skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is nothing today that can overcome the LAW (not theory) of 1/r^2. Can you wirelessly charge a car? Yes. Should you? No. Even Tesla (the scientist and I guess the car company since they went with the weird snake arm route) could not over this limitation.
> Was I vague?

Well, here's what you originally wrote:

> Where is the stuff like Erlang/Elixir's green threads or Golang's goroutines/channels and Rust's async runtimes workers/channels, and OCaml 5.0's recent multicore runtime (and the emerging libraries around it)?

> I want the higher-level stuff. I want to solve problems and not invent a new async orchestration runtime for every project I work on.

That seems pretty vague to me. You mentioned four different languages (Erland, Go, Rust, OCaml). Do you want the intersection of the features of all those languages? The union? Some subset?

> You seem to be arguing in bad faith

I didn't even realize this was an argument, so I guess the problem must be that I'm just too dim to glean the correct meaning of your words. Sorry about that.
Sometimes its a valid reason. I love the idea of being able to unlock the bootloader.

I don't love the idea of someone else being able to do it before the phone gets to me.
Solar Roadways!
Had TCP/IP been 64bit to begin with things would be a lot different.
> Charlie Munger, the Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman and Buffett’s right-hand man, echoed his concerns, telling the meeting: “I don’t think having a bunch of bankers, all of whom are trying to get rich, leads to good things. I think bankers should be more like an engineer, avoiding trouble rather than trying to get rich … It’s a contradiction in values.”

It's a good comparison. Engineers can be personally liable if they are negligent in their jobs. Why not bankers?
It's 9pt text, if that's unreadable the issue is with your user agent. I know a lot of browsers behave poorly on larger displays, but having each website guess how big a typical monitor is and use a treadmill of increasing font sizes is not an answer; you should demand better behaviour from your browser.
Unless Florida isn’t telling us something, and is about to become the Imperial Kingdom of DeSantis and funnel all the world’s resources into Florida, I think this will come to fruition around the same time the Saudis finish construction of Neom.
In what way? Did he have any sort of leadership role at SVB, Signature, or First Republic?
Email (and calendar) being cross compatible is accident of history and pretty unique. No other popular service[3] uses a common shared and accepted protocol

Google does allow your data to be exported[1] including YT videos and most of other things in your account in a non-proprietary[2] format, in addition the APIs from Google are fairly deep to extract a ton of information from your account

It is not their problem that other services do not always support imports from Google even when such peers exist.

Google is no means a saint, or supporter of open formats or of easy export formats, but for a company they do a reasonable job for a feature designed for people leaving their ecosystem

[1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en

[2] Non-proprietary to them, even if not fully open i.e. MP4 or DOCX instead of only supporting WEBM or ODT

[3] Used by regular users, not sysadmins i.e. DNS / Certificates by CAs et al. do not count
Sorry, still not clear exactly where your goalposts are. Is there a public benchmark where M2 scores above 100GB/s that you'd like to see comparable runs for a recent x86 mobile platform?
> How do I login to YouTube on my Roku device?

The passkey does not have to be on the same device. It can be, but does not have to be. The Roku can display a QR code, and a passkey on a phone can perform the login. I logged into google on my windows laptop yesterday with a passkey on my iPhone. A prompt in chrome appeared basically asking “is your passkey on this laptop, or on a phone” and then displayed a code after I picked phone.

I hope eventually one of the major password managers implements Passkey support. I have Vaultwarden on all of my devices; I’d ideally love for Vaultwarden to store my passkey(s). It wouldn’t be any different from how I login currently, but with fewer passwords. There really isn’t much reason to stay locked into Apple or Google as far as I can tell.
cool! It would be interesting to connect with an llm... as it goes these days.
> So it seems like the main question here is whether the tax burden should fall on employers specifically or on the general fund.

I’m not even sure the state could pay it back directly, and if it could, it might require either cutting programs by large multiples of the amount needed or raising taxes by an amount significantly greater than the amount of the debt: Constitutional programmed baseline funding plus maintenance of effort requirements tied to federal funding plus Constitutionally programmed use of incremental revenue means that:

(1) the state (by this, I mean the executive and legislature working together; the people, of course, as the ultimate authority in the state can do what they want through initiative) can’t arbitrarily cut some large categories of spending,

(2) the cost of cutting other large categories of spending is greater than a $1 of federal funding dedicated to the same purpose for each dollar cut,

(3) even if the 2/3 majority necessary to raise taxes is marshalled, a substantial share of any new revenue from taxes would need to go to specified programs that get a share of incremental revenues, and

(4) total state spending (irrespective of revenue, and getting the required supermajority to raise taxes, etc.) is capped by the Gann Limit.

Letting the Fed tax employers directly avoids all of those constraints, even if it doesn’t optimally distribute the costs.
Have you ever, like, actually interacted with a bureaucracy? I don't mean a governmental one, necessarily. An even mid-sized company's HR department, let's say. I was just trying to get a medical evaluation for my son: I called them and they spent 10 minutes on the phone with me explaining that they were going to send me four emails before they had a 30 minute call with me before they were going to do the actual evaluation of my son. They told me that I could fill out the two surveys in the four emails that they sent me via, and I quote exactly, "A desktop or a laptop or an iPad, but not an iPhone: this is for security reasons."

It's hilarious that your big question is: "Does the idea that bureaucracies routinely make money-and-time-wasting decisions have any basis in reality." You should investigate this reality at some point.
It's comforting to know there wasn't any ice at the north pole 20Mi years ago, and humans survived just fine.
I couldn't disagree more. I agree that ray traced cyberpunk doesn't really look better, except for surface reflections. But path tracing is an incredible leap. It makes everything pop so much. No longer does the game have this "fullbright" quality to it. With that I mean textures that look like they are fully illuminated,
This is the latest paper on GPTQuant based on LangChain:

GPTQuant's Conversational AI: Simplifying Investment Research for All:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4380516
Next you'll tell me the president doesn't have a lever under his desk to make gas prices go up!
The map goes back less than a billion years. We don’t know much about the shape of the Earths continents for the first few billion years.
The best thing I've seen around this issue is that burnout is caused not by working too much (within reason) but by working on things which cause a conflict with your values. Those values might be anything - if you value using your intelligence to solve hard problems but work on trivial nonsense (perceived or real) then you may burn out working 20 hours a week.

In other words: hours worked don't really correlate to the kind of deep depression-style burnout that prevents people from working for years. There is a burnout caused by working too much, but that's more of a standard chronic stress response, and can be solved simply by reducing the workload, whereas value-mismatch problems will persist even if you reduce the workload. Value-mismatch burnout requires major changes in your life to recover, basically.
You can get a very similar experience with hot-reloading. In C# my current test-writing workflow is:

1. write the basic test scaffolding

2. debug, stepping until I get to a point in the test that needs to change

3. modify the test code (and save, which hot-reloads)

4. move the execution point to before my change

5. GOTO 2.

There are some changes that can't be hot-reloaded, but I've been surprised and how flexible it is.
Has a bug.
Well, if Gondwana wants more prestige, maybe THEY should design a map.
Magic Earth is pretty good
I have a hard time imagining anyone doing anything non trivial with CDK and walking away happy.
Something that surprises me about these types of presentations is they all reference the work of Chris Scotese. As far as I can tell that work is over 20 years old from its last coat of paint and 40 years old from when the bulk of the work was done. The website even has the late 90s early 2000s feel (not just in looks but if you click around you can find his kids personal pages from when they were in high school, I wonder what they are doing nowadays). Between the manual artistic license in the renderings to the limitations in simulation and data at the time I wonder how much this is really just like early maps of the world where specific observations are there but largely the picture is drawn more to fill in the gaps than data.
I love this is just a WordPress website with a custom theme and some plugins.
> CL was written in a completely different time when there was money to be made selling various bespoke implementations, and therefore there was a big need to vagueness in the spec. Today this need is much less so

Part of the issue here is that the spec has essentially been abandoned, and frozen for the last almost 30 years. The committee which produced it decided to dissolve itself.

If the surviving major commercial vendors and open source implementations thought it was in their interest, they could get together and update the standard for the 21st century, removing a lot of the vagueness and standardising the most widely implemented extensions. ANSI/INCITS is commonly criticised as an overly cumbersome and bureaucratic process, so maybe it would best be done by starting a new bespoke standardisation committee, like what WHAT WG did for HTML. However, I don’t think enough of the major players see it as sufficiently worth their while to invest in, which is why I doubt it will ever actually happen.
> The image is rendered at a lower resolution, and then scaled up to native resolution, hopefully without noticeable artifacts or image quality degradation

That's what makes ray tracing not an attractive proposition at the moment. Once it will become usable without upscaling, then it will be interesting.
It’s DuckDuckGoose but limited to ten characters.
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Something’s off here. I’m reasonably well read and literate on computer topics, I’ve worked in cyber security for over 5 years now, and extremely open-minded to new ideas — this reads at best like derivative marketing jargon and little in the way of technical.
It had LTE. If you were without, it was the carrier.
Teslas have great acceleration too!
while originally it's "extended Berkeley Packet Filter", at this point it does so much more than packet filtering that spelling out the words probably increases confusion rather than clarifying anything

it's like a reverse backronym
Climate change: Vietnam records highest-ever temperature of 44.1C
They don’t mention Clojure at all either. Since it runs on the JVM, if the JVM can do it, so can Clojure, even if inelegantly.

I used it on one project where there was a wage involved, just one, but I do love it.
For those familiar, today was the day after reading this essay so many times, I discovered Clay wrote books, and I ordered some.

Perennial links might make a great addition to the HN Lists page for readers new and old. I’d love to see what else I have missed out on.
> Yet if a Belgian citizen in Belgium visits my US server they are protected by GDPR?

No, not if you and your server have no EU presence. There might be other reasons to comply, though.
Keep in mind that:

- the tilt of the earth was substantially different. Where Florida is today, would have been where New York was then. [1]

- the poles (north & south) were in radically different places than today. There’s evidence that dinosuars flourished in what is the artic today because the artic then wasn’t so cold [2]

https://theswaddle.com/earth-had-a-dangerous-axis-tilt-84-mi....

https://www.snexplores.org/article/dinosaur-arctic-bone-foss...
Setting aside the number issue, it's nearly impossible to grasp one death. All that we can say about a million Covid deaths is that there is something horrible beyond comprehension there. Or, I suppose, we can denigh that there is anything there to grasp.
I'm pretty sure this is related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(spacecraft)
This isn't great, but what they did with the Pixel 2 was far more egregious - they permanently looked the bootloaders of any phone that came back from a warranty repair.

It really soured me on the Pixel line, I'm not sure I'll ever buy another one.
Are you aware that "most" game studios nowadays do not use C++ as a primary language anyway? AAA games are really a small portion of all gamedevs anyway, and the stance against modern C++ is not universal even in the gamedev community. Even the linked article states that C++17 is probably fine now, and that's cleanly modern.
The one I just replaced was going on the fritz after 25 years (15 years old when I moved into this house, I checked the mfg date). I got another pretty dumb (but programmable) thermostat that isn't wifi anything. So I think you made a good call on 20-30 years.
My little sister was TERRIFIED of them. Thanks for sharing this, she will be interested to know that she was not alone!
>loud motorcycles need to be completely banned

Agree 1,000%.
A typical car needs 20 kW to maintain highway speed, so 200 kW charging gives you perpetual motion using 10% of the road length.

Similarly, that's 400kW for 5% of the road, or 2MW for 1% of the road.
It's possible Amazon self insures. A lot of large companies do and in my experience, it's a nightmare for their victims.
I haven’t used it myself but I was going to suggest TinyCat. However, you mentioned that it isn’t suitable without going into specifics. Based on my understanding of the software and of your requirements it seems like a great option. Can you expand on what you mean by saying it won’t work for you?
Stack Overflow Is ChatGPT Casualty Traffic Down 14% in March
Good news, everyone! I've home-cooked a benchmark using Cinebench R10 through Wine so we can compare it against this old Anandtech post[0]!

Cinebench R10:

1x CPU suite (higher is better)

- 12700k: 8899

- Duel Intel Extreme: 4815

All CPUs suite

- 12700k: 63393

- Duel Intel Extreme: 29108

Obviously these tests aren't conclusive. I'm using Wine, and Cinebench R10 isn't optimized for the modern Intel chipsets. Still was fun to test :)

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/2435/11
> I’m confused - I thought California had a record $100B budget surplus just last year?

It had a $100B projected surplus, which it couldn’t Constitutionally retain (or even spend, because of things like the Gann Limit on state appropriations), so it returned a whole lot of money to taxpayers through various credits and rebates.
Oh, how naive HN has become.
For the time 32bit was more than adequate, not to mention routers only had so much memory and processing power.
It's a good system for us but it's not like we ask the world for a vote before doing things that affect others.
meh they don't have to be privacy destroying. Home automation forums on reddit have some pretty good lists of what to get and ones that are interoperable. I looked into it but I guess I'm just happy with switches and dumb thermostats.
Crazy considering it only knows about the world up until 2021
Why? DLSS Quality is virtually indistinguishable from native. No reason to not turn it on when available
Yes the real injustice is that women don't want to participate in the violence that has been perpetrated almost entirely by men since the dawn of time
There's also a C-R bound for the biased case.
> The US has Confederacy parades, and also has criminal sentences for being an unregisteres agent of a foreign power.

No wonder the US did everything to save the nazi collaborator responsible for the massacre of ~100k Poles in Eastern Galicia from a post-war tribunal justice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Lebed#Post-war_activiti...
> I even had about 20 clones happen apparently, which I think is neat.

I was curious and looked it up, and apparently some of these are done by automated tools. My projects have gotten a tiny bit of traffic, but oddly enough there are always more clones than visitors.
I don't think intuition tells us much. What we have are perceived interests we seek to rationalise.

If we were all to iteratively acknowledge our interests to a greater degree then we could probably learn a lot more from data but I think there is a strong message in our society that self interest is wrong and so people dedicate great energy to pretending that their self interest does not exist.
i didn't know about the value speculation trick or about Obj.magic, so this is a fantastic article
Some of the advice listed on here is quite outdated by today's standards.
Most RK3588 boards are $120+. I would not be surprised to find this is indeed 5X+ more computer. And in a very small package compared to 5X arm sbc.
Many many shareware 90s games would like a word with you.
Languages are social. Other people can push back. You’re an adult. You can take it.
In hindsight, this is most probably a joke, but I still looked it up.

Earliest humans, Homo Habilis, appeared 2.4-1.4 Mi years ago.
How is that not what was said. Your application is going to be spaghetti anyway, networked spaghetti is orders of magnitude worse.

I should know, I have a ball of networked spaghetti.
I would think the biggest limitations would be:

- Cost of placing under the highway (mitigated by only doing so on full reconstruction/maintenance works)

- Cost of materials (massive induction coils, over a very large distance to get meaningfull charging....

- Cost of electricity (Induction would be much less efficient than direct charging - rather than 100%, you'll get a fraction of that (heavily dependent on the distance from the body to the roadway - good luck Electric F150s..)

Roads are designed to be as cheap as possible while fulfilling their purpose. It's difficult to imagine you could cost-effectively spread that charging infrastructure out. It would be more expensive than pantograph electric lines, which would be much more efficient at actually transferring energy.

EVs are still only a few percent of all cars, so this infrastructure would be unused most of the time. Cars with inductive chargers underneath will be even less common, and people willing to pay the premium to use them less common again.

This seems like a pipe dream like solar roadways, sounds good but beaten out by the normal, sensible solution of just charging at stationary car park where cars spend 95% of their time. Batteries are only getting cheaper as well, which hurts the business case too.
Yeah it's sad. Java is really really good these days.
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Ask HN: What is the best jurisdiction for a mobile development company?
We’ve made a slightly popular mobile application on the App Store :) It is starting to make money and I want to register a company and develop it as a business. Since I’m from a small country in Eastern Europe, I have many ways to approach this. And I’m lost.

I notice that a lot of mobile development companies are registered in Ireland, Estonia, and GB, not to mention Delaware and Wyoming. Or... should I just register in my country and be done with it?

You know, it sucks that after COVID we don’t have as many offline conferences, where I can talk to CEOs behind the scenes and ask for their wisdom, so I'm asking for your wisdom publicly here :)

Info that might be important:
I am a solo founder, with a team of two more people;
I don’t plan to take investment in the near future;
I don’t plan to do B2B sales, it’s purely App Store stuff.

P.S. Just to be clear, I will absolutely talk to lawyers and get their help before I proceed.
Well, devil’s advocate — if this does work, it would be extremely useful in a lot of places that monorails are not.
Visualizing character distribution of texts on a keyboard while you're typing
People often fail to recognize sarcasm on the Internet.
Yeah, definitely. In my experience, the trick is that without doing analysis up front, you don't know exactly what the n-tiers are going to look like. Jumping right to microservices right off the bat is putting a lot of extra overhead at the start of the project (defining HTTP or gRPC or whatever APIs, working out the boilerplate for each project, etc.) without knowing whether the boundaries are appropriate or whether a given component is likely to end up being a hotspot that will need independent scaling.

When you start with a monolith that isn't just a ball of spaghetti (e.g. clear module boundaries), you don't have to put as much work into the whole big picture and it's easier to evolve the internal architecture of one larger service than N smaller services. And if you do discover that one piece of it is appropriate to split off (hotspot, reasonably transactional instead of interactive calling, etc), then you just replace the guts of that module with whatever RPC mechanism you're using and the rest of the application doesn't really need to care about it.
Southpark had a prophetic episode on this type of thing where one of Stan's classmates used chatgpt to respond to his girlfriend's texts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc6trJGs4rs