skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: A game where you identify countries based on their electric grid mix
I'm a climate scientist, and I built this game using a dataset from Ember Energy (https://ember-energy.org/data/api/). The UI is ugly and the code is uglier, but the game is weirdly hypnotic regardless. Please let me know what you think!
It seems hard to "disable" the issues mentioned at https://dustri.org/b/upcoming-hardening-in-php.html
Comparing unbinned to unbinned, you get 10 P cores on the M4 Pro and 12 on the M4 Max. Regardless the original comment was regarding the M3 series, where there was an even larger difference between the M3 Pro and M3 Max (6 vs 10 P cores).
Oracle Cloud Free Tier ARM instances are really good, I don’t host Mastodon on mine but I assume you can, of course you still have to pay for a domain name but you can get a cheap one
What if "worldviews" are simply a cheating mechanism invented by the brain to (ex-post) explain, organize and rationalize more innate responses?

Hence, no point to try to deconstruct them because they have no internal consistency whatsoever. E.g., a person lacking in empathy (and acting on it) will find a mental scheme to justify the validity of their actions.
SEALs probably can deploy from any boat.
Indeed, it's a Presidential advisory commission.

To create a federal executive department you need an act of Congress which is not very efficient.

It's much more efficient to just use the name "department" and bet on the chance that nobody would care about words, meanings, facts and rules.
>I think that Carl Schmitt's view of politics as a set of interest groups which are naturally opposed to each other is much more valuable.

I think that is the marxist view of politics, where society is divided in classes that have different views, different interests and a struggle appears between them.

I never seen this theory work in practice.
> we are becoming less tolerant

This is partly true. But also - life is too short. There isn’t enough time in the day to engage socially with people you don’t have a connection with.
Well then make it easy to catch the perpetrators.
NASA and Roscosmos disagree on cause and severity of ISS air leak
QCs are in all major data centers already. Although there is not much you can do with them, but you can use them. IONQ is considered the leader right now in QC. Look them up, very interesting stuff they are doing. They just partnered with astrazeneca to start developing useful applications. They will also demonstrate hybrid algorithms next week where they offload some stuff to QPUs to speed up models. I would say within two years QCs will start being useful.
It just uses native go function closure to hold and pass data among tasks, and it requires users to consider the data race problem. Cuz in some cases, tasks are executed in parallel.
access to safe abortions has less tenure as a ‘tradition’ than the previous policy of only unsafe and illegal ocurring. not sure how advancing an enlightened society stands to be categorized as stubborn and traditional resisting change when progress is sought to be repealed.
https://www.adweek.com/media/advertisers-returning-to-x/

Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze
They probably are working on one all the time but they scrap it when starting a new framework…
I agree. To me it's trying to promote nonsense as scientific truth by using great words.
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Eliminating the Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Would Be a Mistake
Use the mvvm [0] toolkit, it is good! That way you decouple your view (<= gui toolkit) from your (view)model.

It works with Avalonia, WPF and should work with Winui3, Uno etc too. Avalonia is being used by some pretty impressive applications btw, check that one out too. (I have no affiliation).

Avalonia (+ .net) is the reason why I think that is the best stack for any desktop application or util, because utils eventually gain a gui. Imho a far better choice than Python or JS in most cases.

As an aside, I don't understand why the Java players do not put more emphasis on JavaFX. Would be the ultimate choice for people that are wary about the MS affiliation.

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0. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/communitytoolkit/mv...
When I was watching the behavior on the tv, was wondering if buffering sends some separate, non-business-as-usual requests, and that part of Netflix's delivery architecture was being overloaded.

E.g. "give me this previous chunk" vs "send me the current stream"
People can deploy that personally if they wish. The abstract captures the gist in most cases.
N-Spheres [video]
So if I already own HL2, that means I'd automatically be able to access those sequels / episodes?
Throw in some crypto and you've got a recipe for some great word salad!
VFDs are also nice, but for decorative purposes I like more the sight of gas tubes with cathodic light, like Nixies, where you see the light being generated in an apparently empty space, instead of coming from inside a solid, like in VFDs, CRTs, LEDs, incandescent lamps or fluorescent lamps.
I don’t think people talk about hypothetical EV weight when they make such claims, the claims tend to revolve around EVs currently on the road.

We should also try to discuss “waiting time” rather than range so that people start to think in these terms.

My overall waiting time is much lower for my EV than my old diesel, despite the range of the EV being lower. Less time waiting to fill up on a weekly basis (0 mins while I sleep vs 5 mins filling up + journey time to the petrol station), less time defrosting in the winter (0 mins remote pre-heat vs 5+ scraping), less time waiting to fill up on long journeys (0 extra mins while I eat vs 5 extra mins filling up).

These are all situation dependent of course, but making people adjust their thinking will help them get a more accurate picture of EV ownership.
It says open-source, but the github repo contains what seems a very old piece of code? Will it be updated soon?
Hopefully, no one calls up the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
> Avalonia is being used by some pretty impressive applications

Like this implementation of Visual Basic 6: https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/
Tulsi Gabbard may well be the next director of national intelligence...
Going a little further with this idea: how well do unequal outcomes reflect equal treatment? People like Pareto would say some people get better outcomes only because they make better life decisions; people like Veblen would say some people get better outcomes because they make better life decisions, like the decision of which parents to be born to.

It's highly likely that outcomes reflect both decisions and chance (including initial aptitudes for decision making), but I'm unsure anyone to this point has been able to demonstrate what the breakdown between those two factors might be.

(and indeed Pareto predicted that people will tend to fundamentally lean to favouring one or the other explanation, and only secondarily come up with rationalisations that support their basic worldview)
> with some really interesting alternative take on how x86 PCs could be

care to elaborate?
Killer Robots Are About to Fill Ukrainian Skies
Aren’t Tang Nano‘s the best starting point? Really affordable and good tooling.
Yeah, I am familiar with using snow to dry off wet clothes.
Idk, but I think they burried themselves under a load of GUI frameworks.

Windows Forms is good, but limited.
WPF is almost perfect, but Avalonia is like that + cross platform.

The other ms gui frameworks are a waste of time, skip those.
Not the person you're replying to, but I rolled my eyes and had trouble taking the rest of the article seriously when such an implausible thought experiment came so early in the article without being criticized for the deep flaws in this assumption.

I don't think anyone is internally consistent all the time (yes, including me). Whatever principle or set of principles someone thinks they have, there's always some conceivable situation where we could line them all up so there should be an obvious "right" conclusion, but the person will still instinctively react against it and feel it's wrong.

This is why we won't ever be able to, for example, train up AI surrogates to go have all our arguments for us, on a societal level, faster and in more depth than we ever could since we have to worry about things like continuing to eat, and let them make decisions about agreements that should govern our actions. The agents would run into our self-contradictions all the time, and have to point them out to us to try to get clarity, and then we'd get so frustrated with their pointing this out all the time that we'd turn them off and abandon the whole endeavor.
I think it’s trying to explain why there’s no room. There’s only so much room in the grab bag. Or only so many nodes on the tree.
Pointing and Shooting
What I'm suggesting is that courtroom activity doesn't correlate strongly enough reality to infer reality from it.
Unfortunately for many use cases like gamedev, debug builds need to be fast too. So hopefully more of the improvement is from branch prediction.
it’s the work of criticism, which often seeks to reframe an entire topic or institution by questioning assumptions girding legitimacy and asserting systemic contradictions.

just as valid an approach as immersion into the domain in discussion.
I used to have a workflow for updating code inside a very highly secure environment that relied on exactly this:

Run build of prior version, run build of current version, run diff against them, compress with xz -9, base64 encode, generate output, base64 encode, e-mail it to myself, copy text of email, type "openssl base64 -d | unxz | bash", right click.

E-mailing this was completely fine according to the stringent security protocols but e-mailing a zip of the code, etc. was absolutely 100% not. That would have to go on the vendor's formal portal.

(Eventually I just opened my own "portal" to upload binaries to, put the vendor I worked for's logo on it, and issued a statement saying it was an official place to download binaries from the vendor. But sometimes their WAF would still mangle downloads or flag them as a risk, so I made sure builds had options of coming in an obfuscated base64 format.)
Actually, no, I didn’t have a warm introduction. I reached out to him directly and got a response within 5 mins!, I was inspired by another entrepreneur who successfully raised funds in a similar way. (By the way, his email is publicly available and easy to find online.)

Several factors worked in our favor:

- We had an MVP and paying clients.

- In 2017, AI and machine vision were gaining traction and generating a lot of buzz.

- Plus, my academic background likely helped as well.
I half-thought about one of these just to have something to rip around in.

Until a colleague in a Model Y hit a turkey and the very minor front end damage turned into a $9000 insurance claim.

I don't want to buy a $20k used Tesla and immediately run into a 4-5 figure repair as soon as one minor thing goes horribly wrong, even with insurance.
I tried it on a Walmart receipt. It misread a 9 for a 0.

https://imgur.com/a/ni8zOmb
tbh indulgence in both practices is pretty revealing and eye opening for the earnest
Electroconvulsive therapy is about as effective as bloodletting. There are conditions for which bloodletting is an effective treatment, such as iron overload. But in most people, and under most circumstances, losing meaningful quantities of blood leads to long-term injury and/or death. Likewise, electrocuting the nervous system often causes permanent disability and/or death, and is a fairly effective torture method.

Lobotomy, too, can be an effective treatment for epilepsy. But I'm sure we can all agree that certain people in the past were way too quick to resort to it. (The Soviet Union banned it in the 1950s, on human rights grounds.) Likewise, I'm rather worried by the high incidence of involuntary (read: forced, non-consensual) electroconvulsive therapy. 10% is way too high, and I've seen numbers higher than that…
I've had a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen 9 (32gb) for 3 months now, and my experience with it has been quite good. Mostly been using it for light development, browsing, media, etc.

Installing most software on Windows wasn't a big problem, just make sure it's an arm64 process in the task manager and you're good. I would highly recommend to make a list of all programs you use and make sure they have arm64 support (not just arm, that's 32bit) before you buy a Snapdragon laptop. VLC was the only problem I encountered, it only had a nightly version that was too unstable. I didn't find a lot of alternatives for media players except for Windows media player (yes that still exists).

I was mostly impressed with how well WSL2 ran on it. I have been running it for years and it works just as well for the Snapdragon laptops. Here too, most software I needed had arm64 binaries, especially from apt. I just couldn't use Homebrew as I used to, so it took slightly longer to install things (brew is supported for Linux but only on x86).

It really depends on your needs off course, if you're into the WSL + VS Code ecosystem for things like Python, Go, Rust development, I would highly recommend it. Don't expect to do any heavy development work with LLMs though, but not many machines are even capable of that anyway (x86 or not).

I knew what I was getting into buying this pc and being an early adopter wasn't going to be easy. But I'm surprised with how little issues I encountered in the end and that I can do pretty much everything I used to do before that. And in case I really can't run an app I always have an x86 desktop to fall back on.
Well, a known problem with pre v4 NFS is that it uses and trusts client side UIDs I believe, In fact I believe even v4 does this by default. So if I understand correctly, it treats root on the client like root on the server, and since NFS gives direct access to the block device this is even worse than it initially sounds.
An additional point on 1): if you buy a DIY kit online, be prepared to get a package full of SMT chips, not ones that can be soldered by hand unless you have very stable hands. You'll need a reflow oven, heat gun, or some other way to get SMTs onto a PCB.
Most people used EF for ORM, Newtonsoft for JSON, Automapper for object mapping built-in DI container for dependency injection, XUnit for tests, Fluent Validation for validation, ASP.NET WebApi for web applications, ASP.NET MVC for websites and so on.
> In the .NET community we have the ideea that should be one tool for one job, one library, one framework etc.

xUnit, NUnit, MSTest

Autofac, Ninject, Microsoft.Extensions.DI

Quartz, Hangfire
Reading the Llama community license agreement, section "Redistribution and Use" I expected to find 'Built with Llama'. Is this not required?

https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instr... links to the community license.
tar|gzip does not allow random access to files. You have to decompress the whole tarball (up to the file you want).
Studies on agenesis of third molars amongst populations of different origin
Judges would have also accepted "X-ude".
Perhaps this is the wrong forum to ask? At least in general there's a decent number of conversations on snapdragon in the surface subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/search/?q=snapdragon&cId=57...
The Arecibo Message, Earth's First Interstellar Transmission, Turns 50
Yes, there are multiple tools but for each task there is a dominant tool. That is my impression.
Thank you, the headline was utterly baffling, and the README doesn’t provide that context.
Exactly. Company values, when it comes to those high up are essentially rules for thee and not for me.
”To move the needle” usually means to have a measurable/noticeable effect. It feels a bit weird to say that the presidency of the United States doesn’t have any effect on who the chair of the FTC is
Why don't you think that calling the app "Llama-OCR" is good enough?
I think https://xkcd.com/678/ is relavent.

Basically we are far enough out from "useful" QC that its anyone's guess (except for the people trying to convince you to invest in their startup). That said relavent metrics include number of qubits and their error rate (once you get past a certain number with a low enough error rate you can start to use error correction which is when things really start to become interesting)

It does depend a bit on what you mean by "useful" though see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy_intermediate-scale_quant...
The Monads Hurt My Head – But Not Anymore (2009)
lovely note thank you. i checked out Boox and it seems to all be sold out - any ideas how to get one (or a good enough alternative) today?
I think Microsoft stands behind MAUI.

But since they pivoted to cloud, web AI and they don't profit too much from people building desktop and mobile apps, I guess Microsoft won't invest much resources into MAUI or any GUI toolkit.
Tailwind-modifier:A modifier-first approach to write Tailwind CSS
Hello everyone!

I’ve just released a new tool called tailwind-modifier on npm. This tool is designed to simplify the management and usage of Tailwind CSS modifiers while maintaining full type safety.

Key Features:

Complete Type-Safety
No External Dependencies
Full Support for Tailwind CSS Modifiers
Nested Modifier Support: Easy handling of complex variants like *:dark:bg-dark.
Differentiated Peers/Groups: Supports group-hover/item.
Arbitrary Modifiers & Variants: Use custom or dynamic values like group-[.is-published] or [&:nth-child(3)]:underline.
Seamless Integration with Other Tools: Works perfectly with twMerge and clsx for conflict resolution and conditional classes.
Editor Support: Get autocompletion for your Tailwind classes with editor integrations.
Usage:

// Simple usage
twMod('text-blue-300 hover:font-bold,translateY-[0.5px],text-red-300');

// Or using object syntax
twMod({
DEFAULT: 'w-3/4 px-16 py-8',
sm: 'w-full px-4 py-4',
md: 'w-5/6 px-8 py-8',
});
// output: w-3/4 px-16 py-8 sm:w-full sm:px-4 sm:py-4 md:w-5/6 md:px-8 md:py-8
Why tailwind-modifier?

This tool provides a more efficient, cleaner way to handle Tailwind CSS classes, reduces redundancy, and improves productivity with type-safety and better class management. Plus, it integrates well with your existing tools!

AFAIK, there are no other tools to compare to this. There is a parse-tailwind-modifier but it's a small subset of what tailwind-modifier has to offer.

You can check the github repo for more information.
My solution is to use server logs. Cloud HTTP logs are usually terrible and very slow so I'm use nginx (or caddy) with cloudflare (DNS only) and get access to real time logs. I also use a subdomain to dispatch HTTP requests for specific things like /user_sign_up. This works perfectly even with adblocks.
I started dabbling with FPGAs but having issues finding boards with open toolchains and high* speed peripherals (ethernet and/or PCIe), for now I'm using the Gowin boards with Yosys but they are not the best to get started
"Earlier this year, NASA elevated the leak to the highest level of risk as the rate of air escaping from the module had doubled from one pound of air per day to a little over two pounds."

How, in a gravity free environment, do you weigh air?

I would assume - knowing literally nothing about it - that the internal atmosphere is constantly monitored. That monitoring detects a change and a lowering of 'air' and so releases 'air' from a reserve and it is the weight of _that_ which is the measurement?
After a recent argument with my brother in which he kept insisting we lived in different moral and factual realities, I've become much more interested in who and what we allow to form our worldview than what it ends up being. I realized during our conversation that he was citing mainstream media news sources, whereas I was citing primary sources. For example, we were talking about a change in a law and I was comparing the actual text of the law before and after the change, and he was citing commentary on it, or he was telling me he didn't believe certain things ever happened, and I was citing research data that said they actually happen consistently.

I don't know how to speak to what someone has allowed to create the "reality" they believe they live in when it's abstracted away from primary sources. It would be one thing if he were citing different studies, different research, different legal records, but he's not. He's saying if a commenter he likes/trusts interprets something one way, it doesn't matter if there are facts that prove otherwise.

Ironically, our dad is the same way, just with the politically opposite set of non-primary sources my brother relies on, and it frustrates my brother to no end. But if the foundations of each of their worldviews are several levels abstracted from the original source material, how are they ever going to live in the same "reality"?

It was the first time in a long time that I've realized just how removed from what actually happens so many people are. So few people are actually even looking at primary sources anymore, and partially because they've become so hard to find beneath all the layers of commentary on them. But how are we ever supposed to talk about reality if we can't even agree what counts?
Some great stuff in here that I’ll be checking out for sure.
They license the story everywhere. Only everywhere is also plagued by Spam

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/hertz-s-tesla-fire-sal...

Just get firefox with ublock origin
Nice post,thanks for sharing!

It would be nice to include the generated sql queries along with the code samples though. I've been on a similar path recently and being able to see the queries was really helpful (even the ones that failed!).
I saw my first local news story sourced to someone posting about something he photographed in the street to bluesky yesterday.
There is very little in the way of Open Source that *competently* addresses or supports US payroll. What exists is typically limited "demo ware".

Which is probably just as well unless you plan to Open Source your system too.

Beyond the simple spreadsheet, there is a fairly broad ecosystem of specialized or support intensive business software that falls into a "no fun" category that gets ignored or dismissed by Open Source. This is what keeps MS Windows on the desktop and service providers in business.
What's better about the T440 compared to the successors up to the T480? I'd consider the T440 a low point due to the lack of TrackPoint buttons.
I don’t think that the theory is meant to hold true across individuals or betweeen societies/cultures, but rather meant to explain differences. I suppose that is not my point, which is, what views do you hold if you disagree?
i asked this on bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/swyx.io/post/3lb2x53wuwc2y) and immiediately got this https://kizu.dev/fit-to-width/ which means theres no technical barrier now, we just need the powers that be to prioritize it

anyone with influence on the CSSWG?
In fairness, honest evaluations of those factors is nearly impossible for humans. We all have some level of emotion that affects our thinking in this regard.

I’ve not seen anyone convince the girl who got into Stanford or Harvard with straight A’s and a 36 ACT; that the girl who also got straight A’s and a 36, but didn’t get in, was less privileged. (After all, the girl that didn’t get in likely landed at Northwestern or Duke, or what have you.) The Harvard/Stanford person will almost always reliably come up with reasons outside of privilege that they were selected.

As would most of us if we were in that position. It’s almost human nature level impulses evoking our thoughts in these kinds of situations.
You can trivially add printf-like statements on the fly with debuggers; with GDB, one method I often use is the ability to attach commands to breakpoints, to be executed when the breakpoint is hit.

break SourceFile.cpp:123
command
pp var1
pp var2
continue
end

With that `continue` at the end there, this breakpoint will not pause execution (except to run the commands).