skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> typically you pay income taxes where you live

Some bigger US cities have a city income tax which is applied regardless of where you live.

I had family living in NJ and working in NYC. They paid NYC income taxes, NY income taxes, NJ income taxes, and federal income taxes.
hmm the stock is certainly unfazed
How come some little known games studios manage to make good games consistently that sell well and why does Ubisoft keep failing despite ownings some of the biggest IPs in the industry when their audience keep telling them what their mistakes are but they keep ignoring.

So yeah, it's intentional, not a conspiracy. It's the emperor's new clothes. Nobody working there wants to point out flaws in the games they're making (like having a black samurai in medieval Japan as a main character) for fear of being called a racist/bigott, so everyone goes along with it till the studio collapses.
Theres a bunch of factors that will mess with your intuition here: 1) ride hail demand as significant spikes in usage during morning and evening rush hours AND it has a fairly strong seasonal trend depending on geo. 2) Insurance is also a big expense and for large operations like this is priced per mile or per operating hour, having more deadhead time means a higher loss to insurance. 3) People are very sensitive to wait times AND reliability. The desire to use the service drops a ton when wait times are greater than 10 minutes or if you're consistently not able to find a ride. Could waymo support less dense suburbs now? Maybe at certain off peak hours, but the economics and product experience are difficult.
“And then he said the way to become a demon was to kill his parent!”
But don't you think that a more civilized way to
solve it is by voting and changing the legislators
who think this is right?

Absolutely, but corporations effectively control the government and who gets campaign funding.
The world was even more divided in the past. When I went to China in 1983 the GDP per capita per year was $285. Even adjusted for inflation they were poor. No more really. Trade and the internet have leveled things up.
Finding Product Market Fit in a VFX Studio, and Almost Winning an Oscar
The most unlikely headline I’ve ever read. But it makes sense that someone in her position within a prison system could facilitate comms between people inside and out. I wonder how much cash she got from it.
Transcription is pretty huge. I should start paying for read.ai
I’ve often said, oh it’s in the transcript only to find I hadn’t done the needful and the transcript wasn’t present for some reason (usually user error)
5 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42327162
AI #93: Happy Tuesday
Seems smart. They'll continue to have all the leverage since they own the tech and will offload all the operational risk
Correct. The left tries to reach out to the proletariat but often only actually seems to speak to the lumpenproletariet. Marx thought the absolute bottom of society was scum, naturally fascist, and might as well not exist. Having been around your average bum on the west coast, it’s hard not to agree.
I call this Product Manager driven game design. The Soulsbourne series I hold as the shining beacon of game design that decided to go their own way.

As games got more and more "accessible" and shipped more and more quality of life features added, here was a game that decided to add friction to everything. You can't pause. You can lose EXP/money when you die. There are cheesy gimmick deaths just to screw with you. You can't replay dialogue. There is no quest log and there are missable quest steps all over. NPCs will disappear and travel to unknown locations.

Demon Souls and to some extent Dark Souls 1 were positively niche but the games went on to be genre defining giving birth to "soulslike" games and Elden Ring waz justly rewarded with mass appeal and awards.

I don't have a problem with games being accessible but I relish a story of someone going all-in on taste/vision driven-design and succeeding. I am also a little bitter of many AAA games becoming busywork simulators because games must deliver engaging experiences x times per hour which then just leads to bloated fetch quests and checklists and busy screens full of quest markers
I think ultimately the solution to this problem is the same as it was for electrification and telco: government funded mandates to provide service to populations where it's otherwise uneconomical.

One interesting thing today is that CoL can be as high in rural areas as urban areas in the same state, partly because the additional costs of things that don't scale (mostly transportation and healthcare). But we've given up on government helping people, apparently.
Waymo is cool, but I have no idea how it is going to compete with the tsunami coming that is CyberCab. Tesla will be mass producing this smaller, cheaper vehicle like nothing else. Covering the entire country with self driving vehicles.

I don’t know how Waymo can possibly compete with that. Their deployment by city is slow, their hardware is expensive, slown to produce, and not purpose built for self driving.
It takes a lot more information than that to know how productive a manufacturing line is. How many shifts per day do they have? What's their preventative maintenance schedule like? Are they doing any retooling?

Any line that's not running nearly 24/7 is underutilized, but retooling can trade some downtime now for a permanent increase in output.

If a manufacturing line goes from three shifts a day to two, that's a significantly larger decrease than taking a few days off per month. Assuming that they're only ruining a single shift, and that the downtime is because they're outpacing demand, this does give us some information about what their utilization is, but even that doesn't tell us how well a product is doing.

Keeping inventories low can decrease some costs and is especially incentivized by some tax regulations, but it requires fast increases in production, which is easiest done by building out more manufacturing capability than is expected.

tl;dr: If you want to know how well a product is doing, look at the sales figures. If you want to read into the strategies the manufacturer is making, scrutinize the assembly line.
I’m sure they know much more than me and have thought this through, but it feels like Miami is an absolutely awful choice. Traffic is notoriously chaotic there. I’ve driven in LA, Chicago, NYC, Philadelphia, SF, Miami, etc. It’s by far the worst place to drive, moreso even than Manhattan.
Absolutely agreed. Not even just because of the weather imo, but because of the actual driving experience here itself.

I’ve lived and been driving for nearly 15 years in various large cities (SF, ATL, Seattle, Portland, LA, etc.), both cars and motorcycles, and NYC (where i currently live) is the only place in the US I absolutely refuse to ever drive (or ride) in.

Not just because it isn’t as necessary here due to public transit usefulness (which is also true), but also because driving here feels like entering a warzone. Narrow roads and parking, drivers being extremely on the edge and leaving a few cm distance max between each car in traffic, constant honking, having to make very dangerous maneuvers on the daily just to get somewhere, and just the cutthroatness of the whole thing here.

I genuinely believe that NYC will end up being the final frontier for Waymo, after all the other places in the US (aside from those with extreme snow conditions).
> Life + 25 years is probably enough for almost all cases.

How do you define "enough" and what would be a case where it wouldn't be enough?
The push for "live services" has been disastrous. Having played a few of these, each one requires a time commitment comparable to a part time job to not "fall behind". This means even an adult with a lot of time on their hands will probably be able to keep up with at most two of these. Once you do fall behind the "fomo" mechanics often mean you feel like there's no point in returning since you already missed out.

I've been playing with a theory in my head that because the core reward structures in live service games are often similar (dailies, battle pass rewards, points earned from matches), live service games are their own genre. The live service reward system is the primary game system and the other gameplay (shooter, MOBA, whatever) is kind of a minigame you play to earn points in the primary reward structure. I don't think this is true for all live services, but it definitely makes sense for some of them where the gameplay is highly repetitive - all the variation comes from the "live service" systems not the "core" gameplay.

All of this adds up to fatigue. If you are even a little conscious of your spending a battle pass is not a set of rewards but a list of chores to be done so you don't feel like you wasted your money. And this same system of "chores you have to do" is repeated in a bunch of modern games. I get tired just thinking about it.
How does it make out lane markings? Or is it all just GPS-based?
Well that would cost Miami taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, and this costs Miami taxpayers nothing.

It would also take decades.

This will be happening next year.

Build all the transit you want. You need something for the next 30 years while you're doing that.
> Waymo is cool, but I have no idea how it is going to compete with the tsunami coming that is CyberCab. Tesla will be mass producing this smaller, cheaper vehicle like nothing else. Covering the entire country with self driving vehicles.

Don't fall for the hype.
Getting It Right vs. Getting Ahead
you said Munich. Go look at Berlin.
I'm grateful for a lot of things. But not Thanksgiving
My hot take: currency is not meant to be held, it's meant to be spent. I know, I know: "store of value" is one of its definitions, but it's OK to have short-term and long-term stores of value. Money velocity is a healthy thing for the economy. Hoarding wealth isn't, and besides, everyone with significant wealth is already storing most of it in assets anyway. There's really no reason to want a particular currency to retain its value over 100 years; 1% to 2% inflation is quite healthy. It doesn't rip away the value of your earnings as long as salaries keep up with inflation -- which they don't, but that's the real problem.
Ah, didn’t realize we were already due for our weekly anti-Tesla article. Gotta give everyone their opportunity to make barely topical rants about Elon.
Your expectation is that the money hidden under your couch should never go down in value?

And you are upset that the world doesn't work that way?
But have you driven in Boston?
> To be profitable with lower utilization, they’ll need to work on reducing how much each car costs somehow.

Definitely. Their custom vehicle had optimizations for cost, but seems to be on hold due to tariffs.

Waymo also has the option to drop prices lower than Uber/Lyft when vehicles are unutilized, though they still need to stay above their per-mile depreciation and operating costs.
Areas with multi-million populations get updated maybe every few months, and might import and manually fix up data from the official sources, e.g. city planning.

Areas with tens of thousands of residents get updated on a multi-year schedule; a year-long construction related speed drop might remain in place for years after the construction ends.

Truly remote areas are batch imported from other systems, traced out from satellite images, or some such. Mountain and desert roads are rough suggestions at best.

This seems to have always been true of Google Maps.
Europeans of a certain age will remember the assassination of Siegfried Buback, the German Federal Prosecutor at the height of Red Army Faction political terrorism. There was a pamphlet in left-wing 'zine, where the "Göttinger Mescalero" wrote about his "well-concealed joy" at receiving the news. The press was not amused.

But here - everyone seems to be amused that the fellow is dead. Doesn't bide well for social cohesiveness.
In the table of contents alone, "Biden" appears in 13 headings, while "Trump" is not present at all. Fascinating.

Sure enough, the author Brad Wenstrup is a Republican senator from Ohio.

https://www.congress.gov/member/brad-wenstrup/W000815
> Much of the US like Huston and Miami is extremely lacking in public transit, and will likely never build the infrastructure.

I am not trying to be a contrarian here, but I fail to see how that is an answer. I feel like what you say boils down to "since we are not solving the problem at hand in a good way, we decided to solve it in a worse way".

> ~50% of your fare goes to the driver.

Yet these ride-hailing companies who receive whatever is remaining after the meager pay of the rider and other costs only recently started to make actual profits. And even though it feels like the prices for customers increased a lot over the years, these companies are not exactly printing money.
I disagree that the tax isn't onerous, but mostly from an administrative overhead perspective.

Like many people I'm taxed at source with minimal options to change my tax bill. I pay the going rate, as per the rules. Putting the obligation on me to do a bunch of work and worry about correctness would be a huge source of frustration and unhappiness.
It's probably based on where public administrations are supportive. Isn't Florida notorious for being car centric?

One more lane, bro, one more self driving car company, bro... :-)
It doesn't seem misleading to me just overly technical for no reason.

Something like "Court Says Repairing Seized Phone isn't a Search" conveys the same meaning with fewer technical details, but is a little no duh. To me that is just as click bait-ish, because I would want to know who was dumb enough to try that as a defense, or wonder what the actual situation was.
The white liberal has been attacked way too hard throughout history despite literally being the good guy of history for hundreds of years. I’m so glad to see us finally defending our heritage. John Brown was a white liberal and a lot of black people cite him as “the realist white man who ever lived”.

Americas racism was primarily southerners being racist. It took white liberals to liberate everyone else, and we have to thank and celebrate the white liberal, not shit on them yet again.
Another way to write that number is as the log base 2 of 3. The log base 2 of the number of possible states gives you the number of bits of information in a value chosen from that many possible states; here, a trit has 3 possible states.
I'd guess that's the criteria to make government mandated backdoors legal.
I think one of the bigger issues is in ‘08, when the government protected real estate mostly from the crash, real estate has siphoned too much investment from productive ventures
"... we’ll work to open our doors to riders in 2026". I guess it takes a while to set up for a new city!
I have no idea.

Using Copilot for other things I find it is half baked. Sometimes it does a great job but I don't know how much I'd depend on it. Microsoft has an amazing way of not integrating its products well. For instance when Dropbox came out I felt it was really reliable but when SkyDrive came out Microsoft didn't do a trademark search so they had to rename it OneDrive, and I don't think they did proper design and testing on it because it was completely unreliable at the beginning which is not acceptable for a storage product.

It really might work for you though.

My take is that people overestimate how hard it is to get data out of products like Slack. For instance when I do my annual perf review I pull out the messages in the standup channel that I posted which are tagged with ticket numbers and it is 28 lines of Python.

The search part is harder but RAG products must be a dime a dozen these days. Also more and more I am seeing solutions for open-source models, for instance my Uni is setting up a server that runs a bunch of models because they are worried about privacy and don't really want us going out to OpenAI.
Flooding is absolutely an issue, during the rainy season (third of the year) localized flooding is quite common. Some streets are partially flooded on an almost daily basis, something human drivers are used to but I imagine will pose a new challenge to waymo.
The lack of so called destructive moves in C++ is not great. You either add a proper empty state to your type and make it properly part of the invariant, which is not always possible or meaningful, or you need a special moved from state for which your object invariant doesn't hold, which is "less than ideal" to say the least.
Depends on if they're actual female features or something that doesn't exist in nature.

EDIT:

I was referring more to the addictive nature of gacha games.
to_string() gives you an owned string (like std::string) vs a borrowed string slice (kind of like char*). If you already have an owned string you don't need to do that obviously

If you need to keep using Person after calling show() then don't pass ownership to show() - you can pass a reference or a mutable reference, or use Rc<> etc
s/Romans/Duolingo/g
The bigger question is, how can Tesla with it's non-working "full self driving" compete with Waymo's working actual self-driving.
Mozilla Foundation crumbles as third of staff cast off
Evo, a foundation model for generating genes and genomes
The paper: https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-2260/full
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield says it won't cover anesthesia after time limit
Full headline: Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield says it won't cover anesthesia after certain time limits in 3 states
God damnit.
I know nothing about this and it makes me mad. What unspeakable monstrosities have you wrought?
Look at the radar cross section of modern military aircraft. An F35 returns pretty much the same energy as a small commercial drone. These are trackable.
You raise good points, I agree it feels like it is reasoning at times.

Though the brain, with our current understanding of it, is by far more of a black box to us than any LLM.

> I certainly don't believe we have a 'reasoning module'.

Let’s also point out that human brains probably don’t have any vector databases in them either.

It seems to me like our brains must work very differently - just look at how much energy an LLM consumes compared to our brains consuming around 12 Watts.
I don't particularly enjoy Ubisofts games, they're the definition of bland uninspired AAA slop, but they are profitable. As a publicly traded company their financials have to be transparent so we know for a fact they were net positive over FY 2024.
I completely agree. I used to live about 10 minutes from the beach, and I would do sprints up and down on the sand. There's not much that's more humbling than getting completely gassed after a whooping 60 seconds of running.
Simple AI Phone Assistant
Was it just a repair, or did they install custom firmware? It isn't really clear from the article, and that seems like it would make a big difference.
> Anastasios Angelopoulos, with beard, and Wei-Lin Chiang

What is going on here, are we suppose to specify people's position in a photo according to facial features now?!
The causation also partly runs the other way. Elon originally didn't expect to sell many Cybertrucks. They'd sell a few 10's of thousands of them, using it as a technology test bed for a "real" truck. That explains some of the weird design decisions -- a press brake is cheaper for small production runs than sheet metal stamping.

Then they got a million reservations.
We're talking about database viewers/editors, not databases in general. But also databases are used plenty in consumer products, e.g., some sqlite file that stores your app's config

And these are consumers:

> definitely lots of devs who want easy DB access and would pay
there is no AV1 encode on any Apple products right now
Wow, center of Brussels for 1250 EUR is a steal.
Localization is primarily based on visual registration, i.e. matching the current surroundings to the closest data in its map. Lane markings are based on map data and what it's able to see in real-time.
How to Right Click
nah, appeal. reviving it involved modifying someone’s personal property.

I like that this is in the 9th circuit so I think the defendant and this country’s subjects will get a favorable ruling

people ask me how much I want to make: enough to take any cases through federal appeals court
After this election, I’m more than happy to ratchet up resentment towards the top from the bottom. Oh you want to elect a “populist” who hates the “elites”? I’m going to give you something to resent then!
Do you believe Musk's timeline estimates?
Absolutely true - but because games are time consuming to make you have to anticipate what will make money in 2-6 years. Faced with this challenge, a lot of studios have fallen back on chasing trends - witness the deluge of "hero shooters" coming out 8 years after Overwatch released. Unfortunately the long time delay means that a trend might already be on its way out by the time your game ships. Worse still, monetization methods sometimes lose their potency/viability over time as bad actors give them a bad name (see what happened with loot boxes).
> Unwanted incursions into your military bases should prompt fear.

No, it shouldn’t. Military should respond based on doctrine, thought, and analysis not fear.
Yeah I'm going to do that very soon with the API :)
The very first sentence is highly biased and draws an invalid conclusion. They attribute this to vehicle demand, without basis.

It's likely due to retooling for a planned lower cost trim.

Elektrek mostly writes misleading articles like this.
How about less H1Bs massuh or is dat too much ta ask of da rich boss families?
Sovereign citizen activities basically have no correlation with intelligence or political views. It's such a strange category of weirdness.
I think a charitable read would be a ‘one time extreme exposure.’ Passive exposure is bad, of course, but getting poison dumped on you by a crop duster has to be terrible.
It’s Techdirt. The author and editor are the same person.
I missed the "Hello, world!" mention, but otherwise you only need to have 10 prints in your whole project to have the 30 second increase. That is pretty significant.
I don't know what the benefits of ternary numbers are in this particular case, but a similar technique is used in ASTC[1].

In this case, a fixed-size block of pixels stores one or more pairs of colors using a lower resolution than your usual 8bpp. Then, these color "endpoints" are interpolated using weights that allow you to approximate the original colors. For storing the endpoints, sometimes you can get a better trade-off of resolution/bit if you can pack ternary numbers in the bitstream instead of being restricted to power-of-two boundaries.

[1]: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102162/0430/The-ASTC...
That’s not a hot take it’s literally the agreed upon monetary policy of the planet.

Only on HN would a bunch of self righteous engineers argue with you about how you are wrong based on some localized wish fulfillment of how a perfect system works in their head.
They do get rewarded?

That money has to come from somewhere, so a cheaper pick means more money available for other things like nicer employee lounges, free drinks, etc…
This is really nice, congrats on shipping.

I also really like this idea in general of APIs being domains, eventually making the web a giant supercomputer.

Edit: There is literally nothing wrong with this comment but feel free to keep downvoting, only 5,600 clicks to go!
US is happy if a country becomes its vassal state just like G7, EU and Japan. US likes if other countries don't have independent thought or freewill.

There is nothing largesse about US in this "those industries were given to developing countries to foster their rise". If it wanted to help others, it would have helped Africa the most. I can't believe the amount of brainwashing people have undergone.

How the U.S. Uses Wars to Fuel Perpetual Consumption｜Yanis Varoufakis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjLEmclSbO0