skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For every 1C raise in air temperature, air holds 7X more water vapor (humidity). That isn't evenly distributed. So as the cold/hot wind currents interact, that gives stronger hurricanes. An entire year's worth of rain getting dumped in a few hours creating flash floods.

So every year is not only getting hotter, but also gets wetter.

Florida voted for Trump by a very wide margin compared to 2020. They'll get hit the hardest every year.

I was under false presumption that Mitlon and Helene will change how Floridians think, but I guess a loot more damage and death needs to happen before we internalize the cost of climate change is much higher than the cost of switching to renewable energy.

Ironically, China may be the one to lead the way. They are the largest producers and installers of Solar + Batteries. More than rest of the world combined.
It’s absurd that 10 people can make that much money in a couple of days. No one should have as much wealth as those 10 people do.
So it looks like you don't use postgres extensions so you can run this on an EC2 against an Aurora Postgres instance and dump files to S3 Iceberg right?

And can you then have Glue Catalog auto-crawl them and expose them in Athena? Or are they DuckDB-managed Iceberg tables essentially?
Just for the record...

Judge Marchand's daughter has worked for a marketing firm since 2003 that has the DNC, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as clients
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/house-judiciary-investig...

Here is DA Bragg campaigning on how he will go after Trump if elected as DA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQLflgGxUrU

Bragg downgraded 50% of felonies to misdemeanors
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/apr/08/ron-desant...

Some discussion of the convoluted logic used by Bragg to upgrade a misdemeanor (intent to defraud) to a felony (intent to defraud in the commission of another crime)
https://news.syr.edu/blog/2024/05/07/law-professor-the-manha...

This is such a lame case, that should never have been brought and is clearly an abuse of the justice system for political ends.
I think beryllium is a better candidate. It can be grown as a single crystal and there’s lots of research into using it for shielding in nuclear lightbulb reactors.
Nice! That was the first thing I did as well, ask ChatGPT. The only one not attempted from the list above is the compressed air method. Thanks!
That is totally false, but you are not the first person I have heard spread this roomer.

You can go to the official govenrment website and look at the contract, it tells you exactly how much has been paid out and how much has not been. The money is getting out as SpaceX hits development milestones.

I don't remember, exactly but about 2.x billion $ were paid out so far. The money is spread over 40ish milestones. And they have done like 25 or so by now.

To get the full pay out, they will be required to land on the moon and take off again. Those are likely the last couple milestones.
> Put them straight into the dishwasher and you’re good.

If you enjoy the filter cleanup. I personally prefer rinsing the dishes instead of cleaning the filters and on my current dishwasher I didn't have to do anything after two years of use.
I get where you’re coming from but think it comes down to context. Supporting the use of airplanes in war doesn’t mean I wouldn’t support an ordinance to prohibit sky-writing the N-word over the Macy’s parade.
Do you really think the same news organizations that send the user 4mb worth of cross origin Javascript just to show 6kb of text is really gonna back track like that?
Are you suggesting we'd use less energy and materials if we stored things on physical media and when we needed to share something we send a physical copy via snail-mail or courier?
That's the goal, but please let me know if there's anything you find that you can't do.
"someone else will do it" is not, has never been, and never will be valid moral reasoning. You are responsible for your own actions, not what someone else might do if you refuse to take actions you consider immoral.
Proving that SU(2) is compact (and other group theory bits)
I also use vimdiff. It’s magic.
I hope he didn't kidnap himself.
> I know a lot of people see the terminal as cruft/legacy from the mainframe days.

Hah. If you encounter people that think like this, run away because as soon as they finish telling you that terminals are stupid they inevitably want help configuring their GUI for k8s or git. After that, with or without a GUI, it turns out they also don’t understand version control / containers.
As someone that likes to cook, two things

1) Kitchen dish towels. The white with blue herringbone kind you see in restaurants or cooking content creators. I bought two dozen of them (~$1.65/each) and keep them all around the kitchen and use them with reckless abandon (some for drying, some for wiping spills, etc.). Having plenty of them means I can use one per day for general use and not run out by the time laundry day comes.

2) Deli containers. Picked up 48 in 8 oz, 16 oz, 32 oz sizes with airtight lids. Completely changed how I prep food and save leftovers. Almost entirely I've switched to using these over what hodgepodge of tupperware I have accumulated over the years.
We'd be happy to sponsor research on this topic. If interseted, email me.
Back when the Internet of Things was a hot new idea, "edge" did indeed refer to devices like phones and fridges.

These days "edge" more commonly refers to the "edge of the cloud", i.e. still a datacenter, just not in us-east-1.

Serverless also does not mean no servers, it means no sysadmins.
It's still possible and more likely this bet was part of some other trade or hedge.
Under $1000: A MIG welder with gasless wire (decent quality). It's like being in control of actual magic.

Under $100: cheating a bit, a Corsair K95 RGB keyboard from the local tip shop. Amazing to type on.
AI was defined by Marvin Minsky in 1956 as "the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men." Later in 1959, Arthur Samuel defined machine learning as a "field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed".
CDC calls for expanded testing for bird flu
Who negotiates these large domain acquisition deals?

I imagine that without a professional negotiator in the process many domain owners would easily leave lots of money on the table.
Preprint déjà vu: a FAQ about the ArXiv
> Acts like firebombing of Tokyo or bombing of Dresden or atomic bombing don't happen now

We still raze cities and drop incendiaries. America hasn’t gone to war with a near-peer nonnuclear power like Japan since WWII. To the extent we were faced with the prospect in the Cold War, both we and the Soviets were committed to MAD, i.e. using nukes. (Do you think unilateral disarmament in the Cold War would have lead to peace?)

There has been no militarily useful technology that was voluntarily abandoned. Just constrained. You can’t constrain a technology you don’t bother understanding.
If I have a horrible voice for singing, do you recommend voice lessons? Just for karaoke and fun.
I don't understand the optimism driving the stock market. Tariffs and mass deportations and trade wars may be good for the American economy in the long term but even Elon Musk acknowledges that they are bad in the short term.

There's also no doubt that they are terrible for the global economy. These are global companies. They only make a small part of their profit in America. A boost in profit from America will be swamped by the loss of sales in Europe, Asia and elsewhere.

Then there's the spectre of retaliation. When Trump slaps on his tariffs, other countries are going to retaliate. When Trump put a tariff on steel, the EU retaliated with a tariff on American icons close to Trump's heart: Harley Davidson and Jack Daniels. This time I bet the number one target will be Twitter, with Amazon, Apple & Google not far behind.

And the economy is super fragile right now. It is in no position to withstand a trade war. The yield curve has been inverted for a record 2.5 years. Yield curve inversion has always been a signal for recession. Tariff-induced inflation will limit the ability of Fed to lower rates to compensate.

I'm selling. Luckily this insane bounce has made it much easier.
Our philosophy in general is to go to a more open license over time (vs the other direction). So we might consider other more permissive OSI-approved licenses.

Would you be able to share why AGPL license is a no-go for you? I'm genuinely curious about your use case. In simple words, it'd require a company to open source their BemiDB code only if they made modifications and were distributing it to other users (allowing modifications and using it internally without any restrictions)
Back in 1998 I think - but that was a reboot when Jobs took over again.

At the very start they had the Apple1.
I would have trouble signing off on a disease-free monkey.
Under $100: cupping set for neck/back pain. $20 Amazon. all the same but if you get one with an extension tube you can do it yourself. Otherwise someone else has to perform it.
You seem rather optimistic actually.
In ancient times, Pompeii was a lot closer to the seashore and had at least one port, possibly two (the other on the Sarno river).

Port cities tend to have highly diverse populations.
Legal anywhere bicycles are legal.
One of the funniest things I've read in a while.
How to grow out of America's debt woes
Not to much mostly just a repeat. Just engine relight on the upper stage. The reason for this is that the next version is much improved and almost ready. That's the one they will really want to do the next steps with.
Resin printers are HUGELY popular for people that paint miniatures and do tabletop stuff. Most of them never design characters and just buy the cad models to print.
After some insightful sharing from Bsky devs in some other threads on here I am definitely reconsidering it....especially around the usefulness of the domain-centric identity model. But I remain concerned about Bsky developing their features slowly in the open. Which leaves it lacking (if you're looking to hit the ground running with a full fledged social network, not repeat the years of growth from early twitter), and also open to weird loopholes like some ppl realized you could use an archive of tweets with some scripts from a dev on github and backdate posts into Bluesky. Meaning you could write wacky tweets like from Sept 11 2001 etc and they're all sitting there on the network like they 'happened' weirdly with comments from 2024. And one of the developers in the replies of one of the jokey posts alarmingly saying we need to fix this ... in March 2024 (not yet fixed, still being exploited).

As Doctorow writes, putting the energy into building up your contact list all over again is not appealing at all and so remain wary of this. Similar reasons not to go all in on Mastodon which wasn't it or any of the other centralized Twitter clones that popped up a year or two ago which have now started to shut down etc.
Does anyone remember when the left side of politics used to be about advocating for the working class?

Now that they just sneer at them.
I'm confused by this comment and the accompanying link. This is a wiki page that was created in 2013 and hasn't been touched since. It contains no recommendations, just some random thoughts that look like they were written spur of the moment and then forgotten about.

Oh, and it starts with a giant disclaimer that says "This Wiki page is edited by participants of the RDWG. It does not necessarily represent consensus and it may have incorrect information or information that is not supported by other Working Group participants, WAI, or W3C. It may also have some very useful information."

Do you have anything else to point to to suggest that the W3C is "pushing us all since 2013" towards 3 cloud providers?
You’re seriously calling out a perfectly valid OSS for not being “in the spirit of OSS”, and pitching for licenses that are explicitly NOT OSS?!

AGPL couldn’t be more in the spirit of OSS. The entire free software movement started to defend the _users_ freedom, not individual companies’.
> "someone else will do it" is not, has never been, and never will be valid moral reasoning

I’m not saying someone has to do it. I’m saying if you work on AI it’s delusional to think you can keep it from being applied militarily. If you’re opposed to military AI stop building AI. (But don’t pretend you made a difference. You’re absolving yourself. Nothing more.)
> "Acts like firebombing of Tokyo or bombing of Dresden or atomic bombing don't happen now."

For the time being... Humanity's leaders are increasingly as insane (sometimes more-so) as their worshipers. I feel it's only a matter of time before atrocities and crimes against humanity skyrocket again. :(
1. Patents.
2. CAD software was HUGELY expensive for a long time.
3. Parts were expensive. economy of scale on things like linear bearings made this crazy. I recently took apart my first gen printrbot (it cost me ~$600 and was one of the cheapest ones at the time) and it was all brand name VXB bearings. because that's basically all that existed.
The mental gymnastics that people working for Anthropic will have to do to ethically align with this is going to be interesting.
Has anyone else noticed that Google Translate trips up a lot on GDPR cookie consent dialogs in Europe? I’ve often had to copy/paste the content of a web page because Google, when given the URL,couldn’t navigate past the dialog to get to the page content (or couldn’t allow me to dismiss it). Not sure if Kagi has solved this.
Ysco – managed automated updates for Go services
Just a cool $1800 for a Halloween prop.
They train us to drop fire on people but won't let us write "fuck" on the side of an airplane because it is obscene. (Col. Kurtz - Apocalypse Now)

Which, when you unpack it, is even more interesting. If you do embrace the emotional aspect of war you end up with situations like the my lai massacre. Does AI have the ability to prevent war crimes while engaging in "legal" killings feels like an interesting philosophical question.
Please, don’t. AGPL is great and you’re fine using it.
Also, notable, Google claims to support Inuktut and Tshiluba, and I don't see those two in Kagi.
Right, but this is expensive and dumb so nobody is going to do it themselves.

And then you’re back to trusting an external third party, just slower and with greater expense.
"I want Instagram" and "I want to be in touch with my friends and family" are completely separate things. You don't need social networks for that. It was possible to be in touch before the internet and I believe that Instagram didn't improve it at all.
Also have used one for over 5 years and it’s awesome. It can also make the best steel cut oatmeal I’ve ever had. Just measure it with the white rice cup, porridge mode setting, and let it sit over night on timer mode, wake up to perfectly cooked steel cut oats.
> For the time being

Not even. We haven’t avoided nuclear war by not building nukes. And we still raze cities and manufacture incendiary weapons.
Elastocaloric Water Harvester
Or, hear me out... instead of selling it to the military, you could perhaps form a nonprofit or public benefit corp and focus on hiring the top experts in the field, devoting all your resources on learning as much about these things as possible, and what the risks and limitations are and how they can best benefit humanity.

Or maybe you already did that and realized there isn't a danger of AGI, and so are pivoting to a for-profit cash grab before the hype bubble bursts.
In other words, they don't really understand "language" and it's constituent parts.
Was extremely slow, need loading or progress bar.

Since the input-text and response are centered, the left/right margins could be a faded map of a wine region (Italy/Argentina), not just boring purple.
By the normal mechanisms, I assume.
Under $100
- Ifixit's pro tech toolkit ($75)

Used it to assemble and repair my desktop computer, swap laptop SSDs, deep clean my mouse after my cat puked on it, and completely disassemble and reassemble an entire printer for a school project. It has easily paid for itself several times over, and is still in near perfect condition after 4 years of use. Invaluable for any computer, electronic, or right to repair hobbyists.

Barely Under $1000
- a Sebo E3 Premium canister vacuum ($950 after using resellers 10% off offer)

Our family's traditional standup vacuum (I forgot which brand but they're almost all identical) died after a few years of use and we were fed up with having to replace it. Most consumer vacuums available in the US suffer significantly from planned obsolescence, so I did some research and came across this German import Sebo e3 canister vacuum. Previously I had never heard of canister vacuums, they're literally never advertised in the US. Apparently Shark makes a few, but I had to specifically google "shark canister vacuum" to find them as there is no mention of them on their official website. It only took a couple raving reviews of canister vacuums to convince me of their potential, so I took the plunge with the Sebo.

I can safely say that this vacuum is a complete gamechanger. It is so much quieter, lighter, maneuverable, easy to use, and cleaner. No longer do floating dust particles cloud the windows' sun rays. No longer does my cat appear covered in dust because she found a spot I neglected to clean. No longer do I have to worry about breaking a weakening but crucial plastic clip or retainer when emptying the vacuum. Every part that experiences stress is metal and designed for longevity rather than aesthetics. Dare I say I even enjoy vacuuming now! It used to be a pain to lug around an entire upright vacuum over every square inch of the floor. Even the bags are better than emptying a canister. The bags are biodegradable and seal inside the vacuum, meaning dust never has a chance to escape. I used to have to empty the canister vacuum outside because of how much dust it released. Yes, the high price tag is rather intimidating for a vacuum purchase, but it's well worthwhile as it's been going for four years strong with absolutely zero issues. Also, most US resellers offer 10% off if you just call them to order it.
Comparing Trump to a 20th century totalitarian just seems rich.

It was the liberals who wanted to put unvaccinated people in internment camps and/or prison in 2022.
Kind of doesn't matter. There is no mission Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy couldn't do.

The moon architecture has been designed so that it requires SLS, not the other way around.

No rational planner would ever even consider SLS if they had a choice.

You would much rather launch distributed into LEO, assemble and go from there. The 2 billion $ a year could be spent on important things for the transition and the lander.
I was thinking that the current tariffs were pretty extensive. Anyone know of a user friendly source for which items are covered? I believe this is probably the authoritative source:

https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/file?release=currentRelease&f...

...but that's not too easy to peruse. I'd like to see something like:

0106.41.00.00, Bees, 7.5% Tariff
2832.30.10.00, Sodium thiosulfate, 25%
3701.99.60.30, Graphic arts film, 25%
3904.50.00.00, Vinylidene chloride polymers; Fluoropolymers, 25%
4107.19.10.40, Lining leather, 25%

...seems like you can get it one-at-a-time from:

https://www.htshub.com/us-hs/search/0106.41.00.00
I'm only here to correct the parent's false claims.
So, I’ve been thinking a lot about how we interact with code lately. If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent hours scrolling through repositories, trying to figure out why a piece of code exists or what the original dev was thinking. And yeah, I’ve dumped plenty of snippets into ChatGPT, hoping for a shortcut. It works... kind of. But it’s also messy, disconnected, and doesn’t really "get" the big picture.

That’s why I started working on TuringMind.ai It’s not just another tool to throw your code into—it’s something I always wished I had: an AI that can reason about entire repositories. Imagine connecting your repo, asking a question like, "Why was this function implemented this way?" or "What’s the relationship between these files?" and getting answers that actually make sense, without copy-pasting a single line.

I built TuringMind.ai because I felt there was a gap in how we, as developers, engage with our own (or others’) code. It’s about more than just quick fixes—it’s about understanding. Whether you’re onboarding to a new repo, troubleshooting an issue, or just exploring, there’s so much more we could do if the tools really understood the context of our work.

We’re starting small, but the goal is big: to make it feel like your codebase has a built-in teammate who’s always there to help.

I’d love to know—what’s your biggest frustration when working with a new repo? Or that one feature you wish existed? Let’s talk about it. Maybe it’s something TuringMind can solve.
> Kill one batch of people for their resources

This hasn’t been true in a long time. (Some countries took longer to learn it than others.)
What is so great about it?

I do feel like I'm missing out on something here, but it's hard to quantify what it is.
Monkeys Escape Alpha Genesis Lab in Yemassee, South Carolina
I have tried OnX and Caltopo and I think for Gaia is still the best. If they just fixed their folder management. It makes me angry every time I have to use it.
Why would I use QNX for any project when RTOS Linux is mature? Why would I care? So you can rug-pull license changes?

Should I use it because it's cute? It's academically interesting? Sure, I've used QNX in the past for those reasons. The next time I pick a soc for a project, and its associated bsp, I'm not going to look for QNX. I'm either going to use whatever freertos distro they include or install the android build tools so i can push an apk to its wackity ass android fork.

I suppose if i was doing automotive or medical, the story would be different. But I know the space well enough to know that you have many competitors all nipping at your heels, and with the linux rtos changes, it's not going to get better.

This is not 2010. There are options. While QNX has languished behind obscure and annoying licensing requirements, literally dozens of companies have been developing alternatives. Some of them are quite big, and in some cases, have gone to space.

At this point, if you want QNX to be taken seriously, you're going to have to do better than "start opening the doors to QNX like things used to be".

I'll take it one step further - if it's not completely open source for commercial use, I have no interest in using it. I could be enticed to put up with an Epic-style license if the associated tooling and bsp support was worth my time. I have zero interest in paying a license to get started. Again - not 2010.

Your product has been commoditized and now it's a curiosity. The only way it gets enough active development and adoption is if its a community effort.
Fascinating — I thought ultrasound was already regularly in use for reading oxygenation levels, I had no idea it was new!! I’ve gotta try this. I don’t love the modulation side, but the measurement side is incredible. Invasive tech is unnecessary and terrifying IMHO
Addressing Task Ambiguity in NLG
"Stock market is up" is bad for most people. It means the effort they put into producing something didn't get paid to them, instead it got captured by a parasite. [this does not apply if wages increase proportionally, but they never do]

Now yes, if there is a real productivity boom that can be good both for people and the stock market, but otherwise they are uncorrelated.
It's time to scrap the tube zones
Is more like change the message fifty times a day so everybody ends confused and dazed and just remember or imagine the parts what they wanted to hear.
>Break up this monster company and regulate the resulting companies until they behave.

Uh, seen the news lately? Not really going to happen.