skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tone of this is just awful, reads like he's saying they've laid off a bunch of people who were slowing us down, and sort of ends it by saying how excited he is about the business now they've been let go...
> AR/VR are going to be much more compelling than spatial computing, and they don't want to sully those efforts by mixing it with this stepping stone we have now.

I disagree. I think they don’t want to be compared to a $500 VR headset. VR hasn’t taken off enough to move the needle on Apple financials. It’s not “good enough”. As nice as the Vision Pro is can it justify its extra $3000 cost in comparison if it’s also just VR/AR? Sure it’s more powerful, but it doesn’t even have controllers.

On the other hand AR has largely failed so far too. The HoloLens didn’t revolutionize the world. And the level of AR a Quest 3 offers is much lower resolution than Apple had. And, again, $3000 difference there (HoloLens was way more).

I think they want to be seen as a new category and not just another AR/VR thing. Sure the Mac was technically a personal computer, it was so different from a PC AT as to be almost a totally different thing. iPod vs Creative Nomad. iPhone vs early Windows CE phones.

That’s what they want. They want to be judged on their own. Not “I bought a Quest 4 and it was OK, why should I pay $X more? It wasn’t useful to me.”

Will it work? Time will tell. If it does the Vision line will be looked at as a totally different product category from the Quests/etc of today. If it doesn’t they’re in trouble.
All I see here is someone made a bigger list from multiple other lists from prior breaches. This isn't "the mother of all breaches", this is clickbait. Unless there is some new confirmed breach somewhere that in fact contains 26 billion records ex-filtrated, the only thing this is the mother of is a nothing burger.
You're actually talking to a bot, in this particular case. 12 minutes old with -2 karma. :berk:
C# is doing that :)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime....

Examples of usage:

- https://github.com/U8String/U8String/blob/main/Sources/U8Str...

- https://github.com/nietras/1brc.cs/blob/main/src/Brc/BrcAccu...

- https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/libraries/Sy...

(and many more if you search github for the uses of Vector128/256<byte> and the like!)
3 minutes? I have to go to the gas station, it’s a lot cheaper to go to Costco. Wait for a car or two. Fill up. Costs more money. I’m glad you’d rather do that than literally 5 seconds at home. Enjoy
.deb packages have been the primary method of distributing programs on Linux for well over a decade at this point.
The fall of the USSR was more of a political collapse caused by elites thinking another system would be better, not economic collapse.
Is there any info about where the pieces were found? If they are apprentice pieces there ought to be clues in their found locations.
And these meetings mysteriously have a bunch of sticky notes everywhere, they're purpose is unknown, they're unintelligible, but load bearing for the project. Load bearing sticky notes.
As someone who is quite new to Ubuntu, and recently just ran an install. I've seen this "snap" word thrown around and for better or worse I consider the opinion of random HN users to be better than the average opinion elsewhere on the internet.

What do you dislike so much about snap? Also any tips on how one goes about purging it from their machine if they too also decide they don't like it?
I don't know the truth about it, but what people say is that most unprofitable SaaS startups are the way they are because they're making no money at all, not that their costs are higher than their 2x-one-developer's-compensation revenues.
20% after an 11% layoff is high even during current times imo
As it so happens, Wiley's Non Sequitur for today, dovetails nicely: https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2024/01/23
Another data point: my FW13 12th gen, also on Debian, reaches 6 hours. I didn't tune anything other than cap the CPU to 2GHz in order to avoid fan noise.
As a reminder for any US Citizens, there is an official path to getting this from each of the main three for free[1] is the approved method verified by FTC [2].

1. https://annualcreditreport.com

2. https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/free-credit-reports
Their corporate culture hasn't been corrupted by MBAs chasing profit over product yet
There are quite a few clades here on earth that failed to become self-aware, still less capable of space travel.
You are correct. Blocks are frontend components built with React.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-koch-openpgp-webkey-s...

Serve the key at a certain URL from a webserver on your email domain. Clients that trust the domain can trust the key that it serves.
One example for which I use ChatGPT is tip of the tongue. I can't remember a word, but I can describe it in other ways. Google doesn't catch on those keywords, ChatGPT does.

It's also pretty good for generating pointers for a complex solution. Like I try to figure out something in the non-JPA old version of EclipseLink, so I ask ChatGPT. The generated code is very often wrong, but it often points me into a right direction.
> I don't think the mechanism was fully thought out.

There was a lot in those books that wasn't fully thought out, imo. In general, I thought the first book was good and interesting, especially the bits about Chinese history & culture, but overall I think the concepts have been done better, by better authors.

It feels a little bit like Harry Potter. It was a lot of people's first exposure to something (for HP, reading, for DF, science fiction) and so it'll forever have this nice feeling of nostalgia, and I'm glad they got to read something and enjoy it - but if you start looking at the details, things begin to not quite add up, things don't quite make sense, and the internal world-building begins to show its seams quite heavily.

> why bother going through any of the rest of this instead of just making everything two-dimensional the moment you invent the technology in order to wipe everyone else out from the get go.

My understanding from the book is that life is impossible in two dimensions; the people using these weapons are permanently poisoning the universe, presumably under the assumption that their species won't last long enough to deal with the consequences.
Blog: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/01/19/platform-tilt/

Tilt: https://mozilla.github.io/platform-tilt/
Germans. Germans everywhere.
Why not both? You buy the car, and you pay a recurring subscription fee for the service.
I think for #2, they meant like AI-powered control-F / find in page.

Which is actually the first non-novelty AI tool I've heard someone pitch that actually sounded like a good idea. Way more visible failure mode than summarizing.
Did you seriously just berk me on HN.

What next, is a Walmart cashier going to do that RobloxNite "dab dance" or whatever on me?

Discusting. Dusgraseful.
Would be nice to see cola included in the benchmarks: https://nomad.foo/blog/cola
I agree, and the other downside is that with the server-free approach described in the article, there wouldn't be a backup of your data off your device.

The author does mention privacy concerns — hence the appeal of storing the data locally on your device.

I work on PowerSync https://www.powersync.com/ — using embedded SQLite for local-first/offline-first which syncs with Postgres in the background.

I think using an architecture like that where an encrypted version of the data is synced to Postgres, and decrypted for access on the client, would balance the trade-offs well.
I feel like Tailwind may be one of the most discussed topics on here at this point.. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tailwindcss
Ask HN: Could nitrogen leaks during a Texas execution be dangerous?
The BBC is carrying a story that a Texan murderer is to be asphyxiated breathing pure nitrogen from a mask:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68053917

(Leaving the moral questions aside) Dr Joel Zivot, an associate professor in anaesthesiology at Emory University's School of Medicine is quoted in the article as saying there is a danger to anyone else in the room from nitrogen leaks:

"He warns of unintended risks from the presence of pure nitrogen changing the oxygen-to-nitrogen ratio in the execution chamber, especially as Smith could hold his breath or move his head against the mask, or the equipment could leak. "Some of it will be exhaled [by Smith] along with carbon dioxide and some of it may leak out of the mask. And I think that that presents a real and material danger to this execution," Dr Zivot said."

This article says that you don't pass out until oxygen drops to 10% or less (presumably at sea level pressure):

https://www.skuld.com/contentassets/4867cb8cc9f842a08c25d29050654527/oxygen-levels---skuld.pdf

From the picture in the article I would guess that the execution room is at least 50m^3 in volume.

To dilute the air in the room from ~20% to ~10% oxygen throughout the room would require ~50m^3 of nitrogen to leak from the mask or equipment (more if the room is not airtight). Apparently a 5' nitrogen tank only hold ~6.5 cubic meters of nitrogen!

Allowing for the fact there is likely to be a concentration gradient, you would need to reduce the whole room to 10% oxygen. But it still seems barely credible that many cubic meters of gas are going to leak, unless the executioners are totally incompetent. Am I missing something or does the prof need to re-do his calculations?
Correct. The Tacoma and Tundra are assembled in the US so should avoid the tax. The Land Cruiser is still produced in Japan, so subject to the tax. Same for the Lexus GX (no Toyota equiv in US) and LX (rebadged Land Cruiser).

The old mini-truck and T100 were made in Japan (except maybe a year or two at the end of T100 production).

The tax was implemented in the 60s or 70s, as VW was trying to get into the van and truck market in the US.
Tesla's hardware certainly is minimalistic though, and hence the Apple analogy. The software inside an iPhone is ferociously complicated, but the slab of glass, no buttons form factor is much simpler than the Nokias etc it replaced.
Thats how the rest of the car is built though. You don’t get a honda, you get a laundry list of component vendors you’ve probably never heard of on a contract to make parts along with a honda badge, vendors who go on to make all the competitors cars out of these same supply lines too.
Is a layman's interpretation of this to state: LLMs tend to perform like aggregated humanity, but any given human will differ. Since all the volume of a high-dimensional sphere is at the edge, almost nobody is like the mean, so the false-positive-rate is low?

It's a clever plan, until the LLMs do some adversarial training....
Shorter active fund managers: "Passive funds are making us look bad because they outperform us!"

Invoking the EMH in this context is bizarre, though: if it was fully true, an active fund manager would be as useful as an active roulette manager.
But that's not actually true. It's very common have to have a program that is valid and won't pass the borrow checker. You need to adjust the way you program to generate programs the borrow checker will approve of, and then the 10% is when it's hard or impossible to make that adjustment.

It's fine, it's just that it is more restrictive than the philosophy claims. It's still a good approach.
> Ground effect vehicles are more in the car/boat space when it comes to mechanical failure.

Not quite. This thing depends on dynamic stability. If a wingtip touches the water at speed, it will probably flip. It has to turn without banking. So it has many of the stability and control problems of an aircraft at landing, plus some of the wave problems of a seaplane. It's not like a big, wide hovercraft, where, if you lose power, you just settle down into boat mode.
Wow. It looks like I must upgrade my phone soon. So far I hung up on the missing audio jack, but I didn't realize the SD card is also missing in Galaxy S. WTF, this sucks.
My system, my choice. I'll be testing Mozilla's packages, for sure.

As for Debian's standard response to using non-Debian packages, they have the following wiki entry:

https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian
Well, the regions the dodecahedrons have been found were mostly not thoroughly Romanised, right? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron: "at least 116 similar objects have been found in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom".
How much Roman writing has survived? If this item was so common, it's strange that it isn't mentioned more in literature.
Yes, used to. 15 years ago trying to publish research on critical infrastructure vulnerabilities would get you a visit from the FBI (ask me how I know). Now you get invited to DC to present it in person and your remediation suggestions are taken seriously.
I think 50B tons is a huge underestimation.
The traditional computer chip will have a power draw proportional to frequency and the square of voltage, which itself must be increased to control delay and raise frequency:

P ∝ C×V²×f

So if you are ready to accept a lower speed per core, the power draw can be controlled and you won't get a toaster.

One difficulty would be that modern technological nodes have high leakage and dissipate power even when they are not switching, making it more advantageous to clock aggressively, finish the computation as fast as possible and cut the power on that entire circuit for the remainder of the timer slot ("race to idle"), as opposed to reducing the frequency and prolonging the "on" phase.

But that's a deliberate design choice, knowing the chip will be cut out and fitted with a substantial thermal solution. Wafer level power draw it's definitely something you can control at the design stage.
I've used it a moderate amount. But I'm not here to argue about how fluid functional code is, I'm here say that OOP works fine, and making slight changes to improve that experience is good. We don't need to actively discourage OOP by making it awkward.

Especially when you're not dealing with the DOM, sometimes objects work quite well.

The original awkwardness does not show that javascript "was never designed to be used like a classic OOP language".

Nor is it why jquery worked well.

And adding these slight changes is not trying to "hammer" javascript into being "more typical OOP".
Apple should buy one of the local EV companies like Lucid or Rivian, it would save them years of R&D on the hardware, give them valuable automotive guidance on the software and how things work in the car world. Lucid's software R&D is run by many ex-Apple people.

Also, I don't think self-driving is a must-have feature and I speak as the driver of a Tesla with full-self-driving. It's just not that useful. Traffic-aware safety features are more valuable and easier to achieve.
Good point. Buc-ee's certainly is a testament to that new reality.
Ah, totally agree, perhaps I misread your comment. I'm not much for prescriptive views on food and my Italian family is full of 'em ;)
OrgSyn was/is the absolute gold standard, and partly why I ended up quitting academic organic chemistry. A key metric in organic chemistry is yield, ie. how much of A turns into B. Top journals generally required 15+ examples of yield >85-90% for a new reaction (unless it was really novel). Reference that 90%+ figure against the typical OrgSyn yield and you'll be wondering what a stressed out PhD with limited analytic support knows that a team of real process chemists doesn't.

Process chemistry is not a glamourous field, so people submit their results for at least some recognition and the journal editors replicate the procedures in their own labs independently. Their stipulation is that the single most expensive reagent cannot be more than $500.
At the very least I am claiming that one data point is less valuable than multiple datapoints.
One of the big reasons I love Tailwind is because of the book Refactoring UI by the author of Tailwind.

I am primarily a backend end person and Refactoring UI really helped me when trying to make a nice front end. Tailwind is the encapsulation of those principles in a nice CSS library.
I watched a tech demo of an LLM writing code to make a neat little user interface. I would have thought that utterly impossible a couple years ago.

I don’t think this would be a good time to start a career drafting contracts.
For the last three years I have used only Go with vanilla HTML (templates/html from the standard library), CSS and JS.

For a database, I have been using PostgreSQL.
When I am prompted to 'try again' with a new 3x3 of low-res images I often wonder if there was a bit of 'crosswalk' I missed in one, or if this is just how they get me to annotate another set for 'bicycles' for free.
In my understanding, normally you have a tiny chip that is inside a larger package and then you can attach that packaged chip to something that takes away the heat. So the ratio of cooling element(package + heat remover) to heating element(the IC) is pretty large. Also, the speed of removing heat from the silicon IC is limited to the heat conductivity of the silicon itself and the materials used to make the package. The silicon itself is not where the heating happens but on the "etched/printed" features on top of the silicon.

Therefore, the amount of heat by heating elements(the tiny wires over the wafer) grow faster than the heat dissipation capacity, which rises the temperature until the unit breaks.

Notice that when the heating elements are close together you lose the horizontal heat gradient advantage since that grows by the perimeter when the heat generating elements grow by the area.

Which means you have to get creative, add moving parts or use more exotic materials, which makes the thing significantly more expensive and less reliable as more things to break are added.
Ah yes, the checks notes ever popular bank account hacking SEO spam line.

(Legitimately I am confused but maybe it is a one-two scam or the like, lolz. <3 :')))) ;'PPPP ;'PPPP)
This scientist is just older than LaTeX.
Yeah, that makes sense. But lots of people pointed out to me that "right of way won't matter when you're dead" and that "cemeteries are filled with people who had the right of way". That's true and taking that to heart means buying a big truck because then right of way doesn't matter and it's the other guy in the cemetery. After all, "I'd rather be judged by 12 than buried by 6" or whatever. Yield to gross tonnage.
The trouble with this is discoverability and reducing friction.

It all sounds nice in theory until the device suddenly doesn’t want to talk over Bluetooth or your bonjour shares timeout. In 2024 they aren’t foolproof enough to handle constant data interchange, particularly if we are talking about a lot of devices.

Not to mention with BT it’s easy to hit radio interference unexpectedly
Elon's antics are wrecking Twitter, but Tesla is chugging along nicely all the same. Most of the world doesn't follow or care about Silicon Valley CEO drama in the same way that we here on HN do.
All that grandparent comment is saying is that this specific news story is a nothing burger, not that we should ignore other, bigger issues. In fact, they're saying that mentioning small issues like this is a red herring and a distraction. Presumably they agree that the recent Alaska Airlines door plug mishap and the total losses you mentioned are important.
I wasn't joking, I'm not going to use the American spelling just because I'm talking about how Americans use the word. They really do use "wheel" and "tyre" interchangeably.
Ubisoft Unveils the Future of Not Owning Games [video]
The goal was never a tangible product but a marketable investment opportunity. You can tell this is how it is because the latter went exceedingly well and there is still no product because there was never supposed to be a product. If it was about the product it would be done by now.
Discussed at the time:

Why is machine learning ‘hard’? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12936891 - Nov 2016 (88 comments)
That's fair, but the wagon should still outperform an equivalent cross-over in just about any measure.

What I don't know is where the line is between car-based cross-over and actual truck (as it related to emissions and safety standards).
Common sense is the first casualty when any topic has political bias to it. This comment demonstrates that.

Large vehicles are important part of American economy and mostly driven by blue collar workers doing their work. For example things like plumbing, construction site work etc. Now a days environment scientists and engineers too drive these large vehicles as they are very important for their day to day work. Not everyone can drive Tesla Model 3 everywhere.

In fact majority of those large vehicles are you see are mostly driven by such needs ( pun intended).

But the research on this topic itself is pretty shoddy. For example one has to look at other variables. Who was driving when the accident happened ? Chances are someone who was rushing to his work.

A lot of other data points out that the drivers are at fault are often poor people going to their work in their work vehicle. Another data is he victims too are poor people going to their work and disregarding basic pedestrian safety.

These are not men pretending to be rugged.
That doesn't explain how it then goes to 8 total spaces.
Apart from the inconvenience of the time it takes to charge and the failure of battery pack swapping that the Model S supported, most people don't need even 200 miles of range in everyday life. On long trips, there is already a massive network of charging stations throughout CONUS that the only problems will be edge-cases of remote areas limited to RV shore power circuits, e.g., 120 V 30 A (2.9 kW to car) or 240 V 50 A (9.6 kW to car). While finding a 48A L2 NACS portable charger is a $$ and a PITA, it's doable.
Of the people I know personally who bought Tesla's I do know they weren't aware of the reputation for difficult servicing and parts availability.
And if you'd like to read it later, bookmark it! You can organize bookmarks into groups, give them custom names, and they don't require the browser to be constantly hoarding multiple gigabytes of RAM.
> While a desirable state for users,

isn't users all that matters in the long term?
Logica Tutorial
> the distance between solar systems is so incredibly massive, and the impossibility of FTL so real

Those things, and the likely temporal separation of civilizations - where they miss because one peaked one million years before its nearby neighbours. E.g. Proxima Centauri, our nearest star, which per Wikipedia, is 200 million years older than the sun, so a civilization there which matured at the same speed as ours, would likely be long gone.
Those are nice but superficial? the big one is avoiding cascading.
>I've never been to the Bay Area, so what I'm about to say may not apply,

This is honestly where it is hitting. When I moved to the bay area ~10years ago I asked myself 'why are they paying me usd500k to move here when I could just work from my home country for a fraction of that'.

Meanwhile in my home country there's a tech boom. In fact my current big faang company is hiring there and closing jobs here.

Can't say I'm surprised except that it took this long for the realization that you don't need to have your staff move to the bay area and thus you don't need to pay bay area wages.
No, the majority of people using phones as their only computers.
Ohhhh, I misunderstood that in the same way. $17 is the burn (i.e. the net loss), not the expenses.
This is probably a stupid question, but what kind of image generation does this do? The architecture overview shows "input image", and I don't see anything about text to image. Is it super resolution? Does class-conditional mean that it takes a class like "car" or "face" and generate a new random image of that class?