skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of those division heads were trying to honestly assess the microcomputer market. They were trying to stay in harmony with opinion at their level and higher in IBM.

That's what you get at that level in a company that big. Anyone who is two or more levels from the top of the org chart and also two or more levels from the bottom lives in a reality that consists entirely of the attitudes and opinions of other people, weighted by each person's ability to impact their career. If they saw that the building they were in was on fire, their thought process would go something like: "Bob isn't here today because he's at that sales meeting. When he hears about the fire he'll downplay it as something minor, so I shouldn't evacuate or he'll think less of me. But Bob's boss Don is here. If Don evacuates and I don't, that might Don feel embarrassed and emasculated, and he'll take it out on Bob. So I need to evacuate if and only if Don evacuates. Bob won't mind me evacuating if Don does it. But Don's office is on the other side of that wall of approaching flames. Shit. My only chance is if he's in a meeting on this side of the building, so I can track him down and see what he's doing. Let me check his calendar real quick...."
Yes, I like those examples better. Speeding and the danger cars impress on society is something many of us want to be handled stricter.

One other example for me could be something like drinking alcohol in a public place. It's never enforced if people are just enjoying a beer quietly during a picnic and bother no one. However if sound equipment mounted in trees could detect the opening of a can and write a ticket, I would feel the law obviously would need to be amended.
Honestly this seems like a crazy simple client application bug; simply add a single quote as part of your name and it crashes. How does that pass even incredibly basic QA to make production? Maybe I've been blessed (or cursed?) to only work at shops with full qa teams.
Firefox saved someone from an unhappy life.
Wait till you see Canadian roads..
But the real reason is construction mafia, to keep their work going, if they made it high quality they are out of government maintenance contracts in the coming years.
Because then there is still hope the species will rally to mitigate it, and we all get to enjoy years (decades?) of a life we don’t all hate. I’d be gutted to die tomorrow. You might not share that sentiment but that doesn’t give you the right to decide for everyone else.
> Honestly, eating cereal just isn't appealing anymore.

All cereal grains or are you just referring to breakfast cereal here?
Show HN: Audio manipulation with text prompts (EQ, loudness, saturation etc.)
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For some reason the main hacker news article keeps getting deleted and merged with this one. The link should be changed to: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1798715759193096245

Also the title is wrong for the subject. It should be about Starship, not Super Heavy. I don't know who did this but you did it wrong.
In general a trademark is only valid within a field. So Dove (chocolate) and Dove (shampoo) are not in conflict, and neither is Delta (air travel) with Delta (plumbing).
Very nice! Thanks for posting it.

Should be useful even though it's not fully what I'd hoped for (provide note/chord MIDI input, more granular control with repeatability, MIDI data out) but it's definitely a big step in the right direction.
It's not totally irrational. There is a reason for the phrase monkey see, monkey do.
I would say so, yes (not a fan of kitty's general NIH), but it could be argued that `xterm-kitty` is at least not identical to a $TERM used for xterm.
Please don't take HN threads further into generic flamewar. This subthread was noticeably even worse than its surroundings.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not about a must have. It's about a must have being tied to them. That tying is what's harming the market by preventing interoperability. It only makes sense to prevent such kind of traps.

I.e. a must have can be a must have without artificially added tying (lock-in) detail. Then it's not causing harm.
I'm sorry but this is just not a reasonable thing to be worried about. Drones are going to be more prevalent across numerous industries and professions, planes and helicopters fly over your head all the time already, and most people are not listening for tire or engine sounds to prepare them to dodge an out of control car.

I am in WAY more danger from a police car currently than from a drone mitigating the need for the police to send a car in the first place.
Here's a (not at all exhaustive) list of concrete actions the last Republican administration took: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-envir....

Major things you may recall are withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, placing the EPA and Interior Department under the control of officials who denied the reality of climate change, and repealing the Clean Power Plan.

In their own words, here are the changes they plan to make to the EPA and Department of the Interior if they take control again: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA..., https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA.... These documents were not written to drum up votes, they are very detailed policy plans that most voters will never see.
Hey, looks great! How do you keep testing to ensure your API integrations are working or if any of those 2100+ services changes something?
What happened was that

- Meta profiled the politician based on his political beliefs. This is forbidden under the European Union’s GDPR regime and Meta was fined for it.

- Additionally Meta was unable to provide sufficient evidence that the candidate actually engaged in the activities they accused him of. Another much smaller fine.

Term is irrelevant. If you do algorithmic moderation/visibility change based on political beliefs of a political candidate, you are engaging in politics.

Only if you have proof of something illegal, you can step in.
> This is perhaps/maybe true amongst the NDP and virtually nobody else.

I have no idea where you're getting your information, but you seem out of touch. The widespread mockery they received for their "generous price freeze" on no name items was virtually unanimous.
Most of my clients won't care about that slight performance hit either. Thanks for the info.
> There’s zero reason to periodically go in there and wipe stuff out.

I swear I remember back when I first switched to linux (Ubuntu) back in the late 2000s, this was how it worked: Instead of a tmpfs or automated wiping on boot, a system crontab entry that would use "find" to delete files last accessed more than some time ago (a day? a week?).

Except for the risk of filling the disk if files are created too quickly, this would seem to be the best of all worlds to me - stuff can't stick around forever unless it's constantly being used. A download you access once would stick around for a day, while a heavy project that's using /tmp/ would stick around for the week or month you're using it, even across reboots, then get deleted later.
A 34-key split keyboard called the Ferris Sweep: https://github.com/davidphilipbarr/Sweep

With a custom keymap, but still using QWERTY. Ben Vallack on YouTube has some great videos on minimalist layouts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wZ8FRwOzhU
I would agree and enjoyed reading the book, years ago.

If I remember correctly, good chapters on radar and radio navigation systems.

There was also details on the Me163 rocket plane which ran on the seemingly suicidal mix of concentrated hydrogen peroxide and hydrazine/methanol.

[edit] this was all long before we had the Wikipedia articles.
How much value did the founder extract along the way? Forbes reports he still has a large, but now worthless, stake in the company.
Banana. HN is just for posting random words and thoughts completely disconnected from any context, right? Potatoes are yummy.
Could you please stop posting flamebait and/or political-ideological battle comments? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot lately. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Tmux provides a means multiplexing a single terminal window into multiple terminals, either full screen, or like a tiling window manager. It lets you organize and label these terminals and provides a very flexible keyboard interface to terminal management, including history scrollback, search, etc. I started using GNU Screen in the early 90s, and over the years I have developed a keyboard muscle memory for managing multiple terminals in this fashion that is completely independent from whatever terminal program I'm using. This allows me to utilize this keyboard muscle memory if I'm using iTerm2 on macOS, Windows Terminal, or Alacrity on Linux.

Many fancy terminal programs offer some subset of these multiplexing features (like tabs) and such, but in my experience none of them are as configurable or as feature rich as Tmux.
Stripe's document databases support 99.999% uptime with zero-downtime migrations
As always, there are extremists on both sides, that's no lie.

Generally, most people aren't so extreme as to say private ownership shouldn't exist at all. At least from most of the people I interact with here in Barcelona.

Besides what people think is right/wrong, the police does help you (quickly) to throw out people that try to invade your residence that you actively live in.
I wonder what the odds are that some deep sea salvage group is moving to collect that this very instant (or being contracted for such). If Starship lives up to even a fraction of its potential, that [not so] little guy is going to have some serious historicity.
Sounds like self-gaslighting to me
I think it’s notable that your first point is directly in line with GP’s idea about built inefficiencies.
They don't right now, because they are still testing. They can't risk bringing the booster or the ship back over land, because they don't know yet how well and precise they can steer and maneuver them. When they've figured that out, we will see the first landing of a super heavy booster for recovery and that will be pretty spectacular I bet …
As one of my tests, I asked about Tienanmen Square. It will consistently render an error.
The main excerpt from an anonymous comment on the original page [1]:

> If this guy gave an interview to a news station. Should it be required to air it?

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/06/belgian-court-penalizes-...
What you're saying very well seems like a threat. A threat of violence for speech.

That attitude defaults to better at violence in a particular context gets to impose their will. Or whoever has the security forces to back them out of an inferiority situation.

You miss the part when I can arbitrarily warn you about a lot of things myself and then use any interpretation of rule breaking on your part to attack you.

I know it may sound harsh but this is where many end up going so let's make it explicit.
Some other fraud in the same subfield lead to an amoral douchebag becoming President of Stanford, where he destroyed the campus culture (read https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/06/13/stanfords-war-on-soc... to verify) and then supported DEI run amok (read https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/01/11/amid-backlash... to see some of the fallout from that).

This is in addition to wasting a big chunk of the billions spent each year on Alzheimer's research on false leads (see https://www.alz.org/news/2024/congress-bipartisan-funding-al... for a source on the billions).

Yes, very serious consequences indeed. (Note, I did my best to back up my statements with high quality unbiased factual references. Please read them before disagreeing with my description of the result.)
Is it possible to design ultra wide spread spectrum light pulses that are below the signal to noise ratio if you don't know the code? At least some RF signal sources are at least difficult to detect I guess.
If it was intentional it was a brilliant move - I've seen people talking about this movie now on several different forums.
Some of it went to paying cash for other businesses

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/05/byjus-acquires-indian-tuto...
I see it more as a survival trait for a population, not an individual. An individual does not need to procreate for a population to benefit from any trait they may have. In that sense, the trait may be a disadvantage for the individual, but increase the well-being of the population at large. An unimaginative example would be an autistic individual whose condition enables them to make a life-saving scientific or mathematical breakthrough, but due to the same condition ultimately dies alone and childless.
There is another link that has video and pictures that isn't hidden behind a NYT paywall:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-super-heavy-starship-tes...
Right, because a run-down building sells for the same price as one in good shape.
Are you willing to provide your address so we can stay at your place? It would be inherently oppressive if you don't.

There are homeless shelters where people can have shelter without paying rent.
I would say no. A tumour is locally and doesn’t cover the whole brain as they found out that autism is linked to overall more brain organelles.
Man, that will be spectacular.
The cool thing about graphics programming is that often times you aren't even doing "linear algebra" strictly.

A lot of the math for 3D graphics programming uses the concepts of affine spaces/transformations since standard 3x3 matrices don't have enough information to support translation/projection. I had no clue about this branch of math at all until I started learning graphics programming--in fact I think graphics programming requires you to learn the most math of just about any discipline of computer science outside theoretical computer science. The amount of math you need to truly "understand" path tracing is immense.
Unfortunately, the 72B model still uses the old license, but still a great step in the right direction.
AI revolution as seen by a dean, a semiconductor VP, and a government regulator
Not just the US, the EU elections that just began will have a huge effect on our future efforts against climate change.
Your first paragraph missed the point. Your second is how you deal with it. I've just told you I had a different experience. Your experience doesn't supersede mine. Your "be careful" (or else) doesn't sit well with people who don't like to be threatened.
Cool visualization.

From the title I thought it would be this project (called "roads to Rome"):
https://benedikt-gross.de/projects/roads-to-rome/
This still has the same issue that the docs say I need 2 more databases, not making use of my existing grafana LGTM stack

https://github.com/Scale3-Labs/langtrace?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Another blocker for me is that it appears to need an API key for trying it out locally or self-hosting

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I'm comparing your project to OpenLit on this front

- https://docs.openlit.io/latest/installation#kubernetes

- https://docs.openlit.io/latest/connections/grafanacloud
Active user workflows are an always-on testing infrastructure for our supported API integrations. We usually know about API changes in advance but, if not, we will generally see any issues very quickly.
> The advice to "use CFGs" is incomplete. What you really want is to use one of the deterministic subsets of CFGs, like LR(k), and importantly, with a parser-generator which will reject any non-LR productions in the grammar before even generating the parser.

Which is also why there is no "just use CFG". CFG is an abstraction from language generation. BNF as a "language" was invented for language generation. It's suitability to parsing was mostly an accident, and we've been dealing with the pragmatic repercussions in the field of parsing ever sense. To make parsing work we have bounded subsets of the abstraction. To make the illusion of the abstraction work we've bent BNF to nearly its breaking point, but the illusion fails as soon as you realize the BNF for LL and LR (and LALR and so on and so forth) is subtly incompatible. There's no universal BNF, there never was, it's a broken illusion.

PEG is just as useful as a bounded subset of the abstraction as LL/LR. The break was PEG decided to stop pretending BNF was a useful lingua franca between these subsets and then parser combinators contributed further to the demise of "universal BNF", which was never universal.
The rocket performed perfectly. It just landed on the wrong planet.
Do you understand at all how science and replication work?

Let these researchers do what they want, they didn't release it for you specifically.
better benchmarks with higher ceilings are also needed to be able to tell apart how good the better models are compared to the others
I don’t think anyone’s disagreeing with that. My interpretation of your initial comment was that you were saying it’s not an important issue because it can’t be effectively policed. I don’t think that’s what you meant, but that’s what I got out of your saying no in response to the assertion that it’s important.
> That seems implausible. All natural numbers are finite. I can easily express that in F.O.L.

Just for the sake of clear terminology, I'll take "finite natural number" to mean that it's either 0 or formed by applying the successor function to zero finitely many times.

Here's an easy proof for why you can't prove that every number is finite in PA:

Take the theory PA' = PA + the infinitely many sentences "c > 0", "c > S 0", "c > S (S 0)", etc. (with a new constant c)

We can probably agree that the standard natural numbers aren't a model of PA' because there is no natural number greater than every other natural number.

However, the natural numbers are clearly a model of any finite subset of that theory. And here's where we use the compactness theorem (which is easily proven from completeness): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compactness_theorem

By compactness, PA' has a model. But that model can't be the standard model of arithmetic. Yet it is also a model of PA. Thus we have a model of PA in which infinite numbers exist - so we can't prove that all natural numbers are finite from PA.

To rule out such models - and therefore prove that every natural number is finite - you need the second-order induction axiom.
It's almost expected with Elon owning X. The platform may really have the ability to challenge Youtube for live video things. The infrastructure and dev capability is there. It may well reach the value that he paid for it....
This is a phenomenal discovery and treatment could consist of both increasing the space for the brain or decreasing the mass of the brain.

Would be super cool if there could be found a way to enlarge the skull size during growth to have enough space for that special autism brains.
Very cool!

The physics seem very different from classing pong / arkanoid physics, where the angle is determined by which part of the paddle was hit. Instead it seems like it's maybe totally random within a fairly small cone around the horizontal axis. Is that intentional?
Recently I was reading the news and saw an article from USA Today with an AI-generated cover graphic of Donald Trump.

And with both this and 19 Terrifying Men, I'm at a loss why anyone would do that. Surely people have already made thumbnails from 12 Angry Men, why did we need to change to a worse one?

Similarly, there must be tens of millions of photos of Donald Trump, from every stage of his life, available to license. Surely USA Today has a subscription to an archive where they can pull a stock image of Trump for no marginal cost.

What is the thought process here? Do they have a new hammer and see everything as a nail? Or is there a reason this makes sense that I'm not seeing?
Done already, pre-AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuSdU8tbcHY
US eyes antitrust investigation against Nvidia as market value surpasses $3T
In what case does it make no difference to me, a person who bought or built a structure, that I can no longer use it and it has been stolen?
You have just unlocked the Religion tech tree!

Press 'M' to start a Crusade.
I've just realized that what I'm describing is called a rope data structure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)

So, a difference list is a rope, but encoded with closures instead of explicit trees.
The level of credulity displayed here is pretty amusing.

but just to back that up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skellig_Michael#History

Not a cathedral, No mention of an appearance of St Michael, and the monastery predates the dedication to him (it?) by several centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael%27s_Mount

Not a cathedral, site predates dedication to michael. No mention of an appearance of michael.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Saint-Michel

This one has a story of an appearance, still not a cathedral

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

Not a cathedral, does have a story about an appearance, but that site significantly predates that appearance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Michele_Arcangelo,_Perugia

Pre christian temple that was converted, not a cathedral

Taxiarchi Michail

Monastary, not a cathedral

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

Not even dedicated to michael.
WWII was not a war "for" genocide.

The genocide was not the war. It was a "police" operation against a nearly entirely unarmed enemy.

The war was to to stop Germany from expanding past its borders, and also maybe to stop the genocide.
This is not science. It's engineering at this point. Many startups create their own models for various purposes, mainly for VC investment.
Sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. The "swift" solution would send you to jail in mere hours. You're presumed guilty. Yes, it defies any logic, but that's the way that it is.

My mom's husband had rented his previous flat (to complement his pension) to two women. They were working, very "normal" persons, and the contract specified that no other person could live there. One of them started dating a man and, a year later, there were three, then four (a child) living there. Then the other woman left (the guy was violent) and then the mother and her child had to flee too.

So my mom's husband had a guy that he never had any agreement with, living in his property, not paying rent, and not paying utilities. Now the law forbids to cut the utilities so you have to pay utilities for him. I think at the time (five years ago) it was still possible to cut. But the guy didn't care. After a year and a hell in courts, the flat was free again but a complete mess, broken furniture, mountains of junk. To weeks were needed just to clean, then paint, fixing doors, plumbing, etc.

He sold it ASAP. Now, I don't wonder why there's so little housing for rent.
The same place it goes for every other such startup. They spent $1 to earn $0.50, and eventually the money ran out.
The variety of distributions in the Linux ecosystem is a strength, not a weakness.

No one is making you pick up a shovel to build alongside them; instead you choose to rest on your laurels and complain about other peoples' hard work and dedication to providing people with choices.