skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the most comprehensive debunking I’ve seen of the “stealth in space” concept: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardetect....

This is one of the classic online nerd arguments, much of which is documented there. I’m a little terrified of reigniting the whole thing here and now to be honest, but if people want to get into it, have fun.
Naw... it's just the hypocrisy. If any other company/country were doing it, they should be called out too.

If you actually stop doing the wrong thing and decades later complain about others still doing it (the Western world can complain about slavery) that's moving up and on, but complaining about TikTok maybe being banned when FB/Google/Twitter and TikTok itself are banned in your own country?

Same with copyright... it's not like China's government doesn't issue copyrights and enforce copyrights, it's just that there's not really rule of law since it's enforced so haphazardly. There's little plan other than individuals "what can I get right now".
Your last link is about used car prices. And, yeah, when I bought a car last year I didn't even try to negotiate down from the sticker price, but I did manage to get them to add the price of "factory options" to my trade-in (which is advantageous from a tax perspective anyway)--for which I got a really good price to my way of thinking given age and some obvious body damage.
Lisp-vs-mainstream was just a very different comparison in the 90s versus now. Most of Lisp's advantages have been incorporated into its big competitors. At the time the advantages were nothing to sneer at, even though there were counterpoints then too.
I wish I could live in the fantasy world where I could spew predictions like this without any regards to their truth.
Trying this out, I'll report back in a couple weeks!
Not really. First year courses usually have hundreds of students in large halls. There is some more effort as you need more tutors, but that is basically it. (Students usually do not live on campus)

The enormous upside is that all students are judged equally on their ability to academically succeed in their chosen field.
I think US university admissions are ridicolous for many reasons.
> I assumed you were relying on an existing compiler.

Fair assumption, actually I was. Originally I wanted to port Bellard's TCC, but run into roadblocks: no real architecture abstraction layer as it generates machine code directly, so hard to port to a new CPU. Also it would be nearly impossible to add new languages like BASIC to that compiler.

> Very impressive!

Thank you very much, but I'm not so sure. C89 is a very simple language (the best ever in terms of provided expressivity and required compiler complexity IMHO).

TL;DR Problem only starts when you try to generate efficient code for an actual real hardware (which part I elegantly avoided entirely by designing the CPU myself), and when you start adding features from the later, increasingly more insane standards (C99, C11 etc.). K&R were geniuses, most of the restrictions they designed and were put in the basic ANSI C89 language makes it extremely easy to implement a C compiler.

And a little rant about integrating a 3rd party compiler, if you don't mind: it was much harder to integrate Lua. That's because Lua is a security nightmare, poorly documented and does not work the way as the doc says. For example:

- Lua might call abort() on your host application (seriously, not joking! And "lua_pcall" dares to throw an "isn't protected" error, resulting in calling that abort. I had to come up with an ugly continuity function and "lua_resume" workaround);

- lack of parameter verification, calling functions like "lua_getinfo" might segfault without any apparent reason;

- unless patched, execution of user provided strings as system commands is allowed;

- unless patched, provides full file system access outside of the sandboxed environment;

- ...and I still couldn't figure out how to get the faulting source line from an error event (which one might think to be obvious and trivial, but it really isn't).

So yeah, integrating Lua definitely took longer than implementing my own compiler :-)
It's one of the ways countries bootstrap. Not right or wrong, just is. Once they've climbed the ladder the US climbed, they'll suddenly start caring about IP too.
Hyperspace, Hesitation and Non-Vision
I'm on mobile right now and don't know the exact formula but today in the Houston area we are going to be above 36c, 80% humidity, 7mph winds and almost no cloud cover.

Again, I don't know the exact formula but that sounds pretty damn close to the conditions I saw referenced in the article and there's about 2000 people hanging out outside for a swim meet all day today.

Granted, we do have ample shade that most adults are staying under but many of the kids are actively running around playing.

And the current conditions are still a good bit lower than what we will typically see at the peak of summer towards the end of July/early August (hitting 100f-105f is not uncommon and likely going to happen this early week).
Ask HN: What workflow engines are suited to build tools like Shopify Flow
I am building a tool similar to Shopify flow (an automation flow which has event and actions). Does anyone know what workflow engine is used in tools like Shopify flow or other such tools? I am familiar with temporalio, but wasn't sure if there is a better alternative that's more commonly used for such tools.
remember, the police's sole purpose is to punish crime, not to prevent it. they don't care who they punish as long as they can add your number to their statistics. they are NOT your friends. that's just childhood brainwashing.
Maybe things have changed but I think 50-70 is more typical for SpaceX
>>In what other industry, not using the dealership model, would we be ok with major purchases being gate-kept by an army of middlemen who’s job is to grift off of every sale

I see you have never tried to buy Enterprise Technology equipment, or Enterprise Software or really anything that is target at B2B sales

Consumer sales have less of this, but 90% B2B is network of middlemen gifting off sales with no way to go direct. hell I was on a call directly with the developer of a software product I wanted to buy, it was a low 4 figure deal, but it took several weeks to buy it because the deal had to go through some 3rd party company as they did not sell direct...

I would rather just added it to a cart online and bought it with my company credit card....
Probably some imessage only business. Typical if US entrepreneurs, US only and only iphone.
I keep my favorite bands in a text list on a sticky next to the browser version. Don’t even bother with the app.
Gotta start somewhere. 2MWt in practice is more informative than 1,000MWt on paper.
I disagree, I want a game to have either passable gameplay or for its gameplay to just get out of the way.

If a game is relatively linear (think Last of Us, To the Moon, Alan Wake), I'm actually inclined to just watch a lets play because I can skip the "gameplay" parts.

Maybe that makes me the minority, but I don't think it invalidates the opinions of people saying PS:T was a phenomenal game even if the gameplay was nothing special
Espanso. ( https://espanso.org/ ). Love this free open source text expansion software
Google is not trustworthy. Full stop.
No it is coincidental. Look at the algorithm yourself.
Czech Post has an app that does. Local price is like a $1. It works worldwide regular international price.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oET1WaG5sFk
>I think the point that PG was making wasn't that P(lisp|success) > P(blub|success) is what's key but that P(success|lisp) > P(success|blub)

Perhaps, but that was handwaving from an example of one.

Would Lisp startups dominate if more people did Lisp startups?

I seriously doubt so, but in any case, the examples we see are people not doing Lisp startups and succeeding just fine - with the language used hardly being a serious factor (compared to timing, feature set, user adoption, VC interest, and mere dumb luck).

>Interviewing at startups used to be exciting, now the vast majority feel like they're run by people who couldn't manage to get a director role at a FAANG.

Isn't the latter true for most real hacker types?
Why did your bucket size go down from 70 to 18GB?

Do you use presigned URLs?
While I haven't tried this service and thus cannot vouch for it, I can say that:

"I love your business model!"

It's simple, it provides a lot of value for a little bit of money (yet still allows you, the owner, to make a tiny profit on each transaction), and it doesn't require a complex database driven website...

Also, I'm guessing (but not knowing!) -- that a business like this could be started for $50 or less... the only thing you'd really need is a good enough postcard printer (OK, so maybe a bit more than $50 if you include that), some cardstock, and the willingness to make a trip to the post office (or local mail drop-off point) every day (or when orders were received...)

Again, I reiterate, "I love your business model!"

The only real thing that a business of this sort would need then is some online advertising...

Google ads would be too expensive relative to the cost to acquire new customers -- so you'd have to advertise via single links posted here and there on public forums...

Well, I upvoted you and favorited you here on HN -- which might generate a teeny tiny bit more traffic for you -- or so I hope!

Wishing you and your business well, whoever you are!
For the reader, this question is similar to "do I need to make an account to get files via BitTorrent?"
this seems like a topic mainly of interest to people who are interested in making divisions between communities larger
If Star Wars games had lore accurate Lightsabers [video]
Most CS professors at my school do not know how to use git. The department insists that professors use git in the classroom, which is probably a good idea given the ubiquity of git. My professors are forced to try and teach it to students without really understanding it themselves, so it's a struggle for everyone.

Perhaps my professors don't know git because they got their PhD before git was invented (2005), and they never needed to learn it.
Fire creates a ton of other gases, and particles with health effects on respiratory animals and plants. Whatever you think about carbon dioxide, it's far better than an equivalent amount of nitrous oxide.

You want compost for growing things, not because it fixes carbon. It doesn't fix carbon, it provides nutrients for plant life (and some animals such as flies and worms). Some organic matter in a landfill will fossilize, but some of it will also turn into methane, which is typically seen as worse than carbon dioxide for the environment. And, of course, it has to be transported there through fossil fuel using trucks. It uses a lot less fuel to transport a packet of bacteria to waste than to transport waste.
That is A problem, but the biggest problem IMO is that it doesn't make it easy to perform the tree operations. Everything has a special syntax, the reflog isn't ergonomic to use if you screw up, the staging area is a bit of unnecessary cruft for most workflows, and the branches-as-pointers model doesn't match how most businesses use a VCS.

Once you understand a DAG and the concept of a hunk, it's easy to say what I want to do, but using the command line tool makes it a pain in the ass.

It also doesn't help that the rest of the user interface is a bunch of complicated behaviors tacked onto marginally related commands.

The underlying model is also weird. You would expect it to be diffs, but instead it's full files. Fortunately you can ignore that.

Git: unnecessarily difficult since it was invented.
Having used (a lot) of Hive SQL, I absolutely do need your query language. SQL is fundamentally incapable of expressing any sort of abstraction, so non-trivial queries quickly become completely incomprehensible, unmaintainable and bug-prone.

Learning a new language is a one-time, up-front cost. Dealing with an awkward, inexpressive query language that integrates poorly with my main language, my types or my interface description languages is an ongoing source of painful friction. Learning something new should not be nearly the barrier to adoption that it seems to be for most people!

SQL's shortcomings seem so clear and omnipresent that I legitimately do not understand why everybody seems so drawn to it. Are the usage patterns for code against a transactional database so different from the sort of Hive queries I've had to deal with for data engineering and machine learning? Is everybody happy with abstractions layered over SQL like ORMs?

Why can't we have, I don't know, some typed variant of Datalog or something instead?
I live in Canada and all the egg cartons say œufs
No -- if the discounted prepayment is the market price, they should be more or less exactly the same. That's why you get the cash out (100k - 70k => 30k, for example).
Singapore’s Success (YouTube)
Not for many years but they have started trying to sell us a spyware 'security edge' appliance that we've noped out of that seems to break DNS for some people.
There will still be Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1.
i use magic earth for maps, libre programs for word/excel etc (not cross-device though), searxng for searches (pick an instance and try it), tutanota for email (they focus on privacy - emails and your inbox are encrypted).
I guess they used whatever CPU gives a relative price parity with the VMs: https://www.hetzner.com/sb?country=de
Seriius question:. How do you compare easy to learn? Afaik, the main thing English has going for it is massive exposure, originally by TV/Hollywood. But if you watch e.g. French or German TV programming long enough, you'll pick up the language soon. I think English succeeded despite its downsides, for geopolitical reasons.
Logseq is closer for me at present, but I like the trick of putting the LogSeq files in an Obsidian folder so obsidian plug-ins can assist too.
Meant to post this as a reply to a child comment but it's too hot for me to figure out if I'm able to edit the post or not.
Have you though about how malevolent people will abuse this? E.g. sending a pic from a shocksite to someone you don't like? You'd have to set up a content moderation department to deal with this sort of thing.
In the US, a claim of actual innocence based on new evidence is not sufficient to reopen a death penalty conviction, so long as the court case was performed fairly.
> As a result, he wrote, in those parishes, “for any number of years all Masses were invalid and therefore the intentions for which those Masses were offered were not satisfied

What about all the weddings?

How can a lay person know if the Mass they are attending “counts” ?
>It's 300k not 400k, I'll fix my comment.

It's not $300K, it's $243K household income in San Francisco and $252K household income in San Jose in your own link and that's the upper bound of some arbitrary "study". Please don't spread misinformation as it makes this site look poorly educated.
I’m not a skeptic but I’m not sure I would pick these for the most alarming charts. Crossing 1.5 is arbitrary. The sea surface spike looks less ominous with the higher 2016 anomaly in the same chart. Arctic sea ice hasn’t hit a new low for 11 years.

For 2023 I would go with Antarctic sea ice, Canadian wildfires, Great Lake snow cover, and record-breaking heat waves…
Also yogh https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogh

There’s a politician in the UK called Menzies Campbell, his name is pronounced “mingis” because that “z” actually used to be a yogh
The further down you got, the more like German it sounded as I was mentally pronouncing it--but it was somehow a smooth gradient. Weird!
Dwelling on the minutiae is necessary for those who espouse such beliefs as part of the process of (re)normalizing their views.
They’re running the print and mailing through lob.com
Might be a patent
A coupon-crazy Brazilian app figured out how to beat Uber Eats
They do price discriminate to a cheaper price for poorer countries (in Ukraine it went the opposite despite being a poor country, where they tried to jack the price up by thousands of percent, but we don't know the terms of the recent pentagon deal to say what price it finally went through at).
With the restriction the buyer must be named Jenny. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTdTwcmxyo [video][song stuck in my head]
I don't really see the problem, what's wrong with using a real address for the sample postcard?
Seems like you assume everyone likes window snapping because you do. It’s one of the most annoying aspects of using Windows for me.
But ireland will not provide adequate housing for its own people. Oopsie.
I know what a caching dns server is, but what's a whitelist cache?
"Transformative" in copyright is a much stronger word than the word "transform" is in computer science. If your "transformation" could be used in many of the same places as the original, it is most likely not transformative in the copyright sense. If you modify or add on to a work, most of the time what you're creating is called a derivative work, which is not protected from copyright claims. We don't really have established law on this particular case, but to me, what neural networks do seems much more similar to tracing or redrawing some artwork from memory than it does to, for example, a parody.

But also, non-human actors cannot create copyrighted works, transformative or otherwise. For example, a photographer once gave his camera to a monkey and it took some pretty interesting pictures. He tried to get copyright for these photos, but the Copyright Office ruled that he wasn't the one who created them and the monkey is not a person, so the photos are not copyrightable at all. The law could be changed in these cases, but if we're treating the AI as a creative agent rather than a reservoir of other people's works that humans can request from it, then it seems to me like AI-created works should simply not be copyrightable.
Nice! Another alternative is to use a different protocol, i.e., instead of using DNS over 53/udp, use dnscrypt (ports 443 TCP/UDP) via something like dnscrypt-proxy. This has an additional benefit of not leaking your DNS queries to your ISP.
Yeah objectively it's not very funny at all.
Can I hate all sides in this? Car manufacturers have a huge information asymmetry with end-users, which leads to ugliness like in-car tracking systems that insurers love. But dealers capture most of that information asymmetry because they can learn the tricks and people don't buy cars very often.
Honestly, “easy” is relative. Understanding software engineering is a study of 4 years, so having someone take a course on fit for 20-40 hours is literally half a week of proper studying and you’d know git. I don’t get why there are bootcamps for _only_ JavaScript CSS that take at least 8 weeks of hard work and then half of those to learn git and call it “not easy”. It’s the depth that we want to commit to understanding something that leads to people saying it’s not easy. Invest proper time into it and everyone (in sw eng) can learn git
With distinct pages it's easy to bookmark them and/or remember "oh, there was something interesting on page three." With infinite scroll, that interesting thing becomes lost in a maze of twisty passages and more difficult to return to because you are never on an individual static page, but rather a single ever-changing page.
There seem to be a lot of people in this thread who have never been to a store, or cannot imagine being pleasant. If you're not a jerk, people will be quite patient! And if you are asked to leave, that's also not terrible! You can go somewhere else. There's a huge, quantifiable gulf between setting up a homeless encampment in a space and a normalish person just hanging out.
Ha! Another one :-) !

We created a company that does something similar[^1]. The tech was great and the company is profitable, but the market is really, really tough, with incumbents (read: existent CDNs) playing all sort of "standard business practices"[^2] to keep customers in their more expensive business. And yes, in this line of business you really want the cheapest hardware.

[^1]: Support for transcoding images to WebP, AVIF, JpegXL, and selecting on the flight the best format for serving individual images in a website. Company (ShimmerCat AB, a Swedish registered company) is currently for sale; contact the CEO if you want a bargain[^3], last time I heard ask price was X0 000 USD, with X less than 9. I'm not part of the company in any capacity any longer.

[^2]: Read: standard dirty tricks to suppress the competition.

[^3]: Who is the CEO is public in the Swedish registry of companies.
Refactoring vs documentation
Documentation can substitute for refactoring difficult code-bases.
When I tried to request it via ILL, they told me that the amount of material scanned "exceeds copyright law and scanning limits". I haven't bothered to look up whatever law that is, and I'm not sure if it's a US thing, or if it's on the UK side, and if so, whether students/faculty at Cambridge are under the same restrictions and they'd have to end up paying the same fees as well. I have a friend whose advisor works there, but I'm reluctant to ask them for the favour and potentially drag them into numerous back-and-forth emails with Cambridge Library and copyright issues...
Scraping dynamic websites using Scraper API and Python
Guess the Hacker News Titles
Don't Talk to the Police Part 2 - https://youtu.be/tIt-l2YmH8M
>Yeah, and in China your chinese equivalent would argue using the same logic why they shouldn't stop.

Wrong. German (and US!) CO2 output is declining Chinese has risen drastically.

There is no equivalence here. China is doing nothing to reduce CO2 emissions, putting them on equal footing with the US/Europe is lying.
Not that I fundamentally disagree with you, but SQL has been the dominant query language for more than half a century. This lends it some credence for being a quite passable solution, don’t you think?
> universal API for all databases

Go has this too, very handy:

https://godocs.io/database/sql
I am building one, https://nexttask.co.uk, have a look
> Generally, when people's reason for holding a belief or performing and action is "lol idk", that isn't conducive to a continuing discussion.

That’s not what I meant. I didn’t explain it properly.

You could easily have no reason to live and yet continue living. I guess I’m gonna be forced to say the s-word: living is something that happens while not living (your question: why live?) takes deliberate action, i.e. suicide. But someone could be terrified of killing themselves.

Thus they have no reason to live, and yet no way to end existence as they know it.

Which is again different from “idk”. They know that they have no reason to live. It’s not a mystery.
It could be something that just sits outside of git and uses the raw git history to figure out what changed in a semantic way. It doesn't have to be part of git.

This sounds like something C# programmers would dream of having or making.
You can inspect the layers of a Docker image. Tools like dive[0] provide a quick and easy way to navigate through the different components your image of choice is made up of.

In terms of functionality once the container is running, you'll have to put some amount of trust into the project maintainers, no more or less than the trust you need om amd64. For containers repackaged by third parties that's quite a pain, but in most cases you can get by just fine with the official container.

If your container of choice has been made by someone real fancy, you may be able to get reproducible builds for all the files inside the container. That would verify that the source and the binary match (though container metadata may not, so a direct image compare would be challenging).

[0]: https://github.com/wagoodman/dive