skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They absolutely are.

Any city will have ballroom, swing, salsa, tango, etc...

Even in rural areas you will find line dancing.

This is aside from informal dancing at bars and clubs which exists in every place I've ever lived in (6 countries in the Americas so far)
Highly relevant is this article about an unsanctioned internet network built by students at Moscow State University: https://scribe.rip/p/moscow-state-university-network-built-b...
Or just hiring a gardener? It’s not out of reach for most home owners.
I have always thought the decision to keep Notepad and Paint as they are is a nod towards the developer community. Thanks to this, there's a large market for affordable and better alternatives.
This is a fun little post about reversing a dreamcast game.

No one is being a zealot.
Can you explain more about Biden's involvement in Ukraine or link to something I can read more about that?

Why do you think Trump will be better for the war in Gaza?

Genuinely asking.
The hash is merely a CRC32; exactly this one (polynomial 0x77073096, code is wrong)

https://web.mit.edu/freebsd/head/sys/libkern/crc32.c

(The decoded ints in the post are the constants in this CRC32).

Knowing it's a CRC32 and knowing the polynomial allows inverting the answers in log time instead of exponential time by exploiting the modular math of the polynomial rings.
For the curious, it would be something like "makku-fu-ruri"

This was my experience in Japan as well. So many words we're used to saying in English use mouth shapes that the Japanese language does not, so you really have to tweak how you say things to align with what's available.

"Coffee" is a fun one for the tired westerner
3D printers were first invented in the 80s. There's a combination of several factors why they took off in the 2010s:

1. Cheap stepper motors and electronics from China

2. Expiration of Stratasys patents in 2009

3. Widespread availability of CAD software and desktop computers powerful enough to run it

4. Reprap project made it easy for companies (and individuals!) to develop their own printers
Aptera Reaches Major Milestone with First Production-Intent Vehicle
Interesting, as a very frequent HN reader, I do not associate this pattern with Python zealots at all. Rust, Swift, Go, more like.
(2020) Big discussions at the time:

(671 points, 286 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24256883

(644 points, 162 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273960
I appreciate the whimsy, but also, I don't have the patience to figure out how to do anything with this.
Use a clickhouse FDW or something similar, clickhouse has excellent integration with postgres. They also have a great embedded Python version. Their marketing isn't as good as Duckdb but in terms of stability and performance they are so much better. Duckdb is very very buggy and full of sharp edges but because of their VC funded developer marketing, you don't really hear people talking about it.
After all of their successes in making gender-neutral language mandatory in all government documents, I'm hoping that there'll be a feminist outrage about this. This should be gender-neutral, too, meaning mandatory for everyone.

I mean it's just a mandatory paper questionnaire. There's no harm in asking young women about their opinion, too.
Gardens reduce seasonal hunger gaps for farmland pollinators
I don't know that I'd argue that "consumer" 3D printing, as in a printer at home that just churns out a part when you want it, is even really hear yet, certainly not in the way that a dishwasher or lawnmower is. You need to do your own slicing, thinking through supports and brims and layer height, and the printers themselves need no small amount of troubleshooting that is much more than "turn it on and off again". So, I'd argue it's still a hobbyist realm than a consumer one.
XML is the reason why XMPP is not widely adopted. XML is such a painful configuration structure.
How Far Is Video Generation from World Model?
must be filled out with two copies and the correct account details ?
Unfortunately, his "Junkyard Wars" episode appears to be unavailable on the net.

https://www.facebook.com/RepThomasMassie/posts/1009013893914...
This unfortunately only holds when working purely on open source. Shipped binaries for aarch64 are still not super common for proprietary things within the enterprise space.
I already responded about Gaza in the other comment, but can you explain more about the globalization point? I'm assuming you think Trump will improve the situation, can you explain your reasoning there? I do think the CHIPs act was a step in the right direction to reduce US dependence on foreign nations.
Ask HN: How do you avoid small misses and mistakes in a PR?
Hello all,

I have been working as a software engineer for 3 years now, and I am happy with how much better I have become in that time period. However, I do have one issue that seems to be a constant with me:
When I open PRs, I tend to have small misses or tiny changes that always need to be fixed. What I mean is missing something like adding a parameter for logging that all other similar functions of this type have, or doing something in a slightly more complicated way because I am reinventing the wheel when our code base already has something to use that I just couldn't find.

This hasn't been mentioned by a manager or anything, but I can tell compared to the other engineers on my team, I find myself making those mistakes more. I realize to some degree, some of that is inevitbale, but I do feel like my PRs have more than I should.

I am wondering what type of habits all you use when starting a ticket. Should I be asking as many questions as possible during planning so I know everything about the ticket before I start? Should I be having a long planning phase before even writing code?

Any advice is helpful, thanks
What if the billion dollar company has a responsible disclosure process and internal vulnerability management program and has just decided not to pay for unsolicited bug reports? Where is the negligence?
I really hate to make a political connection here, but it's hard not to notice that of those states exactly one didn't vote for the current President-elect.
Nonetheless the misinterpreted question is also interesting. The technical hurdles people are citing for why small scale 3d printers didn't happen earlier are completely different than those of the large scale "home printers". Why didn't we have automatic concrete wall making machines much earlier?
You don't have to have a large market in order to have a profitable business. That said, the market for 3D printers at home is larger than many assume, especially as printers get closer to being simple one-button-push kinds of things.

They will probably never be the sort of thing that exists in every home, but they could very well be the sort of thing that exists in every home workshop.
Paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02385
> There's a reason why political jobs where you get to award contracts or write legislation cost more to get than they pay.

That is extraordinary. Not necessarily false. Surely we can do better?
The low-earth orbit generally means that this is not as big of an issue as in older satellite technologies. Currently if you are in an area where the satellite does not need to bounce your data through one or more other satellites before hitting a ground station they are in the tens of milliseconds of latency (20-60).

Comcast is generally in the 20-30 neighborhood, unless you are using their gigabit service, then it is more like 10-15 milliseconds.

So it is higher, but not debilitatingly so (unless your application is very sensitive to latency). I would imagine there is a lot more jitter in Starlink, but that is more a feel than real numbers.

Mainly on a terrestrial system you wind up bouncing through more substations on the way to the general Internet, whereas with Starlink you are generally bouncing straight from your dish to the satellite to the base station. So less bounces, but farther to go. The physics favors the wire, but not as much as it used to.
If you click on the moleskine notebook, you can read seven pages of "handwritten" notes, though they are full of analogies and exhortations that still don't actually explain what it is.
Already investigated by a republican committee.

See references 14, 15, 16, 17 of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden%E2%80%93Ukraine_conspi...

> A joint investigation by two Republican Senate committees released in September 2020 found no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden. A sweeping Republican House committee investigation of the Biden family has found no wrongdoing by December 2023.

And sure, it’s weird Hunter was involved but it’s also weird the guy who brags about being rich still won’t show us his tax returns despite it being something every other president has done and gone as far to make up stories about the IRS while at the same time saying he’ll release them when he can. Joe released his tax returns, it’s all on the table.

Joe appears to be held to a much higher standard than Trump. Like… if Joe asked Kamala to overturn the election results like Trump did to Pence the republicans would be outraged and try to bar him from ever being president again, not that he would because he’s a good person at heart and for which he’ll get no praise, because it’s obvious not to do that and we don’t give out brownie points for abiding common sense.

It’s only bad when the other guy does it which is also why they latched onto Joe’s garbage comment even though Trump has called his opponents, trash, vermin, sick people, the enemy within and encouraged his supporters to call them satan worshippers and gets a free pass. Oh snowflake dems hate being called enemies of the state. He’s doesn’t mean it he’s just trolling the abuse of presidential powers like any reputable statesman would.

But we’re so inundated by the constant flood of news that one scandal replaces itself and it’s hard to remember all the other ones that came before it. We’ve grown numb to it. At this point I’ll just be happy if we make it to the next election in one piece.
I can’t fault youth apathy when they’re never offered a realistic future to believe in. It’s far too easy to fall for the narrative that voters are apathetic because it means the outcome is their fault, not the party or candidate whose platform does nothing to address them.

Look back at the campaigns from 2012 onward, from both sides. In 2012, both promised more of the same, but the GOP with Romney actually began sliding rightward, articulating the fringes of a potential future for those who preferred oligarchy and authoritarianism, by deliberately mislabeling the Obama administration’s ACA as the very same authoritarianism they sought to enable. In 2016, again, Clinton was more of the same even as the youth vote (what little there was) resonated more with Sanders’ values and vision of the future, while Trump went all out on appealing to the far-right and normalizing their views of a christofascist future (with the help of a media engine that has no interest in facts, only ratings and income). His first tenure was marked with chaos and corruption, but unlike the tiny, incremental steps of the DNC, he went as hard as he could on policy, consequences be damned; that resonated, hard, with an electorate that felt ignored or left behind by the changing positions and attitudes of the broader populace.

Then we get to 2020, and this is where alarm bells should’ve gone off. Trump continued his campaign of violent rhetoric and oligarch policies, while Biden’s entire campaign was “I’m not Trump”. He narrowly won the election, and the DNC celebrated it by thinking they now had a mandate for the future, expecting Trump to recede into some other grift. They continued to believe this even after January 6th, relying on “norms” and “decorum” rather than holding him immediately and permanently accountable. He should’ve been barred from running for re-election under the laws of the USA, but the Democrats did nothing to meaningfully punish him.

So now we get to 2024, where the electorate yet again has a choice between nothing changing (Harris) and everything changing (Trump). The youth made their concerns clear: a desire for a peaceful world, higher wages, lower costs, and the concept of a future they could work towards. Both ignored most of that, but Trump latched on to that lack of a future vision and pitched his own to his supporters - along with Project 2025, a plan intended to eliminate the chaos of his last term and ensure he met his campaign goals.

Put simply, Trump won because the Democrats have failed to present a communicable vision of the future to their electorate. Yes, his vision is evil, but in a world where any vision is better than none at all, it’s little wonder he has won on that platform twice.

I’d strongly encourage other political parties to wake up and smell the reality, before it’s too late.
Migrating to Static HTML
NASA's Perseverance Captures 'Googly Eye' During Solar Eclipse
Patents do explain some of this delay....

Fused Deposition Modeling or FDM (1989, expired in 2009), Liquid-Based Stereolithography or SLA (1986, expired in 2006), Selective Laser Sintering or SLS (1992, expired in 2012), metal processes like Selective Laser Melting (SLM) and Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) (1996, expired 2016).
What needs would home 3D printing fill in the 70s?

A complete set of woodworking or metalworking tools was a lot cheaper than a home computer. And there were entire magazines dedicated to proliferating free or easily obtained schematics/designs. Labor was also cheaper, and people had more time for hobbies.

I would also argue the point that it would have been relatively cheap. We are used to the ubiquity of cheap DC motors and precision parts being a click away. But if you were to rummage through a vintage Radio Shack to cobble together a home printer, I think you would struggle to construct anything precise enough with consumer available parts.

> a melting plastic

Don't sleep on the chemistry of filament. It has to be extremely precise and consistent. We benefit from the massive economies of scale today, but this was small batch stuff 20-30 years ago. And if we are talking about the 1970s the plastics were really primitive by today's standards.
This is your tried and true. C level read a magazine, mandatory implementation order, engineer ticks the checkbox and waits for hype to pass so they can remove it.
Depends on who you ask and to what lengths you're willing to go.
Huh? There are millions of people with a 3D printer in their home. They're so cheap now that people buy them for their grandkids.
I guess it's a good signal for when a niche is opening for someone to develop a better product. That's probably a reason why competitors like onX have sprung up recently. (Although I haven't used onX so I don't know if it's actually better or not.)

Also with Gaia it feels like very single year they just have to tweak and change the interface to the point where nothing is easy or intuitive anymore. It's like designers need to justify their jobs so they just keep making change on top of change and departing from what made sense, just to make changes, just to be doing something.
I respect this position a lot, to never make yourself captive to a party or write them blank checks.

In a way it's like a significant number of Americans feel the same way. The people who elected Trump, then Biden, then Trump again.
On a side note, his Wikipedia page has one of the worst, low res leading photographs for a topic I've ever encountered on that site. Surely a man of his stature deserves better?
When they lose to Republicans, the "rules" are not Robert's Rules of Order or the bylaws of the Democratic Party. Instead, the rules are the federal election laws. Not following the rules is a bit less of an option.
Gatorade has a entire line of drinks for different purposes. Zero is what OP is looking for: https://performancepartner.gatorade.com/content/products/hyd...

The normal one is for high powered endurance activities and contains some carbs (sugar) to help fuel you through them.

They have one with even more carbs, sodium and potassium for people running marathons.

The last two on that chart aren't a good choice for someone who isn't active. Stick to the first two for that.
Yep, a coworker of mine even made a business out of it. He owns a lot of land, put up (essentially) a big cell tower with directional radios, signed some paperwork with AT&T for the upstream and sold to his neighbors who only had shitty CenturyLink on the cheap. I think he's still doing it.
This is absolutely not true.

The very moment the text of the bill was released, Republican senators held a press conference on how there was zero chance of it being passed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf4EzoWR944

Here is the Speaker talking about the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii0tl8d5G3g

Despite what you may have been led to believe, Republican senators actually do have agency.
"Year of living Danishly" [0] is this but for English -> Denmark.

Neighbours who knock on your door to explain you are putting the rubbish bin out wrongly in the street and it concerns them.

My sense of Denmark changed after reading this book, to one which included 'very high expectations of social conformity' which in some ways, matches Japan.

(ok. not this exactly because not primarily language focussed but there is topic drift in this thread)

[0] The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country - Helen Russell
Edge Scripting: Build and run applications at the edge
"A likes B", is not a proof that "B likes A" necessarily.

But If Trump loves Latinos we will probably see a lot of them promoted to important positions. I spot two hispanic surnames in his first cabinet, Acosta and Carranza, both for a short period of time.
Both might be true. I've looked at what is out there for Rust and Go and it seems there is a lot of the activity is in foreign countries with jurisdictional (and maybe even cultural) barriers to working there. They can't fill the jobs and we can't fill them.
I'm not a specialist but here is what I think I know (I'm talking with the point of view of a Frenchman, who consumes most of his electricity from (fission) nuclear power plants):

1/ Uranium is not a renewable (quite the opposite), needs to be mined and treated (which is expensive and very polluting), and not present at the required concentrations in most of the world (this creates geopolitical issues).

2/ Fission nuclear plants require a well functioning [state|government], and no war. A (conventional) strike on a nuclear power plant can have devastating and lasting consequences. Even a random terrorist group can do that.

3/ I've read that "Ultimately, researchers hope to adopt the protium–boron-11 reaction, because it does not directly produce neutrons, although side reactions can" (that's a wikipedia quote, but I've read that already from other sources).

So fusion doesn't seem the best option on the short term, because of the complexity and cost of research, but definitely seems to be the very best option in the middle and long term. And we made the short term catastrophic choice already with coal and oil, it'll be good to learn from that.

Or maybe I'm totally wrong.
Whether you like Russia or not ks irrelevant, you honnestly need to be pretty dumb to think that Russia would just cop NATO going into Ukraine. Putin even said this wouldnt be allowed on multiple occasions prior to 2014 but the US thought Russia is too weak and did not care.

Even Ukraine supporters admit that Ukraine has a problem with neo Nazis. Like waaay bigger than it should be. Just google it. Its a pretty out in the open fact
> people were ready to overturn the system and the Dems establishment didn't see it.

The Democratic establishment didn't want it. I suspect they saw it.
LEGOs are available as a rental.
I wouldn't be surprised. Should I be?
> for people that aren't already familiar with navigating things like GIMP, KDE, Open/LibreOffice, it's not especially welcoming.

This is true for all complex software, though. People who have never used Apple's software also struggle with it until they become more familiar.
Cocorico in french, very close :)
And sent back by fax.
The legislation banning municipal broadband is a symptom. The problem is capitalism.

All capitalism does is try and create enclosures and then use that monopoly to jack up prices for people who absolutely do not have to see the negative externalities of those endeavours. It is the most parasitic form of intermediation.

National ISPs are terrible. They shouldn't exist. The best Internet in the US by a mile (and it's not even close) is municipal broadband (eg [1]).

[1]: https://epb.com/fi-speed-internet/?#choose-your-plan
It's also easy to underestimate how much computation is involved and how little there was in the 70s. The 3D printer slicers generally require several seconds on modern hardware to calculate their final path. The resulting files are in the several megabytes. My Bambu 3D printer is all but festooned with sensors and is constantly adjusting things, but even the simple ones have more to their firmware than meets the eye. Even assuming that they'd use some simpler algorithms and data structures, you're looking at vast computation times, and most likely, vastly simpler objects being printed.

Even something that seems as simple as "sous vide" cooking, which is basically a heater hooked to a thermocouple, took a lot of little innovations to make practical to hand to the masses.

And then, there's the general improvement in motors speed, precision, and cost, along with any number of advancements here and there and everywhere to make it practical.

Could someone thrust back to the 1970s and given a fairly substantial budget make some kind of 3D printer? Probably. But it's slow, extremely expensive, and can print various sizes of plastic bricks and spheres and other very algorithmically simple objects, and in rather low quality without many, many years further development. I can think of many ways of bodging on various improvements, but they're all going to have their own compromises, not be garden paths to what we now think of as modern 3D printing. (For example, someone could bodge together a machine that offsets a rod on the printer head, and then in the offset space, has an object to be "copied", by basically banging into the object with a very crude sensor, so there's no generation of geometry at all. But this is going to be clumsy, inaccurate, and full of very complex and disheartening limitations.) You're not going to be printing Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's face embedded into a toilet [1] or anything, at 1MB of geometry. It will be commercially useless and inaccessible to hobbyists.

[1]: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6436138/files
Some variation of this was not uncommon in general. In USSR, college students were routinely used as forced agricultural labor during harvest season for up to 30 days. AFAIK something similar existed in other Soviet bloc countries.

My parents hated it, and I don't think I have ever met anyone who remembered that experience fondly for any reason. If anything, the kind of stories that people tell about it seem to imply that it was more divisive than uniting - the rural folk who were doing that as a permanent job were both resentful of "city slickers" and annoyed at the fact that they can't do it "properly", while the students would very quickly tire of being yelled at and start treating their hosts with contempt.
I play in bands in a large metro area. 90% of our gigs are in smallish towns in the surrounding areas. I live in the center city and there are gigs one can attend, but compared to the population it's a really low number. Just in my immediate area almost 3/4 of the small venues from 20 years ago are gone.
very cool!! We have the same vision with pg_moooncake: https://github.com/Mooncake-Labs/pg_mooncake/tree/main

From what I understand, the BemiDB experience is akin to PeerDB + Clickhouse. It's not really a Postgres extension?

Glad open table formats are becoming mainstream, for everyone.