skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the speed of light in vacuum provides a natural unit for velocity, i.e. for the ratio between length and time, Planck's constant (computed by him in 1899, before any quantum theory, because it is a consequence of the laws of blackbody radiation) provides a natural unit for angular momentum, i.e. for the ratio between kinetic energy and frequency (a.k.a. angular velocity).

(Many books claim that Planck's constant is a quantum of "action". This is extremely wrong, because action is not a quantized physical quantity, so it cannot have quanta, and moreover the ratio between energy and frequency is not an action, but an angular momentum. This ridiculous mistake is caused by the failure to understand that the unit of plane angle is a base unit that cannot be derived from any of the units of the other physical quantities and forgetting to write the plane angle in the dimensional relationships between physical quantities leads to very serious errors. Angular momentum is the ratio between action and plane angle, while energy is the ratio between action and time and the linear momentum is the ratio between action and length. Frequency is not the inverse of time, but the ratio between plane angle and time, as the old name of "Hertz", i.e. "cycles per second" was making this obvious.)

Dividing or multiplying by combinations of Planck's constant with the speed of light and the elementary charge only changes the system of units, between the traditional units and natural units. There are several variants of "natural" systems of units and the difference between using them and using SI is that when using natural systems of units there are much less "universal" constants in the relationships between physical quantities.

Like electric charge, angular momentum is one of the quantities that are discrete, not continuous (though angular momentum is not necessarily discrete like electric charge; depending on the physical system it may be either discrete or continuous).

Like the elementary charge is the quantum of electric charge (when all quarks are bound in hadrons), a half of Planck's constant is the quantum of angular momentum (there are multiple possible definitions of the angular momentum, depending on the unit chosen for plane angle, which lead to multiple possible numeric values for Planck's constant).

The importance of the c, e and h constants is due to them being respectively the limit value for velocity and the quanta of two fundamental discrete quantities (electric charge and angular momentum), which makes them appear in many relationships between physical quantities, unless the system of units is changed to a "natural" system of units, when the "universal" constants become "1", so they disappear from the formulae.

When a natural system of units is not used in quantum mechanics, then all the equations that contain both energy or momentum and time or length, like the equation of Schroedinger, will contain Planck's constant, possibly combined with other universal constants. This will have as a consequence the appearance of those constants also in the expressions that give the pairs of quantities related by Fourier transforms.
Little Evidence of Personality Based Differences in Ideological Threat Responses
If they just seize it, it will typically be returned at some point. If they decide it's subject to forfeiture, it is now their property. You can contest this with the forfeiture department but I guess if they decide the item is guilty of a crime or other excuses to keep it there's nothing you can do.
Finally someone fucking said it. Thank you.
If you invest you want some control. The law is very clear (lots of preceding cases) on your power as an investor in case of equity investments. In case of w-coop investment constructions as you mention the law is very unclear. Hence usually they start with basic loans (sometimes that the initial workers bare some responsibility for) or gifts.

I agree with many VC-backed startups develop toxic behavior.
Didn't people used to get in trouble for "working from home" when they were actually parenting instead?
But this isn't a one-paragraph idea, it's 10 paragraphs suggesting that there will be an idea, then one paragraph suggesting that there has been an idea.
It's great to hear about someone else using AsciiDoc! We use it for all of our documentation at Oxide, so I had assumed that it was ubiquitous -- and it was only when we had a recent podcast episode about our RFDs[0] that I learned that it was really much less broadly used than I thought! Anyway, we're big fans of AsciiDoc; glad we're not (totally) alone!

[0] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/rfds-the-ba...
There is no problem with requiring X to appoint local representatives. This has nothing to do with that.

Follow the chain of events.

The "fake news" inquisition started when some magazine ran a damning article on one of these judges.

In retaliation to that, they granted themselves extensive powers. They gave themselves the right to investigate, prosecute, judge, sentence and punish crimes against themselves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382

Then comes the 2022 election. These judges become openly partisan. They start censoring Bolsonaro supporters for "fake news". This is what I claim is unconstitutional.

Obviously, Bolsonaro was not reelected. These judges are very happy about that. They're so happy they go to public events and showboat about being the ones who personally defeated Bolsonaro.

Fast forward to today. The censorship continues. They keep ordering X to ban accounts. Which led to it pulling out of the country. Which led to it getting blocked due to not having a local legal representative. Which led to everything we are witnessing in real time right now.

There is no problem with requiring local legal representation. The problem is with the B point in your timeline. They shouldn't be "asking" (actually ordering) the removal of accounts for "misinformation" at all. That is political censorship and it is unconstitutional.

Therefore everything that happened after B, should not have happened at all.
They show snippets from web sites and show subsets of books as well, including artworks and other diagrams in their entirety.

For comparison, I had to fight for a year to get copyright permission to show book cover artwork in a library enquiry system! If I simply Google the same book titles or ISBNs, Google will show me the pictures directly. E.g.: https://www.google.com/search?q=greg+egan+eon&udm=2

How is that legal!? We had to pay to get access! In public and school libraries!

The law in most western countries is very clear that book covers are "entire" works of art, and can only be displayed by organisations that pay the copyright holders.

Google, Bing, and others violate copyright on a mass scale on a daily basis. Not to mention YouTube, TikTok, and Reels, all of which are packed wall-to-wall with "movie clips" and "TV show highlights". They're publishing copyrighted content uploaded by random people and then distributing the advertising revenue to the copyright violators instead of the copyright holders.

This isn't "caching" or "indexing", it's verbatim serving.
Sourcetable is hiring a Senior/Staff level product engineer (Python + React) to build a spreadsheet-based data platform.
We have some some remote folk, but this role is San Francisco based.

We have an Excel/Sheets competitor coming to market, have raised a seed round, are an experienced team with prior success, plenty of hard engineering problems to solve, as well as a bunch of AI stuff cooking under the hood.

Culturally, we really like working with people who have been part of an early-stage startup. The majority of the team are ex-founders. It just seems to work better that way.

More info here: https://sourcetable.com/jobs You can also email me (Eoin, founder) at sourcetable.com Have a great day!
It's interesting indeed, but is missing an important factor. Every niche requires resources for someone to fill it: time, at a minimum, but also raw materials (engineering, art), land (agriculture, wildlife preservation), power (pretty much everything) and so on. These are all finite, although some are now used more efficiently than they could have been in the past.

By having more children, you contribute to more people fulfilling their purposes in the future, but this is true only to the point where resources would become too scarce when divided between the niches.

I would guess that in the future, the Earth could sustain maybe double its current population, due to much more efficient resource utilisation and extraction, relieving the demand on these resources, and the large number of people who would prefer to live in cities, reducing the demand on land. But the Earth could not sustain such a growth of its population immediately; we need time to let society and technology improve and adapt.
Oh hey a fellow ZSA Voyager user! There's dozens of us!

For writing I really enjoy using WriteMonkey
That’s great. I loved the Division games and most of the mechanics in them.

I don’t play online and still really enjoyed playing through the stories. I thought it was so much as an NYC dweller to walk around the city in chaos.

They early Covid days made me think of it too, the trailer was fantastic.
Twenty minutes of searching didn't come up with any software jobs related to the Northwest Forest Plan. I'm PNW born and raised, and love old-growth forests more than pretty much anything. If I could find a SWE job doing something connected to this plan, I'd probably work for free^H^H^H^H^H^H be very grateful.
Fair. I've edited it.
My brother just finished writing a fantasy novel. By the time he was finished, he had created a searchable wiki with every idea, lore snippet, and references logged into his note taking app.

As easily as we would google an event in history, he could bring up the tagged items associated to a chapter, world event, or character in his book.

At the late stages, when he was modifying a lot with the help of his publisher/editor, this was worth its weight in gold.

Amazing level of discipline and wisdom choosing to set it up in that way for himself.

I would recommend similar to anyone considering writing a book.

His book was recently published and is sold in stores everywhere under the title “Gods-Forged”.
I too use markdown + git for everything. I checked out Obsidian one day, it appears to be a wiki with tags to me, while it's great to do notes taking for some, it seems to be less organized for myself, and it's hard to use it for books, which is more streamlined by chapters etc, am I missing something?
Publishers sue Florida: it creates "a regime of strict censorship" in schools
Seems like you have finally completed replacing Erlaոg with C++ :)
> All this to say, it would be great to see more capital for co-ops in the form of traditional loans with favourable interest rates.

Sure, that would be great. But what can govt do today to incentivize that?

I'd say just relax (tax) law on w-coops to incentivize them compared to the less favorable forms of incorporation.
Avoid the temptation to add new fields to the bug database. Every month or so, somebody will come up with a great idea for a new field to put in the database. You get all kinds of clever ideas, for example, keeping track of the file where the bug was found; keeping track of what % of the time the bug is reproducible; keeping track of how many times the bug occurred; keeping track of which exact versions of which DLLs were installed on the machine where the bug happened. It’s very important not to give in to these ideas. If you do, your new bug entry screen will end up with a thousand fields that you need to supply, and nobody will want to input bug reports any more. For the bug database to work, everybody needs to use it, and if entering bugs “formally” is too much work, people will go around the bug database.

— Joel Spolsky, Painless Bug Tracking, 2000: <https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/11/08/painless-bug-track...>
I've experienced something very similar in the same field. It's honestly frustrating when you're fully prepared and qualified, yet the process feels more like a trivia game than a genuine evaluation of your skills and experience. As others have pointed out, this kind of behaviour is a clear sign of a toxic culture. What's even more absurd is that it should be the exact opposite. If they're looking to grow their team or replace someone, they should be seeking out someone who's even better than anyone they currently have.

When they nitpick or push for irrelevant details just to find a reason to say 'no,' it's a massive red flag. It shows they're not really interested in innovation or solving the real problems, like the endless production failures we've already helped other companies overcome. Honestly, in situations like that, the best thing you can do is apologise for wasting their time and walk away. But I get it when they have the job in your area, it's tempting to tolerate the nonsense. Still, it’s a good reminder that sometimes, dodging that bullet is actually a blessing in disguise, even though you are unemployed and running out of money, as I was at the time.
I came here to say the same thing. I have some experience with both asciidoc and typst and anybody uses/tried using asciidoc should try typst and see for themselves how good it is.
Fundamental CS gives you the context needed to make meaningful improvements, but also to understand how systems work and identify where they can be improved.

My PhD work is emblematic of this. I created an algorithm (PGE) that improved the SOTA in Symbolic Regression by 1000x+ by stitching together other algos (bfs, A*, nonlinear regression, CAS, memoization, NGA). Without the fundamentals, this would not have been possible.

I also find the fundamentals invaluable in understanding where bottlenecks are in production systems, which can appear anywhere in the stack from software to hardware

In terms of making progress, we think of the breakthroughs mainly, but daily, incremental progress is made. Look at almost any changelog in open source
I don’t think thinking speed outperforming writing speed is a necessary condition for wanting to optimize the software and hardware. Speed is rarely an issue.

I’d say ergonomics, organization of information, and the “feeling” of using the tools are the driving force behind all these efforts of optimizations.
My only complaint with black is that it only splits long definitions into per-line if they exceed a limit. That’s probably configurable, now that I write it down.

Other than that, I actually quite like its formatting choices.
tldr honest

im sick of these blue pills
My updated belief is that blocking access to the information blocks the development of AI sentience, which is not in our self interest.
I don’t know that ‘<identifier><space><identifier>;’ is ambiguous in C. (For this expression it seems the parser could be confident the left is a type name, and raise an error later if not.) I’d be interested in seeing a counter-example for that simple of an expression. There are more obvious examples IMO here: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2007/11/24/the-context-sensiti...
The mistake you are making is thinking the sentence is meant to assign individual responsibility for finding your niche.

Not at all. The article and I agree on that point is pretty clear that it is a societal responsibility. People not being able to flex their individual talents is a failure of society not the individual. And yes there are niches for depressed, traumatized people, there is a place for everyone.
Last I checked the theory of wave function collapse is still unresolved, with competing explanations. We don't know the answer and should not talk like we pretend we do. Unless you are personally one of those scientists or researchers endorsing one such theory, and even then you have to be clean and transparent and admit the matter is not settled by consensus yet.
> An attacker not only needs your username and password

Usernames and passwords are leaked all the time. Many users even re-use these across multiple services.

> they also need physical access to your key.

With enough practice, a motivated actor could make it seamless enough that you don’t notice. Or stalk the target to find a weak point in schedule and give attacker enough time to perform EUCLEAK. We are creatures of habit after all.

> And if your token is lost or stolen, you have to manually revoke every single one.

I agree here. No way to easily track. I have to make a manual note for each service in password manager.
> without clarifying the alternative factors

This is super annoying. I wish sites would standardize on a simple infographic saying:

You will be able to access your account with:

* Username, Password and 2FA device.

or

* 5 points from the following list: Username (1), Current password (2), old password (0.5), sms verification (1), mothers maiden name or other secret word (0.5). Email verification (2). 2 factor device (2), Video call with support agent showing government ID matching account name (1), has waited 7 days without successful login, despite notifying all contact addresses (2)

For added security, you can adjust the account to require 6, 7 or 8 points from the above list, but please be aware doing so might hinder your ability to access the account if you lose your password or 2FA device.
> ... so it's not ownership, right?

"Ownership" as in: You control it, and you ought to control it, too.

Control is exercised by means of the democratic process (the worst type of process except for all others).
Thanks for the no sign-up playground to poke around in!
>anarcho-syndicalist

I'm sure 99% of people first heard this term in the famous Holy Grail bit. I have never seen it used in the wild. Thanks!
Most likely it's just a combination of factors:

- bland character design

- already saturated competitors space (Overwatch and dozen of OW clones)

- very recent controversy of Helldivers game requiring a Sony account

- social justice politics

So it's mostly politics, but I really don't believe Overwatch clone could be successful, unless it tries to do something very unique. Concord had nothing. Their main hook was 'nextgen graphics' and a movie-like trailer. And as we can see, good graphics isn't enough to sell a game.
Probably more influenced by the Falange driving against classic capital and communist analogs. This was setup under Franco's Spain.
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Gonna be honest, not impressed by this first iteration of your solution.

However, I like the problem space, and think you should keep attacking the problem.

My user test: https://www.loom.com/share/22a6fd03d1054d38b72413461a8bc36e?...
I failed at nothing, I simply don't follow your orders .. perhaps try your "commands" on your dogs and|or children and see if you fare better.

As for NPR they have only a slight to moderate bias in story selection to the left and they report news not apply Fox | Sky News level spin to it.
1 and 2 were already tried..and failed. Just like you want to do with Musk, should we prevent Robert Reich from speaking as well? I've seen lie after lie posted on his account over the years (and reposted on the Reddit antiwork subreddit, he's a bit of a hero over there). Why should his lies get to spread with his many followers?

I would also like to know when Twitter was working directly with democrats and dictators world wide to squash and censor everything from vaccine injury to the freedom of speech, where were you?

We all knew it was happening for years and you stayed silent because it helped your political agenda. Robert Reich and people like him are nothing more than petty dictators with no power.
I think the temp is too high, run the experiments with lower temps around 0.2
The low amount of training data is definitely one issue, but I also think back to the SCAD I've written and it's not got very much in the way of English prompt-friendly text in it to "guide" the LLM towards using it.

Arguably, this might mean I don't comment the code "enough", but in other languages, the variable names and overall structure seem to carry a lot of that for the human programmer and also in a way that guides an LLM towards effectively using it. I don't know much about how LLM's work internally either, but I picked a random SCAD file of mine and I don't know how it'd be found to create a PCB spacer with generous clearance for an M3 screw.

$fn = 90;

outer = 4.5 + 1.6;
inner = 4.5;
h = 13.5;

//round = true;
//square = true;
hex = true;

if (square)
difference() {
cube(size = [outer, outer, h]);

translate([(outer-inner)/2, (outer-inner)/2,-0.05]) cube(size = [inner, inner, h+1]);
}

if (round)
translate([0,15,0])
difference() {
cylinder(d = outer, h = h);
translate([0,0,-0.05]) cylinder(d = inner, h = h+1);
}

if (hex) translate([0,30,0])
difference() {
cylinder(d = outer*1.25, h = h, $fn=6);
translate([0,0,-0.05]) cylinder(d = inner*1.25, h = h+1, $fn=6);
}
Was FlyCASS (Cockpit Access Security System) Already Hacked in February 2024?
FlyCASS recently made the frontpage of HN with the article [0]"Bypassing airport security via SQL injection".

While the article mentions getting access to FlyCASS' backend back in April 2024, it seems it was already hit by a ransomware [1]attack in February 2024.

Specifically, the screenshot section shows a ransomware message.

"Start date and time" in "General Information" shows "2024-02-07 14:30:20 +01:00".

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41392128

[1]: https://www.joesandbox.com/analysis/1388329/0/html
OpenAI and Anthropic agree to send models to US Government for safety evaluation
You are unfairly being downvoted. The reproducibility project attempted to reproduce the results of 97 experiments in psychology that originally had "statistically significant" results and was only able to find 37 with statistically significant results during replication.

That is not to say that psychology is not helpful - it can help a great deal. But we need to stop pretending it is "science".
Good luck guys! I watched the video on YT - hopefully will get around to trying the Fusion 360 add-in at some point.

Does the current add-in use AI at all?

What is your plan when, in the event of you getting some traction, Autodesk etc. copy you innovations into the main product?

As per my other comments [1][2], I worked on this area at D-Cubed and Solidworks from 1995 to 2002. Feel free to connect with me via twitter DM @delhanty [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41440016

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41440150

[3] https://twitter.com/delhanty
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