skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Shouldn’t we be asking a similar question? Which research projects are going to deliver insight and value for the public?

Yes, we’ve always done that - and quite extensively. I would recommend learning more about this process: it’s run by people who care deeply about scientific progress - nobody gets into it for the low pay - and if there seems to be a simple improvement, the odds are high that someone made it in the previous century.

I have a number of friends and family members who are academics and they spend a lot of time on each grant explaining how their research will advance our scientific understanding and linking it to other benefits (e.g. low-level neuroscience isn’t going to lead to new medical treatments directly but it provides the foundational knowledge which those treatments are based on).

Echoing the peer comment, if you were to pick any flaw it’s that we probably spend too much money on betting relative to the savings. There’s a lot of good research which doesn’t get funded, so it’s not hard to fill your budget every year with qualified proposals.
Regulating the requirement that Apple support Linux on Macs makes no sense.

What does make sense - to me anyway - is for Apple to embrace Linux because they'd sell a lot more Macs. I assume there are many thousands of developers like me that detest macOS and won't even consider a Mac. But like you said, Apple is making some amazing hardware these days. I would buy a Mac if Linux was well supported.

Apple did just fine in the early days when their hardware and software was open source. But while it got them up and running, it's not a viable business model to get to be a multi trillion dollar company. It became understood in tech that the way to be profitable was to make your competitors stack a commodity.
If a studio dies, it dies. Unions don't nor are trying to fix that. it happens.

But that's not the situation right now. It's companies making record revenue but choosing to do mass layoffs to make numbers look good. That's what unions fix. These companies aren't going broke from retaining existing talent. Those west coast studios are making hundreds of billions to compensate, so I'm not worried about them neither.

>I've heard a couple people who crossed over from the film industry say it's just going to turn most roles into contracts (just like the film industry), and will quickly filter out the unskilled and less driven people.

sure, they can, have, and will try to. Issue is that games are much harder to plan than film (or perhaps the executives simply can't plan as well). So a lot of those principles that "worked" in film go out the door. In addition, with service games on the rise you can't just rush something out to make day 1 revenue and tear everything down.
EU buyer here, I am extremely hype for forced interop and think it almost justifies the existence of the EU on its own.

Sure, most people don't care. That's the case for every regulation - policy is made by activists. Better than by corporations any day.
That does not solve the problem in the article. Consider this layout:

<content1> <content2> <content3>

If you start out with equally spaced columns, and then you add borders to content2 and content3 to end up with this visually:

<content1> <border> <content2> <border> <content3>

The DOM actually looks like this:

<content1> <border content2> <border content3>

Now content2 and content3 are smaller than content1, because the borders are part of their width. Borders are the wrong tool for this job no matter the value of box-sizing.
While that may be true, I’ll say that as a native English speaker that reading is not the most obvious reading of “row rule”, which to me would be “A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.”

Indeed a “CSS rule” is already a thing and it has nothing to do with lines.
No. The main reason we got in this mess is because the US is a better market for startups, simply because of the amount of available money, and the fact that it’s easier to start in a market with 340M people who speak the same language.
By just looking at the README from the repo (Would look more deeply into this later) you're replying with an image of the current status?
If you expect Claude to interpret the image corretly may be you're asking for too much.
Besides the image (Gotta say I didn't know you could fed Claude images in MCP that's incredible cool) I'd rather / also return some json payload that informs Claude which positions has "cleared" neighbor positions, and their value. E.g.:

{"loc": {"x": 4, "y": 3}, "neighbors": [{"loc": {"x": 4, "y": 4}, "value": 1}, ... ]}

(Might not be valid json, just wrote that by hand on the fly)

I would report only on the positions that has cleared neighbors, and hope for the best. Good luck!

(Impressive work BTW, I think we haven't even started to see the possibilities of MCP and I love people being this imaginative)
Python with click and PyYAML can go a long way - then you can build it as a CLI application and use the same from CI. In a java shop, picocli + graalvm probably. I wouldn't like Go for this purpose (against the conventional wisdom - because boilerplate and pretty bad debugging capabilities).

That said, if you absolutely need to use shell script for reasons, keep it all in single script, define logging functions including debug logs, rigorously check every constraint and variable, use shellcheck, factor the code well into functions - I should sometimes write a blog post about it.
> Every player in the NFL is required to be a member of the NFLPA.

No they're not. It's optional.
And that's exactly what Apple is trying to do.
Pretty much. Google manages everything. It handles Auth, which ties into the rules for accessing Firestore (the db), and you've got Functions for any code that needs to run server-side.

All with libraries in a lot of languages to make it easy. Pretty solid product with a cohesive experience and a generous free tier.

Naturally, you'll pay an exorbitant amount once you start to scale and realize you've been locked in.
They support plenty of non-Apple interoperability. They support HTTP and IMAP and SMTP, for example. They support SMS and phone calls. They support lots of standards, including de facto standards around things like calendars.

They don't support everything, but to say they don't support interoperability is silly.
Don't let your emoji memes be dreams: 𓀤
It just means that your claims about portability are, in the real world, far less useful than is imagined. I ship software to Windows users and the "portability" of POSIX doesn't help there. Doesn't matter why to me. It just means that I can't depend on POSIX for the "portability" benefits that its proponents seem to cite so enthusiastically.
There’s a Giant Eagle auditorium in Baker Hall?
The alternative and obvious explanation is that you are make Loki look worse so your product looks better in comparison.
Feels disrespectful to whores, they put in the work
I'm just having a hard time drawing a clear line of degree compared to lies that were said during Covid.

2 or 3 weeks to stop the spread, masks don't help, masks to help, just 2 shots and we're done, etc. That doesn't even get into the more technical lies spread with regards to how similar viruses work, or how the vaccines were actually tested and what was and wasn't known with high likelihood.

The lies Trump and his people often share are themselves pretty big lies, and often very easy to see they're wrong. It gets harder though when lying about NASA may change how future space travel is regulated or whether its don't with public or private money. Lying during a pandemic may kill people, both immediately and in the economic aftermath.
Styled-components is in "maintenance mode"
> If it isn’t a “free market utopia” we [want]? Shouldn’t talk about it or something?

The US is a long way from a free market. 40% of the GDP is directly controlled by government spending (probably over half the economy is controlled by the government if we count distortions caused by private sector spending in support public spending) and there are substantial limitations placed on what is left by a complex web of legislation.

And of the parts of the economy that isn't officially government-controlled, the US healthcare system is some sort of bizarre Frankenstein's monster of a planned economic system where nobody knows who the planners are, the financial markets are partially centrally controlled too where the Fed keeps putting their finger on the scale of how investment flows move. Housing isn't too terrible but the details are a mess of non-free markets.

Those are the issues that are important. Whether the Federal government runs some advertising on a political basis doesn't rate on the hypocrisy scale, it is far too minor. And advertising is already a pro-free-market approach. There isn't a discrepancy between their words and actions on the topics you bought up.

That isn't to say it is good behaviour, because it isn't. But it is free-market behaviour.
I think it’ll be good for Apple. Everyone will go “yay” and buy another brand of crap smart watch, realise it’s total garbage and buy an Apple watch anyway.
Does in no way show that Elon is being paid for DOGE.
if companies would rather release worse content than pay labor, that's a cost in and of itself. The writer's guild had similar impact in the 2010's.

I don't know who will win, but it's not like these choices are not without consequence. These moves definitely slow down their plans.
When I was taking a train in Japan I heard an announcement apologising for severe delays. It was less than 5 minutes.
Ask HN: Authentication for Emergency Department
If you know about authentication, I'm seeking your advice please about how to do it better, safer, and faster.

The goal is for a triage clinician to get to a patient and immediately authenticate with a medical cart computer system. This software architecture decision record (link below, work in progress) explains more about the tradeoffs, examples, and needs.

Advice and guidance is much appreciated, and I'll share anything I learn. My direct email is joel.henderson@wales.nhs.uk.

https://github.com/GIG-Cymru-NHS-Wales/Architecture-Decision-Records/tree/add-authentication-for-emergency-department/authentication-for-emergency-department
The Frontend Treadmill
Apple's hardware is good because of the software on it. Hardware is controlled by software. Lots of stuff that once happened in hardware is now done in drivers. For example, Apple's speakers melt if you run them at maximum volume. Regulating that is what software is for.

I say that as someone that prefers to use Linux.
The lab leak hypothesis is an easy example. There were career scientists raising the concern that the virus may have leaked from a lab rather than a wet market. Fauci and those close to him made a point to shut them down and effectively demonize the idea of even raising such a concern.

None of that had to do with YouTube.
An interesting exercise here would be to make the MCP server show the actual state in a window and return to Claude just the json payload with the status.
Tried this. is pretty cool but its not really out of your face. in one instance, the AI only added lots of tabs in everything (so frustrating haha). it requires thinking quite carefully about the contex window and whats inside there.

like any AI coder, its good in some things, bad in others.

That being said when using AI for code generation this editor does all the right things. its really quick and easy to use and the learning curve is infact quite low.

its the best integration i saw so far - which i inadvertently had to disable again because it was ruining my files :D. fun experiment tho and would recommend to try!
Because less people would buy Apple devices.
Apple has been completely unwilling to play ball. They behaved like a petulant child through all of this.

I’m completely convinced that no one at the EU wants to micro manage any of this. But they have to. Because Apple has been failing to read the room for years.
There is some low hanging fruit, like the ticketing system.

Might be possible to improve satisfaction without costly infrastructure upgrades by ensuring you have a seat for long trips and being more aggressive with discounts at quiet times.

Plenty of times I’ve been one of like 30 people on a 12 car train despite the ticket having cost £60. The train is going to run anyway, so may as well price more aggressively.
>We already see it in another regulatory regime, with AI features coming much later to the EU, if at all.

This is FUD from Apple fanboys, Apple delayed their shit in UK and other non EU countries. Apple was probably incapable to release those AI features at the same time in more then a few countries.

And guess what, OpenAI , Anthropic and other AI companies will for sure try to replace Siri and Apple will try to avoid that and hopefully would pay fair and not cripple competitors.

I am from EU and I am not missing any AI providers, maybe some alpha/beta stuff that launches first in USA before they add the features about protecting the privacy of the user or until the lawyers are done rewording the ToS on how they sell your data but word it as a good thing.
I'd love for google to just go down and create a vacuum suction sound for a year...
Ah yes. That summer I was interning at an aerospace company when my coworker contributed a Linux driver for it. I think I snagged a half dozen of the keyboard variants from RadioShack. It was great for tinkerers because they were dotcom money-subsidized free barcode scanners.
I mean, ok, fine guys but this is just more empty gestures from a club of empty heads in the GroenLinks/PvdA clown-car.

I don't recall that they were against (in fact they were in favour) of the removal of the 30% tax rules intended to attract expats in, among other things, tech businesses. I don't recall that they've ever done or said anything to make the country a more attractive place to start or grow a business of any kind, let alone the kind of venture capital funded technology startups that would allow us to move a substantial fraction of our tech consumption to homegrown alternatives.

Maybe they're at least in favour of permitting for data centres so that we can at least host our own services... oh wait, they don't want those either.
Wilhoit's Law continues to apply:

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

"Antisemitism" has been rendered into an intentionally fuzzy term. In this context it's being used to mean "anti-Netanyahu-led-Israel" which is really not the same thing as the "anti-Jewish-people" common meaning.
EU is still surprisingly naive and open for business.

After TikTok getting banned(postponed for now) in US for national security reasons, and after US cutting military support and intelligence in Ukraine I was expecting for things to start rolling by now.

They already start doing things on the military side of things with restricting the military equipment purchases to EU only with exceptions granted on the basis that foreign supplier should NOT have a way to shut down equipment use(be it a Killswitch, political pressure or supply chain control).

If USA decides to side with Russia on the invasion of Europe or maybe just annexing Greenland, they can shut down EU telecommunications or air propaganda messaging over Apple/Google devices or platforms and other social media platforms.

What worked for Russia and China was to restrict their markets and guarantee opportunities for homegrown alternatives.

I still expect for EU and pretty much all the world to end up doing this. I'm not enjoying it, I don't want things to go this way but no way that EU can afford giving full communications control to a hostile country.

Tough times ahead, this DMA stuff was the right approach last year. Sometime in the next 4 year a private company will be used to do something acutely military or political to EU like they did in Ukraine and enough people will panic and a similar response will be generated.

IMHO Apple will be served better if they play ball and make themselves useless for public warfare purposes and ensure continued access to EU market even if it means potential losses on services revenue. This will give them opportunity to say that you can just use EU services and keep buying the iPhones.
From what I could tell of the Git repo (2min skimming), their model is generating a point cloud, and they're then applying non-ML meshing methods on that (marching cubes) to generate a surface mesh. So you could plug any point-cloud-to-surface-mesh software in there.

I wondered initially how they managed to produce valid meshes robustly, but the answer is not to produce a mesh, which I think is wise!
I also see this happening. Since a 80 year old alliance becomes unreliable, protective measures will go up. The US companies like the FAANGs profited a lot in the last 30 years by that, they will be a hit on their revenues, regulations will go up and alternatives will be funded.

How successful this all will be, another question.
Anti-technology is just a dog whistle for anti-capital. Billionaires have made things exceptionally worse. Facebook was started as a way to rate women’s faces, is the foundation our data collection industry is built off of. We need to tear down the entire system and rebuild something else.
Not sure I Agree about the price of video games. It very much had adverse effects to devaluing games, not dissimilar to the streaming wars. It's really hard to bring up prices again once people are used to something costing a certain amount.

And as you expect it hurts indies the most. People spending years on a decent product and they are locked to selling at $10 because the market is so used to deep sales. At some point the next generation will scoff at the idea of paying for any game.
Unfortunately for Apple, they've been too successful to get away with self-preferencing anymore.

As an EU citizen, I don't like everything they do, but the DMA is rocking as otherwise we'll end up with 5-10 companies basically running all technology and way less competition.

It's very interesting to me that so many people claim to be in favour of competition but don't like laws like the DMA.
The value of a property is whatever it can sell for. Models and assessments attempt to figure out that number without actually performing a transaction. An accurate model will account for the same factors a buyer will use to decide what to offer, but ultimately it’s down to what people will pay. If that number goes up 2x, there’s no model that can tell you that increase is somehow incorrect, or that the true value is lower.
Attempt to Harness Energy from Earth's Rotation
Good.

Apple fanboys, no need to worry!

If you’re in the US, all these features will be geoblocked, so you can enjoy your walled garden as much as you like.
If you’re in the EU, just stick to Apple products and avoid any alternatives.
Religion is essentially meaningless now.

Ironically; the most compelling proof comes from those who claim to adamantly disagree.

Trump was elected president of the US with the overwhelming support of the most devout, self-professed Christians. In spite of the fact that both his personal behavior and his policies are more amoral and anti-Christian than anyone who ever held the office.

One of his first official acts was to shutdown USAID which represented less than 0.3% of federal spending on the most impoverished around the world --- without even a whimper of protest from the "religion of charity" which regularly demands a 10% cut from it's adherents.
That was my reaction too! I don't remember ever seeing one but I'm sure things have changed.
This sounds like a game changer, can it be adapted to low power engines at some point?
> The solution is to once again enable applying for asylum at the embassies and consulates. Then nobody has to drown.

So you think if those countries don't accept everyone that wants to enter then it's ok for people to try to enter illegally? That's not how borders work.

> Apart from the many people being killed by random North African country, like what is happening currently with migrants in Libya. That's not fine at all.

They can go to a neighboring country without being "stranded" at sea where they need "rescuing".

> Humanitarian reasons, not ideological.

Humanitarian reasons do not require you to pick up people near the coast of Africa and and instead of taking them back back to where they came from bring them to ports much further away. That's purely ideological. One could even call it treasonous.
Do You Think Prompts Are the Secret Sauce of LLM Wrapper Startups?
I think so.

Some angels and VCs worry about startups just being OpenAI wrappers, but good UX and well crafted prompts can be real barriers when you invest enough time in the right product-market fit.

The deeper you go, the more prompts become a real secret sauce especially when combined with complex agent orchestration.

What do you think?
"If you get big enough, they swoop in and make you turn everything you've invented into an open standard?"

Anti-monopoly laws should work, the law is already a year old, and Apple will probably appeal to Court to gain some more years of more monopoly.
Hey JD, what was that about free speech?
The bit how about incredibly quickly PV has grown is a figurative slap in the face to Vaclav Smil. He had just ten years earlier said PV wasn't going to grow quickly because historically energy replacements took a long time.

https://vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/scientific...

This retrospective on Smil's predictions four years ago is notable:

https://www.quora.com/Is-Vaclav-Smil-right-in-his-criticisms...

"To get 1 PWh/year of electricity you need to install about 450 GW worth of solar panels. You need dozens of years to acomplish such task. Reality check: 3 years in current speed, in the future probably faster."

Indeed, as the thread top link shows in 2024 the world installed 595 GW of PV.

As John Kenneth Galbraith said, "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
A heads-up in case there's any confusion: Greenland is part of Denmark, whereas the Dutch Parliament is the parliament of the Netherlands. Both are part of the EU, of course (although Greenland isn't).
The "USA" brand is currently taking a pummelling in Europe, this isn't a good strategy.
I am curious if this post will be deleted by the moderators, like the last time a discussion about European tech sovereignty was brought up on this American website.
No, it is worse than that, every detection capability humans have is only how em interacts with the electron shell around atoms.

We have done some amazing things in spite of what appears a crippling limitation.
Breakthrough stroke drug heals the brain to restore movement
So you lied. Now you've shifted the goalposts after being called out on it. And ripgrep has no problems being used in shell pipelines. What ripgrep has a problem doing is being drop-in compatible for grep, because that isn't its goal.

> "modern replacement" for grep

I have literally never called ripgrep this. So more lies and straw-manning from you. ripgrep's repo neither positions itself as a replacement or as "modern." And in the FAQ about "replacing" grep, it makes a nuanced claim that accounts for all of this. It specifically says you should use grep when you need the features of grep that aren't in ripgrep.
100%! Between US tech surveilling the population, selling their data to data brokers, controlling what content they see, and surveilling even their customers customers, this has to happen extremely quickly.

The end goal has to be that EU businesses should be able to easily ensure that their customers' data is never accessible to US companies. This is incredibly challenging at the moment due to SaaS - the amount of subprocessors that a company uses, and then transitively uses, makes it impossible at the moment imo.