skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think its a symptom of economies of scale being able to go too far. Cost per unit seems to keep going down basically infinitely and it is a problem.

Making less than 10,000 of anything just doesn't seem to make economic sense unless you assume there is a chance no one will want any of them.
> Professor Williams added, "I don't think it's useful as pasta, sadly, as it would overcook in less than a second, before you could take it out of the pan."

Jeeze, talk about trying nothing and all out of ideas.

You can make 372 nanometer pasta, but can't conceive of cooking times under a second? I want nano pasta god dammit.

Blast that nano spaghetti with atomized tomato steam and flash freeze it; zap it with a laser and run it through Bose-Einsten condensate; sous vide it in some lil carbon nanotubes; whatever you gotta do.
ethos, surely, not pathos
The only way to get anywhere is provide a path forward. I have a lot of C++98 code that has been working just find for 14+years (that is since before C++11). It isn't worth changing that unless we discover a bug in the code (after 14+ years unlikely) or we need to add new features (if we haven't in 14+ years we probably won't need a new feature there anytime soon). Code I write today is the latest C++. What I really want is a way to say don't write the bad things today, but still allow that old code to work. That is what profiles promises to me. Sure we will never to get full memory safety that way, but that isn't my goal, I just want to make my new code better, and when I come back to old code improve that too.
Scalable O(log2n) Dynamics Control for Soft Exoskeletons
Yup the thing that people recommending Jane Street libraries to newcomers don't realize is that they are made by and for a well-established team of OCaml developers who have been extensively trained in how to use it in Jane Street. Outside of the warm protective bubble of Jane Street's tribal knowledge, it's a more difficult task to pick up and understand their libraries with their often minimalistic documentation.
"gaming" chair. Should have gotten a normal office chair
Essentially, life was stolen from the young to give to the elderly.
I think you’re the one missing the “obvious” part as you call it. The other person even spelled it out.

The market for these doesn’t care about any of the stuff you mentioned. It’s really that simple.

They don’t care about the portability because they have their phone or tablet. They don’t care about upgrading because they’ll keep their device for a decade+, or they don’t own it themselves.

They don’t want to buy a separate computer and display because they don’t want that hassle.

The desktop market has cratered, sure, but that’s largely because the less complex devices have won out. This is one such device.

Try stepping outside of your own shoes before you start telling other people they’re missing obvious things.
In reality, I feel like this tends to translate to "we need to scale horizontally and make sure our code runs on a large number of machines" with little consideration for actually optimizing the code itself.

In fact, devoting time to code optimization tends to be explicitly discouraged in my experience. The prevailing wisdom seems to be, "write shitty code... just make sure it runs on as many AWS machine instances as possible."
Show HN: Push button, get sent to a random AI
Hrrm. Reminds me of myself at about 6 to 7 years old, asking: "Mommy, what is For-mal-de-hy-de?!" after reading that from the list of ingredients of a shampoo-bottle. She couldn't tell, so I grabbed our Lexicon and looked it up. No more formaldehyde from then on! Ha!
Because any homeless discussion instantly turns into an Ad Hominem attack on HN, let me preface this with please don't respond to my comments with that.

Taking a public asset and reserving it for exclusive use by certain individuals is not right: Thats a fancy way of saying: parks are not campgrounds. These types of policies are plain wrong, and cities should know better by now.

Furthermore, as we've seen time and time again, this is a shortsighted, temporary alleviation that ultimately dooms a neighborhood. Both petty and violent crime increase overnight, vandalism on surrounding properties skyrocket, the places are littered with trash that ends up in the ocean, property values drop, and are ultimately boarded up until the encampment moves somewhere else and the cycle repeats.

Homelessness is a hard problem to solve because it requires individual attention. Measures like these make it worse, not better. If the city wants to help, the best thing they can do is listen to local charities, outreaches, churches, etc and clear the regulatory path for them.
> Any ideas?

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Apple MacBook Air 2020, intel edition. Such a piece of junk and shame on Apple for releasing it knowing that they’d have launched the M1 in just a few months. Maximum corporate greed.
they are afloat using VC math . I dont think modern web is a place for a social media company. the AD revenue / AWS bill does not make sense. Unless they become a data broker like Meta. Or become the microphone for a group or individual.
I've been using this tool pretty much every day for almost a decade. It has a few quirks but it is still the best desktop tool for interacting with SQLite databases.
There's also the issue that building an effective enterprise sales organisation is a whole Thing and if you believe you can achieve profitability via a different path then the temptation to file the enterprise approach under "I have no idea how to do this and also I would rather not" is probably pretty strong.

(this is in no way a comment about what the right decision would have been, only musing on an additional reason the decision might have gone the way it did)
Why PHP OpenSwoole Outshines Go and Node.js for Web Applications
Don't care too much about do-not-stab since I deployed a pi-bulldog on my network that catches all the back alley NSRs (network stab requests). I was thinking about using SDoH (self-defense over https) or AoT (AR15 over TLS) to be protected outside my network as well, but honestly the little stabbings here and there cause sufficiently little blood to be drew that its not worth the hassle.
These seem like decent tricks but make sure the juice is worth the squeeze. IME you can't change anyone's mind about anything, and trying will usually piss them off. If you don't like your boss, go shopping for a new one instead of trying to reform the one you have.
Visual part is nice and Landing page and slick. However, I am not trolling but what happens when NextJS is no longer the hot commodity that it is today. I would prefer a Visual CMS that lets me do all this but the output should always be static HTML/CSS/JS. Most tools either do the visual part well but fail at the output or vice versa. I don't mind if the stack is NextJS or whatever but the final output should be a static HTML. Bonus if you can push to deploy to Netlify/Cloudflare Pages/S3 etc
Where have you been all my life? :)

Seriously, I needed this 10 years ago.
Do you realize that the Typescript example contains strictly more information than the Javascript one (namely, declarations for the type of three things) and is therefore more complex to compile, while the two C++ examples are semantically identical (the last expression in the function is returned implicitly without having to write "return") and the new syntax is easier to parse?
Show HN: It took me 5() months to build a Plausible alternative
After months of using Google Analytics I realized only about 50% of people accepted my cookie-popup. I had months of incorrect data for my website.
I started looking for alternatives and eventually found Plausible, which is great (and open-source). Problem is, I didn't feel like paying 9$ a month to see the amount of visitors on a website i didn't even earn anything on, it was just a hobby project.

Eventually I started making my own web analytics. Which actually isn't that hard. It took me about a month of working on my spare time every now and then. Being GDPR compliant basically means to not save any personal identifiers. At first I thought it would be easy since something like a public IP adress can't count as a personal identifier right? I was very wrong.

How it works: When a user visited my website I saved the IP and Header for 24 hours. Then if they visited again I checked the combination of IP and Header against the ones saved in my DB. If they were the same I simply added 1 view to my data. If they weren't the same I added 1 unique daily user and 1 view.

That's in short how it works. A few weeks later I realized if I had this problem then other would also have it. So I started working on Simplytics.dev. I had to do a lot of new stuff and re-build my code from the ground-up twice. Small things like OAuth was completely new to me and took up a lot of time.

But eventually I got here and just launched something that with the knowledge I have today wouldn't even take a third of the time recreating today. It's my first real "Launch" and it feels really good finally creating something AND publishing it. Instead of a montly fee I opted to make it a pay-once service. Right now it's priced at 49$ but I'll see how it works out.

If you got any questions on how it works Id love to answer them.
It means exactly that. It also means the American company will feel less pressure to improve cost or quality.
> They should not be punished for using AI. They should, however, just get a very bad grade for "including citations to nonexistent books".

As far as I am aware, they weren’t punished for using AI specifically, they were punished for straight up copypasting AI output thus violating cheating policies (in addition to hallucinating non-existent citations). Whether it was copypasted from AI or from another real person is irrelevant, the AI part just made it easier to prove in this particular case.

The school even affirmed in their statement that AI was allowed to be used for brainstorming topics or identifying topics (quote directly from the article):

“Although students were permitted to use AI to brainstorm topics and identify sources, in this instance the students had indiscriminately copied and pasted text from the AI application”
Faces look ugly when you're alone.
To me they never made sense in the first place - outside of ZIRP era that is which was very much a fluke. Something that someone from the street can pick up in a couple months isn’t likely to command an enduring market premium.

Doesn’t help that most of them taught precisely the things LLMs are good at. Boiler plate front end and a sprinkling of glue together back ends.
No kidding. I got my mom to buy a laptop and external display since it wasn't much more than a mini/monitor but for some reason she hates the laptop. It's not rational, she just wants the "simplicity" of a desktop.
In high school the administration specifically stated that just going to college was good enough. They encouraged people to get English, philosophy, history degrees if that’s what they wanted. If you’re 17 and like history class it seems like a logical next step. They didn’t tell you you won’t be able to find work.
Wetek Play2 Android based TV box.

My first and last experience with an Android based TV device.

Since 2018 or so, I've been using a small Windows PC with a Hauppauge WinTV Dual USB tuner (ATSC, watch as you record a different channel in the backgroud) and DVBViewer software. Use a web browser for streaming.

https://www.dvbviewer.com/en/index.php
Sounds like it would be straightforward to do, particularly because of how a weekly cadence would give time for stories to get voted and commented on which would give you some stats for selection.

How are you categorizing articles?
The real, everpresent and probably future nail in the coffin of C++ is the lack of a standard apckage manager and build system. The rest is just what happened to be picked up by social/news as it is easier and flashier to talk about.
it's right in the title of this thread, which comes from the project information of the repo
Singapore became the ideal testing ground for self-driving cars
I don’t have a well-considered answer, but a) I imagine being able to host a phishing site on an official domain from them using their SSL cert is problematic, and b) my gut says that as soon as you start hosting arbitrary files— e.g. zip files— and browser executable JavaScript with your domain in there, that’s a different level of possible content. I guess the question is whether or not the disposition of a social media network makes that more problematic than it does with, say, Google drive.
Sort of related:

IIRC, I had read somewhere a while ago that Denmark was going to convert to fully organic farming.

So, just now, I googled for a relevant phrase and found this as one of the results:

https://ecobnb.com/blog/2017/07/denmark-organic/

This was the search I used:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Denmark+doing+fully+organic+...
Lost Genetic Secrets: Ancient DNA Reveals Europe's Hidden Evolution
> Batteries are orders of magnitude less than what is needed

The Chinese are about to do to the battery market what they did to the solar panel market: they are going to make the bottom drop out.

Even with current battery price projections, the German transmission operators got applications for 240 GWh (peak output of 160 GW) of new industrial battery storage capacity, in 2024 alone [0]. Not all of those applications will result in realized batteries on the grid (they probably can't even connect that many), but as of today, the financials work out and now investors want to connect more industrial storage to the grid.

So batteries in Great Britain will grow - by orders of magnitude. And the nice thing is that a battery build-up like this takes a lot of strain out of the transmission lines. It allows local renewable production to be used to an even greater extend, and if local production falls short, the existing transmission lines don't need to deliver peak loads cross-country, but instead can charge the local batteries before and after a projected peak demand.

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/energiewende-ries...

Can't find a source in English, sorry.
> Thanks for the answer. But is this actual behaviour for the GCs of the JDK? I was certain that at the very least Hotspot makes use of stack allocation as much as possible.

Not really, java has some escape analysis but it's very limited in its ability to stack allocate as it can't put entire structures (objects) on the stack, it only works if the compiler manages to scalar-replace the object (https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/18-scalar-replacemen...) and that has somewhat restricted applicability (https://pkolaczk.github.io/overhead-of-optional/). The behaviour I'm talking about is mostly that of Go, as it is much more capable of stack allocating, and specifically has a non-generational GC because in testing they found generational GCs had a very variable impact depending on workload (rather than a universally or near universally positive impact).
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Fiji is already relocating villages because of climate change
It disappeared because of social distancing. Influenza is less transmissible than SARS-CoV-2, so the measures used to keep SARS-CoV-2 under control were even more effective at shutting down transmission of the flu.
Why would it be a hit piece? For example, are these articles about Apple hit pieces? [1][2] Sometimes news is just news and this looks like news to me.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35096565

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29482351
> You Are Not Worried Enough ...

How is this problem anything resembling actionable, for normal people? Maybe I could build and stock a basement fallout shelter. Or at least get some air filters and measuring equipment and KI pills and such. But no mention of those in the article.

But in general, "click here and read and get more anxious & depressed and repeat" content is one of the worst aspects of the web.
WasmCloud makes strides with WASM component model
Looks like it's on vimeo https://vimeo.com/ondemand/witchhavoc
The purpose is to prop up local companies.

Which is not always a bad idea, having a local supply and innovation of something can be rather important, local money is less "Gone" than foreign money, think of how healthy small towns are when all of the shops are local vs when they are not.

The problem comes when there is no realistic local competition. If you don't make something locally at all, an import tariff is just a stupid tax.
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Don't get mad just because I'm calling you out on your bullshit. You can't just fake statistics to prove a point even if I agree with it. Try better next time.
Nope, that is mostly sales pitch, the only thing added thus far has been the spaceship operator.

He also sells the language differently from any other language that also compiles to native via C++, like Eiffel and Nim among others, due to conflict of interest to have WG21 chair propose yet another take on C++.
Contacts are just a toy example, aren't they?

Else this is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen: It's easy to accidentially share numbers. Also it might turn out your new friend J. is superficially pleasant, but actually a horrible human being once you get to know them - congratulations, J. has access to all your shared contacts. If I was friends with Alice, I'd be very annoyed that J. is now harassing me.

Or suppose you created a list of all doctor's phone numbers in your area. You can then look up if any of your contacts (friends, family, loose aquintance) share any of them (e.g. because they recommended a specialist to a friend).

This needs a tremendous work to setup access rights, and it's easy for an individual to screw this up and put themselves in a bad spot.

Sharing contacts on a need-to-know basis (using e.g. Threema or WhatsApp) is the established standard in my peer group; be it the number of a Pizza place or my SO's new number, so a common friend can invite her to a party. And while it's less cool and adds some effort, it requires an explicit action to share a contact. This is more safe.

In my humble opinion, and I might have a bad hunch there: The overall mistake with that example is lies in how it associates identities with phone numbers. In reality, it's the other way around. We want to share identities (be it the Pizza Place, Mum, or a doctor), and should have control who can access the information (not just phone numbers) associated with them.
But that's essentially re-inventing social networks with a narrow focus.

From a academical perspective the technical issue can be interesting of course, and valuable insights might be gained from this research.
There might be use cases beyond the basic contacts example; in fact, I think in a company phone directory this can be incredibly useful as part of the CRM.
Indeed, but the article does not mention causality at all.
Modules are starting to come out. They have some growing pains, but they are now ready for early adopters and are looking like they will be good. I'm still in wait and see mode (I'm not an early adopter), but so far everything just looks like growing pains that will be solved and then they will take off.
> hate him because of political reasons,

I was purposefully avoiding politics. You brought that up.
I was just about to suggest doctest, you beat me to it! I'm all about faster compile times, and it was mostly a drop-in replacement for catch2 in my case.

Also, IMO, both doctest and catch2 are far superior to Google Test.
This behaves very strangely on macOS 10.14.6: the installer downloaded from the website immediately logs you out without warning.
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From the article: "lonely individuals tend to perceive that their ideas are not shared by others"

I wonder how the current loneliness epidemic is intertwined with our current social/political climate and "us vs them" polarization.

I suspect almost everyone has some secret disagreements with their in-group, even if only by a matter of degree, but are afraid to voice that opinion. There have to be tens of millions of Americans who identify as a INSERT_POLITICAL_IDENTITY but disagree with some aspect of that group's platform, narrative or goals.

It's a wonder that anyone doesn't feel like their ideas are not shared by others.
Hello HN, realized I should introduce myself and not just my project. I building stuff on the web and this is the second time something I created actually goes LIVE.

Before this I created a website displaying snow conditions for a few hundred locations in Sweden. I love skiing and ski-touring and wanted a better way to find the best conditions.

Right now I don't have much time to work on my projects since I'm doing mandatory millitary service, which is part of the reason Simplytics.dev took so long to launch. But I'm hoping I might soon make my first buck selling zeros and ones.

Id love to recieve feedback,
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A quick google search of "BYD Mexico" tells me it is already starting.
So you want to write a KMail plugin?
You're right to be curious about the power implications of µWMs! Unfortunately, the article doesn't go into power consumption or efficiency specifically. Probably because the research is still in its early stages, primarily focused on proving the concept and exploring its potential.

As you suggested, a hybrid approach is the most likely scenario for practical applications of µWMs. This means conventional computing for general tasks, I guess. The majority of a program would likely execute using conventional instructions and pathways, minimizing power overhead.
Having filled a room with balloons, this is very noticeable. It also make heating the room difficult.
Conan and cmake problem solved
You can guess it is written in Rust before even checking the repo whenever you see that somebody made a clone of some popular systems tool like top, ls, cd, etc.
You can use something like White Rabbit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_Project) to keep clocks in sync. That still involves estimates, but a dedicated time sync network can do things like make sure all the cables are the same length.
Dir friend, you just built a giant YAML-based RPC system to manage your symbol table when you should have just used a linker.
Could it be an interaction between static electricity from the balloon and tiny elements in the ear?
There are large differences in load/store performance across implementations. On Apple Silicon for example the M1 Max a single core can stream about 100GB/s all by itself. This is a significant advantage over competing designs that are built to hit that kind of memory bandwidth only with all-cores workloads. For example five generations of Intel Xeon processors, from Sandybridge through Skylake, were built to achieve about 20GB/s streams from a single core. That is one reason why the M1 was so exceptional at the time it was released. The 1T memory performance is much better than what you get from everyone else.

As far as claims of the M1 Max having > 400GB/s of memory bandwidth, this isn't achievable from CPUs alone. You need all CPUs and GPUs running full tilt to hit that limit. In practice you can hit maybe 250GB/s from CPUs if you bring them all to bear, including the efficiency cores. This is still extremely good performance.
Why does the page redirect me periodically to https://www.benji.dog/%F0%9F%8D%AA/ and hide its content?
Show HN: I built an AI chatbot that negotiates prices with website visitors
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on SaleSnip, an AI-powered negotiation chatbot that helps websites boost their revenue by enabling customers to haggle for discounts.

The bot engages users during crucial moments - like right before they abandon their cart and offers them personalized deals through a negotiation flow. This approach has been shown to increase conversion rates, recover carts, and even increase average order value with upsells.

I'd love to hear your feedback!