skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> On the other hand the quickest way to realistically reduce emissions by half is to reduce the population by half.

That's nonsense. A reasonable time period for halving the population naturally would be 3 generations, or about 100 years.

We already have proof it can be done faster: Britain has halved their emissions in 35 years.

We need to do a lot more than halve CO2 emissions, and we need to do it in a lot less than 100 years. The goal is net zero by 2050. And while that's a very difficult goal, it's not a completely impossible goal either.
It is a thing, yes. A friend of mine was discussing how he has to think about the events to go to because his key man insurance on his family office requires him to use his own pilot, so he's contently inventing dumb reasons not to go to things vs admitting his cheap and doesn't want to spend the money. Two things I find amusing about this... rich people being cheap is always funny, and, as you mentioned, insurance companies preferring a private pilot when flying private it less safe. Apple requires this for Tim Cook too, and I always thought it was amusing.
Yeah, but it's not "rising" in the sense of a worrisome trend. It's low, and bouncing around its low value. Sure, the last years trend is mildly upwards where the federal trend is flat, but... so what? There are 50 states. Pull numbers form all of them and realistically half of them will show whatever nonsense trend you want to see. It's just a silly argument. Employment in California is simply not a problem. There are plenty of jobs, both historically and in comparison with the rest of the country.
The long-term goal is no - wander should handle shader compilation automatically. In the current version, the host app has to attach a shader using the host's shader API to render arbitrary geometry and textures.

Was looking at several different approaches to this, one of which would be cross-compiling wasm to spir-v. Most likely will expose a higher-level shader API (think shadertoy) and have wander compile to the platform backend. Also will be able to run WGSL shaders directly through Wasm with wasi-gfx support.
> We're not at capacity

By many accounts we're over. Got a source?
With all the CI tooling and containerization, it seems to be going in the opposite direction.
Not a drop in the bucket at all, its a massive waste for a startup on the edge of insolvency. They need to focus on priorities and spend much more carefully. No way does a small startup founder need a private jet.
Really advanced approach to render larger scenes with 3DGaussians, cant wait to test the code :-)
I wouldn't use find commands beyond the simplest Join. The beauty of Prisma is raw queries, because they're compiled and type-checked against your Entities. That's the whole appeal, IMHO.
Cobra Programming Language (2013)
Ask HN: Anyone having small PHP or node JavaScript project looking to outsource?
Hi HN!

I lost my job last month and I have a loan to pay. I am giving interviews but luck seems to be not in my favour. I am seeking a freelance work if anyone here has a small project to outsource. I would be thankful.

Updated past work. See in comment.
Hey this is cool. I think there could be a place for a new kind of version control. I'll test it out.
I wonder if it's something to do with the user agent or possibly a combination of browser settings that Google has kept track of to specifically set when going into Incognito mode so they can track you better when running searches.
It was originally posted two days ago (click on "past" to see the original date). Mods sometimes resurface content that didn't get traction.
Git does support custom diffing algorithms and tools.
It's a shame cause google podcasts was really well done. No experimental concept.. very lean and mean.
I think this was probably a machine learning play, generating data for training, and I guess it didn't add up in the end.
I was just joking, because when I looked into immigrating to New Zealand, they had a point system penalized people for being over 40.
Verizon sold Yahoo and AOL to private equity
Not to be confused with Atomic Chess: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_chess
Ctrl+F Windows.

Yup, thought so.
> But hold on, this same CEO has spent over $230 million(!) buying Canoo stock from his personal funds [2], so he is significantly in the red no matter how much he gets reimbursed for air travel.

He's not the only shareholder. I am not sure the others appreciate paying for the CEO's lavish lifestyle when his company is on the brink of failure, even though the CEO is also in the red. And as you say, if he really wants to travel private, he can always use his own plane and not charge anything for it. The other shareholders are basically bankrolling his plane.
A few more key points:

* At first the species being planted everywhere was considered sterile, but somehow cross-pollination with related varieties can make them produce viable fruit, then animals spread the seeds.

* The fruit is not edible to humans.

* Some varieties have nasty thorns on them, able to pop vehicle tires, and over time grow together into thickets.
> I doubt it has anything to do with the direct cost of maintenance. Google has a tendency to introduce multiple products that serve similar markets, as the article cited with Podcasts and YouTube Music.

Besides both using audio files, Podcasts and Music are totally different markets, with different use cases, etc. Are spreadsheets and games in similar markets, because they both use graphics on video screens?

Jamming them together because of some superficial similarity is a stupid simplification, even if many users already do things sub-optimally.

Google really needs to get some cheap offshore teams that can do maintenance on the products they'd otherwise kill. They'd stop burning so much goodwill that way.
As others said, he just runs his family office, likely 99% of the work is delegated to people who work for the family office.
Article title: "software developer - Abbotsford, BC - Job posting - Job Bank"
> Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts.

That line was unintentionally hilarious to me. Like looking inside a TV and finding a bunch of fast-working little people drawing images.
Compare to this simulation of a modern Patriot intercept (warning: gets very loud and stressful as it has all the warning sirens):

https://youtu.be/RDJgQErMSdA?t=976
What is your next pivot ?
Yes! It's kind of a pain to build now, so will probably shift to shipping as a .so/dll with a raw C api in a future version. With that, should be easy to generate bindings for any language - the host API footprint is minimal.
This really is targeted at the Canadian HN readers per the Canadian job market and the extraordinary abuse that is happening right in the open.

New grads in Canada are having an incredibly rough time finding jobs. Canada is absolutely flooded with new arrivals (this isn't some sort of racist "some people look different!" appeal because of a few migrants, but instead is a factual observation that Canada has seen ridiculous levels of migration, hitting 3.2% population growth YoY. Population trap type numbers).

If you list a job in Canada, as I frequently do, you will get thousands to tens of thousands of applicants. Canada is awash in jobless software developers, particularly in generalized roles, and finding good candidates requires a lot of winnowing through garbage, but they are there.

So it's interesting that this "employer" -- whose only address in Canada seems to be the lawyers that did the provincial corporation filing -- claims that there is so little talent in Canada that they have submitted an LMIA submission to the government. An LMIA is a claim that there are no talents for a given need so they need to bring in someone that the employer selected to Canada.

I guess there are no suitable developers in Canada with their hilarious mix of needs with the acclaimed 7 - 12 months of experience from their 1-2 year education program. It's almost like it's written to be exclusionary.

This program is absolutely rife with fraud. The fact that there are zero credible checks -- note that to apply to this job you email them directly, so the government does not see the number or quality of applicants -- means that the program has widespread reports of employers using it to bring friends or family into the country, or third parties in return for a kickback of some sort. There are rampant reports of individuals paying tens of thousands to be "selected" for a LMIA position.

This is happening throughout Canada. And it is disgusting.
A security review or snake oil AI black box didn't stop this. It was stopped by a 'code slinger' who noticed a performance regression in ssh.

Deloitte coming in a checklist would have NEVER stopped this one.
I love that it's in the "Productivity" category in the App Store.
Not surprising. They are experiencing serious scaling difficulties with the new "Highland" Model 3. The community [0] thinks that there are supply chain issues with several components in the Long Range variant of these cars, the white seats being especially bottlenecked.

[0] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/model-3-highland-us-...
Yahoo Announces the Acquisition of Artifact
What do you think is the optimal population level?
"FileMaker is a powerful low-code platform that can build some pretty amazing apps, but the developer experience isn’t always as… let’s just say — modern. And while curl requests still have their uses, these days, I’d much rather use a Postman-like interface for making API calls. So I built one! And I wanted to share it with the FileMaker community."
The queen is there. It was probably a more interesting game to keep the knights for their moveset rather than keep the bishops (given the need to reduce to 6x6).

Between the ~half-sized board, the intrinsic limitations in where they can go, and the reduced pawn movement, bishops would be very clumsy if left in.
Who cares - you can sustain an ultra successful vehicle just in the US. American suburban dads are an economic force on par with entire global regions. If they want cyber trucks, for any reason, TSLA will be just fine.
subtree might be better for exactly that? I have a project with about 100 repos, developing with them individually is so much saner, but every so often you want the one actual benefit of a monorepo: fast really-global search. So keeping a subtree-of-everything (using the bitbucket api to get the list of repos) and then just doing git-grep there when I want to see any use of something.

(Somewhere there's an apt hook for "grab sources for everything that apt installs"; having that extract the source and git commit it, or just get the upstream repo from the metadata and `git subtree add` (or pull) wouldn't take much...)
I'd love to see a full port of XScreenSaver to VR platforms. It has its own variation on flying toasters (https://youtu.be/mLGDvtbFvfg) along with many, many other modules.
This happens in a way automatically with increased productivity, as prices go down.
Ah ok. I got really confused.
Will we ever fix the problem of humans in a democracy voting for their team/flag rather than policies? Or humans seeing misinformation and not questioning it in the slightest?

Those are the real issues, it's a people problem really.
So they are offloading checkout onto the consumer via dash carts. There's no value proposition for the consumer unless somehow they are able to lower prices by not hiring cashiers.
I think it is, but it does print an overall speed estimate at the end anyway. It's just not as conveniently formatted as `status=progress`, which gives you MB/sec (or GB/sec if appropriate), so you gotta do math to it.

Here's what the output at the end or from SIGINFO looks like (this is running on my Mac mini and copying from /dev/zero to /dev/null):

```
148908277760 bytes transferred in 6.917856 secs (21525206330 bytes/sec)
```

If I add `status=progress`, then it _also_ prints this every second:

```
150617456640 bytes (151 GB, 140 GiB) transferred 7.001s, 22 GB/s
```
Kobold Letters
Only the performance Model 3 is currently eligible for the Federal tax credit[1]. They may be referring to some generous state EV credits.

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/700533/tesla-model-3-rwd-long-ran...
I suspect, starting from the ground up is part of why people are so interested in these companies.

The ICE car market is a massive market, which taking a part of required massive long term investment, and would result in you being relegated to just some minor side note.

Even Toyota one of the longest biggest players is still seen as kinda "new" compared to BMW and VW, let alone hyundai which is basically a massive state backed effort.

Now consider, all of that 100+ year history becoming completely irrelevant. An opportunity to time travel back 100 years and try to become the BMW of the future. I think this is what is exciting people.

when is the last time an entrenched trillion dollar industry with hardly any shakeups in decades suddenly had the ability for anyone to enter and say their biggest advantage is that they are new?

I am not saying I agree with it, I think knowing how to make a luxury car is a skill... But I don't think the goal of these CEOs and investors is to make a good car. Their goal is to make a 100+ year global legacy like BMW. If they could do that without making the car I am sure they would.
I felt that NZ handled it great! I lived through a year of American lock down and then a year of Kiwi lockdown (we emigrated from the US while on lockdown - it was nuts). IMO Ardern handled it beautifully, at least compared to the misinformation train wreck happening in the states, but that is of course only my opinion.
I think that the scan-as-you-shop style systems are definitely the next realistic step for grocery stores. I really like using them, as they allow me to put stuff directly into my bags as I go.

I think a further improvement on a system like that would be to use the cheap RFID tech (UHF EPC) so that when you walk through the anti-theft barriers, the system knows exactly what you got, and then there's no need to scan anything.
Welch was not an industrialist who created value, instead he was a financial manipulator who extracted value.

It's always been possible for financial statements to obscure this type of situation, and it's always been a matter of integrity that a true leader can be counted on to do the right thing rather than be guided by pure greed & avarice, the ever-present temptation.

And GE had a lot of value to extract, both built up from previous decades of reinvestment, and future revenue from manufacturing that was legendarily solid enough to be able to borrow more than it was worth whenever that might be a prudent strategy.

The forward momentum was so inevitable, that complete imprudence could be tolerated for the foreseeable future by the time Welch took over. And that momentum can naturally conceal almost any incompetent non-leader's lack of ability, regardless of which leadership position they have finagled themselves into.

At the time it was plain to see his approach would devastate everything that was touched in the long run.

No surprises ever since, from his cohort who tend to be incapable of building new net manufacturing excellence. When you inherit productive, mature factories and can't run them as well as skin-in-the-game predecessors who had to pay for them as they were built, you know the unsuitability is strong in this one.

It may take a while to realize, but it's kinda, sorta, completely undeniable when a manufacturer ends up with fewer productive factories than they would have otherwise had, as a direct result of your business "acumen".
That sounds oddly terrifying. Like gray goo devouring the world.
Nope, identities won’t solve it, you can have people coerced, blackmailed, threatened, or simply just a “front” while there’s a whole team of spies in the background. The process should be about what’s being pushed and changed in the code, but I would be lying to say I have a concrete concept how it is possible.
I often wonder how much human intervention goes into self-driving car fleets.
> Even if you expect it from bacteria, you imply it a bad because bacteria? What sort of logic is this?

What happens to bacteria in a sealed system? The population grows until it hits carrying capacity, then drops precipitously once resources run out. That doesn't sound like the ideal model for society to adopt.
Pi Pico PCMCIA / PC Card [video]
Blackcurrant bans feel too heavy-handed to me. Currants are a wonderful berry, very easy to grow, and one of the easiest woody plants to propagate.
Are people maintaining wasi ports of Python 2.7 and 3.8?
I love PBT and use it frequently.

So integration tests are generally IO-bound. They'll be slow.

With PBT you will generate 100, 1000 slow cases.

Integration tests are flaky in the sense that your components might not generate just the right inputs to trigger an error. They may not be configured under test the same way as they are in production. And so on.

PBT can be flaky in the sense that, even with carefully selected distributions, you can get a test that ran fine for months to fail on a run. Add that on top of integration test flakiness.

There's no silver bullet for writing bad specifications.
Thank you! I'll put my email in my bio if you want any help at all, It's a heavy installation (but straightforward once it's setup).
So I’m assuming you’re paying for plane tickets out of pocket when going on a business trip. Otherwise it would be embezzlement right?
How to stream PostgreSQL CDC to Kafka and use Propel to get an instant API
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk, on the off chance you've never heard of it.

(This article is not the AWS service by the same name, though by the time you conclude reading the Wikipedia page, it should be obvious where the AWS service got its name, and what it does.)
"Something" sure. But I can't make something set in Middle Earth (I can't even say the word hobbit, ask D&D how that went), I can't write and sell my own Spiderman comics, I'd have a hard time writing my own Cinderella story without Disney breathing down my neck.

This is a very different reality from the "We’ve been building on top of each other’s work in the open-source software ecosystem and in science this entire time".
Africa is being looted by its leaders who sell their country's resources for chicken change to foreign companies (instead of directing those resources to develop their homeland).

The kleptocrats in charge keep pointing at foreigners to distract the population from their corruption and incompetence, and many of the populace, unfortunately, buy into the crap they're fed...they still troop out to vote for the same corrupt thieves in charge.

P.S: I'm Nigerian.
I haven't thought much about this, but given the historic failure of alternative app stores to gain traction in Android, what makes you think this will change? Hardly anyone I know outside of tech circles (and some within them) are even aware that alternative web browsers are an option for their phone, let alone alternative app stores.

I think best case is sites like itch.io and Patreon have dedicated app stores that funnel more money to creators and it's easy enough to manage having multiple active app sources on your phone, but they will always have a very small niche market compared to Apple or Google. Even Amazon hasn't been able to eat away at the defaults' market share.

The most viable path I can see to getting alternative app stores as a common scenario and user expectation is basically just... Steam. But mobile gaming is such a flaming shit show, I don't know if that will ever happen. Something like Steam getting traction on smartphones would absolutely help change that problem though.
> Open source or demo or hobby apps really don't exist on iOS because the barrier to usage is too high

Every credible developer I’ve talked to is not hung up on item 1,000 of 10,000 they have to do to develop software. Steam also has a lot of requirements.

The issue is the store is shit, discoverability is the worst of any platform. Steam is great for discoverability. Indie developers can thrive if the stores are better designed.
No, that's probably the correct link, but jwz doesn't like the HN crowd and filters for referers.
Two wonderful papers that are relevant:
1) https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jhe/eurosys17-he.pdf 2) https://www.usenix.org/system/files/hotstorage19-paper-wu-ka...
It's hard to enjoy the beauty of Earth if you're poor, destitute, and only see worsening economic prospects.

Innovations like fusion and asteroid mining would arguably do far more to preserve the environment than degrowth. People generally don't accept declining standards of living lightly. The Germans turned to Hitler and Nazism after a decade of hyperinflation and economic depression.

I also sense a certain level of hypocrisy to complain about technological baubles when you're on Hacker News. We all enjoy the benefits of modern technology in a myriad of ways like transportation, medicine, abundant food, fruit any time of year, etc.
if only there was a network stack for it, we could use TempleOS + HolyC as a Lambda in AWS. These things are useless without data or gravitas behind them.
Why is this an opinion column? If the evidence is there, wouldn't that be regular old reporting?
Last I checked Dejavu doesn't use LSH or any approximations. It simply queries for exact matches, "aligns" them, and determines if there is enough signal from the noise to consider it a match.
I don't follow this part. if the lib is shipped as .so/dll, how can it be compiled into wasm?
It does but it can't support cascading states. I kind of explain this at the bottom of this page https://floro.io/technical-overview-part-2
Discord Accidentally Viewbotted Its Own April Fool's Video
Wrote a little history book on the subject, just get to the new material
If I can scan as I shop, that could save me time. I am repeatedly stuck behind individuals with ludicrously full carts, ill suited to self checkout.
This is a very pessimistic view of human nature and in my view simply wrong. Much of the time people don't want to put in work, but when there is a significant wrong and people are impacted, they will do the work if the avenue is there. If you don't even believe that, then you are throwing out the entire liberal idea of state elections.
Very helpful- thanks
Well, what kind of world-class engineers could he get for $1.7M a year? How many salespeople ?

Seems like the CEO's comfort when travelling should be a lot lower in the company's list of priorities, as it's losing hundreds of millions a year.
> Like why can't a Canoo or Rivian license a base EV platform and come up with their own chassis design, infotainment system, and other little things to differentiate themselves?

I imagine anyone willing to license one at the moment only has a crappy one to sell you or it is some Chinese EV, which creates political problems.
Are you going to ignore the worst wildfires, which were associated with terrible drought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Canadian_drought? Last year wasn't as bad in the US, but which way do you think the trend is headed given the link we are commenting on?
Apple has a slam dunk case to place a ton of barriers on browser vendors being allowed to JIT code due to the risk to the rest of the platform and the user's data.

Little emulators for NES and Sega Genesis are not going to meet those barriers and Apple will have a pretty easy time excluding them under the security provision.

Dev environments like VS Code will be more interesting. I suspect Apple will choose to build a VM layer to execute complied code inside an even deeper sandbox rather than allowing execution directly inside the iOS layer, thereby severely limiting what a binary complied on device is able to interact with. This would almost certainly be hidden behind an entitlement that Apple will be try to be allowed to gatekeep under the DMA requirement to maintain platform security.