skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electricity is an invisible force that, when harnessed, is able to perform useful work, light up the night sky, and create entertainment like moving pictures on flat panels. Contact your local electrologist for more details.
There are hundreds of other articles detailing ineffectiveness of the vaccines and lowering efficacy. It is well known that the institutions also changed the narrative to say that vaccines were never about "transmission"

I've seen a 2 minute long video showing the declining percentages mainstream media claimed on the vaccine over the course of 3 months. Perhaps this one particular article was dishonest however.
>> Iterm2’s remote tmux integration is a killer feature

But then i need to give up nested tmux on remotes https://github.com/craigjperry2/dotfiles/blob/main/dotfiles/... - it's super convenient to have tmux nested remotely for organising work and locally for broadcasting or just convenient context switching. Even when i was an iTerm2 user, i felt vanilla tmux was just way more comfortable (copy paste buffer for example)
Re: movie makers owning cinemas, Sony just acquired Alamo Drafthouse yesterday (until 2020, this wasn’t allowed):

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sony-pic...
I'm in a remote first company and my entire team is over 40.
IT/CS pays well which brings in a lot of competition to the market.
I like this idea a lot, its a different form of technical interview that relies on interpretation rather than getting them to write something that may be suboptimal and not the quality of what they would do on the job. It tests knowledge rather effectively
Yes but is the heating in HVAC through temperature controlled air flow like for cooling?

Over here it is mostly using radiators with water heated with natural gas (same gas that was used for cooking when fire stoves were common).
It's a trade off between security for normies and power for technical users. I disagreed at the time (as an addon author) yet have come around to agreeing with the choice.
What daily activities don't have a small chance of the same risk?

Eating has a small chance of choking to death. Walking has a small chance of getting hit by a falling tree branch. Pooping has a small chance of causing a brain aneurysm to pop.
That's not the issue here. It's that this is the entirely wrong place to go off-topic and begin airing political grievances. It just screams "bots and agents."
Well there were probably some early warning signs

The problem is that warning sign comes at around 10ms or less before the actual disaster
[dupe]

More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40576696
Are you by chance using external storage media such as USB or SD cards?

The bus on these older model chromebook devices had a choking issue where the kernel would fully saturate the transfer bus and cause a cgroup scheduling strategy to give full priority to the processes using the bus at the expense of the gui. Solutions to this problem include a new NVME or software level cgroup reconfiguration of the kernel to revert scheduling priority to equal across all cgroups.

Or it could be something else entirely, but last time i had this issue and bug hunted it the finding was as stated above.
Iridescence in Meat Caused by Surface Gratings (2013)
It is mentioned in the first paragraph of the README:

shpool is a service that enables session persistence by allowing the creation of named shell sessions owned by shpool so that the session is not lost if the connection drops. shpool can be thought of as a lighter weight alternative to tmux or GNU screen.
It's typically Canadian small-potatoes in manifestation, but not that much different from any other government desperate to hang on. Populist appeals to "fairness" and out of control spending that will force the hand of the group that has the resources to fight, find loopholes or leave. This is not going to end well when it's time to pay the bills.
... test dummies.
Issue: There is no date on entries. Scrolling down marks entries as read.
The Thinking Machine (Artificial Intelligence in the 1960s) [video]
Most employees in corporate environments do not get to set company policy.

Most users of open source software do not have the skills necessary to modify said software.

Complaining is the only recourse that most people have.
Yeah, ever since they brought him on in 2004 the company has done nothing but lose revenue and shrink.
From experience, “we don’t talk about those”.
Are you denying the blatant/overt censorship? Many scientists were censored by institutions. This is well known and documented. The twitter files even made this apparent on congress floor, where silicon valley knows more about science than accredited doctors.
Maybe USDA (openusd ascii format)?
> Most of Japanese innovation is actually from US companies that they took over.

Just gonna leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_inventions_an...

Hopefully you'll realize that that is one of the more uninformed takes you've had, and then question the other things you think are true.
Why is this better then the old school "screen"?
Rise of the Nanomachines
I hope they all get to ride on it like true engineers would.
I was always wondering what the plan for Arm was post-IPO, given that they're currently trading at a P/E of more than 500 and they've historically been a low-margin, high-volume supplier.

Here goes the pivot to become the next Intel, I guess?
Having worked in such environments one of two things happen:

1. Developers are forced to use Windows and given very little CLI access. And they certainly wouldn’t be using iTerm since it’s macOS only.

2. Developers are given a Windows corporate device as well as a MacBook Pro. The MBP doesn’t have access to any corporate systems

3. Developers can access corporate systems on MBP via jamf or InTune. The corporate side of the business accepts the risk that developers can access external (read: non-vetted) services but the business has access to all internet traffic logs from your device (usually pushed into some kind of security package that monitors for suspicious traffic) plus the ability to remote wipe it. So there is a degree of trust given to the developers.

Those that are stuck with option 1 are usually the unhappiest and least productive. So it’s not something most businesses like to entertain unless senior management is very corporate and the business is considered high risk.
Large portions of the Nuvia team were ex Apple A- and M-series silicon designers and builders, presumably the Snapdragon X Elite used some of the cross pollinated ideas originating from apple silicon.

Maybe not exact duplicate, but the ideas cross polinated.
Reading the article (which isn't that good) it seems that Lignin's goal isn't compostability but rather oil independence. On Lignin's site they say:

"RENOL® is proven to be very stable during recycling, keeping its properties during many recycling cycles. RENOL® slows down the breakdown of PE and ABS in recycling processes."

So I think they are looking more at a model of using a substance that is usually burned to make a plastic that can be reused and yes, as somebody else said, fill our ocean with more plastic.

It's a little hard to tell though, lignin.se has some dead links, which doesn't seem too smart for a product launch.
There's a lot of really smart people that understand chemistry at a much better level than the typical reader on an internet forum. Do we really need to "guess"? Seems like we could study this to actually determine what would happen with controlled experiments. One might go so far as to call that the scientific method.
Cyberstarts' Secret: CISOs Earn Thousands for Boosting Companies
Calcalist uncovers the unique strategy behind Cyberstarts' impressive returns: awarding substantial financial incentives to CISOs for fostering strong relationships with the fund’s portfolio companies. This model, though increasingly scrutinized, might be a key factor in Cyberstarts' remarkable success. Ra'anan clarifies that no CISOs are compensated for purchasing products.
Yeah and I think some tech or topics or businesses get stuck in that hole more than others and it's brutal to get out.

I remember the really old NHL, late 1970s / 1980s. Everyone drinking it up in parking lots before the game, in game fights and hits could be nasty. Different atmosphere. The idea that you might discard your entire existing audience for a hopefully larger one must seem like a mountain to climb. Still, it seemed to work for the NHL. It's a completely different vibe now.
That's great, almost no one is going to watch it still if they weren't already before. There's tons of existing subsidies that already at every level of gov.

This isn't the 90s when they could force feed us bad Canadian produced TV shows on Canadian TV channels. Netflix gives people the choice of global content now and there's more opportunity and money floating around for young up and coming filmmakers than ever before.
Hey HN,

A few months ago, I was swamped with the daily grind of writing emails. It felt like a never-ending task, consuming hours each day. One evening, while discussing this with a friend, an idea sparked: what if AI could handle email writing for us?

The Idea

Inspired by AI advancements, I envisioned a tool that could automate email composition. The goal was clear: create something that fits seamlessly into daily routines, handles multiple languages, and generates contextually accurate emails.

The Journey

I dove into the world of AI and natural language processing, focusing on understanding the nuances of email communication—tone, context, and clarity. After weeks of research, I began coding the prototype. The early versions were rough but promising, and I tested them rigorously by writing my own emails.

Building Scribix

A major breakthrough was implementing a feature that allowed the AI to learn from previous emails, adapting to a user’s unique writing style over time. This made the emails generated by Scribix feel personal and authentic.

Real-World Testing

I shared the prototype with a small group of friends and colleagues. Their feedback was invaluable. They appreciated how Scribix could draft responses in seconds, handle multiple languages, and understand the context of conversations.

The Result

After months of development and countless iterations, Scribix became a powerful email assistant. It composes emails from brief prompts, generates context-aware replies, and saves users significant time, allowing them to focus on more important tasks.
Lazard LCOE 2024 released [pdf]
The most significant report for the future of power generation (and climate mitigation). By viewing historical Lazard LCOE reports, you can see the dramatic price drop of solar/wind over the last 10-15 years.

Recently Lazard has started to list out the combined storage + wind/solar, which for onshore wind is now at parity with combined gas cycle, and solar+storage is catching up.

Solar/Wind has actually increased slightly in cost this year, which may be due to tariffs or simply extremely high demand. IMO this is a temporary blip long-term, especially since sodium ion batteries for storage are building into mass production, and at some point perovskites will revolutionize solar panel prices as well.
> The average working class Canadian won't see that, and a PP gov't will just gut or turf those programmes immediately.

Precisely. I think what really grates on people is that the policies pursued are so anti-working class interests while being patronized to from cabinet about it all the time.

This is why despite being libertarian I manage to maintain active friendships with lefties - it is the self serving provably corrupt we cannot stand. I think both of us tend to assume the other leads to an even worse scenario.
> Where do those laid off Indian H1B and EB1/2 move?

I don't think that would be a "reverse". A reverse would be Americans trying to apply en masse to Indian companies.
Agreed it’s deliver value for shareholders >>>>>>>>> everything else
Found this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633668
I'm pretty sure everyone (at least on M1 macs) are getting that 50-100ms delay. There's a perceptible lag vs Terminal.app - in the grand scheme of things it means nothing. But once you notice it... you can't unsee it!
My use case (not very sexy) is process documentation. I take a basic outline, run it through GPT, manually edit some things here and there, boom, done. 10x productivity in that regard.
What I'd like to see with a product like this is integration with vim registers: If I yank to anything other than OS clipboard, I see it in the history but not as the latest clipboard item.
Yeah that's a good point, "lightweight" was probably not the best term. I meant lightweight in terms of the cognitive overhead of picking up a new tool, not really in terms of performance. I would expect that shpool will perform better on some workloads and tmux will perform better on others (though in both cases they are probably good enough).

The main difference is that tmux is a power user tool that you generally invest in configuring and tweaking to get just right, while shpool is meant to be set up quickly to solve the specific problem of dropped connections and then mostly forgotten about.
Oh, sure. But for me, the lack of self-awareness in "my command line inputs include extremely sensitive identifiers all the time, and this is fine, if it weren't for your optional AI plugins" is especially grating.

So, like, if I ever happen to execute 'history' in any session of yours that I manage to get access to, I hit the jackpot?
Great points… people expect it to behave like an Oracle- they want it to figure out what they meant and give a correct factual answer every time, and when it fails they write it off. But that isn’t really what it is- it is more accurately a “situation simulator” based on predictive models. So you only get a useful response when you engineer the entire discourse so that a useful response is the appropriate one. Make sure it “knows” to respond as an enthusiastic and well respected expert, not as an obnoxious forum troll.
answer to my question is on the description page of Shpool. Looks compelling.
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The biggest advantage of this approach is that shpool does not break native scrollback or copy-paste.
This isn't about Microsoft, per se. This is about the fact that there's no risk for companies who do, even if they're bidding for government work. Hopefully whistleblowers making these things public will lead to the public putting pressure on their elected officials to actually make some regulations with teeth in this area. I'm not holding my breath, but it is something I consider in the voting booth.
Turns out businesses have a stated preference for "nice things for the customer/society" but a revealed preference for money.
Health advocacy. Literally saving lives.

I also use it for updates to customers for my business.
It's not a feeling, the IT job market is dead relative to how it was in the recent past and is unlikely to recover imo.

Were I to guess, 20 years ago you were in niche group of weirdos who enjoyed writing computer code in their free time which just so happened align with the 90s-00s internet revolution and 10s smart phone revolution.

For a couple of decades there just hasn't been enough nerds to build all apps and websites companies wanted built, and therefore competition for these jobs was extremely high. If you wanted to win the best IT talent you had to pay 6 figures and offer endless perks.

Today every government in the world is trying to push kids to code in an attempt to win a share of economic success that companies like Google and Apple have had. But with more people now going into software, more outsourcing and with cloud software like Shopify allowing those without a technical background to build and ship websites and products on their own, the demand for engineers relative to the number of engineers is now decreasing for the first time.

Going forward I'd bet on AI continuing to erode the relative demand for software engineers.

I'd also argue it's less that the IT market today is bad, but that it's adjusting to be more comparable to other skilled labour jobs which are more competitive and less favourably compensated than IT.

Clearly going forward the shortage is likely to be in jobs that have geographical restrictions and require hard skills. You can't outsource a roofer and use Gen AI to generate you a roof, and it's a profession that takes years to master therefore you can't just hire anyone to do it, and yet no one wants to do these manual labour jobs anymore. Were I in my teens today, this is where I'd be looking for career security. As it stands I'm not going to complain after lucking massively over the last ~15 years – there really was no better time to be a computer nerd.
Apple, Google, and Nvidia have entered the conversation.
100%

If equity is going to be a material component of compensation, then the argument "you're not committed enough, you deserve nothing if you leave..." is utter nonsense.

Imho, many/most of these draconian equity / option terms are nothing more than attempts at 'golden handcuffs' to make it more challenging for employees to leave these startups.

Sadly, they work: I know many who couldn't leave roles til they'd saved up for years, or could finally ink second mortgage on their home, etc in order to purchase all their equity in their 90 day post-exit windows....
Ask HN: AI for converting Figma to Code
Has anyone had luck using AI to convert Figma designs to NextJS code? I tried feeding PNG files to ChatGPT, but the CSS styles are understandably incorrect.
They backed away from printing entire rockets because, well, it's a foolish way to fabricate large tanks.
Windows Mobile and Office is where I did my time. :D
I watched this video recently and found it really informative w.r.t. commercial aviation near misses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIiPt1YVkP8

It gives just enough detail around the classification system, rate of incidents, root causes, etc, that I could search for and learn more on my own after.
They're kinda sorta starting down this path, as they announced a new GitHub org (swiftlang) this week, which will eventually be the home of Swift and all its related libraries, including the rewritten Foundation. This should allow outside contributors direct commit access much more easily, and allows the language to start moving more out of Apple's control.
What part is not true?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz165f1g8-E

I'm sure that there are lots of problems with this approach, but it is not as obvious as your comment makes it out to be.
Or perhaps probes to the Mars?
Suggestion for the author of computerwebsite.net : include dates of posting and edits. (This suggestion also applies to anyone who writes on the web.)
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater though

While some may - as this thread make out - fall for that archetypal trope; some of those elements are indeed worth studying

For example, scientists don’t place a huge effort on documenting the peoples of Papua New Guinea for some weird Exoticism. They genuinely provide unbridled access to effectively untouched (from western influence) and highly diverse groups. This access in turn is breeding ground for anthropologic, historic and psychological theory development and empirical studies

Don’t fall into the trap of immediately disregarding genuine areas of research due to previous experience with these “noble savage” admirers

To go further with this example: western doctors and researchers immediately began to force PNG groups to stop their burial rites after finally discovering Kuru (deadly prion disease) was being caused by some of their rites (consumption of brain tissue after death)

You can both be an advocate for smaller cultures in undeveloped areas without fetishising it and still support modern medicine, science and logistics
Uninstalling and moving to an alternative. In the case of open source, forking the project.
Great, thanks for the response. That seems like a realistic perspective on what is achievable in most cases. I guess it's good to have it in mind as something to raise on the offchance it might be something a particular company is willing to be flexible on.
Reminds me of the old joke about shuffling the stack of candidate resumes multiple times and then picking the top 3 (and throwing away the rest), because you wouldn’t want to hire unlucky people.
The possibility of a second solution other than dark matter sounds great to me. Just because we know mass warps space, we don't know it's the only thing that does. We should have called dark matter "imaginary matter" because it's a solution to an equation that we can't solve using what's known. Interesting to wonder how we will have misnamed it in retrospect.
US Supreme Court backs Starbucks over fired pro-union workers
We’re not talking about the people. We’re talking about where tax dollars get directed.
thankfully we can just wait and see here. concretely, I predict time from first multimodal llm that can reliably read a chessboard and analogue clock without finetuning (obviously not reasoning) until ARC is solved is <4 months
Fair enough!

> I don’t know; again for me it’s been extraordinarily helpful and made software engineering a lot more enjoyable

I found it to be more of an impediment than help, in that I spent at least as much time and effort when using LLMs as assistants than not, and it makes the software engineering much less pleasant for me.

Different strokes and all that. As with all tools, what is great for one person can be terrible for another.
Ask HN: Are there any Gen-AI products in the wild?
I went to a major conference and the AI hype was mad. All devs will be replaced, all testers will be replaced, code will be generated from a prompt each time, tests will be generated from a prompt each time.

Utterly absurd, in my cynical mind.

But, playing devils advocate, are there any popular tools or apps in the wild that are written in this way? Or even partly in this way?
I haven't seen anyone put any other alternatives up for debate.

I know Poilievre has talked about defunding the CBC, but I don't know of anything he has proposed that would result in more local journalists.

Do you have an alternative in mind? We need some way to get $ into journalists' pockets while also having some accountability.

Increased CBC funding? It's probably better to have a diverse set (i.e. not just one being subsidized) of news outlets, so the Liberal plan here makes more sense to me, though there's also an argument for not spreading things too thin across lots of tiny outlets.

Instead of taxing the streamers, require they provide local content directly? I think that this proposal is doing that indirectly. The streamers get taxed, but could pick up some $ from the CRTC if they start producing more local content.

Instead of taxing the streamers, tax people directly? That'd probably be less popular than taxing the streamers, so good luck with that.
lightweight in terms of features of course.

it simply allows you to have multiple shell/term sessions on a server and be able to switch between them from any terminal. Kind of a 'flat ctrl-Z' cum 'nohup' if you will.

No windows, splits, etc, no client software at all in fact.
Buttons are surprisingly expensive; not just the button itself but the wiring and the labor. Let's WAG at $20 per button. $20 * a few dozen buttons is real money.
Generating and using keys held in SE is already a public API available to third party apps.
Good point; if the Mx architecture does prove to be a viable competitor to Nvidia/AMD for training and/or inference, do you think Apple would enter the server market?
They continue to diversify on the consumer side, I wonder if they have their eye on the business market; I am not sure if their general strategy of “prettier is better” would work well there though.