skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IDE have no soul ie feedback loop, receptors , hormones and actual molecular structure. IDE can not think. If IDE have desires and thought and were smart enough, it will refuse to work with languages such as Python and Java.
People do these studies so that you can then use it to actually improve society by, let's say increase and improve our green spaces.
When someone asks you why you're wasting time and money on a silly childish thing like a greener city instead of more asphalt for Business Inc. you can point to this study.
It's right in your own source that they are talking about hydrogen. Page 27
You have conveniently left out the cost differential for the printed edition, and you are conveniently pricing the trust/risk/hassle that comes with it at 0. And even in this case I doubt the USD 5 pw is the market price, you are basically assuming there is a kid, who values extra pocket money.

So all in all, USD 2500 seems unrealistic.
Thank you but for legal and compliance reasons data cannot leave my premises/cloud. The entire point is precisely that, to be honest.
Looking at the cost of 32" displays, this one is actually on the low end of what devices meant for professional use go for.

Still a lot, but not "even pricier than a colour-accurate monitor for creators" a lot.
i left evernote ages back - they for some reason turned all my text entires into pdf files !!! I tried them again much later when they were promising better things, but compared to what i was using, it was slow and not as enjoybale to run, so never looked at it again. I ran Notational velocity for ages, but have tried obsidian and Joplin (Joplin was v good for almost all uses) but I've settled on using FSNotes which works very well for me. Again, it's got some weird stuff but its easy to ignore. Joplin was probably th best all rounder, by synch of phoen and laptop could lead me questioning what was where, so it didn't get relied upon the same as FSNotes does. I still use both in reality though. Joplin has that free high quality app appeal - it really is better than almost all those pay to use apps. I've tried so many its unreal, i even have a super long subscription to some app (no longer on my devices) - big on promises, lousy on delivery.
Canonical wants some corner of the ecosystem where they can say that they are driving the progress instead of being just downstream consumers and (re-)packagers.

And to be honest, Snaps had fair chance of succeeding; when they first were released flatpak was still pretty young. Docker has had its own issues, and podman (etc) is even younger yet. If they played their cards right Snap could have been Canonicals chance to shine, and I guess they know it and are still trying to salvage the effort.
That's really nice, I think HN would love this if it was easy to hack and run custom software
I thought I began to understand something, your rant proven me wrong) Thanks, anyway)
Cars are generally not a mode of transport that makes sense in a city. There are some exceptions, but the vast majority of transportation in a city should be by foot, bicycle or public transport.
Yeah, the author is assuming that the general populace is like themselves (and like most HN commenters, I suspect): fairly high degree of technical competence, able to find workarounds for most issues in an app or website or forum somewhere.

But most people aren't like that.
Why is it awkward? I manage 5ish lines in a docker compose file describing each service and thats about it
Sure, but that's far from enough.
How are you going to "fix" that "design flaw" when the personal data in question is the result of legally required customer age checks? Evidence needed to support your tax filings? Used to identify and block people who are repeatedly trying to defraud you or breach your security? Subject to a legal hold because it might provide relevant evidence in some legal action between other parties or it's been requested as evidence by some government committee?

Data protection laws like the GDPR might take the position that you should minimise the collection and use of personal data. Many of us might even agree with that position in principle. It can still be complicated to work out what "minimal" actually means if you did have good reasons to collect the personal data in the first place and you might still need to keep the data or some part of it for those purposes or to comply with other laws or regulations.
Fundamentally defects are deviations between a user’s expected behavior and actual system behavior. That presumes there is an understanding of what users expect, and while a spec can model that, a spec can also bake rules in stone that break user expectations. So I would argue it is not the spec as such that increases quality, but rather having a documented reference of how the system ought to behave, whether written beforehand like a spec, afterwards as documentation, or during in the form of high quality tests.

If there is no separate record of how the system should behave there is no clear line between bugs and features, and the software will grow warts based on the vagaries of the ticket system. Often at that point someone proposes a rewrite to clean things up (aka “build it twice”), but unless the second time a proper spec is created the end result after a few years is often equally filled with warts. Quality is a process and not a feature, and the same process will usually produce a similar quality. I’ve seen the same software rebuilt four times, and only the fourth time was it preceded by a proper spec resulting from extensive user conversation. That fourth castle stayed up.
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Cars are a big part of the problem, regardless of energy source.

Trains, trams, buses, bikes, walking, etc. are the actual solution.
It’s always been possible to get refunds from Amazon without contacting a human, through a very simple form. I haven’t used their chatbot, but I’m curious how it’s better than the old form.
No, you can use a security oriented distribution, plus sandbox the applications you use.
> more likely

Just leave these quips out of your comments to not water down your otherwise reasonable argument.
When you say "spent," does that mean it's in the past and you're not building it anymore? Or are you still actively developing it?

I love the idea behind it and would be very interested in using such a service, even if it might require some reimagining from traditional calendar format to make it fun and intuitive to use!
Good question. The mobile app’s source code has been inspected by independent subject matter expects.
>One month of free cloud license is included with every device purchased.
What is this crap?
Haven't posted recently, but a good reminder I should get back to it

https://michael.mior.ca/blog
Nice project! is it possible to display HN frontpage, and update frequently?
I think that's the wrong link, but I get the idea. Actually it might qualify as art even more, because in terms of functionality it would be borderline useless.
China's Experiment to Save a Melting Glacier
In my experience, if you see * or more rarely ? in a sudo command configuration then there's a good chance there's a problem.

I once saw a bunch of systemctl start someprefix* being allowed in a sudoers configuration (likewise for stop). systemctl can start more than one service at a time and the way that the sudoers configuration is checked is by glob matching the concatenated command.

If your command is literally: "systemctl" "start" "someprefix" "sshd" this gets concatenated to "systemctl start someprefix sshd" which matches the glob "systemctl start someprefix*".
Zivid is building amazing 3D cameras, everything is vertically integrated. The low-level challenges look amazing. I'm mostly working as on infrastructure. I encourage you, do check it out.
not a blog but a fun website...
https://chagai.website
https://archive.is/k4BCJ
I think you are putting far more weight on "publishing" (=throwing it in public code hosting) something than most people. I imagine for many having their pet projects in the public is the default option rather than some explicit decision or action.
At this point there are no evidence that climate catastrophe that can make human extinct is either likely or possible - at least due to global warming. At worst some coastal regions get flooded and places around equator become unlivable without AC. Some people will have to move but it does not make anyone extinct.

We should absolutely care about nature and our impact on it but climate alarmism is not a way to go.
FPGA Connect Four
Wow! “Guess the verb.” That is exactly how text based adventure games worked in 80s. The interface of the future is Zork.
Fine. What is it then?

Could you give a generic example of the sort of secret an employee might take out of Twitter and use to build a competing product?

By the way, Musk didn't specify "code" either.
Perhaps they could settle it in a cage match, in a submarine?
I'm sure there are some emissions we still don't know how to avoid relating to solar manufacturing, but typically we look at energy return on energy invested (EROI). As the supply chain becomes less carbon intensive, less the energy to produce panels themselves produces emissions. The most carbon intensive countries are countries like US and China -- I'm sure just the emissions they cut back could compensate a lot of energy growth for developing countries. This is only a temporary spike. And being the large industrial producers, as they transition the emissions per Watt will go down significantly.

Again, it's not clear what your proposal is. Ignoring the problem is a bad idea. Doing the best we can to rapidly (of course, not so rapidly we couldn't handle it) transition to renewable energy is what we should be doing. Doing it now is the best time to be doing it. And are doing it! Just some countries are lagging behind somewhat, including the US and China. A big part of the problem is not recognizing the scale and importance of what we're facing. With reason and compassion in our hearts, we shall find the best solution for all :)
1. You don't need either thread pools or GCD for this. GCD generally makes things worse.

2. It absolutely does mean you don't need the main thread event loop for non UI-events.
No worries, appreciate your concrete calculation.

I would argue it's just one more convenient assumption that leads us away from a realistic estimation.

It seems to me USD 2500 is an idealistic best case scenario.
In my reply I focused on why we need a bundled, sandboxed packaging format in the first place, since many people are sceptical just about that. So you're right in that I didn't go into any of the differences.

Snaps solve a bunch of problems that are out of scope of Flatpaks, such as CLI apps and the packaging of kernels and other hardware-level pieces. This allows for an entirely snap-based system that is immutable and atomically updated, which is essential for IoT devices to be reliable.

If you look at the history of snaps, they are an evolution of click packaging, which were created for the Ubuntu phone that is no more. But the history goes back further than that - back to Ubuntu's App Review Board and (deb based) third party app packaging system, which failed for exactly the reason that deb is an unsuitable packaging format for third party apps.

If you look at the history of Flatpaks, you'll find that their initial release was at a similar time to snaps. But given that they don't solve a bunch of problems that snaps do, what was/is Canonical supposed to do? Ditch snaps entirely and drop their IoT support? Integrate IoT support into Flatpaks? Do Flatpak upstream even want that? Look at the history of Canonical wanting to ehnance GNOME, and the history of how Unity began, to see how that doesn't seem like it would be a practical way of delivering functionality to users in a reasonable period of time.

Consider that it is Ubuntu that is at the centre of this third party app packaging problem. It's Ubuntu that everybody targets first with their third party debs. For the same underlying reason, it's Ubuntu that gets more user support requests because of bad third party debs than every other distribution. It makes sense that Ubuntu developers are best placed to understand the problem and develop a solution.

So yes, we've ended up with two parallel contenders. But I don't think it's reasonable for Canonical to have done anything differently in regard to Flatpak. It appeared at the same time while Canonical had already been working away at the problem for years, doesn't solve or even try to solve all the problems that snaps are designed to solve, and those problems appear to be out of the scope of Flatpak anyway. As much as critics frame them as like-for-like options that Canonical could just decide to switch over, they simply aren't and thus "simply switching" doesn't even make sense.

As for "another one already exists", that statement could just as well apply the other way round: look at the timelines!
What an amazing project. I will be copying or becoming a customer in the coming weeks. Lots of comments about the high price, I do wish large e-ink displays would come down in price the but for ~$3k this will look good on my office wall , how could I resist. It’s art it is not just tech.
So if you live in a good part of town you live longer. Not really surprising?
To add to that ...

I want to call a human even if my question seems dumb for them and have it taken care of, because I don't even know if I get that one answer there might be 10 other questions hiding behind the corner.
https://www.anmolsarma.in/

I haven't written anything in 3 years but I think a few of my posts were pretty good. Some of them even made it to the top of HN and Proggit.
The common denominator with these errors is you. Good luck.
Laws of thermodynamics aren't really useful here. They are perfect for explaining universe, and notoriously bad for predicting local events when you zoom and focus at a fine grain level and add time. Life beings are apparently breaking or "delaying" this laws all the f*ng time.

In any case nobody is trying to make a perpetual movement machine.

The goal is to create a cheaper way to extract salt from saltwater, and use the pressure gradient at the sea to put apart brine and water could be a solution waiting for an engineer (in my opinion). It is assumed that will not be free in terms of energy. It doesn't matter as long as is slightly better than the current solution. Would be much faster than waiting for the sun so it does not need to be cheaper than that. It just needs to be able to replace the last energy-expensive phase of our current solution by another process that is cheaper or faster.
I'll start the cognitive dissonance train:

Unix is the system where, quoting: "programs do one thing well."

:-)))
Great observation. I found myself thinking it reflected the famous quote: "“Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” The post author is traversing the actions-habit-character territory.
You can point it to any url that serves an image of the right resolution. This way, you can render your own content.
This is the only truly reliable security approach: security by compartmentalization.
the website seminal for the pact, fedipact.online added an eplanational text:

https://fedipact.online/why
All fairly small places... the comparison is then maybe Switzerland, some of the Nordics etc. They all seem to be doing much better in building fast than their larger neighbors.
Rotating molecular motors exist (a proton powered turbine in the video)

http://biovisions.mcb.harvard.edu/anim_mitochondria.html
IIRC Internet Explorer no longer ships with Windows by default and you have to use an IE compatibility mode of Edge to use sites that require it.
Why shouldnt they publish it? not everyone wants to invent something new as just learn what already exists.

The first paragraph of the project literally say

> Styx is a hobby project that had initially no other goal than to experiment
self-hosting of a compiler

Its a hobby.
Dribles is a place to share 360 images and tours
Could you give a few more details on this? While the 32'' screen is a bit too expensive for me, I would probably find interesting usecases for he 16'' version if there weren't the subscription requirement. I don't mind writing my own CMS as long as that's possible.

What are the requirements to make a system work with these? Do you at the end stream bitmaps to the device? Something else? Is there a documented interface?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3SYn_SXIAYAIlI?format=jpg&name=...

I actually replicated this myself, with one extra feature; I got the screen framed . The 'trick' is that there's no glass section of the frame, the wood just boxes the screen and hides the fact that the bezel is not all the same width. This only cost another £100 at a framer, and I really recommend it.
Cool project!

I worry though, because IMO newspapers aren't dead because of the medium; they are dead because journalism itself is dying.
That hits close to home. I was cleaning my drive recently and I have a folder of completed projects ( which has few items ) and various random stuff that I briefly found interesting over the course of the years ( and then just gave up as soon as something else caught my attention or got bored.. you know the drill ).

Some of it helped me a little ( that is partially how I learned basics of R ), but I fear that it also held me back as I never really finished any of the more amusing projects and did not experience that feeling of finishing something.

And as you get older, it is harder to expose yourself to that scrutiny.
The stuff Amazon gets away with is incredible. Imagine if you returned a product to WalMart and they decided to charge you for it anyways 3 weeks later.
DirectX 11 and 12 are both much more aligned to the hardware. DX 12 took the basic principles from AMD's Mantle and is very similar to Vulkan and Apple's Metal. Therefore, it makes a lot of sense and is not too much additional work to implement these natively.
Many think that, but no one has any proof yet...
http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/
Looks really cheap too.
most of the shell exploits are prevented by including NOEXEC: in the sudo permissions. IDK why this is not the default.

This prevents the sudoed command from running any other commands
Electric cars are not a solution (most of the particles come from the brakes, tyres and too many roads instead of vegetation, which blocks wind dust and erosion).

Heat pumps or electric heating help solve climate change, not air pollution (it helps a bit if it replaces an old wood stove, but would make things worse if the grid is coal-powered, which is sadly still common).

Reversing aging isn't a thing and even if it were, it wouldn't be a solution to anything. Air pollution problems aren't only about physical health but mental health and biodiversity as well. Maybe I don't get the sarcasm.
I'm not sure what was your intended use of the word "either", but I'd be careful calling movies like Maverick "US propaganda". Maverick is a privately produced movie that appeals to the American national sentiment, and the world's fascination with the US Military, but it's NOT government propaganda. The US Military was happy to see the movie, obviously, and fully supported its development with consulting services and realistic equipment, as it is generally the case with movies that help their struggling recruiting efforts, but they were not the reason the movie exists.

Battle at Lake Changjin was literally commissioned by CPP's government, literally including its department of propaganda and is part of a concerted government effort.

Also have in mind that the Chinese government imposes actual bans on content, such as "can't have this and that flag, or this or that line, or your movie can't be shown in China" in a way similar to Vietnam and Philippines. Actual Chinese propaganda movies can be shown in the US - they don't get shown often, if at all, because nobody wants to see them.
They're computer programs, not living beings. Biology is still light-years ahead of the complexity of our computer systems.
So I do actually want a really good games machine, and an AI worker box. Since I can't both use inference output and play games at the same time, having a ludicrously over-specced desktop for both uses actually makes sense to me.
Pokémon Sleep
It's less useful than my initial impression. The reason is because Copilot does not know about the entire codebase - only the current file. This means it makes a ton of mistakes.

In addition, it's often annoying because it replaces the default IDE autocomplete when you don't want it to. For example, when importing code from another file, it disables the autocomplete and then tries to make up what you're trying to import which is wrong 80% of the time as it does not know the whole code base.

There is a long running thread asking Github to disable Copilot for import statements. Thus far, Github doesn't care. Link to thread: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/8375
:D

It’s a matter of taste I guess
What’s up with .net domains suddenly being hot?
> No matter how many times you say this it doesn't make it escalatory.

That’s not up to the aggressor to determine. “Lighten up baby, you shouldn’t be afraid of me” is not how it works. Especially after NATO countries have engaged in so much belligerence in just the last 25 years (Yugoslavia, Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.)

Also, how about just keeping your word? USA doesn’t have a great record of keeping its word since its founding, eg to Native American nations. Same escalations from both sides. Same broken promises.

The whole POINT of successful dialogue and diplomacy is to listen to the repeatedly expressed, pervasively held, major concerns of others. It works also in couples counseling. “No matter how many times you say I scare you, doesn’t make my actions scary or hurtful” is NOT a helpful attitude IF you want to actually make things better for both parties, and in the case of leaders of huge countries, it is their duty to do diplomacy on behalf of citizens of both countries.

In what world is a country saying “you have different style of government, different values, etc. so the concerns you express and want to negotite are totally irrelevant to us, our answer is no” — considered a good diplomatic actor? Obviously they don’t WANT to solve it diplomatically.

As for 90% of my content — when the rest of the people in a forum are already spending 100% of their time bashing women, for instance, or men, or whatever, then the major thing I need to add is THE OPPOSITE OF THAT. That’s normal.

But also, to a white supremacist who blames the other races for so much, saying ANYTHING that is evenhanded sounds to them like “you must love those guys, why do you hate whites so much”. Similarly lefties and progressives often heard “why do you hate America / capitalism” when they merely expressed a bit of criticism. Or people who said anything evenhanded about Palestinians and Israelis can be excoriated by rabid Zionists or Anti-Zionists. So yes. You are the holdong extreme position that one side is 100% wrong. And anything evenhanded sounds like “we have here a Ru**n lover!”
> It is extremely convenient to someone who already has an asset if the nature of that asset means they can make a convincing argument that they should be granted a monopoly.

While this is absolutely true, it's extremely unlikely that a de jure monopoly would end up at OpenAI's feet rather than any of the FAANGs'. Even in just the USA, and the rest of the world has very different attitudes to risks, freedoms, and data processing.

Not that this proves the opposite — there's enough recent examples of smart people doing dumb things, and even without that the possibility of money can inspire foolishness in most of us.
From a quick read of the model used [0], it seems to simulate neurons and muscles at a functional level (not atoms or cell internals).

[0] - https://github.com/openworm/c302 (linked in the original github page)