skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought we were talking about "resizeable desktop applications in the 90s"? The reason I bring up that monitor is that I had the misfortune of using dozens of desktop applications written in the 90s to control lab equipment and spent copious amounts of time manually tiling them in all kinds of positions and sizes on a high resolution monitor. Scaling was definitely not the issue thanks to great eyesight. I was lucky if they supported a non 4:3 aspect ratio. Anything that wasn't a graphical or CAD or other app that did its own rendering or was developed by a large dev team was a crapshoot.

Lots of absolutely positioned buttons clipped by a resize, toolbars that didn't hide their buttons behind a menu when the window was too small, uncollapsible panels with minimum widths that exceeded the main content, and so on. Most of them were about as resizable as a water balloon when you smash it on the ground.
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Looked at my natural gas usage. In the summer it only used for water heating/keeping it hot at 10 therms/month. Total annual gas usage is 700+ therms. 12*10/700 = 17%. And this includes both heating and keeping it hot.

This site [1] quotes 0.0113 therms to heat a gallon of water. 120 therms / 0.0113 / 365 = 29 gals of hot water per day. This place [2] estimates 41 gallons of hot water per day used during peak demand. My estimate is that we use more for showers, less for washers/dishwashers, same for faucets. Looks like I would spend all of my BTUs on heating these 29 gals of water every day. Most likely close to single digits %% for keeping it hot.

[1]https://webbsupplycompany.com/scalesafe/what-does-it-cost-to...

[2]https://michaelandson.com/blog/what-size-water-heater-do-i-n...
Something similar was done in New York as well for those curious: https://council.nyc.gov/data/heat/
No video? Or did I miss it?
Domain-specific chatbots for science using embeddings
Author here. We do a LOT of Objective-C++ at Postman (https://www.postman.com), as our upcoming desktop framework is primarily C++.
Testing at the faucet is definitely going to end up identical in concentration (plus whatever it picks up in pipes in the house), but not necessarily bioavailability.
> Rust isn't really that difficult

Fun Rust novice exercise: Write a linked list implementation in Rust.

Regarding the carbon footprint stuff, I think any runtime performance efficiency stuff might often be outweighed but the massive compile times for development and CI.
I’m always amazed by the level of the discussions on Signals and Threads. I especially enjoyed hearing about the challenges with performance engineering in OCaml versus C++. The work on unboxed types is very promising.
Then it would make sense to write such articles if and when that happens. Until that point, the claims being made in this article are simply incorrect.
Report reveals sorry state of cyber security at UK football clubs
With the current state of the economy, and job cuts, I'm helping devs get jobs at startups.

I come from an eng background having worked at companies like shopify. I've interviewed with hundreds of companies and conducted interviews for many companies as well.

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Running Graylog on Windows
Yes, but my point is photography isn't just "pressing a button".
Disclaimer: I wrote a book about creating apps, end-to-end, and I use Flutter https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38433668

It's the same thing with the Flutter ecosystem. Half of the libraries I use in my existing projects haven't been updated in a year (they were active when I picked them). They still work, but considering Flutter (and Dart) move so fast, it gives me the heebie-jeebies.

If you're comfortable with JS, go for it (React Native). But before you commit, think ahead of the must-have UIUX features for your app and build a PoC. Don't be surprised when you can use built-in/stock camera access in less than an hour, but you need hundreds of hours to make a custom camera screen.
Gen AI is in the mainstream hardly like 6-7 years now, there is much more to see!
True, but the nice thing is now PWAs can be in the app store and indistinguishable from apps.
Does anyone else find it a little weird that the Great Salt Lake is shown on the map but Lake Champlain and Lake of the Woods are not?
> One of the big "aha" moments I had was a couple years ago when I was trying out Stripe's Identity product, which lets you take a selfie and a picture of your ID for identity verification purposes. It's pretty amazing how Stripe was able to do the full image analysis (i.e. edge detection when you take a picture of your ID) solely with browser APIs.

Do you have any details on that Stripe app? I've found the browser camera handling lacking on mobile if you want to overlay it with a "position the subject here" rectangle, or display instructions alongside, or detect QR codes as well as other subjects. I'd like this to be an out-of-date view. I've been considering React Native for the next version, using https://github.com/mrousavy/react-native-vision-camera as it seems much more feature complete.
> Look how long the most of humanity stuck to Internet Explorer

Chrome surpassed IE usage within 4 years, so the answer is "not particularly long".

> IE's more dramatic drawbacks

Such as?

> its just too spammy and slow

Spammy yes, slow no.

> I have extremely mixed feelings about Brave. Maybe even net negative

Why?
We're all trying to find the guy who did this.
we ve had that with photography

and recorded music

and movies

and the internet

damn it, we will not find something to be wowed about ever again!
Meta Sees Little Risk in RISC-V Custom Accelerators
I'd say yes, I'm seeing big consumer companies switch to it from native these days.

If you're just getting started I highly recommend expo. I wrote an article on building a game using it over say unity not too long ago https://parrisneeds.coffee/posts/making-a-game-in-react-nati...
> they want to use google services

If they have to view ads to use them, that becomes significantly less of a sure thing
Policies of Historical Memory
Actually, selectively deleting facts like that does kinda work, essentially what you're doing is scolding-based reinforcement learning. For decent speed you'd want to probably use variance-reduction techniques like https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08253 , though.

Or a related (would be linked as cited by/cited in the linked when you look on semantic scholar) method that doesn't compute a hessian-vector product (which apparently interacts poorly with the non-linearity of the multi-layer perceptrons as provided by LLM-typical ReLU), in exchange for e.g. sizable batching (gradient accumulation!) at occasional checkpoints.
> but a lot of the arguments in favor of Rust mention that "there is a crate for that". I would say you need to compare vanilla Rust "out-of-the-box" with Ada for a fair comparison.

Smart pointers are vanilla rust shrug.

But also, it's pretty fair to mention the availability of crates, because they're easy to integrate, liberally used by the project itself (go browse https://github.com/rust-lang and you'll see a number of projects for libraries distributed as crates rather than part of the stdlib), and there's a large breadth of available packages.

The internet tells me Alire is a (the?) package manager for Ada, its listing has 373 entries right now (https://alire.ada.dev/crates.html).

Simple odds say you're more likely to find a crate for that than an ada package.
So is dijibouti some massive switching station hub or do those cables just go by it underwater?
You do, but companies don't. A major advantage of a browser app over a native app is having one system that behaves relatively consistently across all platforms. This isn't just cosmetic: providing customer support for a web app that has exactly one expected set of behaviors is far easier than asking your support agents to keep track of the constellation of different features users might have access to depending on their platform.

The color picker control is the antithesis of this consistency: not only does it look different across platforms (making it harder for CS to walk customers through something over the phone), it provides different features depending on the platform. Some users will be able to pick an arbitrary hex code, some will be able to pick colors off the page, and still others will be given a tiny set of fixed choices.

HN's audience might prefer that because they know the platforms they use extremely well, but the average caller to a customer support desk doesn't know their own device that well. If we instead write a bespoke control, you (being technical) will be able to figure it out, and the people who call in to customer support for help will all be seeing essentially the same thing.

EDIT: And note that when I say "companies don't", I'm not even just talking about the SaaS vendor. Oftentimes the customer is also a business that has an internal support desk that prefers consistency.
> I think this shows how the financial media can be disregarded

to be fair, the actual financial analysts have been very bullish on uber for a long time. the stock has been overweight or buy for most of its public history, at least by my recollection (I own a chunk of stock so i've been paying some attention).

it's on forums like this though, where folks are inserting their desire for uber to fail because they don't like the company or the (former) executives or whatever, that I hear the bankruptcy drum being beaten.
Or just ... don't center, and change the math to acknowledge that the LEDs aren't centered?
What's the current headcount for your team at Zelle?
While Arthur Dent does read some stuff throughout the series that couldn't possibly be in English like signs on an alien planet, the full nature of the babel fish is rather vague and we don't know if it would work that way. As far as I can tell, all the written text it translates for Dent is in the context of living civilizations so the babel fish has brainwave energy to feed into the telepathic matrix - presumably telepathically using the knowledge of nearby persons for the translation.

That said, given the Heart of Gold improbability drive, I don't think information theoretic violations are your biggest problems.
For the case of "smart pointers", and the larger point of "safety": rust has that included out of the box: Box, Rc, Arc, RefCell are all smart pointers included in the standard library. On safety of the language: the borrow checker exists, move semantics are the default (ie: included in the language) and copy is explicit, and real programs that isolate unsafety effectively (ie: so it doesn't need to be known outside of the module it exists in) are common.
Also. Good oldfashioned statistics remains viable in spite of AI.
For me it's about tightness in the SCM (Sternocleidomastoid muscle) and scalene muscles. If I can successfully get them to loosen up through some heat and massage, I can make my neck pop (very loudly in fact, sometimes it makes my arm go numb for a second) and whamo, tinnitus gone. It returns as soon as the neck stiffness/tightness comes back though.
For banks that insist on doing SMS-based 2FA, I use a less well-known Google Voice number that only I know and don't give to my normal contacts. That number does nothing other than to receive 2FA codes, doesn't forward its messages and calls to any other numbers.

My reasoning is that it would not be trivial to guess the phone number from my account/name, and to guess my name from phone number (unless someone hacks into the bank's db, in which I'm in troubles anyways). Furthermore if someone was able to figure out that link, it would not be trivial to do SIM swap on Google Voice, it would not be trivial to attack the Google Voice app. Two or three stars have to line up for someone to sim-swap that GV number.

But some stupid bank go further to ban GV numbers. In which case I just don't bank with them.
Training data for a medical diagnosis model would likely include enough info to de-anonymize the info for some participants (age, sex, zip code, descriptions). I'm not sure what the answer should be but I'm uncomfortable with the medical training data being provided freely to the world.
I am semi-serious. But it's more about a periodic backup of an on site science station.

An on site (orbital) station could run all the models and algorithms and analysis you want on the gobs of imagery and spectral maps / cubes you can gather in real time.

Analysis is an excellent compression algorithm. But, you'd want the raw data eventually, and that means either trickling back 0.1%, or waiting a few years for the full set.

https://josh.vanderhook.info/publications.html#josr2022sspe
Flutter is still open source with a stronger community than any of its competitors. I think it will be around for a long while. For some reason, it's especially popular in Asia, particularly India and China. There are already entire modules being developed just for Flutter in China, so I wouldn't put it too soon in killedbygoogle.

The iOS issue is a minimal issue with the new Impeller API (not sure if you're updated on that). There is still a bit of jank, but between putting out an MVP vs another month for a native app, I'd say go with Flutter for the MVP. Then switch to native if your app takes off.
The board keep stepping on a rake, getting smacked in the face, and saying, "The Altman sure is good."
Email incoming
Surely people can change behavior, but nonetheless is it also true that AI strips the meaning and value out of some parts of life. This is not a new phenomenon, but a result of technology and change itself.

If scarcity is the point of collecting, post-scarcity destroys the point. You may find a new one, but it is not the same.
That's correct; it's far from finished - I just chucked it up on Github to show it to some interested folks and get some review on the design. Didn't expect it to actually get attention.

The plan is that once it's working to my satisfaction, I'll do a small production run and release the designs under some kind of open hardware license. I'm not particularly interested in making money off it beyond covering my costs.
Any application of significant size makes all compilers slow!
It doesn't. If you have tinnitus caused by any one or more of the other issues, you likely have sleep apnea on top of it.

Enlarged tonsils themselves are indicative of poor nasal breathing. If you have them completely removed you'll suffer from greatly reduced immune response. You have a fighting chance with intracapsular. Palate expansion through a good Ortho is still probably way better.
Agree 100%, which is why I wrote "In these cases it's often a lot easier to just build a Progressive Web App for Android (Google let's you put PWAs directly in the Play Store), and wrap that with a thin native wrapper for iOS."

In other words, these browser-tech-based apps show up in the app stores like any other app.
Ask HN: HN Holiday Gift Recommendations
I really enjoyed posts like this one where people talked about their favorite tech accessories:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35429801

What recommendations do people have for gifts for your average HN reader?
Is the Grammy for Best New Artist Cursed?
It would also be very helpful if you could share insights on why this is important.
I'm not finding a great ELI5 of the electrocaloric or magnetocaloric effects. Specifically, the IEEE article doesn't explain how shuffling the generated heat away from the electrocaloric material results in a net cooling effect. If one tried that with a thermoelectric element, it wouldn't work, because when it was shut off, it would just cool down to ambient temperature.

Is it correct to say that they're analogous to gases changing temperature as the pressure of the gas changes? i.e. not a continuous generation of temperature change, but a one-shot change between two temperatures that's dependent on the outside force (pressure/electrical/magnetic/etc.) and some inherent capacity of the medium? That feels like the only way one could take away the resulting heat, remove the outside force, and have the element end up cooling down to a lower temperature than it started out, but I am not a physicist.
In photography you have to go to the place and position yourself and wait for the right moment. It's much closer to fishing than clicking a button on the computer.
Every @#$& dean who ever sympathetically listened to some whiner who was in a protected class whine about something silly is responsible.

Silly whining mush be ridicules, but that leads to accusations under the Civil Rights Act, and some deans are cowards.

Source: I teach college, but mot at Yale.
But beware row-level security. It's great, but the query planning is a huge mess, and you can end up with serious performance issues real fast if you're not careful.
Hard to imagine someone would switch from Edge/Safari to Chrome without investigating other alternatives like Brave/Firefox.
I look online for Android programmer jobs, I see React Native often enough when someone is looking for an Android or mobile programmer.

It's a large skillset people want - you need to know Javascript, then probably some HTML and CSS, then the React framework. Enough to get you a job as a React JS programmer - but then you should know React Native as well. Plus, RN does not cover every case, so know the Android ecosystem (Kotlin and Android SDK, plus maybe some Java) and the iOS ecosystem (Swift and iOS SDK, plus maybe some Objective C). Most large companies tend to have a separate Android and iOS app, although not all (Discord is React Native IIRC).

It makes some sense in a startup possibly - have a few RN programmers and have one or two dive into RN and do Android and iOS apps for your product, some of it using your existing codebase. From all I have heard, it does not scale, although maybe companies like Discord make it work for their use case. Once a Series A or series B kicks in, engineering has to stop and look whether they want to continue adding on to this rickety future, or get a small Android and iOS team together and do native apps.
He's not much of a technologist really? More a marketing guy.

So, he thinks that GPT-5 will not market any better than 4? Ok.
You have a negative amount of thought to add, just slander & playing weak mind games on something like trying to say there's no Russians in Ukraine.

I deem you're a Russian troll and move on.
Why is choosing the least powerful language for a given purpose a core principle of web development? If a language has flexible abstractions, it can make hard tasks possible, and ALSO make simpler tasks easier. Whereas a language with clunky mechanics makes simple tasks complicated and hard tasks virtually impossible.
> As an administrator, I wish MediaWiki had a built-in updater (bonus points if it could be automated).

I get that by using the container distributions. I just mount My LocalSettings.php and storage volumes in the appropriate places and I get a new version.

And since I run on ZFS and i take a snapshot before updating if something goes wrong I can rollback the snapshot, and go back to when stuff just worked (and retry later).
This makes me wonder if anyone has tried to create the Las Vegas sphere on a smaller scale themselves because that would be awesome
Rivian won't enforce this as they want access to Tesla charging stations.

Rivian signed an agreement with Tesla recently to do just that and start next year.
> (browser-based cross-platform toolkits are a joke, they are not flexible, and are hard to extend)

I would have agreed with you say 5 or more years ago, but completely disagree now. I certainly don't think the better web-view-based frameworks have any more issues than React Native, and on the contrary I've seen React Native usually have more.
For brave service in the forces of self-awareness, I hereby award you https://trout.me.uk/medal.jpg

May you wear it with pride.
Have to disagree. Yes, every experienced dev can probably pick up any other language/framework and be able to work with it within 6 months - things aren’t fundamentally that different.

But these people can easily switch jobs and it’s doubtful most are ok to hitch their wagon to Flutter - a nascent framework with basically no crossover to web development and a big company behind it, known for killing its toys on a whim.

Much easier to just go do RN elsewhere.
No. All this death and destruction because Putin fantasizes about the restoration of the Russian Empire.

Putin wants to be the one what got Ukraine. He wants it to be his legacy. And now many Russians are dying for one man's vanity.

It's a pointless war of choice that has made Russia weaker, less stable, more isolated, and more dependent on China.
Capacitor framework has an awfully outdated and unmaintained camera library (I was the maintainer for a short while). It's fine if you want to trigger the native camera to open and then get the picture, but embedding the camera in your app is a right pain.

If someone would make reasonably priced modules like this for CapacitorJS it'd be a good ecosystem, but instead we've got dying open source libraries, and extortionately priced addons (4 figure+) from the likes of Ionic.
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Yes, but Apple doesn't revoke downloaded content. I'm fully aware they've done this before.
You can find the paper here, maybe that helps: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05424
I remember when the source code leaked for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 online in 2020. It was a lot of fun to dig around.
It's been 22 years and there's no sign it's going anywhere
Autodesk continues to enshittify Fusion 360
I thought clearing ice from sidewalks was always the responsibility of the land owner. The sidewalks are on easements but it's still owned by whoever owns the rest of the property. This is why sidewalk clearage is always inconsistent; some property owners are very diligent while others are negligent. And this is also why there are so many horror stories about property owners getting sued when somebody slips and breaks their hip; it was their responsibility to keep the sidewalk passable so if they don't they become liable for resulting accidents.
that driver is not being upstreamed and never will be as long as it can only work with the proprietary userspace. It's being used as a reference implementation to improve nouveau.
This is contradicted by AI art winning competitions for traditional art. People could not tell it is AI art, they felt what they felt. Only later must they convince themselves that it could not have been that good after all, because a machine made it.