skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Panama Canal is having problems now due to a prolonged drought. There have already been migrations from Guatemala and Honduras due to droughts in the highlands. Mexico City is facing a water problem partially due to drought.

From NASA: Increased evaporation will result in more frequent and intense storms, but will also contribute to drying over some land areas.

Don't know if Central America in particular will dry out in the long term. Was just using it as an example of the types of migrations that will come from global warming. Please try to understand the overall point and not pedantically nitpick.
Like PLCs or something similar?
Interesting, thank you, I wasn't aware of /r/changemyview! From a cursory glance that looks pretty close to what I'm looking for.
Show HN: 4Circles – AI based daily trivia game available today
Are there any small LLMs intended for translation between two languages? It would be much more convenient to use offline, albeit being slower.
That's a dial not a clock.
Do you mean US soldiers? We didn’t have a presence in Iraq in 2000, the invasion occurred in 2003.
I tried out Ubuntu with Gnome a few years ago after a lot of experience with KDE on Gentoo. I guess I don't get it.

No task bar. Had to Google for the command to install one. It's worthless. Icons change order. I have 5 instances of the same program open, and I can't tell which is which because they change order in the task bar. Can't even enumerate them since their order changes while I'm switching through them! This is the most basic function of a window manager and it doesn't work.

Oh, am I supposed to use that full screen task switcher thing? No, all my windows contain text, and I can't tell their thumbnails apart.

Yet, so many people prefer it. What the hell am I missing?
IMHO usually they conflict with each other more often than not.
First playable AI model that generates open-world games
Right, I'm With Her - alienating anyone who's not sexist and votes for policy, not genitalia.
I believe that many of the court battles revolved around issues like "standing", not whether there was any substance to the matter. So it's not really fair to put any value in whether the accusations were "proven in court" because the courts never focused on the accusations themselves.
Catastrophe theory developed a bad reputation pretty quickly, today there are many retrospectives of how various fields in the social sciences lost interest

https://is.muni.cz/el/sci/jaro2018/M6201/um/48281991/RosserC...

When i was studying physics in the 1990s with the famous conspiracy (more so than string) theorist Ron Maimon we talked about it and he said it was a pale shadow of the renormalization group approach to phase transitions that was developed just a little bit earlier.
Thanks for making yourself available to answer questions! Hopefully this is not a dumb question.

Is plc.directory a single point of failure for BlueSky users who want to take advantage of the benefits of a did:plc? And if so, is that a permanent thing or down the road will there be multiple interoperating did:plc directories?
I tried Thunderbird for a while recently. Maybe 2-3 years, my only desktop email client, mostly because everyone talks highly about it. However, I ended up going back to the regular Apple mail, which has its flaws but I still find substantially better.
I just tested dupe detection with this post [0], and I got forwarded to it after submit. It was posted 13 hours ago.

Just to be clear, in my original comment I meant: why didn't op get forwarded when he submitted.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42083547
>tons of misery in the "get your government hands off my medicare" crowd

Well, and also in the "I genuinely need medicare because my wages were stagnant most of my career" crowd, too.
sure… only because you haven’t experienced the inner circles of other religions (speaking as another relgion than Jewish)
Netflix also removed most of its Palestinian films: https://variety.com/2024/film/global/netflix-palestinian-sto...
I don't feel like China operates under the same geopolitical philosophy as Russia, they have other ambitions that I think are better served by avoiding wars. But who knows given the way things are going.
> laughable DEI issues

I’d love to know what DEI issues are laughable and which are not. Or are they all laughable?

Because an agenda that seeks to continue rolling back reproductive rights and protections for diverse people doesn’t really evoke laughter for me.
Of course, which is likely why the authors were careful to define what, exactly, they are talking about.
I still believe that a variant of python that has algebraic types and pattern matching beats Rust for writing parsers quickly.

My effort has been in adding these features to a front end language that transpiles to an underlying FP language, including but not limited to Rust.
Is "send later" a simple function? It's probably avoided, because it's unintuitive. I assume you need to have your client running at the scheduled "send later" time (unless there is some obscure SMTP extension), which is not a problem if it's running all the time. But possibly it doesn't match the workflow of a significant chunk of the user base.
This is one thing that fascinates me about the streaming model.

At some point it boils down to {cost per customer} vs {revenue per customer}.

However, because of residuals, {cost per customer} doesn't scale down as user count scales up. You ammortize the non-residual chunk of production, but that's a weird equation that likely drives the incentives we see playing out.

I'd assume residuals are lower / non-existent on the much-bemoaned formulaic Netflix fodder movies? Hence why they keep getting stuffed in services.
I feel exactly the same way. Back when KDE was a bit messier and perhaps buggier, I tried to muddle along with GNOME for a number of years. Lots of little daily annoyances especially around the file management windows, multiple screens, audio configuration, etc. I prefer focus-follows-mouse, which required some kind of add-on plus changing a hidden setting somewhere and it still never worked properly. Switched to KDE two years ago and ALL of those things just worked out of the box. And everything else, is easy to customize without jumping through any hoops.
You're missing the point.

Teaching your skills and strengths to your kid and eventually giving them or helping them (within the bounds of what's acceptable and ethical) get a job they're qualified for is good. This is basically how every mutli generational family business works.

Giving an unqualified kid a no-show job or a real job they f-up is nepotism and bad.
This reminds me of when Apple first introduced, with great fanfare, their pivot to privacy-first and “Differential Privacy.”

However, when privacy experts later examined Apple's implementation, they found that the promised privacy was largely an illusion. The parameters Apple had chosen for their Differential Privacy were so weak that only a few data exchanges would be enough to de-anonymize individual users.

I don't know if they improved on it, but back then it was less about true privacy and more about the appearance of privacy and an unfortunate example of marketing (core differentiator, premium justification) taking precedence over meaningful protection.
The PS2 release price was $299 USD. Consoles used to be cheap.
First image of our Milky Way's black hole may be inaccurate, scientists say
As a Linux user for ~25+ years (family PC ran Red Hat) I've learned not to stray from the beaten path. This is why I like defaults. It's usually the most tested.
This year I treated myself to a benchtop power supply for home use.

I've worked with electronics (mostly embedded hardware and lower-level software) for >3 decades professionally where bench supplies are everywhere. My hobby use saw me using various wall-warts, regulators, batteries, and hijacked/hacked-up desktop PSUs as I always thought owning a dedicated supply would be a waste. Purchasing other TE had higher priority.

Surprise!! Life is so much better, unbelievably, having my own benchtop power supply for idiot stuff that I would not have invested the time and effort to try previously. I was adding a fan to a project yesterday so I spent ~2 minutes testing candidates for audible noise when using 12V and 24V at various currents - not a necessary part of the selection process for the expected use but nice when it is low effort (turn on PSU, select output channel,dial in voltage, dial in current, done).

GW Instek GPP-4323
thats the “garden” for you
As a newer user that most I did end up donating a bit :)

Thunderbird has helped me abandon the miserably slow Gmail web-client (that doesn't even load like 15% of the time) for a mostly clean email experience. Some of the dread of writing and reading email has definitely been reduced thanks to them, so I guess I owe them something..

(Not to say Thunderbird isn't without it's own issues, but it's been working well enough for me since switching.)
Glad to see KDE get better positioning! The Fedora project generally does good work, very hopeful
Tariffs always benefits someone, just not the majority of people in most cases.
Having written probably several hundred kloc of both Haskell and OCaml, I strongly prefer Haskell. A very simple core concept wrapped in an extremely powerful shell. Haskell is a lot better for parsing tasks because (among other considerations) its more powerful type system can better express constraints on grammars.
> The reason Apple does this is the same reason as ever: it they feel like this is the best way to make some sort of experience work, they will do it. And if they make fat stacks of cash in the process, they aren't going to be sad about it.

This argument holds water only if the price were appropriate, not extortionate. Apple has shown the world for years they prioritize profit through control and not using industry standards.

The PCI/e, NVMe (+more) standards give you the best experience: a modularized peripheral connection system.

Appealing the capitalism, standards allow markets to exist and to compete in each component category. By not using the standard, Apple is saying "I don't want to compete on storage, I'd rather do it my own way and charge as much $$$ as possible."

Appealing to best practices programming, these standards are like interfaces. If you were to make a really useful *nix command line tool, but decided to not allow the output to be easily used by downstream programs through `|` pipelines by reason of "good experience" ("Why would you want to leave my good program? The flowers are so nice!", people would rightfully see you as stuck up and having the gall to think you know what's best for end users.

Appealing to psychology, Apple is not your friend. They are a powerful profit-driven company that dodges taxes and that fosters a cult-like belief system. I say this as an iPhone user and as a latest generation white-plastic macbook user. They make good devices. How much better could their devices be if they didn't spend so much effort in anti right to repair and anti compatibility?
IT IS THE CARS. All of our communal space has been gutted to make more room for cars, which do the exact opposite of community building, as they abstract the human away from the world and you're left with an extremely dangerous, noisy, and angry public space.
I believe you're right, even if all the states agreed to make a similar change, this "equilibrium" state would be unstable. It would require an amendment to the US constitution to make it stable and that would require a huge majority.

Even if they decided to ament the constitution, you would still face another issue: now electoral system is written in the constitution, so it becomes even more difficult to change in the future.

What do you think about the system adopted by Maine and Nebraska instead?
Im not making the argument that Ukraine became a member in 2008. They were told not only that they could become a member in the future, but that they would become a member in the future, and NATO would help them get there.
That's just insane. And it's not a subscription you can ever stop paying unless you get rid of the 5000EUR bed itself. Absolutely a dealbreaker.

What if they increase the fee to 30EUR a month? Or 50EUR a month? That's guaranteed to happen once main product sales start slowing down and investors still want their quarterly gains.
That was not what I meant, though.
The Dominance of the U.S. 30-Year Fixed Rate Residential Mortgage (2019)
Palo Alto Networks Expedition Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks, CISA Warns
And millions of people decided to make a company with no customer service their primary phone provider because it is free. Free comes with tradeoffs.

It's not free. It's no cost, but it's not free.

Considering the costs involved in a project the size of Google Voice, providing customer service isn't going to change the economics enough to make it unprofitable.
The sibling reply here is pretty harsh... but I have to agree with the gist of it :( The site looks really spammy, like the worst parts of the Android Play Store or those junk SEO sites.

It also looks like you're just straight-up stealing from other sites like y8.com and Gamepix, not even attributing them...

If I were a search engine, I'd probably penalize your site and delist it on purpose because... really... it's just SEO spam that's taking other people's content and adding noise =( You're not adding any new value for your users, you're taking away value because you're just making it harder for them to find the official sites of the games. Did you ask for any of the game authors' permission? It feels kinda shady, TBH...
AI portrait of Alan Turing 'challenges what it is to be human', sets record
The original experimental protocol was "only" four days per week, so it was never suggested to be an everyday thing. The extreme thinking among runners is probably three days per week of short intervals or repeats. The more conventional thinking is more like one day per week with a much higher volume of easy zone 2 running on the other days.
> to twist his very obvious words to mean something that isn’t

Is English not your first language? Those words aren't that hard to understand.

> He’s talking about how fast disinfectants kill Covid outside the body, and that we should try putting them inside the body.

So you're fine twisting his words to mean something else, and then accusing others of doing it?

Do you really not realize you have just then, taken his words, re-interperted them, then got mad about a fictional interpretation?

How do you not realize that everything you said about other applies FAR FAR more to you?

> dealing with his apologists is going to give me an aneurysm

Understanding spoken English makes me an apologist?

> I weep for our country.

We all do, but for very different reasons. Liberals lost the election because they can't seem to stop demonizing the other side, and people are sick of it. Perhaps take a lesson from that.
> I fine-tuned GPT-4o to turn Claude's sketch of changes into a git patch, which would add and remove lines to make the edits. I only finished generating the training data late at night, and the fine-tuning job ran as I slept

Could you say more about this? What was the entirety of your training data, exactly, and how did the sketch of changes and git patch play into that?
There is still ArcaOS[1] that can run OS/2 applications.

[1] https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/
I think you're giving far too much weight to that off the cuff quote from one of the creators of Go.

Really I think it's more useful to view it as a better C in the less is more tradition, compared to say C++ and Java, which at the time were pretty horrible. That's my understanding of its origin. It makes sense in that context; it doesn't have pretensions to be a super advanced state of the art language, but more of a workhorse, which as Pike pointed out here could be useful for onboarding junior programmers.

Certain things about it I think have proven really quite useful and I wish other languages would adopt them:

* It's easy to read precisely because the base language is so boring
* Programs almost never break on upgrade - this is wonderful
* Fewer dependencies, not more
* Formatters for code

Lots of little things (struct tags for example) I'm not so keen on but I think it's pretty successful in meeting its rather modest goals.
Simple, ad-free, and relaxing trivia game that you can play anywhere.

Questions are generated using Google Gemini+ Anthropic Claude. Developed a custom algorithm to merge trending topics from various social media platforms, news outlets, scheduled calendar events, and key topics of interest (sports, politics, music, etc.)

Blog post to learn more: https://medium.com/@svadrut/introducing-4circles-bc7fcba984a...
Perhaps in 2024. Not in 2004.
Such games are a treasure. My wife and I enjoyed Firewatch and Take of two brothers, as well as all the amanita design games like that. One person has the controls but two people are actively engaged :-). Any tips for others?
Unpatched Vulnerabilities Allow Hacking of Mazda Cars: ZDI
You can get the same JS/node_modules experience with Python, just use pdm. ;)
I used to do that, but now it's $18+ to watch without ads which is a bit much just for one title you're interested in.
Google Cloud mandates MFA by end of 2025
They failed to put the majority of voters in better position financially than they were under Trump.
Edit: Oh I completely forgot my favorite piece of software rcmd paired with mapping my capslock to right command. Deterministic app switching is amazing. After years of changing up workflows to be grid, spaces, etc, based I finally have my perfect workflow that works on single and multi monitor setups.

DE razor.

Bidet.

Squatty potty.

Morning breakfast is now hulled barley (ground to powder) porridge, the beta glucan (more than in oatmeal) in it makes my entire digestive situation better I prefer it over cream of wheat or oatmeal (which I find disgusting). Barley and humans just really have a thing going, I just add water from my hot water tank, throw in a little sweetener and microwave for 1 min. It's and amazing whole grain hot breakfast.

A hot water tank in the kitchen.

Under 1k:
Rollerblades, I'm nearing 40 and started to notice I'm slowing down some, picking up rollerblading is amazing for balance and flexibility, I have massively improved my cognition, balance and flexibility, it's a crazy core workout I find myself just tooling around for hours trying to do new moves at increasingly faster speeds.

free:
permanently leaving my phone on do not disturb.
yes it's a SPOF. not sure about the second question, but i do know there are plans to transfer its ownership to an independent foundation
South America Is Drying Up
reflinks, cheap/easy dedupe in a sense.
> "new pizza place that makes dessert pizzas"

That would be Brazilian pizza!
Sort of surprised it doesn't work sort of like Spotify, residuals based on performance. So unused content gets nothing, but also being cheap to have it available.
That's saying the same thing. If you give someone the ability to understand a brilliant language, they will turn their attention to the language and away from the problem. That's just human nature. Shiny attracts us. Let's be honest, we all have way more fun diving deep into crafting the perfect type in Haskell. But Pike indicates that if you constrain developers to bounds that they already know, where they can't turn their attention to learning about what is brilliant, then they won't be compelled away from what actually matters – the engineering.
I could do it with less effort and cost than OTC. Online message my PCP, prescription sent to pharmacy, mailed to me at my house, cost $0 since it's just a generic. And I have a cheap as shit high deductible plan with a steep out of pocket maximum, not some cadillac plan.

OTC would be faster, but if I have a chronic need for large amounts of pseudoephedrine I'm not waiting until it hurts before I run to the store. I'm getting my doc to make sure I have a hell of a good stash (and I checked, just to be sure -- the limits don't exist if it's prescription; at least not in Oregon, which is famously restrictive on pseudoephedrine).

Would it be better to relax the restrictions that now seem pointless on the OTC version? Yep. But if someone is bitching on HN about how they can barely get what they desperately need, I'd say it's time to stop being idealistic and go get the damn drugs already.
Ubuntu runs a heavily modified GNOME, and your issue is entirely in their taskbar extension. Vanilla GNOME on Fedora works fine for me.
Because Russia isn't exactly an international export powerhouse. (Energy aside)
That is a very good point! Indeed if they are using different tech / code paths that would explain why they get sunset at different times.
Home Assistant and CarPlay with the Pi Touch Display 2
We used the same voice in GE's BusinessTalk system. I think BT and AOL shared a codebase. Not sure which was first.
But in the given context, returning a Return type will almost by necessity involve a conditional at the caller site, so for an apples to apples comparison that should be compared, not a linear return and nothing else.
> From there, learning that red lights correlates with the large, fast, dangerous object stopping, is just a matter of observation

I think "just a matter of observation" understates the many levels of abstraction and generalization that animal brains have evolved to effectively deal with the environment.

Here's something I just read the other day about this:

Summary:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-neuroscientists-revea...

Actual:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08145-x

"After experiencing enough sequences, the mice did something remarkable—they guessed a part of the sequence they had never experienced before. When reaching D in a new location for the first time, they knew to go straight back to A. This action couldn't have been remembered, since it was never experienced in the first place! Instead, it's evidence that mice know the general structure of the task and can track their 'position' in behavioral coordinates"
Mostly, it just gets you to a non-sandboxed state. However, I do seem to recall vaguely one issue I saw where escaping the sandbox got you a higher privileged state, I think because of a bug in the kernel logic that enforces the sandbox.
> Just my thoughts—your mileage may vary. Curious if anyone else feels the same way?

I sure do. The default MacOS interface, to me, feels like it's for children. It's too much work to use it for serious work.

These days I've settled on AwesomeWM. I've been slowly building my ideal desktop since the pandemic. It's super lightweight and completely, completely customizable. I can add code in to do whatever I want pretty much anywhere and it is setup to make that super easy to do so. It's a true joy.

I have a super lightweight, efficient and attractive version of the way I have my Windows desktop setup, except there I have to use a bunch of add-ons that take up memory to achieve the same result. Things liek adding a titlebar button to be on top or to send to a different screen with just a click, or to have a quake style terminal dropdown.
> I wouldn't risk this

This seems like a technical workaround for a legal requirement. Indeed, that seems risky xD
Did you think this addressed the point?

I don't hear anything that shows that this mistake is part of the majority or minority.

How long ago it was made is insignificant.

I have no reason to think that you do not have a similar 20 year old ongoing error unless you are physically not yet 20 years old. I'm sure I probably do. I'm sure everyone does. It's not a remarkable thing.

They are also right now self-correcting this error, while I still have mine whatever they are.

Regardless, it still doesn't answer the question of exception vs rule. No matter how bad or long-running this error is, it doesn't matter, what matters is, is it representative of most of their policies and actions? It might be, but you have not shown that it is and I have not shown that it's not.