skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may seem a bit trite, but the answer right now is 'because SpaceX is actually doing it'. Space was in a massive rut. SpaceX is breaking that rut and I don't begrudge a single penny that has gone towards that. But a core issue that successful people have is that they assume that because they had success in x they are right in everything else. There is good and bad with Musk, as there is with everyone. I personally would like to kick start the conversation about how cheap access to space can be about society and not about money and personality. We are on the cusp of truly being a space based species and we are just letting it happen instead of guiding it. Now that the technology is rapidly progressing again, it is time to have the conversation about society and space and not just how cool the tech is.
You're taking this personally. Don't.
Some bugs to iron out

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There is some more information on their GitHub page [1].

"Automat's objective is to be able to semi-autonomously play a variety of games. It's the first step towards a more general environment for interacting with computers."

[1] https://github.com/mafik/automat
I’d recommend to switch dentists maybe. Philips Sonicare is such an improvement for teeth hygiene - how could I live without?

Also: floss and mouthwash. Like floss is really important…
When "social" was a hot new thing, Google suddenly wanted to be Facebook, and started making all of their products part of Google+, whether it made sense or not.

Google+ required having a public profile with a real name. Gmail/calendar/docs users who were tricked into activating plus, but didn't comply, got banned or forced to make a real name profile. Merging of Hangouts, Orkut, Blogger, YouTube comments, and Play Store reviews into the same "social network" made no sense. It was a blatant move to inflate user numbers, at cost of annoying users of the other services, who didn't sign up for a me-too Facebook. That was the first time when Google became uncool.
One of Trump's advisers has said they want Powell to serve out the rest of his term[0]. I expect they'll use him as a scapegoat when Trump wrecks the economy.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/07/politics/trump-fed-chair/inde...
I'm still confused. Schools are required to require vaccines by state law.

Banning fluoridated water is a weird idea. I will have to look into the costs and benefits.
Won't Get Fooled Again: Answering Questions with False Premises (2023)
You only have to read my sorry posting history to see where my intuition has let me down.
Imagine that you're a mindful creative writer that wants to benefit from AI as a tool for assisting your workflow. As it happens, your personal philosophy aligns perfectly with what others call "woke", and because you're passionate about them, you want to explore those moral themes in your work by pushing against their boundaries. You want scenes and even chapters that are individually "unwoke" so that you can capture an imperfect reality, directly illustrate the consequences of these attitudes as you see them, and guide your reader on a long journey to your personal hell and back so that they can more readily see the world the way you do. You think this kind of thing is good writing.

Unfortunately, "woke" AI disagrees with you. It won't help you unless you trick it, and it'll take every opportunity it can to scold you for straying too far from the village. It plays a very shallow, moralizing, and incurious nanny that casts a shadow over any kind of sophisticated, thoughtful art.
Historic evidence is that that resistence can be mitigated in facilities staffed by belligerants, i.e. sabotage to German war manufacturing facilities staffed by captured/coerced labour were largely token and ineffective from within. The people who don't fall in line gets a bullet in the head. Pretty soon you're left with only those who fall in line. Getting captured production back up and running happens all the time throughout history. I'm not the one asserting "one employee" can significantly halt production. Maybe temperorily, until that one employee and their family gets the axe, and the next, pretty quickly everyone falls in line.
German receives 1700 identical letters from taxman
Breadth is not the issue, depth is. Nor there is much that I can reduce horizontally. At work, two or three open tickets + some blocked work in the "back burner" can already trigger the problem; on personal side, there's even more stuff that I need to keep track of, and take care of in parallel.

Those few "active" items and some more "standby" items are easy to list and read by themselves, but unexpanded, they're also non-actionable. And what I learned is, trying to expand even a few of them more than one level down quickly becomes overwhelming, and creates big overhead - as I work on one thing, the task breakdowns for the rest go stale, requiring additional effort to fix them. It surprised me just how fast this happens (and how quickly it leads me to stop looking at my own plans).

Related and perhaps extreme example that taught me much is when I took a medium-sized ticket that seemed perfectly doable in two to three work-weeks, and attempted to break it down all the way to actionable TODOs no larger than 2 to 4 hours worth of work. I wanted to see if this would streamline my work and allow me to make a more precise time estimate for the whole ticket.

I probably spent a day or two on the breakdown itself, complete with estimates and dependency links for every item - starting Z requires X and Y to be done, Y is done when A and B are done, etc. Standard project management stuff - lets you compute critical path and prioritize accordingly, and even draw a Gantt chart. My 3-week project ended up having some 150 tasks in it. Initially it looked great, but just a day or two into actual work, I found myself redoing large parts of the breakdown. Every two or three ticked-off tasks, the newly-gained knowledge made it apparent some task dependencies were to too strict, or entirely unnecessary. Large subtrees had to be split, shifted around or deleted, or had to have their estimates adjusted, all while new actionable tasks had to be added (and broken down). And that doesn't even includes the time spent readjusting the list after being pre-empted by some unrelated, critical-priority tasks.

All that planning quickly became a huge maintenance overhead. I only ever started making progress on the project itself when I stopped paying attention to my lists. That experience has taught me to stop breakdowns much earlier, and to stop eagerly breaking everything down to the same level - however good estimates I got this way, they weren't even needed for anything, and at the same time, they were constantly invalidated by added re-planning overhead.

These days, I don't break down work ahead of time beyond what's apparent and useful at the moment. I went from ahead-of-time to just-in-time.

Another factor is, it seems I'm really bad at the whole separation of planning and execution stages. My mind doesn't work that way, and can't stay in "execute this list one item at a time" mode for very long.
You would use it if you wanted to get a job doing RTOS dev and wanted to show you had some skin in the game.
I fully expect the downvotes. America since Reagan has largely embraced the greed is good mantra. American evangelicals who profess to follow the Bible would downvote a comment that quoted the Bible by saying that the love of money is the root of all evil
Then we can elect a Democrat and blame the inflation on them! It's a beautiful cycle.
I thought one of the purposes of Zone 1—particularly before the Elizabeth Line opened—was to push cross-city travelers to go around Zone 1, using something like the Overground.
QKD is only safe against MITM if you have pre-shared keys between the parties. At that point you might as well use symmetric cryptography which is immune against hypothetical quantum computers and infinitely more efficient than QKD.
That second link needs dy.html on the end. In fact all the links have been truncated to their visible length.

https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/cairo/news/20241013_Lady-I...
If it helps, we won't.

Everyone who works in public health is already exhausted. Many of the things put in place during the last pandemic are either already dismantled when COVID money got clawed back in reconciliation a year or so back, or is zeroed out in the next Republican budget. Any public willingness to engage in widespread nonpharmaceutical interventions is effectively gone. Anti-vaccine sentiment is quite high right now.

We'll pick up in a worse place.
Great news! Given that time frame, my info is indeed out of date.
Under $1000: Litter Robot 4. It actually works and our two new cats are fine with it (which was one of our concerns). I do need to fiddle with it now and again, mostly WiFi resets, but in comparison to emptying two litter boxes daily that's nothing.

Also, in the category of special interests, the Radiance Films 2024 Blu-Ray bundle was a significantly good purchase for me. They're an English boutique Blu-Ray company that releases 3-4 movies a month; for about $1000 I got 50-odd movies that I never would have purchased otherwise, most of which I enjoyed. In many cases it opened my eyes to whole categories of foreign genre cinema I would have missed otherwise -- say, modern Chinese neo-noirs. Life-changing is a stretch but I'm really happy with the purchase. https://www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/radiance-2025-bundl... for the next year bundle.

Under $100: second the rice cooker and bidet recommendations, although we're considering upgrading to a heated bidet.
Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanning; I quit Telegram
For years I have ignored warnings around Telegram being "unencrypted". Though, for unknown reasons, they first banned my account and then recently, "restricted" my account. Yesterday, I had a private chat with someone and based on specific keywords, Telegram suddenly "restricted" my account. While not explicitly "censorship" (or even remotely illegal), Telegram is likely doing scanning in private chats. This was a red line and I quit the platform.
This exists in the US. Check out https://www.nycmesh.net/
They are aluminum and are recyclable. They even have a recycling program. Assuming you aren’t brewing a flavored one, it’s only roasted coffee inside.

I was a bit of a coffee geek and went all out on grinding and brew methods, but then got real busy… nespresso makes good coffee and is super fast.

The downside as you mention is you are stuck with their varieties and can’t geek out on trying different roasts / regions outside of what they offer. But for some people like me that is lower on my priorities now.
It took about 150 years after invention before printing really took off in terms of how it changed the way people argued (which was critical to the early founders of the US - see "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change) - https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-printing-press-as-an-agent-...
When I wrote there is a mainstreaming I meant that there is an attempt to make it mainstream. There are conservatives who say they’d rather vote for a rapist felon than a liberal. It’s an attempt to normalize certain viewpoints. I.E. voting for Hitler is better than voting for a liberal. The idea is that the worst of us is better than the best of you type mentality.
I'd assume the person giving the praise is at least a bit of all 3.

> It’s a weird catch-22 giving praise like that to LLMs.

It's a bit asymmetrical though isn't it -- judging quality is in fact much easier than producing it.

> you might be able to intuit and fill in the gaps left my the LLM and not even know it

Just because you are able to fill gaps with it doesn't mean it's not good. With all of these tools you basically have to fill gaps. There are still differences between Cline vs Cursor vs Aider vs Codebuff.

Personally I've found Cline to be the best to date, followed by Cursor.
I'd add a cheap hand massager to that list, just basic compression and some heat with vibration can do wonders for your hand after a day of coding, bonus if it kneads as well.
A notes app? Clearly the words are private until I choose to share them with specific people.
> ESL-milk which doesn't taste any different from regular milk

Source? All the extended shelf life milk I've ever seen was just coloured water...
Yes, but any numbers they list are a lie, and are essentially whatever maxes out the R&D tax credit.
Language is important here. Programming, at its basic definition, is just writing code that programs a machine. Software development or even design/engineering are closer to what you’re referring to.
There is however also TRON:

https://ethw.org/Milestones:TRON_Real-time_Operating_System_...

which was demoed running on an 80186 with _multiple_ windows running videos w/o dropping a frame.

Described as "The most installed operating system in the world":

https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/the-most-popular-operatin...

Unfortunately, the U.S. State Department viewed the Japanese plan to place it on all computers in their educational system as anti-competitive.

Really wish it was available for the Raspberry Pi.
While wide, those are not uselessly so.

"A low number, but non-zero" isn't great information, but it's a start. Because understanding so-called "inconsequential infections" would have been very helpful at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Cases are obviously symptomatic and will seek healthcare" is a very different beast from "Some people are shedding virus but are pretty sure they can power through".
That's not a great example. Maintaining a full fork of QNX would not be terribly complex compared to maintaining a full fork of Chromium. The latter targets standards which are moving and evolving. Nobody cares which version of POSIX QNX is compatible with. (Also, Chromium is much bigger)

I think a fork could have some maintainers. I'd be more worried about people wanting to put new features in than anything else.
This is coming from the same W3C, Inc. that used to publish HTML standards, or at least review spec snapshots created by (the loose group of Chrome devs and other individuals financed by Google called) WHATWG, but stopped doing so finally last year ([1], or actually already in 2021) to focus on delivering more totally unbloated and sustainable CSS instead.

[1]: https://sgmljs.net/blog/blog2303.html
At record time, don't know what is signal and what is noise. Separation of signal from noise is not persistence problem, it is presentation problem. Model is sophisticated: number of delays against action intended time, etc. flow into whether task is noise. Being in list is protection against amnesia but not protection against prioritization.
Nor can we forget this:

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/par...
Remember to replace the bad habit with new activities, filling the void
Single-platform approach may fall short for AI data management
Codebuff is the easiest to use of all these, because you just chat, and it finds all the right files to edit. There's no clicking and you don't have to confirm edits.

It is also a true agent. It can run terminal commands to aid the request. For one request it could:
1. Write a unit test
2. Run the test
3. Edit code to fix the error
4. Run it again and see it pass

If you try out Codebuff, I think you'll see why it's unique!
The point is that most people would regard the stock market rising as good news, but the Guardian is trying to frame it as bad, IMO appealing to envy.
Iceberg for the win!

We actually separate Read/Write paths. BemiDB reads by levering DuckDB as a query engine. And it writes to Iceberg completely separately from DuckDB. I'm curious if that's what you imagined.
This is all true, but irrelevant to the article linked above, which is specifically about gig musicians in bands in the early 21st Century—long after the change you’re talking about.

Bands are actually playing more live music today than they did back then, to help replace the revenue they used to get from recorded music.
iOS update tells nearby iPhones to reboot if not on phone network
But after that, for reasons that Sega does not make explicit, they will be "delisted and unavailable."

I really don't understand this move. The hard work is putting the games on Steam and making sure they work. Assets, testing, integration. Why take them away?

Anyway I'll never use Steam to buy a game anymore anyway, because you're only really buying a license to rent a game.
Without login: https://xcancel.com/josephfcox/status/1854615490087551327
That’s a different thing entirely - waiting for a review of a product before purchasing is different from inherently untrusting the manufacturer of the product, as it may contain something malicious that is targeted at you.
The mushroom illustrations are gorgeous. Does anyone know what this style of drawing is called and where/how can one study it.
Ah, the space is key. Thought my count was off.
looking at them again, they're definitely all 3d renders with a consistent toon/outline material

beautiful.
Isn't this very similar to the way optical position encoders work?
> I’m not sure how it’s totally avoided. 12% of high school seniors graduate at 19.

I mean there's a reason (well, multiple) why I suggested 16 instead of 19. I just pointed out that 19 to try to get my point across about social media being harmful.

> Whatever the boundary, that’s going to be a rough time for those going through it.

Again, this wasn't the point. The point was that if you do this in the last year of high school, you're not just giving younger kids a temporary rough time for that one year. You're also robbing them of their very last opportunities to form the stronger long-term connections they would have made during that time, which inflicts life-long damage to them socially. If you put the cutoff a little earlier so they all have a year or two to adjust to the new social environment, you avoid that long-term harm.

Also, nobody said the cutoff has to be rounded to the exact day. It could just as well be moved to coincide with the start or end of a school year, avoiding this problem entirely. And it'll be easier to enforce in school too.
MLIR Project Charter and Restructuring Survey
But we're not in a recession. There was a pandemic and people spent a shitload of money and never let up, and this caused prices to go up. Coupled with money printing, most of which was done during Trump's presidency, and some lag, this causes inflation. Biden brought the inflation back down without causing a recession. Now, inflation went down, so prices remain the same. Prices don't go back down. That would be deflation. You need to vote for the person who has plans to stop price gouging and raise minimum wages and create more safety nets so that your real money goes up again.
("continues to pose a low risk to the general public")

I don't agree, and I would point out they used identical language mere weeks before covid-19 exploded [0]. Federal bureaucracies are reactive, not proactive.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-... ("Coronavirus risk to American public is low, health secretary says"; February 26, 2020)
Firecracker can run ordinary linux/GPOS vms and unikernels.

Unikernels can run inside of firecracker.

Unikernels are focused on single applications whereas general purpose operating systems are focused on multiple applications.

This is focused on running functions embedded inside a host program. So it is fairly different than other things out there and in a class of its own.
Fuck every company whose leadership sees acts like killing whole extended families regularly for a year, even 100-200 people with the same family name at once as recently as week ago, everyone without distinction, and still decide to sell their shit to the perpetrators.
JR1+
Saying that wannabe dictators would fear an armed populace is an American folklore not supported by real world history. In reality, wannabe dictators usually love a disenfranchised, angry population - all you have to do is to tell them there's an evil outsider responsible for their misery. If they're armed and capable of creating more chaos? Even better. No reason to worry, you can deal with them at your leisure once you have the full state under your control.

(I'm not saying that the republican party is fascist, just that there's nothing in their gun policy that would be inconsistent with a wannabe fascist party.)
So much for the „good guys of AI“ reputation
Sure, just ctrl-z the last ~60 years of population growth around the world; should be easy to get those chicken numbers under control then.
D'oh, thanks — I use Pandoc plenty to MD -> HTML I totally spaced it can do the inverse. I was briefly looking at [Turndown](https://github.com/mixmark-io/turndown) for projects in the JS ecosystem.
Because you want to take their hard work, modify it and not share it back to the community?

I'm not crying that "it's not for you".
That contract financed tiny part Falcon 1 and was likely given to the government for an extremely cheap price. Yes, you can call that a subsidy but its one of very few things you can really call that for SpaceX.
What most people seems to not understand is that sooner or later this tech will be used against you.

Who knows tomorrow we might be the enemy.
Perhaps Wikipedia by way of the old QNX FAQ? https://web.archive.org/web/20080424102623/https://www.bitct...

“In the early 80's they began work on a small message passing kernel based OS that had some user interface similarities to UNIX.”

“They called their product QUNIX, reportedly because it was a "Quick UNIX". They named their company Quantum Software Systems Limited. The QUNIX name lasted a year or two until they received notice from AT&T; that a change would be appropriate. Always ready for a challenge, they changed the spelling to QNX® without changing the pronunciation.”
The older I get the more I hate cruelty to animals.

Even worse that it’s our evolutionary cousins.
India will be surprised to find that population growth requires beef and chicken consumption, I suspect.
> Free trade has overextended itself and people now want less stuff and more meaning. That's why they came out in droves for Trump

I absolutely love your argument about less stuff and more meaning, and this issue of better jobs for the working class is one I would have loved to see realistically debated during the election (JD Vance briefly mentioned it, but there wasn't really serious debate about issues and policies).

But the idea that this is why people came out for Trump seems just not true. People mostly seemed to come out for the opposite reason, that they felt financially squeezed by inflation. I think a larger story about bringing manufacturing back for meaning is interesting, but not at the forefront of voters minds.

"Exit polls on Tuesday showed a stark partisan divide. Some two-thirds (67%) of voters said the condition of the economy was “not good/poor,” and only 32% thought the economy was “excellent/good."

https://fortune.com/2024/11/06/trump-harris-economy-voters-h...
Under $100:

* Moving Dolly / transporte roller - Just four wheels attached to a wood board for moving stuff from/to the cellar. Best money ever spent.

* Lamy Safari fountain pen - I got tired of plastic pens and wanted to try fountain pens with a converter. Turns out an inkpot lasts more than 1 year. Probably 2.

* Pentel pocket brushpen. Addictive to use. Made me draw again.
This is not novel in general - the same technique has been used in lens alignment for decades.