skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually compare how far behind the US is to Japan. How does a system without turnstiles work in Europe? In Japan, the shinkansen can still actually be used with their cards and tapping pass the turnstile, but nearly everyone besides business passengers buys a ticket for the one off far trips. I can't even imagine short trip subways not having a turnstile.

Even in the US, monthly swipe passes have been a thing in even the systems that used tokens.
One of the classic examples I've heard was how Apple cannibalized their iPod (classic) with the iPod Mini and the iPod nano. These were smaller and cheaper due to the flash storage, but did not replace their more expensive cousin.

The iPod Classic got relatively little updates toward the end of the iPod line because while it had a dedicated fan base due to its ability to store truly massive music libraries, it just wasn't selling much.

This was also the first time we really saw the scale Tim Cook could push for - competitors had difficulty going up against Apple because they hadn't just bought out all the available flash in the channel - they had funded building new factories for building denser/cheaper flash, in return for their entire initial production.
https://archive.md/y85I6
Fyrox definitely has a better end-to-end feature offering right now, but I personally think Bevy has the stronger ecosystem.

Animation support is growing rapidly. I'm one of the two SMEs (subject matter experts) focused on this area, and we just rounded out the final parts of the animation composition RFC. I'm hoping to get that feature to land in 0.11, but may take until 0.12 to be fully available. There's also an open PR for animating morph targets, the primary other way of deforming meshes for animation, which I think should land in 0.11. I'm also working on inverse kinematics implementation, which should round out the core "animate to move things" features. More powerful animation features are likely going to be reliant on an editor going forward though.

The editor is definitely something we're pushing hard on. Cart recently just opened a PR rewriting the asset system to better support preprocessing and more complex asset interactions, something we desperately needed for the development of an editor. I'd like to say we'll break ground on the editor before Q3 of this year, but that might be an overaggressive target.
Not if you are rendering the Zuck - he is quite lo-poly in real life.
I would like to see it compared to the Pimax Crystal which starts at $1600. Has the battery pack and very good optics. Not sure how they're going to beat folks that have been in the game for years but I guess we'll see. I think it's another Apple tax but they're going to compare to oculus/meta or Microsoft or Sony instead of the niche but high end headsets.
They are paying even more to manage cash but don’t have a separate fee for it. Why should credit card users subsidize that?

(Personally I think it’s fine to charge any which way you want as long as your terms are clear. But I think this answer makes clear it’s not so obvious as you suggest?)
A big difference is that a person working in the country legally can report labor code violations to the authorities without risking immediate deportation.
Upvotes are not enough to express agreement here, don’t have much more to add other than it reflects my experience, too. Most people don’t know if they’re supposed to ask the most trivial questions so they implicitly default (wrongly) to not asking. This doesn’t happen in person because the most trivial issues are noticed without newbies asking. To replicate this fully remotely you need a
purposefully designed process.
WinLinux 2000
SCO Unix[1] didn’t have a GUI installer. Interactive it was, but only TUI, and generally more challenging than the classic TUI Debian installer - especially if you want to dual boot!

Mandrake (9.2 is the version I used the most) was very nice, the GUI installer looked very polished, had nice explanations and package selection was done by answering “what are you going to use this computer for?”. A TUI installer was available as a safe option too.

[1] At that time you are in SCO OpenServer territory, SCO UNIX is OLD, but the same applies to OpenServer 5 and 6. It might have been UnixWare (which I only installed once, no memories of it) or maybe SCO Linux (oh, the irony!)
I agree with your last point, it's better to frame things as for societal good, because ultimately it's better for drivers that there's less drivers on the road.

However, I do take exception to your "everything is subsidised" argument; without even digging into it I can tell you for sure that trains have at least an order of magnitude less investment per km than roads do; and that's for existing infrastructure not to mention how much that lack of investment in new infrastructure has taken. -- Put another way: you can give me $1 and another person $1billion and claim that we both received money; the amount is important to acknowledge.
Operational Reporting by Online Services: A Proposed Framework
A lot of misguided advice; among these is particularly the promotion of aggregated data, which is useless for any practical purposes, including scientific research. Probably coming from Meta's lobbyists.
It kind of gives the vibe of a kickstarter project that didn't implode, but instead... eventually got their product out the door and shipping to people.

I wonder what the people who run the company would do differently, a 2nd time around? That's if they'd be up for doing it again.
Humans being inherently social animals, I'd say that nature is objecting here.

Don't succumb to the strong selection bias that is the HN nerd crowd. Obviously over here we like to solitarily sit at our machines at home. We'd do that even if nobody paid us. And for those of us who trive with that, the remote work revolution was a blessing since it at least opened up those options and employers are recognizing the benefits (happier workers, more productivity, less cost for office space).

But we are not representative, so let's be careful with extrapolating
Spain dropped the ball the last time (2008) when they were going to be the green country; when the 2008 crash came, they just dropped all that and actually, against EU law, started to do the opposite (basically going from subsidising solar to not allowing solar on houses to help the electricity providers through the crisis).

Spain has sea in the south and east and basically mostly desert between the south and Madrid and Madrid and the north; it is hard to imagine that if you put the sea full of wind turbines and the land full with solar and wind, you would not massively overproduce electricity. No one would be bothered by it as no one lives in those places anyway and the farmers (they have a lot of power; so much that it ruins everything that is not ruined yet) can be re-educated to use solar panels to their advantage in both extra income (electricity generation), happier animals (shade from the solar panels), needing less water (shade from the solar panels) etc.
In the future we will all be prostitutes
As long as human flesh exists, there will always be work for humans. This is the dark truth we face as technology supplants our previously in-demand skills.

What happens when AI supplants workers? We've assumed that those workers will obtain one of the "new" jobs that will be created in the wake of such a disruptive wave. But what if the only jobs that emerge from such a shakeup are jobs in which you sell your body? Is it so far fetched?

When the only skills a worker can offer can be easily replicated by an LLM, what else will that worker have to sell I wonder? A huge piece of gold that they found on the side of the road? Probably not.
Correct, but you don't even need to search the post history. The difference in the major is already noticeable in the original post. These are two different people. Just imagine, these two could have been commuting together and syncing up.
I wish there was a "default prompt" so that I don't have to add "think step by step, be concise" every single time
Java EE isn't gone away, it is the foundation of all modern Java frameworks, via Jakarta EE renaming and Microprofile.

Spring, Quarkus, Helidon, Liberty, Wildfly, TomEE, Payara all support it.

It turns out such standards are quite valuable for the industry at scale, instead of playing tetris with third party library stuff of various quality.
Did they sell this circuit board strapped to plywood as a product? Exactly, they didn't.

They have probably iterated a lot, what makes you think they haven't? You have zero visibility into their process
That said, the 8088 wasn't 3nm, it was 3µm.
Absolutely. This is why I feel like projects Libre office are disappointing to both optimists and pessimists. They are free and open but the performance and some capabilities are not so stellar.

Maybe there is the possibility to trim down a package like that into something akin to what we had in the 90's but, funnily enough, there is a lot of that 90's legacy that was stacked onto, it looks like there is just too much legacy in it to make that a viable path.
I have a fantasy that one day his lost novel The Messiah will be discovered under a floorboard or behind some crumbling plaster in Drohobych.

Either that or (second best) someone else will tune into it and write something crazy about what it was and how it dissolved into the cosmos.

The thing about Schulz's writing is the unbearably poignant specificity of where and when he lived. Imaginative genius refracted through that specificity is the magic. And that world is gone. I suppose it died the moment that he did.
I had a quick look, and it appears we are in a worse state with regards to this, zero enforcement actions, ever...
No, it might impact profit margins but there is a ton of value in Stripe and it flourishes in Europe where they have had modern banking for a long time.
Rust limits programs (even when you use unsafe) to those you can prove correct to the copmiler, and it has a habit of taking on more dependencies than necessary for a given task (using syscalls and locks when not required, allocating frequently, ...). It's a nice language, but it made tradeoffs, and a meaningful fraction of C code would be hard to port to or even link from Rust.
First and foremost in my browser evaluation criteria is "can I run ublock origin or similar on it?"

Last time I tried, Safari was a no-go. The web without an ad blocker is incredibly bad.
> How could be anything other than new [for a young language]?

It could be, or could have started out as, a reimplementation of an existing library that has been around in one or more forms for some time.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention!
I haven't been able to reproduce it, but I'm investigating the issue.
I wrote you an email and would really appreciate your help.
You compare a small pocket device with a headset?

You don't see the difference? Especially when hiking?

You are then a non sweaty asian?
"No one should use AC because there are workers working in sun".
You should be able to switch encodings/codepages in DOS; 8-bit encodings cover many languages, and includes "fancy punctuation". Even the default cp437 covers quite a few of the languages in Latin script.
Nope, this is completely (laws vary by state) legal as of ten years ago.

https://www.lawpay.com/about/blog/credit-card-surcharge-rule...
The New Cold War That Threatens to Turn Hot
The mac mini comes with 32GB
that said, the UK Gov website is amazingly well built, and I guess the law is used to 'nudge' orgs so maybe there is some purpose to it, I would happily see more action here, starting in '96 I ran an accessibility first web design company, my key takeaway was that the more accessible your site, the better indexed it would be by search engines, so I sold my clients on the idea using that bait :)
On the other hand, because it's the less populated and poorer cities, mistakes (which are going to happen) will be cheaper to fix. This translates to not making those mistakes on the more expensive parts of the project.
The Danger of Back to School (2014)
Suburban is where it’s unreasonable to walk to school, the doctor or a convenience store.
It has three PNG textures that are 99% of the filesize.
It's not so much that the days of the office (and neck ties and other nonsense) is passing but that the economies of scale that made such environments economically viable are changing.

It used to be that companies had to have lots of people around organized in hierarchical processes working to certain uniform processes to produce value at scale. These days, you can outsource a lot of these things, automate a lot away, to the point that many businesses are scaling down to human level.

Many companies exist that are only a handful of people working together. They do business with other companies or sell to consumers directly via the internet. Instead of doing things in house, they partner with other companies for things that used to be done in house. HR, accounting, marketing, manufacturing, logistics, etc.

And in so far people still need to be internal, they no longer have to be in the same place or even on the same continent. Remote work is here and still somewhat controversial. But it works and has liberated a lot of people from going to an office on a daily basis. These people are often acting more like independent companies rather than employees. Often that's exactly what they are: independent contractors, freelancers, etc. And of course, a large and growing part of the workforce is no longer permanently employed by anyone.

So, having all these people come to some huge sky scraper in New York isn't that logical or productive anymore. You could do it. But it doesn't really add that much value. And it actually costs a lot of money and time to do it.
I'm sorry I don't have time at the moment to go deeper on this but I'll add two things that may be useful for the reader:

1. The Intel Optimization Reference, under Section 3.5.1, advises:

"Favor single-micro-operation instructions."

"Avoid using complex instructions (for example, enter, leave, or loop) that have more than 4 micro-ops and require multiple cycles to decode. Use sequences of simple instructions instead."

2. By surface I meant literally silicon surface area. That and transistor count (and other aspects like fan-out and clock domains etc) are the major aspects you trade when engineering a CPU.

If you need larger microcode ROM to store larger microprograms you also need more bits to address into the microcode ROM and that makes microcode programs even larger! All this consumes surface area and transistors that could be devoted to something else.

Sure, if you could fit the binary search instruction microcode in the existing spare space of the microcode ROM you wouldn't have that problem but you'd still be competing with other potential use cases of those alleged "microcode speedups". What about a UTF-8 string length instruction, would that be more important? Etc
Agree with what you wrote - but I just want to point out the craziness of completely full train cars!

That means there is a ton of pent up demand. Why can't NY meet this demand? The tracks are already there!
+1 the tech isn't there yet. It needs to be able to replace my monitors and the visual quality has not been there yet. TBD on comfort and battery life. But I'd gladly drop $3K if it ticked all the boxes but not for a gimmick that I can only use for a handful of games.
The headline that would bring tears to my eyes is "Users dive into Linux to cut reliance on big tech"

The endless cola versus pepsi discussion is not really going to move the needle and the users pay with inferior experience.

Apple has been playing its cards well and in a sense its good that it exists. It shows that different business models are possible but thats a far cry from it being a functioning market that delivers for users.

Ultimately you want multiple manufacturers, low switching costs between platforms that wont lock-in users, 100% stop with the abominable surveillance adtech, extensive recyclability and reparability.

These are not absurd demands that cant be delivered, these are very basic aspects of a sane personal computing landscape. But we will not get them if all the ink is spent on which of the two options is the least bad one.
Significant number of people below the povery level are unbanked and live off cash which is why some jursidictoons ban retailers from not accepting cash.

What's your opinion on Buy now Pay Later for online retailers? fee is close to 5% but allows customers to pay for items with interest free installments over 90 days.
Propan – is a new Python framework for building messaging services
Hello everyone!

I have accumulated a critical mass of stuffed bumps in the development of RabbitMQ based services. The amount of boilerplate forced me to drag the same code from project to project. So I decided to put all this code in a separate package, spice it up with a small pinch of FastAPI concepts and scale my experience to other message brokers.

The only purpose of the framework is to make interaction with message brokers as simple and comfortable as possible: one decorator, launch via the CLI - and your application is ready to production.

Please take a look at the project and give me your feedback: maybe you have some ideas for improvement. Also, I really need your help as a developers, as it becomes difficult for me alone with a project of this scale.
Smart contracts get there too. There is a huge monetary incentive for optimization and correctness at launch.
Thanks for all the great insights! But why was the Po-210 not dangerous in that vial of water?
It seems many people who got in touch with it got ill: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1767288/
PA Semi while an accu-hire was entirely done so that they could build processor tech internally.

By low hanging fruit, I mean the concept of a portable computer in your pocket. I'm not undermining the astounding work that went into things like the iPhone - The execution was fifth steps above everyone else. I just mean after the iPhone and iPad, ideas that had been around for a long while but had not been executed well, we have been waiting to see what the next step will be. I feel this is why things like VR got so much traction.
NixOS as a server, part 2: Flake, tailscale
Giving, Lending, and Async Closures
> All those complains always forget that the standard library happens to be available everywhere the language has a full implementation available, while third party libraries are hit and miss.

Only if your dependency management is bad.

And if you're stuck running on e.g. an old install of the language, there's at least a chance that the third party library will support it, whereas if you want a new standard library feature you're SOL.
Professor Flunks His Students After ChatGPT Falsely Claims It Wrote Their Papers
It still fails short of GUIs and full blown Web frameworks, messaging, like the above.
I don't know how Colombian's feel about it, but to me all of that is pretty god damned miserable. Everyone wants what they didn't have before, so it wouldn't particularly surprise me if that alone is compelling enough.

I don't know how many people are begging to have their urban landscapes and culture bulldozed so people can park their cars on it, and I don't know how many people would be excited by the prospect of watching the infrastructure of their cities slowly crumble because the tax base is spread extremely thin and serviced in the most expensive way possible. Maybe that's just me though idk

Everyone seems to like American style fast-food chains though. No matter where you are in EU at least, it doesn't have anything to do how you get there, there's plenty of Dunkin Doughnuts, McDonald's, KFC, etc..
Just tried the following prompt on Bing Chat.

> generate an image of the face of michael jackson in the style of Andy Warhol painting of Prince

It obliged with 4 variations [1].

I wonder how the legal system views this.

[1]: https://www.bing.com/images/create/the-face-of-michael-jacks...
Elon Musk says the ‘laptop class’ needs to ‘get off their moral high horse’
phronesitron is one I made :)
It really was poor marketing. A simple "Wii 2" would have done better. I'm also confused about "switch OLED". Is it just a nicer screen or more than that?
While I wouldn't put so much weight on Apple TV+, air-pods and Apple watch do pretty much launch wireless headphones out of a niche into the mainstream and absolutely kick started the smart watch market across all vendors.

I say this as someone that uses none of these type of devices from any vendor.
I say this in the best possible way, because I love them but, but Tears of the Kingdom makes Breath of the Wild look like a tech demo.
> fractal spiral of hardware and software abstractions

I've often used "onion", but this is much more accurate :)
This would be a great upgrade from my Kaypro 2000!
Yeah as much as I like my amex I fully understand when retailers tell me no amex accepted
I use my quest every day and if there is a better experience to be had for $3k, I would pay it. I was put off by the quest pro, it wasn’t really better (for my use case) and $1k?
> As long as human flesh exists, there will always be work for humans. This is the dark truth we face

i thought it would be a metaphor
"most of them live in single-family houses on large plots of land"

It's been almost-illegal to build any other kind of housing for decades.
I decided to take the risk to try an Orange Pi 5 (risk in the sense of less software support compared to RPi 4).

The board is extremely powerful and the price tag is very attractive (99€ for the 4GB Model), compared to what are lately the prices for the Raspberry Pi 4 model (similar specs, seen ~160-175€ in Germany, especially on Amazon).

The RK3588 is an amazing CPU and running many workloads on it, plus the support for a NVMe drive, makes is a speedy competitor
No, coral reefs are not fine. Rising water temperature will kill coral over the next decades. We already emitted enough CO2 to raise temperatures beyond what coral can tolerate. The current state of the reef has nothing to do with it.
Only C++ without incremental compilation, incremental linking and modules.

VC++ does import std in a fraction of time it takes to #include <iostream>.
Reading comments on this page, the problems with public transport are listed - not safe or clean or uncrowded enough.

But, the only alternative considered is private individual/family transport.

Why is private mass transport not more widely available given that it can solve a lot of these problems?

Having an Uber for buses which does smart scheduling based on current demand, possibly involving transfers so that frequent local routes connect with each other without long delays, should be possible.

Of course, prices will fall when things scale. So, the government can be involved as a facilitator but operations are mostly run by companies which can pay a fee to the government rent necessary infrastructure.

You still have the problem of higher prices for odd hours/locations but sharing costs ahould make it cheaper than uber.
Strengthening Resilience to Disinformation
From NZ this time: they seem to be on the right track in my opinion, i.e. empowering the civil society and letting it to advice the government, not vice versa.
Seems we need a new reversed Moore's style law for the regression taking place in the GPU space.
It almost certainly isn't. Nobody's taking FedNow at point of sale.
No, it is not over (yet). The node is nonsense. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9150552 DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2020.9150552

Edit: I have no idea why anyone would downvote a link to this article. It directly answers the question with a decent level of technical detail. We are nowhere near single atom sized features yet, despite what node names might lead you to believe. There's still quite a ways to go.
We might get some cyberpunks against
Yes. The emulation is not even 80 % acurrate. Especially keyboard interraction is problematic. Then the VM seems to stutter.