skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is partly misleading and partly out of date: Welcome Suicas have been available at the airport throughput, and regular Suicas are available again at major JR East stations.
If it were a big enough problem, could GPLv4 be published (perhaps with a clause to cover this and future laws) and products encouraged to migrate to it?
And on a national scale that's called racism. But fine then - admit you're just another amoral tribalist taking care of your own, and save everyone else the time of trying to determine if you're actually interested in peace or justice.
Personally I don’t think Apple’s level of support is incredibly bad when you take a look at the used device market. Even with Apple’s famously high resale values, depreciation on smartphones is huge.

Don’t buy brand new old phones new from Apple, they’re a ripoff. If you buy either an iPhone 12 or 13 used for $250-350 you can basically plan on a $50 a year budget to have a smartphone that always has the latest OS judging by their expected remaining lifespans.

I think the big flaw with the status quo is e-waste more than cost to the consumer. I think an iPhone 6S or 7 are incredibly slow and outdated devices for today’s usage but in 5 years I don’t think we will be able to say the same thing about an iPhone 12 or 13. Smartphone hardware is far more mature now than it was even 6 generations deep into the iPhone product line.

We should be able to replace batteries for $20 and replace things like broken screens for not much more, and Apple should be enthusiastic about it considering how services are their bread and butter moving forward. Apple should be happy to produce fewer phones and keep more consumer dollars allocated toward the purchase of high margin digital goods.
I really wish Google Maps et al did a better job for subway/metro/transit stations with multiple entrance and exits. Oftentimes a station is shown as a single point on the map, while in reality the point(s) of entry can be a block or more away from what's shown. Likewise, choosing the right exit when you leave the station can save you multiple blocks of walking, depending on your final destination.

Even just showing the general shape of the station in 2D on the map would be helpful, though obviously this can be tricky when there's other points of interest above/below the train line.
My 2005 Prius has 350,000 miles on it with the only maintenance being a new hybrid battery pack for $1000 at each 150k.

I’m guessing I’ll probably be an old man when I can buy a new EV and expect that ROI.

It’s not a conspiracy theory it’s an inconvenient truth.
Gems isn't good also because it's mostly aesthetic. No intrinsic utility other then being rare and pretty. You won't actually "improve" society with gems. It's hard to distill this in technical terms but I hope you're able to understand without the need to get pedantic.

Gemstones therefore are more of a reflection of countries with the ability to purchase the gemstones as an import and less of a reflection of the country actually exporting the gemstones. Right? If a country exports a huge amount of gemstones it means a lot of external countries have an abundance of economic output such that they can purchase frivolous goods that ultimately don't contribute much to the economy. North Korea doesn't purchase gemstones but maybe a rich country would. And the place where diamonds are mined are mostly from some poor countries in Africa.

>Can you elaborate on what you mean by "building"? It's a nebulous term.

Manufacturing and infrastructure I believe are the two words that cover it best off the top of my head but it's unnecessary to specify this to the level of pedantic detail you're going for here. I think those two terms are clear enough.

I think we both know, in general the direction China/Asia is going and where they're completely dominating the US. It's at a general tipping point now. Where one can say they're better than the US overall in the general area of infrastructure/manufacturing. Manufacturing is pretty broad and general and that's the right word to use because broadly and generally Asia is just ahead of the US in this matter.

The problem with these things is that even though it's obvious people still like to debate pedantic details in some vain attempt to use the pedantic details to obscure the obvious truth or even shift the advantage in the favor of the US. Why else would you bring up gemstones and pharmaceuticals?

I don't think I need to elaborate as you requested. You know what I'm talking about and deep down you most likely agree. The trouble here is less about getting at the most accurate truth and more about the inability to accept the truth.
In other words, nuke cost has only ever increased, however much was built.
Hence the insult "crétin des Alpes".

For many, the meaning has been lost, and it became a generic term to designate an idiot. Despite having heard and even used the expression many times, I think the popular character "Captain Haddock" and his expletives from the "Tintin" comics made it popular. Yet, I only came to the true meaning very recently.
Ha. I was only saying that in jest, hope I didn't come off too strongly.

I have a IRL best friend who is very against all forms of TV and media while I watch quite a bit of it. We argue strongly about this, so I've trodden this path ha.

Sometimes I'm not in the mood or mindset to read. 99% of my YouTube is makers / documentaries / war footage / local history and maps / etc. For mainstream stuff, just biopics or stories loosely based on real life or old war content (recently: Gotti, Edge of the World, Bruno Manser, Founder, Hacksaw Ridge, the Lebron/Lakers TV show, Detroit war production, some others) and I'm a huge sci-fi fan so I'll watch most scifi fiction as well.

To him, its all just mindless consumption. I 100% agree though about being social and desiging around people rather than a screen, but I don't judge others too much. To each their own.
Ships running off natural gas are nothing new. LNG carriers have been propelled by natural gas for decades. The real challenge is producing carbon-neutral natural gas, which your link says nothing about.

Synthetic natural gas has all the same problems as green hydrogen, with the added challenge of sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. It's only been cheaply produced using byproduct CO2 from industrial processes. Which isn't actually carbon-neutral, it's just using CO2 that would have been released into the atmosphere anyway.
> there just doesn't seem to be any way to preserve bits for the long haul, short of RAID

Gentle reminder that RAID is not backup. Have at least three copies or backups of important files preferably in different locations.

And keeping things on your own drives has its caveats - I work in IT and have seen data loss from sprinkler systems raining down on server closets, leaky AC units, no ability to access email and data for days and weeks due to Hurricane Sandy, and battery backups with dead batteries causing RAID corruption upon power loss, and more.

With that said, your points are good ones and things will inevitably get lost - over the past few years I've plugged in old drives and floppies from the late 90s and old burned CDs from the 00's, some of which have already started decaying, losing unknown files. We are creating so many files and documents that we value but others likely won't. I rest a little easier knowing I still have documents from university, but my children probably won't care or ever want to read my 25 page final paper for my "Civil War" history class or my first Java program (make an elevator!).
Those licenses haven't fixed anything. They've thrown away open source.
This is how castles and cathedrals often were. But ofc after seeing public works built quickly and efficiently it’s a tragedy when they’re not.
Just put it out in the barn, it'll sleep. Or float it down the river if you think it's caused by demons. People didn't even name their kids for a year even 100 years ago.

Point is that modern child rearing isn't even similar to what we had 3-4 generations ago. The "weak" were weeded out. If you had to choose between the family surviving and dealing with a finicky newborn... compromises were made.
... human-made resources are still needed. Besides the questionable quality of AI art that doesn't address all needs, it's purely and simply forbidden within games published on Steam.
It's just like Blade Runner, where there's thousand ads everywhere, all trying
to compete for the consumers attention. Now all we need is holographic ads that
project from the screen and dance around on your keyboard (while your trying to
type).
> Because you actually can standardize them. Software isn't so simple.

It isn't simple due to choice, not due to the nature of software. Software is relatively simple compared to other meat-space engineering disciplines. Software engineering is an relatively immature engineering discipline, but it is implicated in enough safety critical systems these days that it is about time to start maturing.

It will be painful but I welcome more software regulatory standards, because it is necessary for our trade to mature.
Ok, your reasoning escapes me. NYT has the right to sue and like any other business it’s holding onto their moat. Why would they let OpenAI train on their propery? Why wouldn’t they train their own AI on their own data?

Open AI is a business. NYT is a business. MS is a business. Neither will be happy when some other party takes something away from them without paying.
Yes, I can, but 6th grader me couldn't.

Actually nicer are cheap goggles from amazon with a close enough prescription, because they're cheap.

I'm not sticking contacts or lasers in my eyes either, thanks.
Does not seem like it would, the company would still be responsible for their choice of open source software, that is how I would assume it would work at least.
Likely not. A license can not override legislation. Like creative-commons cannot be used to give away moral rights at least if not some of the copy rights too.
NS Savannah (one has to wonder why nobody mentions the German Otto Hahn, but whatever), was decomissioned for economical reasons. Heck, the only nuclear powered vessels the US Navy has are carriers and subs, even the lastest British carriers aren't nuclear powered anymore.

All in all, besides the niche need of the Russians for nuclear powered icebreakers, there were three civilian nuclear ships: NS Savannah (economical failure), Otto Hahn (likewise and retrofitted with a diesel engine) and the Japanese one (forgot the name, but that was both a technological and economical disaster).

And that is ignoring the fact that naval nuclear reactors are among the most well guarded secrets a nation has, none of that tech will ever see civilian use for that alone (the current generation thaz is, the reactors used in the three vessels mentioned showed already to be unfeasible for commercial use).

Edit: Nuclear power is nowhere near to be a risk for wind and solar, wind alone adds multiple NPPs worth of capacity to the grid every month while the added net nuclear capacity is basically negligible for decades now. Nuclear is not, and won't be, built at scale in the next decades. Only potential exceptions are India (good, otherwise they would build coal plants) and China (purely political, and at the same time Chine is building even solar and wind power than nuclear).
Much better to drink your fifth of vodka throughout the day, keeps your head upright.
On a switch, of course!

But we're talking about a computer with several extra gigs lying around running the same game. And specifically that number is for 4K output; anything less and you're under 100MB.
I've been disappointed with DALL-E and others for small images such as icons and avatars. It will probably improve, but I wasn't satisfied with the results of my attempts so far.
Social Bots and Synthetic Interactions
Alright, here you go.

https://github.com/kaetemi/second_capture/blob/master/second...
Tangentially related: I'm in search of a lightweight self-hosted URL shortener. Tried shlink[0] but man it's a bit of a bear, requiring 5 (yes, five) separate Docker containers. Also tried kutt[1] but it appears to be abandoned.

[0] https://github.com/shlinkio/shlink

[1] https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt
Would you please expand on your VSLAM improvements? What other implementations are you comparing against and on what metrics/settings?
Too bad. Quality costs. Share the profits with everyone then and nobody would be unhappy
See sibling comment response. :)
That is not true. The majority of open source contributions to popular projects are people making commits while at their paid jobs.
Docs metrics are worth so much. There's a tendency to overindex on support case deflection, which is often measuring a negative (how many support cases did we NOT get because self-service was so good). And if your docs are great, support is going to have fewer easy questions ("where do I find X? How do I get started with Y?") but more questions that require escalation earlier in their lifecycle ("I followed the great instructions but my obscure infrastructure gave me an inscrutable error message that applies only to me and no other customer").

I've often found that unsolicited customer sentiment is a hit, especially for customers won over from a competitor who either call the docs and self-service options a reason for switching or winning, or immediately call them out positively after switching.
> Small businesses and solo-entrepreneurs have to deal with liability and permits all the time in other fields,

In other fields there is a direct relation between number of customers and liability.

But if i offer free software and also offer commercial support for it, and because of that i would be liable to everyone who uses that software, not just to those who pay for commercial support, then there is no relation between number of customers and liability, and liability cannot be really priced-in.
How would valve even know that an icon is AI-generated?
Yep here in Barcelona it's like that too. Single point on the map even when there's multiple exits (there usually are) and not showing which entrance is closer to which line. Real pita.

Open Street map is so much better for this but that totally lacks live public transport info with delays etc. So I end up switching between both which doesn't help.
He Stole iPhones and Looted People's Life Savings. He Told Us How.
And where are you getting your "news" from? Zelensky's propaganda ministry?
A language without easy access to IEEE-754 math and fixed-precision integers that is supposed to run on common/standard hardware (i.e. not for FPGAs or more specialist hardware) is broken for the majority of the tasks it will be doing. That's not preventing you from having other numerical types which meet the needs of various groups (e.g. arbitrary precision types or types for financial maths), but to explicitly exclude them even though the hardware provides them is a problem.
This year alone prices for solar panels have dropped by 30-40%. The biggest reason for prices not dropping for solar farms/large scale solar at the moment is that the supply of other equipment needed like transformers etc can't meet the demand with delivery times having reached 2+ years. So the prices for solar will likely drop another 40%-50% in the next 2-3 years at least in the rest of the world maybe not in the US because of trade wars/restrictions.
Liquified Gas can be produced using green energy, Natural gas was produced via "green energy" a very very very long time ago.

There are several green gas projects under way - capital plants take time - eg. the Gibson Island project won't be online and producing until 2026.

https://fortescue.com/what-we-do/our-projects/gibson-island
We already had the crazy breakthrough, which is why solar and wind production are on an exponential growth curve.
Google Maps has subway exits in Tokyo, for that matter.
Book list for streetfighting computer scientists (2022)
build123d currently lists just bd-warehouse in the docs under Part Libraries:
https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/external.html#par...

build123d is an open source parametric 2D and 3D CAD tool in Python that succeeds cadquery, and instead of jQuery/pyquery-like method chaining has `with:` context managers. https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

bd-warehouse is a parametric parts library:
https://bd-warehouse.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ :

> [...] With just a few lines of code, you can create parametric parts that are easily reviewable and version controlled using tools like git and GitHub. Documentation can be automatically generated from the source code of your designs, similar to the documentation you’re currently reading. Additionally, comprehensive test suites can automatically validate parts, ensuring that no flaws are introduced during their lifecycle.

> The benefits of adopting a full software development pipeline are numerous and extend beyond the scope of this text. ; git w/ tests and CI/CD

Ideas for open source (parametric) parts libraries:

- [ ] Dimensional lumber (1x4, 2x4, 2x10) and e.g. HempWood would be a great addition to a parts library.

- [ ] ldraw LEGO unofficial parts catalog: "LDraw.org Parts Update 2023-06" https://library.ldraw.org/updates?latest

- [ ] MicroBit

- [ ] RaspberryPi

- [ ] GlTF: "Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF)" (2023) ; land, buildings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35896176

- [ ] GlTF: planes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38268003 , trains: https://www.google.com/search?q=gltf+trains

- [ ] Humans with splines: https://github.com/killop/anything_about_game#humanstage , https://github.com/daz3d/DazToBlender ; Daz2Blender a few open source meshes

FWIW Conda-forge has signatures and build with clang in CI according to feedstock conda recipes (which have a meta.yml and optionally build.sh and/or build.bat, and a URL to watch for upstream changes).

https://SLSA.dev supports https://sigstore.dev artifact signatures.

Docker containers are ~= OCI containers which are stored in OCI container image repositories; which can host other artifacts with content signatures too.
For your lunch: The Shake Shack there is fantastic!
i haven't tried it, but here's my possibly erroneous impression from looking at the web pages

the good:

- string interpolation

- a continue statement

- conditional expressions

- augmented assignment

- frozen tables

- some kind of static typing?

the bad:

- much worse documentation

- no luajit

- you can't compile without c++‽ that's the opposite extreme from 'retains the easy embeddability of Lua'

- and wtf, a build system in php? the nope level is rising rapidly

- you still index from 1

- variables are still global by default

- misspelling a variable or property still gives you nil instead of throwing an exception

- aping c++/java syntax and semantics for classes and class instantiation

- redundant aliases for operators

- a redundant mechanism for private fields

- dwim for for-in on a table

it seems like a c++ or perl programmer didn't understand what was good about lua and decided to make it look like perl
There's also the Sevmorput: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevmorput

Even just one example is an infinitely larger fleet of nuclear powered cargo ships than green-fuel powered cargo ships.

Nuclear maritime propulsion isn't exactly a mystery. The basic operating principle of both pressurized water reactors and lead cooled reactors are known. All of the West's main geopolitical rivals (Russia, China) already have nuclear powered submarines - I'm not sure how you think technology for nuclear powered cargo ships are going tip the balance militarily.
Love that you are paying docs more respect by giving people a leg up on how to write docs right. This isn't talked about enough as far as I know.

I will offer a point on the headline... I agree with you that docs deserve more respect, but I also think that you and I (and likely many HN readers) are a biased sample. The average user (of a non-technical product) spends a lot less time reading docs than we all probably think they do.

Docs are respected proportionally to the amount of value that can be ascribed to them. I think that value is unfortunately undercounted, but people seem to be consistently valuing "docs" in the $ resourced against them and the attention paid.
Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. It's a bit biased and is rough around the edges, but it's a fun journey each time. I read it first in undergrad and pick it up again every few years.
For historical reasons I'm typically skeptical of claims that "TTFX" have improved. However, I just tried out Julia 1.10 and it is noticeably quicker than the last version I was using (1.8).

It takes some time to precompile packages, but once that's done I'm seeing the first plot pop up in fractions of a second.

Compliments to the Julia team! I'm looking forward to trying out this new version.
In a typical conversation, if someone misunderstood you, you wouldn’t give them an angry middle finger, you’d clarify your meaning. But you do you.
In a holistic sense docs are also supportive for tech and retail support. They act as a reference, a knowledge base, and a place to point users.
Know Your Uncertainty
Indeed, but these people are not the subject of our discussion.
>Are you saying anything more than: 'My perspective and beliefs are the truth, and therefore anyone who disagrees is deluding themselves?'

What else can I say? The points being talked about here are so obvious that it seems ludicrous to me that people don't believe it. From my perspective it's like someone was explaining to you that 2 + 2 = 4 and I'm more inclined to believe that you're just being delusional and lying to yourself.

But that's the nature of bias isn't it? Maybe I'm the delusional one. But there's no real way we'll convince one another otherwise.

>Certainly not all do, and certainly not all don't.

Most don't. It's just a general truth. Just like most men don't wear dresses, or most men are stronger than women, or most humans have 10 fingers. There ARE exceptions, but that does not eliminate the existence of a very general and very obvious truth.

And let me clarify what I mean by respect. I don't just mean lip service, or donations or creating non-profit charities because it's the current trending thing to do. I mean actual respect. Like genuine respect where you look up to them, hang out with them as peers and even genuine trust. Rich people do NOT actually respect poor people.

>I'll point out that equality is a popular, fundamental notion across cultures. "all men are created equal" Liberté, égalité, fraternité. It's the foundation of democracy, where poor and rich have the same vote.

All men are NOT created equal. Think about it. This isn't even remotely true or real. It is also why not all people are equal under democracy.

Have you ever wondered why we want everything politically to be fair under democracy while economically we want everything to be unfair under capitalism? It's so ironic we associate communism with dictatorship and capitalism with democracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impermanence
Maybe you could be a good grandson and do it for her?
I started reading this and had to stop because it made me feel that a lot of lawyers are about to have a field day debating and agreeing on complicated regulations for yet another thing they do not fully understand. Sigh.
Yes they do but how many are wrong /out of date?