skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I probably sound like a flat-earther

In God we trust. All others must bring data.

It's not my area, so I had to search. It's very difficult to find real data instead of nice drawings. When I was young, the Milky Way was a normal spiral galaxy, but like 5 years ago I notice it was reclasified as a barred spiral galaxy. So, there may be some surprises in the future.

IIUC The idea is that we can get the directions of the stars and estimate their distance and graph them in 3D. It looks like a part of a disk with stripes. If we compare with other galaxies and numerical model, the part we see looks like a part of a barred spiral galaxy.

After a long search, I found this https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/milkyway1.html Read the complete article because their explanantion if better (and probably more accurate) than mine. The important part is that the third image https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/images/milkywa... has the real astromomical data (blue and red dots) and a superimposed artistic image.

I'd love to see a better article with more data.
The Day of a New Command-Line Interface
Oh noooooo. Not the real content on IG!

lol :)
Optimistic File System (OptFS) Implements Optimistic Crash Consistency (2013)
> until it becomes feasible to reduce it to a Google Glass-like form factor

Doesn't Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses do this?
The latest superfood – what's the fuss around microgreens?
I've done this (or rather, had the sender do this) multiple times. I'm surprise that Royal Mail was surprised.
Seems kind of nice, especially knowing that computers were used to augment human work rather than something to slave humans to. This is clear, from these photos at least, since the computer is not the primary mode of interaction between people and either things (like paper) or other people.
I’m assuming the op is referring to relying on a commercial CDN provider’s anycast implementation but I could be mistaken.
Anyone can do it for personal shipments on UPS.com I realized last week when I needed to re-route the package. The seller can do it and so can the buyer. But I also noticed the seller can just cancel the delivery.

Immediately realized it could be used for fraud by pretending to prove the shipment.
Agreed that this is a different situation. If they drop Rosetta then Crossover is gone and Game Porting Toolkit is finished. Also Docker will be limited without x86. I'm using that to run SQL Server on Linux on MacOS for work.
There’s so much hard evidence in this video - you can see real people and hear from them. Then on the tech side there’s - nothing - just some hollow rhetoric. Industries come and go - gold, shipbuilding, tourism. It’s SF’s attempts to keep tech out that pushed house prices so high that the locals had to leave - that’s on them. Every city lost workers in the pandemic and every city except for SF has seen many return - nobody wants to return to somewhere where the streets are in such a dire state and housing consumes their salary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Turing_test
What's always bothered me is that in a world with news articles about Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein, Stallman's own offenses were pretty much just "things he said" (and not "things he did.")

It also seems like that could've launched a thoughtful and clarifying discussion about exactly what the harms were to minors -- but that instead, the conversation focused entirely on Stallman. (Drew DeVault reaches back literally 10 years to assemble the most damning sequence of Stallman quotes -- and then scrutinizes them just to criticize the possibility of narrow equivocations...)
I'm guessing that your intention was to show us https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530 ? It would be better to submit the direct link to the post than to make people scroll through the whole page in order to guess which post you meant.
Who is still using cmd.exe? I understand that there are system processes that still need it, but if you see a human using cmd in the year of our lord 2023, that’s a cry for help!
It's nice when it works, but papercuts still degrade the experience. The M-series chips are really impressive when they get a chance to stretch their legs. It feels like we're still in the chicken-and-egg phase though. I don't foresee that changing unless Apple dumps a ton of money to incentivize publishers to port to Mac, or they do what Valve did and make their own equivalent of Proton - aimed at developers. The licensing on GPTK kinda kills that though.
Something I've never understood about the Turing test: are you allowed to ask things about family, about what they had for breakfast, about where they're located and what's the weather out, about whether they saw the movie than opened last weekend?

Because on the one hand, there are so many obvious gotchas. But if we insist on a test that covers any and all topics, this means that the AI not only has to be intelligent and human-like, but that it can invent an entire totally fictional life full of internally consistent fictional relationships and events, and is also somehow reasonably up-to-date on real world news. Which is way more complicated than anything we're asking a human to do!

So I always figured it was meant to be restricted to some kind of highly controlled domain, like starting with an article to read and then discussing its themes in a "disembodied" way, referring only to generally-known history, and never giving anything away about yourself or what year it is or even who's president. Not using slang language, or having any real "personality" at all. But I've never heard of those kinds of restrictions explicitly being part of the test, so it's left me very confused. (And how do you draw the lines anyways?)
Having just finished watching "Pepsi, where's my jet?" on Netflix, all I can say is fuck Pepsi, and now fuck HP. I'm sick and tired of these big companies thinking they can run roughshod all over the world and their C-suite fat cats thinking they own the world and can do anything they want and not be beholden to the law.
What a legacy. Practically pioneered a new field single-handedly. And a few decades later they did it again! https://youtu.be/5nKk_-Lvhzo?si=fDThIHMS9V1joh-t

Some will say the toroidal de-synchronizer firmware didn't need a significant refactor but those folks are probably still using memory unsafe languages with their 1978 V1.1 differential vortex limiter module.
> he says there isn't persistent cheating

...in titled Tuesday, i.e. when there is a real-life name and chess career on the line.
It could've been the best laptop on the planet and still would not buy. These guys are selling scanners that won't scan because "low ink". I'm going to assume the webcam will stop working after 100 battery cycles because .. power limits or something.
The problem is that this is only a one way street.

All too often large companies can make these kinds of 'mistakes' while the consumer can't.
In my experience only the sender can do this.
Agreed. Kids need the space to develop as you mentioned, and it’s somewhat trivial to determine where to live to avoid children using granular census and school availability data if desired.
https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~vijayc/optfs.htm
https://sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2013/papers/p228-chida...
https://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/optfs-sosp13-...

Applicable to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38378557 as it provides a separate system calls: osync for ordering and dsync for durability. The durability has the same granularity as fsync.
> I also don't blame him for wanting to at least somewhat distance himself from looking like the awkward pimply teenager he once was, and it's association with his accusation of being a sexual harasser.

Probably 0% the above, and 90% changing his look because he got too well-known. His thing is doing more candid interviews, not being recognized as a famous person helps the interview subject relax more.
Ripgrep 14 Released
> how do you differentiate it from a human who does the same

You're begging the question.

If a human gives the same answers, you can't differentiate.

But a human would not give the same answer (empty string) as your function.
The kernel doesn't have to know the current directory's path. It's enough that it know -and retain an open file reference to- the current directory's inode/dnode.

However, if you want things like DTrace, eBPF, or even just reading the /proc/PID/cwd symlink to be useful, it helps to cache the actual path in the kernel. A DTrace/eBPF script will not be able to loop to chase ..s, much less will it be able to do the I/O needed to work out the cwd.

The same applies to the names of the files that each FD refer to.

Caching these things is just for observability.
Or use Fish.
Making God: millenarianism and manifest destiny of AI and techno-futurism
Ehh, these "good/bad" charts often have to follow a specific narrative to make sense, like those Windows ones that pick only certain versions among the NT and non-NT systems for it to follow the pattern. Same for Nintendo - what was the "bad" between NES and SNES?
The Meta Ray-Bans don’t display anything, they just have a camera and audio. So no.
I'm confused, how easy do they think it is to answer the phone, and then use the phone simultaneously for a call while opening their app and (presumably) authenticating with the app in order to get this information?

I can barely handle adding a calendar event while on a call without accidentally hanging up or something, what a weird UI.

Why do they not just contact you via their installed app if they're going to assume you have it installed...
Personally I liked spiders more than dogs. There's more dogs though, and the dogs are enjoyable enough. I need to finish that series. And re-read spiders. All in all both spiders and dogs sit near the top of my personal scifi lists. They're uncomfortable because they're twisting your brain. Just like a good yoga session also can feel awkward or a stretch:)
I’m very much teaching the same thing - an eight week introduction to JS (after 6 weeks of HTML/CSS).

My approach was to lead with one week of unplugged programming just introducing the concepts of CS. Then introducing the fundamentals of variables loops etc using a block based language.

The following week we transition to JS doing one week of fundamentals and after that moving on the DOM and events.

So far I think it has worked out pretty well. A key part is to work both bottom up and top down at the same time until things eventually click.
See my other comment from earlier today[1] – launching 230 external programs (even very simple ones, /bin/[ in this case) takes about half a second. Since I would rate anything as >100ms to be a "noticeable delay" you have a "budget" of about 40 external processes, probably a bit less in real-world conditions (depending on which utilities you're using and what it's doing).

And that's 40 C processes. "python empty.py" takes about 30ms to 40ms due to the interpreter startup time; empty C file is about 2ms, "sh empty.sh" is about 4ms.

Please think that "launching external programs is fast and modern computers are fast, so why worry about this?", and that's true, but it's also not. Add up a few dozen and turns out it's actually quite slow.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38421199
I've had Amazon attempt (but fail to) intercept a package in transit--it was going to be too late, I had cancelled the order and bought it locally. When the shipping e-mail showed up we were on the other side of the world, nobody was around to get $500 of stuff off our porch. Fortunately, no porch pirates and no rain, it was fine when we got home.
How can a corporation represent itself without a lawyer?
The worst part of it is the pseudo le memelord writing style in the first responses and the absolute insane amount of exclamation marks in the final one.
Posted goods belong to the seller until you've got them in your hands.

Royal Mail has some types of tracked packages that can be redirected by the poster.
I know this only works for cli tools right now, but I’d love to be able to run iMessage and Notes on linux.
exactly. i predict some kind of 'chat gpt shell' in the near future.
> We could just change the DNS spec to stop the apex madness. I don't know why nobody ever did

If you mean changing how CNAME works, that can't be done in a backwards compatible way. If you mean adding a new record type, well that is exactly what this RFC does. There have been previous attempts to make RFCs that fix the apex problem, but this is the only one to get beyond a draft. I do think it is odd that it was grouped together with a bunch of other functionality instead of having a dedicated ANAME record type.

I don't know why it took so long to fix the apex problem.
Or also “low ink”.
Most of my friends were drug dealers at one point in my life. I'm used to the idea of not being able to go to the police to solve disputes. These guys who are doing armed robberies know what they're getting into.
PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support
Yeah, I remember being surprised by two things when I first started learning about Unix implementation

* That $PATH is just an ordinary env var, that many programs use by convention

* That CWD isn't, and is in fact a first-class kernel concept. I had assumed that it was just a conventional envvar that stdlibs prepended before passing absolute paths to syscalls

I'm sure there's good reasons why the other way wouldn't work, it just amused me that I'd got it wrong in both ways
Nothing, what’s matter with you?
The blame ultimately does rest on the local government.

The solution to a lot of problems here are more high density housing. The way you get that is taxes and eminent domain to tear down and rebuild. But that will weaken current SF residents political power, so they fight against it. Pushing labor out of the city removes their power to affect change.

The only point I'd bring up about the tech industry is the SF residents putting up these barriers are often old time tech folks that "made it".

I think Seattle has some of the same issues, but at least seams to be handling things a lot better.
Ask HN: Minimal JavaScript for simple UIs with Python back end
Hi all,

My team is primarily using Python and SQL and works with financial data (prices, timeseries, reference data, etc). We need some simple UIs (have tried a ton of low/no-code solutions but don't really like many of them) but have a hard time actually evaluating all of the Javascript options out there. HTMX, alpine.js, and next.js all seemed interesting but I am actually pretty terrible at evaluating options. Ideally we would be able to use a FastAPI backend and have a datatable with graphs linked to the data rendered.

Something like https://perspective.finos.org/ would be perfect (but overkill) but honestly been having great difficulty getting the examples working
What do humans have that LLMs don't
A century is about 3 billion seconds, and Earth's surface area is about half-a-billion square kilometres, so one of these hits Earth about every 6+ seconds.
That sounds similar, though not identical to my rate plan. 7.43 cents from 9pm to 7am, then 11.9 cents until 5pm, and then 32.8 cents from 5-9. Clearly they want people to just turn off everything they can at 5pm.

> just 6 kWh or so of batteries I could completely eliminate my peak power usage

Out of curiosity I took a wild ass guess at what it would take for me.

I usually use about 7 kWh between 5-9pm, so lets say ~$2K for an even 10 kWh of LFP. Probably at least that much more to get a suitably capable 240V inverter and smart transfer switch. My low quality napkin math says at least 20 MWh to break even. I probably wouldn't make that bet. It would take a long time to go net positive and any kind of equipment failure would instantly tank the ROI. And that's also ignoring the time value of money altogether.

If the batteries were free, it would be a somewhat better deal, but still not a slam dunk.
I got a call from Amex fraud prevention and the voicemail explicitly told me to “Call X or the number on the back of your card” which I really appreciated.
Re: number 2.

What if the current standard sucks and your new attempt as a start up is objectively better?

Example: you develop a new connector that has bandwidth that is 10x better than the existing, so you can house different parts that would be considered “non-standard”
I used to use Pocket extensively until I realized it wasn't going anywhere with features. I have since moved to Omnivore [1] and I couldn't be happier.

The devs are also ex-Pocket users and have worked hard to get feature parity and then some. There are mobile apps too for reading on the go (and work offline) which I use extensively when I am on flights. There is a graphql API and webhooks you can use for extending its functionality. Search could be a little better, but I use the labeling system which works well. I also use the logseq integration to keep a persistent log of articles I read on any given day.

[1] https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore
There’s also the other way around it, which is just allowing both regulatory regimes.

The FRA basically just did this for European rail vehicle standards, which are different than US ones significantly. The issue is that the US market is generally too thin to support US-specific passenger rail manufacturers who would happily comply.
Easy to detect AI, ask it "what is your favourite football team"
He's not talking about Hikaru.
Biggest iceberg on the move after 30 years
We switched from Java to Elixir and the change has doubled our productivity. Elixir is the most pleasant language I've every worked with (30+ years in software engineering), so I recommend giving it a try.
Why this over Wine with the Windows executable?
Ask HN: Tech lead role and management career track
I've recently being promoted to tech lead in my team. The CTO said I had a vision for the team that he liked and I seemed to be the most technically knowledgeable in the team. It felt good to have a bigger impact and I'm still enjoying it a few months in.

One think that isn't clear to me is the role of my manager in all of this. I actually report to someone with the director title and he's not very involved in the team's daily activities. Does that make me the manager and not a tech lead?

I'm being asked to do: planning, 1:1's with team members about anything they want to discuss, defining team's practices (around code quality, tests, etc), plan oncalls, sit in meetings with C-levels and answer technical and project management questions of all sorts, figure out HR issues with coworkers (a.k.a. drama), convincing coworkers that they should work on certain projects, etc.

It's my first time as tech lead officially but this all feels a lot like the management career. What do you think? Is this normal or just what happens at this particular company?

I've seen some people with staff/principal titles at this company but nobody knows what it takes to become one. Accepting the tech lead position seemed like the natural progression. But if I want to stay in the technical track, should I start saying no to stuff my manager should be doing?

Asking HR is not an option because things don't seem very well organized. My manager/director doesn't seem to have many answers either.. so I'm trying to learn what is out there in other companies.

Thanks for any advice.
> • Most importantly, it makes fallback and load-balancing available for regular people; just spin up an extra web server somewhere else and add it to the DNS, just like a secondary MX. Mostly no need for a CDN anymore.

That's IF browsers implement this. Browser devs are typically very reticent to add yet more DNS lookups (latency!) to the page loading process.
I also liked the spiders way more than the dogs. During the dogs scenes I just wanted to skip ahead and find out what was happening in the rest of the galaxy.

The spider were just great though!
No, chess cheating is rampant. But it's highly unlikely the professionals are doing it.
And no doubt the voucher is for "full priced items, no deals or sales, may not be combined with any other offer"...
Right now, on HP's own site:

HP Envy laptop: "Price starting at $1,299.99 - Save $600.00 - $699.99".[1]

50%-75% price reductions in laptops are not rare.

[1] https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/dlp/hp-envy-17-laptop
"Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand."
I still rather write Bash scripts or just bust out Python or Perl, but I definitely prefer Fish for terminal usage.
It was specifically a Great Society program meant to contrast with Soviet metros and their ornate architecture. NYC and London have the issue where they were first generation systems trying to figure out what worked and what did not.

DC’s general height limits in conjunction with typical American SFH friendly zoning also do not help utilization.
I guess I forgot to check with you first
AI moderation merely provides the tools for crystallizing adversarial structures of social friction into impenetrable and inscrutable algorithmic tyranny
I genuinely believe both parties should want to buy/sell for a valid contract.

People make mistakes and just because it's a big anonymous company to the author doesn't mean there are people behind mistakes.
Additionally,

$ f=-x
$ cat "$f"
cat: invalid option -- 'x'

$ cat -- "$f"
cat: -x: No such file or directory
# ^-- correct, but:

$ f=-
$ cat -- "$f"
reading stdin...
reading stdin...
^C

$ f=./-
$ cat -- "$f"
cat: ./-: No such file or directory

...better to glob with ./* than *
Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
You weren't supposed to read the article; only the wacky headline.

The article was obviously generated by AI.
This is how my bank handles it as well. I just get a text with the charge line and amount, and it prompts me to reply either YES or NO (or maybe STOP, it's been a while). If I say YES or STOP, it stops payment and prompts me to call whatever the department for that is with a phone number.

It seems to also hint to their fraud system. I think the last one I got was when I was traveling, and it quit asking if the charges were authentic after the first couple.
It has been interesting to watch what could end up being the biggest self-created trainwreck of a rich man in the 21st c: Tesla will not be valued 10X of other car makers forever. Cybertruck is an Elon idea. Deleting sensors other than cameras for autonomous driving is an Elon diktat. Starship has functional requirements impossible for one rocket architecture to meet, because of Elon. He bought Twitter as a means of rage-quitting litigation he was going to lose and it has gone as well as one would think. The movie is going to be a Shakespearean tragicomedy.