skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MicroLED not here [1], NanoRod OLED gone [2], QDEL not any time soon, QD Film ( used here ) isn't getting any better.

I guess we have to stick to OLED for quite some time. I still dont think Tandem OLED is the solution for PC. Especially not when I have the monitor turned on for 16 hours per day and uses it most days of the year.

I wonder if MacBook Pro will stick to LCD. While something like MacBook Air could switch to OLED just to be thinner.

[1] For small display, for TV and signage they seems to be doing fine.

[2] Samsung has reportedly given up on the idea. LG stopped R&D as well.
Really? Oh man ... I was in the UK this summer and had to install a different app to pay for parking (or car charging) in every city I went to, and some of them wouldn't accept a non-UK licence plate :( High demand for developers keeps my salary high, but it's all such a waste.
> The worst one is the single UIs for Windows and Macs. There are some ways to customize them but not as heavily as it is possible with Linux.

Which is why Windows and Mac still get native UIs for many desktop products, while Linux if a product actually targets it, gets Electron.
That's an authority argument, even if in this case a strong one. What you seem to be overlooking is, that merely from this one quote, we cannot conclude, whether that is really all of methodology that went into building the Voyager 1 and 2. So while it is a witty quote, it doesn't actually tell us much, without additional statement, that we don't need to look any further for other methods that were applied.
Linux uses their own versioning scheme of Version/Patchlevel/Sublevel. See their Makefile.

Despite the sibling comments (and wikipedia), the major/minor terminology is not used.
My usual take is just like yours, I'm on the fediverse and not necessarily on Mastodon (although one of my accounts is) but I also think that the survival and general wellbeing of the ecosystem is tied to Mastodon-the-software's continued success. It's the only one with critical mass. I know I'm a fringe group and yet I'm not so disconnected that I found anything useful there before 2018 with statusnet and identica.
What is causing it to be overwhelming? I use a zero-inbox policy. If it can be answered in 2 minutes I do it then. Otherwise I create a TODO an archive the email. All newsletters go to a particular label and skip the inbox.
Yeah I thought we have a universal consensus that we never make fun of the way people speak English because they’re trying their best in a second or third language. And they’re doing that despite the challenges you point out.

If someone does it, it means they’re racist. The act itself isn’t racist, but I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that they’d have other racist opinions and do racist things.
Because when you're sending a signal down a wire or through the air, fundamentally the communication medium only provides "Send it, maybe it arrives"

At any time, the receiver could lose power. Or a burst of interference could disrupt the radio link. Or a backhoe could slice through the cable. Or many other things.

IP merely reflects this physical reality.
Very hard as if not, I am not staying. Same for consultancy clients by the way; there are way too many of them, so why would we please them; they should please us.
One of my favorite finds through Wiby is: https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/test/index.html which I found through this article specifically: https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/test/articles/future-proof...
Imagine you have a strong deference to authority and an incredible fear of confrontation. It would be very easy for someone in a position of authority to take advantage of you.

People don't always do what's in their best interest. People talk to the police without a lawyer all the time. People sign away their rights just because they don't want to push back on things. It takes guts to stand up for yourself.
Text files are amazing, and for when you need to structure data you can use sqlite.

I am using it for https://loadjitsu.io/
Still looking for a good solution to seamlessly sync local sqlite to cloud for backup when the user wants
LLaVA-O1: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-by-Step
Rollout of Wayland has not been the smoothest and I think among its major issues is the slow pace of development - it took it 10+ years to become default and certain features present in X11 are still missing. Having said that, after I switched to KDE Plasma 6 with Wayland (on Intel and AMD graphics), I've noted a significant improvement in responsiveness and snappiness of the desktop. I know nothing of how Wayland works, but I assume this is the reason the replacement was needed in the first place. I had to replace my GPU from NVIDIA to AMD, but I don't regret it (all my deep learning compute is on the HPC cluster anyway).
Well your "here" is clearly not Japan. Your confidence about inexperience is weird though.
Portugal will keep it too.

Dumb phones are still being sold that are 2G only.

Not just that, but “landlines” are still being offered that are really a 2G phone restricted to work only in the vicinity of a home that's not (yet?) covered by actual landlines.

It's also used by emergency services.

It's considered a technology of last resort, and the service provider that wins the concession to provide it, with 100% coverage of a given area, probably finds it useful that it can meet the conditions with such tech.

3G has already shut down.
no, I know that Putin will not give up any land - he's too proud for that.
It was absolutely worth a try.

Blender suffered the same sort of issues as FreeCAD does, but managed to get out of the slump.

It is often important to have a main player enforcing proper, unified UI/UX and fix the many small problems and bugs which drive users away.
Sadly it is usually an issue with long running and highly complex open source software that it gets really fragmented.
You see that in every function having its own button or workspace, inconsistent naming, functions which do the same but slightly different and things working differently depending on some context where they really should not.

Thanks to the people from Ondsel it felt like FreeCad would be on a similar route to Blender.
It was way more user friendly thankfully there has been major back porting.

So there has been a lot of progress especially with the upcoming 1.0. You should give one of the Release Candidates a try.
I use it for my 3D printing projects and it works pretty well.
The issue with Python and most other non-LISP family programming languages is that they don't allow you to easily treat programs as data. Things that are simple to express with Scheme become complicated exercises when using mot another languages. Instead of focusing on the underlaying concept students end up having to focus on the implementation language's details in a way that they don't with Scheme.
GaussianAnything: Interactive Point Cloud Latent Diffusion for 3D Generation
Are the screen more sturdy than on the MacBook Air M1? I really didn't like my M1 dying overnight after 13 months, when the base warranty had just expired and apple asked me 67% (!) of the price of what I paid the M1 to fix the screen. I didn't and I use it as a desktop since then, hooked to an external monitor.

For comparison, my LG Gram can be casually thrown down concrete stairs [1] and shall happily keep working.

I'm not asking for something as incredible as that LG Gram's screen (from a reliability point of view) but I'd like to know if these newer MacBook laptops have screens less fragile than the first M1 laptops.

[1] Not my vid but it's my experience with that laptop. Cat can jump on it, previous owner did step on it while waking up: do that to a Mac M1 laptop and it dies instantly. But my "MILSPEC" LG Gram: you cannot really damage that laptop (look at 35 seconds):

https://youtu.be/herYV5TJ_m8
Nice, will have to dig the Dreamcast collection out of the attic ..
5K displays are very limit set in the first place. There is Studio Display, LG Ultrafine 5K and Samsung ViewFinity 5K. Samsung seems to be better value than Studio Display.
At this level it feels like "no one else can have 'em" is often as much of a reason as "we've got 'em". Hard to know for sure though.
I suspect that the BadGuys(TM) will indeed ignore any sort of licence, as they have done with content that I created long ago.

However, for a laugh, I just made all the textual content on my key site explicitly CC BY 4.0. Most of my code is already Apache 4.0 and data CC0.
my take is that within-datacenter traffic is best served by Ethernet.

Anything on top of Ethernet, and we no longer know where this host is located (because of software defined networking). Could be next rack server, or could be something in the cloud, could be third party service.

And that's a feature, not a bug: because everything speaks TCP: we can arbitrarily cut and slice network just by changing packet forwarding rules. We can partition network however we want.

We could have a single global IP space shared by cloud, dc, campus networks, or could have Christmas Tree of NATs.

as soon as you introduce something other than TCP to the mix, now you will have gateways: chokepoints where traffic will have to be translated TCP<->Homa and I don't want to be a person troubleshooting a problem at the intersection of TCP and Homa.

in my opinion, the lowest level Ethernet should try its best to mirror the actual physical signal flow. Anything on top becomes software-network network
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The phased array is also an essential element in the improvement of ultrasound scans and non-disruptive ultrasonic testing of composite materials.

It's an exciting technology that has a much wider impact than telecoms.
> You can buy long lasting stuff just fine, if you are willing to pay. You can get eternal licenses (or an outright sale of rights), if you are willing to pay.

Where do you buy long lasting stuff? This is a serious question, I'm looking for new appliances and I am willing to pay more, within reason.

Let's say I'd pay double of what an appliance with similar technical characteristics would normally cost, which I want to go towards higher quality materials, craftsmanship, and quality assurance. I expect such an appliance to work and and be economically repairable for at least 20 years.

As far as I can tell, this is nearly impossible. Many brands that used to produce higher quality products have downgraded the quality of their materials and craftsmanship in order to juice quarterly profits for investors. Their reputation seems to lag the quality of their products by about 10 years.
Desirable Unit Tests (2022)
But why does that matter? They are as large as they are, a dot in between doesn't change that.

The only thing I can imagine is trying not to break scripts looking at the kernel version and expecting two dots. If that's the case it makes more sense to use the OpenBSD way and increase after 9.
> if it passes SMHasher it should be fine for general use.

Author of the post writes:

> I kept making changes until the tests passed.

If SMHasher has become a target, shouldn't it be considered a bad measure now? [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
C++23 Language Features and Reference Cards
Then maybe they should help make gimp better... I'm no "professional" but it works just fine for what I want it to do. /shrug
Hi, is there some further info on iOS "internals" like this? I was always interested in how it works, but I found much less information compared to android (which obviously makes sense given one is more or less open-source), even though these probably don't fall in the secret category.
There are many genuinely talented and accomplished computer scientists from and in India; however, if you are an internet personality and you are constantly bombarded with blatant requests, or even demands, which are indeed poorly written and come off as just trying to get something from you, it points to a possible culture difference. A lot of these requests come from students who are looking for shortcuts, or think that because you have code on GitHub, they are entitled to your personal support. India is a huge country, so even if a very small part of the population acts this way, it can be overwhelming and form some strong opinions on the receiving end - and this is not limited to India.
useless for many terestrial aplications, lasers are limited to line of site, and will have low mobility for the forseeable future.
it is just way too easy to develop drones that fly at ultra low altitude and automaticaly aproach targets from behind any line of site obsticle.
simple tactics of a randomised deek and dodge routine will also tax the tracking capabilities of the laser batteries ability to hit such small targets
remembering that the deeking and dodging
will be in 3D
and as the lasers will be the prime targets, these tactics will develop very
quickly, and the whole thing becomes self defeating
waste of time
The parent comment rephrased: 'oh it was a useless effort like any other effort to push open source in CAD'. (Not true btw, Blender is an institution in non-parametric design, the niche for open-source is just for parametric CAD).

How is open source supposed to break through to this 'market' as you call it? Should we just give up instead?
>. for radar chips -- e.g. in automotive.

The hacker in me is dying to know what the starlink antenna could pe re-purposed to do in terms or radar.

Has anobody tried it or at least did the math of what it could do in that regard?
In a sense, yes, since it has a foundation in Prolog style facts and rules, and supposedly can output its reasoning.
Kicad isn't a simulator, it's a pcb designer.
I've recently upgraded from LG 5K (dead pixels, warranty returned money) to Studio Display. I have never thought, how much I love reasonably (for a monitor) good speakers integrated into a monitor.

Also, Studio Display is brighter (600 nits vs 500 nits).
> You can buy long lasting stuff just fine, if you are willing to pay. You can get eternal licenses (or an outright sale of rights), if you are willing to pay.

Would that 'twere so simple. Most previously reliable premium manufacturers have jumped on the enshittification bandwagon. You can get better design and a more exclusive branding if you are willing to pay more, but where exactly would you turn if you are looking, for example, for a dish washer that will just work for the next ten years? Preferably one that doesn't come with cloud integration. There are still a very small number of ultra-premium brands that really care about their customers, but apart from being way too expensive for most people, they are increasingly hard to find. One of the side-effects of so many companies trading their reputations for "shareholder value" is that trust is eroded for everyone, including those that still deserve it.
Well, your 28th reactor will probably be built faster than your first in many years.

And how long did it take to get the permits? How long will that take in the US?

I highly doubt any new reactor (that's not already in the planning phase) will come online in the US within the next 10 years.
There's really something missing today as opposed to the 80s and 90s : back in the days, you had new computer brands coming out every year, with they own OSs and hardware... It really was a perpetual amazement and joy. Of course at that time i didn't have to work with all those things, which made any compatibility issues not that important to me.

Yet i wonder : how can we relive through those enjoyments ? It was a bit similar when mobile phones started, but it settled much quickly, without leaving any but 2 survivors for the last decade.
What makes it so hard today to release new hardware+software for the mainstream market ?
Yes. To be very clear, due to technological improvements allowing better eROI and better access to resources that couldn't be exploited previously, a "peak" isn't catastrophic: the production just become flat and sightly down as the best mines empty out. But having to import energy sources from outside your country is a good way to limit your industry growth.
I cannot find the LG one anywhere, I think it was discontinued.

Build quality compared to the Apple display is quite different though.
I've just started using FreeCAD after bouncing around Solidworks, Onshape and Fusion360. The changes in 1.0 are more than welcome! Thank you for your contributions!
Mathematicians have been using computers, programming languages, and proof engines for over half a century; however breakthroughs in mathematics are still made by humans in any meaningful sense, even though the tools they use and make are increasingly complex.

But as things look now, I will be willing to bet that the next major breakthrough in maths will be touted as being AI/LLMs and coming out of one of the big US tech companies rather than some German university.

Why? Simply, the money is much bigger. Such an event would pop the market value of the company involved by a hundred billion - plenty of incentive right there to paint whatever as AI and hire whoever.
Terminal Dark/Light Mode
PA and multi elements are not limited to forming beams; they can also be used to focus on a specific point on the medium, or do multiplexed beams and use the beams interferences for inspections, etc.
The limit of 5 decimal places makes it a bit impractical for my use case:
While debugging, I often use fast numerical approximations to obtain out some number, that I know should somehow relate to some properties of the input, combined with some constants. But the precision is often less than 5 decimal places.
Example: The operator norm of some operation or some integral -- is it pi/4inputsize? ln(2)inputsize? sqrt(1/2)*inputsize?

https://www.wolframalpha.com/ is really useful in that case
One just for news: https://littleberg.com
> when you compare it with SolidWorks, OnShape or SolidEdge, there's clearly a huge gap in usability and capability

All 3 of these are using the same geometry kernel - siemens parasolid.

Most open source CAD software is using OCCT (cascade).

It’s the kernel that brings a lot of the capability. Check out “plasticity” (https://www.plasticity.xyz/ ) for an example of a single developers implementation of the parasolid kernel
Would a middle ground between unit and integration tests be optimal
As long as you can position yourself behind the phase-shifters and the frequency is high enough (usually > 10GHz) it should be fairly easy to do.
> For the other "business falling apart", maybe they consider it’s part of the business owner’s responsibility to make sound business decisions when involving someone else’s livelihood. Just like when leasing a shop or taking on a loan.

What about running a tech startup with high chance of failure? Ever considered why they seem to be few and far between in EU?
You reminded me of my pains with OpenCyc in my student job. Thanks :D
Fibre Channel is a routed L3 protocol that can support loop-free multi-path typologies.
Intense laser light can cause electron-positron pair production[1], but we're not quite there yet AFAIK.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breit%E2%80%93Wheeler_process
I was recently asked what was my eye colour by the visa officer and I couldn't answer, because I honestly had no idea. Gray-ish, brown-ish, whatever? I mean, outside of people wearing very bright and intense cosplay lenses, does anyone really care about eye colour that much, to go to such length as to risk your eyesight irreparably and pay for that a price of a used car? Insanity.
I know AI isn't free. I just want to see an example or something first before I sign up.

Maybe setup a demo account or something with an example of what we'd get.
It's already happening. For the more demanding workloads such as AI training, RDMA has been the norm for a while, either over Infiniband or Ethernet, with Ethernet gaining ground more recently. RoCE is pretty flawed though for reasons Ousterhout mentions, plus others, so a lot of work has been happening on new protocols to be implemented in hardware in next-gen high performance NICs.

The Ultra Ethernet Transport specs aren't public yet so I can only quote the public whitepaper [0]:

"The UEC transport protocol advances beyond the status quo by providing the following:

● An open protocol specification designed from the start to run over IP and Ethernet

● Multipath, packet-spraying delivery that fully utilizes the AI network without causing congestion or head-of-line blocking, eliminating the need for centralized load-balancing algorithms and route controllers

● Incast management mechanisms that control fan-in on the final link to the destination host with minimal drop

● Efficient rate control algorithms that allow the transport to quickly ramp to wire-rate while not causing performance loss for competing flows

● APIs for out-of-order packet delivery with optional in-order completion of messages, maximizing concurrency in the network and application, and minimizing message latency

● Scale for networks of the future, with support for 1,000,000 endpoints

● Performance and optimal network utilization without requiring congestion algorithm parameter tuning specific to the network and workloads

● Designed to achieve wire-rate performance on commodity hardware at 800G, 1.6T and faster Ethernet networks of the future"

You can think of it as the love-child of NDP [2] (including support for packet trimming in Ethernet switches [1]) and something similar to Swift [3] (also see [1]).

I don't know if UET itself will be what wins, but my point is the industry is taking the problems seriously and innovating pretty rapidly right now.

Disclaimer: in a previous life I was the editor of the UEC Congestion Control spec.

[0] https://ultraethernet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/1...

[1] https://ultraethernet.org/ultra-ethernet-specification-updat...

[2] https://ccronline.sigcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/acm...

[3] https://research.google/pubs/swift-delay-is-simple-and-effec...
Interactive Visual Sorting
whats 'quantum' about it?
The whole test pyramid is bullshit

The whole segregation of tests into unit test, integration test, e2e test and more

Is also bullshit as hell, it is pure waste of time.

Your tests should be focused on verifying that your software works fine. Thats the value.

Whether you call it unit test or integration brings little to no value.
Ask HN: Is Object Orientated Programming Over?
It seems like OOP has lost the zeitgeist. Imperative Programming, Data Orientated Programming and even Functional Programing are where the hype is now. OOP is still used in large corporates and taught in some undergrad courses (usually Java), but does it have a future?

Some links:

- https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0016

- http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2023/01/18/functional-classes.html

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZgbKrDEzAs

- https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/functional-core-imperative-shell
What Is TCP Meltdown?
I knew about such periods from reading the handbook when I was working for a global company where US was 3-4 weeks depending on title and other locations were ~3 months.

From a practical perspective, how does that work? I understand if you’re making widgets on the assembly line, you’re gonna keep coming in. But if you’re doing creative work or close work with customers, isn’t there a concern that you’re effort will definitely flag and you’re gonna do crappy work?
Look at slide 32 and 33
https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/advanced_sim/...
Ok, sounds like in principle you could have proofs, but in practice, you don't?

Are there any checks for the consistency of all facts?