skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can't blame the universe for putting the wrong ore composition into the ground. You can only blame the people who failed to do proper checks on the way.

Almost all mining companies in the EU are government-sponsored or owned (or, more often, owned by politicians or royal families, e.g. Total and (ex-)Frech presidents and ministers or Shell and the Dutch Royal Family, which then "somehow" results in government support for them, often with suspiciously little people supporting the mining effort. You know, suspiciously little support, given that they're democracies).

Needless to say, I've not heard of these sorts of companies being convicted to fix damages they've caused. If anything is done, it's always the government offering to do it from taxes (e.g. a harbor upgrade in Le Havre demanding the contracting company fixes Total refinery pollution). Have you?

Cars are different because while the German and French states have HUGE interests in car manufacturing, none of the others have. So any car defect, depending on if it's Renault or Mercedes/VW turns into the EU siding with the German or French camp in the EU and either demanding the companies fix it, or demanding nothing happens. Italy tried participating in this game, but, well, we all know what happened. So car QA is indeed done, to avoid the year-long EU-wide diplomatic incidents a recall causes.

Or take the example of public works contractors. These tend to be temporary alliances (e.g. need a big bridge? A company is created by 5 contracting companies just for the explicit purpose of building THAT one bridge, THAT specific tunnel, THAT train station, ordering for pre-agreed amounts of dollars from the specific contractors). Sometimes this company keeps existing to provide maintenance afterwards. If shit hits the fan, which is often, the company immediately goes bankrupt and nobody from whatever government approved the bid is held responsible, nor are the 5 contractors, but whatever repair money comes from the government budget anyway.

So, how will it work for software? Because your explanation sounds vaguely reasonable in theory, if you compare it to actual practice it becomes very unclear.

Is this created to make it impossible to have any kind of software company in the EU without government support, like for contractors? Is this made to be a threat or a weapon against American or Chinese companies?
This is a lengthy quote from TFA but I think it best describes what the author means by "the web" in practical terms:

<quote>

As I see it, the web is the only generational software platform that has a reasonable shot at delivering a potent set of benefits to users:

- Fresh

- Frictionless

- Safe by default

- Portable and interoperable

- Gatekeeper-free (no prior restraint on publication)

- Standards-based, and therefore...

- User-mediated (extensions, browser settings, etc.)

- Open Source compatible

No other successful platform provides all of these today and others that could are too small to matter.

Platforms like Android and Flutter deliver subsets of these properties but capitulate to capture by the host OS agenda, allowing their developers to be taxed through app stores and proprietary API lock-in. Most treat user mediation like a bug to be fixed.

</quote>

The DOM seems critical to the user mediation goal, and user mediation is IMO a critical differentiator with other platforms.

E.g. the web would be way less cool if I couldn't have "reader mode".
It seems there's room for "legal innovation" there, by providing definitions early on in various texts to disambiguate, and then sticking to them throughout the text!?

I assume it's already done anyway for some terms. Why isn't this more widespread?
Working on a way to save Pivotal Tracker!

Reach me here if you are interested: tracker@ntr.io
Nice in theory (and design), but likely not super efficient use of money.
Microsoft proclaims your PC to be incompatible with Windows 11 if your booted system has an mbr partition table instead of a gpr one.

In my opinion this is irresponsible because it scams a lot of users to believe their device is outdated instead of just having a wrong software configuration.

Not going to use secure boot for a bad OS and certainly not using any form of online account, but that is a different issue.

Sadly we will see a lot of badly configured OEM versions and surprisingly many notebook devices struggle with running a clean windows installation due to numerous driver issues.
>Other important literature that was published during this time was work by Watpole himself. His novel, Castle of Otranto, was reportedly inspired by a dream he had while living at Strawberry Hill. Set in a castle in the Middle Ages, the epic details a lord and his family living in a haunted mansion. “In the late 18th and 19th century, Gothic became associated with spookiness, which got wound into ideas of the exotic and sublime,” Dr. Bork says. “By the 20th century, you have movies and mass media that start using this.”

That's... not a lot of detail.

The narrative I like comes from Walt Hickey's You Are What you Watch. Basically, there was wealth in the 1870s and 1880s during the Gilded Age, and those people built homes in the Victorian/Gothic/Queen Anne style. Their kids grow up in those homes, and suddenly books are becoming movies (early successes like Dracula in 1897 as a book and eventually movies), and horror is a big hit, and the kids who grew up in those homes are writing things that take place there. Meanwhile, the stock market crashes, those homes are abandoned and unmaintained and derided. "When a boring colonial-style home deteriorates with age, it looks distinguishing. When a fantabulous, whimsical home deteriorates with age, it starts to look spooky."
'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
which has been the norm for as long as humanity existed
I've since changed my opinion on what I said above. It sounds like they are complying in the short term to maintain their right to challenge this in the Indian courts, which actually seems like a good strategy.

I can't say I understand the rest of your comment, without more detail on which people (presumably not all 1.5 billion) are disagreeing with what coverage (presumably not all of it), etc.
Well first and foremost, by doing exactly what you're doing now and asking a bunch of people for help too, haha. It's not been easy, and I'm truly still terrible at it.

However, honestly, most came from following this tutorial series on YouTube which broke down building a basic game engine, and I stopped about 20 or so videos in once I had the tools I needed. I highly recommend!

And hey feel free to DM me on something if you'd like - I'm happy to answer questions and help where I can!

https://youtube.com/@2etime?si=qKoT1YBEruVel9Wj
If you thought Astra was going to go away you were wrong
Chrome extension for Claude/ChatGPT which connects to VSCode. As an alternative to Continue, Cursor et al.
I'd argue that centralization allows a scale that otherwise wouldn't have been possible, but at the cost of added fragility and externalized costs.

We produce way more corn in the US today than we could without a centralized industry, but we do so by subsidizing the hell out of an industry that is driven only by how much volume of corn is produced. Nutritional quality of the food produced is ignored, damage to the land is ignored, damage to the broader environment is ignored, etc.

We grow a small amount of corn on our land. We absolutely don't have as high or consistent yields as an industrial farm, but we also don't spray any poisons on the land and if the soil health was being negatively impacted we would know it pretty darn fast. Rain water from the corn patch runs down into the pond our cows drink from, another reason we wouldn't use poisons on the land. All of these are considerations one will likely make at a smaller scale that just won't happen with a centralized system driven by one or two primary goals (currently that's just money).
I’m interested in what you monitor and how. Also, how has your metabolism and body changed?
I’ve been deep down the rabbit hole of custom mechanical keyboards for a few years now, and I’m now taking the plunge into designing my own PCB with KiCad. It’s been a very interesting project! It’s a split keyboard, inspired by the Sweep, but with 2 extra keys.
When we both have enough time off (and can get a cat sitter for long enough), my wife and I like to make the 1200 mile (1900 km) trip to visit family by Amtrak. A couple of times that we've done it a single roomette has been price-competitive with flying, especially if you factor in the cost of the free meals and drinks. And at worst, the roomette was about $200 more total cost than flying.

Sure, it takes four times longer, but it is about 20 times more comfortable.
Probably, without any sources or anything related online it seems to be fiction.
Astronauts Could Take an Asteroid Ferry from Earth to Mars – Universe Today
I'm on my fraternity's alumni board. The chapter has been using spread sheets for everything since I was an active member. Every year, information about recruitment gets lost in the shuffle between officers.

I've been working on a bespoke CRM for them to prevent the spreadsheet rot while providing some helpful visualization and making their data easier to use in the feature. The goal is to make the entire recruitment process self documenting.

Its slowly evolving into a way to keep track of actives and alumni, as well as ways for actives to interact with the recruitment process.

https://greekutils.com

There's also a working demo
https://demo.greekutils.com/rush-analyzer/ui/#/
I don't disagree, but how would you propose regulating that? Laws are made with money, so the advertisers win unless we can outspend them. That seems unlikely to me.
Thank's a lot! So far the project haven't paid off much. But that is not the most important goal. It is about making something really useful for people. In this case nice cities and neighbourhoods.
Born in France but searching for a future in Africa
Try giving everyone housing without centralized production of things like nails, screws, siding electrical wire...

Decentralizization is fine sometimes, but a single huge nail factory is going to beat thousands backyard forges in (average/95th percentile) quality and especially in prices.
This is intended to hobble clickbite titles and not to help anyone else. Not always ideal, but I actually like it for the most part.
Show HN: FormFill – Easily Fill PDF Forms Using Anthropic's Computer Use API
Hi HN!

I created FormFill, a CLI tool that uses the Claude Computer Use API to automate filling out PDF forms without needing a full virtual machine environment.

You can use it like this:
formfill path/to/form.pdf -s "Name: John Smith, Age: 30, Occupation: Engineer"

The Claude Computer Use API is still very new, and I’m hoping FormFill will inspire creative approaches to using it for UI automation. There’s a lot of potential for tools that don’t need full VM control but can still interact with document and UI elements.
I've seen this sort of thing previously (and the UUIDs match up).

https://developerhelp.microchip.com/xwiki/bin/view/applicati...

It's what happens when a product developer already has a design for a previous gen and needs to add "smart" with minimum effort, so they throw a Microchip UART to BLE gateway chip in. The chip basically just does single byte UART over BLE over a pair of characteristics, which is very much an impedance mismatch with how BLE is designed to work. That's why some of the things seem to not align with the spec and why the protocol seems so stateful.

On the plus side, it means de-compiling the android app is very helpful as there will be a parser for the binary protocol. It's also easier to work with for RE in some senses as the actual bluetooth code required is minimal (set up a notification and read the RX characteristic, write another).
If you are ok with opening things, you can also use a USB serial adapter to trace the UART traffic between the gateway chip & the control IC (there's an AT style protocol that's all well documented).

Fundamentally, it's probably either some basic hardcoded request/reply, or there's a "send me x datavalue every x seconds" command packet. Once you've got both sides of the UART, it will hopefully be fairly clear. Might even be plain ASCII...

There's various bits and pieces on github that might be helpful, and Microchip have some developer tooling.
The green software that could make big carbon savings
I'm using SQLite as the single storage system for my blog, including media files.
I did a simple performance comparison for this use case: https://blog.libove.org/posts/serving-binary-files-from-sqli...

TL;DR: No real difference in low throughput environments, 2.3x slower on high throughput
Newsletter on algorithms, data structures and coding interviews: https://blog.faangshui.com/
GWh/day unit analysis—

Power * time / time

Equivalent to just GW scaled by a constant, no?
That would not be consistent with human or any other animal's history on this planet (and I assume elsewhere, I'm waiting patiently waiting for us to make contact with aliens to confirm or debunk this). When something is delicious you eat as much of it as you can until it's gone and thanks to the glory of modern farming they will never be gone.
Go-To-Market (GTM):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-to-market_strategy
Educating in Greek or Latin? Probably not.
Why should they be forced to deal with Trump's nonsense? That's giving Trump agency over you and giving him the attention he craves. The best way to deal with a narcissist like Trump is to ignore him. Only an idiot believes Trump's incessant lies and neither I, nor presumably Tim Cook, gives a rat's ass what idiots think of us.
Subtitle: Boeing devalues existing stock.
To get some experience launching webapps that can be put into the play store and play around with image generation models, prompting, I am building an app to generate application/corporate photos from a few non-professional selfies.

Tech stack is probably FastAPI (I mainly know python) and likely nuxt/ionic (none/not much experience). Not sure how the whole hosting, interaction with replicate/huggingface will work on phone apps, payments on stripe without having a company, how to make the webapp into a phone app, etc. It should be a great learning project with the first time scoring an actual sale!
Happy to hear early guidance if people have done similar things with python backgrounds to get started.
This kind of reminds me of Google Circles where you would group people into areas of interest. I always thought that idea was really good and should’ve been pursued further.
Interesting!

As a fullstack developer, how did you even landed on such projects? Are you even using your SW Engineering skills in this? I really want to know more how are you able to lead an urbanism and architecture project with, supposedly, no formal backgrounds. Are you partnered with other people in this endeavour?
I guess that's one of those Wayland related features that must be compiled into the app. What used to be a separate window manager process with X11 is now a library inside every app, if I understood correctly. Maybe this keyboard is in there as well. Their labwc compositor (kind of in the role of the old X server) knows about the keyboard but the apps don't know how to draw it because they don't know it. Of course I might be quite wrong about it.
I am spending my retirement working part-time on a realistic spacecraft simulator (3D, VR) set in the late 20th century on a fictional moon made of Tungsten ("Tungsten Moon"). For some reason, I decided the spacecraft needs a "real" flight computer with code that can be modified by the player, so I am now deeply immersed in coding a Forth virtual computer ("AMC Forth") to run in-game. It will control the navigation and systems on the spacecraft. If you've gotten this far, and you're intrigued, you can try the free demo on Steam (no Forth machine yet).
Perhaps "What are you making?" instead?
AI development has been very uneven. Way better than squirrels at writing essays or playing chess. Way worse at climbing trees or finding nuts.

I'm still waiting for an AI robot that can come to my house and fix an issue with the plumbing. Until that happens the terminator uprising is postponed.
This hypothetical bot can provide supportive actions - feeding, cleaning - but it can’t provide "care" in the way that people truly need.
New Pipe X if you need a full client does that as well.
Where's your evidence it's photoshopped? It's credited to "Pete Douglass/Getty Images" and Getty has a policy against photoshopped images.

It's just a photo on a day and time with particularly dramatic clouds. There's no "borderline fraud" here.

And of course it does have a lot to do with weather and lighting. Gothic horror is set in these environments at dusk and at night, in moonlight and in storms. Gothic horror doesn't generally utilize bright sunny days, so your photo isn't helping to illustrate the concept.

A building can be simultaneously majestic and inspiring during a warm sunny day, and become spooky and creepy in low light amidst the fog and cold damp.
3.6 GB installed! This is why I dislike Flatpak.
Wow, this is looking dark. I thought bad vendors were the exception and you can expect to unlock any device (except Apple) and run your own software unless it's something like Huawei (who aren't allowed to ship a normal Android anymore in the first place, not that that's related afaict but they changed policy around the same time)

I use root for various things, including

- making a backup of my data over WiFi without having to work with GUI export buttons for each app piecemeal and get only a fraction of the data

- having most Debian packages run out of the box by using an app called Linux Deploy, for example things like qalc, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, python, etc. I can (and regularly do) run without having to look for if someone maybe made an android version for it or if it's included in termux packages. Nearly anything I have on my laptop works on my phone, only wavemon broke around android 9 due to selinux iirc (the update rate and detail level of the Android API-provided information is abysmal)

- being able to see what apps store on my device, like years and years of queued reports from SwiftKey which it couldn't send because I don't let my keyboard have network access were t funny to see

- denying network access to apps using iptables (AFwall, specifically). A fake VPN like trackercontrol is great but I don't trust it to limit system components like Google's or Samsung's stuff

- I browse pictures on my computer using an ssh mount. Matter of clicking the bookmark in Nemo (the default file manager) and it logs in with an ssh key automatically. Probably there's other ways to do this, but having 1 way to browse files remotely across all my devices, from server to phone, makes everything easy

- probably more I'm forgetting because it's just running in the background (I initially forgot that I had set up AFwall years ago, for example)

The choice of device is already very limited when you don't want to pay extortionary rates for extra storage and be able to charge and use earphones at the same time, as I do daily. If I now also need to avoid 9 out of 10 vendors for actually being able to control my own device... What's the point still, it really isn't more than a portable camera with a thin client for Netflix and Signal at that point
Who will be able to afford all of this if they're not getting paid?
Is it actually more complex?

I find it more understandable, it’s just that DEs need to write their own compositors.
>Even talking about shit jobs is pejorative.

Why is that? Do you think shit jobs don't exist? You think wiping other old people's asses is NOT a shit job? Are you lining up for these kinds of jobs yourself or did you work and study hard to not have to do them because you knew those jobs are shit and are usually given to the lowest underclass class of people who don't have better options due to various factors?

> Foreign workers don't just pick fruit

I never said such thing. The thread I replied was about importing workers for elderly care.

You're trying to project some things I didn't say onto me.
I think reading a broad swath of sci-fi might be the best way to engage this topic.

For fairly positive takes — Asimov had a take in the robot novels, Accelerando by Charles Stross touches on reputation-based currency (among a deluge of other ideas), Iain M Banks’ Culture novels have a take, and I cannot find it but there was a short story posted here recently about a dual-class system where the protagonist is rescued and whisked off to a utopian society in Australia where people do whatever they like all day whether it be fashion design or pooling their resources to build a space elevator. There are plenty of dystopian tales as well but they’re less fun to read and I don’t have a recommendation off the top of my head.

To answer your question directly, my opinion is that our our base nature probably leads us towards dystopia but our history is full of examples of humans exceeding that base nature so there’s always a chance.
I'm hoping this is sarcasm. The people I've worked with who are highly pedantic wreck team dynamics and rarely deliver anything of value.
Early Soviet Union did try to reshape family, but it went back on it eventually, seeing the value of the conservative family model in building social cohesion and loyalty.
The Great British Tech Appeal – Donate your old smartphone or tablet
I am not sure that is something that applies 100%, but I understand the concern.

It is my understanding that we should try to build solutions to current problems, and be open to future use cases that could involve small additions in functionality.

It would be stupid to design an unmodifiable system just because some parts can be deleted and we are not sure what future needs are. Code should always be easy to extend, in my opinion.
have you followed any guide you could share? microwave fried eggs looks like a stretch, what are the drawbacks?
I just use Brave. It works on my phone.

and Chrome for Google integration.
> whereas every tear down I have ever seen of EV batteries contains nothing as such.

You're massively misinformed. Practically all EVs have active liquid cooling through their batteries and have for quite some time. You should actually research them instead of being so confidently wrong.
Yes I think it's made up. But it's not obvious that it is. Which makes me doubt the blog as a whole.
> Amtrak is more comfortable in every way.

I can easily believe that trains are more spacious and the seating is more insulated from odors.

But my experience riding trains is that they sway/shake obnoxiously while going around curves. Where as busses like Megabus are a very smooth ride the entire way.

> room to walk around and stretch your legs

My experience with busses is that there are somewhat frequent stops where people are encouraged to walk and use the bathroom. Which isn't a complete fix, but it does serve to substantially mitigate those problems.
Most of our stories portrayed AI as a threat, most famously SkyNet.

Also, I would be cautious about making predictions about the future.
Innovation is quite often resisted by those who have mastered the hard way of doing things, though I have no idea whether this is the case here.