skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If If If. This isn't blind pessimism. This is from someone that has dealt with metadata from studios/labels for just under two decades. IMDB was meant to do this for movies/tv, but yet it's an absolute dumpster fire.

So from an outside perspective, it's fun to dream a little dream, but from a gray beard it's just yet another dream.
This is moving the goal post and then some. You asked why or where a person might prefer a much safer mode of transportation for themselves then exhort them for not fixing a social problem!

In the case of San Francisco, the population as a whole - through its elections - supports having the mentally ill, the aggressive (whether it's drugs, mental illness, or idle entertainment), and the sick on the street and in public transit. Good luck with your project to fix that. Your help is needed.
Yes, it does, but it says nothing about the cost of any alternative.

If 1 farm is 5.5 terawatt hours per year then 13 farms is, what, at least 50TWhr?

Wikipedia tells me the biggest nuclear power plant in Sweden is Forsmark, which produces 3.3 GW and 14% of Sweden's electricity. That's 30TWhr.

So is the cost for a new radar system less than the difference between building and maintaining 13 wind farms vs. building a new reactor?

Oh, hey, I see there are contentious proposals to build new nuclear power plants in Sweden, with state-backed loans and minimum price guarantees, and this is a 'U-turn' in policy in just the last couple of years (quoting https://www.government.se/contentassets/69254b65d64f46fd866b... )

Now I can't help but wonder if this is cowardly way to tilt the balance in favor of nukes, by making it harder for any cheaper alternatives.
>apologies, i meant i only have a linux device with only spotify installed, because it's the thing i use. no, i'm not talking about music players, only streaming services.

>you're completely right other services and software are available on linux. but the point i'm trying to make is, this tool is spotify -> others, but a common use-case is others -> spotify.

No apologies necessary. I misunderstood your point, which is certainly a fair one.

And given your use case, I get your frustration. That said, there are, apparently, a number of Linux apps and plugins for said apps that will allow you to play not only local music, but streams from Spotify as well as from other streaming services.

I get that's not really what interests you, but it is an option if you choose.

I don't use Spotify, so I haven't looked for tools to convert to Spotify links, but I'd expect they're out there, given that the reverse exists.

Edit: Fixed typo.
The ice caps are only about 30 million years old, and the land and oceans are similarly transformed over long time scales. The only techno signature I'm aware of that would be clearly detectable 50 million years after our civilization is gone is reinforced concrete, which should produce a worldwide layer of a limestone-like mineral with iron inclusions that would be both unique in the geologic record and difficult to explain by any natural process. If a civilization did not use reinforced concrete nor some other such material that would leave a similar signature, it would be quite difficult to detect at that timescale.
There are some "where" issues with Tesla too. I have an intersection where it consistently can't tell that its view is obstructed. It'll just yolo into the intersection then pause (after pulling out into the lane) when it realizes that it wasn't actually able to see. Its consistent behavior, and seems to be a flaw with obstruction detection.

I might argue that every traffic light is sort of a where too. Mystery meat yellow light handling is scarily bad.
The Booze of Monkey Island
This is possible! https://www.techlockdown.com/
you can always move, y'know
Oh, no, it's absolutely not.

It's usually to normalize into the 3rd form. But that's not enough on some cases, that's too much on some other cases, and the reason it breaks is performance about as often as it's not.
You've just described half the charter schools around here.
This is going to be another one of those things where most people underestimate it for a while.

Growth in 2025-2027 will be absolutely incredible! The sharpest part of the exponential growth curve is just ahead.
Isn't this exactly the legit use that ar-15 enthusiasts cite?
A sedentary lifestyle is also inherently undesirable for some people living in our time, but most of us have little choice in the matter!
I think you need to update your understanding.

Just saying they have better results because of mapping and lidar is incredibly reductive. They have an extremely sophisticated AI/ML stack and simulators.

Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_wGhKBjH_U&t=2135s
I think fighting in PRs over syntax preferences is pretty useless so dev shops should generally have code style guidelines to help keep things consistent. In my company we use all caps casing since we have momentum in that direction but I think that decision can be reasonable in either direction as long as it's consistent - it's like tabs vs. spaces... I've worked in companies with both preferences, I just configure my editor to auto-pretty code coming out and auto-lint code going in and never worry about it.
They don't operate yet in the hills around LA, but I trot this example out when talking about Waymo. In LA a lot of the streets in central LA are not marked, have cars parked on both sides and are not wide enough for two cars to drive in opposite directions at the same time (ie they're extremely tight where you have to wait for a car to pass before you can proceed). Waymo has no problem waiting its turn and then going when it's clear. One thing I've noticed, though, is that Waymos have gotten more aggressive in these situations than they used to be (note that they seem to have gotten more bold/aggressive in other circumstances as well). In fact they were so aggressive pulling away from a curb on one of my last rides that I wrote to Waymo support telling them I thought it was too aggressive. Still a very big Waymo fan.

Btw, that sense that they're being more aggressive may be entirely in my head, but I'd bet money that it's true, which begs some questions about our robot overlords adapting their behavior to the behavior of the humans around them. Interesting if true.
I wonder if the next generation of experts will be held back by use of AI tools. Having learned things “the hard way” without AI tools may allow better judgement of these semi-reliable outputs. A younger generation growing up in this era would not yet have that experience and may be more accepting of AI generated results.
Firefox 115 ESR still supports Sierra until next year: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-macos-101...
Yep, and there will be self selection biases even among people who don't export fake data.
In these scenarios you do understand that there will be a non zero number of smelly Waymos, that was my entire point, also until someone reports it you really won't have that smelly Waymo fixed.
Coinbase Launches Crypto Index COIN50
Pretty cool! The BlueSky API is on point. A colleague of mine put together this visualization based on the firehose: https://bigmood.blue/

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/even.westvang.com/post/3laob7tefxk2...
That's correct. We hop onto Zoom calls with our customers on an agreed cadence, and they share a billing report with us to confirm usage/metering. For enterprise customers specifically, it works great. They don't want to violate contracts, and it also gives us a natural check-in point to ensure things are going smoothly with their deployment.

When we say fully air-gapped, we mean it!
Byoyomi creates severe relative advantages based on banked time. One player having 3 minutes left, with the other in byoyomi is an "on the ropes" moment.

Like the article says, with Fischer you always have the opportunity to claw back extra time, so it's not as severe a deficit.
Yes I've been in a Waymo that backed up to let someone pass.
Microsoft Edge is trying to forcefully get your Chrome tabs again
It makes me sad that people get more excited about Waymo than public transit. Our Muni trains are clean, modern, and efficient, and the BART is an infrastructural marvel of sorts. I’d much rather criss-cross the city with light rail than add more expensive Waymos.
The two top comments since the November 7th updatee have thousands of upvotes because of affected users. Comments:

ThSAWistheLAW WC (11/7/24)
"I like this app but it is not functioning correctly at the moment. If your video that you're viewing must be interrupted by a message notification or if you simply turn your phone right side up to read the messages or comments the video will stop playing and it will not start no matter how many times you hit the play button. Other than that it's a fine app."

---

michael. jacqui (11/8/24)
"New update is awful. It no longer saves where you left off on a video. If you swipe down and leave the video going to search for a new one it automatically paused the video. When you go back to play the video it cannot play unless you select a new video and then have to reselect the video you want to watch to get it to play. The app is horrible and extremely frustrating."
I feel similarly and I also have friends with Dyslexia with even stronger opinions on it. All caps in addition to being "shouting" to my ancient internet-using brain (and thus rude in most cases), creates big similar rectangular blocks as word shapes and is such a big speed bump to reading speed for everyone (whether or not they notice it). For some of my friends with Dyslexia that have a huge tough time with word shapes at the best of times, all caps can be a hard stop "cannot read" blocker for them. They say it is like trying to read a redacted document where someone just made rectangular black marker cross outs.

Personally, given SQL's intended similarity to English, I find that I like English "sentence case" for it, with the opening keyword starting with a capital letter and nearly every remaining letter lower case (except for Proper Nouns, the truly case-sensitive parts of SQL like table names). Sentence case has been helpful to me in the past in spotting things like missing semicolons in dialects like Postgres' that require them, and/or near keywords like `Merge` that require them or helping to visually make sure the `select` under a `Merge` is intended as a clause rather than starting a new "sentence".
Sentry just gave $750k to open source projects
I thought this was only happening in academia
I have just seen this in their Slack, it is kind of crazy that no-one seems to really care. I thought they were really big, but apparently nobody was using them? If you for example search "Equinix Metal" on Google and then click on news nothing shows up.
Love this kind of post! I was surprised to see you really can drink from the firehose:

brew install websocat
websocat wss://bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos

...haven't tried to decode it, though.
Ask HN: Thoughts on switching / changing focus from Mobile to Web development?
A little about me: I’ve been doing Mobile development professionally, prior to that I was doing backend stuff. In rare cases I’ve done some web dev focused changes but it’s never been the focus of my role.

For context, I think Mobile development is a great field and I’m not suggesting a switch because I don’t enjoy it, rather I’ve began to find the Mobile field limiting and perhaps it feels too familiar as I’ve been doing it for over 5 years?

I don’t know enough about mobile or web to make sweeping statements as to what is or isn’t true, rather these are some opinions that I thought might be contributing to this feeling:

* Most mobile screens adopt a similar look and feel - which is understandable but this means broadly speaking once you’ve written screens multiple times, it can feel a little monotonous to do the same patterns, use the same UI components etc. (this is probably also true for web, so perhaps it’s not a great point)
* Web is still more ubiquitous than apps - While the walled garden of app stores is great at times, the accessibility of the web is a big win depending on the application.
* In the event of layoffs - this is purely speculation but in event of layoffs, web devs appear to be more able to find work, whereas Mobile is more limited as it depends on which companies have an app etc
* Since I’m iOS focused at the moment, I’ll mention limited Swift language adoption outside of Apple ecosystems - I recognise that a programming language is a tool… but at times it does feel like Swift is getting all this cool stuff which I can’t use for anything other than Apple ecosystem or rare use cases.
* Web seems more vast - I don’t know if that’s a correct statement, but it feels like Web has more depth due to things like hosting, more security issues perhaps… though mobile does have a considerable amount of complexity through devices on older versions of app or OS, limited connectivity, thermal throttling etc

I know a part of this feeling is probably down to a “grass is greener on the other side” mentality, and I know I still have much more to learn in the Mobile domain, but I am genuinely curious as to what others think about a move like this.

Questions:
* Has anyone done Mobile then moved over to Web development?
* Similarly what about moving from Web to Mobile development?
* People say iOS developers earn more than Web, is this true in your experience? money isn’t everything but its good to know at least

Also I recognise I’ve used Web as an umbrella term for many different things, in my mind I’m thinking JS, TS, React, Redux, NextJS, Angular, CSS etc

Thank you for your time.
If you want to tilt against the public health establishment, there are ways to raise things. For example all the data to argue against water fluoridation (versus toothpaste fluoridation) is already there, but if you confront the establishment with that, they will identify you as an invader and deploy their immune system.

Instead, make a more passive, less confrontational doc that can withstand scrutiny (IE, have links to well-established mainstream results, use reasoning and logic, etc) and let the establishment slowly come to terms with it.
To your comment about even the best <=5 schools being glorified daycares, you might consider Montessori, if your kids are still in that 3-6 age band. There are many faux-Montessoris which are daycare with wooden toys, and use the name to collect that premium, but the real ones are very different, and do a good job of teaching independence in learning. You can look for the accredited ones on AMS’ site (you still have to evaluate the teacher, but it should weed out the worst offenders).
Air pollution: an emerging risk factor for autism spectrum disorder [pdf]
I had the great pleasure of processing Sanity's donations to open source projects too. Hope other companies follow suit!
ARC problems are too hard for me. I'm no longer sure I'm generally intelligent.
> The crazy thing is that so many people still don't understand this.

A lot of people do understand this but can't really do much against this. I personally use a GNU/Linux phone with hardware kill switches. And it's not always easy.

> I leave my phone's GPS perma-off unless I'm actively navigating

You can't trust this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15413709
If the probability beats human error margin in regards to collateral damage, then sure.

That was the sentiment in regards to Level 5 automaton driven vehicles.

I see no logical difference, only human sentiment ones.
In the school from "A Christmas Story" that kid would have been taken out in the hallway and paddled.
Yes and to add a bit more color for those who are curious, the term "GPU" was coined by Sony in reference to the 32-bit Sony GPU (designed by Toshiba) in the PlayStation video game console, released in 1994. That said, the first devices that could be qualified as GPUs came about in the 1970s.
> Examinations are an exercise in being good at examinations, not proficiency in the subject.

Isn't this just complaining about Goodhart's Law? I believe any exam will become a target no matter how well it is designed
More incrementally different than foundationally different. ESSA was trying to address complaints about NCLB, to allow more autonomy and flexibility. Neither are directly responsible for "everyone passes." They both were trying to stop everyone passes by adding a standard of accountability.
LLMs can combine cross-domain insights, but the insights they have — that I've seen them have in the models I've used — are around the level of a second year university student.

I would concur with what the abstract says: incredibly valuable (IMO the breadth of easily discoverable knowledge is a huge plus all by itself), but don't put them in charge.
Who can tell who caused the bad smell? If you have a driver they'd know but how will Waymo know which of the 20 or so riders dragged in dog doo, maybe the doggy doo accumulated through the first 10 rides. Who foots the bill then?
Around where I live there’s a lot of addicts and homeless who use that as primary transport. I don’t want to generalize of course, but the camps here are frequent spots in the paper for bizarre murders and violence. It doesn’t feel safe being around unknown variables like that, for me at least.
Tesla FSD will never catch up to Waymo until they switch to LIDAR and have human assistance when the vehicle gets into complicated scenarios such as emergency vehicles blocking the road and redirecting traffic.
I think this expectation has always existed, but engineers have been able to get cover for not understanding or participating. Now it is harder for engineers at any level to cover which means they have to understand the business and participate to a larger degree. This may just mean being more proactive in raising issues affecting metrics through to influencing what those metrics should be.
Google and Waymo have been working on that problem for a while. And starting a Waymo service area involves letting loose a fleet of them there. You should expect the map quality to improve fast in serviced areas.
I wasn't saying we should dismiss Pinker because of that one book by the Davids, rather that we should be very sceptical of his work because of the absolute chorus of academics seriously contesting his methods, motivations, and conclusions.

I have read one long criticism of The Dawn of Everything, I don't know if it's the one you're referring to, but I didn't find it very compelling.

I've read several critics of Graeber otherwise though, and to me they roughly seemed to amount to: "we don't like what this person is saying." I mean, I could not find anything substantive in there, some direct, blatant issue with the scholarly work. Perhaps there's a tendency to get "over-excited" about some idea or other in his work, but I think readers (academic and laypeople) could consider forgiving someone for presenting their work with sincere excitement.

The comment about David Wengrow you make there is especially odd - for one, you make it sound like he was thrown in to the project as an afterthought to add some clout, which is factually not what happened, they collaborated for years in emails for what was originally a small project, which grew larger organically in a sort of growing excitement.

I wouldn't be big on bandying about academic records as proof of anything much, but he'd twenty plus years professional academic experience as an archaeologist, three books, a suitably voluminous number of essays and papers, etc etc. The usual "impressive academic" things had been done. So I don't get your dig there at all.

Here, for the brave of heart:

https://ucl.academia.edu/DavidWengrow
That's absolutely hilarious, and a pretty fun hack.

By the way, if I understood you correctly, this sentence

> I'm still missing 5 opcodes (MULS, MULSU, FMUL,
FMULS, FMULSU), but until now I did not encounter a C file, the
AVR-GCC emits these opcodes.

could be rewritten as

> There are 5 opcodes that are not implemented (MULS, MULSU, FMUL,
FMULS, FMULSU), as I have not yet encountered a C file for which
AVR-GCC emits these opcodes.
” Max Schrems, Chair of noyb: "The first announcement already seems questionable, as Meta says that you cannot opt-out from having your location or age be used. Also having unskippable ads and making the user experience just miserable is just another 'dark pattern' that Regulators have already previously found to be illegal. We doubt that this will be the end of the problems that Meta faces when ignoring the GDPR.” :

https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/113470466853941002
"Education only camouflages stupidity, it does not remove it."

You are arguing that low intelligence is innate, unchangeable. Which sounds very much like saying stupidity is genetic.
I yet to find "utility" accounts on Bluesky. I use Twitter to follow news from games, game studios and publishers, news sites, bands, NASA etc. There is nothing like there yet and I don't care about random people (as I don't care about them on Twitter either)

I check time to time but basically it's 0/50
Check Hiive and Nasdaq private markets. Only do a forward contract if you must have liquidity and have no other choice. If you’re seeking legal guidance, talk to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grellas
That's epic!
They used to charge $1 apiece for fruit to green badges 10 years ago.
Page 2 speaks about the relationship and precedent of GC... Honestly worth a read, this is definitely one of most interesting papers for me in the last few years.
If the software development is mostly stock and standard, I would agree, it doesn't matter if staff have advanced degrees or not. But developers with advanced degrees tend to have a better understanding of what is actually going on "under the hood". When tackling unorthodox, challenging problems, they use that knowledge to make better design decisions, resulting in better quality software. For those types of cutting-edge projects, I think there is value to having staff with advanced degrees.
Could orcas be (trained to be) smarter than humans?
Pushing for autonomous vehicles will lead to a local maxima which is worse, more expensive, and less universal than solutions that already exist and have been deployed in every developed country that is not increasingly car dependent.
Another aside: that is true for a huge range of programming languages as well as things like HTML. I believe it can automatically add \ to " in strings when those strings are marked to the IDE as HTML.
The presence of fast predators on land certainly didn't prevent us from evolving.
This is how you get CIAGPT
Not an apples to apples comparison.

Coffee is a lot cheaper and has a wider audience.
The "second year university student" analogy is interesting, but might not fully capture what's unique about LLMs in strategic analysis. Unlike students, LLMs can simultaneously process and synthesize insights from thousands of historical conflicts, military doctrines, and real-time data points without human cognitive limitations or biases.

The paper actually makes a stronger case for using LLMs to enhance rather than replace human strategists - imagine a military commander with instant access to an aide that has deeply analyzed every military campaign in history and can spot relevant patterns. The question isn't about putting LLMs "in charge," but whether we're fully leveraging their unique capabilities for strategic innovation while maintaining human oversight.
I find that in worst cases I can always copy and paste to a quick temporary buffer that is highlighted. I might be doing that naturally anyway if I'm trying to debug it, just to run it in a Data IDE of my choice, but sometimes even just using a scratch VS Code "Untitled" file can be useful (it's SQL auto-detect is usually good enough, but switching to SQL is easy enough if it doesn't auto-detect).
The nomenclature has shifted as we have found stars are make our "average white star," less average, less white, and less of a star.

The classification nomenclature is definitely in need of a refactoring.