skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it were a plain HTML page, or a simple, single-file Javascript web app, that could either be hosted on a remote server that you don't control (as this is), or can be downloaded and hosted on your own computer or server allowing you to modify it.

And although that sort of thing would mean you can just download it straight from where it's being hosted from a technical point of view (for things where there isn't any backend or hidden logic in code at all) there's still the legal question as shown in logic8's comment.
Everything is great, but I'm redirected to localhost when I try to log in via Google ;)
It would be interesting if we could tag wiki articles as 'vital' or some such for these reasons. Then one could filter by this and save/print. Or maybe a 1-10 scale.

Of course, there'd be disagreement over which things got said designation, so some criteria would have to be established up front.
A New Training Method for VR Sickness Reduction
CEOs/Founders/Side-Hustlers We're Levelling the AI Playing Field for SMBs
Leania.ai: Ensuring Your Small Business Thrives in the AI Era

Lean IA Ltd (Lean Intelligent Automation), a boutique consultancy, which has delivered substantial savings through AI to large enterprises for almost a decade, is soon to launch Leania.ai—a platform tailored for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This platform aims to make advanced AI technology accessible, helping small businesses streamline processes and seize new growth opportunities instantly, so that you can find where to use AI, what AI to use and how best to use it.

Currently, 74% of SMBs are eager to adopt AI, recognizing its transformative power. Leania.ai not only facilitates this transition but want to ensure that no small business gets left behind. Already, a quarter of SMBs have begun to harness AI, with another 44% preparing to dive in. Their platform intends to be the starting block for many, providing a clear path forward for those new to this technology.

Founder, Tony Walker has observed AI's impact on the corporate sector and recognized a gap in its reach to smaller businesses. His platform aims to bridge this gap, taking proven strategies from major corporations to enhance operations, customer experiences, and reduce costs—all while empowering staff to tackle more creative and complex tasks. What would you do will 2 extra hours a day?

The AI market is bustling with tools that can be overwhelming; Leania.ai simplifies this landscape. Tony advises: “start small, educate your team and measure the impact”.

Leania.ai is not just about deploying technology—it's about building an ecosystem where businesses of any size and tech maturity can effectively use data to drive decisions. “Our ethos is ‘Discover, Optimise, Empower’, and we’re on a mission to help SMBs navigate and leverage cutting-edge technologies with ease and confidence.”

Tony would love to hear from forward-thinkers and potential early adopters (currently seeking 50-testers):
Tony.walker@leania.co
www.leania.ai

PS. If you have a post-revenue AI company and want to target SMBs, speed up sales cycles and increase CLTV, reach out to us here https://leania.ai/ai-startups
This was inevitable given the recent layoffs. Either they’re in bad financial shape or they’re sociopathically firing employees unnecessarily. Both are excellent reasons for researching the alternatives.
I switched from TurboTax to FreeTaxUSA this year and it was almost exactly the same (in some ways easier). The amount owed was identical. The IRS doesn't lose submissions and provides a very clear system for tracking the status of eFiled taxes.
Windows contains container (Hyper-V) and application isolation capabilities today in Windows Server [0] and sandboxing for Windows client [1].

> Interop ala COM/OLE? Forget that, the data sharing protocols would be far more restrictive

This would be unacceptable to any business. COM/OLE is absolutely critical for cross-application functionality, especially for Office.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont...

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...
Except they ignore subdomains. Unless you fix that on a per-item basis, in their desktop application.

I think, finally, that the reason this feels so dirty-apart from companies and lock-in and all-is that it’s taking the “something you know” as one auth factor and turning it into something that, not only do you not know, the big goal of is to make sure you can’t know but something you have.
Apocalypse as in complete destruction ? We're fucked, there isn't enough easily accessible fossil fuel for a new industrial revolution, this is our only shot.
It's so weird. Anyone who's driven across this nation or even flown knows that we have millions of acres of nothing. Why not just cover Nevada with panels?

I'm sure there's a perfectly cromulent answer that I'm too dumb to see…
I paid $10 for BoxySVG a couple of years ago on Mac and it's been a solid little tool.

https://boxy-svg.com/
Well Tesla has four months to solve it...

"Elon Musk announces Tesla will unveil a ‘robotaxi’ on August 8" - https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/05/business/elon-musk-tesla-...
Scavanging would outcompete newly made crap CPUs for such a long time, that I would say maybe never?
> the fact that you work for your employer isn’t a secret

I would prefer if it was. It's even worse than that, the government has entitled itself to be a party to every transaction over $600, so even the self employed have to shoulder this unseemly burden.

> Your salary isn’t a secret

It is. It's a shared secret. Again, I would prefer if I didn't have to do this. My salary is not at all the same as my "taxable income." It puts me in a position to have to justify my filings after the fact to an entity that only has access to half my relevant information.
Bollocks. It is plain that Microsoft only care about stock price rising on a promise rather than delivering gains for their customers. They'll only say this while there is attention on it.

I am having trouble naming one change they have delivered since Nadella came along that isn't user hostile or a net loss for security in some way.
> It’s amazing that 54% of adults in the United States have a literacy below 6th grade level, but...

Stop there! Really? "6th grade" is age eleven?

That is mind blowing!
GP was reading about my new LLM startup, remarked how it seemed 'cool' and then went off to lunch. BTW, did I mention I'm looking for investors?
And no one’s used anything other than Python? The core of Tensorflow uses C++
”Slightly cheaper”? What are the actual numbers we are talking about regarding yearly comp?
Sam Zeloof makes CPUs in his parents garage. If he and his garage survive the apocalypse, he can keep making them ;)

Someone joked that the tribe that protects him will have a major advanage...

I suppose the deeper question is how long until we Factorio our way into being able to prodce all the chemicals and devices involved in the process. I'd love to read an in depth analysis of that question!
Impossible, you wouldn't have any of what's needed to build a solar panel. No rare earth, no plastics, &c. they're all byproducts of the virtually free fossil fuel we had at the begging of the industrial revolution. You could find oil oozing out of the ground in some places
Exactly, second time round it's going to be a civilisation built on recycling. It's crazy to think that by going slightly backwards the whole way forward would be so different.

Early civilisation was hunter-gatherers, scavenging for food and resources. Imagine a new civilisation where we scavenge the remnants of where we're are now. The progress forward would be very quick, but also so very different.
I wouldn’t describe it as hidden. It’s a pretty straightforward form of income distribution. Compared to most government programs for the poor, it’s refreshingly simple.

If you ever work with poor families to help them navigate the government resources available to them, you develop a strong appreciation for the EITC as opposed to, say, SNAP (food stamps)
Highly non-central but sympathetic example designed to justify your outrage over the central, non-sympathetic case.

Yup, seen that rhetorical trick before.
This would hamper investment into new production for quite some time
30 seconds of Google search
https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/wp-content/uploads/2020...

You think this is well thought.
I completly agree with this: taking notes is not a goal but a tool.

when taking notes in school, it is advised to keep some space on your paper to make questions and answers.

It would be perfect to have a note taking tool, with anki inside it that automatically take the question and the answer of let's say a paragraph. Could be even done fully automatically with LLM I believe, extracting essential information and turning it into a Q&A.
It seems weird that the cost of the land would be that much. Shouldn't there be plenty of non-agricultural land to use for this?

For example, any trees near high voltage transmission lines are cut down so the trees can't fall on the lines, causing them to be in direct sunlight. There are thousands of miles across the country. Why aren't there solar panels under all of them, and why would they be buying other land before using that? The land is already owned by the power company. It's practically free.
Keep Out – WebGL Game
Doesn't the very nature of open-source mean you can just abandon it and have someone else take up the torch when you're done maintaining it?
If they’re trying to follow the rules, then they can’t just fill out a 1099-MISC.

A babysitter one of the examples specifically called out as a household employee in the IRS guidance[1], so if you’re doing it right you should be running payroll. That’s pretty tricky to DIY properly.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc756
I discovered that it's better to avoid sweeteners completely and consume sugars in small amounts. Both seem to be bad for the body but differently. Sweeteners make me hungry. Sugars make me high then low. After a few years of low sweetness I started to find milk sweet. I can drink coffee without sugar because milk by itself tastes sweet enough (lactose). I completely stopped with soft drinks and dilute juices with the same to double the amount of water or just drink plain water.
Yeah I remember using NCSA mosaic to browse the early web and thinking “what’s the point of this we already have FTP and archie”.
Gotta be honest, the "government is unreliable" crowd are not people I think of as honest. Government works fine, and for less money, if you actually try to make it work.
A "solar panel" does not have to be a photovoltaic panel. A much simpler panel can heat water to use in a steam turbine.
That's exactly why both Apple and Google needs to be opened up. Cars, clothing and restaurants do compete on the offering.
Those graphics are beautiful.
In a system that is hyper focused in growth like US and even more Silicon Valley, unions don’t seem to make a lot of sense for neither party. And the proof is there, huge businesses and astronomical salaries.

I would say though this only benefits part of the society and comes with huge drawbacks too.
>we change the way the government is intimately entangled with our lives?

I've lived in Sweden where taxes are not just automatically filed but every citizen can trivially look up anyone's tax returns and nobody ever saw it as the government being intimately entangled with anyone's life.

Privacy violation would be to look into how and on what you spend your money, not that everyone pays their share of taxes. That tells you nothing about what people spend their money on. Merely that they aren't avoiding paying their part. I don't see the problem with the government automatically doing my taxes or anyone being able to see that.
Really nice tool. It has a lot in one place. Normally I use phpStorm and that does not have SVGOMG style optimisation things but the code prettifiers work.

This could do with some better examples to start editing with, using different primitives than just path. A grid would be nice too.

Examples, a search icon is a 'circle' and a 'line' with a 'viewbox' to get right, if you place the origin in the centre of the circle then you don't need x and y values, just a radius. In this way a silly level of optimisation can be made.

A typical search icon will have hundreds of points defined with 'NASA numbers' (six decimal places) and that mashed into a path. Really you just need a circle defined in integers, not Adobe Illustrator exported nonsense.

SVG is an artistic medium and I really like it. However, artists don't see it that way and neither do developers. Hence most SVGs are not really in the spirit of what is possible. It is more than just a file format.
This is a good point and thanks for sharing.

I would add that in my experience the bar for "reasonably popular" is much lower than people would typically expect. One or two issues a month may not be much if you're actively using and maintaining the project, but it can easily become a burden if you've moved on from the project. You either spend a few hours a month keeping it up to date, or feel like you're letting someone down.

There isn't really a good solution to escape. Someone may submit patches on their own or offer to take over maintenance, but I'm not willing to ship code that I haven't reviewed or tested and would not risk transferring it to someone unknown. (We've seen what can happen there.) Deleting the project is an option, but that also negatively impacts existing users in a drastic way. The best approach I think is to clearly indicate that the project is no longer maintained and suggest creating a fork if they need to make changes.
I couldn't get a clear sense either. But their website's focus on "orbit servicing" and EOL gives me the impression that this is really for proactively managing space debris from recent missions, not cleaning up historic debris. Their method makes more sense for cleaning dense "packets" of debris whose orbits haven't yet significantly deviated from the original mission orbit, so the cleanup satellite doesn't have to make too many maneuvers.

It still doesn't seem economical or even all that feasible.
> But as an application developer, I’d be somewhat scared to interface with third-party code over an IPC model where the other service can at any time send back an instant death pill to my process.

For service, think "OS interface". If you make a bogus kernel call on a monolithic kernel, it would be reasonable for the OS to kill you. Also note that when you say "process" it might be different than you think because threads all share the same address space on hubris.
Historical events are biased?

Read about the Great Railroad Strike of 1977.
I have three mobile numbers...1 for trust people, the second is for business and the last is for authentication and tied to an account that is not tied to my real name. There is too much information collection going on.
I never said they didn't, and indeed, cited 100GB optical media. I said they made _limited_ progress.

In 1982, a 20MB HDD was considered large, while a CD is 640MB. That's an almost insurmountable 20x advantage to optical.

By the late nineties, a DVD was 4.7GB, while typical HDDs were maybe 500MB-2GB, giving a more modest advantage to optical.

In 2024, a HDD is maybe 200 times bigger than optical (20TB versus 100GB), while an SSD is maybe 10x bigger (1TB versus 100GB).

Prices are also worth looking at. 100GB media is maybe $10/disk. I remember buying CD-Rs and DVD-Rs in stacks of 20-100, at maybe 10 cents-$2 per disk, depending on type, quantity, and year. The cost-per-byte for optical media has hardly changed in two decades.

So limited progress.
Earlier this week I went back to the small town where I went to school, something I've been meaning to do for the past two years. It's still a nice small touristy coastal town, absolutely relaxing, with wonderful fresh air and a really nice walk in the beautiful spring weather. But it's not exactly the same town. Stores have close, buildings repurposed, neighborhoods redeveloped and some things have just been torn down. I used to recognize a ton of people, but the population have changed over the past 25 years, now I don't know anyone.

Going back was nice, especially the few things that had stayed the same, but expecting everything to just freeze and wait for you to return one day was perhaps a little naive.
Very few places delivered. The reason pizza is always the go-to example is because that was basically it.
> The place where construction has to stop because you’re not allowed to uproot

Strange take for Toronto where houses are being torn down and rebuilt as larger houses or high rises everywhere
I can you can first start from this `Astrophysics for People in a hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson` or Cosmos by Carl Sagan's series. Both will be a good starter for you
So, python is not slow if you don't use python and depend on C/C++. Got it. LOL.
I feel the same about Factorio, but I love the Zachtronics puzzles. I think it's because each problem is self-contained, so the active scope is generally what can fit in my head at once. Otherwise I need to plan things out and it starts being work.
At this point I think of it as a jobs program. Every year we calculate our taxes by reading the manuals and instructions, fill out our tax return and submit it. I like to think that my literacy is above 6th grade level but every year it gets corrected by the IRS, and sometimes more than once.
The submitted title was "Gary Killdall, creator of CP/M, wrote Pixar's original 3D renderer".

Submitters: If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

(From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.")
The claim was that Python is only used for prototyping at Google, not that people are writing the AI frameworks themselves in pure Python.

JAX is obviously implemented in C++, but the scientists running the training runs which cost millions of dollars are writing lots of python.
As a kid we never lived in a country more than a few years. Now, everywhere feels a bit off. And I feel a bit off everywhere.

Which, you are right, isn’t bad. Just odd.

Unmoored is adequate.
On iOS, holding the power button also brings up Siri, but holding power and either volume button brings up the shutdown screen. Does this not work on android, or is it another one of those vendor-specific things?
That's standard behavior. The US is more plutocracy than democracy at this point.

You can help choose the brand of oligarchy that runs the United States but you can't vote against it.
It's because the value proposition of Rust and the reality of it's implementation don't match. So, they went through all this effort to put it in the kernel, but then realized, it's not really useful for much, outside of making "safe" drivers that no one really needs.
I'd buy that except that the umbrella term "optical illusion" covers a lot of ground from simple physical things like a blind spot, through those color inverting things, to weird ones that involve computation, where you can't see all 16 dots, or the jagged blocks "heal" themselves. Cats perceiving squares is clearly not optical, but rather computational.
Perhaps due to it being federal land and unavailable for use? Most of the west coast is this way.
Discussed at the time:

Scrape like the big boys - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29117022 - Nov 2021 (189 comments)
Facebook bought Oculus 10 years ago. Nothing is better about weight. It's worse, in fact. The 1.5 pound dorkbox smashed against your face is literally heavier and uglier than it was a decade ago. Take that Moore's law bullshit somewhere else. These things aren't going to be 30 grams for 30 years.
Because historically they made money selling managed version of their services.

Now GCP, AWS and Azure just sell a superior managed version for cheaper. So they lost their income stream.

Open source products tried to change the license so the big guys would at least have to pay them something to make money on their work.
Ah, you mean specifically parallellizing a complex non-parallel system? Not designing a parallel system from scratch?
> If the police want to be respected again, they need to earn it by proving they aren’t all what everyone believes them to be

And if they won’t—and continue to collect a paycheque—they should be fired for cause.

We did it in 1857 in New York, when the corrupt Municipal police were replaced by the Metropolitans, consolidating “the police in New York, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Westchester County (which then included The Bronx), under a Governor of New York-appointed board of commissioners” [1]. Perhaps Sacramento can repeat the feat.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City...
Investors only blindly fund friends and family. Everyone else needs revenue that changes by the VC.
I assume TT is doing the same efile process that any other program does. My CPA even uses efile.
The complexity will vary by state. But basically you have to create a small business with a unique tax id, then pay into your employee's social security benefits.
Nomdep was referring to the pictures in TFA -- the rest of the comments are explaining why a mall may look like that. Not an entire city.

A reasonable interpretation of "you see that everywhere" is "most cities have a mall or neighborhood that would result in a similar set of pictures.

It's incredible how many "hackers" in this thread don't understand how quantifiers work in contexts other than code. How the hell does this industry translate business needs into code without this rudimentary skill?
Interaction Calculus
[Serious]? Not reddit, but it might as well be.
But not the same ssh key on multiple accounts.
It must be possible to milk this "dumb" investor money - which directly destroys the bought goods in the long run. Basically you create two teams. Team A develops a business version of a open source-good. Team B works on that open Source good.

Team A gets acquired. The product destroyed. Team B now founds a company becoming Team A, while Team A forks the open source product and keeps the game going. Its a ton of migrations, but you could get wallstreet to donate to open source as a business strategy.
> Developers also argue that in the Midwest, where more than one-third of the U.S. corn crop is used for ethanol production...

> In response to Reuters' findings, USDA said that urban sprawl and development are currently bigger contributors to farmland loss than solar...

There's a story here about responsible development and environmental management, but the larger narrative seems like concern trolling in light of other types of land use.
Kotlin has been seeing more and more usage as well, even outside of Android:

https://youtu.be/hXfGybzWaiA?t=972&si=1Wsgb0wOmXOi3_hC
Maybe new rules like the FCC's 5-year deorbiting requirement mean deorbiting-as-a-service can tick that regulatory box.
DIY CPU [video]