skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meta: Someone please correct me. The outside of the Sphere is pretty damned awesome, with its interactive elements and novelty. I'd visit Vegas just to watch it, not that they'd make any money off me for that.

The inside looks like an IMAX theater combined with a few planetarium features (lazors?). And, well, I have a really nice IMAX theater only an hour away from me. Why would I pay a premium to see the one in Vegas?

EDIT: Thank you, everyone, for correcting me! Good to know.
What you say is true but water management matters and this scarcity is largely self inflicted due to poor regulation.

The estimates vary but something close to 80% of water in Spain is spent on agriculture. You have large areas of Murcia and Andaluzia pretty much covered in canvas greenhouses.

A large fraction of this water for farming is spent producing year round tomatoes, strawberries, avocados, etc.

Much of these fresh produces is exported so it has nothing to do with food safety and everything to do with profit. Farmers are actively selecting profitable water intensive crops while externalizing the cost of creating water scarcity.
Of course they can't. And self-driving cars also don't exist, it's like 10 years away at best.
I used to use CLion but it was so slow and clunky. The best C/C++ development experience I've ever had is VS Code with the clangd extension (and it's free as well).
>Imagine it in conjunction with the Facebook/Rayban glasses with integrated cameras and headphones. Now you can walk around an event and hear "this is John Doe, he's a VP at X Corp..." or you look at a product and hear "you can get this for 30% less at this store"...

Yeah, people walking around with little cameras recording everything they see and sending it to OpenAI sounds totally awesome and not like a dystopian black mirror episode at all!
America's largest single-family landlord keeps jacking up rents
OSX Mavericks was released in 2013, while Compcache was initially developed in 2008.
It seems the operating loss may have been expected for the quarter and the CFO's departure could be unrelated. Always difficult to tell in these scenarios but the Sphere officially opened on September 29th. I find it hard to believe they expected to be in the black within less than 45 days.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/11/07/media/sphere-cfo-quit-after-ja...
i think this is the real future of AI. Our phone and computer UIs will be replaced with telling the chat bot what we want the phone or computer to do.
It was open for 2 days of the fiscal quarter. The CFO quit after being yelled at by the notoriously combative CEO. The news has been running with this headline because it's drawing clicks but it's not really painting an accurate picture.
Should we plan for a life after HN?

There is no need to wait for such an event. In my opinion what makes this site unique is how it is run rather than the tech. One could make note(s) of how Daniel manages this site and try their hand at mimicking the patterns on existing sites. People could attempt to replicate something close to his methodology, guidelines and levels of engagement on their own self hosted Postmill, Mastodon, Forums, Chat sites, etc... In my opinion there is no harm in having multiple great sites.
Fair enough, to be clear, I completely agree that Alphabet is massively dodging taxes. Just that, they have a significant workforce unlike Apple.
Except Mozilla did it twice IIRC.

And it really doesn’t matter whst conventional wisdom holds, when the architecture of a project is based on flawed assumptions, or things just changed since it was architected.

It has to be majorly refactored, period.
Cause or convenient excuse to raise prices?

Just some math: 9% of edible oil production is sunflower oil.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...

Ukraine historically produced 1/4 of that 9%

https://latifundist.com/en/rating/uzhe-razlili-maslo-rejting...

Let’s rule of thumb this and say production is half what it was in Ukraine (and assume nobody else has switched to edible oil crops and Ukraine doesn’t produce other edible oil crops, both probably false).

That means there is 1.1% less edible oil going around this year for that reason.

I think this is within the noise of good crop vs bad crop years, and edible oil is pretty elastic in use.
I learned on BASIC for the Tandy 102

Then moved to QuickBASIC for the Mac

Then TurboPascal

Then C (via C++, taught by a FORTRAN programmer)

BASIC will always hold a sweet spot in my heart :)
One artist, MrUgleh created a new branch of AI art
For that price you can build almost any combination of wind/solar plus storage. It will probably use less land when you factor in exclusion zones and require fewer operators and resources. It will also have no major calamity risk and an easy clean up and decommissioning.

The Tesla megapack price is about 300 million dollars per 1GWh of storage these days.
So you prefer other people's children to do your construction, got it.

That's fine.. I guess, but the world needs construction workers, including in America.

If my son wanted to build nuclear reactors I'd be A-Okay with that.
A pharmaceutical company raising their prices 10x indicates that there is some kind of scarcity. That may be scarcity of a natural resource that cannot be overcome, but in this case I expect the scarcity is in not having other people providing the same drug. So, we're back to someone withholding value that they could be providing to society.

What I expect you are really trying to get at is that society has created rules that prevents others from providing that value, thus creating artificial scarcity. That is definitely true, but that's on society who created those rules and not truly related to the discussion taking place.
Perhaps you are alluding to the connectors also having to be rated?
Turn it into a pot smokers lounge, it will sell out and be a hugely profitable dispensary.
Renewables have a lumpy profile of energy provided. Nuclear has a flat profile.

But demand is also lumpy, so the issues of matching supply to load are basically identical.

What do you think France uses all the gas on its grid for? Why do they have excess electricity in the middle of the night that they need to tempt people to use domestically or export to other countries?
First 50% of your comment is a plug for a service you coincidentally provide, while the other half is a plug for your service/blog (as you serve me a 503 I can't check, but this is most probably a marketing blog). But maybe I'm just so used to seeing this stuff in my linkedin inbox (80% of requests I get).
I wish I could take a flight on it. Seems fun.
How do you find what you're passionate about?
I feel like I’m stuck in a rut and I have nothing that I’m passionate about.

I want to find a job where I feel fulfilled or at least a hobby that I get actively excited to do. Maybe start my own company based on the above.

But I have no idea how to find that “thing”.

When I was a teenager, I had a ton of excitement about specific things and the energy to go learn every little thing about them, but now in my 30s, even if I know I’m interested in a subject, I barely pursue the topic.

It’s like there’s a wall of apathy between the thing I might be interested in and the act of following it.

I’m not depressed. I have an active social and dating life, I eat well, sleep well, have a good relationship with my family.

But the spark and passion that I felt maybe 10 years ago is gone.

How do I rediscover and do something with that?

Is this just part of getting older / the human experience?
Additionally, there's also a benefit to standardization. Adding different pin styles makes the part harder to design and manufacture.
https://archive.is/WNfDg
This has been an intense journey building CompanyCraft as a solo dev (and I was never a full-time dev by background). Thanks to CoPilot and ChatGPT I was able to learn a decent level of React through the project. I look forward to your feedback!
Fawltydeps – A Dependency Checker for Your Python Code
Can you respond to the other child comment?
I think my preference is Northrop Frye’s analysis in “Anatomy of Criticism”, his categories of “mythic”, “romantic”, “high mimetic”, “low mimetic”, “ironic” are particularly useful for analyzing the history of literature from mythic legends and epic poetry up to modern literature and fantasy.

Although this analysis isn’t so much for general plot structure as much as for looking at characters and particularly the main protagonist and their relationship to other characters and the environment of the novel.
And like before, if you isolate the philosophy in their work, it’s useless. Philosophy by a mathematician is still philosophy. There is a clear distinction between rigorous proofs and blathering about how people think, or making up a bunch of axioms to prove god (Godel). You don’t get to take credit for contributions from other fields.
I know they worked differently in the past. The abilities are different, just as Facebook is different from the telephone.

The force piece is more of a Canadian perspective. Freedom of expression, association, and movement are not so much under attack as they are available only to those "who hold acceptable views."

The volume of support needed to see change is high and clearing the volume goal involves going unnoticed by the people with more monitoring power than ever before. It also involves risking your ability to feed and house yourself. Those risks are shared with your entire group, who also have to accept those risks.

Then you must factor in who is capable of such risks. Those people are generally well off enough that the basic human necessities threat is removed. They are also overwhelming likely to be benefiting from the current state of affairs (which you see a a LOT of on HN.)

Force creates a new risk for any forceful partipants, but we are closing in closer and closer on the risks of force being less than the risk involved in doing nothing. That is when force can, and will, be used imho. I also don't think it's something you can predict unless you can actively relate to the poor.
Show HN: Extrasafe – use seccomp and Landlock to make your Rust code extra safe
Hi HN, I just released a new version of extrasafe, a library I've been working on that makes it easy to use seccomp, in a way similar to OpenBSD's pledge. Seccomp lets you deny the use of syscalls you don't need.

This version adds support for Landlock (https://landlock.io), which lets you restrict access to the filesystem in a more fine-grained manner than seccomp allows.

Here's an example:

fn main() {
let tmp_dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap().into_path();

extrasafe::SafetyContext::new()
.enable(
extrasafe::builtins::SystemIO::nothing()
.allow_create_in_dir(&tmp_dir)
.allow_write_file(&tmp_dir)
).unwrap()
.apply_to_current_thread().unwrap();

// Opening arbitrary files now fails!
assert!(File::open("/etc/passwd")
.is_err());

// But the directory we allowed works
assert!(File::create(tmp_dir.join("my_output.txt"))
.is_ok());

// And other syscalls are still disallowed
assert!(std::net::UdpSocket::bind("127.0.0.1:0")
.is_err());
}
Don't think so, but there were some guesses on 3.5-turbo-- i.e. training a much smaller model on quality questions/answers from GPT-4. Same tactic worked again and again for other LLMs.

I'm definitely curious on the context window increase-- I'm having a hard time telling if it's 'real' vs a fast specially trained summarization prework step. That being said, it's been doing a rather solid job not losing info in that context window in my minor anecdotal use cases.
Glad to hear they dodged that bullet. Thanks for pointing this out.
Isn't sharing medical information without consent illegal in the USA?
It is MacBook "Pro". Entry level tier should be MacBook Air then.

Apple is just tricking people that they get "Pro" machine, but in reality it is not "Pro".
Then Netflix is the uber driver, and has to watch as the uber-netflix eats more and more of the streaming fees as years go by.
I suspect it's a similar dynamic at play.
Impossible to take this article seriously.
at similar pressures as mexico city
Some teams discourage it because it makes code reviews a little harder. I worked on a team that allowed it for obvious things like iterators or std::make_unique<>.

From Google's C++ Style Guide:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Type_deduc...

> The fundamental rule is: use type deduction only to make the code clearer or safer, and do not use it merely to avoid the inconvenience of writing an explicit type. When judging whether the code is clearer, keep in mind that your readers are not necessarily on your team, or familiar with your project, so types that you and your reviewer experience as unnecessary clutter will very often provide useful information to others. For example, you can assume that the return type of make_unique<Foo>() is obvious, but the return type of MyWidgetFactory() probably isn't.

I would typically use auto while working on something but then have to replace many of them before creating a code review. I wish Visual Studio could do that, it clearly already knows the type.
all that desperation IS a source of energy, granted the boundaries/gates/walls are administered in such a way to allow harvest... just (maybe toke up and) think about how mitochondria actually work. the 'energy' all comes from gradients of various sorts of presures (like the presure of hunger i.e. desperation)
Skimming the paper: it looks like they are performing sentiment analysis on books, effectively taking the Fourier transform of the sentiment-versus-time data, and reporting which Fourier component (up to 3rd harmonic) is strongest.
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I really like developing Rust with CLion: when I'm using C libs and Rust bindings, I can debug it seamlessly and efficiently. If RustRover [1], the dedicated JetBrains IDE for Rust, doesn't support C/C++, It will be a showstopper for switching.

[1]: https://www.jetbrains.com/rust/
Sure sounds like investing advice
Any kind of privacy. I don’t cherry pick like Europeans do.
Depth of Field Simulator
Looks cool. Glad they thought enough to only make 30s timeout happen if you're attached to a terminal. (unless they tried it the other way first, and their whole CI system locked up.)
Many people pay Apple the 30% upcharge specifically because there is a “cancel this subscription without asking lame questions or making me talk to a human” button in the built-in iOS settings app.
Same reaction here. For such a huge investment wouldn't you expect it to take some time before it becomes profitable?

Live shows are only one piece of the puzzle. I really want to go see the "postcard from earth" short film they made especially for the Sphere. The filming required all kinds of specialized camera gear to take full advantage of the resolution and 3d viewing inside, so it's no wonder there isn't going to be an immediate catalog of titles to choose from for selling more tickets.
The biggest game changer is actually just using a cooking oil - there are plenty of alternatives that will have absolutely no impact on the final taste... and olive oil actually has a relatively low smoke point compared to other cooking oils.

If olive oil was just used for flavoring, emulsification and dipping bread in we'd have a huge over supply - too many people were raised on "Drizzle some olive oil in your pan before heating".
Fintech finds its promised land in Lithuania
Which has what value, exactly? I see the value being for lining up the ads you're most likely to be relevant to you. It increases the amount they can charge advertisers, and you're seeing ads that are more relevant to you. Is there some other value in having this information?
Navigating the Differences Between MongoDB and AWS DocumentDB in Practice
Turn a single audio file into your content machine with AI
That sounds like next years problem. If global mega corps already struggle with looking past the next quarter when it comes to consequences why would you expect people who are living off of crime to have a longer term view?
When you look for knowledge, you aim for the best, not for the average. Also science has crackpots too, they are just underfunded.
Though you get partially saved by the "FFI is defined in Rust" part, with many of the hard to compile crates offering optional prebuilt binaries for the part that's not rust.
clarified butter poured over salad has a different feel certainly.
There is also a similar one for VS Code: "REST Client" (an extension)
Fascinating, a brand new entity that effectively went public the day it began generating revenue. Are there other examples of this?
Classic HN response.

This is just an early taste of a potentially powerful use case.

I understand the vision API doesn’t have memory, so each screenshot it takes is like an entire new context. If the script/application is able to send WHAT application it’s in, and has some RAG database in the backend to pull knowledge from, this would be incredibly useful.

Of course it’s slow now. If you’re legitimately stuck, a couple seconds for a personalized answer is a perfect trade off. It will get better.
Don't most successful venues use Ticketmaster?
Oh does this open software lenses and optical beamforming? The progress of acquisition tech is just staggering. ADCs in the last 10 years have just gone to incredible sampling rates, compacity... The future looks fun for the linear algebra signal/image processing people to go back to the drawing board: now that you have teraflops and these sensors available, let's start again.
This place. So bizarre. I loved it so much back in the day. Especially showing friends the latest weird thing I found.
10 years of development! Whats going on there?
yeah - as seen from a few comments on my post, everyone has different opinions on non-objective stuff related to keyboard/trackpad. I feel like the keyboard is pretty responsive while the trackpad isn't, but the only way for you to know is to have tried it I guess.
Just an aside really, but when I hear comments like this I am always so grateful ending up with the professors I did, at the programs I was at, where effort was made to ignore or constructively address "the divide" of contemporary philosophy. I was probably a year into my MA before I learned how some might think it wrong, or silly to appreciate people like Cavell and Derrida, or Frege and Deleuze, etc. at the same time.

To me, the experience of talking with the true partisans of either the analytic/continental tradition is exhausting and at times absurd. Where else in academia do you have otherwise wonderful scholars being proud of never having read someone?

In my mind continental people are the worst offenders in this, but I guess your helping balance the scales here.

Thankfully, not everyone in the field is like this. Off the top of my head: Graham Priest and Paul Livingston are two guys doing good work to complicate the party lines here.
Wonder why Tatham is not an ACM fellow or something like it yet. Some very widely used code came from under his fingers.
Yes, very easy to make from just butter.
There is also a push towards Rust on the web side of things too, it would be amazing to have a single language that could be used for both worlds
even if it's not true AI or even an architecture with the potential to become AI, LLMs are already good enough to provide real world value. Obviously "super autocomplete" isn't as sexy as true AI, but still very useful
The mario movie was a stereotypical generic cartoon movie. The true mario movie is Luigi's mansion 3 (a game): that thing is ultra polished with incredible animation and loveable characters, great audio, oozing with charm. I want Nintendo to make it's own movie
The tech to recycle clothes is only just being invented
There's a decent chance that without US assistance, that wouldn't have been the case. We sent them a lot of equipment.
Very cool!

Setting the helium supply aside, this is actually something that scales up well, right? The blimp's lift scales cubicly with size, but its cross section and surface area (drag and materials weight) only scale quadratically.

Also, I remember someone trying to shape a blimp like a lifting body, so it gets a some extra lift from forward motion.
A strange mix of baroque steampunk and iPod-white purity.

A merry Art Deco Tic-Tac sailing obliviously across the sky.

Ochre white on chill blue.

I love a sunburnt country

A land of sweeping plains

Of rugged mountain ranges

Of blimps from San Jose
> They view the Melee players as being, in many ways, harmful to the brand; which considering the dozens of pedophile and sexual assault allegations, they might have a point.

There were far more of those in Ultimate than Melee…

The latter argument is why they shouldn't be involved. But they should stay uninvolved.
>would be much more complicated and expensive than just capturing a single slice of space and letting time flow along the perpendicular axis

I'm not quite sure. You're replacing a custom rig and technicians, with an off the shelf part. Sounds like it could be easier and cheaper (my point).
Yes thanks for the correct. I cannot edit the typo anymore :(
10. Very. It was a bad time for a curious mind.
The Z9 has no (mechanical) shutter.
We're not blaming every environmental change on humanity, though? We're only blaming humanity for the ones we're probably responsible for. I don't see anyone saying we're responsible for plate tectonics (excepting the relationship between fracking and earthquakes, of course).
If Taylor Swift had required fans to register in person at a DMV in a series of three different appointments two weeks apart she still would have sold out - when the demand is that high it becomes a bad data point for comparison.
This may be one of the most surprising things I have learned in my life.
It really depends on how much you actually watch on a service.

I thought that £7.99 for D+ was pushing it as there was a limit to the content that we wanted to watch.

Pay for that over multiple months, and you own nothing at the end.

Should have bought the discs instead. At least then I could continue to watch that content at leisure, without spending any more.
> trying to sneak their "Keep STEM Talent Act" into the annual, must-pass defense spending bill as an amendment

Blows my mind that anyone in the US is ok with these take it or leave it combo bills
Pyproject.toml is a right step afaict but man is it complicated: "Please note that some of these configurations are deprecated, obsolete or at least discouraged, but they are made available to ensure portability." Core vs setuptools-specific etc.
See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/pyproject_con... and https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/declar...
We've been using CLion on U3D, but speed has always been an issue. Hopefully this helps.
The green card system is already broken (this is pretty universally agreed). The notion that receiving a degree in the US—which often entails a large degree of cultural assimilation—doesn't give you a strong argument for being able to stay if you can find a job is archaic.

It's not like large tech companies don't know how to employee people in other countries, so I doubt this is going to impact hiring rates of foreign US-graduates, but rather keep more talent in the US (good for the US) and should have little to no effect on wages (again, if a tech company wants to hire them, they'll just hire them at a foreign office where they can obtain a working permit).