skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> other than by pure chance

Barring intelligent design, there's an extremely good chance that at least one of these systems exist, and an equally good chance that only one exists, and we're just lucky enough to have observed it.
SRAM size has not been scaling at all in recent nodes, so these days the notion of uniform scaling is also breaking down quite a bit. This means that future designs will have less cache memory per core, unless they use chiplets to add more memory (either SRAM or eDRAM) close enough to the chip to become usable as some kind of bespoke cache.
Looks like VW backed a lot of EV companies. I interviewed at a solid state battery company that was mainly backed by VW. I wonder if it will pay off with the current trends.
Do you take issue with search engines indexing your comments, making them discoverable, displaying them in search results? Possibly near ads?
> The company is expected to follow up with a lower cost model which will likely drop the EyeSight feature as part of its cost savings.

What is the eyesight feature? Does it mean eye tracking (which would be strange to drop) or something else?
thank you, this helps a lot!
I'm not sure which is worse: A slowly dying Google or a reactionary one sticking an unpolished AI into every service.
If you are talking to support, you already know your question isn't in the 95% easy ones.
You can have all that with the Garmin watches as well. They keep constant Bluetooth connection with your phone and can display realtime weather/ air quality/ etc on the always-on display.
It's all about what the customer pays. In the case of the Space Shuttle the customer also completely paid for the development of the launch system, so it doesn't really make sense to exclude that. It's also fair to include it because it's also included for SpaceX. When we say a Falcon Heavy got launch costs down to below $700/lb, that also includes a enough of a profit margin built in to completely fund their past operations and development, as well as future ones.

SpaceX's 'real' (in the sense you're speaking of) per launch costs are going to be substantially lower than even $700/lb. In the case of Boeing/Lockeed/etc, they didn't have to pay for any of this - as it was all completely taxpayer funded. That should have enabled them to offer prices that would be unbeatable by any company paying for their own operations.

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To put this another way, imagine Boeing et al operated like SpaceX, or frankly most any "normal" company does. They would need to set their launch prices in a fashion such that they'd be able to recoup their tens of billions of dollars in development costs on the Space Shuttle, and then also add a profit margin on top. It's likely their charged cost per launch would have been even higher than $1.6 billion!
Related:

Show HN: Pgs.sh – A zero-dependency static site hosting service for hackers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37392013 - Sept 2023 (38 comments)
The defense attorney said: “Both the arresting officer and the undercover officer — both a game warden for over 30 years each — testified that it is illegal to recover downed game at night without a weapon”
Why was Trump banned?
Furthermore, it's almost never the case that you legitimately expect to divide by zero. In the case of Python where exception handling is pervasive and idiomatic, it's far more reasonable to treat that as, well, an exception. If you're doing an operation that sometimes execute divide-by-zero, you can watch out for it and handle it appropriately. When you're not expecting to be doing that calculation, it's an error.
I remember reading a book by some kook with "PhD" in the author line, proving that the pyramids were alien technology.

One of the key pieces of evidence was that the three great pyramids perfectly line up in the way that the three stars in Orion's Belt line up.

The three stars are such a perfect straight line that they must have been pushed into position by a hyper-advanced alien race. (You know, to get them to line up perfectly from the Earth's perspective, which clearly would be important.)

But wait, that's not all. Not only are they so perfectly lined up, but they also put ONE of the stars just out of alignment, to show us exactly which star they came from, so we could go visit them.

Even as a twelve year old I was like, wait... any three points form a "perfectly straight line with one point out of alignment..."
tsoding is pretty great too if you are interested in c.
No, because failing to make something doesn’t elevate you to the same level of someone much more sophisticated failing to make something. It’s not about the failure though. It’s that the kid basically just set up parabolic mirrors with a heat lamp and measured the temperature change on the focal point, noted it was hotter, and extrapolated that means scaling it up would make it work. That’s great science fair stuff but nothing remarkable. The link I posted of the MIT professor actually making it work was a lot more fascinating because he goes into why specifically it’s hard to make it work at scale - the specific issue is as the mirror count rises and distance grows coordinating the focus on a single spot becomes impossibly hard.

Seriously tho i don’t meant to diss the kids science fair project (which is what the story is about fwiw). It’s cool. But it’s just not more headline worthy than the MIT project linked in my reply - now THAT is awesome.
Lenses. Composable Getters and Setters for Functional Programming (2018)
If the last 2 decades or so are anything to go by, those in power seem perfectly content to ride out the collapse banking on the fact that they have enough money to pay enough private security to keep themselves from getting [ CENSORED ].
Ugh, should be fixed. Another transfer problem that always has to be catched manually. I've been putting articles online since the mid-1990s, and in 30 fecking years of watching ever more elaborate text processing, DTP, web and content systems evolve from hand-assembled HTML 2 through homebrew content-management systems to CSS/HTML 5 and the fancy commercial CMSs of today, and desktop processor speeds go from 66 MHz to 3 GHz, we still can't reliably guarantee things like italics or superscripts will automatically go all the way through from word processor to browser.

I honestly thought that problem would be solved way before e.g. automated interview transcription...
I use a dedicated, disposable virtual machine for USB devices on Qubes OS: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb-qubes/
Anecdotally, I recently rented a Jeep Wrangler PHEV. Didn’t choose that model specifically; was expecting a Prius but it’s what the rental counter gave me.

The battery was dead when I picked it up. It was dead when I returned it, despite me actually looking for a L2 charger just to see what it would be like to drive fully on battery. It did drive as a hybrid (I could feel the ICE stop and start) but it wasn’t nearly as efficient as it could have been, especially considering my entire rental was probably under 100 miles.
Thanks! We have tried this and have gotten some signal on what kind of problems they're dealing with. But it's been a struggle getting from them just talking to trying out our tools and giving real product feedback. I suppose it requires a much higher effort on their part, or perhaps they're worried we are just trying to sell them something, when ideally we just really want to improve our product at this stage.
Imagine a scenario where you've got a database of timeseries data, say stock prices. Each price trend is identified by the stock ticker, and your users have an excel spreadsheet of several thousand equations in terms of the stock ticker (e.g. (AAPL-TSLA)/AAPL) and you want to calculate the derivative of each one of those equations with respect to each ticker symbol in each equation before pulling the data.

Obviously you could find a list of every ticker symbol and create a few thousand symbols before parsing, but you don't always have the luxury of a complete/up-to-date list, or doing so might create too many symbol objects and cause performance problems.
+/-0 should generally be thought of as 0. It's just "0 from the right" and "0 from the left." The reason it has +/-0 is for a few specific applications:

- Some people really do want 1/(-x) to be negative infinity when a positive x reaches underflow. This helps with some kinds of numerical simulations since it can preserve the sign bit through underflow.

- Interval arithmetic implementations need to be able to disambiguate closed and open intervals at 0.

If you turn on fast math mode, you can also essentially disable the special treatment of the zeros.
Affordable antimicrobial drugs aren't moneymakers. Can non-profit orgs help?
HubSpot app marketplace by the numbers – independent product demand and earnings
Hi all - for our work (a small team publishing B2B SaaS products) we've been diving deep into the data behind HubSpot's App Marketplace to explore its opportunity for new products. The numbers are definitely a bit surprising.

Long story, short - Building in the right market can change everything - especially for smaller publishers that need to create higher-value products that can largely sell themselves without massive marketing.

In 2024, HubSpot's app marketplace is generating about $70 million per month for third-party publishers across just 1,251 paid products – on average, that works out to $56k MRR per product.

Of course, like any market, there are outliers that pull these average numbers up, and some products are produced by large publishers with strong tailwinds outside of HubSpot that help drive their adoption.

But the vast majority of these are produced by independent publishers, many of whom are generating significant revenue in a relatively low-competition environment:

- When we look at the indie products in the middle of the pack and a bit above average (trimming the top 20% of outliers that pull averages up), independent publishers are pulling in an average of $23.4k MRR ($281k ARR) from about 150 customers. Many of these products are simple, solving one problem well, and require minimal support.

- With over 194k customers, HubSpot's user base is massive. It's a premium-priced platform serving high-value, recurring business problems for well-funded marketing and sales teams. Their marketplace is well-designed and provides a great acquisition channel with strong tailwinds provided by the main platform.

- Amazingly, HubSpot currently charges no listing or transaction fees, and the marketplace still has relatively few products for its large user base and their diverse needs. It's still looks ripe for new entrants.

IMO, building a product isn't really the issue - especially now. Understanding customers is critical, but understanding which market to build for first - and where to build within it - is vital to finding the tailwinds it takes to succeed as solopreneur or small team.

Also - I'm a long-time HN lurker, but first-time poster. Hopefully this info is helpful to others - and presented in a way to is the right fit. I'm happy to answer any questions about the data or our process.

I've put together a more detailed, interactive version of this data here - https://claytonfarr.com/hubspot-marketplace - if you want to dig deeper into the numbers.

Thanks,
Clayton
You can skip bounds checks in Rust using `unsafe`
Fail to plan, plan to fail.
Did you buy a 3D TV? It's about the same usefulness.
Do you have the same empathy for lamp lighters? Would you have condemned electric street lights in favor for the sake of lamplighters and oil lamp makers having jobs?
> (...) Amazon declined with the argument that it was short notice and that the hearing seemed to focus solely on Amazon despite the company consisting of less than 1% of the sector.

What a bullshit excuse. Amazon representatives represent 100% of Amazon, and answer for Amazon's labour practices.

This is the same company which a couple of years ago announced they adopted the "strive to be Earth's best employer" leadership principle, which starts to sound a lot like an abusive husband's claim they will strive to be the world's best husband.
I posted this link as a comment below but it might be worth linking from the top what I have always thought is a very good article, "The Node is Nonsense":

https://read.nxtbook.com/ieee/spectrum/spectrum_na_august_20...
Once again, someone mistakenly assumes that the Agile Manifesto favoring the items on the left magically means ignoring the items on the right. This is a strawman.

"That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more." It doesn't say we junk the items on the right.
In my experience, a dishonest debater will withhold information. That is you don't know a key fact which will sway the decision one way or the other. No amount of preparation can help you when you don't know all the facts.
Orbitals - The Tiny Houses of solar scale structures
> Is our goal for to cut emissions by 10%? No. It’s to cut emissions by 100%.

I don't think most people would want to live in the world where you've cut emissions by 100%.

Even making a bicycle emits some amount of emissions. Making a PV panel emits GHG emissions. Having a pet emits GHG emissions.
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Children of Time is such a great series, one of my favorites. I really loved the two corvid characters in the latest book. Tchaikovsky really is a great sci-fi writer, I'd recommend his Shards of Earth trilogy.

I'm also surprised to see somebody recommend A Darkling Sea! I don't think I've ever met someone else who's read it and recommended it before. The somewhat odd sidestory of the aliens who communicate through sex has turned off the couple people I've recommended it to from the story, pun not intended.
I've been dissatisfied with all of them actually!

But both Deal (https://pypi.org/project/deal/) and icontract (https://pypi.org/project/icontract/) have merit.

I can't remember where I saw it, but the author of deal seemed a bit annoyed at the existence of icontract, maybe on a mailing list.

I've played around with CrossHair (https://pypi.org/project/crosshair-tool/) as well a bit, and that supports both deal and icontract.

icontract also seems to integrate with hypothesis (https://pypi.org/project/hypothesis/) , which deal does not do explicitly.
It's a reference to the movie/book 2010: Odyssey Two, by Arther C. Clarke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two
> So stuff like pocket, VR or FirefoxOS where needed tries of FF to gain some feature with which you can gain users. Tries they lost but I would say failing to try would have been worse leadership.

You know what else could have gained them new users? Best in class mobile browser supporting full range of FF extensions! Instead they dragged their feet on extension support for years and its performance on Android is still inconsistent for me.
I'm not inclined to think that the battery material is really the largest constraint to building efficient PHEV/EVs though. I'm in VA and when I was looking for a 2023/2024 Prius Prime to test drive, not a single one was in stock within hours of me. To test drive one, I'd have to drive hours into Maryland or Pennsylvania and then if I wanted it, likely have to pay way over MSRP plus bs doc fees, "upgrades" and other nonsense. I eventually said F that shit and just bought a Tesla that is 100% battery. They're easily available, in inventory, despite each one perhaps having 10 times the amount of battery than the Prius Prime. Given the ease there is to buy a Tesla, and the easy availability of Mach-E and the Kia and Hyundai EVs, I can't believe that the whole 10 PHEV = 1 EV is an equation of any importance.
Britain's biggest power station "burns ancient forests for green fuel"
>This isn't hard. Don't pretend it is.

Funny. What is a thoughtful regulation that would satisfy 50%+1 (democracy, yay!) of the 350 million Americans that the (or, any) government supposedly represents - or however many foolish enough of those 350 million citizens choose to actively participate in federal-level politics?

I'm willing to bet that it would be even harder to find any meaningful majority (50%+1) of citizens who are satisfied with such legislation in the second group I mentioned earlier
All programming languages have advocates. Rust is special in that it is a bunch of advocates with a language. Can't stop advocating.
Maybe ally/enemy is a spectrum and also not one-dimensional. "Not ally" does not imply enemy and my military ally might not be my ally in trade. Also most US allies have learned to not read too much into the word ally. The US makes for a rather fickle and sometimes insidious partner.

Trust in the US on military matters is rather high (despite some recent blunders), but in every other arena it is basically nonexistent. I don't see why the US should receive any less scrutiny than China in this instance.
“In short, the main origin is the anthropic origin that we talk about, the origin is the man setting fire, whether in a pasture area, next door or directly in the forest to practice, to let it spread”

Compare that to here. Man made fires by people who think fire suppression is the folly of European settlers.
What is the point of all those measuring spoons/cups if you can use scales?
In a movie, if a character is far away, their voice comes from far away.
Voice actors always have the mic in front of them, so their voices always come from the same place, not relative to the scene. That's what I meant.

I also think it is beautiful to hear the sound of the original language, particularly if it is one I am not used to. It's part of the charm.

I have grown up with dubs, thou, so I understand you. But once one gets used to no dubs, there is no way back. It's like removing sugar from the coffee.
Went from an Apple Watch to a Garmin Instinct Solar. Very happy with it. "Smartwatch-lite" features like notifications and music control but with a week+ battery and rugged design. Highly recommended.
If structs are just tables by another name, this sounds a lot like Lua to me. Not that there's anything wrong with Candy here, but I don't know that it's much of a departure from what we already have.
Which means we need to consume a huge amount of energy per capita on an ongoing basis to clean up the plastic industry's pollution.
It's wild that the end goal for a safe from bots internet is basically doing what North Korean did their digital infrastructure.
There’s a cut at 5:10, after the parachute opens: https://youtu.be/qw4DseiPu7E?si=QZFAnKYfVnQc92TD&t=305

There’s another cut earlier when still outside the atmosphere as well.
Except after 10 years, they get nothing. No govt' subsidies, nothing it's just normalized. Congress doesn't need to respond to slow job loss, it's just accepted.

So what do they do when they have nothing, and nobody gives a shit, and the rich have had time to move to their fortresses of solitude?

This way it's a national crisis, it's on every talk show and news outlet, and it becomes the number one issue in politics for everyone next to maybe climate change. Which kinda adds to the pot because of people needing to migrate also because some places will not be habitable any longer.
The only way Waymo is leading the driverless car race is if the future of all driverless cars is geo-fenced.

Clearly, that is not how it will work
ITT: we think about what Android actually does
> But some of the things Intel planned for 10nm turned out to be harder to get working correctly than EUV.

Is that actually true? The direct competitor to Intel 10nm is TSMC N7, which is an overall similar process - DUV, multiple patterning etc. -, achieves similar performance and power efficiency, and had a similar timeline to how the Intel process played out (as opposed to how it was originally scheduled). TSMC also only began using EUV for processes following N7.
> I see zero issue with AI farming Stack Overflow,

> Thought AI companies farming copyrighted work on the other hand, that's a different story.

All post on Stack Overflow are still copyright of respective posters. They are offered publicly under Creative Commons license that require attribution.
I think I think slowly in some things and fast with others
Driving the Worst Car in America
> You still need to listen

I think you missed this part of the parent comment.
> Modulo is not an operator,

"operator" is being used as a term of art in programming language design, to describe a symbol used to indicate that an operation should be performed on one or more operands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_(computer_programming...

So the "%" symbol is an operator in C and Python, and it is standard usage to describe the operator that performs a mathematical function "X" as the "X operator".
Notice the two that impacted at almost exactly the same spot, a few second apart (around 1:00). What precision!
Sagemath is a Python library (and a rather large one at that). It's vastly superior to Mathematica and Maple at some things (e.g., number theory and algebraic combinatorics) and inferior at other things (e.g., symbolic integration).
> So from the perspective that it's all just bits in the end the only thing that is interesting is how useful it is to arrange those bits into trits for this particular algorithm, and that the algorithm seems to be able to use things more effectively that way than with raw bits.

Thank you. I find many other things interesting here, including the potential implications for hardware, but otherwise, yes, I agree with you, that is interesting.
Years ago I went to a thinktank event on drone policy, and the congressmen they brought in spent 15 minutes saying that we needed to start discussing the important conversation of beginning to plan our policy creation dialog.

Nothing but hot air.
Try AllWaysKillSticky: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/alwayskillsti...
> If you can't see behind the deer while it's lit up, you certainly can't see what's behind it in pitch darkness.

You can demonstrate this pretty easily at night in your backyard. Have someone shine a flashlight at something. Same reason photos of the moon don't show the stars in the sky; they get washed out by the brighter object.

> Are you sure about that?

That's a reply to "It's [spotlighting] also not illegal everywhere." Yes, I'm certain, given the charges.
This reads like it was written by an AI, the structure seems dead on: concede the basis of the question while restating it, but offer a list of pros written out with similar sentence structure then have a wrap up sentence.
Open Sourcing Pingora
I have a few fossil watches I wear. Never really felt compelled to put something smart on my wrist, even if every MBA's wet dream in the mid-late 2000's was to make a smartwatch.
Do you think what coachmen should still be able to do their honest work to bring the bread home?

What about lynotype workers?
That works well if you're going TO a transporter pad.

It doesn't work when they use a transporter to go to a desolate planet.
I agree and hope that by talking about it like this openly and publicly that maybe others who haven't learned this lesson can do so.
For great justice, does anyone know of any applications (other than Maple) that support WYSIWYG typeset input (not output) like Maple does?

As far as I know, Wolfram/Mathematica, LaTex, SymPy, Jupyter, Sage etc all rely on typewriter text for composing and inputting math. For this (and only this) reason, Maple is the only application that ever resonated with me, because input may be written in the same form it's written by hand, and it's baffling this capability isn't more commonplace. Is this a barrier to anyone else?