skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case of Kakao Taxi vs Uber, it was Uber's unwillingness to work with existing taxi operators that killed any chance Uber had in the Korean market. Kakao (at least until they became dominant) acted more like an agent that sends additional customers to existing independent taxi drivers while Uber kept trying to find legal loopholes to bypass the taxi licensing system. S Korea is a civil law country, and its courts have no patience for actors whose entire legal strategy is to subvert the intent of the laws, and that was the end for Uber there.
The input signal combines video amplitudes (positive voltages) and sync pulses (negative voltages) which tell the CRT when to move the beam around. Technically composite video is AC-coupled so I'm not sure how sync pulses are actually identified (but video brightness is relative to the porch voltage right after a sync pulse). Not sure if antenna TV RF signals are DC or AC coupled.
Better a hundred of them than only one or two.
That’s a beast. Largest CRT I ever had on a desk was 21 and that was nuts.
This is why I don't ask people, humans are more likely to give an authoritative answer hinting that "you're the problem".

I switch between two toothpastes. One is better for teeth whitening, the other lets me eat ice cream. The sensitive toothpaste are just too safe for me, it doesn't have that minty taste. And I can A/B test between two different ones, even of the same brand, to see which chemical is worse for it.

Anyway, to shorten its answer, it's triclosan, sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium hydroxite, or possibly some of the flavorings.
When someone goes into detail about correct versus convergent, they are explaining how the technical sense is not what people really want, and you bluntly replying that it's solved (because it's technically solved) is unhelpful at best and misleading at worse.
In case anyone comes along this.

I linked the wrong chart :/

So egg on my face! I meant to link elsewhere but can’t find it again. This again shows the average and not the median, which was not my intention.
I believe there are timing pulses in the blank area of the signal that it syncs to. But it depends on the signal.
Does anyone know of any similar ideas for an interactive animals/pets for your desktop?

This is the best thing I could find so far to put on an extra monitor. Note you can click to interact with the penguins and also feed them.

https://www.petpenguins.com/
SimSIMD https://github.com/ashvardanian/SimSIMD :

> Up to 200x Faster Inner Products and Vector Similarity — for Python, JavaScript, Rust, C, and Swift, supporting f64, f32, f16 real & complex, i8, and binary vectors using SIMD for both x86 AVX2 & AVX-512 and Arm NEON & SVE

github.com/topics/simd: https://github.com/topics/simd

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37805810#37808036
I'm only a hobbyist, not a professional (yet!), but: giving up on making whole apps in JavaScript\TypeScript and React. It's not what I'm used to, it just doesn't click for me, and I just don't like it. I admit it's subjective.

I stopped trying to make my little experiment apps in React Native and restarted with C# and I'm much happier. I'm using Avalonia since apparently Xamarin\MAUI is not in a good place lately.

Much like the best camera is the one you have with you, the best programming language is the one you like enough to actually make stuff. The problem is whether one you like is supported on the platform you're coding for...
Heads up: If you click the window-maximize box in the upper right-hand corner it zooms out to the HyperCard Editor!

I'm still trying to figure out how to start with a clean slate deck, though. My skills are definitely rusty.

I wonder how feasible it'd be to create an entire hypercard based website with this thing.
Pen plotting. You write code that makes designs by drawing a bunch of lines, and then use a robot (mine is an AxiDraw) that traces it out on paper.

In general, generative art (using the pre-generative-AI meaning, i.e. procedurally generating art). There's something really satisfying about writing code in a creative context, because there's often no right or wrong. Often you write a bug, or your algorithm didn't work as you expect, but it looks interesting, and that becomes a new path to explore.
Solving some other non computer related problems, that were stressing me since a long time.

Now with that shit gone, my head is clear again and I had fun diving into all sorts of experiments again!
Mozilla's CPO sues over discrimination post cancer diagnosis
The government should move fast and break things in these sorts of cases. Especially in this case… video streaming isn’t very important, take action that might destroy their business model and see if we learn anything about how to regulate them in more meaningful markets.
I miss websites that actually gave you useful information on the landing page.
I still miss my desktop sheep every once in a while: https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet?tab=readme-ov-fil...

Edit: the best part was running it a couple dozen times to get an entire flock walking, falling, and rolling all over your desktop, and watching everything grind to halt under CPU strain!
I still remember the day they arrested him and how awful it felt. He is an incredibly strong person to withstand that level of isolation and see the light of day.
Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs
> What's going on with battery technology?

Iron [1] and now sodium [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_batte...

[2] https://www.electrive.com/2023/11/20/byd-huaihai-move-on-pla...
It's hard to blame them, most of the well monetized expansive web content is deep web, pay walled, brittle, mixed media, copyrighted, and not enabled for something like microtransactions, subject to GDPR, and doesn't make them a dime.
I’m not sure this “gratifies one's intellectual curiosity”, but it is fascinating - where did the carpet come from, who walked on it, how come it took fifty years before anyone cleaned it.
I remember Why's Poignant Guide! What a treasure.
Pass regulations that might kill YouTube just to see how it works out. Maybe Google is more robust and cleverer than we expect. Worse case we just lost a bunch of pointless reaction videos and other crap.
Yeah you are out of the loop because that doesn’t matter for shit. The 1% does not contribute proportionately to their benefit.
The results sort of speak for themselves - custom ASIC's are the way of the future. How hard is it though for Nvidia to design a custom ASIC like this?
I don't want a build pipeline. I want to write some HTML with a script type=module tag in it with some JavaScript, and I want that JavaScript to load the ES modules it depends on using import statements (or dynamic import function calls for lazy loading).
There is something kind of similar as a VS Code extension:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tonybalo...
It isn't just that Teams integrates well with the Windows world, it's that managers were already paying for 365, and now they're getting this additional app for free. Why pay for this other app you've been paying for previously? Don't discount the pure effectiveness of giving that away.
This is a quote, not a recording. Assange disputes the accuracy of the quote.
I think also you can’t really do reputational damage to an already well-known corrupt pariah state.
They’re going to sell a billion dollars of GPUs to a handful of customers while NVIDIA sells a trillion dollars of their products to everyone.

Every framework, library, demo, tool, and app is going to use CUDA forever and ever while some “account manager” at AMD takes a government procurement officer to lunch to sell one more supercomputer that year.
I had not been following wikilinks. Had he revealed any actual crimes?
Totally open source, platform independent toolchains.
Meanwhile, gen Z is watching things vertically on Tiktok.
The thing about car infotainment is that on average, it’s not good, and even when it is, it is until it’s not. Support timelines for dash systems have traditionally been awful, which leads to them becoming outdated and progressively more useless as time goes on, well before the end of the vehicle’s usefulness. Even worse, with how deeply the infotainment ties into the operation of the vehicle these days, third party head unit replacements to fix this issue aren’t practical.

It’s also another thing to have to log everything into which is a pain and has to be repeated for each person frequently driving the vehicle.

CarPlay/Android Auto avoid both nicely.

Now of course I’d trust Tesla or Rivian to not pull support prematurely more than any traditional automaker, but it’s still a risk regardless of brand.
> that isn't turing complete and guaranteed to terminate

This means general purpose languages do not qualify, and more generally, no general recursion
Asymmetric keys mean you can you can have per-dev or per-team keys and allow one team to rotate them and resign them for all other consumers. I don't know how you'd do that with symmetric keys. This is an important feature of sops, imo.

It also means I can do things like seal them to a key that is stored in KeyVault and then allow the transparent retrieval of that key at runtime on Instances that have been given an identity with access.

This means that production secrets are sealed in place and only openable by effectively authenticated workloads.

And if you use sops-nix, this becomes a "setup once and never think about it ever again, ever" kind of operation.
The zombie corpse of slack welcomes this ruling
Can't wait to never hear about this ever again
Is sending a reminders (via email or text) with an option to cancel or reschedule doesn't work?

Also, why wouldn't users use Stripe integration for the same?
https://calendly.com/integration/stripe
Ah so you are motivated by when you get tired twice. /s

I often feel like the favorite part of my job is the paycheck every two weeks.
The same three letter agencies which routinely give fake bombs to heavily egged on idiots incapable of building them on their own?
Side projects where the fundamental goal is to rediscover the joy. Not to complete something. Not to build well-tested maintainable software. Not to acquire users. Not even necessarily to learn or practice.

Just to play with computers like I used to play with legos. And then close the potentially unfinished useless pointless messy unmaintainable broken software project, never to reopen it, and be content that I had fully achieved what I had set out to do.
I'm surprised no-one has said ChatGPT.

ChatGPT is the most inspiring thing every to happen to programming for me.

A powerful programming assistant at your side is an incredible skill multiplier.

It make it possible to build certain types of applications in a matter of hours instead of months.
Sure, he's putting the Corter Leather logo on the product. But he's also using the trademarked LV logo. It's not as egregious as outright counterfeiting, where people build products trying to nearly exactly resemble a genuine LV product. But at the end of the day, he's still putting the LV logo front and center in the wallet. You don't automatically get to use another company's trademark just because you also put your own trademark on the product. Less egregious trademark infringement is still trademark infringement. Louis Vuitton was wrong to accuse him of counterfeiting, but they can accurately accuse him of trademark infringement.

It sounds like his rationale is that he's only repurposing the material on the cut-up LV bag, which makes prominently displaying the LV trademark legal. I'm pretty skeptical he'd prevail if this actually went to court.
This will be unpopular, but ChatGPT. I have loved computers since childhood, and coded entire videogames as a child (2d, platformers, shooters, physics simulators, etc). But I hit a wall and gave up for decades. I have a lot of visions and ideas of what I want, but perhaps I have a disorder, as I can rarely summon the patience to code it. My sustained attention span shrunk way down. If I can't finish something in one go, it's too long term for me. I quickly get infuriated at the poor documentation and syntax choices. Since ChatGPT I have been able to describe each individual building block a few (dozens of) times, and from there I am figure out weaving the blocks together. I'm building and finishing projects again.
Quitting from a bad job/company.
I see two sides:

- we're better off because there is less human suffering "per capita" for lack of a better word.

- we're worse off because technology has allowed us all to instantly see and learn about every human (and animal) atrocity anywhere in the world.

I'm sure if I keyed up a gore site right now I could find the latest mexican cartel atrocity, or a necklacing in Africa, or someone somewhere else being cruelly hurt. But in the 1950s you had to pay for a paper which was excessively rate-limited and narrow in scope.
I learned how to diagram sentences in college. It was eye-opening, and I wish I had learned it sooner.
Neko has been around for decades now (but was cuter I think back when the desktop resolution matched the cat)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
I really appreciate your reply. I learned a lot already. It might be best if I didn't reply, but I can't seem to help myself.

> Another standard way for explaining this is that when judging something, one ought to account for the actual power dynamics between the conflicting parties.

I was ready to get all riled up in response, thinking that Assange had much more power here than the Afgan translators.

> The problem is, prejudice, classism, and bigotry tend to distort what people think and perceive as the actual power dynamics, hence long and controversial news threads like these.

I am settled down now. Yeah, this is not an easy, I appreciate anyone identifying the complexity.
To be accurate, Uber didn't abide by laws in most countries it went up against. It was a little slimy but also the taxi systems of most places were very entrenched. I remember never enjoying riding taxis in San Francisco for years, the cars were gross and the drivers were grumpy and generally shady about having their "credit card readers being broken" so they didn't have to pay the fees. Uber and a bunch of companies did and end run around those very politically entrenched systems and I certainly am happy to have clean, friendly, safe, modern rides with good tech where reviews keep things in line and payment is easy and I can share my location easily and know I'm going to end up at the right place way better.
Yea it's open to individuals now: https://www.anthropic.com/api

You may have to add a credit card in order for it to give you an API key, it's been a while since I set mine up.
why's ruby

lua/love2d

microcontrollers, robotics and electronics in general

industrial process engineering - nothing like seeing huge machines make stuff you imagined

gentoo

teaching children

when your venture actually pays out and you get some financial security back and realise you just won the lottery of life for a second or third time
I guess the duty of mentioning Neko befell on me this time:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
what results
I had a 32” 4:3 trinitron I used to use for vintage gaming and damned if that thing didn’t weigh 130 lbs.
Wow, these replies. I was being a little sarcastic as there is no 'readdir' shell command. That is all.
Invert colors, hold shift to slow down expose animations, spam F11 was what kids did when bored in computer lab
You're right, I didn't think of the radiation flipping bits\melting stuff, but we could shield it. And to be fair we're talking about going for the bandwidth world (uhh... universe) record, not the data-longevity record. Just make it last as far as Mars or something.
> Does anyone know of any similar ideas for an interactive animals/pets for your desktop?

Maybe try Bonzi Buddy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
This game was (and still is) flippin' fantastic! The single player mode was great, the two players mode was amazing, the music was banging.

If you never played it, I highly recommend you give it a try!
I hear you. I come from a web dev background too and co-created A-Frame (https://aframe.io/) 8 years ago taking some of the Unity ideas (entity component) while retaining the fun parts of Web deving and publishing. Games and 3D graphics is super deep. Joy for me is having always interesting areas to explore that are not just the accidental complexity of the regular Web dev tooling.
My general impression is that Australians vary between neutral (they don't know and don't care what he did) to positive toward him.

Where I live (way out in the boonies), many people have told me that they have a lot of admiration for him. In some spaces in Melbourne, he seems to almost have a cult following.

I am sure he has his detractors in Australia but, so far, I have either not met any in person or they have kept their opinions to themselves.

I think politicians are more likely to dislike him than the general public does, which makes sense; after all, he targeted politicians and policy decisions.
Open interpreter.

Open Interpreter lets LLMs run code on your computer to complete tasks. Eg "fix my python" or "make a movie out of the pictures in this directory."

https://github.com/OpenInterpreter/open-interpreter
not by default. you can let employees have unrestricted access to code/IP and expect security to improve
Everything that came installed on vanilla Windows XP would pretty much work.

By that standard I'm also including Internet Explore 8 since that should be just sufficient enough to download a modern browser of the users choice. /s (but also a little bit serious)
Every time I get back to writing something in Common Lisp. It's my favorite language, but it's not what I use in my day job and I rarely have the free time for side projects.

But when I do have the time and can craft an elegant defun or two, I love programming all over again.
> It could be legislative but it could also mean governments supporting FOSS development more.

To be explicit, if governments want to use open source software, which seems like a pretty good idea, they of course need to be aware of the fact that lots of it is hobbyist stuff tossed out into the public square with no quality guarantees.

To use open source code, the governments will have to fork and audit the code, and provide customer service for what is now their software. It can be done and it seems like a great way to make this stuff available for the non-technical community, but it isn’t free, of course.
Making nonsense projects that never take more than a day to build.

But they have to be total nonsense with zero possible market or viral capability. That way I never let the wrong reasons guide my design: it’s only ever for fun. Maybe learning.
I am very intrigued by this tablet, did you ever try to dual boot Android X86 along side linux? 3years ago I could play wonderfully some nice games with HW support and take advantage of the Android ecosystem. Can you update us with a review if you can?
Maybe not the same thing but you could do something similar with a lasers and I'll let this random video I just looked up show how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsaYcX5aIac

Looks like there are some commercial products like that as well.
Discussions

(35 points, 7 days ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40724413

(19 points, yesterday, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40779968
Here is a cheap alternative:

I bought a $300 chair off amazon, that actually isn't comfortable. The trick was to buy a seat cushion with memory foam. This made the experience 100% better.
It is sad to see your transformation.

00UB does need fixing, and C needs less UB. If you don't think so anymore, then C will become untenable for me to use.

> I understand C way better than i used to.

Maybe, but I did not see it in that video.

What I do know is that you do not know much about the humans using C or the environments where C is used. C is a tool for humans, not machines. Prioritizing machines over humans will make C worse over time, and implementors will use that to further excuse their behavior.
Spawn Infernal Robot Spawn
I'm not yet to the point where I recovered pure joy in my work, but I admit quitting my previous toxic company, and finding a new one where work/life balance is better respected makes me happier (as in, less miserable). I don't think about work in the evening or during weekends, unless asked about it. I just go there on time and leave on time, and do my thing while people either appreciate my job or make fun of me (in a kind/playful way) when I screw up, and we all move on quite quickly.
The problem is that it's already too late. In my company, we used Teams because it was "free" (they even added a free version that lasted between COVID-19 and 2023), bundled with everything else, and now that we have to pay for Teams alone, we won't consider switching to something else because people are used to Teams. We never considered an alternative, and we will never consider one, and it's just more expensive for us now (which is Microsoft's way of complying with EU's rules, so Microsoft's fault).

Antitrusts are too slow to happen.
Unfortunately, this doesn't feel true anymore, I have an enterprise version and it's still pushy with its news feed, bing, and other pre-installed stuff.
It’s the natural result when software (and sometimes hardware) is treated as a line item to be contracted out to the lowest bidder. Infotainment is a core feature that shouldn’t be cheaped out on, but many automakers haven’t realized that.

It’s also just more lucrative to drive people to use the built in stuff instead of mirroring their phone, both for easier data mining and for pushing users into subscriptions.
Aldi is a good jam, for sure.

Their hardgoods tend to be tremendously high-quality for the price, too: Stuff is frequently ~half what I'd expect to pay elsewhere for something similar. Their buyers must be stellar.
Most recently, Elixir.

I never really lost my love for programming, but twenty years in the n-th commercial project in the more common languages (plus a front end based in whatever combination of JS frameworks is the new flavour) really ground a lot of the original creative joy out of it for me. The interesting bits got too easy and the hard bits got more uninteresting.

Elixir is a breath of fresh air; it's purely functional so it requires thinking a bit differently, but it's accessible enough to start easily and pretty enough that it's not a soup of parentheses (looking at you, lisps). It's practical and well suported enough to build a wide variety useful things, and very good at concurrency.

It's what I really wanted Ruby to feel like.
Try not being a corrupt empire for a change? Unthinkable I know, choosing to not be guilty of horrible crimes for a change! So long as they engage in fucked up shit and cover it up there will be reactions against it in one form or another. Whistleblowers are the most benign form, and themselves are the result of internal channels just being honeypots instead of policing themselves. If they truly cared for their precious opsec they would have robust internal investigations instead of retaliation.
We'd print out the same string sans newlines and watch the console word wraparound make some shapes. All started from a bug someone wrote that we thought was funny.