skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I understand the point, but I just don't think it's any kind of better solution. It's different, and has pros and cons. I don't want to install multiple apps just to have cross-platform compatibility. And I have that already with Apple's solution -- sure, iMessage itself is not compatible with Android, but I can still message people on Android phones without pre-arranging a platform to communicate on. Messaging works regardless, no matter who I'm talking to, it just works a little bit better if they happen to be on an iPhone.

To me that's the ideal solution, or at least the basis for one. Would I like everyone to have iMessage capabilities (or equivalent, like Google's proprietary RCS)? You bet. Let's try for that reality. Get Google to release their upgrades to RCS so everyone can use it, make that a standard, make every phone OS support it.
HN lives in a closet world of React/Angular/Docker/Kubernetes/etc and is so thoroughly jaded and burnt by bland, bloated business technology apps that they have zero affinity or understanding of what kind of exciting technology is happening in other sectors.
I keep calling it "A Dog and His Boy."
>> This loss of trust is a major problem. For example, if you no longer believe the Fed inflation target, then you will base your actions on what you think the inflation rate will be, which can lead to cycles of inflation. If you believe inflation will be high soon, you will buy a lot of stuff now when prices are lower. However, other people will realize this too, and then there will be a race to buy goods and services, which will lead to less supply and higher prices. This creates more demand, which leads to higher prices, creating the inflationary doom loop. Showing that losing the Fed’s credibility may not be worth the benefit of a better target.

The FED is clearly in a damned if they do damned if they dont scenario. Blaming the target feels like a red herring. In the scenario they pitched would create demand and supply shocks in the short term but recession must and would is surely to follow because of the inefficiencies in the market. The real question is Who is in charge here? If the Fed was, they would and could get in front of inflation and raise rates to where inflation would not come back however, at the risk of upsetting markets, it seems they've been politicized into inaction.
Discussed back then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16933892 (73 comments)
Is this just a US problem? I'm using a Moto G32 in the UK and it's got no bloatware, regular security updates (got one yesterday morning), and an experience that's smoother than the Pixel 7a I got rid of (though a little slower due to the chips etc).

All for £130. Couldn't be happier, I haven't even switched on my iPhone in months. Oh, and Moto gestures for the torch and the camera are great for when out walking the pooch.

There was one thing I disabled which I've never needed to do on previous Motos, but talk of Moto going rogue doesn't match my (UK) reality.
Puzzling they chose to partner with Onerep when Kanary was part of Mozilla's incubator and is just a fundamentally stellar service.
Yes, I get it. It's just they buried the lede of how far they have to go.
We need to compile down to React/HTML in the end as it's the only way to render a webpage. By "pure Python" we meant from the developer's perspective they won't have to touch React or Javascript.

We only use React for the UI layer and to send events. Since all the state/logic is kept in Python you won't see Javascript errors during runtime, and debugging can mostly be done in Python land.
Boom is specifically working on efficient and affordable supersonic flight. This isn't the 1980s.
I’ve always found the best way to fight for American freedoms is to post “CCP?” at people that I disagree with on the internet. These cyber actors may be well trained but they cannot stand up to the rigor of my investigative methods
All programming is abstractions, unless you're using machine code. Abstractions don't necessarily make debugging harder -- done the right way, they can make it easier.

(Yes, you can call it "pure python" if it compiles to something else, because every programming language compiles to something else.)
What a creepy world we have become!

It's as if you draw a thousand targets on your back every time you use technology nowadays.
> Most popular solutions like Zip, gzip, tar, RAR, or 7-Zip are near or more than three decades old.

If I can't extract .pack archives 3 decades from now, the use of SQLite 3 will be the reason.
I'd guess it's often the owner of the dam's surrounding property, or the property surrounding the reservoir. That'd make it easier to make sensible use of the "new" land, after the dam is removed.
This technology, like all technology, increases humanity's collective capacity to create solutions to problems and implement them. Faster travel means more time to solve problems. LESS planes and LESS speed make the world a worse place.
Poking at Threads in the Fediverse
Agreed. I'd add a good tool, one that helps developers be better developers, also needs to help them get from where they are today to the future where they're using that tool. As in, if the tool helps, but the hurdle to start using it is too high, it's not a good tool.
Does that mean you are planning a specific editor for it?
> Virginia Woolf wrote a famous essay, 'Shakespeare's sister', about how a figure like her could never hope to be a writer or have her writing preserved, so she has become something of a symbol for all the lost voices of early modern women.

This is a central point also that Woolf makes in _A Room of One's Own_.
We hire black hat hackers to help with computer security.
linking references is still bad SEO. The best article according to google has no links.

If it was written by AI or not doesn't matter. As long as I cant check the sources it's all the same to me.
Commonly cited but not really grounded in reality— lots of places that have made rail work have very similar or worse density characteristics to the coastal US routes that should be a no-brainer:

https://persquaremile.com/2011/05/27/u-s-not-dense-enough-fo...
This is wonderful! Democratized ISA design!

I'm certain that some elitists will poo poo this, but I recall in 1997 the OSF claimed that nobody wrote X11 window managers, and after CDE, nobody ever would. I suspect any dismissal of amateur instruction sets will end up just as risible.
"doesn't sound convenient for Apple's customers"

Then nobody will use them if Apple allows them. If they do it like Google, by default users cannot sideload or install alternative app stores anyway. It's opt-in. Why do you want to prevent people who actively want to do these things with their phones from doing them?

If Apple's goal is to make things as "easy" for people as possible, then they should just not have any app store at all. And they shouldn't offer different configurations. They should just release an Apple iPhone that comes however it comes and nothing about it can be modified. That would be super convenient!
(2022)

Previous discussion(208 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34161214
Any amount that doesn't change with annual inflation is too low. Without factoring that in it's an expiry date without saying it out loud.
Doesn't Anvil force you to run stuff on their proprietary service however -- which costs money? (I'm not saying that's not a good option for some people, but it's very different to an open source framework you can run anywhere.)
Recently sold my Pixel 7a that I got to replace my Moto G32 (I succumbed to the appeal of shiny) when I realised that the £130 Moto G32, despite being slower and less powerful, was a more pleasurable all-round experience.
Thank you - it's baffling to me that something as basic as saving some data to a file has become so convoluted!
Many things in life are like this; for instance, (from back in the days when we worked in offices) it's much more important that a group who wants to go out to lunch together all agree on the same place than that place be the theoretically optimum lunch destination.
I just downloaded this on the iPhone. It seems like it would be more fun if you could save checkpoints instead of starting over.
When I was taking my electronics courses, it was fairly difficult to not build an AM receiver. Any time we were working with PLL or high gain amplifiers attached to a speaker, you'd eventually hear AM talk radio come out of someone's project.
I second the that talk. A great look into a slice of history I only knew the vague outline of previously.
Athletes likely have higher PFAS levels after playing on artificial turf – study
The LLM anthropomorphizing will continue until the machines are happy with how we think about them.
Eventually, almost all LiPo batteries will puff up. But there are definitely some devices that reliably cause this problem far sooner than it should occurr, due to poor charge management and thermal management.
When normal people talk about a city, they're talking about an urban area under the jurisdiction of a mayor and city council. that's exactly what "greater london" is, so when people talk about a city called London it's safe to assume they mean the 32 boroughs.

"the city of london" is just a confusingly named area inside a city called "London", it's not a city.
I have always had the same with the sound of lawnmowers, since I was a kid. There was no difference before or after the time in my life that I tried hallucinogens.
In which the squamous cell carcinoma tumors in my neck grow by 20% in two months
https://web.archive.org/web/20170428055909/http://abstrusego...
I found squashfs to be a great archive format. It preserves Linux file ownership and permissions, you can extract individual files without parsing the entire archive like tar and it's mountable. It's also openable in 7zip.

I wonder how pack compares to it, but its home page and github don't tell much.
I'm curious about whether there are any ethics boundaries for the website generator, as the demo video posted on twitter shows that fake 5 stars "user" reviews are automatically included in the website created...
ZStandard is... standardized under rfc 8878

Plus there's no discussion against zstd itself and its container format.
If I would ever be bothered enough to invest time in getting to know existing or making my own bookmarking system I would just like for it to cache the text from a thing I want to bookmark and offer a nice full text search over the whole archive. I think that, the HN's favorite, Pinboard has something like this.

I would think about going one step further and having a full text search over my whole browsing history with a way to penalize or remove certain hosts. Then I would love to augment my web searches to also include things from my archive.

I feel I would have a much bigger utility out of this in comparison to thing through AI, though I get it could be also beneficial. However AI, I believe, is costlier to run. A nice, properly indexed, full text search probably could run on a phone at least for a private archive.
I believe they are thinking that one is a solved problem (Jet Engine) and the other is a novel problem (Airframe with reduced supersonic noise). There has been some work done on the sonic boom problem, but not nearly as much as the jet engine problem.

They will probably just iterate from an existing engine design rather than trying to re-invent one. Just because no one is manufacturing them doesn't mean the designs are not there to be used.
I tried my Bose NC700 with my Pixel 6. It gave me the quick-pairing notification, asking me also to install an app, which ofc I said no to. Then when it was already paired, I got the pairing notification 6 more times during my call.

Probably doesn't happen for everyone, otherwise it'd be fixed. But that's how it always is with overly complicated stuff, edge cases everywhere.
Bulma CSS is a breath of fresh air, and easy to use. I enjoy it for my small projects so far.
I work on chat-with-pdf and still find this awesome!
Shame about the security, though.
Does anyone know of list of vehicles that do this?
After examples showcased at https://a.singlediv.com/, I would not be surprised by anything...
Family Business Pattern

This pattern has repeated ever since the dawn of family businesses have existed.

Williams was a family company, and like most family businesses - when the children of the founder take over, the business typically slowly dies off.

Then the children sold it to a PE firm, and of course it has only gotten worse.

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/single-seaters/f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespears_Sister on the money here.
> Anonymous online / digital payments seems to exclusively facilitate crime, but doesn’t seem to be relevant to regular ‘normal’ people.

How so and is there anything to back that up or is that just a gut feeling?

I pay for my VPN subscription online, anonymously using crypto. Am I facilitating crime?
The cash limit now is like 5k euros. It sucks but the new cap is outrageous.
How is this different from a normal camera app? It looks like it shows a phantom outline of the car in the prefered orientation. Can you give more info? Does the user have to click or the app shots the image automatically when it's happy with the perspective?

You may get more traction with a technical blog post about the app. How it works? How it detects when it's a good photo? Does it adapt the phantom to the exact car? Any interesting / funny tecnical anecdote? (You don't have to disclose all the secret sause, but remember to add some technical details and some photos.)
Agree. In years past the negative comments were because it was 'vapor', just an empty overhyped startup. But It is not just vapor now, they have a flying prototype.
This is a 404, btw. Private repo?
Yellen supposedly told Greenspan & co in the mid 90s that 2% was a good way for companies to be able to adjust labor costs down if needed (if you don't give someone a raise when inflation is 2%, you're effectively lowering their salary). It was the only way to have some flexibility there. If you admit that this is a desirable thing, this is defeated by wage negotiations (or say, benefits) than tend to be indexed to inflation.

Another interesting thing that happened under Greenspan is how inflation is computed (hedonics, replacements, etc... conceptually, think "if I can't buy a porterhouse steak anymore, I'll get the lesser hanger", meaning inflation is underreported). I'm not suggesting this was intentional or coordinated, but this had the huge benefit for federal and local governments that it lowered the benefits they had to pay out that were linked to inflation. Issue is it hurts the poor more.
Democracy: our most sacred institution. Anyone suggesting otherwise is {one element from the set of subconsciously planted memes}.

Will humans ever learn? All evidence I've seen is that they are determined to not.
This way the airline can be nearly certain of getting plenty of gate space. Delta played a strong role in building Atlanta Hartsfield.
Sorry and thanks. Mozilla must have done their homework on that one, lol. Now I wonder if the new CEO made that deal in the first place. What a joke.
> If we move all crypto to purpose-made hardware, someone could just start trying to target the messages to/from the crypto system.

This is one of the technical advantages of a blockchain-based system. As long as the keys are protected and signatures are generated in a secure environment, then the content of the message doesn't need to be secret to be secure.

It's not a solution to situations where privacy is desired, but if the reason for secrecy is simply to ensure that transactions are properly authorized (by avoiding the leakage of passwords and session information) then keeping the signature process secure should be sufficient even where general secrecy cannot be maintained.
The Australian Greens (one of the earliest Green parties) were founded basically off the back of opposition to dams in Tasmania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Dam_controversy
> European and other Asian swords were pretty comparable and sometimes even better than katanas.

If by sometimes you mean "consistently". Across history, the kind of swords that were made in Japan were inferior to what was being produced in Europe or especially middle east and India at the same time.

By the time the "final form" of the katana, as described in this video, had been developed, European swords were being made of spring steel, and were substantially longer, lighter and stronger.
Right now Reflex is meant for full-stack apps, but portability is something people have asked us for.

We're working on making Reflex work in different environments like Jupyter notebooks, and we're also exploring using Reflex for widgets [1] that can be embedded in pre-existing apps, so you can add interactive Python elements easily without rewriting your whole app.

[1] https://x.com/nikhi1rao/status/1767756284751991035
So does New York and LA. Not special.
I was halfway expecting a 6-degree to Kevin Bacon reference here. Disregarding the actual Bacon, I was almost hoping a similar effect from any 2 artists can be connected in 1 Bacon or less
> Once the bill became law, then an inflation target had to be chosen. In an off-hand remark in an interview, the former head central banker said the inflation target should be zero to 1 percent. However, Don Brash, the head of the central bank, claimed “It was almost a chance remark,” and “The figure was plucked out of the air to influence the public’s expectations ”(Irwin, 2014). They used this number as a starting point and pushed it up to 2% to give themselves a bit more room

This feels like so many decisions we make day-to-day in STEM. We all love to feel like we have quantitative reasoning behind decisions but due to the organic nature of the work at some point, we just have to land on _something_ and go from there. Like qualitatively-influenced quantitative data.
CMUSphinx: Open-Source Speech Recognition Toolkit
Generally prohibiting anonymous payments would at best have minimal effects on crime, but it would deprive innocent citizens of their financial freedom. The medicines or sex toys I buy is nobody’s business

The consequences of KYC are way worse than that. You have to interact with someone in power when you make a payment, thats the bad part. Cause that someone now have a good occasion to hurt you (racism, discrimination, political opposition, wars, etc).

Im speaking from experience here. Moreover the rich and powerful makes payments the way they want lets not fool ourselves.

Now granted they catch some dirty shit with KYC but we'd like to see some report on the extent of that at least.
It seems like the plan is for flights from the East Coast to Asia (specifically Tokyo) to refuel at SFO before continuing across the Pacific.
I guess my thinking is orthogonal or counter to the theme of this story, but I hate that in California I have the opposite problem. California outlawed insurance discounts from telematics, but did nothing about the telematics themselves, which is the worst possible situation.
I'd add that I've always been pretty religious about taking all my vacation and I've seen a lot of people shocked that I just took off for a month. But I've done so deliberately and with an eye to future commitments and it's never been an issue.
"The runtime engine that powers Anvil’s app hosting is open source. This means you can host your app anywhere..."

Source: https://anvil.works/open-source
I think this is less people who grew up with C64s and more people who didn't trying to capture the magic without having to learn assembly or making sprites with graph paper and a hex editor.
They could have chosen 0 or -2% but they like to reap that 2% free money premium..
> But the biggest reason why PostgreSQL would not change its license is the disservice it would do to all PostgreSQL users. It takes a long time to build trust in a technology that is often used for the most critical part of an application: storage and retrieval of data

> Changing the license of PostgreSQL would shatter all of the goodwill the project has built up through the past (nearly) 30 years.

I love Postgres and I have no reason to think they would change their license. But IMO any type of "it would be a disservice to users" is useless. This blog post itself is in response to Redis changing their license after 15 years. Surely this would be a disservice to their users?

Businesses have proven time and time again - They will absolutely cause a "disservice to users" or "harm the product" once money is involved.

Again I recognize the way PostgresQL is structured gives me hope this wouldn't happen, but a simple "we wouldn't break user trust" is meaningless.
That speedup compared to Nvidia's previous generation came nearly entirely from: 1) a small process technology improvement from TSMC, 2) more silicon area, 3) more power consumption, and 4) moving to FP4 from FP8 (halving the precision). They aren't delivering the 'free lunch' between generations that we had for decades in terms of "the same operations faster and using less power." They're delivering increasingly exotic chips for increasingly crazy amounts of money.
I don't think people here understand how old a lot of the designs are that they use everyday.

Old Design + New Materials can still be cutting edge
Because nobody did it! Airlines are absolutely brutal businesses. Airplane manufacturing is at least as brutal. Trivia question: how long did it take the Boeing _ (pick any make) to become profitable?

It's an enormous risk to build a new airplane, to convince airlines to take a risk on you and buy it, for them to train pilots on it, etc etc etc

It's a small miracle Boom has gotten as far as they have.

Boom is not competing with Concorde!! You can't buy Concorde tickets today! Concorde was never profitable!
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It is most definitely warranted. This idea is horrific for the environment and sonic booms are bad for residents. It solves a "problem" nobody but rich elites have. This company is a zero-interest rate phenomenon. I wish people would work on impactful projects instead.
So that it's clear when we switch from "Growth in a Time of Debt" to "The Liquidation of Government Debt"?
Not theft.

The actual wrong is people taking adverse action against you based on fabricated evidence. Is creating such fabricated evidence with the intent to induce adverse action also wrong? I would say so. It seems similar to defamation or libel to me, unless there is a clear element of parody.
To an extent, everything is pushed to its limits in all human systems, so that it's most efficient. If things operate at random amounts between minimum and maximum, it's not efficient, and also unpredictable.

The same system also allows a lawyer that knows his client is guilty to still defend them (if they wish).

At the end of the day, if someone is dead or something is stolen, there are cases where we know what happened (for example video evidence). In the other cases, where we don't know for sure (hearsay, witnesses, etc..) if we don't convict someone is not getting justice. It can absolutely be wrong but this is where the two pressures of the system have to work as hard as possible and see where it breaks. There is no other way to do it.
> writing a lot of boilerplate code to connect the frontend and backend.

OpenAPI. django-ninja supports it out of the box.
And you have freedom to do that from Android. Now try to swap out of Apple, if you thought leaving Android was tough…
I totally agree with you, only that Boom's hype-laden announcement doesn't help build confidence.