skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Cronopios and Famas", by Julio Cortázar - I read it for the first time when I was about 13 and for many years I reread at least once per year;

"Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (Robert M. Pirsig)

"The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea" (Yukio Mishima)

"The Yage Letters" (William Burroughs)

"The Old Ways" (Gary Snyder)

"Life and Death (Elementary Go Series #4)", by James Davies. Really - I studied that one very seriously.

Note: I answered just the "What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?" part, and I ignored that you are building a library for your children and asking for recommendations...
The biggest problem with this is that it doesn't work every time in real life. Sometimes you just have a table with one short leg.
Kagi didn't make it explicit, but based on what they wrote I think they API call Google and other search engines to show as part of their results.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
Indeed, banning is far worse.
Then I don't understand why they stopped before they even released a second gen, and instead went for nebulous promises of falcon shores, weird archs or maybe some sprinkled Gaudi, or maybe something in some 'soon' future. The Arc boards weren't bad and at least you could start porting to SYCL/oneapi for a good reason (aka there's hardware available...).
Nothing tells you that, of course.
It's very, very unclear to me what would happen to TSMC's American operations if China invades/seizes/blockades Taiwan.

How independent would TSMC's American foundries be if cut off and forced to operate autonomously if US/China war breaks out?

I am sure that the goal is full independence but I have no idea what the current state of that is, what the state of it will be in 5-10 years etc.
The headline reads: "... Won’t Survive Much Longer".

Later, the article goes: "Sadly, though, this feline paradise won’t be around as a tourist destination for much longer."

So no, I'm misinterpreting nothing. The article implies the cats going extinct is a bad thing.

No doubt something perhaps got lost in translation and then further got sensationalized for clicks, but as presented I am left wondering who left their common sense by their front door before going out to work.
To be fair, that situation is an extreme outlier even by most pre-modern warfare standards. Exceptions don't prove rules, but they sure highlight the common case.
> This context does indeed matter a lot. Hard to lock out competition when your competition is 8x the market share.

If you're a new company and lack any monopoly power to abuse, I don't see the issue. I wouldn't mind hearing alternative strategies to compete.
You don't want to see any rust in a brand new car.
They are, in fact, blocked.
> an EV is 90% efficient

An EV is 85-90% efficient with power coming out of the batteries. However, the charging efficiency of the batteries is at about 80%. So the overall efficiency is 80% of 90%, or 72%.
Explore books that are loved by readers
Running the Intel VTune Profiler on Fedora
What if the client just reads from every server and compares the timestamps?
Not really. Both are all over because they address vastly different (literally incompatible) needs.

There is a fair bit of industry hype in the past decade or so around eventually consistent systems, because a lot of components of a business can use them, and that opens up a lot of extremely desirable performance options that can be fine tuned to the moon. But they're a real nightmare to use (i.e. often literally impossible) for anything that needs to be correct, so they are often just used in addition to the more classical consistency-oriented databases like postgres.
Note that what Ferrocene is currently offering is a toolchain. Things like core and std are not part of the current certification package. It's an incredibly exciting offering, but it's not quite ready to ship today. The fact that the certified toolchain is just the normal, publicly available one is great too.
100%? Does that apply to other things that needed government intervention, like child labor, company towns, etc?

I don't see a problem with making rules for companies to follow. We have a rules that say companies can't advertise nicotine to children or put lead in gasoline. If the rule is good, it should be around.
> further tooling.

Just a heads up, Rust does have further tooling. I wish they were more widely used

Here are three of them

https://github.com/creusot-rs/creusot

https://viperproject.github.io/prusti-dev/user-guide/

https://model-checking.github.io/kani/
That kind of motivated reasoning is pretty common in history and today. Look at the Salem witch trials, how Jews have been scapegoated throughout history, etc.
Are you still using Copilot? I cancelled my subscription for Cursor.
> Well, lets just say this guy does not understand what is happening in the book. "When Hermione DIES Hariezer does nothing, and a few weeks later Voldemort brings her back." - in the book Harry steals Hermione's body from under the nose of all wizards, and keeps it hidden and frozen for a future revival, etc.

The reviewer predicted that this is exactly what Harry did when he got to Hermione's body disappearing.

I think you've cherry-picked a misleading quote - the reviewer at that point is pointing out that Harry is not changing his primary focus to actually be solving death, just ranting about how terrible it is.

If Harry were being rational and focusing on the problem, as the reviewer points out, he might conceivably investigate the relevant prior art and research from the wizarding community, like Death's Door and the Philosopher's Stone.

Yes, he steals a body to preserve against the day someone does beat death, but he doesn't actually reorient to trying to fix it himself, is the reviewer's claim.

That fits with my vague recollections of slogging through a big chunk of it, but it was probably seven years ago, so I could be way off.

> Also many of the things that "do not make sense" are actually from the canon, and EY is making fun of their absurdity.

As one who read the original series multiple times, I'm pretty confident none of the things that reviewer calls out as nonsensical are from the original series.
NaturalAgents: Creating agents with natural language prompts
Same fond memories about LHX and F117A. While searching, I was shocked how much my recollection of that experience vastly differed from its actual graphics: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/lhx-attack-chopper-xo#scr...

I don't recall having played Comanche in order to compare the two. The other game I spent innumerable hours in was F117A [1] - partially because -- again, my recollection -- one had to damn near real-time fly from the base to the target and then back, all the while in stealth mode, which usually meant going slow and terrain hugging

1: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/f-117a-nighthawk-stealth-...
I'm tempted to make office space jokes, but this has the potential to be far too destructive. Besides the possible direct devastation, the whole state could be affected by further disruption to the state insurance market.
The fact that recent engagements have been within easy drone range is an accident of geography. The same situation won't necessarily obtain in the Western Pacific. The quantity of drones you can produce won't matter if the launching platform can't survive long enough to get within range of the target.
And that's how you later get taken advantage of and how Amazon starts to be as bad as Comcast's customer service. But you can't leave because competition is gone.

You don't have to care per se, that's what the government is for. But taking the time and energy to argue against your long term best interests is disappointing.
Google Confirms New Quantum Encryption for Chrome Is Coming November 6
C++20 coroutines without heap allocation
Managed decline.

Artificially high population of cats. Almost no human population to feed them.

They performed non lethal surgery on them so there wouldn’t be a population of cats dying of starvation when the last residents pass.
It wouldn't have cost hardly anything to have a pipe so the hydrogen could vent outside rather than inside, which resulted in a detonation.
+ being early on capacitive touchscreens and multi-touch
You're probably right about that. It seems to be a misunderstanding of words mostly in online discussion.
I’ve read a suggestion to use prime numbers for retry timers to reduce the chance of multiple timers synchronizing if they have common factors. I don’t know if that’s a real concern, but it wouldn’t hurt to pick a random prime number instead of some other random number.
Not disagreeing with your overall point, but JS can also do it more succintly:

[1,2,3,4].reduce((a,b) => Math.max(a,b),100)
// or
Math.max(...[1,2,3,4])
Yes, I also played a ton of F117A. The terrible graphics were actually what let me run it and LHX, I had an anemic 386. I only got to play Comanche at my uncle's house. LHX actually looks exactly as I remember it. I remember those blocky polygons very fondly.
I was thinking more just use a third party service like GOG. But, yeah, I guess you could write your own.
Iiuc I think it does work, but the only guarantee is the table will be stable. It very likely will not be _level_
This article is trying so hard to make an ideological point (out of a survey answer on library bathroom use, mind you) from the simple statistical fact that rural areas are more heavily conservative and traditionally Christian. No, there is no moral, political, or otherwise superiority inherent from using a public library.

As someone who grew up in a rural area (and made extensive use of the local public library), I find some of these claims questionable, if not absurd.

> Apparently, retirement-age folks and Republicans are the least likely to use the library “facilities.”

In my experience, public libraries in rural communities serve as secondary senior centers, offering book clubs and fitness classes for retired adults. Kids and seniors make up the bulk of library patronage as far as I knew, with the runner up being...

> One thing that doesn’t seem to drive most people to libraries? Financial hardship.

Right behind seniors and kids, homeless people are the next big group of library patrons in my town. I think what the author is insinuating with this point is more of a post hoc ergo propter hoc argument.

> Rural libraries and bookmobiles are doing secular-saintly work out there with limited budgets ... [but they] simply can’t provide the exhaustive collection and endless and esoteric services you’ll find at the New York Public Library

That I would agree with, and I think drives the whole divide the title is referring to. I personally spent many, many hours at the public libraries in the counties where I grew up. But by my Junior year of high school, I had pretty much outgrown my public library. All the Dewey decimal blocks that interested me I had already read. Thankfully, the college libraries were nearby and allowed community (non-student) access, so I began spending my time there, instead. To this day, I spend more time in, and check out more materials from college libraries than public libraries. It would be interesting to take any of the analyses presented in this article and see how well they hold up against college library patrons.

Anyway, misleading title thanks to statistical fallacies. Rant mode off.
edit my comments seem insensitive given the reply. I'm sorry for your loss, I'll just delete this.
Some Notes on Upgrading Hugo
Ah. I took it from an online article about names with connotations of surprise. I thought they might know what they were talking about.
The article mentions a few times that Rust is a good choice because the code is NOT safety critical.

Is that because the safety critical code requires the compiler/libraries/etc. to have some certification Rust currently lacks?

If not I don’t understand why it’s phrased that way.
I would be surprised if we didn't eventually see something like you describe. I could see it protecting bases, trenches, encampments, etc.

But I think an open question is if it could be made portable enough to tote around on the battlefield.
On the financial level, the state might be too much risk. Personally I would consider if I really needed to have anything to do with Florida at all. If you think that makes sense, consider getting everything out before it gets priced in (because I'm pretty sure it's distorted right now).
At the risk of being off-topic for an article about helicopters, I will never stop loving the A-10 -- brrrrrt for life
Both cases occur in industry. The parts that only go through additional testing (radiation lot acceptance testing aka RLAT) are commonly sold as “radiation tolerant”. Parts that undergo hardening via design/manufacturing changes are often branded “radiation hardened”. In either case though, the available part portfolio is much smaller than commercial. Further increasing cost is that these parts are often geared for military/aerospace so have expanded temperature ranges, stricter qc, weird package types, etc.
> This is a valid use as any of that archived data.

No, it's really not, as most of the people who actually spend the time and effort to produce that content did not consent to it being used to train AI.

> copyright & capitalism

That's a really disingenuous way to say "the creators of that data didn't consent to training or commercial use and I want to steal their effort".
Note: This is really the wobbly floor theorem. It applies to any continuous floor but only to a subset of tables. (Even "square tables which are perfectly level" isn't sufficient unless you allow the tabletop to intersect the floor.)
The author being sad about it doesn't necessarily mean anyone else is.
> The data also includes a “limited number” of Social Security numbers and government identification documents, such as driver’s licenses [...]

> MoneyGram said the types of stolen data will vary by individual.
MoneyGram said that the stolen data also included transaction information, such as dates and amounts of transactions, and, “for a limited number of consumers, criminal investigation information (such as fraud).”

What is this "limited number" weasel word crap? This conveys no information. What's the limit, then? "Limited" could mean anything. It could be "limited" to 100 million for all anyone knows. Why not say the actual number or order of magnitude? It must be damning...
I think a properly modular system, similar to the ATX computer case, would be a practical 50 year computer, even if no single part lasts that long.

The ATX motherboard form factor was developed in 1995 by Intel. Today motherboards are still made by AMD and Intel that meet that size. Previous attempts to make a modular cell phone by Google's Project Ara ended in 2017.

https://hackaday.io/project/177716-the-femtotx-motherboard-s... If a system reuses even 10%, that still reduces the waste that goes into manufacturing a new replacement, such as a system fan or chassis.
The US encourages the speculation as a matter of doctrine.

That said, anyone familiar with the tech knows that it doesn’t work the way it would have to work for it to be jammable in the way assumed, as a matter of public record. A classic example is the amount of people and media that asserts the US has GPS-guided weapons. The US has never had GPS-guided anything, it was defeatable by design.
Counterexample: Perfectly level floor, one table leg is 10 cm shorter than the rest. No way to make it stable.
Airplanes can do over the horizon missions.

Battleships aren’t useful for that.

Missile cruisers/destroyers are the battleship replacements.

But airplanes can also carry and launch missiles even better, with some warning and planning.

Battleships are useful for the naval equivalent of a bar brawl or a street gang fight. Aka up close, nasty, ‘punch them in the face until they can’t get up again’. They’re the equivalent of Mike Tyson in his prime for that.

Which even now would have some PR value, and no matter the time period will always be a spectacle.

But tactics have evolved more since then, and we just don’t have those type of fights that much anymore. And when we do, we just bring a ‘gun’ instead of relying on our ‘fists’.

Of course, anything is possible and maybe we’ll turn New Jersey into a spaceship to fight our space naval battles in a hundred years. Odds are low though.
Probably what they wanted ?

Cats are often a menace to remaining wildlife (see Oatmeal); and their urine/feces smells so horrible to the point that regular cleaning becomes necessary.
Interesting choice of music for Harvard!
Are you sure? It seems that the obvious way for drones to "occupy" land is to embed an IFF transponder in every human that is authorized to be in the area, and then program your drone swarm to kill every living thing that is not identified as friendly. The reason this hasn't happened yet is that nobody ruthless enough has yet gained control of a drone swarm. But this is a social, not technical obstacle, and one that is disturbingly likely to fall in the next decade.
Josh Snyder wrote a nice rant a while ago about updating Hugo. https://commaok.xyz/post/on_hugo/
Probably all gone, with that many cats.
China and France didn't formally sign the Budapest Memorandum. They made separate statements generally in support but aren't obligated to take any real action.

https://warontherocks.com/2015/06/the-budapest-memorandum-an...
As someone who put his mother to rest last December, someone dying is a "good thing"?

I think I can gather what you're trying to say, but what the sincere fuck my dude.

EDIT Note to other readers: Clearly there was no ill intent, the comment was retracted and amends have been made. I'll leave my reply in place for some context, but let us speak no further upon this.
Yes, that's the reason. Certification requirements usually force you to use some ancient niche toolchain.
The clade has been expanded well beyond its literal, historic, or popular understanding.

Which is why the popular science article is confused, because the articles point is actually more correct from a popular point of view, while being at odds with the technical (but weird) newer definition.

Because the ‘terrible lizards’ DID go extinct at the end of the Cretaceous, and what ended up evolving from their not really terrible, and not really land bound brethren at the time, while still with us, weren’t generally what any reasonable person would call a Terrible Lizard.

The taxonomy argument is a technical one that for the most part only interests people whose sole job is arguing about taxonomy. Which is a thing, but c’mon.

Which is why stuff like this exists and isn’t really wrong. [https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/when-did-dinosaurs-become-extinct]. Because 99.99% of people looking for Dinosaur Bones are going to be really really confused if you hand them some chicken drumsticks. Even if technically it is correct.
This is trivial but the problem is that especially consistency is not a binary choice. Heck even non distributed systems can give you varying consistency guarantees it's the whole point of isolation levels of most RDBMS.

It's good to visualize that there is a trade off to be made. However that trade off does not have to be binary. You can get a bit more consistency for a little less partition tolerance or availability. All of Designing data intensive applications is about those trade offs.
All I see, usually, is some AI YOLO algorithm applied to an offline video.

This is the first time that I've seen a "complete" setup. Any info to learn more on applying YOLO and similar models to real time streams (whatever the format)?
Simple answer: Jail

Any company that accesses/uses Personally Identifiable Information (PII) must register a “PII Czar” with the proper authorities. That person (or persons, depending on the size/scope of the PII data) can be held criminally liable in the event of a data breach.

If a jury finds that the PII Czar enacted the correct policies/procedures & took the right precautions, a jury could find them innocent. But if there was willful or negligent handling at the company, the PII Czar goes to jail.

In the US, one of the big lies told at the corporate level is that no one ever sees jail time because the regulators are too underfunded in comparison with large companies. What’s necessary is clear personal ownership of PII and criminal liability in the event of a data breach.
What I learned recently is the way Python strptime deals with this. It only parses the current time zone or "GMT" or "UTC" and all have the same effect (of returning a tz-naive object). This behavior is amazing because I don't think it's ever what you want.

$ TZ=Asia/Shanghai python -c "import datetime; print(datetime.datetime.strptime('4CST', '%H%Z').astimezone(datetime.timezone.utc))"

1899-12-31 19:54:17+00:00

$ TZ=America/Chicago python -c "import datetime; print(datetime.datetime.strptime('4CST', '%H%Z').astimezone(datetime.timezone.utc))"

1900-01-01 10:00:00+00:00

$ TZ=America/Havana python -c "import datetime; print(datetime.datetime.strptime('4CST', '%H%Z').astimezone(datetime.timezone.utc))"

1900-01-01 09:29:36+00:00

$ TZ=America/Havana python -c "import datetime; print(datetime.datetime.strptime('4CDT', '%H%Z').astimezone(datetime.timezone.utc))"

1900-01-01 09:29:36+00:00

$ TZ=America/Los_Angeles python -c "import datetime; print(datetime.datetime.strptime('4CST', '%H%Z').astimezone(datetime.timezone.utc))"

ValueError: time data '4CST' does not match format '%H%Z'

That last error was real fun to debug when something worked in production but not locally.
i wonder if this is better than just letting them go feral.since its an island you could argue you could make an ecosytem by putting some sort of plant eater that the cats can go after.
Unpoly: A Batteries Included Htmx
I see a lot of discussion on HN about HTMX. One of the, IMO, fair criticisms of HTMX is that it's a bit low level and misses some of the features included by JS frameworks.

Unpoly is better in that respect as it has higher level abstractions that are really nice to have for the typical HTMX user. I particularly appreciate built-in layers for sub interactions, animations, and form helpers.
> I think his use of "it has been argued", "have been credited to", and "purportedly" in this context are not weaselly, and are fine in reference to unsubstantiated arguments that people have made.

No, it IS weaselly. Unless there is any substance to the argument at all, it's like saying "it has been argued that the earth is flat."

Maybe say "it has been argued without evidence" like journalists do /s
or there might not be any native species on there.
Ok but your favourite book?
> PE firm pushing them much faster towards bankruptcy

the PE firm pushing them to do something drastic, but low chance of success, in the hopes of turning the fortunes around.

And there's nothing wrong with that imho - if it was going down, might as well chance a lottery ticket. The people who lose money are the PE investors, who knew the risk coming in.
Original author here. Actually, this was on Debian testing, so maybe x32 was disabled not that long ago?

A 20% penalty sounds insane, but I can very well believe it. What benchmarks did you run?
Thanks. I figured that was the most likely.

Is that being worked on? Rust seems like a much better choice than C or C++ to me.
The page title is: Progressive enhancement for HTML, can you update your submission? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When I see a Rust post, I don't buy into the hype. It's usually compared with raw C, even C++. This is not a good comparison IMHO, since C/C++ has too many footguns/confusions.

Instead, compare it to a nicer/stricter "C" equivalent like Zig. Now, Rust doesn't shine as much.