skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Reusable bags have to be reused dozens of times to make up for the additional environmental impact, so damage likely went up

Damage to what? The bags? The food? The environment? I don't understand why bags built to be re-used is a bad thing.

> - People have to pay more to buy more expensive plastic bags to carry their goods that are ironically also wrapped in plastic.

If the food already being wrapped in plastic is a factor in how we bag the food, why do we need plastic bags at all? I don't see how this is relevant at all.

> - Whole Foods home delivery had to send you more sturdy and expensive "reusable" bags. Just what the typical Whole Foods home delivery patron needs, about a dozen reusable bags delivered to them every week

This seems easily solvable with a "return extra bags" feature. If you're getting delivery, the delivery man will be back next week. Why can't he pick them up then?

> - People started stealing hand held shopping baskets

Well before the current bag ban, most of the stores near me (California) had done away with shopping baskets. People stealing/taking them has been a thing forever and they constantly need to be replenished (same with shopping carts).

> Here is how many times you would have to reuse a bag to have equal global warming impact:

The bag ban is not to combat global warming. It's about the plastic bags that do not make it to the landfill. They end up in waterways and on plants and inside or on the faces of animals. I don't think I've ever heard of one of these bills arguing to get rid of single-use bags for global warming or landfill reasons. It's almost always an anti-litter measure.
> I think it was a single-prop chopper, kept hovering and centered just by minutely controlling exactly when torque was created by the motor. Absolutely f..ing nuts.

I recall a video of someone sticking a RC chopper rotor to a fixed-wing model aircraft and turning it into a thrust vectoring propeller with software, giving the plane ability to pull some unique acrobatics.

> You need far greater reaction speeds for a viable quadcopter to remain stable than an ICE, much less a turbojet engine, is capable of.

You can split the problem in two: use ICE to generate thrust, vector it with passive elements on fast-reacting electric servos. Or, you can retain all the electric hardware, but replace the battery with an ICE generator and a gas tank - the main problem here is reducing weight, and gasoline has much better energy density than batteries.
California Sues Exxon over Plastics Pollution and Recycling 'Myth'
Unified Communication X
Saw the post about Tesla Transport Protocol (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41621680) and thought I'd share this great project (seems to be BSD3 license).

Those interested in a design diagram can find one here: https://openucx.github.io/ucx/api/v1.8/html/md__hpc_newhome_...
I also checked that first, unfortunately according to the Amazon reviews (Can't always be trusted) it seems to have some issues with positioning for charging where you have to place it pretty accurately to work.
https://archive.ph/41wDa
They use their own in-house implementation. There's an OSS alternative from Samsung https://github.com/Samsung/netcoredbg but I haven't heard of anyone using it.

In general, the debugger is not intentionally made unavailable but rather the "properietary" one is just the original Visual Studio debugger extracted into a standalone package adapted to cross-platform.

Other than that, CoreCLR exposes rich debugger API, and debugger implementations just integrate with it, there are no "private bits" that would make this task insurmountable, there was just not much need to do so so far, and some Linux folks (as evidenced by skimming through other .NET submissions here) tend to have irrational and unsubstantiated hatred towards .NET which hinders otherwise positive community efforts.
Based on the title I thought this was about summaries of podcasts, not summaries in the form of a podcast. Anyway, looks like a dead end gimmick to me. I don't see why I'd ever want to listen to artificial banter.

I think people listen to podcasts because they want to hear some specific people's take on something. If you're going to take away the people, I'd rather be left with a simple summary read by text-to-speech software. But maybe this is absolutely brilliant and I just don't understand people, who the hell knows. Or maybe it gets better when we get actual AI personalities that people enjoy, connect with and empathize with. Right now this entire category of AI application feels totally soulless and, in blind imitation, misses the whole point.

But, of course, expect your podcast app to be drowned in this junk, if it isn't already. I guess Google deleted theirs in anticipation.
> a large portion of their income comes from Uber for the Zig toolchain

Nah, that was a sizeable chunk of money (200k) that we received last year, but it was meant to last 2 years and we don't know if it will be renewed or not (Zig seems to be working well enough, "unfortunately").

We're getting more constant financial support from startups who have adopted Zig (Bun, TigerBeetle, ZML, to name the main ones) alongside some extremely generous private sponsors.

We're not rushing commercial adoption of Zig because we want to take our time to grow the project as we see fit. Open the changelog of every Zig release and you will see at the very top that we don't recommend usage in production yet (unless you really know what you're doing).

Corporate sponsors from wider adoption will come at the right time.
Calgary community turns to restrictive covenants with blanket rezoning in effect
White, Fake and Prank Screens
They don't seem to allow self hosting at all
Can AI feel distress? Inside a new framework to assess sentience (book review)
Adult concerned the kids aren't all right. Tale as old as time.
I dunno, I think its pretty acceptable for FOSS project leaders to call out behavior they don't like, even if it is technically legal. That's sort of the point of moral leadership, right? I do wonder to what extent this blog post is a preamble to a trademark lawsuit, which might be a bridge too far.
I hope she enjoys herself...
She's been a huge help and source of entertainment for many people...
One of the few relaxing, upbeat, no stress streams you can watch :-D
> Deep learning works, and we will solve the remaining problems. We can say a lot of things about what may happen next, but the main one is that AI is going to get better with scale

I'm not an AI skeptic at all, I use llms all the time, and find them very useful. But stuff like this makes me very skeptical of the people who are making and selling AI.

It seems like there was a really sweet spot wrt the capabilities AI was able to "unlock" with scale over the last couple years, but my high level sense is that each meaningful jumps of baseline raw "intelligence" required an exponential increases in scale, in terms of training data and computation, and we've reached the ceiling of "easily available" increases, it's not as easy to pour "as much as it takes" into GPT5 if it turns out you need more than A Microsoft.
Still easier than dealing with P/Invoke or COM interop for C++ libraries, for C++ skilled devs.

Pity that never made the cross platform jump.
Looks like you're making up a strawman to ague with. But either way, I hope no one is ever indifferent to the suffering of you or your family. Sounds like hell.
Missed my favourite one: differences in the memory consistency model.

If you’re using stdatomic and the like correctly, then the library and compiler writers have your back, but if you aren’t (e.g. using relaxed ordering when acquire/release is required), or if you’re rolling your own synchronisation primitives (don’t do this unless you know what you’re doing!), then you’re going to have a bad day.
> how he does the `DerefMut` trait.

What do you mean by that? A compiler backend isn't even exposed to high level concepts like traits.
According to https://opensourcepledge.com/join/, it appears that Open Source Pledge doesn't actually collect money. They are simply a listing page for companies that have met some criteria for open source donations.
That's, essentially, a long-term lease. It's not wrong, it's just not what we normally think of as a mortgage.
Yes; however, the language used in the article is unapologetically wildly emotional to the point that the credibility falls apart. Maybe it’s just me, but honest people don’t feel like they are trying to manipulate me.
"As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush (1945)
You are right. Even if I think elections don't matter there was one instance where it happened and the outcome actually mattered. The Brexit vote. But even there I don't think it's a huge difference if politicians are lying themselves or they do it with the use of AI. As long as it's an open technology the game is still fair.
The premise of this program is reasonable. If a cadaver is unclaimed, then letting the next generation of doctors use it for training is not a bad solution to the problem. I'll grant its sad when loved ones find out too late to do anything about it, but thats the nature of the beast.

The real question is, are we sure that institutions using their "best effort" to find next-of-kin has been corrupted enough as a process that we should switch our default from medical training and science to rotting in an unmarked grave?

I really struggle to say that it has. At least from the information provided by this article.
I'd be curious for your comparison to Waterfox, which added vertical tab integration a while ago.
In my past non-profit we used WPEngine, that was about 10 years ago. Yes they were expensive but we didn't have people, nor did I (a backend python guy) want to mess with websites and be on the critical path. If I had been aware of, or known how this company was profiting from Open Source, I'd have taken my business elsewhere. Roughly 1K per year, base plan at the time, so, not a huge amount. We were broke, so there was no question of upgrades.
Surely it does. Also dogs, like wolves are pack animals. So not the single dog, but rather the pack has a territory.
(And dogs include humans as their pack).
The author should put the context which would help understand the situation better instead of a pitchfork.

> Couple days ago he [Matt] posted on X that wpengine has similar revenue to automattic, yet doesn’t contribute back to open source as much as they promised to (5 hour per week per employee or something like that). A wpengine employee replied to a post saying that management doesn’t allow them to contribute to Wordpress open source because it doesn’t align with KPI targets. That employee got fired the next day. That’s when Matt’s issue with wpengine escalated. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41613628#41614406
AI-Curated ArXiv Papers – Daily Research Digest to Email Inbox
Ask HN: Would you go to a movie theater because it has androids in the audience?
These androids would look just like people and react appropriately to whatever is happening on the screen.

And if you are too noisy during a movie, one or more androids might tell you to be quiet.
No, he has invented the Hover Barrow - as seen in 1960.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OmJ-8JMw_l4
What is exclusive is the Visual C++ backend, because of the usual politics, C++ stuff is not under .NET team.

Likewise the whole WinRT/UWP, .NET Native and C++/CX, were under WinDev umbrella, not DevDiv.

Which is why there is this schizophrenic way of how .NET is currently handled on Windows desktop.
Startups are like blitz chess
Hate how it loses its place on the page and reloads when you zoom into a picture on mobile. I mean you have to go far out of your way to f’up that bad.
> superficially fairly minor danger to total a car because there's so much custom electronics all over a car

Even worse. Electric cars have a huge battery, that may have a compromised integrity after small bump. It is quite difficult to resell EV, if log shows airbags popped at any point!
In addition to what you mentioned, most of today's corporate leaders rose through the ranks in 2010's or even before. They have thrived in offices and hence have habits and cultural norms more suitable for in-office work. No wonder they think offices are a better setup.

In addition, a lot of people facing functions (Sales, Management etc) were done in person. There might be a world where those are possible on Zoom, but the workforce has to be trained for that. Why should a company train their 35+ management stack about online people management, when they can just force the RTO?
It could be if the leader didn't gained anything by pointing out a bad behavior in the ecosystem, which isn't the case for Matt. He runs a direct competitor to WP Engine.
Yes, these are the galvanic ones I was rounding up to $100. I was curious if some other technology or sensing technique I wasn't aware of existed that was less expensive, more reliable, or lasted longer.
I think that's part of the carefully-crafted hype messaging. Close enough to get excited about, but far enough away that by the time we get there people will have forgotten we were supposed to have it by then.
No, I do mean FORTRAN. Massively lowered the bar. Not that COBOL didn’t, but it was in a different domain and slightly later as I understand it. Have you ever worked with properly old FORTRAN? Some of it is quite good, but some of it, well, it’s regrettable it was ever transferred off of paper tape.
Telegram will now provide IP addresses and phone numbers in response to requests
Yes. Kidding aside I am fairly satisfied with FSD. I don't expect it to perform miracles - but it does a pretty damn good job of rolling the car safely down the road when I don't want to do it.
> Consistency of gradle build. You yourself stated just a paragraph above that sometimes you have to run "clean" xD

That was in reference to maven..

Also, feel free to show me any benchmark showing maven being as fast as gradle. https://gradle.org/gradle-vs-maven-performance/
> we will solve the remaining problems

This is the part that really gets me. This is a thing that you say to your team, and a thing you say to your investors, but this isn't a thing that you can actually believe with certainty is it?
The children in the article wanted to spend their pocket money.

This is a short sighted and unaware comment.

It starts with desire.

And carrying it regardless of whether there is money or not.

And what the feeling of lack in an impressionable child can do.

The fundamental issue is unmanaged exposure to devices and content does harm to children.
It returns "Page not found"
The key is that if. What if it isn't, yet? What if right now the AI is in a phase where it's still learning and doesn't produce good stuff yet?

Besides, products have been getting worse for a while. Enshittification is a potent force, and even if AI was axiomatically helping people code faster and better, enshittification might still lead them to add in annoyances, privacy risks, et cetera.
It's also in the text editor next to the image, which is editable and affects the image. :)

(There's also one bit of shared code in: https://github.com/TinyTapeout/vga-playground/blob/main/src/...)
5 paper straws is probably better for the environment than one plastic straw.
A possible rat sighting on an Alaska island prompts a monthslong search
I'm so never retiring.
Building infrastructure that gets productively used makes you richer, if the infrastructure costs less than the productive use of it. Spending more money for the same amount of infrastructure productivity is bad. There's no magic here where, ceteris paribus, spending more money on infrastructure is itself good.
>This is what we call the iPhone DN-40 Dock

Well, don't do that. DN-40 is a trademark that doesn't belong to you.
It's time to bring back the iPod
"It is not difficult to see that information expressed with one set of symbols can be translated into information expressed with another sot by some suitable conventions, e.g. to convert sequences of decimal digits into sequences of O's and 1's we could replace 0 by 0000, 1 by 1000, 2 by 0100, 3 by 1100, 4 by 0010, 5 by 1010, 6 by 0110, 7 by 1110, 8 by 0001, and 9 by 1001."

I've never seen someone use this form of binary notation(little-endian?) when writing binary numbers.

Edit: I suppose he's writing the numbers in the order they'd be input into the machine.
> If we want to put AI into the hands of as many people as possible, we need to drive down the cost of compute and make it abundant (which requires lots of energy and chips). If we don’t build enough infrastructure, AI will be a very limited resource that wars get fought over and that becomes mostly a tool for rich people.

This seems to be the key of the piece to me. It's his manifesto for raising money for the infra side of things. And, it resonates: I don't want ASI to only be affordable to the ultra rich.
This seems to be a little puffy.

More of a "everything's fine, nothing to worry about".

While, there is already job disruption, and widespread misinformation.

It isn't in some future, it is already happening.
As mentioned, I am waiting for .NET 9 final release notes in November.

Also a solution for code generators, analysers, interceptors usage in .NET libraries and how to consume them from F#, some day, if ever.
It may seem wildly unemotional but is it out of the realm of what surprise might feel like upon learning this?
How to fork: Best practices and guide
> We need to act wisely but with conviction.

Reminds me of these quotes from Sam on this podcast episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfuVSg-VJxE)

* "Prudence without fear" (Sam referencing another quote)

* "if you create the descendants of humanity from a place of, deep fear and panic and anxiety, that seems to me you're likely to make some very bad choices or certainly not reflect the best of humanity."

* "the ability to sort of like, stay calm and centered during hard and stressful moments, and to make decisions that are where you're not too reactive"
I would be no more or less likely to go. If they are functionally the same as people there is no way for me to tell if right now that's what's happening, therefore it would not consciously impact my thinking.
And where do you think civil matters are handled?
May work for small pages, like most of my webpages besides some downloadable files, but megabytes of JavaScript on an average (mobile?) connection are going to take very significantly longer to load, cost more battery, and take twice as much from your data bundle

Perhaps it's effective as bot deterrent when someone incurs, say, a ten times higher than median load (as measured in something like CPU time per hour or bandwidth per week or so). It will not prevent anyone from seeing your pages so information is still free, but it levels the playing field -- at least, for those with free inbound bandwidth dealing with bots that pay for outgoing bandwidth
I got better performance of 20.18 tokens per second using tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0.Q8_0.llamafile from https://huggingface.co/Bojun-Feng/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0-l...

If anyone is reading this and had trouble with a larger model, that might be the one to try next.
By relentlessly bugging their parents to buy them these things
I remember at some point some novelty shops selling bluetooth and wired phones resembling old school landline phones, those could be a useful starting point for such a design.
Companies profiting off Open Source is a very common pattern. Look at AWS (amazon web services) long list of 'managed' services, and there are quite a few open-source candidates. I'm not saying Amazon is not adding anything to benefit users there, they are, but adding a management layer (with all their in-place templates/patterns for similar things) - wouldn't be a huge development or research effort - contrast that to developing the original code from scratch.

Then there will be engineers who will get certified on this tech, training companies, and the ecosystem just keeps taking root, where the source of the innovation is all but forgotten.

The owner of WPEngine is investing in billions - and they are contributing relatively little to the software that they never wrote, but got for free.
Few short learning performance scales with model size. Afaik they don't see a plateau yet and the race is on the ingest more data and come up with better tuning techniques.

https://splab.sdu.edu.cn/GPT3.pdf
I’m saying the impartiality of the author is out of the window, was thrown on the lawn, and then driven over by a lawnmower.

I’m sure I could make you look like a miserable failure if I spun your resumé hard enough.
How many hours/days/weeks should you be caffeine free for the baseline BP?
Skeptically, "if the parts can handle it" would be key in my view. How do I know true tone and battery health would be in any way accurate, if they're using who knows what display, and who knows what battery/BMS?
> Why would you need Hosting, Deployment help, LTS release When you are buying a "one click" aws managed service?

You wouldn't however I was listing them for completeness-sake because they are common strategies employed by FOSS maintainer companies and there's still a market for them outside of the AWS world.

> Are feature or bug bounties even applicable if you have to wait an unknown amount of time for it to reach you via AWS?

That can actually end up being a selling point for moving off the AWS version. If you can effectively "advertise" that and a company really needs a specific feature for their product, that might give them the justification to jump ship to the non-AWS version of the product.

> I'm merely suggesting THAT copyleft doesn't provide you any protection here and WHY that is potentially problematic.

Oh for sure. However I would maybe say that it offers limited protection here (mainly offering protection in other ways) rather than none at all. And that can definitely be problematic no doubt but nowadays I think companies are a lot more hesitant on blindly lumping everything onto AWS compared to 5 or 10 years ago so I'd like to believe that AWS' authority in deciding what is and isn't a viable product is declining in the space.
So gasp, parents have to use the hardest word in the English language and do their job? Heaven forbid.
> What things has it done that are malicious?

Ignoring the outcome of putting drug addicts together in housing without any rules. It becomes a magnet for drug dealers within milliseconds, ensuring that if you are not addicted to drugs, you WILL be pretty soon.

> Medically, what would mandatory treatment look like?

Locked facilities that provide medication-assisted withdrawal, and then attempt rehabilitation therapy.
So it is about toolchain or counting users?

Change of speech when it doesn't fit?
How are these children hearing about these products in the first place?

YouTube is not a place for children.
Yeah, I played with SSGs a while back. I like them overall and might go in that direction again but I really enjoyed the WYSIWYG-type post-writing interface. Bottom line I got lazy. I wanted a way to publish some words that was easy and didn't send me down a programming hole every time I touched it (which I acknowledge is more of a "me" thing than a SSG-thing).
If anything, I would say that that's a very optimistic take. The hype train is strong, but that's largely what it is once you look at the details. What we have right now is impressive, but no one has shown anything close to a possible path from where we are right now to AGI. The things we can do right now are fancy, but they're fancy in the same way good autocomplete is fancy. To me, it feels like a local maxima, but it's very unclear whether the specific set of approaches we're exploring right now can lead to something more.