skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're seriously asking me how is Playstation OS targeted at games?

We know the OS is great for games. What I'm asking is why it's not good for other things (the OS kernel is FreeBSD 11).

The PS2 and 3 had full user Linux support so those were obviously general purpose PCs. They removed Linux support for the PS4 and 5 though and apparently that seems to be enough for many people here to no longer think of them as computers.

If the dividing line between general purpose computer and appliance is in how the manufacturer lets you use it, then what functionality would the iPhone need to lose to in order for you to stop thinking the iPhone is a general purpose computer?
What would the value add or differentiator be? If you try to go with cheaper, the incumbents will take note and adjust their prices accordingly (it's software, prices are much more flexible than physical stuff).
As much as I'm a prescriptivist, the particular case of "aks" has just as much historical correctness as "ask" in English. The only place that "ask" wins is when comparing similar words in Continental languages.
WebRTC still has its own set of issues, and I found it only slightly improved over other options compiling the ARM64 port:

https://github.com/mpromonet/webrtc-streamer.git

I remain unconvinced UDP based streams will ultimately remain in the long-term, but webRTC certainly made it easier to peer a connection. ;)
Hiker missing for 10 days survived by drinking a gallon of water each day
On a past trip to Paris and Florence, I wondered why there were so many non-tourist Chinese living in the region. It turns out... Many of those "Made in Italy" luxury goods are made by skilled Chinese artisans (in Italy).

The value of those "brands" are based on perception and the existing brands have put a lot of work into cultivating their brands historically.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/the-chinese-wo...

https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/inexpensive-immigrant-la...

On a side note, this also applies to some "Made in America" brands too. Some of my favorite American brands used to host factory tours for their customers -- they tended to have a majority if not all southeast/east Asian workers making their garments and bags.
The geopolitical calculus here seems a bit hard to follow.

Surely China suffers disproportionately from more difficult export traffic to the point that it should be incentivized to tell Iran to tell the Houthis to cut it out
> But they are still mistaken in their understanding of physics.

So are we. We have significant gaps, and we almost certainly hold some incorrect items as factual at the present time. It's why theoretical physicists still have jobs, and likely will for quite some time.
what lang/framework you are using?
Can anyone find the OP on epa.gov? That would be preferable to a dropbox.com link.

We merged half a dozen of these threads. Related URLs follow. If there are others, let me know here and I can add them.

https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1805006150410162322 and https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1805006150410162322.html

https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik/112668309100333232/

https://www.ashleygjovik.com/3250scott.html
They also implicitly prevent businesses where the margins are less than 30% unless it relies on ads.
> Then, a severe drought in Central America dropped water levels in the Panama Canal, forcing authorities to limit the number of ships passing through that crucial conduit for international trade.

This was surprising to me, as I'd always kind of assumed that the Panama canal would use ocean water for the locks. It turns out that the locks don't pump water at all, they just use gravity, necessitating reservoirs of fresh water.

See a longer discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37055679
Played with this a little more and I think the assessment at the end is both the weak link in the UX and a very illustrative debugging tool, not only of LLM limitations, but oddly, the format of internet debate

I've thrown about a hundred prompts at this, half of them phrased as neutral questions, the other half as statements comprising the position of one side of the debate. I notice that when doing the latter, LLM A always takes the position I state, and LLM B is always said to "win" the debate, and the form of this is usually the same: B claims that there's insufficient substantiating evidence for A's claim. Neither says much substantial about the topic of the prompt after the first exchange. Usually A's first paragraph will expand a little bit on the topic and B will mostly try to discredit the arguments made, then they'll repeat this three or four times while insulting each other's intelligence without bringing up anything new, expanding further on the topic, or notably, trying to use any examples aside from the ones initially discussed in the first reply. What's interesting about the "neutral question" style is that the debate tends to go about the same, but the assessment at the end only considers B to have won about 90% of the time

As someone who studies AI and has gotten into a lot of internet arguments, this is a fascinating example of how LLMs are great at capturing the average case with essentially zero chance of capturing the best-case of the format, in terms of being informative on the topic at hand to a third-party observer
blink is almost as good as qemu-user and it works great compiled with cosmocc. https://github.com/jart/blink
Oh for crying out loud, you could not have chosen a worst company to go after for the accusation of "rent seeker."

Jetbrains has offered perpetual fallback licenses for all of their products for years now. This means that as long as you don't need any of the new updates, you can purchase it for a one time fee (basically the equivalent of a single year's license) and then you own it.

As far as their products not being worth what they charge, I pay about $180 per year (15$ / month) for the entire jetbrains library and consistently use CLion (for C and C++), Datagrip (postgres, mongo), Data rider (c#), Web storm (typescript), Phpstorm, and Pycharm. Considering these are the tools of my trade, that's more than a fair asking price.

They've also been incredibly responsive, especially considering the massive upheavals within the company as a result of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Whenever I've filed an issue on youtrack, it usually gets a response, and often a bug ticket that's handled within a few version iterations later at most.
Silicon Valley leaders declare DEI bad and meritocracy good - but they're wrong
The AP article is terrible. It's basically CDK's press release.

There's more useful stuff on Reddit.[1][2][3]

- Some dealerships can still sell cars. Some can't.

- Parts and service are in worse shape than new vehicle sales because their inventory info is in the CDK system.

- The process by which new cars and parts are ordered and delivered to dealers is down.

- Many dealerships can sell what's on the lot and do repairs with parts in inventory, but the supply chain has stopped.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/partscounter/comments/1dmbmy7/the_c...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/serviceadvisors/comments/1djisf5/cd...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/askcarsales/comments/1dkf0xv/how_pr...
A handbag can be more than a handbag.

I'm not much for fashion and the appeal of Chanel and Birkin bags leaves me scratching my head. But there are some handmade bags out there that are truly works of art and sell for considerably less than the many thousands that you'd need to part with for one of those.

But since no one has ever heard of their makers, nobody cares about them.
Took me a while to find a link to the actual product. Surprised it is not mentioned by name (or image) anywhere in this entire post. Figures it is the root domain: https://znote.io/
Do you have any evidence for this statement? Their actual core wasn’t a Pentium. It added in most/all the x86 bloat from the last 3 decades too.

Cutting all that stuff and saving power means you can squeeze in a couple more cores and improve performance that more. 32 registers a significant advantage too.

RVV also allows wider vectors than AVX. Without reordering, you can get stronger performance guarantees from a single, wide SIMD than from two narrow SIMD (it’s also possible to look at the next couple instructions and switch between executing one at full width or two at half width each without massive investment).

And we haven’t even reached peak advantage yet. RISCV has the option for 48/64 bit instructions with loads of room to add VLIW instructions. While most VLIW implementations require everything to be VLIW, this would be optional in RISCV. Your core could be dual issuing two wide VLIW allowing a single thread to theoretically use four vector units. If you add in 4-8 wide SMT, the result is something very GPU-like while still using standard RISCV.

Maybe x86 can do this too, but I don’t think it would be anywhere near as efficient and it would certainly eat up a lot of the precious remaining opcode space.
These kinds of products are fun and nice, but I doubt anybody is planning on rekindling anything really.

We already have smartphones. If somebody wants to kindle some mass-market adoption of tiny computers… they should release a nice little clamshell keyboard for popular Android phones and a better software ecosystem.
Neither of these are feasible:

1. There are legal incentives (in the US at least) for doctors to use electronic health records, EHR. Providers that don't use EHR are penalized for it when it comes to Medicare/Medicaid.

2. Imaging PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) allow radiologists to read images from multiple different facilities from one location, including smaller/rural hospitals, and at all times. The alternative is to require physical staffing by radiologists at every single location, which is obviously much less efficient.

I agree there are tons of issues with the quality of cybersecurity, especially in the health system, but saying "I just want it all on paper" is throwing out the baby with the bathwater, not to mention basically impossible at this point.
Ask HN: Teaching OpenAI API class without a Credit Card?
I'm getting lost in the confusion of what Free tier means in the OpenAI API. I am teaching a class soon in a college using the OpenAI API and some sample code. Is it possible to test the API using Python without adding your credit card and billing details?
Is Stateful Fuzzing Challenging?
The obvious benefit is having a greater ability to produce cellular energy, in principle also having the feeling and experience of having more energy. When you gain weight your overall energy expenditure does go up a lot, but not really in a useful way- you are just supporting the maintenance and physical movement of the extra weight. It’s more useful to think of energy expenditure in proportion to bodyweight.
I'm totally clueless about the topic (protein folding), but this stuff is very interesting.
From the article, it seems that AlphaFold 3 is just a biochem version of GPT or what? From what I've heard, the older AlphaFolds had some special tricks for protein prediction. Am I missing something?
Yes, I have installed NixOS on my GPD Pocket 2, which works OK. Have not encountered issues. The optical mouse actually works quite well and my hands can operate it with thumbs, while walking around or lying in bed, as well as more typical typing while stationary.

I would advise against getting a GPD Pocket 3. It's basically the size of a normal netbook and defeats the "pocket" monicker imho.

Depending on your distro you may have to set up a configuration that rotates the screen and/or digitizer to the right orientation.
Just a heads up: "Follow me on LinkedIn" doesn't link to your profile
Receipts are commonly printed on thermal transfer spools to avoid the maintenance needed for printing with ink but this process is not as durable as using ink. Decide for yourself if this decision is made due to cost or a conspiracy.
My understanding from the context is: Microsoft made it a prerequisite for registering the app in the Windows store, after noticing encryption in features.
About Deep Earth Microbes
maybe the lesson is that "composable" shouldn't mean "just nested".
Given that there are parts of the world where health insurance is not tied to employment, there may be more relevant axes that the one you're considering.
https://archive.md/lhVbX
Could anyone help me understand why this was flagged dead? Is it incorrect somehow? This is a discussion around legality, so it makes sense to keep the discussion in that context.

Apple being able to do something undesirable, in the perspective in the intent of the law, is either a "loophole" in the law, or the law doesn't actually accomplish what it was made to. Both are problems with the law. This isn't an Apple thing as much as a "anyone who will benefit in complying minimally will comply minimally". Apple today, whomever else tomorrow.
* Most users only use Google's play store, except for apps not available there

Certain categories of apps aren't deemed acceptable by Google (e.g. apps with adult content, apps that circumvent copyright, some "hacking" apps, etc). If you want any of those they are easy enough to find and sideload.

There is also a big community pirating legitimate Android apps. According to some for every one purchase ten people use a pirated version.
If it becomes that lucrative to ship containers new entrants will join the market at better rates
That's absolute nonsense. Numbers vary, but domestic airliners have an industry average of about 51 miles per gallon of fuel per passenger. That puts it right around the average car trip (1.5 passengers).
Probably because there's a significant number of people who just stream stuff constantly as background noise. The tyranny of the minority.
Seems weird that to me that it make a front page on HN (from an European pov ; it's quite common)
I’ve seen this happen in situations where the migration is totally invisible to users. My last team is five years into an opaque database migration that seems to only expand in scope. It’s just a symptom of the migration being more difficult than originally expected usually combined with losing momentum or leadership support. Obviously no one originally intends to keep maintaining both system indefinitely.
Ah, one of those "temporary" measures.
I do not have that exp with Steam as I run it at computer launch so it is fairly a non event. However, I feel your pain. My playstation and switch I have that nearly same exp as I do not use them much. Which means pretty much any time I do want to play something on them is an update. Sometimes a fairly large one at that! By the time I am done updating I have decided to do something else.

These update systems only have one good use case. If you are pretty much connected all the time. If you rarely run them. You are pretty much stuck in a update stack.

I even joke with my wife 'i am playing my favorte playstation game "updating"'.
I'm honestly surprised the area is zoned for residential; the central expressway corridor has lots of industry nearby, including Intel. Plus that apt complex is right next the intersection of a major highway and major expressway, which won't be helping anyone breathe.

But she's not the only resident and I haven't heard any indication of a class action.
It's seemed to me that there's a specific fast/good/cheap rule for consumer products.

1. High quality

2. Pays lower-level employees fairly

3. Low cost

Pick 2.

Consumers will complain that they can't get all three and frequently blame assorted factors such as price-gouging and CEO pay but I suspect that those rarely make as much of a difference as consumers hope.
i grant you lazy response, and raise you another: the articles you cite are likely more rosy retrospection themselves. none of anything being discussed here is, in my opinion, reliably nor convincingly quantifiable.
The time for cybernetic enhancements of human minds and bodies is, reasonably, a decade or two away from becoming mainstream. Leading up to that, I wonder if there will be enough effort put into consumer protections so that it doesn't turn into a knock-off cyberpunk novel.

I don't think we live in any dystopian future or Black Mirror episode yet, but I do think that if a character in one of those episodes had a flashback to pre-cyberpunk life, it'd look quite a bit like 2024.

Are consumer protections even the right way to navigate this? Could American government reasonably handle this? Supposedly, it'd be the NIH and its peer organizations doing this, and I trust them a reasonable amount.
The percentage of people who want a law to pass is negatively correlated with the chance of it passing.
Plausible is great (I use it at Sentry), but I want to clarify that only Plausible Community Edition is open source, and it note it differs significantly from their paid SaaS offering:

https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics
Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, was known for this style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart#Writing_style

See examples at http://hart.pglaf.org/ .
As you are discovering in this thread, everyone's brain works differently. You are exhibiting the mind projection fallacy--assuming that everyone else's mind works the way yours does. In fact, neurodiversity is a thing and pretty much every person out there has a unique mental experience.
What makes you think that China has much sway over Iran?

The world isn't divided into the countries that are under American hegemony and the countries that are under Chinese hegemony. It's more that there are the countries under American hegemony, the countries on mostly-friendly terms with the Americans but able to say no to them, and the small number of countries that are entirely cut off by the USA.

This last group tends to not want to just trade one hegemon for another, they try their best to become self-sufficient and able to say no to everyone. Iran is very much in that category: just because they're on friendlier terms with China than with the USA doesn't make them beholden to them.
I know that feeling! This was my 3 year side project: https://paulstamatiou.com/stocketa/
I read a book a bit ago about deglobalization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_the_World_Is_Just_t...

It makes a good case for, among other things, that once the US stops enforcing order on the seas, globally, that there’s going to be at best regional powers looking out for their own interests, only, and widespread piracy where even that is lacking.

Draught is one thing, but if pirates attacking commercial ships aren’t being smacked down that’s pretty alarming and doesn’t bode well.
And songs with lines like

The time was 6 o'clock on the Swatch watch

Gotta date, can't be late

...

Didn't hurt either. Can't believe I remember that, almost 30 years later :-)
China and European Union to hold talks on electric car tariffs
You can't post like this to HN, and we ban accounts that do, so please don't.

If someone else is wrong, you are of course welcome to respond with correct information and better arguments.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: you crossed into personal attack in at least one other recent comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40643584) and we've also had to warn you about breaking the site guidelines in the past (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35105366). That's not cool, so please don't do this again.
Nazi Germany failed because they used a method that did not scale well. Also because they were trying to exterminate one set of humans while preserving another set. Exterminating all humans together is easier - perhaps flood the oceans with dimethylmercury - the geological-scale equivalent of curing cancer with a flamethrower. Or, just dig up all the fossil fuels and burn them.
That is a serious single point of success. What are the backups or alternatives to 911?
I have the GPD Win 1 and GPD Win 2. Ubuntu MATE fully supports the GPD pocket PCs. Most distros will run fine on them because they're Intel SoCs, but MATE had the earliest support for stuff like getting screen rotation right and bundling all of the more obscure drivers
The hosting API is completely different. Roslyn handles VB.NET and C# with basically the same API. Adding PowerShell is akin to writing the core part of all that a second time. Not that it can't be done, but most of the time PowerShell itself is already a capable REPL, so I guess there's also less need for it in LINQPad.
Most satellites and debris don't reflect that much light, plus there's already pretty extensive tracking of any object up there above a certain size by the USSF (formerly USAF) spacefence.
> For about ten years, I've theorized that we will see the rise of 'boutique' doctor, dentist, and law offices that keep only paper records for the sake of the privacy of their clients.

"Privacy" until a disgruntled staffer copies or takes a picture or just takes the pieces of paper and publishes them.

With digital systems, this can be mitigated (rate limiting, encryption and least privilege information sharing, audit logs etc.) to an extent. With paper, you're screwed.

I still remember a few years ago walking on a street in a city in Easter Europe, behind a bank office for a bank which no longer exists. There were dumpsters nearby that were overflowing with garbage, and the wind was carrying some of it around, like sheets of paper with bank loan applications, ID card scans, etc etc etc.

Paper is not easier to secure than digital systems if the people supposed to secure it don't care.
>Name 1 or 2 other things you buy "sight unseen" that are remotely close to the cost of a new vehicle

That question cannot be answered, we all know that nothing is comparable to that price in an average household's shopping list.

But a few years ago a shoe purchase was in store only but a month ago I bought a new pair online. Because I knew that I could try it and return it easily.

Luckily, I didn't have to return.

I wish I could do the same with cars.
Maybe they're doing both.
Flood and fire are only getting more and more common.
Ask HN: What Git review tool would you use for work
Inspired by this discussion, https://lobste.rs/s/yaxxtx/what_git_forge_would_you_choose_for_work

For your day job, what existing solution would you prefer to use for code review?
Not to mention, Ansarallah are essentially backed by 80% of the population (including the capital city of Sanaa). The "recognized" Yemeni government are Saudi-backed shills that own the ports in the south.
This is a great feature! I'm curious how this impacts module developers where a repo could be consumed by either Terraform or OpenTofu. In such a case wouldn't Terraform have issues?
What's the quota, Kenneth?
> If a company is in compliance to the law and you don’t like the outcome the problem isn’t the company it is the law.

The law isn’t the only thing that upholds a cohesive society that is nice to live in. At the very least, culture plays its own part as well. There are probably many more things

If I only cared about being legal, I would behave very differently. Just think about how far a citizen could go if they would live in full malicious compliance. One would be a nightmare to others