skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm really eager to see what happens in the near future with WAT & WASI, but I'm also very aware of seeing a repeat of DLL hell.

I think we can at least say WebAssembly + WASI is distinct from DLL hell because at the very least your DLLs will run everywhere, and be intrinsically tied to a version and strict interface.

These are things we've just never had before, which is what makes it "different this time". Having cross-language runnable/introspectable binaries/object files with implicit descriptions of their interfaces that are this approachable is new. You can't ensure semantics are the same but it's a better place than we've been before.

> But, the reason I'm still on the fence is that I think there's more value in the UNIX style 'discrete commands' model, whether it's WASM or RISC-V I don't think anybody cares, but it's much more about self-describing interfaces with discoverability that can be glued together using whatever tools you have at your disposal.

A bit hard to understand here the difference you were intending between discrete commands and a self-describing interface, could you explain?

I'd also argue that WASM + Component Model/WASI as a (virtual) instruction set versus RISC-V are very different!
Everything is political once everyone is a broadcaster.
It comes down to what the extra flops get you nowadays. Just like a videogame from 5 years ago doesn't look very dated anymore, we need massive processing power gains to notice anything, and even then, for very few uses.
> I have the impression Intel is doing the same, though I’m less sure on that one.

That may be true on the low-power end of their lineup, but certainly not for the high end i9 chips. Those will increase the power budget for minuscule performance gains.
I am really sorry to hear you are going through this and hope you have family and friends supporting you guys. <3
Is this just an advertisement, or do I miss the techy/interesting part which usually justifies posts on this platform?
maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable

Oh no, it's a full time job for a few people. How will Google survive this revenue drain.
Wouldn't be surprised if the majority of xAI's GPU resources are being used for writing pro-Elon responses to Twitter comments.
Plauge.
IME heat is a significant factor with spindle drives. People will buy enterprise-class drives, then stick them in enclosures and computer cases that don't flow much air over it, leading to the motor and logic board getting much warmer than they should.
Musk can be convicted AFTER Trump isn't president.
Getting a 5090 for $5090 would be an absolute steal where I live
I think this is sort of cool to find out that a town in Korea take advantage of being on the DMZ to actually get more support for families

> Yanggu County, one of South Korea's smallest regions (population: 21,000), leverages its DMZ-adjacent military population (80% of residents) and healthcare innovation to achieve a 1.52 fertility rate.
Ask HN: Is SaaS Dead?
It seems like every CRUD application under the sun has been built, and it is difficult to carve out any value that can be productized. Anyone know of anyone that started with Saas(Non AI) recently and was successful?
On the topic of keyboard shortcuts I use both IntelliJ IDEs and VSCode every day.

IntelliJ ships a “VSCode” keymap in the product that you can switch to with one option in the settings.
The List of Trump's Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF
True

WASI Design Principles

Capability-based security
WASI is designed with capability-based security principles, using the facilities provided by the Wasm component model. All access to external resources is provided by capabilities.

There are two kinds of capabilities:

Handles, defined in the component-model type system, dynamically identify and provide access to resources. They are unforgeable, meaning there's no way for an instance to acquire access to a handle other than to have another instance explicitly pass one to it.

Link-time capabilities, which are functions which require no handle arguments, are used sparingly, in situations where it's not necessary to identify more than one instance of a resource at runtime. Link-time capabilities are interposable, so they are still refusable in a capability-based security sense.

WASI has no ambient authorities, meaning that there are no global namespaces at runtime, and no global functions at link time.

Source: https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI/blob/main/README.md
Sometimes the other group is neo nazis and are the dominant power.

Sometimes they are close enough but different that the similarities strike normal people. Except when they bring it up, the defense is “no actually the Nazis we’re specifically doing XYZ. This isn’t the same.
Which shuts down conversation about both - the actions being similar or identical.

But this is the value of rhetoric.
This is very cool. I had a very similar idea, although I was probably inspired by the same UX you've seen elsewhere.

I had already built an index cards app for Mac and iOS and it works really well for what it does, but the fixed size of the cards always bothered me since you're always limited vertically by the card, so I wanted to try a horizontally scrolling note editor like you have here.

I put together a quick prototype of the idea I came up last year. Here's a recording I did just now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V-kCD2aXcQ

Also inspired by Andy Matuschak's page. I've been meaning to work on it a bit more and get in the app store but have been busy with other projects.
Clojure was not "popular new" to be "boring" in a way, but it is boring in the sense that it works in a predictable manner, I use it for backend and data analysis, just works.
Four years for attempted murder seems awfully short.
Yup. But obnoxious and outrageous meeting polite protest is better than meeting more obnoxious and outrageous no?
> Hackers generally do not like authoritarianism.

that was true of "hackers" (who in "old times" might be more likely to associate with anarchism), but not true of "tech bros" (who seem much more concerned with how much money they have than how much they're hacking), and I think HN reflects more of the latter than the former, though of course a wide spectrum with lots of people that fit neither category
Thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S.
Musk lies frequently, and trolls just as frequently. Even if you take him at his word it is still pretty damning that a person in his position couldn't conceptualize how the gesture would be received, and then just not do it. I get the same vibes from people who defend it, they are frequently commenting in bad faith on many forums, and maybe even here where the discourse level is a bit higher.
To get a video card during lockdown someone gave me an invite to a micro center fan discord where people would post timely photos of what was on the shelves. They would also post photos of their crazy hardware, one of which was an air conditioner duct window insert feeding outdoor air to cool the GPUs (mining rig) and exhausting the hot air into a grow tent.
Ok I'll bite. What's another example? I don't think a post about Soviet Russia or really any other similar thing would get the same treatment.

I think you could invoke Godwin's law but it was seen as childish, not political.
Now it would be great if Apple allowed associating more than one country for my purchases to my apple id, i.e. based on having credit cards issued by banks in different countries.
Seems that for Apple does not exist the concept of living between to countries (expats, dual citizens, etc)
Previously (82 points, 1 day ago, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007862

.. but it didn't survive.
> I understand your point but sadly I think it's too idealistic (not that we shouldn't strive for these goals). We already have those sorts of tests for browsers, and browser compatibility is still a problem. We have acceptance tests for other areas, like Android's CTS tests, but there are still incompatibilities.
>

I think the browser problem is a marketshare/market power problem, and Wasm doesn't have that problem.

Also, I'd argue that compat tests for JS engines and browsers are an overall positive thing -- at least compared to the world where there is no attempt to standardize at all.

> That also assumes that everyone involved wants compatibility, and that's unlikely. Imagine a world where every WASM implementation is identical. If one implementation decides to change something to implement an improvement to differentiate themselves in the market, they'll likely win marketshare from the others.

This is a good thing though -- as long as it happens without breaking compatibility. Users are very sensitive to changes that introduce lock-in/break standards, and the value would have to be outsized for someone to forgo having other options.

> Most companies implementing WASM will tend to want to a) control the spec in their own favour, and b) gain advantages over other implementations. And this is why we can't have nice things.

I think you can see this playing out right now in the Wasm ecosystem, and it isn't working out like you might expect. There are great benefits in building standards because of friction reduction for users -- as long as there is a "standards first" approach, people overwhelmingly pick it if functionality is close enough.

Places that make sense to differentiate are differentiated, but those that do not start to get eaten by standards.

I think organizations that are aware of this problem and attempt to address is directly like the Bytecode Alliance are also one of the only forms of bulwark against this.
Dead. Fox News+Republican Orwellian state on one side, media competition for attention on the other.
maybe if a certain government wasn't implementing Nazi-like loyalty purges (and making Nazi-like salutes) no one would be drawing comparisons with Nazi-like behavior, would they?
Shit is this everybody?

I feel like I'm constantly mourning who I used to be, like it was a different person entirely and there's no getting that level of empathy or patience back again.
full-color refresh is very slow and very ugly

Non-problem in my view. Today's 'ugliness' is tomorrow's nostalgia.
Yes, one of the things that often gets overlooked about aging is that if you live long enough everyone you knew, and knew you, from certain eras of your life are gone... and that tends to make your life more ephemeral. Even the settings of your life are slowly removed, be it the house you grew up in, schools you attended, parks and other areas you played in with friends, businesses, styles, products, and technologies. One day you may find yourself looking around and finding nothing and no one that anchors you to the present.

This inevitability is something you should stave off as long as possible. Meet new people, add new experiences, learn new things while avoiding the siren call of nostalgia and the comfort of limiting yourself to the familiar.
Excerpts from the article:

"(According to investigators, this altitude data was rounded to the nearest 100.)"

[...]

"At over 100 miles an hour, the helicopter could have risen to 300 feet from 200 in seconds, because of winds or other factors. Such anomalies are not unusual and can be quickly corrected."

I read your comment as implying that you've concluded it's pilot error. I don't disagree, but a good system should be robust against human error. Perhaps the permitted flight paths were too close together? I'm not an expert, but a commercial jet making a landing approach 100 feet above a helicopter doesn't seem safe or normal to me.
Actually conduct a proper study and defund unnecessary programs.

If your family needed to do a budget, to suddenly stop paying your bills is not wise frugality.
> So why not choose to do something different now?

I mean, sure, I haven't really had the same level of "moral character test" since then, I would like to think I'd do better now, but it's of course impossible to say.

> Why not create facts that support a new narrative about how failing then led to you being a better person now? — eg, volunteering.

I tried teaching for a few semesters primarily for emotional satisfaction reasons, and that had its moments, though that also made me realize that I am have a lot of emotional baggage that I need to work through.

At this point I have been just trying to keep myself busy with personal projects and diving deep into useless computer science theory. Fortunately, I never got into drinking or doing drugs, so all things considered reading used textbooks isn't the worst vice.
> With git, it's basically impossible to mess up the repo state.

I must be a wizard because I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve messed up my repo’s state.

I jest. Kinda. I know that git’s state might technically not be messed up and someone skilled in the ways of git could get me out of my predicament. But the fact that I’m able to easily dig myself into a hole that I don’t know how to get out of is one of git’s biggest issues, in my opinion.
> we all know helping disabled is not the end-game objective of neuralink.

Can you tell us more what you surmise we all think is the end-game objective?
aic j4108 for 108 drives.

Not a server per se, but you just take one 1U server and daisy chain a lot of those JBOD chassis for the needed capacity. You can have 1080 disks in a 42" rack.
I had the same experience, hitting back a couple times and refreshing the page allowed me to continue... But I imagine this would be a steep dropoff in engagement if you aren't taken back to the same page.
Sounds like flOw
I love AI2’s work. They are the one actually open AI team, since they publish everything - their training data sets, the training source code, the weights, all of it. You could reproduce their model from scratch if you wanted.

I tried the app they published today that does on-device AI. It’s not bad but its inference is definitely slower than using a paid service like ChatGPT. Maybe future chipsets will make this a lot better and lead to privacy first AI apps.
Nobody should ever have peace of mind about a single drive. You probably have odds around 5% that the storage drive fails each cycle, and another 5% for the OS drive. That's significant.

And in your particular situation, 3 refurbished WUH721414ALE6L4 are the same total price. If you put those in RAIDZ1 then that's 28TB with about as much reliability as you can hope to have in a single device. (With backups still being important but that's a separate topic.)
Yeah, money was a great second love.
But being reminded of the OG is part of everyone’s personal journey. What people remember and choose is theirs in the end.
DOGE's next target is the Pentagon which has repeatedly failed audits, on a massive scale, with 0 consequences. Previously.
I'd love this to be banned. Not only is it a visual eyesore form the street, it devalues public transport's brand, and in many cases it makes it hard for people inside the vehicle to see where they are.
There really must be something less bloated for local static pages. Embedded SQLite and react just for a few nested table queries? Come on, js has maps and hashtables. React for displaying generated content? My DOM inserter is half a page, and loads instantly
> I don't understand WASM, but I read that a big draw of WASM is it's ability to provide portability to any language. This would mean Python libraries that depend on an unpopular C library (which could be lost to time) could instead be a single WASM blob.

Yes, this is a key value of WebAssembly compared to other approaches, it is a relatively (compared to a container or a full blown VM) lightweight way to package and distribute functionality from other languages, with high performance and fast startup. The artifact is minimal (like a static/dynamic library, depending on how much you've included), and if your language has a way to run WASM, you have a way to tap into that specialized computation.
tldr Jobs put two teams to work on the iPhone development- the iPod team led by Fadell and the iPad team lead by Forstall (Apple began work on the iPad before the iPhone, though Jeff Han’s 2006 TED talk changed everything). Fadell presented an iPhone prototype with click wheel. Jobs went with Forstall’s concept. Much later, Forstall became pretty unpopular and few people had qualms with Fadell taking credit.

A lot of this is covered in various CHM fireside chats - this is a good one: https://youtu.be/5xDRdWFdsoQ
According to google gdp of Denmark is $0.4 trillion the gdp of California is $4.0 trillion.gdp of Greenland is $0.003 trillion.

Trump likes to do deals- maybe he would just do an even swap.
Nope!

Weirdly, I'm probably the one person who's worked extensively with both paradigms...

There are several players in the balloon market spinning up. It's becoming very hot very fast.

The balloons in question are much smarter that radiosondes now. They are fully capable of autonomous navigation within certain limits and can even orbit a point for days at a time via some clever weather mechanics. They're also very easy to launch. Two guys and a truck can launch over a dozen in a day and they're all aggregated and flown remotely via various links.

On the payload side it's actually much easier to do optics on a balloon, you have all the same pressure and thermal issues as space but you can iterate much faster when your cost to first pixels is thousands instead of tens of millions for the same ground resolution (GSD, drives necessary aperture size). I'm not going to spell out the details on either because that's the secret sauce that pays my mortgage but it suffices to say, if you're 10x lower, you need a lens that weights a little less. It's also worth noting that a VLEO sat will only be overhead for a few minutes, balloons can stream live video as long as you want, right now (no future tech or constellations needed).

The class of UAV that can begin to compete with a balloon is two to three orders of magnitude more expensive and still has nowhere near the endurance.

There are also other sensors and phenomenologies that are wildly more capable on a balloon platform than any type of satellite or UAV but I'll get yelled at if I spell any of those out...
how can I try it?
The US federal government had a lot of money going into people and activities that were contrary to Republican political values. Finding new structures through which government money can flow is just as much of a goal as removing the unwanted ones. The result should be a government that does valuable things for the American people. For USAID, the Department of Education, and others, their value proposition has been weakened by outsize expenditures that both increased bureaucracy and pushed socio-political agendas.

To your last point, the difference between private sector debt and federal government debt is the former has to pay it off or face consequences, while the latter never has to pay it and can simply print more money. Rather than taxing the rich, such a nation can simply expand the market for its own currency via decades of imperialist strategy. It is what it is. Anyway, exactly how much money you or I think the government should be printing per day doesn't change the fact that easy money leads to frivolous spending.

"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times"

Who exactly would need 1.5x the $ to absorb these federal workers into the private sector? I think you have it backwards. With less competition from the federal government in the labor market, the private sector can now scoop up ex-federal talent for 2/3 of what they'd normally pay.

Wasteful spending in the private sector looks like yachts, lavish events, and mansions. In the government, wasteful spending often looks like perfection. Taking information security as an example, the private industry pushed for the NIST CSF because it was more efficient than the government's NIST RMF / SP 800-53. While the latter is more comprehensive, you end up with wasteful excesses like network printers needing FIPS 199 moderate risk control baselines.

Cuts to the managerial class, as has been advocated by Republicans, will reduce these excesses and push people into career paths that produce actual value. If it backfires and leads to an economic downturn, then fine, because I'm OK with property prices going down in one of the most expensive areas in the whole country.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723
Protestors and activists have to be very careful to manage public reactions.

Alienating the people who don’t care is always a risk.

It’s one reason I don’t go to protests, and generally avoid activism, even though I care greatly about many issues and take discreet action when I can.

My representatives know my views very well, as do many government rule-making bodies that must consider public input.

My neighbors know nothing about this. Even though I’m well known to the press, they have no idea what my politics are.
There's no succinct command designed to work with mailed patches yet, but you could mimic it with a little scripting.

Maybe something like this?

```
for patch_file in "$@"; do
jj new

patch -p1 < "$patch_file"

author=$(extract_author "$patch_file")
commit_message=$(extract_commit_message "$patch_file")

jj describe -m "$commit_message" --author "$author"

done
```
Simulation: An Underutilized Tool in Distributed Systems
Give people a minute. It takes a while for the old OS to boot up and finish its systems check.

I found this to be a great video that has acted as a reminder of what it used to be.
https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-bioterrorism-will-save-your-life...

People need exemplars, stories, ideas move their changes along.
> It really isn’t workable — in law specifically - for copyright to attach to the mere selection of a quote from a case to represent that case’s holding on an issue. After all, we would expect many lawyers analyzing the case independently to converge on the same quotes!

I guess it depends on how long the source is, and how long the collection of quotes is, if we’d expect multiple lawyers to converge on the same solution. I don’t think it is totally obvious, though…

I’m also not sure if that’s a generally good test. It seems great for, like, painting. But I wouldn’t be surprised if we could come up with a photography scene where most professionals would converge on the same shot…
Yeah i want a way to hide some apps from the appstore purchase list (and unhide). It just gets more and more unweildly.
Parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages
I’m still working on it, not as extreme as some of these cases here it feels quite embarrassing to admit how much I mourn for my old life (changed country, became a father, zero social circle etc).

Zen practice and fitness have made an astronomically large improvement for me, but I guess everyone has to find that which helps them accept their current situation.
> taking away their ability to participate in society first, then selling it back to the richest of them is an ingenious business approach.

That's not what is happening here. These tools (Neuralink and others) enable people who are disabled to participate more in society.
Unity started its market exit strategy a couple of years ago.
You didn't provide any analysis into why things are different now, and offered up a truism. A country is "allowed" to do anything it can get away with. Like declaring war on all of its neighbors. I don't feel like I need to be protected from foreigners. Why do you?