skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even a short and simple conversation can make you feel good.

Well, for some, even a short and simple conversation can make them feel bad.
Backwards compatibility is something they take really seriously in the enterprise world, but something thrown out the window in the rest of the industry.
> Precision landing of large amount of troops, anywhere

> Ability to lift 250 tons -> precision landing of tanks and artillery, anywhere

How does a foe distinguish one of these launches from an ICBM carrying nuclear warheads, so that they know not to launch their own in retaliation?
You will pay for it anyway, in terms of increased taxes or insurance rates to pay for areas damaged by climate change, increased food and housing costs as useful land shrinks, and to pay for the upcoming climate refugee crises and ensuing wars. Pay a little more now, or pay a lot more later.
A small prototype was already built in Las Vegas, they can even change the "logos" on it :)
Show HN: AI Voice Generator
Say things with OpenAI text to speech.
It depends. If I'm watching a movie, I obviously want the highest quality, and it really annoys me when the app doesn't have a feature to force the quality. Great, that means the movie is canceled and I'll have to try again at some arbitrary later time, because I'm not going to watch it as a blocky mess just because their servers are having a moment.

If I'm watching a live stream, I'll take whatever quality currently works. Waiting to buffer it would mean I'm behind everyone else...
The Windows only desktop UI is a huge mess too. It reminds me of Babbage and his Difference Engine that could never be finished because part way through, he'd come up with "even better" ideas and start a new one.
This is just a bad retelling of Pascal's wager.

The 'incorrect' version of global warming is that we fall behind other countries in all measures because we're focusing on a non-issue. One of those invades us and takes us over.
There have been a lot of these (they're basically always dogfooding the next one, i believe). Is there something special about Big Buck Bunny and Wing It?
It shouldn't be too hard. It was a small project with only a few source files if I remember correctly.
What's needed to get your artwork into MoMA's collection
> ChatGPT is actually best suited to use by a specialist who has enough contextual knowledge to construct targeted prompts & can then verify & edit the responses into something optimal.

I agree with this, but what that means is that specialists will be able to create next generation tools--across all professions including coding--that do supercharge novices and generalists to do more.
I love .Net, but context is key.

I may suggest .Net for new WebAPI development (minimalist or otherwise), typically with a deployment target of containers and or Linux. It is a strong web back-end language in a similar way to Java but with Linq support, async/await, and a better primary programming language (C#). It has strong integrations into corporate software and all popular DBMS. But, frankly, Linq is the magic that makes .Net special.

Otherwise, for new development, I'd pick something else for creating user interfaces. Like Electron on the desktop and a popular TypeScript based JavaScript framework De jure on the web (utilizing WebAPI in .Net behind the scenes).
> Am I in the minority here?

Yes, and it's not even close. Metrics are clear - stutter/loading will cause many more people to close the window vs lower quality.

> I can understand various resolutions and codecs based on user preferences and devices but that's a fixed choice.

What are the odds that many of those users who set a preference and forget about it, now are wondering why youtube etc. never works at their coffee shop or when in the back yard where the WiFi is weak? The majority of video on the internet is viewed from wireless networks which always have a chance to vary in quality
You talked me into it XD
I seem to have seen the opposite recently, possibly because the cost of living has gone up significantly faster than the wages for low-end jobs.
I did, yes. I didn't switch to a new place because there's a lack of eateries in the vicinity of my workplace. I just started bringing my own lunch instead (which is probably healthier!)
This is a huge problem in the tech world I think. I think of myself as $30/hour against purchases and subscriptions - each hour something saves me is worth $30.

This boilerkit is worth $39 to me because it would definitely take me longer than a couple hours to build myself. Someone else has already put in the 100 to 1000 hours to make it a decent experience.
While correct, modern .NET supports currently two VM: CoreCLR and MonoVM. The later mainly as AOT compilation target for iOS, Android and WebAssembly. Mono is still better suited for that, but the AOT compilation of CoreCLR is progressing.

I think there is nothing else left from the Mono project like the class library or the compiler/toolchain.
My tradespeople relatives; uncles, my brother, etc... tell me they wish they had gone to college. My brother actually did and went from a (quite good from what I could tell) general contractor to an engineer (not the software kind). He couldn't believe that he could get a day off work and still get paid for it, and he got health insurance for the first time in his life. They also make money that's much more in line with the national averages (like $60K/year; a number that would be scoffed at here) than the wild several hundred thousand dollar fantasies I see people here engage in.
This is sort of how Fermat's last theorem was solved by Andrew Wiles (forgive me if I misrepresent this proof, my math is a few years rusty) - by creating a different kind of representation of elliptic curves, it was possible to compare them to modular forms in a way that created a contradiction that proved the theorem correct.
I'd much rather the audio keep streaming while the video does its thing.
While I thank you for this precious nugget of your worldview, please let me interject for a moment to express my loathing for the information contained therein, for I hate and despise it when strangers feel entitled to slide into my comfort zone uninvited.

It never fails to astonish me how blind can extroverts be to the fact that there exist people who don't find it at all refreshing to have to talk to others all the time, and who find social accessibility devices like self-checkout and self-service liberating, especially since NCR rolled out a model of self-checkout POS that is not a pitiful box of UX fuckness it used to be. And no, we know how to be polite and most of the time we are. We also talk to people in social settings where this is expected of us. For example, a lengthy train journey where we cannot avoid our comfort zone from being inadvertently invaded, can sure be made better by conversation. However, I can't help but notice that most of the time, strangers talking to me, if it's not their job in their workplace, would like me to either join some cult or buy something from them.

Needless to say, this makes me very wary of any such conversation. Hope you enjoy your day.
Glad to see DaisyUI on here - it’s a component library designed with tailwindcss - it hits that fine balance for component libraries between covering the hard-to-do stuff (modals, accordions, drop-down) without building such big components that you end up constantly tinkering to get what you want.
> If the microphone can do what they say (only listen in that immediate area) then that's really cool.

Isn't that just some EQing for the vocal presense range and a level activated gate to turn it on when it's only above a certain threshold?
> But we still need higher education as a society.

This is always claimed, and quite enthusiastically.

I don't ask this rhetorically: what do we need it for? No one can seem to decide. When graduates can't get decent jobs that let them live, let alone pay back the student loans, there's a chorus of "it's not vocational school".

Yet, that's what many are seeking, what they need. If college doesn't serve that purpose, then we should at least reduce capacity by that much, shouldn't we?

Others say that it would be wrong to try to send everyone to vocational training, that the world's so much better when they get some sort of liberal arts education. That they're "better people" and "better citizens". Ignoring how politically fraught that is, and just assuming that it's true, no one can afford that. Only the rich were able to afford that for their children a century ago. We can't afford it as a country, because we're sending x100 more kids to do that, and it costs much more than x100 to send x100 to college. The government can't afford that. And if it tried, it would water down that liberal arts education to make it as cheap as possible, until it's worthless even for what you wanted it to be. It ends up being a way to extend keeping those kids out of the job market, so older people don't have quite so much competition.

If there ever was a third way, I think we missed the opportunity and that it no longer exists.
Because YouTube promotes positive comments and every comment section is set to "best comments" now by default (instead of most recent comments)
Hey folks. I didn't create Laradir but I recently acquired it. The site is (perhaps unsurprisingly) built on Laravel and uses a framework called Livewire (similar to Hotwire) to create front-end components tied to backend functionality, which means I have to write almost no JavaScript to create reactive pages.

I'm looking to breathe some new life into the site and would love to have as many Laravel developers listed on here as possible.

I believe a niche site aimed specifically at the Laravel community could be way more useful than the current ways that Laravel developers try to find work or teams try to find developers.

As a Laravel developer myself and an experienced engineering manager, I know the plight of both sides all too well, so I feel well-positioned to help.

Looking for feedback and recommendations about the product and how I might solve more of the problems faced by both sides of that developer-team value exchange.

Thanks for looking :)
This is not factually correct. As sibling comment mentions, they work down to -15F. You might need backup heat in the coldest climates on the coldest days, but a high thermal performance (insulation and tight envelope) of structure is most important.

https://cleanheat.ny.gov/heat-pumps-cold-climates-do-they-wo...
It's also a waste of time tourist trap. The normal Icelandic baths are much cheaper and just as good.
Spending still went up. So it doesn’t make sense to say, as OP did, that cuts made higher education “worse.”
This looks great, and I can certainly see this saving me some time!
You should transition to a forum that only you can read.
PyPI Security Audit
HTML and CSS in the Code Editor
> nudge it when it goes into a bad direction

It happenes a few times for me that Chat GPT gets stuck in a bullshit loop and I can't get it unstuck.

Sure I could summarise the previous session for Chat GPT and try again, but I'm too tired at that point.
hahahaha, what a load of crap. You can't possibly believe that narrative with a straight face.
YJIT is the most memory-efficient Ruby JIT
It really sucks because even with the government rebates, it’s still a big capital expense that takes years to be paid back. The good news is that since we have started investing in and incentivizing heat pump technology now, it will be the cheap option as heating systems fail over the next few decades. I think the government report should include this reality but also highlight heat pump adoption as it is currently incentivized and adoption is growing. It’s weird to me that they didn’t highlight the heat pump aspect as much
There are two rather popular mechanisms.

One is simply using crypto as cash equivalent - a mechanism to receive (and spend) undeclared income without paying the relevant taxes, so that drives adopting pretty much the same regulations as for cash, just as there already are various requirements to declare and deanonymize large cash transaction, the same gets implemented for various crypto-assets.

The other is using NFTs (or similar products) for money laundering, again in pretty much the same way as physical art can be used; the key steps being (a) cheaply buy or make some asset-with-undefined-value; (b) have an "anonymous customer" (your own 'sockpuppet') buy it from you at a high price using cash or cryptocurrency. This can be both a form of partial tax evasion, as the capital gains tax you'd pay on this profit is often much lower than what you'd pay otherwise for that income, and also a form of money laundering, if the funds are obtained, for example, from some scam or ransomware operation. And again, the general solution here is to apply the same regulations as for large quantities of cash, such as requiring to identify the counterparty and thus make the potential laundering traceable.
That's more to do with the flexibility of choice and that there isn't one controlling organisation. However, the use of a CLI is pretty much ubiquitous with Linux and it's usually trivial to get text output into whatever form that you desire.

I suppose my biggest gripe with Windows is non-resizable windows still in use in it - just why?
I've actually been looking for a good webcam (with a big DSLR-like sensor) for the last few years, and this seems like the perfect product. Too bad it waited so long to come out...

Most laptop webcams are terrible. Heck, most desktop ones are too. Even the high-megapixel ones have an image quality comparable to 10 years ago, and the average smartphone will blow them out of the water (hence Apple adding the iPhone as webcam feature, I guess).

It's actually rare to see a webcam with a sensor this big (half inch/12.7mm).

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But yeah, god, that is probably the single worst product page I've ever seen in my life. When I tried to scroll down to the specs section, it locked itself into a giant version of its logo and I couldn't do anything else. Sigh. So annoyed by the website I left, even though the product is of real interest...
What's wrong with Rider?
Elucidate me, what part of my comment is whataboutism?
As a nonamerican, I'm not sure how to read "most places" here. Do you mean most places in the USA or actually most places in the world?
Cracking a "Developer Tools Killer" Script
I love this place just for comments like this
There are a plethora of solutions where (across multiple chains) you can give it wallet addresses and it looks on chain to figure out transactions and the taxable currency (fiat/USD/whatever) at the times the transactions were executed. These have been around since at least 2017.

I'm pretty sure major exchanges generate the tax form/supplemental schedule/whatever for you in the case of trades on their internal order books (they never really touch chain).

Unless you're doing some very edge case or going out of your way (evasion) there's not much good reason to struggle with some kind of reasonable tax compliance with all of this.

> I know the real cynical answer is that most people just don’t report correctly, but I’m curious how you’d do it if you wanted to be legit.

Not surprisingly when I used to be involved in crypto even discussing an attempt at paying taxes was met with "LOL you idiot bootlicker" types of responses from the crypto community. The only reason they're not in jail or getting hit with heavy penalties from the IRS, etc is because they're too small for anyone to care and audits and budgets for IRS enforcement have been slashed:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/01/heres-why-irs-tax-audits-hav...
If anyone is up to building a new frontend, that would be awesome (of course, work could also be split between interested people) :-)

https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix/issues/627
This is generally correct, that gas is often a byproduct. Consider the location and availability of gas pipeline and collector/compressor stations. And sometimes when pipelines are present they are already at capacity. It is a fascinating industry that is greening (less flaring, electric drilling).
> A store of value that doesn't require boring the planet, or building empty houses, seems like a great improvement to me.

Boring holes isn't tenable but using 15 GW of power is acceptable?
Ill-formed question. You must put solar in context: latitude, insolation.

Here in northern New Mexico, at 6000', my 7kW PV array(s) work extremely efficiently in winter, arguably slightly more efficiently than in summer because the panels prefer it cold. They collect somewhat less energy than in summer due to shorter days, but that's not a question of efficiency.
Was I holding the cashier wrong?
USB 2.0 at 200 MBps sounds like a serious limitation. 1080P is of course more than sufficient for the average video conference, but it seems kind of wasteful to use a 48MP sensor and then discarding most of the information, followed by lossy compression.
Java and Python have a few. I still don't get how electron got so popular. It's always been pretty straightforward to ship an app with a self-contained Java runtime, much the same as electron ships with v8. Java GUIs have always been worse than c++ ones, but still.. much better than electron I'd say
Here's a pre-built one that I found that even lets you customize the debounce amount: https://ionicframework.com/docs/api/searchbar#debounce

The Stackblitz example is quite good too.

I'll give it shot to build a super simple one with just vanilla JS without helper libraries like Lit or Stencil. I think I'd take the same approach as I would with React, and I think the biggest difference would be where the fetch gets executed. In React you'd expose a prop like "submitHandler", but here I would emit an event from the component (after whatever debounce amount) and expect the caller to attach an event listener to my custom event to perform the fetch.
I was asking about Orleans integration. They are working on it (https://twitter.com/reubenbond/status/1724463381686686075).

I think it's a matter of time for Dapr stuff to be integrated. It is after all the first preview.

edit: here's more info about Dapr and Aspire

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/aspire/reference/as...
You might be thinking of NaNoGenMo: https://nanogenmo.github.io

Which I think largely pre-dates the availability of LLMs and is/was more aimed at traditional procedural generation techniques, although I imagine LLMs get used a lot these days.
They can last much longer. I have operational IDE drives from the early aughts (not with anything important on them)
From the article:

> It’s 2.5 times more expensive for a heat pump for a 2,000-square-foot home versus gas forced air.

So if the running costs are about the same but the upfront costs are 2.5x more, which is cheaper?

I've done the math a few times over the years for a heat pump in my area. I live in a place where electricity is cheap and our winters aren't very cold, practically an ideal situation for a heat pump. But natural gas around me is also pretty cheap meaning the running costs are practically the same. However, all the quotes I've seen for getting a heat pump installed with the capacity for my house leads to an upfront cost of several thousands dollars more.

I don't know why seemingly the same AC unit is way more expensive as a heat pump in my area, but they are. And because a lot of AC people in my area refuse to work on them, the few that do charge a premium despite being practically the same thing as a traditional AC unit.
> The other side grumbles about how they're just indoctrinating kids (and you can find evidence of the grumbling going back at least through the 1960s, but picking up steam in the 1980s).

People have been complaining about schools indoctrinating children for thousands of years. Nothing is actually new.
Sounds like a caching bug in the app.
Cost-predictable logging at scale with ClickHouse, Grafana and WarpStream
Can you share any details about .NET Core 7's monetization? I couldn't find anything on Google.
fair enough, I'm happy with what I've used through my career, but I've never been in a situation using .NET and only tried a hello world.

I think you can always learn something from trying totally different tech, so i'm game to try it for a personal project, but want to hear what people love about it so I can dig in the right direction.
Blazor is just history repeating itself. This is Web Forms with a shiny coat of paint and the "magic" this time is WebAssembly and a different proprietary web interface that is undebuggable.

I've heard this "Microsoft has finally created a completely cross platform UI framework" like twenty times...
Yea, I know, I know, but really is it that hard to implement?

It's not an rsync, ssh, backup etc. ;)
My Mitsubishi Hyperheat units have a COP above 1 down to -15F and still work normally at 5F (northern New Mexico, 6000', overnight). You're getting bad information.
To add a note that while 4000 people is a small town almost anywhere, it is over 1% of Iceland's population. So the impact on the country is non negligible. My 2c.
If there's a search function the implication is that you want the LLM to search rather than guess? I mean, if I were an LLM, that's what I'd infer ...
I thought AWS itself was the feature store.
.NET 7? There was no monetizing in it. If you want to look somewhere, look at the C# DevKit for VS Code.
This is the current expenditure distribution: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

By far the largest categories are Social protection and Health, followed by Education, Debt interest and Defense. I guess you want to increase infrastructure spending. So the question is, what are you going to deprioritize?

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/spring-budget-202...
If they were happy heating electric the last 30 years, maybe they can keep at it.
> IIRC the cable was just a regular parallel cable (the same kind we'd be using back then for printers).

Sounds more like something called a "Laplink cable" back then (2 25pin connectors with RX/TX crossed), named after the application made for exactly that purpose you used it for. Parallel-port Printers used a different connector on the printer-side...
C is so back - Unbreaking the charter
Nice, although I'm mostly concerned about the fact that they didn't bother to mention it. I know it isn't too popular, but it's still a part of the toolchain and not in maintenance mode like VB.NET is.
You can make a fully functional API service with minimal or no third party dependencies.
There is not much of a need for humans to get closer to the machine long term, when with new datasets for training the machine will get closer to humans. Magic keywords like "step by step" won't be as necessary to know.

One obstacle for interfacing with LLM's is the magic cryptic commands it executes internally, but that need not be the case in the future.
At least in Poland private healthcare is great when it comes to simple procedures, but as soon as you have serious health issues you end up in a public hospital.
There's no guaranteed way to find all essential patents, so when MPEG-LA made the standard they just missed (at least) one. MPEG-LA isn't a government, they can't require anyone to license patents to them for their standards.
I've used ILSpy instead of JetBrain's tools for this.

If you're a real OG, you used `ildasm`.
Do you have other info on languages that do? In my mind, if a library is compromised and incorporated in software that touches sensitive data then there's no way to meaningfully sandbox it. Sure, the library lives in the sandbox, but so does the stuff you're trying to protect. I'm not sure that's a Rust-specific problem.