skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard that this business unit turned into 3Ms healthcare data analytics business partially because healthcare customers kept buying floppy disks after everyone else stopped. https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/health-information-systems-us/dr...
If you want to be more precise, you could say "a root certificate that Let's Encrypt will be able to use to build an unexpired trust path after September 2024" (because of the fact that Android doesn't enforce expiration of roots, but does enforce expiration of certificates signed by them).

https://letsencrypt.org/2023/07/10/cross-sign-expiration.htm...
We're at the point where im starting to miss the crypto bros...

The safety crowed is the bored ape nft culture of ML...
To solve this issue you can integrate the person into the car.
If you haven't tried solving it with an Excel spreadsheet, I'm not interested in signing the NDA to hear your idea.
The thumbnail implies there is a way to solve a seemingly impossible puzzle. But it’s really not solvable using traditional rules, you have to come up with weird one off rules to solve it. At that point is it really sudoku or just a sudoku shaped different game. It’s like playing checkers with chess pieces.
Keeping it high level -

No, the goal is not to create a C++ API to give you GPU functions.

The C++ API for wander is used to embed the WebAssembly module of graphics code into the application. The API footprint is very small - load a file, pass parameters to it, iterate through the tree it produces.

This could be viewed as logically equivalent to programmatically loading a flash/swf file. Or similar to what Rive has built with a .riv, although this is static content, not code.

> 1) Why use WASM?

You're loading arbitrary, third-party code into an app - that is the renderlet. The benefit is to have a sandboxed environment to run code to put data on the GPU.

2) Why use renderlet instead of webGPU, which is already a high level cross platform abstraction including shader definitions?

WebGPU is a low-level API. If you are a graphics programmer, and want to build an app around WebGPU, go for it! A renderlet is more of a graphics plugin system than an entire first-party app.

> The renderlet compiler is currently in closed preview - please contact us for more information.

This is the system to build the renderlet. This is not writing raw C++ code to talk to WebGPU, this can be higher-level functions (build a grid, perform a geometric extrusion, generate a gradient) - you can see in the video it is a yaml specification. The compiler generate the necessary commands, vertex buffers, textures, etc, and soon, shaders to do this, and builds a Wasm module out of it.

> Is this like a 'alternative to webGPU' with a different API / easy mode tooling?

I certainly wouldn't describe it as an alternative to WebGPU, but easy(er) tooling to build graphics, yes.

> What is the use-case for 'I've compiled a part of my application only into a cross platform binary renderlet and I can now run that cross platform ... after I've compiled the rest of my application into a platform specific binary for the platform I'm running it on?'

Let's take an example - Temporal Anti-Aliasing. There are libraries that exist to implement this, or you can implement it through raw code. This requires changes structural changes to your pipeline - to your render targets, additional outputs to your shaders, running additional shaders, etc. Wouldn't it be nice to easy connect a module to your graphics pipeline that contains the code for this, and the shader stages, and works across platforms and graphics APIs, with data-driven configuration? That is the vision.

> ... rest of your application into WASM/platform native code... is that not strange? It seems strange to me

There is not really such a thing as a standalone Wasm application. It has seen great success as a data-driven plugin model. In a browser, it is hosted with / interacts with JavaScript. Even built for pure WASI, as a standalone app where everything is compiled into a single module, there is stil a runtime/host environment.

Does that help clarify?
oh yeah, I'm pretty comfortable to managing a debian distro. Definitely the first time was a bit of a pain, but I built a template for my subsequent projects and now its about 20 minutes of work for a totally new repo.

I also just don't like handing the keys to the kingdom over to Vercel as it were (just a personal preference really). I'm working on migrating over to a privately instanced Gitea so that I don't have to depend on Github either for my deployments but that's still in the works.

So I actually use serverless functions as ad-hoc "workers" if I don't feel like setting up a full fledged backend API - so sometimes they'll be working for upwards of a minute on a request and then lodge the final results in a notification-redis. It's not really what serverless functions are intended for, but... it's nice to sometimes not have to deal with building an entirely separate backend.

Since I control the VPS, I can easily spin up more resources to scale without worrying about Vercels payment options. It also makes it easier to migrate somewhere else if I want to since its dockerized - trivial to move to Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, AWS, etc.

A friend of mine whose project sort of blew up and went viral also said that while the autoscalibility of Vercel was very nice - it was a bit of a double edged sword, he mentioned that it was extraordinarily difficult to figure out which routes and files werer contributing to his high usage on his bill. Maybe things have changed, that was a few years back.
right, that's how it starts. but the improvements in methodology simply aren't there as the ML sector has been laser focused on generality in modeling (GenAI as it's affectionately known). "at scale" doesn't just mean more stores; it means more products and thus more annotation. how many UPCs do you figure there are in a given Target or Whole Foods? i assure you it's in the millions.

one advantages of the Amazon Go initiative is a smaller scope of products.
When all you have is upvoted blog posts, everything looks like AI
First you deploy MySQL in one infrastructure. You've got one problem.

Next you deploy MySQL to a second infrastructure. Now you've got two problems.

MySQL: not even once.
In the old days, we shared admins between groups of employees.

(in my first intern summer [$15/hr IIRC?], I introduced myself on the 2nd day to the secretary, and she said "Oh, you're $FOO. I've been telling everyone you were in a meeting. Here are your messages.")
It’ll likely keep getting better, if it gets to 30-40% I’d say that’s a decent trade off. Also could you boost your chances by having the AI do a 2nd pass and double check the work? I’d be curious what the success rate of an LLM “determining whether a bug fix is valid” is
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Oh damn, and I thought lemon trees were fun to prune. These can kill you and smell terrible. At least lemon trees tend to smell nice while threatening you with enormous thorns during pruning.

Somewhat worse: Krauter Vesuvius / Cherry Plum trees stain sidewalks and make a horrible mess every year.
Not many people in tech are really aware of how the auto industry works. Mostly the insane lead times on new products. What is out there and for sale now is something that was likely designed 3-5 years ago.

You are right to point out the innovation coming out of China in the EV space. Every automaker is currently in a cycle of copying what they are doing for their next wave of products. To the extent that there is an EV “slowdown” right now is basically intentional until the next wave of BEVs starts coming out which are way more cost competitive.

As I pointed out in another comment the main driver is large format LFP prismatic cells in a cell-to-pack configuration. BYD blade and CATL qilin are examples to study.
How do we disincentivize bad predictions (10 ft vs a few inches, really?)?

This space is littered with wildly off the mark predictions and they have undermined the cause.
I think the author alludes to Vance when she writes:

> The dying-earth genre didn’t vanish on the spot, but it transformed into a stock setting for sword-and-sorcery stories set in the far future where modern civilization’s technology has long since been lost

which for me is a fair characterization of Vance although not of Wolfe who's Book of the New Sun while having these undertones is much more complex and could be said to transform the setting into something different altogether.
While 802.11ah does operate at sub-1GHz, BLE Long Range seems to be 2.4GHz, just with much more robust coding.

DECT-NR on 1.9GHz wil be lower in frequency than that and on less shared spectrum.

The comparison is not the same everywhere, as the European 868MHz bamd allows much less power (25mW vs. 1000mW) and much less bandwidth (5MHz vs. 25MHz) than USA 915MHz.

Similarly the USA 1.9GHz DECT band allows less power (100mW vs. 250mW) and less bandwidth (5channels vs. 10channels) than the European band.

So even before meshing DECT-NR has some major advantages over 802.11ah, in Europe.
Have you tried it? The claim that they haven’t fixed any of the core issues is legitimately strange.

The screens inside as a significant jump in image quality, to the point that for a single TV/movie watcher, the Vision Pro is probably going to be the best device for that media. As the price comes down and the inevitable screen sharing becomes possible, it will be the best for multiple people, too.

Eye tracking and pinch to click is also a big jump in usability. That, along with the excellent pass through, makes it way more comfortable to use in public.

There are a lot of features that will make it better in the future, like less weight, even better screens, better battery life, etc., but to claim Apple didn’t fix any core problems with the current device is uninformed.
For example, payday loans are explicit in saying they will charge you a percentage of your payday for a 14 day loan. But if you do the math, it's about 1000% interest annually

It's not a crime either, but it's predatory
Tell HN: Reddit killed its compact mode on 2024-04-01
Previously reddit had a compact mode accesible eg. https://reddit.com/r/all/.i

That is now gone.

https://old.reddit.com/r/all/ still works though.
A Missouri police sniper killed a 2-year-old girl. Why did he take the shot?
I imagine the difference is that Scotch tape is much better aligned with the R&D that goes into their other products in the adhesives and films categories compared to magnetic tape. If they didn't intend to go further into developing products in the computing space then selling it while it still had value was probably a wise call.
1 current organization does not, but I am trying to get them to. It is necessary for long term maintenance. How do I fix something when I do not know what it is required to do.

2 I do not, nor do I know anyone who does. Except user seabass-labrax
But I see it as essential.

3 depending on organization, but generally they have to be knowledgeable in the frame of the customer (internal or external) needs. Other places I have worked the sales team had a large influence.

4 if it is not a short term, or throw away code when the developer leaves (from winning the lottery). Then anything worth doing is worth doing right.

5 it will change, and you have to plan on that.

6 there are fancy tools but I find them cumbersome to learn, and often default to word and / or spreadsheets

7 I expect with any requirement to have listed with it where it came from. Be it my initials, a particular meeting, a government regulation. In a serious production, you trace the requirements to design, implementation and test procedures. With recording dates of passing tests. My current one will not have all this tracing.

I like to put Wants in the requirements, and list them as such. Basically I am kicking the issue down the road for someone else to decide if it is a need.

Remember: if you cannot test it, it is not a requirement.
Annin Robotics AR4, open plan low cost 6DOF desktop industrial robot
I'm aware that they intend this to be a beachhead for a future Vision Amateur or whatever which I assume will be $1500 (with trash specs, $1700 with passable ones).* However, they won't be able to sell them if developers don't embrace it. That particular egg in my humble opinion needs to be in place before the chicken of adoption will hatch.

I believe the only way Apple will make that happen is a radical change in attitude toward developers. They would need to court developers of games and owners of content and negotiate -- generously -- on terms, instead of dictating terms and clinging to the 100% control and 30% revshare they feel so deserving of.

We'll see in a couple years if I'm right!

* Honestly though, still, even at that price, can you imagine most people being eager to add another almost-$2000 device to their lives that doesn't replace another one, unless the device does some serious life-improving stuff? And I don't see how the price gets any lower than that, even if Apple budged on margins which is very out of character.
So are some Python advocates, too. The thing that's worse than a bash script made of Perlish line noise, is a piece of "clean code" dead simple Python that's 80% __language__.boilerplate, 20% logic, smeared over 10x the lines because small functions calling small functions are cool. No one has enough working memory to keep track of what's going on there. Instead, your eyes glaze over it and you convince yourself you understand what's going on.

Also, Python build scripts can be living hell too, full of dancing devils that could be introducing backdoors left and right - just look at your average Conan recipe, particularly for larger/more sensitive libraries, like OpenSSL or libcurl.
This doen't solve real time inventory. RFID does, also neither helps with EAS which RFID does'
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It seems to me that the main difference between chess and startups is that in chess you only have one opponent. The more opponents you have, the more likelihood that not blundering on its own is not sufficient.
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have collapsible threads?
It would be so much more convenient to collapse threads you're not interested in and read the rest of the discussion. Is there any reason HN doesn't support this?
For what it's worth, I (a) learned to type on a mechanical, and (b) have yet to suffer RSI in roughly a half century of coding.
Arguably this was all Mao Zedong's fault.
With all the increased productivity and advances if we can't support decent living for every person then what's the point? Work yourself to death to make some motherfucker rich?
I always heard that burning eucalyptus wood was toxic, but now i'm wondering if someone got their signals crossed because pressure treated wood and i think creosote treated wood are toxic when burned, too? I heard it as a teen, at school they took down a couple 100' eucalyptus and said we couldn't have a bonfire because of that reason.
Most countries do require the equipent to be licesed, even the folks who operate and deploy then don't need to be.

And equipment for 1890MHz is not approved if it is not DECT.
It wasn't even a bug... they forgot to read the changelog.
If that's your only showstopper you can change that in settings. Look up Raise to Wake[1] and Notifications[2] in Settings.

I'm usually using Theatre Mode which keeps the screen off until an alarm or I wake it up and have pretty much all notifications off. I still get heavy use of the watch itself for timers, reminders, calendar, tracking workouts and health stats and whatnot so I'm very happy with it.
[1] - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/watch/apd748b87e2a/wat...

[2] - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/watch/apd9b833c9f3/wat...
It does. Click the [-] after “next” above a comment.
I bought and returned one.
Unfortunately nuclear power is by no means free from CO2. Especially if you need to build new plants, massive amounts of CO2 are released because of all the concrete that is needed.
if no one is competing with you, it doesn't matter too much how good you are.

Temporarily. Once people see you're doing well with no competition the competition will spring forth, no matter how good you are. If you're also doing things badly those competitors will eat your lunch.

That isn't a reason not to launch when your product is very basic and scrappy. You don't need to make it good, and definitely not perfect. You just need to go fast.
Really enjoyed this journey. Could have extended into more modern tropes of singularity and mastery of energy the sun provides finding it's way into modern sci-fi.
I obviously didn’t mean all employees ,only the employees who are doing the check out .

I am not saying RFID will eliminate employees in retail , just that there is cost to not having RFID too, we should only see the diff as the cost of the tech not absolute numbers
Avoid blundering?

To do that, you need to learn opening strategy, endgame strategy, tactics, etc.

This isn't helpful
Renewables plus storage is already cheaper than Nuclear. It also is safer and much faster to build.

There are some next generation reactor designs that are worth investment but for immediate generation capacity wind and solar is much better.
Why not start one?
Everything that can be said about it already has been.

Right now, just gota wait for 3rd gen for the real stuff to happen.

Similar story with Quest, 1 was ok but 3rd gen is actually great.
They just can't stop admiring China
As long as people keep buying they will keep doing this. There is no incentive for them not to.
In the late 90s at my first job I would invite all my housemates to my office after hours for LAN parties using my co-workers computers. There were no logins and it didn’t even bother my co-workers unless a newly installed game took up too much drive space.

I feel we viewed computers more like expensive toys that should be shared rather than than the highly personal items they are today.
I doubt the stored actual game data in the server as this is an open world racing game where you drive around seamlessly without loading, and from 2014 where can't expect most gamers to had gigabit connection back then. But this store progression data online and refuse to work without internet connection.
Unless your first mover advantage lets you just stay there for decades. See: PayPal

they have only now been dethroned as the default credit card processor despite being awful to work with when I tried to integrate their API circa 2010
This seems like impressive work. You mention glossy / specular. I wonder why nothing in the city (first video) is reflective, not even the glass box skyscrapers. I noticed there is something funky in the third video with the iron railway rails from about :28 to :35 seconds. They look ghostly and appear to come in and out. Overall these three videos are pretty devoid of shiny or reflective things.
I'd probably vote this way if given the choice, too.
Public opinion changes if you ask someone if they want a Nuclear plant next to their house.

Nuclear is extremely expensive so if you poll on the cost of energy you will also have a different outcome.
The "FD32" 32MB capability was only implemented on the last drives which could also use 240MB disks.

Maybe the earlier 120MB drive hardware could have been physically capable of it but the drive firmware did not support it.
There is also no such thing as “the scientific community”. That’s a shibboleth deployed to shut arguments down with an ostensible show of authority.
You might overestimate the demands on the grid. For Norway in particular it’s been calculated that everyone can drive EVs without any upgrades to the grid, if smart charging is implemented. That means having a smart meter that charges you the exact cost of electricity the minute it’s used, and having a charger or car that cuts charging when electricity is expensive. This is trivial in Norway. Everyone has smart meters and the electricity provider can interface directly with many common EV models to stop and start charging through public APIs.

There’s plenty of spare capacity on the grid if EVs just use the capacity when it’s available, and avoids the peaks. Since EVs are batteries on wheels thats nearly trivial to achieve with the right incentives.

Norway has a pretty strong grid to start with since electricity has been used for heating in winter for a long time. And it had already rolled out smart meters for everyone years ago. Other countries/states may need some upgrades. But it’s not as much as you’d think and with modern technology it can be done at a reasonable price. You can often push more electricity over the same pylons with newer wires.

Does your country produce its own oil? If not EVs is a path to higher energy independence since EVs are more flexible with their energy demand and easier to pair with new renewables. With the right policies you might not need to import any more electricity, while getting to import less oil or fuels.
I have this intuition that the support is not real, I can’t justify the position but i strongly suspect the expression of support would almost entirely evaporate in the face of plans to actually build a nuclear facility in any given town.

I guess I’m skeptical of the hypothetical support people claim when they have no skin in the game (I.e. no local construction plans and it’s currently obvious that no plans are possible anytime soon)

On a personal level I’ve felt pro-nuclear most of my life, it’s just in the last few years I’ve become, not anti nuclear but skeptical I suppose. I just can’t see a cost benefit in today’s world given the other options available.
I think you are only considering people who use a CI to do an upload. Do you have any data of how many pypi projects are set up this way in total?

I upload from my machine, where a token.txt is stored on the same disk as the .ssh file. So your game over scenario is identical in both cases for me.

> people using permanent user-scoped tokens everywhere

I'd say that's a major design flaw of pypi, that it is impossible to create per-package scoped tokens directly, unless one is configuring trusted publishers (which translates to github).

> which lives in a security module for me

I am very confident that this is extremely uncommon among authors of projects hosted by pypi. Is this a mandate from your employer? (I don't know who that might be and if it is related at all, just asking.)
That's you, when I play aggressive chess the OTHER side makes blunders. It will show up as "the other player made a mistake so you won" and as an unforced error

of course it's unforced, if we all played perfectly there would be no game to play, but the aggression is what showed their bad tactical play
they're also available at a local walmart as rootstock. I bought one. If i find a nursery that has it i will buy more, but i like growing "weird" plants that no one has heard of, like soapberries, kumquats, that sort of thing.
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