skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it matter? The fact is pretty much everyone in my country uses WhatsApp. There is no getting away from it. It's so absurdly important ISPs have stopped metering WhatsApp traffic. A phone that doesn't run WhatsApp is a literal paperweight.

Mobile telephony is irrelevant: 98% of incoming calls are automated marketing/scam calls, the rest are people who couldn't call me on WhatsApp for some reason. It gets to the point I wish I could turn it off. SMS is irrelevant: it's mostly 2FA codes, companies using it as a notifications system and phishing.
Your right, but all of this will drive WASM adoption. I'm fine with papering over incompatibility as long as the costs continue to go down.
I also want static type-checking in my programs. However, reluctant to give up CL, I've been using type annotations, which SBCL will check at compile-time. Is there a particular reason you're not doing this?
I like the look of this a lot, particularly the support for running-from-local. I think git is such an ideal backend for something like a wiki, where multiple contributors and version history are both so important.

Tangent: how do HN folks generally do technical wikis -- or really, just keep track of the technical details of your software -- in large software development organizations?

My org uses Confluence for some stuff, Github pages and READMEs for others. It's... fine. It's not the worst I've ever seen, you can find some useful stuff with a little bit of work and some knowledge about where to look, but it's still very likely that whatever you're reading is either outdated or now-irrelevant.

How do you (and your team) solve the challenge of keeping documentation actually relevant and up-to-date when there are so many people writing so much code, then leaving two years later?
Seems a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28713678
We actually did work on this a few years ago but did not get enough takers for it. We created a one size fits all database, that leverages the full capability of the file system.

Try it here: https://github.com/blobcity/db

PS: I am the chief architect of the DB, and the project is no longer being actively maintained by us. But if you make a contribution, we will oblige to review and merge a PR.

Bottom line, nothing you do can make your database faster than the filesystem. So why not make a database that just uses the filesystem to the fullest, than creating a filesystem on top of a filesystem. BlobCity DB does not create a secondary filesystem. It dumps all data directly to the filesystem, thereby giving peak filesystem performance. This is scientifically really the best it gets from a performance standpoint. Not necessarily the most efficient in data storage / data-compression standpoint.

This means, we gain speed, while compromising on data-compression. We produce a larger storage footprint, but are insanely fast. Storage is cheap, compute isn't. So that should be okay I suppose.
Is Netflix still doing cutting edge stuff? Back in the day I was in awe of what they have accomplished over the years but now competitors seem to be rolling out basically equivalent services. That makes it seems like the core tech to do what they do has been commoditized and all the "magical" stuff has been figured out.

I made a big miscalculation with Disney+ because when I heard stories of many good engineers leaving BAMTech in the initial rollout I thought these guys are clowns run by non-tech savvy executives. But I was proven wrong when they didn't crash and burn. Since then other companies that seem like legacy firms that don't know anything about tech are also rolling out services and they are more or less working.
Couldn't a good lead suggest an engineer learn this after-the-fact?

Also do most software problems involve optimizations at scale like at Netflix or Google ? It seems mismatched to assume that an esoteric use case is the gold standard.
If you're developer, it's guaranteed that these companies will attempt to capture 15% to 30% of all of your revenue on these platforms, too. They already do it with phones and tablets.
All I'm hoping for at this point is that they switch course on this ridiculous taskbar thing. I want a vertical task bar on the left side of my rightmost monitor, and I can't actually imagine using a PC with anything else. Also, small taskbar buttons with text (my taskbar is about 250px wide so that I can read the names of all my multiple windows of each IDE/text editor/Firefox).

This is such a huge impact on day-to-day usage of the OS by users, why would they constrain it?
Not to say that you're making this point, but I would argue that if Bitcoin is obsolete and irrelevant than Bitcoin Cash most certainly is equally irrelevant and obsolete. The Bitcoin Cash approach to distributed database design is kind of like seeing a car with a 1kw engine, realizing that it will never be able to reach orbit, and putting a 100kw, diesel-electric hybrid engine in it instead. I think it's undeniably better, but in a direction orthogonal to what the protocol needs for long term usefulness - a more sustainable consensus mechanism with massively higher throughput.
> And then we'll end up with a fragmented CPU field driven by corporate greed.

So x86, basically.
For those with know how, where can I get a technical paper which describes this numa architecture. A server with multiple nics with a peferred core association is of interest. Presumably this needs Linux support too.
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When TreeHouse first launched I traded a series of emails with Ryan. He seemed to me to be a nice, genuine guy.

He'd already had success as an entrepreneur, he never needed to ever work again. Yet he challenged himself to build something much bigger that stood a chance to change the world. Sometimes it just doesn't work out.

His actions at the end indicate to me that he was just burned out. But in my opinion he should have announced the firings himself no matter how painful and quit a few months earlier when he could have paid severance, no excuse for that.
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Sounds like Microsoft is turning Windows into ChromeOS. Now I actually like ChromeOS a lot. But I do wish we'd keep some actual choices, instead of the same thing with different skins.
> How can I stop companies from getting my location data?

The steps they list only cover gps data. In my final year at uni, during the capstone fair, I recall one group built a tracking system that relied on Bluetooth or wifi or something (maybe cellular signals?) to identify and track people indoors. I think they pitched it to be used in malls or airports, but really could work anywhere. It was surprisingly robust.

There are other projects that track you by license plate on highways, or by facial recognition. All this is location data too. I don’t think a highly motivated person could avoid location tracking any more without living in the woods
WASM adoption is not something everyone agrees is a great thing in the context of physical CPUs.
It’s cool to see 25+ yrs of x86 dominance schism off into all these Arm variants.

I just hope we don’t see problems with portability like it’s the 70’s again.
This is the way most of the computing market has worked most of the time. Mainframes and minis were this way, then almost all the workstation vendors had their own CPU architecture and OS (often a flavour of Unix). The only real exception, and I admit it is a huge one, in Wintel but outside that in house hardware/software development in tandem has been the norm.

Furthermore this model is fundamental to the ARM architecture. The whole point is for licensees to develop SOCs with their own custom components on the same die. That's literally what a SOC is.
Honda prepping AI robots electric air travel and lunar technology for 2030
Or you could just buy an AMD GPU.
Well, a private company can raise capital, so it can spend beyond what it earns, similarly to how the government budget can exceed tax receipts by issuance of debt and other methods.

The military budget is decided by a sort of committee (many of them, in fact, and not just Congress), but private companies all have ways of parceling out a budget as well, it's not as if most staff are literally paid out of their own personal direct sales. And the way that budget is decided almost invariably involves committees. The current DoD funding model was actually taken from what Ford Motor Co. used in the 60s.

When we were at risk of government shutdown earlier in the week, our office within the agency was relatively immune to the potential shutdown as our civilian staff are nearly all paid out of 'working capital' funds which are modeled after a direct earnings model, rather than being paid out of 'appropriated' funds which would have been at risk absent action from Congress.
> Here's what's uncomplicated: OP are not frauds.

According to OP -- do you have firmer evidence of this than their own say-so?
TBH, when I saw the term "myriad" in the title, I was expecting the term "八百万" (yaoyorozu, 8 million) [0].

[0]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%85%AB%E7%99%BE%E4%B8%87
CEOs of publicly traded companies, where a significant chunk of their compensation is stock which can be sold on an open market, sure but not all CEOs.

In my entire career the highest paid people in a private company (including multiple high growth B2B startups) has always been the top sales people. Not the sales manager, not the CEO, an individual contributor Sales person. As you hit more and more above quota, accelerators kick in where you commission percentage increases massively. And our CEO loves writing them those checks because good sales people way more than pay for themselves.
I personally dislike FB. I don’t have a FB/Instagram/Whatsapp account and would hate creating one just to run ads.

Unfortunately I feel like 90%+ of my target audience uses Google for search and at least one of FBs properties. It’s hard not to want to advertise on those platforms.
It will be interesting to look at the court challenges. Yes, other vaccines are mandated for schools, but the covid vaccines have not gone through the normal approval process by the FDA (which is time consuming), and thus were given only an emergency Temporary Use Authorization, and you need to sign away your right to sue or the vendor will refuse to give you the vaccine. That's not the case with something like the measles vaccine (or really any other medical treatment), which is FDA approved and does not require waiving patient rights to obtain. Having the government require everyone to waive patient rights in order to attend school is going to create some legal challenges.
TIL someone who bans you for life is forced to do business with you.
I do this myself, but I have one person who insists on leaving messages if she can't talk to me right that second.
Why use native scrolling with 0MB used when you can implement your own scrolling in JS for mere tens of megabytes?
100% this. Cross-platform binaries that "just work" everywhere in a hardware agnostic manner is going to be huge.

Browser-based games and real-time 3D applications are the one's I'm most excited about, personally but that may be because I'm developing a WASM startup in this space.
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What I find most fascinating about Basic Color Terms is the regularity across cultures, worldviews and languages. If a language has 2 terms for color, they are always "light" and "dark". If it has 3 terms for color, the third term is always "red". If it has 4 terms for color, the fourth term is always "yellow" or "green". 5 terms, the language has both "yellow" and "green".
Good suggestion. Unfortunately Reddit is not that popular for the target demographic I have in mind (B2B in a Spanish speaking country).
> Is it that much of a problem as long as alternate OSes can be installed by the user? For example, the M1 chip can run Linux.

And yet you can't run alternate OSes on iPhones and iPads because of Apple's efforts to make sure that you can't.

We're relying on the goodwill of companies that have all the financial incentives in the world to lock users out of the hardware they own, and those are the same companies that already lock users out of their mobile devices.
In the US, there's something called a class action lawsuit.

"As of July 1, 2010, Quiznos was close to reaching a settlement over the multiyear class-action lawsuit that covers nearly 10,000 of its current and former franchisees. The case comprises four separate class-action lawsuits dating back to 2006 which consolidated in 2009 — involved allegations by attorneys for franchisees that Quiznos Franchise Co. LLC and other entities with ownership or control of the Quiznos chain had violated U.S. racketeering and corruption statutes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiznos
Most SpaceX hardware works this way: off-the-shelf processor, triply redundant, using voting to figure out if one is wrong.
If you mean "every other version", then yes, I member.

I think MS has shifted from that strategy into a new one, where we'll see improvements every fifth version or so. 20 years from now, we'll get "multiple displays works like a charm".
It won't, and shouldn't. Wasm meets very few of it's goals, and is nowhere near any native speeds under real world workloads. Even speedups with SIMD ar hindered, and the entire design and implementation of it in the clang/llvm compiler is very experimental.

Go work with wasm in the browser, you will pull your hair out at the fact emscripten is still the most used tool. It's all very hackey and if something breaks, you wont fix it.
Ouch, thanks for the heads up. :/ We'll be stuck with FITS this time around, though.

Also, someone should put OCFL on the front page, while HN is in an archiving mood.
And if we go for antidotes, my current Tesla has had 0 problems or recalls, my previous Honda had many many recalls and issues.

This is not a useful way to look at a product.
It matters because the segment of population in your country that doesn’t care about WhatsApp is a nucleus of adoption for both the next messaging app and a phone without WhatsApp. Facebook is already hedging it’s bets by owning and promoting the next most popular messaging app.
Food carts are no problem if the company wants to. Finnish IC2 trains have elevators for food carts in 2-decker railcars. Nothing inherently prevents same in Shinkansen.
How would you leverage in app purchases to promote a B2B saas product?
That could really trip someone. It may be even possible to reverse the scroll! I’m surprised that Apple doesn’t block this behavior.
Extensions are not allowed, because of course...

It also self updated, even if you have that turned off.
>> How can I stop companies from getting my location data?

Can't you just turn that off? Am I missing something?
Did Minimal Consciousness Drive the Cambrian Explosion?
That depends. What happens to the industry power? Does it go back to individuals or does it accrue to the government?
...No man, they weren't tracking you...

They were just testing their equipment to track everyone better!

Absolutely surreal the mental gymnastics some are capable of convincing themselves to be comfortable with. Sometimes the problem is that the technology is being applied at all. The fact every techbro hides behind "Pfft, it ain't you we're interested in," doesn't quash the unspoken "it's everyone and you".
1. I am artist X
2. I have an Ethereum wallet and even own the ENS name X.eth
3. I mint an NFT that represents ownership of one of my digital works

That NFT cannot be duplicated, because the Ethereum network enforces unique IDs for each ERC 721 token and prevents the double spend problem. What's more, I can look at the NFT and determined that it was indeed minted by artist X because it was his address that created it.

The artist can later mint duplicate NFTs but everyone will still know which NFT came first.
With Microsoft, they get better with every other version. Goes back at least to Windows 2000. Windows Me, Vista, 8 were monsters, 2000, XP, 7 and 10 were nice enough. Whatever comes after 11 should be good again
(Reuters) -Rivian Automotive, backed by Amazon.com Inc and Ford, disclosed losses of nearly $1 billion in the first half of the year, the electric-vehicle maker's U.S. IPO filing showed on Friday.

The company has been investing aggressively in ramping up production of its electric vehicles, including its upscale all-electric R1T pickup truck which was launched last month beating out competition from more established rivals, such as Tesla Inc, General Motors and Ford.

Rivian had about 48,390 preorders for its R1T pickup trucks and R1S SUVs in the United States and Canada as of last month.

The company is currently pursuing a two-track strategy: building electric delivery vans for Amazon and developing an electric pickup and SUV brand aimed at affluent individuals.

Amazon has ordered 100,000 of Rivian's electric delivery vans as part of the e-commerce giant's broader effort to cut its carbon footprint.

Rivian said on Friday it will list its shares on the Nasdaq under the symbol "RIVN".

Founded in 2009 as Mainstream Motors by R. J. Scaringe, the company changed its name to Rivian in 2011. "Rivian" is derived from "Indian River" in Florida, a place Scaringe frequented in a rowboat as a youth.

Scaringe on Friday said the company would put 1% of equity in its environmental program called "Forever" that is aimed at helping address climate change and preserving wildlands and waterways.

Rivian, which confidentially filed paperwork with regulators for an IPO in August, has not yet set terms for its offering. However, Reuters reported in September that it could seek a valuation of nearly $80 billion, raising up to $8 billion in its IPO.

For the six months ended June 30, Rivian's net loss widened to $994 million from $377 million a year earlier, the company said in its filing with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission.

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan are the lead underwriters for the Rivian IPO.
I found this device extremely fascinating. Couldn't find one to buy though. I don't know how viscous are these as the wave patterns seem to unaffected by gravity.

Original better quality video https://www.instagram.com/p/BJ3lrnpDohi/

Invented by Paul Matisse to view fluid currents https://www.paulmatisse.com/history

There are few more videos on youtube all very fascinating.
Self-hosted messenger that doesn't use phone numbers
You can, but it's not an infinite energy machine, the increased resistance to moving forwards is going to suck more energy out of the first vehicles battery than it is going to put into the second, your total range will be strictly less than if you didn't do that.
> Whatever happen to efficient market valuation?

Efficient market hypothesis is entirely fraudulent. It always will be. Fortunately, so investors can keep taking advantage of the endless market inefficiencies.

EMH is the equivalent in market theory of believing the Earth is flat. A person has to be wildly irrational and detached from the ability to properly utilize basic reasoning skills in order to buy into it.
I completely agree with this line of thinking as I enter my 30s. But having lived in Europe for a while and seen the dark side of this "work to live vs live to work" mentality, we have to accept that building cutting edge stuff is the result of many hours of pain and suffering and most of all sacrifice. Somebody has got to do the pain and suffering part so that everyone else can do more of the "just work up to the requirements and not an ounce more" part.
Is there any evidence that neuromodulation can actually impact the glymphatic system and stimulate the flow of fluids?

Do we know how the glymphatic system works in enough detail yet? This sounds like a useful research tool full of interesting sensors. But referring to it as "brain cleaning" strikes me as premature.
Pretty much any SoC powerful enough to use for this necessitates having an ME style core. The only question is if end users can change the code out.
Thanks! No, not that I know of, looks like for the AWS cli it needs to be in an S3 bucket, based on looking at this document: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/textract/an...
Under what circumstances exactly would it be a safety or security issue to replace one genuine OEM part with another genuine OEM part, identical in all ways except for the serial number?
> Android Pay is easy to get working on a rooted phone you just need to slightly modify one single SQLite database.

"You just need to slightly modify one single SQLite database" has got to be the most unintentionally amusing thing I've read all week. I'm happy to poke around in the internals of Android, but even most of my developer friends would see a process like that and go "nope, not worth the effort". Ordinary people do not know what SQLite is, or how to run scripts, so a barrier like that is a deal breaker for them.
Traces of 122 different pesticides in 12 most polluted fruit and veg products
seriously I hate that they randomly add websearch results to the search bar so much
Google Turns Out the Lights for Earth Hour (2008)
It's more than just a size change and there are features besides transistors. Say you have a 100 fF capacitor; is that because that's the right value based on an external constraint (say, interacting with a crystal) or because it's matching the inductance of a long internal path? Because you adjust them differently based on circumstance. And your transistors with a specific load must still supply the same current as before so they can't shrink as much as ones for internal logic.

Also because the materials have changed the dialectic constant probably has and now the relative sizes of components need to adjust. And circuits are designed to minimize switching loss based on the old switching time and now they'll be wrong.

Oh, and the breakdown voltage of the new process can't handle the voltage many of these old circuits use IIRC.
> the segment of population in your country that doesn’t care about WhatsApp

No such thing exists. At best you have people such as myself who care about alternatives. Those too have WhatsApp installed.
What? Germany is one of the most privacy-aware countries. So people should make some noise. Of course internet is still a bit new for all of us as the still-chancellor noted to too long ago... So technical incompetence does not surprise me. Vodafone prefers to make headlines with criminal sales practices.
You seem to make assumptions that aren’t charitable and come off as overly defense.

It doesn’t matter “why”, His point still stands.