skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You misread my comment: I'm saying it absolutely could happen and there's no sound reason to assume it won't.
Another google product killed. I always remember the catchy googlighting song lol “Google killed of Gears and Wave, they buried to Buzz the same way. If Google Apps meets its grave, your business is hosed” https://youtu.be/vl9S9X9FqyI?si=cb-DXVUaylNhzt6C
> It’s simple. Tax the externality. In this case institute a carbon tax.

A currently popular idea is “a revenue neutral carbon tax” in which funds raised are paid back out to low emitters.

Maybe the progress of this idea will be a good benchmark for whether we’re a well functioning democracy. I appreciate this sounds cynical, but I mean it sincerely.

> One solution could be to try and identify what tools we have in our collective toolbox to taclke the problem at hand. Another solution is to blame the banks that they don’t have enough civic virtue. To me it looks like one of these two solutions is more likely to work than the other.

You’re layering in a value judgement here about the civic virtue of banks into a problem statement which I hope can be evaluated on factual accuracy rather than values. If the problem statement holds, the solutions can then be debated and the toolkit of solutions evaluated for the job.

1. Banks have a powerful ability to determine which projects happen and which don’t through the credit mechanism. Because often times no credit = no project.

2. When projects are evaluated on narrow financial criteria, wealth can be destroyed rather than made. The project will create free cashflow and the loan will be repaid, but the credit issuance process will not take into account whether the project is a net benefit to human wealth across other important metrics such as environmental and human heath.

3. Banks lobby to prevent the credit issuance mechanism being broadened to exclude projects which move costs onto third party balance sheets.

You’ve pointed out a possible problem with the democratic process, so maybe the above is really a symptom and not a true root cause, which in fact would be something along the lines of:

Powerful economic actors stymy reform of the economic system to favour financial profit at the expense of sustainability.

[Edit: for inclusion of final two paras]
It is more compatible than not and there are workarounds for most of the things that wouldn't work, many of which you shouldn't be using in Typescript today, have known workarounds (enums), and/or you probably have lint rules already warning against using (namespaces). (There are more details elsewhere in that proposal document outside of the direct linked FAQ question.)
Yet you don't understand the difference between fMRI neural correlates and "understanding how consciousness is created"
Discord Appears to Accidentally Boost Views of Its April Fools' Video with Bot
This author, discussed previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=spakhm.com

There are now only two articles presently live on his site; all past ones are 404.
would be great to have an actual demo site, and not just a video on youtube
For some reason your comment made me think of the classic Simpsons bit, "When I stamp your foot and say 'Hello Mister Thompson' you say hi back." Funny how the human mind works
Quantum teleportation is not real. The speed of light continues to stand as the ultimate limit of speed, information and causality.
Your personal observation may be influenced by other factors.

Looking at this data from the US you can see that as family income increases, the birthrate drops - https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
I love startup culture. The CEO of my company flies commercial, and we've have thousands of employees, have been around since the 1940s, actually ship products, and make a shit-ton money.

But startup CEOs leading companies with 800 employees that can't ship hardly anything are movin & shakin so startupfully between plays and deals that they ain't got no time for that.

$1.8 million per year for travel is $5,000 per day. That's more than a day-of round-trip first-class flight on ANA ($20k today) from NYC to Tokyo every week.
Startup believes mobile business apps should work more like consumer apps
it's simpler than that: it's just running `dpkg-source -x` on every `*.dsc` file it can find. So that's "all of the source used to build all of the debs" (using dists/stable/main/source/Sources.xz to get the list.) (I think then just a single commit of all of it; the fun bit would be doing this for each release and looking at the size of the diffs...)
> On paper they are so much simpler than ICE vehicles they should be a fraction of the cost.

Except for the $20,000 battery in each of these Tesla vehicles.

That battery pack is basically the cost of a Chevy TRAX. And the battery is that expensive because its a complicated mess of chemicals: Lithium, Nickle, Cobalt... with complex battery-management systems (op-amps, transistors, MOSFETs) that can handle 800V and 250+ Amps of current, in a load-balanced way in both power and charging directions... designed for longetivity and safety.

Come on, its not actually that simple. The 15-gears that make up the Toyota Prius Power Split Device (serving as Transmission, Generator, and Starter) is obviously simpler in both chemical composition, sourcing (only uses Steel), and assembly.

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And building a 13kW-hr battery pack at 200lbs with a fraction of the power, and smaller electric motors at 110 hp out of cheap magnets (instead of Tesla's rare-earth magnets pushing 600+ horsepower or whatever) is also more environmentally friendly.

A lot of the problems with Tesla vehicles are self-imposed. They aim at absurdly high horsepower for not really much benefit to the typical everyday driver.
Therefore the last part of my last sentence.
We should set up a GoFundMe to reward Andres Freund.
Brands forbid advertising agencies from using AI
The disaster isn't missing of a quarter, but the entire facade as to why Tesla is valued at the astronomic multiple of earnings.

Tesla has confirmed what most it's not a tech company, but an auto manufacturer. And if it's repeated, the stock will never recover.
"Why" is because it's an easy way to get clicks and ad revenue.

Otherwise its just to soften people up to the inevitable blow.
This link doesn't go to a screenshot of a BSOD - it goes to a picture that disses (insults) HackerNews folks (https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png). Was this on purpose?

Based on the rest of the comment I'm guessing you pasted the wrong link?

If not - congrats on the successful Rick Rolling (or whatever it's called)
Eh. Ans in your lifetime you possibly saw humanity use horse and cart as main transportation to the cyber truck (depending on your age)

This does not happen without population growth.

You also saw the quality of life of the average person also more than double.

Even if you expect it from bacteria, you imply it a bad because bacteria? What sort of logic is this? Should humanity stop doing anything it sees other forms of life it does not view favorably doing? If so. You go first… let’s start with breathing.
I wanted to try out Templ and just stuck with it.
There was some old Irish American song I heard that included the lines "Some think it a misfortune to be christened Pat or Dan/But to me it is an honor to be called an Irishman."

I suppose that Daniel O'Connell's fame could have accounted for the popularity of the name among the Irish.
If those stores comply with EU law, that shouldn’t be the case. See for example https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_.... I can see how stores will pop up that don’t care about laws and regulations, but I would be hesitant to pay for anything there.
What happened to "necessity is the mother of invention"? Another assumption here is that all jobs are critical, but I suspect a huge portion (the majority?) are pork.
https://oneuptime.com/ also makes it a managed service to compete with datadog
Imagine if all salaried employees working from an office created a personal LLC to own their car, and then had their work compensate them by reimbursing each employees LLC.

Would that pass muster?
Konrad Zuse (1994)
So judging from the omission of the bishop and the queen, the computer really hated calculating diagonals, huh? I would've assumed that calculating the knight's movements would've been the bigger headache.
I get the sense that Cloudflare Workers is targeted almost exclusively at existing customers of Cloudflare, who have a “legacy” app proxied through Cloudflare DNS, who use Page Rules and Firewall Rules and the like.

For these customers, Workers are an incremental optimization of an existing app — shifting some work to the edge, or allowing some systems to have a previously-internal backend stripped out, leaving them as e.g. Workers in front of an object-storage bucket. And that’s exactly how Cloudflare advertises them.

It looks like Cloudflare’s outreach advertising, meanwhile, is all about CF Pages and CF Sites. You can find SEOed landing pages for these; whereas Workers is mentioned ~never in external media as a “solution” — even though it totally can be.
We had one in front of our house at one point, and the first year it bloomed we thought there was a dead animal under the house.

Some people say they smell like bleach and/or semen as well. I'd rather have Durian than Bradford pear.
Has this been solved?
I'm fairly opinionated about this:

1. I agree, Prisma is not a great ORM. Drizzle is a better choice. It's close to the metal and when the abstraction inevitably leaks, it leaks towards the user using raw SQL

2. Modern JS is extremely performant. Look at any of the benchmarks for the new JS runtimes that have come out in the past 6 months (e.g. Bun / WinterJS / etc...). It approaches Go / Java in terms of performance.

3. Even the traditional NodeJS runtime has been optimized out the ass by Google. For example: JSON parsing has highly performant SIMD instructions under the hood. When a trillion dollar company puts billions of dollars behind a technology it will get fast.

4. There is no possible way that building your CRUD backend in Golang / Rust is a "faster" solution than just using React Server Components.

5. The vast majority of startups are IO-bound, not CPU-bound - so "fast" languages like Go / Rust won't be as relevant.

The benefits of Go (for most companies) only apply once your company hits an inflection point and starts to scale and starts to see the throughput that can really take advantage of a lower-level language.

If you're building a high-throughput infra company or something, then the things I've mentioned are less relevant.
Bought a Sainsmart robot arm because it was cheap and has 6 degrees of freedom. I don't use it for anything serious though. It was just to practice some robotic programming. https://github.com/wedesoft/arduino-sainsmart
You are implying that governments are more technically competent and more trustworthy than open source communities..
The Star Trek AfterDark screensaver was the jam! Tribbles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQ_ekXdoqU
It's a niche market. I love Icon's stuff but they sell very low numbers of vehicles. I would love to have an ev FJ40 or Scout, but I'm skeptical the general populace wants these as much as enthusiasts think they do.
I have a Tesla with EAP. I’m not buying another Tesla unless I can transfer this over. Not with the prices for software DLCs they have today.

What’s fascinating is that they have this transfer for FSD, but not EAP.

Anyone from Tesla sales reading this, reach out to me and you may have a customer :)
In Europe they decided to get rid of the white pines (which are not native) in favor of the blackcurrants.
>but you still get a much firmer idea of what "they're fancy autocomplete" actually means.

Interesting how you can have the same experience and come to opposite conclusions.

Seeing so many failure modes of the smaller models fall by the wayside as compute goes brrr just made me realize how utterly meaningless that phrase is.
Great. I was hoping we could see alternating currants.
So the market for this is cloud providers? If so, I think it's failed. Amazon, Cloudflare, et al have already developed their own lightweight runtimes based on Firecracker/V8.

They might not be quite as light as unikernels, but within the same order of magnitude for sure, and I doubt the savings justify additional development complexity. As a cloud provider, your goal is to make your services as easy to adopt as possible.
While we’re going down memory lane, I wish someone would recreate, reimagine, or make a sequel to Johnny Castaway.
> For example, I don't see side loaded NES emulators being allowed to have a JIT.

Why not? If third-party browsers are allowed to have a JIT, why couldn't an emulator?
Cool project!

Looks like it supports geometry and textures now, any plans to support shaders?
This is a deja vu. Did you post this exact comment earlier to the same link, posted days ago?

Are the timestamps messed up? It says 35 min ago for me for your post and 2h for the article.
Unlimited growth by all practical means is probably not a problem, even with only this planet. Half of the nutrients eaten worldwide by people right now are grown with artificial fertiliser, which is made by literally sucking nitrogen out of air. Humans are making great use of resources that are utterly worthless for all other living beings, such as oil, natural gas, uranium and more. What will be the next toxic waste product that humans will harness for productive goals?

And even if there is no next such resource, economic growth can be achieved using less resources by increasing efficiency. So even if humanity decided to stop increasing the resource usage right now, we would still continue to see almost limitless economic growth just by smarter ways of using the resources.
I'm not worried about future of artists: if (hopefully) most of people are like me, they consume some piece of art basically because its author wanted to say something about something. AIs will only replace art which is consumed without this reason.
According to their CFO who authorized the CEO to make the statement (kind of a big deal for legal reasons) aptera makes breakeven by making 6k cars a year, so they have 7 years number of preorders. Even assuming a low preorder execution rate at like 20% it seems like they will be good to go.
Show HN: ghore, an Offline Renderer for GitHub flavoured Markdown
Ghore is a simple cli tool to preview markdown files like they would appear on Github. It doesn't rely on Github's API and can be used completely offline. It also supports live preview of mermaid code blocks (Github's API doesn't process mermaid codeblocks).
Ethics in the 21st century I guess. No, conflicts work the opposite way - assumed shady until cleared. Virtually every business works this way, especially ones with investors. Conflicts can of course be legitimately cleared, but not with just some hand-waving. It is no different than my company not allowing me to direct business to entities owned by myself or my family.
If you're also curious about how guided missiles do their business after arriving at the target, I found this an interesting read:

"Tactical Missile Warheads" by Joseph Carleone

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/4.470677

It's available via Library Genesis if you don't want to make an interlibrary loan request.
What was the strength? I’ve had a sensation similar to a Jacksonian march in a 3T head scan.
Can you explain what aspects of the open source philosophy were exploited, and what possible mitigations might be?
It depends on your product and industry.

If you're shopping for a high performance $10,000 oscilloscope or 3000 high endurance SD cards a month for the next 12 months, or a point-of-sales system for your small business?

Then the suppliers will have a sales person who'll visit you, demonstrate the oscilloscope's features, offer to loan it to you for a month or two so you can try it out, chase up answers to technical questions ('Can I install antivirus software on this oscilloscope?'), and suchlike.

If you're selling into an industry where that's the norm, you're probably going to need someone who knows how to do it :)
Countered in the very same thread: https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg12...
Shout out to the author, Bill Stewart.

https://uxfactor.ca/1151/
KDE has far too much surface area to test and support (as in end user support) effectively. Gnome may not be as flexible but it makes for a much smaller target to be able to reproduce and triage issues.

If people want KDE they can install it. Making it the default is short sighted and doesn't align with, or help further, the goals of the Fedora project.
127 bit integers get 38 digits, which lines up well with 128 bit integers
I have been thinking the exact same thing, and specifically I would like to try implementing something that works with the Rye python manager.

Say I have a directory with a virtualenv and some code that needs some packages from PyPI. I would very much like to sandbox anything that runs in this virtualenv to just disk access inside that directory, and network access only to specifically whitelisted URLs. As a user I should only need to add "sandbox = True" to the pyproject.toml file, and optionally "network_whitelist = [...]".

From my cursory looking around, I believe Cloudflare sandbox utils, which are convenience wrappers around systemd Seccomp, might be the best starting point.

Edit: or just use Firejail, interesting...

You mention sandboxing on the language level, but I don't think it is the way. Apparently sandboxing within Python itself is a particularly nasty rabbit hole that is ultimately unfruitful because of Python's introspection capabilities. You will find many dire warnings on that path.
AI Deep Dives
There's Isolated Web Apps, an extension of PWAs where you download an app then it has no way to dial home. Effectively the app is it's own origin. https://chromestatus.com/feature/5146307550248960

You still don't know what an app will send home. It doesn't block network access. But with eval banned in web app stores, it means you at least know what code you are running.

You're not wrong about cups & web as a platform's utility. And damn it's amazing, fully onboard. But the local-first folks I think are onto a major thread, hit the nail on the head that connected computing is taking back the glimmer of power and control users briefly saw in the short-lived Personal Computing era. Yeah, technically you can use the web locally to manage things within reach, but when someone launches a web app, that's almost never the case. In almost every case the webapp is strictly dependent on services of the site.

And that's what local-first wants to change!
There are EV base platforms for sale and license. For example Nio licensees it's platform. 60% of EVs are made/sold in China so that's where you should look for a platform.
I'm in the market for an EV for the first time and won't consider a Tesla due to him going full mask off on Twitter over the last year.
NASA's ISS? What does the I in ISS stand for?
Tech titans like Jobs/Bezos/Gates are always part myth. Their reality is astounding enough, so we just smooth out the edges of their mythology :)
> The first difference is that the script makes sure (very sure!) to exit if not being run on Linux.

The repeated check is indeed mysterious. My only hypothesis is that the attacker may have thought that it should look plausible as a test input to a compression library, hence repetition.
The future of VBIEDs is going to be intense.
I've always assumed it was a name for a clever way to improve on limitations of simple bang-bang control with on-off sensors and actuators plus some 7400 series-type logic. Nowadays you can have an STM8 with two dozen 10 or 12-bit ADCs and enough grunt to do hundreds of PID loops at once for 10 cents.
Stop using the Internet Archive as the sole host for preservation projects
Discussion 21 hours ago:[0] (93 points, 70 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39898619
Readme says it's a C++ library. Any plans to support higher level languages such as Go or even Python?
I make no such assumption, only pointing out the obvious fact that a world of no innovation, declining living standards, and a dying population will only exacerbate bleakness. It's essentially the dystopian setting for Children of Men.
As it seems the first 3DGS which uses Lods and blocks, there might be place for optimization.
This might become useful for use cases in Virtual Production, probably not for mobiles.
Making and animating a 3D graphics robot arm is trivial compared to building it in real life. So not so much Omniverse, you would want to use a proper simulator like gazebo.

But beyond that, the kinematics as well as the force dynamics for controlling a serial manipulator are very well understood. So there aren't too many gains to be made by AI. It is difficult to implement in software due to some tricky situations about the nature of motion planning. Discontinuities around orientation approaches in 6-DOF systems for instance. But widespread use of serial manipulators is proof that, although challenging, they are relatively solved. It is always interesting to watch an AI model or genetic algorithm do some path planning, but this is a pretty well trod area of research at this point.

Now, when you want a robot to walk and pick things up at the same time... that is when AI becomes something to consider in order to figure out how the dynamics should work.
Isn't the Subaru Solterra based on the same platform as the Toyota bz4x?
“Body-in-white” is a relevant search term if you would like to learn a little bit about the options in this area.
The top post was their historical recount about how the alt-right presence on 4chan and makes no specification or claims to maintaining this label for these groups of people in 2024, so this tirade seems like a nonsequitur. But don't worry, we have new names for these people now :)
I guess all you can do is not give the brand away.

Put a link saying "Hey this guy forked my project, I won't maintain it anymore, he may add malware, review and use at your own risk"
How does it compare from the point of security?

Does an app installed via a non-Apple app store can access more on my device for some reason? E.g. because it uses undocumented APIs that wouldn’t be allowed on the regular App Store?
I don't see any disdain for human life in these threads. What I see are people who value life over economic growth for growth's sake.
Well I’m 40 and my partner is 45, but who knows how old we’ll be when/if the shit hits the fan.
No, that's not it at all. This was after multiple conversations with the same person explaining the situation. There was signs on the door, on the boxes, with giant type, highlighters, bright colors, the works.

This was people explicitly ignoring any and all signals contrary to their desires.

The confusing bit is that a strip of tape with no other context is what stopped them. Probably just that it was something so outside of the ordinary experience that it forced them to actually engage their brain for a moment.
Modern concurrent collectors like ZGC only pause threads to synchronize state transitions -- there is no collection work done in STW pauses (or any work that grows with the size of the working set or total heap) -- and not for a longer duration than the OS does for various things. Certainly the average impact on latency is lower for concurrent tracing collectors.

These days, tracing collectors offer better throughput, latency and predictability than refcounting, while refcounting offers better footprint. That's the main tradeoff, and I mentioned some secondary ones (re ease of implementation and low-level "surprises") before.
The "Brooklyn" Dodgers were dodging streetcars; does that count?
> Announcing this on april first ...

Seems to have been posted 8 hours ago, which puts it on the 2nd of April pretty much everywhere. :)