skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reading 'Making Software: What Really Works, And Why We Believe It'. One chapter summarized this paper which attempts to build a defect prediction model based on organizational structure.

I wanted to ask this community about your experience with defects and organizational structure. What specific organizational structures have led to more or less defects for your teams?
OK, but what about more than 200 years? What about the next civilizations?

Also, a lot can happen in 200 years that can have unforeseen effect on the FRAM of that USB stick (EMPs from nuclear explosions, solar storms, etc)
The original accusers (one of whom had links to the CIA) also dropped their claims.
> implicitly letting the exception propagate

It’s not really implicit though, is it? You’re explicitly asking the language to unwrap the result or propagate the error up out of the function. And the function return value explicitly encodes this, unlike exceptions which can happen anywhere for any reason at any time.
Reading text definitely benefits from the resolution more than refresh rate. Once you've used HiDPI displays, it's hard to go back to noticeably pixelated fonts.
> Sure and the end state of completing Dyson Swarm in Solar system is not achievable with the technology we have.

Sure, for one possible end state.

The point is that we have the technology to start, because we've already started. Thus, it is achievable given enough time and effort with our current level of technological advancement.
Shame they’re pulling Sky. It is the only voice I could tolerate in chats. Also I agree with the others who don’t hear the resemblance. How much of these complaints actually come from users? This saga seems very media-driven.
Commercial sense? Yeah, especially if it contains all those things.

And it will have to be periodically replaced!
I'd say USB has pretty good chances, because it's everywhere. It's already (checks wikipedia) 28 years old and AFAIK completely backwards compatible; I wouldn't be terribly surprised if in 50 years we're still actively using USB 9.0 or whatever and you can still plug in USB 1.x devices to then-current computers (possibly through adapter(s), if we ever manage to obsolete the Type A connector)
Not true, sadly. In my experience there is a big element of luck, and the headline matters a lot.

For example, my most popular ever submission (1341 upvotes) didn't get a single upvote when I submitted 4 months earlier under a slightly different headline.
>In northern New England, for example, like Maine and New Hampshire, I'd estimate 1 in every 3 or 4 people in most public spaces are armed. I'd be shocked to find out it's less than 1 in 10 in any specific gathering of 100 or more people.

I've lived in Maine my entire life—from the most rural parts to Portland—and this is just nonsense. There is absolutely no way that even 10% of people are armed in public.

>Do you start shooting when the odds are that high that someone might shoot back? Maaaaybe, but not as soon as you might if you were surer that you would get away with it.

Perhaps you'd like to consider what JUST happened in Lewiston last October.
Kidneys are one of the highest in demand artificial organs. Unfortunately the complexities of "artificial" kidneys are manied.

The smallest dialysis machine is about the size of a laser printer. Many folks become confined to their dialysis schedule, and kidney disease, dialysis or no, has many side effects and can be very painful.
Sure, if you come up with something that covers all PS and PDF use cases.
Obviously this is just niche market to try and commercialize FeRAM.

But the long term storage angle doesn't make much sense to me, you can get 8kb in a couple of QR codes.

Much better would be to market the number of read-write cycles as the USP over flash - so you could use it as some kind of constantly updated but persistent, encryption key or parity code or whatever.
"More than four months ago, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court asked me to assist him with evaluating evidence of suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel and Gaza. I agreed and joined a panel of international legal experts to undertake this task. Together we have engaged in an extensive process of evidence review and legal analysis including at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

The Panel and its academic advisers are experts in international law, including international humanitarian law and international criminal law. Two Panel members are appointed as expert 'Special Advisers' by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Two Panel members are former judges at criminal tribunals in The Hague.

Despite our diverse personal backgrounds, our legal findings are unanimous. We have unanimously determined that the Court has jurisdiction over crimes committed in Palestine and by Palestinian nationals. We unanimously conclude that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, including hostage-taking, murder and crimes of sexual violence. We unanimously conclude that there are raasonable grounds to believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant have commited war crimes and crimes against humanity including starvation as a method of warfare, murder, persecution and extermination.

I served on this Panel because I believe in the rule of law and the need to protect civilian lives. The law that protects civilians in war was developed more than 100 years ago and it applies in every country in the world regardless of the reasons for a conflict. As a human rights laywer, I will never accept that one child's life has less value than another's. I do not accept that any conflict should be beyond the reach of the law, nor that any perpetrator should be above the law. So I support the historic step that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has taken to bring justice to victims of atrocities in Israel and Palestine.

Today, my colleagues and I have published an oped and a detailed legal report of the Panel's findings. My approach is not to provide a running commentary of my work but to let the work speak for itself. I hope that witnesses will cooperate with the ongoing investigation. And I hope that justice will prevail in a region that has already suffered too much."

- Amal Clooney
But that doesn't explain why the market settled on 27" and 32" as the de facto 4K sizes instead of 24" or 22". Apple was right on their 220dpi.
Show HN: Tinymath – The fastest and smallest Go math library for small places
dmidecode had made this information available for a few decades…
Seems evil, basically.
use deno!

https://docs.deno.com/runtime/manual/basics/permissions
Microsoft once sued a high school kid named Mike Rowe for trademark infringement for having a website mikerowesoft.com so anything is possible.
The PR response is crafted to negate the fact that it was Scarlet’s voice but they don’t deny they were mimicking Her.
It’s hard to say it wasn’t intentional after this tweet:

https://x.com/sama/status/1790075827666796666

> her

And this one:

https://x.com/prafdhar/status/1790789900650037441

> @alex_conneau: came up with the vision of HER before anyone at OpenAI had, and executed relentlessly!
Any measurement off by some small amount, and the connector won't insert, or be too tight or too loose.

It is the equivalent of code that compiles and runs successfully at the first attempt. It is nice, and with experience easier to achieve. But it is still part lucky.
I feel like there should be something in Montreal that would fit in here but I can't come up with a good example. The habitat '67 is close but doesn't have enough vegetation. There's various decaying concrete stuff in that area by Parc Jean Drapeau but again it doesn't quite fit. Any ideas?
$6m across 2.5 years is like $15.5m, how many engineers man-months to breakeven, I'm pretty sure it was worth the work.
Everyone admits to being unable to predict individual quantum interactions. My point is that above the quantum level these interactions don't have much of an effect. The reason that I didn't assume you were talking about these interactions is because you seemed to be rejecting scientific observations altogether. The context of your comment was in replying to the comment that "everything is governed by laws, when we uncover it, we can replicate it." Your response didn't read at all like you were talking about quantum interactions because you could have just said that. In fact it is usually common in such threads to reply "but what about quantum interactions?" to such comments. The way I read "a religious enterprise expressing our belief in a constant, unseen, unchanging reality" was that you disagreed that the equations in physics textbooks will change at some point. The reason I thought that was the context was "Everything is governed by laws" so I thought you were saying that the laws are not unchanging.

Now reading your post, you seem to actually agree with most current scientific understanding. You don't actually seems to be saying that the laws of physics will change, Ask any physicist if some classical interaction will certainly happen the way it should. They will not say that it will happen with 100% certainty but rather that it is extremely likely that it will happen that way.

>an axiomatic religious belief that has incredible amounts of evidence

ie. not axiomatic.

>and yet, at the macro level we do science anyway because of our religious belief that it usually is okay.

I'm confused by what you are saying here. You agree that we can understand quantum interactions within "the laws of statistics" even if we can't know them for certain. So why would we change what we do on the classical level based on that? You can just add "extreme likelihood of following this equation" to every classical equation. How would you do science differently?

Additionally, what claim do you think is only being held together by the idea that the rules of physics are constant?

It seems like what you really might mean is "due to quantum level interactions, an inorganic object that reproduces the same classical effects of the brain will not have consciousness." Is that correct?
In TFA:

Warp: Propulsion based on manipulating spacetime

Not warp: Faster than light.

Just to be clear.
Working on an Operating System
I'm working on an Operating system made completely from scratch, I already have the bootloader and kernel ready, and it even has a FAT12 file system, I'm thinking of creating an entire language for it
Any suggestions?
Not everything needs to be implanted. A process similar to haemodialysis intended to filter microplastics would be what we need.

You also can't just have a catch all "filtering of toxins" like that. There are many molecules and proteins in your serum that need to be there and any sort of aggressive filtration will be a problem.
Sam Altman and other OpenAI employees have been referencing the movie ahead of the presentation[1][2]. I think it'd be really challenging to prove that they didn't have that exact outcome in mind.

[1] https://x.com/sama/status/1790075827666796666

[2] https://x.com/alex_conneau
Obviously, if you exclusively watch 24/29.97/48 fps movies, a display that updates faster than that has no benefit to you. I suppose it does get the next frame faster.

But have you watched 60/120/240 fps content? How often do you update your TV? If you're going to keep it for more than a few years, definitely get 240 Hz.

I was similarly dismissive of high-frame-rate displays, until I got a new monitor (4k, 120fps, replacing an ancient 1080p display with screwed up vsync settings that capped it at 30 fps because I didn't know any better) and watched some content I'd shot on my own Insta360. Oh my god was it incredible. Buttery smooth and sharp and fast, like real life instead of a movie. I booted up Rocket League just to see the difference. It's like walking around while looking through a smartphone camera preview versus looking at the world with your own eyes. 30 fps is now hard to watch and totally unplayable for me. (Yes, unplayable, not unwatchable; if you ever hook up a PC gaming system to the TV there's zero dispute in my mind that 240 Hz is worth it, even if it's less important for movies).

I understand that 24/29.97/48 fps have incredible inertia in because of limitations in distribution - if it can't be played on Blu Ray at high frame rates, and can't be played at the box office at high frame rates, there's a chicken-and-egg problem where studios don't produce HFR content so distributors don't support HFR content.

But I cannot imagine that this will hold off high-frame-rate content forever. More and more distribution is over vertically-integrated streaming providers. Because each frame is similar, the bitrate of compressed 120fps content isn't 2x that of 60 fps which isn't 2x that of 30 fps (it's more like 1.5x, with diminishing returns), so it won't cost 2x as much to distribute high frame rate video. It takes more compute from the encoders, but the AI boom is fueling GPU improvement at incredible rates.

I think that the first sports league (XFL? UFC?) to offer 120 fps or 240 fps content will put a crack in the dam that will quickly erode. Some AAA blockbuster action movie (by Ang Lee?) will premier exclusively on some streaming service, with special treatment to be distributed at 120 or 240 fps. A few top-tier cinemas will update some of their projectors to run at high frame rates. Eventually mainstream sports and mainstream movies and optical media standards will be at high frame rates.

Whether that's before or after your next TV upgrade or not, I don't know.
Eps, but it is not much better.
Nobody realistically expects FTL. Warp drive still has hope for reactionless or even just lower fuel needs that would be amazing. The other big thing would be reducing the impact velocity of the assorted random atoms in the way as you go fast.
PDF/A. All the good bits of PDF (compatibility, standardization, encapsulation), without the worst bits (media extensions, JavaScript).

(Except PDF/A-4, which reintroduces JavaScript for some horrific reason).
I don't think that's accurate. 42 km/s is purely a function of the Sun's mass and the distance of Earth's orbit.

If we used the Earth's orbital speed (~30 km/s) and launched from Earth in that continued direction we would only need ~12 km/s additional velocity.
This title is unreadable.
That seems to be the majority opinion, at least in my experience, but I've always really liked it. Maybe because it reminds me of so many science fiction settings. I do think blending the buildings with plants goes a long way to making them look more hospitable.
I'd say mechanical damage would be, by far, the most likely cause of catastrophic failure. Loss of data will occur when the device is lost or discarded.
Swift developers are not that many. It's less than 5% of respondents to the Stack Overflow developer survey [1].

Microsoft and Google each have languages/ecosystems with larger developer share (Google at over 6% for Dart, and Microsoft at over 27% for C#).

[1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#technology-most-popula...
Datum: An MLR Framework Node, Mongo, Redis, Lambda Deployment and CI
> Sunbathing, flying to different countries to get sun, the preference for sun tanned skin to pasty, and the whole difference in appearance between black people and whites seems to be an evolutionary response to letting more light in.

Aren't all of those purely cultural things that have actively changed over the last ~century?
With the ISS being "close to the sun" in my opinion (close enough to capture energy), and with the "relaying it further" not actually required for the term (all the energy can be used locally, and it still applies), it seems that the ISS does meet the definition.

Also, while I assumed good faith in my above reply, you've dashed my hopes: please don't ask bad-faith questions here. This is the wrong forum for that. You've shown yourself capable of announcing that you personally disagree with something. I think politely doing that is better than asking bad faith questions, pretending to want to learn, while intending to argue with the answer.
I never had trouble understanding the basic logic tables, but never got around to understand how a combination of gates makes an adder or other computer functions. Would the visualization extended also make those more clear?
Found this fun stack overflow post:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49299000/what-are-the-se...
the AST type represents the syntax of the language, each inhabitant of which type is a representation of an individual program in the language
I don't know, shouldn't the AI then be trapped at evaluating all possible AI implementations? And since it will face the halting problem, it won't discriminate the very best one, though it will probably be able to return the best one given a capped amount of resources that is reachable through exhaustion in its space. It won't necessarily be better than what can be provided by human beings given an equivalent amount of resources.
As a caveat, my job isn’t programming but I am self-taught in Python and Google Apps Script.

ChatGPT has been incredible for the small marketing agency where I work to do much more w/ automations. Being able to use natural language to describe a script that will work with the Asana API (for example) has been amazing. There’s been projects that would’ve taken me hours in the past that are now done in minutes.

There’s also been a lot of data collection and research we’ve been doing by having ChatGPT write small scripts — like scrape this CSV of URLs and return all the meta titles/descriptions. There were tools for these things in the past but the flexibility of easily scripting them ourselves has been great.

In the past, the vast majority of this stuff would’ve either not gotten done or would’ve been half-assed by me — maybe sometimes I’d have hired a freelancer to help. But now I just say to keep the automation ideas coming because my time is no longer the limiting factor.
Archive: https://archive.is/EXl8X
Here is a another great place to get started if you want to get into 64k size coding: https://64k-scene.github.io/
Here's his son's webpage: https://web.archive.org/web/20061211025253/http://irb.cs.tu-...
> Is that true for an average developer, really? Yes, we read lots of manuals, snippets, stackoverflows. But code? One does mostly write code.

No, every developer almost certainly reads a lot more code than they write. You can't modify code to add a feature without reading and understanding the code first. The code you add is often very short compared to the code you need to read to understand what to modify.
In a landmark announcement, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has declared that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Yoav Galant bear criminal responsibility for serious international crimes committed in the State of Palestine since October 8, 2023.
The problem here was neither media extensions nor embedded JavaScript though.

It was pdf.js handling of fonts
Can't find info on what kind of capacitors they use but [1] suggests certain kinds of ceramics can only last ~10 years.

More generally, all electronic components can fail [2] and there's a lot of such components in this device. This is applying component-level thinking to a systems level problem with no real way to verify their claim (they don't even claim to have done any aging test to try to simulate how long the device could last) and why this should be called out as nothing more than a marketing gimmick.

[1] https://www.edn.com/class-2-ceramic-capacitors-can-you-trust...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_of_electronic_componen...
> (...) archaeologists (...) Dig up a hole, find the stone tools that evidence human occupation, draw the stratigraphy, do radiocarbon dating, publish in a reputed journal

I mean what else did you expect archaeologists to do?
It's also all the wiring in the walls, too. They all carry two lines, and you could even buy "two line telephones."

It made a lot of sense when I ran a dial-up BBS, or for homes that were heavy modem users. Otherwise, once high-speed internet was an option, 2nd lines made less and less sense.
At least edge uses a module from word as far as I know and I'd expect the same for teams. They likely are not affected.
That's why I use MS Teams (on desktop) via browser only. Keeps it nicely sandboxed.
> Are you talking about the lander?

I'm talking about the entirety of Artemis. SLS was basically a job-saving programme initiated by Congress to appease senators that feared job losses in their respective states after the Shuttle programme was axed. Alternative designs that would use fuel storage in space and space tugs could've worked without an expensive new rocket.

> IMO, the lander it the least objectionable part of the whole thing

Then we have a disagreement :) The HLS requires the following in order work:

* the development of a rapidly reusable, radically new rocket system with new engines that haven't been flight tested before; alternative options could've used existing systems

* development of long term in-orbit cryogenic fuel storage - something that has never been tried before

* development of safe and reliable cryogenic fuel transfer between vehicles in orbit - again, a capability that has never been demonstrated before

* a lander with a single point of failure for exiting/entering the vehicle (on account of its ridiculous height)

* a lander that relies on turbo-pump driven bi-propellant engines for ascend - something so risky that Apollo-era engineers didn't even consider it

* a lander with a mass of around 100 tons for 2 crew initially - horrible weight to payload ratio, as this mass has to be launched from the surface

* several (actual number unknown as of now, but certainly more than 4) required refuelling launches

In conclusion we have 4 mission critical technologies that have never been demonstrated before, yet need to work flawlessly. We also have added risk due to the use of turbo-pump driven bi-propellant cryogenic fuel and the requirement of a 30+ metre crane for accessing the vehicle. I cannot comment on the stability during landing and ascend or the risks involved with dust and rocks from the exhaust plume on the moon.

As far as the economics go, yeah, I agree that with such tight budget a mission like that is very challenging to say the least. Low-balling the cost, exaggerating the timeline and hiring the person who on her own decided to hand out the contract throws a bad light on the issue, though.
What is the point of a president? What is the point of a prime-minister? What is the point of a King, or Queen, or Emperor, or "People's Commitee" if there is no-one with the power to say "enough"? No-one with the power to say "no more"?

People make me fucking sick to my teeth. I bust my guts trying to make things a little better, and I earn very little and get back nothing. Then you realise every effort is undermined by an avalanche of shit from people actively trying to make things worse.

Fuckfuckfuck.

Why bother even trying? Why bother even being alive?
Sure, but that's basically the exact same value-add of Worldcoin, along with a bajillion other similar apps.
That's a huge discrepancy. One half of HN wants to put petabytes on SQLite, while your limit is only 10GB.
It makes for interesting photography, but I really dislike ugly concrete buildings. Post apocalypse photography of them is kind of appealing.
Wow. Keep doing it. Well done.

I don't know how drivers are implemented but I assume they are async and state machines.

Do you have a shell?
Agree. I watched "Her" recently and also "Under the Skin" so have SJ's voice in my working memory and Sky, while similar in some ways to SJ's voice, is different enough that this seems 100% defensible.