skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Radiation does not solely mean ionising radiation. Yes, people often leap to ionising when radiation is mentioned, but they're wrong.

Radiation is a technical term being used correctly in an article written for an audience likely to know that it refers to satellites unintentionally radiating in bands they're not meant to.

What surprises me is that there's no regulations that cover this, I guess when satellites were the domain of government, they didn't feel the need. But it'd be good if regulators in countries hosting space programs caught up.

PS, light is also ionising radiation at the higher end of the spectrum.
I haven't used Svelte beyond a couple toy tutorials, but, for me, the infrastructure adapters [1] are the most exciting thing. I love the idea of being able to build using Svelte and auto-magically deploy to something like Cloudflare Pages without completely giving up the potential to deploy somewhere else.

1. https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/adapters
>If you do malware analysis, Windows VMs in isolation on a throw-away laptop is better. >If you do penetration testing, Windows or regular Linux will be better, too.

I am going to firmly disagree with these two points.

I've been a red teamer at one of the three big cloud providers for over a decade, and a passionate hobbyist with both malware RE and offsec (CTFs, bug bounties, etc). I've reversed easily 2000+ different samples of malware, have more CVEs than I can count (several dozen), and can make my way through a corporate network quicker than almost any known APT group.

I use Windows qubes, both as sandboxes and for certain utilities that only run on Windows, and I do pentesting from Linux-based qubes.

There is precisely one restriction I face with Qubes in my entire line of work: even with two GPU's installed for isolation purposes, Nvidia GPU's (even with FLReset+) do not like being passed through by Xen. Older AMD cards like my RX 580 work fine.

That said, there are only two things I'd have any use out of a GPU for - hash cracking (obvious) and LLM workloads (code generation, to speed up PoC prototyping, tool development, etc).

Fortunately, I have access to a six figure rig dedicated to hash cracking at work, as well as effectively unlimited usage of a non-local code generation LLM.

There is no circumstance in which running Windows on bare metal is ideal or optimal in any way whatsoever for just about any kind of security work.

Linux is better in some ways, but even then, segregating workflows in ring3/userland is a must, and Qubes makes this painless, quick, and easy compared to spinning up a bunch of VMs in your distro of choice.

The USP of Qubes isn't that it does anything magic to make a level of security possible that isn't on other platforms, it's how it makes attaining and maintaining that level of security so effortless and seamless compared to other solutions.

The only alternative I've played with that comes close (imo) is Subgraph OS, but it's really not an exaggeration to say that project is absolutely still in alpha status of development, and I would not yet rely on that for sensitive workloads.

One aspect of what you said that I do agree with and wholeheartedly support is hardware isolation. Even with Qubes, hardware isolation is a fine solution to Xen HV exploits, for the tiny handful that have affected Qubes' Xen implementation.
Op was about web3 startups, not about why web3 is relevant.
I actually use swappin.gifts occasionally to buy Apple, Amazon. It’s very convenient for people that already hold crypto and want to use it.
Your GPU should be in the x16 slot closest to the CPU because it has the most bandwidth.

tbh this sounds like a self-inflicted SFF build problem
Getting weird results from GCP Europe-west1 (InfluxDB partial data loss)
> Is it even corruption, or is it more a lack of philosophical cohesion?

It's corruption. People just don't want to see it. The same way people compare health systems to the US to pretend they're not royally screwed and corrupt.

> I know that the US and most of Europe differ wildly on their understanding of monopoly protection. Extrapolating, I wonder if different EU members differ broadly on what constitutes "privacy" and therefore one might expect somewhat inconsistent results on privacy decisions based on who's hand holds the tiller that day.

Not really. Every other country is trying to ban encryption, further ban speech, ban criticism of politicians to "protect children", I'm sorry, to protect "minorites" this time around.

And this is not just EU, UK and other non-EU members have the same issues. The point is, for whatever reason, these countries which are absolutely corrupt but have very status quo parliamentary systems with little political involvement, get treated as if they didn't have entrenched corrupt politicians who couldn't give less of a fuck, about privacy or the citizen in general.

You just have to be involved a little in the country's politics and you see it.
I'd almost forgotten about Ctrl-L. I used to use it all the time on Celeron work computers with IE, because I could open the browser, type Ctrl-L and an address, and press Enter before the toolbar finished drawing. I wouldn't even see what I had typed appear before the page I requested started loading! Think I also used it with Windows Explorer, after the IE integration…
Praying they don't touch Brave browser!
Most of my YouTube is thorough it these days.
s/absl::AnyCallable/std::move_only_function/
We do, but mostly as a fairly nice and fairly well-documented interface for plugging together tools like vector DBs and memory with LLMs.

My feeling is that with the agentic/AutoGPT hype fading and OpenAI adding the functions API there's a lot less value in LangChain's abstractions, at least for production use cases. They're still cool for hacking/toys.
That name is confusing.

A lisp dialect called XLisp was developed by David Betz in the 1980's. (AutoCad's original AutoLisp was forked from this.) A Luke Tierney wrote a statistical package for it called XLispStat, and in 1990 that same author wrote a book on it called "LISP-STAT: An Object-Oriented Enironment for Statistical Computing and Dynamic Graphics".

This Lisp-Stat looks like a distro of packages for Common Lisp, with a base project that unifies them.
None of the situations you’re giving are based entirely off longevity - they use longevity as a factor of another equation.

A billion year old civilization that isn’t expansionary will never reach us either.

Or one that doesn’t want to spend the energy ($$$) if other cheap energy forms we’ve speculated aren’t possible or as inexpensive/portable as would be needed.

They could just as easily be happy being billion year old zen masters, and we’d never know - even if they had warp drives.

They’d still exist though, and if we ever wanted to find them I guess we’d be able to do so. But we’d never know about them proactively.
One option is to listen to white noise or similar (I think brown noise sounds the best). It's unpleasant to have to drown out background noise but it works very well even for discussions nearby. There are various websites and apps that will play brown noise, or you can use speaker-test in Linux.

I used to have a roommate in college who insisted he needed the TV on at all times and wouldn't wear headphones. My pomodoro script that played white noise for 25 minutes was critical for being able to focus in my room that year.
Using the label and block syntax for this was a stroke of genius.

Two great things about this "thinking inside the box" approach are:

1. You're encouraged to use native APIs because they're highly unlikely to clash with the framework.

2. You can a legible stack trace. After all, the only thing the compiler does to your JavaScript is add some instrumentation here and there.
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https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/10044/1/50848/10/201... (pumped hydro cost in green on page 3 and 5 charts)

https://www.publicpower.org/periodical/article/energy-storag...

https://www.lazard.com/media/2ozoovyg/lazards-lcoeplus-april... (Page 15 on for battery storage costs)

TLDR Batteries get cheaper before your pumped hydro at scale gets built. It’s what’s playing out in Australia with “Snowy 2” currently. Similar to how you could never build nuclear as fast as solar (almost free at utility scale) and batteries, not as cheap (based on experience curves).

Batteries also provide grid services (maintaining voltage and/or frequency) within hundreds of milliseconds of detecting an anomaly, which simply isn’t possible with spinning mass due to inertia. This provides valuable grid services revenue (distinct from energy arbitrage).

https://www.eqmagpro.com/snowy-hydro-2-0-more-expensive-than...

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-big-battery-hornsdale-austra...
At some point I'd like to carefully study the history of that early era of science because I don't know it as well as I'd like. But I believe I understand that the epicyclical model (and it was a model, rather than a theory) did not in any way depend on geocentrism. For one thing, Coppernicus' model itself, while heliocentric, retained the epicycles of the earlier, geocentric model. Instead, the assumption on which the epicyclical model depended was the shape of the planets' orbits and of the planets themselves, which were considered to be necessarily circular, and spherical, respectively. I think this had to do with assumptions about the geometric perfection of the universe, as a creation of the gods. In any case, assuming that planetary orbits were circular an explanation was needed for the apparent "retrograde" motion of the planets (meaning it looks like they double back and turn against their original heading). Explaining this apparent motion was why epicycles were hypothesised in the first place.

The first time this necessarily circular model was abandoned was with Kepler's laws of planetary motion, which correctly identified the motion of the planets as elliptical, that for the first time explained their apparent retrograde motion without the need for epicycles. Then Newton's theory of universal gravitation explained how the planets could possibly be moving on elliptical orbits. In fact, I believe Newton's theory of universal gravitation explained how the planets could be turning around the sun without crashing down, despite not having anything to hold them up. I think this was the first big mystery that the ancients tried to answer- hence the name of "firmament" for the universe.

And Newton's theory was not the end of the story of course.
https://atlasos.net was on HN recently, if you can reinstall.
Wow this resource is amazing. Looks like it works well for Canadian sites too. Thanks for sharing.
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There's only 2 streets that i know of that were designed this way, but like i mentioned, the streets are usually too encumbered to actually get it to work. I haven't been downtown since pre-covid to know if they are even attempting to still do it.
Is it really intentional? When you hear hooves...
We’re not doomed and we don’t need to be separate. We just need to be patient. We must be willing to send generations of humans on thousand year journeys.
In fact, this very music video served as the inspiration for the first messaging app back in 2004.

"Managing all these spreadsheets is so cumbersome! Surely, there must be a better way..." - John Messages

Clearly, I'm missing your point.
Worked on Windows with Firefox.
Avenza (iOS/Android app) has done all the heavy lifting - you can download area maps and your position will be shown correctly on the map if you allow location services. Most of the BLM/USFS land I've been to recently produce compatible maps.
I don't buy it.

The "weird stuff" is always distant, blurry, shot under terrible conditions, etc. Yet when a research team, or random passer-by snaps a photo of some never-before-seen, or thought-extinct creature, there's no difficulty in getting a quality image, either on the initial sighting or shortly afterward. It's only the "aliens" that are so problematic.

As for the idea that "they" are doing it deliberately (and perfectly)... it reminds me of the TIGHAR folks and Amelia Earhart. TIGHAR knows that Earhart crash-landed on Nikumaroro (Gardner Island), so every piece of information they see is interpreted through the lens of how it fits with that interpretation. But they have no root basis for the conclusion, just that they really want to believe it.

When faced with the question, "Why are pictures of possibly alien UFOs blurry?" two (of many) possible answers are "because if they're not low-quality we can tell they're not aliens" and "because the aliens are carefully arranging circumstances so that pictures of them are always low-quality" I know which one I'm putting my money on.
I would argue the reverse.

Anybody on the same side as Oracle should be asking really hard questions.

I suspect that RedHat's moves were specifically aimed straight at Oracle with AWS a distant second.
Also loved to play this on my old 386 pc. Think i didnt beat it
Not only that but for many, paying $100 a year would bring a sense of security of choosing a legit service, service which could be very unsafe without a proper identification and that’s where the registrant’s payment could establish some traceability in case something goes bad. Paying $100 also puts a price on account abuse for registrants too. I don’t think paying for a service is a bad thing and don’t think it is expensive at all. Someone has to maintain the service, even if that’s a one dev shop. I don’t consider myself priviledged at all as I’m not in a very rosy financial situation and think twice or more before spending any dollar. Ok, I have food and shelter, I’m not dirt poor but do live paycheck to paycheck as modestly as I can. There’s an utopic idea of free community service but that requires someone to put work in, either volunteer or pay some.
It's Polish Notation actually.
Do you have any code that demonstrates this? Sounds super interesting!
I have this problem on my gaming monitor, thankfully it also has USB-A ports so a cheap adapter has solved it.

I have no idea if there are downsides to audio over USB-A but for my fairly basic use case (“being able to hear things and not hear coil whine”) it works pretty well.
The FTC is still spooling anti trust enforcement back up from a nonexistent state. A lot of the rules governing mergers and acquisitions haven't been enforced since the 1980s due to regulatory capture.

Read up on developments in anti-trust in the last couple of years here:

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/
I've got mixed feelings about this and I'm sure I'm in the minority. Those adapters are usually supported by the commercial company that wants you to use them. But, for example, the static or node adapters often don't work great with the important parts of svelte kit like SSR, and feel like second class citizens.

I love svelte but I'm having a hard time getting the same development ergonomics out of svelte kit. It's probably just me.
Original paper: Evidence of new volcanic process on Moon https://psi.edu/news/lunarvolcanoessiegler (includes map of the hotspot) Basically it's a big blob of granite with a lot of hot thorium in it.
But what you're describing as "gaming" is precisely the behavior this is supposed to incentivize.

Of course you should be setting a visual "in progress" state before you send out a request. And yes that's supposed to be instantaneous, not measured in "X or Y seconds". That's the entire point, to acknowledge that the user did something so they know they clicked in the right place, that another app hadn't stolen keyboard focus, etc.
Quite a few streets in my city do this, but only if you drive 10mph over the speed limit.
You mean Bromite?
Similar in spirit to Shrek Retold (2018)
> It would have matrix types defined in the language spec with mathematical operators operating on them.

This is unfortunately impossible (IMO). The problem is matrixes have multiple operations that don't translate nicely like complex numbers do. If you want to be consistent, you have to pick and choose What A * B means, under which contexts, and when is that illegal (or what should happen on an error).

For complex numbers, there's only one definition of A * B that matters and no failure cases.

I fear there's not clean way to do matrix operations that won't make some community really irritated for choosing "wrong". (Physics, engineering, science, etc.)
They were probably using a MIDI controller with polyphony enabled
Broken compared to what literally any other country in the world does? Personally I'd replace it with publicly funded healthcare, but even those countries that still feel the need to bill the victim have avoided the whole billing-insurance complex that the US has.
SGU was by far my favorite Stargate and I'm forever sad that it only lasted two seasons
Not sure about DMCA, but it's technically a derivative work, making it subject to copyright restrictions.
It's a derivative work.

Is it legal, as a transformative use? Probably not. Andy Warhol's estate just lost a fair use case in the U.S. Supreme Court.
> on the hook for the cumulative cost of the copyright they violated.

I think there's a strong argument for a Fair Use defense, given the size of the models versus the size of the training sets, as well as the gulf in intended use: an AI model doesn't compete with e.g. a book. Obviously we'll have to see if play out in court to find out.
Thank you for these blogs! Huge, huge fan of your work on all of this stuff -- and as a Kelly Rowland fan (Beyonce is still better, but Kelly > Michelle), thank you for this as well!
I've only used Forth briefly, but one of the things I loved about it is that it almost has the opposite of a type system - everything is just 'memory' - but you just build words around that and barely even notice.

I've seen people recommend C as a way to "get closer to the hardware", but I think we all know that that's not really been a thing for longer than most of us have been alive. Forth, though? Maybe!
Coggle.it Mindmaps
Maybe C++26 will let us write operator·() and operator×().
The 10 year guarantee means nothing as I can see Microsoft crippling non-Xbox versions of CoD - e.g. it has poorer performance on PS5.
> It feels a little bonkers that in 2023, Flatpak or something like it isn’t the default way software is installed. That calculator you just installed should not have access to your camera or microphone or file system. That weather app may need your location, but you should be able to grant access to sensitive resources always, never, or only after asking.

This approach was widely ridiculed in the Vista days. Maybe I’m old but I still think it’s absurd security theatre that trades off a ton of usability for a tiny amount of imaginary security. It annoys me to no end that on macOS, for instance, opening a terminal emulator and trying to `ls` inside my home directory freezes on a security popup that wants me to allow my terminal emulator to access my home directory.

If you want a locked down appliance, there’s always Chromebooks. Which run a linux kernel btw.
That’s even worse as I’d expect a developer to know better.
Don’t forget that, the VMs in Qubes should still be secure.

Running ChromeOS Flex (or Android?) or kicksecure is good. Whonix is good too, but it seems it’s for privacy.
The Steam Deck is pretty great. Probably the biggest leap in PC gaming for me in the past 15 years.
Why isn't this higher up? This seems like the actual meat of the discussion: Google is erroneously interpreting this takedown request as something it's supposed to comply with, when in fact it's not. Furthermore by misinterpreting requirements here Google is harming the public and newpipe. I wonder what newpipe's appeal (to Google) process looks like...
> If any hedge funds are looking for analysts, I'm always open to offers...

How would you invest based on this prediction?
Tamagotchi Connection
There are some great Chinese mini PCs on Amazon, many of them using Intel processors. Some of these are very compelling against ARM mini PCs such as the Raspberry Pi 400.
From elsewhere in this thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36687656
That 600% is based on Databricks most recent valuation, which is much higher than what it would be if publicly listed. The real markup is likely somewhere between flat and a double
Tataouine Governorate
After seeing the initial post on Twitter, I did something similar and have been running consistently for the last two months, having not previously enjoyed running. I love it now.
https://alxndr.blog

infrequent posts, tech-focused mostly, sometimes about human languages or nerdy jokes...
Noticing that most websites are designed for mobile now and barely work on desktop especially if zoomed in or using accessibility features.

Sticky headers take up half the page.

Margins are too wide for the browser

Images are way too big compared to text size

Images don't fit on the page no matter what zoom level you use.
But it would work with word editor right? https://nokia-9210-communicator.helpdoc.net/en/10-office-2/w...

> You can also send and receive
documents as fax, SMS, mail, PC mail, or via infrared.

Honestly I would have been much more impressed with the video if she was sending him a fax
Similar to harvesthosts.com or boondockerswelcome.com
> Every human has a camera 24/7 now and no one has documented visitors.

You are being willfully obtuse. There have been thousands of documented sightings over the past 80 years. Audiovisual recordings abound, not infrequently matched with radar or other secondary corroborating evidence.

The typical response to this is:

1. “They are faked.”

2. “That doesn’t mean it’s aliens.”

3. “It’s a secret government program.”

Fine. Nevertheless some percentage of documented events cannot be explained. There is a non-zero chance that they are caused by things that were not made by humans. They deserve to be scientifically investigated in good faith, without the arrogant dismissiveness that is so frequently encountered.

Something mysterious is going on in our skies.
With Smart TVs being the only option these days, I'm thinking about building my own TV from a computer monitor.
> Simply by voting

This means voting illegally?
$#@! Intel NUCs were great small boxes with excellent Linux support (the only thing that doesn't work in Linux - custom fan control). In retrospect, NUCs were always the red-headed stepchild for Intel, last to get processor availability, so may that should have been expected.

Any comparable brand with good Linux support?
His tool is in rust, so he can directly call the libraw function. ExifTool is a perl tool, so it'd be an external process that he'd need to coordinate with.