skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rooftop is not very cost effective. It works for individuals because of awkward rules about what they owe for society maintaining their access to the larger grid. It’s much more expensive than a dedicated utility scale solar plant overall
its 120 lines of code to deal with a binary and its systemd setup.

That binary + config file are effectively as close as we're going to get to a "flat pack" on linux.

Im not sure what is the forest and where are the trees but this example shows exactly what we have lost sight of.
This is a pretty funny way to frame "I only made $60k in my first year of freelancing."
>I have a 98" monitor with two 55" monitors in portrait angled towards me on either side (heights all match), all wall mounted.

What are these 98" monitors? Is this a TV or some kind of signage display? That truly is a huge setup.
Show HN: I made a boilerplate to ship iOS apps in a few days or hours
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To achieve this, I reuse code from my previous apps as much as possible.

To make this code reusable and structured for me as for anyone. I built SwiftShip as a Swift UI boilerplate code. It includes pre-built features commonly needed in iOS mobile apps.

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> you can have a single die that cuts XVIIIII, and use it iv times

To be a bit more explicit, you use the the die four (4) times, and get 4 Xs, 4 Vs, and 4*IIIII = 20 Is, which is exactly right for I II III IIII V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII. Using IV would mean a 5 Vs, but only 4 Xs, and 17 Is, so you couldn't cut a full set with a single die without using a much larger die (= more work making and using the die) or having extra pieces (= wasted material) left over.
AGI is the fear-meme distracting from the sophisticated shadow programmer union that is going to guarantee full employment until the heat death of the universe by virtue of controlled growth in complexity that must be managed.
Happily you can make your correct points while still remaining within the site rules, so there's no conflict with correctness. If, however, you continue to break the rules, then we're going to have to ban you no matter how correct you are or feel you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The borrow-checker is pretty fancy.
What is ORZ ? Just a funny alias i am using for my demoscene stuff, it is related to the Orz alien species of my favorite adventure game : Star Control 2

A different part of the Internet will be reminded of something else, especially upon seeing that first image:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#Orz
The existing option is semi trucks traveling in daylight with additional vehicles supervising and special self steering trailers, local PD stopping traffic if necessary, new roads being built or existing ones improved.
Ha, that's nothin'. The ancient Egyptians used a 365 day calendar (with no leap years) so it drifted by .25 days every year. So after 730 years it's essentially backwards (summer solstice is when winter solstice used to be etc.). After that, it starts coming back into alignment again but takes another 730 years to get there. They used their calendar for so long that it nearly had time to roll over like this twice!
Hollywood used to use a Roman copyright year as well. The rumor I heard was that it was intended to obfuscate the time of production so that audiences would think they are seeing new work.
Doesn't seem to live up to the legendary original moto G phones that were released when they were still under Google.
I will most likely never return to a theater. People are awful. Don’t force me to let them ruin the experience. Etc.
7 years experience in both customer and product organizations. Running major programs, working with enterprise brands, etc.
OP is not talking about Golang.
Cal Newport: Can an A.I. Make Plans?
https://archive.ph/sdLzz
Yeah. I’ll only go to theaters for something imax worthy, which is pretty much only Dune part 2 for the year.
> and the stdlib has functions for working with unicode and strings.

Last time I looked I don't think it did. It looks like there is a unicode namespace now, but it is very primative. It doesn't have a simple way to iterate over codepoints, much less graphemes. Nor does it have anything to inspect the category a codepoint belongs to.
Agree that the naming is pretty bad, but ultimately there are like… three or four of these owned/deref pairs you actually have to remember in day to day usage? I do wish they had gone with a consistent naming scheme, but in the grand scheme of things this is one of the more minor things that Rust got wrong.
Is this all above the board? This feels like the type of thing ready for abuse.

Are there different tax implications for settlements? Is this basically a stock buyback without being a stock buyback. Is it a more friendly dividend?

Is there any party directly harmed by this?
Indian numbers seem almost as messy as Roman numerals though.

Verbally, the system seems to go thousand -> lakh -> crore -> thousand crore -> lakh crore, but then stop there, rarely extending to crore crore or inducting any farther.

Meanwhile commas don't seem to follow the verbal convention - instead showing up every two digits even after a crore, so a thousand crore looks more like ten hundred crore, and a lakh crore looks more like ten hundred hundred crore.
Okay hear me out: just use the turbine blades themselves, which are wings, as wings.

Slap them on a smallish fuselage, fly to the destination, truck the fuselage back.
I thought See was pretty terrible, but they did make three seasons of it so someone must have watched it.
Lots of companies had made “smart phones“ before the iPhone came along. The iPhone is what blew the market open.

Other companies had MP3 players for a few years first. The iPod exploded.

You listed some good examples yourself. Windows 3 was nice but it was 95 that really made it big. The Internet existed but it was Netscape that made it takeoff, followed by AOL.

There’s always an invisible threshold. You can make something in a category but until it passes that threshold it doesn’t really change the world. It could be price, speed, ease of use, some new piece of technology, or a combination of all those factors.

Existing VR headsets obviously sell well enough that an industry exists, but it’s nowhere near ubiquitous. It hasn’t hit that threshold (assuming it exists for VR). Apple clearly has set their own bar, much higher than others, hoping that they’ve hit that magical point or at least gotten close enough to it. Today that cost a lot of money like the original Mac.

Going from the quest one to the two to the three has increased sales but I’m not sure it’s done anything to really approach that magic inflection point. Who knows how long it would have taken to get there. Maybe the quest four or five would, maybe the eight. We still don’t know where that line is.

But Apple is really pushing and that makes it interesting to watch if nothing else.
Not to be pedantic, but there is actually raw chicken sashimi apparently. I heard about a place in Tokyo that serves it. The restaurant sources from super small local farms and sear the raw chicken in boiling water for a few seconds, chop chop, and then down it goes.
The persistent cough taking over the Bay Area
Thank you and damn you. I’m sold.
I imagine you're on a very Metropolitan area? I've definitely heard of this but even right before the pandemic Ive had mostly quiet experiences at theaters in my suburb.

It's a shame for me. It's an easy way for me to get out of the house and out of my own head for a bit and despite having a nice TV, nothing quite compares to the silver screen and it's bolstering speakers.
People have become utter savages since 2020. Inconsiderate, rude, selfish, belligerent… and when you call them on their bullshit, suddenly -you’re- the bad guy. You’re “Karen” for daring to try to ask some idiot to shut the fuck up. The less I have to do out in public, the better. No wonder In Real Life fun events are slowly going away.
As someone who has been working on generative AI since DALLE-1/CLIP came out, it amazes me how long backlash to AI is taking. I mean, we obviously have seen it from artists, actors, authors, etc. - anyone making intellectual property has a right to feel threatened by this stuff. Now, the general public is fully aware as well.

I probably would have joined in if I were there.

edit: I guess a moderator felt threatened by this post. Went from front page to ~fourth _real_ fast.

edit edit: Man, fuck this place sometimes. "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
Yanis Varoufakis: "We do not have governments, we have puppets"
> > "Nobody emails with just “Hi” and waits for a response"
> I have to say, the zero-context "hi" in a Teams message has to be one of the worst violations of what we used to call netiquette.

I am guilty of this, but only on MS Teams. If you want to setup an audio call where Person A wants Persons B and C on a call together, you set up a new group chat. On MS Teams, the Start Call is disabled until the first message. So I will often put "hi" as a chat starter. MS Teams doesnt seem to see a chat as a bona fide chat until there is some spark of conversation, hence "hi"
This is the only reason I still know Roman numerals. Still do try and work out what they are if I get that far into the credits.
I haven’t heard anyone say they were going to work exclusively on their Occulus Rift,

Having even a few people saying they are already doing that on the Vision Pro seems significant.
It was interesting. I’m not going to say it was really good. But it was interesting enough to keep me watching.
Docker builds are not deterministic, I don't get where you get that idea. I can't count the hours lost because the last guy who left one year ago built the image using duck tape and sed commands everywhere. The image is set in stone, but so is a zip file, there's nothing special here.

Building an image using nix solves many problems regarding not only reproducible environments that can be tested outside a container but also fully horizontal dependency management where each dependency gets a layer that's not stacked on one another like a typical apt/npm/cargo/pip command. And I don't have to reverse engineer the world just to see what files changed in the filesystem since everything has its place and has a systematic BOM.
I have no expertise of any sort but I would assume a contiguous fiber material would have higher strength and the fuse joint would be considerably weaker.
Boeing tells airlines to check pilot seats after shift led plane to plunge
I remember Slack themselves seeing it as an email replacement, and not intended for remote work. It struck me as weird because I was on remote teams using it differently, and it felt as if Slack was out of touch with their own product. This was all before Covid.

I have also seen people camp their email and use it as chat. Some of them don’t like Slack.
I'm pretty sure their primary focus right now is to gain as much mindshare as possible and they seem to be doing a great job of it. If you look at the following GitHub metrics:

https://devboard.gitsense.com/ggerganov?r=ggerganov%2Fllama....

https://devboard.gitsense.com/ollama?r=ollama%2Follama&nb=tr...

The number of people engaging with ollama is twice that of llama.cpp. And there hasn't been a dip in people engaging with Ollama in the past 6 months. However, what I do find interesting with regards to these two projects is the number of merged pull requests. If you click on the "Groups" tab and look at "Hooray", you can see llama.cpp had 72 contributors with one or more merged pull requests vs 25 for Ollama.

For Ollama, people are certainly more interested in commenting and raising issues. Compare this to llama.cpp, where the number of people contributing code changes is double that of Ollama.

I know llama.cpp is VC funded and if they don't focus on make using llama.cpp as easy to use as Ollama, they may find themselves doing all the hard stuff with Ollama reaping all the benefits.

Full Disclosure: The tool that I used is mine.
My experience with building Docker images for Java applications using Nix wasn't very pleasant though. After the deprecation of gradle2nix, there doesn't seem to be a clear alternative method for building Docker images for Gradle-based Java applications. I challenged a friend to create the smallest possible Docker image for a simple Spring Boot application some time ago. While I was using Nix, the resulting image was twice the size of the image built without Nix. You can check out the code for yourself here: https://github.com/jossephus/Docker_challenge/blob/main/flak... .
I am the one that didn't get fired because of performance
did you learn that from channel number 5?
So, a lounge room? It sounds like a slightly more intimate variation of what We Work was doing. And we know how that ended. Even without the pandemic and with appealing to small businesses it just seems like that kind of upkeep for land was unviabble.

The big "issue" is the US itself. These kinds of things do exist in Asia and some parts of the EU and works great, because housing is tiny and basically only for eating and sleeping. The US meanwhile has more land for bigger houses and backwards thar are the subject of house gatherings.

This may be on the fall right now, so the idea ironically becomes more viable later for newer generations. but as it is there's not much incentive to rent out a large club room when you have a house to go to instead.
Aren’t Nix builds actually deterministic in that they’ll build the same each time? Docker doesn’t have that, you’re just using prebuilt images everywhere. Determinism has a computer science definition, it’s not “build once run anywhere,” it’s more like “builds the exact same binary each time.”
There are ways to properly build a nix container image so this kind of things doesn't happen. You'll find plenty of projects on GitHub dedicated to only that.
I thought the premise was really good. I watched the majority of the first season but it just went too slow and I found it tedious.

I was surprised that they had two more seasons. But it was one of their first shows, had a big star, and it had been heavily promoted. I wonder if they just kept it up because it was cheaper and faster to keep it going then another entirely new show that may not have worked as well.

Once they started getting more shows they no longer needed it and let it end.

All pure speculation.
Most Docker builds are not remotely deterministic or reproducible, as most of them pull in floating versions of their dependencies. This means that the same Dockerfile is likely to produce different results today than it did yesterday.
Where on Earth are you getting that result from? [1] gives an 11 MB image.

[1] https://nix.dev/tutorials/nixos/building-and-running-docker-...
Luckily I have a small theater in a small town. It only shows a few movies at a time, but people there act like humans. I will never go to a regular theater again. Whatever part of the human experience causes a person to be quiet in a theater, it has diminished to the point where the chances of there being a person without it in a group of two dozen people is essentially 100%.
Dune 2 was totally worth it to watch in IMAX. Similarly I remember Interstellar being an amazing experience in IMAX. I wish more similar movies were made. That would make me go to the movies more frequently.
Yes, Tad should be pretty easy to embed -- in the github repo there's a React component (TadViewerPane), and a fairly modular API for adding a new data source. I'm happy to work with you on this, this should be a fun exercise!
About a decade ago I wrote a fast rope library in C, with support for arbitrary inserts & deletes at arbitrary locations in large strings. I benchmarked it, and I was shocked to discover that my library was ~20x faster than the SGI C++ rope library that shipped with my compiler.

I assumed I must be doing something wrong. Eventually took a look and found the SGI rope library constructs a tree where each heap allocated leaf node only contains a single character from the document. No wonder its so inefficient. I'm somewhat horrified by the idea that anyone is using that implementation in their software.

Sometimes I think about how much money people would pay to make their computer run 20x faster. Our society spends a truckload of money on computing hardware - but most of that hardware is wasted running wildly inefficient programs. Modern computers should do basically everything instantly. Its weird to me that we'll pay thousands of dollars for faster CPUs then write new software in python, electron or a docker container running in a VM.
Software as we know it, at least enterprise CRUD and the like, will become cheap to make with fewer programmers. The AI's are going to help millions of organization who don't know what they're doing create lots of complex, bloated, seemingly correct, applications. The world will drown in complexity and data fiefdoms and duplication and special cases and bureaucratic rules. The qualified people who can cut down complexity are too few, and will be easily overwhelmed. The world will need ever more CS majors to deal with the complexity; but their work will be joyless, more like PM's negotiating with one another what orders to give the AI code monkeys. Then the AI PM's enter the picture. They'll need to be trusted with more and more business context, more and more of the hidden institutional knowledge, to understand management's intent. Until, eventually, they themselves become the managers, with broad mandates like 'make profits' or 'provide quality education' or 'improve public health.' That's when they either take over and keep us as pets or turn us into paperclips or something.
macOS is a definitely rougher. I use colima there, and it does alright. There are one or two bugs with it, but I think those are primarily around volumes. But it does alright with building Docker images.

The rougher part is the speed of it; it's a one-two punch between the hardware & the fact that Docker has to emulate a Linux VM.
`std.unicode` supports validation, codepoint iteration, conversion from UTF8 <-> other encodings, etc.

It doesn't have graphemes (neither does Go or Rust), or other advanced unicode support. Instead that is provided by ziglyph[0]

[0] https://codeberg.org/dude_the_builder/ziglyph
I think you might be giving Apple too much credit for strapping the iPad OS on your face.

Granted, an iPad is better than an app launcher, but so far I don’t think the software is really “killer” in any specific way.

Most of the in depth reviews I’ve seen mostly praise the screen resolution and the movie experience.
I agree with most of your points, but one detail worth keeping in mind is that the "dinosaurs" depicted in the film are not necessarily reflective of their original species at all; InGen focused exclusively on producing animals (and plants!) that aesthetically matched the expectations of park-goers. The book offhandedly mentions failed prototypes exhibiting all kinds of problems, like tendencies to scratch their own skin off, and plants and animals are haphazardly juxtaposed from vastly different time periods and climates. Even following best practices from zoos would not necessarily prepare InGen to deal with accidentally hyper-aggressive faux-dinos that are not the robust products of natural evolution.
The DPRK is a republic in the same sense that the UK is a kingdom.
Essentially no academics are part of the upper (ruling) class, except the ones that were born into it (e.g. Jeffrey Laurie or Élisabeth Badinter), or those who moved into academia after retiring from their primary career (e.g. Hillary Clinton becoming a professor of practice at Columbia)[0]

0: https://president.columbia.edu/news/hillary-rodham-clinton-j....
>> I’ve also noticed how your standards for hangout buddies skyrocket when you spend time alone.

I love your comment. I remember the pressure in my early 20s to "go out" into the city, etc. I dont mind socializing, but I found it odd that people would socialize with others they didnt respect, sometimes even back-biting others. What is the point of spending time if you dont truly like the people you spend time with? I especially see this behaviour amongst wealthier colleagues who "go out" almost as habit with seemingly no satisfaction coming from it.

Once solitude is an option, it is a great hurdle level to evaluate how else time might be spent. I no longer feel socially awkward to opt out socially and just spend an evening reading a book. But I equally love spending hours at a cafe if it is with people I respect and like.
Why do we believe that every square inch of the star destroyer is so well planned? Most arguments here assume a design. It could be more "Warhammer" in that the system evolved, in a hive city kind of way, making use of whatever was around. A parasite that lurks in the trash compactor would be just the sort of thing a Warhammer novel would introduce and I love that it's there.

Wasn't star wars supposed to be a gritty counterpart to high fantasy high space operas? Or star trek?
Yes you did a great job with that, which probably helped it get attention, too—a good thing, since it's an interesting article. Thanks!
I addressed the 120 lines already and they're not completely abstract. You seem uncomfortable with an alternative approach and that's fine. But this is not a good intentions argument.
Spend a few evenings learning about what Timothy Leary and Friends were trying to do.

When I listened to Sasha Shulgin (Discovered many of the known psychedelic substances) speak, he believed that psychedelic substances should be used within the realm of something like a religion or a similar societal traditions.
The theater experience isn't worth it anymore. It's way too expensive, doesn't feel 'nice' or even clean, and the food options are like a carnival. There's nothing special and movies are usually available a few weeks after theatrical release so why bother? Unless it's something like Dune 2 that is actually worth seeing on a big screen. More theaters need to copy the Alamo Drafthouse model and actually make nice theaters with good food and alcohol. Otherwise, why bother leaving my house where I have my favorite snacks and a comfy couch?
Before Steve Jobs returned to Apple, the entire industry had decided separate software and hardware companies were the superior business model. With Intel processors, Microsoft software, and a huge number of PC compatible manufacturers.

Jobs doubled down on the combination of hardware and software designed and implemented under one roof. That bet paid off past anyone’s expectations.

So Apple now is far ahead of everyone else, when it comes to creating products deeply integrating hardware and software and design.
Is Stripe a Dev tool ? What about all of AWS ? I guess the statement should be its impossible to make money selling replicable IP
You don't seem to have a public repository for the code described in your posts (presumably a part of Chessbook?), but you might be using a textbook arithmetic coding algorithm which maintains both lower and upper bounds and does a renormalization by comparing topmost bits. If it's the case rANS would be much simpler to write and more efficient [1]. If your AC code is already well-optimized, there is not much reason to switch though.

[1] Fabian Giesen's sample implementation is already as good as is, and also contains a good alias table implementation if you want multi-symbol inputs: https://github.com/rygorous/ryg_rans/blob/master/rans_byte.h