skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's the same technology as the infrared ones people are building on YouTube, I can't imagine this going very far.

They claim that it would take an expert who has worked the years as he has at their company to be able to pull it off, but meanwhile that technology is easily built by a relative layman with a Raspberry Pi Pico or Arduino and some stock parts from Adafruit and similar companies.

That same technology is available very cheaply in a lot of places on line and even at regular drug stores in the form of a finger clamp, which I bought (along with a LOT of other people) during the COVID lockdown days when blood oxygen was a good indicator you weren't just suffering a cold.

Now, that's only if it's the same technology, which possibly it isn't. We will see in the end. This is an interesting case.
Reading the responses/comments in here, a question arises...

Are things really that black and white as people here paint them - with monoliths unavoidably and necessarily becoming a tangled mess of spaghetti, and micro-services being the singular, only way to achieve clean separation, autonomy and partition?
With microservices inevitably being an organizational nightmare that leads to problems in inter-team coordination, while monoliths automatically ensure that everyone always is perfectly the same page?

Because by my personal experience, you totally can code a monolith in a strictly modular fashion, with clean interface-based API boundaries between the separate parts. And if you put those "modules" into separate packages, the dependencies between them end up being managed and documented as well. Just like you totally can setup microservices and surrounding procedures in a way that actually increases the feeling of product ownership in the teams, and reduces the hassle of inter-team coordination - especially in larger companies.

Obviously there are ways to do monoliths right, and spectacularly wrong. And there are ways to do microservices right and wrong...

I see so many arguments here, that do compare one method done wrong with the other method done right - and then imply that this is a strong reason for choosing that second method.

I don't get it?
4x4 ASCII font was previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33127419
Thank You. One more question - can this be used at work, internally? I work for a non-profit, not sure if that makes a difference
Oh I know, but it throws tourists for a loop for sure!
TLDR yet, but I loved the interface; publishers and authors should take note when capitalizing.
I appreciate the perspective. I’m currently bouncing around a similar decision myself and have used SQLite and DuckDB both, and there’s something about DuckDB that i just like better (roadmap, features, range requests), but trying to understand the full picture
Funny that someone who is into crypto would be concerned with surveillance. The notion of the "blockchain" is not exactly an improvement in financial privacy given that the general public (cf. a bank, a merchant, some entity that one has transacted with) can see how the crypto user manages his money. As if so-called "tech" companies are not silently collecting enough data about peoples' lives already.

Cryptocurrency _is_ used for money laundering, and generally not as a currency. The internal messages of Binance employees made public after the CZ arrest have provided evidence of what we all knew anyway.

Perhaps the title should be "Is crypto just a money laundering device?"
> If you've implemented an architecture that mirrors your org chart

In my experience this is almost invariably what happens. I would replace the if with a when.

Wow, you're telling me our three teams want to write three separate services? No way.

And the teams in New York want to use one technology while the teams in San Francisco want to use something else? Say it ain't so!
Other than the practical reality of it being expensive to construct nuclear facilities (which may or may not be solvable), what is speaking against building new ones?
What timing. Somebody at Apple needs to buy a PS5 and spend 10 minutes with the dualSense controller in ASTRO's playroom. Mac and PC won't ever get the full dualSense experience and that means they're outmoded.

Sony found a way to make everything without dualSense feel old and obsolete, including their entire back catalog of games from the PS1 to the PS4.
Ah, good, let me introduce you to the wonderful world of the Chrome Devtools Protocol! (fka Chrome Remote Debugging Protocol)

I love this API for almost everything browser related. I built my RBI product atop this (BrowserBox: https://dosyago.com), and I think it's a drastically underrated API.

Also, it works out of the box in Edge, Brave, Chromium, and many parts of CRDP are supported by Firefox and Safari^1

1: See for example: https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/tree/main/Source/JavaScript...
Humor is usually subjective.
That's really more a matter of individual perspective, yes?

I mean, https://www.ranker.com/list/best-1960s-cult-tv-series/ranker... lists Smothers Brothers as a cult show.

To be fair, Smothers Brothers is not listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cult_television_shows while Deadwood is.

On the other hand, that Wikipedia list includes Miami Vice (ranked #9 in 1985-1986 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-rated_United_States_televi... ), The Golden Girls ("ranked among the Nielsen ratings' top ten for six of its seven seasons" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Girls ), and X-Files (ranked #11 in 1997-1998, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-rated_United_States_televi... ).

And X-Files regularly shows up on lists of cult shows, like TV Guide's at https://www.tvguide.com/news/reacher-season-2-release-date-c... .
45deg makes a hell lot of sense. No line breaks needed anymore.
Literally my acting stupid and turning this setting on...

I turn the ps5 off and the TV off and the PS4 Pro starts and turns on my tv
A relevant article on rotational and relativity is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_rotation

Here's a simplified explanation.

Newton's Bucket is a thought experiment proposed by Isaac Newton, which he used to demonstrate the existence of absolute space. He imagined a bucket filled with water suspended by a cord. If the bucket is twisted, and then released, it begins to spin. As the bucket spins, the water inside it climbs up the sides, forming a concave surface. Newton argued that this change in the water's shape was due to its rotation relative to absolute space.
Ernst Mach, a 19th-century physicist and philosopher, offered a different viewpoint. He suggested that instead of absolute space - the bucket can be seen as stationary while the universe is rotating, and the water would also have the same concave surface. This is known as Mach's Principle.
According to General Relativity, a rotating universe can actually "drag" the space and time in it, affecting the spacetime of the bucket, so there doesn't need to be any centrifugal forces. This omits the need for any "absolute rotation" or "absolute coordinates".
It would require a radically new design that takes a lot of the cost out. You also have the spent fuel storage problem and the risk factors of a meltdown (however small) to tackle which are always working against you. Technology development in the Nuclear area is SLOW.

Now compare to batteries. There are thousands of companies working on new technology development.

It’s just a matter of brain power and capital working on the problems.

I don’t see a viable path forward for Nuclear at the current costs and with how dramatic the rise of renewables and battery storage is increasing.
I had to read this article a couple of times before I got it. I guess dependencies can make an app warm blooded, but Docker or containerization can also paper over some of these issues. However, whenever I choose libraries for a project I do alot of research to make sure that the libraries themselves are "cold blooded" too, as even one badly chosen library can cause your project to fail in 10 years time
The isEven package uses the isOdd package…
I don't know if Google Maps pays much attention to Android users frequenting a particular path. Where I live you need to take a particular route else you end up at closed gates. Despite hundreds of people using this route every day for years Google will still try to take you via a different route that takes you to a closed gate. Other mapping software gets it right but we have to provide specific route instructions in case anyone uses Google and ends up at a dead end. I have noticed this all over actually, with Google trying to take short cuts that don't work vs following well-established routes.
> But it it provides vast amounts of energy. The US gov cares about different things.

Some Texans may die, but it's a sacrifice we are willing to make.
> The ACA was successful in ensuring the donor class got to keep the profit levels they are accustomed to, the only thing it was ever designed to do.

So it reducing the number of uninsured by many millions was just an unintentional consequence, or what?
(2021)

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29417484
Monopoly doesn’t take forever if you play by the rules.

https://bowilliams.com/2007/03/you-have-won-second-prize-in-...
If they do their homework, then they will likely mention that anti-nuclear funding came from fossil fuel incumbents, as much as it did from the hippies.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/07/13/are-f...
I thought you were making a clever joke until I visited the link.

https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/images/PXL_20211202_035205492....

Something about this is hilarious.
Does google even have any perspective on active warzones/frontlines? I would have thought natural disasters are common enough that they would have modeled that into their route algo, and warzones are kind of like one big natural disaster like a hurricane or a flood.

I guess there is not a lot of money in it for them - disaster areas probably don’t generate a lot of revenue from maps, still though could lead to some unfortunate PR problems so there must be some incentive for them to add it.

Wondering if waze is doing better there.
USPS provides postal mail to all citizens. All government business can be conducted through the mail. If the government provides email should they also provide phone, fax, and chat services?
That was my general take as well. My main issue was that it kept automatically re-routing me every 20 minutes or so without my consent.

And so I developed a paranoia, compulsively checking the map to restart navigation again (manually choosing the safe route) every time it betrayed me.
It's amazing to me the kind of vulnerable personal responsibility and insights that occur prompted by simply seeing yourself and how you act, clearly. I heartily concur with the above comments and am super happy to see other people having this similar experience.

It suggests these kind of "mirroring" self-training practices and feedback might be useful across a whole range of endeavors, which sounds awesome. A super easy way to improve -- akin to people checking their reflection in a mirror -- that a bit of technology could really help with :)
Wow you can call a function from a function ? It’ll revolutionize my productivity.
I don't think gmaps actually does that. We have a 20 meter stretch of road near our house that connects two other roads. Google, for at least the last five years, has refused to believe that this road can be traveled, having everyone take a detour. Hundreds of cars are taking this non-existing road every day, but Google still hasn't taken the hint. (Probably preventing quite a bit of through-traffic in our neighborhood, so we're actually rather happy about this. :-))
I don’t see any reporting on current aviation incidents on the Mentour Pilot channel. It’s all historical and has a commercial focus.
I hate to say it, but who cares? Getting a little tired isn't it?

Maybe it's true, maybe it's not. Why not look forwards now?

If nuclear was so awesome, we'd have more of it.
Tech Trends for 2024
I often walk if it's only a bit longer than waiting for a bus.
There was a big fight over the future of bitcoin. There are 6-7 core developers in that era, and multiple clients, but bitcoind was dominant.

Blockstream was able to create the perception of an economic majority — thanks to forums like Bitcointalk and Reddit (moderated by one guy: Theymos / Michael Marquant).

In reality, a lot of people didn’t support blockstream, but through censorship and permanent bans, a few people were able to create the perception of economic majority.

More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14240267
I don't see any possible usecase for crypto if a 100-200$ gas fee during high demand is considered acceptable.

You can make anything in the world but if you have transaction fees that high every single time that project will be guaranteed to fail.
You know, the modelling certainly did follow empirical evidence in this case. Cell sizes in flow models were very large with seemingly no reason to make them smaller. Then when fracking became promising, techniques like LGR (local grid refinement) became more commonplace.
The dark web is a part of the internet that is intentionally hidden and inaccessible through standard web browsers. It is a subset of the deep web, which includes all parts of the internet that are not indexed by traditional search engines. While the deep web consists of legitimate and legal content, the dark web is known for hosting activities that often involve anonymity, privacy, and sometimes illegal transactions.
I asked a few LLMs whether zero is an even or odd number to see how they fared on such a widely misunderstood question:

LLAMA 2 7B: 3x even, 2x neither

LLAMA 2 13B: 1x even, 4x neither

LLAMA 2 70B: 1x even, 4x neither

GPT 3.5: 20x even despite trying to trick it

Mistral 7B: 1x even, 3x neither, 1x even+neither?!

Mixtral 8x7B: 8x even, 2x neither
To borrow some monolith examples from Monolith to Microservices (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44144499 - fantastic read)

"Single Process" - Can be module based (Shopify), where multiple module's interact, but must be combined for deployment still, these module's can even extend to the DB's. Can still have multiple instances for performance

"Distributed Monolith" - This is one to fear the most, we have multiple services, yet there is still shared DB's meaning we have to deploy things together.

Both are monoliths but one is less susceptible to ball of mud. It's a sliding scale, with trade offs for each (and many variations still in between those listed).

I think it's a lack of common terminology surrounding monolith / micro-service that creates this binary illusion.
Google Maps is surprisingly bad with its algorithm when considering gravel roads. I’ve had it reroute me off a highway to small gravel roads with a reasonable speed limit of 30 km/h, just to “save” a few km of highway. It also keeps inventing extra lanes on straight roads and gives directions to either take the right or left lanes, where there’s only one.

I don’t know why I keep using it.
Edits to google maps typically get reverted after a month, at least they do for me and others I’ve read about online. I worry they’re resting on their laurels
a whole bunch of stuff over the years. one unusual find was an original Williams tube memory from an IBM computer. https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1441865304427036675
Presumably all they would need to do here is change the ratios of solar and battery to achieve 24x7 dispatch. I presume the current arrangement is just more cost effective currently based on their needs but it does demonstrate there already are baseload style power purchase agreements occuring with combined renewables+storage facilities.

We’re likely to see another halving of battery costs within the next decade which will shift the economics further.
I hope someone from Embarcadero is paying attention to this thread. They have had some great IDEs but their primary attraction was the price point and the ease of use of the products. Please make Delphi affordable again.

Considering that Delphi can be used for Android, IOS and Linux development as well, it would be a great tool - if it weren't for the insane pricing.
I was just delivering an off-road vehicle. It's a real beauty, too. A souped up '97 Cherokee with heavy duty tires and a monster winch that I bought in Poland, perfect for nasty evacs :)

Noisy as hell on asphalt, though.

BTW anyone who has the means to buy or send offroad vehicles to Ukraine, please do! They really need them!
What a bad article!

He wants a function to work as a keyword!

He wants comments word wrapped by default, when this would break comments that contain stuff like packet fields schemes.

Terrible ideas, and he complains they aren't the default. Well that's because they aren't good ideas and he hasn't thought about it long enough to figure it out.
1 vert and 1 horiz is actually my favorite setup. I just dont have space for it next to my ultrawide.
Never really got why Microsoft didn't keep going with that kind of thing. Why don't we have .net properly inside excel instead of VBA?

Money? Internal elitism?
This is literally the only reply that hit the core of the article's problem and of course no one on this site upvoted it lol.
The only thing I dislike more than software development posts that use inappropriate analogy from nature to shallowly jump to conclusion, is software development posts that use inappropriate analogy from nature to shallowly jump to conclusion with absolutely flawed understanding of the supposedly analogous natural phenomenon.

And of course, painted turtles (among a few other species) can survive being frozen not because of their cold-bloodedness, but thanks to special antifreeze protein they have. Other lizards (and cold blooded animals for that matter) would just rupture their own tissues upon thawing.
I couldn't care less whatever is the interpretation of reality is. You seems to be interested in who is guilty or not.

I am not interested in that. It's just some thoughts in your mind.

The end result was that tech became more accessible and which is all I care about.
Green movement or not, nuclear power outside of watercraft, is destined to be just a tiny blip in history.
Most laws and regulations are in place for a reason. Usually what happens is that someone creates a situation where they impede on someone else's rights or well-being so the state decides that the best way to deal with the situation is to create a law. Additionally, they are created over hundreds of years. When you put laws on top of laws, we create a situation that seems bizarre if there's no background to help put the situation in perspective.

These guys think they can put together a set of laws that are perfect but they don't take into account that everyone in society has a point of view and rights so there are millions of perfect sets. This is to say that there is no perfect society unless the state forces the laws on everyone which defeats the whole point of starting a new society.
That happened to me in iceland. I wanted to get to this famous black sand beach, and maps sent me to a cliff ACROSS the sea from it, with the intention that I would then descend ~30m vertically down a cliff, and drive across the sea, to get to the beach.

Nope.
In their defense: I think FedEx drivers will often have to make deliveries on private grounds.
I was able to attend VCF Midwest back in 2022, and it was overwhelming, and I didn't have any money to spend. I hope to correct this situation in 2024.
> Yes, you should optimize for the 99% case. That is basic software engineering.

Without considering /why/ it's the 99% case? Even so, just turn this around, top tier games and "tear free" experiences on linux are the 1% case. Why should we rip up the whole graphics stack to chase a "year of linux on the desktop" that's probably never going to materialize?

> I don't know what this means.

I might have failed to follow that thread from the original post, but the author implies this is an issue with Wayland, not X. Then points out that a simple extension covers it, which ironically means, implementations are _not_ free to optimize for any particular case.

> X doesn't have the synchronization features that necessitated Wayland. It's simply not the case that X can do everything that Wayland can do.

Would that be "implicit sync" or "explicit sync?" Anyways, I'm not trying to show malice to any one project or the other or even express favoritism to one or the other, just trying to show that the authors criticism of X is far too strenuous to be useful and seems to be based in a particular and peculiar modern mindset.
Maybe it would be smarter to use one of the these?

Samsung 43" M70A 4K UHD Smart Monitor
https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/smart-monitors...
That’d be interesting to see modeled out in PRISM.
It keeps recommending a me path that has been closed for months. No way to report it.
Essentials. This got me installing Jython back when it was a bit more hassle.
Yes and no.

They didn't just control the repo, but they somehow managed to convince the miners to support them. Exchanges and users simply defaulted to "the longest chain is Bitcoin", ensuring their victory. So they weren't alone.

But Bitcoin's truly decentralized nature allows for forks, where if you disagree with the development direction you can always go your own way. So the spirit of Bitcoin lives on in other projects (both via forks and via projects with no shared history with Bitcoin).

> You're claiming that just two individuals have had a significant negative impact on a project that was intended to be free from central control. That in itself seems like a failure of the project's goals.

Yes, it was (and is) still a major failure of the project's goals.
If fossil fuels were so bad, we'd have less of it, right?
I have to disagree on this one. Most jokes that I have heard or read weren't funny at all. And seeing that I'm a dad, most jokes that I tell aren't funny either.
The 22° solution is just missing a triangular window implementation, or perhaps a "split diagonally" window view option.
You think the PR problems come from not trying to route around war zones? “Google told me it would plan a route around this war zone, now I’m a prisoner in Russia. 0/5 stars”
Does avoiding warzones in Maps help drive ad revenue?

There's your answer.
Glad its coming back. Need to feed the microscopes fresh silicon!
Just looking at it makes me feel dizzy
Face it, in a sense ChatGPT is us all.
At least it is some reduced average of human rambling in cyberspace.

Speaking of faces in spaces, is there an equivalent to Eigenfaces in linguistics?

I suggest Eigenbabbles.

Yes, this post is self-referential.
This napkin math is so hand wavy and rudimentary that it pretty much means nothing. For starters, you took near the bottom range from your source, and omitted the 25% labor fee.

Also FFS were comparing a nuclear reactor to residential solar?! In what world is it a safe assumption that those figures scale? What happens when we start running out of rare earth metals?

Let’s just step away from this poorly thought out hypothetical…ask yourself why solar is barely producing any power. Theres a massive financial incentive here. Is everyone stupid? Are you a genius that noticed something everyone else missed?

Our nuclear fleet is ancient, and still produces ~8% of domestic supply. Solar is ~1.6%: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

With a renewed investment and more efficient regulatory practices, we could be like france who produces >70% of their domestic supply with nuclear: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France
i am working on such a thing myself at https://github.com/yazz/yazz. Also there are many other people trying to build something similar
Why was it working for that long in the first place? Is it unrelated to sanctions? This seems like it should have happened nearly two years ago.