skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We do have TASS formally claiming that they won Trump his election, just the other day, and stating that he owes Russia and will make good on his obligations. I didn't see THAT coming, but it appears to be the real website.

Russian propaganda designed to piss off both sides of the aisle I'm sure. There is zero evidence that Russia ever helped Trump in any election. There is however lots of evidence of meddling in favor of Democrats by Ukraine and UK leadership.
Ok, we've changed to the first link from https://nypost.com/2024/11/06/science/egyptian-priestess-mum..., since the latter points to this and it seems to have the most information. Thanks!
I've been a bit surprised that no one (well GM was mildly pushing in this direction at one point) has really gone after autonomous driving on selected highways within some weather parameters. I know urbanites get all worked up about robotaxis but a system that lets me chill for the next 100 miles of highway driving seems far more interesting if it's reliable/safe.
I don’t think that’s correct. Ideally, your working set fits into the cache, and that doesn’t get smaller or larger when you use a RISC CPU.

(There may be an effect because of instruction density, but that’s not very big, and will have less of an effect the larger your working set)
I wasn’t aware there’re two completely different things from different companies both called AMX. I assumed that AMX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Matrix_Extensions

The Apple’s version is indeed interesting. I wonder why haven’t Apple exposed it to programmers, or implemented a BLAS library on top of that thing?
The "Trough of disillusionment" always hits every paradigm shift in markets.

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

In general, people tend to learn most subjects through their own actions and continuous practice... and not through abstract imagination of some non sequitur that lecturers may not even fully comprehend. Only 1:17 people have the self discipline to do self-directed study... online that stat is likely more dismal... =)

Yet, we found Steve Brunton's book and many labs tended to engage people better than handouts:

https://www.youtube.com/@Eigensteve/videos

https://www.amazon.com/Data-Driven-Science-Engineering-Learn...

Thanks Steve =3
Wonderful! Watching one's closest people age is so cool! I love looking at my wife (we've been married for 20 years) and seeing how she's changing through the years, her eyes, her skin, her figure, it's fascinating. Same for the wrinkles on my mother's hands, or even my own.

For me, there's nothing scary or sad about growing old and then dying. It's natural, it's beautiful, it's just great the way it is.
And those apps require location access? As per app store guidelines, they're supposed to provide fallback if you deny location permissions. Not to mention both iOS and Android have cracked down on background location permissions years ago, so at best those parking apps is getting a list of places you parked at, not minute by minute location updates. Tracking you by where you swiped your credit card is probably more reliable than this.
I once went to a website that popped up the usual "we share your data with a few trusted third parties", and when I clicked "more details" it showed a list of nearly 700 it shared data with. I'm not even sure I know that many real people. And I'm sure most just hit OK to get the window out of the way.
No no, there's nothing third-world about ultra-concentrated (both in market share and in physical location) meat production.

That's a first world capitalist's wet dream!

Has consequences though. Like extreme vulnerability to pathogens.

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/why-have-egg-prices-been-so...
It sounds like you need to develop a sense of yourself outside of your responsibilities as a software developer, geek, student and techie. The human that you are irrespective of the other things sounds deprived.

Maybe take some time to read a little Abdul Hasan Ali Nadwi when you get the chance and cook a meal for your relatives if you’re able to.
I believe in what Guillermo Rauch said: "Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration." The problem that's not mentioned is that the higher-level tests you write the higher likelihood they'll be flaky. Testing is all about confidence that your code works and flakiness undermines that. Having tools to counteract this will allow me to ship faster and with better confidence. Very nice.
2013. It was crazy flying to Norway for lunch at 10Euro round trip.
It's also just what the employees want.

I don't want to eat a bag of processed garbage full of sugar, hydrogenated oils, artificial colorings and preservatives. But a banana or an apple, sure, good mid-afternoon snack. I'm probably a fairly normal eater for the demographic.
> 100k trips per week

Now 150k trips per week (things are moving fast)

https://x.com/Waymo/status/1851365483972538407
I have been using Perplexity more, instead of Google. Results are better
Show HN: QA.tech – End-to-End Testing in Natural Language
Hi, I'm Daniel, CEO of QA.tech. We've spent the past 18 months developing a cool tool that allows you to run end-to-end tests on any web application using natural language. Check it out and let us know what you think!

I used to be a CTO at a B2C marketplace and was taken aback that all qa agencies we talked to wanted to create a custom suite of tests from scratch. Even though we were essentially a e-com with the same functionality as everyone else. Why weren't there any best practices?

Some time later my co-founders and I had moved on and were looking for the next thing to do. AI agents became a thing, and we wanted to use them to take test cases, written by humans, and perform them with bots.

A test case can be very vague, and test the overall functionality, like this:
Sign up for an account and send an invoice

Or include as many specific instructions as you choose, like
After signup, verify that the email contains an image of the Chinese zodiac of the year you entered as your birth date

The tech is still very early, and a bit slow in some cases, but I am genuinely impressed by how much the agent manages to solve by itself.

Some cool things about the tool:

All tests are recorded and you get a step-by-step replay of what happened

It tracks all console logs and network logs for easier debugging

It creates “Issues” of bugs found during test execution that you can export to Linear

It suggests test cases for you based on what we scrape from your URL

We have an open signup where you can try it out and create your own test cases.

https://app.qa.tech/auth/sign-up?code=site-signup

Hope this brings you some joy, and that you have some feedback for me.

Cheers

If you need a site to test on, I have built a demo site that you can use: https://bit.ly/qa-demo-app
> Flashing firmware makes it easier to compromise an unattended hardware key but as I said above every hardware key could be considered compromised in this sense.

Isn't there a difference between your compromised laptop being able to reflash your Nitrokey and your compromised laptop not being able to reflash your Yubikey, though?

> Them having less than 20 employees makes sense, it's a niche market.

Maybe, but they sell 8 different hardware products. Have you ever been involved in a hardware product? I have, and it feels like they must not put a lot of resources on them. Which is kind of proven in my experience with the fact that my Nitrokey arrived 2 years after I ordered it and by then, only a fraction of the software had been written.
How do you propose to address it such that end result is a net positive, instead of net negative?
A journal reaching top of Hackernews? What is this?
> I’ve also heard that it can sometimes be a questionable resume signal. Any thoughts?

There are jobs that require a degree, and there are jobs that require a degree from MIT. This will get you in the first door, but not the second.

Also consider GaTech's OMSCS, though there are CS entrance requirements.
Related discussion, 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057139
When developing desktop applications with Electron, managing multiple browser windows within a single app is often necessary. Whether we need to display different types of content or create a more complex user interface, handling multiple windows efficiently can be challenging.

In this blog, we have covered in detail how to configure Webpack to manage multiple browser windows in our Electron application, ensuring that each window operates smoothly in our project.

Read more: https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/electron-multiple-browser-win...
2% of 5B still sounds pretty big to me.
Large language models in national security applications
A few Canadians can sneak in, depending on location.
I would be skeptical of granting that much power/mental space to gatekeepers you didn't elect. You're fine at your job without the certification right? so maybe it's not needed?
SQLite diagrams plus examples are pretty much the way I wish all of my documentation worked.
The effort that went into this is outstanding. Thanks for the daily reminder of just how much amazing stuff is put out there by hardworking folks :)
"The banana equivalent to Covid-19 is spreading to new countries, forcing the industry to change how the world’s most widely eaten fruit is farmed and even how it could taste." []

[] https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-pande...
since we are on the topic and since your article clearly mentions "Normalize your data unless you have a good reason not to" I had to ask. I am trying to build a news aggregator and I have many websites. Each of them has slightly different format. Even though I use feedparser in python, it still doesn't change how some of them put html text inside content and some of them break it down into a separate media xml attribute while retaining only basic textual summary inside a summary attribute. Do you think it makes more sense to store a single rss item as a column inside postgres or should it be stored after parsing it? I can see upsides and downsides to both approaches. Store it as XML and you have the ability to change your processing logic down the line for each stored item but you lose the flexibility of querying metadata and you also have to parse it on the fly every single time. Store it in multiple columns after processing it and it may require different logic for different websites + changing your overall python processing logic requires a lot of thinking on how it might affect some source. What do you guys recommend?
After over 100 billion of stock buybacks since 2005.
I see. I never trusted transactions and advised our app teams to not rely on them, at least without outside verification of them.

The situation is actually far worse with any client relying on librdkafka. Some of this has been fixed, but my company found at least a half dozen bugs/uncompleted features in librdkafka, mostly around retryable errors that were sometimes ignored, sometimes caused exceptions, and other times just straight hung clients.

Despite our company leaning heavily on Confluent to force librdkafka to get to parity with the Java client, it was always behind, and in general we started adopting a stance of not implementing any business critical functions on any feature implemented in the past year or major release.
Waymo is doing winter testing in Buffalo, NY.
(2015); Terraform in this case is vice.com’s “home for future fiction”, in case anyone was wondering.
Yeah, I'm def not taking a any more mongodb jobs if I can avoid it.

I'm fine with using it for simple throw away stuff, but deciphering someone else's ball of json is soul killing.
Exactly.
Not possible to rent anything livable in BCN for 700 EUR/pcm.
Flats in good condition/location now start from 1400EUR and immediately attract hordes of applicants. Estate agents don't even bother replying to most of them.
> The military’s professional norms are a check against a potential abuse of power.

Right. And norms might be a bulwark for six months or two years, and then they'll crumple against relentless assault. It's the same progression we've already seen play out in many areas of government with Trump's first term.
No, plenty of people think Democrats tried to cheat in this one and failed. There are many states with no ID requirements, which is unthinkable in modern times. Let's actually secure the elections instead of making it partisan.

>they'll probably still be harping on Hunter Biden's laptop or some other such nonsense.

That is not and never was nonsense. It was censored heavily and subject to propaganda like the "51 intelligence officers" or whatever despite being totally true. That is a horrible offense against the people and heads have yet to roll for it.
Medicine increased the average life span, but I don't think it increased the maximum very much

A lot of figures you see are biased by infant mortality and such

Random article I googled - Did Ancient People Die Young?

https://www.sapiens.org/biology/human-lifespan-history/

The outliers are the ones who drive history - I am imagining an 80-year-old wise man or woman, 10,000 years ago, who changed history

We still don't know how language came about, and how writing came about, and I can imagine that a limited life span / reproductive goals would make those things less likely
The doors are locked and you have to unlock them with the app before you can get in.
The red under "Free Online" looks weird to my eyes, like it was half crossed out with a red highlighter.

The helpful descriptions under the conversion doesn't seem to switch to the ones you have selected. I expected when I switched the time from minutes to years, the box would have defined years.
Social Profiling
> But yes hopefully one day it will be cheaper.

I also hope it will be cheaper, but it's definitely worth paying more for Waymo because of the better experience: safer, smoother, quieter, no weird smells, or conversation, etc.
You don't need an RCT. You need a study that compares COVID's many consequences and sequlae to the vaccine's myocarditis. Not COVID's myocarditis rate to the vaccine's myocarditis rate.

I can't find age-breakdown data of which specific complication causes the most death in COVID patients, but for the population broadly, it is multiple organ failure, then pneumonia and related pulmonary problems. Not myocarditis.

So if you're excluding the primary causes of death of COVID then sure, the tradeoff gets a lot less clear.
In my experience, all of those things are also true of Steam on Windows. In fact, if anything I have to deal with it less frequently since switching exclusively to Linux.
Yeah, and they all have "legitimate interests" in our data ò_Ó
Power Shortage to Hit 40% of AI Data Centres by 2027, Gartner Warns
Bare Message Encoding
Get Better at Math in Two Weeks [video]
> Some recordings on the website are RealMedia. I thought most players supported that but apparently quite a few don’t!

VLC works, as usual.
Since you mentioned them, Zoom started driverless rides (not open to the public) today.
how did you do this
>What assurances do you have that your "perma-off" setting is even minimally respected?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot

>Unless you have a physical disconnect for the chip, I would presume it is still gathering data and that data is being shipped out. There are just fewer companies that can do it.

If your paranoia level is this high, what makes you think they won't put a backup GPS receiver in the SoC or modem? They're perfect places for it, because they have tons of traces connected to them that you could piggy back off one to use as a rudimentary antenna.
> I can't think of an example of a real-life measurement with 28 decimal digits of precision...

Pretty sure there aint one.

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

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/497087/what-is-t...
But you turned out fine right? you're mad you're not even further ahead than the normies or what?
> 5.2 Don't use char(n) even for fixed-length identifiers

Well, i think "char(1) not null" is a valid choice for a very compact 1-byte field, "smallint" is twice as big
On the defender side, it's much funnier to poison the data of identified scrapers than to immediately ban them. Let them work out that their data has been altered for a while, clean up their datasets, and work to understand what identifies them as scrapers.
> As of August 2024, Waymo's fleet is under 1,000 vehicles

> Los Angeles County there are 7.67M registered automobiles and trucks

what are you even talking about
yeah.. they know nobody reads that
The UK has Open University which has been around for a long time (since 1969) and has a really good reputation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_University
Allow me to correct a bit the window: commercial EdTech push is clearly failed. The idea of remote learning might be perfectly valid though.

An example:

- TED Talk alike video lessons (ok, without political biases), meaning teachers who craft lectio magistralis on video, mount them, improve them over time and share them, their colleagues and students will makes the best emerge;

- students see and take notes of the video lesson in the evening (the best moment for young brain), in the morning they arrange their note for an afternoon speech, a random selection of students will actually give the speech on what they learned to their teachers and their peers;

- FLOSS desktop as basic system needs, no mobile crap or webcrapplications in the soup, people have to learn technically sound systems not commercially interested modern-archaic crapware.

Try this and tell the results.
Speech to Markdown
Oh how I wish I had a legion of junior engineers. Or even a squad.

My company has an aversion to hiring. It's so expensive to hire people, you know! There are no young engineers to teach the ropes to. There are very few senior people do everything.

Needless to say nothing happens fast, good, or cheap. And we don't ship projects, they mostly just bob up and down in the harbor.
When a user converts, for example, 0.0001 millimeters to miles, most of converters out there will fail to provide the correct result due to precision loss. I know, it’s rare case, but we want to ensure that we can handle all cases without exception.
I'm curious, what system was it? My school uses Synergy's stuff which sounds similar
Yes. Platoon sgt. mech. inf. No deployment anywhere.
Oh man, web application firewalls and especially Azure Application Gateway are the bane of my existence. Where I work they literally slap an Azure Application Gateway instance on every app service with all rules enabled (even the ones Microsofts recommends not to enable) in block mode directly when provisioning the stuff in Azure. The app is never observed in audit mode.

Result is that random stuff in the application does not work for any user, or only for some users, because some obscure rule in Azure Application Gateway triggers. Especially the SQL injection rule of Azure Application Gateway seems to misfire very often. A true pain to debug, then a true pain for the process to get the particular rule disabled.

And then not even to start about the monthly costs. Often Azure Application Gateway itself is more expensive than the App Service + SQL Database + Blob Storage + opt. App Insights. I really think someone in the company got offered a private island from Microsoft for putting Azure Application Gateway as a mandatory piece in the infrastructure of every app.

Yes, our most of our security has been outsourced to cheap workers in developing countries like India, which are of course rated on maintaining the standard and not rated on thinking and understanding what you want and putting things in context, and probably also work 60-70 hours per week during ungodly times so you can hardly blame them. It is truly the process that is broken.
A human driver, especially one that owned the car, can gauge the threat and drive off if they're being carjacked, even if it physically endangers someone outside the car. The autonomous vehicle is timidly not going to run someone over, even if they're threatening the vehicle.

The other thing is the Waymo will just let you off where it thinks is good and not right in front of the address you selected, even if it's a sketchy neighborhood. Still, especially if it's late night, I'd rather send a woman home in a Waymo than a Uber/Lyft, after one of my friends was assaulted by one of their drivers. That's not possible in a Waymo.
We absolutely do redesign roads when the existing design becomes suboptimal as indicated by an increased number of accidents or driver complaints. And we do sometimes have lanes specifically for buses / taxis, too.

We already do this stuff, and we won't need to rebuild 99% of roads. It's the "less than 1%" that are already tricky for normal humans that might need a rework. Or self-driving cars will just take suboptimal routes, if those roads / intersections aren't the only ways to important destinations.
I think that your information is slightly out of date. (From Wolfram's book, perhaps?) LLM + plain vanilla RAG solves almost all of the problems you mentioned. LLM + agentic RAG solves them pretty much entirely.

Even as of right now, stock LLMs are much more accurate than medical students in licensing exam questions:
https://mededu.jmir.org/2024/1/e63430

Thus your comment is basically at odds with reality. Not only have these models eclipsed what they were capable of in early 2023, when it was easy to dismiss them as "glorified autocompletes," but they're now genuinely turning the "expert system" meme into a reality via RAG-based techniques and other methods.
I had an IBM in a Electrical Generating Station that had a HUGE 480 volt 3 phase feed not far from the monitor in the next room. The display would swirl about 1/2 of an inch at quite a clip.

The solution I picked was to put the machine in Text/Graphics mode (instead of normal character rom text mode, this was back in the MS-DOS days), so the vertical sync rate then matched up with the swirling EM fields, and there was almost zero apparent motion.
This is probably unpopular, but I think secret service should have the same right to our data that the thousands of companies have. If they want to know my screen orientation, battery charge level, and location every 10 seconds, I don't see why it should be any more illegal for.them to have it than any other agency of any other government in the world, not to mention all the corporate entities...
It depends on what you mean by competitor. afaik Mercedez sells a self-driven level 3 autonomous car where they even insure the driver/car, but it's pretty expensive. Tesla has the numbers, but not a single car that can do as much as the Mercedez. Tesla promises they can just push an update an everybody gets a self-driving car, but they've been saying that for... 7 years maybe?
Show HN Flutter Pre-Setup (open source)
Flutter pre-setup is a pre-configured flutter project with configurable Firebase auth, AdMob, Flavors, Fastlane deployment, push notifications and more
> The more interesting question what option will you choose when you're told that individual interventions as you describe are so expensive as to be infeasible.

The top-level-commenter's point is that this is not necessarily the case anymore—the whole promise of educational technology was that we could finally scale individual intervention to every child, but efforts to do so have met with stiff resistance. I also work in EdTech and I've seen exactly what the OP is talking about.

We're at the point where we could extend the flywheel to more children than ever by integrating it into the public school systems instead of having it be something that upper-middle class parents have to provide as a supplement, but the culture has so thoroughly embraced the idea that "getting ahead" is unfair that we're not allowed to systematize it even when doing so would benefit poor students the most.
I've been bitten by those before because they are not generated from the actual syntax-parsing code, and thus are sometimes out of sync and wrong (or at least misleading).