skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried this in the early 90s off the back of a short article in Scientific American about chocolate holograms which was almost certainly about the same company. It worked, and I think it would have worked a lot better if I knew more about tempering chocolate.

It struck me at the time that using holographic foil as a mould would be the natural next step.

I've got a vague memory of a chocolate record being made as an art project? The needle abraded the surface so it wasn't really playable more than once.
> Their solution has been to develop satellites made mostly of wood, which will burn completely upon reentry.

"When finishing the surface of your wooden satellite you must, of course, use an orbital sander."[1]

[1]: https://www.metafilter.com/203958/Yes-they-wood-build-a-sate...
Sure. but that's just like, OK, that by itself means very little.

It could mean the standby PCU somehow activated by itself, maybe damage causing a un-commanded activation, maybe software bug, maybe God said fuck this plane in particular.

The point is we have no idea since there are not enough details to know. But of course, on HN we have a army of people who think they know stuff because Wikipedia.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=dutch%20roll&date...

Yep, exactly what I suspected.
I assumed they meant “lightweight” in the sense that tmux can take quite a bit of setup and practice to get comfortable in, when using for the very first time.

I love tmux but it’s definitely not “n00b” friendly.
Could potentially be used for something like animal feed, fertilizer etc
Is that communication and feedback, or a boycott? For a boycott to be effective, you have to be taking something away from someone. In the case of free software, the work has already been done, for free.
Feynman called it the computer disease.
I think that is understudied danger of computers - addictive play/fidget machines that stunt intellectual and personal growth.
Is anyone else seeing the first photo caption in Spanish for some reason? I did a double-take, had to check to make sure the language settings were correct.
> As a result of the company's partnership with OpenAI, Apple Intelligence includes an integration with ChatGPT, allowing Siri to determine when to send certain complex user requests to ChatGPT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Intelligence
Oh man I only discovered Roblox through my kids.

I remember years ago thinking "Man someone needs to make some sponsored / actually branded content on here. There's so much room for fun, whimsy, and etc."

Next think I know my son is playing a game and him telling me "No dad, this is official. <X> company made this."
You are glossing over how every other launcher is a piece of crap written by the lowest costing bidder to spy on me even when I'm not playing a game from it. "They barely even try for their market position." Not one launcher comes anywhere close in terms of feature set. Valve alone is the reason gamers aren't shackled to windows anymore, only Steam gives disabled people the ability to forcibly remap controllers so they can play games, only Steam offers gamers in every country the opportunity to refund games after they bought them in client without any back and forth, library sharing, functional reviews independent of developer moderation, open access to developers, robust community features, even the steam overlay is amazing. Even with Fortnite and free games every few weeks, Epic is struggling to gain market share because of how GOOD Steam is and how fairly Valve treats its customers.
They love to paint this as funds for the little guys but take a look at who owns ALL of the regional broadcasters - tv, radio and print - it is not mom & pop shops covering townhall, it's an oligopoly of a few giant conglomerates. Do you like Canadian telecoms? This is essentially propping up their media brethren - or in some cases the same company.
Does Bill or Satya write code anymore? It could very well be that they consider security the top priority but it's a moot point because they're so removed from operations.

Although I would suspect that you're effectively right in that they either don't have it as a top priority or think they do but have a reveal preference of they don't. For example, an engineer that does rigorous security testing and finds nothing as well as launches one project gets promoted less often than an engineer that launches two projects and doesn't do rigorous security testing.
It looks like it is, see multiple commits today: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/

As building an OS is no simple task, this all could mean nothing and the project might be heading to the graveyard slowly.

I noticed the same, too, it was hyped as the next OS now about a decade ago, and it doesn't look like it will be a significant player any time soon. I assume it's still in the evaluation, prototype phase, probably tons of issues.

I heard here and there that some exotic glorified home tablet thingy is running it, but I don't think you can really go to a local consumer electronics store and find something with Fuchsia running on it.
To be fair:
"Debate within the American government as to whether enlargement of NATO was feasible or desirable began during the George H.W. Bush administration. By mid-1992, a consensus emerged within the administration that NATO enlargement was a wise realpolitik measure to strengthen Euro-American hegemony. [0]

Meanwhile: "NATO Expansion: What Yeltsin Heard" [1]

>It's not unreasonable to think the 1990 plan was to incorporate Russia into Europe

Was it?

See the New York Times 1992 article "Excerpts From Pentagon's Plan: 'Prevent the Re-Emergence of a New Rival'" [2].

"Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. "

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_NATO#Visegr%C3%...

[1] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2018...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/world/excerpts-from-penta...
"Old age" no longer a diagnosis as a cause of death
My Non-Unix OS Now Has a Window Manager [video]
Unless you care about your review and promotion, in which case do features.
This whole article seems a bit odd to me.
What is "the product" ?

Presumably this is not related to earlier problems with SolarWinds.

Did MS screw up. Yes.

However, all things have bugs.

I takes one person finding one bug and exploiting it.
and there are enormous resources going into finding one,
and I am certain that this is the only one.

I am sure the NSA is sitting on a pile of them.

Whereas the developers have to think about everything that can happen and
protect against it.

Does this make Microsoft different from its competitors?

I think Microsofts strategy is somewhat similar to Linus:

Where security patches are often not part of new releases due to the
burden of establishing what the consequences of bigger changes would be,
and the fact that security people dont do sane things.

(But you can of course pull them and make it part of an in-house distro.

https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1711.2/01357.html
Canon announces compact dual fisheye lens for VR content creation
* Print IP addresses in green, MAC addresses in blue, the words "error" and "fail" in red, etc.

* Recognize something in the output that looks like a Jira ticket and add a link to that ticket

* Have your ssh passwords in one place and automatically enter them upon prompt

* Connect to many servers and type the same command into all of them

* Make your screen red when in superuser mode

* etc. etc. etc.

(Some years ago, I refused a company-issued ThinkPad Carbon and byod'ed a Mac because ThinkPad couldn't do iTerm2.)
tmux takes over scrollback, so it's not possible to scroll the buffer in the same way as without tmux. This tool seems to solve the problem more elegantly.
More mass still means you get less velocity out of your fuel, even if the drag stays constant.
If it would be a Tesla, just enough time for the auto-pilot to disengage and claim it was the fault of the user.
tmux works out of the box for me.

I tried Zellij and couldn’t get the Alt key to work on mac. And then when ssh’ing into a server I couldn’t see some of the icons because it required a special patched font.
Floppy disks they are like Jesus they died to become a save icon
Ask HN: Is it normal for companies to look for FE engineers who can design?
I am noticing a trend, perhaps a "do more with less" thing, where frontend job postings are starting to ask for frontend engineers who can also act as designers and even UX researchers. Is anyone else finding this? Is this a normal or correct expectation?
In a broader sense, yes.

Some generations back Qualcomm took the ARM design-license, designed their own CPU-cores based on it and added their custom GPU, DSP, etc.

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Scorpion, Krait (32bit): Custom Qualcomm designs with full compatibility to ARM's instruction sets. They were the best in the business, knowing more about tailoring an ARM-core to a mobile use-case than any company in the world.

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Then Apple disrupted the space with a 64bit ARM CPU. Qualcomm had to move fast from 32bit to 64bit to respond (why? ...that's arguable)

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Kryo (64bit): To move from 32bit to 64bit within one year (!), Qualcomm adopted the available ARM 64bit design, added their IP for adjacent components and created the first Kryo CPU (SD820, mamma mia what a bad SoC that was...). Over time they applied more customization to that platform, but the base was always this Kryo-architecture (-> newer vanilla ARM-design + Qualcomm modifications)

For years, this approach was used now, including Snapdragon 8cx (modified ARM Cortex-X1 + Cortex-A78 + Qualcomm IP)

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Oryon (64bit): Snapdragon X Elite is now Nuvia's modifications made on top of ARM's design, combined with Qualcomm's IP & modifications. So instead of being an iteration of the previous Qualcomm Kryo-based generation (applying Qualcomm's modifications onto a newer vanilla ARM-design), Qualcomm obviously applied their modifications on top of Nuvia's Design.

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So (over)simplified: Qualcomm did the same as they did before on Kryo, but replaced the foundation with an already-modified ARM-design from the Nuvia team (I don't want to play down the effort Qualcomm took for that, for sure the Nuvia team they acquired had a huge amount of work to merge their design with Qualcomm's modifications. But overall, they put their customization-process on top of the Nuvia-output instead of the ARM-output)

ARM's lawsuit is now obviously also about Qualcomm assuming that they don't need to license a new core-design from ARM because they acquired Nuvia, which achieves a comparable result using an older ARM-design.
Unless that other priority is laying people off. Then the layoffs are more important.
Dear Apple, AI is not missing piece in your puzzle
Shouldn't the right benchmark be performance per watt? It's easy enough to add more chips to do LLM training or inference in parallel.

Maybe the benchmark should be performance per $... though I suspect power consumption will eclipse the cost of purchasing the chips from NVDA or AMD (and costs of chips will vary over time and with discounts). EDIT: was wrong on eclipsing; still am looking for a more durable benchmark (performance per billion transistors?) given it's suspected NVDA's chips are over-priced due to demand outstripping supply for now, and AMD's are under- to get a foothold in this market.
I'll give you a 4-letter word... Zune /s
How did you tell the difference between dutch roll and the plane catching a glideslope?
Can't wait to 3D Print a bootleg PATRIOT system.
Your response sounds a bit defensive of the US, my intention is not to start a tribe war and I apologise if I have done that. There are plenty of things that the US does well that Europe does not, if that's any consolation.

Paypal exists in the EU as well but this is a layer on top of a banking system and not quite a "native" solution. I would like a "native banking" way to send and receive money when I am both in the EU and the US :)
People seem to like watching what other humans are capable of. AI can play X better than humans (where X = chess, go, tic-tac-toe, ...), yet we still prefer to watch human vs human. I think the same will happen with music too. We'll have a "certified AI-free" content labels on things.

In truth, humans will probably take music in crazy new directions just to differentiate it from AI generated stuff....like visual artists did after the camera was invented. So it will be self evident if it was human vs AI.
I appreciate you answering, unlike many people who post here.
Your answer doesn't answer my question.

I'm asking that user where they get their news about Canada from.

I'm assuming that they're not Canadian and I'm interested to know where non Canadians read news about Canada.
It's not that she is particularly 'controversial', it is that she is biased and misleading.

She is an economist who wrote a book that misrepresents, ignores and twists science what does know about childrearing and then presents that with a high level of confidence.
I just checked, and it indeed is pretty much a ghosttown compared to twitter, and also the search doesnt work well. You cant properly search for hashtags. It only shows in the hashtags tab, not posts. So if you search for a hashtag and another word, it wont show the post youre looking for. Bsky is just as bad, as you cant search for users. In twiteer the search just works.
I've been using https://clay.earth for this - it does #s 1-2 by default, and the rest can be done with notes on a particular contact. More people focused than lead focused so might work for what you need
So, just because some corporate cannot keep up with their IT compliance team with new additions to existing tools in their stack (which is honestly a tedious job), should the OSS stop experimenting and shipping new 'optional' features? There are many developers who use iTerm2 outside of a corporate environment too. I, for one, developed clx[1], which is similar in nature to what iTerm's OpenAI integration is. I am happy to have this built right into my terminal. And the code is open source as well, allowing anyone to audit what actual external API calls are being made.

[1]: https://github.com/mr-karan/clx
> 1985 the dedliest single aircraft accident was due to dutch roll. Japan Airlines Boeing 747SR.

This kind of buries the lede, right? A bad repair caused an explosion that blew off most of the vertical stabilizer (ie, the tail). The dutch roll was part of the series of unfortunate events that followed.
As a Canadian, I'm super curious about the recent frequent comments about Canadian policy on HN.

I'm as Trudeau-fatigued and concerned about productivity as the next person... but I think high immigration is something most folks in Canada see as good, and couldn't guess what the connection between housing and CanCon / streaming regulation is.

I'm really curious to understand if the folks commenting so stridently are Canadian and hold some passionate views, or are maybe getting a particular info stream about Canada.
Japan leads the world in 'quiet quitting'
Keyboard Maestro is also an absolute gem, and very reasonably priced.
Virtual Keyboard for Android
> Celesta Capital, Rocketship.vc, Artha Select Fund and Artha Venture Fund, and existing investors Mayfield India, Pi Ventures and Speciale Invest.[0]

Not making an argument about off-shore work, but to be fair a lot of the funding came from out-of-country.

—

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/catherinewang/2023/10/17/indian...
> It has long felt weird that we have so recursively many layers of management and navigation: the OS juggling multiple terminals, tmux juggling multiple shells, and neovim juggling multiple windows

Tbh that's why I'm not a fan of tmux or terminals with fancy internal window management. I suppose it makes sense if your OS level window management is crap (macos...) but otherwise it feels like poor solution
I don't know how many 'test to failure' tests would have been required before I would have any confidence in the models but probably so many tests that the titanium alternative would have been far cheaper.

The other problem is that it cracks all the time and they get louder as they get deeper, so it's not just if it cracks it is if it cracks enough or more than expected. Which straw will break the camels back. It is just such an insanely awful metric.

On the hypothetical assumption that I had some faith in the models at what point will I have the life or death fight over whether or not that last loud crack was statistically significant.
Please use the word ablated instead. That article's title is not using a real word. I'm assuming it's the author's English issue, since they called the model "helpfull" instead of "helpful".
> While there's probably an argument that problem solving is selected for it's not clear to me how far this goes at all. There's little evidence that smarter people end up in more powerful positions for example.

Evolution hasn't had enough time to adapt us to our new fangled lifestyle of last few hundred years, or few thousand for that matter, and anyways in the modern world people are not generally competing on things affecting survival, but rather on cultural factors that affect number of children we have.

Humans and most (all?) intelligent animals are generalists, which is why we need a big brain and intelligence - to rapidly adapt to a wide variety of ever changing circumstances. Non-generalists such as herbivores, crocodiles don't need intelligence and therefore don't have it.

The main thing that we need to survive & thrive as generalists - and what evolution has evidentially selected for - is ability to predict so that we can plan ahead and utilize past experience. Where will the food be, where will the water be in a drought, etc. I think active reasoning (not just LLM-like prediction/recall) would also play a large role in survival, and presumably parts of our brain have evolved specifically to support that, even if the CEO probably got his job based more on height/looks and golf handicap.
What products do those two companies sell?
I'm Canadian and my answer is not no.
Ha! This article is from Concordia in Montreal, while the newsweek article says Concordia in Wisconsin.

When I first saw Concordia, I was disappointed it wasn't the one I knew, but it actually is.
Is Google Broken or Are Googlers Right That It's Working Fine?
There's absolutely no estimation of the impact. Your 300 tons of activated chlorine per year idea is as baseless as the GP's 300 tons of ozone, but the GP is aware that his number is a complete invention.

Any exercise in making numbers out of nothing is completely useless.

(Besides, is chlorine activation really a bottleneck in ozone depletion? AFAIK it gets activated by UV light quite quickly.)
Even by fatalities.

737 Maxes have flown more than a couple of million of flights, at least, since they entered service, that puts their fatal incident rate at similar levels of the A320.

The only two incidents, also, as you know, were related and both happened 5+ years ago.
Sounds like their lignin based product is sturdier than the flimsy ones on the market; and they're looking to scale up consumer based uses in a big way.

I don't think there's anything considerably groundbreaking here besides the GTM angle.
For what its worth, that's very unlikely in the last decade or so. More likely to be moderate turbulence, which would be nearly indistinguishable in a non-severe event.
Would you say that this particular episode is representative of the entire Russian military during this conflict?
> Besides, the question I have is why 3D printing?

My understanding is that there's interesting things in the aerospace industry that are very difficult or sometimes impossible to machine from a single part in a conventional subtractive machining process. GE is doing it as well for the LEAP engines: https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/ge-aerospace-to-scale-th...

As an easy example, imagine a single-piece rocket nozzle with internal channels for delivering fuel and oxidizer. Pretty much impossible to machine and not that big of a deal* to do with additive manufacturing.

* Your mileage may vary, talk to your doctor for details. :)
Well, duh, speaking out non-anonymously also has a witch hunt, it is just a very short one.

IMO the witch hunt is a feature.

If you are dealing with sociopaths of this degree, and institutional tolerance of them, you should have VERY ACTIVE plans to divorce yourself from the situation.

Witch hunts frequently only bring the malfeasance to light and accentuate the magnitude of the problem to the social network associated with the sociopath.

Sociopaths and sociopathic organizations function either on outright control and fear, or lies and misplaced trust. Paranoia is the weapon against both of those, and especially places extensive stress on the sociopath who is working mightily to maintain the web of lies.
It depends on what you get from music.

For me, the important part of music isn't how beautiful or ugly it is (some of my favorite music is beautiful, some is ugly). It's the communication of human emotion and experience that I value.

So yes, for me, it matters a great deal who made it. Even the most beautiful music in the world loses meaning and impact to me if it's made by machine. (Nuance here: not "made by people using machines", but "created by a machine instead of a human".)

I know that I'm very far from alone in this, which makes me think that the answer to the headline question is "no, its not the end for musicians". Perhaps it will (or won't) reduce the number of them, but they will always exist because at least some people will always want that human communication.
Just wanted to say that I thought the Windows Phone (the last version of such) was relatively nice. It had a decent developer experience, but was pretty much an also ran and didn't have enough market share to overcome mindshare for first party apps. When so many first apps were iOS first and Android later, throwing a third option in the mix just missed the mark more often than not.

I was already in the Android ecosystem and far less cynical at that point about Google.
Seconded. @gnachman if you're reading this: thanks for making our terminal life actually good, and please ignore the haters.
Disagree on using a managed vector db. That's just the same thing except you're paying someone else money? "Traditional datastore" could mean anything. Info retrieval and search have very established players like the Lucene ecosystem.
Only if you have actual humans reviewing the output while being paid livable wages (i.e., you don't get to use digital sweatshops for this).

But considering Google has had over a decade to get autogenerated captioning right and they consistently fail at it, I doubt any slopshop is going to produce worthwhile output.
"When you don't have any real criticism, just make stuff up! Keep people down at all costs."

P.S. Nick checks out.
This is nasty vindictive stuff from government. Taxing successful companies to fund their pet projects that the state thinks we should watch.
First RISC-V laptop, the DeepComputing DC-ROMA, gets a big hardware upgrade
ChromeOS VMs use Wayland over VirtIO for the GUI. Quick search tells me at least some people think Android has made design choices that are difficult to use Wayland with. Anyone know better?

https://www.gfxstrand.net/faith/projects/wayland/wayland-and...
I entered my email address but it only said 'thanks for subscribing'. Signup pages don't quality for Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)

The https://getscribix.com/privacy shows an empty page.

To see the terms it asks for a login. I used the 'create account'. The signin then goes into an endless loop.
Any company with sufficient size will fail to incentivise the things they claim at the top, unfortunately the impacts of decisions (especially during austerity) are poorly understood, so even the supposedly best intending will fail once you reach a size