skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The electron seemingly has a diameter far below the Planck Length

According to what? We have nothing that can measure anything close to that. The standard model doesn't predict any radius on the electron, just defining it as point-like.

> Whether the electron and other subatomic particles are perfectly spherical cannot, as yet, be determined.

How can we ever determine something to be perfectly spherical? Any measurement comes with finite precision, and maybe the thing is actually not a sphere if we measured with more precision?

All measurements we have done on the electric dipole moment of the electron suggests that it could be zero. (The standard model predicts it to be non-zero, but very very very small.) This suggests that the charge distribution of the electron is spherical (or very very very close to).
Project Gutenberg releases 5k free audiobooks using neural text-to-speech
Completely agree; he should have led the video with the medical drones. When it was recommended by the algorithm, I watched a few seconds and then closed it—Okay, another drone delivery company... But then someone personally recommended I watch it so I gave it another chance and loved the Rwandan section!
> Imagine that the drones would need to follow quite stringent routes for safety and noise avoidance

Does that matter if I can IPO the "future of delivery" for billions? Corporations consistently show us they are willing to eat fines as "the cost of doing business", especially if its a means to eating all competition.

I like the idea of quiet, localised drone delivery over trucks, but I also lament a future that has me looking into the sky to see no birds, only Ama-line™ drones dragging TikTok banners behind them.

The future probably has no birds anyway - nor can I halt the drone delivery progress, so I guess it's not worth thinking about.
That's the answer to a different question. I was just pointing out that, in most industrial applications, 0.03% tolerances are rarely seen but in the specific question of circular dimensions, it's a pretty common requirement.

And while it's possible to approximate with higher bezier curves, PDFs are auto generated with software libraries and it's going to be non-trivial to dive into the guts of a library of a library of a library and tweak the logic for generating circles for this one specific type of application.
Very nice article, I appreciated both the game/technical detail and the personal touches in the text.

Not knowing about the author, I checked the About page [1] which states that Tynan is a "minimalist nomad", but perhaps that label is somewhat outdated? I mean ... owning three full-size pinball machines seems somewhat incompatible with both properties. Perhaps they are only minimalist when in nomad mode and not when at home, or something. Also, I have little clue about "nomadism", that is not my cup of beverage at all. :)

[1]: https://tynan.com/about/
Nice! This is a definite pain point for visiting India so this is great.
Testing only once in 3 months is insane to me
Search real content by real people from the indieweb
If I was NSA, that's exactly the kind of fud (fear, uncertainty and doubt) I'd try to propagate.

While I appreciate and respect the useful criticism, I would be careful with this kind of content:

Regardless wether you read this before or authored it, if you're right then go ahead and show to the world how we're wrong, if you're wrong you're helping quantum attackers.
Twitch was initially built with Ruby on Rails as well.
One of the best parts is that it will force companies to start taking secure code seriously, thanks liability.
They wrote a post on how they disabled the deletion and compaction of the data in Kafka and used it as the source of truth.
three letter agencies have been collecting and harvesting encrypted communications for decades in the event that they can break the algorithms later (in this case that would mean quantum computers)
The Prius doesn’t fly, so let’s not repeat the leaded fuel mistake.
Because digging tunnels is an absurd amount of work?
What software are you using and what were last 10 frustrating bugs you encountered?

I find it fascinating because my use of software seems bug free in last 5-10 years. It is hard for me to run nowadays into a frustrating bug.

When I was in high school there were just loads of bugs and everything seemed broken it was 2005ish and before. Windows was crashing now and again, had to reinstall frequently, software was crashing taking my work with it so I still have compulsive ctrl-s tick.
How big a factor is the rotation of the black hole? Maybe look for a large black hole not rotating too much if you want to be sure. :-)
I've just spent the last two days building out a system based on an API created by our clients internal dev team, only to have both the project manager and client throw in a massive curveball they knew about but neglected to mention - the API's been rewritten and replaced with a new one with a vastly different architecture.

That's ~12 hours of work down the drain and one demoralized developer.

It baffles me how this kind of thing continuously happens everywhere. Part of it seems to be that despite how many times you explain it to stakeholders, they don't seem to grasp that development takes time, and altering the plan mid way through is not only incredibly distracting but comes as a mental blow to the developer.
There isn’t really anything that you could actually use the old behavior for, any code that depends on it is probably wrong anyway.
This seems to be the case in many parts of the world. Here is a picture of an "iShop" store in Guatemala City: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GRuxFf5iupVfJApz8
I do all the https://wordsandbuttons.online/ by hand, and this is my top 10:

2527 p
2047 a
1318 span
1078 td
918 b
537 tr
531 sub
499 br
401 i
393 table
Generally speaking, IPOs are not for retail investors.

Bankers involved in the transaction have an interest in making the IPO price as high as possible, since every dollar the stock price climbs after the IPO could have gone to them instead.

I personally wait until a post-IPO earnings announcement before looking at newly IPO'd companies, but I might be more risk averse than most.
VCs: "How are you disrupting LinkedIn?"

I've been working on ADPList (https://adplist.org) for two years now - we're one of the most prominent mentorship sites, funded by PeakXV (formerly) Sequoia India's Surge.

The reason I'm writing this is to get a discussion going, EVERY great VC I spoke to ask me "how do you want do disrupt LinkedIn?" they are a giant monopoly, so you should think about this.

TBH... I'm trying to understand where this question came from and why is it important. If you have some insights/comments to share, I'd like to hear it and jam with you.
Plenty of Stanford Grads at Zipline! :)
> Is that really the right way to think about it?

That's the way I think about it based upon my perspective and experience.

> Has Brand been convicted of any crime by any government?

Remains to be seen. The police have been "urged" to investigate, according to the AP. Perhaps the "right way to think" hasn't revealed itself yet?

> Seems more accurate to say Youtube is building an alternative security state.

I see no reason to be so certain the government had no involvement in this case, which you would have to be in order to consider this more accurate than literally any other theory.

> Heck, it's rather anarcho-capitalist if you ask me.

Oh.. it's a "cool" way to undermine human society. I didn't realize.
Don't suppose you've noticed Analytics or Google Tag Manager slower than before? I've noticed when our page loads, lingering sluggish connections related to GTM, even when there's no tags apart from analytics. Prior to GA4 I never noticed this.

Also Google seems desperate for Analytics users to send their user/customer data to Google, via "Google Signals" and User-id. Google wants this normalized. They use a murky mix of ambiguous settings and labels in Analytics to present the case for these data collection features to be activated. I recall a Google Ads account manager sent a direct email to my non-technical boss with steps for moving from UA to GA4. "You need to do these steps" it read. Step 3 was "enable Google signals". They implied it was required for GA4 when it isn't. I thought that was grubby. "Used car salesman" grubby.
It's about labour. Replacing the salary of a human physically delivering a package will cover any overhead two times over.
I spent several hours earlier this year helping a colleague debug a protobuf deserialisation error, where I noticed that the first byte was a varint-encoded length of the rest of the data! He did eventually get things working, though I never followed up on the root cause.

I can’t wait to get back from vacation to ask if it was this.
Luckily, I have not, nor do I want to. Using these cool inventions to kill people seems like a waste. The amount of resources wasted on wars is a shame. Solving problems like the energy transition to renewables would be so much easier with the kind of budget that literally gets blown up because one man with a tiny ego wants to hurt another man with a tiny ego.
Why do you think tolerance of bad behavior is inevitable?

In one system near me I've ridden I've ridden hundreds of times and seen one example of really bad behavior ever and the person was kicked off.

In another in a big city they suffer from far more problems but even there most trips are trouble free.

In this system the dominant method of payment is by using a RFID card one swipes. Credit cards are not accepted and few use cash as it stands. If you are poor the cards are free.

One could strongly tie cards to identity, deprecate cash, and ban people who commit crimes on transit. Note if you don't have an ID you have a fingerprint.

Oh looks like you were caught smoking fentanyl 3 times on the bus no ride for you. Refuse to get off get a free ride to jail and unpleasant detox.

Most of the trouble is literally 0.001% of riders. It's not like most bus riders are offensive drug addicts.
> with current technology

They’re literally building new technology
This isn’t how every place is. Where I live over 20 percent of trips are done by bike and public transportation is clean and works efficiently.

You have a very skewed version of what things should look like. Travel more!
For many purposes it is needlessly verbose to write html by hand. Thats why markdown became popular.

But if more people do it and report their usage patterns one could maybe create a "super-markdown", i.e., the closest you could get to mapping html flexibility without the annoying XML verbosity.
Whitest parts of England and Wales have 144% more local paths, study finds
Are that not what sentence embeddors do? A sort of PCA on the input prompt
C++ compilers already had experimental template support in 1992, e.g. Turbo C++ for Windows 3.1.
Why can I never find you 'Corporations are people' advocates when corporate manslaighter is being discussed, for example when Boeing killed 200 people with a faulty plane?
But ride-sharing was never really a thing, was it? I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone use it.
Side question: is there a recommended method to prototype such UI demos and examples as seen on this page? Some kind of library?

I've seen a number of similar things in the past and wondered if there was a way to quickly test a UI idea using helpful building blocks.
Probably, but this is on a corporate computer and I saw that no WSL version would work. I am otherwise not interested in using Windows (and found a way to avoid it :D )
1/3 isn't a majority.
Next.js 13.5: 22% faster local server startup, 29% Fast Refresh, 40% less memory
It sends telemetry so it is not far away.
Get new machines if you can afford them. Stern or Jersey Jack.

90s machines are great, I love them, but they are 30 years old and are not where I recommend anyone to start... My first pin was a fixer upper Twilight Zone. Learn from my mistake! Haha

The most challenging part is the maintenance, especially the classics. Owning several machines taught me to fix them. My newer machines broke less often...

Every time I threw a decent party I'd end up buying minimum $200 in parts and spending half a day fixing them.

Lord of the Rings is one of my all time favorites. I highly recommend it. It's not ancient, and the game is really deep. It's pretty easy to work on and fix. Make sure you protect the plastics, I couldn't find after market ones. The Wizard mode is extremely satisfying because it is super difficult to achieve... There are a couple fun special modes you can unlock.

On modern solid state pins, you can adjust the difficulty settings to make the game more fun for friends.
I think people should pay a lot more attention to your comment. It’s a monumental statement and one which we, as technologists, should really be paying a great deal more attention to.

Changing the world involved actually thinking for yourself. And that is exceptionally rare.

Edit:
Downvoted immediately. What social commentary. Now I know what I’m saying is true: people hate it.
Not sure what "finger crawling" is, but surely the point still applies that touchpad is not a table, and you quickly run out of space to drag stuff with your finger.
Before the pandemic, Uber Pool and Lyft Line were quite popular as a cheaper point-to-point transportation option in my city.
I specifically talked about Tibetan Buddhists- your Wikipedia article doesn't list any.
Do everything as fast as possible, seems about right
It wasn’t the first time it happened or noticed, but it’s the first time we know of that someone wrote a paper about it.

The Gutenberg press in the 14th century could have saved a lot of time spent copying books by hand. It did, but also triggered a Cambrian explosion of book publishing.
Another one,

- How to handle binary modules?
That's an impressive feat.
I think from my side the problem could be expressed in a more nuanced way: it's usually not the originator of some idea to be the annoying techbro trying to evangelize everyone. In most cases the culprits are early adopters thinking they found the silver bullet solving all of their (and everyone else's!) problems and being very vocal about it
In kotlin (maybe also java?) you can use the jetbrains @Language annotation to get syntax highlighting on string variables. A little more verbose but maybe it works for you.
The backlash wasn't against the new pricing but against the absurd metric and the retroactivity of the change. It broke the trust in the company
I wonder if there are ways to flag troll posts, otherwise an interesting site.
Think of it like the localStore in Deno. I guess at this point all the lang are going to jump on the band wagon. Why not, all lang should have native KV store.

However if we are to jump on in JDK world, persistence is not hard. Java have supurb db like H2 with full postgres compliance, that can be embedded in memory.
It makes perfect sense at the time Sun is naming it JVM, apparently technically it's a VM. That meant they have had a valid claim to "write once, run anywhere" mantra. It's a shame that in reality it turned out later to be "write once, debug everywhere" kind of nightmare.
Why would this be hell? We aren't in the sky, are we? It's mostly empty there.

We are on the ground. Fewer cars will be needed to deliver things.

I think this is a massive improvement and will finally use an underutilized resource we have.
We still do it for cables, water and sewage?
> Aircraft are more energy efficient then cars[1] at scale.

Some aircraft and definitely not drons for now.
> If cities want better traffic, then spend more money renovating or widening roads

Widening roads just induces more driving.

https://twitter.com/alanthefisher/status/1491148250543386625
Although some people insist (as you do) that "hallucination" is unreasonably anthropomorphic language, it is an extremely common term of art in the field. eg https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3571730

Secondly, to be anthropormorphic, hallucination would have to be exclusively human, and why should hallucination be a purely human phenomenon? Consider this Stanford study on lab mice https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6711485/ . The purpose of the study is described as being to understand hallucination and it is described by the scientists involved informally as involving hallucinating mice eg here https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190718145358.h... . It does involve inducing mice to see things which are not there and behave accordingly. Most people would call that a hallucination.
The question essentially is what the statement `T x;` should mean. Today, if T is class, it means "allocate space for a value of type T and construct it using T::T()". However, if T is a built-in type, it means "allocate space for a value of type T with no defined value", which has proven to be highly problematic in practice.

The situation could be improved in two simple ways. One, you could unify the two meanings, and say that `T x;` allocates space and calls T::T() to initialize the value. The no-args constructor for built-in types already exists and initializes them to 0.

Or, you could also say `T x;` is illegal syntax, one must write `T x = val;` always (or at least when T is a built-in type).

In either case, an escape hatch is needed for allocating uninitialized space on the stack, since there are valid performance reasons for wanting that, in rare cases. But that should be new syntax, it really really shouldn't be the default. So you can still do something like `T x = std::uninitialized();` or whatever the syntax would be to get the current behavior in performance-critical cases, where the tradeoff makes sense.

Personally, especially given C++'s use of templates that don't distinguish between built-in types and classes, I believe the first option makes the most sense, and in fact removes am ugly inconsistency from the language.
Being a bash developer in the 21st century (2021)
I scrolled straight to the bottom to try it out. I kept tapping the button and it’d appear for a split second and disappear. It took me a few tries to realize that it’s not a button and requires tap-and-drag (I’m on mobile). I suspect I’m not the only one that would have this issue.

I haven’t seen this kind of “non-button button” before. Is this a common UX choice?
It is a JVM level feature but the Scala guys at ZIO are not that excited about it IIRC.
Yes, the loopvar change will break some programs, and hence the compatibility promise. But the Go team argues that the change will fix much more programs than it will break [1].

This makes me wonder, though, what guarantees that a similar breaking change won't ever happen again in the future? If any change with #(programs fixed) >> #(programs broken) is accepted, we might as well remove the compatibility promise page [2].

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[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/60078

[2] https://go.dev/doc/go1compat
> But here we are with the worst templating system, JSX and the most contentious of all frontend tooling, TypeScript built in to Bun.

So, the author has some strong opinions that they seem to hold as universal.
>> get paid an actual decent salary, clock out in 60 hours or less every week while getting every perk imaginable,

....is that....meant to be good? As someone who works in "big tech" and works 37.5h a week I have no idea what kind of perk/money they would need to offer me to work 60 hours a week. I'm not sure that even exists - I like having a life outside of work.
Rails has always been ahead of the curve.
It's a very extreme embargo, affecting all US companies or all companies that are connected to the US which is an enormous amount of them. It's difficult for a European or foreign company to do business with Cuba because they could end up being sanctioned by the US.
From my own tests. JXL is better for photos and competitive with AVIF for images with flat areas of color (PNG-like).
JXL is about the same speed as AVIF but WebP is quicker than both.
To say that Hollywood did anything other than damage control after Weinstein seems very naive.

“The media” doesn’t really have a diversity of agendas or views, they have a specific audience that they peddle outrage to in order to extract money. For example, as a bemused outside observer there’s very little difference between CNN and Fox News (admittedly I’ve seen very little of either), other than the audience they pander to.

No-one is trying to downplay what he allegedly did, but that’s why we have a legal system. That these accusations have been made publicly via media outlets and not via law enforcement doesn’t help the legal case against him though, as any eventual trial has almost certainly been prejudiced already due to how widespread the coverage has been.

It probably doesn’t really matter either.

That public opinion (which is managed and administered by a handful of media organisations) is ultimately the highest court in the land today is all very black mirror.
This is also the case in software, improvements in hardware performance simply cause software to consume more resources, and not meaningfully increase the overall productive capability of a system.
Next should be github then, I hope
Compared to learning other skills programming is easy, it is made to be optimized for human use, legibility and learning, it has the most resources on learning by far.
Yes, you might not be able to create a perfect and complex computer program, but this has more to do with the nature of the world and complexity than programming.
"How hard can it be, I can do it in a weekend."

Human is good at judging what they know, but terribly bad at judging what they don't know.

How do we know:

- teammates know more than us on a domain

- we know more than teammates on a domain

- no one knows anymore than their teammates

- there are more domains

We have to overcome our mount of stupid [1] to both have people to trust us and trust people.

Let the right people do the their job and get out of their way, how hard can it be? Or maybe it is

[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

p.s. I'm so glad there are people got flying over Mach 2 figured out. I am not flying a plane and I'm not going to let go of control just to try "if it works"
future you will care and facepalm
> the closest you could get to mapping html flexibility without the annoying XML verbosity

Aka SGML.

Though while you can hide those away in an external DTD, SGML of course needs lots of markup declaration ([1]) for HTML "void" (empty) elements, tag inference, and enumerated attribute short forms, and then still more for markdown short references.

[1]: https://sgmljs.net/docs/whatwg-html200129-dtd.html
I think the ability to distinguish when to step in and when to step aside is a crucial management skill, which is made harder due to the fact that even if you think it’s time to step aside, higher-ups still might try to push you to stepping in and start control things.
Natural crypto
I'm missing a downvote button.
Kibibyte: 1024 bytes. Gibibyte: 2^30 or 1,073,741,824 bytes. The -bi suffix is intended to signify “binary”.
Meal prep.
Thank you. I deeply appreciate you saying something. Nobody in my social circles understands or agrees with me.
At the time of posting, this submission links directly to the OpenTofu Github organization, which does not say anything about the name change.

Here are some links that are specifically about the name change:

- https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/296

- https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/20/terraform-fork-gets-a-new-...

- https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/20/terraform_fork_opentf...
> However if we are to jump on in JDK world, persistence is not hard. Java have supurb db like H2 with full postgres compliance, that can be embedded in memory.

H2 is a cute database, but it doesn't even come close to having "full postgres compliance". Besides, it solves a completely different problem from Permazen or JPA - it's a storage engine, not a storage abstraction layer.
Most U.S. adults don't believe AI benefits outweigh the risks, survey finds
Maybe Vercel pays for that too
Stating something doesn’t make it so.
New Privacy Badger removes tracking links in more Google products