skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, from the fine article, for example:

- "It has booked 77 launches – deals that include options for more launches when needed – from that trio of companies to deploy the satellites fast enough to meet regulatory requirements. That massive purchase has come under scrutiny from an Amazon shareholder lawsuit, which alleges the company snubbed SpaceX for valuable satellite launch contracts because of Jeff Bezos' personal rivalry with Elon Musk."

Far from irrelevant celebrity gossip, that personal relationship between America's two top oligarchs is a powerful factor shaping America's space industry. Apparently some Amazon investors believe Kuiper would be, and should be, a SpaceX client, if not for Bezos' and Musk's personal rivalry. (I'd go a step further and posit both Kuiper and Blue Origin wouldn't even exist without that factor. Mine's not a fringe view. Kuiper particularly looks like a long shot, because it's directly fighting against SpaceX's biggest strength: large-number launch economics. Of all the ways to try to get a foothold in the new space industry, the Kuiper approach is one of the least logical).
Ask HN: What are you optimistic about?
Weird that that was considered an issue while KDE Discover and snapd will both happily install stuff from third-party "stores" by default on Debian.
Very nice way to explain a concept that usually takes me several paragraphs.
If you want to dig into the economics of the "donation" model, here's a talk I did at FOSSY in September:

Case Study: Zig Software Foundation by Andrew Kelley

https://archive.org/details/fossy2023_Case_Study_Zig_Softwar...
Also open source developers had to find a new home

- SourceForge had become questionable with its inclusion of its own malware in installers https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...

- Google Code was untrusted, because they have a tendency to rug pull their products now and then

Github served a market need.

For others

- Bazaar was too Ubuntu specific (was in-house Ubuntu project originally)

- Bitbucket kind of survived as Atlassian
You can't steal recipes. At the worst, someone could copy a recipe, but it would be dumb to try to prevent this. In home made food perhaps more than any field except software, copying with slight modifications is progress.
Vendors aren’t legally allowed to provide a means of disabling “presidential alerts”, which is what the test was. You can disable amber and emergency and public safety alerts, which is what it sounds like you did.

Running rooted android with graphene it is possible to disable them.
A good backup to this, is that in the essay writing example, the student will undoubtedly write a better essay at the end of the semester when he has learned more and has other peers asking questions about it, than if he started right away and wrote it. The math makes perfect sense.
> A domestic cat can easily survive in the wild. A domestic dog cannot.

This is not a measure of smarts. A juvenile human is also unlikely to survive unaided in the wild. Though, I guess some may actually truly believe that cats are smarter than children.
That I will live through another day. It isn't promised or guaranteed, but I'm quite optimistic that I'll make it.
Early days, yet. If we could cut the size by 60% every few years, we'd be looking at a situation akin to Moore's law where a performant AI might fit in my grandkid's pocket.
Maybe the biggest problem is how big a problem it is. The extent of the problems we're facing may be too overwhelming for the average person to fully comprehend.

Overshoot encompasses many aspects, including biodiversity loss, deforestation, pollution, resource depletion, and much more.

The fundamental issue is the need for constant growth in a finite environment. Almost all money in the system is created through loans by banks, and there is an interest on that money that must be paid, typically around 3% or so, and this interest compounds exponentially.

As a result, our growth is exponential, and there is no sign of it slowing down. Our GDP doubles every 30 years, while our finite natural environment is the first to be sacrificed in an attempt to service one's debts.

All we see is an attempt at solving the energy, and only partially - because it's the easiest problem. We don't see any real debate about degrowth, reforestation, equity, food system, financial system ... no real progress on any front.

- We should stop using fossil fuels as soon as possible.

- Transitioning to plant-based diets can free up an area the size of both Americas, allowing for reforestation that would halt biodiversity loss and sequester as much carbon as we've released since the Industrial Revolution.

- Agriculture must be reformed to eliminate our reliance on harmful pesticides and practices that destroy biodiversity.

- Overfishing and pollution must be stopped to preserve marine life and ecosystems.

- Developed countries should pursue degrowth while supporting the development of less developed nations.

- Education and restoration should be prioritized over exploitation.

Animal species have witnessed a 70% decline in just the last 50 years. How long until our insect and pollinator populations collapse? How long until forests completely lose their ability to retain moisture and generate rain? How long until oceans are devoid of fish or sharks (with 90% already gone), leading to the collapse of the entire marine ecosystem? How long until major crop failures occur?

There have been collapses of civilizations before, but there has never been a total collapse of the biosphere as well. So I too worry for the future of today's young.

Sorry for the rant.
>Is the ISA immutable now?

x86 is, by many metrics, not a good ISA.

Its value is derived from the software moat, accumulated since the late 1970s.

Thus it isn't immutable. Opcodes can be added and removed.

Yet breaking compatibility with old code would destroy x86's value.
The interesting thing about this project is that they're repurposing cheap ip camera hardware to work as surprisingly decent, low latency digital video system for fpv drones:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wZAHkWHfBF4

Mostly a continuation of the OpenHD project. But it's quite promising.
so if you life in any arbitrary urban area in most of the EU

because then you often don't even need to take the bus due to places you need to go to (e.g. super market) and places you come from (e.g. home) being much more intermixed/closer to each other

e.g. for me places to buy food, medicine, a doctor, dentist, fast food, train, bus, package station, kiosk, bakery, restaurant, cafe, a park like thing all in ~8min walking distance and I'm somewhat at the outer are of the city

still if you have disabilities and can't properly walk 8min you still need a car
Huge WezTerm fan, the dev is very friendly and responsive on GitHub as well.
MZ-1 was also featured in Last Action Hero (1993).
actionable advice: pay attention to your kids interest. and use what you learn when the situation calls for it.

there is a new movie out that i think you'll enjoy. shall we go watch it?

or, i saw a shop with your favorite style clothes, comics, whatever on sale on the way home. you may want to go check it out...

taking interest in other people means paying attention to things that you can do to help them further their interests.

you should to the same with your partner too, btw, so that when the kids are there you already have practice. and you can also do it with your friends. taking interest is a big factor in any relationship. taking interest means you care about them.
I thought it was one expert runs per token?
No idea. Though if you're after the absolute best viewing conditions I doubt Lick Observatory is it. Most because there has been a huge amount of development in the surrounding urban areas since it was built in 1888, so there is a lot of light pollution.

Mostly the original telescope they have there is an absolute work of art. It was the largest refracting telescope when it was built. Just being in the room with it is awesome inspiring. The entire room is crafted for the purpose and beautiful. It's like walking into a scene from Myst.

They have a much more powerful, more modern reflecting telescope there too, and it's like 1/10th the physical size of the old one, but nothing beats viewing through such an inspiring machine.
What if it’s not a decision made in a smoky back room behind closed doors but rather monkey-see-monkey-do/“hey we can get away with it”?

Definitely is weird to say the least. Even small companies often have HUGE investment firms behind them of course.
Honestly though, I would likely still choose to implement the logic in Rust as a crate/library in a workspace, the (C)Python extensions as a PyO3 dylib/separate crate, and a C FFI dylib as yet another crate.

The benefit is that you only need to ship the CPython extension, you can build it with cargo, and everything's in one place. I've maintained bindings for Python and C# to native libraries, and it's usually a pain for various reasons.

The C API might be able to be used anywhere, but that doesn't mean it's ergonomic, easy to use, or safe.
Cats are one of most powerful force, moving industry to make backups and do other right things!

Other are children, for example, my friend tell, his Putty once hang, just because child swiped his hand on keyboard. Friend cannot repeat sequence.
If some people get coughing fits from it it really stops mattering weather you like it or not.
I read it and can’t find what the secret about lowering the stakes is. It seems like it takes the impending death of a loved one to put into perspective the resistance of writing as an emperor with no clothes. That if you’re meant to write you will when it realize it.

Is my reading comprehension poor today or was there advice I missed on how to lower the stakes outside of a serious situation like she faces?
I wish you luck!
The sport is much more interesting for spectators when the top speed is 50-70km/h than when it’s 10-20km/h
> I want the software that I'm running to be reflective of the software that was authored

I don't. As an end-user, I couldn't care less about what the author wanted, I want to run the best possible version of the software. Often that's the version maintained by my distro, as they've put in the effort to make sure all the different software on my system works well together.
PyO3 is great. I have been using it to rewrite some slow python code. My only complaint is that documentation is a bit rough. For someone who understands python, but not rust, there was a pretty big hill to climb to understand type conversions.

There are also things I am still struggling with. For example, there is a rust function I want to repeatedly call from python, that takes in a large unchanging python array. How can I pass the array from python to rust only once, i.e do the type conversion just once, so I don't have to pay that cost repeatedly.
Yes. But also you can try putting some big cap between 5V and GND before it arrives.
Yes, though if you do both client-side and server-side hashing (which might be a good idea [0]), then the server only receives the fixed-size client hash.

[0] https://security.stackexchange.com/a/100517
Yeah part of the issue is that language designers by definition have not-invented-here syndrome. So it takes a lot to convince them to not write it themselves. LLVM has solved a sufficiently hard problem that it’s gotten over this barrier, but other meta-tools will likely struggle to achieve that
Flamebait comments like this are exactly why these discussions are mostly against the policy at HN.
I genuinely think there are very few. Nearly every time I see someone concerned about astroturfing it seems more likely that it’s simply surprise that another individual has a different perspective than your own.
Asia has a distinct problem. For the last 50 years, western countries pushed the idea that population control was the only way for these countries to advance economically. My dad was involved in these efforts, supporting USAID projects in places like Bangladesh. And they were successful in bringing down birth rates. But you’ve now got two generations of people who were raised with the almost religious idea that having kids will hinder economic development.

I was having lunch with some of my dad’s USAID friends, and someone joked whether my wife and I were thinking of having a fourth. Then someone reflexively said “well nobody needs four kids.”
performance testing vulkan and physx on linux.
The ideas that you mention are discussed in the book, and fit in the procrastination equation. For example, when you chop up your main work into little chunks and reward yourself for each chunk, you are decreasing the delay factor of the equation, by decreasing the time it takes to get the first taste of a reward. You are also increasing the value factor, by adding additional rewards, and increasing the expectancy factor, but making the first baby steps seem more achievable.
Running Windows NT 4.0 on an Intel 13th Gen CPU [video]
This seems cool and all, and I seldom critique web page design because... hey... I've developed some very crappy looking web pages. But... the designer of this page made it's width wider than a typical desktop browser window and much wider than a typical mobile phone. I turned my 10" tablet into landscape mode and it was still wider than would fit on the screen without scrolling.

I know all the cool kids are doing this, because it's only old people who care about the ease of reading things on the web. But... please... don't do stupid things like this.

That being said, it's easy enough to open dev tools and unclick the ``width: 68rem;`` clause or open it in lynx which replaces the web designer's styling stupidity with its own, more consistent styling stupidity. The content wasn't that bad.
This might be interesting for those of us supporting legacy hardware in our environments.
> So if it’s inevitable, what are the possible positive effects?

I cannot see any positive effects. We should try to prevent the inevitable, while there's still some time. Not long. But some.

> Should we start looking at transitioning to the changes

I’m starting to think we're likely to face a future akin to that depicted in Threads (1984) or The Road (2009), and I’m not sure anyone can truly prepare for it.
Any recommendations for these amd64 boxes?
Neither Portland nor Seattle have received funding to tamper drug addiction to the necessary degree to provide indication that such a policy would work or not, which leads me to believe your other examples also did not get such funding, thus negating your entire argument, sans the failure of the lock em up policy, of course.
Companies are free to put whatever they wish in their TOS. Whether it holds legal water is an entirely different question and for the courts to decide. The law of the land always takes precedence over any arbitrary clauses that companies put in their TOS.
Is DALLE-3 accessible via API
Toronto is interesting. The scale of construction is immense. Visibly unlike anything you see in the states. Presumably drowning in immigration though.
Blue Origin was founded in 2000 and SpaceX wasn't founded until 2002 so I think you have that a little backwards. A more accurate comparison would be that Elon is like the little brother who one-ups the older brother at his own game.

Also, Bezos isn't the CEO at Amazon anymore and hasn't been since mid 2021, so blaming any Amazon decisions in the last two years on him is just misinformed.
Obviously anecdotal, but my grandparents ran a shoe store from the 50's to the 70's and when they thought the weather was nice enough to go to the beach, they closed up shop and went to the beach. It's all about mindset I guess.

However, in general I would agree that any form of retail venture does not match a lifestyle business very well.
The first processor I know of that did macro-op fusion was the Inmos T9000 transputer in 1993.
Romero was fired during Quake development for playing lan Doom instead of working.
Your steps are also good practice for getting things done in general.

I would add that part of the main work is to further subdivide any chunks that are poorly defined, and that the time spent elaborating and subdividing chunks is a productive work activity.

Ideally, at the end of a workday I like to have at least one or two chunks sufficiently defined that when I show up the next morning I can just sit down and complete them without having to put any thought into it.
Here's what I did years ago, and will never look back:

1. Get a usb extender and a fiber optic displayport extender.

2. Stick your computer in the garage, run the cables to whatever room and hook up your monitor and peripherals.

3. Enjoy as perfect silence and low heat generation as can be possibly be achieved. (Monitors generate heat and sometimes electrical noise, and mice and keyboards are what they are)
Really? The thing programmed to respond to you by encouraging you and supporting you encouraged and supported you? Wooooooow

Slow news day huh

Also isn’t the queen already dead? This is such a non issue.
Data subset selection is an age old problem / sub-field in ML. Feature selection is a special case of this broader problem.
This is exactly what you would have said the last time there was proven collusion. It takes a while for the proof to come out, but as the sibling comment says: it's awfully convenient that all the RTO policies and layoff ratios are in alignment.
One fault can leave a platform 100% broken.
Autodesk (ADSK, market cap US$45 billion, founded 1982) is a bootstrapped company founded by software engineers with their own money. Mostly mainframe UNIVAC systems programmers in their 30s. No VC funding; the IPO came well after profitability.
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6705023-dall-e-api-faq

> 1. What is the DALL·E API and how can I access it?

> The DALL·E API allows you to integrate state of the art image generation capabilities directly into your product. To get started, visit our developer guide.
We used minidiscs at the local radio station where I volunteered. On the higher end decks you could do full interview editing just from the frontpanel. They were also great for jingles.

Before we had them interviews were literally cut on Revox big reel tape. They came with a cutter just for that purpose. The minidiscs were so amazing.

In the end it was all replaced by PCs of course but they had a good run of about 6-8 years when they were really key to our workflow.
Sounds like they'll have plenty of time to read some email.
> I’m also in the “I’ve never wished my terminal were faster” camp.

I have an application that I run daily that is noticeably (15-20%) faster if I redirect terminal output to a file, or if I use a non-default terminal emulator. In this day and age, not being able to keep up with drawing 80 x 24 even with unicode is just not acceptable.
I like writing because it forces you to turn vague feelings into concrete ideas. You can barf your thoughts onto paper and then read it with a critical eye, allowing you to evaluate your own thoughts. It helps me to find the gaps in my knowledge, notice sloppy arguments, etc. Sometimes that leads to a better understanding of the topic, but most of the time I realize that I have no understanding of the topic, which is still useful information. For example I've found myself eager to drop a hot take on a recent international event, but after writing out my comment I realize that I'm an idiot, so I make a mental note and post it anyway.
I got downvotted lol.. I'll take that as a "Yes, build it" from the haters.

I'll set up a payment gateway with Stripe and whitelabel their subscription service to offer content creators a Patreon like experience on their own website, and post a SHOW HN for feedback.

Stay tuned : )
Engineering tradeoffs are always tradeoffs. One is not strictly better than the other from the user's perspective.

Mandating shared dependencies means that Debian is often running software against a dependency version that the original author did not develop against or test against. Sometimes the Debian package is effectively a fork. This results in Debian-specific bugs which get reported upstream. Distribution-specific bugs are a crappy experience for upstream developers because it wastes their time, and it's a crappy experience for users to be told that their software cannot be supported upstream because it's a fork.

Maintaining a huge repository of forked software is also an enormous undertaking. It's common for Debian users to be running fairly old versions of software. This is also not ideal, particularly for desktop users who read upstream documentation and require support when entire features are missing from their antique Debian version.
I recommend creating a pyclass over a struct that stores the converted data. Instantiate it once and then repeatedly call a function on it in a pymethods impl with the parameters that differ.
I never understood why UK and Europe got probotector instead of contra, maybe it was due to Germany's very strict game censorship?
God the amount of unnecessary hostility coming from you is absurd. From my original comment:

> So I agree with some other comments here. No it's not really a choice.

From the very beginning I said it's not really a choice, but I always acknowledged it. Whatever, your pedantry wins.

> Anyway, what makes you think you would be BigCo material?

I can't really know since I'm automatically excluded from it simply because of I don't live there (and I would never work with a visa, having a corporation ruling over my life). But it's very possible I wouldn't make the cut, or if I did I'd likely be another one writing blog posts like this one - assuming reality is how they portray it.

Technically I know I can hold my own, but that's not really what work is all about in my experience (barring few exceptions). Connections, ivy leagues, kissing ass, leetcode and other aspects that shouldn't matter are valued more than actually getting shit done.

But I'd sure as hell try because even though it's not a guarantee of protection, it's as close as we can get to it in a capitalist society. Money is, unfortunately, crucial.
Running (quantised) LLMs (encoder-decoder and decoder only transformers) on phones isn't hard. Running CNNs and encoder-only transformers, the kind used in vision on phones is even easier.
18th-century math technique shows simpler AI models don't need deep learning
If it's going to be anything like the carbon offsets, I see zero reason to elaborate since it will inevitably end up looking like arguing with religious people.

I am all for taxing pollution but focusing on carbon alone makes me extremely dubious of the actual intent behind such proposals.

These things appear to be weapons disguised as legitimate efforts to improve things.
I think Doctorow was correct with Walkaway.

I think young people will start building communities away from the big cities. And their lives will be so much better
Adjusting for inflation is a representation of purchasing power.
Loaded fine for me. Maybe substack has some limit of number of posts that people without accounts can read and I just haven’t visited all that many posts this month.
Agreed. It's also instructive to look at how C extensions are written for the CPython.

I wouldn't necessarily expect a demo; but not mentioning it at all seems like it could lead readers down a path where they choose the "most performant" option presented (FFI + ctypes). The post has a "To go further:" link section where even a quick link to PyO3 would go a long way. So I thought I'd mention the downsides and an alternative on HN.
So much ceremony. Suddenly programming feels like work.
> First, if you don't trust a bit of software, why are you installing it?

The more people you trust, the larger is the chance that you get deceived.

> But more importantly - you don't want your text editor to be able to open and edit your browser history files, or your ssh key files?

Only with my permission.