skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing that Adobe may rely more on server/web hosted tooling in the future for photos, maybe not video anytime soon. I do wish there were better competing options, or at least closer options.

Game support via Proton has been relatively good though.
I was about to post that the diesel-electric technology for tractors just wasn’t ready yet but I looked it up and apparently it is. Electric motors are amazing and I guess the efficiency lost in converting mechanical energy to electricity and back is partly made up for by running the engine more efficiently and by partly by not needing a transmission.
yes - and writing code also doesn't solve a technical problem, a computer runs fine with 0s and 1s, no need for code, in fact code produces a performance overhead - but it solves a human abilities problem, namely that 0s and 1s aren't particularly expressive for us. Almost everything we do solves for communication, some things on an individual scale, like programming languages, and other things on an organisational scale like micro-services (I'm also not blindly advocating for micro-services, but I do get why if done somewhat competently it's easier to organise a team of 1000 developers into 50 teams of 20 each responsible for one service rather than 1000 developers responsible for everything)
Does this comment mean to say that you can change anything or that you can't? IIRC there are quite a few things locked down on an iPhone that require you to jailbreak it if you want to customize it, but I haven't been in the iPhone space for a long time now so please forgive my naivety.
This doesn't seem like the right calculation to me. Doing some quick lookups, I find that the number of galaxies in the universe is estimated to be between 200 billion and 2 trillion. As for stars in a galaxy, there are around 100 billion stars in the milky way galaxy, so lets go with that.

If we guess that only about a quarter of any given galaxy is potentially habitable, that leaves 25 billion possibilities per galaxy. If we go with that and a middling estimate for the number of galaxies then we have maybe (25 billion * 1 trillion) stars, which is a number so big I don't even know how to say or comprehend it.

Even if we take an extremely conservative view that each galaxy only has at most 25 stars with potentially habitable planets (cutting the 1/4 galaxy estimate down by a factor of one BILLION) then we are still left with 25 trillion possibilities, which seems like a pretty good chance to me.
Passenger's Stuck Laptop Caused United Airlines Flight to Get Delayed 27 Hours
C# is really an awesome language, it’s come such a long way. I know it used to be a pain and not very cross-platform friendly, but nowadays it’s a dream. Shoutout to Rider as the best IDE for it lol
> The Month-Item: May: 1 (from the text).

This was the part I as hoping you'd write out :) I can't make heads or tails of the explanation.
There's another catch to your calculation: arc furnaces use scrap steel, which is only enough to supply 30% of the world's demand at this time. That's why 30% of steel is from electrical power. AFAIK most of the furnaces are already built in places with plentiful renewable power to take advantage of negative power prices. There are furnaces in Europe that operate only when the power is free.

Most of the world's steel is produced from ore, which not only requires three times the energy of recycling scrap but also vast quantities of carbon from fossil fuels to incorporate into the alloy. I believe there's a relatively new electrolytic process for the ore but at far smaller scale and it requires even more power.
That doesn’t seem at all obvious - this thing has to spend a ton of energy on keeping the payload away from gravity that a tractor does not.

It also has a pretty high capex bar to clear - it can’t replace a tractor, the farmer needs that still for implements, so it is purely additive in the capex area :/

Still, looks super duper cool and presumably has some tricks it can do a tractor can’t!
Not really, the point is more that you wouldn't easily find out if they did that.
There are certainly some e-ink devices that are able to do this, the TechnologyConnections fellow did a couple of videos that cover it, amongst other things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfX0vlCa4k#t=15m50 & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D38dcArwCNc

Though he is using a Boox product and I'm wary of them over the GPL violation thing: as well as the general “they'd piss & moan and send the lawyers round if someone took their stuff and used it unlicensed” hypocrisy, the paranoid cynic in me thinks there is something they want to hide in their customisations (hooks for calling home or some such).

Also, those clips are a few years old now so some of the problems he was having may have been ironed out in newer devices & software updates.

Another option is running a VMC client on any tablet that isn't walled off so that you can't: there are a number of VNC servers that create a hidden virtual screen and mirror that so the connecting client because the extra screen.
Bitcode did not allow recompilation to take advantage of new instructions. They dropped bitcode because they never actually managed to do anything with it other than the armvk7 to arm64_32 recompilation, and that required specifically designing arm64_32 around what was possible with bitcode.

Updating apps to use new vector instructions is far more complicated than upgrading to a new compiler version and having it magically get faster.
I try to (generally) adhere to an approach that says do things in this order:

1. Make it work

2. Make it correct

3. Make it fast

Now that said, I'm not advocating for blinding making obviously silly decisions vis-a-vis performance, like using bubble-sort to sort an array that will clearly grow to millions of elements, etc. But I would argue for using heuristics and reasonable "rules of thumb" where performance is concerned, during the first pass, fulfill (1) and (2) and then come back to (3) as necessary. Maybe the initial implementation turns out to be fast enough. Great, ship it. If not, start doing optimization.

What does all of that have to do with clean code? Well, I'd argue that following some "clean code" like conventions (if not exactly the stuff from that book) is in the spirit of (2). Maybe we should rename that "make it correct and understandable". Anyway, I think you get the point. Start with leaning towards correct and understandable... "clean" if you want to call it that, then come back and back off some of those properties to gain performance if necessary. And of course you can relax "understandable" a bit, but you probably can't relax "correct" much if it all. After all, it doesn't matter how fast a program is if it gives the wrong results.
Pay Anywhere in Crypto
That’s what Paybcn built. One should paste a product page link, Paybcn will scrap the item details and create a crypto checkout. Following payment, the order should be placed at the relevant store.

This makes basically any link shop-able with crypto, right ?
What is a "chicken box"?
The takeaway was not ‘bad food is bad’ but ‘bad food with absolutely no activity is bad’

A nutritionist responded with a study where he only ate candy and multivitamins but increased his movement exercise 10x. All his health metrics went up.
Definitely, but alcohol abuse definitely raises the odds of certain types of cancer. The specific type of cancer was not mentioned, but if it was liver or bowel cancer I would suggest alcohol played a role and if not I would classify this in the 'probably something that just happened' category.
> Also, what next? Farming - but with AI

https://carbonrobotics.com/
Amen. Seldom for real reason, this is becoming increasingly rare compared to projects of similar size/characteristics 5-10 years ago.

I miss the days when "run all the things" was F5, where the steps leading up to that point surmounted to git clone and a pair of RSA keys.
No, if you can complete challenges for every DNS name in the certificate then the API lets you revoke it.
The doctor in the documentary tells him that his liver is damaged like an alcoholic's. He just let people assume it was from the food.
I use a hdmi capture dongle with iPad to turn it into a monitor. Not quite what you want, but as an option.
Lithium Ion fires are no joke but I thought the crews on international flights were able to disassemble the seats? I've only ever done a trip once on a lie-flat seat, but it was malfunctioning and the attendants basically had to work the mechanism directly. I would be very surprised if nobody on the crew knew how to do this.

> Maybe some of you are wondering how this is even possible, or maybe that a stuck laptop simply shouldn't have caused this. Why not just leave it stuck until the plane reaches its destination? I don't know. But considering this entire ordeal likely cost the airline well over six figures, I guess it was all done in the name of safety.

FWIW, that's exactly why it's done. I suppose that there was just no available seats for the unlucky passenger to move to, so they likely took the shortest route back to a safe landing: https://onemileatatime.com/news/united-767-diverts-laptop/
Been using linux for decades, became the main OS on my desktop a couple years ago... and now my SO, after seeing this "feature" is switching even.
No, by raw numbers cancer under 50 has increased substantially.
What files are they talking about?
>a distinct lack of a specific goal

>now about creative perceived value so that we can spend money on it, merely to develop it further.

>in turn we will become too independent from each other to care about each other. But the addictiveness . . .

>We are like children playing with fire at a gas station.

All this could have been said about the early work on "personal" computers by Xerox which never did do them very much good at all, using 20/20 hindsight looking at what followed after.

>It's only powered by immediate, short-term gains whose positive value to society don't last when compared to the long term societal detriment.

Looks to me like all most of them have is short-term losses, and for many that will be as far as they get.

For some of them also, Societal-Detriment-R-Us, no doubt about it, so good call overall from a reasonable point of view.
They’re pretty durable, too.

My grandfather's tractor has been running on machine oil, curses, and cheap diesel for 40+ years before he sold it off due to age.
>fossil fuels...the massive subsidies they get.

This is basically a fiction put out by green types who aren't good at accounting, if by subsidy you mean money going from the government of the country to the fuel industries.

I mean you can argue they are undertaxed and don't pay enough to cover their externalities but still the cash flows from oil companies to the government, not the other way.

Oil industries are popular with politicians because they fill their coffers with cash. Solar electric on the other hand usually requires money to go the other way to subsidise your roof panels or what have you.

Hence the popularity of oil and gas with some politicians and voters who pay the taxes.
I think they did report his medical readings in the actual movie, might be worth going back to visit if they made an actual baseline reading and see what glimpse that gives for his initial health.
I feel like this is a case of one of those "movements" that is just "Yes, under certain circumstances this might be a good idea; and under others, it won't be". Consider that tests are literally executable specifications of how the system or component should behave (a formulation I associate with Dan North, but I'm sure the idea is far from original). Now the question becomes "should you write a spec every time before you start implementation"? It seems obvious that the answer to that rather depends on how well you actually understand the problem space you're trying to solve.

And if all the work you're doing is well understood before you start, I suggest finding somewhere your manager you with the hard stuff.
Americans have solved this by making fat into an identity which is taboo to criticize.
Node.js Streams vs. Async Iterators (2023)
> lose on practicality

Compared to Emacs Lisp. How are you evaluating practicality?
Ah, a Jonathan Swift fan I see.
Builder.ai: The wild ride of a Microsoft-backed tech unicorn
Yeah, easy to get electricity than fuel to remote farms.

Perhaps they could setup cooperatives that operate solar/wind farms to recharge their equipment?
Like this? https://farmdroid.com/product-sheet/
HN isn't only for tech news. This guy was a prime example of being a "hacker". He hacked his diet and gathered data. Unfortunately in this particular case his data was very flawed.

But he definitely had the hacker ethos.
Linux servers, web based ui, service backends, much of it in Docker.
https://archive.ph/ebtS4
Piecing Together the Puzzle
OTOH I only know micro services from 5-20 dev teams where they made no sense whatsoever.
Eh. Still a weird name given one generally wants to reduce perplexity.

Might as well call it Uncertainty.
Foursquare just laid off 105 employees
They are talking about printing something on a variety of substrates including skin.

We constantly shed skin. The powers-that-be in whatever dystopian mark-of-the-beast fantasy you're imagining would have to regularly reapply these sensors, so they wouldn't remain unknown for long.

Any power apparatus capable of regularly and forcibly applying these sensors is certainly capable of just forcibly tattooing (or microchipping) you.
Miller v. Ford Motor Co. would disagree. There is a viable legal precedent, and it is very arguably illegal.

> The appellate court ruled that the voice of someone famous as a singer is distinctive to their person and image and therefore, as a part of their identity, it is unlawful to imitate their voice without express consent and approval. The appellate court reversed the district court's decision and ruled in favor of Midler, indicating her voice was protected against unauthorized use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
India has nuclear weapons and more economic power than the UK.

And yet the UK has a veto, and India does not.

Also, only one of the P5 powers had nuclear weapons when the UN Charter was signed.
I've done C# for a while and I really love what can be done with DI & reflection for cool cross cutting abilities.

I want to branch out to native stuff like C++ & Rust for memory management stuff, but they don't seem to come close in terms of the reflection abilities or probably the function is there, but just a nightmare to work with.

Anybody have any thoughts/opinions?
Yeah it just took some doing getting ROCm to actually work. Installing it was easy, but getting it to work not quite so. In the end it works fine though. Ollama supports it well, but be aware that many other toolkits don't because it simply won't support CUDA.

The card was really excellent value for money though. 300 euro for a Radeon Pro VII with 16TB of HBM2 memory.

I run Ubuntu as it was better supported by the drivers. Not a big fan of ubuntu but it's just a server, not my daily driver.
Diffusion for World Modeling: Visual Details Matter in Atari
The Highest Paid CEOs of 2023
Two of my uncles and my grandpa drank heavily every day for most of their adult lives. They went out young, and the end wasn't pretty.
If you can automate the reloading process you can completely eliminate a huge time suck. Seeding probably isn't viable in some soils because you might actually need a drill.
As an Assyrian[1] from Mesopotamia, Assyria has been colonized by Arab, Kurdish, and Turkish colonialists[2]. This colonialism has been going on for at least 400 years including but not limited to, taking all our lands, mass killing and raping, mass settling, forced homogenization (Kurdification[3], Turkification and Arabazation[4]).

Not many nations fought three colonialist - whos aim was and still is to exterminate us - survived to tell their tale.

Last time we fought Arabs and Kurdish Colonialists was in 1933, it ended up in massacre of 3,000+ dead, and tens of thousands forced out[5]

Just like many Assyrians, I was told at school that I was an Arab Christian and taught that "Muslims"(Arabs) from Arabian peninsula came to civilize our land. We(Modern Assyrians) are not even mentioned in school books. My community still cannot speak up, let alone call Kurdish and Arabs "colonialists". We have been slowly losing our language, because it was illegal to teach Assyrian in school.

We got recognized in 2004(before there was no such thing as Assyrians) and language was made legal to be taught in school. This so far(since 2004) has come at the cost of losing 80%+ of my nation, mostly forced out at the threat of getting killed, which many got killed. Kurdification, Arabization still continue though and ancient and religious sites are frequently desecrated.

I'm not even scratching the surface about what we go through. It's not just us, within the region there are Chaldean, Mandaeans, Yazidis, Jews (who spoke my mother tongue, have been completely exiled) and Aramaic whom we usually shared the same genocides committed by Kurdish, Arab and Turkish colonialists. Each of these have their own stories to tell.

My nation still demands independence[6] from our "progressive" Kurdish and Arab brutal regimes. These regimes are heavy western supported. We have no nation that support us, this is one of the reasons that you don't hear what we go through.

Have a read of the history of my Nation and the ones that I have mentioned, if you can't find maybe wait a few decades for researchers to siff through the documents.

I can relate to your questions because our Kurdish and Arab colonists also teach me that European colonist are very very evil, however our Kurdish and Arab colonists do not view themselves as one. This is the other reason why you do hear about colonialism in Western Asia.

You don't need to cross an ocean to be a bloody colonialist, and European colonialism isn't unique at all.

There are plenty of indigenous nations in Africa and Asia that have gone through the same and just like Assyria are still going through as I write this comment. I can name a several ones that still lives in the Arab colonized world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_people
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayfo
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdification
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabization
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simele_massacre
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_independence_movement
> Eat that for lunch and dinner plus a McMuffin, coffee, and apple pie for breakfast and you’re at 2,030 calories.

That's significantly less than the average diet in the USA. According to Wikipedia it averages about 3781[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_ener...

Spurlock was 6'2" so even the higher end of calories wouldn't be out of line for a "normal American diet", at least for total caloric intake.

Now if he was also drinking half a bottle of scotch a day, that's another 1000 calories (plus all the liver damage...).

[1]: Divide those numbers by 4.184 for the joules to calorie converion.
Maybe if the US spent 230 times more on defense that would help? (/s)

More seriously, why are we not prepared? Didn't we spend enough to keep our defense industry competitive?
If I could use this as an external monitor plugged into my MacBook I would have bought one on the spot.
Apple does plenty of anti-consumer stuff too. My last Apple product is my ipod nano. I swore off them after they shipped a firmware update specifically closing the loophole that allowed me to manage the song library without itunes. I have a whole separate rant about itunes. I replaced it with a sandisk player for a third of the price. Surprisingly, it worked much more smoothly, had fewer annoyances, and had an FM radio.
Impressive, super cool, and inspiring!

Example of “creating something impressive in X days” requires a lot of experience and talent that is built over years.
Those are objectively bad reasons for abdicating accessibility though.

Subjectively, I also don't agree that it's ugly. There are also other options like border-bottom or dashed underline or pseudo-elements with additional symbols.

(However, I'm not sure color-only link distinction is actually an issue. It's never been considered problematic in accessibility reviews of the corporate sites/apps I work on professionally.)
Your new tool will be used in the worst possible way
Show HN: AI Coding Companion
Borrowing isn't even a New Math idea. Here's an American Old Math mathematics textbook from 1931: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509299/page/n2...

Beyond the intriguing assumption that an adult man might purchase this book, a manual of basic arithmetic, for the purpose of self-improvement, it's pretty much indistinguishable from what we have today. This is the treatment of subtraction:

> If any figure [digit] in the subtrahend is a number greater than the one above it in the minuend, it cannot be subtracted directly and the following method is used. A single unit (1) is "borrowed" from the next figure to the left in the minuend and written (or imagined to be written) before the figure which is too small. The figure of the subtrahend is then subtracted from the number so formed and the remainder figure written down in the usual way.

> The minuend figure from which the 1 was borrowed is now considered as a new figure, 1 less than the original, and its corresponding subtrahend figure subtracted in the usual way. If the minuend figure is again too small, the process just described is repeated.

> As an illustration of the procedure just described, let it be required to subtract 26543 from 49825. The operation is written out as follows:

7₁
Minuend: 49/25 [the 8 is struck through; I don't know how to type this]
Subtrahend: 26543
-------
Remainder: 23282

> Here the subtrahend figure 4 is subtracted from 12 instead of the original 2, and the subtrahend figure 5 is then subtracted from 7 instead of the original 8.

(pp. 10-11)

What do you believe were the New Math revisions to this? There weren't any; what made it New Math was insisting that people be familiar with the theoretical background that the textbooks had always provided. The algorithm, and the explanation of it, were not changed in any way.

(Older textbooks do use the "8 from 4 is 6" model instead, where carries are done into the subtrahend instead of being taken from the minuend, and they have a different explanation. They still provide that explanation for those students who care to know, which is very few people.)
> Politics is just deciding what to do with shared resources

Sure, as good a definition already.

> managing people doesn’t really have anything to do with scum or politics

People, and particular the labor of people, is a resource! Managing it is inherently political.
ICQ will stop working from June 26
I am not using packer but happily using terraform/nomad/consul/vault - i have no problem with the license change
> Just scale vertically! Get a bigger instance!

That works great until it suddenly and unexpectedly stops working.
Also, farmers have room to put down wind turbines on their land. Quite a few of them up here in northern germany have picked up subsidies and are now generating power from just a few square meters of land. One larger farming business also has a biogas burner.

With such a setup and a bit of energy storage somewhere, electric vehicles look even more attractive.
> All 13 engines ran successfully until six engines began shutting down, triggering a benign early boostback shutdown. [...] but the six engines that shut down early in the boostback burn were disabled from attempting the landing burn startup, ...

So was it partly a software error that the engines were put into a fault state after boostback, then they'd not try to restart on landing?
They are temporary biodegradable health sensors. This is not a technology that leads to autocracy. If anyone wants that they just tattoo.

I’m not saying humans aren’t usually terrible, just that this particular technology doesn’t unlock any new or more nefarious terribleness.