skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is literally everyone where I live, and if you tried to wait before the intersection, people would be (rightly) incredibly angry at you. It just wouldn’t work. Nobody lingers in the intersection after oncoming traffic clears either.
Tesla cars are really cheaply built. Putting every control on a touchscreen is a cost-saving measure. At the same time, Teslas are actually quite expensive to buy.

I think the target audience for this combo are people who love their iPads. I don't love my iPad - I want actual stalks and dials and knobs and buttons in my car so Tesla is not the car for me. In addition to the political intrigues others have mentioned I suspect that Tesla may be reaching the limit of "people who love their iPads" here.
I looked at those as well, but the ICCU issues were enough to deter me. I do a fair amount of highway driving and the thought of suddenly dropping from highway speeds to 12 MPH was somewhat chilling.

Maybe they are not as common as it seems.
If you look around and see "government-mandated values enforcement ("DEI" in its public school curricula form)",
I already fear for your children,
whether you home school them or not.
Pedestrians rightfully expect safe walking and biking infrastructure.

Not everyone can drive. Most of those who can't drive also cannot afford a taxi or rideshare. Many of them also do not have friends or family who can get them where they need to go, and reliance on others is extremely demoralizing to independence.

That says nothing of the carbon cost in fuel, the microparticle cost in tire and brake dust, or other inflated pollutants.

The U.S.'s car-dominant infrastructure is a tragedy.
Google used to do this years ago but clawed it back around the time they started removing _all_ customizations under the premise of, "we know how to customize your results better than you do."

DuckDuckGo has site blocking. The problem is that there are so many SEO-optimized blogspam, referral link, and other "garbage" sites that you could spend a lifetime blocking each one individually before you get any actual work done. And it's only getting worse now that LLMs can generate a whole web site for you in a matter of minutes. I imagine a dedicated individual could provision several thousand websites/blogs per day, just chock full of ads and referral links.
Now this is solid, like an ai enhanced Evernote, but for organization, not generation/creation.
Those are all symptoms of ADHD. I am reluctant to point that out, but I see this a lot. I'd like to respond with a small footnote. Or wait until the comment drops below the fold. Alas, I cannot. :)
You should get a Ford or Volkswagen, they have a much better track record.
We are working on that! One of our most requested features
For pedestrians, roundabouts also eliminate left turn lanes, saving ~9' of stroad width to cross and mean only looking one, predictable, direction at a time.
According to Wikipedia, the original Apple II ROM had Integer BASIC. Apple licensed AppleSoft in response to customer demand for a floating point BASIC, and it became the in-ROM BASIC for the Apple IIc and IIe.
I think we just haven't built complex enough architectures to allow this. I have a few ideas boiling that would help facilitate long term context understanding and recall.
The cartographer who mapped Tolkien's Middle-Earth
Based on their actions since, this does not seem to be true.
I read thst San Francisco decided not to offer Algebra until high school so no one would feel left behind. One of those dystopian decisions that emerged from a well intentioned DEI initiative. A decision that defies logic and surprise didn't help. That would be enough of a red flag for me. https://priceonomics.com/why-did-san-francisco-schools-stop-...
Both may be legal, but the first one is unclear and is definitely unsafe. Safety requirements dictate a slightly different understanding of yellow light than is commonly used by drivers. For safety, yellow must mean "begin controlled deceleration immediately". The first driver had plenty of time on yellow to not be just barely entering the intersection on red. They clearly were not decelerating and had very likely sped up to beat the light. This unquestionably is a thing that drivers do all the time, and it's dangerous.
Yeah, what major piece of film of the last 20 years isn’t a carefully crafted business plan?

I think YouTube was so exciting initially because it was so authentic, and now it’s back to big studios.
You're not wrong on the issues of the EU.

But Musk is not helping or solving any of those problems.

Even conflating the two is idiotic. Sorry.
Maybe, but where's the proof that woke was more frequently and more severely enforced than other things?
I don’t understand people being fans of billionaire business people who profit from being revered. Specifically billionaires because they have so much funds to spin their own narrative.

I’ve seen some counter-propaganda about his engineering endeavors. I don’t know. Should I consume 50/50 pro/anti and make up my own mind? I don’t think that’s worth my time over a cult of personality. There are more important things to investigate.
How does ZFS compare to btrfs? I'm currently using btrfs for my home server, but I've had some strange troubles with it. I'm thinking about switching to ZFS, but I don't want to end up in the same situation.
Maybe this is a solution https://www.letta.com/
Yes. For example, if I advertised my software as open source and you sued for false advertising.

What do you think they don't rule on what things mean?
It's slightly up in Europe, your figures are for the EU which doesn't include strong EV markets the UK and Norway.
That's interesting, because I would consider Malört substantially more bracingly bitter than Cynar or Averna.
Haiku Activity and Contract Report, December 2024 (Ft. Iceweasel)
School is the industrialization of childhood.
Anecdotally, those around me that are homeschooling are doing it for one of two reasons:

1) Right-wing disgust over woke issues.

2) Fear of school shootings.

That's coming from a non-tech middle/lower-middle class setting. 20-30 years ago, when I was in school, most of the homeschoolers seemed (again anecdotally) to be based on religion or some other idiosyncratic reasoning rather than the reasons I cited above.
The 'Youtubers' I watch are those that do things that are also my hobbies or interests, for education/demonstration/inspiration.

Woodworking, machining, 3D printing, electronics, that sort of thing. A modern alternative to magazines basically, or to regional/cable/'public access' (I don't really know how it works, not sure if we ever had that sort of thing here) TV shows like the fictional 'Tool Time' show within the sitcom Home Improvement if you ever saw that.

I got started via 'how to do x' for a couple of DIY things, realised there's so much stuff like that, started watching for fun/interest (vs. actually having the job to do myself) and from there the more 'maker' (hate the term) side of doing it for a hobby to create a thing rather than household DIY/repair.
AFAIK newer ones come with the NACS charger, older ones you have to buy the adapter
Hehe, that would accidentally kill kubernetes as a service from giant PAAS to me ;)
Same for me. The new model Y is sweet, even keeps the indicator stalk, but I can't buy one and knowingly be supporting Musk.

Keeping my diesel for a bit longer and eventually buy an EV from any another brand. EU, Korea, China, plenty of choice now.
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What is responsible about sending the environment over in a proof of concept?
If you are stuck in the middle when turning crossing traffic needs to wait until you clear the intersection.
Alas, I was desperately keen to read transcripts of actual gameplay and all we got was user surveys?

Was there a structured combat system as sort of this or was it a talking only kind of thing? Who knows?

Trying to get empirical evidence that an LLM can even remotely plausibly work as a DM with no social aspect and (as far as I can tell, reading the paper) no programmed system of stats, rolls, combat etc. seems impressive.

…but was it that? Or just a DnD themed chatGPT conversation? Or a text adventure with an LLM describing each “room”?

Did the LLM actually have agency to make decisions and perform tasks, or was it not an agent at all, just a conversation?

Without a transcript, all you can really say for sure is yeah, I agree; more research is needed.
https://swov.nl/en/fact-sheet/principles-safe-road-network (national institute for road safety research)

https://crowplatform.com/product/design-manual-for-bicycle-t... (non-profit advisor to the ministry of transport)
> WordPress.org has to pay for their servers and WP Engine is a for-profit company that is using WordPress.org's services, free of charge, for their own gain. Mutual consideration here seems warranted.

WPEngine allege

> > "As part of the WordPress community, WPE has contributed tens of millions of dollars in ongoing support "

> going to get that pedantic

I didn't think i was being pedantic, sorry.

I don't understand the US Court system but from what i gather, at least Attempted Extortion and breaches of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act are crimes.

COMPLAINT FOR:

(1) Intentional Interference with Contractual
Relations;

(2) Intentional Interference with Prospective
Economic Relations;

(3) Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18
U.S.C. § 1030 et seq.;

(4) Attempted Extortion;

(5) Unfair Competition, Cal. Bus. Prof. Code
§ 17200, et seq.;

(6) Promissory Estoppel;

(7) Declaratory Judgment of Non-Infringement;

(8) Declaratory Judgment of Non-Dilution;

(9) Libel;

(10) Trade Libel; and

(11) Slander.
Yes! And its not like we don't care about that or don't want to follow all the rules, it's just really hard. Especially when you're not funded and a tiny team.
This one's not as bad but still amusing: I applied to a well-known telecom company that rhymes with "May Pee and Pee" and got to the final onsite interview, after which they ghosted me. Afterwards, I did the whole round of interviews at a different company, got hired, moved my family across the country, and got established in that new job. A few months later, I got an E-mail from the telecom company saying "We would like to interview you one last time. Please let us know when you are free." LOL
It’s still within contrast accessibility guidelines. I find it much more pleasing on the eyes than full black on white, which causes a lot of eyestrain on an emissive display like a monitor.
I'm in the same boat, but my domain is embedded programming.

I recently ran across advice here to just copy an existing successful idea and compete on e.g., price, rather than wasting time trying to come up with something novel / innovative. The argument is that if the idea is successful, then most of the market legwork has been done for you already.

I'm considering entertaining it. I last seriously did WWW-related work in 2001 or so, but Python with FastAPI + HTMX + Bulma CSS looks easy enough to spin-up on and maps pretty well to my now-ancient understanding of the web.
I live in a good area and have friends who work in a few different schools out here. Kids are throwing chairs at teachers. There are elementary school classrooms where ~1/4 students don't speak English. The reading/math skills are so dismal, any student who learns at home is bored as hell.

Private schools are outrageously expensive.

Homeschooling is becoming the pragmatic choice.
We think that Core will fill some of the use cases of previous OSS versions of InfluxDB, but not all. But we also expect that Core will be useful in many more places that previous OSS versions of InfluxDB were not.

So Core isn't intended to be a full historical TSDB. It's more like a data collector, processing engine, data shipper and recent data buffer/DB.

For a full historical TSDB, that's the product we sell. Keeping the two separate gives us the ability to have real open source vs. combining them and requiring a different license that lets us do freemium.

We'll likely have a freemium tier for the commercial product (Enterprise), but that's separate from the open source project.
Learning about systematic racism has been relabeled as Critical Race Theory, and suddenly teaching about the Tulsa Race Massacre or how banks used to discriminate against minorities for lending is considered extremism and "woke". Growing up, learning this stuff in history books, was just normal and made sense in order for us to avoid repeating these mistakes.
Homeschooling is seeing a surge in popularity, its not just tech people or high status people.

IME it's a lack of trust, sending your kids to be raised by strangers. I grew up in a small town and some of my teachers were basically neighbors.

For some reason outside my understanding, a lot of small towns have shuttered the school in walking distance and moved to "consolidated" schools which might serve a thousand students from 4 different towns it's placed somewhat equidistant to, ie, in the middle of nowhere
Unions make sense as a response from workers who feel exploited, but it's hard to see how they'd help with the kind of vague ennui the source article is describing. Unions can sometimes clarify job expectations, I suppose, but they can't force a company to develop a sense of purpose or make your manager care about you as a person.
https://imgur.com/a/ASSeakh
The main problem with doing this on chatgpt is that it is _relentlessly_ cheerful and it's almost impossible for it to produce any kind of interpersonal drama or threat or danger.

I tried to get it to run space opera about a diplomatic mission to a newly recontacted planet, full of Game of Thrones-style intrigue and plotting and scheming, and it was like playing with a cheerily optimistic new UN intern that completely believes in the power of compromise and diplomacy to solve all problems.

It was always like: "And so the two of you hashed out your differences over a glass of Dubranian Forblik, and peace reigned forever and ever after."

That's true of how it does role playing games and any kind of fiction at all -- it always wants to tie a neat bow on it at the end of every few paragraphs with a moral and everything.

You also have to ask it to use python to dice roll for anything you want to potentially fail on, or it will always make everything you do succeed wonderfully.

I will say this -- the advanced audio mode for D&D is amazing and it really does act out the characters and it will occasionally slip into different voices or even add sound effects, even though it's not "allowed" to. It will also sometimes copy your voice and act out what it thinks you should do instead of letting you talk, though.
Agreed that removing indicator stalks is asinine and should never have been permitted, but what on earth is the reason for signaling in a roundabout unless you are actively changing lanes in one?
So he is saying that people are running the red lights but were not running the stop signs. I would bet good money that the people willing to run the red lights would be more likely to run the stop signs than not, especially if they know there are stop signs on the other road.
Why are they focusing on making bio-oil to throw away instead of biochar that has many known non-fuel uses? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar#Applications
Depends how far you are away from the light when it turns.
Hyundai seems to be the top of the EV game currently. We went with an Ioniq 5. Unfortunately not a ton of EV sedan options out there, yet, but they're starting to come online, with stuff like the Ioniq 6.
What is the point of a fake recruiting agency? I've heard claim of this but I wonder what the endgame is. Is it to harvest contacts? Scam people? Waste people's time?
I find it's better for me to just miss the turn while I wait behind the line. I've seen too many instances where that doesn't work out the way it's intended to want to make it a habit for me anymore.
I love my iPad, but I’d still rather have knobs and buttons in my car, if I need to adjust it while driving I need to be able to find it without looking.
I created a vocabulary notebook app for almost all languages
I'm currently trying to learn several languages, which inspired me to create a vocabulary notebook app to record and collect words from different languages. I hope it will be useful for others as well.

The main unique features of the app are
1. Multiple input methods: you can add unfamiliar words through photos, sharing from news articles or manual input.
2. AI-powered enhancements: the app provides additional definitions for words, giving more examples and meanings, especially for less commonly studied languages.
3. Support for adding definitions in multiple languages for a single word, making it convenient for multilingual learners like me.
Yeah, completely automatic DMing just makes it like an open-ended computer game. On the other hand, the AI generated NPC responses are better than I could have come up with quickly, which makes me think co-DMing with an AI partner might be fun, particularly if they get better at remembering the details. That would let the human DM control the flow of the story without worrying that Thug #4 has taken 3hp of damage and is Dazzled. Of course, I most often use Foundry or Roll20 these days and they do a lot of that for you.

I wonder how well it could do for game summaries and recaps?
I'm wondering how you would know when the yellow light was going to come on.

Do you have some sort of countdown, or innate knowledge?

Because, otherwise do you just randomly stop at green lights guessing that a yellow light might come on? Or do you drive so slowly that you can stop in the width of the white line before a pedestrian crossing? Really, I'm trying to figure out how you don't ever enter just as a light turns yellow. Once you do, do you stop in the intersection or try to clear it before it turns red? I hope the latter.

For me yellow lights are a warning that a red light is coming. It should be long enough for cars to clear the intersection (in many states without gridlock rules even this is not the case for left hand turns).

My experience in Boston is that drivers try to beat the green light change and accelerate while it's still red.
I find this idea fascinating, and I think a lot of very interesting emergent behavior can be added to video games by having something like an LLM act as a Dungeon Master. Rather than having to pre-program a bunch of choices that the player is allowed to pick between, have an AI model evolve the story and just move the pieces on the story board based on what the player actually does. Story driven games these days are still very much railroaded. They are like interactive movies. The player has very limited agency. They can't really pick any choice which the designers haven't thought to implement upfront.

At the same time, I'm personally not super enthusiastic about using LLMs for a pen and paper game. Let's assume for a moment that we have free will, then the most fun aspect of PnP dungeon mastering is the fact that the DM has agency. It adds an (IMO) very fun mini-game where the players try to get away with as much shenanigans as they can, and the DMs job is to try to thwart these shenanigans in the most entertaining ways possible. The keyword is on "try" - the GM has to put entertaining obstacles in front of the players to keep the game fun, but ultimately the players should have an avenue of success. Even if they don't always succeed, they need to succeed enough and when they fail they need to feel that it was fair.

I feel that with an AI DM, this goes out the window. At least with the current crop of AI, I would never feel that I'm facing an agent with it's own free will, rather just a machine. As such, it cannot replace a human DM for the PnP purposes.
> Visionary accounts cost ~30 euro/month (assuming yearly subscription).

To be further pedantic, Visionary accounts are priced at ~30 euro/month. They likely cost Proton significantly less than that.

I would also suggest utilisation of those free accounts would be much lower than your estimates (though I appreciate I’m just countering your subjective opinion with one of my own).
Right, I just meant that as an "outsider" I admire this particular pillar of values that are espoused daily.
Freeze frame:

https://imgur.com/a/ASSeakh

> the stop lines are out of frame

Is the car in the freeze frame in a legal position given the red light? It would appear not.
> The job market has become more soul-crushing than ever.

I have often stated that the fact that I was basically evicted from the job market was one of the best things that ever happened to me (I didn't think so, at the time it was happening), and every time I read something like this, it reinforces that.

But I was one of the fairly rare (it seems) people that could afford to have that happen. My heart goes out to the folks that have to endure this stuff.

One of the saddest things, is that really good workers, that would take their job seriously, and be excellent employees, are being knocked out of the game, and the unproductive, disloyal, rapacious sharks that have learned to game the system, are taking all the fish food.
OrioleDB – building a modern cloud-native storage engine (for PostgreSQL)
This seems to be fueling everyone's confirmation bias. The Gallup poll[1] shows a four year decline since 2020. I mean, I don't know what would have happened in 2020 to precipitate this /s. Preceding that was a decade of improvement in employee engagement.

What's a little more interesting (and not at all mentioned in the Axios article) is there is a parallel increase in /active disengagement/. There's clearly a significant minority who consistently feels disconnected from work, but this is back on the rise.

We're also reading a summary of a summary of a Gallup poll by Jim Harter, Ph.D. who posted 5 months ago [2] that "U.S. Employee Engagement Inches Up Slightly After 11-Year Low" [3], so I'm not sure what conclusions to draw.

Unrelated to the links, DOE immediately stop as soon as they realize they're reading derivative commentary and immediately search for whatever source material is being referenced? Unless you have access to the survey information[4] everyone in this thread is already at least two degrees removed from the data (Jim Harter -> Emily Peck -> HN).

[1] https://www.gallup.com/workplace/654911/employee-engagement-...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jkharter_after-us-employee-en...

[3] https://www.gallup.com/workplace/647564/employee-engagement-...

[4] https://www.gallup.com/q12/
You're assuming that community driven FOSS development is sustainable, or can make a good long term project the size of a kernel, or a multimedia package, or anything larger than a tool or library.

In practice, I'm going to be honest and blunt, it's never worked.

3 decades of trying to replace Photoshop with GIMP (founded 1995)? Barely a dent.

3 decades of trying to unsettle Windows with the Linux desktop (KDE, 1998)? Barely a dent.

3 decades of trying to beat 3D packages with Blender (founded 1994)? Finally working now, ironically only because corporations started getting involved. Before then, Blender 2.7 was never going to do it.

2 decades of Apache trying to kill Skype with OpenMeetings (founded 2007)? Not even a dent.

2 decades of trying to kill proprietary CAD packages with FreeCAD (founded 2002)? Not even a dent.

4 decades of trying to beat Microsoft Office with what is now LibreOffice (roots in StarOffice, 1985, which was ironically a proprietary corporate project for the first decade and a half)? Barely a dent.

The Linux community, and FOSS communities, overestimate their strength without corporate interests. They have none.