skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The landing page is pretty clean

What is the concept of co agents and how are they different than the agents which are live ?
Reminded of using Iodine to break out of captive portals using DNS TXT/SRV etc records https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
> used glass-metal feedthroughs

I wonder if this is still the case. I took a WD helium hard drive apart recently and I think I saw just a PCB glued in place for the electrical signals. Probably made from very special materials, but it looked just like usual.
Open-TeleVision Control Robots even away 3000 mile
Hey HN,

I just discovered Open-TeleVision—a VR based tech allowing remote robot operation over distances up to 3000 miles. It will offer incredible potential in disaster recovery and space missions!

A few thoughts:

- Security Risks: Given their long-distance nature, this could be prone to security breaches? But nonetheless, it's cool.

- Use Cases: What are the coolest applications you can envision for this?

I would love to hear your thoughts or any personal experiences with similar technologies!

Github Repo: https://github.com/OpenTeleVision/TeleVision
And the return window is 2 weeks so that’s completely possible. There are also places where you can rent a MBP.
Humour goes in different ways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Happy if it brightens up a single person's day :-)
In the future two companies will be heavily studied in business school for how badly they blew their technical lead and proficiency to the point that it may be the daeth of them. Those companies are Boeing and Intel.

I would posit in both cases the problem is extreme financialization. Both companies had such a large market share (and even a monopoly in certain segments) that the much-quoted but apropos Steve Jobs quote [1] applies. All these modern CEOs seem capable of doing is stock buybacks, cutting costs and raising prices where they can.

In the 2000s, Intel faced a serious challenge from AMD with the Athlon/Opteron architecture. Intel's failures were a continuation of their Pentium 4 architecture and the company was only saved by the Pentium 3, which became the Pentium-M and the Centrino platform then the Core Duo and the modern CPUs we have now. They're all Pentium 3 descendants.

What we've seen over the last decade is most people have enough CPU power so the move has been towards smaller, cheaper and more energy-efficient CPUs. We've seen this in phones and then tablets and now CPUs. Apple's move to ARM was really the nail in the coffin for Intel as it culminated a decade of not being able to respond to the market.

Intel is seemingly unable to respond to this trend. All Intel CPUs still have super-high TDPs and haven't adopted any silicon to boost AI performance, which is increasingly going to matter. I fully expect this to be further integrated into the M4 and later CPUs.

I, too, expect Windows on ARM to be here to stay because there are simpnly too many advantages to the platform and it's going to eat away at the consumer market in a big way because ARM laptops and tablets will give people what they want: smaller, cheaper and more energy-efficient computers.

Meanwhile Intel just goes from disaster to disaster. The move to 10nm became a running joke almost to the level of Duke Nukem Forever. Intel's once-legendary fab ability is seemingly being eclipsed by TSMC and ARM chips seem to be the primary beneficiary of that.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlBjNmXvqIM
It was only in a slower pace. Sure, you could keep using an older version, but then people would start sharing files in the new version with you, and after a few times having to ask people to "save it on Word 95 format" you would bit the bullet and upgrade to such abominations like the "Office Ribbon".
It’s important to note that Boeing has indeed received substantial subsidies and tax breaks over the years, comparable to or even exceeding those provided to Airbus by the EU. For instance, Washington state alone has granted Boeing tax breaks worth about $9 billion. Additionally, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled that both the EU’s support for Airbus and the US’s benefits to Boeing violated trade rules, leading to tariffs on both sides.

So, while the EU has certainly supported Airbus, the US government has also heavily subsidized Boeing, creating a complex and competitive landscape in the aerospace industry. This context is crucial when discussing the challenges and decisions faced by both companies.
CSS One-Liners to Improve Almost Every Project
An event stream / message queue implemented in PG can actually be fine at some billions of events per month and has some major advantages over standard queues. I just wouldn't get too high into the billions.
Honestly, it's a real shame this doesn't have HDMI. I'd definitely get one for travelling if it did as it's rare to find a hotel room that doesn't have a TV with accessible HDMI port. Certainly it seems like a better option than an NUC and separate keyboard in terms of overall size and not needing as many cables, although I guess maybe it'd have the potential to feel bulky compared to a wireless keyboard as well as being tethered to the TV.

EDIT: Some more details here: https://videocardz.com/newz/pocket-sized-foldable-keyboard-i...
WSL is alright. The real MVPs are the linux distros which have been building and shipping everything for arm64 for ages, and which happen to run on WSL.
After two rejections, Apple approves Epic Games Store app for iOS
> Realizing the spec for C++23 is about two-and-some-change-times the length of the King James Bible has really reframed my thinking on this language.

I wonder how much shorter the spec for a radically simplified version of C++ -- say, one that zero-initializes everything, and has no default constructors ("not writing a constructor raises an error" or something) -- would be? 5% 50? 95...?
Order does not beat entropy. That one stings.
We use to have this, self operating mental institutions. Most all patients had jobs that kept the facility running. The US has around ~10 mental health beds per 100k. Most European nations have around 100 and developed Asian countries have ~200. The US had similar or higher numbers decades ago.

The pharmaceutical companies however have successfully lobbied to medicate instead of house the mentally ill. As well we have largely replaced those mental health beds with prison beds. The largest expenditure after staffing for most correction departments is inmate medications.

We simply need to bring back an intermediary between the streets and jail. As well I would argue we may need something as an intermediary between jail and the military like the pre-ww2 CC camps.
Is there a technology in existence that would facilitate this from userspace and wouldn't require elevated kernel privileges to set caps?
A larger planet at same density means it has more mass. More mass, more gravity. More gravity, the spaceship needs to be faster to go around it, cancelling out the larger circumference.

Volume and circumference do not grow to the same power of the radius, i haven't checked if that still accurately cancels each other away or if the astronauts statement is an approximation.

Edit: Other poster linked mathematical proof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_period#Effect_of_centr...
Summary: the orbital period at zero elevation around any solid ball with a constant density of its material depends only on that density.

The period is sqrt(3 pi / (G rho)), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_period#Effect_of_centr...
> The Raspberry Pi and company run on ARM just fine?

Not in my experience. Maybe things are better now, but as of a year or two ago you still couldn't use a generic kernel on there. You had to have special patches. There's also a fair amount of packages that won't build on ARM. Raspbian is a pretty good experience and it shows they have put serious effort into it, but venture away from that and you're rolling some dice.
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/473931/possible-new-serie...

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4937730/is-the-new-...

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/474141/proof-of-possible-...

In particular. 474141:
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I found an elementary proof using partial fractions...
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Ask HN: Is Computer Science a good major still?
By all means, let's talk about patterns and data. Let's share articles that analyze Boeing failures over time, that do proper statistical analysis. But let's not make a big deal out of totally normal safety procedures or get fixated on every random anecdote.

I'm not defending Boeing re: everything, I'd just like to see us rise above uninformed internet brigading and have a useful conversation that isn't primarily driven by cognitive biases.
Most consumers want appliances, aka a collection of software pre configured with a few customization options. When the current solutions (ipad, phone, MacBook, PC) fit, it’s great. And the current linux desktop distros are doing great in that regard, except on two points. They do not come pre-installed (with hardware support) and some software don’t support linux.

But as soon as you want something custom and do your own configuration, the manuals are required. Or you get someone to do it for you.
> In the end, it was not mainly about empowering women, it was about doubling the worker pool.

This is a cynical take. I'm unhappy with the situation we ended up with, but the primary factor was to give women a choice, not to force them to sit home by default and only pursue what they love if they put enormous effort to it.

I'd go as far as to say the failure of single-income household was unintended effect of several good changes that people fought for over decades. And I believe you're wrong about the lack of father figure because in the traditional model he was ever more absent as today - Cat's in the Cradle is 50 years old now.
Interesting to see how close the author got to producing an abstract "TCP-over-shared-editable-fields", which in itself would make a really cool tool.

Imagine a proxy where all you did was design at a high-level a way to write/read to a shared resource from two sides, and then it handled all the rest for you as a SOCKS proxy.
Soon they'll all come with prepaid 5G cell modems to prevent you from just not connecting them to the internet.
This doesn't follow directly from the article but possibly it takes 5 years for the shift to occur. Such things happen with adhesives in my home sometimes.
> lie

The word you're looking for is "fiction", and the moral of a story isn't diminished simply because the story is fictional. Parables, allegories, fables, myths, and fairy tales often contain truth despite not having actually happened. The opposite happens too, where the occasional real life anecdote is believed to contain some general truth despite being a one-off occurrence.
> How stupid do you need to be to release an online-only subscription laser printer?

Well, CAD software, smart TVs, and electric cars all get away with doing the same thing somehow.
Nuget.org hosting potential scam libraries
... The government of New Zealand is listing the ComponentPro SAML library as suitable for usage within the wider government sector. ComponentPro is a long-running scam based in Vietnam and all their libraries are based on code stolen from legitimate vendors.
My (admittedly very limited) understanding is that we can extract fairly valuable lithium from seawater. Wouldn't it be at least somewhat useful, rather than discharging the brine back into the ocean, to keep it in evaporation pools where we can then collect the lithium?

Barring that, surely there are other ways we can handle the brine than just discharging it right back to the ocean, even if they make the desalination process somewhat more costly. Ultimately, water is infinitely more valuable than money.
The Private Equity Bubble Is About to Deflate
A lot of what makes x86 machines so interchangeable is ACPI, which automates things like device enumeration - having drivers is one thing, not knowing how to even find what hardware is installed is a much bigger hurdle.

It's why ARM support is such a vendor-sensitive roller coaster. MacOS on Apple is easy, since they know their hardware, the RasPi foundation puts serious effort into making Linux etc. work on RasPis, but just look at how much Linux struggles on Macbooks, or how hard it is to run a current kernel on a 3 year old mystery Raspi clone that had no documentation and shipped with a custom Linux kernel binary.

The situation is slooowly improving, but we're far from there yet.
>When you purchase a ticket from them and resell it on their marketplace, once someone purchases it, they(Ticketmaster) hold your funds and only give you the money ~7-14 business days after the event is over. They say this is to verify the validity of the ticket.

I imagine it's more about discouraging scalping, regardless of what they may say about it.
The world is orders of magnitude more complex than when the Roman Empire was around. They didn't have to care about environmental destruction with their projects to the level we need to care, even at its peak the whole Roman Empire population spanning a few continents (Europe, Africa, and Asia) wasn't much more than population of just California.

Yeah, the Romans did it, we don't live in Roman Empire times though.
Truth, but!

The middle hellish experience being described here is not a bad thing.

Fact is, Ubuntu used as autopilot is pretty great! It is way better than it used to be. Mere mortals can jump on a computer and often get the few things they want done.

What I do with users of that type, and myself depending on my moods and motivations for a particular machine, is treat it like Android.

Find the users an app they can click on and or tell them it is not going to happen.

Many will be happy with that.

The ones who are not need help.

Either they grow and become readers, and can pilot the computer properly, or they won't and helping them makes as much sense as their own efforts do.
KLM, specially on long flights, has a free tier wifi where you can use major instant messaging without charge. If you want to surf the web, it’s pretty cheap. If i recall around 30-40 euro for a 9-10hours flight. Or pay less for an hour.

Was considering to “hack” my way out of the free tier. But paying was just too easy and it’s affordable.

Sorry for boring addition/story.
As an aside I can heartedly recommend zfsbootmenu for anyone using zfs on linux:

https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu
Usbc to hdmi cable?
This is by far the most common complaint I see directed towards the writings and media that I enjoy the most, both in fiction and in non-fiction. Oblique narratives where nothing happens, nobody is happy, everyone dies, and no message is taught or learned are my favourite. Interstellar. Neon Genesis Evangelion. Full Metal Jacket. Most recently, the latest instalment of EPIC: The Musical.

I can't really explain why I like them so much. They scratch a cosmic itch I don't fully understand, and the answer isn't simply validating negative sentiment toward the world or other trivial possibilities that immediately spring to mind.
Decidability, computability, existence, fruit, all have different meanings in an academic context and in a everyday context, and trying to use intuitions from the everyday meanings in an academic context leads to these "stupid questions".

[big number from Wikipedia] "exists" and is "computable" in an academic sense, even though its digits cannot fit in our universe.
Over here teenagers are driving electric downhill bicycles among and between pedestrians as if they were driving a downhill route. Asshole parent can you buy a simple city bicycle to your kid? Hopefully the battery will deteriorate quickly or the kid will hurt itself without hurting anyone else.
> IMO this is getting at a deeper truth that the use of a gender in language, and historically defaulting to "he", was not about creating a bias, but instead it was a pattern which maximises information density and minimises useless information. Randomising the gender as is done today packs useless information into it.

Where can I read more about this "truth"? Where is this assertion coming from that gendered pronouns developed to minimize useless information? It seems far more plausible to me that pervasive defaulting to male experiences caused many (certainly not all) human languages to (1) develop gendered pronouns and (2) default to the male pronoun.
Neatly explains why orbits around Earth are only ~90 minutes, because the Earth's iron-nickle core has a higher density than rock (10-13 g/cm^3).

Anyone got a Threadreader link? I can only see the first post.
macOS sonoma supports L4S for this purpose:

https://www.theverge.com/23655762/l4s-internet-apple-comcast...
This "demand multiples for the stock price" will kill the United States economy - one company at a time: HP, Boeing, and others are going in this direction...
Both seem to be doing fine, unfortunately.
Consider too that SBF (and likewise Bernie Madoff) stole from the upper classes, and Epstein had damaging information on many of them. Doesn't explain Shkreli but then even a stopped (analog) clock is right twice a day.

Update: Perhaps the thing with Shkreli is that he did something pretty egregious that was drawing heat from the commoners, and to the rest of the upper class, he's a foreigner with a funny name who grew up poor and has vulgar tastes. If you have to give up the occasional sacrifice, better someone like him than your old roommate from Phillips Exeter.
Hey, thanks for the feedback!

It's not for 1 movie, it's $6 for 1,8 MB which should be enough for 10+ movies or 20-30 series episodes.

The minimum top-up is there because of payment processing costs
A calorie of beef requires more total input water than a calorie of grain, sure, but that input water is mostly embodied in their feed, not their drinking water.

The question for California a what to grow with the water we have, where it is (or where it can be moved). An acre of cows is a much, much less water intensive than an acre of grains. More acres in pasture might produce more water intensive calories, but that input water does not necessarily have to be provided in CA where it’s rivalrous with 50m humans. Feed can be imported/exported with orders of magnitude more ease than the underlying embodied input water. Agricultural water is not a fungible resource at the national/global scale, crops and animal products are.

Also as a matter of policy “turn the world vegan so global ag is less water intensive so CA farms don’t compete with CA people for water as much” is a bit harder to implement than restricting specific water intensive land uses in the Central Valley.
> I'm actually a fan of 'tree farms': responsible forestry, specific areas of land dedicated to monocultures of useful tree species that are grown, harvested, replanted, and harvested again.

I'm not. Here in Australia they're planted on farm land, and taking that land out of food production. The growing of trees depletes the soil. They grow Bluegums, which are thirsty trees and deplete the water-table. Then the land is abandoned. The food still needs to come from somewhere! Which probably means more forest cleared elsewhere.
A) Pointing out a large problem with one field is not me spreading propaganda. As others have mentioned, look at where the alfalfa goes and we're on the same page.

B) I'm totally fine point the finger at the beef and dairy industry, ultimately the entirety of your comment does not change my point. Agriculture uses 80%, focusing on city use is going after a politically convenient solution which will do little to address much of the issue.
> Now if anyone talks to me about NFTs, I send that me that Folding Ideas youtube video, 'Line goes up' and refuse to engage with them.

this sounds like a certain kind of stubbornness. but i wonder if the collison brothers listen with predatory intensity to critiques or their business from random strangers in the same way they listen to pg. perhaps some discrimination is useful
Sure, Rust "just" enforces type safety. But without type safety a type can't help us much more than the textual advice did so I think that's a really big difference, especially at scale.

In a small problem the textual advice is enough, I've written gnarly C with locks that "belong" to an object and so you need to make sure you take the right lock before calling certain functions which touch the object. The textual advice (locks are associated with objects) was good enough for that code to be correct -- which is good because C has no idea how to reflect this nicely in the language itself nor does it have adequate type safety enforcement.

But in a large problem enforcement makes all the difference. I had maybe two kinds of lock, a total of a dozen functions which need locking, it was all in my head as the sole programmer on that part of the system. But if we'd scaled up to a handful of people working on that code, ten kinds of lock, a hundred functions needing locking I'd be astonished if it didn't begin to have hard to debug issues or run into scaling challenges as everybody tries to "keep it simple" when that's no longer enough.
That option is CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ramfs-roo... .
It’s really a shame and prevents me from using my e-bike instead of my car even in some situations when the bike would otherwise be the perfect mode of transportation.
Archaeology of Biology and Software
That would actually be seriously cool though.

Even with a full-sized VR headset I'd be willing to spring for it.
Show HN: A query language to find matching words in Scrabble
I'm terrible at Scrabble, but I have some friends that insist I play it with them. So I made this over a weekend so I could 
cheat
 have a chance to beat them at their game.

It's a CLI tool that searches a dictionary for matching words given a scrabble letter pool and constraints specified by a query string. You can even restrict matches for given cross-words.

Results are sorted by Scrabble score so you can quickly evaluate how good a potential location is and make the most out of your letters.
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy double-booster landing on land during the evening/night is worth the trip. You have to know the flight profile though, since with a full payload the boosters can’t boostback.
ESA develops Lego brick from space dust for lunar construction
Yeah, I'd be surprised. I'm sure there are improvements to be made out there (e.g. maybe the sandbox could be faster) but the crazy leaps we've seen in JS performance are primarily because the complexity in the language makes for a very complex implementation with plenty of inefficiencies. By comparison WASM is already pretty close to the metal.
Many CS PhDs work on a small piece of a larger funded project. You work normal hours, read papers in the evening, take Sunday off. It’s not a big deal. So many naive students think they are going to solve AGI. No, you’ll publish an insignificant twist on a loss function and get a job.
I'd recommend starting with https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-san-fransicko before reading this.
> is sljit used in any larger projects?

https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/tree/master/src/sljit
Spotify is launching a comment section for podcasts
Yes. And I think this is why the article ends with `Then prosecute its executives. There is nothing like the prospect of prison to focus the mind.`
Didn't we collectively allow Boeing to do this though, and allow banks to give us the mortgage crisis?

We individually don't regulate these companies but we do elect those who do and we choose to be customers for those companies. Shit rolls downhill, unfortunately when a company is allowed to dig such a massive hole those left standing have to deal with the aftermath of what happened on their watch.

Papering over the problem can seem to fix it for now but it completely misses the root cause. Banks walked away form 2008 largely unharmed in the long run, and more importantly the industry is just as capable today of causing a similarly huge problem as they were then.