skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So he think humans are intervening once every 1-2 miles to train the Waymo

Just to make sure we're applying our rubric fairly and universally: Has anyone else been in an Uber where you wished you were able to intervene in the driving a few times, or at least apply RLHF to the driver?

(In other words: Waymo may be imperfect to the point where corrections are sometimes warranted; that doesn't mean they're not already driving at a superhuman level, for most humans. Just because there is no way for remote advisors to provide better decisions for human drivers doesn't mean that human-driven cars would not benefit from that, if it were available.).
How is go-proxy implementing idle sleep? Swap and/or CGI can do similar things, but maybe go-proxy uses knowledge of QPS to know which services to make idle?
Quickwit Joins Datadog
They have released all the models for free so far unlike other companies like OpenAI who are most likely doing the same but keeping it private and proprietary.
Are you sure about fleas? I thought we know this does not happen with frogs as far as we can tell https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/pdf/lettvin.pdf
It's unlikely he changed, he just stepped away from business management and so doesn't need to don that cap any longer.

Personality compartmentalization is a fascinating thing.
NeoBackup on FDroid is what I used before grapheneOS (where I'm not rooted)
It hasn't been 100 years since it left the gold standard, and in the hundred years prior, the country was industrializing and electrifying and experiencing exponential population growth, and picking all the other low-hanging fruit of easy economic gains.

But yes, if we focus on a single cherry-picked difference between two dramatically different time periods, we can spin any spherical-cow narrative we want.
Yes, I know, and in fact I checked before posting.

I was using “I think” as a conversational affordance to give OP a less confrontational way in to disagreeing with me, if even in an at-will state, termination for cause is better for the employer for some reason (I couldn’t find one when searching, but it’s not an area I am knowledge about).
I find it interesting that another comment states that they love Kagi exactly because Kagi uses all their search terms as opposed to Google. Not doubting your experience here, but I wonder how those experiences can differ so much.
I completely agree. When I first heard about the changes, I honestly thought "I may not totally agree, but it sounds reasonable." But then I read the actual content rules, and I was completely gobsmacked. As you put it, it essentially forbids hate speech but explicitly and specifically has a carve out for gay and transgender people - the exact language is

> Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation

I.e. saying "Mormon people are totally insane" is forbidden speech, but saying "Gays are totally insane" is now legit.

On the upside, it convinced me to finally delete my FB account.
It's a bit sad that many modern databases were recently acquired. They had the potential to bring a lot of innovations.

1. https://www.warpstream.com/

2. https://www.orioledb.com/

3. https://quickwit.io/
Related:

Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit (228 points, 6 months ago, 195 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40935701

Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog (145 points, 1 year ago, 51 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38902042
"Did anyone other than toyota execs really believe hydrogen everstood a chance?"

I think BMW did. They had a good prototype in the early 2000s and really went to town with it. They marketed it heavily as a finished and usable product and I guess the thinking was that no one would notice the difference because the infrastructure wasn't there.

Now, the story goes that a sheik tried to test them and actually ordered a whole fleet, which BMW could not deliver. This dealt a heavy blow to BMW's hydrogen ambitions and the program only continued at a much much smaller scale.

Of course this is all anecdotal, and I do not know how much is really true, but it is the story I heard on multiple accounts when working close to these projects.
CheriBSD is definitely closer: https://www.cheribsd.org/. Or one of the other CHERI projects.
Whoever made the decision to make Intents work the way they do on Android made a really good choice. It's remarkable how much you can customize and replace different pieces of software on an android device.
But if the deactivated account was still there for you to try and access and for fb to reactivate it and then you come and try to impersonate that old account with a new one the system has good reasons not let you do that and not telling the potential identity thief about these reasons is the right way to do it.
Why connect it to the network or use the ui? Just get an AppleTV / Roku / Chromecast / Shield and use that. The spyware on your tv is optional.
Yes, I perhaps would have passed on the joke if OP hadn’t clarified the ending of the story.
Boyd gets far too much credit for the F-16. If he had his way it wouldn't work at night or honestly at all in the face of the current threat environment.
Yes, any sort of prostitution does.
I was positively surprised that the German passport app worked rooted without denylist.
As a pure numbers game, I’d find it more surprising if “broscience” never found a result:

- a lot of terminal patients are prone to experimenting

- their overall number probably eclipses the total number of trial patients in a given year by at least one order of magnitude and I’d believe two or three

- they don’t have institutional barriers to what they can try, eg, they’ll fund non-patentable treatments

- a lot of their approaches are taking things from published papers and trying to recreate similar effects (eg, calorie control [1])

That they’ve stumbled across at least one treatment that solved at least one case for at least one patient seems likely. Isolating that from incorrect null results is where the epistemological struggle is. And there’s a good chance that it won’t help you with your particular case.

But what’s the harm in trying? — you’re probably going to die anyway.

[1] - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8749320/
Oh, definitely, and that does resolve a large class of the problems that people have with H1-B visas! However, it's often a non-trivial choice to go that route so it excludes the majority of companies that still want access to talent. As well, even if a company does have such a footprint there are still compelling reasons they could make for wanting to bring that talent stateside long-term (i.e. a particular team is only located in the US).
Don't be sad, Google is planning to bring native Tetris support to Android.
What Would Be the Tech Due Diligence Approach of A16Z for AI?
In December 2024, three out of five A16Z investments were AI startups, with the remaining two focusing on a Gaming-focused Browser and a NeoBank. This strategic allocation not only underscores Andreessen Horowitz’s (A16Z) confidence in the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) but also highlights their commitment to diversifying their investment portfolio across high-growth and emerging sectors. However, while AI presents unparalleled opportunities, it also introduces a unique set of challenges and risks that surpass those typically associated with conventional Software as a Service (SaaS) ventures. Understanding and navigating these complexities requires a meticulous and comprehensive technical due diligence framework—one that VCs can adopt and adapt to ensure informed and strategic investment decisions.
I think you are right about the M&A influence, just looking at one random company sitting at 434th of the S&P500, it has been around for only 16 years and the abstract mentions 5 other companies that had major influence on its trajectory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyworks_Solutions

I think this is still on point with what the parent was alluding to: if your company lives and dies by M&As, do you have a clear vision of what the future will be in even a few years ? When two company merges, one of the vision mechanically dies after all.
I'm not rooted anymore, but my banking app worked fine when I was. Only the health insurance app (TK) had issues
"The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert Caro

This is an incredibly long biography of a man who figured out how to build an urban empire. While he wasn't an "entrepreneur" per se, he figured out how to generate huge amounts of revenue via tolls/bridges, how to manage and manipulate public policy, and how to attract the best urban planning talent.

... and you can then read about how it all fell apart.

Regardless of your opinion on Robert Moses / NYC, it's an incredibly fascinating read or (~90-hour) audio book.
How do you figure?

The only thing I see that's wrong about this is that I don't pay the EFF to tell private companies what to do. I pay them to stop the government from turning fascist.

They're not wrong about Facebook being a POS and these new policies making it moreso, though.
Whatever the one you want to do is, but you're not sure because of the other one...ignore the other one, do the one you want to do.
> That involves violating their privacy, which is essentially a form of doxxing (as far as dating online goes).

No buddy. Doxing is not identifying that you dated the same person, it's almost exclusively providing their address.

> In the United States, the act of publishing someone's personal information is not, in and of itself, illegal.

> However, the act can lose First Amendment protection if it's part of an effort to truly threaten or harm someone, if it intentionally inflicts emotional distress, or if it invades someone's privacy by revealing a highly offensive personal fact about that person without providing the public information about a matter of public concern.

Basically, if it's newsworthy it is protected as long as you're not inciting violence or publishing highly personal information that isn't relevant like their exact address.

The only reason anyone should hyperfocus on this issue is if you're someone with a very dark past and you're afraid it will catch up with you, or perhaps a nice person who is just too paranoid.

In reality, false allegations of rape are incredibly rare and even then a rape allegation is not actually going to exclude you from that whole pool of potential relationships. A lot of the people in those groups have bad reputations. Leaving multiple reports on ex's makes you look undiscerning and people do pay attention to these things.

There are two sides to every story and a lot of people want to hear both sides. I don't always agree with this outlook. But the reality is one bad review on a "are we dating the same guy" thread is not deathknell you seem to believe it is.

> Facebook tolerated these groups for a long time, despite their vicious and secretive attacks on people

I mean if those attacks are based in fact then.... I dk what you're saying. You think we should censor everyone so they can't say anything negative ever?

Should we also ban history books that don't paint us as saviors?

If your best friend hits you up in DMs and tells you the girl you just went out on a date beat him, are you gonna call the cops on him?
8 month old story, dupe (1484 points, 982 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40172033
People living on the margins is fundamentally a social problem, and we all know how amenable those are to technical solutions.

Let's say AV development stops tomorrow though. Is continuing to grind workers down under the boot of the gig economy really a preferred solution here or just a way to avoid the difficult political discussion we need to have either way?
It's a feature, not a bug. Apps like banks or Signal don't want to get backed up as it's a security risk if someone could just duplicate the authentication.
I really enjoyed American Prometheus. Might be a bit too focused on Oppenheimer for the original request, but it covers the Manhattan Project more broadly too.
The thing about Microsoft's BASIC suite was that it wasn't generally bad (it was their launching software, after all), it was just generic. So implementations for different platforms could vary in quality depending on necessary integrations.

Amiga BASIC, AppleSoft, and QBasic/QuickBasic were generally good. But the Macintosh version was a little less refined than MacBasic, by all accounts.
The deal-killer with hydrogen in flight is specific energy storage.

At the moment, we have no hydrogen fuel storage technology that can even get a single-digit-percentage of a hydrocarbon fuel storage specific energy density.

Additionally, none of the current hydrogen storage tech is flight-worthy from an aviation systems management (weight, balance, on-boarding, jettisoning) and safety perspective.
One extra tip is to use rrsync to restrict which folders your rsync client can read/write to: https://b.tuxes.uk/termux-rsync-photos.html

This helps mitigate ransomware, and escalation (e.g. reading previously backed up files) attacks.
I'm happy they listened to feedback and brought back the turn signal stalk.
Yeah this. Also leverage yourself a position where you are well known and indispensable.
> If you choose a random point on the line, the probability of choosing a rational is zero.

Wat?

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.

What are math people doing that's different?
You're free to disagree. But you're not free to force me or HN or anyone else to host your disagreement. To do so would be a violation of their free speech.
Long time Kagi subscriber here.

I think their focus should be to reduce resource usage on their side and make servers cheaper to run. Not other shenanigans like t-shirt or FastGPT or whatever. They can then offer a more attractive price for general public, who has never paid for search before and gets caught in the headlights when they hear you pay. Because right now, they don’t even have 40k users and if it goes on with this tempo, while also burning their resources for AI-things, I am afraid they will not stay much longer. Don‘t get me wrong, I am okay with the 10$ I pay, but, come on… who needs a t-shirt of a search engine and two different AI-thingy?!
I think that's a kind sentiment, but the counter arguments would be (1) they could very likely overdose and die, and (2) an addiction changes who you are, so it's not that "they" want it, it's the addiction that wants it. Your friend is the "they" before the addiction, and likely hates themselves after every time they fall off the wagon. To be clear we don't know the exact details, so we're speculating ; I could imagine some universe where it might make sense to let them, but in most cases I think what the real "they" would want is help breaking the addiction so they can spend their time doing the things that actually matter to them and give their life meaning.
This is precisely the approach that Terraform is taking with their fuels: https://www.terraformindustries.com/
They're essentially the same from what I heard. No one's expected to work and ppl can avoid using sick days by setting their status in that portal in advance
My impression is that bigger companies still come and go at a pace we're not used to.

It might be an extreme, but streaming services for instance are their own companies within a group, and outside of the biggest two or three ones they get merged/split way more than we'd expect.

I experienced the same in the restaurant field, where middle sized companies would get merged, become a business unit, then get spinned out again as independant entities, to get absorbed some other faceless blob. When enough money is involved these kind of operation are relatively fluid.
Original source: https://memgood.com/tacit-knowledge-videos/
The claim is that everyone shoud use "generative AI" for everything the whole time:

> And, she added, “when it comes to developer productivity, the survey found widespread adoption and significant time savings from the use of AI-powered coding tools.”
I find it weird that that list is titled "BASIC dialects" but then lists implementations. There are a couple dozen implementations of the Microsoft BASIC dialect (and another half dozen BASICA), for instance.
I just did tar / | netcat
And you don't have to pay for it? The lower tiers that Kagi offers doesn't have AI stuff it seems.
What processes in our cells make use of quantum mechanics? (I mean in some sense everything is quantum mechanics, but cells are quite big in a quantum mechanics sense. I’d imagine they are mostly classical).
Dupe, the original source: (874 points, 3 days ago, 323 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42617645
Thanks for that link! I've been following aviation fuels for some time, but had no idea this had ever been tried.
TILs Are Junk Food
Well, I am the GP, but knowing the person who got smashed up I can say that he had a sense of humor about it, great guy, real legend.

Speaking for myself it’s a pleasant trip down memory lane in spite of a pretty iffy situation: we had leaders who cared about people, leaders who got you out of bed in the morning with a passion, and HN was full of people like yourself who combined wit and charm with humanity and grace.
Neither of those things would be picked up by a camera taking a picture of the screen or printed document.
> albeit with 2x the RAM

- multiple cores

- all sorts of IP on the silicon

- usb 3

- gigabit Ethernet

- wifi

- Bluetooth

- camera connector

- dsi

- hell, even a power button

… etc etc. They’re not comparable.
Crazy. Looking forward shipping apps as .ttf instead of docker images.
> Do math people not feel the need to explain themselves when they state things that defy common sense everyone except math people agree upon? Is that part of thinking you're 'smart'?

It's a pretty basic thing covered in undergrad prob/stats classes. We don't re-explain it every time we use it for the same reason computer scientists don't re-explain the halting problem every time it comes up.
Responded to one of your sibling comments with more thoughts, but it could very well be what the patient themselves wanted -- help with breaking the addiction so they could instead spend their time doing things they care about.
The standard is written to accommodate obsolete tagged memory architectures that require special support. They aren't relevant today and data pointers are fungible regardless of where they originate.
The owner of a phone should be able to back up all of the data on it, regardless of the wishes of anyone who doesn't own said phone.
>TikTok’s LA employees have 10 paid sick/personal (PSSL) days per year in addition to 15 PTO (paid time off/vacation) days… as TikTok’s strict return-to-office policy requires employees to work from the office a minimum of three days per week. (The days of the week are chosen by the team and can’t be swapped for other days if needed.)

Is this amount of strictness normal for the large tech companies? I’ve only worked for one - Amazon - and my position was “field by design” and didn’t come under any RTO mandates until this year. I left in late 2023.
not looking at how bad the new LG remote is but my all time favorite remote is the Apple remote from like 2010ish.

This one : https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/949603040

White, plastic, 6 buttons (up, down, left, right, select, cancel). That's it. Worked great with Kodi on an Intel MacMini. Could easily do everything I needed to do.

Since then they first ruined it by changing it be a kind of metal that felt like chalk on my hands. It was horrible

https://cdsassets.apple.com/live/7WUAS350/images/apple-tv/ap...

Then they broken it completely by making it larger with a touch surface.

https://cdsassets.apple.com/live/7WUAS350/images/apple-tv/ap...

It was impossible to use because trying to select (clicking the touch surface) would always end up also adding left/right/up/down events so you'd always select something other than what you wanted to select. I have no idea how that POS ever made it out of user testing.

They made it slightly better but still broken by changing it back to a circle.

https://cdsassets.apple.com/live/7WUAS350/images/apple-tv/ap...

But the circle itself is still a touch surface and still always moves your selection as you try to select something. It's atrocious!

In any case, the 6 button remote back from the beginning was the best. I still use Kodi on an AppleTV now, but I use a separate remote and only use 6 buttons.

When something is playing, pressing the cetner button pauses, pressing again unpauses, pressing up/down adjusts the volume. Pressing back exits the movie, holding the center for 2 seconds brings up more detailed controls.

Kodi also has the best queing experience of any app. Pressing right skips forward 10 seconds, again within some threshhold, 30 second, then 1 min, 3 mins, then 10. I can get anywhere in a movie instantly.

Compare this to Netflix, or Apple TV+, or Crunchyroll, or Amazon, etc... They all suck. Generally left/right jumps +10 or +30 period. If you want to get to the end you're forced to hold right, wait for it to go into "fast forward mode", then press right for 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x, Then wait forever as it slowly goes through the movie. So bad.
Diet impacts survival rate, in conjunction with treatment. Please stop spreading misinformation.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8749320/
Why would they develop curl at all by your logic?

They fix bugs because they simply want their product to be better, if if I were to take a guess? Like, I'm sure curl's contributors worked on OS-specific problems before, and it wouldn't be the last.

> to fix obscure worstfit bugs.

Again my premise is "if there are actually common problems caused by it". This specific bug does sound like that, at least not for now.
You'd also have to ask when NULL came into common use in C (to which I do not know the answer). AFAIK NULL was not considered to be standard until C89. As far as I'm aware, all C compilers implement it as a #define in a standard header somewhere; it's not actually part of the core language itself.

I wonder who first added that macro? Was it there from the beginning?

Just random thoughts...
Apart from his fiction, I can recommend his "The Practice of Writing" from 1996. Not so much for practical writing advice, but because it is an entertaining and interesting read. Even decades after reading it I particularly remember the anecdotes about Graham Greene and how he likely was as much a spy as he was a writer.
A natural disaster is neither the employee's nor the employer's fault. If a business's operations are interrupted due to a natural disaster (or for any other reason) and it cannot productively use an employee, it is appropriate to furlough or lay off that employee until operations can resume. Impacted employees can seek temporary or permanent employment elsewhere and, if eligible, apply for unemployment insurance compensation. The one-week waiting period for unemployment insurance is waived as part of state of emergency declarations.

If an employer wants to pay employees to stay home and do nothing because no work is available, potentially to avoid losing valuable employees, they can do that, but they are not expected to. If working remotely is feasible, it can be mutually beneficial to both the employer and employee, but like everything employment-related, it's also voluntary on both sides of the deal.