skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Algae offer potential as a renewable electricity source
From my other comment, quotes from Wikipedia :

A dog killed an infant as it slept in bed with its parents. The baby's father awoke during the attack, saw the injuries to the child, and immediately killed the dog.

The family dog killed two-month-old Julius who was in her infant bouncer while her father was sleeping. Julius was taken to the hospital where she was declared dead

An eight-month-old girl in a bouncy chair was attacked by the family pet while in the care of her grandmother. Fire and rescue declared her dead at the scene.
this is precisely why I was suprised to find out the author is actually a lawyer. I know you're joking ... but reality of legal practice entails so much more than just a "right"/"rational"/"convincing" decision (hell, there's an eternal debate in legal theory about whether or not this is even a sensible thing to ask for).
What. No. In Singapore the state-built apartments (HDB flats) are sold not lent to the Singaporeans/permanent residents.

The state does not operate as a landlord.
Most of the population owns their property here.
They would take feedback the same way Napoleon did.
She could admit that they fell behind on this one and really need to focus on closing the gap now. But instead she says it's all business as usual, which assures me that I won't give their hardware another shot for quite a while.
Sqlc: 2024 Check In
I'd be very wary of a $7 cable that claims to be USB4.
What is centralised wealth creation?
My dad usually writes the CEO and has pretty good luck getting issues resolved, with a lot less trouble than a court case.
Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting Train Passengers
It's more a purely contextual chemical reaction between a set of artists in a certain moment.
Isn't Anker the definition of cheap crapware (sold under a brand name)?
https://archive.is/J3dJh
My first observation of this calm oasis was watching a Dell Compellent boot around 2010. I was somewhat happy to see a familiar boot process on the display!
I've been using Linux almost exclusively since 1994.

Lack of drivers was definitely a problem but it made me spend a lot of time researching whatever I bought first. Lots of reading Linux HOWTOs and Usenet forums about whether a particular card was supported or not.

I had to install from 30 floppy disks because my brand new IDE CD-ROM wasn't supported for another 6 months. Same with my new Diamond Stealth 64 graphics card. I had to wait 6 months to be able to run X11

Those both came with my new Pentium 90 PC. After that I bought hardware specifically for Linux like my BusLogic 948 SCSI card
Well no one ever organized a horse fights, but bull fights were quite popular through-out the Europe. And even goats are far from friendly, unless they're accustomed to having a lot of people around. Pretty much any farm animal that's used to being handled by one or two people max, will be very shy and sometimes aggressive (especially when they have babies) about any new face. Smaller animals reaction will be to run away form you, but large ones will stand and fight. And when a cow lowers its head to show you the horns, it can get pretty tense, believe me :)
Sam Altman. That explains so much.

I want to see the nuclear industry maintained and to survive, but I wonder now if I’ve nearly fallen victim to his methods.
I recently replaced an element on our oven. It's 5 years old. Honestly, if manufacturers could make some of that stuff standardised I'd be quite happy to replace or pay to have them replaced. As it happens there are thousands of different shapes of "heating elements shaped to go around the fan". Same with the brushes in our washing machine I changed a while back. Finding the right replacement took more work than actually doing the replacing.
How do you think any political change was ever achieved then?
Google DeepMind Shifts from Research Lab to AI Product Factory
You make some very sinophobic arguments in your posts. While I think it's right for the West to be cautious about China, I don't think wanting to cooperate with China makes a man a bad person.

Your post also quotes a number of opinion pieces that are politically partisan against Musk. It's easy to compile a list of hit pieces against a popular individual if you go looking in sources like Electrek, whose editor Fred Lambert spends most of his time bashing Elon on Twitter (usually without much substance, and certainly without any semblance of balance)
I'm not sure exactly, but I'd probably write it in Whitespace.
From this perspective, the next effect that might be relevant is the moons orbit, which should be at a frequency 1.5 orders of magnitude below the Earth spin.
I'd love to know if any domain experts have a write up on what the the talent+ time+financial investment it would take for AMD to come up with with something that is a worthy rival to CUDA. Very curious to understand what the obstacles are.
That answer to various governments.
> URIs the browser can't use to locate something are useless in the context of the web.

The obvious counterexample to this is the mailto: URI scheme. It has no location but it is still a useful thing to link to on the web.
In general, the Go module proxy retains modules forever, for the explicit purpose of not breaking builds (https://sum.golang.org/#faq-retract-version). crates.io can delete content also. I don't think there is much difference between crates.io and the Go module proxy in this regard - they both aim to keep source code forever to avoid breaking builds, but will delete content if there's a good reason.

If the Git tag changes, the proxy returns the original code. There is no warning that the Git tag has changed, but it can't reliably detect this anyways because the Git repository could be returning different content to different clients. I don't think there is much difference between crates.io and the Go module proxy in this regard - in neither ecosystem can you assume the Git repo matches what the packaging tool downloads. (I pointed this out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40699948)

Where Go is different is that it provides assurance that the module proxy is providing the same code to everyone, eliminating the module proxy as a potential source of compromise. It also ensures that people who disable the module proxy and fetch code directly using the go command get the same code that the module proxy has. To reiterate, this does not help with doing code audits of Git repos - you have to either audit the code in the module proxy, or compute the checksum of the Git repo to make sure it matches the sumdb.
ARM frontend was already a thing at AMD decade ago.

Btw. As for now ARM has bigger market share in peoples minds than actual sales and it aint going to eat x86 even by 2030
I like this idea. Currently I usually buy cheapest things available, because I assume they break immediately after the (mandatory) 2 year guarantee.
There have been a few stories on HN over the years of people taking advantage of arbitration that so many companies insist on.

Here’s one, but there are others as well:
https://www.shuchow.com/so-i-took-a-huge-corporation-to-arbi...
I have been waiting for someone to re-invent PickOS [1] but with a PG heart and a multiuser shell with PL/pgSQL as first class CLI language or some modern form of Pick/BASIC :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system
As opposed to the abstract academic world?

The only time I had contact with Haskell was in university and I did not see it appealing back then, nor now, nor have I ever seen a program that I use, written in it.

So learning a bit of pure Haskell might have been beneficial for me to become a better programmer, but I still fail to see it being more than that - a academic language. Useful for didactic purposes. Less to actually ship software.
I've heard cats couldn't be bothered so they made humans serve them instead /s
I believe during websqlite considerations there was an idea to integrate a simple ui into the browser? I really can't find it anymore.
It's not possible to predict pronunciation from spelling in Russian and there are no spelling bees in russia
I've always worried that Proton might succumb to the enshittification that seems to eventually plague all tech companies. This news makes me a lot more optimistic that won't be the case.
> Yes, you can extend Arrow's theorem a bit

I would call it "a lot"!

> But again, it doesn't apply to people who can negotiate or compromise

You want hundreds of millions of people to negotiate and compromise with each other in a way that would eventually produce representatives that reflect the population's resulting preferences somehow? How would that work?

> or who play repeatedly.

I don't see why I should expect that to make the problem easier.

> I think it would be a good experiment to fill up parliament with a few hundred randomly selected people amongst all who are willing

That sounds like it could go incredibly wrong. Everyone who is willing will sell themselves out to the highest "bidder" (maybe bidding via money, maybe promises of future laws...), and the population unwilling or unable to become a member of parliament will have no say in the matter.
I think that would be one last straw that would make customers rebel. But I heard apple managed to pull this off, so maybe I'm out of touch.
Quantum physics may help lasers see through fog
> Apple does not care too much about making repairs easy.

They do. iPhone 14 internals was redesigned to be more repairable [0], which extended to pro models with iPhone 15 [1].

[0] https://www.ifixit.com/News/64865/iphone-14-teardown

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/News/82867/iphone-15-teardown-reveals...
Being laid off and unplanned entrepreneurship
Fedora 41 Looks to Offer a KDE Plasma Mobile Spin
Would the climate model take its own climate impact into account?
Like with a lot of countries in South America, there are certainly places you shouldn't just wander about in. VRAEM in Peru is another example. But there is a lot of tourism in Bolivia. Most places are perfectly safe. Lonely Planet can be a good place to start if you're unsure.
McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test
Google was unseated for me by Kagi. I find the results and overall user experience is much better. However, since it isn’t a free service, I’m probably in the minority of people who are willing to pay for search.

I’ve been telling pretty much anyone I think will be interested about them to try and get people to see there is life without Google.

That said, I still use YouTube, and also use Google Maps for looking up businesses… though I tend to use Apple Maps for actual turn by turn directions in the car. My Gmail account has been relegated to my junk email.
Another Variation
Maybe you know this, but incredibly and amusingly (to me at least) it's sometimes the answer to post a comment here like yours, and someone appears saying [X] archival group will be happy to take them, email blah to arrange shipping.

Of course, absence of that doesn't mean there's no value to anyone.
Most people simply didn't knew to look for it, like the freebsd handbook.
Won’t these ARM products kill Intel first? AMD’s parts are more competitive, correct?
Why some franchises go downhill while others stay great
OK. Apologies for imprecision. I was replying in a rush.

> A reasoner can strive for "objective neutrality" with good results.

By "reasoner" do you largely mean "person"? If I have issues with your statement but they are probably a slight distraction to the point at hand.

> speaking of "objective neutrality" does not really match the context of LLMs.

Agreed. They produce output based on their training data. But the use and evaluation of LLM output by a person is what we're discussing here. And that's where (flawed) concepts like objectivity and neutrality enter the discussion.
"Pac Man found a Solution for the Perfect Game: Get Rid of Ghosts"

The number of people across all platforms hosting this story who believe this is somehow proof of anything is staggering.
GKE and Cloud Run are very robust at this point, and I consider them best in class. Cloud SQL is fairly mature but I still prefer AWS RDS.
and the next day the error came back and ultimately something else had to be replaced.

a failed bulb could result in a 'please change the bulb before the rest of me breaks' on the display, too.
> There's nothing inherently evil about this concept, but we tend to want to chalk it up to greed when Company X really just wants to survive and make a profit, which I suppose is the point.

No, that's exactly the problem. Company X surviving isn't a good enough justification for it to start making shittier products. Especially when they don't inform the customers of the degradation.

This is a business model problem, or perhaps a whole-market problem; papering over it with "oh just a little planned obsolescence is good, because it lets the vendor survive" is kind of a bailout, and prevents the problem from being corrected. By now, this has happened in so many places across so many industries that it's a rot that runs deep through entirety of the market.
Hi cool stuff, would like to see some valid uses cases of how you use it in your daily routine. Would be way more useful if it was a mobile app (e.g. PWA). Also, a bit frictional to try the demo if we need to put our api key, consider getting some free credits (e.g. microsoft for startups program gives ~2.5k to anyone) so you can let people try it immediately!
Well, it is obvious, and it used to be ubiquitous. It's also complicated, which makes it expensive and easy to break.
I have observed the new European right-wing neo-liberal sunrise with great interest, and I think the "people entering the coutry", aka "asylum seekers and other pesky poor people I don't like" (where there still is social housing) or "IT professionals and bank boys and all those pesky rich hipsters I don't like" (for gentrified/gentrifying cities) are a much smaller part of the problem than it seems. It is easy to blame them because they are foreigners and thus don't vote, and it makes "externalising" the problem (which is multifaceted, complex, and absolutely the fault of the current generation of politicians/investors and the middle class) easy - it gives you a super simple "guilty party" you can smack at with a baton and feel good about it. Where as you might be a part of the problem (that lovely single family home you have invested in so well could have been a 4-story housing unit for 4 families, but it wouldn't have been your investment pot, wouldn't it?)

I think NIMBYism and financialisation of housing in general is the actual problem here. If it is a financial instrument to invest into a mortgage or development and you can expect those insane returns simply by being able to "afford" a home - you will naturally be skewed towards making homes more expensive and less available, as scarcity raises value. Where I am it is the trope of the last year or two in politics that "those pesky foreigners have gobbled up all the real estate", all the while construction is regulated up the wazoo, older people do not allow hardly an electricity cabinet to be built even if they can see it with binoculars...

It is in the interest of those who bought their houses early and for cheap (some - even before the Euro) and (some) paid off the mortgages. Since pension schemes are getting dismantled, and solidarity is decreasing - a lot of people tend to see "selling the big house" as their only plausible way to have savings that do not depreciate and do not get taxed. And they sure AF do not want housing to be more affordable, because their pretty single-family home will become more affordable too. Boo boo foreigners.

Naturally they would not want this investment to depreciate.

Mortgages not balanced with rents are certainly a problem, as are fiscal benefits to those taking mortgages (and the general neo-liberal thing with taxing investment way less than income). But the biggest issue IMO is the fact that housing is investment first, basic need second. This needs to change if folks in populated western countries want to live... somewhere.
Is that you?

As someone who is a moderate proponent of nuclear power, the entire “fly-by-night” vibes of these start-ups were odd.

Now I get why.
> technically that isn't true if you use, for example, unsafePerfomIO in the defintion of x

Ah, well, regardless of whether it holds in Haskell, referential transparency is a well-defined concept. Purity is not a well-defined concept (at least as far as I know. Please share a formal definition if you have one!). That's primarily what I'm trying to say.

But I also disagree with your point about unsafePerformIO. In practice, nothing in Haskell violates referential transparency in a significant way. Who knows why? It's an emergent phenomenon that in principle need not have occurred, but in practice it did. Debug.Trace and similar are about the only things that technically violate referential transparency (and they are extremely tame).

> the fact that it uses lazy evaluation is far more important to actually being able to make use of referential transparency

Yes, I agree with that.
What are the implications of the new stringdtype? If I remember correctly, string performance was a big part of the pandas switch to arrow.
This is the right approach. Usually I also avoid any future business with a company that starts spamming me.
I'm often guilty of missing mistakes in my own posts, but as a PSA: please proofread your posts, especially if using prediction on a phone.

You can edit your post if you do so soon after posting, and sometimes the meaning isn't lost (stale matches -> stalemates) but other times it (subjectively) is. For example I don't know what "rightful" should be here.
Tinybird raises another $30M to transform data into real-time APIs
That means nothing. You are bending the intended meaning of "creative" as per the poster. Authoritarian powers commit pruning - this is the point.
To plug my own solution, my effect system Bluefin makes exceptions visible in the type, well-scoped, and also freely composable with all other effects:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bluefin-0.0.3.0/docs/Blu...
This situation was referenced in the article. :)
PureScript is an example.
Build a better Google.
The domestication of horses was not a single event, but a long, drawn-out process that took place over several thousand years. According to Occam's razor, it is very unlikely that it happened twice in history. I do not question the stated DNA method, but I do question the conclusion drawn here. There might be a link between the two domestications (if two or more have actually occurred) that hasn't been discovered yet.
I wouldn't blame that on the CEO, that's just regular media training and it's their job is to keep the stock market happy.

Companies really only admit to failure if there's no other option and the pressure is too high ("Antenna gate" and others come to mind).
Multimodal Masked Modeling
Meta, nor anyone else doesn’t have a license to do anything they wish according to EU law - we don’t have wildcard copyright assignments - you need to specify the fields in which a person grants the copyright. Exatly for the reason that when a new tech is invented, the original author may decide to not grant the copyright for that field, or grant it to someone else.

That is, each legally binging copyright assignment needs an enumeration of fields, like radio, tv, streaming and so on, and when a new field appears the copyright belongs to the original author by default. And statements like “in all fields current and future” are not legally binding.

There is no such thing as “people signed copyright to Meta so Meta can use it in whatever fashion”.

You can read an exercept of Meta’s
ToS here - these ToS do not allow them to train models based on the content people publish. https://www.quora.com/When-I-post-a-photo-on-Facebook-or-Ins...
"For internet backup I have a 4G modem right now, connected to my unifi router with auto failover and a script that adds credit to my prepay card over SMS. It serves me ok. But I'd love to have a starlink mini for backup. Just the regular one is a bit big so I didn't get it yet."

Is 4G a good backup? I am also in Spain and in my neighborhood we often suffer from power failure under heavy rain, I guess a local transformer is shorting as it impacts just a few streets around my house. But when it happens I also lose phone connectivity. The nearest antenna seems to be located in the few streets impacted and smartphone seemingly cannot reach another one nearby. This made me realize the short radius of mobile network range around a single antenna.
If the GDPR has no teeth and the EU no stick to enforce it with then US commpanies following it would not be reasonable like you have claimed.
First, they need to work with kernel devs to finally fix their drivers. Like, Nvidia used to be a "pain in the ass" here as well (that's a literal quote from Torvalds), so simply by contributing more than nothing, they could have taken the lead. But they definitely screwed this one up.

Second, they need to fix their userspace stack. ROCm being open source and all is great in principle, but simply dropping your source to the masses doesn't make it magically work. They need to stop letting it linger by either working with the open source community (huge time investment) or do it themselves (huge money investment).
It barely glows. The "lightbulb cartel" was basically a consumer protection because barring major inventions, any deviation from the thousand hour lightbulb would have severe drawbacks in terms of power efficiency or light output.
>Most of the population owns their property here.

...as a direct result of government policy that discourages landlording.
Trains most certainly do not run automated, not on any long distance route anyway (there are some city trains/trams that do). And again, I'm comparing results. Waymo works autonomously quite well, even though geolocked to a city. Its going to be far easier for Waymo to take their existing mastery of traffic and extend that to less well mapped areas than it is going to be for Tesla to take their lack of mastery of any aspect of self driving tech and extend it to actually working.

What exactly do you think geolocking does to simplify the problem of self-driving so much?
Termux, QEMU, Alpine Linux: Reset root Password, /etc/shadow On Disk Image, awk
> So you have a reasonable expectation that your appliance will last a reasonable amount of time. So how long is reasonable?

FOREVER. Just design them so parts are replaceable and buildable by any third party and provide the documentation.
I really wish any of these companies creating super batteries that have a lot of capacity to actually market them.

A laptop/phone that needs to be recharged every few weeks… heaven.
Ah, fair enough. I've only tested the Rust version.

Yeah, important to note, in practice it is always finite, since if you try to do anything "real" using this trick, you blow the stack immediately. This was mostly just a fun fact about how easy it is for Turing-completeness to sneak in. I seem to remember reading something about how Algol-60 was similar, they intended it not to allow recursive procedures, but permitted function pointers (or something) and you could do a similar thing.
There’s a reason xor interface buttons are called “radio buttons“.
well worth reading even for veteran senior engineers. worth re-reading every few years too.
LED diodes can theoretically last decades given the correct drivers (current and heat needs to be significantly limited), unfortunately they are the very definition of planned obsolescence.

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-l-e-d-quanda...

A stable DC current and temperature limited LED can easily last decades.