skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bringing stuff down from space is not that expensive with reusable systems like Starship, and this is even more true if you don’t need to soft land it i.e., spray an ablative on a huge rock of precious metals and redirect it to Earth. The delta V costs are quite small. There’s no fundamental physics barrier here.
I've been recommending Signal to anyone potentially targeted for years. Almost everyone aware of being a target has used, and continues to use, Signal. Those not specifically targeted are at least well-informed about its importance.

However, during protests, the government sometimes jams the network, or perhaps the cell towers simply fail under the load of thousands of people in a concentrated area - rendering Signal unusable. Consequently, we needed a peer-to-peer messaging solution, but couldn't find a suitable one. During the protests, we were essentially left without any means of digital communication and had to rely solely on verbal one.

We couldn't use Briar due to the mix of iOS and Android devices here. Cross-platform compatibility is a must. And we never got Bridgefy to work at all in our tests.

With more protests possibly on the horizon depending on the outcome of the October elections this year, I'm on the lookout for a cross-platform messaging app that can function without internet connectivity. If anyone has recommendations for such an app, or other suggestions, please share them with me :)
I'm currently building a mobile-friendly Postgres database tool. Think dbeaver but on Android.

Writing and editing SQL queries on the phone can get tedious. Rather than just giving users a tiny textfield, I am exploring if there are better ways to build SQL queries on a touchscreen

Here's the makeshift landing page: https://getselectable.com/
So just give me an apple messaging client on my non-apple devices. It is insanely, practically criminally, anti-social to lock your messaging system into your devices alone. It's like the Joker is running the business decisions over there. Who cares, let's just watch the world burn.
I'm putting qnx cross-toolchains into Debian packages because $DAYJOB builds qnx images in ubuntu containers. I've learned a lot about cross-toolchains and my appreciation for blackberry's technical prowess has never been lower.
How often is bail completely denied in France?
That's a great list, thank you! We are thinking along similar lines; looking forward to when we can design this portion. If you have other feedback, please let us know.
I had this realization that, sometimes, people on my team are doing the same tasks in different ways, resulting each of them taking different amount of time. In certain scenarios, there is an optimal way of doing things, and I don't even know about it. Trying to test out if current AI-models are solid enough to do comparisons from a screen recording, or just general suggestions for improving white-collar workflows. I could see an eventual platform that could be built out of it.
You can download Telegram straight from its website, if you're using Android. No need to trust a third-party.
> Reaching for k8s right out of the gate is so rarely the necessary approach.

Then what is? It seems like a lot of the single server ochestration stuff has all been left to rot.
Perl has a latin interpreter → https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...
> Does this mean that according to EU, or France, E2E-encrypted platforms need to "cooperate" (provide backdoors)?

No, not yet.

> Or does it refer to public channels only?

On Telegram channels and groups are not E2EE. I'd assume that's were most of the crap is spread.
Somehow I think Russia is perfectly capable of making a telegram clone
A python library for calling an LLM like calling a function https://github.com/amoffat/manifest
Created this website for a local rubble removal business.

https://legendsfreight.co.za

I’d love to get feedback on what can be done to improve the website to feature prominantly for local search when people need rubble removal near them.
A new CI/CD platform. Local CLI (run without git push), remote debugger, automatic content-based caching, DAG-based definition, and dynamic tasks. It’s taken a lot of work to build it, but I’m really excited about how well it’s working. https://rwx.com/mint
- Hair (and listened soundtrack hundreds of times)

- Coffee and Cigarettes

- Before Sunrise (and to less extent - Before Sunset)

- Pulp Fiction

- Clerks, Chasing Amy

- Leon Professional

- Motorcycle Diaries

These are not as interesting since I assume they're on everyone's list, but I must admit I'm rewatching all movies in the series, even those which are considered weak:

- Lotr, Godfather, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Matrix
Without giving too much away, you would probably enjoy “Artemis” by Andy Weir.
Ah very interesting. Thanks for making that distinction! To me, I’m wondering at what critical mass of people should you need to provide a back door to the government? Is it 2? 3? 100? 1000? Are the number of people the right indicator here? Genuinely curious of people’s thoughts. I haven’t though too deeply about this.
I am building a belt tension meter to attach my z-belt idlers to on my voron 2.4.

I'm still contemplating what I want the final form to look like, but currently it's a 5 kg load cell and a floating idler and an rp2040 reading values via hx711.
I'm honestly unclear on what you are getting at here. I can find multiple mentions of SpaceX and Musk in comments older than yours. Are you objecting to the fact that no one has called out that he's originally from South Africa? Why would they?
Working on my game Sandustry, a mining and automation sandbox with pixel-based physics (think Noita meets Factorio).

I released the first playtest of the alpha a few days ago, which you can try directly in your browser:

https://lanttogames.itch.io/sandustry
how does it compare with dagger?
We're currently developing https://www.videototextai.com/ – ChatGPT for video and audio. The idea is to get to an all-in-one video and audio editing/insights platform. We’re actively building out new features to fully realise our vision, and we'd love to get any feedback from HackerNews!
The demo video here is quite convincing, I'd seen paperwm before but not really understood the idea of it. May add this to my sway setup :)
I think the parent was gently asking: who said anything about the US?
So you endorse governments from the middle-east being in their right to delete anything they see as "illegal" because they are blasphemous for example?
The part that actually matters in a Reddit link is the post ID, which is llgzv1 - the subreddit doesn't actually matter. You can put in just reddit.com/comments/[id] and it will take you directly to the post. So I think that ChatGPT has just hallucinated a URL with a random post ID.
I'm working on https://github.com/incidentalhq/incidental

It's an incident management platform, similar to Pagerduty, Rootly or FireHydrant.

It's the first side project I've open sourced, and I've been hacking on it weekends and nights. Hoping to get a few companies to start using it to get some early feedback.
I guess one can still use plan B, the ReactOS component for Control Panel: https://github.com/katahiromz/RControlPanel
Upgrading my private RAG to a Graph RAG. Switching out the slack bot UI for a Gradio one.
Is it possible that you're describing design patterns here?
I don't recall all off the top of my head.

One issue, that I mentioned in a different comment, is that we have a lot of queries which are used transparently as sub-queries at runtime to get count first, in order to limit rows fetched. The code doing the "transparent" wrapping doesn't have a full SQL parser, so can't hoist the CTEs out.

One performance issue I do recall was that a lateral join of a CTE was much, much slower than just doing 5-6 sub-queries of the same table, selecting different columns or aggregates for each. Think selecting sum packages, sum net weight, sum gross weight, sum value for all items on an invoice.

There were other issues using plain joins, but I can't recall them right now.
This sounds like a next-gen microwave idea! Perfectly microwaved food every time!
[EDIT]: apologies, my reading comprehension needs work. I thought you were referring to the 737 MAX, not the 777

What? Do you have a source for the last one? That sounds like corporate propaganda.
It’s well understood AND PROVEN that the MCAS system (which was a system borrowed from decades old military code) was at fault for this incident. Saying it was suicide seems incredibly disrespectful to both pilots…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Air_Flight_610
In the article it even states they found the wreckage…
Working on my modern take on an API management + monetization platform . I want to make it super easy to sell API access with all the bells and whistles you need such as; authorization, rate-limiting, subscriptions, credit billing, usage based billing and a self-service customer portal

https://useultrance.com/
Note that the article says:

> Breton is empowered to oversee enforcement of the DSA and can communicate independently with companies.

So maybe he didn't need to get permission from anyone to send the letter.
I wrote up a few extra notes about how I did this here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/24/pipe-syntax-in-sql/
I suppose you have to divide the shutter speed by 9 to get the same level of sharpness for something that is moving.
Maybe kragen's admu, part of his BubbleOS suite:

https://gitlab.com/kragen/bubbleos

He writes:

An ADM-3A terminal emulator called admu, which works well enough to
run vim, screen, or tmux in. It displays using Yeso [the BubbleOS GUI system], but the
terminal emulation component is separable from Yeso, and is under
600 bytes of machine code — under 400 bytes on ARM with Thumb2.
Because the ADM-3A is supported by terminfo and termcap, most Unix
terminal handling works on it, except for color.

I recall reading that the original vi was developed on an ADM-3A.
No worries.

Such good manners. :) I would have politely asked to swap the royal pieces around.
Yeah, 50+% of new cars being SUVs (gas guzzlers, kill pedestrians, easily roll over) is because of those damn environmentalists.
US is a no-go for a project like this. No large geopolitical power is.
Google's open source ZetaSQL project added documentation covering pipe syntax last week, which I'm finding easier to follow than this paper:

https://github.com/google/zetasql/blob/2024.08.2/docs/pipe-s...
I saw an interactive exhibit at Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) in Seattle. It showed how different sections were regraded and you could push buttons where that section of hills and lakes would get lifted or dropped down. This wasn't a computer display, this was a real physical model of the city.

The Bay Area really benefits from Stanford and Berkeley being there. You need a steady stream of educated new grads to grow from.
So I Married An Axe Murderer - so many good quotes!

Real Genius

The Princess Bride

Ghostbusters 1 & 2

Back to the Future

Shawshank Redemption

The Fifth Element (coming to theaters again soon via Fathom Events, already have tickets for me and my kids!)
Hmmm, only if the microwave worked with their own specially prepared frozen upscale meals.
> The bots will be able to figure out how to accomplish tasks on their own—booking a flight, ordering groceries online or even playing Cupid—all without you lifting a finger.

please don't
Mowing the lawn and cutting some branches without touching git.

I'm knee deep into coding 6 days per week as I'm building a startup and working right now on an "easy" solution for merging xls (yes xls) from some external company with our internal json, and I needed to let my keyboard rest for a day.

It's convincing me that our company should allocate a yearly budget to donate to OSS for stuff like the xlsx package.
Niri is my current daily driver. I absolutely love it.

Edit: I realize this isn’t about Niri, but it’s basically Niri on i3.
An AI that can control the desktop. It can see the screen and use the mouse and keyboard.

We’re selling it to developer teams to help with QA

http://testdriver.ai
Now we just need a healthy SQL transpiler ecosystem so we can all live in the future!
Yeah, but it's happened 4 times or so in the last month. Generally they are dead, but the other times they are this.
If anyone wishes to see some high level Caesar III play on Julius (notably not Augustus) I can recommend watching DDRJake, he plays custom maps that are still being made to this day!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm0MDLKuRDrlbT3Boixpg...

I find it incredible how he's able to take some incredibly difficult maps and beat them without any prior knowledge; the skill in planning a city before planting even the first building takes an imagination far beyond mine, and adapting live to sieges and other dangers is even more impressive.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/08/15/s...

They convicted 54 people in two weeks. I guess "military like" means that trials and convictions were specifically expedited for right wing rioters on request of the neo elected prime minister.
Yes, and XMPP over Tor already seems to be popular on the dark web.
I am writing about Graph Reasoning on my Substack (Encyclopedia Autonomica - All things Autonomous Agents) because I really find the topic interesting and there is not much research.
An out-of-memory dataframe to wrangle unstructured data at scale - https://github.com/iterative/datachain
Wow thanks for sharing this, this certainly is a use case not covered by the system I proposed. I imagine this will require versioning of the timezone so we can translate our America/Los_Angeles v1.0 timestamp to America/Los_Angeles v2.0.
they brought Luminar-like ML in-body post-processing upscaling, supposedly to replace high res IBIS
Do you think individual countries can or will want to either limit the EU’s scope to make it far less invasive than today?
The feature is not ready yet, but it’s coming in about a month.
what toolset do you use for scraping? puppeteer?
Me as well. There is a lot of hype around 'regenerative' agriculture and livestock now as well, but one really needs to see detailed life cycle analyses to know the full footprint of a food choice
A systematic review of diet and medication use among centenarians worldwide
Alien,
Jurassic Park,
The Harry Potter films
It's an incredibly frustrating film that sank my unbesmirched appreciation for Ridley Scott.
FreeBSD 13.4. I should have the release out in early September.
Cool project!

Feedback: I highly suggest a project rename to something that does not have "sway" in the name. Reading the source it seems like it actully has no dependency, API compatibility, or direct interaction with either Sway, i3, or PaperWM?

Sway and i3 just happen to be the most well-known tiling WMs of the hour. There are a bunch of other tiling WM which seem like they will work just fine with Papersway. The docs make it seem like it should only be expected to work with Sway and i3. The possibility is high that most users will not look beyond the "NAME" section before bouncing if they are not already using either of those two and also already familiar with PaperWM.

Less urgently in the docs, it would be nice to be able to get an rough idea about what the project does and the "pitch" without having the reader research PaperWM first.

Why define it strictly in terms of other projects? Why not be usable with other tiling WMs?
That's probably exaggeration or straight lie. There are open-source messengers who don't even require a phone number, and phone number is not legally required for registration in most countries (but, for example, in Russia you cannot signup users in a messenger without getting their phone number. So those open source messengers are technically outright illegal).

As for moderation, any post in public or private groups can be reported to moderators. As for one-to-one chats, this might not work, but you should not be chatting with random people anyway.
Think they are referring to use after free (UAF) behavior. Safe Rust doesn't allow UAF.

You can violate Rust invariants using bugs in compiler.
Related projects (from niri’s README):

PaperWM (Gnome) https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM

karousel (KDE) https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel

niri (wayland) https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

hyprscroller (hyprland plugin) https://github.com/dawsers/hyprscroller

hyprslidr (hyprland plugin) https://gitlab.com/magus/hyprslidr

PaperWM.spoon (MacOS) https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
I am working on an agent cognitive architecture based around LLMs. Been working on it for a while. The main difference from all the dozens out of agentic systems out there is that has been designed so that it can introspect fully and it has a machine ethics layer based on the work a modern Stoic philosopher. I am trying to build a system that I would like to exist.
You can tell the authors realized this was a bad idea when they had to add the 'OVER' keyword, which isn't documented and hardly mentioned in the paper.
That’s really cool.

Something I struggle with, regarding social and semi-social functions at work, is just having the willingness at the time of $event to actually join it — a “social hour,” an engineering CoP, whatever.

I feel like this sort of thing would be good and healthy, but I honestly kind of feel like I’d end up dreading it nevertheless.

I feel sometimes like my ability to even _want_ to make friends is broken, heh. Is that semi-relatable?
The flight you linked was a Boeing 737. We are talking about the 777.

To date, neither the 777 nor the 787 have had any passenger fatalities from any aircraft engineering flaw. That is a monumental achievement.
To coast through a serious program (physics, engineering physics, pure math, etc…) at a major university while barely doing any work and also simultaneously getting high marks takes a lot more than 0.01% performance.

More like 0.001%, at the very least, with some extra luck needed too.
A zero-dependency application in Bun. It has a tailwind-like layer which can be seen here [0]. It’s not production-ready, but has been an interesting experiment.

[0] https://github.com/chrisdavies/atomic-css
Its kind of grim to think a trip to the ISS has a 1:270 chance of death just from the unavoidable roulette of getting zinged by a micrometeroid.
You can train a flux lora on your own handwriting and it works
Open source presenter software. The idea is anything you want to show on screen, all can be controlled through a single page. Useful for any events like concert, conference, camps, etc. You can also use it for digital signage.

Very early stage right now but I hope to release alpha soon. I'm already using it privately right now but there's a lot to do to make it user friendly.

https://github.com/Vija02/TheOpenPresenter
http://cleannews.fyi - Just started this as a side project a few days ago but the goal is to get AI to generate a proper newspaper while striving to eliminate editorial bias
I think the original sin here is not making aggregation an explicitly separate thing, even though it should be. Adding a count(*) fundamentally changes what the query does, and what it returns, and what restrictions apply.
Focus on “efficiency” and environmental regulation?

I think you mean to say cutting back on costs due to corporate greed?
He has different opinions on a few things than them, so they'll either completely ignore him, at best, or actively cheer the French for taking him out
"could be a sign", how about "most likely not be a sign." Interesting, how the Alien fantasy has permeated so much of our society without the slidest bit of proof. It's even part of a website that professes to be reporting on science.
> It only takes a 30 second google before you find telegram rooms offering all kinds of illegal stuff.

For fun, I tried that and was unsuccessful, at least in the allotted time.

Google turned up many third-party references to illegal activity on Telegram, but that's not the same thing.
Passing file handle is different - a well written library would check and handle errors, but pointer to buffer - and I don't expect a library to "try" and "catch" (even if it's possible) cases. Would strlen do this? No.
Until the phone number is disconnected completely from the account I am certain these message services are either lying or honeypots.

You can have end to end encryption without a phone number. To require it means you're opening up possibilities of State and location tracking.
Leetcode for a new job, been at my current place for 5 years. But it's actually the perfect thing to do to make your brain come up with new projects that your brain would rather do, so I write those down for later
Well.... it might (unlikely, but...) have implications for the Russian military forces in Ukraine, who are widely using it for communications (even for things like targeting artillery with drone spotters).

Interestingly (and understandably I guess, given the original nationality of the current CEO), the Ukrainian military are mostly using Signal, and the Russian military almost exclusively use Telegram.
Open source interactive video API.

Main use-case right now is shoppable live streams. Getting about 20,000 shoppers a month currently.

Demo: https://www.sneakinpeace.com/
Repo: https://github.com/james-a-rob/KodaStream
> and the Russian govt has carte blanche access to Telegram

That hardly corresponds with Durov's relationships and history with Russian government.

> Russia invaded their sovereign neighbour Ukraine who the f cares about their forums for messaging. yawn.

What does one even have to do with the other? Feels like obsessing a bit too much over a single topic.
Hm, if you mean software design patterns, then not exactly. It's probably harder to detect in just coding world, but the easiest one I can think of in our realm "checking current CPU usage of X service". In my current company, there are quite a few ways - logging into AWS -> switching to production environment -> going to ECS -> Looking up the service -> Clicking on metrics, or opening DataDog -> Dashboards -> Service Name.

I understand it's very reductive and simplified, but for every task there are alternative ways to reach the goal, and from my historical experience, everyone does everything differently. Some things can be optimized significantly, if others just knew about the possibilities.
Telemedicine / remote surgery should solve this.
Cutting branches sounds a whole lot like git ;)