skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pleasing static type checkers requires a non-zero amount of busy work

Heck yeah! Why would I want to find problems ahead of time when the whole thing could blow up at runtime with cryptic errors. Or better yet, no errors because I’m such a ducking elite programmer that I never make mistakes. Read the code. The code don’t lie!

This is a lame, low effort blog post. Jesus Christ.
You might have heard the funny story about a nuclear contamination incident where the workers had to dig a big trench to clear out contaminated material, then filled the trench in with local soil ... that was naturally higher in radiation than the stuff removed.

I'm not entirely happy with the premise that nobody has learned anything about plant design since 1970 when Fukushima & friends were designed. And it seems quite likely that this 1 trillion figure is not actually an amount of money that got spent. But what I'd really like to know is what exactly were the consequences if we just ignored the situation? Because with coal we more or less ignored the pollution from 1800 -> 2023 and that turned out well [0] for everyone involved for centuries. Is this money actually worth spending? What is it buying? The nuclear debate seems to be largely detached from what actually happens as routine. Lots of people just don't exercise and that is bad for all sorts of health outcomes - there is a level of risk that people ignore in favour of more comfort.

These arguments are like 1800s peasants deciding to kill off the industrial revolution because they were worried about global warming. I don't think people are looking at the multiple orders of magnitude improvement in fuel energy density and thinking logically about what the upside is. It might be high enough that a trillion every couple of years is chump change.

And, when I hear "trillion", we note that the US wasted that much in Afghanistan. It isn't like these sums are prohibitive - Japan is slowly restarting their nuclear programs as they work out that energy is required to live a comfortable life.

[0] Like, really well. As in, any attempt to deal with the pollution would have left the whole world a lot worse off. Our entire lifestyle in the present is built on the back of infrastructure built while ignoring pollution in the industrial revolution and follow up era.
The world of book writing is an iceberg, and with thousands of works being released a year that not just go unreviewed but unread there is little chance the awards are inclusive of the genre.

We are literally only a GPT generation away from the book writing machines of 1984 and as a new author myself this makes me so sad.
Many YC-founded companies simply cannot afford a negative press cycle or let alone the press face-time outside of e.g. Techcrunch so it’s unfair to compare their “values” with Garry Tan’s established desire to be TK-style divisive and disruptive. So don’t assume YC Founders speak for the HN readership despite their outsized HN moderation influence (as evidenced by this post getting flagged).
It was a consensus of the people I talked to orch OR isn't taken seriously, and IIT is. I only hear of orch OR from people who watched the video online and heard of the great toilet paper maker rodger Penrose.
Neutrality is support for might makes right. Choosing to be neutral is to say that the strongest party should win.

Not being prepared to be violent makes you harmless. Having the capacity for violence and choosing not to use it makes you peaceful.

If you speak softly, but don't carry a big stick, then you are just speaking softly.

Might might not make right, but it determines who gets to make the rules.
I'm notorious for shitting on the content reaching the front-page but as of 1706420941 it's a blast for me

Disney unveils the HoloTile floor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156444

The invention of a new pasta shape - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39159263

Studying species in the deepest parts of the ocean: A new method of analysis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39159601

The quest to decode the Mandelbrot set - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39145513

Revisting Madonna-Ology in the Era of Taylor Swift Studies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39141334

Implementing a ChatGPT-like LLM from scratch, step by step - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39156778
Lobsters and Mastodon are pretty free of “the orange site” effect.
The downvote on the comment you replied to is from a random guy on the internet. Should I care more about that than you care about the articles I posted? Or maybe the bigger picture is that what matters is how much we as individuals and as a society care about stringent qualifications for what we call science?

Hopefully you see the irony in your response now.
Unix desktops
Nope, just google for "sand microscope".
None of what you said contests what I said.
That's cool, why did he choose these lyrics? The context actually makes it worse if you know why Tupac wrote those lyrics.

This is legitimately not okay. He needs to step down.
U.S. Suspends Funding to Unrwa Amid Hamas Attack Claims
Is lobsters really all that good?

From a cursory glance, the quality of conversation appears to be nearly as high (or higher) than HN but that doesn't matter if most posts see less than 5-10 comments.
Say whatever else you will about him but pg was really good at this.
Patrick Moore will settle this by offering to drink "perfectly safe"(tm) glyphosate.
Same. And even professionally I'm not going to post everything on linkedin, so it can't be my "blog" either. And medium paywalls....so I ended up just rolling a quick blog on github pages using astro. Was pretty easy, and set it up as a repo so my partner can host her portfolio on github too -> https://github.com/ShelbyJenkins/easy-astro-blog-creator

and this is knowing very little about webdev. pretty nice until github tries to monetize pages
Pi + e sounds like a tasty summation!
I thought username is max 14 and password is min 22 as it should be.
small languages have also died out because of colonialism, national identity laws, and a host of other factors.

i agree, though, that computing could be sooo great for these languages if we moved past weatern paradigms
Stripe is a product that sold itself. I think they still manage it.

Webflow and Shopify are also some products that just sell themselves. WordPress too.
How should we think about building software
Musk also thinks his “go F yourself advertisers” is satire hence he should not be held accountable for the billion dollar loss of his f-you-money comment https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-x-fidelity-valuation-worth-les...

Happy to see YC take the current site down and say they don’t actually think TK brought positive change to SF.
SSO centralizes the problem to somewhere that can require hardware-based auth, e.g. passkey, Yubikey, etc. Passwords are fine if they're combined with hardware-based auth. Expecting every vendor to implement passkeys etc. natively isn't going to happen.
For a little more than text to image I would add Stable Diffusion with complex workflow tools like ComfyUI. The amount of different loras, controlnets and image to image or video to image is becoming very useful for various industries. Much more so than simple prompting. Think of upscaling, faceswapping, animation, rotoscoping and much more.
Or it could open you up to other attacks when the service coalesces all those emails to one canonical example (to uniquely identify you or whatever -- note that almost no online service recognizes the importance of caps in the email address you use as a username for example, where the underlying email provider sometimes does) but does so differently than the actual email service, allowing anyone and their dog to create an email which will collide with yours.
You might as well ask “why show it at all”. If you’re a small research outfit you do demos like this to attract potential clients but Disney has more than enough internal applications for this thing to keep them occupied for a long time.

My cynical view is that an exec was looking at the share price and thought “ahh crap let’s go film some stuff in R&D to reassure people we’ve got the future in hand”. Didn’t matter they hadn’t scaled the thing up, we’re still all talking about it in the top post of HN.
I want to vote for whatever presidential candidate says they’ll help every state get a new nuclear project started and approved.
Oh yes, heads should have rolled for the instigation of the Iraq War. The damage they caused is immense and will be felt for generations.
The places with high birth rates are economically undeveloped, so the people there consume very few resources, produce very little pollution and have negligible impact on the environment. One person in the US produces the same amount of CO2 as 150 people in DR Congo. That disparity is broadly similar for metrics like land use, water use, soil depletion, waste production etc.

The number of people being born in very poor countries is essentially irrelevant compared to the consumption choices of people in rich countries. Based on current trends, the global population is expected to peak at around 10 billion, but the planet is comfortably capable of sustaining billions more if we can find a middle ground in resource use between the dire poverty of DR Congo and the wanton profligacy of the US. Talking about birth rates in relation to climate change is at best a misguided distraction and at worst wilful misdirection.
translation doesn’t always carry the same weight. look at the bible— entire sentences that have different meanings or subtext. in one language, a verb may mean “to do something as your responsibility” and in a translation it may simply be “to undertake a task” — this sort of nuance is lost really easily.

additionally, books and written word doesn’t always equate to having saved knowledge. think about the tribe and kin concepts in many indigenous languages. entire ways of life can be lost. we know a lot from our europe’s ancestral indo-europeans lived from the reconstructions of proto-indo-european by way of the modern languages and written history but there is so much we do not know that is just lost.
2 and 3 are among my favorite as well, guess I gotta see 1! Thanks
No, it means that you can leverage a more efficient part of an engine’s torque curve by supplementing with electric power at the low and high end (since motors have a flatter torque curve).
Beautifully simple that it only has to spin the wheels one direction! I do imagine it has to stop though when the person stops walking.

The drawback of this is that it requires a firm contact point like shoes to work.
You wouldn't want to walk in socks on this. You also couldn't have a performer lay directly on the surface and transport them across the stage, nor allow them to have baggy clothing near it. Running would be difficult from a balance perspective, not to mention holding a wheel at a particular tilt would require quite a bit of force if someone runs on it. It's going to have a very particular use case for Disney.
> Stability of the software is not a consideration.

Yeah. I'm pretty sure that I've seen a toggle-able option in some home user routers for them to automatically reboot themselves once every um... day (or some other time period).

Like "we can't be bothered tracking down the memory leaks in shipped software, so lets just implement an auto-reboot of the router".

It's both funny and tragic at the same time.
[George Carlin joke here.]

If the defense presented compelling epidemiologist testimony and statistics, it's difficult to bullshit concrete evidence. The jury just had to act as a marginally-adequate bullshit detector. The premise of a pool of disinterested, random individuals settling disputes is occasionally problematic in isolation but superior to duels at dawn, Hatfields vs McCoys, or troubling the corn or pimentos.
How do you make it fast without accidentally throwing people on their ass or ripping their fingers off if they trip?
Everybody would rather write Python than php or c++. It isn't because of the type system.
I mean mundane days we both are working, have household chores that run endlessly, and have to cajole kids to do their homework and chores etc.

Maybe a staycation where we ignore the laundry and dirty dishes and just hang out on the deck would be fun? But seems a bit like squandering vacation days…
How!?
Things die, new things are born, things die, new things are born. It’s the circle of life. It’s natural and ok for things to die.
Your claim was:

If you imagined that RIGHT NOW batteries and solar are DECREASING the carbon footprint you are simply wrong.

Your three links do not support that claim, they all iterate around toxic waste by products of concentrate processing - which is a real problem but not a carbon problem, and a problem that for now is of a lesser order than toxic waste by products of copper mining.

None of this deep science, more material process engineering.

The solutions to the issues in your three links are to move processing to first world nations that have a greater incentive to make better tailings dams, to transition mining trucks away from fossil fuels and onto local electricity from solar and hydrogen - you'll see if you look about that processing is already moving an that companies such as Rio Tinto are already transitioning to renewable electricy generation.
> To have a profit in a specific country there have to be enough people with iDevices to start with.

Sure, it's necessary, but it isn't sufficient.
Actually, I find the gmail features the opposite of helpful, because websites aren’t aware of them, and will happily treat as unique addresses using them, that in fact aren’t. I have my username @ gmail (since very early days, when you needed an invite). At least once a week I get somebodies receipt of confirmation because they enter an email like tyler.e@
From my experience people say “engineering culture” when what they actually mean management culture. It’s not typically the engineers that are the problem.
Acceleration is change in velocity and change in time, either can effect the apparent amount of acceleration. The velocity you accelerate to or from is just an implementation detail.
Now that it’s owned by Zoom, it’s a hard no for me.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28814210
> the UK hasn't had too many hurricanes in its history

In other words: In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen.
Are you me? I had this exact experience, except after dealing with trying to resolve the conflicts with NATs and all the DNS pain that comes with a system having a different IP depending on where you are accessing it from, and the pain of re-iping an entire company, we actually DID go IPv6. All the offices still had their local IPv4 networks, but the mesh was IPv6 only. Turns out it was SIGNIFICANTLY less effort to get a new office IPv6 ready (usually just tweaking a couple toggles, occasionally replacing some ancient networking hardware) than resolving the IPv4 conflict.
Fair point, I have myself noticed a lot more deleted posts. I doubt their bottom line has hurt much though.
I was expecting Hell, MI

https://maps.app.goo.gl/59t9okLoih1Yk5SE9?g_st=ic
> metrics for early-Reddit qualities

Those had already tanked before any API changes.
Of course you can, just put your feet on the sides instead of on the belt (don’t actually do this, you will absolutely hurt yourself).
It's at this point when preparedness turns into weird, fringe thinking that's also dangerous. A battle rifle can be used to hurt people. Assuming others will try to hurt you in an emergency event is the basis for what people think of when they imagine "peppers": basically, people who believe the world and everything in it is out to get them.

It doesn't hurt to be prepared but spending a significant part of your life crafting your post-apocalyptic future informs more about your stance toward living and toward people than it does healthy relations with the world.
That's just a side-effect less isolated communities.

As more and more people from within different communities interact, the value of a common language increases and the value of the isolated language decreases.

The eventual equilibrium is going to be maybe 3 languages left, with each individual in the world able to speak at least 2 of them.

Any effort expended on keeping languages alive is pointless.
All i needed to know about the quality of software gitlab ships can be found in using their CI system on any half decent size project. You can tell it was half baked with many bugs and edge cases that can be easily avoided. When you look at the bug tracker all of them have been documented for years and they just ignore them.

My favorites are

* using included files that run no job is a failure. The only real work around is adding a noop job all over your ci system.

* try to use code reviewers based on groups. The logic is so complex and full of errors i can’t even explain it unless i spend an hour reading the docs.

* when using the merge train and enabling merge result pipelines you end up with two different jobs per commit. This is cool except in the UI it always shows merge results first. If you have ten commits you need to look on the second page to find the most recent commits ci jobs. That is just annoying but more no environment variables overlap for what MR or commit it is. This makes doing trivial things like implementing break glass pipless almost impossible.

Anyway gitlab sucks i wanted to not use github but really it’s just bad. Not to mention we have outages monthly that we always know of 30 minutes to an hour before gitlab does then we look on the status page and see the downtime is 10 minutes when its been 40 for us and likely everyone else. We have in the last year had close to 2 full days combined of downtime from gitlab. Of course they report 99.95% uptime.
Chimps Family : https://youtu.be/4r-TEKSnSXM

Top tier

If anyone has similar ones to this they recommend please send them on. This is my favorite by a country kilometer
Gasoline may have been a miracle fuel but once affordable EVs have 1000km range with fast charge times we won't use it anymore.
> additionally, books and written word doesn’t always equate to having saved knowledge. think about the tribe and kin concepts in many indigenous languages. entire ways of life can be lost. we know a lot from our europe’s ancestral indo-europeans lived from the reconstructions of proto-indo-european by way of the modern languages and written history but there is so much we do not know that is just lost.

Sure, things are lost, but were they valuable other than to students of history?
You obviously have no idea how many shots are mandatory for recruits deploying

It would be a significant strain on their logistics, which the us military is very good at, to let these shots be optional

It's mission oriented, not politics.
On the other hand you don’t really want your kids to have to worry about wolves on their way to school. So I don’t think the zero environmental impact is the target either.
It’s buried and incidental when it should be the lede.

Invoking an artistic expression of “I can’t find words strong enough to convey how much I loathe what you stand for” is very different from making a literal death wish.
Miss Sloane movie review and film summary (2016)
Speaking of managing at scale and splitting well:

the reverse lookup domain name corresponding to the address

4321:0:1:2:3:4:567:89ab

would be

b.a.9.8.7.6.5.0.4.0.0.0.3.0.0.0.2.0.0.0.1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.2.3.4.IP6.
ARPA.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3596#section-2.5
We leveraged crowdsourcing of a private kindergarten school to organically design pasta shapes and used the throw it against the wall method, which was met with smashing approval. We're still optimizing cook time, uniformity, and packaging. And we hope to remain out of the Whole Foods bargain shelves by the seafood counter for at least 3 years to maximize ROI. We will also codesign a sauce that maximizes adhesion with a proprietary formulation that only adheres to our pasta.
> Western countries stop sending relief to Palestinians in Gaza...

Wake me up when they stop sending weapons to Netanyahu.

> ... because Israel alleged that it was the relief workers who were the terrorists.

Changes nothing. An opportunity for the rest of the non-genocidal world to come to Gaza's aid.

The rest of the world will continue to support the Palestinian people overcome this terrible evil being carried out by Zionist Israel.
Two articles say the same thing with entirely different headlines.

Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39157015

CBS article says: “ Although the rental market is showing signs of cooling, the median rent in the U.S. was $1,964 in December 2023, up 23% from before the pandemic, according to online housing marketplace Rent”

“December rents remain 22% higher than before the pandemic” in the Bloomberg article. But Bloomberg has a lot more on the latest 8 months (decline, and it’s expected to continue.)

Danielle Hale, chief economist at Realtor.com, expects “continued weakness in the rental market for 2024, as a much-needed supply of apartment units continues to come onto the market and further impacts market dynamics.”

Archived at: https://archive.is/ap1Fx

Pick your time period.
How many death certificates read: "died of air pollution"? Where are such deaths occurring.
Yeah, that's unreadable unless you're used to the modern U.S. English spelling of "fuck".

> Fuck Mobb Deep! Fuck Biggie! Fuck Bad Boy as a staff, record label, and as a motherfuckin' crew!

> And if you wanna be down with Bad Boy, then fuck you too!
Chino XL, fuck you too! All you motherfuckers, fuck you too!

> All of y'all motherfuckers, fuck you, die slow!
It would be complicated and expensive (yes, WiFi is that complicated), and you likely couldn't sell that open hardware adapter so there's no motivation to make one.

The law states that "an intentional or unintentional radiator must be constructed such that the adjustments of any control that is readily accessible by or intended to be accessible to the user will not cause operation of the device in violation of the regulations" (https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/15.15 )

So if the manufacturer makes a device where changing the firmware is "readily accessible" to the user and there is an open source firmware available that can circumvent the FCC transmission restrictions (for example, change the power limits or channel limits for wifi physical layer), then that would be grounds for FCC refusing to certify that device, as it is not permitted to make, import or sell general unrestricted transmitters to the general public (there are certain exceptions for licensed operators, ham radio, experimental use by manufacturers etc).

It's similar to other clauses that prohibit manufacturers from making it easy for the user to modify the equipment - e.g. 15.203 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/15.203) "the use of a standard antenna jack or electrical connector is prohibited." so that the user can't easily replace the antenna with a different one from what was certified.
This would be interesting to try out if it's a public repo!`
I eagerly await ruff-but-for-type-checking. Python type checkers are all excruciatingly slow at the moment.
X is blocking "Taylor Swift" searches
Since when does Windows support forward slash as path separator?
[dupe]

Discussion of this and related postings:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39161194
Some mathematical aspects of cryptography (1941)
"many were banned for saying things that were unpopular but true"

Can you cite one confirmed example?
The only fun thing that came out of that mess was that Chuck Tingle was nominated for a Hugo Award.
human wave is not the game. The Ukraine-Russia war has shown us how important the technology is. The whole war is fighting with drones to detect and kill enemies.
> it still won't know what I have in my pants

And what if it does? How do you dismiss it ?

“That’s not me guys, I swear”
> m.