skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The team starts out with what's effectively a waterproof bag-suit, and installs a heat exchanger in the back, powered by a small LiPo battery pack. This presents a cold surface on the interior of the suit, onto which any humidity can condense, and then drip down into a catchment bottle.

OK, with a battery it makes sense. Transpiration absorbs heat, so condensing it in the suit will overheat the suit (and "cook" whoever is inside). With a batery it's a mix of a portable air conditioner and a dehumidifier. It does not break the laws of physics, but it's probably not good for a poor rebel army in the desert.
Pluckable Strings
Don't think they should be selling... just talk to users, and keep iterating on it. It'll be good, it has potential, the design is good.
I think your summary misses the mark. The Big Rip was not the most likely outcome before this new evidence. Heat Death has been the expectation/assumption.

TL;DR of TFA: New evidence shows that dark energy may be weakening over time instead of staying constant, which could lead to a Big Crunch. We're eagerly awaiting further evidence.
Snow White Helped Airbnb's Mobile Mission (2012)
I do not believe you know what you are talking about. Let me ask you: what is intelligence? If this thing is intelligent and you remove humans completely what are you left with?
Wow, that's some convenient timing. That makes pretty much the sole reason I wouldn't recommend FreeCAD irrelevant.
Everything announced at Microsoft Build 2024
You can choose to either live at the slightly-bleeding edge (as determined by “stable” releases, etc), or to live on the edge of end-of-life, as discussed here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21785399>

(And surely you should have tests to verify all your own functionality after upgrading a dependency?)
Good point. Could be a good private equity target. Buy it, load it up with debt, pay yourself out, then declare bankruptcy.
I've not watched 100 hours of videos at all and I've made and printed fully parametric designs with four variants driven by two configuration tables. I don't think it's that hard to learn.

> The absurd separation between Parts and bodies and whatnot.

Again, Parts/Bodies, it's confusing (and Part Design should be called "Single Body Design" IMO) but there are videos that explain the difference.

(I gather it comes from CATIA, and CATIA users are comfortable. Either way you don't have to use both; it's possible to never touch Part Design and do absolutely everything.)

I don't think I got it initially but now the difference is useful. There could be more work to allow non-Part-Design Parts to be wrapped in Part Design bodies. There's a macro (pdwrapper) for this, and Realthunder's branch built it in.

There could be better explanations on how Part Design works, how you build a Part Design Body from existing Parts and how you later combine them.

> The 5 different assembly benches, none of them good.

I feel this pain and I mostly avoided it by just using static placement. There's a new built-in Assembly workbench with a sophisticated solver that is being added in 1.0 which will land in the next two to three months (and is already in 0.22-dev and Ondsel 2024.2). I am going to dive in with that.

> The crashes.

Not a problem I have on the Mac at all now; 0.21 is really stable. Though startup crashes are common on Linux due to W****nd and the complexities of compiling support for it. The Flatpak appears to solve those. Ish.

> The way you need pixel precision to grab a vertex or an edge.

There is a preference setting (a newish one) that makes edge selection rougher/easier.

> And if some operation cuts a part in multiple disjoint pieces, only one survives.

Only in Part Design, which (in mainstream FreeCAD) is concerned with only one contiguous object. In fact, that operation actually fails. (A Body can be started with a compound of multiple pieces, but the first feature has to join them).

RealThunder's branch can support Bodies made of separate solids, and maybe that will come to mainstream once the TNP fix, which is a prerequisite, is in.

Outside of Part Design, objects split as you'd expect.

I don't think FreeCAD is perfect. That would be silly. But none of the "free" plans of the commercial cloud packages are right for me.
Turning the gears of an early modern search engine
In case you would like to be less (or more) confused, this is an application of Tree Notation, by the same author https://treenotation.org/

I suffer from the same flaw as the author, a tendency towards grandiosity and fervor in describing my good ideas. So I'm in a good position to advise that he knock it off: people don't like that, and it will keep them from using your stuff even if it's good.

Which it might be, actually. The extreme simplicity of the foundation is laudable.
I dont want my pdfs being scanned by a model to generate alt text of all things
the market for AI one-offs died before it even got started.
1 Billion for what? Do they have actually products? A revenue? What exactly has this much worth at a company which seems to be burned and roasted by everyone since the first moment they came public?
You can at least analyze network traffic if you really want to know. If you care enough to do that though, I would think it would be much easier to just not use Windows.
You can also throw in a `-x` at the end there.
Really depressing that Bill Gates is impressed by the idea of "chatting with lincoln".

Is this what we were missing in school? Our teachers dressing up with a tophat and bullshitting that they're lincoln and making stuff up?
This sale is going to turn out to be some sort of scam
Out of interest, why do you care that it's x86?
Oh no. I guess then it should never be implemented. People in the future will forever be allowed to transfer wealth as they see fit without taxation because of this loophole you found. Though in the U.S. we have precedents on this:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tax-reform-act-of-1993....
Not sure self-selecting on exercises is really sufficient (at least for me I doubt it).
My guess is they meant to respond to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40442347

But somehow didn't hit reply and just made it a top level comment instead.
They've been working on this thing since 2018. They'd be way better off just moving on to a better idea.

Being too early is functionally identical to being wrong.
Meatgrinder hasn't exactly worked for Russia yet. Especially if the Chinese soldiers are all sitting en mass on large, slow moving boats going across a 100 mile strait.

Unless you think the China's plan is to fill the Taiwan straits with so many dead bodies/boats so quickly, that it will create a corpse bridge for tanks to roll on.
Lineage OS does not have gapps by default. You can install your favourite gapps package and only install the Google apps you need.
I just don't understand the value of this pin over a smart phone.
How did you arrive at 200M? Sounds generous.
Yes, it seems delusional for an OpenAI wrapper with a dedicated device.

Freaking Instagram sold for $1B in the before times.
Of course they are. Good luck with that.
Wow, that was great! Thanks for sharing!
> I would be surprised if that were really the case. I'm sure people would say that is the reason but I rather doubt that is the real reason.

It's a real reason, even if it's not as likely to happen as people think it is.

The example of someone tripping on a root and suing for damages would get tossed out of court. However, getting to that point could require you to hire a lawyer, deal with a lot of hassle, spend money, and other things you'd rather avoid.

However, there are many examples of land owners being sued for various things that happen on their property. Ironically, one of the arguments for holding the landowner responsible in these cases is to demonstrate that they didn't actively stop people from entering the land and doing whatever got them hurt or killed. If it can be shown that the area was a popular or well-known destination for local kids, for example, you have a different set of legal responsibilities.

Likewise, if you know something is dangerous and you don't make an effort to keep people out, you could bring legal liability upon yourself.

It's a real thing. The near limitless legal interpretations makes it logical to lock down a property rather than risk it.
> my more religious friends (Catholic, Muslim)

Those religions mandate women to submit to the male or they are kicked out of the group. Of course things are more orderly when there is a chain of command and severe consequences (like losing your whole family) for demanding equality, asking questions, or questioning authority. Don't confuse the order for happiness. Ask a Muslim or Catholic what happens when you're gay, for example. Or review what the Churchs response was to child sexual abuse. In that case the social order actively contributed to more trauma!
"Access rights do not extend to the land surrounding a house or other dwelling (e.g. a static caravan) to the extent needed to provide residents with a reasonable measures of privacy. This is usually defined as the garden around or adjacent to the house that is intensively managed for the enjoyment of residents. " - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Outdoor_Access_Code

The article goes on to give examples where this has been legally determined to be a significant area - over 5 hectares (12 acres) around a property ... for people like me who don't fully understand areas in this context, that would be a square of 220m (720 feet) to a side.

You are allowed to fence this area off, or take other security measures.

And ultimately - its not hugely different to the current situation. If I intend to commit a crime against you, is adding a trespass going to dissuade me?
This is absolutely ridiculous, everyone is already trying to optimise shipping routes and the idea that the captains are not told to slow down/speed up when ports are expected to be full and/or there isn’t stuff to pick up is simply not true. I worked on a system optimising this for Rio Tinto (experience human operators were trying to figure out manually when to speed up and slow down ships). You know what would be much more efficient; banning the shipping of ore from places with resources to places without it like China. The idea that Australia should be allowed to export both the coal and the iron ore when shipping finished steel is obviously about half the weight seemed crazy to me. I’ve already saved you 50% of the fuel on most of those routes, if you could make the politics work.

I also worked for Zodiac maritime and they were working on route optimisation there too. The article makes out that everyone is sail fast then wait all the time and then straw-mans savings based on that. Fuel also isn’t the only factor especially if the ships are rented for specific journeys, ports also charge fees if you cause a traffic jam, so it’s a classic and fairly simple optimisation problem.
people talked about this elsewhere, the AI part is fully optional and disabled by default
I think that's a slightly incorrect TL;DR. Here's an updated version based on my reading:

TL;DR: a heat death (Big Freeze) due to eternal acceleration was the previously favored candidate for the fate of the universe; but there's now evidence that dark energy varies, so acceleration may not be eternal; we may still get a Big Freeze (if it stop varying soon) or we may get a Big Crunch (if it keeps going far enough in the direction it has been going) or we may get a Big Rip (if it starts going in the opposite direction that it has been going)
Just write your own damn email my word. Imagine you text your friend and an ai model replies. Thats what you are doing to your coworkers.
> It's a right without any responsibility.

How can you say something so controversial yet so brave?
I believe one can enforce export restrictions and whatnot. It’s not an unsolvable problem though loopholes will be found and thus changes will need to be made so on and so forth.
There's a new Coffeezilla video out claiming Rabbit is based on an old crypto scam. So at least 50% of this category is already a scam.
But the LLM they asked cited a $1B valuation.
The thing that turned me off most about humane was what I perceived as arrogance from the cofounder in the Ted talk, passing off a hacked together experience as if it was a functioning product but pretending it was something more. The audacity!

…And I have to say, this seems pretty on-brand. You do you, Humane.
Yeah, but to open an alternative store, you need to pay a hefty sum. Even to publish apps on that alternate store, there will be high fees. Open source projects simply cannot afford that.
Unfortunately many American legislators and courts seem to go out of their way to promote this narrative by passing and enforcing laws that permit excessive use of violence by landowners and homeowners.
Do you have any preferred guides for getting started wtih BRL-CAD? I've tried a couple of times, but it seems like it's more a large collection of various tools and it's hard to know where to start. Or even what the general design philosophy is. It looks like the core functionality is more a code-driven approach to modeling? With UI driven design (archer) only in the experimental/early-development stage?
I first encountered this when I was writing a WAP[1] mail client in ColdFusion[2]. I must have read the entire SMTP spec 20 times before I spotted my mistake.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion_Markup_Language
> The company was previously valued at $850 million (before the launch of the AI Pin)

Isn't the valuation geared towards making investors whole instead of the actual value of a company? I thought this was standard in the VC world.
What kind of potential are you seeing besides the cool tech factor? They have delivered on none of their feature promises. Is it the mysterious AI factor that leads you to believe that they will magically turn around a non-working product?
This is so hard to understand as a European. Why does it need to be your very own land to be enjoyable? I regularly go hiking in the alps. Sometimes I walk for hours without meeting a single other soul, but if I do, it's always a friendly greeting as we pass another. Why can't we share these places?
If I need an extra tool that will compile stuff, I might as well use a normal compiled or scripting language. Which I often do.
Technically, by this logic, isn't estimating when a bridge or building will collapse also non-falsifiable? Because it is in the future? But we do use math plus current understandings to make predictions.
I received one of these as a gift from someone. I was obviously skeptical but started using it and there's definitely a few areas where it REALLY excels at. The team tried to do waaaaay too much here... If they had more time or less ambition I think this could have really been something neat. My fingers are crossed that like Apple thinks so as well...
There isn't any. It could maybe have been interesting as a Bluetooth speaker, mic and camera accessory tho.
I'll admit I haven't read the book mentioned in the article. But I can't help but feel this is just dreaming about "AI" as a magical intelligence that we can perfectly instruct and trust, instead of having an actual plan for how current SotA AI could deliver that experience. I personally wouldn't trust any current LLM to train my child, without having to go over all of its content and see if it was actually trustworthy or not.
It's an entirely different problem; the problem being solved here is not "use a better shell than bash". It's targeting bash as a universal runtime because it's (kinda sorta) ubiquitous.
Show HN: Build an E-commerce Website with Next.js and MongoDB
Build this Fullstack web app with almost all the basic functionalities of an e-commerce app.
the phenomenon is literally named "a business cycle" and here's its ensuing wikipedia article but of course some rando on orange site knows all

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

you could be right too, rando, I'm willing to accept a little column A, a little column B.
Is that even the default setting? I believe my ff auto downloads linked pdfs
FYI this is not that uncommon in functional languages and persistent data structure libraries.
What is the licence of the music? Can the resuld be uploaded to YouTube without geting hit by music labels?
The FDA blocks useful medications that are common in Europe, like ambroxol
It's still there. Basic, device and strong integrity. Device integrity is what you're referring to and it's still offered by the API but most apps do not use it. And perhaps, they should not.
when you visit or live among people or parts of society that that essentially never "modernized" in any meaningful way, the only thing they really need is better healthcare.

the rest is a load of crap that is just solving problems created by industrialization and modernization
AI hardware has to be an incredibly tough space to be in. Things are moving at such a rapid pace that by the time you launch, you’re already out of date.
Good examples of this would be the "rope" used in various text editors and Clojure's persistent vector data type.
Chesterton's Fence

https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
We get more useful energy out of renewables than fossil fuels
I wish they had just made a Bluetooth accessory to an app. But you can't get a $800M validation with a $99, easily cloneable accessory.
Let's talk about take-home projects
You are the one accusing Hamas of suppressing press freedom in Gaza. Show me the evidence you have for this accusation. Or, better yet, show me a third party report from a secondary source which summarizes this evidence.

Your parent gave you a third party report of Israeli suppression of the press in Gaza (albeit from a primary source).

Finally, you now double down on your rhetoric after I explicitly gave you the benefit of the doubt that you don’t actually mean it that way. Just to make this clear, you are stating that there are no innocent Palestinian journalists in Gaza. I hope realize how problematic this belief is. Even if you had evidence that some journalists were operatives or propagandist, these kinds of generalizing statements are very, very problematic.
Ada Lovelace predates her
Why to Not Adopt Apache Iceberg
America's First Wool Farmers and Artisans
That's not cognitive dissonance, that's "I wrote a thing when I held one view. Instead of changing it entirely here is an additional comment that revises my previous one. I'm not going to edit the original."

The order of things matters. "I hold this view which contradicts my earlier, no longer held, view." is not cognitive dissonance. "I hold this view despite it contradicting my other view." is cognitive dissonance.
App sandboxing is indeed the way of the future, and being worked on by e.g. flatpak.
Head Transplant Machine – BrainBridge [video]
more extensive article here: https://www.404media.co/university-suspends-students-for-ai-...
The damage being that people have been conditioned to being unfree in a very fundamental sense.
But then your compiled binaries are not portable cross-architecture, or your scripts require a compatible interpreter to be pre-installed.
Religious Faith and Belief are choices. They have to be because they are fundamentally about unprovable things. So in one sense they are absolutely practical. However if you don't want to choose a religion then it may not be practical for you. It is in no way the case though that Faith is something that just happens to you. It's a personal choice.
Interesting! I wonder how this could be applied to a Rails project (since that's what ruby is most used for). For example how would it know to test a wide selection of possible values for different variables if they're not explicitly set up?
Giving Windows total recall of everything a user does is a privacy minefield
Would it help if SSH clients don't pass TERM variable to identify that current terminal is capable of handling "\e]8" ? I assume TERM is how the remote application know that this exploit is available.

I also assume that this vulnerability is meant for remote apps accessed via SSH or similar, since a compromised app that is executed locally probably have easier exploits (they might just run calculator or whatever directly without going through escape sequences, for example).
COVID wasn't a lack of employment problem, everyone had jobs, the government decided to pay people to stay home. It was a handout specifically aimed at not building anything at all.
AI hype tax.

In reality 50M would still be generous.
Many people view private property, and in particular land, as theft. The reasoning is that at one point private property was owned collectively by society so the only way that it could now have a single owner is if it was stolen at some point.

Note that in this case, private property is separate from personal property like someone's house, car, clothing, etc.
San Francisco's Hot Tourist Attraction: Driverless Cars
I've been using openpyxl for years and it's been rock solid. The optimized read or write only modes are really handy, too.
1) Gnu Radio allows you to build signal flow graphs, which are then executed in real time with your hardware. You can even do audio I/O to get an intuition for DSP that just doesn't happen by studying the math.

2) BitGrid is an esoteric computing fabric I've come up with, and wrote an emulator for.[3] It's a grid of 4 bit in and out look up tables, clocked in two phases like the colors of a chessboard.

[1]https://www.gnuradio.org/

[2]https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid

[3]https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid
Something interesting I’ve seen on my recent domestic United flight, which I don’t think I’ve seen before.
While the flight safety video was being played, a male flight attendant was walking through the cabin and actively telling people with headphones on (connected to their own device), to take them off and listen to the safety video. It wasn’t a recommendation though, he would wait until the person complied and would then continue down the aisle.

I didn’t have any headphones on. At first it felt a little bit overboard, but with events like this turbulence happening, I can see the need for it.
>They never talk about the health consequences of trauma.

Yeah, reading the deepest well, then reading all my increased chances for...just about every disease imaginable was grim. There isn't really a 'cure' or real treatment for it either.

I just realized, if I was at a much greater risk for health problems, I'd need to counterbalance that with lifestyle changes. I got treatment for an autoimmune condition. I started using exercise over alcohol to deal with stress. I improved my diet. I'm trying to get more sleep but that one I still struggle with.

I've purposefully made changes to lower the amounts of stress in my life. This is everything from choosing an employer with good WLB, to leaving extra time for myself to get places, to saying the 'serenity prayer' and focusing on things in my control. I cannot control everything that happens to me. I can control my reaction to it, or at least attempt to.
Just my experience, but I absolutely had to take an ethics class to get my CS degree. Not just any ethics class either, but one focused specifically on real-world implications of the work software engineers do, with breakout labs to discuss various case studies and evaluate different choices based on established ethical frameworks. The textbook used was 'Computers, Ethics, and Society,' and I reflect on that course more than most courses I completed in college
I didn’t assert causation.

Does Iowa have the same heavy handed government regulations to strictly build out renewables and take non renewable power plants offline?

I agree with you, Texas has the most renewables, and power is relatively cheap. The problem is the strict regulations prevent utilities from make better economical decisions.