skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had big meadows in front and back of my house when I moved in 25 years ago. I let about the 50-100 feet out by the road naturalize over time; the rest is cut by a tractor about once a year. The section out by the road is forest, albeit immature, at this point.

There's far more forest in New England than there was 150 years or so ago.
So am I understanding correctly that this confirms the common perception they cited:

> Insects use the moon as a celestial compass cue to navigate, and mistakenly use artificial light sources instead
That's why we need remote work to increase even further, from the current 12.7% of population. So people can live in cheaper areas. Unfortunately, C level execs get in the way

CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39191696
If you're a renter, recovering $500 a month in funds probably looks like cutting back on entertainment, switching to cheaper brands at the grocery, declining to visit those friends in the East Bay to save on gas, tolls, and/or Uber.

If you're a landlord, you can just force a $500/m increase on your tenants. Done.

Since everyone has felt the squeeze after the pandemic, those of us who represent a potential X% increase in monthly revenue to the person we depend on for the roof over heads are going to get squeezed on their behalf.

I dunno about that other commenter's theorized 'mass migration' overseas, but sheesh, a personal migration to Stockton is starting to feel pretty reasonable.
It's a word you use when you want to signal to everyone that you'd like to cease having a polite discussion and turn it into a battle of ideologues, very commonly initiated by those who lack introspective processes that fuel the political narrative that they pretend to demonstrate against.

When someone's inner monologue is so full of derisive irrationality that buzzwords pushed with an agenda are the first "opinions" they share, its somewhat of a moot point to engage with them as the point of their post wasn't about having a civil discussion. I generally consider it an indirect act of kindness when people like this immediately show their cards, because it's pretty easy to spot and ignore (if the loud sound of their mouth breathing doesn't already give it away).
> GPUs that support multiplane overlay on windows

According to Microsoft, MPO is an optional feature: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...

According to random people on the internets, the feature is broken for both nVidia and AMD:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/yr5dda/can_someone...

nVidia agrees and recommends disabling MPO with a registry setting: https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5157/~/a...

> it doesn't require using 3D graphics to put the texture on the display

In practice, 3D graphics is the best way to put pixels on the display. At this point, I believe other ways are remnants of the old GPUs which had 2D blitting hardware.
> The reason the iPhone became so successful was not a fluke. Consumers and customers voted that the value proposition of the product was something they preferred, and they acted by purchasing iPhone and developers responded by building applications for iOS.

So the article is just one long conflation of quality hardware and software, with anti-consumer lockdown. A long-winded way of saying a lock provides no safety if the user, instead of the corporation, has the key.
Not everything has to be about US politics.
Nice but can you run it on non-toy programs?

I gave a talk about Frama-C a few years ago. It's very interesting technology, but not too useful at any scale (http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/2020-frama-c-tech-talk.mp4) One aim we had with Bounds Checking GCC back in '95 was to make it possible to use with real programs. Although it was quite slow, any open source program of the era could use it (https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~phjk/BoundsChecking.html).
> you know, sometimes those idiosyncratic ways have a reason for existing because they solve actual problems.

True, but "actual" is a rather low bar. I once worked at a company where a big internal enterprise app controlled a lot of operations, and saw that many of the layers of cruft in the app were because it became the preferred battleground of corporate dysfunction.

One example is that the sales team kept closing deals ('cuz commissions) which were difficult to fulfill, unprofitable, or cannibalized from other assets and activity.

This lead to repeated and increasingly obtuse layers of code for estimating gross-margins, showing values at different interfaces and steps and warning styles, managing and modeling gross-margin reporter/reportee connections and automated alerts and permissions systems where they system would block certain people while e-mailing other people for clicking approval boxes, etc.
Not India, but I've heard of people moving to Portugal because its cheaper.
My understanding is that desert sand gets blown around by the wind, which (heh) sands it smooth. Smooth sand doesn't grip the concrete (I think), so it's not amenable for building.

When I first read that my question was whether a different concrete formula or amalgam could work with smooth(er) sand, or if that's a hard limit that cannot be overcome. Does anyone know?
I don't think it's fair to look at carbon output in isolation here. This would greatly help with a variety of issues such as mitigating urban heat islands, providing wildlife habitat, aiding pollinators, and just generally making the world we live in less hellish.
One of those "obvious, common sense" truths getting proven by experiment.

I've known a couple of alcoholics who mainly kept drinking to keep away nightmares.
I'm struggling to understand the purpose of this library.

> Kirei is a keyboard library that you feed inputs to (which keys are pressed) and get outputs from (HID reports) ... It's not just a keyboard firmware

In what scenarios might one want to use it?
Vanilla OS 2 Orchid Beta is here
PayPal Begins Company Wide Layoffs
I’m not sure if there’s interesting optimization to do. Simply: bugs are attracted to light, light=more bugs, no light=fewer bugs. Motion detectors, for example, can make it so that the light is only temporary and you don’t get those moth parties.
Thanks for your support! Yes, the stack is currently fixed (React, Node, Prisma), and I understand developers might have specific preferences.

We'd definitely like to make it more flexible (also in the sense of UI frameworks, etc), but that's something we'll have to figure out step by step.
Where Next for DEI?
I love this idea, because I went through this problem myself.

I searched for coloring pages of Bible events, and got so frustrated with the low quality that I purchased a collection of 100 pages for about $20.
Yes it is. You "just" need more backup systems as indeed, you cannot just come inside to get what you forgot, or replace what just broke or go sleep inside, if it turns out too cold outside. That is for sure and that is why I would start with the moon. To test more all of the equipment. And then test a little more. And then do some more testing.
I had my Honda airbag replaced around 2018 due to this, I think. I found it quite funny to have work done by the dealership on an almost 15 year old car.
My 2023 Homelab Setup
I wrote a blog post detailing my homelab setup throughout 2023. It includes the hardware I use, as well as the applications I tried. I also detailed how I automate my home Kubernetes cluster and how I back up my data.
I got multiple C&Ds for publishing public information, provided directly from the US government as giant CSV files (PPP loan data, provided under FOIA), through a web interface that made it easy to search loan recipients and analyze distribution of COVID relief funds.

Many of the C&Ds came from people who were later indicted for defrauding the government, some of them in hilariously inept ways.
See also:

https://www.preciousplastic.com/

https://community.preciousplastic.com/map
For me, I think the killer app would have to be something that interacts with the real world. Watching movies, FaceTime, or browsing the internet won’t be enough for me to ever buy this. But maybe if there was something like a home repair or car repair app that could in real time identify and inspect the objects, give me visual and audio instructions on how to perform the repair, that could be a killer app. But I’m not sure the AI/ML side is good enough yet to enable that.
How Software Companies Die (2023)
I can't read your pay walled article.

"It is really true. There are various causes being debated but we’re the only rich country where the fatality rate is moving in the wrong direction:"

I'm not sure we're on the same page with what I'm taking issue with. The requirements to get a license are a joke in the US. The other nations with lower fatalities have stricter licensing. Yes, it won't explain it on it's own, but it is highly correlated and supported by studies around stricter licensing in other nations and graduated licensing in the US.

But your claim that if education worked the stats wouldn't be going up has no basis in anything you've posted. The overall licensing has not improved in the US. The jurisdictions in your chart have much stricter requirements.
> Job market realities. It’s tougher than it’s been in a decade, with fewer jobs, and more qualified candidates. This is great if you’re hiring, but harder for applicants.

Is this true? Layoffs make the headlines, but the unemployment rate for software engineers seems to be low, at least in the most recent numbers I can find.

The rest of the items ("Compensation changes", "Negotiating offers", etc.) just follow from that premise.

Of course, everything could tank tomorrow, but it's probably not smart to get into a defensive crouch earlier than you have to.
Not a literal wrench, but more like... persuasive talking, backed by credible threat of incarceration.

The point of the "$5 wrench attack" is that it's not a cryptographic break.
I like to think the Dutch don't fall for conspiracies' as much.

But there was that whole 'Tulip mania' thing that happened.
From what I understand the attack requires access to at least a model to attack.

The result has the highest success on that model you specifically attacked, but it apparently transfers albeit with a lower success rate.

> how can it be sure that the feature map will be the same for all models?

From what I can tell it has a lot to do with what text encoder they used, although curiously it still transferred well from SDXL/SD2 which both CLIP to deep floyd which uses a completely different architecture
They can already do this with the desktop composition software they use today. All the windows are virtualized onto backing layers that you can draw anywhere and add effects to. It’s how window shadows work, and how certain window effects are done.

They just haven’t done it.
> (if (display-graphic-p)

This right here. Emacs actually supports graphical output (X11, Cocoa, Win32). Additional bonuses include: Esc is actually Esc; you can bind Ctrl+Shift or Cmd; you can use more than one font at a time; you can display a picture; change the shape of the cursor... It's like a time machine that takes you 20 years forward - into 1989.
> Most of the efforts to improve walkability makes it impossible to find parking when you are driving

Most of the efforts to improve driveability make it impossible to walk anywhere.
The so called anti-Russian sentiment is nothing new. If we take US then it took the most clear form after WW2 when the real ambitions of communism infected Russia became clear to the US leadership.

It didn't disappear even during the interim period between end of 90s and recent years when many fooled themselves with false ideas how Russia is now their partner/friend/not enemy. There was still impactful number if congressmen and senarots who kept the realistic understanding.

So please, if you are not educated about the topic then please don't start calling names when you are corrected.
Available on archive.org.
https://archive.org/details/mutant59plastice00pedl

Has some hilarious and also frightening writing. It's pulp fiction so don't expect greatness but worth a read for sure.
Using the Tor browser, it tells me "Captcha verification failed" ... while showing no Captcha: https://i.imgur.com/nUAka1d.png

edit: just saw this message on the homepage but it didn't help me: "If you get 'captcha verification failed' message, reload the home page, and patiently type your query again (this is antibot protection)."
I believe you are correct about Ferrari:

"Ferrari Tractors are designed and built in Italy by the BCS Group." (https://www.ferraritractor.com/faq)

English Wikipedia gives up at that point, but itwiki has https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_(azienda)

Google Translate: "FERRARI of Luzzara (RE) is one of the historic brands in the field of agricultural mechanization. Founded in 1954 as "Officine Meccanica Ferrari SpA", in the period of reconstruction and mechanization of the country, it was one of the most enterprising companies in the agricultural machinery sector."

Meanwhile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari says it was founded in 1939 and doesn't mention tractors at all.
Tenessee Walkers also have the five gaits. You might know them from western movies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-gaited
The siloeing is driving me crazy. Everybody works in their own little box doing their own thing without any regard to how things fit together. Microservices, separate repos for some trivial all lead to enormous integration efforts.

I like the phrase “shipping the org chart”.
Tech CEOs and VPs found that they're out of ideas on how to grow the pie. So to achieve their personal goals (which is always more), they had to increase their share.

The fear, uncertainty and doubt over the economy serves to make everybody else fear that the pie could disappear completely. And so they're happy they still get scraps, leaving enough for those CEOs - for now.

Lately I keep thinking about Mr Buffett's remark about class warfare...
I guess my own biases came through because when I read "people not going in shelters" my mind went to "addicts in tents". I assume a sober-enough homeless person, especially one with a child, which means the adult is more likely to be a woman, has access to some level of emergency shelter and is using it.

I 100% agree with you that I would rather not be next to someone doing drugs, which is why they are annoying out in the streets!

Addicts would rather do drugs on the street than not do drugs no matter what the incentive (the infamous "rock bottom"). Literally the only way to get them indoors is to allow drug use or arrest them.
looks way too similar to git extensions, I haven't looked into everything, but I don't know why anyone would pay for this
Fayetteville Arkansas was one of the first towns to remove the mandatory parking restrictions and a ton of abandoned downtown buildings quickly became restaurants. They were absolutely right.
The Sea Hidden High in the Andes
Geostrophic Current
Non trivial example projects https://model-checking.github.io/cbmc-training/projects.html
Some crypto, AWS common C, FreeRTOS. Other interesting applications https://www.cprover.org/cbmc/applications/
the law of unintended consequences strikes again
Definitely, here is a brief reference page for the Together provider: https://continue.dev/docs/reference/Model%20Providers/togeth..., and a higher-level explanation of model configuration here: https://continue.dev/docs/model-setup/overview
Notably Barack Obama was an actual politician in February 2007, unlike Michelle Obama. It's a nonsensical comparison.
This assumes that the only way to get energy is by burning stuff in oxygen. That may not be a safe assumption. Imagine an atmosphere with some amount of fluorine, for instance.
Oh, yeah, no, I know you're not, I'm just relating ECC and RSA strength facts about DNSSEC. I think the observations I'm making are pretty straightforward?
You have to understand that critical theory exists to find criticisms of opponents and ideologies, whether they exist or are simply a figment of the ideologues' imaginations.
Agree with your underlying points while having some skepticism that the overall attitude actually has changed, in this case...
I think it's true about a lot of crap that gets advertised. Those "intermittent fasting based on your age" ads are one of many things that make you think it is all crap on the internet and that's just one example.

I've thought that scam television ads contribute to a perception of institutional illegitimacy and drove people to vote Republican. If you watched an hour of TV during the day you might see almost no ads for anything you spend your money on but lots of ambulance chasing lawyers, ads for things you can spend health insurance benefits on, ads for things you can spend other government benefits on, etc. (Gotta have ads for car dealers though because without them you'd never get hit by a car and have to call William Mattar)

There were a series of scam ads for medical devices that made me think "thats a scam!" that ran for a decade before it turned out they really were a scam. What message do people get when the TV network and regulators and everyone in authority let a blatant scam go on in plain site?
PayPal to Cut Around 2,500 Jobs
I'd like to see more solar covered parking lots. Bonus points for integrated EV charging stations. They would be great in the hotter parts of the country. How much fuel/energy is spent cooling cars back down after they have sat in the sun for an hour?
Python in Excel currently requires a separate cloud server to run Python formulas. Imagine this could run in the Excel web view instead.
More detailed post from NASA re: the issue with the fasteners:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/2024/01/11/nasas-osiris-re...

> Curation processors paused disassembly of the TAGSAM head hardware in mid-October after they discovered that two of the 35 fasteners could not be removed with the tools approved for use inside the OSIRIS-REx glovebox.

> In response, two new multi-part tools were designed and fabricated to support further disassembly of the TAGSAM head. These tools include newly custom-fabricated bits made from a specific grade of surgical, non-magnetic stainless steel; the hardest metal approved for use in the pristine curation gloveboxes.

> “In addition to the design challenge of being limited to curation-approved materials to protect the scientific value of the asteroid sample, these new tools also needed to function within the tightly-confined space of the glovebox, limiting their height, weight, and potential arc movement,” said Dr. Nicole Lunning, OSIRIS-REx curator at Johnson. “The curation team showed impressive resilience and did incredible work to get these stubborn fasteners off the TAGSAM head so we can continue disassembly. We are overjoyed with the success.”

> Prior to the successful removal, the team at Johnson tested the new tools and removal procedures in a rehearsal lab. After each successful test, engineers increased the assembly torque values and repeated the testing procedures until the team was confident the new tools would be able to achieve the torque needed while minimizing the risk of any potential damage to the TAGSAM head or any contamination of the sample within.

And more detail about the TAGSAM: https://spaceflight101.com/osiris-rex/osiris-rex-tagsam/
Most surface lots you see in a city are placeholders until the owner finds a project that pencils out. Why not charge people to park there until you are ready to build that new highrise?
That's interesting idea. But I don't know enough about law but can you just go to some remote area and build a small house there (even very basic strong tent). Would more people do this and they start this small community where they provide some sense of infrastructure?

Maybe if you are alone of a few people in the areait would be easier. But in reality I think that it would be hard specially with the harsh weather that climate change is giving us these days that will need some community and some infrastructure to survive.
9% of global workforce, ~2500 employees.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-30/paypal-to... | https://archive.today/XSojt
Show HN: Maori – The Game
Dear HackerNews fellows,

I've been away from the game dev scene for a while — about a decade, to be exact. Life happened, with all of time demands and responsibilities, but the itch to create never truly fades, does it?

Recently, I decided to that it is about time to change that, so I posed myself a challenge: Build and release a game within 24 hours. Well, it turns out I bit off a tad more than I could chew time-wise, clocking in at 42 hours from concept to the final build. But the end product? I'm proud of it.

Introducing my latest passion project: a casual web game inspired by the rich tradition of Maori masks. It's a simple concept that requires players to arrange masks in a specific order, blending elements of puzzles and memory games. The game is designed to be accessible and engaging whether you’re a kid enjoying the patterns and shapes or an adult tackling the "pro mode" for an extra challenge.

And the best part? It's absolutely free.

I’m genuinely excited for you all to give it a try and I'd be thrilled to hear your thoughts on it. If you like my little project, please pass it along. Your support means the world!

For those who have an interest in the journey behind the product, I've documented the entire development process. I’d be happy to share these behind-the-scenes videos for those being curious.

Have fun exploring, share if you enjoy, and happy puzzling!

See you in the game (and in the comments),

Cheers,
Daniel
Wow, you sound angry and upset.

Several personal insults and as for evidence, a single "Long Island woman claims" allegation from ten years ago. Plus a political derangement twist - how exciting!

It is fascinating how insecure a person like you is capable of being degraded to by the same systems you so vehemently decry. It's analogous to being afraid of everyone on the street because they might have a black belt in martial arts.