skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To me, a package "publisher" is basically just the author.

At work, we keep on calling the CI stage which uploads the build artifacts to Artifactory the "publish" stage. Maybe that's the wrong terminology but I've got used to it. And if "publish" is what the stage is doing, it kind of makes sense to call it a "publisher". Maybe that's wrong, especially in the context of PyPI, but it doesn't sound wrong to me.
'Disastrous launch' - turns out to be a dent well above the water line.
There was no real reason to rush the transition to GTK3, but it was done anyway.

GTK3 with its half-assed support of CSS for theming is just just bad, and slow (especially on Macs)

And they continued to change GTK3 API after 3.0, which did not exactly help
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroelectricity

one use of this kind of material is in non-volatile RAM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroelectric_RAM
> Qt should create a vanilla c++ package and tooling manager like Rusts cargo for dependencies and tools (and make semantic versioning mandatory). [...] Make the tool open source with vanilla c++ (aka non Qt projects), only so it can become the de facto standard.

Or just use one that is already working: https://build2.org (bonus point: also gets rid of CMake).

There are even "Qt classic" packages for both Qt5 and Qt6:

https://queue.stage.build2.org/?packages=Qt5

https://queue.stage.build2.org/?packages=Qt6
All I can say is that, after watching the vid, "disastrous launch" is not how I would describe it.

This seems to be the result of the clickbaity spirit that brought us "X destroys Y" when referring to uneventful disagreements.
Wow, that’s a gigantic fire right there. So it seems local refineries are not very interesting.
I think my ignorance is showing here, but that paper's tldr to me seems to be: neural network performance is not a monotonic function of network width. Like the conclusion and the problem statement seem to be trivially equivalent.

They admit that this law is only useful if you already know where the 'breaks' are: "If an additional break of sufficient sharpness happens at a scale that is sufficiently larger than the
maximum (along the x-axis) of the points used for fitting, there does not (currently) exist a way to
extrapolate the scaling behavior after that additional break."
Warships are expensive, and possibly made with special designs and materials. Tug boats on other side are cost effective.
I didn't even know he was sick..
Or, you could just wear yoga clothes to work?
Agreed with your concerns, though to me it sounds like this guy in the article is also trying to limit his hours spent on learning and side projects outside of work, which is healthy. But I think the case you bring up is more interesting and prevalent in our field.

I used to be the guy who lived in software development. Lived as in spent every waking moment doing something with development, including working stupid hours that in retrospect could not possibly have been productive. I woke up one morning and I was 30 years old, divorced in large part because I lived at work, had developed diabetes because I didn't take care of my body, and almost friendless because I chose my computer over my friendships nearly every time.

That wasn't living. When I finally woke up I realized that I had wasted my 20's: I was an addict getting a fix, not some genius reaching enlightenment.

Maybe some people are able to do both, but when I had that realization I decided to leave my software endeavors at work unless I knew it was a side project of a very short duration. If I wasn't being paid at my 40 hour a week - and not more than 40 hour a week - job, I needed to actively resist plunging into it as a default rather than vice versa.

As a result of this, I know I have become a worse engineer. But I also have a wife and kids, several hobbies, friends I care about who care about me, and while my health will never fully recover from developing diabetes I would say that I am in astonishingly better health than I was at 30. I will take that over my addiction to the software treadmill.
4d chess…
And more non trivial amounts of money on parts, maintenance and inspections. Lots of moving parts. Lots of complexity. Lots of engineering hours spent on keeping it all running smoothly. Electrical planes still need inspections but they are a lot more robust and the complexity of maintaining, inspecting, and operating them is at least an order of magnitude lower. And they break down in less and less expensive ways and probably less often too.

The third expensive component is staffing. Pilots are expensive and for complex aircraft they need lots of training. So, simple electrical airplanes lower the training cost and make it easier to train and find new pilots. And complexity is also a reason you often need two pilots. Smaller/simpler airplanes can be one pilot operations. And of course replacing pilots entirely when these things become autonomous brings further cost savings. The flip side is that lots of small planes require more pilots.

Finally, big airports are expensive. You have to pay landing fees in lots of places. And service fees. And missing your assigned slot because of delays is expensive. That too goes away if you start flying from less busy/cheaper airports.

So, there a few additional savings here beyond fuel. But that is the biggest one.

IMHO this is going to be a repeat of the EV revolution a decade ago. But minus a lot of the emotional bickering about range anxiety, etc. Most planes are operated by for profit businesses. The second something cheap becomes available, they'll be all over it. In the same way using electrical vans vs. ice vans is not a topic of debate in the industry. You get the electrical van if you can. They are cheaper to operate. There's zero uncertainty on that front so you see essentially all large fleets transitioning to electrical vans as soon as they can get it done.

With electrical flight, a lot of this stuff is bottle necked on product development (happening), certification (starting to happen), and volume production (not happening yet). Better batteries increase the demand further. But without volume production, demand is not the issue. Supply is. This is and will be supply constrained for a long time.
> In any country in the world with a functioning government they are not just going to walk away because someone said they don’t have the materials covered in the warrant.

That's probably true, but entirely unrelated to what you claimed before.

You said this specifically, and none of that is permissive anywhere in Europe.

> They can tear your house apart. Seize your property. They can withdraw your blood by force if necessary. Micheal Jackson (rich, famous, and powerful) had his genitalia examined. They can certainly (and do) go in your office and take every single thing computer or data related if those devices may contain information relevant to the warrant.

They'll only be able to take what's specifically allowed according to the warrant, and if the warrant was worded to only include servers with storage mediums, and they don't have any, then nothing could be collected until the warrant was reissued. Which would likely be done pretty quickly.
EU Data Act: Member states agree common position on fair access to data
> and the Tesla Model S can do a rated 650km on a single charge

It's better to use real world highway range which is 300 miles (482 km) in a Model S:

https://insideevs.com/reviews/443791/ev-range-test-results/
I am surprised no one has mentioned Mick West - https://www.youtube.com/@MickWest.

He was a video game developer that worked for Neversoft. He has the website https://www.metabunk.org/home/

I think that he goes into great detail on what the most recent US Navy releases are, the pyramid shaped drowns are actually stars being affected by bokeh.

The famous "gimbal" UFO is actually just another plane and the image is affected by lensing effects.

Although I then have the additional question - if it was so quickly debunked by these debunkers - why does the US Navy think they are sighting pyramid shaped drones flying over the pacific ocean?

Is it that they lack the knowledge to id these things - or is it a part of some physiological warfare?
This is exactly the reason I've avoided QML. Give me a 100% C++ API and I will reconsider.
Yeah, same. I tell all my friends to give me the dead ones so I can recycle the batteries. The commodity futures market puts lithium carbonate at something like ~$33/kilogram but a vape battery has something like half a gram of lithium carbonate in it, meaning it's not worth anyone's time beyond as a hobby to offer redemption value for turning in dead ones, and then doing the work of salvaging the battery, recycling the (plastic) components, and then finally trashing the trash.

The most frustrating part about it is the rechargeable disposable vapes really aren't that far from being refillable. Even if you didn't make the coil replaceable, letting people refill it with liquid until the coil burned out would still be a huge advancement in less trash, but that cuts into sales, which is yet another failure of the free market to be more than self-serving.

It's just so bad because reusable vapes are right there and are both are sold in the same stores. Disposable vapes are just so wasteful. :(
Does regenerative braking count as renewable energy? It's clearly absent from internal combustion (diesel or not)
> What happens when programmers are no longer needed?

I can't imagine a situation like this. Who is doing all the actual programming work ? Who is receiving the products of the work ? Who is competing with the previous two groups ?

Writing code might be no longer needed at some point but programmers don't spend majority of their time writing code.
It won't happen in USA until a majority of chips and EV batteries required can be reliably produced and sourced domestically. Until that point the continued production and sale of new ICEs will still be required as a matter of national security.
Atari 800XL Remake
The article title doesn't even say "disastrous launch"
I think whatever is generated locally cannot be canon, since the world cannot know about it.
I would have never paid $100 per month for software but here i am doing the same with api costs.
Wow, you're right. The 14-day sensor didn't require one, but that's not available anymore.
Running a simple todo list app these days destroys my mac’s battery life because of the Chrome shit. Wen apps are like drugs: Just Say No!
What am I looking at? There seems to be a fairly small impact at first, and then a huge underground explosion later. Some sort of bunker buster? The delay seems quite long.
We’ve had more than a hundred years of industry and it has been demonstrated time and time again that greed doesn’t fuel positive change when it comes to matters of the environment. Greed only leads to greenwashing (on phone so no citation but you can look the term up - ostensibly it’s where companies run PR campaigns to promote greenness while not actually doing much, if anything, to improve the situation).

Examples of this are carbon offsetting instead of reducing the carbon they use, recycling campaigns instead of actually using less environmentally harmful packaging. The “right thing” here is always more expensive.

This is a trend we’ve already seen for decades. Why should it suddenly be different now?

I’m not saying politicians can be trusted either but at least politicians goals aren’t contradictory to environmental concerns, unlike greed vs environmentally sympathetic products that generally cost more to produce.

And here lies the problem: companies can’t be trusted to do the right thing for the environment because it costs more for them to do so. And if there is one thing we should have learned by now it’s that most companies will gladly take shortcuts if it raises their profits and/or share value.

Asking readers of HN to trust businesses to do the right thing is like repeatedly approaching a barking dog after getting bitten multiple times thinking “this time I’m positive the dog won’t bite me”. At some point you have to set boundaries otherwise they’ll continue to misbehave knowing they can always get away with it.
Could also be a side coinage if I read it correctly as “Shiny Object Syndrome” , wanting to use the latest new techniques that are in the hype cycle.
I'm willing to bet your accuracy was better than 4% across an entire field.
It couldn't have been 10 yards farther?
I think a lot of the problems come from the incentives the Qt Company has. They get a lot of their revenue from big companies like car manufacturers with very specific requirements. That's why their QML examples always contain a car dashboard. Another part of their revenue is from people who are locked in to their license agreement. They are not putting enough resources into desktop development, widgets, or to make it a competitor to Electron, Flutter, and simliar tools.

What Qt would need on the desktop is that they put Qt widgets on a new, modern, compositing based foundation (like Gtk did) in order to support transparency, animations etc. Then implement up to date themes for macOS and Windows (using foreign drawing if possible). The macOS theme is clearly outdated and still has blue buttons. Modern WinUI is not included at all. Yeah folk wisdom is that you cannot make a convincing native app this way, but you can get 95% there, and it will be much more native looking than any electron app. I don't see any of this happening, though.
Navy doesn't want them anymore. Congress is forcing the Navy to build more, like what congress did with the A10 warhog and M1 tanks.
Java did this in the 90s. Not sure why we need yet another bytecode format.
Note that Japanese went with horizontal right to left for a while before going with left to right. I don't know if Chinese or Korean did the same.
Rather than spend millions, potentially billions on reports, enquiries, tribunals, commissions, leading to: decommissioning shipyards, etc... this armchair engineer recommends the navy use a longer chain / rope to the tug next time.
For 32-bit float, yes. For double precision, not so much.
Dust Egress is pretty tame in terms of environmental impact. Guess they need to mske these pads more remote.
Oh boy. They’ve made many more interactive explainers. Very impressive.

https://ciechanow.ski/archives/
Ah true, forgot about Ford, they're rare but present; also built in the EU though, even if Ford are a one-brand company (after the sale of Volvo/Jaguar/Land Rover). In Bulgaria there's a joke along the lines of "Do you know why Fords have such wide windshield/windscreens? So that everyone can see the idiots that bought them.", but I'm not actually aware of them having a bad reputation (unlike say old Opels that are known as very rust prone).

Teslas are a new phenomenon and indeed getting more and more prominent in some niches, but it seems it's mostly taxis and uber drivers, at least in France. I suppose the theatrics of Tesla's prominent CEO will significantly hamper their expansion, and pretty much most car manufacturers have caught up. Around where I live I see more Renault Zoe and VW ID.3s than Teslas for personal use.
sold: The commercial version of the mold linker
As an outsider, I have to ask: what's wrong with QML? Was there a better, earlier layout language before QML that I don't know about?
> Which was the right thing to do

Not for people of Donetsk.

> Russia already broke the previous agreement they had with Ukraine to never invade the country anyway.

I am not that good of a legal expert to track each and every treaty, but I doubt that there was an agreement formulated exactly like that. For example the Budapest Memorandum article 3 was technically broken when Europe and the US were fast to support a coup in Ukraine.

> So why would this time be any different?

Because this essentially legitimises Russia's motive for the war.
> Still, I would take the renewable energy lobbyists above the gun lobbyists anytime!

Gun lobbying in 2022: $13M [0]

There’s no category for climate, so here’s a few (tldr gun lobbying sucks but it’s a drop on the bucket of the billions spent on lobbying). Sugar kills way more than guns every year (for example 88k deaths in 2019 [6] vs 40k gun deaths in 2019 [7] and sugar causes more than just diabetes) so the effect of lobbying is more than just hurting people with guns, it’s hurting people with physical and mental health issues.

Single issue/ ideological: $194M [1]

Energy: $359M [2]

Cattle ranchers: $5M [3]

Agribusiness: $166M [4]

Timber: $5M [5]

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries/summ...
[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/sectors/summary...
[2] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/sectors/summary...
[3] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries/summ...
[4] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/sectors/summary...
[5] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries/summ...
[6] https://diabetes.org/about-us/statistics/about-diabetes
[7] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/04/06/gun-deaths-...
One of the egregious examples of this is Oracle's Application Express technology - write APIs and screens in PL/SQL. It's such a horrifyingly, nakedly cynical lock-in strategy that it took me a while to come to terms with it when I first came across it.
Because self-hosting mission-critical services that are not your business' core competency is almost always stupid

As just one example - 20 years ago it made sense for many businesses to self-host email

It has not made sense to do that for at least a decade
The problem is that the focus on "greedy landlords" or "greedy corporations" or "greedy homeowners" is that it suggests the solution is to make people stop being greedy. As a "greedy homeowner" that's very convenient for me because I know it'll never happen. No, don't increase my property taxes, don't ask for CGT on my primary residence, just keep imploring me to "stop being greedy".

Unfortunately "greed" is about the only thing you see in the discourse on the matter in Ireland, which really remains pretty unsophisticated and unable to comprehend second-order effects. I posted once or twice on one of "Ciaran's crazy house prices" rants about greed saying that we needed systemic change and the focus on "greed" was absurd - humans in Ireland are no more greedy than anywhere else - and was shouted down. Similarly, if you say "letting tenants remain in properties for months or years without paying rent might discourage people from renting out homes and make the problem worse" or "making it impossible to evict people will result in more places never being rented out in the first place" then you're some kind of heartless bastard.

Everyone is greedy! Do you go to your boss and ask for a pay cut? Do you put your car on donedeal and say "10,000 or lowest offer"? What we need is _systemic_ change that acknowledges people are greedy and produces good outcomes despite that greed.

Not to mention that the idea of selling to someone based on something besides price invites all sort of prejudice and bias. Should I choose to sell to a nice local family and tell the immigrants to go to hell? Should I sell to someone who shares my own political views? How would you have me decide?

Finally, a lot of people are selfless until faced with the reality of the situation. The next house I buy? It's going to the highest bidder. The best way for me to make sure that bidder is me is to get the best price I can now for my current house.

It's going to the highest bidder.
Show HN: A WebAssembly-Based (Rust) & In-WebWorker HLS Media Player for the Web
Only 240,000 paying customers needed to cover $24M/mo server costs. I would assume personnel costs could be in the same class as well.
GPTs are Predictors, not Imitators
Pretty sure he means audit compliance, proper RBAC, etc
The Daily Mail is a Sensationalist, not serious publication in all ways. So yes.

It has no place here. Or on Wikipedia: "In February 2017, editors on the English Wikipedia banned the use of the Daily Mail as a source." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail
Jeez, just say "no" dude
Yahoo is still very popular in Japan, although it's a different company apparently. And Yahoo Finance is still quite big around the world. Apart from that I'm not sure.
Australia

Edit: I am going to go out on a limb and say that if you're hiring I can make adjustments to make the timezone difference work.
> The entire premise of banks is that they know their customers withdrawal and deposit patterns, which are usually independent and not very correlated, and they can invest the money in the mean time.

Usually, but not nearly always – see SVB.

But then again, there is nothing that says a stablecoin issuer (or bank for that matter) absolutely needs to lend long and borrow short: They can just as well park their entire deposits at the central bank.
Did it stall maybe?
Number of jobs doesn't tell the whole story.

First, those are much depreciated jobs. It's as if programmers became minimum wage "AI prompt checkers" and instead of 1 million programmers we got 2 million of them (some covering what Excel jockies do now). There are more of them, but hardly what it was before.

Second, the growth must be compared with overall industry growth.

"Both the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014) and IBIS World (2013) report that the
photography industry is in decline. While the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014) expects to see the number employed in the photography industry increase by 4% between 2012 and 2022, this is well below the average of 11% increase across all industries. IBIS World (2013) reports a decline in the UK between 2009 and 2014 of 4.1% but also comments that this is a long term decline. Clifford (2013) and Photo Counter (2012) both support the view that the photography industry has been declining for some time. Clifford (2013) suggests that photographers have no clearly defined career paths anymore and that more photographers entering the market find themselves doing a wide variety of photography assignments to make a living. The two metrics used to measure the growth and decline of an industry are generally the changes in revenue and the changes in the number of people employed in that industry. Yang (2010) explains that the distinction between amateur photographers and professional photographers is blurring and to an extent becomes irrelevant since many amateur photographers / hobbyist photographers are selling their work on micro stock photography websites. Amateur photographers selling their images on micro stock websites are not likely to be included in the metrics used for measuring the growth / decline of the photography industry".

https://pure.solent.ac.uk/ws/files/24372581/Are_professional...
Here in the Netherlands, we'd translate 31mpg to "1 per 11". One can drive 11km on 1L of fuel. 1 per 11 is a joke. It's associated with heavy petrol cars from the 80s and 90s, before anybody even attempted efficiency.

Even my 15 year old diesel car had an efficiency of 1/22. Adjust you driving style and I'd get 1/25. Range: 1000km, with an ordinary sized tank.

It seems Americans haven't even started with efficiency, quite likely because there was no pressure to do so due to low fuel prices. Not in their homes, not in their cars, not anywhere.
I get it, but it’s still wild to me that we build massive ships then just kinda dump them in the water.

You’d think they’d build it in a drydock and then open some locks, let it flood, and tow it out. But nope… they deploy ships like my kids do at bathtime.
Looks like it's back to steering wheel rods.
Who put Rebel Alliance and House Atreides in there? Terrible lack of focus, turns it from an interesting study into a random list of stuff from fantasy worlds people like to ramble about.
Perhaps I am not conceptualizing this right, but it sounds to me like it is basically a hemiola, which can be found in a lot of western music, albeit not much in classical or pop. If you listen to math rock or stuff like meshuggah though, its all over the place.