skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it opens the door for bleeding-edge to aim for larger detection distances, and eventually seeing hand gestures above the screen [...] our screen interactions need to be broadened [...] signal intent but not commitment (like hovering with a mouse, or looking with eye tracking)

My laptop used to have several cameras (flopping up from behind screen) for 3D hand tracking, (crufty) keycap touch, and head/gaze pose. With shutter glasses, overlaying a slightly-raised transparent top-down view from a keyboard cam was helpful and tolerable. Browser-based stack. Input fusion with diverse latencies required app state rollback. Fun(ish).

> _finally_ [...] even that got dropped a few years back [...] eventually [...] broadened

This was profoundly frustrating. Waiting for a couple of giant companies, interested only in extremely difficult mass consumer markets, to make tech available so it can afterward be explored and nitches probed, with patents shackling everyone else, was just... sigh. Pharma turning the nation's explore-exploit dial hard over regrettably leaves a lot of paths forward nonviable.
With rust I absolutely hate when they make it more complicated to do something that is already unsafe.

Great examples:

- Reference to mut static (interacting with it is already unsafe), but now you get additional warnings.

- the entire addr_of!() mess.

Things like these just make me wish I did this in c where I know I am only ever executing in a single thread.
Yes, it's correct to say that I have knowledge of your conjecture, and in the same way that physicists have knowledge of QM and GR regardless of their truth status, but beyond just having knowledge of the theory, they also have knowledge of the reality that the theory describes.

>Were NASA physicists indefensible to use Newtonian mechanics to send a person to the moon because Newtonian mechanics are "wrong"?

No, it was defensible, and that's exactly my point. Even though they didn't believe in the content of the theory (and ignoring the fact that they know a better theory), they do have knowledge of reality through it.

I don't think instrumentalism makes sense for reasons unrelated to this discussion. A scientist can hold instrumentalist views without being a worse scientist for it, it's a philosophical position. Basically, I think it's bad metaphysics. If you refuse to believe that the objects described by a well-established theory really exist, but you don't have any concrete experiment that falsifies it or a better theory, then to me it seems like sheer refusal to accept reality. I think people find instrumentalism appealing because they expect that any theory could be replaced by a new one that could turn out very different, and then they see it as foolish to have believed the old one, so they straight up refuse to believe or care what any theory says about reality. But you always believe something, whether you are aware of it or not, and the question is whether your beliefs are supported by evidence and logic.
> opinions vary on the value of the fraction

They don't really. It's been shown by many studies that 2/3 of security bugs are memory safety errors. That's the minimum that Rust can eliminate.

It actually should eliminate more because it also has the strong type system and tree-ownership style that help reduce the chance of logic bugs unrelated to memory safety too (similar to Haskell and other very strongly typed languages).

This is probably the biggest data set:

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-s...

Unfortunately they don't break out non-memory safety vulnerabilities, but they've almost eliminated memory safety vulnerabilities by writing new code in Rust.
Mozilla refused to support it because then every implementation would have simply used SQLite, which would have promoted any implementation details to a de facto standard. (Even caniuse erroneously describes the feature as "allows SQLite database queries".)

From the latest spec [1]:

> The specification reached an impasse: all interested implementors have used the same SQL backend (Sqlite), but we need multiple independent implementations to proceed along a standardisation path.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/

This won't be a problem for wasm SQLite because it isn't a standard being shipped by browsers, just another dependency.
God yes. The C and C++ people would not shut the fuck up about how one could do X and Y in their languages - including garbage collection. You didn’t need Java for that.

Small problems are immediatly obvious in these sorts of replies. Hard to use off the shelf modules if they don’t all use the same memory management replacements. To be fair third party code by volume was in languages like Python or Java. Hard to miss what you haven’t experienced firsthand.
Providing toilets to employees does not tie to profit. Toilets in all offices are now closed. We are saving over $10k per day.
It is the right order of magnitude, but when stats are already publiclcy available let's be accurate :)

https://kagi.com/stats
I've moved my personal site/blog over to Grav. I've done some small work with Statamic before and loved it.
Thanks for taking the time, really thought provoking… Will definitely be kicking that around in my head. No counterpoints.

I was going to correct you that Orion is just a baby step towards Minority Report holograms (aka plain ol’ non-tangible holograms), and that reminded me: the famous opening scene had lots more than holograms!

Specifically, they had physical objects (harddrives, knobs, spheres, etc) that didn’t seem to have much electronics actually in them, but that were tracked and responded-to by the computing system in a dynamic way. For example, easily passing data between the hologram and a little ball that you can easily move to another display, give to someone else, etc. in a completely seamless (read: AI-managed) way.

That might be my biggest hope for the future, while we’re waiting on tactile gloves. This kind of thing: https://www.behance.net/gallery/105147921/Apple-x-Procreate-...
Same, my initial reaction is shock and disgust that I was missing out on a fable mmorpg
> What's the difference between using Google and a PC in the 90s?

Well, you answered that yourself. Software in the 90s was running locally, and the data it used was also local. That's an important difference from running software on someone else's computer with data you don't control. That access can be cutoff at any point, and there's nothing you can do about it. With local software and data you would at least have the option to export the data to another format (assuming the software supports it), or to read the data with another software. For the specific case of MS Office formats, even the closed ones prior to the XML formats were readable by 3rd party software. I would qualify this as being in "control of their computing".

Vendor lock-in doesn't deprive users of this control. You have exactly the same issue with F/LOSS today. Whether you choose to use PostgreSQL/MySQL or Oracle/Access, you're always locked in to that specific vendor. Hopefully that vendor has good integrations and interoperability features so that you can migrate to something else if you wanted to, but the actual license has no bearing on this.

I suppose our disagreement is with what it means to be in "control of computing". If you define it as being able to read, modify and share the source code, then proprietary software doesn't fit that definition. But most users don't practically need this level of control. As long as the software has decent interoperability, and you actually have control over how and where you run it, then proprietary software can qualify. SaaS, OTOH, does not.
Thank you for sharing this. Many laughs were had!

The company you were applying to sure missed out!
Looks like it’s octets: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_(computing)
We are not actively working on it, although some work has been done in that direction as a weekend project. It's not something we are ruling out, but we want to focus on delivering something that works, and works well. If the product does well enough to be able to finance continued effort in that direction, and there aren't any "massive" issues to work on before that, then... I guess it might just happen. Hard to tell right now.
Don't they charge cloud vendors who sell LLAMA models on their platform? My understanding is that is part of the licensing agreement. Its more like:

1. Spend billions on a product.

2. Make it free to work with and charge to commercialize it.

3. Profit
It's generational. Gen Alpha increasingly use "cracked" to mean talented.

Even "S-tier" has crept into the non-gamer vernacular. My wife and her friends - not gamers - are using it.

TikTok spreads this stuff like wildfire.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cracked

https://www.tiktok.com/discover/what-does-cracked-mean-in-sl...
But that's not a softball question. You're asking your microwave oven to toast some bread and complaining it comes out hot but not toasted. It's not a toaster, just like an LLM is not meant to be used as a search tool although some integration exists.

Ask it some programming question, to draft an email, to create a marketing campaign, to help you dig deeper into a research topic, I don't know.. things an LLM was built for.
Albert Camus:
Alone and isolated you grapple with the absurdities of existence. And who the f*k are you?
Thanks for asking this question! I asked this a couple of weeks ago (Ask HN: What's a Good Alternative to WordPress https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41731867) and I hope people keep the discussion up.

I was also hoping that Ghost would become much larger than it has.
Since the law applies it actually makes it better news. Poverty alleviation is happening at a rapid pace in both of the world’s most populous countries. I agree- it’s really, really good news.
Between Woodinville and Redmond overlooking the valley.
You are probably spending too much time doing your Anki reps
I think I remember seeing something about MB=Mo in french, the casing is probably safe to ignore in the gp as ipython is definitely not 15gb
Michael Crichton: Humanity employs raw hubris and technological advancement for a close-encounter with non-humanity. Chaos ensues.
> What's the best alternative to WordPress

To do what?

For blogs, static-site generators (Eleventy, Astro, or Hugo). For CMS, a combination of a headless CMS with something on the front (e.g. Eleventy + CloudCannon). For ecommerce, dunno, Shopify?
The amount of “we have garbage collection at home” from the C and C++ communities during the rise of Java is a big part of my hatred of C++. That and watching classmates spin out in C++ classes in college.
Very few parked cars too. I see the same phenomenon at London Gatwick Airport as well. Perhaps an internet sleuth can find out what time the image was captured (e.g. the control tower has a distinct shadow that can be measured) and see if it lines up with any specific event.
> It's $CURRENTYEAR and Java still doesn't support structs, and it's not clear they actually understand the problem (since e.g. they force everything to be `final`)

I think they do. The problem they are solving is removing indirection and flattening the memory representation of data. Making all the fields final opens up the JVM to some really neat optimizations you can't get with mutable fields.

By the time you get something with enough fields in it that the immutability limitation becomes problematic, you likely would benefit from just having a regular class. Structs won't always be strictly faster than regular classes.
it already is, the entire protocol is reverse engineered, there are tools to automatically deobfuscate the code and there is already a full reimplementation of minecraft that also supports servers
Payload is tight as hell, but it's tough to recommend a headless CMS as a Wordpress replacement without, you know, a "head."
It's a good start, and please do more... Even small QOL improvements like tab completion for filenames are important and is what makes me to install ipython at this point.
A link to "All Possible Plots II" [0] would have been better, because it includes everything in "All Possible Plots I"

[0] https://www.the-fence.com/all-possible-plots-ii/
https://pinokio.computer
That's too bad that the TC article read that way. They returned more money to investors than what was put in, which puts them in the top ~20% for acquisitions of this scale. The crazy part is even a lot of the 1B+ privates aren't able to do that (eg Lacework)
I’ll mention another OS written in Rust, Twizzler: https://twizzler.io/

Its more of a research OS but still cool.
I thought the case and USB-C were in iPad mini already?
> We never did build large bridges out of wood, I think.

Yes we did. They just haven't survived. For example London Bridge was "various wooden bridges, AD 50 – 1176".
Statamic: https://www.statamic.com
I wonder if "life expectancy" is really such a useful metric, since it aggregates so many different things together. It's kind of like measuring "aggregate years of human life lived".
Distinction here is between "supports" and "production-ready on", not "x86-64" and "x86-64"
If I was going to bother now I'd start at static content and work back from that to a solution. Be that a static site generator or another tool which is scraped into static, but nothing you have to host anywhere other than a cheap CDN. The maintenance overhead of CMS platforms over the years have been a killer and the attack surface awful.
I did mention I'm a Canadian, yes? I used the car in the countryside example because, although it is foolish and dangerous to drive anywhere without suitable clothing for the weather, you still have a much better chance of surviving than if you go for a drive in a hurricane. It's not even close.
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> Emacs is a much wider family of editors written in a multitude of languages.

Sure, there's Guile Emacs, there's MicroEmacs - both not Elisp-based, still built on top of Lisp dialects; there's XEmacs, Remacs - both still use Elisp, there's also mg which afaik completely not lisp-based, but I don't know how much of it still 'emacs-like'. In general though, GNU Emacs is what people usually mean when they speak about Emacs, unless they're explicitly talking about others.
Then it’d also get the IPad Pro price?
That would require them to be interrupted, which would subsequently require them to refocus. Your time is not more important than your coworker's time.

Each interruption is a drain on productivity, which costs the company money. What part about this do you not understand?
(Note that this is written jointly by an advocate of AI risk/government regulation and a skeptic.)
Drupal is very popular with major enterprises, but it doesn't have the same ability to stand up sites quickly with plug-and-play features and update them automatically.

> you could customize the backend. I have always hated WP's backend.

Ironically, this is something the Wordpress Foundation has made worse over the years.
Rust code is usually well commented in my experience.
> Was your point misunderstanding that garbage collection != memory safety?

What?! You really think memory safety is binary?

> Having garbage collection doesn't make a language any better for web dev.

It does though. It's more ergonomic than fighting rust compiler and does add safety over manual memory management from the likes of C/C++.

I just want to thank you for demonstrating so clearly how rust evangelists think.
It’s possible to write fast Java and one of the cornerstones of my early career was proving it.

But I’d also spent a lot of time thinking about performance already before finding Java. A lot of people fully embraced the abstract nature of it while I kept it at arm’s length.

I fixed a lot of really dumb mistakes, and a lot of things that were subtly wrong but with large consequences.
What bugs me about this is that it's an armchair analysis from someone 11°+ north in latitude (Lake Placid is a five hour drive north of New York City.

Additionally, I looked up the historic weather data. In a span of 3 weeks there was a temperature swing of over 25°C in Atlanta.

Finally, the author completely and disingenuously ignores that the US south does not have snow removal equipment to the same degree. In emergencies that equipment has to get trucked down... Assuming it's not needed in the localities lending it.
If you compare a good x86 to a crap ARM yes.

Laptops are populated mostly with crap x86 and good ARM (apart from snapdragon which is a crap ARM)
why is it abysmal?
I have to say ubuntu at one point half-assed its introduction. After that it never failed me and streamlined so many things.
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Talking about the number of people who live over 100 along with the average life expectancy seems to be mixing two unrelated things.

To show that we are hitting a limit on our ability to extend lifetime, we really should look at having reached 95, how many people reach 105 or something like that.

To say that the average life expectancy is dropping and therefore we have reached our limit on their ability to extend the lifetimes ignores the fact that much of the reason for a stage life expectancy drop in my country is lifelong maltreatment, often self-inflicted--death-oriented decisions on drugs, nutrition, and activity.
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Higher levels of body fat (which is almost always the cause of a high BMI unless you are an active athlete) is pretty directly tied to inflammation and pre-diabetic insulin resistance. This subsequently results in the liver producing more triglycerides and lipoproteins that clog the circulatory system and the inflammation itself promotes hypertension. All of this together results in more heart attacks and strokes. There's a pretty clear mechanistic link between obesity and cardiovascular disease.

That doesn't mean obese people are "to blame" for any medical complications they might suffer from obesity. It also doesn't mean that obesity is a death sentence; people's bodies function differently and we've all heard stories of pack a day smokers that lived into their 90s. But there is absolutely a connection between the two.
I luckily don’t care for higher refresh rate, but I’m disappointed this model doesn’t come with OLED.
Those other languages were universally met with the "real programmers code in C or C++" defense.

The problem here is that is doesn't work with Rust.
Personally I'm using it for a statically hosted website, so a server-hosted database was never an option. Also with the right driver, it's possible to stream the chunks of the database as needed rather than sending the full database: https://github.com/mmomtchev/sqlite-wasm-http

I can even do Sqlite's full text search without downloading the entire FTS database. Just most of it, if the search term is short enough.
Not a customs expert, but a short research suggests bonded warehouses do indeed exist in the United States: https://openjurist.org/title-19/us-code/section-1311/bonded-...
how about people? why only freight?

enter the Jump-o-cabin, press The Button, be catapulted into airship 3, fly to somewhere else, get parachuted down..

Bonus: the just-landed Jump-o-cabin can be used as free-standing toilet. uh, Was already used as...
> How high of an N should we accept for the modest benefit of fewer cavities?

You do realize dental issues kill people, right? If you are going to be actually honest in your argument, then you should be comparing the # of people that die as a result of poorer health outcomes as a result of dental complications versus the band of people having overexposure to fluoride especially since you immediately jump to the worst possible outcome on your end of the argument.
I feel like I had to watch these as part of my MKULTRA programming sessions.
But isn’t that at the high end (when doing lots of work)?

I thought the big advantage tended to be when not much was going on, either idle or simple tasks. And that’s where the big ARM advantage in power was.
iPhone 16 pro max is almost there with the screen size, also a two-hands device
Raspberry Pi RP2350 powered PyDOS handheld in a BlackBerry form factor
For a small site with relatively technical administration, Grav is unsurpassed. I've been using it for years for my portfolio and various side projects, and it is a joy to build with.

For a larger site with multiple contributors, I'd probably still stick to Wordpress, though. Its admin experience and ecosystem are just too mature to not take advantage of.
This space grew into a bunch of different sub-cutures:

- static website generators (Hugo, etc)

- WYSIWYG editors (Wix, Squarespace)

- Frontends (NextJs, etc) backed by Headless CMS (Strapi, firebase, etc)

There really isn't a good spiritual successor currently. Someone should clone the UX of WP Admin panel, plugins, etc and drop the worst tech debt. Base it on React and make it really easy to deploy.

(edit: formatting)
Thank you! That's terrific.
Various software was transferrable. For instances, both the original Sim City 2000 and the original Myst stipulate that resale or transfer are allowed so long as the seller retains no copies.
As a yank watching the video in the OP I felt the piss draining my body. Thought I'd figure out what it was about from the video alone.
Do you use any kind of protectant, like dielectric grease or Deoxit? I find applying to both the equipment and battery contacts saves a lot of headaches on my work phone, ATV, trailer lights connectors and anything else powered I use in the field.
> I'm not sure what else you want beyond my answer

It's not hard to see that your response does literally nothing to answer my question.

> I'm gonna go ahead and agree with Dig1t on this.

It's crystal clear that you don't have any evidence for the claim, so your opinion is meaningless.
Changing “master” to “main” is similarly ridiculous as seeing “first-class citizen” as a problematic term, if you ask me.
Digital River runs dry, hasn't paid developers for sales since July
Someone do Michael Moorcock.
they also release the model. I've recorded hours of audio outside my house and run it through the model on my desktop with GPU.
Is anyone using SQLMesh in production? I love “lessons learned” tools which have the opportunity to improve core design after seeing the weak points of the initial product in the space. That being said, I hate being an early adopter, so will let others determine if the new tool has an entirely novel set of shortcomings vs dbt.
A lot of HTML's nowadays have 100 - 300 kb. That's only the HTML (!!).

Adding 400 for such a high quality piece of DB actually borders reasonability.

And makes me think: what the hell are frontend devs thinking!? Multiple MB's in JS for a news website. Hundreds of KB's for HTML. It's totally unreasonable.