skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What will work driverlessly?

WebAuthn. So, registration and authentization. I'm not exactly sure if which standard deals with changing PIN, but it worked everywhere I tried it out of the box.

>OMG did you say CHROME??!!!

Yes, how dare I... It was an example. I don't use Chrome either, but not many people do use other stuff, so that's why I mentioned Chrome specifically.

Currently, the support is best in Chrome and some other Chromium-based browsers. I personally tried Brave, which worked flawlessly everywhere. Firefox (which I personally use) works with standard WebAuthn, but some big players (Google) seem to have older implementations predating the standard, so it doesn't work with some clients (Firefox) yet. I've watched a conference some time ago where they said they're working on it™.

If you want to know how exactly it stuff works, Mozilla has a nice and easy to comprehend description on their developer site. It's one search away (in your preffered search engine).

>The generating of new keys that still will take an hour?

Are you trolling? No. Also, only nonces are generated for each new _credential_, so you don't need to store so much data on the key. You should be more worried about how long it will take to do the authentization exchange, which takes under a second from my experience.

Please just read the Mozilla website.
Compute!'s Gazette was my "GitHub of the 80s" for my Commodore machines. It was absolutely a wild ride, typing in programs from the back to do everything from games and word processing and who knows what. IIRC, they began with BASIC, but then they essentially bootstrapped a foolproof, checksummed machine-code editor and, somewhat regrettably, cut out the source-code middleman.

The punchline is that I did not necessarily have any way of saving those programs to persistent storage, so it was just like... keep the computer turned on for a week?

Most coders learn so much from hacking on other people's code, it's an indispensable step. So typing in code is a great opportunity to experience coding, starting with a working codebase, and perhaps making your own tweaks, fixes, and enhancements. Commodore BASIC was perfect for rapid prototyping and access to sound and graphics primitives.
Yes, I've done this with Htmx. Send the input content to the server and respond with the new <datalist> html that gets automatically swapped in.

Really simple engineering.
It also isn't a reality, and if it was, it would be a monopoly, and it would be dismantled.
> Therefore, in my view gerrymandering doesn't really have a negative effect on democracy. Sure - one party might use it to win one election, but they can't get ahead in the long term using it.

Read up on “cracking and packing”, it’s pretty obvious that gerrymandering provides a distinct benefit to the party that controls the map.

Gerrymandering causes another major long-term problem that you’re overlooking: it creates mathematically safe seats that the opposition party can’t reasonably win, even when they gain support. This is a major reason we are seeing more extremists in office, because they no longer need to win by aiming for the center, they win by being as extreme as possible because the party already controls the seat. The election becomes a de facto purity test, and you see this play out over and over again.
I think what you're missing is that sample sizes for statistical significance do not depend on the population size. The big caveat is that the sample is random and representative, which you can't really verify beyond doubt. But if a sample is random and representative, you could estimate population statistics of millions (or even infinite) with a sample of just 30 or so.

As sibling posts mentioned, a much bigger issue than sample size is representativeness: college psychology study samples tend to be drawn disproportionately from college students. They might not generalize well to the general population even if you increase the sample size ten fold or a hundred fold.
Ask HN: Are digital twins the future of urban planning?
Recently I've read a lot of articles how digital twins are the future of urban planning. I see that it may helps decision making in a way but I fail to understand why there aren't many cities using them already.
I'm coming from the game industry and I can see that everything is available to create digital twins in a scalable way, google earth 3d data, mapbox data, public data, etc.
It almost feels like it's a new buzzword or hype for companies to raise a lot of money without actual value provided.. What do you think?
More like "we're not really listening to music on our phones for free". These days everything is a subscription. Then games are released where every cosmetic change is paid for, so you can be max level with the best gear but you'll still look like a beginner character because you haven't paid for the cosmetic upgrades to go along with the extra gear you won along the way.

Change the wallpaper in your virtual apartment, huh? You'll absolutely be paying for that. Some people will save money by just coping with the walls being non-stop ads for anti-depressants and pills for erectile dysfunction. Perhaps they'll take their headset off and do everything through command lines. Pity if the headset eventually evolves into implants that pump images and sounds directly into your brain.
I ditched my car – and improved my fitness, sleep and bank balance
Painfully bad take. Talking about how gerrymandering doesn’t matter because a millennium from now, it’ll balance out. It can lead to immense suffering in the short-to-reasonably-long-term.

Gerrymandering could lead to a bunch of complete lunatics taking office and doing things so detrimental to the environment that we could never recover, or they could enact policies that stand for several centuries and restrict intellectual and technological advancements (a new dark ages).

But why play with hypotheticals when we can instead talk about real life: recently in the US, gerrymandering led to enough representatives getting elected that they were able to overload the third branch of government with partisan hacks. The partisan hacks then overturned a very important court case, despite reportedly 70% of the country’s population supporting said court case.

I’m with you, though, fuck people who are living today. Stop being so selfish! It’ll balance out in a thousand years or so.
Airframe certification? Regulatory over sight? Lack of competitors? Alternate use of their assets / personnel?
The solution to this problem is:
- ban centralized exchanges
- enforce stable coins to have their own coin-to-fiat exchange
- allow only decentralized exchanges that can operate only if they implement some interoperability standards like dex-to-dex bridges
- allow coins on decentralized exchanges only if they implement interoperability standards like blockchain-to-blockchain bridges

Now everybody can safely swap and transfer coins on whatever dex. If they want to cash out, swap again for usdt, then go to usdt official exchange and get your $.
If you don’t have testimonials, don’t add any. Deliberately lying erodes trust at all levels, including in your privacy policy. It is not a “chicken and egg conundrum”, you don’t need testimonials for someone to try a service. If anything, you’re pushing away anyone who sees through the dishonesty of the fake reviews.
No, but in some ways its really worse than that.
The pattern I tend to see is the most expensive for their title level gets laid off, that is to say, the oldest.

So the incentive is to relentlessly chase promotions, but not so much that you reach a level you are incompetent. But also not too slow, such that you are at the top of the compensation band for your title. Also don't plan to work in this industry til your late 50s.
Sounds like a truly horrible alternative indeed.
I once wrote a tiny DSL language. I used LISP (S-Expressions with parenthesis) because it semantically fit and made the parser much easier to write. I was laughed at and ridiculed by my peers. Everyone hated it that I had to attempt two other language styles just to compensate.
I had a chuckle seeing fe syntax is LISP like and I was like “See? I’m not the only one.” Many just can’t give LISP and S-Expressions their due regard. Same for Reverse Polish Notation. I was born on the wrong planet.
I've read it a couple times and it's hard for me to disagree with them. It sounds an awful lot like you're saying 'if we ban the domain, people will yell at me and get mad,' with the implication of 'and I would rather they yell and get mad at someone else.'
A rude and perhaps unflattering question; I'll understand eventual downvotes; but does anyone happen to know a few company names (or relevant capital funds) to invest in?
> The real problem is that you can't use crates to improve incrementalism when you have a type in one logical part of the module hierarchy implement a trait from another logical part. Due to orphan rules and coherence, it is not possible to implement a foreign trait for a foreign type.

Well you can implement a trait for a type from another logical part either in the crate of the trait or the crate of the type.

What is the use-case for implementing a foreign trait for a foreign type if you have both under control?
I wouldn't be surprised if the FF industry was driving this narrative, but I can also see it happening organically. A lot of the "green" people, especially in Germany are fanatically anti-nuclear. At the same time, the right-wing populists seem to have adopted the position that climate change can only be countered with nuclear power. I'm not sure why that is, probably because it's an easy answer and positions them against the green parties - after all, they cannot agree with their perceived enemies.
> Some apps/sites just send you a password reset email. Apps/sites like those would reset your passkey the same way: they'd send you a passkey reset email, you'd click the link in the email, and they'd let you regenerate your passkey then and there.

Sounds like email based login with extra steps then.
The price of software and "tech" is coming down extremely quickly. This combined with as you say, the end of free money is probably a fairly deadly storm for a lot of non-profitable companies.

Open source is involved in nearly every single aspect of the tech world and continues to dominate at an accelerating pace. Now, even commercial "AI" and even Robotics products seems like like they might also be in the crosshairs of the open source movement. This has happened in no time at all.

I've actually seen "spot" from Boston Dynamics clones which aren't as polished but would get the job done and what's incredible is, they're completely open source models and designs which people can start to manufacture from.

Sometimes I wonder if software and other areas of tech aren't far from becoming like other "boring" industries where there is a surplus of skills and workers and less demand. The days of the big money might be slowing down.

Let's see where it goes, but I completely agree with your statement about free money. It was easy to feel valuable and useful when money was free. Many people could be the CEO of a multi-million dollar start up. Now what's left is only those who actually have something to offer at an affordable price point. It will sort out the men from the boys.
That only matters to people who are alive today and for the next several hundred years. On a long enough time line, things will balance out, or humanity will go extinct. Either way, you’re dead way before it happens, so why care about silly things like gerrymandering?
Paul's Law
I've said this in various forms. Let's make it official...

Paul's law: All new build tools are better than what came before. Until they are able to solve all of the problems of the thing they replaced and then they're at least as bad. A new tool will then replace them
Perhaps I wouldn't mind taking courses for programmers and developers, at least to better know this field. But I have absolutely no time, almost all of it is spent on running a business. Therefore, it is easier for me, if necessary, to contact experienced developers. Now there are companies such as https://sloboda-studio.com/ , the quality of whose services I have no doubts about. A good option for developing business-tailored software.
There's no Head of Engineering JD. Is it the same as the Founding Engineer?
Seems they didn't bother to setup any instance blocks, so you get a full taste of the nastier parts of the fediverse.
Interesting bit: "In contrast, people increase on measures of social vitality (a 2nd facet of extraversion) and openness in adolescence but then decrease in both of these domains in old age."

> social vitality: living or preferring to live in a community rather than alone.

Seems like you grow out of wanting to live in a community. I wonder if a aging population will cause cities to decline in population more rapidly than the raw numbers indicate it would.
Are they going to provide a pay raise for the lost time commuting or do they just expect their employees to take a quality of life hit without recompense?
Cuba to Host Secret Chinese Spy Base Focusing on U.S.
I remember fruitlessly trying to open a .zip file with gunzip back in the mid 90s. That was my first experience of the GNU project.
>When right-clicking the Dock icon, you can uncheck Keep in Dock and still launch the app via Launchpad, Spotlight Search, or even just by double-clicking the app icon in ~/Applications/.
I hear you. I’ve been telling people we needed nuclear for over 2 decades.

Kyoto Climate Deal was 25 years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol

The United States took a pass.

Instead we kicked the can down the road. China expanded its coal power capacity enormously. So did India. Now we are going to soon reach 1.5C.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/5/17/global-warming-...

We’ve basically failed our initial goals and will need many miracles to properly address climate change.

Hopefully, our first failure will compel us to come up with something workable before it gets a lot worse.

Good luck.
See also: Nagasena and the Chariot - https://open.library.okstate.edu/introphilosophy/chapter/wha...
https://archive.is/8SOHm
I've never understood why people think that remote should just work magically, without any effort on their part.
honestly, I don't think it would happen again even if a platform did rise to that level of marketshare
There is something increasingly misaligned with SaaS companies offering mission critical products (like databases or backends), that's bordering on delusions of grandeur.

If you are offering anything that has to deeply and critically integrate with my company and you are not exactly google, you will have to make it super obvious how I can practically outlive you without paying an insane price, before I would even ever consider adoption. Considering the trajectory that most startups take after a couple of years, it's just irresponsible to take it on as an additional risk.

That means practically, if you want to sell me on your SaaS (which I am happy to pay for, as long as you can offer it) I need a clear and guaranteed way to migrate to self-hosting if I must, without me asking. Right now, Vercel is a good example of how to do this right.
Consider this alternative perspective: large corporations that profit from user data might have found themselves in a tricky position, facing potential lawsuits and lacking a clear framework to legitimise their data collection practices.

Perhaps GDPR came into existence partly as a solution to this issue. One could argue that its design started from a premise to make data collection and trade more manageable for big corporations, but then was reverse-engineered to present it as a policy protecting people's privacy. This way, the EU could maintain its image as a protector of citizens' rights, while simultaneously assuaging public concerns over data security. This could result in individuals being more willing to consent to data collection.

A significant contributing factor to this could be the EU's 'Cookie Law', which may have conditioned users to automatically agree to pop-ups without thoroughly understanding what they're consenting to.

While this perspective may sound cynical, it's worth considering that regulatory decisions can have complex motivations and implications, often beyond the most apparent intent to do good.
Why even mention 'GPT-5' to begin with?

> "We have a lot of work to do before we start that model," Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, said at a conference hosted by Indian newspaper Economic Times. “We’re working on the new ideas that we think we need for it, but we are certainly not close to it to start."

I'm not buying this, either they:

Completely finished training GPT-5 already (GPT-3.5 / 4's knowledge cut off is in Sept 2021)

Finished training GPT-5 for now but not training it further.

Finished training GPT-5 already and are fine tuning it to comply with regulations and updating old data.

Didn't start training GPT-5 and are waiting for regulations.

Even if either of these are true, it seems that OpenAI knows (or are marketing that) this will be possibly a dangerous model, so only enterprises may have access to this at first.

(Remember, GPT-4 has a image input model that is only available to certain organisations)
"As much" sounds rather extreme. Biden has plenty of shortcomings, but he's not running the government as a mafia don and is objectively doing a much better job. I agree that US politics is too much of an oligarchy, but how they rule still matters, and Biden is a breath of fresh air after 4 years of Trump.
I'm pretty sure the PR campaign in the US comes from the nuclear military industrial complex (which relies on civilian nuclear power) combined with the nuclear industry itself.

They know the economics are horrendous. They need to manufacture consent from the public for lavish subsidies to compete with unsubsidized solar/wind/storage solutions.

Hence the "nuclear is the green jesus" tiktok videos and the disingenuous but endlessly repeated talking points, e.g.

* "what about when the sun isnt shining?"

* pumped storage geography is scarce

* lithium will run out soon
Gradle never really replaced maven. Contrast that to pip which “just doesn’t work” for complex projects.
I imagine most developers will still elect to ship their apps using Electron for the usual Safari issues: Safari is only on macOS, very slow to adapt new web technologies and Safari updates are largely tied to macOS updates.
Why is it that you characterize their view as 'insanity'?
I don't know, just the feeling of abundance you got from those inch-thick Computer Shopper issues, 90% ads ...

(And I'm the guy who thinks advertising is inherently toxic, but it damn sure is beguiling ...)
It may be that I’m a potential supervillain, but the very first thing I thought of was that this could be used as a weapon, like in a Marvel movie.
I feel I must mention that there exists a completely different approach to solving this problem, with HTMX or other "hypermedia" (let's keep all state on server) tools:

https://htmx.org/examples/active-search/
Imagine you just removed the seats but didn't make any other changes. You can probably remove the seats with 3 guys and 3 days, so very cheap.

Then, use it as a freight aircraft, but just load everything into the top deck with trolleys that fit through the normal aircraft doors.

Sure - unloading will take more time, and there are certain types of cargo you cannot take (but you can still put them on the bottom deck!). But you can pay a lot of loading/unloading people for a lot of years with $30M saved in the conversion.
Ideally the "most expensive for their title level" would be the most valuable for their title level, rather than the oldest. To the extent that there's a mismatch and salaries at some company are set by age instead of value, it shouldn't be surprising if layoffs tend to hit those on the wrong side of cost-vs-value.

The idea that, all else equal, someone should be paid more to be a 50 year-old Senior Foo than a 40 year-old Senior Foo is just wrong and, when/if implemented, could easily be the source of this apparent ageism during layoffs.
"HashiCorp just let go 8%. Investors listening to earnings heard it before most employees." As much as I can empathize with the employees let go (it sucks), Hashicorp has a legal duty to inform investors of material information like this as soon as it becomes public, so it is normal that employees learn this way. There are a bunch of things that can be done better (or worse) handling layoffs but this one is hard to get around
Yes, and? What's wrong with that?
Source on that ? Never saw that and just checked my cheapo, it doesn't do it
Ok I'll remove that section now. Thanks for your feedback.

EDIT: It's done.
And even earlier than that you would have been using Sun StarOffice :)
The problem is that renewables and nuclear are economically incompatible. They compete for the slice that is the cheapest and most inflexible, both requiring dispatchable power to fill the gaps. Renewables easily win this battle as the cost for new built renewables are in the same range as operations and maintenance for paid off nuclear plants.

For nuclear this inflexibility comes from pure economics. It is economic suicide to build a new plant and operate it at 100%, now try operating it at less than 50% on average.
You may use direnv which supports many IDEs, e.g. VSCode and Emacs. Here's a tutorial for Emacs: https://rednosehacker.com/combo-guix-shell-emacs-envrc-el
I would check out some videos of the Kivu cobalt mines where children work to mine for our cobalt. There are north american mines that are shut in because we chose to instead use child labor in incredibly dangerous mines that frequently have landslides because it’s cheaper. It seems that many only care enough about climate change to greenwash and not think about anything else. There are hopefully new battery compounds on the way but it should be allowed to criticize elements on the energy transition if there are problems. How else do we get nice things without encouraging open discussion? Perhaps it’s an american thing to associate these views with certain labels but I don’t see how it’s related to any political affiliation or gender to have these concerns.
I've always found CACM to be disappointingly lightweight and low-content.
> - Portable ANSI C (Windows, Linux, DOS — 32 and 64bit)

I skimmed through the source, and aside from reading a file from STDIN to a `static char buf[64000];`, nothing in this seems to use the POSIX API. With that buffer trimmed to an appropriate length, it appears it could run on a microcontroller, which is always a useful thing to have.
Both of those sound like the classic grouchiness that comes with age.
That's exactly the point. ripgrep uses the Unicode definition by default and so corresponds to what GNU grep is doing in the en_US.UTF-8 locale.
Must be difficult to work in a company that can't reallocate resources.
KDE for Activists
True... maven has some real staying power! Which must prove that wishing doesn't work
The discussion was about perceiving bitcoin as stable or not. I brought up BTCUSD contrast, but I can bring BTCSP5 instead (with the same point), without your concerns about USD not being "holdable".
Byte's articles were rarely critical, they couldn't be or they'd risk advertisers business.
...get one without WiFi ? My takes one CR2032 battery every ~7 years
San Francisco has major issues, but this could also be interpreted as interest rates returning to the range of historic means causing the waters to recede and show everyone who has been swimming naked. With great leverage comes great risk.
I'm sure the people would be welcomed into discussions here, but you should not expect the features or culture of HN to change for you. HN is what it is.

It also doesn't make sense to "move" to old.reddit.com. That is still the same reddit, just with a different skin.