skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Global thermonuclear war would destroy technological civilization, but even now there are small groups of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers in remote regions who use only muscle power and do not need factory manufactured goods. Uncontacted tribes [1] would go on living much as usual if a nuclear war depopulated industrialized regions.

There would be some increase in mortality among remote tribes as radioactive fallout from a large scale nuclear war drifted down globally, but that wouldn't be enough to cause human extinction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_peoples
Show HN: repeater v1.2 – A command parallizer written in go
Version 1.2.x has just been released containing stabilization upgrades and improved error handling. It will now reattempt the command until successful.

Other upgrades since I posted last is additions in the ./benchmark.sh, where I've included both GNU parallel and xargs for benchmark comparisons. repeater is magnitudes faster than GNU parallel and between 10-20% faster than xargs -P using the same amount of processes/workers.
Lack of 5G is a major oversight. The iPhone had that 4 years ago. Good condition iPhone 12 models go for under $300, and they want to sell this thing for $400.

Seems like it's better to grab an iPhone 12, set the screen to greysfale in the accessibility settings, and then turn on screen time to block social media apps and other distractions.

An OS settings preference selection isn't a product.
An observational study of programming and cannabis intoxication
That would make a lot of sense given the absolute crapware that comes with them.
And yeah, you are just reinforcing the GP's point, because all of those are atrocious.

I am at the ORMs are bad club, but if you try any of the systems that encode the logic paradigm into their interface, they are a completely different kind of beast. (MS has brought some of it into C# with linq so you can use with the Entity Framework. It's not a fully logic system, and has so many attrition points with the Entity Framework that it's mostly not useful at all.)
Companies that advertise on big job sites get lots of applicants.

You want the diamond in the rough. Those jibs are only on a company's web site or are similarly hidden so that nobody finds them.

Someone should start indexing them and sell access to the database.
At least for me, any phone which can't access either the Google Play Store or Apple App Store is simply a non-starter.

I use apps to:

• Operate and pay for the laundry machine in the basement of my apartment building.

• Confirm all of my students (I'm an elementary school teacher) made it outside during a fire drill.

• See the real-time location of a private bus which picks me up in the morning.

• Change the times when my ice maker should automatically turn on and off.

None of these apps have equivalents on PC. And, I didn't decide to use them, someone else chose for me.

I don't use these apps all the time, and using them doesn't really need to be a good experience, but they must be accessible somehow!
Their name might get them in trouble with the AA, a UK and Ireland insurance company who has products such as AA Roadwatch.

Other than that potential future problem, this is pretty much the system working as intended, and they're following the path led by sites such as Wookiepedia.
> It’s amazing how many front end frameworks now exist that require running a backend server to even render basic HTML. This, remix, next, Astro, and so many others.

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> This

Yeah, this uses Python and is not specifically an SSG, so it makes sense for a server to be needed. Making an SSG that uses this would probably be possible, though.

> Remix

Remix is a fullstack app framework with a focus on data flow, directly going against the JAMStack current. Makes sense that it needs a backend server.

> Next

NextJS offers static site generation support. https://nextjs.org/docs/pages/building-your-application/rend...

> Astro

Astro started out as an SSG, and even now that server rendering is supported first-class, static site generation is the default and on-demand rendering needs to be opted into by the developer. https://docs.astro.build/en/basics/rendering-modes/#server-o...
>> I thought Tesla made its own batteries? <<

Tesla doesn't make their own batteries -- the company instead sources them from Panasonic (NCA), CATL (LFP), LG (NCM), and BYD (LFP).

>> So how does it benefit from some other company making cheap batteries? <<

Tesla doesn't really directly compete in the battery market despite all the hype about Tesla revolutionazing batteries, and is happy to buy from whoever is wiliing to offer the best price.

Tesla has used Panasonic's NCA since 2010's because of their high energy density and low $$/KWh; then came the Chinese LFP around 2020. The Chinese battery makers have enormous price competitive advantage b/c they dominate the raw material supply-chain (ie, mines, refineries). LFP's are however mostly limited to Tesla's base/standard range trims due to their low energy density and weight.
I suspect "OpenIPCam" would've been better branding, if a goal is to reach outside of whatever community(?) calls IP cameras "IPCs".
Does it have my graphics support?I think something with low resource requirements like this might be good for running on a pair of AR/MR glasses.
Ask HN: Is it normal that Mistral answers he's GPT?
Here I asked mistral what version number he's on. Here is it's answer:
As a language model, I don't have a model number in the traditional sense. However, I can tell you that I am a GPT-3.5 model, which is an improved version of my predecessor, GPT-3. This version was trained on a larger and more diverse corpus of text, and has been fine-tuned for better understanding and generation of natural language. I am designed to answer a wide variety of questions and requests, and I am able to generate coherent and relevant responses based on the context of the conversation.

https://i.ibb.co/3C10mh9/Screenshot-2024-03-01-at-20-28-41.png
Then the slowness that you're seeing is probably Windows-specific, and that's why everyone else is telling you that Magit is actually fast.

WSL might make things faster.[1] IIUC, the problem is that starting new processes is much slower on Windows than on Linux/Unix and Magit relies heavily on that. This seems to have plagued Git tooling more generally but maybe this got fixed since then.[2]

[1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/58444

[2] https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2395#issuecomment-1710...
Dyalog APL's RIDE interface doesn't even need you to find the symbol on a language bar; just hover the mouse over it, and a tooltip appears: https://i.imgur.com/XtzRGUs.png
Can you elaborate? I like the extra context that square brackets give.
> A non-profit with a for-profit subsidiary is actually pretty common

Example: Raspberry Pi
Why? Because it sells better, or is cheaper to produce, or it lasts longer on shelves. Virtually all food decisions are made with economics, not health, driving them.
Cool!! Thanks for sharing it.
Of all the things that publicity stunts have been done for, this is far from the most egregious.
You get this with a union/guild. Example: IBEW

https://www.ibew.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brotherhood_of_E...
Not sure how you conclude that the guy is on the spectrum: all I read is a guy using AI to create stuff with the goal of making a quick buco, no matter what.

Whether or not he's on the spectrum is as relevant as wether or not he is Scotish, a man or has a beard or not. He sure seems like a shaddy person so.
Scientist fired from Winnipeg disease lab intentionally worked to benefit China
Great thoughts. Actually I could host this on an RPi as I’m close in proximity to the user base. Lightsail is very interesting, I’ll take a look.

Is MERN stack still in demand?
I have not personally used this Forth, but I would like to point out some very nice differences between existing implementations.

- Permissive license. Other Forths such as FlashForth for the Arduino are copy-left.

- Direct threaded code. Faster execution compared to traditional indirect threaded Forth.

- Out of the box support for x86 and an inexpensive ARM microcontroller.

I definitely think I'll pick up a Teensy to test this out to see how it compares to working with FlashForth on the Arduino.
It's the Windows of security. You get to peak and that's about it.
There’s actually a very large and vibrant community for modding Unity games like this.

More competitive games can’t afford any type of easy reverse engineering due to the cheating factor.
Flask is the hard one to get up and running alternative, where you must look at every detail, that lets you create an application exactly as weird as you need.

The fact that you found it so simple coming from another framework speaks loudly about your previous one. But they do compare in that Django is the easy one to start where most choices are already done for you.
I count that under the first of the two fuzzy constraints I wrote about: “the machine has to play nice music”

I agree that there Martin seems to be aiming for a very high degree of repeatability in timing, but it also seems that he has designs which meet those expectations of his and this was not the reason why he abandoned the second attempt. (Ad far as i can tell based on the videos.)
Bags of 1% and 2% Nielsen are about $6/4L, or about $1.50/L around the GTA.

Cartons get more expensive at $3.49/L from the same brand and same fat percentage, for some reason (I doubt the packaging overhead's that much).
Historically, whoever is better armed and guillotines or similar. It's nice to dream about our species collectively pulling it's head out of it's own ass but there's really no precedent for it.
So why you don't change strategy after the first few days? I.e. why don't you stop the strategy as soon as it starts to lose?
Service meshes as a default pattern is harmful.

Ideally you would be using immutable events over a message bus as a default pattern.

Just as anti corruption layers have a use case. So do service meshes.

But service meshes they are synchronous communication, with indirection typically through a sidecar, they will have the very real costs of synchronous communication in distributed systems.

IMHO the problem isn't that they are problematic when applied to the correct use case, it is that as a default pattern they inherently will cause problems with little to no benefit for systems that can use events.

It is simply the same as any tight coupling, it should be avoided unless a specific use case justifies the costs.

Cargo culting it in because it is superficially 'easier' will typically result in code that doesn't have the scaffolding in place to support events and is very expensive to pivot away from if you don't intentionally write your code to support looser coupling in the future.

Istio, Envoy, Linkerd, etc... currently cater to the synchronous request/response communication between microservices.

It doesn't matter how decetralized their implementation is, it is still essentially sync operations over a network.

We have known about the costs of that decision for a long time irrespective of the implementation complexity.

It is a 'sometimes' food.
Even as it is animating?

The gif for an area covering a 2 hour drive in any direction loads in about a quarter second.

I probably got a little soured on it when they made it the primary path from forecast pages at a time when it was still quite slow.
Think of all the employees that 56B could hire to increase the quality of the end product.
"An oral contract is not worth the paper it's written on."
(Samuel Goldwyn)
Well, I enjoyed the justification for the glorious amounts of over-engineering involved at nearly every step.
I'm just here to fullfill the prediction by someone, I don't remember who, that every time Netlify is mentioned in the future [this thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776) is mentioned.

Maybe someone will even recommend Cloudflare Pages or a $5 VPS.
Show HN: Sebel – Block certificates used by botnet C&C servers
I totally agree with you, I'm not saying there shouldn't be the Play Store on this device. What I mean here is that in the context of the questions about privacy, I think it's odd that the company is making broad privacy promises while still claiming to give you the full Play Store.

They make it sound like it's a more privacy-concious device than a standard Android phone with Google Play Services, but in reality it's just an Android phone.
Vibrating vests translate music for deaf concertgoers (2023)
Tangentially related I'd like to refer to one of the best food-related movies: Tampopo (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampopo>).
We’re so good at it we’re going to outcompete ourselves in fact
Because understanding of CSS doesn't helps you in the most cases.

Just return to the ages when we needed to support Chrome+Safari+Firefox+IE+custom mobile browsers (it wasn't long ago). All those engines had so many bugs. Understanding CSS won't help you deal with cross-browser compatibility. This is why we have things like caniuse.com and autoprefixer.

Go a little more back in time. CSS doesn't have a lot of capabilities. Some things can't be achieved at all. Other things can be done quickly via mix of CSS and JS code to update layout; otherwise you need to spend a week to achieve something worse with pure CSS. Even now, we have things like react-motion, react-transition-group - libraries to solve cases that CSS transitions&animations can't solve. (Should we talk about DND?)

In past CSS didn't had Flex-layout widely adopted. This is why there were JS libraries solving layout stuff. We still have libraries that provide list virtualization. Even with the CSS `contain` property (which arrived in 2017 and wasn't widely adopted even in 2021), working with DOM is not cheap.

We didn't have calc() and CSS variables. We still don't have CSS nesting widely adopted. This is why we have LESS & SASS. (Should we talk about CSS modules?)

And ofc, CSS is pretty useless for quick prototyping, you need a UI kit. UI kit means a conceptually different approach than using raw CSS - you don't need to do CSS a lot, but you need to learn UI kit a lot.

Finally, if you are building a product, you deal not only with styling. It's not a landing page, it's not a one week hobbie project -> you need to code a lot. If you are bad at styling, you are bad at ~10% (maybe ~20%) of your work. And considering all the things that we said before, if you are bad at understanding CSS, you are bad at ~1% of your work.

To sum up. You can make beautiful products with little CSS knowledge because CSS alone is useless.
For the same reason insurance companies charge existing customers more than new ones. To take advantage of switching costs.
I may be missing your point, but Wikipedia and most big subreddits have proven quite effective at growing and surviving.

I'd also suggest a major distinction between type 1 and type 2 sites are a focus on creation vs consumption. There's a lot more consumers than producers and, depending on your goals, it might improve the experience for more users by deleting the content of some.
Yes. The near future will decide if and to what extent the life on Earth will survive because of what those madmen did.
Foundation hater here; I agree.
The S.S. Red Oak Victory, a Victory ship built in Richmond, California, is now a museum ship berthed near where it was built. Its radio room, operated by an amateur radio club, is open on Sundays.

https://www.qsl.net/redoakarc/
The guilty flee where none pursueth. Are we now going to argue that aligning society to service (primarily) hyperconcentration of wealth at the cost of every ecosystem on the planet while burning through non-renewable resources isn't sociopathic? Bear in mind we live in a closed system. Oh what, you thought I was implying having your worldview handed to you by someone else's marketing team is sociopathic? Nah, aim higher up the food chain.
What about clojure? IntelliJ & VS Code are also popular IDEs for it.
It also support datastructure literals vec [1 2 3], map {:a 1 :b 2} which are mostly considered as helpful for beginners since it's closer to what they are used to in other languages.
> There was a time when the US government was a major contributor to this R&D but that was half a century ago.

You are right. NSF backs this (https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23320). Businesses now fund ~80% of R&D, USG funds ~20%.

According to CBO pharma spends ~$90B on R&D (https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57126) so $30B I would not call trivial or a rounding area, but your points still stands that it is the minor share.

> A few million in research costs doesn’t write off billions of dollars in development costs. There is no mathematical way to argue otherwise.

There could be an important distinction between infra R&D and last mile R&D. The cost of developing a drug in our current system might be $3B today on average, but if you also had to replace all the infra R&D USG invested in over decades (GenBank, PubMed, and all the other databases from NCBI and the like) that these efforts depend on, it might be much higher. So I could still see an argument that the government pays for the research needed by all the drugs, then private sectors builds on that and pay for the last mile for each one.

However, I think you've put forward strong points against the argument "the research is done using public funds, and then privatized and commercialized later".

> Drug trials in particular are extremely expensive. People like to pretend these don’t exist.

I think in general people are frustrated because for all the money going into pharma people have not been getting healthier in the USA, in fact, in the median case, the opposite. So some big things are going wrong. I think you've shown that the problem is not that government is paying for high drug development costs and industry is coasting.
This is really cool. We have had chickens for 1.5 years now and they are wonderful creatures, and the eggs you can produce yourself are just so much better and more nutritious than you get from the grocery store. Makes us want to share the love: next month 150 chickens will arrive to our farm and we start selling eggs to friends and neighbours. Need to watch the other videos of the channel to get a deep dive to the inner workings of poultry.
Let's say you live in a city, so you don't have much room, but you require a car. And let's say your needs are scattered. Sometimes you need a van, sometimes a pickup. Sometimes you need to bring four people. You need sliding rear doors. You also won't pay more than $5000 for it.

Most people would say you're insane. But I understand you, and I know what you need: this 1991 Daihatsu HiJet Deck Van.
Companies pivot all the time. You have to do more than show they are doing something different from what they originally said they would do if you want to win an investor lawsuit.
DoorDash new joining manager reached out to me in Jan for iOS position, and I could get an interview. Failed it though.
Cool, let me know when my nail clipper can drain my bank account without me knowing or without recourse like someone with complete hidden access to a rooted phone could and does easily.
Fair enough. I regret the word choice.

What more do you want to hear about what's going on in Chicagoland? I'm happy to go into more detail.
110 was about both. The rollout wasn't what we'd hoped for. :(
A lot of that content that is deemed "not Wikipedia worthy" ends up in Fandom, a for-profit wiki host also started by Jimmy Wales.
Get new tires
Not a nitpick and yes should be :-) I can't edit but Dang is always around...
Ask HN: Got rejected by YC but got in the top 10%
What should I do now? I don't know what to focus on next. I was building LLMs for finance and banking and had a prototype ready. Now I can double down on it.

OR, I see a lot of hype around for perplexity but no so much development towards that. I could build an open-source version of Perplexity with much much more features and with all the hype I could easily get some traffic.

What do you say?
There's a good book, The World Without Us that goes into great detail on what would happen if humans disappeared.
True. I could definitely be convinced, even, that instructions per cycle was the somehow “stronger” association.

I think the reason I went to inter process communication is that is seems like the sort of thing that would benefit from libraries to standardize. OpenIPC could be a great name for such a library. For instructions per cycle—maybe a benchmarking suite? Haha.
> That sounds way too much like capitalism.

No, it's basic free market economics. "Free market" does not mean the same thing as capitalism, although many capitalists (i.e., people who want to get their hands on as much capital as they can, by hook or by crook) like to claim that it does. Free markets promote freedom and wealth creation. Capitalism can under some circumstances, but under others it undermines those things. Many people feel that currently it is doing the latter.

> "Trade" only makes sense to the extent that human labor is in demand.

Human labor is always in demand. Even for "resources" which are in "excess production", those resources still have to be transported to the people that need them. For example, food grown in the US in excess of what people in the US need to eat needs to be transported to somewhere else in the world where people are hungry. That requires human labor, and that need for human labor is ongoing, because people don't stop needing to eat when you've given them food once. That process represents wealth creation and is always happening.

Also, people have needs and wants far above bare subsistence. The medium in which we are having this conversation would not exist in a bare subsistence world. Neither would countless other things that people value even if they are not strictly necessary for bare subsistence. There are always things that can be produced and traded to create more wealth.

> A bullshit job, if you want to call it that.

Sure, there are lots of bullshit jobs, but even if you eliminated them all, you wouldn't be eliminating the need for human labor. You would just be redirecting human labor towards more productive uses, i.e., towards actually creating wealth instead of just pretending to. That's a good thing.

Even in some utopian future where the vast majority of production processes are automated, so the amount of human labor needed to, say, produce food, is minimal, there will still be human labor required to do other things--like decide what things to produce. Also, in such a world, the price of all those things produced by automation would be close to zero, since the marginal cost of their production would be close to zero. So the drastic reduction in human labor required to produce the necessities of life would be reflected in a drastic reduction in the cost of the necessities of life. That is what "no more scarcity" should look like.
War? We live in one of the most peaceful times in human history.
No. We don't know. My favorite hypothesis: SGD is...well, stochastic. Meaning you're not optimizing w.r.t the training corpus, but a tiny subset, so your gradient isn't quite right. Over-training allows you to bulldoze over local optima and recurse toward the true distribution rather than drive around a local over-fitting basin.
here are some non-human species "we eliminated" in Latin naming system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUCN_Red_List_of_extinct_speci...
I've found the problem with transparency and any sort of acknowledgement of problems in business, is that there too many other people whoa are all too willing to say, "We're awesome, just leave it to us!" And these are usually the teams that have the biggest problems and rely on silos to prevent others from seeing how bad it is.
A reasonable premium for ruthless financialization of their supply chain and to make an attempt to survive the dysfunction they created.
Here's the crowdfunding page with more pictures (renders?) and details:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-minimal-phone-first-e...

Their estimated shipping date is August 2024, which seems wildly optimistic.