skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the outcome of all of this is going to be much more aggressive cost-of-living adjustments.

It provides real, non-negligible value to sit in the same room as your coworkers. If companies want to reap that value though, they are going to have to pay for it. I think the days of setting up shop in downtown SF and just expecting talent to show up are over.
Next week (May 20-something)
I followed them for ages, such cool tech for the early 00s when they first publicised it. But it never seemed to have gone anywhere.

They were very cagey at first about the fact it used water vapour because they didn’t want people to think it was just projection onto a vapour screen when they had some sort of directed laser tech. It still needed the water though!

If I were to guess why it didn’t reach any sort of momentum, I reckon they couldn’t control the costs or get the brightness good enough. But that’s really speculation.
It’s called neoteny, it’s when animals keep their youth traits longer when domesticated than when wild.

Example: Adults cats purr, while wild cats don’t. Because looking cute (or sounding cute) has a drastic effect on survival in domesticated environments.
Wow. Another write-up on how Firefox is planning on monetizing.

How about a write-up on how Firefox plans to stay competitive and integrate/innovate on some of the best features from competing browsers?
Who's to say in the future they won't sell the watch independently? Personally, I just don't really like the conspiracy thinking. I have an iPhone and an Apply watch and currently. I understand why the app is important for managing the watch easily and I can also imagine a time in the future when the voice assitance or the UX has improved to the point where the app can go.
That they can ship it there doesn't mean they are selling it directly. They don't include VAT in pricing, so probably not.
I haven't tried since the Surface Pro 3, so maybe this has changed, but the answer was "yes with major caveats". A quick search suggests this is still the answer. Several bits of hardware[0] still rely on drivers that haven't been upstreamed to the Linux kernel proper yet, so you'd best be prepared to run a custom kernel. Some things like the webcam don't work at all.

And then there's booting. You will probably have to monkey with secure boot, which means dual booting can be a pain. Big, popular distros are starting to support secure boot, so it might just work, but it might not. And I'd be kind of shocked if MS didn't take the opportunity to ditch legacy x86 baggage[1] to completely lock down boot and make it impossible to run anything but Windows.

In summary, on older Surface devices, yes you can run Linux but you have to pretend it's 20 years ago and Linux is still a pain to get running. On ARM? Good luck.

[0] basically all input methods. Touchpad, keyboard, touch, and pen.

[1] and the freedoms such baggage still carries
While I agree with the points made about DX pain points, and after having tried multiple alternatives...

I personally think the Next DX is still much better and simpler than having to figure out all of the tooling Next abstracts away.
It's a wonderful book. I first heard about it while diving into urban planning and only afterward learned that (software) developers knew it as well.

I still evaluate physical or digital spaces accordingly. The patterns also influenced the way I approached my own research years later. (And I still often mentally refer to A Pattern Language even though 20 years ago a friend never returned my copy.)
It really depends on what you mean by "scientific consensus". Nuclear scientists have famously run a Doomsday Clock since 1947 predicting that we're going to nuke ourselves to death soon. Is that a consensus, or do there need to be formal academic studies which claim to prove universal collapse is coming? (How could you build such a study? Does the equivalent exist for climate change?)

Equally importantly, not all predictions are of the "came and went" variety. The ozone layer had a collapse prediction, and that prediction was 100% true - but we responded to it, fixed it, and now the ozone layer is doing fine and expected to make a full recovery soon. It would have been a lot harder if advocates went around saying that the ozone layer is guaranteed to collapse unless we stop using refrigerators!
The broadcast isn't signed by some kind of hardware key?
How does having a browsing experience imply being a product?

Is it possible to use Firefox without having a browsing experience? It is a web browser!

Seems like Mozilla really is fighting a losing battle: Whenever they as much as think about doing 1% of the monitoring that their competitors do (often for user research to guide and focus their development efforts; unclear if that's what's happening here though), they alienate a vocal part of their user base; when they don't, their software drifts further and further from what users actually want and need.
Linum (YC W23) is hiring a founding AI engineer to train text-to-video models
Trump went from "Build the wall!" in 2016 to "Secure our borders!" in 2024. How can you be so gullible to vote for Trump? I understand not voting for Biden either as Democrats suffer from their own hypocrisy.
I don't think anybody's denying that revolutions happen. It's just that the number of technologies that actually turned out to be revolutionary are dwarfed by the number of things that looked revolutionary and then weren't. Remember when every television was definitely going to be using glasses-free 3D? People have actually built flying cars and robot butlers, yet the Jetsons is still largely wishful thinking. The Kinect actually shipped, yet today we play games mostly with handheld controllers. AI probably has at least some substance, but there's a non-zero amount of hype too. I don't think either extreme of outcome is a foregone conclusion.
The Perfect File Server
I'd even say Microsoft & SpaceX pays is lower than many other big tech
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40339852
If you ever figure out a bulletproof solution to "just taking the money and building a good product/company without any technical debt and organizational cruft", please do share your results – this would be somewhat valuable for humanity!
It is... I miss the diversity of topics on nettuts but the quality of laracasts is worth it.
Japan Gets an LLM Compliments of Fujitsu and Riken
All patently non true.

Nuclear is cheap. According to the Court of Accounts in France in 2012, the whole nuclear industry had cost € 228 billion by that time and produced 11000 TWh of electricity. 2.07 Cents/kWh.

Renewables are expensive, in particular if you want a 100% renewable grid.

There is very little overlap between nuclear and civilian nuclear programs. Lots of countries operate power plants without nuclear weapons, and Israel for example has a military reactor yet does not use nuclear power commercially.
We had a “long lost aunt” come out of nowhere that got my phone number from a relative who got my number from another relative.

At that point, how can you validate it, as there’s no shared secret? The only thing we had was validating childhood stories. After a preponderance of them, we accepted she was real (she refused to talk on the phone — apparently her voice was damaged).

We eventually met her in real life.

The point is, you can always use these three principles: asking relatives to validate the phone number — something you have — and then the stories — something shared — and finally meeting in real life — something you are.
One of the most impressive aspects of Babylonian and Chinese eclipse predictions was simply the social organization that was required to collect the necessary data. These records were collected almost continuously over centuries. The Babylonian astronomical records which span around seven centuries and are arguably the longest continuous scientific program any civilization has produced.
Big problem in the psychiatric industry as well, which is largely run by pedophilic entities.
Yeah people who want that could just drink beer with a low alcohol content (so called "alcohol-free beer", which usually still has some 0.5%)
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It's weird to me they can make such assessments with confidence when we didn't even know the density/composition of Jupiter to any certainty until Hubble was around just in time to observe Shoemaker-Levy plow into it and eject enough surface matter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9...
what's the argument? diatoms are better than transistors?
To drive home? =)
This is played up as the Clacks in Pratchett's work, and is an interesting look into non-electrical long-distance communication possibilities.

https://wiki.lspace.org/Clacks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40354690
> where the processing locks up and leaves the laser pointed at a single spot continuously, burning a hole and possibly starting a fire.

Already solved for 3d-printers locking up and starting a fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortt%E2%80%93Synchronome_clo...

technically it's "electromechanical" but does not use GPS, WiFi, quartz, or atomic methods. To make thigns this accurate you need extremely good temperature compensation, close-to-frictionless bearings, run in a vacuum, use a pair of pendulums, etc.

When you reach that level of accuracy, you end up basically building a sensitive measurement device that is influenced by second and third order terms like subtle changes in the shape of the earth.
The person who created it posted a link to it, and I saw that post.
> I never claimed that there was no service called "Apple TV+".

"I'm not aware of any service called that."

> Launching that app in the left hand menu, it clearly states Apple TV+ as an option.

You are now aware. That's all I was doing. I never said you never said blah blah blah
The reason it looks the way it does is that forM_ is just a function like any other, not a keyword in a dedicated syntactic construct.
What if the linked list is cycled or doubly-linked?
Product management felt it was not worth the tech risk (seems too complicated & mathy), and they would get better user metrics by instead building a more sophisticated model for timing notifications by trawling user’s social media activity. The decision makers decided to be rigorously data driven, in their effort to reduce churn.
3kg payload at arm, contact sales for programmability… it’s still not in my hobby budget. Getting closer though.
The Future of Photography is Software (2014)
> goal is to structure the deal such that the minority shareholder doesn't "feel" oppressed

This is a buyout. Everything is a buyout with extra steps.
Larry Ellison have been always a good friend of Elon.
Antitrust actions in the US and EU may force Google to cut off those payments (to Mozilla and Apple), and if that happens, Firefox needs to survive somehow.
If I read this well, you are founder & CEO.

So, the company under your management burnt 250K in 2 years, produced nothing in 2 years, and kept the CTO for 2 years.

Fire yourself and thank your investor for being so naive.
If it was a real Personal Assistant I would just have to say: "I want to pick up my home air filter at Lowes today." and it would 1. know what brand/model air filter I needed, 2. know which Lowes is my local one, 3. place the order for me, and 4. let me know when it will be available to pick up.
The project's readme about "How it's made"[1] is interesting. The content of the Markdown repo is enjoyable to explore as an Obsidian vault[2].

I’d like to say that I wrote some clever site scraper and then algorithmically generated everything but the real answer is that it was mostly done by hand with a template for the pattern structure, the help of Obsidian’s auto-complete combined with a keyboard macro to convert (and correct) the links, and many dozens of hours typing, copy-pasting, and tweaking. I reference these patterns directly in my Obsidian vault. I began in 2020 but I didn’t work on it in earnest until November of 2023 with a final push in April of 2024.

The “master” version is my Obsidian vault. I have a custom Fish function (apl-copy) using rsync to copy from my vault to the Markdown repo that contains the patterns (and list of patterns), the README, and the LICENSE as markdown files.

[1] https://patternlanguage.cc/README#how-its-made

[2] https://github.com/zenodotus280/apl-md
Lasers used for laser light shows already have interlocks that will stop the laser if the mirror stops moving.

My understanding is that femtosecond lasers have some parts that are physically large because they use prisms, diffraction gratings, and such, to spread out a pulse so the laser can effectively amplify it and then recompress the pulse to use it.

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed_energy_projectile

note a workable laser "gun" could plausibly be "set to stun" because if the energy of a pulse sparks the air near your skin or clothing, the plasma absorbs almost all the energy causing a plasma explosion which can knock you down plus cause severe pain from an electromagnetic pulse.
Guided access is for restricting access to one app. Not great for a multiuser experience. The AppleTV gets it right in a lot of ways but an iPad with faceID and/or fingerprint sensor could instantly recognize a given user and have their profile ready
Something to sober you up if you're already drunk would be amazing, but I don't think this will do that
Non-alcoholic beer sales are close to $40B/year globally and going up. Generally speaking, the flavor of non-alcoholic beer pales in comparison to the real thing.

Then there's also the market for wine and spirits.
Is that actually what's happening?

Why would Google need this information? Don't they already get all of that and more in the queries themselves?

Or is this about supplying Google with a user profile that persists beyond incognito tabs, cleared cookies/history etc.?

I read it more as "we, Mozilla, want to know what Firefox users use their browsers for" rather than "we want to hand this data to Google on a per-query level". That said, it is incredibly vaguely worded.
Very fun! Short little games where it's possible to power level, spend 30 minutes playing and then move on. Not bad.

Replayability is low, once you have the structure of "take down a few monsters, get some items, rest often, rinse and repeat until your power level is high enough to steamroll the enemy" then that's about it, but it was still a fun 30 minutes figuring it out.

I also felt that little dose of dopamine/serotonin when I got cool items whose names I knew, so that was very cool.
This is a simple story that has been told since ipad v1.

They just need to let you run MacOS on it in a VM and all will be right with the world.

But they won't because they are greedy selfish bastards that do not actually have the user at heart.

End of discussion
The base they alienate just wants a web browser. You don’t need to iterate forever on a good tool that does the job. Software can be feature complete. Anyone wishing for a complete overhaul update for something like cp? Absolutely not, people want tools that work the same for years.
UFOs
Is SFI alive after all his founders are long gone? I think so, but really it is increasingly difficult to discern its current unique contribution to the global scientific landscape.
Just build a digital sundial: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1068443
> not while the CTO is involved with the company anymore

Fire the CTO and ban him from the premises. You and your investor control 95% of the company, you can more than easily ensure he is a total non-entity to your company forever.
We didn’t need to build ChatGPT for that. Such physical measure and awareness that resources are finite and humans require resources has been in front of human eyeballs for centuries.

You’re just a contemporary worker bee following orders. The economy is built on academic BS as the older, less numerate financier generation had no ability to falsify that which they had no education in, they handed their pensions and post world war welfare job money to their kids who made up this and think the future just has to keep honoring decades old contracts while ignoring they don’t honor their elders past.

Entropy will attenuate the past. Our achievements are meaningless to the next centuries as physics will force them to be rebuilt.
How do we know that Russian and Ukrainian special services agents use telegram? Is that confirmed somewhere?
Timely dataflow in Python:
https://github.com/bytewax/bytewax
Oh I didn't mean that. I think it's the best benchmark, just it's not necessarily representative of ordering in any domain apart from generic human preference. So while Llama3 is high up there, we should not conclude for example that it is better at reasoning than all models below it (especially true for the 8B model).
Eh this seems a lot less interesting than language and laughter
of all the crimes committed by Australians in Iraq, the only person to go to jail killed or endangered no one.

some of those who were found to have committed serious crimes harming enemy non-combatants were awarded medals, including the highest honor available.

meanwhile, PWC stole Australian government secrets (tax policy they were helping to draft while being richly paid as contractors), treasonously gave them to foreign multinationals, who used this info to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the Australian tax revenue. PWC refused to provide details in Parliamentary questioning, got a slap on the wrist and today were awarded another major government contract.

don't tell me Australia has little or no corruption, it's corruption on such a grand scale that it is conducted in broad daylight.
Since Apple is known to be the most prolific iterator of building working hardware during design.. that and more probably exists :(
I dunno, I read Hackers back in the late 80s and it sure seemed like SV was chasing money... I believe Levy used the term "Croesus Mode" to describe the mental model.
Thanks for the update. Could you share the device type and browser you're using? Appreciate your assistance!
All true. There are things teachers can do that help, but nothing is a silver bullet. One thing that I seldom hear discussed is classroom design. Lecture halls (the clue is in the name!) with fixed seating are death to seminar / "active classroom" techniques. As a professor, I would never try those in that layout; as a student, I'd down-vote an awkward attempt, too.
There's many occasions where I don't want to drink, but not doing so can make things uncomfortable. It's unfortunate, but there's lots of occasions where abstaining can make other people uncomfortable, or cause them to give you a hard time, or any number of other things. I would love to be able to take something that allows me drink but with none of the side effects, just to avoid potential uncomfortable situations. Again, I'm not condoning the behavior and it's unfortunate that this is how society is sometimes. But it would be nice to have this option.

There's also people who have difficulty controlling their drinking once they start. This would certainly help in those scenarios.

Another example is a situation where a woman may be pregnant so doesn't want to drink, but may not be far enough along that she wants people to know. Not drinking would get people wondering, but drinking could harm the fetus. I don't know if this gel would make drinking safe in that scenario - but if it does, that would be a great situation to use it in.
Why would they have to live in downtown LA?
Anyone remember the movie "Iron Eagle"?
Ask HN: Does Google pay websites for AI answers?
If Google is slurping up all the knowledge for free, and preventing clicks to source websites, who is paying these websites? Do they get paid?

What's the result in 15 years? No more new knowledge?
i am, in fact, a 'she' :)
When Pico server nodes are replaced, the upstreams will automatically reconnect to a new node, then that node will propagate the new routing information to the other nodes in the cluster

So if you have a single upstream for an endpoint, when the upstream reconnects there may be a second where it isn't connected but will recover quickly (planning to add retries in the future to handle this more gracefully)

Similarly if a server node fails the upstream can reconnect
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/08/24/stakeholder-gover...

1. Fiduciary duty has a specific legal meaning that is not really applicable here.

2. Corporations are not responsible solely to their shareholders.
Finally someone who (correctly) argues that there aren't too many String types.
why did you give a seed investor 70pct??????
It's not correct to look at it as the basket of things a country is doing is correct or not because different policies have different effects that may be at odds with the effects of the individual policy you are talking about. The Nordics do a bunch of things right, this is not one of them.
Yeah sorry I started Pico before realising...
In other words, "just trust me bro"?
Reading just the blog post... these feel like useless metrics. Why do you care what percentage of your users are searching about animals. What do you possibly have to gain from this? Are they planning to introduce animal-based features?

And if it's not for their own metrics, but to sell... who's going to buy? Facebook tracking pixels and other statistics cookies are so much more valuable that this kind of data
Maybe we should just go back to the 1990s where we just pay a one time fee to buy a piece software and own it forever? Without any data collection, without constant enshittification, without endless ads? Buy it, get a couple of yeard worth of security updates, and be done with it.

It's clear that libre browsers have failed. They are not sustainable. They are too big, too complex, and apparently only two organizations are really capable of keeping one going. One is an ad company, the other is a patsy for the ad company.

I don't see a way out of this that is at all sustainable.
Yep, and then there's the $, \ and PutStrLn. As a non-Haskell programmer none of those mean anything to me.
6 years ago I gave a C-level guy a fresh copy of Perform or Else[0] on my way out. I don't know if he even read it.

[0]: https://www.routledge.com/Perform-or-Else-From-Discipline-to...
From alcohol, I love:

- drinking it: I really enjoy the feeling of just ingesting beer, wine or spirits, especially with friends or family

- having a nice buzz from it.

However, those two things are, for me, incompatible. If I start drinking a little bit, I usually don't stop until I'm way beyond the "nice buzz". As the joke goes, "one beer is not enough, two beers are just enough, three beers really aren't enough".

Having something that would allow me to keep drinking without jeopardizing my body, my mind, and the day after would be a huge game changer.
Raw-milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus
There are some new, very good, NA beers on the market these days. Untitled Art and Athletic are two brands that are doing great work.
Do you want to make a question or just share this article?
Isn't that better isolation though ? A memory corruption will at worse break the OS which is the app and nothing else. Push the model further and you can have one unikernel per user and reduce even further the consequences of bugs
I'm incredibly curious as to what that even looks like. Where do you study? Can you give us a photo?