skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is partially true but for many things the price is different. In the US drugs are priced assuming that there are some number of rich people who can afford them. This often results in higher margin pricing which is more profitable even if the volume is lower and puts them out of reach of many. In countries with public health care, setting the price that high will typically result in near-zero sales, so the price gets set closet to the cost-benefit point to make profit in lower margins but higher volumes.

It doesn't always work like this. Some drugs are just too expensive to manufacture and the minimum profitable price is too high for the benefit in public health care. But often the bargaining and purchasing power of a public health care system can achieve lower prices for drugs and other tools.
> Use a programming language that lets you write clean, fast, memory-safe, parallel data-race-free code — probably Rust.

But from the lwn article:

It is written in C++ [..].

Oops! :-)
> The median operating margins for hospitals is around 0% or some times negative. Injecting more costs into the system is only going to push prices further upward.

Removing costs from the system will only increase profits, so why pretend that increasing costs will necessarily increase prices rather than decreasing profits?

(And before anyone plays the 'nonprofit' card, a nonprofit is only nonprofit in the sense that its net income must be zero. The owners and administrators of a nonprofit can most certainly profit by it.)
It's a fun project, but there's no practical value proposition besides showing that it can be done.

People are cheering on it because they love the author and want a new web browser written from scratch, but practically speaking it is a web browser that is 1) written in a memory unsafe language, 2) doesn't really have any sandboxing, and 3) is highly incomplete.
I think you're completely missing the wider picture in your insistence on giving equivalency to the mouse with any modern AI, LLM or machine learning system.

The evolutionary processes behind the mouse being capable of all that are a part of the long distant past, up to the present, and their results are manifest in the physiology and cognitive abilities (such as they are) of the mouse), but this means that these abilities, conscious, instinctive and evolutionary only exist in the physical body of that mouse and nowhere else. No man-made algorithm or machine is capable of anything remotely comparable and its capacity for navigating the world is nowhere near as good. Once again, this especially applies when you consider that the mouse does all it does using absurdly tiny energy resources, far below what any LLM would need for anything similar.
Batteries can often be used twice a day. They can buy cheap power in the middle of the night and resell it in the early morning peak.

YMMV depending on local supply and demand patterns
You don't want to try things with your kids.

One language per parent works. The other approaches? It's already quite challenging not to mix language in simple bilingual families.

Your second rule sounds super weird. Are you going to change language as you walk through your door? Additionally, at some point the kid will choose a language. To me does not sound solid.

Maybe you can make a teddy bear use a third language. Not that weird (in the first 5 years, I guess, lol). And that would introduce the kid to it.

EDIT: also if you talk only at home you'll get limited to talk about sofas, order your room and stuff like that.

And if you get more than one kid, all this house of cards will fall. The kids will speak between them whatever they want and you can do very little to change that.
That's my article, FWIW.

I got a lot of unhappy feedback from SUSE for it, but they did not deliver solid tech info I asked for, even given 2 days to do so.

TL;DR summary: they're focussing on immutable distros now, but unlike rival efforts such as Endless (Debian + OStree) or immutable Fedora (OStree all the way down) or Ubuntu Core (Snap all the way down), SUSE implemented transactional packaging using Btrfs snapshots and plain old RPM.

So, underneath, it's structured pretty much the same as conventional SUSE. That means you can turn the immutability function off, if desired, and be left with something quite conventional.
Thanks for the reply.

I'm doing research on radars at a lab, but on automotive and robotics scales and operating costs are just not something we consider.
This is so wildly wrong it hurts. As soon as that one important website (to your user) breaks, they will switch browsers.

Just deciding that you don't want to implement >50% of web specs "for simplicity" and expecting that to be a winning strategy is very HN.
Good point, which really ties back to 6 though. A lot of the people that complain about constantly being interrupted seem to ramble on incessantly and never allow anybody else to speak.

For a good conversation there needs to be a balance here.
I thought we safe and beyond these kind of considerations, especially in the EU, since the wikileaks/snowden/shelsea manning era? Aren’t we? Well, I guess you should never take something for granted…
I meant we as in the collective, and I explicitly referenced the collective of those writing applications that process and/or execute user generated content. So no, I don’t think it appropriate to focus my question on the author or this project. I am wondering if C++ is a better choice for reasons I don’t understand when it comes to HTML/JS/CSS, despite potential security implications as the complexity grows.
Okay, can Dragon be depressurized and then repressurized back? Somehow I think it will require a lot of additions to its construction, and also alternative hatch instead of docking module (was already done with transparent dome for Inspiration4 mission.
Moving the blame on right wingers feels incredibly wrong.

Reminds me how certain movie directors blame the right wingers for their movie flopping, when the real reason is their movie just sucks mega balls period. Just own your failures and stop looking for right wing straw men everywhere as scapegoats.

Money talks in the free market and consumers vote with their wallets so if you make products that are top quality and great value, they'll buy them regardless of your political orientation.
Show HN: Claude3.5 API PHP Package – Same-day release as Anthropic's 3.5 release
Hi HN,

Today, Anthropic announced Claude 3.5 Sonnet, their latest AI model. Inspired by this release, I've just launched a PHP package for seamlessly integrating Claude 3.5 into PHP projects.

Key features:
- Simple chat interface for quick interactions
- Advanced message handling for complex conversations
- Vision capabilities for image analysis
- Real-time streaming support
- Tool usage for extended functionality

The package is designed to be user-friendly for beginners while offering advanced features for complex use cases. It's fully tested and includes comprehensive error handling.

With Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforming competitor models and offering a 200K token context window, this package opens up exciting possibilities for PHP developers.

I'd love to get your feedback and hear about any interesting use cases you might have. Feel free to check out the repo, try it out, and let me know what you think!

GitHub: https://github.com/claude-php/claude-3-api

Looking forward to your thoughts and how you might use Claude 3.5 in your projects!

Dale
Newest NATO Member Sweden Says Russia Disrupting Its Satellite Networks
https://archive.ph/H95gv
They released chat and non-chat (completion) versions of 3.5 at the same time so not really; the switch to chat model was orthogonal.

e: actually some of the pre-chatgpt models like code-davinci may have been considered part of the 3.5 series too
It was re-approved by a shareholder vote, just like it was approved by a shareholder vote the first time.

At the same time a move to Texas was approved by shareholder vote, but it had nothing to do with approval of pay package.

Plus, moving to Texas would not void the Delaware ruling.
What stops you from disabling cloud protection / some firewall rules, if you are worried about the leaking documents?
Looked up surfels .. I think they are different from fitting local planes - I was interested in the geometry, not the lighting.

But surfels seems like a clever idea, pre-dating view dependent NeRFs.
As somebody potentially in the market for an EV, I can say that for me, Musk is most definitely a factor.

Not the only factor, to be sure, but the off-putting icing on an otherwise average cake.
If Tesla were the only decent EV in town, I might hold my nose through Musk’s behaviour and buy one. They aren’t, though, so I don’t have to.

The other major factors in my decision are the very public QA issues, safety issues, and questionable design decisions (eg. all-touchscreen controls, dangerous “full self-driving” fallacy) that, combined, leave me thinking “yeah, maybe I’d rather buy from a somewhat more boring company with a longer history of _making safely-working cars_”

I don’t kid myself that the heads of most car companies are necessarily decent human beings who align with me ethically or politically, but all other things being increasingly equal, why would I opt for the one run by a childish unstable egomaniac who stands in loud, public opposition to most of what I believe in?
When the Cybertruck launched was already too late for them to have launched a "budget" Tesla, and a budget Tesla is what they really needed to cement their lead in the EV industry. Now there are a bunch of decent competitors in Tesla's market segments and China is eating (or will eat) everybody's lunch in cheaper segments (except for the US, I guess, with the 100% import tax).

I have no idea what they're doing. It looks like the budget Tesla is dead in the water and they're all in on robotaxis? How is that going to work? What's their actual strategy for the near to long-term future?
> For example, imagine you being arrested at Frankfurt airport because you posted something a year ago

Doesn't this happen all the time? Wasn't David Irving repeatedly arrested and charged in many countries in continental Europe for things he said and wrote while abroad? (Not defending Irving's views, he's a noxious lying toad, but the principle here appears to be the same.)
If the eventual goal is to place the application in the hand of users, I think the question has merit.
Interesting comment about GPS. I find I learn a lot because I always check the route it chooses, and often find possibilities I didn't consider. I think GPS is different to AI because it calculates from a well defined set of parameters. AI on the other hand regurgitates other people's work without having any actual knowledge at all.
Circle of accountability
Am I being a total chud? These don't really seem egregious? I already accept (and expect) that Firefox receives background updates in the background.

https://i.imgur.com/S7d4ZXg.png

https://i.imgur.com/n2euIrQ.png

https://i.imgur.com/BUjukOy.png
Endangered giant pangolin spotted in Senegal after nearly 24 years
Fortnite on Windows is an x64 app. There is no ARM version for Windows. It's also not hugely relevant to running Linux on ARM.
I’ll bite. Who are we talking about here?
Not irrational at all. It’s the first new engine in decades, started by a single person in the open with no multibillion dollar company behind. We have every right to be exited.
AI is exhausting the power grid
Aren't the majority of US electric cars Teslas?

This is a crap article. Comparing the second derivative of cars in the road is classic statistical cheating.
Also they stopped developing Servo :(
Not really, no.

Having >1 app at once only appeared with Multifinder, which appeared in System 5.

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

So that came along in 1987 alongside Macs with 1MB RAM. It built upon Switcher, which appeared with the 512kB Mac in 1985.

The reason all OSes now have file open/save dialog boxes is that the original Mac didn't have enough RAM to show a finder window alongside an app, so apps had to provide their own.
That's a real 2022 response. Nowadays "Please let a LLM summarize the article for you, instead of wasting human time!" is the proper etiquette. ;-)
> Or if someone slips up.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
It's like poker. You can have this lucky draw on the river, but most often you don't. You cannot built your strategy on lucky draws and those people weren't, even when not everything worked out. You and I are still alive, so I think they did a good job.
It reminds me of how Ford started and owned the market, then GM became dominant by offering different colors, models, and styles that would appeal to the market segment that wanted a car but not the model T.

Other companies like BMW are doing very well with electric models because they are focused on delivering the same "BMW experience" in electric models.

As far as I can tell the 3 and the Y are decent vehicles but no longer illicit the kind of emotion that excites a purchase. I don't get the cybertruck at all in terms of product/market fit. Seems like an "Edsel moment" to me.
"The US has a poverty problem. People are dying."

"Yeah, but just unimportant people from flyover states. We have to divide our analysis of the United States: Over here in California - you now were the people we care about live - life is just as good as in these other fancy European countries we don't look down upon."
Well. I'm working on a product that relies on both AI assistants in the user-facing parts, as well as LLM inference in the data processing pipeline. If we let our LLM guy run free, he would create an inscrutable tangled mess of Python code, notebooks, Celery tasks, and expensive VMs in the cloud.

I know Pythonista's regard themselves more as artists than engineers, but the rest of us needs reliable and deterministically running applications with observability, authorization, and accessible documentation. I don't want to drop into a notebook to understand what the current throughput is, I don't want to deploy huge pickle and CSV files alongside my source to do something interesting.

LangChain might not be the answer, but having no standard tools at all isn't either.
I agree that the "framing" can be misleading, but in this case, it's burying how bad it is for Tesla actually.

> New Tesla registrations fell 17 percent in April, marking three consecutive months in the red. Tesla’s share of the U.S. EV segment dropped to 46.3 percent in April from 63.8 percent a year earlier, S&P Global Mobility said.

Tesla's growth in sales isn't just lower than everybody else's. It's negative. They're selling less than they used to while also losing market share and while their competitors have plenty of sales growth.

I don't see any way to frame this positively.
Real life castles were designed to withstand a siege, video game castles are designed to give off a castle vibe. Once you've achieved that you stop adding stuff, as anything beyond that just creates problems - you start killing performance, visibility starts to suffer, it's not clear what's interactive and what is decoration, gameplay starts to take a hit as the AI and player start getting stuck in the clutter, etc, etc...

Most people don't care as they don't have deep knowledge of how a castle or a power plant really functions, you only notice oversimplifications in media in the field you work in.

It's also very likely the designers and artists didn't have time to do much research, and the whole thing is based off a Pinterest reference board.
Your argument seems to be basically coming down to "Ah, but we don't have indisputable proof of said claims!" while intentionally ignoring the fact that what evidence we do have makes it clear that the auditing and self investigating capabilities at the NSA are somewhere between nonexistent and abysmal. For things like an agent to be able to spy on numerous "girlfriends" over periods of half a decade, only to finally be outed because one of them suspected he was spying on her and reported him to the government? And even then, in such an extreme circumstance, for there to be basically no penalties whatsoever (besides him resigning)? This is strong evidence in support of the claims of widespread abuse that Snowden made, before these cases became publicly known.

Beyond this Snowden's revelations were not about abuse within the domestic surveillance apparatuses, but about the existence of those apparatuses themselves. Prior to Snowden the idea that the government was engaging in widespread surveillance, of essentially everything, was still just a "conspiracy theory." The entire system itself is likely illegal, as it pisses all over the 4th amendment, but cannot be legally challenged because of a simple problem - for one to prove standing, to enable them to sue, they need to not only prove they were spied on, but also harmed by spying. Each time this is tried, the NSA simply claims national security and refuses to cooperate. So we have a likely illegal surveillance system with no legal means of challenging it.

So people trading sex pics, spying on lovers, or whatever - these are all instances of abuse within a system that should not even exist.
The ruling was mostly not about board's competence but based on judge's opinion that during original vote the shareholders weren't properly informed about things.

Given that re-approval happened at similar levels of shareholders support, that judgement seems incorrect.

And yes, it is unprecedented as in "there's no similar ruling in Delaware history".

And I stress "similar", not the "board competence" idea you made up.

As you yourself noted, the precedent in Delaware is that judges stay away from second guessing boards or shareholders and this seems like an activist ruling, not something based on past Delaware rulings.
No more inefficient than shipping Korean cars, phones and washing machines, which is to say that transportation costs are a mere drop in the bucket.
> battery is full but it won't turn on without being plugged into a charger

This is a known issue with specifically the first-gen model (i.e. Intel 11th Gen mainboard). The rechargable coin-cell RTC battery is only charged from the USB-C charger, not from the internal LiPo battery. When the coin cell degrades, it cannot hold a charge for long anymore, so you need to connect the notebook to external power to turn it on even if the battery is full.

Framework has acknowledged the issue and provides a replacement part free of charge that you can solder onto the main power rail of the notebook. Since I have no experience with soldering, I had a friend assist me with the soldering part, and now the issue is gone for me.

I can't paste the link right now because my workplace's firewall blocks the frame.work website for whatever reason, but search on the community forum for "RTC Battery Replacement" and it will give you the thread with instructions for how to get the replacement part.
Anti-virus software companies are incentivized to discover more and more malware. Not saying that AV companies produce malware ( ;) ), but the incentives are misaligned.

Ban anti-virus software.
When working with meshes what you generally want is is quads, not triangles. The reason is that quads form nice closed loops.

Further more you would only allow quads to meet in 3, 4, or 5 edges per vertex. The 4 edges per vertex is the "normal" case that most of your mesh should have, it causes a regular grid of parabolic (euclidian) geometry with neutral curvature. Then patches of these meet in vertices with 3 edges to make it elliptic geometry with positive curvature or 5 edges to make it hyperbolic geometry with negative curvature.

You can ignore all of these and just randomly connect nearest neighbors to form triangles. But, then you still have only geometry, no useful topology, so not any better than a point cloud. A good topology is necessary for texturing, skinning, animation etc.
Bentley was a bit of a blow hard which really stood out in CS circles. He was around CMU at times when I was there as a student.
I can chime in.

My wife is from Germany, and I'm from Portugal, we both speak English with each other which is easier (DE is very hard for me to learn), but she talks DE with the little one and I talk PT with him.

He can speak perfectly DE, PT, and English depending on which language he listens to, which is quite impressive for me as a parent.

He can even maintain a proper conversation and do translations between languages.

Sometimes he adds a word from another language in a phrase but he seems to know what that word is in the correct language.
> It's like seeing a beautiful painting being painted and arguing about the kind of paintbrush the painter has used.

No it is not. You don't use your browser for its artistic value (which is in the eye of the beholder). You also don't make an announcement for a painting.

This is more like using a non-inox screw in a high-humidity environment. Yes, it will hold on for a while. But it is objectively a bad choice. Non-inox may had been the only choice 300 years back, but this is 2024.

And writing a browser from scratch is a huge undertaking. When you invest resources in such a project, you probably want it to be more weatherproof than its C/C++-based predecessors. So it is quite reasonable IMHO to ask why C++ was chosen for this project.
This is even shadier than Google.

Google at least shows lengthy detail about their cookie approach; this Anonym has nothing on their website.
I think green hydrogen generation and other types of long term storage are required for the seasonal problem but they are quite expensive and/or inefficient currently. However, the UK has a lot of wind during the winter, this can mitigate the problem significantly.
I think I just read in another comment that it uses per tab process isolation. Unless that's not what you mean by sandboxing?
> Re: Walmart, the other option is to just cut the aid. People won't work if they are not able to sustain themselves (calorically) on the pay. The best way to avoid these antipatterns is to stop enabling them.

This is a truly horrifying, compassionless comment. You're literally suggesting starving people.

Sure, cutting these programs means eventually Walmart changes their business model. But the people who suffer during that transition aren't Walmart shareholders, who experience what, a temporary 30% loss in their share price? The people who suffer are the workers; Walmart has replaced thousands of smaller local stores which used to provide jobs, so the workers cannot necessarily find other work.

Walmart has plenty of runway to play a game of chicken here: oh, you want to cut aid? Let's see if that idea lasts one or two election cycles. In the mean time workers, as you say, are "unable to sustain themselves (calorically)", i.e. starving, because their options are either continue working for Walmart for not enough pay to eat, or quit, and get no pay to eat.

I mean, I agree this would cause a mass quitting at Walmart and the hundreds of other companies that employ the same strategies, but where do those workers start working? Companies as a whole can just afford to refuse to raise pay for a while in most cases and try other business models in the meantime. Even if other companies are started which outcompete Walmart by paying their workers a living wage, it will take decades for those companies to grow to the same size and provide as many jobs.
The lesson: deal access matters more than selection.
A related question:

What's the state with Servo?

Do I understand it correctly that Servo is the core of a browser but not the browser itself? How much work would it be to create a browser on top of Servo? And is there such a project?
>Which is high for the kind of service it is but if that's your only option then it's within a reasonable range.

Relative to what? It's not marketed at population centers. My 10Mbps DSL was 90/mo, bonded I could get 25M down 1.5 up for $140/mo.