skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren't trying to run the businesses. They're trying to extract the value from the businesses. What happens to the business afterwards and what happens to the businesses customers in the process is not important because they've structured their ownership in such a way that they profit regardless.
I am ok with desktop environment exploring new ideas and it is very cool that linux allows them to do so (e.g. I myself am a big fan of tiling window managers and it is one of the main things I miss when I am not using linux).

What I am not okay with is myriad of linux window managers which are 99% the same generic window manager. How much effort is being split between KDE/Gnome despite them being essentially the same thing? How much effort was wasted in unity?
They have plenty of experience with how Congress treats them when they kill astronauts.
I never thought about the weight of the paint. I asked LLMs how much a coat of paint of 120 microns would weigh. Between 5 and 8 pounds apparently.
Ehhh... not much more so than how much `npm install` hides. These macros are part of a gigantic tower of absurdity that costs many, many times more than they need to, but we use them because dev time is more valuable than CPU time.
After all that work I was expecting a chromaticity diagram to demonstrate the expanded gamut, but nice job regardless.
A human has the ability to contact the PM and say, "This won't work, for $reason," or, "This is going to look really bad in $edgeCase, here are a couple options I've thought of."

There's nothing about AI that makes such operations intrinsically impossible, but they require much more than just the ability to generate working code.
Where could I try this?
Maybe a good place to ask this: does anyone know of an all-in-one board for battery management in small mobile devices? Recently started playing with the ESP32 and was surprised there isn't a ready-to-go board on AliExpress for handling usb battery charging with simultaneous device powering. I want to add a LiPo to my design and have it just work like my cell phone does.
In one of my first positions out of undergrad we had a few devs on the team that got overly caught up in stuff like this. They were no doubt smart people, but their egos got in the way of things way too often. I'm not kidding - we'd get caught up on an if statement curly bracket for a ticket and there would be an argument for 30 minutes to an hour over whether the curly bracket should be there or not. These arguments would go into full blown dissertations, evolving into tangents of BSD coding style or Doom code. Keep in mind this was on a very well known automotive software platform with 20k bugs and counting open.

There is definitely a time and a place. Those were extremely frustrating times and a great learning experience for a young dev.
> Past that, to other presidents, I don't know. In my personal opinion, I think they're banking on never having to get there.

I think their logic is basically "these people function ~identically to if they were democratic political appointees, so we might as well get the benefits of them being political appointees when we're in office". Whether that's actually accurate can be debated, but it's not just "let's not worry about ever losing ever again".
RLHF really isn't the problem as far as surpassing human capability - language models trained to mimic human responses are fundamentally not going to do anything other than mimic human responses, regardless of how you fine-tune them for the specific type of human responses you do or don't like.

If you want to exceed human intelligence, then design architectures for intelligence, not for copying humans!
Nice title! It definitely caught my attention.
IIRC he was given shares in the company. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39629939
In terms of food security - what does that mean? I hear (unverified) there are places such as Venezuela where the population is starving, which is horrendous, but I haven't heard of this in the US.
Semiconductor fabrication is nasty. It's way worse than most plastic production. Even the board substrate itself is probably the most toxic kind of plastic out there (other than maybe styrene feed stock) before its cured and being a composite it decomposes the slowest. It's much much worse than most household waste.

There are bigger things that produce way more waste though. Lots of vehicles (especially boats) have huge fiberglass composite components for example.
For a mass produced product, why waste die space on RISC-V cores that can only be used instead of the Cortex cores? Why not just use that die space for more ram or another ARM core? Doesn't it make sense to sell a variant that is entirely RISC-V?
If it's a fast, Rust written, modern, Wayland native DE with quarter tiling I am already happy. Let it grow from there.
All of the Linux desktop environments feel like thin skins compared to what we had in the past.

I keep hoping somebody will implement OS/2's Workplace Shell for Linux. Rexx would be nice too but I suspect most people would rather stick with a scripting language they already know.

https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/The_WorkPlace_Shell,...

https://komh.github.io/os2books/pdf/OS2_REXX.pdf
I think there was a sub-plot like this in "Children of Time", by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Only it was people on a generation ship that was forced to operate well beyond its limits. I don't want to give too much away but it definitely gave the concept a twist.
5V GPIO is a huge deal for me - this immediately opens up a huge range of integrations without having to worry about line level conversion.

I can’t wait to use this!
Have you ever wondered why those sectors have the most government intervention? It's precisely because those sectors are prone to market failure.

Of course government intervention has flaws too. I hope that we can make our government smarter and more effective over time.
Script to Install Fallout London on Steam Deck
Videos I've watched of people's experiences. Things like having a driver be at their max hours, maybe due to unforceen traffic and delays, and Greyhound having no replacement driver ready, causing them to be late. Not hit pieces, just travel vlogs. Everyone has to get off the bus, sit in a sometimes crappy terminal at 2 am, often with no amenities while it's sorted out.

I'm a bus advocate, you can see it from another post this week. But Greyhound is not reliable if time is sensitive.
KDE and Gnome are nowhere near the same thing, they have very different philosophies, guidelines, and underlying UI frameworks.
I am American and since it's been mumble mumble years since the public school system, I'm sure the situation is changed. I grew up in a factory town and they did a pretty good job teaching the basics of English, mathematics, and science. Going to college was a bit of a shock but that's a well-known problem.

Nowadays, it is incredibly variable because school systems are funded at the local level, most the curricula is decided at the local level so you can go from a very well-funded high-quality teacher school like the Newton, Wellesley, and Weston high schools to the low income areas out West where the public school system has been outsourced to Christian schools.

I also think the public school system is a bedrock of a democratic society if the curriculum is uniform and covers critical thinking, history, literature, and sciences without flinching. I feel like we need to draw a line in the sand and say what someone needs to know to be a citizen of this country. The problem is, there are lots of different opinions where that line should go ranging from the religious and racist to the equally dogmatic far left.
Run a home server and use that domain to make your home server available to you anywhere in the world via IPv6.
Taking the Drizzle Challenge
'Fractal Key': A Novel Encryption Method
I am often skeptical of innovations in cryptography, could any crypto experts snuff this one out? The OP claims it is superior to RSA but hasn't necessarily verified these claims.
I have those relatives too and I know others in their 60s and 70s who are very much living in this moment. The difference is curiosity and motivation and the humility to recognize that what’s new and alien might just have something to offer you.

I’d bet those relatives you mention weren’t the most curious or open people when they were younger.
Cosmic is building on top of https://github.com/Smithay/smithay there is convergence happening on de facto wayland protocols compositors support
Pico 2 and RP2350 launch with choice of ARM or RISC-V
I didn't know that. Thank you for letting me know.
> The amount of people here that seemingly don't care about quality of life is shocking to me

I haven't seen this on here. Can you cite an example?
The original XUL-based vertical tabs actually moved and restyled Firefox's native tabs, instead of creating a lookalike (which is all that's possible now). This meant that unrelated addons that did things like grey-out unloaded tabs, or alter the favicons to have some sort of indicator, still worked on the vertical tabs. The current vertical tabs addons all have to do it themselves or add some sort of API for the other addons to interact with to get the same effect.
Looking at the results, it looks to me that the print with the white light has far more detail while the RGB print has washed out ground under the tower.
So just like Hacker News users? ;)
This Lix change control system allows storing, tracking, querying, and reviewing changes in different file formats, e.g., .xlsx, .sqlite, or .inlang, but as in the blog post, could also bring Word's "track changes" level of traceability to Markdown:

https://lix.opral.com

https://github.com/opral/monorepo/tree/main/lix

I'm very interested in seeing how this would improve over git diffs (or something like gerrit + fisheye) for infra-as-code especially controls-as-code.

Looks like an SDK is "coming soon"...
This is worse jungle than Vietnam, just as a reference point for how well the US Army might be able to control the territory.
I would imagine a minor browser would be less of an influence than the fact that most browsers have vertical tabs as an option at this point, or even just the slew of add-ons for Firefox itself.
They actually let you choose one Cortex-M33 and one RISC-V RV32 as an option (probably not going to be a very common use case) and support atomic instructions from both cores.
Digging a little bit on this, it seems it could be a one digit part number difference and fat fingering...

P212. Silicon adhesive with up to 200 C insulation.
https://www.nitto.com/au/en/products/e_parts/heat_resistant0...

P213. Acrylic adhesive with up to 155 C insulation.
https://www.nitto.com/au/en/products/e_parts/heat_resistant0...

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=gm840m...
Paper straws are often touted as alternative to plastic, but they're toxic
I don't really get it. It's not even competitive with an ESP32 -- it has no communications at all.
Yes, but you'd want that colour chart on the type of film you're scanning, for reasons explained in the OP. Sadly all I found in a brief search were calibration targets on slide film, not negatives.
Libcurl is 24 years old
Desktop Linux only "competes" with Mac O's and Windows on a superficial level. While it seems like marketshare matters... it really doesn't from a existential standpoint. Desktop Linux has no* financial driver towards greater marketshare. It's not* competing for dollars with commercial, proprietary OSes.

* Not entirely true... there are certainly commercial offerings and financial backing for the ecosystem, though I'm certain it would still exist without them.
It was obviously not satire
structopt became part of clap proper (as `clap_derive`) when clap v3 was released.
Donate the dusty ones to the nearest hacker/makerspace?
Just a suggestion, but I've found that at least here on HN, it matters less what do as how you do it. When things are presented at "Here's this solid discovery", people will pretty quickly ask for proof; they want backup, to build on it, or to take the poster down a peg. If the same thing is instead presented as "I've done some work on this, I know it's only N=1, but here's what I found", you'll generally get either just read or curious inquiries. Yes, "generally" is doing a lot of work there, but that's what I've seen here. YMMV, and good fortune!
Started using Sideberry over a year ago and have not looked back since. Very good stuff.
Depends on the conditions. It is 6 hours by car, but with a BMW or Mercedes you can easily make that 5 hours (averaging just 117km/h). Meanwhile it is 4,5 hours by train, but will likely be over 5 hours due to delays.

In France, Paris to Lyon is 2 hours by train and there is simply no way going by car is faster (legally).

These are just examples, my point is that a high-speed line should be a lot faster than going by car. Not slightly faster, and sometimes even slower.
There's two screenshots of it embedded in tweets in the article.
From a moderate skim, I'm not seeing much in there that really addresses this beyond FUD and over-simplification.

Which, I mean... it's the Internet. That's kinda expected. But if there's something specific you're seeing, could you link to it? I'm curious as well what the "stick to C" crowd's reasons are. "C plus this one feature of C++" seems rather defensible at a glance (ignoring the social difficulty in choosing which feature), but I'm sure it's much more complicated than that in practice.
> The amount of people trying to tell that dying is the right way of life is baffling. Vast majority of natural deaths arent graceful, they often are quite painful and ugly

Both statements are true, but they are not necessarily causally related. _Even if_ all natural deaths were graceful, painless, and beautiful, it would still be a horrific senseless tragedy that "lives have to end"
> White light scan captured using 95+ CRI 5000K light source. RGB scan captured using custom 450nm+525nm+665nm light source.

While high-CRI is better than low(er)-CRI, one criticism is that the 'score' is somewhat lacking in it measure an important component:

> Ra is the average value of R1–R8; other values from R9 to R15 are not used in the calculation of Ra, including R9 "saturated red", R13 "skin color (light)", and R15 "skin color (medium)", which are all difficult colors to faithfully reproduce. R9 is a vital index in high-CRI lighting, as many applications require red lights, such as film and video lighting, medical lighting, art lighting, etc. However, in the general CRI (Ra) calculation R9 is not included.

[…]

> R9 value, TCS 09, or in other words, the red color is the key color for many lighting applications, such as film and video lighting, textile printing, image printing, skin tone, medical lighting, and so on. Besides, many other objects which are not in red color, but actually consists of different colors including red color. For instance, the skin tone is impacted by the blood under the skin, which means that the skin tone also includes red color, although it looks much like close to white or light yellow. So, if the R9 value is not good enough, the skin tone under this light will be more paleness or even greenish in your eyes or cameras.[25]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index#Special_...
Wow, that's really interesting.

Having grown up on cartons filled with ads for toys showing kids playing with the toys, it literally never even crossed my mind that anyone would consider that objectionable, let alone pass laws against it.

At most parents would be annoyed because their kid would pester them for a toy, but I've literally never heard anyone suggest that the advertising should be banned.

(Advertising alcohol or tobacco of course is today different.)

You've definitely made me wonder how childhood might be different without ads for children. On the other hand, when I grew up you couldn't avoid commercials. Now kids watch everything through streaming where you can generally eliminate the commercials anyways.
Right, this is why I compared it to car manufacturers. At a base level, there is little to no reason to prefer one car to another. Bicycles can be the same. That said, at the ends, there are people that latch on heavily to decisions and small differences in the options.

Now, again to your point, we are all on the same roads. Such that standardizing parts is incredibly valuable.

I /think/ the trap is that standards often act as constraints on the manufacturers. And software is a large industry where constraints are easy to effectively ignore during development. Memory requirements. Safety from malicious actors on the system. Capabilities of different computers. I could probably go on.

I suspect it is worse than that sounds, even, as developers tend to focus on the intrinsic quality of code thinking that is paramount. I hate that sentence, as it makes it sound like I don't think the quality of the code matters. I fully think it does. I also fully think we fall for aesthetic quality of code far more than we do any other quality.
The most straightforward way this is done is by SFTP'ing into banks. Check out step 4 here!

https://docs.iso20022js.com/quickstart#step-4-send-the-payme...
> Microsoft is able to keep GitHub and npmjs.com online

Somehow they were also capable of killing Skype, Nokia, and Yammer, among some other things. They've also made LinkedIn less user-friendly and overwhelmed with ads.

GitHub (I feel) never had so much downtime before the acquisition. I'm dreading the day when they finally make something so stupid that would drive hundreds of thousands to move their repos someplace else.
Great addition. the massive misallocation of a militarized police is another source to solve these problems. But unfortunately for too long the conservative mindset of "punish the addict" has provided the electoral support that led to anti drug legislation prevailing over plain reason.

All while the smarter ones upstream knew it was all a lie and just a way to screw over groups they always wanted to screw over, not even getting in to the benefits their corporate masters gain from the free labor of prisoners who get 20y for dealing something that should be dealt over a regulated counter and the police force to capture those that get caught. All while systemically undermining and undeserving areas who have the most need of social programs. Hopefully logic eventually prevails. as shrooms and dmt become legal in some places i hope we can eventually do the logical thing and stop funding violence and start funding social progress.
To put this into a bit of perspective, DB once was much better:

DB reported some 94.1 percent of services arrived within five minutes of their scheduled time in 2017.[0]

[0](https://www.france24.com/en/20180322-record-2017-deutsche-ba...)
Why oh why is still using Micro USB?!

I was hoping that the next iteration would start using USB-C even if it costed a bit more per-board.
What an insulting post. Do you talk to people IRL that way?
The post mortem of my startup
Every time when such thing happens, then it becomes a language suggestion opportunity. But for those who suggest another language, are you going to replace a 50M line code base because of you want have a fancy min / max? I don’t think this is a responsible suggestion.
> It's not NASA's job to keep Boeing in the running.

In theory it is not. The reality is that a lot of NASA's budgeting and decisions are made based on the pork-barrel politics of the ones who hold the purse strings -- congress.
+1 By the way, Dutch has "onontvlambaar"
And now because of German needs eastern and south-easthern EU countries are in even worse position because Germany has hoovered up a decent chunk of skilled younger workforce.

We have started to import unskilled/low skilled laborers from SE Asia en masse to keep the country barely running. But the quality is going downhill yet prices of goods and real estate are soaring.
The usual story is that academia finds an interesting mechanism to produce the desired effect. Though occasionally this is done by industry instead.

Then industry turns that into a specific molecule that can enter the human body in a standard way and doesn't produce too many side effects.

Then industry figures out how to produce that molecule at scale reliably in a sufficiently pure form.

And at the same time industry is shepherding the drug through clinical trials.
I couldn't agree more.

I feel like as the computer literacy of the people making decisions in tech companies has gone up, the care that's being invested into actually making good user interfaces has gone down. This applies to Macs, Windows, and also to Linux desktop environments.

Just 15 years ago, there was a heavy focus on usability and making user interfaces clear and readable. Now, the focus seems to be much more on aesthetics. People used to care about making sure buttons are recognizable and differentiated with icons, colors, and clear labels. Now it's just text. People used to make sure windows had clear, visible borders, and the active window was clearly identifiable. Now it's just a shadow, and if you have a dark user interface, you can't even see the shadow. People used to make sure scrollable areas where clearly identifiable, now you have to just guess at what is scrollable.

From the screenshots, this looks like the same low-contrast, low-usability, but visually pretty design approach most modern desktop environments have adopted.

It's unfortunate that this seems to be the direction we're going in.
Generating Mazes
>You're asking me to either judge the work on the same grounds as you do, or to abstain from opining if I can't

Not at all. You go far beyond "judging on your own grounds" by saying that something has little artistic merit.

In fact, your "judgement" only has the word "you" and none of "I" or "my"; your own grounds are completely missing from it.

You are entitled to your grounds, but you are instead climbing on a pedestal to confidently proclaim that everyone else doesn't have ground to stand on.

Here's what you have enough basis to say:

"I see a painted can of soup on a white background. I felt that you didn't try. To me, lack of trying means that your work has little artistic merit."
Let’s do some math to see if this qualifies as something to worry about. They say they’ve sold 4 million Picos. The packaging can get recycled, but let’s just assume every single Pico ends up in a landfill. How big a problem is that?

Datasheets say they’re 21x51mm. Looks like they’re on the order of 5mm deep. So 5.35mL per Pico.

Four million of these would be 5659 gallons of Picos, 756 cubic feet.

So you could take the e-waste of every Pico sold to date, and put it in a single 9.1ft cube in your garage.

I’d argue that this doesn’t qualify as something we shouldn’t spend time worrying about. There’s probably at least one Pico, maybe running a sign at some EPA office, doing more good for the environment than all the waste from all of them together is causing harm.
Traveling 2,000km in the US would take me like 5 hours including an hour in the airport each way. Even if you made it two hours on departure that's six hours of total travel time. Compared to a 23 hour train trip.

Distances like that, trains just don't make sense IMO.
Ask HN: Toy app that takes a function and renders a grid of red and white dots?
I am trying to remember the name of a toy app that I saw on here. It takes a user-supplied function and, based on the return value, renders a grid of red and white dots of varying sizes and pulse animations.

I believe that it is part of a personal portfolio of mini apps and games.

I believe that its name is comprised of the single-letter arguments of the function.

I am going mad searching for this thing. Any leads would be appreciated. Thanks!