skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, in the style of the original remit of "Ignition!", here's a list of the desirable properties for electrochemical long term storage solutions which have not yet been met.

- The process must take a liquid electrolyte with two electrodes in it and a current applied, and emit some substances (I'm going to say "products") at anode and cathode which can be stored

- The process must be reversible with reasonable efficiency

- The electrodes must have a reasonable capital cost (i.e. not platinum) and lifetime (problem for exotic materials)

- same for any required proton exchange membrane (these are expensive and have finite lifetime)

- The products must be storeable, that is shelf-stable in tanks. This also means they must be fluids at room temperature; processes which emit solids are used in battery cells instead

- The products must be capable of being handled with standard plumbing, nothing weirder than stainless steel and rubber seals (may be a problem for hydrogen)

- Gas products must not be toxic (this is a big objection to using ammonia)

- Liquid products must be within the range of normally handle-able toxic substances which can be dealt with by dilution (e.g. conc sodium hydroxide is used in households, but some substance which can poison an aquifer if it leaks would be unacceptable)

- products should not be too explosive (risk for hydrogen) or react too violently on contact with air or, ideally, water

That is, it should be possible to build a system of electrolysers and tanks which is not significantly more expensive than a brewery or petrol station and, crucially, doesn't require spending too much on safety or trained personnel or insurance, doesn't require exceptional planning permission, which can be run intermittently (i.e. cheap enough that amortized capital costs are less then operating income) to store and release electricity.

Design one of those and you could be a global hero.
I can't confirm this. Here, bookmarklets are working just fine on all browsers, including chromium-based ones.
However, such a pattern can also occur if the Waymo cars are stopping more abruptly or frequently than a human driver would be expected to.

In such a case, they might not be considered legally at fault, but they would still be, in practical terms, a significant cause of the crash.
Once you have set up the namespaces you drop all capabilities so if the program gets hacked while it's running it can do very little.
You just opened pandora's box lady wired
Das Rust is nicht fur fingerpoken und mittengrabben.

https://www.netlingo.com/word/das-blinkenlights.php
... which in itself is a reference to the song "Get Me to the Church on Time" from the musical "My Fair Lady".
Tunnelling through a Mountain in Ancient Greece [video]
Amazing - every word of what you just said is wrong.
images are good UI is also awesome,btw i made a image compressor that can compress images without decreasing the quality of image, i will love to get your suggestions here is link : https://image-compressor-five-azure.vercel.app/
I visit daringfireball relatively regularly, and enjoy many of Gruber's takes. I know he's an Apple shill -- let's be honest and get that out of the way -- and his occasional softball criticizing some product or other doesn't change that, so I visit with a "let's see what the Apple guy thinks" angle.

But let's be real - it's a hot takes/opinions site. It's basically the junk food of content. The world is absolutely awash in "My opinion" kind of blog entries like DF and they generally do extremely poorly on here, for good reason. There will be nothing technically revelatory in anything written there. Nothing that will really change anything. It's an Apple guy with opinions about stuff. For instance that 3.5" was the "sweet spot" for smartphone screen sizes, coincidentally when Apple's smartphones only had 3.5" screen sizes.

Again, I still read it and sometimes enjoy it -- at least when he isn't on his bizarre Mark Gurman and/or Bloomberg "they are my nemesis" nonsense, which absolutely no one cares about but him.
Exactly. "Use a delimiter that's not in the data" is not real serialisation, it's fingers-crossed-hope-for-the-best stuff.

I have in the past does data extractions from systems which really can't serialise properly, where the only option is to concat all the fields with some "unlikely" string like @#~!$ as a separator, then pick it apart later. Ugh.
> Autonomous driving removes the economic necessity of having one.

...Once autonomous cars can go everywhere human-driven cars can, in all the conditions humans can drive in.

Remember that Waymo is still very restrictive in where they choose to operate.
This is the absolute opposite take of what is actually happening. We are in the most capitalist time ever. There are a few people who own all the wealth, 2 of them are also in control of the most powerful government. This is capitalism baby, enjoy the full wrath.
No, you do tutorials, and plenty of them. Takes a few days, and then you're pretty familiar. I don't think AI is needed here at all.
I do the same thing. When helping friends with their computer problems, having to translate words in a menu is such a hassle, especially when the translations aren't obvious.

When it turns out they were using a different version and didn't have that option, we still had to figure out what translates to what – if the option even is there at all.
Great idea. And people who start fires while cooking should be given free private chefs too.
Anecdotally, it does somewhat fine with C++ and OpenCV. Python is great, though PySide much less so. QML is almost useless. GLSL is OK, but not great. It generally can't reason well across language barriers, although it's great at converting between languages.

The deeper into a nerdy domain I go, the less likely it is to understand what's going on. And more broadly, it seems that usefulness steeply declines for larger files and projects. It just can't fit enough context into its window to make sense of complicated things.

As an extreme example, I told it to average two angles, and it just took the mean of them. Even after prompting, it thought nothing wrong of that. (The average of 1° and 359° is 0°, not 180°.) So it goes for many domains outside of webdev, UI, data science, scripting.
Yes, vastly easier.

As I understand it, they limit their range to a few cities in the American Southwest and West Coast, and don't operate in bad weather.
> If he has an iPhone, there’s no need to download it. It’s already there.

only if youre on ios 18
Well, Akka/Pekko is typed now. There is a learning curve to Akka, but it took me 3-4 weeks to get my system working. I can't imagine doing it with pure FP, it would break my brains.

There are inspiring talks on the capabilities of actor-based streams, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilhImUjF53A

As someone said - these are very cool but niche capabilities that companies do not talk about. It's almost like a secret weapon in the sea of over-engineering and hype.
Ls-lint v2.3.0 after 5 years and 7M downloads
Same here. My wife and I are both unable to login due to a forced password reset and password-reset emails that never arrive.
You've told me what happens, you haven't disagreed with why.
There are several dynamics here.

1) AIs enable knowledge workers to be more efficient. They don't replace them. But they'll get more done. So, you might need fewer of them.

2) This frees people up to do different, more valuable things. There's a scarcity of people on the job market. We have record employment, not unemployment. In short, freeing people up to do valuable things that need doing is a good thing.

3) A lot of the economy is the service economy. It's not about producing goods, or providing essential things like food, health care, etc. Instead it is about providing services to people at some value. The reason the economy has transitioned to that is the industrial revolution. A few hundred years ago, most of the economy was about scraping together enough food for people so they wouldn't starve. That's a solved problem. Farmers use machines instead of dozens of employees. Some of those machines are autonomous.

4) Economies are about value chains and upcycling low value resources to high value services and goods. AIs make certain things cheaper which just frees up spending on more valuable things. What's valuable is determined by people and what they value.

5) If you fire all the people and replace them with AIs (the dystopian view of AI) and they no longer make money. So their spending behavior changes. The economy changes and adapts. Spending just shifts to things we value. Like maybe a human touch.

6) You could argue that much of the economy is already bullshit jobs. Who needs managers, marketing experts, social media influencers, and all the other fluffy jobs that we invent? Somebody values that. That's why that stuff exists.
> Not gonna lie, it's still not a turnkey solution that transformed my clumsy scripts into a beautiful TUI without work but it's close!

Can you elaborate on that? Are your "clumsy scripts" written in Python, shell or another language? Have you tried Textual-based tools like Trogon [1] and Moulti? [2]

[1] https://github.com/Textualize/trogon
[2] https://moulti.run/
That is entirely new issue and insurance does not respond this quickly.

Tesla's have had higher insurance for 5+ years.
Some of which is due to wait times on repairs, costs of repairs, and also accident rates.
Sent one to the email in your HN profile. Cheers!
According to Trump the trade dispute and annexation threats are the same thing.

e.g. yesterday's 25% auto-tariffs = potentially half a million unionized well-paid Canadians out of a job, in Canada's economic heartland, with no reasonable employment alternatives.

Basically a declaration of economic war.
I agree and conforming to HN rules, guidelines and established practices I did not, in fact, read or engage with the article at all (and I apologize).

Your view is one I agree with completely for a device bought to bring into your own home.

What I find less understandable is how finding (and exploiting) security flaws in publicly facing structures is normalized to the degree that it is. I can easily analyze some public stucture and publish detailed records on how you would most efficiently break into my local hardware store. I'm not sure I'm seeing the net win for society.
Apple wasn't super interested in enforcing their intellectual property claims against Chinese factories producing a product they weren't competing with any more, but relying on those isn't a viable longer term plan for a commercial product.
I wonder can a submitted post be flagged without displaying the leading tag? Because there is definitively something preventing Gruber's posts from reaching the first page although most of his posts are not overtly flagged.

But as you say he should ask @dang for more informations.
I wonder how much of an effect physical brain size has on this. Square-cube law and all that. Bird brains are famously small (though highly efficient).
US blacklists over 50 Chinese companies to curb Beijing's AI, chip capabilities
> LLM chat interface below the satellite imagery

I subconsciously block anything LLM-chat related by default, just as I do with ads. I tried looking through a source of that photo in the text above, text which seemed less AI-coded, but wasn't lucky (or I didn't know where to look).

> it's actually fascinating that Google Lens found that so quickly

It's one of their (relatively few) most recent successes, yes, of which not that many tech people are talking about. Or at least I haven't seen it discussed on forums like this one. For example it's also particularly good at image finding locations based on pieces of architecture seen in the photo backgrounds, let's say part of a church, a mayor's office, stuff like that.

Being able to google lens whatever can be seen of a gothic-like cathedral in the background of a photo and getting the name of the cathedral and of the city itself almost instantly is some CSI-level stuff, again, a rare win for public-facing tech these days.
I have no problem answering that :)

When people move out they often want to do it faster than their contract allows, so they are looking for someone to take over the contract (a "Nachmieter"). If you have any connections e.g. people at work, you may hear about those offers time to time and there really good apartments can be found.
waiting for the italian version Past
Words matter though, if one wants to call it intelligence we first have to define what that means then use that definition. Plenty of people have tried to define it and there's isn't one answer for that, but I've never seen anyone argue that intelligence boils down only to computation. To call these tools intelligent means that there is more to it than computation, and that's an important difference.

The risks aren't the same here. Computation, if we want to say these "AI" tools are nothing more than complex math, is only as risky as the person using it.

Intelligence is potentially more dangerous, regardless of what traits you may think is required in addition to computation to make it intelligent.

We don't actually know how these LLMs work at time of inference and we can't analyze the trained dataset to understand why it would give an answer. That's fairly benign under the "its just computation" view, but that black box is full of unknown risk with any definition of intelligence because we don't actually understand how the thing works, why it does what it does, or what it will do next.
This is one is now flagged, too.
Yes ! I've dealt with complex issues that turned out to be vendor-swapped-hardware-woopsie which we spent over a month trying to solve in software before finally figuring it out.

Part of it was difficulty of pinpointing the actual issue - fullness of drive vs throughput of writes.

A lot of it was unfortunately organizational politics such that the system spanned two teams with different reporting lines that didn't cooperate well / had poor testing practices.
AOSP staying open to community patches in practice is "global infrastructure"?
I don't trust in any validation by the maintainers. There's too much code even in small projects. Big projects are oceans of code. Maintainers maintain too much packages to be able to understand even a little bit of changes. So, no, I don't trust it. It would require a specialized team of engineers for every single project to analyze changes in new versions. It just does not happen.

Best they can do is to follow developer's instructions to build a binary artefact and upload it somewhere. May be codify those instructions into a (hopefully) repeatable script like PKGBUILD.
You're wrong. I have all the expertise but none of the time to generate 100s of lines of boilerplate API calls to get the data together, and no interest in formatting it correctly for consumption, let alone doing so state fully to allow interaction. These are trivial problems to solve that are highly tedious and do not affect whatsoever the business at hand. Perfect drudgery for automation, and just scanning the result is easy to verify the output or code.
Source code art in the Rivulet language
SpacetimeDB's License is modified AGPL
Pentagonal photonic crystal mirrors: scalable lightsails
Even being a legal resident isn't safe anymore.
This was inevitable, now that people are growing up with touchscreens and app stores. 'Content consumption devices' rather than proper computers. And so much digital content competing for their attention.
This is an excellent way to frame it
I didnt say this is so prevalent. Just that it exists.

My experience from few european countries is that middle class - tech/business/law people have iOS. Go to tech or business conference and its all iphones.

So its really easy to be in such circles. I live in EU country and its all iMessage or Signal. Nobody uses WhatsApp if something its Facebook Messenger or Instagram messages.
I've been able to mix together tracks from Apple Music (the service) I had on a playlist with wav files I've added in the past to... Apple Music (the app) straight from rekordbox and they worked fine.
I think this is a very weak essay. The author has zero ability to analyze, self-reflect, and think through her actions even one step ahead.

The video literally starts off by complaining about how expensive the software is while simultaneously talking about how heavily she invested in learning it in college (knowing how expensive it is). And then, for some reason, she says that her instrument was taken away from her (the conditions were transparent from the very beginning).

Furthermore, after graduating from college, when it became obvious that studying expensive software had been a huge mistake, what does she do? SHE STARTS TEACHING IT! Thus moving from the category of victim (doubtful, but okay) to the category of part of the problem.
I bet there is an LLM based version of Rational Rose currently under development somewhere.
Package contains the original 2012 AlexNet code
What I find curious is that, apparently, its okay to use AGPL and then modify it to say "but actually, no freedom for you"? Very strange.
Show HN: I monetized a list I used to give to friends
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Well, AI is how we call machine learning these days. The deep neural networks we are using today are not exactly a new thing either (1960s), it is mostly just scaled up because we now have the hardware to do it.

AI is a vague term, ranging from simple game playing engines to humanlike sci-fi robots and godlike superintelligences. But now, most of the times, it just means machine learning.
The future is autonomous and it starts in Austin, this June
Farewell, Gaia Spacecraft operations come to an end
> It's not saying "wanting extra genders is weak", it's criticising those who do say that.

Sure, I get that. I wasn't trying to make that point.

I take issue with the idea that weak people can't be violent or physically dangerous.

It depends a bit on what kind of weakness they mean, but physically weak people can still throw bricks or pull triggers and emotionally weak people can still lash out when they feel they have no other choice.

I'd actually argue that weak people are more likely to be more violent if/when they do lash out because it may be a last resort for them. Bottle things up for too long and they tend to blow up.
He's Finnish, not Swedish.
"Blender embraced the use of pie menus, and Gimp ignored them"

Instinctive recoil "cue xkcd https://xkcd.com/386/ somebody is wrong on the internet"

I had to take a little walk and think about it, What is a pie menu?

My instinctive first take was, as far as I know gimp has had pie menu since day one, at least as long as I have been using it since the late 90's 1.something. Need a menu item, right click, there is your menu. is this not topologically the same as a pie menu? Does a pie menu have to be radial? is radial any better than a list, I know I prefer a list, it does not look as cool but is much easier to read.
It's literally a list of cliches glued together. Some of them are style-defining cliches, but there is no hint of a strong original voice. And it's the individual distinctive voice of each composer that defines classical music. The musical wrapping is the means to that end, not the end itself.

The waltz sounds like elevator Chopin with all the bittersweet irony sanded off (and couple of questionable harmonies.)

It's an achievement to get this far, but it's still very uncanny valley, and (IMO) a fundamental limitation of LLMs that can't see beyond the superficialities of weightings into what the structures mean.
Hang on, why are brits suddenly being mentioned?
It's street design. If you prioritize car throughput at any cost, even safety, then your streets will be less safe.
No, it's just that interest rates are higher.
> if they're not citizens - they're merely guests in a country

If kidnapping by masked thugs is acceptable treatment in your mind for guests, then I am never setting foot anywhere near you.

> Supposedly intelligent university students who have drifted away so far from reality that they don't see that. It's crazy

Yes, there has been some serious drifting away from reality here.
Synthetic Consumers: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future
Yeah, it would be that plus the name and the signature as per usual. I don't think this is a huge limitation considering the alternative they chose: disallow generic methods altogether.
Basically the Entire Internet in a Single Chat App
I'm not sure that's a good excuse. Most Western European nations adopted the same systems shortly afterwards, and had the same type of legacy (cheques, fees all over the place, slow transfers)... But they haven't stopped there and have kept innovating and modernising. A big part of the innovation, which many Americans will hate to hear, has been enforced by the EU. Fast (seconds) and free transfers, as well as low card transaction fees have all been forced by EU laws and regulations. The banks would without a doubt prefer to be making more money from those things, but nobody is asking them.
I avoid calorie-free sweeteners because they all taste like chemicals to me. I'm at a loss as to how anyone could find the taste appealing.
I really don't see what's the issue here. Some people don't like Apple.

Also:

> Initial reviews of the much-anticipated iPhone X appeared on October 31, but I’d only had the phone for 24 hours when the embargo dropped

Having Apple hardware before official launch (when review embargo is still on) tells me that the author will never publish bad press for apple, and is not to be trusted on reviewing Apple hardware.

Apple is know for stopping shipping pre-release hardware to people that are honest in their review and that might call out questionable choice.

The guy from unbox therapy said this pretty explicitly: when he started questioning apple's hardware design choices they stopped inviting them to their events and stopped sending them pre-release items.

You can see something similar in mkbhd's videos where he's pretty much constantly walking on thin ice. He says and doesn't say stuff. My gut feeling regarding him is that he can get away with some of that because of his large audience.
Building Standardized AI Tools with the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Don't forget that Instant Payments are free.
Can you name a few? In the context of this model I assume you mean some kind of composition plugin that will plot notes for you?
I'm not reading it as "it's not worse than python", I am reading it as "the choice was between bash and perl, python was not an option for reasons unrelated to its merits"
> A lot of it was unfortunately organizational politics

The hardest bugs in my experience are those where your only source of vital information is a third party who is straight-up lying to you.
That doesn't make any sense. The insurance company willingly loses money just to avoid the possibility of someone driving illegally?
Direct use of hydrogen the gas, especially in small transport seems unlikely in the future for many pragmatic reasons.

Green hydrogen production still fills a niche .. mainly as a component of green ammonia, methanol, and alumina production.

The geen hydrogen industry expansion in Australia has stalled out somewhat but is still ongoing and has a potential strong future as an essential component in a larger greener industrial base.

see (for example)

Green hydrogen has stalled in nearly every corner of Australia. So why is the government still revving it up?

25th March, 2025 - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/24/green-hy...