skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dislike that people interpret this adage being violated as an example of English's inconsistency. The clearer conclusion is that it just isn't true.

I could say "every word in English starts with ß" and then point out that every single word violates this rule. What a crazy language!

But that would be silly. Not because English is crazy, but because that obviously isn't true.
How to generate and validate a software license key? (2009)
If you’re postulating unbounded growth, seems pretty arbitrary to not postulate engineering solutions to this problem (eg shift the energy intensive industry off-Earth).
Great feedback, that would definitely be a good thing to add!
Stefan Burnett
That’s so amazing to hear, thanks for the kind words
If the workers thought they could keep their jobs after their sit in, that’s delusional. That's just not how America works.

On the other hand, it was a peaceful protest, and standing up to something which violated their conscience despite the consequences is very brave. I have a good amount of respect for it even without fully evaluating the politics of it.

People made fun of Vietnam War protesters at the time. (Dirty hippy unpatriotic draft dodgers!) In fact the National Guard even killed someone. But time has shown them to be pretty brave. In any case they started a conversation.
One doesn't expect such a drastic ... 'fix' in a point release though.
URL, totally. I was talking to a PM recently where their customers self-host their product so without knowing the url, they have no idea where on the internet to start looking for the bug.
They also stream on their PBS app, and if you donate to your local affiliate you can unlock access to most (all?) of their content.

https://www.pbs.org/explore/passport/
To quote Weird Al's "The Check's in the Mail":

The check's in the mail, hey! You're beautiful
Don't ever change, you know what I mean
Why don't you leave a message with my girl
I'll have lunch with your machine
This is from Trieste: https://twitter.com/_sarusso/status/1789112947165270298. Naked eye was way less bright but still well visible I would say!
Fortunately Debian maintainers have a fantastic track record of writing ad-hoc patches for security-sensitive software.
Checking in from Detroit here… the aurora is actually super visible on the iPhone camera. Much more than from the naked eye (although they are slightly visible… I have a lot of light pollution around me though.)

I’m curious what causes it to come in better in my iPhones sensors… different wavelengths perhaps?
The only time the U.S has cared about spying on their citizens is when snowden dropped the big leak and they were pissed they got caught with pants down.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_global_surveillance_di...
NASA in the title should be all capital letters as it's an acronym and not a name.
Thank you Matt! That’s so cool. Like minds :)
You have to drive away from the city lights, turn off screens/lights, and let your eyes adjust. Cities are light polluted.
?? I don’t understand this response. People aren’t saying that they shouldn’t have been allowed to run the ad. You seem to be responding as if they were.

People are saying they found the content of the ad objectionable/upsetting.

Is your position that no one should find any ads to be objectionable or upsetting?

What are you arguing here?

Edit: to be clear, I’m not upset with apple over this. I wasn’t upset by the ad (which I haven’t even watched)
Note: Exposing your database directly to the Internet / external access should always be considered a bad idea & and as a last resort.
The French Sci-Fi Comics That May Have Influenced Star Wars (2016)
I guess now you're just abandoning defending anything you said and descending into gibberish.
Even if it is a cheap one, it's still wrong. I have the same visceral gut reaction to seeing a musical instrument get destroyed as I do to seeing a book burnt. I own a lot of very expensive, very nice instruments. However, some of my favourite music I have created has been on dirt cheap charity shop instruments.
https://archive.ph/YHUNR
He was born in 1926, he grew up "of the grid" and likely spent most of his early life mostly off grid.

It's not especially noteworthy .. to those of us that also grew up away from large connected services - you have your own sewerage, generators, mail, drive | walk to town to pick things up.

Currently I'm "mostly" off grid - I have internet connection, a well, leach drains, solar + wind (electric) + wind (mechanical mill), etc and live in a rural community with a lot of people older than 60 who also grew up off grid.
Doesn’t seem to work on safari on iOS although it purportedly should according to the browser support table.
Definitely their goal is to stop people from playing trumpets and instead play angry birds.

Somebody who worked on this ad probably feels passionately about one of the things which was crushed, and thought it would just be a fun ad. Sure, marketing is their main gig, but they love to get home and throw on some Miles Davis after a long day. They probably never bothered to think too hard about the ramifications of a stupid ad because it’s just their dumb job.

Or maybe they knew 100% what they were doing and it’s evil turtles all the way down.
Nerd Fonts contain glyphs that allow things like the git strip you see at the bottom of code editors ("powerline"), along with ligatures (e.g. if you type <= it merges so it looks more like the math symbol of a less than sign and a single line at the same angle just below the < sign...)

https://www.nerdfonts.com/

And here's an example of ligatures (see the image on the right - you type what's on the left, and the right image is what shows in your editor):
https://hilton.org.uk/blog/fira-code

I think but am not sure as I haven't looked in a while, that the folder and file icons are part of the nerdfonts as well, that regular fonts would just show as the generic "missing glyph" symbol.
I find that zip lock bag, a bucket of water, a straw and the archimedes principle is sufficient to prevent freeze burn.
I don’t get the practical difference, sorry. I’m happy to learn but it seems like six vs half dozen to me. Either way you’re subsidizing the car pipeline.

I feel like China is up and coming and the west is scared and performing knee jerk reactions rather than effective governing around this change in dynamic.
I mean the later manufactured product can also be stored improperly so don’t you wind up in the same situation?
Man lives normal life with 10% of his brain
Most new pianos are worth thousands of dollars, even entry level ones.
I dunno how far south you mean, but we see it in SW Virginia (which is outside the forecast zones that I’ve seen).
Have any examples? Because I love finding more from this genre.
Scammers found planting online betting ads on Indian government websites
> I have to say that I can't see how that would work.

Isn't that exactly why this is a notable discovery?
OK, I over-interpreted your position.

Not that there is anything wrong with disagreeing with me on this.

Two point as a taste:

1. One way more people is always better is in invention. Ten billon heads invent more than one.

2. People always worry that with more people there will be food shortage. They are also always empirically wrong. Because food is made by people! Twice as many people means twice as many farmers!
Ooh that’s great feedback, thank you!
I wouldn't expect companies to practice anything better than rainbow capitalism. That being said, the social and legal pressures that lead companies to participate in social causes ebb and flow. The productive question is to ask why 2020 Q2 through 2023 Q2 were elevated, and put it in the context of the social zeitgeist of the same time period. I don't expect such journalism from an article picking fruit as low-hanging as "woke" anything.
Grieving Mothers Say Punitive New Drug Laws Won't Solve the Overdose Crisis
Scientists are developing a new way to power low-orbit spacecraft using air
Two wrongs don't make a right. When your position becomes "I have a right to mock you," you've lost the argument in my eyes. You've confessed that argument is insufficient and you need to rely on insult to articulate yourself in this instance. Maybe you're right, maybe you could have articulated a point that would sway me if you had given it some more thought, but that's not evident in what's in front of me.

That comment isn't my favorite, but it isn't an attack. It's still an assertion of the commenters position, with language that's stronger than I'd prescribe but within bounds in my estimation. Flag and/or downvote it if you disagree.

If you want to know what I personally believe, on a postage stamp, I wouldn't say people "have no right" to make such assertions (I don't think it's a productive or interesting line of conversation), but I think it's a bad call to make them (I think it's reductive and misses the forest), so I'm sympathetic to that perspective.
I've visited the App Store world, and my experience was that, weighted by how often packages appear in search results, the median is charitably described as "potentially unwanted", and honestly described as malware.
+1, I'm really confused, looks like a Python wrapper around some embeddings libraries someone found, and now is overselling?
Thank you! Haha hopefully they love it because it makes them faster at reporting bugs too. Jam creates the ticket for them and auto-fills details like browser/OS and repro steps so they can spend less time filing bugs.
+1 great idea!
No quite the opposite. It has for a long time been the loudest place I knew of, but other places have narrowed the gap.
Thank you for sharing that. I wonder at what speed the morphing happen, also a sense of proportion. Very hard to capture that in anything but direct experience.
They said they don't spend all their time in the feedlots... are you sure about that?
Another example, going back to WWII, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabee
I believe peanut butter was intended to be a generic example. Substitute something else at your pleasure.
Ha, that’s cool!

We don’t have a way to customize that yet but we absolutely need to build that

And yes! Network logs get captured and added to the bug report automatically and we have copy as curl too so you can retry the request locally
Force them to pay the US to send inspectors. We’re right back at tariffs but this time with a fair rule that can be applied equally to foreign countries rather than China in particular.
Even the Western Roman Empire didn’t always use Rome as its capital. At times it was Ravenna or Mediolanum (today known as Milan).
This reads like you're accusing somebody of having a mental disorder after failing to understand their metaphor.
Thanks, I got some good pictures! AF is def. a problem ...
1. Even if this happens, it's not the long-term solution for Apple devices.

2. Siri could be the front-end to an Apple LLM that runs locally on device.
I disliked the ad. I wasn’t outraged. I take a nuanced view that it was a piece of creative poised to be an impressive addition to Apple’s advertising laurels that missed the mark because its creators failed to account for a growing cultural unease.
The game port was amazing. You got 4 ADCs (for the X axis and Y axis of a joystick, 2 joysticks supported) and you got 4 GPIO bins for the "buttons" (2 buttons per joystick, again 2 joysticks supported with 1 port).

If you didn't care about burning CPU, you could bit bang these "button" inputs and interface simple home-brew electronics. The clock line attaches to one "button" pin, the data line attaches to another "button" pin. When button 1 is "pressed" sample the state of button 2! Now you are reading a data stream.

I used this trick to interface magstripe readers directly to computers back in the early 2000s, and even wrote an article for the first issue of O'Reilly's Make Magazine about it. While professional readers/writers were hard to get, cost $100+, interfaced to the parallel or serial port, and used proprietary software, this let me do it for around ~$20 in parts and use my own software. I had quite a lot of fun learning what was stored on the various tracks of the cards I had, like my student id.

https://stripesnoop.sourceforge.net

Fun times of directly accessing hardware.
Why? What do you do?
Tho honestly on further reflection I kind of liked that ad. Edgy and cool and YouTube esque in an ironic way. I think I was just channeling a common resentment for it… I don’t actually think it’s terrible. Sorry, Tim and Apple haha! :)
Not to mention the other alternative of saving your keys locally instead of uploading them to your account, which is optional.
Don't see any support for CTEs, window functions or joins. Admittedly joins should probably be handled as views, but window functions and CTEs can be very useful in some circumstances.

It does seem like for basic CRUD this should be all you need. But you will probably run into situations where it can't handle something, and then you have to write your own endpoints anyway.

Writing your own endpoints also allows more flexibility if yu want to do some post/pre-processing steps.
How does this work in places like Germany with strict privacy laws. Do you have to get the consent of everybody in the video?
Just saw it in downtown Chicago (by the lake). Faint, but visible with naked eye. Easier to capture with my pixel 8 than with my (handheld) DSLR, even with a fast lens...kicking myself for not grabbing my tripod
The point is that just because the best-before date is a year from now doesn't erase the fact that one item on the store shelf is a month older than another identical one.
Damn, I missed it
The reason people continue to refer to "Byzantium" (this was not the name they used to themselves) is that the Western European countries also made the claim to be the heirs of the Roman Empire. So they couldn't accept the fact that "Byzantium" was the real Roman Empire (at least what remained of it).
Mayo is one of the foods where I would be antsy about dates. That is an extremely common cause of food poisoning
Most "paper" tea bags these days are lined with harmful plastics, e.g. PLA (polylactic acid). It is used to prevent them from tearing apart, but it's disastrous for the body. This week I decided to stop using all tea bags, switching to loose leaf.
you'd think Jim would get a black bar on this site.

What actually is the criteria? Or it just depends on how @dang is feeling.

Jim is a hero in science, data, computing and finance. What else did he need to do?
I didn't dig too deeply so maybe I missed it but your site doesn't mention how this works from a technical standpoint, i.e. do both reporters and devs need to have this extension installed, or just the reporters? If just the reporters, in what format are the bug reports captured? I.e. if it's a video plus metadata, does it save a .mp4 (or whatever) video file plus a .json file with the metadata?

Knowing more up front about how the whole thing works would make me more inclined to try it, especially since I'm wary of tools that take liberties with what they capture and store.
I like the response, seems very astute of an observation.

Interpreting this in the worse light possible… in other words, gate keeping.

I think a lot more people could understand and be mature in a lot more things if artificial and archaic barriers weren’t erected. I think not trusting the public is a recipe for an obscure elite ruling class. Sure, not a whole lot of people will get it but at least be open about it.

Then again, maybe there is a benefit to using that particular scale and I’ve been poisoned by my generational ills.

Not trying to be argumentative.

If I hazarded a guess it’s the second reason right?
How would I feel if I didn't eat breakfast this morning? I don't follow you. I did eat breakfast.
I mean ideal as in the physics notion of an ideal spring, simplified from all of natures forces so it may be modeled in a useful way.

In the same way, an “ideal” game is one separated from its inner workings, and what you’re left with is the user experience, beautiful artwork, music, and engaging entertainment value.
Now that’s a badass sentence. What is your team working on?
Human society screwed with biology in a big way since the industrial revolution. A few seconds, even minutes don't matter when business hours can disrupt sleep patterns of a significant part of the population by hours.

Terrestrial time don't serve society very well, as it is not very precise, it doesn't serve biology well either, as it is based on some arbitrary meridian instead of your actual location. Biology-compatible times would be in relation to sunrise and sunset, as it is sometimes done.
I just came home, went up the mountains. Absolutely crazy what I was able to see. I live somewhere mid to north Germany. Super stoked to go further up north based on what I saw in the sky. I have to say the images don't even nearly do justice to what I saw tonight, it was absolutely amazing. I spent some 6 hours up there. Just poor phone images, sorry.

https://imgur.com/a/lPI9EXc
It's a troll and/or GPT. Getting lectured by "CyberDildonics" about attachment to objects is just a little too on the nose. It has to be a joke.
This would have been so useful this past week while we debugged something that ended up being a weird combo of Comcast/Cloudflare/http3 - only some people could reliably reproduce it and it was a lot to coach them through all the steps.

Being able to redact a few values would be really important for us (I just wrote Python scripts to clean the har files up), but I’m going to play around with it this weekend.
context [also from HN]: https://insideevs.com/features/719015/china-is-ahead-of-west...
"I Went To China And Drove A Dozen Electric Cars. Western Automakers Are Cooked"
Verizon and T-Mobile are trying to gobble up US Cellular
Please elaborate on how you define what “actually matters.” It seems to me that subjective experience is one of those things, if you value experience at all. If you don’t, I’m not sure anything matters.

And there’s plenty both within and without science that can’t (currently, at least) be defined. But it doesn’t mean they aren’t worth probing.
Jonathan Haidt Blamed Tech for Teen Anxiety
I don’t think I’ve seen a definition of “art” which specifically excludes such things?
Why would long lengths of coiled wire not be affected?
Ask HN: What should I use for managing hard drive arrays in 2024?
I have a use case that seems to me that it should be somewhat common but I can't find any FOSS software that does it. I want to automatically assemble an arbitrary set of physical drives into a virtual drive such that all data is stored on at least 2 drives to protect against drive failures.

RAID 1 would seem to be able to do this, but this only works with two drives of the same size (or you sacrifice extra capacity on the larger drive). There are combined schemes like RAID 10 or other raid levels, but these all have requirements on the size and arrangement of drives.

I want something where:
- I can just throw an arbitrary set of drives of varying sizes at it and it figures out a way to store all data on at least two, three, or however many drives I set (ideally on a per-file basis)
- It should also support easily adding and removing drives to add capacity or remove damaged drives
- It should automatically reduplicate anything that was stored on a drive when it fails, if possible, and it should scream errors at me if it can't due to the array being too full
- Lastly, I need to be able to mount it as a filesystem (at least over a network)

My use case is a personal nas.

What tools can do this? I have yet to find any. Since stored data can be important, the tool being reputable and mature is a major factor.
They're just questions, Leon.
Autonomous Vehicle company Motional cut about 550 employees, around 40%
Yet Another X-Class Flare Observed
In the Citizens United v. FEC ruling of 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Citizens United by a vote of 5-4. The justices who voted in favor were:

Chief Justice John Roberts - Nominated by President George W. Bush.

Justice Samuel Alito - Nominated by President George W. Bush.

Justice Anthony Kennedy - Nominated by President Ronald Reagan.

Justice Antonin Scalia - Nominated by President Ronald Reagan.

Justice Clarence Thomas - Nominated by President George H.W. Bush.

These justices constituted the majority that decided to prohibit the government from restricting independent expenditures for political communications.
Thanks, I like that it seems similar enough to posix shell to draw me in before surprising me :). I like how the option vs arguments distinction is done and generally a lot of posix shell issues are improved. A few feature requests/impressions:

1) Maybe link at the top of the ref page to the learn page? I started looking at ref but some stuff I needed to know was much better explained under learn and it took me a while to notice that it was there also (I'm guessing the existance of ref would be more obvious from the learn page).

2) Local documentation is vital for a shell, if there is a way to generate a man page from the available documentation that would be quite helpful (at least instaling the website would be good, but that looks like a package issue that should be easy to do).

3) If I want the equivalent of fd -X but being able to use aliases (functions in elvish) there is from-terminated and (all) but despite the long command line lengths these days it can overflow. A builtin simplified version of xargs that works with elvish lists and aggregates arguments while breaking into acceptable length command lines would be great.

4) There seems to be no way to execute code from a different file in the current context? For bash to get aliases in fd -X you can use a complicated fd ... -X bash -ic '<alias> "$@"' 'fd bash', however it seems that elvish both doesn't have -i and has no way to even source the rc file from elvish -c? Or to split rc files into multiple files without using modules?

5) &> and to a lesser extent |& are handy in bash to simplify combining stderr and stdout. Hopefully elvish doesn't have the 2>&1 placement issues that posix shells do but even if not I'd consider a shorthand worthwhile.

6) Some type of cooperative locking would be helpful along the lines of Debian's lockfile-progs but built in to make it easy to avoid scripts that break if you accidently run it twice at the same time (ideally compatible with lockfile-progs unless there is a good reason not to be).

7) Beyond that, some type of built in concurrency managed database based on elivish data types might be worth considering to simplify sharing state between independent execution of related utilities (or multiple execution of a single utility).

8) I like your idea of exposing more TUI abilities. In addition to what you said, being able to create a status line or two while preserving the scrolling history of other commands would be helpful (and this would be potentially interesting in an interactive shell also). I like your rprompt.

Overall, I like the look of elvish and for some reason it seems more approachable to me (not a big fan of lisp) than the PowerShell style shells.
Long context windows get confused, so shorter is better, and they cannot fit everything in general. I'm not sure where you are seeing results that say otherwise.

RAG is effectively prompt context optimization, so categorically rejecting doing that doesn't make sense to me. Maybe if models internalized that or scaled... But they don't.
I like the ad on the whole, but I was a little upset about the destruction of seemed like a perfectly good guitar. I play the guitar as a hobby.

But then again, rock bands have been making me upset by smashing guitars on stage for decades now. And these are the same kind of musicians who are apparently outraged now.

Can sort of understand the discomfort, but musicians have been smashing their own instruments for dramatic effect for a while now.