skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All under the pretense that USPS has to be fiscally responsible. We don't expect the military to be profitable, it's a money sink since it's a service!

Not to mention, the USPS _is_ pretty fiscally sound. Until they were sabotaged for political purposes

https://theweek.com/articles/767184/how-george-bush-broke-po...
In journalism there is the concept of the inverted pyramid. An article's structure should be in order of importance. This way readers can assess the incremental gains of persisting with the article against their interest in the subject.
Yeah kerning is still WIP
macOS and GDAL. macOS because it gets out of the way and helps people generally get their work done faster, so they can do much more important things than their work sooner and more often. GDAL because it's the most powerful mapping toolkit I'm aware of. Anything that fills that space is going to be the most critical bit of any impactful software for the next 10 years.
Possible. But this thread is a comparison of tv vs monitor. If we are talking 5000$ tv, that's no longer a relevant comparison.

(Fwiw though my impression was that it was a mid grade brand name tv. Certainly not a no name bottom tier).
Speaking of Lisp CPUs, does anyone have documentation on what the unproduced Sunstone had for an instruction set?
I was a child when they outlawed feeding manatees in FL; i recall it used to be a tourist thing to do.
> Should AWS decide to ban you for whatever reason

If this is one of your concerns maybe you should rethink what you're doing.

Working at a multi-billion dollar company we don't have those worries, so we're 100% in on AWS.
It is trial and error, by luck and persistence.

Are you a contractor? Do you bill?

You start with what you think works for you and opinionated contractors will offer alternatives if necessary.

Unreliability, lack of communication, and expectations are all on you.

Have clear goals, never delegate an abstract idea, always delegate a discrete task (refine over time.)

As a contractor I always budget 25% of costs as administrivia. That’s correspondence, invoicing, or other non product related time.
I know, and I also know this will never, ever, change, because there is always a tradeoff between security and comfort.

But this doesn't mean I need a passwordless world.
> In particular, some experts are distressed that a Vass trainee recently got witching results admitted as evidence in a Georgia murder trial.

As with most of these bits of pseudoscience, it's a probable cause generator.

> Vass tells him it’s about a quarter mile. “The advantage of this is you don’t have to be on a property to scan it,” he says. “You can be on a public street and scan your suspect’s yard.”

Oh, and while it can magically find missing people "as far as 75 miles" away, you can't get one.

> One student asks, “Do you mean if you have a missing child, you can take that child’s DNA and put it in that and go to work?”

> “Yeah, absolutely,” Vass says. “It doesn’t take long to find them.”

> “How much does one of those things cost?” another student asks. “I’ll write a check right now.”

> “I’m not selling them right now,” Vass says. “I’m just kind of assisting law enforcement when needed.” He says the device isn’t for sale because he’s concerned about national security issues. “I can tell you what room the president’s in in the White House,” he says. “ I can tell you which house has gold in it.”

And, if it doesn't work when Vass is doing it, it's because a mouse died there. (Which probably describes... everywhere.)

> With the excavation complete, Vass wants to discuss one last thing: the divining rods. “From the holes, it appeared to me that maybe an animal had burrowed down in there,” he tells Ponce. “If an animal like a little mouse died there, you’ll get a false positive. So just pay attention to that in the future.”
For graphical applications the overhead might be tricky. AFAIK, you'd need to do lots of copying video buffers.

Connection with things like notification daemon would also be tricky -- each service would need some form of proxy (though we also do that with containerised applications right now).
Hey, author of Fornjot here.

> I do wonder what kind of limitations the author ran into with OpenSCAD

Lack of bevels/chamfers, no way to refer to existing geometry (to sketch something on a face and extrude that, for example), no constraint-based modeling, weird and limited language. Those are a few off the top of my head.

I don't want to speak badly about OpenSCAD. It's obviously very useful to a lot of people, and I myself keep coming back to it for my own projects (Fornjot isn't ready to replace it). But there are many good reasons to want something else.

> and why they decided building a replacement code-CAD program was the best way to go.

What would the alternative be, in your mind? Trying to join the OpenSCAD project, saying "I want to change everything", would just be rude.

I don't want to fork a big C++ project either, as I don't know the language very well and have no interest in learning it. I'm also not convinced that starting with a fork of something would be better, in the long run. There's value in looking at the problem with fresh eyes.
We are still early in development; it still lacks proper filesystem and networking support
A language like C but with lambdas isn't really C, not that that's a bad thing.

I was a little surprised that a compiler was in scope given the amount of other work that needed to be written and (hopefully) supported, though I guess that's a different issue.
> You're saying that, one some models, the device never crashed

For at least one user, yes.

But there are many users who maybe only turn the phone on 5 minutes a day to check messages - so it isn't really odd for a few users to never see a crash.
Here in Canada:

It was 18c a few days ago and last 2 days it has been nonstop snowing.
Anybody care to hazard a guess why White River Junction, VT has ten prefixes and Cleveland, OH has two?

I trust I'm not going to get a [[citation needed]] when I make the claim that Cleveland is somewhat bigger by any conceivable measure.
Since nobody asked yet; Why explicitly Intel NUC instead of general x64?

I can only guess that it's because of HW drivers?
Zoom to allow users bypass company security settings to boost marketplace demand
Find it hard to believe mail has declined. We're shipping packages at record rates through online shopping, which at the unit level can be charged more than pennies like letters were.

First, the USPS as a US service need not be profitable. They were also fiscally sound _until_ the Bush administration abruptly changed the rules of establishing pension liabilities as current https://theweek.com/articles/767184/how-george-bush-broke-po...
My first theory is they started it back when the Oracle lawsuit was happening over API copyrightability. They were probably worried that some Unix copyright troll would try to sue them, so having a backup OS was a good research project. Now it's just a make-work project to keep smart engineers from going to the competition.

My second theory is that it exists as leverage, to scare the Linux kernel maintainers into thinking that they could lose their biggest userbase (Android) and make them more compliant.
Thanks. Seems there is a second edition due October 26, 2022.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Sof...

I feel tempted to buy the current edition, but also to wait for the second.
> developers just start sandboxing their software by default

For many kinds of software, I'd rather see the distribution or package maintainer work on the sand-boxing itself. I'm thinking stuff like Zoom or Skype where you actually wouldn't trust the app developer.
Would it be useful to add a Julia section?
"The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay for the cost of its post-retirement health care costs, 75 years into the future. *This burden applies to no other federal agency or private corporation*." [1]

[1] https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis...
Courts are shockingly slow to adopt the conclusions of science, especially when such conclusions would have wide-ranging exclusionary effects on rules of evidence.

For more background, search for scandals related to FBI "bite mark" experts or disgraced former Texas detective Tom Coleman.
Beating noise pollution with smart tech
The guy who dug the water well on my parents land used a dowsing rod. Interestingly, he chose to use the dowsing rod in the lowest point of the meadow... which probably saved him a few feet of drilling.
A keybase equivalent that gains widespread layperson adoption.

If you extend from five years to fifty, then the answer will be climate-related.
The Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch History
This is how we did it on the C64, back in the 80's :-D
Genuinely curious what you find "best" among his maleficent sabotage, and the undeniable benefits he's been reaping from his conflict of interest with XPO logistics
If you want a place to send them that’s politically, and geologically stable. I can recommended Western Australia. The only thing you need to worry about will be protection from the pretty mild weather (not even likely to get that bad with most climate change predictions). But I’m a little biased with living here haha
I would assume because the technic is absurd but it was not important during the trial. The important fact was they did find a human corpse where they were looking.

You probably need to say how you found the corpse, if was probably labelled 'vaguely' like 'using the technic "n#13" teached by the National Forensic Academy'and I assume no one really looked at it. (or they did but didn't care because they did'n wanted the culprit to get away with having a corpse in his backgarden or wathever happened.

Total speculation of course.
Show HN: Make tailwind code readable automatically splitting long classNames
I remember letters taking 2-3 business days from the East Coast to California in the 1980s. Is this faulty memory? I wouldn't put it past myself! :)
It's not them learning that's "bad" it's the pontificating.
Any good readings on the Triumvirate? Struggling to apply it to troubleshooting code
A modern tank is basically useless without a thermal sight. This is what is meant by modernisation - improved sensors + maybe comms & makeshift reactive armor. I don't really think anyone would be crazy enough to attempt using a 1960s' tech tank in today's battlefield.

On the other hand it is extremely naive to think that anyone would use a consumer-grade chip in a military project. Security being a much bigger concern than even supply chain issues. This is the hardware they seem to be using (and manufacturing locally). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCST - pretty laughable by today's standards, but secure and seems to do the job. Weren't the space shuttles running 80286 and wasn't 80386 being manufactured until recently?
and https://nobsgames.stavros.io/
Games, like many things lost their soul around 2007 with the release of the iPhone. The world has gone in a different direction, the worser timeline perhaps.
flat rate packaging is the best. it's not always the cheapest, but it's the easiest!
> what's the answer? We really can't effect a chain of kindness in those families just be being patient strangers.

IMO we could all benefit from taking a "positive discipline" [1] approach to relationships. And in those difficult families, hopefully outreach can connect them with a trained therapist who can both listen and appropriately guide. We're not all in a position to directly help, and it is largely up to the individual to make necessary changes for themselves. But we can each be a sort of light by which individuals might find their direction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_discipline
A short search revealed that it’s a term of art in localization, referring to French, Italian, German, and Spanish. Typically these are the first targets when localizing an initially-English product.

I have no idea what, if anything, Flutter’s canvas-based approach has to do with localization.

Also Flutter exposes a hidden DOM with accessibility information for the canvas. This might someday be superseded by a system like AOM: Accessibility Object Model, which is an API for directly constructing an accessibility tree for non-DOM content like a canvas.
If I recall correctly, this was DRW that hired him to set up the mining servers.
Oh thank you, didn't thought it's an official term.
I only recommend cdk for situations where you have to dynamically build environments (for instance, user-configururable vpcs that include dynamic objects)... Basically situations where you'd need dozens of "conditionals" to overcome for-loop and linkage issues.

In most other cases, SAM or direct cloud formation is usually sufficient.
This is time consuming. You can pick one frame at a known time stamp and some way into the movie. You can also pick 10 frames that are stenoed and 300 that are spoof stenoed = hidden in the deep woods, not worth the time to fiddle unless some one is driven.
> Catalog vs > dir or > ls
It is an open invitation to "parallel construction" which is a practice the government is already 100% known to use.
Assuming they really are troublesome, that justifies torturing them into compliance? On which legal ground are they basically imprisoned?

If they are so troublesome that they are a continuous threat to society (e.g. murders or serial sex offenders), there are legal ways to get them into psychiatric clinics (those means are easily abused as well so). If they are not, well, in a free society you cannot prevent people from ruining their own lives.

Most "troublesome" kids, so, are nowhere even close to these categories. And if they turn out to have really troubled lives after wards (e.g. drug abuse and everything that comes with it), I'd say most of that was caused by the "treatment" they received previously.

just to take your example of a drinking teen (being German my threshold for that would be considerably higher then the US one at that), how do you think such a teen, with already existing problems of substance abuse, would behave after going through months or years of mental and physical abuse? Turning sober? Or falling deeper into that hole?

I'm puzzled that I even have to argue against a system that, as was proven time and again, results in very serious child abuse.
> Super+drag to move them around are killer features

Do you mean that they're locked in-place unless you hold down whatever super is? I use CMD+direction for a segment of the screen on whichever half or third I want, and other hotkeys for corners, and click and drag if I need. Lately I've just not been bothering much, as a lack of tiling hasn't been bothering me so much.
I agree that nothing can save you once your system is compromised. But that is not equivalent to having a keylogger, because physical keyloggers exist (or keylogging via camera, if that suits your definition of keylogger). Clipboard monitoring can also happen accidentally via remote desktop clients or virtual machines.

No matter how you slice it, there are many more scenarios where passwords can get leaked compared to private keys being leaked. If everyone used private keys instead of passwords, the total number of compromised accounts per year would be substantially lower.
How do the build requirements for bazel and fuschia compare? Last I checked, bazel required python and a JVM and that seems like a lot for bootstrapping an OS.
Honestly Rust is a poor choice for scripting. It is too low level and not aimed at the same people.

Embedding a Lua engine or some language in that vein would help drive adoption a lot.
hn is not pleased ofc.
Quantum computing has a hype problem
It's those Web 3 enthusiasts that tried to convince us that we need new ways to put things on the internet. There's no problem with doing it today. You can `python3 -m http.server` and you're on the internet. There's no technical challenge waiting to be solved there.

Most people are consumers of data. That's why browsers are called Browsers and not Authors. Grandma isn't building a website for herself not because it's hard, but because she doesn't care. The risk with with Google being the only browser is that they define how we browse. They can decide that next year HTML is gone and Flutter is in. They can decide FLOC is mandatory to view a website. They can decide to only show AMP content. Then, my friend, then it's gets harder to put your own content on the internet. And this is why Firefox is important.
Not exactly legal, I guess, but Autocad R12 runs nicely in FreeDOS.
Even if someone wrote code like that, they'd have to have configured their web server to accept 4GB of input somewhere, which gets passed to that function. That adds another "rare +" instance, as most web servers ship with way lower defaults than that.
>It's a society where showing up for what the authorities do is common.

For a variety of reasons much of my circle of friend consists of Russians living abroad, you're mistaken if you believe that they support Russian leadership out of fear of what might happen if they didn't.

>A long codicil of war conventions (Geneva, Hague) and anti-terrorism conventions. What I wrote is a common exegesis.

But sanctions do exactly that. Attack random civilians.

> As I wrote, there's a difference between 'we won't trade with you' and actively harming someone.

It's not "we won't trade with you", that's a dishonest way of putting it. It's "we won't allow others to trade with you", which is very much actively harming someone.
> The point is not if barter is used sometimes or if some people, in some circumstances, would start using cigarettes as money, but if that's the main history of money, specifically in the context of early states, as has been claimed for many years without any kind of evidence.

Both sides of the argument are making claims without evidence, because evidence prior to record-keeping of debt doesn't exist, and never will. There are only theories about how money came into being, and some are more plausible than others.

Graeber himself contradicts his own "debunking" of Menger's theory:

> "All evidence that exists points to money emerging as a series of fixed equivalents between silver – the stuff used to measure fixed equivalents in long distance trade, and conveniently stockpiled in the temples themselves where it was used to make images of gods, etc – and grain, the stuff used to pay the most important rations from temple stockpiles to its workers. Hence a silver shekel was fixed as the amount of silver equivalent to the numbers of bushels of barley that could provide 2 meals a day for a temple worker over the course of a month. It was the Temples that actually had a need to extend a silver system from a unit used to compare the value of a limited number of rare items traded long distance, used almost exclusively by members of the political or administrative elite of the societies in question – to something that could be used to compare the values of everyday items, like planks of wood, jugs of beer, and so forth."

Why silver?

Why were they already stockpiling silver?

How was it decided that silver would be used to measure fixed equivalents in long distance trade?

How was it decided the ratio of silver to bushels of barley?

What were these political and administrative elite doing when they proposed to offer a certain amount of silver for some long-distance traded rare items? (We have a word for this: 'barter')

Why would the foreigners they are trading with even want all this silver?

It takes some circular reasoning to get to where Graeber thinks he is, because he misinterpreted Menger to begin with. The above does not discredit Menger at all.
Now I'm not sure about the biggest potential, but let's say, some positive impact, then I'd throw OpenStreetMap into the list as well.

Also, in terms of AI, reducing the energy demand and solving the black box problem.

Not exactly software, but the concept of eco-certified software can surely have a positive impact as well, when it gains traction beside KDE's PDF-viewer Okular.
Surely a "random person walking their dog near the site by chance" would be much more plausible for that purpose.
what is more concerning is that the maintainer didn't understand this impact case, even when two people showed him the exact logic, linenumber and a reproducer. he was still the opinion that this cannot happen in production.

we need a zlib fork
While this is all true and all good, “marginalia” is a completely different word for a completely different thing. It refers to handwritten content in the margins of books.
Are you making many small commits every some minutes? Or are you usually waiting til the end of the day to create one big commit?
If you make it a habit to commit often and in small steps, `git commit` will become an automatic response like pressing Ctrl+S in the 90s and early 2000s.
Ask HN: Why all my last HN submissions got deleted?
I tried making 2 submissions in the last days for content I find interesting and spent quite a few time on and both of them got deleted.

I have already read the HN guidelines and those submissions should be alright.

Am i shadow banned or flagged in some way?
all that no code has a lot of code.
Makes me wonder why AWS hasn't released a "next gen serverless", where things like endpoint urls (with CORS config), cron-like scheduling, and so on are built-in without having to cobble them together.

They did accidentally release documentation about "Lambda Function URLs" at the end of last year, and then pulled it back. So perhaps some of that is coming.
Whomever said that didn’t have the disease.

The problem with preventatives is that they can proliferate on marginal effectiveness. In fact they are more lucrative that way.
Yes, out of the box, max post size is normally 2MB.

Some systems will have that a bit higher to allow uploads of larger files, but the largest one I've ever seen is somewhere around 50mb, with 4gb you'd either have to have a super large php-fpm setup where each process could receive 4gb requests and deal with them, plus you'd have to have the config adjusted to receive these large posts.

The number of instances out there might not be exactly zero, but I'm pretty sure it's somewhere very close if not.
Thank you for giving me this perspective. I think it's hard to see it this way because of the emotional load money has due to its necessity for ones survival these days.
> they told me I could smoke as many as I wanted in the van.

I know this is an inane question... But did they let you smoke in the van or was it a ploy?

Sorry you had to go through that abuse.
> “You can be on a public street and scan your suspect’s yard.”

Well, if that ain't a great way to manufacture a warrant.

What exactly is wrong with cadaver dogs, anyway? I'm guessing it's that cadaver dogs actually work on scientific principles. (Edit: dogs also can't smell a body from across the street. At least, I don't think they can.)
Will OverSupply of EVs and Lack of Demand Set Off a Global Financial Shock?
I didn't say anything about web frameworks or chasing latest trends.

Developing a cross-platform app that uses native interface elements is extremely time intensive and sometimes laughably complicated[1].

With design system I meant that designers create a spec how the UI should look like and behave (eg. the primary button in Firefox) and then engineers implement that in a reusable way. Designers can then use their own specs to create new surfaces and engineers can use their reusable components to make the specs real.

This is a lot more efficient than either maintaining three code paths for the whole UI or building and maintaining a complex abstraction framework for native surfaces. That's what XUL was.

That's the reason why there are barely any UI-heavy cross-platform apps and a lot of web-apps.

[1]https://den.dev/blog/windows-priority-shuffle/