skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious how the math works out with respect to the delivery trucks. It seems like, ounce for ounce, it’s cheaper to move matter across the ground than to yeet it through the sky. Each delivery truck with 100 orders inside represents some number of passenger cars that are avoiding a trip to the store—and those fleets lend themselves well to electrification (cf. Rivian’s fleet for Prime [0])

But as you point out, there’s certainly a crossover point as the delivery cadence shortens, where you can’t collect 100 orders and aggregate them into a single route: if we’re really dispatching a whole vehicle per order per household, maybe drones are the realistic way. Why couldn’t they be drone bike-messengers or something, though?

[0] > In 2024, Amazon’s [electric] vans from Rivian delivered more than 1 billion packages to customers in the U.S. https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/everything-y... - boy that would be a lot of flying chainsaws.
You need to define "consciousness" first for the question to have any meaning, but all our definitions of consciousness seem to ultimately boil down to, "this thing that I'm experiencing".
It seems weird to me too. That's the kind of damage one could expect from the responsible of the school shooting itself. And even that seems about an order of magnitude higher than I would have expected, even including the psychological damage of the surviving victims and the community at large.

To me, it looks like some kind of a legal exploit to destroy Infowars and Alex Jones business in general, which I think is deserved (it is essentially a scam), but not very satisfying from a rule of law perspective.
If that's the case (pretty surprising, to be honest, as playing dumb would be the last defense in this case), case closed, indeed.
Oh wow, OK, I was wondering why that page was so short, thanks.
>People writing Rails apps are developing web-apps. Writing HTML is part of the skillset, and of all the things in a Rails app, really not the most difficult, boring or inefficient ones.

I don't think of Phlex as something that lets me get away from writing HTML. I see it as a tool that allows me to bring all my experience and skills of writing clean and well organized Ruby code to the view layer. Am I repeating this same bit of markup frequently? Let's extract that out into a method. Are these two pages basically the same, only differing in one section? Perhaps they should share a common base class.

When I first started using Phlex, this wasn't even on my radar. My thought was that it was just a HTML builder DSL in Ruby, so what? The "so what" didn't hit me until working with it for a while. All my views are now Ruby—not text files with bits of interpolated Ruby. And in the 15 years I've been writing Ruby, I've picked up some skills at keeping it maintainable and readable. Skills that I can now apply to the view layer in a way I never could before.

So all of that is to say: I think I understand the reservations you lay out, and I had some of them as well. But I think there is more under the surface if you ever have the opportunity to give it a chance.

And just real quick, regarding this:

> you're [...] truly in trouble when (not if) the gem gets abandoned.

Phlex is sometimes described, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, as a string concatenation toolkit. At its core, it just builds strings. It is unlikely to stop working unless Ruby has some major changes. It is possible that the phlex-rails integration could go stale after a few Rails releases, if it was not being maintained. As long as Rails can send a string response, Phlex will remain usable.
And also the shop receives the toothpaste as a carton of 48 or 96 tubes or whatever it is, with little space wasted.

With an individual delivery you get several times the volume of wasted space, plus at least one wasted layer of corrugated cardboard — which must then be taken away using a different truck.

However, the shop does use better climate control and lighting than the warehouse.
The zoning also is way too specific. Not far from my house is a busy intersection that has stuff like pawn shops and a run-down 7/11 at it. Very close to the intersection is a lot that's been empty for at least a decade now. A few years ago my wife and I thought we should look up what it costs and see if we can just pave it and put a food cart pot down. Turns out you can't do it. You must build a two-unit building with a specific number of rooms and square footage. WTF?! It's like a planned economy for housing. Needles to say, the lot is still empty because nobody wants to build a home like that in that location.
I wish the author of the site didn't see your comment. It took me a while to understand why I couldn't see it on any browser.
Like most folks I learned consumer finance the hard way. I learned for example, the best way to purchase a car is to arrange a loan with your own bank or credit union...email a bunch of car dealers until you get the price you want... when you come into the dealership to get your car just say "no" to everything and be prepared for the hard sell for hours until they agree to the deal they agreed to. My parent's way of dealing with car salesmen were a lot of shouting and anger.

I guess what I am saying is there is always a textbook/spreadsheet component of consumer finance. How else can you explain the effects of interest compounding on your credit card if you never pay off the balance? But you can also try to role place scenarios to show why you want to know this stuff. e.g., if you are low income but working there is a good chance that when you file your tax return you will get cash back due to the earned income tax credit.
This is pretty cool. Eventually plan to get into archiving/mirroring as well. Gotta clear some headspace first.
Looping Design Principle: Events over Callbacks
> That works out to 12 hours per day, Monday through Friday

Given that they reverted back to an in-office policy, and given the crazy housing prices, you probably have to factor in ~1h of commute in each direction.

So you basically leave at 7 am, work 8 am to 8 pm, come home at 9 pm, and then maybe say good night to your kids if you are lucky and then rinse and repeat until the weekend. Not sure if/how that's sustainable in terms of productivity.
> or at least acknowledges the need for, but just doesn't want in their back yard: power plants, halfway houses, low income housing, etc.

Or an airport, yes?
This government doesn't honor its commitments to friend, foes, or citizens
And here are three different generations of Soviet and Russian high officials directly refuting your narrative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149963
Hegseth orders pause in US cyber-offensive against Russia
Populating https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core/issues/new is more likely to get traction than a HN comment
I don't see it on Android Firefox or Android chrome. I see it on windows chrome.
I read the comments and see an overuse of "NIMBY".

It’s become a catch-all label that can oversimplify complex debates. People slap it on anyone opposing local projects, and it shuts down discussion implying selfishness without digging into the actual concerns.

What is wrong with residents concerned about noise, privacy, and safety? Those are real issues worth wrestling with, not just knee-jerk "not here" whining.

Maybe folks repeat it because it’s a quick way to sound clever online without saying much.
Interview with the CEO from a few months ago:

https://www.builderonline.com/building/dandelion-raised-40-m...

From this, it sounds like the economics are dependent on Inflation Reduction Act incentives which face an uncertain future at a minimum.
When I was tutoring algebra, I sometimes ran into students who could solve the problems in the book, but if I wrote a problem that looked a little different or that combined two of the concepts they'd supposedly learned, they would be lost. I gradually realized that they didn't understand the concepts at all, but had learned to follow patterns. ("When it's one fraction divided by another fraction, flip the second fraction over and multiply. Why? No idea, but I get an A.")

This feels like that: a "student" who can produce the right answers as long as you stick to a certain set of questions that he's already been trained on through repetition, but anything outside that set is hopeless, even if someone who understood that set could easily reason from it to the new question.
There's no tie to what those terms mean and the actual engineering of the chips.

The "2nm node" is a marketing term to indicate its placement relative to previous iterations and competitors.

The reality is that process nodes are complicated and capturing it with a single number would be a bad idea. You could go for raw transistor density which would be better but it misses a lot of the nuances in design.
They were too early to deploy the technology. LiDAR is common on smartphones now. On iPhones you can capture the back of the phone’s LiDaR data .
> 2) I see a lot of how programmers are treated through this lens. Companies seem extremely reluctant to give programmers upper-middle perks. I think #1 is part of why: managers really, really don't want to mint a new upper-middle cohort even as they're busy clearing the field for only themselves and finance bros, and programmers (lots of us, at least) have the income to be there, but sit in a weird half-in-half-out for the upper middle, because we've mostly been denied things like private offices and certain other liberties, and subjected to micromanagement and humiliating hazing-ritual hiring processes, even as incomes soar and the snacks are good or whatever.

Indeed, when you describe it, it does seem like the programmers are a medieval feudal peasant class that is let some freedom but actively kept down by the feudal aristocracy.

> (read broadly, I don't necessarily mean stuff like "hitting people")

I don't know of any period in history where the elite let go of their power and privilege without violence.
Man, this has been talked about for years now. I wish they'd just pull that trigger. A cell enabled macbook is the dream.
>Is TSMC reason enough to invade an entire country ?

This make it sounds like they will invade just because of TSMC, but it is more like using TSMC as an excuse if it really happen.

China wants Taiwan, TSMC or not.
Why does the moon looks soft/smooth in the videos? Is it because the material is soft? Or a scale thing. If you consider mountains on Earth they look jagged.
Yup, I definitely faced multiple loops or "blocked" scenarios when iterating on the prompt and tools.
The most obvious one is when the Agent generates a terminal command that requires some interactivity (ex: "confirm to ...").
This causes the Agent to build all files from scratch adding a 5x more steps than necessary.

I'm planning to try to make terminal STDIO work as a "human in the loop" pattern or even better as an "Agent in the loop" one.
>Needing aircraft for same-day delivery is a problem that suburban development patterns caused for themselves.

I live in the suburbs of an exurb. Many deliveries are same day. The rest are next day.

"Suburbs" aren't what this is about, and I doubt it has much to do with speed either. Amazon is trying to automate more of the "last mile" to reduce delivery costs.
It's already been fixed two years ago. Please check it here: https://github.com/zeromicro/go-zero/security/advisories/GHS...
The recurring theme of the Zanzibar approach to authorization is that it's prescriptive. The data format, logic language, and API are all tightly specified in order to define authorization in terms of relations between objects and users.

This approach makes a lot of sense at google, which has a famously monolithic culture and the ability to enforce top-down standards. But not so much at other companies.
Smart move reusing Dev Tools from Firefox. I always liked them better than ones in chromium browsers.
https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect2
LLMs are recurrent in the sense that you describe, though, since every token of output they produce is fed back to them as input. Indeed, that is why reasoning models are possible in the first place, and it's not clear to me why the chain-of-thought is not exactly that kind of "internal loop of information" that you mention.

> Meditation reveals a lot about consciousness. We choose to eliminate most thought, focusing instead on some simple experience like breathing, or a concept of "nothing".

The sensation of breathing still constitutes input. Nor is it a given that a thought is necessarily encodeable in words, so "thinking about concept of nothing" is still a thought, and there's some measurable electrochemical activity encoding that in the brain which encodes it. In a similar vein, LLMs deal with arbitrary tokens, which may or may not encode words - e.g. in multimodal LMs, input includes tokens encoding images directly without any words, and output can similarly be non-word tokens.
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Decentralization is not the answer. Centralization is the answer.
it was visually ground breaking though, and there was something strange because if you look at movies of that era, a lot of attempts at space action fantasy existed, but they all looked crudely crafted and not believable. there was an alignment of talent, from VFX to audio, to music that made the whole thing hold
From my personal experience, it's best to find a windows laptop that supports two m2 nvme slots. Get another cheap ssd and install linux exclusively on it. I have this setup on my laptop and didn't have to deal with wiping anything.
Also thanks to Ton Roosendaal. Creating the Blender Foundation and starting the "Free Blender"-campaign with the hopes of getting Blender to where it is now is something I was doubting if it would ever work out. And it did. Blender is one of those gems in the OSS ecosystem.
I still think was an extremely gross move for the legal system.

Are you seriously telling me that if a guy has marijuana in the park, doesn’t put up a defense, and doesn’t comply with court orders - the court will slap him with a $3 million fine, or $10 million fine, or $20 million fine, because the prosecutor asked?

Also, for Alex Jones, this is one of the best career moves in history. At most, he will only be allowed to pay 30% of his paycheck - but this singular move has done more for his narrative than spending 30% on advertising would have. I have to even admit, on this specific issue, he’s right - the legal system absolutely overreached.
bulk of it is at the service of the people in
charge and are net negatives to the bulk of
humanity

Do we underrate the impact of YouTube and LLM videos when it comes to mundane household know-how?

In the last year alone they have combined to help me with dozens upon dozens of upon dozens of things, from changing the air filter in my car to waterproofing a canopy. It has been an extremely challenging year for me for personal reasons and there's so much stuff that would have gone undone without this combo.

Asking ChatGPT why synthetic motor oil lasts longer than regular oil is perhaps not a "sexy" application of the technology, especially when concerned with weightier matters like whether or not LLMs will achieve AGI and/or replace software engineers. But this has indeed been life-enhancing.

Yes, LLMs need double-checking to ensure they're not hallucinating. And yes we've been able to use tech to "learn how to do things" ever since search engines were invented or perhaps even back to the days of newsgroups and BBSs. But it's so much more effective than its ever been IME.

(YouTube technically predates GMaps, but Google purchased YT a year after GMaps, and while Google's stewardship has not been perfect, their decision to allow literally unbounded growth has allowed so much niche information to take root there)

I have also personally found Apple's AirTags to be life-enhancing as fuck. They are, of course, enabled by the sort of always-connected networked life that brings a lot of other ills. But it is also invaluable to me from both a practical standpoint and a state-of-mind standpoint to not have to worry where my important shit is.
Yeah for a while I felt that a valid counter-argument was "modems are iterating faster than laptop cycles so you don't want to be stuck with an older modem" – but with 5G modems and all the architecture changing over to IP with LTE years ago, now you can probably have a C1 in a laptop for the next 5 years and be perfectly content without cell phone networks phasing those out.
My understanding is that Jones in effect siced his crazy fans on the victims of the school shooting by saying that they were crisis actors hired to advance some sort of conspiracy. That resulted in them being harassed. In effect, Jones is a stochastic terrorist.

I'm guessing that the amount was also high because it was felt that would be necessary to get him to stop making false statements. E.g. if the penalty was thousands of dollars and he was making millions of dollars then why would he stop?
IT engineers thought the same. Until finally automation is setting them right.
While it is measurable, it is so thin as to be irrelevant for most considerations including impact on photography.
ARM MacBooks before launch were talked about for 10 years too. Same with AVP. Cannibalizing the iPad and iPhone market is a big concern for Apple
I think this conversation has gotten a little exaggerated or maybe just over-specific to the bay area, the US is full of corner shops operated by famous brands like 7-11. They're usually combined with gas stations. The American phrase is "convenience store." You have to leave your suburban housing development to go to them, but if you live in the city they're probably within walking distance. They don't exist in the sphere of highly paid professionals, though, because they're eminently practical from a commercial standpoint and sell inexpensive junk food, novelty knives, figurines, cigarettes, and whatever you'd imagine being there just to move off the shelves. I've only seen useful goods in a handful of them, and it's always sold in tiny quantities (imagine buying a single roll of toilet paper) because their clientele might not have the capital to invest in bulk purchases.

If you want to put this in a sort of social context, it's that laborers actually have quite a bit of money in America because having a lot of cash relative to the price of goods is the one part of the promise that comes true, and as a result they're catered to by a lot of retail. Those inexpensive retail outlets are the subject of endless complaints from people who you could call the conscious middle class and make up most of what you would think of as cheap American consumerism. The quintessential duo of Walmart and McDonalds is exceeded by convenience stores along this dimension and for most HN users, they don't exist in that they never think about them, and post things like "I don't have a corner shop."
He's got morally questionable rich people in his corner and they either donated or lent the money to him.
You're not wrong, but it will take decades to fix American urban development, if ever at all. Today, Amazon could use the US postal service for last mile delivery, which delivers six days a week and has systems in place for large scale shippers to deliver parcels to the closest hub. The choose not to, in the same way they squeeze their fulfillment workers as hard as they can. They want to make a logistics robot that does not require humans.
> On the contrary, we have 86B neurons in the brain

The neurons (cells) in even a fruit flies brain are orders of magnitude more complex than the "neurons" (theoretical concept) in a neural net.

> the weighting of the connections is the important thing

In a neural net, sure.

In a biological brain, many more factors are important: The existence of a pathway. Antagonistic neurotransmitters. NT re-incorporation. NT-binding sensitivity. Excitation potential. Activity of Na/K channels. Moderating enzymes.

Even what we last ate or drank, how rested, old, hydrated, we are, when our lats physical activity took place, and all the interactions prior to an input influence how we analyse and integrate it.

> but we are definitely 'running' a model with many billions of parameters to produce our output.

No, we are very definitely not. Many of our mental activities have nothing to do with state prediction at all.

We integrate information.

We exist as a conscious agent in the world. We interact, and by doing so change our own internal state alongside the information we integrate. We are able to, from this, simulate our own actions and those of other agents, and model the world around us, and then model how an interaction with that world would change the model.

We are also able to model abstract concepts both in and outside the world.

We understand what concepts, memories, states, and information mean both as abstract concepts and concrete entities in the universe.

We communicate with other agents, simultaneously changing their states and updating our modeling of their internal state (theory of the mind, I know that you know that I know, ...)

We filter, block, change, and create information.

And of course we constantly learn and change the way we do ALL OF THIS, consciously and subconsciously.

> At the very least, we are a long way from knowing for certain that we don't work in this way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
Hey, Philip here, one of the co-founders of überdosis and Tiptap. I’ve got a lot of thoughts on this, so I’ll keep it short.

While there’s no right or wrong, my experience is that starting as a solo freelancer to cover your bills while building your product usually works better than running an agency. Even with just 3 or 4 people, you’ll spend a ton of time on sales and project management, which can quickly bury your own product work.

We nearly killed our company at überdosis when transitioning from an agency to a product company. On paper, funneling agency revenue into product development sounded perfect. In practice, juggling client deadlines (with real pressure) and the growing needs of Tiptap (maintenance, support, new features) was brutal.

Open source is also powerful. It helps you build a community and attract leads, but it demands a lot of maintenance and support. It’s worth it if you have a clear strategy.

My personal advice: keep your operation as lean as possible, handle a few selective freelance projects to stay afloat, and pour every remaining resource into your product. Once it gains enough traction, you can let go of client work without risking your financial stability. Good luck :-)
It's not about "mysitification", it's about laziness. I read security reviews and blog posts because it's easier than trying to follow CVEs and the like myself. And the way that works is that I trust the source to give me a reasonably unadulterated good faith summary of the facts on the ground.

We can't trust Kaspersky. They're compromised by a government that's known to lie and manipulate. Again, they may be telling the truth here (certainly doesn't seem controversial), but I'm going to wait for someone I trust to tell me that.
it's literally game changing for flight simulators, especially dogfight simulators. Being able to very easily swivel your head to keep a target in your sightline is amazing. I put a ton of hours into Elite Dangerous that I wouldn't have otherwise.
IANAL, but my understanding of Privacy Policies is a promise the site makes to you about how they will constrain their otherwise unconstrained behavior (err, subject to otherwise enacted laws). Thus, without any "pinky swear" documents from any website, a visitor should assume the worst intentions in all cases at all times. It doesn't mean the sites will behave badly, but it for sure means they reserve the right

ed: also, they must have heard your pleas because there's now one that does what I said: reserves all rights https://letmegptthatforyou.com/privacy#:~:text=No%20Privacy-...