skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40047193 ("Object that slammed into Florida home was space junk for ISS, NASA confirms (space.com)", 155 comments)
Beautiful results and great pictures! Shared it to my friend, we recently bought a 3D printer for his birthday.
Was done as pixel made negative profit while android made positive profit. Even now I’m not sure pixel is bringing any meaningful revenue to Google.

Google sold just 10 million pixel phones last year. That’s not even 10% of Samsung.
Genuinely curious: what were the hurdles? It seems hardly contentious to the lawmakers here. Im struggling to even understand what distinction you want to make?
I attended the Android Dev summit a few years back, shortly after Flutter had made some public noise.

During a Q&A, I was literally laughed at when I asked the head of Android whether developers should take Flutter seriously. His eventual answer equated to "well Google is really big so we can't say".

I think that was the moment I understood just how deep the mismanagement at Google actually is. Just shocking.
no feedback on this in particular, but I love supabase. I use it for several projects and it's been great.

I was hesitant to use triggers and PG functions initially, but after I got my migrations sorted out, it's been pretty awesome.
> Ah, yes, the problem is that people are disrupting their coworkers, not that you're enabling and profiteering genocide. Got it.

You need to stop seeing the world as either black or white, because it really isn't. Yes, disrupting your coworkers is absolutely a problem. Many of those coworkers disagree with your characterization of the situation, and are afraid to voice their opinions so as to not stir a mess.
https://kubernetes.io/images/blog/2024-04-17-kubernetes-1.30...
https://man.archlinux.org/man/user-dirs.dirs.5.en

If you delete one folder the file $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs will be updated sooner or later, and point to $HOME/ and the icon will not be restored by recreating any folder.

Just change the values in there to whatever.
Surely that limit is the result of some political discussion, thus arbitrary. But I think there is no scientific way of setting such limit, so any limit you come up with will be arbitrary.
The “user-dirs.dir” setting is something I didn’t know was configurable. I thought I was always stuck with ~/Desktop, ~/Documents, …

Have slowly been using nixos as my primary driver (still in an emulated vm though). One thing I love here is the declarative nature. Lately have been experimenting with various desktop environments. I tried gnome and “it works” but have been fascinated with the idea of “ricing” my setup.

Currently using a Wayland compositor called hyprland to achieve something like this: https://github.com/outfoxxed/hy3?tab=readme-ov-file#demo

Community has experienced some drama though with fdo/x/wlroots. Always willing to make a change up if a better alt comes up though.
They don’t in China though, see what happened to Jack Ma.
I don't think things are as simple as democracy or dictatorship. That democracy, you're referring to, has a pretty bad human rights record. We have to hold everyone accountable
And this is why the ability to side load is important
Discs are also exposed to wind and sand, drums aren't. Front discs and rear drums is just fine for commuter cars, ID.4/Q4 E-tron uses that if an example is needed.
Pixels can still have better photo/video quality and less shutter lag than Samsungs and a cleaner, more unified SW ecosystem with only the Google Apps, versus Samsung who duplicates those apps with their own: Samsung Pay, Samsung Browser, Samsung Notes, etc. Some people prefer Samsung's own apps to Google's(their browser is really nice), others find it bloatware.

The main problem is that due to their pricing, bugs and issues, Google's recent Pixels are no longer a slam dunk reccomendation like they used to be in the old days when they rocked Qualcomm chips and were compact, well built, dirt cheap phones.
Well.. it was partly a dictatorship at the very least. Even whites were afraid to speak openly and even to listen to whatever music they wanted.
The problem is difficult no matter what. Many many more people are working on monokernels and so it is within the data we have to say that micro kernels are easier. There are not enough people to work on microkernels and there is a lot to do.
My Zotero database, thesis, and classes split up by semester with short names.
Prior to the house vote, it had already passed the senate vote.
> Google the company can't be "out of touch" or "self-important".

Such descriptions are precisely what is meant by the term "company culture"
Except for empathy and compassion. AI has no emotions. We still need humans to take care of other humans.
Good to know, I had an issue when I tried that, but thinking back it was a ssh version incompatibility between the default windows and ubuntu.
If something's not reachable with speed of light, it exists only in one's imagination.

If something's not emitting any information (black hole insides), it exists only in one's imagination.
Google and social tech are ticking authoritarian Time bomb.

Whatever information Google, Facebook, Apple etc have on you, and the literally thousands and I do mean thousands of associated internet ad companies and specialized databases have on you...

The government has on you. Actually multiple governments have on you.

1984 doesn't even begin to detail the fundamental level of information awareness that governments have on their fingertips of their population.

The entire infrastructure now exists in government. All it takes is an authoritarian executive to be elected that isn't an incompetent buffoon, Democrat or Republican.

So you're correct, it is inherently political. But it's not partisan. Google represents a political battle of fundamental democracy. One that was lost in the privacy battle 10-15 years ago. It is very, very doubtful. The privacy on the internet can be re-established in America considering the appetite of the federal government for total information awareness and the lobbying behemoths that big tech represent
Scriptable operating systems with Lua (2014) [pdf]
Life Beyond: Visions of Alien Life [video]
For backend this might help https://feathersjs.com. I’m not affiliated with them, just a happy user.
One major complaint I have with file systems is that too many directories start with the letter “D”.

Desktop, Dev, Downloads, Documents, Dropbox etc.

I thought about taking action about this, but as the author points about, many applications are quite opinionated on the matter.
There are a handful of exciting movements, imo, but they're few and far between.

The Android Virtualization Framework, for one, is something I'm really excited to see in the next few years
They might have read it, thought it was funny, and approved it anticipating someone else blocking or vetoing it.

I mean, it's certainly true that lots of gigantic, complicated bills don't get read properly by politicians before voting on them. But this is about a paragraph and written in clear English, so you'd imagine it would have a good chance of getting read.
/life/money/taxes/tax17/receipts/
That would get pretty stinky though.
I'm a bit terrified of this as well. I have built a profitable product on the platform, and it were to drastically change or go away, I'd be hosed.
Ha!

Although, maybe now -site:x.com
A university cut tenured faculty's pay. They're suing
Is the characterization wrong? And if so, in what way?
Surely they have other Z80-compatible chips still for sale, right?
Apophasis, or paralipsis!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis

- "Apophasis (/əˈpɒfəsɪs/; from Ancient Greek ἀπόφασις (apóphasis), from ἀπόφημι (apóphemi) 'to say no')[1][2] is a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up.[3] Accordingly, it can be seen as a rhetorical relative of irony."
Looking for AI Use-Cases
> When I asked what the purpose of integration was, the teacher shouted that I should save the stupid questions for my parents

What an awful person. Chances are she was getting defensive and covering for her own lack of understanding. If I were a parent, I would confront her about that, not least of all her contempt for students and for learning, but toward parents.

Teachers don't know everything, and when they don't know, they should be able to admit that without hesitation or defensiveness. This sets a good example in general, of humility, instead of inculcating the notion that life is about having all the answers, or rather, pretending to have all the answers. All this does is set up people to become imposters. Of course, if you're teaching calculus, you should have at least a basic grasp of the material, and if you don't, you should say so, so that you've not put in a position where you have to teach it.

> I'm sure most teachers mean well, and I'm sure most of them try.

I think it is generally accepted that primary education isn't exactly packed with the best candidates, both from the point of view of pedagogical ability as well as mastery of the material.
Building AI assistants that can write code in production
I remember being shocked in the first year of college that introductory physics and introductory derivatives and integrations were not taught together. The calculus class never explains why these methods are useful, and the physics class expects rote memorization of the final algebraic equations.
I am genuinely surprised tagging never got more traction in the native FS space. I use MacOS's tagging pretty extensively and Dropbox at least keeps them in sync, a lot of other services lose them.
Yep -- actually contributed an NAL Shout Nano so they had additional protocol decoding on top of SBD ;)
He might be sour because the EU has been bothering Apple quite a lot lately.
Theoretically, the agencies in the executive branch should fulfill this role.
I guess you're right, I had translated it into a modern analogous concern.

Its interesting to think about. Do the same arguments I've already made apply? So: If the universe is determinsitic then God only has omniscient predestination is he/they are able to model the whole universe is their etheral mind as a hyper detailed simulation. Because even God can't skip ahead in those calculations just because its 'deterministic'. Something actually has to do the work to do the "determining".

Even if their supernatural powers allow them to skirt around the huge size of the simulation and the problem of sensitive dependance on initial conditions its still a very redundant exercise because the simulation then becomes an exact copy of the universe. Lets say God can run this simulation faster than the original - then 'our' universe becomes a redundant laggard and the real action is happening inside the Gods Mind Model one.

And you're still in the situation where nobody knows what our supposedly 'determinsitic' brains are going to do until someone crunches the impossible universe sized numbers to work it out. So still in this scenario we have something akin to Free Will although I hold to my argument that Free Will as originally conceived is a meaningless confused concept that sounds very reassuring to people but doesn't make any sense (I did X but in completely identical conditions I would have been free to do Y).

If you don't agree with this assertion that a determinstic system has to be actually determined to find out where it goes - if you posit that God could just magically 'jump' to some future state of the universe without running the model in between - then all bets are off because even the supposed Free Will they imbued us with could also be subject to that same magical prediction process.
That’s not what happens at all. What happens is when customers can see two gas station price signs at once, the prices go down because each competes. The gas stations that don’t have another one near them have higher prices.

Everyone can see everyone else’s prices, it’s public info, it’s just a question of the amount of human labor involved. Automating it doesn’t change the result. Walmart sends humans into local target stores to price compare and vice versa.
The "What If?" books by Randall Munroe (of XKCD fame) cover topics like this with that kind of thought process.
I only view the front page of HN.
Every now and then, I hear someone getting killed just because he looked at the murderer (mauvais regard, in French). We also know our reactions and feelings if a stranger walks around our house and looks through the windows (we won't tell him "keep looking in, we have nothing to hide).

But these tech dinosaurs are looking everywhere around and within us, still we feed them.
Even enabling wsl2 or other features puts windows itself into virtualized mode.
Exactly. This vertical integration is often pointed to as a reason Apple has been so successful.
You can argue market cap isn’t there, but Spotify’s revenue in the EU far exceeds 7.5B Euro.
Isn't that a common sense?
It’s limited, but in the argument passing context you’re storing to a location that’s almost certainly in L1, and then probably loading it immediately within the called function. So the store will likely take up a store queue slot for just a few cycles before the store retires.
For the record, I never suggested that fire season was a code word for climate change. Just that fires are getting worse, fire hazard is being cited as a factor in this decision and I can't help but wonder if the thing not being explicitly spelled out is that this longstanding risk of post-earthquake fires is looming larger in the minds of insurance company decision makers because of this changing context.

It doesn't require any conspiracy theories or intentional deceit for people to start going "Oh. X thing. That's too much risk." without them thinking to explicitly state "...because the context has changed since my dad or grandad founded the company, so the risk he felt ok with now feels like too much risk to me."

People often don't spell everything out when talking about an issue. Humans are routinely kind of blind to their own implicit assumptions and the need to communicate them.
I was under the impression that Netflix was not deemed video sharing platform because they don't actively dictate what is and is not allowed on the platform the way YouTube does. But maybe it was the 10,000 rule, who knows. To my knowledge the EU never made explicit why companies were not deemed gatekeeper.
> easily and quickly find what you're

Yes, that's why due to yet another totally unrelated quirk of history you

> have all the basic hidden stuff which ... such as .config

> but I only leave those dotfiles in place which work identically across the different systems I use

or you can use a better solution like chezmoi config manager and have templates to allow you to store changes even for those files while retaining the history of changes

But the most important piece of advice is missing: get an Everything-like utility (fsearch is a worse alternative on Linux) and bind it to an easy shortcut, that'd be very often the fastest way to find any file and not have to remember all those folder hierarchies (not that they aren't useful)
Death cults would be shocked to know this
I’ve also noticed it’s “overactive imagination“ on some questions.
Compared to China????????!!!!!!??????
This is the answer for what OP wants. It literally is built to do what he wants and shows a demo doing it on the front page of the site. Too bad they couldn't make it into a business, but the project seems to be alive and well.
we already have hackable, $26k solutions for single cell library prep: https://labautomation.io/t/10x-scrna-seq-library-prep-26k/30

what i am curious about is techniques to scale biological data generation & scientific progress via large-scale single-cell biological profiling
Yeah, i'm restoring a Compucorp 625 at the moment, which was made in 1978 and is Z80 based - not a bad run!

I guess we should really applaud the Intel 8080 for starting this, but probably the brilliance of the Z80 was simplifying the external requirements. The 8080 required +5v, -5v and +12v, and I think some external clocking and DRAM refresh, whilst the Z80 was just +5v, and integrated clocking and refresh to get the component count down.
Opus did pretty well with this slight modification:

write a self contained Python program (no I/O, no dependencies) that prints a list of all countries that start and end in the same letter.

Heres the output (which looks correct!)

['Albania', 'Algeria', 'Andorra', 'Angola', 'Antigua and Barbuda', 'Argentina', 'Armenia', 'Australia', 'Austria', 'Central African Republic', 'Czech Republic', 'Saint Kitts and Nevis', 'Saint Vincent and the Grenadines', 'Seychelles', 'Solomon Islands']
Just like the bias against C# we all share, in 2024 we should talk about something new when discussing Node.js. I think Bun should also be part of this conversation. Bun is designed to improve the Developer Experience (DX) in the JavaScript world.

In 2024, if you use TypeScript (strict mode) with Bun, Biome, and tRPC, you can get excellent types, a great toolchain, and all configurations become straightforward. Dependency installation is very fast, and you no longer need to worry about package managers; packaging and compilation are also simplified. Moreover, in the software industry downturn of 2024, we're most likely all full-stack developers. We can't escape the fact that JavaScript runs in the browser, and with the above setup, you can effectively share types between the front and back end.

Regarding database types, there's also Prisma or Drizzle (yes, the JavaScript world is always full of wonderful new things). They allow for the convenient creation of fully typed models, and we can easily use 'import type' to share types with the frontend.
Data Visualization in Grafana with Qubinets
Explanation of the video above:

I’m using Qubinets to visualize data in Grafana and showing you how it could be done in less time than usual (it took me roughly 20 minutes, along with setting up the cloud).

In the video above, I connect Grafana, PostgreSQL, and Airbyte, where PostgreSQL acts as the storage system for my data, and Airbyte pulls data from my chosen source into PostgreSQL. Finally, all of that data is meaningfully visualized in Grafana.

The whole process is done with Qubinets. As you can see, everything is done with several drag-and-drops, simply and quickly. And everything is hosted on my cloud of choice, in this case, Digital Ocean.

LMK what you think
It’s like high-frequency trading for best value ad spots worldwide with huge amounts of data generated and connected.
Like trading it starts very easy but ends up in 1ms ping difference.

There is no way out, the system is build that way. The sheep get milked.
After near a decade of policies aligned with a certain side of the political spectrum, Sundar finally realizes that you shouldn't mix politics and business (unless you're in the News business).
TL;DR If you want see people act out the book, watch the Tencent version. If you're open to a new and interesting take on the story told in the book, watch the Netflix version.

It very much depends on what you consider a good adaptation. Netflix is a much more open adaptation of the story. They create some new characters, move most of the action out of China, move some scenes from the later books into the first seasons and generally streamline the story. The Tencent version is basically a scene by scene retelling of the book with hardly anything added or omitted.

Personally I preferred the Netflix version (full disclosure, I did a lot of skipping in the Tencent version). It told a new version of the same story in a slightly different way, sticking close to the important themes and beats while still offered something new and interesting along the way.

The Tencent version offered nothing interesting over what the book offered. If I have 30 hours to spare I'd rather re-read the books than watch the Tencent adaptation.
Gotta love some good old astroturfing!
It doesn’t make sense at all. Competition makes prices go down. I don’t know how anyone could even imagine the opposite.

It’s funny, some of these comments are complaining that being able to see the competition’s prices makes them go up, and some are complaining that it makes them go down, because then the smaller less-efficient businesses that somehow magically have lower prices can’t compete. Perhaps mom and Pop stores have been gone for so long that people don’t remember how high their prices were and why big box retail was able to crush them.

None of these objections make any sense at all. People seem to have almost no thoughts in their head these days beyond simply assuming that anything a big business does is bad.
The Masterwork of Tenet (2022)
Kagi uses the Mojeek API as one of it's main sources.
Jesus that's the old one?
Isn't whatsapp already blocked in china? It being removed from the chinese app store doesn't make that much of a difference considering you can presumably create a US app store account with a VPN and download it that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
I am going through the same thing myself right now. After eight years of running this small product, I’ve gotten to the point where the revenue hasn’t increased significantly, but the complexity of Admin work has increased exponentially.

I plan to make it this year’s theme to simplify. For me that means:

- automating or delegating all recurring tasks;

- eliminating all processes that have become complex but are not worth it;

Eg:

- I plan to move from Stripe to Paddle (MoR) because I don’t want to deal with EU taxes anymore; we’ve save me a few hours every month + A few hundred dollars on accounting;

- we gave an affiliate program that isn’t working out great; i plan to cut it;

- we have a referral program… same, cut it;

- we have a public email address, cut it;

- etc.

In addition, what’s worked for me so far is day-theming. Mon & Tue are for admin and management. Wed-Fri are creative - I don’t even open my inbox some days. I checked recently, the world is not on fire.

P.S. One of the automation tools I use it https://recurrr.com - saves me a few hours every month. Not a lot. But enough to have kept it alive for the past 7 years (under a different name).
Consumer products are demand-driven. This is like saying my shrimp-flavored cola is failing because I don’t have distribution deals.

Pixel is great hardware, but Google has failed to generate enough demand for consumers to be going into stores and the n leaving because Pixel isn’t sold there. That’s what gets distribution in the long run.
It may be a great service, but I'm immediately turned down by these fake comments.
Do we know if other LLMs don't have the same problem?

Especially because MS pushes AI for task like summaries.
Go to China and violate a serious law. Do you think they will ignore it? Or someone from Mainland China who comes to the US who violates a serious law here. Will they be arrested and possibly convicted? Every country has laws that others find terrible. Every multinational business has to deal with laws in multiple countries that may be incompatible with others. Take, for example, all the issues between the US and the EU regarding privacy and control of personal information. It had to be negotiated for each side to agree. China may not be interested in negotiation, but that is their business. If you want to do business in such a country, you must find a way to deal with it. If you abandon every country where you might have issues, you have a US-only business (and you might not like some of our laws either). Imagine a foreign business wanting slavery instead of employees in the US; they might be fine with it, but we aren't. Should they do it anyway?
For a lot of Apple fans, the company can never do any wrong. And I say that as someone who owns a Macbook, iPhone, Apple Watch, and iPad.
I made a quick tool to apply the trick he suggests at the end of the article: https://observablehq.com/@gampleman/font-centering-tool