skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was Zuma, the classified satellite that officially failed to separate from the payload adapter and burned up in the atmosphere but was widely speculated to be a successful test of stealth satellite technology, with the satellite successfully reaching orbit and going dark. A lot of talk about us knowing very little, but everyone loved to show off this graphic from a stealth satellite patent [1]. Of course if the NRO does a good job and the technology works we will never know that it does.

1: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTW_zc_W0AEH3Un?format=jpg&name=...
Quite some re-framing there. I'm all in favor of viewpoint diversity. But suggesting that this is achieved by hiring based on skin color is not the right way.

Also it is very easy to show how a team is hurt when normal hiring standards (GPA, other numerical prerequisites) are ignored in order to hire someone based on sex or race. I first experienced this when I sat in a classroom and worked on group projects with people who were clearly admitted via AA preference. AA was not functioning as a tiebreaker in close cases. It was used as an enormous boost, and everyone could tell.
I just tried some time math and it got it wrong

3:38 - 0:10 = 8 hours and 32 minutes

I'm guessing it was trying to convert it to times of day instead of 3 minutes 38 seconds.

Interestingly if I click the quick answer button it gives 3:48 as a result.

Google - doesn't even try.

WA directly also had to nudge it to use it as a unit instead of a time of day.

Still some work to do here it seems!
> When adjusted for factors such as lifestyle choices, women's salaries are on average 95-99% of men's

Assuming that is true (I'm not buying Wikipedia as a source), the career and job norms were created by men for men. If it was women who had created them for centuries and men were just joining in, the norms would be structured so that raising children was assumed - like taking weekends off - and not a career killer, and maybe everyone would get a day off every ~28 days (I don't mean that snidely at all; it would be realistic and reasonable).

> White, working class British boys are one of the poorest performing demographics in education but I have rarely seen it discussed. As a British lad who left school less than a decade ago, I don't think the education system is suited to engage boys whatsoever.

This kind of undermines your comment, IMHO; it's a cliche of white racial solidarity and a race competition. If race doesn't matter to you, then it's not an issue of race.

Among successful people in Britain, clearly white males have great advantages. The educational system engages them fine. Maybe it's poor kids of all sorts who don't have access and engagement?
The article even mentions fake fake coins - modern-day fakes made to look like ancient fakes!
Likely xx% of your predicted revenue.
The really fun thing is to realize that juggling is a meta-hobby. I started out with juggling balls, a short time on rings, spent a long time on clubs, and now spend my time trying to apply some of that to juggling hoops. Plus there's kendama, yo-yo, diablo, poi, and contact juggling, all of which are also available for juggling (I've never seen someone juggle yo-yos, but kendama, diablo, and poi, it's all attested).

As someone who has always picked up and put down hobbies, juggling has stuck with me because it's easy for me to just shift slightly and now have a very different experience even though it's all "just juggling".

My history was teaching myself 3-ball cascade, reverse cascade and then figuring I was 'done' with juggling. When I went to teach my kids in, in an attempt to get them to understand "improvement by inches", I discovered that youtube now has slow-motion breakdowns of every trick you might ever want to do. I picked it back up more than 5 years ago now and still go to regular local meetups. (sadly, my kids didn't ever really get into it)
>> Training and fine-tuning LLMs doesn't really have that much value.

I'm really not sure about that... seeing people talking about LLMops (as a role) and things like that. Well, let's see.
They have a free trial as well. I didn't even finish half my 100 free search queries before I decided to pay.
The jxl-agen
That’s so weird. I love my Magic Mouse for everything except gaming, and I right-click all day long without even thinking about it.

I wonder what we do differently?
oooh, I didn't know I could do this. Doing it now. Thanks!
From Macrumors: MacBook Pro offers an enhanced multi-touch trackpad supporting inertial scrolling. The feature, already present in similar forms on Apple's iPhone OS devices and the Magic Mouse, allows users to "flick" while scrolling as the trackpad senses the momentum of the gesture and smoothly scrolls through long documents and libraries.
It can.

https://puter.com/app/puter
Ask HN: Any interactive math tutorials that use a computational algebra system?
I'm a senior level programmer who recently became interested in furthering my math education.

I also just became aware of computational algebra systems like emmy: https://github.com/mentat-collective/emmy

My question is: is there an interactive math curriculum/textbook/etc that uses such a system to teach the math? I would find that a lot more engaging than learning math the old way!
Yes, that’s the joke
There is stop scroll support in GTK4
I feel that the only deterrent that will actually work is to legally compel the deletion of models trained on unlicensed data.
Sharing arbitrary copyrighted content did not ruin BitTorrent so I don't see why it would ruin this.
Legally it seems like Discord should be liable for moderating their servers, not some poor schmuck who clicked "create group".
Wolfram Alpha still has the same old bug:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2016-04-04+to+2019-01-3... = 2 years 9 months 27 days

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2019-01-31+to+2016-04-0... = 2 years 9 months 26 days

The duration should be identical but is off by one day.

One day a space mission will fail due to this bug.

Reported several times, they never cared.
For a good 20-30 years most if not all kids shows were planned with toys in mind.

Some, like Transformers, were essentially toys that were given shows.

Even Sesame Street, a PBS (public broadcast) show, still has significant toy tie-ins -- anyone remember the Tickle Me Elmo crazy years ago? My 2 year old has a big-ass plush Cookie Monster.
Identifying why this person thinks they're two different things and why they're opposed to what seems to you to just be an extension of an existing, popular thing would be more useful than looking at the apparent contradiction and inferring there's something deficient about the messenger. American politics is suffused with propaganda from all sides; people latch onto available messages based upon feelings.
I do, but it's hard for a single man's mind to comprehend the whole truth. I think generally you can only master a few aspects of it. I believe Catholicism is the correct religion, but I still admit that there have been many great minds from different religious traditions.

This is actually an integral part of the Catholic intellectual tradition, which is why Catholic philosophy (see St Thomas Aquinas for example) can incorporate insights from pagans, Muslims and Jews. Hans Urs von Balthasar took inspiration from an even wider variety of thinkers. I could go on but hopefully I've made my point.
Not super well supported, but there's a Samsung Dex app for Windows and MacOS (I think unsupported now) that let's you plug your phone into your computer, and get Dex in a window. Runs the phone apps on the phone, gets your android store etc. but you get an "ok" minimal desktop that lets you do your phone stuff with a mouse and keyboard.

After I figured that out I basically dropped all the run Android on a desktop things.
Yes, you have to consciously lift the finger(s) from the left side and only touch the right side when right clicking. Not hard to get used to, but there's definitely some friction if you're coming from a normal mouse.
Because they're eating enterprise dicks, and there's big money in them there bags.
Scrolling that exactly matches your fingers and has “realistic” momentum.

On a Mac I might scroll through an article by just sort of pushing it the right direction, removing my hand from the trackpad and then tapping to stop it at the right place. It’s very hard to describe these things because so much is muscle memory.
A normal random variate is just a uniform random variate that's gone thru a 1-1 function.
New Federal Rule Caps Credit Card Late Fees at $8
I wasn't directly involved in importation, but AFAIK it went pretty smoothly: https://linear.app/docs/import-issues#pivotal-tracker
> ...We are even thinking of providing a consumeable API for users to add their own widgets to Kagi search results triggered on demand (and shareable with others via an open-source repository[1]).

Neat!

1: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/support-and-community/open-source...
> If you're budget conscious then you presumably need to keep it for a long time

I don't know why you would assume this to be true. Maybe you need a new computer right now but cash is currently tight.
I also priorise input devices and because of that I would never get a laptop without a track point. Track pads (no matter which ones) are just such a poor choice of pointing device on a laptop, requiring one to essentially move the hand away from the keyboard. Unfortunately I'm pretty much locked into thinkpads now because all other track pointers are pretty crap. The again I can't really complain thinkpads are quite excellent compared to most other laptops.

Just goes to show that people can prioritise but come to very different conclusions
Yes, I agree that this use case is entirely reasonable. I also agree that it's reasonable to be concerned in the first place.
It’s really annoying. I’ve used a couple of Chromebooks that had excellent trackpads so I know Apple isn’t the only manufacturer that can manage it.
ah good callout, ill add it to the list
why? same reason Google doesnt allow native Linux apps on Linux-based Android?
It also reflects the ugly realities of the validation data, training process and the people who looked at the final model and thought "Yup - we're going to release this." I for one, wouldn't want self-driving cars that reflects the "ugly reality of the world" because they were trained on average drivers.

"AI is neutral" is lazy thinking.
It's not a problem for Linux distributions that jettison all the GNU beliefs. ChromeOS has had perfect multitouch input with gestures for years. They ship opaque binaries from Synaptics or whomever and forget about the politics.
HBM is a JEDEC spec these days. Apple's on package memory is still LPDDR.
for someone not familiar with this topic, maybe you can give one/two sentences description of some usecase which you use this for?..
Even for non-login sessions, HTTPS is key. It isn't just about credential protection. It guards against data tampering in transit and is therefore crucial for end-to-end data integrity. What you are saying is basically that you don't care about integrity, fair enough, but many people including me do.
Just wanted you to know that the formatting of your quotes is messed up. You probably need to add some more linebreaks.
> The latter is typically the realm of requirements, design documentation, and possibly test plans.

You forgot one of the biggest spots for "why" documentation... git commit messages, where the point is to say why you made this change. Maybe taking into account the commit messages around the code in question would help.
This is interesting but misses the real killer PT feature: closing the loop between velocity and planning:

1. Tasks have points
2. Sprints have duration
3. Points accomplished per sprint is velocity
4. Use the average velocity of the past few sprints to pull some number of tasks off the top of the backlog. Those are the tasks for the next sprint.

It makes sprint planning basically transparent. I just prioritise the backlog (sometimes lazily) and it keeps me pretty productive. It's almost gamification in a way, but not quite.
Really cool, thanks for sharing. I will see if I can convert it into my WP theme.
Sounds like the Venice-Simplon Orient Express
Like you two-finger scroll on the touchpad and it behaves exactly like a smartphone.
Deep Atheism and AI Risk
It isn't... You can see this in an open source JavaScript implementation of kinetic scrolling by Apple called PastryKit[3] using a magic number momentum * 0.9.

The problem is, that on modern Linux environments, there is no clear responsibility for where scroll handling code belongs. Especially Kinetic / Inertial scrolling is handled way different than in macOS.

There is libinput (for handling and redirecting input events)

There is the display server

There is the compositor

There is the window manager

There is the app layer (every App, like Firefox, Gimp,

Currently kinetic scrolling is implemented on the App layer, every app has to handle the scrolling events manually to provide kinetic scrolling. This is not the case in macOS... the kinetic scrolling / rubber banding is handled within the OS.

In my opinion, the scrolling code could belong into the compositor, so that not every app developer has to write code to handle the scrolling, but still prevent unwanted effects like kinetic scrolling transfer between windows. Additionally, the kinetic scrolling approach is not configurable in Gnome... some touchpads / screens are scrolling way to fast, some are too slow...

I filed an issue[1] on cosmic in hope they'll get it right, but I don't have too high hopes that this is of much interest. On Fedora it works ok-ish with a little hack[2] called libinput-config.

[1]: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/204

[2]: https://gitlab.com/warningnonpotablewater/libinput-config.gi...

[3]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38619717/need-help-disse...
It utterly doesn't matter whether there's evidence: it's a matter of personal preference, and the request was for information, not justification.
Because neither JVM nor Dalvik are OS.

Android is a kind of Linux just like Dalvik is a kind of JVM.
Thanks for apologizing. Unfortunately such a dumb, contrived complaint has caused me permanent damage from which I may never recover.
> Most advice says to avoid sugar

Weird advice considering your body literally turns food into sugar anyway. I suspect folks saying that sort of thing are quacks or using sugar as a scapegoat for excess calories.
I did a tiny bit in the late '90s at Mastercard. Wrote my share of TACL macros before that.

When I first saw the "99 Bottles of Beer" site, I was working for a company the was using the POSIX-layer OSS and C. I was able to "drop down" into Guardian and re-learn enough to contribute: https://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-tandem-tal-437.html
What does it say about me if I instantly thought of Anthony Fantano when reading the title?
Show HN: An open source PDF Processing CLI/API written in Go
The only real open source PDF processor written in Go. Any feedback welcome!
Are you not using an x86 emulator or something? Forget to install or enable your CPU virtualization extensions?

Because the emulator ain't sluggish, and if it is you'd get that same sluggishness with WSA since it's largely the same underlying tech. It's still using a virtual machine and emulation, it's not like a simulator.
Well, that's reassuring to hear about the Taylor theory. I grew up with the belief that eating too much cherry ice cream could kill you.
Here in Finland, I've only ever purchased tickets from the machines on stations. I suppose they are not used in most countries?
Assuming the license they stuck on it actually means anything that is. AFAIK there is no legal decision on whether weights are IP (yet another thing to shovel under copyright? lol)
The JavaEE APIs essentially set the example for everybody to then imitate. Of course it didn’t help that design patterns were in peak fashion. The Java core language is small, and most of the SE APIs aren’t particularly byzanthine. But EE then went all in for some reason.
Happy shortcut.com user here, used pivotal for years previously. I use it for my small engineering team.
I think viewing things that way is akin to thinking wet streets cause rain. It is placing (often very selectively) an undue amount of agency upon a voter, whose effect on the political system at scale is essentially nil.
Section 230(c)(2)(a) is pretty explicit in allowing moderation.

Just because they are not legally liable for what users post, Congress did not want to prevent platforms from going beyond their minimal legal requirements if they so chose.

The alternative us a law that says "It is unreasonable for us to expect you to perfectly police your users; but we will hold you liable for imperfectly doing so".
It has little to do with 'ROI' and much more with the way hardware gets made.

Touchpad, touch screens and input devices are actually VERY difficult to get all the details right because you're dealing with material properties, differences that show up in manufacturing and even the geometry of the end user (small hands, big hands, wet hands, etc) among other factors.

Apple takes on the responsibility of their internal hardware (SoCs, all embedded boards, materials) AND software (embedded, OS, drivers, etc). They have a culture of caring about details and do a tremendous amount of R&D on these related details, at the design and manufacturing level, before releasing their product.

In contrast, almost all PCs are made by "integrators" (i.e. Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc) who take mostly off-the-shelf or semi-customized components, "integrate them" (I use it in quotes because often, as we know, products will ship with broken ACPI, EFI, broken drivers, etc) and put it out there. The drivers usually come from a hardware vendor who has little incentive to get "details" right, they will be lightly modified and then the OEM will shoehorn that into a semi-customized OS image and the device ships.

Further, traditional vendors like HP or Dell are under pressure to keep churning out "the next" iteration of their HW, so they don't really go back and improve drivers or firmware unless they are forced to.

On the Linux, FreeBSD and open-source side, you have an army of dedicated volunteers who often take highly sub-par or questionable hardware and work (often in the dark, or through reverse engineering) to make things reliable and add polish. The fact that things work "as well as they do" under modern Linux or *BSD is a miracle and mostly the result of individuals who care. There might be a few individuals at an OEM who care, but by and large the culture is not "we should make the most amazing product and provide documentation and support to the open-source community" and more "if they can get it figured out, good for them".

A more practical detail is the fact most touchpad ICs are made by Alps or Synaptics. And these devices include things like 'palm rejection' and other advanced features that haven't been enabled until somewhat recently because the IC vendor might not have shared the details with the people working on the open-source drivers.

You see nearly the same pattern with Android phones, how long before the next phone gets pushed out? Did they really fix the weird bugs that caused the previous phone to overheat, or the celluar link to drop calls unexpectedly? Fix the fact the satellite GPS doesn't work 1 out of 8 times?

Apple isn't perfect by any means, in fact I find the most current versions of macOS to be VERY user hostile but sadly most OEMs superficially copy Apple (i.e. moving to only ONE or TWO USB-C ports on a modern laptop) and miss the key point of making hardware & software actually working well together and openly supporting something other than Windows.
Yeah, Windows has gotten better in recent years with “Precision Touchpad” support. If you use an Apple Magic Trackpad on Windows (not supported but works on normal PCs, not just Boot Camp) Windows recognizes it as a Precision Touchpad.
European bank notes contain a little Europium, a rare-earth element.

Ironically, large deposits of minerals that contain it are found in China, the US, and Russia.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europium
Tal is the assembly language of the uxn CPU, it doesn't abstract any mechanical operation from the virtual machine, it's not a high level language but it could be a target for one. For instance, this is a C compiler that targets Uxn instructions, disassembling the artifacts will give you back uxntal code.

https://github.com/lynn/chibicc
The difference between now and then is that you're reading this on a screen instead of on paper. That, and it's gonna be different factions fighting. But the ramp-up was in the news for several years then, too. I never thought I'd live to see this, I thought this only happened in history books.
In particular, Linux has been in the middle of a decade-long transition to a new display server that has split efforts for a while. The incumbant Xorg had a few attempts at Windows-style gesture libraries, but those were clunky and not at all like what you'd get on Mac (mostly). By the time quality solutions existed on x11, Wayland desktops were already shipping 1:1 gestures a-la Mac.

So basically, two separate philosophies took two roundabout paths to suit both their needs. It took some doing, but booting up KDE or GNOME in Wayland should "just work" with good trackpad gestures. Both desktops did a good job integrating it, IMO.

> They even sell Bluetooth trackpads for desktops it’s so good.

I use one! When they make one with USB-C charging I'll start recommending it to others again. =)

Pretty much everything besides Force Touch works, too. Multitouch gestures where you rotate or pinch your fingers, Bluetooth connectivity, it's all perfectly usable. The cherry on top is that KDE even has a little mouse-acceleration switch right in the Trackpad settings, no terminal commands required. I'd actually say the trackpad experience on modern Linux is great.
I have an Apple Magic Trackpad, which I use with my laptop and external monitor. There is no way I'm going to suffer the ergonomic hell that is a laptop for a second longer than I absolutely have to. It's great to be able to take your laptop with you, but it's not a device suited for hours of use.

It's also illegal to work on a laptop, without external peripherals and monitor, so you need a pointing device anyway.
> Can I increase your taxes by 5% for no benefits?

You know that's not how taxes work, right? If someone's taxes are increased by 5% that means there's more money available to do things (or pay off debt). Many or even most of those things might have no direct benefit to the person paying the taxes but "we live in a society" (haha) and hence, we all pay into a pool that helps everyone in our community, state, country, etc.

Sometimes the benefits are obvious such as infrastructure but for most government spending it's indirect such as restoring wetlands or hiring more code inspectors so fewer buildings burn down or collapse.
...and then install TikTok.
Observable Framework 1.1
Are you on comcast? I think there is something going on with comcast.
That depends on the extent on which they rely on the system-provided frameworks. When the needs of the editor get specialized enough, all sorts of hackery happens.
Anheuser-Busch (Bud Lite) is actively course-correcting. For instance they hired Shane Gillis as their spokesperson/mascot/brand ambassador or something.

Think of that what you will, but it does signal they see the problem and understand it's costing them money until they fix it.
appears to be up now
A quick glance at https://github.com/textmate/textmate says they don't but someone correct me if I'm wrong
I've connected an Apple Magic Trackpad (external bluetooth trackpad that sits on your desk) to an ubuntu machine and it's wonderful. There are still some software things to solve to get the acceleration perfect and things like scrolling working, but having trackpad hardware that isn't trash goes a really long way.