skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Stochastic attacks have long been used against general populations or forces, though the morale effects may well backfire unless the lethality is truly overwhelming.

The video is underwhelming.

Futuristic technology is used to harass and kill people for no reason other than some CEO wanting to earn money from a secret investor sales pitch?

The range of the weapons is limited so they need to be deployed near the university that is being attacked.

The weapon leaves no impact other than some broken windows or dead bodies.

Meanwhile in Ukraine Putin levels cities with indiscriminate artillery. Imagine if these cities were being attacked by face scanning weapons. Civilians would most likely not be on the list of enemies.

If Putin does not have a database of Ukrainian soldier faces, then he can't target this weapon. He will have to target based on the uniform instead but then soldiers could just stop wearing uniforms or even intentionally dress like civilians. At some point the weapon must become indiscriminate again and once it is indiscriminate, it is not any different than being hit by bombs, artillery, nuclear weapons, etc.

My prediction: We will keep using more artillery instead.
Many ESCs these days have a brake function, where they short-circuit two of the phases together, stopping the motor abruptly, too.
This looks very similar to the structure of Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective.
The Canadian market is crazy, but comparing it to the US is not very illustrative. The US market is far more expansive, due to the amount of usable land and having 10x the population.

A better comparison might be Canada to California.
Ask HN: Recent “Personal Tracker” App?
Recently an application on the HN homepage caught my eye. It had the following properties:

* It was a personal tracker for arbitrary data. For example, you could record that you had a certain number of steps today, but you could also record that you read a book and what it was.

* It seemed to be primarily an iPhone app. I don't think there was an Android app, though there might have been.

* It was not a habit tracker like Loop.

* It hit the front page of HN sometime in the last month, but not in the last few days.

Unfortunately I put my phone down to play with my kiddos and forgot what it was, and perusing my history going back a few weeks along with Google searches hasn't turned up anything.
I really hate perfect pictures with high resolution of people. You can distinguish all the little imperfections of their faces. Also, any digital picture that I take with the phone is never ever viewed again nor printed.
I wouldn’t pay 600 for the polaroid, but I get the selling point.
So few kids and their high school teacher found something that NASA team -who slept well at night after the mission- couldn’t find? Or did NASA know that and chose not to disclose it?
faketime could've been used to circumvent time bombs in software. This could for example allow you eternal trial access. Nowadays stuff just requires networking with internet connection though.

You could also use LD_PRELOAD to get a different MAC address. This would've work with FlexLM.

Though its probably easier with a bit of hexediting or disassembling to modify the binary personally, I get fuzzy feelings of love from the type of software cracking which does not require modified binaries.
Dennis is correct about there being timebombs, but the problem was the timebombs were already planted, by him and his colleagues. X3J11 codified them via the "Undefined Behaviour" mechanism, but the alternative isn't to keep K&R C and "not have" undefined behaviour, you just leave a gaping hole in the language.

Foundationally C is unsound. For its purpose this made real sense - who cares about soundness, we need to ship Unix ASAP? But with unsound foundations nothing built upon them can be sound itself. ANSI and eventually ISO C finds a way to write the unsound language down formally but doing so doesn't fix it, Mother Nature isn't fooled by words.

In places where WG14 declined to write formal language excusing the unsound nonsense (such as provenance rules), there's still unsound nonsense, it's just not written in the ISO document. Again, Mother Nature doesn't care, programs with either kind of unsound nonsense malfunction, the fact that one kind is written down on paper and the other isn't makes no practical difference.
what's DAC?
In Australia 35mm cameras worked out to about this (for decent c41 developed at a decent print shop), even before smartphones / digis went mainstream.
Is the market for lithium going to collapse in 10 years? I’m confused why something taking 10 years is a problem.
Do you have a link to any of those adapters? Have a 600SE and a 3D printer, would be nice to give a new life to the camera.
I sold Michael a computer with an A4 white display in the 90s - nice guy. My favourite work is the film "Clockwise" with John Cleese.....
Al Gore: What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You to Know [video]
ZF is generally known for gearboxes, a huge amount of manufacturers use their transmissions in their cars. New corvette uses a zf 10 speed I think, same with vw and BMW.
In Linux where this is primarily expected to be used ASP.NET is extremely rare, as is C++ for web stuff, and Rust has a vanishingly small web presence still. Lots of people use Perl still though, if not for anything else, for legacy stuff.

So might as well ask why it doesn't support Delphi.
Yet look at French’s energy graphs vs that of Germany.

Also, frankly, this is such a topic that the capitalist view makes no sense - there is no buyer/seller for green-ness (though it can be introduced into the system through laws like carbon taxes), these are costs that must be coughed up by governments, period.

I still believe that a nuclear baseline and a renewable variable energy production on top is the cleanest, greenest solution that actually further our case. There is simply no competition on the efficiency of nuclear.
I don’t see an “unknown” category. A large number of unknowns could skew the results if we had reason to believe those mostly represent non-PHP sites. Do we have any reason to think those unknown sites show a different distribution than the known sites? Do enough unknown sites exist to meaningfully affect the results?

Using your 5% example, supposing that 5% unknown includes no PHP sites, that only brings the PHP percentage down a little. It doesn’t change the main point that PHP dominates by a wide margin.
> The best theory Ive read

You can't judge a theory just by reading about it.
composer 1 was slow, composer 2 (released 3 years ago) is fast
2017?

https://youtu.be/I4IWEz2lBWU
Not a dementi, rather an open question I have: How does the constructed emotion theory contradict the idea that emotion is generated as a response to observed "behavior" and other sensual input such as own and other's body language? (As opposed to the believe that a certain emotion induces specific behavior.) Cognition and emotion would only be separable if body language and other relevant stimuli (which are believed to be largely outside conscious control) could be turned off, to prevent the generation of a fitting emotion - so the separation seems to be mostly conceptual/hypothetical.
You can say that liquid for medical purposes and they will run few tests on it before allowing it.
> Languages are optimized firstly for the people that speak it as their first language.

Truly optimized? I'd rather say: having arrived at a random local minimum.

The anecdata I can offer. The people who speak this (non-fictional) language as their first one, struggle very much in the beginning. It's far from being given for free: children are not immune from opportunity costs.
Microwaving steel isn't really a problem, as long as it is not just a very thin layer (can confirm)
Atmospheric temperature is one thing. A focus on that leaves blindspots to things like land temperatures.

Soil is alive, dirt is dead. Healthy soils helps with water retention, and changes the local microclimates. So does designing canopy layers — agroforestry and perennial food forests.

Industrial scale monocropping is not adaptive, and kills off soil. It is fragile, and contributes little to regulating temperatures in the local microclimates.

There are solutions beyond simply looking at carbon emissions or industrial scale carbon sequestering.
YAML is an order of magnitude more hell...
They are starting. We had a referendum in Zurich last Sunday to to finance a project to adapt the city to hotter summers. It was a complex situation, with the municipal government recommending people reject the initial project in favor of a similar project organised by the city environment department. It all looks good on paper, but I fear another case of money being spent most on planning instead of using it to adopt simple measures.
If you are interested, you can read all about it here:
https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/portal/de/index/politik_u_recht...
I'm curious, what logic puzzles do you use for evaluation? I could use them for my own students.
This is like saying you can’t wear a watch on board because it has a battery..
I'm wondering if performance could be improved by controlling the polarity of the rotor coil fields, to push against the stator-induced ones. Since some semiconductor rectifiers are necessary in the stator, it doesn't sound much more complex to control the polarity. Part of the control logic could be handled before the inductive power transfer mechanism, by modulating the frequency, though it gets complex as you probably want to tune the resonant frequencies of the sender and receiver.
Fatality Draws Scrutiny to Spicy ‘One Chip Challenge’ Product
Is this not just an obvious scientific fact on the verge common sense? Why would anyone (who's not a religious nut or something) not think exactly that?
You make it sound like the USA isn't the largest per capita polluter in the world.
Fortunately it's only forcing one to convert to a JSON variant that does not forbid comments (starting as simple as wrapping the entire thing in console.log JSON.stringify). I'll happily leave the YAML authoring to YAML inventors, supposedly it makes them happy.
I meant chromium is a better engine than Gecko.
Stop Saying “Fail”
I remember reading that the GNU project was rather keen on avoiding and removing artificial restrictions. In other words, if a feature was useful and reasonable then it should be seriously considered for inclusion. As for the aggressive optimizations that are sometimes seen, I assume it’s just people wanting to improve a tool that’ll be used everywhere, more for fun and/or notoriety than anything else.
I added more links and quotes to explain what he did, and my own experience with him. (; Hold my Wine. ;)
I’m a very happy (and I believe competent) Apple Numbers user. The only thing I miss from Excel is recursive evaluation (which is necessary for evaluating certain financial models).
What do you use to scan the books?

Edit: am apparently unable to type today.
The UX in your project is fantastic, well done. The motor kicks to simulate clicks, for example, are a really nice touch. I still don't get how the PCB detects flexing, I'll just put it down to magic.
What constitutes a weed is a personal judgement of the gardener. Many of these are likely native species.
https://archive.ph/2CEum
For the time being the USA is still a big polluter per capita than China.
> open source server project that works as a reverse proxy, serves static assets, and runs applications in multiple languages.

Isn't this what Nginx also does. How is Nginx Unit different beyond configuration via JSON REST APIs? The Github readme or their site is not very clear on this.
Because gasoline/diesel/etc. are very energy dense and much easier to store and transport than any alternativd.

In some cases e.g. airplane there simply seem to be no other options (unless there is a massive breakthrough in battery tech and possibly out understanding of physics). So ‘clean’ burning synthetic fuels don’t seem like a terrible idea.

Of course it all comes down to energy efficiency, but if solar/wind continue growing and carbon capture somehow becomes cost-efficient (assuming free solar/wind energy) it seems like a much better option than continuing oil extraction or even biofuels (which of course is also technically “carbon capture” just not very land/water efficient).

> we are not even a bit ahead.

Of course. But how does it make it different from every other option? Moving to 100% renewables won’t reverse climate change either .
That's not onboarding, it's training.

SRE onboarding is about showing how everything connects, SLAs, lifecycle management, etc. Essentially, anything you wouldn't put in a public repository.
Direct air capture, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_air_capture
In this context, DAC is the alternative to capturing carbon where you produce it, such as in a Coal power plants chimney.
There are also not much bees anymore. There are studies on this as well. Didn’t you notice you no longer need to clean your front glass of your car as much as you used to?

Global flying insect population by biomass remains stable while bees decrease and flies/mosquitos increase rapidly.
Yeah I was going to say Linux is a strange choice of platform for this project. While the kernel per se is solid, the userland has zero backwards compatibility. I expect his ports will bitrot and none will run two to five years from now, while the win32 versions will be kept supported in perpetuity. Though who knows, maybe this is what finally makes the Linux community start paying attention to backwar.. pffhahaha no I can't finish this sentence with a straight face. I have been using Linux for over 20 years now and am absolutely certain it will never be a stable target. Just compile for win32. Or wasm. Maybe one day wasm will be the stable desktop ABI.
Not sure how things are in the US, but I know from german court proceedings that judges absolutely do take context into account and acknowledge mitigating circumstances. This may not result in an acquittal, but it may lead to a (sometimes drastically) lower sentence.

The point is that the law must give judges the options to do so, i.e. by defining a range of different punishments instead of insisting of some fixed minimum punishment.
Huh? It's just a story being told lol. Do you comment this on everything you come across on the internet? What's the point in anything?
> The reality is just the opposite: the only option for stopping climate change is to reduce CO2 emissions completely

Perhaps. But knowing what we know about this issue and:

- our elected officials

- Big Inc and Big Inc leadership

- The momentum from Cronie Capitalism

- The general public's inability to change habits

- Humans fondness for the status quo

- Etc etc etc

How realistic is reduction that extreme? And if we could wouldn't we be leaning in that direction already?

Note: I do agree with you in theory. I wish it were likely. But realistically I know it's not. Things are going to get worse - perhaps much worse - before they get better.
For whatever reason, homeowners in Canada are much better at mobilizing to vote than non-homeowners.

Probably because non-homeowners are busy working 60+ hours a week to pay the rent seeking homeowners
Interesting anecdote related to the field of computer engineering.
His description of degrowth as "an evil, destructive, murderous mentality, and if you support it, you're evil" is already a strawman, with ad-hominem and moral panic thrown in.

God forbid we forego "business as usual" while the bodies start piling up from continued growth's side-effects that are not impacted at all by kludges and unfeasible patches like "sucking carbon dioxide", "electric cars", and other such not-even-half measures...
do stereograms use this as well?
I recall the magic eye books
https://www.google.com/search?q=magic+eye
You emitted your opinion but could you elaborate on why you think so?
The problem is getting real-ish black.

With no trace of sugar or sweeteners, nor milk.
Yeah its completely pointless as a value proposition.

I mean I just go done scanning all my predigital photos because analog photos suck. Why would anybody want this?
terminology like this is retained to keep the working person down
To advance a glacier needs both moisture and cold. The PNW receives a lot more moisture than Alberta.
Why are smileys and related emoji always bright yellow?
peg-dhcp, for the uninitiated:

https://handwiki.org/wiki/Peg_DHCP
I was just playing with this the other day.

Trying to find context on what it was, I saw it’s been on HN a few times (mostly to the sound of people asking the same question).

Since I mostly do php/laravel, I was pleasantly surprised that it let me remove php-fpm from my stack - extremely nice when putting PHP apps in a container.

I personally have come to dislike PHP-FPM’s max_children and similar settings, whose low defaults come as an annoying surprise when you suddenly get gateway errors before your server is even overloaded. (and having to add nginx AND php-fpm “layers” into a container to run PHP apps is all sorts of annoying).

Unit doesn’t have as many features as Nginx so I suspect it’s best used when there’s another fully-featured http layer in front of Unit (to more easily handle TLS, protecting dot files, gzip, cache headers, and the like).

Overall i’m excited to use it when making images for php apps.
Nginx doesn’t talk to Python or php directly it’s talks to the application server.
It is 1989. I'm a newly minted ops whelp, granted the task of maintaining the thousands of miles of RS232 spread around the campus of this particular establishment, about 2000 terminals in all. Lots and lots of terminal boards, lots and lots of tone debugging in the wee hours.

My boss calls me in, tells me I'm getting upgraded to the PC team. PC's are these new-fangled terminals that we will, eventually, get everyone switched over to .. but first we start with the execs. Take their terminals, set up their new PC's, get them logged in for the first time.

I proceed to the nastiest exec first - even then, I knew one had to solve the gnarly problems first - as there'd be hell if some other underling got the upgrade first, of course. At least, I thought.

20 minutes of burned fingers amid measured cussing at the prior install teams lack of proper stripping methodology, and I get the PC booted up, the TERM.EXE started, and everything configured to take over the old Hazeltines job, which sits by the door ready to be carted away into an amber fugue ..

In comes Mr. Nasty Exec, who immediately recoils at the PC blob on his desk. "What's that? I'm not getting that yet. Do everyone else first!"

Oh, crap, I'd already sort of changed the connectors.

Under the desk I go, off he storms across the barren cubical wasteland, his hoffs and guffaws somehow visible in the khaki haze.

Alright, I get it all re-Hazeltined, PC sits on the cart. What to do...

In comes Mr Nasty, who has by now seen what the new PC can do. "I want both the old and the new, you can do that can't you Computer Genius Kid?"

Meh.

Always get your boss involved when the work order changes, kids.
Not sure it isn't: try to convey this information within the same space graphically...
Hmm yeah sorry without context it sounds like a bit of a dick move to be honest. You just assumed your way of working was somehow superior.

I have always relied on search and “last openend” for seeing what I was working on. Then some dude just deletes my winXP “last used” (or whatever it was) menu item stating: you should sort things in folders. Not amused I was.
There's tons of potential for "degrowth" that's neither destructive nor murderous.

Our society is overwhelmed with low-quality, throw-away products that don't do anything to improve health or well being.

If we want to live sustainably on this planet we need stop producing goods to keep the engines of consumerism running and start cutting back these lunatic outgrowth that are only possible by allowing companies to externalize the long-term costs their products cause. That includes disposal and recycling.
I guess the thing that stands out to me is that this story shows the value of managers. John is obviously more experienced in dealing with emotional people (we are all that person sometimes).
Soda can deposits are far from universal an do not result in free money... they simply refund the deposit that was paid up.
Oh, the youth.
TYo keep Wine going buy the commercial version of Wine - Crossover from codewavers.com
And (to my surprise) they are not exactly small:

> The Consolidated ZF Group is represented with 168 production locations in 32 countries as well as 19 main development locations in nine countries. In fiscal 2022, ZF reported sales of €43.8 billion with approximately 165,000 employees worldwide. The company spent 7,8 percent of its sales on research and development in 2022.

https://www.zf.com/mobile/en/company/company.html
The article is about the 90s, internet access was not a given scanners were expensive, QR codes as we know them didn't exist, and you may not have had a second computer to read the manual explaining why the first computer didn't work.

Also, manuals meant something. Nowadays paper manuals included with products are mostly legal stuff about all the things you can't do and limits on warranty. Maybe a quick start guide. But the actual manual is often not included.
New JFK assassination revelation could upend the lone gunman theory
I am mistaken. Yeah bun does not typescheck like esbuild doesn't. It reads the tsconfig for build options. Either you add tsc or let your editor do it.
I saw the 1979 BBC version when I was young and really enjoyed it, even given the lack of action. I think it was the first 'spy' thriller I'd seen which wasn't some sort of James Bond equivalent and I loved it for that. I still have the notes that I took while trying to figure out what was going on (we had to wait 6 weeks for the story to unfold back in the day)
Ask HN: Is it worth learning Ruby on Rails in 2023
Hello HN,

So I have been planning to build a SaaS and Ruby on Rails sounds very promising framework as it has been used by many big name companies. Even though I know Django but I planning to get out of my comfort zone and try something new.
maybe there's a typo there and they forgot to type the number 2 or 3. would you be satisfied if that were fixed?
> More white Britons report drinking harmful levels of alcohol than do black or Asian Britons. They also smoke more–with the exception of Bangladeshi men who, the data show, also die at higher rates from lung cancer.

I don’t think it primarily correlates with race but rather the cultural activities and food, The above is an example of that, Keep in mind, that even after migration people tend to reserve most of their cultural activities and food, so I doubt it’s just an ethnicity thing alone.
>Can't even load a 32-bit constant into register with a single instruction on RV.

Just do it in the standard way, and not concern yourself with hardware implementation details. RISC-V assembly language even has standardized pseudoinstructions to do just that.

Some implementations will see the multiple opcodes as one instructions. Others won't. It's not for the programmer to worry about.
Well it is. The question is what percentage you assign to the probability of having survived so far. Depending on that it can give evidence towards many-worlds (coupled with the anthropic principle).
"Why don't you just sell your home and move?"

These people dgaf. Don't delude yourself that they do.
What makes it best?
Russian Su-34 Strike-Fighter Seen Covered in Tires
Your claim doesn't appear to be correct.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...

Fan energy for this scheme is estimated as 61 kWh per tonne of CO2.
That's why the most effective "carbon capture" we can possibly make - is not emitting it in the first place. It's really that simple...

I'm not saying we shouldn't invest money and time in carbon DAC, it will become important later after we stopped emitting tons and tons of CO2 every day.