skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where does this paranoia come from? The kind of attacks cited by Wayland advocates are all theoretically possible but virtually unheard of in practice. In any time in the past thirty years, has there ever been a case of a rogue program in the Debian repos that maliciously spies on the user by exploiting the open and trusting nature of X11? Even if you expand the scope of consideration to applications like browsers getting pwnd by RCE zero days and then doing this, how often does this actually happen? Maybe this degree of paranoia, fear of technically possible but actually extremely rare scenarios, makes sense for targeted individuals like reporters and whistleblowers operating in totalitarian countries, but for anybody else it seems insane. It's like having deadbolts on your bedroom door because you're afraid of somebody trying to kidnap you in the middle of the night, that extra security against such an unlikely threat isn't worth the inconvenience. Except actually, getting kidnapped in the middle of the night is probably a more common occurrence than getting pwned through X11 programs from your distro repos.
I'm in a similar position to you. Group of friends which has formed from working across multiple companies over the years.

I asked a few recruiters this question and was really disappointed that none of them were interested in placing a group (even just 2 developers) together.

The only way we had any success was by talking with early-ish stage startups who were looking to build engineering teams. A friend and I spoke with a couple of founders who wanted to hire us both. Unfortunately one didn't have enough cash and the other opportunity was less exciting to us, so it didn't go anywhere.

We've since ended up working on a project together for a very early stage startup, compensated with equity as well as salary. We still have our day jobs though, it's an evenings and weekends thing for now.
The two practical ones are Arabic Geometrical Pattern and Design by J. Bourgoin (a pattern book), and Ruler and Compass by Andrew Sutton, which is a small general guide to building shapes.

I've never gotten particularly far in doing my own and have honestly spent more time just cheerfully leafing through Islamic Art in Cairo by Prisse d'Avennes and L'Art de L'Islam by Titus Bruckhardt.
2020 Reddit post discussing Musk's plan to catch booster with launch tower arms
Converging Web Frameworks – ViteConf – Minko Gechev [video]
How Did Automattic Employee Know in Advance of Advanced Custom Fields Takeover?
Code Generator vs. Software Generator
When compared, software generators give you copyrights of the code as well as the dollar saving with instant software. No tolling for months and years.
What if Penrose is right? Then QC could be very well reachable.
Interesting question. I mean, one can claim that .png files are also written in code?..
open up devtools, scroll to the bottom of the page and...

1229 requests

2.8 MB transferred
There are notable differences between radio and imagery that might explain why it might be a tricky analogy:

An image is quantized into pixels. A camera pixel is a receiver for a specific wavelength, subjected primarily to internal wideband thermal noise during the read-out process. Each final output pixel is averaged both in time (exposure and stacking) and space (debayer and noise reduction), with the final single being singular amplitudes per location.

An AM audio signal is a single wideband receiver subjected to wideband noise. Or, if viewed differently, a series of quantized frequency receivers each subject to a matching noise frequency. The sampling is in the frequency domain, but the final signal captured is is the amplitude variance over time for each frequency, responsible for a single audio frequency.

But yes, your underlying point stands: A theoretical AM receiver that demodulated repeated signals independently and correctly averaged their outputs might gain better wideband noise rejection. Better, but not good, and at a cost of complexity approaching that of better modulations.
Very nice, thank you. Having an option to quickly get SVG is fantastic.
This reddit user claims he lost $40k contract due to increased platform risk as perceived by his customer. This is reaching mainstream media (or at least mainstream technical media), and decision-makers will notice it sooner or later. Especially while they're performing due diligence before signing a significant contract.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1g3rwwm/you_aske...
So... Planets orbiting binary starts could host life..? :)
I went to first school (3 tier system, first, middle, high) in the 1970s and we played conkers in the school yard in the 1970s, and into the mid 80s in middle school too. By the time I reached high school they'd been banned.

I see parents and children collecting horse chestnuts in the local market square and arboretum still today though, and it brings back fond memories of rapped knuckles and entanglement "clingy-niner's" or "clinchies" in some games, depending who you were playing with.
> Confronting you in good faith isn't forcing you.

Christians sure do seem to get an awful lot of leeway to 'confront' others, and it never seems to work the other way.

Not forcing, but certainly 'trying to control'.

> And you don't need to agree with someone's ethics systems to tolerate them.

Agreed!
Here are some pictures of a previous championship: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gallery/2015/oct/12/5... .
Only fair I think to highlight that essentially this exact service is also offered by Coolify themselves as a subscription which is $5/mo ($4/mo if you pay annually).

I haven't used this service myself because I found self-hosting Coolify to be easy enough, but I think it would be useful to have a side-by-side comparison between this service (Indiehost) and Coolify Cloud.
Here’s a good answer that tracks with what my parents, who are dentists, told me: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/s/H4MsnWKatM

> For the longest time, surgeons, dentists and optometrists weren't part of the medical profession. You'd have a barber who could give you a shave or pull your teeth, or a butcher who could cut up a hog, or cut off your gangrenous leg. Optometrists were craftsmen who made the spectacles in their shop. Doctors were University educated in Latin and Greek to read ancient medical texts and despised the uncouth yokels.

> Surgeons muscled their way into the medical profession, originally with the help of the Royal Navy, who only had space for one or two people in charge of both cutting off legs and looking after crew health on their ships.

> Dentists and optometrists never did, so they started their own universities, certification boards, etc. By the time they became respectable enough for people to try to merge them with the medical establishment, in the 1920s, they had no desire to give up their independence.

> The first insurance policies were private contracts with groups of doctors and the system developed from there.

Details vary from country to country of course, but the gist of it generally holds true.
> I suggest you to understand that 4h storage is a totally unrealistic requirement

If California simply continues their current storage rollout they will have 10 hours of storage at peak demand and 20 hours of storage at average demand when the warranties for what they build today run out in 20 years.

This would coincide with any new nuclear power plant project starting today beginning commercial operations.

If Vogtle, Flamanville 3 and friends had delivered on their promises in the 2000s nuclear power might have been part of the solution. They did not do it, and thus nuclear power never became part of the solution.

https://blog.gridstatus.io/caiso-batteries-apr-2024/

> h2 production is a pipedream for foreseeable future

When we get to the final percent in the 2030s we can utilize akin to todays peaker plants financed on capacity markets [1] but zero carbon.

Peaker plants today already run too little to be economical on their own, essentially what in our current grids constitute seasonal storage and emergency reserves.

Simply update the terms for the capacity markets to require the fuel to be zero-carbon. It can be synfuels, biofuels or hydrogen. Whatever comes out the cheapest.

As we electrify transportation we can shift over the massive ethanol blending in gasoline in the US to be our seasonal buffer. [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_market#Capacity_ma...

[2]: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=27&t=10
There’s something sad about how basic this is compared to say FrontPage (so shoot me) which was oh ~25 years ago.
humpedback whale defending other species could be an example of this

or ants could represent impressive engineering and ability to symbiotically exist with other creatures like aphids, caterpillars, and even a tree in the rain forest that gives them sap and they defend it. maybe a specific kind of ant could be iconic
Not sure about Dutch, but in Germany and many other countries, basic dental care is included in the default public health insurance. But it's basic. So it won't be necessarily beautiful, the color may look less nice, they may pull out teeth that could be saved with more money etc. But indeed since it's part of the body, you can get it fixed to a basic level.
> Noiseless ones means ones that don't use huge diesel generators to meet demand, I assume.

No, the noisy part is actively cooling a ton of batteries confined to a crammed metal box without disturbing neighbors and keeping within the legal noise limits, which is often a very low boundary in highly populated areas for obvious but inconvenient reasons.

Rapidly discharging a ton of batteries produces a lot of heat.

Frequently overheating batteries will make them degrade more quickly.

This quickly ruins the value proposition when TCO depends on so many things (physical design of EV charger and its ventilation, algorithmic design of battery management system, and electrochemical design of cells).

> If fast service is required it will have to come down to battery exchanges, or else exchanging whole cars

Have you looked outside?

That's not how the world currently works.

All companies that try to hotswap batteries inside cars are miserable.

Real fast-chargers and very fast-charging (800V) cars actually exist.

But yeah, besides a lacking charger infrastructure, adding range anxiety to patrolling officers must be the major dealbreaker.
Cause its titan[ICK]technically unthinkable?
Vercel images, but 2x cheaper (image optimization and transformation service)
I developed a replacement for Vercel images for my company to save money and was wondering if others would also find it useful and benefit from it.

I created a quick MVP to validate interest.

https://quickr.dev/

To finish this and put it out there is also a personal milestone as I'm used to starting and not finishing things.

Do you think this service is useful? Think it be monetized?

Any negative/constructive comments are welcome.

Thanks.
It may start with Radiographs but it certainly doesn't end there.

What is being taught in schools has no relation to reality. Sure, it may somehow influence it, but it won't dictate how each dentist or clinic will work, as they are probably free to and work do almost as they please.

Not too long ago there was a wonderful research story by a journalist of good dental health (as diagnosed by multiple university professors) going across the US for a check up at tens of clinics, and seeing what work will be offered to them.

This journalist has encountered just a few few honest dentists saying no work at all is needed, or something very minor, all the way up to dentists saying he needed work in the tens of thousands of dollars, with the worst offender being in NYC as far as I remember wanting ~$30K for his services.

Unfortunately I can't locate the story right now. If anyone can, please link us.

I didn't yet find the right one, but this one is not too bad either https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/0...

Let's just say that it feels like quite a high percentage of dentists don't strictly adhere to the Hippocratic Oath.
>where the attestation can be validated with the attester offline.

Oddly enough, virtually all passport/personal ID checks around here are... online. Airports, police, any shop... all of them are all online.
This sounds like very much a typical American thing, arse-covering because of the sue-me culture. Hence "I'll put in in writing I recommended an annual X-Ray to the patient".

Europe takes a clinical risk (e.g. caries risk) based approach combined with a patient age factor. To have annual X-Rays in Europe you would have to have some sort of dental issue that puts you in that high-risk category, and even then, the clinic would keep you under review and lengthen the periods as soon as it was clinically possible to do so.

This has always been the case, even before the latest scientific evidence on the potential harms of X-Rays.
> I only remember a handful of HN usernames

That's a feature. HN is expressly built to encourage high-quality content in the comments - by removing or discouraging things that tend to bring poor content with them. Not showing up/down-votes counts, not allowing avatars and discouraging lengthy signatures, not showing previews of images linked, not allowing to reply immediately to comments (and the length of "immediately" getting longer the deeper the thread) - the HN is coded this way to encourage sticking to guidelines and making thoughtful comments focused on informative, interesting content.

It does make HN a worse place for building interpersonal relations, no question about it - but it also eliminates or blocks many of the enshitiffication vectors. Not all of them, and we do see changes over time in what's acceptable, going in the direction that some will dislike, but I think the fact that HN still existing in relatively constant form almost 20 years later shows that the strategy works, to an extent.
I Interviewed 100 Devtools Founders
Interesting, as conkers are seeds (not a nut) - so shouldn't be an issue for someone with a nut allergy - though no doubt some people are allergic to them.
At the moment, no not really. Some of the other options improve on Qt’s weaknesses, but only at the cost of its strengths (for example, if you want a tableview/datagrid with sortable, rearrangable columns like is standard in Qt Widgets and AppKit, more “modern” options Flutter and Jetpack Compose aren’t options because they lack such a widget).

The problem with using game engines for UI is that their accessibility (support for screen readers, for example) is bad and they don’t adapt to the user’s desktop settings (e.g. light/dark mode and font size) unless you implement that yourself.
Good point, but I am not sure it's all quite so black and white.

Maybe you are right for the US, but here in Germany at least, and I could be wildly wrong about numbers:

- Uber: not a game changer, popular with a certain demographic, but taxis were mostly fine anyway

- airbnb: ok, huge

- doordash/etc: maybe executing a bit better, but delivery has existed just fine

- instacart et al: now we get to the real thing. groceries delivery had only been done by a couple of chains, and sometimes only for a couple years, then abandoned again already. so you never really got whatever you wanted, from where ver you wanted. Paired with our sometimes very limited shop opening times (6-20 at most, in recent years more, but just in some states) this was different, e.g worth it even if it is not your weekly haul and/or alcohol for a party.
See my initial:
> C++ is making a deal with the devil in exchange for speed.
Thanks for letting me know, looks like NextJS is prefetching all the icon pages, will turn it off!
Also r: Reader and w: Writer, especially in languages with such generic interfaces (Rust, Go)
> it requires genuine acceptance that others believe and speak differently, and that that's OK

That itself is a question of ethics, that I don't think you need to agree with to be able to be tolerant. You can tolerate people without thinking it's "OK" for people to believe things you think are wrong to believe.
You might be surprised that treatment recommendations vary dramatically from one dentist office to the next. [1] I am glad to know this about X-rays as well- it’s probably a useful indicator that if X-rays are not overprescribed the dentist will more likely not over treat. And if they react defensively to being told you want to follow the ADA guidelines that’s probably a sign they don’t think about whether they are over treating.

[1]
https://www.rd.com/article/how-honest-are-dentists/
100%. I've been writing HTML since 94, and there truly was no golden age. There have been (get ready for this) good and bad things about each era.

It has always been possible to create communities, or break away and do something different. I really like ActivityPub, but it does not really change the dynamic.

With all of that said, sometimes getting a fancy new notebook makes you more likely to draw/write, which seems to be essentially what Dave is experiencing. Nothing wrong with that!
> And unlike with radiation, it's difficult to independently check chemical toxicity.

This was always kind of interesting to me, and I'm surprised it's not mentioned more. Not for any practical purpose, but just because you'll often hear people talk about how radiation is super scary because it's "invisible". Which is the case, sure, but it seems like it's hardly unique? As you implied, there's countless chemical contaminants that are just as dangerous, and just as undetectable by human senses. At least with radioactive contaminants you can (at least in most situations) use Geiger counters and dosimeters and whatnot - with some of the chemical threats humanity has cooked up, it seems like you need an entire study just to determine if they're present or not.
How to transcribe long audios fast with open source (Colab included)
Pan v0.1 is out today: an open-source and privacy-focused analytics PHP package
After writing the above comment, I watched videos of people playing conkers and now I understand how it could, in theory, cause an eye injury. It was hard for me to visualize how close the defender's conker is to the defender's body before seeing the video. I was somehow wrongly imagining that it was being supported on a much longer string or with the help of other objects somehow.
Oh - I understand the question. I just don't understand how to calculate the answer up to 10^18 in a reasonable amount of time!
Show HN: Tamagotchi-like characters for AI assistants in JavaScript
I've developed a Tamagotchi-like virtual characters drawn in JavaScript. These characters can be manually controlled or interact dynamically with AI assistants, adding a visual identity and fun to AI.

Imagine having an AI character that responds to user requests with different states, making interactions playful and engaging.

Demo:
https://barqawiz.github.io/Tamagotchi/

Code:
https://github.com/Barqawiz/Tamagotchi
Unless you are some cerrah i highly doubt this.
> One reason I haven't moved yet on batteries for the home is that I'm still interested to see what alternatives to lithium emerge

You could also buy a medium-sized lithium package now and already help with the transition, if you have the means, and then buy a full pack once the new hype tech becomes production-ready in 30 years (perhaps sooner but, with current warming, that's not something I'd wait on)
Oura Ring 4 review: best smart ring gets comfort and battery upgrade
I see, thanks. I am working on a GUI library for 3D content, might use these since they look easily to convert to an SDF for quick scaling.
the "IT Crowd" is truer to life than I thought.
> If anyone is going to make self driving work, the odds are stacked in Tesla's favor.

How disconnected from reality are you to make this statement? https://waymo.com/blog/2024/06/waymo-one-is-now-open-to-ever... Waymo self-driving has been open to general public since June 2024 and Telsa still doesn't have full self driving technology and yet here you are claiming odds are stacked in Tesla's favor.

> I feel similarly excited for Tesla when they demonstrate robots with incredible dexterity.

Did you never hear about Boston dynamics? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk This is 3 years old video and Tesla's robots don't have as much dexterity as the robot from the video. And unlike Tesla's robot, Boston Dynamics robot is fully automated.
You're writing that as though you're quoting someone. Where are you quoting that from?
Tech debt and the emotional tax of managing it
Seems like a good idea to me. Means if anyone gains access to your device while its unlocked, its less easy to side-load nefarious things while the device is out of your control.
APRS is actually pretty simple protocol. Data is encoded by modulating tones in a human's hearing spectrum, so if you tuned into the APRS frequency with any-purpose scanner (like most Baofengs), you would hear your childhood if you are old enough to remember 52k modems. The sound wave is easy to decode and encode with software. There are plenty of programs (Linux even has dedicated kernel modules) which turn your sound card into a modem, and the missing piece is the radio.

Now, there are different approaches. If your goal is to receive only, you can plug the headphone output of the cheapest Baofeng scanner into the microphone input of your PC, run the software, and you will start seeing messages soon. If you want to transmit, you do the opposite, but you must somehow automatically enable transmission on the radio when the program wants to transmit; there are different methods of doing so, depending on the radio. Basically, you can use anything what can receive and/or transmit audio on 2m bands. Such devices are cheap and easy to buy, so people probably don't bother with assembling a dedicated hardware. Just plug it to the computer.
You surely have huge exceptions to this rule, or major silos like Reddit, Twitter, StackOverflow, Youtube, Facebook etc. would rank towards the bottom.

Which the average Joe wouldn't like, hence my comment that no commercial search engine would implement this feature correctly, on purpose.
I wonder if Tnetennba was mentioned in the court proceedings:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tnetennba
"What it means to be open" by Lu Wilson [video]
Absolute skill issue. These kinda tasks usually demand lots of communication
Statistical outliers like very rich kings or ports do attract attention, but there was no way to avoid low productivity of agriculture overall. At least 80 per cent of the population had to tend the crops, which lowered the average GDP of entire regions / countries.
> For all other scenarios, which are most, DKMS has existed for 21 years now.

DKMS is not a stable driver API/ABI.
Not so sure about California https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-CAL-CISO especially considering at some point peaker/overcapacity/storage would need huge subsidies to be built, especially considering California wants to shut down it's nuclear.
Vogtle unit 4 was cheaper and faster than unit 3, meaning there is positive learning curve.
Such a thing is clearly possible - various debug and calibration modes for these modems make them output the raw I/Q values needed for a software defined radio.

Unfortunately, in a locked down production phone, those modes are unavailable.
> This might change is the 16bit mode gets finally removed. If something can't run DOS, then it's technically not a spec-compliant PC.

Manufacturers have been shipping devices without Compatibility Support Module for several years now, so I have many x86(-64) devices that can't boot into an DOS.

I suppose in theory a UEFI+CSM firmware could be flashed, but I'm not aware of anyone adding back in CSM support on devices shipped without it.
A png is about as much code as a compiled binary. They aren’t code, they might be the result of some code being compiled, but open source licenses normally define the source as the format most useful for editing, which probably is the input that a png icon is generated from, not the png itself.