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What is it with "I made a _______" posts? Those seem new to me and very braggy. I see them on youtube as well. I feel like if I could check all the posts to HN I'd find a trend of instead of just "Show HN: A tool/app/site to do X" there's a tread of adding "I made" in front. Is that a result of social media conditioning, that you must brag that "I" made?
Isn't a GPU with no rasterization or texture hardware a DSP?
Google Maps has 3D (in some areas). Click on Layers -> More -> Globe view.

Looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/wcCJmbd.png
SBIR
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The only catch is the many hours it takes to read and prepare the application. This free tool by Kinara (https://lnkd.in/gWbnqQRX) simplifies the process.

Here is a demo of Kinara drafting entire SBIR applications https://lnkd.in/gVupx4xG

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Huh. That's a think I've had vague notions of, but you've made pretty explicit.

Technology under pressure looks a lot like biology.
If you got random tokens on Apple Silicon Macs, you should check your stderr for Metal’s error code, like 5 for out of metal memory. Metal lets you use half of your unified memory as metal memory.
This guy seems to fundamentally misunderstand open source. It was not at all about permissive licenses, but it _was_ about "rebranding" free software to sound less ideologically-driven, while still pretty much meeting the same criteria that free software supports.

I think his "war" is actually on MIT/BSD licensing, but it just kind of comes out of nowhere? Who is this guy, what problems has he had or observed?
This would be foolish to rely on. If you throw an entire division in the trash, some of your critical employees won’t return at (almost) any price.
A classic case of supply exceeding demand, cratering value
> When faced with the choices "be fat" or "exercise regularly and make good dietary choices to lose and keep weight off" most people choose "be fat".

I think this is where education comes in, because when I was overweight I used to assume exercise had to be painful to be useful, and it really doesn't. Literally anything other than being 100% sedentary counts as meaningful exercise. It's okay to walk slowly with breaks, run slowly with breaks, walk in a pool where your weight is less of a factor, or whatever helps you. It's perfectly fine to exercise at a volume and intensity where you don't feel any pain at all, and "no pain no gain" is a disastrous lie.

As you note, it's hard to make that kind of change twice. I think we do a disservice by discouraging people from exercising, rather than presenting it as an optional but beneficial extra.

> Many of the people in my life are thin and completely sedentary, and they've never battled with their diet or weightloss. I'm sure you know some people like that too

My (at the time new) boss once said "I bet you don't need to worry about this stuff [diet and exercise]" at a time when I was still eating 3000kJ under my TDEE, which was quite funny. But yes, I agree there really are some people who don't need to exercise to be skinny.

The biggest problem I have is with hiding information from people. I agree that exercise isn't necessary or sufficient for weight loss, but I think on the margins exercise does help a considerable number of people succeed who would otherwise fail. That's why I don't like how most weight-related articles that end up on HN have something negative about exercise at the top of the comments.
I just saw that episode few mins ago lol.
This one does it via monkey patching express internals to make the fix transparent: https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-async-errors
A new star is about to appear in the night sky
Better get all of your air travel in now before half the world's commercial airliners start failing/are grounded! (/s)

What's amazing to me is that even with such a degradation in culture and safety, the individual planes are still somehow worth more money than most humans will cumulatively see in their lifetime. I do wonder how quickly that will shift if they don't address the serious problems that have come to light lately though.
Proving Immediate Mode GUI's Are Performant
GitHub Releases Copilot Workspace
There are plenty of places that are installing nice streetlights. For example, in Berkeley when they underground utilities they install nice old-school lighting fixtures.

This is very much a "these things are true and terrible" essay when it should be "I'm seeing a lot of these things that I don't like." Don't assert as facts things that you do not know to be facts.

And like most things that try to invoke authority by mentioning Jobs or Apple, this essay is entirely wrong about the invocation. A style for the case of an extremely functional device should not detract from the device, but streetlights aren't "extremely" functional devices that do a lot of things.
This was most certainly work related. It was about a Google contract which is 100% related to Google and workers at Google.
Seems reasonable, considering the abuse potential is worse with things like Adderall than cannabis.
> the effort to pinpoint the precise country of streaming availability routinely became a burdensome task.

Which is why bittorrenting, TPB and shit are making a roaring comeback (if it ever faded).
Last I checked we are not post scarcity, so we still are those thirsty survivors vying over limited resources. There is only a clear "right" answer provided we first agree on ethics.

Whether you propose an industry subsidy, or campaign for regulatory reform, or initiate a cabal of technocrats to accelerate progress, every dollar towards this cause is a dollar not spent elsewhere. Strongly asserting that you have the one right answer doesn't make opportunity costs disappear.
Ask hk: what you think about this ideas as startup
Hi everyone

I have this idea want to know your opinion about it maybe you can help me craft it.

I have this idea for dental tourism a user can go to a place that provides a xray for his toots and upload it to our application dentist that are subscribe to the service can give insights and quote how much it will cost the app returns the best prices and the user can view reviews also about the same doctor what you think about it?
Even a cursory literature search shows prior work on this subject [0].

/s

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_th...
You get very close to the real issue here:

The important part of a flying machine wasn’t the machine itself, but the engine to run the machine itself. We’ve had flying machine designs for centuries but it only took 27 years after the Otto engine was invented to put one in the air.

ECMO is the flying machine design
I think it's still a large degree of fashion. In 2024 we spot the lone ornamented streetlamp that survived and think it looks nice or appreciate that its still standing, or walk past the an old decorated building that was maintained all these years think it looks elegant, but if you travelled back to 1920 when your entire environment was filled with cheaply manufactured fake ornamentation then the new simplistic modern designs would have been the things that demanded notice and been associated as the new hotness and an ornamented cast iron product would have carried an association as old and dated. For the same reason if you sold an avocado green kitchen appliance in 1988 you'd be viewed as out of fashion and still too early to be retro-cool. Not everything gets a retro-resurgence, but everything gets old.
Show HN: A key value store based on semantic similarity rather lexical equality
Systems and Machine Learning and Graphics Topics
I'm a student looking to learn more about contemporary topics in the intersection of systems, ml, and graphics. What are ideas or fields of research that are worth looking into?
They did that recently, two in a row done the same way would raise too much suspicion so they have to mix it up a little bit.
There are services that are provided based on implicit assumption that their consumers are human and they are priced accordingly.

You can't go to theater and instruct your computer(a.k.a. camera) to consume & learn or summarize the movie/performance on your behalf. If that's possible and allowed, I'm sure the admission fee will be drastically different.

Google will not let you instruct your computer to consume all the search results for a keyword and filter out good results & summarize them (you can technically still do that but Google will try their best to make sure you don't). If you do, they'll throw you into a hell that is infinite captcha loop. Yes, they are hypocritical to do that but that is a different issue.

A human and a computer are not comparable either in capabilities or their lifetimes. Let's not mix them up.
I actually really have a disrespect for them. I'm in a constant fight against developers that want to translate code in almost the same code but "only using language features from the Advanced book".

I also wanted to add that I used inheritance only ONCE in all my years of writing Python in all other millions of lines of code inheritance was not the best solution.

This is my daily struggle as a CTO. People using waaayy too many "fancy" features of languages making it totally unreadable and unmaintainable.

It's their ego they want to show off how many complex language features they know. And it's ruining my codebases.
Dogma is always a good test:

https://whereto.stream/movie/1832
> Rate has been a secret sauce for a long time. Only described in an out of print magazine or very expensive books.

Or tons of web pages and a whole bunch of scholarly articles available from Google Scholar with full text.

Heck, over a decade ago I did an implementation (lost now) in Ruby based on a 1995 paper [0]. It hasn't really been secret sauce for a long time.

[0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=prod...
While I agree that the generational change is definitely there, I think the author's first example (street lights at San Francisco) is not a good example because it's the result of a different trend:

Americans no longer believe that a public space should be nicely maintained. Especially San Francisco. Its street is where you meet homeless tents, feces on pavement, the smell of weeds, people walking around with their asscracks visible. It's no longer a nice place, and whether we like or not, fewer people believe we should spend money to make it feel more pleasant.

Which is pretty sad, because once it gets bad enough, it basically becomes a self-reinforcing cycle.
I concur, SME on Linux is only usable in full memory encryption mode (ie the kernel doesn't even know about it) on my ryzen laptop as well.
IIRC when you put a SIM into a new device for the first time, part of the tower auth includes the IMEI of the previous device you used it with also.
Thanks! My RFID project there is probably very over-complicated compared to a "proper" audio setup like you describe. Really all you would need is a Raspberry Pi to host a MQTT server and play a stream from Spotify (or similar). You could then use ESPHome as a simple RFID-to-MQTT reader, which would be extremely simple with ESPHome and is the kind of project that ESPHome makes beautifully and laughably simple!
Depends on the price this supercomputer sells at.
Alternatively, where can I get the source for the app?
Dear Human, the 3 things that make life worth living are doing what you like for a living, having someone to love and something to hope for. You can learn that from me or the hard way. Happiness is so unassuming and easy to overlook, you have to pay attention.
Well-known to expert GeoGuessr players as a convenient way to quickly tell what country you're in on a random rural road, as different countries use mysteriously consistent different bollard styles even when their road surfaces are otherwise almost identical.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bollard+meta
I went to buy an air fryer. There were several specific-air-fryer-model recipe books available. But they were all garbage auto-generated stuff.

I complained to amazon, and they said since I hadn't purchased the book they couldn't do anything. So I bought the book, complained, and returned it.
The chapters devoted to the details of the specific air fryer model were either very general (almost quotes of product description on amazon), or just plain wrong.

What I thought I would get would be like the magic lantern books about specific camera models. Instead it was auto-generated pages of nonsense.
Yeah, this is a "GPU" in the sense that it resembles modern GPUs with the graphics parts sliced off. So it's an understandable shorthand to use, but it is a bit misleading.

Terminology on this is confusing - NVIDIA calls their A100 a "GPU" for example but I can't tell if any of the graphics bits like samplers and ROPs are even in that thing - though I did learn it has a hardware JPEG decoder.
What worked the best for us is to use literally anything else besides Google Ads.

Seriously, it's akin to lighting money (and time) on fire, and you'll only get dragged in further over time, requiring more changes, more time, more monitoring, more updates, more you.

Save your sanity and go with something less "black-boxy" and more in your control. Yes, it's more work upfront, but it's worth it in the long run.

Google Ads is not working for your best interests.
CB radio has you covered
The predecessor to CLIPS has been apparently kept in a building state[1]; I haven't tried it though.

1: https://github.com/sharplispers/ops5
chess is pattern matching.
My hypothesis as to why this is relates to how products over time seem to all converge on inoffensive sensibility and mediocre homogeneity.

The more mass-produced something is or generalized use-case something has, the more important it is for the item to meet every single need. Of course, one of those needs is that the physical appearance of the item needs to match or blend in with the aesthetic of its final location. Not all older, crafted pieces match, and to choose one commits you a particular style. Once you’ve decided on that, the cost to change is significant.

So how do you meet all needs? Design something inoffensive, bland, and sensible.
Very very cool, especially from the angle of unobtrusive, ambient technology (aka anti-doom-scrolling)
A lot of the humour is from the books, I’m glad that they’ve managed to translate it so well into the TV series
I should specify that the folder limitation seems to only be on the mobile app. There's no point in organizing with for folders if I can't use them on mobile where I primarily use spotify.
they just charge way too much though... it's a bit like Iphones... but both are not appealing to me, specially at a premium price
Q Strings for Better SQL in Python
Or, he's a savvy guy talking to the people who do still believe it's a gateway drug, and deftly explaining to them why this is good without trying to tell them they are wrong.
I think the main reason is cost / time

How long would it take to make beautiful lamp posts, and what would it cost, if they had to be as detailed as back then, but produce the same amount of them as needed today?

Of course, with the rise of 3D printing and such, we may be able to return to it, without it increasing costs too much. I hope.

Personally im mostly tired of the lack of color. Everything these days is made in shades of grey. Metal, concrete and glass.
Hah, the author of the go-vim plugin!
Rapidly rising levels of TFA 'forever chemical' alarm experts
Previous discussions:

* Penpot 2.0 Released https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39978781 (131 points | 21 days ago | 27 comments)

* Penpot: Open-source design and prototyping platform https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32851262 (1145 points | Sept 15, 2022 | 128 comments)
I find ChatGPT (4) to have excellent Japanese skills already. It seems to produce more accurate and certainly more idiomatic translations than Google Translate does, and can even explain its own translations afterwards.
I know it can, the compiler can do one more "automatic" unit test based on the type checking system.

But they decided not to add enums because it conflicted and overlapped too much with interfaces.

I just want to add "my" experience that personally, yes maybe you can argue enums are nice, but I never missed them in Go.

I personally agree with the Go team on how they argue and for me it would be a step back if they listened to the herd that does not take all sides of the story into consideration but just keeps pushing enums.

Try/catch is just a really bad thing all "hacky solution" alarm bells go off for me if you want to change error handling to giant try/catch blocks.
It is still very helpful to see for example which id or entity caused an issue or was slow. These are things you can’t feed into metrics usually.

Metrics show you that something is wrong / alerting.

Logs show you what is wrong and where to start debugging.
> because he wouldn't just hurry up and die

That is how I read it. One day he is texting and enjoying his friends (virtually) the next day it is just to expensive so they let him die. His friends wonder what happened.
I think this is a good point.

The complementary expression being: part of the ornamentation of the past was in reaction to the pervasive under stimulation of people in urban areas 150+ years ago.

There was less going on - less connectedness — and discussing the design and position and prestige of the new street lamps might’ve been the most interesting development in a town all month.

The gigantic population shift from rural to urban settings caused all sorts of strange effects, existential angsts, new art forms, massive complexification of everything… and much much more.

And it’s a bi-directional event-horizon:

We live in an era they could never imagine. And we, now, can never truly appreciate how they lived then.
It's actually one of the FWP American Guides -- this was a New Deal US government program to employ unemployed writers and journalists to create a series of travel guides in the late 1930s. I have collected several from used book stores and they are fun to compare with current books to see what things of interest are still there after nearly a century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Guide_Series
Is this worth your time to worry about? Does your startup have solid runway and/or are you profitable? Do you have solid PMF? If the answer is no, and I suspect it is since you're deliberating where to host, then get back to shipping features.

To be reductionist ... I'd rather have to deal with vendor lock in a growing successful startup, then have cloud agnostic infrastructure and be out of runway.

Even then, I think people generally over-engineer this problem. I've worked at multiple unicorns who have been 'locked' in to AWS/GCP/Azure.

Think in terms of risk, and opportunity cost.
Dental work is way overpriced, so anything that can help reduce those costs would be great.

But I would suggest you try auto-correct (I make a bunch of spelling/grammar/typing errors myself)
Sometime in future someone might post an article titled same “Why is simple design so rare in recent work?” But with a completely different perspective.
Can this "negative mass" be used to construct wormholes and FTL drives, or is it just a math trick?
Probably they meant that kids of Muslim immigrants become radicalised Muslims while their parents still try to blend in.
What are you looking for in a provider?

Locations, bandwidth, number of machines, orchestration capabilities, etc?

Avoiding lock in is 'easy'; avoid using specialized services and features that aren't universal. Avoid bundling services that need not be bundled. Your hosting provider should not also be your domain registrar, and maybe shouldn't be your DNS provider, nor your email provider. Big cloud has high outbound bandwidth rates, so avoid collecting a large amount of state that would need to be copied in a move. (Easier said than done)
Decorated objects run the risk of falling foul of taste. Some percentage of the population may simply not like it. Or tastes may change.

But simple, functional objects are timeless. There's nothing to dislike, as long as they remain functional.
One of the things I was gobsmacked by the first time I used Figma years ago was its performance, which has only gotten better with time. From what I understand, they've built some custom stuff for WebGL for their renderer.
Here it looks like it's powered by React. I'm curious if anyone's used both and can compare the performance of the two.
I know it (the A100) at least has the texture pipeline too, so it's certainly got more "Graphics" optimized parts than this.

Really nomenclature is a mess, everyone hops on the next big term until you're not sure what it means anymore.
I say this as a long time Svelte fan, and maintained some libraries for past 7 years: I really don't like the DX of "runes". What I liked about Svelte was the two way and automatic reactivity, clever computed values prefixed with $:, etc. The code looked simple and clean.

I know there's very good reasons for the changes, but it feels so similar to React (and even hooks) now that I don't see any big positives to using Svelte vs just using React. Sorry Rich.
Is this a weird thread to bring up tattoos? Those are certainly often ornamental and have become much more common than in the days of that streetlamp he describes. Also, they are lasting and very personal. They buck the trend the author describes. Why?
Unpacking Elixir: IoT and Embedded with Nerves
Ask HN: What is your experience with quit smoking app?
The model can interact with Meta’s app for me.
I think the pattenrned china is not machine washable. Such concerns play in.
Yes, I've seen some brand new ornate/decorative lighting, usually on pedestrian- and bicycle-focused construction projects with grant funding, as it's expensive.

Without those grants from regional/state agencies, a cash-strapped town could otherwise use the cheapest available option for lighting..
It’s not simply a common pattern. It is a way of doing things in the community. The stdlib uses it, the libraries use it, and if you do not use it, people will not use your software.
I think thres’s also been a large sea change in the thinking that happens in finding the reason for anomalous behavior. Nowadays remote compromise is one of the first things on my mind when troubleshooting but, back in the 90s it was much lower on the list. I think the tooling would have been there to find it easy, but I think getting in the mindset where it needs to be found would be harder.