skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the title matches the article, it's a bit of a hyperbole. They found a bug in a 55-year old Lunar Lander game.
The city I live in in So Cal banned billboards and has had limits on business signs for a very long time ago. I have always appreciated the reduced visual noise. It is really obvious when you cross over into the next city over because it is nothing but billboards all over the highway for dispensaries, casinos, ambulance chasing or divorce attorneys, and car insurance. They've been so strict about it that it took about 15 years longer to get an In-n-Out.
Yeah. The iteration speed with Flutter's fast, solid, hot reload is seriously a big deal for the developer experience.
Yes, I suppose that's true of me too. :) I also have internet issues every day.
When all you are is a hammer manufacturer, all your demos look like nails.
If I wasn’t on a mobile I’d post a link to a YouTube video of the intro to the original edge of darkness.
Since this is HN and threads are supposed to be more interesting as they get longer, I might mention the neither subtle nor important different between Apartheid and Ethnocracy. It is not an important difference because either is demonstrably bad and shouldn’t happen, neither is it subtle because one portrays to civil rights (as in denying civil rights to a minority) and the other is about demographics (as in controling the demography to favor a certain ethnic group).

The Jim Crow south in the pre civil rights era USA was an apartheid, as the legal framework denied civil rights to Black Americans. It was not however an ethno-state as there was no policy of controlling the demographics of Black Americans. The eugenics movement tried to change that, and if the Eugenics movement had been more successful it is highly likely that some of the states in the USA would have become ethno-states.

In Israel the practices and policies in the West Bank are apartheid, and policies of preventing immigration from occupied territories into Israel, and establishment of Jewish settlements inside the West Bank are behaviors of an ethno-state.

So just like Rhodesia and Apartheid South Africa, Israel maintains both an apartheid and an ethnocracy.
Gunther Von Hagens, of the creepy and possibly unethical Bodyworlds exhibitions, did a TV series of real anatomy in the 2000s. They are well worth watching if you can find them: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0862558/
Beyond Authenticity: Hannah Arendt's final unfinished work
have to pay $25K upfront

That's a lot of your money.

It's not a big dose of OPM (Other People's Money).

When building a business, adequate capitalization solve a lot technical problems and it is no different when a business is built. If you aren't building a business, money is different and there's nothing wrong with not building a business. Good luck.
This is excellent; surveillance pricing means the death of a competitive free market.

Imagine if your airline knew precisely how badly you needed to be at your destination and knew your $ net worth. Flying to your father’s funeral? That’ll be 20k. Flying for cancer treatment? 30k.
In other discussion here, people asserted that a CUDA replacement was unworkable because you couldn't replace Nvidia's CuBLAS implementation. I'm not qualified to say whether this would give info for constructing an adequate replacement but I'd interested in people's opinions.
It can also very well be that they got a court order to turn on logging only for that specific account. Better opsec would have likely prevented this.
Uh i get what you are saying but we still have to directly fight disease and it's vectors.

Reducing emissions to 0 right now isn't going to work fast enough.
Speaking as a layman but an interested one:

1) the progress really has seemed underwhelming [0], to the point that some minor uncertainties still seem to linger about the specific mechanisms of infection. I’ve heard more about greening than canker. As far as I’ve heard there is no “curing” these, just preventing the trees from getting sick, and in the case of canker, burning an huge radius around infected groves to keep it from spreading further. Gold-standard prevention measures involve things like covering the young trees with plastic bags to try and keep the bugs off [1]. Miracle of modern medicine this is not.

As to 2), pretty sure that’s the kind of thing that lends itself to concrete calculation. Turning corn into ethanol, which Americans do on a massive scale, had a reputation of being super energy-intensive (as well as an ethically dubious use of arable land), although more recent official studies seem to estimate that corn ethanol produced with modern techniques results in 34% more energy than is input to make it [2].

The “squeeze the Pongamia beans and take the oil” method seems considerably less energy-intensive than “ferment the corn and distill it,” and the crop seems to have form: thriving in poor conditions with minimal inputs, easy to mechanically harvest, and a traditional role as a fuel oil source in its home countries. No idea how it performs compared to the alternatives though.

[0] https://www.wlrn.org/environment/2023-05-08/the-20-year-figh...

[1] https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/topics/citrus_greening

[2] https://www1.eere.energy.gov/bioenergy/pdfs/energy_balance_o...
Easier to write that than explain their internal processes. But what would be the point? Training on someone asking a question doesn't cause it to learn the correct answer.
Show HN: Applesoft BASIC editor with example programs
This is an Applesoft BASIC editor that extracts and updates code into a live Apple II VM. You can load examples through the dropdowns at the top-right of the screen. The CodeMirror-based editor separates out 'stacked' BASIC lines to make them easier to read.
Seeing clever, simple, and reliable mechanisms like this make me think that digital electronics has really enabled modern engineers to be lazy.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Pin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41029287 - July 2024 (121 comments)
https://archive.is/8tjfz
It's in fact the reason people love LemonSqueezy (though it uses Stripe under), due to simplifying a lot the VAT remittance.
Well, I was where you were 15 years go, said kid now is a robotics engineer.

First off, are they interested in the mechanical engineering and fabrication challenges? Or more interested in the behavior and controls challenges? Because you may chose a different path. At one point I regarded battle-bots as just an RC car with a bad attitude. But I have to admit that there are a lot of interesting mechanical design challenges to be solved. Melonee Wise did battle bots... and went on to co-found Fetch and is now CTO at Agility, so it can certainly lead to interesting things.

If more interested in behavior and controls challenges, then maybe you don't want to go the competition route at all, but want to make up a "challenge" and build a robot to target that. Like build a robot that can patrol your house, and take pictures of all the doors. Kind of a "security robot" (but not really all that useful) but I guarantee you will learn a lot attempting that. (In fact, that is probably too much for a first challenge.)

Lego Mindstorms has a lot going for it, but ultimately becomes limiting. Definitely not a bad place to start with a 10yo, but expect to move on.

Pololu and SparkFun have a lot of interesting modules, Pololu last I looked also had some basic platforms that make a good place to start. Also, depending on where you live there may be a good robotics club to join.
Right, I'm not saying that learning software engineering wouldn't help. I'm specifically pushing back against "it's significantly harder without some engineering background", since a lot of good reverse engineers I know still don't have a good software engineering background. Being able to identify program constructs and idioms from the programming side instead of the reverse engineer side is definitely one way to do it, but I don't think it's the only way and I'm not sure is even the best way, since a lot of programming details are surprisingly irrelevant for RE so going through a full CS degree program will also spend a lot of time teaching you things you don't need to know for RE.
I hope you looked very closely at the contract that bore the arbitration clause.

Scroll down to the spot where it explains who will pay all the attorneys fees. Oh no! Your clever plan failed.
Ive never competed in math competitions at this level, but I would have expected it to be pretty clear to the human when they tested a different solution. As complex as the proofs are, is it really feasible that they are testing out a full proof in their head without realizing it?
There's a similar Merlin assembly-language editor at https://paleotronic.com/merlin/
This is a thoroughly nonsensical take. What is 'white' is very arbitrary in the first place. Where ancient Romans 'white'? Does it make it any more accurate to have an Englishman play an ancient roman than to have an Arabian or Japanese man? How about the debates over the historical portrayal of Jesus, a semitic man, as a blue-eyed Scandinavian. You're simply wedded to the hollywood convention which has nothing to do with logic or historical accuracy. Those conventions reflect the current culture and can change at any time. So it was the fashion before to use certain type of actors because the Hollywood elite decided those are the people audiences would be most comfortable with (not because it had anything to do with being accurate). And now demographics of audiences have changed so Hollywood has (slowly) adapted. It's just entertainment not Truth. Get with the times.
Online NHS GP consultations have led to harm and death, investigation finds
Socialism for Realists
I can’t find it but IIRC the issue was mostly the internal use of reflection, possibly undocumented e.g. a function. Would take a reader, then do a thing, then close it if possible.

But it did not take a closeable reader, it’d just ask for a reader and close it from under you. And maybe this caught people who did not intend to implement a readcloser but it definitely caught people who just didn’t want their file closed because they had shit to do with it afterwards.
This reminds me of a post[0] where 3 junior devs had written a spaghetti monster that generated 20 million dollars annually, and OP was crying for a rewrite while everyone on HN chuckled.

"Long-term thinking"--often times, you ain't gonna need it. "Engineering" also rhymes with "bike shedding".

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32883596
Conservation-induced extinction
> I'm waiting for the micropayment platform that lets me pay a cent or two per paywalled/ad supported article instead

I hope for this too. The free internet has grown wildly but now that it’s infested with bots that fundamentally cannot be stopped (without onerous Real ID controls at least) I want an alternative ad-free web that charges micropennies per post.
This seems like it's aiming at something, but missing.

My take as an engineer (not a PE, but have the degree) is that engineering mindset is quite a bit different than computer science mindset, which is quite a bit different than technician mindset.

Each has their strengths and weaknesses. Engineering is pragmatically applying science. Computer science has more of a theoretical bent to it - less pragmatic. Technicians tend to jump in and get stuff done.

Especially for major work, I'll do paper designs and models. The engineers tend to get it, but the computer scientists tend to argue about optimal or theoretical cases, while the technicians are already banging something out that may or may not solve the problem.

More recently (past 5-10 years), I've seen a notable lack of understanding from new programmers about how to do a design. I'm currently watching a sibling team code themselves into a corner due to lack of adequate design. They'll figure it out in a few months, but they're "making progress" now and have no time to waste.
Its OK to move fast if the cost of failure is very small.

I do not understand why the Crowdstrike change was not tested appropriately, why this problem not found in testing.
My company has a automated test suite that takes some time ( several hours ) to run along with manual tests before any software is released. If its a risky change needs to be reviewed another developer. If it is a emergency production change the testing is much less , however change is still reviews by an experienced developer and still manually tested by a tester. The regression tests are not run...
> this design, developed in the 1950s, is entirely analog

Uhm, how is this analog? Perhaps "electro-mechanical?" Is there such a thing as a "digital cigarette lighter?"

It's not like the electric circuit is an analog of the act of lighting a cigarette; as opposed to what we commonly use the word "analog" to mean that something in the system is an analog to what's being recorded or processed. (IE, in analog tape the magnetic signal is an analog to the real signal, or in analog TV the signal is an analog to the brightness of the picture at a specific moment in time.)
You're right. I read the commenter I was replying to very badly. In my later discussion with them we covered a bit better how Docker can cover some of the same uses as package managers as well as the continued vitality of package management in the era of containers. It was a much better conversation by the end than it was at the beginning, thanks to their patience and good faith engagement.
If they are determined, they can still seize the machines without powering them down. It has already been done in the past.
That's totally fair, though wouldn't the algorithm here have to reduce the math proofs to arithmetic that can be computed in silico?
It's nice for start ups to have liquidity events.
That's what LemonSqueezy already is. You can setup subscriptions and disable their storefront, then it's perfect for SaaS.
Not quite what you are looking for but I use stoko for skiing

https://stoko.com/
We Built a Giant LEGO Tube Map with Working Trains [video]
Nov 2022 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551036
maybe look at it outside of the lens that you want everything to be like you, and realise there are billions of people who bring their own talent and culture to roles, most of whom are not white.

gay and black people exist, and the people they are portraying are dead. it’s called acting for that reason, the character isnt really cleopatra.
"Punctuated equilibrium."
Re: grid: Rules are meant to be broken :)

Visual weight sometimes dictates a slightly less than perfect alignment.
Protip: Palau is close enough to the magnetic equator that it's possible to collect both N- and S-seeking magnetotactic bacteria from the lagoons there.
There is a time and place for demographic accuracy. If you are shooting some kind of historical reenactment I can see the argument it enhances immersion (or at very least, doesn't break immersion) to use actors that fit the demographic of the group being portrayed. I can also see an exception for historical figures that have a widely known image (eg: I could buy that it would be little jarring to see Denzel Washington play George Washington).

However, most "historical" films are not historical reenactments. They are usually character dramas that are using a historical period as a backdrop to tell some other type of story. For me personally I see this more in the tradition of live theater. If the race (or even gender) of the characters isn't massively integral to the plot, it's fine and good to cast whoever acts well in the role. Cleopatra and the little mermaid are literally fairly tale characters, could not imagine caring what the race of the actress playing them is.
Maps with Django⁽¹⁾: GeoDjango, SpatiaLite and Leaflet
curious have you tried compression pants with wires in them like stoko.
fwiw almost everything is political, not just things you disagree with
To add, sometimes I know what the issue is, but the results are to generic. This is where the extra context comes in. Using an LLM is like posting to and getting a reply on a forum in real-time, with both equally likely to give you a right/wrong answer to boot!
Repulsive Shells [video]
Oh yeah, I meant the renting of scaffolding is super expensive.
Wow, too bad. I guess one can look at Bricklink to see what is available.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080644 (a re-upped version of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40996809, now deleted, which was the first submission of the article. just trying to spread the love!)
Merchant of record can be really big - the biggest issue today is price. 5% + 50c doesn't make sense if you are selling $5 per month subscriptions.

Reduce the price to Stripe pricing + 1%, and this will be the default for everyone!
Ask HN: Close Facebook account but keep managing Facebook pages?
I want to close my Facebook account for multiple reasons, but I need to keep managing / administrating some Facebook pages. There are also Facebook groups I'd like to keep participating, but I guess I could rejoin them.

What's the best way to keep handling the Facebook pages? I need to create another account (with my cell phone number, unfortauntely), set it as admin and then delete my original account? Is that going to cause a problem? I can't risk losing the admin of these pages.
also nice for customers to have less choice and presumably worse pricing?
I think you're free to take your money and buy the entertainment you prefer.

Is it political soapboxing, or trying to make show business fairer? Because if Hollywood listened to your preferences, minority actors have less oppportunities for roles.

I was watching "A Gentleman in Moscow", a series about an aristocrat living in house arrest in a luxury hotel in 1920s-1950s Soviet Russia. Everyone in it spoke English since it is an US/UK production, and there were black and Indian actors in it, I guess because of "DEI". I found it awkward at first, but I thought "I guess this is progress, better get with the times.". No one moaned about all the Russian characters speaking English, the show didn't have any race-related topics (a movie about the KKK with black Klan members would be incongrous), but with actors of different color skin? That series had lots of IMDb reviews complaining about "political soapboxing"...

I must be one of those people^W sheep who don't mind being oppressed by the woke-mafia, huh?

As an addendum, I find it obnoxious if people insist straight actors can't play gay characters, or genteel actors playing Jewish characters. It's called fucking acting! Scarlett Johansson should've been able to play a fictional Japanese cyborg in Ghost in the Shell without idiots complaining about it...
> It's funny because Facebook uses btrfs for their systems & doesn't have these issues.

they likely have distributed layer on top which takes care of data corruption and losses happening on specific server
Macbeth is fiction, albeit written long ago. Even so, I think some approaches to modern adaptation are better than others.

For instance, you can go the route of Throne of Blood. It transposes the plot to feudal Japan, and doesn't call itself Macbeth. This allows you to hit all the story beats with the freedom to change literally anything else you want, and still be "faithful" in its adaptation. I'd argue it's also a more intriguing approach for film.

Alternatively, you can opt for the original dialog, names, historical setting, and aesthetic. If you go this way, with a story set in Medieval Scotland that is not genre fantasy, then having something as incongruent as a change of race in the main character will stick out. Notwithstanding, here no one cares because a) Macbeth's been done to death, b) no one gives a damn about Macbeth. You can of course suggest that people are nonplussed about this for movies in general, but if they aren't invested in any way they may not see your film either.

So in fact you aren't likely to see this done for every film set in a historical period all the time, and the minor controversy and trolling if anything helps create buzz for a film that will otherwise flop anyway. Were you going to see it in theaters? Statistically, not likely.
(disclaimer: paywalled so I read 2 paragraphs)

Is this just like running the game of life [1] on a giant random board and seeing some generators emerge? Or something actually significant?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
Maglev titanium heart inside the chest of a live patient
Sorry, just had time to come back to this thread.

Stripe Billing doesn't allow you to:

* Control the templates of your pdfs
* Control the templates of your emails
* Control how your emails are being sent
* It makes having multiple subscription items a lot easier.
* It allows you to define tax rates on a customer and product level
* It allows you to define tax rates on a country and state level
* Have multiple brands on the same account

Also, it's a lot cheaper than Stripe Billing even the cloud hosted version is. Stripe Tax is even more expensive.
I'd be a little suprised. No one should take Guillermo's claims on things like performance as an unbiased fact. They do make some very impressive things at Vercel, but G is a salesman first and foremost.
That's why I use Pelican as a static site generator with Github.com.

https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
That is in fact one of the new features in this 9.0 release! There's a new less-dense default, and the previous dense layout remains an option (which for myself I immediately turned on).

We're also planning to give a wider array of options in an upcoming release, including independently setting the line-height and the font size. It's a lot of work to get even two options to both have a reasonable layout throughout the UI, though (among other things, it involved changing a lot of hardcoded values in px to be in relative units), which is why only the two-way switch made it into this week's release.
I often dream of working my great grandfather's job as a finish carpenter.
> I have zero doubt that mini exoskeletons like MO/GO will soon be an essential part of our lives

high praise for something with no video :/
> Nine months after our public launch in 2021, we surpassed $1M in ARR and never looked back.

Stripe is buying a lucrative business, but more importantly it is buying the complex knowhow of running an international tax-compliant merchant of record. They can then integrate this into their product. I switched to LemonSqueezy primarily out of concern for EU-wide tax ramifications (EU strikes again). Is there a reason to choose LemonSqueezy over Stripe if you are located in the US? There hasn't been a single VAT-compliance case to my knowledge and the need for MoR is unclear.
Recent and related:

We need visual programming. No, not like that - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40937119 - July 2024 (494 comments)
They lie and deceive on purpose and draw a lot of money for it! A lot! That everyone pays but mostly those suffer from the advertismenet and don't see the benefit of it (end user), making a product more expensive than should be.
Here's a more recent article from May 2024, with graphs. It looks dire:

https://citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/florida-orange-product...
Areas with severe winters are typically protected from many crop plagues and disease vectors, because their populations went through a bottleneck every year. Warmer climate tends to ease or eliminate the bottleneck, and with year-round large populations, their spread and recovery becames much faster. They will not need to start from scratch after every winter, in many places where this was typically the case.