skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 2020 LG CX has a pause button on the remote, but my mum's 2021 C1 doesn't have it anymore. It's a lot worse to use because every time you pick up the remote the cursor appears on the screen and clicking the general purpose wheel will click whatever the cursor is pointing to, so sometimes you need to aim the remote(carefully!) to pause, instead of just having a button for it like on my remote.
Yeah, but then you get laid off from your cushy VP or Director role at 45 and realize you weren’t as smart as you thought you were when you’re searching for your next role that will pay you your previous salary. You’ll probably think back to this crossroad and regret it. Especially since robotics hasn’t had its ChatGPT moment just yet, but looks soon.
Government spending itself drives inflation. When the government wants to raise money it sells treasuries that are largely purchased by organizations whose money was not in regular circulation. The most obvious example of this is the Federal Reserve who is (or was - they planned to reduce treasury holdings and I have not checked the latest numbers) the largest "private" holder of US treasuries.

The government then takes this money and sends it into circulation, which increases inflation leading to a reduction in spending power of people. It's the same outcome as a tax increase (government has more, people have less), without the negative PR typically associated with raising taxes, particularly this sort of tax which tends to hurt low earners the most as their discretionary income is a far smaller percent of their total income than for high earners, and they also tend to have far less invested in inflation resistant vessels.
Analyzing Alphabet’s capital allocation decisions gives you all the evidence necessary.

It’s safe to assume that a company’s ownership takes the decisions that they believe will maximize the value of their company. Therefore, we can look at Alphabet’s capital allocation decisions, with respect to Waymo, to see what they think about Waymo’s opportunity.

In the past five years, Alphabet has spent >$100B to buyback their stock; retained ~100B in cash. In 2024, they issued their first dividend to investors and authorized up to $70B more in stock buybacks.

Over that same time period they’ve invested <$5B in Waymo, and committed to investing $5B more over the next few years (no timeline was given).

This tells us that Alphabet believes their money is better spent buying back their stock, paying back their investors, or sitting in the bank, when compared to investing more in Waymo.

Either they believe Waymo’s opportunity is too small (unlikely) to warrant further investment, or when adjusted for the remaining risk/uncertainty (research, technology, product, market, execution, etc) they feel the venture needs to be de-risked further before investing more.
> They probably didn't have the modern form we use where plugging in different values like 1 is a natural and obvious thing to do.

No, but the form they used was that they thought about lines in a plane that had no particular scale other than whatever you might assign to them. "Plugging in 1" for the sides of a right triangle in that model just means that you look at an isosceles right triangle. It will always be obvious.
Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice
I blocked all samsung ads in my router for my tv. Still got that samsungtv ehich always started playing. Also got rid of that by putting it behind a childs lock iirc.
Now, if for some reason my apple tv does not properly switch on, i do not get that samsungtv channel anymore, but a black screen instead.

It is terrible ux. After the samsung galaxy s i swore off samsung, but somehow got tricked by the looks of a frame.

Never again. And the tv can be thrown out of the window, but my better half still likes tv.
I've built several personal projects that I'm not really ready to share widely:

An AI tourguide which presents the nearest geotagged Wikipedia pages to the user's location and then produces an entertaining summary of your chosen topic on request. It's just a simple mashup of Wikipedia, MaxBox and OpenAI APIs.

A "leaving the house" dashboard for my wife. It's displayed on a tablet near her mirror, and shows weather and live public transport information to reduce the "I missed the bus and I didn't realize it's raining" disasters that get her day off to a bad start.

I've had a lot of fun making these with Gleam. It has the "if it compiles, it usually works" factor that people love about Rust, with none of the complicated borrow-checking rules. It's very simple - once you're up and running, there's not a lot more to learn about the language and you can just focus on modelling your problem.
That comment you refer to confused me, as I have a similar experience as OP (posted in a sibling comment).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_biology

> Mitochondria have been demonstrated to utilize quantum tunneling in their function as the powerhouse of eukaryotic cells.
> If a thing is in my pocket, there's an above zero probability of me picking it when I randomly take a thing out of my pocket.

This is only true if there are only a finite number of things in your pocket, though… I think an analogy is how we always have 1/n>0 for any finite (positive) number n—and yet, 1/infinity=0.

For something more precise, I think the corresponding Wikipedia page (FWIW) is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_never.
Indispensable is unpromotable. Train your replacement on your own terms before they make you.
What Age Should Kids Legally Be Allowed to Play Outside?
Bonus points for the name being chosen after a bottle of whisky.
The feature was not bad when it was first introduced, but I don't know how it fares against brigading and more targeted psyops by bigger actors.

Also are we absolutely sure that community notes have immunity from moderators and they're not manipulated in any way?

Community notes are indeed a good feature at first blush, but considering the current climate of "freedom of speech / post-truth / let's move fast and break society norms", it's more dangerous than a group of allegedly biased fact checkers.

It's a way of deregulating the social media platforms to level of utilities which carry whatever passes through them without prejudice, and shifting blame to the people for believing what they read.

The thing they're designing is very ripe for manipulating people en masse.
Hope is premised on the basis that nobody knows the future 100%.

Experts can give a mostly-frequentist analysis based on past medical cases.

The unknown part is whether those cases apply to yours.

And nobody knows.

All the so-called probability is meaningless. It matters not whether your chances of remission is "99%" or "1%". Those numbers are meaningless in a specific case under a specific situation.

I understand this is not the commonly understood notion of probability, but the common notion is simply wrong.

I'm not saying experts are wrong, I'm happy to assume that their analyses are quite correct when applied to a population. I'm just saying the common way of interpreting their statistics onto one specific case (the one you care about) is wrong, because you can't just plug the probability onto a single person/case and round it off to zero or one.
I’d recommend anyone to learn about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusako_Shigenobu

Hijacking a plane to North Korea is pretty fucking savage.
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The Homa network protocol
And before Battle Royale, there was Kaiji.

It's identical. People with debt invited to a game and a chance at loads of cash. People die in the game and some get enslaved. Rich people sit in another room and laugh while they watch people suffer. There's even a game where the "contestants" walk high up and fall to their deaths.

Then the main character gets called back into the game and you get a season 2.
I wonder how many of these pro-consumer things put in so close to inauguration will survive.
Oh, my, freaking, god. I knew Windows API provides that sort of best-fit conversions, but didn't realize that it was a default behavior for several ANSI functions in my native code page (949 [1])! At this point they should be just banned like gets.

[1] Yes, I know there is a UTF-8 code page (65001). That was really unusable for a long time and still is suffering compatibility issues to this day.
Just to back up your comment with a citation.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-state-of-paid-s...
HN, Help! Before I dive into this, does anyone know whether this affects the argument parsing in Cygwin, that prepares the arguments for a regular int main(int argc, char *argv)?

TXR Lisp uses wchar_t strings, and the "W" functions on Windows. So that's well and good. But it does start with a regular C main, relying on the Cygwin run-time for that.

If that's vulnerable, I will hack it to have its own argument parsing, using the wide char command line.

Maybe I should ask this on the Cygwin mailing list.
Personally I can't wait until tinder is hit by the government, absolutely ridiculous the sort of monopoly power their amalgamation of dating apps has.

People bitch and moan about negative externalities on society from the rise of the internet but for me it's hard to imagine few variables more imperative to a state's success over the longterm.
man, the python examples in there .. I am always low-grade irked by those! until now I wouldn't have been able to describe the problem. great piece.
You can even have accrued sick days, starting at 0. Catch covid week 3 at Amazon? You'll start having problems above and beyond the illness in a hurry.
I guess exactly the point is that concrete political positions don't matter. Musk is reinforcing populists parties, that will change their policies and are just against any constitutional democratic system. Also their populist positions are heavily manipulatable by social media in any direction of Musk's liking.
RISC-V is the new hotness but it has limited usefulness in general purpose osdev at the moment due to slower chips (for now) and the fact not a lot of ready-to-go boards use them. I definitely think that's changing and I plan to target RISC-V; I have just always had an x86 machine, and I have built some electronics that use aarch64, so I went with those to start.

Kernel is still in early stages but progress is steady - it's "quietly public". https://github.com/oro-os
https://www.perlentaucher.de/essay/die-folgen-der-rushdie-af...

At the root lies a fundamental anti democratic event that overruled a democratic society : the Fatwa.
This is such a cop out.

You're one of those people saying the system is set up a certain way, and it can't be changed. It was built by people, they can fix it and figure out how to make it work.

I don't give a fuck about your accounting system. These are real people that work for your company, not numbers in a computer. You can't figure out how to give them some paid time off during a huge rare disaster like this? Figure it out, and fuck this whole attitude.

Making people make up their work time during a disaster. Fuck me... seriously?
Yeah I don't understand why people make the connection between Squid Games and Battle Royale.

Hunger Games is the one closer to Battle Royale, while Squid Games is just Kaiji with better presentation.
>>Just render all the inputs at once, scaled to fit all of them on screen at the same time

That is not simple at all. In fact most TV multiplexers don't have the ability to obtain frames of input from more than one source at the same time.
That’s probably fine for someone who either doesn’t need to change settings, or has an “IT guy” who does everything for them. Unfortunately for me I’m the sort of person who likes tweaking and having a nice customized UI and whatnot. On windows you can change so much using GUI tools, or at most using the registry (which itself is a gui app). Linux, unfortunately not so much (many?) dice.

To be clear and give it credit, Linux does allow a decent bit of things through buttons. But hit the slightest snag and it’s CLI time.
I see not one mention of home flipping, unless somewhere in this thread is mention of big investors flipping homes by another name. Radio is inundated by ads offering to buy homes in a 10 minute process,(or some other short interval) sight unseen.

And as an average Joe, how else am I able to make $250,000 tax-free?

The "desirable" places to live are near the ocean, where there are mountain ranges, probably due to earthquake faults (how soon we forget) and dangerous winds, plus the dry summers.

Most of the Central Valley is cheap, for a reason/reasons.

The other side of the valley is both mountainous and wooded. But low density, because most of the jobs and culture are by the coast.
There’s also danganronpa, which I am always seeing fanart of
I'm not proposing hand-engineering anything, though. I'm proposing giving the AI tools, like a calculator API, a code interpreter, search, and perhaps a suite of narrow AIs that are superhuman in niche domains. The AI with tool use should outperform a competitor AI that doesn't have access to these tools, all else equal. The reason should be intuitive: the AI with tool use can dedicate more of its compute to the reasoning that is not addressed by the available tools. I don't think my views here are inconsistent with The Bitter Lesson.
But I'm sure running costs (aviation fuel), hanger costs, maintenance costs, cost to maintain pilot license are far more expensive, compared to driving a car.
Dupe (114 points, 10 days ago, 16 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42552887
Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024
What are the odds that this was tested with actual users?

I remember a time long ago, in a galaxy far far away where the user experience mattered more than whatever whims designers had.

My old car, for example, had big buttons that were meant to be usable with gloves. That was a godsend in the Swedish winter. It wasn't very pretty, but the memory of it makes me want to scream every time I have to use a touch interface in a car.
Around the world in 1,082 days
Rollable makes you think like toilet roll or something. It's looking more like "slid under battery and keyboard, bit of a shallow bend" to me.

Maybe somebody can do teardown and show us what it looks like packed away, and how the mechanism works?

It's a bit more "slightly bendy sliding door" to me at least.
How will it be any worse?

2021 article on how FB's response to CSAM were inadequate:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59063768

(2021) FB creates extremists, and that's OK with them?
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-knew-radical...

(2024) drug sales
https://nypost.com/2024/03/16/us-news/feds-investigating-met...

and on and on. It's hard to believe their mitigations are anything more than legal facades to protect them from maximum culpability.

The emperor may be choosing to wear no clothes, but it was a sheer nighty before.
U-haul rents pickup trucks. Sometimes vans or trucks are about the same, but lots easier to load and unload and not much bigger.

Home depot will rent you one per hour pretty easily to get stuff home, a fairly smooth process at the register.
Thanks for that.

I should've offered more explanation in my, regrettably, "snipe-ish" earlier post. It was wrong not to do so.

I was, and still am, frustrated that someone whose bio indicates a decade of consumer tech review experience doesn't understand modern OEM TV remote design isn't about being GOMS-efficient.

Honestly, "TV" remote GOMS usability probably peaked with the TiVO.

Modern OEM remotes attempt to derive slivers of software revenue from these commodity and retail loss-leading hardware products by explicitly injecting less-efficient workflows into common use cases.

This analysis was done (poorly) at the beginning of the article, but the the writer doesn't connect the obvious dots wrt to removal of the "Input" button.
Acrobat 9.5 works fine on Linux, if a little slow.

This Tetris game makes it crash though.
Say something positive about kagi, receive karma.

Say something negative about google, receive karma.

No place with this kind of system should be relied on for veracious claims.
Obviously, but people are also perfectly happy having a cloud connected camera directly in their living room so they can watch the dog or whatever when they aren't home. That's mad to me.
As shown here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVZ8NyV4pXU
To me, that is an absurd statement. Speaking as someone who has work in EU countries, the US, UK, and Australia, the EU was by far the best for “working conditions” (holiday, flexibility, benefits, overall working environment). I’ve never worked in Canada, I admit, but know people who have.
You're right, if the problems created by this are big enough, the team will fix them without any fanfare and whining.

However, in neither case this is a shortcoming of curl. They'd be responding to a complicated problem caused by the platform they're running on.
If you manage to get identically named branch and tag you're probably up for a lot of confusion if you're not familiar enough with checkout...
The Box by Marc Levinson is the incredible story of the dawn of containerized shipping.

It is a little shocking just how recently this happened (the very first experimental loads were in the 1950s), and that the standard of shipping before containers was for longshoremen to literally hand carry boxes of stuff onto ships and stuff them just anywhere. You would be stunned to realize just how new and unused the piers of San Francisco really are, because they were built with massive government subsidies at exactly the wrong time.

The book covers the courageous people involved, the political and economic impacts, and how the industry truly found its footing prioritizing absolutely reducing operational costs over all other concerns (like delivery speed).
Other research claims the opposite. I’m confused.
I had a friend who used to (still does) fly RC helicopters; that requires quite a bit of skill. Meanwhile, I think anybody can fly a DJI drone. I think that's what will transform "flying" when anybody, not just a highly skilled pilot, can "drive" a flying car (assuming it can be as safe as a normal car... which somehow I doubt)
> Your side projects with agents have impressed people in your org. Do those people impress you? My gut reaction is that if they are impressed by the side projects of a recent college grad, they may not be at the top of that field.

I generally agree with your post, but this nerd snipes me a bit. I'm regularly impressed by juniors. By what they achieve in relation to their experience. Sometimes they do stuff I genuinely couldn't do, and that's normal - skill isn't linear. Or they think of stuff I didn't come up with. But in most cases, I'm impressed by the talent and promise I see for them to become strong seniors in a few years. Especially when it comes to hiring, I tend to look more at a person's trajectory, than what they can do right now. But your question - "Do those people impress you?" - is certainly a great one to ask.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_emission_buses_in_London

London has had small numbers of hydrogen buses since 2004, although it's remained a small number since then. Currently 20 vs over 1400 BEVs.
> . But every so often the case plays one when I open the case. Any ideas what that one's meant to be?

The case is happy to be opened. /s
Check out Robert Altman’s Quintet (1979)
World breaches 1.5C global warming target for first time in 2024
> This attitude was so prevalent at the time, I sometimes wonder if the rise of noSQL was simply people sick of dealing with Oracle DBAs

That was definitely one part; another part was sharp corners in MySQL (at least as of 20 years ago; I would be surprised if many of them haven't been rounded off in the meantime). The last part was places with no DBA with developers unaware of how to handle schema migrations.
>> Remember than when the AIDS epidemic broke out. The doctors and labs didn’t help much. People took things in their own hands and tried stuff, and in the end, they found things that worked.

What??? It was the FDA that blocked access, not doctors and labs. It was the doctors and labs that were trying to find treatments. Peptide T and AZT had several studies going on.
Well, my TV is it's own remote: it's one of my tablets or my phone or my laptop connected to a Raspberry Pi 3B with a TV hat, connected to the antenna on the roof. It runs tvheadend and I run its client on my devices, TVH Client on Android and TVH Player on Linux and Windows. Those devices are smart and can also run Netflix, YouTube etc without the TV spying on me. Each app can do its own spying but at least for YouTube there are alternative players that are more well behaved.

If there is another person at home I can boot a second Raspberry connected to another cable from the antenna or connect one of those devices to the HDMI input of my TV that sits unused in a corner of my living room. It's not usual to watch something with other people nowadays.

With this arrangement everybody can watch TV anywhere in the house and carry it wherever they go without having to pause the stream.
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I agree that the probability of a desired outcome is valuable information. But to call being unaware of this information “false hope” is a blight on our language. Hope is hope. It’s quite proven that believing a certain outcome is likely increases the likelihood of that outcome.
Wonderful movie adaptation. Remains so watchable, 3 decades afterward.
Copy some*
You go to jail forever.
I thought Amazon was the shittiest company in tech. But even they give you 20 days PTO and 3 personal days a year and 10 sick days.

It look like that has just changed maybe last year? When I left in 2023 it was still 15 days
Similarly if you could let a person from five years ago have a spoken conversation with ChatGPT Advanced Voice mode or Gemini Live. For me five years ago, the only giveaways that the voice on the other end might not be human would have been its abilities to answer questions instantaneously about almost any subject and to speak many different languages.

The NotebookLM “podcasters” would have been equally convincing to me.
>PDFs should not be able to execute code

Postscript is code (it's a stack machine), and PDFs are Postscript
The truth is, majority of the population doesn't care. Telling people to value their privacy is exhausting because of a stupid argument of "I have nothing to hide". You deserve your data to be up for sale (let's also not forget data breaches) if you are too reckless to calculate the consequences of using these apps
Aegis for 2fa. Can backup to a file which can then be imported on the new phone.

Google's own backup service for normal backups. When I was rooted I used titanium backup but that was ages ago.

And then a lot of apps that have data that I care about have an export/import functionality, so I can just copy those over without much hassle.
Ask HN: Are There Project-Based DL Resources Similar to Replit's Course?
I tried LISP, Java, and Python textbooks; it was only until I stumbled across (via PG's reply on Twitter) and completed Replit's 100 Days of Code in Python that I finally found a course structure I love.

Now I want to build AI (DL is the most interesting domain to me) projects. I'm looking for resources that have a similar hands-on, project-based approach. Any recommendations?

Thank you!
I back up my photos to a Synology NAS via USB cable a little more frequently than quarterly. The NAS does off site backups to aws glacier (low price s3).

Anything interesting I download, pdfs etc periodically I'll backup to the NAS before I retire a phone. Anything that's not photos I just assume are destroyed when I upgrade and that's fine I don't keep anything else on my phone.

The NAS for backing up my desktop has been very freeing, dumping my Documents folder to the network and installing a fresh copy of Linux or whatever is very freeing.