other alternative is switching to console platforms which prevent cheating by giving the user zero freedom.
I'm willing to bet drivers in Vienna also obey traffic signals/laws, which is also something you cannot expect from NYC drivers.
The LLM codegen at Google isn't unsupervised. It's integrated into the IDE as both autocomplete and prompt-based assistant, so you get a lot of feedback from a) what suggestions the human accepts and b) how they fix the suggestion when it's not perfect. So future iterations of the model won't be trained on LLM output, but on a mixture of human written code and human-corrected LLM output.

As a dev, I like it. It speeds up writing easy but tedious code. It's just a bit smarter version of the refactoring tools already common in IDEs...
· Revenue was $65.6 billion and increased 16%

· Operating income was $30.6 billion and increased 14%

· Net income was $24.7 billion and increased 11%

Impressive
The HN discussions for these kinds of articles is so annoying.

A third of the discussion follows a pattern of people re-asserting their belief that LLMs can't possibly have knowledge and almost bragging about how they'll ignore any evidence pointing in another direction. They'll ignore it because computers can't possibly understand things in a "real" way and anyone seriously considering the opposite must be deluded about what intelligence is, and they know better.

These discussions are fundamentally sterile. They're not about considering ideas or examining evidence, they're about enforcing orthodoxy. Or rather, complaining very loudly that most people don't tightly adhere to their preferred orthodoxy.
> Is there any such thing as this surveillence applying to the inside of the renters bed room, bath room, filing cabinet with medical or financial documents, or political for that matter?

Yes. Entering property for regular maintenance. Any time a landlord or his agent enters a piece of property, there is implicit surveillance. Some places are more formal about this than others, but anyone who has rented, owned rental property, or managed rental property knows that any time maintenance occurs there's an implicit examination of the premises also happening...

But here is a more pertinent example: the regular comings and goings of people or property can be and often are observed from outside of a property. These can contribute to probable cause for a search of those premises even without direct observation. (E.g., large numbers of disheveled children moving through an apartment, or an exterior camera shot of a known fugitive entering the property.)

Here the police could obtain a warrant on the basis of landlord's testimony without the landlord actually seeing the inside of the unit. This is somewhat similar to the case at hand, since what Google alerted the police to a hash match without actually looking at the image (ie, entering the bedroom).

> I don't think you can reduce reality to being as simple as "owner has more right over property than renter"

But I make no such reduction, and neither does the opinion. In fact, quite the opposite -- this is contributory why the court determines a warrant is required!
Yes, that's the one (Samsung only has one 5K monitor). Most reviews I've seen have been pretty positive about it, but it's good to hear a dissenting opinion as well.

I believe the viewing angle problem you're talking about is due to the anti-glare finish. It's a trade off for sure (one that some people would not want). I assume that's why Apple offers their consumer 5K monitor with or without that finish.

Apple also has a Pro 5K monitor. LG also has one older 5K, and those are the only 5K monitors currently on the market.
Getting lots of ram will let you run large models on the CPU, but it will be so slow.

The Apple Silicon Macs have this shared memory between CPU and GPU that let's the (relatively underpowered GPU, compared to a decent Nvidia GPU) run these models at decent speeds, compared with a CPU, when using llama.cpp.

This should all get dramatically better/faster/cheaper within a few years, I suspect. Capitalism will figure this one out.
> Before you hire someone, you communicate the expectations of the job, amd if an executive prioritizes quick ones over long term big wins, that is a fundamental misalignment in values

Right, this is micromanaging leadership. You're looking for a manager to execute your vision. Not a leader. Short termism is a problem. But layoffs aren't proof of short-term thinking. If anything, they're a sign of past exuberant optimism.