skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> government being able to mandate that a certain website not open at all on a browser/system is uncharted territory and even the most repressive regimes in the world prefer to block websites further up the network (ISPs, etc.) so far.

Repressive government's don't do their blocking at the browser level because it is completely ineffective. Anyone who wants to access the forbidden websites will be able to do so anyway.
...how? Commercial fusion does not compete with NIF. Nobody invests in NIF expecting to make a return, the government spends money on it hoping for science. NIF is not to my knowledge part of government programs that aim to accelerate commercial fusion.
If it helps, it may have been for a good reason. Microsoft used to name the folder that stored user directories "Documents and Settings" so developers would be forced to make sure they could handle paths with spaces in them. Now, they call that folder "Users", and I had to make sure when I set up my Windows install that my name didn't have spaces in it so a bunch of apps didn't get screwy.
I'll recommend a video series on it also, for the same reason. While I enjoy the content, the presentation just didn't click.
Well if majority votes for them, it's important to respect the choice of the voters, even if you don't like their choice because you have other interests that you want to defend.

The opposition in France are far from being angels, it's very similar to Democrats vs Republican situation in France (except Gauche vs Droite).
Petition? Mozilla should just ban usage in France if they pass this merd.
That's the crater diameter, which'll be much larger than the impactor.
Last I've heard the web browser was invented in Switzerland, as opposed to Gopher (US invented) which ended up unused
The article mentions as much, the phrase 'vampire' is only been in vogue in the past 100 or so years; the article mentions upiór, strzyga and strigoi. Which I learned about thanks to the Witcher (the video games moreso than the books / TV show); its lore feels new because it uses older and lesser known in western Europe creatures.
The guy is by no means a "doomer" and nowhere does he say everything is futile, give up now. That is the opposite of his point: he wants us all to reflect on our trajectory, subject it to serious critique, and try to turn it into something more likely to carry us through civilizational adolescence[0].

He does have qualms about whether "effectively infinite clean energy" would do us any good right now. Look at what we've done with a temporary surfeit of very cheap (but not clean) energy. We are kicking out the legs of the stool we're sitting on. Human beings perch precariously at the apex of a massive biological edifice, the foundation of which is fundamental to human life, but we have the unfortunate habit of thinking all we need is technology and ingenuity. Far more than new technology, we need the wisdom to apply our tools for the long term flourishing of earth-borne life, of which humanity is a part.

[0]: https://youtu.be/6-1oUMNX64Y
Time to cross reference high traffic density highways with the location of high tension power lines and Buy, Mortimer, Buy!
Too Many Vacant Lots, Not Enough Housing: The U.S. Real-Estate Puzzle
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147617
TunnelCrack
I think there's a certain class of people who find exercise inherently interesting, and others who don't. VR is for the latter.

(I've gone to the gym ~7 years daily, I now do some supplement stuff also in VR, and I've noticed an improvement since adding VR. I think it's because VR workouts impose structure that the rest of my routine lacks. There are ways I could add more structure to my regular routine of course, but I don't want to expend the additional mental energy that way, especially in an ongoing basis.)
Well, Amazon makes good money selling conterfeit stuff under genuine labels. Sellers who ship stuff themselves deprive Amazon from this profit. Looks like 2% is what Amazon is being deprived of.
Modeling with FEA is great but I wonder if he also did a fatigue analysis. It might not blow up the first time, but will it blow up three years later after the parts have been pressurized and thermally cycled 1000 times?
>> to me the most interesting part was everyone talking about potential consequences

no need for a science paper for that, they should've written science fiction or created an educational documentary.
Active Record is NOT anti pattern. It's just one of ways to get things done related to (relational) database and your application. Active Record, Data Mapper, Raw SQL or whetever has its pros and cons.
> but because most people just want to show up, do their time and get out to live their life with what little time they have left of their day.

I feel like this is overstated. Yes, ultimstely the job is just a job and most people have other things in their life. However its hard to devote 40-ish hours a week to some cause without starting to identify with the cause. In my experience most people do start to care about org goals, or they go crazy and get burned out spending so much time on goals they dont care about.
http://simulator.down2earth.eu/planet.html?lang=en

According to this calculator you get a 446km diameter crater if you input:

- 15km asteroid diameter

- 90º Angle

- 80km/s

- Dense Rock asteroid

- Hitting on Water at level 10m
When you need a many hundreds of dollars device to account for a slight difference in writing feel, you’re failing to adapt to the advance of technology.

If your preferences can’t evolve with the times, you’re succumbing to the calcification of your mind to what you’re familiar with now. It’s a sign of aging, and a sign of your growing inability to adapt.
Saccade – Sudden Motion
> Most users don't care because they do the same with their own files.

Maybe I'm not most users, but I absolutely put my files in ~/.config/$my_namespace/

> It didn't solve anything, just added more mess.

Have you ever had to migrate/sync parts of a system across multiple hosts, or even just backup with very limited space and having to be choosy about what is stored? XDG makes it WAY easier to set up rules to include/exclude stuff, than a bazillion .programrc dirs (which make no config/data distinction). Cache can be completely ignored and usually (the more voluminous ) program data can be skipped. The app will usually generate it as needed, and if not, I know what to sync.

Every program and their dog barfing in $HOME is something I didn't wish for.
> a cage around the grave

I suspect this one may have more to do with countering external threats.
Browsers often directly provide solutions to go around such blocking (DNS over HTTPS for example, or VPNs or proxies),

The governments cannot go and forbid browsers to do that if they don't have the law to back it.
ThoughtSpot uses analytics to build great LLM products – VP Eng interview
It seems to be a version of safe browsing that is mandated by law to be a full block rather than a warning. It will be very easy to bypass, making this a very stupid law.

It's slightly more worrisome that the law doesn't include any privacy protection measures, but the GDPR still applies and whoever runs the checking service has to comply with it since the browsing history is personal data.
FWIW, the performance of my emulators [0] (mostly integer bit twiddling code written in 'portable C') is pretty much identical in the browser and natively compiled version (within around 25% of each other).

Of course one could go farther by using cpu- and compiler-specific optimizations (for instance SIMD intrinsics), but some of those are also portable to WASM. In general, memory layout optimizations translate directly to the WASM linear heap, and that's by far the most important performance factor before it makes sense to look into platform-specific optimizations.

[0] https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/
> Most people (across any discipline) have very little regard for the "interests" of the organization that they're working for. Not because of incompetence or malice or organizational dysfunction but because most people just want to show up, do their time and get out to live their life with what little time they have left of their day. Maybe, at best, they care about the interests of some of their co-workers that they like.

Why does fulfilling your contracted role not align with the "interests" of the organization?

If by "interests" you mean giving more than what you were contracted to do, then that does qualify as a dysfunctional organization in my book.
Faith Healers Are Back, and They’re Getting Rich
Wow, excited to see where this project will go!
Hard to google C and Go but it didn't seem to hurt those languages.
The maps are wonderful. I love the edge cases in the Seattle example. A place that seems green, but is in fact a gated golf course neighborhood, is (accurately) shown as being 20-25 minutes from parks, because although it is almost adjacent to the huge UW arboretum, there is in fact no reasonable way to walk there. The road in the cut-off golf-fancier neighborhood is even perversely named "Parkside Drive".
You can't just group all those things together and say they are alike. Fusion in particular is a bit more physics experiment than the future of energy. Even in a world where we master than engineering and physics around fusion it won't be an economical source of power generation. It will only be used in areas where fusion's power generation to physical footprint ratio is highly valued.
I was referencing the phrase, "the customer is always right in matters of taste"
Interesting; I wonder if similar approaches will help make the fuel cells cheaper as well as hydrogen?

Even if not, even if vehicles remain fully electric (which is my assumption):

> The scientists said gray, black, and brown hydrogen release 9 to 12 tons of carbon dioxide for each ton of hydrogen produced. Yet, they correspond to 95% of all hydrogen currently produced worldwide for agricultural and industrial needs. Even if this green hydrogen does not help move a vehicle, it is a welcome way to curb the production of the gray and black kinds.

It's good to see them prompting all the other things this will also be useful for.

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On a separate topic: this is the second site in a row where the full-screen "we respect your privacy click here to agree" banner won't actually let me scroll down to any of the buttons.

I'm glad reader mode works, or I wouldn't be able to see any actual content.
disgusting eww, big woe to all those who consume drugs!!
Google Safebrowsing is very rarely compromised (except indirectly when Gaia was hacked at Google), this can be the same mechanism.
Ha, a few of my archeologist friends worked on this!

I remember one detail regarding the decapitated (17th century IIRC) bodies they found: one would put a sickle between the head and the rest of the body. Some of the local construction site workers hired to help with digging were quite upset/scared by the view.

Also, I think we can thank Austro-Hungarian civil servants and bureaucracy for the amount of documentation we have on the subject. Central Europe was much luckier in that regard than the regions farther east.

Tangentially related: the WoD (World of Darkness, esp. Vampire: the Masqureade) scene in Poland was relatively big in 2010s, compared to the rest of Europe IIRC. I used to run one of the biggest bi-weekly LARPs in the region, called Totentanz, with 25 regular bloodsuckers joining the game every Sunday.

Krakow, my hometown is an excellent setting for that: the medieval city moved up by one floor, so we have a tonne of old dungeons/cellars to dress up as vampires, plot against each other, and pretend we like smoking clove cigarettes.
https://archive.is/gVQWy
How is that an answer? Obviously they need bodies to turn the cranks. The machine must continue!
You guys use the home screen? It's just ads. Watch the subscription feed.
I used to work for Ubisoft; thought the same thing when reading the name.

Unfortunately Ubisoft Cloud wasn't (likely still isn't) anything special; thus there's nothing really to open source

Ubisoft cloud itself is a combination of openstack, a deprecated array of vmware clusters and kubernetes (Named: UKS). When I was there the storage system of these components kept disconnecting because there was a core switch without redundancy. The director of infrastructure for Central IT (GNS) sent a strongly worded email to all the stakeholders stating that we should be implementing failure domains.. when pressed on what failure domains we had he said... "one".

Blows my mind.

Ubisoft IT (GNS) has weird incentives. They chronically underinvest in themselves, offer half-baked and ill-fitting solutions and then wonder why people don't want to use them.

It's peverse because the on-prem stuff Ubisoft has is consistently underinvested in yet we have 7 figure contracts with all three major cloud providers- paying well over 5x what we would have paid if we just invested properly.
They are CJS modules or (ideally) Typescript. CSS custom properties (variables) are slightly different.

import type { Config } from 'tailwindcss'

export default {
content: [],
theme: {
extend: {},
},
plugins: [],
} satisfies Config

(not arguing for or against TW here)
How can France force them? Just don’t do it.
Replace hackers with users.
Just finished The Farfarers by Farley Mowat. Mowat tells a compelling speculative history of seafarers reaching North America (and Iceland and Greenland) before the Vikings. I don't necessary believe it all, but he certainly asks compelling questions that don't seem to be answered satisfactorily by "real" historians and archeologists. It's an interesting reminder that despite all we do know (or think we know), there's an awful lot we don't.
Was there any investigation on the policemen involved in the death of Ian Murdoch, the "ian" in Debian?
I continue to remain skeptical, honestly, of any effect beyond thermal heating. But I've never totally written it off. Very small amounts of EMR can create cascade effects in biological systems. Our vision system is perhaps an example, where the power of the radiation cast on the retina in low light is measured in microwatts or even picowatts, yet our nervous systems are very much affected by it.

Tangential trivia: if move your head inside a very strong radio field (far beyond anything put out by a cellphone -- and far beyond anything generally considered safe) it can induce currents directly in the optic nerve/retina, which I've read described as flashing dots of light.
I don't know why you're implying that laymen are beneath discussing/speculating on scientific research, since during COVID plenty of bullshit was spread by the supposed experts too, which is what fueled distrust in the first place. It should be a lesson that people now take "Science" far too seriously, it has clearly turned into a religion for many with a hierarchy of authorities that must not be questioned (something like government propagandists > mainstream journal editors > scientists >>> the lowly sinful masses). I guess that's why the blunders of our health authorities are being conveniently forgotten or handwaved with paltry excuses today; they're above criticism, while it's "dangerous" if the proles commit the same mistakes.
Are you saying that all the non-native mobile frameworks are abysmal because they have to map to JNI calls on Android and Objective-C/Swift on iOS?
Bots are better at CAPTCHA than humans, researchers find
Is this the new Nikola [1] ?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/nikola-founders-trial-us-fraud...
Someone please explain: if I fork Firefox or Chrome and delete the censorship code, then I publish it online (eg. in github with a download link), then next time I go to France I will get into trouble?
The author's boasting is something I can imagine bothering some people! He definetly has a big mouth and the book beeing an american style writing doesn't help either. (especially at the end the book transforms to the longest advertisement in history for his own company).

But if you can look past that there were a lot of practical take away in the book, at least for me. The largest was how should I think about negotiation and how it is a part of life. My favourite technique I still use from day to day is 'labeling' and 'false labeling'. It just helps naturally start conversations when you meet someone at the office coffee machine.

Anyone who has mental blocks asking for a raise should definetly read it.
What if room-temperature superconductors were real and led to improved efficiency in tokamak reactors?
Public schools provide that for 12 years - I think young people can take the gas off the "education" for the 4 years following graduating high school. You can live in the real world for a bit, and college is still there if you decide you want it. I don't see the need to rush young people into destitution and more of the same.
I used Debian as a student when I had time to endlessly edit config files. What's the state today? Is it possible to just use it to get work done, say, on a Thinkpad?
So investing it both would be the beast approach (using a ratio based cost effectiveness, viability etc. estimate)?
Tell HN: YouTube requires watch history on for home screen
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37158674

Tell HN: YouTube is not showing home recommendations when watch history is off
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37157835

YouTube Will Display a Blank Home Feed If Your Watch History Is Turned Off
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151135

YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066718

YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’ is turned off
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37058189

YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37054233

YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37053817

Ash HN: YouTube home page blank when history is off
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36963702
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37133485
The flipside is the refusal of people to acknowledge the good news that we do have -- like solar and wind power.

Perhaps because it's boring. Solar is basically the same tech as it was in the 70s. The only major difference is that it is literally more than a million times cheaper.

It's cheaper to install and operate solar than it is just to operate a coal plant.

Sure there are challenges with wind and solar, but that's all they are: challenges, not showstoppers. When something has such a compelling cost advantage, there is lots of margin to throw at the challenges.

It'll be difficult to power a grid with 100% wind and solar so that's all you hear. But on the flip side, it'd be quite straightforward to power the grid using 90% renewables using the existing plants for the last hard 10%. It'd be both cheaper & cleaner! Why the heck aren't we celebrating that? Add short term storage and it'll be 99%.

And this isn't theoretical or anything. We are doing it. We're currently installing solar & wind at about 5% a year, and that 5% is increasing by about 50% annually.

There is way more good news than bad news about solar. But good news is boring and bad news gets clicks, so you only see the bad news.
I have a hard time understanding why mechanistic interpretability has so few eyes on it. It's like trying to build a complex software system without logging or monitoring. Any other improvements you want to make on the system are going to just be trail and error with luck. The hallucination problem is one where interpretability of a model might be able to identify the failure modes that we need to address. Really any AI problem could likely be aided by a scalable approach to interpretability that is just as mundane feeling as classical software observability.
Exploring the Potential of Long-Range Wireless Power Transmission
I was so confused by this yesterday. I want to see the number of ratings compared to the average rating. That's how I know if a large number of people have tested this product and reviewed it properly. This system seems designed to hide that. You have to open every product to see that info.
I have to disagree here.

I feel like I am extremely empathetic towards other engineer, as well as customers. I hate slow and buggy software as an end user. I don’t want other people to have to deal with it.

I also don’t want teammates to have to do things they aren’t good at, or interested in. A backend dev should not need to learn the many intricacies of InnoDB tuning; they just want the ORM to talk nicely to the DB. I on the other hand absolutely love tweaking low-level things like that. So far, the devs have also expressed joy and gratitude that I enjoy this stuff. I have to assume customers enjoy reduced latency.

So anyway, no, don’t focus purely on revenue. Focus on making people’s jobs easier and more pleasant, and on making customers happy. Revenue follows.

Disclaimer, not a business person nor any interest in it whatsoever.
It is not comparable. The beverage is quite different. So many people have had badly made espressos in the past they may think they don't like or care for it. Properly made espresso brings out flavors and smells which are not extractable with the Aeropress. The extreme case is the extraction of fruity flavors from a specific class of light roasts. You can not do it with Aeropress. I have a manually operated press as my espresso maker (Espresso Forge) and I only use Aeropress while traveling.
Ask HN: Do we need query languages like SQL, GraphQL, etc. anymore?
Especially since UI is being slowly replaced by chat based AI.
What Your Favorite '80s Band Says About You
https://archive.ph/WNtBE
You may unpleasantly surprised by this, but WASM also has no tail calls.

No, despite it's "asm", it has no jumps ("goto") to addresses and labels except structured (nested blocks) ones, like in JS, and with a hidden/implicit call stack. Like in JS.

This means if you want tail calls you need to emulate them with similar techniques you'd also use in JS.

So, what else makes JS a less appealing compiler target? Let's unravel this myth.
I feel visibility should be there, but it should also be possible to bypass.

Essentially visibility is a contract, and sometimes you want or need to go beyond. The language should allow this IMO but make it clear that you are bypassing the contract of the original author.

Making things unreachable is just a PITA for no good reason.
> This guy is a pretty doctrinaire "doomer" with anti-civilization tendencies.

Calling him that name is IMO an attempt of a "character assassination" and not a valid critique. His blog is "Do the Math" and his arguments are based on the math. If you can contribute a single example where his math is wrong, I'd be more inclined to believe you. Otherwise, I'll do my best to ignore your future comments.

> Summary: "Everything is futile so give up now."

I'm quite sure you can't cite an actual text where he wrote anything like that.
advertisements; obfuscates files operators/sponsors want to share; watering-hole attacks; honeypot
only as much as we need to understand what we are doing.
IBM Research Inference Chip Performance Results Released
But also no body to rapture... actually... wouldn't said body be stuck on the padlocks / decapitated when being raptured?
The rule stating it is an illusion doesn't make it untrue.
Recently finished The DevOps Handbook[1].

Had a lot of nice insight into good ways of doing DevOps, and I found the examples from real companies incredibly helpful in understand how the concepts help in the real world.
True, but it's given the site more exposure in the general sense, it's now quoted by outlets that probably hadn't heard of it before this 'excitement'. (That can only help in the long run, one day Elbakyan mightn't need to do what she does.)
Which is why I refer to the huge, not merely the above average.
There's one type of "difficult" personality missing I'm seeing a lot recently, and that's the resume padder.