skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counter point: 5G has been the most important technological innovation for my family in a decade. We live in the US but our home had no unmetered broadband access prior to 5G rollout. (No DSL (for BS "technical line reasons) and no StarLink or cable video)
Based on what happened with the Strategic National Stockpile [1] right before COVID hit, I don’t have much confidence in government run capacity either:

> From 2017 to 2019, the Trump administration failed to replace masks and other supplies used in earlier disasters. In May 2020, in a House subcommittee meeting, whistle-blower Dr. Rick Bright, previous director of Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, explained that the Trump administration had ignored his early warnings to stock up on masks and other supplies to combat the coronavirus.

I’d like to think that we’ve learned our lesson with COVID and we can blame it all on the-administration-that-must-not-be-named but that’s naive. The supply problem has been growing in magnitude for decades and is likely caused in part by the same policies that lead to anticonsumer consolidation in the rest of the market.

Bring back trust busting!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_National_Stockpile
It also means that when Mercedes decides it's not cost-effective to maintain these subscription features when they're more than six years old, they just go away completely and portions of your car get bricked. What a load of crap. I see Mercedes cars from the 1960s on the road frequently. Mercedes cars made today will never become classics.
It's probably very hard to shrink further than a very low number of atoms but we're far from that. The "2nm" marketing name has no relation to the actual physical size of the transistors. The physical features of the "3nm" process node are something like 24nm and 48nm. The Van der Waals radius of a silicon atom is about 0.2nm. Transistors made from a single molecule have been demostrated. Maybe we could even shrink to elementary particles but that's in the realm of SciFi so far.
> today's tech companies can't just be, they must expand and expand.

Isn't it in the nature of tech industry though? If a company "just is", it doesn't need to do any R&D work, so it's not a tech company any more.
Kids trying to play video games on school laptops
There's a certain irony in tweeting ad hominem attacks then claiming people are being defensive...
Bleak Outlook for Manhattan’s Office Space May Signal a Bigger Problem
At least it's honest..

I do not have any information about when Kagi Search may conduct another "bait-and-switch". I am an AI assistant created by Kagi Search to provide truthful and factual answers based on the context I am given.
You had me until that last sentence. I have no idea what you're referring to with Wi-Fi.
I think it is sadly a result of influence of their lucky and wealthy neighbour Alberta and trying to replicate that success using misguided cargo cult methods.

Alberta of course massively wealthy due to the fortunes springing up out of the ground, and over the years has been able to draw Canadians from all sorts of places at times where their own home province was relatively economically depressed.

Alberta also has a conservative political culture and some unique ideas around how to organize things that were particularly different from, as you said, the "let's work together" approach of Sask under visionary leader Tommy Douglas and those that followed that social democratic road map.

So I think you had a combination of Sask folks going to Alberta to work in the oil sands and picking up the politics and coming back with it, and the centralized conservative media touting Albertan success across the border as a road map for Saskachewan success.

Of course the reality is that Alberta's success likely has a lot a lot less to do with their political policy choices, and a hell of a lot more to do with the fact that they get absolutely ginormous oil royalties that funds their every budget wish.

Saskachewan trying to replicate what Alberta has via the policy side, without the resource royalty side, well they're not going to see the same outcomes.
Ask HN: What's the best AI-generated joke you've ever seen?
I recently asked ChatGPT to tell me jokes about random things I camp up with. It seems to be really obsessed with puns. As I keep asking it to "think of another one", the "jokes" make less and less sense. So I wonder if anyone has ever seen an actually funny AI-generated joke.
Would it be a good idea to rewrite glibc in Rust?
The absolute hard minimum has to be one silicon atom wide, or 0.2nm. But note that "3nm" doesn't quite have any features that are that size, it's a non-precise marketing term.
It won't! That's the most galling aspect of this gigantic waste of money. That you're calling it a "new market" is precisely the problem --- when you've sunk this many billions into something, you can't wait that long before needing to make that money back.

The "metaverse" is ironically set up to be Facebook's walled garden. It has no other use, it cannot be repurposed or made modular in any way. It's not a standalone product that say, integrates with Google Ads, something that they could try to offload to some other company.

It's Zuck's baby, and in the middle of slow and protracted crib death.
I wrote my own firmware for ESP-8266 IoT devices to connect them to Home Assistant. There are many like it, but this one is mine: https://github.com/thedanbob/mqtt_light
https://github.com/thedanbob/mqtt_garage_door
https://github.com/thedanbob/mqtt_power_cycle
Agreed.

I introduced several times password managers to my friends and family, and more often than not, it was a disaster.

Because eventually, either they set a very simple master password they reused elsewhere, defeating the entire purpose of the whole exercise, or they lost the master password.

The latter meant they lost a lot of accesses (unless they have backup discipline, which of course they can't have by nature) because there is no recovery.

So the alternative was for me to hold the backup passwords or recovery passphrase/seed. So much for making them independent.

Bottom lines: security sucks and ergonomics sucks because most users are not tech saavy enough to handle complicated cases.

Making E2EE even an option is nice, and the best you can do for now.
Chinese city of Changshu to issue salaries in digital yuan
Is this is a criticism of the article? Because it seems like the author takes great pains to distinguish between a person who is Jewish and a person who practices Judaism.

I also don't think that ethnic group really captures it either.

For me, being Jewish is just its own thing, sui generis, that only partially overlaps with these other concepts (religion, ethnicity, nationality, etc) but isn't any of those things.
That should also be weighed when decisions highly dependent on products such as petroleum, lithium, cobalt...
where did you even find the source/license?

I'm probably too dumb. clicked some 20 places and still nothing. only find their unlinked to source marketing nonsense "Linen is an open source".
Spot on. There is zero moat and the self-hosted alternatives are rapidly improving (if not better) than Pinecone. There are good open-source contributions coming from bigcorp beyond Meta too, e.g., DiskANN (https://github.com/microsoft/DiskANN).
Prove to who? If I sign up for Stripe, all I have to do is complete a questionnaire annually. I could easily lie or make my frontend compliant during that time period and nefarious afterwards.

It seems like a veil of security versus any actual security. My guess is that it's really just meant to assign liability to the merchant when nefarious stuff happens and there's plenty of ways a fraudster could shield themselves from that as well.

At the end of the day, as a customer visiting some random merchant website showing a "Powered by Stripe" logo does not actually make me feel like my CC data is secure. Anytime I enter info into a UI/DOM that is not directly under the stripe.com/paypal.com/etc (full page load), I don't feel my info is necessarily safe; but that's what they want me to believe. It's totally possible to just put a "powered by Stripe" UI element on a page without having any relationship with Stripe. And, the false security of that UI element tricks you into putting your info into some random site. I just don't see how that's secure at all to train users that anytime you see that UI element you can safely input your payment information regardless of the site you are on.
How do become a meta/Facebook BSP
We have a messaging platform and want to add whatsapp as an integration option. However the integration flow is extremely poor especially for none technical business owners, we have seen that many other platforms have a "login with facebook" embedded option (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/embedded-signup
) that helps with the integration, seems you need to become a BSP for that. I've been trying to get in touch with someone about it but no help. Does anyone have information or guidance?
That's one of the major unspoken reasons of why "too big to fail" corporations are bailed out.

They're also often used to supply things the government wants such as n95 masks during the pandemic.
well, this is good to see, although imho Embarcadero have been pretty disasterous owners of the delphi brand and technologies.
Could you maybe link to one? I’ve heard plenty and I’m far from convinced he knows what he’s talking about. Seems to me he knows how to bullshit, and people who don’t know better mistake that for being smart.
> Disagree?

No idea! Just speculating…
A windows-exclusive IDE for building GUIs for Windows and iOS. The community edition requires a phone number. If it weren't for the iOS bit, I'd say these guys are stuck in the 90s.
But this is not what anybody means when they talk about the equivalence principle.
I don't know if you noticed, but my test has on the order of 10 billion rectangles. Only about 80k are drawn on the screen at once because I do very aggressive culling.

To be honest, I'm not sure Canvas can handle either part of this: either drawing 80k rectangles at 60 fps or culling so that the other 10 billion don't need to waste CPU cycles. It requires a very tight integration with the UI library to make sure we do this fast.

Yes, it's a very narrow use case. That's why I went with a specialized UI library.
I think I have a proof, it's just not yet published. Also, the original method I was attempting contained a bug, but I understand the theory better now.

So, I have some evidence, both experimental and theoretical, there is an efficient polynomial algorithm out there (and possibly many different methods).

Unfortunately, not 100% verified because despite what many smartypants are saying here, it's incredibly difficult to even have a conversation about a possibility of a relatively uncomplicated proof that P=NP. (I think Millenium prize is part of the problem, but that's another discussion).

And to clarify, I am reducing 3-SAT to 2XSAT, not 2-SAT. 2XSAT generalizes 2-SAT to arbitrary linear equations rather than literals (we can think of a literal as a linear equation on 1 variable).

I will happily send you (or anybody) the draft I have, so that you can critique it.
Malware scanner for anything uploaded to web servers. Was pretty cool at the time learning and identifying things in the wild then creating custom rulesets.
"I'm 99% certain that you're a poodle, and poodles are not allowed to share that document. Is there anything else I can help you with today?"
> Imagine thinking you understand the product strategy for a 14 year old, publicly traded company with thousands of employees without working there or having any sort of insider knowledge.

I worked at a similarly sized company to Dropbox, and when I questioned product decisions I would often receive similarly smug put downs. How could you possibly think you know more than the CEO?

And then I watched over the next few years as the product strategy floundered, reorging many times without shipping anything concrete.

I suppose what I’m saying is that while your comment shuts down conversation quite effectively, it can still be wrong. Sometimes - quite frequently, in fact! - there is no man behind the curtain. Sometimes, when product decisions seem questionable, they really are questionable.

(Sorry if I have an annoyed tone; I think I'm subconsciously venting against all the times I've heard this from others in the past.)
Great project - this is important! Love your clear motivation statement at the top. I do wish there were some code/data examples within the README, but clearly that's not holding people back from using it.
I wish for intermittent wipers and cruise control in my 96 Toyota. Heck, I wish for electric wipers in my 61 Sunliner.
The decision problem for ECDLP is not known to be NP-complete, in fact it's likely not NP-complete but rather NP-hard and therefore proving that P = NP would not provide any insight into finding a polynomial time solution for it.
It is everyone in politics. Right left center up and down.
Take a look at this lecture about the history of slavery and racism in the US then [1]. This will provide an answer many of your questions. Dismissing a prominent PoC’s position for being outspoken and critical of existing unfairness really demonstrates who is maintaining political power here. Do you really think that centuries of unfairness and trauma that still is perpetuated today will be swept under the rug by your fantasy of “equivalent” treatment? Equity is about Justice which is fundamentally about ethics. So tell me why are you so rooted and uncomfortable with confronting historical injustice?

1: https://youtu.be/BGjSday7f_8
Going from mobile phone numbers to smartphones is not an improvement. It's just going more expensive and more monopolized.

The only improvement is that you don't have to link your account to government photo ID (which is mandatory in many countries to buy a SIM card).
Better url

https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/chatgpt-prompt-eng...
KiCanvas – a browser viewer for Kicad v6 and above files
> The DoD would insist production be spread across multiple companies.

rarely

typically it is a bid/bake-off process and the winner gets a production contract

even for firearms...Sig won the handgun contract and the new rifle contract...they'll be the sole producer of both
I wish we could get a measure like transistor density for some reference designs or something. (I mean it would be nice for us if every transistor was the same size, but just like we provide benchmarks for different instruction mixes, I guess we would want density benchmarks for low power/high chip flavors).
Except most legal systems don’t see it that way. When you say this, they hear “if you have a copy of the key to a house/car/etc, then you also own it”. Cryptocurrency theft is a crime by the basic definitions of the legal system.
We've invented better things, but they inherently have the problem of: What if I lose/break/etc my hardware token? What if it gets stolen? Plus of course the vendor lock-in potential.

The closest we really have is biometrics but even those have complexities, particularly with deep-fake style tech getting really near perefect.
Politically Taiwan is not China, sure. Also it's true that the TSMC also has a global supply chain but this way or another the magic happens there.

We like it or not, the world is global. Still, overspecialisation is proving dangerous when not all parties are open democracies because they can act in economically unwise but ideologically coherent ways to keep the political class in power.
Customers want a dumb pipe. PublicCo can't go up the value chain as a dumb pipe and starts adding bells and whistles. It's a story as old as Web 1.0
Did I miss how we are supposed to get recommendations from what OP built?
> We are a long way from using cell network as a primary one

I tend to agree from a technical pov.

Otoh i know a lot of ppl who do just that and don’t even bother with landline/wifi. Connecting a gaming console via wifi to the phone with „unlimited data“ and downloading 100gb+ games is surprisingly common.
Culture in America goes hand-in-hand with socioeconomic status. A substantial portion of desis and Nigerians in America are of the highest economic class back in their respective homes, and they're coming from that culture. If that culture erodes as it can over generations, their social/economic mobility patterns start following that of the rest of Americans'.

In America, today, in streets you can potentially see folks who lived in a time before the civil rights movement. It's an alarming contrast which is being overlooked: the immigrant Africans from moneyed and successful families and the other group couldn't drink from the same fountain as his fellow man, and not be able to send their kids to the good schools
I wonder what the compliance process would think of the telemetry that is adding stuff back to Dropbox and can’t be turned off.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35724939#35726399
> Doom on a TI-84

Not really though. You played a different game using a much simpler sort of engine (probably a raycaster, similar to wolf3d) with much simpler level geometry (probably square on a grid, and probably without stairs, windows through walls, elevating platforms, etc) There are several games like that on the z80 line of TI calculators, for instance Gemini: https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/247/24742.htm...

But the real Doom isn't a simple raycaster, it uses an engine that exists in the space between a raycaster and a true 3d game like Quake. A so-called "2.5D engine". The level geometry had height data, but couldn't overlap itself (so no navigable bridges unless you fake it using raising and lowering platforms (or teleport the player to another part of the level, like the Build engine did.) Rooms could have arbitrary polygonal shapes, walls weren't all at right angles to each other, which complicated the process of rendering and necessitated the use of BSP trees to traverse the level geometry efficiently.

I know of one instance of such a game engine being created for the 83/84 z80 lines of calculator, detailed in a series of blog posts here:

http://www.benryves.com/journal/3720656

http://www.benryves.com/journal/3724115

http://www.benryves.com/journal/3725786

http://www.benryves.com/journal/3728004

http://www.benryves.com/journal/3729994

http://www.benryves.com/journal/3735869

http://www.benryves.com/journal/3739423

AFAIK these gifs represents the pinnacle of a Doom-like engine on the z80 line of calculators:

http://www.benryves.com/images/nostromo/bsp/2010.11.28/Movin...

http://www.benryves.com/images/nostromo/bsp/2010.11.07/Walkt...
Well, until we learn that there is a backdoor in their implementation, allowing any big actor to swoop in and either crack the crypto easily, have access to an unencrypted copy, or steal the passphrase.

Then we just have put all the things in the same basket for the convenience of mass spying, like we did with https, which any entity big enough can MITM by using their root certificates.
He seems pretty qualified if this page is accurate: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37087254612
Sorry, we’re both editing at the same time :) I added a related link to the parent comment.
Though there is herunterladen as a verb, there is no noun for download(s). “Herunterlad(s)” doesn’t quite cut it. So because the term Download is already used as a noun why noy use downloaden as the verb.
Noa words are an ancient phenomena. Quite soon the Noa word is the new 'bad luck' word and the cycle has to repeat. E.g. "bear".
i mean it’s Andreesen. They’re like the Softbank of Silicon Valley
How does this theory explain the LCS failure?

To me, that seems a fractal of stupid choices — which make sense when viewed through the lens of financial corruption and backroom dealing, but not through the lens of capable careerists succeeding by preventing problems.

Also, it fails to predict the reality that we can’t build munitions to fight a serious war — because we can’t even build them to fight a year-long proxy war. Or does CSIS not understand the MIC either?

https://www.csis.org/analysis/rebuilding-us-inventories-six-...
At the height of a massive modern war, yes. But look at (say) the histories of most of the weapons used in WWII. How many of the major small arms, artillery pieces, guns, tanks, warships, etc. of WWII were developed directly by the government, in-house, and then produced at scale during the war at government armories?
The new hype is generative AI, sparked by image generators like Midjourney and large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT.
It worked for Docker Desktop and BSC.

The products even have github repos! There's just no source in them.

It's open source cosplay.
Mars was eating US probes too. If you go thru archives you'll find cartoons of Mars eating everything thrown at it.
In Hickey's world comprehensible is a subset of easy.
I agree, I mostly phrased it that way for effect. My "analysis" is 100% subjective, opinionated and anecdotal :)
LoL - you won't need files in the future.

ChatGPT will just generate your documents on the fly from prompts you memorize.
> Dear ImGui has a special 'ListClipper' class which allows to iterate over the visible 'slots' of a list, so that the code which describes the list UI can skip clipped items early. Not sure if egui has something similar.

An egui ScrollArea can request only visible rows from a callback using show_rows:

https://docs.rs/egui/latest/egui/containers/scroll_area/stru...
Look at every computer monitor on every military desk. I bet it says "Made in ____".
Part of the parents point is that is isn’t true in general. The overall efficiency isn’t much better , so service level basically comes down to how you chop up available bandwidth.

So if you happen to live somewhere with oversubscribed LTE and get in on a new 5G - it’s seems great. But a) it’s very locatiin dependeny and b) it probably won’t last
That is not how the law works. It's equivalent to knowing your bank account number and routing number and making an unauthorized transaction.
Context: recent polling of democrats for their preferred candidate of the declared democrat candidates shows RFK Jr. with 21% of the vote, up from 19% a few days ago and 14% before that.
Twitter Cuts Search Bar Access for Unregistered Users
This is a disturbing form of digital gaslighting.
It's really disturbing to see people parroting this mistake, let alone calling your comment called "bait". His name is Jim.
Link Found Between Common ENT Infections in Preschoolers&Increased Autism Risk
Guessing #1 has something to do with speeding up the notoriously-slow network. Probably allows more long-term route caching or something.

#2 does seem silly.

On a semi-related note, it's not that hard to set up a private IPFS. You just need a publicly-reachable "lighthouse" node (and it's extremely low-resource, the cheapest hosted VM you can find can likely handle the task without trouble) and some light config edits. IPFS isn't (and isn't trying to be) anonymous, but you can avoid sharing with the entire IPFS network and share only with trusted peers instead. The ordinary IPFS network won't even know you're there, because you won't be connecting to it.
A shortcut on my iPhone, that I can dictate a note to, and it transcribes it and puts it into my GTD inbox in Notion. It helps me not forget things. Lowers the friction and allows me to make note of fleeting ideas, thoughts, and things to get done.
No x64 Android, no macOS and no Linux support in C++Builder, unfortunately. It could have been a nice solution for cross-platform open source apps, boosting its adoption.
It should be possible to jump up off the surface at this speed too eh
I am so terrified for the effects on technological and economic progress a US/China military conflict over Taiwan would bring (not to mention the obvious other tragic and heinous consequences of war).
Probably not bad, probably less fun though.