skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just saying something is "long form" because you counted the words is silly. This is Ars Technica. They aren't long because some fifth grade teacher gave them a minimum amount of pages. If the article has some length, it's because it takes the subject seriously and doesn't compromise on nuance and context just for clicks.
I'd imagine they are likely to be more of an issue too in the future, for longer term or more risky missions to Mars/etc. NASA try to select people who are highly stable as astronauts (used to be test pilots), but when the mission only has a 25% chance of getting you home, or involves you living on Mars for a year in a garden shed, then the people who would want to volunteer are going to tend to be mentally off to begin with.

I assume they've thought of this, even for lunar missions or ISS - I wonder what the protocol is? Do they bring handcuffs? Sedatives?
Kuo: Apple Has Already Sold Up to 180k Vision Pro Headsets
I wouldn’t like that comment of yours if you had expanded it to 20,000 words long, even if there was a name and a Wikipedia article for that type of HN comment!
No no no no no.

You don’t seek a dialogue after, figuratively speaking, putting a gun to someone’s head. Hell no, you don’t say it was a joke when the gun misfires.

They seek dialogue today, and tomorrow some beancounter from the legal department will pull this shit again to get their quarterly bonus. Heck, a company may have a written promise to never do stupid shit and then they renege on it because they feel like it.

Publish code under a non-revocable license like GPL, then we talk.

In the meantime, fuck Haier, fuck their legal department, fuck their PR team, and fuck the air conditioner they rode in on.
They used --force which is usually the flag to say: Here there be dragon. Be careful.
Pretty sure it's this: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0240539/

Has a Wikipedia page with the full movie embedded! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_Sensation
I have one, honestly too expensive in hindsight for what it is. I make impulsive buys.
Yeah. I love this kind of stuff and appreciate everything the author has done but I think much better is possible.
The first slide makes the disclaimer that one is not "able to identify if an event was due to climate change", only likelihoods of certain events occurring under various conditions. People might treat those two things the same due to our mental heuristics, but they are not.
That’s a great article. I suspect the difference in statistics is that RedFin only represents mortgages, not the 30% of sales in cash.

I’m not sure it supports point 2), though. The comparison is between millennial and Gen Z.
It’s possible we worked together as well- right across from the opera house?
Life is also a gift.

Free software is a gift from anonymous folks. A gift from a friend can come with moral obligations - depending on your cultural background.
I solve that by going down to the drugstore round the corner where I can print the few things I need printed.

Of course this won't work for everybody, but so much less trouble for me than any printer I haf before.
This is basically the gist of my comment, thank you for rephrasing it so concisely.
> Technically, voting with your wallet is a political statement, which you are sending to Boeing management and shareholders to make the world a tiny bit less profit-at-all-cost-driven.

This must be why corporations are people in the US. Voting with your wallet is an economic statement, not a political one. It can be done for any reason, let alone an ideological one. Not letting your kid go bungee jumping because you feel it unsafe is not a political statement.
> Now - a strong person can do it when the plane is far enough up that it's very scary

Is this true? Some back of the napkin math: An airliner crusing at 30,000 feet is in air at about 0.3 ATM. Cabins are pressurized to about 0.8 ATM, so net air perssure is about 0.5 ATM. That's around 7 lbs/in^2. An airliner door is about 72"x42" for a total of around 3,000 in^2. So you need to be able to lift about 10 tons to open it. That would be a very strong person indeed.
The shredded notes are bundled in large bales, then small bits are put in each souvenir. The odds of getting all of the pieces to even one banknote is small.
I not only did not forget about subversion, I funded it in part. But it was of the CVS generation.

I did leave out the proprietary things like Perforce and Aide de Camp, Solidworks PDM and the various in house things. Life's too short!
For a laser printer?
> I bought a HP laser printer [...] toner [...]

Laser != Inkjet && Toner != Ink
You can try, but the point is that will only get harder, and it’s not like the economic pain will be felt in any specific sense. You’ll just fly less.
> Thanks! We're definitely not trying to bash Git, it's done a lot of good for software development and for sure is going to continue evolving.

It is not about bashing git; it is about anchoring your argument of why Diversion is a better alternative around git. You're basically taking your game/arguments to their playing field, and thus will have an uphill battle for mindshre.

Instead, consider reframing the playing field and mention git less (if at all). Something like "the future of version control is blah". Surprise us, talk to us about your vision for source control, or better yet, code and multi-discipline collaboration (e.g. between eng and design), etc.
The title of the video is "Police Called To Stop Filming During Piano Livestream".

There are no indications that the people who (very wrongfully) approached them are members of the CCP. They may well be but there's nothing in the video supporting that.
Note there already are official characters to use for delimiting fields and records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#Field_...

and if you use ESC an escape character then the special codes are all in sequence like they are in that spec. For that matter you know that none of these characters appear in ordinary text (the world forgot about FS, GS, RS, US) so if your strings are UTF-8 encoded text you never have to use ESC.

But really if you are going to binary formats and your data is mostly numeric there are strong reasons to go to a columnar format like

https://parquet.apache.org/

although this is incompatible with the "ragged" data structures that this spec supports.
I had a Haswell-era MiniITX Gigabyte motherboard that had a similar issue. Installing the Clover/Chameleon and booting into macOS messed up the EFI and the system wouldn't boot. Went through two motherboards before I bought a different brand.
I don't think we need a conspiracy theory to explain why Eric Berger wrote an article about space. It isn't even about the ISS.
This is a Space Shuttle article. Ars Technica has regular space coverage.

You are just totally off base.
I think what's you're looking for is netcat.
Because I might realize later I made a mistake, or I might want to view history.

I’d I never cared about historical state and mistakes, I wouldn’t need version control at all :)
In Slovak, robota is apparently more like in Polish, it's commonly used to mean a job, sometimes as manual work, only historically for forced labour.
Andrej Karpathy videos on YouTube and Stanford NLP book.
"The Wizard and the Prophet" by Charles C. Mann
If you said “our source is now available under the AGPL, if you’d like to keep using the software without reverse licensing modifications and your patents you’ll need to remain on your current plan”, how many would walk? Or similar, “our software is open source but still requires a license for commercial use” would 70-80% give you the middle finger and say okay sue us then? Just curious if there is a dual licensing strategy that could work for you.

I mean think about it, the companies you’ve sold the software to have now seen your sources. If they could take the code and do it better themselves and it was just a question of “knowing the secret sauce” then wouldn’t 70-80% of them have done so (if your claim is accurate). There’s something else happening here. They’re paying for your team to maintain the software and provide continual updates. Getting the source code is most likely an implementation detail to the purchaser. Open source doesn't mean free as in free beer. It’s a myth that you can’t charge a company for an open source product.
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Sort yourself out, then come back.
Your "plane A" number is off by an order of magnitude. The "plane B" number is about right.

Now you will certainly find it interesting to look at the safety profile of your other activities. And estimate repeating those risks through your life. That order of magnitude makes all the difference in the world.
A friend got this for me, but I'm struggling to put it into any useful purpose, any pointers with things I can experiment it.

Using it as a remote seems so cool, esp bc I lost my roku remote not so long ago so if you have any resources that could help I'd appreciate it.

The documentation I've seen so far seems far and scattered and it seems people are more scared of being implicit in illegal activities based on their resources.
> The biggest drawback of Git is its limited scalability - both in repository and file sizes, and the number of concurrent users.

How did you come to the conclusion Git isn't scalable in the number of users? There is no limit in the number of users with Git. There may be limits in the number of interaction between those users, i.e. pull/merge requests, clones, fetches etc. But they are mostly limited by humans.

A central system, even a cloud-native system, has far more contention points in operations that are not even interactions between users, i.e. status, commit, etc.
A couple of thoughts about this:

One is that the possibility of overwriting history / etc is a really powerful and useful feature, but one that should only be used with some consideration, hence being gated behind the scary '--force'. The fact that git provides one the ability to discard and overwrite commits for a ref shouldn't be an endorsement of doing so freely. I'm glad git has this capability though and any "git alternative" would be all the worse if it didn't provide it, IMO.

Two is that if the concern is git's usability - i.e. the "problem" here is that it's too "easy" for users to do destructive actions accidentally - well, there are ways to solve that other than to reinvent all of git. There are plenty of alternative git UIs already, and an alternative UI is a great way to be "wire compatible" for existing users but still help protect those novice users from footguns.
Recently discussed and very much relevant: "Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38429291
Heh. I was wondering how they’d manage to keep people when moving to the Canadian province of New Brunswick… this makes a lot more sense.
Non fungible money in cloud accounting
Those are things that matter to you not your users.

You did talk a little (in a comment or your post I don't remember) that you can use various cloud APIs to integrate into other systems.

But at the moment, from what you're telling me "cloud native" is as interesting to me as how you format your source code.
Germans would.

It's difficult to explain, you have to live here a while and experience it. Some things are tolerated, some things NOT. Occasionally flying other aircraft than planned? OK. Skewing the occasional swaps, deceptively using an aircraft type that the general public distrusts? NOT OK. That would turn niché distrust of an aircraft type into wide distrust of the airline.
I had to replace a toner cartridge in my hp printer for the first time and was shocked by the expense ($110-130). What’s a good and reliable alternative?
The limited access to space probably contributed to his mental episode. If he could be fairly confident in the experiment being flown again, it wouldn't have caused him this amount of stress.

So in a way more access to space might lower the percentage of such episodes.
I can chime in and say that I've had numerous issues over the years, every few months. Particularly when I want to update my kernel. It was a nightmare. Now that I am free from them I won't buy their products anymore because of how annoying it was.
Is there a rule preventing an abstract from being added at the beginning of such an article? You know, just to understand rapidly whether the rest of the read matches your interest.
Why is compliance costlier?
There are companies that don't comply with GPLv2 for months and there is no cost as far as I can tell

previously on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31713525
But you said that 'The Path Lies Through Platforms'.

Isn't MkDocs an example of someone that's using a platform to good advantage?

The thing that impresses me about MkDocs is that it's a project that actually produces truly open source code, for donations.

And to some extend it also maintains that code for donations.

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The fatal flaw that I see in something like thanks.dev is that it will still suffer from the 'tragedy of the commons'.

That is, you cannot rely on the 'informed generosity' of your users.

That is, users will only give you money to 'solve a problem' for them, so maintaining your project has to be a problem for them.
I read a new paper a day with a study group, and when I do not understand something, look at the prior work references. A well written paper is an introduction to the area, and few will help catch you up. Read them closely, there are clues in the details. Then attempt to implement the algorithm, on a tiny example. It's slow going in the beginning but you will catch up. A study group helps.
I'm definitely fascinated by programming languages and I know several -- like many HN'ers. But from a purely practical standpoint, I cannot think of anything that cannot be done w/ JS/TS -- especially functional programming in a gradual way where we can use functional when it benefits us and use imperative/procedural when functional isn't practical or is too much work.

I know for LLMs and neural networks, a language that specializes in vector operations is best (and that's not JS nor Pascal), but outside of that I think JS/TS wins.
Given the size of the space shuttle it may also be so there is enough time for someone else to notice what’s going on and intervene.
New MIT CSAIL study suggests that AI won't steal as many jobs expected
I can imagine additional things that'd be nice tac-ons. Like having some kind of printer is useful a few times a year, same with scanner, next obvious thing to add IMO would be a laser cutter that can cut cardstock. There are probably other things that could take advantage of the box with moving head form. So basically I can imagine the all in one merging with a cricut I guess. But yeah, not going to have tons of disposables or grow the market. And there's not really any reason that a printer shouldn't last a decade or more, which means yearly volume ought to be small...
Comparing the 737 max (all variants) to nearly any other passenger transport shows that it is safe and we are seeing why in real time. An issue happened which correctly caused immediate grounding and inspections followed by an in-depth review and likely corrective action both to the issue and the practices that created it. Implying it isn't safe is continuing to feed a false narrative that encourages unreasonable fear of flying and is holding aviation back.
Hum, no. The safety track of that plane specifically is bad enough that you are not automatically correct.
Is it healthy? At one point the team was funded enough to create the api, and now it can only maintain it. What if it was never funded enough to create the api in the first place? I realize there's a risk of building complexity, but don't mistake "healthiness" for "inability".
About 90% of my printer usage in the last year has been D&D character sheets and rule summaries.
Is 700k the manufacturing cost or a retail price? I thought they were close to 2M on the higher res end.
I use brave on iOS and didn't notice any ads fwiw. There's also reader mode. Might be worth checking out.
As someone who teaches college, I agree.

I will add: All forms of baseless discrimination hurt the economy.

Kill the anti-male, anti-white, anti-straight bias and our economy will boom.
Interesting. Do you have any sources that substantiate the claims made on this blog post?
I'm not sure what you're saying, as you using "aforementioned" to mean "not mentioned" rather than "previously mentioned"?
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You are agreeing with him, he says you can't do it at cruising altitude.

He says you can do it high enough to be scary, but opening the door 100ft before landing would probably cause panic even if it isn't all that dangerous.
Not for me, I never wrote any of those and I would like to write at least one more here.
This comment is harsh, but the reality.
Ah, yes, that would work.
Except the guy already ruled out polar bears based on latitude.
Anything Brother makes. My father has a 10 year old black and white laser printer from them and it hasn't had an issue.

I have the HL-L3280CDW and its been solid.
Tetris: A Tale of Pixels, Politics, and Play
Yeah agreed. The originals sound warm, the cleanups sound cold and echoey.

That said, I love a good applied math write up. That we can also evaluate the result using human perception just helps keep us honest
Use two pipes and you won't need to half-close any socket.
Have you ever tried running Git in the cloud? :)

Cloud-native and running things on “EC2” are very different things.
Son of Red Bull co-founder earned a $615M dividend in 2023
That is funny in my case the chief of security used my computer to send an invitation to everybody to buy farewell drinks because of my resignation, fun times. (no harm done we are fun people)
On that note: https://leave-russia.org/haier
It has happened at a few hundred feet, iirc. Nowhere near cruise but being at 3000 feet and having someone open the door would indeed be terrifying.

I’m guessing something like that is what the GP meant.
I use C# with Visual Studio Community.

Typically I use Windows Forms as it is easy and plenty of online help, as it has not changed much since they tried to get rid of it 20 years ago LOL. (specifically Windows Forms App NOT Windows Forms App (.NET Framework))

Works well with SQLite if you need a DB.

Sometimes I just do a console app if it fits the need.
Hitler was also talking cocaine eye drops, his personal physician was batshit insane. A good match of course as Hitler himself was too.

Of course no law would have prevented this because the Nazis made the law in Germany.
Flying on a Boeing plane is incredibly safe, millions of people do it incident free every year.

Bungee jumping is actually a great comparison, because it’s also an incredibly safe activity, with only two dozen or so people dying in this century.

To put it in comparable terms, and based on random Googling, bungee jumping is approx 2 micromorts, compared to swimming, which is 12, and flying, which is 2.1 per 30,000 miles flown.
True. Sorry. GP wrote "last minute", I suppose I was a little too narrowminded. I should have considered a swap at the last hub as well.
This stuff sounds amazing.. I also think the noise and such in the original is part of the charm.

Just so much historical charm, hard to put into words.
More realistically it'll be a "kill image". Put it on your bumper and the car behind yours' level-2 self driving implodes.
so... what exactly IS Bluesky good at then?
If we're talking theory, the pixel size doesn't matter - it's the amount of information encoded in the QR code that matters (ie. excluding ECC bits!). In turn, that means it is theoretically possible to decode a QR code where each 'pixel' of the code is smaller than the pixel of the camera sensor observing the code.

While it is theoretically possible, nobody has yet done so...
IIRC people didn't "really believe" that Java could actually be performant because they assumed that since it has a JIT layer, it would never even get close to native code.

But the reality was that JIT allows code to get faster over time, as the JIT improves.

Things like Jazelle let chip manufacturers paper over a paper objection.
I truly feel that is neither here nor there. As long as we don't fix what's wrong with Equifax, we can trust absolutely nothing to stay private with them or similar entities for any substantial amount of time. Therefore, we actually need to fix this problem anyways. Having just one of these fixed will not solve much.

I am receiving approximately one parcel per month informing me of a new data breach.
When did Ars Technica start splitting articles into multiple pages?

I thought that stupid trend died out 10 years ago.

It just results in me abandoning the article on page 1.
> after all some normal passenger airports are a few thousand feet above sea level

The parent commenter is referring to airports at high elevations. They mean to say that opening the doors is almost impossible at cruising altitude, which is far above any airports. Hence, the doors can only be opened when not on the ground during early ascent and late descent.

I hope my explanation makes sense.
If you think a continuous unbounded distribution is more fat-tailed than the normal distribution, you can fit a Student's t distribution with the degrees of freedom (as well as location and scale) a free parameter. What insights does EVT give you that fitting fitting a fat-tailed distribution does not?
I wish Apple would just build a 3D Printer, and a decent 2D printer, for the masses with the investment budget that went into this.

It would probably be astounding, software and hardware-wise. Even if it was “niche” it would sell more than this, and I believe, far more people would be curious.

Speaking from my experience - nobody in my family, or extended family, cares about Vision Pro. It’s just “creepy” and they don’t even like the idea of a head-mounted computer, even if it was perfect. We’ve seen too many YouTube videos of people walking into walls, I suppose.
Their Twitter has been consistently funny. Whoever is making these decisions over there, I'd like to thank them.
On WebAuthn and PassKeys
Hi, I am one of the authors of the project. Thanks!

One thing that became clear to us while working on this project is the significant difference in how incremental views (or stream processing) store and access data, compared to how PostgreSQL looks at and processes data (batch processing). So, it made a lot of sense for us to separate the technologies (i.e., have a transformation layer, and a "serving" layer), but still try to integrate the two as seamlessly as possible.
Ancient zombie viruses in melting permafrost could cause new pandemic
As the article mentioned after the Apollo one incident NASA was being very careful to make it possible for people to get out in case of emergency.

Unfortunately that also means it’s very easy to get out in case of an emergency that’s only in your head.
Personally I hate articles which are split across multiple pages. It's unnecessary.
Yeah the idea of a “mechanical man” is as old as written history

Davinci even had a pretty thorough idea

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_robot
Even if this is not a foolproof way to avoid flying on a 737 max, using it will provide a very _visible_ signal to the airlines. If they're losing ticket sales because people don't want to fly on a 737, the airlines will find a way to adapt. Even a marginal change of a few percentage points can shift a route from profitable to unprofitable.

Airbus is already outselling Boeing 2-1. If you're looking at a 5-10 year lead time anyways, they can expand production to eat further into Boeing's share if that's what the airlines demand.
Find shows that humans reached China more than 30k years before Europe
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I’ve heard this shortening by Russians also American English “robo” was common