skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>default color scheme

It wasn't so much a "default" but rather the only colors because graphics hardware of that time period was 4-bit which is limited to 16 colors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter#Color_p...
I'm kind of surprised that for desktop applications more people don't use Qt. It's so good for these kinds of applications!
So the gov who approved the merger should go to jail?
It is worth noting that the A35 is a rather weak in-order core. Cortex-M7 has a much better IPC, for example.
I would say the Japanese influence is in the infrastructure so it's more noticeable. But the American influences may come from the overseas young Chinese that repatriate and start businesses or contribute to the modern day culture.
The Us penal system is about punishment, not rehabilitation or even deterrence.
I suppose you start a report about a football match with long disclaimers that not everybody likes football, not everybody can play football because of disabilities, and not everybody has the time to play football besides their three jobs to make ends meet, and that all of that is okay and nothing in the report should be construed as a debasement of people not playing football?

Doesn‘t sound exciting.
I always wondered about well planned groups. Like wouldn't they use other avenues, infiltrate not as passengers, but as workers or import stuff to shops and restaurants... Either by getting hired or paying some poorly paid worker.
I had the same question. My current workflow in deploying a REST API is to write my own thin wrapper in Python and publish that so people can use it. I don’t know if postman/bruno saves me from having to write a wrapper. I also don’t understand the deal with “collections”. Maybe postman/bruno are good for creating a test suite ?
>>> But mRNA vaccine skepticism has to be the stupidest "skepticism" and falsehoods I have ever seen of a new technology.

To be fair the media and government are more to blame. By attacking and trying to silence the skeptics during COVID only proved to make what you said worse.

You wont make a very attractive product by shaming, deriding, or forcing someone into taking said product that deals with their health.
Sarcastic enthusiasm works well.

Got an entire fake crypto "trading" scam WhatsApp group just by expressing my extreme enthusiasm for receiving trading tips from people that had randomly added my mobile to their list.
Yes; Luddites were not luddites in the modern meaning, confusingly.
As others have stated their use of technology has always been governed on a per community basis.

I also would not exactly feel that bad, I suspect they receive a lot more romanticizing than they deserve. A lot of these communities are pretty sad as the kids that grow up in them so not have enough education to escape them if they want.
The Co-Evolution of Humans and Our Tools (2011)
Since 30 years ago (starting with XFS in 1993, which was inspired by HPFS) all the good UNIX file systems implement the directories as some kind of B trees.

Therefore they do not get slower proportional to the number of entries and listing based on file prefixes is extremely fast.
Welp...I'm convinced. Time to pack up and go home.
Point 1, we're used to sideways text because of books on a shelf but here it's compounded by the text almost disappearing after the click. The only way to get it back is clicking multiple times in the empty space above the bar. The only hint to click there is in one of the steps in the text box on the left, which probably nobody reads. Something to click above the bar (an arrow up?) would probably remove the need for the help text. Other hints could remove the need for any help text and free the box to display the content of the clicked bar.
Do we get lots of servants?
I think this interface is less interesting than the semantics behind it, particularly when it comes to concurrency: what happens when you delete a folder, and then try and create a file in that folder at the same time? What happens when you move a folder to a new location, and during that move, delete the new or old folders?

Like yes, for your mum's use case, with a single user, it's probably not all that important that you cover those edge cases, but every time I've built pseudo-filesystems on top of non-filesystem storage APIs, those sorts of semantic questions have been where all the problems have hidden. It's not particularly hard to implement the interface you've described, but it's very hard to do it in such a way that, for example, you never have dangling files that exist but aren't contained in any folder, or that you never have multiple files with the same path, and so on.
What does "Echolocate" mean here? I presumed it was ambient audio modulated by MySQL healthcheck probes but the description suggests not?
What is it about S3 that enables this speed, and why can’t traditional Unix file systems do the same?
The UFO talk seems to occuring when the USA needs to distract attention from other things.
I was very surprised to learn just how new this symbol is. I'm a bit too young for it but apparently there were times in my parents' lifetimes when few Americans would have understood it.
> and that it has conspired since the 1940s to keep this effort hidden from the United States congress and the American public.

> reviewed all official government investigatory efforts since 1945

One could interpret these two statements as “We found UFOs between 1940 and 1945”.
I used to use plumbum for Pythonic(ish) shell scripting. It was great for a specific use case.
A place that takes you out of ordinary life

Humanist, surprising, challenging but comforting at the same time

On the top floor, bright sunspots are cast onto the floor, peeking through the roof as if through the dense branches of an old forest

New kinds of thinking, new kinds of connections, new kinds of possibilities. The mission is to uncover more never-known-before territories every day. Permutations evolving through randomness, experimentation and pattern recognition. Start a thousand projects and add a hundred every day.
Show HN: LlamaGym – fine-tune LLM agents with online reinforcement learning
Managed to find a brochure!

https://classic.technology/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Aprico...
I don't feel bad for the insurance companies either, but it is the case that they get their money from the people they cover, expensive treatments will drive up overall premiums.
Well, Airbus is a customer of Spirit Aerospace. And Premium Aerotec, well, they were very, very close to spin it out completely. Bavk the day, it was part of what today is Defence and Space. And Premium Aerotec is subsiediary of Airbus, it is not part of any of its divisions. So, somewhere between Spirit Aerospace and and being in-house.
Good that this is in the first page of a critical, based on factual data, and smart HN community.

I am "agnostic" and ignorant in this topic but beyond complot theories is there something substantial or interesting to look at related to possible alien visits? I am not asking on a pro UFO subreddit tough.
It’s a nice visualization. Maybe move the label to above the bar if the bar becomes too short to fit it inside of it?
"Hens in no danger from foxes", foxes say. :)
I used to work with ketamine tech; I don't think I read any convincing studies on OCD treatment.

When administered by a professional, therapeutic ketamine is extremely safe. So if you're willing to spend a few thousand dollars on treatment, then it probably wouldn't do any harm to give it a try.

But way before that, I'd highly encourage finding a psychiatrist (who will probably start you on Prozac) and therapist (who might help via CBT, exposures, etc.).
It's not new. It's been an European standard traffic sign since the 1930s.
Yes they do. What APIs does Linux offer that allows you to list a directories contents alphabetically starting at a specific filename in constant time? You have to iterate the directory contents.

You can maybe use “d_off” with readdir in some way, but that’s specific to the filesystem. There’s no portable way to do this with POSIX.

Regardless of if you can do it with a single directory, you can’t do it for all files recursively under a given prefix. You can’t just ignore directories, or say that “for this list request, ‘-‘ is my directory separator”.

The use of b-trees in file systems is completely beside the point.
Well yes, but think about this way. Why would a UFO crash? Why do UFOs always seem to crash in reports? It seems a bit unlikely that an advanced craft that can levitate without propulsion and travel across stars would just crash or be taken down by a missile or at the time of the 50s by artillery shells. A bit like a less advanced tribe from Africa shooting arrows at an F35 and taking it down.

Secondly even if it was a UFO of extraterrestrial origin, I would imagine upon crashing or sensing it is in danger, it would send a beacon to whoever sent it, alerting our presence to whatever. And this could easily be perceived as an act of war.

Next best thing is, Earth technology is more advanced than we are led to believe. At least military-wise.
By the way (your mention of the "automobile lifestyle" guided me to this question), are they always small villages or dwelling within towns built by "normal" people? I wonder if they occasionally build their own towns and if they design them differently because of lack of automobiles.
Actually you're not alone in that boat, software logos play a lot in my adoption apparently...
Well if it was worth it to him I guess its a win win for everyone
Not sure I can actually agree with that, at least in such broad strokes.

And no, I know that it is not just a dog and pony show. "It" is the reason air travel is as safe as it is today, and that is way saver than 20 or 30 years ago, despite whatever Boeing did with the 737 MAX.
I seem to have confused canonical representation with strong history independent. It should have been that 'unicit' meant canonical representation.

http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~hartline/papers/hist-indep...
It's interesting that this report seems VERY scoped to specifically looking for things of "extra-terrestrial" origin.

Like, I get that most of the headlines about this stuff get clicks by talking about "zomg aliens", but everything I've read on this topic that ever seemed even slightly credible has tended to lean more towards these UAP's being totally terrestrial phenomena, just utilising one specific technological capability that we are not aware humans have developed (the ability to somehow manipulate the relativistic mass of an object within a given space).

IMO that's a much more likely scenario than reverse engineered aliens.
It's just so unfathomably unlikely that aliens would (a) be able to and (b) actually care sufficiently to visit our planet.

Faster-than-light travel breaks all our current long-established & well-tested physics. But sure, Jan, some aliens really did stick a probe up your butt.
As soon as somebody volunteers to serve this way. Of course there can be a hierarchy of a sort and specialization like in any other institute. Some do more science, some do more chores, depending on what they can and feel like doing.
This is why high-resolution timers are bad, but a website doesn't have the same level of access to the CPU as it does with something like webGPU.
Havana Syndrome is like how cops are dropping dead from contact with fentanyl. Except cops aren't doing that, and Havana Syndrome isn't real.
Almost 30 years after the fact? I don't think so.
Eh, it's more an outgrowth of the rise of the conspiracy mindset, IMO.

There's an old canard in the skeptical community that no one ever believes one conspiracy theory. You start out believing in one conspiracy for reasons, and it opens a floodgates to where every other conspiracy theory starts to seem perfectly plausible.

And people might have been pushed into earlier conspiracy theories on their journey to full blown nutjob for political reasons, but by the time you get to UFOs it's usually pure organic "well why NOT?"
You know what's more terrifying than aliens? That we might be the only life in the universe and not in a simulation. Could base reality planet earth be the only conscious experience? Is it possible things are exactly as we experience them?
Last Week Tonight certainly used the same "we're entertainment, not news" argument in their own defense:

> HBO also argued that other statements were opinions and jokes, not factual assertions

> HBO said Murray’s accusations were a matter of “hurt feelings about jokes,” and said jokes are protected speech.

https://www.thewrap.com/coal-magnates-lawsuit-john-oliver-di...
For me, the biggest leaps were caused by exposures to new languages/paradigms.

I recently commented about that here:

> For me, leaving a plateau usually requires a paradigm shift. Here's a few rabbit-holes for you:

> • Learn memory management from Rust

> • Study Postgres internals: https://www.interdb.jp/pg/

> • Learn architecture and design from Elm: https://taylor.town/elm-2023

> • Try building things "from scratch" with zero dependencies

> • Watch online lectures from Joe Armstrong, Alan Kay, Gerald Sussman, Bret Victor, Casey Muratori, Greg Young, Richard Feldman

> • Build a robot

> • Learn a semi-esoteric language like Forth, APL/J/K/BQN, Lisp/Scheme, Wolfram Language, etc.

> But research isn't enough. I never really understood the value of new paradigms until I tried to use them in a personal (or professional) project.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39580801
i think thats so futuristic that its basically as likely as aliens
I'm 100% behind ad blockers in a browser, but this is some grade A victim blaming right here.
Yeah that's the problem, getting good battery life on Linux is quite difficult, especially since video acceleration is still a shit show.
Wouldn't a fitted shirt just turn into an unfitted shirt? Why would clothing made to fit someone somehow fit someone else much worse than the standardized unfitted clothing?
Ask HN : Street Vehicle Speed Counter
Hi HN, given all the work and impressive progress that is going on on the subject of AI, I was wondering if there exists a street vehicle counter mobile app.

One would film the street, visualize the speed of vehicles, and get a report. Kind of what Telraam does, but using our very powerful smartphones, locally, no server subscription needed.

It would also be easy to connect it to a USB battery in a box, to be used by municipalities in order to better know the trafix on a segment of a street, to plan evolutions with a cheap data-based approach. It seems to me that it could be selled to the public sector.

I've found github repositories exposing scripts using YOLO, but nothing ready to use and not really focused on speed.

Have you stumbled upon something similar, or do you have advices on a state of the art library that could make it easy to develop ?
A left wing show that spent its time attacking Bernie Sanders?
If that were what was happening, wouldn't this report claim the opposite of what it does? Wouldn't it conclude aliens are definitely real and people should absolutely be worried about them?
I think one issue is that in organizations it takes effort to get new paid software approved and start paying for those. Even if the money is very small. Like engineer that costs $80-150k/y needs couple of tools that cost €50-100/y piece.

Usually in organization it is much easier to just increase the spend on already approved vendors. Increase the AWS spend by $50/year? Nobody is going to ask you about it. Or start using some tool that does not involve payments - nobody even knows you are using it.

It would be great if we could change that. A world where independent software developers could make a decent living by selling small quality tools would be a better place.
The POSIX API is indeed even older, so it is not helpful.

But as you say, there are filesystem-specific methods or operating-system specific methods to reach the true performance of the filesystem.

It is likely that for maximum performance one would have to write custom directory search functions using directly the Linux syscalls, instead of using the standard libc functions, but I would rather do that instead of paying for S3 or something like it.
Proton AG of ProtonMail can provide FBI with your account recovery email
you can't, it's a laser printer.

if it's black-and-white specifically, you may be able to improve slightly by switching to black-and-white mode.

but if you want to design your own halftones, you need to be using a spot color process
I mean it means more land for us I guess.
I finally got a car with adaptive cruise control and lane assist a couple of years ago. It is the best. Driving feels relaxing. I actually feel less fatigued. I can just listen to music /podcasts /audiobooks and not care about how others are driving. Feels like sitting in the passenger seat and watching the road.

I wouldn't feel safe if I wasn't listening to something that kept me engaged though. I would totally nod off.
Similar, but not the same. Fox News is repeatily caught lying, and paying through the nose for it, while factually LWTN, so far, never did that.

Also, if I remeber correctly, Murray didnnot attack them on the reportes facts, did he?
Blameless culture is about well-intentioned people, not people actively trying to sabotage processes for money.

If the mechanic was reselling the real parts on eBay and instead using shoddy parts, everyone would agree on criminal liability.

If the CEO and leadership are also cutting corners and destroying a safety culture for money, and endangering the public, that is also criminal.
Comments like this just propagate a public opinion of indifference which really does make it harder for the government to hold people responsible. There obviously have been numerous cases of the govt stepping in effectively on such malfeasance and the smart thing to do is to demand that this becomes one of those cases. Not “I’m so smart I see through the bullshit so I expect (and therefore am encouraging) nothing to happen.”
The title was What Monks Know About Focus. The actual topic was justifying the value of reading.
S3 doesn’t have directories, it could be thought of a flat + sorted list of keys.

UNIX (and all operating systems) differentiate between a file and a directory. To list the contents of a directory, you need to make an explicit call. That call might return files or directories.

So to list all files recursively, you need to list, sort, check if an entry is a directory, recurse”. This isn’t great.
> However, there are also more surprising ideas, such as the suggestion that the figurines are headless and footless because they were self-portraits made by women, who sculpted what they saw. In this scenario, the exaggerated breasts, stomachs and vulvas are purely the result of a woman's eye view.

This reminded me about D. E. Harding's "On Having No Head".

And also about the stereotype suggesting ladies are prone to self-perception biased in a specific way - often seeing themselves as overweight even when perfectly fit.

Could these ways of thinking exist (notably worldwide, also notably supposedly predating abstraction-capable languages) even during the prehistoric days when there was no modern kind of cultural influence?
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You don't need to show the user errors for this approach to work.

At a client of mine, the load balancer is setup with a customer friendly fallback page to present, in cases where none of the backend servers are available. This is used in instances where something technical goes wrong, and also during planned outages for things like DB schema migrations (although these tend to take just a few seconds).

We then have monitoring setup to notify us if the website does not include some text that is always included on the working site, but is not included in the maintenance page.

- Customer gets a friendly page telling them the site is unavailable, regardless of the cause; and

- We get notifications any time the production environment isn't publicly available.
If I understood correctly, you claimed that saving requests, modifying it, or parametrizing it was somehow more cumbersome to do with curl than with a GUI. I was just pointing out that the shell is literally designed for all those use cases. And human users don't interactively use curl without a shell.

Also, using curl and the shell allows you to progressively iterate. So "write a script at that point" was kind of the point. Though you don't need to go that far to just feed authentication info.

GUI solutions don't have endless possibilities. You start and end with the exact same tool. The clicks and form fillings can't easily be copied around and iterated on unlike commands in a REPL. You can only perform tasks defined by the author of the application.
Lots of neighborhoods are banning them, ours did.
The email messenger – Delta Chat
And it's hilariously more unlikely, that a civilisation that accomplishes a) and b), suddenly experiences a warp piston seizure in earth orbit, crashes and gets captured by some apes.
I like this kind of simple mind exercises. To write a good one like this is not easy.
It was also probably a better experience in black-and-white: easier on the eyes and potentially higher-resolution (with a Hercules card for instance).
ouch. that particular one hurts a lot. ;)
I guess it could be possible that a key discovery in physics may have been withheld from the general public.
Yes. You could also just use a SQLite table with two columns (path, contents), then just query that. Or do any number of other things.

The question isn’t if it’s possible, because of course it is, the question is if it’s portable and well supported with the POSIX interface. Because if it’s not, then…
Ha ha, but seriously, it may also suggest that we'll flicker out in an instant like all other species that got this far.
If there are codes like this why don’t all doctors use them already?
Isn't that a feature/problem of every dynamic language?
I'm not sure if Alluxio could be substituted by OpenDAL as a local cache layer for TrinoDB.
IMO it's more likely that they're a very carefully orchestrated piece of "deterrence theatre" on the part of the USA. It's not outside the bounds of possibility for the US to have some kind of "trump card" technology that makes building UAP like things possible.

Now imagine you're a nation state with that kind of tech. You actually WANT your adversaries to know you've got it, otherwise it's a useless deterrent. But at the same time, you don't want them to know too much about it, because they could copy it.

So something like UAP's should be the excellent model for how to disclose their existence.
Show HN: FunctionCacher, a Python cache-to-disk utility
The FunctionCacher Python utility provides a way to cache the result of a (computation- or IO-heavy) function call to a location on the filesystem, ideally onto a ramdisk/tmpfs.
This allows caches to exceed the lifetime of the program, which is useful for rapid-prototyping (& rapid-crashing) scripts.
Caches are generated based function name, parameters, and code.
MIT Licence.
I've long thought it would be hilarious if the only evidence we had of alien life was 8 seconds of panicked alien screaming/swearing over radio, a crater in Minnesota, and some small fragments of strange alloys.
And if for some reason you need a complete listing along with object sizes and other attributes you can get one every 24 hours with S3 inventory report.

That has always been good enough for me.
Tribes shooting down F35? A pair of gees will be enough to ground a F35! Not a good example, F35 is advanced but brittle machine.
If there ever was a species that got this far. See: Great Filter