skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you elaborate for those of us not in the know?
I'd suggest Freemasonry is just the interoperability layer. It's layer 3 cult-networking to allow disparate and traditionally incompatible cults to participate in an Open Conspiracy (as in H.G. Wells) fused with B.F. Skinner's Walden 2. I would have once suggested Walden Two was a farfetched work of fiction but it is apparent that the dystopia is all too real.
You can run DOS applications on any computer architecture and on any operating system. Modern software is much worse at backwards compatibility than software from the past.
Citizen Schmidt?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/h...
Not everyone can or will develop those relationships though. There are people who have mental or physical limitations that make that difficult or impossible, and companion chat bots could be really helpful to them. It could even give them the tools needed to form “real “relationships down the road.
I would say truly engineering would be contextualizing these decisions along a spectrum of tradeoffs and positioning your project on that spectrum according to the constraints of its creators and users. That may put you to one extreme of the continuum, but that doesn't mean people whose constraints land them elsewhere are not doing "true engineering."

"I am going to build the strongest, lightest bridge in the world" is a marvel. "I am going to build a light-enough strong-enough bridge for a cost my client can afford" is engineering.
Search is another problem, because instead of simply being able to rely on server-side full text search, every client needs to download all mails, decrypt them all and then create and maintain its own local search index.
The main reason people continue using it is due to the network effect (xlsx files are considered shareable) and the fact that people are trained on its features and interface. That does make it valuable, but that doesn't mean it is more usable than competitors.
Well, I don't like "deletionist sentiment" when the issue is "notability" -- obscure moths or Bulgarian poets have a legitimate reason to be in Wikipedia even if non-entomologists and non-Bulgarians may not care about them. But there is a real argument that fictional beings and places don't belong in a serious encyclopedia (even if the works they are from do exist and should be covered).
I am looking out my hotel room window in Hiroshima in this very instant, and I even got my wife to confirm it: The traffic lights definitely are GREEN.
the best way to change the EU is to not leave it
How many children of poor Irish immigrants ended up rich and famous? As a percentage maybe? And from how many can you find quotable words?
It's fascinating to ruminate on how that relationship would have developed over tens of thousands of years if it had been sustainable.
I’ve never seen a 32gb for sale?
These are the two high RAM models but I expect the low RAM model to retain the same $35 price. That's no microntroller cost but if you can get away with such they also have the Pico these days which is $4.
A lot of the ultra wealthy like Musk get there by owning a company that becomes successful. Which is not a bad thing. But you could have some tax on it - maybe transfer some of the equity to the taxpayer if the company doesn't have spare cash?
On one hand I cannot believe what we have actually works as well as it does. Duct tape and bubblegum everywhere at all levels and it actually still works. I’m amazed everyday at what humanity has accomplished with that in mind. On the other hand I can’t help but notice just how damn buggy everything is, and I’m not sure if everything is actually more buggy or if I’m just losing patience with big business software development as I age having seen how the sausage is made. I can’t help being angry at some illusory product person telling people to ship feature X or else with it having a glaring bug in the UX that is easily caught.
Most people will just suffer the insurance deductible though.
I regret including Palestine and Afghanistan in my original comment. I didn't mean to be disingenuous. I should have included more countries like Argentina, Kenya, and India that aren't politically charged. My main point is that 5.5 should be seen as absurdly high for a first world country, and not just a little worse than usual.
I can't think of what else it could have been, but this would make sense based on what she described.

I haven't seen it myself, and I don't fancy a supermarket trip _just_ to check. It's also not one we frequent so it may be a while before I witness it for myself.
How do thousands of fireflies coordinate with eath other?
Ask HN: Looking for applications that allow collaboration without authentication
I'm looking for application that allow online collaboration without having to register/authenticate first. One example I can think of is https://www.kittysplit.com/. The whole application is created based on trust between collaborators, and the fact that you don't need to register or login first makes it easy to get into and collaborate quickly. Anybody knows any more examples of this type of applications? Thanks
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I was on the Retail Value Add (RVA) team, which primarily handles the backend providing the content to the doors, as well as an interface for clients to update said content.
Obvious first guess on the name Steel Perlot that came to mind: Remington Steele (a business name persona created by a capable female entrepreneur, to work around sexism), Perot (wealth, libertarianism/conservativism), Merlot (faintly French or cosmopolitan or upscale, not the chugging Red Bull flavor of startups).
This was done with Doom!

https://www.pcgamer.com/omdo-is-what-happens-when-you-turn-d...
> Don't cry foul when your account is terminated.

I'd wager you have a higher probability of getting yourself banned if you do give them money.

And then if you do get banned you have absolutely zero recourse. "Yeah, we banned you, yeah your ban was totally double checked by a human and it was deemed correct, beep beep. The decision is final. And no, we won't tell you why we banned you."
Another fun take on this is How To Invent Everything by Ryan North. The premise is that it's a handbook for stranded time travelers, but it covers the same ideas of building from one technology to the next.

https://www.howtoinventeverything.com/
They are not blue, but because the word for blue is also ambiguous they are more like a teal color
I read another article on HN where an illustrator was saying that if the tools evolve to be more designed for artists, they could be great for cutting down time-consuming aspects of illustration. I’m not an illustrator but I’m guessing things like coloring and shading are areas where AI could make quick work.

We saw technological innovations like Disney’s Xerox machine technique that was used for 101 Dalmatians, and of course we saw computer animation basically decimate hand-drawn animation almost entirely. Even in areas where animation is hand drawn, it’s usually done so in a digital workflow.

The people out there that are scared of AI and refuse to use it are making a mistake. It’s here. It’s not going to get less capable, it’s going to keep getting more capable. I think the average person should try to be an early adopter to have an advantage in our new world.
Sure, if they are considering tradeoffs.

But a sign of considering tradeoffs is that every project seems to be just a little different because every circumstance is just a little different.

When you have a software monoculture or monocultures, it's likely that tradeoffs are being ignored.
The Russian military as a whole had about 1500 helicopters as of 2021. Some of those are probably not operational.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/259396/global-combat-hel...
if they can move a thicker door with a giant screen on it, they can move a thicker door without a giant screen on it
The algorithm that was broken is of course no longer used.

The point is: Many of these algorithms are rather new. The fact that multiple post quantum algorithms have been broken that were seen as promising shows that there is a risk with these new algorithms.

However, it should be said that the broken algorithms were in, let's say, more experimental subfields of post quantum cryptography.
https://www.earth.com/news/half-of-plants-used-in-reforestat... gives a reference for half of planted trees dead in 5 years.

Your CO2 capture figure is widely quoted, including in those places. But can you find a scientific paper that it goes back to? I'm a little wary of figures that I can't find a real reference for.
This agent library can use functions and call on itself until it finds a way to answer to the user. It’s not a real, complete artificial general intelligence, it’s really extremely far from it actually, but it’s a nice experiment in that direction.
Building Differential Dataflow from scratch (the framework behind Materialize)
Yeah, I'd rather just see 'deceased' or 'passes away'
Some friends worked there. The vibe was very corporate for a startup; they definitely took a lot of management cues from Walgreens.
First I didn't want to respond, because I didn't read the article in detail.
What is the difference?
https://www.dell.com/de-de/shop/laptops/xps-13-plus-laptop/s...
Man, don't be so critical.

I for one won't shed a tear for developers and their users that have been screwed over by their garden master. You go for closed proprietary technology because it has certain benefits, so have the consequences too. Same thing also goes to classic ASP, Silverlight, etc. You have one master.

But I can't say I did not enjoy flash games. They had a mini boom around mid to late 2000s with "tower defense" type of games which was excellent. For me it felt a bit back in earlier 90s DOS, you had a lot of well made and unique minigames heavily concentrated on gameplay as opposed to "assets"
I'm currently self-hosting a planet OpenMapTiles mbtiles file with several styles on top of it. I've been meaning to look into Protomaps closer to see if I could use it to reduce costs. It looks like a very promising project!
The histogram representation of most popular sections of the video as well.
I think having stronger employee rights such that a company's leadership can't increase their own compensation disproportionately to that of the average employee. A CEO earning 350x the average worker in their company suggests that the worker isn't benefitting from the company's success the same way the boss is, despite them driving the company's value through their labour.

There's nothing inherently being wrong with a billionare, it's the gulf between the median income and their own that is a problem, so making an effort to prevent such people enriching themselves at the expense of increasing their staff's pay might help with that.

As it stands, workers don't have as much rights as they require, so the balance is skewed heavily away from them and towards an absolute minority of wealthy people.
I've noticed a similar trend in my current organization. In the beginning, when we were smaller, the details mattered. Things couldn't be slow, animations had to be smooth, scrolling speed mattered, loading times mattered. We aimed to build the most efficient product, anything to increase user efficiency.

Then as the team grew, the values changed to favor anything that improved developer efficiency. More abstractions, more layers, more frameworks. The tradeoff of saving one day of developer work was worth the cost of millions of user seconds collectively. I think the difference was just the visibility - management can see the costs of things on the development side, but they can't see the benefits of a slightly faster launch time, or better caching, or smoother scrolling. They aren't measurable, and once an org gets to the point where all it cares about are measurable numbers, I think this is a natural course.
>There are so many opportunities in life to develop real relationships, with real people.

To quote the Dude, "That's like, your opinion man". You're painting with a very broad brush based on your experiences and are expecting everyone else to be the same thing as you. This shows a lack of critical thinking on your part.
I installed it.
> I read half way through, enough to get the sense. What the guy is missing is the difference between “it bothers me” and it matters.

It bothers me often means "it matters to me."

Sometimes it is a signal of something bigger. Other times... it's just me. And it is hard to know the difference.
Front speakers and microphone are lost. Bluetooth audio still works. I can still stream music over Bluetooth.
It's complicated because it varied a lot by the situation of the taxpayer. Like multinational wealth is harder to tax than stuff physically located in one country.
Vidzy – The free and open source alternative to TikTok that supports ActivityPub
Vidzy is a federated alternative to TikTok.
Jupiter is a bit far from Sun, it's hard to harvest energy there. Maybe Jupiter could help, at least by reflecting more light back.

Otherwise you have to first learn how to build nuclear reactors there from local materials, and how to make fuel for them; it's sort of tricky even here on Earth.
Hey, it works for me.

Besides, I struggled with sysadmin-type tasks until I bit the bullet and installed Linux from Scratch and then Gentoo. It was one of my best educational investments.
1,200-km range, 10-min charge: Toyota near solid-state battery breakthrough
With a "$20 billion fortune", investing $100 million is the equivalent of someone with a "$100,000 fortune" investing $500.

Probably not a welcome sentiment on HN, but billionaires really shouldn't exist.
Oh absolutely (I didn't even read the whole thread till this comment!) Are we taking a vote? :)
You don’t want to compare companies by profit margin. (Profit/Revenue) You want to compare them by return on capital. (Profit/Capital) Some businesses have a high turnover of inventory, so revenue is large even if there was very little money invested.
> Modern cars work, let’s say for the sake of argument, at 98% of what’s physically possible with the current engine design.

I think this really highlights the problem. Would it even be possible to say this about software? Perhaps theoretically, but practically?

Thermal efficiency is well understood. Internal combustion engines are well understood. Every non-trivial software system, while using some common building blocks, is incredibly unique and decidedly not well understood.
> a bad idea!

I think I disagree with the sentiment, but I definitely disagree with the conviction.

I think it's possible that chatbots will help people prepare and refine their relationship skills, such that "real" relationships are more likely and more successful. Think of chatbots as simulations, which are used in everything from medical to military to HR contexts. Maybe that's not all bad?

I'm 100% sure chatbots will be used in ways I'd characterize as "not healthy", but I'm not at all sure that's any of my business, or that those to-me negative uses will outweigh more positive usages.
And in all cases they made use of MMUs to make it perform at an usable speed.

I still remember using overlays on Turbo Pascal, Turbo Basic and Clipper.

Amiga also didn't had a MMU, and we all "enjoyed" our Guru Meditation momments.
> In the aftermath of the breakdown of German democracy and after the
Nuremberg trials, Germany passed very strict laws against platforming
fascists.

It's conceivable that those laws were a mistake. As I understand it,
in the 1950s and 60s Germany went into a very psychologically
"wounded" state, in which a generation felt unable to face the past.

Since speaking about it was verboten, the children of that generation
had no ground truth, nor any forum in which to seek one, and they were
shut down whenever they raised questions.

As a result paranoid currents began circulating in the culture of the
70s leading to Baader-Meinhof's Red Army Faction and other outspilling
of unresolved guilt, accusation and anger. Of course it's a textbook
case of what Freud would have named "repression".

> How do we square that with the notion that laws against hate speech
are a retreat from rationality?

If you accept the premise of necessary of openness and public
legibility then it doesn't need squaring. It is the essence of
rationality, albeit uncomfortable and costly. So long as apples and
oranges are not confused. One responds to speech with speech and to
actions with actions.

Unfortunately we live in an age best describes as "psychotic" - one
strong definition of which is the inability to distinguish reality
from fantasy. Technology plays a major part in this split.

We also suffer a highly asymmetrical information-scape in which
response to ugly ideas is not always possible. Again this is
ironically exacerbated by technology that promised to ameliorate the
problem by "connecting us all".

In any case, the healthy mind does not mistake expressed feelings,
wishes and fantasies or even blustering statements of "intent"
(eg. "I'm going to f*king kill my mother in law") from actual reality
and actions in the world. In this state of "sanity", free from fear, one
is able to engage in reasonable disputation.
Definitely read that as "Orcs"
wi-fi?
Boot times are still atrocious, especially on newer AM5/DDR5 systems.

My BIOS takes like 20 seconds to POST, and that's apparently normal. (then ~10 seconds for the OS to boot)
> I’m dying to see the web community answer when 120Hz displays become mainstream.

Oh I can tell you the answer already. It's 'no'.

> Ever wonder why your phone needs 30 to 60 seconds to boot? Why can’t it boot, say, in one second?

Simple, run systemd-analyze blame, disable all services and boot in under a second. Of course now nothing works and you can't access the system to check how long it took...
Apparently Russia had 899 military helicopters prior to the start of the invasion, with 134 having been produced in 2021. They claimed they then produced 296 in 2022 after the war ramped up, but claims of substantially increased military production appear to be generally unreliable. Still, being able to take out 7% of annual production for even the most generous estimate in a single strike is nothing to scoff at. And up until July of this year, Russia had lost about 90 helicopters making this single strike a significant portion of their total losses thus far.

Even if the numbers lost aren't on their own crippling, this will also force Russia to either relocate its helicopter forces further from the front lines (reducing the overall utility of its helicopter fleet) or invest substantial resources into better defending its bases in the area (of course coming at the expense of defending other critical locations).
There is no way that you could record metrics - even custom metrics that get populated via the CloudWatch logs agent to CloudWatch and over a certain threshold of errors, bring another instance up and kill the existing instance? If you could detect sporadic errors there must be some method to automated it.

I’m assuming this isn’t a web server, if so it’s even simpler.
Real answer: because software implementation works by proving mathematically (without running the code) that it won't violate the virutal address space reserved for it by the kernel.

Then, at runtime, it then does nothing at all. Which is very fast.
It's a fair point but I guess I can't wrap my head around it. Within a square foot you get at least 10x the capability and expansion of a Pi.I'm probably limited by my own perspective and bias but I can't understand someone not being able to find a square foot for a device that can replace any number of things, in my case even my router. Inch for inch they can't be matched but I suppose if you really only have a few inches a Pi is your best bet. I'm just glad I'm not in that situation.

I did reference the "mini/micro" variants which are significantly smaller - with the sacrifice being loss of PCIe which when it comes to x16 + x4 slots there really isn't any way to get around. Mine can also take two 2.5" SATA drives depending on how you feel about that.
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I am not sure I follow. I was talking about electing MPs who are most capable of voting down laws.

It turns out that in France the MPs who could do that are from the far right and that is why I asked the question above.
Why not, plenty of countries offer online visa applications.

This ESTA, sorry ETIAS thing is simply a visa with another name, albeit maybe a 'visa-lite'.
I did notice that download sizes for the PS5 version of a game are smaller compared to the PS4 version. Maybe that’s why!
Sounds a lot like the " bumblebees cannot fly" problem. I think it was the disregarded but large elasticity of their wings that allowed bumblebees to fly with a scientific certificate.
The breakthrough I've had is realizing how important it is to control the conversation between agents.

Just like in our work environments and in our relationships, HOW conversations occur largely determines the impact of the conversation. With or without AutoGen

We're building a multi-agent postgres data analytics tool. If you're building agentic software, join the conversation: https://youtu.be/4o8tymMQ5GM
A matter of tooling, nothing related to unikernels.
If someone points a loaded gun to your baby's head but you never notice, is your baby really a victim of assault? In both situations it's irrelevant if you never knew, you were still exposed to a massive amount of risk, making you a victim.
Those chatbots will only pull them deeper into an isolated bubble with all sorts of distortions manipulable by tech giants. Are we ready to deal with all that?
"AI" is enough of a buzzword today that a certification of any kind might give you an edge in getting your resume noticed by whatever automated or manual means a company uses to whittle through the job applications. That said, if your certificate isn't paired with some practical industry experience, it might not be the most credible look.

As far as certificates in general go, they can give you an edge in getting hired in certain contexts. I believe that some consultancies require a certain number of their developers to be certified to remain in some partnership agreements with different web-services or customers. There are also certain certifications that I believe carry some genuine respect in the industry: possibly CCIE as one example.
If you can't beat them, join em.
> As of right now, I'm engineering software. Truly engineering; I am spending the effort to effectively mitigate all of C's problems, while keeping the software lean and fast.

Can you expand on that?

Which exact problems of C's are you working on solving? Do you mean the language itself (writing a new dialect of C), or the ecosystem (e.g. impossibility of static linking with glibc)? Or something else entirely?
It's not that tech, or even new tech, is a bad thing; it's that people keep making awful things with new tech.
Ahh, the classic

Sci-fi author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel Do Not Create The Torment Nexus
> but adding a singular feature struggles to add even 100 kb to the executable

Try supporting unicode
> Why would you refuse if you can get detailed information out of a smart meter about your usage?

Why would you block ads when you can get "relevant" information on what to buy and consume?

The same asymmetric relationship exists here: the power company gets a lot more benefits from this system than you do, in fact it may even be at your detriment and no one cares.