skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fast Company, quoting Project 2025, really.

Anyhoo, PBS said of the un-avowed Project 2025...

>Project 2025 would not outright end the National Weather Service. It says the agency “should focus on its data-gathering services,” and “should fully commercialize its forecasting operations.”
Java. It's everywhere, and due to the JVM it won't fall victim of "being written for that exact hardware" problem, like previous generation stacks did. Also, very performant, safe, has an insanely large hiring pool (more than people living in my country), one of the biggest ecosystems (the other two in the top 3 are js and python, and I would argue that js is very frontend-oriented ecosystem and for backend tasks it's not as mature/stable, and python is large in the data science direction. For regular software, Java's may be the widest), very good tooling (observability, live debugging).

(Though curiously many of those systems still run in actual virtual machines emulating the whole mainframe and whatnot)
> Compositors under X11 were about adding drop shadows & translucency to windows, and occasionally inducing motion sickness.

Because compositors had graphic pipelines and could add those with OpenGL shaders. But, there's still much more to a compositor, namely they actually composite the windows/screen, rendering things into GL textures and intercepting the rendering pipeline in X, ensuring everything is synced to avoid tearing etc. This is their main purpose.

Wayland is just an API that lets clients talk to the compositor direct rather than having to go through the X server.
> need to change to a more-than-64-bit architecture

Perhaps we don't need a single flat address space with byte-addressable granularity at those sizes?

I wonder how an 8 bit byte, 48 bit word system would have fared. 2*32 is easy to exhaust in routine tasks; 2*48 not so much.
> Add on top of that neural atrophy, loss of oxygen, accumulation of senescent cells, poor clearance of waste products

I think the enjoyable thing about recreational drugs is the way they alter the normally-imperceptible boundaries between body/mind/Self. It provides an opportunity to understand what each of those things really are and what each contributes to my sense of being. I don't see these examples as all too different even if they are failure modes :)
I think people who (still) support him don't think it was a sieg heil, and just chalk it up as an awkward gesture.

Personally, I can't imagine why he would throw one, so a priori it seems like an unlikely gesture, though I admit it's strange what he does in the video I saw.

The most awkward part of it is the beginning of the gesture where he clutches his chest like he's having a heart attack. I've tried searching for what a sieg heil actually looks like and had a hard time finding videos on YouTube, but I don't think grabbing the chest is part of it, right? Can someone clarify what the gesture really is? The couple I saw from Hitler were just a swift raising of the hand from the waist.
Would you want for all cars to be made in China, the way all computers and smartphones are? I can't imagine any other outcome.
Great question!

The key advantage of self-play is that we don't actually have labels for the "right" probability to assign any given question, only binary outcomes - each event either happened (1.0) or did not happen (0.0).

Our thinking was that by generating multiple predictions and ranking them by proximity to the ground truth, self-play incentivizes each agent to produce more finely calibrated probabilities - or else the other agent might come just slightly closer to the actual outcome.
How the history of humans is written into the fabric of the Earth
Not sure either, but I imagine it’s hanging from his feet, wings folded for warmth.
> If they're not genuinely outraged at Musk's lack of accountability then I don't believe they're genuinely outraged at the Pentagon or Treasury either.

I'm skeptical of people who do this, too. I also bet that a lot of people want transparency until they find a flaw that serves them and further transparency would attract attention.

However, this skepticism is mis-placed and off-topic. Re-read the posted comment above. The comment wants more transparency and isn't debating weaponizing the data, which they acknowledge and park as a separate issue.
Plush buses are still buses - you will need to rent a car or take a ride at the end to get where you are going. A self-driving car that takes you from door to door? Yeah, that's completely different.

You live in Pittsburgh. You want to go to NYC for a show. You hop in the car, it takes you to the theater, you get out, it drives itself to a parking lot in NJ to wait. You call for it half an hour before you need it, it picks you up, and it drives you home. That's currently the province of the very rich or the very extravagant. A car that drives itself can do that every night.
Embedly: Engage your audience through rich media embeds
A free alternative to this would be nice.
See also: music. I often hear people express how much better music in the past was than the music of today usually to compare Led Zeppelin to Ice Spice[0] or whatever. They don't take into account the survivorship bias that the music we collectively remember (often through the aid of curators/arbiters) is going to be the stuff that was at the right intersection of good enough (or at least relevant enough to modern tastes) and popular enough to persist in the cultural record: if you want to understand what the vast majority of popular music was like "back when music was good," go to any crusty old record store and look at the shelf underneath the main shelf with all the $0.25 records: total garbage, typically bland and completely stultifying to any passion. Much like the worthless print matter that never survived, this is the stuff that never even made it onto any digital record anywhere and probably even had the master tapes wiped once it was on wax.

[0]Typically the "contemporary" example used is going to be something already a little aged like Nicki Minaj or even Britney Spears or any of the Pearlman-era boy bands who all peaked 25 years ago. Here I use someone actually recent to evade accusations that I am as out-of-touch as the target of criticism here.
The phrase "If the product is free, then you are the product" doesn't preclude a company from selling you something and also making you the product. They are capable of screwing you over twice.
Yeah I don't care
All American car companies would be
This entire thing is stupid; Trump for renaming it and everyone else for making a big deal about it.

I don't think the AP should be bared for not using the new name, however I also don't think it is a freedom of speech issue, if so they would sue.
The birds near me either become friends with it, or shit all over it.
I don't use Rust much but I think there's a lot going on in terms of UI:

- https://github.com/iced-rs/iced

- https://github.com/emilk/egui

- https://github.com/slint-ui/slint

- https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus

No idea if these are actually good or not, but it looks interesting.
Perhaps it’s only media driven and is purely my own hallucination… but there’s nothing more anxiety inducing than having prod run on flutter
Rodents chewing through cables is a problem even in latitudes closer to the equator, where it can get hot enough that they don't (need to) seek an engine for its warmth.
Have you _seen_ the tragedy that is occurring in primary and secondary education right now with students using LLMs for the bulk of their coursework? Humans, and most forms of life in general, are lazy. They take the lowest energy route to a solution that works, whether that solution is food, shelter, or the answer to a homework question or problem at work. To some degree, this is good: An experienced <animal/student/engineer> has well-defined mental pathways towards getting what they need in as little time/energy as possible. I myself have dozens of things that I don't remember offhand, but that I remember a particular google query will get me to what I need (chmod args being the one that comes to mind). This leaves mental resources available for more important or difficult-to-acquire knowledge, like the subtle nuances of a complex system or cat pictures.

The problem is a lack of balance, and in some instances skipping the entirety of Critical Reasoning. Why go through the effort of working your way through a problem when you would rather be doing <literally anything else> with your time. Iterate on this to the extreme, with what feels like a magic bullet that can solve anything, and your skills *will* atrophy.

Of course there are exceptions to this trend. Star pupils exist in any generation who will go out of their way to discover answers to questions they have, re-derive understanding of things just for the sake of it, and apply their passions towards solving problems they decide are worth solving. The issue is the _average_ person, given an _average_ (e.g. if in America, under-funded) education, with an _average_ mentor, will likely choose the path of least resistance.
> too heavy to move when the drives are in

Careful not to drop it.
That you're not thinking the implications of this through to their obvious conclusions demonstrates for all to see why statistics and logic skills are important. If you were to tell me that doctors are actually good at statistics then maybe we could have some sort of discussion - but you know that they are not.

I would hazard a guess that I've read far more books and scientific literature on hEDS than you have - and I have the statistical background to understand it. It's a condition that is important to me. I think you're the one who should get out of the lane - you clearly don't know what you're talking about. My reference to the error bars on published figures of propensity of hEDS over time should have been an obvious clue.
Surprise Magma Chamber Growing Under Mediterranean Volcano (2023)
Using AI to decode language from the brain
The twilight zone between control and chaos. I think pinball machines
and analogue modular synthesisers share a lot in common. Including
constant maintenance and skills with a soldering iron.
I’m always wondering why there are American Express people in gardmoen in Oslo. Like where in Europe can you spend Amex I guess someplace but definitely not Oslo. My Amex was mostly useless there which is why I eventually got rid of it when I lived there.
If the government is offering special access privileges, it is. Next up, reading exams for voter registration to boost literacy.
GeologyHub has been covering this in detail. His most recent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy8RZvE8kxI
I see it less as the fun of the journey, and more as the chance to become better, and make better tools for yourself going forwards. Advancing your position is more tempting than just doing the task.

It's not always apparent how the side-quests will help us. But man, I can think of a half-dozens of upsides of the work here. You now have a portal Perl you can use anywhere. You don't have to maintain & keep a fork of ExifTool up to date. You've learned a ton about wasm file system interactions which could be useful for any portable systems. There's so many incidentals, that people just don't see when they blaze through to "but it could be easier."
That’s how the free market works, right?
Isn't it supposed to be ANF ("A-normal form") rather than full CPS? That looks a bit closer to what you're talking about re: basic blocks w/ arguments.
The continents, I understand, are the "Americas" - use adopted to disambiguate, since the anglosphere soon started using 'America' for its colonies there.

Vespucci spoke of the "New World" (at the time, 1504, only South America), the first one to say "that's really not India" - so Martin Waldseemueller called the continent "America" (1507).

Edgar Allan Poe had some irritation about the matter:

> It is a thousand pities that the puny witticisms of a few professional objectors should have the power to prevent, even for a year, the adoption of a name for our country. At present we have, clearly, none. There should be no hesitation about “Appalachia”. In the first place, it is distinctive. “America” is not, and can never be made so. We may legislate as much as we please, and assume for our country whatever name we think right — but to use it will be no name, to any purpose for which a name is needed, unless we can take it away from the regions which employ it at present. South America is “America”, and will insist upon remaining so
Companies shouldn’t be taking handouts from the US government.

Let capitalism dictate where the cars get made. It is the American way.
My dad had a fall and suffered a pretty bad brain injury a few years ago. He has since fully recovered aside from more frequent short-term memory loss, but during his multi-week hospital stay, many aspects of his personality, maturity, and abilities changed, almost to the point of extreme dementia.

More relevant to this story, one incident I remember clearly was that he started talking about taking care of "him" and changing his diaper. Finally we got around to the fact that he was talking about his first nephew, who was born when my dad was quite young in the 1950s. My dad helped my aunt and grandma take care of him and it was his first exposure to caring for a child. All of those people are 30+ years out of existence now, so it was quite a flashback.
On Newegg the cheapest in stock is USD$370 as an example. This is consistent for Intel cards unfortunately.

The reviews will say "decent value at RRP" but Intel cards never ever sell anywhere near RRP meaning that when it comes down to it you're much better off not going Intel.

I feel like reviews should all acknowledge this fact by now. "Would be decent value at RRP but not recommended since Intel cards are always %50 over RRP".
It seems easy to worry about somewhat far-fetched scenarios like this when one is not paralyzed and thus not making a trade-off between risks and a fully paralyzed life.
> the product of an isolated mind

That deaf dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball
For what it's worth, the "air conditioner" is just a giant radiator. From the linked bilibili video it's clear (at 1:20 mark) that they've repurposed the radiator, fan, and case from an air conditioner but there is no compressor.
Maybe it has nothing to do with race.
A bit surprised to learn that their product is called "God's eyes", given that this is a Chinese company - I thought religion was frowned upon in Communist China. Am I missing something?
What next? Are they going to open source the self driving system? Commies.
With all due respect I question how much experience you actually have with Rust. It's nowhere close to being as difficult a language as you describe.

Rust got popular in part because it made systems programming easier, simpler and more fool-proof than the existing alternatives (C, C++) for those coming from languages like Python, Ruby and Java. As someone whose primary experience is in Python, I never found Rust abnormally difficult to pick up, whereas Haskell is (and remains) entirely alien to me. Sure, lifetimes can get messy, but it's much easier to have the compiler hit me on the head when I'm doing something dumb than to spend 2 days figuring out how to use Valgrind and the other half-dozen different static analyzers. I don't need to devote 100% of my mental effort to be able to write reliable code that's not going to blow up later in subtle ways.
ChatGPT's Political Views Are Shifting Right, a New Analysis Finds
It’s unlikely that sensory data contributes to cognitive ability in humans. People with sensory impairments, such as blind people, are not less cognitively capable than people without sensory impairments. Think of Helen Keller, who, despite taking in far less sensory information than the average person, was still more intelligent than average.
I don't mind having all my computers and smartphones made in China. And I didn't mind when both cars and electronics were made in Japan.
GigSlave Goes Public with $84B Valuation
>BYD has deployed three different versions of the “God’s Eye” ADAS across its line-up. All three offer automated parking and lane-keeping features, with the basic version – available on models costing up to 219,800 yuan ($30,078.69) – enabling autonomous driving on highways. The driver must keep their hands on the wheel and take control when necessary.

>Two higher-end versions will be installed on more expensive BYD-branded cars and its premium Denza and Yangwang brands. These will enable a car to drive autonomously — though also under human supervision — in more complex urban traffic.

The base version is self driving as in lane assist. It will not change lanes for you or 'self drive' to your destination.

I agree with BYD that these are great safety features and give them props for not gating safety behind a paywall.
Raw flour is generally not pasteurized, it's true, but most cookie dough mixes are.

The eggs are a far more likely vector for illness unless you're making the cookies yourself from scratch.
It's literally the government directly punishing a member of the press for their speech. What's the bar for a "free speech" issue in your mind?
Can I email you the paper?
With respect, I find your perspective hard to believe because I don't buy that you would not yourself call that very same number if something truly drastic happened to you. I have a difficult time believing any detractors of 911, for that matter, would truly actually abide by that standard.

Implying first responders are thugs irks me too, I'm unsure if you've considered the true proportion of cases they respond to that are time sensitive (during which, information parity is low). You could, of course, assert that this means they ought to not respond in the first place - but I think you would find there are a wide range of scenarios that strictly require a rapid and forceful response due to the potential for many victims to be involved (bolstered by gun ownership) with little time to actually validate the circumstances without incurring casualties.

Accidents are unacceptable but our world is complicated and sometimes requires we meet lack of information with immediate action. That is not to say accidents are permissible, but the men putting their lives in harms way to respond to these incidents don't actually know what's occurring either.

You seem to be fairly opinionated about what the system should or should not do, what have you personally done to help improve the conversion ratio between false calls and accidents? I understand this is theoretically ad hominem but I'm personally using it as a heuristic as to the likelihood that your perspective is a luxury belief. We agree that close calls should not be that close, but it's not very different from shaking your fist at the sky unless you actually happen to work in this space (in which case I'm actually very interested in hearing your thoughts). I don't mean to be rude, I'm just being blunt because I believe you're washing over some extremely difficult problems and have little to bring to the table - which is by definition unproductive.
it's amazing to me when people on hn (supposed champions of meritocracy and innovation and free markets etc) are so scared of actual free trade. like what are you scared of? equilibration in wages? the only reason to be scared of that is because you're afraid of your purchasing power going down but that means of course your current purchasing power comes at the expense of someone else's. and if you don't buy that argument - "it's not a zero-sum game you communist!" - then you have nothing to be scared of (because your purchasing power will remain high) and you should support truly free trade.
> License what? Every available copyrighted work? Even getting a tiny fraction is not practical.

They don't need every copyrighted work and getting a fraction is entirely practical. They would go to some large conglomerate like Getty Images or large publishers or social media whose terms give the site a license to what you post and then the middle men would get a vig and the original authors would get peanuts if anything at all.

But in aggregate it would price out the little guy from creating a competing model, because each creator getting $3 is nothing to the creator but is real money to a small entity when there are a billion creators.
All religions not approved by the party are frowned upon in China.

Also, when a religion refuses to gain approval, the party quite literally hard forks it. Catholic? No, you have the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association; which was only recently tentatively reconciled after about 60 years of schism (though it’s still a very uneasy peace).
It's not a very happy story.

My father passed away in 2023. Our last discussion
was in the parking lot of his apartment, discussing whether or not the milk in
my car might spoil if I leave it there while I come up to visit for a bit.
Later, he died walking his dog with my mom, though the ER "resuscitated" him.

What I feel the worst about is the time between his heart attack and death, 4 days later.

In that time the doctors reanimated him, like a zombie. They were able to
elicit physical reactions by yelling his name, and poking him, I guess to make
my mother feel better that he might still be there. Eventually, I noticed blood
in his urine bag, ad the nurse looked at me weird when I noticed, and that night he died from a massive aneurysm.

I missed his passing because my phone was on silent mode so I missed
everyone's calls. I was watching the finale of Succession, and pressed "volume up" until it was max, but some time in the last few years Android decided that action shouldn't increase ringer volume.

I am sad to have not been there. He now has a tree in my back
yard, and I think about him often. He was a gregarious, brave, unabashed person who found the most joy in being a playground monitor..
and I'm lucky to have known him. But there's never enough time or enough reasons to make time, and no closure to be had in his death.
> most cookie dough mixes are

At least where I live, only a minority are advertised as "ready to eat". It's more common to see the opposite, an explicit warning that it must be cooked.
Instead lets have them made in a place that has threatened to take over ~4 sovereign nations in the past three weeks? Yeah I'll take the 1/2 price cars thanks.
> Add the files: Create the files README.md, bionic_eye_controller.py, and .gitignore with the content provided above.

Why didn't you just do that instead of including the file contents as part of the readme?
Obviously there are people who don’t believe in god who use that word in phrases to convey a certain sense or meaning.
I wish America was a free market economy that embraced capitalism. The American consumer is getting screwed over and forced to pay more for an inferior product because the government wants to protect the local auto cartel.
How much in subsidies do fossil fuels receive?
Tesla is fucked.

On 12/17/24 they hit a 52 week high around $490 per share. Since then, in less than two months, they have lost one third of their value. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/

Musk has single-handedly alienated his core domestic buying demographic in favor of a group that, when polled, says they would not consider an EV at rates of around 70%.

EU markets in which TSLA was viable but contested are even worse.

This while Tesla's strongest international competitor is passing on units sold, executing better, and underpricing them.

As someone who has followed Tesla since the Model S, previously held Musk in some regard, and test drove a Model 3 I find this such an abject travesty of an outcome for what should have been a great US based global car maker and someone who had the potential to accomplish such good for the world with their incredible wealth and privilege.