skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered what people think that this is supposed to mean - are they suggesting that there was a conspiracy to demolish WTC7 for whatever reason, and the BBC was somehow brought into the conspiracy for some inexplicable reason and were supposed to announce that it had collapsed at some planned time for some inexplicable reason and they either got the time wrong or the collapse was delayed and they reported it anyway for some inexplicable reason even though it was visibly still there? As opposed to the much more likely scenario wherein it was a chaotic situation, and the firefighters had decided to stop fighting the fire in WTC7 because they thought it was going to collapse, and either somebody had misheard over a scanner or the anchor misunderstood what they were being told and said the wrong thing? Because if so, that sounds like a failure of critical thinking, not evidence of a conspiracy.

And that's my problem with nearly all of the 9/11 conspiracy stuff - most of it is things where you say, "hmm, that seems a little strange" and then it falls apart completely when you really look into and/or think about it. Like, if you say to me, "The CIA was behind 9/11, they posed as a radical Islamic fundamentalist organization and found some guys who wanted to attack the WTC and bankrolled them and helped them plan and gave them advice on exploiting known problems with US security, and did some stuff to make sure that any investigation would be diverted, and they were successful and flew planes into buildings which burned for hours and then collapsed, killing thousands of people and justifying foreign wars", that's plausible. Could have happened. The CIA has probably done more evil things. Burden of proof is on you, of course, but it could be a thing.

But no, it's always "the towers were brought down by explosives", or "the planes were really missiles", or "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" or "the planes were flown by remote control and all the supposed passengers were just crisis actors" or, "they let random idiot x into the conspiracy for no discernible reason and he spilled the beans" or any one of a hundred improbable, unsupported-by-the-available-facts failures of critical thinking. I mean, I understand the tendency of the human mind, when faced with a chaotic situation with an unsatisfying outcome, to latch onto little odd things about the official explanation and expand them into a whole tale that wraps up the whole thing neatly, but man, this is just exhausting
Ah I see. Is that how `count(1)` also works? Or is that different.
Absolutely.

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql (found from HN a week or so ago)
https://archive.ph/XbkQJ
The subject matter of a rant is more often than not a response to an imagined narrative. Accounting for the complexities and nuances of reality does not make for a good narrative and therefore does not make for a good rant.

What I try to do is take some imagined narrative that is causing an emotional reaction and use that as a starting point for artistic creation.

For example, I just wrote most of a folk song in the style of a murder ballad about a man who is laid off via a Zoom meeting, tracks down and murders the boss man, and is then found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.

Care to take a guess about the real-world motivations? The reality is that the people responsible for these layoffs are very different from the people in my emotionally charged imagination. The key is to use both our emotions and our inherent narrative drive in a productive manner.

Funny enough, I wrote this song a few years back while still employed:

C
Stricken with terror
F
Do they still wanna pay?
C
How easy is it to let go
G C
What you don't see everyday?

CHORUS:
F G C
And the search begins anew
F G C
A phone screen, an interview
F G C
Are the plans really falling through?
F G C
Just sign here, the papers are due

Onsite or online
Do they even know my name?
If I were to leave here tomorrow
Would the place stay just the same?

CHORUS

Working remote
Does it always feel this way?
And way back a long time ago
Did they feel the same as today?

CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL

CHORUS
I think linking a PDF is less friendly to users who need Text-to-Speech technology, something the Braille Institute should be sensitive to...
Qt meets all your requirements; everything (GUI code and business logic) can be implemented in moderate C++ (C++ 98 or higher, even "C with classes" style is ok). RAM usage is generally low (< 10 MB for most of my apps). You just need the Qt base package (Core, GUI, Widgets), and version 5 is still good enough. If you prefer C over C++ https://nappgui.com is yet another good library.
Einstein's Brain

"English filmmaker Kevin Hull crossed America in search of the truth about the stolen brains, together with the Japanese scientist Kenji Sugimoto, who has been studying Einstein for over thirty years."

https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/35af3499-a6ce-498f-a5ae-cbba455e...

The only issue is good luck finding a legitimate copy anywhere.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xM4m-Z0nAio

Edit:

Triumph of the Will

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-triumph-of-th...

(Goes better with the commentary by Anthony Santoro)

General Idi Amin Dada - A Self Portrait

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5609-general-idi-ami...
“The Century of the Self” by Adam Curtis.

https://youtu.be/eJ3RzGoQC4s

It goes through each decade of the 1900s and explains how Freud’s psychology and the new field of marketing completely reshaped society. For the first time in my life I feel like I understood the “why” of how things work in American society. This film is probably best if you’re age 40+ and actually remember some of the events.
Show HN: Codeatlas – Visualize your codebases during CI
120 year-old singing bird mechanism
Already so many good recommendations here, so just a few I enjoyed but haven't seen mentioned:

— This excellent 2013 re-working of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle (not a proper doc, but if you like Adam Curtis, you'll probably like this). If you like to consider whether the world we've built is good for us, look no further: https://vimeo.com/60328678

— Pump Up The Volume, a 2001 BBC doc about the rise of House music. Maybe the best work on this topic ever produced, covering the early years as disco evolved into Daft Punk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Hz6FQyVJ8

— Paris Is Burning, a slice-of-time doc about the 80's Ballroom drag scene in NYC. You can see the roots of many elements of popular culture documented here, shown through performances and conversations featuring some of the stars of the scene at that time. This one's on HBOMax these days, but I'm sure it can be found elsewhere online.
Imba and nothing else comes even close
The EU’s stated aim is to lead the world in the amount of AI regulation and the degree to which that regulation alters the behaviour of AIs. Classic “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.
Curious about your project - you have some claims that your engine is multiple times faster than Postgres. You also mention that you are “using all the cores” in your system.

Is it correct to assume that the core innovation here that you are parallelizing your queries? If so, have you tried benchmarking with parallel queries enabled in Postgres (eg., one test would be to increase the number of workers allowed per query)

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/how-parallel-query-w...
In my previous job we had to deal with sudden DST changes in Jordan, Russia, Turkey... it's amazing politicians don't realize what a big deal sudden changes can be.

Edit it appears the switch was delayed due to the constitutional referendum. Turkey had national exams as a reason, I believe.
Yes, I can't believe that the awesome power of relational DBs is still hindered by the major flaws of SQL. Here is my attempt at something better: https://docs.racket-lang.org/plisqin/Read_Me_First.html The feature I am most pleased with is that joins are values (or expressions, if you prefer) which can be then refactored using normal techniques.
I don't know if they sell this outside Japan but Toshiba makes some killer microwave/oven/steamer combos which size-wise look like a normal microwave. It comes with a cookbook. You dial-in the recipe number and you can easily make professional chef quality meals. I've even done pizza w/ handmade dough.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/TOSHIBA-ER-TD7000-K-Water-Stea...
I'm a psychoacoustician and this is not the way, very sorry to report. Others have touched on the acoustic issues already, so let me touch on the psychological ones: your perception of sound from loudspeakers doesn't just depend on the acoustic waves hitting your ears. It also depends on your personality and expectations. If you genuinely believe that doing a seance to drive out the poltergeist from your speaker set up will make the sound better, it will be difficult to convince you otherwise precisely because the acoustics did not actually perceptibly change.
Yeah... M = Monsieur (in french, namely Mister in english), I forgot the 'r'... I should have written Mr. Bellard, I kneel upon the weight of my apology.
The article seems to be focusing on energy consumption of already built machines. I would be curious to know how that figure relates to the CO2 emissions of manufacturing the servers.
I really enjoyed The Endurance (2000), which is about the famed Shackleton expedition. Really shows how a man's steadfast leadership, experience, and fortitude can save even the most dire of circumstances. Great narration by Liam Neeson too.
The likelihood of a meltdown that causes contamination into the atmosphere at that facility is extremely unlikely even if the reactor is bombed.

If power is disrupted, there is 2 weeks of fuel to power the cooling mechanism. If that fails there will be a meltdown inside the reactor but unlike Fukushima there is no possibility of a hydrogen explosion in this type or reactor. The meltdown will be contained in the reactor. If now the reactor is bombed there is a possibility of radiation escaping but it takes a lot. Additionally the winds blow towards Russia so this would be a very foolish endeavor and everyone knows it.

The Ukrainians are bombing it because Russia is using it as a launch pad but they also know that a Fukushima or Chernobyl is almost impossible.
I used to play nethack on a crt and don't remember it looking like that.
What other options are those? I tried to list all recent and current alternatives (China being the only current one IMO?). Who’d I miss?
How interesting. Here is a quote from Google:

"We’re decarbonizing our energy consumption so that by 2030, we’ll operate on carbon-free energy, everywhere, 24/7."

https://sustainability.google/commitments/

Do you think this is a coincidence? No, this is how companies that already made fuckton of money using cheap fossil fuel energy of the past plan to keep their future competition forever crippled.
> Second article

Why does this guy claim that the potential input latency of a debounce implementation negates the latency caused by decreasing the polling rate? This is such a typical non-sequitur I see in computer related topics and doesn't change my mind that mechanical keyboards are yet another gimmick mainly lead by charlatans. Also the fact that you can just set 99% of keyboards, even from 20 years ago to 1000Hz with a tweak.
Debris
AVweb did an interesting video a couple of years ago, "Are Planes With Parachutes Really Safer?":

> The Cirrus line of aircraft have been flying for 20 years and although most people in aviation know they have full aircraft parachutes, it's fair to ask how effective these have been. With more than 90 uses of the so-called CAPS, has the system really saved lives? In this video, AVweb's Paul Bertorelli analyzes the record.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT58pzY41wA

Concludes that parachutes a generally a good thing, and even though the Cirrus aircraft fleet has grown from 5000 to 7000 airplanes over the last ten years (12m30s), the anual fatality numbers have stay the same and so have overall annual accidents.

The first few years didn't see much improvement, probably because the training didn't emphasize it as much, but since ~2013 the advice is generally "if you're experiencing issues just pull the 'chute". There is a cost to fixing the aircraft afterwards, but it will be you paying it and not your widow or estate.
Off-topic, but I think this might be the first time I've loaded a url including `%20` and had it actually render in my address bar as a space, rather than the percent-code. Is this something new in Firefox?
No more dealing with SvelteKit changes, we've hit RC! :)
Solvable through IPFS. When it comes to the domain, an onion v3 domain or unstoppable domains are good bets, although I really don't expect _any_ of our current computer infrastructure to exist within 500 years.
Pretty good ones:

Hearts and Minds (great Vietnam War documentary) - https://play.hbomax.com/feature/urn:hbo:feature:GXk3jwwTEBZ4...

My Best Fiend (Klaus Kinski biography/documentary by Werner Herzog) - https://watch.plex.tv/movie/my-best-fiend?autoplay=1&utm_con...
Previous discussions for context:

- Our initial Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430165. The previous post was only showing our static gallery - we've since turned this into a GitHub Action that can visualize any repo as part of CI, so thought a repost was warranted

- Discussion about visualizing software in general: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31569646

- Discussion about a similar project by Github Next, using a different approach to generate the diagrams: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28074827
My pet theory is it's for the same reason public and public-ish housing works better everywhere else (from Vienna and Singapore to even ex-USSR) - robust private sector, in jobs and housing. In other places the alternatives may be limited/very expensive/not much better, so the public housing/jobs retain a mix of all kinds of people. I think in Singapore they used to emphasize luring the best people into government jobs, even; not sure how well it works in practice in the long term.

In the USA, private sector can provide much better housing, and much better jobs, for most people, so anyone capable of leaving the public ones does. So, public housing eventually becomes dominated by the least functional members of society, and public sector, with the exception of the idealists and the corrupt, mostly retains the incompetents.

The process is self-perpetuating too. Govt aside, in a tech company it's really hard to maintain a semi-crappy department given that people can leave - either it needs to be cleaned up and fixed, or the best developers will leave and it will just become crappy.
+1 for any Curtis documentary. They aren't something you necessarily need to agree with to enjoy. Most of them involve him attempting to stitch together an over-arching narrative for events of our time.
Can't we apply the same reasoning to any well-established company that would make similar commitments?

Should we then be suspicious of all of them?
The person you refer to also encouraged swatting of others. He's no innocent in this, despite what is being popularly portrayed.
Indeed. Some people never grow up (Kissinger is 99 years old, after all).
Hey, thank you for reading, and I apologize for that! It was not my intent to sound harsh, but I can see how it would come across as such. I meed to work on my online tone, and that's on me. Please don't feel disheartened by that!

I am genuinely curious about your service and I think it's really cool. I hope you find a way to showcase it even better, because I get the feeling it's made of some serious programming magic™ :)
No - you can always remove the google account from the phone, or add a different one, before resetting it.
Isn't the main reason for us not having fission rockets the fact that we don't want to have radioactive material explode a few kms above our head aka a dirty bomb?
Reverse merger?
https://www.statista.com/chart/27331/countries-committing-th...

Plenty of EU countries there.
The fog of war is amazing.
A small reivew of the Poem Rust web framework
After wasting a couple days trying to wrangle Axum, Hyper, Rocket and a couple others I tried Poem and it solves every problem I had with the other frameworks. Waiting for the other shoe to drop.

1. The response object type isn't generic (as per project goals). In other frameworks, if I had branches returning different response types the types would conflict - no such issue here.

2. The cookie middleware is easy to use. In axum you had to return the cookie jar from your handler and trust the response tuple magic to do something with it to set the cookie in the response. I wasn't using tuples though, and due to the above it was non-obvious (and awkward) how to set the cookie in the response using response objects.

3. When you enable TLS via rustls it automatically makes non-default config changes to negotiate http2 (this is boilerplate in other frameworks).

4. Endpoint handlers are non-closures, and state must be shared via extensions/middleware (not captures). Rust closures are a hornet's nest so I'm plenty happy just being able to avoid them, but I also like that there's a single way to do things (and that way has good DX). In other frameworks you need to use async closures in order to get the compiler to intuit the future type since they're complex and you'd have to define it manually with a non-closure.

5. TLS configs are a stream to handle live cert refreshes.

It feels like a batteries included/one size fits all solution, but it's very well integrated and there are a lot of batteries. It's pretty locked down, where you can't easily tweak the internals. I haven't hit limitations from that yet, despite having some somewhat weird use cases.

There are also a lot of examples in the repo.

I was fighting with other frameworks for the last 3 days (a good 20+ hours), and when I hit another future-handler-generic-incompatibility error I threw my hands up and tried Poem, and got my code compiling in 30m.
AMD's Early Math Chips
I am not into basketball but I found The Last Dance excellent.
I'm reading this book and it contains explanations about "why" too, in addition to some light historical context in places:

Douglas Comer: "Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume One 6th Edition"
It'd better be, since the radioactive waste will have to be stored for a million years, which is many times the age of homo sapiens.

Of course we have to hope for technical advances to convert it to a more manageable form.
Chemical Brothers MIDI Setup
“I choose hope” – Christopher Emms (British crypto-expert wanted by the FBI)
It's dead simple: there is no time for any new nuclear left. Building a nuclear power plant takes anywhere from 20 years to infinity in the free world due to the regulations. Moreover, even in totalitarian countries where there is no red tape and single authority can decide on life and death of millions on serfs, it takes decades: it took 13.5 years from get-go to start of the first reactor of Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant. That puts us to 2036. By that point certainly, electricity will be fully solved with renewables alone.
Ironically, my strongest memory of 9/11 (from the UK) was watching the BBC and relaying blow-by-blow, over IRC, to friends in the US who were already in the office.

It wasn't a connectivity issue from my memory, it was most major news sites being completely flattened.
Interesting that Google can just browse through the photos on one's phone, completely at their own initiative.

"Private and secure" - private and secure from other people. Never from Google. Never from the US government.
Why no HTML? Web is so big nowadays if it could render to HTML the platform coverage will be parallel to none.
I haven't used Topre switches, but I've had a Das Keyboard Quiet with Cherry MX Silent Red switches for over 10 years now. And I second everything you say about them. I also don't mind the linear feel, since I do a fair bit of gaming with it in addition to work. And even in the middle of some fierce button mashing, the noise is enough to confirm to me that I'm hitting the key, but not enough to distract from what's going on.
When I went to schools (40 years ago) history was all about the saxons, romans and vikings. Plus a bit about WWI and the Russian revolution. I don't remember doing anything much about the British Empire. But it was always tacitly assumed that the British Empire was "a good thing".

I think most educated British people now know there is quite a lot that was "problematic" about the empire. Interestingly there is a very good new British podcast called "Empire" which talks in a lot of detail about what the British did in India and it is not comfortable listening.

I would say the British Empire wasn't as cruel as the Spanish, Portugese or Belgian empires. But that is a very low bar.
Fires of Kuwait -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tUzkF_Dp8M

A first hand account of the firefighters who were sent to cap the oil wells that Saddam set on fire during his attempt to invade the country.

Senna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aPLOQeSHrM
The story of famed F1 driver. I'm not a racing fan but this one was amazing.

Apollo 11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Co8Z8BQgWc
Completely new footage was found of the complete Apollo 11 mission. The best doc of the space race, by far.
I was a double major in philosophy and CS in my undergrad. Philosophy was fun, but in hindsight I wish I did math or stats or some other STEM instead. I would say my main takeaway from the philosophy degree was developing a sense of intellectual respect for big, important ideas that I don't personally agree with (various religious thinkers, Marx, Aristotle etc), but it really doesn't compare to the actual nuts-and-bolts abstract reasoning skills you pick up in an abstract algebra course, for example.

I also found that I could consistently get As in humanities courses with ~20-40 hours of work per quarter (the time to write 1-3 papers) once I picked up the skill of "writing like an academic", vs my CS courses which continued to be challenging and require a ton of effort to succeed in up until my graduation. My senior year, for example, I had some core-requirement course about theater -- I attended zero classes and did zero readings until I sat down to write the paper, and I got As with compliments from the professor on how well-written my papers were. YMMV.
It wasn't helped by Ziglang's VP of Community Loris Cro using the term 'full-time safety coomer'.
Everyone has a favorite for clarity (mine is Andale Mono) but see the hyper-configurable https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ to make one your own.
Odin's stance towards undefined behavior was probably the decisive element that made me prefer it over the other languages.

https://twitter.com/TheGingerBill/status/1495004577531367425
+1 on Icarus, the documentary that itself became part of history
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga by Dmitry Vasyukov.
The English narration was written/voiced by Werner Herzog and matches the tone of the documentary perfectly. If you’ve ever had any interest in homesteading, or just getting away from it all, I would highly recommend it.
Icarus and Barkley Marathons are great
Misleading privacy controls, privacy-negligent API, FB Beacon... these FB features date back quite a few years, and were terrible for users. That is the sense in which I say it's bad design.

If I make a pizza with tasty, fresh ingredients - but then top it off with rotten fish guts and mouse turds – it's a garbage pizza.