skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think an issue is the presumption that it has to "compete"...

It doesn't.

A semi-niche device that is also a reliable "Don't need to upgrade hardware for a decade" option definitely has its place in the market, it just won't ever exceed 5% of the market... which would place it exactly where Linux desktop is.

Why do we keep acting like we need more than that?

A phone that won't be unusable due to vendor refusal to upgrade is a big thing for many users isn't it? Given widespread sentiments snd the fact most don't need to play high spec games, I could actually see it potentially exceeding Linux desktop share... but that presumes we don't see hardware fracture that destroys any market potential, which is what I've seen with the few projects for Linux phones - too many dogs eating each others lunches.
Doesn’t using a Google product taint the solution, if privacy is a major concern? Also, WebRTC leaks ip addresses when using a VPN.

What is the secure way to video conference? Webex? FaceTime offers end to end encryption, but can not easily share non-mac os screens.

Articles like this sure make me like Apple sometimes

https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/20/apple-imessage-facetime-remov...
The immune system is walking a tight rope between being too active and too lenient.

PD-L1/PD-1 downregulates immune cells in becoming too active. So removing PD-L1 will cause a number of severe autoimmunity diseases.
>People like fast compile times, but that is more to do with language design than the choice of language for the compiler.

People like fast compile times and people either like to use (or are forced to use) languages that are inherently slow to compile. That's exactly why compiler performance is absolutely critical.
In part, I think it's because numbers are all they can see and control. So if all you have is a hammer... On the other hand I also think it's because they are a bit stupid.
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I too like to assign probabilities to my vibes. Much more legitimate.
Zoom promises not to feed vidchats into AI without permission
> I wonder why mercurial didn't win.

Because it's called Github, not Mercurialhub ;) (I bet if Github would have chosen Mercurial instead, the popularity would be reversed, at the time I switched to Github I was just looking for an alternative to SourceForge for hosting my open source stuff, but didn't care much about the actual version control system).
You are a lot of fun at parties I guess...

Perhaps authors could explore more consumer friendly ways of distributing their work? You paint a false dichotomy.
As any molecular biologist will attest, the mechanism is indeed very elegant.

The outcome not so much.
Andrew is mistaken, the paper he cites doesn't say that levitation is possible in a dipole field. Brauenbecker showed that diamagnetic levitation was possible at all (e.g. in a quadrupole field), but not in a dipole field.

Stable levitation in a dipole field is still thought to be something only type II superconductors can do, and Andrew should not uncritically repeat what he read on /sci/ - which is one of the only other google results for "Brauenbecker extension" currently (after his tweet).
Of course, but you don't waste your lab time with useless samples. KENTECH must have seen something to actually allocate resources for the analysis. The recent interview with the vice president of KENTECH said that the initial request was in 2017, when samples were not really reproducible and too impure for analysis, but it was only this year when samples are good enough and can be actually analyzed---if it's just a fake they could have done so in 2017 instead.
If the site isn't being updated any more, it could be run through one of the wordpress-to-static-site generator things and hosted as you'd describe, though.
Practically any language that supports reflection has a library for that.
Except Egyptians are/were more related to “white” Mediterranean Europeans than subsaharan Africans, at least in the lower Egypt.

> didn’t believe that people of African descent

Sounds like an absurd take considering how fascinated Europeans generally were with ancient Egyptian civilization in the 19th century...
> Hyun-Tak Kim is unlikely to ruin his career and legacy for something careless and frivolous.

you came with presumption that this man knows & understands the subject matter. that is a very bold assumption given the mounting evidence against such brief.

> so lets assign a 10% probability

why 10%? not 0.01%? because of his "prof." title or previous publications? Surely that won't change the course of nature I thought?

> and then from reputed Western researchers/labs.

what makes you discount inputs from Russian, Chinese, Japanese researchers?

You seem to have some really wired brief here, get some help I say.
Just like I want to believe LK99 is RTAPS, I want to believe that you are correct.

But just like with LK99, this might be wishful thinking from me. I am also getting old.
>The smallest problem is c = a + b NOT a + b

This is UNSOLVABLE. There is no solution to this if you want to approximate real numbers in constant size.

This is also a very stupid argument, since it misses the point of floating point numbers.
Life is worth living because it's life.

I'm in a serious condition since a long time. No wife. No kids. Shitty Job. No possibility to overcome this. Nor, to change.

Had years of time to think about life. I come to a conclusion:

There is no meaning in life. No aim. Except, being there and helping the others, like parents or friends, neighbors..

Money, success, power - all of that isn't meaningful. Nice to have, though..

So, look at what you have. You have more than me. But I'm not regretting anything or I'm not jealous. I'm happy because I have the chance to live and make others smile.

Change your viewing perspective. Analyse what you have reached so far. See the faults and errors you've done. Think of how many others even dared to go the way you've gone. And you'll see - a fail isn't a fail, but rather a lesson and a chance.

Just keep going and see what you've accomplished and not where you've failed at. :)
Your comments suggest a frontend perspective. But on the backend there's a ton of code (including business logic, which theoretically should be the most important bit).

I wouldn't be qualified to argue the merits of FP on frontend, but on the backend it really seems to have value.
I tend to come up as UNIX critic, however during university I was actually a UNIX zealot for the most part.

My critics and re-focus on Apple, Google and Microsoft ecosystems, steam from having discovered the alternative universes happening outside Bell Labs, being a fan of UNIXes that went their own way like NeXTSTEP, NeWS, A/UX, Irix, Solaris, instead of being yet another UNIX System V clone in user/developer experience.

Not sure if GNU/Linux has learned much from ChromeOS/Android UX, given the current state of desktop fragmentation.
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Please don't repeat stories without knowing the basis. What you're calling "hot coffee is hot" should be called "coffee stored at unnaturally high temperatures which cause 3rd degree burns is hot". Normal coffee does not lead to those burns. McDonalds put in a lot of effort, and probably money, to make it seem like "hurr durr it was just a dumb American being dumb". It's not that. The woman also didn't sue to become rich, only to cover her medical costs.
Well, time to make xitter.net then.
One group of people who’ve been working on dealing with some of the security issues of BGP for 20 years.

https://www.openbgpd.org
they should just make an awesome FirefoxOS
Doesn't seem to work on mobile?
Ford stopped producing passenger vehicles for the US market with two exceptions a few years ago [1]. When you look at the numbers it's not hard to see why though. Over 80% of new vehicle sales are in the "light truck" category, which is things like SUVs and pickups. Of that remaining 20%, most of them were being sold by other brands like Kia and Toyota. Consumers simply don't want Ford cars.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/ford-to-stop-selling-every...
Examples?

Also, related and recent:

Ask HN: Are you using Raku? Pros / cons?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36922692

Question inspired by starting to watch this: Raku for Beginners, at TPRC 2023:

https://youtu.be/eb-j1rxs7sc
Homebrew is among the top-3 reasons I enjoy developing on Mac. Thanks a lot for your work!
If you are a highly skilled programmer, why not just start contributing to open source repos yourself? You don't need to go through GitStart to get there.

Many companies, including my own and the commercial open source companies mentioned in this post, consider open source contributions a major factor in hiring remote talent.
They would have to install sqlite and sqlite3 separately and feed the sqlite instance to your library when creating a new instance of your library. It would no longer be a dependency in package.json (maybe a devDependency when you write unit tests using it). Look at how the npm sqlite source code does it as an example.

https://github.com/kriasoft/node-sqlite

In the src/index.ts file, the `open()` function takes in an instance of sqlite3, vs the file importing it from the sqlite3 package itself.

An adapter / driver pattern would extend this where you can interchange usage of either the sqlite package or an alternative.

For example, let's say you have two SQLite drivers. They both allow you to execute a statement, but their methods and maybe parameters are named differently. One might expose a `exec()`, while the other exposes `run()` to do the same thing.

Your codebase probably is coded for one or the other, which means you can't freely interchange the drivers.

So what you do to support this is create a an interface with methods that describe what you want to do. In the above case, you might describe a method called `executeStatement()`.

Then you create two classes, one for each driver. They both implement `executeStatement()`, but under the hood, they'll run `exec()` and `run()` in their implementations.

So your main code now will accept an instance of anything that implements your interface, and instead of calling like `exec()`, you'll be calling `executeStatement()`, which under the hood calls `exec()`.

So it goes like this:

- Define common interface for interacting with different database libraries (the abstraction)

- Implementation class using that interface (the drivers)

- Your constructor takes in anything that conforms to that interface

- The user creates an instance of your implementation (eg SqliteDriver) and feeds in the instance of the driver (eg `new SqliteDriver(<output of npm sqlite open()>)`

- Your code calls the interface methods in place of the actual database calls instead

You had something like:

db.collection('users').set(..)

So rather than calling SQLite `run()`, it'd be calling your interface method `executeStatment()` (which calls `run()`) instead in that `set()` call.

It looks like the "Bridge" pattern is what you want here:

https://www.phind.com/agent?cache=cll1zw1n60010la08mn89dd8g

The generated code is Java, but the idea and concept is the exact same that I've described above.
>I appreciate the sentiment but in this case I do not want to hurl around a bignum lib to add up 2 tiny numbers.

That is why integers and floats exist.

>build in functionality should do the small number arithmetic.

Every CPU has that.

Floating point numbers CAN NOT be fixed. It is mathematically impossible. The inconsistencies always will be there.
First, I’m definitely not the right person to be suggesting anything, leave alone advice. However, I really hope my words will give you another perspective.

Your description hits me as if you are describing me, extremely close to me.

I had some successes very early in my career that propelled my ego and made me, in my wife’s word, “a heartless bloody bastard.”

After I had been failing one after the other in my attempts, punctuated with two (or is it three) tiny successes/exits. My wife is worried that with this much of failures and rejections, I’m not gone crazy and can still stay cool and nonchalant.

About Climate Change - that is the other thing - I think I have found my ultimate happy place, do something to help fight Climate Change. It may be a losing battle but I need to fight for my daughters.

Spend time with yours family, friends. Many usually advices to keep business and personal separate. I’d say, can you weave them so you are your ups and downs flow together and you can live with them.

Also meditation (perhaps guided) helps. My best friend (a neighbor whom I grew up with) died (of a curable sickness) after I ran off from my hometown for a better life. I will never forgive myself for not being there when he needed me. Whenever I take part of guided medication, the only thing I remember is our adventures along the shallow rivers which we did regularly while growing up (teen-years). I’m not happy, perhaps I’m sad but I feel at peace that I can vividly remember him, our conversations, acting out our Star Trek fantasies.

Please fight it out. Pick a cause - climate, friends, relations, family. Your aims and ambitions will be arbitrary for others but it is the ultimate scale to measure yourself against.

I’m not religious at all. However, my sister and her family is. When they are in my town, I’m the chauffeur that takes them to various templates and places of worship. I either read or stay silent and listen to some of the priest narrating sections of Mahabharata. The relatives are happy and I like that people around me are happy.

Finally, help others (founders, entrepreneurs, and many others) without expecting anything in return. Perhaps, the fun and adventurous part is to help others without letting them know you help them.

Life becomes lot more meaningful. These are the few notes from a tiny piece of my perspective. Please pick your own as I may come in “heartless” coming from a broken family, struggled/fought to eat/live since an early age, seen abysmal lows that anything that happens onwards are pretty high.

(Unedited and written at one-go as of 12:39 PM (India) on Aug 8, 2023.)
Any similar libs for drawings that snap together, like in a flowchart?

Considering writing something like that in WASM. But it might have to be from scratch in that case.
Yes: https://twitter.com/VanGennepD/status/1688052003216261120

This guy goes into detail how he makes a practical fake which demonstrates the same behaviour: it's ground up carbon, superglue and some iron filings on one end.

The pivot point reduces the mass and weights it upright.
> Upload to device.

Compared to a WisperNet download, that's actually a bit of a faff. Don't get me wrong, I use a hacked Kobo, but getting the books on the thing requires a computer and either to use a micro-USB cable or faffing about with a fileshare and WebDAV.

Kindle: attach book to Kindle email address, send.
This is the basic psychological trait exploited by advertising. Show someone important, famous, or relatable, enjoying a product, and it creates a subconscious desire in other humans to enjoy the same thing.

In this case, if the item is worth stealing, then surely it must be very valuable to someone, hence it should be valuable to everyone. This being a unique item, i.e. scarcity, pushes its value to astronomical heights. There's theoretically no limit to what someone is willing to pay or do to obtain such a piece. We see this all the time in the art world.
> just to save $8 on parts

I don't think you understand what $8 per vehicle represents in cost savings.

$8 in parts can literally be 10s of million in savings per year.

And then you are basically tied to this supplier forever as switching something so fundamental isn't easy.

In automotive, using less screws to save 50c on each vehicle is considered a big win.
Then let the passenger do that shit on their own phone. Why do you need them entering stuff into the car's nav unit? That shit is distracting anyway. Don't half-ass shit. Besides, we all know you want to fucking watch TV while you drive.
> Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Actually it is when labs all around the world are trying to generate evidence and failing
Well this is not a metaphor for anything. Nope.
It would appear that Jeff Bezos has not trademarked his name.
Seems to be just exactly MIPS-II, down to the encoding, but with stuff left out.

http://csg.csail.mit.edu/6.S078/6_S078_2012_www/handouts/smi...
God how I wish Git had something as good as Perforce’s timelapse view.
>yet - in this privacy-obsessed society - everyone uses PayPal instead.

I don't get why to be honest. Banks are far more regulated than Paypal...
Fellow German here, I concur, being BM is 6€ got two patties in my local store. Other replacements are around 2€. It's just not competitive.
Zero resistance would be hard to proof this way, but why can't you compare measurements of LK99 with known conductors?
at local levels it’s more obvious

at larger levels there are typically business units within a larger organization that might have a monopoly in that sector

if everyone chooses your phone brand out of social ramifications and you dont do anything to accelerate competitor’s exiting the market, is what it is
Yes, I only listen to people with handle like "ThePhysicist" or "theMaterialPhyisicist" at hackernews.
I mean, that’s kinda what AWS is doing right now with its customers’ successes with gen ai, no?
It's more of an abbreviation than a truncation: the link still points to the full URL, but outside of a code context there's not much reason to display excessively long URLs in their entirety as part of a regular comment.
True, but by that analogy it's an extinction event, not a death. Any mutations the cancer cells acquired will not be propagated.
How can I get everything in a single PDF?
If punishment is the only way to solve this, why be so timid? Cut their hands off.
Math people are seriously impressive!
I would seriously disagree. Plenty of CMSes switched all their photos to webp resulting in a huge loss in quality.
Thanks for the detailed explanation and the contact offer <3
DisneyplusBeginCodes is a streaming platform where many movies and TV shows are streamed so that the user may enjoy them. The Web series and Tv shows make the user fan about Disney plus Disneyplus is the oldest and the most robust streaming platform. In the past few years, it has gained importance so that every internet user wants to keep the Disney plus subscription.
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Newer versions of Rakudo allow you to tune this behaviour dynamically through the $*RAT-OVERFLOW dynamic variable (which defaults to Num for the described behaviour).

See: https://docs.raku.org/language/variables#$*RAT-OVERFLOW*
as I understand we're approaching local maximum with LLMs and that is what I base the previous comment on, but fully layman and no insight into deeper layers of LLM R&D
In this case the differentiation between cars and light trucks/suvs seems trivial.
I don't know why this comment got downvoted? Purely on spelling?
It looks like you arrived at the correct conclusion eventually, that producing your own expert content would pay off over the longer term.

Also, that chasing traffic can have negative outcomes.
> On August 21st, 1911

Just in case, like me, you were wondering why on earth you couldn't remember about this happening just 23 years ago.

(I just watched a program about the Mandela Effect, so maybe I was susceptible to this misunderstanding!)
Wago's are rated for stranded wire aren't they? It's wire nuts you need to be careful about wrt stranded wire.
Looking for the same.
Do you think that there are no "nudges" if nobody comes along and tries to "nudge"? The situation as-is is not some kind of default that's nudge-free. Whenever someone makes a decision, it probably results in some kind of "nudge".

Accepting this reality, and working with it, is completely different from "mass mind control". Any time a city decides which streets to repair, it's a nudge. Any time a city decides which streets to renovate at the same time, it's another nudge. Any time a city decides not to repair streets it's a nudge. How do you get out of this "nudge-less"?
"We got it approved by calling it Chaos Engineering."
I have always thought the division is to basically protect Apple's cut of the revenue for "App Sales". Not, strictly speaking, because they want to take 30% of every possible purchase or service -- though I am sure they would be happy with that and do desire that to some extent. However more and more every year sales of an "app" become smaller and smaller and everything is a subscription - so it seems this thought is rapidly if not already outdated.

The world we now live in is that all "apps and programs" can be either a one-off purchase like a physical good or a subscription. That subscription might be for the "app" or it may be packaged as a subscription to a "service" that the app is facilitating (the line between the two is very blurry). Additionally, all digital goods like books, music and movies may also be a one-off purchase or a "subscription" like audible, apple music, etc.

The line between all of those is blurry such that, any set of rules you write leaves it open to convert "app sales" to "services/subscriptions" or even to bundle access to your app or it's content as "digital goods" to avoid that 30% cut. People would (and do) switch their sales model to then avoid that cut.

I don't have a solution and I don't think Apple or the open webs way is specifically better in every aspect, but I do think it's interesting to think about the problem space.
Oh, they exist so they can throw their peg and crash losing 99 percent of their value while the company or individuals responsible tell their users not to worry and that it is totally under control.
Has Microsoft cleaned up their act?

I thought windows still had mostly mandatory telemetry, and as far as I know, they haven’t walked back the thing where engineers can pull arbitrary files off your machine “for diagnostic purposes only”, which means they’re legally obligated to service all sorts of sketchy warrants against machines they don’t own.
Also required in public sector jobs here. When you are on a contract with compensation time off for overtime, and it's sometimes even computed with >1:1 compensation on average hours over some time window, you kind of need to track it.
The electric mustang with the blue cruise isn't really a mustang, its a totally different beast with a mustang sticker on it
> Kindle: attach book to Kindle email address, send.

I like to image, that jeff bezos dies a little inside whenever I do this.
Yet.

You forgot that part. Tether is stable… for now.
> I think there is ample evidence that Tesla's overall value proposition is grossly misaligned with its current valuation

And yet somehow many analysis and major investors don't seem to disagree with you.

I have seen this position on HN for a while now, its always 'totally clear and logic' that Tesla is overvalued.

But if you go back and snapshot all those cases, often not true.

You can certainty make a case both ways regarding Tesla.