skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, and there are useful points in the rest of this conversation about whether you need something that special for a soap dispenser and what might be driving up costs, and whether a commercial off the shelf alternative really was an option.

I wasn't trying to cover all that, I was just pointing out that MIL-SPEC is a very wide category and therefore effectively meaningless unless you're pointing out what type of application it is.
Because they win with the same tired argument? Maybe the better question is why do plaintiffs keep rehashing the same tired argument that Apple’s control of iOS and the App Store is illegal?
Most people are trying to survive in a capricious universe, after having observed over a lifetime that the good are often punished while the wicked are rewarded.

Mind/consciousness is not unique to humans, we're just better at maintaining a thread of self reflection so that we can make long term changes in behavior.

Kindness is all well and good, but when there's not enough to go around it's foolish to deprive everyone. Some people are just more deserving, whether for moral reasons or because an investment in them will be more fruitful.
> there is a subjective argument that they've got a better incentive to steer you into an optimal basin than anybody, relatively speaking

Many parents do not have their kids best interest at heart; from religious fanatics to divorced parents using their kids as pawns to failed athletes living vicariously through their "he'll be in the NHL someday" fantasies to just parents who didn't want have kids and don't care at all.

Then there a whole slew of parents who genuinely want what is best for their kids but won't succeed due to incompetence or their own issues with drug addition or passing on generational trauma.
MouseLifts 5x5 + RAtkins diet
App development on iPad
The Elizabeth line is rewriting the UK's rail station usage charts
Thank you very much for the link! I ran the program on my VPS and it works. I even chatted with the gpt2 model.
I wonder if with a sufficiently fast ADC measuring each switch's voltage transition, you might be able to do velocity detection with normal switches? I guess might need an ADC wired to each switch rather than row/column matrix scan.
I'm also starring to see Cybertrucks (one or two a day). Lots more Rivians, lots of Tesla Model Xs, electric Hummers now starting to popup now and then. I've seen Lightnings but I probably see Xs and Rivians more. Seems in that price range customers want something else.
It's also worth noting CDDL [1], which adds schema-like utility to CBOR (and technically JSON.) We've started to use it in more places where we use CBOR.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8610/
I think it's just you didn't see such estimates. Here's what I found first. https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-flight-passenger-cost-...
Wow, that is a huge gap. Thanks for the explanation.
I've been using it as my daily dev machine for ~5 years now.

As per the article, the usability tradeoffs are considerable. But the separation of domains into separate VMs is really lovely. If nothing else, having a separate VM per client just feels "right". No intermingling of code and, even more importantly, secrets or credentials or even comms. Being able to use the same physical machine for personal stuff as well as work is also a bonus.
How to get marketing data for AI agents
For anyone building marketing tools, where do you get your social media data from?

Do you use a service like apify?

As it's really expensive to hire an actor for each social media.
Here is the original report and the press release with pictures [1,2]

> The DoD OIG found that overpayment occurred because the Air Force did not:

> Validate the accuracy of data used for contract negotiation.

> Conduct contract surveillance to identify price increases during contract execution.

> Review invoices to determine fair and reasonable prices before payment.

> In addition, the DoD OIG found that the DoD did not require the contracting officer to verify the accuracy of the bill of materials before negotiation or to review invoices for allowable, allocable, and reasonable costs before payment.

This does not sound like expensive MilSpec. Wouldn’t it be fair to assume that the DoD Inspector General is aware of these before making such accusations?

[1] https://www.dodig.mil/reports.html/Article/3948601/audit-of-...

[2] https://www.dodig.mil/In-the-Spotlight/Article/3948604/press...
Wouldn't a nil ECDSA key be a security risk?
The entire point of the story was that God did NOT want a child sacrifice.

In the historical context of other religions in the region demanding human sacrifices that is the message of the story.
At 17, She Just Passed the State Bar of California
Suprised this isn't the biggest story today?
At work we have a data providers whose API always returns 200, often with the text content “ERROR: …”

And that’s how put Hyrums law into effect.
They did this to themselves though, they essentially had almost lifetime head start on SpaceX and a full lifetime until today to compete and SpaceX is beating them to the point it's embarrassing despite just being out of it's teens.

Time to stop saying "It's bad that the commercial sector makes government run things look bad" and start asking "Why are government run organizations so bad at this?"
I think in a very technical sense you could say it wasn't an orbital flight because he didn't quite complete an entire orbit. Most people call his flight a complete orbit anyway though as his landing point was quite close to his launch point (unlike virtually all other sub-orbital flights).
Oxides rackscale compute platform lands at LNLL
> But what if it's possible to alter your influential genes, through some powerful mechanism? Whether it be through insane willpower or anything else.

Sounds like epigenetics, where the environment actively influences the genes themselves: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
In Norway, we had a case in 2018 of a minor finding a spreadsheet online with usernames and passwords for most teachers and students in the municipality's school platform. He had some missteps after trying to report the issue and not being taken seriously, ended up logging in with the credentials of the headmaster and sending a stupid message to everyone. The municipality involved the police, and the police "raided" his house and took some of his computers.

Fairly big controversy in Norway. Bergen (the municipality) showed incredibly bad faith and the worst possible judgement. "Datatilsynet" (Norwegian Data Protection Authority) gave them a decent fine, and Bergen showed no humility, opted to dispute the fine as if the fact that a kid finding everyone's usernames and passwords was something that was a daily occurrence with no more significance than spilling coffee on one's shirt.

https://www.nrk.no/vestland/datatilsynet-star-fast-pa-millio...
Perplexity lawsuit sends warning to product managers
DeepSeek censoring on inference time instead of on training
I imagine there is another group that would claim the 2010 blizzards in the midwest/mid-Atlantic as the, snowmageddon. However, I would argue both 2010 & 2014 as snowpocalypse--and with over 290 official (and estimated 700+) deaths the 2021 Texas storms as a better fit for snowmageddon. (not that its a competition, it was simply far more tragic)
Doesn't look like a property management firm; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUAG.
The two meta-analysis are interesting, I think.

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/thy.2023.0530

> Overall there is no conclusive evidence of elevated thyroid cancer risk.

https://dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/do...

> Our meta-analysis showed that GLP-1RA treatment could be associated with a moderate increase in relative risk for thyroid cancer in clinical trials, with a small increase in absolute risk. Studies of longer duration are required to assess the clinical implications of this finding.

It's potentially a possibility, but the absolute risk seems to still be quite low.
Japan has vehicle weight taxes, which directly incentivizes what you observed there.
This is the formal response, in accordance with the procedure documented on the website: https://english.ncsc.nl/contact/reporting-a-vulnerability-cv...

There's also more to the process than just sending a shirt.

> * If you submit your report in accordance with the procedure, then there will be no grounds for legal consequences in relation to your report. We will handle your report in confidence and we will not share your personal details with third parties without your permission unless we are compelled to do so by law or by a court ruling.

> * We will only specify your name as the discoverer of the vulnerability in question if you give permission for us to do so.

> * We will confirm receipt of the report within one working day and we will subsequently send an assessment of your report within three working days. We will also give you progress updates regarding the resolution of the problem.

> * The NCSC will strive to have the the security problem identified by you resolved within no more than 60 days. Upon resolution of the problem, we will consult with you to determine whether and in what way to publish details of the problem and its resolution.

> * The NCSC will also offer a reward to thank you for your help. This reward can vary from a T-shirt to gift certificates depending on the severity of the security problem and the quality of the report. To be eligible for a reward, the report must concern a serious security problem that is as yet unknown to the NCSC.
There's a few "things" that you can only make a living off of if you're either really good, really dedicated, or really lucky; art, music, sports, e-sports, pidgeoning, acting, social media, etc.
Cross-country train hackathon with 42 high schoolers [video]
https://archive.md/CGQ8G
> I'm not sure what you are trying to say.

I'm saying, if it doesn't ruin lives to the point of preventing reproduction, then it stays in the gene pool.

Basically, I'm saying this:

> The trait is still here and still prevalent meaning people are still getting laid and starting families and presumably leading fulfilling lives.
For those enjoying the history of early quantum mechanics, I've been following Dr. Jorge S. Diaz on YouTube[1].

He has a great video series going on the people, experiments and discoveries that lead to quantum mechanics.

The videos are very accessible, but he does go into some details like various key derivations and such. Well worth watching for casual physics fans IMHO.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@jkzero/
How about pycallgraph that can be exported to Graphviz?

FWIW it is called evolutionary or lineage (or hierarchical lineage) diagram I believe.
I’m reasonably sure that religious fanatics usually have their children’s best interest at heart. Their value function is just different from that of less religious people.
One day I will give a lighting talk about the load bearing teapot, or how and why I made HTTP Status 418 a load bearing part of an internal API, and why it was the least bad option considering the constraints.
To be fair, the BBC is institutionally anti-cyclist, so they may have mis-represented the "Dutch Reach".

I can't see why it's not taught and used everywhere as it encourages and facilitates the checking behind you when opening a car door. Rather than focussing on "left" or "right" hand, I find it more useful to just always use the furthest hand from the door so the same idea applies if you're driving or a passenger.
Her dead father left her 10k records. Sharing them online helped her grieve
I'm always so baffled by people commenting without reading the article first.
> just learn how to not be mentally ill!

you can also learn to cope with mental illness with more or less self-destructive responses. not everybody gets a chance to learn healthier coping mechanisms.
Insurance Providers in Canada Are Refusing to Cover Tesla Cybertrucks
I can offer two takes on the IIHS:

(1) A remarkable example of a private agency that has pushed safety standards beyond what the government would do own its own, and

(2) An organization that has persuaded Americans to buy larger vehicles than they would have otherwise with all the associated costs (e.g. the “affordable car” crisis) and risks (to pedestrians.)

The IIHS is an organization of insurers so they are particularly concerned about quantifiable monetary costs. And when it comes to that much more of the benefit of larger vehicles is in avoided minor injuries such as broken bones which are more common than death and life changing injuries. The public focuses on the latter and the psychology is such that some people will spend another $50k on some German vehicle and spend the rest of their days at the dealer getting it fixed or subject their children to the trauma of riding in a minivan. (To generation X the minivan is like the toxic PFAS GenX)

IIHS claims that compatibility has improved between large and small vehicles but that large vehicles are still a menace to other road users

https://www.iihs.org/topics/vehicle-size-and-weight
>Not true.

Yes, true:

https://armyrecognition.com/focus-analysis-conflicts/army/co...

Tomahawks used in the illegal attacks on Yugoslavia:

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA478026

>That is already a reality with Russian missiles in the middle of Europe, in Kaliningrad

Russians deploying Russian nuclear weapons on Russian territory, versus Americans deploying NATO nuclear weapons on non-NATO territory: whats the difference?

>Should we bomb Moscow to get rid of them?

That depends - do you want to die in a thermonuclear blast?

Because that's how you die in a thermonuclear blast.
There's an excellent documentary about "Stop De Kindermoord" (Stop Killing Our Children)

https://vimeo.com/361286029
I implemented a variation of this in ZFS’ btree implementation a few years ago:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/commit/677c6f8457943fe5b56d7a...

It only works if the comparator is inlined, which is why I had to use a macro and duplicate the code everywhere. C++’s templates effectively do the same thing.

By the way, I notice that C++ favors comparators returning a boolean while C favors comparators returning -1, 0 or 1. Let me share this simple macro from ZFS:

#define TREE_CMP(a, b) (((a) > (b)) - ((a) < (b)))

Use that to generate -1, 0 or 1. Then if you want a boolean, compare the output to < 0 to get the boolean that a C++ comparator would return and as long as the comparator is inlined, the compiler will automatically simplify, such that you get only 1 comparison.

The C++ STL designers who opted for a boolean return value from comparators did premature optimization, since they had no reason to break with the C convention under C++’s "the compiler will inline and optimize" philosophy. The neat thing about the C way is that if you want to generate a boolean from the comparator, you have a choice for the boolean’s semantics (< 0 or <= 0) while C++ made that choice for you.

That said, I have never needed the latter and as a much younger developer, I thought that the C++ way was superior, but time has caused me to conclude the C guys got this right.

Finally, since I am on topic of comparators, there is a fairly famous example of how to generate -1, 0 or 1 when comparing against 0:

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6120/2020fa/blog/super-...

I only mention it since it is interesting and I like sharing interesting things. Reimplementing the signum function from there with TREE_CMP() does not generate code as good as the superoptimized example in godbolt:

https://godbolt.org/z/1j8nWjnqP

It is probably an optimization opportunity for GCC.
JS's uses have been growing steadily. The language was clearly not "designed" (I saw a talk about the first 10d of JS, little actual designing happened).

TS is to the rescue when you have a big JS project, because that's what JS is not good at: big projects and large teams.
Very interesting article. After 12 years of almost daily cycling in the Netherlands, I recently started driving a car as well. I always appreciated the Dutch civil infrastructure, and this new experience only adds to my admiration.

Compared to other European countries, driving in NL definitely requires extra attention. There are many small & vulnerable participants sharing the space, moving in different directions with much less inertia than cars. On the other hand there are plenty of buffer zones, the lanes are cleverly organised and clearly marked, and there's 30 kmh (18 mph) limit in most streets in the city. A smaller car with great visibility is really useful here.
Hedonic Adaptation (2017)
When I submitted the article, I used its full title "Why You Should Read This Out Loud" and HN botched the surgery.
It's not even that good of an article. I tried to understand what Hall Effect is and what its advantages are, but it was so vague, beating around the bush and forwarding you to other articles on their site, that I gave up and searched on the YT mechanical keyboards channels instead.

Here's a nice intro review of a Hall Effect keyboard, from Switch and Click, which explains its features and differences compared to a normal switch keyboard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNANUquoXOA
Show HN: Stack Error – Simple and informative errors for Rust
Stack Error is a pragmatic error handling library for Rust that provides helpful messages for debugging, and structured data for runtime error handling.

Features:

* Informative error messages: stack error messages and optionally add file/line context to your messages. This helps convey not just what went wrong, but also how it went wrong, making debugging faster.
* Programmatic error handling: include optional error codes and URIs for robust runtime handling.
* Library-Friendly: define custom error types easily while staying compatible with Rust’s error ecosystem.

If designing good error structures for your projects slows you down, and you need something more library-friendly and structured than anyhow, Stack Error might be what you’re looking for.
> We randomly read an extra byte from random streams in various GenerateKey functions (which are not marked like the ones in OP) with MaybeReadByte [2] to avoid having our algorithm locked in

You don't seem to do that in ed25519. Back before ed25519.NewKeyFromSeed() existed, that was the only way to derive a public Ed25519 key from a private key, and I'm pretty sure I've written code that relied on that (it's easy to remember, since I wasn't very happy about it, but this was all I could do). The documentation of ed25519.GenerateKey mentions that the output is deterministic, so kudos for that. It seems you've really done a great job with investigating and maintaining ossified behavior in the Go cryptography APIs and preventing new ones from happening.
I was expecting some trends beginning 1955-1965, when we started seeing university labs calling themselves AI. I saw the subtitle about VC, maybe this is the AI structured investment wave?
Anybody can do everything if we restrict everything to things everyone can do.
I'm talking about upgrading dependencies. Something that's rarely easy in a JS/TS project with lots of dependencies.
Government entities can not operate like SpaceX does. Which is why they should stay on the regulation side and be a customer. Much better for all involved.
we indeed collect that data, we didn't analyse it (yet)
I don’t follow your argument. Snooker is exclusive because few people can make a good living of it, and trial running is inclusive because some people can get good results in it?

I bet there are people training their snooker an hour a day who have scored 147s, and I also expect very few people can make a good living doing trail running.

Isn’t this more a matter of a sport being popular/having money available? If there were millions of $ available in trail running, that sub 100 hour might start looking “goo but not spectacular”
The menu takes up the entire screen on my phone and it is not clear how to close it.
>The fight against piracy has[…] only benefited Hollywood.

Has anyone believed otherwise?

But I agree it’s tragic.
One of the film sharing boards I was a part of for 20+ years just vanished overnight. The amount of niche stuff that was available there was/is unmatched (for the topic this board was about).

The crackdown seems almost finished now- I reckon in 5-10 years piracy will be a thing of the past- and reborn in other forms after.
Computational Technologies of the Human Cell Atlas
As Bluesky soars, Threads rolls out custom feeds globally
Helena Zhang, Designer and Iconographer
Hacker News Guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
A long time ago I was tasked to trace technicians' work, especially those who where called during the night because of some urgency on French telecom networks.

Astonishingly before that time, it was not known who worked, how many times and what was the outcome of the intervention.

It turns out that only 5 people were working on the 15 in the team.

I remember a union member pleading with me with tears in his eyes to recruit more people because there was too much work. Indeed he was one of the five people who worked hard.

Curiously those five never complained about the others' behavior, on the contrary, the team reacted strongly against attempts at putting some light on what was going on.
Jaguar Shores Is the Successor to Intel's Falcon Shores AI Accelerators
I've never heard the term "magnetic keyboard" before. They're called hall-effect keyboards...

For those not in the know, hall-effect key switches can tell the analog position of each key, rather than only whether it's pressed or not as in traditional key switches.
i am also interested in this.

i found vijual[1] and mermaid-ascii[2] are good starting projects.

[1]: http://www.lisperati.com/vijual/
[2]: https://github.com/AlexanderGrooff/mermaid-ascii
Wouldn't they notice after the first cable? I imagine it would be noticable
>Chrome is only the default on Pixel devices...

WRONG

Before a couple of weeks ago where a Google Play Services update changed the first set-up process, almost all global (non-CN market) devices forced Chrome as default: Xiaomi, OnePlus, Realme, Motorola, Oukitel and whatever other weird brands there are left in the Android world. AKA anything other than Samsung
Didn't notice this comment previously as it happened days after.

However since the government has revealed that ByteDance employees in Canada -- Chinese nationals -- have acted against the national security of Canada. And just to be clear, this has happened again, and again, and again, and again. This is a countless line of Chinese nationals and their organizations operating as fronts for the Chinese government.

>Oh all Chinese are spies.

Nope, but enough are that it's a recurring problem.
See https://departuremono.com/ !

Informing recent podcast with Helena and Departure co-creator Toby Fried, https://changelog.com/podcast/618.
PHP Is Legacy, in 2024
Why can they not operate like SpaceX does?
The crypto scams will come for us all (I've even seen a few on _Mastodon_). They are at least somewhat easier to filter out on Bluesky.
Typo on the menu: Acitvity->Activity
If you want to follow someone playing with this, there's Steve Grand, who wrote the original creatures game and kickstarted something a bit more ambitious
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1508284443/grandroids-r...
Additionally, even when holding my phone sideways so that I can see the map, it doesn’t appear that hitting “add new point” does anything
grep.app searches repository content across repositories, github.com doesn't seem to do this at all (unless they are hiding it well). IMO, github could have bought it themselves to improve their search, but that didn't have seemed to worked out.

As an occasional user of grep.app I hope that Vercel keeps it running and doesn't ruin it in some way.
I hope the volume scroll could be used as mouse scroll.