skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a massive pile of options for writing styles in the same file as the JS. Naming stuff isn't hard when you use CSS modules. Learning and memorizing the Tailwind DSL takes just as much time as it takes to learn basic CSS.

Do what you want but I honestly don't understand why anyone who already knows how to write CSS would use Tailwind
GCC 14 vs. LLVM Clang 18 Compiler Performance on Fedora 40
What is 'techno-optimism'? 2 technology scholars explain
I see! Okay, I guess I was confused then.
Looks like it's the successor to https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd given https://github.com/atlassian/pragmatic-drag-and-drop/tree/ma...
Old foreign language books had translations for phrases along the lines of "the lobster makes a good salad" and "my husband is unwell, can you call a doctor?"

If I were to use YouTube for a corpus, I could probably write contemporary translation books for many languages, as long as the phrases were along the lines of "still listening in ${YEAR}" and "new ${GENRE} isn't this good"
One step closer to the app I always dreamed of:

"Can I eat this?"

Pic of random foliage > is this safe to eat
That is what makes you a fundamentalist. If everything was political then the word political had no meaning.
striking workers usually would occupy factories, property they had no right to "seize". If workers quit / stopped showing on mass, nobody would have done anything
Any propellant-less thruster that uses a constant amount of power and generates constant acceleration (beyond that of a "photon rocket", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_rocket) would violate the second law of thermodynamics. And if it does "work", then it becomes an infinite energy source.

E.g. Let say the thruster uses 100W (100 J/s) and generated a thrust of 1N and the whole thing weighs 1kg. Look at how the kinetic energy (KE) changes with time.

Time 0: v = 0 m/s, KE = 0J
Time 1: v = 1 m/s, KE = 1J (delta = 1J)
Time 2: v = 2 m/s, KE = 4J (delta = 3J)
Time 3: v = 3 m/s, KE = 9J (delta = 6J)
...
Time 50: v = 50 m/s, KE = 2500 J
Time 51: v = 51 m/s, KE = 2601 J (delta = 101 J) <-- This is more than the 100 J that was put in
Time 52: v = 52 m/s, KE = 2704 J (delta = 103 J) <-- Also more than the 100 J that was put in etc.

Depending on the mass and thrust level, the "time to free energy" varies. So, any such thruster rigged up to an electric generator will eventually generate infinite power.

Color me skeptical.
> These are impressive in that we did not have software that could do these sorts of things a few years ago, but they are functionally useless examples.

I disagree.

Here's a thing I'd like to do that I can't do today:

I go out for a 15 minute walk. I turn my device on. When I get back, I have a text file about my walk annotated with what I saw, landmarks, weather, perhaps an unusual car, and what I bought at the coffeeshop, all taken from the camera alone.

That's useful, doesn't exist now, but could exist in the future, using technology like this.
"being a contrarian doesn't mean you're right" - oh the irony

You never had an argument beyond "I'm right and you're wrong" lmao.

I asked you to respond to specific questions like:
Explaining how a privately owned, for-profit org (a coop) can exist in a socialist world. You ignored it and have now devolved to emotional responses only.
Augment Raises $227M at $977M Valuation to Empower Software Teams with AI
I feel like the more I listen to it, the less new patterns I find. In addition to auditory sensory stimulation, spiritual identification is also increasingly important, and the latter is not easy to be constantly fond of the new and dislike the old.
> 2022 heatwave wasn’t any more unusual than any other heat wave throughout history

You can't think of one pertinent home gadget that was invented between 1911 and now?
The little info box about the interviewer at the end of the article tells you all you need to know.
Show HN: I built a redirection tool to simplify domain redirects management
Hi all, over the past weeks I've built Redirect.Monster, a simple tool to set up, manage, and monitor domain redirects.

The idea sparked from a chat with a friend managing IT in a mid-sized company. He needed a solution to manage dozens of redirections across several registrars. I found the topic interesting, so I decided to build it.

After conducting a few researches, I've found that this tool can be useful for several use-cases:
- Rebranding and website migration: requiring a change of hostname from old.domain.com to new.domain.com.
- Post-merger integration and traffic consolidation: when a company acquires another one, it will need to redirect the traffic.
- SEO marketing: managing certain types of redirections to preserve domain reputation.

I also added automatic TLS encryption so that all redirects are HTTPS by default. It is especially useful for non-technical users as certificate management can be annoying.

It is still pretty basic, but it does the job. If you need a domain redirect service, please use it!

I'm also eager to get feedback from the community in order to make it better.
I'm not sure how useful thruster would be that produces barely measurable thrust. The criteria should be that the thruster has obvious thrust.

The other question is how efficient it is or what is the power to weight ratio. Not throwing out reaction mass is nice, but it needs power and that power needs to be generated by fuel. If it doesn't save overall fuel or is heavy, it doesn't matter if doesn't need propellant.
I lived in Woodland for a time and I really wish I had heard about them back then so I could arrange a plant tour.
> many of these large training companies, such as Microsoft, have committed to being net negative on carbon by 2030

Are you claiming that by 2030, the majority of AI will be trained in a carbon-neutral-or-better environment?

If not, then my point stands.

If so, I think that's an unrealistic claim. I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is. I'll bet you $1000 that by the year 2030, fewer than half of (major, trailed-from-scratch) models are trained in a carbon-neutral-or-better environment. Money goes to charity of the winner's choice.
I could easily imagine a CMM-style contact probe to scan-in arbitrary shaped bottles, then allow the user to experiment with different projections in software before committing to the final plot.

Such capability is pretty common in the CNC world to account for the flatness (or lack thereof) of a work piece.
>Is Windows Defender really effective in 2024?

Relative to what?

The question is: are the competitors more efective in 2024 for the money you pay VS the built-in solution, while also using less resources to boot that Defender?

That's the question people and bean-counters ask before pulling out their wallets.
I’ve wondered for a while if Spotify skews playlists in favor of cheaper songs. I have no evidence of this, but it’d make business sense to use the equivalent of store brand music (even if that just means outsourced to a cheap agency) for generic study music playlists and such.
It's an interesting contrast, because Ah-Sen is an experimental formalist, and his questions progress from that point of view, whereas Powell is (hilariously) ... not. (As this feels like a Q&A-by-email with all the questions submitted en bloc, Ah-Sen probably didn't get a chance to adapt his questions, and their theoretical foundation, to Powell's responses, lending to the surrealistic air.)
Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers
Sorry but this is about China, the bar is that low.
> It's premature to conclude this. We don't have enough real-world cases off which to construct a framework.

Precisely, it's premature to conclude that anybody but the driver is at fault. Until a sufficient body of law has been built towards the alternative it will remain by default with the driver.
dear fact-impaired readers - global temperature records are carefully kept by a multitude of authoritative sources, and increasingly so..

the Year 2023 was the Hottest Year on Record to date globally.. each month of 2023 (edit maybe not jan-feb?) was also the hottest recorded globally. The hottest day cumulatively across the world was in 2023. The nine hottest years on record globally were the last nine years.

Please use librarianship and science skills for factual information. multiple references available for the search-impaired
I never understood this sentiment. Once you get past a dozen or two dozen classes being used all over your codebase, CSS becomes the write-only language to me. I don't know where this class is being used, so I won't edit it. With tailwind, I can see every style and I know exactly where it's going to be applied (to the element it's on). I find it much easier to read.
> I'm sure you're aware, but you have to be careful with being very reliant on free-tier products

Depends where the org is in its economies of scale, operating leverage, cost efficiencies (vs volume), and earnings. Zoho is based in India, in business for decades with pretty much the same model, reaping millions in profits, and can very well afford to not bill its clients as if it was paying developers in London or San Francisco.
Ya, I'm positive that familiarity with creating music skews listening preferences towards new music. Which is funny because then people that shit on modern, new music are statistically the ones not being able to create and not as deeply familiar with music.
FTC Bans Noncompetes
You’ve discovered the Pareto Principle. It’s true about literally everything.
i think defining what "new" means would help clarity this. perhaps what you said is true with new mainstream music from large labels, but none of that applies to "new" music that i listen to, at least that i'm aware of.
Comments here on the temperature fail to add WBT is related to a high humidity.

'The wet-bulb temperature (WBT) is the temperature read by a thermometer covered in water-soaked (water at ambient temperature) cloth (a wet-bulb thermometer) over which air is passed.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

Edit: because a high humidity means the body cannot cool anymore by sweating. A higher temperature combined with dry air is generally not a life threatening situation (if you stay in de shade and drink a lot of water).
I wonder how much of the continuing success of the "building large batteries" part of Tesla is due to Musk being distracted by other stuff so Tesla can just execute on doing this thing well instead of having to cater to Musk's whims.
Related:

More anecdotes and discussion of the book LAN Party from it's early stages

Just a bunch of idiots having fun: a photo history of the LAN party (2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680678

And more recently a review last year:

Berlin Review: LAN Party

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898833

CNN last month:

A nostalgic look back at when the Internet still felt joyful

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39805005
> The same can be said of every single website hosted in China, but they aren't (yet) banning all Chinese websites or all content hosted in any other countries. Why not?

I imagine the US audience for tiktok is larger than all chinese websites combined.
Why are you so sure that criminal liability ends with the driver? Washington’s first degree manslaughter law requires “recklessly caus[ing] the death of another person.” Second degree requires merely causing the death of another person “with criminal negligence.” Criminal negligence requires Tesla to “fail to be aware of a substantial risk that a wrongful act may occur” and that this failure be “a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would exercise in the same situation.”

It’s certainly not hard to make the case for either, especially given Tesla’s apparent inaction after a number of people have died while Autopilot is active and a number of accidents have occurred while Autopilot is active. Cf the Crumbleys: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68223118

Also a pedantic point: the driver is civilly liable to the estate. Criminal charges (and hence criminal liability) can only be brought by the state.
https://wapo.st/3WdMkoH
nVidia Multi-Instance GPUs has been around for >4 years.
> Elon Musk’s EV empire is crumbling.

Wait, what? Last I heard, Tesla was doing not too shabby last year... https://www.motor1.com/news/706258/tesla-model-y-worlds-top-...
A Martini Tour of New York City
A lot of Korean govt tech is also just protected by defense in depth instead of strong principles. It's kinda sad that Japanese organizations that by most standards are much more behind SK in digitization tend to at least have half decent security fundamentals. Hell, a misconfigured key exchange in their switch took down the entire government for 4 days because they couldn't even find it.

One jarring thing I heard from friends is the hacky MDM the ROKA would try to install on phones of conscripts who are serving. Instead of undermining the default security measures they should just ban all outside interconnected devices or buy a half decent MDM instead, but then again the contract wouldn't go to some politically connected dev consultancy.

ROKA (and a lot of Korean government institutions) are just plain incompetent at long term maintenance tbh (which makes sense as most infra in SK is newish - only 30-50 years old at most).

They should also just end KATUSA which is clearly being abused by the politically connected.
https://archive.ph/2024.04.24-115626/https://www.newyorker.c...
The elephant in the room that was neatly dropped is true FSD. Outright dismissing it in a long-term outlook is foolish. Tesla is far ahead of everyone in this space.
China has signaled that they would block a sale.
To provide some context for this, Atlassian originally created a drag and drop library called react-beautiful-dnd. A few years ago they stopped maintaining the library, and some community forks took over (I think @hello-pangea/dnd is the most popular).

In the interim I've found https://dndkit.com a _really_ nice solution, but it's only available in React-land.

Looks like this new library was written at least in part by the same guy who wrote react-beautiful-dnd, so my hopes are high (as long as this one stays maintained...)
I think humans have a natural instinct to share what they find cool / interesting.

Before this was mostly done through in person communicate, now this is primarily done through smart phones.
> (in the shade apparently, why?)

Because the effect of the sun induces massive, extremely localized variations in apparent temperature. Are you wearing a black shirt or a white shirt? That changes apparent sun temperature. What is the color of the ground you're standing on? What is the material, for that matter?

Note that all of these effects will only increase the temperature (during daytime, at least). The shade temperature is thus a good indicator of what the coolest possible outdoor environment will be.
>TikTok has given an alternative voice to groups typically marginalized on pro-Western platforms

This has to be substantiated, because it seems blatantly absurd on its face. Are you saying TikTok is an anti-western platform? That, in and of itself, justifies the divestment, considering the owner, no? Furthermore, what "pro-western" platforms are you talking about? I haven't seen anything from TikTok that wouldn't fly on discord or reddit, for example.
The reasons for this increase in temperature persist and new contributing reasons are starting to appear, that create vicious feedback loops.
> A wet-bulb temperature of 95°F (35°C) is the theoretical limit for human survivability for up to six hours of unshaded outdoor exposure

Both the sources you linked say that 35 degrees is the limit in the shade as well.

> It has been thought that a sustained wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F)—given the body's requirement to maintain a core temperature of about 37°C—is likely to be fatal even to fit and healthy people, unclothed in the shade next to a fan
Show HN: Painting app with many brushes, reference drawing and auto color picker
It is a free drawing app that I took the courage to finally reveal after years of development.

Main idea was to make drawing from reference effortless but also make an app that makes sketching very realistic especially with pencil.

After Importing a reference image the "peek" button and additional slider are unlocked, allowing for quick preview of the reference image and fast changing of the reference image opacity so that you can trace or paint over the reference.

The app is still in beta so expect bugs and crashes.

In the near future I am going to create a website to describe its features in detail and post some tutorial videos.

Apart from the "peek" button and the reference opacity slider there are more unique features for example each brush has 5 toggles, eraser allows you to erase with the given brush, pen pressure and pen opacity toggles, blending allows to blend colors with that brush and the last one is auto color picking, when reference image is available the brush will automatically peek color from the reference image while you paint - simple magic ;).

Thus far I was the only one testing the app so I am quite scared about the feedback especially worried that it will crash for you, in case it happens please let me know here or via email contact.kreska@gmail.com

I am exhausted today (working to publish the app) but will do my best to reply to any questions you may have.

Thank you and enjoy!

With regards,

Michal Bednarczyk

contact.kreska@gmail.com
Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth
Sorry but reciprocation is not copying. This is basic game theory. A 'tit for a tat'.
From the direction of construction, it is - as a marker of "I want to never be able to construct this value - the only way I should be able to construct this value is in an impossible state", sure, it works.

But from the direction of usage...because you've used casting to (as far as TypeScript is concerned) construct the value, once it's floating around you're in an impossible state - and no, having a branded thing should not be an impossible state. Because of that you can freely violate the principles of the type system's logic - ex falso quodlibet.

A never value is effectively an any value, and now you have one on hand at all times.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/FAMwrgdgxgLglgewgA...
There was an important "if" there in what I said. That's why I didn't say that it was the case. Though, no matter what, LLMs are doing more useful work than looking for hash collisions.

Can LLMs help us save energy? It doesn't seem to be such a ridiculous idea to me.

And can they be an effort multiplier for others working on harder problems? Likely-- I am a high-skill worker and I routinely have lower-skill tasks that I can delegate to LLMs more easily than I could either do myself or delegate to other humans. (And, now and then, they're helpful for brainstorming in my chosen fields).

I had a big manual to write communicating how to use something I've built. Giving GPT-4 some bulleted lists and a sample of my writing got about 2/3rds of it done. (I had to throw a fraction away, and make some small correctness edits). It took much less of my time than working with a doc writer usually does and probably yielded a better result. In turn, I'm back to my high-value tasks sooner.

That is, LLMs may help attacking the great problems directly, or they may help us dedicate more effort to the great problems. (Or they may do nothing or may screw us all up in other ways).
Related:

Discussion on official release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136010
> this is not straight up a ban but it is a ban

It's really not. ByteDance isn't being sanctioned. TikTok.com will remain accessible to everyone in America. This is simply saying if it can't be sold to an American (EDIT: non-Chinese) buyer within a year, it gets removed from U.S. hosting and U.S. app stores.

> you can't claim being "the free world" by imitating China

Good thing we're not.
Windows Defender still flags every other non-trivial Go binary

Even if it's just 50 lines that were compiled 2 seconds ago by you in the same folder.

Then again, developing anything on Windows seems to be an up-hill battle from the get go
Well the article says Andreesen invented the first web browser. High praise for something that's not true though. Credit where credit due and no more.
"Maybe it'll just -waves hands- magically happen" is "no reason". Saying "climate has changed in the past and therefore there is reason to believe that it will change in this particular way, in the future" does not logically follow.

Climate has changed repeatedly throughout history. Every time a temperature increase has changed to a temperature decrease, this must be preceded by the rate of temperature increase decreasing.

We observe the rate of temperature increase, continuing to increase.

Thus there is reason to believe that it will get hotter for some time, before it again gets colder.
We didn't call the baby-bells an AT&T ban.
As a teenager it really bothered me that adults seemed to have lost the ability to appreciate good music simply because it was new- I vowed to make a point of regularly trying new music with an open mind as I grew older, and not to grow up like that. My own parents who loved good music when they were younger, and whose music tastes I could appreciate well, literally heard my music as basically random noise, and couldn't even process it... stuff that was deeply inspiring and meaningful to me. It seemed like such a loss and a shame that they were incapable of enjoying it.

Overall, in my late 30s, I would say it's worked pretty well. I try to spend a decent amount of time sampling new music, and my music tastes have evolved a lot over time. In just the last two years I came to appreciate two entire new genre of music I had never really paid attention to, and listen to them a lot. Although, I will admit that most of my overall favorite music is still the same stuff I liked as a teenager.

I think a lot of it is simply taking the time to sample new music, and to develop the mental pathways to process new music styles. Old people can do it just as well as young people, but generally, older people have less time and interest in doing so. Kids generally don't understand what its like to be a parent with a job, and how little free time adults have, and how precious it is to them.

Also- regarding the author's comments on "American Idiot." I've always found it amusing how American capitalism loves to unironically sell people whatever they are willing to buy, especially including rebellious and anti-capitalist products and services, which are a big business overall. Reddit is currently worth 7 billion, and caters largely to people that like to complain to one another about how evil they feel capitalism is, and especially how evil Reddit in particular is.
Official post: https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/augment-inc-raises-227-mill...
It doesn't allow firmware updates over modbus. The same would also apply to Zigbee.
I think it would mean no more blue skies. The Sun would also have a sickly halo, if the Mt. Pinatubo eruption was any indication.
Anecdotal, but I was close friends with someone who managed a niche (but popular) artist’s social media and streaming service presence. We discussed this fact and this person mentioned it could be $10k+ to be on some playlists 1st song spot for just a few days. I doubt it’s only Spotify official playlists.
Yes ordering a company to cut off a customer and ordering them to claim it's for a TOS rather than a court order is perfectly fine
Pixiv Blocks Adult Content, but Only for US and UK Users
Can someone help me understand the thermodynamics behind this?

My naive understanding would be that if the temperature > human body temperature, we can only gain heat from the environment, leading to death. Obviously sweating is involved. But how?
IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
> The only difference now is that “preventing” climate change is a huge industry.

Eh, causing it is in fact a much, much bigger industry.
Time-Proportional Performance Analysis for Out-of-Order Processors