skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The version of the story without all the fnords: Honduras solicited investment in the form of charter cities, where corporations could buy pockets of land and run them however they wanted. Then a more socialist government came into power, reversed the law allowing them to exist, and refused to give them their money back. The biggest, Próspera, is suing to get their money back.

Worth noting, this is a standard risk in Latam and the government that introduced them made it a constitutional amendment with a ten-year reversal process, since they wouldn't get any investors otherwise. The primary complicating factor here in Próspera's lawsuit is that they have not actually lost their investment yet; nine years to go.

But Honduras's response is to withdraw from the court system and legal framework that Próspera's suing them in, the ICSID. If they actually go through with this, that's going to be the end of most foreign investment in Honduras at all, charter city or otherwise. The ICSID is there to ensure that your investment stake won't be confiscated by the government when political winds change; Honduras is withdrawing because it wants to do exactly that, and no investor will risk that happening to them.

Also despite the article saying 'crypto' a dozen times their only relation to crypto is accepting it as legal tender, same as neighboring El Salvador. Instead of 'DAOs avoiding the FTC' one should think 'biotech avoiding the FDA'.
I just wrote the article -- and use Firefox (and Waterfox on Linux).

But... Really? I have never seen a single one go awry and for me it works better than Okular, Evince, etc.

I routinely use it for completing electronic forms now, to the pleased surprise of the agencies issuing them. A typed form is always more readable than a hand-written one.

Do you have some examples or steps to reproduce? Can I help with filing a bug?
> Who is to say that this will not change

Isn't the commit and its hash immutable?
If anything it would be ECMAScript (JavaScript dwarfs Java use) or PCRE (the de-facto contiuation of Perl regular expressions written in C but used in many languages).
sqlite3, but I think bulk inserts would improve perf for other DBs too.
while one thing doing a big difference is unlikely, i do believe we could geo-engineer our way out of this, especially if we put AI agents at the task - the problem is can we get the right power brokers to stop pushing it off until tomorrow and fix it today?

We could plant billions of trees around utah and colorado and reroute pacific ocean water via pipeline to existing and new man-made lakes in these areas, the sea water evaporating giving rise to more rain and ending some of the draught issues for one...

Another idea is A nation-wide network of pipes where every city is a part of a grid that sends water where it needs to be when it needs to be there... less waist, less struggles for places without needed water.. etc...

A big space shield could do wonders at least for cooling us down some... perhaps it could double as some sort of energy system that beams down energy in the form of a laser or something, I think i read that somewhere..

Lots of different ways to capture co2/methane.. I mean couldn't factories just run exhause pipes into very deep holes in the ground instead of releasing into the air? Or buy filters to put on every smoke stack..

I'm no scientist, but i think there's a million other ideas out there to geoengineer thigns.....we just need to act...and nobody wants to do that... we waste so much human energy on mundane tasks -- like looking for food because we were born poor, that if we just eliminate poverty and put all the would be homeless on the path towards being scientists, we could have an entire new civ in 20 years..maybe without climate change being such a big deal.

We have the ability to do amazing things, we've done them before, we just lack the global unity and will to even try.
From the pictures I get the sense this guy knows what he's doing. Sure his shop's a little dusty, and that fume extractor is maybe a little ghetto (better than my aquarium filter duct taped to a fan though).

It's hard to tell what those grey cells are being used in the pack, which is probably most important factor, but the construction of it appears solid. It's also evident from photo that he is disassembling a damaged pack. See the missing row of cells at the top, and corrosion on the bottom in this photo:
https://149346090.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/202...
Show HN: Zebrapuzzles.com – Daily Logic Puzzles
Hi all,

I've always been fascinated by logic puzzles and, over the past 15 years, I've published around 300 zebra puzzles, mostly in Portuguese. Now, using LLMs, I've managed to automate the creation of these puzzles, leading to the birth of ZebraPuzzles.com.

There are around 80 different themes that the generator uses to transform a raw puzzle into a thematic one. For instance, the LLM translates this clue:

>The girl Shirt=Pink is next to the girl Age=11

to

>The girl who wears a Pink shirt is next to the 11-year-old girl.

The website offers five new logic puzzles daily, designed to challenge and engage your problem-solving skills. The site requires JavaScript to track your progress interactively, but for those without JavaScript enabled, you can still enjoy the puzzles by marking off clues manually.

While classic Logic Puzzles requires a grid, the puzzles we generate do not: they're solvable using only basic logic and pen/paper.

I'm eager to hear your thoughts and feedback. Are the puzzles challenging enough?
> the actual evolution happens really fast

With the qualification, that they can be "fast" in geological time scales, which are rather big. It might look like rapid change in the fossil record, but that is a very compressed representation.
Just Eat went down Friday, too...
In my experience it depends a lot more on what you prompt it with rather than the language itself. As soon as you task it with something where your prompt doesn’t hit the right marks, I’ll go into its “inventive” mode and simply make stuff up. Copilot for enterprise is a little better in terms of not making things up, but the flip side of this is that it often simply provides a very, very, useless result.

My experience with it for Powershell hasn’t been as impressive as yours. It simply invented functions for the PnP module. Which I suppose isn’t in too much use these days, especially not against on-prem SharePoint. I’m not an expert on Powershell, however, and I really don’t think the documentation on things like PnP search queries is very good. So this was an area where I got to experience what it’s like to use these tools when you’re not the expert. In the end it was trial and error along with various shitty internet articles that helped me.

That being said. You can easily have GPT4 solve your CS exam questions, and likely whatever technical interview you’re given if you’re applying at jobs which do these things. And as such, I guess you could also argue that a lot of what we teach in CS is now even more dated than before. Because even if some of it is sort of useful for basic understanding, I’d bet money on students “cheating” their way through where they can. Because why wouldn’t they use the “calculator”?
Go Enums Still Suck
Once again mainstream news sites fail to properly acknowledge the source (this one is citing The Register).

This is the source post of the news:

https://env.fail/posts/firewreck-1/

And it was discussed on HN a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39742422

Also relevant to this is a story from 2 months ago:

I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously - (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38933999) - Jan 2024 - 1081 points | 474 comments
At least for use you can get pretty far with 2k ish consumer hardware. Check out r/localllama if you want to learn more in general.
Support for IDN email addresses is still patchy at best. Many systems can’t send to them; many email hosts still can’t handle being configured for them.
Saving people a click:

Integrations:
Todoist
ClickUp
Trello
Asana
Notion
Jira
GitHub
Gmail
Outlook
Slack

Also, they say it does timeboxing, but it's not evident they understand the notion of prioritization through pre scheduled and empty timeboxes, that tasks fill by category match, then do not overfill but spill to the next available timebox of that same category, allowing you to meta-manage your prioritization by category of task vs. amount of recurring timeboxes as a proportion of your week, rather than by task.

EDIT/ADD:

Upon review of the user manual, they seem to think "timeboxing" is the alternative to "playlisting", meaning, do you book actual time on your calendar for a task, versus, do you burn through a list of tasks when you are in task mode.

They seem to miss that timeboxing is the opposite of calendaring particular tasks, it's a third way.

If you have calendaring tasks, and playlisting tasks, timeboxing is calendaring big chunky timeboxes (not tasks) for "headspace" around sets of tasks, then playlisting the matching subset of tasks within that timebox.

There seems to be a concept of channels (#hashtags) and an ability to auto-schedule within channels, and an ability to have per channel schedules. Depending how implemented, that combination of features might allow actual timeboxing, which, incidentally, could line up well with the legitimate timeboxing offered by SavvyCal, my favorite "meet with me at a time that works for you (and me)" tool.

You should not, ever, be "dragging a task to the calendar" in timeboxing. The task should be in a class that you have a timebox for (their channels notion) and if you have unclassified tasks, you can playlist them in a "random tasks" designated timebox. To force a task to be in the next available timebox for that class, you prioritize the playlist.

Unfortunately, as someone was curious about, this doesn't support Linear, though perhaps you could do it transitively through, say, GitHub.
JDBC has "batch updates" feature. You can use single inserts but they're sent as a batch of multiple statements to the database. Not sure about JS libraries, but this feature also significantly improves performance and probably easier to use and maintain.

For super fast inserts you can use postgres COPY feature. But it has to be implemented in the driver.
>Locale settings expressed by the browser are the user's explicit preference,

From experience watching other people use computers, most people don't even know WTF "locale" is or anything even tangentially related. More than likely they just use whatever was configured by default, which most of the time makes sense for them but it's not a given.

Hence, it's unreliable.

IP geolocation on the other hand, you can at least assume the broad region where they are connecting from (VPNs and proxies aside).
So are Ukraine, Romania, and Poland.

In McD's and ATT's case (because you commented on that as well) - their platform and security teams are located at HQ in the Central Sales Zone
How Long has the KDE store been around? I only started using KDE a couple months ago, and I couldn't wrap my head around the KDE themes etc -- it's weird clicking those disclaimers just to install a wallpaper. If it's been around for a while that makes a little more sense I suppose?
4000 UI is recommended for adults by many doctors.

https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html

I take 5000 UI D3 daily from October to March and blood test are fine. I wouldn't take it during sunny times if you spend decent amount of time outside.
People's aversion to change, even when the change is for something that is objectively better in every way, is really really annoying.
Damn dude. What a ride. I did have those back stabbing pains and headaches like someone took a drill and pushed it agains the back of my head. Crazy outcome. These relatable stories hit very close. I can feel your pain. What made my brain fog go away was the timing and a session of adderall and mild exercise. 2020 was wild.
Interesting -- I like the bullets and the 'restrictiveness'
Whatever the number of iPad users is that pays for additional services, it’s a lot more than the 0% of AirPort Extreme customers buying anything that directly goes along with their network equipment. Apple sells dozens of accessories like cables, adapters, cases, etc. Plus, iPads can cost upward of $1,000 and have high profit margin upgrades at every price point (internal storage space).

Their network equipment didn’t drive Mac sales, it was really the other way around: a Mac user might consider Apple network equipment, but there was no strong driving factor that would send you that direction. Apple also couldn’t price their network equipment far above their competitors because it has very few differentiators. WiFi is WiFi is WiFi. For an iPad, Apple can charge more money because it has iPadOS which is only one of two choices in the mobile OS space. Network equipment is almost completely vendor agnostic commodity equipment.

Maybe doing Time Machine backups or streaming iTunes music over your network would lead you to AirPort products, but both bring in zero recurring revenue for Apple and have been made obsolete in terms of convenience and
customer preferences by cloud storage and music streaming/AirPlay.

Let’s not forget that Apple was never actually able to maintain any kind of market leader status on WiFi equipment. Their best case scenario of eclipsing a market leader like TP-Link never happened because their product line was simply not popular. That’s why it was discontinued in the first place.
Do we even need a cure or therapy if we can essentially use this as a vaccine?

Doesn't help people now, but may eliminate it as a threat for future generations.
The actual statements from the parties involved - The Prospera ZEDE and the executive branch - are at the bottom and far more coherent and cordial than the rest of the article suggests.

The rest of the article is hyperbolic trash. “Immense bipartisan pressure from the US to maintain the Honduras charter cities” = “2 US senators writing a … letter”
Pipes are so useful. I find myself more and more using shell script and pipes for complex multi-stage tasks. This also simplifies any non-shell code I must write, as there are already high quality, performant implementations of hashing and compression algorithms I can just pipe to.
So You Think You Know Git Part 2 [video]
Matt Rickard has a good entry level blog post about it, from the angle of regex constraining [0]. Context free grammars follow the same principle, except using a finite state machine to restrict the action space.

[0]: https://matt-rickard.com/rellm
God damn! This hits, and it also hits in its simplicity.

Thanks :)
https://jacquesmattheij.com/long-range-ebike/

Not the only ones!
Similar should be extended to job candidates, at least those who invest their time to interview. What's the advantage of ghosting someone(s) who could be a future customer or future decision maker (that approves the purchase of your product / service)? Or perhaps that now-ghosted candidate might refer someone else to you?

What company is so busy and so profitable as to intentionally damage their brand by stiff arming well intended people (i.e., job candidates)?

Or as I like to say, "How you hire is whom you hire."
> I think I’m starting to realize that this person is beyond my capability to help and all the time I’ve wasted helping them could have been spent improving my own situation

From my personal environment: there are many people that are beyond my capability to help.
Reddit power users balk at chance to participate in IPO as debut nears
> better quality than what I assume is the alternative, imported Chinese batteries.

You do realise that China makes some of the worlds best batteries right?

There is a reason why BYD, EVE and CATL are in the news all the time and it's not because they suck.

Quality wise Chinese/Korean/Japanese batteries are all pretty much the same on NCA/NCM chemistries. China has a big advantage in LFP but LFP is shitty for an e-bike because the reduced density penalty is much more meaningful than in a car.

Those companies make cells of course but there is also plenty of high quality BMS available and fully assembled batteries out of China too obviously.
Waiting to hear the calls for new strong-state controls on human activity because of ... something changing, somewhere.
https://archive.is/2024.03.20-044756/https://www.wired.com/s...
It was also pretty useless to shoot a dog into space by your standard.
Bear Necessities (2023)
Never trust anything on the Internet. Just don't.
> it’s not all it’s cracked up to be

> this person is beyond my capability to help

I think there's something to be said about the difference between "solving other people's problems" and "solving someone's problems". If the whole idea is to not be so invested into one life and get perspective, volunteering somewhere ought to be on a different league then trying to sort one specific person's life.
Labs.kagi.com redirects to Google page
I have labs.kagi.com bookmarked and often visit that URL. Today, the URL is redirecting to accounts.google.com prompting for a login to iap.googleapis.com. I guess it's hosted on Google Cloud? - Feels ironic.
The fact that there are so many different peculiarities in different regex systems has always raised the hairs on the back of my neck. As in when a tool accepts a regex and I have to a trawl the manual to find out exactly what regex is acceptable to it.
And don't get me started about find and replace, what is the symbol to insert the match?
I know I hate driving in Pro-Car Cities.
Obviously people are the problem. That's why cities which are people free are the best cities.
Supplements never replace beeing outside exposed to sun where your body got vit. D naturally.
Do you have an actual argument or are you here just to call others liars?
I don't think I know the math well enough to answer the question definitively, but given my surface understanding of the Standard Model and GR... I think so (though I suspect "energy of coupling" is the wrong way to put it).
Are those LiPo or LiIon? The articles mention both, and the image looks like LiIon
In discussions about neurological diversity and the potential for treatments or adaptations, recognizing and respecting individual experiences while avoiding overgeneralization is key. Conversations around aphantasia, brain injuries, and visual processing offer opportunities for learning and exploration but should be navigated with care to ensure they are inclusive and sensitive to all involved.

Aphantasia is the term attributed to the inability to willfully create internal visual objects in the mind that can be perceived consciously. So, that leaves an open unconscious "will" still being able to create them. Studies, and personal experience, shows people considered to have this "condition" called Aphantasia, are able to see hypnogogic images during transition to sleep. And most of us have dreams too.

Drawing a conclusion of that term applied to someone who clearly states they have damage to a certain part of their brain and then correlating that an estimated 1-2% of the population is a bit of an insensitive thing, maybe.

Then again, I saw a lot of this while exploring the topic a few years back, so it's understandable that people who visualize think it's some sort of "problem" instead of a super power (which it is).
Yeah, omitting what is arguably the language most associated with regexes seems a bit of an oversight. I guess it shows how far off the radar Perl currently is.
...how ? It's called pipe, not "infinitely large buffer that will wait indefintely till the command ends to pass its output further"
It's a lot of work and money to convert a NA city to a car free one. It's probably impossible TBH.

My city has the best public transit system in NA but still I can't imagine it be car free. It's going to literally kill people.
A thousand words in, and still no clue what the problem is.
The human body doesn't need to store excess calories. It could store the excess calories or it can excrete energy through urine(glucose, ketones)
Or it can ramp up metabolism, there are many scenarios. Not all lead to adipose tissue growth. Why not muscle growth, which is somehow always overlooked in these discussions.

Funny enough adipose tissue and muscle growth are both through hormones. If testorone and hgh are high then muscles growth will prioritised over adipose tissue.

People with type 1 diabetes have figured out how to stay thin after eating copious amounts[0]. They won't inject themselves with insulin. Unhealthy, sure, but they won't store calories, as adipose tissue (fat cells) remain inactive, even though blood glucose is dangerously high.

Just looking at calories is simplification, and is just for general guidance.

[0]https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22658-diabuli...
They look like standard 1865 cells but obviously not high enough res to spot the manufacturer. I would imagine EVE though. CATL is too hard to get a hold of but EVE Grade A is still pretty easily available from Alibaba.
Various YouTubers do similar to build effectively Tesla powerwalls

It seems quite risky even for those that are careful. I recall one of the bigger channels ending up eating humble pie when they had a fire.

Not something I’d ever want to do unless I could house in in an outdoor shed quite far away from everything else
This answer is IMO a strong distractive strategy. I don't have children, but as a former gamer, I do know a thing or two about distraction! What I found: after the distraction has run its course, it will come back to you.

Distraction suppresses. It doesn't actually allow you to work through it.

That's my experience at least.
> Soldered NAND is a wear item and a WAY bigger deal.

"Citation needed". For anything resembling normal usage an SSD will last well beyond the economic lifetime of the rest of the components surrounding it. So why is it that big a deal to replace it?
The essential part of this particular cultural differences claim is that several cultures aren't intrinsically offended by "dick pics" - this results in a different reaction to flashers and people sending dick pics, near zero reaction based purely on the genital nudity aspect, almost entirely on whether it's welcome or not.

The other cultural aspect that results is incident of bothers; the UK has a much higher incidence of dirty mac flashers than either Australia or Papua New Guinea.

> Even a single culture mentioned specifically

I've just mentioned two and I heavily hinted at one of these in prior comments in a manner that many would have easily read in.

Australia has a strong beach | rural culture; few that surf or work the land would be shocked by a penis, having seen dogs, horses, bulls, and humans (getting changed outdoors) since before they could walk - the very few people that might try flashing or masterbating in public get pretty rapidly told to jog on and bugger off without causing much in the way of distress or embarrassment to their intended "victims".

PNG, of course, still has cultural groups sporting the Koteka .. why on earth would they be sending pictures of a nude, bare, undecorated penis when it's been all about the penis bling for generations?
A good video explanation of that too via Sci Show. It's quite complex; chemo, lab work and takes a long time and not always successful but the majority of the time it is successful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHWD8RSw4As
Thanks! We changed it from https://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-euclid-telescope-has-an-....