skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We can be glad we have cars, trucks and roads that are a bit more resistant to attacks.

Now that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has occurred, and cheap armed quad-copters are a publicly known thing, I can say this openly:

Are you kidding me? Because we are still petro-centric, we are extremely fragile. For example, the West Coast has a handful of oil refineries. To shut down the West Coast's road traffic it would take one guy, and less than $10,000 in equipment. This could all be accomplished in 3 days, and there are no deployed defenses for this attack vector.
Mostly any ex-steel based industry town in the rust belt except Detroit, only because it has been the focus of overt development to directly impact its image as a wasteland. Not sure what took its place.

Maybe Gary, Indiana? It's pretty crappy.
As an European, I heard that 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. I don't think our laws should focus on tech companies' freedom since it doesn't seem to improve the people's lives.
Like the gatekeeper designation in the DMA, or the threshold for assigning a data privacy officer in GDPR, you mean?
That's the case for most, if not all, of the new European regulations, such as the Digital Markets Act. The number of companies to which it applies can be counted on your hands, and they all have tens of billions of dollars of revenue.
Show HN: Heatrix = Heat Maps + Matrix Visualizations
It's wild to think that people would use the same sort of trick you used to use to revive a dead Xbox to charge their car faster...
Why would Nvidia leave the market?
Casey Muratori is basically describing Data Oriented Programming. Perhaps the most famous talk about it was from CPPCON 2014 [1]. I come from an embedded background (microcontrollers and bare metal) so I'm pretty sympathetic to his argument. If you work in it long enough, it feels natural and "clean". Uncle bob's Clean Code probably feels natural to Java devs.

Personally, my biggest gripe comes from experiencing people trying to introduce it to a team. Inevitably someone tries to enthusiastically implement some part of it and suddenly are writing 1 line functions everywhere. I think this is the type of thing Casey is also implicitly talking about when he's railing against the rules being brought up.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
That was my answer, FFS.
It's a huge waste of energy and in some cases it would even be slower because you'd execute more instructions overall. If the branch mispredict rate is around 1% it's simply not worth paying a penalty 99% of the time to get a gain 1% of the time. Maybe it would be worth doing on low-confidence branches.
And the Dutch East India Company before that.
The real fundamental issue is VCs, which as you pointed out, are far more adventurous in America.
It's socialism versus capitalism at its finest. The problem is that socialism risks regulating big tech out of existence. Is that an issue? Absolutely. By stifling big tech, Europe becomes heavily dependent on the US, which ultimately hurts our quality of life. As an entrepreneur living in Europe, the best thing you can do is move to the US.
I sometimes wonder if there’s an academic career hidden in there for an engineer: go to the library and read what the CS folks were publishing on physical papers, maybe there are some ideas that can actually be implemented now that weren’t practical back then.
You know, I have tried on numerous occasions to get into Beefheart and it never lands. Fans of his stuff describe it as some higher level of musicianship and sophistication but it just sounds to me like a band that can't play and is just kind of owning that.

I watched a Beefheart documentary once where a fan said something to the effect of "It sounds like noise but if you listen closely, each band member is playing a totally different time signature and key". I mean yeah. That's pretty much what it sounds like lol.
Heart transplant breakthrough as human receives titanium heart for first time
Discussion (17 points, 4 hours ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080345
A more measured take on the relationship between science and religion: https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/a/29763
The concern was that they would stuff it up and have troubles trying to dictate 48 keys.

Not that someone was going to listen in and steal it
Not only the tech market, they're on a pace in destroying the agricultural market as well. Small, medium size farmers are disappearing fast, they quit or at best being absorbed by large farmcorps.
I think we can debate regulations being productive or not all day and either side of the camp will never agree, however my biggest personal issue is that the government is removing the choice from anyone involved. As an adult you should be able to chose for yourself - if everyone chose no, then nobody would use these services and the companies wouldn’t do it. I think the effort needs to be focused on awareness and education, not restriction.

If the average user is fine with their data being sold in exchange for a service, then why not let them?

I’m personally not okay with it and I keep my data footprint as low as I can, but I know lots of people who just do not care if they get a service in return, and are fully understanding of what that means.
Danger Signs a Startup Isn't Going to Make It
So long as both manufacturers and executives are willing to assume unlimited liability for all direct, incidental, and consequential losses caused by both updates themselves and any security vulnerabilities in the update mechanism, and are held criminally liable in cases where negligence leads to injury or death, I have no problem with this.
I suppose salt water can leech ions from anything, but how soluble are the rods?
FYI, "eke." "Eek" is an expression of alarm or surprise.
Please do not milk the horny folk. ;) Well, they invested in one, and they also invested in a SpaceX competitor, Orienspace, too. It was a little jarring seeing their logo alongside all the ~serious companies.
Exponentially tighter bounds on limitations of quantum error mitigation
Think of regulation as a higher form of tech.

Then ask yourself how exactly the architects were self-medicating.
Faith and Fate: Transformers as fuzzy pattern matchers
Disclaimer: I don't work in this field, just an enthusiast.

As far as I can tell, branch predictors have always been too good for it to be worth it. Moderns CPUs have instruction reorder buffers that are hundreds of instructions deep, so even if only 8 of those instructions are conditional jumps, there's 256 different paths your program could take. If your branch predictor predicts all 8 correctly >50% of the time (It does), doing 256x the work to cover your ass is not worth it.
Agreed - But if everyone followed this philosophy we would have reason to enforce it. Perhaps the thinking is then, therefore, enforce before it becomes a problem?
I like this article. At the start I feared it was going to be one of those polemics written by someone who's never had to read other people's code, or worry about speed, efficiency or third party users.

However thats not the case. The author has distilled lots of experience into something reasonably readable.
Find me a single example of where Stripe kept the money themselves.

In some cases they are legally obliged to hold onto funds. The don't get to keep them.

You are putting yourself at risk of a lawsuit.
I love this sort of stuff. Here's some advice that the famous jazz pianist and composer Thelonius Monk gave his musicians as written down by the Saxophonist Steve Lacy in 1960. It's not quite as off the wall as Captain Beefhart. Still great stuff and also idiosyncratic. "They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it." might be the best line for non-musicians: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/thelonious-monk-25-handwritten-...

And some lists of advice for songwriters from a couple of songwriters: https://indiemusicfeedback.com/words-of-advice-for-musicians...
Related reading:

What is RCU, Fundamentally? - https://lwn.net/Articles/262464/

Amusingly, the first several hits for "Golang RCU" point to GitHub repos which contain a bunch of Mutexes (locks), import "unsafe", and haven't been updated in 7+ years. Perhaps this is not the most well-understood area of computer science.

Let's face it, when was the last time you needed RCU for a web app?
They have ways to deal with that too. https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/man-put-cell-phone-jamme...
Not to mention, bridges falling apart on their own
I have nothing but disdain for opinions like the above. Assistive technology is a boon, and anyone who gets out into the open and public spaces by way of these gadgets will benefit. If you want your solitude, get further out or buy some space for yourself; public lands shouldn't be for the able-bodied alone.
I wish targeted advertising was made completely illegal here, I am sure our society would greatly benefit from that.
Would've been good if they had been able to come up with a realistic example that could be problematic, but they have not made the case at all while Nvidia would forego the EU market.
Did you reply to the wrong comment? I wasn't discussing manufactured homes at all, but rather the benefits of simple building geometries.
And here they come... the usual defenders of F2P "for cosmetic items only" :)

As much as you'd like to prove it's a different animal, the game's design was corrupted in that case as well.
I don’t think “everyone” has the interest, know how, equipment, and time to operate a radio station. But I would personally very much like to see what it would look like at “problematic” levels. That amount of independent media would be truly a thing to behold.
B-1B crash result of pilot error and 'culture of noncompliance'
As long as you also took "so keep the system simple and basic" to heart as well - I have seen many systems where the obvious choice was microservices, not for scaling or team separation mind you, but because the devs felt like it.

Scaling those systems is a total bitch.
Companies circumvent real choice all the time. Regulations prevent them from doing so. There's no equivalency here. EU has repeatedly made legislation that does something or anything to counteract the power these tech companies have over the lives of billions. The EU has an interest in serving the needs of EU citizens. Tech companies do not. Tech companies only care about their bottom line, regardless of the human or financial cost to anybody else. There is no option for individuals to do anything about these companies. That's what we need governments for.

The US has largely decided that companies shouldn't be regulated at all (particularly with the recent Supreme Court decisions). This isn't a good thing. It will not benefit the vast majority of US citizens. There is no "choice" citizens can make that will undo the unraveling of government regulations on industry/business, unless it's voting for a political party that one that will reform the Supreme Court and revert their insane decisions, a party that isn't the GOP.
Beats me, and the article also doesn't back that up at all, other than that Apple skipped a feature in the EU.
More bits to store more color/brightness etc makes sense.

I think my main confusion has usually been that it all feels like some kind of a… hack?
Suppose I set my macbook screen to max brightness, and then open up a normal “white” png. Looks fine, and you would think “well, the display is at max brightness, and the png is filled with white”, so a fair conclusion would be thats the whitest/brightest that screen goes. But then you open another png but of a more special “whiter white”, and suddenly you see your screen actually can go brighter! So you get thoughts like “why is this white brighter”, “how do I trigger it”, “what are the actual limits of my screen”, “is this all some separate hacky code path”, “how come I only see it in images/videos, and not UI elements”, “is it possible to make a native Mac ui with that brightness”.

In any case, thanks for the answer. I might be overthinking it and there’s probably lots of historical/legacy reasons for the way things are with hdr.
All you're doing is moving the risk from the business to the consumer with crypto which is why it will never succeed. Consumers like all the things businesses hate about credit cards because they can get their money back if something goes wrong and when it comes to payments the customer decides who wins.
Boneless chicken wings can contain bones, Ohio Supreme Court rules
So op thought "I want to develop Linux" and applied to Canonical? That's like wanting to make it as a painter and going to your local highschool to study.

Yes, nobody wants to work with Shuttleworth, it's a pain. Yes, Canonical has insane interview processes, which is partly why it doesn't attract talent.

But Canonical is at fractional scale compared to even SUSE, let alone Red Hat and IBM. If you want to "develop linux," Canonical is not the place to go to. You might be better off joining Google than Canonical, honestly.
Aider is great, but the use case is different:

1. You use Aider to complete a novel task you're actively working on. Patchwork completes repetitive tasks passively without bothering you. For e.g. updating a function v/s fixing linting errors.

2. Aider is agentic, so it figures out how to do a task itself. This trades accuracy in favor of flexibility. With patchwork, you control exactly how the task is done by defining a patchflow. This limits the set of tasks to those that you have pre-defined but gives much higher accuracy for those tasks.

While the demo shows CLI use, the ideal use case patchwork is as part of your CI or even a serverless deployment triggered via event webhooks. Hope this helps? :)
Dolphin is a play on a whale, a medium spender vs a big spender or a free-to-play (F2P) user.

I don't know where i-frames came from originally, but it's abbreviated from invincibility frames, and is usually the part of an animation where your character won't take damage. I think Dark Souls/Elden Ring would be the most well known example of that mechanics.
Shipping is incredibly efficient, so it is not an outrageous assumption.
> As for wanting to reduce suffering, natural, pasture raised humane farming can achieve that.

Not on the scale of demand.

> Humans controlled animal populations and thinned herds for thousands of years in humane ways before the advent of factory farming, we just need to dial back the clock on our mechanized monstrosity.

1) What we did to animals was never humane. There's a reason that it is bad when humans get treated "like animals".

For one, the traditional methods of slaughter don't involve a bolt gun to stun them, so by going back to the old ways we go from saying "who is to blame if the bolt gun doesn't stun them before slaughter?" to "what bolt gun?" and them being exsanguinated starting while conscious.

2) The mechanised monstrosity is the result of all the people who want to eat meat and for that meat to be cheap.

If you want to enforce idilic meadows for all cows, and that they only get to be turned into food when they die of natural causes, be prepared for riots — "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" style, because that's expensive and a lot of people (e.g. in the UK) are struggling to pay rent and use food banks already.

May also need to severely reduce the human population to achieve that due to lack of suitable land, given how many cattle are fed crops grow elsewhere. Can't tell how you feel about that, I've seen people go both ways in these kinds of arguments — even though it seems inconsistent to call for a reduction of human population while being not OK with a reduction of the livestock population.

Also:

> The only way to not have suffering is to not have life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duḥkha
There's a story my uncle told me about meeting Beefheart after some gig in Phoenix in the early 70's, where he literally bumped into him outside the stage door after the show. My uncle, basically awestruck, offered Beefheart a smoke, which the great man heartily accepted and promptly ate.

One of nature's great prototypes...
> I'm using a pair of Sony XM4 and I have never had any problems on my 4
> Windows machines. But on Ubuntu (both 22.04 and 24.04), I have had to
> jump through many hoops [...]

I also have XM4's (best headphones in my life; seriously, they've saved
my sanity and lowered my stress levels, more than a few times), but I
never had any problems with BT pairing. I use them with my phone,
Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, ArchLinux and macOS, although not Windows, and they
always pair up perfectly fine. I have two-device mode activated at all
times.

My SO uses them (she has her own XM4's) with Windows and her phone, and
also never had any problems.

Maybe it's a hardware issue?
Literally all that happened was they gave a black woman the 007 designation.

They didn't announce her as the new "Bond", and she is not confirmed to continue the character.

She didn't even have that designation at the end of the movie.

It's literally a number.

How eager are you to find things to be mad at?
Show HN: Ray Tracing in One Weekend v4.0.0
Since this is a major new release (three and a half years in development), I think this should be ok for Show HN.

This release has lots of new material, fixes, and updates across the three books in this series. All three books are online and free, with accompanying code available from GitHub. Enjoy!
Europe is an amazing place, which is why I moved here in the first place. But for techies, it can be pretty challenging. The issue isn't with the techies themselves, though. The problem is that the environment here holds back big tech, making Europe heavily dependent on the US.
> "Probably want to start shutting that down son."

Can totally picture
It dictates choice between major casting requirements, or major storyline requirements. I’m not sure why you’ve only mentioned the crew requirements, which I also think are bad, but are irrelevant to this thread. Can I take it you’re admitting this is a conspiracy implemented by a small group of political activist elites, but that you just want to downplay its impact a bit?
I think a lot of the complaining on HN comes from the engineers themselves. "Ugh," they say, "We have to write all of this boring code to comply with regulations, rather than writing exciting features!" I see it a little differently. As someone who's spent a good part of the last 6-8 years working on GDPR and DMA compliance projects, the way I look at it is: "We are finally making our product better for users, working on privacy improvements that our companies have opposed until it was forced on them." EU-led regulation has been a great engineering opportunity and a product forcing-function.
Unspecified future boogeyman AI regulations. Or antitrust which Nvidia is already being investigated for.

Realistically Nvidia did not leave China and they will not leave Europe.
Show HN: Check Your Mouthbreathing with MediaPipe
While scrolling through Reddit, I read about the negative side effects of mouth breathing (which are quite debatable) and wondered if I was doing it myself. Since I wanted to experiment with MediaPipe anyway, I built a little website to check. It's just an index HTML file which you can download and modify. It only works on desktop and takes a few seconds to load MediaPipe.
This is one of the best non-environmental arguments I've heard for the conversion to EVs.
Most, if not all this kind of EU regulation has size limits, usually several steps between small startups with a small number of users, up to the size of gatekeeper platforms. There aren't many startups that start off as a gatekeeper since there is only six companies in the world that has that definition (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft).
> I really like to read

I'm continually surprised how many people don't do this

I suspect that people DO read more and are probably more literate (from looking at phone screens), but maybe there is more distracting easy-to-consume media nowadays.
I mean market choice was totally taken away almost immediately. You basically need to buy a used car to be totally taken away from touchscreen world.

It's similar to how consumer-grade dumb TVs do not really exist. And most consumers are not about to start a low-margin, multi-million dollar capex business and start building their own cars and tvs.
Yes, every game based on a multiplayer grinding treadmill would be a shitty game if you made it single player.

> the large and diverse roster of characters goes a long way in avoiding the feeling of repetitiveness and tedium

It's just the same tedium but you change the combos every 10000 repeats?

> that plagues most large open world games nowadays

Open world games have grown too large for their own good, but that's a different discussion. The worst is when some title is succesful and they get money and they make a sequel that's thrice as big.

Horizon Zero Dawn: perfect length if you ask me. Horizon Forbidden West: could have been 50% smaller for the same enjoyment.

Even Witcher 3 and Elden Ring, which are great non repetitive open world games, could have been smaller for the same effect if you ask me.
Even if “live service bad”, Genshin Impact has been reverse engineered to death; you can run your own server, mod the game to get all the cosmetics, and do just about whatever you want.
Discussion (68 points, 22 hours ago, 81 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41074574
All furniture, joinery, etc. is designed with right angles in mind. Creating non-right angles is a great way to have unusable nooks and crannies.

And a rectangle only needs four sides; a triangle has non-right angles, and any more complex shape needs more joints.
Ah, yes you do have to run a service of some kind to interface with Apple. For example the Matrix project provides Sygnal https://github.com/matrix-org/sygnal which the owner of a Matrix client can run on their own systems.

It's not super resource-intensive if you run it yourself, but I can imagine how a "buy vs build" decision for other apps could easily lead to a $$$ monthly subscription with a specialized 3rd party.
How is it "for free?" Do you need Canonical and 20-page essay to reflect about your high school achievements? Or can I bill canonical for my work on the insane 10+ round interview process?
I agree to the fullest
Moor is accurate here because Macrinus was born in Mauretania. No relation to the much later "Moors" of Muslim North Africa, or to the modern nation of Mauritania.

I don't know what the Mauri looked like, but probably not like Italians, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them had dark skin. The same website thinks that emperor looked like this: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/13005/macrinus-facial-rec... and if so, Denzel Washington's portrayal looks pretty good https://i0.wp.com/www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07...

This doesn't look like the Netflix African Cleopatra situation. She was Greek IRL, which is actually interesting for anyone who didn't know about the Ptolemaic dynasty, and it's relevant because even today the Coptic minority in Egypt is (sorta) Greek.
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Germany's position in context is at least understandable: the Mittelstand is a force to be reckoned with, and that entire segment of Germany's trade system is extremely averse to risk. (It's also a lot of other things, part of which can be witnessed by hopping the border to Switzerland and reading through the platform for their self-proclaimed "Partei des Mittelstandes.")
Then it sounds like what you’re saying is there’s a financial market for users like you and I who would rather pay a subscription fee than our data be sold? Or an ad supported tier?

The problem with your argument is you’re removing any revenue source the company has. If you won’t pay a subscription, and you block all the ads, and they can’t sell data, how do they make money? Money is required to run the service, whether that leaves a sour taste or not.

If you think you have a financially viable model that protects data, then you should start a company on that premise, I’d genuinely love to see someone make it work.