skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And shifting traffic from personal cars to buses would make mobility much more efficient. Because in a bus, 30 people can cross a crossing so much faster than in a line of 30 individual cars. [...] I would expect travel to speed up when we move from cars to buses. Look at what cars do most of the time. Waiting at crossings, slowing down for crossings, accelerating after passing a crossing. I have not measured it yet, but I would expect buses that carry 20 passengers each to accelerate that by a factor of 10 or so.

Your math is leaving out a lot of other waiting periods which makes it seem like buses save time over cars. Your focus on crossing intersections is distorting the calculations.

Yes, 1 bus can move 30 passengers through a traffic light is faster than 30 individual cars but you have to offset that savings with extra wait times in other places:

+ add additional time to travel to the bus stop

+ add additional time to wait at the bus stop because buses don't come on demand but at spaced intervals. Maybe once an hour or half hour.

+ add additional time for bus to stop at other bus stops that are not relevant to the passenger, or changing buses,

+ add additional time to account for the bus taking a longer convoluted route that deviates from the shortest path between points A and B because they have to accommodate for the bus stops and also optimize the # of buses in the fleet vs passenger counts.

+ add time to travel from the final bus stop dropoff point to travel to the final destination without the bus. Each mile of walking takes about ~20 minutes. If the bus stop is too far away from the destination office or house, then I guess the passenger can take an Uber ride? Not only does that add more time, it negates a lot of benefits of using the bus. People could use the Uber for the entire trip -- or just use their personal car.

There are scenarios where the bus is undeniably faster. Inside dense cities where they have special lanes that can bypass some gridlock. The tour buses with stops that have frequent pickup intervals that do continuous loops around cities for tourists is another example that's faster than cars.
My favourite code based generative artists, in no particular order:

- William Mapan - https://x.com/williamapan/

- Harvey Rayner - https://rayner.art

- Emily Xie - https://emilyxie.art

- Matt DesLauriers - https://www.mattdesl.com

- Ben Kovach - https://bendotk.com

- Piter Pasma - https://x.com/piterpasma

- Zach Lieberman - https://x.com/zachlieberman

BSP, but you may also like my work:

Anthony Hiley-Mann - https://www.mountvitruvius.art / https://x.com/mountvitruvius
Succinct answer.
He was a US Soldier, to my understanding he'll be tried under the UCMJ and federal government. I'm not sure if location has to do anything with it, as he held a clearance and committed his alleged crimes on US or US-held soil.
By any chance, would it be possible to share the PDF? I haven't heard shipibo language in a long while, and am quite curious about it.
Yepp. Pretension is the norm.
Reimagining Fluid Typography
Sci-fi solutions are not solutions.
The places that Java is used are mostly higher level parts AFAIK. Java is more for the API of Android for app developers.
What you say is certainly possible but I have not seen anything from LLMs so far that make me think it is probable.

They just make too many mistakes and are not really thinking. I think they are a dead end. If the scenario you talk about happens it is because we discover some new architecture previously unthought of as well as advancement in processor efficiency and price.
No, running it two or three times for every page isn't prohibitive. In fact, one of the arguments for using modern general-purpose multimodal models for historical HTR is that it is cheaper and faster than Transkribus.

What you can do is for instance to ask one model for a transcription, and ask a second model to compare the transcription to the image and correct any errors it finds. You actually have a lot of budget to try things like these if the alternative is to fine-tune your own model.
Given a bunch of us live in the US a US mindset shouldn't be shocking. Whereas in other places other ground truths apply, in the US exactly zero major metropolitan areas are built around mass transit making it wildly impractical for the bulk of human traffic.
As a general rule, in transport fleets, unless the old thing is actually basically at the point where it needs to be scrapped right now, the new thing always has more downtime than the old thing, because the old thing has had its kinks ironed out, and the maintainers are used to maintaining it.

Of course, the trouble is, sometimes the new thing is just bad. A commuter/metro train system in my city operates mostly on 40 year old rolling stock. In 2000, some new trainsets were introduced, from two different manufacturers. One model never really worked properly, and was scrapped in 2008; the other survived. The whole thing is now due to be replaced with shiny new trains, starting this year... hopefully these ones work.
Wikifier: Semantic Annotation Service
Open Source isn't a crime: $1.25M donated to the legal defense of Alexey Pertsev
The British Raj never died, the babus just took it over and sat down in the same chairs and kept the institutions running the same way.
You're doing it wrong, you have to add "japan". Then you see OP is talking about TransPacific Westbound Rate Agreement. I think
I think the concern is that, once your population goes into freefall, it will head towards extinction rather than stabilize at some reasonable level. Others in this discussion have pointed out that happy, lazy, and comfortable people in a Western-like culture (or Japan) will have 1.2-1.4 kids per family. I can understand the argument for some amount of degrowth, but if people just keep having 1.2-1.4 kids forever then the species is headed towards extinction.

Japan is already increasing its immigration quotas to meet the demand for labor, and this will only get worse.
The Fibrovisor — 90,000 Hz Low Resolution Display
To people callously saying that immigration is the solution, I want to ask: don't you care at all if within a few generations your home country loses its culture and becomes inhabited by other people of a different ethnicity?
To me, what makes a country is the constitution of the local ethnicities. If I live in Germany, and nobody if having kids anymore and we compensate by importing Australians. It's not like I have something against Australians, but I did not choose to go live in Australia. I expect people to be German not Australian.
Maybe people who grew up in places like New York City cannot understand this, but not everywhere is like NYC.
That's only if you believe it was a "coup". Which it wasn't.
Question is, does it work the other way? Could someone get $5,000,000 to leave?
Buses are fantastic for the use case "we need to transport 100 people from suburbs to the office every day at 8AM", but they completely suck at use case "this one guy wants to come back home from a concert at 2AM". This means you need some personal vehicle anyway. And if you already have a car, why not use it for work commute.

Living in a bike-oriented city, I think e-bikes are the future. Almost as versatile as cars, with none of the downsides.
this is what life is, at its finest. Not staying by a pool, but weaving and meandering this way. Though they say taste can't be argued.
It has to be in writing, and given a time-frame, but the police are authorised to write such a note, as is the border force, the NCA and I think HMRC as well technically.

There are cases of people being prosecuted under it [1], [2], [3]

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/cage-muhammad-rabbani-ant...

[2] https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/drug-sus...

[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/facebook-passwor...
Why "nation state"? It isn't one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_state
> Gen-X was the first generation to grow up with home computers not Millennials.
> Everybody I knew growing up had an 8 bit computer of some sort.

My anecdotal experience is that while Gen X were the first generation who could have grown up with a home computer, it still wasn't that common until a fair bit later.

I'm smack bang in the middle of the Millennial generation, and we first got a home computer when I was 11, and at that time I'd say it was 50/50 whether someone's family had a home computer.
> a repeat of 1999 hype forming with lots of so-called "AI startups" getting trapped with over-valuation.

Oh yes: "Pre-product AI ‘company’ now valued at $30bn" - https://www.ft.com/content/70310b03-6bd6-46e2-b842-8db474ff0...
> Bikes have been around for a long time and are expected to technically stay the same in the foreseeable future.

Probably half the urban bikes I see now are (mostly cheap) electric ones. There's also a question of infrastructure; many cities have made great improvements in bike lanes over the last few decades.

> Electric buses are so much better than gasoline buses. Fewer vibrations, less noise.

Also faster takeoff, which is quite important (urban bus routes are typically very stop-start-y).

> And in a few years, buses will start to become autonomous.

I have doubts.

(Buses are very big and heavy, and other road users tend to behave badly around them; they're a near-worst-case for automation. You might get away with it on a mostly-segregated BRT line, but not a conventional bus route.)
Ask HN: Did you ever rewrite big pieces of code without management knowing?
Or, even against their will?

Curious if I'm the only one ...
My bad, I should have explained that I take detours on smaller / calmer roads, whenever possible, to avoid traffic as much as possible. Depending on your country, there might be a lot of alternate paths. For normal roads you can have shorter trip, but often I choose longer travel if it's on a bike lane near a river or a forest, so I enjoy even more calm. Otherwise you're right.
This depends on what you want to do. If you want to use OSM to find address, then it might be ok.

If you want to create directions based on live traffic or find POI/business on map or have street view of location/route, then good luck. Google map have many datasets that just not available or too expensive for competition:

- Street view
- User upload images of places
- Pedestrian and car traffic
- Public transport information and timetables
- POI and business database
- Consumer reviews
- High quality aerial images
Today, after some years of not using Laravel, i took a glance at their website, planing to eventually use Laravel for a small project.

I was completely shied away by their super marketing strategy and their hundreds of "super useful" packages with all their glorious names.
You forgot the /s next to Australians.
SDR-AI Launches the Ultimate AI-Driven Sales Automation Platform
The Future of Sales is Here – Introducing SDR-AI!

Sales teams have long struggled with high costs, multiple tools, and complex workflows just to set up meetings with potential clients. Companies need a CMO to manage operations, expensive CRM systems, campaign managers, content strategists, and APIs to warm up leads—all just to generate demand.

Not anymore. SDR-AI is a one-stop AI-powered platform that automates the entire SDR process, enabling a single person—typically a CRO or CMO—to drive demand and book meetings at scale.

No more expensive data lists
No need for multiple tools & integrations
No large teams required—just AI doing the heavy lifting

With SDR-AI, companies can now streamline outreach, engage prospects, and book meetings with ease, all in one platform.

Headquartered in Israel with an R&D center in India, SDR-AI is already supporting customers worldwide. The generative AI revolution has arrived—and it’s transforming sales forever.

Are you ready to revolutionize your sales process? Let's talk!

#SalesAutomation #SDRAI #AI #SalesTech #LeadGeneration #CMO #CRO #B2BSales #SaaS #AIForSales
FYI I'm not familiar with this nor could I find anything. If you could surface a reference I'd be interested in details.
For all intents and porpoises, it should be the video HomePod variant.

edit: … with a “Follow Me” FaceTime camera
The version I heard was that US and UK intelligence had a very good picture of what the upper echelons of Russian military command believed. And that the Russians themselves vastly overestimated their own capabilities.

This in turn colored the western estimates.
That's me.

I bought a box of dead Psion 5/5mx parts from ebay and used RasmusB's matrix-to-USB adaptor to hook up the tiny 53-key keyboard. I did a similar thing a few years ago with an old Psion MC400 laptop (Cherry 60 key) keyboard using a Teensy LC micro-controller

Most of the case parts in the box of bits from eBay have some sort of plastics failure - hinges being the main ones, a couple look like they've shattered/smashed from being dropped/crushed. Can't be long before a 3D-printed alloy version of these old cases appears surely...?
Gato AI Translations for Polylang: New Name
> cheap usable EV batteries

I know this is going to sound harsh, but I will personnally consider EV batteries "cheap" only when they pass the very scientific "my mom can use the EV exactly like shes uses her car, and she does not notice" test:

* on one charge, drive 10-50km daily for 350 days in a year

* on one charge, drive 1000km in one go for the holidays

* it must be less than 10kE at a local car dealership

* it can be plugged in your garage

* if you forgot to charge it, you can stop every 10km to recharge in 10m

I know: "it's harsh" ! "We should change our car usage" ! "My mom should live differently to accomodate the technology", etc... Go tell that to my mom.

Still, that's the goal post I've been having for 20y, and 10y ago people where writing headlines about "breakthroughs" that would make this possible any time now. And it's not. So I'm burnt out, kinda.
We are glamorizing everything else except having kids and raising a family, to the point where a DING couple with a garage full of Porsches and three yearly vacations is considered more successful than the working couple with four kids, which to me a ridiculous.
I don't think the natural instinct to reproduce has gone away. It is just being overwritten by other cultural values.
anyway, the new political administration is bound to solve the problem with costly eggs any minute now, and the soaring egg prices were without a doubt caused by the previous administration :-)
> A hosted version need not necessarily target maximum money making. You could run it as a nonprofit whose goal is to ensure that the open-source project works well and lives long.

That actually makes sense.

Also will apply to FOSS funds like - https://floss.fund
You look at birthrates in Africa and they're also falling fairly rapidly. The better run places are the larger the drop.
Why should it head towards extinction? The conditions that are today hindering the birth rates might look very different when we are only half today's numbers. So I wouldn't extrapolate based on this single trend.
how do you explain easter egg bunnies then??
Most of what one calls nepotism, or dynasty is simply people thinking about their grandchildren while making these decisions.

Why wouldn't you want to leave behind wealth for your kids? They are your kids.
When I was a kid, buses didn't have cameras (or at least most buses didn't; it started coming in in the early 90s) but even then they had these mirror periscope things so that the driver could see the upper deck and the area behind the stairs on the lower deck.
(2017)

The open nature of the environment led to data loss and corruption: crashes or forced restarts corrupted the Squeak image, faulty email synchronization scripts deleted server data, ad-hoc scripts sometimes created incomplete Person instances. The authors identified the need for transactions, backups, and crash recovery features. Storing all objects in memory limited scalability. And there is no mention of "performance" in the whole paper.
Nah, that is strictly the domain of political punditry.
That's painful to think about
waiting for Robot Devil.
My perspective is from living in a big city. Hamburg in Germany. Here it is like this:

add additional time to travel to the bus stop

That is more than offset by the time and stress to find a parking place when you use a private car.

add additional time to wait at the bus stop

I would guess the average wait time here is about 3 minutes.

additional time for bus to stop at other bus stops

True, but decreases the more buses there are. The more buses, the less stops every bus has to do. And also decreases the better the planning via internet becomes. We have buses here in Hamburg, called "Moia" by Volkswagen, where you announce your starting and destination positions in advance, and the bus only stops where it has to.

additional time to account for the bus taking a route
that deviates from shortest path

True, but decreases the more buses there are. And the better we plan the routes via the internet with people announcing their route upfront.
E.g. https://www.eodashboard.org/story?id=primary-productivity&pa...

For water to team with life, you need materials for building cells in the same place where the light is, and in most cases there is not enough iron on the surface
> I know that right-leaning fact-checkers might have a different interpretation of facts than left-leaning ones. That seems natural and okay.

Read this phrase again, and realize how extraordinary it is:

"... might have a different interpretation of facts..."

Can you provide an example of these facts that is ok to interpret differently?
Apparently invited speaker Babygravy9 is one of the “brightest minds in the world”. Who’d have thought?

https://x.com/Babygravy9/status/1892928467152322571
This is pure evil idea :)

I will implement this thing.
Consistent Hashing from Scratch
Yes, the clusterfuck that is CJK unification would not have been done if it was known that Unicode was going to go beyond 16-bit anyway.
I think I've heard of "old school roguelike" or "traditional roguelike" being used to refer to those games. (googling seems to show that the latter naming seems to be more common.)
This is why I take time out of my busy week to make sure I Google and plan at least one crime a week, just to keep the government on its toes in whatever discovery they’ll be forced to do.
I think there is a lot of room to leverage it, though resisting the temptation to have it do your work.

You can get it to provide feedback on code quality, suggest refractors and its reasoning (with the explanation rather than the full solution), basically treating it as an always available study group.

There is probably room for a course or book on a methodology that allows students to engage in this practice, or models with prompts that forbid straight completion and just provide help aimed at students.
No, I did not. My point holds just as well for any ethnicity. If I choose to live in Germany it is because I like being around Germans. Australia is not Germany. They behave and think very differently.
Then we wouldn't be able to produce that much. The next question will be then, why should we produce more and more? All these ideas are based on constant growth, even the natality discussion is about getting a birth rate bigger than some other country. But can we grow forever? Or maybe we are approaching an inflexion point, and we should (sooner or later) adapt the thinking instead of the birth rates? Even the retirement benefits are not a god-given but a strategic planning and like just any planning it can be adapted. And also should, I think.
Worse, not just the feds but the far more capricious state and local agencies.
They don't even implement that "standard" correctly according to their own documentation.
So they started with and improved upon the open source code but now it is only free open source if you don’t use it for business.

The FSF doesn’t want to support “Neo4j Graph“ either.

Is that the general idea?
A deadly piece of equipment monitoring a safety critical part of the control system (ie the driver) is totally normal and expected. That same piece of equipment surreptitiously phoning home to the manufacturer with the data is the part that isn't acceptable.

I want my car to monitor both me and the surroundings. I also want to be able to do things like speak in natural language to my phone, use my phone camera to OCR and translate documents from a foreign language, and all sorts of other 90s sci-fi stuff.

Unfortunately the future we were graced with is a dystopian reality where all of this is built on proprietary black boxes that spy on you 24/7. And somehow the government takes no issue with this state of affairs, instead constructing their own data feeds.
Is the majority* always right?

* of voting power
FAA close to canceling $2.4B Verizon contract in favor of Musk's Starlink
He had very strong skin, look at how tanned he is:
https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2NG12TA/irving-link-left-a-41-year...
I disagree, a lot. First of all, while biking may be a hobby to you, it’s the primary mode of transportation for at least a billion people. To claim that all these people are “infected” by the green crowd, whatever that means, is just silly.

Would you be happy to be associated with aristocracy, now that you drive a land rover, because many "old money" people drive those?

While in your first comment you gave lots of reason why you dont ride a bike, now youre saying you stopped mostly due to perception of others..thats to me just as silly as all the tesla drivers who are now oh so afraid to be associated to musk and going so far to putting stickers on their car claiming they didnt know musk is unhinged.
You can also use it for robustness. Looking at e.g. historical censuses, it's amazing how many ways people found to not follow the written instructions for filling them out. Often the information you want is still there, but woe to you if you look at the columns one by one and assume the information in them to be accurate and neatly within its bounding box.
How to use any NPM package with F#
Hey everyone! The company I work is releasing a blog post series to help people take up F# as their front end language. We just released this post, showing how you can use F# on the front end, without having to leave behind the JavaScript dependencies you know and love!
Interesting thought... But how will that work? The statement would be executed only it comes from that line?
Show HN: Portfolio of demos created with my homebrew 2D engine made to my son
Sure we do. pg & dang have said in the past that agreement/disagreement is a perfectly reasonable use of the up & downvote buttons.
Indeed until the Python community embraces state of the art JIT compilers on the reference implementation, this is definitely not the case.

Yes, even with PyPy's heroic efforts.
Why "Rankings" Don't Apply to AI Search
Rest in peace, I remember reading about a continuation of the series Buffy the vampire, it will not be the same now.
>This is a child-like representation of the conflict

No, it really is that simple. Similar to WWII. There are good and bad guys here.
https://trustforlondon.org.uk/data/housing-as-proportion-inc...

"Households living in poverty are spending a significantly larger proportion of their net income on housing costs than households not living in poverty. This is true both in London and in the rest of England.

London households in poverty are estimated, on average, to spend 54% of their total net income on housing costs. In comparison, those living in households which are not in poverty spend just 11% on average.

The trend is similar in the rest of England with households in poverty spending 32% of their income on housing compared to 8% for those not in poverty"

(a lot of that is numerator/denominator issues - of course if you have more income you're spending a lesser fraction on housing - but it does show just how dominant housing costs are in people's lives)