skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has there been a more powerful vehicle for projection of 'soft power' than the BBC?

100 years of programming, pulsing out the British perspective for a world that was hungry for new sources of media.

Leaked documents from the CISA recently revealed operations to shape the 'cognitive infrastructure', by planting agents into moderation and product roles in online platforms - they have nothing on Brits, who have been showing the US how it is done for decades
Thank you - I will!
Really impressed how Apple is leaning into unregulated “safety” features. Fall detection for grandma, crash detection for drivers, now this for adventurers. When you’re doing as well as Apple is, small reasons for consumers to buy keep adding up over the competition.
FTX Accounts Drainer Swaps Millions in Stolen Crypto
Use flutter if you’re looking to build something quick for cross platform iOS android.

Upgrading versions or dependencies isn’t a nightmare.

Dart is easy to use and a pretty good language.

Lots of community support and dependencies.

It works.
Well it’s tricky right? Amazon had huge demand. If they didn’t hire during the pandemic then they can’t meet the demands of their customers. Performance degrades. Packages don’t deliver on time. They run out of stock. Is it preferable to provide shitty service to your customers or hire to meet those demands and then adjust to market realities later?
It's going to be memory-holed like Epstein's client list.
260 km/h might be the limit in EU but it's 174 mph in the US https://youtu.be/prX7yF0T_gs .
> I don't know if it's SBF previous political connections that are making most media outlets hesitant to delve into the details, but the scale of the failure is going to be unavoidable as more details emerge.

The Ryan Salame part of it may be making both parties not want to look into it too much.
I'll just take a handshake instead, thanks.
No, because they had most of that data anyway through other windows, and the opt-out for the feature in question was very small, and only applies to Android users.
> The author says that because of boilerplate, “brains have been at a discount” and “the editorial needs have chiefly been a strong right arm and an axe”

It’s remarkable to see a sentiment that’s so common in the internet era showing up in 1894.

Today, you’d probably phrase it as ‘we’re in an attention economy due to boilerplate’ or ‘the signal to noise ratio is worse due to boilerplate’ or something (with modern ‘boilerplate’ being electronic rather than mechanical).
I don't understand this take at all. It's like we're reading different articles.

This is the title page of the article:

> How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Collapsed

> Mr . Bankman-Fried said in an interview that he had expanded too fast and failed to see warning signs. But he shared few details about his handling of FTX customers’ funds."

And there's this:

"But he would offer only limited details about the central questions swirling around him: whether FTX improperly used billions of dollars of customer funds to prop up a trading firm that he also founded, Alameda Research. The Justice Department and the S.E.C. are examining that relationship."

Of course the New York Times can't accuse him of committing fraud. That hasn't been proven. But I don't see how anyone could miss the implication of this article that something shady may have happened.
Another extraordinary ancient Egyptian knife: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebel_el-Arak_Knife

Not made from a space rock, but nevertheless incredible craftsmanship from more than 5000 years ago.
Agreed, but I'm in a position where I have to code (or study) at leisure if I want to be marketable in the near-term. Really makes me realize I would not do this on my own, "for fun".
In Android I hate having to turn off location & then again going inside the location settings to disable the WiFi scanning once more.....smh
An amateur radio license, a $30 handheld radio, and another $30 of PVC and wires will get you into space communications.
The ‘SBF Bill’: What’s in the Crypto Legislation Backed by FTX Founder
Decision making informed by critical thinking are of course some of the most valuable skills one can give an adolescent, however, there is no replacement for experimentation. Of course I'm not asserting that we let kids go out and do drugs to test them out, however, I do think teaching critical thinking skills and then allowing teens the freedom to exercise them to calculate the risks they take is important. Testing the limits of that calculation is the only was that we can learn the right equation.
AMD Now Powers 101 of the Fastest Supercomputers
Motherduck Raises $47.5M for DuckDB
thank you! happy that you find it useful
> The range of the Nevera is 40% of a similarly performing car that is approaching 20 years old now.

Is that supposed to be unimpressive? The fact that EVs is catching up to or beating (see Pikes Peak) ICE in almost every category except range, in the few years since EV development was rebooted with the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Roadster, is kind of insane.

And yeah, range for EVs is now consistently around half that of pure ICE vehicles. Which is impressive enough considering how it was just a few years ago, but it also means that, since a 2x battery improvement which is quite likely (at least 1.5x improvements are being achieved in cells that are already past the laboratory stage and in early trial production), it's almost inevitable that EV will beat pure ICE on range. Well, you could always sacrifice trunk space for extra gas tank or use serial hybrid or something to get really good range with ICE. But point is EVs are clearly getting to around parity level or "good enough"

> And can be refuelled in minutes!

That'll always be a benefit. Probably the only one.

But it really doesn't matter for 99% of usecases. Around 20-30 minutes is OK since you can just leave the car and do whatever you want. Most of the fast chargers around me are next to super markets, shopping malls, hardware stores, etc. Most people will charge overnight, and yes, that goes for public street side parking too. Oslo already has public street side charging poles all over the place. You've got solutions to retrofit street lamps, and now you've got this as well which should be cheaper/easier than poles: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/arms-manufacturer-giant-r...
> Things like poverty and homelessness are a policy choices.

Since the 1880's the presidency has swung between Republicans and Democrats with a frequency of roughly 8 years (sure not overall control house+senate but I can not be bothered to look this up properly).

Poverty and homelessness dont change on that frequency - getting them into power is a way to solve these problems.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/pove...
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/10/19/homelessn...
Look up "Network Effects" ... ironically, probably on Wikipedia
Amazon Plans to Layoff 10k Workers
GP is most likely mocking what they see as circular logic in the crypto-sphere. Re: Uniswap - a study posted here few days ago found that 97.7% of tokens launched there are either scams or rug pulls: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33572361
The 'unpopular' parenting rule I always used on my kids–Esther Wojcicki
Groundbreaking? Hardly.
I was also interested in server sided Swift for a bit but didn't go very far with it.

Java is the "obvious" choice for statically typed web backends. Personally I'll recommend Go and C#. Both have a low learning barrier to entry, check your boxes for backend languages, and have ample resources online. I would choose C# (on ASP.NET Core) if you want flexible typing and inheritance, and Go if you want "simple" imperative code. Rust is also popular but I don't know enough to comment on it.
If all these companies had a hiring freeze for 3 years, that would be newsworthy, although it might not be reported on due to a lack of a punctuating event.
As in the outputs aren't useful, or the gifs are poor?
> App vs document is a false dichotomy.

Could you support this with arguments?
There’s a demo mode in the settings fortunately
I was always inclined to think it meant "the way" or "the road".
As I've explained to others here before, there's a difference in magnitude which is relevant here. SBF pledged to donate _$1 billion_ to the Democrat party. The only person to spend more money on the Democrats this cycle was the dear George Soros.

Who knows what's in store for SBF, but it's important to look at the facts here and acknowledge that this operation was heavily invested in the success of the Democratic party.
These are sometimes referred to as "dead metaphors" when you lose the mental connection to what originally inspired it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_metaphor
At least in Germany I know that the perspective on this is that you never want someone to even think about taking cost into consideration when they decide to make an emergency call.
Honestly if I could shoot a rock with a phaser to make it glow, I wouldn't bother with a flash light either.
Not really a fan of the language, nor necessarily a fan of the decision, but “rust in the Linux kernel” should probably tell you the future of systems languages and suggest a re-evaluation of the language.
> How can less be more?

Just overload the < and > operators to make it so…
Used Vapor/Swift in production for a good 2 years. While Swift is really one of the best languages out there, unfortunately it didn't work out.
The problem was being strongly tied to macOS & XCode, and every update may or may not break your ability to deploy the server. Vapor itself seems to be always changing as well.

Inter-op with various web-services is often quite a headache too. Sometimes there's support for Swift or even an official SDK, but it's often not so straightforward to actually get it working. You're definitely in untreated territory here, and it shows.

So we moved NodeJS. I feel Node is a meme at this point, but man does it simply work. There are code snippets for everything and usually it doesn't take longer then 30min to figure out how to do something.
The effect of downward-pointing black coatings on LEO satellites is higher spacecraft temperatures, but the cost of those higher temperatures is on spacecraft design/use, not on IR astronomy. Starlink satellites run screamingly hot even without the dark coatings; if they're a problem for IR telescopes, then that should already be a problem. A few extra degrees shouldn't break the budget.
I have the opposite feeling about them. I think they make the code more readable.
Reminded me of some of the excellent lore videos.

"What the king dreams, the hand of the king builds...or so say the kings the hands and the lords who wish to be hands."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59F_ntoGHDI
On the other hand good luck finding many place to comfortably do 412kph for 5 minutes.

The company was using an oval track with 2 different 4km straitawas to briefly hit that speed.
Would you feel the same way if Wikimedia funded groups acting against social justice?
This is known as life logging with adjacency to sousveillance and it’s a fascinating topic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance

We in general don’t want to be watched by others, but a managed record of our own activities can be extremely valuable, and even more so if you find yourself wrongly accused. Further it can be used to shine a light on corrupt officials, one example of this is the nycplacards exposes on twitter.
The average person is donating to the concept of Wikipedia. "I like this site, I'll toss them a couple bucks". They probably don't care how it's allocated at all.

Like all donations, it's an abstraction - you donate to the thing you see, but behind the abstraction is a complex bit of machinery you do not understand.

I donate to the world wildlife fund. I assume my donations help wildlife both concretely and abstractly, and that they continue to keep the WWF operational. I have no idea where my $50 actually goes, nor do I particularly care.

Same with Doctors Without Borders, or whatever else.

I assume charities know better than me their needs and finances.
There are secondary markets for shares in privately held companies. I signed up for one but I never followed through and did anything with the account so I can’t describe the process. I disagree that OP won’t find anyone willing to sell. I expect many people will jump at the chance to unload their shares.
Unreal Engine 5.1 Released
Nice! That website is (at least here in Germany) kind of a standard for laptop reviews. They always go with the same formula, same tests, same report. It's very easy to see how the different models compare.

Sadly they do not test with Linux though...
Yes and "The pinto" means "the exploding napalm fireball".
I think they missed the chance of building this _into_ the browser and having posts/threads created for each page you visit. Then you could comment directly on the content you see in the browser, similar to StumbleUpon back in the day.
I had a rental with automatic breaking. Gave the really strong impression it wanted to kill me on empty roads. Not keen.
>"keeps getting sucked into culture wars that distract from their core missions."

I am conflicted because I believe in the Unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it well". Yet, from a 'culture war' standpoint the winning strategy appears to be intersectionality and saturating the movement's messaging in as many organizations and institutions as possible.
This is actually correct. You don't need visual fidelity for a good simulation, nor physical fidelity. The important thing is that your mind and your body goes through the motions. You don't need to actually believe you're doing the thing, just practise the motions, cognitively and physically.
Whoa, that's crazy. Why wouldn't they just build a cart to tow it all with? There had to be some level of pride in how much you could carry or how far you made deliveries.

The risk involved in losing an order, or dozens it would seem, all at once back then had to outweigh the benefit of delivery in this method - unless these guys were so good they never dropped it.
Hello HN, I'm a founder a former Google staff engineer.

This is the story of how companies founded in 2019, are thriving today, survived two "Great Filters". Why you should be paying close attention to them.

My company EvolutionIQ is one of them.
Who cares. No really, for the average user; so what.

We need affordable reasonable vehicles rather than bigger, faster, more luxurious.
Which is a solid plan. Unless, of course, you buy the shovels with futures on potential gold finds and expect the resulting shovel rush to go on forever.
Construx does something like that.

https://academy.construx.com/

There's probably room in the market for others, so if you want to start a business in that space then go for it. But what you're describing wouldn't really be considered a "startup" because that high-touch model can't scale up rapidly and there are minimal economies of scale. Companies doing training and coaching can only grow slowly because the service can't be automated and consistent quality depends on hiring the right type of employees. There aren't a lot of senior engineers who have the necessary experience and want to be full-time mentors, and those who do exist are expensive.
If "cesspool" means "something you disagree with" then that's not good advice either. Reasons can be evaluated independently of the source of information. Good advice can come from anywhere.
Here are the full release notes:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.1/en-US/unreal-engine-5.1-re...
There are computable numbers whose minimum expression requires more bits than the universe can hold, using any possible encoding the universe has sufficient bits to define.

Infinity is much bigger than any finite number. This includes even "all possible numbers reachable in all possible finite encodings of a number within a given size", as inconceivably large as that is. No matter how large that set is, somewhere, there is some maximum number that is the largest possible number you can specify under the conditions I've given here, and that number is 0% of the way along the number line, which means that 100% of all "computable numbers" are larger than than that number.

There are some uncomputable numbers that have been given names. We even have the first few digits of some of them. See for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant
It may not legally meet the definition, but it feels like fraud.
Haiku Activity and Contract Report, October 2022
Python and .NET – An Ongoing Saga
Some people don’t seem to understand there’s a difference between a comment thread and a newspaper article. One isn’t better than the other, but they serve different purposes. You see this in political discourse especially, with everyone from the left to the right complaining that the media took a neutral POV towards something that they consider (and probably even is) egregious.
To each their own. It was dickish of me to say, "it seems like he’d be a lot happier with something that isn’t Rails." For that, I'm sorry.

The dry-rb approach isn't for me. That doesn't mean it's not going to resonate with a lot of others. (Clearly, it does)

To me, the Dry Schema approach feels unnecessarily heavy-handed and duplicates work that I would expect to be done in the model. Strong Parameters helps a bit with form data safety, but I'm not looking for anything else out of it. I'm expecting my models to validate and coerce those strings into something useful, and raise errors if the data is invalid. Dry Schema feels like an unnecessary layer in the middle. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I was worried that this would be an article about how boilerplate is never just boilerplate, how it's actually quite important and we shouldn't consider it so lowly. And that's fine. That's a good, valid opinion.

Fortunately, we are instead blessed with an etymology post, which is far more delightful to read, in my opinion.
> Why do smartphones and SoCs require a custom build per model unlike PCs?

Because there is no standard to which the SoC's adhere in the smartphone market.

PC's all adhere to the "IBM PC" standard (well, as extended along the way) so they are all similar hardware.

There is no such similarity in the ARM SoC smartphone market. Every variant of the SoC is different, such that different support is needed.

Now, as to why, that is a different question, and one to which any answer is just a guess. Most likely generic guess is because there was no need to be compatible with a standard from the beginning, and now they are all 'custom' in their own divergent ways.
Also, a 75% reduction (which I assume was meant by their 300 percent) is not that impressive when it comes to text compression. I'd guess that should be easily reachable with zstd by just creating a pre-shared dictionary generated from a bunch of typical emergency messages. Especially when those messages are partially auto-generated by a wizard-style questionnaire and will thus adhere to a previously-known structure and contain a lot of known elements and words.
I think you are mixing up throughput with latency. Can you confirm that you're not?
If you think not donating to wikipedia is such a bad decision, then why don't you try explaining why you think that?
Should the title not read, "BBC marks centenary of its first radio broadcast"?

Other entities had been broadcasting for many years before the BBC's services began.
They certainly have some. Like most people, they tend to aspire to making money, gaining social status, and building fulfilling relationships.

Can one find a goal that only these groups have in common? I don't think so. The only commonality between them is that they're conventionally considered powerful in modern American society, and even that part is only true because the terms are understood to refer specifically to powerful members of the underlying group. A counter clerk at Wells Fargo isn't really a "banker" and a farmer who hires a handful of people to help with the harvest isn't really a "plantation owner".
^ one of the few responses actually answering the question. Everyone else wants to argue OP out of their bet.
Wow arm32 support dropped, sha-1 deprecated, and openssl 1.1 deprecated. Fedora sure is upholding their "cutting edge" reputation.
Except that Vivaldi was started with that as the goal from the beginning (as a continuation of the old Opera browser). it already has a mail and rss client iirc.
Adaptive 3D Printing for in Situ Adjustment of Mechanical Properties
I wonder how many extra crashes will something like this trigger and who will pay when accidents happen because the car decided to break for no apparent reason.
I've seen PCS working well at slow speeds and, arguably, they would be more helpful at higher speeds. But would you trust such system with your life at high speed on a busy motorway ?
What's this "US culture war"?
Add the Chevy Nova (no va - doesn't go) to that list.
Everything online is gamed to a greater or lesser extent. I would expect an average HN reader to inform their opinion based on available data.

What are those some cesspool topics?
To further elaborate, there's always going to be flows that require large units. Like a link between EU and the US.
See I am not American and don't care about American culture war, Republican Democratican, or whatever you guys are using as an excuse to burn down buildings.

It's plain wrong to put banner ads in third world countries like Brazil and India, sounding like wikipedia doesn't have money to run their servers.

It's plain wrong to funnel that money to executives.

People who make wikipedia great aren't even involved with this. They have enough money to run servers, and a potential donation doesn't create additional content. They are trying hard to hide that fact with some clever wording.

This is textbook example of __dark pattern__ which highly privacy focused people love to point out when a bootstrapped startup collects telemetry data from their little application.

The Wikipedia fundraising effort is sounds like a metric driven C suite executive desperately trying to make charts "stonk".
There's a firefox extension called "Defund Wikipedia" which works very well to block these messages.

I personally use Britannica.
It's not clear whether this is for US/Canada customers, or if it only works in the vicinity of the US and Canada.

If I'm a US customer but am stranded in the middle of Africa, will this work?
how does the new deep sleep
s2idle work compare to older gen of laptops?

some people reported that a night costs 20 - 30% of battery life on framework laptop (after they configured s2idle deep properly), but nobody cares to measure the possible battery life difference between s2idle deep and s3

edit: I have 11th gen i5 intel nuc, but I didn't check whether the deep sleep works or not since it's a desktop
To be clear, SBF/FTX total fraud.

The PhD guys from LTCM, not so much. Just arrogant.
LiveView for Rust
How cool is that! I remember FS4 (and FS5) well, having logged hundreds of hours in FS4 as a kid, and many more unlogged hours.

In fact, in the early 90's, I was one of the first people in a Virtual Airline.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_airline_(hobby)

Not just the first VA, but one of the first few people in the VA. I was tasked with "designing" aircraft for use with our VA. When FS5 came out, you could modify the looks as well, so I'd get the flight dynamics as close as I could and another guy would build the model of how it looked. I forget what that package was called, now. But it was a lot of fun. I don't think any of us had an idea that VA's would turn into a Thing. We were just teens having fun :)
I didn't know before that they were all so much into drugs.