skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theory of low-dimensional semiconductors and many other theories underlying modern computers were largely incomplete or non-existent 100 years ago, general relativity isn’t that old either and there are substantial gaps in the extremes (e.g. huge masses/curvatures on the quantum scale), there’s definitely stuff lurking there waiting to be discovered. Just because we kno a lot doesn’t mean we know everything, there are ridiculous gaps in our understanding e.g. mass-energy density of the universe, I expect our understanding of the world to fundamentally change again this century, maybe more than once.
from string import capwords
result = capwords(string)

This does the split/capitalize/join dance, all in one.

The file example you gave could also be turned into a dict comprehension if desired. I’m on mobile, but I think this would work.

result = { f:os.path.getsize(f) for f in glob.glob(“*”) if os.path.isfile(f) }
Figma's valuation is a fragment of that of Adobe. Saying most designers use Figma is as distorted as saying most designers use macOS, even if both things may be true in a specific niche (e.g. tech companies in the US).

In my experience of the rise of macOS among developers, the biggest driving force was mobile app development and mobile web development because Apple refused to provide first party developer tools or emulators usable on other operating systems and made it intentionally difficult to run macOS on non-Apple hardware or in a VM. Previously macOS was largely associated with designers, not developers. This move also started blurring the lines more with designers making the move to development and (to a smaller degree) vice versa.
Correct on the reliable UDP.

I've seen a few implementations of a reliable UDP messaging stream (using multicast or broadcast). It uses a sequencer to ensure all clients receive the correct message and order.

It can be extremely fast and reliable.
What type of policies would prevent bias at the places you worked?

My company made a big deal about partnering with a contracting firm that specializes in placing people with disabilities. When asked at a townhall what the company was doing for people with the same disabilities who are employees, the company said they weren't doing anything. Another time I was talking to my manager about accommodations related to my disability and they told me that submitting for accommodations with HR probably hurt me because now the department head has documentation that I'm struggling in my role.
Yes I think it must mean multicellular organism. I understand there are lots of unicellular organisms that don't use oxygen.
It’s really confusing that they open by mentioning a supernova.
Agree, but I suspect at that time the opinions regarding the impossibility of flight, though popular, must have been highly uninformed. There were no violations of long established physics to achieve flight, "only" engineering challenges to make it possible.

I still don't see any point in claiming that a given thing can never be done. What does it help? Our knowledge of the universe isn't complete and I don't think people are starving because others are thinking about warp drives.
Thanks Andy! Much appreciated! :)
Looks nice, some feedback though:

It shows my dnssec as not present even though https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/ which it links to shows all green for my test site.

The DNS records panel seems a bit broken, it shows my SPF record as the NS ("NS v=spf1 mx -all").

The Server Records panel has a "ports" entry, but that only shows the first open port (for me 22).

When showing Response Time its pretty critical to show where you requested it from. Since you're showing the "location" of the server you could even subtract/show what part of the response time is due to distance latency (or ping the server and use the RTT).

It'd be useful to show things like what protocol is used (http, h2, h3), what cipher was used, etc.

Global Ranking chart should perhaps be inverted? Currently it goes down the more popular the site becomes.

TLS Security Issues & TLS Cipher Suites just send undefined to the tls-observatory site (https://tls-observatory.services.mozilla.com/api/v1/results?...).

HSTS without subdomains shows as "No", there should probably be different levels for "none", "without subdomains", "without preload", "with preload" "in the preload list".
Show HN: Convert text prompts into classes with C# source generators
If you work with prompts in code, a minor nuisance is managing your placeholder tokens and basic templating. There's also a lot of repetitive code you'll end up writing to set up and execute the prompt.

C# source generators with .NET's Roslyn analyzer allow reading the source and generating strongly-typed class-per-prompt which hoists the tokens into constructor parameters so it's easier to consume the prompt.

So a prompt string like this:

// Define a prompt
[PromptTemplate]
public const string Capitol = """
What is the capitol of {state} {country}?
Respond directly in a single line
""";

Can be invoked like this:

// Execute the prompt passing in a Semantic Kernel instance.
var capitol = await new CapitolPrompt("NJ", "USA")
.ExecuteAsync(kernel);

Nice!
The only real problem with the plan is will just be take advantage of. People will get meaningless easy degrees just to get a green card. I guess it's tied to employment but im actually not sure how that works. I think it should be tied to only certain types of degrees from accredited schools.
This was absolutely not feasible at the time IP was being developed. There simply wasn’t enough computational power available or good encryption algorithms invented yet. And you can make a reasonable argument that that’s not the responsibility of that layer of the stack.
That sounds great, but some of us don't belong no matter where we go.
> TL; DR Difficult after ~2.5 million years unless they had a nuclear war

Scary if they didn't!

EDIT: what else killed them off or where did they go and will they come back, so it's actually quite curious and less scary but it made me shiver when I read it the first time.
> in the section about history pizza in the USA

Also known as America! You asked “how could veterans bring pizza back the US [sic] if somehow pizza was unknown in Italy.” To prove that, you quoted a section that showed veterans did not “bring pizza back” to America, it was already here. (Nobody claimed pizza “was unknown in Italy” prior to WWII, so I’ll ignore that part.)

WWII caused pizza to stop being seen as an immigrant food in America. It also caused the American pizza processes to intermix with those in Naples, both changing it into its modern form and helping it expand across the Italian peninsula.

I’ll note that you’ve misquoted once source, Wikipedia, complained you couldn’t access a second, and provided zero of your own all while rejecting evidenced culinary history. Curious to be proven wrong with sources versus stubbornness.
Am I crazy or is there nothing here? I see an abstract, a link to some unrelated search, “research areas” (another unrelated link) then a footer with a link to their team. Where do I actually read about beyondcorp?
Even with that proviso it's still wrong. These animals were found in 2010 to be living in a completely anoxic environment with 2.9 mM of sulfide(!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loricifera
By the way, South Korea has already sent hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to Ukraine at the request of the US. They’re now considering sending weapons and this might trigger Russia to send missiles or nuclear tech to North Korea.

It's actually the other way around. North Korea getting new tech is prompting South Korea to respond in turn. That's why Russia and Ukraine became 'proxies' for the Koreans, North or South.
This kind of thing is implied in most science communication, every statement of fact has a "unless or until conflicting information is found" tied to it by common sense.
From the article:"In other words, it’s a long shot—but that’s always the case when it comes to faster-than-light ravel."
Wait, do people see images of a clock in their mind? Like you, I know spatially where the hands should point so I assume this is what “seeing” is. Do people see a clock… like a legit visual when they close their eyes?
It is possible, just increase prices by 20% and pay servers. Not that hard.
> how do you predict ahead of time whether your software will run on congested networks?

One thing you can do is build in "bad network emulation" into your software, allowing the various pieces to drop packets, delay packets, reorder packets, etc. and make sure it still behaves reasonably with all this garbage turned up.
tangential, but I remember working in a school computer lab hours before my big paradise lost essay was due and putting an extra newline between all paragraphs to beef up the page length.
SEPA is essentially just a specific subset service set of a SWIFT international bank transfer. Or in other words, the interface of SEPA is a subset of parameters in SWIFT transfer. And it mandated IBAN numbers on stragglers in EU.
the designers of link layers and protocol implemntations, the army of operators who test signals, insteall repeaters, configure routers and hold conferences about how to manage the global routing system would disagree.

best effort implies 'no, we're not going to be climb that curve and get try to get to 100% reliability, because that would actually be counterproductive from an engineering perspective, but we're going to go to pretty substantial lengths to deliver your packet'
> How can you argue I’m smuggling ”enjoyable” experiences into the argument when you yourself admit play is also Enjoyable

Play is enjoyable, not all enjoyable things are play. You started to add other enjoyable things into the argument about play.

> They’re one and the same thing

No they are not. Play is typically seen as what children do, or playing sports, or playing a game, or a competition. You can read the definitions here, none of them say that stuff like eating hotdogs is play unless it is an eating contest or other kind of game:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/play
Anaerobic microorganisms do exist, but the article is talking about animals.
2.5Gbps on AT&T Fiber not enough? :)

bqmjjx0kac's edits worked great
Arguments like this should have practical value for business. For my business the value is zilch. It is simply not worth it for the hacker to mess with my packet server. I've been running it for 10 years with 0 complaints. And the worst they can do is to temporarily annoy few people. And yes I implement simple proprietary form packet of signing. It took me whole few minutes to develop.
It's tongue in cheek, and he's right. I am a old man Sunos/VMS/Linux admin. Having root used to be my god given right.

However I haven't worked at a company in years that gives anyone access to root anywhere except your own local machine or maybe in rare cases a dev box that is destroyed and rebuilt at will.
"Given the housing stock is kept artificially low,"

I'm not sure I'd call it artificial. There are rational market forces at play. The real issue is that everyone wants to live in the same places, and the people there already want to preserve their lifestyle and investment.
I think that oversells just how rare fossils are. Complete skeletons are rare but the regions that are known for producing fossils are extremely productive, for lack of a better word.

If you’re in California, you can go to Sharktooth Hill in Bakersfield to understand what that means. Million year old Megalodon teeth are plentiful and a few days digging is all but guaranteed to find several of them, among many other bones. The hard part is identifying the geological formations and excavating them while preserving context, which is impossible when its open to the public for digging. Once we’ve found the formations, it takes decades and decades because of a lack of funding and manpower (especially to assemble and research them).

Complete skeletons are especially rare because we haven’t had the technology to reassemble bone correctly until recently with surface proteomic analysis.
They support SEPA Direct Debit or a manual bank transfers over SWIFT.

The latter works everywhere you can make a normal international bank transfer. It's just manual, while SEPA Direct Debit is automatic payment.
> . People want to live in Star Trek or Star Wars so want it to be true.

I think it's more than just wanting it: a century of scifi has convinced people that "cheap" (in terms of energy and time dilation) FTL travel does exist and we just have to figure it out, when there's no a priori reason to think so at all. The same with most other aspects of space travel. There's no reason to believe anything recognizably human will be engaging in interstellar space travel, and if it's not human, I personally don't care. I don't feel some sort of religious mandate to invent machines or bioengineered entities to take over the universe. We've really underestimated the power of media programming.
How hard is it to install anything? That really isn't the point.
Yeah, I saw a default tip for making a week-long hotel booking on online, which amounts to more than peanuts--oh and it was on top of the already mandatory 'service fees and taxes'. I would think only the taxes are mandatory and service fees should be in the advertised price. (I checked if booking different number of days changed the 'service fee', no it was a straight daily percentage). Same goes for shipping+handling that hides the actual price of items.
And how is the UK economy doing?
I did ten years in the industry, started working almost full time as a dishwasher at 13. Towards the end I did consulting for restaurants.
Forgive me if I get this wrong as I'm exceeding the limits of my physics knowledge here but what you're talking about sounds like what I would call a special relativity model of thinking. The general relativity model is where everything has a constant spacetime velocity vector. So time dilation just expresses that higher velocity through space necessarily lowers time "velocity".

So the special relativity view is to think of a straight line as the shortest distance between two points where the general relativity view is the longest proper time between two events in spacetime.

So if we're just going to talk about velocity through space (rather than a constant spacetime velocity), it's best to think of velocity as a value with domain [0,c] rather than an unbounded real number because that's what we're used to dealing with.
Detecting Element Visibility Using CSS
I've seen UDP used for great effect in video streaming. Especially timely video streaming such as cloud gaming. When waiting a late packet is no longer useful.
Fire-and-forget?
How do sites like this stay up??
The page links here: https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp

Seems like it has more information.
Correct but if you're in a situation where this is a issue you probably know about it and can use POSIX versions that are more portable.

Otherwise nobody thinks of it because most likely it is not being distributed.
Link to paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_dec...
Go to the linked PDF by clicking on Google Scholar: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_dec...
> the regions that are known for producing fossils are extremely productive, for lack of a better word

Source that might quantify that in terms of frequency?

> you can go to Sharktooth Hill in Bakersfield

Or Scott’s Valley or Capitola. There are a lot. Now consider how many clams or trilobites existed across those hundreds of millions of years.

Pushing back because I’ve never seen this prong of their hypothesis contested.

Keep in mind that most oceanic crust formed less than 200 Mya [1]. (Continents are better, clocking in at Ga timescales [2].)

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200... Figure 1

[2] http://www.lithosphere.info/papers/2006-Tecto-Art-TC1-small.... Table 1
I know what they look like. Could describe them to you. Draw them on a piece of paper. Can't visualise one in my head.

Heck, I can't even visualise what my wife and kids look like, something that my wife finds astonishing (and sad).

I'm useless at art, for the most part, with no visual imagination to work with.

Yesterday we were at a clothes store, and I could tell my youngest that I didn't think a particular set of clothes she was trying suited her, and was able to make specific suggestions. I can look at clothes and decide if they'd suit. Not because I could see them together in my head, or picture her wearing them, but because I've learned the rules, for want of a better way to put it.
My home currency is worth ~20x less than USD. I fall totally into this category. But I feel enough dumb pressure that I'll cave. As a result I simply avoid these types of interactions. USA is the weirdest place to be poor! One somehow feels shabby and less-than, even while walking past endless homeless.
I asked a non-tech loved one right now and she doesn’t see anything either. I almost suspect people are claiming they “see” things when they don’t and it’s just a deep understanding of what something looks like.
Im not sure if my total aphantasia comes from a burnout or whether I was born with it. After a severe work related burnout, when things came to, some things did not return to normal. I have learned about aphantasia recently and did not test before the burnout.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_fundamental_physic... lists quite a few recent discoveries in the field of physics. The idea that we’re done discovering new things is… tough to support.

The theory of relativity is more recent than flight, even.
or, "I'm interested in paying less, in exchange of relieving some of your labour that you'd have to do to support my purchase"
When is the last time Switzerland has been invaded? Or at war?

And I am sure that Swiss men don't feel like peace is any threat to their manliness either.
It is and today, it’s relatively straight-forward to implement. Get a good Zero Trust vendor.
> while brevity and clarity hold significant value in various contexts, they should not be imposed as universal standards at the expense of depth, nuance, and emotional richness. By delving into diverse communication styles and purposes, we enhance our ability to understand and connect with one another, thereby enriching both our personal and intellectual lives.
I don't have perfect pitch, but I can hit concert A perfectly. One of the sounds I can vividly recall is the sound of an orchestra tuning!
interesting idea. the result is that singapore has two seasons:

indoors and outdoors

the downside is that for some buildings you need to bring a jacket because the AC is cooling just to much. when i lived in singapore we eventually just decided to get comfortable with the heat and humidity and rarely used the AC at home.
I've sometimes wondered if I could have aphantasia or perhaps be low enough on the visual imagery spectrum to have some of the practical effects of aphantasia.

When I try to visualize an object, I can in some sense visualize it but it feels very indistinct. It's like I can't see the object as a whole only the specific details I focus on. For example, I have a friend who wears circular glasses and has a handlebar mustache. I can bring up a general image of "circular glasses" or "handlebar mustache" in my mind. However, I cannot imaging his face with glasses and a mustache. It almost feels like the way that you "see" things when you are only half watching a TV show or are partially zoned out while driving. In some sense you are seeing them but it's difficult to pull up details.

When I visualize a scene, I'm not sure I "see" it so much as I form a spatial map of the scene.

I also find that the "images" that do get stored in my memory are more like impressions. Maybe in some sense I can "visualize" them, but they are really more like impressions of how they make me feel or the "vibe" that I get from them.
The City of London certainly has its own coat of arms. Phrasing that as "its own crest" is a bit weird. (The crest is only part, and by no means the most important part, of a heraldic achievement. The escutcheon is the important bit.)

Arms: Argent a cross gules, in the first quarter a sword in pale point upwards of the last.

Crest: On a wreath argent and gules a dragon's sinister wing argent charged on the underside with a cross throughout gules.

Supporters: On either side a dragon argent charged on the undersides of the wings with a cross throughout gules.
Convince the whole country to stop taking tips and pay 20% extra then. Let us know how easy that was...

My whole point is that it's not reasonable not to take tips in the us today.
What's your confidence interval for genetic drift?
I am also like this. Why would I remember that? I don't remember almost anything I don't work to remember or is unusual. It's amazing to me that people do.

(I also have aphantasia and find it extremely difficult to believe that the entire thing isn't just a misunderstanding of language.)
On holidays it really makes me think should I have frequented some other place where they paid staff better... Instead of seemingly exploiting them and their work...
Yes, although I say, if you can make your play healthy as well as fun, might as well :)
Also: Self-medication in insects (2019) [1]

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31358187/
I think that would be hard to gauge. From what I recall supposedly ~4% of people have aphantasia (iirc this includes minor forms, not just complete). If there are hundreds of thousands of people on this forum, there are likely thousands with aphantasia.

And whenever some niche topic comes up that relates to some group, they all come out of the woodwork to congregate. I certainly do whenever this topic comes up.
It lacks more than memory, it makes the mistake again later even when the previous prompt is in its current token limit.
There’s some exciting research on recovering light sources https://dorverbin.github.io/eclipse/
Eating ice cream instead of stale bread is absolutely play, just like running around on a soccer field is play even though running is a survival skill.
charge by the token much?
Not using third party libraries does not help against py2->py3 and changes between 3.x point versions.

It's only relatively recently that I could really expect that the target system would have python3, and then I'd also have to deal with some really annoying errors (like python3 barfing on non-ASCII comments when reading a source file with "C" locale, something that used to work with python2 IIRC, and definitely was an issue with "works on my machine" devs).

venvs are horrible, even compared to bundler.

But the python2 era left imprint on many who think it's just going to be there and work fine.
If we find a tool site or cave painting, what does that have to do with genetic drift?
Ask HN: Product managers, why is a feature not customizable?
YouTube a while ago introduced mixes and you can't say you're not interested or disable that completely.

Why do seemingly simple customizations aren't allowed? This seems to be a long trend now in product management that shows in various places.

In this example, what could possibly be lost by allowing the user to hide a panel they don't want to see anymore? What's being gained by the product team when it forces a feature onto users like that?

This is a serious question because I don't think the product managers behind YouTube are dumb, so there must be a good reason and I'd like to learn more about this reality.

Any product managers out there could take a guess?
When the phone is on, it’s powered by the battery.
Now a bonus round: Can anybody possibly do a long work of fiction only using calculator words? Just this post was difficult after losing just a unitary sound!
You're right! I've driving here as well, but one thing people don't realize is how big Texas is.

Texas vs EU:
https://i.redd.it/jlqp9vv8flb31.jpg
https://explosm.net/comics/baby-shoes-4#comic