skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It happens so often it became a meme at this point.

No, the meme is kept alive by C++ people who say that this happens without it actually happen. It happened a long time ago a few times, since then it's either an active discussion about languages, where for some reason talking about Rust is a problem, but every other language is okay or it's someone feeling attacked by the mere idea that projects which only could be done in C++ could now also be done by another language and starts crying about how the Rust community would flood every topic.

There's no longer an area where C++ is the only available option. Get over it. The rest of the world did a long time ago.
If I was already an investor and saw that, my eyes would bug out so fast that they'd leave my skull and achieve orbital escape velocity. That quote is peak Dilbert boss.
The costs of recovery and recycling outweigh the value of materials.

Where it's borderline, someone owns it and if you steal it you might get found out eventually.

Where it's very profitable, it gets stolen and reprocessed unless guarded (see: copper).

See https://chitransit.org/topic/4239-ex-cnw-pullman-rta-cars-in... for an example.
That's a cogent point. To add to that, I think the supersonic planes aren't proposed for flight over populated areas - but for transoceanic flight.
Something I see a lot-- way too often-- is like bags of fast food trash next to my car in a parking lot. I'll come back to my car and there's a big to-go bag of trash.

Kinda refutes your point because it requires action to actually TAKE the trash OUT OF YOUR OWN car and place it on the ground next to someone else's. If they were truly "just lazy" they would just leave trash in the car (we've all seen these folks' cars)

They're cleaning out their car-- they just don't care to actually throw the trash away-- the ground is fine for them.

That's not lazy, that's a choice.
Only since Android 12
There are hardware disk enclosures that emulate an optical drive over USB and booting works on hardware level with "physical" optical drive.

But how ventoy achieve systems booting and detecting the iso programmatically? I know that initially, there seems to be grub2 reading usb file list and then it reads iso eltorito boot image and boots from it, but how exactly the OS itself know about the virtual drive? Is there an interface in uefi or bios that allow emulate optical drive, or some other standard is at play and operating systems just happens to support it? Window 10/11 pe / installer, for example, reports the iso in diskpart as virtual disk. Not an optical drive. Windows kernel actually mounts the iso somehow automatically.

Can someone point me on how this actually works, please.
> we are having this conversation while thousands of miles apart, in the comfort of our homes, with our bellies full, well clothed, sheltered and without anybody trying to eat us.

> We also understood the laws of the Universe and used them build rockets and supercomputers.

Elsewhere millions starve and freeze. Elsewhen uncountable numbers of humans have suffered and died. You're free to look at your circumstances and say "worth it", but it's not clear to me why your satisfaction should be elevated to the level of universal truth, particularly when the book of humanity is far, far from concluded. I'm glad we have vaccines and the food-growing capabilities that we do, and I am emphatically in support of continuing to develop our capabilities. But making myths about the mystical capabilities of some vaguely defined "Technology" such that we are unable to even stop and ask "should we?" is religion masquerading as rationality.

> We have to evolve and grow beyond the tiny pocket of the Universe where we emerged, before some cosmic cataclysm (or ourselves) wipes us out.

We have to do nothing, we choose what we do. I choose to focus on reducing immiseration today, e/acc chooses to pursue what exactly? All I can find at the end of all this high-minded language about progress are aspersions on the motivations and purity of people who criticize the wealthy and powerful and who dare to ask that we stop dumping poison into the air and water. If we can't even resolve the (comparatively) simple issues around our climate and environment today I don't have a ton of hope for our future in the stars. But keep praying! Maybe you'll be lucky and get to be one of the Raptured.
Part of the story is how passive index ETFs work. https://www.etf.com/stock/NKLA sort by # shares owned, you'll see the biggest owners of NKLA stock are ishares funds, vanguard etc. These funds buy based on market cap of the stock.
Anyone with a retirement account that holds passive etfs (or things like target date retirement funds) is a stockholder in NKLA, a stock which no active fund manager would touch with a 10foot pole.

As passive accounts for more than half of the total market funds/flows, blatant frauds that somehow manage to be included in these funds have an easier time surviving (and the larger the market cap, the more inflows their shares receive).
In the 2021 stock mania there were other factors at play too.
Frankly, I think that's more of a Linux problem than a Wine one. You're right that Linux is overall worse at power management than OSX or Windows, but Wine itself is extremely light on any OS it supports. On a resource-constrained machine (eg. >2gb RAM), I'd imagine that Wine would be less resource-intensive than native modern Windows would.
Ex-Amazon Engineer Guilty of Historic $12.3M Crypto Heist
With governments cutting funding to libraries across the globe (including the US where it's worse off), cybersecurity incidents like this will sadly continue to happen. I'm sure they want libraries to be extinct if they were created in the modern era.
Is this still a limitation for Fly k8s?

> A Fly Volume is a slice of an NVMe drive on the physical server your Fly App runs on. It’s tied to that hardware.

Does the k8s have any kind of storage provisioning that allows pods with persistent storage (e.g. databases) to just do their thing without me worrying about it or do I still need to handle disks potentially vanishing?

I think this is the only hold-up that stops me actually using Fly. I don't know what happens if my machine crashes and is brought back on different hardware. Presumably the data is just not there anymore.

Is everyone else using an off-site DB like Planetscale? Or just hoping it's an issue that never comes up, w/ backups just in case? Or maybe setting up full-scale DB clusters on Fly so it's less of a potential issue? Or 'other'?
I’ll have to try.

Once you have had enough bee stings, they hurt briefly then stop. But 3 days later you get itchy.

I’m good at getting stung, not so good at beekeeping.
Maybe yes, but note that op knowingly bought unsupported model.
> "obstacles to progress" like safety regulation and sustainability concerns.

If we were a bit more cynical perhaps we would more accurately call those "obstacles to unconstrained profit and power".
Yeah usually the step kids aren't allowed to talk to each other until after the ceremony. In fact it might be illegal for the two companies to do anything regarding the merger until the transaction is concluded. That is when you'll see the HR, Marketing, Sales, and Legal teams have layoffs because typically post-merger those areas don't require duplicate teams.
This is the key insight. You don't have to commit a gross violation, like using a patently illegal structure. But if all these SPAC offerings failed in a similar way, with the same parties repeatedly profiting from the same kinds of duff deals, with the same kinds of bag holders being sold the same line, there is a good chance they all skirted the law in similar ways.
Chat App / UI for Google Gemini Pro
I built a very quick prototype Google Gemini Pro chat UI that you can use on your mobile device. You just need to get a free API key from Google and use it with the UI. It uses cookies to store everything locally.

Mobile UI: https://jflittner.github.io/gemini-pro-chat/mobile.html

Desktop UI: https://jflittner.github.io/gemini-pro-chat/
"And 100% of my YouTube ads are scams"

Dude, I dream of my YouTube ads are being scams. I get greeted every time by a game ad. Some kind of dwarf dies on an apple being offered or something, and dying sounds like someone is throwing up. Please give me your scam ads.
Completely forgot it even existed. I remember I loved the app initially on iPad. Looked so nice. Then it started getting flooded with ads and turned to peepoo.

The layout was awesome though. It was kinda like a RSS reader you could follow a bunch of topics, twitter feeds, blogs...
Just to be clear: Disney is trying to stop their own unique creations from becoming public domain while they are still acting using those creations.

The public domain works like Snow White and Cinderella were hundreds of years old when Disney made their versions, and they have no issues with others making their own versions of these fairy tales (because there is only one "Disney's Snow White").

And Disney is perfectly fine with paying for the rights to IP to adapt into films, as with Alice in Wonderland, the MCU, etc.
I don't know anything about the Adobe / Figma situation, but "If you just don't question the government they won't make your life so hard" doesn't seem like a very strong response to accusations of overreach.
US Steel was a major contributor of steel for the WWII military machine. Honest question: if WW3 were to start, would we be able to appropriate Nippon-owned USS factories for wartime use?
Woman acquitted after genetic evidence suggests children died of natural causes
I'm excited about this - and about Threads too.

I've been on Mastodon for just over a year now. It works really surprisingly well, especially considering it's stitched together from so many independent, non-profit open source instances.

But... it's still not easy enough for non-nerds to get onboard.

I'd love to see efforts from organizations like Flipboard, and Threads, and Automattic make an impact here. I want to be able to follow interesting content from the kind of people who are put off by language like "first, select your federated instance".

Also noteworthy: in the Verge article about this at https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/18/24006062/flipboard-fediv... there's this quote:

“Basically, we’re in the process of replacing
our whole social back-end with ActivityPub,”
says Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. “I think
Flipboard is going to be the first mainstream
consumer service that existed in a walled
garden that switches over to ActivityPub.”

You can now follow the Flipboard account for The Verge on Mastodon/other-Fediverse-things by following @theverge@flipboard.com - or pasting in the URL https://flipboard.com/@theverge
But academic review is like that, with the worse acktchsually guys in existance
It is trivial to verify for yourself without having the risk of being mislead by any person might tell you: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/compiler
Spend 45 seconds to send a message to someone you are grateful to.
He clearly implies that politically-driven contracts have made the launch system overly complex, and that SpaceX could do the job for a fraction of the cost with better results compared to the old aerospace giants.

He paused on slide showing Starship on the moon to drive the point home.
Apples to oranges, but it has a similar vibe to when Deno added npm compat eventually.
In some countries, Japan for instance, it's illegal to film people without their permission. Exceptions are made for crowds and of course most people don't prosecute, especially if they don't notice, but it is illegal.

Tangentially related, it's interesting to go to a Japanese trade show, a place where it would seem like their entire motivation is to show stuff off, and yet you'll see booths saying "no photography".
Totally understand that :)

With that said, we feel this is a completely different way of interacting with the system and therefore warranted a new post. Rather than just search, you can now converse with your docs while retaining all the same benefits (like being able to browse through the results, go in detail on specific docs, etc.).
Musk faked it early and delivered cars and rockets later on. Nikola delivered nothing worthwhile.
I didn't get the impression that he was saying "don't try new things". It was more "practice good engineering". He ask people how many refueling launches it would take for the moon landing. No one knew. The engineers responsible for the project couldn't provide a number for one of the most critical things that needs to occur in the next couple of years. It took a government watchdog agency to come up with an evidence based number. That looked really bad for the program.
>It's worth pointing out that most of the best science happened before peer review was dominant.

It's worth pointing out that most of everything happened before peer review was dominant. Given how many advances we've made in the past 50 years, so I'm not super sure everyone would agree with your statement. If they did, they'd probably also agree that most of the worst science also happened before peer review was dominant, too, though.
90% of those users are probably bots

I saw one movie group that was spamming the 103rd birthday of Kirk Douglass, this year. 30k comments and 250k likes.

Endless congratulations, without anyone pointing out that Kirk, unfortunately, passed away 3 years ago. He'd turn 107 if he was still alive.

The dead internet theory doesn't sound too outlandish now.
What piques my interest in this tool is that I haven't found a good "notebook" like solution for Postgres yet, I've tried using SQL magic functions in Jupiter to generate some documentation for pgsodium[1] but I'm not entirely pleased with the results, there's too much Python still showing through.

Would this tool work as a general purpose documentation generator for a Postgres extension?

[1] https://michelp.github.io/pgsodium/Public_Key_Cryptography.h...
People don't buy ICE cars because they have an ICE. They buy them because they meet (perceived) needs, styling, and like 1000 other reasons.

Take any EV on the market and ask if people would buy it for close to that price if it had an ICE. For the vast majority (not all), the answer is just plain no.

Build the cars that people want, that just happen to be EV.
Definitely disappointing. Only hope is they IPO.
Is the idea to use excess solar power to desalinate salt water instead of mine crypto currency? At a high level that seems smart.

It seems like the general idea is to build out excess capacity on the desalinization side and run the desalinization plant at less than full throughput during peak consumer demand (i.e. peak of the duck curve?).
I'm not even sure you need to invoke AI for saturation of the web, at least for things that don't have to do with current events -- our collective archives just keep getting bigger and bigger.

This may be a bit tangential, but something like 1/8th of surviving classical Greek literature (1000 years!) is attributed in part to Galen. While he was quite prolific, the point is that the entire corpus is extremely small.

We didn't even have the capability to record audio and video until the early 1900s, and certainly not in a mass, centralized, easily-distributable sense until the internet. Having a million monkeys write Shakespeare is pure happenstance, but having a million Shakespeares is inevitable. I abstractly worry that even besides the junk, there will actually be so much PHENOMENALLY GOOD stuff that would-be creators and artisans will be discouraged instead of inspired.

Let's hope that you're right about the real carvings. That at least is not so scalable.
Guided Parachute System Used by Israel for First Time in Gaza
Man. Moon. Decade. That was the goal. It was achieved.

It was a dead end. Cost per launch was so high that nobody ever went to the moon again. All that technology was special purpose and single use, not useful for much other than moon missions. Apollo didn't lead anywhere.
Yet they sold me one of those space pens in the cape canaveral visitor center in 2000…and it‘s a really good pen, works as advertised upside-down, and is still working. I like to use it when I sign important papers.
Don't you think something is missing if we've defined "quality" as an independent and uncorrelated characteristic from importance or influentiality?
If you can't get past the Medium loginwall, here's a mirrored link: https://archive.ph/uFFy4
ChaPoly was added in 2013, but the weird KEX is even older, dating back all the way to 1998 in SSHv2. And surprisingly, the attack only works with the "better" symmetric ciphers that do INT-CTXT instead of INT-PTXT.
While I get that states is frustrating for share-ability and communicating your work, it is extremely useful for prototyping. Perhaps there just needs to be an explicit toggle for stateful vs non-stateful for notebooks
>GM, of course, is one of the stupidest companies on Earth

I keep asking myself how is GM so stupid.
I'm ashamed to admit this, but I see this in myself. I used to read a lot. Mostly fiction. I enjoyed it. It was good for my creativity, sense of self, imagination, etc. A good book would hook me and I would stay up til 4 am to finish it, much to my sleep detriment.

I noticed that when I try to read a book now days, I really struggle to make progress. If it's good, maybe half way through, I'll experience that same "can't put it down" but honestly, it may take weeks or months before I get to that point.

I feel guilty/FOMO when reading escapist literature anymore. Like constantly scrolling on some remote conflict or political machinations isn't also about as useful. But my brain has a hard time "justifying" reading for pleasure's sake.
> "I appreciate the depth of your inquiry, but I feel that this platform isn't the right place for such an in-depth discussion [...]"

So you basically want to converse with ChatGPT?
Sounds like a middle manager adding technical terms to sound more... technical.
One thing we could all agree is 20B for Figma is too expensive considering how the market has shifted.

Figma is still solid company/business, but Adobe probably could acquire them much cheaper in today's market.
Show HN: VexaSearch – A Simple Image Search with AI
Hey HN,

This is one of my fun side projects from last weekend. It searches for information about a given image, using the latest Gemini Vision model and the Llava model as a fallback.

Please note that it may generate incorrect answers sometimes.

I created this project just to play around with the Gemini model.

You can find the source code here: https://github.com/n4ze3m/vexasearch

Also, it takes time to generate a response depending on the image size.

Please give valuable feedback. Thanks!
I'd really like some prints ...
Do they do anything different in other countries, or is it just a copy of the U.S system?
Early investors aren't trying to find valuable, profitable, or innovative companies that will make a lot of money. Their goal is to sell to someone else at a higher price sometime down the line. Therefore the actual reality of the business is not useful, and often purposely ignored if the story seems like it can pull in enough bag holders.
Exactly what it is. "We had to go through it, so they'll have to too!" plus "Someone who has so little self-respect that they do this will do anything we ask of them."

(I know that some people genuinely like Leetcode and that's totally fine. But that's not why company want people to do it)
The whole 'pinky swear' aspect is far from ideal.

But is there an alternative that still allows most academic aspirants to participate?
The answer ranges from "basically impossible" to "trivial" depending on what layer of the OSI model you think the "current internet" exists on.
You can't push ads on steel.
He told customers their cars were equipped with computers that would enable them to be robotaxis and make money for their owners. He accepted payment for a non-working "Full Self Driving" product.
> why do you consider this massively overpriced?

Because i struggle to imagine the ads i watch would amount to $15/m. So it feels like significant markup.

A flat rate seems either upcharging, or subsidizing. Neither feel good as a consumer.

I rather (and have) quit than pay them $15/m for a handful of ads. They started fighting a month back or w/e and i just stopped watching them for ~2 weeks. When i tried later, the "problem" was gone lol. Not sure what happened.

I'd much rather pay for a platform that gives money to creators more directly. I pay for a fair share of things on Patreon, for example.

edit: I should note, my assumptions on price are based on how little ad views net in value.
Per HN's comment policy I try and only speak about what was directly, actually said. However it definitely seems to me like your phrasing fits the observed facts better than e/acc's own characterization of its motivations.
That's not my experience at all. Full size cars have continuously shrunk since the 1960s at least.

What you might be referring to is the increase in choice of larger vehicles, or that weights have generally increased due to safety improvements. But the actual size of full size cars has certainly not gone up over the past few decades.

You can compare the older crown vic to the newer taurus. They are both full size cars. The newer taurus is about 100lbs heavier, 1-2" taller and wider, and about 10-11" shorter including a shorter wheelbase.

I highly doubt Tesla has any noticeably higher road noise than other full size cars. The tires are going to be the bigger culprit than weight/size if we're staying in the same size category (full size cars).
That's a good one. But in terms of sheer cluelessness, hubris, and word salad incoherency I still prefer this quote from Jeff Davis, co-founder of Razorfish. They were valued at $4B in 2000.

"I think this definitely is not a fad, what's occurring right now. This is absolutely real; this is a revolution; we're packing rifles; and this is going to be something that's going to change the course of the way the world is functioning. We've asked our clients to recontextualize their business. We've recontextualized what it is to be a services business. We radically transform businesses to invent and reinvent them."

Their actual business? Building web sites for other companies.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-dot-com-kids/
Agreed, but if you have to go to a protected website for some reason, and your ISP can't/won't get delisted, you might not have a choice other than switching ISPs.
Flipboard used to be great, but as expected, it got diluted with recycled FB and reddit content, ads and "the top 5 things you shouldn't do, number 3 shocked me" type of posts.
Documentaries often have agendas that are at odds with their subject. If you can't show drug users in their worst light should you also not be able to show politicians in their worst light?
Man, I am a one-time failed founder and apparently I put way too much thought into it, as one of multiple failings.

Meanwhile Adam Neumann gets a next go.
I also now always use Zig to write tests and benchmarks for C code.

This is for example the case in libaegis: https://github.com/jedisct1/libaegis

Calling C functions from Zig is easy (C headers can be imported directly) and doesn't have any overhead. So I can take advantage of the convenience of Zig, even if the tested code only requires a C compiler.

I also now always add Zig build files as an alternative to make/libtool/automake/cmake/meson/etc. The main advantage is that cross-compilation to many targets is supported out of the box, including to WebAssembly. So I can quickly test if the C code compiles fine before actually trying to run it on an emulator.
Is there any reason why you think that the billion dollars will "trickle down" to the people who would have enjoyed the benefits of the merger?

Sure, your hypothetical payout sounds good, especially assuming they don't have to give up anything, but it's still hypothetical and I doubt that anything close to what you described is going to happen with that billion dollars.