skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan's economy is deeply invested in the internal combustion engine.

Hydrogen is an attempt to salvage that investment.

Electricity is a more universal form of energy that can be easily generated, shipped and utilized more economically than hydrogen.

The only advantage hydrogen has at the moment is that it can be stored in a more energy dense manner than electricity.

Billions of dollars are being spent on research in a global effort to change this. Japan is about the only country willing to bet against this effort.
It's a 15% reduction on intention to buy (on the TV case, 20% on the car) just by putting AI there on the name is a really big deal. That's about half of the deviation on the data.

The ugly is that it's a self-reported poll, but it's a well run self-reported poll, with a large effect, and good statistical relevance.

The actual article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19368623.2024.2...
> If you've been doing C for five decades, it's a shame not to have noticed that it's totally fine to pass a NULL pointer to free().

Or that calling one's FFI function inside of an `assert` means it will be compiled out if the `NDEBUG` macro is defined.
Burial chamber of an ancient Egyptian priestess is discovered after 4k years
Photon was dropped years ago. They use a completely new graphics architecture now.
Making the world better commit by commit
They are the brains of a ton of cars on the market, like all Ford cars. Used for complex calculations like automatic transmissions.
I have been been looking for similar technology recently. So thank yoou for the post. I do not really have time to look at it right now. Does anyone have any thoughts.
nolibc seems very minimal. For example, no pread/pwrite just read/write, forcing you to lseek and ruining concurrent use.
My experience looking at the page as someone who has never heard of QNX:

First there is so much text that wants to tell me how great this software/tooling/resources is, without telling me what exactly it is.

As I still wanted to know what it is, after reading your comment here†, I clicked on the front page https://blackberry.qnx.com/en which has a concise introduction

"Real-Time OS and Software for Embedded Systems

Launch your critical embedded systems faster with our commercial RTOS, hypervisor, development tools and services."

An RTOS for embedded system, aha! That would be valuable information on the QNX Everywhere page. (Real-Time OS / RTOS isn't mentioned once)

Then I found the resources section nearly at the bottom, which has quick start guide, where I can see what I will get when I sign up for a free license and that would be exactly what I (as someone who has no clue what to expect from QNX) would want to see at the top, after a short introduction to what it is and why I want to try it out.

Maybe this page is more intended for people who are already aware of QNX, but if you intend to "catch" new people I really would recommend you to reorder/simplify this page, by putting relevant information (like a short introduction, why I would want to try it and a quick start guide) at the top instead of a wall of marketing text.

† this comment was first under a comment from the author, which now got moved to the HN post text
I’ve heard about a local packaging factory recently that uses an ML-first system for messaging their clients about what they will need to order soon, based on recent orders and global criteria. It’s not a simple problem, apparently. They signal the clients and start pre-producing, basically sort of algotrading themselves.

Not really an industrial control though, but close to it.
Disappearance of the Samoan Plume Under the Ontong Java Plateau
The bias doesn't come out that way, endorsements are meaningless anyways

The bias is calling him an agent of russia, a fascist, a dictator, a nazi, and a threat to democracy for 8 years

It's calling him crazy about Hydroxychloroquine and then 6 months later saying the same thing

The bias is blatantly miss quoting him with what he said about Liz Cheney

The bias is only fact checking one candidate in a debate

The bias is associating a trump rally where Israeli flags were flying in MSG with a nazi rally in the 30s

The bias is suggesting that we are suppose to think he wants to put his daughter in a gas chamber who converted to judaism

Then there's the work of Robert Epstein: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Epstein%20Tes...
Americans are flocking to expat websites after election: 'They want out, fast'
UHK 80 – Ultimate Hacking Keyboard
This is the key: if Harris makes empty promises and doesn't deliver them, the left won't vote for her again or vote for a 3rd party. Arguably that already happened with the millions of Biden voters that stayed home and didn't vote for her because they believed they wasn't effective enough as an administration.

If Trump makes empty promises, and doesn't deliver on them, nobody cares. They'll still come to vote for him to spite the dems.

The right splinters in public (many turned on Trump 2020-2024) but unites in the voting booth.

The left splinters in public AND in the voting booth.

I had sincerely hoped that the reason Trump was going to lose this year is too many people are tired of his b.s. and would simply not be radicalized enough to come out and vote at all - even if they thought Harris was trash.

Boy was I wrong.
While rare, there have been cases of people losing their paid-for domains too - because a company wanted them and had a lawyer convince the registrar that it should really be theirs (obviously exaggerating), or because the registrar made an error and accidentally put it back on the market etc.

These cases are super rare though, Google users getting rekt are much more frequent, that's for sure!
Above a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year or so, the percentage starts going down because the income comes from stocks etc.
This doesn't matter as long as you plan on milking it forever. Of course, that does leave a lot of ladders on the roof and you don't want to be alive when the technopocolypse happens.
little known fact: you can write shorthand for any ip address. It simply omits 0. Ie 127.0.0.1 (or 127.000.000.001). Try pinging it. `ping 127.1`

10.0.0.3 -> ping 10.3
> Our world is going to look very different in a decade.

I agree with this. I just seriously doubt that it's going to look better because of it. I suspect the opposite.
> Reed Hastings' decision to pivot Netflix into original content production is a great example ... based on years of experience in entertainment and technology

Is it? How do you show that? Was he just lucky? Did he divine the right answer by listening to the voice in his head?

I don't disagree with the premise; when your body is screaming at you to do something that should feel unnatural you should be listening. That's evolution and learned experience trying to steer you away from danger or toward some kind of reward. But the blanket statement of "Stop analyzing your gut feelings" is just silly.

My gut tells me to do stupid shit all the time; if I didn't spend time thinking through the impacts of what may appear to be an "irrational" decision I'd expect to make many mistakes. This also gives leaders a complete scapegoat excuse when things explode (see WFH vs RTO, explosive hiring vs mass layoffs); hey, he was just following his gut, can't get it right every time.
Good post, especially the diagram in the beginning was well thought out.
I haven't looked at cogvlm, but if you mean doing bounding boxes w/ classification, I'd love to support models like that (like detectron2) in the future.
That's the whole point of double-entry. You don't split the entries.
I find this threat model unreasonable and it reeks of conspiracy-style thinking; there are so many points of failure in it that I have trouble believing this argument is being offered in good faith. I'll continue to engage in good faith, but I want to state that skepticism.

(a) I don't think it'd be possible to extort votes in this manner in on a significant enough scale to influence an election without it being obvious that it was happening. All it would take is a few people to go "Oh yeah, someone broke into my house and held a gun to my head" to spark an investigation. Moreover, to a degree, this level of coercion is already occurring: a party platform of cutting taxes on your income bracket is effectively a bribe. A party platform that they'll cut healthcare funding if their candidate doesn't take a particular office is a gun to your head.

See also: the publicly known instances of 'vote bribing', e.g. Ben and Jerry's offering free ice cream, or Musk or Cards Against Humanity offering money/tickets/etc to people who have voted/make a plan to vote.

(b) for a vote-extorter, how would you verify that I voted as demanded? what if I don't mail that ballot? what if I deliberately screw up my signature? what if I submit my ballot before you extorted me? what if I vote in person later, invalidating my mail-in ballot? It's possible someone with access to the inner workings of the voting judgement process could detect some of these, but at that point, again, it's already compromised.

(c) If you have the resources to possibly (1) identify vote extortion targets (2) successfully threaten them in such a way that it would influence their vote (3) validate that they did indeed vote as you've demanded, you surely have the resources to attempt a more directed attack on, say, the mail system or the vote system itself. Trying to extort individual citizens en masse would radically increase the odds of detection of your operation.

(d) how do you know your election judges aren't under gunpoint? how do you know they haven't been bribed? Or your county clerk?
Lima v1.0.0
whiplash response, imo. Text editors have had how long again to work on improving core functionality?
Valid concern about the potential downsides of hyper-personalized advertising. A few counterpoints to consider:

1. Relevance: AI-generated ads, when done right, could actually make advertising less objectionable by making it more relevant and useful to consumers. Less spam, more signal.

2. Opt-in models: The industry is moving towards more privacy-centric, opt-in approaches. AI could enable better alignment between consumer preferences and ad content.

3. Regulation: As with any powerful new technology, robust regulation will be key to aligning AI advertising with consumer protection. GDPR-style data protections, disclosure requirements, etc.

4. Benefits to consumers: AI ads could fund better free products/services, as we saw with search and social. Trade-offs exist.

From an infrastructure perspective, I believe we have the technical foundations to do this in a privacy-preserving way:

1. AI ad platforms could process data on-device vs. centralized servers, enabling better privacy.

2. Differential privacy techniques can be used to process ad targeting data without directly accessing individual info.

3. Federated learning could allow ad targeting models to be trained without raw data ever leaving user devices.

So while the scale of data processing will be immense, I believe it's a solvable challenge with the right R&D focus and policy frameworks.
Not saying it'll be perfect, but I believe aligning incentives between advertisers and consumers is possible with the right approach. What safeguards would you want to see?
So I had cholera.

I was in a cholera study at the University of Maryland for a week. Read a lot of sci fi, played ping pong and drank fluids with electrolytes. There is a first phase which is uncomfortable but otherwise, as the docs said, cholera is a piece of cake if treated with hydration.
The FCC and FTC have a huge say on this. See the scandal with bulk-loaded, astroturfed public comments on broadband under the former Trump-appointed FCC chair.

The FCC determines what broadband is, and which companies get federal government subsidies for it. Federal subsidies > state subsidies.
what's the problem, there's a self hosted web server on it.

If you are talking about the short url, well ipv4 allows it and they needed to save space to fit on the floppy ;)
You critics stay away from VLC. I swear if I have to deal with another "modern" UI implementation.
Multiplayer AI chat with human intelligence
Don't hold me to timelines, but we're definitely headed in the direction of being more open and transparent. We're hearing that this is important to our customers and the community alike. Stay tuned!
Ah thanks, that's excellent! That is a massive issue for Aider; it was supposed to be solved, but last I tried I still had to do that manually.

Nice work!
> There are a plethora of reasons she's unpopular, she can's string two coherent sentences together without a teleprompter, she cackles at inappropriate times, she won't talk to anyone off the cuff, she doesn't give straight answers on policy questions thus the word salad meme, she fumbles critical questions like what would you do different in the last 3 years, what a terrible answer...

What I think I'm reading here is that you feel like Trump is a better public speaker than Harris.

Assuming that this is a genuinely held belief that you have, I suggest that you consider that perhaps this is very subjective.
Aristocracy is not a Greek word. You're confusing it with the Greek word aristocracy. Hope that helps.
Wow NATO trolls

You're in explicit violation of site guidelines. Recommend you stop:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We thought about making a VSCode extension/fork like everyone else, but decided that the future is coding agents that do most of the work for you.

The terminal is actually a great interface because it is so simple. It keeps the product focused to not have complex UI options. But also, we rarely thought we needed any options. It's enough to let the user say what they want in chat.

You can't point to specific lines, but Codebuff is really good at finding the right spot.

I actually still use Cursor to edit individual files because I feel it is better when you are manually coding and want to change just one thing there.

We do plan to do the SWE bench. It's mostly the new Sonnet 3.5 under the hood making the edits, so it should do about as well as Anthropic's benchmark for that, which is really high, 49%: https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use

Fun fact is that the new Sonnet was given two tools to do code edits and run terminal commands to reach this high score. That's pretty much what Codebuff does.
I think there is an honest debate here for the tech side of the house and its implications/risks/etc, but my point is, I think, more broad than 'will we move too fast elsewhere'. I worry he will bring twitter like problems, 'free speech is important, if it is approved by me', to space and Mars. I can easily imagine a future where the Moon, Mars and space are accessible, so long as you are approved by Musk to be in space. That gets to my core point, do we want Musk to be that gatekeeper? Do we want him deciding who and what can go to space and where they can go.
Japan has (had?) an exact analog to Hooters, namely "sexy izakayas" like Hanako, where pretty girls in very short skirts serve mediocre bar food. These were pretty much obliterated by COVID though, and were always a small niche.

Unlike the US, Japan has a highly visible and de facto legal sex industry, so if anything sexy izakayas are/were at the less seedy end of the scale.
App recommendation, there is a web site and an excellent app, (Apple and Google), I learned about on hn, called:
next spaceflight.
It lists all the upcoming space flights, launches, etc around the world, with times locations and links to watch. The app is very noninvasive, and for once has a useful notification system you can set to remind you, that a launch is imminent.
Of course has other tabs, such as historical flights, etc.
Australian city here and yeah you just have to know where to look. There aren't anywhere near as many indie/original artists as there were back in the 80-90's, but those were the heydays. Heaps of cover bands still if you want to dance to older stuff, and I notice some of them get a younger crowd. Then there are the music festivals etc.
Previously (5 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42077985
However if you double click and it zooms in there is no way to zoom out to actually see both sides of the notebook.
Complexity handled by tooling is absolutely relevant.
This is very interesting and I'm happy to see this. It's probably not relevant but i'm remembering reaching out 20+ years ago for a license to use in a Darpa GC team and getting a quote for 16K which made it unavailable for our make shift team but I have a tremendous amount of respect for the company and their work to build QNX. I will probably be looking into this for something in the future.
Is the Windows Copilot not that? There has been annoying focus-killing long-form automatic autocomplete replacing the text popping in every kind of text area on the computer I use at work. Is this being done on each application?
I've used VLC forever and I had no idea there is anything more to it than playing media. It always seems to have the most recent codecs, so it doesn't seem crusty to me.
I think ageism is one of the last safe hold outs for those who like to participate in "isms" outside their echo chambers.
So why can't Japanese companies hire the genuinely bilingual as employees/consultants/etc.?
But sometimes 127.1 means 127.1.0.0/16. For example in the output of `netstat -rn` on MacOS.
Ooof, boy is Apple in for a disaster with their iPhone and Mac products! Has someone told them? Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, and all of the other big companies as well! They're doomed!

Putting an amorphous "AI-powered" on an imaginary product is nonsensical, and doesn't carry over to the conclusion that "people hate AI". Yes, I would be wary of a "AI-powered coffee maker" or an "AI-powered toothbrush" because that just sounds like nonsense. But there are a lot of places where people already understand the value proposition, and the more people experience it, the more they demand it and it becomes entry stakes.

Just the most trivial example: one of my children has a habit of sending thoughts as a long series of texts. One thought split over a dozen texts. The "AI-powered" summarization of notifications in iOS 18.2 is absolutely brilliant for those times I can only glance, looking at it in detail when the situation avails. Thus far it has been 100% accurate and profoundly useful. That's the most tosser, simplistic example of many, many ways AI has added to my life.
There are lots of ways that nuclear plants can explode or fail in otherwise catastrophic ways, it doesn't need to be an atomic explosion.
But most people worship vapid celebrities. As a species, we need some more evolving.
MLK was able to actually organize large, potent, real-life networks of people from all walks of life, a plurality of whom actually took on substantial physical, legal, social, and monetary risks. People today have been convinced that activism revolves around Twitter feeds, Facebook Likes, declarations of sentiment & affiliations, and similarly vapid activities, much of which is anonymous or impersonal (even when in-person). On the rare occasions that they actually put themselves at real-life risk (e.g. arrest), the moment they pay the price the group collapses (e.g. Jan 6 insurrectionists, Gaza college campus protests, etc). MLK succeeded because large groups of activists paid the price over... and over... and over... until most Americans were convinced of the righteousness of their cause even when they were unable to relinquish their personal prejudices. (Notably, I don't think MLK ever expected most people to relinquish their personal prejudices, only that they soften their hearts enough to permit meaningful political changes that, in turn, might allow for some of those prejudices to diminish through the passage of time.)

So, yes, sadly activism today is largely symbolic, and I'd agree that most "activists" are symbols made manifest through media personalities. There are certainly old school activists around, and the fervor behind activism still burns within people, but the society has changed tremendously. All that energy just radiates into space, resulting in frustration and impotence.

The only significant risk taking you still see today at any meaningful scale is spending money. That's not nothing, but it'll never have the power that other forms of activism could have (when they're well organized), and it's blunted by opposing interests also throwing large sums of money into advocacy.

Also, I don't mean to discount the value of the army of people who are still involved in politics, doing things like canvassing, volunteering, etc. That kind of activity is just as if not more important than directed political and social activism. But general civic participation also seems diminished as compared to 50+ years ago, replaced by large sums of money, largely from mega donors (the "good" and "evil" kind), funding paid work.
You wrote:

>Falcon 9 and SLS are not in the same class.

Not:

>Starship and Falcon 9 are not in the same class.
Ask HN: What bookmarklets do you use?
Threw together a bookmarklet that sends a page over to a personal, private subreddit the other day that I've been using a ton. Also a HUGE fan of kill-sticky.

Would love to throw some other good ones up there.

https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky

javascript:(function()%7Bdocument.querySelectorAll(%22body%20*%22).forEach(function(node)%7Bif(%5B%22fixed%22%2C%22sticky%22%5D.includes(getComputedStyle(node).position))%7Bnode.parentNode.removeChild(node)%7D%7D)%3Bdocument.querySelectorAll(%22html%20*%22).forEach(function(node)%7Bvar%20s%3DgetComputedStyle(node)%3Bif(%22hidden%22%3D%3D%3Ds%5B%22overflow%22%5D)%7Bnode.style%5B%22overflow%22%5D%3D%22visible%22%7Dif(%22hidden%22%3D%3D%3Ds%5B%22overflow-x%22%5D)%7Bnode.style%5B%22overflow-x%22%5D%3D%22visible%22%7Dif(%22hidden%22%3D%3D%3Ds%5B%22overflow-y%22%5D)%7Bnode.style%5B%22overflow-y%22%5D%3D%22visible%22%7D%7D)%3Bvar%20htmlNode%3Ddocument.querySelector(%22html%22)%3BhtmlNode.style%5B%22overflow%22%5D%3D%22visible%22%3BhtmlNode.style%5B%22overflow-x%22%5D%3D%22visible%22%3BhtmlNode.style%5B%22overflow-y%22%5D%3D%22visible%22%7D)()%3B%0A

- bookmarklet to shoot pages over to Reddit, just swap out r/xyz:

javascript:(function(){ var url = encodeURIComponent(window.location.href); window.open('https://old.reddit.com/r/jchromebook/submit?url=' + url);})();
But then it will be clear that almost nothing was done in that time…
Some people thrive with more options. For those a [Ok] [Hell Yeah!] [Definitively!!!!1!!] set is the perfect fit.
https://archive.is/IERSm
If you have multiple monoliths, what do you call "monolith"?
I got curious when you said
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old Fortran code, are slow, and have a high error between their predictions
"
Do you have any online reference/docs that explain apis/software/source code related to projects in this area?
I don't think it needed microstepping. The first reprap board bit-banged H-bridges with a PIC, and even later boards only used A3982 drivers. Microstepping helps, but it came later.

You can look at early calibration settings descriptions and they're still talking about e.g. "The number of X stepper-motor steps needed to move 1 mm for the PIC."
It's a particularly cursed form of writing IPv4 addresses:

> A popular implementation of IP networking, originating in 4.2BSD, contains a function inet_aton() for converting IP addresses in character string representation to internal binary storage. In addition to the basic four-decimals format and 32-bit numbers, it also supported intermediate syntax forms of octet.24bits (e.g. 10.1234567; for Class A addresses) and octet.octet.16bits (e.g. 172.16.12345; for Class B addresses). It also allowed the numbers to be written in hexadecimal and octal representations, by prefixing them with 0x and 0, respectively. These features continue to be supported in some software, even though they are considered as non-standard.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-decimal_notation#IPv4_addr...)

Never use this.
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