skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been to an island with fast hydrofoil ferries and regular ferries. Most people preferred the regular ones because they were cheaper and gave a smoother ride.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43478925
I saw this as a fun in-joke, not mean. And you gave the hint to bring the rest into the joke.
As EURion was introduced in 1996, it looks like only the S500 and S1,000 from 1997 got the treatment[0] so you should be good to print it (in relation to EURion, other policies/laws might still apply)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation#Usage
Solar Foods produces a novel ingredient out of electricity and air
Ah, I missed the comment about excluding the suffix and mixed up the order
Sounds ripe for a union
Even overbuilding 3 times isn’t enough. Zero times a big number is still zero.

Finnish winter crushes solar and wind generation. No sun and wind still days.
The NSA been caught with their hands in the cookie jar so many times that they deserve extreme suspicion if not outright distrust.

Some may argue that DJB has personal or social failings but he has never been caught compromising a crypto system. Any individual who did wouldn't not by credible anymore in the community, a government agency however is constantly welcomed back to the table.

> Accusing scientists of taking bribes or (previously) plagiarism is wildly unprofessional.

This statement is either naive or purposefully misdirecting the audience. Anyone working in security knows that insider compromise includes a lot more than just monetary bribes - even a paragon of ethics has friends, family and their own personal safety they care about.
Can anyone give me some other articles similar to this one?
old bush pilots, bold bush pilots.

Not sure what is odd about risk-aversion. How many times have you been injured?
Split core cable glands. Look at Icotek.
Steiner schools do this.
I really like timeanddate [1] website for looking at past weather. For most cities you can check up to 12 years before.

It's also useful if you want to check what's typical weather in some city.

[1] https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/france/paris/historic
The pictures made me think of this: https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~smorris/edl/icespikes/icesp...
> Sentencing should take macro trends and effects into account.

This is dangerous territory. Do you want people charged with other crimes to follow the law and sentencing guidelines or to take macro trends into account?

Taking macro trends into account to more stiffly punish civil rights protesters in summer of 2020 is an example of something that I would not want.

(If we want to laws which explicitly offer variable punishment based on effect/intent [as in first DUI vs fifth DUI or DUI vs DUI crash vs DUI crash with fatality], that’s fine of course, but it should be legislated not judicially sourced.)
It also applies to people: inherently insecure; their behavior cannot be audited or validated. We have a long history of prompt engineering attacks, which are in this instance called "social engineering".

Still, people are almost everywhere.
Bro, I stay confused
> I've heard of companies bringing revenue forward but I've never heard of postponing revenue to a later quarter.

Schilit et al on Financial Shenanigans is instructive here.

Management might try playing this game to reach future bonuses staked to earnings targets.

Microsoft did it in the late 90s with unearned revenue reporting as a way to avoid bringing additional regulatory attention to their anti-competitive practices.

Enron did it in the early oughts using undisclosed reserve accounts to smooth income while manipulating the energy markets after landing huge windfall profits in its trading division to the tune of over $1 billion.

USRobotics did it when they merged with 3Com in 1997 by not booking over $600 million in revenue during a two-month stub period---instead reporting $15.2 million, compared to $690.2 million in the preceding quarter---for 3Com's benefit after the merger closed.

A few months ago, Broadcom announced plans to acquire VMware for ~$61 billion in cash and stock[1]. Speculating, suppose VMware were to pull a similar stunt into the merger, but rather than using it to conceal bad faith projections circa 2019, a variant of the 1997 USRobotics+3Com merger playbook were to pan out undetected.

There's a part of me that (perhaps naively) wants to believe this press release isn't really about some weak $8 million penalty, but a warning shot to both VMware and Broadcom that the SEC is watching very closely.

[1] https://www.broadcom.com/company/news/financial-releases/602...
Yes for nuclear the emissions are very close to 0 (lower or on par with wind depending on the study).

The best time to start building new low emission capacity was 3 or 4 decades ago like that France did but the next best time is today. I really don't care what kind you build as long as it is low emission. For Finland nuclear seems to be working really well. Having one of the cheapest and cleanest electricity in EU is more then enough proof of that to me.
That's how basically every modern military (and probably historically for quite a long time as well) works, except with a slightly sillier hat.
Show HN: Microsoft Project like cross-platform app written using Avalonia
C++ without the old bad things it carries for the sake of backwards compatibility.

Maybe a simpler subset of the language with it's most common usage, like STL containers, string, etc.

And a similar syntax, I don't want want exotic things like in rust.

By the way I wonder why it's not possible to deprecate things in C++, and compile different part of a code base with either an old or a new part of the language. C++ really needs to break off backward compatibility.
Tell HN: I've browsed a website from 2000s and it felt great
Probably because of nostalgy, I couldn't help but feel joy when looking at this page. It was potentially created on MS Frontpage. So cool to look at the "home" button in the end of the page and the meta tag <meta name="GENERATOR" content="[Netscape]">. There is also an old fashioned "visit counter" as well. What a strange feeling, like finding a treasure trove. I guess I missed that somehow.
thats not forecasting though is it? its measuring. and only with total coverage its predicting too?
Great point, even within humans there are studies that show motivation plays a great role in the measured IQ, eg https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1018601108
Constraint programming solvers tends to focus on finite domain (integers) but there are some solvers that has some supports for floats as decision variables. You can try some of these solvers.

For non linear models:

* Gecode (included in the MiniZincIDE distribtion)

* JaCoP (https://github.com/radsz/jacop)

* OptiMathSAT (https://optimathsat.disi.unitn.it/pages/fznreference.html)

For linear models:

* CBC (included in the MiniZincIDE distribution)
Or some of our predatory birds who deliberately propagate bushfires to drive their prey out of cover: https://www.bushheritage.org.au/newsletters/2020/winter/fire...

This actually functions similar to a controlled burn and helps prevent larger, more devastating bushfires from occurring when too much fuel builds up, and also rejuvenates many kinds of plants for which fire is an essential part of its lifecycle. It's fascinating.
> To me, it was pretty clear that math absolutely was 'alien'/foreign to the human brain. It's clearly very useful, but human brains are not inherently capable of grasping it.

That pretty strongly disagrees with a few experts on the matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Mathematics_Comes_From

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics,_Form_and_Function

Also, I'm not sire how Godel's death is relevant.
What are the chances that COBOL jobs will be outsourced to low cost countries?
I thought that Microsoft patented that behaviour. /s
"If it compiles, ship it and let the users test it".
>"Synthetic fertilizers are a friend to saving nature because they reduce how much land we need."

Is this actually true or do we just use fertilizer to avoid improving the quality of our land?

>Farmers are already doing that. Fertilizer is expensive, so farmers have an incentive not to waste it.

Are they actually doing or are they just saying they are doing it?

>The pursuit of a chemical-free world is insane. Modern technologies like synthetic fertilizer make people's lives better. They especially make poor people's lives better. Banning them brings disaster.

Okay, just like Sri Lanka banned fertilizer, other countries should ban farming without fertilizer. Or maybe the problem isn't environmentalism or a lack of anti environmentalism but politicians banning fertilizer or non usage of fertilizer to cover up their corruption.

Something doesn't sit right with me in this article. The author doesn't actually care about Sri Lanka, he also doesn't care about reducing fertilizer usage, he also has the opposite extremist idea. Instead of choosing to restrict people's freedoms by anti environmentalism and pro environmentalism authoritarians maybe we should let them do whatever they want and adjust the tax system to account for pollution and externalities?

No, that would go against the current doctrine of left and right wing politics.

>The pursuit of a chemical-free world is insane.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QwoGCDdCzeU&t=1200

It is insane indeed, it is insane how well it works.
> 90% of the civilized world agrees is bad?

90% of people with higher education do not understand logarithms, consider astrology and/or religion as a working thing, etc. Science remembers some cases when 99.999% of civilized world used to be wrong about something.

> Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you.

Cattle is not "others", they are way closer to things then to people. They do not understand conception of self and death, they will not grieve seeing death of their friends or relatives, they will never write a "Romeo and Juliet". Don't you consider a potato as that kind "others"? But if you throw a potato not in a boiling water but in a wet ground it will be possible to see that potato is a living thing.

I agree when somebody is talking about climate impact or health of a diet. But when, after hours of manual labor in an unheated workshop, I go on my lunch break, I read about the suffering of animals with such loud laughter that I can't believe that anyone is talking about it seriously.

> As for the car, what would you say anybody can do tomorrow no matter what they do for a living or how much they earn, give up their car or change to a plant-based lifestyle?

The Lindy effect?
ahah! I found a counterexample! "killjoy." VO order, no -er, first documented usage 1776 apparently.
> where leaders of literally every major superpower are coming over to pay their respects

Is Putin coming?
XStream⁺ seeking 10M USD for a 1% stake 1B USD Valuation
Unless you refuse to acknowledge that that movie came out.
Yes absolutely, just the way foodcourts are, malls are the center of a small town circle.

The question is, what kid of stores will be in them?

My naive idea is. that the winner of the each branch will absolutely do stores.
Imagine an amazon outlet, for everything Kitchen related. or everything tech related, with prices that you have online as well.... hopefully very carefully regulated.
Huh. I add 15kg of weight plates to my backpack, for fun. And I walk to work.
> What legitimate use case can you think of where the benefit of faithfully reproducing currency is not outweighed by the need to prevent the proliferation of counterfeit currency?

There's a joke about a famous prophet in there somewhere.

And I jest, but there's a point in my quip too:

Annoyingly getting in the way of creative workflows probably does very little to prevent actual counterfeiting in comparison to what it does to enhance the piety surrounding our increasingly digital origami deity.
That's not how any of this works lol.
> despite every economic indicator pointing at a deep recession

I mostly agree with you and believe that we’re in or entering a recession, but the jobs figures are a major economic indicator that is pointing away from recession at the moment.
Linux mountpoint backed by immutable database immudb
I agree, but I wouldn't trust our current government to create the replacement political structures...
My first job was as a COBOL programmer on an IBM mainframe (OS/370 I believe) for Xerox. The system was absolutely massive and incredibly difficult to navigate. There were thousands of files with names that only had 6 characters. So everything was a two-letter system code, followed by four digits. LP0456, OP0234, SB1245, etc.

Then, in each of those files the variables had similar names in order to cut down on unique identifiers. WP100, WP101, up to the max number you needed at any given time. It was a nightmare. There was as much external documentation to keep track of all of this stuff as there was code.

On top of that, you could only build programs overnight in a batch process with the rest of the system, which was run by a different team in a different country (Spain, I believe). So you would write your program in the day, phone up the guys in Spain and explain that there was a new program going in and you were responsible for it. Problem was, if your program failed to build it would hold up the whole system, which HAD to be up and running and live again by the morning. This meant that every time you made a change that went into the nightly build you also had to be on call.

I remember eagerly watching the build queue at 1AM, waiting for my file's turn. Then immediately shutting everything down and going to sleep the moment it was successful. If it wasn't successful, well, then you had to fix it on the spot and phone Spain again to tell them to give it another try. Unfortunately, you rarely knew why it was failing.
Maybe, but I think it was delightful.
Ukraine captures one of Russia's most advanced electronics warfare pods
I believe only shady recruiters who pray on inexperienced candidates are struggling to find work.

But this will only weed out the bad apples, which is good. Here's a recent exchange I had with a recruiter. He messaged me out of the blue:

"I am contacting you regarding a professional opportunity for a CTO position. If you are interested in this offer and would like to have more details, please sign the attached NDA."

Me: "Can you disclose the salary range (excl. equity)?"

Him: "This position is highly confidential and almost everything about this company - including name, job title, and salary - is priviledged."

Sadly, this is pretty much representative of the average quality of recruiters that contact me. They probably just want to add my CV to their ERM so that they can brag about their large pool of applicants. And I won't miss those (bad) recruiters when they are gone.

On the other hand, there's recruiters who I talked to before, they know my preferences, and they don't waste my time. So they'll be like: "$150k to $250k, Senior AI Researcher, company X (healthcare, speech recog). Should I suggest you for a call?" And I'm happy to choose which introductory calls I might enjoy. And those (good) recruiters seem to still have A LOT more job openings than candidates.

I also heard that self-service recruiting platforms like Taledo are still doing well. Again, my guess would be that that's because their use is driven by potential candidates, as opposed to (bad) recruiters pushing a slightly unrelated offer onto the candidate.
Will some of those parasites finally do some real work? Probably, but most will go on to find some other useless annoying bullshit to bother people with. The things I've seen and experienced with recruiters... man, that's a bullshit profession that really should die out for good.
Yup; or paraphrasing, one man's trash is another bear's dinner.
Woman jailed for 43 years for criticising monarchy
Some people (James Randi in particular) spray starch on real bills to increase the false negative rate. http://archive.randi.org/site/jr/070105quality.html#7

That link also contains an account of the problems someone faced when using that technique.
> I get it, less features = simpler

To be fair, this seemingly obvious feature is absent or buried in many/most weather apps and websites I've used. It's certainly not just an Apple™ simplification.
Current safety techniques are far from sufficient for accelerating AGI progress to be a good thing.
If worse comes to worse, you can use a T-shirt to wipe your arse, at least. More benefit than any NFT
Odd by comparison to the smaller magpies, currawongs, blue-faced honeyeaters & noisy miners that can so readily shoo them off. They're pretty shy with people too, which isn't true of many common urban birds. Though that shyness may have quite separate origins (humans being what they are and all that).

I wonder if it's a behavioural strategy somehow related to their carrion-scavenging niche.
Paying $600K not owed could be a valid business decision to just move on. However, if you’re in a position to burn $600K on this, I’d much rather stand on principle and threaten to burn $500K (or even $800K) of your own money and a similar sum on the vendor side to stand up against improper audit findings.

I’m willing to flex on cases that are 60/40 or 40/60, but if we think we’re 100% right, you’ll get more blood from a stone.
We have underground trash bins that need a keycard to unlock and open and are designed in such a way that you can't reach in when it's opened; something like that, maybe with a camera with basic facial / human detection. But nothing internet connected or requiring people's electronics, they go there to escape from that.
"using our in-browser C compiler targeting the Z80 CPU"

Isn't the Z80 a notoriously bad target for C? With its collection of very non-orthogonal registers.

I know in the retro ZX Spectrun scene the use of C is as simplistic glue to piece together hand optimised assembler.
I understand the expression to be shorthand for the principle that a person will defend a comfortable bunker position stubbornly and with main force. Changing the person's thinking will require significant energy and may exhaust your resources.

Your adversary may die in that bunker. But there's an entire economic system that got your opponent to enter the position and believe in it.
Just a question: Is dimming the launch screen on dark mode gone now? I can't find it and my new launch screens look like fisherprice toys with black holes (the widgets)... Where is my nicely dimmed Marshian surface stock photo that allows focus on the app/widgets without blinding me?

I like the new lockscreens, especially the one where you see the earth and where there is still sun and where it is night, beautiful! Unfortunately the Sleep focus I use for it completely blurs it away... No setting to change this... It feels like it's not really finished.
The government is well-aware of how inflation erodes reporting thresholds. If you look at the obligation to report non-US bank accounts to FinCEN, they've indexed the penalties ($10,000 per line item) to inflation but not the $10,000 aggregate reporting threshold.
It already started... not in Photoshop, but don't forget the plans Apple had for the iPhones...
… that’s literally what all the meetings are for, to take care of building the project properly, because you know how to build all of the parts of the product.

There is no level of skill at which anyone will ever just be able to do an entire project on their own; no matter how good you are, you’re always going to be better with others.
Sure, and the monarchy could be abolished by a simple parliamentary vote, and the weekly meetings where the PM briefs the monarch on anything that could hurt the latters financial interests could be abolished even more easily.

Except the monarch is a billionaire with power over even more money and public opinion and elected representatives are rightfully afraid of the monarchy's well funded and well oiled propaganda machine being turned against them.
Remember when the pandemic first started and literally no one was on the roads? I hiked up into the mountains of LA. You could see to long beach and even catalina clear as can be, 50 mile visibility. It stayed like that until traffic started kicking back up again. The same dense city, the only difference was people weren't driving to work and the air was noticeably clearer both to the naked eye, and on purple air.

EVs will help some but honestly these days, a lot of particulate pollution cars put out comes from sources like the tires and brake dust. EVs are heavier vehicles overall and would produce more of both for a given class of vehicle. The best thing to do would be to improve service quality of bus transit in order to move more people with fewer vehicles; giving busses signal preemtion and their own lanes would go a long way to make them more convenient than cars for more people. Bike lane networks would also help people feel more confident riding a bike in cities to more places. Not enough people take the lane while biking, certainly.
Makes me consider getting some nice Croatian Kuna bills before the end of the year and hold on to them for 20 years.
Ask HN: OVH not answering tickets for weeks?
We've recently migrated to OVH, but we are somehow regretting our choice at the moment as our tickets are receiving no answers or acknowledgments for several weeks.

Unfortunately said tickets are blocking us from completing new orders (as they relate to documents requested by OVH, which we provided, after which nothing was heard for weeks).

Is this normal? Does anyone else have this experience with OVH? We are now considering switching back to our previous provider because of this poor experience.
I can't read the whole article, but just by opening its link it changes from a definitive conclusion to a "may affect". It wouldn't surprise me if weak correlation was presented as causation.
I wonder if this development process is also something that bankers don't want you to know about.
Super work. In addition to the excellent code, the documentation is very well done IMHO, and all the more so because of the multiple languages. I'm especially glad to see Rust and compare it to R.
As a Rustecean. We made it boys, people are complaining about Rust (and not just the borrow checker).
Isn't this a rather misleading paraphrase of the article title, considering it is a Thai woman who criticised the Thai monarchy?
I'm confident they already are.
Creative limitations would be a big reason. I'm sure someone else can explain it better, but being forced into a far smaller scope than you'd usually work in makes you have to consider the impact of every small thing. Its not just a programming thing, people do the same with music, art, any medium.

Its also quite nice as it acts as a levelling of the playing field. The limitations of modern tech are far outside the reach of most solo-devs, but put 100 devs on it, and you could reach it (and therefore create something more technically impressive). With those limitations on, a solo dev can far more conceivably create something technically impressive.

Unless it has real world consequences (eg you can export to a gameboy ROM or something), I don't really care if its based on an actual retro system or a fantasy one, they achieve those same results.
It’s not ‘verbal’ - I’m not sure how you think the UK works? It’s precedent.

> a clear process for the document to be regularly edited and updated

Sounds like you’re thinking of law or code rather than a constitution?
pithily said!
Should probably clarify that this is in regards to the Thai monarchy. When I first looked at it I assumed it was the British monarchy. However, there have been multiple occurences in Britain of people being arrested for criticising the new King [1], [2], [3]. I would say this is dissapointing, but for Britain it's nothing new, we are hardly a country of freedom.

[1] - https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkg35b/queen-protesters-arre...

[2] - https://www.thenational.scot/news/21319718.protester-arreste...

[3] - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/11/republican-p...