skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and taxes were also collected in gold whenever feasible

Well, for one thing, most people wouldn't be able to afford a single gold coin. You might collect taxes from a province in gold; you're not going to collect taxes from a person that way.

> the outcome was a partially demonetisation of the wider economy

This is also an odd claim; the number of denarii kept going up.

> it was central to [the way] the Byzantine economy/financial-system functioned.

Any time you have a system that doesn't involve something, that thing that isn't involved also isn't central to the functioning of the system. There is no way for such a rare coin to be central to the functioning of the system - if it disappeared entirely, the system would continue exactly as before, since almost nothing would have changed.
I think this technology is pretty exciting because it could also allow regenerative farming to be organic - as far as I understand that is currently impossible because you have to apply herbicides when you don't plow your land. That would be a win both for the environment and the climate.
Problem-solving ability is important. You depend on artificial intelligence so much, and I'm afraid that people like you will be replaced soon.
In short, if you want a decent job, your skills and knowledge should show the interviewers what makes you outstanding. By stating "I can write flawless prompts and GPT will solve it for me," a new role may be emerging in the market known as a prompts engineer. For most jobs, they are not hiring based on writing prompts.
No it won't, China will eventually impose its policies on Taiwan. It is just a matter of time.

What China did to HK was blatantly breaking a treaty with the UK. Do you think for the minute Taiwan does this EU thing the same will not eventually happen ?
The vast majority of people don't use ad blockers.

I think the argument of "people usually make zero consideration about what software choice is best for them" very much holds.
> "It was originally planned to line the tokamak reactor with protective beryllium but that turned out to be very tricky. It is toxic and eventually it was decided to replace it with tungsten... That was a major design change taken very late in the day.”

The toxicity of beryllium is well known... how did this design decision go through? Someone was asleep at the wheel.
Show HN: KittyCal – minimalist PWA calendar app for couples
Hi Fellow Hackers!

I'm happy to share with you KittyCal, an installable calendar web app I made over the past two months. Existing calendar apps often focus on scheduling and require many steps to create one event. KittyCal, on the other hand, removes hourly scheduling and keeps everything on one screen.

How does it work? Just enter your email address, and we will send you a pair of calendar links (blue and red). There is no login process, click the magic link or scan the QR code to access your calendar. You can then add the page to home screen and use it like a native app.

Last year, I built a bare bones version of KittyCal for my partner and myself because we wanted a private calendar that launches instantly for casual note-taking. It's worked well for us since, and I'm hoping this multi-tenant version can benefit more people with similar needs.

Please try it out and let me know what you think!
But maybe this isn't really what they felt that they needed at the time? I don't mean to defend bad practices, but your comment makes it sound like nobody had tasked you with re-architecting the business, and you took it upon yourself to show them how it should be done (in your opinion), without having earned the necessary trust. This might have also come across as patronizing, or at least antagonistic, and in any case unbeneficial. Not saying that's the case as I obviously wasn't there, just something to think about.
Yep, and this is a great time saver, but more importantly, focus and morale saver. There's a definite benefit of being freed from toil, from boring stuff like that.
Interesting, i got this: Your browser is attempting to reach an Internet site containing child pornography images and videos. Inhibition of access to this site is provided by law [redacted by me].

This Internet browsing protection service is prepared thanks to the collaboration between the "National Center for Combating Online Child Pornography" and the [local country] Internet Service Providers.

Intentional display, dissemination, possession, disposal, production and marketing of this type of material is punishable by law as a crime.

So i changed vpn location.
What is the problem solved or revenue opportunity from image verification and authentication?

A fake image of Elon doing whatever would general billions of clicks, ad impressions, etc., which is all that matters.

If you want to get only genuine images from AP, CNN, etc., just go to those websites (using HTTPS).
Search Moby Games using Alfred app
lspci -vv

Look for devices that do not have a corresponding driver. There may also be hints in `dmesg`. There are other commands that start with `ls` useful for enumerating devices. Use ls+tab+tab to see them.
I'm not sure I understand what's 'science-fiction' about lead or beryllium?
Somente people base their opinion on the longtail of npm, ofc it is trash. But if you get the top 20% JS Projects, they are amazing
Fair enough. It actually defaults to a text input expecting a YYYY-MM date if you disable JavaScript, so it shouldn't take long to implement.
I love the anomaly profiler that's proposed here. I don't know that I'd ever want this system actually performing automated remediation steps, but having an agent that's both monitoring the database and getting prompted by alerts would fit my team very nicely.

Getting the alert followed by an automated analysis containing suspects and possible remediation steps removes a lot of DBA drudgery.
tree-sitter is an incredible tool. I wonder if there's been a dedicated discussion for it on the HN front page at some point—will have to check on the HN algolia search.

I'm using it for syntax checking across 30+ languages in Plandex[1], an LLM coding tool. tree-sitter runs in single digit milliseconds on typical files and is highly accurate. When it encounters a syntax problem, it can pinpoint the exact location/expression in the file, and it's fault-tolerant so it can keep going and identify multiple issues rather than stopping on the first one. These results can be sent back to the LLM, which can then often fix its own errors. I was able to reduce syntax issues by roughly 90% with gpt-4o using this approach.

Afaik, there's no other viable option for a use case like this. You'd need a menagerie of language specific linters, compilers, and/or language servers to get anywhere close, and many of those are way too slow to run inline.

1 - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Allowing Russia to join NATO would nullify WW3. Disbanding NATO and separately signing FTA or allowing EU to do so would also prevent WW3. Heavily dependent on China and not use billions to fund disinformation will also prevent that. CIA taking out Netan will also prevent that instead of pouring more bombs to replenish Netan's troops. All in all, it sure looks like USA wholely wants WW3.
You appear to be mixing up a bunch of timelines:

The universal declaration of human rights was drafted in 1947 and 1948 and adopted in 1948, so fascism had already spectacularly failed on the human rights front, as had communism, we just didn't know about communism's failures for a few decades because anyone who tried to tell us had their rights violated via death or gulag. Liberalism had not failed at this time (or arguably at any time. The places doing the nasty things were pretty clearly not liberal, as they pretty fundamentally don't recognize the individual and provide autonomy to the individual (as one of many reasons they weren't liberal). Instead this document is a reaction to the atrocities committed by the nazis (and would be a reaction to the atrocities committed by the communists had they been known).
https://archive.ph/euFvr
I grew up in a Spanish-speaking country, reading computer magazines in Spanish, and at the time Spain was hugely into ZX Spectrum videogames. I feel like OPQA rolls off the tongue easier than QAOP when you say it in Spanish, so maybe that's all there is to it?
How Big Things Get Done
You're not testing what you think you're testing. We can verify an image, but still have problems with the story below the image. I don't think this should be half-solved, it would give false credence to real images used in lies. Or the reverse, you discredit a fake image of Musk you saw yesterday, but tomorrow he does it for real.

You'd need to give political campaigns' keys some trust, for images you expect from them. But what if they start signing images that you wouldn't expect from them, then you have 'verified' fake news.
Sturdy enough for watering should not be too hard I guess. I'd say weeding it harder, depending on the method. Pulling out weeds with roots and all (most effective IME) requires some force and torque.
Found this discussion from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26225298

This looks good too, from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36106421
You believe that this thing will have more usefulness in an apocalypse scenario? I think that anything high-tech immediately becomes far less useful if the infrastructure that supports modern electronics and computers collapses.
I suspect it's not that ARM shouldn't get paid, it's that companies producing open source hardware should get paid instead.
I’m unfortunately not able to view on desktop since I’m traveling but I’ll have to take a look upon my return tomorrow. Seems fishy the fact it was flagged with lockdown is suspicious.
It will take way more time than that because Intel is a bloated, corrupt, and incompetent company.
I still use Docker Swarm and have seen it a few times, but yes, it’s definitely not common, which is a shame, because it also works pretty well with Portainer. Literally one of the most painless solutions run self-host and administer in my experience, at least for smaller scales.
Can't you give it a different -O level?

-O0 gives you what you are after.
Imagine how much better an article written by one of the big LLMs would be if it were stylistically trained exclusively on an archive of the past 30 years of New York Times articles?

I would expect the powers that be at the New York Times are exploring this very option as we speak.
Google Coral Edge TPUs have found a practical niche in low-power OSS Fargate NPU appliances, e.g. object recognition for security camera feeds.
No, clearly this case needs better user
Ask HN: Material for Elementary School Math Club?
I just moved from the US overseas, and enrolled my six year old in school. I was thinking of helping start a Math Club for his school, but was wondering if anyone has pointers for good material / curriculum. Ideally, it's suitable for K-5, and is both fun and educational.
The original code is not invalid, even by the standard. It's not even undefined behavior. It is perfectly well defined as equivalent to `return true` according to the standard, or it can be implemented in the more straightforward way (add one to a, compare the result with a, return the result of the comparison). Both are perfectly valid compilations of this code according to the standard. Both allow inlining the function as well.

Note that also `return 1 < 0` is also perfectly valid code.

The problem related to UB appears if the function is inlined in a situation where a is INT_MAX. That causes the whole branch of code to be UB, and the compiler is allowed to compile the whole context with the assumption that this didn't happen.

For example, the following function can well be compiled to print "not zero":

int foo(int x) {
if (x == 0) {
return stupid(INT_MAX);
} else {
printf("not zero");
return -1;
}
}

foo(0); //prints "not zero"

This is a valid compilation, because stupid(INT_MAX) would be UB, so it can't happen in a valid program. The only way for the program to be valid is for x to never be 0, so the `if` is superfluous and `foo` can be compiled to only have the code where UB can't happen.

Eidt: Now, neither clang nor gcc seem to do this optimization. But if we replace stupid(INT_MAX) with a "worse" kind of UB, say `*(int*)NULL = 1`, then they do indeed compile the function to simply call printf [0].

[0] https://godbolt.org/z/McWddjevc
Years before this operation, we were stealing Soviet technology.

It was 1959, two years after the USSR had launched Sputnik. The USSR was showing off its achievements to other countries. Most were uninteresting, at least to the US government (in a country with electricity, stealing models of power stations would've done little good), but one was quite interesting: the Lunik spacecraft. It had to be a model, the CIA figured. After all, the Soviets had to have known Americans would've looked at that and tried to steal it, or at least figure out how it was made. Models were safer. But American agents figured it wouldn't hurt to look, and they found that it was a real one, albeit with some critical parts, like the engine, removed.

But you can't just saunter in during the exhibition and steal it, for fairly obvious reasons. The key was that it was a traveling exhibition, and as it was being transported, via some maneuvering and some possible/probable kidnapping of truck drivers (Sydney W. Finer notes the truck driver was "escorted to a hotel room and kept there for the night" on page 36 of his article[1] on it), the CIA managed to gain access to it.

After getting the all-clear to start, and, at one point, being scared witless by a possible ambush (it was people lighting the lamps, as was regularly scheduled), they opened the box carefully and began taking photographs of it. They took photographs or made drawings of everything, taking small amounts of things for study. Then they put it all back together and, eventually, gave it back to the original driver. They did their job hiding it well. In 1967, according to Finer's article (final page), there was "no indication the Soviets ever discovered that the Lunik was borrowed for a night."

The CIA has now declassified some documents on it[2], referring to it, somewhat euphemistically, as a 'loan' or 'borrowing' rather than 'theft'.

[1]https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/THE%20KIDNAPING%20OF%20...

[2] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/lunik-loan-space-...
I’m not quite sure what you’re saying. It’s sounds as if you might be hooked into the narrative that the article is talking about.
A single bed isn't exactly an ungodly amount of effort to do by hand.

Think there is more potential industrial scale. i.e. run the arm over half a mile rather than a couple of feet
Likely talking about Southport riots: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_riots
Thanks for that. I was wondering - and, of course that lecture.-
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Rust is possible and proves that you don’t need "optimizations" to optimize, but that optimizations are actually possible. Now that's kind of irrelevent for most of the article focusing about constant versus variable time which is not really an "optimization" problem but already an optimization one, but at least putting appart this rust proves that a langage doesn't need to allow nasal daemons to get good perfs. You just apply the technics when you actually know they are correct, not when you speculate the existence of the mythical perfect programmer (where this hypothesis has actually be disproven by studies on the subject)
"Silverlight", anyone?
What do you men? Can you please tell me more about it?
If the only American one is horrible, we should still subsidize it? Quite the dilemma. I'd be more on board with paying the Taiwanese to move here.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Slashes Apple Stake
> bacteria resistant to things like [...] bleach.

About that... https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/1...
https://archive.ph/stlFp
A cachier roll, that is locked into the voting machine. The voter selects an option on the machine, each option has a number. Once the voter confirmed it's pick the number is printed on the cashier roll and "rolled" into view for the voter (a small slit window of some transparent material will do). The voter can then see the number was printed. After the voter presses the "done" button, or leaves the booth, the vote is rolled beyond the window so the next voter cannot see what the previous voter voted.

The rolls used can be marked uniquely.

The voting machine will print an opening and closing pattern so no votes can be added before or after.
Seems a few China shills here, I will bite.

> What, exactly, would the average taiwanese benefit from risking their lives in behest of the political leadership?

So here is an answer: Knowing what is really happening in the rest of the world by reading news articles from many Countries. They will not have to worry about a Social Score System. In Taiwan one can criticize the Gov and people. People in Taiwan will not have to worry about what the say. I am sure there are many more things.

Social score:

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

Well, I guess I will never get a Visa to visit China due to this post since I heard they can deny a visa based upon your social media posts.
Neal Stephenson's Seveneves Gets TV Adaptation
and you can still jailbreak now if you want to. But even with a jailbreak, I’m not sure there apps, as opposed to tweaks that you could put on the iPhone.
me too, that's kind of my point, once you get a feel for it, and understand it, you're set.
I started in 2018 but I keep adding new articles and update the older ones with relevant data.

So it means - its ALL up-to-date.
Here's some articles about the neutron multipliers. You can go through them and see that they are all talking about feasibility and theoretical considerations. It's not just as simple as shooting some neutrons at a block of lead of beryllium on one side and more neutrons come on the other side.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223...

[2] https://scipub.euro-fusion.org/wp-content/uploads/eurofusion...

[3] https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000160103
Many companies do this to protect against people registering names people have used to make fun of them. I've been instructed to do this for a few companies and had to register hundreds of variations of slurs. I personally think it's a waste of time given anyone can put literally any name in front of another domain name. e.g. ClownWhatever.SomeThrowAwayDomain.tld. I think it's really just donating money to registrars.

If anyone plans to do this, one lesson learned is to ensure that this process, the domains names and the purpose is documented in emails with JIRA numbers, in JIRA's with email threads including the head of legal, compliance, fraud, etc... as people come and go and there will be serious questions about why one registered all these domains. A TXT record with the JIRA number is probably also a good idea.
They are an imperial shill.
For folks who are curious, here is the story of the first (documented) photo on the web:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121205020416/https://motherboa...
No I’m talking the flavour of the tomatoes from my back yard, some of which I picked brown and others I picked fully red. They tasted identical once ripened indoors. But you don’t need to take my word for it. Google tomato breaker stage.

The difference between store bought tomatoes and home grown is the cultivar. Mine are heirloom tomatoes. They’re much uglier and softer than store bought beefsteak tomatoes, but way tastier. There’s no way these would ever ship because they turn ripe for a few days and then turn to mush. They also bruise incredibly easily.
Your comment is very condescending, not sure if you meant it that way or not. I wouldn't begin to claim that I understand all the intricacies of the theoretical physics behind fission research, but I do understand plenty to hold an opinion.

I'm well aware of the argument hat they must go full scale to do the research, I simply disagree with that approach and don't consider it worth the cost and tradeoffs. They are asking society to write a blank check to fund research that they claim is well understood and provide estimates of cost and time that they believe to be accurate. Neither have panned out, and that's okay.

At the end of the day we don't know if a fission reactor is even viable. What we do know is that the project has run well over budget and over time with little to show for it but more questions and unknowns. It seems reasonable to expect that pattern to continue, and to have concerns that those who provided such poor estimates in the past are still providing poor estimates today.

Arguing that scale is necessary to do the work at all is all well and good, but that's a huge ask and a big risk. When it doesn't pan out we have to be able to pull the plug without and endless treadmill of promises bolstered by threats that the work can only be done at full scale.
I was in a broker trader in 2016 where this was still the case.

I was brought in when an old sheet cost them $10m on a bad trade because the yahoo finance end point it was hitting stopped responding and it just used the last value it had gotten - three months before.
Perplexity is solid. I don’t use Google as my primary search engine anymore.
Also:

> If math makes you slightly nauseas

That's the plural of nausea, you wanted nauseous.

But the real reason I mention it is to joke, since you said you were generally descriptivist, that you fell for a common error and actually 'nauseous' describes the thing that makes someone nauseated. ;)
Hybrid Intelligence (2017)
Automated LinkedIn Job Application Bot
Hi everyone,

I’ve developed an interesting project: a bot that automatically applies for jobs on LinkedIn using the information from your resume. It’s currently in beta, and there are definitely areas that can be improved. If you’d like to give it a try and offer some feedback, you can find it here:

Thanks!
How naive are you?

When you register to vote, what does it take to get registered?

Easily stolen documents and drivers licenses that don't require proof of citizenship .

If you haven't noticed the weak security then there isn't any hope for you.
Check the + UPDATE(S) on the right.

Details here:

https://imgur.com/xUL9gQa

My 'fault' is that I do not add exact date of the update but ... this is the message I keep on my front page:

Keep in mind that I try to update articles posted here. I follow all supported FreeBSD versions – you can check which FreeBSD versions are currently supported on this page – FreeBSD Release Information: Currently Supported – from official FreeBSD website. If something gets out of date or works differently on newer versions – I add a needed UPDATE to a post to make it up to date.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

vermaden
Sprouts Spotted by the Stump of the Sycamore Gap Tree
Current and past voting systems have always been counterpart to boundaries of land, thus government of that land. Physically showing up at the polling station is symbolic enough for that realisation
>That said, if I was going to start out teaching someone coding today, version control would be timestamped .zip files.

Oh no, we're in a different time zone.

>We'll put the timezone in.

Oh no, it's daylight savings time.
Most hard drives today are ultrasonically welded shut (metal to plastic) and hermetically sealed. The helium drives are not much harder to get into than normal hard drives today. The difference in processing is actually only a few steps where they insert the helium and then close the final hole.
Okay.. and how much time it usually takes for you to find 100 prospects?