skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do have a solid focus on doing so, it’s just not exclusive.

https://www.databricks.com/product/machine-learning/large-la...
A friend of mine is already working on such a project.
The author has two disjunct complaints.

1. The tech doesn't actually work that well yet. "clicking and zooming is no way to type." "It gave me the nausea of a roller coaster without any of the thrill." "I saw the simulated version of my apartment shutter and shake, accelerating the growing motion sickness I felt when seated." "I found countless features failed the moment I took the most rudimentary security precautions, such as using a VPN."

2. He doesn't like what it does to his experience in the world. "Apple Vision Pro marks the foundation of a new architecture of total digital isolation." "I've never in my adult life vegged out as much as I did during my time with the Vision Pro." "Within seconds the Vision Pro had photographed more of my apartment and body than my laptop saw over the decade I've had it." "an extremely alarming harbinger of how tech giants are going to know even more about our private lives and radically reshape our communities once again."

These are really separate things.

#1 will probably eventually be solved. Which will make #2 get even more intense.

When the technology starts working better (not making you dizzy, input methods that do whatever you need easily) -- and predictably makes all sorts of cool things possible -- who will have the strength of will to resist becuase of #2?

I don't like what a smartphone has done to my experience of and engagement in the world, but I have not been able to resist it. Part of that is of course because everyone else has it too.

But that's why I've started resolving to myself now -- no matter how good and affordable the technology gets, I will not be getting augmented reality technology like this. No matter how popular it gets and how hard to be a resister, I plan to. I am building up my resolve now and my self-conception as someone who will not be doing this, hoping will stick as it gets harder and harder to resist.
Totally feels like a champagne problem, happy to learn that term lol.

I'm a Porter user myself, not keen on leaving anytime soon, but nice to know it's an option if we outgrow the default infra.
History of United States federal government credit-rating downgrades
Isn't it mostly just boilerplate code that does the FPGA configuration, though?
> It does create a misrepresentation of the valuation

So the harm is that some massive VCs with billions of dollars to spend on their investments, might be a bit more confused about what someone else's "real" valuation is?

They are qualified investors. I think they can do the work on their own to correct it to the "real" valuation.
EVs Are a Forced March to the Grid's Collapse
Never really thought about how being far from the centerline would change how much/quickly you move in a roll, I can definitely see that feeling being unnerving, expecially the inevetable(though rare?) negative G moments.
It's hard to say exactly what would have happened in Afghanistan without the distraction of Iraq, but my feeling is that making Afghanistan into a functional western style democracy with western style human rights is more like a 50-100 year project.

In Iraq though, it was always going to be messy simply because of the fact that there are three major ethno-religious groups, two of which had been long repressed. I don't know enough of the details about the 2003-2005 time period to really specifically address radical de-Baathification, but if you institute democracy in Iraq and keep the country together, you're naturally going to get de-Baathification because the Shia will vote the Sunni out. The Sunni will resent this, and as we've seen, this is how you wind up with ISIS.
I made a list of most popular monospaced fonts on hacker news[1].

[1] https://github.com/subidit/typophilia?tab=readme-ov-file#fon...
Scotland is not faring any better at all. It's just that "sewage in waterways" is not measured in Scotland very much. In England they made the mistake of adding lots of sensors to lots of waterways.
Someone has got to break this down for me. Why is corporate font creation so in vogue? What's the business logic in this?
What is wrong about my assumptions? I'm not advocating for "move fast and break things" in aviation, I'm saying that actually the issues at Boeing are not as dire as some people believe when considered in their broader context. I struggle to see how that is a tech mindset, really I think what I can be accused of credibly is carrying water for a defense-industrial complex, and that's the part of my argument that I struggle with.
Sounds like a potential path to your own personal kudzu.
Yikes, that’s a good reason not to use the system LibreSSL or curl provided with macOS.
Ask HN: Project based books/courses for C++?
I'm learning C++, and I find that I learn best when concepts are introduced in the context of a larger project. However, it seems most resources are giant references with a few code examples or Unreal Engine projects.

You're almost drowning in project-based resources with JavaScript or Python, but I can't find much in the way of C++ other than game development. Does anyone know of any other project-based courses or books for learning the language? Here are some resources I found:

https://www.learncppthroughprojects.com/ (seems abandoned)

https://www.programmingformusicians.com/
4-bit values (or 6-bit values, nowadays) values are interesting because they're small enough to address a single LUT, which is the lowest-level atomic element of an FPGA. That gives them major advantages in the timing and resource-usage departments.
Graphic novels and short comics are a finite medium, they have a beginning and an end. There's not a very practical way to doom scroll away your entire weekend with comic books. You will eventually run out of comic books or run out of places to put them.
You can't move all of the freight that the city needs by rail.
Enjoy paying more for everything you buy.

And all this does is move more traffic to the outer boroughs (city leadership even acknowledges this will be a side effect).
And yet efficiency gains are vigorously pursued and adopted, where real - and most recently, that has been with engines and composites. Meanwhile, the blended-wing concept has been experimented with for over a century, and it has never demonstrated a compelling improvement. Until I see a proposal that comes with a paper explaining what recent innovation has made things different this time, I will remain skeptical.
Important because VMWare's been acquired by Broadcom (November 22, 2023) and Broadcom's been turning the screws on customers to get more money. Many folks are looking for alternatives. More context:

2024/02/26 Can confirm a current Broadcom VMware customer went from $8M renewal to $100M https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39509506

2024/02/13 VMware vSphere ESXi free edition is dead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39359534

2024/01/18 VMware End of Availability of perpetual licensing and associated products https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39048120

2024/01/15 Order/license chaos for VMware products after Broadcom takeover https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38998615

2023/12/12 VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual license https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38615315
I'd be interested in your take on the UK documentary The Death of Yugoslavia[0], available on YouTube. It gave me the distinct impression that the US didnt have a strategic vision so much as they got unwillingly dragged into it and felt that they had no option but to try and solve it.

As a lay person not from the Balkans, I was impressed that the filmmakers got all the major players to speak candidly, on camera, about their involvement. Mladic, Tudjman, Milosevic, all there for example. Reminded me of another great series, the World At War.[1]

[0] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-ur6mGQeTOmuwxnBW-ssXWDD...

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYxy4la9w2tfotW1Xs-7oICGf...
N.B.: IANAL

That said, if Missourians (Missourans?) are involved, one would expect so.
You've nailed the problem directly on the head. For hitting 60Hz in FuryGpu, I actually render at 640x360 and then pixel-double (well, pixel->quad) the output to the full 720p. Even with my GPU cores running at 400MHz and the texture units at 480MHz with fully fixed-function pipelines, it can still struggle to keep up at times.

I do not doubt that a shader core could be built, but I have reservations about the ability to run it fast enough or have as many of them as would be needed to get similar performance out of them. FuryGpu does its front-end (everything up through primitive assembly) in full fp32. Because that's just a simple fixed modelview-projection matrix transform it can be done relatively quickly, but having every single vertex/pixel able to run full fp32 shader instructions requires the ability to cover instruction latency with additional data sets - it gets complicated, fast!
Definitely, we think Google Wave got a lot right but was too early.
It might be true for non-Canadian consumers of syrup. From my brief search, it looks like perhaps 70% of Canadian maple syrup is exported, so the tastes of non-Canadian consumers is quite important in this context.
...apps don't use WebViews on Windows (or MacOS really, for that matter) because they are unstable APIs that Microsoft and Apple both break in nonsensical ways. It's why Electron is king, in many respects. The only desktop software that use WebViews afaik are the "native apps" which really ought to be handled with a leaner library anyways.

> App vendors will drop Safari WebKit support as soon as WKWebKit no longer mandates the site work in Safari WebKit.

Some will. Wanna guess why?
Phpstan on every Packagist package with more than 1M installs
I used to play D&D after school with Tal Tversky and Jon Barwise at the Tversky's Eichler home on the Stanford campus. This was in the early 1980s. I had no idea how famous either of my friend's fathers were (or would become). It's sad how young both of their parents were when they died.
So how does Skyhook still work for iPhones? Apple made the mac addresses private on IOS14 and they rotate every 24hrs to prevent wifi tracking. So did Apple make the data private to then be able to sell themselves to Skyhook? Seems like it
the poors are already off the road!

they use the train or bus, which is cheaper, faster, and more environmentally friendly

if you are wealthy enough to afford a car in NYC then you are wealthy enough to pay this toll
I currently use Berkeley Mono: https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono/

I find it pleasing to my eye, a bit retro.
Ailerons and flaps are, but elevators and rudder that control the yaw and pitch of an aircraft are in the tail. See United Flight 232.
In exchange for equity?
Ask HN: How to succeed with an AI SaaS? (I have no audience and limited budget)
Hello HN,

I’m a 24 year old MBA graduate based out of Canada

The AI space is exciting for me. Mainly Gen AI. I’m passionate about business in general too.

But the truth is my tech experience is limited and I have no following/audience.

Tech:
I don’t think of this as a limitation because if my project takes off, I can always hire people or find co-founders. And to begin with, I don’t need a fully developed product. A MVP from Bubble will suffice.

No audience:
This is what makes me feel let down. I don’t have any sort of audience to launch to. To make it worse, my budget for marketing is roughly $500 USD. It’s not enough to get me sponsorship placement or test ads. Which is why I feel lost when it comes to marketing the project.

I need advice.

I’m willing to put in the time and effort it takes to make this AI SaaS a success. I’ll be working on this full-time starting April.

I’m targeting founders with funding/revenue and business owners (with a professional management in place). After working full-time for a month, I’ll decide whether to continue or not.

What are my best options to gain traction within a month in this competitive space?
Cascadia Code - coding ligatures, variable width

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code
This is beyond the point, these practices cause economic bubbles and when such bubbles grow too much eventually they pop and a lot of other people pay the price.
> very few people would come. And then I'd get feedback at the end of the semester that I "was never available to help."

My guess is that when they "needed help" was 2 hours before the exam, upon realizing that 10 hours of cramming was not going to make up for 12 weeks of slacking off (source: I was one of these types). IOW, their deficiency not yours.
In general, yes. However, the Kria series are amazingly good deals for what you get - a quite powerful Zynq US+ part and a dev board for like $350.
you can send the icloud link via SMS or really anywhere, telegram whatever, using the copy icloud link button
How to create an AI-agent-turned-intelligence-analyst using ChatGPT Vision
Don’t think it’s worth it. Looking at sudo’s man page at https://linux.die.net/man/8/sudo, it looks like sudo only uses single-letter flags, some of which take arguments. Argh implements long options, built-in parsing, subcommands, and lots of other nice to have features that nevertheless add a lot of code. It’s normal in traditional UNIX C programs to parse sudo-style flags in a handful of lines without any external dependencies.
I hope the actual study wasn't as "tricky" as it was referenced in the article re: the Linda example

I'd imagine there's enough stuff Kahneman identified with biases that have held up and don't involve artificial questions like this designed to trick the respondents whose real world applicability seem questionable at best...

further, in the supplied example, I'd argue that the prior probability of Linda being a feminist (based on her being an activist/etc.) is probably higher than her not being a feminist so, in a sense the respondents got it right (i.e., in that population, I'd argue there are more women who are bank tellers and feminists than just bank tellers)...
Does that Wikipedia figure include the satellite?
Good point. I wasn't thinking of enough scenarios.
Levels.fyi Built Scalable Search with PostgreSQL
yeah I don't think any freight is being moved by (checks article) passenger cars
Get Buttigieg on the horn. He’ll be all over it!
> Current leader Kim Jong-un, himself a fan of voluminous legwear, is reportedly irked by skinny jeans and T-shirts bearing Western logos which are popular in South Korea.

This all feels a bit tawdry to me. I feel like I rarely see this kind of content on HN, and tbf I’d kinda rather not see it at all.
It's a little annoying, because the only way to really preserve wealth is to push it into the market, and investing is always a bit of a gamble. There's reasonably low-risk tickers like VOO and SPY and VTI, and that is typically what I dump my money into, but it does concern me that the economics of the world has kind of forced me to embrace gambling.

I'm generally a pretty risk-averse person, I've bought two lottery tickets in my life (once when I turned 18, once again when the Powerball hit a billion in 2015). Unsurprisingly, I didn't win both those times. I would much prefer to keep my cash in some kind of government-secured savings account, but the interest rates in those rarely keep up with inflation, at least not long term. The closest I have found to that is treasury-bills, and I do use those, but I still put the bulk of my money into ETFs, AKA gambling.
Who do you think does all of the jobs that require driving in Manhattan?
Do you really believe it's wealthy people doing that by choice?
Be an Enabler
Who's Behind All the 'Pussy in Bio' on X?
This looks interesting, but the italic faces appear to be simple obliques rather than the unique glyphs of IBM Plex Mono, JetBrains Mono, etc.
I really hope the crazy prize increase of vmware products will end the use of esxi and the rest of the vsphere suite, it is one of the worst applications and apis i have ever had the displeasure of working with!
I don't like it when developers break from the conventions and theming of my operating system because they feel entitled to. Sure, very sophisticated applications that have niche needs like Blender, Godot. Photoshop, etc may have a justification to do so. But most apps are not those and I expect them to be consistent with the rest of the software on my computer. It's very difficult to retrain nontechnical people to use apps when they break from the conventions and styles of the software they are familiar with.
Indeed, your real name will come out.. but otherwise its a nice feature
This aspect was investigated in the literature and broadly speaking, the biases still pop-up: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9280.00350

- It was also touched on in the original paper that Tversky and Kahneman put out https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1984-03110-001
Trucks already pay a significant cost on bridge tolls. Tolls will be dropped significantly at night, which is when trucks make most deliveries. It is unlikely to increase cost of goods.
The freight will move faster with less congestion, which may well reduce costs overall.
Weekly Scroll: DoorDash Discourse
There’s a metallic device to insert inside your sinuses. It looks like a finger trap with one side going to a point. I remember it lasts a few years then needs to be replaced for $1000 or so.

My grandfather looked into it because the surgery doesn’t last very long and he had it done multiple times.
Why not desktop apps?
Sorry, I forgot to link the repository [1] and missed the edit window by the time I realized.

The bottom of the README.md [2] contains the following license grant with the misleading "Open Source" term:

> License

> Our model weights and code are licensed for both researchers and commercial entities. The Databricks Open Source License can be found at LICENSE, and our Acceptable Use Policy can be found here.

[1] https://github.com/databricks/dbrx

[2] https://github.com/databricks/dbrx/blob/main/README.md
Your analogy is flawed. Maple syrup is not to jam or honey as XXO Cognac is to regular brandy.

A better analogy is that maple syrup is to jam or honey as brandy is to beer.

Yeah — they have the same sort of fundamental purpose but if your recipe or drink calls for wine you probably don’t want to substitute beer or vice versa.
I bet Albert is spinning at the speed approaching the speed of light. Not sure what he would hate more, Salesforce or someone profiting from his face.

I know I would rather be printed on toilet paper, loyalty free.
This is the right thing to do - it makes drivers pay for the externalities they produce (including pollution, congestion, noise). When a city grows as big as Manhattan has, drivers need to begin shouldering at least some of the costs they introduce to the city, instead of leaving residents dealing with those costs.
Amazing. I'm not a smart person but even I see that Russia is a threat. Some of these leaders should study some history.
You Are Beautiful (to at least some people) (2015)
Google likes smearing (they famously published a white paper on it), but not everyone does it since it causes error in your measurements of duration. The most common alternative is having a minute that runs to either :58 or :60 while keeping the size of a second the same.
Delta IV is notoriously expensive, but USG has plenty of DoD cash for expendable launches in general. The next block (phase 2) NSSL launches are 60% ULA Vulcan. We'll see what phase 3 looks like. I suspect it'll be far more weighted towards SpaceX to try to give ULA a kick in the pants.

DoD and USG learned through the 90s-now how screwy things get when you don't have enough competition or you can't spread your money evenly amongst vendors. They will spend the money now and indefinitely to assure they can get to space when they want to, how they want to.

That doesn't mean they're happy about it though. I'm sure they'd love if everyone was as affordable as SpaceX.
Well such speech restrictions have been found unconstitutional by the supreme court in prior cases, so I'm not so sure what your "characterization" of the law and its alleged constitutionality is based upon. Further, what point is it that state legislatures have broader powers than Congress? They still have no power to exceed the boundaries of the first amendment, so I'm not sure what point you are trying to make there either.
That will take some time as SQL has a 50 years head start. But I think we have a chance of getting there. :)
You've heard of guilt by association, well guilt by co-location isn't that far off. Along the same lines, the rationale is going to be, "We need to track everyone so we can be sure to see all relationships and connections, and connections to connections, and so on.

Try to draw the line wherever you want, but they're going to step over it, and never look back.
imagine a founder doing a secondary and getting aws credits.
I made a post on HN asking this exact question a couple days ago so seeing this was my personal Christmas haha
His own work held up very well to replication. It's when he is citing the work of other scholars (in particular, that of social psychologists) that doesn't hold up well to replication.
I agree. I am disappointed that NASA abdigated its role in driving forward not only space but aviation to commercial interests. It made, and still makes, many people very rich, but profit motives lead to the masses to feeling, and being handled, like cattle.

I'm particularly frustrated by the dearth of general aviation as a means of travel outside of the wealthy. We built small airports EVERYWHERE, and in most cases they sit rotting in rural areas instead of being hubs of inter-city trade.

I have plans to change that, but the aviation space is notoriously coin-operated and high impedance. Even with funding it's going to require some serious SV-style hacking to change anything meaningfully.
To wit - “Garbage In, Garbage Out” is still applicable.
I'm a data scientist and I agree that work meant to last should be in a source-controlled project coded via a text editor or IDE. But sometimes it's extremely useful to get -- and iterate on -- immediate results. There's no good way to do that without either notebooks or at least a REPL.
Agreed - with CPU's, if it's working the day you buy it, it will most likely still be working in 10 years with typical desktop use cases, no matter the past life it had.
People stir syrup into coffee? In the US the only context in which I see people consume maple syrup is as a condiment for pancakes/waffles, and even in those situations I see many people deliberately avoid maple syrup and instead reach for table syrup (preferred taste & consistency).
check again: ```Who Will Pay: Most cars, trucks and taxi and Uber riders.```
I have been running proxmox at home for a few months now.

It has been, to say the least, an adventure. And I have nothing but good things to say about Proxmox at this point. Its running not only my home related items (MQTT, Homeassitant), it also plays host to some of the projects I'm working on (postgres, go apps, etc...) rather than runing some sort of local dev.

If you need to exit vmware, proxmox seems like a good way to go.
Lively is very impressive in its scope and beyond what I imagined anyone might have done already. Thanks! It seems a little brittle - the examples threw errors for me. It’s also a bit less coupled to the browser that what I was picturing - I was thinking something more like a lot of bells and whistles added to say Chrome devtools.
if you're referring to rideshare and taxi drivers

yes, these rates might rise. but it's the wealthy who are consuming these services. costs will obviously pass through to the rider (not be borne by driver)
I wonder how well ELO score handle the edge case where your most important games are against yourself. There are 4 GPT4's in the top 10 (both #2 and #3) and 3 Claude's.

(To their credit, they count anything where the 95% confidence intervals overlap as a tie)