skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my corner of the world that isn't rare at all. Our whole coast is beaches and if it's winter time all the beaches will be completely empty. My friends swim all year round and a couple of them before work, so almost 100% of the time they swim, there's nobody around.

Also having grown-up on the coast, since I was a child I've always been in the water with all the other kids, without parents around, never had any life-threatening cramp, never seen it happen either. Maybe I've just been lucky and you've been unlucky, since it's all anecdata anyway - but it's strange to me how it can both be so jarring for you to do it alone, and jarring for me to be afraid of doing it alone. For me it's like you said it's dangerous to walk in the park by yourself because a tree branch can fall on your head. It's true but I will eyeroll almost unconsciously.
Carbon, a great way to create images of your code
Most places sensible enough to deploy lots of renewables also tax electricity to encourage efficiency since historically it involved burning nasty polluting coal and/or importing fuels.
That and how expensive it has become.
I came here to say the same thing. Since the UK Govt granted Reaction Engines £60m to invest in SABRE, I've been infrequently checking in.

https://reactionengines.co.uk/advanced-propulsion/sabre/

The SABRE stuff looks _almost_ too good to be true.
The ANY_VALUE Aggregate Function: New in SQL:2023–and a better feature from 1999
It's worth noting that HPC is a different problem space from say, kernels, drivers, codecs, and browsers, in that HPC is not generally expecting to deal with adversairial input, and those other spaces are. So the safety-performance trade-off is truly different between you and many of the commentators who are rightly pointing out C/C++'s atrocious track record in the secure space.

Also, I've done a small amount of scientific HPC, and as I see it "correct" is infinitely more important than "fast". If you look at the amount of incorrect scientific papers that trace back to accidentally and silently corrupted data, I think maybe it might sense to consider using any and all possible tools to avoid corruption, of which Rust is but one example (and you've named others like valgrind).
Nitric 1.0
> The hypothesis that Tsimane people "are not able to hear them" is refuted in this paper

I have now read this paper and I cannot agree that it refutes this hypothesis. Testing for fusion/segregation concurrent sounds does not test, if a person is able to detect ratios of frequencies.

One big issue with methodology of this study is that they assumed that liking/disliking an interval translates to consonance/dissonance. In some contexts (like horror film for example or certain music genres) I like dissonance more that consonance, since it better fits the theme. Liking something is influenced by a variety of factors. Another example: people generally like pretty things, but many people will dislike things, if they look too pretty. Culture can also influence what is likable.

It's an interesting study, but IMO, more research is needed before we can reach any conclusions.
Part of that is certainly kickbacks and other preferential deals offered by the HDMI Consortium.

It's certainly true that majority of TV manufacturers don't actually pay royalties/licensing fees to the Consortium.
Every kid is different, is ready for those things at a different age, and responds differently to risk. The most important thing is to do these things together with your kid and see how it works out. Maybe the real problem is that we don't spend enough time with our kids.
Good question - I've heard about people use watermelon DB but haven't tried myself yet - see here https://supabase.com/blog/react-native-offline-first-waterme...
I think you are confusing the speed at which the earth orbits the sun (~29.8km/s) with the speed at which an object needs to travel to maintain earth orbit (~7.8km/s).
These days a single killer or predator anywhere on the same continent can strike fear into the minds of millions of people, and do so at the speed of light (in fiber optic).

Naturally you'd expect this to result in a much higher base level of fear, as compared to when your community was just people you knew and trusted personally.
> So who's behind this? Who's doing something about it?

CISA[0] might be a good agency to begin with, if for no other reason than to find a more appropriate one to contact.

0 - https://www.cisa.gov/about
Starlink Offers 50% Price Cut [in New Zealand], If You Can Handle Slower Speeds
I suspect the added parking was not "to reduce the width of the road", because it's easy to reduce the width of the road without adding parking. The probably just wanted to add parking and misused the safety argument to sell it, ignoring the fact that visibility is also important for safety.
I edited the title to clarify where the discount is available.
I'm much more worried about the road to the playground than the risks on the playground themselves. Below 18, about 3/8 of the deaths are from traffic.

I grew up in 80's the time where almost everybody played in parks and fields. But I can't give that to my own son of 7.

He has to cross 3 streets to reach a playground 200m from here,the worst of the crossings a street with 50km/h limitsand 1 car every 10 seconds. Not much, except just enough people drive like idiots, 90km/h or more on a road not even 500m long.

We've been teaching him good pedestrian behaviour since he could walk. We've done a few tests where he walked to the baker, thinking he was unsupervised. He probably can do it most of the time. Except, 1 distraction while an idiot drives by will kill him.

So I bring him to the playground and let him play as unsupervised as possible for an adult on the side of a playground. Of course, he knows I am there.

I start working with him with more dangerous tools like a soldering iron. He can deal well enough with these risks. But not the streets.
Assembly of Lilium Jet Propulsion Systems Begins After Nasdaq Price Warning
When I was a kid (~10 yo), mothers of younger (~4 yo) kids would send them to the grocery store a few blocks away and ask us to follow them in secret to make sure they didn't get lost or run under a car or anything. This way they could build confidence in relative safety.

I believe it's now illegal in some jurisdictions.
> Pascal seems like a mature language but looks like it's got its warts and being a language of the 80/90s may not offer the niceties of languages that came after it.

My recommendation is to ignore language design, I spent a lot of time trying to find the best way to create cross platform desktop applications in a "nice" language. This was just time wasted.

What you should look at is how productive you can be and how much of the problem space the language and framework solves for you.

By changing to this perspective you will notice that your number of options increases drastically.
Funnily/depressingly enough, not even supposedly compostable stuff is actually compostable [0]

[0] https://www.research-in-germany.org/idw-news/en_US/2023/10/2...
What would make sense would be to record it in pristine quality and put it on youtube / spotify etc. This is not for making sense but for art's sake. Working with limitations, pushing the limits. Expanding knowledge. Sometimes gaining cred within a community. Joy of tinkering, curiosity etc.
Web devs fantasize of becoming embedded devs.

Web devs are so common place the market is over saturated.
They certainly have a good ecological niche to get started in. When I see people with Down syndrome out and about I only get more inclined to support policies that allocate resources to them.

Of course this niche doesn’t exist everywhere, for example in Iceland they have a very aggressive abortion campaign against the syndrome.
> European people rarely have credit cards

What? Almost everyone has a debit card and credit cards are very normal. I found some stats:

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/people_with_credit...

50-60% is not rare. And presumably they didn't specifically require credit cards rather than debit cards, which are even more common.
Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
How to create a dynamic feature grid with Astrojs and Tailwind CSS
Back in my swapping (demoscene term for sending wares on disk to your contacts) I used to make mix-disk with modules, chiptunes (AHX (then THX) SID, mostly)), you could put a lot stuff that way (and the XPK compressors could take even 50% off original size)
Winglang has picked up a lot of contributors. Now past 85. Looks like they will have some staying power.
Show HN: I made GarWin, a free and user-friendly Garmin Badges database
Hey HN.

I am, sadly, ill-equipped for sports and gamification gets me going, so when I
discovered that my GF completed almost all related challenges since she got a
Garmin smartwatch, I naturally wanted to browse all badges.

And the UX was crap. Very little filters and no way to browse the past badges.

So I figured-out how to get the data - a little over 1k badges in total so far -
and then I manually fine-tuned it, to later add more filtering options, whenever
related.

It is built with Next.js (on App Router) and Supabase's DB and PostgREST.

I thought I'll share: it is all free to use, and I hope those silly challenges
help others stay fit, get in better shape or just enjoy sports and accomplishments.

Cheers, Vik.
Does nobody use VMs anymore? I just spin up EC2 instances with Shortcuts on my Mac and destroy them when I’m done. Run a bash script to save my work to s3.

Are people just doing everything locally or something?
A lots of recycled plastic (I mean what people put in the plastic recycling bin) in the EU ends up being burned. They are sorted, cleaned up, then packaged into burnable units, because it’s the most cost effective way to reuse it

I see 42% “energy recovery” from https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20181212STO... from 2018.

I found this from January 2024: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-new-b...

> In Europe, about 40 % of post-consumer plastic waste is incinerated with energy recovery, and the rest is either landfilled or recycled. About half of the plastic waste collected and recycled is treated in the European Union; the other half is exported, mainly to China.
Demystifying Amazon EBS Spending: A Comprehensive Guide
I think comparing it to metal is just a quick shorthand to say "it's heavy music."

> dissonance, instrumental virtuosity, and overdriven amps

I'm probably just splitting hairs here, but although those elements are common, metal is a really diverse genre (I think the only one more diverse is jazz). Really the only two things music needs to fall under the "metal" umbrella are 1) being heavy and 2) having double bass drum. Sacred Harp seems to meet the former.
A missing REPL in Rust is actually a great example of why languages ignore (some) ideas that other languages have.

A programming language is defined as much by what it chooses not to include as by what it chooses to include. Functional languages choose to not include mutation and statements, but we don't complain about them "ignoring" those features, it's a very intentional decision to drop them. Golang looked at exceptions and decided to not include them. Not every language should have every feature, both from a practical perspective (how would you maintain such a language?) and an ergonomic one (how would you work in such a language?).

Rust's lack of a REPL wasn't just them ignoring an important innovation, it was them choosing to not implement a feature that they know their primary audience won't use and that doesn't do much to help in the compiler-centric development flow that they're working on supporting. Rust doesn't have a REPL because REPL-oriented development doesn't really suit Rust, not because they forgot that REPLs are a thing.
Preach. I figured it was implied by now it's an indicator of processor generation with roots in the history of the semiconductor industry.

* iPhones count up

* Ubuntu LTS counts YRMO 24 months from April

* Debian counts toy story characters

* CPU nodes count down
Or use -1, 0, 1/2, 1 where the new half-weight is still a cheap bit shift.
OP engine's goal is "as the first stage of an orbital launch vehicle. [...] get payloads to orbit dramatically cheaper than all-rocket systems".

The discussion you linked discards electric compressors because of loss of 20% efficiency due to conversions, but for normal air travel.
Terrible idea without a cap and traffic shifting
Securing Kubernetes: Avoiding Hard-Coded Passwords in Manifests and Helm Charts
There's also Meta's EnCodec and Vocos at 1.5 kbps, Vocos is amazing:
https://gemelo-ai.github.io/vocos/
So if you format the floppy to 1970 Kilobyte (with the dos tool 2MF 3.0) you could fit around 3 hours on it. Enough to tell the listener about your life story, your most important values, your loves and life lessons and more wisdom for future generations.

Long ago I encoded speech in acelp.net wma / realaudio4/5 at 6.5 kbps. That was good enough and better then mp3 speech compression, in these times with a relative abundance of bandwidth or diskspace it's not really necessary.

With whisperspeech you could fit and read the bible from a floppy (compressed with for example the PPM text compression codec), 7 days of 12 hours of speech each GPT4 estimated - and you can read it too! State of the art LLM exegesis based on the latest historical-critical methods and theology takes a bit more memory though.
Indeed, I think/hope most people have now moved to paper bags for their bio waste recycling.
Probably, the predominance of cars in our modern societies (and cars always getting bigger) is one of the factor that yielded to observations made in this article.

But in some places (for instance where I live, Lausanne Switzerland) it's becoming easier to escape this car culture. I don't have kids, but some colleagues do. One of them does not own a car and her 2 children (6 and 9 years old) do everything by bike : going to school, to the activities (they climb!), etc. They surely look much more agile and risky than other colleague's children. It's quite crazy to see these two kids on their bikes, and how much liberating it is for them to move by theirselves. Unlike most kids who just commute in their parents's car.

Of course, I am aware this works only because there's a really good bike infrastructure. And people drive pretty well too, I guess.
check out this https://preprocess.co
Google sued by more than 30 European media orgs over adtech
Killer fungi detectives: inside the lab that may be fighting the next pandemic
It's only for touchscreens.
Your link is the worldwide view. Just the European one [1] shows that only 11 out of 38 countries have an adoption of CCs >50%, 16/38 are at >40%.

Additionally, just because we have credit cards doesn't mean we use them in daily life. SEPA based payments work out far better.

[1] https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/people_with_credit...
> I wish there was a way to categorise these downloads by python versions.

I don't know if I maybe misunderstand your wish.

But if you scroll down on the pypistats link, there are the download numbers split up by python major and minor versions.
For anyone else who may be confused - this is already the case in Cloud (obviously), but now will apply for Robot as well.

> This structure will be similar to our Cloud billing.

It says it here, but I glanced over it :)
Monitoring Indoor Air Quality with Prometheus, Grafana and a CO2 Sensor
Yes, that's the next feature I was going to work on. I have already setup semantic search. I just need to add ability to upload->read->vectorize resume and do a similarity search on those vectors. Shouldn't be too hard.

Won't be able to do this in the near future. Quite backed up at work.
I don't know about Sacred Harp stuff specifically, but generally speaking in classical music "treble" means prepubescent boys and "soprano" means female singers, and since the vocal ranges are roughly the same the choice of word used on sheet music tends to be based on which type (boy vs. any age female) the composer expected to sing it.

So my guess is that if shape note singers call it "treble" it's because historically it started as a male-only thing, with sopranos (women) and female altos joining later while keeping the tradition of calling the top part "treble".
make an account. that 2 min effort will allow you the freedom of all the content on x.
> Apparently its literal meaning is "offer weapon".

In the movie this exact translation turns out to be wrong.
Direct link to technical report (PDF):

https://www.athene-center.de/fileadmin/content/PDF/Keytrap_2...
written before css grid and css columns?

another z-index one:

https://philipwalton.com/articles/what-no-one-told-you-about...
I would imagine gatekeeper would have shown at least one warning but maybe the user just allowed it.
Is the 80% a number for the US? In northern Europe I assume that a small percentage is recycled and the rest is incinerated for electricity and heat -- landfill usage has restrictions in the EU.

Some countries like Sweden and Finland use incineration to such extent that they have a lack of domestic waste and have to import it [0].

[0] https://yle.fi/a/74-20076606
It also seems likely that mosaic trisomy 21 is quite common but often asymptomatic. And the milder it is the lower the odds that it will be picked up even by genetic testing.
A game magazine that spent two years taunting a Final Fantasy VIII hater
They had forgiven lots and lots of bills, but forced to pay lots and lots more people.
> "Sightsinging is easier with shapenote notation. After a while, you internalise the intervals between the shapes – you just know what a fa up to a sol feels and sounds like."

I can't speak to which is easier to get to a competent level, but that doesn't sound any different to traditional notation - after a while you internalise the intervals between notes (but you're just looking at where the note is in the score's lines, along with any flats/sharps in the key or on the note - rather than shapes). But you still get to the point where you see two notes and "just know what [x to y] feels and sounds like".
Hello everyone, this is a companion countdown tool website I developed.

Convenient and varied countdown settings, easy to set up countdown, make your every countdown full of meaning and ritual.

You can experience an immersive countdown here, with quiet music, nice background motion graphics, and will continue to add music and motion graphics.

Thanks for your support!
Funny to see another Lausannois here, cheers
Ask HN: Why is HN so often down?
It's daily now, that I'm seeing "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!", maybe even 10-20 times during different times.

From Europe, especially during the lunch break hours, HN is down again and again. For instance as of the past 30 minutes, I see the above message more often than the expected pages. It's been like that also yesterday, the day before that.

I understand that this happens often based on searching, but I don't remember having it that often in the past.

Honest question: what happens, why do we get that message, especially during these times? Is there something that is going on the the early AM hours in the US? Maintenance work maybe?

Edit based on some comments below:

- could it be this has to do with being logged in or not? I will try to stay less often logged in.
- dang wrote: "but for those who are comfortable logging in and out: HN gets a lot faster if you log out, and it will reduce the load on the server if you do" (source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38309611)
- another reason could be rate limits, especially if not logged in
- rozenmd is monitoring HN, that looks awesome: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/
- "Did you post something negative about Google/DEI? Or maybe just upvote it? Or skim one of those threads. There you go. Time out for you." <---- this is particularly disturbing IF TRUE
Emotionally cold parents in the most vital stages of development probably didn’t help their chances of survival either.
So that’s why I feel dumber these days
I'm extremely impressed with what the they were able to accomplish. The language seems to be elegantly designed and with strong opinions in interesting places. I'm really looking forward to see how it develops in the years to come.
> We will always use the hourly price when it saves you money, meaning when you have used a product for less than a month, and the total hourly price is less than the monthly price.

That’s nice, I guess.

> we have decided to no longer send invoices to all of our customers on the same day. Instead, we will spread them out throughout the month. You will always receive your invoice on the same day of the month. But this day will be different from customer to customer.

It’s not clear to me when the billing moth starts. Is it the day the invoice is sent or is it a regular calendar month? Either way it might be confusing.
>just because we have credit cards doesn't mean we use them

I concur, using credit cards is rather dangerous, especially online and in app forms for both buyer and seller alike [6].

>SEPA based payments work out far better

Indeed, but since recently (2018?) European banks couldn't confiscate your money on a whim, like the US credit card companies did for decades. Now European banks do too, just like PayPal [4].

Enshittfication was first coined by Cory Doctorrow [3] here [2] and it applies everywhere now [1].

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64a...

[2] https://doctorow.medium.com/social-quitting-1ce85b67b456

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

[4] https://emerchantauthority.com/blog/what-to-do-if-your-paypa....

[5] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=freeze+bank

[6] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Unfortunately, it's not a human on the other side, it's a system, whether it's a system built based on business rules or a system built based on computer algorithms, everyone gets the same inflexible system. It's not logistically feasible to create a custom experience for each user based on how far they consent to every little thing, as the use cases are infinite: you may consent to download CSS on this site, but not on that site, or on that site, but not on pages that match this regex, etc. If you tried to do that, your product would immediately flop because most users would find it too annoying and complicated to use compared to any system that makes reasonable assumptions about consent.

I agree that many modern software have no respect to humans, but that's not because the developers didn't want to implement a yes/no consent dialog or several of them, it's because they think the only boundary they can't cross is what the law says they can't, and everything else is fair game.
I haven't found any channels quite like his one. That being said I do find toldinstone to be quite good regarding ancient history. Outside Youtube, https://acoup.blog/ is a great history blog.
i'm more interested how to perform semantic search over messages efficiently. Like to receive the reference to the og message. Is it creating an llm response with the potential content and how does it find the og message? is it performing tf/idf+cosine search after that or how?
https://youtu.be/z3ik4qJBoPk?si=w3cEjRMAe7JkzqIb&t=35
I have a pipedream.com workflow that does exactly that, in 5 lines of code, it catches whatever is in the POST body and sends an email to me. You can check it on https://logdy.dev

What added value your service provides, beside the fact I have to share email addresses I receive with you?