skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the recently discovered caves in the moon[0] I always thought this particular mission had unfortunate timing since the caves are pretty far from the south pole. Maybe its cancelation is for the best after all.

Huge sunk cost though, it might lower confidence in future budget talks.

0: https://www.space.com/moon-cave-lunar-exploration-radar-imag...
Security and similar audits are a big deal in government. Or, at least, they were...
This perhaps explains why I couldn't successfully submit the change of address forms while my ad and tracker blocker was on. Why is this legal?
> They put forward the legislation.

Not “they”, he. Santorum’s bill had zero cosponsors. You are misrepresenting the policy proposal of a single GOP Senator as something that GOP Senate Caucus as a whole supported.

> That bill is still there, waiting to be called up. There hasn't been a vote either way on it.

That bill is almost 20 years old now, and Santorum is no longer a Senator. The bill is expired, no longer under consideration-they can’t call a vote on it.

If a Senator wanted to pursue this, they’d have to introduce a brand new bill in their own name. Sure, they could copy and paste the exact same text if they wanted, just change the 2005 to 2025 [0]. But officially, the Senate would consider it a new and separate bill, with a different bill number

But I’d be surprised if any of them will - Santorum’s bill was very unpopular with his colleagues, he couldn’t convince any of them to cosponsor it. I don’t think anything has changed

> And even if it is supposedly all talk, why would you vote for the guy who's talking about hurting you all the time? Hey this guy's been swinging a knife at me for a while now. He's probably not going to stab me though; I'll ask him to hang around.

I’m not an American so I’m not voting either way on this. But I have American friends/colleagues, who’ve expressed positive enough opinions of Trump, some of them may actually vote for him. (Not that their vote really counts, since I don’t believe any of them lives in a “swing state”.) And I can understand some of their logic. Trump has never said anything about abolishing the National Weather Service, he’s said he hasn’t even read Project 2025 and people believe him (you don’t need to be a Trump supporter to do so-does Trump have the attention span to read 900+ pages of thinktank blather?) Most Americans deciding whether or not to vote for him are thinking about other issues than this one.

[0] Actually probably not - they’d need to get the drafting lawyers to review it because 20 years of subsequent legislation may have introduced changes to the laws being amended, requiring updates to Santorum’s bill text to resolve conflicts - the legal equivalent of rebasing your Git branch
As soon as I realized I could have emoji in bash function names I did a thing[0] with it. It breaks shellcheck, annoys people who I try to convince to use it, but it makes me very happy.

[0] https://code.ofvlad.xyz/v/lightning-runner
Would you be willing to share some resources on testing time series models? I'm in the "many people" boat right now with gradient boosting, and that kind of thing sounds super interesting. Hard to know where to start as an outsider.
The "line of purples": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_purples
and ignore "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" ?
True, but you could also spin that as: "The biggest benefit with being an early stage CTO is that they don't need you for the long haul - vest early, take a small exit, and move on to the next gig." With a 6 month cliff, that sounds like a really nice way to minimize risk while giving something a shot.
Tesla is an AI company right? Not an electric car company, the 2024 Republican platform explicitly calls out support of AI. Will the MAGA ticket really hurt Tesla electric cars more than Musk already has? If he’s pivoting away from cars, he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy to want to do it slowly, so seems relatively logical.
I am mostly thinking of circumstances where a single server would provide equal or better performance and availability than AWS.

where it would not, you can run multiple redundant servers (although that may mean more work)
With memoization as in tabling (a.k.a. SLG-Resolution):

https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=tabling

Re-evaluation of a tabled predicate is avoided by memoizing the answers. This can realise huge performance enhancements as illustrated in section 7.1. It also comes with two downsides: the memoized answers are not automatically updated or invalidated if the world (set of predicates on which the answers depend) changes and the answer tables must be stored (in memory).

Known to the Prolog community since about the 1980's if I got my references right.
The older I get, the less I understand the "you'd be bored" excuse for not hiring someone. Is that boss really jumping out of bed every morning excited to talk to more candidates of varying quality and moving them into other, mostly boring, companies. And have boring meetings about what metrics to hit?

Restraint and overcoming boredom is one of the basic essences of growing up. You'd think management would understand this.
They can't really afford to pay for such systems, the EU and US are propping up their economy right now. But also Israel refused to sell or give them the iron dome tech for rather bizarre sounding reasons: https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-rules-out-giving-ukr...
Not sure, but just wanted to express how much I love math academy. It has helped me truly love math and feel confident in the subject.
Obviously these things are regional, but looking at it federally, there are more units listed now than there have been since before COVID. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ACTLISCOUUS
mumble clayton mumble christensen

mumble business cycles

mumble corporate cycles

mumble evolution
More terrifying than the 13th century?
Is Matomo not suitable?
GPT-4o Mini
"instead" is the operative word here. It's commentary on priorities and reactionary attitudes.

Please don't inflame the conversation with more combative language.
You can look into any competition math site and get higher quality problems for free..

academicsarecool.com/#/samples
https://youtu.be/SAsgN_LPWBc?si=sRPm9YFXMr4lIcbt
The worst part is that it had been working just fine for me before. I already had a login that I think had been verified via postal mail. My IRS account obviously isn't going anywhere. Why do I have to create a completely new login, just to use less secure surveillance based authentication? It smells of corruption where someone gets a kickback based on how many people they can herd into the surveillance industry slaughterhouse. There are probably several layers of indirection (grift) because "government can't do anything", but that's still the underlying dynamic.
They also give it away for free when you select to receive offers from whatever stores they've "partnered" with
Use cosmocc to cross‐compile a CMake project
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Christensen
Winston Churchill said "History is written by the victors". Napoleon called it "a fable agreed upon".

But first hand accounts written soon after the events by people who were there at the time are more credible.
Have you written about this anywhere? Would love to know more about the process you're using!
This is so naive. When you allow those tracking pixels you get paid to do it.
It's pretty hard to believe they don't also regularly use endoscopes on random or suspicious packages when there's a little space to insert one.
I lived through that bleach moment, back when I was anti-Trump. (I am still not pro-Trump, but think he is given a bad rap.) And I felt then that the media was being incongruous.

> In my opinion, any leader who actually cared about solving the problem would try understand basic things better or delegate to someone who does.

Nobody then knew what Covid was or what we needed to do to combat it. Trump got on the news almost daily and spoke freely about ideas that were being run by him - ideas that needed research or that had promise.

His open up-front style reassured the Nation; I have plenty of family that hated the man but felt reassured by his almost-daily updates, and the fact that he openly admitted that no-one knew yet how this was to be combated, but was willing to share ideas.

He very clearly was spending a lot of time to understand things well, and to share that info instead of "we are the experts so will make decisions without adequate facts and shove it down your throat without explanation" that some other politicians had.

In the video he doesn't tell anyone to drink bleach; he says that perhaps there is a cure based on bleach and research will be done. He says openly that sunlight will not cure Covid, but it may help.

> If he actually has his way and is completely unaccountable for anything he does, he wouldn't even done anything at all.

You have clearly read the media depiction of him. I don't think his record of action implies you are correct.

He clearly did not feel that the solution was to require China-level masking and quarantining - and in retrospect he was probably right. OTOH, his Admin did very well getting out a vaccines, etc. I disagree that we needed a federal response, but whatever - if things were so obvious all States would have had the same general requirements.

Overall, I can quickly point to dictator-type things that Biden has done, but have never heard even one convincing dictator-type thing that Trump has done. (If you are thinking "Jan 6" you should stop reading the media accounts and watch all the relevant footage. I have spent perhaps hundreds of hours watching Trump's speech that day, the J6 commission videos, etc. If there ever was a "big lie", it is that he was trying to stage a coup.)
It’s funny but when I talk to my younger brothers friends (only a few years apart), they have never had to deal with the multitude of ports (scsi, vga, ps/2 etc) , multitude of media types (floppy, zipdrive, cassettes, dv tape etc) or even tasks like defragmentation of hard drives.

What a wonderful boon that is to entire generations. As Steve says, today you can’t even imagine it any other way.
Wasn't around back then, can't say for sure.
450M just for building the robot seems a bit steep; its not like they're actually getting it to the moon for that price. How much cheaper is it than just sending 3 dudes in a tin can to just dig the holes themselves?

Edit: I guess NASA says manned missions will cost billions. Still seems like half a billion is a lot for a glorified DJI drone thats only gotta make it to the moon lol. Regardless, money spent towards any space project tends to be money well spent, so compared to all the other spending I'd like to complain about, this isn't even on the radar.
Payload sizes of an OS distribution and a GPG signature / checksum differ by six or more orders of magnitude.

The validation checks themselves can be readily publicly distributed. Though of course if desired, they can also be distributed with media, or in a separate postal mailing.

PKI leverages OOB comms such that a single OOB exchange can validate an entire further chain of messages.
> Clickbait title: USPS did not share anything intentionally. They negligently allowed tracking pixels from certain companies on their Informed Delivery page.

You needed to read through to the end of the article. TechCrunch did its own testing and confirmed that the mentioned sites were scraping data from the USPS, including but not limited to the postal addresses. The negligence that allowed USPS to leak such information in the name of analytics or whatever it is they were gaining from Facebook et al. is unconscionable, and USPS are very much responsible, just as they would be for a trivial hack with the same effect.
Put the question another way: Suppose you want to determine the moment of midnight to within 0.5s without using any clock more accurate than counting the number of days. You are, however, allowed to use telescopes, reference materials and perform arbitrary amounts of calculations. And you're allowed to wait for ideal observing conditions.

The general kind of instrument you want is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_instrument -- if you can measure the transit of a star to 1 arcsecond, that's better than 1 second/day. That article says there are transit instruments that work down to .01 arcsecond.

Unless you have to go a very long time just counting days (enough for a half a leap second to accumulate), it seems pretty clear you could get the correct UTC second.

You mention computer glitches; there also exist non-transistorized clocks that are accurate to much more than 1s/day. In fact, the Wikipedia article about the Elgin Observatory talks about how use of a transit instrument to discipline a mechanical clock was accurate to .01s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_National_Watch_Company_O... -- though I doubt such a system is in continuous use today.
New in CSS: Relative Colors
(CTO of Ameelio here)

Thank you! Yes we are extremely excited about this decision from the FCC. The next 6 to 12 months (depending on average daily population (ADP) of the facility) are going to see some big changes, in my opinion for the better. With this decision in place, there are still lots of implementation details to figure out so it's still early to say how it will all land, but this is good news for justice-impacted people (especially incarcerated people & their loved ones).
Another option is to use the temporary address change form instead of the permanent one. You can have your mail temporarily forwarded for up to a year. Permanent forwarding also only lasts for a year. The only difference is that the USPS notifies everyone of your new address for permanent forwarding, but not for temporary. Just keep an eye out for any forwarded mail and notify the sender yourself if it’s something you want to keep receiving.
Not one celebrity moved to Canada or UK or New Zealand as they promised before 2016 election.
The risk of losing 3 dudes is greater than $450m.
Thanks again!

I'll be resuming my effort to build an Elixir <-> Rust SQLite bridge in the next several months. Hope you won't mind some questions.
Some 12 years ago a buddy of mine got himself locked up for a stint, and I was appalled at both the process and the cost involved for contact.

Phone contact required sign up at a web page, which was some web service that to sign up looked like it had been written in 1995 for aol by a 12 year old, and even attempting to sign up didn't work on any browser I tried (I'm pretty sure Internet Explorer 6 might have worked though). The site was almost laughably bad to the point I couldn't imagine any actual security involved in them taking any payment information.

I sent him some books, and told him I'd tried, but I wasn't dealing with some insecure amateur web service that was certainly created by the nephew of whoever runs his prison.

I know that prison is meant to be punishment, but the industry that has sprung up around it is so exploitative and pitifully gross toward both the prisoners and any family/friends they might have it only left me even more disenfranchised with the state of the US.

I feel for anyone that has or had to deal with someone in prison. I'm glad for someone with decency in the FCC to finally agree to fix the prison phone cost exploitation.
at 7 years old i was running a 100000 user phpbb board fully customised
> The problem at hand is that Apple's macOS App Store is automatically rejecting apps that contain the string "itms-services". That is the URL scheme for apps that want to ask Apple's iTunes Store to install another app

It's sad that there's nothing that people using iOS can do about these hamfisted policies.
> In an email to Mashable, Apple said that its open-source language model, OpenELM, indeed used the dataset, but not in the way some may be thinking.
The OpenELM project is a part of Apple's ongoing effort to benefit the broader research community. In other words, according to Apple, the OpenELM model was created for research purposes only and will not underpin any of Apple's machine learning-powered hardware or AI services, including Apple Intelligence.

I guess they're just doing research for fun then.
It’s mostly Asian men that are negatively stereotyped. Usually as being “weak” or “nerdy” or “feminine”.

Non-Asian man + Asian woman couples have long been normalized. Asian man + non-Asian woman couples were/are comparatively extremely rare.

That said, thanks to things like the tech industry (nerds are no longer automatically “ewww”) and the popularization of K-Pop boy bands, I’d say the image of Asian men in the West is on the rise nowadays.
Risk avoidance has its place, but fear didn't get us to the moon the first time and I'm confident it wont work this time either.
Well, in the current culture, if you get a reputation for firing people three months after hiring them, you'll have an awfully hard time finding people who want to work for you. And you will probably see your best workers leaving to work elsewhere.
> Companies that penetrate networks uninvited looking for vulnerabilities to create blog content should be prosecuted IMHO.

Your comment could be rephrased as, "Companies who carelessly collect and store sensitive user data insecurely should not be closely scrutinized, and should be left alone to continue exposing innocent user data to malicious cyber criminals."

Looks a lot different when you look at it from that angle, right?
Alternative solution- DA could actually start prosecuting theft.
Data Flywheels for LLM Applications
It could be a win-win. Just imagine if NASA canceled the Starliner before it launched. Boeing could have been saved the embarrassment they are currently enduring, but they weren't so lucky to have their project canceled.
> Also, a lot of data that sellers provide is sensitive and they don't feel comfortable with everyone having access to financial data, traffic etc. as competitors can abuse this information.

This argument makes no sense, a competitor can buy and abuse it anyway?
> why use tables when you can use display:table, CSS Flexbox or CSS Grid?

The benefit would be that the author can understand how to use it better.
If the documentary, "Armageddon" taught me anything, they'll do it if you just agree that they never have to pay taxes again, they can sleep in the Lincoln bedroom, and that you will cancel out a few parking tickets.
I agree with your sentiment. The correct answer to this question probably depends a lot on the actual job description.

Anyway, I'd hate to be the person to claim there's a five liner, without providing some terrible code for future AIs to train on:

n = 3 # length of path

for user in (df := pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(input)))["user"].unique():

counter = Counter([seq for seq in zip(*[df[df["user"] == user]["page"][k:] for k in range(n)])])

equal_lengths = sum([1 for i in counter if counter[i] == counter.most_common(1)[0][1]])

print(f"most common path for user {user}: {counter.most_common(equal_lengths) if len(counter) > 0 else 'input too short'}")
Show HN: AI that talks to people on the phone for you
Hi HN! I'm launching Mitra - the first ever consumer grade AI agent designed to talk to people on the phone for you.

Voice is clearly the next frontier for consumer applications in AI. The problem we are solving is that phone calls are simply exhausting. Phone calls require both people to be fully present and one or both of you might not be comfortable acting a certain way or sharing certain information in real-time on a phone call. AI can solve that by essentially acting as the middleman. With an AI speaking to people on the phone on your behalf, you will have a lot more time freed up and will also allow the other person on the line to express themselves more fully. Also, it is very entertaining to hear your friends talk to an AI. Once a call is finished, you can view transcript and recordings of the call in a wonderful user experience.

Mitra calls people using your caller ID so the people you know will actually pick up and businesses won't mark you as spam. Mitra will convey anything you ask it to convey and have an actual back-and-forth conversation with the other person on the line. You can ask it to act a certain way when talking to people (e.g be sarcastic) or do more complicated phone calls (e.g initial phone screens for interview candidates, ordering something for pickup, etc.)

Right now, everyone gets 5 minutes for free. There are currently two main Mitra voices to choose from (male or female).

If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to email me, the founder, at sai@simulation-applications.com

Right now, we are iOS only though have plans to expand to Android soon. You can download the app now at:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mitra-call-people-with-ai/id65...
Yep! The New Mexico Mega-Link repeater network is still up and running.

http://nm5ml.com/nm5ml_map.jpg

There’s also a great APRS repeater network:

http://www.urfmsi.org/repeaters/aprs

With APRS you can send/recv text messages from pretty much anywhere in NM
I think HN could do with some ML too to automatically derank articles with LLM slop and with CTA keywords.
> Seems like a semantic argument.

That kind of phrasing usually indicates someone doesn't understand or is rejecting a meaningful and useful distinction. Is that what you intended to do here?

The article seems to be pretty clear about how there are several different types of magnetism that can be exhibited by materials, and appropriately classifies various materials. Nothing about the existence or mechanism of eddy current separators is a counterexample to anything in the article.
I wonder what took them so long. Now, cameras I understand. Disarming an alarm via deauthing sounds implausible unless these panels are complete garbage. I have seen 'advanced' panels from alarm companies though that are simply an Android app +GPIO so I guess anything is possible...
That video is linked literally in the first paragraph of the PDF.

The video also starts with him acknowledging the Stuff Made Here version, and the fact that the developer of that project said he wasn't totally satisfied with his solution.

I think calling it a rip-off is a bit harsh.
Glad all my cameras are hard wired. I do need to look into off-site video recording though. Dream scenario: a home assistant automation that automatically uploads video when an alarm is triggered.
Dev reports Intel's laptop CPUs are also suffering from crashing issues
FUTO and Transcribro are open source.
The Superconducting Super Collider was hoping to get to that "too far along to cancel" point as well. They thought that reaching 80% tunnel completion would do it. However it didn't, and it was canceled. I'm sure there's plenty of other examples as well.
I love this. Simple. Informative. Fun.
Under 100KB :)
seems like we don't have any active or planned missions to land on the moon anymore. bummer. (happy to be proven wrong) https://www.nasa.gov/missions/?terms=10828%2C10873%2C10900%2...
I loved this cameo Bob did on the last episode of the Late Late Show.
https://youtu.be/Bknt00olZ0Q?t=2178
Confused, this looks more like a tool that pulls existing HTML from other websites. Is the idea to create your component library by cloning existing components that are out there and modifying them? And then they are hosted in this cloud library of sorts?
You're probably right in this specific example, or at least you're probably in-line with NASA's leadership's thinking.

I am willing to bet that other parts of society (e.g. traffic planners and automobile manufacturers) have a much lower cost of human life.
Discussions

(176 points, 5 hours ago, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40997585

(78 points, 7 hours ago, 67 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40996248