skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The no death stack rule is one of the reasons I am still playing IV. It's completely unrealistic. D-Day was not one unit per tile. D-Day was the same tactic that you would use in IV, stop production of anything but military and then show up on the enemy's border with a death stack.
> is full of crap

crap crap, or good crap. cow manure and rabbit droppings are amazing crap to add to. your soils.
By harnessing wind power, high-tech sails can help cut marine pollution
I can't imagine its very much, probably still mostly water and structural polysaccharides.
Debt Ate Chicago: Liabilities threaten the city's survival
Auto Universum: The Allure of Period Colours (Car Colors)
just tape the beginning of the tape to the end of the tape.
It was originally an education device aimed at children. Is that a, if not the definition of a toy? Sure, it's powerful, but that's just the march of technology and not a reflection on it's original aims.
I’ve read of people taking it, experiencing a whole life (some up to 60+ years), and then coming back

The experience is not exclusive to psychedelics either. It can happen through intense physical trauma, like a car accident. There’s a case of a guy who, while unconscious after a car crash, had the experience of being married and having kids, spending several years in that life. Then after waking up, he got depressed missing the family he had while unconscious

Wild
https://archive.is/ozGqj
The filename for sure comes from the camera. My point was that the crawler stopped there and did not pick up the other images on the page because all of them have a higher number in the name and it stopped at an artificial number of sub urls
Take a look at AWS Healthlake and AWS Comprehend Medical
With this line of reasoning there can be no virtual Turing machines either because we don't have infinite RAM, and no language is actually Turing complete because they can't run with infinite pointer size either …
I dunno, I just clicked the "submissions" button and called it as I saw it.

Nobody can know for sure why someone flagged something, but you can get a pretty good idea checking recent post history in my experience.
Universe as a doughnut (2003)

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/11/science/universe-as-dough...

https://archive.ph/PYEmB
Kudos on this one.

Forget the "I'm running it on a Pi" angle, which is cool in its own right; the application itself is great, and just went on my surf list.

Great work!

Constructive comments:

- Could use a visible "about this site" link, maybe pointing at that blog post or something similar.

- Could use to make a link to the source site's comments page more visible instead of just "click on the logo".

JMHO there. =)
wish i could watch YTV again online like netflix

all my old favorite shows: little hamster show, wishbone, whatamess, dragonball z , gunda wing, uh-oh (my friend was a contestant), video arcade top 10

and the most iconic of all: The Zone
Not wealthier in every sense. House prices, and houses being really fundamental to our lives, going up due to modern factors are a real issue.
My oldest kid loved Mighty Machines so much when he was little.
Yeah it can be very useful. The only way I'd trust it is if it was a box that MITM the HDMI/DP cable and has clearly no connectivity to the outside world. It can do OCR locally, store things locally, I don't even want it queryable from a computer. Maybe a standalone terminal.
Could just port forwards in your home's router and then front it by Cloudflare, or use Tailscale funnel if you want to get fancy.
I am very curious how you would define 'reasoning'.
In many places in the US, it is hard to find a place to rent for less than $2000 dollars per month. That seems absurdly low to limit your total assets to. That also seems like a way to trap people in poverty, since saving money for something that might allow you to work, like education, a vehicle, assets to start a business, etc. would mean giving up your income.
There should be explicit legal mechanisms to revert any temorary measures and as many measures as possible should be viewed as temporary.

For example, every extension needs to be vetted by an independent court and by default it is revoked immediately upon failing to renew.
Thank you!

I really hate it when people throw around acronyms instead of just hitting a few extra keys on their keyboard for clarity
It's similar to that, yes.

The difference is that I didn't use to rate that as one of my highest selection criteria, because if a new library was well designed and well documented enough I wouldn't feel the need for large amounts of community support.

Today if a new library is well designed and well documented I still might pick a more mature competitor purely for the LLM advantage.
As first I would work and save, then just live on those savings (It's MUCH cheaper than you think - around $1200 per month to drive to Argentina for 2 years, all in).

Now I write for magazines, do youtube, have a few published books and anything else I can think of to earn some side income.
I am not in the US. The original post is not even about the US?

Shocking. Is this really true? I grew up with my bicycle, which gave me the freedom to spend the summer holidays how I wanted. Visit friends, and when I got a little bit older cycle with them to a lake, a public swimming pool, get ice cream, play football etc. until the sun came down and I had to come home. Of course, I wasn't allowed to do things alone only with a group of known friends, they knew who I am spending time with and which friend I am visiting. And never to strange places only the familiar ones nearby.

My gf grew up in the city and grew up in her local neighbourhood and her local friends. The parks, playground and also the nearby ice-cream if its hot and sunny :)

Do they sit in their home playing video games all day or what?
Show HN: Agentic is an OSS AI functions stdlib
The goal of Agentic is to create a set of standard AI functions / tools which are optimized for both normal TS-usage as well as LLM-based apps.

It's designed to work with all of the major TS AI SDKs (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI SDK, Firebase Genkit, etc) via adaptors.

Would love feedback from the HN community :)
DDoS attacks target EU political parties as elections begin
I loved this show. I taught me the difference between a compiler and an interpreter a decade before the web even existed, when our school had one commodore PET. Core memory: I was in 7th grade and I got teased mercilessly for mentioning it during science class once. Ironically, the kid who teased me the most went on to become a founder of a very successful internet company in the late 90's and then retired in his early 30's and just flies around the world teaching people to surf. Grrr...
This could make for an interesting UI for exploring clusters in data. I only wish K-d trees could handle higher dimensions
And they (well, one of them) are still active
https://www.youtube.com/@computerclubzwei
And of course, the average 'end all benefits' type of person will shout 'these are the exceptions, it's the cheats that we want to stop', newsflash, these ARE the cheats the system claims are the problem, they're not the exception, the cruelty to otherwise normal people is the whole point
Interactive Theorem Proving, Guest Lecture – Introduction to HOL [video]
How a person defines "popular" and "comparable" will be significant here.

The examples given above aren't about Teslas, but Teslas are named as examples because for many they are often considered defacto synonymous with "EVs" in North America.

Vehicles a person might cross-shop could be considered "comparable" for some, yet not everyone will agree that those vehicles are actually "comparable" (e.g. Tesla Model 3 versus BMW 3-series or similar cars in the BMW 3-series' segment.

Should "comparable" be by specification? Cabin comfort? By product segment? By functional purpose? 0-60 acceleration times? By curb weight?

For alternative definitions of "popular" let's select some of the best-selling (i.e. units sold annually) automotive vehicles in North America. Best-selling 'overall' rather than by "product segment":

* 2024 Toyota RAV4 (3,800lbs / 1,700kg). The spans multiple configurations and trims, from ICE AWD to Hybrid AWD.

* 2024 Honda CRV (3,400-3900lbs / 1550-1,800 kg). This spans multiple configurations and trims, from ICE 2WD/AWD to Hybrid.

* 2024 Ford F150 XLT (5,000lbs / 2,300kg). There are many-many variants of F150 spanning powertrains, cab+bed configurations, trims. The curb weight example listed is for a SuperCrew Cab, 4x4, V6-Ecoboost Engine 6.5-ft bed configuration.

Here's a few more non-Tesla EVs:

* Hyundai Ionic 5 (4,200-4,600lbs / 1,900-2,100kg)

* Volkswagen ID.4 (4,300-4,900lbs / 2,000-2,200kg)

* Chevy Bolt EV/EUV (~3,600lbs / ~1650kg). The Bolt turns out to be an outlier amongst most of the North American EVs, and really better matches the Leaf/i3/ID.3 group of EVs.

* Fiat 500e (2024) (~2950lbs / ~1,350kg). Another outlier, classified as a "minicompact" car.

Generally, the most-common EVs being sold in North America outweigh the most-common ICE or Hybrid EVs being sold in North America. In terms of weight, the most-common EVs, regardless of bodystyle are more comparable to the light to medium duty pickup trucks and SUVs of the last few decades.

* This is interesting too because US States like California and Washington have road wear and maintenance funding issues because their revenue collection system was generally designed through gasoline consumption sales taxes which do not apply to EVs. Additionally, in California regular pickup trucks are classified and taxed, via vehicle registration and weight penalty fees, as commercial vehicles rather than personal vehicles (For individuals, this results in registration fees that are 2x+ the non-commercial rate).
I've been using fractional scaling on mint and fedora for a couple of years now. It's a checkbox in the display control panel.
It’s not zero but it’s less than ICE vehicles.

https://thedriven.io/2023/05/16/petrol-and-diesel-cars-20-ti...

> Contrary to common disinformation about electric vehicles, data from the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) has shown that EVs are 20 times less likely to catch fire than petrol and diesel cars

It’s strange how FUD related to this has spread considering how many lithium ion batteries each individual has around them right now, and has had for decades.
One of the things I appreciate about HN is the depth of discussion. I think part of that depth comes from the assumption that everyone who is commenting has read the article.

I wasn’t trying to be pedantic (even though I certainly was) I was just trying to grapple with this ideal
Yes that is cool. I think the other guy is already dead
> Williams, who is disabled and doesn’t work, relied upon a little-known federal assistance program — Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, run by the Social Security Administration.

What kind of circles does the author run in where SSI is obscure?
I’ve noticed that most peoples clothes are the same boring colours as the cars
Show HN: I made minimalistic widget to simplify how people can reach out to you
Hi there!

It's Paul

For the past year, I've been applying to frontend positions. During this time, I've noticed that many companies either do not have a contact form on their website or it's difficult to find. This situation made me frustrated with finding a way to contact companies. To solve this problem, I created a minimalistic floating contact form widget that can be easily integrated into any website and is customizable! I believe this approach can simplify how your website visitors contact you.

Would love your feedback.
I've had really good results with Python's pdfminer.six, it's also very easy to use.

https://pypi.org/project/pdfminer.six/
That's like saying JavaScript, C++, Go -- I can't tell the difference.

OK great, so why don't you go learn it instead of dismissing it?

It has nothing to do with marketing. Madras and tartan come from totally different parts of the world. They're completely different fabrics with totally different origins. (The relationship between plaid and tartan is a little more complicated.)
Yeah, we used to be like that. Then, when this hype cycle started ramping up, the company brought in a new exec who got rid of that. I brought it up with the CEO, but nothing changed, so that's another reason for me to leave.
I disagree that it is stupid to require entities you make a deal with to uphold their side of the deal. It is stupid not to do that.
Maybe it's recursively encoding JSON as JSON strings many levels deep, and it's mostly backslashes and double quotes.
What Does George Orwell's '1984' Mean in 2024?
People have a lot more faith in ReAct than they should, for applications like this
Quickly Visualize Your AWS Costs
Auditing TikTok
Yeah, it is weird.

About a year ago my mom had said "you worked at these powerful international companies, I'd expect you to have confidence in the people working in their ranks to protect the things that you deem valuable", my response was "unfortunately that's exactly the reason why I have no hope that anyone will stand up".
So annoyingly the paper doesn't explicitly state the constant they got, but from a brief skim it looks like it's, like, 10^15?? I really hope someone can improve that...
Does anyone know of a good source of historic weather data by lat/long or zip code? I’m personally interested in evaluating different places within the US to live based on my preferred weather conditions.
Also consider running the wires in an accessible way, like along the ceiling along with water pipes and air ducts. I've torn into the walls in my house multiple times to do repairs and I would far prefer seeing (and being able to easily access) the wiring than to have it hidden away with minimal thought to when things go wrong or someone wants an upgrade.
> Languages aren't just good or bad in the abstract.

I don't know about that. There's certainly no "perfect" language, but to claim that python is brilliant or elegant language design is to not know a whole log about PL design.

I think I'm mainly getting downvoted because Python is popular, and people think that means it must be inherently good.
so I wrote

>After that if I posted a link to an article I wrote it got shadow blocked

and you responded

>If your post was flagged

please take that as constructive criticism (explanation if you don't get my point: I did not use the word "flagged")
`declaim` is just as implementation-dependant as the :type specifiers for defstruct, thus by lispm's rules, there are no 'standard' ways to apply type conditions.

But then, the standard /is/ useless.
You're not contradicting him since he's never saying the feature doesn't exist. He saying it's not working great.
I believe the Jack Hills site and anything downstream is now permanently closed to mining and collecting. There are a few sites claiming to sell specimens that predate the closure but I wouldn't trust them unless I had the equipment to validate their provenance.
What do you mean ? A K-d tree handles k dimensions.
Generating a useful 2-D representation (=projection) of more dimensions is the hard part.
> Note it isn’t free to handle cash so comparing 3%-ish fees to 0% is wrong since cash is attractive to steal for both employees and others and requires time safes, armed guards, etc.

Vastly important point here.
I mention that in my 3rd sentence, but as an American of Jewish decent, the sides of WWII could not have been any clearer. My family did not have the option to weigh the facts and choose a side, it was chosen for us. I am just thankful that we happened to leave Europe before it all fell apart.
This is very far removed from my experience growing up. How do kids even get to school? Can't they walk, cycle or take the bus (I assume that must be possible but they still have to get to the bus stop)?

My first experience of being able to do something on my own was walking to school. It's always the same way, so it must be possible, right? I think I must have been 6-7 years old?
You can still form corps and armies (i.e. stacks of up to three of one type of unit).

I don't think combat "realism" is something Civ strives for, you might be better suited playing Total War if you want to micro-manage battles and the composition of your forces (which is tonnes of fun and I enjoy).

But on the topic of realism, it's not exactly realistic for an area to hold an arbitrary number of troops.

No hate to Civ IV though. Baba Yetu.
There is a scifi trope where a arch villain has a world universe ending plan of collapsing or releasing some unimaginable power and by being in nominal control or in the center of the explosion they will acquire that power.

Altman seems to be the classic human in the middle of a storm and thinks he'll be in control.

Because he is CEO of a corporation.
People "spin conspiracies" every day while prosecuting crime in court.

Conspiracy theories are when you make that kind of thing up.

A conspiracy is just one or more people working together. Putting a weird tone on that word is...weird.

Whatever attachment you have to using words wrong - would make you a fool.
I would LOVE to build a modern-day operating system using a high-level programming language, even if it were just a pedagogical toy. I love Unix, but it’s not (and shouldn’t be) the final word on OS design.

In the meanwhile, Project Oberon from the late Niklaus Wirth (http://www.projectoberon.net/) is a good example of a pedagogical operating system (and programming language) that isn’t Unix. Project Oberon was heavily influenced by the Cedar and Mesa projects at Xerox PARC.
> Generic language criticism in 2024

Research on PL design is alive and well in 2024, and Python is nowhere near the cutting edge. I never said it didn't get the job done, or that people shouldn't learn or use it.

It's just not as elegant or simple of a PL design as people sometimes seem to think it is. It's hard to look at something like Clojure or Haskell next to Python and to come to the conclusion that python is particularly elegant.

I think my main point got lost on people who took offense to my dislike for python: my main point is that you should also learn languages that are very different / that are in an altogether different branch.
Anti-patterns in event-driven architecture
Thank you for your compliments and vote of confidence. I appreciate it all, especially on a day when I don't feel so well.
Launched my first SEO case study website
> junk (i.e. non-functional DNA)

Perhaps people should use the term "non-functional DNA" instead of "junk DNA" more often. Calling something as "junk" has unnecessarily dismissive connotations.
I should qualify, I've been a practitioner for quite a while now, so I've crossed over many times. Above ego dissolution threshold, a lot of stuff feels pretty similar, but each molecule definitely has its own character.

My personal preference is a mixture of caapi paste and a citrus juice extraction of p. cubensis and dried kratom leaf. The progression is quite fast and it can be incredibly intense but the body load and nausea are much reduced.
It works great. Have also had two 4k panels for a decade... while the same folks here kept repeating that it doesn't work.
There are two forms of Social Security disability benefits, one paid from payroll taxes (SSDI) and one from general tax revenues (SSI, this one). I for one was not really aware of the distinction.

https://www.usa.gov/social-security-disability

https://blog.ssa.gov/understanding-social-security-disabilit...
My experience as a TA is students definitely do not have the knowledge to critically verify responses.
Sorry dang. I tried to explain myself clearly without making things personal, but there's no rescuing this kind of engagement once it starts. The only winning move is not to play. I'll do better.
"Close file" will update the directory entry for the current extent. It doesn't (AFAIK) delete other extents or free any blocks that have been allocated to the file.

The "last record" field of the FCB / direntry will be decremented for each line, so that the shell can keep track of where in the file it should continue (this can't be stored in memory, because programs are explicitly allowed to overwrite the command processor). But the space on disk won't be freed until it's done executing all commands in the file.

For an emulator it makes sense to actually truncate the file, because on other systems there is likely no way to store a "logical" file size that is shorter than the actual one.
Bad channels which’ve accumulated views and subscribers getting recommended by the youtube algorithm. Hence why he has a filler segment to get the video to 10 minutes. That’s just how youtube works nowadays.
Yep. I’m guessing discussion of politics is against forum rules but I think it’s clear to a lot of us that a significant percentage of US voters are very let’s say… Darwinian about how they think about things (even though, ironically, many of them don’t believe in evolution). Of course this worldview is counterproductive, America would be much better off in the long run if we had a more compassionate approach to everything. People want to charge kids for lunch at school, as if society as a whole wouldn’t be better off if kids were well fed when they’re trying to learn. It’s not just that their worldview is immoral, it’s deeply counterproductive and puts a lot of strain on the social fabric.
i agree with this. I keep trying to instill paranoia in the younger people I work with. even if you can see that the code is doing set_x(5), if it's crashing 20 lines down, I want you to either print or breakpoint the code here and really prove to me that x is now 5, before I look any further. sometimes set_x() might not do what you think. other times there might be something stomping on it from here to there, but I want to be absolutely sure, I don't share your faith in the documentation, I don't trust my own eyes to read the code, I just want to be 100% sure.
If someone had used the phrase "hire at any cost" to HR then a candidate being mediocre seems to not be a fatal flaw.

Indeed, it feels as if the OP would be relatively happy if they'd hired a mediocre senior dev, but feel this guy isn't even that.
I'm not going to justify how much I support FOSS to you. I was sharing my opinion on how I feel about these things. Maybe some devs won't overreact and will take that feedback into consideration, one way or another.
I remember reading that for k-d trees to be able to split on k dimensions the dataset needs to be > 2^k, which becomes unwieldy pretty quickly
It is not clear at all if you have even taken the most basic step -- provide feedback for this employee. It's just not clear how to reconcile this impression -- nothing has been said at all -- with the plea for "rescue" from this situation. You mentioned "personal development", so this is a great opportunity to develop those management skills.

You need to provide feedback for your employee. Have a frank discussion about their performance and try and find out what is the actual problem. Assuming there has been little to no actual conversations, it seems you are merely projecting various ailments here. Maybe their cat died, maybe whatever. We simply do not know.
Everything is subtle warfare. Act accordingly.

Employers do what they think they can get away with to extract maximum value from you. If you are smart, you will do what you think you can get away with to extract maximum value from your employer, too. Playing fair when the other side doesn't is just forfeiting.
This is like template metaprogramming :)

You're confusing the difference between macros and functions, only functions fully avoid duplication (except when they are inlined!)

Macros are expanded into text by the preprocessor. Templates are expanded by the compiler instead.