skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you can speak for yourself.

I prefer glass bottles to plastic ones and I always buy soda in glass bottles if they are available(and this means almost always since they are available in the supermarket close to my home).
This; plus you need to duplicate structures to make the launch vehicle work in both air-breathing and rocket mode. This whole approach (incl. SpaceShipOne and Pegasus) was trying to disrupt non-reusable rocket launch. Re-usable rocket launch is a much better/greater disruptor than some sort of hybrid vehicle.

Possible exception of course are hypersonic military vehicles (spyplanes or missiles). So there's that.
It depends on the kid.

When I was a kid, I hated structured play to the extent that I would rather not play at all. That even applied to video games; I wanted them to be as open and free as possible, with many ways for me to solve problems (and equally many ways to fail to solve problems). Most games were unplayable to me.

I think this is because I was (and still am) very diligent by nature. I was extremely dutiful and obedient, always did schoolwork to the best of my ability, etc. Playtime was my desperately needed creative outlet, where I could just try things unplanned and discover what I was capable of.

My parents did try to introduce me to some structured activities, but when I didn't click with any of them, they stopped pushing them. Looking back as an adult, I think that was 100% the right call.

Even better, they did not assume my little sister would be like me. They introduced her to structured activities even after I had long left them behind, and she took to them in a way I never did. She was naturally disorganized, basically my opposite, and I think these activities gave her some much-needed balance (in much the same way that unstructured play did for me).
Assange Final Appeal Day 2
When I use a VPN with an US IP-address, then it's like yours. That's why I know that it's expected to be found at the lower left corner.

It's broken in Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Poland, apparently the entire EU.

https://imgur.com/a/Br1IYhi

When I change my "Results region" in the settings from "Germany" to "United States", "Switzerland" or any non-EU country, then the issue is fixed.
I have actually said so much more around the thread. Maybe you should give a look at them.
There should be a word for "to exceed low expectations". Probably a German loan-word.
This is new to me.

What bit of the science do DNA profiling outfits get wrong?

How can one tell who is following protocols for well conducted science?

What should one do in order to get good DNA results?

How do I know that historians are not using the same outfits - or at least the same laboratories?

You need to show that 'this section of DNA profiling is BAD because of such-and-such reason' but that 'this section of DNA profiling is GOOD because of such-and-such reason'.
Probably preaching to the choir here, but if you want high-performance sgemm on M-series, you should consider using the system-provided BLAS. It will invoke the dedicated matmul hardware on Apple CPUs, which has access to significantly higher memory and compute bandwidth than Neon. SIMD-based matmul on M1 only makes sense if your matrices are small and you need the result immediately (e.g. geometric transformations).

I hope that Apple will implement SVE/SME one day which will allow us to leverage this hardware directly...
In such situations, I can see the culture adapting so that you have a "real birthday" and a "celebration birthday".

Famously, Queen Elizabeth II was born on 21 April 1926, but her official birthday was also celebrated on the second Saturday in June each year in the UK.
These "mixed" elements are natural types and special cases of different objects and operations that are usually confused (e.g. "vectors" of three numbers to represent points and actual 3D vectors) or contorted (e.g. quaternions to represent rotations) or idiosyncratic (e.g. 3D cross product) in more traditional approaches.
We use Semgrep Supply Chain at work and are reasonably satisfied with it. It splits the supply chain vulnerabilities it found into the categories: reachable, unreachable and undetermined. This makes triaging much easier and it has reduced the time we spent on assessing new vulnerabilities by quite a lot.
Well nm is not something anyone should care about. Chip designers care about gate density. But end users only care about speed, power consumption, capacity, etc.
One tool I actually come back to, following this on twitter the dev is running to catch up with a lot of early interest in what's clearly a first version of something I find very interesting, the hierarchical presentation of results is usable and it's very quick, v2 is in the works could be really quite useful.
After 28 months I still can not get my second Starlink dish and account activated. You can't find an address, phone number or email to contact the company. They do offer a chat function to a helpdesk (which is not the Starlink/SpaceX company) but of course these people can't do anything for you, certainly not activate your account!

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the worst. My other account was working for two months but then Starlink changed the payment form GUI and suddenly they no longer accepted my European bank accounts or Apple Pay or iDeal payment systems anymore, only credit card numbers. European people rarely have credit cards and certainly can't suddenly aquire one while roaming. And of course it would only work if you had a working roaming internet... wait a minute....

When I eventually had opened a new bank account with a credit card at great cost and expense, Starlink of course did not accept it. No recourse, no contact, no payments, nada.

Anyone want to buy two revision 3 Starlink dishes, as-is, where-is, never been used? [1].

[1] From an Australian personals ad: "Rain gauge for sale, as-is-where-is, never been used".

A joke told by Bush Tucker Man Les Hiddens while traveling in the Australian outback desert.
Hmm, these are both odd, I've never seen an ad, it populates the page with sourced content, I wonder if it passed through some ugly java from a source site? Can you tell us what you searched for to trigger that, or any details at all to help?
Why is using the debugger controversial?
This is the four hundred pound gorilla in the room.
> There are already lots of sibling comments saying the heavy use of plastic is "forced on people" by companies, so yes it is talked about. And that's exactly what OP implied.

Reply to those comments instead then? Instead of assuming bad faith like "OP implied". I cannot be the only one who doesn't think parent implied anything at all and instead just asked a question why the change happened from glass to plastic.
I used to work at Google where all computers were militantly segregated from non work stuff. Now I run a little non profit robotics org with one other person, and when I work from home I just use my personal desktop with no separation.

It depends on where you work, how much people will care and whether there are resources to do anything about it.
Indeed. The fundamental concept is "Algebraic Effects"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49626714/what-does-algeb...
> Heck, they're probably extinct by the time we even receive their signal.

Many earthbound lifeforms have lifetimes in the tens of decades, and might be expected to survive as a species for thousands of years. And there are many "interesting" star-systems within 100 LY, so in those cases perhaps extinction isn't an issue. But I think humans would have difficulty when an exchange like "Earth to Aliens: come in please", "Aliens to Earth: receiving, go ahead" takes 2 lifetimes.
I've been gradually improving my dev setup security over the past few months based on continuous reports like this. Here are things I'm trying out to improve my setup:
- Use VSCode dev containers for development [1a]. Once you've created one once then they're quite easy to use and you don't need much Docker knowledge - it just needs to be installed. It's perfect for spinning up web/console apps but I had trouble with other stuff like Flutter and Electron.
- Similarly I got familiar with GitHub Codespaces for smaller projects [1b]. I've done live coding in an interview before (where I had to modify a simple Node project) and I would absolutely use containers/codespaces for anything like that these days [2]. You can spin one up straight from any GitHub repo page and they're easy to work with.
- Read the OWASP guidelines regularly for things like npm, Node, and Docker best practises. e.g. for Docker use the smallest image you can (Alpine) and use explicit Docker image tags [3].
- Review npm/python packages before installing them using socket.dev - it shows a full dependency security overview for things like env variable access, network calls, supply chain attacks, recent code ownership changes etc. You can also disable postinstall scripts globally as suggested by OWASP [4].

[1a] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/create-dev-...
[1b] https://github.com/codespaces
[2] https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/lazarus-luri...
[3] https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/NodeJS_Docker...
[4] https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/NPM_Security_...
Ask HN: Dashboard to Report Health of a Project
Hi, I am planning to create a dashboard to report health of an automotive project: Jira Ticket situations, Testing status, Problem reports, Team Capacity & assignments etc. Are there any available tools that are ready-to-use dashboards (apart from JIRA) or do I have to use PowerBI only? Any good pointers from Project managers or product heads can help. TIA.
Big employers (at least the ones I know) aren't regarding work, I guess with smaller ones it maybe is, especially with BYOD?

I think the issue probably isn't uncommon for freelancers/contractors too.

Hobby and personal stuff I think a lot of people mix, I don't use the machine where I do bank/tax/etc stuff for hobby work, but I'm not sure that's common.
> A few days ago someone asked why math classes don’t the how and why and rather tend to just present the formulas for the operations and tell people to compute.

The lecturer typically do know quite well the how and why, but teaching these points takes a lot of time (you also have to explain a lot about the practical application until you are able to explain why this mathematical structure is helpful for the problem).

Since lecturers are typically very short of time in lectures, they teach the mathematics in a concise way and trust the students to be adults, capable of going to the library, and reading textbooks about the how and why by themselves if they are interested in this. At least in Germany, there is the clear mentality that if you are not capable of doing this, a university is a wrong place for you; you should better get vocational training instead.
It could be added and it was a feature on the Gamecube CPU for example - you were able to lock the cache and then, IIRC, half the cache was used as normal and half was at your disposal for very fast access to look up tables or data you were using over and over again. Some code to deform 3D meshes when animating them using a skeleton used the locked cache to speed up that operation greatly by having the bone matrices at hand.

A problem I imagine on modern processors is the cache might be shared amongst several cores and interrupts etc.

Back in the nineties, 3DFX made a speed of light rendering demo for the Voodoo1 where they took over the entire machine and through intimate knowledge of cache behaviour effectively set aside an area in the L1 cache that would contain some data they could stream in and speed up their triangle setup.
Welcome to the Era of BadGPTs
> Where can I use it?

Relevant:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/why-i-couldn39t-be-a-math-...
A small French startup named Mistral has jumped to the front of the AI line
Maybe you installed some funny extension or messed in about:config? This is usually the cause.
Everyday Astronaut has a recent video on "why don't we launch rockets from jets"[0]. The video obviously does not include reference to the engine mentioned here -- but I think most of the points still stand.

In particular
- orbit is mainly about going fast, not so much about getting up high
- your second stage will pay a structural price for allowing air-launch loads, and this structure needs to be carried to orbit
- rockets are *big*

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAt9WDQEMoA
> 'He's fully lost the plot.'

His pinned tweet expresses concern about the border crisis, specifically the risk of undesirable people crossing the border.

He's expressing what he cares about, is the parent's point. Abrasive or animated expression of views, isn't losing the plot.

As for jokes about pronouns and other triggering issues, it can sometimes be defended when the joke is similar to the Gemini jokes. That is, poking fun at things that might deserve a bit of poking fun at, even ridicule in the case of Gemini.
I have very recently tried Mistral, and was actually impressed - it can sound rational (judgement that I do not gift around). Of course, this is something to be verified with in-depth tests - but the impression of some rationality is given.

(I can see that Mistral has been discussed extensively on HN - I missed that owing to other matters.)

Coincidentally, soon later I found it's now on Axios...
A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail just did an episode talking about the SNES Doom port and how it used LUTs for trigonometry as the SNES didn't have a graphics processor.

https://festivalofthespokennerd.com/podcast/series-3-episode...

https://github.com/RandalLinden/DOOM-FX
busy blocking the co-founder https://twitter.com/defunkt/status/1754610843361362360
Yes but that’s not using Greek soldiers arranging the mirrors 2000 years ago to focus on ships navigating the ocean. There’s a difference.
Apparently its literal meaning is "offer weapon".

Source: https://twitter.com/Emma_Hollen/status/1340402040070156299

Perhaps the intent here is for it to mean "offer tool", though.
> they literally cannot afford the space

Sure they can. Early North American settlers lived in tiny, one room log cabins, and raised those 3+ children in them just fine. Homes that small are not even allowed in most jurisdictions these days. The middle class have way more space to work with these days.

Let's face it, the reality is that middle class people just don't want children. It's not 'cool' to have children. Society says you need a career instead, and so that's what most people buy into and turn their attention towards.
The _existing_ is the important part.
Idempotency – what is it, and how can it help our Laravel APIs?
Hetzner switches to new billing model
Plains, trains and uncommon zeal: China's varied landscapes
"What are exceptions used for" is similar to tabs versus spaces. Many languages just "leave that part to the user". Which I think is wrong. Or at least, inefficient. Different people will make different assumptions and then we will have a clash of opinions.
1.5 kbps with Vocos and Meta's EnCodec, voice samples here, but I wonder how music would sound.
https://gemelo-ai.github.io/vocos/
I loved climbing trees as a kid. I try to get my kids to climb trees, but they refuse. I don't see a lot of kids climbing trees at all anymore.

But I don't think the thing that spoiled them are the safe the playgrounds; it's the constant access to computers, tablets, the internet, Youtube, etc. In my day you had to wait until Wednesday or Saturday to get your cartoon fix. Nowadays there's instant gratification and constant passive entertainment. They're not bored anymore, they have no need to be inventive. I suspect that's a bigger problem than safe playgrounds.
> Transportation costs dominate the cost of most consumables

That was surprising to me and, uh, no, they don't, unless you're considering building materials (i.e. rocks).

It's not easy to find numbers, but for milk in Germany, it appears to be around 10%, about the same as packaging. Milk should be worse than many other products because it's cheap and heavy, on the other hand it's rarely shipped over great distances. [1]

Another report [2] considers transportation costs relative to the value of the goods transported, which isn't exactly the same as "how much of the consumer price is transportation", but surely related, and has 2.7% for foodstuffs (and 55% for rocks).

I mean, I'm sure it varies widely for different kinds of consumables, but overall, transporting stuff is cheap. I think even in terms of CO2, which is certainly underrepresented in cost currently, production dominates transport for most goods in a grocery store, apart from produce shipped by air.

[1] https://www.agrarheute.com/tier/rind/78-cent-fuer-trinkmilch...

[2] https://bmdv.bund.de/SharedDocs/DE/Anlage/G/MKS-Wissenschaft... (Tabelle 8)
Hetzner switches to consumption based billing
It's important to be aware of potential issues that may arise while implementing contract management software in order to improve the chances of a seamless and informed transition for your company.
As far as I know, Trivy only flags known vulnerabilities and would not protect against supply-chain attacks like this.
Generative agent-based modeling with actions grounded in physical, social spaces
Punctuality Matters: Using Linux to Manage Time-Critical Situations
I've never met my great grandparents, so no.
Why isn't it benchmarked against the vanilla glibc allocator? Is it similar enough to dlmalloc that the differences don't matter?
Ultra-processed food exposure and adverse health outcomes (umbrella review)
A guardian article covering the study can be found here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-proces...
I'm afraid it's mostly the opposite, a death rate improvement. I can't find the publication with the official soldier death toll numbers - not that you can trust any wartime publication - but the second highest death toll was for Ukrainian drone operators. The highest still is for Starlink terminal operators, mostly soldiers too. I spoke with a few while they where under fire and we both where scared as hell that they would target the Starlink dish (it has two very unique radio signatures) while we where video conferencing with it.

Now its worse, the Russians also use them [1].

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/11/ukraine-intelligenc...
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Like kids these days have that kind of time in between all the Youtube watching.
I'm both fascinated and horrified to ask what non-trivial sed programming you might be doing, and why ;-)
Things That Gain Superpowers When We Take Them to Space
I just discovered moss growing on my bike. I use it a lot, but I clearly never clean it.
> I think only the 20-series of Nvidia GPUs and maybe some of the 5000-series AMD GPUs have DP capable USB-C outputs.

Based on my experience, this doesn't matter. I have a video card with no USB-C outputs. I go from full-sized DisplayPort to a female <-> female DisplayPort coupler, to this [0] bidirectional DP <-> USB-C cable, which plugs into my monitor. It works great and even does 4K 60FPS uncompressed HDR no problem.

I see no reason why you'd be unable to then slap on a female <-> female USB-C coupler and then that USB-C -> HDMI adapter.

(There's also no reason you couldn't cut out the first DP cable and coupler and plug the DP <-> USB-C cable directly into the video card. I just have very long (fiber-optic) DP cables that the second cable plugs into.)

[0] https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=39240
I'm not a control freak, if a full grown adult really wants to swim alone of course I can't stop them. But I've seen and heard about enough freak events that I cannot condone it. All it takes is one little stroke, muscle spasm, or unexpected undertow to get you into a really dangerous situation. Humans just aren't built for the water the same way fish are.

If I was walking on the beach and I saw someone swimming alone I probably would hang out in the area and keep a passive eye on them until they got out. I wouldn't feel the need to get in the water unless I saw that they needed help.

You'd be surprised at how rarely this happens, though. Usually there are lots of people at the beach.
I don't think this is the case. Where I am from the number of children is quite the same now compared to when I was kid. Yet the activities that were absolutely normal for the kids back in the day would be a definite deviation from norm now - all in line with increased "risk aversion".
I don't think this is the case. Where I am from the number of children is quite the same now compared to when I was kid. Yet the activities that were absolutely normal for the kids back in the day would be a definite deviation from the norm now - all in line with increased "risk aversion".
Yep. And while you and me might be tapped in to urbanist YouTube or blogs, the people in power are literally 80 years old, can’t use email, and still think that cars are better than public transit and walkable neighborhoods.

It is a problem of the way we allocate power and how susceptible that is to corruption and control by the wealthy, who would rather have old reliable (to their interests) people in charge than young people who might try to upset the balance of things.

The more I notice it the more obvious it becomes. I think a lot about how China is getting better and better at manufacturing and in the USA we’re… well maybe staying the same but really just getting worse. And I think it’s the same issue - old politicians who don’t see what’s going on and aren’t willing to make real change. (And the structures that keep things this way.)
If you are storing 100 million images at 200KB each, that comes out at 20TB!

I would calculate the costs of something like S3 versus buying five 4TB HDDs and running a network file server.

You're going to save a ton of money hosting this yourself. I would go with two used powerful desktop PCs. One as a DB server and the other as the file server.

Store the images on the file server and store the image's path in the database server.
My brother in law has a farm, and his daughters both ride horses. One a bit more fanatically than the other; she's in college now and I think she actually owns her own horse, which is a bit of a problem when you're living in student housing. They're not rich by any means, so I suspect it's a matter of priorities.
NVK is now ready for prime time
Not exactly this, but pretty close .. thanks, did not heard of that one
Forever. Unless manually removed, account cancelled, or was unpaid
Amazon lobbyists to be barred from European parliament
I wonder if there's some encoding tricks you can use to reduce it to 8 (or less?) effective states, given that you're only using them with a reduced set of mathematical operations. E.g., can you automatically convert all (-1, 1) to (1, -1) and save one encoded state, since they add up to the same result anyway?
On the other hand, I feel it has been an enabler - the ability to track their phone if they aren't back home when they're supposed to probably allowed me to let my kids go unsupervised to various activities at least a year or two earlier than I would otherwise have; the phone tracking ability meant that they could go to sports practice at the other side of the city on their own with bikes or public transport (depending on season) instead of being "delivered" and supervised by me or the spouse.
Another alternative would be music programming languages. There was a thing for a while with posting SuperCollider tracks as 140 character tweets. A floppy would be plenty of space for full albums of music. There are also wrappers for it in more normal programming languages, like Overtone (using Clojure) or Sonic Pi (Ruby), but the original SCLang is possibly more compact.

https://supercollider.github.io/

https://supercollider.github.io/sc-140

Previous discussion 14 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=992231 (22 comments)