skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Woz wanted to appeal to the makers (basically, he made the machine he wanted himself because nobody else was making it)

Jobs wanted to make an appliance for the masses . That’s why the Apple II had a case and wasn’t just a bare circuit board like the Apple I.
Maybe for the time being at least a serial hybrid drivetrain could work - I'd rather a small engine running at constant revs keeping the battery (and maybe a capacitor bank for the acceleration) than the very noisy revving up and down every few metres.

Of course, with all that stopping there's potentially huge regenerative breaking potential so maybe it's not incredibly hard.
I think we'll eventually see non-commercial ventures use a mixture of vertical/hydroponics and typical gardening. Pointless using up ground space growing lettuces if you can do it vertically in another part of your garden. But then there are other useful crops that don't suit that approach at all.

I could see this developed into an efficient garden with 3-4 shipping container sized portions running west-east with the most opaque at the rear to avoid blocking winter sun. Maybe something like: [1] enclosed and controlled space with vertical farming, grow lights, solar panels, heat pads, etc, [2] glasshouse with summer ventilation and hydroponic buckets and tubes/shelves, [3] open wicking beds with framework for climbing plants or shading, etc.
> What if your coworker would rather continue working 40 hours?

That's called overtime
Really? The reason it's not possible to put a Ford engine in a Toyota is not that Toyota purposefully make their cars not fit Ford motors; it's because they're not keen on making it so. It takes way more effort to create a unified standardized interface that 3rd parties can connect to rather than just making the interface fit your product. That's what I mean about actively shooting themselves in the foot: They spend money exposing the interface such that others can connect to it, and then loose money by others providing 3rd party services connecting to them.
Surely, browsers could create a setting to toggle DNT per hostname?
Yeah I wonder how much longer HyperCard had survived if they had (1) Kept bundling it with Macs (2) Added proper integrated color support from day 1 when the Mac II came out
There you go, agitating. That's not what they're saying. They're saying that the rules are one sided, you're allowed to be an ideological extremist as long as you're the right kind of ideological extremist.

I'd personally like to contribute in communities again, like it used to be, where insane political ideology of any stripe was not an important aspect of contribution. It seems these days people like me, who don't want to either see the N word every five minutes or hear about late stage capitalism and gender identity, don't have a place in the FOSS world.
Tickling ksmbd: fuzzing SMB in the Linux kernel
Singapore also has very expensive car purchase taxes and gas taxes. Yet, taxis in the city state are still incredibly affordable compared to USA prices, which doesn’t bode well for dissuading robo taxies over there.

https://www.introducingsingapore.com/taxi#:~:text=With%20som....
I can't believe I have to say this, but:

Terminator wasn't a how-to guide!
Flathub is only okay with NixOS because a lot of flatpaks escape their sandbox and call out to outside programs. Sometimes you need to compile a NixOS version since the paths are not the same as a generic Linux distro. I've asked the developers to take a look at it, and one of them closed the issue, and the other is going to try to make it work with steam run

Basically, nixpkgs is still the best way to run something on NixOS
Oi! You got a loicence for that private conversation!?
Which engine are you using these days?
> I found that my brain has a lot more computing power after I changed my scratchy old yellowed glasses to new ones. The mental filtering isn't free.

I go through this daily. If I notice I'm getting a headache-like eye pain, it's sign that my glasses have been slightly smudged for a period of time.
I think overnight oats aren’t that far from the original musli, but many people think Müsli is lower-sugar granola which is not the case
What a disaster. Burned any good will they had and now they aren't even going to make any of the money that they (apparently very desperately) wanted. Assuming that the upcoming changes actually roll back the policies that people hated and don't replace them with something similarly bad and tone deaf, that is.
There is a package that "contains a WordPress website that can be run as a WCGI program by Wasmer"[1]. But there is now WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser[2]. I wonder if Wasmer will continue to develop their own WordPress browser implementation?

[1] https://wasmer.io/wasmer/wcgi-wordpress-demo

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36726593
Not a fan of ipv6 evangelizing, much less at this point. Just give it up.
I have a distinct memory of being about 4 and getting a magazine/book that had physical nonograms using little coloured stickers that you had to place in the grid pursuant to the numerical rules; I recall the memory mostly because it was the last time I visited my grandmother's old house and can remember standing in the hallway excitedly explaining how the stickers had to be placed, to her; so it was prior to 1976 when she moved a few hundred metres to a new build bungalow.
Singapore taxis have a 25% up rate charge during rush hour, but they are still very affordable.
I have tried two years in a row to have garden boxes in SF, and I’m now giving up. The rats are an absolute force. I have ~4 ft high boxes and they have easily emptied literal tons of soil from them with their tunneling. They love to burrow through the roots of every plant, killing all but the most resilient. There is also no stopping them. I won’t do poison, due to having a dog + environmental concerns, but even orthodox traps I can catch 3-4 a night, night after night, and they just never stop coming.
>it was more a situation of nVidia not supporting Wayland, not the other way around - a couple of years ago.

Do not forget the era where compositors were choosing not to support an open standard of the EGL_KHR_stream extension. Instead they preferred a proprietary solution using Mesa's GBM API.
Can we go back in time and hit the designers of IPv6 upside the head? The decision not to make IPv6 backwards compatible, the belief that a beautiful new standard could magically replace something already so widespread...

"Naive" is an inadequate word. We are still futzing with the transition 3 decades later, with no end in sight. Grrr, grumble...
He died in 2020, the website stands as a tribute. I had no idea he did this kind of design work, knew the cartoon style but hadn't picked up on it's influence in set design.
Levitating MagRail Trains on Existing Railways
The same is true with human drivers. That kid has a much better chance of surviving with self driving cars than human driven cars when lots of congestion is involved. (I assume you mean the kid rushes out into a crowded road way with 4 lanes of traffic, which actually happens in China although I doubt that case is a thing in the states)
And greater innovation in the application space.

Not that there wasn’t innovation on the Mac, but not as much, and often in the end, not as successful.
i dont believe anyone needs such mega-bad bloatware
Why isn't it considered to keep chickens?
Your general point is right, but cows are fed on corn and soybeans, not wheat to nearly the same degree.
I can't see how you'd have a chance. Isn't that 3x6 metres?! Literally everything would have to be perfectly efficient and go right without weather incidents, pests, etc. And I think you'd still need to supplement it, or have some miserly meals.
or if they have any integrity they raise a stink and quit. but that's maybe a 1/100 CEO if you're lucky.
How course there are, why would an employee be aware of them?

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html
I'm probably being very naive with this but, could mechanistic interpretability play a role here? Specifically, to experimentally short-list the LLM's most effective optimizations, then try to peek inside the LLM and perhaps fish out some novel optimization algorithm that could be efficiently implemented without the LLM?
What Terraform brings to the table for us is the capability of calculating the delta of "I want those resources" and "these resources are actually there" by having a separate state stored e.g. as JSON in S3 to compare your code, the world as it should be and how it actually is. That takes away reimplementing that.

Why just not writing idempotent resource creation? Terraform also uses this to calculate a "plan" that shows the diff of your changes with reality, which really helps to figure out what happens to your RDS when executing, especially when more abstraction (in form of Terraform modules) is involved.

We used Terraform also in a situation where writing custom code would be "prettier" but would have required to write this actual vs desired state code ourselves and could save us the work of doing so.

The DSL of Terraform is sometimes quite cumbersome though as it's derived JSON and not some actual programming language.
I don't know what the author thought, but to me it sounds like adding layer for the purpose of adding layers.

E.g, Your data pipeline shouldn't be doing a SQL query. It should be asking an API to do the query for you.
Why is Redis so fast? (2022)
This may sound like a dumb question but can anyone explain to me why our senses are not all just considered touch? Molecules touch your tongue and you taste things. Molecules touch your nose and you smell things. Air vibrates your inner ear hairs and you hear things. Photons hit your eyes and you see things (not sure if this counts but it seems like it could).
Introducing, BTRFS + Snapper.
This is a huge problem with human drivers today. Get rid of on street parking then you won’t have kids just popping out of nowhere! It holds for pedestrians just trying to cross the street, no need to have a hypothetical kid chasing a ball, it’s already a problem.
Yeah HyperCard came with a stack called “Button Ideas” with a bunch of ready-made buttons you could copy and paste into your stack with no coding needed
It's probably too complicated to explain in a HN comment, but I don't understand why not having Leak forces futures to be 'static.
Wayland is simply one piece in the puzzle. Flatpak, PipeWire, etc are the fixing the other parts. Things are very slowly moving in the right direction though.

Unfortunately most linux distros and users do not take security seriously unless it's in a server environment. Desktop linux is awfully far behind systems like MacOS.
I didn't make it very clear, but I agree that the specific example isn't problematic. The false claims weren't meant to be any sort of targeted disinformation, and like you mention they reverted it in 48 hours.
If your ISP provides the ipv6 option but doesn't turn it on by default, turn in on. If they don't call them periodically and ask for IPv6 support.

If you run only online service, enable ipv6 on it.

Basically, help move the needle on the chicken and egg issue of adoption. Move more traffic to v6 as much as you have control over.
> We have a total ban on AI for source code analysis
You have to go back further in time and hit the designers of IPv4 on the head for not making it forward compatible.

IPv6 is as backward compatible as is possible within this constraint.
You can embed IPv4 space within IPv6, there is NAT64, tunneling IPv6 over IPv4 and many other transition technologies.
It's not possible to design a protocol that is any more backwards-compatible.
I remember that, it's why I didn't get a Mac. Although it was a few years later for me.

The only computer that I'd used up until then was an Apple II that had been donated to our school. I managed to talk my parents into buying one, and they took me to the store but I couldn't find one. Asked the salesman and he said they didn't sell them anymore but now they had these new Macintosh computers.

I looked at the rinkydink black and white screen with a mostly-blank desktop with just a few icons you could drag around or click on it. Couldn't even figure out how to get to the command line, let alone into BASIC. When I asked the salesman he said that you couldn't and seemed utterly baffled that someone would actually want to use their computer.

So I left and went and bought a PC clone instead. Plugged it in and booted it up and I was coding immediately. PCs just worked, and let you do whatever you wanted. Macs were kind of toy computers at the time.

That philosophy still kind of holds to this day, though less so now. I use a Mac for work, and luckily they did finally make it possible to get to a command line and to program on it. At some point, they realized they had to give some power to it or else become utterly irrelevant. But you can tell that it's still not intended for power users. It still can't run most software, and what it does have is limited and simplified, from the OS on up, and still defaults to making things difficult except for the simplest use cases.
Sounds very much like my experience, except that I was using Delphi. Non-existent documentation (complicated by me not speaking English at the time), no friends or relatives using computers for anything other than office documents (and very few having or using them at all), no access to the internet, and a friendly neighborhood software store that sold "pirated" copies of Delphi 7 for something like $2. That was an excellent environment to start precisely for reasons you described: double click on any element created an event handler for its "main event", and you could take it from there.

But: Object Pascal/Delphi is a quite powerful language and you can write really complicated stuff with it, compiled into a relatively small statically linked executable that worked just about everywhere without the need to install anything. (300-400 KB binaries seemed large at the time, little I knew what awaited us 20 years down the line.)

The need to dig and learn everything yourself definitely had some impact and provided some lower level knowledge of things many newer developers don't seem to know or care about, but I very much prefer what we have today where you're not expected to learn to read what looks like ancient Egyptian from scratch to write a basic calculator. Good riddance to those times.
North Korea supposedly has its own intranet with IPs in the 10.0.0.0/8 private range: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)

I have no idea how they manage IP allocation internally there though.
When I looked at buses, found that school districts and other operators can get vendor financing at very low rates. So usually they are financed. Which means the capital cost ends up being a flat monthly payment.

Which means operators only care about annual operating, insurance, maintenance, and finance costs. The total is important[1] not the relative amounts. If electric buses are cheaper on an annual basis and can handle the route, those guys will buy them. (Accountants are going to accountant)

[1] The opposite of people who buy personal cars who focus exclusively on capital + finance costs and ignore insurance, operating and maintenance costs.
France's Carrefour puts up 'shrinkflation' warning signs
That would work pretty well. Just hail a bus with your phone, it tells you where to walk and what bus to get on, and where to get off on that bus, and how to finish your trip on foot or by connecting to another bus. It could all easily be integrated into Apple or google maps. No more fixed bus routes, just a bunch of AI buses driving around filling needs dynamically.
Relatedly, does anyone know if the security guarantees around distrobox have gotten any stronger? Last I looked, they promised nothing, but curious if there has been any movement there.

I would love if there was a seamless way to launch a distrobox os with a separate user home that could not touch my host system.

Likely a Real Hard Problem, but even some isolation would probably be an improvement of running everything under the same user account.
I really hoped this was cross-words in the word sense, but it is a numbers game.

If you have a switch with the online plan, there is a super mario themed version of this game available on the Super Nintendo emulator.
Edited a few words and punctuation marks to make my intent clearer; hope that helps. The idea is to deal with the timezone at render-time, not to pass it around.
Yep agree. And I am sure the CEO will still get his big bonus end of tax year despite his public display of incompetency. The rules are different for the aristocrats obviously.
It doesn't really matter what the exact reasons behind the Celsius scale was, it happened hundreds of years ago... The fact is that basically every field of science has settled on it for scientific use, and almost every country has settled on it for everyday use.
By that chart, the IPv6 rollout will be basically complete by 2030. I suspect it will speed up near the end though as the first few services start to go V6 only.
As Microsoft lost the grip on Desktop, and Desktop became less important, and they moved more and more into cloud and services biz, etc. you can expect Windows to atrophy even more.
(dupe) A longer and older discussion from several hours ago is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546241
Fantastic, envy inducing beard tho
For many people, a voice coach helps one with pronunciation, dialects etc. The link doesn’t say explicitly, but I suspect it’s about a fitness coach that uses speech to text.
LiveView Native: iOS, Android and Desktop Apps in Elixir
A lot of buses will run empty going the non-demand way during rush hour. Like the D-line in Seattle where I live, if you try to catch a bus into downtown around 5 PM, one or two out of service empty buses will pass you by first since I guess metro thinks they are better off getting back to downtown more quickly than servicing off peak demand along the way.
Germany’s Giant, Hungry, Flightless-Bird Problem (2020)
Could you have tried wicking beds? They might discourage the burrowing?

I'm also limited in poisoning because the neighbour has a dog. Rats live in our compost bin and are tough to keep out. Possums here in South Australia are protected so we can't trap them and they cause trouble as well. Lost all my garlic and chives this year to black aphids. Virtually no stone fruit lasted until picking last year. Too hot through summer or not enough bees for zucchinis to set fruit.

The things that did well are mostly herbs/chillis/etc that aren't exactly the bulk you live off!

Sometimes I wonder if the best home approach is growing herbs so you don't get stuck paying a premium at the shop, and maybe 1-2 other things for the experience and to share with family/friends.
This seems likely a partnership between Google and Hashicorp, from what I understand most GCP integrations like redis are actually partnerships rather than just running the OSS independently. Potential license and trademark implications seems like it would be a particularly bad time to try the latter with Terraform.

As others have mentioned, this is not all that useful of a service - it doesn't seem to even have the concept of a "plan" let alone any approval system and seems to only allow for the most basic of workflows. Given that TF by default will store state in a bucket with true locking, I can't come up with any potential benefit this provides vs using Terraform directly.

The main question is whether this will be improved in the future or is intentionally just "Terraform Trial Edition" with terms of partnership preventing anything encroaching on Terraform Cloud. Perhaps for the former, the trial is important to understand usage to better inform revenue sharing for a future improved product.
>Traditionally on all systems 99.9% of the game has always been and remains not installing malware or compromising your data or credentials.

This is a doomer mindset that ignores the advances the rest of the industry has been making. There is a big difference from malware having to find a 0day in order to cause harm to the user and malware developers being able to do exactly what they want without even a permission dialog box showing up.
Well, that will be available as a basically zero-cost abstraction. But I haven’t seen more specific mention of it in the mailing lists/design proposals - they definitely didn’t want to add a new primitive type, but perhaps if they manage to heal this rift between objects and primitives and it will only be add syntax-level complexity, they might go for it.
your belief is not very grounded in reality unfortunately
They could be going to pick up their next fare, or driving towards where they predict their next fare to likely be. Same as a normal manned taxi actually.
IPv6 with a 16-bit payload size limit?
Laws would do well to follow the rules of software. Small modules with clear responsibilities with an emphasis on readability and test cases that are run before you go to prod, for example. Testing is expensive so I understand why the legal system would rather just push their code and fix bugs when they see them in the wild. The collateral damage for people caught up in real life test cases is tolerable, especially when it’s someone else footing the bill.

Linting and type checking the existing codebase would also be more helpful than rewriting everything in a new language. Enforcing size constraints on vocabulary and word count. Cross referencing between different legal systems. Throwing out dead laws that are no longer executed in prod. Profiling the efficiency of existing laws to find hot spots.

There’s little incentive to do this when the current system is run by a cadre of highly trained legacy COBOL programmers. I’d pick a very small part of the system — incorporate a new city and start from the ground up — and take it from there with the clear eyed expectation that a full rewrite is going to take a century.
I did a bit of work on this last summer on (much) smaller models [1] and it was briefly discussed towards the end of last year's MLGO panel [2]. For heuristic replacements specifically, you might be able to glean some things (or just use interpretable models like decision trees), but something like a neural network works fundamentally differently than the existing heuristics, so you probably wouldn't see most of the performance gains. For just tuning heuristics, the usual practice is to make most of the parameters configurable and then use something like bayesian optimization to try and find an optimal set, and this is sometimes done as a baseline in pieces of ML-in-compiler research.

1. https://github.com/google/ml-compiler-opt/pull/109
2. https://youtu.be/0uUKDQyn1Z4?si=PHrx9RICJIiA3E6C
Funny how brains work.

For me the order of association was:

1. IKEA Product?

2. Something to do with VAX computers

…

3. I had to think tens of seconds about what your comment refers to but I find it perfectly valid that you had a different order of association.
I hope they make a success story of what a stable country with a reasonable population can look like, although its incredibly complex to tell without the years to measure it
Historically, even before the recent era, children of immigrants have been the most successful cohort.

And in particular the Asian immigrants have done outstandingly. For instance the median income of Asian households as well above that of caucasians, and has been for quite some time (I can't recall how far back).

The last few years may have favored immigrants more soundly but for the last 50 or 60 years that is not the case and they have still outperformed.
Sometimes I wonder if much of HN couldn't be replaced by automatically seeded and periodic threads about topics that commonly generate discussion. Every month, a bot starts the nuclear discussion. Every three months, it's the home farming discussion.
I hate how a premium product in USA is just a normal regular product in Europe.
Seems like the law of small numbers to me.