skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In one of the detective stories my wife watches, one of the suspects was a kooky spiritual medium. "Don't you wonder what happens after death?" she asks the detective. The skeptical detective responds: "I know exactly what will happen after I die: I will go back to being what I was for millions of years before I was born."

We know exactly what happens after death: nothing. You cease to be as a living being. What we don't know, and can't ever know, is what it's like to not be. But every investigation so far has failed to produce evidence of a soul separate from the body, so until that changes we can assume such souls don't exist, and neither will we when our body dies.

Don't handwave it away with "we don't know how the mind really works". For all intents and purposes we do know. The mind working at all depends on the body working; once the latter stops, so does the former. We can't accept this because our mind, from our mind's perspective, is everything, but it is limited in space and time because it too is composed of matter and energy and one day, it will stop. That fills us with horror and dread, the idea of (from our tiny perspective) everything stopping, so we fight it. We make up stories about heavens and hells. Even in this era we fight it with hopes of becoming transfinite and infinite through technology. It's all hopium and copium, and incredibly dangerous. People like Elon Musk are now shooting giant penises into the sky, and planning to send actual humans on one-way missions to interplanetary hellscapes which should inspire visions of an angry Hayao Miyazaki saying "what you have done is an insult to life itself." Meanwhile we're neglecting the care of the only hospitable home we know we have, Earth.

Accept your fate. Live, as the fictional gorilla Ishmael put it, in the hands of the gods. Doing otherwise will doom us all, and a lot of other living things too.
KeyDB is awesome. Works great.
Unprecedented Bird Flu Levels Detected in Texas Wastewater: 'Concerning'
I haven't worked there but I would presume that systems running nuclear reactors or ICBM launchers have a strong emphasis on QC.
Lasers? Ah, one of the early lasers was He-Ne gas in a narrow tube, a radio transmitter antenna wrapped around the tube (or some such), and mirrors at both ends of the tube. So, photons would go back and forth between the mirrors, a tiny fraction would leak out of a mirror as the laser light, and the rest would stay in tube and help generate more photons from the radio and He-Ne interactions (laser, light amplification via stimulated emission of radiation).

So, right, just thinking from the OP, between mirrors there was some highly favorable line of amplification, and that line meant that the beam out of the laser would be an extension of that line and form a "narrow" beam!!!

Right, if use some voltage on some piezoelectric crystal to make tiny adjustments in the distance between the mirrors, then will make small changes in the frequency of the light, i.e., there is a highly favorable wavelength that fits a whole number of times between the mirrors or some such.

The changes in frequency of the light still have to correspond to the thermally moving gas atoms generating the light. Right, if have the favorable frequency in the middle of the feasable range, will get slightly less power in the beam, a dip, called the Lamb dip. Could that dip be used as a length standard? First job, worked on that, physicist, NIST, then the NBS, US National Bureau of Standards.

That is, at the end of the laser we have a tiny light source that puts out a very narrow beam. How? As above and not from antenna theory.
I knew city names were repeated in different US states, but they repeat even within a state?
Just ask chatgpt and you’ll get a script, probably makes some tests too if you ask for it.
right, but my point was that you should need to do detective work to figure out the date of a post, especially when the title refers to a transition in time from one era to another
Feature suggestion: a "my location" button on the map, so you can zoom in to your current location. There is a browser API [1] for this (which asks permission, or you can do it based on the IP address [2]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation...

[2] <shameless self-promotion> Geolocation provider comparison: https://resolve.rs/ip/geolocation.html </shame>
I'm sorry, but I don't understand how you could make an equality between "end of experience" and "fear of the unknown". The first is about valuing your life and not wanting for it to end. The second is about what comes after the end of life. I do not care about the second, but care about my current life a lot. If, for some unlikely but rhetorically valuable reason, my experience decides to NOT END after my body dies — great, more fun. I do not care about the political or religious debates, especially here, but it always seemed strange to me that people assume the fear of the unknown to be some universal factor.
"I saw a monkey in this guy's house, which made me think of black people. Therefore, he was racist".

Assigning your own biases to other people is a great way to lose friends and influence nobody.
“Stuck making obsolete parts” sounds great. Guaranteed revenue without needing to stay competitive.
The US does that! We have border control agents! They regularly apprehend migrants attempting illegal crossings.
Looks like even 80 years after the war, Germans haven't relinquished the city.¹

¹Stettin is an old German name for the city of Szczecin, which was taken from Germany and given to Poland to punish Germany and Poland² after the WW2.

²Poland lost 180k km² in the east, compared to 100k km² gained in the west.
> [...] voted in favor of the strike, some 96 percent — far more than the two-thirds needed to launch the work stoppage.

> The Biden administration was monitoring the situation; acting Labor Secretary Julie Su has been in contact with both sides.

If it's important enough for the whitehouse to get involved, then the union members have incredible leverage. It's telling that 96% voted against the deal. They know they can get a better one.
There's a program called bkcrack (<https://github.com/kimci86/bkcrack>) that can crack password-protected ZIPs.

An interesting use case is documented in a blog post where someone (the Cloudflare CTO) uses it to recover some otherwise lost source code for a DOS-era program used in South Africa to record encrypted messages to (audio) tape and play them over payphones. <https://blog.jgc.org/2024/09/cracking-old-zip-file-to-help-o...>
Do the defendants have the right and the opportunity to sue for legal fees and damages for having to fight this vexatious court case?
If anyone is seeking serious answers about the variables, the first bible is "Byrne's New Standard Book Of Pool And Billiards."

And it's not just the cloth and balls (rolling and static friction, dirt, ball elasticity...), it's also the rails, which rarely exhibit "angle of reflection == angle of incidence" due to more complexities.
This is great, it couldn't find my actual city, so i used the closest one that was available lol.
I think alphager is referring to the upper limits of AES before a birthday attack becomes a concern. In GCM mode there's a realistic chance of an IV being reused after around 64GB of data. Other modes have differing limits.
Using Raspberry Pi 5 as a desktop computer
Blame Facebook and Google for that. They became successful without QA engineers, so the rest of the industry decided to follow suit in an effort to stay modern.
I tried to add myself at Kraków, Poland. It said no such city. I tried also Krakow and Cracow spelling. Then when it accepted Kraków again (seemingly), and I posted, I ended up in... Murowana Goślina.
Had no idea it was in active development! I spent a weekend with Factor about two years ago and it was enlightening.
I don’t think I came across anyone suggesting zfs dedupe without insisting that it was effectively broken except for very specific workloads.
not working properly with firefox (131.0b3, raises a javascript + CORS error) -- https://i.imgur.com/k5CvHKt.png

works properly on chrome.
Another interesting variant of the problem is after each roll of the ball, the pins are reset to all be adjacent
Well, I signed up; hopefully someone from/visiting Thessaloniki will chime in so we can chat about common interests.
Too many BECs?
I am using perf. On Graviton, the event you want to look for is LLC-load-misses, which tracks last-level cache (LLC) misses (i.e., external memory accesses). The command "perf record -e LLC-load-misses -t $(pgrep valley-server)" will record the number of LLC misses per instruction during the execution of the valkey-server main thread. Please note that LLC-load-misses events are not collectable when running on instances that only use a subset of the processor's core. "perf list" provides the events that can be collected on your machine
Having worked within military and intelligence communities in the US, I'd say those metaphors demonstrate far greater clarity of thought than milspeak acronym-soup:

"SOF units in the AO must integrate C4ISR assets in CONOPs, synchronize with JOC and fuse MASINT into the COP, while EOD teams update TTPs for C-IED ops per JIEDDO, factoring IED TTPs observed in TICs, and G2 perform BDA utilizing IMINT to refine HVT targeting packages."
Yes, the alcoholic from their 20s to 80s (approx 1/2 a plastic bottle of vodka a day) was one of the least stressed people in the family. They were also the healthiest in their 90s compared to the smokers.
was thinking about the same related problem. sounds awfully similar to https://leetcode.com/problems/burst-balloons/description/
Plenty of European countries have conflicting city/town/village names as well. If they grow to large they are sometimes specified by adding more locality to their name.

Denmark has three cities names Nykøbing, typically specified as Nykøbing Mors, Nykøbing Sjælland or Nykøbing Falser. Small places are just allowed to conflict as long as they aren't in the same postcode.
While the lawsuit was insane, it serves a good reminder that when Bitcoiners proudly proclaim that “governments have no power over them”, it’s not quite that simple in lots of ways.

If the governments of the world really started to believe their fiscal powers or national currencies were threatened by crypto, they have an extensive repertoire of tools to shut it down.
It looks like the UK is considering perjury and I hope they follow through and are aggressive on it.

We can't have incentive structures where the upside is becoming fabulously rich but the downside is a slap on the wrist.
Irrational behavior goes well beyond clinical mental disorders. There are dozens of known biases and heuristics that we all follow every day that are irrational. There's a big difference between disproportionately attributing blame and a mental disorder like Stockholm syndrome. Just look at any news post here and watch people make wild accusations against all parties involved based on a 500 word synopsis of an otherwise complicated incident that is still under investigation. It happens constantly.
And how many _actually_ believe it? They may try to believe or hope but their behavior suggests the majority of the believers are not so sure after all.
So how does this work? Is it the same as the kind of phase cancellation that you often see with two speakers playing the same tone, but just with lots of elements (and an ultrasonic source)?
Cocaine is a cardiovascular workout in of itself.
The Principle of Charity would suggest that the grandparent comment was not trying to control for age differences, but was sharing an anecdote that many folks in the grandparent’s neighborhood were of similar age, leading to a hypothesis, and draw what conclusions you will.

I interpreted that to mean, walk more floors, get more exercise, live longer, which aligns with conventional scientific wisdom.
Who in their right mind would use linked lists in linux kernel... hehe
How about a way to do this without sharing your username? I feel like many people want to keep their online profiles private.
I spent a couple of weeks getting into Factor in 2022 and it was the most fun I’ve had programming, probably ever. Language itself aside, the dev environment and process of writing Factor is just delightful.
Not really that useful if I can't sort based on last publication, nor see how many episodes a given podcast has published when searching.
iPhone 16's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip
At some point you need to be pragmatic about minuscule concessions for a net positive action. Otherwise you would be unable to do anything at all.
The first part of Metaphors We Live By is fascinating. It describes how so much of language is made of dead metaphors. But then you get to stuff like:

> We often frame arguments using the metaphor of war and that frames how we think. The other party is an enemy that must be defeated, its bloody, and there is a loser. However we could frame it as a dance, in which case they are a partner, and for the outcome to succeed they must move together in harmony.

That's just silly. The reason arguments are described metaphorically as wars is because arguments and wars serve the same function: they occur when we disagree about something and are means of settling the disagreement. Dances, meanwhile, have nothing to do with disagreement and they don't settle anything.
No, I answered you an hour ago. Where are you getting your information?
Surely waterproof headphones would be far easier and sound far better
If you don't think the original article was appropriate, flag it. But don't stoop to its level.
SQLite to Postgres (Pgloader)
He also started and made himself CEO of at least 3 cryptocurrency startups. One of those startups (nChain) tried extract patent licensing fees from other cryptocurrency players.
Terence Tao on O1
Done.

I'm in Dubai.
>credible accounts that the entire bruhaha we've been living through since the early 2010s might have been stopped if OP had just put his foot down

Hold on, Charlie Stross specifically? Is he that influential?
I'm beginning to suspect natural languages have some additional properties.
> Fast fashion is bad for the environment.

I don't disagree with this, but I feel it's mostly to do with the volume and consumer demand (by the shopper types) rather than quality.

> It’s lower than quality in most cases. Fast fashion is about shopping for entertainment, and that means it needs to be cheap with a lot of variety. The planned obsolesce is a core part of it.

Quality-wise, not necessarily true -- depends on the purveyors. Yes, Zara (Spanish) and H&M (Swedish) are generally lower quality (Zara is hit or miss, H&M is uniformly lower quality), but Uniqlo (Japanese) clothing are decently high quality and cost slightly more. Most Uniqlo clothing I own have lasted years. The MTBF is about 5-6 years.

It's a bit like saying IKEA is fast-furniture. Yes, people have made fun of IKEA being a vendor of low quality particle board furniture, but my IKEA bookcases have survived > 5 cross-country moves over the last 24 years.
We are talking about it aren't we?
A simple but safe deploy script (2021)
What defines an "ultra-processed" food?

Also, there are some amazing pictures in this article.
A bit tangent but for me the biggest improvement in concentration I ever experienced came with nutritional ketosis. I can easily enter a flow state and work on the same problem for hours without any effort since I've been fat adapted. It's amazing.
It's interesting to know what that person is up to (from what they publically share online).
You can also remotely remove the iCloud lock, even without performing 2fa (not exactly sure how it is secured then, but it worked)
Are you implying you believe the US southern border is open?
Naively, doesn’t it seem likely that pancakes and panquecas are unrelated “false friends”?

Pancakes are “cakes” made in a pan. It’s not a Latin-derived word, so the only way they could be related is if panquecas is a loan word that took on a life if its own.

The simpler explanation is that pan means bread, -quecas definitely doesn’t mean cakes, and the foods are so different because the words are unrelated coincidental soundalikes.
Pentagon readies for 6G, the next of wave of wireless network tech
In the US there are technical high schools in many states. Not sure exactly what the curriculum looks like. I'm sure it involves programming but probably not CS topics.
I have a friend who built one of these as their thesis. IIRC they were telling me that the air through which the sound beam propagates acts as a low pass filter, so if you're at the correct distance from the device the high frequency energy should have dissipated.

Interesting stuff, I wish I had more time to learn about what they where doing.
What these results tell me is that it is probably possible
for users to modify their slicer settings to get similar performance.

It took an LLM to notice that 170k lines of G-code was probably not typed in by hand?

Despite numerous tries, I couldn't get an answer about what slicer
settings to change to get the G-code I produced using their slicer
to perform as well as the G-code generated using their slicer.

Did the paragraph where the LLM identified those settings get lost on the editing-room floor?
Since your attempt at improving the definition of hypermedia controls fails to actually mention hypermedia controls at all, I’m going to suggest that it is not in fact an improved definition.
One way to see a negotiation is as a war, another way to see a negotiation is as a dance.
Show HN: Tipsy simulated tic tac toe
Wanted to try out Cursor and was inspired by a recent podcast by Greg Isenberg/Jason Fried to make "weird" tech experiences.

Fun little
Cannabis use falls among US teenagers but rises among everyone else – study
> the problem that if nothing follows death, then this would also mean the end of the universe

No.
Outside the US, it's somewhat less common for units of government with the power to levy fines to be anywhere near that small. In the UK, "safety camera" income goes to national (Westminster, Scottish, NI) government, not local government. And to the general fund, not to any road- or policing-specific department.
This is a distinction without a difference. It's not like you can take your Android hardware and move to a different software supplier. You're stuck with whatever your OEM chooses to do or not do.

It's also something you don't necessarily have knowledge of when you purchase a phone.

It's one reason why people (myself include) prefer Apple. You know you're going to get 4-5+ years of updates.
Cool idea!

Location must be pre-defined (country, state/province, city) and should not be entered by aspiring HN community members.

I don't want to read the whole code to understand why the generated text is pasted in the HN description, or is it just a marketing tactic?
Our ambitious and boundary pushing Gor, their degenerate Omegaverse
Paying too much attention to words and meanings is one of the most unhealthy things in today's society. It erodes culture, obscures what we are as humans. The sooner we'll overcome this situation, the better.
downvoted, really? HN'ers not into thinking these days?
Spamstrike to block incessant political texts
My friends made this, seems cool
Similar to the parent, I associate x urls with an increasingly unwelcome retail district.

I don't think it's petty, goofy or unproductive to feel uneasy in a once-open place that put up walls, gates and signal-heavy signage.

But even before our present-day Compoundia, Twitter was losing it's way. Prioritizing engagement over users is a bad road.
Might want to re-read your initial comment, then.
You forgot to point out all those "footguns" you avoided by writing in Python rather than bash...
Samsung India strike puts spotlight on powerful Indian labour group
Is this basically, how to do GUI's with functional programming. And someone saw the light and it is now the future?

People are always getting hung up on the "how to make a GUI if variables are immutable??".

It takes a bit of getting used to, but once over the hump, it seems like GUI's are easier.

See typescript, or fabulous, F#, elm, etc...
I was thinking about how the air itself must be contributing to the construction of the (standing?) sound wave as a resonator.
Seems like an obscene amount of computing power for a phone. Who is pushing their phone that hard? Majority of people just want to send/receive texts and scroll through Instagram.
I just came back from Rustconf and it seems there’s about five or so major OS releases, particularly focused around real time. Not all are open source though.
>It sure is a shame that we can’t do more with this power. I think it’d be really cool to be able to plug in your iPhone to an external USB-C monitor and run Stage Manager with an external mouse and keyboard. Maybe one year.

To dissipate heat you need volume/mass to soak it and surface area to dissipate it. Phones will never have the volume/mass or surface area to compete with normal size computers.
Consumer costs would not go up 10x to put more care into ensuring the continuous operation of critical IT infrastructure. Things like "an update to the software or configuration of critical systems must first be performed on a test system".
This is just embarrassing on multiple counts. No equipment from adversary countries should be allowed in American infrastructure. I wonder what sort of attacks are possible using such a modem, but maybe it doesn’t matter - they may find creative ways to disrupt operations like disabling the crane remotely.

It’s interesting to see the tactics used by the crane manufacturer, ZPMC, to pressure port customers into accepting modems and arbitrary remote access, as detailed on page 29 (different prices, warranty issues). Also interesting is page 30, which highlights issues with using companies that we might normally trust, like ABB from Germany, because they in turn have a partnership with the offending Chinese company, ZPMC.

What I’m taking away is that we have been complacent in managing risks from countries like China, and need to take an aggressive security minded approach to managing possible vulnerabilities and attacks.
The URL to Fielding's "REST APIs must be hypertext-driven" blog post (ref #20) is messed up. The actual URL is <https://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypert...>, but it links instead (for the second time) to <https://www.w3.org/2011/10/integration-workshop/p/hypermedia...> (which is ref #1, Mike Amundsen's "Hypermedia-Oriented Design" document).

Also, where's the source repo (for the paper)?
That document doesn’t seem to compare things to national rates, but to my knowledge the NYC life expectancy is above NY state’s, which itself is significantly above the national average. The densest parts of Manhattan, which also have some of the most air pollution (but high incomes) have the highest life expectancies.

With a brief googling it looks like cancer incidence is in line with national averages, but mortality is lower. Significant racial and socioeconomic disparities impact both averages.
As far as I understand yes, I would also guess that it is analogous to a phased array antenna, but with sound waves
LLM / Extracting objects from pictures / Generating pictures
One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Excel (2016)
> At the same time, those same people will advocate dodging accountability for business owners.

I don't think this is true at all.
Placenta is also very nutritive.
I've seen this happen to a friend. Back in the noughties they built a home NAS similar to the one in the article, using fewer (smaller) drives. It was in RAID5 configuration. It lasted until one drive died and a second followed it during the rebuild. Granted, it wasn't using ZFS, there was no regular scrubbing, 00s drive failure rates were probably different, and they didn't power it down when not using it. The point is the correlated failure, not the precise cause.

Usual disclaimers, n=1, rando on the internet, etc.
I thought Fury Road and Furiosa are a "re-imagining" of the universe.
These people will be fine with regular iphone 16.