skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not about success or failure, it’s about investing your ego so deeply into your business that morality and sanity end up seeming like reasonable currencies to spend as a last resort to viewing yourself as a failure. He is the Matt in the company name Auto-Matt-ic, so of course he’s taking it poorly. There are serious downsides to Cult of Personality meets Cult of Infinite Annual Growth.

Honestly, though, the weirdest thing to me about all of this is that corporations already behave like Matt every day, yet when a human starts doing so, we consider involuntarily removing them from society. Perhaps we ought to be less forgiving of his behaviors from the non-humans, too.
I'm not disputing that insurance for full-auto cars is likely to be cheaper in the future, but I don't believe that manual driving insurance will ever get "cripplingly" expensive-- it might even go down compared to now thanks to reduced accident rates (contributed by full-auto cars).

Also compare vintage-car insurance (which are in many cases drastically less safe): Pricing is perfectly viable there and has been for decades.
The discussion is not wether Spotify will benefit from this situation in the long run or not, it's wether the users of the platform (both the listeners and the artists) should be happy with it and the answer to that is, thanks this lengthy article, demonstrably no.
A closer result to the above would be a child born with 17 eyes to the same couple.
The coordination emerges for second order reasons, sometimes as simple as what the people want to hear even.
Banks are pretty good at doing an impression of phishing scams, unfortunately. Almost every red flag for a scammer has also been done by a bank, legitimately.
Better title:

> How concurrecy works: A text guide
Happy to see "inference time compute" term being used primarily nowadays - it's a much more precise and appropriate term compared to the unwieldy "test-time compute" that openai used to call it when they thought they "invented" scaling inference time.
Thank you for the clarification. Recently I've been reading a lot about tracking of space objects (though much closer ones, on LEO/MEO), so this is some very interesting stuff for me!
> The sad thing (for artists) is that it seems like most Spotify listeners don't care.

The standard risk model for a musical artist is massive-upfront-investment-for-a-tiny-chance-of-payoff-someday. A different model with smaller rewards and lower risks isn't "sad" - if it had existed 30 years ago I might be a professional musician today instead of an engineer
After reading all these comments, I started to worry and even panic because it seemed to me that I was on the wrong side. HN, which side are we on?
> you, who had a fender-bender last year and a speeding ticket 3 years ago

This is factually wrong: I did not.
hey, thanks a ton for sharing your thoughts, I appreciate that!

I am sorry to hear that it didn't work, we do have a dedicated page for duckdb specifically here: https://bruin-data.github.io/bruin/platforms/duckdb.html

Would this help with it? I'd love to see how we can improve if you'd like to share your thoughts on that. Please feel free to join our slack community as well, we can talk directly there too.
More frequent smaller busses is a great idea. If self driving busses helps achieve that, it would be amazing.
Simple. Ask some Americans to write an article about spies or hackers. Then ask someone from North Korea. Do you not think where they are from and who they work for having an influence on what country the spy/hacker is from and who they work against?

There's no such thing as unbiased journalists. When the Red Scare was on its highest, they would likely write about Communist spies. When Muslims were the most evil people ever, they would likely write about state sponsored groups from Iran. These days, Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are the de facto go-to for Americans writing about these kinds of things even though most hacks in the US are done by Americans against Americans. There's no need for a conspiracy for OPs comment to be correct. People want you to believe their world-view.
I would like to know the names of these professors and their respective quotes. I suspect that they don't really exist but are just a convenient excuse to paint the perpetrators as victims.

Besides this, even if Hamas and Likud are identical in the intentions, only one side is illegally occupying and annexing the other's territory, and almost all deaths and destruction are on the other side. The situation on the ground matters- people who are oppressed have a right to defend themselves, and this comes before any stated intention.
Hence why I’m talking about Tokyo. Not Japan. Living in the countryside basically requires a car by definition. People also often have a car, but don’t use it that much. Maybe you’ll get more interesting numbers if you compare miles traveled per person?

Found only for 1997, but increases the discrepancy to 1:2.5 : https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar4.htm
thanks! we already use DLT under the hood with ingestr, so some of our connectors already come from there. is that what you meant?
The grocery store is 1.3 miles from here but it’s a 300’ climb and it’s 42f and raining right now. Even with my e-bike that’s not pleasant. On a conventional bike that’s unrealistic for all but the most hardcore cyclists.

There’s a bus that serves that route but the stop is uncovered and service is unreliable because it’s immediately after a rest stop where the human drivers take care of their biological needs.

A robo-bus would be more predictable and enable more frequent service.
$200,000 per year from running Spotify playlists? Citation needed - that is wildly implausible
Do we know for sure psychotherapy can cure most psychological problems completely and permanently? I'd like to see your sources. There are issues like:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/matter-personality/2...
New Hampshire has no general sales tax; they still have a Room & Meals tax of 8.5% on prepared meals and lodging.
Using CSS translations to place elements on the page is... cursed to say the least. It's probably why text selection works (assuming it qualifies as working) in such a weird way when the cursor goes between blocks.
you have some very non-standard definition of determinism.
Show HN: I built a Slack emoji generator
That's true for every other mainstream interpreted language. Is PHP better than Ruby or Python for those use-cases?
while MySQL is very popular, it is very rare to see it in analytical/ML usecases, that's why we haven't added it yet. There's nothing from a technical POV that prevents us from adding, it just hasn't been a priority, I am happy to pull it up if that would help your usecases.
The birth, life, and death of old Penn Station (2017)
tldr: needs email to play with it
Younger Generations that are subjected to increasing conservatism are potential victims to be saved.
Naive question:

Words in sentences kinda forms graphs, referencing other words or are leafs being referenced, both inside sentences and between sentences.

Given the success of the attention mechanism in modern LLMs, how well would they do if you trained a LLM to process an actual graph?

I guess you'd need some alternate tokenizer for optimal performance.
Our estimates are more than a million active instances https://analytics.home-assistant.io/
Roads are public but unless you have someone following around you can't know where everyone is at all times. But with tracker now you have mass surveillance!

We criticize chinese government but we do much worse.
I mean, if anything this sort of thing surely has to be pushing people towards WPEngine, rather than the service run by the guy who is visibly losing it?
I mean yeah, the music isn't the problem; a lot of music especially "back when" (in my idealised head, this may not be true) was just some guy or a small band noodling in the corner, instead of a well known artist giving a performance of their greatest hits.

"jazz improv" is probably just that, start with a generic beat / atmosphere and improvise and noodle on top of that. Sounds great to me, I wish there was more low barrier to entry live music like that. But I suppose there's no market for e.g. an in-house band working shifts for background entertainment, and they can't compete with jukebox software.
>>did we exclude drivers who were not eligible to drive (under the influence, no valid driving permit, cars with issues [braking broken]...)?

now THAT would be massaging statistics! Just take the best drivers, that had enough sleep, no drink, perfect car conditions... No. You have to compare with the whole world, "as it is"
We have roundabouts. We don’t have them everywhere but then I bet you don’t either.

My home town in Idaho has built at least five I am aware of in as many years, with more planned.

My neighborhood in Seattle plants a tree in the middle of unmarked intersections which effectively creates a mini roundabout.
This is a faceted issue where both sides have valid points. Also, HN is not a single entity.
My Firefox on Linux zooms fine with both renderers. Text selection doesn't work though. Also the cursor doesn't adapt when hovering text, a button etc.
Do they aim their "organic detection" equally against every single country, including the US? Or are they inherently biased?
Vans to complement buses are definitely a thing in São Paulo, and the cost of labor is not a limiting factor.
How do you justify to your manager to spend (and more importantly commit to spending for a long time) hundreds of millions of dollars in aws resources every year? Sure, you already have the hardware but that's a different org, right? You can't expect them to give you those resources for free. Also, voice needs to be instant. You can't say 'Well, the AWS instances are currently expensive. Try again when my spot prices are lower."

I am sure you know this but maybe some don't know that basically only the hot word detection is on device. It needs to be connected to the Internet for basically everything else. It already costs Amazon.com some money to run this infrastructure. What we are asking will cost more and you can't really charge the users more. I personally would definitely not sign up for a paid subscription to use Amazon Alexa.
I think comparing what Israel is going through with the destruction of Gaza- which is comparable to that of Dresden or Warsaw, a wasteland of ruins, starving people, corpses and amputated civilians- is, well, obscene.
Show HN: Get e-signatures & pay per signed doc
Woke up today with a 100-degree fever & found out Google is now our competitor.

Last week, we started building signwith.co/ - a simple, pay-per-use e-signature tool for people who are struggling with complex e-sign tools.

The plan was to build quietly, run a private beta, get 50 users in 15 days, and then do a launch. Easy peasy.

But since Google dropped into the e-signature space - we needed to talk.

So after 30 minutes of existential dread, a lot of “what are we even doing?” thoughts, and one strong dose of paracetamol

we said, screw it. - let’s change gears.

So now we're opening our beta, and here's the deal:

• All the people who join will get free credits worth 10 signed docs
• 12 months credit validity
• No complexity
• No hidden cost
• No subscription commitment

You can join the beta here - http://signwith.co

That said, we see Google's entry in the signature space as validation.

This event expanded the market with such massive awareness.

Let me be clear: We’re not trying to be DocuSign, Google, or any other enterprise beast.

We’re indie makers and building for:
• The freelancers
• The consultants
• The indie and small business owners
• and anyone who just needs a contract signed—fast, simple, no headaches.

Here’s how SignWith works:
• Upload your doc
• Drop signature spots
• Send it out and track
• Pay per signed document

That’s it. No subscriptions. No feature bloat. No crazy hidden charges and no complex pricing tiers.

If you've read it so far, would love to see you on the other side.

And hey, if you’ve got any feedback, suggestions, or just want to tell us what you need, reply here or drop me a DM. We’re all ears!

Cheers!
In this particular context, it's for passive entertainment; things like blockbuster movies are intended for actively watching.

But that said, people massively underestimate the background entertainment market. Spotify Reddit is that for me a lot of the time, as is youtube. Netflix and co less so, if I'm watching something I want to enjoy it, not have it as background / comofort stuff.
> Are people imagining that the police will say that you can go take the bike, but then turn around and arrest you for theft?

People are imagining the police will tell you that you can't steal it back, when legally you can.

After all, it's the police's job to keep the peace. And things are more peaceful if I'm not busting up thieves' hideouts all guns blazing like Rambo.
Supersnowflakemaker – Design Paper Snowflakes
What he’s doing is basically what every cloud provider does but for some reason he is demonized even more
Surprisingly slow speed of human thought calculated by Caltech
What do you think Private Investigators do in the US? They are basically professional stalkers and/or hackers.
For example, every apple variety out there. Every potato variety out there. Every garlic variety out there. Grape varietals. All gone because their clone lines expired. Not being able to propagate clone lines is why we can't have seedless oranges or watermelon or grapes.
Malaysia Renews Search for Vanished Flight MH370 a Decade On
Malaysia agrees with Ocean Infinity to resume the search for MH370, Bloomberg reports:

Title: Malaysia Renews Search for Vanished Flight MH370 a Decade On

Search to be conducted in a new area in southern Indian Ocean
It will be based on ‘no find, no fee’ principle, minister says

Malaysia is negotiating terms and conditions with Ocean Infinity after accepting its proposal to search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a decade after the aircraft disappeared, according to Transport Minister Anthony Loke.

"The marine exploration company’s search will be conducted in a new area estimated at 15,000 square kilometers (5,791.5 square miles) in the southern Indian Ocean, according to according to Loke. The endeavor will be based on the “no find, no fee” principle, he added."
"The data has been presented and our team has gone through it and they feel that it is credible and it is based on many other experts,” Loke said at a briefing in Putrajaya on Friday. “As far as the government is concerned, this is another attempt to find MH370.”

Ocean Infinity will be given an 18-month contract, and paid $70 million if they discover the wreckage, said Loke. The search will begin once the contract is signed, which the government aims to finalize as soon as possible. “The best time for them to search that area is between January and April,” Loke said.
Ocean Infinity had already sought to find MH370 in 2018, with the Malaysian government agreeing to pay the firm as much as $70 million if that operation was successful. There is more optimism this time around. The identified area is larger than what was previously searched, and that has boosted their confidence, Loke said. The government will also spell out what’s defined as a “wreckage” in the contract. “Under the terms, they can’t just find a piece and call it the whole plane,” he said. “This decision reflects the government’s commitment to continuing the search operation and providing closure for the families of MH370 passengers,” Loke said.
I was in Singapore in 2013 and there was a big sign on a street saying:

Crime Alert

THEFT OF BICYCLE

AT THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD

ON 20 MARCH 2013 @ 7 AM

Witnesses, please call Tanglin Police Division

(phone number redacted)
Just curious, what kind of software do you use, and / or, what is this category of music based on? Brian Eno and the ambient movement as a whole?

It sounds like the kinda thing that'll earn you a paycheck, but not fame. Or the kind of fame that can land you work from e.g. Spotify, not the kind of fame that'll fill up concert halls.

I think it's a sobering look into the music industry (not just your whole comment but the article + comments); the perception is that if you're not filling up concert halls then you don't matter, but the truth is that good or successful music does not necessitate the accompanying fame or "interesting" personality / personal branding.
IIRC they took VC money a year or so ago?

Interesting product and obviously awesome execution, as expected from tldraw… but yeah… seems like a very strange departure from what Steve has been building the past few years.
Have they solved their mapping problem? Because that, more so than the added Lidar hardware cost, seems like the lynchpin here: As soon as Tesla works, it works everywhere*.

Last I heard Waymo, they have to do every city, one at a time – and there are a lot of cities.
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 dev 7
> I thought L4 was Tesla Autopilot style, someone in the driving seat, hands on the wheel, ready to take over with half a second's notice, and taking liability for insurance purposes?

That's L2.
>All the professionals evangelising Linux in the 20th century have moved to Macs now.

>Your questions seem to me to be motivated by bias and conviction of faith, and it is misplaced, as any such fervent belief is.

Weird to accuse someone of conviction of faith while confidently claiming that all linux users switched to Mac and how Mac is the be-all end-all of computers. You're in a bubble if you think so, I can definitely tell you that.
Both terms are subjective and therefore don’t support your argument.
Long copyrights are a cancer in our society. Just notice the fear in his writing - "without hesitation". We're talking about a ~40 year piece of work here.

Patents last 20 years and people keep filing them in the millions. We remain an inventive species. Obviously the protection works. Why do we need to protect copyrights for near a century?
I was under the same impression, but the parent poster is right: the main difference between L4 and L5 is universal applicability. Waymo is L4 as it can drive without a driver, but only in certain areas.
You're confusing two different things and being obnoxious about it.
How accurate is this compared to simple text extraction? Can there be a hybrid text-vision mode for charts and graphs?
My sugestion is to change the title to "Show HN: SignWith: Get e-signatures & pay per document" or something like that and keep the explanation of the problem only in the description.

> That said, we see Google's entry in the signature space as validation.

I agree, it's a good new, but very scary.
It's not clear to me in the article: which version of MAPS.ME was forked? The latest version 1 from end of 2020?

Also, I didn't know MAPS.ME had been open source since 2015!
Don't Design Against Your Team
RCU, despite the name, is indeed a reclamation algorithm, but not a general one. I.e. you would use RCU (or some other deferred reclamation algorithm like hazard pointers) for specific data structures when you do not have generalized garbage collection.

A generalized RCU is just a tracing GC.
EU also has a lot of immigrants as well, and also an even bigger culture of education and intellectualism. Why then don't they have more successful tech companies?

I think you're omitting the giant impact of the FED, wall street, power of the USD world reserve currency and the VC investor incentives of risking billions on ideas that may or may not be profitable, with the low risk for investors if their investments don't pan out.

All stuff that doesn't exist outside the US.
tried all those. the fire phone 3d with the 4 ir cameras was the only decent implementation... sadly completely ruined by the dystopian amazon android running on it.
Deus Ex <3
> I love how forgiving the web is

I have completely opposite opinion. This "forgiveness" comes at a cost:

- unexpected behavior instead of an early crash

- hard to treat the platform seriously for mission critical tasks

- makes it common to have many ways to solve the same problem
> If self-driving cars are widely available

They won't be "widely available" because of the higher prices, just look at the EV market right now. You won't get a self-driving $2,000 clunker, and when you drive a $2,000 clunker you don't do it because you "like it", but because that's all that you can afford.
The Twelve-Factor App Methodology: A Guide for Modern Application Development
I think Mycroft was unfortunately just ahead of its time. STT was just becoming good enough but NLU wasn’t quite there yet. Add in you’re up against Apple Google and Amazon who were able to add integrations like music and subsidize the crap out of their products.

I just think this time around is different. Open Whisper gives them amazing STT and LLMs can far more easily be adapted for the NLU portion. The hardware is also dirt cheap which makes it better suited to a narrow use case.
indeed - scary validation

thanks for the suggestions - made the change in the title.
Stalking? WTF
Rivian Has Delivered over 20,000 Electric Vans to Amazon So Far
I run a WordPress agency and I'm absolutely horrified by all of this. It's not cutting through to our clients yet, but building on WordPress suddenly feels incredibly risky when one person can throw their toys out of the pram - the pineapple checkbox is just fucking ridiculous - and derail an entire ecosystem. I really wish there was some kind of mechanism to cut Matt entirely out of WordPress because he deserves to be completely ostracised.
And ("vanilla") tldraw supports subpixel font rendering, unlike most of their competition (for example excalidraw or Miro).
I understand that viewpoint from an insurance perspective, but not necessarily from my own safety perspective: I wonder how well Waymo would fare in circumstances I see as a driver. Eg. humans can control whether they drive under the influence or not (eg. if you don't take your car to a bar, you ain't coming back driving it).

But most notably, aggregated statistics like these focus on comparisons similar to comparing averages vs better statistical representations (like average vs median or p75 or... eg. it's possible for one driver to cause 20 collisions, and in a set of 10 drivers with no other collisions, we'd be at 2 collisions per driver instead of 0 really).

It's also not only about highway/city street miles, it's also about time of day: if Waymo is proportionally less on the streets and areas where there is more risky driving (eg. around bars and around midnight to 3am when there are also drunk pedestrians around) compared to human drivers, that would obviously skew the numbers in SDV's favour. Again, potentially they did since they acknowledge a separate study focusing on those, but later on they only talk about aggregated insurance claims.

They also acknowledge they are not accounting for accident severity, not even by using the dollar amount: while they had no fatalities, it's obviously important to weigh accidents by their severity.

With all this said, this does demonstrate current insurance liability of an average human driver compared to a Waymo SDV in Phoenix and SFO, but only once we have more comparable data should we make a bigger claim.
It's possible to agree with both stances that WPEngine gets a free ride on a bunch of volunteers and that Matt's behaviour is disgusting
In short, a cultural tradition. At length:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68zOvCLwcL8
I guess this isnt well known here but Matt (or his mods) kicked a trans woman off tumblr and then followed her across platforms to try and shut her up
Quite common for example for dried spices, which pre-irradiation used to have a risk of dangerous bacterial contamination if they were dried outside.
Young people don't vote. Boomers were still young and just past the "turn on, tune in, and drop out" hippie summer of love when their elders passed the War on Drugs legislation. Now that they're the ones voting and sitting in legislative chambers those laws are being rolled back.

One should regularly examine one's prejudices.