skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out what we're building at https://get.gouach.com ! We're solving exactly this problem, and we have designed a fireproof casing for extra safety! Happy to answer any question :)
A cautionary tale maybe.

Any company can fold rather quickly. Just some strife, some headwinds, etc...

How stable is Boeing right now?

"Internal struggles among the next generation of Larkin executives and the loss of key executives, precipitated the demise of the company. Sales fell from a high of $28.6 million in 1920 to $2 million by 1939.[2] The company was sold in 1941, liquidated in 1942,[6] and the new owners continued a mail-order business until 1962.[3]"
When the site loses focus, it should move into a useless page and show a dialog instead of just showing a dialog.

Also, there are too few ads.

Anyway, great site!
No I just drag files in, at least when I'm working with IntelliJ. Sluggish but works. With VSCode I've used Copilot but still break multi-file tasks out to Claude. I’m sure the eg Cursor workflow is better but it hasn’t bitten for me yet.

I also tried Replit and it felt amazing, but quickly got into a place it couldn't escape and it felt like it took too much effort to get it to change direction once it had committed to a plan. This was early, so it's almost definitely better by now.
Corollary: do a lot of different things, activities, jobs, hobbies. I need to get better at this.

It's amazing how many different kinds of businesses there are. I once talked to a Dutch guy who designed and manufactured machines that clean astroturf in stadiums. He was rolling in it, small company. So many industries like this you have no idea existed.
And in fact systemd/linux is what I consider the biggest digression in linux over the last decade.

It pushes for a single upstream for all of userland. With IBM being that single upstream.

After decades, I'll leave archlinux in my next migration because of this.
425w is about as much as having two 50 inch plasma tvs on. So it might ever so slightly increase the temp in the room but not if it is cold outside at all really.
I wonder what the author thinks of Nix/Guix-type distributions? Seems like that's something that gets the best of both worlds, with a minimum (but not non-zero) amount of futzing around.
It's really frustrating that there's not a way to educate the public on simple concepts like this. You'd think the out-in-the-open development approach of SpaceX, for instance, would make it blatantly obvious how much money they're saving by permitting failure...yet the news continually spins their less-than-perfectly successful test launches as undesirable. And space spending is perhaps one of the least consequential areas of government where this failure of the herd to comprehend reality applies.
"Hey Elon, can I have my designs back?" – I, Robot Director
Bikes have sucked for a long time and they just seem to be getting worse. Even a bike that costs $5k+ will inevitably fall apart. I find that if you are a real serious cyclist the best option is to buy your own frame and then build your own rig with bespoke parts.
I can't think of how much worse Heartbleed would of been if everything was statically compiled.
I feel sad saying this, but at this point I hope Matt falls hard over this whole episode. He's wilfully oblivious to how wrong he is - I find it hard to believe he can come back from this.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-07-09/china-... | https://archive.is/DklaA ("Bloomberg: China’s Batteries Are Now Cheap Enough to Power Huge Shifts")
Yes I have. But not this.
Did you mean to say fusion? In which case yes.
It's funny how many people think getting investments is as easy as just asking a bank or VC for money. If you want anything substantial besides scraps of angel/friends and family rounds, you need to prove your product first.

Getting Google in line as a customer is absolutely huge for Kairos.
absolutely beautiful mission, thank you!
> Didn't take too many kids getting hurt before people took those seriously

The kids in my neighborhood are zipping around on these things at 30 MPH. In my state it's illegal for these kids to be riding around on these things, but the law isn't being enforced. Probably more of a hassle for the officer than it's worth.

And safety? Bwahahahaha! Kids are riding these at 30 MPH in shorts, t-shirt and maybe a bicycle helmet. Just the other day I saw three girls who appeared to be middle school-aged hop on an e-delivery type bike and ride 3 up! All they were wearing were those super short and super thin shorts girls like to wear, and a t-shirt. Not a single helmet. Yet there they were riding 3 up on this e-bike on public streets just after the peak of evening rush hour.

It's insane! I'm continually amazed we're not seeing more news stories of kids getting hurt on these things. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad we're not seeing these news stories, but I'm amazed we aren't.
Sadly the reality for 99% of blogs and news sites nowadays.

Makes me wonder whether this is part of the reason why social media sites, YouTube, etc have taken over as a source of information for many people now. Those sites are nightmarish in their own right, but they seem to be less heavy on the annoyances than the average news site now.
How do you address local heat generation at the interfaces between the cells and the contacts? Does that pose additional risk of cell failure leading to thermal runaway in high current scenarios?
Speaking as an ex bicycle repair man, this irks and/or boggles me. I feel trolled. I mean, I doubt the veracity of this headline and I think they're making shit up.

Bicycles are beautifully fixable and tweakable. Back at the shop we had hundreds of old bikes and half-bikes and hills of parts. Our power was vast and we were a wellspring of goodness. Our reputation was international. My boss was a master spoked wheel tuner.

I can smell it now.
The numbers don't seem to bear out your impression, Hungary has higher rates overall than the UK. Perhaps there is more social mixing in the neighborhoods you visit in London vs Budapest.
Something worth noting with shared dependencies is that yes, they save on disk space, but they also save on memory. A 200MB non-shared dependency will take up 600MB across three apps, but a 200MB shared dependency can be loaded on it's own and save 400 megabytes. (Most operating systems manage this at the physical page level, by mapping multiple instances of a shared library to the same physical memory pages.)

400 megabytes of memory usage is probably worth more than 400 megabytes of storage. It may not be a make-or break thing on it's own, but it's one of the reasons Linux can run on lower-end devices.
I like them both -- but while the OP is excellent satire, this one approaches art.
so they should be running it on embedded devices instead of their desktops, and if they don't, they have adapted themselves to the os instead of adapting the os to them. Great, I get it now.
Global battery manufacturing capacity was 2,600GWh in 2023 [1], and has probably already exceeded that this year. The IEA projects closer to 4TWh by 2025, and nearly 7TWh by 2030 [2].

You need to pay attention because this is happening fast.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-12/china-...
[2] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/lithium-ion-b...
It's also disconcerting how much their success seems to hinge on using technology as a lever to break laws or social expectations, as opposed to technology as something that itself empowers humans to be more productive.
Some valid empirical questions are not testable in the Popperian sense. Theories of evolution are not, for example, at least in any useful way. Instead, a model based conception of science is required.
The C compiler does not optimize struct packing at all. Some languages like Rust allows optimizing struct layouts but even for Rust struct layout can matter if you care about cache locality and vector operations.
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Is the busy bar's 72x16 LED matrix for sale anywhere with the muted look that one could build something comparable?
It's true for mechanical bikes!

For e-bikes, some manufacturers try to lock users down with DRM. And the last part that's hard to repair is the battery!

But at Gouach (disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founder), we really wanted to provide a way for people and company fleets to have observability and agency over their batteries, so we've designed (took us 2 years haha) a repairable battery that's working very well now! You need nothing but a screwdriver.

Added benefit is that you can now decentralize production and repair: any shop can produce small batches of batteries, or repair them, without complex equipment or specialized training!
If everyone's reputation has been damaged, has anyone's reputation been damaged?
Your argument lays out a number of push factors as to why firms left the US, but there are numerous locales that are and were cheaper than the US. This article is about what cause industry to flourish in East Asia specifically.

None of the bullet points you laid out are specific to East Asia.
Neither of the systemd lead maintainers works for IBM (or the same company).
While I don’t doubt that’s true in some discussions, HN is not Reddit and I don’t see this confusion so much here.
A browser written in HTML on top of a rendering engine?

Mozilla had one a while ago: https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml . I'm sure it could be updated.
It isn't a matter of opinion. Any graph showing farmer suicide rates charted over time should get you started if you feel the need to fact check my claims. You can follow up with comparisons of healthcare outcomes between industrialized nations, a comparison of median rural household income vs gdp, etc. It takes maybe 15 minutes, do your own homework.
Work in a bike shop part-time. Can confirm: there are about two dozen bottom bracket tools in the drawer. In fairness, bottom brackets have been a pain in the ass for decades. Even on old ones, there are a couple different hook spanners and pin spanners you might need for the lock ring and adjustable cup and a couple other weird-ass wrenches that you need from time to time. Shit's usually tight AF too, and the various tools that were fine for manufacturing a bike get a little iffy when everything's good and seized after 20 years of neglect.

As for e-bikes, my usual observation when one comes in with an intermittent error is "We've managed to make bicycles as reliable as computers. What an incredible accomplishment for our species."

We only work on the electric drivetrain on Trek bikes (and others that use Bosch). I can vouch for the fact that as of October 2024, the electric drivetrain stuff can be handled from the on-bike computer and an app isn't necessary for basic functionality. I'm sure you get some more features with the app, but you don't need it to just go for a ride.

Batteries come with some wrinkles. Many manufacturers (not just Trek) want to make them easily removable so you can take them with you to charge and prevent them from getting stolen. They also want them to integrate nicely with the frame visually. The result is frequently some amount of compromise in the proprietary direction.

That said, Bosch appears to make some standard-ish batteries that are used in less-integrated installations across bike manufacturers.
Or we get lost in DATA.
I had a similar feeling during the recent crowdstrike incident. Hearing about how people couldn't operate their lathe or whatever because of an update, my initial reaction was:

> Just boot yesterday's config and get on with your life

But then, that's one of those NixOS things that we take for granted.
Agreed: you don't want to create a solution to a hypothesized problem that doesn't actually exist. My point is that there are low hanging fruit if you step outside your immediate bubble, but — as you say — you'll need a guide.
Of course we can separate fact from fiction if we need: By checking up things ourselves. There is only 1 reality and only 1 truth.
I agree that the message seems to mostly be about e-bikes, though I will say I was recently forced to get yet another Shimano BB / rotor tool recently, and I have quite an assortment of them now... My newest ride has a belt (not an ebike, but Gates + Alfine 11sp) which means more unique bits (but likely not for a while, I did have to get a fitting to oil the hub, but that's less work than keeping a chain lubed, so I can't complain).
I have an automatic at-home blood pressure device, and it does the same thing. Not 200 mmHg, but high enough that I’d freak out if I didn’t know it was normal and would let up soon enough[1]. Did the product designers do that intentionally while still meeting a spec of “not panicking the user in a way that would elevate blood pressure” and getting approved for sale to non-professionals?

It seems like this is genuinely hard to work around in practice.

[1] I recall it being a staple of 80/90s tv, at least Beavis and Butthead, to have a character use an auto blood pressure device and freak out at being so clamped.
Yes! You can check the technical details on our documentation and our FAQ here (sorry, we're still cleaning up now, but feel free to ask for details)

https://docs.gouach.com/knowledge-base/frequently-asked-ques...

We've seen that our design does not pose heating or resistance issues
Any advance, early industrial revolution; late nineteenth century industrialization; twentieth century vertical integration; globalization; internet disintermediation etc. will cause some dislocation. Often unintended, and rarely foreseen. Ultimately it all settles down to a new equilibrium, until the next perturbation. It's a bit disingenuous blaming VC's, or scale, or anything exogenous. The system's capacity for change will always outstrip the current institutions' abilities to fully buffer the change. If we focused on improving the institutions responsible for that function we'd be performing a more useful function than trying to limit the change.
The most popular method using autoregression in image generation space is to predict image patches/tokens and not pixels, though that still scales worse than diffusion.

A fairly new but promising approach for autoregression that seems to scale as well as diffusion is predicting the next image scale/resolution rather than the next image patch.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02905
Hello,

I own a Specialized Vado SL from 2022. Can I use your battery as a range extender?
The scale just isn't there. A single nuclear power plant near me, McGuire Nuclear Power Plant, produced 17,514 GW·h in 2005. The entire potential output of the Tesla (cough Panasonic) Gigafactories in California and China have a combined output of ~50 GWh per year. [0] Nuclear power is amazing at producing a reliable base load of power that massively outstrips our ability to produce and store solar power. Say our load is well aligned with the cycle of solar power and we're ignoring weather so we can derate the amount we want to store to 30% that's 105 years of production out of what I think is the two largest batter plants in existence to store the power produced continuously by a single large nuclear power plant.

[0] https://www.fuld.com/tesla-energy-massive-growth-in-megapack...
I haven't seen such problems on Debian or Ubuntu guess it's par for the course with a bleeding edge distro.

The author seems to be focusing on the disk space advantage and claiming it's not enough to justify the downsides today. I can understand that but I don't think disk space savings are the main advantage of shared dependencies, rather it's centralized security updates. If every package bundles libfoo what happens there's a security vulnerability in libfoo?
For some reason, the spacex screams sound nightmarishly terrifying to me.
Isn't 200MB a little large for a dependency? The Linux kernel is ~30MB.
The B-17 was developed in 1936 and initial orders were placed in 1938. The government bought hundreds of Douglas B-18 bombers before 1940.
> So the Odyssey was suitable for 2000 years

Historically, Homer's epics and other advanced texts were taught primarily to the top 5% to 10% of teenage students, specifically those from privileged social classes, in various classical education systems.

However, it's only in the last 40 to 50 years that rigorous education has been expanded to include the remaining 90% to 95% of the teenage population through widespread public education reforms.

It's misleading to label the current generation as uniquely lazy or incompetent. Instead, they're being challenged in ways that the vast majority of teenagers for the last 2000 years simply were not.
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Bricks Theme is a collection of pre-built templates and sections for Bricks Builder, allowing you to quickly create blogs, e-commerce sites, or any other type of website.

I built this to use it for my agency because of repetitive tasks. Took longer than I expected but now I have various templates to choose from.

Let me know what you think and if you have any questions. Thanks!
Pick your favorite wise quote source:

[1] Ancient Chinese proverb
[2] Abraham Lincoln
[3] Albert Einstein
[4] 4Chat/Reddit/Twitter
The science/education podcast Let's Learn Everything had an episode recently about planned obsolescence [1], and it does seem to have started with the bicycle. So this is not new.

1: https://maximumfun.org/episodes/lets-learn-everything/70-the...
I would recommend to focus on a niche like browser automation/QA with puppeter specially after they released the webdriver bidi[0]. There is a market for this kind of product if it's lighter/faster than chrome.

[0] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webdriver-bidi
Still though it kinda proves my point. What's the quickest path to a usable phone? Quite a bit of work on top of AOSP, or even more work ontop of Linux?
Seems the author should just stop using a experimental bleeding edge distro like Fedora and go back to Debian Stable for example.
Not quite everyone: https://procreate.com/ai
When you statically compile an application, you only store text (code) of functions you actually use, generally, so unless you're using all 400Mb of code you're not going to have a 400Mb+ binary. I don't think I've ever seen a dependency that was 400Mb of compiled code if you stripped debug information and weren't embedding graphical assets, so I'm not sure how relevant this is in the first place. 400Mb of opcodes is... a lot.
Global stationary storage deployed for 2024 will be ~150GWh, and this is accelerating. Batteries are easy, nuclear appears to be impossible (economically speaking).
> after I’ve ate and drank the same thing

My doctor recommended doing it first thing in the morning, before eating or drinking anything. That's probably an easier way for the general population to establish a consistent baseline
this is useful, thanks. looks like I can probably do what I'm trying to do (update cookie, return html in one request) with middleware.
It's possible for the OS to recognize that several pages have the same content (ie: doing a hash) and then de-duplicate them. This can happen across multiple applications. It's easiest for read-only pages, but you can swing it for mutable pages as well. You just have to copy the page on the first write (ie: copy-on-write).

I don't know which OSs do this, but I know hypervisors certainly do this across multiple VMs.
Only if you don’t have LTO on. If you have LTO on you’re likely to use a fraction of the shared dependency size even across multiple apps.
If Adobe creates AI that specifically doesn't replace artists (except for extremely menial tasks) and explicitly doesn't "steal" anything yet the AI haters still oppose it, that only shows how irrational the hating is. It's kind of a great litmus test.
Seconded. As an introvert who took a cross-country trip on Amtrak for fun in 2023 (BOS - LAX), I thought I’d hate having to share a small booth with total strangers.

Turns out it gave me confidence in defending my positions to strangers, improved my small talk game, and exposed me to viewpoints I’d never consider otherwise.

And the food was amazing, too. Way better than anything I’ve had on a plane or in an airport.
You're right!

Big issue with Bosch systems is that they use DRM to lock-in users, so that they need to buy (very expensive) Bosch batteries.

Bosch batteries are well-designed, and very safe. But still issues can happen. If you want to check a fun battery fire video, here's a comparison that we've made between a Gouach fireproof battery (disclaimer: I'm a co-founder) and a Bosch battery!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJETffg0kFc

(the video is not perfect because we had to drill for one battery and not the other for technical reason, and it doesn't change the result, but just for the sake of it, we're planning to film a new one next week haha)
Batteries are radically transforming California's power grid.

In the last few years, they have displaced a huge chunk of the natural gas power used in early evenings after sunset when solar drops off but demand is still high.

https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2024-08-25/b...
This is very intersting! Thanks
That right, blame the hippies. Nothing at all to do with nuclear power plants being the one thing that you really do want to be engineered well. But no, regulations are of course to blame!
He built a team, that in turn designed and built the rocket. IMHO his political views are borderline crazy, but can't deny that Mr Musk has mad skills to attract and motivate top talent to work for him.
Well everybody in all of history is a villain by contemporary standards.
For example people are now considered villains for thinking biological men shouldnt be allowed in women's change rooms.

Historians like to say the past is a different country. Judging historical events by todays standards makes about as much sense to me as discovering life on Mars and judging their behaviour by our own standards.
For me, its just a way of signalling virtue that assigns zero cost on the signaller. It's historical so you dont have to do anything (it doesnt cost you time or money) and the people being judged arent here to defend themselves or provide any nuance. Its lazy and cheap.
Google tried a browser that only supported <div> and limited CSS for embedded purposes and it went nowhere
> What argument are you actually trying to make here?

That you're mistaken in your one-sided generalization of the benefits of standards.

> So your position, then, is that all standards include "needless complexity?"

No, that's just another extreme you've made up.

> Yea.. that's why the word "like" is present, it implies a near association, not a direct accusation.

Your mistake is before "like", you can't be "about actively breaking systems" when you explicitly say that no systems will be broken

> "see if I care."

That this is false is also easy to see - the author reverted a change after he realized it breaks something ancient, so clearly he does care.

> standards prevent people from having to debug dumb issues that could have been avoided.

Not to circle the conversaion back to my original response to your point: why do you think "Almost all implementations" break the standard and "accept a bare NL"? Could it be that such unintuitive limitations don't prevent anything, and people still have to debug "dumb issues" because common expectations are more powerful?
people really need to take a democratic vote on what they do in their free time, it's getting ridiculous, some of them are even having fun now!
OP here.
I'm not arguing with this. I was to this scandal very early and immediately started collecting key pieces in a thread and informed a few close reporters who might have been relevant.

There are very good overviews out there, one I linked to in the very beginning. This post is about something else entirely.
Capture less than you create
Why? What happens?
+1 Watch the talk to the very end. It’s great.
The rise of the US as an industrial power started in 1800. The US was already dominant before WW1.
They haven't given me my monolith, so no contract established
This was on the YouTube appleTV app