skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I've come to realize is that I don't want Nix. But I do want ordinary Linux distros to move in that direction.

Like update-alternatives. Like simple ways to reinstall the system while keeping /home. Like a file with all installed packages that you can edit to install/uninstall. Like nicer merging of overriden config when a new default file is available from upstream.
So why state that water is the issue?
The website and the first 5 minutes of the keynote fails to convey what the device does exactly, other than that it meant to replace smartphones, which can't be right. This form factor would be inconvenient for watching videos and that's one of the most common uses of smartphones. They should just market it as a pocket assistant and make it do one thing exceptionally well. It's a losing strategy to try to be everything for everyone instead of just trying to dominate a small beachhead market. Smartphones with better assistants are coming, but there is no reason to compete with them. Just differentiate the damn product.
Wow! That instantly hit the "wtf is that, that's weird!" buttons for me.

I'm somewhere between "it's amazing how something can be universally ugly" and "that's really cool, I wonder if anyone's making more of them". An interesting feeling.
It's an immediate 150k payment, followed by a further settlement figure. I think that's a choice between either 600k without question, or an investigation to assess actual loss.
> The idea of a washing machine, coffee maker, refrigerator, etc. including a network card strikes me as a solution in search of a problem.

There are tons of problems that networking these solves. Maybe minor to most people, but convenience is key.

A common example for me: If I am packing for a trip last minute and doing laundry, I don’t want to have to keep going down two flights to check if my washer or dryer is done, disrupting what I am doing.

But I don’t like the idea of everything being connected, so I will live with the problem.
I'm curious how they plan on covering the cost of their cloud services without a subscription fee.
I have a Bosch induction cooktop with wifi, and a Bosch oven without wifi. The cooktop has updated its firmware automatically a few times, and I have no idea why. The oven's timer always froze when it attempted to count down past 1:01. It was fixed by a service person who drove over and replaced the entire controller board.

So much wrong with this situation: Why does an oven need a computer in the first place? How can you release software for an oven where the timer doesn't work? How is it economical to make an unflashable controller board? Etc.

BTW, I got a look at the board, and turns out Bosch doesn't even make its own oven controllers.
I checked your site. It’s great you have the energy to promote and explain nix.

I think you could get a lot out of that google course teaching technical writing. There were some other HN posts on technical writing recently too. You’re a technical writer now, if you didn’t know already, so it would be worth learning how to apply that skill well. You’ll get a lot more leverage for every input.
I loved Rocky's Boots. This goes quite a bit further, though-- the most you'd do with Rocky's Boots is something like 2-3 gates + some timing related magic, where this is explicitly about building computers.

I teach digital logic and computer architecture classes to middle school and high school students. I'm looking forward to try this. I teach students similar things, but cobbled together from Circuitverse, Falstad Circuit Simulator, Nandgame, and things I made like https://github.com/mlyle/armtrainer
Ground-source real-world cost effectiveness for residential use isn't that great (see here, although unfortunately paywalled: https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/geothermal-heat...).

The gotchas are the energy used to run the circulator for the ground loop, and the fact that over the course of a heating or cooling season the ground temperature lowers or raises, respectively, by enough that the COP isn't even much greater than an air-source system (but this would definitely vary by climate).

Coupled with the much higher installation cost, it's a bit hard to make a system pencil out for a building the size of a single-family house.
That's IP68 Water Resistance. That's not the same thing as Waterproof.
If the execution wasn't shit, I would love it. It's not important, but I would find it fun if I could control/get data from these devices over network.

The execution, however, is almost always shit.
A Technical Survey of 3D Graphics in Playdate Games
The openings they're pushing hot pressurized air through?

Real world testing is the reason for these experimental demonstrators is it not?
Just a few months ago I came across some reference to Hobbes and it reminded me of my early-‘90s OS/2 but pre-internet days, when I’d often see references to “Hobbes” but, like “the internet”, I didn’t quite know what it was.
Indeed. node.js was popular in part because you can use the same language on the client and the server. All-WebAssembly no-JavaScript sites would allow the same thing with other languages.
> As I understand it, it's not even really possible today to make WebAssembly do anything meaningful in the browser without trampolining back out to JavaScript anyway, which seems like a remarkable missed opportunity.

That's the underlying messy API it's built on. There are specs to make the API more standardized like https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI

But overall, yeah, it feels like a shiny new toy everyone is excited about and wants to use. Some toys can be fun to play with, but it doesn't mean we have to rewrite production systems in it. Sometimes, or most of the time, toys don't become useful tools.
You don't. If you could, the FBI could. You would have to be introduced by a friend who's in it.
Insanity.

FTA:

"The company argues, however, that its ice is environmentally friendly and of social value.

...

The first stage of the shipping, from Greenland to Denmark, is, Arctic Ice argues, of low carbon-intensity, as most refrigerated shipping containers that leave Greenland would have been empty, because the country imports more frozen goods than it exports."
It's frequently spoken about all kinds of devices that they are mining data.

I'm actually really curious, as someone far away, what does this actually look like?

Are PMs at these companies putting data collection stuff into their roadmaps "just in case," or is this a directive that comes from the higher ups with a specific business plan for how they are going to monetize the data? How does someone actually buy washing machine data? Are they selling the data? If so, where, how, to whom? Do I approach LG or does LG approach me? Are the numbers of how much money these companies are making on data actually real? Is there an eBay for washing machine data? Is it an API that streams it out in real time that they expose or do they just give you a 100GB CSV?

So many questions. So many.
For the output performance (quality and tokens/second), Mixtral 8x7B seems to require less VRAM. But it is still hard to make it fit, even with a lot of quantization, within the GPU RAM of most discreet consumer GPUs. Perhaps a smaller base model like Phi-2 could bring the VRAM requirements down, but the MoE will bring the output quality up from Phi-2.
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Are there plans to add DOM support? That seems pretty critical for what I had thought wasm was supposed to be myself.
What if there's an obstruction?
> Who would give them $200 for vapor?

this doesnt qualify for vapor - they have shown the device in use, and announced a ship date.
Can confirm. Used a Speed Queen dryer for 5+ years now. Didn't find it to be especially expensive.
"Environment with specified build configurations" is a fractal rabbit hole that unpacks into a myriad of recursive problems.

There is no turnkey solution for this, but there is a way out and a way to (eventually) tame the complexity.
It is kind of funny to call these nomadic empires that. They did the most damage to human knowledge during their time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wisdom
You don’t have to be away from home for that to be useful. Even just in another room where you can’t hear it and are otherwise preoccupied.
Or you can call your children and ask them to switch it over.
You're completely wrong and I don't think you live in Silicon Valley. If you do, you must have only been here for a short period of time. I've been in Silicon Valley for 30+ years and the first company I worked for, the admin assistant got so rich from her IPO shares that she quit and bought a winery in Napa. Please don't comment on things you don't know about.
Your browser displays a verbatim copy. We don't hold browsers responsible for any copyright violation performed by its user, even though the browser makes a local cache of the content and supports tools that strip ads from that content. We hold the users of the tool responsible, not the tool itself. ChatGPT is a tool, not a media platform.

> The funny fact that you have to enter some magic words into a form on their website in order for their site to regurgitate entire article texts does not change anything;

Yes it does. The degree to which a tool is designed to facilitate or prevent piracy definitely is going to impact fair use arguments.

Under your rudimentary explanation of the issue, the Internet Archive would not be allowed to store and serve reproductions of articles.
Yes, we have made use of JS invoking WASM-GC managed Scheme objects in our Hoot demos at Spritely.
I have been working on adding an image gallery wideget to the The Invisible Smart Screen (https://shop.invisible-computers.com)

The images look surprisingly good, even on the relatively small, black-and-white display! It definitely has its own aesthetic.

I need to hurry up and ship this! In the meantime, if you're a dev, you can probably use the image url widget to build your own image gallery: https://www.invisible-computers.com/invisible-calendar/image...
Digistep (Dubkasm) mixing dubplate cuts of Gorgon Sound's – Find Jah Way [video]
We bought $30 Million worth of camouflage for military contractors in Afghanistan because some Afghan defense minister thought the pattern looked cool, despite providing no camouflage capabilities in that environment.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watchdog-pentagon-may-have-...
Dirty user, we do that outside! Srsly though, why would a hw company warn you about liquid damage aka impending sales?
The real question is: why are you allowing your appliances access to the internet at all?
Software is eating the world.
PyPy was released 17 years ago

Jython was released 22 years ago

IronPython was released 17 years ago

To date, no Python implementation has managed to hit all three:

1. Stay compatible with any recent, modern CPython version

2. Maintain performance for general-purpose usage (it's fast enough without a warmup, and doesn't need to be heavily parallelized to see a performance benefit)

3. Stayed alive

Which, frankly, is kind of a shame. But the truth of the matter is that it was a high bar to hit in the first place, and even PyPy (which arguably had the biggest advantages: interest, mindshare, compatibility, meaningful wins) managed to barely crack a fraction of a percent of Python market share.

If you bet on other implementations being the source of performance wins, you're betting on something which essentially doesn't exist at this point.
Interesting, what if one creates multiple databases, but on the same instance (or even process group). Can these conflicting issues resolve somehow? Is there a super-proxy which would only log transaction phases and otherwise offload jobs to database servers (and sqlite wrappers)?

Basically striping-mirroring RAID but for… data.
I've never known anyone to _need_ to use an ORM, it's always been out of convenience.
> Who wants to use docker on a Mac anyway?

For a long time, before really doubling down on Nix, Docker Desktop was my go-to for getting a Linux runtime whenever MacOS wasn’t sufficient for what I needed. It was slow, but way more portable than having a Linux VM running all the time.

Fast forward to now (since I’ve really invested in Nix) and Nix+Nix-Darwin makes my Mac feel just as configurable and extensible as NixOS/any Linux distribution.

Nix makes me an extremely content MacOS user. :)
I didn't live here during the 60s or 70s so I didn't want to talk about that time period, but I know for a fact a ton of people got very rich during the 80s and afterwards.
Ok, git_noobie here. What is git http-backend [1] for then?

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-http-backend

I discovered this by tabbing git ?TAB in a zsh shell and going through the alphabet.

FYI - no commands starting with e, j, k, o, w, x, y or z using this method. Is there a definitive list of all git commands I wonder?
Yeah, my mistake buying an ultrawide monitor. My 4yo rig can push 1080 okay but 3440x1440 is a bit much. I don't dare aspire to anything higher than 60fps.
> SEO spam is a specific game to rank high in google search

The same SEO mindset/paradigm is used to make sure someone's spam surfaces on any variety of platforms, not just Google Search. We can argue about the specific semantics of "SEO" (Search Engine Optimization) not being the right word to use for gaming TikTok, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, or Snapchat algorithms. Perhaps a different word is needed.

But the above poster's sentiment is not flawed, even if you think it's overreaching within a specific meaning of "SEO".
Been holding intc since 1997. Never sold during the early 2000s just rode it out. Probably gonna start cashing out this year or next as part of early retirement before hitting my IRA since the intc was bought post tax.
They also break out the awards per platform. There are best apps for iPhone, iPad, Watch, TV and Mac, same with games.

I seriously doubt that simple grammatical usage examples from a page like this would be enough. More likely the structure of the app stores and whether they're separate or not would have to be outlined in detail in a legal document like their Terms of Service (which admittedly I haven't scoured very thoroughly at all).
I have LG Washer connected to my network. The network stack on my model is terrible and would constantly fail after period of time receiving multicast packets from other devices. I had to segment it on to it's own SSID/VLAN/IP Address and ensure no other traffic reached it. It has been stable since then.

Mine has only used 3MB over the last month, which seems low.

As to why. It is connected to home automation system and will announce on Sonos when the wash (or dry) is complete. I also had it connected to LEDs on light switch that would blink when clothes were in the machines waiting to get moved.
Tasmanian devil die-off is shifting another predator's genetics
There are many examples of countries run by a republic of the elites that predate modern England. Venice, Greece, various Indian city states. You can always draw distinctions between them, but they don't seem fundamental.
Going by the google chart for INTC. It seems clear that it's in the $70s - the point being that we're a long ways from INTC being in the $70s. (someone below saying it got to $75 and change - maybe that was an intraday high, not a closing high?)
statistic should be per hour spent in the transport, not per mile
Yes. It was out of line.
Except that you can buy games in a local store and play them on your Switch. When was the last time you bought an app in a convenience store and then installed it on your phone?
>With Mac Virtual Display, users can even bring the powerful capabilities of their Mac into Vision Pro, creating an enormous, private, and portable 4K display, ideal for pro workflows

I think if Apple allows people to run an instance of MacOS on these devices like a VM (i.e. without the need to purchase a Mac, it looks like the CPU is M2 on these devices) that would be the killer feature. This will make the price more reasonable for people who are considering renewing their Macs.

I’d also want to be able to see the image on these devices live remotely e.g. on an iPad or TV similar to Quest 3.
I believe he means to say https://wiby.me
>even if a drop of water gets on the external case, they will refuse to honor the warranty

This is both not true and so hyperbolic it's ridiculous. IP68 is only colloquially "waterproof" as none of the IP ratings have an indefinite exposure time.
I've live in western NY, OH, NC, VA, FL and the Bay Area. The only place where I've found that a messy parking lot doesn't correspond to a bad neighborhood is in the Bay Area. I'm specifically thinking of the Safeways in Mountain View & Palo Alto
It uses eBPF to provide instrumentation of the kernel calls up as well as hooking into networking for http2 pgsql etc. Since it’s running the process in eBPF it’s essentially sandboxed and all memory, kernel function calls, and even profiling, is an option. They have an agent that collects this information and sends to the server over RPC (protobuf/grpc). You should check it out (however, some of the docs are in Chinese).
I think you've taken the complete wrong lesson from this. The problem wasn't the software - the software had bugs, all software does. The problem was that people in the Post Office and Fujitsu asserted there were no bugs, no bugs could happen and made all sorts of statements that weren't even plausible and those that went against them got prosecuted and destroyed. Not because the software didn't work but because the people in charge covered up the software not working rather than dealing with the fallout.

These exact shortfall issues could've happened and with an open and honest process of investigating the problems they could have been sorted decades ago. It wasn't the software that was the problem, it was the systematic cover up that was the problem.
FTA:

"DreamShell

The Dreamshell is the operating system for the Sega Dreamcast based on the KallistiOS[0] kernel. It has a dynamic loadable modular system and interface for creating applications with XML UI and both C/C++ and Lua script on. You can see examples in ready-made applications and modules, drivers for various devices, formats and interfaces. Examples for audio and video decoding, compression, packaging, binding, network, emulation, scripts and more. From hardcore low-level assembler to high-level applications. There are also large subproject is the ISO Loader, which contains emulation of BIOS system calls, CDDA playback and VMU, also it can hooking interrupts for various SDKs and more."

"KallistiOS is an unofficial development kit for the SEGA Dreamcast game console with some support for the NAOMI and NAOMI 2 arcade boards.

KOS was developed from scratch over the internet by a group of free software developers and has no relation to the official Sega Katana or Microsoft Windows CE Dreamcast development kits. This has allowed it to fuel a thriving Dreamcast homebrew scene, powering many commercial releases for the platform over the years. It supports a significant portion of the Dreamcast's hardware capabilities and a wide variety of peripherals, accessories, and add-ons for the console, including custom hardware modifications that have been created by the scene.

Despite the console's age, KOS offers an extremely modern, programmer-friendly development environment. Using the latest GCC toolchain, it supports the entirety of C17 and C++20 including their standard libraries, along with support for portions of C23, C++23, Objective-C, and various POSIX APIs. Additionally, KOS-ports offers a rich set of add-on libraries such as SDL, OpenGL, OpenAL, and Lua for the platform."[0]

[0] https://github.com/KallistiOS/KallistiOS
Finding a remote job is getting harder, especially if you want high-earning jobs
The cheapest washer/dryer of the past 3 decades came with a audible timer; most annoyingly loud.
Was this actually designed by Burt Rutan, though? His factory "provided the detailed design and load analysis" according to Wikipedia, but that statement doesn't have a citation. It could have been Robert T. Jones who designed it, or maybe it was designed by committee by NASA.
> And do I have a choice to use a non Apple App Store? No!

On Mac? There's many of them, the one which springs to mind most quickly being Steam.
And devs do?
basically the entire GameDevCon youtube channel has tons of examples
> But I think they were the first to kill their king „in the name of the people“ (1649)

I suppose Tarquinius Superbus was exiled instead of executed, but 509 BC (in the traditional chronology, anyway) for the overthrow of the Roman kingdom sounds a little earlier than 1649.
Depending on where I am I might go back home and put out the washing
I have a "dumb" washer and dryer and I would like to make them smart as well. Mainly I want alerts when the cycle stops. Can you share more details about your solution?
Where I wrote,

> They introduced MCAS in the aircraft for to balance by software a hardware issue, a big design negligent issue which can lead to stalling.

> Every pilot flying that plane should have been warned that it was not a classic plane with a classic update.

I was mean,

> They introduced MCAS to use software to attempt to balance an aerodynamically unbalanced aircraft with a high stall tendency, in order to avoid designing a new aircraft.

> Any pilot flying that aircraft should have been warned that it was a plane that didn't want to fly aerodynamically, with software forcing it to fly without backed redundancy. It was not mere trimming.
I thought that perhaps the difference could be due to the JavaScript version having to first read the entire file before getting started on hashing it , whereas the Python does it incrementally (which the browser API doesn't support [0]). But changing the Python version to work like the JavaScript version doesn't make a big difference: 30 vs 35 ms (with a ~50 MB file) on my machine.

The slowest part in the JavaScript version seems to be reading the file, accounting for 70–80% of the runtime in both Firefox and Chromium.

[0] https://github.com/w3c/webcrypto/issues/73
I have a Google Photos album (shared with a few close family members) that automatically adds photos of my daughter and syncs them with the Aura frames her grandparents have. We've had this setup for the last two years and it works really well. I think it's literally the use-case Aura is targeting.
"When one door closes, another door opens" -- Boeing
A number of arcade machines are x86 based, with non-pc-standard hardware, such as Z80 co-processors, etc..

For example - Seibu SPI
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/seibu/s...
You also often have to fight for the right thing, then any problems that do happen are your fault.

When the dumbshit over engineered "cloud architecture" that was pushed on you (managers don't get promoted or switch companies for a big raise by reducing their headcount... no, they get promoted by building a big team for a successful [please don't check in on how it was doing two years later...] "cloud transformation") has all kinds of problems and the costs shoot into the stratosphere, while five servers on a rack would have granted greater uptime and performance in practice for your usage patterns, and lower costs... it's not your fault.

Have some bad luck and that simple solution you pushed for happens to experience an unlikely failure causing a significant outage in year 1, and your head's on the chopping block.
God bless the author.