skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think airlines are a lot more responsible for verifying design flaws in their airplane than I am in my car. First, they are a giant business which has way more resources to do this. Second, they are selling a service.

If I was running a US taxi service and bought a fleet of flawed Indian cars that caused crashes, I think I would be partially responsible.
Isn't Gemini nano being integrated into all of the new pixels?
You're (maybe) inadvertently on to something there,

> there were printed magazines dedicated to the passtime.

1. (1) pastime, interest, pursuit -- (a diversion that occupies
one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly);

I think what some of us are nostalgic for is when the "Web" was a way
to pass the time. For many it was a cultural curiosity first, then an
entertainment source. At some point it pivoted to being work. It
turned into filing taxes, shopping for insurance, and a place for
maintaining a "professional profile". From what I see of social media
a great many people make it into "work" of a kind. In this
metamorphosis we somehow made the silly web serious and the serious
web silly. Now nobody knows the difference and so the headspace of
"passtime" has itself sort of vanished.
On one hand, yes. On the other, there is a literal massacre of humans happening right now and this censorship is definitely related. So it is very dangerous in a real and urgent way.
Why is my LG Washing Machine using 3.6GB of data/day?
I think virtually all high-end OLED panels are made by either Samsung Display or LG Display.
Stopping driving is only the beginning. Much more impactful would be to reduce the overall population's driving through legislation/taxation.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but birth rates are already pretty low, and, worse than failing to deal with the problem, some people think that is a good thing.
Possible Meissner effect near room temp in Cu-substituted lead apatite [video]
Interview with an author of the recent paper
It seems like an event sourcing database. Basically, instead of writing you write a message, then you can make read-only tables that update based on those messages. People do this today in certain domains but it is definitely more complicated than traditional databases.
Sort of. It averages over them. If you want to dig up some data and make a more detailed estimate, please do so.
Plastics, let alone microplastics, are a rather small problem that seem to get a lot of airspace.

There are no established health effects of microplastics. There are magnitudes worse health problems in e.g. both under and overnutrition that cause a lot less panic and fuss.

https://www.undp.org/kosovo/blog/microplastics-human-health-...
We do go in circles/cycles quite a lot as an industry. I wonder if the trend is back towards SQL, right now, too many teams been burned by Event Sourcing when they just needed a decent SQL DB? Just idle conjecture....
Their thinking is basically if we have mass aircon then our residential energy consumption will skyrocket. New purpose built offices and retail pretty much always have aircon though because they have obvious productivity benefits.

However they also don't encourage passive cooling or low cost active solutions either such have making sure building have pass throughs for airflow, shading of windows, or fan systems. Government seems to be forgetting that current projections have us with Madrid style weather in the next 30 years and we will all be waving our fists.
There was that article the other day about how "no evidence" is an untenably ambiguous phrase to use in headlines. I wonder whether "scholars now argue" and similar constructions might also be an anti-pattern, as they can suggest either a universal consensus or the existence of two scholars on the fringe who hold the view. I suppose the word "argue" may go some distance toward disambiguating in this case, but that could also be interpreted in a few different ways. The article gives more context, but of course most people don't read the full article, thus—at least partly—the need for headlines and subheadlines in the first place. If they are bearing the weight of the whole article, might as well make 'em sturdy.
Is this Rama solution similar to the kind of thing you can get with Kafka with KTables?

If so I'd be curious how they've solved making it in anyway operational less complex to manage then a database. It's been a few years since I've run Kafka but it used to kind of be a beast.
> ”Most microplastic in water come from tires.”

And also synthetic clothes. According to the study they found more plastic fibres than plastic particles in many samples.

These get released when you launder your clothes, ending up in the drain water and ultimately the ocean.

Solution? Buy clothes with natural fibres (cotton, wool, etc) instead of plastics. And wash your clothes in a modern washing machine with a microfibre filter on its drain outlet.
Internal business applications are going to be a lot clunkier than a publicly available web interface.

The reasons are typically:

1. They are designed for a few number of users, so they can automate an internal task. The application seems complicated and uses a lot of language specific to the domain.

2. Generally under invested in. These are great learning projects for people to do, but it also means the implementation will probably be substandard. Work arounds will be discovered for the known bugs, since the users all in the same company anyway. These projects reduce OPEX/COGS, they don't directly contribute to Sales/Revenue, so they aren't as important for the company.
Instead of overlapping generations, there's a gap of a whole generation of 'mainstream' internet users between the geeky amateurs/dial-up internet which arguably ceases being the dominant usecase already in mid-1990s before the dot.com boom starts due to this generation, and the app users which get seriously started only from around 2010.

Those users were large numbers of mainstream non-geeky people, but they used websites on desktop computers, not through the walled garden of facebook on a phone.
Enthusiasts have brought IBM's legendary buckling spring keyboard back (2017)
The reason why everyone disabled their iPhone & iPad apps on macOS is because nobody wants to license their software for unified purchases. Either because they want to charge different prices for each platform (which means they have to sell them separately and charge you twice), or because they're a streaming app with different licensing requirements between mobile and desktop.

This isn't even exclusive to Apple. When Microsoft added Android app support to Windows 11, they also updated the Amazon App Store version of Minecraft so that it'd only work on a Fire tablet, because they want you to buy the more expensive native port. The alternative would be getting rid of the $7 tablet version and making everyone pay $30 for Minecraft just in case someone wants to port their licenses over to Windows.
I don’t know if anyone is trying to rehabilitate them, more like understand their significance. The Mongols weren’t bloodthirsty lunatics; they were pretty advanced in terms of warfare tactics, religious tolerance, and a bunch of other things. They also had a direct historical influence on a million other things (the Black Death, the Mughals in India, etc.)
It's both.

Nix is fantastic. I'm writing this comment on a laptop that has only ever run NixOS.

Nix is also painful to learn. It's painful to use.

That doesn't mean it's impossible, or even that it isn't worth it.

It means that Nix has room to improve.
> 4chan is not an entity onto itself - it is composed of many individuals

It, like every other community, has an aggregate identity built from the contributions of the individuals within the community.

> Additionaly, the official rule 3. of 4chan states [racism is only allowed in /b/]

If you honestly believe that /b/ is the only place on 4chan where you will find racist sentiment you need to have your head examined.
If you donate blood as soon as possible from your last blood donation (per federal regulations), you can remove 50% of your microplastic content per year. Some studies have also shown that going to saunas/sweat lodges also lower your microplastic content.
I personally like Quart, which is like Flask, but with asyncio. Django is also incredibly popular and has been around forever, so it is very battle-tested.
Even after reading this doc [1], I am not clear on who is the target audience and what are you trying to solve? It would be helpful to take a real world example and translate how easy /efficient it would be to do this via RAMA.

[1] https://redplanetlabs.com/docs/~/why-use-rama.html#gsc.tab=0
Universal Native Apps in React
Build more housing near transit
It is curious how the BBC keep going on about it being Fujitsu and them being Japanese, yet the problematic system was developed by ICL in the UK prior to the Fujitsu acquisition.

The whole episode is an utter disgrace.
It might be a subjective opinion but if enough people have the subjective opinion you are writing harangues (which, as you can read, is the case), you get the effect of harangue-writing whether you think you are or don't. So you have to stop the harangue-like writing in order to meaningfully participate. There are a bunch of guidelines and endless moderator commentary about that.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43023-x
It's a dream, a truly beautiful one, but it never works (does it? has anyone pulled it off?). Taking it to an extreme, the entire world needs one integrated database and user authorizations.

Obviously data structures vary, performance is required, and it becomes a bottleneck because it's so critical that mortals can't touch it and every change must be ultra-safe. And then there's security: what if someone finds a way from the development bug section to the HR or executive-only financials sections? Generally, anyone who has tried to implement universal ERM systems knows how difficult and painful integrated systems can be.

But those are the extremes. I'd be interested to know how far people have gotten, and how they did it, pursuing this ideal? I've never seen a business run on one. How about a personal knowledge-management system? Does everything fit? Do you still use spreadsheets for something 'quick', text files for free-form, etc.?
I'm starting to get there though.
How does accounts with 500.000 followers get mistakenly closed by a spambot?

This is obviously related to the cancel-thy-neighbour over Israel/Palestine that is going on at the moment. Mr. Musk is just too shy to admit it.
We are not in control of Earth lol.
Framing things in terms of a victim blaming mindset is a frame that leads to preventable stress because it takes the locus of control away from someone which is a major cause of stress. Focusing on things you can control, like your attitude and perspective, and learning ways to maximize the impact of those things is much, much better for people. I've had a set of life circumstances that are pretty bad objectively over the last couple years and I've been less stressed than nearly any other point in my life because I've been really focusing on gratitude and resilience. I really hope that others can see the same sort of improvements with a similar sort of mindset shift.
There was another posting within the last few months that showed the particular microplastic they studied fit into the same ‘lock’ per lock/key of a biological molecule interaction and prevented the desired molecules from working together. It could be that or a different mechanism.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38322944
> A child in the middle row had his shirt sucked off his body.

You're kind of making my point for me when clothing being removed from a person is the most harrowing part of an aviation incident.
Not in GOG, for some reason.
A few days ago I watched a documentary from Timeline that claims it is time for a different approach to WWI:

> [00:48:51] We have remembered the soldiers and tried to imagine the warfare they endured, but that's got in the way of understanding the great war's full character and impact.

> Of course we can't ignore the mud and the suffering, but I believe that a hundred years on from 1914 it's time to let go of the dead.

> We can't just feel the great war as a piece of poetry, or a stark morality play. We need to understand it as history. History that cast long shadows over the years that followed.

> A hundred years on, the great war still has enduring resonance, but our understanding of it is often a caricatured mixture of mud and death, poets and poppies.

> In this series I want to clamber out of the trenches to explore the deeper meaning of the great war and its momentous legacies.

> One paradox of the war is that it wasn't caused by profound political or ideological divisions but it did create them in its wake.

> The war made politics red-hot. It gave birth to an age of mass democracy with the vote extended to ordinary men and women.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eanOqoHS-ZQ&t=33s
direct link to announcement: https://www.nozominetworks.com/blog/vulnerabilities-on-bosch...

The wrench run Linux, and its management webapp has all sorts of usual embedded vulnerabilities: hardcoded credentials, SQL injection, path traversals (in upload too!), buffer overflows...
Useful to consider how many accounts that are not high profile were deleted and if these high profile accounts were a casualty ofa much more aggressive attempt to silence a segment of voices
then then next question is, what is the criteria being used?
For an airplane designed for farmers, I'll guess that "ugly but functional" is fine. Beauty wasn't a serious consideration for their other agricultural equipment, or barns, or silos, or ...
Interesting. I have an old nook in the drawer.

I made a picture frame project a long time ago (> 15 years according to file timestamps)
https://agol.dk/elgaard/picframe.html

I think it is overkill to use a browser just to show images. feh still works great if you are running linux/unix

I also still would prefer to sync pictures using ssh and maybe rsync on top.
I appreciate the notes even when they are directed against my ideological team/side. They help provide important, missing context or facts. The notes are a not-positive.
One of the first few levels has a tip about double clicking a component to move the component and its connected wires at the same time (double clicking automatically selects the attached wire nodes as well as the component). It could use a bit more polish in the UI department though.
Actually, when done right this dramatically simplifies a backend architecture. Even a low-scale application commonly uses multiple databases (e.g. Postgres plus ElasticSearch) and queues+workers for background work.

Our Twitter-scale Mastodon implementation is a direct demonstration of this. It's literally 100x less code than Twitter had to write to build the equivalent feature-set at scale, and it's more than 40% less code than Mastodon's official implementation. This isn't because of being able to design things better with the same tooling the second time around – it's because it's built using fundamentally better abstractions.
Ask HN: Anyone else find Medium articles to be annoying?
I am an app developer and of course use Google to search for answers sometimes.

Last few months, I have seen a trend of articles hosted by Medium dot com rank top in Google results but when I click on them, they all have an "Upgrade" paywall almost at the beginning of the article.

For example, I just searched for "ios transparent gradient" because I was searching for how to make a transparent gradient in iOS. The top result is by a Medium blog on "betterprogramming DOT pub":

https://i.imgur.com/ZGB711n.png

And it has a paywall asking for Upgrade at the beginning of the article.

Note that earlier, it asked me to login/signup. But when I did signup, it started showing me a paywall instead.

Is there a way to filter out such articles from Google?

Has Medium recently become aggressive at paywalling everything?
Intriguing & interesting
WebAssembly allows you to program web pages in a language other than Javascript.

The above statement might gloss over a lot of very important details: But that mindset also misses the point: The critical use case of WebAssembly, and the problem it attempted to solve, right now, is to creating a webpage in a language other than JavaScript.

Everything else that the article mentions is an impressive feat on its own, but what WebAssembly could do is very different than what it does now. And the fact that now you can program a website in a language other than Javascript (or TypeScript) is a very tangible accomplishment that people who aren't enamored with computer science can appreciate, understand, and repeat.
TIL! I had used qbasic back in school, but I somehow always assumed that these basics were interpreters.
Have we been able to link any real harm to microplastics? I know it sounds bad intuitively. But can we draw a link to any diseases? What if this just amounts to fear mongering?
Working iPhone found on side of road 'likely' fell from Alaska Airlines fligh
Interesting, so we’ve shown it’s possible to _sweat_ out micro plastics in a sauna?
As a DBA, who has managed enough monolithic databases at mid and large sized organizations, there are enough safeguards in today's date to avoid the scenario you described - backups, read replicas, replication to avoid the need for unnecessary distributed databases.
I mean yeah, as an individual. I’d hope for a little bit more stability and reliability in a legal system.
And you won't find it for $80, you only be able to buy bundles with charger, cables and SD card for $120-150. At those price you better buying a second hand NUC or Thinkcentre, or even a Thinkpad.
> basically boil down to "Python is so slow that we have to write any important code in C. And this is somehow a good thing."

I think that's a pretty ignorant interpretation. Python has been built to have a giant ecosystem of useful, feature-complete, stable, well built code that has been used for decades and for which there is no need to reinvent the wheel. If that already describes the universe of libraries that you /need/ to be extremely fast and the rest of your code is IO limited and not CPU limited, why reinvent the wheel?

That makes your comment even more inaccurate because you likely don't need to write any "important" (which you are stretching to mean "fast") code in C -- you utilize existing off the shelf fast libraries that are written in Fortran, CUDA, C, Rust or any other language a pre-existing ecosystem was built in.

Try and think of a language that has mature capabilities for domains as far away as what Django solves for, what pandas solves for, what pytorch solves for, and still has fantastic tooling like jupyter and streamlit. I can't think of any other language that has the combined off the shelf breadth and depth of Python. I don't want to have to write fast code in any language unless forced to, because the vast majority of the time I can customize a great off the shelf package and only write the remaining 1% of glue. I can't see why a professional engineer would 99% of the time would need to take a remotely different approach.
> Putting everything into exactly one database is a superpower. T

Amen. Previous co. had a cargo-cult microservices setup including a separate DB for each app. This made things unnecessarily complicated and expensive for no business benefit (definite resume-padding benefit). Lesson: Don't complicate things until you're forced to.
If their role is not to sit in meetings all week then maybe they should decline the invitations.
Not only that, the RTX 4070 Ti Super gets near the same performance as the RTX 4080 non Super for $400 less. But that's MSRP. I have a feeling this card will be selling for a lot more than that.
[Huge thanks for the detailed reply, esp. network implementations]

Yeah, I'm sorry, too, but I think it was the right choice to give up.

Yes, you can do all the things with JIT you say, but if you look at Jonesforth, and see how it implements the assembler and so forth, you can see just how simple it is, and how much more complex it would be to build a system to deal with r^x protection. That alone might more than double the complexity and code size, maybe even more than that - maybe I'm overly pessimistic. I think it's against the spirit of jonesforth to do so. I couldn't really call the result jonesforth anymore.

BTW, I was planning on porting https://github.com/narenratan/jonesforth_arm64_apl/blob/mast...

which has some lovely APL sugar on top of Forth.

Re: network stack, you're probably right. There ARE 1-2 network stacks in FORTH, but they are not open source. One is from Taygeta (https://www.taygeta.com/networking/forthnet.html). Porting UIP might be fun.
git is not a great choice for large files, which is why git-lfs is a thing too.
We may be talking about different levels of management here. A manager should not be making technical decisions, they should have team leads and architects who do that. It's their job to manage the team, interface with the business, prioritise work and give cover to the team so they can get on with it.

I guess if you have a manager who is making technical decisions, they are really a hybrid manager/contributor role. Maybe that works better in smaller organisations.
I really never liked the Boeing X-32 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-32). That big square intake and tiny wings just looks ridiculous.
Maybe they just added it, but I do see controls there (Safari).
Well in my case the work isn’t too hard and I find it interesting. So your description does not seem to apply.
I even have build a small product to show apple shared albums online https://public.photos/

also wanted to add API on top so that people can show photos however they want. But didn’t have a time to finish it yet.
Weather Simulation Website
Sometime back I clicked on a link here that brought me to an online weather website. Rain drops running down a window pane, sounds of thunder and wind etc. I've lost the link. Anyone on here could find it for me please?
I'd say that video game modding and hacking communities have a similar vibe to them, as do fan created content sites and communities in general.

Probably in all causes because being unable to legally make money from your activities scares away folks that just want to cash in on the latest grift, and don't care a single damn about quality.
The subtitle of the article is "Elon Musk's "free speech" social media platform banned a number of accounts recently critical of Israel."

Wasn't Elon widely deemed an antisemite last month?

Edit: I wasn't being tongue-in-cheek. Perhaps we should not attribute to malice what we can attribute to incompetence -- especially in Elon's case.
Are you claiming that declining fertility is due to plastic, rather than to increasing wealth, education of women, and access to contraception? If so, then I'm going to have to ask you for a) a source and b) a plausible mechanism.
I had/have great fun with this game. It's one that's best in large doses. And, like Factorio, if you return after a long while it's often more fun to restart than continue (or just stay in the endgame sandbox). UI could use a bit of polish and there has been a great deal of performance rework going on for the last couple of years not yet released. Verilog export is there nowadays but I haven't really tried it. The additional components you unlock towards the end really make the sandbox fun. It also has a scoring mechanism which adds a layer of competitiveness to the game but you don't unlock it until well into the game (well past the first computer).

I played this extensively before deciding to go for a comp sci degree mid career (seemed like a fun thing to do, so far it has been!) and it made the base architecture stuff a breeze. I could highly recommend it for anyone looking for a fun refresher as well. "Fun" being a loose term - the fun is messing with boolean logic in a friendly environment, if you don't like that idea then you won't like this "game".