skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
everything is is bought corporatized and then because just like Gov's big corporations are not great at dealing with bespoke situations, their focus is just making money which leads to upsell methodologies and "capture and hold" subscription models...

I hate it, but I cant see a way out. I self host a lot of stuff at the moment to get away from as much as I can. but there is only so much you can do.
Neither staring at monitors nor print is actually expected to actually cause worsening eyesight. The idea that nerds need glasses because they stare at small print is a myth. On the other hand poking yourself in the eye and ignoring discomfort caused by the pressure could easily see you do some local damage. I would not advise anyone to actually follow your eye care regimen.
This is a really cool tool. I can see enterprises wanting a tool like this to automate tasks etc.
Just went looking for it myself. Archive.org has it: https://archive.org/details/principlesofinter00newm
> That's not to mention your attempts to hide your disgust when you pick up a dirty plate to reveal mold or wiggling pantry fly eggs,

Eggs don't wiggle. Those are larvae. Maggots, baby.
Two (minor) unusual things I noticed in this article:

"Schoolchildren learn how to cross the street safely in Japan" – this is an ancient image, judging from the cars.

Also, there's no mention of which prefecture (i.e. "state") that Nagi lies in. It's Okayama (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagi,_Okayama).
This assumes that carriers want to go eSIM only. Do they? What’s in it for them? They will lose customers with older phones.

iPhones are irrelevant in most of the world. Unless Samsung and Xiaomi decide that they also want to ditch physical SIM, it’s not going anywhere.

From the perspective of the rest of the world, eSIM-only phones seem bizarrely crippled. Why would I want a phone that I can’t use in every country? Just another case of the US not understanding the rest of the world.
Kind of a funny coincidence that the english word for the ancient board game shares the same poor branding and searchability over the exact same word
SigNoz has pretty broad compatibility with whatever docker environment, if you're interested in trying it out you may want to join the community slack and get it working: https://signoz.io/slack
I think they look nice, so I got some. Didn’t think too much about it then and still don’t really think about them now.
All names are completely arbitrary. Having a unique one seems pretty practical to me.
Foldimate the Clothing Folding Robot
The number of times you have to rewrite something goes down as you gain experience but it never becomes zero. (I also assume that you'd never change your stack so much that a significant part of your experience becomes irrelevant)
Hard to judge without knowing why he's doing it.
> Heat index in Kansas today was 135F

Really? https://twitter.com/NWSWichita/status/1693417230661472301
use quicktype: https://quicktype.io/
> Great, except no implementation of the C abstract machine actually exists. So you can't test against it. All you have are compilers that use it to justify miscompiling your code.

All C compilers implement the C abstract machine. It is not used to justify miscompiling code, it is used to specify behavior of compiled code.

> We need a C interpreter

Interpreter or not is not relevant, there must be some misconception. Any behavior you can implement with an interpreter can be implemented with compiled code. E.g., add a test and branch after each integer operation if you want to crash on overflow.

> that intentionally implements C machine features that don't correspond to any architectural feature - i.e. pointers are (allocation provenance, offset) pairs, integer overflow panics, every pointer construction is checked, etc.

As others have mentioned there are static and dynamic checkers (sanitizers) that test for such things nowadays. In compiled, not interpreted code, mind you.

> If only to point out how hilariously absurd the ISO C UB rules are and how nobody actually follows them.

It's not that bad.

> My personal opinion is that "undefined behavior" was a spec writing mistake that has been rules-lawyered into absurdity. For example, signed integer overflow being UB was intended to allow compiling C to non-twos-compliment machines. This was interpreted to allow inventing new misbehaviors for integer overflow instead of "do whatever the target architecture does."

The spec uses implementation defined behavior for that. Although you can argue that they went the wrong way on some choices -- signed integer overflow "depends on the machine at hand" in the first K&R, which you could say would be reasonable to call it implementation specific and enumerate the behaviors of supported machines.

C had a long history with hardware manufacturers, compiler writers, and software developers though, so the standard can never universally please everybody. The purpose of standardization was never to make something that was easiset for software development, ignoring the other considerations. So a decision is not an example of design by committee gone wrong just because happened to be worse for software writers (e.g., choosing to make overflow undefined instead of implementation dependent). You would have to know why such a decision was made.
TL;DR coal

Not only Germany uses lots of coal, it also uses a lot of the worst kind of coal, lignite. Lignite is low grade coal, Germany has a lot of it, and burning it in local power plants is pretty much the only thing you can do with it, so that's what Germany did.

It also lacks nuclear (because of political decisions), and hydro (presumably because a lack of suitable sites), two of the big low carbon sources.

So Germany may have 50% renewables, but the next one is the worst in terms of emissions (lignite/coal), then there is gas, which is not as bad as coal, but still bad, and that's about it.

And most of the renewables in Germany is solar, which is, according to the website, one of the highest of the low carbon sources. Hydro, wind and nuclear are all lower. Not a big effect though, almost negligible compared to coal.
i’m not sure this is correct, but to each his own
I haven't tried coop, but it actually works reasonably well on PlayOnMac as well, at least for single-player.
The NFC passports contain digital data, even your photo, you can use this app to see for yourself: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.innovalor.n...
Drum as delay lines! Interesting that this is a magnetic drum used as set a of delay lines. Which sounds strange and convoluted: it doesn't use the permanent nature of magnetic storage. All data is read, erased and written back at least at every revolution. But using it this way allows storage speed hierarchy: There are long delay lines that take a whole revolution of the drum as intuitive. Then in between the read and the write-back of the long lines, there is a much shorter stretch of the drum that's used for very short delay lines - the entire track, as it rotates at the basic drum speed, is used to first write then read back a short section - recycled at a much higher cycle speed, many times at each rotation. Only one drum so necessarily the same single rotation speed is used as the medium speed for all delay lines.

The same magnetic surface track / area is used for both kinds of delay lines. The long line - the manual calls it "line" - from "delay line?" - takes (most of) a whole revolution (21 such lines). And the same surface is also used for a bunch of "short lines" of several different lengths. Storage hierarchy that shares the same medium!

The computer allows addressing with conceptual track / sector for the programmer but apparently that's done higher up in the system.
Show HN: Efficiently Query BigQuery and Snowflake from Postgres
Or a comment suggesting to rewrite it in Rust.
Cancer mortality after low dose exposure to ionising radiation in workers
YAML is a fine implementation of JSON with comments.
Apple Music is annoying in another way: it conflates the streaming service with the binary. Yes they are contextually very related but still…
An algorithm can't have that property for its expected runtime, as it can only look at a sub-constant amount of the input of it runs in sub-constant time.

it's not possible for it to behave differently as n increases because it doesn't have enough time to distinguish between different values of n once it's large enough.
We know little of the Sherman's motivations and it seems likely that they needed to sell the ranch for some other reason. The stories of paranormal visitation likely started out as most do, as small time rumors, and expanded in scale to the skinwalker ranch phenomenon to meet the opportunity to sell to Bigelow.

Brandon Fugel should not be trusted. Because of the History Channel series he has a clear financial interest in the ranch, and it's obvious on casual inspection of the show that he has few compunctions when it comes to the ways he promotes his interests. The television show is an embarrassment to anyone with a sincere interest in the topic, it is worse than its obvious inspiration The Curse of Oak Island and that is saying a lot. And yet Fugel's role is to occasionally pop in to stir the drama.

Bigelow claims that the DoD came to him, but these types of contracts are usually awarded through back channels after lobbying by the firm that eventually wins them... This is the norm in defense acquisition. We know that Bigelow was drumming up political support for his projects from Reid as early as when he was making plans to purchase Skinwalker Ranch. It's extremely hard to believe that the DoD happened to select him as the best provider when the program only existed due to influence from his good friend and compatriot Reid... Far more likely that Bigelow himself established the parameters of the contract before he was considered for it, a practice that is basically normal in DoD contracting.

I know I am being harsh but you cannot judge these events based only on the accounts of the people that benefit from them. They are benefitting enormously from the information vacuum associated with military intelligence and the credulousness of the media. There is virtually nothing to check them when they make claims about what happened, and there are plenty of indications that they take advantage of this situation to create the story that they want. It's good to be skeptical, but you need to also be skeptical of the people who stir up these conspiracies.
Isn’t there a simple way to just shut it down if you’ve already burned the 44 billion?
I kind of like this option. Running the front end/client natively and the back end/server in a VM works great.

In the future Asahi or a native Ubuntu port might be a good option, but a VM is almost better in some ways since it's portable/migratable, has easy snapshots, has better isolation, etc.
I assume you're using a screen to type this. Is there something inherently bad about videos on a screen? Or are you just unhappy with the content.
Show HN: superwhisper – AI powered offline voice to text for macOS
Hey HN,

I built superwhisper out of frustration with the native dictation capabilities of macOS. Inaccurate, required manual punctuation, didnt activate in some contexts or would have audio capture issues.

I wanted a replacement that worked offline, had cross language support, was configurable and worked in any application.

Under the hood the app is using whisper.cpp, which runs really well on the Apple Silicon chips.

You can use the base and standard size models for free, larger models sizes and languages other than english are paid.

Let me know what you think! For context, I launched this just one month ago and have been rapidly adding features and making fixes.

If you want to follow along with development, I post release info on twitter (https://x.com/superwhisperapp) or you can subscribe to emails via the form on the website (very bottom).
What if we added some markup to HTML, lets call them Pages. They run on the server so let’s call them Server Pages. And now let’s run an ad for COM+ and call them Active(X) Server Pages!
Lidar on a Chip Puts Self-Driving Cars in the Fast Lane
A tool that takes my gap-ridden resume, calculates the best trajectory moving forward, and frames it in such a way that someone will actually want to hire me.
I remember using a while loop as part of a Password program in Pascal. On an Apple 2 it would cause a stack overflow and force the user to reboot if the password was wrong three times.
Different Strategies to Withdraw Retirement Funds
Why? I only see the inconvenience of having to spell it when the other party is trying to write it down.
It's just coming out of winter here in Perth, Western Australia. I have 6.6kw solar power and also a 15 year old solar hot water system with thermostat controlled electric booster (so not ancient, but also not the most advanced tech). On cold and cloudy days the booster turns on and draws far more power than my panels are generating at that moment, but even on nice days it turns on over night when there is no solar power. I saw on one particularly bad day that it turned on 3 times in 24h - 2x when dark - and drew over 1.5kWh each time, and I only used the hot water once in the morning. So I turned the booster off a month or 2 ago (can't remember when exactly, but yes it meant some days I couldn't have a hot shower), and on my recent 2-month power bill I had used 215kWh less than last year! (I also replaced my plasma TV with an OLED in that time, so that might have been responsible for a portion.) So whilst I get free hot water for ~8 months of the year, the other 4 months it uses a ton of electricity.

My sister recently got a new hot water system and I showed her some data that showed heat pump ones were better, so that's what she got. The data showed that whilst they use electricity during the summer, they use less during winter, and they end up ahead. But actually we can see on her power bill that when it kicks in on bad days, it too can overwhelm her solar generation at that moment.

Ultimately I think we need smarter connected systems to get the best efficiency. The booster in my solar hot water is just a basic element like a kettle. Surely it could be "throttled" (supplied with less watts) or cycled during the day so that it only heats when there is solar power available? If I have to have a slightly-cooler-than-hot shower first thing in the morning because I didn't want it boosting at 4am, then so be it.
They need to ask you about pocket, and don't want to exhaust your attention

/S
You might be interested in Kip Thorne (of Gravitation fame) and Roger Blandford's book Modern Classical Physics, which is designed to cover the elements of non-quantum physics that are generally ignored in the first year PhD curriculum. Part headers: statistical physics; optics; elasticity; fluid dynamics; plasma physics; general relativity
Russia's Return to the Moon Ends in Disaster as Luna 25 Crashes
It could be that “Most
dugout homes are excavated into hillsides rather than dug from shafts” from your second article. AFAIK temperature doesn’t get cooler underground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_gradient
It wasn’t all his money. Not that I think that’s what he’s doing.
I don't think so either. But I also know people who still think Trump is playing some 4D chess game and has the corrupt politicians and media right where he wants them. Any day now he's gonna win.
The inks have unknown effects. I have a tattoo. I would not recommend them considering long-term lymphatic and mutagenic properties. Eh.

You feel good at first, more aligned with your mind, then you realize you could have just put a poster on the wall that doesn't come with the risk of cancer or autoimmune disease.

Not to be unkind, but I believe this is very similar to other irreversible decisions folks make. We're all suckers, trying to make ourselves feel better through deals with the devil.
Couldn't Elon have shutdown Twitter entirely in a single day? Why the long process? Is he punishing someone for it? Is it a private bet betweens billionaires?
I thought it meant “super easy” for mathematics too? Interesting.
The two child probability problem
Might be interesting to check out SigNoz (https://signoz.io)

Has all the three key signals like Metrics, Traces & logs in a single pane and it is much more cost effective compared to Datadog/NewRelic. And if you want, you can just host it your self as it is open source (https://github.com/signoz/signoz)

(PS: I am one of the maintainers)
My country (just to the north of yours) produced ~0.0551lbs of carbon emissions per kWh. That works out to less than 50lbs, less than a Tesla charge for you.

I certainly don't have my TV on all the time, but I don't think much of my energy consumption as it is predominantly renewable and ultimately the superfluous usage is negated by any unnecessary driving due to my car's combustion engine. If anything, the larger concern is almost always expense, as prices here are roughly the same as there.

I don't have much of a point to make, just thought it was interesting to compare. My peers and I are pretty worried about the situation in the US, though.
Not necessarily a USB as an interface, and it shouldn’t contains any biometric either for privacy, just a paper replacement.
They typed "Heat index" not "tempreture".

https://www.weather.gov/ama/heatindex

presumably the humidity was 40%.
> This paper has it's own problems with conflicts of interest, but it has gained traction recently and is worth a read to see things from another perspective.

Like most defenses of bitcoin’s carbon footprint, the paper you linked makes the case that theoretically maybe bitcoin could be carbon negative in the future if certain things happen. If you look at the actual current source of power for miners weighted by hashrate in the US, it’s mostly coal and natural gas. Among companies that don’t have to report this, such as miners in Russia and Kazakstan, it’s likely as bad or worse.

> And NY Times is notoriously anti-Bitcoin, to the point you have to ask, "do they have an agenda"?

They have also published a lot of things that have been criticized as being too pro-crypto (such as the Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto).
I assume folks are going to look into this. If she back-dated those affidavits (which, man, sure seems likely), I would hope/assume she can be disbarred? Which would be great, but I hope doesn't prevent fuller accountability for the Sheriff's office as well.
Probably not. He borrowed 1/4 of the money from banks secured by Twitters value. Intentionally destroying that value may leave him open to personal liability. Just like if you have a mortgage but decide one day to bulldoze your house. Your bank can totally come after you if you do that and stop paying them.
I'm curious to see how accurate the comments are compared to ground truth, I'll check it out
Frame-accurate cut/concat in FFMPEG appears to me to be significantly less performant than it should be. I know that we need to re-encode to get frame-accuracy, but I've tried cut/concat say 300 clips from 3 source videos concat together for a total of 30 min. runtime as an experiment take days upon days (with no estimated time of completion), and swap memory usage exceeding 200GB. For something even somewhat complex, it's significantly faster to first export the frames to .png then reform the video, but I wish I didn't have to do that.
https://archive.md/Ke4Co
What’s really interesting/sad is there used to be tons of really large pools created as part of depression era recovery act public works programs. Then later, when equal rights law allowed non-whites to use the pools equally, cities and communities closed the pools and filled them up instead of allowing integration.

https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893972/why-arent-there-mor...
I think the part of the service that was pulling up previous submissions is broken.
It's like someone naming their dog "Sit."
The English word for the board game is almost literally a phonetic transcript [íꜜgò].
Fedora is a much better distribution now than a decade ago
My friend did skip flights many years ago, he said it was due to competition.

You have three airports A, B, and C.

Airline X has flights to B but most don't. For arbitrary reasons the flight from A to C stops at B.

When pricing tickets flights to B can be more expensive due to lack of competition from other airlines flying into B.

However flights between A and C (which is a popular flight) have to compete against other flights since it is a popular route.

Thus you end up with an expensive midway but a cheap overall ticket.
Yes, it's unclear how much theory he knew. Looks like next to nothing.

Aside, I wonder if "Pied Piper" from the Silicon Valley series is a reference to him. Probably not but fun to entertain.
I really enjoyed your blog post! (You have a broken link to a time zone post, FYI.)

If you're not expecting to need fancy client side stuff, does next.js give you as good a server side development experience as Django/Rails/Laravel? At that point, it would seem worth it "just in case", as you suggest, but in the past when I looked at it, the SSR stuff still felt a little cobbled together and experimental. I would love to hear from someone with firsthand experience switching, though!
Sure, but the number of ways to arrange things is practically not of direct (that is, linearly proportional!) relevance or value to humans. For example, that you can arrange things in 2^1000000000000 different ways in a hard drive is not that interesting, and certainly the hard drive's "practical utility" is nowhere near proportional to such number: if it was, hard drives would be an utterly unimaginable miracle. Instead, their utility is (arguably) proportional to log(number of states), i.e. the number of bits it can store, which is 1Tbits. Because things we care about need energy to function, and atoms to operate, any seemingly reasonable/practical definition of value or utility cannot grow exponentially for too long, or it will quickly exhaust those resources.

That said, we can indeed refine say our software to some extent. But it's important to keep in mind software has significant limitations as well, and complexity theory gives lower bounds on problems of practical relevance. We might get a few percent faster (in terms of number of operations) sorting algorithms (and merge sort), for instance, but no more, at least for random inputs.

I think less clear are say quality of life or new experiences afforded by new media, new novels, new games, new ways of seeing things. I think there is indeed significant improvement to be had, but also we probably shouldn't get carried away this is some kind of infinity: all things are limited when it comes to a life. I do think simply lifting everyone to a good condition (mostly emotional and basic needs) has a very surprising and large coefficient of gain.
I would take Fedora over Ubuntu every time. My biggest gripe with Fedora is a power outage during an upgrade will bork your system. Ubuntu will bork your system without external help.
I find the utility of pg_vector very useful since it also acts as the default DB for a ton of other functions. Interested to see if folks think that a combination of postgres with something like qdrant is the way to go? is the benefits worth the trade off in terms of ease of use and flexibility.
Not sure if PP was using a desktop or a laptop. MacBook Air isn't a gaming rig but it's a nice, quiet, power-efficient laptop.