skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed this today when I had a keyboard macro write out my password in Notepad and then got quite surprised by the warning, even if it apparently has been around a few years already.

Doing the same in e.g. Notepad++ does not trigger any warnings though.
15 years ago, we were saying the same thing :-)
Dante did make the 1st circle sound like a far more interesting destination than any unending praise-singing up above.
That makes a lot of sense. I acknowledge there is an asymmetry that favors Moon development. I think "while cute to debate philosophically" is itself an amusing stance, given you presuppose that humans come first even metaethically, but not the main point. My main gripe is that, if you think the farmland/Moon settlement must be done for human survival, why is human-human wealth redistribution not on the table? (If you don't, your motivation is just shallow greed.)
This looks amazing!

It also now has the interesting property that one "axis" (the rotary table) can move indefinitely without having to slow down. I wonder if this could be used to massively increase printing speed for part of the object:

- First use the slicer to find the "largest rotational solid" that is contained in your object. E.g. if your object is a cube, the rotational solid would be a cylinder of the same height, if your object is a pyramid, the rotational solid would be a cone, etc.

- Generate a tool path for the rotational solid that is basically a huge, unbroken spiral.

- The printer can print the rotational solid in one go, without ever having to change direction of the turntable (sort of like an "inverse lathe" or a pottery table). This means, the turntable can be kept at high speed, shortening the duration of the whole process.

- After the rotational solid is done, the rest of the object (e.g. the corners of the cube) has to be printed around it in a regular fashion.
Those are all organs that are directly exposed to outside materials.

For the more internal organs, bacteria would have to travel across a skin of digestive tract barrier.

Unless they're present in the womb as the fetus starts growing, I guess.
Considering you can't see any of the "geometric structures, lights, and disturbances of the immediate environment" of the Earth from the moon, I don't really understand how you think humans could possibly do the opposite.
Because one is an urgent need, the other isn't and also presupposes a solution to the first problem. Perhaps you can explain why this doesn't matter.
Same company against right to repair, I wonder how many broken parts thrown away it took to offset some hundred carbon boxes.

Don't fall for the marketing.
Open source router firmware project OpenWrt ships its own repairable hardware
Use ChatGPT / Claude differently. Instead of prompting it to help you code, prompt it to coach you as a junior engineer, and to stay broad. Focus on principles, etc. Remind you of different pros and cons, and discuss things thoroughly with you. Explore alternatives, etc.

This kind of prompting changes the conversation entirely.
Yes, and in fact this is explicitly the business model[0] of ISO MPEG and ITU VCEG. They pay for their basic research by letting participants patent and license the resulting standards-essential inventions[1].

HEVC/H.265 has been in development since 2004, i.e. right after AVC/H.264 was published, and took almost a decade to actually be standardized. There's even an H.266, which started in 2017, a few years after H.265 was released. Though the primary concern of patent holders is not AVC patents expiring. Those patents actually aren't that valuable, because AVC is licensed way too cheap. MPEG-LA had negotiated a very generous free rate for online video[2], in response to MPEG-4 ASP (aka "DivX :-)") basically not getting much use online.

What patent owners want is to go back to the days of MPEG-2 where they were making money hand over fist just for owning a functional codec. They even sacked Leonardo Chiariglione, the founder and head of ISO MPEG, because he was trying to change ISO's patent policy to be more favorable to developing royalty-free codecs.

[0] ISO does not license patents and has no affiliation with MPEG-LA/Access Advance/etc, but Leonardo has gone on record saying this is their 'business model': https://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solu...

[1] under FRAND licensing

[2] Which is why YouTube's allowed to use H.264 without paying $$$ for it. Before that, they used whatever codec was available in Flash Player. Adobe (and Macromedia before it) used On2 VP6 primarily because it had no patent licensing royalty; before that they'd used H.263.
> We don't have the capability, today, to ruin a celestial body by any reasonable definition of those terms.

I don't think we all agree here. The author seems to think that lights would be inappropriate, and Native American tribes have claimed that burials and even human waste desecrates the moon. I'm of a somewhat different mind, I think seeing lights would be neat, but I can't justify blasting the eye off the man-in-the-moon to make it easier to roll the lunar megatrucks in easier.

> What threshold of sureness would you propose for what amount of activity?

Great question. I see this as an argument for cautious incremental progress rather than immediate resource extraction. I'd actually agree that a small human settlement focused on samples and surveys is a logical next step here. We're just so much more efficient than single-purpose robots. I would just urge caution.
GDPR demands consent, which naturally means a blocking modal that needs to be answered before any interaction is possible.

The misguided belief is that this is going to stop people from clicking on "accept".
Rust does not have the rule of five, and it does not really have copy/move constructors.

defer does not get you the same benefits as a destructor because you can easily forget to write a defer, while destructors are always called.
Yeah that sucks but it’s already the best out there. Some would say that you can use lineageos indefinitely on Android when the boot loaders is unlocked but the cold truth is that app requiring minimum os version also require the phone not to be unlocked and pass Google safetynet, which lineageos (even with magisk) can’t.
Why do you thinking settling mars would have any impact on our efforts to improve earth?

What are the incentives that are wrong with Mars?
Having hired more than a few people, I'll suggest a much simpler reason. These programmers might just do the bare minimum, but that bare minimum is enough to accomplish the job we need them to do, and we can stop interviewing and get back to work.
Completely different chips; the VRAM differences are from how GDDR can be used, with either 1 or 2 chips on a single 32bit bus, the configuration with 2 chips is called clamshell. The 7800 XT and 7600 XT have same VRAM but the 7800 XT has a 256 bit memory bus while the 7600 XT has a 128 bit memory bus. Meanwhile the 7700 XT with 12 GB is on a 192 bit memory bus.

The workstation edition of GPUs usually do the clamshell configuration so they can easily double the VRAM and ramp up the price by a couple thousand
How does that impact software support lifetime?
> One of those is actually an urgent need

We're on Hacker News. Divide a population in two, tell one of them what they have to work on and let the other fuck around with whatever they fancy. Tell me you'd have any uncertainty around which will innovate more.

Like sure, it would be great if everyone dropped what they were doing to work on climate change. But we aren't and don't want to. You're never going to convince all of the engineers inspired by going to space to work on a slightly-better solar panel. But you may get a much-better panel by letting them force themselves to make one that works in deep space.
Are they (the writers or scientists) trying to find the 21 grams?
> I don't even see how they're related

You can't see how terraforming Mars and solving Earth's climate crisis could be related? And you want us to consider your opinions at all?
Have you read the later entries in the series?
How would I know either way?

Someone mentioned here before that Google folks have been using "hyperbolae". So, if MediaTek can clarify how they are using AlphaChip, everyone wins.
A lot of the people I see recommending it, including myself, listened to the audiobook. I think Kevin R Free really brings it alive.
This might be too nitpicky, but isn't believe exactly what one has in absence of evidence?
Once a computer (a smart phone is a computer) stops getting security updates, it should not be connected to a network. The reason is that device will get hacked and that is not good.

This person should have upgraded his iPhone 8 as soon as Apple stopped offering security updates. He either already got hacked or would have eventually got hacked if he continued to use an insecure phone. Note that not all hacks are visible. For example, information stealers (malware which steals passwords and data) are designed to run silently in the background. They don't want to victim to know they have been hacked.
Business applications are far more serious than any scientific code could ever hope to be
>What little hardware R&D in which the company was still engaged was split between AI focused LISP machines for which there was no immediate market, and mainframes that were a rapidly shrinking market

Sounds familiar, eliminate "LISP machines" I wonder if history is repeating itself today for many companies.
How is 3 years not enough time to dump some mediocre middle management?
What? How is it impossible? Many people work 40 hour weeks and still have outside friends and interests, at least before they have kids.

If you can afford to, why not join your rich friends once every few years to art week, and meet more people there?

If you can't or don't want to, find a local art event and invite a few of your poorer friends to go.

Generally speaking and to super-stereotype it, I find time spent with my working class friends generally to be more engaging, fun, and casual than with my friends higher up the capitalist ladder. Working class folks don't want to spend any more time thinking about work than necessary, so when they want to relax, they do. The more ambitious types end up higher on the ladder, sure, but sometimes it overtakes their life and becomes the only thing they can chase or think about anymore, and that makes them pretty dull to anybody else.

Just don't be that person and actively foster your other friendships and the rest just kinda happens. That might require some tradeoffs in how you time manage, or work-life balance, etc., but nothing worth doing is free, right?

Edit: You have to earn enough to support your lifestyle. But your desired lifestyle can be modified. On one hand being poor sucks, no matter how many friends you have. On the other hand being rich and lonely sucks too. I've known people on every part of that spectrum.

IMHO somewhere in the middle is the most sustainable and happy, if you can swing it, but it will almost always require compromises. Maybe that means your career will be capped at some level you choose when you can't put in 80-hour weeks for your beloved startup. Maybe that means you can't afford to live in the Bay Area. But I mean, that's all of life... we pick and choose what's important to us, and if you're not happy with those choices, it's OK to reevaluate them and make changes every so often.
Astronomers deal a blow to theory Venus once had liquid water on its surface
Unlocking the power of time-series data with multimodal models
I can give you an egregious example: FlightAware. Not only do they not offer updates that support 16.x (fine, I’d just use the last version that still works on my phone) but instead, their last update puts a full screen modal dialog up, telling me the app will no longer run and that I need to buy a new phone that supports the latest iOS. You can’t even dismiss the modal, so the app effectively no longer works. Total “fuck you” to users!

I’d love 5 minutes in a room alone with the bonehead PM or eng lead who decided this was a good way to treat your users.
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Getty Images CEO: Respecting fair use rules won't prevent AI from curing cancer
NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for Nvidia hardware, now supports Vulkan 1.4
> What's to say he doesn't want to simply enjoy life

News: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/02/intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-is-o...

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger ousted by board
Each frame was between 200 and 300mb, at a much lower resolution than AVP. The storage and bandwidth required is a bit wild.
I can imagine a world where "good enough" GPGPUs become embedded in common chipsets the same way "good enough" regular GPUs are embedded now, but we're definitely not there yet. That said, it was only a few years between the VooDoo cards coming to market and Intel integrated graphics showing up.
The beauty of my "bit flip" analogy is that it holds true even without assuming there's any code reuse.
Vulkan 1.4 support in NVK has been merged into Mesa and will be part of the Mesa 25.0 release in early 2025.

More here: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-...
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. I would imagine that it would take a lot of negative searches by many people trying different approaches to rule it out. The searches are likely to be carried out by people who believe in the idea rather than those that are skeptical they will find something (the skeptics will work on reproducing any positive results).
Eh, firewalls can be made strong enough, at least for some things. A software parallel is: you are Apple / Facebook, do you use Azure and/or AWS? I wouldn't, if it were me, but they do.
You’re lucky not using a bank app that enforce minimum version check.
I don't hate humanity but I'm firmly on the side that says the lit side of the moon should be left untouched from here on out. The night sky belongs to all of Earth's inhabitants. None of us has any right to decorate the moon anymore than a technocrat with the means could claim the right to make all the oceans glow.

If we do allow building on the lit lunar surface though, props to the first telescope company to build a sign that says "You'd be able to read this better with a Celestron."
Ask HN: Framework for Quick Python or Java and Web UIs?
Right now I have a few internal web applications written in Python that are typical database-backed sites using HTMX and Flask that are pretty much the same as what I wrote 20 years ago and are fine. (I'll confess I'm seeing the limits of HTMX and also getting better at pounding out small SPAs)

I have a lot of other little things that are CLI or conversational, such as an application I use to print images onto cards with a QR code. I need to specify a few things, particularly the position, size and alpha blending of a QR code. Right now it is displaying the output in an image viewer application and reloading it when I type "up 200" into a window.

I am thinking of getting more of this functionality into web applications; for instance if the window manager did 100% of what I wanted that UI would be easy to live with but I am always having to move windows around to find my file manager.

The obvious UI is something that looks like a desktop or web app where I can move the QR code with the mouse or the arrow keys.

One answer to this is a desktop app but I don't want to go there. I did a big review of x-platform applications and would say "they all suck" with Electron (you can make apps that look state of the art, try that with tk) and JavaFX standing out as exceptions. (Both have serious baggage)

Seems to me instead of booting up a conversational interface I could open up a web server and build simple user interfaces there. Something based on websockets would be sweet, I would really like to have bidirectional updating ability.

Are there frameworks designed for this kind of work, preferably based on Python or Java.
> I once analyzed the numbers and flying isn't actually much safer than driving per trip.

Especially if you compare to highway driving, which I take it is the most similar to flying (as in: people usually don't use a plane as a transportation method to go to the grocery store). When I go to my secondary home, it's 95% highway driving.

In the EU not even 1 in 12 road fatality happens on the highway. You remove all the "between 18 and 25 years old drunk without a seatbelt on a friday or saturday night" accidents on the highways and it's something like not even 1 in 25 fatality happening on highways.

FWIW I very rarely fly. Last time was 2019. I simply hate the whole experience (being packed like sardines inside a tin can ain't my thing but then being treated like cattle at airports is kinda unbearable to me).
I know nothing about this, so I guess I'm asking "why can't we do this?": take some brain, throw it in a blender, and look for DNA the same way the ancient environmental DNA people do?
The original article does discuss methylation.
I also suspect that (at least on HN), the loud minority are heavy users of laptops and desktops. For the average person who has an old laptop for writing reports for school, or a crappy locked down laptop from their job, the phone is their main computing interface, so they want it to be bigger and nicer.
It is rounded and slippery and big enough that it exposes double-tap to make the screen slide down.
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a conscious system is aware of itself. chat gpt is aware of itself, that's the first thing they tell it in the system prompt.
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> This Serverless Function has crashed.
SaaS is a subscription.

Software as an utility is metered, similar to how most cloud costs work. You're billed based on a usage metric.

The original cloud vision from Sun and others was called grid or utility computing.
Too much new attack surface, or do you know what's likely holding it back?
That assumes a functional antitrust mechanism. We don't know what the next admin will do yet other than attempt technically illegal revenge on people they hate.
another stock character in Aristotelian drama is nature; nature is capricious, or expresses the will of the gods, and can never be bested. Greed is a force of nature.
Show HN: App to repost your tweets to Bluesky
Hey HN

I'm too lazy to manually repost all my tweets to Bluesky

And I don't want to use a crossposting tool that forces me to do it outside of

So I shipped this tool that does it on autopilot

Would love to hear your feedback
really helpful
are you enabling "Block AI Bots" under scurity/bots on cloudflare
no, consciousness is in proprioception, that's why we store memories spatially!
Hopefully not quite going as far as everyone falling out of windows.

And re “Swindly Sam” that doesn't seem far off the average HN opinion of him - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40434800 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39559966
It doesn’t seem fair that an article can get unflagged while its comments can not. Half the discussion has been nuked for seemingly political reasons by the time the article is back on the front page, giving a warped perspective of what the userbase actually thinks about it.

Frankly, this wasn’t that popular of a thread to begin with, so I’m not sure why dang decided to revive it.
Sonos Redesigned Its App and Made a Subscription Model Possible
Would you consider NYC as a candidate for a new national park?

> National parks are designated for their natural beauty, unique geological features, diverse ecosystems, and recreational opportunities, typically "because of some outstanding scenic feature or natural phenomena."

Fits the bill, don't it?
(to clarify: Ribosomes are composed of mostly protein; they are protein/RNA complexes in which the enzymatic functionality is implemented by RNA enzymes that are decorated with proteins that stabilize the complex, as well as increase its efficiency).
I found it effortless to go along with the idea of a gender-ambiguous construct antihero throughout All Systems Red, but trying to carry the consistency of that descriptive ambiguity after a certain point in Artificial Condition required way too much squinting by my mind's eye.
There is definitely a world in which various sensors send data somewhere and a thing crunches the numbers and figures out you have a trend to somewhere bad. It's just the doctors were trained in a world before sensors, and they're understandably wary of people googling symptoms, and sensors aren't that good, and the software is limited, and we as regular humans aren't used to understanding this sort of information about ourselves.

The only question is: are we going to go back to a world without wearables, and the potential benefits and drawbacks they bring? Or are we going to improve them and adapt ourselves to them?
The author appears to be someone who gets angry or very annoyed when he does not get his way. The author may also just not like change. Basically, he is upset he had to buy a new phone after 6 years and the new phone was different from his old phone. I do not think his behavior is productive or helpful.
This was tough to read.

I was never a coffee drinker at all until I spent a month in Kenya 6 years ago helping a startup get off the ground (ex CTO/CEO lived in Nairobi at the time). I tried the local coffee as was customary (when in Rome...) and because the Kenyans were SO passionate about their local coffee.

I was floored. I got completely hooked, and to this day have not found quality Kenyan coffee here in the USA. The coffee in Kenya is incredible, puts the crap Americans pay $$$ for at Starbucks to absolute shame.