skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the photographer told the scientists - your apparatus doesn't look right - here use this pipette and beaker for the photo.
Paywalled, who’s got some snaps on the petro?
I've used sqlite in more projects than I thought I would

Inspired by Uncle Bob's "just write them to plain files and we'll upgrade to a db later [which never happened]" case
I didn't say I didn't like some EDM. Some is made by very talented people.
A hundred and fifty bucks to control some non 5v tolerant gpio pins; no it’s not actually great at that. The RP2040 is great at that.
Any democracy based on majority votes has the same problem. I don't fee like the disagreements between EU member countries are any bigger than disagreements between the citizens of one state.
Abusing insecure defaults: Forging GCM ciphertexts for the Node.js crypto module
Reader mode saves the day
> Not everything full of synthesisers and samples is “EDM”.

I didn't assert this.
>Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. –Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981

I've always loved that quote.
I'm positive there's a business case, need here somewhere. The only problem is working out how to do it efficiently. I also saw a warehouse operation near me some years back which offered an eBay re-sale service. It went out of business after a year or so. Maybe the margins or product values are too low? Hence the need for massive scale?
Company secrets, I suppose, but I wish there was more info on the engineering of it. Custom motors? What do they look like? (I see a lot of ventilation suggesting heat.) Are there anything like tendons (springs I suppose) so that the motors are being assisted to a degree in lifting the mass of itself?

Love to see a dissection so to speak.
It's slavery economics all over again. The geopolitics will shift to controlling select consumer markets and the best geography for keeping production and logistics costs low since globally there will be overproduction and underconsumption. Mercantilism in other words.
I had a similar moment when I was 16 and had my first migraine aura... Really bad one. I was looking at a billboard and I realized that I couldn't read anymore. Then I looked at people and part of their faces were missing from my field of view even though I was looking straight at them. Then I started feeling tingling in my fingers. I thought it was a stroke. No, just a bad migraine aura. I've had one every 6 to 12 months since though rarely as bad as that first one.

Coming to terms with the fallibility of your own mind is a valuable experience. I think it has helped me to be more rational. Once you accept that your mind can be dysfunctional, it becomes trivial to accept that your mind can be wrong. The way I see it, being wrong is also a temporary dysfunction of the mind.
I can see it clearly. Just as a TV remote now has dedicated hardware buttons for Netflix, Disney, Amazon and so on, we will have a Logitech mouse with dedicated button for ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot!
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40064105
Mentally stimulating work plays key role in staving off dementia, study finds
> I wonder when bevels and skeumorphs will be back?

I don't really understand the purpose to be honest. With the exceptions of interfaces that are explicitly designed to simulate physical environments, what's the point? Flat designs are a logical consequence of form reflecting function, you're interacting with digital, binary elements that are on or off. Skeuomorphism existed because familiarity of mechanical or analog elements was maybe useful for someone who didn't know digital interfaces, but we've grown out of this.
Scientific thinking can fix collaboration in a mixed-up world
Show HN: Run Zig compiler in the browser/Node.js (WASI)
How Are Deep Soils Responding to Warming?
Except that we're really running AMD's x64 ISA, not Intel's, so this moat concept doesn't really fit with the reality. Intel clearly thought x86s days were over when they started their 64 bit Itanium effort, and then quickly (and luckily) managed to get back into having a competitive x64 implementation when they realised they had backed the looser. I'm actually quite impressed with how they pivoted as lesser companies would have had trouble ditching that sort of investment.
What clickbait term soup.

Ars really has completely gone off the rails.

There are like 3 solid news articles (with quotes!) in there, but someone's unfortunately tossed them in a blender, added 3 conflicting opinions for good measure, and hit 'Frappe'.
98% don’t use periods. ;)
5V 5A. Buck converter? Never heard of it apparently
This is the unspoken secret of all these mods. They’re built to be built, not played, so if there are subtle instabilities introduced which may impact practical gameplay they will likely never be discovered because the final creation just sits unused on a shelf.
Developers have built windowless bedrooms in Austin
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy
There already is the infra for a 'CERN for AI' - it's called CERN.

CERN is already a major leader in the HPC space, but whereas HPC and High Energy Physics labs like LLBL, ANL, NSC Guangzhou already pivoted to ML and precision medicine research in the 2010s, CERN member states weren't nimble enough to support additional pivots within CERN.
The main problem I have with modern desktop environments is the lack of scriptable automation... I really hope they build something like this.

Although I could just save all dotfiles, configs and extensions via file backup, I always struggle to create a script based setup.

I would love to maintain a list of extension names, settings etc and have something like:

gnome-extension install --config-file my-extension-config.txt
kde-plugin install --config my-plugin-config.txt

gsettings set --config-file my-settings.txt

just a little more reliable... Maybe a hard problem, but I think this would be great.

Export settings would also be great.

gsettings export --to my-settings.txt

:-)
Right, that's covered by "owner's equivalent rent." This is LOWER than what homeowners actually pay. (Think about it -- Do landlords make negative `profit = home_payment_expenses - rent`?)

Any why would GGP mention food, cars, and energy? They are directly included in the CPI. I think it's more likely that GGP is under the false impression that these items are excluded from the CPI -- It's a conspiracy theory originating from economists' practice of using "CPI Excluding Food, Shelter, Energy, and Used Cars and Trucks" as a lower-variance estimate of the future inflation rate.

> You are welcome.

Skip the snark, it's against HN guidelines.
> factory workers for robots.

Except in this case it is like laying off the factory workers at the robot factory before the robots are built. Investing in AI still means investing in tech people to work on AI, but that's who just got laid off...

One might be inclined to think that it is a freeing up of dead weight accumulated during the COVID hiring spree, but we also know of industry-recognized people deemed very talented, who should be prime candidates for AI investment, that were let go, so...
little milk, couple eggs, some black pepper…
Logic alone may prove that time doesn't exist
I seem to remember one of the points was the way GNOMEs plugin system was implemented plugins have no isolation so one bad plugin can cause all sorts of problems.

They were also limited in things they wanted to do with the default window tiling ui.

Sorry bit vague it was ages ago I listened to the talk - probably this one: https://youtu.be/ioswlaxdhSA?si=DlVQ-jDu5G3A3Iru
There is always an aspect of luck in everything. Also, the kinds of social skills which help you weed out bad potential employers and bad potential employees (when hiring) are likely learnable.
Of course they do. And what is that thing on the other side that Putty connects to for our professional friends in vast majority of cases?
There's a practical aspect to it, which I assume was intentional given the engineering challenge of being able to fully rotate torso like that, etc.

Most of these humanoid robots (e.g. TeslaBot in it's current state) walk slowly, which limits productivity. It wouldn't matter if the job was standing at an assembly station, but anything with legs is obviously targetting more general use cases such as "gofer" - fetching parts from bins, etc.

The benefit of electro-Atlas (they should have a naming competition!) is that it can essentially move or look in any direction, which means it has to walk/turn much less to get into a preferred orientation or move to a target location. It's a bit like the early "micromouse" competition entrants where they went from the initial car-like designs to omnidirectional ones (using omnidirectional wheels) so that they could change direction without needing to turn - just scoot off at 90 degrees to previous direction.
Evil definition: adjective - profoundly immoral and wicked.

Society communally “decides” the definition of words.
Correctness via formal verification - at least in the core of sel4.
How long before you ask an LLM to help you write the code for centering a div and it gets philosophical?

"Sure, you could center it on the screen, but what about its position relative to the center of consciousness?"
Isn't the title of this "The Cloud Under The Sea"?

Or at least it was on the other submissions days ago
> You can even try dog breeds like ‘hound,’ ‘poodle,’ or my favorite ‘samoyed.’ It pretty much just works. But that’s not all; it also works for other languages. Try ‘chien’ and even ‘犬’1!

Can anyone explain how this language translation works? The magic is in the embeddings of course, but how does it work, how does it translate ~all words across all languages?
o.0 how is that the business of a desktop environment?
Interesting when Russia complains for decades not to have NATO encroach on their borders to the point where they invade Ukraine, but here the possibility a Chinese automaker is offered incentives from Mexico, the way they did for Tesla, is too much to handle for the US.

Either we can compete, or we can't. China can't subsidize for eternity without eventually failing, so why not take the short-term loss and pivot and win in the long-term? Also, Mexico would like to grow their economy as a sovereign nation too.
> We can always add more regulations, though there's an official process to it.

Right, I feel like ultimately this is a debate about what happens in that window.

“There is no regulation in this potentially dangerous area, companies should be free to do what they wish while we craft regulation”

vs

“There is no regulation in this potentially dangerous area, we should heavily limit what companies can do while we craft regulation”
How Clean Energy Is Boosting Economic Growth
Huh, interesting. Kind of a real-life Flowers for Algernon scenario.
So TFA is saying a Bay Area House Party is like the front page of HN? Would that imply that somewhere, perhaps on bean bags in the conversation pit (or hidden in the reading nook?) there are also hacker-adjacent discussions to be found (deep in the replies)?
How do we add more colours (besides just picking a random colour, which wouldn't be helpful)?

By sampling the signal more often ("multi-sample anti aliasing"), also known as increasing the resampling rate, then representing that with a wider bit depth (not just 1 bit "yes/no", but multiple bits forming a color/opacity), since we do have more than 1 bit per pixel that can be used already.

I'll give it to you that this is "anti aliasing", not "not having aliasing in the first place", but the Fourier argument above is the reason why in computer graphics we practically always have to "settle for" AA instead.
No, it's disgusting. It leaves a yellow lining in the toilet and has a strong chlorine smell sometimes.

I do have a filter as well, which I use to cook with and drink when out of bottled water.
short answer: yes

it's recognition from the individual's perspective. think love languages. one person's recognition might be salary because they make $35,000/yr and another's isn't financial. they are doing this because retirement is boring.

in practice it is often a combination with different ratios.

as an employee it is advantageous to think about what makes you feel recognized and work with your manager on it. if it's monetary and they're stingy then your values won't align and you will be frustrated.
It's exactly the uncanny valley effect of being human-like. Consider sci-fi utility robots like this, which most people don't find "creepy" (maybe intimidating, but that's different):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VkOlvXTvLI

Meanwhile humanoids are the stuff of actual horror movies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c7XccFwJrQ

I'd predict that a crab-like or dog-like robot would be better accepted for home robotics for this reason. We will not want them to look like us.

The same is true for aliens. A giant bug, octopus, or quadruped is far less scary than something vaguely humanoid. Sci-fi horror aliens like the xenomorph or the "greys" hit the uncanny valley in various ways.
Unless theres a similar situation where there is a similar protest for those causes, and Google does not fire them, then you are just making an empty hypothetical.
> Life is inherently suffering and has no meaning.

I'd hate to hear your winter perspective :)
On the other hand, the situation is not so great for those outside of a car due to recent cars' increased height and mass. If the person on the receiving end is a 10-year-old biking to school, there's now less of a chance they're going to make it.
> I always preferred HP VUE. It looked great for its day. It was later boringified by Sun and IBM to make it more corporate and released under the name CDE.

TIL - I have used CDE in the past but didn't know that it's origin was HP VUE.

> Because of course IBM wouldn't stand for nice colours.

I remember starting with DOS and then SunOS. The setup we used had both basically in terminal mode all the time (don't know if SunOS had its own DE). Then came Windows for Workgroups and for some reason, even after coming from an all-TUI setup, I wasn't blown away with the UI.

However, later we ordered a beefy Solaris machine (it came with its own tray that had wheels) - thats when I saw CDE for the first time. Don't know what it says about my aesthetic sense, but I thought it was the most beautiful DE I had seen; I loved exploring it. Also, the DE colors were in alignment with the color palette used for casing/monitor/mouse - a cohesive package. Also remember the positively giant 17" CRT with Sun mouse which felt much more precise compared to the cheap desktop mice we had. I was very impressed - maybe that was the start of my bias towards *nix.
I have not worked for Mozilla but for quite a long time their organization has been on life support. I would never ever consider a job with them. Unless the job was CEO and my goal was to fix their toxicity.

This toxic work environment and political positions of the CEOs are pushing engineers out of their organization. Worse yet this has been ongoing for at least a decade across several CEOs.

>Firefox not really gaining much traction

They are headed toward 0. How unfortunate because I used to love Firefox before they decided to censor their political opponents.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decen...

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

My browser is never allowed to choose what content I get to see.
I'm very familiar with Needham, thank you. But perhaps I wasn't clear enough.

When engineers need to handle rotations, translations, and scaling, they don't use complex numbers. They use vectors, usually.

There's no intuitive mapping for the concept of the square root of negative one in real life. Not in the way there is for negative numbers.

And complex numbers are not about 2D geometric representation in general, the way vectors are. They are much more specifically about rotation or spiral motion.
You mean the message contents, or that you received a notification at all? On both ios and android you should be able to configure the notification so the contents are not shown, so it shows that there's a notification from whatsapp but not the message itself.
Unfortunately, EU research money nowadays is free money for private companies.
How this works: a 3-year research project with a consortium of academia+industry of 2-3 universities (1M/each) and 4-5 private companies(50k-200k).

With this money, universities do fund PhD students but with a stipend/salary of an average software engineer. In contrast, the "industry partners" do the bare minimum work a couple of days before the quarterly review. And they use 20% of that money to sub-contract their work packages to freelancers (who, btw are paid better than the PhD students) and the other 80% to cover normal OpEx.

And you know... the "work packages" can be something like 5K-10K for a bootstrap/hugo website.

Edit: yes, I over-simplify things a lot but that's the general modus operandi.
You realize they created that in what? less than two years? Completely from scratch with the whole stack in Rust. GNOME is 25 yo and it's superior to a alpha software DE but only barely. So I guess it wont be long until potentially GNOME would be ridiculously inferior to COSMIC like it already is to KDE. (I have used GNOME since forever btw)
In Sweden the "minicall" network (POCSAG, ≈ 169 Mhz) is still active and in use by some niche industries.

I know of it being used for fairly mundane things like Grafana Alerts (or the equivalent), but in circumstances where you need to reach people in areas where cellphones are forbidden or lack coverage (like security sensitive data centers for example).

Snooping on that frequency band in ≈Stockholm it also seems to be quite actively used for sending machine-to-machine commands in some industries, perhaps not always that stringently authenticated...

Which I guess is a downside though, you need to take proper precautions in the "application layer" since the network is completely open.
> At a time when the EU economy is falling behind so evidently

Keep in mind that a lot of the US' current growth comes from its huge budget deficit. Europe has gotten significantly better at the commercialization aspect of research, two out of the three covid vaccines came out of Europe.
Not so fast, not so fast - at first whole, brand new bureaucratic department (or two) needs to be created to properly govern whole process, when that is ready then work on regulations framework can be started - there is one already but for sure that cannot be sufficient enough because every corner case needs to be properly accounted for.
Do no forget about required government overlook, registrations, permissions for future usages of this dangerous new tech, all needs to be in place.
Austen Allred on X: "We are not banned, we reached a settlement"
Just remember that one time pads are not only one of the simplest encryption schemes they are proven secure in any quantum computing regime. It's a shame about the key transport problem.

One of my favorite sci-fi macguffians, was in the book "Fire upon the deep" where they were space truckers with a cargo of one time pad keys.
The Probability Approach to AI – Interview with Dr. Jeff Beck [video]
"No human eyes will ever read your data"
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Hi, I’m building a tool (https://vettify.io/) to help certification bodies manage their digital images. If there are any fellow hn users who work in the certification bodies field (or other areas where digital images are handled such as with DAMs), I’d love to have a quick chat with you and set you up with a trial account.
I have mixed feelings about Cosmic.

On one hand, the amount of fragmentation on desktop Linux is absurd. On Mac and Windows the desktop environment is synonymous with the operating system. On Linux, you can run one of 30 different desktop environments on the same distribution. This means that userspace bugs can manifest for any desktop-distro combination.

On the other hand, System76 is well positioned to create a desktop environment that is cohesive and complete since they’re trying to sell computers running them. Linus on the server has financial backing, and Linux on the desktop has precious little.
This YouTuber does similar mods where he shrinks consoles. This video is for Dreamcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJuqtHW2o9w
He has also done ps2 and N64
If memory serves well (I only have 3583 bytes free ;) Enlightenment was one of a generation of X window managers that implemented bitmapped theming, for example fvwm, fvwm95, aftertep, windowmaker, icewm... it's just that Rasterman took the bitmapping to the next level.
The Most Important Button in a Code Editor
>literally nothing actually called for a rebuttal

Aside from the initial false claim, you mean?
"Bring your whole self to work" meets "no, not like that"

I just feel bad for the people entering the job market believing the lies.

Yeah they're dummies if they thought anything else would happen. But all my scorn is reserved for the people who duped them.
What is your other hand busy with?
This is a big deal if you want to use common Linux desktops in pure "tablet" mode, with no keyboard or mouse attached. You can move windows easily enough by grabbing the header bar, but there's no equivalent for resizing. You can of course rely on full-screen or half-screen tiled windows, but it's a big UX downgrade compared to using a mouse and/or keyboard.

(Mind you, a tablet PC running Linux will nonetheless be vastly more productive than even an iPad. But still.)
Good luck achieving the realibility and security of AWS by managing it yourself at anything "competitive".

For some companies this would mean creating a whole department to manage that.
It's a moat around both AMD and Intel, since they're really the only two that can compete, due to the cross-licensing deal.
[dupe]

More discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40072295

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40060532
Is there a practical application for this?

> External scripts can be fetched and evaluated using `eval`

No! `eval` has some legitimate use cases, but generally should be avoided:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/js-eval#rea...
Because they've done so much for the human experience? Nonsense, they're an ad company and you're signing away your ethical credibility however you enable them.
It's a great marketing gimmick. Everyone fell for it
Using this as a retort is totally missing the point.

The person I was replying to was saying it would take 30 years at that savings rate to have enough money for a down payment. You do agree, it wouldn't take 30 years to have a downpayment right? Like, we've now both done the math, and found its significantly less than 30 years, right?

And actually, at 6.96% for a 30 year FHA loan, the added payment for the additional $33,000, is ~$218/mo. $1,800/yr is $150/mo, so it covers 68% of that amount if you're looking at it that way. Cut out another ~$2.26/day or $68/mo and you'll have completely covered it while owning a house. But I'd look at it this way, your mortgage taking out a $293,000 loan is ~$1,950. Property tax rates vary a lot, but we'll add ~$3k/yr to that (250/mo), budget $3k/yr for repairs as well, so $2,450/mo in the end. What are you paying for rent? How much of that are you keeping as equity?

And yeah, property taxes will probably tick upwards a bit, you might need more repairs than budgeted here, but chances are you'll refinance your mortgage and cut that part down to like $1,300/mo or even less in several years if interest rates fall to like 4% or lower. Is your rent going to get lower?
> if it were a priority in browser development to reduce the number of libraries and layers necessary to build things like SPAs.

But this is the antithesis of FE culture. When FE culture spun up there was a lot of mocking of javascript devs as not "real" devs. I think they felt the need to reinvent CS so that they could show they were legitimate. They never really recovered from that.