skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His response would be that government most likely has no right to break the company in the first place, as it's immoral/not theirs to touch.

I can't tell if that'd be correct or not, though
Also, a lot of devices require very specific ioctl() commands to work with and don't provide everything as a file.

For example, you can't set the baudrate of a serial port by writing it to some /proc node.
There are now hundreds, if not thousands, of decent editors who have stopped contributing due to toxic, non-productive people. This could be a way for them to continue contributing in a less toxic environment.

The problem with Wikipedia is not consumption of content, but the contribution of content.
Or hardware changes. Pop off a resistor on your $300 graphics card to turn it into a $2000 Quadro card.
As you allude to, our water in WA is notably soft, maybe that helps? I mean it's full of iron but that mostly just seems to cause staining not clogging.

That said, a heat pump running at 4:1 COP coupled to 20% efficient solar panels gets you right back to the same efficiency as solar thermal, with a lot more flexibility.
Which scientific theory or theories do you perceive being treated as inviolable?
I wonder if the people trying to kill us off like this realize how influential trans people have been on the advancement of technology and society in general. A lot of modern amenities people have simply wouldn't exist if a trans person didn't make them.
This looks awful on an iPhone.
Already mentioned on the Ubiquiti forums, and the next releases will have the update: https://community.ui.com/questions/CVE-2023-46446-or-Terrapi...
You don't have to snuff mine tailing dust to use a phone.
All the hallmarks of copied directly from an AI
Reality: Casual forgery is pretty easy. Forgery that will stand up to expert examination is very hard. And impossible if you're a bungling incompetent, as this guy seems to be.
> Personal data used by gangs and criminals. One example of what the public sale of data by companies like MrKoll can lead to is illustrated by a “Guardian” report about rival gangs using data brokers to learn the geographical location of their opponents to carry out attacks.

I remember reading that Guardian report when it was linked here on HN, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39334413.

As I complained then, it gave no evidence that gangs used data brokers to get this information, only writing "Experts say criminals are being greatly helped by a 248-year-old law, forming part of Sweden’s constitution."

Who are those experts? Where is the evidence that the bombers used a data broker to find their target, or that removing this information from the public would have changed anything?
"Yes, we could all sleep in tents and live off the land if we truly wanted to."

Great strawman.

"Tell me where I could move where housing hasn't doubled in price in the last 5 years AND has employment for a family."

In the vast majority of country housing cost has gone up but has not doubled in the past 5 years. Many medium sized cities and suburbs have employment to support a family while not being outrageously priced. You can even find lists made by various organizations for the most affordable cities. Also, if you care to read the context in this thread, I do acknowledge that a part of the problem is people wanting/needing to live in the same place.
I think I missed the meaning of the quote.

Skyscrapers are not an indigenous lifestyle. I suppose that's not okay to bring up in this context?

If someone put skyscrapers on the last Hawaiian island I'd be pretty upset about it. The entire population of the Earth should be. Can't we leave one thing undeveloped?

But okay, maybe there is plenty of land to go around in Canada that looks the same as this land, so I could see that...

How does any of that relate to indigenous people using granted land to build them?

Does Canada have some law about that?

I guess I don't see why this quote has any bearing for or against the development. It feels entirely out of place in the article. Just seems like an unrelated fact.
How does a fixed monthly fee equate to...

> Only pay for the actual time spent developing your requested features. Not a single minute extra.

That just sounds like a standard time & materials contract?
If the OS can run only one single program what is the difference to a service lets say Linux+/bin/init?
We totally should to be honest, the social network is the most harmful tech of all time, from various spectrums.
Is there a way to do a curved function instead of a linear function?
> It's deeper than that: the vast majority of people believe in science in the exact same way as the used to believe in Christianism. Try asking around for bulletproof proofs of the Earth's roundness. Or communicating the idea that time and space aren't really distinct entities.

I'm not so sure. The common person definitely cannot give scientific explanations for most things, but between modern medicine, computers and all else, society is drowning in very hard proof that science is an effective and worthwhile endeavour, in a way that i don't think most religion is. Though admittedly that does not seem to completely stop people form breaking away from science the same way as they break away from religion (see flat earthers).
It's the same here (coroners investigate deaths); they weirdly also handle these treasure finds.
I think we are at the point of diminishing returns with technology like this that we should really stop and ask whether something like this will provide any benefit to us against the costs of eletricity and mining required to make this thing.
Blender doesn't support STEP file import or export, so it is not a viable CAD program. The add-on is probably great for creating dimensioned parts for use in animations and other things Blender does. But there is no interoperability with manufacturing or simulation tools.
I think part of the problem is that there seems to be a widespread sentiment among software developers to prioritize our time above the user's. Ease of development trumps ease of use and features are made to be easy, or rather fast, to build rather than easy to use and performant.

As a young developer I was taught to take the extra time to make things better for the user. Even if it might mean spending two days on a feature rather than a few hours, the cumulative time saved would end up much more than the extra time I spent since users use your software more often than you write it and there are many users. Unfortunately this view is not widespread enough.
No age, but that supposes you do networking, have soft-skills and is likeable.

The amount of opportunities available to me just grow year after year, because I get to know more people (which also move to different companies), that would like to work with me in the future.

Just be a person that ships, makes things work, in a friendly mood and you are set for life.

People you work with also grow in their careers, which means that often enough, they make the calls on who gets hired and who doesn't.

I think that during your 50s, you should have built a good "base," though, like paying off your mortgage. You should have more leeway to actually take life in a less demanding way, so perhaps do some consulting or not work full-time and earn a living to retire in peace.
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"If reasoning is an abstract pattern, then rice falling to the ground is likewise "reasoning"."

Technically, I think some philosophers over the ages have made that point, and argued that 'rice falling' is reasoning, and the rice is 'wanting' to be closer to the 'earth' or some such thing. It does sound wacky. Think Leibniz and monads made some argument like that.

And the various takes on 'Will to Power', Schopenhauer argued the will is a blind force. We don't have control of our own thoughts.

I think you are still giving humans too much credit for this aspect of 'cognition'.

"A man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills." Schopenhauer
I'm kind of happy I'm not in webdev but embedded. There's not so much fads in this area.

In any case, I agree, fundamentals matter much more than superficial knowledge of fads.

Also I'm glad the OOP fad of the 90s and 00s seems to be finally dead. It felt almost religious. And it was frustrating to argue against the obvious issues.
How is a network mocking tool equivalent to Storybook?
>However it is important to recognise the support Hamas recieves from the civilian Palestinian population. Hamas isn't supported by the majority of Gazan citizens, however their actions on Oct 7 are.

"2023 marks deadliest year on record for children in the occupied West Bank" - Save the Children, published: 18 SEPTEMBER 2023.

>Of course some of this can likely be explained by fear of reprisal when speaking against Hamas, however the desire to perpetuate war against the Israeli people is commonplace in Palestine.

Which is completely understandable and justified, it is the natural desire & reaction to 75+ years of brutal settler colonialism with apartheid and ethnic-cleansing.
Sure if you want to be racist. The shoe on the other foot, replace White man with Black man, Red man, etc and its clear that its racist.
Hamas won't release them, and the IDF wouldn't stop even if they did. Neither party has any advantage at stopping the conflict right now. The current state of affairs has much bearing to the initial terroristic attack as the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand had with the entirety of WWI.
Three for three that aren't even in the top ten actual causes of cancer.

In Australia, two out of three people will get skin cancer at some point in their lives. That's caused by the Sun, an unshielded nuclear reactor bathing us in dangerous radiation strong enough to hurt.

Your food is probably doing less harm than the plasticisers in the container you put it in, especially if you microwave it.

Your phone and LED lights contribute almost precisely zero to cancer incidence. Your guilt over your Tik Tok habit doesn't mean that you're also getting cancer from it. You're wasting your life, sure, but not dying as a consequence.

As others have pointed out, air pollution from cars is doing real damage to us all, far more than the occasional Happy Meal.
Indeed, I was never aware of it, until Covid... millions of people believing in nano-bots raining from the clouds programmed by Bill Gates and many other unbelievable far fetched idea's, people just believed it like it was common knowledge.

And the false believes have far reaching impact, like polarization in society and deaths. Just today I read that Dutch vaccination rates are lower than ever [1]. Diseases like polio are no longer a 3rd world problem, but could revive in Europe as well.

[1] https://nos-nl.translate.goog/artikel/2512681-vaccinatiegraa...
Any way to try it without an Office 365 subscription?
Show HN: Query Your File System with LLM
Am I the only one that got excited to see an IRC link?
From Nand to Tetris, via Scala
> Reminder to those who might think to justify Israel's enthic cleansing campaign by citing the actions of Hamas.

The proportion of civilians -and more specifically children- killed should be enough to discredit any justification of the current cleansing in progress. All the rest is just brain rot, leaning towards open support of genocide.

Unfortunately, it appears as if we have learnt nothing in the last 80+ years, and "it's complicated" is a great excuse to tolerate such actions, as it has been in the past.
My mental model of Linux does not have the CPU/Memory in user space. What am I missing?
Why change it if it's not broken?
Show HN: Informative, cross-shell (bash, zsh) Git prompt
If you are a customer of kagi.com, I found their summarizer to be a real time saver.
My colleague and I recognize the current complexity of backend development, where even basic functionalities require mastering a myriad of technologies. This complexity underscores the urgent need for more streamlined approaches.

To address this, we've developed a new methodology specifically designed to simplify backend creation for frontend developers. To refine this approach and gain insights into its potential impact, we conducted a survey to understand frontend developers' perspectives on backend development challenges.
In a city completely inundated with skyscrapers, it's odd -- and maybe a bit telling -- that some people become concerned for the first time in their lives only once an indigenous nation decides to build a skyscraper.
For those who don’t know, but LoongArch is basically MIPS.
Quote from link:

This enlightenment requires nothing but freedom--and the most innocent of all that may be called "freedom": freedom to make public use of one's reason in all matters. Now I hear the cry from all sides: "Do not argue!" The officer says: "Do not argue--drill!" The tax collector: "Do not argue--pay!" The pastor: "Do not argue--believe!"

For developers:

Agile coach: "Do not argue--believe!"
I don't care. As a consumer, I don't care how they do it, what I care is they have an infinite amount of high quality information.
Once you've decided to go with Excel it becomes pretty different from just feeding an array of values. You can autogenerate the combinations applying rules on what to avoid, fuzzy the values, get the result of an API transform it and feed it to another API etc.

I'm not recommending any of this, but it can go as far as you want...
Mozilla Firefox Manifest V3 and Manifest V2 Update
As a noob who doesn’t know what BIM stands for, one easy way to improve this website would be to expand the acronym above the fold. Yes, I’ll Google it.
Do we know that it's not a small few wealthy deal makers selling the land out from under people that wanted to preserve it? I'm not Canadian, so I have no clue. But that would be my immediate suspicion based on experience in real estate and movies I saw on TV.
What I want to know is: who wants those data brokers to exist?

And if those data brokers became owned by Chinese or Russian entities, would that change the answer?
Here in Brno, Czech Republic, 25% of the city wide heating is provided by the municipal waste incinerator.

There are also a few cities that get heat into their networks from nuclear power plants and something similar is planned in the future for Brno as well.
It was their reason given for exiting the Chinese market. However they are under the same laws as Chinese firms.

AFAIK the Chinese have no equivalent of special laws for companies linked to "foreign adversary countries".
Do you get a mostly eliminated error rate if you only use pipelining over TLS, or have server operators situated their defective middleboxes behind their TLS termination?
Here in Denmark we have an online lexicon which is managed by (barely paid) scientists and experts. For every article you can see which scientist was involved in making it, what expert is responsible for the area etc. https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/
> Yet Switzerland its the longest living democracy in the world…

France conquered Switzerland after its revolution and the current Swiss state only goes back to 1848.
A more accurate term is that everything is a file descriptor.

The main difference is that plan9 uses read and write for everything, whereas Linux and BSD uses ioctls on file descriptors for everything.
> I love living in the EU.

While I do envy you this, it’s not for the EU’s digital rules.

Why is that? It’s because the rest of the world will inevitable copy the EU rules within a few years like happened with the GDPR.

So I'm not concerned about missing out on EU digital rules without living in the EU.

I do, however, greatly miss the EU food regulations. It’s astonishing how foods that my wife and I are allergic to in the U.S. are completely ok with us when traveling in the EU. A friend that is absolutely unable to tolerate gluten/wheat in the U.S. had absolutely no problem scarfing down pasta in Italy and croissants in France. The U.S. at least appears nowhere near implementing EU like food rules anytime soon and I genuinely envy you for that.
Agreed. What is usually not useful is making implicit assumptions instead of communicating explicitly.
Well, we do that too: https://www.usagm.gov/2022/03/05/usagm-condemns-kremlins-inc...
I now disabled for all extensions the automatic updates. All extensions are working as expected so I will only update one of them in case of problems. In which case I also (mental note) will check the ownership.

Can an extension see what other extensions are installed and their versions? Can your extension maybe show when one of them is updated? Can also be a way to keep 'manually' an eye on changes?
I was expecting this guy to come up actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijon_Tichy
> Boeing's problems could be solved if they cleared all of the McDonnell Douglas accountants and MBAs

But then they'd be providing value to the clients and not shareholders. We can't have that, can we.
GPL defines interface requirement in order to provide simple packaging exception. By default GPL would extend to package, but if the interface requirement isn't met, it leaves package as a collection of disconnected files.
British spy had governments on both sides of the war paying for his girlfriends
> How do coordinates work?

This is a data format. This is an abstract data model.

So the spec doesn't specify rendering.

Rendering could however be specified separately (and its reference implementation is Obsidian).
That’s so funny, I had the exact same experience. It felt like cheating, I’d write programs to solve each step and show the work and my teacher said almost the same thing. That if I could write a program to do it then it meant I understood the core concept and that was fine.

I had a solver program where you’d pick the “style” of the math program (like “4x + 2 = 12” or similar) then be asked to plug in the “4”, “2”, and “12” from the previous example and it would solve for “x”.
BlenderDMX allows you to import a lighting rig and visualise what it will look like. BlenderBIM allows you to import a building and visualise what it will look like. Using both, you can visualise what a lighting rig would look like in a given building.
this. generally speaking i remember being exposed to questionable material on bbs' via a 2600 baud connection and xmodem "ui". i believe i was around 11 at the time. i remind/routinely impress our progeny several times a day (quite candidly as well, my SO and i are very honest and frank w our offspring) that "the internet" is both impressive and dangerous and to essentially never assume good intent. sop i had and i made it through. gl out there parents
For others who closed the tab too quickly: it takes about 30 seconds before the black screen is replaced by loaders!
Userspace program directly uses CPU and memory (unless you're using VM). In contrast to that, your userspace program does not directly access your network device or SSD, but uses kernel routines to access those indirectly.
nit: The ioctl syscall targets files just the same as the write syscall.

Everything being a file, and everything being read/write calls are different things. There's pros and cons.
My strong recommendation is to stick to 1 browser em (~16px) on mobile-sized displays, and not to exceed 1.25 browser ems (~20px) on large displays. The formula provided in this article starts you at around ~17px, and exceeds ~20px on viewports wider than 1600px (quite common). That is: it’s too big.

I’d suggest instead something like ~16px at 360px viewport width, and ~20px at 1600px viewport width, and clamping at these values. Slightly different curve, and capped a little more sensibly, in my opinion. (Personally, I tend to stop shy of ~20px, going more for ~18px.)

With these specific values, a verbose expression of the font-size is:

/* 1rem @ 22.5rem, 1.25rem @ 100rem */
clamp(1rem, 1rem + ((1.25 - 1) / (100 - 22.5) * (100vw - 22.5rem)), 1.25rem)

I author fluid clamps in this form, and leave it to build tools like Lightning CSS to simplify the calc expression. For the specific values shown here: 22.5rem = ~360px, 100rem = ~1600px. You can definitely comfortably play fast and loose with the actual numbers.
Yes I would very much like an online encyclopedia to be moderated, thank you.
I built my own Go module index using Go and Next.js
We have a Storybook set up that displays components rendered with PHP and Twig using a REST API endpoint on our WP install. Pretty crazy setup but it works. We use play functions in Storybook to fire the request and just render the returned HTML from the server.
There's an easy way to avoid being sued though: comply with AGPL and make your own work open-source as well.

The “problem” with AGPL is companies who want to use open source software to build proprietary stuff on top without contributing anything back. AGPL is purposely designed to avoid this kind of parasitic behavior, but that doesn't make it “not open source” quite the opposite: it's “forced open-source”.

It is indeed restricting companies' freedom though: their freedom to restrict their user's freedom.
Watch SpaceX launch Starship [video]
> Thing is if you’ve been around the block and have a decent understanding of fundamentals…it just doesn’t matter what the fad of the week is. It’s just noise. Old principles repackaged with different conventions.

This is just not true. Entire fields exist today that didn't exist or barely existed even a few years ago.

As an example, the field I've been working in for ~7 years is Data Engineering, and it was "relatively" new when I first started, or at least the modern way of doing it was. Since then, some specific technologies have become fairly commonplace, like Airflow and dbt.

Does this mean everyone should have experience with this tech? No, of course not. But does this mean that someone should know that the field exists and what's different about it compared to other kinds of stacks? For some people, absolutely it's important. A "senior" backend engineer who wants to solve an "ETL-pipeline to Data Warehouse" shaped project will hopefully know that there are standard modern tools in that area, and not just to try and do it with {insert their standard backend framework}.

Similarly, someone who hasn't "kept up with the times" in the world of frontends might not know much about SPAs. Are SPAs always the solution? No, there are now trends going back towards traditional server-only approaches. But there's a difference in knowing that they exist and what their place is and choosing a different approach thoughtfully, vs not knowing they are even a thing.
An excellent read to celebrate π day :-)

The story of how the mathematics of general relativity were put together is one of the well documented insights into how the human intellect incrementally tackles understanding reality around us. Physical intuition (here represented by Einstein) and mathematical structure (embodied in Grossmann) dance around before (occasionally) landing into a magical place that somehow turns out to be "true".

Neither intuition about how nature works nor mathematical skill are sufficient conditions for this to happen. If you read to the end you'll learn briefly about "teleparallel" attempts at gravity/electromagnetism unification - which is just one of the many failed subsequent attempts of Einstein to extend his intuition one further step.

Something that is not covered in much detail is how much Grossmann knew of and appreciated Riemann's work and thinking. Decades prior, Riemann already thought that the geometry of (three)-space is something to be determined experimentally.