skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Oh good catch, I thought python 2's depreciation was more recent, time flies I guess!
It's a bit unclear in the docs, but I think what they're saying is that if there's a need for a breaking change, they're "not afraid to release version 2.0", rather than saying they're "not afraid to make a breaking 1.x release".
"Tesla is running out of excuses for its prolonged sales slump" - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-running-excuses-prolong...

Most shares down today...Tesla up 6%...Insanity....
> In some cases people avoid the homeless for safety reasons

I know, and I understand this. The homeless population does have a substantial number of people who are mentally or emotionally broken. The fear is understandable, but a bit of a shame because in the years I've been interacting with these people, I've seen several people who were very agitated but I've never personally been seriously threatened or endangered. But I do carry pepper spray with me, just in case.

> How did the divorce make him homeless? I'm not doubting it, but just wondering the mechanism.

As I understand it, through a combination of legal fees and that he became unable to function during the process, leading him to losing his job.

You're right to doubt it. Everyone tells their stories with a spin that puts them in the most favorable light possible, and his story doesn't add up in several ways (but that could be because he was giving an emotional retelling of highlights, not testimony).

In my opinion, when someone tells me their story, it doesn't actually matter if it's true or not, and I don't even try to make such an assessment. I'm not their judge and jury, and I'm not trying to assess how great of a person they are. I'm just there to listen, and that's all I do.
Finally! Yahoo Pipes was so ahead of its time. The whole concept of microdata, RSS and wrangling data around in pipes was amazing and it is sad that it died. The web was so promising at that time.
You're speculating quite a bit about what the codecs support.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40844633. Some container formats support metadata so you can cut without reencoding.
Seriously, someone needs to reign in their UI department. No more refreshes until you actually finish one.
> Do people really think a sustainable and equitable society is possible while having microprocessors and telecommunication devices in beds ?

You realize the cost of the chips in the bed are a lot less than the cost to even ship a mattress right?
We discovered a vulnerability (a signal handler race condition) in
OpenSSH's server (sshd): if a client does not authenticate within
LoginGraceTime seconds (120 by default, 600 in old OpenSSH versions),
then sshd's SIGALRM handler is called asynchronously, but this signal
handler calls various functions that are not async-signal-safe (for
example, syslog()). This race condition affects sshd in its default
configuration.

So SIGALRM because of the timer firing?

Out of curiosity... any rust sshd implementations? I found libraries, but no plug&play replacement for openssh?
It is a lot of work to code and maintain. I don't know what other work is involved. What kind of expertise do you bring to the company? What would your work week look like if everything is up and running?
I am not a crypto bro but was the victim of a sim swap attack recently. It was really annoying but at the same time kind of funny because they literally only went after the 2FA app (Authy) once they stole my number, which thankfully didn't have anything meaningful attached to it.
We are not doubting his reasons. We were interested in why.
>Cruz cannot give any interviews without his permission

That's a really weird settlement.
It's probably quite hard to explain at the microbiological level for sure, but you don't need to be able to explain it to understand how it will impact outcomes. You just need to be able to measure it.

Pre-existing immunity is by definition immunity that existed pre-exposure, immunity that comes from already being infected before was referred to as natural immunity. The latter was accepted as real right up until the vaccines arrived. The former never was, I guess it still isn't as this is just a university press release, not something formal from public health agencies.
Thanks Adam! I think torn writes would still be caught via checksums, no? Although that may be later than you'd wish.

I'm not confident but from reading that page it seems that for Postgres at least, if it did do checksums it might not need to count on page-level atomic writes?
> git has lots of bad design choices that are deeper than UI. The index doesn't need to exist.

The index is a useful tool. You can opt out with `git commit -a`

> There is a lot of state that is not recorded anywhere

Examples?

> The rebase vs merge disaster

??? How is this a disaster? They serve different purposes and have entirely different semantics. You can use rebase to force fast-forward merges (which do not create merge commits), but I fail to see how this is a disaster.
I don't pretend to know in this case, but sometimes you can tell by the lattice, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widmanst%C3%A4tten_pattern

The only way a widmanst pattern forms is by slow cooling of the iron over millions of years. Check out the wiki section on why it can't be reproduced in a lab
Rocket Test Failure – Booster Static Fire Becomes Flight Test [video]
Russian army develops motorcycle assault units to carry out lightning attacks
Documentation remains the number one reason I personally don't make Android apps and why electron/web apps are the way to go for most GUI apps these days.
> The poor commit quality is your issue here, and squashing is merely a way to avoid addressing it.

Just like I said: it's like driving reverse because you don't want to learn how to shift gears!

> That only makes squashing a good tool to use to make a big mess a slightly smaller mess.

You're right, in cases that the repository is so cluttered this may be a palliative solution to avoid things to get worse. Squash exists, so it is a tool that can be used if you know what you're doing. But it being useful for rescuing in some situations doesn't mean that can be used in all situations. It's like taking pills instead of vaccines.

There are other tools in this category, such as git push -f: it is a useful tool that you may use when it's necessary if know what you're doing. This doesn't mean that it should be used as first option. Same for squash
This is amazing. I just installed AE yesterday after I decided that I needed to add "motion graphics creator" to my skillset in order to make decent Instagram stories.

What's needed now is a page where people can share the templates they've created.
Akamai/Linode Status: Incorrect billing for network overages
This is new to me, and therefore bad and scary.

It's great that you know NN well enough to fold it into regular work. But think of all us poor regular developers! Who now have to grapple with:

- an unfamiliar architecture

- uncertainty / effectively non-deterministic results in program flow
[dupe]

More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40841004

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40841651
How do you mean?

I can conceive of scientific experiments involving consciousness. For example:

Hypothesis: Consuming LSD gives me a hallucinatory experience.

Method: Randomized, blind trial. Every Saturday morning I consume one tab of either LSD or water, sit in a blank white room with a sitter (who does nothing), and record my experience.

Results: Every time after consuming water, I have no visual hallucinations and get bored. Every time after consuming LSD, I see shifting colour patterns, imagine music playing on the walls, and feel at one with the world.

Conclusion: Results strongly support hypothesis.
I can't comment on the DSP applications in the article, but for representing rotations and orientations in 3D (Computer rendersing, robotics, aerospace etc), they can be effectively treated as black boxes. There are a handful of operations you can perform between quaternions and other quaternions, vectors, and scalers, to do anything you would want in this domain. Practially, you may just be calling functions like "Quaternion::from_unit_vecs()` etc.

Call it a Rotor if you'd like; it doesn't matter when viewing it this way! Both implementation and application will be the same. The conceptual aspect people prefer about rotors is N/A here. You could also call it a `Orientation` or `Rotation` (eg the struct/class name); maybe that's better than either.
This post reminded me of the below post (from 2007!):

https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

Summary:

- Researcher took a FPGA

- used genetic algorithms to have the FPGA identify first tones and then more complex audio sequences

- there was no clock or timer used

- when they found a good solution, they tried to copy over the FPGA "configuration" to another identical FPGA.

- that didn't work!

- they assumed it was b/c the genetic algorithm + no timer had found a quirk in the specific FPGA unit and used that to help improve the processing quality
Psychosocial experiences are associated with human brain mitochondrial biology
Headline's a little clickbaity as the moss wouldn't be able to reproduce. There was a better article on this topic a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40781266

The biggest obstacle is probably how scarce water is on Mars. Like this desert moss might survive for a while but without water it won't be able to reproduce and spread. The team in the link above is considering genetically engineering an organism to absorb water from the atmosphere but even then it is just trace amounts.

Life requires water to survive and grow, doesn't seem like you can have a living organism terraform Mars for you unless you've introduced a ton of water through other means.
Except that when you're dealing with grief or another type of extreme stress, that whole sense of light-hearted context dependent word play goes out the window. The patterned responses are no longer appropriate, and falling back on literal interpretation is the only thing you have in you.

GP, I feel you. Personally I often just said/say "okay" or "alright", which decidedly means not okay in the cultural context, but I don't particularly care about ruffling feathers.
There is enough data out there surely to make an informed decision? NYC is late to the congestion charging scheme, so just look at all the other places doing it?
I get your point but is there a significantly cheaper alternative? As far as DIY goes, I don't think I'd be able to replicate a "Sleep Number" bed with my air mattress and foam.
Yes. Undergarments are tough because they are omitted from free clothing bins and second-hand clothing outlets for hygiene reasons. It's easier to get a pair of shoes than a pair of socks.
>Low level propaganda that has for decades supported center-right parties doing their best to slow the transition has clearly stepped up into desperation and wild claims lending support to far right parties.

The propaganda going around trying to stop wind from being built off the jersey shore has been increasingly insane. Suddenly a whole lot of anti-regulation types care a whole lot about marine life and the environment.
OP asked a specific question though.

FWIW, learning from copyrighted data should not be a copyright violation. This applies equally to both humans and machines. I see no reason to differentiate.
Yeah to me, it seems like FM radio + internet audio over cellular is a great mix of choices, and "digital radio" is pointless. If you want to do digital radio, make a carplay/android app.
Show HN: I Re-Wrote jQuery Terminal as a Web Component
I've done a handful of tests over the years. Once in a while the original didn't have any tests and I had no confidence I could change it without writing tests. Once in a while the original was buggy and after getting tired of going back top fix bugs I wrote a few tests. Once I had a case where the fix for bug A introduced by B, which the obvious fix was revert this code that made no sense thus bringing back bug A - when someone realized this was happening every year we write a few tests just to stop that pattern.

The above those is a very rare exception. The general rule is once code is shipped management doesn't allow you time to make it better.
> Would you expect effective government regulation to be perfectly successful, otherwise it’s deemed useless and might as well be gotten rid of? Do we hold any other pursuit by humans to the same standard?

There's a huge gap between what we have today and perfect regulation. Would you consider what the US has today, with all the issues of regulatory capture and revolving doors, as close enough to perfect that its reasonable to impose the regulations on us and limit our freedoms along the way?

I'm not proposing the anarchist, wild west pipe dream. I'm simply saying that we shouldn't so easily assume that our regulations that are questionably successful today would be better if only we doubled down on them. We can go the route of more regulation, moving responsibility off of industry and onto the government, or we can go the opposite and remove regulations while also removing liability protections. Allow companies to feel the pain of bad decisions and allow customers to make informed decisions rather than asking people to blindly trust experts that say something is safe enough, good enough for the environment, etc.
I was wondering if there was some info in the bizarrely formatted date, but I think 022 is just the issue number: https://www.dvidshub.net/news/66703/correction-isaf-joint-co...
DAB made little sense in Ireland. The FM figures used to argue for DAB adoption were skewed by a huge captive drivetime audience who were already pivoting to podcasts and live-streams instead of to DAB/Digital stations.

Combine this with cheap and ubiquitous 4G Internet, the introduction of mass audio and podcast streaming services, and the prevalence of smart-home devices at loss-leader prices like the Google Home or Amazon Alexa, and the writing was on the wall from the get-go.

In short, the National Broadcaster (RTE) were latecomers to DAB to the point where it was no longer deemed necessary by the time it was implemented. Case in point was when RTÉ shut down the DAB infrastructure, but didnt shutter the digital services populating it: RTÉ Gold/2XM/Pulse continue as online streaming services.

The majority of people - even my parents - are now far more tuned in to the likes of Audible and Spotify. When they want e.g. Death Notices or GAA they use a streaming app or the native webcast from the FM station Website.

Synchronous single-infrastructure dependent Audio Streaming is now a use-case in search of a problem for the average consumer, outside of certain niches like Naval/Aviation traffic.
You are definitely not the only one.

It's wild to me the extent to which some devs just sorta volunteer for RCE.

And often, for the most superficial of reasons? "Oooh, this plugin adds emoji error messages!" one hundred and forty-three black-box dependencies from anonymous github accounts later...
Turion wins Space Force contract for debris-capture technology – SpaceNews
> Programmers Should Never Trust Anyone, Not Even Themselves

Yep. Can confirm, the best programmers are often paranoid. I guess over time your brain becomes more logical and you start to notice inconsistencies everywhere around you... Then before you know it, it feels like you're living on planet of the apes.
Many people think they have to pay.
Noticed this on my bill this morning. The billing tier I'm currently using should include 4 TB/month outbound for free (I barely used 100 GB in June) yet I was billed at the $0.005/GB "overage" rate. Luckily I'm tiny, but that could really add up on a busy site.
Devs don't know how to write software that doesn't immediately balloon to gigabytes of memory use for a "hello, world" application. Seriously, they've just never done it.
Well, they didn't try growing it in Martian-like soil or with Martian levels of surface radiation. So the quotes in the headline are doing a lot of work here.
I’m not sure this is a NIMBY issue though. This is downstream of poor structural incentives for anything that could generate negative PR to happen in an election year. And thats less about voting precincts and more about career politicians.

Responding to your other point, what people don’t understand is that for American politics to work you have to be okay globally with a checked oppression of minority viewpoints. The system doesn't work if every squeaky wheel has to be greased. And lately we seem to be spending our political and social capital protecting even the smallest minorities instead of taking big problems and working together to solve them on a state and country scale.
Love the effort but...

> We are targeting Summer 2026 for a first Alpha version on Linux and macOS. This will be aimed at developers and early adopters.

this is frighteningly far out for a prototype...
In school when our physics teacher explained how the shape of an airplane wing creates lift and allows the plane to fly, I asked how it is that airplanes can fly upside down? I got the classic "that would be a great thing for you to research on your own time".
They were both known early on thanks to the outbreak on the Diamond Princess, which was a perfectly sealed environment yielding data on the worst case scenario (cruise ships are full of the elderly). Officials just ignored it.

But it was also known that IFRs measured early on in an epidemic are always too high, because the less serious cases don't get reported or detected. There's discussion of that problem in the literature pre-dating COVID. So you'd expect some attempt to compensate for that, which there wasn't.

And finally once more accurate data did become available, epidemiologists typically ignored it. They were still happily publishing models assuming a 1% IFR in 2021.

W.R.T. acting in the face of unknowns, no, would not agree. The precautionary principle can be used to justify literally any action no matter how crazy. It's informally called the politician's fallacy (something must be done, this is something, therefore it must be done). You do have to make decisions based on data. Not having data or understanding doesn't give permission to make everyone do literally anything you want. It means you can't take morally legitimate action until you do have that understanding.
"Single file" has the annoying property that it unpacks all your assemblies at runtime and dumps them in a temporary directory. There's no good reason it couldn't byte-load them directly out of the executable instead.
Fine, I'll say it: this is what ruthless cost-cutting gets us. But it's fine, I'm sure the stock buybacks are going so well for all involved.
There are three related headlines that have been popping up for the last few years, that somewhat contradict each other:

1) "Wind and solar are super cheap and continue to get cheaper"

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/25/lcoe-of-solar-wind-stil...

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/21/solar...

2) "More solar and wind was installed in the last year compared to last year - 1"

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/chart-the-us-inst...

https://apnews.com/article/energy-global-wind-report-2024-74...

3) "Utility bills have never been higher"

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/us-electricity-prices-rise-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/business/energy-environme...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/us/politics/utility-bills...

So, how can all three of these phenomena be true? Is solar/wind actually cheap? Are utility companies pocketing the difference (hint: yes, in many cases, but co-op prices are also at record highs per kWh)? Is something else going on (meaning wind/solar aren't actually "cheap" in the whole scheme of running a reliable grid 24/7/365)?
That's all well and good if

a) you almost always work in the same repo; or
B) you are in charge of the repos you work in.

Often these are not true for me. I have no deal with other people's repos, dealing with merge or rebase depending on their conventions etc.
"Our product doesn't work, but please use it anyway."
Related:

The Limited Value of Multivitamin Supplements

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40828179
We're so close to being able to create our own Tayne

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8K6QUPmv8Q)
I wonder if at some point phones will have built-in maps to the nearest (sponsored, naturally) charging location, to plan our routes like electric cars can do.
Qt is also available under the LGPL. There is no license advantage to using CopperSpice. I'm not sure what GP is referring to.
I'm critiquing their functionality. I know they aren't literally Markov chains... Ask ChatGPT about humor as a tool of criticism.
Checksums can detect a torn page, but not always repair them. It's likely a good part of the database page is gone (i.e., an amount of data that matches the disk / file system atomic write unit size is probably missing). Torn page writes are a pretty common scenario too, so databases need to be able to fully recover from them - not just detect them and report a corruption (ie., just pull the power plug from the machine during a heavy write workload and you're likely to get one - it doesn't require a solar ray to flip a bit :) ).
I have used git for many years, have over 250 repos on GitHub and have written several blog posts about it.

This is definitely me. I will never understand it.
Digital radio allows for far more efficient use of spectrum than FM
TIL about worktrees, a feature I've needed in the past but didn't expect to even exist.
>So indeed, airfoil shape does not matter.

... what do you mean by that? If you mean "you can demonstrate the aerodynamic force using a flat plate", then yes you can do that. If you mean "a flat plate is a good tool to explain the aerodynamic force", then that's much less true. If you mean "in the real world, airfoil shape is irrelevant to aerodynamics" that's obviously false.
It's an entire new browser engine. It's a moving target fueled by billions of dollars, dominated by megacorporations, with thousands of edge cases to account for. I'm surprised it'll be ready for alpha that soon.
(Not your original parent, my take)

> The index is a useful tool

To be clear, jj retains the full power of the git index, without having one. To use git terms, the index is just a normal commit like any other. The index is one of my favorite features of git. I don’t miss it in jj.

> Examples?

For one… the index! It’s not part of your history. The working directory can contain dirty state that’s not tracked anywhere. Those are the big two off the top of my head.

> how is this a disaster?

I’m on your side with this one, and jj supports both just fine.
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