skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This raises a few questions in my mind:

1- Do shipping lanes still stick to prevailing winds, or are more direct routes significantly faster?

2- Would becalmed seas or being blown off course by a storm be a big enough risk that ships would still need a full compliment of fuel, or close enough as to make the maintenance costs of both engine and sails, weight and other factors override the benefit?

3- Does the addition of sails increase the risk of rolling or swaying stresses on the ship? I imagine this might require some extensive structural changes or upgrades to ships, with no idea of what the cost would be compared to a different kind of retrofit (i.e. continuing to use propellers but with a different fuel source).
Maybe they can combine this with the molten salt reactor story and get something really flavorful going.
> The results vary from incomprehensible to some kind of uncanny valley “is this just…really terrible writing or am I having a brain problem?” territory.

I’m glad it’s not just me! But for me, it’s not just random searches. It also happens with news articles from major outlets. Can they really not afford to pay a single person to just proof read the story and make sure whatever’s auto-generated is at least coherent?
Green hydrogen has terrible economics. With green hydrogen you take $1 of electricity to get $.50 of hydrogen bond energy and then run it through a fuel cell to get $.25 of propulsion. It is worse when you account for compressing the hydrogen, and much worse if you burn or convert the hydrogen to liquid fuel. With batteries, you take $1 of electricity and get $.90 of propulsion. Hydrogen is not realistic.
Yep NI, thanks for clarifying I didn't know NI != NHS
pedant#2 here. Typo, Thomas Young's work on the 'double slit' was in 1801.
There's already NATO troops in Estonia, the US has a bunch of troops relatively nearby in Poland, and when Russia invaded Ukraine recently, the US knew months ahead of time. Given that the US is in a military alliance with Estonia, Russia won't dare invade in the first place.
My thoughts (as a Java / C# developer that occasionally dabbles in Ruby, Python, Go, JS and other languages):

* Throw exceptions when things are broken
* Catch exceptions when the calling code can do something other than propagate the error
* Log exceptions at the level where they are uncaught
* Log information about errors that are handled rather than the exception detail
* Never log and propagate the error. This often leads to double logging, especially when the error
is further propogated. This in turn causes confusion about whether there is one error or two, as
well as whether one error is a cause or is caused by the other error.
* Always provide enough information in your own exceptions about:
* what you were trying
* what went wrong
* what the caller can do to fix the issue (even if that's an indication that nothing can be done)
* Never discard information about an exception unless it will truly never serve any purpose
* Consider storing (but not writing) debug log messages that are only used when something does crash.
How we got to this point is usually the most important thing a developer needs to know. Google "Ring
Buffer Logging"
* Always think about how you would prevent the error from happening rather than letting it fail
* Log errors at system boundaries and report useful errors to the external system
* Never include confidential info in errors (passwords, keys, tokens)
* Ensure errors can be correlated in some way (request ID / correlation ID etc).
* Ensure that the contextual level of the exception matches the level that the caller expects.
E.g. an error throw by code that saves a customer record generally shouldn't ever be a FileNotFound
or a DivideByZero error even if this is what happened somewhere down the stack.

These are generalizations, and like many rules can be broken if it makes sense. Do so with good reason though.
I bet we are nowhere near the engineering limit of flow battery energy density. It is fairly limited in research compared to the various conventional battery technologies. I think a 5x increase in energy density over Vanadium redox (to 100-200 Wh/kg, 75 Wh/kg is achievable by some chemistries already) would put it in striking distance.
There has been a couple of attempts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion#Merc...

So far it hasn't really been economically feasible unlike icebreakers. Russia is the only one who is operating those.
If you don't want to do it yourself, there's this:

https://github.com/google/zetasql

Parsing is huge but it's amazing how small a part of the job it is. This library isn't even the half of it.
This makes no sense at all. Your suggestion instantly takes us from a limited conflict to nuclear Armageddon with nothing in between.
Who knows, maybe the bots even have legitimate Spotify listener accounts.
No, it won't. A single miner has chosen to *not include* TC transactions in their blocks, but they are not *censoring* TC transactions in the sense that they will validly build upon blocks built by others that feature TC transactions.

As long as 1% of miners include TC transactions, even if 99% choose to not include, TC transactions will still be part of the blockchain, albeit not as timely.

When miners start actively REFUSING to build on blocks that feature TC problems, that is an issue.

For what it's worth, the ethereum development community is actively exploring features that make active censorship a network violation (with censored blocks not being accepted by the network), although this is an area of active research.

Current proposals include PBS+crList.
I recall it had a well-publicised cheat that let you warp to late stages of the game, but it wasn't resilient-- you could easily get the saved game into a state where you needed to defeat a boss to get an item or advance the plot, but the boss didn't appear because you were now out of order.
He'll have to get reception working first :)
If you want a Blinkenlights visualization of what happens from BIOS boot to main() then watch the second video under this heading: https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/#emulation
See also Twitch streamers, Amazon listings with weird pricing, etc. Give someone poor dirty cash, let them set up accounts and buy/subscribe. You lose a percentage but you get clean money.
It sounds like it may be an appropriate time to work on becoming your own best filter? Since you're so well equipped to cut out the person in the middle, it seems like a natural fit.

So maybe it'd help to start collecting data or direct derivatives of data. Build your own news-establishment framework.
Extremely vulnerable to jamming and other electrical warfare and thus not usable at the frontlines.

Ome can find out from public sources that Switchblades run their video and control 900MHz + 2.4GHz bands.
Which makes sense for a disposable product and likely worked fine in Afganistan. But against an adversary with jammers and other EW it will fare much worse. Still usable in the rear, as we have seen.
Captivating writing!
Because I lost my fucking mind.

Years spent fighting at the coal face, managing to pull out miracle after miracle.

Being told to do 6 weeks of work in the next month, and still getting it done.

Requesting that next time, I get more warning, being told "that's perfectly reasonable" only to be shat on again and again.

Never being listened to, and being driven to such depths of feelings of worthlessness that I needed to leave before it drove me to suicide (and even then I came too damned close).

What do I do now?

I'm an unemployed homeless man that leaves snarky comments on the internet, as I try to drag myself back to humanity (knowing that even if I do, I can't even get as far as a technical interview).
That's extremely impressive, I've seen videos where people combust lithium cell phone batteries and it's a lot, but roughly how much megawatt hours of capacity go into running a bus by comparison?
The most illogical part of this is that tips already account for inflation because... They're a percentage!

But the vast majority of people can't understand math so fall for the argument of tips needing to increase to help match inflation.
I think you're being a little uncharitable to the TDD folks here. Sure the early writing was very dogmatic, but real world TDD doesn't seem to be to be as rigid as you describe.

Or perhaps you've worked with some real TDD zealots, that doesn't sound like fun.

The folks I've worked with use these as guiding recommendations, not binding dictates.

For some of the UI stuff you mentioned elsewhere, I've seen a stronger focus on testing not just business logic, but view logic as well (where possible), but generally not to the degree of testing the rendered output of the UI. Maybe that's a thing somewhere, but I haven't personally seen it.
Really it's $1.2k for two of us. $600 a piece. CO. I pull $80k out of a C-Corp and my wife is unemployed so there's a small tax refund. Deductible is $500 for me, $0 for my wife. Our kid has changed that equation.

To answer your last question, if we can no longer pay monthly premiums, then Medicaid exists. The difficulties likely mirror the difficulties with the NHS.

You bring up great points but having experienced both, I'd still go with US healthcare 10 times of 10. It really is *that bad* -- maybe NHS was great back in the day but when we got back stateside US care felt like an oasis in the desert.
Analyzing an Early-Stage Startup from a Product Perspective
Yes. And generally speaking, the term 'drone' is dumb and should be avoided because everybody gets weird ideas about what it means. It started as a pun, applied to a radio controlled aircraft rigged as a gunnery target, designed to fly once before dying like a drone bee. In just about any case where you might say "drone", there is a more precise and self-explanatory term you could use instead. For instance

> unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
Interesting, this case does indeed look to be a new variant - something in between the original 64 and the 64c.

I would say (without knowing for sure) that the original was surely released in Australia as well. The original C 64 was definitely released in New Zealand (I owned one), and I cannot imagine Commodore releasing in NZ only and not Australia given the 4-5x population advantage Australia has.
https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/ape/ape.S

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/s...

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/sysv/s...

We do everything static. Even on Apple x86 and M1.
> When iOS was developed on the iPhone, it was obvious that it was little more than a modified version of MacOS X

They said exactly this at the time. The OS on the original iPhone was explicitly “OS X”, it only gained its own name several iterations later.
We must stop and outlaw all autonomous weapon systems right now.

No one can win this. The dollar cost per KIA is going to quickly drop below $20. And this will be for all optical hunter killer drones.

the only way to win is not to play
electric short is applicable to any electronics, not ICE specifically. ICE engine itself is old and proven tech
Time travelling data leads to paradoxes. It’s unlikely to be possible.

Think of entanglement as pair of boots. You’ve got one boot with you and unwrapped it on the mars. Voila, you know that one left on Earth is left one. This analogy is wrong but good enough to understand why entanglement does not help with communication.
I’ve tried to implement the item nesting in the [x]it! Sublime Text plugin. The problem there was that I didn’t manage to implement strict rules for subitems. If you consider the following example:

[x] Example item
[ ] Subitem
[ ] Another Sub-Sub Item
Continuation of the first item’s description

Some problems I encountered:

- The “Another Sub-Sub Item” should not be allowed, because it skips one level (from the first to the third, instead of to the second).

- The “Continuation of the first item’s description” should not be allowed, because it only makes sense for sub-items to appear after an item’s description, but not in between.

- It also doesn’t seem to be possible for sub-items to inherit their parent’s status, e.g. if the parent is checked, to also colour the sub-item as if it was checked.
Thank you so much for linking this; this video is incredible.
FP8 is interesting. I wonder if training could ever be made to work in this format? I see they have two options for mantissa size which is interesting. But no unsigned option? Losing a whole bit to the sign seems unfortunate when you only have eight.
There is DXVK native which doesn't require wine.

https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/dxvk-native
Doug McIlroy recounts how early use of egrep for personal calendars led to Al Aho improving its algorithm: https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-August/026336.ht...
sounds safe and foolproof and definitely not a medical technique that might be found to be questionable in the future
Lodash is dead, long live Radash
I agree, but GitHub is going out of their way to censor this code, and developers in other countries are being arrested for writing it. Maybe a high profile case of "the code will remain available" will dissuade those who intend to follow suit.
Civilization 5 Tech Tree Mapped to Real World Timeline
Mostly from Australia and Chile. I assume more large producers will pop up as demand increases.
> what's stopping people from ignoring the governments restrictions on digital resource blocks?

In my opinion? Greed. Cryptocurrencies were supposed to be all about creating a type of money that doesn't depend on a central authority. And then the last 10 years were spent trying to exchange them for dollars, which of course depend on a central authority. "We will be finally free from banks" turned into "banks are being mean and they won't work with us".
Don't assume they're just targeting Spotify. Spotify is (or used to be) the best at catching algorithmic spam, the other streaming services hardly care at all.

Likely they use a front service such as TuneCore which gives them access to all the streaming services. Just using Spotify is unnecessary risky if the goal is simply money laundering.

(However, if the goal is to do pick up some royalties from all those background plays, and I think that's more common, then Spotify is clearly better)

For an example of spam/fraud, look up the album "Angry man" on Deezer. Or rather, the albums. There are 200+ of them, all with the same stock image album art. That spammer is easily recognizable, he's been doing a similar bulk upload several times per month for maybe 10 years now. He's an example of a spammer who is present on very many streaming services. Spotify has kicked him off, though.
I had my Spotify password compromised a while back and random fake generated music would play sometimes from my stereo. Very strange experience until I figured out what happened.
I find articles like this - and the fact they make the front page of HN - pretty illustrative of how "misinformation" is nowhere close to our biggest media problem.

Misinformation is downstream from retrograde political views and basic historical literacy. The solution isn't a better media ecosystem. It's better social relations.
Arizona just stays on MST year long making it easy unless you have to figure out what time everyone else is on.

And for even more fun the Navajo Nation does do time zone changes.
Google is big enough to not need to sell that data. Doesn't make it a right thing to do.
If you've every completed a Duolingo just to realize you can barely string a sentence together you will have shared my pain. Language acquisition is a long, confusing and lonely road. It's clear that OPs vision for NLP augmented language learning will be the norm one day sooner or later. Dictionaries, endless books and tutors is just too much time and money for most people.
> As I understand gas turbines are around 64% efficient with various tricks.

These super-high efficiency gas turbines are not 'pure' gas turbines, but so-called combined cycle plants. Basically you first have a 'normal' gas turbine driving a generator (which, by itself, maybe gives you ~45% efficiency), but then you take the host exhaust of that gas turbine and use that to drive a secondary steam cycle driving another generator.

I'm not sure such a thing is doable in a closed Brayton cycle, at least I haven't read anything about anything like that.

An interesting thing with closed cycle Brayton is that instead of air you can use another fluid as the working fluid. Supercritical CO2, for instance, has some nice properties leading to extremely compact machinery. Of course there's an uphill battle in commercializing this technology; if you use air (or nitrogen) you can just adapt one of the many existing gas turbine cores with $zillions of R&D and decades of experience behind them.
Yeah, understandable. It's Python so things can easily get verbose. I've known too many engineers that see LOC as a measurement of complexity when those things aren't directly related. Complexity is usually unwrapped into a simplified model of things (human nature) but often there's 2x more plumbing code to cobble it back into complex mode to work with it. Not saying it's the case in your codebase but it's been what I've seen in large Python codebases. A complex domain is broken down into simple domain models then wrapped in services that add that complexity back because the original domain model was simplified from a business perspective already.

Complexity to me comes from obtuse concepts. The business trying to cast too wide a net or something along those lines. Microservices help to concise that vision into reusable bits but its gets a bad wrap because of the context switching (which means your domains aren't well defined.)

Keep using those tools though, they will save you so much time down the road when you enforce test coverage and fully lean in on that autoflake.
More Than 300 Classified Documents Found at Mar-a-Lago
There is another one in Germany since 2014, https://phys.org/news/2014-05-longest-superconducting-cable-...

As I've read from other sources (in german) it's not perfect, more of a prototype, because it "leaks". The tanks need to be refilled with about 30 metric tons of LN2 every 3 weeks.

Anyway, at the time of building (2013) the cost was 13.5 million Euros for its length of 1000 meters, for 3 phases and up to 40 megawatt capacity at 10.000 volts.

The operators say it works reliably, and the leakyness could be avoided with the next builds, which are planned. And would make sense, because it's more compact, and enables more efficient 'smart grid'. Especially in densely built up areas, like downtown, where this is.
Sail assisted cargo ships are under active development as a method for reducing energy consumption.
Naming is universally difficult. Make it a numbers game.
This kind of thing has a history, eg this was on top of the TPM platform: https://web.archive.org/web/20060822043633/http://www.hpl.hp...

I wonder what's different this time.
> Just wild that AMEX and other banks have zero issue giving us a limit 3-5x that (verified it today!) but Stripe can't.

Probably because Stripe is about 50-60B in valuation lower than AMEX and AMEX is a bank with long history with the government so bailouts are probably a high possibility for them to play loose like that. Stripe not so much.
The criminal gångs in Sweden are using Spotify to launder drug money buy buying streams on artists in their circle who they also to some extent control. One of those were just murdered last year.
Elon Musk Subpoenas Former Twitter CEO in Legal Battle over $44B Deal
Bows, slings, and hands can also be used to propel missiles.
Ask HN: Should a 'no side projects' policy be taken seriously?
My employment contract says the following:

"The rights to any intellectual property created by employee during his work shall be transferred to employer in full."
"The employee shall shall not be allowed to provide any services to another company and not to run any other business"

And the boss is defensive about the first part applying to anything created in the spare time as well, also refusing to make exceptions.

Is this sort of thing actually enforceable?

What would the process look like if I released a "competing" app independently, and the company wanted to take it down?

Or if they wanted to claim ownership over unrelated media, like a github repository?

I'm living in Cyprus. Does this mean I should be much less afraid of getting sued than if I were in the US?
if cannot see, right click => open image in new tab
A lot of big ships already use electric propulsion, but deisel generators are the power source.
GE is one of the big names in gas turbines, and AFAIK they make wind turbines as well, in addition to nuclear power plants. So whatever the customer wants they can offer. ;)
https://archive.ph/3lU6G
Towards Robust Blind Face Restoration with Codebook Lookup TransFormer
Why 7 is Weird [video]
On a slightly related note, does anyone have any good recommendations for a parsing library in nodejs or rust for parsing advanced search queries? Similar to twitter’s advanced search?
UwUntu
> How could anyone reliably, conclusively determine that an image was generated using a locally-run tool?

https://github.com/ShieldMnt/invisible-watermark

(still ways around that, though)
I can't believe the response after the media approaching them was still "We're right and your account remains banned" I understand the reluctance to expose themselves to potential legal complications but in this case with the police report it's pretty clear cut that these photos were not criminal and the photo taker has not committed the crime Google is accusing him of.

further discussion on the original NYT story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538805
GTA-Human: Playing for 3D Human Recovery
Wonder if you could do point to point laser comms.
So Lockheed recently showed video of its laser weapon. as the technology matures I assume energy consumption will drop, and intercepting drones or anything is no longer limited by number of misses, drones, or ammo but energy. Imagine nuclear aircraft carriers pumping an indefinite amount of energy at least in the short term into multiple lasers basically creating an energy barrier around the craft.

Not a laser expert btw.
it's pretty stark for me:

in 2010:

> pull files from ftp or visual source safe

> edit html/css files

> upload

...then jquery came, helped normalise js cross browser. then sass, and simple build tools like gulp which i found useful and easy to manage.

in 2022:

> install git

> setup git credentials

> install node

> install npm, yarn, npx....probably missing other package managers

> run npm install

> it fails for obscure reasons: deprecated packages, missing packages, incompatible node versions etc etc

> try to fix all the myriad npm issues

> npm install

> npm run dev: failed docker not found...

> install docker: cannot install

> sudo install docker

> not on sudoers list will be reported

> create IT ticket for sudo access

> 2 days later, install docker

> run npm dev

> make the edit

> commit failed, you are 10 commits behind

> try to merge, cannot automatically merge

this is just a contrived example of all the added stuff we have to deal with which is NOT directly a part of what i need to do, edit some css or html or maybe tweak some js.

javascript has completely changed the meaning of front-end. front end is really full stack javascript developer who can also build responsive for almost unlimited browsers/os's....whilst also being good at js/react/vue/redux state management performance and building fancy animations and transitions with css/svg, accessibility, typography....on and on

it is a lot...the work itself might not be so hard based on your own exp, but the expecations on us are very high.
Email account deletion and recovery should be regulated by law. Nowadays it's an essential service - just imagine that electricity provider, ISP or anyone else is doing the same without any period of notice, nor ability to dispute the problem with a company's representative.