skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to chat with the gnome guys. They miss so much and I'm not sure why.

1) The WM must remember where my windows were and put them back when reopened. Never mind how X apps took on this responsibility, under Wayland the app should not know its context. It's also not right to put the burden on every app when it could be in the WM to provide consistency and unburden all the other devs.

2) I use a 55" screen where the "desktop" metaphor is apt. Workspaces are for small screens with maximized windows, which don't really need other layout methods anyway.

3) I have space for the launcher to be ever present. I also don't want my windows to shrink and move around when I do invoke that panel. That's so jarring and completely unneeded.

I do like the idea they mention of a maximum sensible size for an app. That could be useful regardless of all the other stuff.

I feel like tabs on browsers were invented because no desktop environment or GUI toolkit ever came up with a decent solution for multiple instances/documents. This has improved but I suspect there is more that could be done.
Would it be possible for someone using a zero day vulnerability to develop a botnet that will infect enough computers on the web, and their payload would be some way to modify browsers in a way to render them untrusted to WEI, and effectivelly render anybody infected out of the web? Would it be a new way to DDOS users out of the "trusted" web?
The overall net numbers are intentional. If they wanted to decrease them they could do so by dealing with the backlog of claims and providing safe routes.

But it’s the divisive propaganda that they want. Sod the humans.
Why is the author(s) of this article anonymous? Who is on "The Editorial Board"?
If you’re joining as a founding engineer, it’s pretty safe to assume that the “state of revenue” is “zero.”
Right, and he ballparks 250-300T in expendable mode here:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1661441658473570304?s=46...

Raptor improved thrust:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1678276840740343808?s=46...

Raptor 2 improved thrust:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1657249739925258240?s=46...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1661441658473570304?s=46...

Love the guy or hate the guy, but on SpaceX numbers (other than timelines), he’s been spot on.
Rather than not selling that space, google would later let ad buyers be aware of the parameter, and bid less for unattested views. Therefore, Google would reward sites less for such pages, and the sites would be incentivized to block you.
[ES: Informed speculation]

I think it's a different mechanism, I think it's more like when you squeeze a drop of food coloring into water. I think it's something along the lines of, the friction on the outside of the drop and the momentum of the fluid on the inside of the drop impose a force in opposite directions, causing the fluid to spin, resulting in a vortex; because the cross section is a near perfect circle, this rotation is balanced, and you get a toroidal vortex. I imagine that, the bigger your drop, the more error you can tolerate in your circle. So by the time you get to the scale of, say, a caldera[1], there's a lot of room for error. (That's a slightly different mechanism, but I think comparable in this way.)

The photos don't look like what I saw. They weren't oriented like that (they were hanging down like the clumps, perpendicular to the planes direction of motion), and they weren't so well formed. They were more lumpy.

But this was a couple years ago and I didn't take a picture, so I can only go off of my recollection, and my strictly intuitive understanding of the fluid dynamics from the thousands of rings I used to blow smoking Black & Mild in my mispent youth. (You can also see rare and interesting rings that way, but I wouldn't recommend it!)

Very cool stuff that I'm pumped to know about and will look out for though. Thanks!

[1] https://66.media.tumblr.com/e0dd679a1c62751f09e702d8c005b9a1...
Much of the power consumed, and heat dissipated, by conventional processors comes from moving information between logic elements rather than the actual logic operations. Because superconductors have zero electrical resistance, little energy is required to move bits within the processor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_computing#Fund...
Grusch gave program names, people involved, and locations of these special access programs purported to be reverse engineering non human technology to the ICIG and both intelligence committees in congress. Call your congressman and ask if he is credible.
Had no idea this was even a thing.

I want off this ride.
I don't think this is true. Most of the power is dissipated in the metal interconnect.
> If we acknowledge that animals are sentient beings, capable of cognition, fear, and suffering... it's not a stretch to draw parallels between this and other forms of oppression such as slavery, sexual exploitation, and domestic abuse.

That's such an absurd flamebait that if you bother to think about it for a second, you'd realize how untenable your position is. If we accept your assertion, then then we would have to protect a deer from a bear, snake from a hawk and all kinds of fish from bluefin tuna. Do you suggest we arrest every bear, hawk and bluefin tuna that eats another sentient being? Would we have to arrest all dog and cat owners that feed their pets a healthy meat diet?
If the Tesla's self driving software had to be limited in speed based on it's confidence, it wouldn't be able to driver faster than 15 mph. Tesla's self driving is ENTIRELY based around "Fuck it, I'll probably be fine"
In the Snowden case, why would you copy those records to SharePoint.
I know a bartender who would drink a fifth of whiskey every shift and still be totally coherent at the end of it. (That was a decade ago and she's still a bartender... but I have no idea how much she drinks now.) Some of it has to do with biology, but some people can just adapt.
I just wrapped up Skunkworks and put the book down pretty impressed at what the DoD and Lockheed were able to keep secret. The author described Skunkworks' mission "again and again" as creating aircraft that were technologically unbelievable to America's enemies, so they would have no means to even reckon with a defense. The USSR spent hundreds of billions of rubles on an impenetrable anti-air defense network, Lockheed built a plane that could fly right through it and drop a bomb through a Kremlin chimney, and everyone kept it a secret for years. The author also repeatedly alluded to projects from throughout his career that remained classified at the time, one of these was the F-22.

My takeaway there is more that it's believable pilots have sighted unidentifiable aircraft exhibiting technologically implausible behavior because those craft are classified projects, rather than because they're extraterrestrial craft, but I don't think it's so plainly unbelievable that the government can't keep secret projects under wraps. The stealth modified helicopters used in the Bin Laden raid come to mind, and really, those are pretty boring as far as "top secret technology" goes, and were apparently in pretty regular use already.
Extremely misleading comment that I'm happy to see has already been broken down in another reply. Frustrating to see this at the top.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistory/comments/hy9gqo/europe_i...

The colonies were a burden. They were useful for military and political reasons, but not for economic reasons. The reason Europe is so wealthy is Capitalism and early industrialization. The reason the colonies are so poor is colonialism.

It was a shitty deal for everyone involved
Do you think there would be very many programmers in such a world?

Personally, I think that a lot of people who right now go into programming "because it's a good career", would instead do things that are equally creative but also capture other things high on the Maslow hierarchy — e.g. fame.

Personally, despite enthusiastically enjoying my programming career and puzzle-oriented problem-solving more generally, I'm still intending to retire early and become a novelist. If I could "thrive regardless of income", I'd do that right now.
Paywalled, but the article's first sentence is "Critics of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis argue he has gone too far in trying to root out 'wokeness', but look to California to see what happens when academic groupthink is left unchecked…", so I think it's safe to assume what follows is typical conservative groupthink.
Room-temperature superconductors have so many urgent commercial uses that if this fake, I doubt the error will persist for that long. There's too much at stake.
Seems that any new data generated out of Overture Maps could be uploaded to OSM if they chose to do so? The CDLA license is permissive;

https://cdla.dev/permissive-2-0/

My read is that they're not going to avoid credited OSM, but rather they're going to credit OSM / maintain the license for the parts they use from OSM and then the rest will be CDLA 2.0 licensed for anyone to use.
But there are democrats joining republicans in investigating this. Senator Gillibrand and Chick Schumer have introduced legislation specifically targeting this.
“Non-Human Biologic’ Pilot Found Aboard Crashed UAP”
And avoid politics, porn and recreational drugs.

And medicine and other money/life topics unless you can show/cite authority.
Do you snore? Since getting a mouth thingy to push the lower jaw forward, liberating the throat, I snore much less and I dream much more and wake up remembering the dreams! But the effects only lasted until my throat got a little more fat.
Yes, that is how Commercial Crew works. They get paid to send people to the ISS
Why I’m skeptical about a superconductor breakthrough
They are, but unfortunately the one option we have for “left” policy in this country doesn’t have a great track record of taking realistic stances on these issues.
I also wrote a small Python script that you can also use if you do not want to use Powershell to talk to your Llama model: https://downioads.github.io/posts/llama-python/
And that's fine, but if you had a button to sell that exact person's driving to everyone as "full self driving", and you pressed it, I hope you understand most people would consider that a problem.
Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown-like text to timeline tool
you and me both: CALL 768
I got bad news about the world you’re going to raise your son in.
Have you been tested for sleep apnea? Your symptoms are pretty on the money.
As far as I can tell all seven posted the same press release. (I checked a few of them and the BMW one was the one I had open.)

- BMW
- GM
- Honda
- Hyundai
- Kia
- Mercedes-Benz
- Stellantis (Dodge, Jeep, Ram, Chrysler, many other European brands)
are they, though?

taking a phrase and swapping words around doesn't make the resulting phrase equally true
Whether you are being pushed or pulled by a rocket doesn't really matter. From the inside would feel very similar.
I think we’ve officially overused the word ‘expert’ until it’s lost all meaning.
Part of the issue is the stigma. Commercial pilots are afraid to come forward, and that’s why Ryan Graves came to this meeting because his mission is to reduce the stigma so pilots feel safe reporting this issue.
Can't wait to be flying my car to work
Ask HN: What Software Solutions Does Your Industry Need?
I'm a seasoned programmer with over 20 years of experience. Recently, I've found myself pondering about potential new projects or hobbies to undertake. However, the ideas that spring to mind are typically generic - creating social media platforms or developing tools like programming languages, compilers, editors, etc.

While these are viable projects, I can't shake the feeling that there are more engaging and beneficial opportunities out there. The challenge? I'm somewhat tethered by my lack of knowledge of other fields and industries.

I've thus been contemplating the idea of spending an hour or two daily over the next few years to delve into a new field, like chemistry, biology, nanorobotics, etc. Now, I don't intend to become an expert in these fields, but my goal is to operate at the intersection of software engineering and these domains. I want to leverage my programming skills to bring something new to another industry.

With this in mind, I'm reaching out to those of you who have experience in other industries. What challenges do you face that could potentially be alleviated by software? What software solutions do you think are missing? Do you deal with any frustrating or exorbitantly priced, yet essential software? Moreover, which fields do you think hold promise for an experienced software engineer like myself?

I'm also keen on understanding the intricacies of your industries. What exactly do you do, discover, or create? Your insights will be greatly appreciated and could potentially shape the direction of my next projects.

I look forward to hearing from you!
Hell, Sigma Aldrich will sell you LSD. Established labs have no trouble with lightly restricted drug precursors, they've done all the paperwork.
They cause overproduction of poor substitutes. Like beets for sugar because of limits on sugar cane. Or monoculture GMO corn for HFCS. This skews diets and prices, usually for the worst.
That video reminds me of the way pyrolytic graphite floats on strong magnets.

https://scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/magnets/pyrolytic_graphi...

https://youtu.be/Wk3seHNmNs8
Well duh they're shitty drivers with no respect for a public road, they bought Tesla "full self driving" """beta""" and are testing it against unwilling other drivers!

"They're a bad person so this must be fake", or maybe they're a bad person which is exactly why they thought doing something like this is okay
And would not be purchased by many people around the world.
I'm well on my way.
How could the CD save the market from piracy?

With a simple cassette recorder with microphone or other audio input you could copy any CD.
The production limits effectively cap how much subsidy will be paid. The subsidy is still there. Without it, there would be less sugar grown and the land involved (mostly in the Florida Everglades and specifically developed to suit this sugar program) would go to other uses
It's from V for Vendetta [0]

[0] https://www.quotes.net/mquote/131160
I agree, getting to play with a new system is still as exciting as getting my first AppleSoft Basic program running back in the 80s. Also, with all the cool low-cost micros and robotics gear available now this is truly still the golden age.
Ah Martha, I see you haven’t changed one bit.
a big number that's much smaller than a big number is still a big number
Do you have a link handy for "we don't know how bikes work" ?
This is literally what happened in Haiti with rice. Even Slick Willie finally apologized for it.

https://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/11/bill_clinton_s_trade...
In this scenario it doesn’t really matter. They’re interchangeable.
Wikileaks perhaps. They got cut off by mastercard but I don't recall hearing them lose their hosting or domain name. Although I wonder if you'd be one to consider them "russian disinformation" and therefore deserving of being shut down. The pirate bay? Lost many domain names at various times and probably hosting too. Are they also deserving of it due the the scale of the copyright infringement they help? Personally I think piracy is a moral imperative these days.

Non-controversial sites do not get shut down.
Lead-acid batteries are mostly lead and legal. I'm sure they will make this legal too.
AsmoDEI probably.
We know that intel agencies and military routinely lie to Congress; many times historically and several major ones in just my lifetime:

- Iraq WMDs

- dragnet surveillance

- ANA will fight the Taliban

We also know they obscure the truth, eg Victoria Nuland responding to the question about “chemical or biological weapons” in Ukraine by nodding as she spoke about “research labs”.

We also know the CIA has previously hacked the computers of a congressional investigation into their misconduct.

The default assumption is that this is concocted narratives to raise military funding from an increasingly impoverished and war-weary public — sickened by the MIC waste and ineptitude (eg, we can’t repair ships and all of NATO manufactures fewer artillery shells than Russia alone).

This is FUD until there’s evidence — these people have zero credibility.
So literally, the argument presented here is that we should care about not alienating men because it could harm women in the future.
What a world we exist in.
There are potentially other carrots aside from material wealth that can motivate people to do unpleasant work. Currently it takes significant pay to get people to do certain important but thankless jobs. We could thank them. A legacy is important to many people. They may enjoy an immutable commemoration of their work, if they're secure in a material sense.
> Has there been any commentary on that?

German, but nevertheless: http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=9a3f8740

"I work in the field [...] we don't believe a word of this. [...] The data set in Fig. 4(b) is also a treat. It is VERY unusual when the heat capacity decreases again at high temperatures. This can happen at low temperatures, but not at high temperatures. [...] My personal assumption is that the authors measured an insulator, so no current flow and therefore no voltage occurred (4-point measurement). This would look like a superconductor. But if you then turn up the current (i.e. the applied voltage), breakdowns may occur and a current begins to flow. That would explain the sharp increase."
Researcher on reddit thinks it's probably spurious measurement artifacts, not superconductivity:

> I would say they are not faking it, but instead they just don’t understand what they are looking at. Based on what measurements they are doing, as well as how they are doing them, they do not have a good understanding of the standard processes to characterise a superconductor. Also, based on their analysis/discussion, they do not have scientific knowledge of the background theory. In review of these two papers, it’s terrible science, not something malicious (as has been seen before in RT superconductivity work…). Even if these claims turn out to be true, it's still terrible science, and that's my main criticism. Either way, these types of claims are not uncommon, see for example this paper from a few years ago which went nowhere. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1807.08572

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/159g2k4/comment/...
The replies don't load for me in this one.
I agree with your first paragraph. They tested the red light issue after experiencing it to make sure it was not a fluke. Their yelling was unnecessary.
Sounds pretty benign in comparison to many accusations the cultural right routinely levels at women.
It really doesn't. The person is saying it's OK to poison the US environment because we get good boy points for feeding the rest of the world (something the US does help with, but which impact is exaggerated for rhetorical effect). Apparently they're objecting to the fact that his research comes from a European institution and labeling that as 'whining'.
Is lead based solder not standard? (I've never soldered.)
That's some pretentious bullshit. Sneering at others because their cultural tastes don't match yours does nothing but help you feel superior to others for a few moments. And I say this as someone who reads a lot of fiction, subscribes to a literary review, and treasures my library of printed books.
I don't understand how one can pilot a phenomon. I think this may be an incorrect use of newer terminology which does not improve on older terms.

The intended headline might be:

“Non-Human Biologic’ Pilot Found Aboard Crashed UFO”
I'm just talking about games
> not use [Internet] on my personal desktop, just phone.

Then you'll be headed in the exact wrong direction! Phones are generally locked down corporate platforms, where Google's current attempt to lock down the web got its inspiration and start (see: SafetyNet). Even if you do repave and install an OS that represents your interests, the input/output capabilities are by default limited and the available apps still generally revolve around accessing centralized services hosted elsewhere. Whereas with your personal desktop, you can keep it personal and install libre software that lets you escape the copyright cartel and big tech walled gardens.
Greenland et al on pvalues is an excellent read.
That's a really cool example of how it can work behind the scenes, thanks
Whoever is responsible for the intersection should also be fined. Our whole safety culture is based on being as clear as possible with redundancies from the consumer and the provider (i.e., assume the worst, provide the best).
Successful apps have more to lose from being on such an ecosystem than they stand to gain. It’s why so much software starts out as wanting to be open, dominates the market, then puts up the garden walls.

The closest we have to this is app stores - and look how everyone moans about them.
“so that power is redistributed and shared equitably”

Equitably is where the problem is. Most definitions people give for equitable boil down to “not equal, but based on criteria that I think are good and just”.
In that case giving them permission does the trick and the improvements happen. Huzzah!

The other side is making sure to always plan for enough slack in the system so people have time for these things, if they choose to use it.
So, no. Lots of “process”, words, and gamification, but no results and no evidence of actual robust security at the necessary multi-million dollar level.

Looking at the leaderboard [1] it looks like the pay out is a few thousand dollars for a “steal all the money” defect. These companys literally want to manage millions of dollars, yet it regularly costs only a few thousand dollars in developer time to steal all the money. And these are the good companys doing audits.

What a joke. It is worse than XP, but at least Microsoft knew they were a laughing stock.

[1] https://code4rena.com/leaderboard
Are you referring to a Cooper pair?
I would bet a lot that there is probably very little difference in outcome between hiring randomly and hiring with these complicated, disconnected, grueling interview processes that every company seems to be doing now.
SecuROM is DRM for PC games that installs a rootkit. I first learned about it when it was used with Spore 15 years ago and it bricked my Windows install.
It is interesting to note that while the error was in the same direction, the magnitude of the error decreased in subsequent studies. No one expects to get exactly the same result, so there was room for variation towards the true result.
I totally agree with your way of thinking, that's the only way to stay sane.

But this green men circus makes me really uncomfortable at this point. I kinda want to believe.
When every tech news site puts the vulnerability in headlines, it's going to have a lot of visibility and many of Cloudflare's customers are going to ask them about it (regardless of whether the attention is warranted or not).
Under a week of work to publish potentially the highest impact paper of your PhD (especially if you're first)? I'm guessing most students would take that chance.
>How do you read that and think, "Yeah that's just the same thing."? Wildly absurd claim.

How do you not? It is a presumptuous contention that all racial inequalities are racist in origin and nature -- the follow through on this contention, that all races must be made equal in outcome, is inherently racist[0].

[0]because it judges persons on their race and not their individual qualities, e.g. an SAT score.
> How is this different from other nitrogen-fixing species that are already known?

It does it in a radically different way - pulling bacteria up from the soil into weird drippy goo from roots dangling midair. The video and various articles aren't totally clear on this point, but it suggests it can pull a lot more nitrogen out of the air than other known nitrogen fixing plants (which keep the bacteria underground on their roots).