skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's a bit hard to do on a laptop that has both built in.

The Framework laptops have two tiny switches near the camera that physically turn off the mic and camera, and it presumably wouldn't be difficult for other manufacturers to follow suit if enough people cared.
"Tesla just announced their mass market robocar. Do you believe they won't actually produce it?"

- Tesla generally is 1-3 years late on actual production of vehicles

- previous cars required only prosaic (but nonetheless difficult) industrial production scaling. The robotaxi requires Tesla to succeed in a huge AI leap, not the Actually Indians leap.

- Tesla's previous cars were built upon a base of delivery from previous models. The cybertruck is generally a failure, it won't be mass market. I predict Tesla stock will tank when its sales tank in the next 6 months.

"Yes Chinese EVs have superior economics. It's quite difficult to have both high labor rates "living wages!" and cheap cars. Tesla is still the most competitive in this regard vs. other US automakers."

- Tesla doesn't have battery tech or drivetrain leadership. It may have a couple percent efficiency advantage. They have no battery economic advantage over other makers, especially since the future is about sodium ion and LFP from CATL and other Chinese battery makers.

- Sodium Ion in particular is the great leveler for the car industry. 1/3rd the cost of NMC chemistry, it will enable even legacy auto to make dirt cheap cars. Tesla won't be willing to go downmarket

"Makes sense to oppose subsidies, Tesla's stance has always been if you remove the subsidies for gas cars then EVs will already be highly competitive just on merit alone."

Are there mass market sales of EVs from a dozen car companies? Is 30% of new car sales EVs, or even PHEV or EVs combined?

Is it paramount to get consumer transportation electrified from a carbon emissions standpoint?

Fine, it's clear you aren't an environmentalist and are just pro-Tesla from a stock fundamentals / crass business perspective. But this statement ALSO means that Tesla isn't environmentalist anymore, and excluding them from subsidies is perfectly plausible.

"Yes Chinese EVs have superior economics. It's quite difficult to have both high labor rates "living wages!" and cheap cars. Tesla is still the most competitive in this regard vs. other US automakers."

- Tesla is better than other union automakers in terms of living wages and cost competition? Do you have data?
OS upgrades are a pain. Even just package updates could break everything. Having everything in containers makes migrating to another system much easier.
It’s semver compatible because it can be parsed, accepted and compared by any system that expects or requires a semver formatted version?

The whole point of this is that in trunk-based releases the version isn’t significant, so why not call each one breaking.
Also, even for changes that appear flush with the road-surface, it's probably easier for nighttime headlights to reveal a transition to dirt or grass, versus a yawning void that may resemble fresh asphalt or a big water puddle.
Ask HN: How to Choose Vertical for SaaS?
If you don’t have network and not part of elite VCs like YC or a16z,
How do you choose the vertical?

I have broad experience in software development and have built FS apps before. I am getting paid right now in a small market for doing the manual work.

I am curious how VCs fund startups these days when even for preseed there is revenue expectation.
Fair enough. I've been through enough rounds of "real names" social networks at this point to make it a hard line. I'm likely an outlier in this respect, and my segment might be small enough that you're still able to scale. Good luck!
I'm not making an argument against the cloud here. Not saying you should move out.
The reason why I call out cloud infrastructure specifically is because of how easy it is to let the costs get away from you in the cloud. This is a common thread in every company that uses the cloud. There is a huge amount of waste. And this company's story isn't different.

By the way, 8 DevOps engineers with $150k/year cloud bill deserves to be highlighted here. This is a very high amount of staff dedicated to a relatively small infrastructure setup in an industry that keeps saying "cloud will manage that for you."
India's civil institutions have more growing to do, certainly.
Mohenjo-daro (built circa 2500 BCE) did not have a city wall.
The Necessity of Using Archives in Single Page Applications
I tried setting `width` to 5 and found that your algorithm handles Yugiri correctly out-of-the-box. I tried commenting out various special case rules, such as lines 162-170, but it's the recursive algorithm itself that causes this. As you note on lines 204-214, your algorithm is not guaranteed to find the shortest solution; but the fact that it correctly handles Yugiri while mine does not suggests that it's closer to the intuitive, aesthetic judgement originally used to decide on the traditional layout.

That really surprised me (in a good way), because I had viewed Yugiri as an exception to an otherwise regular rule, while you showed it actually a natural consequence of a different rule! Of course, your algorithm also has special cases that need to be handled, so ultimately it may just be an aesthetic choice after all, but it proves that Yugiri may not be as irregular as I thought.
Thank you for your feedback. I'll take that into consideration for my next blog post and compiler.
How to build type-enforced UI components in React Native using Shopify/restyle
It’s been quite some time since I wrote a technical post on my blog, and here’s a new one about building type-enforced UI components in React Native with @shopify/restyle and expo.

@shopify/restyle is a powerful styling library for React Native that brings type safety and consistency to your UI components. Unlike traditional styling approaches, Restyle allows you to create a centralized theme configuration that enforces design system principles across your entire application.

full article here at https://iliashaddad.com/blog/how-to-build-type-enforced-ui-components-in-react-native-using-shopify-restyle/
Pledge fealty and all your problems will go away
Nice job. I like what you built here.
Most American farmers have second jobs to stay afloat
The question isn’t how you determine someone’s age it’s how you verify it. You can verify information without any need to tie the identity in client services to the identity in the verifying authority.
Exhibit B: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260493
The update of google maps for construction projects is still pretty pathetic.

I don't know if it is a lack of inability for US states to do the paperwork/updates, or if google maps isn't incorporating the updates fast enough. I strongly suspect it is falling between the cracks at the state/local level.
You must have me mistaken with the person you initially replied to because I'm not painting it as a right or left issue.
I think this is a nice way to clarify the different use cases for version numbers:

- SemVer is a communication tool for when an author needs to tell a potential user what to expect from a new version.

- TrunkVer is an auditing/engineering tool for when you need to give a unique identifier to a version for technical reasons.

I think this page is a nice codification of a useful practice, but it does itself a disservice by positioning itself against SemVar and claiming to be a "drop-in" replacement.
https://archive.is/eX3Q6

Apparently the plans to build the new market have fallen through
The article is bizarrely conflating whiteboard interviews with online coding tests and even admits such:

Some people have (rightly) pointed out that I'm interchanging whiteboarding (writing on a physical whiteboard) and online coding tests interchangeably
Don't drive at night on unknown roads in a country with poor infrastructure - is a good general rule to live by.
Are there any results about the "optimality" of backpropagation? Can one show that it emerges naturally from some Bayesian optimality criterion or a dynamic programming principle? This is a significant advantage that the "free energy principle" people have.

For example, let's say instead of gradient descent you want to do a Newton descent. Then maybe there's a better way to compute the needed weight updates besides backprop?
It needs to start with a retroactive investigation of what happened with Teams, which was such an obvious anticompetitive abuse to steal market share away from Slack and others. But it needs to go a lot deeper and touch everything. The acquisitions of GitHub, LinkedIn, and other companies. Things like shoving unwanted ads into Windows due to a lack of competition. Repeated aggressive nudges to use Edge over other browsers. Copilot agents running in the background without user consent, giving their AI an advantage no one else enjoys. Overly complicated Office file formats. The funding of OpenAI and Satya’s obvious direct control over that company, seen in the situation with the previous board, where he threatened to just dismantle OpenAI by hiring away all the staff. And on and on.

One thing I want to call out is that everyone thinks Satya is some kind of soft, nice person. He joined Microsoft in 1992. He is 100% part of the old Microsoft guard. Sure he may have continued Ballmer’s bet on Bing/services into Azure/O365/etc and turned the company’s valuation around. But he is definitely familiar with the entire playbook of Microsoft using its existing products, existing contracts/renewals, existing capital, existing staff to copy others, bundle, undercut, and keep taking over market segments that under fair competition would go to other more deserving companies like startups.
Why meet your legal obligations if you have a chance of deleting the obligations instead? Absolute chancers.
why are you bringing this up? It's irrelevant to the topic at hand
Is it replaced, or does it decay without reinforcement?
I wish Docker Swarm would get more attention. It could be the perfect Kubernetes lightweight alternative. Instead it seems like it could get deprecated any day now.
Database full of 1000+ validated problems that can be turned into applications
But that’s my point exactly. You saying “I only support the law if it’s implemented ineffectigely and my kids can circumvent it”. So what you should just be saying is that you don’t support the law.

You can be saying you support it on the condition that it’s implemented poorly enough that it should be circumventable. That just doesn’t make sense.
Was in San Salvador, El Salvador not long ago and it seemed as though google Maps was straight up hallucinating eating establishments. Walked around a bunch trying to find spots for lunch that were in the map but there was nothing of the sort at the given addresses / locations. There were even pictures of legit looking places, was quite confusing.
Minimalistic?

I suppose you mean haskell without extensions.
How Uber Fooled the Feds (9 min video)
I've said it before and I'll say it again here - the best job interview I ever had for a software engineering position was about 10 years ago. I was shown a piece of code (directly from their codebase) which was about 50 lines long and we had a free wheeling technical conversation around it in which the interviewer asked me the following questions:

- What does this code appear to do (both technically and in the context of the business domain of the company)

- Are there are any red flags, edge cases, etc. that this code might not cover?

- If I were to rewrite it in the using modern libraries/tooling/best practices, what might I have done differently? High-level - we're not looking for you to physically write syntactically correct code here.

This is the same interview process that I now use on prospective applicants. In a single 30-60 minute dialogue it helps me answer questions such as:

- Can they size up and summarize existing unfamiliar code bases? In enterprise the ability to deal with legacy code is often more common than writing new code.

- Can they re-interpret old code using a modern lens? For example if we're discussing JS/TS (requires vs imports, callback hell vs async await, XMLHttpRequest vs fetch). For python (nested lists vs dataframes, simple numpy regression vs pytorch, etc)

- Are they able to communicate and convey their thoughts in a coherent and logical manner?
Or just don't have IP at all. It's entirely a waste of resources. What, you won't work on a cure for cancer because you can't rent-seek discovery? No, of course not. The marginal profit is sufficient. The entire system is unnecessary and serves no public utility. It just facilitates a new form of rent on knowledge. It's as bad as the idea of privatizing land rents.
> and will likely continue to operate from a different location

> The decision to close the markets and offer traders compensation was made by the Corporation's Court of Common Council.

It seems that they want to close the markets, not to move them
i have. avoid pis in retail products period unless you work at broadcom or want to sell a subpar device
20241127214906.0.0 will be marked as incompatible with 20241127214907.0.0 by any such system that parses them.
I used to do a great deal of local mapwork. Google Maps tends to not do rural areas as well as urban or suburban areas, usually missing the existence of Road A and then assigning the name of Road A to Road B, that kind of thing.

The naive approach is to expect a Single Source of Truth for roads, address points, and the like, but this turns out not to be true. The road network and address points are usually done on a per-county basis, each with its own standards (and boundaries), and gods help you if you expect that a road in County A that proceeds to County B to "line up" if you import data from each county. Sometimes, parcels are separate. Oh, and they'll use different projections and fields and whatnot.

Meanwhile, the Department of Transportation for my state had its own road network: fewer fields, often skipping the tiny roads entirely, irregularly updated.

This doesn't even begin to cover how bad the plats of a new neighborhood are versus reality, how infrequently updated and checked data is, height and weight limits for stretches of bridge and so forth.
> On the other their entire governing agenda is about deregulation, dismantling of federal agencies and being pro-business.

Oh, honey[1].

If the apparatchik remains spineless and lets them get away with it, there'll be some remnants the supposed agenda, but I think the real agenda is whatever makes them money. Already people close to him are charging others for access to him/cushy jobs[2]. Gosh, I'm trying to re-find this commentary account where it's headlines out of Washington but written like the way western media writes about some despotic African nation, but maybe I just need to wait until January.

Heck, Trump even bilked taxpayers by charging SS members a lot of money for accomodation in Mar-A-Lago or Trump Tower, and they had/have to stay there because they were guarding him [3]...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0_JfAZ5vlc
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/11/25/trump-epsht...
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/trump-...
Kafka is good. The problem is we don’t have a dedicated person to manage it so sometimes we have kafka outages
Apologies. OTP is One-Time-Programmable. The physical implementation of this varies, in this specific case it was efuses (anti-fuse, actually). It's used for things like calibration data. For a camera it contains information about the sensor (dead pixels, color correction curves, etc.).
Loved the Riv, I was there at a very similar time as you I think. I liked the steps when you walked in, and all the places they shot Casino at.
I saw a cool show in the theater which is also shown in Casino. I guess I’m more a movie guy than a casino guy, but I love Vegas.
The food court was absolutely run down and awful and we lost at roulette, but I don’t bet large. Hats off to you for having a good counting game. I play blackjack like a sucker but I usually do OK.
Like `ParamSpec`?
Could you please suggest java library for this if you know one?
Sure, but it does parse them and it does rightly understand that one is an newer version.

That’s… compatibility.
Has AWS improved their stance around hosting resource draining robots.txt defying scrapers and spiders?

Every large company does business with many people / orgs I don't like. I'm not defending or attacking AWS or CF, but merely stating the deeper you dig the more objectionable stuff you'll find everywhere. There are shades of gray of course, but at the end of the day we're all sinners.
Thankfully, I read the book before seeing the movie.

Most of the friends I've been with who saw the film first did a good job of following the plot up until the final act, which was pretty much unfilmable at the time.

Decades later, the Jodie Foster movie, Contact, did a much better job of visualizing "a trip through an interstellar mass transit system" than 2001 showing a trippy light show.
Update: I am already switched. Didn't get anything done at work since I already went down the customization rabbit hole, but it's nice.
Is this[0] the official repo of Shrinkray?

[0]: https://github.com/DRMacIver/shrinkray
That only works for inference, not training.
When I interned at IBM and this was a big deal. IBM was really invested on being "vertically" integrated "from sand to software" as they would say. One wonders what another run at this concept would be like given advances in semiconductor manufacture.

I have often wondered if a chip fab that could make 1,000 chips of a given type economically (which is to say using your custom chip in your system was less expensive than adopting an off the shelf chip) would be a thing. The whole 'tiny tapeout' thing would be a lot more interesting too.
I certainly didn’t. I remember getting cash as a young child, thinking with $20 I was “rich”, and rapidly blowing it on Sim City.

I only understood the value of money once I both had a bank account and a job that funded it.
It wasn't clearly marked as a joke or fake, which is why many people took it as serious. They probably voted based on it too. Musk helped sway the election by taking advantage of such idiots.
EXTREMELY nice. Wish I was paid to do that. :/
I think simpler is better when it comes to structured editing. Recursive teXt has the advantage that it proposes a simple block structure built into the text itself [1]. Of course, you will need to design your language to take advantage of this block structure.

[1] http://recursivetext.com
Sadly, I just threaten to switch to a non-existent provider and they reduce my rate. It's humiliating that that has to happen at all, not empowering.
Second order methods, and their approximations, can be used in weight updating, too.
It's not really a framework, but I've been having a lot of fun live coding music in Sonic Pi: https://sonic-pi.net/

It has built-in functions for chords and scales and is pretty easy to make catchy loops.
ask any American LLM about the percentage of violent crimes perpetrated by a particular ethnic group in the US ;)
Python Makefile Code
Yes, obviously. But just as obviously is there's rarely an easy and safe path with AWS. By default, R2 is easy, safe, and cheaper.
> If the source reference is a git commit checksum, it may be truncated to 7 characters (--short)

Doesn't the length of shortened git hashes depend on the size of the repo (whether or not shortened hashes of a given length collide)?
Thread: Elon's secret is that he picks the low-hanging fruit and implements
Sorry to hear, but I appreciate the feedback.

I get the wariness thing. The anon functionality is pretty different from what people have seen before and it might take a little time for people to get comfortable. Especially weird when we're saying using real names protects your identity more.

I'll see if there's some wording change on the signup page that can help the next guy get over this hump.
Ah sorry, my bad. Both your usernames started with a “ba” , and so I was indeed confusing you.
"Bill Gates wants to kill 7 billion people via weaponized mosquitos" is not a medical discussion.
Digitizing Touch with an Artificial Multimodal Fingertip
This distinction makes no sense. Can you explain why types would be more relevant?
They don't *need* to support shit, I would pay for the rom dumps if there was a way for me to do so. Same with music, I like buying music but relatively few artists let me give them money for flacs.

Also GOG does really well considering the tough competition.
How can we distinguish those two possibilities?

Stuff like childhood memories seems very deeply ingrained even if rarely or never reinforced. I can still remember the phone number of our house we moved out of in 1991, when I was 8 or 9. If I’m still alive in 30/40/50 years time, I expect I’ll still remember it then.
Once malware is installed, the proprietary blobs from my hardware vendor are the least of my concerns. Thus my request for hardware.
Pepperidge Farms remembers that Indiana Jones was the good guy.
Explore baby name trends with data-driven typography
There was a school district that took pictures of the kids at home.

They briefly saw the LED flash.

But it was not on for any length of time and you could miss it.

This stuff should be completely in hardware, and sensible - stay on for a minimum time, and have a hardware cutoff switch.
Multi product wafers are a thing, especially on older nodes. It’s accessible to hobbyists
McCarthy's activities did nothing in particular to improve the security of the US government, and retrospectively tarnished earlier investigations. But there certainly were Russian spies active in the US government earlier on, and since.

Since about the 1960s, most of the damaging spies have been in it for the money, not for ideology, or so it seems to me.
No it hasn’t? C++ type system has hardly changed (until concepts) and is one of the most powerful available.

A certain generation of devs thought types were academic nonsense and then relearned the existence of those features in other languages. Now they are zealots about using them.
MIT Aluminum Bicycle Project 1974 (2016)
Yeah afaik Firefly didn't make money even back then. In 2-10 years the tech might be there for this, but it's not there yet.

If you're looking for hard sci fi I really recommend Andor.
I'm really worried about what happens to the case against RealPage.
Yes sorry forgot that. First thing to do when buying a phone is to enable Developer settings and unlock bootloader I guess
> Surely no-one would argue against the benefits of antibiotics, and yet after decades of successful use we're only now discovering that in using them, we're breeding resistant bacteria that we have no way to deal with

People have been constantly arguing against all kinds of medicine, including antibiotics. And we have solutions to resistant bacteria. It's a social problem of developing expensive new antibiotics while restricting their market to the last line of defence. And finally, the analogy breaks down: we did develop and deploy antibiotics, and have been able to see the consequences and adapt as a result.

We're mindlessly eradicting species all the time. There might be a trolley problem in intentionally nuking one. But that's, again, socio-philosophical. If the first ecosystem we eradicate in collapses, against the predictions of practically every expert in the field, we can stop. In the meantime, we avoid a useless debate that costs millions their lives.

> If we can develop effective vaccines then I personally don't see the need to start deliberately exterminating species, even the truly loathesome ones

Again, a social problem. It's easier to get rid of the diseasse by taking out mosquitoes than it is to continuously convince populations to get vaccinated into perpetuity. (To say nothing of vaccines' adverse effects.)