skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The impact of BRICS is really overstated, and is only really discussed on Reddit and HN (because Reddit).

In action it's been blunted because of China and India's rivalry, with each country vetoing expansion of nations that are fully lopsided one way or the other.

It's not different from the SCO or APEC in that sense.

If you want to learn further about blunting in IR I highly recommend reading Rush Doshi and Oriana Skylar Mastro's research.

Alternatively, this classic scene from "Yes Minister" also pretty much explains this strategy - https://youtu.be/ZVYqB0uTKlE?feature=shared&t=107
Show HN: Built a plant ID app after seeing friend waste €23/month
My friend was spending €23/month (GPT) to plant ID during her forest walks. After building her a simple solution, she loved it and encouraged me to share it with others - so here it is!

This is actually my second HN. Your feedback on my first post was eye-opening (thanks!).

I'm bootstrapping this as a student and planning to grow it beyond just plant identification. Working on adding community features and leaderboards - turning it into a cozy corner of the internet for plant parents. Think less "utility app" and more "home for plant enthusiasts".

Open for feedback from the HN community - especially from fellow plant lovers! Get 30 free credits to try it out and let me know what you think.

For those who ask - this is not just LLM wrapper.
Push notifications need to connect to that many devices every hour easily

You may not get a notification every hour, but the phone still have to connect to Google APIs to check to know that.

You can say same thing about say location services, every phone if powered and connected to the internet would ping more than one an hour, more than billion devices are definitely online at any give time, not just Android phones, also every android TV, tablet, watch, and the hundreds if not thousands of other devices running GMS on top of AOSP .

There are probably few other APIs in GMS that would ping at least once an hour each device that is powered on, perhaps things like NTP for timing alerts or Emergency Alerts etc.

You may consider them "Background Services" , most of them however have some foreground UI if they need to, and users will notice if they don't work
Every country is different but I'd be surprised if they don't still have it.

The irony is they will probably still have to burn it on a CD and mail it to you. Good old DICOM!
Nintendo's always been on its own for these sorts of things, but even the folks I know with an XBox just use their Playstation these days if they have both. XBox just isn't really in the conversation any more. That could totally change in another generation of consoles, but their position wasn't great coming into this generation and it doesn't feel like it's gotten any better.

Basic numbers I've been seeing on a quick search has PS5 almost doubling the Series X sales.
I don't think people are able to tell a Flutter app from any other cross platform/web framework. They just think they can.
> but the ability to fly a space craft with the agility of a fighter jet on Earth is okay?

What makes you think that GP thinks that? The mere fact that they didn't mention that, among all extant silliness in scifi media, in the context of a discussion about asteroids?
You’re completely right, but that doesn’t change the fact that I think it’s a bad idea. For a company that used to care so much about user experience, Apple has been throwing a lot of it out the window in recent years.
Why can't you just put Linux on the Macbook then? Most 12-15 year old laptops are not capable of running the current version of Windows, either, and have major vulnerabilities.
Source of this reprint (3 points, 1 hour ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41976420
The idea that one candidate on the ballot is more significant than another is in fact an opinion. It may be very, very well grounded, but it is an opinion, not a fact.

Which is kind of the point. You are sort of arguing that the things you personally are comfortable with are good and that newspapers should do them, and the things you do not like are bad, and they shouldn't do them. But you are making value judgments, not spitting truths.
Ah ok. I thought they were referring back to SSL in their first paragraph. Interesting, I had forgotten that WiFi networks once didn't all have passwords.
Gotta Love Derek... "Things I won't work with" actually got me to read some of his other stuff about how drug development and trials work.
> it looks like a research station that could have been on Earth.

It looks like a research station that was designed to be _maintained_ on Earth. Their sense of cleanliness, I feel, is going to cost them in labor and repairability in the long run.

So many integrated panels. A microwave? Plants out in the work area with no shielding and nothing to constrain waste from floating away?

Pretty cowboy lookin' up there.
Freedom to use a general purpose computer with as few monopolistic restrictions as possible.
Its wild to me how often people conflate "human nature" and culture. People who share a cultural background with Adam Smith may very well be accustomed to this self-interest-first way of seeing the world. People who would struggle to see other people's life ways as valid, because there's very little value in other people's perspectives. Especially if they involve practices that undermine profitability.
The type of journalism that involves saying "This person makes an incredible claim" and then goes on to allow the person to present said claims uncritically is called "tabloid journalism[1]." Yes, I would expect a podcast hosted by a NYT Journalist and University of Chicago Economist to have higher standards, particularly in the field of academic research.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabloid_journalism
Yeah. For comparison, there are 27 million weekly downloads for React.

I'm not sure what conclusions we can draw from either number.
Is it really a hypothetical at this point? I was under the impression that relevant cases have already been explored ( to the extent that one can given the nature of IC ). In cases like these, the moment it is actually a problem, it is likely already too late to make sensible adjustments.
> I would prefer the apps I use to work and behave in a consistent way, using the same platform idioms I am used to. The software available and how it works was a large part of the reason I chose the platform I did.

There are DOZENS of us!!!

I try my absolute best to find apps that use the native Apple language, both design and code. I can't stand these framework apps. I will Pepsi challenge this with anyone who asks, I can smell a framework app.
> You don't get that in the suburb

Maybe there's a language barrier here, but isn't a suburb defined by being at the edge of a city? So wouldn't a bar in the city be the communal place for the suburb, just like the bar in town is for those out on the farms?

Granted, I've known of a small number of bars operating on farms (usually farm-based craft breweries/cideries/wineries), but is not the typical use of rural properties. Having one next door that you could walk to would be unusual.
So is this so-called loyalty that is not absolute is absolutely no loyalty? Joke aside, I don't believe such rage is necessary. Do you still like the writing of WaPo? If you do, why not just continue the subscription? Heck, I still read WaPo even though I believe they are too biased towards the left and sometimes become hysterical and dishonest, as I still value their perspectives.
Does subscribing to a coffee-tuber automatically make you a barista?
They might be behind but at least consider that it's because they've seen what "the future" of this technology looks like and aren't at all impressed.

The only reason they're even implementing the current feature set is because of pressure from investors.
"Jank" is still functional. And, to a first order approximation, nobody cares.

Even Windows generally switches down to software rendering when resizing. And on mobile devices, nobody resizes.

No pointer warp, however, is a failure (CAD packages all have significant issues on Wayland). Lack of multilingual support/accessibility is a failure. Lack of screenshots/screencasts is a failure. Lack of support for the BSD lineages is a failure. etc.

People are still bitching up a storm because Wayland still (Pipewire does screen sharing using DBUS(!) for example) hasn't fixed basic things while DeadRat is shoving it down everybody's throat by dropping X11 support.

The Wayland devs aren't wrong about the security implications of this kind of stuff. However, they're also not giving anybody solutions, either.

One big issue is that Wayland devlopment is so slow that the entire space moved forward and destroyed a bunch of assumptions that Wayland is based around.
I think mental healthcare might be a good place to start. Campaigns specifically targeting men's mental health, particularly more "embarrassing" ones like depression and anxiety. Show men who can't bring themselves to brush their teeth, show men sitting in their car with a revolver in their hands. That's a harsh reality that is completely silent, I think.

I think we need to come to terms with men being in positions of abject "weakness" - or what we currently perceive as weakness. And we do that through visibility. Through PSAs, television shows, movies.

I also think clothing would be a good place to start, just because it's so immediately obvious and visible. Get protests allowing men to wear skirts at work, and make it clear they're still men. I don't think that will fix anything really, but I think it could force the issue to be looked at.
Specifically eBay Motors, which is a standalone app.

https://flutter.dev/showcase/ebay
It would be interesting to see some thorough research on this topic.

I would say that a large majority of investing, especially newer forms that occur via apps such as Robinhood, in form and outcome would be indistinguishable from gambling.

> But unlike a sportsbook, I don't think you have the same risk of abuse.

I doubt this is true.

You see the exact same behaviours between online day traders as you do online gamblers.

Both share tips, have a sense that they are in the know about performance beyond that of the average 'punter' and use apps that are gamified and have dark patterns encouraging continual use and abuse.

I would also say they are primarily used by the same demographics – male, skewing younger who are high risk, low real world experience individuals who either get fully addicted and don't learn their lesson or those that get burned early on, 'grow up' and learn not to continue to waste money on such endeavours.
Is this one of the new bots spamming people with different interest groups? A Christ GPT?

So the book tells you what to believe, including to believe in the book.

Any questions, the book is the answer.

Is there any reason to believe in this book? Yes, the book tells me to believe in the book.

Where do you get your beliefs? The book.

But humans wrote the book. The Book tells me to believe in the book.

Really?

You don't see anything circular in this?

You can literally make up anything and use this exact same logic to justify it. This is the basis of every religion. Just make it up, and it is self justifying. The religion tells you what to believe including why the source of the religion makes it the one religion.
It can be done, and if my 2016 IMac dies then I am going to do it. An amazing display.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Convert+an+iMac+Intel+27-Inch+E...
Yup. Me and many other people. Which Apple can either ignore, or fix their design to address a bigger market - without making the product worse for others.
I remember finding out about this project early in 2001, and I think the web site looked exactly the same then as it does now. I picked out a couple of unvisited confluence points I thought I could reach - 48N,124W and 47N,121W - but in three attempts, I had no success (too much snow!). It was a fun excuse to explore otherwise-unremarkable parts of the world.
Thanks for sharing. Unfortunately doesn't look to support Python natively, and it looks quite complex for my purposes of instrument definitions, but it seems useful as a reference point.
This has been a real head-scratcher for me. BMW and other automakers could have vastly improved their cars by switching to 48V a decade ago, but they still keep just plodding along with 12V.

I have no explanation for this.
The 1619 Project won a Pulitzer, even though the book was full of factual errors on the border of lies and the hatred in the book is batshit crazy. So, I'm not sure how Pulitzer still means anything.
How 7 Friends Testing Metal Detector Made Britain's Most Valuable Treasure Find
For those using a smaller bore diameter, 7 T is 300 MHz proton frequency, and the engineering challenges to maintain a homogeneous field over 600 mm are immense.
I'm fond of Moonmist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonmist), a haunted mansion whodunnit, because my mother introduced me to it when I was very young.

I learned years later that the story changes according to your answer when a character asks you for your favorite color. It's such a simple trick but it keeps your friends from spoiling it for you.
I'm not informed enough to rebut this, and don't want to be quoted in the follow-up article that suggests HN is still too dumb to get the genius of Ballmer, but here's my take.

It's only the footnote of the article that mentions Ballmer's "stage persona". I think that's the important point, and I would add that his "interview persona" might have been even worse. Back then, he was quoted as saying insanely dumb shit all the time. Like when he literally publicly laughed about the iPhone. Or when he called a Zune feature to share files between devices "squirting".

Maybe he did make all kinds of brilliant decisions internally. I wouldn't know, but neither would the stock market. If the CEO comes across as not understanding tech, it's likely the market will price that in.
Bookmarked. Thanks
https://archive.ph/XRURc
This sort of misunderstanding w.r.t. Siri is actually an area where it historically does quite well. I can't replicate this issue on my phone and i almost suspect you pulled it out of thin air.
Having spent some time at the Microsoft campus, I can tell you this is basically the consensus view from employees today. Ballmer was not a cool, trendy, or fun CEO who people rallied behind - but he more or less "got the job done". He was the captain of a massive ship with a turning radius the size of a continent guiding it through icebergs.

Azure's success was specifically set in motion under Ballmer. Owed to the fact that it was developed to Microsoft's strengths (enterprise support) that it didn't piss off too many of their partners and sales channels. Same with Office 365 and all of their other successful services. None are glamourous - but all are impressive with how not awful they are given their design constraints.

Even things like Surface, while considered a failure, did its intended job of getting hardware partners to get their act together and make better consumer products.
Better take manufacturing out of America then, if you want to keep it in democratic countries.
Who is "we" in all of this?

Not even visible on the github org https://github.com/Flutter-Foundation

> This organization has no public members. You must be a member to see who’s a part of this organization.
At my company we are aggressively rolling out policies to forbid the use of AI. I'm one of the bigger folks behind it. I just see no benefits. I have no desire to debug AI generated code, I have no desire to read pages and pages of AI generated fluff, I have no desire to look at AI generated images. Either put the work in or don't.
Perhaps those who aren’t the investors benefit by being invested in, indirectly. They are benefitting from a government running on money from bonds, and possibly employed by a business fueled by some form of debt.
I know. We're all just rediscovering Lisp in our own way.

... And yet the fact that most of us know we're reinventing Lisp, and still doing it anyway, says something. I guess it says that we're just trying to get our jobs done.
The wheel cover issues were in Feb, I got mine a few months later and it didn't come with wheel covers. I did know about that one though.

The suspension stuck in lowest issue.. really doesn't ring a bell. Maybe it was before my time? Or I glossed over the update notes when I did get it.

The point I was trying to make is that this vehicle's issues are widely reported to a disproportionate degree due to how notable and polarizing it is, to the point that random Cybertruck anti-fans know more about its flaws than the average owner.

Mine isn't flawless either, the tonneau cover requires some finagling to close, which is kind of annoying. So I'm not going to sing Tesla's praises about their QA standards either.
New tool bypasses Google Chrome's new cookie encryption system
They are more efficient at high switching frequencies, because they have very low switching losses.

When a diode is not switched, or it is switched at very low frequencies, then the losses are given by the voltage drop when the diode is on and by the leakage current when the diode is off.

These 2 parameters cannot be improved simultaneously, so some diodes are better when used at low voltages and high currents and others are better at high voltages and low currents.

However when the switching frequency is increased, which is desirable in power supplies and in amplifiers because it allows the use of smaller inductors and capacitors, reducing the size of the equipment, the switching losses increase proportionally with the frequency and over some frequency they become higher than the static losses.

When such high frequencies are reached, the most efficient diodes become those with the smallest switching losses, which currently are the gallium nitride diodes. The GaN diodes and field-effect transistors have enabled the much smaller chargers that exist now for laptops and smartphones, in comparison with the traditional bricks, which for many small computers were bigger and heavier than the computers.

GaN diodes and transistors are the best for switching power supplies and switching amplifiers with working voltages from about 100 V up to 500 V or 600 V, which is enough for equipment powered by household voltages (the voltage supported by a device in a power supply is significantly higher than the nominal voltages like 120 V or 230 V, because what counts is the peak voltage not the effective voltage and also not the nominal value but the highest value within the permitted tolerances increased by some safety factor; thus a 500 V to 600 V device is needed for 230 V mains electric power).

For the higher voltages that may be needed in industrial and automotive applications, silicon carbide diodes and transistors are the best.

For voltages under 100 V, silicon diodes and transistors remain the best.
I still can't figure out why Fitness+ on Apple One isn't available?

Does Apple think that people in Europe don't understand enough english to do a fitness workout?

At least give us the option, please?
I'd buy that rather than 32 GB anything else.
> If it's no problem and we avoid it = No problem

This is incorrect. I think that you also understand why.
MLMs are pyramid schemes, not ponzis. For example bitcoin is a (somewhat decentralized, but centralized among major mining companies) pyramid scheme while Tether is a Ponzi.

Both pyramid schemes and Ponzis are illegal. MLMs are illegal in many places. In the US they were successfully able to lobby their way into carving out a legal niche in the 80s. They are also the reason supplement safety is so loosely regulated in the US.
> By Church-Turing every sombolic-recursive function can be translated to a looped iteration over some memoization of intermeduate results. The stack is just a special case of such memoization.

Ah, so functional reactive programs don’t suffer from stack overflow on recursion, they just suffer from memoisation overflow? ;)

Electronic circuits with feedback could be thought of as tail end recursion. :)
I think a better way of understanding Ballmer is that he really struggled to relate to end consumers, but he understood their business partners very well.
Did cars ever use knob and tube?
Isn't that show the opposite of the upgrade treadmill?

When I buy a new MacBook, it WILL be to make ice cream spreadsheets. Not because M3 is now an M4. (Except for the Intel to M1 transition, I waited for that one.)

And when I buy a new iPhone it won't be because I really need a Dynamic Island, it'll be because of Fantastical and Overcast.
You just made me nostalgic for the intel MBP days when you could swap the factory HDD and optical drive for two SSDs
Waterloo students build an electric version of a GRU-mobile
You have electricity because of men. You have running water because of men. You have sewage and plumbing because of men. You have internet because of men. It's not women smashing apart concrete and installing cables and pipes, it's men. Most women I know struggle to pour themselves a drink from a newly open gallon jug. You are a fool if you believe a team of women can go out in a hurricane and replace powerlines at anywhere near the same rate that a team of men can.
Because the company has more strategic resources than a VC, and has need to defend existing businesses.

MS should've been able to simply just extend their OS monopoly into all platforms and all architectures, but they didn't, and to a vast swath of the world have become irrelevant, and worse, have lost their ability to become relevant.

It's a decline from being the monopolist to simply a player, sure they executed well in enterprise sales and was fast in picking up OpenAI, but they have lost the ability to use their strategic resources to save xbox, help azure overcome competition, or push a mixer or Surface or whatever.

Edit: For people who don't understand the last sentence think about the way that O365 was able to help MS push Teams to stave off Zoom and others despite being objectively trash. MS should've been able to keep control of the internet, but they lost their moat to Google (Chrome), and the same story for various consumer products. Bing was a decent win but with a better consumer story they should've also been able to threaten social and youtube and so on. But now they're completely irrelevant there.
Unless it comes with a fleet of helicopters to play with, I don't see how that's helpful.
Yes: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff?so...
Sure, but I find that few people are able to articulate in any detail what those requirements are and explain how it will lead to a better ecosystem.

A lot of people talk about a requirement to explain why someone was given a particular recommendation. Okay, so Google, Facebook, et. al. provide a mechanism that supplies you with a CSV of tens of thousands of entries describing the weights used to give you a particular recommendation. What problem does that solve?

Conservatives often want to amend section 230 to limit companies' ability to down-weight and remove conservative content. This directly runs afoul the First Amendment; the government can't use the threat of liability to coerce companies into hosting speech they don't want to. Not to mention, the companies could just attribute the removal or down-ranking to other factors like inflammatory speech or negative user engagement.
> So that means one has to target both GTK and Qt to be native on Linux.

Doesn't it mean that you can target _either_ and be considered native?

Also, I'm not sure I buy the claim that of "GTK and Qt are native" in the first place. I'd say either that there is no native UI, or if I must call something native, it's the toolkit the desktop environment uses. And yes, that does mean that there is no "Linux nativeness" like there is Windows nativeness, as every DE is different. And rightly so, because one could in principle write a different DE over the Windows kernel, whose UI would behave differently.