skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Ask HN: Can CPUs etc. be made from just graphene and/or other carbon forms?" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40719725

"Ask HN: How much would it cost to build a RISC CPU out of carbon?" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41153490

Or CNT Carbon Nanotubes, or TWCNT Twisted Carbon Nanotubes.

From "Rivian reduced electrical wiring by 1.6 miles and 44 pounds" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41210021 :

> Are there yet CNT or TWCNT Twisted Carbon Nanotube substitutes for copper wiring?

"Twisted carbon nanotubes store more energy than lithium-ion batteries" (2024?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41159421
The impressive thing about this is not the size -- making long peptide chains is easy -- it's the fact that this can be consistently folded into a useful structure, without misfolding or aggregating.

I have to wonder how much of the structure is functional, versus, for lack of a better term, structural "bulk" that is unaffected by misfolding.
> The editor component itself isn't what's interesting about this product... The moat is in all the stuff happening around it. I'm a long time VSCode user...

Exactly. So VSCode and Microsoft has the moat.
I agree that we should try and be understanding when people inadvertently use language that has become offensive.

At the same time, there are a whole lot of people who want to staunchly defend using language that has become offensive, and even use it gleefully. I have much less sympathy for this position.
All of this makes me think. I recently bought a car, and there seems to be quite a bit of audio difference. Or how pleasurable the audio sounds, how immersive, how the bass sounds.

1) Using Android Auto

2) Using Apple CarPlay

3) Which USB cables are used. Some seem to be better than others.

4) If it's over bluetooth - the worst experience with Android for me.

5) Car radio vs the above

6) Am I using YouTube Music or Spotify on Android Auto/Apple CarPlay

It's almost like with some of these configuration it's frustrating, while it's really pleasurable with others, but I can't tell if I'm imagining it.

From my tests so far, it feels like I'm only happy with the wired Apple CarPlay, and everything else doesn't seem satisfying. I'm not an audiophile or anything. And it has a real effect on my mood. But I have Android myself.

If anyone has any suggestions to try out here... I'll try to maybe see if all the music is downloaded with offline support beforehand and maybe check the settings in Spotify/YouTube Music apps. It seems to be related mostly to how smooth or immersive bass is to me. Because bass can be annoying or it can be pleasurable.
Easiest way is to just let the machine run until it’s out of fuel. I put a vice grips on the throttle.
Show HN: Teatime – Get Feedback on Your Texts Before You Hit Send
Hey HN,

After months of hard work, I’m excited to share Teatime, a new app I’ve been passionately developing with my cofounder. Teatime is designed to help you craft the perfect text by providing feedback, edits, and suggestions from a community of real people. Whether you’re struggling with a tricky message or just want a second opinion, Teatime is here to help.

But it’s more than just a utility app—it taps into the cultural phenomenon of “spilling the tea.” Users can anonymously dive into ongoing conversations, offer their insights, and learn from others’ experiences. It’s like being part of a live text drama where you can contribute your thoughts and get involved.

Teatime is available on both iOS and Android, and I’d love to get feedback from the HN community. Whether it’s about the UX, technical implementation, or just general thoughts, I’m eager to hear what you think. Check it out and let me know how we can make it better!

Looking forward to your thoughts and suggestions!
How much work is it to figure out which sections of the executable to export?

Would it be realistic to be able to export a modern-ish (2008-2015) Win32 game into objects and then compile/link it into a full executable again with less than a few hours work?
And unsurprisingly, he just lies. Here's the crux of the bullshit:

"It’s about measurement (aggregate counts of impressions and conversions) rather than targeting."

No new technology is needed for measuring impressions and conversions. Your ad server can count impressions, and a simple referrer URL can track conversions. An Apache 1.0 server could handle this 30 years ago.

What the advertisers want is all sorts of other info on you, whether you end up as a customer or not. And they and their willing accomplices, now including Mozilla, ardently frame this as a necessity to keep the ad-supported content industry alive. What they never mention is that industry was thriving with the bare minimum of data they had 30 years ago, and more to the point, thrived with NO DATA AT ALL for over a century before it moved onto computers.

Do you think Macy's got any data on "conversions" when they listed their sale prices in the local paper? Yet somehow they were happy to keep paying for it, without any apocalyptic screeds about the imminent "death of newspapers" if we didn't start making customers record their unique customer ID before opening the paper or entering a retailer's store.

The truth is quite contrary to the ad industry's narrative- it's clear the shift of power balance in favor of the advertisers has been associated with all the industries dependent upon it getting worse.
This is the problem with this industry and this appears to be a acquisition vehicle rather than an actual sustainable business.

They probably know they don't have a moat, but once again; all for the better to take advantage of the AI bubble and exit out quickly once it collapses.
Doubtful. I don't.
This shocking reveal came about 20 min into the advertised video: Cisco decided just to focus on their core business.
Part of making data-driven decisions is knowing when you don't have enough data, which seems to be a theme with this incident. Lots of uncertainty.
What is there to learn from an "storage industry expert" or major vendors? network attached block level storage at AWS's scale hasn't been done before.
- NewsArticle about the ScholarlyArticle: "The first tensor processor chip based on carbon nanotubes could lead to energy-efficient AI processing" (2024)
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-08-tensor-processor-chip-ba...
If you're curious, this is a talk I gave back in 2009 [0] about Amazon S3 internals. It was created from internal assets by the S3 team, and a lot in there influenced how EBS was developed.

[0]: https://vimeo.com/7330740
In other words... their access to an OpenAI API key is what makes them special? Them and what army?

This is just one of those things where I could see an investor buying the idea, but I'd actually laugh at someone paying $20/month of their own money for this. You're not even getting an IDE for your money, you're getting a version of a free program that you pay to unlock a remote feature. There are Open Source plugins for VS Code that let you bring your own backend (or use OpenAI's) and do everything you see here.

Seems to be their biggest moat is assuming that most of their customers are too lazy to care about superior alternatives.

> Show me please, where can I get Cursor functionality in VSCode?

https://github.com/continuedev/continue

https://github.com/twinnydotdev/twinny

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AndrewBu...
Not entirely related to the article, George Lakoff's Metaphors We Live By is quite interesting. How, over the years, the words we use have become associated with the context in the past, or borrowed from other contexts, literally or figuratively. For example, IIRC, the book mentioned that all, or most of the words we use with time are related to money -- we spend, waste, lose, invest. Words related to arguments come from war/battle language -- defend, attack, counterattack.

I wonder if euphemisms have some metaphorical overloading that changes over the time, or so.
I wonder how the test pilots are going. If I were them I'd be a little stoked to get the extra time on station.
Elon Musk was just forced to reveal who owns X
umeshunni and schwartzworld didn't bother to watch the video, either. The video explicitly denies phones as the reason for Cisco closing Flip, at least for its occurring in 2011. As Flop7331 said, the video concludes that it was Cisco wanting to focus on its core enterprise business and not consumer stuff (again, in 2011).
What point? They were describing their personal impressions. ffs.
The billions spent on R&D, legal fees, and inference?
I'm having a hard time squaring the "don't put this guy out of business because it will become a lost art" with the very real practical goal of "release a digital piano tuner for $2 on the App Store that will make every piano not tuned by this guy-- the ones in school theaters, churches, or sitting rooms, sound better. I can't even imagine what an exorbitant price to a concert hall means but for sure the high school production of Anything Goes can't afford it.
Deep sea cables don’t need to be secured to anything in the middle they are really heavy and the water isn’t moving quickly.

People setup undersea telegraph cables the 1800’s. This is similar technology just with a thicker cable to carry more current etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable
The proper support is still very limited.

You can still do "bool b = 10" or "int i = true". C being C ("everything is an int") this will be coerced to 1.
Oh, for sure. They created a drug that suffocated all non-externally-rewarded social interaction and drew users in. But they created that drug in service to advertisements.
The problem with an export led growth model for a large country is that eventually workers make too much money to be reasonably supported by only exports. There’s a ceiling to this model because exporters need willing purchasers.
I keep hoping that enough people will start ad blocking and tracking script blocking that advertisers or companies wishing to advertise will have to find ways to deliver ads that doesn't involve tracking users, but that doesn't seem to be going anywhere. People I know are mostly indifferent to ads or actually like seeing them sometimes so they can buy whatever the latest craze is. I find this situation absolutely maddening.
Befriend anyone that is working full-time in one of the skilled trades (welding, plumbing, masonry, roofer, etc.) and they will tell you precisely how bad the thing is.
This article is discussing the treadmill. People just got used to the new term.
First time I’ve really enjoyed any writing on LessWrong. This felt zen.
Deep Dive: Building PartiQL Support at Chalk
MS has zero vested interest in caring. If they brake booting for Linux users, how does that hurt them in any meaningful way? Sure they get some press, but is it bad press if most people are never affected by this?
I miss using a TUI for mail but it looks like they haven’t really solved the most important reason I don’t, which is rendering HTML emails.
Well that was jarring.
There is no replacement for meat given the common diet, just like there is no replacement for ICEs given the common transportation infrastructure. Underlying fundamentals must change.
In Outlook, adding a folder to "favorites" creates another reference to the folder in the favorites list; it doesn't change the all-folders view under the account.
It would be nice if they described Euclid's argument in its original geometric form rather than converting it back to post 1700 algebra notation.
Quoting the article, because from your comment I'm not sure you got to the end, which is a shame as it addresses your point.

TL;DR: If we're not going to aim for better, what's the point at all?

> If it weren't for the piano soloist (the conductor probably didn't notice, he just knew to defer to the piano soloist's concerns), we would have played the concert on a very slightly out-of-tune piano, and then...
>
> What?
>
> Nobody in the audience would probably notice. Certainly not in the specific. Nobody is standing up and saying, "there, see how G above middle C has one string that is 0.2hz out of tune with the others?!" Nobody is standing up and saying "that piano is out of tune, what a travesty." Perhaps some of the more sensitive listeners would have felt some vague sense that the piano could have sounded nicer, that maybe the hall needs a better piano, or something.
>
> Did the piano sound better, after all that work? Yeah... it did, I think. Hard to say. I'd like to pretend it was some colossal difference, but that's really the point. My big stupid ears are not the best judge here. Just trust the people who have the best discernment.

> Only a very few people possess the level of discernment needed to know how bad your local concert hall's piano is, and precisely how it is bad.

> If their art dies out, maybe nobody will know how bad all the pianos are. And then we'll all have slightly worse pianos than we would otherwise have. And I mean if that's the way things are going to go, then let's just steer the Earth into the Sun, because what's the point of any of this.
> Tell us you're one of the good ones.

I guess it depends on the definition of "good" which seems to be quiet volatile. /s
Wireless-powered 13-inch color e-paper monitor launched
This is hackernews, common lisp is the standard suggestion for personal projects. Especially if you found the debugging experience in Python lacking. It's not on your list, but definitely worth taking a look.
AdaCore Join Rust Enthusiasts in Paris
I see people complain sometimes that c# adds too many features, and I understand the concern, but with limited exceptions (I don't like the new global using stuff), they tend to feel tasteful to me. Also I'm really hopeful we'll get Discriminated Unions (under a name I'm forgetting) in c# 10.
"The singularity is here, but it's actually the singularity of mediocrity."

I like this line a lot.
The link is broken, but I can see that article is from 6 years ago. It needs to be a protocol that is developed with the purpose driving in sync with each other – perhaps it needs some sort of oracle or centralized entity that maintains the state.

Teslas communicating with each other isn't using an open standard that can be used by other car companies, nor is Waymo's.
These type of proteins "PKSs" are one of the most promising and exciting areas of biotech research. They offer a path to make a sort of programmable biochemical factory, where bacteria can make a custom drug, plastic polymer, etc. in a predictable way. They can also do some tricky chemistry that is almost impossible any other way.

PKSs build a molecule piece by piece like a car assembly line, and follow a predictable logic where you can tell from the parts in the DNA exactly what chemical they will make. After 30+ years of working on it bioengineers are finally figuring out how to reliably mix and match the parts to make custom PKSs that work.
Show HN: Privacy Oriented "Copilot Like" for Linux
This is a first release: bugs are expected.
Remember nothing is sent outside your machine.
Given their seeming lack of proper quality control I find this statement highly suspect.
Re-read my comment. It answers all of your questions.

> So, why are my rates still over $250 a month?

> don't consume alcohol, exercise religiously, eat cleanly, don't have a family history of any major diseases or illnesses, don't have preexisting conditions, am under 35, don't take any medication, and most importantly, haven't made a claim against my insurance in over a decade

The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to ignore all of that, and underwrite only based on tobacco use status and age. Even the age is not fully underwritten as the max premium has to be only 3x the least premium (see age rating factor). This explicitly makes insurance premiums a tax.

> They have plenty of room to reduce profits

No, they don’t. UNH has 6% profit margins because they have a huge healthcare provider component, and healthcare itself is high margin. The insurance business is 2% profit margin. See Elevance, CVS, Cigna, Humana, Molina, and Centene profit margins. All at 2%.

> It's both.

Sorry, but that makes no sense.

By the way, government leaders and asset rich wealthy people love the fact that you blame insurance companies. They got way with implementing a huge tax on the young and working people, and evade blame. That’s not even the only one, see lack Medicare tax on capital gains, and the egregious Additional Medicare Tax.

The productivity of today’s working youth is being transferred to old and sick people in greater and greater amounts, dictated by legislators in Congress, elected by active old voters, not the bosses at insurance companies.
> Matrix

Not a link aggregator.

> Lemmy

Checked the top 6 communities (sorted by activity on join-lemmy.org), not counting the NSFW-oriented one. Five of them have some sort of political bullshit on the front page and one of them explicitly describes itself as a "leftist social platform". Now, to Lemmy's credit, the community in 7th place didn't have any political bullshit on the front page, but it's also got a measly 1k active users month, compared to HN's >1m. Have you instead considered that other platforms may have real issues that could drive people away from them?
It’s complicated from the developer side.

> explain to themselves why they continue to tolerate Microsoft's abusive business practices.

I can’t possibly eye roll hard enough.
By "Colorado as a whole", do you mean "Boulder in particular"?
> Are we all dead? Disabled? Dying

The problem with poisons is that we view them in a binary way. They're either bad, or they're not. They either hurt you, or they don't.

But in reality it doesn't always work this way. There's infinite levels of bad.

Eating off a lead plate, as the greeks did, is poisonous but certainty not deadly. Nobody was disabled.

Instead, the rich just slowly went insane over the course of their lives. Across decades, their mental state deteriorated as they grew mad. For their society, impossible to perceive. Too slow, too widespread.

Obviously we don't know the extent or even if there is anything bad about microplastics. But if there were, would we even be able to tell by the time we get there? Or would that just become life?
>Of these, the no-limits category presents FDs with the greatest challenge as they descend using a loaded sleigh and ascend using an air balloon.

I thought that ascending too quickly could lead to issues (if I remember House correctly, "the bends")? Or does that only occur at greater depths than a freediver would reach? This seems even more dangerous than normal freediving, which seems pretty dangerous as-is. (I know nothing about diving).
Don't have my work laptop at hand, but I'm quite sure that you can manually order regular folders as well as favorites by simple drag and drop. In our current version at least.
One problematic additive is ethanol, often found as 10% of gas pump fuel volume. Ethanol absorbs water vapor from the air, then settles to the bottom of the gas tank or carb bowl, and corrosion or deposits may ensue. Drain tank & run engine until carb is dry, or use canned fuel, or add stabilizer like SeaFoam and fill tank to the very top. Ethanol-free fuel is available, but may be hard to find, see: https://www.pure-gas.org/
I made a simple issue tracker and a product management tool
Hey guys i made a simple issue tracker and a product management tool its currently being used by 20 companies that are from my inner circle but i would love some feedback from the community here
Sounds like you haven't used cursor.
> The linux model exposes it's complexity to the end user. Because of this the model is usually a lot simpler(the average user is expected to understand it). In the windows world the model is this huge unknowable beast with a facade over it. if you are fine with the facade this works great, but when things go wrong, it is much harder, a soul crushing wall of propriety internal interfaces. that is, it makes the easy things easier and the hard things harder.

This has not been my experience in the slightest. Supporting “Linux” is radically harder, more complex, more error prone, and more miserable than supporting Windows. YMMV.
“Which USB cables are used. Some seem to be better than others.”

You are imagining it.
I would argue obesity is also an environmental issue and is not necessarily an issue of lifestyle. Sort of akin to smoking 40 years ago. Yes that's a lifestyle but also not really.
> And unfortunately, meetings, interruptions, and other communication are the best tools most teams have for that.

In my experience, once people know each other well (whether via direct face to face communication, or via observing each other's slack messages and PRs), it's much more efficient to put things in writing.

Then everything is in the open, for everyone to see and discuss/comment on. People can go back over previous decisions, people can see the context over why something was done, people can check previous votes. And, most importantly, people can do so when they need to do so, preserving their individual flow state.

By the way, when I said "flow state", I also mean the team's overall flow state, not only ICs.

E.g if we break down a feature in two parts, can we efficiently sync so the parts we make fit well together. Do we pair program, do we each take our chunks, how often do we sync and how, that's also "flow". My point is that "flow" here is still the most important thing for developer productivity. If you want to be doing your own part of the task, but I keep interrupting you with "hey, got 5 min", obviously something is wrong in our flow.

What is more, I can't be convinced that allowing these interruptions is the proper way, the price of achieving flow. I see that more as a symptom that we didn't agree on the ground rules, and that's where our flow goes wrong. Maybe we can batch the multiple 5 min interruptions into longer planned sessions, with agendas, where we go over your concerns and questions, which you spend the time to formulate and put on paper. That way we have a focused time with an agenda and we both can prepare for it, and there are no context switches for the rest of the workday.

I think the problem is that you consider "alignment" a thing on its own, but to me it's merely one of the components needed to achieve a good flow. In experienced teams where members are attuned to each other's communication styles, and respectful of each other's time and attention span, alignment doesn't necessarily need to be attained by meetings and interruptions.

Hence my point still stands that flow (individual and team) is the most important thing for developer productivity (and happiness)
> It would be much healthier if criticisms actually focused on the design and implementation of PPA.

Let's start with the fact that they've added their spying as opt out instead of opt in because they know that if people were asked they would not consent to it. They're already disrespecting users by trying to slip this unwanted thing into their browser largely unnoticed.

There is no way to exploit and manipulate people that is safe and private. A browser is a user-agent. It's supposed to be working for you, the user. Not for advertisers who will try to manipulate you and take your money.

Mozilla is not working to protect your privacy and security. They are trying to come up with a scheme that will trick users who object to ads and reject surveillance capitalism into accepting them along with the violations of privacy and security they depend on.

There is nothing "noble" about this. This is just about making money at your expense. It's the exact same goal every other ad-tech company has.
I have had occasional issues with Windows and various flavors of Linux hibernating but nothing that happens with any regularity - at all - and nothing that can't be solved by simply rebooting.
It's C# 12 now. Maybe we will get discriminated unions in C# 15 or so
Also the full text version https://nymag.com/article/tom-wolfe-radical-chic-that-party-...

Even though the ones with the photos look much more interesting.