skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sentence is a good one for those who often are that person and wonder if there might be others like them out there.
Transistor for fuzzy logic hardware: promise for better edge computing
Neither LAX nor the valley (san fernando valley) are covered. Still excited
Waymo works in 4 cities as a fully autonomous vehicle.

Tesla works nowhere as a fully autonomous vehicle.
Former Abu Ghraib detainees awarded $42M
You're absolutely right, even in this thread there's a ton of "I was able to teach myself, so clearly everyone would be geniuses if only the system didn't hold them back" posts. It's the same thing that led to a lot of the problems with the OLPC project (check out the book "The Charisma Machine" if you're interested in that subject).
> that this is always done in the name of "equity",

I never understood the rationale behind these progressives. Don't they have kids? Don't they know even twins may perform differently in school? I have two kids. They are only 1 year apart. They can access any educational materials as they want. Even if their school teachers were not good (they are very good, by the way), the kids would have access to excellent private teachers and tutoring. Yet, one handles maths with ease and has jumped three grades without even trying, but on the other hand does not like reading or writing. The other can barely keep up and I spend enormous amount of time just to make sure he can understand the fundamentals, but on the other hand he loved reading and is creative in writing.

Equity my ass.
> Maybe the bitch deserved it

You can't do that on HN and I've banned the account.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The race to commercialise nuclear-powered batteries
https://archive.ph/oCbF7
Hyundai's touchscreen honeymoon over because sometimes buttons are just better
Why GPT-4 and Gemini Are Revolutionizing Customer Support for Shopify Stores
> Like when those guys surrounded a vehicle and made it to stop with people helplessly inside.

Is that a common thing? I wouldn't be surprised honestly. I heard of the traffic cone thing but not this.
I actually have a very hard time believing that a court is going to find that a company that only retains emails for three months isn't doing something like engaging in spoliation.
> I mean, if by "customers" you mean "the important people at your company".

I think that's exactly OP's (and TFA's) point: If you're working in most medium sized to large sized companies, just look at your org chart. Your manager, their manager, their manager's manager, and so on up to the CEO: Those are your customers. They are the ones that decide your comp, they are the ones that set your priorities and goals, they are the ones who are ultimately accountable when you fail or succeed. Your job is to deliver what they want. It's definitely a hard pill to swallow if you still have that idealistic view that you're working for end users.
Unless the weird smells come from the driver. If a customer causes a smell the car will be cleaned and the customer fined. If the driver is smelly - like from sitting in a car all day - there's nothing to be done.
What's even crazier is people that want everyone else to just roll over and give up and think that because that information exists to five eyes/the deep state/"them" that people shouldn't complain when actual real life government agencies abuse their power and try to violate people's rights.
I wouldn't count on Signal to protect you. I suspect they've been compromised for a while, but at the very least they're not trustworthy. The very first sentence of their "Signal Terms & Privacy Policy" page is a lie. It states "Signal is designed to never collect or store any sensitive information." but for years now signal has been collecting and permanently storing sensitive information in the cloud (your name, phone number, photo, and most importantly a list of all your contacts). They've also refused to update their privacy policy to reflect their new data collection practices.

For an app that markets itself to whistleblowers, human rights activists, and journalists whose freedom or lives could be at risk it's inexcusable to mislead people about what data is being collected. People with so much on the line need to be able to make informed choices about their risks, but Signal's communication surrounding their data collection has been extremely evasive, confusing, and dishonest.

Further reading:

https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...

https://community.signalusers.org/t/dont-want-pin-dont-want-...

https://community.signalusers.org/t/can-signal-please-update...

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin...
Self preservation.
You can buy a hardcopy on Amazon.
What is a durable queue and why is it needed (instead of a traditional relational db)?
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
That’s right - we cannot beat lack of fractions support with whatever high precision. It’s a feature that we are currently missing.
Sounds like a version of Plaid lol
>You don't get a graduate degree because _you_ need a graduate degree. You get a graduate degree because _others_ need to see it.

I feel this is more true in other STEM fields than it is in Software. Could just be bias talking, but I'm a senior SWE with no college degree (couple of certs) and haven't had it stop me from getting good jobs, especially once I got like 3-4 years of experience under my belt and could talk about projects I co-designed and interesting problems I've worked on.
I'm an adult user of Math Academy. I have a bachelor's in Math and I'm working through the Mathematical Foundations series to brush up on material from all the lectures/assignments I skipped and fill in the cracks of my knowledge. I absolutely love it.
They didn't have computers, but they did have card machines.

https://www.ww2online.org/image/large-replica-punch-cards-bu...

https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/405.html

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10264546...

dieselpunk ftw
> I still feel far less vulnerable than taking public transit or walking.

This sounds incredibly dystopian. What hellhole do you live? What are the dangers you have from taking public transit?
> When you cannot trust the media any more because they are no longer one of the last checks on government overreach and influence

I'd argue you can't trust them because of the First Amendment. They have a lot of leeway to say whatever they want. Like with an individual, trust is either earned or theirs to lose.

> instead have a relationship where the government dictates to the media what they can and cannot report? That to me, is far more dangerous than surveillance.

It is very dangerous. Is this happening, though? I don't recall Biden calling for pulling news channels' permits. Did he revoke press corps passes?
Ostensibly, the Uber/Lyft driver is also feeling threatened and will gun the throttle in an attempt to escape the situation, even if an attacker is directly in front.
https://archive.is/20240913090221/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

> For years, companies like Waymo (owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company) and Cruise (owned by General Motors) avoided any mention of the remote assistance they provided their self-driving cars.

> That is just how things work in Silicon Valley. By creating the illusion of complete autonomy...

https://archive.is/iPKWQ#selection-719.0-719.483

> While Zoox and other companies have started to reveal how humans intervene to help driverless cars, none of the companies have disclosed how many remote-assistance technicians they employ or how much it all costs. Zoox’s command center holds about three dozen people who oversee what appears to be a small number of driverless cars — two in Foster City and several more in Las Vegas — as well as a fleet of about 200 test cars that each still have a driver behind the steering wheel.

> ...the [Cruise] cars were supported by about 1.5 workers per vehicle

> Waymo and Cruise declined to comment for this story.

I don't know what to say. It's an "illusion of complete autonomy."

The energy of these replies is the same as, "When a parent does a kid's homework, it isn't cheating." The difference is we still have no idea if the child will grow up into an adult, and it's not guaranteed that Waymo will be the one to crack real autonomy, even if it looks that way today. Indeed the longer it takes them the more likely it's not going to be them.
There is no herd immunity to TB. USA eliminated most of it back in the mid 20th century with a single antibiotic before the resistant strands started spreading, which now requires a 4 drug cocktail for standard non-resistant strands now. We've just done a really good job of controlling it since then, it's not the fastest spreading disease out there. That said, the current volume of border crossings is probably going to cause an uptick here.

In countries with widespread BCG vaccination, substantial percentages of population are latently infected, and a smaller percentage of those will still become actively infected one day.

(Citing my sources

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

https://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2018/02/10/episode-9-tube...)
Where's monofur ?
Checklist Prompting Technique for Gen AI Keeps AI on Track with Better Results
https://archive.is/oK0VS
> It should be illegal for government agencies to do this.

I don’t understand why the law should specifically limit the government like that. I think it should be illegal for anyone to do this.
As an equally reluctant option one side or the other to Amazon, Apple's "iTunes Store" still exists and is "mostly" DRM free, if you don't mind AAC and friends (MP4 Audio) rather than MP3. It's getting harder and harder to find those Buy buttons, especially if you start from an Apple Music link/the Apple Music app, but it's currently no worse than Amazon as Amazon and Apple seem deep in direct competition on how hard they make it to find Buy buttons.
I can just imagine the waste involved in trying to game that statistic. Fleets of driverless cars caravaning back and forth across Nevada just to increase the denominator.
You don't get a graduate degree because _you_ need a graduate degree. You get a graduate degree because _others_ need to see it.

I think this sums up the majority of cases. Some people need graduate degrees because they are seeking higher education, such as a Phd, but mostly it's because someone else requires it without ever really expressing why.
Your account has been ratcheting up the guidelines violations lately and frequently crossing into personal attack. That's not cool. Can you please fix this? I don't want to ban you, but we're getting complaints and the people complaining aren't wrong. At some point we have to apply the rules semi-even-handedly instead of making grand exceptions.

I'm not saying the comments you're flaming are any good either, but we can't have accounts doing this kind of thing with impunity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42090460

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41691032

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41386003

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41335066

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41252307

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40886721
Wait, people were still using Real back in 2007? At that point I had cycled through DivX, XviD, and then just started holding onto the .VOB file from the DVD.
How generalizable are these findings given the rapid pace of AI advancement? The paper studies a snapshot in time with current AI capabilities, but the relationship between human expertise and AI could look very different with more advanced models. I would love to have seen the paper:

- Examine how the human-AI relationship evolved as the AI system improved during the study period

- Theorize more explicitly about which aspects of human judgment might be more vs less persistent

- Consider how their findings might change with more capable AI systems
Bulk Image Search with Google Lens
On an airplane, the pilot has skin in the game. If he screws up, he will pay with his own life.

What happens to the developers/manufacturers of a driverless car that kills a passenger or a pedestrian?
The other people on public transport, not the least of which from them is second hand smoke from either fentanyl or meth, not sure which, nor do I care to learn.

I still ride the bus/trolley/tram/subway, especially when the streets are busy, but late at night I'll opt for a Waymo, depending on the circumstance.
I made something like this and briefly had it online but I didn't think there would be enough demand to make the time and costs of running it worth it.
Yeah but a good technical PM / whatever will have that understanding. Not a role that just checks milestones and statuses.
I never really understood what value ligatures even bring to normal text.

But for code, they're just an abomination.
I think it's great we finally have self-driving cars, but why the huge valuation? Waymo has the enormous capital cost of owning the cars. Unlike taxi companies they don't push that capital cost to their drivers.

Ultimately, it's still the riders who pay for the drivers and their cars in a traditional taxi company and Uber. The cost of the car doesn't just disappear.
Wipr 2: Universal Safari Ad Blocker
> You're suggest technical solutions to social problems, and those rarely work out in the long term, especially with adversarial parties. Better to solve the problem at the source.

That, to me, was the big takeaway from Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow. The idea that you can't "out tech" the State[1]. Because even if you, as an individual, are in fact (smarter|more talented|more capable) than any individual employed by the State, they still have you out-resourced to a degree that makes your cleverness moot. And as a defender, you only have to make one mistake and it's game over.

If I get Cory's point right, it's to say something like "as technologists, we should use our skills in service of effecting meaningful change through the democratic process", as opposed to creating better tech for evading State surveillance[2].

[1]: I think here you could probably read "the State" as "the State AND/OR BigCorps".

[2]: That said, there's probably still at least some basis for doing both. But "effecting change through the democratic process" is probably the better long-term strategy.
Because spouting off the name of one person wrongfully convicted is meaningless. I didn't deny there are miscarriages of justice in any country. Iran's civil rights record is among the bottom in the world, bested only by NK and other hell holes.
The problem as i perceive it is human inability to let go of the good old times and help giving birth to that new world thats about to become .

Take environment protection . It would make much more sense to help nature bioms "migrate to follow wherever there new climatic home is, human happiness with the result be damned.
Not that I've been able to find --- it would have been the school local to Columbus AFB in the late 1960s to mid 70s.

The State Supreme Court stuff is my hazy recollection of letters my parents received from other folks who were still living there when the school system was changed.
The PTO has qualified people reviewing patents. The issue is the number of patents they have to review and the time they have to do so. The former being numerous and the latter being non-existent. That's why bad patents get through. The reviewers just do not have the time to adequately delve into each application.

Similarly, I have no idea on what basis you think that 300,000 applications would have to be bogus. We are talking about all possible inventions. I find a lot of the rhetoric on HN does not respect the problem-space patents exist in, i.e. coming up with comprehensible textual delineations in order to properly categorize literally everything that has not been invented yet. If you do not respect the difficulty of that problem, you are going to have trouble coming up with realistic solutions that actually achieve the goals of the patent system, which is something that the US constitution requires congress to implement.
Realplayer supported SMIL!

Realtime dynamic composition of video streams from multiple servers with a few lines of XMl.

20 years later, there’s no alternative.
You get out and use reasonable force to break free of their false imprisonment, the same way you would if you were in your own car and you were falsely imprisoned.

I hope very strenuously that the implication is not that you would run over people who are blocking you if you were in control of the car.
In your 4 person company, how many people are developers? Is it just you?

With no offense to you, a junior dev leading a rewrite of a large messy application is almost guaranteed to result in a different messy application. That's really the most likely result regardless of who is doing it.

I would add on to what everyone else is saying and say don't do a full rewrite. Instead, refactor small chunks at a time.

> One of the primary complaints we get is that our current system is too slow. In part, this is because most actions trigger a full page reload.

Full page reloads don't really need to be slow. Measuring and improving web page speed is well established, and IMHO you should work on this and understand it before you build something new; there are a lot of ways to build a page that will be difficult to make fast, having experience making things fast will help you start on the right foot towards fast pages.

You should be measuring at least time to first byte, time to last byte, and data size on the server; times in ms. On the client side, assuming you've got client side analytics, you want to measure the kinds of things that Google PageSpeed Insights measures: https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/v5/about If you can get this from (possibly sampled) real clients, that's best; but if not, at least test occasionally with the tools inside your browsers.

A very fast PHP page can be done in < 10 ms, server measured. But more realistic is time to first byte < 15 ms, full page content in 50-100ms. If you're much beyond that, you need to measure parts until you find the time, and fix it. You can work this problem at the same time as some refactoring by including timing with refactoring; chances are, a lot of the server time is in database queries, and instrumenting timing on database queries and centralizing the database interface into a single place can go well together. Ideally, you can push this timing information into your access logs, and you'd have a list of timings in each log line; time to first byte and total request time are best measured by your webserver rather than in PHP itself; especially if you're using frameworks that do a lot of initialization on each request, you must include that in your total, but it can be difficult to measure from within PHP.

Since your users are all in US/CA (and I assume your server is too), if you get your time to first byte under 15 ms on the server, you should see it under 100 ms on the client. And if your pages aren't too big and the dom isn't too complex, a 100 ms server page time should be at your clients within 0.5 and rendered in < 1 s. You can probably do better with partial page updates, but see what you can do with making full page updates fast first.
>> You're witnessing a solved case among tens-of-thousands that never see a hearing.

Some anecdotal evidence to support this.

Back in the early aughts I worked at a cellphone place. We had a Nextel repair shop. Since we were located in the downtown area, we had several government clients. One of those just happened to be the FBI.

The FBI agents were some of the most interesting people I spoke to. I got to chatting up one of their agents about surveillance and the new wave of meth dealers using rural areas for their labs. The agent straight up said its been nearly impossible for them to surveil these people because they knew they could only use a burner phone for 3 months before having to ditch it. Somehow, they had figured out the timeframe it takes for the FBI to get a warrant for their phone, send it to the carrier and then the carrier to set up a tap on the phone or get the phone records and send them back to the FBI so they could start tracing the calls.

The agent said the dealers would never destroy the phone either, they would just throw them away, or take them to the local landfill and just pitch them over the fence. The agent said they wouldn't break them so then the FBI would continue the process of getting the warrant, effectively buying them time to get a new phone and ahead of them once more.

The agent also said the gangs were setting up in rural areas now since they don't have the law enforcement necessary to go after them and rural folk are so spread out, then tend to keep to themselves more.

Keep in mind this was 20+ years ago, but even back then, the FBI was having a hard time pinning these people down by trying to leverage the data they were getting from the carriers.
Based on the introduction

> As of October 2024, Bufstream was deployed only with select customers.

my assumption would be an honor system might be doable. They are exposing themselves to risk of abuse of course but it might be a worthy trade off for getting certain clients on board.
How over-fitted are their models to the cameras? I'd expect a layered architecture where a sensor layer does object-recognition and classification and then hands over this representation of the world to a higher-level planning model. You should have to retrain the whole stack for camera revisions - hell that's how it would work across car models with their different camera angles.
And variety of lecturers. Sometimes another person saying it changes everything.
Sure, but that wasn't the question.
This frustrates me because I see this said often, but I have never experienced it myself. It makes me feel like I am doing something wrong that somehow everyone else is doing right.
>And if the parking app was compiled for SDK level 29, people should just go find another parking lot with a more recent app?

The play store has minimum SDK level requirements, so you can't compile your app against an ancient SDK level to bypass all the restrictions. Moreover, your linked article suggests that even if you have an existing app that does this, the play store will eventually down your app if you don't provide an explanation. This is consistent with some complaints posted on HN recently, eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895718
Unreal Engine 5.5 is now available
People were like this even before equity was much of a concern.

I think it's sort of natural for teachers to view kids that are both too behind or too ahead as "problems". In both cases, there is an indication they've failed, and no one likes that.
Yes, you probably misunderstand. KVM is part of the Linux kernel, which is GPL licensed. The GPL only prohibits derivations of a GPL'd projects from using a difference license. (Actually, copyright law prohibits this.) Using one piece of software alongside another does not count as a derivation. It has always been possible to run proprietary software on the Linux kernel, for example. This is no different.
Are they losing money when they add cars in regions they already support? That's more important than the cost of expanding into new areas.
Huawei developing SSD-tape hybrid amid US tech restrictions