skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No idea, but it used to cause confusion that on a British keyboard Shift-3 produced the £ symbol, but a US keyboard produced the # symbol - while in the respective countries they were both referred to as "pound"

Perhaps some British influence somewhere? Where were # tags first popularised in the public imagination? Twitter I assume? Or something else?

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Edit to add side-observation:

"Octothorpe" I quite like, but I've never heard it spoken and mostly only read it in quite nerdy internetty contexts. Even amongst nerds I don't think we really use it that much.

Meanwhile @ is occasionally referred to as "commercial at" and I've seen one or two uses of "ampersat" for it. Again, I don't think I've ever heard anyone use those in speech even though they might actualy be useful for disambiguating the symbol from the word (but I think people say "at sign" when they want to be specific).

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Another passing thought:

I remember being exceedingly irritated to get a Mac with a UK keyboard in the early 2000s and discovering that the # symbol was not shifted to another key (as on a PC keyboard) but had to be accessed via the Alt-gr key combo (possibly with shift thrown into the mix as well?) ... as a recovering C++ developer at that time it was super annoying.

Nowadays I have a Swedish keyboard and while # is fine, I have similar pain with {} and [] ... and now I think of it, what is the proper name for what I exclusively call "curly braces" ?
The platform of the democratically elected Likud states the same: "between the Jordan and the sea there will be only israeli sovereignty".

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/original-party-platform...

Does this authorise Hamas to go there and raze the entire country to the ground? Please let me know.
I’m not sure that’s a fair perspective, they built a proprietary product that’s intended to be a loss leader, the opposite of that is a desktop which costs substantially more.
I don't think this is apples-to-apples. You need to somehow filter to people who are not speeding or otherwise breaking traffic laws. My problem with studies like these is "human-operated" is an enormous catch-all that blends together too many causes for accidents.

1) Not filtering out drunk drivers is downright misleading. I am less interested in "is mandatory self-driving safer than human drivers?" than "is mandatory self-driving safer than mandatory breathalyzer ignition?" There are some
uniquely human downsides which are fair comparisons to AI - distractions, slowness, anger -but drunk drivers should be removed from this.

2) The bigger problem is people rationally speeding or running red lights. Waymo is strictly legal, but Tesla self-driving historically encouraged speeding, rolling stop signs, etc. Ubers and Lyft are preferred if you're in a hurry precisely because human drivers bend the law. Human speeding is not caused by a lack of intelligence and needing an AI to figure it out that it's dangerous: humans do it because they are selfish and reckless, and someone like Tesla will make a driving AI that fulfills their selfish demands. There is absolutely no reason to think that a speeding Waymo would be safer than a speeding human.

Studies like this makes me worry about a medium-term where driving is more dangerous for everyone: lawful drivers get in more accidents because they're using sub-human AI, whereas nothing changes for unlawful drivers because they are using dangerous AI, turning off the AI and driving drunk, etc.
Most of this data they publish to the Government for legal reasons. Sure they could lie to the Government, but ask Cruise how well that went.

Anecdotally, I see Waymos around town, and they are very clearly driving in a slower, safer, more cautious manner. a 92% reduction seems very plausible.
"WP" looks like WordPress to me.
There are a lot of papers using GNNs for physics simulations (e.g. computational fluid dynamics) because the unstructured meshes used to discretize the problem domain for such applications map very neatly to a graph structure.

In practice, every such mesh/graph is used once to solve a particular problem. Hence it makes little sense to train a GNN for a specific graph. However, that's exactly what most papers did because no one found a way to make a GNN that can adjust well to a different mesh/graph and different simulation parameters. I wonder if there's a breakthrough waiting just around the corner to make such a generalization possible.
mine is crap beige
Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions
I think that's just for comparison, and not an endorsement of its use.
Are We Exporting Our Environmental Problems? (2021) [video]
Looks like Xiaomi Mi Temperature and Humidity Monitor Pro.
slides: https://umra.umn.edu/sites/umra.umn.edu/files/2022-09/raw_ma...
Yes, they are not dropping scripts completely, at least because of Gradle, but they are removing some parts of scripting support and advise against using Kotlin for scripting. And I would prefer a true command line REPL instead of the notebooks. IIRC they were promising various improvements in both scripting and REPL for several years, and now they just gave up, I guess because of shifting the focus to K2 and KMP. I find this quite disappointing.
I bet he wants to ban Lidar.
If I can plug my own API key into this and/or run Llama locally, that'd be great.

It reminds me of a tool I saw recently called Heuristica [0]. Would like to try it but I don't like being tied to a subscription and the free plan seems quite limited if I can't even plug my own key in. Don't see why this can't do what Heuristica does! :)

[0] https://www.heuristi.ca/
Being a developer isn't a synonym for UNIX.
> Or even as a pedestrian

Or even as anyone who is ever on the road.

Despite the law, driving in America is a necessity for many. That means our bar for taking it away is high. Quantify the safety delta and have an available alternative, and we can start lowering the bar for taking dangerous drivers off the road. (Frankly either >1 DUI or >1 at-fault crash should result in license revocation. We should also delay license issuance until 18 years old and have restrictions on the license until 20 [1].)

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/3343314
There are times when mistakes will cause more serious problems for customers. There are times when staff will be less available to aid recovery. A good strategy shouldn't deny these truths.
People who setup an infrastructure which "just works" don't get promoted. You want to be extinguishing fires and be seen doing it. To be the hero who worked their ass off all week-end to save the company. That's how you think you'll get that juicy promotion.
I think insurance prices will drive adoption of self driving very quickly.

Consider: if a non-self driving car is in an accident with a self driving car, it'll almost always be the non-self driving car at fault. And with the telemetry from the self-driving car, they can prove it too, so accidents that would have been no-fault or shared fault become fully the non-self driving cars fault. And so I think insurance for non-self driving cars gets expensive fast as there are more and more self driving cars on the road.
IMHO:

1) JS frameworks to track state especially "new wave" like zustand and similar are wonderful to bring down complexity of redux based solutions.

2) No amount of reactivity would help web slack to keep in sync activity content and red dot.

FE is simple, but FE devs aren't.
> Why didn't they replace the battery when the app complained?

because life gets in the way. You have a bunch of batteries and forget where you put them, or you walk inside and get distracted.

I have a tag in my suitcase, which is/has run out of battery. I dont use it that often, so I should really replace it. but I have forgotten.
> The future is bright.

We have been there. The internet and then Google, Facebook were the same. Big Tech can't be trusted.
Outside of mapped and heavily driven teritory? Good luck.
It sounds like with the surprise ruling to force service provision to wpe, and this response, there's little desire to be the free provider of dev infrastructure on the part of wp any more. Which is understandable if you're being compelled to do it.

AIUI the compulsion is just to leave things as they were while the case proceeds, I hope the judge has better criteria for understanding the situation than brought out at the summary judgement.
Interesting. There are also differences between HTML and CSS:

#fe11a710

becomes a sort of red in HTML, but a mostly transparent pink in CSS (for 8 digits hex numbers, the last two encode the alpha value).
you can use your name as a semi-unique color to you
> One of the best things Steve Jobs did on his return was to trim the number of Mac models to a minimum.

So much for choice.
You could make the argument that there is no real meaningless sex, because oxytocin is released when having sex and oxytocin causes binding.
If we're ignoring compatibility issues, I suspect the quality of the integrated graphics may matter more to the average desktop user than the CPU architecture.
I forgot to enroll a new phone before wiping my old one this year and was looking at a 30 day wait to update my login info. That’s not technically losing the account, but it’s pretty rough.

Thankfully I was logged in on a PC and was able to get past it.
> I’ve made tracks that I’m quite proud of in 90 minutes that have done 20+ million streams.
Regardless of the ethics that's quite incredible!
> the interests of the state will fraction between the interests of the oligarchs and the lines blurry between law and personal convenience of the wealthist citizens

That's basically cyberpunk. And yes, we're pretty much heading towards megacorps.
I know how it was, and yet regardless of your glasses remark, where are all those great WebGL 2.0 games?

All really impressive rendering taking place on the browser are ShaderToy samples and demoscene competition entries.
Yeah, I don't think I even heard "pound" for # until I went online and started getting exposed a lot more to US stuff (also harking from the 80s UK micro world).

I feel like "octothorpe" might have been referenced in the jargon file or similar texts?
Hamas' stated goal is not "to kill"- remember that everything you know about Hamas you know from Israel's perspective and according to Israel's interests.
Hamas' stated goal is "to free Palestine"- it means gaining its political control, not murdering people.
Well really it would be "you get a discount for the percentage of your mileage driven with a autopilot enabled." You can pay less if you drive in a setting that saves the insurance company money (on average).
Crassus died pursuing an absurd extremely expensive boondoggle. So if history is to repeat itself maybe SpaceX is sending that rocket to Mars after all.
Palestine doesn't just consist of Gaza, doing so is playing a bad faith word trick. I can't imagine you're unfamiliar with the continuous annexations and illegal settlements in the West Bank, along with the continuous razing of Palestinian buildings there. If not, you're one of today's lucky 10,000. Here's a basic introduction [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settlement
Show HN: Free Timesheet Templates for Excel, Google Sheets and PDF
> Outside of mapped and heavily driven teritory?

Why wouldn't rates go up for drivers driving outside mapped and well-driven territory?
Facts don't care about your feelings lol.
You seem to not be very updated, all the while holding extremely strong beliefs.

Storage delivering nuclear scale energy day in and day out in California:

https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batteries-apr-2024/

Storage plummeting in cost 20% YoY, now at $66/kWh.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/mind-blowing-battery-cell-prices...
The whole thing with self-driving cars is that it feels like the story of NASA's space pen. All this money being poured into a technology that would not be needed if the richest country in the world had the common sense of simply getting rid of its car dependency and developed proper public transit infrastructure.
This is basically ComfyUI but for LLMs, is that right? I know tldraw as the open source Excalidraw competitor but this is an interesting product as well.
Definitely a rolling shutter. I think no word on the readout speed yet, but I've seen 12ms quoted for the 12K LF sensor.
Apple makes consumer electronics.

From a professional perspective they are toys.
In this game, all strategies have the same expected value, so long as they follow the rule 'if the remaining deck is all the same colour, then you should bet everything you have on that colour'.
And what staff levels are required to do the "self-driving" ?
In number of back-end remote human operators per self-driving car.

I get that some administrative oversight in always going to be needed, but to what extent is the AI "Actually Indians" at present?
Horse accidents aren't a leading cause of death though. Seems like it'll depend on how thoroughly self-driving becomes a thing of the past on its own.
autosquaredmobiles
This. The boomer generation can not be outvoted of rights, even when they will crawl the streets being traffic hazzards with dementia. So they will be pushed howling and screaming towards automated driving.
I think the Internet is pretty great. It’s not perfect but I’m not ready to throw out the frictionless communication baby with the cynical bathwater.
"When and how to use frameworks

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We suggest that developers start by using LLM APIs directly: many patterns can be implemented in a few lines of code.

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> Any time military language gets used

And some military terms are never used. Reserve: the idle resource you have that you can deploy to stop a breach or to profit from an opportunity.

Nope, we're using Human Resources like people used to use machines in the 80s: you have to get them working 100% of the time. And when there's an emergency? Code Yellow. When there's an unforeseen opportunity opening up? Well, too bad so sad your competitor got it.
Sad that it is English only, not multilingual.
It is really really annoying
high tariffs would fix this
> “shebang” (“hash bang” for #!)

I think the etymology of "shebang" isn't clear, some sources say it may come from "sharp bang" or "shell bang".

http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/shebang.html
> not sure what TypeScript is unable to represent.

I want a type that represents a string of negative prime numbers alternating with palindromes, separated by commas.
I’m not arguing strongly in favor of “getting off it” so I’m not going to make much effort defending the position.

But I can imagine scenarios where we have to leave earth with intergenerational ships and only then acquire the ability to terraform, harness a star’s energy or travel at light speed.
I just heard someone mention in a podcast how as a cyclist they need to make eye contact with drivers to be safe, and there is no one to make eye contact with.

Waymo would say "don't worry, it sees you" and maybe the numbers even show they do some percentage more than the average human driver, but that still does not reproduce the self-help aspect of you looking at a driver until you see that that driver sees you. I think that is a pretty significant thing. It needs some sort of better answer than "don't worry about it"

Maybe they will prove to be so reliable that you don't need to worry about them. You can just reliably assume and predict their behavior as animate objects about the same as you do for inanimate objects. IE, you can't make eye contact with jersey barrier, but you don't need to, you know what it will do (nothing). And you can't make eye contact with say, a motorized railroad crossing barrier, but you don't need to. It moves, but only in an absolutely predictable way. You can be a cyclist around the railroad crossing barrier no problem.

Maybe Waymo and others will be that consistent that you can treat them like "moving inanimate objects" safely.

I don't know if they are right now. They may be better than humans on avaerage, but that is a long way from predictable and safe.

Maybe They can build in some way for the car to signal back to the surrounding people what all it has taken note of, or not. Some way for a cyclist or pedestrian to look at a Waymo and see that it sees you. That should be possible.

Maybe it can go both ways, maybe we can develop some kind of standard where if you need to get a cars attention there is some gesture you can do that it will be especially watching for. So even if it doesn't see you, it will see you if you wave your hand a certain way or something. Only problem with that is you have to be able to do the thing, and some of the times you need a car to see you the most will be the same times when you are incapacitated, ie lying on the road after some accident or something.
All bark, no bite.

All he want's is "a deal" and the ability to prance afterwards.

The deal don't have to be good for the U.S. Trump will say it's a good deal and his supporters believe him. Buying raw materials, oil and gas like US is third world country works well with the EU.
> the confidence to design for L5 autonomy from the start

L4. Waymo can't "drive everywhere in all conditions" [1]. (Nobody can. Not to L4 standards of never requiring "you to take over driving.")

[1] https://www.sae.org/blog/sae-j3016-update
Column A might have a few kills in their numbers.
> Israel hasn't been an occupying force.

Israel has indisputably been an occupying force in Palestine continuously since 1967, at the latest.

> They left Gaza in 2005.

They did not stop exerting control of Gaza at any point, continuing to regularly murder unarmed civilians within Gaza, without provocation, control its waters, and otherwise exercise dominion even after their tactical redeployment. Not that even if they had withdrawn from that part of Palestine it would change that they were occupying Palestine.
> "And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister; and they always filled their ballrooms; the event was never small. Yea, for unto the records of the temple, they had the biggest balls of all." —Ez/Dz 60:9
It depends what you want to know. "Are autonomous cars better than good drivers?", or "am I safer in Waymo than a random human driven taxi?". Both are very valid questions.
As someone in b2b enterprise software realm - Product Lifecycle Management specifically - I'm not seeing any avenues for remote gigs.
I've over 15 yrs. of exp. including at bigTech in US, and recently left my bigtech full-time job and relocated to India.
It feels like barring visa-constraints, it would have been a lot easier to find PLM/Eng-Systems gigs while in the US. Any advice for someone in my situation - I'd love to still live here and not relocated for a job again! Tx!
It can but it's up to its good will.

To be clear: It usually makes no sense to develop an internal solution when there is an estabilished offering on the market. If there isn't, embracing an rough and incomplete Saas solution from a startup may work, but:

- You have no control on how the solution will evolve

- You don't own the solution (an internal solution can became a product on itself)

- You don't have any competitive advange (the money you pay are used to develop a product that benefit your competitors as well as you).
That link is for Phoenix. They're not yet driving on the freeway in SF.
You’re trying to to characterise personal risk and they were tying to characterise societal risk; both are valid.
> the story of NASA's space pen

As an example of an urban legend/facile pop science take being treated as fact [1]?

> if the richest country in the world had the common sense of simply getting rid of its car dependency and developed proper public transit infrastructure

Is there a single developed economy that doesn't make significant use of trucks and cars?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen#Uses_in_the_U.S._and...
I did write "besides privacy" because it is a valid concern indeed.

But considering that most people don't give two damns about their privacy (or at least act like it, keeping 24/7 a tracking device on them and sharing all of their lives non stop) what would be their valid reason to not have a tracking device for insurance purposes on their cars?
> Horse accidents aren't a leading cause of death though.

Sure, not now. Because cars replaced them.

> Seems like it'll depend on how thoroughly self-driving becomes a thing of the past on its own.

Based on my experience with Waymo if they come to Seattle in the next two years I won’t buy another car.
Clones are good. But it is not possible to keep a clone line going indefinitely.

Periodically you need males and females doing their wonderful thing and mixing it all up from seed
They should also ask for more money from sick people when it comes to health insurance, as they’re more prone to getting sick again and again and hence consume resources, after all how many Luigis can there be?

Which is to say that naked capitalism works until it doesn’t, and when it stops working big chances are that it won’t do it gracefully, see how present-day health insurance CEOs are now scared shitless of Big City streets.
If you had read the paper you would realize that it is not about the severity of the injuries, i.e. "how grave" they are, but the number of insurance claims, of which there have only been two and the second one involved a human driver running a red light.

It's not just a mere "reduction" as the percentages imply. The number of injuries is almost zero.
All languages have Hyperbole to enable one to cut through noise and convey insight via forceful phrases. That is its proper use; only when it is used for mere egoistic reasons is it frowned upon.

Dijkstra was instrumental in inventing Structured Programming when Programming was literally anything goes spaghetti. This was the main reason his famous GOTO paper was such a hit. Given this background you can understand his comment about BASIC. This comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42461921 explains how bad Dartmouth BASIC was. Looked at in this light you can see how a person trying to establish structured programming might feel about that flavour of BASIC and his quote nicely captures that.

Dijkstra was also all about mathematical notation, precision and rigour. In fact the article i had linked to mentions that he was unhappy with all languages and hence taught his class at UT Austin using a language of his own design and notation. Now realize that COBOL at that time had all the unstructured faults of BASIC listed above plus an even worse handicap in that it was using Structured English rather than mathematical notation! To somebody who was all about mathematics this would be sheer torture and thus his quote.

Quote from previously linked article;

Dijkstra argued that computer programming should be taught in a radically different way. His proposal was to teach some of the elements of mathematical logic, select a small but powerful programming language, and then concentrate on the task of constructing provably correct computer programs. In his view, programs should be considered the same way as formulas, while programming should be taught as a branch of mathematics.

One should always think when reading an acknowledged great's quotes/phrases. This is not to say that they can never be wrong but this probability is generally quite low.
It doesn't matter about all of that if we're still burning fossil fuels, do you see what I mean ? You're saying it's cheaper, yet there is no storage solution possible for. that much renewables to keep everything running all the time, night time, winter etc.

I like renewbles, you seem to be getting aggressive as if I'm a climate denier, i'm the opposite, but I just don't think it's as easy as you think politically. To ignore politics is perilous.

We could've eradicated the use of fossil fuels 50 years ago with Nuclear, we didn't.
New physics sim can compress training times from decades into hours
Subjective indeed. I like Gnome Desktop's simplicity and straightforwardness.
space state The really visual of explosion is demonstration nice!
> Big Tech can't be trusted

Trust, trade and mutually-beneficial coëxistence need not go hand in hand.