skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cities have a positive environmental impact when you compare it with spreading the same population in villages across thousands of miles.

It would be an insane amount of roads, cabling, water pipes, etc.

Cities are bad for human health, but good for the environment.
Yeah I get that he’s a senator! I mean how much in the public eye is he. Would a random person know who he is?

We have hundreds of Members of Parliament here in the UK, but probably only 10 that most people could name.

I wondered how big his public profile is.
that seems weird. Why hold up one person as being great while not also holding up one person as not? If my leader led me into battle and we were victorious, we'd put it on them. if they lead us to ruin, why should I blame the organizational structure that led to them getting power as the culprit instead of blaming them directly?
Because they contain long cascades of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulated-gate_bipolar_transis... to be arranged into these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_electronics
Is it configurable?
I remember just a bit ago he said Apple could build them in the US…

Dude has no plan, just making it up as he goes along.
Yes, but they still own them. In Paris, and many commenters here argue that you shouldn't own one.
The latter example (Ghibli) is also somewhat misleading. Other studios sometimes use very similar styles. They might not have the same budget for fine detail throughout the entire length of the animation, and they probably don't do every production with that single art style, but when comparing still frames (which is what these tools generate after all) the style isn't really unique to a single studio.
The US already subsidizes these companies, sometimes more severely.

The problem is these companies are thieves, mostly. They just take the money and pocket most of it. Infrastructure be damned.

And when the house of cards inevitably tumbles down, they don’t pay the price. The gains are private, but the losses are public.

US companies always favor tomorrow, not next week. They look to enriching themselves NOW. But in doing so they take on a debt. They put everything on a metaphorical credit card. Eventually the competition is too hot and they have to pay their debt very quickly, and they shutter despite their subsidies and long-running success.
You can always add a no-compete clause in the contract of your employees
> Perhaps more importantly, the business would have to make very serious tradeoffs about the features.

This should be a nonstarter. The end goal of the code is to serve the business. If the technology people are putting the business into a straitjacket regarding how/if product features should be built or maintained, the business is eventually going to find new technology people.
Yeah there's not a huge overlap of great talkers and great thinkers, thats for sure
App Generator including Backend using AI
Oh, my bad, I should've phrased it differently. I didn't mean that they're necessarily busy and have to handle a lot of matters, but rather that a lot of things are happening around them. It surely can be stressful even if one's not actively involved in something, but if they're merely witnessing something happening.
If it’s faster than filing up, why not.
Wow, it looks better than I expected.
In hindsight, do you think you would have benefited more using Turbo Pascal on a PC?
As I said in another post, train tracks don't last forever and are expensive to replace. And trains really only benefit from dedicated ROW, a streetcar is worse than a bus in many respects. (Except appeal.) People back in the 1950s were not stupid or evil, they made a decision which made a lot of sense at the time.
Wasn't appointing a fentanyl czar and agreeing to spend more on border enforcement a form of concession?
https://x.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1886529228193022429
This doesn't seem like Canada isn't negotiating a single thing. What am I not understanding here?
It isn't very different than a car if you want to reach the same level of features.
Exactly but this is NOT economic policy
Yes, it's depositing some lead on surfaces it contacts, including likely the grass on the green. That said, if the tape isn't wearing away and requiring regular replacement, the amounts likely are trivial. A quick search suggests that lead-free alternatives such as Tungsten-based weight tape are becoming available.
All I want is a browser that executes WASM and displays SVG... get out out of JS/HTML hell.
Would be interested to know how this compares to logseq etc
Siri Intents Walked So Model Context Protocol Could Run
> I’d understand if these exemptions applied to companies and not industries.

Same thing, these companies essentially run these industries and nobody else can get in.

If you want to make a competitor to Nvidia it would take you 20 years if you started RIGHT NOW. Hope you have a few hundred billion dollars lying around :P

The distinction between domains and companies fully disappears in an oligarchy.
Two usages which I thought were interesting:

- adding toolpath information so as to use Flash as the engine for a Computer Aided Manufacturing tool: https://github.com/Jack000/PartKAM

- (this was my project along w/ Edward R. Ford) adding hyperlinks to part lists to highlight parts in an assembly diagram: https://github.com/shapeoko/Docs --- unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work anymore.
Please test your site on a phone. 2fps while scrolling text is not ok.
Please also 3d printers.
Sounds like a pretty fun project to build. And bootstrapping it is nice. Hope my feedback doesn't come across as too harsh:

Not open sourcing code or fundamentals of the design is a non starter for anyone wanting to get involved. Are validators running your DRMed binary or something? You don't explain the design in enough depth for anyone to seriously evaluate it.

Transformer models predicting gas seems far too complicated for something that is not a real problem. And I would be concerned trusting today's AI models with selecting things like epoch cycle parameter. Overall the AI component sounds like both an unnecessary over complication and a security risk.

Embedded AI Agent hooks -- are you using some oracle or making this trustless in some way? The later thing would be quite innovative but much harder.

My overall feedback is that there appears to be no significant technical differentiator here. In light of this you are holding yourself back by not open sourcing.
I didn’t say they shouldn’t be allowed to do it, and the only thing I said about “the theater experience” was sneering at the idea. I am talking about the film itself, and saying that these edits to the film are tasteless trash. Claiming I’m “clutching at pearls” is a bad faith insult - my point is this shit fucking sucks!

David Lynch used ML to remaster Inland Empire, which was shot on a digital camcorder and was simply too dark and blurry. This was an excellent use of the technology. Blowing up The Wizard of Oz for the sake of tech bros and tourists is a terrible use of the technology.
FTA:
As part of the announcement, Google said Nvidia
will bring Gemini models to the company’s Blackwell graphics processing units, or GPUs. Companies can buy the chips through Google or other channels.
* Clarity by which you communicate in writing, such as emails. If you cannot do this you will never be put in charge in any kind of supervisory capacity.

* Task management, which is the ability to efficiently accomplish multiple small tasks without notes, reminders, or JIRA. It’s the notion of getting a bunch of shit done.

* Perceiving things in terms of facts. That means not guessing at measurements and not making assumptions. Most developers cannot do this. The inability to do this on any level is the most identifiable trait of Asperger’s.

* An ability to question the assumptions of others or even the modes of existing common practice. Most people generally cannot do this and it is this, not programming mastery, that makes for 10x developers.

* As for more technical things the ability to dive deeper and lower without leaving the current language or platform is what typically separates the masters from the commoners. These are the people who can solve problems others cannot, because the non masters are always more restricted by current conventions.
Even their nymphs?
Is this at all related to Huawei's ArkTS?

https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/doc/harmonyos-guide...
Hacker news is made of people usually smart people, and smart people tend to favor one side of the political spectrum more than the other
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> The original ribbon sucked but with the improvements it's hard to say it's generally a bad choice.

It is a terrible choice. Always have to search for items.
F/8 and Be There
What does CLP stand for? It is not immediately obvious to me from the page.
Great article! On mobile I can't find anywhere to demo/see the animated content in action, not sure if it's desktop only or what.
> If you really want the request/response round trip then don't use WebSockets.

Yes! That's the whole point of the article! You agree with the author!
In ten minutes we found a five-letter .com domain that wasn't taken
https://nitter.net/paulg/status/1910791679579447366
The topic of the original post is air pollution. Unused cars don't cause air pollution. The topic of this thread is inconveniencing the disabled. Unused cars don't cause traffic that inconveniences the disabled.
This is very interesting and cannot happen fast enough, considering the current worldwide transformer shortage.

I have a question for people more familiar with these. What exactly happens at the isolation stage. They say it includes a high frequency transformer (HFT). But its input and out put is DC. And classic transformers operate on AC. So in order to get the transformer working, one would have to chop up the incoming dc power into a square wave or a sine wave. But what transistors can you use to do this, considering you are dealing both with very high power and very high frequencies?
So the broligarchs get an escape hatch and everyone else (particularly the middle class) has to pay up to appease the ego of the worst president in US history? This seems like a bad economic and very undemocratic plan that we're getting here.
Yeah I don’t feel like that’s a real thing in my industry.
I think in many circumstances certain outcomes emerged because the paranoid willed it into existence. I get the feeling there are a lot doomsayers who secretly want the end of civilization to occur so that they can finally act out their fantasies, delusions, say they were right, etc.
I don’t have the budget for a legal battle
So AI tools take you from "artist" to "art director". That's an interesting thought. I think I agree.
Restic, for backups
I was flabbergasted when I learned that there are watches being sold today for hundreds or thousands who require a manual adjustment at the end of every month that doesn't have 31 days

Watchmakers deserve more appreciation for how hard it is to track months/years mechanically in a package small enough to fit on your wrist! It's a lot of expectation for watch in the hundreds of dollars.
But the brakes don't get used 90% of the time,it's all regen.
Well yeah Bluesky is predominantly left wing, and the left wing is angry right now.
> as if Google thinks direction and editing are technological limitations

“Google” isn’t making the artistic decisions here - there’s a full production staff from the studio doing that. Google is making what they ask for.

>I am … saying that these edits to the film are tasteless trash

Making such a claim with zero knowledge or experience is a pretty bold move - how are you so confident here?

While I didn’t get to see the private preview shown at the sphere this week, I’ve spoken to about a dozen people who did and they were all very positive about it.
Sadly we don't consider things that are economically efficient as craftmanship :)
AGI does sound a lot like a "psychological crutch" when it is pointed at as the answer for wicked problems like climate change. With faith in AGI, nothing else really matters because we can eventually surrender ourselves to the superior direction and interventions of this god we have created. There's no point worrying about anything else.

Human technology has evolved significantly in the last few thousand years but we are all the same religious fruitcakes we've always been, whether or not we can see it.
> Can you provide any reference to support this claim as far as actually good implementations go?

Ah yes now to the No True Scotsman fallacy. Async only works well when it’s “properly implemented” which is only .NET.

Even some .NET folks prefer actors model for concurrent programming:

> Orleans is the most underrated technology out there. Not only does it power many Azure products and services, it is also the design basis for Microsoft Service Fabric actors, which also power many Azure products. Virtual actors are the perfect solution for today’s distributed systems.

> In my experience Orleans was able to handle insane write load (our storage/persistence provider went to a queue instead of direct, it was eventually consistent) so we were able to process millions of requests without breaking a sweat. Perhaps others would want more durability, we opted for this as the data was also in a time series database before Orleans saw it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/16kk2l1/comment/k0x...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/orleans/benefits

Ironically what got me into Elixir was learning about Orleans and how successful it was in scaling XBox services.

> Because so far it looks like vibe-based reasoning with zero knowledge to substantiate the opinion presented as fact.

Aside from personal experience and years of writing and deploying performance sensitive IoT apps?

Well quick googling shows quite a few posts detailing async issues:

> What tools and techniques might be suited for this kind of analysis? I took a quick glance at a flamegraph but it seems like I would need a relatively deep understanding of the async runtime internals since most of what I see looks like implementation details.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/uph4tf/profiling_with...

> Reading a 1GB file in 100-byte chunks leads to at least 10,000,000 IOs through three async call layers. The problem becomes catastrophic since these functions are essentially language-level abstractions of callbacks, lacking optimizations that come with their async nature. However, we can manually implement optimizations to alleviate this issue.

https://www.ajanibilby.com/blog/async-js-performance-apr23/

> Asynchronous Rust seems to perform worst than multi-threaded Rust implementations.

https://dev.to/deepu105/concurrency-in-modern-programming-la...

> Under realistic conditions (see below) asynchronous web frameworks are slightly worse throughput (requests/second) and much worse latency variance.

https://calpaterson.com/async-python-is-not-faster.html

> I’m not going to say all async frameworks are definitely slower than threads. What I can say confidently is that asyncio isn’t faster, and it’s more efficient only for huge numbers of mostly idle connections. And only for that.

https://emptysqua.re/blog/why-should-async-get-all-the-love/

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/my-benchmark-done-elixir-is-fa...

https://blog.blackfire.io/the-challenges-of-async-python-obs...
Get to know well your teammates.

Communication and understanding is key.

You need to wear many hats.

Planning well is inevitable.

Tradeoffs and creativity is essential.
Or "I shouldn't have to learn it, it should be obvious".

Many people won't learn the basics of many tools, and instead of learning them they will ask for one-liners so that "they don't lose their time".
On what planet do you think that people living in company housing could afford cars? People living in company housing were the poorest of the poor.

Please just....stop. Stop trying to talk about how poor people lived or live.
How would you track this?
I always wondered if there was a clinical basis for that escape hatch or if the drafting committee felt it was just too contentious to go there.
...what? Did you mean to respond to me? I'm the one exposing the lie.

There's a weird trend on here of karma chasers playing "gotcha" by posting rebuttals to things that literally nobody is claiming and hoping that we don't notice. It's fucking pathetic man. What would it take for you to reevaluate your life.
Do you realize that actor model and virtual/green threads/stackful coroutines vs stackless coroutines / async/await and similar are orthogonal concepts?

Also picking asyncio from Python. Lol. You can't be serious, can you?

The only impression I get is most Elixir/Erlang practicioners simply have very ossified perception and deep biases that prevent them from evaluating implementation/design choices fairly and reaching balanced conclusions on where their capabilities lie. Very far cry from the link salad you posted that does not answer my question e.g. the issues with .NET and Rust async implementations performance-wise.

It's impossible to have a conversation with someone deeply committed to their bias and unwilling to accept that BEAM is not the shining paragon of concurrent and multi-threaded runtimes it once was.
Where are your weight figures coming from, they are not in the linked article.

Packaged semiconductors are going to be more metal interconnect / plastic encapsulation / ceramic insulation than silicon by weight.

These systems will also have a significant weight fraction in magnetic materials, either ferrite ceramics or amorphous metals.

Still a huge weight savings, but the weight fractions you are giving see off and are missing some important materials.
Has this been confirmed? The original channel also posted a comparison video [1] showing what seems to be the same cylinders tested against titanium and tungsten cubes (though it's difficult to be sure they are identical)

There's also footage from another channel [2] showing a Prince Rupert's Drop bursting at 20 tons with significant damage to both the steel plate and the press.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SuPFbeqqKU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6NUNroyUys
It doesn't even need to hit the passenger compartment. The partially missing, unbalanced rotor could be enough to take it out.
> Tech is one thing, but social credit scores and the level of censorship seem regressive rather than progressive to me.

I can't stress enough how you need to do your own research on this stuff. American propaganda has depicted China as a ruthless peasant state for decades, and it's only in recent years that news like this has opened peoples' eyes to the fact that that all was a cover for the fact that they've passed us in recent decades.

https://merics.org/en/comment/chinas-social-credit-score-unt...

tl;dr: The "social credit score" is mostly myth. From the article:

>By 2019, China’s central authorities were stating explicitly that they were not happy with the idea. They issued formal clarifications that scores could not be used to penalize citizens and that only formal legal documents could serve as grounds for penalties.

Compare this to the US, in which things like DUIs on your background can be used to deny you Constitutional rights. There's no nothing exceptional about how they're doing things over there when it comes to this.
Any good article about these features?
Another thread on the same subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43664665
I like the freedom a private car gives me. I can go anywhere at anytime. I have nothing against public transportation and want it to be good. But you can't go everywhere at anytime. Here I'm including the country side and smaller towns.
This is my main concern as well. The article [1] that perihelions linked to says that the approved vehicle is produced by EHang and the model is called EH216-S. A quick search yielded this Reddit thread [2] which suggests the noise level is 80dB.

[1] https://www.flyingmag.com/china-approves-passenger-operation...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/ehangstock/comments/mmz42r/for_anyo...
Prince Rupert's Drop is strong at compression but weak enough that your pinky finger can shatter it.

These 'hardness' stats are just marketing bullshit dressed up in barebones material science. They know most people haven't studied material science or understand what 'hardness' means.
Big little cores like on mobile or some Intel processors are really not the same thing. The little cores have the same instruction set and address the same memory as the big cores and are pretty transparent to devs apart from some different performance characteristics.

The SPEs were a different instruction set with a different compiler tool chain running separate binaries. You didn't have access to an OS or much of a standard library, you only had 256K of memory shared between code and data. You had to set up DMA transfers to access data from main memory. There was no concept of memory protection so you could easily stomp over code with a write to a bad pointer (addressing wrapped so any pointer value including 0 was valid to write to). Most systems would have to be more or less completely rewritten to take advantage of them.
I’m currently in a part of the world where helicopter delivery is so cheap and common that locals are complaining. “It should be more expensive…” someone told me last autumn.

The helicopters (and drones!) are loud and annoying. Until these problems are solved, locals will resist converting all airspace into the equivalent of a loud, high-speed roadway.
I personally believe it is our civic duty and non-payment is the most effective non-violent way to show our opposition to the system.
And what about Apple Intelligence that "draws on your personal context" and actually outright admits your data is going to the cloud? (There's no such thing as "private cloud". It's still someone else's computer which you can't operate yourself.)

How is that better?
It is not right for you to choose to operate a deadly vehicle and then offload the dangers of that choice onto innocent bystanders. No pedestrian has forced you to drive a dangerous car around.

Therefore, yes, it is the responsibility of the operator of the vehicle to protect others from the dangers of their choice.

> You can really rely on everyone driving a motor vehicle to obey practically every traffic law every time.

This is satire, right? This is so hilariously wrong it's not worth elaborating on. You yourself even directly contradict this in your last paragraph.

> And they know that driving is a privilege and that violations can cost them their license, which will cost them their job, their freedom and a lot of things.

Driving is generally treated more as a right, especially in the US, where I infer you live. Look up the punishments for killing someone with a car vs not. DUI? No problem, just keep on trucking.

> On the other hand we’ve got cyclists, pedestrians, scooters, wheelchairs: all sorts of other conveyances on the road, and they basically ignore every traffic law imaginable.

Traffic laws only exist because of cars. Mostly due to the danger they cause to everyone.

Ever seen pedestrian only areas with roads, lanes, traffic lights? You haven't because only cars need those.

> Personally, I’m the slowest and smallest thing on the road, and I eagerly defer to everything else that’s bigger and faster than me.

So you break the law on the regular yourself then, sigh. If you have the right of way in the situation, do not preemptively yield. By not acting the way you're expected to, all you do is cause confusion and frustration for everyone else. A basic rule of traffic is to keep things moving and the best way to do that is to follow what's expected of you.