skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Claude Summary:

- New research has found the Gulf Stream is almost certainly weakening. Measurements show the warm water current flowing through the Florida Straits has slowed by 4% over the past 4 decades.

- The Gulf Stream plays a vital role in regulating temperatures and sea levels along the U.S. East Coast and in Europe. Its weakening could have major climate impacts.

- Melting ice sheets are dumping more cold, fresh water into the oceans, which scientists believe may be causing the Gulf Stream to slow down or become less stable.

- This new study provides the strongest evidence yet that the Gulf Stream is slowing, using data from undersea cables, satellites, and on-site observations.

- The changes seen so far are small (4%) but could be the start of more dramatic shifts. Scientists emphasize the importance of continuing to monitor the Gulf Stream.

- More research is still needed to definitively link the Gulf Stream changes to human-caused climate change versus natural variability. But scientists are concerned about the potential climate consequences if the current continues to weaken.

Here are some of the potential consequences if the Gulf Stream continues to weaken:

- Cooling effects along the U.S. East Coast and Western Europe - The warm water from the Gulf Stream plays a key role in keeping these regions warmer than they otherwise would be. If it weakens, winters could get significantly colder.

- Sea level rise along the U.S. East Coast - The current helps keep water levels lower along the coast. A slowdown could lead to accelerated sea level rise.

- Changes to ocean currents and weather patterns - The Gulf Stream is part of a larger global ocean circulation system. Disruptions to it could alter currents, storm tracks, and precipitation patterns across the Atlantic and beyond.

- Marine ecosystem impacts - Many species have evolved with and depend on the warm waters of the Gulf Stream. Changes could affect food webs and fisheries.

- Increased hurricane activity - Some research suggests the Gulf Stream helps limit tropical storms. A slowdown may increase intensity and frequency of hurricanes forming off Africa.

- Accelerated ice melt - The Gulf Stream brings warm water near Greenland and Antarctica. Its weakening could disrupt this process, potentially speeding up ice sheet melt.

- Ocean oxygen depletion - Circulation changes could reduce oxygen mixing in parts of the ocean, creating more "dead zones."

- Climate feedback effects - Changes in ocean currents, temperatures, and circulation could feedback and cause additional changes to climate patterns.

So in summary, potentially wide-ranging impacts to climate, weather patterns, sea levels, ecosystems, and human societies if the observed changes continue. But more research is needed to better understand the extent and likelihood of these potential impacts.
Sounds a lot like Unity's recent pricing changes ("if you make more than $X, you need to start paying us a fee per install")
On KDE, “Falkon”. On GNOME, “Web”.

On Macs, Safari.

On all platforms, Firefox. Firefox is a little disppointing in that it’s still bundled with stuff you probably don’t want, but it’s far far less objectionable than Chrome, Edge, Brave.
> The company said all addresses associated with the spread of the malware have been blacklisted

How does this work? Can a single entity really just blacklist certain addresses? How is this decentralized?
This happened to my wife. It was torture for her for the first year. It's been almost 3 years now and she's just barely starting to enjoy food again. Most things taste fairly normal for her, but a few things, like mint, onions, and garlic, (which are in everything, unfortunately for her) are still wretched.
not to be confused with Florida mean
There's a really fun game from 2018 called Yoku's Island Express where the core mechanic is pinball-like. It's a 2d side scroller, looks gorgeous
> I agree that too many people out there think that they can publish something to Github and the cash will start rolling in

Does anyone think this? I thought we were just publishing this stuff for nerd status points. I never expected money other than through a salary from possibly getting hired via it would manifest
16colo.rs - ANSI/ASCII art archive
Im pro union, but i live live in a country that has good unions, labor laws and judges.
>This is by far the best open source vlm model

LLaVA 1.5 is very good, at least at describing images. http://llava.hliu.cc/
Nothing comes close to VB even today. I can't recall anything like that.

The language was almost English like. The interface was so advanced for it's time. The drag and drop form designer.

XCode is nothing even Microsoft's own product line has nothing like that.

Edit: typo
> I think the open source experiment has failed

imo it still serves as a way to strengthen resumes of job applicants. Just have a few GH projects with decent "stars" to show you know how to build things. I don't endorse it (because the projects then often get abandoned after employment)—maybe it'd be better to have a "badge" on the GH page showing what the purpose of the project really is.
There is a youtube channel that covers this. It works really well for him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93F08kdiOfE

He can charge his mower while between jobs and while using other tools. I would say it works for companies that do mostly residential mowing in sunny places. If you were a larger landscaping business you would probably want at least two crews with different setups: Heavy duty gas equipment for larger yards or tough first time mows and a battery setup for residential "maintenance" mowing.
So would this be extended to physical cabinets with flipper buttons?
Ancient? Am I an artifact now?
Then you reorg the system. Note that this can go either direction - you can also change your system to how you want the org chart to look. Generally it goes one way because engineers rarely have the power to change the org chart, but sometimes we are consulted and can suggest 'improvements'.
so back to sweeping I guess?
I'm saying every other pandemic in human (or really non-human) history.
I think it makes a lot of sense. The best replacement for an outlier is the closest thing to the outlier that isn't an outlier. Resampling doesn't make a lot of sense because your new point is completely disconnected from your old one.

I don't really like the Winsorized mean but not for the reason you list. I think the main issue is that you are assuming exactly the top and bottom 10% are outliers instead of looking at the actual data distribution to see what the outliers are then using a similar replacement technique on only the outliers.
“I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.”
― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
Whatever the actual rule is, many people believe they aren't allowed to park their pick up on the street. I've talked to more than one who said they got a ticket for it. Maybe the ticket was given falsely, but contesting here might as well not exist so that doesn't really matter.
Neat website, what's your take on the virtual pinball cabinets that try to simulate some of the physical behavior of the real thing? Can you elaborate on the "samey" point?

stuff like this guy's build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxilHoceiNo&list=PLrqlHbqP7F...
> Electrical outages aren't all that common as a regular thing in the first place

Oh my sweet summer child. You haven't spent enough time in the midwest. Power outages can occur on windless sunny days and last for a really long time.
Well it should be backwards compatible if you just use NULL everywhere where it is appropriate, so you wouldn't even have to sprinkle ifdefs all over the place. Code that uses 0 all over the place would probably have to be updated with the help of compiler errors and a static code analyzer.
This had two results for me -- the first is that my employer has forcibly uninstalled all brave installations in our company and has forbidden its use, and the second is that I have voluntarily uninstalled brave from my personal machines.
This is as much about bots as his attempt to get out of the acquisition last year was about bots.
You mean for the concept of stealing other's people intelectual property ?

You know that christian saying: those who are without sin, shall throw the stone first.
yeah im thinking like people using zip drives or betamax.

like, light switches are still the standard way of handling lights everywhere; smart home stuff is the exception.
And distraction is a bad thing because humans can focus on useful things 24/7 while being productive?
Was LD_LOAD and related LC stuff (algebra & unix) the 19th c rabbit hole for [1] & [2] ?

1] introducing security vulnerabilities

[2] code changeset submission
There’s not a lot of applications beyond a certain size that don’t need background processing, and that’s exactly where using PHP bites you in the buttocks. As soon as you get outside the request/response cycle, the runtime really starts to show its shortcomings.
Right but someone with API access could do this much more easily. I don’t really want to sit there copying and pasting back and forth. I’d rather write two or three starting prompts and have a few agents do all the work of talking.
Capitalism is the nature in which technology got naturally selected.
Amazon (and other product delivery platforms) drive a bit fast and recklessly in the city I'm in. If these vehicles are quieter now, might be worse, although cutting down on air pollution is a big plus.
Congrats! I might be interested in this, will be in touch. Also, please launch in the UK asap, the market here is just terrible if you're not bank with legacy infrastructure but large volumes :)
I mean, it's called a rake, right?
It had never occurred to me that one could move acorns at all with a leaf blower. Do you have fairly thick grass?
They should put a gas powered generator in a car to charge the battery while you drive /s
Real estate agents are completely useless imo.

I was buying a home in a desired neighborhood. My agent would call days after the property came on the market. I set up notifications on Redfin and was getting instant notifications. I would call him and request we see a home.

As someone knowledgeable about construction the shit agents say is often wrong. It’s in their interest to sell you the home.

Need a marketplace for private sellers. Someone comes out to take pics at fixed cost and maybe does the description. Lawyer helps will all the legal crap. And the seller is 6% richer.
The evidence does point out that it is more likely a Palestinian accident than an Israeli strike. Nothing is conclusive of course nor will it probably ever be, but that's what bbc, official Dutch government website nos.nl (https://nos.nl/collectie/13959/artikel/2494578-wat-explodeer...) and other sources I've read are saying. And the official White House statement.

"While we continue to collect information, our current assessment, based on analysis of overhead imagery, intercepts and open-source information, is that Israel is not responsible for the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday,” Watson said in a statement on Wednesday."
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/18/politics/us-intel-gaza-ho...

So most likely Palestinian misfire, which won't be the first time btw.
Also the 500 death count is quite likely way more than the real number of casualties.
>My knowledge in telco and VOIP is very limited, do you know if there's any way to identify a number one has been forwarded to?

Do you mean like the calling party being able to find out what your burner number is?

I think that information could be revealed if you do a SIP refer. To be extra careful, you'd want to answer the call on FreeSWITCH/Asterisk and then bridge it to your burner number through whatever gateway (e.g. Signalwire, Flowroute, Twilio, whatever SIP provider you choose). The calling party will just see that they're calling your bastion.

It can also be revealed if you have the default voicemail set up on your burner, since a lot of voicemail systems will read the number out to the caller.
Sounds like evidence of a JDAM airburst.
> We need to charge for bytes or something like that.

I read that 25 year ago as a suggested solution to email spam, and it's many times less feasible today than it was back then.
> Which they define directly in the declaration based on the international definition.

Does that include hate speech? Does that include the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on political advertising? Does that include the right to
"cancel" someone?

There is no single definition that everyone agrees on. That is what the CSAM example is supposed to highlight. Not that anyone wants to allow it, but that everyone agrees that this speech isn't actually covered by free speech. Once you admit that not all speech deserves to be free, you have to decide what speech should count because it isn't everything.
I don't know if I had a layout in mind beforehand, but upon thinking about it for a bit can settle on one that I like. I would generally prefer to have spring/summer/fall being more prominent than winter. This is historically accurate as we didn't even have timekeeping or month names for winter until later. Despite the calendar beginning in Jan, my natural year mentally begins in spring. I debated clockwise/anticlockwise as one follows a clock and the other geometry. In the end I like this best flows left->right from spring to fall (like sunrise to sunset) and has summer up top (like high noon) and winter bottom (with lowest temps).

Summer
Spring Fall
Winter

Now I didn't put month names here, but being in the northern hemisphere is easy to place.
> + not shit ISP

I dearly wish I had an option for a non-shit ISP. But my only option is Comcast.
Mass surveillance running real-time face and gait recognition from millions of cctvs is where massive data is. But that surveillance won't tell you who's e2e messaging journalists, you gotta get into the device for that. Physically getting a hold of the phone is hard and NSO won't sell you Pegasus. Moreover you don't even know who are the "bad guys" with inconvenient opinions to start with. But set up a juice jacker and targets come to you. If you get a few dissidents and their contacts, a few of the wrong religion, a handful of your regular civilians who are traveling abroad and can be blackmailed into spying with spicy photos from the hidden folder. Small amounts of data and much boost for your hot career as a despicable dictator.
Don't know, this sounds like an excellent use of stolen credit cards. And considering it's just a dollar, I could see CC harvesters using Twitter as their testbed for CC #s (as apposed to charities, etc.). Then they can sell the accts as well as the CCs.

May take time to spin up, but eventually being willing to pay a dollar for Twitter might mean the acct is more likely a bot than a human.
For home use if you don't have a large area to cover, it's even cheaper to get an AC leaf blower. Just need an extension cord that can reach to the extent of your yard. Obviously less universally practical for professional landscapers, battery technology is critical for them.
I really think Monero in particular deserves way more criticism for their practice. Bitcoin is one thing, Monero is created for and marketed towards cybercriminals, you don't need to be a communications expert to get that premise. I haven't seen it used once for any legitimate purpose. Atleast with Bitcoin and Ethereum you can get buy some legitimate things like VPNs or NFTs

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/06/moner...
I understand having retimer (ie. active signal booster) chips midway along a long cable... But at the end of a cable a mere 2 inches from the place the signal is going to end up seems superfluous...

Is it because the thunderbolt spec inherits timing parameters from PciE and it was hard to meet those with a long cable?
Tech workers have desperately needed a union for years now.

And now look at how many well paid tech workers are being laid off or fired and now tech companies are re-hiring the same tech workers at a lower wage or as a contract worker with no benefits.

"Tech salaries dropped 3 percent year over year, from $161,000 to $156,000. Adjusted for inflation, salaries decreased 9 percent, from $141,000 in 2022 to $129,000 in mid-202"

In 6 months they've already managed to depress tech wages by almost 10%

It's sad to think that being a W2 employee is becoming a real perk. A privledge that only the best connected techies seem to get.
Those are good best practices, but they don't solve the problem. If nothing else you end up supporting a V1 API that is now very unlike how you want people to use your system.

Often the pain of supporting this is so high you will just refuse to ask if the API can be improved despite the pain of the bad API.
> Isn't it simpler and readable to keep non-trivial expressions out of the f-string itself?

But then you have to define what non-trivial expressions are, and more importantly, people using the language have to learn that definition too. By having f-strings accept all valid expressions, the language actually becomes simpler.
I always use p for pointers, but not p_. Mainly it's because of aesthetics when scanning code. The -> operator and the _ always break things up too much for my brain. If I'm in a well protected piece of code where I know I don't need to do null check, I may write something like this:

pFoo->pBar->pBaz=blah;

with the underscore, I find that much harder to parse (probably just my dyslexia, but maybe it's useful for you too). This is much harder for me to read.

p_foo->p_bar->p_baz=blah;

Another thing that I've learned over the years is any time I need to do a malloc, make it typed-ish and have an accompanying free. Sometimes you may need to use a different library or a different allocator and then you have conflicts on who creates something and who deletes it. So I always have paired

foo* new_foo();
void delete_foo(foo* pFoo);

bar* new_bar();
void delete_bar(bar* pBar);

baz* new_baz();
void delete_baz(baz* pBaz);

Those functions may simply be wrappers around a malloc/free, or they may be more complex, but I like to start with having them exist in case I need to change the implementation later. When you're managing your memory, try to make it hard to make mistakes.

I do mostly agree with the other commentors though, just dig in an have fun and learn what works for you.
>... but software updates install new stuff all the time.

There's "new stuff" [nods head] and "new stuff" [shakes head].
i never had r-160 rocket that had seemingly split into two parts (warhead, and probably partially working engine) fall next to me .

did you ? how many people experienced it ?
p99 for the same reason has been used widely in monitoring systems and benchmarks.
I think the only effective solution will be for cities to start banning gas powered leaf blowers. I'd definitely vote for that.
I try to find the humor that our global manufacturing is so absolutely broken and encouraged by our politicians that Chinese crapware makers don't need to do anything but slam the keyboard for their "company name"... And the world lines up to buy it.
Lower Decks is to Star Trek what some of the later series like Mandalorian and Rogue One are to Star Wars. Luckily, stuff like this still gets made!
It's even easier today with web browsers being the ubiquitous app platform, and the VB equivalent being https://retool.com/
> Progressive enhancement is a strategy in web design that puts emphasis on web content first, allowing everyone to access the basic content and functionality of a web page, whilst users with additional browser features or faster Internet access receive the enhanced version instead.

Why isn't this still the norm?
This really looks like crocodile tears, given that the constraint on the number of residency program slots is exactly what the AMA asked for. [1] To put it another way, "Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining."

The AMA doesn't do anything so gauche as directly controlling things, but it is absolutely the power behind the throne.

> Lawmakers received cover from the American Medical Association (AMA), the Association of American Medical Colleges, and other major stakeholders in American medicine who endorsed caps on funding for residents and other graduate medical education programs. In March 1997, months before the Balanced Budget Act was enacted, the AMA even suggested reducing the number of US residency positions by approximately 25% from 25,000 to fewer than 19,000.

[1] https://qz.com/1676207/the-us-is-on-the-verge-of-a-devastati...
thats not the open source experiment, that's just employers getting comfortable with expecting uncompensated labor in the recruiting process
That's not a parallel argument. It would be a better one if I avoided using Uber because other people used Uber for criminal activity. That's not my stance. My stance is that I avoid Uber because of Uber's criminal activity.
I’ve recently received a scam email with ‘Incoming mail delayed’ subject saying that my mailbox is almost full.

It contained IPFS url with a login form sending data to some hacked site so this is already a standard practice.

It is also a bit amusing when you host your own mailserver for years.
ssh is outdated?
> The US Constitution invested Congress with the power to write legislation.

Then why are lobbyists writing so much of it?
> How large an area was affected by the radioactive fallout?

> Some 150,000 square kilometres in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine are contaminated and stretch northward of the plant site as far as 500 kilometres. An area spanning 30 kilometres around the plant is considered the “exclusion zone” and is essentially uninhabited. Radioactive fallout scattered over much of the northern hemisphere via wind and storm patterns, but the amounts dispersed were in many instances insignificant.

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/chernobyl/faqs
Let neighbors record and turn in the evidence for a bounty, it'll be solved in a few weeks
> The equator will be death

Massive hyperbole. If temperatures increase 4.5 f - in South America, where most people live around the equator will be fine.

Same for Indonesia.

India's population is pretty heavily focused in the North and should will also not all overheat to death.

Don't know about Africa.

Also - moving north if you think the AOC will collapse is a losing strategy. Scandinavia will be colder than Greenland today. Europe will be colder than Canada.
For slowing currents, at least in the long run, there's reasonable evidence that, in the extreme, the ocean becomes anoxic[0], stops producing oxygen and starts releasing hydrogen sulfide instead. It's happened a few times in Earth's history [0] suspected to usually be caused climate change impacting ocean circulation.

Peter Ward's Under a Green Sky does a fantastic overview of this subject, and outlines how most mass extinction events have likely been triggered by sudden changes in atmospheric CO2 through various mechanism.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event
It's a long time coming. Getting something for nothing, doesn't last.
Taxation is the price you pay to live in civilization. You can always give that up. Most people prefer the benefits they get from it though.
I've got a virtual pinball machine standing next to me running Visual Pinball X - it's a fun hobby finding and setting up new tables on it.

It's also worth noting that Zen Studios is best known for Pinball FX which is available in various flavors for just about every platform. https://zenstudios.com/games/pinball-fx/

Good for a casual pickup on your xbox or ipad or whatever you like, and they put a lot of effort into their tables, although it can be pricey to buy a lot of them.
This is great news. I'm trying to move from Idea to vscode and Java support could be better. I think that Jetbrains missed the chance to introduce their tooling to vscode.