skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Last mile is a nightmare with all public transit.

In rural areas, sure. In urban and dense suburban areas, in most developed countries there's probably a bus stop within easy walking distance.
> Most people I know are in fact rejecting it due to cost, and have instead settled for a Q3

I don't know who you know, but I'd be very surprised if most of them have either of those..
Jim Simons (1938-2024) [pdf]
Then you have to define what is meaning because it’s not just hormones
Would love to see distill come back
Yeah that works exactly as long as you don't 'abuse' the AI and simply cross the road whenever you like. And then we are back in the 'jaywalking' logic. Why should AI cars break for you if you are braking the law.

And eventually its either illegal or exactly like in the 30-40, some car people will start to build rails, so you can't cross the street whenever you want.

Actually building safe infrastructure where bikes are save, is the actual solution. And we don't need fancy AI cars to it either.
you had all the music leading up to the 1990s to listen to, was that not good enough?
Worldcoin will hopefully solve the identity problem on the internet.
It's not "the world would be nicer to live in if thing X was false".

It's "the world would cease to exist if thing X were true".
Cuts to black and white video of someone struggling, visibly depressed almost panicked about opening a bag of potato chips. Cut to color video of happy relaxed individual after applying entirely obvious sold as-new load balancing heuristic.
The technology doesn't yet exist to measure the facts that generate the feelings to determine whether the feelings do or don't differ from those facts.

Nobody even knows where, specifically, qualia exist in order to be able to direct technological advancement in that area.
>Okay, you might argue that in earlier decades programmers also tended to have an understanding of hardware circuit design and how a CPU and memory etc. works in terms of logical gates and clocks

My degree included this and I'm very glad it did.
The boardgamelab.app looks like a stealth, proprietary project; at least at the moment its T&C[1] says: "under this license you may not (...) use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial)".

Do you have any plans for the business model?

[1]: https://boardgamelab.app/terms-and-conditions
Flipboard's Surf app is a big new idea about the future of social
I think I’m real, but back in the day I got conflicting views with statements like “You’re just unreal, man!”

So, I guess I can say I’m real, but not confident given the data.
The problem with this article is that it doesn't present weak memory models[1], which are the reality on all multiprocessor/multicore systems these days. Thus is perpetuates misconceptions about concurrent programming. This is a poor example of model checking because it assumes sequential consistency and actually confuses people by reinforcing incorrect assumptions.

[1] With weak memory hardware, it is effectively impossible to write correct programs without using at least one of atomic read-modify-write or barriers, because both compilers and hardware can reorder both reads and writes, to a maddening degree.
What does it use LLMs for?
It's easier to budget for an insurance policy than an insurance claim.

Clearly Waymo can afford to self insure, but its difficult to accou t for the underspend and overspend depending on accident rate.

Insurance companies have the advantage of amortization over a much larger number of policies. Even insurance companies will have their own insurance.
a tad further: a central phone or tablet as a main board that you interact with via touch and where you can then transfer over to your handheld device over the network to manage your hand. I've not seen this yet, and it would be a pretty great experience I think. No clean up
Therein lies SIMDs advantage.

The instruction pointer is all synchronized, providing you with fewer states to reason about.

Then GPUs mess that up by letting us run blocks/thread groups independently, but now GPUs have highly efficient barrier instructions that line everyone back up.

It turns out that SIMDs innate assurances of instruction synchronization at the SIMD lane level is why warp based coding / wavefront coding is so efficient though, as none of those barriers are necessary anymore.
It depends how you define meaningful and meaningless which is highly subjective - so it’s neither naive nor idiotic to be able to have meaningless sex - maybe it’s just not something you feel
I think it depends on the topics.

If it comes close to political matters, you see a lot of canned answers and engagement (like waves of downvotes, which sometimes go deep into your comment history).

It's also common to see new accounts being deployed.

What I'm curious about is if there are bots deployed with the only purpose of disagreeing, simply to cause chaos and force users to expend resources trying to argue against the bot, and to make genuine engagements into a mess.

Fortunately, moderation is done by humans and they do a good job.
I wonder how that would work if they cannot prove my identity first by telling the representative a code sent to my phone number. I would expect the bank to tell the attacker to go into the local branch with identification.
I did. And today I wouldn‘t, but still, the silicone set is nicer than the hard plastic one. So I don‘t mind too much.
Just look at the probably hundreds or more comments here through the years of people bashing Google for having their authenticator app not sync TOTP secrets to the cloud. For the longest time it was pulling teeth to get the app to surrender the TOTP secrets saved inside.

Google listened.
Virginia to host first fusion power plant
It's not a very good umbrella term, the term itself implies a relationship structure where an individual is in multiple, involved intimate relationships. A couple in an open relationship where one or both partners engage in dalliances doesn't fall under that umbrella.
Clearly your training corpus was cut off some time in the 2010s. You're going to need a serious update. Regrettably the Internet stopped caring about text at that time so we're going to have to base64-encode all of TikTok and hope it makes more sense to you than to us.
From chip shop to pit stop–scientists make cooking oil biofuel more efficient
I've seen this engine before and thought it was really cool!

I've been playing around with writing my own turn-based game engine with TypeScript: https://github.com/snowbillr/turn-based-game-engine

It's a WIP still, but what's really been the struggle for me is coming up with a data structure and traversal algorithm for the turn order. I wanted that to be extremely configurable by whoever uses the library.

```

engine.defineFlow((f) => {

f.node({
actions: f.actions(WelcomeMessage),
})

f.node(
{
actions: f.actions(RoundStart),
cleanups: f.cleanups(RoundEnd, TestLog),
},
players.map(player => f.node({
playerId: player.id,
actions: f.actions(TurnStart),
cleanups: f.cleanups(TurnEnd),
})),
)

});

```

This example shows a TicTacToe game defined like this:

```

- welcome

- round

- player 1 turn

- player 2 turn

```

What I ended up with was essentially a tree that's traversed depth-first to enter each node, and then goes back up the same traversal path until a sibling node is found to dive into.

That lets the user define rounds/turns/phases as children of each other in whatever shape they want.

It's been a real fun project!
I really hate "traditional values" on account of their peddlers and the history books full of horrors they have enabled but when literally every successful society and major religion has some semblance of a 1:1 rule even if the exceptions and edge case handling are different you kinda gotta take notice.
> Not all catastrophes are immediate in nature

Of course, but if it's not immediate, why does it warrant forcing people into a Zoom meeting on a Saturday while you're at your kid's Tae Kwon Do competition? If it's not immediate, why do you have to "encourage the team to sacrifice the ‘L’ and ‘B’ from Work-Life-Balance"?

Either it's an immediate catastrophe which requires immediate action, or it can be handled by giving it absolute priority during regular business hours.
Since MacOS sequoia apparently. So 3 months since MacOS users have window management out of the box.

Better late than never I guess, but they sure took their sweet time to implement features standard on Windows for 15+ years and 20+ years on Linux.
"2019: Building our fourth senior executive team in six years to lead us to the next plateau of scale"

Valuable lessons from a competent person. Great article!
Having just rewatched the original Total Recall, I can only think of one perfect answer for this. Need to add a Johnny Cab guy to the driver seat and have his head look the direction he is going to go.
What would be the point though? To offer a slower imitation of streaming to people in remote areas? Most people are happy with regular internet streaming.

Dish did do something sort of similar years ago though, don’t know if they still do, but they did some thing where your DVR would automatically record all primetime shows, so in that way, as long as you were ok waiting for the next day, in a sense, “everything was on demand.” https://www.reddit.com/r/dishnetwork/s/e0wspFb7zq
I read another by him but didn’t realize that he has a series! These are great
You forgot the sarcasm font there....
EPA safe guidelines are changed all the time often by much more than 1 order of magnitude. E.G. lead has gone from .5ppm being safe (1995) to 20 ppb (2023).

If you adopted a life strategy of "only avoid things after scientists have conclusive evidence it's dangerous for you" then you'd have unnecessarily ingested hundreds of various poisons over the last 100 years.
Taking the text of what you said and figuring out what you want to do. It sends what you said plus a list of devices/states and a list of functions (to turn off/on, set temp, etc of devices). The LLM takes "Turn off basement lights" and turns that into "{function: "call_service", args: ['lights.on', 'entity-id-123']}" (<- Completely made up but it's something like that) that it passes back to HA along with what to say back to the user ("Lights turned off" or whatever) and HA will run the function and then do TTS to respond to you.
In the absence of any strong evidence, a wise man would be well-served in treating the ingestion of a novel chemical as deadly.

No, the wise man doesn't have strong evidence to the contrary. And no, he's not interested in finding out either. The consequences of ingesting a novel non-Lindy chemical is an unknown unknown that the wise man is not interested in discovering.

Of course, if the potential upsides are great enough, the risk of downsides might be worthwhile.

In the case of the chemical spatula, the downsides are uncertain, but there's the possibility of cancer. The upsides are...greater corporate profits?

The wise man is going to have to pass on that one.

Moderns would do well to try and be more like the wise man. Scientific studies are not the holy grail of knowledge. New studies are coming out all the time, both negating and reaffirming old conclusions. Is this schizophrenic flip-flopping not enough to convince the modern that Scientism isn't the end-all-be-all?

Unknown unknowns emerge at the tails of novel changes introduced to complex systems. Scientific studies are unable to account for these long-tail events. When it comes to your environment and your body, be more Lindy, and stop deferring to the myopicity of Scientism to guide you.

>Eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years.
Thanks, didn't know that she had a contact form. I just did.
Dragonicle – RPG jukebox that allows you to play, mix and control your sounds
In general yes but due to both taxes/regulations and real issues with the grid it is "easier" to just consume what your produce vs producing and selling to the grid. And since space is limited on most peoples property if you live an urban setting then roof might be the only place to put it. If you got plenty of space though roof is a worse place than the ground from almost every point of view.
The NVME controller on Apple Silicon is not PCI-based, so there are no pcie lanes going to the storage chips at all.
I don’t see how the “are evil” follows.

It’s like houses vs furniture. Houses don’t compose, shape what you put where in your house, but that doesn’t make them evil.

A framework is less flexible than a set of libraries, but also less hassle to use, if you want to build something that it’s made for.

A framework that’s flexible enough to build a wide palette of things can be quite useful.
I don't know. How could I check that?
I don't want to pick on you because I think you raise reasonable points, but I see frequently the notion that if you have a one state solution, the Arab majority would treat the Israel minority in the way that the Israelis have been treating the Arab. I think this is spurious, we have no indication that this would actually be the case. I believe that this isn't a religious conflict and that an the to apartheid and occupation could actually bring peace. But it bothers me that people see the Arab Palestinian population as one incapable of accepting peace and driven by revenge or antisemitism.
Any time Google Search is mentioned in a post, there appear comments about how great Yandex is, like clockwork.

Also a couple of weeks ago there was a very inorganically looking wave of bluesky related posts.
The article and this discussion uses a lot of "scare quotes". Those are approximations / models. The use of the world "Chapters" isn't meant to be taken literally, it is instead meant to convey that the temporal data is chunked, probably approximated by a small set of the brain, and cached. The fact that I'm using more precise language doesn't change the fact that those are also models.

What you describe (throwing leaves to the wind) is observations. If someone were to say "The leaves swirl in figure 8 in the autumn" that is a model (autumn->figure8) that can be tested and proven/disproven. It's not useful, but it's a model of the world (autumn causes figure 8 swirls).

You can disagree that it's useful, but sorry, it's a model of the brain that is testable and refineable - look for clusters of neurons (for some def of clustering) that is responsible for storing temporal events with a clear start/stop. I'm not an expert, but probably the methods (which cause some consternation for you perhaps?) are wishy washy b/c we don't have a great way of probing the brain - we can't just throw brain cells into the air and watch them make figure 8s. That complexity and noisy input signal does not change the fact that they are proposing a model and measuring a noisy output signal to see if the model is validated or not. (or maybe model came after, in this case, but it's still testable)
Kinda insane that this is necessary in some places. I am not super comfortable with these changes of having cameras everywhere, but I am sure some grocery store employees have to deal with a lot of “shady” customers.
What’s wrong with the used car market? Prices are basically a commodity. https://www.cargurus.com/ aggregates national prices and makes price discovery a breeze.
It is the users and not the company.

I haven't worked on sites as big as YouTube but on sites with 100,000 members who are very much engaged with one "game" you usually find they are mainly indifferent when you offer them another "game" to play.

I like YouTube for what it is. I have interacted very little with shorts but Google has scarily seen into my imagination. I don't want to go into that rabbit hole.
Reels isnt getting the organic growth data, tiktok has a data moat.
AfD is also Putin’s favorite and has many vocal Russian sympathizers in the party.

Musk’s reach across global media is quite astounding and combined with his astronomical wealth, it’s something we in Europe are growing extremely fearful of.

Europe is being sandwiched between two superpowers that by next year will be (for all intents and purposes) on the same side.

Europe will be forced to back down in Ukraine, and Europe will be heavily encouraged to start buying Russian gas again and to play nice with our Russian masters.

Notably Musk’s connections to both the Saudis and Russia are deeply suspect, and a push to favor fossil fuels again is contrary to his previous goals with Tesla. I have no idea as to what changed his mind.
A reset requires enough people to survive the event for humanity to bounce back, while also forgetting everything they know about science and technology.

Huge asteroid impact could kill us all, but it doesn’t seem obvious how it could cause a reset to zero.
Recently I probably did read 100 pages a day for a couple of days. It was a book for the next meeting of a neighborhood book club, sloppy and to be hurried through to get back to more interesting reading. So I am indifferent to the number.

I will, though, mention https://annekennedy.substack.com/p/a-harried-mothers-guide-t... .
Yes, I have done a lot of analysis on the structure of tiddlywiki and featherwiki to figure out the right way to do this in a more repeatable way. And that's the basis that I'm using for the projects I'm working on. I'm planning to write a blog post on this soon because I've learned a lot. So stay tuned.

For the benefit of the Hacker News audience that are curious, let me take a stab here.

The general strategy is to include JavaScript in the HTML document that knows how to look at various nodes in the DOM and create a new version of the document that uses an updated set of data.

Some sections of the data can be pulled verbatim. So, for example, if you have one giant script at the bottom of the doc, you can give it an ID of perhaps S, and then use that ID to retrieve the outer HTML of that script tag and insert it into the clone.

Other areas of the DOM need to be templated. So for example, I insert a script that is of type JSON, and that contains all of the data for the application. This can be pulled and stringified when creating the clone.

For a minority of attributes like the title and document settings like whether or not you're in light or dark mode, you want to avoid a flash of unstyled content and so you actually templatize those elements so they are written into the cloned copy with the updated data directly inline.

There's no real magic to it, but it can be a little bit tedious. One really interesting gotcha is that the script tag is parsed with higher precedence than quote tags. And so I have to break up all script tags that appear in any string that I'm manipulating so that the parser does not close out the script I'm writing.

I have a very minimal app that uses this technique called Dextral. I'll be happy to host it on my site and link it here.
This is disturbing. It's bad enough that one might have to stumble through the cone of some surveillance camera while living life, but even should you have to stay there for several minutes completing an errand, you will have another moment of privacy as soon as you walk away. Even while working a shift at Walmart such will be true. But now, for those who work there, they're in the fishbowl permanently.
There are a lot of interesting projects in that GitHub account, I didn't know ByteDance was such an open source hero!
tbh I also hate it :)
40 years ago that would have been true, but meaning has since shifted. Hence the last statement in my response, which you ignored.
No, we won't need horse drivers either.

But you might decide to build in enough additional taxes on the self-driving vehicles to cover at least the state's increased costs in terms of unemployment, medical, and services.

This way all those people riding the fancy new cars are the ones subsidizing the new industry's hidden costs instead of every tax payer.
>"Only the AfD can save Germany,"

Jesus Christ.
To avoid this very problem North Korea has no cars at all. Clever.
*concurrency
Maybe that’s how it started and maybe that’s a cause of the unwillingness, but how it’s going is that both sides see it as a failing to compromise, even when your opponent has a mandate.
They were referring to Dwingeloo [1] in the Netherlands, the telescope used in this article, not Arecibo. It stopped officially operating as a radio telescope in 2000, and has since been used for a variety of astronomy and amateur radio projects.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwingeloo_Radio_Observatory
>If so, they're silently voting, not engaged in the comments.

it's blatantly obvious with political submissions (which, imho, should be summarily banned from HN)

"Random nobody says X is le good" gets upvoted all the way to the frontpage within minutes with zero comments

"New research suggests X is not le good" gets [flagged] as soon as it gets traction.

where X is one of those many things that terminally online, emotionally unstable people feel strongly about.
Good point.

I have never been responsible for an accident and was never implied in a serious one with body injuries. Maybe I'm already avoiding >95% of the accidents by not driving drunk, not texting, paying attention, not speeding & basically following the rules?

People might go sovietic saying Waymo is better overall, so let's force it on everyone. Maybe we could achieve an even better result by being stricter on applying the rules and leveraging far less complicated technologies to prevent car from going over limit, preventing it to start when driver is drunk...
> 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.

Cyclist here.

Are you worried Waymos are going to blow through stop signs (or red lights) AND run you over?

Or are there other situations where you're making eye contact with drivers?
Where I am from marriage is forever and there is no way to dissolve it without burning in eternal fire - it’s very much about ownership.

Kudos on you to having a modern marriage but marriage in the past (and also now) also is about ownership.
It’s a literal contract between two people and you are legally obligated to take care of the other person.
I would rather call it misuse of GPS ;-)
> does anyone know of a way to revert authenticator to local-only?

To answer my own question: tap the profile pic (top right on Android) and choose the Use Without an Account option. Removes codes from cloud storage and any _other_ devices. Mentioned in TFA.
Mass suicide
Climate-warming gas leaks must be fixed by utilities in a new proposed rule
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11219

EDIT: Whoops I misread the abstract of the article, that doesn’t really give evidence towards my claim. However STDs did exist and I’m assuming people knew about them. Pregnancy itself would be a deterrent
> we literally don't have the language to figure out how other people perceive things.

you are right, talking about mental processes is difficult.
Nobody knows how exactly other person perceive things, there is no objective way to measure things out.
(Offtopic: describing smell is also difficult)

In this thread, we see that rudimentary language for it exists.

For example: lot of people use sentence like “to hear my own thoughts” and a lot of people understand that fine.
Tangentially related ...
I've heard that earthquakes can be detected, perhaps even prior to the event, by changes in the ionosphere.

But last I checked, the serious geologists I worked with had an almost religious aversion to "precursor signals". Has the state of the art changed there?
> Tokyo would have a tough time existing in a world without cars, trucks or roads. Its economy depends on that access.

I will agree with that statement but mostly because you added trucks in when the original complaint was about car dependency.
This is one of the stupidest things I've ever read.
I'm new to this and maybe a bit dense.

Is the magic here making a flow chart / workflow where sample data is generated to make it easier to visualize and you can update and see the results?