skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The binary "functional" vs "non-functional" is not a good way to understand such a complex thing. I don't care where on the spectrum you lie, if you're drinking substantial amounts of alcohol daily (this isn't necessarily the definition of alcoholic) then your normal activities and well-being are getting seriously affected.

You could use a similar comparison for suffering in general (chronic illness, chronic pain, etc.) Some may appear more functional than others while in such conditions. Just because you're functional with chronic pain, doesn't mean you aren't hurting and that your life would be very different without that suffering.

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Heatmap is one of those terms that gets applied to a few different things, especially choropleths. I've also seen it applied to grids (like a hours of the day vs day of the week, where each cell is how much X happened that hour).
Was that feature not akin to the report button
but occasionally microdosing LSD
Google didn't kill RSS. If RSS was so great, there were plenty of readers available that people could have jumped to. RSS died because it became yet another channel for ad delivery and shitty content.

XMPP wasn't killed by Facebook either. XMPP never really caught on in the first place. Not in the way RSS did. IIRC, XMPP started because people were using 20 different chatting apps which were basically the same app under a different banner (icq, msn, yahoo, etc.). And it was a pain. People used aggregators to connect to all these different networks at once. And so, the Jabber guy thought it could be good to have a protocol so that people can use the app they wanted to connect to a single network. But that never happened in practice. Facebook may have built a bridge to implement XMPP, just in case it lifted off. But once it was clear that XMPP wasn't going anywhere, it made sense to dump it. And then whatsapp came along, and it was a vastly superior chat app, and people used that and that was it.

Meta's Thread may be different. Because this time, they probably know a little better. Thread connecting to Mastodon is a clear way for them to fill their feeds with desillusioned ex-Twitter users' content. So I am all for the blocking of Thread.
So simple in theory but so hard to actually do at home. Either due to lack of ingredients or a good way to weigh out the actual parts in the required masses
Not apocryphal, but not what you're thinking of -- breakage is essentially an unexercised contract right (like a gift card that is never redeemed), and in streaming it refers to the difference between an advance or minimum payment to a label from a streamer and the actual royalties -- like a $1mm advance that only garners $500K worth of royalties from listeners.

The labels would often only pay out to artists and songwriters on the actual royalties and keep (or unfairly distribute) breakage, so artists wouldn't share in all the advance fees. This has been cleaned up AFAIK, but it was a pretty stark example of how entertainment accounting is used to play "heads I win, tails you lose" games with the people who actually create.
I played with xroach back in the day but only today did I learn that they multiply when left hidden.
> dont know if Amazons market balance is sufficiently altered by just severing AWS

I don't either. Hence the caution. The deference to the status quo. It would be a mistake to over-sever and destroy a valuable, value-producing business out of haste. Perhaps the other legs' enduring advantage is merely an artifact of cheap internal capital. Perhaps not.
Show HN: A glTF to HTML5 Zip Converter
For everyone graphically and visually talented people there's now a converter that lets you render gltf 3d models in a web site of your choice.

How it works is that you post your gltf model to a hosting space of your choice, and let our web service know the url to the gltf file. Then web service generates a zip file that has 3d engine included and unzipping it to your hosting space directory (again the same operation) lets you display the 3d model in a web page.

Final touches come with ordinary embed tag which just need to find the index.html that was stored in the zip file and specify the size of the canvas with width/height tags. Embed allows you to include instance of 3d engine to your own articles and web pages.
> I really need someone to bring me down a notch. This is too exciting!

It's on arXiv, which is a preprint journal, which means it has no peer-review; and is therefore generally less trustworthy (especially when the paper has no connection to a technical conference or is not being published elsewhere, and is in a non-computer science or mathematics field).

In addition to this, claims of room-temperature superconductors have been mired in controversy or otherwise proven false:

- http://www.superconductors.org/roomnano.htm (2004)

- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11443 (2012)

- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-superconductor-... (2018)

- https://www.quantamagazine.org/room-temperature-superconduct... (2020)

- https://forbetterscience.com/2023/03/29/superconductive-frau... (2022-2023)

Considering that many fraudulent claims of room-temperature superconductivity have gotten into Nature and other top-tier publications, I would wait for multiple independent recreations of the results in the paper.
One of the memories I have growing up was going on a snorkeling trip to a coral reef in the Florida Keys with my Scout troop. The reef dropped off quickly enough that you could see some deepwater fish while still staying close enough to the boat and reef to be safe.

The biggest other fish I saw were a big lazy grouper and a shark that I decided to swim the other direction from, but that didn't seem really enthused about going anywhere in a hurry. But I swear the bluefin tuna were like living torpedoes. Huge and FAST, like big underwater rockets.
The prevailing view was for quite some time that he was some kind of unique genius. Its hardly surprising to see some pushback when he publicly demonstrates that he's not quite a genius, and he attacks segments of society (the media, the left wing, people who like other social media, people who criticise him). There's a certain level of reaping what you sew there.
Except a ca. 2020 smart speaker, apparently.
Take it easy.
It's the thing I miss most about working in the office. We would take an extra long lunch almost every Friday at a local bar down the street, then come back to the office and mostly work on skunkworks projects. Some of our most creative stuff came from those Fridays.

Now my Fridays are filled with the same monotony as the rest of the work week.
Given how horrifically bad people are at interpreting pie charts, that does not bode well for treemaps.

"[Pie] charts are bad and that the only thing worse than one pie chart is lots of them"
-Edward Tufte

https://scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/resources/data-visualisation-a...

https://www.businessinsider.com/pie-charts-are-the-worst-201...

https://www.data-to-viz.com/caveat/pie.html

etc etc
A login screen?
There are lots of profitable software tool companies, aren't there? Atlassian, JetBrains, Microsoft, most of them are smaller than this but still "money"; I live in open-source land, but everyone else I know works somewhere that spends money on all kinds of tools.

It's just that the fruit in software tools doesn't hang so low, I think.
If you drink more often this is probabably not a problem. Your body adapts.
SameSite=Strict only prevents CSRF. Secure only means it goes over TLS/SSL only.

If the site has XSS, an attacker can still perform operations on behalf of the user even with SameSite and Secure.
Less liquor and much of the beer was whats called small beer or table beer and had very low ABV between 0.5 and 2.0%. George Washington in particular was fond of brewing a bran and molasses based small beer.
Really interesting paper, thank you for the link.
In Ye Olde Days:

Beers and Ales used hops and boiled water.

Drinking water near large population centres were not boiled or treated.

People that mostly drank wines, beers, and ales likely suffered fewer bouts of dysentry and worse.
Industrial-revolution machines were often very angry dragons, requiring constant supervision and attention to avoid explosions or loss of limbs. That must have played a part.

Also, industrialization saw the rise of the skilled workforce. People started earning more the more they could use their brain. It makes sense that they wouldn't want to numb it as much as they did before.
I’ll take all of that if the CIA is no longer given access to censor opinions and promote propaganda.
Do not engage
Not really. e.g. caffeine and nicotine don’t have harmful side effects. Neither do spending time with your friends or loved ones.
I love treemaps! I still use an ancient program on Windows called SpaceMonger for visualizing my disk usage which uses a tree map visualization.
Is it just me or Fuchsia sounds more and more like vaporware the more I read about it? Did Google never consider that Fuchsia might become to Android what Plan 9 is to Unix?
As I made an existence statement, you can look up any female streamer/vtuber and hear them say they can't play an FPS today because they ran out of dramamine.

(I know like three.)
You don't think it has any value, even educational? Seems there's a lot there. Last commit 2 weeks ago shows the following:

> Showing 393 changed files with 9,322 additions and 3,838 deletions.

There must be something worthy there don't you think?
Well that's an even better justification, as a x86-64-v5 level would be needed for the newer CPUs.

We can throw away any hope of v4 being a standard baseline.
This is what you consider horrifying? This seems like an incredibly tame example.
My impression is that Google is, once again, just slow at execution. They probably do want to integrate PATs together with their Google One VPN product.
Try whatever the local version of Liquid IV is.
While I agree with you, moderation works with some of these. It doesn’t work with alcohol.
Conversion rate and or sales. That's the most important thing. And it can be measured directly.

The problem is analyzing why or why not it's hitting your desired value.
Except that doesn’t reflect economic reality. See: my local domino’s starts their workers off at 20/hr + tips.

My kid was job hunting. The local coffee shop offered him $5/hr + tips. Guess where he went?

As a result, the coffee shop is now closed, whereas the dominos has my orders waiting for me in under 8 minutes.
IMO the best thing about expo is that your native project folders pretty much becomes build artifacts, and so can be left out of your git repo.

That is great because those project folders are usually quite fragile and can easily break over time.

Before "prebuild" was introduced, you had to stick to expo-included native modules to get that advantage, and if you didn't, you had to "eject", which was hardly better than not using expo at all.

With "prebuild" you can use any native module and still have a git repo free of those fragile iOS and Android folders. It is more work setting up those modules, but it's worth it IMO.
1901: Semiconductor rectifiers patented as “cat's whisker” detectors
The Pareto effect applies to alcohol consumption as well.

20% of the people consume 80% of the alcohol.
Wasn't a heavy drinker by a long shot but still decided to quit nearly 3 years ago.

Solid decision. I'm 50 now, I certainly feel better overall now than then. If I'm tired in the morning it's only because I went to bed too late and/or lifted (too?) heavy the day before.
The Tesla model S was released before Elon arived. I don't doubt that his money helped but it seems fair to question whether that equates to Musk "creat[ing] the preeminent electric car company in the world"
Ask HN: Did iPhone leak someone’s email to me?
I was attempting to log in to DJI Fly and the first characters of my password triggered an autocomplete suggestion which was a “person”-type suggestion, first name, last name, and email of a person I never met before, nor have ever searched before or any sort of connection whatsoever.
My goal is for them to learn. And yes, I can just carry on, and some will cheat. I've caught cheaters in the past, of course, but they were far and few between. With ChatGPT and even improved translators like DeepL, it's hard to get them to do the practice they need to learn.

And as a teacher who really WANTS them to learn and to get that feeling, "Hey, I can actually do this!", it's depressing to think of the one who do cheat themselves. Oh well...
That’s an example of the optical telegraph the article is about. A person inside uses levers to move those arms into different positions. Each position has a meaning, similar to naval flags. Other towers in visual range can then re-transmit the message to towers further down range.

Same as clacks in Discworld – https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Clacks

edit: here’s a wikipedia with more examples of different semaphor towers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph
california in general seems to not drink that much. or just the circles i end up in. lots of smokers, vapers and edible eaters i guess
I got locked out of mine and that's a freaking nightmare to deal with.

Several trips to a government office, had to get a new set of ID, and wait weeks, all while there was important communications waiting for me on one of the dozens of subordinate government sites which were time sensitive but no one could provide me by an alternative method....

I am just waiting to hear the first story of someone going to prison because they couldn't get the message the tax man sent due to the tax man not letting them read the message....
When authori actively suppress the release of such data sets don't blame the citizens for using what little anectodal data they have.
Credit cards are products.
thats my take on all this LLM hype: they're great at creative work where accuracy is not important, and assisting in technical work where the user is already able to discern an answer that is accurate from one that is slightly to fully bullshit.

even if an LLM can give an amazing and correct answer 7/10 times, it still takes a human expert to cherrypick which 7 answers are amazing and which are just convincingly-assembled bs.
> Doing this requires or at least wants some form of polymorphic methods or functions, since you want to be able to call a node's Eval() without having to know anything about the node.

Or you know, just use sum types. A polymorphic method as meant here is really not much different from the case analysis of a sum type.
Possibly. If so, thank you. :)
That's actually a pretty good idea. I might have to try it selectively, though it'd be too much for 200 students submitting diaries and summaries every week. laugh

They once said I should join Line then we can all talk, then I asked if it's possible to talk in groups of 200+ and their eyes got really big.
yeah, I liked being able to archive and scrape web content with yt-dlp, gallery-dl, and similar tools
Fuchsia was not meant for just embedded devices. I recall there being a sentence in an old description (which I can no longer find mention of) which explicitly called out PCs and smartphones as targets. That’s likely still the ambition.
Is this a data is the oil thing? As in survey companies have all the survey data in their DBs and could (agreement permitting) train LLMs or maybe just plain old categorisation on it.
Interestingly they wrote about how they were worried the British would eventually enslave them. About 10% were captured and tortured during the war.
You're right in that it is still actively developed by two different companies, and that it is still utterly dominant in servers, desktops, and laptops... today.

Perhaps you would prefer "incumbent ISA"? But that would be a pointless exercise, because RISC-V is inevitable, and the new industry standard.

The intent was to express "not RISC-V" anyway. The parent already specifies which.
I kinda enjoy the SideQuest version of Minecraft, but I cannot remember all the controller buttons.
Yeah. Same reason no-one is emulating Gates or Jobs right now. Their oportunity was related to their historical moment. It has passed. People will be in the right time and place for _other_ opportunities (see Zuckerberg, Bezos)
Maybe that’s the shiny new link speed, but the delivered speed and connectivity of their network has been getting noticeably worse in the last year.
I can't imagine they were drinking it all at once, either. The body eliminates something in the neighborhood of one unit of alcohol per hour— usually considered to be 12oz of 5% beer, 5oz of 12% wine, or 1.5oz of 40% liquor. 8 strong pints over the course of a day is doable. Working as a line cook, many of my coworkers, and points, I myself drank amounts approaching that... And we had completely safe drinking water! I worked at one place where a 6 pack was part of everybody's station setup and customers could buy a discounted 6 pack for the kitchen— and many regularly did.

16+ hour days of hard, hot, hypervigilant, dangerous work with a chunk nearly always unpaid; no health insurance; socially isolated from everyone you don't work with, and they also probably have unhealthy lifestyles... I imagine our reasons weren't much different than others throughout history. Hard to make healthy life choices in that life.
> One, fumes.

It's trivial to experimentally demonstrate that solder fume contains almost no lead, the quantity is negligible. Claiming the contrary is the electronics equivalent of saying HTML is a programming language. Please don't do that again. The fume is indeed toxic, but it's due to the VOCs from the flux core, not the lead in the alloy.

A more solid (no pun intended) argument can be the hazards of debris. Furthermore, in my opinion, a newer and more serious problem of leaded solder today, in a workshop setting, is its use in solder paste. Solder paste and a reflow oven are required for prototyping any circuit boards with surface-mount components (SMT) - basically any modern circuit board today. Solder paste is a tube of toothpaste-like chemical mixture that contains tiny, micrometer-sized metal particles, mixed with sticky flux. If they're used without care, a solder paste spill is a sure way to contaminate the floor or work surface of your workspace. The sticky paste is also hard to wash away from skin.

Unfortunately, reflow soldering of surface-mount components can be really challenging, even more so when doing it by hand. Thus, classic lead-tin alloy is often used to reduce difficulties of assembly during workshop prototyping due to its technically superior properties. Switching to lead-free is only possible when you have a tightly-controlled and consistent work flow.

If you want lead-free, for small-scale prototyping and rework, a non-toxic bismuth-tin alloy is sometimes a good alternative to standard SAC305 lead-free solder thanks to its low melting temperature, which is one main reason that makes most lead-free alloys difficult to use (it even has considerable popularity in mass production of LED devices, as they are heat-sensitive). But its surface tension is slightly different, weakening the self-alignment effect of components during reflow soldering, increasing the chance of defective joints - a concern in prototyping. Its brittle nature also increases failure rates in the field, among other caveats.

Lead is really a gift from the devil.
Just want to point out that post itself is very minimally hyperlinked. Am I "that guy"? XD
I've used Expo going on 3 years now, their development team is incredible. There are very few reasons to use base react-native over Expo anymore; They make upgrades to new RN versions easier, can support any custom native libraries, have an awesome build service (EAS), support OTA updates, their docs are great... I could go on and on. If you're a RN dev and haven't tried out Expo in the past year I highly recommend giving it another go - its not the Expo you remember before their custom dev-client days.
Glibc is a nasty piece of software full of nonstandard GNUisms that basically implements a separate standard. I've fought for years against the fact they've got functions that are not found in any other libc and have different behaviours depending on macros, often conflicting with POSIX or BSD variants.
The fact the project was run for almost 20 years by a guy that managed it in a dictatorial style was a huge reason why so many alternative libc existed (that, and the licensing). Few people here remember about EGLIBC I guess.

Glibc is also such a mess that it still does not compile with Clang, after _decades_, due to all the crazy GCC extensions they rely on. An attempt is cyclically started and then promptly aborted when some new crazy nonsense is found. For instance, last time I checked they not only used the completely insane folly that GCC nested functions are, but they also relied on GCC attributes so nasty that LLVM never bothered implemented them (like renaming functions at code generation). Using these extensions are not really necessary, and I've a strong suspicious it was more of an attempt by the GNU authors to prevent distributions to ever consider not using GCC as their main compiler.

Also how name resolution is implemented in Glibc means you can't really statically link with it. If you've ever noticed, most "statically linked executables" are not in fact statically linked, but require ld.so just for libc. There are good reasons to disallow statically linking libc, but this is not one of them. Especially since the only stable API on Linux is the kernel interface, so the only way to not have to worry about future Glibc breakage is to either link with Musl or live with the risk.
The direct impact could be relatively limited, at least for a while. Having a room-temperature superconductor is really awesome, but existing high-temperature superconductors are fragile and expensive. You can make motors, electromagnets, and power grids with much better efficiency—but that’s not so useful if the parts break when you look at them wrong.

You’ll still get better magnets and sensors, probably. Maybe even get new types of circuitry.

Just for comparison—we use silicon for integrated circuits. Not because it has the best performance, but because it’s convenient, it’s readily available, silicon dioxide is a good insulator, etc.
I really hope not. I get AR might work for some situation p, but the Quest is really good for I’m erosive situations where you just want slice some blocks apart with light sabers according to a nice song. Beat Saber is still the Quest’s killer app. How would AR improve on that experience?

I don’t see much point to the quest pro and eagerly await the quest 3.
If only all languages had sum types …
Though a _real_ stickler of a scientist knows that K is not given in degrees and would have lightly chastised if making that assumption.

I still enjoyed the joke though.
-- 1x Duplicated, Others Related --

TETRABURST: 5 vulnerabilities (2 critical) in TETRA-based networks : https://www.midnightblue.nl/tetraburst

TETRABURST Archive : https://archive.is/l8E51

Tetra radio tech used in vital infrastructure worldwide vulnerable : https://nltimes.nl/2023/07/24/radio-tech-used-vital-infrastr...

Code Kept Secret for Years Reveals Its Flaw–A Backdoor : https://www.wired.com/story/tetra-radio-encryption-backdoor/

Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) – (Trans-European Trunked Radio) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio

Comment by _V_ : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36867356

Comment by rasz : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855269
I can't start to investigate without picture, name, telephone number
And address.

Sorry
For myself: Discord groups in my Sim (racing+flight) communities.
Monopole magnets probably aren’t allowable in our current understanding of physics since the magnetic field is just a consequence of a relativistic E-field.
June’s Sophisticated NPM Attack Attributed to North Korea