skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1: If we can reproduce living bodies from a clone, that enables us to modify the growing process, cells by alteration of DNA before that growth has occurred.

If we understand that gene "xyxyyyxx" controls the colour of the eyes, and "xyxyyyxx-y" turns them blue. You could inject that code just before the eyes have been been developed.

2. How is it natural for a child not to have parents? The psychologically repercussions of are unfair and upsetting.

Not including many ethical problems and environmental issues.

Who's going to look after them? Care for them, live with them? Or is it - "here's your blankie, welcome to life, good luck"?

If folk found out you were a clone you would be an outcast.

We have freakouts over folks who wish to have biological changes, identifying genders and the like. Why would a clone be more accepted?
I've had the checkout machine reject my backpack as an approved container. So I had to balance everything on the tray, pay, THEN bag everything.

Another thing I really hate is that I've seen locked exit barriers that open when scanning the receipt. In sweden there is a real disregard for workplace safety :(

I guess other than "honoring the people who died in the disco fire in the 90s in the local museum", there is no will to do anything practical.
Yeah, so figuring out how to use a framework seems to crop up quite often. I don't use "big name" frameworks at work so this would be lost on me.
> Open source related application, for open source desktops like Linux (unfortunately not for open source Android/GrapheneOS currently), there's Alex Harsányi's ActivityLog2 (which is an impressive application in Racket):
>
> https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2/wiki/Just-The-Scree...

In that realm, there is also GoldenCheetah:

- https://www.goldencheetah.org/
- https://github.com/GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah
Here a lot of places have these auto-cash-counting machines you just throw the money in and it counts it and feeds back to the PoS; MASSIVE noisy machines that are stuck half of the time. So while stores must accept cash & cards, cash is often simply broken and the employee cannot really help anything as they are not allowed to process manually, so they can only throw their hands up.
I honestly think Apple will need to be compelled by law verdict or congress to open up the appstore or allow other appstores and have some sort of cap on fees charged -- I dunno.

The ideal would probably be what Steve envisioned before the AppStore was a thing and that's basically PWAs. But I think it's been alleged that Apple is arbitrarily nerfing Safari to prevent PWAs on iOS running as well as native applications -- though I've no source.

How to effectively "disrupt" the appstore model is a billion dollar question I'm not sure of. What I do know is that the Tim Sweeny's et al of the world are hypocrites in that they just want to create their own rent-seeking AppStores and charge their own commissions and skirt around paying the platform anything for being on the platform. This is akin to wanting to be in a supermarket and put your kiosk inside and sell your product to the supermarket's customers without some sort of financial agreement between you and the supermarket.
Because it's Apple's marketplace and Apple's customers.

They spent billions on hardware, software, R&D, marketing and operations.

Why would they give another business a free access to a billion of their customers?

You want to earn money of Apple's customers? Then pay Apple a revenue share of the money you get from their customers.

That's how pretty much any marketplace works in the world.

From your local Target to Salesforce/Shopify/PlayStation/Epic Store/Steam/etc.
As a desktop Mac user, I see exactly what you're saying.

For clarity, my comment was more along the lines of 'saved you a click' than expectations/aspirations for every tool to cover every popular-ish environment.
Chiming on 7). Not my experience at all on a Kia Niro EV (and an MG3) here in Europe with its tight urban parking spaces. On these particular models at least, torque can be dosed very well as long as tire grip is normal. Uncertain dosage is as good as on an ICE vehicle when grip is bad (mud…), but I don't have enough data points to compare.
Interesting. I wonder if that means BSD's compiler toolchain has ignored the strict-aliasing misfire that makes such a mess of the ISO associated ones.
Beautiful semi-obituary + personal impact report.

Odersky has done very impressive work (I only recently learned about his work on TurboModula-2 - cool!), but his work is not focused on
simplicity as Wirth's was - I wonder if he tried hard to
adopt Wirth's simplicity mantra or not (given how he praises it in the article)?

Scala's type system is quite complicated, for instance, and the notion of "object-functional" itself, as a hybrid concept, lacks simplicity.
Because the entire mobile market is a duopoly and asking someone to switch platforms that they might have invested 15 years of their life into isn't reasonable. Think of all the data, hardware (smart watches, tablets, trackers, speakers, smart home gadgets), app & in-app purchases that one would have to forfeit to switch platforms.

They explicitly carved out their own market by making it a tightly integrated walled garden that's closed to outside integration, it seems hypocritical to now claim that users are free to leave at any time. They're not and that's by design.
Seems to work, I'm located in Reykjavik Iceland and the website tells me there is no sun :)

Left Side: 0.00%
Right Side: 0.00%
No Sun: 100.00%
Oh, transposed two or more digits, got it.
I mean, there are many other vestigial pieces that will hang in there for a very long time, but see elsewhere - I searched the National Library, and you're absolutely right that it's still around to a limited extent, but the decline in written use at least has been fairly steep.
For some more reading material on this subject, see Ironies of Automation[1].

[1] https://ckrybus.com/static/papers/Bainbridge_1983_Automatica...
Thanks. I do understand that, and even if PyPA and the setuptools maintainers wanted to get rid of it, there's such a large installed base that any transition would take at least a decade. Plus, as I learned yesterday, the cmake-based backend also depends on setuptools.

Thing is, my setup.py is full of hacks and is a nuisance to use, so I would prefer a better solution.

What kind of hacks?

In the "python setup.py install" days I processed sys.argv to handle extra compile-time parameters, like "don't compile for OpenMP". When direct use of setup.py became unsupported, I switched to environment variables to pass in the configuration.

While it works, I don't know if it's a long-term viable solution. I read about the push towards isolated environments and reproducible builds, which is not something you can get if your build depends on ephemeral environment variables which are not captured in the pyproject.toml or dependency hashes.

(Remember, I distribute a source package, not a precompiled wheel.)

The longest component in my distribution takes a minute to compile. Setuptools does not handle dependency tracking well, so even if I touch C code which only takes a second to compile, it still rebuilds the entire component.

I have a hacked-up Makefile for when I really need to work on that part of the code and want faster turn-arounds, but I would prefer to have a unified build system that really understands build dependencies.

I subclass build_ext to handle the per-file compilation args, per-compiler link args, and to add an '$ORIGIN' rpath for non-Darwin builds as I generate shared libraries which depend on other shared libraries. To make this work I had to monkeypatch setuptools implementation internals.

I know how fragile it is, and would like something better, which I could depend on being around for another 15 years.

But when I dip into the Packaging world, I feel like my needs are in a forgotten corner, with the main impetuous being the needs of enterprise systems with engineering staff - a far cry from the packaging world I started with 20 years ago where building C extensions was one of the primary concerns.
Oh I'm keen for an unpaid robot to do a lot of my job for me. I just haven't been able to outsource that. Whenever I try, it's more work to fix its errors than to do it from scratch.

I would really like to know what I'm doing wrong (or if everyone else is in the same boat).
Yeah, according to the article, their first commercial lens with flourite was delivered in 1969.
Hour Interview with PG – Nov 2023 [video]
I'm not sure what your point is there, do you disagree with what I said above? All I'm saying here is that it does not take more than a "shallow" understanding to avoid the loser inceldom failure mode.
What size does a body of water have to be to be influenced by the Moon's gravity
Powertoys Run does it worse, it adds a new line from a plugin, so now you have two lines for the same app, and Alfread/Keypirinha at least have shortcuts to launch eg, line number 2 which powertoys doesn't have, so you have to scroll to pick whether you want a new instance or switch to an existing one
Yes this is terrible. All it does is ensure Spirit will continue to be terrible until it goes under and prevent a major competitor from arising for the big 3 airlines. The doublespeak required to say that keeping Spirit as it is pushes air ticket prices down is baffling, unless we are to assume that the quality that you get with Spirit is in any way comparable to the large airlines (it's not). It's almost like saying we need to keep this bike company around so that it can drive car prices down.
The passage you quote says "across the Americas", so presumably includes both the northern and southern continents.
Differences in the Microphone Quality: MacBook Air vs. MacBook Pro
I don't know if this story is universal (but I have nothing to prove it just a feeling). In Paris, self checkout has taken over most mid/large stores, even some clothing and sportswear shops.

If I had to complain about things (except that it increases unemployment): People are bad at it and it's probably because of the slow, buggy, difficult UI.

I don't get that in 2023 we still have UI that bad, probably created by some agencies that payed some poor coder in an developed country to code this. You don't cherish your product, you get bad product.
Great that you got it to work. Just to make the list with potential tools a bit more complete:

- Kdenlive is also a fairly capable video editor. https://kdenlive.org/en/

- From what I have heard the Blender video editor for many people is a go to tool as well. In this case it likely would have been overkill, but figured it is worth mentioning.
Your theory predicts ever-climbing unemployment rates, but the prime-age labor force participation rate is near its all time high [1] and unemployment is at an all-time low [2].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
From the article, the primary funding is from someone who got excited by the idea when he was much younger. I sincerely doubt he expects to make his $100 million back.
It feels like almost all the issues with self-checkout technology come from the attempts to minimise shoplifting, which don't even seem that effective at doing that. In theory, a system that let you scan products the same way checkout staff do without any weight checks or bagging area rules or other interruptions would be incredibly efficient. Especially if you could do things like scan the same product multiple times if you were buying multiple copies of it.

The problem is that companies don't want that, because they're worried they'd get robbed blind if they did. In a sense it reminds me of the problems with our travel systems; if there were no gates, no security checks, etc, then they'd probably be a joy to use. But people suck so they're not.
most of the mass shootings are 3-10 people. and not by "assault" weapons. The banning is all silly.
> The only survivors

They're not survivors any more than anybody else alive today. And their relatives are still on the best productive land, but assimilated into a different culture.
> peace we enjoy today

Perhaps you didn't read the news in the past two years..
Unfortunately #1 isn't correct. The minimum size of a ground station is fixed by the size of the transmitter, the wavelength, and the distance.

One standard design had a 10km contiguous(!) diameter receiver for a 1km diameter transmitter in GEO. You can lower the transmitter to about 6371 km[0] before having to worry about night, but that's only going to give you a factor of about 6 improvement. Different wavelengths can do better antenna gain, but start to need to care about atmospheric absorption. You could in principle also relay the power around the same sort of way we do for data, though that way you get a percentage loss from each relay (might still be worth it, might not, I've not tried to cost it).

You're also limited by the maximum safe power density; from what I've heard this is surprisingly close to what you'd get from the yearly average output of PV, which on the one hand means that although it can be an alternative to storage when the question is "what about night and winter?" it is fairly unhelpful when the question is "can we use less land"?

> That land is most expensive near the very population centers which need the most power.

Yes, but wire-based transmission is better than most give it credit for. And even if it was that bad, if you perfectly solved wireless transmission by any mechanism you like, it's a shorter route from the ground on the opposite side of the planet, to low orbit, around the planet, and back down again (~20e6m), than from geostationary orbit (~36e6m).

> According to Jesse Jenkins, to power America, "the solar farms are an area the size of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts."[1] (this isn't the most precise source I could find, but it's reputable)

Sounds about right: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28Connecticut%2C+Rhode... (20% efficient cells, 10% capacity factor).

Those are 2.9e11, 6.3e10, 5.5e11 W, compared to recent US use of 4.6e11 W.

But they're also fairly small states, with 1%, 0.3%, and 2% of the US total population: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28Connecticut%2C+Rhode...

[0] If I've done the maths right:

1. The radius of the inscribed circle of an equilateral triangle is r = (sqrt(3)/6)*a

2. The altitude of the triangle from any side is h = (sqrt(3)/2)*a = 3*r

3. So the closest you can get the satellites while being sure at you never have a period where the only visible satellites are themselves not in shadow is:

triangle_altitude - diameter_earth = 3*r - 2*r = r
In my life and career experience, it wouldn't take 5 minutes if you got to it the first time you had the thought.

That being said, on average, it would take 5 minutes if you started doing it the 5th - 10th time you thought about it. Definitely doesn't need 6 years indeed.

So it seems we very often drag our feet when it comes to thoughts that are already well-baked / perfectly fermented.
The tiny stickers on all the veggies at my grocery store all scan just fine.
Small nitpick: Sámi people aren't more indigenous to Norway than just about anyone else, it's just that the various people tended to live in slightly different places. Norway's always been a place where people came from everywhere as soon as the ice started to retreat. Though of course the ancestors of people today, anyone and everyone, aren't really those who arrived 11k-12k years ago.

As for Nynorsk - it was more common in the past. My mother had Nynorsk as main writing language, and she's from Senja (in the north). That wasn't really a bad choice. It's not entirely similar to how she spoke (but parts of it was), but then again Bokmål is also vastly different from how she spoke. It's compromises and problems whatever you do. For myself, when I write (I write bokmål) it's just a different language. I write completely differently from how I speak, both for vocabulary and to a certain extent grammar.

Nynorsk is a perfectly fine written language. After I came over my hatred for it (which was 100% caused by my teacher in middle school) I've learned to appreciate it for what it is. Whatever you say about Bokmål it isn't exactly poetic.
Each OS thread costs memory. With the version of Java I have, the default is to allocate 1MB of stack for each thread. So, 10,000 threads would require 10,000 MB of RAM even if we configured ulimit to allow that many threads. In contrast, asking the kernel to do buffered reads of 10,000 files in parallel requires much less memory - especially if most of those are actually the same physical file. Of course, they won't be read fully in parallel.

For example, this program:

var threads = new Thread[20000];
for (int i = 0; i < 20000; i++) {
threads[i] = Thread.ofVirtual().start(() -> {
try {
Files.copy(FileSystems.getDefault().getPath("abc.txt"), System.out);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.err.println("Error writing file");
e.printStackTrace();
}});
}
for (int i = 0; i < 20000; i++) {
threads[i].join();
}

Run as `java Test > ./cde.txt` takes about 4.5s to run on my WSL2 system with 2 cores, writing a 2 GB file (with abc.txt having 100KB); even this would be within the HTTP timeout, though users would certainly not be happy. Pretty sure a native Linux system on a machine beefy enough to be used as a web server would have no problem serving even larger files over a network like this.
Thank you for correcting a pet peeve of mine: People thinking they "speak Bokmål". Everyone speaks a dialect.
Makes sense, it would be good if bus and train companies integrated this into seat selection. It really does make a difference.
I live the self-checkout at my local Ralph's (USA). They have their system dialed in and it always just works.
Use Shadcn and Tailwindcss in Streamlit
> There has been a monumental growth in traffic on X despite all the exodus.

... Wait, what makes you think _that_?
Could you share why it misses the point according to you?

On the website the following use-case is mentioned:
> run firefox remotely in order to "significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs."

Another use-case would be running firefox on a remote server with just enough power while using ssh on a smaller, weaker, device (raspbery pi like, an old smartphone with termux, very old hardware, ...).

It's hard to build a browser engine, especially if you intend to support a seemless modern web experience (and thus with javascript, unlike all the text-browsers out there). Some even argue it's not possible to build a modern web browser engine anymore [1].

I think it's the point for browsh to rely on another piece of software that will focus on just that (headless firefox).

Browsh is described as a "text-based browser", but under the hood, a more technical accurate way to summarize it would be "a software to stream a remote firefox in your terminal". The concept (and why it saves bandwitch) is detailed on the docs section "What is browsh?" [2].

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope....
[2] https://www.brow.sh/docs/introduction/
I would put something like Cloudflare in front of a service like this. Bot protection may handle it and if not a technician can fix it in 5 minutes.
Essentially Threads and Bluesky will become “containment boards” for that sort of posting if the users actually follow through and truly leave.

Some will see this as a big improvement for their Twitter experience.
https://www.watercode.in/what-are-the-5-health-related-compo...
They realized that getting over 50% marketshare paints a target on their back, whereas what you want is 50% of profitable money in the market.

If BMW sell 10 cars with $1 margin, Jaguar sell 5 cars with $2 margin, and Ferrari sell 2 cars with $40 margin, the latter took home 80% of profits with 11% marketshare. Then Ferrari just work their hardest to make sure that their customers cannot change car without a lot of effort, effectively coopting (or rather enslaving) them forever.

That keeps antitrust law at bay in practice, while egregiously breaking it in spirit.
That's exactly how it works in the Netherlands, you just scan your items and go. There are no weight checks and you can scan items more than once and edit and remove things from the list. Apart from getting a poorly executed random check sometimes (which is far from effective for the purpose of avoiding theft imho) it actually works really well.
Show HN: Donut-alternative to create matchmaking programs in private communities
I've been working on my first SaaS app - a tool to increase the value of private community memberships. It helps communities run speed networking between peers or connect mentors with mentees with a complete control over the matching process to ensure thoughtful matches.

If you're running a private community, would love to get some feedback.
Running a small company it is glaring how much worse things have gotten over the last 20 years not between rich and poor but between rich and the middle class, especially in the US. Health insurance costs have exploded, cost of living too, wages have definitely not kept pace.
Health insurance is one I find especially infuriating, the increase in premiums every year is insane, and always more than inflation.
This. As best I understand, JetBlue is interested in the airport slots that Spirit currently holds across the country, because those are pretty much entirely locked up. To become a major national airline (which seems to JetBlue's goal specifically), you need these slots.
That's a store policy problem; it shouldn't be difficult for them to confirm that a payment has been made for the equivalent set of items within the last 5 mins, and even possible for them to cross reference with your card.

When I got stopped walking out of a supermarket with an item with an RFID tag on it, I don't think the security guard (who had no direct view of the self checkouts) even bothered to check that, just asked me to confirm the checkout that I'd used and roughly how much I'd paid for it. And sent me on my way with the advice that it might be a good idea to ask for a receipt when buying electronic items in case they were faulty and I needed to return them!
> The Qemu image is small enough (3.6G currently) that I can easily make backups and snapshots

Why? I can make snapshots and backups of multi-terabyte drives just as easily.
Well, the article says "My new computer has no hardware."

What they has really done is just redefined the word "computer" from being the hardware on which we run our software to being the software that we run on someone else's hardware.

I guess since a computer used to be someone who used computing machinery we are getting a little ouroboros here
Yes for ideal. Not for CC of course because of the duopoly of visa/mastercard
Oh, they have many languages with smaller text corpora than Nynorsk, and they're not exploiting language similarity very well.

Probably they had that one Norwegian employee who struggled with it in school and came to hate it as a result (you'll find plenty of them in this thread).
> I never lost my sense of reality. Even though you do heavily question reality. Alcohol is waaay worse in that regard (blackouts, wild behaviour etc.)

Just in case anyone gets the wrong idea from the above: As with anything, including alcohol, the dose makes the poison. It's possible to go similarly far with psilocybin.

Examples that I've witnessed: standing in the shower screaming, mistreatment of police, etc.
Click the Color and Not the Word
> USA (if you get off H1B).

Funny joke. Everybody laughs.
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