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I'm not saying it's not trump's fault

it's people like you saying it's not biden/dems' fault

if the Biden admin can effectively control the deficit, if Powell can maintain the Fed's independence without cutting interest rates too soon, if Yellen can plan bond duration allocation with a long-term, nonpartisan strategy, a recession may occur during Biden's term, but its consequences will not be as severe.

it's americans like you make all this happen by pardoning all the failure of the party you support

believe it or not, i'm not a maga, i'm the one standing on the shore watching all this happening
Thanks for the post. I ran into the same issue with assigning IPv6 addresses to k8s pods. Wish there were easier solutions to handle the prefix changing.
Sadly, they really need to start consuming 100x what they are currently to even have a shot
What makes these plans go so successfully, when the soviets have historically not been able to make such plans successful (despite being richer and more powerful at the time)?

This video about Argentina's economic failures mentions why free market capitalism failed in argentina, and why a "similar" opening up in china didnt fail (but not so much detail that another country could follow it and replicate the success). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7MzfNTSk4A

Basically, is such 5 year plans a recipe for success, or just a facade (aka, china would've had success regardless of what those 5 yr plans are)?
You realize that is literally not the same thing? I said equivalent code. The whole reason of using a managed language with GC is to not think about those things because they eat up thought and development time. Of course the language that will let you hand optimize every little line will eventually be more performant. I really think you’re discounting both C#’s ability to do those things and just how good Java’s GCs are. Anyway, thats not the point.

The point is C++ sucks dude. There is no way that you can reasonably think that bolting a GC on to C++ is going to be a pleasurable experience. This whole conversation started with _language ergonomics_. I don’t care that it’ll save 0.5 milliseconds. I’d rather dig holes than write C++.
How does the device regulate the heartbeat speed? I mean, how does it know that it needs to pump blood faster or slower?
The problem with any other definition of democracy is that there’s an irreconcilable bootstrapping problem. Democracy is a way to make collective decisions about governance among people who don’t agree on things. The beauty of democracy is that we can all agree on a procedural rule (majoritarian voting) separate and apart from substantive decisions.

If you want to exempt certain decisions or categories of decisions from the majoritarian rule, that poses a conundrum: how do you decide what’s exempted, and how do you make decisions about issues within that exempted space?
Those others couldn't burn down your house based on a faulty code push. Also, 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. If that improves, it seems simple
Local first, MQTT API is open from the beginning. No cloud or app needed. If we go under, we’ll open source the schematics to ensure they can be repaired.
That's amusing, but silly. A criminal screeching "tyranny of the majority!" as they get hauled away is not a revealing example and does not reflect the phrase's usual meaning.
All about that bass, all about that bass.
Justice Department office that prosecutes public corruption slashed in size
Given the founder’s background, Pila seems well positioned to create a new Virtual Power Plant. I’d welcome an opportunity to participate in a VPP at a smaller scale than a traditional power wall.

Similarly, I hope that Pila can crack localized Peak Shaving, with limited or no cooperation with utilities. I imagine the Pila ecosystem tracking critical dynamic pricing events and take action accordingly. I’m not sure how to get this done with so many North America residential utility companies but I’d love to see them try.

PS, a 100 Watt PV input seems silly. The 1100/1200 watt input via the expansion pack makes much more sense. I can’t help but to think these should be three different components: Pila Base, Pila Expansion, Pila PV
This is the old argument of dicators, going back to the Cold War and before. Like much propaganda, it tries to turn around the enemy's own arguments to disrupt and disconcert - the enemy cares about cultures and freedom, so brutal dictators should be 'free' to do what their 'culture' demands - I don't think their victims see it that way.

Democracy, with rights, has prospered and been embraced across cultures and around the world, on every continent. Before Modi, it was embraced in India.
Please any downvoters please say why this isn't harassment as defined by HR policies, I'm waiting...
It uses a built in Microgrid Interconnect Device (MID). It can only backup appliances that are plugged into it.
I use the dash carts at the Amazon Fresh near me and they are pretty slick and problem-free. The overall Amazon Fresh experience with selection and stock has had some teething pains but they've been getting a lot better recently, probably learning from Whole Foods.

Sign in with the app then you scan the barcodes as you put items in the cart and I think it does some combo of weight and camera stuff to verify. You can also see/edit the list of everything it thinks is in the cart on the cart's display. If it does mess up (rare) you can fix it on the spot easily and without assistance.

Then you just go walk through the designated dash cart checkout lane, it blinks green and you're done and you walk out with the bags and the receipt is in your account history. Unless you need an ID check for something then an employee has to assist but they're generally pretty quick, but most of my trips don't require it.

Compared to "traditional" self checkout it's WAY better.
I prefer turtles
Comma is going to be popular with the Tesla refugees who miss the autonomous capabilities.

Note for anyone from Comma reading this: I bought a car recently and limited my search to only Comma-well-supported models. None of the sales people at any dealership I went to had heard of Comma, and this was in San Diego (Comma's HQ).

Every sales rep that I mentioned the Comma to said "awesome, I'm going to tell everyone about that!"

If you want to sell more Commas, start giving demos at dealerships, and you'll soon have every Hyundai and Toyota car salesman in the US selling Commas for you.
Show HN: Vibe coded a time price tag tool in replit
Thank you for all your efforts and immediate attention, sorry that I couldn't make your job easier. What mattered the most was that I got a chance to have a brief chat with the actual human being behind the legendary HN username that makes everything run smoothly. Cheers, Daniel!
> simply providing easy immigration for qualified tech workers.

I dont believe those tech workers would wish to move, unless the political system in china changes to one that is more amenable to democracy; not to mention that having high salaries in the US, it will be impossible to achieve similar levels in china after migration (even if the PPP remains the same!).
> The scanners are unreliable, and the machines are slow beyond belief.

That's on purpose so they can monitor for theft from the customers and colluding cashiers. I worked in a grocery store with 1980's era IBM terminals and they were lightning fast compared to modern machines. You could throw cans rapid fire with just a twist across the scanner and have nearly 100% success.
Yes, great question! As the software person, this is very close to my heart.

All of our software and hardware is local-first, and will work without our servers/cloud, without any connection to the outside world. We are a backup company after all :)

How this works is that we broadcast and listen to (pubsub) MQTT topics. You can pare it with Home Assistant in 10 years, we also support Alexa, Home Assistant, Google Assistant, whatever.

My goal is to make our apps and software so good you'll want to use them. But we don't have an ecosystem to lock you into, so we won't. Your hardware belongs to you!
Wow, $99 is a great price. Makes sense though, it’s just a battery…

Oh wait, that’s $99 to reserve. $999 to purchase! Ouch
No WARN notice because severance was very generous. 1 month of pay per year worked (minimum of 4, maximum of 8 months) + 1 year healthcare coverage. Not many people know the actual number laid off, won't till next week
HN is the media arm of a venture fund

I'm looking at a medium sized nerd messageboard. Obviously that's not a meaningful thing to compare to a legislative body or court.
It is difficult to imagine in this day and age when nobody gives a shit about computers or what they run on but people really did stand in line to buy windows 95 and 98.
I lost $1000 in groceries in the Bay Area in 2023. Four multi-day outages on the peninsula.
I am new to compliance but this seems super strange to me. Based on my cursory read of SOC2 you need a ton of evidence gathering for months leading up to your audit. How wold you know what to retroactively have if you didn't spend time on it?

SOC2 attestations being easy to get also runs counter to what I have heard from every single other person on this topic. Generally what I hear is that it is extremely hard and time consuming. What am I missing? I would love to be wrong here and for this to be easy.
Is there a technical reason why the self-checkout experience is so poor? The barcode scanners seem slower and more finicky than what the staff use. Plus the extra delay while the machine wants to ensure I put an item into the receiving zone. Are the self-checkout isles busy taking pictures of me from every angle before they approve the swipe?

I assumed that barcode scanners were solved technology and should be able to identify a smudged label in microseconds. If I were going to steal something, I am not sure what the slow experience does to deter that.
Beyond Diffusion: Inductive Moment Matching
I struggle with the math on how this is running your typical fridge for even 16 hours
I’m on a site built by a friend and you can only post on Mondays, and then you see every one else’s post only if you posted on Monday.

I wonder how many micro communities like this exist, mostly under the radar.
This is a great thought, and I just surfaced it again for our founder. There has already been some thought into this. Thank you!
curious how LLM hallucinations will work on logging info - gonna be a hard problem to solve
Pila is funded by venture capital firms.

100% agree, must be used and abused to ensure it’s ready for 10yrs. Pila extensively tests their units through multiple accelerated testing schemes.

Plug to plug efficiency is >80%
They would probably be able to do it if the listed prices were fixed, but they provided a personalized discount that would vary depending on who you are.
> use read replicas for BI with a good visualization tool

Put up 2 or 3 read replicas, split your queries so writes happen to main and reads come from replicas (supported out of the box by many modern ORMs), and you can scale to millions in daily active users for most startup workloads.

Really the hard part of BI is that folks who need the info don’t wanna learn SQL. The ones who can do SQL, will struggle to keep up with your changing schema.
> don't consider COBOL to be a good indicator of programming quality

COBOL wasn't designed for that. The intention was a language that non-coders could code in. This was the precursor to things like FIT which was a precursor to today's Cucumber, like some history of child abuse carried on over the generations, so we still suffer today.

Ada was the one designed for quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
Agreed. I can't think of anything that would convince me today to use a document store over Postgres as the primary (or likely only) database. Most of the time JSON fields augmenting the RDBMS seems like the way to go.
To be fair, I took this far more as an exploration on writing CUDA than I did an attempt at the best sorting method.
I'm not in YC, but I want to launch my startup here as it's relevant to the audience. Can I go through a process like this to coordinate with you for a launch, or should we just follow the guidelines, make a submission and hope for the best?
Yeah I didn't understand how this was news. Civics and Accords for the US market have been produced in the US for decades. This isn't anything new to my eyes, maybe I missed something though.
Looking forward to checking out your library, thanks for sharing it with the world.

I’ve been using kst-plot for live streaming data from instruments and interactive plots. It’s fast and I haven’t found any limit for the amount of data it can plot. Development has basically stopped - the product is done, feature complete, and works perfectly! It is used by European and Canadian space agencies. Maybe it will be interesting to you to see how they have solved or approached some of the same problems you have solved or will also solve !
Do I have to point to 1000 failed Show/Launch HNs with negativity? This kind of cliched meta commentary whenever a Show/Launch is criticized on HN is getting really old.
Rust in Perspective (2022)
Show HN: VSC – An open source 3D Rendering Engine in C++
Been making this rasterizer engine in C++ for the past few months, now also adding ray-tracing functionality to the system.

Simply load a model or generate a mesh, add some lights, and render.
"The blockchain" is just a wasteful way of doing things compared to the plain crypto.

"Overlay the entire scene" doesn't actually appear to add any information-theoretic value compared to simply bounding the timestamp at which the video was made. Nothing either of us is talking about will actually prevent fakes (before the camera signs it), only constrain the time at which the fakes are made.

Slower-than-real-time generation of fakes is still significantly inhibited by the fact that the hash sequence can be checked for continuity across long lengths of time whose bounds are verified using the other steps.
given how sticky crypto algorithms are, transitioning early is a really good idea. git is still stuck with SHA1, and there's plenty of triple DES hiding in the boring types of critical infrastructure that no one can update.
Just hoping the drums don't stop, like everyone else.
Conceptually, sure, but in practice: I can't run my aircon or heating off this; my stove, dishwasher, and washing machine are wired into special circuits so I can't plug them in; if I use this for what you're suggesting on my fridge, I lose all the UPS-functionality you're pushing so hard, because I am regularly discharging it.
According to this, it really is not:

https://www.energysage.com/electricity/house-watts/how-many-...
I love 240V appliances. I have a 240V induction hob from Italy(Fabita Ordine). Would love to have a 120V in and 240V out for this use case.
Anything can always change. I'm talking about the status quo.
US Department of Education cuts half its staff
I've never heard of this so I've got a silly question - I own a Subaru Outback base model with adaptive cruise and lane keep. What is the difference that this offers?
Have you tried ManimGL?

https://github.com/3b1b/manim/releases

Super awesome, and you can make it into an MCP for Cursor.
It’s not virtualization, it’s namespaces. Docker makes use of Linux kernel features; started out with cgroups and now uses libcontainer. Each container is running in its own isolated(ish) namespace on the same host kernel.

It’s _very_ different technology than virtualization.

You don’t need docker to make a container on Linux (or Solaris for that matter).
Couldn’t have said it better. I’ve developed multiple agents with just function calling, structured outputs and they have been in production for more than a year (back in the day we did not call it agent lol)
I think these is targeted towards people who are already using agent frameworks + OpenAI API.
> It's hard to tell which camp is more angry: the C# developers stating Microsoft is ditching its own ecosystem or the Rust developers unwilling to accept anything in this category not being written in Rust.

Is it really? I must be reading the wrong comments somehow. I've seen lots of Rust people express only brief and mild surprise: "Wait what? Oh, okay, that makes sense. Carry on." None of them are taking this as a death knell for Rust.

Meanwhile, the C# camp is erupting in a crisis of faith because Anders Hejlsberg has eaten something other than his own dogfood. They are outright grieving over this announcement with much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
They aren't claiming he committed a crime. There will be no trial in a criminal court. The immigration court is a part of the administrative branch (it's part of homeland security).

Being protected by the laws doesn't much help here - the law says he is a deportable alien if he has supported a terrorist group. There is various case law on what is and is not protected under the first amendment, but there isn't just a free pass to say whatever you want.

The case is quite straightforward indeed - if he did support a terrorist group (and I have no insight on what he actually did), he will be almost certainly be deported.
Totally agree. This is great value!
But they can’t take it seriously. Going against Israel is an election loser in just about every district, and definitely at the level of the Senate in the presidency. The Lobby is just way too powerful
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> that the EU has to illegally ban opposition parties and candidates from elections in member states

did you just make this up?
This is another Inflation Adjustment Act business if I'm not mistaken. Our tax dollars will pay 30% of the retail price to the company on every sale.
It is humbling to see just how much impact global shipping has had on the world. I worry this will largely be weaponized by bad faith discussions, but we do need more study into exactly how much the changes in regulation have been mucking with our climate models. In large, I don't know how they can't still be seen as a good thing. But I also worry if they were more impactful for the recent swings in climate than we have admitted.
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This could all be solved using HE.net tunnel broker for free…
What model fridge are you using? Is it 10yrs old? 1.6Kwh per day? That can’t be energy star rated.
Can you use these outside the US? Like NZ?
I hear you - while I'm privately a static-site afficionado, this is squarespace so that the whole founder, business _and_ engineering team can edit it easily :P
Feel free to submit a patch!
But the compiler’s heuristic optimization doesn’t change the effects of the code, does it? Admittedly I’m no compiler expert, but I’ve always been able to have 100% trust that my compiled code will function as written.
I don't think you can blame this on vendors / cloud providers - many of the worst offenders there use JVM or CLR (looking at you, Atlassian!)

But I think your other points are pretty good, and match my experience:

- The "free and unencumbered" became very important in the internet era. I used to program in Delphi, which is a great visual IDE. I stopped this once I've realized that if I keep going, none of my friends can use my source code.

- "macho"-ness, or how I'd call it, "barrier to entry" definitely has a role. For example Java is the language where I saw the most "catch (Exception e) {;}" clauses - which is one of the worst things ever you can do to users. The language itself is good, but the culture around it is often not.

I'd also add that all those fancy systems are strongly associated with "single computer, desktop app" setups. Once I've got used to running servers, many of the advantages just disappear:

"everything can be debugged?" - your server has no graphical shell, and may not even have JDK installed. If all your experience was local, that's a major problem right there. But OK, you've figured out remote debugging. But it is not very useful now, as you cannot stop the program which is serving live requests; and even if you do, your breakpoints get triggered from different requests. And remote clients time out while you study stack. So might as well write your next server program in Perl + CGI, at least you'd be able to add debug prints easily.

(Yes, in the ideal case you'd a working dev environment and not do it live on prod. This was pretty rare though in smaller sites, especially in the 1990's-2000's)

The same can be said about "Software can be hot upgraded" - that seems insane, that's how you get a unique snowflake machine which everyone is afraid to touch. Software should be restarted often, to make sure it's reset to a predictable state.

And that "Everything is memory safe" means speed penalty, which people actually used to care about. I remember when I got my first webcam, with it's 640x480 resolution. Was I going to be coding the image processing in Java? No way, I wanted more than 1 FPS. It was C or maybe Pascal. What about that game? It's not going to be in Java either....

(And CLR's beginnings were damaged by the strong MS Windows associations, with all the associated fragility of "I've checked some checkbox somewhere one of those 250 control panel tabs and now my web server no longer works. No, I don't remember which one is it". I know it's no longer the case _today_ but we are talking about the past...)

And of course being bound to one language was not helping either. If I use Java RPC, only another JVM ecosystem language can use it; but if use text-based HTTP, I can use almost any language ever made.

Given all of those reasons, it am not surprised at all that JVM/CLR are used for large business apps, while smaller things are written in other languages. And that means all the cool stuff is going to be C++/C/Rust/Python, while only the boring enterprise apps would be Java.
Nearly all companies that are hiring are overworked and need at least one extra person.

Either that or they lose people as a matter of process and need a constant funnel. This is probably worse.
Bluey is a little brat to her parents that is totally unnecessary.
It will give you truly hands-free lane centering with eye tracking rather than ping-ponging between lane lines and continual steering wheel nags. If you’re doing a lot of highway miles, it would be a big quality of life improvement.

Personally, I find that “autopilot” style features makes me a better driver because I can spend more time focusing on the road ahead rather than splitting my attention to oft-arbitrary tasks like speed limit compliance. However, I know this doesn’t apply to everyone. If you are the sort of person for whom less active involvement impairs your ability to stay engaged in the executive task of driving, this will exaggerate the sense of disconnection even further.
Right?! Get some free IP space from he.net tunnel broker and build your own IPv6 AnyCast network using Quagga for BGP.

Kidding about building your own AnyCast network (although you really could…), but he.net tunnel broker is GOAT.