skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carter himself posted in reply to some of the outrage at the time saying "don't look at me, this is clearly an opportunity to reach customers, and its going to be exploited, stupid non-commercial rules or not".

its not clear how much that one post affected the eventual outcome
Well, there are a couple of problems with that. The god-like alien hypothesis is basically useless, as they would have no interest in us and would be undetectable anyway.

The exploring civilisation falls into a similar category: if they are super advanced, they wouldn't be seen unless they want to. So no data point to be had there either. If they're just advanced enough to cross the vastness of interstellar space, they'd take hundreds or thousands of years to get around, so very little chance for them to randomly bump into us at this specific point in time.

"Making your presence known" is also on shaky grounds, since it only takes one. By that I mean it only takes one locust-like civilisation that matches the "Grabby Aliens"-hypothesis to conquer the known universe within just a few billion years. This would imply, that it'd be highly likely that we ourselves would be part of- or descended from this super-civilisation. Again, the facts don't support that.

OTOH, it also only takes one civilisation that wants to prevent such scenario. They don't even have to be around anymore. All it takes is seeding the universe with self-replicating "sentinels" that simply sit dormant around M-, K-, and G-type stars and watch. Once they detect a space-faring civilisation popping up, they'd being their assessment. If the AI suspects a "Grabby-Aliens"-scenario, it's time for Exterminatus or some other, more subtle means of preventing the scenario from materialising.

So subtle in fact, that the affected civilisation might not even be aware of it. In fact, it could happen to us right now and we'd be none the wiser - ever wondered why it haven't made it back to the Moon in over 50 years ;)

The fun part about this hypothesis is that it's just another scenario that we wouldn't be able to detect or rule out: GRBs happen all the time, good thing Earth hasn't been in the way of a nearby one... Or imagine another Carrington Event, only 50x stronger, blasting us back into the stone-age - just another otherwise oddly calm G-type star having a little hiccup; nothing unusual our extra-terrestrial neighbours would think...

Basically the number of scenarios that would match our observations so far while still allowing for a universe teeming with technological civilisations, outnumbers any hypothesis that would truly present a "paradox" IMO. (just an opinion, not a fact, I could be very wrong on this)
Under what theory would they be granted fair use for commercial use of images illegally acquired from a third party and ultimately jacked from people who they have no business relationship with?
How many TB of data? 88 TB?
Lets not forget Motorola EV https://www.thedrive.com/features/the-incredible-story-of-mo...
It's hard! There are some professional artists who are aphantasic, e.g. this YouTube video talks about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewsGmhAjjjI

IIRC, the artist does lots of sketches, and looks at them to see what looks right. And also uses computer models to get angles of what she's drawing which she struggles with otherwise.
Welp. The second shoe finally dropped.
Brave collected crypto donations on behalf of unsuspecting online creators and pocketed them. As far as I'm concerned that's as bad as fraud.
It was probably inevitable. It's like regular mail, except sending it is virtually free, so as the internet inched closer to the mainstream over time, this was always going to happen, I think.
I've seen you try and submit this a few times but I think you're doing it wrong.

For one, you are welcome to use Show HN[0] if this is a product you built and you have an interesting story tell. Flat out submissions like this are mostly seen as spam, and there is very low chance you will get the HN audience to upvote this for any reason whatsoever.

If you do submit a Show HN, then talk about how your product is different from similar tools, what is your tech stack, and what problem you're solving.

I think your landing page is worded weirdly ("your favorite keywords"), and doesn't feel branded at all. Your Product Hunt submission was "somehow" the number one submission of the day, and yet most of the comments on that submission are, "Oh wow. Such a clean UI, can't believe this tool is free".

I'm having a hard time believing this project is anything but an attempt to get some traction and then sell it off to a third-party, and you're welcome to correct me and/or prove me wrong, but that is the impression I get from trying your product and examining the landing page.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
This is sort of what I'm doing, except not really considering virtualization as a serious option. I've worked with it a lot in the past and it's been awkward and annoying. I'll go as far as containers, but I'm seriously not seeing what virtualization would add here other than obstacles.

I'm also feeling out what's a way of working with this machine that isn't a huge pain in the ass. When you've got one instance running on one machine, manual deployments is fine, but I think something more CI-driven is probably going to be necessary to keep sane with 8 index shards and a test environment as well.

Kubernetes would be an option but I have bad experiences with that too. A bit too much spooky action at a distance for my taste. Whole ecosystem feels very fragile and churny in a way I'm not very happy with, and the abstractions designed for hiding away the complexities of dealing with a cluster make running it on a single machine where those abstractions aren't necessary just pointlessly awkward.
I have the same experience: I first learned 6502 (Apple II), then 68000 (Amiga), and finally (x86). The 68000 was very straightforward in the number of registers and memory addressing. Mainly when you compare with an 8088.
The castings and frame are incredibly strong.
Or in other words; when those are damaged, the rest of the car is likely beyond economical repair. Even without insurance.
Tear it appart for parts.
In my 3rd world home country most cars are bought on copart as "salvage", they get fixed up and usually get ran well above the 100k miles, this change will undoubtedly reduce the opportunity to give new life to salvage cars while making it more dangerous for the people who have no other choice. In the end this will create a lot more waste than we had before, its a shame because Toyota's are the most highly regarded cars where I am from
I wonder why they did this, most SoCs have more than enough IOs and IPs for Ethernet MAC, USB PHY, etc. and I assume the BCM2712 is no exception (though there are no public docs so it's hard to say). Is this meant to support low power applications where the main SoC is power gated and the RP1 acts as a sort of powerful, user programmable "BMC"?
My father thanked the typist who prepared the final copy of his PhD thesis.
This article is from 2019 and second, I don't think anyone questions the validity of the results of Big Pharma, just the price, transparency and lack of willingness to allow the US Federal government to collectively price bargain.
MIPS, which at about that time was derided as “Meaningless Integer Performance Statistic” by those who moved in the supercomputing (now ‘HPC’) circles.
>out hundreds of Von Neumann probes

This is not how VN probes work....

VN probes work more like the lily pad riddle that humans commonly fail to understand.

>In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?

The answer of course is the answer 47 to the riddle. With VN probes the answer would be "who the hell knows" at this point. Maybe interstellar space is a whole lot more dangerous than we expect and sending out countless self replicating probes isn't possible. Maybe the intelligent aliens out there are a whole lot smarter than us, and the idea of sending out probes that you effectively lose control of is recognized as a bad idea. Or, maybe there is no one else is out there. Hard to figure out with a sample size of one.
Don't you lose repairability anyway if the frame is significantly bent?

AFAICT the actual batteries inside the "structural battery" are separate much smaller cells [1] that can at least be recovered from the bent frame and reused if undamaged.

Consider four factors: normal car performance, car's safety in a crash, car's repairability after a crash, and car's price. They all work against each other; no wonder that repairability is sacrificed to optimize the other three. (In a military vehicle the price is usually sacrificed instead.)

[1]: https://insideevs.com/news/323682/rare-look-inside-a-tesla-m...
Environmentally friendly my ass. Any minor damage and the car will be toast because the insurance company will total it. Even if it gets back on the road it'll have a salvage title, something that's poison to a car and ensures that it ends up either crushed or parted out. These are already problems with unibody cars thanks to how quickly insurance adjusters will take any deformation of the core unibody, even just cosmetic damage like the C-pillar having a dent, and call the car a total loss.

There are more than a few A-body Oldsmobile Cutlass Cieras and Buick Centuries from the late 1980s that I still see driven around where I live. The environmental impact they've had has been far less than any of these cast-body cars will be because an A-body is a cockroach that will never die no matter how many times you hit something with it. They were produced decades ago and have long since offset their initial production impact. Add in all the Chevrolet C-10s, Chevrolet S-10s, Ford Rangers, Suzuki Sidekicks/Geo Trackers, and XJ Jeep Cherokees I see daily and they still have less of an impact environmentally than these disposable cars will have because they can be repaired instead of requiring total replacement.
70 TB usable space when partitions are in place and harddrive manufacturer math is accounted for.
They are scrapped but then usually resold/exported to a cheaper country where they get fixed up and sold there. Maybe the unicast cars will get a lot of duct tape and Bondo.
If you want cars made in the US by people making a living wage, something has to give. The demographics of manufacturing workers is already hollowed out, and will only get progressively worse as the years roll on.
Okay this is funny...

https://twitter.com/aejleslie/status/1710685364237500881
Sure, but none of those ML applications are generative AI.
Want to see how quickly a malign narrative spreads?
Could be Waze APIs?
> Check the Mozilla foundation page for all the crap they fund instead of the browser.

Notwithstanding that, they still put out firefox. And Firefox is a far superior browser to any of the alternatives if you care about user-centric control and privacy. So to anyone who cares even a little about being able about these things, supporting Firefox is the way to go.

If a mythical even-better browser shows up, great. But here and now, it's Firefox, or completely surrender the web to commercial interests.
For a market that's so large, there are very few players involved. More than likely several illegal monopolies have formed. We already have laws that are meant to address this issue. We should probably just enforce those.
I want to raise a point of order here.

We do not have any good research backing "bugs found later in the process cost more to fix".

If anything, the few empirical and solid dataset we have show no correlation, to at best really light one.

This principle may sound solid in theory, but the evidence is not here to support it and if anything seems to point to its invalidity.

See in particular
https://shape-of-code.com/2021/06/27/increase-in-defect-fixi...
https://nitter.net/aejleslie/status/1710685364237500881

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Submitting because people were upvoting this submission,

Biden approves emergency military aid package to Israel worth $8B (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37804047)
No Man's Sky managed to pull most of that off. The diplomacy stuff is a little lacking, but it's there.
This is much more shallow than I'd expect of Peter, and he will also have known the history, ie why the decisions were taken. FWIW, assuming about 5 bits of apparent entropy per typical String character was not unreasonable.

(I used to work with Peter many years ago: he is a smart and thoughtful chap.)
that's not what computers are supposed to do.

Not that I disagree with your calculator example, but "what computers are supposed to do" changed radically when AlphaGo hit the scene, changed some more with ChatGPT, and will rapidly become a meaningless notion going forward.

We don't have to like it, but we do have to accept it.
I live in Seattle. If you drive a Tesla and get rear ended the wait time for repairs is 6 months. I know multiple friends dealing with this. It’s a major problem. So major that when we bought a new car Tesla was ruled out.
How can I get my engineers to accept being on call?
I got kinkness score -0.28 - Captain America, 0.5 percentile. HN readers must be very underrepresented.
I mean, this is all very theoretical so perhaps you can come up with an example of something that would be a good story but isn't actually just a comment. Because this submission? Just a comment. Nearly all of them are and primarily revolve not around the difficulty of linking some subsection of a story but around the importance the poster assigns to their commentary.

when the submission has nothing obviously interesting

Again, the argument here is 'what I have to say about an uninteresting thing is interesting enough to be its own HN story'. You can see how this is tricky, right? Like, the point of the site is not uninteresting things. The trivial solution is 'find something interesting to post'.
The Google IPs might be because SpaceX and Google have agreements where Starlink downlinks can use the network connectivity at Google data centers (and vice versa)?
Seeds are the babies, not the flesh. Nobody consumes fruits for seeds. Grains don’t need this mechanism, they are fine spreading by wind.
Whatever happened to interoperability?
1) Generic or brand (sounds like generic)
2) This is for Wellbutrin XL 300 (30 day script)
3) that's with insurance? Sounds likeyou're insured
Evidence suggests it is false in the details if not in entirety - his high school lists all the colleges their graduates apply to, and it does not list all of those in this story.
I worked with high school kids and college kids for a while. I saw this exact mindset far too much.

Students were obsessed with picking apart people's success stories and attributing all of the success to some external factor. I can't tell you how many times I heard someone bring up Bezos just so they could tell me about the $300K loan he got, or Musk so they could talk about the emerald mine story. We tried to discourage using celebrities like Bezos or Musk as role models anyway, but people were drawn back to them because they enjoyed picking them apart.

There's something satisfying about this mindset that can explain away every success story as the result of factors out of their control. It's comforting to tell yourself that the only reason you didn't become a billionaire is because your parents didn't give you a $300K business loan or own an emerald mine or whatever other justification they could come up with.

It was a lot of work to try to defeat this mindset and get students focused on what they could incrementally accomplish within what they were working with. Honestly, getting them to let go of the celebrities like Musk and Bezos and others was half of the battle, but they also couldn't care less when we tried to introduce local successful business operators who ran companies they had never heard of.

It's tough. Social media makes it harder, and honestly the people who read Reddit seem prone to the worst of it.
It's not good. May I just fortunate, but I have not seen any problems from old mature manufacturers, like Panasonic. Sure, I mean new microwave, or in absolutely perfect state.
Game Development in Eight Bits [video]
Yeah iirc it happened twice to him, the first was a rivian authorized repair at the high price tag and the second was an alternate repair method they tried out at a much smaller price tag
In the west it's mostly chicken.
Haha, indeed. I'm a regular medieval LARPer I am.
TIL about region-based diffusion. Thanks for the context!
Reward them for issues fixed in off hours while on call. Make a game with rewards out of it.
25 Years
I wouldn't. If I leaked data due to honest coding bug and someone gave me $75K with even a handshake agreement to put it towards fixing the problem I would put 100% of that money towards fixing the problem. That's my moral standard, if money with even a verbal agreement to put it towards a certain purpose, I either honor that purpose or don't take the money.

If they took away $75K I might be forced to lay off someone, possibly one who could have fixed the problem.
Surely the BOM on the fobs is at most tens of dollars. Hard to see a $700 cost justifiable as anything but greed against a captive audience.
The same way people switch to safe string functions and recompile?

Gradually, for one.
Absolutely! The truth is that nobody really knows what medications actually cost. They are often sold in bundles similar to cable tv channels.

For those who are running into coverage / affordability problems for drugs in the US… contact the manufacturer. They often have payment assistance programs or discounts to reduce out of pocket costs. They may be able to help you get costs covered by your insurer.

You should not ever be paying the full “list price” out of pocket. Pharma companies want market share and they would rather sell to you at a discount than lose you as a customer.
I don't live there, but my perception was that he was a Republican so hated by the left, but he was a fairly moderate Republican, so not liked all that well by the right either. This left him without many powerful allies on either side.
This has to be the single worst posted comment I’ve ever come across on Hackernews.

Words force no one to act. You retain the agency to do what you want. That’s on you when you choose to act.
From 2019. Maybe an update now that Biden's been in office a while would be appropriate?
I can't find any source for the specific claim in the headline besides extremely generic news churn sites. There's an official WH statement that Biden spoke with Netanyahu by phone and offered Israel 'all appropriate means of support' but this $8 billion number could be entirely made up, it's not attributed even to an anonymous US government official. The US typically gives Israel $3.8bn in military aid annually, and Israel has probably the best0equipped military in the region. I find it unlikely that the US gave more than 2 years of aid at once within hours of a conflict breaking out, and without any acknowledgement from Congress.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

There's a lot of BS circulating this morning passing itself off as breaking news; probably best to be skeptical.
What does #7 mean? All images it generates will be no different than a college brochure front page if it includes people?
I love PHP. It's been my "get shit done" language for 20 years. It sustained many of my projects and not once became the bottleneck.

Wordpress however is still a hug pile of garbage. It might be functional and has all the features you'd ever need, but I could never trust it to run even a simple blog.

Edit: just looked at the some random Wordpress sources to check if source quality improved. It didn't. Who could ever be productive with something like this?: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-admin/...
Because the angle of the iPhone was not to be pragmatic or cheap.

The value proposition of something is not in what it already has in comparison to other items, but in what it offers that other items don't.

Let's talk about programming languages for example.

In APL [1] there are no loops, no keywords, but that is not the value proposition of APL.

It's value comes from the fact that you can think about complex programs very effectively and write complex programs in very short statements in a quick amount of time.

Let's also talk about luxury brands like Louis Vuitton bags/shirts. It's not that the buyers get those bags/shirts at 10x - 100x the price of a normal bag because they are stupid. They do that because LV bags/shirts are for signaling wealth i.e proof of riches not proof I am not naked.

Now lets go back to the iPhone what was it's value proposition. I would suggest they are the following.

1. The iPhone was aesthetically superior to other smartphones in terms of both the hardware & software. I believe this came from Steve Jobs's formal background in fine art and it's intersection with his interest in technology.

2. Over the years the iPhone has built a trust worthy reputation for the masses as "a device that doesn't suck". If you buy an iPhone it is very unlikely you will experience buyers remorse. I reminds me of the phrase corporate people used to say "No one ever got fired for buying IBM".

So, it is a brand you can trust, you can't say the same for Android, what brand, if sumsung? What model, they have hundreds.

If the masses buy a cheap android phone that freezes apps or sucks in touch response, they will generalized the sucking to all android phones and them being "cheap", they won't waste any time & money exploring the different hundreds of brands and models looking for the best android phone.

iPhones however though more expensive make sure the hardware & software are decent. And entry level iPhone will always better than an entry-level android phone. So consumers will trust it more.

3. It the third world it's a signalling/good or fashion accessory. I also heard in the USA kids in school are bullied for having Green Bubbles in SMS texts? [2]. So, the peer pressure among superficial adults & teens definitely drives sales.

The dynamic island for example is nothing more of a gimmick. It has no real technological value. But it's cute and fashionable to have a phone with a dynamic island.

I recommend you read Rory Sutherlands "Alchemy" if you want to understand more about branding. [3]

[1]: https://tryapl.org/

[2]: https://youtu.be/BuaKzm7Kq9Q?si=kd7FT6yeGwFUUumU

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Surprising-Power-Ideas-Sense/...
if you want (a bit) of the filmstrip experience: https://diafilmy.su/4535-v-2017-godu.html

(arrow keys work for me for forward/back. no audible beep that I'm aware of, but perhaps that was only a feature of imperialistic capitalistic filmstrips?)
Is it based on Chromium?
HN is never happy
drizzle-orm is another good JS sql query builder

I'm able to write raw sql queries with the `sql` template literal function

https://orm.drizzle.team/docs/sql
And yet you’ll happily accept the original article that did not have sourcing, because it aligns with your biases?
What exactly is the target of the comparison here? Facebooks existence? Its behavior? And whatever that thing is, to be clear, you are comparing it to the crimes against humanity committed by the nazis during world war 2? Regardless of whether you like or dislike Facebook, that comparison seems patently absurd.
Fully half of his life was wasted on theological bullshit. Imagine what he could have contributed if this cancer on humanity hadn’t been force-fed to him since he could speak.
Do you honestly think the issues OP outlines are limited to periods of liberal party rule?

I am no fan of Trudeau, but I think the issues presented are cultural. We aren’t risk takers, we’re rent seekers, and it is found at the heart of every government policy and corporate consolidation.

We’ve become a nation of snowflakes that don’t know how to push ourselves to do anything but pat ourselves on the back for not being American.