skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> t is extremely fast and efficient so apart from UI controls not looking the same it will be on par with a native app.

It uses system-provided WebView (WebKit on MacOS and Linux, and Edge on Windows) to display the UI shell, so the UI portion will be just as slow as any Electron app.
It’s called a carriage license or similar. Simple stuff, really.
In the UK we, rightly, hold his creations up as great feats of engineering. You’ll often hear people say we need to get back to that sort of thing, which I agree with.

Sadly many projects that could become those great icons in the future now get killed by (often the same) people complaining about wasting money and not wanting it built near them.

I wonder how those projects were viewed when proposed and being built and what we can learn about our current approach in the UK.

I often think people feel the UK is “done” and we shouldn’t strive to built new things.
> There are lakes such as superior in michigan or even mammoth lakes in cali.

Yes. Lakes as a concept exist. There are many examples. What are you proposing?

> I also wondered why not instead of recycling desalinated water after use, have it fill up a lake.

Okay. Just for the aesthetic value? Or to evaporate it?

Let me get it straight: you are proposing to pipe the output of wastewater treatment plants to an open basin (also known as artificial lake). Ones whose waste input was generated by humans drinking desalinated water. So your proposal is to desal, consume water, turn it into waste, clean waste, fill lake. Do I understand you well?

And you are asking “why not”. Let me turn it around: why exactly?

> People talk about colonizing mars but if we can't even do this on earth then how is that more practical?

It is not.
What's new for RISC-V in LLVM 17
What could this possibly contribute to hackernews other than the acknowledgment of obscene wealth awarded to periodic displays of entertaining talent.
Google is already partly rouge, at least in their logo.
But the thing is, it doesn't need to know much about "other stuff", just about code (and basic English instructions)

So comparing it with big models I'd say it's good but might have limited usefulness

(you can probably go further with 3B with only code)
> I will still need to use prefers-dark-mode for some of my changes

Can you detail what those would be? I’m curious to know :)
CL is the most interactive (by far). Its image-based development and its tooling (Emacs&Slime or other IDEs) offer more features. Elixir's tooling is more classic, focused on good tools on the terminal. CL has a pretty good type inference, which happens interactively too (you can compile a function with a shortcut and have instant compiler feedback). Elixir people say that in practice pattern matching alleviates from type issues. It seems to me CL will have a wider range of applications (good for number crunching, different implementations); it's possible to build self-contained binaries in CL.

CL isn't entirely functional, nor pure FP, you can mutate things (and can not to with some care, or with libraries) and you can mix styles (with OOP etc).
> Encompasses Replit's top 30 programming languages with a custom trained 32K vocabulary for high performance and coverage

Any idea where the list can be found?
Airpods truly on track of becoming the real Agent Smith earpiece.
Cab companies and drivers, unsurprisingly. I love how Uber and Bolt changed the experience of using a taxi during the last decade.

Anywhere in Europe I go, I can count on a good service - 10 years ago it was absolutely terrible. Broken down cars that the drivers probably used to sleep in taking you on a much longer route than necessary and overcharging you for that. One time a gangster like that took me to his gang when I used a phone with GPS to call him out on his route. No thanks, never again.
> What do you mean? It is a file manager. You use it to manage, explore, order your files. It could replace Explorer on Windows, Finder on MacOS or your file manager of choice on Linux.

It's not. Read their description more carefully: it's a Dropbox with slightly extended functionality.
Hey! thanks for having a look and for dropping some feedback :) Yea, "gnocchi" is questionable ha but some people do write gnocchi to respect their origin, for example in restaurants. But yeah, fair, probably better to use the real Spanish version.

>> "Hendrik nunca le gusta los gnocchis de nadie más"
will add the "a" at the begginning! thanks for spotting that.

>> "Siempre dice que faltaba algo"
This is a common way of saying things, at least in my region. That makes Spanish harder, there are so many "versions".

>> "he well-known LLMs are surprisingly bad in languages that are not English"
So true.
https://archive.ph/2023.10.09-171054/https://www.nytimes.com...
Yes, it is a protocol limitation. The hostname length field in a SOCKS5 request is a single byte, whence the maximum length. As explained in the write-up, curl now returns an error in that specific condition, which seems a more reasonable thing to do.
Imagine the Military getting hold of is and creating an adorable killing machine voiced by an AI copy of John Ratzenberger.
Those outdoor LED billboards can burn in hell. They are distracting when driving and are awful when a pedestrian.

If I knew an easy way to disable them, I’d be doing it.
Drawing Patterns with CSS
Cab companies had to get far better after Uber appeared. Getting a taxi was a rubbish experience once.
Do you know of any glasses that got adopted in an industry?
It would really turn the energy around to cut the bloat, bring in Helgason as CEO w $1 salary but boatload of call options, have him explain a model that encourages indie devs while milking cash from gaming giants, and works towards a sustainable income statement for Unity.
DirectX is a mediocre API.

Especially DX12 giving so much more control has actually backfired in a lot of instances, because game developers don't treat PCs with the same optimization care as they do consoles. Consoles have standards (and reject bad builds), for PC you can always pull a Todd Howard and tell users to upgrade to compensate for their misuse of the APIs.

Windows has traction by market saturation, not the technical merit of their Graphics API.
That inflation is temporary. Most countries in Europe give money to parents and also have decent retirement payments. Inflation is not a problem, except for other external factors (Ukraine war, COVID measures).
so what? you can ask your refund to snoyberg.
We've got richer while food has got relatively cheaper, transport has got relatively cheaper, all the things you need to live have got relatively cheaper, so it isn't really surprising that all the extra money is going towards people's homes.

On top of that all the nice things have gotten cheaper. Listening to music is now cheap. Books, news, entertainment are cheap.

Yes you may have had a car (24 million cars in 1940 v 135million population) but then you wouldn't have had a fridge, TV.

And youre comparing someone relatively wealthy, to someone who can't afford rent.
If you were poor you probably didn't have electricity, indoor toilet, more than one heated room in the house, and probably lucky if you could afford enough food.

I'm from the UK and we went through this a bit later so it's still within living memory. My dad remembers getting an indoor toilet an plumbed in bath for the first time, that was late 50s/ early 60s.
Open-source network emulators and simulators
I'm not sure the scarcity abundance mindset matters here. What matters is what are you willing to do for the amount you can get out of the client? The rest is unnecessary conjecture.
I don't agree they broke ranks. The 6am date was for the curl project itself.
To be fair, taxis being terrible almost everywhere across the world is a very common complain
test driven development has been around since the late 90s and was popularised in eXtreme Programming circles, are you sure it's a fad? I find it the most efficient way to write code and keep it running in the long term personally.
It is annoying that a lot of Wikipedia pages still have sound samples in some crazy Ogg format that normal people’s browsers cannot play.
I have the same question, and more generally: Any generic way of doing this for any of the open source or semi open source models, especially Mistral[0]?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37675496
> "Do humans still feel compelled to work when their income is guaranteed"

Yes! Exactly. They will not work shitty jobs. Isn't that a good thing?
Yes, I mentioned that in the original paper but it got eddited for some reason.
Very nice, I am so relieved that there looks to be a fine technical solution to the eventual extinction of so many animals. It looks like our zoos will have a perfectly great robotic solution!
Newly discovered Terry Pratchett stories published
I think the word "essentially" is important here. I don't think we can observe how we think. How it appears in consciousness is not necessarily real - it might be just a model constructed ex-post.

I do not know that much about AI but I know at least something about cognitive psychology and it seems to me that a lot of claims about LLMs "not actually reasoning" and similar are probably made by CS graduates who have unreflected assumptions about how human thinking works.

I don't claim to know how human thinking works but if there is one thing I would conclude from studying psychology and knowing at least some basics about neuroscience, it would be that "it's not how it appears to us".

Nobody knows how human reasoning actually works but if I had to guess (based on my amateurish mental model of the functioning of the human brain), I would say that it is probably a lot closer to LLMs and a lot less rational than is commonly assumed in discussions like this one.
Wikipedia has, rightfully imo, chosen to use an open format. My browser plays it just fine.
"It was kind of inevitable that after VC-funded terminals, mail clients, launchers sooner or later there would be file explorer."

Well, Nautilus [1] (nw "Gnome Files" apparently) was created for Gnome quite a long time ago now. The company was Eazel and included some ex-Apple luminaries. So money spent on file managing is nothing new.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Files
The innovation is that Uber supports the horseless carriage!
Can you imagine going back in time and telling Brunel that by 2023, Britain can’t build a rail line from London to Birmingham?
>as they were healthier in general

Source?
Survivorship bias?

How many people do you know who've had polio? Small pox? Rubella? Mumps? Died from a bacterial infection? Blinded from cataracts?
Well unfortunately, this doesn't like it's happening anytime soon.
I'm the developer of MotionCam Pro. I have no affiliation with AMVR, it bothers me that they present themselves as somehow associated with me.

As a side note, whenever Apple takes steps to release a feature aimed at professionals there is a significant uptick in users trying out MotionCam. I think there is a small but very vocal group of users that have wanted something like this for years but have not been catered to.
I don't agree with the backdooring proposals at all, but neither do I agree with the counter argument of "this is a people problem, so technology won't solve it".

Getting back to the locks example, in reality, the police can and do open any door they please. The locks are simply weak, and if the locks aren't, the constructions are. So they have no problem with people locking up, because they can override it whenever.

I don't think there's an appropriate technological solution to people abusing secrecy. But people opting into surveillance can be seen as a social solution to counter such abuse. It's basically the "I have nothing to hide" argument, but not as an argument, but a practical application. In this scenario, opting in to surveillance would be a social signal that one is not an abuser, and so, this would make resisting surveillance a signal to side with the abusers. If this would gain traction somehow, it would be like Japan and its porn censorship law. I don't think any politician there seriously thinks that the measly censorship does anything, but they also don't want to be the pervert politician who goes against the moral law.
Introduction to Web Sustainability
Toggling between schemes is not part of this feature.

Easily toggling light/dark is part of the Web Preferences API feature, which is being prototyped in Chrome: https://chromestatus.com/feature/4631882616012800
You want your 409a to be as low as possible without triggering an audit. This is not good advice.
The ISS has a space barbell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Resistive_Exercise_De...
Getting as bad as Venus would require as a minimum crashing a quarter of the entire asteroid belt into planet Earth, and that's assuming there's enough oxygen and carbon in those rocks.

Even if we burned 100% of all biomass on Earth, leaving it dead, it's still not close to Venus, where the "air" is so thick it's passed the critical point and no longer distinguishable from a liquid.

Even if we did that, the day length on Venus is longer than its year.
In France taxis are much better than Uber.

I've had some really weird experiences with Uber while taxis where all very professional and top notch.
For sure. The thing is we can do it, from a technical perspective, we absolutely have the skills, talent and knowledge to do it. It’s everything else which is failing to work correctly.
Extended parental leave
Your credit card information could be stolen if the call is mitmed by someone.
The (Possible) Bones of 'The Unsullied' (2016)
I'm the dev of MotionCam. AFAIK the app is not infringing on that patent because I use my own form of lossless compression.
Can you back that up with some references? Very curious, I've never heard any claims that Victoria will end up under water in a big Cascadia earthquake.
Absolutely. A sane hydrogen strategy can not be left to the lobbyists. Unfortunately, these companies have a lot of money to throw around, and they have no qualms about speaking to peoples "anti-ideological" impulses. In Germany, we have seen this strategy employed a number of times now politically: There is a clear technological winner (EV, battery, heat pumps, etc...), however with enormous transition costs (new infrastructure, people changing habits). So it's inconvenient. You then simply claim that you are pro-climate, but you want a "technologically neutral" solution, claiming that the slightly inconvenient winning technologies are driven by "green" moralizing and ideology. As no alternative technologies are ready to go, and their trade-offs and inconveniences (e.g. where do you build all the wind farms to produce the electricity to get your hydrogen) are not apparent in the immediate future, you get to not inconvenience your electorate, seem pragmatic/rational (vs the "green ideologues"), while still talking pro-climate.

It's not exactly been a winning strategy electorally for those who employ it the loudest, but it's been an effective strategy to prevent political wins of the parties and politicians that actually want to make the sustainability transition happen.

So far, it seems to have empowered the anti-establishment populist right instead...
We're still working on improving the user experience but it's 99% there. Looking forward for the feedback
Sure but most of the issues with Electron apps aren't to do with the web layer.

It's the fact that the app is so slow to launch, consumes ridiculous amount of resources, does not take advantage of the hardware, is unstable etc. And then when you're using the app all of the interactions are slow because NodeJS's concurrency is so poor.

Rust and Tauri fixes all of those. It's not perfect but for a cross-platform app development library I've not seen anything better. Happy to be enlightened with alternatives.
It seems to me that an alternative could be to simply pair FUSE with any standard file explorer.

https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse

https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/wiki/Filesystems
We're early alpha, our product is free and open source

At the end of the day, it is an amazing experience simply just to search and organize files from not just devices, but disconnected drives. Search is lightning fast, the UI is clean and you own all the data, given its local first and peer-to-peer.

Hate it if you must, but we're super passionate about it and are ruthlessly working to reach full stability across all platforms.
Electric Hydrogen valued at $1B after latest funding round
Who is right? Google: LLMs are already AGI

Or me:
LLMs are just useful for experts:

https://open.substack.com/pub/rakkhi/p/economics-of-large-la...
The magic of phone cameras disappears in a moment when you get hold of a mirrorless for 5 minutes. Even a bottom end one is orders of magnitude better than the best phone camera even if it’s got a lot less megapixels.
Thanks. A lot of these things ring true in a very practical sense.

GraphQL keeps getting more mature and adding more and more tooling/features/middleware, but we also need to work on de-risking the technology from a more fundamental perspective to get to a rock solid foundation.
> That "simple stuff" never worked in any EU city I ever visited. It just helped the gangsters keep their business.

Odd, as I've never once had a bad experience with a London black cab.
That's because psycopg adheres to the DBAPI standard (think of JDBC of the Python world). asyncpg deliberately ignores this standard for huge performance boosts.
Now I'm curious how the results of study posted would be mitigated by the space barbell
Very XML'ish
thank you! I had a look at readlang, very interesting. Definitely let's connect, I'll reach out.
So if you buy groceries and then live in a different tax area, you have a customs office to pay the extra tax?
67 X accounts spread coordinated Israel-Hamas disinformation: report
"Caint" is Irish for "talk". But the English word is as likely from French, and it's the same root as chant, incantation etc.
This is not true. We've compared RAW video from smartphone cameras to a couple of professional cameras and the difference is not as much as you might think.
Larger performance study for PostgreSQL 16.0 compared to PostgreSQL v15.4 for 4 different workloads
Cell phones already killed standalone cameras: https://d3.harvard.edu/platform-digit/wp-content/uploads/sit...

This is just the mop-up operation. The only products left are going to be super-telephotos for live sports (sales: a hundred a year, if that?) and 4K+ IMAX digital cine cameras.
Here's my design for solving this problem.

Instead of sending one rocket, you send two. You link them with steel cables. Then you rotate them around to generate the required gravity.
Ogg Vorbis kicks ass. the 320k ogg that spotify uses are top notch
LUTs are a pretty basic stuff and videogames have been using them for ages, plus HDR, tone mapping and color grading. Old stuff.
A happier happy path in Turbo with morphing
Can I fax my order to DoorDash?
Burying TBMs is not uncommon. The HS2 ones are being buried for an indefinite period due to UK government flipflopping. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/hs2-will-bury-two-tunne...

There's one in New York. https://untappedcities.com/2017/02/09/the-200-ton-tunnel-bor...
solar panels don't like being hot

Indeed, and this touches on the 'Regular cleaning of PV panels is important for ensuring maximum energy production' statement in a funny way. First of all, while the statement is accurate, I'd say is not too important practically depending on where you live. As our isntallation guys also told us. Our panels seem to do just fine with occasional heavy rainfall to clean them and the loss when they're covered in a thin layer of dust is not worth spending time on. On the other hand, the PV cleaning companies will say that it's super important to clean them. So when my mum got her panels cleaned it went like this: sunny day, panels get hot, efficiency drops. Panels were cleaned with water, temperature drops, cleaners told her 'look how much better it is now'. But after they were gone temperature rose again and efficiency was essentially back to where it was before.
Brunel was great, but if you look at the financial history of the Great Western Railway (GWR) in the 1800s you can see that even back then, mega-projects that everyone admired didnt guarantee you a fortune in profits. It cost twice as much to build as originally estimated and while GWR made a profit, it was not a huge one.

As with all great civil engineering projects, the assessment of the cost was over-optimistic. The Act authorising the construction, passed in 1835, allowed for pounds 3.3m. The total cost when it opened in June 1841 turned out to be pounds 6.15m.

Despite cost runovers, healthy dividends were paid in these early days. Before the depression of the late 1840s, the company was paying 8 per cent per annum which, at a time of no inflation and low interest rates, was very satisfactory. Even after the economy recovered, according to E T MacDermot, author of the History of the Great Western Railway, 'three-quarters of a century were destined to pass before the Company again paid 8 per cent'. The deterioration of the economy led to a cut in dividends to 7 per cent per annum, then to 6 per cent. By August 1849, dividends were down to 4 per cent, where they remained until they fell to 3 per cent in the mid-1850s.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/lessons-of-history-an-...

Brunel himself made some money but quite a modest amount compared to what you might expect given his fame.

At the time of his death in 1859, Brunel is estimated to have been worth about £8 million in today’s money. It’s not a bad sum but for a someone of his profile, £8 million is a very modest amount.

https://historylists.org/people/list-of-10-famous-britons-an...

Not that I think engineers should strive to make a lot of money. But its interesting to know that one of the most famous engineers in history didn't generate a lot of cash.
On CVE-2023-43641
Oh wow. I’ll have to recompile some of my old AoC Code to see how fast it really runs now!

Like you I had assumed this was simply runtime startup / teardown overhead.
Come on, it starts out with a link to the CVE and a remark "While the advisory contains all the necessary details. I figured I would use a few additional words..."

If you just want the gist of it, the article does everything it can to send you there.