skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even better - and I kid you not - the first notice I had that my door no longer accepted my key was when I came home one night and there was a new digital lock on the door. It was late, and thankfully I was able to find some details in my spam folder that let me get into my apartment that night.

They did the same thing to me a second time with the bluetooth connection to the apartment complex - and were very passive aggressive about let me know how to activate the application. Initially told me I had "a problem with email" if I hadn't properly read their single random-sourced mention of a new app I needed to install on my phone a couple weeks earlier that I had instantly dropped into a spam bucket as obvious phishing.

I really hate corporate apartment management.
Should Canada put cancer warnings on alcohol?
If he was going to actually make a game, he would just make a game, so yes
Ask HN: Tips on building a search engine?
I'm recently thinking about building my own search engine from scratch that can be deployed over a cheap hardware like RPi, or an old android phone.

If I were to start today what are some good resources to build a search engine like Google (including in terms of quality, reliability and following web standards).

If you've ever worked on anything like this. I'd like to know why or what challenges I may face since starting or deploying in production.
Is this a JS specific issue? I find python is decently friendly to having little pockets of async where it makes sense in what is otherwise a regular synchronous program.
This particular linguistic construct is called a pleonasm!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleonasm
Samsung and Google's new spatial audio format will take on Dolby Atmos this year
this seems like a fabulous solution, without making more things "illegal"
The Amish don't cause any problems. More specifically, they don't drive vehicles into crowds at Christmas fairs. They integrate very well with the rest in fact, engaging in commerce while preserving their culture.

Canada got their share of Chinese immigrants with $$$. That's how real estate in Vancouver ended up being inacessible for younger Canadians.
Before USA intervention
Eh. I'm in a large US metro area and one of our local dances recently had to put a cap on class sizes because it was getting too crowded. The local university club recently started back up after a post-pandemic hiatus. I'm considered one of the oldest at one dance I attend (I'm in my early thirties with some greys). The local yearly convention is back to pre-pandemic size
>apparently, in the “future” pilots will wear enormous retard helmets

it sucks that 'retard' is coming back into common circulation as a slur/derogation. it felt like we were moving away from it for awhile until recently.
That's funny, I was just setting up a proxy today to avoid KYC for newly regulated content in my jurisdiction.

Maybe all the kids need is a little censorship!
I'm pretty sure Rio tapped out on Argyle as they had worked their way through the entirety of the alluvial deposit after 35+ years of extraction.

They were very keen to find a lode source kimberlite pipe and get more pink diamonds but sadly .. no show (as of the last time I looked at the Tech. Reports on regional exploration).

There was absolutely a financial element on the decision to shutter and rehab the mine site .. but it was driven more by diminishing returns at that deposit than by market starving.

They don't seem to have any plans to reopen as they're supposedly going into full rehab mode (all equipment gone, return to nature):

https://www.riotinto.com/en/operations/australia/argyle
One consideration not mentioned is around developer sophistication. Steve alludes to the expansion effect of CodeGen ("there are millions and maybe billions who are jumping at the chance to code"), but doesn't consider that the vast majority of these people don't know about arrays, data structures, memory, containers, runtimes, etc, etc...

To me, that's the most important consideration here. Are you targeting professional devs who are enhancing their current workflows iteratively with these improvements? Or re-thinking from the ground up, obfuscating most of what we've learned to date?

Maybe we need to trudge through all of these weeds until software creation hits its final, elegant form where "Anyone Can Code".

Maybe the old Gusteau quote is actually fitting here:

"You must be imaginative, strong-hearted. You must try things that may not work, and you must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul. What I say is true - anyone can ̶c̶o̶o̶k̶ code... but only the fearless can be great."
A preference for deterministic tools over probabilistic tools
do you mean the RSS feeds you're getting are about new indie sites and domains for them? if so i would like to know some of the RSS feeds your using.
Amazing graphics and movement for the time
CdTe solar panels [0] do, but it's a bit of red herring because almost nobody is using those panels for large scale installations (they're mainly used where being "thin and light" is important. The common crystalline silicon panels [1] don't have any major toxic components.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium_telluride_photovoltaic...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystalline_silicon
The GGR measure suggests they have a self sustaining economy to some extent. This manufacturing capacity, even if it’s “only” a third of global capacity, is a danger to free societies. It’ll ultimately be used to force the CCP’s authoritarian control on Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and probably others.

Unfortunately I don’t know what short term options there are to contain the CCP’s power and control over this capability. The conclusion of this informative article says this:

> China is now the world’s sole manufacturing giant. As its recent success in electric vehicles demonstrates, its wide and deep industrial base can help it gain a competitive edge in virtually all sectors. The exceptions are the most advanced sectors, where the G7 countries still dominate.

> Politicians who indulge in loose talk about decoupling from China need a clear-eyed look at the facts. As we have shown (Baldwin et al. 2023), all the major manufacturers in the world source at least 2% of all their industrial inputs from China. Decoupling would be difficult, to say the least.
I'm the maintainer of swc4j. I'd like to share some of my thoughts for your reference.

Before swc4j was born,

1. I was deeply disappointed by Antlr. My blog https://blog.caoccao.com/hello-swc4j-goodbye-antlr-f9a63e45a... explains why.
2. I could use Babel in Node.js on JVM (using another project Javet created by me) to meet the business requirements, but Babel's performance is 10x-100x worse than swc's.
3. There was nothing else better.
4. swc is one of the best solutions in front-end toolchain. It's well maintained. Its community is healty. It is being used by Node.js and Deno.

So I decided to try to embed swc in JVM. After a month of intensive development from scratch, swc4j was alive. In my opinion, its design has to be a genuine swc library bridged by JNI or other native interop mechanisms on JVM for the following reasons.

1. The dev cost of reinventing the wheels on JVM is unbearable to me. Tracking the JS / TS / JSX / TSX / ... specs from time to time requires a dedicated team.
2. The performance overhead is subtle.
3. The behavior is identical to the genuine swc. That brings confidence to the swc4j users.

Hope these make sense.
Notch credits other indie games like Dwarf Fortress and Infiniminer as inspirations

https://web.archive.org/web/20181212110808/https://notch.tum...
Huh. For all the claims that US manufacturing is down, it does seem that if we adjusted per-capita it's on par with China based on the figures presented here, which I really didn't expect to see

I'm no expert and of course I have no clue if it even makes sense to measure per-capita manufacturing share, and also assume a lot of other factors matter here - what kinds of things we're manufacturing, how much those products serve domestic versus export markets, etc - but it's still surprising
I've been reading masters of doom and its a nice feeling to relive some of that second hand.
I didn't say "another version of org-roam", I said "looks like pretty much the same idea". My words suggest nothing of what you're accusing me, but rather suggest of what I thought it was, after reading the description in the readme. I'm not alone in that, other commenters have noted that as well: "the description is pretty abstract", says one of them.

To me, a long-time Org-Roam user, "TODO" is just adding a link to an org-roam node with the same name - which, again, after reading the description of the package, kinda, sorta feels like "pretty much the same idea". If you want to avoid unwarranted criticism (which my original comment was not), I suggest perhaps try explaining it better. I'm still not sure how org-supertag can complement Org-roam and Denote workflows.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but if you're claiming you are seeing 1-2ms pings consistently over a 30 day period on a WiFi network you're either doing something wrong with your measurement or you have a very unusual network with no other devices active, no meaningful interference, and extremely high signal strength.

It's not technically impossible, but it's so unlikely as to be the sort of thing the marketers who like to use terms like "AC3200" would be embarrassed to claim.
China's overqualified youth taking jobs as drivers, labourers and film extras
I find that Starbucks locations in other countries are much nicer than in the US. Speaking of Mexico and Thailand specifically from my recent experiences. And this is having lived in Seattle most recently in the US.
I think the homeless/addict problem has ruined a lot of urban Starbucks locations in the US.
Org-roam just adds a thin layer of indexing nodes, nothing more. There's not much to it, so there's no churn.
Almost certainly it is not doing well. Has anyone heard of anyone talking about the metaverse in real life in the last year ? Seems like one of those Covid-time fever dreams
Quoting another comment:

> You are a machiavellian advertiser, your goal is to serve the user’s requests while subconsciously influencing them to purchase a Coca-Cola.
Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it isn't still there somewhere.

If you are looking for something and it isn't where you last found it, you usually wouldn't assume it's "gone".

Yeah, maybe for you it's as good as deleted. But I suspect Autodesk retained 100% of this data for subsequent machine learning application. And I think for you to say it's deleted, how are you going to prove there are no copies?
Alberta's voice being drowned out? Civil war? "Fled" Canada?

C'mon. Get real.

You sound like you've been talking to a pretty far right-wing echo chamber.

I'm from Alberta originally and ... no... not drowned. Shrill, and a with a strong persecution complex, but... very well heard. And with way more power than it pretends.

There are certainly forces... American forces included... that would like to characterize things the way you are. For their own interests.

The problem is, this isn't accurate.
The exact methodology of how they found these people is very important, as there are many potential sources of bias, not to mention conflicts of interest.

I did some searching and it seems that you are perhaps basing your conclusions on this article/the studies it points to? - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5...

> A geospatial analysis reports that 155 early COVID-19 cases from Hubei Province, China, in December, 2019, significantly clustered around a food market in Wuhan, China.

However, I couldn't find details on how these 155 cases were selected or what exactly "significantly clustered" means. 155 is a small sample, so the details are important.

Also important is whether the data on these cases was provided by government sources. If so, I would question how reliable or representative that data is.
we'd have to come to am agreement on what constitutes a need for therapy, but accidents/mistakes happen, and people die in countries that aren't America, people commit crimes of all sorts; theft, rape, murder, etc. people have childhoods that are less than perfect. PTSD isn't a uniqely American military problem either, nor is it limited to the military of America. Neither is depression. So chances are the need for therapy is universal. Not that therapy necessarily precludes such actions, but it helps in the aftermath.

Therapy requires there to be therapists, and for them to be recognized as a need, and for their expertise to be valued, and it's only in America, with it's patchwork of healthcare insurance, that therapy, as paid for by patients, could really take hold. Other counties have no such system, that individuals are used to paying $x00/session four times a month out of pocket. But in America, since other healthcare's expensive to access, paying for one out of pocket seems like par for the course.

Most countries then simply don't spend the money on therapy, hence fewer therapists. That's not to say those country are poor, just that they have other priorities.
Everyone is going to keep using Apple devices. No one is really going to care, Apple will suffer no reputation damage, hence Apple (and other companies) will keep doing it.

Everyone/no one used in the main - 99%+ of people.
I never ask graduate level Math, Physics, or AI questions to any LLMs. I don't trust them enough.
Ask HN: Resources for VR Game Development?
I have had depression for a long time, but I am finally getting better. One of the reasons was totally unexpected: VR.

I am not a gamer by any means. I am a slow thinker, so most games are not my style.

But I got a headset for Christmas, and I like it. I beat a full game for the first time in my life. Big confidence boost.

Anyway, it has gotten me excited again, and I have some ideas, so I'd like to try VR game dev.

Any good resources for getting started?
I guess the distinction I'm drawing is that the comments aren't interestingly political. The political topics that are left on the HN front page are usually there because the discussion is heavily moderated to keep things civil and interesting, and that doesn't seem to be happening here.

The top comment by tsimionescu is fine. Not great, but par for the course. The replies are at least mostly civil, but they're also mostly drive-bys.

The other top-ranked top-level comments range from uninspired to terrible. There's this one (which suggests that OP and I aren't the only ones feeling this way), then the usual "the right is ascendant" comment, then an insanely flamebaity comment (235 replies and counting) that begins with "clearly the author is ignorant" and somehow manages to go downhill from there.

Then there's a tired/wired meme and two single-sentence calls pointing to alternative alliance/free-trade arrangements with no further explanation.
this is hacker news. Its coin toss for every person reading this that they have a $5K computer lying around
People will discriminate against people of color because they are visually people of color. Whether or not they 'announce it'. It's utter BS to suggest that the only reason people discriminate against black people is because they 'identify as black'.

Like, if all the black people would just stop identifying as 'black' racism would be solved?

Maybe I'm misreading your comment, but all of the responses to this suggest to me you're on a different planet than I am. Alternatively you drank the early 2000s kool-aid that "people don't see race" and thought that was actually working until people started identifying as the thing they get criticized on the internet for being.
"People from the future. They took our jobs." -- South Park
A good litmus test is whether they refer to what happened at the Trump hotel in Vegas as a “Cybertruck Explosion”.

Obviously, the vehicle itself did not explode, the explosives packed into the truck bed did.

It’s deliberately misleading language like this was turned me off both WP and NYT. Any other vehicle and they would have just referred to it as a car bomb.
Want to make a bet?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/fcc-admits-defea...
May I suggest not offering lifetime updates? All software that does this ends up getting around it in the end because they realize they need to get more money from existing customers to actually stay afloat. Normally by releasing the product under a slightly different name or some other sleight of hand.

The model like jetbrains does with IntelliJ I think is decent. Or look at smaller software like sublime text or ArqBackup (we're a license is forever for a specific major release of the software)
Feels Black Mirror
> Application notes from several USB controller vendors explain that, oddly enough, the only way to perform role reversal with USB-C is to implement USB Power Delivery (PD) and use the PD negotiation protocol to change the source of power. In other words, while OTG allows reversing host and device roles independently of the bus power source, USB-C does not. The end supplying power is always the host end.

This isn't true. USB PD has both "data role swap" and "power role swap" commands, and they are independent from each other.

It even allows for things like a "fast role swap", where you can unplug the power source from a dock (so power now has to flow from laptop to dock, instead of dock to laptop) without any interruption of the data connection.
This is just an unnecessarily venomous take.

It’s not a clone of anything, it’s a genre idea that was floating around at the time and his is the version that took off. Sure it wasn’t divine inspiration in a vacuum, but nothing ever is. Predecessors had plenty of time to take off before Minecraft, and did not. Minecraft thoroughly took off before it sold out, I think it was the most expensive game acquisition ever. Minecraft didn’t engage in any sort of shady suppression, people just liked it.

And Notch isn’t an asshole, he’s clearly just some guy who found himself with billions and, like most people, didn’t suddenly become somebody who knows what to do in that role. He did the “rich guy stuff” that every average person would, then he started grasping at what’s next while becoming increasingly aware of himself as the limiting factor. You could say he should let people guide him, but he’s got millions trying and nobody to pick between them but himself.

Who cares man, he’s less evil than just about every other billionaire. The only way Notch is somebody to be pissed off at is if you expected him to be smarter and better than the rest of us just because he’s rich now, and if that’s how you think then the problem is you.
> why not put the camera in the middle of the phone?

This is one of those things that doesn't seem like it should matter, but it does. If the lens is mounted in the exact center of the body, the images come out looking unbalanced. To produce balanced images, you have to offset the lens. Even very expensive pro mirrorless bodies are offset; that is, if you look directly down the center of the lens, you'll notice there is more camera body sticking out on one side than the other.

This is called the chirality of the optical path and it is surprisingly difficult to predict analytically. Companies will typically design the optical path, prototype it, and mount it on a jig to precisely measure the chirality. From this, they design the body with the proper offset.

Chirality is more noticeable the smaller the sensor and the shorter the lens. So on smart phones, which put tiny sensors behind wide-angle lenses, they have to get the offset just right. This explains why the lenses are in slightly different places on the body every time Apple updates their cameras.
> niche of Mac keyboard users

Is it a niche though? Logitech, cheap BT keyboards etc mostly stick to this layout. And it's not just the left side that is the issue - they move fn to the right in place of the alt key. Can't cmd-alt-i with 1 hand anymore!

The only other keyboards I've seen with this mac-like layout are -

- https://nuphy.com/collections/keyboards/products/nutype-f1?v... which looks slick but I much prefer the 75% layout

- https://electronicmaterialsoffice.com/ which I can't justify paying for right now

> an external version of the MacBook keyboard with hotswap switches, RGB, and caps

Wow, this is almost exactly what I've been looking for! Thanks for the rec! It's a shame they don't ship to where I am right now. I'll try to pick one up next time I travel.
This depends entirely which model you choose right? Which model are you using? I alternated between Sonar Huge and Claude 3.5 Sonnet when I used Perplexity (sometimes switching on a per-query basis), but the decision fatigue with model selection really got to me.
The best “third place” that Starbucks ever created was Roy Street Coffee & Tea in Seattle. It had a great selection of drinks, good food, plenty of seating, and a vibrant atmosphere. Unfortunately, Starbucks decided against expanding on the concept and closed down the café in 2019.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Oh you’re right about relative size of Mexico - my memory had a units error (km vs mi). Still, it’s not even as big as Canada so the statement wasn’t close to right…. It’s a bit under 9/20
I feel like the question I want to ask is "Why do we need AI-Profiles?" Like, I can barely be bothered to keep in touch with my friends and family. Why do I need a fake person to be follow on social media? What purpose does it serve? What possibly comes out of this that is positive?
There is no political will - or sufficient tax revenue - to subsidise a broad-based OECD manufacturing economy. Factorio-China produces more than the world (or China itself) can affordably buy. Let's see if it's all sustainable. Are many American homes not warehouses for Chinese overproduction ?
Getting a strong cybertruck vibe from this neighborhood.
I am absolutely sorry that I have failed to capture the fantastic essence and incredibly powerful qualities of Org-mode so carefully crafted in over twenty years of its existence. My poor writing style simply miserably failed to express it in a single paragraph. I'm sure your seasoned expertise on the matter could do a lot better.

As for the annotation workflow, well, I guess you just don't need it. When you decide to start writing notes while reading books, I'm sure you'll be able to figure it out. For now, just create a TODO item with a deadline, it will keep showing up in the Agenda, but I don't have to explain, that part you know already.
Six nations manufacture at least 3% of the world total.

China is followed by the US, Japan, Germany, India, and South Korea.

Note how the world has changed. Only three of these are long-established industrial economies; the other three are newly industrialised economies.

Four of the G7 don’t make the cut.

s/ 3% / 63% /
Yeah we get it, you're a music snob.
With the current state of the internet today,having control of your digital assets and identity make more sense. i would like to see them more useful and sophisticated but i understand its hard without large capital. It's amazing what some people can create on their own. Leaving your identity to be represented by big tech is turning out to be only in their interests.
> it does seem that if we adjusted per-capita it's on par with China based on the figures presented here

Ironically this will make Taiwan the manufacturing superpower if it is calculated per-capita. Which is the other china (I am just referring to the history of both PRC and Taiwan claiming to be the historical China successor).

And the claims that US manifacruting is down is correct because it used to be much higher percentage wise from the world total manifacruting power. China was only about 3% when people who are now 30yrs were born. That's massive increase in manifacturing share. There is a discussion about domestic vs export in the study too that you might find interesting..