skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending how bad the situation is, you could help your friendly neighbor. Some Marines say that Marine's best weapon is the Marine next to him. Do not discount the help you could get back from helping a fellow neighbor.
CSV tooling has had to invest enormous amounts of effort to make a fragile, under-specified format half-useful. I would call it ubiquitous, I would call the tooling that we’ve built around it “impressive” but I would by no means call any of it “good”.

I do not miss dealing with csv files in the slightest.
They're going wherever customers in SF are ordering them to go. I was in SF last month, and everywhere I went there Waymos skulking around, even on little side-streets on top of hills.
Instant coffee, cigarettes, water, muesli, protein powder, olive oil, supplements, medicine and you’re settled. All durable very long, easy to store, provide all necessary nutrition and you can trade cigarettes and coffee.
and the list of servers - https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers
> In safe driving failures are uncorrelated and safety procedures generalise. We do not yet know if, say, using self-driving very widely will lead to conditions in which "in a few incidents" more people are killed in those incidents than were ever hypothetically saved.

Can you provide some examples of what you mean?
Don't get me wrong, that problem of overcoming the old, slow, expensive way of doing things is huge for any established launch organization. I don't expect Airbus or ULA to get there. But it's not because the technology is so difficult that they can't do it. A new rocket company with a couple billion dollars in funding would have a good chance.
> Samsung alone is large enough to be able to maintain a fork of Android

Samsung would rather not - they threated this card once before, while negotiating for Google to get rid of Motorola, and their bluff got called. Samsung tried to prop up Tizen as an Android alternative. Samsung since closed a number of its US OS offices - why sacrifice profits when they have a cozy arrangement: Samsung & other Android partners will continue to get the Android previews before anyone else: open source or not.
I saw a transit enthusiast YouTube video try out Waymo from the most distant part of the network to fisherman’s wharf in SF and it cost twice as much as an Uber while having a longer wait time for a car.

It also couldn’t operate on the highway so the transit time was nearly double.

One shouldn’t underestimate how economical real human operators are. It’s not like Uber drivers make a ton of money. Uber drivers often have zero capital expense since they are driving vehicles they already own. Waymo can’t share the business expense of their vehicles with their employees and have them drive them home and to the grocery store.

I’m sure it’ll improve but this tells me that Waymo’s price per vehicle including all the R&D expenses must be astronomical. They are burning $2 billion a year at the current rate even though they have revenue service.

Plus, they actually have a lot of human operators to correct issues and talk to police and things like that. Last number I found on that was over one person per vehicle but I’m not sure if anyone knows for sure.
> No Email or TOTP? (No, I am not suggesting sms)

Nope. And accessing the website/online banking portal is not allowed without going through the smartphone app 2fa too.
That is such an interesting bug!
See https://waymo.com/safety/impact/#methodology

They compile human crash data from various sources (NHTSA, state data). But they are at a city level, not specific streets or areas. So they adjust the human benchmarks to be more representative of the areas where Waymo operates.
I think small test sources are exempt,

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part071/p... ("[10 CFR] §71.15 Exemption from classification as fissile material")
Well, we drink almond milk mostly, and it keeps for 2 weeks. A lot of our meat is frozen unless we're planning a special meal. Some fruits and veggies are a bit tricky, sometimes we make a quick trip to get some fresh produce, but between some produce keeping well on the counter, and others in the fridge, they last a week or so.

Bread keeps long enough, unfortunately thanks to preservatives. "Homemade" (can't believe that label is allowed on factory-made food here) bread lasts a little longer in the fridge. But all bread I know freezes well, so we thaw it when we're ready to it the loaf, and it's gone within a few days.

We also live in a dry climate in the mountain west. I don't think we could get away with this in a wet climate.
Ironically, they didn’t see this coming.
And yet, they still somehow ended up with one of the most difficult-to-use modern languages.
Click the link and find out.
This is literally not true. You can leverage MCP using any model. Even some of the IDEs you mention let you leverage MCP using many model providers.
It will be interesting when the world move to HarmonyOS
Wikipedia is an extreme example, since it's highly impractical to print the whole thing. OTOH printing your "Top 20" survival books is quick and affords a nice measure of system-level dissimilar redundancy (not to mention valuable barter goods :D).
> Bread keeps for a week, no problem

A flour based food, full of preservatives will keep for a week. Bread does not :-)
Do you expect coffee from fast food restaurants to be hot enough to send you into shock? That whole incident is a great example of a story confirming peoples' assumptions (frivolous lawsuits are everywhere) despite not being an example of that assumption
This is a valid choice, but you must accept some serious trade-offs. For one thing, anyone wanting to trust you must now scrutinize all of your dependencies for modification. Anyone wanting to contribute must learn whatever ad hoc method you used to fetch and package deps, and never be sure of fully reproducing your build.

The de facto compromise is to use package.json for deps, but your distributable blob is a docker image, which serializes a concrete node_modules. Something similar (and perhaps more elegant) is Java's "fat jar" approach where all dependencies are put into a single jar file (and a jar file is just a renamed zip so it's much like a tarball).
I can imagine whole city areas well known closed to manual drivers.

Sure I would love to read a book while car is driving me to visit family in the countryside but practically I need city transportation to work and back, to supermarkets and back where I don’t have to align to a bus schedule and have 2-3 step overs but plan my trip 30 min in advance and have direct pick up and drop off.

If that would be possible then I see value in not owning a car.
But they can't really be low-latency if they have to search for new versions ... and that makes such a big difference in how usable they are.
Can you import .jsonl files into Google sheets or excel natively?
23andMe does not operate as a laboratory itself but contracts with U.S.-based labs that are certified under CLIA and accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP). According to their website, all saliva samples are processed in CLIA-certified and CAP-accredited labs, ensuring compliance with federal standards for accuracy and reliability. This certification is crucial, as it aligns with FDA requirements for certain health-related genetic tests. This distinction is significant, as CLIA primarily regulates labs, not the companies that contract them, potentially affecting the applicability of retention requirements to 23andMe’s broader operations.

CLIA’s record retention requirements, as per Section 493.1105, states labs must retain test requisitions, authorizations, and reports for at least 2 years, with longer periods for specific tests like pathology (10 years for slides).

CLIA Laboratory Record Retention Requirements:

- Test requisitions and authorizations: 2 years minimum.
- Test reports: 2 years minimum, 10 years for pathology reports.
- Cytology slide preparations: 5 years.
- Histopathology slides: 10 years.
- Pathology specimen blocks: 2 years.
- Tissue: Until diagnosis is made.

Notably, these requirements focus on test-related records, such as requisitions (which may include patient details like date of birth and sex) and reports (which for genetic tests would include interpreted results). However, there is no explicit mention of retaining raw genetic data, such as the full genotype data, in the CLIA regulations. This raises questions about whether 23andMe’s assertion to retain raw genetic information is strictly required by CLIA or if it extends beyond the regulation for other reasons, such as research or quality control.
> You say “go back” but that was never more than a niche thing.

but you could walk to a phone shop and buy a Linux phone, for example FirefoxOS.
You know what has even better safety statistics? Public transit including buses and trains.

Cycling also has better statistics when the infrastructure is given real attention, and it leads to better health outcomes.
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484415 I outlined some extremely advantageous uses for automatic computation even in unlikely deep collapse situations, for most of which the microcontroller out of your washing machine (or, as I mention in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43487644, your disposable vape or USB charger) is more than sufficient if you can manage to reprogram it.

Even if your objectives are humbler than "rebooting civilization" (an objective I think Virgil opposes), you might still want to, for example, predict the weather, communicate with faraway family members, automatically irrigate plants and build other automatic control systems, do engineering and surveying calculations, encrypt communications, learn prices in markets that are more than a day's travel away, hold and transmit cryptocurrencies, search databases, record and play back music and voice conversations, tell time, set an alarm, carry around photographs and books in a compact form, and duplicate them.

Even a washing-machine microcontroller is enormously more capable of these tasks than an unaided human, though, for tasks requiring bulk data storage, it would need some kind of storage medium such as an SD card.
So, will Framework make a printer? [video]
"commercially available messaging platform"

Is Signal engaged in commerce. Is it a free service.
The wait times have gotten better, they're getting freeway approval shortly which will be nice, the price is still at a premium (but worth it imo). I only take Waymo in SF now.

The only time I take Uber in the bay area is to the airport (and when they approve Waymo for SFO I won't take Uber then either).
>The judge before the oracle c. google case

Exactly. The US justice system works for people with money.
Rachel's been a reliable source of interesting issues like these for the better part of eternity now. Her blog's well worth reading.
no, no, not going.
Half the time? More like 10% of the time.

Sometimes I think I have to use a paint can shaker on a 5-minute cycle just to trigger it.
Common with international treaties. The trade agreement known as USMCA in the USA is known as CUSMA in Canada and T-MEC (Treaty between Mexico, USA, and Canada) in Mexico. Countries almost always put themselves first.
Claude is an awful product name, too. I hate telling people that I generally use this thing called "Claude" which "is like ChatGPT but better".
The article talks about manual sharding, not sharding in general.
I saw a transit enthusiast YouTube video try out Waymo from the most distant part of the network to fisherman’s wharf in SF and it cost twice as much as an Uber, had a longer wait time for a car, and cost about double.

That's literally an edge case. For shorter trips, I've found it to be slightly cheaper (especially factoring in the lack of tips) with maybe a slightly longer wait.
Have their been any GDPR fines that amount to more than a rounding error of Oracle's revenue? Admittedly, I don't watch too closely, but from the ones I am aware of, I haven't seen any GDPR fines that made me finally think "wow, that might actually count as a punishment". (I would honestly be happy to learn of some!)

There are disclosure laws in the US as well, but again, the fines are like a days worth of revenue. Maybe the breached company has to provide a year of credit monitoring for the affected persons, if lucky.
A recent poll found that only 14% of Americans believe that the President should ignore court rulings that he disagrees with. But when the same poll asked if President Trump should ignore a specific court order that he disagrees with, on the topic of deportations, the numbers shot up to 40%.

Americans do not support going to war with Canada in the abstract, but many of us will find a way to support whatever specific casus belli Trump comes up with. It's what I like to call the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" - these people know right from wrong, but when Trump is involved they lose their sense of reality.
claude needed these those tools in 2024, so having the community contribute for free was actually a smart move.

service providers get more traffic, so they’re into it. makes sense.

claude 3.5 was great at the time, especially for stuff like web dev. but now deepseek v3 (0324) is way better value. gemini's my default for multimodal. openai still feels smartest overall. i’ve got qwq running locally. for deep research, free grok 3 and perplexity work fine. funny enough, claude 3.7 being down these two days didn’t affect me at all.

i checked mcp since i contribute to open source, but decided to wait. few reasons:

- setup’s kind of a mess. it’s like running a local python or node bridge, forwarding stuff via sse or stdio. feels more like bridging than protocol innovation

- I think eventually we need all the app to be somehow built-in AI-first protocol. I think only Apple (maybe Google) have that kind of influence. Think about the lightening vs usb-c.

- performance might be a bottleneck later, especially for multimodal.

- same logic as no.2 but the question is that do you really want every app to be AI-first?

main issue for me: tools that really improve productivity are rare. a lot of mcp use cases sound cool, but i'll never give full github access to a black box. same for other stuff. so yeah—interesting idea, but hard ceiling.
Nixpkgs package maintainers don't usually have commit rights. I assume that if one tried to include some weird patch, the reviewer would at least glance at it before committing.
I said most politicians are sociopaths, which as a matter of magnitude is hyperbole. But it's absolutely true that 1) sociopathic traits are useful in politics and therefore 2) sociopaths are overrepresented in politics. We can disagree on the magnitude to which they are.

But in saying what I did, in no way did I imply politicians are "attention seekers in Congress who make outrageous statements to keep their names in the headlines", because that's not a description of what a sociopath is, as sociopaths can be quiet, calculating people.

It's not necessarily bad to be a sociopath, we need them in politics to be sure.
Then its good right? Should society entrust autonomous decision-making to Sentinel AI ?
> There are a lot of bad human drivers that are not removed from the road.

Well. If you let people get away with murder by saying "Oh, I'm a confused little old lady, I thought the gas pedal was the brake." That's what I mean by robust enforcement. It is 100% not at all about data.

Consider this: A Waymo could be provably confused about a situation, we can directly peer into the state of its mind and prove that it is confused, despite driving safer than the average. Do you know what would happen to the Waymo program if one of its vehicles careened into a family of pedestrians and killed them all?

> something something about skills

Agency is kind of a myth. For human drivers, experts agree that road design has the biggest impact. Experts also think we should have better public transport.

The problems are bigger than Department of Unenactable Urban Fantasy or American Victim Blaming Institute. Self driving cars are exciting because they are like a cheat code around all these intractable social issues.
Diary of Boring Things
I think full scale collapse is unlikely. I'd rate balkanization / large scale internet disruptions as pretty likely to happen within the next few years due to a combination of:

- lightly protected and globally reachable attack surface

- increasing geopolitical tensions

- the bizarre tendency to put everything possible online, i.e. IoT devices that always need internet, resources that rely on CDNs to function, other weird dependencies.
The timing seems to indicate that the mainstream press publicity over DeepSeek R1 was due to an NVidia short recommendation that had just gone viral, not about the disclosed cost (which related to V3, not R1).

However, there also seems to have been some genuine panic at OpenAI, maybe elsewhere too, over DeepSeek R1 since not only did they come close to matching the performance of o1, but they also described exactly how they did it (apparently very similar to what OpenAI had done, judging from the reaction), and therefore killed any competitive lead that OpenAI - who had been working on it for a long time - may have thought they had.
> Users of android phones have little hope to run a program from 5 years ago

Android is actually much much better than iOS. For some older unmaintained apps I've dug out the APKs and most of them run without major issues, though a scary warning saying it's designed for older versions of Android.
2019: https://www.macworld.com/article/233056/ios-13-and-ipados-13...
Any important and useful part of Android is already moved to closed source components long time ago.

Moreover, without closed source and kernel targeted drivers, it’s not possible to even boot hardware with Android for an eternity now. None of the companies will give you even an object file which you can link against a more modern kernel (given the delta is not that big so ABI is not broken), yet alone the source code.

As a result, Android is a big mountain of open code, without the crucial parts needed to make it work. AOSP is a shell of its former shell, and being emptied day by day.

Now it’s moving to a cathedral model from a bazaar one, and who knows when Google will release the source code of the “new version” of AOSP. They may even strip the tree to GPL parts since they have to open these parts and conveniently forget to update the MIT parts on the open part.

IOW, silently stop as Oracle did for the parts they can.
To be fair, I'm sure there's a few humans that would crash into a giant painted road in the middle of a straight road in the middle of nowhere. Humans crash due to less.
I saw an article the other day about how there was suddenly a non-shortage of fancy bourbons on store shelves in the US. How before the rare bottles were order only and marked up extremely high and not available, but now you could just get them on sale right off the shelf.

All of this was reported with a bit of speculation here and there but not once mentioning what is the most likely reason:

The largest liquor importer in the world (Ontario LCBO) just removed all American products from its shelves and in some cases was even able to return those products back to the distributor with refund.

Those products are on American shelves because they are no long being sold to non-Americans. Because of actions by the Trump regime. Not mentioned in the article I read (major US newspaper)

I also saw a series of articles about oceanside properties in Maine being in trouble because their Quebecois regulars are cancelling bookings for this summer.

They kept saying it was about tariffs. I didn't see a single article that mentioned annexation threats and digs at our sovereignty.

It's really weird, the selective blindness.

I think US moderates want so badly for things to be relatively normal that they can't take this stuff seriously or it's a complete demoralization.

That and the press is completely under his thumb this time around.
Honestly even before it was AI, it felt like everything was blockchain or "Uber for X". The majority of startups have been trend chasing for a while.
But the conversation is time consuming.

IE, it's like having a meeting when a simple email or IM will suffice.
Whenever they do these blind tests for different phone cameras, the iPhone never wins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRoTOE3FqT0
> What "stunt" are you referring to?

Refusing to be searched at the border.
A garbage collector was never "necessary." Automated theft of other peoples copyrighted code is not relevant to this fact.
yes, let keep BSD corporation free, business free, and user free.
Where does your confidence come from? Do you have any evidence to prove this?

If you paid the slightest attention to social media, news, TikTok or just talked to regular people, you would know ChatGPT is a much much bigger brand name than Gemini. Uber driver told me how he used ChatGPT to help the other day job he had.
Commandments of Reproducible Builds
Up to 30% of cars on city streets at any given time are looking for parking [1].

Cars are also the least utilized asset class, being parked 95% of the time [2].

AVs, by virtue of being able to coordinate fleet-wide and ability to park anywhere rather than only one's home or destination, would be able to gain incredible efficiencies relative to status quo.

Atop those efficiencies, removing both the constraint of having a driver and the constraint of excessive safety systems to make up for human inattentiveness means AVs can get drastically smaller as vehicles, further improving road utilization (imagine lots of 1- and 2-seaters zipping by). And roads themselves can become narrower because there is less room for error with AVs instead of humans.

Finally, traffic lights coordinating with fleets would further reduce time to destination (hurry up and finish).

Self-driving vehicles give us the opportunity to rethink almost all of our physical infrastructure and create way more human-friendly cities.

[1] http://shoup.bol.ucla.edu/PrefaceHighCostFreeParking.pdf

[2] https://senseable.mit.edu/unparking/
NCurses is peak ui design
> mass causality events like pandemics or wars

Luckily neither of those things has happened in the last few years.
Where is the utility?

Artificially increasing energy demand to incentivize power production?

I'm not sure I understand.
That’s been possible for a couple of releases now

In fact I created a struct that you can range over just a couple of days ago.

I can’t say I love the way Go implemented it though. But it does work.
I generally find that Waymos are cheaper than Uber/Lyft including tip.

I’ve also seen that, although Uber and Lyft peak times seem correlated to each other, they seem uncorrelated to Waymo peak activity. But this might be stabilizing as Waymo ridership increases.
What about the benefit to the 80% if the 20% were obligated to use software instead of their own wetware in a hypothetical world where this was feasible in all respects. Imagine if you transitioned to most new drivers for instance being issued only permits to use self driving vehicles and older drivers being obligated to switch at 65.
Enough to be denied insurance, have job offers rescinded, or be targeted by scams.

And they don't even have to have your DNA. Just a close enough relative will do.
Printer question timecode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os_fHy1mB_M&t=565s
Edit: thank you!

Man I get gestures have been embraced by the community, but this is emphatically not what I meant. The only gesture that makes sense to me is pinch-to-zoom and maybe swiping on cards that appear to be floating.

There's no way to discover this functionality outside of googling documentation and it often doesn't work with one hand.
We needed to deploy some bug fixes, thank you for your patience! (perhaps posted here too early). Hope you'll come back to our rooms, that was a nice one