skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Looks like something I would pay $150 for

That's useful market information, but note that in the "How much did it cost?" section he points out that the BOM is ~$400 not including labor, tools, or shipping. Going from extremely low-volume to moderately low-volume might reduce material cost slightly, but I'd still expect him to have to charge at least $400 just to break even.

More generally, I've never seen a low-volume split wireless keyboard for less than $200 and the closest in design I can think of would be https://lowprokb.ca/products/corne-ish-zen which had a base price of $320 before pricing in keyswitches or keycaps.

It's totally reasonable that this is your price point and everyone is different -- some people would never pay more than a hundred bucks for a keyboard, whereas I have a couple keyboards that are more expensive than the computers they're connected to.
It will be a withdrawal of US troops and bases with a wink wink. And nothing but impeachment can compel the president to actually respond to an article V call.
Help fish navigate Dutch canals by ringing a digital doorbell
I like to think of mozart and the amount of music he listened to and was influenced by and compare it to what (I imagine) is used by these machines. Heck, you don't even instruct the machines on scales, rhythms or other sorts of fundamental musical aspects, you just tell the machines to make noise that sounds like what they've hoovered up. I'm still convinced that AI music proponents want to blur and obscure the differences between human composers and machine "composers" but I personally think the differences are pretty interesting and worthy of consideration.
Just spent the last 5min clicking around, nice! I like the map design too!
> The concept of compile-time programming having the same appearance as runtime programming is very cool in my opinion

https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/compile-time-function-ev...
Startup says its 'woolly mice' bring mammoth revival closer
Shrinking PostScript Tiny Ray Tracer
How I shrank Takashi Hayakawa's 33 years old tiny ray tracer by 33 bytes
True, but gold is (and especially was) a store of wealth, into which "produce and labor of the nation" had been converted over time by European nations
And yet, here you are on the Internet, built with public dollars. You're happy to purchase goods delivered by public infrastructure. You're happy to use a cell phone and a computer which are designed and engineered largely by people educated with public dollars. When your kids are sick, you take them to a doctor who was educated at public institutions, whose education was funded with public loans, who will prescribe medicine developed using public research grants.

And the idea that your wife and children could be raped and murdered (along with yourself of course) by an invading horde is so far from your mind that you don't even register it as something you're paying for, but if we all weren't paying for other people to protect your liberty, you might be just as unfortunate as the Ukrainians right now, who are facing that very threat.

You think you can fund an army yourself with 30% of your income? Really?
The West seems to be not that unitary nowadays. What would be the reason for the half with ASML to keep doing the second thing you have listed?
What are the deeper reasons for the war? All I hear from talking heads is this is aggression from Russia to grab resources and potentially continue to expand their territories through conquest.
> post '08 and until 2016 the UK economy was the fastest growing in the G7,

Found George Osborne's account! Seriously though, you're wrong:

- https://www.statista.com/statistics/1370599/g7-country-gdp-g... there is one year (2014) where the UK has a higher GDP growth rate

- https://www.statista.com/statistics/1370625/g7-country-gdp-l... when looking at GDP per-capita it tells a similar story
but these AI tools let you customize the music according to your needs.
Can a systems programming lanugage use garbage collection? I don't think so.
Funny Trumps advisor stated one of the options was BOOSTING support for Ukraine to the point Russia was forced to the table. Funny how that option which would be much more aligned with American's past actions, commitments, policy stance, and allies wasn't chosen but this 'predictable' one was, especially by a President that likes to claim he takes action via strength (but chooses this weakening of his sides negotiating position).
Suing small creators and businesses out of existence, scammy pricing policies (anything with the Star Wars license is overpriced 2-4x), increasing quality problems, very little in terms of own IP (in contrast to the 90s).

McKinsey types have taken over.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20884542 The "Held der Steine" logo lawsuit story is what has made me aware of their practices.
Supabase is open source, you can self-host it!
While I find the Russian invasion of Ukraine appalling, as a counterpoint to all the "Trump is destroying the US' reputation" mono-point that I've read so far (although I agree with that, too): John Maersheimer [1] gave a great explanation and prediction (~10 years prior) of why the whole thing happened. The US saw Russian weakness, decided to expand NATO to Ukraine, and the Russians said "no way will we let NATO be on our border, we'll destroy Ukraine first". We ignored them because they were weak, and they did what they said they would do. So I'm a little torn, because the situation is unwinnable without a major commitment, which nobody wants to do, and is not even in our interests, since we have a peer-competitor conflict shaping up with China. But our hubris caused the whole situation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
If anything that just proves the point more. Either the kiosk was conveniently built with all of those coinciding measurements on accident, or someone built them into it intentionally. One is more likely than the other.
I've tried SFSD on our Model 3 a few times. Neither my wife nor I liked it and we turned it off after a few days. We don't do much highway driving though.

(it may not have been v13; we tried it first about a year ago, then again 2-3 months ago)
So? It might be a submarine article for Anduril, but their point still stands. The FAA regulations on Drones needs to be rewritten to allow innovation for both commercial and defense purposes.
My impression was that the most likely scenario was China blockading Taiwan until forcing a surrender. In that case, the US and its allies would have time to respond although may be busy doing other things (eg responding to ships near Australia/NZ or Japan)

Your situations seem possible but don't really cover any of the nuance of the real situation (see what China has been doing to the Philippines in the south china sea)

A multiyear conflict with China would be difficult for the US. The manufacturing capacity and proximity would make a large category of aid difficult/impossible/useless. (Allies like SK or Japan could be more helpful in this situation)
Looks great. Thanks. One thing, maybe make it clear that it's free? I went looking for pricing especially when I saw the support link at the top.
> I would gladly add explicit types everywhere instead of this to use Crystal

Agreed. Good IDE support can easily add explicit types too.
To be fair, even local, small language models fare pretty well in such things (both explaining and writing).
A small thread from long ago:

Massive Aircraft Carrier made of Lego, 200,000 bricks, 350LB - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=415448 - Dec 2008 (3 comments)
Interesting... I'll have a look at the "algo"

Yep no need to over engineer things here :)
> Looking out 5-10 years, it's conceivable that the error rates on a lot of these systems will be super-human (non-zero, but better than a human). It's also conceivable that you could actually respond "Say Again" to a speech-to-speech model that can correct and repeat any mistakes as they're happening.

This is effectively AGI.

And I've not seen anyone reputable suggest that our current LLM track will get us to that point. In fact there is no path to AGI. It requires another breakthrough in pure research in an environment where money is coming out of universities.
Is this just another form of the same concept behind smart contracts?
No, a GitHub PR has benefits that far exceed a mailing list post, to me
Yeah, but unfortunately 'systems programming language' is a bit vaguely defined. I'd call any language which can deliver a binary executable and which offers some degree of lower-level control (like getting the disassembly of a procedure or deliberately being able to stack-allocate things) systems languages, but others may have different ideas.
>The worst that would happen is that the forks don't stay updated.

Which is hardly trivial, there are hundreds of open issues on Bugzilla for XUL alone. Some of the gaps include accessibility issues, which is down more to Cr better supporting APIs provided by vendors like NVDA. This is first of all, not something that is 'easy to evade' for the affected demographic, and secondly something Mozilla was an industry leader in for a long time. Obviously, Google didn't invest in this out of any sense of altruism, but it speaks to the sustainability of browser development, and what approaches thereof actually work.
This countries lack of affordable housing is due to NIMBYs pulling the ladder up after themselves. We could build enough housing for all the short term rentals and second homes people want if it was legal. Rich people owning houses isnt a problem unless theyre leaving them vacant en masse which by and large is not happening.
? Unbound and NSD are pretty popular.
Very cool and a great speaker. Forgive my naivete but would enclosing the back with a short-throw projector reintroduce the LCD light bleed he fought hard to eliminate? I wonder how you would address that. I suspect painting the interior Ventablack wouldn't be enough.
> Black on a projector is still projected light, especially with a DLP which have the worst contrast ratios of the 3 projector types (DLP, LCD, LCoS).

If DLP has worst contrast than LCD, then why would this project be even remotely successful? Wouldn't the LCD layer in the stock LCD TV would have already been more effectively blocking the light from the stock backlight?
UBI for DMV
I actually use this to add authentication headers to images directly via src="". No blob management in javascript :)
You’re presuming it is useless just because it sounds useless to a layman.
It's really only been 6 weeks. People need to catch their breath. I'd anticipate a massive escalation in push back.
what is GR?
"lol" is not evidence. There is no evidence IRI is getting anything from RF.

Khamenei studied as a student in USSR prior to the revolution. He is likely a Russian asset. Nothing else can explain the decisions of that "ayatollah". The other day an Isreali news site reported Iran is not on the list of invitees to the May 9 goose stepping show in Moscow. (Israel is invited). IRI got sanctioned for giving drones to RF and now Russia will get off the list while IRI sanctions remain. Russia supports UAE regarding their bs claims on 3 strategic micro-islands in the Persian Gulf. The fabled S-400 have never ever been offered to IRI, and IRI previously had to sue (yes) Russia to finally get the S-300s that they had long ago paid for, which then promptly got bombed by Israel. The list goes on and on ..

"Back to school now" for Ali Khamenei - I bet you didn't know this. In fact curious as to where you even get actual news about IRI if you don't speak Persian ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN_oEJEp9Ro [1:38 ..]
Between this and the drone-swarm command experiment from yesterday, seems like whoever is heading DARPA mains Zerg in StarCraft.
Counter-Argument: Win11 Pro with Shutup is actually pretty great. I’m actually not totally sure if Shutup is even needed but I’ve used it for so long I don’t really care to A/B test.

The complaints are more philosophical than practical imho.

> A product reflects its producer's org chart

Facts.
India only for now.

How could this work without needing software? Does it literally just type out the command when you press the button?
I'm working on a pull request to add it to Yolo right now.

I got this error: `AttributeError: module 'vidformer.cv2' has no attribute 'setNumThreads`

Maybe you could add some noops to make it easier to swap.

Edit: I saw the other functions that aren't implemented yet (https://ixlab.github.io/vidformer/opencv-filters.html)

I had to comment out: fillPoly, polylines and drawContours.
The majority of the Linux kernel's source code is device drivers. The overwhelming majority of that is not included in the kernel image by default, but instead made available as kernel modules you can enable as needed. E.g., your thermostat probably doesn't need support for an obscure game controller, so doesn't have those drivers, but it could if you were so inclined.
Does anyone remember BlitzBasic / BlitzPlus / Blitz3D? They were my first programming languages. I loved how dead simple it was to spin up a DirectX-based 3D game or a GUI application. There was something very nice about a simple, performant, batteries-included programming environment.
Ukraine is an independent country, it was their choice to join NATO.
It is rational for a dictator to increase their power at the expense of some prosperity of the populace. Communist rulers around the world exhibited this trait, but non-Communist rulers also did the same from times immemorial.
I don’t think anyone can be honest about a live negotiation in public. It’s all going to happen behind closed doors. But realistically, what will happen is that Russia will just formally gain the territories it took over in 2014 after the coup in Ukraine that overthrew Yanukovych. This is not a bad outcome for stability in the region, to be honest - those areas have historically been more Russia-aligned and voted for Yanukovych. It’s not clear why they should be in Ukraine if the coup can just erase their democratic selection.
Very cool, and great video.

It seems that projector tech (like laser printer tech, and flatbed scanner tech) has been pretty stagnant, the last few years.

Every now and then, I look at the latest projectors, to see if there's any justification for me to replace my old (10 years or so) LED projector, and I have not seen anything that has made me want to.
Isn’t the whole point of DuckDB is that it’s not distributed?
I don’t think in the story of a 16 year old boy being killed because of being mistaken for somebody else, the problem being that the weapon - a knife - was obtained illegally. I reckon a regular legal kitchen knife is able to stab somebody pretty similarly to an illegal one.

If somebody was strangled by a shoelace, should we look at how the shoelace was imported?

Focus on mental health, focus on defusing situations, focus on better policing and protection. This is useless.
AGI is a moving target, but agreed, lot's more research to be done.
Some emojis require two UTF-16 code units so yep, standard

Thanks btw, I made this one as a test to see how it could perform as I can't stand terrible UI ones.
I'll probably launch more. What'd you like to see next ?
Guessing government relations, similar to PR being public relations.
> Do the other people have to live with January 2013 for the rest of their lives? Or is it only engineering that has to deal with every dirty hack since the beginning of the organization?

Funnily enough, the only place where this problem is well acknowledged is law/ government. It's a lot harder to greenfield a new project in that realm though!
But his wealth is overwhelmingly in the form of assets. If his Balance Sheet looked like Warren Buffet's balance sheet with a large and growing cash position, sure, maybe that could work, but it doesn't.
I guess I missed it and was hoping for a deeper dive.
> Better profilers (Superluminal). Better debuggers (Visual Studio).

That's not a platform issue, that's a "these companies simply don't ship Linux versions".

> Linux package managers are an abomination and a failed model.

Ironic then that some Windows tools (Chocolatey) model them and Windows has WSL because tons of devs find that model easier.

> As evidenced by Docker being required both to reliable build and reliably run modern software.

Docker doesn't do away with that model, it just allows you to isolate specific versions of libraries and tools you need in a namespace/container.

The standard model for shipping Windows software is to ship all the libraries needed with the software. Which isn't much different than what Docker is doing.

> glibc is an abomination of bad design ideas from the 80s. Compilers relying on whatever random ass version of a .so you have is broken AF. The fact that you can’t target an arbitrarily version of glibc or runtime environment is an embarrassment.

Maybe it's a bad model, can't speak to that. But you can statically link a C/C++ runtime with your software if you want, or ship alternative glibc versions.

Also, if we're talking about shipping games on Steam, you can simply target the Steam runtime. It'll work on Steam deck + any Linux system.
So we essentially had free trade before? If tariffs were already pretty much 0%, how...
Cool thanks!
I plan to launch more "boring" tools in a near future, what would you find useful?
Guess what! In the security dialog, when I get a file picker to pick the app, Finder is not in the list !
Out of curiosity, what fraction of readers do you think would understand the points you're making? And what fraction of readers do you think would blame you for taking the wrong side of some debate?
Although, demanding even a shred of self-consistency goes a long way in short circuiting bad argumentation.
Navarro’s “Compact Data Structures” is a really excellent reference, too: https://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~gnavarro/CDSbook/
One might wonder if there was any link between a society where so many people chose to vent hated at unfortunate strangers, and a society where so few people chose to have children.

Perhaps they should experiment, and see if a draconian crackdown on the former resulted in any improvement of the latter?
Speaking from my own experience... I was hoping Trump was an anomaly. That the US would have the good sense of NOT voting the guy that directly tried to subvert the electoral process. That somehow the American public still had a moral compass and that the many Americans I admired were representative for their country. I was obviously a fool.

Otherwise, I kept saying to anyone who had ears around me what a grave danger Trump is. I've been doing this for more than 10 years. I saw him as a corrupt asshole since reading his book "The art of the deal" more than 20 years ago. He came highly recommended in the sphere of the then emerging "manosphere"/ PUA culture of the 2000's (I cringe at my own stupidity and shallowness now).
> Communist

Thew way you are using this word is wrong. It might be cosmetic communism, but it's clearly a totalitarian state. You called the population slaves, which is very much not workers owning the means of production.

Communism is an end state, but no government gets there because once a force is strong enough to forcibly redistribute resources to people not powerful enough to take those resources themselves, the redistributors choose to redistribute the resources to themselves because they have unchecked power. Communism collapses into totalitarianism in almost the same way democracy collapses into oligarchy.

Communism is a description of a power relationship. It is supposed to be a re-distribution of power, but in societies that claim to have tried communism, resources get distributed for a time, but power does not. So you get distributed resources (cosmetic communism), but not distributed power (structural communism).

This then leads to the deeper problem. Communism becomes a scare word that means authoritarianism which taints marxist ideas, which taints socialism.

There is a balancing act. Too much re-distributive power -> power centralizes to those capable of redistribution -> unchecked power -> authoritarianism. Too little re-distributive power -> power centralizes in those who continue to consolidate their power -> unchecked power -> authoritarianism.

By using the word communism to describe authoritarianism, you damage the ideas necessary to prevent democracy from the same fate.
The Shortest Slippiest Path: Optimizing Our Hoses to Accelerate Injections
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it seems like ev is still multiprocessing? Reading the code, it looks like you can read/write to files, and if you want to kick off some other work it spawns a process. I don't see any instance of threads there.
Not Gödel's theorem, but inference for first-order logic is undecidable in general for other reasons. You can still get pretty far with heuristics though. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good =P
very dishonest reading, but I'm not surprised at this point. Congress is "beauracracy". a single elected official is just that.

Ideally, the most efficient means is a benevolent dictator, but human nature rarely draws such people. Hence, beauracracy.
Great use of AI models, since language is likely enough to infer the situation.
I feel like he always exaggerates everything "the best AI chip, the biggest, nobody even close" is that true... NVIDIA, Samsung, ASML, etc...

Could learn from him, how to sell yourself
Almost all of the situations involving treatments on minors that are being backlashed against are themselves lies.
Dude, you're taking the easy way out. Please go purist and pull the wiring boards out of the closet.
DEC was one of the few vendors who built hardware designed to run multiple operating systems from day one. Alpha had VMS, OSF/1 (aka Tru64, aka Digital UNIX) and NT. VAX had VMS and Ultrix. The short MIPS era also had Ultrix. PDP-11 had RSTS/E, RSX-11, RT-11, and some early primitive OSes, and late in the game, Ultrix.

FX!32 was really cool. The Alpha systems were crazy fast compared to the Pentium systems of its time, so even using the translation layer, x86 Windows NT apps performed reasonably well under FX!32. The intent was to have that be a stop-gap until third-party software vendors made native Alpha builds of their NT apps.
How in god's green earth do you square that with the threat of invading Canada and Greenland? It's a sham, and you've been fooled.
"I see no strong American leadership here. I see a weak president throwing a hissy fit because Zelensky wasn't willing to sufficiently kneel down and kiss Trump's ass. Zelensky is the strong leader here."

Are you serious? Powerful people know their place and Zelensky definitely didn't know his. Trump only threw a 'hissy fit' as you claim, because Zelensky started making demands, when he should be thanking the US for the billions of dollars we already poured into his country. Definitely a sign of a weak leader.

Another sign is completely getting rid of fair and Democratic elections and forcing men at gun point to fight in a war where they will most likely get killed.

Only one person on that stage did this.

It's funny, none of the Zelensky supporters will mention this, even though you've accused Trump of wanting to get rid of elections for years.

"What would the US do if it were in Ukraine's position? It certainly wouldn't go along with some other power telling it that it has to lose."

They wouldn't bite the hand that feeds them.
System Justification Theory