skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm quite ambivalent about nuclear power. On the one hand it's been proven that nuclear power isn't the answer to the energy transition question (https://sppga.ubc.ca/nuclear-is-not-the-solution/) - on the other hand - it makes up waaay more of my current carbon free energy.

For southern states, or states that get a lot of solar power, they shouldn't have nukes.

For areas that have plenty of wind, they shouldn't have nukes.

For areas with lots of people, they shouldn't have nukes.

Areas of seismic activity, they shouldn't have nukes.

Research needs to be done on how to lower the cost of interconnect and installation of solar power... like billions of dollars of research rivaling nuke research.
The great clown Pagliacci is in town, that should cheer you up
When evaluating and making purchasing decisions for my security department, I have the same dislike of this approach. And generally for me it is a red flag.

Not (just) because of price gauging, but also because generally it is indicative of a very young company. In many cases they do not want to give the price because they don't know the price; they're still finding out how much they can charge.
USB 2.0, that bog standard version from 2000 that is assumed to be the lowest common denominator possible for any new hardware...

Edit: 4am math correction...

480Mbit/sec transfer; Uncompressed, that's ~333333 pixels per frame for 60FPS. Not even considering overhead, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_video_device_class 1.1 support from 2005 includes Motion JPEG (low compression, all patents probably expired given it was developed in the 90s) and MPEG2 (also sufficiently old, to be unencumbered now).

However, if they'd use USB 3.0 ~ 5gbps, ideally over a USB-C port, the connection would be more modern, and easily able to handle even 4K video with now free from patents and well supported compression algorithms.
So not only do I waste their crawling resource but they may deprioritise/block my site from further crawling? Where do I sign up?
This the latest edition I know about being online somewhere: https://archive.org/details/pil-4th (Programming In Lua - Fourth edition, for Lua 5.3, 2016)

I'm not sure there is a fifth edition (for Lua 5.4) but the manual/reference + fourth edition seems good enough for at least my usage: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html
I would assume that earthquake insurance in japan is a reasonable model for "world insurance".

It looks like it's a reinsurance program:

https://www.mof.go.jp/english/policy/financial_system/earthq...

So, I think the answer is "no".
Does that(the patronization) happen frequently? I far more frequently witness people lionizing people of the past in all sorts of benign and malign ways.
Go to the moon, land a rover, wander about, come back with everyone alive... should be easy right?, I mean, it's already been done... RIGHT????
The shuttle programme was signed off in 1972, had it's first flight in 1977, and it's first crewed flight in 1981. Starship has been going for 5 years (albeit on the back of lots of other SpaceX work.) It's getting to orbit in the same time that Shuttle took to 'fly' on the back of a 747. A few lost ships is a pretty small price to pay for going twice as fast on delivery.
But not if you sold GM software that had a clause deep in the license agreement saying you'd sell the data to Toyota.
> What's the average monthly leccy bill in Phoenix during the summer? $400?

The average high temperature in Phoenix in July is 106.5F (41.4C). If you are cooling to 70.0F (21.1C), that's a difference of 36.5F (20.3C).

The average January low in Berlin is 28.0F (-2.2C). If you are heating to 65.0F (18.3C), that's a difference of 37.0F (20.5C).

I feel like many people living in climates that don't require air conditioning have this view that it's fantastically inefficient and wasteful. Depending on how you are heating (e.g. if you are using a gas boiler), cooling can be significantly more efficient per degree of difference. Especially if you don't have to dehumidify the air, as in Phoenix.
Decreasing price of a launch by multiple orders of magnitude and increased cadence is also an achievement that hasn't been achieved previously.
I heat my house with oil, a truck comes every couple of months and fills a massive tank in my back yard.

This "oil" is basically diesel. It smells and feels identical to diesel. But it's about 70 cents cheaper per litre compared to road diesel. It's dyed red, and you are not supposed to put it in your car, but I reckon it'll be more than fine for older diesel engines.

The red diesel is not taxed like road diesel, and is much cheaper.
Greenland has 50k people.
Just give them 1 million per head, passport and ask them them to vote to join the US as a state.

Far better than annexing territories by war.
That goes without saying in the software business today. I was in software for decades and I’ve never seen it so cynical. Shameless profiteering seems to be the gold standard strategy. It’s like Gordon Gecko style greed.
I forgot that any exaggeration is not allowed on HN!

128 billion dollars is equivalent to 200,000 homes, or even more, which does not represent total obliteration, however, if that level of devastation happened in the UK, the only comparison would be what the Luftwaffe did during WW2.
Actually interested in learning more about the attack surface area?

I've had my SSN stolen learned multiple people are using it lol so I doubt banking info stolen from Mickey Dees would make a difference could something worse be achieved
I agree with you but I think society has a certain bias that way — a saint or genius bias or myth. It extends into science and engineering itself, although I don't think it's limited to that domain either.

What's interesting to me is how some can recognize this in the past but not the present, or think it only applies in certain domains.
That damage is like 10% of Florida’s GDP.

That’s absolutely nuts.

It’s also a lot worse than the pure numbers suggest because the damage here is taking away actual built up stock, so capacity for generating future GDP. And the GDP in Florida includes a lot of economic activity used to rebuild after past damage.

And all of this without Miami even being flooded out of existence. Miami can’t even build dikes due to the porous ground it’s built on.
> The changes between 5.1 and 5.2 seem small as well.

And then after 5.1, basically every minor version (5.2, 5.3, so on) have major changes between them, from what I recall.
It was specifically about methanol. Methanol wasn't explicitly used as a denaturation agent but ethanol methanol mixture sales were (forced to be) allowed. Can't find much in English but here's a brief story.

Methanol sales were banned in Finland prior to EU and Finland applied for the exemption already in the EU application in the early 1990s. It was finally granted in 2019. Probably around 500 people died and many got blinded meanwhile.

https://yle.fi/a/3-7841018
The virtual dom is just part of the performance problem, the biggest problem in my opinion is the huge complexity that React adds, they solved part of it with useReducer and useSyncExternalStore, but I don’t think it will eventually be solved.
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Addiction is one helluva motivator, and some people will put up with horrible tasting stuff as long as it's a cheap high.
I wonder if the artists see any share of that money...
On these cameras, HDMI is the right tool for the job. USB video quality is often poor where it's supported, and HDMI is there for video output.

These cameras are not made to be webcams. OP is using theirs as one, and that's fine; I do too. But device-side compression for USB video out, a webcam app, etc. are webcam features. They come at a cost, and many camera buyers don't need them.

For those of us using these cameras in these nonstandard ways, we can reach for HDMI, which is the right tool for this particular job.
Amdxdna Submitted for Linux 6.14 with Kernel Accelerator/Graphics Driver Updates
I'm sure a lot of folks in these comments predicted these sorts of results with surprising accuracy.

Stuff like this is why I scoff when I hear about CEOs freezing engineering hiring or saying they just don't need mid-level engineers anymore because they have AI.

I'll start believing that when I see it happening, and see actual engineers saying that AI can replace a human.

I am long AI, but I think the winning formula is small, repetitive tasks with a little too much variation to make it worth it (or possible) to automate procedurally. Pulling data from Notion into Google sheets, like these folks did initially, is probably fine. Having it manage your infrastructure and app deployments, likely not.
What is the pink fire retardant used to control the L.A. fires?
> I suspect other brands are the same.

My research shows Sony is the outlier here. Fuji, Canon, Nikon and Panasonic all require software or drivers to be used as a USB camera (or at least did as of a year ago or so).

Also, the camera control software these companies put out, for a computer or a phone, is almost always awful.

Buggy, slow, unreliable.. It's a real problem.
> The company can charge whatever they want for this feature.

They can. But that doesn't mean everyone is forced to be happy about it, and doesn't mean it can't be talked about so other people who might not be happy about it can use the information to chose a different camera from a different manufacturer instead of discovering the issue post-purchase.

> they'd rather use industry-standard HDMI

Or the industry standards for video-over-USB, that this manufacturer chose not to implement because they couldn't easily gouge a subscription out of it.
I suspect ZeroSSL might have capacity problems if the entire userbase of letencrypt moved to them in a few days. Letsencrypt are talking about 100 million certs/day in future?
There are, of course, many different flavours of Markdown. Which do you use? The best thing to come out of Markdown is probably Djot, which is inspired by Markdown but just different enough to not really be considered a flavour of Markdown. The designer, John McFarlane, put a lot of thought into it, and designed it to be easy to parse.
I said, and I quote:

> I find it very interesting that we tend to criticize China for their protectionism

The irony I see is that we criticize their protectionism, but we also do some kind of protectionism. More largely, we criticize the fact that they ban US companies, and then we do the same. How in the world is that not ironic?

It would be perfectly fine to admit it and acknowledge that actually, sometimes protectionism makes sense. But if you look at the answers in this thread, it seems like nobody wants to do that. "We are never wrong, it is not ironic, it is obviously national security".

So let's talk about national security. TikTok is a userspace social media app, just like Instagram or Snapchat. If collecting that kind of data is an obvious national security risk, then every single country in the world should ban them. What would the US say if all the western countries banned their social media? Would you say "we understand, it's a national security issue"? My guess is that you would say "but for us it's different: we are the good guys".

What about Huawei? Fair enough, infrastructures like antennas are very sensitive, don't let a Chinese company own them on your soil. But the smartphones? Really? Any government can buy stuff like NSO's Pegasus and get access to any mobile phone (iPhones included). Let's not pretend that someone buying a Huawei phone makes that worse, shall we? And it's still obviously fine to ask sensitive personalities (like politicians) to use a non-Chinese smartphone, but that's very different from banning the brand entirely.

DJI then? The drones don't have an Internet connection: you have to connect them to your WiFi (be it at home or a mobile hotspot from your phone). That means that if you fly above government facilities, the drone is not streaming the video to China. That also means that if it wanted to, it would have to go through your mobile hotspot, through your ISP. Doesn't seem that hard to ask government drone operators to connect through a firewall, does it? Every big company in the world asks all of their employees to do that.

And when did it start being seen as a security issue? Precisely when western companies started lobbying against them because they could not compete. Nobody complained about DJI for years, especially not when the view in western startups was "we are better, we will make a better drone". It took us to realise that DJI was actually a lot better than us to start looking for other ways. Look at who's been lobbying a lot for the ban: western drone companies that have no reason to know about security, but that are struggling because - let's be honest - DJI drones are a lot cheaper and a lot better than anything else.

And now we have US billionaires and owners of the biggest tech companies in the world publicly interfering with politics in allied countries. How the hell is that not ironic?
I was a 15 year JavaScript developer. Now I run operations for an enterprise API system at a large organization.

My career stagnated as a JavaScript developer. Most of my peers were afraid to write original software which made it really challenging to do anything until I was finally laid off from worst of it. Everything had to be little more than copy/paste from some enormous framework into an enormous mono…monster of stupidity. If you ever proposed sanity people would get irate because it threatens to expose that nobody has idea what they are doing.

Simultaneously, though, I have a part time job in the military. In the military I learned networking (routers and switches), operations, security, management, and more. I still maintain my security certs and have a clearance.

Last year a recruiter reached out to me about a work from home job writing enterprise APIs. I passed the interview using my knowledge of data structures and the inner mechanics of WebSockets from years of writing personal software. For most of my career as a JavaScript developer it seemed the only way I could program at all was to do it on my own outside of work.

Since then they promoted to lead operations and at the same time to be a team lead in a different organization.
It is interesting, but I really dislike the way it tries to bash every other tech in the blog post, on the homepage and in the docs itself. The tone is very confident, but it will put you open to a lot of scrutiny.

Instead it could really use a lot more explanation on how it works. If you make comparisons make sure they are fair. The image "JavaScript mixed together" and "Strict separation of concerns" is just comparing apples with oranges. Multiple times in the docs it compares a huge complicated JSX like component and replaces it with 3 lines of html and 3 lines of css. I don't believe that it does the same thing.

Some of the claims are strange. It praises standard HTML but apparently you have to use some custom Markdown syntax to write it. How does that add up? And on top of that it also introduces new syntax for loops and variables.

This could all work perfectly fine. But my suggestion would be to talk more about how it works and what are the advantages and less trying to bring down competitors. It could use less grand claims and focus more on what it really does.
> My personal favourite example is when the Irish Supreme Court determined that Subway bread was not bread

Because it is not. Cola is not water either.
Came here to say that. Seems to solve the problem around uniformity and also chroma is basically “gray” he’s talking about.
> However, it should be obvious that if the traffic levels spiked higher by 3x to ~120 events/s - then 75% of the worker’s time would be spent simply listening to traffic

For a 4GHz CPU core, with 4 instructions-per-clock, that works out to 100 million instructions per 'event'. That is efficiency so farcically low I can only attribute it to self-sabotage.. so they can sell the Pro version.
v4l2-ctl on linux allows me to change such settings on a global level, maybe that might work if a version can be found on his OS.
I looked around VIA-LA (which acquired MPEG-LA in 2023), and I can't see any free licenses about H.264. "Request a license" gives you an e-mail address, and that's it.

There are other license models, which is about manufacturers, publishers and TV stations, etc.

But nowhere it says "there's a free license for these cases, just get it from here".

This all looks like a rabbit hole for me.
IANAL but you’ll want a cofounder. Piercing the veil is a lot easier with a single founder company.
5 years? Why not forever? WTF, FTC?!
The thing is, nobody cares.

As long as consumers keep making uneducated choices and companies keep copying one another, that's what we will be getting, and honestly, that's what we deserve.

After all, people watch "reviews" of video gear on YouTube (pretty much all "reviewers" get the gear for free and then pretend they are objective). These "reviewers" use the gear for all of several hours before making the video and forgetting about the gear. But that's what people base their buying decisions on.

And then, "competition" doesn't exist, because companies seem to be hell-bent on copying one another's idiotic ideas. Everybody is afraid to take a bolder step and make something different because, you know, next quarter's profits, and bonuses.

So, nobody cares.
Assassination?
How could I edit the title? I forget put it to Show HN.
We'll have to get to parity with what we were doing 50-60 years ago.

The reusability is awesome, of course. More of that!

And also, still gotta get the basics right. Oxygen/fuel leaks aren't a great look (spoken as a not rocket scientist).
It was a targeted murder, it was not terrorism.
It looks quite interesting, especially the part of scripting everything in Python with a JIT, instead of the traditional having to do everything in either C or C++.

Looking forward to some weekend paper reading.
That's cause there are people that make the mean girls from mean girls look like the nice girls

Infighting, KPIs, comp packages, weird ass games trying to build something new or try to learn is actually looked down upon. Very medieval with hunt vibes
So the real question in all of this is, does Deadpool know about this ruling and has he taunted the X-Men that they are in fact not human. That seems like a new storyline for a movie!
Dude got paid like 5m$ a year, and now he's left he'll just go somewhere else and get paid the same or more.

These people don't earn that money. But keep defending ludicrous exec salaries.
Autodiscovery pretty much died when browsers removed RSS. It's a shame, really.

I do use an RSS reader but because of the nature of the modern internet, it's a separate app.
Fern (YC W23) Is Hiring an AI Engineer in NYC
RedNote segregating US users to prevent US influence on Chinese users
Is it not the same for computers most of the apps data is accessible by all the apps. Mobile OS came from the paradigm of the past and as the way we use our phones change so do the way how mobile os work. For a long time Android devs have wanted to obfuscate the disk from the user like iOS does but have faced push back from users and developers so in the end they created a permission where an app needs to ask permission to access the disk.
Keeping the file system a black box or allowing user/apps to mess with it is a development question of the times dumb it down or not. Then people here complain children don't know anything about computers these days well yeah because we have dumbed it down so much in the name of security and usablity.
I really like this video essay that also covers convict leasing: https://youtu.be/j4kI2h3iotA?si=9-VanyLpw1rJLLUI
I guess GDPR is a good idea, but in practice it has limited value. I suppose all that is needed is that the user accepts (consents) by answering yes to a popup question. It can be asked over and over. If you answer yes by accident at some point you are screwed.

Not allowed by the GDPR, this violates the principle of unambiguous consent:

https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/themes/basic-gd...

You can maybe(?) retract your answer,

Under the GDPR, retracting consent should be as easy as giving consent. Moreover, you have the right of erasure. Even if you consented, when asked, GM should remove all your personal data:

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

but maybe you don't even know you answered yes at some point when you were stressed and had to drive somewhere, while your nav/media system asked you this question.

Violates both the rules that consent should be given freely.

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More broadly, selling non-anonymous data would never be allowed under the GDPR, because the third-parties would need to consent to use the data.

(IANAL)
Could you provide what definition you use for "terrorism"? Otherwise your comment might as well just say "No" and it contributes the same amount to the discussion.

Besides, I'd say it's both. There is no denying it was a murder, nor that it was targeted and based on what I understand "terrorism" to be, it seems like that too.
I learned about BCD when I was learning x86 assembly and have never came across them later. They are gone in x64.
So does the European Parliament: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/en/stay-infor...
I stumbled upon this when visualizing music. It is very interesting how everything is kind of non linear, like you mention. I had to increase low frequencies and then I got stuck trying to bucket frequencies. It seems humans have different fidelity for different ranges of frequencies
Kind of ironic since you can't easily export data as an end user without some friction
> Software on the actual camera is yet another question for me, why don't we have cameras with full fledged modern OS-es running custom androids for example with installable apps so you can finish a lot of stuff on the camera itself or make sharing to wherever a breeze.

A little more than 10 years ago Samsung tried that with their Galaxy NX (a bona fide DSLR running Android). It flopped and most reviewer noted that it a generally sluggish camera; a deal breaker when one of the design constraint of all their other competitor is to be reactive.

We mustn't forget that the main purpose of a camera is to take pictures, not to connect to a network.
Increased launch cadence is an operational achievement, not an engineering one.

And I'm not so sure that they actually decreased price to launch all that much. First of all, it's definitely not "several orders of magnitude", the best numbers quoted are maybe half price or so for a Falcon 9 compared to another contemporary rocket. And by my understanding, the US government at least is paying about as much for Falcon 9 as it was for a Soyuz to bring an astronaut to the ISS, at least.
So that company don't have to make new products to get your money but print money forever, milk the cow to the last drop.
Fitting a house with them would push it into mansion price ranges. The per-tile costs I could find when searching look to be around $1000.
Which defects? What reasons? Who is assuming?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-form_expression
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