skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, battery manufacturing and general automotive manufacturing skills are orthogonal to each other. There is very little skill overlap. I guess they have been doing it longer than tesla, tesla even outsourced the general automotive parts to lotus initially, but tesla isn't known for quality either
If it's important in English, it should have a key on the keyboard. It follows that if it doesn't have a key, it's not important.
Aren't the only Thinkpads with displays in the 4k neighborhood 16-inches? The 14-inch Macbooks are 3024*1964 and have all been like that for a while. I don't know why the PC world (and Linux ready by extension) undervalues high DPI so much, because it makes it hard to consider going back.
From what I understand this is a Levis thing. They supposedly use lots of different factories where the product has a surprisingly wide range. For example, one size from one factory will be noticeably bigger or smaller than other. Stretchiness seems to vary also as well as tightness.

I had honestly thought this was my imagination of years of using them, but ran into more than one person shopping for jeans that randomly brought this up. I guess Levis super fans can spot each other.
Show HN: MRI Image Viewer in Go
Hi HN, I broke my leg skiing this weekend, and in the time that I was waiting for radiologist to explain my MRI results to me, I ended up writing a simple MRI image viewer to see for myself what was going on with my knee.

https://github.com/kirillzubovsky/dicom-viewer

The fact that was given a CD with my images, but they were all in some obscure binary format and the only way to view them was on windows, did not really sit well with me.

If anyone here has MRI images they'd like to view, and you want to try this out, please do. I'd love for more people to collaborate and to make it something interesting. Hopefully thus of us who needed this in the past won't need it in the future, but if we build on top of each other's misery, it could be a game changer for someone in the future.

Let me know what you think, ideas, suggestions ...etc. I don't really open-source software usually, so if you want to guide me to make it better, I am all ears. Thanks!
The reason we add fluoride to water is because it was already a naturally occurring mineral in lots of water supplies around the world. The pre-existing natural experiments have already been extensively studied.
I find that really distasteful.

First of all, it would have to be fed numerous copyrighted images. That may well be legal; that's up to the lawyers. But I think it's unethical. It's trying to push some kind of "fair use" notion of taking ideas without reproducing their actual work pixel by pixel, but past the point I consider fair.

Second, I've already seen cases where artists are finding it hard to market their own work through the vast morass of computer-generated pastiches. One artist friend is now third in a Google search for her own name, behind mockeries of her work. My friend is a scientific illustrator, and the works being promoted under her name are usually full of objective errors that she would never make. It's damaging her reputation.

So... in deference to the artists, I'd ask that you not do this. These images are Ghibli's bread and butter. It's hard enough to make a living as an artist before people were automating plagiarism.
That is a good question. I like my dock uncluttered. I have it placed vertically on the left side, with only the apps I use every single day: Alacritty, Brave, Cursor, and Zoom. With Finder and Launchpad included, that's only six docked apps. Everything else I use Spotlight to open, so I feel the pain when the usability gets degraded or buggy.
Judge Confirms LaLiga's Right to Block Cloudflare in Pursuit of IPTV Pirates
The really expensive neighborhoods are too desirable for anyone to live there. They exist as capital anchors for overseas sovereign wealth funds and various long-run finance concerns to sink into a deeper market than their own, to act as collateral for their business adventures and as a currency reserve hedged against local inflation. No rent you could pay is worth the risk.

Low property taxes are highly conducive to this use-case, and notably, tenant residents can vote on raising property taxes and overseas sovereign wealth funds can't.
Exactly the type of comment I'd expect to see on an HN discussion about different types of dashes.
FWIW, there is such a thing as public-sector insurance. The required auto insurance in saskatchewan, for instance, is tied to your registration and administered by the same crown corporation, which doesn't have the profit motive that a private insurer has.
They are more interested in personally retaining power over the Democratic party than they are in winning elections.

Republicans winning is a better outcome for them than progressives unseating them in the party.
The problem there is that just because you can do it doesn't mean it's good for them. I have two cousins who were trained at playing classical instruments from extremely young age(like 2 years old), one of them went on to become a very successful and well known violinist, but......she hates it. She will be the first one to say that the constant almost daily lessons were an absolute nightmare and that she's had no childhood because of it, and it also locked her into being a violinist despite whatever else she might have wanted to do.

Great "achievement" for the parents, but I wouldn't personally do that to my child.
The sanctions regime was remarked on as poorly-thought out as early as Q3 2022 IIRC. Even though it's a Doomberg talking point, it remains true that the only way to really crush Russian market share in the European energy mix is to crowd them out with greater output volumes of competition from other gas exporters.
It's a fair point.

An LLM can do some pretty interesting things, but the actual applicability is narrow. It seems to me that you have to know a fair amount about what you're asking it to do.

For example, last week I dusted off my very rusty coding skills to whip up a quick and dirty Python utility to automate something I'd done by hand a few too many times.

My first draft of the script worked, but was ugly and lacked any trace of good programming practices; it was basically a dumb batch file, but in Python. Because it worked part of me didn't care.

I knew what I should have done -- decompose it into a few generic functions; drive it from an intelligent data structure; etc -- but I don't code all the time anymore, and I never coded much in Python, so I lack the grasp of Python syntax and conventions to refactor it well ON MY OWN. Stumbling through with online references was intellectually interesting, but I also have a whole job to do and lack the time to devote to that. And as I said, it worked as it was.

But I couldn't let it go, and then had the idea "hey, what if I ask ChatGPT to refactor this for me?" It was very short (< 200 lines), so it was easy to paste into the Chat buffer.

Here's where the story got interesting. YES, the first pass of its refactor was better, but in order to get it to where I wanted it, I had to coach the LLM. It took a couple passes through before it had made the changes I wanted while still retaining all the logic I had in it, and I had to explicitly tell it "hey, wouldn't it be better to use a data structure here?" or "you lost this feature; please re-add it" and whatnot.

In the end, I got the script refactored the way I wanted it, but in order to get there I had to understand exactly what I wanted in the first place. A person trying to do the same thing without that understanding wouldn't magically get a well-built Python script.
It is the same in many US states.
> Courts don't really care about ECDSA signatures or x509 certificates. They readily accept faxed documents, which are literally low resolution scans and are trivial to forge

I'm aware (I asked a similar question almost 10 years ago[1] - but my love-affair for S/MIME is really quite unrelated to legal-repudiation: it's about basic e-mail security: S/MIME gives us encryption, which is still really late-to-the-party as even today probably all of our emails could be read by our MX/MTA sysops; and S/MIME signatures solve SMTP's unauthenticated sender problem (and sidesteps all of the half-measures since then to try to put the cat back in the bag like DKIM, SPF, etc). All of this is far removed from DocuSign and other "document signing" services, really.

But yes, I'll readily admit S/MIME is entirely irrelevant outside of paranoid security.txt contacts and is practically unusable by the masses - and then some.

[1]: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/116896/are-docu... ) -
> Here in Europe

Europe is not homogeneous... I rarely see WhatsApp integration in Switzerland.

But my phone providers support "Call over WiFi", and calls that go through that are crystal clear. But it's curious stuff, if the calls are being routed through my home WiFi (or when I'm on the road: over my data SIM, which is from a different provider), what the hell am I paying them X cents/minute for?
Clicked on comments to write something about Hyperion, found your comment instead :) Cannot recommend that series enough to anyone who loves science fiction.
It's a bad metaphor.

In the "inverted pyramid" the most important information (which should come first) is represented by the base, which is the biggest part of the pyramid and holds up the rest of the pyramid. In a sense, it is the foundation, so you have to "get it right".

The analogy is "base = big = foundational = important"

Personally I think that's confusing, because you just as easily say the tip of the pyramid should represent the most important information, which should be conveyed concisely and without extraneous detail or background.

In that case the analogy would be, "tip = concise = main point = important"
Vanilla P2P Wifi is amazing for the possibilities it unlocks, but unfortunately most developers can't do security to save their lives. There will be a lot of insecure apps.
It's pretty well understood that there's an unfortunate bias towards white men in their early 20s. This is a pervasive sampling problem across all human studies because most researchers have historically been at universities. So their pool of subjects has naturally been nearby college students.

Just as those are the people who have historically been doing that research, the people who they have studied have been drawn from the same population. Over and over we find that problems from the assumption that the young, white, male college student is a model of "normal" for all of humanity.

Honestly, it's such a pervasive finding in medicine, psychology, and sociology that I think it says more about your relative inexperience in those areas than anything else.
What if someone takes their license plates off and makes a fake temporary paper one, the kind you put in the back window when you get a new car? Not permanently but if you wanted to go do something illegal and not be tracked.
Can the LPR pick those up?
I think many grammar rules are not intellectual but just randomly evolved conventions.

E.g. some English language rule says that a comma or ending period of a non-quoted sentence goes inside the quotes if there's something quoted at the end of that sentence. That rule feels anti-intellectual to me, as if there's some misunderstanding of how hierarchical placement in one-dimensional space works (since something that's not being quoted is being put inside quotes)
Nikola founder Trevor Milton claims he's been pardoned
>I’m not sure how you can have played with LLMs so much and missed this. I hope you don’t trust what they say about recipes or how to handle legal problems or how to clean things or how to treat disease or any fact-checking whatsoever.

This is like a GPT3.5 level criticism. o1-pro is probably better at pure fact retrieval than most PhDs in any given field. I challenge you to try it.

In fact take the GPQA test yourself and see how you do then give the same questions to o1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.12022
people don't normally put spaces around em dash

For what it's worth, I was in the last class in my high school to learn typing on IBM Selectric typewriters. We were taught to type two spaces, two hyphens, then two spaces. Incidentally, we were taught two spaces after periods and colons. To this day, I find it hard to read text that doesn't have proper spacing after periods. (HTML and WYSIWYG word processors handle formatting, but e.g. fixed-font text editors don't)
Yeah, and right up front, too. I noticed that only after it was too late to delete my comment.
LOL do people even google

https://www.rabbit.tech/

Edit: Seriously your SEO is going to be impossible / ridiculously expensive https://www.taskrabbit.com/
Because it's not particularly relevant. The term comes from the prison system, where there is no expectation of privacy, and is being applied to describe a public setting where there maybe _should_ be some expectation, because we're not prisoners!
WiFi Aware looks interesting but there seems to be very little information out there beyond Android related docs and associated links. It seems to be hidden away behind the doors of WiFi alliance.

Can anyone familiar with the topic chime in what it would take to utilize WiFi Aware in let's say a Raspberry Pi (maybe using a different wireless chip connected via usb)? Maybe even to connect to Android smartphones
Probably meant 60-70%
Do you support json? What language does it cover?
it's as anonymous as searching any other information on government websites - you don't need to log in to do it.
I always thought that the Hulk running fast and landing too gently makes him appear too light:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzceykTiwjs
For sure a HN comment should never have jokes: instant downvotes. Watch this space...
Is there anyone near the Smithsonian physically who could do a walk-through and inventory exhibits?
Translation: "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about power tools [when they could just keep using hand saws]."
We already have highly inflationary monetary policy that makes capital accumulation for middle class people impossible outside of high risk vehicles like stock or property. We also already have a complicated network of grants, tax breaks, statutes, and pressure organizations to incentivize or ramrod through housing as long as the expected inhabitants are any demographic that is reliably expected to vote for “our democracy”. I just really don’t know what more you want here. Confiscate everyone’s bank anccount and liquidate it to build housing projects?

The United States has plenty of vacant housing. It just doesn’t have plenty of free or nearly free vacant housing in the downtown sections of our dozen largest cities. Maybe the issue is that we don’t want every single person on earth living in San Francisco or New York. Encouraging remote work was probably a step in the right direction on relieving that demand, but I think maybe there is some structural problem about hyper concentration of capital in a few extremely large cities that we are trying to fix with zoning ordinances, or, I guess stealing from the perfidious Kulacks to give to the noble proletariat.
> a bunch of people in the trades seem to "get it".

I think this is a few things:

- The people in the trades who get to running their own business have (by nature of survival bias) developed two skills at a good level: doing that trade and running a business

- Trades, because they involve material output and safety, have relatively little tolerance for the kinds of bozos who can slip under the radar in the white-collar and service sector worlds.
I do not consider myself an active women supporter, but this is just, ridiculous. I mean, how does *this specific instance* affect in a bad way?
Whoa whoa... "An entire class of people..." you can't just smuggle that assumption in. What class? What do you have in common?
I'm starting to find the hair on the back of my neck raising every time I hear the word "truth".

People who know about things, talk about things. People pushing crank ideas ratchet it up to metaphysics -- they talk about the abstraction of "truth" rather than subject their ideas to serious analysis.

And now the word "ideology" is getting the same treatment. Your thoughts are ideology -- mine are just truth.
> As a software "engineer" I do not envy real engineers one bit.

Obligatory link to Hillel Wayne's Crossover Project [0]. The short version is that of 17 "real" engineers he interviewed who switched to software engineering, 15 said they consider software engineering to be an engineering discipline. Over the three blog posts he reviews the supposed differences between fields and finds that the crossovers don't agree with most of the stereotypical differences software people believe are there.

There are real differences that they identify, but they're not any more significant than the differences between traditional engineering fields, which are vast. But yes, one of the differences that they do point out is that software is not constrained by the physical world in any meaningful way.

[0] https://www.hillelwayne.com/tags/crossover-project/
> considering countless "conspiracies" have been shown to be true

What are some of these confirmed conspiracies? I can't think of too many significant ones. Maybe the Phoebus Cartel and tobacco health effects cover up?
SQLAlchemy Session is actually a unit of work (UoW), which they also build on top. By the end of the book they are using their UoW to collect and dispatch events emitted by the services. How would they have done that if they just used SQLAlchemy directly?

You might argue that they should have waited until they wanted their own UoW behaviour before actually implementing it, but that means by the time they need it they need to go and modify potentially hundreds of bits of calling code to swap out SQLAlchemy for their own wrapper. Why not just build it first? The worst that happens is it sits there being mostly redundant. There have been far worse things.

The tricks you mention for the tests might work for SQLAlchemy, but what if we're not using SQLAlchemy? The repository pattern works for everything. That's what makes it a pattern.
>They are almost always wrong with circuit design, and create code that doesn’t work north of 80% of the time.

Sorry but this is a total skill issue lol. 80% code failure rate is just total nonsense. I don't think 1% of the code I've gotten from LLMs has failed to execute correctly.
If we look at OSX Releases [1] ; from OS X 10.10 Yosemite in 2014. The only useful feature for me was Universal Clipboard. That is 10 years of macOS and that was about the only user features.

While the 10 years have some security, performance, drivers, file system, refactoring going on. Most of the user features were useless.

And I spend 90% of my time inside Safari, and yet Desktop Safari is still shit after all these years.

I am not excited about 99% of new macOS user features. Most of them are features for features sake. Just continue the macOS engineering work, and for once pour more resources into Safari and allow Safari support on older Mac system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_version_history#Releases
They're still gathering 'everything' so they can be the 'everything' app like Papa Musk wanted.
> radical new zoning laws

> ADUs on their property

If this is "radical" then it just shows how far we've fallen.
A CEO is the most visible representative of a company.

A statement on their personal Twitter might not be "the company's" statement, but who cares?

Sam Altman's social media IS OpenAI marketing.
I think the potential high-return use-cases for VR and AR are (1) games, (2) telepresence robot control, (3) smart assistants that label (a) people and (b) stuff in front of you.

Unfortunately:

1) AVP is about 10x too pricy for games.

2) It's not clear if it can beat even the cheapest headsets for anything important for telepresence (higher resolution isn't always important, but can be sometimes).

Irregardless, you need the associated telepresence robot, and despite the obvious name, the closest Apple gets to iRobot is if someone bought a vaccum cleaner because Apple doesn't even have the trademark.

3) (a) is creepy, and modern AI assistants are the SOTA for (b) and yet still only "neat" rather than actually achieving the AR vision since at least Microsoft's Hololens, and because AI assistants are free apps on your phone, they can't justify a €4k headset — someone would need a fantastic proprieraty AI breakthrough to justify it.
> Forgive my ignorance on this but does his assertion that a CSPRNG is all you need after an initial truly random seed, hold up against theoretical quantum attacks?

Yes, if you mean by "theoretical quantum attacks" the stuff we could run if we had a scalable quantum computer.
Those impact public key crypto. They do nothing to impact the security of RNGs.
Because, to be blunt, I think this is total bullshit if you're using a decent model:

"I've even caught it literally writing the wrong algorithm when asked to implement a specific and well known algorithm. For example, asking it "write a selection sort" and watching it write a bubble sort instead. No amount of re-prompts pushes it to the right algorithm in those cases either, instead it'll regenerate the same wrong algorithm over and over."
Sure, lots of drudgery, but none of your examples are things that you could trust an LLM to do correctly when correctness counts. And correctness always counts in science.

Edit to add: and regardless, I'm less interested in the "LLM's aren't ever useful to science" part of the point. The point that actual LLM usage in science will mostly be for cases where they seem useful but actually introduce subtle problems is much more important. I have observed this happening with trainees.
Well, on top of that I'm adopted. :-)
Well, vibe coders think they can code. It would be unfair not to call "artists" people who click on a button on a web site.
Scott Alexander just had a great post about misophonia https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/misophonia-beyond-sensory-s...
Depends on the jurisdiction, though. Federal court records are theoretically "on a government website", but you need a PACER account, which has your billing information.
All of these things can be true at the same time:

1. LLMs have been massively overhyped, including by some of the major players.

2. LLMs have significant problems and limitations.

3. LLMs can do some incredibly impressive things and can be profoundly useful for some applications.

I would go so far as to say that #2 and #3 are hardly even debatable at this point. Everyone acknowledges #2, and the only people I see denying #3 are people who either haven't investigated or are so annoyed by #1 that they're willing to sacrifice their credibility as an intellectually honest observer.
This works for blog posts, certainly. But it falls apart if you're doing anything even slightly long form, or have multiple points to make.

It's also why LinkedIn posts all sound the same.

"It seemed like any other Monday. Little did I know, it was going to be the day that changed my life forever..."

"Marketing isn't about getting the most traffic. It's about converting the most traffic. A thread:"
I liked this and I wonder what the author's interpretation of this older commentary on frameworks would be:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/07/24/predictable-identities...
2 years after AI went mainstream – turns out the joke's on us
Do 10x engineers stack? So if you have 10 10x engineers is that 100x or is it 100,000,000,000x?
Financial incentives stop aligning because of two things:

* Rent control means that tenants are paying less than market rate.

* Extremely low property tax rates combined with anti-development policy mean that asset price appreciation exceeds rents by a significant amount.

Stop controlling rents, tax the hell out of these people, and one way or another spend it on residents, and you are exacting a redistribution of wealth that doesn't distort the market in a way that leads to slumlords.
https://archive.is/UvOO7