skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you if we're just talking about the people who work somewhere. I would say that the founders I'm referring to certainly at least partially delude themselves into believing that their intellectual prowess encompasses other realms of science, philosophy, engineering, etc. when all they did was create some software. I also do not believe for one second that these founders are actually as interesting as people have mythologized them to be.
Hacks imply some amount of intelligence, identifying a flaw or shortcoming, and trying some innovation to work around it.
I use a Boox reader, but pretty close to the same experience. For me, I either buy the book from one of the many places that lets you download epub, or buy it on the Kindle store and download it from Libgen. It's really a non-issue. I've only run into one or two books I wasn't able to get an epub of, and those I ended up reading on the Kindle cloud reader on my laptop.
Not dox but I was thinking there could be old materials in there that people were using to dox her. Idk, why else would they remove it?
I got the kindle oasis because of the next/prev page buttons. I don't know why they discontinued it.
I mean this specifically in America, but does "political engagement" even do anything here? Pretty sure the battle lines have been drawn and you're either spamming or preaching to the choir.
Good money, no team tactics and cute dogs: the rise of pro cycling freelancers
I just checked, and have about 9K connections on LinkedIn. I assume with the ability to pay for post promotion you could get a similar reach by paying linkedin a few bucks.

This was for a tool to speed up making educational videos, so I tried to reach out to people who were doing online courses and educational materials.
I'm not sure if it would be called "marketing" but my power company would send "you're using more energy than your neighbors" (I worked from home) and "think about why you use the most energy at night" (in the winter) emails which were no better than spam.
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US prosecutors see rising threat of AI-generated child sex abuse imagery
Well, the average wasn't abnormal, and now it is, without the definition changing. That's telling us something. We're becoming fatter. That doesn't make being fatter "normal". It makes it average, but that's not the same thing. Historically, we know this is abnormal.
Kindle for Kids is not available outside the US afaik. At least not in a lot of European countries.
Evaluation quirks, metric pitfalls and some recommendations
Yup, putting on a sweater is a more complex task which requires deliberate planning and coordination, it requires more cognitive control as opposed to tossing your shirt which is a simple reflexive behavior. Sleepwalkers can perform highly coordinated and complex behaviors as it does not happen during REM sleep where your body is paralyzed, but sleepwalking is a distinct phenomenon, plus when you are not sleepwalking, the brain's control over motor functions is very limited.

Not everything is lost though, you can potentially learn it through repetition, you just have to do this in a half-awake state or in a state close to sleep. Do it often enough, and theoretically you may be able to perform the task during non-REM sleep.
Not at all. If you stand near a large higher power antenna below 2.0 MHz or so you can't measure any heating at all.
Yup, I get it. This aircraft is disruptive at anything under 100feet above ground level.

I thought there would have at least been an avenue to progress through as a federally licensed remote pilot, with an LLC and liability insurance.
When there’s a sudden, dramatic, never-going-back/burning-the-ships move, it’s a sign that it’s a personal, not business, decision.
It's not a weakness, it's Amazon's strategy to be generous in customer support to ensure loyal customers.
Student was punished for using AI-then his parents sued
Show HN: I have made a fair source alternative to Heroku
I can't speak for the US but a friend in the UK was recently diagnosed with giardiasis, not chronic though. As far as I can tell it was simply a routine check because of the symptoms. He didn't give me the impression that it was a difficult diagnosis to obtain. The medics reckoned that it came from a bag of contaminated salad leaves.

Surely you just go to your GP, explain your concerns and symptoms and get tested. Here is the UK NHS page on the subject: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/giardiasis/
>do we really think that thing will just be refueled and sent straight back off in the near future?

The Falcon 9s have been landed, checked out, refueled and flown again for a while now. The record is currently 23 flights from a single booster. I don't see how this is fundamentally different - reusing the booster that is. The upper stage is a different matter.
I imagine for the same reasons people on the right, but it's forbidden to speak out loud

I heard no such claims, but also he hasn't finished his WWII series yet, so a little premature to dismiss him

Edit: When I said conservatives, I meant conservative values
One thing is for sure, it's going to help it be a more stable, robust piece of software, that's already a big deal.
You’re right, and that’s not the bad I meant to set. More like cuisine that is associated with Britain. So not a French restaurant that happens to be in London.
They're speaking relatively. And if you don't know the other side of that coin, consider yourself lucky.
Might be case of a VB6 programmer who graduated to .Net C# but still misses the good old days.
I’m not the target audience for lithub.com and have heard of, but never read, Lapham’s Quarterly. However, this was a great read. The writing is top-notch, but what else would you expect from a mentee of the editor of Harper’s magazine?
You have just re-invented the priestly caste.
When it comes to low-level, security sensitive software like this, I actually do value the software being written in a relatively safe language.

Could Rust, could be C# for all I care.
Relevant to how Founder Mode might be received, something I've started to wonder about:

For those people who interact with many early startup founders, what rates of poor behavior (e.g., oblivious, abrasive, arrogant, narcissistic, coked-up) are you seeing in the last few years?
Understanding Ship Rudders: Types and Functions
whatsbook is metabook's backdoor into their "private internet" plan that was shot down a while ago.

mobile operators in india, Brazil, etc offer cheap plans where only whatsapp doesn't count against the pittance of data limits.

then being able to make online purchase and search businnes, you pretty much have a chat web browser, running on a private internet. mission accomplished.
I am partial to that argument, at least in the interwar period the US masses and intelligentsia were enamored with the USSR for it was new and the atrocities were not widely known, so we got the New Deal. I don't think that applies to the post-WW2 period and the fact that the US was the only industrial nation left unscathed was the real prosperity driver.

But it is all moot in the world of today where the US competitors are not providing alternatives for people to strive for. Russian propaganda of "everything sucks" works wonders to keep Russians docile and it will work wonders to keep the US middle class down as well, ending Pax Americana will do nothing to change that.
I don’t think American food is particularly revered either though, is it?
For real, I find it so odd to tack on "written in Rust" to every new project that's announced that uses Rust. (As someone who uses Rust in their day job)
Does locking require any energy to maintain? I suspect very little if any.
Fair enough, I haven't had much sub-VHF experience. Thank you.
C++ Proposal to Define a Byte as 8 Bits
Team split mobile app – teamru
I've had to deal with credit card fraud on two occasions. Each involving several thousand dollars and many hours of time investment.

People should be in control of their own money. The current system categorically absurd.
OpenAI says ChatGPT treats us all the same (most of the time)
I've heard even banks can get access to your WeChat history
> HDR still doesn't work properly

The Steam Deck OLED has an HDR screen and as far as I can tell it just works.
The Guru Who Says He Can Get Your Child into Harvard
Ancient Hawk-Sized Birds with Raptor-Like Feet Discovered in Montana
Rust was something i thought was a cute little language years ago, much like i thought python was. I didn't pay attention for like 2 years and it feels likes it's everywhere and everything.

Time to learn.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/ivy-league-college-ven...
That might be but the odd coincidence of being precisely where you think the most important thing happened is probably a good reason to closely check this theory against the usual laundry list of potential biases.
Organ Donation Halted After Donor Shows Signs of Life, Prompting Investigation
Does anybody know if imaginary has any effect on actual child abuse cases?

In general there is little evidence with porn and violence in general.
Pornography Use and Violence: A Systematic Review of the Last 20 Years
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15248380231173619?i...
Whatever, not interested in bureaucracy apologism.
I'm glad that bureaucracy, paperwork and restrictions don't affect you or maybe even you like it.

It's not my cup of tea and IMHO the British public was right with removing those responsible for it from power.
2025 Bitcoin Cash Improvement Proposals
I've also seen this done for C and modern C++. I believe it's done to suggest something (i.e. Rust is memory safe, C is usually fast, modern C++ is used to distinguish from the terrible old C++, Java runs on the JVM so it's relatively easy to use cross platform, Kotlin is for Java software that doesn't throw random null pointers every week, etc.)

The same tokens are also used for stuff that is designed to run on bare metal/containers/kubernetes/"""serverless""".
There's plenty of fleet sources claiming vans are already winning on TCO in europe.

Which makes sense. Like city busses, EV vans in last mile city traffic are the low hanging fruit for EV adoption.

Planned routes. Being part of mixed fleets (similar to having a two car family and using the EV for most journeys to maximise fuel savings). Stop and go traffic for regen.
Of course if you like something you like it. Just so happens that kidneys are not one of the most universally liked ingredients is all I’m saying
The thing about listening to a song as you read the post is a jab at Mullenweg's "This post should be read while listening to Wish by Joshua Redman. The writing is synchronized to the music reading speed." on https://ma.tt/2024/09/ecosystem-thinking/
So is a million years. Not how it works.
The tobacco company (also composed of people) is well aware of the health consequence of smoking to its customers yet freely chooses to continues to sell tobacco products. Where's the difference?

Actually it's much worse than that. The tobacco company is not just selling tobacco products, it's marketing them and actively encouraging their use!
>This will be the last piece of content we post *as TwoSet Violin*. It’s been a wild ride with you all for the last 11 years. We’ve all grown up together and it’s kinda surreal that we’re *ending our chapter here*.

It sure looks like they are just moving to a different platform, one that doesn't want their stuff on YouTube for free.
Those things were pretty popular in East Germany as present from your relatives across the border or bought at the 'Intershop' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intershop).

I still have a shoebox or two full of Matchbox cars in the attic.

Also I remember that during my job education as (industrial) tool maker in East Germany our master used to rave about Matchbox cars (and specifically Matchbox, not other brands) and how surprisingly hard it is to build the precision tools needed for creating such fine detail, and how baffled he was that western companies could afford to build such production lines "just for toys" - in that sense, Matchbox was even an effective Cold War propaganda weapon ;)
I definitely need to re-approach the county level historical society with a more thorough “pitch” for generating clean and detailed 3D models from drone photography.

The website embed is easy, I’d use sketchfab as the content host and embed platform. So long as sketchfab doesn’t disappear this is the best solution for embedding that I can utilize within my skill set as a 3D artist

I’ll need to see if I can have an in person meeting with larger historical societies so I can demo the 3D models and explain its significance.

I’ve stressed I’m not trying to solicit this as paid work - framing it as a partnership that is beneficial to both parties could make headway however.
100% not a book as it's not movable.

Might be a scroll or a codex, but it might even be on a wall.
Understanding the EU AI Act's Impact and Ripple Effects in the US
Source article: https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/electric-vehi...
> Another issue we ran into was certain dependencies that only have .cjs versions that work fine when building, but during dev would fail to import via ESM correctly

I'd say that's more node's fault for half assing their ESM-CJS interop. Like, their solution to importing CJS was to go with a dumb static analysis thing. And their solution to requiring ESM was, you can't do it.

Meanwhile bundlers had ESM and CJS working side by side almost flawlessly.
The False Promise of Device-Based Education
If not COBOL, then what?
But this wouldn’t be in orbit; it would be in what NASA calls “deep space”, which relies on the Deep Space Network [1]. The DSN is severely bandwidth constrained, due primarily to a lack of ground antennas. Indeed, for instruments that are located outside Earth’s orbit (e.g. SOHO, which is at Sun-Earth L1 [2]), bandwidth is often a limiting constraint in the design.

My understanding is that some newer instruments do both compress and select data to be downloaded (i.e. prioritizing signal over noise), and that there is more and more consideration of on-board processing for future missions, as well as possibly introducing the capability within DSN itself to prioritize which instruments get bandwidth based on scientific value of their data.

Source: A presentation from people at NASA Heliophysics last week, where this very topic came up.

[1]: < https://www.nasa.gov/communicating-with-missions/dsn/>
[2]: < https://science.nasa.gov/mission/soho/>
The Food of Space Travel Could Be Based on Rocks
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Pretty sure our own NSA is doing way more advanced stuff. This is just a peek (from 10 years ago):

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
HN links https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41842194

I'm not sure they proved it but they put out a paper arguing that.
I'm ready for the follow up article: "Why hearts do not stop while sleeping"
This is my feeling as well. I've gone through a lot of grief on expense reports at my company for things like not reporting the tax on a hotel room or tip on a meal receipt separately from everything else. It's not as simple as $25, at least from an accounting perspective.
I grew up in the Eastern block and I remember my grandma's set of Rotring mechanical pens (with ink) was promised to me the day I turned 18 but I so wanted that set when I was much younger (in fact at an age I was still playing with Matchbox cars). As I remember they were very finnicky and needed to be declogged quite frequently.
Also, Cloudflare won't let you in if you forge your referer (it's nobody's business what site I'm coming from.) For years, you could just send the root of the site you were visiting, then last year somebody at Cloudflare flipped a switch and took a bite out of everyone's privacy. Now it's just endless reloading captchas.
When I try to search for Winamp on Github (without a login), I am blocked:

Whoa there!

You have exceeded a secondary rate limit.

Please wait a few minutes before you try again;
in some cases this may take up to an hour.

Regular github browsing is ok, searches result in the above. For 4 hours now (without other any activity). Github is making it personal.
So my domain names are now in the care of some private equity firm?

Thanks, Google.
You can dismiss this as bias, however I'm a firsthand witness to it. The growth was true in every single university I emailed about the problem. Facebook's user growth was absolutely wild and unprecedented from 2007-2010. In fact, here's a graph showing an exponential curve.

https://plusalphadigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/face...

10% of overall web traffic:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080919082104/http://www.alexa....
Show HN: A Secure Form Autofill Easy to Use
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As someone who does no programming at all, I can say that it kinda works.

It makes me think "Ok they have made a VMM again, but this time in that somehow safer programming language Rust. They probably know what they're doing so it will be just as good as the old one, only safer!".

I know enough to know that this is not necessarily true, but when I see these posts I always hope that it's true (and rely on people with the proper knowledge and experience to verify if it is or isn't).

Then I go to the comments and there is often a discussion about how a rewrite will probably be less secure because it will introduce new bugs. But then maybe those will be fixed and eventually it will just be a more secure version.
'Race science' group say they accessed sensitive UK health data
>The current system categorically absurd.

It seems like a decent solution that emerged without a federal government solution (could be better, but things progress incrementally).

What is absurd is the lack of action on part of the federal government (which eventually filters down to voters) on developing electronic payments as resilient infrastructure, in conjunction with digital identity verification.
This is textbook enshitification: Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification)

Reddit is following the same pattern. Entice everyone over from digg, make users happy and grow base, appeal to businesses, then squeeze the business (API changes). Chrome used to be the faster, cleaner, more 'techie' option, and they too have departed from Day1 and moved into the squeeze.
If you live in the woods alone and don’t interact with society.
That's fascinating, and yeah it's just the kind of thing I was thinking of—the concrete example is nice. There is indeed something quite perverse about the fusion of philosophy and unfettered laissez-faire capitalism in the information age.

I wonder if it's more of an adaptation or coping mechanism than a foundational principle. I think these people cannot bear to actually digest the cynical view of what they are doing in the world so they grasp for something more esoteric and hold that up as guiding principles.

If they were actually doing something good, they wouldn't have to find a book that explains why what they're doing is good in some indirect way. If you look at Jimmy Wales' guiding philosophy, for example, it is clearly and directly correlated to the work being done at Wikipedia. There's no jumping through hoops, because most people agree that Wikipedia is a good thing.

Any idea what the book was?
Gold doesn't appreciate in value. It's an important distinction when considering investments. It tends to act as a store of value, that is it retains value. While the dollar price of gold goes up (now ~$2700 (!) as the dollar keeps imploding over time), that isn't the same as it appreciating in value. The dollar is losing value, gold is what is staying still in terms of value. And while that isn't always perfectly accurate (certainly gold sometimes varies upwards or downwards in value for various supply etc reasons), it tends to be mostly correct.

The reason it's an important distinction is because eg the S&P500 will tend to smash gold over time as a value generative asset (because gold is not a productive, generative asset; gold holds value, the S&P500 generates value (profit/growth/etc)).
That article did not help me understand at all. Nothing specific.
That's good to know. However, as long as the rendering looks like this [1], that's not enough.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F5...
Breathing is also a conscious action for them if I remember right
I live in Missouri; I pressed F12 once and the governor tried to get me arrested.
They started out hinged on the bottom. That didn't work for overhead cabinet mounted models when they were introduced and right hand dominance did it's usual thing.
Install uBlock Origin, go into its Preferences, and select the Cookie Banner & Annoyances filters.
Gamedev in Lisp. Part 2: Dungeons and Interfaces
Maybe this has has already been covered, by I would not target LLVM IR in 2024.

I'd target MLIR (like Mojo does).

1. It's a much easier/better target to work with.

2. It's a strict super-set of LLVM IR.

3. Much better optimizations are possible that are specific to your language.

Separately, I'd love to have a Clojure-friendly interface to MLIR—whether via Jank or something else.
That’s fair, trait objects do cause a table to be generated, but they don’t support inheritance and subjectively I think they’re used less often than the OOP features of c++ that lead to vtable-based dynamic dispatch. (Traits are extremely common in rust, but dyn trait objects somewhat less so)
Cargo.lock has 8750 lines. Is that normal for something like this?

For comparison, QEMU basically just needs glibc, glib and zlib for basic functionality.
This is not good for society