MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by das_keyboard | 2025-04-26 08:44:46+00:00
> So, if traditional game worlds are paintings, neural worlds are photographs. Information flows from sensor to screen without passing through human hands.

I don't get this analogy at all. Instead of a human information flows through a neural network which alters the information.

> Every lifelike detail in the final world is only there because my phone recorded it.

I might be wrong here but I don't think this is true. It might also be there because the network inferred that it is there based on previous data.

Imo this just takes the human out of a artistic process - creating video game worlds and I'm not sure if this is worth archiving.
by torginus | 2025-04-26 08:44:46+00:00
I have said this and will reiterate - building an 'afforable' EV is impossible with the current level of technology - by which I mean a vehicle that competes on price with affordable ICE vehicles, and doesn't make compromises that would make it impractical to own as the only car.

There are $20k cars with infotainment, bodypaint and probably a lot more creature comforts than this thing. Also this thing has a 150 mile range (less probably IRL), which is not practical.

Looking at the basic shape, the drag looks horrible, and probably the efficiencys bad too, considering they only manage 150k with an 52kWh battery.

Euros have already tried this, they put out abominable shitboxes where they tried to save money everywhere but the battery and charger, and the result were poverty cars which barely cost less than a Model 3.

Once you spend the money on a 400 mile battery and a fast enough charger to be practical, you're most of the way in terms of BOM to a 300HP electric upmarket road monster. Tesla understood this, and are dominating the market.

BYD also knows this, and there's a reason their C-segment EVs cost more than their D-segment plug-ins, despite the latter having tons of electric range.

Also doesn't cost $20k from the factory, it costs $20k with tax credit.
by trod1234 | 2025-04-26 08:45:06+00:00
This is 5GW, and many of the statements you link are entirely value based.

The simple fact of the matter is there are hidden biases against men completing college, that favor women completing college.

The same holds true to a large degree in employment with few exceptions.

Making a supposition that the pool of female to male candidates for college is interconnected is a fallacy. It is independent, and based on factors with no current visibility, and there are no guaranteed prospects even if men can somehow complete the struggle session to a degree.

What's worse. Women don't date down. So all those women who got degrees will have a harder time finding mates, will be the bread winner which leaves the men in a role that is unattractive to them, and they will be highly dissatisfied as a result of simple math and gender selection differences.

You don't survive by ignoring reality, and birthrate collapse is going to happen given the myriad of issues that people can't seem to get a mental grasp enough to recognize the underlying problems. When there is a problem, and people can't communicate sufficiently to organize to recognize said problem, nothing gets done. You can't react, and the problem grows until it can't grow any more (at existential crisis). Cascading failures are diabolical because people cannot believe that certain little things cause great big things in time. Evolutionary selection eventually destroys societies based in total control, as those members cannot adapt and fail Darwinian fitness.
by magic_hamster | 2025-04-26 08:45:19+00:00
I think the idea of a society where work is optional and people having their needs met by the society they live in is actually well explored. It's a Utopia. The problem is human nature is competitive and just being provided with everything you need to live, even being given ample time to create art and enjoy life, is not enough for many people. Utopian ideas all look great on paper but when meeting reality you cannot build Utopia around greed and elitism and you can't abolish them either.
by shit_game | 2025-04-26 08:47:02+00:00
What impact?

The impact of the Australian Border Force overreacting after they (seemingly deliberately) bungled the situation when they were first made aware of the situation?

None of the elements this man was in possession of were either in a quantity or quality to facilitate any kind of hazard to anyone. The response by government was unjustified, and should have ocurred before the materials ever reached the purchaser.

I urge you to learn about and understand the properties of radioactive materials before making judgement on this situation. The quantities and properties (particularly the encasing) of the materials in question largely render them inert. These specimens are not at all abnormal in the scope of element collection, and the response triggered by the ABF (complete evacuation of an entire street (note, not an entire radius???)) is unwarranted given the quantitites and properties of the elements (both pieces of information they knew beforehand).
by rambambram | 2025-04-26 08:47:57+00:00
> Now you have to see everything that they publish. Which makes it the absolutely worst way to consume news.

I agree on the second part, but the first part is not necessary. RSS is technically not hard, one can write one's own reader very quickly. You don't have to consume everything a publishers publishes, I don't even see everything a publisher publishes because I don't even request everything a publisher publishes.

I think the (your? my?) curation should focus on selecting some good sources (like the article says), but this means in no way that you should see everything all the time. Only when you want, in a quantity that's doable for you.
by sigwinch | 2025-04-26 08:49:37+00:00
> The agency’s efforts to boost coal are likely to generate far more sulfur dioxide pollution than Make Sunsets will release with its balloons. A Make Sunsets balloon released on November 15, 2024, released 1,715 grams of sulfur dioxide. In 2023, U.S. power plants released 650,000 tons into the atmosphere, the majority of which came from coal. That’s approximately the same amount as 343,900,000 of the startup’s balloons.
by IshKebab | 2025-04-26 08:52:01+00:00
I don't think it's fair to say "because they are lazy or don't understand". Who would want to understand that mess? It isn't a virtue.

A fairer criticism would be that they have no sense to use a more sane build system. CMake is a mess but even that is faaaaar saner than autotools, and probably more popular at this point.
by tducasse | 2025-04-26 08:52:19+00:00
My problem with RSS is that I tend to subscribe to too many things and then it's too much. Also I wanted a solution that was free or self hosted, but I realized it's much better if someone manages the complexity for me, so I just ended up going with the paid hosting for miniflux (https://miniflux.app/).

Now I've just subscribed to a few things I care about, I open the website from time to time, quickly mark as "read" stuff I'm not interested in, and when I have more time I just go through everything that is still unread, because it's been "filtered in". Seems to work!
by raphman | 2025-04-26 08:52:22+00:00
To offer a counter-example to the many anecdotes about being gatekept(?) by veteran Wikipedia editors: I have the opposite experience.

I occasionally contribute to various topics, and in many cases experienced editors silently fixed formatting errors I made, allowing me to focus on contributing to Wikipedia without having to keep up with the best practices.

I also participated in a deletion discussion once, and - despite being inexperienced and in the minority position (keep) - the experienced editors considered my arguments and responded to them.
by chgs | 2025-04-26 08:52:50+00:00
The major change to income levels has been the massive increase in minimum wage. This removes the incentive to work hard and get skills because they aren’t valued, especially outside of London.

The other major change is the continual divergence of wealth.

If you are a 20 year old living near London you can get a crap paying junior job and live rent free for 5 years with parents while you save a 100k deposit (which using things like LISAs).

By the time you’re in your early 30s you have a decent paying job, have met a partner with a similar income, and can buy a house and repeat the cycle.

If you don’t you get the same job but have to pay rent to someone else’s parents, and you never get that deposit, so you’re trapped in the rent cycle.
by arrowsmith | 2025-04-26 08:53:30+00:00
Ah yes. `phx.gen.auth` generates a cookie-based auth system, which is fine for the :browser pipeline but it's not generally what you want for a JSON API.

The Phoenix docs include a suggestion for how you can extend `phx.gen.auth` to add token-based authentication to your API: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/api_authentication.html

(No, this isn't "rolling your own auth" either, it's using someone else's pre-written auth code.)
by myrmidon | 2025-04-26 08:55:16+00:00
If we were serious about CO2 capture, then the place to start would be big producers (like coal plants): Because that way you need much less scrubbing efficiency and can tolerate much greater overhead while still being effective.

If a technology is not good enough for at least serious trials in that (much simpler and more forgiving) usecase, then there is no point in discussing it for small environmental air scrubbing. That is akin to talking about electrifying passenger planes before having a single electric vehicle on roads.
by r4indeer | 2025-04-26 08:55:38+00:00
The next paragraph also reads...

> However, The Guardian reported that Lidden’s solicitor, John Sutton, had criticised the Border Force for how it had handled the incident, describing it as a ‘massive over-reaction’ because the quantities of material were so small they were safe to eat. He reportedly said that he had been contacted by scientists all around the world saying that the case was ‘ridiculous’.
by antegamisou | 2025-04-26 08:56:28+00:00
> Fixing typos is valuable. Adding photos is valuable. Flagging vandalism is valuable. Please edit Wikipedia.

Wise that you omit adding other credible sources that do not agree with the main editor's views. What you're describing sounds like already preserving their work, no matter if it happens to be provide info based on multiple convergent sources or not.
by rambambram | 2025-04-26 08:58:01+00:00
I did something like this with my reader:

- Only subscribed to lots of niche news and small websites (most of my list has the category 'dev blog' attached to it, so that's all of you guys/girls with a blog).

- Only get posts when I click, basically no automatic hoarding in the background (except for my Newspaper functionality, which does a little bit of background request for important feeds that I manually selected).

- Just pick the last post from a randomly selected feed. This really gets me going from reading about Linux, to reading about the best way to bake a cake, to reading about interior design, to reading about bikepacking... all in one sit.

- Or only pick from randomly selected feeds with a certain category, when I'm in the mood for a specific kind of news. For example, I want to know new videos on selected Youtube channels, or i only want to see posts with a picture attached (I call it 'photo feeds').
by m4x | 2025-04-26 08:58:26+00:00
He did not cause a serious hazmat situation. The authorities decided to evacuate a street, and are responsible for the seriousness of their over-reaction.

The packages were labelled correctly, and blocked at the border, and USPS delivered them anyway. He offered to send them back as soon as he was made aware they weren’t permitted.

The real failure here is at the border, where they were flagged and then let through, followed by the absurd over reaction of the authorities to a situation they’d enabled
by nexo-v1 | 2025-04-26 08:59:32+00:00
I keep coming back to the idea of curating my own reading through RSS.

I missed the first wave: mostly stuck to aggregators and blogs, but eventually set up a Feedly account. Like others here, I found maintaining a meaningful list takes real energy. It's easy to over-subscribe and end up with a second inbox.

Still, I think the effort is worth it. The best systems I've worked on always rewarded small, regular maintenance over trying to automate everything away. Feels like curating information works the same way.
by woolion | 2025-04-26 08:59:51+00:00
Nobody argues about the result of an addition because the computation is mechanistically verifiable. Same with statements that are properly formalized in logic. The goal was to have the same for all of mathematics. So incompleteness is not a problem per se -- even if it shook people so much at the time (because proof theory always work within a given system). Incompleteness is the battery ram that is used to break the walls of common sense.

If incompleteness isn't the killer of the Hilbert program, what is? The axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis. Both lack any form of naturalness that would prevent any philosophical arguing. Worse, not accepting them also do. There is such a wealth of intuitionistically absurd results implied by these systems -- most famously, there is the joke that “The axiom of choice is obviously true, the well-ordering principle obviously false, and who can tell about Zorn's lemma?”, when these 3 statements are _logically_ equivalent. So, we're back to a mathematical form of epistemological anarchism; there is no universal axiomatic basis for doing mathematics; any justification for the use of one has to be found externally to mathematics.
by ajb | 2025-04-26 09:01:00+00:00
>I don't get this analogy at all. Instead of a human information flows through a neural network which alters the information.

These days most photos are also stored using lossy compression which alters the information.

You can think of this as a form of highly lossy compression of an image of this forest in time and space.

Most lossy compression is 'subtractive' in that detail is subtracted from the image in order to compress it, so the kind of alterations are limited. However there have been previous non-subtractive forms of compression (eg, fractal compression) that have been criticised on the basis of making up details, which is certainly something that a neural network will do. However if the network is only trained on this forest data, rather than being also trained on other data and then fine tuned, then in some sense it does only represent this forest rather than giving an 'informed impression' like a human artist would.
by Tycho | 2025-04-26 09:01:18+00:00
There was the whole IRS targeting of conservative groups under Obama.

And I’m sure the “government overthrowers” (lol) also used Facebook and Twitter, yet only these other ones were taken down. We later found out, of course, that the likes of FB and Twitter had embedded censorship teams working hand-in-glove with the security state and advocacy groups.
by bsaul | 2025-04-26 09:02:15+00:00
Interesting, thanks. Do you have a resource that shows basic examples for android & web ?

Rust also has a very extensive set of tools to generate bindings ( wasm bindgen & uniffi), and a wide ecosystem of crate for all platforms (rustsqlite, web_sys, reqwest, etc).

What's the experience like in swift for you ? What part of the swift libraries ecosystem can you use in practice, and how does bindings work ?

Let's say i want to expose an async call to a local sqlite instance on android. How would that work, and how would that look like from kotlin pov ?

Also, how is the size of the wasm packages ? how much cruft does swift need to embed ?

PS: reading the thread a bit more, it seems like you still need some special options, and some specific version of the toolchain. Is it still the case, or can i try it with the default toolchain distributed with xcode ?
by satanfirst | 2025-04-26 09:03:11+00:00
I view these things as a way to make up for not paying adequate tax rates by paying for the things they felt best about in what tax should have paid for.

Flaws with this setup aside, I wouldn't feel good about building a Trump compatible school.. And of course the expectation that they continue is just precedent/norms which means less than nothing in show power by arbitrary disruption land.
by fmajid | 2025-04-26 09:03:13+00:00
At one of my previous companies we made a moderately popular mobile app SDK that app developers would embed in their apps. We were approached by a company that claimed they had a MIT developed (or was it Bell Labs?) audio recognition technology similar to Shazam, but orders of magnitude more efficient, that would be used to recognize audio from ads and record when a user was exposed to a TV or radio ad for tracking purposes.

I don’t remember the name, that was at least 10 years ago before Apple started enforcing permissions on microphone access and showing an orange dot, but they wanted to do a revenue-share deal in exchange for us quietly bundling their SDK inside ours.

Needless to say we turned them down so we never learned more or tested the veracity of their claims, but there are some really sleazy companies out there. Modern smartphones have sufficient horsepower to do the audio processing on-device so the argument that this would show up in network traffic does not hold.
by pazimzadeh | 2025-04-26 09:03:49+00:00
tesla inflates their range estimates until the battery is half empty:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-ba...

Idle draw/phantom drain of 5-10% a day seems like a common complaint with Teslas as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43314781

I personally don't want to be left holding the bag on a used battery since I like the option traveling long distance without stopping, but obviously it's your choice.
by Karliss | 2025-04-26 09:04:50+00:00
Search for "numerical integration" in the context of physics simulation/game engines. You can use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_methods_for_ordinary... as a starting point.

From what I understand it's not just floating point errors, but due to the nature of approximating continues function as simple discrete steps. Linked wikipedia article has a graph demonstrating that with large steps the error accumulates way before floating point precision is a concern.

There are different numeric integration techniques with different tradeoffs. Stuff like Eulers method, Verlet, Runge-Kutte. In some of them overall energy tends to accumulate in others it gets lost both of which is wrong. Some of the more complex ones tend to behave a bit better, but then you get into the problem whether gains from each individual step being more complex outweighs what you would get from running more iterations of simpler/faster algorithm.
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-04-26 09:05:42+00:00
Seems more like it meets the letter of the law.

The spirit was surely be too accelerate efficiency by ensuring all manufacturers improve. That has been negated; reducing the necessary efficiency for some manufacturers just because others are doing well.

It's like if you allowed multiple people to mix blood samples for a DUI check. Sure, there'd have to be less drinking over all, but some would still be drunk af and the effectiveness of the law would be greatly reduced.
by snops | 2025-04-26 09:07:07+00:00
I think the most recent surge is due to LLMs, the only way to (easily) apply them is to have some form of code like textual representation of your problem domain so "circuits as code" is the obvious way to wedge them into electronic engineering.

Kicad also makes it easier to make such startups as it has an open file format with several different free viewer tools and lots of content (schematics/footprints). If that ecosystem didn't exist I don't think you would see as many of these startups around, but with that you can launch one of these tools within a initial VC funding
by motorest | 2025-04-26 09:09:10+00:00
> And the worst thing is that Elon could've been a living legend by building/funding colleges and schools focused on the tech his companies need, software development, robotics etc.

Could he, though?

I mean, he might have the cash, but if you look at his history you don't see that much interest or respect for basic academic principles, or even any basic academic achievement whatsoever.

He conveys an image of someone who is mentally trapped in prepubescence, and who repeatedly does things that a prepubescent kid does to try to gather admiration. I meant who desperately tries to pass themselves off as elite gamers? How long will it take until he moves on to DJing? That's not someone who has any interest in founding education institutions.

The man does have an army of terminally online sycophants, which I now wonder whether they are astroturfed.
by o1o1o1 | 2025-04-26 09:09:44+00:00
Thanks for sharing, this looks interesting.

However, I do not see a big advantage over Cypress tests.

The article mentions shortcomings of Cypress (and Playwright):

> They start a dev server with bootstrapping code to load the component and/or setup code you want, which limits their ability to handle complex enterprise applications that might have OAuth or a complex build pipeline.

The simple solution is to containerise the whole application (including whatever OAuth provider is used), which then allows you to simply launch the whole thing and then run the tests. Most apps (especially in enterprise) should already be containerised anyway, so most of the times we can just go ahead and run any tests against them.

How is SafeTest better than that when my goal is to test my application in a real world scenario?
by debesyla | 2025-04-26 09:11:38+00:00
We have this situation in lithuanian web for a two decades now.

Once the big news networks (DELFI.lt, 15min.lt, lrytas.lt, alfa.lt and few others) bought out the largest blogs and connected them to their own domains, there isn't much of an independent web left. Owners of the websites back then gladly sold out (and I would have done it too), because it seemed like a great idea to sell your work back in the 2008-ish for real profit, an unique chance (imagine monetising your content when you have only 3 mil. theoretical consumers! There isn't much lithuanian speakers) and especially during the economic crisis.

Then the other blogs were attached to the networks by the generous offers of "let us publish and we will give backlinks, maybe" + "we will just copy it because we know that you won't bother taking us to court, it's too small of a country, you know".

So now whatever you google, you get mostly these results: 7 big network sites and subsites, 2 auto-translated AI slop generated by someone in other side of the planet, 0.9 of business pages and 0.1 something actually personal.

No wonder that almost all content creators moved to social networks by the 2015-ish. They still are there.

I wonder what will change this. A web apocalypse? Mass demand of in-person, non-online "content"? I wonder...
by iteratorx | 2025-04-26 09:11:39+00:00
Bunnnyshell.com deploys to your kubernetes cluster in a simple way. Define via yaml. It can build the images for you, store them, deploy.

As added benefit, you can then clone your environments or create ephemeral env on PR (great for dev/testing).

It is a commercial product but has a free tier.

Disclosure: I work for Bunnyshell.
by JimDabell | 2025-04-26 09:11:56+00:00
It’s worth remembering that the entire point of a wiki is that it’s quick and easy to make a change (the name means “quick” in Hawaiian). Being quick and easy to change was the defining quality of Wikipedia and its advantage over more rigid traditional encyclopaedias. These days editing Wikipedia seems like you have to fight bureaucracy and rules lawyering, and doesn’t seem very wiki-like at all.