skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a Rust library for generating vector embeddings, reranking locally
Aside from making it convenient to build getters and setters for nested data, optics also have conditional accessors and collection accessors as building blocks.

Conditional accessors have since become a popular language feature with e.g. the elvis operator ?. in C#. Optics make it possible to innovate on features like that in library code rather than as language features.

Something I've yet to see made into a language feature that is common in optics libraries are iterating accessors. E.g. to reset all counters we can, with optics, say something like (in Haskell syntax, since that is what I know)

stats.each.count .= 0

and that sets the count to zero for all objects in the stats array. If not all stats objects have a count (some might be of a gauge type, for example) we can compose in a conditional accessor that resolves the count field only if it is not null:

stats.each.count._Just .= 0

In the above statement, nothing is language syntax --it's all library functions and operators. But it still combines really well on the page. Once one knows optics, one rarely has to think very hard about how to do any get or update operation, even when the data types become complicated.
>some x64 programs did adopt a convention to use shorter pointers, 32-bit pointers on a 64-bit operating system.

It's doable in managed languages, e.g. Java has compressed pointers by default on sub 32GB heaps. I suppose it's doable even in C alike setup (incl OS calls) but that would require wrappers to bit shift the pointers on each dereference (and passive to the OS, extern)
> Black-on-black is a big problem. You can't make an app use a dark mode unless it's painstakingly crafted to support it.

Maybe not now, but back in the day, that was utter BS. You pretty mucch had to go out of your way not to have your app use whatever colour palette the user had decided on. Well, on Windows, at least. (And here I thought people used to brag about programming tools on Linux being better than on Windows; are you saying that in at least this respect, they werern't better even then?)

> Only trivial apps would work by changing some system-wide palette.

That must be why almost ALL Windows apps up until at least ~2010 worked just fine by changing the system-wide palette.

> Also, if there is any artwork (button icons etc) then that has to be done in two or more sets, for varying backgrounds. Few icons would work well on both a light and dark background.

Oh, it worked well enough. (Mostly, I suppose, by the super-advanced trick of using colours pretty much midway between light and dark.)
Brave does this
Isn't this compare-and-set rather than compare-and-swap?
Incredibly embarrassing for Europe and Sweden. Even with billions of investments from the big car companies, investors and many millions in subsidies, they simply couldn’t make it work at all. Instead of buying the California startup just to shut it down, should’ve invested most of their money there instead. They are leaving an enormous eyesore in the northern Sweden landscape with thoudands of people unemployed, many of which may be deported now, with very little to show for it other than many scandals (including paying millions of dollars in bonus to their incompetent executives even as they file for bankruptcy)!
Unless you know them personally, there's almost no difference between a celebrity and a well-known fictional character. Either way, you're learning a crafted story about a person that doesn't really exist. Kim Kardashian the person is a real human, but Kim Kardashian the celebrity is just as real a person as Dukat, a Gul in Cardassian Union.
Konqueror Browser
I externally monitor fly.io and it's docs here: https://flyio.onlineornot.com/

Looks like it lasted 16 minutes for them.
How to Find Problem-Solution Fit? (A Framework)
This may be of interest to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42243282
For precisely this reason, only idiot developers ever did that.
I am working on a new C++ project in 2024 for my part time project. And this article provided me enough information to battle future "Why not use XYZ instead" discussion. ;)

My Rational for Using C++ in 2024: (A) Extreme computational performance desired. (B) I learned C++ 20 years back. (C) C++ has good enough Cross-Platform (OS) compatibility.
>I wonder if you exclude "recalls" resolved by software updates, for all cars, where it would rank then?

Why have you put "recalls" in quotes? It gives the impression you think this makes it somehow lesser. The cybertruck, for example, was subject to a recall because the rearview camera wouldn't come up, but the mirrors are insufficient to back the vehicle up safely without the camera.

That's a safety issue, irrespective of whether or not the fix was in software.
It's not the only one.

There's been been a number of physical recalls for the Cybertruck, including:

- Accelerator pedal sticking[1]

- Trunk bed trim detaching[2]

- Front windshield wiper failures[3]

- This latest drive problem[4]

From what I could find via the NHTSA there's only been six this year for Cybertrucks, so it seems like the majority are physical problems.

Edit: Forgot HN's formatting for lists.

[1]: https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=24V276000

[2]: https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=24V457000

[3]: https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=24V456000

[4]: https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=24V832000
Hangul’s logic and rationality are what make it stand out among writing systems
And most cars end up scratched anyway, and most owners do not take their car in for detailing every time this happens (if at all).
Who’s “we”? The C++ developers that like the “Safe C++” proposal which is tacking Rust on top of C++ are a tiny minority.

It seems very fair to tell them to just use Rust and leave C++ alone.
The description is amazing, but the demo video feels underwhelming.

Available music generation models sound much more musical and have much better diction on vocals.
> In such a way, Leibniz, to cite Milton, dared to “justify the ways of God to men.” Voltaire responded with a snarky misreading that exploited the undeniable empirical fact that evil was not balanced by good in the lives of every discreet individual. But Leibniz made no such claim. The best world was optimized as a whole, containing just as much good and evil as was required for the totality of creation.

I like this paragraph. I've never been a big fan of Voltaire's criticism (although I may have not understood it fully, not being a philosophy expert of any kind). To me it always seemed like Liebniz tried to explain why there was suffering on the whole, and Voltaire responding with "there is suffering!". Like you are not really arguing the point.

My question has rather been that, if suffering is required and a child getting bone cancer and dying at five is the best of all possible worlds, maybe the whole project should have been scrapped at the planning phase. I assume God was not forced to create a world?
maybe they generate it in the sample domain not the frequency domain so it has dropped frequencies
> is already ahead of 9% of all 2024 vehicles in quality

but 90% of those 2024 vehicles are much cheaper, so you would expect a lower quality. Also remember the cybertruck was presented five years ago.
Blisk
I have worked on network-related projects. OSC is a very interesting device, and using it flexibly might lead to some good solutions.
Since I was unsure if I remembered it correctly and had to check it up: BD stands for bande dessinée[1], that is, a comic book.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bande_dessin%C3%A9e
Battery cell production alone is massively expensive. The expenses in setting up a production line is counted in the billions.

So the only way to start fresh here is to raise billions in capital. Unless you're Volkswagen or something, when you could invest billions in an enterprise like this one.
Penny Wise
Show HN: StartTreeV2 – Tree style New Tab page
Vimb
The word 'utility' in the comment you're replying to specifically means how the design functions, not how it looks. For example, it's a truck that's design makes it worse for carrying cargo in the tray than a standard truck.
Got to post what you can easily link to :).
Wexond
Bryan Caplan's book Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids helped me calm down a lot about this topic.

https://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Reasons-Have-More-Kids/dp/046...
Sunspots and the visible dynamics around them are always so mesmerizing
This implies some of the recalls were just OTAs
Guix/Hurd on a ThinkPad X60
> word 'utility' specifically means how it functions, not how it looks

Yes. Not offering utility in design is common in cars. Most people don’t buy a truck to haul. Most people don’t buy an off-roader to go off road. (Most people don’t buy a sports car to race.)
The article is a smear piece. As it was expected coming from Wired.
Had same question so parked next to a black one. It was wrap. Since then I seen green, pink and blue cybertrucks; all wraps with companies advertising. All of sudden majority I see are small business owners wrap-advertising. Rarely see the steel one. This is for Miami FL.
Northvolt also counted on cheap materials from Russia, e.g. infamously environment unfriendly nickel from Norilsk, which clearly didn't pan out after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
The Mustang EV seemed nice until I read about all the issues with that shoddy door ... I don't know what to call it... "entry system"?
I would have preferred a decent BEV with a simple door handle that's proven to work in all (weather)) conditions. Not a car where I have to negotiate if I'm able to use it, or not, even before entering it.
Didn't that machine support Target Display Mode so that you could use it as a Mini DisplayPort or Thunderbolt monitor?

I wish they would bring back a 27" iMac and Target Display Mode.
Right, that's basically what I mean. There are a lot of automated changes happening in the background for services. I guess the whole thing I'm saying is that not every breakage is happening because of a code change.
When you think about it - 43 million kilometers away, and still nearly 20kW per square meter - that’s an immense amount of power
Seriously I love it whenever there’s an Elon article. Most interesting comment sections
You're seeing vinyl wraps, most likely.
Sure, but "recall" in the automotive market has a very precise meaning, and refers to safety issues (at production line level, so impacting many VINs)that needs to be fixed. In Tesla's case, unlike most of other vendors, generally these recalls can be fixed with an OTA update.

The CT OTOH had many "classical" physical recalls due to hardware issues.
I think you're getting pissed of at a strawman. Everyone obviously _care_ about latency. All things equal, better latency always makes things better, there is no arguing with that.

Yet, that doesn't mean latency is at the same priority spot on everyone's list. If you're using TCP on internet, you have already put latency far down in your concerns. That doesn't make you _not want_ better latency, but that does make it a _nice to have_.

There's no obvious shortcut to latency that doesn't involve either loosing on reliability (not requiring ordered messages, not re-requesting dropped messages), or loosing throughput (not assembling small messages on bigger ones), or limiting yourself to private links.

If you do all the above (as in TCP over the internet), then you've made no sacrifice for latency over throughput and resiliency, which to me makes latency a nice to have, but certainly not a primary concern.
Not an SRE but I admit to saying that I expected Twitter to have some serious outages in the coming months after firing all those people. Honestly, how did the remaining engineers at Twitter pull it off? I can't really imagine losing more than half of my coworkers and not having the wheels fall off pretty quickly.
On the battery too? Good to know.
I'd say my 2006MY car has the best software experience. The less, the better.
Ask HN: Aren't you afraid of a possible world conflict?
Yesterday I was watching Threads (1984) and an inherent question came to mind: why aren't we so scared anymore?
Is that different from "speech-to-text"?
> but it fails in lots of predictable ways, and doesnt really offer any utility as a new design

In what ways has it failed predictably? There are a number of things that could contribute to various failures/recalls that relate to utility provided by the (novel) design. For example the steer-by-wire system or the mid-voltage (48 V DC) electrical system.

The main example of "this is just dumb design for no reason" is the recall due to the pedal cover sliding up and jamming, but that was only 1 out of 6.
Corporate WiFi based on a password and a device certificate is fine. For BYO devices, you have a separate WiFi network that does require a VPN to reach the corporate network.
It’s also fun to think about how hard it would be for us to detect such life forms
Beat Saber and Netflix not your thing?
> supposedly Twitter would die in 3 days without their staff.

It’s true that the smaller team has succeeded with uptime on the core service. It’s also true, however, that the platform is in serious decline, and that’s partly due to the product becoming more and more shitty over time. It turns out skeleton crews can’t make things that are nice to use. Have you tried the X mac app lately? It’s just horrible. Broken modals, empty loading screens, janky layout with desperate upsell message slapped everywhere.

Keeping the platform online with a smaller team was a win, sure. But don’t pretend there’s been no impact.
As long as you aren’t sliced in half by the sharp corners.
I Used Google Sheets as a Remote Config for Microcontrollers
And how many car accidents did you cause in your life? Probably still no a lot even with your flawed vision.
True, but it’s one of the strongest offerings out there. Not everything has to be OSS. If you work with SQLite professionally (as I do), spending a few bucks on a good tool shouldn’t be a problem.

I still think SqliteStudio is a phenomenal piece of software. Super lightweight, just works, cross-platform… really not a lot to complain about. And incredibly well maintained.
At least then, us Europeans won't care anymore if they pull out of NATO.
It is not the only one. While it's true this affects roughly 1/5 to 1/3 of all Cybertrucks sold so far this year (depending on which random sales numbers online you believe), some of the others have affected every Cybertruck sold, such as the wiper motor burning out or the pieces of bed trim falling off while driving.

I cannot find any evidence that previous physical recalls this year only affected a few hundred units. Two are 2000+ units and the others seem to be however many had sold by the date of the recall (10k+ in both instances).
> It used to have darkmode++ back in the day, because windows allowed you to just choose all the controls colors in any way you wanted.

It's amazing how almost nobody in discussions like this ever acknowledges that. Are all the GNOME kiddies just so determined never to admit anything else could be better at anything, or do they genuinely not know how much shittier stuff is now than Windows was only a dozen years ago?

> Of course it lacks features we want today, especially things we are used to from the web, like highlighting fields with errors in them etc.,

Yeah, that's unfortunately true. But, since the definition of "What is an error?" is up to the app, it feels kind of excusable that pointing it out in the UI also did. Sure, could have been easily fixed with two more settings -- ErrorTextColour and ErrorBackgroundColour, something like that... But absent those, clear reds and yellows work pretty well (for the non-colourblind). You'd have to intentionally set your UI to be pretty garish for those to be taken for "normal" colours.

> but I often think new features can't entirely explain why the newer toolkits are so much less ergonomically useable.

All I can come up with is "Kids today, sigh".
> supposedly Twitter would die in 3 days without their staff.

I agree people tend to overreact and overblow expected consequences, but I mean, twitter's valuation is down 80%[0] and they haven't released anything new in two years, after exhausting the backlog of already developed things.

It's not going great.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/09/30/elon-musk...
Actually, Bande Dessinée means: Comic Strip
Wow - I cant think anyone would spend such a long time on how everyone but themselves is wrong.

It started out interesting, but was simply a long rambling text where there seems to be no point
Profits and subsidies are privatized, losses are socialized. That's how the system is designed to work.
It would help if you got your basic facts straight on Georgia, but to be fair this topic has been thoroughly retconned: the EU fact-finding mission reported that Georgia attacked Abkhazia and South Ossetia. They also found that the action that Russia took against Georgia was basically justified, but heavily disproportionate (they shouldn’t have made deep incursions into Georgia).

Another interesting fact: many countries, including in Eastern Europe were and are dependent on Russian gas. Ever heard of the Yamal pipeline?
All the hate comes from deranged people who have never driven a Tesla, let alone had one. They take any negative story and spin it forever.
FreeLRU: GC-less, fast and generic LRU hashmap library for Go
huntle would be better, or relativelyhuntled.com https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/c5ab6ff2-0439-4ae2-8782-08830bf...
No. You are.
Still, millions of humans drive every night and only a miniscule percentage cause any accidents. So maybe we are not so bad at this.
Sorry, forgot to add the crucial details. Such is the life while close to quitting work for the day.

The location, despite not being remote, has NO connectivity. It's the closest thing I can think of in my proximity that is completely unconnected. You're lucky to get GPRS there in terms of data, and most likely you won't even be able to place a call.[1] There is no broadband/fibre or any other sort of physical network connected to the buildings in the area.[2] The only way of connecting the place aside from Starlink that I've found is other satellite options[3], and it's most likely going to be 6 times as expensive and 50 times slower.

[1] Anegdotal evidence, based on many devices on two of Poland's most prominent carriers when it comes to infrastructure - Orange/T-Mobile (shared NetWorkS! project) and Plus
[2] https://internet.gov.pl/map/?center=1839972.2603685544%3B649...
[3] https://www.dostawcy-internetu.pl/Dwukierunkowy-Internet-Sat...
WiFi and Bluetooth are usually provided by the same device, and it makes sense to want Bluetooth on a desktop. So you get WiFi essentially for free if you get Bluetooth.
> Why have you put "recalls" in quotes?

Maybe because an over-the-air update is hard to seriously consider a "recall"?
This is somewhat true, but I don’t think it is necessarily fair to them. Their strategy was to try to do everything themselves (except raw material mining). By having vertical integration across the battery space, they would be able to hopefully compete on price with the battery giants in China like CATL, while still working out of Europe, which is a lot more expensive in terms of labor costs, and regulation, and everything else. But they didn’t get that far and their biggest customers like BMW started abandoning them while waiting for deliveries to begin. This began the doom spiral. But it is possible that with more money and time this would’ve been the right strategy for the long term competitiveness of the company. Otherwise, if it’s going to be permanently uncompetitive what’s the point? Maybe this was indeed, some kind of scam for government subsidies. But I think it’s more about the difficulty of finding funding to do big things, and to do them properly.
Tesla now offers wraps.
Why do we need AI Agents?
I have a fatal attraction to a good overwrought get off my lawn, but I can't get over that there's a jump in paragraph 2 I can't follow.

What do you mean by shape?

Generally, safety is proportional to the relative weight of your car in the collision.

The F150, generously, is 2/3 the weight. (median F150 vs. lowest cybertruck)

Generally, when people discuss car safety in the context of SUVs, they're discussing this weight.

Rest of the stuff seems irrelevant or strawmen I've never seen (truck is antichrist!?; you're in Europe)
Also FastSpring.com
I'm not going to speak for Linux, but on Mac the Finder is annoying enough that I ended up using CLI for file manipulation (ranger).
Tesla got a ton of government subsidies, but is successful, there is no causal relation between the two things.
Realtime Spheretracing in WebGL
I suppose the gold standard would be a multimodal model that also looks at the screen (maybe only if the captions aren't making much sense).
Makes me think about how deeply loneliness can influence our perception of the world
All of your examples have had multiple cases of going down, some for multiple days (2011 AWS was the first really long one I think) - or potentially worse, just deleting all customer data permanently and irretrievably.

Meaning empirically, downtime seems to be tolerated by their customers up to some point?
If you have access to the WG21 meeting minutes, it appears the safety discussions of the last meeting were quite entertaining.
I love how people who claim to not care dedicate so much time to telling everyone how much they don’t care. You could have just not posted. But clearly you do care a lot. Get help.
To be honest, it's possible that having too much data can only cause problems in quick decision-making. Any redundant data will only slow down processing pipelines.
Yet. Legal issues don't get solved by tech yet!
Tesla appears to be building a teleoperations team for its robotaxi service
Many in the C++ community wouldn't acknowledge that.

Which is why disabling RTTI, disabling exceptions, creating their own standard library replacement, static analysers forbinding specific language constructs, is such a big deal in some C++ circles.
Hardware-wise it was fine, actually, wasn’t the cheapest one and watched some reviews beforehand (now I think it was mi, not redmi even).

Miui was fine too, it was generic “android experience” that made me hate it. I avoided sharing details cause neither HN does usually like it nor I want to remember. It was one of the biggest physical and psycological a reliefs in my life getting a new iphone afterwards.
Well good for you, except for the fact that I’m not advocating that folks not have access in general.

>Comparing it with actual drugs and calling for the same "deny this to everybody so I dont have to use my willpower, please" is what grinds my gears.

I literally said this nowhere. The fact that it’s going to be difficult for a great number of individuals to disconnect from the internet _is reasonably comparable to drugs being present around an addict that is trying to quit_.

Next time I’m in the Tenderloin I’ll wander around telling people to just have will power because someone online said that’s all that’s required.

I don’t know about denying earth-wide internet access from ordinary cell phones, nor of the utility of denying you the internet; but I am fairly certain you would probably benefit from going on a well-led backpacking trip away from technology given that I doubt anyone who’s done that would continue to hold your dismissive and unkind position.
LED light bulbs. They are better than they used to be, but they are still awful compared to incandescent bulbs.

They are also inescapable, which means we are cursed with ugly, unpleasant lighting basically everywhere.