skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully expect this account to be banned but checking the bio page is usually a good idea. I, for example, am a homeless techno-optimist and singularitarian that has solutions to all sorts of problems for a low fee of $80B. My solutions involve AI so that's why they're so expensive. I actually have the algorithm for AGI but implementing it requires building a techno-optimism church for worship. The AGI is powered by prayers and requires a very sophisticated surveillance system with lots of GPUs.
Normally if I saw someone with a bio that says:

"homeless techno-optimist and singularitarian. all I need is $80B to solve any problem with AI"

I would assume comments like these are jokes, but on hacker news I'm genuinely not sure.
A shell can be interactive or non-interactive (eg. shell-scripts).

An interactive shell can be a login-shell or a non-login-shell. A login-shell is what you get when you login at one of the virtual terminals of a linux machine. A non-login-shell is a shell started after you logged in (eg. clicking your console-icon in a graphical desktop environment).

An interactive bash will read and execute `bash_profile` (Actually, it will try to read `profile` first, for historic reasons) when it is a login shell, and `bashrc` when it is not.

However, the difference is moot on most systems, since this is what you will probably find in most `~/.bash_profile` files these days:

[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc

aka. all interactive shells, no matter if they are or aren't a login shell will just read `.bashrc`

For completeness sake: A shell run via `sshd` is technically not an interactive shell, as it is started by the ssh-daemon. However, bash behaves like an interactive non-login shell in this case and reads `bashrc`.

Also for completeness sake: All the files mentioned can be system-wide under `/etc/FILENAME` and user specific (`~/.FILENAME`). Bash first reads the files in `/etc`.

The behavior is documented in the manpage `man bash`, under the section `INVOCATION`.
Some ISDN TAs supported data-over-voice for 56kbps per channel. Useful in areas where data calls has per-minute charges but unlimited local "voice" calls were included in the monthly charges.
Way, way too broad. Even arcade machine coins or gambling chips fall under that definition. Do you expect everyone who operates an arcade or casino to seek SEC approval?
In my experience it was more than 20 years ago that this happened. It was when most cars switched to fuel injection. Late 80s, early 90s. Treating a car as an appliance and having it 'just work' became so much easier when fuel injection was invented.

20 years ago was 2003, which is practically yesterday [in my mind...].
Oh wow! I remember playing this as a kid! Thanks for posting this!
I was lucky enough to come across this book in elementary or middle school and found it absolutely mind blowing. In retrospect it exposed me to what are still among the most important ideas sloshing around my brain:

1. The realization of how much of the world has to be “invented.” Latitude and longitude didn’t strike me as an invention, but they are, and more interestingly longitude specifically is a conceptual invention that more or less had to sit downstream of a rather immense physical invention (Harrison’s clocks).

2. “The world has a surprising amount of detail”: as evidenced by looking at H1, H2, etc… there’s a lot you have to account for to achieve the apparently simple task of measuring time aboard a ship.

3. The social components to invention/discovery/progress: The competitions, funding/lack thereof, the need for “evangelism” around the different approaches, the need to find patrons (VC’s basically) to create a breakthrough, etc.

This book would make a great gift to an intellectually-inclined young person in your family!
Poll: How Does Your Company Deal with Mistakes/Failure?
Well, given the disagreements about how failure is treated in the workplace, I thought it'd be interesting to see how different employers handle screw ups on the job.

So let's assume something massive goes wrong. Customer details get leaked, the site goes down for 24 hours, important tables get dropped from the database, or the whole IT network goes boom, stopping anyone from doing work for days.

How does your company deal with this complete catastrophe?
Eh, they don't care and mostly ignore it
It's treated as a learning exercise, at least for first time mistakes
The team/individual responsible gets screamed at in meetings, becomes unpopular
The team/individual responsible is sacked
Still doesn't load here but my IP changed, so it is geoblocked.

This is the first time I saw a website simply firewalling a country (or ASN?); typically you get a proper error message.

Works from a Dutch mobile IP address so the site is indeed up (bless mobile data tunneling traffic through their home countries)
Also Stalwart Mail supports JMAP which is a nice protocol. Not sure how many email clients support it yet though. If I were to host my own mail I'd probably go with Stalwart as it provides a single binary/service for running imap, jmap, smtp, etc. No need to fiddle around with Postfix, Dovecot, etc.
Might be because Flutter is very popular outside your bubble.

I noticed a huge explosion of interest coming from third world countries prior to pandemic where money is tight.

China BigCos are adopting it.

If you go to hi-tech forums in India, lots of participation around flutter too.

That's two most populous nations in the world by large margin so you can keep looking for stats while they're chugging along :)
I don't mind the funding, but inclusion in a journal dresses it up with the blessing of a Scientific Result if the news ever cite it.

We could have a separate kind of journal for not-yet-reproduced results, and somehow ensure that the prestige is zero (or equivalent to just posting the study on a blog).
The trash detectives are iirc looking for people who throw out trash without using the taxed bags, not for people who aren't sorting recycling correctly. I've heard of people being fined for not using the proper bags but never for just tossing things in the regular trash.
Tesla cars, including the Cybertruck, are much less likely to run over things, including kids, than most every other vehicle. There are distance sensors around the entire perimeter of the car that give you a visual and audio queue for when you're close to stuff, and there's cameras that also cover 360 degrees that show pedestrians and other obstacles on the navigation screen.

The people at Tesla have a lot of fun even with the Cybertruck: why aren't the windows also bullet proof to small arms? Well, because it'd have to be really thick, and we recommend instead that you simply duck when shot at.
OK:

(1) The term “security” means any note, stock, treasury stock, security future, security-based swap, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement, collateral-trust certificate, preorganization certificate or subscription, transferable share, investment contract, voting-trust certificate, certificate of deposit for a security, fractional undivided interest in oil, gas, or other mineral rights, any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege on any security, certificate of deposit, or group or index of securities (including any interest therein or based on the value thereof), or any put, call, straddle, option, or privilege entered into on a national securities exchange relating to foreign currency, or, in general, any interest or instrument commonly known as a “security”, or any certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing.
Do you think it took less than a day to implement "ludicrous" mode?
Modern turbo designs (most anything in the last 25 years, at least) use water cooled turbos and convection keeps the water flowing after the engine is turned off. This is why we don't use turbo timers any more.
Thanks!
It should be out in a week or sooner if I see extra interest from the audience.
Transitions and Transforms weren't available in 1999. Proper CSS animation with keyframes was first available in 2009 and even then browser support wasn't great -- lots of polyfills like 'moz-' and 'webkit-' were required.

jQueryUI was miles ahead in terms of delivering cross-browser compatible UI animation, so why bother with CSS3 animation which wouldn't work on IE8?
I kept thinking each "improvements" is likely making the animal miserable. e.g. making the cow extremely top heavy couldn't have been comfortable.
Visual effects model design [video] (1980)
In the US too.
Where did you get that definition? It seems to be trivially false because it includes all sorts of classic non-security commodity contracts like corn, oil, etc. And stocks are not negotiable yet they are securities, so the definition seems to fail on that front too.
I've never heard these pops but I've also never supercharged in the cold
Interesting! I am living in Catalonia now, but in Barcelona. I haven't seen (or paid attention) to a wall like that. Will pay more attention and try to find some nearby. Thanks!
It’s not difficult, it’s just not a priority for me. I fiddle with computers all day at work. I don’t watch enough television to justify prioritizing that kind of set-up.
Anybody in the web animation sector likely already has After Effects, which can be made web-ready with the Lottie plugin.
Well, it probably won't play YouTube video or be able to run Google Spreadsheet. It's for the simple web (simple being a meliorative here, in the spirit of the Gemini project that this TUI browser supports).
That is the evap leak testing pump. It pressurizes the tank briefly to test the effectiveness of the cap.
Given the size of the country and taxing situation, 2100 seems low for the US, and 1000 very high for France.

Must say something about the quality of life.
Is a negative number a good thing or a bad thing? Maybe its a good thing and the country managed to equalize wealth more. Unlikely, but maybe.
Mutable.ai (YC W22) Is Hiring AI Engineers
> no transactions can be conducted if there is no electricity or device to conduct the exchange of crypto

Same is true for fiat. Vast majority of transaction volume happens in computers these days.
A hybrid chemical-biological approach can upcycle mixed plastic waste
That is nowhere near what I was saying, I'm saying that this is the quote that resonated most with me because it tries to take away yet another thing that protects us all, not just criminals, businesses, and criminal_businesses
Now that they're in use for a while, does real life observation confirm or deny the reports during development, claiming it's a jack of all trades master of none, "a failure"?
the song referenced in the puzzle is an absolute banger btw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIIT9hO1EZE
Why? I have read your comment before reading the article but could not find what you are referring to.
I could never get into those. All the 3d Zelda games are not Zelda they are something else. Not saying they are bad, but they aren’t really Zelda.
I don't tell anyone I play wordle, because my version of fun is using (rip)grep against /usr/share/dict/words to practice my regexp skills. "Ruins" the game, but in the process, creates a new one.
Yeah, I've never seen a codebase more terrifying. It's a wonder that thing manages to work as well as it does
Because it’s all encrypted and your router can’t decrypt it. That’s for your benefit
Yeah, those are the chips where memory bandwidth actually regressed for two generations in a row. Going from 256-bit to 192-bit to 128-bit in the xx60 segment would have been reasonable if they'd used the faster DRAM that the more expensive cards get, but the 4060 also got a much smaller memory frequency boost than its bigger siblings.
We could, but I doubt it would stop the news from picking stuff up. They often go with press releases anyway, not a journal citation. You would need incentives on the news side then to stop that.
Is (or could) Offpunk be made as two parts: the browser and persistent caching proxy? The persistence of the proxy could be enabled and any content browsed by any browser cached. There could be issues with modern web/js pages not being able to naively run from cache, so safer to store the rendered documents.
My whole life, I've been lied to. Thank you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: America is declining RAPIDLY [video]
I used chat gpt to explain what a complex line in a bash script was doing. Though to be fair if I'd spent a day in man pages and Google I'd probably have learned a lot more than just being given the answer.
Which makes think in the long run gpt may result in worse programmers.
Jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than master of one.
Lost luggage: What do the airlines do with it?
Given that I've been hearing that China's ten years away from collapse for the past 20, ill believe it when I see it.

The reason people with means leave isn't because of impending collapse, it's because life is better overseas, today.

Or because they got their money in shady ways, and aren't interested in dealing with the consequences of getting caught.
If C hadn't been standardized by ISO, I wonder if C implementors would have eventually added stuff like this just because they found it useful.

Or if C had been standardized, but C++ didn't exist, maybe they would have added features like this simply because contemporary languages like Object Pascal and Ada 95 supported object oriented programming better in practice.
Not really, as with using something like the diamond that was hidden by the driver.
They are rentier states. That’s their business model.
You get far out enough, and there wasn't the effects of a freak winter storm that brought below freezing weather and snow to a state that doesn't usually have them though.
Where has the SEC stated whether they consider the second largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, to be a security or not (and thus under their jurisdiction or not)?

If "missing criteria" is nothing but a PR soundbite, perhaps I missed where the SEC shared that criteria.
Yes, 6144x3456@60 was working, but not at 30bit, only 24bit. Sonoma fixes that part (for me)
Sean Carroll & Jennifer Ouellette are trash hacks. They wouldn’t know quality if they where asked to write about it.
I found it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrZ7PnolbQ4
Babashka
It excludes primary real estate.
Its a private repository, only users with licenses can view this.
I actually think it's far better to pair program with ChatGPT instead of another human.
The thing is that in military, it’s extremely difficult to predict ahead of times what exactly you’re going to need. So a jack of all trades may be exactly what they need.
I hope Affinity begins seriously competing with lightroom. Wonderful products with a wonderful pricing structure (first software I've bought) (and only software I've bought in the creative field (I use blender, kicad, and resolve))
Exception thrown trying to launch on iOS
That’s not really the case. The government mostly just makes one law that says “hey, bank, it’s your responsibility to know your customer and their source of wealth and God forbid you can’t when we come asking”.

I wonder what proportion of all Americans have actually had any kind of material interaction with KYC/AML. My guess is it’s approximately none of them.
Got a link? Frustratingly the App Store search didn’t surface anything, but neither did Kagi.
The Concept Layer for Data Teams
How is this under arbitration not criminal charges? A director taking funds from the production to gamble them on crypto seems like it's wildly illegal right?
Scavengers (sci fi short) [video]
This is the short that got the creators a full series deal on HBO Max, which is called Scavengers Reign.

It is the most transcendent science fiction that I have experienced in years.

If you are a fan of science fiction at all, I would highly recommend giving it a try.

The full series has dialogue and more traditional story, but still has a focus on this incredibly imaginative alien biosphere. Also, while the quality of the animation is improved in the full series, it is still in a hand-drawn style.
It's a complete success.

There is an order backlog of hundreds from various countries, and due to economy of scale the price went down significantly ($200 mil -> $80 mil)

French is upset that EU countries are ordering this instead of an EU made plane.

> F-35 Production Challenged to Keep Up with Demand

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/f-35-production-challenged...

It's the right plane at the right time (Ukraine war, EU militaries pathetic state)
This is migration and not creation/destruction of HNW.
Yes, technically that's what it's called, but all I do on my mac is click on the second icon from top right of my screen, click on screen mirroring, and choose my AppleTV.
True enough, but is there something less-great? Or not-so-bad?
> It's not obvious what to do with long-running background tasks though.

You avoid them and chunk the work into pieces.

That's what every framework for long-running tasks do; that's what people that write them by hand ends-up doing after the first or second time they fat-finger a CTRL-C.

That's the only way to make those tasks viable.
2) you can issue some kind of physical money then periodically settle crypto. It’s not all or nothing.
Show HN: Building an Investment Management Powerhouse
The idea for Stockle came from simply having no usable tools to track, manage and explore investments.
It felt like every single one existing platforms lacked even the most basic functionalities. In addition the UIs were not focusing on user experience.

The lack of detail in the existing platforms led us to try out a different approach to investment management.

Focus points for Stockle have been Modern UI, Detailed coverage on investments and flexible portfolio creation. For future we are focusing on even more personalised features.

Feel free to put Stockle-beta to test whether you are an investor or not! Many features still under development but core features are there!
Maybe it can even spark up your inner Warren Buffet.
Feedback is also appreciated!
It is made of 3 different parts:

- netcache (caching and network)
- ansicat (terminal rendering)
- offpunk (browsing)

So you could use only the cache part
I mean, percentage wise it's likely the majority of jobs in software engineering are in fields where people won't get killed if things go wrong. Very few people die because a website goes down, a video game or desktop program has bugs in it, or most businesses lose a bit of money/have downtime.

Yes there are definitely fields where people could be killed if things go wrong, perhaps in software for cars, planes, spacecraft or medical devices. Or for dangerous fields like logging or mining, or the military.

But I suspect the ratio of people working on software that's mostly/entirely harmless compared to software that has lives on the line is probably like 80:20.
Thanks, but not my style, sorry! I've been doing PoW mining since 2014 and have so many stories, I've forgotten half of them. I wouldn't even know where to start on trying to document any of it.
how do you play that one?
They haven't really been properly combat tested, for example in SEAD/DEAD. But then many platforms haven't been. And the Israeli Air Force did go as far as publicly post selfies from over Beirut :). You also have to wonder how come locations in Syria keep exploding every now and then.
It's a classic blockchain fallacy that a 51% attack allows you to print the underlying crypto at will.

As for the developers, they could write code to print a billion bitcoins if they wanted to, but for it to take effect everyone's gotta agree to run it.
Newer cars don't make as much noise. My 2019 Model 3 was a popping banging noisemaker at the supercharger. My 2023 Model 3 barely makes any sounds at all. So they've clearly done some work to lower the sounds.

> The clunk noise from brakes could be engineered away by using stainless steel spring clips to prevent the pads being able to wiggle around in the calipers (used by many manufacturers already).

I've owned a lot of performance cars, and I don't know of any that didn't make noise. You're thinking of floating calipers, which are quieter and what most appliance cars use. Tesla is using fixed calipers, which most manufacturers only put on their performance trims. Making a bit of noise is just the nature of that design.

And the brakes aren't Tesla designs anyway, they're Brembo just like almost every other OE fixed caliper setup. I think Brembo knows how to make brakes.
Why 75 Percent of Indian Women Are Unemployed [video]
I don't agree. Less noise means less vibration and harshness which means more mechanical reliability. It is economical to pursue at all price points.
Yeah ok but most science doesn't need a supercollider. Most of the erroneous science is in the social sciences, psych especially, and there really isn't any equivalent of a supercollider in psychology. The only possible equivalent is a massive study of like 200+ subjects but once you're at that scale you can be pretty confident that your statistics have converged, anyway. The real issue is low sample size(<100 although most studies done are <30) psychology studies which are by and large relatively easy to reproduce.
So, it's really easy to learn but you already have to know what you're allegedly learning to be able to call bs on the parts that are fake?

How is this helpful?
How is asking about the architecture of this site least interesting and lowest in information? Your opinion is the least interesting and lowest in information.
Since then, a large number of European countries have ordered more than 300 F-35 jets which usually won in competition over the latest block F-16s, Grippens and Dassault Rafales.

I think that speaks for itself - problems or no, F-35 is pretty much full generation ahead of competition, is (now) reasonably priced for customers. While it might not be superior in a single role, it does most roles well, has bigger range than most previous gen gets and has a sensor/avionics suite that is currently way ahead of competition (at least one we know about).
Yes, and so consider the possibility that some people see this as a problem to be solved and not an unchanging fact of reality.

Sure but there are a significant number of people who feel the same way about government generally, or the ban on perpetual motion machines.
There are around a hundred million highly educated people who can't get work because their families make them stay at home.

This surely represents an opportunity for some entrepreneur.
> I can't imagine anyone who truly understands the current replication failure rates thinking that a single non-replicated study is valuable for anything other than informing what replications should be attempted.

Sounds like a good idea to have a system of academic publishing that incentivises people to produce replications and similar studies then (and an academic norm of quoting multiple studies that support or oppose hypotheses)

And all that making any research that involves novel research unpublishable until someone else decides to dedicate their time to replicating the experiment from your little known working paper would achieve would be limiting incentives to experiment, especially in fields where it's perfectly possible to publish with statistical reexaminations of existing data (often flawed in other ways) instead.
without 404, how will I force my collection of funny 404 images onto the world:
https://tenor.com/view/dog-moon-moonlanding-landing-nasa-gif...
I feel like Flash was a technology that served to bridge the gap until faster cheaper internet and video streaming / hosting became mainstream.

These days, the demand is still there, but too niche, with people primarily using mobile device for content consumptions, and plenty of rich media content available in form of videos.