skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We set out to solve one of the most frustrating problems we encounter daily – finding something we know we have seen before on our PC. Today, we must remember what file folder it was stored in, what website it was on, or scroll through hundreds of emails trying to find it.

It is indeed frustrating that one still cannot search effectively a local device, but it doesn't need AI to solve. It needs a proper search engine, and Microsoft has resisted that, for some mysterious reason, for 30+ years.
Those are technicalities, but jupp0r was talking about how the public is going to perceive this action by the ICC. jupp0r was concerned that the ICC was equating the two sides, my point is that yes, they're being equated, in the sense that both sides are human. In other words, I don't think this is going to make people think, "huh, I guess both sides are equally guilty," I think it'll make people think, "huh, I guess both sides are being held to the same standard of justice." That's a good thing.
> if only 10% of the population (modern estimate for ancient Athens) can vote, you are an oligarchy as well?

Athens is classically considered a democracy. Partly because democracy means more than just suffrage.

> perhaps we should say majoritarian democracy is the criteria we are interested in

This is fair. Though Israel proper still satisfies the criterion. (I wouldn’t demote Britain from a democracy while it was administering occupied Germany, nor even necessarily its colonies. Same for ancient Rome.)
> ... otherwise they need to fire all their devs and go back out and hire React devs or whatever is the flavor of the day.

One of the companies in the area has a strict N year cycle for contractors. After N years all contracts end and they rehire for the next cycle.

If the technology stack changes then they hire different contractors as the projects forecast needs.

I am not saying that this is a good idea - lots of domain knowledge gets lost ever N years... but it is a solution the "we can't require contractors to learn new skills and are unable to hire for the aptitude to learn new things."
This will produce garbage. I've experimented with getting content out of LLMs and it requires very careful context and system prompt grooming from multiple angles to get the things to produce and refine just single, coherent scenes for fiction. Just telling it to produce an outline and then iterate the sections to generate them will result in a collection of confabulated essays that won't be a coherent whole.
> Windows still commands about three-quarters of desktop OS market share.

Windows also has the advantage (shared with Linux) of working on a very wide variety of desktop/laptop/workstation/server/etc hardware models from many independent vendors, while macOS is restricted to only a small number of hardware models from a single vendor.
Flash-heating waste plastic at 2827 C yields Hydrogen, CO2, and Graphene;

"Synthesis of Clean Hydrogen Gas from Waste Plastic at Zero Net Cost" (2023)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202306763 PDF: https://chemrxiv.org/engage/api-gateway/chemrxiv/assets/orp/...

"Making hydrogen [and graphene] from waste plastic could pay for itself" (2023)
https://news.rice.edu/news/2023/making-hydrogen-waste-plasti...

> 3100 Kelvin [ = 2827 C ]

gscholar citations for:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1338501696868292077...

What are the fundamental frequencies of plastic?

Is it possible yield Hydrogen and Graphene from plastic at lower than 3100K / 2827C?

Is it possible to generate 3100K / 2827C with this solar thermal trap design?

(edit) Other solar concentrator specs:

NREL's High-Flux Solar Furnace (HFSF) https://www.nrel.gov/csp/facility-hfsf.html L

> The solar furnace can quickly concentrate solar radiation to 10 kilowatts over a 10-cm diameter (2,500 "suns"), achieving temperatures of 1,800°C—and up to peak solar fluxes of 20,000 suns with specialized secondary optics to produce temperatures of up to 3,000°C. Secondary concentrators can modify the focal point and tailor flux levels and distributions to suit the needs of each research activity.

When the sun shines brightly, a concentrator with specialized secondary optics should thus be enough to flash heat plastic to yield hydrogen and graphene.

OT is quartz with 135 suns of concentration.

Quartz (SiO2) melting points, according to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz :

> 1670 °C (β tridymite); 1713 °C (β cristobalite)

Granite melting points too due to a recent geopolymer research interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite :

> 1215–1260 °C [at ambient pressure]

> Composition: SiO2 72.04% (silica), Al2O3 14.42% (alumina), K2O ~4%

Granite and Quartz and Silicic magmas.

Silicic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicic
Everything new is old. The essential idea has been present in many forms actually. JSF, Seam, and others used standards based XML Markers that got rendered into other bits to accomplish essentially the same thing. HTMX doesn't use an XML schema, just a loose HTML convention, which is the big difference between the technologies. DWR (Direct Web Remoting)+jQuery was another form of the same thing.
this is how our entire federal apparatus works these days. our government is profoundly broken but we lack the will to acknowledge it.

I have about 20 years of experience in Federal contracting.

we have nothing but process and zero accountability. It's literally a miracle anything ever gets completed.

we sink billions of dollars into projects that are forecast to have dubious economic benefits and then we never bother to see if it actually worked out the way the economics were justified.

empower programs and leaders to buck policy and regulations but make them accountable for failure of their core mission.

compensate leaders who save money by doing more with less.

etc.
Why are they manually implementing API interfaces for various companies when something like OpenRouter exists? OpenRouter provides a unified API for Commercial and opensource models. Seems like the obvious answer for something like this.
Trichinosis is incredibly common in Alaska's bear population. As with any kind of game meat, thoroughly cooking to recommended temps is highly encouraged. Plenty of people get away with eating undercooked meat for years, but you don't have control over the randomness of what an animal you hunt was exposed to. Trich is no joke and can seriously injure you.

https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=disease.muscle2

> All bear and lynx meat should be considered possibly infected.
The new Reddit login modal is a disaster even on an iPad mini in landscape mode. Does nobody test anything anymore?
Change... it's inevitable.
You could potentially move into an interesting related business: that of allowing people to draw down their salary whenever they like, so they can take it weekly or monthly or daily (if they liked). That's a very gig-economy-friendly feature.
From the same article:

"Like the former emergency governments after June 2007, which were installed by presidential decree, this unity government was in fact illegal, as it was not approved by the Legislative Council.[2][3] Without the cooperation of all parties, however, it was not possible to get the necessary quorum to put a vote.[20]"
I heard that they are even experimenting with full-screen ads!
For the most part I like it but there are some annoyances in queue/download management and playlists. They're known issues that they are working on. Currently there's just one queue which can get extremely annoying when mixing episodic and news podcasts. They're working on supporting multiple queues which should be a great solution. I don't think that feature has been released yet (but I could be wrong). Hopefully this restructuring makes things easier.
> I began walking, and along with diet changes, I lost tons of weight. It acted as a gateway into a new fitness lifestyle.

Well done! Keep-up the good shape!
yes your right, the time of year, dictates diet, and general diet influences the meat.
Regardless of all the "he said, she said", libel or not libel, email response times, GMP, threats and whatever drama:

Is there anyone who is seriously contesting the "it is intended to cure/prevent a disease, therefore it is a drug, therefore it needs FDA approval to be sold legally" line of reasoning?

More humoristically: https://xkcd.com/2475/ and https://xkcd.com/2530/

Less humoristically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
Counterterrorism is necessarily a difficult and fraught process. Ultimately, it's political; military force is useful only so far as it can convince people there is no better way than your political aims.

Looking at the example of successful counterterrorism conclusions, such as The Troubles in Northern Ireland or Colombia's efforts against FARC, the general pathway to success is to build up successful alternative political institutions that have the legitimacy to disarm the terrorist groups, which also means to a degree making some concessions towards the political aims of terrorists, and perhaps also requires co-opting the more moderate terrorists into legitimate political parties.

Notably not on that list is such things as targeting enemy leaders with artillery rounds. Indiscriminate damage is one of the best ways to fuel an upsurge in terrorist violence; what Israel is doing now looks in many ways like what the British did in Northern Ireland to start The Troubles rather than what it did to end them.
I don't get why people even consider driving hands-off on any of the autopilot-like technologies around. Maybe in the cleanest possible conditions on a highway in slow moving rush hour traffic; and even then hands on the wheel expecting the worst. Do folks really have that much faith in technology? :-O
Thanks for the metric - I wouldn't have naively assumed that kind of through put was possible on such a setup.
Oh interesting, TIL [1].

[1] https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/240520-p... page 3, paragraph 9
> It's clear that AI can be the catalyst for creating a lot of customer-facing value.

It clearly will be a catalyst for creating a lot of shareholder value... I'm less sure about the customer facing value of a lot of these products.
Thanks for the insights. So in the case that it's actually more expensive to migrate your own tech stack somewhere else than, say, migrate from AWS proprietary to GCP proprietary, it seems there might be other reasons.
marillion
> Sure, Amazon, Apple, and the like also help offer exposure and some other services

Considering you'd only be paying Apple 15% (I doubt many people on Gumroad are making more than $1 million) it still seems like a relatively good deal in comparison.
I remember having a heated discussion with an LLM about this. For some reason "web" doesn't even consider to respect dpi and angular sizes and instead relies on "breakpoints", which "is important to remember to test on all sorts of devices".

That's just bs. As a maker of UI, I want to get a rectangle, put my controls on it with the sizes in cm/in/° as I see fit and then to just slide right-bottom to see what happens on different screen sizes. One doesn't have to buy a foot-high stack of smartphones and tablets to test an effing label.

The whole issue stems from the fact we can't measure things correctly, cause the whole measurement system bases on ideas from winword era.
I suppose if Hamas was the larger one, those 30k would have been 30 days, but most likely 5 if given the same resources.
This is the statement of the panel of legal advisors to the prosecutor:
https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/240520-p...

One of them, incidentally, is Judge Theodor Meron CMG, a holocaust survivor.
There's very little HN has a unique perspective to add to. Tech, science, and startup topics can be discussed just as easily on Reddit or lobsters.

While I generally don't like political discourse here, I do think that there are differences in the way the discussions generally go. There are clear biases from the kind of people who are attracted to HN that are different from other forums.
Craig seems like he could dupe someone without much technical knowledge, but how the heck can he dupe a company that claims to specialize in blockchain tech(nChain)? Is this just a case of really, really wanting the thing to be true?
> the US created reservations and the native American population isn't trying to kill everyone else.

Not now, but there was a long period during which native Americans were seriously pushing back and a lot of people on both sides were killed.
I don't find it all that confusing, most of them work similarly and I don't see how you could call them different things. I just hate that their logos aren't uniform. The Windows & Bing logo is a rainbow color (looks awful), and the Edge version is blue and green (looks way better). It's not remotely comparable to their other branding flubs (Teams, .NET, etc). I wish they would have kept the Cortana and Continuum brands. Recall is basically what Continuum should have been, why not just keep the name? Co-pilot works for naming in some cases, but when you look at the GPT 4o voice demo that seems like the Microsoft white labelled version should be Cortana.

Cortana's biggest fault was mostly that it wasn't very good, and the things it was good at required the Cloud...but with the new AI chips, some of that can be offloaded and work much faster. It's like when they added Cortana to Xbox and killed the other voice commands. Then it just became a very slow process when the old on-board model was way faster. Even the voice commands became longer "Xbox on" to "Hey Cortana, turn on my Xbox" then having to wait for it to ping a server and come back to your device.
It seems I read your comment as more anti-demilitarization than it was. It seemed like you were implying the US would become less safe by implementing the suggestions. If your intent was only that improving safety in one specific way does not merit being called safer in general, that point was not adequately separated from a pro-militarized police position.

I would guess most people are ok with the implication from "better on metric X in some way" -> "better on metric X". If that is a particular issue for you, you probably should make a specific effort to make that point clear.

> by all means, reign in the out of control over weaponized "peace" officers, but please, let's be realistic on what that will actually do to overall safety.

> By all means, move the needle, but don't paint with a wider brush than what the needle is actually moving.

If you compared these lines from both of your comments, the first can be interpreted to imply that overall safety will actually go down if the suggestions are implemented whereas the second seems hard to misinterpret from what I believe to be your position.
> Which means that they were questionably democracies.

Ironically Socrates and Plato would say this is exactly what democracies are like. The difference is that you take democracies as positive and they did not. Anyway, calling Athens democracy (they are the OG democracy and the founder of the word itself) not the real thing made me chuckle. If only all that is at stake was a definition disagreement.
I use the "Windows" key pretty extensively, including to open the start menu (and then type in a search term, i.e. a program on my computer to launch).

I also use it extensively for "Windows" (operating system) level shortcuts: Win-R to open a run dialog, Win-E to open Explorer, Win-<left arrow|right arrow> to move/resize windows, etc.)

That being said...I use it in basically the same way on Linux, and use the Command (Apple) key on Macs for essentially the same purposes.

I don't think I've ever used the "right click menu" key for anything, though. Most modern Windows keyboards don't include it, or have it hidden behind a manufacturer-specific function key.
I miss people caring about compatibility with older browsers. People even used to care about people who disabled JavaScript. Nowadays people seem to not gaf about older browsers. They somehow want everyone to be on the bleeding edge. What happened?
Microsoft is a "student body left groupthink" company. We once named EVERYTHING "Active" something, then EVERYTHING ".NET" something. This is just the latest in a long line of tradition of groupthink.
> You need proper fines and jail time for the people involved, even decades later.

I think it should be more about profits. In case of something like that, the corporation should be taxed the amount of entire profits they got from this. Also individuals in decisive positions should be investigated and indebted for the amounts they earned while the company was poisoning people plus interest since it happened.
Isn't it because it is advertised as "Full Self Driving"? Not everyone is an expert on AI or follows auto news in detail.
It made sense when I named GitHub Copilot, since that product was a passive addition to your regular workflow.

The name was sticky enough that they've run with it, misunderstanding or ignoring that fundamental metaphor.
(Author here!) I'd compare performance to what you need, not to other technology.

But also, point taken. The article this comment thread describes also needs to be written.
(Timescale co-founder)

We actually have 100s of customers who use Timescale for their production time-series _and_ OLTP workloads :-)
When the horror of what Israel has done dawns on them they might want to hand him over themselves.
The best things that's happening in the Postgres ecosystem right now is the separation of compute and storage. Breaking that link opens up Postgres as a generic query processing engine that can sit in font of multiple different table and storage types. It allows joining between all these different types of data. It really will enable you to use Postgres as generic database for everything.

My theory is that every new database tech starts and a new domain specific db, then over time gets merged into the generic engines to serve the 99%.
it might not change the immediate budget, but it WILL make the game more balanced and downstream can diminish policy by bribery
I think that we have some of the best investigative reporters in the world working in tech right now, but insufficient context behind things. I am obviously an opinion writer, and thus a little biased, but I think there is something very useful about saying "here's what I found and why I'm upset about it" with research backing it up.
Sounds like the ActiveX of PCs
Sounds like they didn't survive the Alaskan wilderness on a homestead, and instead survived in a city or in a provided structure while occasionally heading out into the wilderness and wasting their time producing nothing much of a value.
Herbie, the Numerical Compiler
> they have a law that'll let their president invade any country that arrests American citizens

Source?

> If Israel had nukes

It does [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel
That name was cursed from the start, too. The original "Microsoft Surface 1.0" was tabletop platform that got renamed "PixelSense"[0] years before there was a "Surface" tablet computer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PixelSense
Thanks! I know about YC of course, but not much about these others.

I'm new to business for sure, I'm hoping I can leverage my decade+ of work experience to build something on my own and then skip straight to Series A.

Personally I have put aside 400k to go towards this business.

Do you think I'm wrong to bet on my own abilities considering I'm a first timer at running my own show, or do you think I should still consider applying to accelerators?

FWIW I did apply to YC and didn't get in.
Yes, exactly! Our bias might be in favor of Israel because they have familiar-looking uniforms, tanks, etc. and the Palestinians are unshaven and often have a haunted look in their eyes. But not all is at it seems, and that's why the court shouldn't treat Netanyahu with kid gloves just because he looks clean.
Surprised it allows FSD in such poor visibility conditions. Surely they need to do some work on a reported visibility confidence level where FSD disables if it is not confident in the amount of visibility it has.
I wonder how similar it is to a mechanical fuel injected diesel. All my tractors are diesels and they have electric free fuel injection.

My tractors are something I always marvel over, besides the starter you don't need any power. I have an old Cat diesel that doesn't even have an electric starter! Uses a small gas engine (called a pony engine) to start the large diesel engine, and the gas engine uses a pull start, very similar to a lawn mower engine.
I don’t understand why self-driving systems don’t have any kind of fallback protections. Like however hard full self driving is to get right, surely a hard rule for “don’t drive at full speed into solid objects, no matter how good an idea it seems at the time to the AI” is not that hard to implement?
You are ignorant of the point of the ICC
Hyundai/Kia just makes the news because it’s trendy. Our 2020 Hyundai is the most reliable vehicle we’ve owned.

All of our other vehicles have comparable level of recalls. In fact, our Ford currently has a recall because the rear axle bolts are at risk of sheering off. Major issue, but not something that makes headline news.
> Microsoft ... to guarantee some level of performance and quality.That's possibly huge news.

Only when you lived on a remote island, with no access to news. /s
as far as I'm concerned and I know it's not entirely feasible, but it should be all cars on the road are autopilot or none are. and until then if someone is driving in autopilot there should be a big ass flashing indicator light that I can see to warn me that extra caution needs to be taken around that car
Biden has already started drawing lines though. He has been actively been distinguishing between defensive and offensive use cases and basically saying that US aid isn’t for the latter
The author seems to have deep dislike for Facebook, and specific executives, like Zuck and Sanberg. This historical interpretation would be stronger without all that emotion. Edit: I'm guessing you are the author?
> Most operations in most languages use prefix notation

Yeah, and IMHO most operations in most languages suffer from being mostly prefix. Yes, LISP is not that much worse, but doubling down on the bad part doesn't exactly recommend it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One of the cool things about Smalltalk is that it consistently makes everything infix.
Search engines use language models.
Yeah I will only take cash -or- cash and equity. One success story does not a model make...
too late, my imagination is fuuuming
99% reliable is very convincing at looking like 100% reliable. People get comfortable with things pretty quickly.
If it knew that it would also be able to drive by itself.
Noticed recently that Oriole joined Supabase: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-aquires-oriole
Yeah still does not excuse Israel..
yeah, game meat really should be well done, thin cuts that get to temperature all through.

organ products, from game are kinda risky.
ok but what about desktops and non oem silicon
I agree that Northern Ireland and Colombia v. FARC are useful examples. However, they both share one key property that the Israel-Hamas conflict does not have: the international community fully supports the existence of both the UK and Colombia as legitimate nation-states. That is not true for Israel; there is a large and vocal segment of the international community that does not want Israel to exist, and that segment has enough political clout that it cannot be ignored.