skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life is pretty good at adapting. If we did a lot of selective breeding and genetic manipulation ahead of time and then made a sustained effort to repeatedly seed the more temperate locations on Mars we might eventually see something survive. I do think it's a bit early for that stage of terraforming. We really should experiment with smashing asteroids into Mars to see if we can kick up enough CO2 to make a difference first. I also like the idea of repeatedly impacting a single crater in order to excavate a very deep and wide hole to trap atmospheric gasses and create enough pressure near the bottom for a more human friendly environment. It'd have the added benefit of depositing a bunch of metals and other elements in a convenient location where they could be mined and smelted.
A common equation you will find in aerodynamics texts is:

Drag = 1/2 * fluid density * velocity^2 * C_d * Ref. Area

It approximates the drag experienced by objects as they move within a fluid (atmosphere). You can see that drag is proportional to the square of velocity, so going twice as fast induces 4 times the drag.

Ergo, when you speed up, you produce a lot more drag. This will slow you down until you reach an equilibrium between thrust and drag (unless you apply more thrust).
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> katabatic wind

I've noticed this while doing evening walk, I didn't know it was a named phenomenon.
Oops, obviously meant kbps there.

Though using the same logic described, just imagine the quality of 320mbps!
The falsehood here is that only wind mills kill animals. Coal mines, especially strip and mountain removal mines kill plenty of wildlife. Oil refineries also do, as do turbines in hydro dams. There's no energy source we have that is zero impact.
Yeah, I've done custom skinned apps in WPF that were deployed via zip file. Unzip and run the exe. Worked fine and even did p/invoke. Either they are ignorant about MS windows development or just a fanciful idea about how it should work.
soon the movie trope of saying "enhance" repeatedly could be a real thing!
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2024)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
This reminds me of the time I had a disk go 'random' in a RAID. Disk didn't fail, instead it just returned junk for every Nth read. Happened to be in a big database server too. Crazy part is it took far longer than I would have expected to catch data showing up corrupted in user applications so an entire 28 hours of data had to be rolled back.
The electrical grid is the largest machine in the world. Energy is technology news, and the global energy transition currently in progress is both historical and interesting (imho). There is a hide link if a post is not of interest. My apologies if it is not of interest or relevant to your curiosity or intellectual pursuit objectives.
So you are saying if we used this stuff as an air recycler in a Mars colony, and there was a catastrophic failure we could repair the recycler without losing the greenery?
There were a lot of open spaces in the 60s and 70s, but over the years, "every" space has been converted into utility or new buildings.
You do need a certain level of self confidence to actually get anything done though, and not get lost in analysis paralysis. The mantra goes "strong opinions, loosely held". Be prepared to vigorously defend your position, while simultaeneously being willing to immediately toss it aside in the face of overwhelming evidence.
This looks incredible! How did you create the interactive playgrounds and vectors plots?
edit:

> move-move

= mouse-move
I dont think it is as routine as you think and citizens typically get completely outraged by actions like Kelo v. New London, and are far more OK with eminent domain for public infrastructure. Do you really think public sentiment is the opposite?

>Like draw me a coherent line as to why a developer sucking up land via eminent domain should be legally allowed but the public building a train is not

My whole point is that building a train is a legitimate use (IMO), but taking the adjacent land just to sell to developers make the state money is not.
postmarketOS is based on Alpine Linux.

Pop!_OS is based on Ubuntu.

There are lots of AOSP-based mobile OSes, including LineageOS, Graphene, Amazon's Fire OS, CalyxOS and /e/ OS.

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

But neither of yours are.
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How squash merge can break Git repos with submodules
"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal." - Richard Nixon
Finally! Congrats to Andreas and the dev team that made it happen!

I hope a portion of the funds to go in Jakt's [1] development as it's a very promising language that looks both clean and elegant AND it's a memory-safe systems programming language.

[1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt/
Back in the day I had hundreds of pipes, sub-pipes for all kinds of stuff from porn to price gathering, comparisons, to banking. When Yahoo Pipes died so did my will to port all that to something else.

If I had to do it all again in 2024, what’s a robust self hosted project like this?
I found this low-view gem in the sea of noise.
I thought about it and the minimum viable product is much simpler than you think.

What you want is a static website with all the menus on it.

Just a dumb HTML page would already be enough.

You bill them for data entry, they give you their delivery menu.

You type the entire menu into your webpage. One under the other.

Then you charge them 20 euro per month minimum fee. The restaurants are sorted (by hand) every month by how much they've paid.

The fee has to be that small to force all restaurants to participate.
The first ever privacy preserving LLM platform now in public preview
Ignore the troll. They don't respond to facts or evidence, just conspiracy theories that agree with their preconceived notions. Nothing to see here, move along.
This is exciting. Reminded me of the launch of Firefox and the New York Times ad with all the names from those of us who donated at the time. I wonder if Ladybird could do the same thing again.

I also cant believe 20+ years later we have to fight another Browser war.
Request issued for additional platinum-iridium rich asteroids to be delivered to Earth orbit.
> Not every open source project needs to be monetized.

Where was this claim made? I missed it.

> Projects that were created to "scratch one's itch" tend to fare better than those built to make money. Devs put more love and less stress into them than into things they want to build a business out of.

This project is based on SQLite, which is several people's livelihood. As a result, it's rock-solid, reliable, and available to all without fee or restriction.

So it's an odd choice of project to choose to express this sort of eminently debatable sentiment.
Sotomayor went further:

> With fear for our democracy, I dissent.
Actually a lot of people are saying that Linux is the best platform for developing GUIs.
Demystifying Python Celery: Understanding the Key Components and Result Storage
The electoral college is the reason that several presidents over the last 40 years have lost the popular vote and won the election. George W. Bush was one of the first presidents to do this. If you combine electoral college votes by population with our system of winner takes all then a few very agitated rural areas in a state with few populous cities can completely dictate the outcome of the election.
It might not work for greening mars johnny-appleseed style, but it would be nice to have plants that can survive for some time if the greenhouse they are in has a technical issue.
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What is your current EDC?
Feel free to be as specific as possible, particularly with bags, wallets, phone cases, etc.
> but it was spread across a billion years of evolution from simple animals to Homo Sapiens

Hard disagree. Evolution made a bigger/better neural processor, and it made better/different I/O devices and I/O pre-processing pipelines. But it didn't store any information in the DNA of the kind you're proposing. That's not how it works. The brain is entirely "field programmable", in all animals (I assert). There is no "pre-training".
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Note that the FFT has this property of “convolution is pointwise multiplication” for any cyclic multiplicative group, see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002200007... for a more algebraic derivation.

Some call this a “harmonic” fft, and there are also non-harmonic FFTs:

- the “additive NTT” of [LCH14] on GF(2^n)

- the circle fft on the unit circle X^2+Y^2=1 of a finite field [HLP24]

- the ecfft on a sequence of elliptic curve isogenies [BCKL21]

[LCH14]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3458

[HLP24]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/278

[BCKL21]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.08473
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First of all, this is an immediate rendering library which is a very inefficient way of rendering the UI for any application that is not a videogame. You are rendering the UI 60 times a second, regardless of whether something changed or not. Most UI frameworks only update when something changes.

Secondly, there are things in GUI frameworks that most people don't think about, such as accessibility. Windows has a builtin accessibility API where apps can declare the objects being shown on the screen, so that screen readers can interact with the application. I'm pretty sure this guys framework doesn't have that.
It burns me that other countries can build things like this and we can't.
Thankfully, we have stalwart and well-known defenders of our security like Apple and Microsoft to protect us. There's nothing of the sort to worry about.
Looking for some volunteers to try https://andrewarrow.dev/frame/simple and let me know if it all works on your machine.
I guess it depends on how and why they are used by the developer. Most of the code I write isn't bleeding edge stuff, and using a copilot as a thought partner is pretty useful.
Ever since LLM’s came out many of us has been wondering these things. It would be easy to say that perhaps our attention and senses somehow come together to formulate prompts and thoughts etc what appears in the mind is the output. And everything we ever experienced has trained the model.

But of course we can be assured it’s not quite like that in reality. This is just another example of how our models for explaining the life are reflection of the current technological state.

Nobody considers that old clockwork universe now, and these AI inspired ideas are going to fall short all the same. Yet, progress is happening and all these ideas and talks are probably important steps that carry us forward.
I agree the interface should be simple to operate in the dark without being blinding, but I’m left wondering how common late-night adjustments are. I imagine it tends to be pretty “set it and forget it” for most people.
They do sound weird.

I propose we call them fanciful numbers.
"Coal to run a power plant, via turbines, is significantly more complicated than solar panels."

A modern high tech coal plant maybe, with all the digital control, automation and filters maybe. But the basic tech is from the 19.century. A average metal workshop could build one with some time.

But solar panels? That requires high tech in all of the production steps.
How can one write such a long blog post and barely even discuss the actual reasoning behind Trinko?

No, it's better to just lie about it and blame conservatives for a unanimous decision.

Ruling that the FTC did not have authority to impose such rules is hardly politicizing from the bench. That is, infact, exactly their job. Unlike, say, inventing a constitutional right to privacy out of thin air (but just try having a discussion about that without being shouted down).

Instead, what politicians, and particlarly left wingers, have consistently shown is their desire to decide market winners and losers based on their own political whims.
It's not a dichotomy, just an example. Dude above is just saying, yes video is good sometimes but for a lot of stuff just skimming a written summary is faster and better.

It's not an either/or thing, just that written summaries of video summaries of written information is just kind of funny :)
This is why blameless postmortems are such good thing.

Going one step further having a culture where finding a bug or defect in your own code/design is rewarded makes it so people aren't afraid but excited to talk about them.
In your godbolt

extern volatile int x;
int ub() {
int r = x;
r += 1/0;
return r;
}

and the output is

ub:
mov eax, DWORD PTR x[rip]
ud2

I don't see what is the side effect that you say is removed here?

As for the earlier example (hoisting the division out of the loop), I was going to write a wall of text explaining why I find the behaviour totally intuitive and in line with what I'd expect.

But we can make it simpler: The code doesn't even have any observeable side effect (at least I think so), because it only reads the volatile, never writes it! The observeable behaviour is exactly the same as if the hoist hadn't happened. I believe it's a totally valid transformation, at least I don't have any concerns with it.
You don't have to be dumb to get buried- just being poor is enough. Credit cards very much favor the well-off.
Exiled Belarusian opposition figure: ex-cops are helping to combat dictatorship
And does that seem reasonable to you? I hate to brandish trendy terms, but it sounds a little ableist.

[edit] Also, what will the developer struggle with if they're not able to come up with a convenient response to "why do you want to work for us?".
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Understood! I do not have an easy way to access this in the browser currently. I will consider adding this in the future!
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Taxes or fares are a sustainable ways to run a railway system.

It isnt about sustainability, it is about who pays, and the public not wanting to pay for something you use isnt a good enough reason size private property from a small number of individuals.

By that logic, we could do away with taxes entirely if the state simply confiscated everything it needed form select individuals.
This is actually really cool, because an upside down airfoil will still create a high pressure ridge toward its leading edge. This causes air that would ostensibly flow along the bottom (high pressure) surface to sort of reverse and end up being pushed to the upper (low pressure) surface. The separation point is further down the leading edge than would be intuitively expected. This means the top stream of air still goes further, and faster, than the bottom stream of air.

So inverted wings still fly, just less efficiently.
This is really cool -- thanks for posting it! I'll have to skim through it at some point since a lot of my work is in classifications models and mirrors the results you've seen
You're the one not responding to the facts and evidence here, dismissing me out of hand.
Prosthesis driven by nervous system helps people with amputation walk naturally
> I'm sorry, what? What kind of nonsense distinction is this?

> Are you trying to very disingenuously try and claim only kernel exploits count as attacks against OpenBSD?

Not at all. I clearly underlined that I'm not looking for cases fitting that specific scenario. The only moving of goalposts is entirely on your behalf by very disingenously misrepresenting my question in a poor attempt to try make your answer or whatever point fit. And on top of that, the tasteless pretending to be baffled...
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EMP says hi.
Phones used to have fm receivers! It was common in the early 2010s. They used the headphone cord as an antenna.
What is the better working alternative?
What Is USPS General Delivery?
Yes, https://www.timescale.com/blog/psycopg2-vs-psycopg3-performa...
> The programming would be writing the knitting pattern. Not executing it.

But that's what was said—knitting pattern design, not knitting.

> > I've always believed knitting pattern design is programming.
Boeing buys struggling supplier Spirit AeroSystems to shore up 737 production
Uninterested in a sockpuppet's views, sorry. If you're serious come back on your main and we'll discuss without all the creative attempts you've made to answer sentence A while ignoring sentence B.
This editor works like a screen editor where you can move around the entire file using arrow keys and perform edits like Emacs/Vim.

I believe tools like sed/ed are necessarily line-oriented. A long session in a line-oriented editor like ed would create a large amount of scrollback in the terminal.
Vintage answer

NN (Net News) - it was a text based reader for USENET news, first released in 1984. It's been a minute since then, but I recall it to have been in C. This was before the Internet was highly monetized, and when most projects were open source, written by people who needed (or wanted) a tool, and had the combination of skills, experience, and time to make it happen.

The code was good because it was well designed, and well maintained. Routines were modular and reusable. If you needed to modify something, you could find the right place to make a change, add a feature, and submit it to the repository. Maintainers did not allow crap submissions back into the published code.

So yes to all prompts, with the bonus of having passionate engineers doing something they loved. I'm not sure my contributions ever made it through the "not crap" filter, but they did work beautifully for my employer.

Good code is functional, understandable, flexible, and can be modified without a complete overhaul.

My compliments to all who contributed to NN!

https://www.nndev.org/
You can inline raw LaTeX: https://quarto.org/docs/visual-editor/technical.html#latex-a...

LaTeX is _definitely_ more flexible than Quarto or... really anything else. Tools like Quarto will get you most of the way without such a steep learning curve.
I was mostly interested in the mechanisms in his story because I'm concerned that could happen to me one day.
Thanks! I built the interactive playgrounds with React in TypeScript, a lot of SVG manipulation. All of this was built with either Python for visuals or React in general.
New "glassy gel" materials are strangely strong, stretchy and sticky
'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots
>A scam would be intentionally misleading people about the ability of this thing to fly at all and then grabbing the money and run.

There's a fine line between a scam and a business plan which bakes in assumptions that are unrealistic.
This is a nice point that is often missed in the cacophony of complaints about complexity. If companies are not simply leveraging complexity for the sake of profit, restricted use or repair, etc. then these complaints, as feedback, should still be worthwhile in order to employ complexity.

Extending this idea to how devices operate or are maintained it seems like we're still in a nascent stage. I benefit from a few smart devices but even in a very simple setup, things fail sometimes and then I have to fix it. My mom might benefit from some of these things but she feels better off foregoing the benefits because resolving any issue would be far more costly or impractical.
> odds of everything being aligned in such a way that we can take several years to do gravity assists are incredibly low.

Project Lyra develops concepts for reaching interstellar objects such as 1I / 'Oumuamua and 2I / Borisov with a spacecraft, based on near-term technologies. [0]

Several technology options are outlined, ranging from a close solar Oberth Maneuver using chemical propulsion, and the more advanced options of solar and laser sails. [1]

0. https://i4is.org/what-we-do/technical/project-lyra/

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03155
In my opinion, neovim is productive out of the box. I'd recommend grabbing lazyvim if one wants something fancier and customize it from there if needed.

I've used vim as primary editor for about a decade. Just started using Cursor (vscode fork) for last few months and still much prefer nvim - but copilot++ is a game changer so I deal with it. I do use the vscode-neovim extension.

The biggest thing I miss is a terminal based workflow. I find GUI editors unnatural. Much prefer my editor in the terminal.
Its time to stop being confused about cyber security
I'm not sure if this is the functionality you are looking for, but Mastodon has built in RSS feeds per user. You just to add .rss to the user link. So, for example, if you had an account on mastodon.social, thered be an RSS feed of your posts at
mastodon.social/@sussmannbaka.rss