skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO they only continue to exist because of the Jones Act not the way I think you're implying where Jones Act protectionism prevents them from flourishing. High material and labor alone are enough to explain why people wouldn't build ships in the US. What special capabilities could Us shipbuilders bring that would make the cost of labor here competitive with China or South Korea? Gone are the days when the US dominates on skill or capacity, and that's not because the US has lost something the rest of the world just caught up with us.

Whenever we're looking at the 1900s and wondering why the US used to be so dominant as an industrial power I think it's incredibly important to remember our industry got all the upside (an absolute torrent of money and demand) and none of the downside (bombing) of two world wars. IMO the US industrial base was riding high on that easily into the 80s and people mistake that dominance for skill and prowess rather than the waning boon of WW2's mobilization and destruction of every other extant industrial power.
> You have not said what the market is.

Hmm, you sure? I checked OP, it says "marketed for video conferencing"

> Recording studios have a solution.

Okay.

> And probably don't use pomedero.

*pomodoro

> And the reason for the indicator I assume is to stop people barging in and stop people saying silly stuff thinking their off air so it needs to be inside and outside the room.

Okay.

> So who is this device for again?

Video conferencing, ex. the above scenario you laid out

> I'm curious, I'm not just rushing through an attempt to correct something that doesn't need correction. How do they envision it in use?

Here's a link to the site, it has marketing material re: this. https://busy.bar/
CVE-2024-23113 a Super Complex Vulnerability in a Super Secure Appliance in 2024
not a crisis, and I have to respond because that whole narrative is BS. I've seen what this "speed" does with ontario greenbelt destruction and new sprawl approval. if it were honest growth, it would be condo towers in the outer burbs to increase their density to meet the need for nearby jobs, but those approved houses are just sprawl with cheap mortages where the few salaries and real estate profits exit the country in the form of remittances back home anyway. it's a massive wealth transfer out of the country in exchange for votes.

the demand is policy driven and not organic to an economy producing demand for homes based on endogenous growth. it's a fake crisis that could end with the stroke of a pen.
Some companies let you run Linux on their company issued computer.
If “gnu” gets headline billing for providing some user land tools then really “systemd/Linux” should be the current operating system title because systemd pervades the distros mentioned in this article. In many ways systemd IS the operating system outside the kernel.
One more point is that hosting is very simple, just drop it in a folder. Hostings offering php are a dime a dozen. There are local companies in my country that offer simple php hosting with no ssh for fancy install systems like composer. For someone who wants to have their small business online, this is simpler than having to deal with big american or european companies.
It's a proof-of-concept for a potential startup idea, not endorsed by my employer. I simply picked tech in arms reach.

Maybe in 2028 this could be a real thing, regardless of where it is running. An edge cloud does seem ideal for national live events though.
Really nice design!

Would love to have one but.. can’t find a use-case for it
If you use their product, per their tos, my understanding is they can train on their customer data at any time. In other words, if you use their product, they automatically have license to train on your art.

I think the only statements saying that they don't train on their customer data is from their CEO, but unless they encode it in their tos, that doesn't really matter.
wow! latency is insane
Because the complexity and functionality of the modern (whatever the fuck this means) browser basically approaches one of the OS with all the consequences.
The world needs a static linux distribution more than ever.
OBS lets you share a window or just the client area of an app.
I'm guessing the article never once mentions a 106 average IQ.
"Huge" market? AMD and Intel. Technically Apple but they don't sell to OEM's, and of course bespoke processors for specific applications.

It's huge in that it does a lot of business, but the market itself is incredibly small. If you want a processor for your next PC build, you have 2 flavors to pick from. Or a Mac.
Yeah, there are some very speculative markets. Solar power from space, commercial space stations etc. The chances seem relatively low that those would develop into a big market and require a lot of Starship launches. I currently don't see a big space economy on the horizon. Space (LEO) tourism perhaps could be thing to some extent when Starship gets human rated for both launching and landing. Because a Starship could actually deliver larger quantities of people, unlike Dragon or Starliner capsules, but this is still many years away.
For anyone else for whom the term is new - it's not "an infrared heater that can heat you from far away", it's "heating that uses far infrared radiation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_infrared
I thought that Linux behaved the same, but I'm not finding any proof in `man 2 nanosleep`...
I don't know if DHH is wrong at all in this case.

All he did was write two blog posts, which were rather fair to Matt all things considered:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/automattic-is-doing-open-source-di...
https://world.hey.com/dhh/open-source-royalty-and-mad-kings-...

It's also obvious from this post that Matt didn't actually bother to read the blogs closely. Most of the points Matt makes about Ruby on Rails or trademarks in his "response" were already addressed by DHH himself.
Exactly. Cross-range capability is expensive mass wise. X-37 is very heavy for its payload, as was the Space Shuttle.
I'm fairly pro-nuclear but the EIA (Energy Information Administration) publishes a "Levelized Costs of New Generation" report every year that compiles the total cost of installing new generation, taking into account the fuel, build up, maintenance, interest, and inflationary costs, and nuclear ends up costing more $$$ than other renewable alternatives.

It's no conspiracy why nuclear never gets traction these days -- maybe it was cost-effective 10-30 years ago but renewable technology has gotten relatively cheap. (Shutting down active nuclear reactors earlier than needed is a whole different issue though.)

Here's the report for 2023:
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/electricity_generation/pdf/...

There is no report for 2024 because they are building a new model to take into account even newer technologies:
https://www.eia.gov/pressroom/releases/press537.php
Sorry, Do you mean to the audio for this text is not good?

“I’ve successfully processed your order and I’d like to confirm your product ID. It is A as in Alpha, 1, 2, 3, B as in Bravo, 5, 6, 7, Z as in Zulu, 8, 9, 0, X as in X-ray.“

I thought this was included in the demo, it seemed okay!
> have you ever seen a big data csv encoded in non-ascii numbers?

Let me ask you this: How much data have you processed which comes from human user input in Arabic-speaking countries?
Hey Alexa, Google “Play”!
Yeah I'm tired of this too. Real estate hyperinflation is almost entirely the fault of chronically under-building real estate due to regulatory capture by landlords, legacy homeowners, and speculators. The real estate market is more or less a cartel in quite a few places.

AirBnB is a small factor. I suppose it drives up prices, but only because supply is so absurdly tight.
Only N=2 but mine have worked great for the 2 meter and FRS/GMRS bands, which is what one is probably going to use while in the back country.

Definitely don't try 27 MHZ, or perhaps outside of the above bands at all.

Are these Yaesu, Motorola, or Icom quality? No, but they're $25.
A science-minded dentist, Ellie Phillips DDS goes in-depth describing some of these routines on her website [0]. On her blog [1] she includes links to the published studies she is drawing best practices from. [0] https://drellie.com/keys-to-oral-health/ [1] https://drellie.com/blog/
Im going to disagree - bikes are incredibly more repairable because of e-commerce. I no longer rely on local availability of parts, and lack of documentation when doing repairs. YouTube has infinite knowledge and Amazon/walmart ship literally any part to my door. Bottom bracket as an example I don’t think is fair - I’m an avid cyclist and have never once heard of anyone working in their bottom bracket. Chain, derailleur, cranks/pedals, brakes, handlebars, seat, etc are all very reasonable to do but bottom brackets everyone takes to a shop.

Additionally, shop prices (at least in Denver) are absolutely disgusting. A brake pad is $15 in my lbs, but the same one is $6 online direct from the mfg. maybe 2 minutes of labor to repair, but the shop will charge $75 minimum. I was quoted $130 for a chain replacement when I went in to get my recalled cranks replaced.
Relax. It was obviously tongue-in-cheek.

The "fuck you, pay me" thing feels like a very American mindset though. Over here in Europe we're more of a mind that you do your civic stuff first and delay the boring money-making until you have to, I think. Because we don't really have to hustle for retirement stability. A 22yo having to work their butt off to buy a home (we rent here ...) instead of going after their passions strikes me as sad. Different systems.
txtai 7.5 released: Speech to Speech RAG, new TTS models and Generative Audio
Matt cannot help but just continuing to attempt to post through it. I'm seeing him all over the place in HN or even random Youtube video comments. Honestly feels like he's pretty... unwell or otherwise distracted/trying to distract.
I wouldn’t call Sciter a browser engine. The CSS syntax is similar and some properties behave the same, but it doesn’t implement web standards by design.
MuleBot: An open-source tool-calling SEC chatbot
Thanks for the pointer. And it makes it doubly confusing. Doesn't a reference to an obsolete, pre-modern language tarnish the reputation of Rust? Doesn't the creator of this project fear lawsuits from the legal team at The Basic Foundation?
The US starts a new war for posturing every few years. They have the faulty assumption that they can control the world, even as they keep losing wars. So, not a problem unique to Russia.
Given that we've been throwing cash at every conceivable idea for the last ten plus years, yet when speaking of unicorns we still have to refer back to airbnb and uber, seems like we're well past "peak unicorn" and well into the "horse with a mild concussion" era.
Founder of Gouach, the repairable (and fireproof!) e-bike battery mentioned in the article, happy to answer any question!

- we salvaged 100s of discarded e-bike batteries

- we found that 90% of components were like new

- batteries were thrown away because of the spot-welding and the glue which prevents repairability

- we spent 2 years (and 5 patents) to design a robust, safe, and easy to assemble system that requires nothing but a screwdriver

Our batteries have been in use since 2 years in the streets of France, on micro-mobility e-bikes, in the harshest possible conditions (rain, snow, cold, heat, shocks), and we're very happy with their performances!

We're now opening it to the general public (for conversion kits, and to replace old batteries that are no longer manufactured)

We plan to open-source at least part of the embedded software, so people can write extensions (to let their battery "talk" with any e-bike system, and share it — using WASM embeddable code — to other people on the web!)

Let's fight planned obsolescence!

(and if you're looking for a new battery, there's 25% off on https://get.gouach.com)
I wish they'd have given more examples for traditional bikes than bottom brackets. Yeah, bike shops have to deal with lots of different BBs, but that's because they deal with bikes that might be 30 or 40 years old, from all over the planet. Some threaded, some press-fit, etc. Some high-end, some very cheap.

On the most part, bike manufacturers use standardized parts that can be replaced by and end-user with sufficient know-how and the tools to do it. There aren't that many companies making drivetrain parts, so you tend to see Shimano and SRAM just about everywhere, and maybe the odd Campagnolo-equipped bike every now and then. At least here in the US. (Unrelated, Shimano's product range is crazy - somehow their components come stock on bikes ranging from $250 up to $12k or more.)

Outside of < $200 Wal-Mart bikes, I've never had any trouble repairing or finding someone to do "normal" repairs or maintenance on a bicycle. I'd like to know what prompted the article, unless the real point was to complain about E-Bike batteries, which is not something I can really comment on.
They're mostly used for recreational sailing or racing and are also equipped with an engine (diesel or electric sail drive) for maneuvers and in case there's no wind. Sailing has also advanced a lot since the nineternth century, but commercial shipping is now done with bunker oil and diesel engines and was previously done with steamers.
Since I switched to nixos all these articles read like people fiddling with struct-packing and optimising their application memory layout. The compiler does it well enough now that we don't have to, so it is with nix and your application filesystem.
Airbnb has in fact ruined communities and destroyed the dream of home ownership for an entire class of people: those who would already be buying at the limits of their budgets to stay where they were brought up.

This happened even in areas where holiday home ownership and rental was common as a business.

The failure of government to grapple with the negative effects of Airbnb is a separate thing. Airbnb are, in fact, in control of their own morality.
Eloquently put, as ever.
I rarely, if ever, read pro-nuclear saying that they aim to replace oil, coal and gas. It's always "wind and solar is unreliable" (not intermitent).

Even in this thread someone is saying that the problem with solar is that "if a megavolcano darkens the atmosphere... thus we should go all in to nuclear", as if it was a guaranteed event in the next 100 years.
Someone else should write a browser engine called “Godom”. Which honestly would be a great name. A good browser will handle sessions and DOM.
>"Like an application platform (forget documents) built entirely on wasm, and with capability based security. That would let you launch apps made within the platform just as easily as you currently open a website."

In the end you will end up with the platform / OS which will lose to competitors because of performance and lack of features and do not expect it to be secure. Developers will manage to leave some holes and hackers will find their way.
100% of code uses 100% of resources. Let's not downplay the role of Airbnb as both a company and a phenomena for causing inflation. But more than that, remember that a lot happens at the margins in these markets: what's actually liquid or in play is a small part of the overall stock. So anything that messes with that will have an outsized effect.
Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
> I am all in for AppImages or something like that. I don't care if these images are 10x bigger. Disk space now is plenty, and they solve the issue with "libFlac.8.so is missing

They don't solve the dependency problem, they solve a distribution problem (in a bad for security way), what the AppImage provides is up to the author and once you go out of the "Debian/Ubuntu" sphere, you run into problems with distributions such as Arch and Fedora whom provide newer packages or do things slightly differently. You can have them fail to run if you're missing Qt, or your Qt version does not match the version it was compiled against, same GTK, Mesa, Curl etc.

The moment there's an ABI incompatibility with the host system (not that uncommon), it breaks down. Meanwhile, a Flatpak produced today should run in 20 years time as long as the kernel doesn't break user-space.

They don't run on my current distribution choice of NixOS. Meanwhile Flatpaks do.
Except the perception of anomalous dinner time in Spain is also due to time zones. Spain switched to CET in 1940 to be in solidarity with Germany[0] (nowadays it will still translate to easier coordination with France, Germany, and Italy), meaning that despite much of the country being west of London, it shares the same time zone as Serbia and Poland. This means that if you live your normal life according to the sun, the clock time will 1 to 1.5 hours behind depending on where you are in Spain[1].

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/11/30/244995264/...
[1] https://imgur.com/source-http-wp-me-poxsk-pq-8IFLFoJ
I mean, given their recent liscence kerfuffle it seems clear to me that Adobe really wanted to be able to train on customer data. They had to backpedal, since that generated a surprising amount of controversy. They hold an effective monopoly in certain fields, and their behavior shows they really don't always have customer interests at heart.

Even without customer data to train on, they do have a pretty large moat with their image library. And you are right, they are in a good position VS competitors who trained on data they don't have rights to. We'll have to see how things play out legally, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up that something like midjourney ends up in an untenable position. However, openAI has a huge amount of funds that could be redirected to fight a oegal/lobbying battle. While they aren't a direct Adobe competitor, their whole business revolves around using unliscenced data to train their models, so they have a pretty clear horse in this race.
Lithium ion batteries and battery modules are never ever gonna be user repairable. The main reason is that the electrolyte is a highly toxic, carcinogenic and extremely flammable organic solvent. AAs are user swappable because the electrolyte is water based.

Bikes started being less repairable when manufacturers noticed that steel frame 10 speeds were lasting multiple decades. If parts continue to be available, those frames are still going to be in use another 50 years from now. Particularly where cartridge bearings are used.

Carbon fiber bikes are part of the trend. Will we eventually see a straight up plastic adult bike frame?
> And all I can find on the camera is "it's 50MP!!! " But how do actual, non-photoshopped pictures look?

It's probably all they know about the camera. Not even Apple make their own cameras. It's always someone else's (customized)product. If they're outsourcing hardware, they might not even know the customer code assigned to the contracted OEM.

> I don't want weird, custom-built stuff that will be forgotten about in 12 months

Then none of hardware and many of software features will work. There are no in-box standard implementations for e.g. phone call in GNU/Linux, so it'll have to be supplied in the form of a custom preconfigured distro with bunch of free preinstalled apps.

The fact that product necessitating free preinstalled apps to function leads to needs to supply OS as flavors of your own weird unsupported distro, like N900-specifix Maemo or Steam Deck OLED-specific SteamOS images.

You aren't going to like being instructed how to install and patch a SIP softphone just to make calls on North American carriers with vague hints for Canadian specifics. It's a phone, it'll be lame if it doesn't make calls out of the box. And there comes the 3 years old $DISTRO-$HWREV-$VERSION.img that instantly shows antenna bars right on the setup screen.

Actually I think it's unfair to call Maemo a weird unsupported thing. It didn't seem that far from bone stock desktop Linux.
To be honest, you could say this about capitalism in general. Everything has to be huge no matter what industry it's in or what the product is, just because shareholders demand that impossible infinite growth.
AppImage does not always solve these dependency issues. I've had AppImages refuse to run because of e.g. missing Qt libraries (at least on Debian + Gnome). Flatpak and Snap are much better solutions for this problem.

As for the Nvidia issues, especially the "system refuses to boot" kind, that's on Nvidia.
Sidebar: Drupal is mostly a testament to industry disinterest in talking clients out of shit they heard about at a business conference. If I had 10% of the website budget overspend I have personally witnessed due to some combination of headass design, oh-there's-a-module-for-that, and GRAB YOUR ANKLES IT"S TIME TO MIGRATE, I would have retired to a private island years ago.
Silly response. Popperism is not a universally accepted definition of science. Not even by scientists themselves.
There's also a small amount of wear simply from the drag of electrons running through the fine filament threads of wire they are piped through. The longer this goes on the more electron tunneling will happen, degrading the CPUs performance.

We don't notice them on larger wires as the wear is infinitesimal, but in a CPU where the wire diameters are in the micron scale and below there is likely a maximum lifetime of usage before the whole system becomes inoperable.

Might be 500 years of continual usage, might be 50, I don't know and I don't think anyone has done a long-term study on how long a CPU can be continuously operated before it fails, but the risk is there.
Instantiating VMs from snapshots I assume.
All the crew members of the Endurance survived the expedition - not sure about the "didn't make it" comment, or to which part of the article you are referring.
Just as a data point, the YouTube app on most TVs and devices is a stripped down browser only supporting exactly the HTML/CSS/JS needed to run the big picture client.

By tighter integration with the final product, the browser can provide specialized elements or APIs to simplify the actual application code.

I think it's used a few other places as well.
It’s not ideal to have solar/wind and nuclear though. Nuclear doesn’t throttle well (or at least, economically). And Even building gas peak plants to cover still cloudy days is an order of magnitude lower in capital cost and risk than nuclear. The problem is we don’t have a coordinated enough system to properly reward mostly- turned off gas peak plant owners.
You don’t. ReactJS is a UI library and everything around it depends on it. The only incentive to be clean is if you want the ability to switch the UI layer to something like vue or svelte. Clean is related to the business logic, not a particular library.
The main issue is mutability, not shared objects. Shared objects are a great memory optimization for little cost. The dependency graph is trivially tracked by sophisticated build systems and execution environments like NixOS. We live in 2024. Computers should be able to track executable dependencies and keep around common shared object libraries. This is a solved technical problem.
Oasis is one: https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis
Absolutely watch the XOXO talk by Cabel Sasser that introduced this project: https://xoxofest.com/2024/videos/cabel-sasser/

Its best to go in cold, explore the website later.
Unlike car maintenance bike maintenance is way more accessible. You need like one or two specialized tools to cover the majority of the work you'll do on your bike compared to a car. People are just lazy.
It does not appear that they sell those devices in the US?

I did find them on ebay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/405285386735?_trksid=p2332490.c1018...
Community is what got me here in the first place. :)

Fair enough! Noted.
I wasn't going to drop ship anything, I've been trying different store fronts with the idea of selling art prints. I don't have a logo for myself, and also I just wanted to try it out and see what it looked like.
unrelated: how come you can't buy your device on amazon?