skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'd argue that it's cruel to deprive a woman of the right to her own body and mental health. Speaking as a recent father, pregnancy and birth is an epic and hugely challenging journey with potentially lifelong consequences on mind and body.

I don't find the German death camp analogy accurate or compelling; the Germans actively and deliberately herded up the Jews (and others) locked them up. This conscious intervention in the course of a living human being's life rendered responsibiloty onto the German state.

Have you heard of Judith Thompson's "famous violinist" thought experiment? [0] It neatly captures the idea of how a right to life oughtn't extend heavy legal responsibilities onto an individual. At least, most people would say that the main character has the right to say "no" to the situation.

[0] https://ethics.org.au/thought-experiment-the-famous-violinis...
Dick Tracy had the such over the top villains... nearing on superhero comic stuff, which it competed with. I don't think there was any multiverse arc, though.
It's more of a joke/exaggeration, but it does explain why I find it to be so hard to use.

It's much more of a one way conversation, if you can't imagine all the rotations to make a part do something, trial and error is very slow.

Whereas in GUI CAD you mostly only have to be able to think in 2D.

And without a constraint solver, you have to have a much deeper understanding of all the spatial relationships involved.
I stopped relying on rationality of humans when it comes to war.

Russia and Ukraine had terrible birth rates before the war and Russia had a clearly inadequate amount of soldiers for occupying a country of that size (only about 200 000, where a million or more would be realistically required). Not very good preconditions for a massive war. Putin went ahead anyway.

GWB's attack on Iraq wasn't a particularly smart action either.

Maybe China can learn from those mistakes. Or maybe Xi feels that his time is slowly coming to an end anyway, and a Heroic Feat is necessary to fix his position in the textbooks of tomorrow.
Electro Automotive did this in California for 30 years. The owner recently retired and shut down. There's something of a business in converting classic cars to electric, because maintaining the antique technology costs more than a conversion. There are plenty of kits for this sold online.

The usual "custom part" needed is an adapter plate to attach the motor to the transmission, and possibly a spline. Plus motor mounts. Once you have the adapter plate pattern for a car model, it's possible to drill one from a blank. Here are some adapters.[1]

Where to put the battery? Real electric cars put it under the floor, which keeps the CG low and provides enough space for a large battery. Conversions have less battery space and may be top-heavy.

[1] https://inductiveauto.com/product-category/adapters/
Sub-1mm robots morph and crawl with an electric zap
Minecraft is a good counterexample to what the author wants.

People look up recipes all the time on wiki and yet Minecraft is the #1 best selling game, so obviously it isn't an issue in the real world.
Yes,thats what I do with Obsidian.
Yet it's not "automated" enough to actually call people once in a while
Aha! Yes to fix these cases a bit of bookkeeping is needed: a protruding edge like that would force the "walking" to back up, because its a dead end indeed. However, it also immediately means such an edge is not part of any loops, can be marked as such, and ignored upon retracing the steps.

It's an edge case that should be handled, but does not prevent the general algo from working.
1. It's a very long-winded way of saying "learn fundamentals kids"

2. This point is extremely funny:

"Every single programming language and framework in the world is the result of someone or some corporation believing they can do better."

... as we're looking at web which is literally a badly-designed and ill-fitting mish-mash of things someone (and in recent years increasingly one single corporation) decided they can do better
You can read more discussion here: https://github.com/sparklemotion/sqlite3-ruby/pull/528 and here: https://github.com/digital-fabric/extralite/pull/46 to see how it was validated that simply releases the GVL for every `step` in the SQLite VM majorly hurts single-threaded performance. Finding a middle ground for both single threaded and multi-threaded performance is tricky. In Rails, we know it is multi-threaded because of the connection pool. But the lower level gem is used in many other libraries and tools where it is used in a single threaded environment
Serious EAA (electronically assisted astronomy) users would probably get something like a Rowe-Ackerman-Schmidt Astrograph from Celestron with a ZWO camera, which isn’t even that expensive by astronomy standards, but I’d say the Nikon partnership with Unistellar suggests they see a market opportunity.
Very informative article and well written! I wonder why the default `busy_timeout` method has this exponential delay that punishes old old queries. Why does this make sense as the default?
While it's fair to say this does describe why Illumos was chosen, the actual RFD title is not presented and it is about Host OS + Virtualization software choice.

Even if you think it's a foregone conclusion given the history of bcantrill and other founders of Oxide, there absolutely is value in putting decision to paper and trying to provide a rational because then it can be challenged.

The company I co-founded does an RFD process as well and even if there is 99% chance that we're going to use the thing we've always used, if you're a serious person, the act of expressing it is useful and sometimes you even change your own mind thanks to the process.
A few weeks ago I was planning to design a model I could send to a local 3d printer to replace a broken piece in the house for which I knew it would be impossible to find something that would fit exactly.

I looked around through a couple of open source/free offerings and all found them frustrating. Either the focus on easy of use was too limiting, the focus was too much on blob, clay-like modeling rather than strong parametric models (many online tools), or they were too pushy to make you pay, or the UI was not intuitive (FreeCAD).

OpenSCAD was the one which allowed me to get the model done, and I loved the code-first, parametric-first approach and way of thinking. But that said I also found POV-Ray enjoyable to play around with around the 2000s. Build123D looks interesting as well, thanks for recommending that.
Use a filtering frontend for HN. I've filtered this sort of crap some time ago (obviously missed this one) and it's bliss.
Reuse of starship models certainly happened in SF shows and movies. There’s a big fleet battle in Serenity with IIRC some Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek models in the background, and I think the Serenity and one or two Star Trek ships found their way into fleet shots in Battlestar Galactica.
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Amazing stuff at so many levels.

Would live to hear more about the motivation for using RDF/SPARQL in the technology stack as these are frequently seen as arcane and here is a very intuitive use case.
Ubisoft Is 'Mismanaged, Shareholders Are Hostages'
I got the same vibes, fwiw.
Actions don't match words.
I just had a vision of someone trying to port Rust to PalmOS. Let's hope that never happens.
It's interesting that you chose mongodb as a backend. It may be a niche that is overlooked.

Most log aggregation tools are overcomplicated, require A LOT of resources, plus they still rely on storing log term data on S3 assuming that "everyone loves that!". That's not always true.

There are a few tools that try to utilize ClickHouse for a more centralized log storage that works better for small deployments. I found them too limited, or too focused on their enterprise offering (like signoz, which is much more than logs, but lacks some basics that are only in paid versions).

This project my actually be some nice middleground.

Kudos, looking forward for the future of this.
I think a lot of that is a Cathedral vs. Bazaar problem.

Programmers like to work on problems which are technologically interesting, and they love adding new features. Dealing with technical debt and solving UX/UI issues isn't as much fun, so in a Bazaar model they'll simply not do it. The result is a product which feature-wise is very powerful, but UX-wise an absolute nightmare to use.

But when there's a party genuinely interested in the product as a whole, they can push more Cathedral-like UX-focused development. Have a handful of devs focus on UI stuff for a year or two, and it has suddenly turned into a world-class product. Blender and KiCad have gone through this before, and it seems like Ondsel is pushing something similar for FreeCAD. Let's hope it works!
You're not really making a lot of argumentation to back up your claims. Anyone can Search engine benchmarking and get the results they want. Just look here:

https://karl-pickett.medium.com/benchmarking-a-toy-c-task-vs...

Hell, you can even test things yourself:

https://go.dev/src/runtime/stack.go

For our specific use case C#'s TPL was ok, but it comes with a massive overhead compared to Goroutines. We can have tens of thousands concurrent threads running at the same time at very little CPU usage (which is primarily what we pay for). It’s not that you can’t use async/await tasks to do the same, but they use a lot more CPU and as such is less cost effective for us.

As far as blocking and having meaningful (again meaningful is the keyword) cancellation I encourage you to look to Microsoft and understand the limitations outlined by them in the learning articles starting here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/asynchronous...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen_(pronoun)
I love how I just downloaded this, and had the wireframe of my app's main screen built within 3 minutes of me knowing about this piece of software
Yes, oversubscription is the name of the game, for airlines, Internet access, gym memberships, and also cloud-based compute. People don't use things 24/7 so the idea is you can sell more subscriptions than you actually have the resources to support if they actually used it 24/7.
It's been operating for 47 years and it still has fuel left to make attitude corrections. I wonder how they managed that feat.
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term#Color-term_hierarch...
Few of you attempt to contextualize the vast sum of 13 billion euros and others fixate on its magnitude without delving into the nuanced policy implications. This oversimplification, coupled with a lack of comprehensive understanding of EU dynamics and international tax law, leads to mischaracterizations of the situation as a "fine" rather than a ruling on back taxes. Also libertarian mindset manifests in various ways: skepticism towards government intervention and international governance, emphasis on corporate rights and freedom, and a tendency to reduce complex systems to simple narratives of overreach versus liberty. Notably absent from much of the discussion here are the wider ramifications for global tax policy, the delicate balance between attracting foreign investment and maintaining fair tax practices, and the potential impact on wealth inequality. The commentary also reveals a curious dynamic where Ireland, the supposed beneficiary, is reluctant to collect these taxes due to fears of losing foreign investment, a nuance lost on many commenters. Ultimately, while the discussion generates interesting points about the scale of corporate wealth and taxation, it often lacks the depth necessary to grapple with the complex legal, economic, and ethical issues at the heart of this case, highlighting the challenges of fostering informed public discourse on intricate matters of international finance and governance.
We tried the Kia Nero EV, and it's navigation voice, while having decent pronunciation, had such a weird rhythm and intonation when speaking that I had significant trouble understanding what it said.

I've never come across that with any artificial voice before.

And I'm fairly good at understanding both Swedish and Danish in addition to my native Norwegian, so used to variety.

The price drove us away, but had it been cheaper we'd likely not gotten it due to that poor voice, given the other options on the market. It just wasn't usable.
Why do you need access to your bank from app? Isn't browser enough?
I'm totally new to AI. If I take for example LLaMa 3.1 (small size 8B), what's the rough budget to fine tune it against for example 1GB of extra text data, in any cloud GPU service? (if compute time is not a problem, I can wait)
It was initially called HyperZig but after talking with some "ziguanas", using the exact word "hypergraph" in the same felt more accurate.
I think it's also present aurally: we have trouble discriminating phonemes that our L1 language doesn't.
I'm super glad to see this happen, and excited to see what the original devs will do now that they have more time.

Big projects are big time sinks for an individual!
Feels surprising that there isn't a modern best-in-class non-LLM alternative for this task. Even in the post, they described that they used a hodgepodge of headless Chrome, readability, lots of regex to create content-only HTML.

Best I can tell, everyone is doing something similar, only differing in the amount of custom situation regex being used.
At the currently advertised reduced price of $7226, the Quantum SuperLoader 3 would be a good choice.

I would buy 2 of them, which together with all the other items and with 4 PB of tapes for the migration of the existing data would not exceed your estimated budget of $50k.

I assume that for this price you might get the 8-slot version. Quantum SuperLoader 3 can be extended to 16 slots, but I assume that for this you must buy an additional 8-cartridge removable active magazine. You should check the price for that.

Because I had good experience with the reliability of my Quantum tabletop tape drive, I would recommend this Quantum autoloader. Moreover, its datasheet includes all the expected information about reliability parameters, so they are tested by the manufacturer.

I consider the included backup software as useless. You should write your own backup scripts. You might need a few days for this, depending on the previous experience and on the support provided by the utilities specific to the file systems that you happen to use, but then you can be worriless for years, unlike when you depend for all your precious data on a black box proprietary program, which cannot be trusted to do the right thing, and which might write data in a format that cannot be recovered with any other tool (without an extensive reverse engineering work).
According to this logic there are also intelligent aliens living beside us.
Would be nice to see a "push to Figma" option - where a lot of high fidelity work will probably be started, based on wireframes.
I would use Airtable for this. It's just sheets on steroids with automation and interface.

It's free to use for personal project
That's not a problem here, though. You're not after recognition accuracy, like, telling apart gunshots, fireworks and car engine backfires. You're after accurate positioning and timestamping of any noise source above some loudness threshold. That should be much, much simpler.
I agree they should just quit but that requires experience to understand too. By the time they've learned that, they have also learned that client-side access controls are decorative.
Being our own worst customer (deterministic simulation testing) [video]
> Xen: Large and complicated (by dom0) codebase, discarded for KVM by AMZN

1. Xen Type-1 hypervisor is smaller than KVM/QEMU.
2. Xen "dom0" = Linux/FreeBSD/OpenSolaris. KVM/bhyve also need host OS.
3. AMZN KVM-subset: x86 cpu/mem virt, blk/net via Arm Nitro hardware.
4. bhyve is Type-2.
5. Xen has Type-2 (uXen).
6. Xen dom0/host can be disaggregated (Hyperlaunch), unlike KVM.
7. pKVM (Arm/Android) is smaller than KVM/Xen.

> The Service Management Facility (SMF) is responsible for the supervision of services under illumos.. a [Linux] robust infrastructure product would likely end up using few if any of the components provided by the systemd project, despite there now being something like a hundred of them. Instead, more traditional components would need to be revived, or thoroughly bespoke software would need to be developed, in order to avoid the technological and political issues with this increasingly dominant force in the Linux ecosystem.

Is this an argument for Illumos over Linux, or for translating SMF to Linux?
So cool!

Do you have an iOS version?
Show HN: Instantly Deploy Serverless Back Ends with Built-In NoSQL
I do nearly everything with text notes.

If I need to record it, it goes in an unstructured text file in Keep, if I want to see it, I have search and tags.

Maybe something more structured would be a good idea, but I like not having to fuss with a billion different tools and different sync accounts for everything.

For just contact info I just use Google's sync on my phone, and I put birthdays in my calendar.
Crypto requires a good source of random entropy. I suppose if you want more traffic for obscurity, you'll also have to find more random bits. Without enough entropy, you'd sacrifice security for obscurity. Just my ¢2, ymmv, etc
I just replied to another one of your comments. This one also feels like an LLM. Your comments are so different from eachother when I go to your profile; some are like “ya me too bud” and some are so extremely chatgpt like, such as this one…
Ya know, the Roman tradition was, you gotta stand under the bridge while the army marches over it. If it collapses, you die too. Maybe there's something to having nudes of that dev.

Real engineering is expensive. And hard. moving atoms around is tough. I've never cut stone, but I've melted and cast copper and aluminum. That's real and dangerous work.

Computation is cheap and plentiful. And I kinda like having full control of "stuff". But maybe we do need licensing or personal liability. If I could wave a magic wand, and make that exist, I don't really know what rules I'd put in place.

How do you think people should get skilled up?
What's Become of the Times and Co.?
There is a fragile relation there, between invested work and thus user investment and willingness to put in work.

The UI can loose the "self-learn" mode, as soon, as the user has invested and is invested in the game behind it. Before that - you are fishing without bait and got no leverage.
I’m sure Flash was great for Flash developers. But speaking as someone who remembers the plague of slow and unusable Flash websites in the 90s and 2000s, it was not good for users and I’m very glad it’s dead.
Well, or it is important, and then you add the countermeasures. These countermeasures are quite easy to mess up, so doing the validation (on an ongoing basis!) MUST be part of the deal.

Or if you think it’s not important enough to do those assertions in CI, then it might be better to just reject the obfuscation attempts.

There’s no middleground: doing the implementation without checks, means you added complexity, you dont know if security improved (or worsened!), and the the release note might come down to a false sense of security.
Please just build housing
Of course, "Attention is All You Need" was one of the most discussed papers in our field; there are entire podcast episodes dedicated to it, so it should be easy for a LLM to create a new one.

For all the other papers, assuming they were impactful, they must have been referred by others, highlighting what their contribution is, what is controversial, etc.

In other words: the LLM doesn't have to "understand" the paper; it can simply parrot what others have been saying/writing about it.

(For example: a podcast about Google Illuminate could use our brief exchange to discuss the possible merits of this technology.)
the vehicle is 1.8T (~ 4000lbs), we don't "need more like this"

it can be electric all it wants, it's still way oversized and that has a terrible environmental cost
Good point! SQLite is simple and great for small projects, but its limits with data integrity and concurrency show at scale. Still, it's a more predictable choice than MongoDB, which has its own quirks. Definitely progress!
> The discussion around voter ID laws never actually revolves around expanding access to ID cards.

That’s what the studies linked seem to focus on? About half of them are inconclusive. The first one had data errors.

That’s why issuing free cards should solve the problem. India with a much larger population with more disadvantaged people solved it but here we are still arguing about it.
Innovative Python Tool Enhances LLMs with Real-Time Internet Search Capabilities
It's been observed by many that making bad things seems to be a lot more profitable these days than making good things
Online demo: https://loom.cs.uni-freiburg.de/global
> Has nothing to do with empathy or other feelings nonsense

Nonsense? Are you Spock? The way you write makes me feel you're a participant of the LessWrong community or idealogically aligned, maybe you'll appreciate this article: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/5g5TkQTe9rmPS5vvM/p/SqF8cHjJv43m...

> So is rationality orthogonal to feeling? No; our emotions arise from our models of reality.

> Becoming more rational—arriving at better estimates of how-the-world-is—can diminish feelings or intensify them. Sometimes we run away from strong feelings by denying the facts, by flinching away from the view of the world that gave rise to the powerful emotion. If so, then as you study the skills of rationality and train yourself not to deny facts, your feelings will become stronger.

8.5% of the working population of Americans is a lot of people. Driving a long time isn't the only obstacle people might face. I don't disagree that there's some mechanism by which the vast majority of Americans can cook every meal, or plant gardens, or do pullups every day, I'm disagreeing that it's a reasonable expectation given the environment. We should work to improve the environment.

I think you're trying to shoehorn a human situation into some pure thought experiment territory. When I say "don't have a choice" and you take me to mean "it's literally impossible," I feel like that's a bad faith interpretation. Would it be falsifiable for me to claim most Americans don't have the ability to do pullups every day? Yes of course. Negating it though is loaded because the topic isn't, "is there a mechanism by which Americans can do pullups every day," it's "is it reasonable to expect the majority of Americans to do pullups every day?"

What do you think? Is it reasonable to expect the majority of Americans to maintain 12% bodyfat while raising their 2.5 children to rational, well-studied standards, while meditating daily, while being 10 minutes early to work every day and staying 10 minutes later than their boss to ensure maximized potential for career success, while also learning to code to improve their job prospects, while supplementing their income by starting a drop shipping company, while ensuring the future of their liberal democracy by participating in local politics, while ensuring the future of their planet by engaging in climate activism, while reading at least one book per month? Which of the things on the list aren't you doing, and why "can't" you do them?
That's an interesting idea. Bridge builders and flight sims are used in industry to test to see if a bridge design will fail or if a plane will crash. They're not limited to oversimplified and fun video games.

I wonder if there's a market for a "write a CRUD app and let it loose on the Internet and watch it get pwned" simulator/game.