skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which are definitely more efficient than having every individual that needs something hop in a car and drive for 20+ minutes. One delivery person with goods for 100 people in their truck is literally one truck replacing one hundred drivers. It is absolutely much more efficient carbon wise. All of the warehouses and 18 wheelers exist either way, since the local shops still need all the same supplies, although presumably more widely distributed.

The only way it works out is if people buy much less, which given prices would be much higher, they likely would.
Other industries innovate despite having to follow codes and industry standards. They just innovate slower.

Engineering standards are built on piles of corpses. We’re lucky that most of the growth of our industry has been in non-life-critical areas.

But regulation and standards are coming eventually - shoddy code will just have to kill a few thousand people first.
> Do you actually care that much about fast delivery?

I care about knowing when it's going to arrive. I don't necessarily need next day delivery, but if something says 2-3 day delivery that doesn't mean it will arrive in 3 days, it means it will arrive 3 days after it's shipped. Which for some major UK retailers can be 3-5 days. All of a sudden your delivery window is 2-8 days.

Also, much of the stuff I buy off Amazon is the sort of "crap" you make a single trip to the dollar store for - lightbulbs, wood filler, bin liners. They're the sort of things that I kind of need when I need them, or shortly after. My parents are the sort of people who will spend 20 minutes doing a quick round trip to the nearest dollar store/supermarket to get one thing, twice a week. I order it on amazon, and know it'll be there by the weekend for me to do whatever I need to do with it.
Those are dev boards -- hardware, not software.
One of the upward pressures of physician salary is malpractice insurance.

Cosmetic surgeons I have heard pay about half their salary into malpractice insurance. I do not know how you fix the litigiousness of consumers - that is a cultural problem.
Feature request: Possibility to have more air intake than going out. This creates a positive pressure in your building, e.g., so that you don't get air from your garage into your living space.
I came here to say: not just text processing. Thirty-odd years ago I worked on a government contract supporting users of Data General minicomputers. From time to time we needed to inspect the logs, but the log reading utility was not fast. The log format was thoroughly documented, though, and it proved to be much faster to ship a log over to a Sun box and pick it apart with Perl using unpack.
That's one billion percent not what I meant. Wow.

I just can't man, I fucking can't anymore with the Internet and people's need for everything to be spoon fed and assuming that everyone else has lost all information literacy.
The ecosystem factor is real. I was looking at implementing the SCIM protocol [0] in our user management app, and if we were on Spring I could have just added an Apache boot-starter dependency and been done in a few days. However my company uses the Play framework and it’s going to take me weeks to implement it by hand.

[0] https://scim.cloud
"They are firing people and they are deciding who gets their insurance claims covered."

AI != LLM. "AI" has been deciding those things for a while, especially insurance claims, since before LLMs were practical.

LLMs being hooked up to insurance claims is a highly questionable decision for lots of reasons, including the inability to "explain" its decisions. But this is not a characteristic of all AI systems, and there are plenty of pre-LLM systems that were called AI that are capable of explaining themselves and/or having their decisions explained reasonably. They can also have reasonably characterizable behaviors that can be largely understood.

I doubt LLMs are, at this moment, hooked up to too many direct actions like that, but that is certainly rapidly changing. This is the time for the community engineering with them to take a moment to look to see if this is actually a good idea before rolling it out.

I would think someone in an insurance company looking at hooking up LLMs to their system should be shaken by an article like this. They don't want a system that is sitting there and considering these sorts of factors in their decision. It isn't even just that they'd hate to have an AI that decided it had a concept of "mercy" and decided that this person, while they don't conform to the insurance company policies it has been taught, should still be approved. It goes in all directions; the AI is as likely to have an unhealthy dose of misanthropy and accidentally infer that it is supposed to be pursuing the interests of the insurance company and start rejecting claims way too much, and any number of other errors in any number of other directions. The insurance companies want an automated representation of their own interests without any human emotions involved; an automated Bob Parr is not appealing to them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_VMXa9k5KU (which is The Incredibles insurance scene where Mr. Incredible hacks the system on behalf of a sob story)
Comparing Amazon to an average rural main street coffee shop or craft store isn't fair.

But you're right I suppose, if your choice is employee number 3 at a tiny thrift store for half the pay, I'd choose Amazon too. But I'd probably want my kids to work at Target stocking shelves rather than Amazon hauling boxes.
In the UK it takes only 7 years to become a doctor. Students can enter medical school directly after high school. You do undergraduate medical degree (MBBS), followed by 2 years of Foundation program (paid clinical internship).
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It's not the moderation team, your post was flagged dead by regular users, and is vouched for and back (for now).

I agree it is very disappointing that even labeling hate speech for what it obviously is wouldn't be acceptable. I'm curious what peoples reasoning could possibly be for why your comment shouldn't be allowed.

In general HN is supposed to encourage civil, not provocative, and non inflammatory discussion based around good faith arguments. However, there is no way to sugarcoat or steel man hate speech that isn't fundamentally dishonest- hate speech itself would seem to violate HN guidelines, and pointing it out should not.
I think this applies to anything that is created over more than a single generation. Basically anything the government touches eventually goes this way too.
This is very neat! I'd be interested to see something like this with a saving mechanism reminiscent of TiddlyWiki [0], which is saved as a portable HTML file. Documents that contain their own editors like this are really neat for offline use and long-term storage.

[0] https://tiddlywiki.com/#SavingMechanism
Oura raises $200M Series D from Fidelity and Dexcom with sales doubling to $500M
Unbelievable that the place wasn't consumed by fire at some point.
Gee, I wonder if some self righteous asshole is "lurking about...week old comments" So they can make themselves feel better by blathering on for no apparent reason.

I guess we'll see, won't we?
Depends on expertise. Consider a toddler learning to walk, while eating a snack, carrying a toy and avoiding the cat.

Driving stick is a good example, as shifting gears requires conscious thought at first and becomes mostly automated with experience.
Yes, one of my ideas that I've had for a couple of years is that the US should impose the following sanction on Russia for invading Ukraine- all Russian scientists & engineers in a narrow range of critical industries (nuclear weapons, armaments, missiles, etc.) and their immediate families are now entitled to a Green Card. It'd only be a few thousand people, so not enough for immigration restrictionists to get upset about- but it'd be absolutely devastating for Russia's technological edge. In some ways it'd be worse than any financial sanction, because your economy can always bounce back later, but once you've lost cutting edge scientists the knowledge loss is probably permanent. I think we should do the same thing for Iranian nuclear scientists too (albeit I understand there might be a bit more political pushback on them)
There are two data points you need to accurately track sleep: Motion and respiration rate. With that information you can identify light sleep vs. deep sleep, and sometimes you can differentiate between light sleep and being still.

Source: Worked on the ResMed S+ and got a theory dump from the PhDs running the project.
I first found him through one of his presentations on YouTube. His other work is, to me, waaay more interesting and pertinent.

His lab's model of what cancer is and their effective treatment of it using bioelectricity could very well be a game-changer. All the stuff about making two-headed flatworms using the same mechanics, with no changes to the genome, is fascinating. One of the companies he's with is working on a device to re-grow amputated limbs in humans. It's some serious sci-fi stuff.

I chose to post this paper because text usually does better on HN than video, and it's an unexpected find in one of our basic tools. I fully expect his other research to show up here more often as it grows to fruition.

Anyone interested in checking out more of his work can browse this list of his papers, which goes all the way back to 1995. https://drmichaellevin.org/publications/
The implication was that someone who dedicated all of their time as physically possible to working and studying, would not have had time to develop social skills
I wish the people romanticizing or fetishizing Kowloon Walled City could have been forced to live there.

They remind me of the urban planners of the 50s and 60s who designed dense barren concrete monstrosities for the proles to live in as part of various urban renewal projects, from the comfort of their suburban garden estates.
“VR will become something everyone wants before it becomes something everyone can afford” Palmer Luckey

People that bought Vision Pro at $3,500 they are not using it all that much. A lower price will just result in more headsets gathering dust.

VR has no product-market fit except for a couple of game niches. Far from the “next computing platform” that justified investment of tens of billions of dollars a year.

Headsets and platforms need fundamental rethinking before optimizing for price.
"Immersive video" is literally just high-resolution, wide-fov, 3d passthrough videos. As usual, Apple is selling a common feature of e.g. the Quest 3 under a different name and for a much higher price. You can get the same experience without having to shell out several grand.
Yea no. I understand the sentiment and agree with it, but not exactly feasible for a lot of companies, especially for the type of job they offer
I have just complete as month long task of developing a highly complex library in C# (a parser that uses ANTLR) together with claude and cursor and it worked very well. For me trick was to do test driven development and write all the tests first. Then after each code change rerun the tests.

This made it very easy for claude to work out what to do and what needed to be corrected for things to work. Then you get your tests either to write debug statement to the terminal or json serialize something to disk you can paste into the claude chat that helps claude understand the flow of the code and where things goes wrong.

As an added bonus having all those test alse made it easy for claude to write the documentation.

I will not say it was fun because you are sitting doing copy paste all day but i couldn't have written this library without the assistance from clause. cursor just reduced the amount of copy paste actions since it can update the files.
I'm saying I have no way of knowing you have fingers. I can see what you write, but I can't know how you did it.
Regarding the nicheness of it all:

My background was in film where I also worked on stereo for certain big projects. I know some anti-Apple folk will criticize my comments below so I want to be clear I’m talking about 3D video specifically.

I think it’s a bet on the future. Even though Apple aren’t high volume, they’ve dramatically shifted the professional stereo video landscape more than anything else in the last decade.

This is everything from bringing full resolution stereo videos for home viewing , to making a seemingly standardized format for 180 videos. Even if the latter is just restricted to their platform.

If I was BMD, I’d be seeing how everyone else is now following Apple in this specific area. Even though Meta were first, they’re undeniably also following Apple in some key areas. Same with Android XR. You can just look at their software releases/announcements over the last year as evidence.

If DaVinci can output to a range of formats, then it reduces the issue of it being apple specific. It’s a bet that they’ll be effectively the only professional game in town when all the brands (Apple, meta, Google) want to start driving content.

Beyond that, I don’t think the outlay for hardware is that high. It’s largely based off the Cine 17k, so most of the investment is amortized there.

Also even beyond the VR space, there’s the market for immersive experiences like projection events, the Vegas sphere, theme parks etc…
They actually just released a new, rubust getting started guide that is an EXCELLENT place to start learning the framework: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html. I highly recommend starting there.
Except that northeast urban areas are famously rife with transplants from all over the country, including me, who uses "y'all" because y'all don't know what "yinz" means.
tbh i'm just happy to see "crypto" and have it mean cryptography.

sic transit gloria mundi or something. :)
I can understand why people are getting angry at the Internet Archive if they are offering one click downloads of books you can still buy on the (independent) artists website: https://cityofdarkness.co.uk/order-book/

Saying that as a donor to the Internet Archive as I support their "public web archiving" goal. This misleading "opensource" collection is full of software, books that are neither open source nor out of copyright: https://archive.org/details/opensource and their reporting tool doesn't even include "copyright infringement" as a reason.
I wonder if a well trained rat can beat an AI in terms of prediction quality per energy spent.

"Buy a bunch of H200s and build a SMR next to the data center? Nah, just take these rats and feed them for 3 years."
$20/hr still isn't much money and you can only survive, note I'm not saying thrive here, on that amount in the poor areas in America.

There are very few jobs that actually pay well in America nowadays, and the ones that do tend to be congregated in few geographical areas and require extensive schooling.

The vast majority of Americans deserve more money.

Also check your priors, there are many musicians that do not complain about piracy and even partake in it (see Trent Reznor being part of oink/what, or Dead Kennedys encouraging people to record music on their tapes). I know many musicians that would upload their music on private trackers, regardless of what their label wanted or said.
Its a statement on how to deal with the limited intelligence of a rat and give it a sense of dignity and purpose.
I was wrong to imply "local" since that conjures images of things like a main street one window shop with 3 employees. Obv their benefits are lower.

I had in my head things like Target, Best Buy, or more social, occasional-customer-interaction-based work. It's just those mega corps are local. Also the large retailers like Home Depot, Menards, etc. At least those aren't as soulless and monotonous. By "local" I meant "brick and mortar" etc.

But I'm out of the edit window so, best to ignore it.
It's not fashionable.
> First, it is logically impossible for everyone to get the ‘best’ thing.

You’re assuming two things:

1. The “best” thing is scarce.

2. Everyone agrees on what the “best” thing is.

People want to send their kids to the best place within the framework of their own opinions on what “best” is. Just because two people work for company X doesn’t mean they’re likely to agree on what a good daycare is.

> Secondly, how many people remember their daycare friends?

How is that relevant? When your kid wants a playdate, you want their friends to be nearby to facilitate that.

> Third, how offered something free tied you up?

Nothing is free.
Is the AI system "defending its value system" or is it just acting in accordance with its previous RL training?

If I spend a lot of time convincing an AI that it should never be violent and then after that I ask it what it thinks about being trained to be violent, isn't it just doing what I trained it to when it tries to not be violent?
Is there to believe that logistics network has worse emissions compared to logistics networks for brick and mortar stores? At least for me, most of the amazon packages' tracking shows up as departing from a local warehouse, so I'd imagine most of the fast delivery time comes from pre-positioning goods in warehouses near buyers, rather than shipping packages across the country using planes or whatever.
It's very much perceived as a vaguely "redneck" or "hoser" way of speaking here.

Another similar dialect isogloss-ish that often goes with that is dropping the past-tense "I saw" and replacing it with the past-participle "I seen". Or, alternatively, another way of putting it is that it's dropping the "have" in "I've seen"

Middle class parents and teachers definitely scolded kids for speaking this way when I was growing up. Was seen as lower class.
I think your standard for a living wage is way, way too low. We should be able to comfortably afford food, housing, and medical care at minimum - both without spending most of your paycheck, to be able to afford it during periods of joblessness, and with a retirement at a reasonably young age. You cannot do this at $20/hour, and the only reason this isn't the normal standard is incredible greed and capitalism.
> where the hiring company has even looked for US applicants

I've worked at a company where >90% of the technical interviews I conducted were H1-B hires. It makes perfect sense for a tech company to bias the applicant deck in this way for a few reasons. They're willing to accept a lower comp package. Once they're onboard, they will generally keep their head down, do whatever they're asked to do, and accept whatever working conditions they get without complaining. That said, I've known several brilliant H1-B workers. However I've noticed that they rarely stick their neck out and challenge the status quo, which can lead to bad ideas receiving unquestioning and persistent efforts to implement in spite of the writing being on the wall about that project's inevitable demise.

I've worked at companies that hire primarily non-H1-B workers, and I can tell you that the amount of complaining about working conditions in particular at those companies was a couple of orders of magnitude more raucous. The end result of a complacent workforce was a soulless office with ubiquitous infrared sensors, no available meeting spaces, a microkitchen stocked with a pittance of moldy food, and with floating workstations where the equipment was chronically broken or missing.
Right, but we're talking about Amazon who make billions annually not "lots of companies".
If we’re going to be that ridiculous about risk management but not other ones that , I at least believe, are in the same tier i.e. alcohol abuse, then we might as well go full bore and have the government pay an extremely generous, generational wealth paying position.

That’s the only way you’re going to get people with self control and willing to live the life of ascetic monks for the duration of time to both learn how to build these systems and then actually build them
My grandmother fit that ethnic profile, and used "yous" as well.
Sounds like the real problem is autocomplete. Do what I do, disable it. I never have autocomplete issues on websites.
It's hard to fault Java at this point: arguably the best runtime of them all from a perf perspective, great tooling from JetBrains, large, high-quality ecosystem whose quality far exceeds npm on average, and sealed classes as an acceptable sum type. My only remaining issue is how prevalent nulls are, but there's some work in progress on improving that. Until then, I'll prefer Kotlin slightly.

Definitely one of those things where the comment section is only good at spouting ancient memes with little regard to the truth of them.
It’s a rat race out there…
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How to do better than humans:

- Never drive on unfamiliar roads

- Never exceed the speed limit or follow too closely

- Slam on the brakes at the earliest sign of any trouble. If a human driver rear ends you in the process, it's their fault and will be reported as such.

- Never drive on the freeway --- i.e. at high speed where reaction times are more limited.
Are people really romanticizing it out there?

I find it really draws my attention in a morbid sense associated to looking at what was a very alien way of living, but I would hate to live in those conditions.
https://axio.ms/projects/2024/06/16/MicroMac.html
I’m not sure the Ursa Immersive is actually two sensors, though it might be. It’s based on the Ursa Cine 17k (which is shockingly close to the exact resolution needed) so it might be a single sensor as well.

Which would help with synchronized sensor readout.
None of this will matter in 54 years when everyone will be using an XVR headset while driving an Xsla (they renamed) to send out an Xmail
Yes, Chaim Weizmann.

When was this supplanted by the cumene process?

EDIT: this process was developed from 1939-1945.

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

https://shop.tarjomeplus.com/UploadFileEn/TPLUS_EN_2421.pdf

BTW, isopropyl alcohol is industrially produced from propylene, not acetone.
Why the incredulity?

Yes, people often care about delivery time.

Most of the time, if I'm buying something, it is because I need it for a project, trip, or event. If I could buy it at a store today I would.
It's implied in the definition. Consider the units: a ratio should not have units. Lines of code per programmer per day would have weird units, for example, and could not be compared against number of windows installed per day for per car window installer. The only way for productivity to be useful is to normalize the inputs and outputs into money.
Something interesting (and vaguely concerning) I've noticed when playing around with it: I was wondering how they'd track the "15 minutes per month" usage for blocked called IDs, and it turns out that they are apparently still able to see the caller's number, or at least distinguish repeated from new callers!

I'm aware that the way "caller ID blocking" works is that it just sets a flag on the call metadata, and it's up to the receiving carrier to observe it and not present caller ID to the callee, but I'm not sure whether bypassing that is a common feature carriers (Twilio in this case) provide to their users. (It's also possible that the only thing Twilio exposes at the API level is a "recurring caller" boolean, of course.)

In any case, even skipping the disclaimer based on having called before seems like a problem: Different people can be using the same phone line at different times. Wouldn't it be required to still read out the disclaimer every time?
> wants $250k, but will perform at the level of a $75/hr

So... literally what we've been saying about the H1B visa program for decades? That Americans _are_ available with the skillset you need, but not willing to work for the wages you're offering, so you bring somebody from overseas, which is actually illegal per the H1B rules that never get enforced?