skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like most of the problems with abortions are seeking one when you want one and don’t need one and also live in a state that outlaws them. In fact recently I read an article where the Drs refused a medically necessary abortion and even the judge said they were cleared given the situation.

when will people stop being controlling and learn there’s two sides to this?
The Starliner program is a painfully unprofitable fixed-price contract with NASA. Which is a relatively minor Boeing customer.

Vs. the X-37B program is likely to be a highly profitable cost-plus contract with the Pentagon. Which is a far bigger Boeing customer.

I'd figure that Boeing has kept its eyes on the bottom lines when assigning people and resources to the two programs.
Red wine and tapas instead of the religion of peace?
Yeah, CPS is best used as an implementation technique, which is how it's used here. I think they even use it to build a stream-like API for their "operations".
I strongly recommend Acemoglu, Robinson classic book "Why Nations Fail"

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity/d...

It's very accessible, no economics background required. Along with Krugman and Kahneman, one of the few economics scholars that take the time to write a book for layman.
AI Art Turing Test
Building a web app with rocket is like using a fine BMW to go on highway. It just feels right- I love Guards and what not he added in his framework ; absolutely refreshing work !
> _,$ are sometimes injected as a general-utility global variable in languages with deficient standard libraries

I would say that underscore is used as convention. There are languages where the underscore is either tool supported or language reserved for this purpose broadly or in limited context (lambdas). Languages that use underscore for ignored values include Java, Erlang, Python, Scala, Clojure, F#, SML, Swift, et al.
Eaze shuts down, lays off 500 workers
I meditate a good bit, an hour a day, and it doesn't stop thoughts arising, so I've had some time to think about this.

My guess is, it's just an evolutionarily useful thing, for your brain to keep pinging you about various things.

It doesn't mean of course that meditation is not useful. But you want to have control over these thoughts. Without a meditative practice, it's all too easy to allow your consciousness to be consumed by these impulses (which can lead you astray).
I saw another commenter explain that it’s passed by reference, but I agree with you. The C++ Core Guidelines even mention that it’s better to use raw pointers (or pass by value and return a value) in cases like this to make the intent clear.

https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/references#call-by-reference
Why didn't they move to MariaDB instead? A faster than MySQL 8 drop-in replacement.
Have you heard of something called climate change ?
> sprinkles of vanila.js work just fine.

Bullshit. jQuery as a library didn't inherently cause spaghetti code, it was predominantly just used as a cross-browser selector function and some standard library augmentation/fixes before JS itself caught up. Sprinkles of progressive enhancement jQuery were exactly the problem that caused frameworks to be created. Sprinkles of vanilla JS lead to the exact same outcome, minus a jQuery library load.
70 Years Ago, Roald Dahl Predicted the Rise of ChatGPT (2023)
There are 50 images so takes about 25-30 mins to judge.

Some classifications will be obvious, some look like it's impossible to tell.
If there are large amounts of Indian English in an LLM's training data, it stands to reason the LLM output will be very similar to Indian English, no?
Even if you start a non serious project that can evolve and become something that all the sudden takes more time and emotional burden than expected.
That’s what grandparents are for. Or at least were, in the past.
i don't know, i don't work there. i'm just somebody who almost died because one of their drivers was a terrible driver. that sounds like a problem they should figure out. dude didn't even know how to change a tire, so start with "basic knowledge of car maintenance." and a basic ability to speak english would be a good bar to meet, too. they'll let anybody with a driver's license, car, and a heart beat drive on that app. there should be a higher barrier of entry. but idk, i don't work there. this is just my experience as consumer.

also, the US should be wayyyyy stricter on who we issue drivers license to. so many terrible drivers on the road driving these death machines.
I think being able to do that is itself a skill we might be able to teach with the right data.

Also, the training data I mentioned could be produced partly by programs that generate such examples. The templates for them could be made from human exercises. There’s already tools that generate test data from grammars or algebraic rules. Maybe encode which math problems can be mixed together using those.
Not exactly a stylistic difference but there are real differences in the dialects. Here's example from many moons ago: "Even I think that's a bad idea." That was an Indian colleague. It took me weeks to figure out that he was using "even" in place of "also."

In a like vein when Australians say "goodeye" they usually aren't talking about your vision.
Well deserved. Acemoglu is the economist everyone respects.

Very technical, but not for the sake of mathiness. His models have a meaning. They clarify thought and ideas. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l9Or8EMAAAAJ&hl=en
https://youtu.be/eXsT2HT171o?si=gUmdFvU4l-9ZiWrv&t=4237
The problem I have with the argument is that "improvement" needs to be something objective and measurable. "I'm throwing away old code because eww" isn't improvement. The two examples cited are very telling:

> Consider cases like introducing Kotlin to gradually level-up a Java shop.

But why? Introducing a second language to do pretty much the same thing is a giant leap in complexity and it's not obvious we'd get something real in return.

> What about a PostgreSQL operation rewriting SQL stored procedures in PL/Python?

Yet again, why? SQL is popular and very well understood, the alternative solution would be less portable and a rewrite would introduce unnecessary risk.
By launching the orbiter with a weapon, would it not be breaking said treaty?
This was written beautifully. I needed to read something like this in a moment of pain I am going through. Thank you.
Because the authors are likely non native English speakers. I'm one myself and it is hard to write for a primarily native English speaking audience without linguistic artifacts that give you away, or worse, are ridiculed for.
No probably about it. The schools are (were? I'm seeing a lot of school districts near me banning phones) trying to reduce friction with (troublesome) parents who demanded 24/7 direct communication and surveillance.
MDN: German locale powered by GPT-4o – Public Preview
Who Is That You Are Chatting With? Oh, Just ChatGPT
Voice AI is eating the world.

https://voice.canonical.chat/
It would be for indefensible decapitation strikes. A world leader who would launch a surprise first strike is almost certainly narcissistic enough to be susceptible to blackmail by a threat on their own life. A world leader who is not concerned with their own life but that of their countrymen will likely not launch a surprise first strike and so MAD still works.
I'm not entirely following your argument. If your point is that it's a "single word", that doesn't really matter. That's just because Turkish is a synthetic language (uses morphology to convey info instead of separate words). Latin is famously a synthetic language and it still has concepts of mood, tense, and aspect.

Frankly, you don't have to take my word for it. I suggest doing some research on how mood and tense work in linguistics. It's not clear to me that you understand what these terms actually mean. Maybe I'm wrong.
I am really curious what the maximum wind speed allowed for a booster landing will be. Upon landing, it has a lot of windage and not nearly as much mass as during take-off.

I have experience with docking large boats and it does seem to be a bit similar. In the case of boats, wind is a big deal, and the booster has nothing "below the waterline" to slow down the effects of wind.
pg_repack gets rid of the need to lock tables for the duration of the vacuum: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Appen...

It is an extension though so downside there is it not being included in most Postgres installs. I’ve used it at work and it felt like a superpower getting the benefits of a vacuum full without all the usual drama.
Religion is a very sensitive topic. Full stop.
I've gotten far with type switching on an interface that amounts to a single function that does nothing.

Unfortunately it does nothing in terms of exhaustiveness, but it effectively gives you sum types which IME are so, so much easier to work with than state pattern or other inject-an-object-abstractions. Not having to design an API (that later leaks) is rewarding enough.

It's strangely efficient as well. I've experimented with implementing sum types via tagged C-style unions and at every (ad hoc, micro) benchmark I've tried them against, type switching on an interface comes out on top.
I highly recommend the second book of the saga.
Just want to add that a lot of military equipment is already designed to be airdropped in addition to any other expected battlefield stresses, so they’re probably some of the best candidates for rocket transport in existence.
The Pentagon likely wanted to get ahead of any space observers noticing the heat from aerobraking and disposal of the service module. That might look like a hull loss, and they wouldn't want anyone to report a mission failure.
Back in 2005-ish a Clearchannel enginer, Littlejohn proposed narrowing bandwidth of Am stations to improve the signal to noise ratio. They implemented a 5 Khz bandwidth. Back in the 70s we were all blasting 12 kHz. While that's probably OK-ish for talk, it's dreadful for music.
https://www.radioworld.com/columns-and-views/the-5-khz-am-re...
Yup, categories are useful, but when you obsess too much about them, it starts to look like "pigeonholing". Also, in my experience the most interesting musicians/bands are those that can't be easily categorized...
Who's Afraid of the '15-Minute City'?
The “progress” is driving a wedge so deep in US society that many think there won’t be a country left after the progressives are done. They have all but destroyed any national identity and made us very easy to invade and continue to try to do so with gun control laws. you’re happy about progress, I’m terrified because the progressives don’t consider whether something they want is good or bad for the country, they just demand it regardless.
Reposted by other user a few minutes later with more luck https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41833200
I think a lot of us find value in mindfulness. I don't think that value is new; modern age or no, people have been using these techniques for a long time.

I agree with some of what you say, although I think it idealizes the past more than it deserves. My mother fled small town America exactly because it was intrusive and allowed very little divergence from small-town values. The embrace and care came with a price tag.

Being a human has always been hard. Peasants struggled with material scarcity, a system that was brutally unfair, and very constraining social expectations.

And I have suffered from depression, particularly post-divorce. I know what it is like. Mindfulness won't eliminate that, but it does help, and it's far more than a band-aid. Mindfulness is, in many ways, clarifying your thoughts... realizing that you have have a tape loop repeating things that don't seem useful or related to the circumstance. Seeing that your emotional weather comes and goes. We don't escape the weather, but to be aware of it allows us to better account for it in our thinking.
It looks like the Height is age. So y-axis, is age of music.

But the left-right categorization, seems arbitrary. I'm curious if it is just arbitrary, since you have to start somewhere. I looked around and didn't find much help on the overall scheme.

EDIT:

I think the overall columns are a best guess based on this

"The Definition of Genre

The history of Popular Music hardly qualifies as an exact science. It is a retrospective analysis of events that focuses on the underlying forces or common symptoms in the overwhelming production of music records, ignoring nuances and side-effects to grasp a comprehensible structure. This is because (popular) music is far from a static phenomenon: it is a constantly evolving, transforming, giant organism. Almost never has a music genre suddenly emerged as a shocking revolution without any trace or evolution in the past. All of them have naturally evolved, mutated, merged, or become (theoretically) extinct. Only the past can be examined of this natural, organic network."
Am I the only one who saw "delve" at the top of the article and immediately thought "ah, an AI generated piece"? Well, that and the over-structured components of the analysis with nearly uniform word count per point and high-complexity but low signal-to-noise vocabulary using phraseology not common to the domain being discussed. (The article doesn't scan as written by an SRE/DBA.)
The challenge of the X-37b is imagination. My pet theories involve interdicting opposing countries spy/communications satellites with stealth drone satellites carried and retrieved by x-37. If we could get physical acces to satellites on orbit, we could own enemy communications. More so attaching mines to enemy satellites to disable on command would also be a valuable capability. Etc… lots of possibilities.
And I'd rather have a child escape to the interwebs than needing to bear the suffering of a less-than-average childhood bluntly
Thanks. That explains the unusual spacing of teeth at the back of the jaw. He had likely lost some over the years and the remaining teeth scooted around to fill gaps. That must've made chewing food very uncomfortable for a long time.
Yeah. I mean, not to deny the decades of arguments over its warts, but it's kind of amazing to me the extent to which X11 has emerged as, well, the simplest/best and most hackable desktop graphics environment available. You want to play a trick, it's right there. The ICCCM got a ton of hate back in the early 90's, but... no one else has an equivalent and people still innovate in the WM space even today.
More of an ignorant assumption. I asked ChatGPT now, and got this:

> In terms of shapes, the tiles were not uniform. In fact, there were over 17,000 different shapes used to fit specific areas of the shuttle's body. Each tile had to be individually manufactured and shaped to fit a precise location due to the complex curvature of the shuttle's surface. The unique shapes were necessary to ensure that every part of the shuttle received the proper protection against the extreme temperatures during re-entry.
Open Source licenses are probably too easy to adopt thoughtlessly, without the creator deeply thinking about what goals they want long-term, what achieving those goals is worth to them in actual dollars. The creator should at minimum know that they’re donating x hours a week of work valued at y dollars, and be able to look in the mirror and say “I’m fine with that”, rather than put in years of work only to find out they feel taken advantage of.
Note that between the X-37B's small size, tiny numbers, and extremely limited ability to change its orbit, it is useless for "we can nuke anybody on the planet at any time" missions.
If the ceramic tiles aren't working out, I think they could try transpiration cooling (previously planned for Starship) or a metallic heat shield (was planned for VentureStar). Or some combination. There seem to be quite a few options.
DuckDB v1.1.2
Gnu.org Is Down
gnu.org has been experiencing frequent downtime lately. What is going on?

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/gnu.org.html
Can you point me at an article that demonstrates Golang type switching? Does not ring bell at the moment for me so I'd love to see the code.
Omg, I didn't check HN for a few days. Sorry, Turnstile was causing issues for everyone, so I have removed it for now. This is just a fun project :)
Byte Order Mark
Yes, Stoicism can be seen as sort of the western version of Buddhism, at least as far as mindfulness is concerned.
The Promise of Terahertz Technology
Yes, if you are parsing in-place numbers in an existing string you do not necessarily know a-priori where the number end. You could have extra logic to look ahead to the end of the number before passing it from_chars, but a) it would require an additional pass and b) you could end up replicating part of the implementation of from chars.

from_chars is supposed to be a low lever routine, it must be possible to use it correctly, but it is not necessarily the most ergonomic.
Still far too much. This needs to be $1K tops in its base config for anyone to bother.
Fumes of Fiery Volcanic Moon Detected Outside the Solar System
Scientists successfully breed corals to improve their heat tolerance
> Personally, I’ve always found it surprising that these massive companies, worth billions, rely on third-party tools like Zendesk instead of building their own in-house ticketing systems.

For some reason this like cracked me up. Sounds exactly like something 15 year old me might say :-).

Let’s build our own ticketing system! How hard could it be?
the improvement here is in increasing skills, not paying someone more than the value they produce for the country, nor paying someone not producing any value.

welfare is great if your field is being phased out and you need retraining, or you’re disable or handicap but i loath people taking it when they simply don’t want to work and continue to have more kids that the state then pays for.

to help you understand this better let people move in with you and live off of your resources until you have none left for yourself. then don’t complain.

also insults aren’t allowed on HN
They didn't say Skunk Works, they said skunkworks. It's a pretty common phrase now used to describe the secret process of developing something inspired by the Lockheed Martin's group.
The introduction seems to have AI sprinkled all over it: ..we embarked on a significant journey, ..in this monumental upgrade.
>Various treaties prohibit having weapons in orbit, but X-37B provides the capability without actively having to have such a system deployed.

"States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner;"
I'm not an engineer, but is there a reason why they can't french press (sans filter) the fuel toward the bottom of the tank as it empties?
I don't know for sure but the explanation given sounds very much like they expect it to be a 100% manual process.
I don't think you understand what culture means. When I'm saying it's the culture of the west to put down physical laborers, that doesn't mean I think YOU PERSONALLY do that. I really didn't think this is the type of thing that needed to be explained on hackernews of all places, but here we are. Try to keep up.
Huh. I've read a number of books on stoicism and mindfulness/buddhism, but I've never gotten far with Tolle. He just falls flat for me.
Seagram
The EU has been funding open source for years, and Germany just started their own funding program, currently in the pilot phase: https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/
It's strange how isolated Americans are in terms of international news.
Foamed glass gravel was invented in the early 20th century, by the Soviets no less, and started being used more in the 80s. It is a "boring" technology. (Source: https://www.glavel.com/foam-glass-aggregate-guide/)
Quite so. But bad managers have no qualms with making boss-problems and workflows something that their underlings have to deal with as well.
I imagine it works just like any multi-tenant SaaS product wherein you have a database per customer (region/city) with a unified web portal. The primary difference being that this is B2C and the ratio of customers per database is much greater than 1.
> In a like vein when Australians say "goodeye" they usually aren't talking about your vision.

They aren’t saying goodeye, they’re saying g’day (good day)
Hackable is right. But not always in the positive sense of the word.
>strategic nuclear game

If that's its job then it is in breach of the Outer Space Treaty. No weapons of mass destruction in space.
So all of the AI engineers getting large bonuses it has nothing to do with the value?

What you’ve described here is the way it’s supposed to work. But after decades of “progress” in removing morality you see the wage gap problem now.
Parents can learn a lot from the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
"Open source" doesn't require that the readme, comments, issues, and PR's use a language that you know. So depending on who you are, reaching the point where you're able to effectively collaborate could be the work of years.

Aside from that though, I agree. I can't see and technical reasons why one wouldn't mix oss from both communities, thereby bridging it into a single community.
With a couple of tests I can see they are facing problems with their ns3.gnu.org nameserver; others ns1, ns2, and ns4 ping just fine.
Same!

And I reviewed that one too: https://alexpotato.com/books/?l=hn#EndersShadow
It's been a while since I studied any topology, but if I'm remembering correctly you can knot an (n-2)-dimensional surface in n-dimensions.
I'm only familiar with metal genres, but it doesn't look bad. It's way better than Wikipedia, for example. There are no "gimmick" genres like aliencore, and every style mentioned is distinctive, historically important and accepted by me and the people I interact with. The only thing that surprised me is that first wave of black metal is called "extreme metal" here.

If anything, it's not detailed enough. For a long time I was listening almost exclusively to technical death metal, while for example I don't line brutal death metal at all. These subgenres of death metal (and band self-identification) are very different, and yet here they are all lumped into just "death metal", as far as I can see.

I'm not sure about the quality of other sections.
The contrast between SpaceX's success at creating reusable rockets and Tesla's failure at FSD is pretty stark.
By that time you launch an armed X-37B you are probably already in your underground nuclear bunker and do not care about treaties.

A better objection is that a single one is not going to make a difference, and having a big fleet ready to launch is going to raise eyebrows.
I believe that they believe that and that it _could_ be true. That's far from declaratively stating that they are the same thing, as if there was some sort of evidence and consensus of such a claim.
Ongoing read of your neighbours, roommates, co-workers etc health data from a distance including recent history is getting your hands on sensitive personal data in addition to health data. You can tell what they are doing, getting drunk or having sex etc.
Wow that is also very cool. For those wondering, this is what it looks like:

$ sudo apt install slop
$ slop
<selects an area on screen>
1719x1403+1080+277
Do you live in one of the states with privacy protections? If so, threaten them or turn them into the AG for the state.
That's already how Consumer Reports works, but they don't have the capital and reach to really make much of a difference. Their reviews are also kind of gamble in terms of reliability. The negative reviews from a mass of real buyers will often find things Consumer Reports did not. It's a lot easier to post a negative review directly than to go through the reporting process of Consumer Reports.