skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quality generally with many manufactured goods. There are health and safety regulations but if there were a requirement for a 20-year warranty (which is about what my Aeron chair has) both quality and prices would probably increase significantly.

In the opposite direction, you're not actually allowed to generally buy a car without modern safety features. (Although automakers do make cars that are have higher or lower safety ratings within the regulatory framework.)

A common thread is that when push comes to shove, a lot of consumers will choose the lower price.
There we go: https://github.com/fpgmaas/deptry/issues/608
I tend to mistrust the motives of the government warning me to fear the nebulous influence of commie spies lurking around every corner and that I should accept government sanction and censorship to protect me from their sinister mind control algorithms than I do the red menace.

Dissent is good. It's a vital component in any free society. The first two amendments of the US Constitution exist to preserve the right of the people to dissent, to the point of violence. Theoretically. Legally you can't just shoot a politician in the head, however cool Thomas Jefferson might have been with it. Point being, the US is supposed to be a society in which instability and dissent is always present, threatening but hopefully never toppling the edifice.

Of course that requires an educated and informed populace capable of discerning between critical thinking and cynicism, likely truth and horseshit, and a free press that isn't wholly subservient to corporate and government interests, and a lot of civic and cultural traits the US lacks. But that's what we should be focusing on, and that remains the case regardless of whether one is talking about Chinese propaganda or American. It's all the same. Over half of the anti-vaxx conspiracy content spread across social media during COVID came from only twelve people[0], one of whom was a Kennedy.

Mind you, i'm pro deplatforming - as long as it's the platform's decision. Platforms should absolutely be free to reject whatever they like on whatever terms they wish, freedom of speech doesn't compel anyone to spread that speech against their will. But when the government steps in and says it's on my side, I assume that eventually they'll just want to send me to the camps.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-doze...
Perhaps because of the earnestness? It would be a shame if that were to become AI-coded.
Agreed; make sure that when you publish it you submit it to HN.
> Also the Czars of Russia.

Yep. "Czar" = "Caesar". Likewise "Kaiser" in the Germanic regions.

The British monarch was called "Kaisar-i-Hind" by Hindi-speaking people, when the subcontinent was controlled by the British.
Well, I think that becomes clearer when reading comments on this HN thread. I found std after spending significant time to find out 1) wth is Nix/NixOS? 2) what would I use it for exactly? and 3) How to get going? Then on 3) I found reams of outdated or confusing docs making me doubt 1) and 2) again, as well as the frustrations of others on this.

Then this std background of "We bring clarity, clear mental picture, manageable Nix projects throughout the lifecycle." appealed a lot.
If I understand your question correctly; no, that is out of scope for deptry. Many of the dependency management tools already provide a way to do so, e.g. for PDM `pdm list --tree`.
I love unique interface ideas, and this one definitely counts.

What are your thoughts on how to account for the user's fingers heating up the interface rods? I'm imagining someone going back to read a previous character, and their fingers having essentially "reset" the character from body temp.
I held onto my former job for another couple of years longer than I had expected precisely because of the fine, German engineering language.

It turned out that a supplier of a critical subcomponent in some of the systems we were designing and building, had terrific German-language documentation.

The English docs? Not quite as great, packed with ambiguities which simply weren't there in the originals.

Seeing as I was the only one on the team who could read German almost fluently, I simply pulled the 'Who's going to read the docs if I am let go?' card during every downsizing process for years. It worked until someone realized we hadn't supplied any systems with that particular component in it for years and I, alas, had typed up excellent documentation for our service department, covering their needs.
> It's quite fascinating, but I can't really dump out an entire book into a comment.

Speaking of which, do you happen to know a good book which illuminates this whole story step by step? I have yet to find one which doesn't start with "Let us assume an FLRW metric…"
Similar to a peeve of mine - old TV shows incorrectly “up rendered” for HDMI. There is pixelation, color problems, lots of things. Maybe it’s just my cable provider.
Having worked in technology for direct sales (door knocking) for 20 years, this is not surprising. There are already many platforms out there like Canvass, SalesRabbit, and Spotio. like anything else, these become more valuable with the data you can feed into them, and the network effects of growing your usage. This is also pretty common in the infrastructure that supports political canvassing.
Fine, abolish copyright then, let's see what happens.
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It could be both a) foreign influence and b) the media and politicians benefiting from polarisation.
You seem to be under the impression that mass is the main restriction - it isn't. Like at all.

Starship as a concept is nothing new - the Soviets developed the Energia in the late 1980s and the second version was supposed to be 100% reusable as well. After the downfall of the Soviet Union, Roskosmos couldn't find any customers for it, though, despite it being able to lift up to 100t to LEO and being super cheap.

The thing is that the larger (and heavier) the payload, the more expensive it usually is. No one is launching dead mass to orbit just for shits and giggles. The bigger the vehicle, the more (expensive!) tech is packed into it. To give you a hint of why Starship wouldn't change the landscape as much as many seem to think: compare the number of launches between Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy: the launch cadence of F9 is bi-weekly and rising, whereas FH had 8 launches in 5 years or less than 2 per year.

The main purpose of Starship is to allow for Starlink to continue to exist and similar mega constellations to be launched. Single missions of 100t or more to LEO (Starship cannot go beyond that without refuelling) are usually multi-billion dollar flagship missions that simply don't launch very often.
When can you hear yourself think?
Don't tell your colleagues about deptry, take the afternoon off and tell your manager you manually removed each dependency one by one and ran the unit tests to check if the dependency was needed ;)
It's illegal because it threatens the viability and health of native populations of animals.
> What Thursday's revelatory reentry footage promises is a world in which launch is cheap and abundant. No longer will we need to worry so much about mass or volume, which have been tyrannical overlords to mission planners since the inception of spaceflight nearly seven decades ago.

Using the metrics in the article, Starship costs come out to around $300 per kilogram launched.

This is an order of magnitude drop over existing launch costs, which are already lower than ever courtesy of the Falcon rockets.

(Wikipedia estimates Falcon costs are $3,000 per kg. Other providers still significantly higher.)

Any time you change such a fundamental pricing unit in a market, there is going to a huge amount of change in market opportunities.

People dismissing this have their heads in the sand.
Yes! Lovely language
> AI Forensics Open Research Challenge Evaluation (AI FORCE)

You expect good acronyms on a .mil website, but in my mind this one is worthy of praise.
I wonder if Starlink could be used for tracking (non-Starlink) cellphones, in countries hostile to the US (so that the telecom's cell towers are not accessible). Is there enough leaked signal in low orbit, and enough data in that signal, to identify individual devices?

AFAIK, all of the US' signals intelligence satellites are in very high orbits (geosynchronous), so this probably isn't a pre-existing capability.
This is part of why I think it’s a good idea to pursue an OS design where for the majority of user-facing software, installation does not require administrator privileges.

This would enable the addition of a system where in order to get admin privileges, installers and software must request for the system to present UI informing the user of exactly what would be installed and asking the user to approve or deny. This also lets the OS keep a record of the installation to allow easy user removal.
In the long term it is probably good.

Let’s say you own an amusement park. You charge people to come in. But you never lock the back gate. Nobody knows about it though. Once in a while someone sneaks in and you kick them out. Then someone puts up a billboard saying the back gate is unlocked. Now, you could try to convince the billboard company to vet the things people put up, or you could simply start locking the back gate. The latter solution is better.
More efficient sleep is possible with ultrasound. But keep in mind that the glymphatic system seems to expand as other systems contract. The waves are tied to brain activity slowing down, can’t have one without the other. That said, could intersperse active times of the day with naps. But naps alone don’t seem sufficient as good sleep.
Hmm... I'm skeptical that anyone able to read a clock in the first place would be unaware that 4 comes before 5 and 6 comes afterward.
Discussed the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39693368
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39693368
a massive jet doesn’t need to pass through boca chica from brownsville, everything needs to pass through the atmosphere to get to space - it’s all on the way
used to be MIPS based, is it still the case, could not find the info at that page.
Yes indeed! We've found and reported lots of issues in the various HTML, CSS and JS specs.

Multiple independent implementations are crucial for the long-term health of the web platform, so we're trying to do our part! :)
It's completely on the fringe side - doesn't mean it's wrong, just that it will need to explain a whole lot of known observations and then predict something that we can't currently explain before it catches on.
I think you either need to specialize in something quite niche, or work on really hard problems where the main hurdle is problem solving and not coding CRUD apps, or work on legacy systems where the hurdle is understanding twenty years of garbage code, or get closer to product management so you can direct a much more automated programming process
KI is used by the media, including by a kids focused radio station, Toggo Radio, that my kids love.

They have well written news segments where it comes up relatively frequently at the moment. I don't have cause to talk much about AI to my kids yet so time will tell which terminology they adopt.
Fun fact: almanac and ephemeris data that makes (at least basic) AGNSS work is mostly available publicly, either from agencies that operate the constellations or from observatories worldwide. After reverse engineering the expected format I was able to feed the module I worked with with fresh data without having to use the proprietary (and unreliable) AGNSS service it came with.
You are assuming the cost/mass of a spacecraft is somehow a constant of nature. It's not, not at all. Reduce the cost of launch and there's enormous benefit of reducing the cost of the spacecraft, since that cost now dominates. Use cheaper (if heavier) materials, use higher margins to reduce design and testing costs. Use COTS technology and spend mass (shielding, pressure vessel) to make it work in space. Perhaps most importantly: launch large numbers of spacecraft with the same design to amortize design cost over more vehicles. Reduce design cost by hardware-rich development where problems are found by testing in space, not exhaustive preliminary analysis.
That's kind of useful to know what page you were on when you took the note.
that's the same kind of vibe as demanding rich folks at restaurants who refuse to tip out of "principle."

more for me, nothing for thee.
Does anyone know if there is any research around designing a compiler + language that produces optimal code? Besides superoptimization that is.

Specifically, in what way should a language be designed to aid the compiler in finding the optimal code?

For example for the matrix multiplication, why can't the compiler find the optimal code? Why are BLAS written in assembly for each CPU architecture? Isn't this a question of having a high level CPU spec (how many ports, instruction latency, throughput) and then using a constraint solver to find the optimal code?
Think of all the improvements browser got because we wanted to replace tables as positioning tool.

Not to mention the inefficiency of a pure table approach, so much wasted render time and energy.
It is indeed. Yet a foreign government can't pass laws curtailing the freedom and invading the privacy of a citizen on their own country's soil.
There are a ton of free books, many even out of copyright, online. I also fully expect libraries will continue to have physical books including recent releases. I'm not advocating for libraries de-emphasizing this aspect of their mission. But I think it will probably naturally happen over time.
Probably the person who pushed the changes live without review
I was kinda wondering the same thing. I guess importing non-native species can be bad, but cross-breeding is something we’ve done for millenia. Seems like his real crime was doing this while not being an employee of Monsanto.
I remember in the early 90s telling Mom that I built my own website. Mom was like noway that's impossible. I can't remember exactly where it was but it was like zoogatyler1.go.com or something. I think it was owned by Disney? I must have been around 7 or 8 but I remember being so excited. I think it was more of a homepage than anything. I started delving into those .tk sites when I was around 11 or 12 probably.
The morels went into a single item. If they picked something up due to cross contamination, then the other dishes would also have been affected.
Aside from illegally importing a chunk of sheep to clone one, this is just animal husbandry. They weren't using equipment to modify the genome in any way. They were just breeding and selecting for a new kind of sheep. Humanity has been doing this for tens of thousands of years.
How is that relevant to the article that was posted?
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t find landing a rocket to be terribly impressive. Especially when it’s literally the least critical feature. We can do successful missions without the still very questionable reusable aspects of this extremely late and extremely questionable system.
> 100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 20

The flang-new driver doesn't support all of the options that you specified; I used "-pedantic -Werror -fimplicit-none", and observed no warnings.
I'd say cyclic universe is way more kooky - it's wishful thinking that doesn't match the observations.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/no-universe-before-b...

This one is trying to replace one of the invisible mass with a modified physics.
> If you look into these experiences, you find many people who say they learnt about parts of material reality, that they are then able to verify materially.

I can do this, too, but usually while I'm awake and bored. Reality is quite redundant, and we get all sorts of information from all sorts of sources, and sometimes I can put the puzzle pieces together and deduce things I "shouldn't" have known.

This power doesn't extend to localised information, such as the value of a hidden dice roll, and it's quite mundane. A generalisation of cold-reading. What Sherlock Holmes would call deduction, though it's actually abductive reasoning.

Examples: • Entering a building, imagining design constraints, deducing the presence of exactly one lift, inferring its location, inferring the existence of an extra wing behind the building (to place the lift in the middle), extrapolating observed foot traffic, and guessing which floor and corridor a particular office was. • Listening to someone explain geopolitics for half an hour, and inferring that they're a double-jointed insomniac.
Seems rather sad, if not pathetic, to go to all this effort to clone/breed giant sheep just so someone can then pay to shoot it and put the head on their wall.

It reminds me of the Romans capturing lions, elephants etc in Africa, transporting them across the mediterranian by sailboat, just to entertain the crowds by then killing them in the arena.
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I read books pretty sparingly, but my wife reads about 150 books a year. We heavily exercise our local library.
de.vu was popular in Germany for subdomains, I had a few of those. Also a .tk one later.
Years ago I toured an aquaculture research facility producing fish that grew (iirc) faster and larger than natural specimens. I asked about the ethics considering what might happen to ecosystems if any of the fish made it into the wild, and I was told plainly that they wouldn’t get out.
It actually is much closer to just normal breeding than genetic engineering. Basically, instead of trying to smuggle a real live argoli sheep, he smuggled genetic material used that to produce a argoli sheep and is using artificial insemination to breed that with Montana sheep.

“Genetic engineering” isn’t really doing anything except to get hold of an argoli sheep.

The only bonafide “genetic engineering” going on artificial insemination based hybridization which has been going on for centuries at least.

The “genetic engineering” is basically law enforcement clickbait to make the crime seem scarier or more novel than it really is.
> and I tried to find a way to update MLS and couldn't

Up until a few days ago when the submission service was turned off on MLS side, it was just a matter of setting `submit-data=true` in geoclue.conf and going for a walk.
I mean the Vision Pro seems like an over engineered dev kit to me, like the article describes.

The vision pro seems to miss the mark in some many areas and seems like it's ahead of it's time, which is odd for Apple and the Quest 3 seems to beat it in a lot of areas.

In some ways I am surprised Apple released it and didn't keep working on it in the lab, but in others, I think they wanted to get it out in users hands and see how they use it and what devs start to build with it, they also wanted to normalise the idea of such devices, so when something more functional is out there, people will be happier to use it.
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Ask HN: Non-duopoly smart phone in Sweden?
Are there people in Sweden or the EU working towards changing the laws to require critical services (banks, school, health care, and the like) to support privacy-oriented non-Apple/non-Google servers for smart phone use?

I live in Sweden. I do not have a smart phone because I do not agree to the terms of service for the Apple Store or for Google Play, and have the luxury of not needing a smart phone for my life.

It is getting harder because Swish (person-to-person payments) and Mobil BankID are so widely used, while BankID on a computer is not. My gym recently switched from an RFID card to phone QR code to enter, and I get the idea the chain doesn't want to continue to support the handful of people like me without a phone.

A couple of days ago I learned about /e/OS and de-Googled phones. I like the privacy orientation, the EU location of company, and the fact that they haven't been fined 2 billion Euro for abusing monopoly power or found to violate EU privacy laws. I am willing to pay the 800 EUR for a Murena Fairphone 5 ... if I know it will work.

However, BankID says they do not support /e/, and even if it works now, they say all risk is on me if does not work in the future. That is not a risk I want to take. I figure it's easier stay with what I know works than to backtrack in the future.

This requires a political solution. I figure others are working on this. Are there any suggestions for who they are?

Additionally, what laws are in place to require support for those without a smart phone? My barber dropped debit card support in favor of Swish, but still accepts cash. But places are increasingly going cash-free, which may mean Swish-only in the future.
Apparently the law being violated was the Lacey Act:

The Lacey Act prohibits interstate trade in wildlife that has been taken, possessed, transported or sold in violation of federal or state law. The Lacey Act also prohibits the interstate sale of wildlife that has been falsely labeled. The Act is one of the most powerful tools the United States has to combat wildlife trafficking and prevent ecological invasion by injurious wildlife.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/montana-man-pleads-guilty-fed...
This is why they give you the option to just disable the background dimming part of UAC. I’ve had to do this before on slow systems and it fixes it.
So what's the difference between this unified algebra, and universal algebra[0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_algebra
No, we're saying we haven't come up with any alternative that's as good at explaining a whole lot of things.

For what it's worth, I hate it too, and I'm quietly betting on the paper a while back that showed GR was all you need as long as you can be bothered to do the really really hard maths.
I'm sorry this happened to you. Sadly, the days of stupid and abusive teachers are far from over.

I think you're focusing on the wrong thing here. If it hadn't been Roman numerals it would have been something else.

Teachers are much the same as cops. Some go into those fields because they genuinely want to help people. Other go into them because they enjoy having power.
I think we’re seeing the beginning upward trend of an exponential curve for humanoid robotics too, which will likely take 90% of construction jobs because humans are especially poorly equipped for difficult manual labor on a daily basis.
that’s right! I hear Cah and a T sound. I never realized it was consonant I was hearing. ‘Button’ has 4? I could have divided all my answers by 2 and passed those quizzes when I was younger…
Great points, I got my Ph.D. in neuroscience 20 years ago. There were disparate theories for why we sleep but no mechanistic description. Most of the research not specifically relevant to my own took 10-20 years to become influential. I’d be surprised if most textbooks for neuroscience-related fields being published today are including the glymphatic system, including psychology / psychiatry and medicine.
I recall a study a while back that suggested sleep flushing toxins was the reason lack of sleep was fatal; and that they prevented it with some drugs

In rats or something
Not really. As long as there are compilers.
Its ignorance. There are very good reasons why Astronomers haven't chucked out Dark Matter. And yes, they have thought of the 5 minute HN remarks and already dealt with them.
Is there a good way to work with bulid123d (or cadquery) parametric CAD with Python and Blender as a CAD? All three are built with OCC OpenCASCADE.

IFC: Industry Foundation Classes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Foundation_Classes

BIM: Building Information Modeling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_information_modeling
IMO software engineering has a solid 5-10 years left.

Afterwards, you better be in the top 10% of engineers, or be doing something novel like research.
And the majority of whoever is teaching university or even high school right now probably graduated themselves before 2015, when the article was published.