skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might also appreciate Smarter Every Day's Supersonic Baseball Cannon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqidD7kVnxY

(There are several videos in the series.)
I don't think I'll be designing on an Android device any time soon, but fingers crossed for implementation!
One of the problems is that its so dependent on government policy its difficult to predict. Eg right now France caps its electricity prices so power generators aren't making the profits they would in a free market. Also who knows what will happen down the road when cheaper renewables or nuclear comes online.
Also The Quick Snippet Reference:

https://github.com/snippetfinder/The-Quick-Snippet-Reference
Fridge Brilliance
So much for the modern, developer and open source-friendly narrative

That's exactly what it is: encouraging "developers", some of whom IMHO shouldn't even be writing software, to indulge in "coding" while completely ignoring and antagonising the user perspective. Countless users' workflows just broken with no recourse just because some selfish bastard wanted to use something "new and different" without considering the wider effects. When the culture only cares about promoting new and shiny tools/frameworks/etc. to developers and feeding their appetite for otherwise useless things, and in doing so, forsakes the original purpose of software, this is the result.
It's incredibly easy to prove.

The reason it's not all over the media is precisely because it doesn't hold up.

Anybody who's dedicated to this can select truly obscure terms, fully document their private chats and full internet usage and ads shown, and show whether this effect is actually happening.

The reason we don't hear about this is because the snooping doesn't appear to be happening. So you just get a bunch of people sometimes claiming it "seems like" ads are coming from private chats, because coincidences do happen statistically so it will always happen to some degree to some people.

The reason it's not all over the media is simply because the phenomenon doesn't appear to exist, not because it's hard to prove.
It should be fairly obvious that taking a side is part of the PR stunt they planed for it.
One of my biggest pet peeves in made up fantasy worlds is the fact that their worlds are absolutely static for hundreds or thousands of years at a time. Nations rise and fall constantly! Maps shift! First the kingship is in Eridu, now it's in Bad-Tibira! Then Bad-Tibira fell and the kingship was taken to Larag!

(Of course, this makes the trope I'm complaining about Older Than Dirt, since the Sumerian King List claims their kings ruled for tens of thousands of years)
Last week I learned some cool mouse and keyboard shortcuts in JetBrains, only to then discover they also did the same action in Visual Studio! No more “right click-go to definition” for me! I was presently surprised at how polished it was
So nondeterministic in the same way an electron passing through two slits is.
Offshore wind is interesting to compare to tidal power and wave power. Tidal projects seem to go OK, while wave power companies as a rule go bankrupt without ever finishing a utility-scale installation.

Looking at failed wave-power startups, I find some common features:

- surface-level equipment exposed to breaking waves,
- complicated mechanical parts,
- electrical equipment on or under water,
- expensive parts (turbine, generator) duplicated for each unit
- a heavy, expensive to build bunker.

In offshore wind, the expensive parts -- turbines -- are both offshore and duplicated, and the tower is very big and expensive. On the plus side, the turbines are held well away from salt water, and their mechanical operation is simple (although feathering the blades adds complexity). The power transmission tie-in is at or under the water, but has no moving parts, and can be shared with lots of turbines. It is not surprising that the bigger and taller wind turbines are, the better they get. One big turbine a mile high ought to do best, if you could build it.

Tidal has underwater turbines with expensive generators inside, duplicated, but it is anyway protected from surface insults. Are tidal projects mainly government sponsored?

It strikes me that the sweet spot for wave power would be a system where moving parts are under the surface and protected from breaking waves, where any needed mechanical parts are extremely simple and reliable, and where any expensive, fragile or high-maintenance parts are onshore and indoors.

Thus, I would have high hopes for a system anchored sub-surface that pushes air or water through a culvert/plenum to a turbine in a regular building on-shore. A single plenum, turbine, and generator could serve a whole fleet of energy-collection units out in the water. Closed-loop air, or at least dry air sourced from on shore, is appealing vs. moving sea water or sea air through a turbine, which turbines don't like so much.

Thus, I like

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m6MJpiUEKaU

and

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSAN-2pz9w

although I would want the turbine part moved onshore and shared. The latter is uniquely interesting as it takes advantage of not just waves' vertical motion, but their horizontal progression. The V shape is interesting as it takes energy from a wide front of the wave.

This one

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ehT-ZTHFGg

is getting hype lately, but checks all the loser boxes.
Yes! Automated testing is a super power. I haven’t had a single bug in production for 5+ years because of automated tests.
The Ragtag Army That Won the Battle of Kyiv
So I’m getting much bigger than 160 exabytes. Can you show your math?

MD5 is 128 bits so that’s 2^128 keys. And it’s 32 bytes for the output, so that’s really 2^133 bytes. Which is 10^38 which we don’t even have a unit for yet. Apparently it’s 100 million queccabytes.

You can get that down to two million queccabytes if you use a Bloom filter.
It’s a real shame that Von Neumann died before finishing The Computer and the Brain.
Need to get paid, need to do my job to do that.
Robotic probe sent to crash into an asteroid in a test of planetary defense
Maybe not an afternoon, but any software could be rewritten given enough time and interest.

Although copyright and patents may prohibit you from distributing it.
Mosquitoes were the vaccinators in a new malaria vaccine trial
> What do you mean by ‘well implemented contingency thinking’?

"I knew people wanted to do A. But I thought it'd also be helpful if when you did A, a feature like B could be there to prevent really common mistakes. And in this other set of features over here, if an annoying thing like C ever happened, well, I put in stop-gaps D and E so it was much less of a problem."
I spent a month trying to get Elastic Beanstalk to work elegantly and it was still a slog understanding failed deploys and managing the nuances of networking and the headache of waiting for the system to get to a manageable state.

We ended up switching to https://render.com and I got everything I needed spun up in 3 days. You don’t have the same access to underlying resources in AWS but you get everything EB is supposed to do but faster and more user-friendly. It is much more actively maintained than Heroku’s current zombie state.
Military snipers in training will practice at a mile+ and take the Coriolis Effect into account (or at least be trained to). Though they'll tell you the likelihood of getting one-shot one-kill is pretty low once you go past a mile of range.
If you look around, you can find photos of them being shown off around Ukraine

https://twitter.com/search?q=snipex%20alligator&src=typed_qu...
enjoying solitude is not just about being alone.

You can enjoy solitude in crowds.. like library's or sole dining or even just getting outside and wandering the streets/hills/parks etc.

Start there. feel connected without having to connect by first just observing.

I often enjoy sitting alone in a busy location just observing the people.
Yeah the volume button dance too.

Whisper, whisper, mumble, mumble, EAR PIERCING LAUGH, whisper.
The design of the bullet itself is interesting. Normally, longer and thinner is more aerodynamic, in any fluid, air or water - it creates less turbulence and drag. But here they found shorter and fatter works better for transonic projectiles:

> The .416 Barrett cartridge is made by “necking down” a .50 Browning Machine Gun (BMG) round to accommodate the roughly .40-caliber bullet. It’s a relatively short, stout bullet that proved ideal for its purpose, Humphries said.

> “Traditionally in extreme long-range shooting, we wanted long, skinny bullets,” he said. “However, we discovered that as a bullet crosses over into subsonic velocity, it flies better if it’s shorter and fatter.”
It’s also why they succeeded on the 69th try instead of the 2nd.
A good move would be increasing funding for defensive security teams at NSA, especially those working on open-source software, and restoring the separation of governance/leadership between defensive and offensive security teams.
I vaguely remember it as a pattern in a dwarf string table but can't remember if the memory saving was worth the compile time. Thanks
I used to think the movie “Wanted” was pure science fiction. Not anymore. It’s feasible someone could be sniped out from miles away. Must be a nightmare for security logistics of VIPs.
Wow thanks for the Tree Style Tabs tip, that looks really interesting!
Nvidia Reveals Ada Lovelace GPU Secrets: Extreme Transistor Counts at High Clock
Russia is corrupted, US is corrupted, EU is corrupted, the rest who don't comment is corrupted... Power is in individuals.
Paging Erich Von Daniken.
America Has Lost Its Oil Buffer
At those ranges you'd likely have to take into account the Coriolis Effect as well.
Hehe, I did professional CAD for a year before college so that whole thing is custom drawn in AutoCAD. As in I hand measured and drew each part because I didn't have some library of parts. It was part of my senior computer science/writing (lol) project 18 years ago. It's sitting in my dad's garage 2,500 miles away. A writeup without some action video would be kind of boring and I don't have the tools or space to build another in my broom closet of an apartment...

You're welcome to build one yourself with the spec and do it. The only things not shown are:

1. An ordinary Schrader (bike tire) on the tank. Drill through the triple walled part somewhere, tap, Teflon tape and twist it in.

2. A 0.25" NPT ~125(?) PSI pop off valve also in the triple walled part (somewhere) and maybe a pressure (I think? The bike pump's gauge should be fine as long as you don't fill it with really cold air and then leave it in the sun). Technically optional, but if you explode yourself it's on you.

2. The battery box to activate the sprinkler valve, but that's just a couple of 9v batteries in series in a project box with a big red button. I never even bothered mounting it to the gun so it just kind of...dangled from the gun by its wires.

3. A wooden block cut to fit between the barrel and tank with a semi-permanent metal strap around it to hold it together. Very solid with this, very janky without it.

Both ends of the sprinkler valve are just sealed with teflon tape and twisted together so You can take it apart for transport.

To assemble the nested barrel I left the 1.5" SDR 21 outside during winter and filled the 2" SCH 80 PVC in the shower with hot water (sat it on the drain plug), then slid the little one into the big one. The 1.5" SDR 21 was hand picked (mic'ed) to closely fit in the outer barrel by the guy I bought it from. You might not even need the outer barrel, but 1.5" SDR is really thin, so the chonky outer barrel protects it.

I played with it up to ~105 PSI, but it could probably handle a lot more without the pop off installed. The U-bend hampers the hell out of the flow, I'm sure, but a 10' long gun would have been very awkward to move around and be hell on the all the component joints. As is, you can hold it like a big minigun and shoot it. Though the cyclic rate is about 1 round per 5 minutes depending on how tired you are on the bike pump. Recoil is negligible. It'll punch a golf ball through 1" of chipboard, who knows what else. Maybe a person.

After the initial discharge the sprinkler valve flap makes a hilarious hooting noise.

Maybe I'll see if the Backyard scientist wants to recreate it? It seems right up his alley.
*prohibit you from legally distributing it (which makes it difficult to profit from.)

Also everyone way overestimates how hard it is to re implement all this crap.
If the strings have a 0 after them suffixes are more likely to fold than prefixes. bar\0.
I don’t deny that it’s an important safety system. I’m curious, though, if they’re treated like safety critical systems in design or if emergency training covers how to act if the PA is down.

I’ve got to believe it’s safety critical.
I don't think any claims were made to the an optimal approach nor utilize optimal language features.
Smart bullets exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_bullet

Here's a live-fire video of the EXACTO: https://youtu.be/YoOaJclkSZg

All the available information is several years old, now. I figure either the EXACTO (or successor) has secretly been deployed, or it proved impractical.
That's a good idea. At least give convicted criminals the option. Will save taxpayers a lot too. This could apply to non-violent offences where the person doesn't need to be confined to protect other people from high probability reoffense.
There is some hope...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32809126

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853392

In other words, I don't think Mozilla is making good use of that money at all.
AI./
Government contractors expensive tools are already heavily using open source tools. The whole log4j scandal that this bill is in response to is perfect evidence of exactly that.

It is not in the interest of 'proprietary' software vendors to fearmonger about OSS libraries. They too use OSS libraries just like everyone else does today.

It isn't 1995 anymore where a proprietary piece of software can run on a full stack of code written by the people who work locked away in a single building at one company. Everyone is using open source dependencies. There is nobody left that would benefit by demonizing open source libraries.
Human clinical trials of a mRNA-based vaccine for some autoimmune diseases are currently underway, fwiw.
Now that I see your screenshots it is something that I vaguely recall seeing in the past.
Cynicism is one of the key indicators of burnout, according to the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Some people are tired, some are lazy, but it's not actually medical burnout until you hit the point of being demotivated and cynical.
Once I've read this, I never had to think twice on what to use.

https://valyala.medium.com/high-cardinality-tsdb-benchmarks-...
Yeah, I hear you. A CC subscription is not cheap, but it's pretty incredible what you get for ~$600/yr, especially compared to what's offered by other subscriptions people pay for without blinking an eye.

I'm as eager—if not more—to take on massive greedy corporations as the next person, but my guillotine would be dull well before I got to Adobe's neck.
I’ve found people are just use to their OS. None of them are seamless.
Securing the software against you, to be fair.
It reminds me a bit of Canny - which allows users to give feedback. Seems like a promising sector though.
https://canny.io/
> You ditched all java over a single bug?

A bug in a third-party dependency, no less.
Time Out Of Joint [1] by Philip K. Dick -- from 1959! -- has the classic example of a character discovering he lives in a simulated reality. But it only has one level of simulation.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_of_Joint
I would love to see super slow-motion video of the bullet at the end of its flight to see how it’s spinning. It must be significantly slower than when it exits the barrel. Cue slow-mo guys.

Another very interesting thing to see up close and slow-mo would be the transition from supersonic to subsonic, but I have no idea how you’d even begin to get a camera set up to capture that.
Plugging in a Bluetooth transmitter into a user-accessible port and using the system as intended is "hacking" now?

Sure, passengers weren't intended to use that port, but from a system perspective the system is being used as intended with no interference or exploitation.

I'm not sure this system can even be "hacked" short of disassembling parts of the plane and tapping into the communications wiring.
Some questions I have

1. Is there support for comments beyond just the lexer, e.g. attaching them to nodes for a source beautifier?

2. Is there support for parsing incomplete input?

I got it building, should anyone be curious about the generated source I posted it here for the "calc" example:

Header file: https://gist.github.com/ridiculousfish/63449ca95d3f957f53a85...

.cpp file: https://gist.github.com/ridiculousfish/32b053325b698adda782f...
"How do you explain that?"

That can also be a selfish act. The feeling of happiness and pride from being gratuitously thanked exceeds the feeling of happiness from getting extra cash. Social validation and feeling wanted is a powerful driver of happiness, because being popular in your tribe leads to reproductive success. Clear selfish motive there.

So that doesn't map onto anonymously stealing from a store which many people, if not most people, would do if there were guaranteed to be no criminal or social consequences. Empirically the correlation between income and shoplifting wasn't that high, last I checked. And studies of people cheating show it is more common than not, last I checked. Almost everyone eats meat, despite the knowledge it's morally reprehensible, simply because it's still within the Overton Window for now. Eating meat is more morally reprehensible than shoplifting, the only reason people do the former and not the latter is social acceptability.

By design, people are intrinsically selfish creatures. Any motivations that present as altruistic are either cultural mind viruses, disingenuous virtue signalling, or strategies (such as popularity and recognition seeking) we unconsciously selfishly employ to improve happiness (proximate reason) and genetic fitness (underlying reason).
When are low-code prototypes useful?
But then it gets found
It does when you sell it to the government, which is what this is about.

The federal government has rules regarding the acquisition of software products, and they have various governance and risk management requirements for various scenarios. Many of these were designed with proprietary software in mind.

The point of this bill is to update some of those requirements to make sense with the way OSS works.
This seems to be where we are. But it's so shit, so bad.

Few agree, but as a bicyclist I much greater enjoyed being a part of traffic than assigned to a small narrow detached lane that has to at evey junction re-assess speedy mortal death threats abundant. Having freedom of the road & being part of the stream of traffic felt way better to me than being cordoned to a 2 ft wide lane that still regularly crosses the irresponsible/reckless/jerkwad zone. Having one multi-speed lane of traffic feels less complex to me, easier & safer than having a lot of different paces, different decoupled lanes: dealing with one another & sharing the space felt simpler easier & better, evemngiven how broadly ignorant rude & useless drivers were with their death metal machines versus bikes. But my city is pretty advantageous naturally towards bikes; cars just dont matter, are always slow, always encumbered, & bicyclists co-relationship is much better, much less limited & obviously more free, just mnturally.

The bicyclists co-relational advantage is basically ignored & unappreciated. The scariness of drivers is overwhelming. They behave horribly & are constant terrible mortal threat. So we each need separate lanes. Even though they are very limiting & scary, create totally different systems of people not recognizing & seeing each other that are so horrible, but limited to intersections & crossings, versus a pattern of coexistence. As a bicyclist, I preffered coexistence, but drivers are absurs insane disrespectful manslaugtering easily triggered monsters with little perception or awareness & worse behavior.

So! Separate lanes it is. I liked where we were better; I'd risk it. But I get why separate lanes is the shitry pathetic place we have to be to make this all reasonable. To defend against abundantly terrible & killing drivers.
If poor people don't have much to timeshift then it doesn't much benefit them. A single parent working 1.5 jobs and then juggling laundry hours may not be useful for that family nor for society. Maybe the first nnn kilowatt hours each month should be flat rate - like minimum wage sets a floor likewise exempt some small base of electricity usage from the pricing games.
This is a feature not a bug. The US government is making it as tedious and difficult as possible to comply with all of the byzantine regulations and complicated tax reporting that go along with using crypto.
Honest question:

Why does earths rotation matter?

You and the target are both moving at the same speed throughout the bullets flight in the same direction - why should it factor in?
At the time, Java accounted for <1% of our codebase/product, so it made sense to do so.
Coriolis effect. Google it.
? The implementation is the dumb thing though?
VSCode. Love it. Especially for remote development.
VMs are perfect for that teaching scenario.

That said, you're not supposed to be able to load kernel modules from a container.

Which is exactly the sort of idea an enterprising rootkit author might think to take advantage of ;-)

You might consider asking your students if they can figure out how they might go about getting a kernel module installed from in a container despite it not being allowed - and what advantages does that bring to the rootkit author. If necessary, you can test it using an LXD container in a VM.
Servo was not abandoned, it was setup to act as a proving ground for various techniques, and the things that worked out well were integrated into Firefox. The group was disbanded because they accomplished their initial goals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyOj_QD4a4

Makes me giggle every time.
Just found out my hearing is ruined, thanks to a useless booster.
Those are orthogonal. You can either think something helps or it doesn’t and virtue signal in either case.

It’s right in the name. When you “virtue signal”, you are signaling morals to a wider audience. It’s “virtue signaling” regardless of conviction.
The auto-generated AST data structures are really the selling point here. Having to manually write an AST for your language and update it if you update your language is mechanical and tedious.

I suggest the developer also look into auto-generated visitor / traversal functions as well, as those are also very mechanical and tedious. Another suggestion is to make sure the grammar preserves source information (file, line, column span) and implement re-printing which preserves comments and whitespace in unmodified sections of the AST. I get those are a lot of work though, as-is this is very impressive.
The Golden Hoodie and laptop sticker swaps – inside the world of Dreamforce
Is it really analog though?

The audio might be analog, but they still have to "key" the mic which would be a digital input at the very least, or something even more complex such as a phone-like system where handsets have actual keypads and internal numbers.

I wouldn't expect the amplifier to be active at all unless a "call" is in progress (otherwise you might hear a constant noise, plus energy saving/thermal concerns and all that), so even if there was interference around, it shouldn't be getting amplified to an audible level unless something is actually "keying" the mic.