skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fossil can work ... as an http server

FWIW/FYI, Fossil's developers do not typically run it that way - we use its builtin server primarily for the "ui" command and ad-hoc syncing across systems where setting up a web server is unnecessary or undesirable. The public-facing Fossil instances, for the core project and all of its sibling projects[^1], have Fossil running as a CGI.

That's not to say that you cannot or should not run the Fossil standalone server, just that those closest to the project typically do not run it that way (though i believe that Warren does so, via Docker, behind an nginx reverse proxy?).

[1]: that is, all projects headed up by Richard Hipp.
It’s Portuguese. It’s the same in the Lua codebase [1].

[1]: https://github.com/lua/lua
I’d love your opinion on the right way to do this! Being able to call APIs means network permissions- which i was trying to avoid. Maybe via Stdin / Stdout?
Cofounder of DigitalOcean here, I might have some relevant experience =]

Started in the web hosting space 20 years ago, back then it was just managed hosting, then virtualization, and eventually we built DigitalOcean as a product business offering cloud computing (though the initial iteration was more of a VPS with grander visions).

I don't think there is anything wrong with being in the colocation space. Instead of assuming you are in the wrong space, maybe ask yourself why it may be the right space. In order to compete with AWS and DigitalOcean you will need a bunch of programming and a decade to build out a fully featured cloud (Maybe you could do it in 5 years).

But personally I think the datacenter space is fantastic. And if you look at what has happened in the datacenter space in mature markets like the US there is a ton of consolidation. And any provider that sets up a decent datacenter from the concrete foundation up gets acquired for a rather sizable return.

You could join the race that everyone else is in (Cloud, AI, etc.), or you can look into becoming a large datacenter provider in your developing country. Because that is significantly harder in other aspects (physical construction vs virtual), but at the same time also quite lucrative. Just look at Equinix. They certainly aren't doing poorly at all.

And btw, it's easy to see other people's success and think that you should be further ahead, but I just wanted to say that we all start at 0 and then go to 1 before we can get to 1,000 and beyond and so congrats on building a business from scratch that looks like it's doing well.
That makes sense, would you agree to the revised statement:

"We already know Apple cooperated with the spy agencies behind the publics back"?
Not sure if two weeks and 2,800 km submerged count as short distance:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_212A_submarine

The reason why those systems aren't deployed to civilian surface ships is easy: cost.
That’s a core purpose of the project!
It should already be (we support passkeys as an MFA method, but not as a password replacement yet).
Trying to remember where I've read this in the past. I used to follow AskHistorians on Reddit and a quick search shows questions about him being asked quite a bit, for example here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1ppmsm/comme... (it's not all negative!). There are a ton of other threads too.
Property in the form of “excludable and rival” was invented when we had to start hoarding megafauna- aka nomadic cattle herding.

This preceded agriculture.

I have an additional hypothesis that agriculture actually came out of having to feed livestock rather than trying to feed people directly
> The vast majority is financing.

The financing for nuclear is expensive primarily because:

1) The costs of construction are so high - so huge amounts of financing needed.

2) The amount of time before investors see any ROI is very long.

A long time ago, when electricity markets were fully monopolized end to end, the long-term ROI on nuclear and other generating assets was guaranteed by the government, and the financial risk was borne by society.

Now, electricity markets have been liberalized (at least at the generation level). Simultaneously, far less capital-intensive generation technologies have been created (renewables, combined-cycle gas, and increasingly storage). These technologies provide an earlier ROI for risk-averse capitalists.
I made the jump from Android fairly early on when I realized that phones are terrible general purpose computers and that I mostly just use it as a phone - i.e. use almost exclusively the restricted subset of features that’s typical of smartphones. I lose nothing moving to the iPhone and gain a better UX (no crap installed by carriers or anyone else for the matter) and get better post sales care (long term updates and quick security patches).
I'm guessing the reasons why the escalator angles are so steep is because the height between the floors haven't been increased for greater clarity and are not to scale.
It's not about the size of the models, it's about the size of the training data.

Humans are able to begin to generalize with a single persons experiences over less than a year, so the fact that LLMs cannot with billions of person-years of information could be an indicator of their inability to generalize no matter how much training data you throw at it.
"People will learn to forego "bathing" in electricity at night endlessly. For decades we've been spoiled with ridiculous "energy on a tap" that just gives us oodles at the flick of a switch, and we just need to take that away."

I take it you live somewhere warm in the winter. We are already looking at removing other heating options like propane and natural gas furnaces, coal and oil heating is mostly phased out, and burning wood isn't great for the environment either. So electrical heating is necessary anywhere where its normal to freeze for several months. Telling people to stop bathing in electricity at night when that what keeps them alive is bullshit.

"micro-grids are the future. Small communities with mini-grid-scale batteries and sharing of electricity will take over this stupid "national synchronized grid" idea that has gimped our ability to be agile wrt local energy generation."

Why don't you ask Texas residents how not being part of the national synchronized grid worked out for them 2 years ago?
What if you needed a full commercial grade license and permit to give some home baked cookies to your co-workers?

edit: Or if we go to the extreme of nothing except the action and potential for negative impact mattering then you'd need a license to give those cookies to your own kids or even yourself.
Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring PMs, Engineers, Data Roles (Remote)
Thanks! I had thought I remembered Synergy being open source. I haven't used it in a while, so it's good to know there's alternatives.
Wow did not know about this KCSP program or Pager Duty.

Will look into them, thank you!
Can this browser virtual machine be used with Pharo images as well? I enjoy it, but my time programming in Pharo took a hit in the past months, because my workplace tightened the restrictions on software allowed on workstations, so I don't have it installed at my work machine anymore. Currently only Python, R, PowerShell, spreadsheets and the browser JavaScript are available, leaving me the weekends to play with everything else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Water_Tunnel_No....

was under construction from 1970. I believe it's had 3 generations working on it.
Because it’s new york, sometimes the cats lose to the rats. https://youtube.com/shorts/g-PXxTkPQ3c?si=02VGLetMiroJz_FP
1) Japanese, it's a survival skill for me now, moved to Japan a little bit more than a year ago, only to find out my friend lied to me, they don't speak English here;

2) C/Rust, career development requirement, we have some codebase without maintainer, I want to take them over;

3) Deepen my knowledge in cognitive sciences, explore memory and attention.
How is it not? You can literally piece together an OS with precisely what you want, and nothing else. Gentoo, Arch, LFS, and NixOS all come to mind, with varying levels of complexity and repeatability.
Was frontend during that time consisting of more things?
"Google announces even worse quality control and lack of ability to talk to a human responsible for issues with your ads"
Docs Deserve More Respect
Yes, that's what I mean, thanks.
It's fine for a vendor to completely abandon 10 year old hardware but if you can still pay 30% App Store tax/pay for iCloud/etc, the security fixes should be backported as well. The current situation is charging full price for inferior (or maybe even dangerous) product: Apple wants to have its cake and eat it too.
Exactly. Furthermore, it's not like we can go back 40 years and make stronger investments in nuclear from back then. The need to decarbonize is so massive right now that it doesn't make sense to invest a ton in technology that will only be "ready" in 2055. By that time renewables (and the storage infrastructure that will be required) will have an insurmountable lead unless large scale fusion becomes viable.
Your life may be morphing into a Blumhouse movie
Unified diff?
As a French living in Japan, I can tell that it's the same thing for cheap companies that don't care about the code quality, but with an even worse mix of characters.

To reuse your example, I've seen things like that:

void deleteお問い合わせ(Map[] otoiawase)

I haven't seen old enough codebases to have encoding issues, but I bet that it would make me shrug the next time I see an Ã©.
> the intensity of the Indian government effort to discredit and strong-arm Apple disturbed executives at the company’s headquarters, in Cupertino, Calif.

That sounds like it'll give food for thought to potential ramping up of Apple manufacturing in India over the coming years.

"Let's hold off on the India plans for now..." kind of thing.
You're confusing 2fps with 1-screenshot-every-2-seconds (or 0.5fps), what the README actually says).

I wouldn't be surprised if the battery issue is problematic, likely will result in at least some kind of battery life reduction, but perhaps not 30 or 50% at 0.5fps.

I haven't looked into the code, but if you're running ffmpeg, then battery life will likely take a hit depending on what exactly you're doing. Video encoding _can be_ heavy on the CPU/GPU.
Looks to also be OSS

https://github.com/raindropio
The article mentions iodine is apparently not changing the taste of salt in blind tasting. Do you have information to the contrary?
I don't know the overlap of anime & HN, but it would be really cool to see the events of Jujutsu Kaisen mapped out on here too. They do a really good job of using real landmarks and scenery in the show.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JuJutsuKaisen/comments/17w7v9x/juju...
Our Digital Lives Are Too Fragile
The French never stopped building them all over the world and they still are over budget and overdue.
That’s another way of saying, “Well I have no idea, but in the abstract I want the government to use force to prevent people from doing things that hurt themselves.” And I’m saying that’s impossible, and in trying to do the impossible you will hurt society.
I was going to comment the same thing... it's a lovely metaphor and you can see it comes from the experience of someone who has been through it before.

Despite being about private property, I still think this bit of text or something like it should be added to the support page of most OSS projects.
A Cheetah Preparing to Strike Inspired the Canon EOS R7's Design
Ask it to draw an image of a unicorn in SVG format instead.

I've did this and got a result. Asked for a cat wearing a hat. It drew a circle with dots as eyes and sorta-whiskers with lines and a triangle for the hat. All using just SVG vector code.

The claim is result shows that there is understanding of not just words about cats and hats and connections to shapes but also a bit of spatial awareness in the x,y coords needed on the SVG canvas to place the shapes.

I was able to do with with several different little characters / cartoons in SVG and while it completely fails every now and then it was better than I would have thought.

I think it has been exposed to SVG (via the web) way more than LaTeX vector drawings.
Federating under the US Constitution: A libertarian alternative to the UN [pdf]
It doesn't bother me for drinking, but I've gotten in the habit of keeping an open (loosely covered would probably work too) pitcher of water in the fridge for making coffee, so it sits at least overnight before use, and dissipates some (having already served its purpose.)
Just ate our apartment cat—-thanks for that advice.

Wait now I need a new one
Pretty interesting stuff.

I'm just wondering how you manage the limitation of context length.
Gadzooks! You're right! If only NYT had realised the secret to success was spewing out articles reacting to other articles reacting to other articles, they would all have been millionaires!
Emails ending up in a unified contact is very common. You sync with Apple or Google or whoever and they generate contacts then dedupe on the device for a unified list that contains all of the contact methods.
A lot of folks seem very angry about this and are making some broad statements with no specific citations. Can someone please give me a specific quote from the bill and explain how that will for sure be detrimental to open source projects?
That's convenient. Typically one of the markers of good science is reproducability. How can we trust any of the information coming out of these studies if it can't be reproduced?
Thanks for the clarification, I was also surprised this was not a headline in the main media.
And then the service stops, for business reasons, and the user is left holding the bag.

This is very much the opposite of the spirit of free software. It's a feudal system.
how are the cardiac side effects? I tried and failed on a variety of stimulants because of tachycardia.
Does Roomba have any physical/sensor/whatever advantage over supported models, either absolute or bank/buck?
Well known would imply multiple sources. I see none.
Hans Bethe guessed based on the information available to him at the time.

But there was information not available to the West prior to the end of the Cold War.

In December 1991 two US atomic scientists, Danny Stillman and Nerses Krikorian visited the head of the former Soviet nuclear program, Yuliy Khariton [1]. In their discussions, the Americans realized that even Khariton was not aware of the extent of the Soviet spying. In any case, Khariton had a very dubious recollection of who came up with the idea of the radiation implosion (the Teller-Ulam design). This was such an ingenious idea that if it had indeed originated with one of the Soviet scientists, it would have been memorable. By the way, the Soviets did come up with a thermonuclear design, dubbed "layer cake" in the US. But it was an inferior design that resulted in a yield of only 400 kT (the RDS-6 test [2], in August 1953), which was achievable with fission only. In March 54 the US detonated a few hydrogen bombs, and indeed, the Soviets collected radioactive debris. However, Khariton told Stillman that that information was not helpful, aside from the confirmation that higher yields are somehow possible.

Throughout the month of March 1954 the Soviets played with a few ideas, but none was good. Then, miraculously in mid-April 1954, Khariton claims that his deputy Yakov Zeldovich [3] came up with the idea of radiation implosion. But other Soviet nuclear scientists that Stillman and Krikorian interviewed stated that they never heard Zeldovich confirm that story. Moreover, one of these scientists , Lev Feoktistov stated quite candidly "We had neither drawings nor accurate data from the outside, but we were prepared to catch hints and half-hints. I can't shake the feeling that in those times, we were not completely independent"

Stillman put all these things (and quite some more) in a book, The Nuclear Express [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulii_Khariton

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_4

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Zeldovich

[4] https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Nuclear_Express/qLT...
> Wind is not reliable

I think what you mean is that wind alone is not baseload, not that it is unreliable. It is quite reliable in that its availability is predictable such that it can be coordinated with storage to create virtual baseload. Therefore its failure modes are relatively mild in impact.

In contrast, large centralized plants (whether combustion or nuclear) have far more consequential failure modes - for example, losing 1GW of power with little notice, as can happen with these plants, is usually a grid emergency event.
I mean, if you go through the Apollo program contractors it's a who's who of aerospace. Boeing, North American Aviation, Grumman Aircraft, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, Bell Aerosystems, Rocketdyne...

Electrical parts ran at aviation-standard 400hz. Aviation gyroscopes and aviation instruments. Structural parts made of aviation aluminum alloys. Astronauts that are all airplane test pilots. I can imagine doing Apollo from complete scratch (using car manufacturers that have to invent aluminum-handling tech starting from nothing) but it would have taken a lot more than the decade Apollo took.
Indeed, what's next, putting all of one's personal email correspondence on the cloud? Some kind of personal device that one carries around in his/her pocket with constant cloud connectivity and gps?
I will have to ask the old lady who swallowed the fly.
I take a specific D/K supplement that also has iodine for this reason. It was surprisingly difficult to find one that had it.

[edit]: This one, for the curious, although I get it from Vitamin Shoppe, not direct

https://www.lifeextension.com/vitamins-supplements/item02040...
More importantly, Roomba charges per square meter covered (by tier obviously). While it is resting most of the day and could well cover another floor, it’s a feature the base models don’t have.

Let’s say this option costs 100€. Should all users of Valetudo donate 100€?
Alligator. When winter comes they freeze to death.
One persons debug tool is another’s back door.
> it’s called professional accountability

Professional does for money, by definition. That doesn’t apply for most open source. RedHat employee contributing to Linux kernel is an exception, not a rule.
Makes sense. Chewing cud takes a long time.

On a vaguely related note: When I cradle a chicken it relaxes on my side and the eye closes. If I can peek over to the other side its eye is wide awake. This causes me to giggle uncontrollably, waking up the eye close to me.
Cloud support - fine. Cloud requirement to be of any use - one should only buy it if he's ok with a Chinese company knowing his name, where he lives, when he's at home and when not, which room is the kids', and pretty much everything else.
I could think of two possibilities off the top of my head:

1. It’s easier to find developers who are skilled in the more popular languages.

2. Using a language is more than just its syntax and semantics; the ecosystem of tools and libraries for the language matters a lot, especially for commercial development. Interoperability between the language’s infrastructure and the desired platform the system needs to run on or interact with is also key.

I work in machine learning. I’d love to use Common Lisp or a statically-typed functional programming language like OCaml or Haskell, but I work with colleagues who know Python, and we rely heavily on Python’s extensive numerical computing and machine learning libraries. Promoting functional programming languages in this environment is like promoting Plan 9 to those who need Microsoft Office or the Adobe Creative Suite.
Chinese launch startup Galactic Energy raises $154M for Pallas-1 reusable rocket
Related:

Polish Hackers that repaired DRM trains threatened by train company - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628635 - Dec 2023 (142 comments)

Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked competitor rolling stock - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38570654 - Dec 2023 (2 comments)

Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38567687 - Dec 2023 (293 comments)

Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885 - Dec 2023 (360 comments)
Can this be used to treat acromegaly then?
If they don’t take advantage, someone else will. That’s the entire point of what you’re responding to. You are at best attempting an ethics argument but ethics doesn’t always win.

It’s a broken system but this is akin to telling people to solve global warming by making small individual choices: it doesn’t work and we need larger action at the top to force the change.
The images have a © watermark, so all rights reserved? I wish they had a contact button - I'd love to get some prints of the stations I've lived near. I may try messaging them on Twitter.
>largish

Its large. ~40% of homes are 3 bedrooms. ~5% of homes have 5 or more bedrooms.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/206393/distribution-of-h...
No, I won’t agree to context free blanket statements which are specifically worded to imply something which is simply not provably true, especially given evidence to the opposite. If you knew anything about PRISM at all, even the technical details publicly available with the minimalist of effort on your part, you wouldn’t be asking.
Elon mode was previously identified by a guy named greentheonly who has been known for his insight into Tesla software and hardware, often posting explanations of how their services work and peeling back the curtain on things like in-cabin camera computer vision etc.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/20/23767041/tesla-hacker-elo...
How about recognizing that externalities of letting corporations do whats best for their own short term profits are costly to society, and that having safe cheap constant power is a social good that makes having government run nuclear power be a good idea. how about we not let the same people that have spent the last 50 years knowingly destroy the environment and hide their culpability be the ones to make the decision.

how about we as a society finally fulfill the promise of power to cheap to meter that we were told back in nuclears golden age before the carbon industry start the smear campaign against nuclear.
IIRC in USA trademark legislation "doing business" has been defined by caselaw as encompassing acts which would harm another person's business such as giving things away for free. So, if one gives away LibreProgram and that takes significant market share away from ClosedProgram sellers then I am "doing business".

Much as I ardently support FOSS (and similar: open hardware, say) I also think this idea has some use and deserves substantial consideration.

It is difficult to draw the line here, much more difficult than it seems at first, in my personal opinion.
There's no free lunch, but it's still possible to your email out of the cloud, and be quite greedy with your GPS and connectivity. You give that all up if you use a cloud vacuum and install a say Xiami super-app on your phone.
> Standardized food safety practices

Food safety practices only became standardized after regulation was enacted.

> pre-approved and comparatively trivial recipes

That sounds like most software development.

I think you are unwittingly making the case that software development is a lot like food production. Software development is only beginning to get regulated because it is only now reaching the level where it is hazardous to public safety, unlike food production which reached that a long time ago.
This is my concern as well, I think the preponderance of LED lighting could be causing more Myopia because of less IR and perhaps UV