skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long the branches live isn’t the most relevant factor when considering integration problems. How often do you integrate? If you aren’t merging the branch yet, do you at least rebase it daily? If so, you aren’t going to run into integration problems.

If you go off on your own and then try to integrate after more than a month of development, then yeah, of course you are going to have diverging work that results in integration problems. That’s why continuous integration explicitly says you should be integrating at least daily. Otherwise it’s not continuous.

Of course, you might cause other people problems by dumping more than a month of work in your master branch all at once. That’s why things are easier with short-lived branches. But if you want to avoid integration problems yourself, integrate continuously.
https://github.com/davincifans101/pinduoduo_backdoor_detaile...
Conditioning you to love Datadog, brilliant
Van Gogh, Manet, Gauguin would beg to differ! Being a true artist doesn’t imply being in the top 1%, having privilege or any economical reward at all.

…and that won’t change with AI as well, there will always be artists who will be recognized as great only after their death.
"Until couple of years ago there was no guarantee that an object you had written to S3 would be visible to another process looking for it."

Yeah, over the last 5 years but mostly before that change, I saw some strange intermittent problems with Hive where certain files would be registered in the Hive metadata by one process but not visible when the data actually went to get queried by other processes which led to jobs we were responsible for bombing out with missing file errors.

What was truly strange was when this situation would last for hours.
Yes, this runs in a lot of automotive embedded devices. Since Aptiv owns it now, I don't see it going away anytime soon.
> Such a universe would have to have so radically different a conception of physics that it doesn't really apply to this analysis. Orbits are a pretty fundamental concept and you lose those in n>3 spacetime.

Everyone keeps referencing the same single paper that made this claim, but it is only true under certain assumptions.

Most modern theories of physics have more than 3 dimensions, starting with 5 for Kaluza Klein theory and up to 10+ with string theories.

There's lots of ways of having more than the usual 3+1 dimensions and still having stable orbits, 1/r^2 laws, etc..

Curled up dimensions is a common approach, but not the only one.

For example, even in 3+1 dimensional space time, fields are radiated not from zero-dimensional points, but from one-dimensional world lines! By extension, additional dimensions of time would work if fields were radiated from higher dimensional surfaces or hyper-planes.

In other words, as long as in the bulk three spatial dimensions it appeared that sources of charges were zero dimensional points, the other dimensions can do "whatever" and everything generally works out.
I guess "The Bear" 80€ white t-shirt: https://merzbschwanen.com/blog/blog-good-news-1/merz-b-schwa...
> With multiple elevator shafts there's even more things to think about. Could one shaft serve a lower set of floors while another shaft serves a higher set of floors to minimise 'wasted' time travelling up and down

Yes. This is done, that is they start from bottom floors and then just don't stop at lower floors. Thus not needing to accelerate or deaccelerate.

One more fun trick is double decker cars. That is one deck of elevator only stops at even or odd floors. This being easiest way to double capacity.
I dunno, I get a response back for 100k tokens regularly. What is the point you are trying to make?
I see, but then you don't need large quantity shopping at all when the supermarket is just a 5 minute walk away. I live in Tokyo, usually buy at most 3-4 days of food with a 30 minutes detour when I get off the station from work.

From what I've seen, the main reason why people want a car here seems to be wanting to travel with small children. Moving within Tokyo with car is not very convenient.
> I live in the UK and if anything, this is a country of electrical fuses.
> The more fuses the better, everything is fused, even some plugs.

All plugs are fused in the UK aren't they?
So? Do you think we can’t make an LLM which picks a favourite song and writes about it with the gusto a person does? What is this example supposed to illustrate?
While this is true, it is also true that the counter-party, the ones who sell games, use an equivalent wordplay, "buy", "own" to cause moral havoc.

There is this thing called civil disobedience as a tool to keep fairness in check. This might a justification of piracy.
t‘s not as if they suddenly misidentified a firetruck and drove straight into it.

No, instead their 'sensors' got distracted by some other irrelevant input so they didn't noticed it in time and drove straight into it. End result is pretty much the same.
Yeah I don't get why people get upset over that. It's like the people that are like "we didn't learn that in school when I was your age." Times change, we learn, we correct, we update our beliefs. Being static is not healthy and creates a dissonance between the public and the __representatives__. i.e. the representatives become disaligned from those they are supposed to represent. And as my claim (which I add data to in other replies) shows, that's not even just a function of age.

We should commend people for updating their beliefs, not condemn. To me, one of the most honorable phrases one can say is "I stand corrected."
I thought the life expectancy of people on multivitamins is lower.
Well Redditors sure as hell aren't typically Boomers, and the Zoomers can't afford houses.
The main problem of buildroot is the fact you need to rebuild from scratch all the time. Yocto has properly working incremental builds.

Yocto is definitely more flexible, which can be a curse as it gives architecture astronauts more chances to split up all the stuff it several repos and dozens of files.
Balloon gas is already 99% helium. There’s not that much of it (one source is apparently as a byproduct of filling pure helium containers) and reprocessing it is not economical.
It varies, in my experience. I've worked in government agencies with very little politics, and agencies with shitloads of workplace politics. The latter perform far worse than the former. The political agencies tend to have ill-defined goals, which causes misalignment which in turn generates politics.
>> or somewhat expensive and complex SDR

I don’t think that’s as accurate today as it used to be.

On the hardware side there are tons of options very cheaply available - iirc the flipper uses the c1100 (or a number like that) it’s a popular cheap chip and it’s well documented and interfaces easily with arduino.

More accessibly, lime mini SDRs are cheap but there’s quite a few alternatives too.

On the software side GNU Radio is free with decent tutorials - we’re not talking anything like blender levels of difficulty to adopt even if it is a complex domain.

Although on the more accessible side, urh is incredibly powerful given how easy to use it is https://github.com/jopohl/urh

I used the latter to tap into a 2 channel wireless bbq thermometer via a $10 rtl sdr and that was a breeze, an absolute walk in the park compared to when I reverse engineered the flysky telemetry system.
Why is that a problem? A great number of Russian mainlines are 25K AC, including Transsib branches. That does seem like a world standard for rail.
> so I went on Temu and bought a $8 125KHz RFID programmer

OT but if you found it for $8 on Temu, then you can most likely find the exact same device on Aliexpress for $1 - $2. Don't feed Temu - their ads are clogging up my feeds :)
Multiple cables always. And it is basically epoxy coated flat piece. So I don't think failure model is that bad.
It was on the front page of Reddit a month ago. Why would it be interesting to read again one month later? This is Hacker News, not Hacker Olds.
Why do practically every country, nation, county, city, army, etc., etc.,, have these things? That's what I'd like to know.
Former NASA administrator hates Artemis, wants to party like it's 2008
Wow! Great to see this here, I'm being slightly nostalgic but this feels like it really deserves some kind of success.

I bought the predecessor (v3 because reasons) in 2010 for $27, it's impressive that this new version which has seriously improved capabilities is only $37.

As is normal with software developers having an electronics hobby, I haven't used it all that much, but the few times I have needed it I was really glad to have it and it made me happy.
Ok this is flagged...the flagging is getting ridiculous now...
Isn’t this the same thing classic OpenID did? And didn’t OpenID define delegation, so that you could give your own URL and still end up using a provider-specific login? Are they going to end up rediscovering all the problems and solutions OpenID did?
Apple's John McCall makes a picture of where they are going with Swift in

"Introducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgivCGdmFrw
Given how long it took MSVC to attempt to support anything above the bare minimum C support for C++ interoperability. I wouldn't hold my breath.
> Israeli journalists are even more critical of their government than American journalists.

Free to criticize but get jailed by the 100s: https://cpj.org/reports/2024/01/2023-prison-census-jailed-jo... (that's not free press)
Order some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubing from Yunnan on Taobao. For western cheese try https://www.metro.com.cn/en/home who sometimes do good deals on wheels of Gouda, fetta, blue cheeses, etc. Don't buy the small highly marked up stuff from specialty retailers, they're always a ripoff. A couple of importers on Taobao too, for specific products. They are a good source for Indian, Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern ingredients too.
Thanks, I thought it was some kind of home (house) automation.
Do you have an example of what it's useful for? Why would I "manage" my home directory?
China de-risking from US controlled internet is really ambitious - if they pull it off, it might become the only country that achieves digital sovereignty. I expect Russia, Iran and other designated enemies of the US to try and follow suit but no other has the domestic market size to pull it off. Whatever, we think of the geopolitics, it's a fascinating experiment
If an assay can be made based off this compound i could imagine some sort of screening tool that could be made. You would just need some sort of linker that could fluoresce or produce a signal.
I just love how Bluesky devs get hung up on technical details like this and nobody seems to be concerned in the slightest how to position Bluesky as an actual product in the current market let alone pay for it in the long run. The end user doesn't care if it's federated or peer-to-peer if you ultimately end up seeing Ads anyway and it's still controlled by a single group just like Twitter.
Passive spying device that required no power:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
How to calculate a bottoms up Market Size for VC fundraising – A guide
Two main reasons AFIK: unstable output (high volume burst but little to no output most of the time) and chemical composition which would require further refining before the gas can be sold.
Not really. The transport of helium and hydrogen through potential leaking sites is just different enough that they are sensitive to different things and appropriate for different uses. So hydrogen is indeed sometimes used for leak checking.

...though the inert gases (helium, argon, various freons) being inert sure does help make them popular.
Building useful things for useless people
Shocker. Successful apes share pattern recognition skill.
I had no idea - thanks! I had double-checked the Crimean War Wikipedia page and saw no mention of the Bering Strait.

Could you give me another pointer? Even with your links, I don't see how the Bering Strait was part of the Crimean War.

Your first link mentions Novo-Arkhangelsk (modern day Sitka in southeast Alaska), Okhotsk (on the Sea of Okhotsk east of the Kamchatka Peninsula), and Petropavlovsk (on the southern end of the Kamchatka Peninsula). None of those are close to the Bering Strait. Petropavlovsk is about 2,000 km away, for example, and I don't see why anyone would travel to the north end of the Bering Sea in that theater.

Your second link mentions the Battle of Tsushima Strait, between Korea and Japan but nothing about the Bering Strait or Bering Sea. The last link mentions the Bering Strait only because Petropavlovsk was founded by Bering.
I’m not sure if you’re serious (given the spammy nature of your posts, I’m inclined to believe not), but given that REST is the de facto standard for exchange of information between machines across the internet, I think the onus is on you to estimate how much money you think the NPS stands to save by doing it your way. Then the rest of us can evaluate whether that’s a good tradeoff.
Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy protection in US
Faktabaari and Check First delve into social algorithms
I am not an artist but can draw a little and if by screwing up little details you mean filling the image with random strokes which make the bigure picture look correct than those are not what I am talking about. In generated image when you follow a tiny detail it will just disappear into something else. In painting you can usually see the strokes up close but in a gen image, those strokes will be a weird blend if they are visible. Tiny details like paint smidges etc won't be there. Shadows of tiny details won't make sense.

I really like to see that X thread.
Apple already takes this approach to limit some entitlements to web browsers on macOS. See the Passkey entitlement as an example:

com.apple.developer.web-browser.public-key-credential

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/en...
> companies with great sense of ethics (Go, Swift, Java, ...)

Love the sarcasm here, heh.
Better than a NATO country though.

As a French citizen I wouldn't host anything in Russia, not from a moral standpoint but because we're at war (it's a "soft" war for now, but who knows how it will evolve).
Not sure I want to use what seems like a fully-closed standard for something as frequent as sharing locations when open alternatives exist.
and that the linked post is a lengthy apologia for the network having an incredibly obvious unremovable central point of control even as they pretend it doesn't.

Centralisation is a feature in social networks: being able to find your friends is the very first thing. But don't then pretend you aren't.

Every now and then I post to Bluesky asking: so what's the loadout for Bluesky? How many servers does it take to run this thing? What would it take to run my own?

These questions never quite seem to get answered or documented that I could find.

A "PDS" is a reasonable Ubuntu box. They seem unable to admit what it takes to run the rest, though.
I've always said half-joking, that CL users write more text praising it than actual code in CL. This thread is a fine example, but still fun to read.

But back to your examples - I feel that a lot of ideas CL is built on just aged poorly, I guess? No way I want to see some magical binary where some guru adjusted a parameter in the image or the ugly head of monkeypatching or macros all over the place in production code. CL serves the myth of lonely hacker where the rest of the world has accepted the fact that writing software is mostly a social activity and that code is as much for other people as for the machine.
How to Win Friends and Influence People: The Sam Altman Edition
This dutch web shop selling mostly printer ink includes very nice ballpoint pens with their branding in the packages. End-result: Those pens get used by news readers and youtubers all over the place.
On what concerns XBox there is little Rust love on Microsoft's side they are all about C++ and COM, and even on Windows, there are only some little experiements ongoing like the GDI regions rewrite that in now on Windows 11.

It remains to be seen if Rust/WinRT will ever take off, given the mess that the same team has done with C++/WinRT, now in maintenance.

.NET based GUI frameworks seem to have won to that front, no wonder given how bad the C++/WinRT experience end up being, and Rust/WinRT is years away to achieve parity with C++/WinRT, let alone what .NET GUI frameworks can offer today in ecosystem, and GUI components.

Where Microsoft is going big on Rust, is Azure, where Rust is now the official systems language for new development on use cases where managed compiled languages aren't a fit.

This was announced at Prossimo's conference in memory safety systems, by David Weston, the vice president of OS security at Microsoft.

https://twitter.com/dwizzzleMSFT/status/1720134540822520268?...
I frankly have no idea how the Bering Strait relates to the war beyond the geographic proximity(?). I just found those links from dumping "bering strait crimean war britain" on Google.
> The trust in Chinese tech is low

In what sense, in the sense that they spy on you or something like that?

I wouldn't mind having one of those if only you could get one for less than $1000.
What3Words has been discussed dozens of times on HN, but the most relevant one is probably this analysis of the algorithm and the properties of the generated codes, as well as its companion piece:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27015046

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27058271
This is why UBI gets discussed so often at the same time as AGI/ASI.

If we're all redundant, how do we live? On a pension that starts at ${debatable from conception to adulthood}. Who provides the production on which the pension is spent? The AI.

Even assuming UBI is great (small scale tests say so, but have necessary limits so we can't be sure), there's going to be a huge mess with most attempts to roll out such a huge change.
The Transformation of India Is Nearly Complete
Trying to remember the name of a startup plz help
There was this incredible cloud startup that allowed you to install an agent in your cli and deploy functions and code directly to the cloud without any infrastructure or config. I am trying to remember the name but cant for the life of me.
I assume it’s a mix of cheap Hetzner/OVH, a bigger inclination for decentralisation and privacy, and an early adopter mindset.

They lead many tech stats per capita. Another example is the amount of French and German wikipedia pages, patents, research, internet penetration, renewable energy …

A shame that the focus on car manufacturing for so long cannibalised the software business. I think it could have been a software powerhouse, but was/is not focussing at all on it outside of some shining outliers.
If you look up the patents it’s hardly worth calling it “tech”. Patenting the positioning of the sensors without any other meaningful innovation shouldn’t be a thing.

That company is not that much better than a patent troll and AFAIK they didn’t even agree to license their “technology” (they wanted to have control over the development of the Apple Watch instead).
I giggled at the “Michael Bay” setting :)
"extra security is good, though"

https://xkcd.com/463/

(no not the bobby tables xkcd)
There's likely some truth that CSV would work well here, and would likely be cheaper to operate. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of clients are or could be doing full transfers of the data and doing their own queries.

I'd be pretty happy with sqlite dumps too.

I don't really have an issue with the REST, though. I wouldn't be surprised if this was just a standard and cheap to set up Django+REST libraries stack. Yeah, the compute costs are higher than transferring static files, but I'd be shocked if this was taking enough QPS for the difference in cost to make a meaningful difference.

I get wanting the government to be responsible, but this veers a bit too far into Brutalist architecture as an organizational principle.
Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites
https://xkcd.com/463/
Trump being banned from Twitter. That was literally why Jack Dorsey seeded this thing and hired these particular ex-cryptocurrency guys. He wanted a network where people couldn't be completely banned.

(Since then the network attracted a userbase that laughed Jack off the site for vaccine denialism, so lol)
Decipherment of Old Persian
Gotraceui: Working with Go Execution Traces
> nobody seems to be concerned in the slightest how to position Bluesky as an actual product

I thought it was already positioned as a Twitter competitor with the aim to make it harder to censor. Its aim is to replace Twitter.
A while back I tried to make a list of all math I've ever encountered IRL, which is all considered entirely trivial, and all the "Too bad I don't know that, or I'd be making a lot more!" stuff I'm aware of.

There's absolutely no actual math education exercises, it's purely an overview of things a non-specialist would want to know about the existence of.

It's been partially looked over by people with real math knowledge, but there could still be some incorrect things here, and there's still some stuff I'd like to add but never got around to.

https://github.com/EternityForest/AnyoneCanDoIt/blob/master/...

There's likely nothing of interest to someone who knows anything like calculus already, this is all stuff that is kind blowing and exciting to those of us with boot camp coder or average non-technical person level math knowledge.

But perhaps someone who actually knows math could do a similar article, but for nontrivial math?
Despite not really wanting to go into a historic or theological debate, I can't help but notice that the guy went on to be an actual king of sorts - so there definitely was something in it for him, at the time.

I do agree that, overall, the formal structure of Islamic clerical organisations looks somewhat more horizontal (look ma, no pope!), and precepts towards charity look more stringent than the average "try to be good" message of other religions; but it's hard to deny that there are - and were - a lot of very temporal benefits accruing towards people of power under Islamic rule. Some rulers even derive their legitimacy from dynastic relationships to the prophet - that's worth a lot of money...
As a general, he was a failure?
I don't have the data to support it but I think Germans in general care a whole lot more about privacy than any other country
You know they've released a lot more than a landing page, right? They were initially a kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flipper-devices/flipper...

They created a fast-food substitution product and have been trying to pass it off as the real thing. It's a hardware script kiddie device and that's exactly how their videos depict it.

I was always turned off by their approach since first seeing it in 2019. I've played with the device, get their facebook ads all the time, tried to change my mind about it but 5 years later I keep coming back to the same animosity towards it.

These are all easy to teach things and this thing shrouds that fact through product alienation intentionally distancing the user from any real hacker education and replacing it with animations and theatrics.

I'm cool being dismissed as a crank. They're obviously successful millionaires and I'm not.
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he was studying elites and their relation to Russia. much more likely he was about to publish things the Estonian elites didn't like and Russian secret service didn't even know he exists.
> "unlawful assembly without a permit"

Dunno why you put it in quotes: it's in Singapore law[1].

[1]: Public Order Act 2009: https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/POA2009
"One of the lamest ways to use AI is to generate images in the style of painting artists."

The lamest way? It is my favourite! I guess im a lamer then. :(