skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>there'd be a lot more money in people's pockets if they didn't have to get bureaucrats to agree on what they should be working to support.

people who say this need to remember what makes the most money vs. what are the actual most necessary goods for basic civilization. Sadly, most people would not fund the electric company to keep their lights on as they throw thousands at sport merchandise, including a new TV that they cannot power on.

There's definitely tons of corruption, but we do need someone with a wider scope to budget for the "boring" stuff.
The LLM requires good documentation to train on.
This used to be confined to web dev, and my backend job was happily tinkering away at 15+ year old code written in stable languages and frameworks, deployed via RPM/Puppet. But we took on too many graduates and now suddenly everything is being rewritten in new languages and we have an insane amount of Kubernetes config attached to everything.
> I don't remember why the two modules for xlsx files and not just one.

Last time I checked OpenPyXl doesn't deal correctly with .xlsm files - there's a parameter for that but I believe it's still experimental. In my case this meant that, on a Mac, Excel would complain that a file generated with OpenPyXl was corrupt and then successfully "recover" every generated file.

My wild guess is: your customer reads the files with OpenPyXl, processes the data with Pandas, and then uses XlsxWriter as the custom Excel writing engine.
What is dead may never die! RSS is only resting. One of these days it will muscle up to those bars and voom.

I support you 100%. Could you, erm, point me towards this indy web?
> the problem is when it ends up in the water instead of being burned

And that is entirely a question of waste management.

The plastic straw that the EU just outlawed would never have ended up in the ocean.
Meanwhile, plastic gets dumped into rivers by the truckloads - outside the EU.
My academic life would be complete after cursing the neo-SICP course.
That is pretty neat, I haven't done serious Java development in ~10 years but I do vaguely remember hot swapping would eventually cause out of memory errors. I was using standard OpenJDK 6 and 7 at the time.
Basically npm fell heavily behind in development so people switched to yarn; it's back to npm now. This is over a timescale of 10 years or so.
This makes me wonder if it's possible to create a real-life simulation video game where you can study the economic effects of policies and make better decisions in real life.
What does "vibes" mean here? Are you saying that this is a comparable level of negligence, or that it simply personally reminds you of the former case, and nothing else? There are better words available than "vibes".
I am moving the discussion somewhat but it's not a theoretical. Ford's Blue Cruise system has a camera that looks at the drivers eyes to make sure the driver is watching the road and not texting. It covers a large amount of freeways. it's not as good as Tesla's full self driving but it very much does the job of driving on the freeway in traffic for you.
Well yes, but people do write for resumes, not for anything else. For quality we would live in another world.
> The way you phrased it made it sound as if Germany (as in the government) was somehow trying to profit from it. However, they are the ones being frauded.

As made evident by the english name of these initiatives (Upstream Emission Reduction - UER), this originates from the EU. It seems that UER is one of the options to achieve greenhouse gases reduction goals set by EU (see [1]). So, allowing your local industries to cheat on UER reporting, does bring in an (unfair) advantage to Germany.

[1] https://climate.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2016-11/guidance_n...
UNIX Sockets are more flexible than named pipes;

* You can use them for more than two processes communicating (eg. a server process with potentially multiple client processes connecting);

* They are bidirectional;

* They support passing kernel-verified UID / GID
credentials between processes;

* They support passing file descriptors between processes;

* They support packet and sequenced packet modes.

TCP only grants you 2 of these extra features (sequenced packet mode/bidirection), leaving a giant hole in security in the process.
glass is a lot heavier and way more expensive (glass is made out of silicon).

There are a lot of different types of plastics the common ones use in packaging are LE-PE (light density polyethylene) and PP (polypropylene). They are both thermoplastic, they melt then heated. Silicone is also a form of plastic, it's thermoset (it chars effectively and it doesn't melt) - and it's awfully expensive. There are other plastic, e.g. nylon (PA6) that are still expensive but much cheaper than silicone.
I'm a huge fan of "do what I say" and try to avoid "do what I mean". Sometimes you want magic but most times I want just static and plain logic over which I can reason about.

Slightly OT but came into my mind when thinking about designing website related stuff: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
I wrote a bookmark manager in 2005-ish using security-conscious PHP, and it still works great.

I rewrote it in React for fun and not only is it totally out of date, but Github's dependabot has sent me probably 200+ security advisories based on its dependencies.
I am curious, what do you mean by "Adapter based weight selection"?
Because nobody is going to buy iPhones in bulk just for this new AI unlike GPUs for Nvidia, it's a nice to have upgrade, not a game changer for the company.
I don't get the tongue idea either, any kind of device you'd put in would make it hard to talk and who wants to eat a battery? Plus the movement area is pretty tiny.

Accurate foot movements are just training I bet, just like with anything else. Arm amputees have shown again and again that it's just a matter of practice. Plus, were any of us really that proficient with a mouse when we first started? We take it for granted but we've been honing that for decades.

> trackpoint

Looking at how that one works, it's just four load cells. That would be exceedingly simple to reproduce with a microcontroller that supports HID. I might actually try to make one.
> people that weren't buying iPhone won't suddenly buy an iPhone because it has an AI assistant embedded

> There's absolutely no link between the two.

These are remarkable levels of speculation. Already I've heard from Android friends who are intrigued by the recent AI announcements that they think it would be really cool to have that in their phones. I don't know if they will necessarily switch, but they certainly indicated they were very interested in the iPhone AI announcements.
> What I expected was a VBA editor for Python and maybe a library for Windows to access Excel objects from a Python script in a cmd or powershell prompt.

This is exactly it. The killer feature for including any modern scripting language in Excel. Both XlxsWriter and openpyxl can r/w from Excel files but I have to manipulate the data using another library like `pandas`. Instead if MSFT gave a library which I can import into a Python script and use like

import msft_excel_lib as xl
data = xl.get('A1:A3')
sum = xl.sum(data)
xl.write("B3", sum)

would be much better than whatever it is they have shipped today without having to make much changes to anything else. I wouldn't even grudge them if they say that this library can run under some weird virtual environment found only within Excel to maintain product retention.
The alternative to the current model is not to have no services at all, as that makes no sense, agreed.

> The libertarian notion that taxes are extortion is frankly childish in how overly simplistic it is.

The argument is weak because you constructed a straw man. The libertarian notion is not to live without any of the services provided by a state, but to have different providers which are in competition. The issue is that the state / gov has a monopoly but is exempt from antitrust laws.

The implementation is tricky though because in reality, when functions of the state are privatized there is often a huge amount of lobbying and corruption involved and these functions are given to a small group of big companies which effectively form a cartel once again. Then they extract all the economic value left in the infrastructure, the privatization is declared failed and undone, effectively another channel of syphoning tax money into the hands of big companies.
Tying ownership to a market determined LVT has been my goto. That is, when “buying” land you don’t bid on the one time transaction, instead you directly bid on the rent.

In practice it could perhaps be implemented such that it would still look like the current market where a private bank loan determines the rent, only you shift the loan to a central bank like institution for collecting on it as rent.
They do it less than if it were not taxes.

One example are vacant lots which are held only for speculation.
It literally says it at the bottom for me; from the start; maybe elsewhere it’s another number or it lies. Point stands no? Article writing about subscriptions wants a subscription.
Imagine arrest and trial of some regular murderer. Lawyer goes like "Oh, the suspect is too poor to compensate for my work time. Lets let him loose and collect 23% of all the paid murder contracts he executes."
Sure, but when people propose a land value tax it's because morally, they've come to the conclusion that the current system is unjust. Systemic changes need to originate somewhere, right?
FYI your joke is based on fake news spread by the German nazi party

https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/radwege-peru-entwickl...
Sure I think it's possible. I'm curious, do you have any specific examples in mind that might be in line with your argument?
Am I the only one who thinks this is a recipe for disaster?
So, China needs to cut down their emissions to half, to afford the US to continue being the highest per-capita polluter. Sounds about right.
The fact that this is completely unmentioned in the article really surprised me. The physicians may not have done insurance fraud, but they absolutely committed medical malpractice, and they did so for the sake of personal profit.
Okay this business model doesn't work anymore, but it used to.
We at NTNU used to complain/joke about how you at UiO even got 10 points for your classes, when we had a flat 7,5 sp for each class in Trondheim...

I say used to, but still do. Even 10 years later me and my girlfriend (that studied at UiO) still tease each other about who is the smartest or had the hardest courses, or she mocks my ring, heh.
I have a repeating memory of using R in C-v context, but can’t think of an example. Vim is really reflective. I suspect r doesn’t work in block visuals, which I use often. Need to test.

Nonetheless, normal R is a useful function for editing tables and other ascii art-y texts. How can you not need it?

For non-vimers who haven’t read tfa: R turns on overwrite mode akin to pressing Ins in command line. r uses temporary replace mode for a single character. Rtext<Esc> replaces four chars, rt replaces current char to t. In both cases we start and end in normal mode.
Also every time you find a secret with some nice loot you just know that once you turn around it's going to spawn some more "presents" on you.
What's the price on weapons technology falling into enemy hands? A dud is a gold mine of data for an enemy's reverse-engineers.
Coincidentally, i have been recently watching/reading a bunch of videos/articles on ASML and their technology.

Can some experts/knowledgeable folks here actually explain the technology in ELI5 (and above) terms? As i understand, a laser (what are its characteristics?) is fired at Tin droplets in a vaccuum chamber causing it to emit light in "Extreme UV" wavelength range which is then focused using a set of Zeiss mirrors to do the actual photolithography. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithograph...) is well over my head. What i am unable to bridge is how this EUV wavelength maps to transistor sizes (in nanometers) via High-NA/Hyper-NA
technology.

From https://www.laserfocusworld.com/blogs/article/14039015/how-d...

A major limitation comes from the laws of optics. German physicist Ernst Abbe found that the resolution of a microscope d is (roughly) limited to the wavelength λ of the light used in illumination:

d = λ/(nsin(α)) ...(1)

where n is the refractive index of the medium between the lens and the object and α is the half-angle of the objective's cone of light. For lithography, substituting numerical aperture (NA) for n sin(α) and adding a factor k to the formula (because lithographic resolution can be strongly tweaked with illumination tricks), the minimum feasible structure, or critical dimension (CD), is:

CD = kλ/NA ...(2)

This formula, which governs all lithographic imaging processes, makes obvious why the wavelength is such a crucial parameter. As a result, engineers have been looking for light sources with ever-shorter wavelengths to produce ever-smaller features.

Explain the above?
Nix doesn’t embed enabled-by-default phone home spyware like Homebrew does. Nonconsensual surveillance in software is a hard no for me.

A lot of people don’t realize Homebrew is spying on them every time they run it.
Doesn't have to be. Can be vegetable or bees
Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI
Effect of passenger position on crash injury risk in aircraft (2015) [pdf]
I’m actually working on a project right now that is the perfect answer to this question.

In the meantime, start with this:

https://blogs.hn/
I don't know about Swift, but in Rust there are libraries like Diesel that essentially builds a new type out of the operations you run (in Diesel's case, it's used to type a SQL query), which may lead to huge types in ordinary code.

Programmers don't manually write those types however.
I could try to convert handwritten notes to text and then move it to Obsidian but my notes are often more like a mindmap and it is easier for me to open tablet and just read straight from there. So I use them separately: Obsidian for really short notes like 1-2 sentences to transfer from laptop which I would like to have accessible on the phone and vice-versa: to write something really short on the phone.
Handwritten notes are my main source of data.
This approach might not be optimal for everyone of course.
Yes. The good news, if you're trying to develop tech to solve the housing cost problem, is that there are several labor-intensive processes that are easier to develop automation for than building the structure of the house. Like, a robot to wire up light switches is much cheaper to develop and test than a robot to print entire structures.
It’s not exclusively bad luck, but a combination of another player’s strategy and yours. You didn’t deem it important enough to have a Knight to defend against it.
Don't know about that, but you can study the true human nature, in an anonymous environment without serious law enforcement. It's not pretty.
And you would need extreme short sight to not trust that GenAI on Android will be out in a year if not much earlier than that. Hell, it may come out BEFORE iOS 18.

That is of course without mentioning that the only two devices compatible right now (both versions of the iPhone 15 Pro) represent a total market share of 3.1% of smartphones.

AI in iPhones is essentially a distraction from the fact that Apple hasn't brought any software innovation to its devices in probably close to a decade (note I say this as someone who has only had iPhones since the 4).
The problem is plastic is not one thing but an entire category of materials. There are plenty of places plastics can be designed out but there's also an awful lot where it's never going to be possible to replace. For example operating rooms have huge trash bins because everything comes plastic wrapped for sterility.
Couple of things: Blender uses HIP for AMD which is nerfed in RDNA3 because of product segmentation, so really this is comparing against something which is deliberately mediocre in the 7900 XT.

The M3 Max is also in a sense a generation ahead in terms of perf/watt of the 7900 XT as it uses a newer manufacturing node.

I suppose it's also worth highlighting that if you enable Optix in the comparison above, you can see Nvidia parts stomping all over both AMD and Apple parts alike.
Show HN: Summon Your Most Used AI and Web in 0.1s
Similarly, I purchased a copy of "Bosch Automotive Handbook" [1]. For $65 it will literally walk you through every component of a vehicle, from the metals required, the fuel, to the electronics. It's presence on my bookshelf is meant to be aspirational.

https://www.sae.org/publications/books/content/bosch10/
I imagine teachers said similar things when word processors became a thing. And calculators. And spellchecking. And the internet. And wikipedia. And smartphones.

Was it Plato who didn't like writing because it reduced students' abilities to memorize stuff?

Is there any actual evidence to assume that children are currently "dumb as fuck", or that this is caused by "AI"?
Yes, this is known as Wirth's law.
> From the case details below, even if it romanticizes a little bit the Tesla journey, while forgetting the more than 5 Billion in government subsidies, his companies received until 2015, is pretty clear there is no Corporate Governance at Tesla. At least not as you learn about when studying for a MBA :-)

Why do government subsidies get brought up so often as if those alone are to credit for the success of Tesla and SpaceX. As if the other companies in the same space do not get them.
Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report [pdf]
Banana Pi BPi-F3 for the same SoC in a more affordable <$100 SBC format.

Already shipping.
Ideogram is mostly great at generating humans. It mostly generates perfect bodies, hands, feet and other limbs. They have NSFW filters which step in after the image has been generated.
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I'm continuing to improve my RunsOn tool for launching self-hosted runners for GitHub Action on AWS, this time with support for any GPU-enabled instance type from EC2, and using the official Deep Learning AMIs as the runner image. Much cheaper than the official GitHub Actions runners, and accessible on any GitHub plan.
Diffraction sets a limit on how small the features can be patterned using photolith. When the wavelength is larger than the feature size, diffraction causes the light to spread out and blur the edges of what you're trying to pattern. The Rayleigh criterion shows how the ability to separate features depends on the numerical aperture of the system and the wavelength used. The explanation under 'Resolution in projection systems' on the wikipedia for photolithography is a better explanation than what is talked about under the EUV article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photolithography

Going further and further into the UV makes the wavelength smaller and smaller and thus the feature size smaller and smaller. But making light that is controllable in a way for photolithography techniques to work that far into the UV is the difficult part.
Also: Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates (centauri-dreams.org)
191 points by sohkamyung 26 days ago | 358 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40397823
Meta engineering really rocks. All other controversies aside.
I don't like big multinationals anymore than the next guy, but if you're going to link an article to strengthen your argument you might consider linking to the original (instead of an article based on a reddit post based on the article): https://www.onlinemba.com/blog/why-ikea-is-non-profit/

Then we also note that the original article was published by an MBA scheme website, apparently re-writing one of The Economists articles (to generate clicks?).

With regards to your TIL, it's also worth noting that Kamprad's memberships were not public information until 1994 (during a "confessional" letter to IKEA employees), by which IKEA had long become an everyday staple in Sweden. Contrary to what was suggested, the Swedish population in the 1950s didn't see a furniture store owned by a Nazi sympathizer and thought "here is someone I can relate to, take my money!".
Just out of curiosity what kind of hard projects did you do at the bachelor level? I had to build a unix shell, implemented some CPU scheduling algorithms (but didn't actually integrate it into a proper OS), did some B-tree stuff as well as implementing JPEG-like algorithms. Probably the one that took the most time was designing a CPU that worked in a real FPGA with its own instruction set and assembler (it was such a pain in the ass to troubleshoot, my crappy laptop took 30 min to compile the project and run simulations).

When I talk to people outside my home country it feels most don't do these kind of things at the bachelor level. But, like you, people who go on a masters then might do one of these things and go much more in-depth than I did.
Also table_format.vim.
Let me introduce you to this fine German politician https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der who "Since leaving public office, Schröder has worked for Russian state-owned energy companies, including Nord Stream AG, Rosneft, and Gazprom. (...) He was chairman of the board of Nord Stream AG and of Rosneft but in 2022 resigned from the latter and opted not to join the board of Russian state-run gas company Gazprom. (...) In his last days in office in 2005 he signed a deal between Germany and Russian state-owned Gazprom to build Nord Stream 1 before leaving office and almost immediately joining the pipeline company’s board." A politician of his calibre cannot function without an extensive support network and connections across the political spectrum. There were a lot of people helping him. It was and still is a broad, cross-party support based on the German Ostpolitik from 1970s. That gives him and the people around him a lot of influence over German and European politics.

The Nord Stream deal was designed to make Europe dependent on Russian natural resources and weaken position of Eastern Europe. It was opposed by Eastern European countries who saw it quite rightly as the next Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac... in disguise. But even if we discard their opinions, here's a document prepared by the European Parliament in 2008 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/... Nobody in Europe was fooled by Russians, but German politicians could not or did not want to hear it. Germans kept rejecting all Eastern European objections to the deal and other decisions that followed, including Nord Stream 2.

German politicians crossed the line and began implementing Russian foreign policy in Europe. In 20214 Ukraine paid the price of German Ostpolitik. Here's a good summary of how Germany played this game:

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-inc-played-russian-r...

and here's an early summary of Germany's behaviour https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-commentary/2014-04-...

And recently, this information came to light https://www.yahoo.com/news/angela-merkel-concealed-informati...

You cannot have united Europe with a significant member undermining its principles by making it dependent on energy supplies from an aggressive enemy and being an advocate of the enemy's interests. German politicians are compromised to the point where they just cannot see how compromised they are.
Anti-universe could explain accelerated expansion with no dark energy
No?

It's however (according to China's official statistics) the country with the highest solar energy production.

It also burns the most coal for electricity though, that makes it clear that China just needs an insane amount of electricity. Regardless wherever it's green, brown or toxic

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_solar_generation_...