skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The universe is not infinite.

Nothing is infinite

It isn't infinite even if the universe is expanding forever - which is not commonly accepted as the big crunch exists as an idea.

Just bc we may never be able to see the whole picture doesn't mean there isn't one.
Climate weirding and outdoor days are the hit today, global warming is so 2010.

This article is about research for 2080, were these models ever even remotely accurate 50 years ahead? And if yes, how can you tell which is correct out of a hundred?
Mediation is offered in the UK, in the hope that it reduces the number of cases that proceed to a hearing. I don't know whether it was used in this case.
Also doesn't stop the lawsuit between the policy holder and the insurance company, which also costs money.

Whereas your ability to sue for a non-existent policy (or one where that was unambiguously canceled) is... much less.
It’s easy to install, easy to update, easy to write extensions for it and it has always put out decent, standards-based markup.

Why use anything else?
It's equally annoying to see this comment crop up every single time someone uses the phrase.
To quote the Sex Pistols… schools are prisons. Armed guards, forced to be there by the state, forced to be with disruptive sometimes violent fellow inmates, require permission to do simple things like use the bathroom. Consequence free torture (bullying) of classmates. It is getting increasingly absurd.

There have been several school shootings where i read the details of what had happened to the perpetrator and hated to think yep that young person was behaving rationally when they lashed out violently because it was their only recourse in the situation they were forced to endure for years. People go on about gun control and mental heath but ignore the fact that there are a lot of children enduring conditions that would be called atrocities if they were prisoners of war.

And it’s all at the hands of foolish people who are trying to have the “best interests” of children in mind.

Five year olds forced to eat in silence for only fifteen minutes sounds like an absurd over the top young adult dystopian novel.
Tile roofs are a more Spanish style look and crazy expensive.

Otherwise I agree with you
That's wild. I live in one of the oldest cities west of the Rockies (granted, that isn't -that- old) and there are whole neighborhoods of century homes, and they're considered desirable. In the last 10-20 years a bunch have been gutted and upgraded -- new pipes, wiring, windows, etc. Maintains the charm but modern efficiency, convenience, and safety. Sure, some become tear-downs, but a pretty high percentage are sticking around. That old growth doug fir is awesome.

I just sold a century home myself, after my mother passed. There was a little bidding war for it, even in this market. There's a character to the century homes that you cannot get in a new home at anywhere near the same price point.
As long as we keep writing discontented comments on the internet, I'm sure we'll get what we want any day now.
Amusing. I was always irritated by the very concept of threadreaderapp and by people's propensity for posting the links (just read it on the website! There's no need to spend extra compute to join up some divs!) - but Elon's ever-increasing breakage of the site now makes it genuinely useful.
They could have covered tracks better. So says Andres Freund, the person who discovered the backdoor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39923467
"SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined. Billions and billions of copies of SQLite exist in the wild." https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

Although this isn't what most people usually mean by "production". See "Appropriate Uses For SQLite": https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
approximately twice as many principles as it's worth
>> You're projecting hatred into a simple historical account, re-evaluate your biases.

You misunderstand. I didn't accuse you of antisemitism. The point is that neither the evangelists, nor certainly Christ, intended the Jews to be blamed for his crucifixion; οὐ γὰρ οἴδασιν τί ποιοῦσιν.

But, as we say in Greek, my maternal language, όποιος έχει τη μύγα, μυγιάζεται.
No worries. I'm a native speaker. And it's "ma'am" to you, young man :P
Ah, so they’re not permanent! I always assumed they were.

Similarly, you’ll see occasional Liquid Nitrogen tanks around: https://youtu.be/juZqGU9iuq0
What you're really saying is that it's unrealistic for buyers to know that trampolines are dangerous.
> The UK has a massively milder climate than most of the USA, which provides significant assistance to things lasting.

That makes sense. Roofs last a pretty long time in the PNW as well, for similar reasons. Mostly we just get rain. Not a lot of particularly hard freezes, our idea of big hail is 1/4 inch, etc. It's pretty routine for a garden variety "25 year roof" to actually do all 25 years, and even 30.
I've had this thought that almost 90% of rest APIs are essentially crud that map external API to internal storage layer. With a bit of auth and validation on top.

Kinda thinking a lot of rest APIs could just be SQL logic.

Postgrest is pretty much like that but I wonder if you could build a more general tool. SQL + protobufs or SQL + OpenAPI schema.
Thus probably why they said LibreOffice would be compulsory.
The two languages I wish I could speak. Spanish is coming along. Mandarin, everything about learning it seems over whelming.

They both would open up huge amounts of the world and make cultures accessible.
> Over time there is quite a large accumulation of hackers looking at the most mundane technical details.

Are there though? Even if true, there are probably enough places with very few eyes on them.
Do they have to collaborate to decide who gets to use the forks?
You can easily install Wireguard on EdgeOS (VyOS fork) 1.x and 2.x and 3.x will have it natively. The OS is kind of RIP otherwise, so I cannot recommend it, but Ubiquiti just released a new UnifiOS-based router with 5 2.5 GHz ports saturating 1.6 GHz with IDS. That, or some random AliExpress x86-64 router with OPNsense.
Multi Homunculus Model
That aligns with my understanding with how the redress process works. The facial recognition side is getting better, DHS knew who I was and my return flight details returning from overseas today with only taking my photo. No need to present my passport, as my biometrics are linked to my global entry profile (which has a known traveler number you can provide to airlines when booking). I would expect this to be generally available over the next several years.
Don't be confused by the watts-to-watts comparison.

Drone fleet operators would be paying more for ubiquitous access to drone parking on (presumably inspected and pre-approved segments of) powerlines. The energy supply is almost an ancillary service, but an important one.

Just like with EV charging today, the energy cost will presumably be higher than your household bill, or similar billing schemes. "The house always wins."
To explain the lawsuit issue, here is a perfectly plausible scenario and how it could play out somewhere in the USA.:

1. A person is at a friend's house for dinner

2. Upon leaving to go home, they trip and fall trying to navigate an unlit path to their car

3. Their injury lands them in the hospital and requires a week or so of recovery time in which they could not work, and as they contract out they lose that money

4. The health insurance that fully covered their injury, looks at the medical records and finds that the injury occurred on another property and calls the people involved and finds out about the unlit path

5. They deny payment for the medical treatments and tell the injured person to sue the friend for medical payment because they are at fault and they have home owner's insurance

6. Forced to sue the friend or be out tens of thousands of dollars, the injured person adds to the claim for lost wages (hey, the friend isn't paying for it anyway, the insurance is)

This is how you end up with such lawsuits that the USA is famous for -- people are forced to sue other people in order to not go bankrupt, and things get piled on that.
I was thinking about that when I wrote a letter of recommendation for one of my students. I could have used AI to do it, but I wanted to give it an actual human touch.

It occurred to me at the time, that they probably got a lot of letters of recommendation. And it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they used AI to assess them.

Which of course got me thinking that we could just cut out all this writing business and have a one click solution to generate the letter of recommendation and then have it assessed.

And we could use the same thing for cover letters, marketing copy, and anything else that's bullshit. :)
I agree: We should make it illegal for children to gamble.
This has got to be at least the third FOSS project I've seen called Chisel or some homophone thereof.
Genetic kill timers are production technology that has already been deployed. There are genetically engineered mosquitoes for example that become unviable after a certain number of generations. The idea being that you mix them into the population, they cross breed and spread their genes, then 10 or 50 generations later, they suddenly are infertile en masse and the whole species dies out.
Bathtubs are dangerous, being dangerous isn’t the only criteria here.
it's a rather good thing that this was found before it made it out broadly.

Not just for obvious reason of not wanting an unknown party to have RCE on your infrastructure. I think as people keep digging they will eventually formulate a payload which will allow the backdoor to be used by anyone.

As bad as it is for a single party to have access, it's much worse for any (every?) party to have access.
I’m not disputing any discourse relating to the factual in/correctness of the anecdote, I’m pointing out that gp is providing an anecdote while disputing anecdotes that they don’t agree with.

Provide actual data that’s recent. Linux 4.x was what, 10 years ago? Cars are substantially safer now than they were 10/20/50 years ago, so whose to say your experience with a file system would be different?
Web scraping is a cat-and-mouse game but all the cats got laid off.
"If this one guy got hit by a bus, the software would fall apart."
In much of Asia, kindergarten is pre-schooling, but in the USA it corresponds to grade zero which is when formal public education starts. You are actually free to skip this grade in most states (you can start your kid in first grade), but most don’t.
Schools Are Prisons .. the B-Side of Revolution in the Classroom by the EX Pistols ??

They famously were not the Sex Pistols .. what's next, attributing songs from The Celibate Rifles or Machine Gun Fellatio ?
"ever increasing"? Twitter is completely, 110% unusable without an account (and dear god, I dare some of you to make a new account and see what the process and default content is. It's gross).

I say 110% not to be hyperbolic -- It shows you non-latest tweets on profiles, it doesn't let you see tweet threads or replies, even from the original poster when they post a chain of tweets. I literally can't read any of this content save for the threadreadapp link.

...
Of course Musk is not neutral. It's in his interest to try to make Twitter look as good as possible.

Musk is not doing a very good job of it. Telling your customers to go fuck themselves is not a winning business strategy:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23981928/elon-musk-ad-bo...
Here's a complete working example for POSIX systems on how to reproduce my llamafile tinyBLAS vs. MKL benchmarks: https://gist.github.com/jart/640231a627dfbd02fb03e23e8b01e59... This new generalized kernel does even better than what's described in the blog post. It works well on oddly shaped matrices. It needs however a good malloc function, which I've included in the gist. Since having the good memory allocator is what makes the simple implementation possible.
It used to be normal to memorise hour long speeches in the ancient world. Today people struggle with 20 lines. You can make the case that nothing of value was lost, but something was definitely lost.
Beej's Guide to Network Programming. :)

After that, I'm proud to have written and run the initial United States city name import script for openstreetmap, waaay back when.
Yes makes sense. I think it's also about the context of what your goal is and what your eng skill set is.

If you are low-level C shop that may make sense. But if you are trying to build some rpc service for usage between multiple teams and languages. Using protobufs or something similar is gonna give you more mileage.
Pedantic but important point: an IDF officer signs off on the strike, and it is carried out by an IDF soldier. The AI is not doing the killing.

The scandal is more that (surprise, surprise) the human oversight isn’t doing its job and the soldiers just follow orders.
I wouldn’t be breaking the law under a repressive government without at least a VPN in the middle.

DNS queries still leak the domain unless the client is using DoH.
>In Germany something like 90% of murder cases are solved

You must watch out when reading the German crime statistics. "Solved" which is marked as "aufgeklärt" in those statistics just means that a suspect has been named. Not that someone actually did it/has been sentenced for the crime.

>https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufkl%C3%A4rungsquote#Deutschl...
2nd sentence
that there is any effort at all to point out why this is okay is bewildering. it's antisocial behavior. there is a reason this is on hn, folks. and there is a reason why basic car insurance is not. not today, anyway. its because it is disruptive, obnoxious behavior that juts out and has jagged edges, and people dont stand for that. this isn't about my roof, or yours. people are quick to point out, "fwiw, they could cancel your insurance right now! they arent required to even give it to you, so yeah, they can do that" or, "they're perfectly within the law to do it, next". I paraphrase here, but regardless. I confidently say to that: Hah! then the law got it wrong, then. and the law needs to change.
that is specifically the problem. they simply have too much power. and now they're rubbing our faces on it while a bunch of you rush to find why that's [legally] alright, while you only consider why it makes sense to you, not why it doesn't make sense to others. a critical oversight. they could have gone about this 100 different ways. fleet drones. really?

I predict that they are preparing substantial layoffs; thats the only thing that even begins to explain this situation. out with the old, in with the drones
> Would be nice if they gave me the ability to make spam-likely calls not ring or appear.

I'd mute all calls, but Android doesn't let you mute ring volume without also muting notification volume.
I don't know why you were downvoted. Although Minsky's work has been highly criticized, it also has been influential in AI research.
This is exactly the kind of vpn that I need! I only need VPN for a few hours per month to get around some geo restriction or bad network quality.

Is this vpn provider trustworthy?
Wrong?

Which part is wrong? Only 2/3 of these to choices can be wrong. The remaining one must be correct.
The Hamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics is such a beautiful way of describing classical motion compared to the Newtonian formulation. See Laundau & Lifschitz book 1! All the Hamilton-Jacobi equations are derived from observing symmetries in space time, even Newton’s 3 principles are derived (F=ma an the rest). All of this has the added benefit of transposing well into quantum mechanics, where forces are anyway replaced with hamiltonians.

For fluid mechanics I don’t know if Hamiltonians are the right formulation.
Well that's a good point. I guess I'll ask some Catholics and Protestants about it. It's true that there may have been mistranslations of the Gospels over the years. Come to think of it, that would explain a whole lot.
at least in the United States, home insurance is issued a year at a time. So it doesn’t make sense to cull today in anticipation of some hypothetical future shift towards cataclysm.

Also, what is the aerial photo of a roof going to indicate in terms of “cataclysmic climate events looming”?

Also is it a coincidence or a pun that your name is worik and it is common for you to sign your posts with something about worrying?
I worry that our local Seattle high school doesn’t offer Chinese while that is what my 1st grader is studying now and needs to communicate with grandma. Yes, he could take Japanese or French, but it seems like a waste unless he plans to use them (well, he might have an advantage in Japanese since kanji is just another form of Chinese character). I was surprised, since my high school in a Seattle suburb offered Chinese in 1991…
Is SMS related to spam calls (which might involve caller id spoofing)?
You needn’t pick a color: the browser has default styles. I personally find the idea of a “brutalist website” having any CSS - other than perhaps some simple rules for layout - absurd.

Browser defaults are the inherent form of a website. Picking a color yourself is adding ornamentation.
What do you mean by "package managers not taking source from the right place"?
Disheartening to hear USAA let you down. I've been with them for years and haven't really shopped around because generally their customer service is pretty great. Not worth it to me to save a few bucks and then deal with really crappy customer service when the shit hits the fan.
Yeah. An oppressive government will for sure take your excuse of “I was just learning math on PornHub”.
A town employee lowered the fluoride in water for years (2022)
> Dinosaur companies

I'm curious what are the dinosaur companies in your mind.

Some "dinosaurs" are actually extremely technical and on top of their shit, and some companies HNers/Redditors/LWers love for their supposed engineering chops have their pants off.

Also the number I gave was for a sexy publicly listed tech company that a lot of HNers try to Leetcode grind to.

> more than their Assistant Regional Managers

In most companies outside of the High Tech and Finance sector, margins are extremely low and even a GM will earn at most $150k and maybe $20-30k stock, despite owning a 9 figure BU.
Is there any where in the world that's not feeling pain from housing? I'm pretty sure the entire world is struggling. Peppe I know across the US can't make housing work. Idk how I can realistically purchase a house. I was just in Europe talking with people who brought up how hard it is to buy a home.

I think each little area focuses on some red herring. Transplants, tech workers, digital nomads, foriegn investors, airbnb, but can those really be the same problem everywhere in the world? Idk seems like something else is going on.
If you look at it, the 447 pages are because it's a report & proposal. It includes a lot of background information, discussion on potential impacts, how it'll influence different industries and agencies, potential alternatives to the current proposal, and details as to what specific aspects of the request for comments they are interested in from SMEs and the public.

The actual proposed changes are only 10 pages long.
How not to write an async runtime in Rust
It's going to become more common I feel. A natural consequence of multinationals, particularly American, feeling they are above the law. Workers will need to do more soul searching on what multinationals they want to work for, which isn't the worst thing, but at the end of the day, it's not going to be the real decision makers that pay the price.

I'm reminded of an article I read about how people who happen to be working on shipping vessels can sometimes end up as hostages for debts of their companies, and how they often simply get abandoned for years. Life ruining stuff where the companies effectively trade years of these people's lives to buy time on debt.
This quirk of California law (that insurers cannot factor in climate risk or anything other than trailing 20 year average costs) is why insurers are pulling out of the state; it isn't generally true of insurance.
Haha, great paper. I read the title and the abstract and went WTF?!?

> Given the title of this paper, it is incumbent on the authors to assure the reader that we do not claim to have done the impossible

Awesome. Though I have no clue what the Hamiltonian formulation is.
While I'm aware of the phrase's origins, I've never heard it used to describe a TV show, only an unrelated field just like in this example.
The Shortcut Is Probably Too Long
And author is pretty explicit about this:

> "But I want and can maintain it, can I take it over?" Let me put it plain and simple: No! I don't know you, I don't trust you! Fork it and carry on!

For something security critical like VPN, ownership change is a big deal. Users trust project's reputation. So if there is not a a trusted successor, shutting it down is way better that giving it up to unknown people.
> SQLite is maintained by... 3 guys. ... And they don't accept public patches or fixes.

> "SQLite is open-source, meaning that you can make as many copies of it as you want and do whatever you want with those copies, without limitation. But SQLite is not open-contribution."

This doesn't feel like a great example; it seems like if those 3 guys got hit by 3 buses, the source being available means that someone could fork it. (Assuming the license allows it.) At worst, folks could compile it for their own use.
Running SQLite in production for our mid-six figure SaaS for a year now. We use it with Go and run it in WAL mode that allows for concurrent reads and serialized writes. Litestream for backups. No issues, and extremely good performance.

Our app is read-heavy so it works great with WAL mode only allowing one writer at a time. If you have a write-heavy workload, I would go with Postgres.

We use Go's mattn/sqlite3 library and open a connection pool for read-only queries, and a single connection for write queries. The read-only connection pool uses DEFERRED transactions, and the write-only connection uses IMMEDIATE transactions.

All tables are STRICT which helps some with type safety, and foreign key checks are always turned on.
I was working on multi-agent systems for problem solving via https://github.com/agi-merge/waggle-dance for months last year!
Reversing a Mystery Function
It's open materials. You are allowed to use any materials and change any print parameters. 1 build chamber can be filled up with 1 bottle of material which is $220 and most of the un-used powder can be reused.
Using Proxytunnel [1] to do specifically this, in an environment where a packet inspecting proxy prevents SSH traffic.

It supports connecting over HTTPs, so the traffic doesn't look fishy with the setup of: SSH Client -> HTTPs Encryption -> Corporate Packet Sniffing Proxy -> Your Server -> HTTPs Decryption -> SSHD Server

Looking forward to explore chisel as well.

[1] https://github.com/proxytunnel/proxytunnel
I made a comment elsewhere in this thread on it but it's a proposal. That's how these go. There's a lot of information and analysis in it that's only relevant to some people but those people are going to care if it's not present.

The actual changes are 10 pages long. The rest is all discussions, alternatives, potential impacts to different sectors, etc.
> ...and I can assure you I was not harmed

How do you know?

I'm not arguing porn is harmful to minors, I have no idea what the data says. But people tend to be terrible at self-diagnosis.
This website is not a good example of brutalism and doesn’t contain content about brutalism. It’s like if I put up a page called ‘My French Web Site’ and it hosted articles about flowers written entirely in English. Always weird when words just stop meaning things.

The real shame though isn’t that the website is misnamed, it’s that it provides an objectively worse browsing experience than the original HN