skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you’re claiming the courts have more non-law domain expertise than agencies, you’ll need some evidence of that for this point to land.

No, I'm not claiming that. I'm not sure what that has to do with this discussion at all, though, because non-law domain experience has nothing to do with domain experience in interpreting laws.

> If you look to Chevron for a concrete example, the issue was about the ambiguity of the scope of a “source” of emissions. That is not a law question because the law already deemed that sources can be regulated.

Huh? If the law says "sources can be regulated", then the question of what the statute means by "source" is 100% a legal question of statutory interpretation!

> It’s really a question of non-law domain expertise in terms of the definition of an emission source.

No, it absolutely is not! Congress -- not the domain experts in the regulatory agency -- used specific language to establish and circumscribe the scope of the questions that agency's authority would extend to. It is 100% the role of the courts to analyse the statutory text written by Congress and determine whether the agency is or is not operating within the authority that Congress established.
The Supremacy Clause lists the supreme laws in order: constitution, federal statutes, treaties. If there is a conflict among them then it's natural for the courts to resolve that conflict by deferring to the more supreme item on that list, thus if a law violates -say- the right to due process as enshrined in the constitution then that law must be invalid and the courts must rule as much.

Marbury is an utterly natural consequence of the Supremacy Clause and Article III (and the context of common law).
https://archive.is/PuSDy
So does banning people from driving. But obviously people are smart enough to realise that's dumb. I guess not smart enough to realise that pricing them out is the same thing and also incredibly dumb.
I think there is a competing interest where people want to be able to change platforms without relearning critical workflows.
Tax Treatment of Capital Gains at Death
The app is genuinely great: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-arts-culture/id10509705...
"all your word are belong to us"
The other example that worked for me with Word2Vec was Germany + Paris - France = Berlin: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/23/embeddings/#exploring-...
So you don't believe in welfare? Because they circumvent "accurate pricing".
I first stumbled on this site over half a decade ago, and it's nice to see it's still going. There's genuine effort to collaborate with locals to produce curated content - see for example the city showcase of Lagos, Nigeria: https://artsandculture.google.com/project/creative-lagos

I unironically think it's Google's greatest contribution to media in the 2010s.
It really bums me out how Repl.it has evolved from its beginnings as a simple, free, accessible-anywhere programming scratchpad into a heinously complex cloud-persisted SaaS product.

Have you considered offering a version of your product that doesn't persist anything- or perhaps persists snippets in URI parameters or localStorage- and which can be used without an account? It would meaningfully lower barriers to entry and adoption.
New York has the most famous mafia, but it does seem like Americans have just accepted that all our urban infrastructure construction is rife with corruption. See also the Central Subway in SF, the Big Dig in Boston, and the general perception that anything infrastructure related will cost infinity dollars and approximately never be completed.
I am very confused by Apple TV shows quality. I can‘t really say they are all bad but all in all apart from Severance and maybe Silo all of their SciFi offerings didn‘t really hit for me. Especially Foundation has been such a disappointment that it kind of tainted my feelings towards the whole service. Apart from that it‘s just so strange what kind of technical issues some of the episodes have that they stream (strange audio or brightness issues)
I wrote sasquatch which is similar. sasquatch is more simple than SQS and queues are virtual (i.e the queue exists because you put a message in it, and is gone when there's no messages in it).

https://github.com/crowdwave/sasquatch

sasquatch is also a message queue, also written in Golang and also based on sqlite.

sasquatch implements behaviour very similar to SQS but does not attempt to be a dropin replacement.

sqsquatch is not a complete project though, nor even really a prototype, just early code. Likely it does not compile.

HOWEVER - sasquatch is MIT license (versus this project which is AGPL) so you are free to do with it as you choose.

sasquatch is a single file of 700 lines so easy to get your head around:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crowdwave/sasquatch/main/s...

Just remember as I say it's early code, won't even compile yet but functionally should be complete.
Indeed : ]
It’s been around since 2011. I think it was one of the earliest examples of “infinite zooming” tiled image websites.

(See https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Igdyv)
They're not mistaken. They're different programs for different tasks.
Try walking further: calculate a loop of slightly longer than that and go for it.

I’ve had a lot of fun doing exactly this as exercise in the last few years - picking incrementally longer “loops” of distance and just fucking going for it with a bunch of water or Gatorade equivalents :)

Caveat: may become addictive.
For a short while but surely reduced access to smoking would improve performance in the medium term? Both are obviously possibilities and it would be good to know if anyone had an answer.
Hi! Thanks for the comment!

> My experience has been the opposite. Every organization I worked at used Trunk based development (feature branch->master).

Each repository has its own necessities and you need to adapt the workflow to them. Sometimes for small repos what's work the best is commits on main, some people like the so-called "git flow", and Linux have different maintainers for each subsystem.

> Because branches are short lived and usually small, they are the atomic representation of a change, and not the commits in the pull request.

If they are small enough they can be a single commit. No problem in doing that, and the result will be similar to squashing. If they need more than one commit, so they are not exactly "small"

> Pull requests usually have lots of "linting", "fixing test", "fixing typo" commits that I absolutely do not want in my master branch.

I agree that if someone commits something and then commits a "lint", "fix typo", this could be solved in commit correctly once. But this is not always possible, so one can use the rewriting history tools that were mentioned.

But I return the question: what are the downsides of having those commits?

> Blanket statements like these are not productive.

What, exactly, was blank? I tried to justify everything that I could based on the how Git works and debunk statements like "squash makes the history cleaner" (which, in fact, are blank).

> just assumes that it's because people just don't understand how git works.

So, I make the same question of the text: after reading and knowing what squash merges really are, what are the good reasons to still use them?
Ask HN: Can a bad internet connection destroy your SSD?
I noticed that a temporary problem with the internet connection caused a lot of writes to the SSD (due to logging of errors?).

I was so worried that I rebooted the computer to avoid wearing out the SSD.

Why don't operating systems protect against this?
Grocery shoppers don't either. What's your point? Do we charge people to enter the grocery store, or if they buy too much?

It's not a good solution in any sense of the word. There are reasons we don't charge for some things. Do you charge people extra who use their entire bin on bin day?

It's weird how many people here are not smart enough to realise how backwards this solution is.
RadioGPT
Need Advice on BioHacking: Hormone Monitoring Patches
I'm a prolific builder.
I'm into BioHacking and optimizing my performance on a regular basis.
As someone who recently turned 33, I discovered that monitoring and regulating hormonal balance throughout the day is the key to performing like you're 22.

So far I've used proxy metrics, but I would like to purchase a hormone monitoring patch in order to identify further ways to improve my performance.
Can someone recommend me a hormone monitoring patch that is available for purchase?

Alternatively, I plan to build a consumer product that will integrate with an Apple Watch. If you're a Researcher in this space or know someone who is, please hit me up.

#biohacking #wellness
Yes. Except I don't believe they're capable of that...

>"convert an urban highway into a beautiful linear park and waterway"

They converted an inner urban highway and other highways in the sky (in the immediate city centre) to walking paths while adding extra highways to the pool further out from the city centre. Removing the inner highways added to congestion, adding the outer highways reduced congestion.

They did not add congestion charges and the city handles it fine. They are not stupid like a lot of people here are.
I mean, that is also true.
Theoretically the network could be trained on the raw input and output voltages of the camera and display serial interface and so on. But yes, it's a magical fantasy computer.
Because SIMPLE.

single exectuable binary

golang with sqlite so fast

minimal config so no ridiculous hours or days of config and operations

This blitzes other ideas for use cases that do not require distributed queues - and that is likely many use cases.
Codec standards are defined for decoder compatibility. So no matter what encoder produces a stream, a “standard” decoder can display it. But encoders are free to do whatever they want within those bounds. Each encoder may choose to make trade offs that are incompatible with each other. So stitching often requires using the same encoder. Getting everyone to agree on a common sequence header is just not going to happen. It would need to be built into the codec specification. And no modern codec has cross implementation stitching as a design goal. It would be possible to make an implementation that parsed an existing stream and created a stitchable output, but there is no financial incentive to create that encoder.

EDIT. Some decoders can be reinitialized by adding parameters in band. But this is technically illegal in some formats (like mp4) but it may "just work" in some playback environments
Phones are supported for 5-7 years across the major makers. My battery is down to 70% of its original capacity in half that time, no longer able to make a full day's use.

Being able to easily swap in a brand new battery at the half way point in a phone's lifetime and get back to full day usage so typical overnight charging instead of needing a second mid-day charge cycle, is a huge win.

That you think a 3 or 4 year old phone is outdated when the makers support it for up to twice that long is ludicrous, and even then it's silly to have to toss it because the maker won't provide further security updates. I'd use a phone 10 years, about what I use my laptops for, if the battery was easily replaceable. Instead, they land in a drawer every 3-4 years when the battery isn't good enough and a the cost of manufacturer replacement in dollars and downtime is so exorbitant that I just buy a new device.
That's really nice-- did you just make that?
There's a handy tool to download images from there: https://dezoomify.ophir.dev/
"COVID-denying racists."

Have you seen videos or pictures of the protestors? They were all different races, there wasn't an ounce of "racism" anywhere in there.
The picture is in the article, but nice to know there's a Wikipedia page.
>Inter-zone traffic significantly contributes to the overall cost structure of a data streaming system. Although eliminating inter-zone traffic can reduce costs, it may adversely affect availability or performance.

>The latency of low-cost cloud object storage solutions is not on par with persistent block storage or local SSDs. To meet specific performance requirements, the use of persistent block storage or local SSDs is essential.

Meh this is mostly an AWS issue where you get billed per GB. The actual cost of 100G transport between data centers is dirt cheap and so are SSDs/Optane. You can also commit hot data to RAM and rely on machines in each zone having independent battery backup
I wouldn't touch anything goldmansachs with a 10 ft pole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov
> 79.15% of our pricing operations averaged 1 second or less response time

These numbers are thrown out there like they're supposed to be impressive. They must be doing some really complex stuff to justify that. For a web server to have a p79 of 1 second is generally terrible.

> 79.01% to average 2 seconds or less

And after the migration it gets FAR worse.

I get that it's a finance product, but from what they wrote it doesn't seem like a large dataset. How is this the best performance they're getting?

Also a migration where your p79 (p-anything) doubled is a gigantic failure in my books.

I guess latency really mustn't be critical to their product
Or the digital pound.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/the-digital-pound
Ugh I didn't see that.

My enthusiasm has instantly waned.

Why is AGPL needed? Just be MIT and make it easy for people, espefcially if you're not planning on monetising it.

I won't use AGPL code just on principle.
why not a full vpn? The webbrowser gets thinks he talks to xyz.tld, but reaches only an proxy that cached the data.
I'm sure it's good for some things, but...

I wouldn't want the automatic braking system in my car using this... 8-/
I think it’s very much a magical fantasy computer :-) A thought experiment, rather than a claim to something that’s been built or exists.

The questions you pose are interesting ones, for the sake of the experiment I think at least:

- Programming

- Loading new software

- Adding new functionality

- Persisting user data

Could all at least in principle be achieved without changing the network architecture, but rather just providing the relevant data at the inputs (eg the full bit stream of the install file of the new software being installed) and having that lead to adjustments in activations (not weights or architecture) across the network which lead to any future inputs to the network resulting in the outputs that would be expected in the presence of the new software. Same deal for the other examples.

As to whether this is practical or achievable at present - not even remotely close in my view. But it’s still an interesting idea, even if just to think about why it wouldnt work and what that implies for future development direction of multimodal networks etc.
Anything developed using AUTOSAR is going to be awful shit. No competent programmer will willingly get within 10 feet of an AUTOSAR job posting if they've ever had to suffer through using it, and all the old ICE manufacturers standardized on AUTOSAR. They can't retain good programmers, and they can't hire programmers who have experienced their shit before, so they're left with naive newbies or overpriced contractors whose only goal is to milk the company for as many billable hours as possible.
Why would calling main be UB!? How is crt0 supposed to work?
Of course what they should do to fund it is what they figured out in Hong Kong or Singapore decades ago. Have government requisition land around stations and redevelop it as high density towers and profit on the sales.
Worst case scenario would result in a police raid on innocent people.
> How would the input and output devices work without drivers? Does "no classical software at all" mean that the drivers are somehow within the neural net?

Why do you single out drivers? If the whole I/O behaviour of the computer would be performed by the NN, why not drivers?

> Wouldn't it require observing countless inputs and outputs for a normal computer?

Yes and that bit sounds to be relatively easy to automate.

> How would the neural net being trained distinguish between good, wanted input/output combinations versus bad, error input/output combinations?

I guess you would put that information into the dataset. In supervised learning it's called labels.
I'm sorry, but this is not good code for teaching anyone about anything to do with physics. It manages to be both verbose, non-idiomatic, slow and wrong. Feynman would not touch this with a ten foot pole.

First ditch all the object orientation and encapsulation and stuff. Your data is a 2xN Numpy array. Your visualization is a scatter plot in Matplotlib. Voila, 80% of the code is gone.

For the position updates, you either use a repulsive potential to approximate the hard spheres and do molecular dynamics, showing how to integrate Newton's second law and the Verlet scheme and ergodicity and the whole shebang. Or you do Monte Carlo for the positional updates and keep the exact hard spheres. You discuss statistical mechanics concepts like ensembles and thermostats and stuff.

Then you produce results like the pair correlation function and compare it with the Carnahan-Starling equation, dig into the really cool stuff. Compute velocity autocorrelation functions, test what happens when you change density and temperature, talk about phase diagrams, etc.

This is actually an amazingly deep subject, yet very accessible and intuitive, that sits on the border between physics and chemistry. Sad to see it treated like this. Would suggest that people have a look at the book by Allen and Tildesley which is much much better. They have both Python and Fortran example code on Github.
https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/102300_102399/102367/01...
Vague, wouldn't trust my $ to these guys.
I’m surprised that you are surprised that there is a difference in both property and labor costs between a japan 19 years post allied strategic bombing and present day california.
I would narrow that down to people preaching about The Edge.

Storage and compute colocation almost always wins out by far.

In saying that, I love Cloudflare workers for certain stuff
The mobile app used to have a feature where you could upload a selfie and it would search for a painting that looked like you. It did a really good job.

Not sure if you can do that on the website.
Current attempts showing promise include initiatives like the Center for Open Science and journals such as eLife and PLOS ONE that emphasize methodological rigor over impact factor. Additionally, policies from organizations like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) mandating data sharing plans are gradually moving the needle toward these goals.
There are a lot of cashless options but many places still only take cash. There’s a bakery in building that opened right when COVID started and they’re strictly cash only. Whenever friends and relatives visit they’re always stunned.
Great article.

Readers looked to Sartre and Camus to articulate what that new world might
look like. ‘We were,’ remembered the fellow philosopher Simone de Beauvoir,
‘to provide the postwar era with its ideology.’

It definitely looks like we might need this work again somewhere.
In hindsight, this was bad advice.

There should be a leading slash (/) for root. So #!/usr/bin/python3

And for the file to execute you have to give yourself execution permission with "chmod +x myscript.py"
There used to be a premium number you could send an SMS to. It was more expensive than a normal stamp to cover for the expensive billing.

"Handyporto" replaced this and that's probably also why you can't buy it on the website. Deutsche Post probably can't conceive of people who don't own a printer so they heavily advertise "Internetmarke" which requires one.
I bought a portable split system for 2400 EUR. Works pretty well since I have shutters and a balcony, I put the external part outside the window, pull down the shutters and seal the lower part of the window around the pipe with some stuff. Doesn't use lots of power if I cool to 26C. Well, today we had 34C outside, so it had to work a lot.
WinUI3 is a can of worms that’s becoming palatable only with .NET 8 (and soon 9). In a normal configuration, you have to bring 500MB of dependencies with you, or ask the user to install a redistributable. You also need the user to install .NET 8, or bring said 0.5GB with you.

WinUI3 can be used in unpackaged apps (I.e.: not appx) but has a few random caveats that just don’t work; random APIs that have a footnote of “oh this doesn’t work in unpackaged apps” or “works in unpackaged apps but only in .NET Preview something-something”.

.NET 8 fixes a lot of this by adding AOT compilation and single-binary releases, but it’s still fairly large. .NET 9 then improves culling of unused framework code from your published file, and also adds WPF -> WinUI3 theming support.

Source: my repeated attempts to rewrite our product’s UI in WinUI3 (from WPF on .NET Framework 3.5) several times.
Simple web component to display external HTML (such as Email newsletter)
Im surprised you think the issue is labor and land costs.
Show HN: I made a simple antipodal point navigator
Inspired by Neil deGrasse Tyson's explanation of antipodal points: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HJwZoQq0-a0

What are Antipodal Points?
Antipodal points are two points on a sphere that are diametrically opposite to each other. On Earth, they are sometimes referred to as antipodes. If you were to draw a straight line from one point through the center of the Earth, it would emerge at the antipodal point.
Great movie, what about it?
Linear Algebra for Computer Vision, Robotics, and Machine Learning [pdf]
This depends on your definition of few.. but SQS costs us more than the servers handling the messages…
It’s cheap until you do billions of messages…
> Article 1, Section 10 Titles of Nobility clause

It's an intriguing idea. Now spend even one minute thinking deeply about the Equal Protection Clause, and drown in sorrow.
No, i don't like anything produced after ~2001 with a couple of exceptions; especially television shows. I was just talking about how many optical discs i have in storage, but i have over 1200 "DVD", and about half that in audio discs (unripped, just stored). I only own a dozen bluray, and all those were re-releases of movies from before 1990, even.

So i stop by the redbox sometimes, but the only thing i ever rented out of them was games. I played skyrim and fallout 4 via redbox, for example, back when they came out for playstation.
What would you peg it on then? Profiteering subcontractors? I’d file that under labor.
What do you mean ‘it’s working in Europe?

The dominant and official state religion in Europe is mostly Christianity.

[..]Europe

Christianity (Eastern Orthodox)

1. Belarus
2. Bulgaria
3. Cyprus
4. Georgia
5. Greece
6. Moldova
7. Montenegro
8. North Macedonia
9. Russia
10. Serbia

Christianity (Roman Catholicism)

1. Andorra
2. Austria
3. Belgium
4. Bosnia and Herzegovina (also Islam)
5. Croatia
6. Czech Republic
7. France
8. Hungary
9. Italy
10. Latvia
11. Lithuania
12. Luxembourg
13. Malta
14. Monaco
15. Poland
16. Portugal
17. Slovakia
18. Slovenia
19. Spain
20. Switzerland

Christianity (Protestantism)

1. Denmark
2. Estonia
3. Finland
4. Germany
5. Iceland
6. Netherlands
7. Norway
8. Sweden
9. United Kingdom (Anglican)

Mixed/Other

1. Albania (Islam and Christianity)
2. Kosovo (Islam and Christianity)
[..]
C++/CLI is managed code, it’s basically C++ compiled into .NET IL.

If you’re writing C++ code running on .NET / .NET Framework, you’re basically writing masochistic C#.
https://archive.is/D6LT5
I don't know for certain but expect it comes from comparing solutions with those based on virtual machines like Java's. The requirements in the original article look like a corporate wish list.
It's also some kind of fraud in most jurisdictions, or subject to an extra fee if discovered.

Germany's new stamps aren't stamped any more - a QR code gets scanned and logged instead - so people thought they were lucky when they received unstamped letters and decided to re-use the stamp. They got hit with a fine.