skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I come up with my own measuring unit, let's call it the sneezle (whatever the actual length I assign to it) I will be able to also define a duration unit (say, the snifflebeat) based on the time it takes for a pendulum one sneezle long to complete a full oscillation, and vice versa I can define the sneezle by adjusting the length of a pendulum so that it oscillates in two snifflebeats. Here are the maths:

T = 2π√(l/g)

T/2π = √(l/g)

(T/2π)^2=l/g

g = l/(T/2π)^2

g = l/(T^2/4π^2) = 4π^2xl/T^2

Now substitue T with 2 and l with 1 an you get

g = 4π^2x1/2^2 = π^2

It doesn't matter what the pair of units assigned to T and l are. However, they'll be interrelated.

There is nothing arbitrary, and no coincidences behind g =~ π^2. It just requires to do some history of metrology and some basic maths/physics.

If you want to discuss coincidences, may I suggest you to comment on this remark I made and which hasn't received any attention yet ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41209612
"before it's ported to Windows XP"

what does this even mean???, I remember using firefox on windows xp back then, the reason they stop make a release version for windows xp because its too old and people already move on to newer windows 7 (microsoft already stop supporting it)
In the same article, if you picked their R23 benchmarks the advantage vanishes in MT benchmarks; the 3nm M3 Max is actually behind 4nm Strix Point in efficiency.
This makes DEF CON look foolish and past it's prime. You would think technical requirements would be the only criteria used but I guess they wanted this project to make political gains with a certain community instead of just making badges.
> 600Mi/1000KM range, 9min charging

We're still doing this? Capacity by weight and volume, and efficiency per distance are much more meaningful. Charging is mostly a function of input voltage.
Link to original non-paywalled article from the BBC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41153540
Using an USB C port to carry an USB 2.0 signal is perfectly within the standards.
The FCC proposes requiring robocallers to disclose when they're using AI
Yeah, there's also the: charging everytime in the 9m mode, how long does it last? Or, how much energy do you have to put in? Because the charging efficiency and lifespan change when the input voltage changes.
In Sonoma, the same preference is there, but it's one level less nested: System Settings > Desktop & Dock etc.
> For some reason, this page doesn't have a 301 redirect set up when you access the plain HTTP page.

My opinion on the topic:

I think that's perfectly reasonable. Why would they want to force users to use TLS? I don't understand the appeal of HTTP->HTTPS 301 redirects on every single website.

A static document is served on the linked page, no passwords are transmitted. Plaintext is perfectly enough for fulfilling requests for this document. TLS would just use more processing power and time to deliver the document.

If the website visitor is interested in downloading the document encrypted, he is free to use the HTTPS protocol with a browser setting.

If the website publisher is interested in sending the document encrypted, he is free to use HSTS or the redirect hack you described.

But I don't see any reason why noiseprotocol.org would like all connections to them being encrypted; they are not an online bank. Enforcing TLS just prevents visitors without TLS support from being able to view documents on their website.
I also met Sam; went to dinner with him in...2008-2010 ish after a Clojure Conj in which he presented. Super nice guy, and great presentation, even then.
There is a large group of Saudi royalty and some of them might be financing extremist organizations with their royal money.
Merchants seldom submit L3 data with transactions for stupid legacy tech reasons. The card schemes encourage them to do so with bips off scheme fees for doing so, but it’s a minority of transactions I think with even L2 data.
The title of this should be the original one from the website:

"Samsung to Mass-Produce Solid-State Batteries for 'Super Premium' EVs by 2027"
How? If Apple left the EU entirely, closed all stores, shut down all EU operations, what jurisdiction would the EU have?
Anybody know how unique the blood vessels in our nose are? I smell (intended) a lucrative tracking business model!
“Very” was stripped from the title, but in this case its inclusion is justified.
I didn't say more Trump-critical articles are flagged, I said if you (or rather, OP) notice them more. HN leans left, but not left enough that the Harris-critical articles don't get posted at all—you just don't have an emotional reaction to them getting flagged to death and so they don't register.

I will say that Trump-critical articles definitely last longer and so you'll very likely see more of them before they disappear, which means you're likely to notice them disappear more regularly. That is part of the state of HN, so I'll grant you that—right-wing politics disappear faster than left-wing.
Interesting that they're hiring. I'm curious how they plan to make money from a TUI framework
Banksy's Return: Animal Murals Across London
Why? It sounds like a huge loss for free speech to me. it seems bizarre that it could be illegal to encourage boycotts based on political opinions. Was the Bud Light boycott also illegal?
A lot of the article relates to a key person dependency issue.

>Sure, they have built data infrastructure that works and solved the businesses current problems. They maintain it, and no one asks questions.

Probably all the "budget" has allowance for is current needs. Some of the key engineers may not even be paid very fairly considering the true magnitude of business problems being overcome currently. You can't really expect them to prepare for a longer future than they have already been fully staffed for, especially succession.

>Perhaps no one realizes that one of the team members has to wake up at 6 AM every morning to check and ensure all the reports and tables have been created.

>That all works until the day they leave.

If a talented engineer is regularly working overtime to get things going like infrastructure, or worse to keep things going, even worse to keep things from failing, then that engineer is definitely short two staff members. And has probably been short the entire time. Nothing less than an assistant engineer and a technical secretary if they want real documentation as they go along. Plus even more true investment if there's any need to make up for lost time.

If infrastructure is important, something like this is absolutely pure executive failure from someone who's just not in the proper league.

You can not paint a pretty picture, and it's reported to be very difficult to fix stupid.

Some people just should not be accepted as executives in technical endeavors.

It can be tough for lesser executives to accept a non-cutthroat non-business-ladder-climber as more of a "key person" than themselves, but it is far too often the case. Whether the bonehead executives realize it and shrewdly calculate how much more payroll would expand if there was to be better coverage, or are completely oblivious, as the article says about the overworked engineers:

>They maintain it, and no one asks questions.

Example article is from a more expert data "repairman" who knows better than to rely on a single company as an employer if it's got dingbat executives.

There's so many of the under-qualified executives to go around, he's got a lifetime of work ahead of him as a consultant fixing the lackadaisical way they let technical debt underlie a business to where it could topple unexpectedly.
I’m not seeing where it’s evidenced that this is what’s actually happening. Twitter’s lawyers can put whatever rationale they want in their suit, but it’s not even remotely clear to me that company $FOO only stopped advertising on Twitter because they conferred with competitor $BAR. If anything, the fact that the lawsuit is against CAGM indicates the opposite: $FOO observed a general disinvestment in advertising on Twitter, and deduced through normal market research that their ad spend wasn’t worth it.

Maybe discovery will reveal collusion here, but it relies on an unlikely premise: companies with significant ad spend have entire teams dedicated to PR, and it would be astonishing if they couldn’t provide independent internal research demonstrating the risk Twitter posed to their brand as a sufficient reason to stop paying for ads.
The problem with student loans is that people need them in the first place. In a world pervaded by technology, one can no more live without education than without water; and the first twelve years having been reduced to day care, "higher" education is the only education there is.
For not reading the sibling's response, you really nailed the reasons.
What would be interesting to see is if this is a pattern. DEFCCON is a yearly convention with many participants. Has others been treated in a similar fashion? Or are they usually fair.
No. Another difference is that you can't really figure out if Putin is popular or not, because dissent is punished with prison time.
Your timeline is missing:

2012: I file the obvious bug:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55522

Early 2023: bug is fixed.

Feb 2024: clang follows suit:

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/80475

And maybe later this year this problem will finally be gone in common Linux distros.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/technology/elon-musk-x-ad...

In the wake of Mr. Musk’s acquisition, GARM recommended that advertisers pause their spending, and several major companies, including CVS and Unilever, did so. Those two companies were also named in X’s suit.

The lawsuit seems like a slam dunk for X.

Why does Unilever need a consultant for this? It is obvious: You don't want your washing powder ad to appear next to controversial content? Then either a) negotiate with Twitter to make the ad appear selectively or b) come to your own conclusion not to advertise at all or c) or publicly state that you do not want to sell to Republicans at all.

But this whole state of affairs that there are increasingly single authorities for determining who can post what on the Internet is alarming.
This is a nonproblem inflated by petrolheads routinely doing 1000 kilometers in one go, which are overrepresented among journalists. Most people don't do that and are doing longer stops at least twice, vacations make that even more likely.

And cherry picking distinct worst aspect of long distance driving in Norway and France and mashing them together them as one argument is disingenuous. There's plenty of stuff to stop and enjoy between Paris and Med.
> add support for a "max fan speed" slider somewhere prominent in the Windows UI.

Isn't that what the "power settings" do? It's a slider at the bottom right, hidden in a tray icon. Sure, it only has three positions and also influences battery consumption but it pretty much does what you want. (Not sure if windows 11 kept this though)
> business competitors

They're not competitors, they're customers; WFA is a worldwide association of smaller marketing associations and multinational corporations: https://www.wfanet.org/about-wfa/our-members/global-brands

The marketing associations include purchasers, advertising/marketing agencies, and yes, other ad providers.

> colluding

You need to look up that word in the dictionary. An industry trade group publicly announcing (with press releases and an entire website) something is not collusion.

> for political reasons

"Twitter doesn't do anything about hate speech, has re-instated numerous people whose sole identity is gender, racial, sexual orientation, and ethnicity based bigotry and the CEO repeatedly makes white supremacist comments - and thus the platform is not safe for our members or brands or in line with their policies/'values'" is not "political."

Musk is a supposed free speech absolutist/purist. To an extreme degree, I might add; he claims even a social media company deplatforming people is a violation of someone's free speech rights and was his motivation for purchasing Twitter. Yet he routinely bans people from his platform for even mentioning unflattering things about him or his companies, and conveniently seems to forget that freedom of association is part of the first amendment.

Then there's the journalist-banning bender Twitter has been on since Musk bought it which is not at all compatible with being a first amendment extreme absolutist. The fact that the Kingdom of Saud was a major financial backer in the purchase and really, really doesn't like the platform twitter provides for journalists has nothing to do with all of this /s

At least he's consistent about being inconsistent.
Most pages, logged-in and logged-out, seem to be using the Lit version for me. I don't think it contained many visual changes, so you have to look for the presence of web components.
Arduino (yes I know it isn't really an OS, but still), Zephyr, Oberon, Active Oberon, Inferno, mBed, Android and Chrome OS (Linux kernel isn't really exposed to userspace as in an UNIX system), Azure RTOS.
> There is definitionally no more efficient way to improve the performance of a system than sequentially targeting each new bottleneck in its performance and nothing else.

You are making an extremely strong statement here, how do you define "bottleneck" for this to be true? Many slow systems doesn't have bottlenecks, they are just slow overall with no bottlenecks.
It's a shame it's not become a bigger thing. I feel uptake has pretty much stagnated. The weird/pointless attribution requirement has really kneecaped them. A lot of open government data can not be relicensed under a more restrictive license and can't be injested. And if you want to use their data it's also inherently problematic when you need to watermark every map that uses OSM data

I hope some day a truely open data set is compiled - b/c honest I find the attribution requirement doesn't even serve the function of giving the authors/contributors any kudos
Student loans should be illegal, and state schools should be heavily subsidized for low income residents.
If you are saying that your method includes all methods, then sure being open to consider all methods of making something faster will include the best way to do it. But I thought were were talking about useful advice here, to be useful you have to narrow it down a bit.
> I'd love to hear about what you think is "untrustworthy" about converting from kilometres to miles so the audience can visualize the distance. 1000 km = 621 miles, this is a fact.

1000km is not an exact figure. It’s rounded, probably up. Somewhere between 900km and 1100km. Likely closer to 999km than 1099 because they’d want to publish the biggest number they can reasonably claim. So you can assume the real range is between 900km and 999km.

The correct translation to miles would be “600mi”. Because 621 invents precision that wasn’t there in the original figure.
The question I have is how many advertisers that pulled out, that actively posted on Twitter under a brand account, ceased posting under said account and/or deleted it outright? I would assume if Twitter is too toxic of a platform to advertise on, then they would want to cease brand association entirely no?
dev user might be the one you want to protect the best in order to detect some supply chain issues.
hacker news commentary can no longer rationally judge Elon ventures.

If you are reading, turn back! Haters and Fans are the only left. There’s no dispassionate lawyers reading this thread on a Sunday.
One of the more damaging aspects of the cancel culture, woke culture, etc (pick your overused generalization term) is that they normalized the idea of retroactively blaming someone for how others respond to them.

I can't control how people respond to what I say. I can attempt to predict and account for what I think responses will be, but I can be wildly wrong.

The whole way through it has felt to me like a lazy shortcut around the fact that proving intent is extremely hard. Ignoring intent completely is much easier, and that's exactly what a person is doing when they judge someone based on how others respond as a replacement for understanding what that person originally meant.
I don't always get back to people after I get a quote from them, no. I do agree it's the nice thing to do, I just tend to be terrible about contacting people (outside of my job or friends) in general. Chances are good I put off contacting someone just to get that quote for months or possibly even years already.
If the legal system runs athwart the lay opinion, there ought to be some wisdom driving the tension, and that wisdom ought to be better explained than "Shut up, peasant."
I think they were shuttered because they realized that the lawsuit had legal merit. Shutting down the operation was the simplest way to limit liability.
Eventually this might make electric vehicles practical for people who can’t charge at home, much like going to a gas station.

It won’t happen in the first round, which is for luxury vehicles, though.
Don’t practically all university users have very low incomes?
I don't think I've seen good news come out of Canada in some time. Weak military, overspending, corruption, counterintuitive commitments to mass immigration, a higher education that is focused on international students, CCP infiltration, woke performative politics, collapsing healthcare system, low wages, high unemployment, wildfires, and the list goes on. America shares some of these challenges, but will overcome them, not sure how Canada will fare.
Yes, they are, and that's precisely why we use computers and deterministic code for many tasks instead of people.
Harris will likely offer loan forgiveness. It’ll be generous.

Trump is unlikely to offer generous loan forgiveness. Has in passing mentioned plans to change the department of education (and the loan system), weakening colleges power and reducing the amount of money colleges receive from the government.

Neither candidate will mention this out loud, it’s not a news story either group wants.
PSLF = Giving away 10 years of your prime at cut-rate

I believe in public service, but PSLF is just another way student loans distort the labor market & stifle competition and innovation.
They should be discharged in bankruptcy like other loans.
What is the fancy htop-like program displayed on page 44?

It reminds me of the DeLorean dashboard in Back To The Future :)
Doh, was posting past my bedtime again
• A large fraction of the comments on many (maybe even most) stories here are discussing points that are not actually from the submitted story. They are on points that arose in the comments. Those points may have been originally mentioned in the comments in response to something in the story but take on a life of their own. There is generally no need to have read the story to understand and participate intelligently in those subthreads.

• Usually enough of the commenters who did read the story quote enough of it in their comments that even on those subthreads that have not veered off on some interesting tangent inspired by not covered in the story you can often follow and even meaningfully contribute.

• For submissions that are covering news items there will usually be other sources covering it too. They may not be as thorough as the submitted paywalled site, but usually a quick search with your favorite search engine will turn up enough to let you follow and participate even in those subthreads where no one is quoting enough of the submissions.

• For submissions that are not covering news items and so might not have any other good sources and where no interesting tangents have developed in the comments and no one is quoting enough to help, you can still often tell from the comments whether or not the story is something that interests you. That knowledge can be useful even if you cannot find a free way to access it now.

• If none of the above apply to you it's easy to look at the domain and skip submissions from sites you recognize as having paywalls. It's almost trivial to write a bookmarklet to do that for you if you want to make it even easier.
Most desktop have such options, kde and gnome too.for instance.

I am pretty sure this is good old resistance to change. You would disabled them on all your systems, then force yourself to use them that way for a month and I am pretty sure that "disorientation" would quickly disappear.
"if the office coffee machine broke down, how would the candidate react?"

I don't drink coffee, so I would have no idea it was broken in the first place.

But I think the correct answer to this is to check if something obvious is broken, and if you can't determine the issue within about five minutes, tell HR that it is broken. They'll know what to do.
Isn't the real sad truth that there is very little difference between the Democrats and the Republicans when it comes to economic policy?

Sure theres differences on social policy eg Gender rights, abortion etc.

Both Parties are captured by the Donor class.
Note: it doesn’t criminalise mere lying, but lying with intent to cause harm.
"They’d switch to a 4096 bit RSA key, but not only was I no longer able to mint my own API tokens, the legitimate ones I’d initially generated still worked."

I wonder how the old JWTs signed with the 512-bit key still work safely, isn't that 512-bit key cracked??
Despite it being creepy, this is super cool from a technical standpoint.
It's Not Always DNS
A couple seconds? Which project does this?
I don't see a scenario where the people who benefit most from the corrupt system (schools) bear the cost.

Very likely the cost will go right to the taxpayers.
I'm not saying they're bad because I don't know.
Next thought is to build it in space where there can be unlimited expansion of the ring diameter. Problem would be focusing the beam by aiming many freely floating magnets. Would require some form of electronic beam aiming that can correct for motion of the magnets. My EM theory is too rusty (50 years since I got a C in the course) to figure out what angle a proton beam can be bent by one magnet at these energies and so how many magnets would be required.
A few questions you should answer:

1. Who would you ideally like to sell it to? I know you said designers, but the question is - are you selling it directly to them, or to companies that employ designers or a design team? Selling it directly versus through an employer is different economics.

2. If you were buying the software as an end user, what would YOU consider fair value for it? Are you going to be putting in lots of time to continue developing the software, or is this a side hustle, or just a "hey buy this tool and you'll like it, it does XYZ really well and that's it, but I can't continue to build it myself" sort of thing? Ask yourself that, and price accordingly to make sure that this is a worthwhile venture for you.

3. What's the market for similar competing products? What do they sell for? If they are SAAS or subscription based, what is the lifetime value for a given user or customer? Do they rent the SAAS for a month (or for a specific task) and then unsubscribe? Or is this a tool to boost a designer's daily output that will simply integrate into their workflow? If so, see if you can understand HOW it boosts a workflow in terms of pure output, and then work backwards. If your product saves a designer 1 hour of time each day, and they use it each day, that should be a good indicator of where to start.

4. Are you competing against free software?

These have probably been echoed verbatim but just my $0.02.