skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you can tell the difference between the way two objects sound, there is a leap between that and deciding that one is worse than the other.
Microsoft's bootloader is clearly intended to be a pain in the ass. There is nothing new about this situation. They have been doing it since the 90s when any windows update would write over your MBR without a care in the world. We all hoped that UEFI boot menus would resolve the situation. They would have, if only Microsoft were willing to stop intentionally polluting everyone's partitions. Instead, it is not only the default, but the only option, for the windows installer to squat in the first EFI System Partition it sees. That means that if you install linux first and windows second, windows will install its bootloader to your ESP. Even if it's too small. There is no way to disable this behavior. It's asinine.

P.S. The ultimate irony of this situation is that it actually ends up breaking concurrent windows installs more often than anything else.
This seems like an odd objection, because when tumbling down the rabbit hole of performance optimization, leveraging prefetch in your memory controller would normally happen before leveraging SIMD instructions, right? Ie the point at which you start thinking about using SIMD would happen after you’ve already adopted SoA.
Schiller reports to Cook. You are literally making things up to suit a definition of "organized under marketing" that no one uses.
The only drown proofing I can think of is what the Navy Seals do in BUDs. They tie their hands behind their back and their legs together and then pop up for air when they need it. It's a lot harder for those guys because their body fat percentage is microscopic so they sink like rocks. They would probably have to give me a couple pounds of lead to sink properly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pe3L5OcAEg
Filament is incredible, a bit of a learning curve but once you get used to it the possibilities are endless. Saves so much time.
OpenVSP Airshow Is Live
The way tech worker ageism works is that many employers would never consider offering someone with a few years of experience (even if it's just life experience) little money. It's either a generous offer of the full package or a pass. And if previous employers skipped on the titles game ("my job description said 'programmer'"), the chance for anything other than "pass" is miniscule at employers who take titles as a given (and where people could not possibly imagine a world without).

That's what i meant: the titles don't have to mean anything in your company, but if you don't hand them out, even if only as a meaningless formality without any consequence, you're making life unnecessarily hard for employees when they need to look elsewhere. That's why i called it lead handcuffs: it makes leaving more difficult. And i don't get the impression that it's an intentional strategy ("yay, less fluctuation! Let's call them all junior janitors!"), that's why i was pointing out this aspect of "no junior or senior".
I am curious if Bing offers any such operators?
How do you prevent the user from uploading a 5gb string to one of the fields?
Linux doesn’t have the capital of tech giants to be installed onto new machines via partnerships (Microsoft), or its own hardware (Apple).

Linux is the greatest FOSS of all time, and small bumps in an upward trajectory are welcomed news. What is silly is jumping into such threads just to shit on progress made against the mega corporations that aren’t working for your best interests.
I think the most important role of excercise on the weigh loss journey is the sense of accomplishment and effort. Whenever you’re tempted to eat some junk you’ll remember the body pains, the sweat you dropped and think: is it really worth to eat that?
Yeah, I'm sorry. I love empathy but I don't know how to keep a supply of it for folks that willing pay to be in such, dare I say, abusive relationships.
> people are understandably cautious about breathing a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen.

That would be one heck of a case of indigestion. Maybe they can pre-mix it with the pink stuff. Maybe that explains the pink tint to the fluids in The Abyss??
Co-founder of PowerSync here. Would love to hear what you would like to see improved in PowerSync :) Thanks!
I wish layer 2 and layer 3 were 'refactored' to force all links to be point to point, which they effectively are in the modern world. When was the last time you saw ethernet frame collisions because you used a hub not a switch?

We'd get rid of the idea of a broadcast domain. We'd get rid of Mac address and ARP. Switches and routers would become the same device. We'd just use ip addresses for routing, and the 'next hop' would always be the opposite end of the link you sent a packet over.

The world would be a simpler place, and no functionality would have been lost.
Exhale.
> What, exactly, would you have the rest of us do, other than panic?

Advocate for a reduction in plastic manufacturing, consumption and waste. It's pretty straightforward. We did it with lead. I acknowledge that there are certain things that we make with plastic that modern society requires to function. For the rest, if we cannot manage to figure out how to keep this stuff out of our bodies and brains, then we should be replacing it with alternatives.

The part about this study that I personally find terrifying is the trajectory. A 50% increase in 8 years is astonishing. Without more data points we don't know what curve we are on right now (logarithmic? exponential?) but is this an experiment we really want to be running on our brains? I can tell you that this experiment participant wants to opt out immediately.

We are talking about bioaccumulation of an environmental pollutant in critical human organs here. The precautionary principle would seem to apply.
I used to have this memorized and I've lost the details... So Benjamin Franklin established the standard for charges being positive and negative (based on a theory he was operating under that electricity was a fluid that flowed from place to place, and too much fluid was a positive charge and too little was a negative charge). He declared that glass rubbed by cloth was positive and the charge from rubbing fur or rubber was negative, and we were off to the races.

(Worth noting: something I picked up while trying to reboot my memory on this is that from an electrical engineering standpoint, it's actually not super-useful to think about current as "flowing electrons" unless you're dealing very specifically with a situation where electrons are jumping through air or a vacuum and it matters. In a battery, the flow is ions; in a hydrogen fuel cell, the flow is protons; in wires, sure, the flow is electrons, but the fact that what's really moving around and causes phenomena is charge concentration matters and, conveniently, conceptually covers all these cases, and as long as your concept of charge concentration is consistent it doesn't matter if you're considering the concentration to equalize by flowing from positive to negative or negative to positive, there's a symmetry to charge density minimization.)
PSST: There is no aggregate labor market
Congrats to the Instant team. It’s a fantastic project. The DX is great and the engineering behind the datalog engine is really impressive.
Aren’t they struggling financially? Is that a wise decision considering they already charge monthly subscription.
A data-driven case for productivity optimism
Ask HN: Is there any good article for a "Build your own IaC"?
They're entitled to what we call a core technology fee. It prevents customers from potentially abusing the incredibly valuable Peloton IP, while supporting the salaried employees and executives that continue producing content customers love. It's a win-win relationship really, it's only the spiteful regulators that want to see Peloton fail that suggest stopping it.
GM's Cruise recalls 1,200 robotaxis to close US probe in hard-braking issues
True Learning Is Done with Agency
Congrats on the launch! I think Firebase was started in 2011, and it's incredible that 13 years later the problem is still unsolved in an open way. We took a shot at this at RethinkDB but fell short. If I were doing this again today, Instant is how I would build it. Rooting for you!
Hearing things the easy part. The finer you split the hair, the harder it is to actually translate that to a tuning action, with a piano. There are no fine-grained worm gears in the tuning pegs. The pegs are just metal sticks stuck into a hole, prevented from rotating (going flat) by static friction. You cannot adjust them smoothly; when you turn them with the tuning wrench (properly called a "tuning hammer"!) you must overcome static friction to make them move. At that point, they will jump. If you're looking to make a very fine adjustment, it will be almost certainly overshot. So you must do something like jump to a sharper pitch, and from there try to relax it by jumping down to the target pitch. (And that also results in better tuning stability: lower likelihood it will slip.) If the target is very narrowly defined, this can take multiple attempts. The piano has 88 keys, the bulk of which have three strings: have fun!
Doctors Raise a Patient from a Deathlike State with Electronic Music
Isn’t it a play on words/reference to Pudong in China? It’s a nice central part of Shanghai.
Yeah, Fedora has no gnome tweaks by default. To me, it's just another reason not to use Fedora. The primary reason being Fedora is essentially an IBM distribution, and IBM could screw up a wet dream.
How does a worn out laser/motor affect how a burned game is read compared to the genuine discs? I don't follow.
Was pretty neat to see your investment/involvement!

Made me feel quite old that Firebase is no longer "modern" though...
Sounds conceptually similar to Zero: https://zerosync.dev/

I haven't looked in detail yet — what are the main differences relative to Zero?
The problem i see is basicLly, youre doing forced TDD, and thats a inherent cost in quickly developing and deploying apps at the small scale where JS excels.

Ita clearly great for large orgs and interchangeable devs.
Don't be naive. The similarities are superficial--mustachioed, middle-aged, male--and they can all be attributed to the United States' history of intervening in the politics of Latin American countries--a la the "Monroe Doctrine"--often installing leaders who are friendly to American business interests, but monstrous as leaders.

When the US fails to get their man in charge, we then engage in propaganda campaigns to demonize the democratically elected alternatives, manufacturing consent for further interference.

Either way, there are always news clips demonizing Latin American leaders, and so video games can safely use this trope to create a villain that doesn't piss off any of its American market.
> As someone says below, it's important to drain the gasoline at the end of the winter, so it doesn't gum up over the summer. Even if there was a battery-powered two-stage snowblower, why would anyone get one? It'd be a waste of lithium.

Trying to make sense of these two sentences. Further down, there's a description of the fairly involved ritual for winterizing a gas snowblower. Why not get a battery-powered one that uses your existing batteries (assuming you went all in to a specific brand) and avoid all that maintenance?

I'm a homeowner who tries to DIY some easy stuff, and decided early to go all in to battery-powered tools. Power tools that need to run for a long time can be annoying (chainsaws, lawnmowers) because I need to plan ahead and have a bunch of batteries charged. But for the most part it has been great. I have appreciated not ever having to maintain a gas supply, deal with gas/oil spills, oil changes, winterizing, etc.
It would hold up with the regulator as each decision and outcome is stored and has explainability, so it is in fact even more auditable than a human!
Do you stick your foot into bear traps with mostly working safties?
confused why coc is okay, dong is not okay.
I have no idea how peloton works but I while ago I thought about “gamified” cardio machines, treadmill, bike, rowing where you follow courses which vary in difficulty (like uphill or against currents) and the machine varies the resistance according to the scenery.
It's a bad line. The singularity is about a hypothetical situation where progress becomes so runaway that the future becomes impossible to predict.

Mediocrity is the opposite of this : the continuation of capitalism, but even blander than predicted by futurists.
Huh, maybe I was a little hasty. Looking again, it does seem like a joke.

I still think it’s kinda off. It doesn’t quite land. Like I’m not sure what takeaway they are trying to give. That ambiguity makes it much less funny.

It would have worked better if they connected it to the point about not automating away these skills / expertise with shittier versions, which is a great point and would be nice to end on.
I’ve seen Cisco gear that supports 8192… that was fun to figure out with a separate network team :) “yup, we’ve enabled jumbo frames!”
It's not the Fed. It's the US Marshals Service, part of the Department of Justice. (The Federal Reserve isn't actually part of the US government at all, though it's deeply intertwined.)

They sell it by auction, which they announce in advance. There is no insider information, so no laws to run afoul of.
Entire Universe squeezed into a single image. (logarithmic scale)
That’s a difficult project. Congratulations for even getting a 3D environment you can fly around!

My own experience is that it’s so difficult to make homebrew games not just because of the technical challenges you have to solve making the game, but also because of the poor experience with tools and debugging. Pretty soon, you find your project taking up more time than you can reasonably spare. I think it’s impressive when people manage to get something interactive working on these old consoles, anything at all beyond a “hello world” template.
What do you think about mediocrity?

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/series/mediocratopia/

I’m fascinated by mediocrity as an aspiration, understood as optimization resistance and withheld reserves. Mediocrity is slouching towards survival. Mediocrity is pragmatic resistance to totalizing thought. Mediocrity is fat in the system. Mediocrity is playful, foxy improvisation.
Probably. It's like: TSP is really really easy if you know your input is N vertices with N-1 edges forming a line.
Im partial to git ui
You didn't even need Caetla. You could do that straight-up with the original ROMs for some of the cartridge series (FCD), and X-Link from DOS (or, if you were prepared to get involved with a bit of spicy linux 2.3, bitbang the parallel port yourself from the /dev/ interface for it at the time, the protocol was really simple). You get a live memory monitor you can watch (made it really easy to make cheat codes or look inside stuff for fun), and you can write and debug anything you want - in many ways it was nicer than the official Psy-Q kit Sony adopted, I thought.

Except to be fair, I didn't have a C toolchain, but R3000 assembly language is really nice when you get used to the delay slot.
There's one big drawback I discovered the hard way, to not storing emails locally.

If you have to leave an org for any reason, you lose access to the entire email history with that org. Some of which might still be important to you for a multitude of very legitimate reasons (such as contacts).
Pencilera: App turns Apple Pencil into iPad camera remote
Việt Nam calls Paris appeal court's ruling in Agent Orange case regrettable
Nice simulation, beautiful pictures, but there are definitely no trees on Rigi Kulm; instead there is a characteristic rock formation visible from the direction of the aircraft.
I don't know, but let me hypothesise.

When you work with complex stuff, there will always be one or two urgent meetings where the caller doesn't have time or the data to set up a proper agenda.

A meeting invite saying "oh shit, all hands on deck" does not need to be due to bad planning. Obviously this should not be the norm, but when it happens you cannot simply instruct your people to ignore it.
Animals seem to do well enough. Sure there is the occasional issue. But it seems pretty clear the modern diet is the significant factor.
unfortunately with the way case law works, we are stuck with those bad decisions today.
Elon Musk: We've been working on mobile RNA microfactories for 4 years (2020)
All the reasonable alternatives pollute more long term. Nobody will accept the idea that they should become a subsistence farmer that never goes farther from home than he can walk (sexism intended).
They are locking things down further and further:

https://discuss.python.org/t/moderated-posts-are-no-longer-p...

Another attempt to pull the discussion back into the PSF section of the forum (where people other than core devs are able to post) also got locked:

https://discuss.python.org/t/pr-disaster-surrounding-recent-...
UN Human rights council from today
We warn about the lack of independence and impartiality of supreme court and national electoral council

https://x.com/UN_HRC/status/1826624015097888919

the judge deciding if the election was good is a member of the ruling party and ran for local offices under PSUV

ALSO

The Carter Center: "The records confirm that Edmundo Gonzalez obtained 70% of the votes
https://confidencial.digital/english/the-carter-center-the-r...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soaQUkfUVvc
Min 3:30 you can hear them saying it (in Spanish)
Interesting that this is Clojure :-)

Clojure + TS seems to be a good way to go, without being hung up on CLJS.
great question and thanks for checking it out! I've talked to a number of folks who have built small/simple versions of this for various workflows.

The idea for incorporating feedback into the knowledge base is still coming together, in the prototype, LLM can classify the response as approval or not, and then if it's a rejection, llm will try to distill out facts/ideas from the response, e.g. "BigCorp and Acme.com are also using XYZ product" or "to learn more about pricing, you can book a meeting at LINK".

In the prototype, it then did a function call to add those as small chucks to the vector store, but you could also orchestrate that transparently if you didn't want to rely on the LLM reliably calling an `add_to_knowledge_base` function.

Longer term, I like the idea that I first heard of in BabyAGI, which is to store the messages leading up to an approval + the approval result in a vector DB, and use those historical approvals to derive up a confidence score for whether a particular action will be approved.

That stuff's more whiteboard stage than in code yet but I think it could be built.
It does happen, but usually it's not a problem if they don't do it too often. The amount of nitrogen in a single breath of air is pretty small and their time at depth is very short. Repeated dives can increase the amount of dissolved nitrogen though. This can be a problem especially if they have a heart defect called Patent Foramen Ovale which allows bubbles to bypass the lungs directly into arteries heading to the brain.

For instance, for a 140ft dive, the no decompression limit for SCUBA (The amount of time you can stay at that depth without making stops at shallower depths to remove nitrogen) is 5 minutes. The typical no limits free dive is 2 minutes.

They do experience a mild case of the bends on every dive but never notice it because it's so minor.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/patent-forame...

https://divetables.com.au/dive-tables/
Show HN: UI Copilot – AI web design feedback as part of the browser
Hey HN!

My latest creation, a BYO-API key web design copilot, powered by Google Gemini.

Activate the extension on any web-page (including localhost) then simply draw a box around any portion of the site you want instant design feedback on.

This tool is completely free during a very long Beta period, potentially free forever, whilst I refine the tool.

It works via a BYO-API key model. This means I can offer the extension as cheap as possible (free in this case) whilst utilising a completely free Gemini API LLM (15 requests per minute free).

Try it out, let me know what you think. I think its the only extension of its kind I could find. Still has some rough edges and bugs.

Papillon
This is awesome, and in a way the reverse of HTMX :)
I'm just saying that I suspect those consumers don't care, you don't have the empathize. Those folks just bought a bike with subscription services as part of the deal.
if I recall, (and someone correct me if I'm wrong), it had deep multithreaded support/design, more so than any other desktop OS at the time, so it could run more simultaneous processes and apps w/o getting bogged down. at least I think there was a demo claiming this.
> bog standard FP community lies
> constrain mutable structures to the same memory layouts and ideas as immutable ones

What are you even talking about, "dude"? I don't think you have the background or knowledge you seem to think you have to argue about this space. It's OK, as you blithely pointed out in your earlier post, there is a place called medium where you'll find likeminded folks that will eat up your drivel.
The current generated state-machine mechanism is not going away any time soon. Instead, Roslyn as well as any other compiler that targets CIL is expected, when appropriate, to stop generating state machines and start generating specially annotated method calls recognized by .NET.

This means that all existing libraries will continue working as is, and newly written or existing code that is compiled against e.g. C# 14/.NET 10(?) can automatically opt into new mechanism without user intervention. The write-up does cover the considerations for interoperability between these two models as well.

In fact, this will make using async from other CIL-based languages much easier as the burden of capturing the state and suspending/resuming the execution will be on the runtime rather than language compiler authors.
No it's called nesting, and it is the most holy of practices.

Your axe doesnt need to be extra sharp so you can cut one extra tree in a day, it needs to be extra sharp so it feels good to chop down trees.
Study uses recycled glass to grow plants for salsa ingredients
It's certainly better to have chat text than to not have it, but whether it can make up for the huge cost of asynchronicity is another question (each delay breaks your flow, requiring you to cache-out, cache-in...)
> You typed more about your definition of "word salad" than you did about stakeholders.

Because it seems to me that you focus on my definition of "stakeholders" but you actually have not understood what I was trying to say, which requires understanding what I mean by "word salad".

> The word stakeholders has meaning and isn't part of a word salad to me.

And this confirms that my point hasn't been understood.
John Michael Godier released an interview with the scientist from Arecibo who’s at the root of this story, Prof. Abel Mendez:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mCKuA8P9HOw
If all you do is run xterm all day it is OK. On the other hand I use most of the Linux machines in my life via ssh from a Windows or Mac machine.

Recent versions of Ubuntu are getting decent in my opinion though although I still mostly use my Linux laptop to RDP into a Windows machine at work or my personal Windows machine.