skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who will develop a cross-platform UI system as capable, flexible and well-embedded as HTML/CSS and as responsive as native UI?

History shows that you can only choose one. If you're not using the platform's native UI stack, you're going to end up with a slower, less capable solution that will look and feel foreign and clumsy in comparison. What the industry really needs is a React Native-type solution that isn't tied specifically to React.
Even FBI recommends to block ads.

Why would they recommend that?

Because Google are happy to have ads to malicious stuff.
Yes! That's the one. Struggled to source it.
> x86 has to scale from embedded boards to laptops to servers

Isn’t this also true of ARM?
Yeah. My brain just starts thinking about mold and rot and disease and I can't divert it.

It's weird, because I can watch nature documentaries of lions eating prey without flinching.
> Boeing want the public to read things that will reassure them their safety is Boeing’s first priority

It's unclear who Boeing's audience is. I'd guess it's between regulators and electeds, though there may be investor pressure on their Board. I doubt the airlines have leverage, which means passengers don't either.
I don't think Analog Devices uses Tensillica, and I think NXP still has things in the 56300 derived line shipping, but Tensillica does seem to have soaked up the lions share of DSP functionality these days.
yes...yes it does
That's true, I'll feel immense relief to hear "the responsible person has been fired".

Done and dusted, the angels in management hunted down the demon with the spanner that couldn't be bothered to do his job. He's probably just doing donuts in his lambo the cheeky beggar.
The transition will be painful either way - mass unemployment, aggravated by a steep deflationary cycle, mass boredom and hopelessness in a redundant workforce conditioned from birth to find purpose in paid work, and the cultural and political upheaval from the permanent consolidation of power and wealth by the tiny elite supplying and developing the AI who are suddenly bigger than any or all governments.
For batteries and renewables, the growth had already been exponential for a decade or more prior to the relevant conversations and threads, but people were (even last month on HN) looking at the currently installed capacity and responding as if that was all it could ever be.

(At some point the growth will slow, but that's never the criticism given in any replies I remember).
EU's Cyber Resilience Act Passes with Wins for Open Source
> If another team is provisioning hardware for me to write the software on, and it now takes 2 weeks to provision virtual hardware that could take seconds, then they are also not helping in the sale or the production of widgets.

Well in this example, the ops team slowing down pointless dev work by not delivering the platform that work is going to happen on quickly are effectively engaged in costs savings for the org. The org is not paying for the platform, which helps them because the project might be canceled anyway, and plus the slow movement of the org may give them time to organize and declare their real priorities. Also due to the slow down, the dev and the ops team are potentially more available to fix bugs or whatnot in actual widget-production. It's easy to think that "big ships take a while to turn" is some kind of major bug or at least an inefficiency, but there are also reasons orgs evolve in that direction and times when it's adaptive.

> Often times people are so ensconced in their tech bureaucracy they think they are the tail that wags the dog.

Part of my point is that, in general, departments develop internal momentum and resist all interface/integration with other departments until or unless that situation is forced. Structurally, at a lot of orgs of a certain size, that integration point is ops/devops/cloud/platform teams (whatever you call them). Most people probably can't imagine being held responsible for lateness on work that they are also powerless to approve, but for these kind of teams the situation is almost routine. In that sense, simply because they are an integration point, it's almost their job to absorb blame for/from all other departments. If you're lucky management that has a clue can see this happening, introduce better processes and clarify responsibilities.

Summarizing all that complexity and trying to reduce it to some specific technical decision like cloud vs on-prem is usually missing the point. Slow infra delivery could be technical incompetence or technology choices, but in my experience it's much more likely a problem with governance / general org maturity, so the right fix needs to come from leadership with some strong stable vision of how interdepartmental cooperation & collaboration is supposed to happen.
I did this with an animated GIF. It puts a specific pattern on the display that maximizes the EMI generated by the HDMI cable. You can hear the morse code on an RTL-SDR by tuning to ~300MHz or so.

The animated pattern in the GIF file is practically invisible (only 1 LSB color change). You can set the GIF as a tiled background for your Web site and detect if someone nearby is visiting it that way.

You could use it exfiltrate data that way, it's enough bandwidth for a password or crypto key. A fairly short piece of JavaScript is all that's required to do this. If you keep repeating the message periodically, you can vastly expand the range of the signal, by averaging it at the receiver.
1902 Eruption of Mount Pelée
The issues with the Phoenix payroll system basically prove my point. First, that wasn't a "technical glitch", nor was it really even just a "software problem" - it was a complex project management failure on many levels.

But, as your Wikipedia link points out, the problems and failure of the system were well known before the first Phoenix paycheck went out. I'm sure there were tons of government employees who thought "this is totally fucked" well before they went live.

So for the PNG government to say "woops, we just sent out everyone's bad paycheck and nobody noticed until we started getting strikes/riots" (and mind you, the technical problem here really was just a "change that single value in that box" problem) strikes me as unlikely.
What can a hovercraft do, which couldn't be satisfied as well or better by:

- Hydroplane ferry (Competitive speeds)
- Multirotor ground effect vehicle

A hovercraft could come up on land, which might simplify loading and unloading. But I don't think this is enough of an advantage.

The weakness of hovercrafts in their earlier heyday was reliability, maintenance, and overall cost. Hydroplane ferries also have higher costs, but there are still some running to this day, so these must not be as high.

As air taxis and other electric aircraft start to benefit from economies of scale in the future, multirotor ground effect aircraft (think Ekranoplans) could also benefit. But the other electric aircraft would likely outcompete them, except on a few very high traffic routes.

A big advantage air taxis have, is greater flexibility in loading and unloading.
It's turning out to be worse than a monopoly, it's becoming a feudal system, we are all paying rent to the lords (Google, Meta, Amazon, etc.) through our attention, through our piecemeal data that ends up creating a whole identity of ourselves to their systems. We are feeding all of them with free work about what we like or dislike and allowing them to shape our behaviours based on this free labour.

They fenced of parts of the internet, there's no way to compete with Google on YouTube, there's no way to create an alternative marketplace to Amazon, they control these now and we all need to pay rent.
If my job is sales and I hadn't closed a single deal in 4 months, I'd have quit myself. I'd either take the blame upon myself or I would have figured that this company already saturated the market, or has a bad product that nobody wants. The easy route is blaming someone else.
It depends. I've been coding for a living for 41 years and have a feeling I'll get the hang of it real soon now.
The recent ruling paves the way for law firms to explore a new avenue for generating revenue, making them one of the few businesses still profitable in California.
This article would be a lot better if there were anything material about what was novel. Mixing the two isn’t new. If the AI was anything more than a word-mashing stochastic parrot, it could have come with a representation that piked Pr. Murugesan’s interest or it could be that he had an idea while looking at gibberish ellucubrations, the way people find inspiration in their shower.

But unless the article explains what those representations are, we can’t tell.
Probably not much because they still have to license the same Music for YouTube.

I know some people hate bundled Music. But I doubt unbundling it will reduce the prices.
shredding is obsolete....burn it baby!
The Advent of Computing episode on the 6502 simply says the team "really didn't want to go to Texas" as if it was a lifestyle preference. The context here makes it make much more sense.
Replace AI with factories and you're describing the Industrial Revolution. We have a playbook for this game.
Sounds like you already have your answer.
Nah, it's not that bad. Just live uphill from the volcano. Living downhill would be dumb though /s
The article mentions about this. Balloons at the time were too much at the mercy of winds to be useful for military.

Even today, or maybe even more today, balloon flights are risky. Landing is difficult, at the best, lethal at the worst you might get burned to crisp in power cables, end up in ocean or a mountain wall. Thus, most balloons can only fly very predefined, tested, routes to avoid complications.
OK that's sad. They have so many movies.
Granted, Keller was at Apple for a while too...
Scrum is adequate when you have a release management is simple and low risk.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_and_sufficiency
I think their point is that naive caching attempts still result in duplicate work, and if you start by viewing the problem recursively then DP is a clever insight allowing you to avoid that duplicate work. You're right; it's not _just_ function calling overhead or anything minor; it often represents major Big-O improvements. I think that's in alignment with what they're saying.

I like your insight about Fibonacci needing less state than a naive DP would suggest. Diving into that a bit, DP implementations represent a DAG. More importantly, for all the problems that easily fit into DP that DAG has small numbers of "local" connections -- you can partition it into at least O(some_meaningful_dimension) many topologically sorted levels where each level only depends on a small, known, finite number of previous levels (often 1-2), not deeper DAG nodes. A clever choice of order of operations then looks for a min-cut on that graph, proceeding through those levels. Fib has at most O(n) levels and at least O(n) state for naive DP, so a clever implementation has O(n/n)=O(1) state. Edit distance has at most O(n) levels and at least O(n^2) state, so a clever implementation has O(n^2/n)=O(n) state. I did something similar for some DP probability calculation [0], and it reduces state from quadratic to linear.

Fibonacci is, slightly pedantically, one of the worst algorithms to analyze this way. Only the smallest inputs actually fit in machine integers, and the exponential increase in the size of any bigints involved really puts a damper on a naive Big-O analysis. Fib mod 2^64 (or some biggish prime) fits into the spirit of things better.

[0] https://github.com/hmusgrave/zdps
Any benchmarks for implementing caching in fib in a lang with a good compiler?

A long time ago I worked on a mathlib in C/C++ and when reviewing the assembler output it often did some really clever things.
That's true for mass manufacturing where statistical quality control is applicable. If you are building 30 737s a month, or 5 777s, 100% inspection, which would be abhorrent at the iPhone factory, can be a rational approach. SQA is applicable to the fasteners, less so the whole airframe.
I wonder how people’s learning habits will change with AI tools like GitHub Copilot. I used it for several months but randomly got logged out and am now finding myself valuing the slight inconvenience of looking up official documentation (and surprised how much more sluggish I felt for the first week).

Going through extra steps to learn something through primary sources and valuing being uncomfortable at times are important for my evolution as a programmer.
I see.
Now that they've outsourced everything but their core competency (managing) they are going to get a Snowbot so their outsourced teams can inspect the planes. Cool!
Was it this? I haven’t tried it yet but it does look nice.

https://jan.ai/
I probably see a beach ball once every 6 months. But I have 16GB RAM.
Absolutely, but I need a teacher for that
In English: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/gustave-flaubert/madame-bo...

Original French: https://www.ebooksgratuits.com/details.php?book=340
As a father of three kids, I think you might be overthinking it a little bit. Your kids probably won’t care.
This is almost completely correct. However, I have heard of one other possibility that might be a problem - a steam explosion (maar).

From what I understand, a person died falling in a crack in town earlier this week, and when they went down to investigate, they found ocean water in it. There is a possibility (albight slight) of magma finding it's way into such cracks and causing a steam explosion. Nothing on the scale of something like what happened at Hunga-Haapi earlier last year, but still a not-so-great explosion.
If it's this clear, I'm sure you can give a quote?

Marx was clear that capitalism produces booms and busts, which implies non-monotonic development. He did predict that, when left on its own devices, capitalism will in the long term collapse on itself due to the tendency of the rate of profit to fall.

Collapses where huge governmental intervention in economy is needed happen quite consistently. E.g. in the USA the market mechanism collapsed in 1893, 1929 and 2008. And it is arguably still on central banks' life support.

What Marx and revolutionary marxism was maybe a bit too sceptical of was sustainability of social democratic states, known also as mixed economies. Altough it does seem that most mixed economies (e.g. the nordic countries) are regressing towards more capitalist domination.

Capitalism and socialism aren't some specific systems and no country is 100% either. Even USSR didn't say in its dogma that it has achieved full socialism, let alone communism.
Just so everyone's clear "(In a Good Way)" means heavily biased against Israel. Not that there's any shortage of articles biased the other way.

For example,

"While the court was in session, Germany has announced it will intervene in the substantial case to support Israel. They argue explicitly that, as the world’s greatest perpetrator of genocide, they are uniquely placed to judge. It is in effect a copyright claim. They are protecting Germany’s intellectual property in the art of genocide. Perhaps they might in future license genocide, or allow Israel to continue genocide on a franchise basis."

This does not appear meant to be funny, but just to unceasingly insult anyone he considers to be supportive of Israel in this case. The rest of the article is more of the same. And, for example, the South African complaint is clearly rushed and contains literal Hamas propaganda, which this author sees no problem with.
I read quite a bit on Swiss democracy and the causality seems to be the other way around than politicians elsewhere always claim. Having lots of referenda on many levels (local, cantonal, federal) increases voter participation and makes people more informed and involved in politics.
But they're cutting off customers who have paid and are under contracts

I'm not talking about ripping off the bandaid on the new sales channels, I'm talking about the fact that customers who have active licenses they've paid for can no longer activate them because they've shut these systems down

That inevitably is going to lead to a class action against them
I've seen it suck even worse when trying to manage large X-Ops organizations. Something about the work, let's call it DevOps for the sake of simplicity, simply does not seem to lend itself well to the scrum methodology. Often priorities will shift rapidly even during the course of 1 working day, issues are vaguely defined and poorly scoped by nature (AZ1 cannot reach AZ2, plz fix ASAP), and the work is extraordinarily hard to measure complexity/effort (a one line config change can take weeks of investigation and touch tons of services).

I've seen plenty of people try though, to varying degrees of unsuccess. A kanban style system has always worked better for me personally.
Cat Drop
A rich and famous man at a fancy dinner party says to a young woman seated next to him, “Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?”

“You know," she giggles, "I think I would.”

“Would you sleep with me for 50 dollars?"

"Really, what kind of a woman do think I am?"

“We’ve already established that. Now we’re just haggling about the price.”
Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

547 points by cryoz 7 months ago | 381 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789
Fear based on blame is notoriously bad for any process that improve safety. You fire who did it wrong and people will stop putting the right names in the right boxes when signing off stuff, things will be shoved under the rug for fear of retribution.

That's exactly the wrong way to deal with the issue...
But we are, at least I am, almost always integrating or interacting with new libraries, APIs, new features , new behaviours. I might not be personally writing that code but I definitely need to be up to date and adapting all the time.
I was doing a bit of a back of the envelope calculation the other day. The max cabin differential on the 737 Max is a hair over 8psi. If we assume that plug is about 4ft x 3ft that is nearly 14000lb (about 6300kg) pushing on the plug. Quite extraordinary that it didn't fail on the first flight out of the factory.
If the ACTIVE VOLCANO is well studied and it is known that the way that it will reduce the city from thousands of people to one is… slowly annoying them into leaving rather than exploding… it makes sense to stick around for a while and see how things go.

Most places have some kind of environmental catastrophe that can befall them. I grew up in a very stable area weather and geography wise (northeast US), so I can say with objective certainty as an outside observer to catastrophe: everywhere else on Earth has some crazy thing trying to kill the inhabitants, but they’ve just gotten used to it.
I took a balloon flight recently. There was a ground crew of two cars chasing the balloon to get us landed, or “fished down”. The ground crew must move with the balloon which makes military applications less appealing.
REALLY LIKE IT.

There are a lot of comment content mgmt features Id want - but I like it. and all the basics are missing (just like some of them on HN) -- this one has no collapse, voting, sorting, filtering which should all be trivial.)

Should have option to have comments open in new tab - its snappy and the back button works great

Some features I'd like on HN would be filter tags etc...

But as far as the snappy speed of that page its pretty sweet. Though its probably not running from @Dang's basement machine like HN is ;-)
There's more options than just self-checkout and I would argue they work a lot better in FMCG, for instance the grab-and-go tech of AmazonGo, which has come way down in price and difficulty past few years.
It's the same line of thinking that results in 90% of stuff on indiehackers and by solo devs is for themselves and other solo devs, tech tools that are extremely niche, for a market with people not willing to pay for them.

An extreme blindspot.

Every introverted dev should go outside and meet other people, check out the irl marketplaces with 1 coffee for 10$, thats the best investment they can make.
It's even worse when they try to apply it to hardware.
Unless they can't. And unless one takes the time to actually understand the circumstances under which the asset was privatized, you have no idea whether that's the case. But golly gee it's a whole lot easier to take the intellectually shallow path of "how dare a company make more money than I think they should" and avoid all that messy 'research' and 'understanding'.

Duh.
Actually, no. What you describe is a superficial culture in which people mistake instant gratification for actual knowledge and experience. That might work if you are content to end up being a lifelong junior dabbler, sitting the end of a Jira-pipeline and doing what you are being told. It is not how you become a principal or someone people call when they have problems for which there doesn't exist obvious blueprints.
It's not remotely true in the US either. This is probably some kind of hit piece.
And you need significant wiggle room: namely empty but ready to be used accomodations. And I meant "decent" accomodations, which is actually a very, very complicated matter, almost a case by case.

"Decent" social accomodation is so tight to get, it is fueling xenophobia.
You use a router or you have a service that watches history api and dispatches Redux actions.

React is UI library. Just because it can do a lot doesn't mean it should do everything. Especially in larger apps.
Do you own work bud
There is a technology where the shopping cart itself is the self checkout.
Our operating systems are not made by average developers.
In general this is never spoken of as corruption here. Not in mainstream discourse anyways. It's spoken of as a "bad deal", but the "C" word isn't really deployed.

In the early/mid-90s recessionary period when this was inked, the justification was excessively high debts incurred by the previous provincial gov't. Austerity was the name of the game, and decisions like these were seen as "wise fiscal management." Those debts now look minor compared to the present, and we'd have been in much better fiscal situation keeping the toll road public and letting that money flow back.
Vision isn't what you think it is – see for yourself [video]
Generative AI for 3D models – beta testers needed
We're super proud of this Gen AI 2.0 - working with 3D models!
Looking for pre-release beta testers now.
How to create a board with GitHub Issues
I am working on medical device software, processes are terrible, tech stack is not really up to date, but at least, I sometimes feel that I am helping people down the line.
The future foretold. Read it. At least the Abstract, Recommendations, and Concluding Remarks.
Not the commenter, but for me this is it. I'm don't mind any other insect or rodent. But for some reason roaches are absolutely disgusting.

I know how silly it sounds but I would hesitate to work on any project that worked with this tech just because it would make me uncomfortable to hear the word so often.