skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He won’t be able to provide a source, at least not a legitimate one. Down syndrome aside, no vaccine “modifies your DNA” despite many claiming the opposite. Whether that claim continues to propagate due to ignorance or malice is a different question.

I’m not even sure why GP brought it up, since the OP article has absolutely nothing to do with pharmaceuticals nor pharma companies.
> Rotating Detonation Engine of some kind?

No, if only by the sound.

By the way, what happened to SABRE [1]. Slowly plugging along, or a victim of Brexit?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)#History
If you work with LUTs a lot, I work on a Mac app that handles all kinds of advanced color science and conversion tasks: https://videovillage.com/lattice
I'm currently working on a 2HD 3.5 inch floppy disk release of a podcast episode which has taken me down an interesting rabbit hole of low-bitrate audio codecs, floppy disk aesthetics and label design.

The episode I'm releasing is 1h40m long, which sounds like it couldn't possibly fit in 1.44MB, but there's an obscure but free codec mostly used by digital HAM radio enthusiasts called Codec2 [1] which can encode human voice in as low as 700bit/s (315KB/hr). At that quality setting it sounds like complete garbage, although still barely intelligible, and there are no readily available media players for it (there's not even an established file format) so I'm having to include complicated ffmpeg instructions in a README to get people to play it, but I think it all adds to the charm.

Funnily enough after searching for days for how to fit the original episode in a floppy (tried low-bitrate MP3, Opus and AAC, all of which fail at the task), and after discovering Codec2 almost by chance, I only then came across an article titled "Codec2: a whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk" [2] which I probably would've found if I had started by searching "podcast in a floppy".

1: https://github.com/drowe67/codec2

2: https://auphonic.com/blog/2018/06/01/codec2-podcast-on-flopp...
As much as I contributed to my kids growing up under a ceaseless adult presence, I was a bad father. In doing this I deprived them of irreplaceable opportunities to learn self-actuation, learn social problem-solving and earn confidence.

As far as I acted on a baseless fear that they were at meaningful risk of stranger kidnapping, I was a stupid father. That's mostly a different kind of bad father but whatever.
Gate pitch is not the same as gate length. The smallest feature size is usually the transistor gate length. In Samsung 14nm processes for example the drawn fin length is in fact 14nm. The actual physical size of the fin is closer to 8nm but I believe the whole structure is still close to 14.

The "divergence" started happening long before finfets where Intel is concerned, but they weren't manufacturing for anyone else. For the rest of the foundries, it still followed somewhat logically, if not exactly, down to 14 at least.
The tired tyres
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They are also now offering a "free" version, akin to "IDA Free" in the non-commercial sense
> there's an advantage to simply lifting the vehicle that high, it's already starting with more potential energy than it would at sea level

This implies dropping to presumably start a scramjet? Otherwise, all you're getting is a bit of altitude and softer max Q.

The surprise advantage of air-launched vehicles is you can launch from any airfield. The surprise disadvantage is you need strength two directions; vertically, when it's thrusting, and horizontally, when it's hung underwing.
I remember the issue being quite a bit ago, so perhaps the tooling has improved in the meantime (I only use screen readers for testing, not developing, so I wouldn’t know). If not, perhaps Java doing this will be the catalist.

I imagine that it isn’t hard for developers with screen readers to have an editor macro turn /// comments into /** and back in the rust world. But if /// were the only option then there is no such workaround for developers and their only options are to endure or request the improvements (or send a PR if using open source tools).
> I think I understand GA, but I knew I did not understand quaternions after working through lectures and problems.

Most physicists stopped using them at the end of 19th century for the same reason...

> More than a third part of a century ago, in the library of an ancient town, a youth might have been seen tasting the sweets of knowledge to see how he liked them. He was of somewhat unprepossessing appearance, carrying on his brow the heavy scowl that the "mostly-fools" consider to mark a scoundrel. In his father's house were not many books, so it was like a journey into strange lands to go book-tasting. Some books were poison; theology and metaphysics in particular they were shut up with a bang. But scientific works were better; there was some sense in seeking the laws of God by observation and experiment, and by reasoning founded thereon. Some very big books bearing stupendous names, such as Newton, Laplace, and so on, attracted his attention. On examination, he concluded that he could understand them if he tried, though the limited capacity of his head made their study undesirable.

> But what was Quaternions? An extraordinary name! Three books; two very big volumes called Elements, and a smaller fat one called Lectures. What could quaternions be? He took those books home and tried to find out. He succeeded after some trouble, but found some of the properties of vectors professedly proved were wholly incomprehensible. How could the square of a vector be negative? And Hamilton was so positive about it. After the deepest research, the youth gave it up, and returned the books. He then died, and was never seen again. He had begun the study of Quaternions too soon.

- Oliver Heaviside, Electromagnetic Theory
Related: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/brazil-ta...
Not to defend Amazon's LP's, I learned early on their only utility was to weaponize them in arguments where you can retroactively think of ways to justify your position with them, but are they literally opposed pairs?

I don't disagree that they're often contradictory but I can't come up with directly opposed pairings.

(Not that it matters to your point, it's just bugging me to be spinning my wheels trying to come up with the pairs)
The author observes that 4K TV sets have come down dramatically in price but 4K content seems to be retreating into a niche. For the latter he cites price increases to his streaming services.

He wonders why this is, muses on cultural history and doesn't come up with a precise answer.

I propose the answer is simple: the prices of TVs and streaming services are unrelated. Hardware tends to trend down in price as we get better at making it.

Content is not the same. Most of the content you watch on streaming services is owned and produced by an oligopoly. Streaming disrupted their lucrative cable model, and they want to get its prices and profits back up to the peak levels of cable. Since they're an oligopoly and they collude with each other (formally or informally), there's not much you can do about it. It will mean 4K is irrelevant for many people who don't want to indulge their latest price hiking tactic.
The article says they produced 5% of the UK's electricity... Can't they just shut it down?
It turns out this is a tradeoff, the cost of this extra safety is mental health issues later in life.
> While the weights and the activations are quantized to low precision, the gradients and the optimizer states are stored in high precision to ensure training stability and
accuracy. Following the previous work [ LSL+21 ], we maintain a latent weight in a high-precision format for the learnable parameters to accumulate the parameter updates. The latent weights are binarized on the fly during the forward pass and never used for the inference process.
Some of the instrumentation wire harnesses were wrapped in foil, which got ripped off by air currents driven by the exhaust plume. Foil wraps shield against heating by IR radiation from the plume. It's cheap but effective.
Nope, we are alone....
Are they really using batteries, or do they have constant electrical generation via a turbine or something? Seems batteries for this thing would add a lot of weight.
"learn a dozen technologies to the point of being an expert on all fields and then waste 2 months of work on each app, which will update every three days"

you're not wrong, but not going anywhere either.
4k is great and a noticeable improvement for computer work, while I agree with the article about not being so useful for TV screens, unless you go 55-inch or larger.

Source: I own a FullHD 40” TV set and a 43” 4k monitor. I once tried swapping them and watched 4k footage, and quality difference was not significant IMHO.

But you can notice pixels at fullhd on larger screens ofc - noticed them on a 55” and a 65” TV set.
We are alone....
Didn't Marquee and Blink elements get removed? That's progress.
Is that documented somewhere that you can share? If it’s well known then there must be a ton of articles and papers about such phenomena.
Notarization is for binaries. You can always run a Bash or Python script, I assume Apple Script is similar.
Please don't support making switches be an alternative to checkboxes, since it isn't clear what the current state means. I do like the idea of switches, but they should only be used to select one of two labelled choices but usually not yes/no, as a checkbox does well there. See e.g. https://abrudz.github.io/sans/ where I use four switches to choose between binary non-yes/no options.

Make a new element or input type that makes it easy to do switches right, with two labels.
We already have the technology for cheap orbital launches. SpaceRyde was developing a balloon that would take payloads to the edge of space then use a small rocket to get it the last little bit and do orbit positioning.

Unfortunately they got shut down by NIMBYs. https://spacenews.com/noise-complaints-help-bring-down-launc...
Show HN: bookmarksheet - manage your bookmarks with ease
i recently published bookmarksheet, a tool for adding your favorite web content to google sheet in a single click. why build it when there is a plethora of bookmarking apps out there?

when i come across something interesting while browsing the web that i want to save for later, i want to easily do it in the simplest manner. bookmarksheet is perfect for that.

it saves your bookmarks in the familiar google sheet and doesn’t need you to learn a new interface or sign up for yet another service.

you know that your bookmarks are stored in your sheet even if the bookmarksheet stops service after a while, which is not the case for most apps which stores the bookmarks in their databases. bookmarksheet is reliable and secure.

it is easy for me to access and manage my bookmarks and web highlights from anywhere.

i think of it as a digital attic, where anything of interest can be stored without second-guessing its bookmark worthiness.
Almost, it's `switch=""`, `checked=""`.
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The smog is in the cities. It does not cover the entire country.
This reminds me, we used a command line tool (originally made for Warcraft 2?) to take full color art assets and find a palette of 200 or so colors (the rest reserved for UI elements and the player characters) for the different areas in Diablo 2, and then remapped all the art assets to these small palettes, and then reuse the monster art with other colors within these palettes for varieties of monsters. I don't remember spending more than a day on putting this in our art pipeline, the guy who wrote the tool did all the hard work.
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First time father here and curious about your comment.

Can you elaborate on what was are your grounds for labeling yourself as a bad father?
Very interesting and I love how much thought the author has put into the build system.

I don't like the separation of of interface and implementation at the file level. I feel like having to type the same thing twice header-file-style really slows down development iteration speed.
It used to be MHz and GHz, then when that stalled, advertising nm became a thing. It can change.

Angstrom is kind of a fun word, so I’m sure a few nodes will be named after that.
Is this how people excuse away the genocide currently being committed by Israel with the support of the United States? The US is the only reason this is still going and children are currently starving to death.

As long it's for the greater good its ok right? /s
Your numbers are a decade out of date.
> the cost of this extra safety is mental health issues later in life.

This is so true it could be physics.
Employees should tell shareholders that Pichai is unacceptable.
This blunder can be hardly blamed on the rank and file.
The fish smells from the head.
Andrew Cote gives the missing details here:

https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1763063321857757210
South Korea: Doctors on strike face arrest if they do not return to work
The logo resembles heptapod writing from the Arrival
India has gone all in on making roads out of plastic waste.

Apparently it's better to use plastic in a road than put it in landfill because........ errrr..... because... landfill sounds bad?

If it turns out that putting all that plastic waste into roads in fact is a way of putting microplastics into the environment then India will be at the forefront.
Show HN: Flat – simple task tracking that stays out of your way
Hi HN!

Flat’s a lot like Trello, but with a cleaner, simpler, friendlier UI and real discussion threads. Flat also sports a first-class GitHub integration.

To take it for a spin without signing up, just go to https://try.flat.app. And there’s also a quick demo video here: https://youtu.be/NW2c9cZVaD0

We made Flat for ourselves, after a decade of wanting a simple, lightweight tool to stay on top of our work and not finding one. Trello is close, but we find it really frustrating to use in lots of ways. And most everything else is way too complex. We think there’s a need for a task tracker that prioritizes simplicity, clarity, and usability over bells and whistles that most users don't need.

And like many folks who are burned out on team chat, we also think there’s a need for a mode of workplace communication that’s lightweight, async, and attached to the work rather than chats in Slack or Teams where it’s too easy for things to get lost (and to be interrupted all day). Flat doesn’t try to replace Slack--chat will always have its uses--but it does offer a better venue for a subset of Slack’s workload, like asking and answering questions, making quick requests, and raising issues about things the team is working on.

Flat is aimed at small teams with basic needs. Small dev teams without a lot of process seem to love it, as do people who used to like Trello back in the days when it was less stressful to use, and people for whom Asana’s complexity is a non-starter.

Flat is still in beta, so it’s probably missing some things you expect, but what’s there is pretty baked. It’s available in-browser as well as Electron apps for Mac, Windows, and Linux (.deb)

Feedback is welcome and greatly appreciated! Either in the comments here, or if you sign up there's also a feedback button in the app navbar for whenever something irks you or you have an idea.

Thanks,
Seth, Andrew, & Marcin
Rockets already mostly do this - they start pitching over at a fairly low altitude (10-30km), or sometimes immediately on launch, and thrust near horizontally. But yeah, theoretically an air-breathing rocket would fly lower for longer, or for some designs even dive down for part of the trajectory.
That is very much how all criminal laws work.
> That's not how the value of the checked attribute works.

It is roughly/conceptually how the "checked" attribute works, in that boolean attributes provided by name but without a value will be set/truthy.

From the link you gave:

> checked

> A boolean attribute indicating whether this checkbox is checked by default (when the page loads).

What you quoted is how the "value" attribute works, which is entirely irrelevant to how the "checked" attribute works.
And a pony.

I've been around horse barns for many years. Rode today. It's not a kids thing any more. Most of the riders are not only adults, but older adults. Few kids take riding lessons. The old ponies are under-used.

Fifteen years ago, the ponies were usually being ridden or groomed by girls in their early
teens. We used to see groups of kids go out on the trails unsupervised. That was normal.
The kids would go out for an hour or so. Nobody does that any more.

Now, if there's a kid around, it's usually because the parent is a horse person. Barns that teach kids are very organized. Kids are never out of sight of an adult. Usually the parents sit there and watch.

It's sad. Kids that grow up around horses tend not to have trouble with bullies. After you're used to dealing with half-ton, somewhat pushy animals with huge teeth and steel-shod hooves,
big guys just don't look that big.
I'm planning to include a sample page featuring a paper available for download in MP3 format. I was considering "Attention Is All You Need". Are there any other papers you'd like to have in audio form?
Back in the days assemblers (patched Seka) had tools to generate sin wave lookup tables.
Open sourcing Pingora: Rust framework for building programmable network services
> Can you elaborate on what was are your grounds for labeling yourself as a bad father?

I mostly label myself a father. There would always have been bad parts but these stand out. They're bad fathering.

As far as grounds for my complaint, my children needed a steady diet of adult free hours. I mostly failed to recognize it, prioritize it and act accordingly.
I'm a mathematician. One reason it matters to me is that if I write a program that computes something in a proof, I need to be able to understand and verify (or possibly check that other people I trust have verified) the source and algorithms.

I have also modified and extended open source implementations in sage to work with cases I needed. And I've added some of this back to sage.

It is undeniable that Mathematica evaluates crazy integrals better than most other tools. But it will happily output complete nonsense. And you can't check!
Regarding the first move, 3 bits store 8 values. However, the spare value on move 3 signals us to ignore any value in the original move 3 bits and treat it as a special case to give the 9th value we need.
That would still be starting from the planar wafers we're manufacturing today, but the question was about making 3D structures directly without just assembling 2D chips as we have them currently.
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> the easiest path to convincingly make C++ safe is to convincingly make C safe first

Yeah, with all the static analysis, I did end up straying from the easy path. Ugh :) But actually, one thing that C++ provides that I found made things easier is destructors. I mean, I provide a couple of raw pointer replacement types that rely on ("transparently wrapped") target objects checking for any (replacement) pointers still targeting them when they get destroyed.

As you indicated in another comment, you explicitly choose to expose/require zalloc() because you didn't want to make malloc() too "magical" (by hiding the indirect type deduction). In that vein, one maybe nice thing about the "safe C++ subset" solution is that it exposes the entirety of the run-time safety mechanisms, in the sense that it's all in the library code and you can even step through it in the debugger. (It also gives you the option to catch any exceptions thrown by said safety mechanisms. You know, if exceptions are your thing. Otherwise you can provide your own custom "fault handling" code (if you want to log the error, or dump the stack or whatever).)

> There's a ton of literature on ways to make C/C++ safe. I think that the only reason why that path isn't being explored more is that it's the "less fun" option - it doesn't involve blue sky thoughts about new hardware or new languages.

I can't think of any other reason that makes sense either. Anyway, the first thing is to dispel the notion that C and C++ cannot be safe, and it seems like your project is likely to be the first to demonstrate it on some staple C libraries. I'm looking forward to it.
You want probably this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
So… South Korea is threatening to make their doctor strike permanent?

Can you train doctors more quickly than you can train air traffic controllers?
If it can truly "act as the first stage of a rocket," that's impressive--the most powerful jet engine ever built. If, instead, it will power a plane that will carry a rocket, that's a well-trodden path whose engineering problem is not particularly related to the carrier's efficiency.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geared_turbofan
Xenophobia dates back way further than that and is even still an issue today (see transphobia)
Color palette definitely counts. I remember the lookup table Quake used to map its 256 color VGA palette to itself to implement light levels: https://quakewiki.org/wiki/Quake_palette#Colormap

You now basically have a two step lookup: palette_rgb[colormap[color, light]]
> Drax: UK power station still burning rare forest wood

So what ? It is _renewable_. /s
I was the author of that piece. This blog is about graphics LUTs, which fall into point (4) of the "when to use lookup tables" section. GPUs have dedicated constant memories that were specifically made for holding lookup tables so that they can be accessed quickly and deterministically. Graphics LUTs are a really powerful tool because of that, and have none of the performance shortcomings.
You would end up with the "religious week" and the "standard week" moving relative to one another over the years, in a classic case of trying to fix messy details and thereby adding more details (as in https://xkcd.com/927/).
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but they should only be used to select one of two labelled choices

There's already an existing control for that too: the radiobutton.
I see. Would it be possible to make those services write to an object store or a database instead? To me, that seems much more container-compatible.

However, have a look at https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay – I think it can do what you want.
With a switch you expect an immediate effect to occur. The expectation is that I toggle the switch then get on with my day.

Checkboxes don't have side effects, they're expected to be form based. Once I toggle a checkbox the expectation is that I need to then also submit that selection in some way.
This is extremely impressive. Congratulations!
Apart from the issue regarding attributes, I do agree adding an attribute on the element isn't great. Though mostly because this is a functionally a checkbox, as evidenced by how they're fine with it falling back to a checkbox, and so they could have just added a CSS attribute instead.

> I believe certain doctypes or serving the HTML with another content type (XML) will throw an error for not having the quotes.

That is irrelevant - most HTML found in the wild is not particularly close to valid XML as it is. And as per sibling comments, there's no need for quotes here for html - they are multiple separate boolean attributes, and the norm in HTML is to use those without a value for the truthy case.
Huawei and cars: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/18/cars/huawei-new-smart-car...

Xiaomi and cars: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/xiaomis-first-electric-ca...
I remember reading somewhere that electric compressor stages are apparently getting used to reduce input lag on automotive turbo chargers.
I can’t stop chuckling at how many people have talked me up about how innovative their structure was. It’s funny how trendy things are even when they make no sense.