skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beautiful and very True. And the worst thing is you really cannot share it with anyone, it is just too personal. There is also a real danger that this can seek outlet via anger against close folks/circumstances/world in general.

It has been a little over a year and half since i lost my Mother(i spent the last decade living with/taking care of her) and the grief is still there. I cannot show it (because i am a "Man"), don't know how to process and deal with it but am only trusting to the passage of time to help me forget. "Human Bonding" is not mere words but is really something strong. I used to poo-poo at all sentimental emotions but now i know better through experience.

Elizabeth Akers Allen's emotional poem Rock Me To Sleep nicely captures much of the feeling - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52071/rock-me-to-slee...
Probably a different situation in the US but in Europe the largest importer of Chinese-made EVs is currently Tesla. The latest BMW's electric SUV is also imported from China. Europe also has significant car exports to China. So the EU's approach to tariffs is likely to be much more muted.
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Great Insights @hanson108! Thank you for explaining our vision to the world.
Well, quite a few people already use AOT with PGO from GraalVM to build native executables of Clojure programs. Those start stupidly fast. I never heard of anyone doing so with OpenJ9, how good is the AOT of OpenJ9?

AppCDs in OpenJDK currently has terrible ergonomics. Clojure can't really offer it. Each user must go out of their way to leverage it. So you can't really release an app that automatically leverage it, the user needs to launch it with all the command incantations, etc. And it's so sensitive to class path changes, etc. It kind of sucks to be honest. But some people still use it for prod release, since you can set it up in a docker easily. But the use-case for fast startup are desktop apps, CLIs, scripts, etc. And for all those, AppCDs are super annoying to setup. See: https://ask.clojure.org/index.php/8353/can-we-use-appcds-to-...

Still, AppCDs don't fully solve the startup issue, because all the static initializations stuff takes a considerable amount of time, and that does not get cached by AppCDs.
I don't have sound right now, why is Louis Rossmann talking 8 minutes about Tinder?
> it took multiple decades for cars to really go mainstream.

I think you are trying to insinuate that electric cars are decades away from today. The first electric car was built decades _ago_. Electric cars are mainstream today. So I suppose you can argue that it is a similar timeline, we are just decades after Bertha Benz' famous drive.

> Globally, around 1-in-4 new cars sold were electric in 2023. In Norway, this share was over 90%, and in China, it was almost 40%.

https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales
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I often fail to emote properly, for whatever reason, and more than one person has told me I'm obviously lying (usually about something trivial) because of it. I can't watch the show Unbelievable - it makes me too upset.
the "it's complicated" part assumes client side requests i guess.

none of this comment applies to back end + db in the same server or colo.
They replace the flux used in steel recycling with used concrete, and instead of useless slag they get recycled cement.

This is a really good idea, but it is important to keep in mind that even if all of the steel production in the world (~100 Mton/y) shifted to this method, it would only have a negligible impact on the cement production (~ 4 Gton/y).
> All the more reason for me to stop engaging, isn't it?

No, I don't think so. The skepticism all comes from your initial comment, not the followups.

> The gist of it was that nuclear power is insufficient in and of itself because it is hard to regulate output to match grid requirements, and therefore that we need both nuclear and renewable energy sources, not just one or the other. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm not, I'm out of here either way.

Oh well that specific point is wrong. Modern nuclear can adjust its output quickly and within a wide range if the operator wants it to. We could run a 100% nuclear grid. The fundamental issue at hand is price, not capability, because reducing output makes the cost per watt go up.
I wanted to add to this discussion that there's a whole Windows 7 scene that's live and kicking.

They focus on a lot of extra set of tools like the former classic shell that has been forked to make it more maintainable, or the former windows internals tools and their integrations. They also backport a lot of drivers (and there's HUGE bundles of drivers available) to make it run on modern Ryzen hardware.

Ironically, a lot of hackers and ransomware operators use Win7 because it has a much smaller attack surface than the crap that is now Windows 11. Well, that is if they're not using Linux these days anyways.
Today's AI Isn't Sentient
What are the physical dimensions?
You can also create automations to turn grayscale back off for apps that need it. I have ones for maps, photos and whatsapp (since people send a lot of pics in my group). They run when the app is activated/deactivated.
It's not really e-ink, it's more like transflective LCD, you can buy entire screens from guys like SunVision, LTT did a thing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c0TcGjzKbag
https://archive.is/twqkI
In your link, look at the median data he offers for literally every single thing except date. I think the following matches your overall selection of games pretty well:

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Indie - 65:1 sales:reviews

$10-$20 - 65:1

>90% (review positive) - 51:1

250-1000 reviews - 89:1

Casual (genre) - ~70:1

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The only thing that contradicts my 60:1 claim is the date datum, but I would take it with a grain of salt due to a endless quite obvious biases. For instance that article is based on the data 'leaked' up to 2018, but that leak was closed in June 2018. So you not only are missing half the year's data, but the two most critical holidays. There's also lots of different demographics that will have different purchasing/reviewing trends. For instance many people don't buy new releases, or buy them and only play/review them much later, and so on. There's just lot of biases in date alone.

On this site we often get a very unrealistic sampling of economic reality, because a lot of tech stuff is based in locations with extremely high local inflation both in costs and in compensation. For the US as a whole, median personal income is $41k, about $55k exclusively for full time workers. [1] $185k with ongoing passive income is doing wayyyy better than average even in America. And of course with independent development, you're not tied to any location. You could move to anywhere in the other 95% of the world where $185k would spend much closer to something like a million dollars. Places like San Francisco and Seattle are absolutely pricing out small scale entrepreneurship of all forms, but all that means is that we'll instead see things coming disproportionately more frequently from the other 95% of the world.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
Blue light free. Does this mean the design is compromised or is it just irrelevant to an eReader?
China may see the US as an enemy, or at least a competitor, but it would not be able to project power or be recognised as a global player if it was not for the massive US investments in the country. In the end, when push comes to shove, China would rather align itself with the US rather than Russia so the scenario illustrated by Budanov's cake showing Russian Federation broken up into smaller pieces may not be that unrealistic:

https://x.com/eeldenden/status/1610689686271397922

The decision is in Putin's hands and if he plays stupid games, he will win all the stupid prizes.
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If we can just keep this up, Chem 301 might fit in the 300 seat auditorium again. Faster, please!
This misses the point. What you wrote is essentially "witness testifies defendant once shook child in their presence, child died".

The magic third ingredient is that the state was allowed to bring in an expert witness to tell the jury that there's a causal link between shaking of the kind observed by the fact witness and the infliction of fatal injuries like those seen in the child.

If it turns out no such link actually exists, you sort of have a problem, because the jury heard it either way. Also fwiw, that brief is still an adversarial motion, you cannot expect to get a balanced recounting of the facts by reading the state's motion in opposition.
As long as the metric is not used as a target, it keeps being a relevant metric. All that tonnage needed to be manufactured.
He was Harry Potter in all the films, so I assume he's one of the best-known actors in the world.
You're significantly oversimplifying the absolute clusterfuck of ethnic and ideological and territorial wars that sprung up in the immediate collapse of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires.

Both of those states fought with the goal of expanding their borders to a pre-partition status - the USSR aimed to reclaim territories lost in Brest-Litovsk, Poland to something resembling the pre-partition commonwealth. Poland won the war, and made significant territorial gains, in exchange for recognition of Soviet Ukraine... And then 1939 happened.
https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/tar/
I'd love to see the DDG engineering team at work - I'm guessing no nonsense, smart folks who can poke fun at themselves but still get things done. Contrasting to what I've personally seen at a certain other search giant.
Same in Dutch (a Germanic language).

Then again, we colloquially call both a motorcycle and its engine “motor”.
> but nothing in the android world makes me think things there are better.

There is the Fairphone. And I think you can get pixel phones with .. 8 years of software updates?
I ran into a similarly weird issue with CloudFlare. This post made me check my domain that I recently bought.

I bought the domain passkey.exchange through Cloudflare on 12 April and I didn't set up ANYTHING on it. No DNS records. Nothing. I didn't touch it since

Yet. Exactly at the purchase time. 3 certificates where added to the certificate transparency log:

2 from LetsEncrypt and one from Google. How?

https://crt.sh/?q=passkey.exchange

The only explanation that i have is that Cloudflare is doing some kind of integration testing after you buy a domain from them on Google Cloud and LetsEncrypt before giving you the domain.

But that means they have some private key somewhere for 90 days. Across two different CAs..

Or I have really bad memory. Set up some Infrastructure on Google Cloud and then deprovisioned it again and removed all DNS records.

Or I was hacked.

It's really strange.

Edit: digging further it must've been Cloudflare.

The google cert has

Not Before: Apr 12 22:01:51 2024 GMT

My invoice is dated 22:49 UTC. One hour after the cert was issued?
Where does the company mention patents?
Putin can't invade it doesn't make economic and demographic sense to my western values universal sensibilities.

Meanwhile they have regularly brushed millions of deaths under the rug,to stay in power, to save face and just propagandized that away.

Something would be won if a lesson was learned from Ukraine. The west is not universal and a deterring reaction must be tailored to the deterred, not to the deterring.
comparing their search result with bing for at least the first 3 or 4 pages you'll see a very high correlation to bing's result (as long as you're logged out of bing). The main thing is they proxy your search for you and give half way decent results like bing.
He has a lot of experimental weight to overcome, like gene selection predicting exact sex ratios in eusocial insects, for instance. I should give his argument a try though, you're right.
Bingo, PRC is not going to start amphib ops until TW has minimal weapons that can repel invasion left. They're not stupidly charging into a Normandy because they have magnitude more radars, missiles, drones etc, enough to make sure TW won't have much of theirs for long. TW is an island 16x smaller than UKR, much larger gap in MiC production vs PRC than UKR vs RU, and unabled to be resupplied via porous land borded by friendlies. TW also thoroughly covered by PRC ISR, including SAR to look through foliage, nearly every inch of which can be hit within 7 minutes with PRC rocketry. Less once PRC establishes persistent drone presence. It's why all the recent analysis depends on TW buying enough time for US+co to enter picture.

The flip side of a contested amphib operation is an uncontested one, which is potentially siginifantly easier than land invasion because there's no where for defenders to hide / ambush. Crossing a shallow strait where subs can't hide is probably easier than US plowing through Iraqi desert where defenders can at least pretend to put up defense by entrenching tanks / digging trenches. It's basically untested sailing if PRC destroys TW platforms that can hit back and lock down with air supremacy.

Also folks should look up TW river map, TW island is broken up into a series of bastions cut up by rivers where connections / bridges can be severed and sections attacked piece meal. If PRC's smart, they'll destroy most of TW weapon platforms that can reach out into water, bombard a few km of map squares of landing site to dust, have drones shoot everything that moves 5km out to carve a landing zone that can't be contested by large or small fires. If PRC smarter, they'd just blockade TW until world realize the only country with enough sealift to supply an island of 24m with food and water is PRC.

As for taking urban centres, look at how Israel is doing in Gaza with 20x population density than TW, theoretically urban combat is suppose to be slaughter vs attacker but if you indiscrimantly bomb and starve the population until they can't put up organized high end fight, then it becomes a managable problem. And again if PRC smart and they have to land boots on ground, they'd likely just siege from outside urban centres and small fires range, and wait for factional struggle and find collaborators willing to do boots on ground enforcement in return for controlling food + water.
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> Is it a crime for voice actors to sound similar to, say, James Earl Jones?

And the answer is, of course: It depends. For one thing, it depends on whether the company using the sound-alike's voice are in a business closely related to the theme of Star Wars, and whether they market whatever it is they're marketing by referring to Jones' iconic performance as Vader. ("<PANT> ... <PANT>") If they do that, then yes, it most likely is.
Capitalism and corporatism is not the same. Corporatism is a bit socialist in it's essence.

In classical capitalism, there aren't two or three monopolistic players that dominate each industry, there are thousands of companies competing with each other. And that competition brings costs down, so no outsourcing is needed.
Part of the joke is that lots of people are against peace and justice and brotherhood in practice - often the majority.
It's funny because I just got out of a professional training session where the instructor told us sale-leaseback agreements are a common business practice and helped a few companies he worked for secure long term growth.

Let's use a metaphor HN might understand: sale-leasebacks are a bit like migrating to the public cloud from an on-prem setting, and in some cases the government pays you for migrating to the cloud. It helps you balance capital expenditure among other things.
the most valuable service they provide is being a proxy for bing. they will never own up to it, but that in and of itself is an awesome service, as long as they're bing honest about your privacy.
[Disclaimer: I'm with KraftCloud]
For what it's worth, Firecracker/the VMM is only one part of the boot process. Among others, there's also the controller and the VM/OS itself that typically slow things down. In other words, it's not enough to just switch in Firecracker and expect cold starts to immediately drop to sub-second levels.

On kraft.cloud we've fundamentally redesigned the cloud stack to be able to cold start containers/VMs in milliseconds (eg, about 20 millis for nginx, about 50 millis for a basic Node app), and also scale them to zero and autoscale them in milliseconds. If interested there's more info about the tech in our blog posts https://unikraft.io/blog/ .
Ever seen "12 Angry Men"? If not, you should.

The kid was guilty in that movie though. The only other possible explanation is that he had a brother that no one ever mentions or interrogates with video game-like levels of precognition to know perfectly how to frame his brother.

https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
I think you're right. In fact, that's the stack I would recommend right now to a new (web) app developer. Write your own Dockerfile, some terraform to spin up a docker host on DO, and a bit of GH Actions yml to pass secrets, build dockerfile, upload to container registry, terraform apply.
It's a fun weekend project. It's interesting how many ways there are to "build your own PaaS".
> After "she" said no, then Altman auditions a bunch of voice talent and picks someone who sounds just like SJ.

What does 'after' mean to you? Strange response.
So the same as a monitor that was recently featured on a popular YouTube channel? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0TcGjzKbag
don't kick me too much)) another template on the theme of MS DOS

this template is special in that it does not have any graphics, it is made exclusively of text symbols

no frameworks. simple clean code

HTML template made in the form of MS DOS programs

Great for an old school project
The plan is to support async without function colouring.

I recommend this talk by Luke Wagner on async plans in WASI 0.3 (https://youtu.be/y3x4-nQeXxc) for background on how it will work.

To summarise, from an API perspective, the caller and callee won't know if the other is async or not. When calling async from non-async, an event loop is inserted at link-time and it blocks.* When calling non-async from async, the callee will get suspended if it tries to do blocking IO. That still leaves the problem of long-running compute without IO in a non-async context, but at least you're not wasting CPU time in that scenario.

* If the host runtime already has an event loop, I assume the callee will get added to that.
The actual deterrent are rockets aimed a the three gorges dam. The moment they start to lower the water level, is the start of the invasion.
I had a different experience, I bought a S21U overseas. While in UK the screen wouldn't turn on while the phone was on. I went to Samsung KX in London and a day later I had my S21 with a new screen and battery for no cost.
Depends which part of the year these headlines are.

In summer they have plenty of energy that they don't know what to do with it and in winter they depend on France to not burn too much coal just to keep the lights on despite not even transitioning heating yet.
Same logic with communism - all the ones that ended in oppressive dictatorships, mass executions or starvation weren't "real communism" or weren't "implemented right"...
Theres a rubocop that disallows more than 5 or 6 function parameters. And since there’s nothing very lightweight like ADTs, people just move things to object state :(

Very sad.
Why not just buy a Mira Pro? https://onyxboox.com/boox_mirapro
> the counter strike would be immediate and an order of magnitude more devastating.

The thing is, not many things in the world cost more than an aircraft carrier. What's you're going to blow up? Also, how, short of strategic nuclear war.
The same that it takes to prove that TDD doesn't produce more value than other development techniques. Both have moving bars whete proponents just claim "you are not doing it right" in the face of any criticism.
https://onyxboox.com/boox_mirapro
Some links:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ereader/s/ZpVE0dTM98
https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/s/LonNpgGAIF
https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/s/YqUXfrZhnm
https://www.reddit.com/r/eink/s/xmurkiHGam
The sierra adventure games presented an overly simplistic world view and then the devs subverted that. It still amazes me today.
At least you can turn on the visible scrollbars in macOS. I do.
There are projects where scrum doesn't make much sense. You wouldn't want to build a house in an agile way. It is also essential to have the customer comnit to the agile way of working. A project with a fixed deadline, fixed scope and fixed budget doesn't become a scrum project just because you introduce sprints, dailies, reviews, scrum masters and product owners. Framing the misuse of a framework as a "get out of jail free card against criticism" misses the point.
> Grandma's home cooking, you know? Cake was a rare treat.

Grandmas home cooking involved 4-5 choices of cakes / cookies after every meal.

However, >95% of the ingredients were flour, sugar, eggs and butter.
If I may indulge in some silly OCD feedback: the hero animation with pages turning has the shadow on the top right line up with the corner, which makes it as if the device has an inset chamfered bezel, which I feel is of disservice to the device. That tripped me up hard until I looked at the other side where the shadow is hitting halfway.

Anyway, congratulations! I both hope you succeed and that it helps drag the 60Hz eink needle forward across the industry.
> I have a sneaking suspicion that they're going to be right.

Over what time horizon? The market consensus is definitely not giving this a big probability any time soon.
New SaaS Boilerplate – Feedback Needed
I've been working on a new SaaS boilerplate with NextJs, Tailwind CSS, email auth, magic links, admin dashboard, MongoDB/SQL, and a blog.

I'd really appreciate your feedback on the UI/UX and any suggestions for improvements or additional features.

This is just the start, but I'm aiming to make it a robust, flexible boilerplate for building SaaS products.

Let me know your thoughts!
>Don't worry about the shipbuilding. China doesn't have carriers. They don't have a navy that can leave shore more than a hundred miles or so.

>The fact is the US Navy can blockade China's food imports and petroleum (as in, fertilizer so ... most domestic food) shipments in Malaysia at will and ... China starves a couple months later.

The fact is that China do not have ships because they don't intend to do large scale invasions thousands of miles from home.

US Navy can't blockade China because the have enough missiles to destroy 100 times more ships. And they have the capacity to fab more than 1000 missiles per day.
It's still in force, unfortunately. Cost plus incentives unnecessarily expensive projects. If the government orders 100 planes and your profit is fixed at 8% of cost, do you want to build a $10 million dollar plane or a $20 million dollar plane?
I would add to his initial list -

4. You didn’t scrum hard enough!

More meetings! More discussions about god knows what, more retros that achieve nothing. More meta-discussion around process while less work than ever gets done!
Editable Clothing Layers for Gaussian Splat Human Representations