skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GM was what failed.

Your argument about the Bay Area falls apart when we consider the Saturn plant in Tennessee.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a4536/4332298/

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/saturn-a-wealth-...
> If you want to operate in the EU, you have to adhere to European laws and values.

The EU institutions don't represent European values. The Commission doesn't run elections to find out what they are, can't even define what it thinks they are and routinely claims that the results of actual democratic elections in Europe are somehow contrary to those same European values.

> The US is not special

It is in fact special, in that it has systematically kicked the ass of the European economy for decades in everything tech related. The EU doesn't even have second place also-ran companies that compete with Twitter, Instagram, Threads, TikTok etc. It has nothing.

So, fundamentally, Musk can and maybe should tell the Commission that in fact they don't operate in Europe and do not recognize EU laws or what they think European "values" are. I wonder how long the current state can hold for. If US tech firms just state that they will ignore EU regulation whilst continuing to serve requests from EU IP ranges, then what? The Commission would have to impose trade sanctions on the USA (i.e. ban European companies from purchasing services from them), which would invite retaliatory sanctions from Washington.
useable and complete are very different things.
You're missing the point. If you need 24 m^3/day of fresh water, you can have a desalination plant producing 1 m^3/hour and a water tank to match supply to demand. But if you only want to run the plant for 3 hours/day when electricity is cheap, you now need a plant which can produce 8 m^3/hour.

There's a tradeoff -- spending more building the desalination plant makes it possible to run at a lower duty cycle so you can spend less on the electricity.
You might be thinking of Adam Mastroianni's essays on the subject:

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-...
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-dance-of-the-nake...
Can't wait to see some PDP-11 machine code from Rust (the last time I checked, freestanding C compiling still worked on GCC).
I never suggested it did. It's just significant context not in the article.
It’s like a math proof lol.

Validated peak tech. We have created an unlimited bullshit generator.
Good questions - I certainly hope not!
They’re slow as fuck and most of them can be rewritten to not be correlated, so we attempt to heavily rewrite them. There’s basically an entire subfield of cs research that focuses on strategies for rewriting CSQs and the papers have gotten progressively more and more complicated making them very difficult to reproduce without bugs. I’ve spent easily weeks just reading these papers let alone implementing them.
> The whole free speech angle is very much in service of that: no one is going to be financially dependent on a platform that can ban you for life simply because influential people did not like what you said in the platform's BBS-like "town square".

You mean like wechat? Also didn't Musk not (personally) ban people he didn't like (the private jet guy comes to mind, but also the journalists who reported on it)? Does he not count as "influential people"?
How to make interpreters fast: The Nostradamus Distributor (2008)
Thank you for telling me what I care about. Incidentally, how does one extract the oil from a shark's liver without killing the shark?
Hawaii seems like a poor choice of places to try to escape the ravages of climate change.
I've used NATS before, and I might not have explored all the options, but what I used it for was a pub/sub model of messaging.

I cannot speak to performance of NATS as we used it in low-traffic / low-demand setting. In terms of convenience, when used from Go, iirc, it offered some kind of built-in serialization (unlike eg. ZMQ, where you'd have to add your own).

Debugging lost messages was painful, but I've never used a tool where it wasn't...
Oh, they work. Issue is, I know for a fact that there would have been alternative solutions for that. Or how do you think other militaries operate their communications?
Apple's always taken me as a very stubburn/'righteous' company. I presume for something like this they wouldn't give $1.
Those are not efficient at all for a data center on size and cost compared to equivalent mac minis or studios on a tray. The rackmount format was made for music production and is very quiet for that reason.
Andreas is incredible but that's an overstatement.

$ git log --format="%an %s" | grep -E "Browser|LibWeb|Ladybird|LibJS" | wc -l
15524
$ git log --format="%an %s" | grep -E "Browser|LibWeb|Ladybird|LibJS" | grep "Andreas Kling" | wc -l
4249
$ calc 4249/15524
~0.28530018036588508116

Still a monumental feat but don't downplay the community that's rallied behind him.
I'm sure that's true for many shareholders; anecdotally I'm a very happy US Steel shareholder (especially after today!).

There are many folks who are long-term-value oriented who would much rather own a healthy and sustainable business than something that looks good short-term but is getting IBM'ed long-term. Case in point: Warren Buffett and See's Candy.

I like the steady accumulation of equity or dividends paid out to me. The business doesn't need to go to the moon for that to happen.
From the perspective of language design, Hissp strives to be more directly homoiconic, representing s-expressions as Python tuples. Hy is more of an abstract sexpr-to-Python compiler, with s-expressions represented as custom data types, rather than Python primitives.

From the perspective of usability, Hissp is very minimalistic overall. Whereas Hy is both much more Python-like in its user experience and provides much more of a batteries-included experience like you'd find in Common Lisp or Clojure (and in fact its standard library takes a lot of inspiration from both).

I consider Hissp as more of an interesting experiment in language design than a practical programming language. Whereas I think Hy is very practical and I've been very happy to use it for various scripts over the years.

That's not to say Hissp is a bad project by any means. It's impressive, and I admire its dedication to its own principled consistency. I just don't find it very practical.

The downside of Hy is that they've gone through several radical design changes over the years, but that finally seems to be stabilizing.
There's always https://neutralino.js.org/ which uses native WebView components to keep itself rather smaller than Electron.
Fighting superbugs: Scientists bring molecules back from the dead – CNN
In this case the showroom had a sign saying "Please talk to Rupert the sales parrot for pricing."
> Tradeoffs between DNA and traditional methods for data storage

Wonder how badly it could go if the data storage container is ruptured while against someone's body?

DNA cross contamination could be interesting, unlikely to be in any kind of good way.
True that there is no more loyal ally than Japan aside from perhaps Canada. Kind of miraculous that that happened, honestly, considering that the phase of our relationship immediately before this was "fighting to the death" followed by "atomic bomb dropping" -- but I'm grateful that somehow it has come to be an enduring friendship both politically and really culturally as well.
That's besides the point. Adhering to a language standard is much clearer than specifying it by a language compiler's version. Behaviour is documented in the former while one has to observe the output of a binary (and hope that side effects are understood with their full gravity).
Bacon Ipsum
Everyone expected a recession. The Fed and White House found a way out
Software Has Beaten the World
I think you can assume decent shuffling for the sake of the problem. And with cards dealt around, you don’t see two cards in a row. You’d have to be pretty bad to get usable info from cards at position n and n+4 being the same suit.

edit: People can be pretty bad at shuffling though. Overhand shuffles are awful and info would be available. But I think this game naturally sorts the cards pretty well by the end of gameplay, so even the method proposed before me would be vulnerable to info from bad shuffles.
Have been on a few panels where candidate passes all leetcodes and then turned out to be very poor on the job with in one case worst “teamwork” I’ve witnessed. These were not FANG jobs though so might be more viable at a larger company where it’s ok to axe big projects, have duplicated work, etc. leetcode is just one muscle and many jobs require more than one muscle.
> Issues are different, Miro/Figma boards are different.

In practice over the last year, I've seen product managers make Gantt charts in Miro as the source of truth for a project and run backend engineering retros in Figma. These were done redundantly with our issue tracking system; my cross-functional team had to create issues in our tracker based on the Miro and Figma boards to actually manage our own work, then duplicate the updates on those boards to communicate them up to product.
IBM and Top Universities to Advance Quantum Education for 40k Students
https://archive.is/3zvUB
SF-based Bolt's fall from pandemic highs continues with 29% layoff round
Resources cease being infrastructure when demand for the services they’re configured to provide falls far enough.
Yes, people much prefer being dropped off in the parking lot of a smoke shop than an official terminal or building.

It's also a great point that if it is an official building, the people who get on and off Greyhounds (who you don't like) will be there. But if it's not an official building, they won't ever find out that's where the Greyhounds are at, so they won't be there.

I suppose since clean and secure drop off and pick up spots are completely out the window, the best solution is just to use some other miscellaneous location that can never be clean and/or secure.
No, the Tahoe was not sold. One of the two screen shots on the original thread on X contained the message that every offer from the bot needs to be confirmed by an official dealer. The article chose not to show that screen shot.
Germany is currently producing nearly half of their electricyt from coal and gas right now.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE
You clearly haven’t raised money from investors with that question. /j

Investors are sheep and follow their peers. There are only a handful of mavericks in investment circles, and they generate the best and the worst returns.

Consider that they all invested without seeing the engine or looking under the hood of the demo vehicle. It’s in the investor lawsuit — they even poke fun at themselves about it.
> While I actually agree with you personally that not everything should have to grow forever

nothing should have to grow forever.

especially not amounts of natural resources, or basic necessities like food and beverages.
It's really bizarre we ended up with the largest LLM deployment being around something it really doesn't do that well at (knowledge retrieval).

Hopefully soon we'll see it reading the story itself, stripping out irrelevant ads/SEO, and summarizing it.

I actually have a dream of one day going back to a flip phone where I'll get an AI call summarizing emails or messages that are important, as well as any relevant news stories where I can ask for more detail if needed.

The Internet is amazing, but honestly I don't know that the degree to which I personally engage with it is the ideal cost/benefit as opposed to using an intermediary.
> I'm guessing that the upvotes aren't necessarily for the article quality but rather agreement with the title and wanting to have a discussion.

Yeah, I'll sometimes upvote something I disagree with or dislike for this exact reason. If the discussion surrounding it is particularly "lively" or otherwise interesting, the post which inspired that can sometimes get my upvote.
I grew up in a poor town that sourced water from the Cape Fear river. There were two major factories in our immediate area: one that made paper and the other made industrial chemicals. The Dupont plant mentioned in the article was 10 miles upstream from where we were. We knew it was better to buy bottled water than to drink what came through the pipes. Grateful for the scientists and journalists for their work exposing all of this.
But mainland desalination plants are connected to the electricity grid.

The problem with only running them part of the time is that the fixed capital and other operational costs of the plant are now split over a smaller amount of water produced so that water is more expensive than if you ran the plant all the time paying more for electricity at other times of the day.
When we do chemical reactions (specially organic) we always have some by products
So much worse.

Luster? Huge portions of the Earth depend on the web as their only info source. News has turned into "somebody ran their mouth on (the symbol formerly known as Twitter)."

Also, utterly false news: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/12/these-ai-generated-news-a... The comments are disturbing "I always suspected Anderson Cooper and Lisa Ling were computer generated."

Also, you might not be able to read this, because I might already be shadow / hell / heaven banned. (A 2012 update to Hacker News introduced a system of "hellbanning") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_banning Far too easy to write a script that says if( [user] ) then ( "hide" ).

Also, if you can, we might just live in a ban circle together. Since all news in the future will be personalized based on your tracking pixel and router location. 'ChatGPT, write me a fake nightly news cast for "so and so" location.'
FWIW, the "AI" tab indeed no longer appears on my EU-based "plus" account and the previous direct link to that settings tab (https://www.dropbox.com/account/ai) now redirects to /account/general.
Man goes regularly hiking for days at a time on unmarked trails by himself into the desert with no emergency beacon. Occam's razor would suggest that him going missing and his youtube comments from a couple months prior are just unrelated.
I've done a lot of CFFI with Python for this kind of testing in the past. But nowadays I'm also looking at Zig for this.
Another answer might be - you do this every time your local network disconnects from the big internet. How do you like your little internet ?
Kubernetes is really epic and powerful if you actually take the time to understand it from first principles. Unfortunately people don't do this, and individuals without good networking/devops experience roll something half-baked out with a terrible deployment process, a mess of helm charts, etc... and it ends up being hated by everyone.

At FarmLogs (yc 12) we had a pretty righteous gitops (homegrown) kube platform running dozens of microservices. We would not have been able to move as quickly as we did and roll out so many different features without it. This was back when people had just started to adopt it. Mesos was still a contender (lmao). We were polyglot too - python/clojure mixture. Heck, we even ran an ancient climate model called APSIM that was built in c#/mono, required all kinds of ancient fortran dependencies etc and it worked like a charm on kube thanks to containers. We had dedicated internal load balancers behind our VPN for raw access to services and endpoints, like "microservice.internal.farmlogs.com" (this was before istio, fabric networks, all the incredible progress that exists now)

I recall Brendan Burns asking me to write up a blog post for the Kube blog about our success story, but unfortunately was so saddled with product dev work and managing the team that I never found time for it.

I will absolutely adopt K8s again one day (very soon) but you need to know how to harness its capabilities and deploy it correctly. Build your own Heroku that fits your business. Use the Kube API directly. It's really not hard. It gets hard due to all the crap in the ecosystem (helm, yaml files). Hitting API direct means no yaml =)

I am stoked to see Fly offering this.
I wouldn't call SoFi a failed company (yet). They're still at roughly 10B valuation, same as what they IPOed at. That's actually pretty remarkable in this economy for a company that's still in pre-profit growth mode.

OpenDoor isn't that bad either, they're down 60% from IPO, but a real estate company being able to retain that much value with the massive hike in interest rates also seems pretty good (competitors have done much worse, e.g. Compass and Redfin).
Why would that matter to the workers? They'll still get the same exorbitant salary that they negotiated. They could have invested in their employer just like anyone else.
And then they shut down and became a non-Union Tesla factory.
If Trevor Milton had simply over-promised and failed to deliver, he would have simply lost his credibility. It became fraud when he claimed to already have a working truck (“no pusher”) when all he really had was a mock-up.

I think some of Elon’s claims about the future are made in bad faith. The claims are more about shaping the public and investor’s thinking than they are about stating the truth. However, Elon stays out of trouble as long as he doesn’t lie about the present.
What's Xlights? I found the website and your recommendation inspiring, but at the same I have no idea what this thing actually is...
Release of MuseScore 4.2
We love rediscovering things and writing papers [1].

[1]: https://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-research...
Same here. It was one of those things I loaded on the 1st gen iPad and considered a possible killer app for a new and innovative way to get news content.

Glad to see it's still around and doing something like this. Will be checking it out again.
https://youtu.be/N8Nf56srwcA

Includes Musk saying "Old Twitter was basically an arm of the government... It was a State publication."

more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12695205/elon-musk-...

Amazing how hard it is to get a search engine to find these things, innit.

Most of the coverage gets published on substack: https://public.substack.com/p/ctil-files-1-us-and-uk-militar...
If you look at actual cases of "meme stocks", they happened because the meme factor could actually help the underlying business. GameStop was one famous example of that - if a meme makes the company more popular with the general public, that translates to better forecasts for business outcomes.
I'm yet to see a project where Kafka was used for anything other than resume building. My guess would've been that this one is no different.

Also, sometimes it could be used because in the previous company where the project author worked they've used Kafka. And the cycle continues.
Texas tried to do this in the early 2000s; we even built a bunch of desalination plants (here's a comment about this I made recently):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38422172#38424191

Long-story–short (based on my experience with these chuckleheads): it was killed because the current political establishment didn't own the desalination plants, so there was no way they could personally profit off of them; they own oil/gas/fracking & ERCOT.
Figmates... oh God.
Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to four years in prison
Asimov Press, a new biotech publishing venture
Asimov Press, a new publishing venture that will produce books + magazines about progress in biotechnology, launches
TSA self-screening is the next big step for airport security
Being tested first at Las Vegas
After two reads, this looks like a session recorder for we applications, but descsibed in a convoluted "remote debugger" way, to avoid legal issues.

Maybe someone more knowledgeable can correct me, where is the line between 'collecting harmless telemetry' and 'illegal spying on customers'?
Actually, it is up-to-date (new features twice a year, some of them, e.g. virtual threads, are truly SotA) and not legacy (things like graalvm and helidon 4 are relatively new and are awesome). Do not avoid Java if your project would benefit from it.
Ask HN: Does anyone use Phone Booth(Eg. Framery) as workspace at home?
If so, Did you rent it or bought it?
Somebody always wants to tout nuclear, even when that's not the topic at hand. Nuclear is equally unsuitable to solar as a stand-alone energy source. Nuclear energy is produced constantly throughout the day, and would not match the daytime peaks in electricity consumption.

Anyway, this article is discussing one of many new ways that power usage can be shifted around during the day, which makes solar able to provide a LARGER share of our overall energy.
"Well technically we said..." is not a disclaimer a company should ever have to use about its own marketing materials.
The head. Reading about that stupid git yet again acting like a five-year-old hurts my head.
GKE Autopilot is an attractive option here if you don't want to worry about node utilization and provisioning. Effectively you have an on-demand infinitely-sized k8s cluster that scales up and down as you need new pods. Some caveats, but it's an incredible onramp if you're coming from a Heroku or similar PaaS and don't want to worry about the infrastructure side of things: Github Actions building images and deploying a Helm chart to GKE Autopilot is a remarkable friendly yet customizable stack. Google should absolutely promote it more than it does. https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/aut...
This building (really a massive factory area in Fremont) is now Tesla.

NUMMI produced some really good cars under the Saturn brand. GM messed up in this collaboration. GM quitting Saturn is a story in itself.
It would take a great many discounted electric bills to justify the extra wear on the batteries that would result from the extra daily charge/discharges.
Either people are making enough money to withdraw, or the amount is so low that is not required to be reported. No tax authority will come after you because you didn't declare the $100 bucks worth of crypto you got in one whole fiscal year.
True for us all...
His point wasn't anything specific about landing on the moon or even the details of the mission. At least not the main point from what I can tell.

He had the opportunity to stand in front of involved decision makers and demonstrate to them that they were not communicating well. At all. And that lack of communication made it seem impossible, to him anyway, that they could even come close to landing on the moon in the planned timeframe without some major changes to how they worked.
Oh I know. But it’s technically called a union, at least. They also funnel the morale budget through it for some strange reason, so the free movie tickets now come from the Union rather than just your employer as before.
So is there some little guy working out of his/her garage here losing out because Apple wouldn't honour a patent? Or is it all just big corporations now? I just hate patents in general.
No one is going to be financially dependent on a platform that can ban you for life simply because influential people did not like what you said in the platform's BBS-like "town square".

Exactly, which is why it will be a cold day in Hell before I deposit money with any company run by Musk. "Free speech as long as you agree with me" doesn't work for me.