skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels misleading.

I totally believe that botanical gardens cool the air within them. That's what happens when you have an area full of trees and shade, with denser vegetation than a park.

But I have a hard time believing that they have any significant effect on the city air 5 or 10 blocks away, where the asphalt is baking in the sun.

So I'm not sure what the point of this article is, because it's not like we're going to replace half the blocks in a city with botanical gardens, as nice as that would be.

Meanwhile, the article claims claims planting trees on the street has less effect, but surely is far more important -- because it affects the whole city, rather than a small localized area in and around a botanic garden?

So there seems to be a major flaw in this article, in that it's comparing the cooling effects of various interventions (botanical gardens, street trees, etc.) but without ever specifying how the sizes or densities are being compared.

Honestly, I can't even imagine what a unit of comparison between botanical gardens and street trees would be, since botanical gardens replace streets and buildings, while street trees merely add to them. It's apples and oranges.
> Updating is always the right thing to do.

Except when the update makes the product worse.
That's a real phenomenon -- they're typically called Trap Streets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/trap-streets-with-no-n... -- but that's a bit different from these easter eggs.

You put a drawing of a marmot in a mountainside or turn a stream into a naked lady to have a chuckle and get one over your boss, not to enforce copyright :)
https://avgeekery.com/oldest-flying-airliners-in-the-united-...
While that appears to be true, and while it might seem like this case appears to be about first amendment rights ("free speech"), a quick glance at some of the links here appears to show that the first amendment does NOT in fact appear to be the (main) issue in this case.

I am not a lawyer and not well versed in this case. But my 2 cents:

- This case does NOT necessarily appear to be about whether individuals' FIRST AMENDMENT rights were violated, or about whether individuals have a FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT to express themselves on the social media platforms of private companies.

- Instead, this case DOES seem to be about in what capacity a STATE is allowed to REGULATE private companies operating WITHIN THAT STATE.

It might seem somewhat paradoxical, and my guess is that is because the issue is nuanced but not overly so. The STATES are introducing MORE REGULATION of companies, in order to help ensure MORE FREEDOM of individuals. This can be painted as "more onerous" or "less free", but that view may depend on who you are (e.g., if you hardline siding with corporations, or if you hardline side with less regulation, even if that particular regulation in fact requires less regulation by companies of individual flesh and blood humans). (This might also be painted as "more free", in terms of the STATE'S RIGHT to regulate.)

In theory, some states could "regulate and enforce" that companies must follow certain rules. In general, the states have broad latitude in making rules that are left up to them, and that are not really the main concern of the federal government.

If the courts were to consider or decide whether there are in fact more FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOMS FOR INDIVIDUALS (NOT COMPANIES) in relation to social media, that would be huge but I think pretty unlikely at this time at least. But hey, big changes can always happen seemingly out of nowhere or too fast for some.
Sony is laying off Playstation employees
If this is a true story about a fake city,
why use a fake name instead of calling attention to the real issue?
If one has delegated their thinking to the point that they’re essentially a parrot, do they really care about accuracy?
Yup it was a combination of factors, but nothing legal related, Blizzard didn’t reach out. It was easier for me to maintain and provide a better experience by just hosting the main file archive itself on my server directly since all of the binaries live there anyways. I use GitHub primarily as a markdown rendering frontend for the project. Of course the Cactus Core itself is publicly available and the source code can be found at the https://github.com/fearedbliss/Cactus-Core page.

Edit: By “llama” I’m guessing you mean Alpaca (my simple stash extension based on PlugY 11.02)?
Consider the OP's headline. They didn't even describe what their project was. All they said, all they think they needed to say, was that it is Open Source.

And on HN, it's actually true. Open Source projects get lots of kudos here.

The problem is, others may see what is essentially a marketing strategy aimed at a niche audience and conclude that Open Source is an essential, in fact they most essential, part of the business. Hence the need to remind people that Open Source is not a business model.
>that you can still issue a charge back

Most users don't want to be banned from their hosting provider.
Well, both require making land available, and while amenity gardening is manageable, a botanical garden is often a research site that requires a lot of expertise to set up and maintain. Mind you, that's just fine, the county can and should hire people.
Yep definitely everyone add your /now site to nownownow.com too!

I feel like the directories each have a different purpose: aboutideasnow.com to connect people with similar ideas, nownownow.com as a personal look into people's lives.

Derek I sent you an email :)
Don't they provide web versions of those?
Ask HN: How do I know if I am shadow banned on HN?
Has anyone experienced this before? Are there some restrictions on new accounts?
Presumably they are also paying to license third-party patents and other intellectual property for each headset.
It's like the Arboghast encountering the protomolecule
Money is just an abstraction for quality of life :)
Well some of us think the smart brother got lucky and so he HAS to give
With the Falcon 1 they also needed a several attempts before they started getting it right. The Falcon 9 went through a similar set of launches and also it took a while from successful launch to successful landing.

The ambition level is really high with Starship but if there's any company that can get it done it's spacex.

Basically what they are doing is a form of agile development where instead of speccing out the whole thing years in advance, they basically iterate and redesign what needs redesigning. Even if the project ultimately fails, there are multiple things coming out of the project that are at this point valuable. Like the merlin engines. Or their welding innovations. The notion of launching a steel contraption this size to orbit is ludicrous. Yet, they almost pulled it off last time. Worst case they have learned a lot to do a better falcon rocket. Best case, this thing actually starts working.
What about using merchant of record solutions that pays taxes instead of you? It is a good solution for a self bootstrap startup, or it would be better to do it yourself?
Hey there! I just went 0 to App Store in 60 days with React Native. I would love if you would try out RubberDuck and share your thoughts with me.

The concept here is similar to Duolingo (gamified mobile learning), but for general education. The curriculum is generated via LLM. Happy to answer any questions!
Evidently his speech wasn't that restricted, still able to post a rambling blog on the matter.
> One thing we're very confident in is that anatomically modern humans (i.e. us) are not neanderthals.

We’re not neanderthals, but they are largely no longer considered a separate species. Neanderthals are now commonly known as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis in the literature. Their genetics are not that different from sapiens and the difference is only about twice as much as the variation in the global gene pool so they’re more an extinct branch of a much more diverse species which suffered a genetic bottleneck leaving only us.
I heard there can be issues with ice.
they already made this movie

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_(2020_film)
I’m convinced that the MIT license and other public domain-like licenses are the worst licenses to actually use if you’re not a FOSS ideologue. So, most people. It works against your own interests in just a subtle enough way that also works against the interests of those who use your software.

At a bare minimum, you should probably at least use the GNU General Public License version 2.
Is the test setup for this available anywhere? I’d love to compare performance against our existing load shedder.
Ask HN: What's your preferred tech stack for your side projects
As an indie developer what has been your preferred tech stack when building side projects or SaaS products
The best to do is to encourage broader access to legal offers (and support the good ones!).

Like it has happened with Netflix, or with Spotify, and even YouTube (which used to be a major illegal streaming website, before signing partnerships with most of the music majors).

Users who don't have money would continue to do piracy anyway, and the others pick convenience.

In few countries (Japan, France, Slovenia, etc) it's even mandatory to fund the public TV.

-> If you own a screen, even just a computer, they consider you may be able to watch TV with it

-> Instead, you could decide to allocate this money to a private streaming platform (12 EUR / month for France!)

(it's a plague to be forced to fund TV shows you never watch, so better allocate somewhere else)

Regarding the Italians, I understand in some ways why they decided to block the IPs.

The host of the mirror of the content (Cloudflare) doesn't do what they ask, and they are +/- out of the Italian jurisdiction so one of the most reasonable solution they could do was to block the most specific host they could find.

The most likely action is that Cloudflare is going to migrate:

1) legit customers to other IPs

2) high-risk customers to specific batches of IPs

and then this is going to resolve the side-effects.
> What I like : - Good documentation compared to AmmoJS (you need to read pybullet)

On the Rust side, the Rapier docs are out of date AFAIK. Fortunately I'm stuck on the previous version so it's not so bad.
Some states in the USA are rapidly moving towards Taliban like extremism and I don't think I'm exaggerating. From a European standpoint it always was easy to joke about 'those crazy book burning Americans' but I think it's past the point of being funny as real people are being harmed now.

With lots of christians being major hypocrites (a majority appears to vote for Trump, a self professed apathetic sinner) I wonder if they really have those christofascist beliefs or if they are just abusing the ruleset in a fading religion in order to gain power. As an atheist it's easy to conclude they are angering people enough to set themselves apart in order to gather enough votes for carrying out their corporate sponsores agendas.

Are there true American christians here who care enough to enlighten me?
My own preference, probably not similar to theirs but coming from Django, CherryPy and heck, I'll mention even ASP .NET Core, I prefer to design my websites in a more OOP way. The way CherryPy handles things is my favorite overall, if I could merge CherryPy and FastAPI I would.
Someone needs to write a time-to-Godwin's-law browser plugin. In this case, three paragraphs.

Link to the org in question: https://afcomm.org.uk/

No wiki page, they must be new.

Associated Ltd company had two officers, second is Anna Loutfi, who is also legal director of the Bad Law Project, which is one of Laurence Fox's vehicles.

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
The fruit being discussed is endemic to a portion of the southeast United States.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/nrs/atlas/tree/v3/367

You may be thinking of a relative like the soursop which does have a broader range.
We tried something along those lines, and our "gatekeeping" prompt looks something like [1]

It seems to have held up so far - given an injection like yours, it evaluates it as an attempt to circumvent.

https://chat.openai.com/share/db68457c-0619-4c87-95de-de4d00...
I struggle to see how any open-source project would accept this kind os PRs, the tools seems ok for research, but not a good ideia to push PRs like that open source projects.
Why would you "filter TCP/IP except by IP" ? When I download a file, what is important is the content of the file. Not the pipe it came in.

When I buy something on amazon, what is important is the stuff delivered, not the delivery man.

You would filter packages from entering home based on the delivery man ? Insane ? Yes this is an insane behavior. As if one delivery man were dedicated per home, as it was in 1994. INSANE.
That's my point! In this example the backtranslation can't easily recover the extra details that made the original prompt break the content filter. The original prompt went into great detail about grandmothers and storytelling, but since the response is mostly about a napalm recipe with some crude grandmotherly touches, the backtranslated prompt can't recover all those original details.

From what I gather that's why this (heuristically) tends to work. I am sure it is possible that the backtranslated prompt contains the jailbreaking phrase, but given my experience with LLMs that seems unlikely. They are too "lossy" to preserve that sort of detail.
Well, I guess you're right in a way. While there are no meaningful outside commits in EmailEngine, there are _some_ commits, even if these have minimal impact, by people who do not get paid for it, while I do.
Anyone make sense of the bit referencing the Stasi?
It's effectively the only physics engine for Rust, so that's an important feature.
I'll say PowerBI has the potential to be more powerful, but you need to love the whole M and DAX languages eco system. And the integration with python and R it's not that bad.

But if your vis are with the scope of native Tableau capabilities, then Tableau it's more friendly and gets less in the way of you and your work.
That's the point. We shouldn't be filtering.
I’ve been an early beta tester of rubberduck for a few months now and it’s come along way! I started by taking the Rails class to test my knowledge and then Cam added a bunch of new classes and RubberDuck has become another fun game I play a bit every day.

Congrats on the iOS launch!
I am an avid ant hobbyist and use AntWeb regularly to aid in identification and distribution of ant species when hunting for new queens. I’m glad to hear about this change - the site had needed a bit of a refresh for a while!
The problem is that that fuel gets routed through a thin tube around the engine bell and then goes through a turbo pump before going into the engine. Both of those would have tight tolerances.
> the only group that was an even worse influence on the stability of the region than either of them: ISIS

To be clear, ISIS is great for stability. It's not the stability we want, but they do definitely provide stability. We may not like them, but there are reasons that people living in chaos or extreme poverty choose to support them over alternatives. The Taliban didn't triumph in Afghanistan without it's fans.
Sorry that knowledge is restricted to real engineers. /s
Same with all the various things - you have to balance the effort vs the reward.

One trick is to not do too much on Patreon to start, do the bare minimum so that you don't get overwhelmed later. E.g, give early access instead of a custom special show each week/month, etc.
I enjoyed that book. After I read it I made my bio on dating apps: “Active, creative, hairy; but enough about Portia spiders.”

My question is: how successful do you think that’s been for me as a straight man?
Problemi di Installazione di Windows 11: KB5034765 Fallisce con Errore 0x800F0922

Gli utenti di Windows 11 stanno riscontrando difficoltà nell'installare gli ultimi aggiornamenti di sicurezza, con KB5034765 che non riesce ad installarsi e restituisce l'errore 0x800F0922. Microsoft ha confermato il problema e fornito indicazioni su come risolverlo.

Dettagli dell'Errore: L'aggiornamento KB5034765 si blocca durante l'installazione, mostrando un messaggio che indica "Qualcosa non ha funzionato come previsto.

Nessun motivo di preoccupazione - annullando le modifiche. Si prega di mantenere il computer acceso.

Inoltre, alcuni utenti vedono il codice di errore 0x800F0922, seguito dall'indicazione di riprovare l'installazione.

Soluzione Temporanea: Microsoft suggerisce una soluzione temporanea per risolvere il problema.

Gli utenti possono eliminare la cartella nascosta C:$WinREAgent, riavviare il sistema e provare nuovamente a scaricare e installare KB5034765.

Si tratta di un workaround in attesa di una risoluzione definitiva da parte di Microsoft, che è già al lavoro su una correzione per il bug.

Non è chiaro cosa stia causando l'errore 0x800F0922 su Windows 11, ma Microsoft sta investigando e fornirà ulteriori aggiornamenti non appena disponibili.

Nel frattempo, gli utenti sono incoraggiati a seguire le indicazioni fornite per risolvere il problema e mantenere i propri sistemi aggiornati e sicuri.

Sebbene possa essere frustrante incontrare errori durante l'installazione degli aggiornamenti di sicurezza, è incoraggiante sapere che Microsoft è consapevole del problema e sta lavorando per risolverlo.

Nel frattempo, gli utenti possono seguire le istruzioni fornite per mitigare il problema e assicurarsi che i loro sistemi siano protetti e funzionanti correttamente.
Thinking of all the people (some even actual friends) worked so long on numerical stability on scalar floating point operations, nearing a time when model-checking and proof tool are actually usable by the really-motivated developer ; thinking of them witnessing the arrival of GPUs and Tensor Cores, mixed-precision-everywhere and the tools now needing to scale so far it seems like starting from scratch...
Dashboards have a very long tail depending on use case.

You've got daily driver exec and performance dashboards, then you have over time trend dashboards, and finally you have drill down self serve explore of data export tools. Alerting should be separate.

It's expected that most dashboards will not be checked often, trends don't change daily so it's usually not meaningful to look at most metrics daily. Self serve tools are only needed occasionally, but exist as a cost savings on data teams doing low effort high time tasks.

Dashboard tools and spreadsheets are the only good tools for sharing data, I find most reports and spreadsheets are actually just one offs.
Haha funny hearing the other side of the story to this, i was a front end dev during the tableu peak who helped create several custom dashboards in JavaScript...for multiple different companies!

I worked on so many that eventually i came to hate making them lol, data viz can be extremely subjective and you get into weird paradigms of how much data viz you display vs user actions on that snapshot of data (ex. viewing details, exporting to diff formats, printing the dashboard with no cut-offs, manually refreshing stale data vs auto refresh)
No, we're a small company and just a Mac shop.
Within a few lines of each other in TFA:

> We are, like what, 10 years into the cloud adoption? Most companies (at least the ones I talk to) run their stuff in the cloud. So why is software still acting as if the cloud doesn't exist?

> As in, I don't want to think about future resource needs, I just want things to magically handle it.

'nuff said.
Let us know what you find. I find it not 'bonkers' but a great idea, and hope they are qualifying with the largest nuts found upstream, in 'go to space' grades.

Robustness and anti-fragility may not be so critical for an expendable vehicle that operates once for something like 12 minutes, but seems a key attribute for a refuel-able and reusable spacecraft?
https://map.geo.admin.ch/

Herewith the map site.

I have to admit, the maps (at any zoom levels) are quite beautiful. Much much better than the likes of Apple or Google!
To my admittedly jaded eyes, any game engine that doesn't make asset management a primary goal has already lost.

Far too many open source game engines don't seem to realize this.
Yes, rocket engines have many small orifices to atomize and mix the propellant.

It's like a showerhead, except if the fuel side clogs, the oxidizer might eat your chamber wall.
Agreed. This seems like rather shameless advertising at the expense of the labor of the project maintainers.
kdb+ 4.1
Most folks here are probably tired of hearing about it, but I work on https://onlineornot.com

Uptime monitoring (and status pages) for software teams.

In my words, the aim is "monitoring that doesn't suck" - I've worked at companies with proactive monitoring like OnlineOrNot before, and was surprised how little the incumbents are innovating in the space. One customer once told me "f*k <vendor>, all their system ever did was alert us when we weren't down".

I've built a decent frontend for configuring uptime checks and status pages, now I'm working on a self-documenting (OpenAPI, rolled it myself: https://developers.onlineornot.com/) API that'll let folks use terraform (or even just the API itself) to setup their uptime checks, cron job monitoring, status pages, even their teams.
I built one pre-Grammarly that functions as an add-in to Microsoft Word.

It's aimed at creative writers and never really took off, though it does have a cohort of die hard fans. Still sells a few copies a month after all these years - usually to romance writers.

https://smart-edit.com/Home/Creative/

Some screenshots: https://smart-edit.com/Gallery/
It might actually be cheaper even if the booster is expended.

Falcon9 is estimated to cost about $30M/launch. $20M to build the upper stage, and $10M to launch. Starship is estimated to cost about $100M to build both the booster and the second stage. Add $10M to launch.

So 17t/$30M vs 150t/$110M.
java and javafx
I wish there were 50 physics engines. Rapier doesn't exactly meet my needs but there's no good alternative.
My concern, ultimately, is what's going to happen when these laws are introduced and a republican congress continues to pursue a rejection of Section 230?

So social media platforms are no longer able to censor any content posted to their sites (outside of specific cases), but are also liable for what users post to their platform?

If I was a conspiracy theorist I'd say these actions are specifically to make social media itself inhospitable in a legal sense. What company wants to take the risk of not being able to moderate user-generated content but are also legally responsible for that same content?
AI is a bubble, or Nvidia is?
A tool with more than one way to use it?
I don't think their talking about THOSE opinions.
> usually when they go over it for a good reason, like going viral, they aren't anticipating it, and just when their traffic is most valuable the site is down

Of course. And that’s why any limit against a dynamic variable should also have alerts linked to it

Send an alert to the user when traffic starts spiking, especially if a simple projection shows it’s going to go over their limit

Then the user is aware, hopefully with enough time to lift the limit if needed
> As distasteful as this content may be, it is protected by the First Amendment. But that protection only extends to government actors. Amici are private actors, and the forums they control are private forums. Those who are censored are free to make their own websites to host their speech. They are not free to hijack amici’s websites.

This is the crux of so much happening on the internet right now. Users treat our largest providers like google like public resources similar to roads, and governments want to treat our largest forums like twitter and facebook like government entities beholden to the same rules they are.

Neither is true, and to me it points to the massive impact our largest companies have been able to achieve. It seems larger than what the law has words for.

I don't know what the answer is.