skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you get your driver into the mainline kernel, it gets maintained. If your driver is not in mainline, then you have to deal yourself with kernel internals changing.

Hell, a while back one of the kernel devs was actively screaming for hardware manufacturers to reach out to them so folks could work with the manufacturer to get drivers for their products into mainline. There was even a website and nice instructions on what to do and who to contact... but I'll be fucked if I can find it anymore.

There's nothing nefarious going on... it's explicitly stated (and well-known) that the stable interface to Linux is the userspace interface. Inside the kernel, things are subject to change at any time. Don't want to have to work to keep up? Get your driver into mainline!
This looks like a very good template for user documentation. As a developer, I find that I struggle with balancing the documentation for what the user needs; what my co-workers need so that they can collaborate and approve whatever I'm implementing; and what management needs to convince them that it meets requirements and is ready for production. Having templates or checklists to compare to is a good way to able to quickly evaluate which aspects haven't been addressed yet and whether or not that's ok/appropriate for the given task.
This blog post is a piece of art. Well done!
Seems like he passed away in June but maybe the Estate didn't sort out everything until recently?

https://www.brickfanatics.com/tributes-for-founder-lego-webs...
> You're not arguing in good faith, because that is a perfectly valid reason.

I'm not arguing in bad faith :(... in fact you are arguing in bad faith more than. You're assuming something I don't mean to imply!

I prefaced my question because "my religion told me to" is boring, and I assume that I wouldn't be able to learn anything from that reasoning. If however, the reason isn't based in religion, I've never considered it, and would be very interested to learn something I've never heard before

I don't agree it's a perfectly valid reason. I believe religion as a whole, is a net negative for humanity.

But I do agree that anyone is allowed to take their morality from anywhere they'd like. I don't intend, and would reject the idea of anyone who tries to control what other people want to believe (some restrictions apply). So anyone is free to believe that ethics and morality can only come from religion, I personally think that's dumb, but they likely think my reason are dumb, so we're even.

I'm just not interested in the religious reasoning... but almost exclusively because I find it boring, and not useful to me.
It feels funny having to connect a keyboard and mouse to the iPhone or run the iPhone through the Mirroring Tool on a MacBook to properly write in the Journal app.
Given everything I hear about LLMs for similar summary purposes including your description and that given above, it seems unlikely that the LLM would be all that likely to “notice” a side note in a huge chart. I agree that’d be great but I’m curious why you think it would necessarily pick up on that sort of thing.
Lossless roundtrip conversion is only true for schemes like YCoCg-R [1]. It is not true for Rec.601, Rec.709, etc. because these standards require quantizing to 8bits (actually even less than 8bits due to the 16-235 thing).

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
That's my fourth point above, viz: The US stepping in as the world's leading manufacturer in the post-war era, having its industrial plant intact, raw materials available, and demobilisation providing for a vast increase in the labour force itself without wage reductions.

The irony is that the countries which did substantially see their industry wrecked and received Marshall Plan or equivalent funds afterward turned into the most competitive post-war economies, most notably Germany and Japan.

The US managed to build out new infrastructure, where it couldn't convert its war plant directly (which in automobiles, lorries, locomotives, ships, and aircraft it largely did).

We saw spectacular greenfields development most especially in high-speed rail, first in Japan, then France and Germany, all of which saw both infrastructure and real estate valuations (the key obstruction to railroad rights-of-way) collapse after the War. (China's HSR build-out follows a similar dynamic, though with different reasons, as that country industrialised for the first time.)

(Edit: The US hasn't established HSR, largely I feel because its previously-transport-enabled real-estate became too valuable. It's not tractably feasible to buy rights of way in the US, alternatives such as subway construction are themselves phenomenally expensive.)

I'm not sure of all the reasons for the UK's relative economic stagnation, though I suspect it was a mix of WWI and WWII debt, not having its industry blown to splinters, being out-competed by the US, and losing its cheap inputs as the Empire collapsed and colonies were spun out as independent states.

(Edit: The UK didn't see an economic turn-around until the 1980s, largely as North Sea oil came online, a boom it managed to extend with financialisation of the City of London, though that was largely restricted to the London metro region itself at a cost to the rest of the country which is immensely backwards.)

It's interesting to note that the US's post-war boom began slowing in the 1970s (for reasons which are widely, and I strongly suspect mostly wrongly speculated upon, particular the goldbugs' hypothesis), whilst Japan and later South Korea's were just hotting up (the latter imploded with the asset bubble collapse in 1990), and later of course China starting to grow significantly during the 1990s.

But at the end of WWII, the US had huge productive capacity, largely non-obsolete factories, worldwide markets for goods, raw materials, and a largely intact workforce (vanishingly few overall war casualties), a situation few other countries could claim, and none at similar scale. This provided about two-to-three decades runtime before factors caught up with it.

And in light of the 1929 crash, helped both prolong the expansion out of that crisis and see that the rewards were widely distributed among socioeconomic classes rather than concentrated amongst the very wealthy. That formula's not been tried since.

(Edits: Note two late adds above, they clarify/expand my argument slightly, pre-empt some possible counterarguments, and shouldn't change the meaning significantly.)
> the incentive for automating anything is cost

Cost savings are a huge factor, but in self-driving (and other areas) safety and consistency are equally important.

Waymo's make mistakes, but they don't get tired, drunk, distracted, or angry.
Nice, I was about to go to the beach today. Pretty useful.

How do you get the data?

On mobile: every time I type in the search box, the app closes my keyboard. I think it's every few letters, on the debounce function? I'm using Android Chrome and Firefox.
The results he's able to achieve with this are very impressive. I wonder if consumers would accept a TV that isn't paper thin if it had OLED performance at LCD prices.
I can't help but read a strong implication in the article of the problem being with Labour policies. But up until recently, the Conservatives have been in power, for 14 years straight.

We can pretend the problem is all nanny state and neglected shitty council housing - which I agree it partly is - but it's also the creation of a vast class of landlords and property developers milking the population for rent with shoddily built super-expensive apartments. Classical free market thinking would have you believe they'd build enough housing to satisfy demand but they seem more than satisfied with maintaining the status quo so they can continue to charge exorbitant rents for little shitboxes with paper-thin walls, made to look fancy from a distance. These landlords have had a tremendous influence on Tory politicians and on policy.

And with everybody stuck in those high-rent dividend-machines, people under 40 can't afford to outright buy a house or even an apartment. And if you own a house, by means of its value gradually increasing, your mortgage reducing, and your salary hopefully increasing somewhat, you can eventually move on to a bigger/better house making room for the next young family to buy the house you're leaving behind.

Not to mention the absolute scam that is selling people leaseholds on apartments designed to make it prohibitively expensive to buy off the lease. An uniquely devious instrument dreamt up by the rentseeking class to screw over the average middle-class Brit.

The free market, cutting red tape, etc, isn't the answer. The government and the councils could and in my opinion should pick up the slack from the property developers. Build affordable houses, sell them at a reasonable rate with a provision mandating the buyer actually occupies the property for the coming 5 years or so (outside of exigent circumstances like divorce - we can work out the details). Sell them to people who are actually going to live in the house rather than use it as a financial instrument to speculate with or to rent out.

Is that unfair competition to the rentseekers? Yes, it is. Tough luck. You can't demand the government play by free market rules if you've successfully been undermining the free market functioning for at least two decades.

Sadly, with the current Labour government being very 'Tory but change the typeface and make it red,' this isn't going to happen. Cause they're friends with the real estate class too.
Vice: A Dynamic Framework for Making Product Decisions
>China being a nuclear power means it would be unlikely to escalate past a certain point if anyone is acting rationally.

Well, Russia is a nuclear power, and not everyone is acting rationally. Russia got part of it's own territory occupied now, and some important oil and gas facilities are literally being bombed, not talking about regular cities and homes.

Russian nuclear doctrine is: Russia could launch nuclear weapons in response to an attack on its territory by a non-nuclear-armed state.

Their warheads are still at bay, why is that? I don't believe they will ever fly, because no-one is stupid enough to make the first move, and the war can go on neglecting them.
Some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43256389
Show HN: I made an AI agent that auto-create your videos for social media
The question may be genuine but its phrasing probably suggests an allegation to most readers.
If the vehicles are owned and operated by a private company not otherwise contracted by a public entity (as in, a government), how are they public?
You don't leave a leak in a boat unplugged just because it's not the only one.
True, but for this purpose, it's "blacker" than a typical LED backlit TV. For a Youtube / DIY project ... I think the description is fine.
Putin started this war and he can end it whenever he wants to. Appeasing bullies does not encourage them to stop bullying.
That is why I say "might, possibly", rather than being firmly yes or no.

R&D is high-variance.
10.7B endowment. Clearly can't make it without federal funds.
My biggest use case was as a recipe manager: I used the app Mela and placed the iPad in the kitchen, giving me a touchscreen with water resistance that would give me step-by-step instructions on cooking the family meal.
I had a college prof who in his real job wrote -all the things- in Modula-2.
Smartphone isn't really even a device category, it's a legal category. I barely ever use my phone as a phone; I don't talk on it, I type on it and tap on it; it's just a computer and an access point to networks.

But it's a special kind of computer where all the laws are different, I have different rights when I'm near it or using it, and I am in constant battle with the companies that sold the phone to me to 1) try to keep my life as private as I can and 2) not pay them a commission on things I buy.

But what can I say about my phone that I couldn't now say about my TV, or my car?

This will never become less dangerous, this will become increasingly more dangerous.
It's an interesting article with some contrasts I hadn't considered, but as a tangent, why does the site think it needs 200% CPU constantly, even when not scrolling, just to show me a wall of text?
Ignoring the fact that the projector doesn't get to true black (noted by smusamashah), and supposing there's no diffusion that spreads the light of a pixel out to surrounding areas of the display panel, it would be possible to say that the display has infinite contrast, I suppose that is true.

Contrast is important, but alone it is useless. You could have a display with only two levels: black and white, and if the black is perfectly black, then it's infinite contrast (any level of white, no matter how dim, is infinitely brighter than total black), but 1-bit color would be useless in reality for home theater.

To make infinite contrast useful, it's necessary to have HDR as well to take advantage of having very dark and very bright areas both able to be represented with detail. Plus having sufficiently bright maximum brightness so that the brightest highlights can really shine.
He also did not do (or at least did not mention) anything about the reflected/diffused and ambient light behind and around the TV screen, which would negatively impact contrast.
I'm looking forward to getting back to Zig soon, especially now that there is support for Asahi linux.

I like that for low level SoC stuff, there is now the packed struct, which makes register representation very nice to deal with, especially with the definable int types, although I'm often torn between a u1, bool and sometimes even a enum(u1) for certain flags. I tend to let the SoC documentation (naming convention) drive that decision.

Otherwise there is a lot of nice and simply designed language stuff in Zig that also takes me back to my C / asm days. My least fav. part is maybe multi-line string literals that look like comments. I prefer the kotlin approach there.

I'd like to find a non walled-garden Zig community if there are other Zig fans here, ie just a forum. Or tips on editor to use? since I am tired of electrons being burned needlessly, and almost feel like I need to VM these modern dev tools.
Mining rock is energy intensive - I think I read somewhere about 15% of the worlds electricity is spent on mining activities.

There is a danger that if you spend 300x more energy to enrich your uranium then you might achieve netzero - but not in a good way.
Not quite the minimum. :-)

Beams of neutrinos can be sent through the Earth and detected on the other side.

https://www.livescience.com/19075-neutrino-particle-communic...
Surely there must be plenty of rigorous studies by now which convincingly demonstrate how "AI" as sold today is a bad idea? Not to mention tons of individual experiences which fail to be acknowledged by science as datapoints, for which we have the wonderful term "anecdata".

Neither seems to be stopping capitalism from forcing the existence of AI upon us (nor of the proto-AI technologies, such as the ones that gather data for it, or make public opinion receptive to it). Knowledge is [nothing without] power, and it saddens me to see how power-blind supposedly "intelligent" people keep making themselves, leaving the reins to self-important idiots who... do you think they even have an agenda? They're just like us, status monkeys doing whatever the smartphone commands them to do.

And this is, again, AI in the narrow, marketing sense. I'm one of those frowned upon people who say a corporation, or a government, already is an artificial intelligent subject, just a very slow one.
Trump may have talked America into recession before trade tariffs even imposed
> Now that the US is packing up and going home, the same people are screaming for the US to stay and continue being the exact thing they shit talked the US for. What a spectacle.

On the contrary, Russian tanks rolling into Eastern Europe is something many people on the left and right in the United States have always taken seriously, and judged to be worthy of the US's intervention, even if they judged some of our other interventions to be bullshit. The strange part - the real change - is that there are people now who do not.
It's also intended to frustrate people so that they are encouraged to quit.
Don't think so, raster to vector conversions don't look that sharp
I wonder why you are being downvoted. The abstract of that paper alone doesn't make me confident that the authors know what they are talking about:

Abstract - Mobile operating system is a light weight
operating which is used in mobile device. Some operating
systems have additional features like sensor embedding
and also OTG. In this paper we are going to compare
between android and iPhone Operating System (iOS)
mobile operating systems that available in the market
which is more specific various issues. The issues which we
are going to discuss in this paper is not only concern to
mobile customers but also concern to software developers.
The security requirements for MOS are Memory
Randomization, Encryption, Data Storage Format and
Built-in Antivirus. Memory randomization ensures that the
memory regions of mobile application as well as system
shared libraries are all randomized at device and
application start-up. In this paper we want compare and
analyse the operating system of the Android and iOS.
Business terms every Engineering Manager should know
RIP silent hero
The ability to record has led the greatest expansion I musical artistry in human history.

Ty it don’t think peasants were listening t to Bach, do you? Only the extraordinarily wealthy could afford to have music as anything like an every day thing.
"For the rest of your life"? You shouldn't be feeling anything different once it's all healed up. For a couple weeks, sure. My current work-in-progress gets the "second skin" permeable dressing for several days, then it comes off. For a few days after that, moisturizer. Now it's just part of me, but darker.
He relocated to Texas specifically because it was a friendlier judicial environment for him. Even in the incredibly unlikely event this approach worked and the court ruled against him, he'd just relocate to a state that offered him a better deal. There is no accountability in our present system for someone like Elon Musk. Too rich, too connected, too powerful to touch.
The trump coin is on the chain of one of the announced reserve coins.
Eh, Choc switches have less travel than MX switches but I wouldn't say they have very little travel. Chocs main selling point is the form factor which allows the keyboard chassis to be much thinner. MX switches usually have 4mm of travel, Choc switches have 3mm, while the PG1316S switches used in OPs keyboard only have 1.8mm. I think Apples current switches are even shallower at ~1mm.
> The way it's phrased, it's basically trying to subconsciously set the baseline that you should expect to pay more for autonomous rides (because "tech")

It’s literally already happening in this thread.
I think their true goals are pretty transparent, but the specifics of how they plan to achieve them are more secretive.

The CCP primarily wants to gain power. Political, economic, and social. The levels of ambition probably vary by individuals inside the party, but generally involves a uniform level of control across all regions of China (including Taiwan from their point of view), and enough global power to give them a free hand in East Asia.

Chinese nationals may put more emphasis on increasing prosperity. Taiwan nationals may put more emphasis on strict control and global power. Individual reactions largely vary. Out of both groups, limitations on personal liberties cause the harshest criticism of CCP, with the one child policy almost universally seen unfavorably.
I was recently looking for IPv4/IPv6-only HTTP services hosted by major CDNs (for https://github.com/pmarks-net/ipvfoo/issues/60), and found these:

Cloudflare: https://ipv4.icanhazip.com + https://ipv6.icanhazip.com

Akamai: https://ipv4.whatismyip.akamai.com + https://ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com

The problem with https://checkip.amazonaws.com is that it neither supports IPv6, nor claims that it will remain IPv4-only, so it's not clear what you'll get in the future.
Golioth Launches Bluetooth-to-Cloud Connectivity
I have this very stupid question and I haven't seen it answered anywhere.

Let's say LLM while training is ingesting a very long book.

The name of the author of the book would appear at the very beginning.

While inference, how does the llm determine that the last chapter of the book is written by so and so author and hence that chunk should be near that author's style.
This is the keyboard I’ve been hoping Apple would make for years! I’ve currently got a UHK 60 but would probably switch to this if I could buy it. Especially if it had the standard Apple keyboard layout so my fingers don’t need to relearn things like arrow keys and cmd like when I switch between the UHK and MacBook keyboard.
Abusing political power is completely different topic than idea of make decisions for others and pretend that it is in favour of majority.
https://archive.is/ORDiU
Every time I ask rhetorically what a known, paid Russian asset would do differently as President of the US than Trump is doing, I get crickets from Trump supporters.
I mean, respect is what it's about, isn't it? Respect for the user. LTSC still upholds that, while the conventional retail and corporate installations don't. No third-party add-ons can repair a closed-source OS that has been intentionally corrupted and degraded by its manufacturer. I desperately wish they could, but they can't.

Conway's Law applies ("A product reflects its producer's org chart"), as does Gresham's Law ("The bad drives out the good.") A pressing question for Apple users is whether the same corrosion is at work at their own vendor of choice.
Def give it a try. It's pretty slick.
The open DNS query failed for me with: "Query A or AAAA for your source address as seen by the resolver" But, the google nameserver did work. Thanks!
The article however is discussing year-over-year.

> The plunge in Tesla electric vehicle sales has continued into February, according to the latest official data, with combined sales of the Model Y and Model 3 EVs plunging 71.9 per cent in the month of February, compared to the same month a year earlier.

Meanwhile EV sales appear to be UP globally year-over-year (in this case, January 2024 to January 2025)

https://rhomotion.com/news/global-ev-sales-grow-by-18-in-202...
Plus he also had the smarts to use plausible mechanisms to remove advanced computers (the Butlerian Jihad) and nuclear weapons (some sort of extreme taboo based on a historical event IIRC? it's been a while..) from the technologies available to the Dune universe. This allowed the exploration of all sorts of human developmental possibilities - the Bene Gesserit and mentats, advanced schools of martial art and mental discipline etc.

On the topic of the Butlerian Jihad, and its echo of the historic Islamic taboo on art representing living things - looking around the current world and bearing in mind how twisted out of shape our social conversation has arguably become so quickly given that iPhones only landed in 2007... you have to wonder whether it is such an outlandish idea. Looking at the news over the last few weeks and months makes me realise that it is incredibly hard to see outside your historical moment, until things just happen! There are many possibilities and reality can get weird...
No. Next?