skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Charging for software features is fine. Tesla is spending a lot of money to develop their self driving software and its perfectly reasonable for them to expect to be paid for that.

Charging to stop blocking the use of hardware features that are already present on a product you own however (like seat heaters or battery capacity), is unacceptable in my opinion.

Software Freedom would solve all these problems by making it trivial for users to buy a software patch from a third party vendor for cheap that unlocks the seat heaters, thus destroying the incentive for manufactures to do stupid stuff like that in the first place.
Archinstall
Financial institutions utilize zero trust principles in order to combat financial cheating.

Learning centers need to adopt similar principles in order to avert overt homework and exam cheating.

Do we trust the students, or the professors? No.

So why continue to treat them as if we did?
This is a huge boon for Python.

I would blame numpy for Python's popularity today. Writing coffee as fast as c or fortran in Python is awesome (and keeps me employed).
It's at the start when he's arguing with the people that want to bulldoze his house about the plans to bulldoze his house. Good intuition!
depending on what you’re analyzing, EMA could give you a good weighting method
Currently paying for Overcast, but the recent changes (2-3 months ago?) are just annoying. They removed the ability to arrange items in a playlist (it has to be by date now), OPML export is gone, can't get to a podcast from an episode in a playlist... and so on.

All of this was working fine before the update.

When something is working well, what is the point in needlessly "improving" it and making it worse? I just don't get it. Gonna switch to Castro, though it costs 2.5 times as Overcast
Engineering has humans in it. Same as politics. All with human brains using the same architecture full of biases. It's not very surprising to be honest
By amusing coincidence, I wrote a Redis clone in Rust: https://github.com/bloq/memds
> Not to mention debris can be in GEO for a long, long time.

On human timescales, it's basically forever. Hopefully we'll develop the tech to clean up debris in space, but it's extra challenging to do it in geostationary orbit since it's so far away from Earth, both in terms of actual distance, and delta-V.

> People worry about LEO constellations causing Kessler syndrome, but the reality is that LEO debris deorbits in the order of months/years.

It's a little more complicated than that. The time to spontaneously deorbit is based on orbital height. Starlink can deorbit on its own in 5-10 years because it's orbiting so low. But any OneWeb satellites that malfunction[1] will take 1000+ years to deorbit because they're up at 1000+ km.

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1. Like this one

https://spacenews.com/oneweb-mulls-debris-removal-service-fo...
It is crazy the genuine anger that some senior leadership has over the tiniest most inconsequential perks like beer, ping pong tables, work flexibility, and not getting micromanaged to death. They worked their ass off getting up at 4am something something grind corporate ladder to get to play golf and go to sports games as work expenses and these entitled 20-somethings show up expecting to not get treated like shit and not have to kiss ass so hard it qualifies as a rimjob to get ahead? The audacity! It's unreal the amount of I suffered so you should have to as well.

It's so depressing how much leverage the SW engineering field needed to get treatment like how everyone should have always had it. The default is so skewed to employers being able to grind their employees to dust and getting thanked for it. Companies should be constantly worried about retention across all their positions and have to treat their employees well because of it.
Not to mention one cannot copy error message easily. Well, I'll be on itch.io playing 3D games using WebGPU on my not supported device.
Now that there's an abundance of it available, and that too including good free and paid options.

I've been building one for SwifUI but added 10x more value to it with various offerings.

Still, it feels like a challenge in marketing it.
I would like this except for it to be a daily podcast of the unique set of links and things that made it to the front page with more than 5 comments ordered by points and then comments and then have that read out to me with a summary of the comments. Now that. That would be amazing.
TV went from a "lean back and watch" grid of "what's on" 4 to 10 channels to a maddening "lean forward" task of sorting through everything everywhere all at once.

I'd like to see streaming services reconfigured around customizable queue, kind of a "TV Schedule 2.0" where you line up what you want to watch on Mondays, Tuesday, Wednesdays, etc. So, instead of hunting through 1000s of choices on 10 streaming services every time you sit to watch TV, you'd just turn it on and get Tuesday's lineup. Sure, if you wanted to jump out of this schedule and do on demand, you could. But, this would bring back "vegging in front of the TV" versus the 15-minute "What should we watch? Dunno. You decide. No you." ordeal.

As a side benefit, this would make setting streaming up for your elderly loved ones a breeze. "Here you go, Mom. Here are all your shows. No need to hunt for them. You're all set to watch Blue Bloods on Mondays."
> A shred of evidence is the ratio of proposed drugs by academics and the drugs that can enter a phase III clinical trial as they have shown some efficacy. It's something like 1000 to 1.

A shred of evidence of what?

It sounds like the output of an extremely large effort that hasn’t panned out yet, which is obviously true.
I was not familiar with the term satellite bus. I kind of guessed what it is but not really. Here's the link to the Wikipedia page. There might be a link to the Boeing bus in there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_bus
> using a finite set of symbols to represent an infinite number of communicable meanings

This always seemed wildly implausible to me. A very large number of communicable meanings, sure, but infinite?
> Know when to say when.

People warned about exactly what happened already back in the time when the merger happened that introduced beancounter culture to Boeing.

The problem was, as always, no one listens to the warners and the whiners when there is money to be made.
Do you seriously think that you stating an claim (which doesn't even really make sense) is evidence?

Do you actually not know what evidence is? Evidence is actual information gathered up from where it was created.

Evidence is not you giving an opinion out of frustration because you want other people to agree that 'remote workers are inflating real estate prices'.

https://www.zippia.com/remote-careers-2069923/salary/

https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/common-remote-jobs-how-mu...

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/27/remote-workers-get-up-to-30p...

You have no numbers and no information.

You aren't even explaining where you are getting your ideas and how you came to your own conclusion.

All you did was state something and start calling it the truth, then you can't believe that someone would contradict it with real sourced data.
> The greats are great because they enjoy the activity and would probably be doing it if no one was around or cared that they were. Do it for the fun, not the glory

Dude is aiming for a 3h marathon so he’s already there purely for fun. The greats are pulling 2:01 marathons these days.

And while Phelps was certainly a great, I doubt he would’ve spent 6 hours per day training like a maniac if he was just swimming for fun. That’s a lot of hard work.
Many data center tax breaks have carbon-free energy requirements (to varying degrees). If the pace of building data centers exceeds the ability to provide carbon-free energy, you may see a shift in the location of data centers, away from locations with good incentives and toward locations with the availability of energy regardless of its source.
I think redis design is probably easy becasue it's single threaded. So probably not

But wasn't the use you described the whole point of rust getting alot of investment from Mozilla in the first place. The browser had all those problems you describe and they thought the language makes it easier
AFAIK the big difference of Circle to both Carbon and CppFront2 is that Circle is (mostly?) a superset of C++17, so it doesn't change the basic syntax, just adds things on top.

I don't care much either way tbh, just watching from the sidelines while happily churning out C and Zig code ;)

But IMHO Sean Baxter does more for C++ than the entire committee ever did in the last three decades - if C++ would have moved into a similar direction I probably wouldn't have dropped it as my main language).
But you got unemployment, right?
I just made my own "blogging" platform, where I simply render markdown files using PHP: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog

I am also using Ghost on a different site, I like their clean editor.
I once saw Berners-Lee introduced as 'Web developer'.
Specs are nice but does any client actually implement this?
The LLMs de-value the viability of homework, and assignments consisting of at-home busywork. As an alternative, teachers will have to put more emphasis on proctored exams.

I say good riddance, that's exactly how it should be. At-home busywork is a scourge on especially K-12 students. Yet, every teacher has been loading their students up with homework, because that's their idea of what a "good teacher" is supposed to do.

The faster technology overcomes this problem, the better.
For online courses it is no longer the case that exams are proctored in person. Most higher education in the United States is done at community colleges and regional state universities.
It really depends whether or not by "sacrifice" someone is just saying "opportunity costs." There are trade offs in all actions/inactions.
It seems more strange in my opinion that you'd never have a course thats popular enough that more than one teacher holds sessions for it.

You don't have the choice to not take the class, you just have choice with which professor you would like to take it with. And often you would have to get lucky anyway, since that session may be filled so you'd have to take it with the "harder" teacher anyway.

For example with the popularity of computer science and STEM in general, at my school there were often 2-3 teachers teaching linear algebra in any given semester. And same for popular classes like calculus or introductory physics. Students would often lookup online which teacher was considered easier, but they still had to take the class.
Malaria isn't contagious
I actually REALLY LIKE MacOS, especially workspace/window management when using Rectangles. So much so that I'm trying to recreate it on Linux (I don't want to buy a new Mac when I have a perfectly good gaming desktop to repurpose for dev work).
It's more likely that something energetic happened with an onboard system (propulsion or batteries). Could just be leaky valves causing propellant and oxidizer to meet somewhere they shouldn't..

It's had a few propulsion system issues:

> On 9 September 2016, Intelsat announced that due to a malfunction in the LEROS-1c primary thruster, it would require more time for orbit rising ...

> In August 2017, another propulsion issue appeared, leading to larger-than-expected propellant usage to control the satellite attitude during the north/south station keeping maneuvers. This issue reduced the orbital life-time by about 3.5 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_33e
I’ve seen this sentiment repeated over and over in this thread without a single explanation.

Please explain how NAT on IPv4, as used in practice, does not increase security vs connecting machines each directly to a publicly accessible Internet address?

I’m having a hard time understanding how this statement can possible be true.
There's a difference between accidentally stumbling on shocking TikTok content and willingly browsing a gore site.

If my kid really wants to check it, it might be acceptable, but I'm not ok with an algorithm showing it by surprise.
Imagine someone is caught in a fraud, and a commenter responds "There are two real issues - first, public trust in [person]." Wouldn't that priority strike you as strange? Obviously distrust is reasonable and it's much more important for the person to really become more trustworthy and for others to accurately understand the situation. The importance of science does not diminish this.
No, but we had to write essays in class during exams.

There's a good question about the future and utility of long at-home research paper projects in school, but it's not a cornerstone of education.

In 9th grade I procrastinated the semestral paper so much that I bought an essay online that explored unexpected gay themes in Ray Bradbury's corpus of work. I was so lazy I didn't even read it first, only skimmed it, and then back to Runescape. So it's not like this is a new problem due to LLMs, and I think take-home semester projects are all quite bad for these reasons that predate LLMs.

(It turned out to be such a phenomenally audacious essay that my teacher started fascinated email correspondence with me about it and I was forced to not only study the essay but also read the quoted parts of his work. Ugh, backfire.)
How would the teacher know what student's style is if she always uses the LLM? Also do you expect that student's style is fixed forever or teachers are all so invested that they can really tell when the student is trying something new vs use an LLM that was trained to output writing in the style of an average student?

Imagine the teacher saying "this is not your style it's too good" to a student who legit tried killing any motivation to do anything but cheat for remaining life
IMO: The hierarchy part itself is not as problematic when there is no implementation inheritance involved. Hierarchical interface chains can be fine in my experience, but I’m open to changing my mind.

The problem IMO arises when you mix both deep hierarchies and implementation inheritance.
> This is a similar situation to the view that the web would replace operating systems. All we'd need is a browser.

well, that's not a false statement. As much as I might dislike it, the raise of the web and web applications have made the OS themselves irrelevant for a significant number for tasks.
I remember taking a math class in college and the professor had a very unique way of dealing with cheating. He let us use our books, notes, and "any calculator capability" from our TI-84's. His rationale is that students will try to use these tricks anyways so just let them and then update the test to be "immune" from these advantages. Before every test he mentioned that we could use all those tools but always said "but please study, your books, notes and calculators won't save you".

Long term I see education going this route, rather than preventing students from using AI tools, update course curriculum so that AI tools don't give such an advantage.
Honestly I think the future of languages is strong and sound type inference. Writing Dart, F#, Swift, Crystal, and even modern C# has shown me to varying degrees how good a language can be at type inference, and what the tradeoffs are. I much prefer it to the gradually typed approach, but I've found that library authors in gradually typed languages usually type the entire library and as a developer I always appreciate it.
FTA:

> Certification is granted when a country proves that the transmission chain is interrupted for at least the previous three consecutive years.

And

> To get the WHO certification, a country must demonstrate the capacity to prevent the re-establishment of transmission.
It's not quite like other infectious diseases (e.g. COVID), in that transmission is dependent on mosquitos as a vector.

If they've sufficiently damaged the vector one tourist alone cannot bring it back - the disease vector would also need to come back.
Seoul wants N Korean troops to leave Russia immediately
It's becoming increasingly obvious why Apple and some newer languages like Nim went with RC by default. You get safety, the near-elimination of memory-semantic clutter, AND deterministic performance that's good enough for most use cases.
It's anyways possible that it was struck by a meteorite or a piece of space debris that's too small to be tracked.

But these satellites also carry fuel for orbit keeping, evasion manoeuvres and going to a graveyard orbit at its end of life. Given that this satellite had two separate propulsion issues and Intelsat-29e suffered from electrostatic discharge it's not difficult to imagine the satellite igniting its fuel in an uncontrolled manner
Show HN:state-ref Universal state management lib that can be easily integrated
StateRef is a state management library focused on data immutability.

It combines proxies and the functional programming lens pattern to efficiently and safely access and modify deeply structured data.

It provides more direct and fine-grained state management compared to other types of state management libraries.

It is also designed for easy integration with other UI libraries. We provide code snippets for connecting with React, Preact, Vue, Svelte, Solid, and Lithent , and users can also create their own connection snippets.
Having written my own one of these, the interesting thing about this one is really the UI for iterating on extracting content from an arbitrary site. Having a full GUI for working through the extraction is much more flexible than the norm.
There's a lot of stored energy in satellites: fuel, gas pressurizers, batteries. End-of-life geosynchronous satellites sometimes drain all of these, deliberately, to limit their hazard as space junk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passivation_(spacecraft)
Fil-C is nothing like MiraclePtr. Fil-C gives you comprehensive memory safety.

Yes, it handles references to the stack. Misuse traps or leads to other safe outcomes.

Fil-C makes it so races have memory safe outcomes (like Java).

Circle and Rust are strictly less safe than Fil-C, since both have unsafe escape hatches. Fil-C doesn't even have an unsafe escape hatch.
What you're saying is similar to "there's limited amount of SWIFT codes", not enough for each person on earth, so each person cannot have their own bank to receive money transfers.

True, but each person does not need to have their own bank to send or receive money, they can have an account within a bank of their preference, and use that extra information to route money transfers precisely.

"But they can't route money directly" — most people will never need to.
This image shows logic gates they made:

https://www.tandfonline.com/cms/asset/5043deae-e79e-45fc-bb7...
That's a very common theme in literature concerning the future of society when technology and social hierarchy are applied ad absurdum.

The Time Machine is a very famous example.
I feel my point still stands, and that video is reasonable evidence for it. Of course they think about what customers want and would buy when building products. But the difference between Apple and many other product organizations is, are they meeting customers where customers are at, or are they building for their own internalized notion of "yeah, this is how musicians should make music"? Apple has always been the latter; this is an extreme characterization of what I just said, because its probably not entirely true, but in a way they think about what customers would want without ever talking to one. And they've been eerily good at it for many years; its only recently that this strategy has stopped working.

Tim Cook's Apple, especially post-2020, has embodied a strange synthesis of both models of product development. Apple Vision Pro is the purest example of this: AVP's sales numbers have been startlingly bad, and anyone with a brain in bizdev at Apple could have estimated the Meta Quest sales numbers and extrapolated to the conclusion that this market isn't chomping at the bit for Apple to release something. So: They made it because they thought it was cool. They made it because they had the technology; they maybe exclusively are the only company on the planet that could have made Apple Vision Pro. But no one talked to a customer, because there was never any "ideal customer profile" for AVP.
We're trained to assume that the prettier things are implemented by entities that care more for the pretty than the function the thing was supposed to preform.

Uglier, less decorated things are expected to function better, with less effort "wasted" on goals unrelated to the problem being solved.
An accidental strike is unlikely. Either a massive malfunction, or maybe ASAT [1]. ASAT is always going to be a possibility from now on simply because the target might prefer to deny getting hit.

[1] https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2024-03/news/us-warns-new-ru...
Downvotes accepted, I guess, but there was a step-change improvement. References:

https://www.itprotoday.com/attacks-breaches/the-story-behind...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/01/21/cel...

...while they may also (deservedly) be getting flack now, 20 years ago it was orders of magnitude worse.
Would you move on if I replace "not processed" with "minimally processed" and "processed" with "ultra processed"?

You're not some harbinger of truth if we do that.

In fact, it's pretty evil (idc if you're Harvard, UCLA, or a commenter on HN) to argue over whether or not you can distinguish between a cooked carrot or an Oreo.

Which brings me back to my original point. That educated spaces need a study or even just a link to an authoritative source to accept even the most basic point. Here's a Harvard link for you: https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/processed-foods/

Hope that's satisfactory for you. LMK if you need a UCLA or Stanford link.
From TFA, this bird is the 2nd in this "next generation" of satellites. The first one also failed because either "a meteoroid impact or a wiring flaw that led to an electrostatic discharge following heightened solar weather activity."

That's a pretty specific flaw to then just write it off to a meteor.

So they are 0 for 2. Does not instill confidence in this "next generation" at all.
> This is because universities are paid from tax money in Germany and most of Europe.

Almost every university in the US takes federal money and relies on federal loan guarantees to keep the high revenues pumping through. In exchange, the schools are subject to requirements by the government and they impose many. I think the bigger issue is the size and scope of higher ed here and if it's actually a good idea to to tell every school how to run their exams (and enforce it).
> our crap

Yeah if people had less shaky stacks. But it is always easier to pay someone to run the hack.
I think they're saying more that when the ultimate cause of a fairly unsurprising death is unclear or ambiguous, unlike saying "CHF" or "Brain Death" as the "cause" like we often do, they just say "unknown."

To clarify, heart failure and brain death are going to be part of every death, no matter the ultimate cause, but sometimes if it's a little difficult to pinpoint the actual reason someone whose body was failing kind of across the board died, the doctor declaring death will just pick a failed organ that was clearly linked to the death and point the finger at it.