skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this seems insane to me, I don't understand how 4 executive teams in 6 years is a sign of anything but chaos and dysfunction
It's because they originally built their recommendation system to recommend friends and their content. Here, the social graph makes complete sense as the foundation for their simple search algorithm.
But as they expanded their recommendation capabilities, the features stuck around. It's the same reason why tech debt accumulates. Data sticks around in the same way code does. But data is even higher friction, since it's a superset of the code.
It seems like bad ROI unless you assume that it’s inevitable that society will collapse so hard that there’s not even a memory of “nuclear waste dangerous” even though we’re still making fun of Sumerian copper merchants thousands of years later.

If it’s merely possible but not inevitable, then some basic precautions make sense, but after that your effort is probably better expended in trying to avoid the collapse rather than trying to save some lives after it happens.
> I bet you don’t either.

Oh you haven’t been to the UK if you think that. :) They are absolutely everywhere. Traffic planers love them.
$ 5.99 / € 4.99 a month, includes 1 TB of storage and 1 TB of egress traffic.
Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader
Earlier this year, I made a web reader that only showed a list of post titles, author domains, and links. The reader only updated once per day, so I wouldn't feel compelled to keep checking for new posts.

I have been using the tool, which I called Artemis, for several months. Every morning, I looked forward to my "morning paper" of blogs I love reading.

There are no notifications, read vs. unread states, counts of posts, etc. Only the last seven days of posts are available. The colour scheme is changeable. Dark mode is supported. All popular feed formats are supported.

There is no reading interface to read blog posts; rather, the links take you to the authors' websites. Many of my favourite bloggers put a lot of effort into the design of their blogs and like to change things up; I wanted an experience that embraced that.

The reader is now available for anyone to use (with invite code "hn").
Everyone talks about TikTok having some valuable algorithm, but I keep running into the most dimwitted nonsense every time I try it.

Then again, perhaps this is the algorithm's way of scaring me away to save precious bandwidth, knowing full well that I will never buy products from online ads anyway?
No. That's not "the trick". As soon as it's in the cloud, it's over, it's gone, you've lost the game.
The mapping problem keeps getting brought up (often by Tesla enthusiasts).

It just doesn't seem like a huge problem? If you have cars equipped with high resolution Lidar and cameras, mapping new routes seems like it ought to scale as the fleet is expanded.

This problem seems embarrassingly parallel.
For a real life example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident It was finally clocked as harmful 15 days after they got a hold of it, plenty of time for lots of people to get a lethal dose. And these people probably had at least some pop culture knowledge of nuclear radiation, compared to a distant primitive civilization who would have nothing.
How would this work without manually editing the HTML file?
And at least there's this there now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cop_slide
80% of maximum fire retardants entering food or 8% of maximum fire retardants entering food are both "too much fire retardants entering food".

Seems like the conclusion very obviously still holds, so I'd agree with the study authors here, that error doesn't alter the conclusion.
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I wanted to joke that it's a solar sattelite but nope... Galactic center sattelite maybe?
I interpreted it precisely the opposite. PC mobos were like "Look, you can use the new things if you have any, but we're not gonna make you throw out your PS/2 peripherals that you know and love, or even buy adapters for them, because all that stuff, and the support circuitry for it on the mobo, all works just fine."

The all-in approach required a forklift upgrade and generated a ton of e-waste.
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> If people have been eating figs and drinking wine for thousands of years, then it's probably good and safe for you to do as well.

This is ignores the amounts consumed. Just because a thing is safe at N mg/day doesn't mean it is safe at all doses. The change circumstances of human existence make attempts to come up with simple, eternal rubrics at best a bit chancy, and at worst completely misleading.
The debugging and profiling features are definitely better than most, but other languages running on the JVM benefit from that too.

I think most of what people use Lombok for though are features that should be part of the core language by now, or would be better as library methods instead of annotations. Like generating constructors, equals, and hashCode methods - case classes and data classes in Scala and Kotlin respectively handled that within the language spec many years ago. I need to try Java’s new Records, perhaps they handle that stuff now. Lombok and friends also include features that change language semantics like @SneakyThrows.

Byte code injection sometimes also changes language semantics. Early in my career I spent a few hours perplexed by why my code was encountering null when the code path I was examining used only non-nullable primitives. Turned out injection and rewriting had turned my primitive long into a nullable Long. I don’t like not being able to understand my code from just reading the code. The magic means I have to be aware of spooky action at a distance mechanisms and review their documentation. I also need to open the debugger more regularly to inspect what’s actually happening at runtime instead of just mentally compiling my code.
Apple is to charging ports as Sony is to mass storage media.
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So instead of 80% toxic limit it’s „only“ 8%.

Sorry but I don’t want any toxic material in the tools I use for food.
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First ever fluoride-containing bioglass toothpaste wins FDA approval
It depends on your goal.

Music theory is a way to encode and share the practice of music. The practice is largely unconcerned with and unaware of math. Any mathematical treatment that gets too far from the practice won't help you understand music.

If you want to understand and practice music, it's safest to limit your exposure to the body of work we call theory to scales, chords, and the circle of fifths and carefully expand from there. Theory can be useful, but the practice of theory can become too about itself and lose sight of the music.

Being too about theory is how you get people saying, confidently, that songs which use that common four chord progression are boring/hackish even though all the examples are of famous and beloved songs.
Zephyr is a game changer if the drivers/board is available in the tree and you use the offered infrastructure.

That really puts the "rapid" rapid prototyping.
Looks like this is comparing to human drivers on the same miles and conditions:

only the claims associated with vehicles registered to addresses (i.e., where the insured resides) within Waymo's operating zip codes in San Francisco, the Phoenix metropolitan region, Los Angeles, and Austin were included
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The fact that it won't be asymmetric in public is the issue. Anyone can record you because you can't stop them from recording their daughter's birthday party in a public park. If you don't want to be in the frame, you have to leave.

Only you didn't realize that woman was recording her daughter when you walked out of the hotel in front of the park. Now the video is public on social media, and people can use the new fangled "Are We Dating the Same Guy/Gal" facial recognition models to basically run searches that would not have previously been possible on all public videos on a site. Search might even be geo-fenced to make it faster? Who knows? Point is, it allows them to find you coming out of that hotel in the background with your "friend" from work.

Keep in mind, it might not even stop there? Now when you approach a girl or guy you may be interested in, maybe in class, maybe at a party, whatever, his or her new fangled "smart glasses" may now bring up a huge red blinking "DIRT BAG" without you even knowing it.

Maybe ubiquitous tech like these body cams are necessary? I'm just asking everyone to think down the road a bit, (not even very far down the road honestly), and ask yourselves if maybe we can be a little more creative about solving some these problems by means other than ubiquitous gaze?
FWIW, I still remember recoiling in horror when I was asked whether I wanted to sync my Google Authenticator stuff.
Hi Steve! Super cool implementation.

Any chance you’ll make the source available?

There are about 50 extensions I’d make to it if I could! (And I’m sure I’m not alone.)
Not the person you are responding to, but I would have opposed it because I had already read 1984.

Also, they used to have holocaust survivors come talk at school, and part of those lectures were always about enabling technologies the germans had, but the US had banned (like national ID cards, and a law saying you had to carry and present ID).

We intentionally didn’t have that sort of surveillance in the US up until the early 2000’s, but now we do. They certainly haven’t made us safer. For one thing, we also have orders of magnitude more mass shooting events. For another, the police steal stuff from people all the time using civil forfeiture.

Also, lookup deputy gangs. They’ve been a real thing in the LAPD for 50 years.
One one hand, indeed, we're approximately at "one quarterth" of the century.

On the other a high-tech well-funded professional combined-arms military with total air supremacy in complete control of the perimeter is ought to be capable of being more careful. And maybe it is, just wasn't feelin' it.
Marketing wankery. It's _extremely_ valuable among a certain market, and when you look at the pricing here, oh yeah, that's their market.
Can but in this case it’s still unnecessarily toxic with 8% of the EPA limit
The active ingredient in 2FA as practically implemented for nearly everyone has never been the 2. It's mostly just not letting humans choose their entire password.
UI-generated configs are not stored in the database, they end up in a collection of JSON files in a .storage directory inside your config directory.
And there is no real API for you to interact with it. I would build my own config system if I could, but they don’t seem interested.
I don't know somewhere else but, in Italy, buying / getting stolen stuff from somebody else is a specific kind of crime as well. You need to give a solid explanation why you have a stolen good.
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As I read it, it felt more like an exploration from state space stand point (and not an example of model checking) which to me sounded quite reasonable. Unusual and intuitive I'd say.
My phones do Vulkan and Metal level graphics, which is about the same thing as DX 12, naturally not at RTX level.

When will EA prove folks like myself wrong?
That's the usage in JavaScript, but there has been no general shift. What I wrote is true in Java, Go, Rust, and Python, for example. In theoretical computer science, it is certainly the default assumption when the word "array" is used without qualification.

See also
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Data_Structures_and_Algorith...

Or see the use of arrays in "Introduction to Algorithms", one of the standard textbooks about algorithms and data structures, the current edition being from 2022. There is no notion of arrays being resizable there.
The point is that Taiwan is forced to maintain this position.
It's not really editorializing, since that means adding opinions. The HN title is currently a factual summary of the situation, without any particular flavoring. It's not "Matt throws a tantrum, takes toys and goes home" or anything like that.

In cases like this where the original post title is pretty useless, I'm in favor of expanding it a bit.
https://www.google.com/search?q=apps+automate+activism+onlin...

You an see there are a LOT for many different well funded groups.
As a reminder, Google Maps Street View was brought to us by Google. They might know a thing or two about mapping the drivable (and more!) world.
They fall from the sky. I don't buy them, I just hit up sondehub and see where there's a barely-used pair waiting for me to go clean up some litter.
So you are ok with getting a dosis of 8% of the EPA limit when alternatives with much less toxicity exist?
Are you cautioning against overdosing on figs?
We have a literal profession whose sole purpose is to carefully dig dirt over extended periods of time to excavate skeletons and attempt to understand their lives and deaths.

I don't think skeletons is a deterrent, quite the opposite.
Yes, config is a major part of it. But also a lack of good APIs, very poor dev documentation, not great logging. A general “take it or leave it” attitude, not interesting in enabling engineers to build.
Because risk is still high. It's not astronomically high, but it's still quite high.

And it's trivial to replace with materials that don't have that risk. For a couple bucks you can remove fire retardants from your food. Why wouldn't you?
I'll have you know I learned typing in WP (word perfect) in the late 90's still.

(I guess they preferred typing on DOS based systems even though windows 98 was mainstream by then since it meant you couldn't alt-tab and lose focus or cheat somehow? IDK know. Maybe it was a licensing issue)
Unions say that CPUC is biased towards Waymo:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/california-teamster...

This decision is silly. In previous decades, teenagers literally went hitchhiking.
What's the cheapest monthly fee I can get on an asset tracker with some confidence that it'll still be operating in 4 years when the batteries run out?
users create workflows from blocks of text, images, and instructions. When run, information flows from one component to the next, with the output of each generation serving as the input to the next, creating powerful processes that branch, loop, and iterate to produce outputs

It's Yahoo! Pipes for AI.
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If it weren't for the routine ex-Googler postmortem blog post shared on HN I'd think Google doesn't even have human employees.

The greatest mystery of my life is what is a "Google Product Expert" on their community forums whom I assume:

1. isn't an employee speaking as the company.

2. is someone given the title by the company.

3. spends a lot of time answering questions despite not being paid for it.

4. can contact Google employees somehow.

The only perks for this that Google lists is that you can join a secret club of Google Product Experts. It feels like gig economy applied to customer support.
Even worse is when they post a gif that moves at lightspeed with no controls whatsoever
You write Javascript to read and write to HTML, like, develop a single page app that treats HTML as the view and the database, and restores state on DOMContentLoad from the HTML. Super easy and maintainable for micro apps.

You can also use the contenteditable attribute and use no JS, so you basically have a notepad.
OP's username checks out.
On the most charitable level, the "huge math error" occurred in the calculation of the FDA's limits on exposure, so if the group feels that the FDA set its limits too high and the amount of chemicals being leached is worrying, then the math error really doesn't affect their conclusion at all.

But digging into the study, it becomes clear that the authors are really reaching in their methodology--subjecting utensils to rather implausible scenarios (when was the last time you microwaved your sushi tray?)--to try to get some samples that would exceed the limit. The hyperbolic media coverage of "ditch all your black plastics" isn't really sustained when the research finds that just a few specimens, when subjected to unusually high heat stresses, managed to just barely cross the incorrectly-calculated FDA threshold (itself likely set at a factor of a tenth to a hundredth of the lowest threshold observed to cause issues in previous studies!). That the authors aren't willing to disavow that media coverage is more telling then their unwillingness to adjust their conclusions in response to their math error.
One of the wild things about car energy use is that the waste heat alone from driving one car at 70 mph (at 25 mpg) is enough to heat 10 smallish houses on a freezing cold day (25k BTU/hr).

(Roughly 110 km/hr, 10 l/100km, and 7.5 kW)
Is 8% a small fraction? I don't think it is... sure it's not 80%, but it's definitely not 0.08% either.
> when the entire board is nothing but a vehicle

You can get the board design and order it manufactured yourself, or you can change it to suit a different processor that's more open.
There is least one other common "bulk music factory" business model like this. Bands like Two Steps from Hell cranked out a whole lot of simple and generic "epic music" that didn't need to be licensed per use, with the purpose being studios could use in trailers for action movies and video games before the real scores were finished.

Amusingly, even though the band existed for the purpose of supplying music for trailers, they eventually became popular enough on the Internet that fans convinced them to release a couple albums and even play live shows.
Unfortunately the beta is available just for enterprises. I'd love to run it for my house.
but why is the prescription for speakers to converge on a single homogenous blob of usage rather than encouraging listeners to acknowledge and understand the diversity of uses?
Musk thinks he’s turning the ship around when he’s actually just adding fuel to the flames. Maybe that is his intention after all.
Demo or not, it must have decent error handling and inform user about critical errors, without diving into devtools.
While the benchmarks have been reasonably done with out-the-box settings, I don’t think Ubuntu has the same level antimalware protection by default compared to Windows and is thus less hampered.

My Windows 11 with no 3rd party security software is considerably more zippy for me when I set up things like Dev Drive and get Windows Defender to largely stop scanning my working directories.

I wonder how much of a difference that would make to the benchmarks.
It's not killed IMHO, I actively use a fleet of such single HTML file apps that I save locally and even share with people. My initial comment has an example of a gallery, works wonderfully.
I don’t disagree with anything you said and I don’t think anything you said disagrees with my original comment :)

I actually said in my comment that exploring a new language is one area I find LLMs to be interesting.
Mainstream Is Now Fringe, and Fringe Is Mainstream
> In the absence of any strong evidence, a wise man would be well-served in treating the ingestion of a novel chemical as deadly.

Isn't this why we (used to?) feed things to mice to learn about them? To collect additional evidence of safety after basic things like knowing what general kinds of things interact with people's biology say it's probably safe?
It's not open unless you can make it from sand.

Actually, it's not open unless you can make it from hydrogen atoms.
There are plenty of smaller homes. You see them going up even in far-flung suburbs in my city. Stacked townhouses, whatever you want to call them. What's gone is a detached small house on a big plot of land. Well, not gone, but in decline, since often an existing 1000sqft house on a big plot is replaced by two 4000sqft type houses sitting four feet from each other (but still technically separate). My neighbourhood clocks in at 1700-ish sqft houses on 60x100 plots and those, for now, are worth keeping, with no intensification so far.

Obviously the balance between "cost of land" and "cost of construction" has shifted over the years, where the land cost now dominates.
> If boring-old-Youtube could promise shorts creators great exposure to an enthusiastic audience, it would win the platform regardless of its brand.

Just a guess, as someone who makes their living from YouTube: YouTube creators are driven to create content that earns them money. As compared to long-form content, YouTube shorts earn next-to-nothing, and it’s not clear that they drive significant new traffic to more-valuable content.

Most large creators on YouTube are focused on the bottom line, not exposure.
I bet it's less about lawsuits and more about reputational harm if every week there is a news story about a murder facilitated by an AirTag.
I think it's that WP Engine might arguably have been being a jerk, albeit in a way completely allowed by WordPress' licensing and directed entirely at extracting some benefit specifically from Automattic's work.

...whereas Matt's being a jerk in a way that involves collateral for the general community of people who use WordPress. So everyone is more concerned about him, because he's threatening a lot more people.
> A runtime is generally thought of as a platform on top of which your code runs on

That's not a well-defined thing.

> A language that has a runtime is hard to embed into something via just the C ABI, because a function call wouldn't use just the standard platform calling convention

But Java can be embedded in native code or embed native code. It has a specified FFI in both directions.

> Take for example cgo, for which you'd need to start the garbage collector first (among other things), hence why the cgo FFI is expensive.

Well, Java doesn't quite work like that, and its (new) FFI is free in most important cases (i.e. same as a non-inlined C-to-C call). Also, "starting the garbage collector" is not well-defined. What "starts" Rust's garbage collector?

I understand what you're trying to get at, but things aren't so simple. There are, indeed, differences especially around JIT vs AOT, but it's not as simple as saying "having a runtime" or not, nor is everything similar in all languages (Rust and C don't work the same vis-a-vis the C ABI, and Java, C#, and Go interop with native code are all quite different from each other).

> A language that has no runtime, or a minimal runtime, can be called via the C ABI directly.

A Java program can easily expose any method via the C ABI to be called directly if the process has been started from Java -- i.e. it's easy for Java code to give native code a function pointer to Java code. Going the other way, i.e. embedding Java in a C program, is somewhat more involved, but even C++'s interop with C, not to mention Rust or Zig, is not always straightforward. Like in Java, certain functions need to be marked as "C-interopable".
The actual company that owns the Seeburg catalog has their own site and stream as well: https://seeburg1000.com/
I think the airtag just wakes up less frequently on low power, so it has fewer opportunities to rotate the key.
Generating a SQLite word dictionary (with definitions) from WordNet using Python