skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Supplier management sounds crazy. How many artists and labels exist in how many countries? How many contracts?

I'd expect that to be a non-trivial, not-automatable business critical task that requires lots of bodies.
> Ok. So what are the consequences for this human operator and/or Waymo?

If you're Waymo apparently you can tell the car to run a red light, cause a moped to crash and not even need to report it to the state.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2024/03/26/waymo-...
Indigenous peoples rush to stop 'false climate solutions'
Oh, Buoy Satellite Data Helps Pinpoint Ocean Waves
Multi-tenant apps with single-tenant SQLite databases in global Tigris buckets
Umbra's Open Satellite Feed – SAR imagery from 500 locations around the world
USA should continue its manifest destiny, build a new artificial island off the coast of California or in the Gulf of Mexico, found an entire new state with a city designed for the modern era for the ground up.
> "LHC micro black holes will destroy Earth" hysteria.

I will be heavily downvoted for this, but here is how I remember it:

1) LHC was used to study blackholes and prove things like Hawking radiation

2) LHC was supposed to be safe due to Hawking radiation (that was only an unproven theory at the time)

So the unpopular question: what if Hawking radiation didnt actually exist?
Wouldnt there be a risk of us dying? A small risk, but still some risk? (especially as the potential micro black hole would have the same velocity as earth, so it wouldnt fly away somewhere into space)

On a side note: how would EURISCO evaluate this topic?

Since I read about this secretive CYC (why u can email asking for it, but source not hosted anywhere?): couldnt any current statistics based AI be used to feed this CYC program / database with information? Take a dictionary and ask ChatGPT to fill it with information for each word.
Just in case it's helpful: I think you're going to find this approach to dealing with disagreements on HN isn't going to work out to your benefit, or to the benefit of whatever point you're trying to make.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, I wish I could get remotely close to that cheap electricity in CA.
>But mostly I disagree that anyone serious actually thought that entering on a global marketplace would turn any kind of nation democratic...

There's certainly research on the subject.

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/economic-integration-and-tran...

Exploiting improvements in air, relative to sea, transportation that occurred since the 1960s, and combining survey data with country level measures of democracy from 1960 to 2015, the authors document that trade with democracies increases both citizens’ support for democracy and countries’ democracy scores. Trade with non-democracies has no impact on either attitudes or institutions.

According to our results, doubling trade with democracies (a change in exposure equivalent to the inter-quartile range in our sample) increases an individual’s support for democracy by 0.58 points on a 1 to 4 scale. This is similar to the difference in attitudes towards democracy between Mexico and Norway, or that between Philippines and Italy. At the country level, our estimates imply that increasing trade with democratic partners by 80% (or its inter-quartile range) raises the democracy score by around 4 points (on a scale from -10 to +10). This is equivalent to the gap between Malaysia and Canada in 2010, or that between Turkey and Senegal in 2015.
The relatively-big, relatively-new thing at the moment is the application of SAT solvers to CGoL problems. Donald Knuth got the ball rolling on this, but we're still in the very early days of seeing what is possible with SAT solvers.

Every now and then a lucky or inspired SAT solver problem setup will throw out an answer to a really difficult-looking problem, with no apparent effort. But then that tends to tempt people into setting up more difficult problems to solve... and of course it's still very easy to set up problems that cover such a large search space that the search would take billions of years to complete on a planet-sized supercomputer.

So it's still very much an art form, rather than an exact science, to figure out what searches to try next.
Solving the Houthi Threat to Freedom of Navigation
>The median salary for a software developer is 5.600 EUR before taxes.

Not in Austria. Over 5000 euros is rare for a SW engineer here.
EVs are cheaper per mile than ICE, with the notable drawbacks that the range is lower, the refill time is longer, and the batteries mean the vehicle weighs more. None of those 3 matter for Amazon deliveries - they’re doing local deliveries (in stop & go traffic, where the efficiency benefits of EVs are even more pronounced), they sit in one place overnight, and for cargo vehicles the weight difference isn’t as much of an issue. Amazon’s got a history of investing in long-term logistics projects (there was an article here a while back about their investment in shipping paying off during COVID), so I’d imagine they’ve penciled this out and are doing it for financial reasons. The company is notoriously focused on financial efficiency, but not necessarily short-term financial efficiency.
The answer would depend on your definition of a 'nostr app', let's assume you mean 'why use login with Nostr if you're not building a micro-blogging social media app?'.

If you need some identity system in your app, you generally have two options:
- build your own system, ask users for email and password, etc
- use big centralized providers like Google/Facebook/Github, etc.

With Nostr you have another option, decentralized and built on cryptographic keys, not a closed centralized database with emails and passwords.

If users login with Nostr you can fetch their profile, their following list, their other public data, to personalize the experience in your app, to train your AIs, etc.

If you app has important 'social' component, then you might have an easier start with Nostr where people already have some social graph.

And you can use Nostr for some social parts (comments, reviews, etc) and use your traditional app backend for the rest of it.

Nostr usage in your app is not all or nothing, it's a wide spectrum.
I would of rather the performance refresh was about extending the range another 100 miles and making changes that would make the vehicle more efficient and reliable. The vehicle already has enough performance for 99.999% of Americans.
Grindr Sued in UK for Sharing Users' HIV Data with Ad Firms
Interesting information but his key point wasn't really presented with any evidence. He didn't make a good case that octopus don't believe in conspiracy theories.

How would we know?

Instead he assumed they don't because they learn somewhat complex tasks and exhibit a level of forethought in their activities.

But do they hold beliefs that are not true about things they don't understand well? (the basic building block of a conspiracy theory)

What do they think about the scientists and the aquarium they are in?

Why do they prefer one scientist to another or try to escape?

We don't know.

Saying they don't fall into "conspiracy theories" kind of comes out of nowhere.

So the author exhibits exactly the same trait of assuming we can know things without evidence that produces the kind of thinking he labels as "stupidity".

Personally I often find a reference to "Dunning-Kruger" to be associated with a tendency to argue with rhetoric rather than fact. Maybe someone should do a study.
Well then surely it should be "UpdAda"?

(I hardly...)
sudo apt install gnat

:-)
Many things backed by Silicon Valley cofounders seem to be fairly neoliberal (not a criticism, an observation.) But a new city built on the concepts of Barcelona-style streets, neighbourhoods, etc and providing affordable housing seems very public-interest. I love it.
Any failed or end of life batteries will be feedstock for the recycling stream. To drive down lifecycle green house gas emissions, there should of course be focus on using clean energy through the process whenever possible. We are building an enormous energy storage manufacturing and deployment flywheel, improvement should be continuous as the Machine is built.

https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/recycle-with-us/
from a comment under the article:

> I think the real story is that roughly 66% of those books from the top 10 publishers sold less than 1,000 copies over 52 weeks.

> And less than 2% sold more than 50,000 copies.
I have met more than one micro-SaaS that browsed their tenant's data to 'learn how people use our service and get new product and marketing ideas'.
For personal use:

What works is a good plain old rss.

Delivered to my client of choice, via gui or cli. Skipping ads and clickbait articles to save me time.

With a wave of generated content flooding some automated systems, the best curation will be done by yourself by finding reliable sources to subscribe to.
Iron is arguably the most important, and also degrades - past, as I understand it, the point at which it can be recovered by low-tech processes. The longer it takes to bootstrap a second industrial revolution the harder it would become.
He did. He’s working on a new language called Verse now:

https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/uefn/verse-lan...
Actual title: Elon Musk – Dead at 52 – Says There Is No Need for Misinformation Laws

Please fix. Clickbait is disapproved here.
Not in Austria. SW devs don't earn too much here so trade people are on par. You earn as much as a tram driver.
The Japanese grammar is pretty simple in fact, but it's very confusing coming from a European language because of how different it is. OK, once you get to the high level politeness (keigo) it can get pretty complex but you don't have to learn that until you're fluent in casual and neutral polite forms (teinei).

I don't know Chinese but I've read that it's "subject-verb-object" like in English, so maybe that's why you found it easier than Japanese.

I got to fluency in Japanese in roughly 6 months to 1 year while living there. And it makes a big difference, if you use it daily they you can catch up whole sentences and understand the grammar logic later on.
Philology tends to be more focused on texts than spoken languages, too.
The keyword being "strict". Typescript is more popular than ever, but soundness is not a design goal.
> Short video from Zuckerberg

The use-cases for AR are so awful. The last thing I want is to consume already a passive medium with my family wearing goggles. Such an anti-social platform.
gs (ghostscript), mutool, ocrmypdf...

To add/remove: mutool merge -h

To split PDF pages: mutool poster -h

I made a script here that I use frequently for scanned documents: https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/computer/blob/main/bin/pdf_...
This! Tooling ease of use matters!

A lot of interesting tech died off or never took off because the tooling was just too cumbersome to setup and use.
I’m not a mathematician, so I’d be interested in any perspectives if the two are ultimately so similar in this regard, or is there is something foundationally different about the traditional mathematical approach.

I suppose any proof is ultimately a matter of review and consensus, and potentially would rely on some fundamentally unprovable assumptions at a basic level (e.g. the underlying laws of the universe).
Our approach is to only use 5-character words.
Solar panels :) it even made sense (for me) in WA at $0.11/KWh.
It's why the Chinese will take over the EV market, they will build cars we can afford with the features we need. A common sense approach to the market that seems to elude most other vehicle manufacturers.
CSS grid makes it possible to implement wrapped content that is uniformally aligned with the last row keeping the same number of columns as the others, and have that scale correctly to different page widths. This is useful in things like book layouts. You can get close with flex, but the last row doesn't fully work.
What we choose to measure reflects what we value.

And, I think your parent's point is that money is not merely a proxy for measuring things in a capitalist society. It has become the only thing; which, in turn, creates distortions.
Agreed, starts to break down if you live in California and already own a hybrid.
Yes. Apple is covering bets. Also it seems there are no new product categories in the pipeline short term. By releasing Vision Pro they show they can still innovate (even if it has no market impact). It helps retain and attract talent.
got lost in all the "quotes"

I think the main takeaway here is publishing a book isn't the road to riches, though nor has it ever been
I always set -Werror=implicit-fallthrough, among others. That prevents fallthrough unless explicitly annotated. Sadly these will forever remain optional warnings requiring specific compiler flags, since requiring them could break compiling broken legacy code.
My favorite simple example of this is exclusive "we". It's not a thing in most languages, but it allows a level of passive aggressiveness that you can't achieve without it.

Saying "we're going without you" isn't nearly as impactful as "_we_ are going", using a hypothetical exclusive we.

As another example, Romanian has a relatively unique "presumptive" verb mood, which has a certain connotation that's hard to achieve without it. It can show curiosity and resignment at the same time (besides other things.)

The conciseness is the whole point. Using words to explicitly describe things can ruin the effect.
This introduces a new type of risk - if it can be interpreted as a sentence, "moons" as a verb isn't really a clean word.
This is true for every language, you can never perfectly translate a text. Something is always lost.
Yes, there's a strange habit with things we can twiddle and the surface area for twiddling physical books is much more limited and less engaging than with electronic devices.

There's something to dedicated physical entities being single purpose and dead end that allows them to serve you in a very focused manner. Things with more bells and whistles, knobs and pulls will simply draw you into their twiddling even when it serves no purpose. It's like working with these things creates an itch that we need to scratch and it is distracting even if the recovery for focus for those things is minimal, it all adds up and gets you out of the focus state.
iPad with the keyboard was transformative for my in laws. If they need a PC, a MacBook in user mode.

Otherwise a MacBook without admin rights.

Whatever beef people have with Apple, it’s a better solution for this scenario, period. When elders start struggling with these issues, it can make them feel helpless and fearful… avoiding that is both a technical solution issue and quality of life issue.

Futzing around with Intune is a waste of time and requires upkeep. In most situations, you can leave an iPad in place for 4-6 years with no fiddling.
One thing that’s true is publishing works on a blockbuster model. Most books sell relatively few copies and a handful sell millions. The statistics about the vast majority of traditionally published books selling fewer than five thousand are likely true

I didn't see the "dozen copies" or "less than 99 copies" thing, but I did read an article on the front page about the overwhelming majority of published books not recouping their advances, and this article seems to concur. Of course, that's what you'd expect; it's how a lot of businesses work.
Automated emergency breaking systems can prevent a lot of those already. That feature is available in Level 0 systems.
The Apple hardware also does nothing to protect against tech support scams.

One of the most important, and basic, things to do is make sure ad blockers are installed on devices and/or on a firewall. This matters before a broader decline in cognitive functionality too.

I wouldn't be surprised if we see a blanket ban against all digital advertising for certain age groups in the EU within the next 10 years.
Sure, if all it takes is raising a rainbow flag on top of the building and some words of the CEO they are all for it.

But as soon as Google's bottom line is involved they behave pretty predictable.
On the plus side, you can reasonably claim that the brand new, non-bestseller, book you bought is a rare book, since "there are likely only a few hundred copies in peoples' hands* throughout the world".

*A way of skirting the fact that there are probably >1000 copies in warehouses that will be pulped at some point
There's a fringe political theory popular among those influential in education policy that smart students need to be artificially constrained for the good of society. This view is deeply unpopular with the general public both right AND left.

Is it any wonder people are losing trust in this system?
Gaming giant Embracer Group is splitting into three companies
The licensing costs for Ebooks are unsustainable for library's. The publishers don't want any sharing and so the cost per ebook vs physical is totally out of sync with Ebooks considerably higher. One could argue that publishers are the ones who are strangling the viability of libraries to exist.
I have to assume that's partly because of the availability of implementations, tooling, and developer familiarity. Many platforms will let you toss in a web view, and if you want to set up e.g. a configuration screen with text and toggles, HTML/CSS will get the job done, more easily than maintaining a custom system that's peripheral to the core purpose of your app.

I don't want to be overly negative, but I just can't view CSS as "pretty great."

I appreciate the inherent difficulty of using 1-dimensional static text to specify a 2-dimensional dynamic layout. Still, basically every programming problem involves defining abstractions over some domain concept and expressing that in the syntax of your programming language. Somehow that's harder in CSS than any other language I've used.

Within web dev I find both HTML and JS much easier to work with, despite their imperfections.
Good. You're there to work.

It also feels uniquely selfish. "I love the money but I still want to protest!" If you feel so strongly then quit but that would require sacrifice.
Show HN: OpenZiti (Apache 2.0, P2P, E2E encrypted, full mesh overlay) is now 1.0
>$ ziti – version

v1.0.0

Following a few years of early adopter use, OpenZiti (Apache 2.0) graduated to 1.0 a couple weeks ago.

OpenZiti enables you to spin up overlay networks, and embed them in your software.

Embedding via the SDKs means your overlay network extends into the process space of your application. The network goes anywhere your software goes.

What’s in the box

+ Overlay network endpoints, including the SDKs to integrate the overlay network endpoints into your software; customized agents for OT, IoT, edge and IT; as well as browsers, reverse proxies, modems and firewalls.

+ Identity, authN, authZ, policy, private DNS…integrated between app and network overlay. Includes built-in PKI, MFA and posture checks. You can use external CAs and IdPs, but aren't forced to.

+ The overlay network controllers and routers. Includes e2e encryption, performance optimization, HA, load balancing, mTLS. The overlay network can be operated by you or by NetFoundry (initiator and maintainer of the OpenZiti platform).

We’d love to hear your feedback. I am a cofounder and a few of us will be around to discuss.
Personally if my customer was using my services to figure out the optimal time to kill someone in a way that also kills their family, and my employees were collectively protesting that, I would just decline their money.
the problem with new cities is that it's nearly impossible to build new airports anymore
> they mention furigana, characters that aid in reading Kanji characters ... There are many examples of similar use

TFA's main point about uniqueness with furigana was how it's occasionally used for out-of-band communication, like an author having a character say one thing while conveying to the reader that they mean something else. Do other languages have similar features?
Ukrainian coder's new programming language: one big data structure
MacBook Air. This will be the least hassle for both you and her.
I’ve already got them (and a battery), but it ain’t cheap! They’re also pressuring everyone to go electric/heat pump for everything, but then I’d have to start paying the extortionate electric rates here once again.
The people surrounding the trial participant didn't give consent, if the drug causes a violent psychosis which in turn causes people to be injured by the participant, how does that differ?
> The transmission can't go out.

Are transmission failures really that common? In nearly fifty years of driving and owning eight different cars I've never had a transmission failure. One of the cars (Volvo Amazon estate car) did 350k miles including the previous owner rallying it for a couple of years. Apart from fixing a leaking radiator when I bought it I never had any problems with the motor or gearbox. We scrapped it just because my wife wanted a newer more comfortable car.
Yes! https://reactflow.dev/ is what I’ve been using, has been great.
Well, thanks a lot! One minute I'm setting up a monitoring system and then ... I've just proved two is the number after the number after zero \o/ 8)
I expect it's all on George Orwell. Numbers sort before letters.
If you picked the right spot at the right time of the month, could you get a mushroom cloud in "profile"? That would look pretty cool, though maybe still not large enough to see with the naked eye. I don't have a good intuition of the scales involved.

[Edit: Or, wait: a mushroom cloud depends on atmosphere, doesn't it? So... What would a blast-created cloud of dust look like in a vacuum? Just a cloud? Yeah, not so impressive a visual.]
People who are looking for relationships in a serious way probably aren't on the apps very long before they're in some other kind of relationship. The majority are going to be those screwing around (figuratively but I guess also literally) because they never exit the main loop.
The man who killed Google Search?
Coca Cola Signs $1.1B Deal to Use Microsoft Cloud AI Services
Tech accessible to everyone, yes.
Especially for small models I had very bad results for use in translation. Even trying all kinds of tricks didn’t help (apparently prompting in the target language helps for some). Encoder-decoder models such as FLAN-T5 or MADLAD-400 seemed far superior at equal or even smaller model size.
But thats totally unrelated? This isn't about a rocket, this is whats on the rocket.

Also its basically a helicopter, so it is a reusable system.
The town of Paradise, CA is being rebuilt, after 90% of buildings were destroyed in the fire. There is infrastructure (roads, power, water), but all residential, commerical, and things like doctors are all being recreated and reassessed. It's interesting seeing how things shape up, but it's still a chicken-and-egg problem. A couple new grocery stores are going in, some other services.
It's difficult to visually distinguish GGV from the good ol' Mollweide Hemispheres projection (https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/mollweide-hemispheres/). As an added benefit, Mollweide projections are equal-area.
saw it. lets just say they have a lot of fans but they're better youtubers than live comedians (for now)
I'm no fan of teachers unions, but this factoid doesn't actually tell us much. The head of CTU wouldn't even theoretically need to be a teacher in order to advocate effectively for their constituents.
On the other hand, there were billions of forms of life on this earth, and the first and only one to develop advanced technology took over the entire planet in the blink of an eye.

Why would we not expect the apex species on other planets to likewise dominate their ecosystems?
Shouldn't a good package manager just take care of those steps?