skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had to look this up and I found it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Thatsabooklight/comments/hna8zo/tv_...
I'll give you gripes with maven/gradle (even though maven tends to just work for me), but look at all of the observability tools like Mission Control, Flight Recorder, and VisualVM. What other language has all of this?
It’s incredible how often they manage to shoot themselves in the foot.
There are plenty of new pinball games released on Steam every year.
Is the experiment how long will it take me to annoy my partner long enough before they buy me a new TV?
Oh, so time of 4k memory, have a 4k program and want to strictly reserve/add 3.14159 K to 4k program for automated saftey issues?

At time C was written, swapping in/out of memory measured in literal minutes & when fraction of second of execution time, including swapping in/out of memory, was more than several times the average yearly salary of the day (excluding sneaker net intervention)
So by "yes", you mean "no, and I won't for at least 12 more years".
encase the whole thing in a polycarbonate shell... lol someone already made a product

https://blenderbuffer.com/
It would be that hard to do. The state of the art is currently represented by Visual Pinball and Pinball FX.

The first is open source and relies all on homebrew content, and most are remakes of existing games as you would expect, with MAME software emulation for the digital games. The software package contains a painful, CAD-like tool to define the playfield - very precise but hard to work with. You can make a new playfield in probably a month of effort, and then tinker with the game's rules for much longer.

The second, Pinball FX(which dropped the numbered titles in its fourth version), has a mix of licenses and originals, and which it's definitely become more accurate, the goal is primarily a visual showcase. It already pressures a modern GPU reasonably well when you crank the settings.

Neither one is doing anything to push the physics simulation further. Visual Pinball's physics rely on analytic methods for each mechanism, and while it has little details like computing the movement of the skirt on the pops as the ball rolls over them, it does not simulate whole-table vibrations, which are actually essential to gameplay because control is achieved through nudging the entire cabinet. And there's a huge realm of details that emerge from that where thousands of physics objects, down to the individual screw, need to wake up and interact in very fine detail, and the force creates a directed wave across the playfield, the wood needs to be able to wobble a bit. Adding a force to the ball is not sufficient. And actually achieving that means you now have to model everything the game has, including the insides, which is far more work than a playfield and magic mechanisms.

Pinball FX is not open source but I already know it isn't trying to be that detailed either.

But when you ask the broader audience about pinball video games, they point at Demon's Tilt. Which is not even trying, as far as the simulation goes - it is a video game, through and through. The problem is that broad demographic isn't really there because people who don't play pinball don't know the difference, and the niche of people who do, go play real pinballs. Which leaves a tiny space for roughly three or four companies that are focused mostly on licenses.

Of those, the pinball video game I play the most is Pinball Deluxe Reloaded, which is all originals, but most importantly, it's intentionally 2D and ideal for phones. And the sim quality is decent. And just by doing those things, it's done something none of the competition achieved, even in their mobile ports, because they put the sim first and have a 3D camera and no way of getting a simple flat projection.
Only if you are selling github stars, then it can pay your rent.
This is what worries me. I bought an M1 for someone else and the thing looked like cheap plastic. My 2014 macbook pro is soooo much better than that thing.
For those interested, there is a book with cross-section pictures of various circuits: https://opencircuitsbook.com/#oc-gallery
The Rivian one was designed for Amazon specs. The Ford one is half the cost of a Rivian R1T. This is simply price economics. Amazon wanted to maximize space for packages, not batteries. They have charges at their warehouses and these are charged likely at night for off peak rates.

If we are talking about just an ambulance, the range could get higher, but there are diminishing returns eventually for a giant square so it probably needs an aerodynamic redesign.
Press was one of the co-authors of the "Numerical Recipes" series of books.
They are so fucking loud. The one outside my apartment makes it too loud for me to take meetings inside my apartment. I can't hear anything over the noise. I lived in another place where I could literally hear one that was over a mile away (it was at a construction site where I could see them doing it at night).
The structure of his company matches the typical customer that Wise advertises itself as serving. So while it may be suspicious at first glance, so will most Wise customers. And if OP has been sending transactions consistently for months, then why is Wise suddenly suspicious now? They should have eliminated those suspicions at the time of account opening.

But okay, sure - they have an obligation to follow regulations and investigate any suspicious transactions or sources of funds. But they should be responsive during the investigation, not unreachable for more than two weeks. If they're going to go radio silent, or take a long time to investigate, then at least release the funds to OP under the restriction that they can only be sent back to the account from which they originated. Otherwise they're just holding the funds for ransom while making no effort to investigate whether they have any right to freeze them in the first place.

If the investigation determines that OP is a legitimate customer and funds should not be restricted, then IMO Wise should pay a fine for every day they held the funds. What if exchange rates tanked in a black swan event, or OP has an emergency, and can't move their money?
Most of the open source devs from that generation did this as a hobby - many of us had to write dreary business software at our day jobs and loved UNIX, so creating these tools was just fun. If it ever felt like a burden, you'd just step back and let someone else fill in or not and not worry about it.
My sincerest commiserations.
The momentum of the solar energy transition
It’s a practical loss but accounting rules say you don’t have to acknowledge it.

A bank makes money by making loans and deals with its working capital. If you have half the working capital you did before because the rest is locked in to an increasingly unfavorable position you have a problem.

Also when you think of a bank share as a percentage of the value of the company you basically have half the value you did before. The stock basically reflects that.
Good find. Makes it pretty obvious the hospital was hit by a bomb.
Interesting! It turns out my wife also has a helix representation in her head, with the future going downward and counter-clockwise. I never suspected there'd be so much variation here and I guess always assumed most people just saw it my way.

I wonder if you made a dating app that asked these sorts of questions ("what shape is a year?", "can you read a book while counting?", etc) if the answers would be a relevant factor for determining compatibility.
Of course. I think this is a very important point to make.

I also think that even if with the best of intentions when people are calling for not discrediting others views disinfo needs to be called out and challenged as without doing that the gullible might find some new "hidden truth". It's effectiveness should not be overvalued tho.
lmao if you see the amount of time I spend on reddit and twitter you'd revoke that statement
There is no way they would hide ads for users who pay $1 a year. That would be a bargain.

My guess is that they’re starting with $1/year to test the waters and see who would pay. Maybe they want users to get hooked on those extra features so they can up the price.
Exeter's summary: https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and...
I get very few recommendations that are even remotely political in nature, not even ones that I am inclined to agree with. I like that, and it's one of the few things that YouTube gets right for me.
Absolutely, that's the main goal. I've built my cabinet over 10 years ago, so testing is assured. ;)
It weakened by 4% over 40 years.

Why should we be concerned it's going to weaken by 100% in less than 40 years?

Why should we expect the climate will be the same in 100 years as it is today? The climate has always been changing. Europe was in an ice age from 1300 to 1850.

Do you think we could've done anything to stop that? Or should have?
>As the resulting combined system of anything you use a book, search engines, wikis, and forums as part of is unlike the raw source information by itself sure

And the GP was clearly referring to such a system, so insisting that it's just a book seems, charitably, off topic.
"On Tuesday, the firm said it was reconsidering that decision for two of the three students, who fought their dismissals and said that they did not authorize the letters, which did not have any individual signatories."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/business/davis-polk-emplo...
Maybe fixed size window is ok for most applications? These old VB6 apps outlived every trendy modern framework. Just shows there's a different between what users care about and about what developers think users care about.
Sounds great until you realize some people have "I need to charge my phone 15ft from an outlet" needs, and other people have "I need 40GBPS which needs a dual side populated 9 layer (wtf?) PCB with blind and buried vias, extremely small components" needs.

USB-C the idea was great. The execution has been so stupid.
Lack of ambition making electricity grids weak link in clean energy transitions
23andMe is trying to have us believe that multiple tens of thousands of their customers were hacked in a credential stuffing attack. With 1500 matches per person, assuming no overlapping relatives, you'd need somewhere around 10,000 successfully hacked accounts to get the amount of data they have (~14 million). In reality, many people have overlapping relatives with other people, so many more than 10,000 accounts would have needed to be attacked, all without 23andMe noticing anything suspicious. This seems very unlikely to me.

And while 23andMe claims that a credential stuffing attack was at the root cause of this leak, the hacker(s) who first posted about this leak on Hydra Market over 2 months ago claim that they simply used (abused?) an API that 23andMe offered to their academic and research collaborators.

The hacker(s) claimed to have 300TB of data, including raw data, but have not proven that the scope of the attack was that large. But if their claim is true, then the breach was definitely not due to a credential stuffing attack, but fits well with the hacker(s) claim of using an API.

So, if the extent is as claimed by the attacker(s), then it is much more likely that one of 23andMe's API was used to scrape everyone's data, not a credential stuffing attack. Either one of their collaborating researchers got hacked, or they had (have!?) an access control vulnerability in their API which allowed the attacker to again scrape everyone's data.

I cannot find much information about the API 23andMe offers, but I did find one on RapidAPI (https://rapidapi.com/23andme/api/23andme), and indeed if there was some sort of access control vulnerability or some sort of hack of an escalated user then with even 1 individual as a starting point, they could download the data using various endpoints (there's even an endpoint for the entire individual's genome...) and then get the relatives of that individual (an endpoint for that too) and then recursively do the same for all relatives until every person has been downloaded once.

At this point in time, I am highly suspicious of 23andMe's defense but until the attacker releases proof that they have raw data we can't really prove that they're wrong/lying about the actual magnitude of the attack. But I do believe their claim of using an API makes a lot more sense than the way 23andMe proposed, so I am very worried.
What is this about then?
'Poorest countries should get $300B a year to fight climate crisis'
"To be clear, Whisper is not building a leaf blower (just the propulsor), but the company is already in talks with a few potential partners to bring the ultra-quiet blower to the market"

from the article
"I'm not crazy. Everybody else is crazy."
I used different agents for different transactions and I can tell you that different agents offered wildly different services. There were agents who I felt really earned their commission and agents where I thought to myself, afterwards, that robbery would have been fairer.
you mean Lynx?
> The US Constitution invested Congress with the power to write legislation.

More precisely, the power to pass federal legislation. Anyone can write legislation (I've done it, its fun! [0]), and the Constitution also protects doing this and trying to get it passed [1], but if you can't convince the legislative body with the power to pass it to do so, it has no legal effect.

[0] A couple times as a "what would it look like if we wanted to pursue this" in an state legislative office, other times as part of an extended government-simulation project as part of college coursework.

[1] This is part of the First Amendment right to petition.
X, formerly Twitter, tests charging new users $1 to tweet, retweet
The only downside I see for electric yard equipment is the vendor lock-in with batteries. Other than that, they work just fine.

Pay up front for two batteries and a fast-enough charger, and you can charge one battery while you wear the other down; there's still some downtime, but after wearing out a battery the human operator probably needs some downtime, too.

The cost is basically equivalent, minus the battery cost; consider it a prepayment for gasoline, and it probably works out on that front, too.
So why is it more likely to be a JDAM airburst than a failed jihad rocket?

Especially when we have the live footage from al Jazeera of a failed launch followed by an explosion at the same time as the hospital explosion.
Because unions tether the best employees' compensation to the worst, and because company ownership (generally prohibited for union members) is a large fraction of TC for many SWEs, and because an additional layer of management and bureaucracy has negative value to most SWEs, few to none of the best engineers would join.

As a result, the union would be known as a place that caters to midwits and incompetents.
?? It’s not always profitable to invest in real estate. When interest rates go up that’s not favorable for real estate for basic math reasons
It's open source now... I miss the restrictive licensing. Call me weird.
I will test it and give feedback
Suffer. (unfortunately)
Sweden is getting the worst of both worlds: Agression as a NATO member, without NATO membership.
I would even say, start burning gas powered leaf blowers. How often have I have seen people using it on just a handful of leafs. It almost takes less effort to pick them manually.
Coherent Nanophotonic Electron Accelerator
1) That wasn't the Federal Reserve, that was the FDIC that let the banks fail.

2) This program linked to is because of the failure, it happened after.

3) There is absolutely no way any US govt entity will let BOA fail. They might let it "pretend fail", where they essentially just replace all the senior officers and CEO, but even that's pretty unlikely.

The FDIC let those 2 banks fail, because those 2 banks were literally idiotic in their running of the bank. SVB had nobody in charge of bank risk for a long time before it failed. They were playing ostrich and hoping life passed them by and nobody noticed how stupid they were.

BOA in the meantime has a pretty strong staff in place, their risk department is staffed and active, and they are doing everything they can to survive without needing the govt's help. It's likely(but not certain) they will survive without any extra govt help.
The png was a picture of a rate card . My was asking to list the column headers. This was a shaded row (typical excel table header) and then create a csv table based on the table data
2008 was 15 years ago and many of the people I've spoken to formed their opinion of Eclipse (and IntelliJ) at that time. But what you saw back then and now isn't anywhere near being the same software.

Can you explain why Eclipse is worse than IntelliJ today?
I'm devastated :(
Louis just needs to use email marketing or in-app notifications to ask creators to encourage their viewers to use the platform. Promote it as a way to avoid de platforming and gain followers.. I've seen more egregious use of marketing tactics.
The inverse square law means we're not going to pick up stray radio signals from an alien civilization. If you build an Arecibo-equivalent telescope (AET) in space and flew it out of the solar system our radio noise (uncompressed and unencrypted) would fade into the cosmic background at about half a light year out. Even powerful radars wouldn't be detectable much past Alpha Centauri assuming their beam even happens to sweep the portion of the sky where the receiver will be taking into account proper motion between the systems.

The only way alien civilizations will pick up each others' signals is if they're intentionally directed at those systems with highly focused emitters. If you're intentionally sending a signal in hopes another civilization will see it you're definitely not going to encrypt it. Compression also serves little purpose as there's no shared context to decompress the message.
The google form phrasing has a bias by using clock references which implicitly has 0/beginning at the top. It could have used a compass which is then perhaps biased east->west anticlockwise as the sun travels. It should simply have said top, bottom, top/left, etc. I also would have preferred if it asked people to place summer, winter, spring, fall which doesn't have the calendar zero of Dec/Jan.
This is really cool and (I think) unlocks an idea I've had for a long time: moviepass for restaurants (aka a new spin on groupon).

I think you could get consumers to subscribe to discounts/deals at nearby restaurants and I think you could get restaurants to offer discounts one-time or during non-peak days/times. I tried to do this in the past using card issuing services (like Stripe's) but it was clunky with debit cards. The ability to do this via credit would make this a lot easier.
Its just a DNA based social network…
Then it's just... a worse pinball machine. A pinball machine without the charm of mechanical engineering or physical craftsmanship.
People are weird when it comes to ensuring they get absolute maximum value out of the things they buy.

I had a 3 year old $20 electric shaver that got dropped into water a few months ago. It wasn't water proof. It stopped turning on but I noticed if I let the battery drain and then plug it into an outlet it worked. I got about a month out of it this way. After it stopped working using that method I tried every day for a week using all sorts of combinations to see if it would turn on, it never did. Eventually I bought a new one but I wasn't happy about it.
.NET Native is dead and when Ada or Delphi were in their prime I did not even have a computer which is why they got no mention :)
The "Cold Blob" illustrates quite well what is happening.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_blob
My main is Firefox but I have to occasionally use a Chromium based browser. Used to use Edge before it went to shit and have been using Brave ever since. Is there a better alternative?
hey HN! thanks to whoever posted this. An update on this is that Sizzy is still going strong!

Lately I've been super busy with building [Benji](https://benji.so) which is a Life OS and organizes your habits, todos, routines, planner, fasting, meal tracking and a billion other features. I got tired of paying subscriptions for 31855 mediocre apps so I built a single master app that combines everything.

A lot of people ask me about my philosophy of shipping so I made [Zero To Shipped](https://zerotoshipped.com) which teaches the details of my stack along with my mindset about shipping paid products. So far there's 92 videos and 10 hours of content, but the final version will be more than 200 videos.

I hope I'm not violating some HN rules when I'm talking about the things that I made...

Feel free to AMA and I'd happy to answer your questions!
There is a way to do that while still keeping your project free-software. Set a dual license (A)GPL/Commercial License. Most businesses will not want to have anything to do with GPL so will choose the commercial one, will other open-source users/companies will not be affected. Gifksi is a successful example of such pattern: https://gif.ski/license.html
agreed - i installed a very very sizeable car audio system in my car years ago - and Shulman as the review states = an incredible sound world, and most probably missed by most - absolutely sublime in the low end...im talking with a 15 inch, 1500W sub powering the show....just jaw dropping augmentation of reality...without drugs :P
Ah, I see you still believe Musk's argument that all of these changes have been "to fight bots" despite there being far more bots after he took over. If he really wanted to fight bots, he wouldn't have fired the Safety and Election Integrity teams.
Java is not the JVM. Lots of new projects on the JVM go with Kotlin or Scala.
The open source "Visual Pinball" engine is pretty amazing and also constantly improving with an active community of artists and devs releasing new 3D pinball tables nearly every week for free. I have a virtual pinball cabinet with a dedicated PC driving the playfield screen and I love it. The quality of the visuals and the precision of the physics are impressively good (and I have real pinball machines next to it to compare). The quality and capabilities of the entire platform (especially physics) have greatly accelerated just in the last couple years so I highly recommend sticking to the latest version of Visual Pinball called VPX and tables made (or updated) specifically for it - of which there are now hundreds.

Visual Pinball is the visual rendering and scripting engine that runs on top of PinMAME, which is based on MAME, and dedicated to emulating the ROMs, inputs, lights, etc of real pinball machines. As far as the ROM code knows, it's running on real hardware and connected to physical solenoids, relays, switches and lights. Visual Pinball turns all the outputs into real-time rendered visuals. All the best real pinball machines have been lovingly recreated by the community and there are a growing number of entirely original virtual pinball tables being released which never existed as physical machines. On a graphics card from the last three-ish years or so, VPX can render 120fps 4K HDR and beyond.

It's easy to download everything necessary for free to try it out on any decent PC with just a keyboard or USB game controller, although adding some dedicated pinball controls does elevate the experience to another level. Another good site in addition to the ones you mentioned above is https://www.vpforums.com.

Additional Note: ROM code from real commercial pinball machines falls into the same legal gray area as MAME video game ROMs and thus aren't bundled with the open source engines. However, full ROM sets are downloadable from the same kinds of places (torrents, www.archive.org, community sites, etc.)
The 60s were so wild. What happened?
The difference is recuperation of EVs.
it makes sense and it is better estimator of the expected value than the sample mean in some cases:

https://projecteuclid.org/journals/annals-of-statistics/volu...