skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You pick: a windmill, a refurbishing + automation of a grand piano, a workshop, a CNC plasmacutter. I love projects and I always have one or more things on the go (usually one for good weather and one for bad weather).
Imagine thinking the world is going to collapse the same year we get extremely useful AI, Starship will likely circle the Earth, LK-99, huge leap in fusion global wind and solar grow faster than ever, incredibly low unemployment, massive GDP growth, plus a major prospect for curing cancer.

Has the future ever looked this bright?
We're not indexing every conversation to the open web. We've only seen this happen for threads that are deliberately shared publicly by the user. Please feel free to reach out to me personally at michael@phind.com and I'd be happy to discuss this further.
the virality of this article and others, as well as careers and books built off it, suggests a large market and captive audience for such 'doom porn' even if factually dubious.
> If you're denying people access to the system based on where they happen to be, it's not universal.

“Universal” seems to be a later construction, it was originally “unconditional”, and in both cases the writings on it for many years under either name made it clear that the reference was principally freedom from means- and behavior-testing, contrary to status-quo welfare programs, but that it would target a population based on (exact scope differs in particular proposals) residency, citizenship, and/or age. Not surprised that the “no borders” crowd has seen it differently, and their version certainly is a valid instance of the general idea, but they don’t get to rewrite history and narrow the scope of the broader concept to their new version.
Following up on this point, we’ve updated our terms of service (in section 10.4) to further confirm that we will not use audio, video, or chat customer content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent.

You can see that now clearly stated in our blog: https://blog.zoom.us/zooms-term-service-ai/
The strongest argument is buried towards the end of the article and even then its not touched on directly.

Due to compound interest, our financial system requires exponential growth.

Exponential growth isnt possible in a finite world. Thats the fundamental contradiction woven into the fabric of our society.

Perfectly effective capitalists may be able to stave off government intervention till they own everything but at that point growth will basically cease.
k i need somebody to do a comparison table for us...
Some of us remember the good ol’ reel-to-reel audio tape from Sony, ones with BIG capstan pinch rollers and tiny read multi-head.

That’s the primary set of part for this card reader as it came from the AKAI M-7 reel-to-reel tape deck that my dad vet sent from Thailand (that I ripped apart).

The rest is machining the new box to hold together the mechanicals and gears. It was big, something like 13”x8”x18”.

Then came the hacking part, which included plenty of social engineering to obtain its data format and then garage-based pattern construction of data bits.

Then came an Intel MCS-48 (8048) …. old, old, but big ICs approach with ADC capability.

Featured it at a Pacific Oil and Gas Conference booth, sold that day in its entirety,
> I think it should be a day or two a month to update dependencies and runtimes to current.

And how long to validate the updated dependencies don't break anything?
(WarpStream co-founder) Check the end of our blog post, we brought receipts :)
Enjoy

https://gist.github.com/kaspermeerts/781f0137b361b51224dcab7...

https://gist.github.com/kaspermeerts/b6f158b1278de307e48a200...

I hope it's readable
Oh I definitely plan on getting a touchscreen 4K when budget permits, for (the option of) a more tablet-like experience (I already currently use a portable monitor like a laptop in bed). And I actually have switched to my current HMD (2160x2160 per eye) in exactly one extreme case: when I was on LSD, and my neck was getting tired, so I wanted to lay it down while still being able to look at art (images, not text).

I just, you know, wouldn't ever do that for daily usage or productivity like coding - I'm instead considering looking for some way to suspend my 4K monitor above me instead... at least until some HMD can match its sharpness/clarity.

It's kind of ironic, Apple displays are what got me addicted to HiDPI in the first place...
The kids will get some nice fresh air and sunshine while riding on the roof. The older kid will get some exercise while running alongside it. I bet with some practice they can beat it in a race too. /s
I'm not sure what ICE minivans you're thinking of, except maybe the Sienna?

> The Carnival matched its EPA combined rating during its stay with us, averaging 22 mpg. https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a38417315/2022-kia-carn...

> No matter which trim you select, the 2023 Honda Odyssey mpg will be 19 city/28 highway/22 combined.

These are not 10-15 extra. Maybe 5-10 extra. The Sienna might pull 15 extra.
I picked up a MQP out of curiosity with how the tech has improved since the original Vive - my last experience with VR.

My office gets very hot in the summer - as of writing, it is 84F in there. The rest of my house is 72. I've had AC people take a look, etc., and there's not an easy solution to fix it. I'd probably get a mini-split or something if I was intending to stay here for more than another year or so, but it's not worth the cost and trouble currently.

One thing I wasn't expecting was the MQP being enough for some basic monitor replacement use for if I just don't want to deal with the heat. It's not holding a candle to my 34" Alienware OLED or the other 3 4k panels I have in front of me, but... I get tired of the physical discomfort from wearing the headset before I get tired of the virtual monitors.

23m pixels total for the AVP vs. the MQP's 7m - a 3x increase in pixels is a pretty significant jump in resolution.

I will say the passthrough mode cameras on the MQP look like complete ass. I can see the world around me well enough that I can function and interact with the objects in the room if necessary, but if I was trying to use the virtual monitors against the backdrop of the world, it would distract me with how shitty the real world looks. I don't have much hope that the AVP cameras are gonna be a significant enough jump up to solve that.
It depends on the specific BIOS, but AVX512 can be used on Alder Lake CPUs if you buy a performance cores only processor or the efficiency cores are all disabled.
That's very nicely done, impressed!
Couldn't you simply add that conditional statement to the private land case as well?

It would be an interesting test case to build an illegal dormitory for homeless on private land and seek enforcement deferment as long as the same conditions are met.
I know it's a really trivial matter, but I actually got to use the tuple swap thing the other day and it felt so good.

(ItemA, ItemB) = (ItemB, ItemA)

~50% of our methods don't even have block bodies anymore... Switch expressions are our bread & butter now. Once you learn how to combine expressions + switch + LINQ, you have the triforce of poor-man's functional programming inside the perfect imperative realm by which to protect it.
It's not a 5 minute job, sure, but compared to something like WebGPU it's tiny.
The real choice was between 8 hours, one week and not making it there at all
where is the JPEG XL support?
(WarpStream co-founder) We're thinking about making the `warpstream playground` command run an in-memory local version of control plane. Come chat with us in our Slack or Discord if you want to discuss more!
Wind resistance is a lot of it, but also I imagine the power-to-weight ratio of your bike is much greater than your Prius'.
Georgia has an ad valorem vehicle registration tax directly based on the vehicle's value.
Functional core, imperative shell. This seems to be a good approach, especially when you push pretty hard to stuff as much as possible into the functional core.

Writing tests is much easier and requires much less code, and bugs are much easier to track down (since you have less surface area of "what might have modified this object I now hold?").

Since a functional approach also goes well with single-responsibility-principle and composability, you can end up with multiple times more actual functions. They're all (ideally) very conceptually simple, but the larger number of more specialized functions means you have to work a lot harder on choosing meaningful names. And to write meaningful names of specific functions, you can end up with some quite long names. This is actually quite ok as it makes things much more readable, but some people have some strong negative reactions to seeing 4-6 word function names. But at least in this case (Java being the most famous counter scenario) each function probably has more real value as it's not just OO layer artefacts.
It's not paradoxical to buy a CPU that's 5x more efficient.
- Many visuals for dealing with side-effects
- Python-pragmatic and not overloaded by functional programming jargon
- Many links to other great posts and advanced discussions
Git is one of those tools that exposes so much of the underlying infrastructure that people just can't help diving in and making their own lives so much more difficult.

After using git for well over a decade, I'm completely convinced that if you find yourself frequently rebasing/cherry-picking/reflogging you're using git wrong.
Show HN: MMAlchemy (Perceptron Driven)
I think it all depends on where you went to school and possibly who noticed you while you were there.

I took 2 years of Probability and Statistics in Highschool in 1998-99 and 1999-00 at a school with 200 students. At the 4000 students school I taught at a few years ago we offered AP Probability and Statistics (had have been for at least 10 years, but probably much longer than that). In both situations, you could (and many did) take Stats without Calc.

Most times when people say "schools should teach X", many schools are (and have been) doing it (taxes, car maintenance, carpentry, gardening). Just maybe not your school ... or maybe nobody told you that it was a possibility at your school... Or maybe it's not at your school, but it is offered at another school in your district...

Or maybe it's just not offered at your school. Because there is an AP exam associated with Stats, it is fairly easy to get the class made as long as there are students that want to take the class and enough teacher slots to accommodate that. If a school is understaffed in the math department and class sizes are nearing 40, then you probably won't find a Stats class there.
Creepy comment.
> why do you suppose Americans are not emigrating there en masse?

One still needs to know the local language to get a job in most European countries.
I want my kids car seat to fit behind me and I don't have to feel like a sardine.
This is sick! What was the motivation for building it?
(WarpStream co-founder) Yeah if you can fit your workload into it, it's pretty solid from an operational perspective since AWS manages the whole thing (except scaling up shards and stuff like that).

It gets pretty pricey though for large volumes of Data.
It quite explicitly says "not in home"
It's a fairly common myth that Napoleon and his troops shot the nose off. Here's an article about the myth along with other possible reasons...

https://www.napoleon-series.org/faq/c_sphinx.html

Also amusingly enough, there is an asteroid named Sphinx (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/896_Sphinx)
These type articles are like the Marxist version of the Christian Rapture. I expect the same things to be written about the impending collapse of capitalism a thousand years from now.
>Good animations have a purpose, showing where something came from or is going, and never get in the way.

Good animations also help reduce perceived delays
Someone at Microsoft better get a trademark on “Powerchord”.
Have you implemented any logic to prioritize official in-house documentation such as the software `man` pages and the output of the `--help` flag? I've gotten the impression that you've mainly weighted the Stack Exchange / Overflow pages in the results (while negatively ranking the information-wise ever-awful Quora and Amazon) and otherwise the scraper accesses the Bing's hits (or other search engine API you're using) in order.
> some will learn, but most will fall for the cloud marketing depts and become infra renters for life

Do you have any learning recommendations for someone looking to start down this path? I've only ever worked in an infra-renter context, and I've begun exploring the 'rent from Hetzner, manage your own infra' for personal projects, but I would love to learn from the paths of experts where possible.
> A 3/4-ton pickup vs your toyota camry is MAYBE a 2x increase in damage to the road.

Your source states that relative road damage between two vehicles is the forth power of the ratio of their weights.

The base curb weight of a Ford F-150 is in the vicinity of 4,600lbs. The base curbs weight of a Toyota Camry is in the vicinity of 3,500lbs. So the damage ratio is (46/35)^4 = ~3. The Toyota Camry used to be a small car, but it isn't anymore. The base curb weight of a Ford Fiesta is in the vicinity of 2,500lbs. So the damage ratio between a Toyota Camry and a Ford Fiesta is (35/25)^4 = ~3.8, and between a Ford F-150 and a Ford Fiesta is (46/25)^4 = ~11.5. So a Toyota Camry, being somewhat of a behemoth, should be paying on the order of 3.8x the amount of road tax as a Ford Fiesta.
Yes, it's beyond belief that they can't make the required brake parts in Russia.

If Russia starts having "civilian aircraft incidents" due to NATO missiles, there will be also a convenient "well established precedent" that the Russian airplanes are falling out of the air anyways.

That perception of airplane safety may be (is) more relevant than the hard facts.
This is generally what sex work legalisation looks like.

Some people have been pushing for this for years. Decades, even.
Honestly those calculations are always misleading in nature. There are 28 vacant units per homeless person in America, where are those 28 units, in what state are they? If housing in some abandoned part of Detroit was interesting then homeless people would not be pooling in Los Angeles.

It reminds me of the yearly "Jeff Bezos made 4 billions today" because Amazon had a good day or the (very Canadian) "Average Canadian is 100k in debt" (because they factor in mortgages). It's sensationalistic journalism that completely avoid any type of critical thinking because it's much easier to ignore all the rational explanations in the pursuit of clicks.
Andrew Waterman (Chief Engineer, Co-Founder of RISC-V and SiFive) describes the motivation for a new instruction set for RISC V in "Design of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture" (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.p...).

The document contains a short discussion of the pros and cons of most architectures which were still somewhat popular at the time RISC V was designed (the Power/PPC is omitted) - MIPS, SPARC, Alpha, ARMv7/v8, OpenRISC and x86.

Major points that count against SPARC in Waterman's view are:

- SPARC register windows have significant power and area cost and complicate superscalar implementations

- Branches use condition codes which result in more complexity for OOO implementations with register renaming

- Load/store pair instructions also complicate implementations with register renaming (ARMv8 has introduced those, too)

- Moves between the floating-point and integer register files must use the memory system as an intermediary

- The only atomic memory operation is fetch-and-store, which is insufficient to implement many wait-free data structures

The openly available SPARC implementations are either embedded-style cores (e.g. Gaisler's LEON3) or relatively specialized cores for highly parallel workloads such as web serving (T1 and T2). Regular Sun 4m/4u cores were not available in source form, but the SPARC license would have allowed alternative implementations. The license used to be available for a one-time fee of $99, but it seems SPARC can be used free and without royalties now, the $99 are an optional registration fee at SPARC International (https://sparc.org/faq/#q3).
If you were around in the early to mid 00's, the Apple haters really came out in droves. "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." Seems they are back at it right before Apple wipes out the rest of the VR industry with the first headset that doesn't actually suck.
(WarpStream co-founder)

None currently, if you need latency that low WarpStream is not a good fit and you should probably stick with something more traditional like a very well tuned Kafka cluster.
Yes -- you can use https://phind.com/filters to customize your preferred sources.
Fuschia is definitely interesting but I don’t really see a lot of non-Google work being done with it and while google is worth billions, it doesn’t seem like they’re investing billions into fuschia specifically. I’d say caution is warranted but it’s certainly a possibility if there were more non-google players in the ecosystem.
That's gorgeous, and the animations are so smooth :)
> considering its history

Can you elaborate?
And factor in how long it takes for someone to move out, the place to go on the market and the next person to move in. My city currently has about 5% vacancy rate. That means a given unit on average is empty about a month every two years. That alone can be reasonably eaten up just by people moving. This leaves very little room for choosing where to live and in what type of unit. We really need to be closer to 10%
Why does it seem like I'm hearing about OCaml all the time now? It could just be frequency bias but it wasn't that long ago that I'd never heard of it and now it seems to be getting a lot of attention online.
GitHub Copilot is a great example for in-context AI chat
The IRS is better at preventing fraudulent transactions than most credit card processors and fraud prevention providers. I know they have a more restricted system so it's probably easier than credit card fraud, but it's still at least an order of magnitude.
Perhaps you might be interested in Algora https://algora.io/ ?

I came across them on HN about 2 weeks ago [1] and they serve the needs of COSS (commercial open source software) projects but they seem to be bootstrapped unlike GitStart.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36834686
> At other times it is certainly feasible to brake (landings included) with just the use of the thrust reversers.

This could be true; it's also not particularly reassuring as a passenger :-)

(Not doubting you specifically, but it'd be nice to have one of the many pilots on HN opine here. My understanding as a passenger is that commercial airliners use breaks because the margins are very narrow, especially in the presence of a tailwind or busy runway designed with breaks in mind.)
If you're curious about the origins of RISC-V, check out Andrew Waterman's PhD thesis "Design of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture" ("Why Develop a New Instruction Set?"). It's quite readable and has a nice comparison of ISA encodings of RISC-V, MIPS, SPARC, Alpha, ARMv7/8, Thumb, OpenRISC, and x86/x86-64.

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.p...
It’s no more absurd than the suggestions in this thread that people only need small vehicles while ignoring the realities of why many people actually do need large vehicles.
It seemed like they were talking about large vs. small vehicles - not have vs. don't have a vehicle at all. And that's a lot different. The US could pass legislation making large vehicles more expensive and fuel efficient vehicles less expensive, but if I understand the situation correctly, it's the opposite. Which seems pretty stupid considering climate change.
Sure, but that's tangential to this sub-thread.

The GP is taking the nanny-ware as a given, and narrowly asking why the passenger isn't allowed to bypass it.

I'm pointing out that cars don't have a is_occupied_by_human(), just car_seat_weight() and seat_belt_in_use(). That it works this way isn't obvious to anyone who hasn't looked into it.
It takes a bit of time to grok. But then it becomes pretty simple and streamlined.

Recently I did some F# conversion to Python, and the Python code really did seem ugly and ungainly in comparison.
When does the world you live in stop getting shittier and shittier?
No one ever said that they can't. But going from zero to being able to buy replacement Boeing (or whoever the OEM was) brakes off the shelf is a process of many months (in the optimistic case) or years, not weeks.

After all, even the simplest analysis for an aviation supplier has to be "can we make enough money selling these replacement brakes to cover the cost of setting up a manufacturing, quality control, and distribution system?"
Hope so too! What are your thoughts so far?
Right. Last I tried, it's terribly difficult to get Google maps to show you directions for a bus route you just jumped on (and so it thinks you'll miss if you try to board).
So the idea is that S3 offers practically unlimited throughput, so we can certainly use S3 for a scalable queue? I wish the open-source community could have something competing with S3, but then S3 has made it really hard for companies to have a convincing justification to build their own alternative[1].

[1] There are a few alternatives, such as Apache Ozone, Ceph, and Good'ol HDFS, but none seems have an accelerating momentum for S3's workload.
Looks like he's been blogging about America's collapse for about two years now.
> At this point we have zero proof of inteligent DNA, omniscient creators or directors

You're deeply misunderstanding what I wrote, in part by confusing "intelligence" for "sentience." My washing machine has "intelligence," as per the sticker on the front. So does an ant. Intelligence is a complex and often emergent phenomenon, and a colony of ants has /much/ more intelligence than a single ant.

Evolution very obviously has some intelligence (and much more than my toaster). The key question is what type and how much. That has _deep_ implications, including for fields like evolutionary psychology.

And I do teach kids about the simulation hypothesis and similar. They're useful philosophical explorations. Why don't you? Do you think your child will break if exposed to different ideas and perspectives? I haven't found that to be the case.
Yes LK-99 if not a superconductor would be the strongest diamagnetic material by orders of magnitude.
Managed disks reside on redundant and high availability storage.
I think acknowledging that the US has fundamental issues that need to be address is a completely fair statement. What nobody can ever seem to answer is, where does the threat to US hegemony come from? China is fundamentally unstable and while it will absolutely be the dominant power in that part of the world, it's unclear whether or not China's growth is sustainable in the long term and nothing good ever comes from leaders who stay in power for decades.

The US still has one fundamental superpower that the doomsday economists always fail to account for. The US can take immigrants from nearly anywhere in the world and within a generation, their children will become 100% culturally American.

There's no other country in the world that brings people into our culture the way Americans do. Is it perfect? Absolutely not.
I agree in theory, but in practice I’m not sure that’s likely to happen.

I think parents and peers have more influence on the children compared to the education system. For this reason, the real problem here isn’t “how to improve education” it’s “how to improve the society”. Sadly, this one is way harder to solve ‘coz education is only a part of that.
Many people move to the suburbs nominally so that their kids can safely walk, bike, and play in the streets. Obviously the actual built environment of the suburbs doesn't remotely support this supposed goal, but the idea that suburbs "don't have pedestrians" is not true or even desired.