skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We investigate the imaginary world of Kalgash, a planetary system based on the novel "Nightfall" (Asimov & Silverberg, 1991). The system consists of a planet, a moon and an astonishing six suns. The six stars cause the wider universe to be invisible to the inhabitants of the planet. The author explores the consequences of an eclipse and the resulting darkness which the Kalgash people experience for the first time. Our task is to verify if this system is feasible, from the duration of the eclipse, the "invisibility" of the universe to the complex orbital dynamics.

Oh that’s fun, Nightfall is a definitely one of my favorite sci-fi stories of that era. Still makes my spine tingle just thinking about the final passage.
Thanks for the extra information. I guess CapsLock is not given this special treatment? (my actual issue was when using CapsLock as a Ctrl key).
Unfortunately the wallet trackers are compromised by the fact that most nice wallets come with RFID (and BLE) blocking linings nowadays...

Hang onto your old RF-transparent wallet, because RFID blocking has become a standard bullet-point feature they all have to have now.
I would advise you to create a ChatGPT account and use it for "extended queries or questions." You should be careful with the answers and explanations, as it may hallucinate sometimes, but in general, for basic stuff, it should do the job fine.
If you have the ability to choose the tooling, I recommend looking into building docker images with nix.

Yes, nix is complex. But its caching story is soooo much better than docker's, and all the other docker issues just disappear.

https://nix.dev/tutorials/nixos/building-and-running-docker-...
Just consult a report like this one https://www.transparency.org/en/gcb detailing the percentage of people who said they had to pull favours / personal connections to access public services... You can only begin to imagine how incredibly damaging it is to everything, from economic efficiency to the perpetuation of the culture of caciquism.
Public Markets Are the New Private Markets
The combination of python, shell and vim powers through any ad-hoc tasks I get. The speed is amazing.
The article says that negative real wage growth is what's making people unhappy, not inflation; much of it is spent discussing that deflation is actually a problem.
I assumed that you would consider ICANN an authority, but apparently you only consider named people to be authoritative and being capable of having any argument of merit? Your mind is truly fascinating.
They sailed to South Georgia.
She was dressed in “a decorous and delicate crimson.” (Virgil) 'Were you listening to me, Alighieri? Or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?'
I just looked up Wikipedia on teleprinters and had no idea they went back as far as 1887. My school had an ASR 33 Teletype linked to a PDP-10 in the 1970s which seemed kind of antique even then, although it worked ok.

There's a youtube interview with Shirley showing someone remote working with some sort of computer like device. A terminal maybe? https://youtu.be/d5nzJ1rQBew?t=228
Database architects can only think in terms of union types; but union types force union process contexts, which are a security antipattern.
At both my European countries you can request an official document confirming your unmarried status at the city hall, and more recently, online.

Obviously, all the bureaucracies that require such a document also have a mechanism to issue it.
Why are we using nominal GDP/C? You should use real GDP/C

This is the Gini coefficient for those countries: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?locations=F...
FWIW I've had success with this AirTag card thing: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4849497 . It's flat enough to fit in my wallet without distorting it too much.
Part of that is that Earth's moon is quite large compared to other moons like Phobos.

Here's a nice pic of Phobos and Deimos as seen from the mast-camera of Curiosity, compared with Luna.

I remember reading an Asimov piece many years ago where he was (typically) spinning out a kind of what-if about how the large size of the moon, and the consequent majorly-obvious eclipses, influenced the importance of ancient astronomy. Not to mention other effects like tides and moonlight.
As the article points out, we think we are making rational decisions, when in fact we are heavily influenced by subconscious biases. In particular, we favor people we like. That gives an edge to candidates that are friendly and attractive.

Since I am an introvert and on the autistic spectrum, traditional interviews are an uphill battle. Even reasonable ones like you describe.
I have not tried KDE 6 yet, but I have been running KDE 5 on Debian for about 1.5 years and with few exceptions, I find it to be fast, relatively bloat-free, and almost infinitely configurable.

On my systems, it uses something like 1.2 GB of memory out of the box. Meaning you have a _very_ usable machine even with only 4 GB of RAM, as long as you can avoid the temptation to run Electron apps. Pretty sure that is impossible with Windows.

I've tried basically every Linux DE and WM since I first started using Linux in 1996, and basically haven't been happier with the overall experience than I am now. Which scares me a little bit, because every time I get comfortable with a DE, someone decides to throw it all out and rewrite the thing from scratch. (GNOME 2->3, KDE 3->4, etc.)
I knew this was familiar but I couldn't remember where I had read it before :-)
Thanks. American logic is weird in so many ways. Publishing a price without including tax to consumers is forbidden here since it's misleading.
iOS-style runtime permissions (for things like location access) were introduced in Android 6.0, which was released back in 2015. That's quite the long play.
>What exactly is the risk for a company?

Maybe getting sued if they fire candidates fitting DEI or other protected class?
They pushed this online experience in a super half-assed way too. I bought a Chromebook, online, for my disabled mother, and its battery failed in three weeks. They demanded that to RMA it it had to be physically brought to a store. Nevermind that they've closed stores like mad so there wasn't any near her, and even if there were she CANNOT DRIVE. Then to add insult to injury, they made it impossible to even reach their stores by phone, all calls go to central call centers now so we couldn't try to set up any sort of pickup with a nearby store.

After that experience, I swore I would never buy a product from Best Buy ever again. Online, in person, doesn't matter. Permanently gone as a customer.
We use AvaloniaUI in production for a handfull of apps.

Couldn’t be happier.
No and it doesn't matter enough to me to try.
in other words, Google Nest Secure is becoming secure by disabling the cloud.
Network effects? (No pun intended.) HTTP has a big ecosystem. Ex. Everyone already has curl installed.

Edit: This isn't hypothetical, either; I literally use curl regularly to query services. Sure, there are other options, but HTTP generally works, so...
GOES View of Eclipse Shadow
You could run the whole thing in Wasm and have Palm apps running everywhere. It would be like how people are running DOS apps in webpages non ironically
https://www.devslovecoffee.com/blog/making-apple-progressive...
Defence drops 10 page UFO nothing burger
I thought the 90s were maybe 10 years ago, tops.
Magic-di: Dependency Injector with minimal boilerplate code
magic-di cuts through the complexity of dependency management by adhering to a “zero-config” philosophy. It was developed to address the challenges we faced in managing code dependencies across various deployments, aiming for a straightforward solution.
Join some discussion about interesting for you project or start completely a new one and when it will be ready post the link here.
the San Antonio reactions are amazing -https://x.com/akaSosa13/status/1777384635774693435
According to this article, the experiment is marine cloud brightening:

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/ma...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening
They grew corn in addition to potato’s, I believe.
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If you want to what the Moon's shadow looks like as it crosses Earth, from space, I highly encourage you to check out NOAA's GOES Image Viewer! As of this moment, you can see a very dark circle crossing over the central United States.

Even better, the website will animate the last 24 or so images (captured every 10 minutes). It's awesome! [1]

[1] https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/fulldisk_band.php?sat=...
I have built the largest quotation library with over a million quotes, https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/16309/satya-quotes

But yeah its so useless
You should have multiple access to important accounts. Yubikeys are great for this. I keep a couple in an envelope with important instructions.
Other people are pointing out how its not actually like that, but I'm gonna buck the trend and say, for the purposes of explaining to the general public the basics of quantum mechanics, its perfectly acceptable.

Quantum mechanics is so counterintuitive that you have to re-calibrate people's intuition before you can really pick at the confusing parts.

So picking the nit re: wave function collapse is the right thing to do, but it needs to be done in the context of "...but its weirder than just we don't know what the colors are until we open the box. It turns out that...", rather than just immediately "correcting" the partially, arguably incorrect information.

As a challenge to the folks correcting the OP over neglecting wave function collapse, can any of you describe what is wrong with the infinite square well very-first-mathematical-example-of-quantum-mechanics? Aside from the "infinite" part, I mean.
There's nothing wrong with subscriptions, if they pay for a service whose upkeep requires ongoing effort. Like internet providers, or online game servers.

That does not apply to products which are (essentially) a fixed-feature product. Like most productivity software, single-player games & so on. Tying subscription fees to those should indeed be met with a firm "NO!".

And no, bugfixes don't count as ongoing service (imho). That's more like repair under warranty: fixing issues that shouldn't have been there in the 1st place.
We had a single apple II at our school. It was responsible for me failing most of my classes and getting into programming.

Since there was only a single machine, mostly we had to submit our code on cards. Not quite punch cards with chads but an optical equivalent when you marked the hole with a sharpie.
Hybrid Energy Harvesters That Harness Heat and Vibration Simultaneously
Ask HN: Cloud Office Version of MS Access DB
Why does Google workspace nor Microsoft office 365 have a cloud and web-based Microsoft access database or even an app for the iPhone and android. What is a good substitute, spreadsheet is not cutting it for me.
When I read the title I thought "NO!" thinking that Google is discontinuing the app.
Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) was/is a rice producing region, while Pakistan (formerly West Pakistan) was/is a largely wheat producing region.

Is one or the other more individualistic?

If the claimed hypothesis of these papers is true, did it have any impact on the development of the two regions? Bangladesh is certainly richer today.
FYI, currently in italy the time to get your passport renewed (not even issued, renewed) is around 8 months and you have to book an appointment in order to do so
Ooh, a new one came out yesterday. https://robwilson1.wordpress.com/2024/04/07/zombie-physics/ The only crank-like part of this is the brashness, and a cursory inspection of the linked paper reveals nothing obviously incorrect. Indeed, it elaborates on several things I described as "prediction-free, reasoning-by-analogy" in my previous comment. When I have a couple of months spare to learn all the maths he's using, I'll look into this further.

Leaning further towards the "sometimes overexcited" hypothesis. If this is crankery, it's very well-disguised.
And even if you want to keep it non-web, I don't see why you'd use gtk instead of qt (especially since QT has pyside6). And I'm not saying that as someone who likes QT either. I wish I started my PoC with web tech from the get go actually. But still, it's so much more convenient and even if you stick with c++ QT still provides a lot of nice to have tools (for threading, signals, concurrency etc).

I haven't used qml a lot but I wonder if gtk has an equivalent to that too. What am I missing about gtk here? Like, where does GTK beat qt?
A contract is between parties. The governments role is to arbitrate in the case of disputes not to help craft the original document and ensure understanding.
I recall there was an Ada X11 server (Mitre?) that used tasks instead of a single event loop, although they may have been papering over an event loop underneath.
Yeah, point updates are less than stellar, but for aggregation, it's fine unless you're really want adhoc low latency queries. For anything substantial you'd want Spark/Beam for aggregation otherwise, and the Cassandra model is really fast at loading up time series type data in parallel, and Spark etc. make it really easy to do. The tradeoff is just the high startup cost of those kinds of jobs.
> The EMU is a mechanism effectively set up to extract wealth from the european periphery, for the benefit of Germany (and maybe to a lesser extent Framce). Finland is very much on the losing side, along with Greece, Portugal etc.

Nonsense. „Devaluating the national currency“ is a euphemism for extracting wealth from the citizens without them realizing getting poor. The stability criteria are there to protect you from a government destroying your money.

I don’t get why so many Europeans think the Euro is hurting them economically while in reality it was holding them back (especially in Greece and Italy, their national currency was practically worthless). However, it takes time for member state governments to get used to an independent central bank.

Best regards and hot kisses from Germany.
Breaking Down the American Privacy Rights Act Discussion Draft
You should also read up on Nansen wintering in the Arctic.

Shackleton is a story about leadership. Nansen about pure survival (and some mind boggling bravery bordering stupidity)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nansen%27s_Fram_expedition
The Life of the Bee, by Maurice Maeterlinck
That's good to hear. I'm going to try oisd, hoping for fewer false positive :).
The Politics of Social Media Algorithms
This. Samsung Smart Tags work great, but not all Samsung phones support UWB do do check before you commit to a purchase.
In case you didn't know, that movie was a lot of fiction.

https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/blackberry/

I assume all "documentary" or "based on real events" type media is completely fiction, unless specific events in the media are otherwise noted to be true.
it's the opposite, a long time ago eclipses were "bigger" and happened more often, as the moon drifts farther away, it seems smaller to us and will no longer be big enough in our sky to block the sun one day.
Erm.. You do realize that in almost all indexes that matter, Germany is in the top 5% e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_D...

You hear people complaining a lot since they like to and we live with crazy priorities like "time to launch a company in days" but in the real world if we had a choice of where you are born Germany will be high on the list.
OnionOS 4.3.0 (Feb 2024)
I don't understand this putting the blame on the EMU. The demise of Nokia has nothing to do with it. Finland getting de-industrialized also has nothing do do with it, but with the openness of the European market which brought us incredibly cheap commodities at the expense of our own industry. Even Germany is struggling.
Nice, I’d love to read that.
Why do you think KDE is not configurable?
I believe the original idea was to ship with like 64k or something?

I believe the original original idea was 64K and a 6809 instead of the 68000. Quickly became clear that wasn't going to live up to expectations.
My First Distributed System
> It doesn't provide protection of associated data (the AD part of AEAD) but that isn't something that seems to be potentially useful for the stuff that the OpenPGP standard is used for.

It isn't sensible to assert this, because people use OpenPGP in all kinds of crazy ways. One of the recurring headaches in applied cryptographic engineering is discovering that people do, in fact, attempt to use PGP for instant messaging (per above), as a TLS certificate delivery mechanism, etc. These are contexts where the use of an AEAD is frequently appropriate.

> As a user I only care that the OCFB-MDC mode is actually secure.

In practice, it has not been[1]. PGP's decision to use MDC instead of a real MAC is a classic example of home-rolled primitives being conceptually algebraically sound but broken in user settings. The solution here is simple: OpenPGP is not special, and should use a MAC or AEAD mode like everyone else does. It also shouldn't release the plaintext until the authentication tag is actually validated, which was another profound historic breakage with MDC.

[1]: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/openpgp/w4i30aLplh91iw...
BF Skinner, entry in one of his notebooks (as cited in “A Matter of Consequences”):

> Some way of controlling the strength of my own behavior. How to stop work before the optimal condition fades? This might be automatic if it were not for leftover compulsive effects of aversive control. Exhaust- ing avocations are a danger. No more chess. No more bridge problems. No more detective stories. When I am not working, I must relax—not work at something else! A good measure of fatigue would be helpful. I can tell how tired I am when playing the piano. Early in the morning, well rested, I surprise myself. Later in the day, I accept my errors as inevitable. My handwriting is also a gauge. It would be nice to have a shibboleth—a passage to be written in ten seconds, the errors to determine whether I work or relax. ... I must keep busy? Then relax profitably.
Building a RAG for Tabular Data in Go with PostgreSQL and Gemini
More or less devastating than extracting heavy metals and setting up a battery farm?
My apologies, looks like I need to level up my reading comprehension. I think I am still confused with smabie's authorative sounding comment, then. Why would he say that you can just pay a bribe?
The problem is: do numbers exist? One group says, they don't. Another say, they do exist in the Platonic world, but this Platonic world is accessible from the world we inhabit in. Next time, look at the folks who looks for Platonic love:)
I just updated the URL which was the wrong one.
You can buy plenty of Chinese UWB trackers, but they are for industrial applications. Without an open network (this being the first that comes with an UWB API) there's no way to make a compelling product so no one's going to try.

The third party UWB API is available (though it's in alpha) and it supports AoA and direction finding : https://developer.android.com/develop/connectivity/uwb

I'm guessing the reason you can't find anything compatible is because there was no way to make anything worthwhile before the Find My network economically. It made no sense for Tile to add UWB only for Pixels (since the Smarttags are better), and no one else could make their own network.

Once this rolls out, there will probably be trackers with UWB trackers. Otherwise, you can make your own - the chips are pretty cheap and it's a relatively accessible DIY project that has been done before.
Samsung Smart Tags work quite well for this. The devices are detected by most Samsung devices (so not just phones, also TV sets).
I find that Qt apps also feel native on a wider variety of linux desktops than Gtk apps do. For example, Gtk (since v3 I think) encourages apps to override the window manager, stuffing widgets into the title bar and breaking actions like window shading/collapsing.

In general, Qt acknowledges the differences between desktop styles and tries to match them, while Gtk doesn't seem to care about any style or interaction model other than its own.
Why is there a set of binary blobs in the `src/binaries` directory? I don't want to use projects that have that if there isn't a good reason for it.
"We kept getting demands to suspend members of parliament and journalists"
From my perspective it's one of many evidences that our planet was intentionally created by God. I think He wanted us to experience these rare and spectacular events and use them to make astronomical discoveries.
Can LLMs test a Go function that does nothing?
Made a few demos on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1777378034238030255

https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1777378037199179840

EDIT: Added image to the header of the notebook.
You're supposed to use your Apple Watch to find your iPhone.
Passwords can be compromised on client side or server side and since users tend to reuse them, compromise on fun.com can compromise your bank.com account.

Passwords+OTP plus a whole bunch of heuristics based account lockdown mechanisms improve this quite a bit. But still OTP is vulnerable for sophisticated targeted attacks.

Passkeys improve on this while actually improving the usability as well.

Passkeys come in two flavors – independent-hardware-bound (example: yubikey) and platform-authenticator-bound (example: Passkeys by Apple).

The former is bound to a single hardware token but can be used on many devices (your phones, laptops etc) to login to your accounts.

The latter is primarily tied to your Apple ID account (where Apple is the platform provider, for example) and also to your Apple devices like iPhones and MacBooks where your Apple ID is already logged in and iCloud Keychain syncing is turned on. Apple automatically and securely syncs your passkeys to those devices.

Obviously hardware-bound is a bit more secure than platform-authenticator bound, because platform authenticator can have a SPOF within the platform (a compromise anywhere within that platform stack - client-side, server-side etc. large surface area) where such a compromise is also completely hidden from the user. In contrast, the hardware-bound has a much smaller surface area. Only possibility of compromise are the hardware, the client (browser or the app), and the particular app backend server-side. Like all software stack, it is very likely this stack also has bugs that can be exploited. But this stack is relatively lot simpler to audit and secure.
I've tried all of the above. I've asked it to summarize information about what languages in a class had strong symmetric multiprocessing characteristics and it made up over half of the details. I've asked it to generate code for a simple linked list and it created garbage. I've asked it to summarize what code does and it gets it blatantly wrong.

These are just a few examples. I've found it to be nearly useless for anything where a semblance of correctness matters. Every single thing it says must be validated against external sources and it can easily lead you down rabbit holes.

GPT-4 was a little better than 3(.5), but I've yet to see it be good at anything enough to warrant the price tag or the time.
All these surveys are sketchy. Methodology is all over the map, and in some cases influenced by marketing. However, if you keep all that in mind, summary here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_quality_of_life_indices

Wikipedia also has some data about immigration to Singapore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Singapore

My dad was a demographer. There’s lots of demographic data, but it’s really hard to analyze. Migration is influenced as much (in many cases more) by policy than by personal preference.
The problem is that no one wants to do the parts that are no fun and where what you do is dictated by other people.
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