skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a lot of people agree with you, which is why minix exists (though their source control system just fell offline this year), but none of windows nt, linux, os/360, and even really macos/ios are microkernel designs. sel4 and the other l4 variants are, and so is qnx, and linuxcnc runs linux under a microkernel, and xen is kind of a microkernel if you look at it funny, so we're definitely seeing significant mainstream use of microkernels, but it's not clear that that 50-year-old design is actually obsolete the way the pdp-11, the cray-1, and the system/370 are
>> The trend toward smaller rounds shows that YC’s current batches of founders have become more realistic toward current market conditions.

Value engineering. The WhatsApp model. Keep your eye on the money at all times. Your product needs to pay for itself (running) while it grows. Dont be Cloudflare and rug pull everyone on a sales call. Dont be uber, or door dash and susbisdise your growth.

The infrastructure of whole 2000 era dot coms can be rented, at fixed cost for a few hundred a month.

Or you know, get vc's to fund your AWS spend so Bezos can launch rockets too

Your call founders.
Extrapolating from my specializations I can say that most documentaries on arte.tv - even while having to compress and simplify by necessity - had been pretty poignant actually. German and French documentaries for example also tend to be pretty "dry" from the edutainment perspective. I'd call that a feature.

I don't agree that any reporting / media gets it overly / inherently wrong the deeper your knowledge is. There are plenty of great journalists out there that often have varied and deep backgrounds on topics and / or interface well with top experts for the given material they are publicizing.
New Zealand had the [Furlough Mutiny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fraser#Furlough_Mutiny), where several thousand troops refused to go back to the fighting in Europe.

Canada had the [Terrace Mutiny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace_mutiny) where conscripts were told they were going to be sent overseas after being assured that only volunteers would go. A train travelling from BC to Halifax with thousands of soldiers headed overseas arrived at its destination several thousand men lighter, due to desertions.

The Italian campaign was infamous for the number of desertions in all the Allied armies. General Alexander wanted to bring back the death penalty to curb the losses.
AI Agents for the Smart Home
A very large proportion of private aviation accidents involve only the people in the aircraft.
apple started with mach, which was a microkernel, and linked basically all of the freebsd kernel into it, morphing it from a microkernel operating system into a monolithic operating system

i agree that monolithic kernels are unpleasant and brittle, but unfortunately they don't actually seem to be obsolete
This wasn't sarcastic at all—any driver of a car is far more dangerous than one in a plane. 9/11 is essentially meaningless in the shadow of auto deaths (to provide a direct comparison). I can't get a firm number on number of plane fatalities in the US (or auto fatalities worldwide), but 9/11 alone would amount to about only 0.04% of total vehicle fatalities in the US since 2000.
GitHub CSS injection live example
Big fan of Armstrong's approach / advice / adages

> Make it work. Make it beautiful. Then make it fast.

And something along the lines of having to solve a problem once just to understand it (which aligns with what you mention).
I followed up with 100 people who have had Linux computers for over a year
Yes, I sell better bullets.
Man flys to the moon and back, and then 55 years later as a 91 year old dies flying a jet aircraft. Some are just built different.
Standardized tests enable selecting a diverse student body by selecting the candidates who are most likely to succeed from within each group instead of selecting from each group at random, which will result in more dropouts and failures.
The part-time heroes behind US cricket's historic win
California has lots of problems, but availability of money is not one of them. I have no worries whatsoever about our ability to properly handle changes in demand going forward. Will a bunch of money get wasted and mis-managed? Of course. It wouldn't be CA if we didn't do that! But we'll still grow just fine.
> Sorry, I know it's distracting from your overall point. Of course, environment matters. If you happen to have a lot of junk food at home, it's hard not to eat it. If you go to stores that have your favorite snack by the counter, it's hard not to buy. These do play a role. But as the researcher said, it's secondary/tertiary.

After reading I can't help but think environment is the major component in this system. Why don't you have a bunch of junk food at your house? Why don't you like those sugar bomb milkshakes and cookies? Why don't you like those restaurant portion sizes that you can take home afterwards? Why haven't you increased your food intake?

To me the answer is obviously your environment (or at least, your past environment). I too immigrated to the US and all the nutritional recommendations from the USDA never made a single difference to us or any of the immigrant families we were friends with. We came with our own developed food cultures that were hundreds of years old and each family educated their children and helped them develop their sense of taste. "We can make it better at home" is a common refrain when talking about going out to eat and we look at all junk food as either downright revolting or a rare guilty pleasure that we usually regret afterwards.
> They were all looking to raise nearly identical rounds: $1.5 million to $2 million

On top of $500k from YC. Tiny $2M+. Barely anything for two people and a dream.
The BBC has a series called "D-Day: The Unheard Tapes". It has actual interviews with D-Day survivors (both Allied and Axis). They use the real audio, lip-synced by actors. It's mesmerizing.

You may need a VPN to use the BBC's iPlayer.
MAL's finding is not exactly surprising, and Astana has been suspect since they became a thing in the wake of the demise of Liberty Seguros after Operacion Puerto

Superman ain't Lizzie Banks
You can review the 60,000+ projects funded so far at your leisure here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/invest/?utm_source=invest.gov
Thanks! Do you know if the course is taught online? I couldn't find any lecture recordings on OpenCourseWare. I did find this YouTube playlist about xv6[1], which looks very good, but it's not from MIT.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbtzT1TYeoMhTPzyTZboW...
"Weasel-­faced and rat-tailed". WTF? Has this guy ever seen cats, rats, and weasels? Weasels have long pointy faces, cats have short flat ones. Outside the primates, you would be hard-pressed to find an animal whose face looks less like a weasel's, nor more like a human's, than a cat's. Similarly, rates have naked tails, cats have fluffy tails. A cat's tail looks less like a rat's tail than a monkey's does. The only animals that are less "rat-tailed" than cats are ones that have no tails at all.
The "Malt flour" in your bread is probably mostly sugar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt#:~:text=modifying%20the%2....

Also, it is pretty easy to buy bread not containing sugar in the US.
Exactly. Don't expect anyone to read what you wrote, much less commercial success, unless you were a Harvard undergrad English prodigy who joined Penguin publishing, or somehow wiggled into the circle of [City] Review of [Each Others'] Books. It's a one-way, time-traveling message in a bottle comprised of dead trees. Doing it for art is a wolf's howl that it lived and that it could.

Although, it's gradually shifted into over-reliance on the linkrot of spinning rust, floating electrons, and burning transistors such that used and new bookstores and libraries are endangered species. Perhaps another cycle similar to the early medieval period maybe gradually happening as today's "Romes" decline in slow-motion, accelerated by climate change decline unless and until we save ourselves through economic and ecological limits.
However people don't live very long in India. In East Asia, where people do live a long time, you will be offered alcohol routinely.

I'm not saying there's a causal relationship here, but I don't think that example works well.
Many many years ago a friend did a stint at a major publishing house. Whenever she'd show up to parties she would bring in a small stack of unpublished manuscripts, we'd all get into the wine or beer or whatever and start reading particularly terrible passages to each other. Had she sought out especially bad manuscripts? No! She just grabbed whatever was on the "will read, maybe, someday" shelf in the editor's work area.

I learned about Sturgeon's Law (90% of everything is crap) during these events. Most people think what they've written is interesting, or unique, or worth publishing. However, publishers have to make money, so they curate very carefully, edit the hell out of the raw manuscripts, and then only actually commit to publishing what they think there's a market for. Nearly zero of the random manuscripts that are sent in by unknown authors ever make it into this funnel, and the honest reason why, at least from what I have personally read, was because most of it was completely terrible -- in as many ways as you can think of terrible to be.

Three other thoughts:

1. The great videogame crash of '83 happened because the dominant platforms at the time did not have a lockdown on curation, so anybody and everybody flooded the market with garbage. Consumers decided it was better to not buy anything than to chance spending the equivalent of nearly $200 in 2024 money and get trash.

2. A few breakout, self-published, authors are making it through the piles of junk, but they are few and far between. Andy Weir (the Martian) and Hugh Howey (Silo) come to mind. The "secondary" film and TV markets are so starved for good new ideas that their works are getting converted into non-print media almost as fast as they can get sets built and costumes sewed.

3. There's probably a new market for solid, well known, curators. People who make money sifting the dreck to find the Weirs and Howeys and surfacing the cream to the top. The creators are self-publishing, and the publishing houses aren't doing well these days. But the curation function is still wildly important and finding the right way to do it, and the business model around it, is perhaps the future.
What's old [1] is new again... without citing prior work. It's not like it's an unknown work. It was published in ICML and has ~250 citations.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03249
Leaving early sucks.
Every PRNG algorithm has state that is shared among all of its consumers. That is basically true by definition. Put another way, a PRNG is an iterative algorithm that compresses a very long random-looking (the mathematical term is "equidistributed") sequence. That iterative algorithm needs to maintain its position in the sequence, and there's no alternative. There is no algorithm for a PRNG that does not have state that is shared among all of its consumers.

The only way to make a PRNG that does not share state between its consumers is to shard per-consumer. The PRNG in libc doesn't do that, it just uses a lock internal to the PRNG to keep things safe.

You could attempt to make a concurrent PRNG that has atomic-sized state and use CAS loops when generating numbers to keep the consumers in sync, but that's probably worse than using a lock.
Given the reliable correlation between an active social life and longevity, I'm going to mirror your bet.
Sourdough has no sugar, for one thing.
>Aircraft systems are developed independently and added as options to planes. Which means they get swapped out, there are variants in capabilities, and multiple manufacturers involved.

He means there is only ever one aircraft (the one you're flying) and hundreds of patients in a hospital.

Imagine if you will, hundreds of GPWS alarms are blaring off all screaming TERRAIN PULL UP TERRAIN PULL UP PULL TERRAIN UP UPTERRAIN PULL TERRPULLAINUP UPULLPTERRAIN TERRPULLAINUP PULLRAIN TEUPR...

That's both alarm fatigue[1] and the alarms being wholly impractical to begin with. For starters, which GPWS wants to be pulled up again? You can't know, there's hundreds! And that's even assuming you can make out TERRAIN PULL UP in the maelstrom of noise.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue
Zero knowledge verifiable computing seems extremely promising and interesting.
The former President reportedly was ready to pull the U.S. from NATO in his second term, and has demonstrated a strong affinity toward the autocrats currently making life miserable for our allies, which has carried over to his entire party.
And in many Muslim countries, drinking is a big part of the culture notwithstanding the religious dicta (or even legal penalties). Iran loves its wine. Indonesia loves its arak.
He absolutely was on BasicMed; his last medical was 11 years ago. His last BasicMed course was about a year ago.
This is a case where ideas are "all around" - it's the kind of example that's wonderful for a new entrepreneur - to see your idea isn't unique (very few are). Execution matters.

Y'all like the Uber and Lyft of eink weather - but I've tagged others like this from HN.

Edit: soon as I find the time I'm building one too - all are inspirational for esp32 dev + key for FOSs home-automation
How about these, instead?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front...
52 W is not a particularly high peak load.
>So I get my hands on your laptop for a few minutes, there should be nothing you can do to impede me from doing whatever I want to it?

Correct. This is true of all my other possessions as well.

Ultimately, the physical hardware of the computer cannot tell the difference between a legitimate user and an illegitimate one. The distinction is social, not mathematical - the kind of thing one might litigate in court, rather than by multiplying some large primes together. Technologically enforcing the concept of ownership over an object implies the construction of a parallel, extra-legal system of rights management, with some final higher authority that is neither you nor in all likelihood your government. Here's how that plays out: yes, you paid for the computer, yes, you "legally" own it, but you did something to it that Microsoft doesn't approve of and so we're afraid it doesn't work anymore. Might makes right. Too bad!
The European theater of WW2 was a war between nazism and communism, with free countries on both sides, depending on where they happened to be located. East of a certain line, the initial aggressor was the USSR, not Germany. It was a confusing war, with some countries switching sides more than once and some countries being at war with some but not all major powers on the other side.

Things looked clearer on the Western Front, because it was a peripheral front outside the main conflict.
I see. I'll try to read the links over the weekend, they seem really interesting.
It's sad that the terms are so overloaded though, as it makes it hard to reach preexisting approaches and leads to rediscoveries of the same idea (I see that both Jitter and C&P seem to implement this very same idea, except maybe in the way the templates are created, and both seem to believe their invention is novel).
> apple started with mach, which was a microkernel, and linked basically all of the freebsd kernel into it, morphing it from a microkernel operating system into a monolithic operating system

The microkernel aspect of it had completely vanished by the time they hit the general public.

> i agree that monolithic kernels are unpleasant and brittle, but unfortunately they don't actually seem to be obsolete

Of course they aren't obsolete! The security in your phone depends directly on sel4, at least if you use an apple device. They just aren't relevant to most of the compute and most of the software you interact with today or in all of history.
How does the projector version work?

Why doesn't a regular light work to trigger the hit?

How can a shot of light bounce off the wall and back into the projector sensor, but only if the shot is near the duck image?
A wall isn't a mirror, and the gun isn't a laser.
In theory, they limit self promotion so that people actually participate in the community, and don't just use it as a link dump. The ideal is that people discuss other topics more often, and share their own work only every so often.

A lot of forums and chat servers have similar rules for the same reason.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work very well on Reddit, since the smarter advertisers and astro turfers have figured out how to manipulate the system well enough that people don't suspect they're advertising.

Add this to how certain types of low effort content get a ton of upvotes anyway, and how popular creators don't need to care since their fans will promote them anyway, and well, the end result is less "participate in the community" and more "don't be unpopular or bad at pretending to be someone else"
Is there a mirror link? The original has been down all day
Logitech Wave Keys with QWERTY
this is now fixed.

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/shuntingYard/pull/1/commit...
Haha, that's an interesting thought. Not to play devil's advocate, but can you honestly tell me the average American's weekly car need couldn't be met by a horse? (Mostly kidding.)

I think the distinguishing thing here is that those technological innovations were all adopted voluntarily by people setting aside the previous technologies, for the advantages of the new technology were obvious. Here, people are clinging to the old tech despite being threatened with its constant depreciation (already done on Apple systems), for the simple reason that using the new tech is more work for no more gain. For the average use case, Vulkan feels more like a technological regression than an advance.
I like Apple and their hardware but knowing they can axe my account indiscriminately makes this an immediate 'no'. Very happy with Bitwarden.
Which people are voted of light guns? Young people never had a chance to try them.
I don't want to talk to my ______. I want to own it. I want to modify it. I want it to do what I want _without_ talking to it, or having a conversation with it, or it attempting to 'interpret' anything. Just do what I told you to do. That's what tech is for. That's what mechanical items are for. That's what we build things to do.

::button press:: Shut up and do it. Most humans don't even want verbose error codes. Shut up, do the thing, and if absolutely necessary beep when something goes wrong.
Russia is raping and slaughtering its way through a country that did not invade it, was not threatening its neighbors, whose primary crime was being too friendly with the West.

Why does it matter whether all Ukrainian citizens are angels or devils?
> That comment was solely about AI code suggestions.

Even AI code suggestions seem to be only a minor improvement over basic LSP integration. One major exception is tedious formatting of the text—say you want to copy over a table by hand to a domain value, copilot is really good at recognizing values and situating them appropriately in the parent l-value.

If chatbots could serve as my RAM, surely they'd be able to generate code relevant to the rest of the codebase or at the very least not require deep scrutiny to ensure their RAM matches mine (it most often does not).
I was under the impression that the US was rather isolationist back in President Washington's day. And he argued rather strongly that it should remain so after he left office - in 1797.
These days with even off-peak being 40-80c / kWh the best way to charge EVs (which are mostly owned by homeowners) seems to be to bypass the grid and charge using rooftop solar during the middle of the day (or time shifted using battery storage).

Obv. not possible for renters or condo owners or for people who can install solar.
Credentials Leaking with Subdomain Takeover
Tensor networks for solving the Boltzmann neutron transport equation
That is not serious enough?

To be fair Google gives you a lot of control over what data is kept but the defaults suck.

I am not sure what happens now but there was the PRISM debacle. Send an email to a non US citizen and they can end run your rights because the other person isn’t.

At scale things that are innocent are no longer so. Your neighbour knows you had a visit from the police at 6am. But what if a company knows who has visited who, where everyone has been, what sites they have visited (e.g. anger management class, criminal lawyer) and then can piece it all together in a world where, well look at Trump - you can make a misdemeanour into a felony with the right
constructs against even a powerful person.

It is quite dangerous for the average person.

And this is pre AI revolution.
The trick is to claim all projects are military related.

"Yes, Senator, upgrading the covered wooden bridge to Sleepy Hollow is essential. It cannot presently bear the weight of a column of M1 Abrams tanks, such as would be required to defend the nation from invasion. Let it not be said you are weak on defence, Senator!" /s

I mean, the federal government funded the Interstate Highway System largely to be able to get troops from one end of the country to the other, now someone just needs to make a similar case for bridges and high-speed rail.
Maybe? I think they're mostly used as sports vehicles currently, but it might be possible to squeeze a more practical vehicle into that class.
Thanks to everyone who has checked out llama-github so far!

I would love to hear more feedback from the community. Your thoughts and suggestions are invaluable and will help improve the project. If you’ve tried it out, please share your experience or any issues you encountered. Contributions are also welcome, whether it's code, documentation, or simply ideas.

Let’s make llama-github a powerful tool together!
Thank you, Lorem.
This is a great tiktok comparing the Bahá’í with other concrete structures of that era (Brutalism)

https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.tpanova/video/7252757064517225770...
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I know the topic is anathema on HN, but a personal friend of mine was working with people in New Hampshire to help make the nuclear power plant a better solution for the regional power needs by equipping it with bitcoin miners that can be turned on and off algorithmically to deal with the fluctuations in demand.

I know next to nothing about nuclear energy (or most other kinds of energy), but what I understand from what she told me is that one of its biggest hurdles is that it can't adjust up and down for demand very well. If you want to meet peak demand, you end up massively overproducing the rest of the time. If you have the batteries available, by all means, store it, but if you don't, bitcoin mining rigs can very easily be turned on and off in whatever numbers you need to balance out the demand, or at least smooth it out enough that the nuclear production can handle the remaining fluctuation.

It's a different problem, trying to match energy production that would prefer to be constant with demand that fluctuates, as opposed to trying to match fluctuating production with fluctuating demand, but I think of it almost like a "battery" that stores the "energy" as money rather than directly. Like, when the demand drops, earn whatever bitcoin you can with the miners so you can keep it cost effective to run nuclear and you're not having to turn to supplemental, higher cost, less clean energy sources in times of peak demand.
Review enough code, and even 2 + 2 can look sus.

Where's the operator overload? ;)
Everything you’ve said is bang on. Future generations will look at our time and those that came before us as the nutritional dark ages where we tried to apply the same rules to everyone irrespective of whatever factors turn out to define an individual’s optimal nutrition protocol.