skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean yes, the name is a bit gross and unprofessional, but also the least of Gimp's issues with regards to competing against Photoshop. Gimp is basically still a toy, an image manipulation program for people who don't ever actually need to do anything serious with images, and don't even understand why it matters. Really, the people who complain about the name are a minority, and the vast majority of complaints are about the usability of the software itself (see literally any thread about Gimp posted here.)

And as far as the name goes, unfortunately that's going to become a line drawn in the sand of the eternal culture wars so it'll never be changed, just to spite anyone who cares. It shouldn't matter, but people will absolutely die on that hill in droves.

I hear good things about Krita, though.
The Pagani Utopia is fairly new (launched September 2022) and is completely bereft of screens and gizmos. A complete work of art costing a mere $2.5 million
> But at the same time, I really wish that companies stopped making small-lift rockets. There's just no way for them to work financially.

Making a small launch vehicle is seen as necessary to attract the level of funding needed for a medium or heavy lift launch vehicle
I feel like “roll” is a bad word for what’s happening here. In my brain, when I hear “roll”, I’m thinking a 360 degree rotation in either the vertical or horizontal axis (or both).

This is far from that (even in the real life footage linked in the sibling comments). This is more like a “Dutch wobble” or “tilt”.

But I’m not an aviator, so what do I know.
Regulatory capture made it illegal to not add "safety features" that Detroit has the patents on/other types of manufacturing exclusivity (for example certified glass). Then the tariffs that prevent any meaningful foreign competition.

The rest is all the automakers run by the same consultanting firm and they don't really compete all that hard with eachother anymore.
iOS Mesh Gradients in Sass/CSS
The AI video generator rival to Sora that's wowing creators
> This is a bit disingenuous as any performant cpu worth it's salt will have operand bypassing.

Right, but that's an operation optimization. Nobody disputes that particular instructions (combined add/multiply) can be optimized and pipelined, but that's very different from claiming that arbitrary calculations no longer have dependent steps.
This got way more hate then it deserved. I believe the real and valid discussion was how do corporate networks treat this. The outcome here makes a lot of sense in that regard. But all the negative hype around AI was too much.
Well they haven’t done a draft despite the fact they don’t have enough soldiers, so I guess this might work.
I mostly agree with this but I believe there was a valid discussion around corporate use of the product.
If the joke was worth making, the joke was worth suffering the downvotes. Have some courage in your convictions, and most importantly: don't whine about it.
G7 strikes 'provisional' deal on $50B loan to Ukraine
I think the "compression-oriented" term was coined by Casey Muratori. There's an article expanding on it here: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0015

> Like a good compressor, I don’t reuse anything until I have at least two instances of it occurring. Many programmers don’t understand how important this is, and try to write “reusable” code right off the bat, but that is probably one of the biggest mistakes you can make. My mantra is, “make your code usable before you try to make it reusable”.

> I always begin by just typing out exactly what I want to happen in each specific case, without any regard to “correctness” or “abstraction” or any other buzzword, and I get that working. Then, when I find myself doing the same thing a second time somewhere else, that is when I pull out the reusable portion and share it, effectively “compressing” the code. I like “compress” better as an analogy, because it means something useful, as opposed to the often-used “abstracting”, which doesn’t really imply anything useful. Who cares if code is abstract?
Feels like IBM or Oracle.
The only thing that stands out as controversial about her books was:

> In the book [Expecting Better, 2013], Oster argues against the general rule of thumb to avoid alcohol consumption while pregnant, contends that there is no evidence that (low) levels of alcohol consumption by pregnant women adversely affect their children. This claim, however, has drawn criticism from the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and others.

I don't have any strong opinion on the topic of the claim[0], but the way it is reported as having "drawn criticism from [Some National Organization Specializing in Arguing the Opposite of the Claim]" in my experience pattern-matches in favor of the claim.

So beyond that, what's exactly so controversial about her books?

--

[0] - Like everyone, I've had "zero alcohol while pregnant or breastfeeding" message drilled into me for decades, and that's my prior, though I've personally heard an experienced gynecologist, widely respected in the region, giving pregnant women allowance for a small glass of champagne for New Year's Eve...
Yeah, Airbus is extremely backed up with orders
noone's mentioned the gargantuan size of the bosses!

playing co-op, running with your mates across the plains, blasting rocket trails into the distant horizon across the gorgeous clear blue skies at the biggest boss you've ever seen, with the pumping music thumping the whole way through, while you're trying to fend off what feels like hundreds of mobs ... I don't think I've experienced anything of that scale and intensity since ... one of my greatest of all time
I don’t think I would enjoy my work if I didn’t have iTerm and Vim.
The 737, at least in classic guise, was traditionally very stable in Yaw. Unusually so because the swept wing jets usually require additional yaw damping because the geometry naturally means on yawing one wing gets longer and the other gets shorter as seen from the point of view of the airflow. So much so that the Yaw damper on the 737 was not on the minimum equipment list for dispatch. On other aircraft like the 757 having one of the two yaw dampers out of service limited dispatch to return to a maintenance base (from memory so it might not be exactly that).

I'll keep my eye out for the report on this one because I'm not convinced the initial reporting tells the whole story. It's not unheard of for pilots to damage otherwise perfectly serviceable aircraft through in-proper rudder application - American Airlines Flight 587 being a horrible example.
Just flew a Max from Denver to Mexico City a couple days back.

It was mostly uneventful, but as we were preparing to land the aircraft banked hard to the left and began to experience something akin to this...like it hit a sudden pocket of turbulence at the apex of the turn and began to pogo around.

It was minor and far from inducing damage to the vehicle, but in that moment remembered where I was while clenching my body for a few nervous seconds until we eased out of the turn.
It's wrong, we have the Twizy, the Ami and the Zoe in France.
The most technological advanced thing in the Zoe is the Bluetooth to play music.
> Do you have a source not behind a "cookie wall"?

Ignore it, use technical measures to overcome it, disregard it.

If a stranger came up to you in the street and demanded $5 to continue looking at them, you’d tell them to fuck off (in so many words). You certainly wouldn’t avert your eyes, nor would you cough up.

Fuck these bozos and their shrink wrap licenses and their cookie popups and all.
On the other hand, 33% better performance for a 7% increase in power consumption is an appealing bullet point. Lots for AMD to do though, as you said.
I would also add that all these solutions are financed in the bill.

Once a panel or blade reaches the end of its life, it is no one's responsibility to have to recycle it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...

Nuclear power is the only source that solves all the "problems" on the bill.
Show HN: I Made a NextJS LaunchPad to Ship Your Ideas Faster
When I was working on a SaaS side project, I realized how many components are needed for a successful SaaS application. Each time I started a new project, I had to implement these components from scratch. That's why I created LaunchPadQuick, a template that provides all the essential tools out of the box. This way, you can focus on implementing your ideas and shipping your product as soon as possible. LaunchPadQuick lets you skip the repetitive setup and jump straight into building your unique solution.
It also comes down to if the courts will allow exclusion of "technologies developed by third parties under different Arm licenses". In some cases the courts will determine some clause like that grossly unfair and so not enforceable. (seems unlikely, but type of thing can happen)
The mortgage interest is one of the few costs that people (sometimes) account for. Usually with a hand-waving "my mortgage payment is lower or about the same as my rent payment" - which ignores that a rent payment covers everything whereas the mortgage payment only covers principal, interest (and sometimes insurance and property tax, if escrowed).
These numbers are always pretty BSy because the big dangers in flight are take-off and landing. Comparing distances just completely obfuscates everything for no real gain.

You can illustrate this clearly with some sort of reductio ad absurdum. Imagine we have an interstellar ship traveling many trillions of miles, but that blows up 90% of the time. If you look at it in terms of this same deaths/mile metric it'd still be way safer than driving, but obviously it isn't - which emphasizes that the metric is misleading.

The most reasonable way would be safety per average trip, with some sort of multiplier for particularly long or particularly short trips. After all that's exactly what people think these numbers mean, even though they most certainly don't.
"Some of you might die but that's a sacrifice I am willing to take." - some Boeing suit
That was a fun game, I loved the demo.

I think some of the extrapolation might have also inspired optimizations made in CPMA mod for Quake3, which to this day, I think, has the best netcode of all games. You can actually compete with 100 ping, in it, which is completely unplayable in OSP or vanilla Q3. I don’t think any other game even attempts to be so optimized for competitive online FPS.
Yep. I definitely agree with that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667416
Tried Amazon Q a few times, it was NEVER able to provide any help. Why do they keep that crap?
>There was another push in 2019, with issue #3617 opened by GNOME developer Christopher Davis pointing out all the previously-mentioned problems.

Pretty ironic because some people found gnomes offensive
Yes, this is why European politicians are bending over backwards to get American tech CEOs to open offices in their countries.
Yes, these are useful improvements for corporate management of software - but that's not what most of the outage was about.

Also, if there wasn't a firewall that would have blocked iTerm from hitting the OpenAI APIs, then there wouldn't have been anything preventing users from just directly accessing it.
I don't think people are moving back to India for jobs last time I checked if thats what your implying with your reverse brain drain comment.
Every so often, we take the GIMP out of its box, when we need it. wrestle with it, usually some yelling and frustration, and we manage to get the job done. Then the GIMP goes back in the box, conveniently forgotten until the next time its wanted.

It's kinda ugly, it does things with less grace than others, but it does them.

It doesn't require constant upkeep and we don't hafta let others know that we're good at using it (or not, as the case may be). The shame of utilitarian pragmatism can stay hidden if we want.

"GIMP" is the perfect name for this application.
Really? Really? So if you bought a shack in Vancouver twenty years ago for a song and now it's worth the entire symphony orchestra you can sell it with no taxes?

No wonder prices up there have gone bonkers even by US standards.
GPTScript v0.8: Browser-based option and improved script-to-agent interaction
Hang On, What's Survival Analysis?
Is it that big an advantage to test APIs that are still in beta and may change at any time? With their built in apps they can fix both pieces at once, but if they started breaking large numbers of apps every update I do not think developers would be happy.
The thrusters are to offset atmospheric drag, which accumulates with surface area, not mass.
Arm vs. Qualcomm Clash Is Threatening Windows on Arm's Big Moment
Unless ARM can show they are offering reasonable terms to make this legal. I know of other cases (I'm under NDA so don't ask for details) where a company has decided to switch course and the new one wasn't allowed under the old contract, but the contract was renegotiated to allow the switch.
> they have strict requirements on what kind of code they will accept and also decline contributions out of basically organisational politics reasons

They accept only code which they will be able to maintain, yes. That excludes spaghetty or implementations of complex undocumented APIs that are useless without a binary blob. Nothing unreasonable about that.
> If it's a software issue, I'd think owners would be pretty clear on its status on each plane.

That assume that it is a known software issue. If it is an issue with some unknown triggering factors how would they be clear on its status?
No one stops me from opening chatgpt.com in the browser and pasting corporate stuff there. Could'nt admins just ban all access to chatgpt.com and openai.com when accessed from the corporate network? That would be a solution for all software, not just iTerm.
Speaking of which, I don't understand why not. It seems like it would have been trivial to keep html5 a true xml. I do not understand what the actual technical reason for not doing that was. Naively, it just seems like breaking compatibility out of disdain rather than actually useful progress. Saving a couple of characters every once in a while does not justify the change, so I presume there must be a better reason?
Counter-Strike was/is popular because gameplay is awesome. Players stayed long enough that even "toaster PCs" could run the engine. It was never "cutting edge" even after major upgrades.
Revolut is as much a tech company as Netflix or Stripe are - using modern software to fix an old problem.
Didn’t VC money mostly go to Google and FB ads in the past?

Now they’re buying compute.
This is just the next step in a game of cat and mouse.

Ad delivering and ad blocking entities (aka Corporate and Consumers) are in a co-evolutionary state, similar to predators and prey. They will evolve to be more and more skilful.

One state in future might be that ad blocking uses a combination of crowd sourcing and AI to detect advertisement. To thwart bot detection the client will behave similar to a non-adblock client, this means, download everything. To thwart time-based ad blocking blocking (deliver the good stream only after the ad time has passed), buffer everything.

The downside is loss of spontaneity but some adblock users already have accepted this.

One way to overcome this loss is having crowd-sourced lists of good material and then automatically download the good stuff and watch this selection.

I wouldn't worry too much.

EDIT: A thought struck me. This is exactly like in nature. There are pests and life has learnt to arrange with pests and non-food stuff. Some will suffer and even die, but that's life. Content consumers will arrange with ads like life arrage with pests and non-food.

And now I understand why pests and non-food exist at all.
So this is why the LTT video on Snapdragon X had Arm blurred out XD
First video is very good for a clear explanation, second one to get a bit more comments from someone who knows.
They should, but defense-in-depth is a thing.
Pardon me as an outsider, but somehow it is not fully satisfying if the compiler cannot check it for safety.
iPhones sell in Chinese markets. And more china friendly countries will likely get access.
As imagined, it's full of meaningless code that adds no real value. It includes things like over 10,000 checks that sound impressive but don't actually do much. There are also licensing violations and who knows what else in between.
License terms like this change all the time. The real question is why ARM isn't offering reasonable terms to allow this - or are/did they and it was rejected?
That’s quite interesting, does it tie into why the snapdragon X elite is so much better than anything they’ve produced in the past?
Ask HN: Why did doi.org links stop redirecting?
I have noticed this yesterday. If you try to get to any research by clicking a link, it's dead. Nonetheless, www.doi.org is online (of course, the query box at the bottom of their site is useless). No redirection is available. What could be wrong?..
Because there are some early adopters left with more money than sense.

And the subsidies are fading but aren't gone for good.

And because everyone's copying Tesla's unusable interface for some unknown reason. I doubt Musk would recognize a rotating physical a/c control if it fell off a Falcon and hit him on the head.
I guess that's why the Zoe has been discontinued: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Zoe

Twizy and Ami are not regular passenger vehicles. I am sure there are less requirements for them.
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VYm3hOcvCpbGiqKZb14...
One of my favorite stories from the Civil Rights era is the fact that California created the template for modern gun control as a direct response to the Black Panthers policing the Police with open-carried guns (just like, standing there, armed, while police did their jobs in Black communities), and the white establishment at the time absolutely shit bricks at the notion of the negro having firepower and demanded it be regulated by none other than Governor Ronald Reagan.
It is time to destroy ARM
Incredible how every single reactor we have attempted to build in the west in the past 20 years are "individual cases" when you have to find a way to rationalize your own stand point.

Both the French and the American large-scale efforts ended in tears. Scale did not solve it.

> The costs of the French nuclear scale-up: A case of negative learning by doing

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...

> By the mid-1970s, it became clear that nuclear power would not grow nearly as quickly as once believed. Cost overruns were sometimes a factor of ten above original industry estimates, and became a major problem. For the 75 nuclear power reactors built from 1966 to 1977, cost overruns averaged 207 percent.

> [...]

> The failure of the U.S. nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history, a disaster on a monumental scale … only the blind, or the biased, can now think that the money has been well spent. It is a defeat for the U.S. consumer and for the competitiveness of U.S. industry, for the utilities that undertook the program and for the private enterprise system that made it possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_the_United_St...

> Regarding China, your point isn't clear. The fact remains that China is demonstrating the effectiveness of building multiple reactors in parallel, which is faster and cheaper.

Love how your link says "Continues rapid growth" about the Chinese nuclear program while the curve obviously is stagnating.

> While Olkiluoto 3 was expensive to build, electricity bills in Finland are now stable and relatively low because of it. Over the long term, once the construction costs are repaid, it will be even more economical.

So now we just ignore basic economics. You don't get anything for free in the world. Someone paid. In the case of OL3 the French paid for the majority of the cost.

Do you think anyone will sign a contract like OL3 again where the supplier is certain to make a loss?

Lets have a look at Denmark and South Australia then? 150 gCO2/kWh and rapidly declining. Why accept being stuck at 450 gCO2/kWh like South Korea simply because they build nuclear?

Because you don't really care about nuclear plants but understands that the discussion has shifted and now promote nuclear to prolong our reliance on fossil fuels.
It takes them 40 years to make a contemporary fighter jet, not all of which is in house, and they cannot make an infantry rifle, tank, or any defense equipment that their DoD equivalent is happy with outside of "ring laser gyroscopes", which was developed as a part of their guided missile program, which was made with covert and overt Russian and possibly Iraqi help.

They cannot make their own trainsets, cars, and consumer goods to fulfill local demand aside from food. India is on the road to privatizing many of its industries, but if you look that the list of GoI enterprises versus public private partnerships and the endemic levels of corruption (or else ethno-fascism) it is likely these are going to succeed anything soon. Indias largest exports are ideas and philosophies like religion, and I bet in the future it will be manufacturing and operating philosophy like Japan did with Kaizen.

India is a good place to go to offshore costs for space, and many countries do. They know how to squeeze the inefficiencies out of a process (and also not pay people, but that's another story) and bring down the costs of a mission. But there is nothing novel about the missions themselves. There is nothing pioneering, and there is nothing wrong with that. This is the case with Japan. Most of Japanese innovation is actually from US companies that they took over.

In any case, it's important to be realistic-- it's nothing to do with India being poor. They are not poor. They can afford a lot, and do a lot. Some people are in the mindset to accomplish a great deal mentally. Most people are not and still throw banana peels into the highway after eating them. No country without a basic civic sense can (in the immediate few years) have the R&D capabilities you speak of in a meaningful fashion.

Maybe in a few decades when people are more educated.
Laser wakefield accelerators should help with miniaturization of the particle accelerators needed for free electron lasers. It seems like to get the beam energy levels required for a FEL we need methods for staging wakefield accelerators. Staging has been demonstrated but perhaps not scaled up in beam energy? It’s been a few years since I’ve checked in on this domain…
It's not, actually, solely that.

If you're using a product that does not make API calls externally with your data previously in a corporate environment that has very strict controls, and they add a feature that is part of the base install package, even if opt-in, that allows it to do that, and they do not have something like Group Policy hooks to forcibly disable it from on high, then they will block the product globally until the functionality is more contained to something their compliance systems can prevent, be it via a group policy hook or blocking the install at all.

Companies take "we might make an external call with your data" very seriously, and regardless of how much you trust the external entity, adding that in is rightfully seen as a very serious concern in some environments.
Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative
shpool is a terminal session persistence tool developed internally at google to support remote workflows, which we have open sourced.