skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of something I learned of over a decade ago:

isUserAMonkey

Added in API level 8

public static boolean isUserAMonkey ()

Returns "true" if the user interface is currently being messed with by a monkey.

- https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity...
Qualcomm's Newest Chip Brings AI to Wi-Fi
That would be irrelevant, even if true. Same could be said about people upvoting it.
This is for comments sections and webapps, like hackernews, YouTube etc. I have dyslexia and make very basic mistakes all the time and typically don't notice them (I can re-read something 10 times and not see the mistake, only if I read it backwards will I sometimes notice) - maybe I should just pay for Grammarly Pro given I need it, but it's *how* they are upselling me that drives me nuts and makes me want to run away from them.
Water is a regulated utility. Anyone in a similar situation can contact the government authority who will gleefully tell the company to go to hell and possibly implement fines for inappropriate billing.
Do we need to protect the social media platforms? Do they even add value to society?
I’d normally take a ban as an indicator that the website doesn’t want that content. What’s the evidence that they actually do?
Michel Jordan or Bill Gates are almost as powerful as Putin?
I wanted the same info, sadly lacking.

AFAICT needs a db (MySQL/Postgres) and a cache (Redis/Memcached) and one (or more?) web workers.

Then optionally also Celery workers (for "async queries" i.e. slow running)... not sure how optional that is though.
It’s so exciting to keep track of. Feels like everything I hoped to see happening in spaceflight back in the 90s and 00s is finally (maybe) becoming reality and absolutely shattering the stagnancy that had overcome the field, hopefully this time for good.

If this pace can continue unabated, maybe it’s not too unrealistic to hope that my grandkids’ generation in a few decades has astronaut as one of their most aspired careers much as was the case for the kids of the 70s, 80s, and 90s… except this time it’d be much more practically achievable since there’d be greatly increased demand for people with that skillset.
Safety is not Boolean. Things are not safe or unsafe. It's just a question of HOW safe something is, what the risks are, etc.

Do we have any sense of the actual amount of PFAS in rainwater, and the human health impact of such? I didn't see any mention of this in the article. Maybe more investigation along these lines would be helpful.
Well, you could make a small plane if it's not lousy. Lilium and Electra are betting on something like an air taxi niche opening up if the fuel savings are worth it: https://www.electra.aero/ https://lilium.com/jet
Easy, just use a mirror!

But what about the opposite? A sunny landscape when it's cloudy outside, and a cloudy landscape when it's sunny?
You can really dumb it down to why didn’t you follow the checklist? If someone makes the same mistake after being corrected three times and the proper procedures exist for the worker to follow then the safety culture provides the structure and justification for their dismissal
If bitter = poisonous, then the plants that evolve to be more bitter will be eaten less. Thus, non-poisonous foods that evolve to be more bitter have a genetic advantage over their less bitter counterparts.
Regulation in governmental policy is not a mathematical theory that can be discarded with a single undesirable result. It's a complex human interaction that isn't a matter of regulate all the things or none of the things.

Recently a HN post reposted a discussion that solving a problem isn't rewarded, and successful regulation suffers that exact problem. Regulation is so widely successful in so many areas, people form these naive beliefs that we can just eliminate it all and we would be fine. There are so many examples of it working fine in society in completely invisible ways because it's working.

This is not to say that all regulations are perfect - more that we should be discussing how to identify failures and form working and improved regulations not discussing a frankly silly outright removal of all regulations. Regulatory capture is certainly one of the things to try to prevent.
Ransomware causing nationwide pharmacy and hospital disruption
Is sexual cannibalism off the table?
> But heat pump manufacturers say they now have the technology to heat homes just as efficiently in bitter cold as they do in milder winter temperatures.

This claim defies thermodynamics (and I expect better from IEEE).

Heat pumps are bound to be less efficient as the spread between inside and outside temperature grows. (They might be just as effective or they might be just as efficient as current heat pump tech, but they will not be as efficient at -20°C outside air temp as they are at +10°C.)
The problem with that is that humans depends on the ecosystem making them extinct would probably have very long chain of negative effects that would poison us in return if not make us extinct too.
James Gosling on AI
Most people won't want to fork over $100k to support a hobby project that's gone viral either.
This looks more promising to me than what I saw yesterday. There is an "Open" aspect to their objectives and they do say:

> We’re committed to empower the AI community with open technology. Our open models sets the bar for efficiency, and are available for free, with fully permissive license.

(that's something people were looking for yesterday)
The only way water after being distilled by the sun to pure H2O can be contaminated with these chemicals is if the chemicals are in the air. To my knowledge, we have zero regulations on what airplanes are allowed to spray into the atmosphere. Scientists at https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/ and https://climateviewer.com/ have tested the aerosols and other chemicals being sprayed and found them to include a number of harmful chemicals. If enough people were aware of what is going on, we could demand some transparency and accountability.
Apple very famously maintains incredible control over their partners' and their process.
It does not matter what the contents are.

I could post the most scientific accurate post about IQ differences correlated to ethnicities, and get fired for it, because it's just not work appropriate.
Doctors also massively profit off the back of patients. They make far more and live a far more lavish lifestyle than doctors in other countries. I have multiple doctors in my family, they all work less than 30 hours a week and make more than 300k. And theyre not even in the lucrative specialties. Most are family physicians which Im sure you know is the worst paid doctor.
I mean, are you arguing this is somehow a bad development?

“Sorry kid, but at least your dad got to see you ride your first bike, chalk that up to win, used to be much worse! You know, DuPont and 3M can’t give ground all the time.”

It is very hard to read about the cancer clusters in WV/OH around the heavy PFAS sites and not feel some extreme disgust at how bad it got and feel thankful that this is getting significant attention.
Oh I agree it's not bonkers from the perspective of "wait you want to put people on that bomb and then explode it?"

You can make all sorts of rules about what's not allowed to happen, but often those things happen.

I'm just ... astonished if they've got a little practice room somewhere in their factory where they give each of their new rockets a nut to process... "Okay kid here's your graduation test!". A "we need screens to cope with big things and filters to deal with small things" is probably smart for any anything that's going to be reused.

A nut's probably in some ways easier to deal with than a blob of wd40 (in your lox tank).
This tax doesn't exists any more in France, it has been removed at the end of 2022.

https://www.gouvernement.fr/actualite/fin-de-rideau-pour-la-...
As your sibling comments mentioned, there's a difference between giving a chance for someone to learn from a single mistake without punishment, and allowing them to make the same mistake twice without taking matters out of their hands after.

If it's a really critical role, the training will have realistic enough simulation for them to make countless mistakes before they leave the training environment. Then you can assess their level of risk safely.
This is mostly because rockets are cylinders. It's easy to get a long thin tube into space than an odd shape.
I've had it on my list for ages, but never quite got around to it - I seldom get as far east as the Jannowitzbrücke, most of my friends are in Tiergarten/Moabit area.

Speaking of museums, one of the most charming museums I've ever been to in Berlin is the Ramonesmuseum by Schlesisches Tor. Helps being a fan, though.
Do you?

Because I'd guess the true figure would be a bit higher than 75%. Have a think about that.
This is just blameless post mortems and many, many many places implement this.

There are always going to be some level of "inadequate" employees, and also perfectly adequate employees that sometimes make mistakes in any organization and if your organization requires that no employees ever make mistakes in order to operate safely, then you have serious problems.

The purpose of a statement like that is that you don't just have a post-mortem that is like: "Our company went off the internet because an employee had a typo in a host name. We fired the employee and the problem is solved." When in reality the problem is that you had a system that allowed a typo to go all the way into production.
Imagine you've spent 20 billion USD to develop, certify and create a production line. How you're going to convince airlines to buy hundreds of new planes they have no pilots for, no maintenance facilities and no predictions of reliability?
This must be satire, at least I hope
If you can use a comma fold instead of recursion, please do. They are a small hurdle to learn and, after that, much easier to follow.
As said in the PR comments, this is Codemaker AI advertisement, no good will.

And funnily enough, bad advertisement. How could a startup that focuses on code think that making a PR with 3,158 changed files is acceptable?
Maybe they should name it something descriptive and serious. I propose "Death Valley".
Has Boom found a new engine supplier yet?
As far as I know, most cloud hosts don't actually support automatically moving live VMs, so I think it's fairly common for a host to be left running a single VM.

At least in AWS, they never supported this, and in fact may require you to reboot an instance occasionally in order for it to be moved to a new hardware host (typically when they are upgrading their hardware).
Quite... It does seem that either the story we're getting isn't completely accurate or the support people who handled this need a little reminder of what's supposed to happen.

I'm a paranoid person by nature so "It's free... just... give us your card details" is always suspicious.
OpenJS Launches New Collaboration to Improve Interoperability of JavaScript
I'm 16 and I want to grow up and revive the concept of a fixed-function graphics card to make graphics cards cheaper and more focused on gaming. I might even look into acquiring the 3dfx brand and reviving it with that goal. AI and crypto whatever might be the buzzwords but they don't interest me.
Good on you for reaching out, but getting a bill like this in the first place is enough to send someone to the psych ward, lol.
I get where he is going with this... but idk. Feels like a somewhat mid take. Strong abstractions always means strong vendor lock-in and more power to infrastructure providers. But AWS, Netlify and whoever runs your apps are not your friends. Vertically integrating your infrastructure can be a pretty good source of cost reduction and can create interesting assets if you have good talent in-house. So idk... sometimes the fact that building something takes time and you have to think about how you are going to set it up actually is a good thing, because you take the time to build it right and you end up understanding how everything works together.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise is now generally available
It should not be visible, but security-by-obscurity is not something that makes me sleep well at night.

It's a design limitation of Netlify that might cost you $100,000 some day.
What would be your plan to limit Taylor Swift's power? Limit the number songs she can write per year?
When a punishment is applied with more deliberation, it can also be more severe.
What happend with the font since 2020? Did it get used anywhere?
The authorities, you mean "the authorities of some other people, not mine".
People say "There don't seem to be as many opportunities nowadays compared to my parents' generation..." and the response from some older quite successful person who has not had to hunt for opportunities in the current regime is always "You fool! There's opportunity everywhere! Just get a paper route and in 5 years you'll be able to buy a mansion!"
There's a "Map Men" episode on this:
https://youtu.be/DeiATy-FfjI
See also https://neuedin.com/
Is there a way to get your house (currently with hydronic gas heat) retrofitted for heat pumps that doesn’t result in either a ton of demo or ugly lines all over the exterior? I tried to switch over last year only to find the savings were not that great in my climate, and that it would have an unacceptable aesthetic cost.
I wonder why this exists.

What is this code for. How would they even know its a monkey?!

I'm sure its a joke of sorts, or clever moniker if you want to be charitable, but unclear to me in any case
Are they perhaps referring to geothermal heat pumps?
GP wasn't questioning who is creating the problem, they were questioning the size of the problem we are creating.
That was a fantastic read. My favorite excerpt:

> These laws are not about protecting speech. They’re about politicians ensuring that a favored constituency has access to someone else’s megaphone to spread a message

I was a high school teacher for a long time. When explaining to students how I facilitated discussion in the classroom, I talked with them about the idea of the loudest voice. If you don't moderate a discussion thoughtfully, it will be taken over by the few people with the loudest voices.

We see this same dynamic all the time in online communities. Moderators quiet the loudest voices so everyone else can have a meaningful conversation. These laws are aimed at letting the loudest people shout everyone else down, so the people trying to hold onto power can't be challenged.
Or from a comment elsewhere in this thread about Superset:

> Superset lets you join tables within the same database. If you want to do cross-DB joins, we have a new (beta) in-memory meta-DB that lets you do this

...is it this?
Wow some good news I’d say :) thanks for sharing !
For SWEET16 the choice to place it's registers in zero page, or not, would only affect speed of access, not code size. The SWEET16 code would still be using one byte register instructions in either case.

As far as speed, given that the interpreter overhead of SWEET16 means it's about 10x slower than 6502 code, adding an extra clock cycle for non-ZP access would at worst make that 11x vs 10x. Would that really make a difference to the cases where it was useful? The trade off is that NOT using ZP for SWEET16 would give those 32 bytes of ZP (16 registered x 2 bytes) back to the developer.

However, It seems that SWEET16 was not much used, and I doubt that any change like this - where to place it's registers - would have made any difference to that. It's maybe interesting to consider would a different interpreted code (with different feature set from SWEET16) have been any more widely used?

Yes, you can consider ZP as a page of registers, but it's not like there was any choice - seeing as the 6502 basically had no registers (just A, X, Y) you had to have your program variables in memory, and ZP was faster/smaller that the alternative!
I'm sure the spooks agree that information was a lot easier to control when it was just ABC, NBC, and CBS
It's overly naive to think that people who use such a tool choose to use it.

In many cases it's "you are hired into this job, this is the tool we give you, if you don't like the tool, take a hike".

Even more so, a lot of software is developed not to be competitive, but to be exclusive. It's a lot easier to be the only choice for doing something than trying to compete with a different tool. I've seen countless examples of tools developed in exactly this paradigm, where the decision to use the tool wasn't made by anyone anywhere close the users of the tool (eg. hospital procurement department buying a PACS or a large avionics company ordering a custom-made budget-management program).
Stock compensation for execs should have much longer timelines. You should have to hold the bag for a minimum of 18+ months after you depart, although 5 years would be better.
Why do you need the windows version at all in this case? Sounds like maybe you want MSYS2.
Or they’re simply commenting on Google suffering from a commonplace malady seen in many enterprises.
> Cloudflare's free tier is ridiculous: We do over 30TB+ of genuine traffic for $0. Makes it hard to move to any other platform. As a small tech shop, this is my Hotel California I'm happy to never leave.

Yeah that's how Cloudflare can reach total control over the Internet. With thunderous applause by people that should know better.

I know that my position is outright blasphemous in this day and age, where even self-hosting a static site has become black magic and we need a third party to do it for us.
This is the form that miners allege will cause them irreparable injury and has cost them 40 hours to fill out: https://www.eia.gov/survey/form/eia_862/form.pdf
I have my doubts about heat pumps ever being viable for Canadian and other high-latitude countries -40 degree winters. Everywhere else though, they probably should be the standard.
Not all open source devs are from the USA and in a lot of place outside it say the EU it can be quite the hassle. If you do it wrong it can very well be more than 5k worth of effort to fix it. When the taxman comes out 2 years later with a fine saying you didn't do X or Y.
Yeah, or more specifically a company might have the competence but will not waste their engineers time, because the reason they’re using the service in the first place is to not have to focus on their core business. Not random accessories.

A lot of time, circumventing a license check would be more work than - say - implementing sending email on their own. Depending on what the service is.

Developers think they’re selling fancy tech. Most often, what we’re selling/providing is convenience - something boring that just works.
> how do you know someone is a "punk?"

should I know?

right here in the comments for this post are several people explaining how the core of punk is a DIY ethos. i'm neither agreeing nor disagreeing with that, but if that was correct, then (a) it wouldn't matter if i could tell that someone was a punk (b) punk at its core has no connection to a "kit"or "package" or "look" at all. someone even argues that using mastodon to help find cures for cancer (i may be paraphrasing a bit) is an example of punk in 2024.

you seem very attached to the idea that punk is nothing more than a style sub-culture. i don't know if that's true, but there seem to be quite a few people who think it is false.
I am pretty skeptical of Starship ever getting used for suborbital transportation, other than maybe for ultra-elite VIP transport or something like a rapid deployment system for military special forces. It seems highly unlikely they will ever get the price down to where it can compete with commercial airliners, and Concorde's commercial failure showed us that people will happily choose cheap subsonic flight over fast supersonic flight. You can get almost anywhere on Earth in 36 hours' notice with conventional jet travel relatively cheaply on 1-2 weeks of US median income for a return ticket - that sweet spot of speed and cost is hard to beat.
Mine has one pipe going into the basement, and the mains power connection. What sorts of ugly lines are you referring to?
Is the support employee going to be fired for making such a traumatizing mistake? Or was 5% ok until this went viral?
Good luck! We need more competitors in this space, and healthcare IT is a decade or mode behind everyone.
> Why Apple didn't work on this category - glasses - and instead worked on VR goggles

Probably because it's a fantasy that can't exist with current technology.
> that renters also dream of one day owning multiple homes they can rent out

This is precisely what needs to stop.

As soon as you have some people buying multiple houses to make a profit from, you make housing un-affordable, and there are not enough to go around because some people have many.
> I still in 2024 rent physical boxes and run the modern stuff on top of them directly, yes it costs me more per month but the price is hard capped.

I still prefer this too. Kinda funny how server resource limitations became a feature and not a bug when it was one of the problems the cloud sought to overcome
I don't like them - but they're the best you can have when you're in the woods.
Totally agree, it's an unacceptable risk
If that happened what would the repercussions be?

I think they'd come together and create a certifying authority for authentic users with traceability. More compliance. Better filtering/admin tools for users.
Air to water heat pumps exist that can efficiently supply flow/LWT* of 135°F, so if you can turn down your existing boiler to 135°F flow and maintain temperature in the house, you can retrofit to an A2W heat pump, which does not result in your home being festooned with linesets and covers running around the outside like plastic termite tunnels.

I also tried to switch in 2022 and found that it would literally never pay off due to the dramatically higher upfront project cost, and so a combi gas boiler now hangs on my basement wall.

* - LWT = "leaving water temp" aka "supply" aka "flow" depending on where you are in the world
We don't have "fairly clear technological pathways to sustainability."

We're in the middle of the Holocene Extinction, that some call the Anthropocene Extinction - the sixth mass extinction in the history of the Earth, and the first to be caused by a single species. Global warming has long since passed its tipping point, we're simply in a harm reduction phase right now and it's a race to see if we can even avoid the eventual collapse of the entire food chain.

The world population didn't reach one billion people until about the year 1800, and two billion by the 1920s. When I say that it can only support one billion people, I'm referring to what was possible before the Haber-Bosch process revolutionized farming and made it possible to grow enough food for 8 billion today.

I'll concede that the number might even be as high as 2 billion or so. Beyond that, we have to employ technologies that upset the ecological balance of the planet, leading to mass extinctions, loss of natural habitat, carbon emissions, and other harmful activities at a planetary scale.
>their car pays less rent per sqft than they do

This shouldn't be surprising though. Cars don't need heating or cooling or sewage or a roof or ...