skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone should really create a dataset comparing predicted damage/casualties of storms vs. actual outcomes. It would really help set context for stuff like the panic around Milton, stoked by entertainers masquerading as meteorologists (such as this gentleman: [1]).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImrqhcMDL9A
It's not baffling, it's remarkably consistent. They implemented Java as J++ and made their version incompatible in various ways with the standard so it was harder to port your code away from J++ (and later J#). They implemented things in the CSS spec almost exactly opposite the specification to lock people into IE (the dominant browser, if you have to make your site work with 2+ incompatible systems which will you focus on?). Not supporting C effectively with their tools pushed developers towards their C++ implementation, creating more lock-in opportunities.
Sipeed Lichee Series 3A – RISC-V Linux Platform
Or maybe it's that you're well informed and X wasn't well known...

When a product shuts down it's usually because it wasn't profitable (or not profitable enough). Either they didn't get enough paying customers or they set their pricing too low. For whatever reason- but there's probably some correlation between a product shutting down and many people not being aware of its existence.

Even without being well known, these stories can hit the front page if a few people upvote a post quickly, and then the post gets a few sympathy votes as it rises up the page.
Matterport works special magic on the transition between 360 images in their SDK. As far as I understand it, they render 360 cube camera onto the material of the mesh of the environment as you move so it looks like you're moving in the real mesh but only seeing the 360 image. I tried to approximate this myself in Three.js but didn't get anywhere near the quality or performance of their work. Homage.
For use in Golang, I really like ncruces wasm SQLite package - https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3 . Unlike cznic's go package (which is great, btw), the wasm version works well on OpenBSD and the like.
It's freaking identical. Definitely Spielberg's games.
Playing with colors in the best way possible
So how do choose colors for your next million dollar funded startup idea? What do you mainly focus on? How you build your ui when going for the MVP?
I face this issue alot. We have alot of ai tools and my favorite one is v0 by vercel. But what about colors? AI tools is awful in giving colors? Reason they don't have the context of the products launching everyday.
So here is my product -> https://pickpalette.netlify.app/
1. Generate colors from images
2. Choose colors from more than 4000+ color palettes and its updated regularly
3. A color management dashboard so that you don't forget your colors
4. Figma and AI plugin coming soon
SQLite WASM License
Oh wow I saw this on reddit the other day. Now to find an affordable vintage mac.
Here is the project url
https://pickpalette.netlify.app/
GP never said that, though.

> That has coloured, perhaps unfairly, my perception of the issue ever since.
That is so cool.

Is it hard to avoid integrator error in long tunnels?
Parsek: Open-Source Library for Kotlin, Rest API Build Structure
> a shell one-liner lol

Dig a little deeper in the repos and you may eventually find that this is exactly what that started as :^)

> badmouth someone’s earnest work for sure

Was speaking generally. Not meant at OP. I think it’s awesome that they are making a Minecraft server in Rust.

> Talk about pot calling the kettle black

Of course! Anything else would be bad form.

> my house is an underground burrow so I can throw stones with impunity

Sneaky, sneaky ;)
update for posterity: I just picked up the 50th edition (1973) from a used book store. It has a big chart of vacuum tube diagrams in the back. I didn't get an 80s one since they didn't have it, but I'll still keep an eye out.
Yes. Fluoridated water significantly reduces tooth problems and causes no known health problems, despite rigorous study.
Your devices going faster than (but not excluding) other devices wouldn't count as "harmful interference".

If you somehow adjusted the definition so that this would count as harmful interference, then every competing service would also count (microwaves, bluetooth, baby monitors, 2.4Ghz cordless phones, even other WiFi, etc.).
Windows and Android took the commodity approach but they always had a business model, while Meta AI is currently running on Underpants Gnomes economics.

1. Spend billions on a product, then give it away for free.

2. ???

3. Profit!

> Then Meta announced open sourcing Horizon OS.

Open sourcing isn't really the right term, they're allowing third party hardware vendors to use it but it's still proprietary. Horizon OS is built on top of Android and they're following the Android playbook where the core is technically open source but the version nearly everyone actually uses has a bunch of proprietary Google (or Meta) software layered on top, and Google (or Meta) dictates the terms of using that software, which lets them ensure that revenue always flows back to Google (or Meta) regardless of who made the hardware.
No one "needs" a particular architecture. It's just that some of them are better suited to certain problems than others.

If you really want to get rid of something and "move on" why not get rid of the wild class of devastating speculation bugs that every OOO processor in existence currently has?

Far more valuable than worrying about how instruction bits are arranged in a stream.
CDA 230 does not cover liability from copyright infringement which is what the underlying Moldovan court judgment is about. The relevant law is DMCA 512 (17 USC 512) which specifically requires those who want to disclaim liability to comply with properly-formatted takedown requests. DMCA 512 is annoying at best, censorious at worst. I have a personal disdain for it and other copyright laws. But it's clear Cloudflare has a legal obligation to remove infringing content.

Furthermore, the questions you raise about jurisdiction are already covered by a bevy of international trade treaties. Notably, Moldova is a party to the Berne Convention as well as the US, so the judgments are entirely compatible. Yes, being on the Internet subjects you to hundreds of countries' laws at once[0], and the only reason why we have an Internet is because we have lots of treaties governing what judgments made where can be ported to which countries' jurisdictions.

Suffice it to say, any argument based solely on "you have no jurisdiction because I've never heard of you before and can't point to your country on a map" is not getting far in a court of law.

[0] If you think this is crazy, let me introduce you to the "linguistic jurisdiction argument", in which courts argue jurisdiction from the fact that you spoke that country's official language.
> "a small luxury mid-range sedan doesn't work for police". Like, of course it doesn't?

"Mid-range sedan" is literally the description of pretty much everything every urban or suburban police department bought as a cruiser for many decades, until sports sedans (Dodge Charger) and mid-size SUVs became popular for the purpose.
The same people removed distutils, which is why at my company we had to update several internal C-extensions.

In these decisions the only thing that matters is if Microsoft, Facebook, Bloomberg or one of their employees is pleased.
Just another data point, I've had the same issue with some vendors.
DuckDB vs. Snowflake vs. Databricks
A detailed analysis of data cloud architecture, ideal use cases, pricing, features, etc
They need Google to crawl their site to get traffic and views. They can’t push around Google or extract rent from them. Perplexity is a smaller company that needs content like the NYT more than the NYT needs them. And they are easier to shake down. Plus AI tools tend to not bring traffic to their underlying sources. If you get your answer up front, why visit the site and deal with their ads?

So I view it as partially a way for them to make money and partially a way for them to reasonably defend their content. But I don’t know what the NYT or others will do when Google copies other AI products like Perplexity. They won’t be able to say ‘no’.
Precisely, and that extends to their XR ambitions as well: https://www.meta.com/blog/quest/meta-horizon-os-open-hardwar...
rotthirteen76 would work
For server side, you'll likely need a different build of Wasm SQLite, that handles concurrency (and file locking) differently.

Also, WASI is very far from answer (so far). The SQLite amalgamation builds fine for WASI but concurrency is an unsolved issue.

I had to build a VFS from scratch to get my Wasm based SQLite driver into a usable shape.

https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/blob/main/vfs/README.m...
This is what happens when people 'sanitize' their writing with an AI. It doesn't often understand trademarks or context, so we get stuff like this.

I imagine the real human written sentence was "Trying to get admin access via a Confluence exploit," which there are many and an app that IT groups take their time updating.
The Sophtware Slump [video]
The CargoLifter-Conendrum:

If you're want to use your cargo airship for point to point transport, you'll need ballast at the target point so that the buoyancy of the airship doesn’t change too much. CargoLifter back then used water. Their prototype could lift an armoured vehicle and lower it – while maintaining buoyancy through pumping water with an high speed pump. They planned cargo services for very remote points.

But if you’ll can transport water and a high speed pump and a mobile mooring tower to the very remote target, chances are, you’ll already can transport the cargo itself to that target.

Today the CargoLifter hangar is the biggest indoor water park.
Also a great filter from the other side.

I was not hired once because I didn't have React experience, despite having years of both Vue and Angular and having led teams building non-trivial apps in both. IME focusing on such a minor detail like that means either a) you're going to be so pressured to get stuff out of the door they can't handle slightly lower productivity for a month while you learn the different syntax, and/or b) the person hiring you isn't technical enough to know this is a minor detail.

Either way, better off somewhere else :)
Android 15 is now available for Pixels
Also an economic one. Although the 'developing' country I was born at does fluoridate its water supply.
I expect it to provide information to me on topics I don’t already know. If it can’t do so accurately on topics I do know, what on earth would make me believe it’s any better on everything else?

I had absolutely zero reason to believe it would mischaracterize me in advance of asking that question. In fact I presumed that would be an easy gimme: simply Googling me is enough to provide a pretty accurate assessment even before following any of the links.
Mumbai: Open-source, no-log, no-registration video conferencing system
Congrats to both sides! As someone who used CommandBar (which became Command AI), Amplitude really leveled up their team. Not everything ends up being a standalone project, but that doesn't mean combining forces won't work better for everyone.
Using a Sailfish OS phone since 2013 - just saying. ;-)
So good and so long that I have a printed paper copy from around the early 00's. Younger Me must have bought a ream of paper to justify the expense of printing it lol
> but if that is the case what is the ultimate valuation that these companies are trying to achieve being valued in the biliions already?

That's why OpenAI/Sam Altman has been memeing AGI. None of this will work unless they make God.
C++ can seamlessly include C89 headers.

The C library headers for libraries I write often include C11/C99 stuff that is invalid in C++.

Even when they are in C89, they are often incorrect to include without the include being in an `extern "C"`.
A recent surge in global warming is not detectable yet
> I don't know where this incredible x86 emulation people are talking about on Mac is hiding.

It's in Rosetta, running x86 binaries compiled for older macOS versions.

The state of Docker in macOS has never been good, with Orbdev being the best Docker compatible container engine for desktop Macs.
> As a Swede I always found it interesting we were one of the few countries which do not flouridate tap water.

How much fluoride is naturally present in your water? Maybe that's why.

Or maybe you have good dental care so people get their enamel fluoridated at the office to the point that it doesn't pay to add it to the water.
Lisp REPL keeps the state of the program because it is a live image. With Python REPL you need to rerun the program to set the variables to their values.
He breaks into his office and writes himself up for his own poor security.
Apple also implements a couple x86 CPU status register flags not present in AArch64.
What features of the Yoast plugin are critical for you?
Association between Covid-19 vaccine/infection and new-onset asthma in children
They have chosen wisely.
At least they're publishing it!
I was trying to get this working in a rust ecosystem some time ago but none of the blessed.rs sql (rusqlite, sqlx) wrappers seem to take advantage of it yet and wrapping it yourself is a bit tricky since when I was trying I couldn't figure out a way to to get emscripten wasm code to play nice with wasm32-unknown-unknown without some kind of JS wrapper which then requires implementing the interface those crates expect and exposing it from JS. Once that is done in rust itll be great there too!
Breaking the cycle of homelessness in San Francisco
Indeed it would be bad if studies were done that way. Luckily they aren't (at least, not in mainstream health research, in the first world, in many decades). Medical ethics is a whole field, and public health in particular is really heavily scrutinized.
That's water chlorination, not fluoridation. Different chemical with a completely different purpose.
Anti-vaxers are mostly right wing politically these days. Not sure when that changed.

However, anti-flouride activists have always been right wing due to the LDS (Mormon) Church being the largest pusher of such resistance (at least here in the western USA).
AMD's ROCm documentation now includes a dedicated 'ROCm on Radeon' section
USB Type-D Connector Unveiled (April 1, 2015)
2006 SHR might've given TBV a good look at the leisure class; Stanford Golf Course opened in 1930. (TIL Oswald was a nephew)

https://allpoetry.com/The-Golf--Links

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/09/us/an-inconspicuous-consu...

Rolfe wrote a children's book, which would be in keeping with our contemporary non-governing elite profile?

https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Goosenbury-Pilgrims-C...

EDIT: and Veblen had a shack in La Honda; I don't know what that area was like then or what it's like now, but to me LH says drum circles, dazers, and funny smelling cigarettes that just don't stay lit.
> Links on HN about Matt and WordPress keep getting downranked, and that'll continue to happen as long as Matt is not interested in seriously discussing it.

Or until they stop using company employees as flag-and-downvote farms.
AFAIK Apple support fallback to compute shader based implementations of both raytracing and mesh shading on older GPUs. It’ll be slower, but for something like amplification shaders the win would be worth it
This is what happens when massive amounts of free money slosh around courtesy of ZIRP. Question is: will everybody rush to join whatever new darling graces the front page? Or will they finally learn their lesson?
> a neutral or disregard position is interpreted as opposition

It's not really neutral though, it's specifically from the outset designed to depict something evil in the culture of the religion. The current more abstract logo could just as easily looks like traits of Satan as a random demon. And I don't believe this is an attack on Christianity or Christians, or designed to exclude Christians. I don't imagine it bothers most Christians.

But this is something certain Christians will be put off by, and find unwelcoming, for religious reasons. So hence this is at odds with the code of conduct in my opinion.

And really the whole thread has just confirmed this, I've been just short of accused of being an extremist, and had many complaints about my religion, just for pointing this out.

I think one solution is just not to have codes of conduct, it seems to breed this kind of discussion and vitriol. And apparently there's always favourite religions, ethnicities, etc.; different according to who you ask. And also maybe avoid using religious-themed art in your logo if you want to avoid potential for religious discussion. The people behind the logo probably considered and decided this doesn't matter a long time ago, and personally I respect their decision: but it does mean that it will exclude some people.
Since you showed up on a Google alert (I co-founded NuSI with Peter) I'll respond.

NuSI funded two trials that could test the energy balance hypothesis. (This is an important point: these experiments tested the null hypothesis, which was energy balance, although the experimental tests were based on predictions made by the carb insulin model.) One trial, led by Kevin Hall and Eric Ravussin, was a non-randomized pilot study that they interpreted as consistent with the energy balance hypothesis. That interpretation was challenged by David Ludwig who led the other trial, an RCT that Ludwig interpreted as inconsistent with the energy balance, calorie-is-a-calorie model. Hall et al challenged that interpretation.

If Peter changed his mind, which his book suggests he did, it could not have been based on the results from the NuSI-funded trials because their interpretations were contradictory, as experiments in science often are. Peter cares deeply about scientific method so I'm sure he understands this.
Many of the most damaging fires here in southern California have been started by people doing things during a red flag warning that they absolutely should not be doing. Loss of property, loss of life.
All of this entirely depends on your company culture. And for every choice you make (conscious or not) there are consequences.

Perhaps the culture within the company / department / team is to allow interruptions in the name of "collaboration". Hopefully the increased value gained by "collaborating" that way is worth the cost. Some of that cost is time (productivity), some is people literally quitting. Eventually you're left with a company full of people who don't mind being interrupted and I would assume are interrupters themselves, and I'd assume this effect is exponential, causing lower and lower productivity.

As a manager, you can't have this culture and then also complain about the lack of productivity, missed estimates, etc. (Well, you can, but that in turn will increase stress levels and unhappiness and cause more people to quit.)

Your competitor who sees collaboration is possible with planning, proper async communication channels, and some specific culture choices will have a nicer environment and happily hire away your most talented and knowledgeable people.

> where tens of hours of work will be completely lost if your concentration strays to show your face to another human being and utter a few words.

After being interrupted, it takes on average over 23 minutes [1] to get back on track. The average time lost is almost 3 hours per day, or 60 hours per month [2].

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/944128/worker-interrupted-cost-t...

[2] https://www.talkboxbooth.com/post/shocking-cost-workplace-di...
Counter-nit: I found the examples within a few seconds.
There's something ironic about 'hackers' being so incredibly stuck in their ways.
> Yet Tesla still needs 100% tariffs on BYD vehicles to compete?!

Why does Canada also have 100% tariff? Why do you think the tariffs are only for Tesla? Again, all US car companies have a fairly ludicrous government mandate [1] for EV production:

> In April, the EPA finalized its “Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles for MY 2027 and Later” rule that could effectively call for 44% of new vehicles in 2030 and 56% of new vehicles sold in 2032 to be EVs. This rule greatly exceeds the current real-world consumer demand for EVs. Also, the rule projects that gas-powered vehicles (including hybrids and plug-in hybrids), now currently 92.9% of the market, could be reduced to 29% by 2032.

Chevy, Ford, and Toyota lose billions [2][3][4] per year making EV. They need this too. Tesla is the only US car company that profits from EV sales. Tesla, by every metric, needs it the least.

> necessitates 100% tariffs to protect US firms from competition

ICE cars are made of metal and plastic. There's a nice local and global market for these. BEV need lithium and cobalt. The US makes 2% of the lithium worldwide, with its single mine in a single location [5]. Lithium is 30-50% the final cost of a BEV. China makes 7%, but the Chinese companies have helped secure 80% of worldwide production [6]. Chinese companies owns 15 of 17 cobalt mines in DRC, where 80% of cobalt comes from [7]. The line between where a Chinese company ends and the CCP begins can be very very blurry. This is the result of very smart investment in China, and a big fuck-you to the environment and labor (making imports illegal [8]), like the good old days of the US.

> Meanwhile in the US we are bringing back steel mills and coal fire power plants!

China is responsible for 95% of new coal plant construction [9].

> giga-pressed luxury items

The giga pressing is to make them cheaper. Many car companies are looking at this for cost saving, including Toyota [10].

I agree with cars being too expensive. I've never looked into the breakdown for why. But, for the realm I work in, China is no longer much cheaper for labor. I suspect that's related.

[1] https://www.nada.org/legislative/epas-de-facto-electric-vehi...

[2] Ford loses over 4 billion with EV: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/28/ford-embraces-hybrids-as-it-...

[3] Chevy over 4 billion loses with EV: https://fortune.com/2024/04/24/gm-earnings-beat-gas-ev-elect...

[4] Toyota loses 4.7 billion with EV: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota....

[5] US only lithium mine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thacker_Pass_lithium_mine#:~:t....

[6] China lithium monopoly: https://orcasia.org/article/602/chinas-monopoly-over-lithium....

[7] China 80% rare earth, 15/17 coral mines in DRC: https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2023/06/01/china...

[8] Battery import illegal forced labor: https://www.reuters.com/business/us-imports-auto-parts-face-...

[9] China 95% coal plant construction: https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-responsible-for-95-of-new-...

[10] Toyota giga casting: https://insideevs.com/news/671943/toyota-giga-casting/
I went and looked at our pictures it was the bog boardwalk in Ucluelet but the shorepine bog trail also had them. I don't know if both species of sundew were there, I didn't know to look for different types.

inaturalist is pretty good for finding reports of them.

https://www.wildpacifictrail.com/bog%20interpretive%20trail....
I end up using a .S asm file with .incbin directives to embed files.

#embed would be much nicer
> Not only do you actually get to see the same person on every visit

It was very surprising to find out, after growing up and my parents returning, that this was unusual.
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What’s the intended use case for this? Backend containers?