skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add more context: German car manufacturers have a bigger market share in China (especially compared to other Europeans brands). They depend on China, especially VW which invest a lot there. China already threatens to retaliate with punitive tariff (or organize a boycott as it's easy to leverage nationalism there, something like "buy Chinese, not European!") in case the European Comission does something to defend its industry against the anti-competitive dumping practices that China may use (the same tactic China used to obliterate the EU and US solar panel industries). This is why Germany is officially against the probe [0] investigating the subsidies China may have given chinese manufacturers (mainly BYD) [1], and thus why Germany may not be so (publicly) in favor of this EV passport.

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2023/7545...

[1] https://www.gizmochina.com/2023/10/18/german-minister-warns-...
That comment is self-contradicting. If it's already replacing humans, then economically speaking (which is what matters for economic harm), it's good enough to replace those specific humans.

The reason I'm not sure how much this tech really is at the level of replacing humans in the workplace, is that there's always a lot of loud excitement about new tech changing the world, and a lot of noise and confounding variables in employment levels.

But if it is actually replacing them, then it must be at the level of those employees in the ways that matter.
That's relatively new isn't it? Windows 10 new. Last Windows I've used extensively was 7...
Hard to quantify. But clearly a lot, that's for sure.

I played with ads (cold audience) and it worked well too (~$15K rev for $5K spent) so the Twitter audience isn't 100%
thanks!

i think this depends in part on how high a temperature you can tolerate; at 20° the stefan–boltzmann emissivity is only 420 watts per square meter for an ideal black body, a third of the above-the-atmosphere solar irradiance. the blackbody equilibrium stefan-boltzmann temperature for 1300 watts per square meter is 116°, which is a bit toasty for efficient solar panels; even at half that (if you're emitting infrared from the back of the pv array as well as the front) you're at 54°. and if you want to move your power plant closer to the sun to harvest that sweet, sweet radiation, the temperature goes up further

so plausibly some heatpipes painted black sticking far out the backside would be helpful
Yeah and you also shall not write bugs in your code. Real world has bugs, even trivial ones.
Even the JEP admits that there will be performance costs, which the team hopes won't matter for most use cases, hoping has never been a solution for anything.
No, not a joke and I'm not a college educated economist and indeed haven't read the work of Keynes or Wolfgangs or whomever. Which is why I'm asking, no idea what's going on with your condescending tone?
sorry, that's just an absurd way to reason about things.

Of course, they are relevant. Israel is not acting in a vacuum. It didn't just wake up one day having completely withdrawn from Gaza and say, let me blockade Gaza for no reason at all, just because we feel like it. They did it for specific reasons and so, if you are going to talk about the blockade and not mention at all, pretend like the reason for the blockade just isn't there, then your analysis just becomes absurd.

The reason for it was that Hamas took over and proceeded to fire rockets at Israel, right? That Hamas is a terrorist organization. Look at the military infrastructure they were able to build under the conditions of the blockade, it's clear that this would have been a lot worse for Israel if the blockade wasn't there. And Israel as a state has a primary responsibility to protect its own civilians against being murdered by Hamas. This clearly is highly relevant to any analysis here.
The reasons why Golang is a bad language, according to my friend
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I remember in the 2000s Walmart was pushing all their suppliers to adopt RFID. It was expensive and never happened.

The dream was that we could just take a cart full of items through a gateway and all the items would be instantly tallied and ready to take home. I could actually see this happening, but perhaps at Costco instead. Costco doesn’t weigh or bag items.
What I like about it is that it is an industrial grade tool and pretty reliable, and allows 4K output for free, and the full version is fairly reasonably priced. You will not be limited by the tool, it can basically do anything you'd want to do in this space. There is also plentiful help on the net showing you how to do it. The simple stuff is really no harder than in any of the other tools I tried, and the hard stuff is possible.
Not who you're replying to, but it seems this is a classic case of mistaking not noticing change is evidence of no change.

I've been following this newsletter for a while as I have a passing interest in (photographic/cinematic) lens design.

https://www.pencilofrays.com/
Same around here. Self-checkouts is hugely successful. I'm much slower going through the scan procedure than the person working at the conveyor belt is.. but that's more than offset by the fact that there are a large number of self-checkout counters and I don't have to queue up (for the most part). The only time I use the old non-self-checkout counter is when there are no customers and the person at the checkout looks bored. Then I go there.
This is the argument Elon uses in favour of solar - “we already have a giant fusion reactor in the sky”
Agreed. Even though this site is on YC’s domain, I think only a few of the folks in the comments are actually early-adopting startup types. Probably just due to power law statistics, I’d guess most commenters are big company worker bees who’ve never worked on/at a seed stage startup.

If everything at Kagi was FAANG-level bulletproof, with extensive processes around outages/redundancy, then the team absolutely would not be making the best use of their time/resources.

If you’re risk averse and aren’t comfortable encountering bugs/issues like this, don’t try any new software product of moderate complexity for about 7-10 years.
Why not? It just needs one small extra dependency: to be plugged into a device that supplies processing power.

You might as well say that my desktop isn't a computer, because it needs external (electrical) power to do any logical or arithmetic operations. Or that my credit card doesn't run Java.
Oceans are where co2 is turned into oxygen. We really dont want to be deliberately hampering that cycle. Put the panels on land, preferably atop sand or bare rock.
"Why we chose Java for our High-Frequency Trading application"

https://medium.com/@jadsarmo/why-we-chose-java-for-our-high-...

LMAX Disruptor customers

https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/

Among many other examples.
Lots of laws look like that to me.

I don't much like that laws seem so messy either, but that just doesn't seem like much of a reason to think it won't shake out like that.

The law may well start on the basis of what people feel, and work outwards from there to things that might, or might not, be actually enforceable. And the headline summary of that law may or may not have much in common with the details, which is why e.g. the USA PATRIOT Act has that name.
Show HN: Right approach to processing billions of rows in a SQL database
I wouldn't say it's misleading or wrong. It's certainly a bit catchy, but it also aligns with a greater discussion that's going on at the moment. Regardless of the title, most people probably wouldn't or couldn't discuss scientific literature in-depth anyway, but search engine spam is something many can relate to, be it from Google or otherwise. It's certainly a topic we will be hearing about a lot more in the future. Besides, we didn't even anticipate this to be picked up by non-scientific journals that quickly, though the title may have helped. ;-)
1) The “quality” of spirit is just fine. They explicitly market themselves as a budget airline and that’s what you get. A lot of people just want the cheapest ticket to go from A to B and they provide it. Personally, I have enough disposable income to pay more for another airline, but sometimes the difference is so dramatic that I will take spirit. When I’m traveling with my two young kids, having a reclining seat and better flight attendants makes a marginal difference to an already difficult situation.

2) Their ticket prices are often a fraction of the others. Even if service quality is lower, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t pushing down overall prices.
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Decathlon and Uniqlo are two retailers that do use this tech today. However, they also have the huge advantage of retailing only their own-brand products, so they have full control of the supply chain.
The main reason why lenses have become significantly better over the last 10-20 years (certainly at the consumer level) is mainly because camera sensors have become significantly better over the last 10-20 years, and therefore the lenses have had to be engineered to a higher standard to avoid the lens foibles being quite so obvious in the higher resolution images that are now possible. The engineering principles are largely the same with a few smaller advances, but to accomodate the demanded-for improvements consumer lenses are now bigger, heavier, more expensive, and have more interesting optical designs. It's purely demand-driven, not technology-driven.
> Number of interactions IRL is harder and harder to get

It is but it is not as hard as one might think. One needs to double down on being respectful. Also, do note that this is more of a thing in the US than in Europe. It's also a thing in Europe, but the US is simply more extreme. But even in the US women were pretty chill. The biggest thing you need to simultaneously show (alongside attractive traits) is that you're reasonable and respectful.

I agree it's hard to get motivated. I've had the good fortune that I worked on this when I was young. So even when I get rejected a lot if I'd be dating right now (2 years ago was the last time), I'd still carry on.

I think people in general look at rejection the wrong way. Rejection should be observed ("oh this person doesn't want this, alright"), not interpreted ("I knew it, I suck and am unattractive, duh!").
I doubt snapshots in your workflow are quite as easy and fast as:

qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b base-image.qcow2 -F qcow2 snapshot.qcow2

This takes mere milliseconds. The great thing about this is that snapshots are chainable, so you can create snapshots based on snapshots, and easily go back and forth to boot whatever version you want. Each snapshot only takes up the space of the data written to it, so they're like layers in an OCI image.

The qcow2 format is quite ingenious and one of my favorite things about working with QEMU. I wish its CLI would be simpler and more intuitive, so for more advanced scenarios I prefer working with libvirt/virt-manager/Proxmox.
The article is way out of sync with my experience - I've seen no reduction in the number of self-checkouts compared to the number of traditional checkouts.

Sure, self-checkout is annoying. Mostly because of measures to combat thievery, which I notice have got more hair-trigger recently. The level of anti-theft paranoia that's dialed-in varies depending on the supermarket - the more downmarket the place, the more the self-checkout is calibrated to not trust you.

I'd be really surprised if they end up being phased out.
Scala has accumulated a lot of cruft on its own over the years and it hasn't always succeeded, but at the same time I'd say that a core value has always seemed to be trying to unify Java's weird special cases ("why does every class member have to support being static, instead of just supporting first-class singletons?", "why are primitive types not part of the type hierarchy?", "why null?", or even "why are some type conversions hard-coded in the compiler?").
> To say that those people were killed on purpose

The article does not say these people were killed on purpose

> And the queen of Spain made native Indians that had baptised by law equal to Spaniards

The reality on the ground was very different nearly everywhere in Spanish America. This is well documented in many reputable histories
That might be key. In the US, a lot of our problems come down to greed. You can be legally liable for choosing to do what’s right for employees instead of increasing shareholder value.
>An artificial intelligence (AI) system trained to conduct medical interviews matched, or even surpassed, human doctors’ performance at conversing with simulated patients

So AI is best at talking to AI. /s
> If there are voyeurs on the other side [of a mirror], that’s their wretched problem, not mine.

This is good thinking for non schizophrenics also.
I hope the current state of large organizations staying in Java 8 as long as they can to avoid dealing with modules, is somehow a lesson for how to deliver this change.

Two months ago I did a fresh deploy of Java 8 in production for a SaaS solution, exactly because that is what the product and support team care about.
I'm not sure what you are seeing on that page that makes you think create-react-app is not deprecated. It isn't listed on that page at all - there are more modern choices listed.
Introduced in Windows Vista. So 16+ years ago. Before Windows 7.
I am definitely predicting the people-dumping-eskom scenario. I will totally not be surprised if this happens.

Based on my limited experience and a sample size <5 I can attest to the dramatic quality of life improvement it's made to our household, and it's getting cheaper by the month to buy and install. More and more businesses and new developments are going up with rooftop solar from the start. If you are in the market for a house today, I'm pretty sure that rooftop solar will be one of those things on the "really-nice-to-have" list of things that include a pool, double garage and a built-in braai (bbq). One of these days it's going to move over to the "essential-must-have" list.

10 years from now Eskom is going to excitedly announce "we fixed loadshedding" only for the whole taxpayer base to say "so what"
I'm honestly failing to see the utility for LLMs, because the context for any given problem is far too small, and we're already at 33B parameter models. They just don't seem to be a technology that scales to an interesting problem size.
Thanks for checking it out! You can try to reduce the vibration strength in the settings and see if it helps.
Ok since we are at it, in your opinion:

Is it feasible for someone with a SWE background with fair amount of industry years to transition into ML without a deep dive into a PhD and publications to show?

I am considering following the fastAI course or perhaps other MOOC courses but I am not sure if any of this would be reasonably taken seriously within the field?
Yeah, the problem is that suddenly everybody started to equate "involuntary celibates" with "involuntary celibates who hate women" who are a vocal part on the Internet. But there are many, many other groups, such as the ones in Dead Bedrooms subreddit. This superficial generalization doesn't help anyone.
> ANY communication is better than no communication

Better for the consumer, although not necessarily better for the provider if they have an SLA.
Congratulations! Very cool stuff.
> "There's no way the average person can match the speed of a cashier who does that every day,"

Absolutely true, and not only that - the cashier has a conveyor belt while the self-checkout counter has a slightly inconvenient and much slower system.

But that's totally offset by the fact that there's typically only one or two cashiers while there may be ten or twenty self-service counters. I don't have to stand in line.
Can't add anything for the first question, but as for the second

>what does this do better than pi-hole does?

I block or redirect a few external DNS servers, like Google's, to a local DNS server and some devices go absolutely abeshit if the reply doesn't look like they expect. Like thousands of DNS lookups in minutes. Enough to kill pi-hole both on an RPI4, but also running on the same server as Technitium (dual Xeon proliant). So it seems it is more robust?
There is much better fiction to read though.
True, I skipped a step in my comment. My assumption is that ACPI and UEFI/BIOS usually exist together. Without UEFI you have to find an alternative to both, and neither DTs and the (bootloader) alternatives are pleasant.
Whatever. Just don't be condescending
Ellama for Emacs look promising, but I only tried to install it this morning.
May? All developed countries have subreplacement fertility [1] (and falling) the world population is predicted to peak before the end of the century.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
The hard part was obtaining information such as solar azimuth, altitude, declination, hour angle, etc without using external APIs. Spent around 5 days implementing backend.
People on those platforms are already adding C++ and Rust written alternatives with compatible networking protocols, if this goes badly, it will only accelerate the transition.
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I used to have a USB stick with Kali Linux with encrypted persistence in 2017. I felt cool as a script kiddie.
My daily driver is older than I thought; it's positively vintage
Companies should be free to compete on various variables, which include price for their services. But there is no competition for the Apple AppStore on Apple devices, it's a captive market. At that point, it's not competition but exploitation; and exploitation surely is a Bad Thing.

We used to be taught that one of the Bad Elements of feudal life was that the local lord could impose arbitrary taxes to use a road or a bridge, with no recourse for people and tradesmen. Now we are at the same point in the digital world.
And many other folks will keep wondering what the story is for 41€!

My bad puns aside, thank god for libraries. Otherwise these stories would be truly lost to the rich.
You're right. I never hated women. Logic would prevent me from hating a large group like that. It's like saying I hate Americans :') I don't. The opposite isn't true either. I don't love women (or Americans, despite that one US person is my GF, ha!). I evaluate people on their own individuality. Sometimes I see trends because of a group, I know I have biases. I do my best not to get distracted by that. Individualism is the most useful philosophy for evaluating individuals on their own merits.

But let me pose the problem back to you. Can you imagine how you'd act if you'd feel worthless?

When I feel and think that question through, I'm scared by the answer.
I really do want to self host DNS, but I am afraid it will cause problems. Aren't DNS servers easily used in DoS attacks against other servers?
I would gladly pay a commission for a service where I vaguely describe a product and preference and have the best version of it delivered without having to spend hours researching and hunting for deals. Of course this immediately runs into severe perverse incentives and similar issues.
I like to think this via car analogy: you have similar ecosystem with car infotainment system platforms, but there the cost of switching is often minimum tenfold. Game consoles are an analogous platform to phones with similar pricepoint in switching costs. Of course phones are much more present in our daily lives for the most part of the population. But I suppose the similar burden would easily hit those platforms if legislation would be imposed, and it would come with both upsides and downsides depending on one's viewpoint.
Yeah, if I remember correctly even AMD was amazed of what they did.
DUPE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39005187
How to access websites hostile toward Tor through Tor
Just curious how fast could the same thing be if someone who knows the hardware really well, wrote it in assembly.
Works. Beautiful. Also works internationally. Good job!

It would be splendid if you used 24 hour format per default instead of AM/PM or at least let me choose. You correctly figured out I am at UTC+01:00, but we don't use AM/PM here.

I'm not perfectly happy with the colors in the final map. You use blue to represent right, yellowish for left and dark gray for "no sun". Your suggestion on top for preferred seating uses red.
To me the preferred seating color should correspond with the left/right colors.
Not having that issue here, seems to work fine in Chrome.
Pretty typical. Dealing with vulnerability reporting and disclosure has always sucked for researchers, and from my (very) limited experience on the vendor side, it isn't much better there. I'm honestly surprised more of these researchers haven't gone back to the bugtraq/full disclosure model.
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Ignoring the question if USA is actually behind: there is a very strong technology catch-up effect. Some countries started mobile phones with 3G, and never wasted money on quickly outdated analogue/2G hardware. New banks created in 90s in Eastern Europe also benefited from not having 30 years old legacy mainframe systems running COBOL.
"Incels" are not just random people who happen to be involuntarily celibate. It's literally a self-defined hate group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel People in the Dead Bedrooms aren't having sex but by and large they're not "incels".
I just scan the barcodes on my phone and place everything in bag as I go along. Before leaving the store a QR on the POS kiosk display is scanned with the store phone app and I just need to select on POS if I will pay through app (pre-added card info) or physical card/cash. As simple as it gets.

No one checks the products. Occasional random checks happen but the checking frequency probably depends if past checks have found issues, so I get a bag check once a year max.
The question, "how do we make functional languages popular, (useful?) in the enterprise?" was a question in the air for, i'd, say decades. The 00s answer was to create a merger between enterprise langs (Java, C# etc.) and functional langs in a new language.

The net result, as we know now, was to push those langs to adopt functional features -- rather than to shift to others.

I suspect the question for the niche programming community, of the next decade, will be "how do we make effect systems popular?" or some such thing.

Or, "how do we make AOT metaprogramming popular?" etc. (cf., jai, zig... carbon, circle, ...)

I suspect if a post-C++ new-wave gets popular, with structural typing and ct metaprogramming, we might see the same in C# quite easily
False equivalence. The Left has an agenda, sure. The Right believe they are gods chosen and are fighting a holy war.

The Right believe they are being directed by GOD. Their soul will be tortured for all eternity if they don't fight a war on earth following the will of God.

How do you argue a factual point with someone that is basing their decision on being directed by the god of the entire universe.

Basically the modern Christian Right, is fighting their own Jihad. We just don't have a good word like that to describe it.

So, I would disagree they are two sides of the same coin.

The left is maybe skewing some statistics, while the Right is ready to kill people for their god (checkout how many mass shootings are based on Right Talking points).
I don't think the assumption is you'd be doing that all the time. It's just good that you can do it if needed. If my laptop is stolen, I can just buy any linux-compatible laptop and run this, or I can borrow someone else's if I judge the risk acceptable.

From the article:

> When I switch from my work computer to my personal computer I just bring the USB stick with me; same thing next time I upgrade a computer.