skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What does it mean for a country to exist non-continuously?

What does "country" means? State? Geography? Leadership? Ancestry? People?

If you get far back enough the birth of France starts with Gaul which bears more than a passing resemblance with today's France:

https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/3044d40d-8af2-47aa-81e5-785...

And around 50BC with Vercingétorix surrendering to the Romans at Alésia the tide turns and it gets administratively split up largely to ensure they don't come together as a force against the Roman Empire again. Then as the Roman Empire starts showing cracks, various local powers emerge again:

https://www.alex-bernardini.fr/histoire/images/division-gaul...

Then "France" itself starts to exist since Clovis I united Franks in 481 and around 511 looks somewhat the same as today again if you squint hard enough:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/fb/3b/79/fb3b7985c2063f6a9839c6918...

But then in 840 it gets split in three after infighting among Charlemagne grandchildren, tearing the whole thing apart again:

https://www.lhistoire.fr/sites/lhistoire.fr/files/img_portfo...

Middle one's fate is to dwindle, west one will become France, right one will become Germany.

France's shape will then vary a lot through time, alliances, weddings, and battles, sometimes eaten at on the east, west, north, south, but more or less gravitating around the center part.

But then here comes Prussia in 1870, then WW1, then WW2, culminating in the partial occupation then administration of northern and western France between 1940-42 and a literal fork of France leadership and government: France de Vichy led by Pétain in the south east, France Libre led by De Gaulle exiled in London. In theory the Vichy government was also leading occupied the north of France but in practice it was ruled by Germany.

1942 comes and Germany resolves the conundrum by forcefully merging south with north, France de Vichy becomes devoid of any power (not that it had much before, being a satellite state of Germany), France is de facto a part of Germany, essentially leaving only France Libre as an actual French government, which is not even in any part of the territory!

So again, what does "country" means? State? Geography? Leadership? Ancestry? People? There's definitely some ship of Theseus going on along these 2k years, as well as forks, takeovers, infighting, and whatnot. This abridged version only highlights so much as there's much more intricacy to it, reality is incredibly messy, yet somehow "France" going all the way back to Gaul over 2k years carries some sense.
His writings do seem precient. His methods of expressing his distaste for societies direction still suck though.
That one is the default google answer, but not the one I saw. Mine had a spine attached and there was no highlighting, the fluid movements were distinguishable in the scans.

Thank you for trying.
Does the TikTok bill pave the way for a "Great Firewall of the USA"?
I'm not a lawyer, but there's something that really concerns me about H. R. 7521 - a.k.a. the "Tiktok bill" that I was hoping to get people’s thoughts on: The bill makes it “unlawful for an entity to distribute, maintain, or update a foreign adversary controlled application [...] within the [...] borders of the United States”.

However, “application” is defined as “a website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application”.

This part deeply worries me. It is one thing to force Apple or Google Play not to offer a particular app on the app store. But in order to prevent a website from being “distributed” the government would need to create a large piece of technical infrastructure that filters and censors all web traffic coming to the US - akin to the “great firewall of China” or the separate internet that Russia is starting to build.

No one seems to be talking about this, but given the strangely eager 50:0 vote on the issue, I’m wondering if this might be the motivation behind it?

You can find the full text of the bill here:

https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20240311/HR%207521%20Updated.pdf
So they use less Land for housing!
Rows Are Made for Sorting and That's Just What We'll Do (2023) [pdf]
Scope of the bindings is the problem, not the bindings itself.
It’s really not that bad. However, with a standard NixOS setup, you still have a tremendous amount of non-reproducible state, both inside user accounts and in the system. I’m running a “Erase your darlings” setup, it mostly gets rid of non-reproducible state outside my user account. It’s a bit of a pain, but then what isn’t on NixOS.

https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/

Inside my user account, I don’t bother. I don’t like Home Manager.
The Maurya empire lasted 137 years and the Gupta empire for 148 years and their reigns were not one after the other but were 500 years apart.

Now depending how you're counting, and your definition of empire the Roman empire had a continuous history (with radical transformations over time but nevertheless continuous) for 2000 years.

But hey, it all depends on how you define things. Undoubtedly the Indian subcontinent produced an incredibly deep and rich cultural history that spanned thousands of years.

It was just slightly more fractured and dynamic. The Romans objectively held their firm (and often brutal) hold on a lot of land for a lot of time with a continuous identity, in a way that is not just to say that the same common culture continued on across various political arrangements that changed over time. Because I'd that's what we're talking about we could say that the whole of Europe has a kind of cultural union (fostered by the shared religion) that continued on till today.

But the details of how you define things matter of course. Today you wouldn't consider the byzantine empire to be the Roman empire, but ask somebody from the 1300s living somewhere in the aegean see or anatolia and they will tell you they were Romans.
Checked and it was published through Nature:

Jiang-Xie, LF., Drieu, A., Bhasiin, K. et al. Neuronal dynamics direct cerebrospinal fluid perfusion and brain clearance. Nature 627, 157–164 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07108-6

Every Uni should have access through your library system.
Just remember gas plants run continuously at the rated capacity whereas wind capacity factor is 30-40%, so a like for like comparison probably involves storage.
It’s not dreaming that is tedious. My understanding is that the brain always dream but that you only remember your dreams if you wake up during them. So, remembering 4-6 dreams would mean that you wake up (probably unconsciously) multiple times per night. It’s probably what is tiring rather than the dream itself.

Disclaimer : I have no source and I may be wrong. It’s my understanding.
Why does prompt engineering work?
OOP is about bundling state and behaviour into units that hide their internal mechanisms by some kind of interface.

Records can have no state - compared to regular classes - so they are an anti-OOP feature.
Go's objective was "C but with GC and async runtime". It got adopted for web services by chance, a better alternative to nodejs or python in some aspects, but the zero-values end up being a huge footgun to serialization which is the bread and butter of web stuff.
Many Popular Censorship Circumvention Tools Deleted or Archived Since Nov 2023
Well if it gives you an uptime of 80-110 years, that’s pretty useful.
To her credit though she was one of the few Ptolemaic rules of Egypt who even bothered learning the Egyptian language
Free speech absolutist™
It looks like the profile they're build on already supports those, I think the intention here is to present a sort of at a glance view that could be quickly analyzed.
ABI compatibility is needed in 99% of the cases since you basically never compile your own STL. You dynamically (or statically if you will) link against the one you have on a system since most software does not have a control over the machines/environment where it's going to be deployed. Even in cases where you do have a control over your environment deployment, compiling your own libc++/libstdc++ is a complication which you usually want to avoid.
Just pin the dependencies and your mostly fine right?
> Also, their EV-only strategy makes them vulnerable to the slower than expected uptake of electric vehicles in many markets.

Careful of the headlines here. I know you said “in many markets” but sales are continuing to increase year-on-year, despite headlines claiming a “slowing”. You’re not claiming the opposite but I’ve seen people get confused about the news coverage of this.

Slowing is such a bad term to use since people don’t realise they are talking about the second derivative. If you are driving and your acceleration drops but is still positive, are you slowing or speeding up? Most people have equated it to sales going down because of misleading headlines.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/global...
I went to college on a beach town. The oil rigs in the distance was a fixture of the landscape and generally referred to positively (even by those who were no fan of the oil and gas industry.) I can only assume wind farms would be even cooler!
But also Nix solves more problems than Docker. For example if you need to use different versions of software for different projects. Nix lets you pick and choose the software that is visible in your current environment without having to build a new Docker image for every combination, which leads to a combinatorial explosion of images and is not practical.

But I also agree with all the flaws of Nix people are pointing out here.
How many "tech layoffs" really are what would have been considered "tech" pre-2010?

Most of these layoffs seem to be dominated by "tech adjacent" roles ... that bloated "engineering" when there was lots of easy money.
Without death life would devolve itself into a corrupt stasis by which all further life would be oppressed and made dysfunctional by the precedence of whatever had come before. Unable to evolve, unable to renew, unable to respond dynamically.

I know, everyone wants to live forever. Forever frapachinos, forever daily grind, forever wishing we had more time for the things we don't already make time for. Only forever, so we can put things off and deal with the immediacies of endless right nows.

Death is the other book end, balancing the shelf of life. It reminds us everything comes to a conclusion and the real contents are what comes in between.

Death demands that every generation reinvents itself, requiring us to relearn all that we will carry forth that we may call the actuality of ourselves.

To avoid contemplating death is to avoid acknowledging the possibilities of life.
I still wish CargoLifter had been led competently. They were overambitious and promised too much, but the concept was sooo convincing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter
Isn't doing data science locally in a browser like tieing one arm to your back and trying to tie your shoe laces? Why would you do it?
What the post misses is that lots of packages are not available on Nix, but everything is available on Docker automatically.

If what you need is available, however, then it can be so much better.
Most SVG renderers implement a subset of SVG, and that is just fine.
In our current calendar system I don't always celebrate my birthday on my birthday.
And as an educator who thought an VR-development course at university for a few times since 2018 setting up and maintaining 15 Oculus Quest Mk I glasses was an absolute pain, with accounts that I have to setup, etc. Sure it worked somewhat like a android phone, but there was no real fast pass for users like me, a lot of the features and the UI changed over the time and it ultimately felt like the platform took itself too seriously and therefore had no problem wasting my time.

When designing a concept the core difference is always whether your design respects the user or whether it does not and tries to make them do things, spend more time on the platform, spend more money on the platform, etc.
"The Mystery of Numerical Notation on the Dial Plate - 4 is Expressed as IIII, not IV"

Here is the uneditorialized headline. Especially it is called dial plate, not clock face.
The question is if there actually _is_ a rich ecosystem of such libraries - similar to the rich ecosystem of Maven plugins.
> The Seiko Museum Ginza

Has someone been to this place? Is it worth a visit?
Wouldn’t strapping it to the bottom of a blimp/airship have been simpler?
I'm not sure that this is a Docker problem but you do have a point. I've used docker from the very beginning and it always surprised me that users opted to use package managers over downloading the dependencies and then using ADD in the docker file.

Using this approach you get something reproducible. Using apt-get in a docker file is an antipattern
One of my clients a couple of years ago was running a legacy LAMP stack on m5a instances, routinely maxing out the CPUs and bleeding serious money every month. Moved them over to c6i instances with the same number of cores, and CPU utilization dropped by 60%.

Lesson: think long and hard before you tie yourself down with multi-year saving plans restricted to an older generation of CPUs.
Docker itself can do that now too.
Researchers, please replace SQLite with DuckDB now
Dev here — I've been meaning to update the Homebrew cask to be more complete on zap, but there's a good reason that all of these are needed:

- ~/.orbstack

- Docker context that points to OrbStack (for CLI)

- "source ~/.orbstack/shell/init.zsh" in .zprofile/bash_profile (to add CLI tools to PATH)

- ~/.ssh/config (for convenient SSH to OrbStack's Linux machines)

- Symlinks to CLI tools in ~/.local/bin, ~/bin, or /usr/local/bin depending on what's available (to add CLI tools to existing shells on first install — only one of these is used, not all)

- Standard macOS paths (~/Library/{Application Support, Preferences, Caches, HTTPStorages, Saved Application State, WebKit})

- Keychain items (for secure storage)

- ~/OrbStack (empty dir for mounting shared files)

- /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools (to create symlinks for compatibility)

Not sure what the best solution is for people who don't use Homebrew to uninstall it. I've never liked separate uninstaller apps, and it's not possible to detect removal from /Applications when the app isn't running.
sanity - Soundness of judgment or reason.

This doesn't sound extreme. The statement, "designed with sound judgement," doesn't carry the implications that you're defending from.
the documentation of pcase: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/pc...

first cond* version:
https://lwn.net/ml/emacs-devel/E1rQJDv-0001UG-2E@fencepost.g...
^ exactly this. The problem with the Vision Pro is that there is nothing to do, whereas the Quest 3 is driven by cool experiences
The Airbus Beluga.

Living near an Airbus factory I spot them frequently here. Impressive plane. Also pretty cute.
Or multiple helicopters flying in formation - also a possibility? Or just a bunch of drones?
You don't need 16gb, literally majority of people don't have that and use 8gb and up. especially with forge
Conversion half life >> excretion half life
XYZ has a 111B type domain which has cheap renewals but only if you meet the naming criteria: https://gen.xyz/1111b which here means it's an all-numbers domain name.

BUT! also keep in mind that the XYZ TLD has stigma associated with it and I think some filters outright block the entire TLD.
A JavaScript Nightmare
If the problems are interesting, why not. If they are not and they are purely abstract without purpose, I might not feel motivated at all.
One of these days these rows are gonna sort all over you
1. Not inconsistent with murder

2. Source? Was this footage ever published? It also doesn't rule out someone inside the prison killing him which is much easier to arrange.

3. The article you linked doesn't confirm the video exists. It says that some officials said it existed but then it wasn't found when searched for. And in any case first suicide attempt is not inconsistent with murder.

4. Current and past New York City's Chief Medical Examiners were both present during the autopsy and strongly disagree over the results.

> Now you go. Tell me what evidence you have of murder. Address all of my points. Read the DOJ report.

Read my original message again. I'm not saying there is a solid evidence of murder. I'm saying there's no solid evidence of suicide that would rule out murder, so you can't say that "suicide is self-evident".
No joy, celebration of accomplishments, etc?
I have direct family members that own and operate rural telephone companies. I'm well aware of the practicalities of maintaining technology standards.

Rural telco is heavily subsidized already. To the point where I've literally personally done a run of Internet to a mountain house in the middle of nowhere.

The issue is that bigger telcos like spectrum and time-warner, simply do not care.

There's a reason Google was able to start doing urban fiber installation (which is more expensive than rural installs) and they were able to advertise $100 1gbps speeds 10 years ago. That wasn't all due to deep pockets.
This week in KDE: Dolphin levels up
That's Apple from 2 decades ago.

Current day Apple and its management launches products with weird twists ("send your pulse to your loved ones", "this method of input will stay in history alongside the mouse"), to then cut it down to only the features people really care about, shut it out from competiting OSes, still get the competition to execute better on that limited set of features, and get sued and forced to remove their most advanced feature after months of media humiliation.

That's why people get back to the first iPhone 17 years ago when they want to predict a bright future for the AVP. I still want to see it push the field forward, but odds are not in its favor IMHO.
How is query performance on DuckDB’s native format compared to parquet?
> headfull?

Wonder if there is a good term for this. I have been jokingly referring to this as 'headed' and headless as 'beheaded'.
That's because most sites serve you a captcha based on your IP address and ASN.
…on a 25 year old aircraft. The only reason Boeing is in the title is as clickbait.
I'd give this article a read, as it can explain it more clearly than I can: https://serokell.io/blog/what-is-nix

But to briefly answer your specific questions: Docker files are commonly not reproducible because they contain arbitary stateful commands like `apt-get update`, `curl`, etc. For a layer with these kinds of commands to be reproducible you would need a mechanism to version and verify the result.

Nix provides such a mechanism, and a community package repository with versioned dependancies between packages. These are defined in a domain specific language called Nix (text files) and kept into a git repository. This should be familiar if you've used a package manager with lock files before.

You can guarentee the package version will stay in the repository by pinning your build to an exact commit hash in the repository.
When talking about wrong usage of Roman numbers, the first that comes to mind is a well known, and much copied, tattoo that writes 1975 not as MCMLXXV.
Why do we need anything? Ultimately we will find out in time if there is anything of actual value here. Right now we’re at the start of the roller coaster ride.

Obviously I hope to see some cool stuff. But I’m also realistic. We won’t know until we know. But we shouldn’t try to force anything imo. Unless you’re a VC who wants his returns.
> I have three clocks within view right now as I type this, one on an answer 'phone, and they are all digital readouts. None of them has an analogue option.

It is at least simple to have an analogue clock face on iPhones, albeit with a digital one too - can't resist sharing screenshot considering what my next calendar appointment happens to be... https://i.ibb.co/0JgJL0p/IMG-3479.jpg (no it doesn't take 15 minutes, but is needed once a week - it's a very old clock.)
ExpressVPN but they sold out to shady folks a few years ago.
I think their point was that number of people who use nix is a rounding error, perhaps due to poor user experience.
This article and previous Antithesis ones mention testing distributed systems and, as someone who works at a company specialized in exactly this, I am excited. However, I wonder if Antithesis could help with nondeterministic failures observed in unit and integration tests I encounter in my Jasmine and TestCafe suites. Most of the time, these are quite hard to reproduce - if at all possible - and a significant portion of failures is caused by genuine application bugs. I wish there was a tool that helped with these.
Then could you go into more detail? Because what I just described was the progress of scientific theory.

If an AI can do that, it's not going to matter whether or not it meets your arcane definition of "thinking".
Could LLVM be speeded up by passing it the data in a more efficient structure? Or by slimming down the data it's passed in some way?
I’m not sure exactly why this is being downvoted. It seems pretty fair to want your container builds to not fail because of the “chaos” with docker images and how they change quite a lot. This isn’t about the freedom to build how you want, it’s about securing your build pipelines so that they don’t break at 4am because docker only builds 99% of the time.

I’ll use docker, I like docker, but I can see the point of how it’s not necessarily advantageous if stability is your main goal.
Nissan needed a bailout and Renault swooped in and took over and they always grumbled about it.

They had a hand in part of the downfall of former CEO Carlos Gnosh who while not innocent either crossed the line in how company funds were handled for his homes he maintained for travel between France and Japan.

I would not be surprised if they mutually dissolved the partnership.
What is automatic about docker? Do you mean other people have already put in the work? Or do you mean that it's more trivial to pip/npm/cargo install stuff?
>Chemogenetic flattening of these high-energy ionic waves largely impeded cerebrospinal fluid infiltration into and clearance of molecules from the brain parenchyma.

Sounds like unsync'd brain waves, (being awake) impedes cerebrospinal fluid flow through the brain.

When asleep, neurons sync their action potentials, acting like a ionized fluid pump, moving old dirty cerebrospinal fluid out, and allowing new, clean in.

Interestingly, when they synthesize that type of ionization using other means, they saw the same increase in fluid movement.

This is my best attempt at translating. Hopefully within 1-2 football fields. The author leaves choice of American or the rest of the world to the reader to decide.
Give a try to Fedora Atomic (immutable). At this point I have pretty much played around and used every distro package maneger there is and I have broken all of them in one way or another even without doing something exotic (pacman I am looking at you). My Fedora Kinoite is still going strong even with adding/removing different layers, daily updates, and a rebase from Silverblue. Imho rpm-ostree will obsolete Nix.
The "Fall of Civilizations" Podcast by Paul Cooper is a outstanding long-form History Podcast. Definitely worth a listen.
If you make a small change to your application, the Rust compiler does a significant amount of rework. That is, it recompiles a lot of code that it has already compiled before. There are valid technical reasons for this because of how LLVM works or that the linker needs to rewrite all addresses. Yes, incremental compilation is a thing but it’s too coarse IMO. To me it seems that taking an extremely fine grained approach to compilation would improve the ergonomics of the iterative hack-and-run method of writing software. Some sort of local database of diffs or some such.
I get that news agencies are currently jumping on any story with Boeing in it, but can we as hopefully-slightly-better-educated HN users maybe not fall for the same sensationalism?