skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the reality of the Israeli pager attack using explosives planted in electronic devices, I wonder how safe anyone should feel flying on planes these days. Is airport security going to even allow electronic devices on planes in the future because of that event? What happens if a hole is blown in a pressurized cabin by such means? Supply chains are now pretty globalized and malicious actions can take place at many points in those supply chain.
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One of my favorites is a different interpretation of the events happening inside a black hole being inscribed in its surface: that there is no inside and the events happen at the surface, which seems totally normal because spacetime is so extremely stretched there things don't realize they look like a 2D surface from outside observers.
Non-interactive shell scripting. It's actually the best language in this niche, outclassing Perl and Tcl in terms of features and Python/JS in terms of expressivity.

General purpose scripting. Orders of magnitude fewer packages and batteries than in Python or Ruby, but it does have a package manager and a bunch of libs for typical tasks. It's also capable of calling Python code almost seamlessly. For small (1 file) scripts, the expressivity of Raku means often half the lines of equivalent Python code, unless you hit a package that Python has and Raku doesn't.

Everything related to text processing. The grammars parsed by Grammars don't have to be context-free. Parsing just about anything is a joy. Also, light data mangling - if it fits in RAM, you might not need any other tool (like R/Pandas).

It's also a general-purpose, gradually typed, JIT-compiled, multiparadigm (OO, FP, procedural, array) language, so you can use just about anywhere you want. It's less great for mission-critical things (error handling is peculiar) and shell one-liners (the JIT takes a toll on startup time). It has a REPL, instead.
Again, subjective. Some people like it and it can be a valid literary art form in itself. It's only in purely utilitarian text like technical writing where it doesn't belong.
This is from 2019?
Seven New Frog Species Discovered in Madagascar: Named After Star Trek Captains
Do we even finish?
Around here in the EU, most trains appear to have WiFi APs with 4G backhaul. Isn't that a more practical solution for commuter trains?
Isn’t “citizen” itself a filter? We have requirements for being a citizen, after all.

We even have a citizenship test, for those not born here
Personally, also at the very cheap end, I like wax ones partly because you can vary the noise blocking as needed - put them in loosely or squish them in.
Interesting, I have seen some pretty scary interviews with Elon. If I had noticed a family member acting the same way I would have taken them to the ER.
I first came across something like this in janet, which includes a PEG system in the standard library. It definitely changed how I think about text processing. Very much of the time what I find myself doing with regex is defining a grammar, but I didn't realize that. I wish more languages included the tools for it, it's a core operation of practical programming.

https://janet-lang.org
No. Doing that further cements the awful practice of tipping and further erodes the idea that a tip is meant to be a gift, not a fee.

If we as a culture are going to treat tips as if they were wages, we would do better by getting rid of tipping and increasing the actual wages.
Well done! You could try to get mentioned on https://www.arewewebyet.org/
Raku is like the everything language. Reading its docs is a wild ride.

https://docs.raku.org/language/operators
> your registered address

There's no Anmeldung system in America. Actually voter registration is the closest thing you have to an official current address, and it's a lot easier to do (no appointment required).
Magnet Axiom is very poor for images. The interface is way to slow and a poor advert for .Net.

Xways for extraction, Griffeye for image processing and grading.
Axiom for browser history and OS artefacts.

I just hope now Magnet bought Griffeye that the don't integrate it into a Axiom style clunky interface and render it unusable like the CCTV software they bought.
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I grabbed a pair of Eymotics several years ago and never looked back. For a while I didn't believe they worked and kept having to take them out, only to realize that they were in fact dampening the volume even though the music sounded the same.
It's one of the reasons politics in Ireland are so stable and monotonous. Mind you, I'm not complaining. I chose to live here precisely for that reason.
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Creamos welcome packs para empresas personalizados, con detalles pensados para hacer especial el primer día en una nueva empresa. Dale la bienvenida a tus nuevos compañeros para que se sientan valorados. ¡Escríbenos y vemos cómo crear juntos algo especial para tu equipo!
Wish I'd read that before I did it then.
I'd wager that those subsidies have very strong returns on investment. From a thermodynamic standpoint, trains are clearly the most efficient long distance transportation technology. The inefficiencies almost always appear as cost.
Contra to a lot of what's being said in this thread, I think a lot of smart people get stuck in the trap of overvaluing quality of input relative to quantity of input. Put another way: the bitter lesson applies to the AI inside your skull too.
> How does one transport energy over such a long distance ? Wouldn't there be massive loss in form of heat due to the fact that cables are not perfect conductor ?

Losses in power transmission are a function of the current (P = I^2 R; power dissipated = current squared multiplied by cable resistance). Using a thicker cable reduces its resistance, lowering losses. HVDC transmits power at -- as its name implies -- a much higher voltage; increasing the voltage means you need to draw less current in order to consume the same amount of power, lowering losses again.

It's why electrical grid transmission networks within countries run at a couple hundred kV. The UK uses 275kV and 400kV for transmission for example, stepping it down to 33kV and 11kV at substations, before it is finally stepped down to 230V for light commercial and residential consumption.

EDIT: A fantastic demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjY31x0m3d8
Same here. I've never been able to stick with any extension post-Vimperator. They've all just felt too clumsy. It's led to my tinkering with qutebrowser from time to time because it is seamless.
It looks almost as if humans have a nearly infinite backlog of things they would do if they only had time and capability, and a limit on the amount of effort they are capable of exerting per day. Then, once new tools increase their productivity and free up a bit of resources, they pick more desiderata from the backlog, and try to also accomplish that. Naturally they seek more tools for the newly-possible activities, and the loop closes.

This applies to any activity, leisure emphatically included. Travel became simpler → more vacations now involve flying a plane and thus obtaining tickets online and thus comparison-shopping, aggregating reviews of faraway places, etc → omg, vacation travel is complex again. It just allows to fulfill more of a dream.
When you make a public disclosure (this includes things like "releasing a product that uses that method", fwiw), that starts a countdown clock [1]. When that clock reaches 0, that disclosure is now prior art, and anyone who files for a patent after that point is unable to get a patent for that method. Sufficiently old public disclosure invalidates any patent, independent of any filing system for patents.

First-to-file and first-to-invent are instead what happens if you get two different people who try to file for a patent before that point. In a first-to-invent system, there's an adjudication process that's going to look at all of the internal records to figure out who "invented" the process first (which, in the absence of evidence, is going to default to the first person to file anyways). In a first-to-file system, the first person to get their paperwork in the door is going to get the patent.

This doesn't mean that an unscrupulous person gets to look for public disclosures and rush their own patent applications to beat out the original inventor. You still need to demonstrate independent conception of the idea (although this would likely only be demonstrated in the context of an actual trial).

[1] I don't remember it's length, but I want to say it's like a year.
That makes little sense; the author's complaint amounts to "programs should not use /tmp", so removing it before fixing all programs would be putting the cart before the horse.
> support more than 150 lbs downward force on the hitch

manual says 1100 pounds

> A full sized bed.

Cybertruck's is bigger than the Lightning's

> Better visibility.

No clear win for either truck. Both have bad blind spots.

> Go offroad.

Clear win for Cybertruck after the locking diff software update.
> Democracy works despite the majority not understanding much about policy.

Citation needed
Show HN: Created My First Game
I recently started to learn code and created this game with next.js. please let me know your thoughts
I like the abstract idea of literacy tests but then I also think some questions in this particular literacy test is unnecessarily tricky. And some could be considered historical trivia.

The commerce question is supposed to be answered by reading the constitution by itself, not by reading SCOTUS opinions. So this is different from actual constitutional scholars. That makes this question unsuitable for literacy tests.

At a minimum: I think people should be given ample time to complete a literacy test, at a date and time chosen by the test taker, and also have multiple attempts available. And for the content of the test, they should have actual elementary school students attempt it to make sure it isn't too difficult.
This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my whole life. I'm just over here worried about small nothings and now I'm filled with an overwhelming feeling that I should be a part of something much larger. Truly inspiring, and a little bitter sweet. :)
The fact that it's free to the end-user seems like it would increase the number of users by enough to negate the increase in total bandwidth.

I wonder if they will go back to a fee, even a tiny one, just to limit the number of users. It will be interesting to see how that works out.
Stripe Acquires Bridge, Stablecoins, Platform of Platforms
Show HN: Clickhttp: ClickHouse via HTTP Protocol
Unfortunately when Wolfram hired Mathics' lead developer, the project pretty much stopped.
Observability 2.0 will revolutionize DX
Not being present is an ego protection mechanism. Its classic psychology. As children get older, they develop ideas of who they are and naturally develop ways to protect their emotions.

When peoples' mind wanders, they cling to things that made them feel good or "Day dream" of things that would make them feel good. They're not planning ahead or thinking about contingencies.

Dealing with reality is hard, and being present means continually facing this harsh world. You can observe this with not just kids but adults in the modern world as people are more and more detached from reality and can live in some fantasy context by reinforcing with social media and internet echo chambers
Question 5 is also quite (intentionally) ambiguous:

> The Constitution of the United States places the final authority in our Nation in the hands of...

> a. the national courts.

> b. the States.

> c. the people.

The answer key says c. is correct, but I think I would have answered a. You could also argue the States is correct, since they have the authority to amend the Constitution. The very concept of "final authority" is sort of antithetical to the Constitution.
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> What more could they want?

The knowledge that even if Elon Musk goes completely off-script, Starshield/Starlink/SpaceX will still be there. Right now, there is nothing stopping Musk - whose shares control 78% of the voting rights [1] - to wind down shop at his will. Maybe he'll have to pay out the other investors, but like at Twitter he may just end up sticking the finger to anyone whom the company is in debt to.

Having the future of space flight, low-latency civilian and military communication and low-orbit recon satellites all held together in the hand of one increasingly erratic billionaire is not something the US can afford to accept.

[1] https://www.keeptrack.space/deep-dive/who-owns-spacex/
I was thinking that with ebikes. If you have problems walking but still enough coordination not to fall off a bike they are good.
I'm old too, this is how I pretend to stay young.
You can do basic Calculus with a single file used as a header.
Do the captured elements move a lot during this snapshot? since it will take months? Is the difference significant?
Strongly agree. This is unreadable, and find it hard to believe they included this as an example of something someone would want to do:

value min ceiling max floor
Class-D Amps and Moore's Law Are Changing the Audiophile World
Show HN: AI Website design analyst based on Groq inference
Hey, hacked together this quick PoC to give ratings for website design, including visual, layout and content.

Uses Groq + Llama vision models for fast inference.

Feel free to play around, appreciating all feedback!
Er .. no? The modern Windows runtime, for various definitions of those words, is the confusingly named "WinRT" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/cpp-and-winrt-...

Underneath it's still substantially similar to good old Windows NT.

There's a Linux "subsystem". Well, two of them. WSL1 is an API translation layer that ends up being cripplingly slow. Don't use it. WSL2 is more of a VM that just runs a Linux distro. This is before you get into third party compatibility layers like cygwin and mingw.
Very interesting. I might have to check this out after work!
Why? Because of the typeface and the numbered list?
Very surprising this page doesn't mention loco.rs which seems like the most "Rails" Rust framework out there.
> In a single-user environment, where malware is the biggest concern in current times, what difference does it make if it's a process running under a different user or one that is running under your current user that is attacking you?

In these systems, the responsibility passes to EDRs or similar. But neither a $HOME/.tmp or /tmp matter in these scenarios. _Shared_ systems are where the concept of $HOME/.tmp might be more interesting.
This isn't really about the floppy disks; it's about the installation of a new signalling system but it does make a good headline.
Something from Andrej Karpathy on learning that stuck with me [0]:

> Learning is not supposed to be fun. It doesn't have to be actively not fun either, but the primary feeling should be that of effort. It should look a lot less like that "10 minute full body" workout from your local digital media creator and a lot more like a serious session at the gym. You want the mental equivalent of sweating. It's not that the quickie doesn't do anything, it's just that it is wildly suboptimal if you actually care to learn.

[0] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1756380066580455557?lang=en
I'm not sure what that has to do with locking your phone.

If you have a line of credit for the cost of a phone, then you have a line of credit for the cost of a phone. If you have a contract for service, them you have a contract for service.

If you try and terminate either then they will reclaim based upon your contract with them.
Is that how PostgeSQL got so popular? After all, at one point it was unproven and I am not aware of a 'HuMongos marketing spend' changing that.
Nice and neat tool! I wonder which llm model is running in the backend and is there any way to run it locally/self-hosted?
Goodbye to my life on Twitter, 2007-2023 (2023)
It's best to assume that any directory which holds temporary files for applications will be cleaned up at any time. The whole point of those directories is to hold things that need to exist somewhere but are ephemeral.
https://archive.is/MBAJV
> implicit returns

Oh man, that brings memories. When I joined a coffee-shop (pun intended), and learnt about implicit returns, I was screaming internally until we got rid of all the coffee (which was massive long team-wide migration effort that took like 2y to finish).

Once the migration was finished, everyone was so tired, that at the mere proposal of using TypeScript instead of JS the whole team would just roll their eyes and silently say "nope" in terror. Which was a shame, because large JS codebases are difficult to maintain and explore.
These kinds of comments seem to be like a fire starter on this site, but I cannot for the life of me see how they fit in the site guidelines.

(At some point this place has to contend with the issue of “we started as people trying to build cool things and wound up with every thread being nonstop complaints or nitpicking”.)
Asking a doctor to diagnose and treat a chronic condition from a list of symptoms is like asking a detective to solve a crime from a list of evidence.

There is A LOT of additional legwork and investigation required to get to the truth even if you're brilliant Sherlock Holmes (and most won't be).

The best they can practically do in the 10 minutes they spend on your case, is try to treat symptoms.
I can accept AI agents for basic support stuff, as long as there's an easy escape hatch to talk to a human. I wouldn't be as welcoming to an AI agent as salesperson, though. If I were presented with that, I'd likely move on.
Learn zazen and zen Buddhism meditation. All other methods are inferior.

Simply observer your own thoughts and do not evaluate them as good or bad. Do this until you forget who you are.

Simple yet extremely difficult
Streaming joins are hard
Optimizing the RISC-V Back end
I use old postgresql versions because they work perfectly for my use cases- there is no upside to upgrading. In general I don’t upgrade software that works unless there is a good reason to.
For $212M I think keeping the floppy disks are worth it.
The headline's kinda clickbait (they're not charging $212M to replace some floppy drives or anything; it's a whole new system).

However, I always wonder with these weird old floppy-dependent systems... Where on earth are they getting the floppy disks at this point? They don't last forever. As far as I can see, no-one actually makes them anymore; are they just depleting a reserve supply?

The other slightly odd part is that the system was put in in _1998_, at which point floppy dependence was already a _bit_ on the archaic side. Possibly Hitachi just had an old system going cheap...
Brain can perceive subtle odor changes in a single sniff
> I certainly hope you're not so naive

There is absolutely no need to take this tone, especially seeing as the person you are replying to is clearly in good faith.
Losing pressurization even suddenly isn't a huge deal by itself. The masks will drop and the plane will go to below 10000 feet but it's unlikely to cause it to crash. There's not enough explosives in the pager bombs to cause catastrophic damage to the airframe or controls.

As a side note it's unclear if it would even trigger in the air because afaik the trigger was immediate when the signal was sent and the pagers shouldn't have signal at altitude just like a cell phone.
Do note that systemd does have a tmpfiles.d (terrible name nowadays, but that is besides the point) drop-in with an extra service that will clean out /var/tmp/ of unused files when they haven't been accessed within 30 days (all of a/m/ctime are checked). Same applies to /tmp/ but with 10 days. I don't know if the service is enable by default on any distros though, so assume it is unless otherwise ensured :)
What an amazing name choice, certainly one way to end up at the top of search results :P

To be serious, good job!! Building a good framework is a shockingly large task, and it’s always nice to see people exploring the design space and trying for new ideas.
For me, reliable internet on a flight turns work travel into billable hours.
Isn’t that approaching the problem from the other direction? Hearing aids have some stigma because they’re not as widely needed as glasses before old age, but that’s not the primary reason why AirPods sell so the numbers are completely different. In my generation most of us have been talking about older Boomers relatives who’ve resisted visible acceptance of aging and pretty much everyone has been optimistic that they’ll use AirPods and wear an Apple Watch because those don’t telegraph “I’m elderly” the way hearing aids or one of those dedicated fall monitors do.
chill brother, let an old man yell at clouds
And if there is a tie in the electoral college, then the senate elects the Vice President. I would argue that A, which is what the answer key says is correct, is the least correct of these three incorrect answers.
Unless you get someone else's card and forge their signature on the back side, which is a permission form indicating that you can vote on their behalf; I don't believe there's enough checks and balances in place for this voting-on-behalf-of system, but then again I don't know what checks and balances there are.
Just say WiFi was broken.
It is also known as karma mind in the Zen Buddhism.

Obsession over things that benefit you and avoiding things that hurt you.
It’s definitely sad and especially so that humans are causing/contributing to it. It’s mostly because of our timescale being only witness to a decline and what’s lost is tangible and known. What’s unknown is how on an evolutionary timescale the field is being reset for the next round of species to emerge. From that perspective, it’s a bit interesting to think what could happen. Particularly in the mammal world as humans have or will have eradicated most large predators. Prey populations will swell/collapse and cause adaptation. Some current herbivores/omnivores may convert to carnivore due to the availability of resources. A lot will happen. If you freeze time to protect existing species too much, it’s mostly just for sentimental reasons. Some species do a great service to current ecosystems and are vital to human life as we know it, protecting those is a little different IMO (bees come to mind.)
Is there a science fiction universe that explores a hypothetical warp drive that lets you travel very far relatively quickly, but the travel is only possible with simultaneous backwards time travel that's proportionate to the distance traversed? So you can hop across star systems but can't do a roundtrip A -> B -> A without significantly shifting time from the point of view of A backwards (irreversibly from the point of view of the traveler).
Hopefully it takes off.
I love getting rid of visual noise of brackets around code blocks. It's as silly debate as tabs vs spaces. It should be a text editor setting if you prefer to see them or hide and see just indents instead.
Looks great, very interesting! How is the state of to documentation?
haha yeah it was a bit tongue in cheek as I'm learning another framework right now. If we can't have a little levity I'll just delete my comment if it upsets you. :)
Pre-Musk Twitter was pretty bad. That's why I left it years before Musk was a factor. That said, most of the people I know who used and loved Twitter have now left the platform or just don't engage with it anymore. They say that the reason why is because it has become intolerably bad. So, apparently, it has gotten worse. I wouldn't know firsthand, of course.
The nearly infinite backlog also means that there is nearly infinite demand for labor and Luddite adjacent arguments that labor saving technology causes persistent underemployment are invalid.
Is there a simple tutorial on how I can use the .internal domain for web applications within my own private network?