skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just nonsense. SpaceX has a far better saftey culture then Arianespace who regularly hid failures and deny journalist access who ask to many questions.

> his security clearance

One time a Boeing sponsored senator launched a fake investigation because Elon took a single (fake) hit from a joint in California. He has not played 'fast and loose' with security clearance.

> they can't be described in any way as reliable

Seems that the all the launch costumers, the military, NASA and the insurance industry disagree.

> The FAA can halt launches for any reason.

SpaceX has a really good relationship with the FAA. Thanks to SpaceX FAA is getting lots of money to expand and is reforming its internal organization.

> His allegiance to China and Russia certainly won't help.

Ah the fake allegiance you made up, sure.

So you moved from 'having some valid points' to 'I hate Musk so I have to shit on everything related' mode.
Intresting but I dont see something disruptive here, it may work in some specific places but in other countries like Mexico (where I live), someone could easily destroy or damage it, also the connectivity issue in rural areas (where a lot of the building market is interested) should be an issue... maybe it has a business niche but I cant see the mass adoption and innovation here
Tommy Boy quotes? A true scholar of the old school.
http://rsazra.com/

very few posts and none of them are technical, but I want to put this out there for the first time. my favourites right now are probably:

009 watching where i'm going -- http://rsazra.com/pages/009.html

012 my first job -- http://rsazra.com/pages/012.html

013 mysëlf - yeat -- http://rsazra.com/pages/013.html
Honestly, I'd bet that the overlap of FB's current demographics and people who listen to radio/TV is pretty high.

The gov't of Canada has ad spends on bus stops, billboards, cinemas, newspapers, Spotify... I've even seen them on mobile games. If I was Pablo, I wouldn't be very much concerned about the reach of Gov't of Canada ads.
Bluesky could kill Twitter.
https://phili.pe

Did hit the front page a few times with some of my posts:

- http://phili.pe/posts/postgresql-on-the-command-line/ - 4th on https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2015-10-27

- https://phili.pe/posts/timestamps-and-time-zones-in-postgres... - 7th on https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-03-31

- https://phili.pe/posts/using-grep-for-simple-ci-tasks/ - 29th on https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2022-01-14
Yep. I struggled with this a lot in high school and college. It led to poor grades and taking extra years I couldn't really afford at the time to finish college.

This was a conflict between my low self esteem and modest ambition to finish school and start a career. I worried constantly if I was really going to fail at something so simple. This generated so much distracting anxiety for me until I finally upped the dose on the usual self-medication (mostly booze) to turn my brain off and just start doing things. A few years later I finally awoke from those hazier times in a much happier place making a decent living.

Mine is definitely not a unique story, but I just wanted to agree that our culture largely ignores low self esteem because it's one of the hardest problems to fix.
Just want to add that the first HUD for Star Citizen, which I wrote, was essentially 100% programmatically drawn and programmatically animated, such that every element and vector shape down to the needles and dots on the targeting reticles were defined in ways meant to be completely skinnable in form, in how they behaved over time, how they might behave differently given "ship damage", and so on.

This turned out to impose a hefty 20% CPU drain on the entire game, dragging down the frame rate. It was my own design decision and I argued that 20% was worth it (and that by the time the game was released, CPU speeds would have at least quadrupled), but digging my heels in on the issue of not pre-rendering assets was most of how I ended up leaving the project.

So that's why I would (emotionally, maybe) argue that compression has little to do with decisions to generate things procedurally, since compression was not a goal whatsoever, although the speed penalty was as if a large amount of compression needed to be overcome.
Ex post facto laws should be prohibited in any civilized country.
Well I apologize I guess for not making my case clearer. It's not easy to describe in words.

The visual indicators here were incredibly clear. The terminal's ability to go beyond textual representations & to clearly delineate - with nice slick graphics that far surpass the terminal - what's happening was deeply compelling, in a way I never would have guessed before seeing it.

I've tried some pretty nice/fancy neovim setups (mostly discarded, now on AstroVim 3) and while I appreciate what they can offer, I can't emphasize enough how great Warp was at presenting information in an effective fashion. The visual experience really understood what helpful information it could present in a powerful way.

Being skeptical that "just a fancier version" has nothing to offer you seems like a callous & shallow disregard. My experience was brief, maybe 30 minutes, and I want to do better justice & I'm sorry I haven't. But you also haven't left the door open to maybe consider that the fancier version is fancy for good reasons, that it has real & competent ergonomic & informational value. Let's meet in the middle & both try to do better.
Looks exactly like the follow-up to an "Our Incredible Journey" post.
Raising the Bar for IBM PC/XT Emulation: MartyPC
I think it also bears mentioning that Felleisen and Krishnamurthi are two of the authors of the eminent How to Design Programs [1]. For anyone looking to begin their journey into the world of software development, it’s really hard to beat HtDP! It will teach you a systematic approach to software design and development, without letting the messy details of programming languages get in the way.

[1] https://htdp.org/
It seems just a bit premature to call it a success.
The Facebook app is fantastic in my opinion.
> Microsoft finally is fulfilling its dream of EEE to Linux. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) embraced the API – letting you run Linux binaries (and GUIs!) on Windows natively. Next, WSL extended the kernel with GPU driver support.

Yes, Linux users everywhere will be switching to Windows now for this one. Why use Linux natively if you can pay Microsoft to do it for you?

> Chrome originally used WebKit (from Safari) but eventually forked the library to Blink. Chrome has embraced web standards (e.g., in CSS and HTML) but has also become so ubiquitous that it has become the standard itself – sometimes Chrome is the ground truth for behavior (rather than the agreed upon spec).

And Apple used KHTML, but eventually forked the library to WebKit. There was no "agreed upon spec" beyond the licensing of the engine and adoption of the technology therein.

I just can't, with this post. Google did not kill Docker, Red Hat did when they proved they could make a perfectly compatible open version of it with Podman. Apple did not extinguish DirectX with D3DMetal, DXVK did by providing a basic open target for hardware that wants decent DirectX coverage. This is a bizzaro recounting of fairly straightforward history...
It seems like they're taking a bottom-up approach. I can't see any link to it on the main site. It would probably first bubble up to the News page, like WebAssembly did on 2022-11-16. https://sqlite.org/news.html WebAssembly also has a URL inside the root that redirects to doc/trunk/www/index.wiki: https://sqlite.org/wasm/
I would like to distinguish the kind of luxury in which things are built with excellence and style and priced accordingly with a reasonable but not necessarily small margin…

And things like the thousand dollar hoodie which by all appearances is just a hoodie with a particular brand on it.
So the scenario is: somebody breaks into the house, sits down at the gaming PC, and is able to poke around the local network because the gaming PC has no login password?
Paying for sync is absolutely fine as long as the client is open source. Thanks for the logseq recommendation, it looks very good from the first sight! I only wish they had NeoVim plugin like Obsidian has.
For anyone else curious,

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

https://nic.hn/

It’s the TLD for Honduras.
Does it have a limit on the number of post you can read per day? If not it's already better than Twitter.
> So, the alternative is what?

Glad you asked.

First you have to ask, for what does Europe need independent access. Then you have to ask, how likely is that this capability is actually needed. And then, what can we do to achieve this goal with the effective use of resources.

For Europe to build a huge Ariane 6 while also having Vega, Vega C and also working on small launchers makes no sense.

One Sozuy sized rocket and some basic refueling tech could do everything Europe needs.

So if it really was about independent access, then making a plan that focuses on that would make mare sense.
Possibly the point? Do something so ridiculous to the point where forcing the legislative to do their jobs.
There are no stupid questions but, really? Subsidize it and then, bam! another instagram? They'll have to add photos and videos, right? Are they going to canibalize ig too?

Bet money they'll integrate it to ig in a couple years.
Thanks, but no thanks, I'll just stick to mobile.twitter.com and instagram.com and login when I feel like it.
Building the future of appliances at upliance.ai. Started from the kitchen with a smart cooking assistant - gets recipes all the time, heats-cuts-stirs-chops - and helps make great dishes. We're here - https://www.upliance.ai

(and we've been selling for a few months at this point. 50% cooks are men, and the median user is cooking on weekdays and weekends)
As has been pointed out approximately a billion times, technology has made surveillance possible to an extent that was inconceivable back in the founders' time.

Before sound recording technology, if there was no-one else around and had a whispered conversation with another person in a public park, I have a reasonable expectation that the conversation is private.

Fast forward to, say, 1980. While it's technically possible for law enforcement to record that conversation (with a dish microphone or through employing a lip-reader and binoculars) the resources required to do so are such that it's very rarely used.

But what about 2023? Or, better still, 2033? Let's imagine it's technically possible for me to stand in the middle of said park with a recording device and intelligibly record every conversation within a 500-yard radius. Would this be considered acceptable? Should governments have the ability to prohibit or restrict the use of such devices, even in public places?
Just an idea.
Wouldn't it be great to have a standard format for a user profile for automated discovery?

Something like:

Any random string.
[age]: xx
[location]: xxx # city or country or geohash or whatever
[email]: foo@xxx.com # can be obfuscated
[blog]: https://xxx
I use the format! # magic tag to indicate you are following to the standard
https://raunak.io/blog/
AI in Hollywood
Instead of defunding it the Liberals created a situation where the CBC will essentially need gov gibs to survive in it's current state, which will certainly be deemed essential for publicly funded Canadian culture projection (that essential part of modern society). Economic self-owns via gov policy driven by the same small set of private school kids in Ottawa and whining about Americans is Canadian culture 101.
That would be yes on both points. I was unaware that deno needed a separate vscode extension and did not know that deno ran the typechecking itself.

I may give it a try on some personal projects now that I know this.
Reddit: Let's rewrite a better one in Common Lisp (2005)
Facebook/Instagram has owned the domain for a while as they had a prior Threads app as far back as 2019, shut down in 2021.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-i...

From WayBack, it looks like they bought the domain in 2010:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191001000000*/http://threads.n...
they actually use zig as build system, and it can be compiled (and cross-compiled) with zig cc
A possible way to migrate from Evernote to several different apps: https://www.popsci.com/diy/evernote-alternative-export/

(I have no affiliation with any of these).
Contract risk management is a key activity for every firm. Continue reading to learn everything there is to know about contract risk management.
Yup, the main link (Zuck's message) just shows me a threads icon and nothing else in Firefox. The threads.net top level page doesn't show anything at all. I don't see how this is supposed to be a Twitter killer when it doesn't even load!
An improvement, for sure. But how about getting rid of the laws that allow these healthcare providers to bill people without having formed any sort of definite contract? You'd never expect to go to the grocery store, pay for your items per the prices listed on the shelf, and then two months later receive another bill demanding you pay a fee to the person who bagged the items for you. Yet this is the type of post-facto nonsense that the medical industry has been allowed to get away with.
You could look at the IcyBalls, heat goes on one side and cooling is on the other side. I guess you could point a Fresnel lens at the hot side and eliminate any need for electricity?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icyball
That's fb core business: ads. Do you seriously think this "new" platform won't be getting ads? C'mon man.
Confluence does not enforce the attachment size limit – 2 years in solving
https://musing.permutationlock.com
I don’t think its a good idea to ignore warnings from practioners in any field, especially if they’re willing to put down resources to back their claims.

If a team of leading cardiac surgeons declared tomorrow that coca-cola is a leading cause of heart attacks, and devoted 20% of their income to fighting it, would you ignore their warnings as well?
> a legally binding guaratee that users’ data will be maintained for 100 years, even if the company itself is bought or ceases to be.

If you ain’t got the cash, your words don’t matter
Really good question! The answer is: it's complicated.

When you dissolve a "salt" (the whole class of them, rather than just NaCl), there is a lattice energy (you are tearing these crystals apart) and a hydration energy, which are a little give and take from an energy standpoint. Most salts dissolving are slightly exothermic. NaCl dissolving is very slightly endothermic.

Seawater? Well, remember, there's a lot of dissolved solids in there, not just salts. So you have a summation of dissolving a whole menagerie of different things into your water. Last I heard, and it's been many years since I went near anything like that, yes, there's both an entropy and an energy cost, although I would personally dread trying to do calorimeter measurements to verify it experimentally.
https://bastibe.de
No one wants to do that right away. They want to start with some random popular content and then have it refine down with time.
Not a source, but it's more common to have heat pumps in the southern States where winters aren't that bad. I'm born and raised in Arizona and they seemed to be common in houses after the 1973 energy crisis. My grandparents house in Tempe, AZ (was built in like 1950's) did no have one. A house I purchased in central North Carolina had a heat pump. I'm now around Washington DC area in Virginia, and we has gas. I think a simple explanation is that natural gas is almost a by product (certainly from landfills, which is how most USA disposes of trash) and is very cost efficient. Also the energy crisis changed the outlook of house building. I hope that helps explain it some, sorry I don't have any concrete facts I'm typing on a small keyboard.
Found this from Aaron Swartz's post on rewriting Reddit originally from Lisp to Python.

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit
If you're on Windows, OneNote is almost impossible to compete with. Even though it's part of the Office suite, it's a free, stand-alone download. The phone apps are free, and you get 5GB of free storage. Then, for less than the cost of Evernote, you can get a O365 subscription and get the Office suite and 1TB of storage.

Even though OneNote is basically a loss-leader, it's extremely powerful and flexible. It's been around longer than any other note-app, and it's still here as Evernote fades into oblivion.
i dont think this sort of hate speech is appropriate for HN.

if there’s one thing that isnt needed here, or on Threads, it’s willful hatred and anger at others’ existence.
There's a legitimate reason for posting low information issues - finding out if it's a known limitation or issue (that didn't come up in a search) before putting in extra effort to document something that's already been documented and discussed elsewhere. Maybe not "doesn't work" (two words) exactly, but "This doesn't work for me with the X234 hardware" (... with an implied "is this expected?").

It's very common for people new to projects or with limited technical skills to assume that the problems they face are common/well known or that other people know much more than them.

The frustration responders face is due to the mismatch of assumptions, if the issue is in fact not common or well known, but IMO a simple "I haven't seen that before, please post full diagnostics" is an easy and reasonable boilerplate response.
I know you can switch accounts on instagram. How do you make sub accounts? When I searched I only found info on multiple accounts
If you can use a basic hosting with backup features, you can simply use a $5 droplet to sync almost everything possibly you can think of. Or OneDrive / Google Drive if you are using Windows based applications with databases. It is really not that difficult to keep data safe and backed up.
https://www.nrel.gov/gis/wind-resource-maps.html is the corresponding map resources for wind.

I was expecting this was going to be a great point & be exceedingly promising, but the maps there show acceptable but not great wind density. As we get closer to appalacia the wind speeds really pick up.

Im also surprised to see even lower wind density in Kansas, which I think of as a state overrun with wind-farms. The availability of land surely factors in, but gee, there just looks like there's so much more wind on the east coast & the south.
Of course you can start like that. Look all they need to do is pay MySpace Tom to come out of retirement and be everyone's first friend on Instagram threads.

Some will say, "well, why not Zuck?" Well, androids still have that uncanny valley effect and they're not quite as relatable.
They can try. We can say whatever we want on the land about what folks at sea do, but the truth is on the sea, the bigger gun wins.

The US Navy polices the worlds oceans. Not should, nor can, nor might, nor has considered doing so, but does and has done so for decades; and Iran already knew this, as does North Korea, and this does sometimes include intervening when a hostile power attacks non-American flagged vessels.
I had no idea this was implemented. Yikes.
Twitter is great, there is no problem, I don’t understand.
I don't think the blob storage APIs (which this seems to be using, instead of accessing over the web-gateway urls) are CORS accessible. So you might have to proxy it.

However, it might become possible to run datasette etc much more easily in an edge function.
This adds more cache consistency issues, concurrency issues, network blocking issues, authn+z issues, daemon process supervision issues, ... for what? To store your SQL data in a remote data store? I would rather my app shell out to gsutil (or curl!) than deal with all of this.

Simple hack: mount a tmpfs filesystem and write your sqlite database there. Every 30 seconds, stop writing, make a copy of the old database to a new file, start writing to the new file, fork a process to copy the database to the object store and delete the old database file when it's done. Add a routine during every 30 second check to look for stale files/forked processes.

Why use that "crazy hack", versus the impeccably programmed Cloud Backed SQLite solution?

- Easier to troubleshoot. The components involved are all loosely-coupled, well tested, highly stable, simple operations. Every step has a well known set of operations and failure modes that can be easily established by a relatively unskilled technician.

- File contents are kept in memory, where copies are cheap and fast.

- No daemon outside of the program to maintain

- Simple global locking semantics for the file copy, independent of the application

- Thread-safe

- No network blocking of the application

- Authentication is... well, whatever you want, but your application doesn't have to handle it, an external application can.

- It's (mostly) independent of your application, requiring less custom coding, allowing you to focus more on your app and less on the bizarre semantics of directly dealing with writes to a networked block object store.
Not yet, but they continue to double down on planning to support it:

https://www.threads.net/t/CuRtcYTNY3J/
Once you start following people the noise mostly disappears. Think the initial feed is a way for users to bootstrap their follow list.
That's not evidence of what GP asserted.
I wonder how soon Meta moderation policies will kill this platform.

Elon of course abuse his power to ban those he dislike and to ban trackers of his plane (and to help some dictator war criminals while he at it), but Facebook / Instagram censorship and bans are pretty random, harsh and irreversible.

Platform by Meta likely mean that good chunk of Twitter audience is not allowed to use it: some journalists reporting on war crimes, OSint, anything related to porn and gambling, sex workers, etc. Twitter is full of shit, but at least I have a choice to look at whatever I want without corporate nanny censoring world for me.
Know your audience, know your audience, know your audience.
> a non-profit media organization that engages in undercover investigative journalism

investigative journalism doesn't involve falsely editing video to ruin people's lives
I was unaware of the literature on different misfolds able to replicate their own specific misfolds.
yes, I use obsidian and I have several vaults, and each is its own directory that is synced independently using Syncthing to whichever devices need to be able to access each vault.
bankruptcy lawyers know how to get paid even when the company doesn't even have enough money for their debters and investors.
Still not available in my country. I never understood this especially by META which already has all it's apps available here.
Sounds a little too close to "bog roll".
> as I saw more and more code written by programmers

That's what worked for me. By the time I was hired for real, full time coding work I had already done lots of C-64 Basic and assembly, x86 assembly, C in DOS and Win32 and had been reading DDJ for years. When I discovered the hopelessly abysmal code that supposed veterans had built their careers on I knew I was worthy.
Ah, ok, and thanks for clarifying. The Kioma base is low profile (vertical height), and only 1/2 inch out from the passenger seat upright face (your "fore-aft" distance). It does not extend out past the seating face of the passenger seat, or otherwise hang off the passenger seat. Low and slim generally results in a shorter moment arm from the anchorage point (where the latch/isofix mount points are), so reduces the collision forces for the seat/baby.

The Kioma seat is about a standard length, and the width is narrower than competing seats while fitting the same size baby.

Fun fact: the International Standards Organization (ISO) helpfully defined several envelope sizes (r1, r2, etc) to help with baby car seat standardization, and the EU crash regs (see UN r129) even have a test bar that represents the back of a driver's seat.