skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, it's so bloody plausible on a superficial level. Somebody went to a bit of effort to make sure that this nonsense got into the world, and onto HN. Well played, I say.
I honestly believe that someone I know will tell me within 3 months that the AEC is training raccoons to eliminate nuclear fusion's waste using some fantastic microbial electrolysis. They'll swear it's true.
> It turns out that Space Shuttle style code means "blows up for all sorts of reasons".

Do you have any evidence for that claim? (And don't point me to the two Shuttle explosions. Neither of those were a software failure.)
> For example, Confederate flags are actually a thing in Canada. That's wild to me.

Also seen one in Cambridge. And I don't mean Cambridge Massachusetts, I mean the original.
You should also be tipping your landlord I hear
A critical hit: Dungeons and Dragons as a buff for autistic people
Of all the things Zuckerberg could have cited, he chose arguing FOR allowing information that could have materially detrimental effects on living human beings??

Or did I misread?
100% - 1 rocket failure away from financial ruin!
NASA is a political jobs program from a funding perspective. There isn't any way around that.

This creates uncertainties, distractions and perverse incentives all around:

0. Everything is dramatically complicated by the artificial divisions of work across states needed to get enough political support. Grossly inefficient from the start, and inflexible into perpetuity.

1. Initial schedules are incentivized to be unrealistic, and not reflective of hard analysis/planning, in order to get funding. Easier to deal with the real details and expand schedules later, even though nobody wants that to be the process.

2. Essentially a cost plus (or cost even) program. There is no hard limit on cost, since the further along a project is, the easier it is to raise its budget, especially along with schedule delays.

3. Creativity flows to the most basic constraint. The most basic constraint is political will to fund, so top level attention goes to managing/manipulating up.

When NASA's hard constraint was time (getting to the moon first), creativity went there. They were never cheap, but they did operate with incredible speed.

Whereas any private company's basic constraints are relative profitability in terms of net return in a given time frame, so creativity goes to both speed and cost.

4. Boeing and other traditional large NASA contractors operated for decades under NASA's politically driven, cost plus umbrella, so continue to suffer from, and reinforce, NASA's problems.

This culture is hard to break, even after switching to a flat cost (still time flexible) regime. See recent Boeing troubles. Not just throw away rockets, but a much delayed, over budget, wonky one-way manned spaceship!! Ouch!
> People like to hate on them, but their design is actually really good

I'm not complaining/hating, Gnome is my desktop environment of choice since some time ago.

Was more a nod to how awful Microsoft seems to (still) be at UI and UX.
This was called the "Deep Well Reactor" concept back in 1984. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012182435&se...

You have serious constraints in neutronics when constrained to a drillable borehole diameter and low-enriched uranium. The radial peaking will be high. May still be an ok tradeoff.
It is not possible to raise prices without lowering supply if the seller is already trying to maximize profit. Sure the seller could be undercutting the market but that has nothing to do with collusion. Apartments rent in an auction, each fills for the most anyone will rent it for. In order to raise prices landlords need to increase the competition for each unit.
> "Tipping" absolutely is a kind of bribe.

No, it is not. Legally, per the SCOTUS, it is definitely not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snyder_v._United_States
What polls have trump in the lead in the swing states right now? I haven't seen any high power polls that have trump in an obvious lead.
Or take donations through their charities and use it as a proxy for their own influence.
This is false. It makes no sense. It can't be found anywhere. It reads like a bad Monty Python sketch. I can't tell if you're joking or if your history teacher was.
I started OpenPay (getopenpay.com) as an alternative to Stripe. We're giving subscription management for free to the HN community for a year

We support all the edge cases you mentioned around variable/tiered pricing, coupons, etc all part of our solution
Hmmm, I don’t think so…
Do you think Musk's antics are having a notable negative effect on SpaceX? There's no doubt that's the case with Tesla.
He's telling half truths. Facebook started censoring Trump during his presidency!
You can read more about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41372225 (I just happened to have replied there first)
Yeah the docs never really changed all that much. They look more of less the same for 15 years or so.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110727181325/http://jinja.poco...
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 dev 1
Ihave a simple “note” on my iPhone and I do similar thing with, I reevaluate if I really need to do it and if I do I roll it over, otherwise it gets deleted. Between this and my calendar list, I try to simplify lol
Don't forget the people writing books/creating merch to sell to the first group. There tends to be overlap here with the third group, but not necessarily.
The US is the most right-leaning country out of the first world.

> but now we've all gotten used to a million regulations on how we use our private property

Many of these originating from the right. Because the right is not, and has never been, a party of small government. They want big government, just their big government. That has meant historically enforcing slavery, then segregation, suppressing women's rights, suppressing abortion, dictating what you can do in the bedroom, and on and on and on. These are all conservative policy - and all HUGE government.

> it's obvious that "the center" of American politics today is drastically far to the left from where it was previously

Yes, this is called the progression of time. This is why people who are unable to change their mind over time end up falling behind and sounding crazy.

Have you ever asked an old dude about how they feel about black people? Whoa! Clearly they grew up in a different time. Some let that shit go like they should, some don't. Those that don't are destined to be left to the past.

Just a few decades ago a slight right winger might be anti-integration. Slight. A far right-winger would be lynching people in their neighborhood. So you're correct - we've moved past that.

And, in 40 years, if I personally don't change my beliefs, I will also sound crazy. To conservatives that's scary or something. To me, that's how the world works. I say either adapt or be relegated to the insane.
Amazon management is very aware. They just do not care. Legal has even instructed teams in this regard. I hope FTC will drop the hammer on Amazon.
Have them update the guidelines; the SCOTUS ruled in your favor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snyder_v._United_States
Also in a case when misprediction is cheap, but makes the whole system unrealiable in such mode of work. E.g. my company tries (too late) to ride the hype and created a halfbaked tool for internal use to classify test results. Since the accuracy of neural networks is never 100% it simply doesn't matter as it doesn't save any time, all test results needs to be verified manually anyway. But several people are busy full time working on it, reporting some results, some amazing performance metrics and so on. And are very visibly upset when we push back or plainly say that the tool is worthless. :)
I'm observing this happening for a while on mastodon and bluesky as well. And sometimes I'm having a feeling that there are groups who will actively drop their nsfw content in the places where it shouldn't be. Or create content that hangs on a thin line of legality that gives a dubious greenlight to stuff that is clearly explicit.

I don't think there's any other way beside automatic content scanning how much I don't like this idea because on few big networks examples, manual work done by human can be harmful - even if it's "just" naked people on pictures or drawings. Not mention it's a hard labor. Requiring that content should be marked as nsfw under a threat of ban could be also a way but as above, people can avoid that.
A portrayal of someone's attempt at giving a "thumbs up" with a broken thumb, obviously.
Yes they make a 3d map of your mouth.
It’s nonsensical but here we are
Show HN: AppTimer an open source tool to limit app usage and boost productivity
Hi HN, I’ve created AppTimer, a simple cli tool made to help you manage your time more effectively by limiting how long you use specific applications. If you’ve ever found yourself losing track of time while using an app or want to improve your focus during work, this might be helpful for you.

Features:

- Launch any application from the CLI and set a time limit.
- Automatically terminates the application after the specified time.
- Simple and lightweight, built with Go.

Use Cases

- Curbing screen time addiction by setting limits on entertainment apps.
- Enhancing focus by controlling distractions during work hours.

I’d love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or ideas for improvement. Contributions are also welcome
This is my first ever solo project so help would be reallyyy appreciated
I'm the founder of OpenPay (getopenpay.com) and a lot of Stripe customers migrated to us as an alternative. We give you all the functionality that Stripe provides without the "Stripe tax"

Feel free to reach out to us and we'll hook you up
That is pretty crazy after Jan 6.
Lyft launches a rider verification pilot program
in high-tip jobs, you can count on the tips to be stable virtually every night
Fun fact: you can integrate Blitzortung lightning strikes into Home Assistant with this HACS repo: https://github.com/mrk-its/homeassistant-blitzortung

It will add each strike as a device temporarily on your devices map.
They dropped the "Core" suffix with v5 in 2020, since at that point there was no longer naming confusion.

While Microsoft doesn't have their own framework supporting Linux GUI apps on the modern .NET runtime (MAUI does Mac/iOS/Android but not Linux), there are third-party ones like Avalonia.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41372165

It is harmful to write new code that targets .NET Framework and existing actively maintained applications all have migrated to .NET. The ones that did not either have poor maintenance or authors that lack time as they don't owe extra effort unless they want to do that (or sometimes it is a skill issue, unfortunately).
Has IO through the hypervisor improved on macOS? Last I tried, the `./node_modules` directory absolutely destroyed the ability for me to use Docker as a development environment on my macOS workstations for Rails development, even with the special caching flags enabled.

A lot has change since then, like I stay away from node and `./node_modules` as much as possible via importmaps, but even then the FS performance wasn't enough for my needs.
I'd rather expect a HDMI cables that will display ads if you don't pay a subscription will come first. Pretty sure we had a thread on this not so long ago.
> You're making the same logical error you're accusing others of.

His complaint is that GP stopping nuclear is BS with no evidence. Your comment can be summarized as "I don't see why it couldn't be true" without presenting any evidence that it is true.
Seeing bits of the DNC last week with celebrities like lil wayne making appearances, a packed stadium and whatnot, is there anything comparable in Canadian politics or even other parliamentary systems like the UK? American politics (and the news focused on it), is quintessentially American: big, loud and over the top.
You just described me in high school.
> if they are not all saying the same thing and being controlled by the same few owners

Arguably, that just means they're just the illusion of "more sources" because really they're just one.
You're being downvoted, but you're 100% right. All the things you mention are important parts of a balanced "machine" / system that humanity has been increasingly throwing out of balance. The climate is just one aspect of that system, and won't really matter much if we don't do something about the underlying issue; That being, we're allowing a small handful of humanity decide for all of us that their religion ("Money is God; God will save us!") is more important than all life on Earth combined.
Yeah, regarding your first point -- the replacement brushes are also an Oral-B product, so prompting for frequent replacement of the brushes would be a way to make more money.
Not to argue with anything, but after observing it for a while, I cannot treat HEMA seriously. And this is true about most of the "reconstruction" stuff. The problem is, that guys who "do" it are almost exclusively not the guys who would participate in city-level wrestling or even powerlifting competition. To say it bluntly, most of them don't have the most basic fitness level.

The point of that entire activity is to learn by experience what is doable/not doable with some historic tools, and hence derive, how these tools were probably used. But their learnings aren't very valuable, since it's pretty evident they aren't anywhere near of strength and coordination of a trained person. I would bet a fucking (professional) figure skater would beat them with a stick.

And this is super important, because the supposed original users of a given tool are almost exclusively supposed to be people trained to wield it daily from the childhood. Not to mention they wouldn't spend much time in front of a monitor ever.
> Free IP Geolocation API - lookup any IP address. Provides geolocation data based on the input IPv4/IPv6 address or domain name

Where does one get a geo location for an IP address from?
Even not getting into those potential future abuses of the system, there are already some high tip earners such as some exotic dancers (median income $75k). So it wouldn't be helping only low income.
Weird, I learned this in three places, at kindergarten, again in school, and at home
I'm surprised that health insurance companies haven't started offering "good brusher" discounts the way car insurance companies offer a "good driver" discount when you use their car data logging device/app.
> not sure when they dropped the "Core" part of the name

It was called .NET Core until they officially retired the .NET Framework (ie v4) by releasing .NET 5.
Well to be fair, most of that LARPing is being done by our PM who likes to piggyback on the cache of big American news stories. That's seen by many of us as being ridiculous.
Show HN: Netflix for AI movies – built with Cursor in 2 days
We feel the new narrative-style content made with AI tools deserves a familiar home apart from the concept demos and tutorial videos cluttering Reddit and YouTube. It's what's next!
The gaming industry, regardless of where it's headquartered, is actually focused on aggressive, shameless monetization, and the Chinese segment were pioneers in this.
I don’t understand how note taking is such an impassioned subject on this site.

But fwiw, what works for me is to have notes everywhere. I take notes in a journal, ephemeral notepad, emails, texts to myself, apple notes, and orgmode. I just want to have lots of accessibility.
This seems huge no? Couldn't this enable "community based" ai training at home?
Much as I hate corporate greed, I actually disagree with this one.

By and large, huge corporations tend to know that tip prompts annoy people and don't have them.

An overwhelming majority of the egregious tip asks, either for generic not-normally-tipped services, or prompting "25%, 35%, or 45%?", have been small businesses or food carts, especially in tourist-heavy areas.

Corporate greed isn't really part of it, because higher tips for the workers does not make its way to shareholders.
LLMs predict the next token. Imagine someone said to you, "it takes a musician 10 minutes to play a song, how long will it take for 5 musicians to play? I will work through the problem step by step".

What are they more likely to say next? The reasoning behind their answer? Or a number of minutes?

People rarely say, "let me describe my reasoning step by step. The answer is 10 minutes".
Won't most apps use way more .net stuff than core? Mono was a way to run dotnet apps on Linux, killing it meant killing cross platform support for modern dotnet desktop apps?
Reforestation is mostly done by tree farms to regenerate the trees they will harvest in the future. They want good sized trees that are optimally packed and easily accessible. I doubt the capability to capture carbon figures anywhere in their spreadsheet except as a number to justify demanding subsidies
Neutrinos already move at relativistic speeds, so they aren't much of a problem.

The real possible problem would be massive dark matter particles. These would be traveling now at around 300 km/s, so a relativistic spacecraft would boost their speeds by three orders of magnitude and their energies by six orders of magnitude or higher. And, of course, the number passing through a given area in the vehicle per unit of time would also be orders of magnitude higher. If the interaction cross section is high enough (and not so high they could be shielded) then travel at that speed becomes impossible.
The UK also has a problem with the right wing trying to import American "culture wars" issues for their own benefit, and it has nothing to do with Gaza — specifically, they bring in the US talking points about trans issues, using "woke" as the next step on the euphemism escalator now that "politically correct" has worn off, blaming millennials for everything, and a conspiracy theory about 15 minute cities (despite almost all of the UK being within 15 minutes of all the important things already, including the car-focused bits like Milton Keynes and small Welsh hamlets like Abermad).

Still, at least it means the Tory party completely forgot about wanting to bring back the hunting of foxes on horseback.
> I just want to go back to where you could use facebook to share what you're up to and see what other folks you know are up to; but apparently that's too 00's to hope for.

And now they have some way for "AI" to write your entire FB post for you. Which I'm sure will end well. Why think for yourself and write what you mean when you can let AI do all the thinking for you?
To some extent it's reasonable for Canadians, Europeans etc. to be interested in American politics, say on trade or foreign politics because it affects us in real ways especially these days with the world situation, but I also think we're honestly past 'peak Americana' culturally.

Personally speaking being German, my father (60) was in the West Germany army, stationed in Canada and the US for a while, you can tell he was deeply influenced by how Americans live, what cars they drive, how their houses and kitchens look, what their aspirations are, etc. For my generation, already not the case having come of age during the 2000s, seemingly less so for people who are even younger.

I think it's tempting to think America still has a big cultural influence because of how prevalent English is and the media, memes and mannerisms that come with it, but at a deep level I think people have become much less influenced by it. It's the kind of error people made on China, were they thought the internet and media would just turn all the young Chinese into de facto Americans. People today are more fluent in American news and culture but they're also much more capable of just ditching it.
It's a Monkey's head. Mono is Monkey in Spanish. The original author, Miguel de Icaza, is Mexican-American.
I believe Claude is aware if information close to the one retrieved from the vector space is scarce. I'm no expert, but i imagine it makes a query to the vector database and get the data close enough to places pointed out by the prompt. And it may see that part of the space is quite empty. If this is far off, someone please explain.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4824438-eu-sends-warni...
This gives me strong https://youtu.be/aCP27_vquxQ?si=WztFEXETGLcsAT51 vibes.

I dont think this is how it works in the real world.

Even if it did, giving it away would be equally a write off as just shutting it down.
I wonder what the uptake of MTA-STS is. Does anyone collect stats on this?
The feed is normally manipulated by information suppression concerning undesirable posts concerning their commercial interests (partners and advertisers) normally anyway, I don't see where the regret comes from by having to suppress posts concerning requests from government officials and agencies.

Truth is, once a platform becomes that large, everyone and their peers jockeys to control their image upon it, whether it is an official request to de-prioritize posts, or even a comment brigade or mass reporting, this is the result of a platform becoming far too influential and massive to be effective for commoners, and far too vulnerable to money and influence to be an open and free community.

We all have the perfect inverse of deregulation and absence of moderation with Twitter, and we all know how bad that's going, while the management still tries to transition the mess back into a "pay for play" platform.

There is simply no way to manage platforms that large once they become popular pulpits... We need to return to an ecosystem of smaller community forums and apps based around individual topics that can maybe be aggregated in part or whole to news sites perhaps. And no, Mastodon and Reddit are not what I'm talking about either.... It would have to be something entirely different, more effective, more innovative, without ads & ad buying, with a better system of managing credibility and merit than paying for verification, and far less corrupt-able to work well.
I literally just use a giant text file for everything, with only a specialized vim macro for inserting the date.
It seems to me that if you need to generate large acoustic signals underwater, HASEL actuators might be the way to go.[1] Since they're effectively just bags full of incompressible fluid, they could work at any depth.

Sensing sound.... that might be harder. Perhaps you could close-loop control the capacitance of the above, and "listen" to the error signal?

[1] https://www.artimusrobotics.com/
Sure, but the amount of R&D varies.

It's frequently called the "Shuttle Launch System" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle-derived_vehicle) because "it uses existing Shuttle tech!" was one of the big selling points.
They believe it works because it does work!

"Chain of thought" prompting is a well-established method to get better output from LLMs.
Interesting to note that "electricity arcing through air" is pretty much exactly how our first radio transmitters worked, including the device used to send the first transatlantic signal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark-gap_transmitter
I don't think humans will ever domesticate another animal. The amount of culling required is just too horrifying.

I don't think there will be any new[1] dog breeds for the same reason.

1. New meaning actual new breed, not just new mixes.
I think rope, at least of any appreciable length and strength, is a much more modern technology.
So, moon-landing-deniers. Just raising questions?
> Or do they make tooth brushes which monitor your mouth's biome or something like that these days?

I'd buy a toothbrush that did that, even if it had "AI" in it's name.

But no, I think it just logs the brush duration and for the more expensive models the "coverage", or something like that.
I get that vibe, too, on the article. A little too: "Summarize this article and use it to write a supporting argument for this premise"
I guess you don't meet that many raccoons. They're vicious bastards. And before anyone calls me out on this, the street belongs to me too.