skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Polish countryside pretty much every village has several frames for storks to build their nests on. People build them on their roofs or on utility poles, and some utility companies do that too. It's best to build it a meter or more over the base to protect the nest from predators and electricity.

http://dbajobociany.pl/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/naprawa-gn...

https://e-magazyny.pl/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bocian-slup...

https://ipla.pluscdn.pl/dituel/cp/wo/wo139es6nx2b9jxcrg8a521...

Also I've never seen a stork feeding in a swamp as they wrote in this article, but I've seen plenty of times storks walking behind a tractor plowing a field. They wait for the farmer to dig up the ground and eat the larva of insects uncovered by the tractors.

They also catch frogs and mice on regular fields. Don't need to be a bog. That's probably why farmers love them.
>$SPORT team the Compressors

They were lossless last season. :-D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_nut

Although I'm not an aerospace expert I think OP is a bit confused. Most engines are mounted using a front and a rear bracket (and a third for bigger engines), and each bracket uses 4+ bolts.
Can you elaborate on Musk being a nazi, or is that just hyperbole?
It's entirely a critique of a person and less so of the concept. And a weak critique as you point out, current american partisan talking points and "evil by association" insinuations via bringing up the political tribe of the article author's boogymen of the day.

If you've read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (and more prominently, later, The Diamond Age) you get the concept of "phyles", voluntary association groups who govern themselves, arbitrarily decide their membership criteria, expect adherence to cultural practices, and have different types of safety nets for their members, basically, states defined by their people and not by their territory, enabled by networking and freedom of movement which is in turn enabled by advanced technology.

The ideas of the critiqued person in this piece draw heavily from these ideas, and their writings are less so "one commandment states" and more so an exploration of the types of nation-like organizations that can emerge from some of the new technologies enabled by global networking and Turing complete computation. The critiqued individual predicts the collapse of the state as we know it today, where people are "owned" from birth and resources are owned and managed primarily for the continuation of state power. He sees this as a good thing, a thing that will finally empower human beings to choose their tribe, to form tribes as they see fit, to explore the merits of any and all ideas without taboo, to live their lives autonomously and ultimately live up to each of their own full potential. I generally agree with the premise and related concepts.
Around here, there used to be addresses like "0100 SW Whatever Ave" that were distinct from "100 SW Whatever Ave". And we've still got various places that have, for example, "NW 21st Avenue" and "NW 21st Place" as a simple workaround for a not-entirely-regular street grid optimized for foot navigation.
What the hell are you doing or saying to warrant that kind of negative attention?
Nope, that's not how WoW works. It might feel close enough for you but if that's the case then you aren't careful enough with the analogies you make. Think harder, aim for more clarity.
This is why I've stopped reading TH. It's copy pasted marketing material with no explanation. Too many articles are like "this company invented abc. Abc is incredible. It'll revolutionize the world. Long live abc." And nowhere do they explain what it is, what abc stands for, etc. I'd like to think a good article is able to bring those new to the field up to speed on something. It's not a research paper designed for PhDs.
And social media didn't exist
You're leaving out the part where this town in Kazakhstan, post Cold War, finds its only factory sitting idle as the Soviet Union has ceased to be. The manager of the enrichment plant there needs to figure out how to feed the people of his town and he's got one thing to sell.

If this project hadn't worked out and the US hadn't purchased all of that _several hundred kilograms of weapons grade plutonium_ somebody else certainly would've.
Subaru filed in 2021 to have SpaceX's Starlink trademark cancelled. The case is still pending.
I have a somewhat different perspective. The way I see it, for the past 10+ years, the major vendors were going out of their way to try for generic NLP interface. At that point, it's already been known that controlled language[0] + environmental context could allow for highly functional voice control. But for some reason[1], the vendors really wanted for assistants to guess what people mean. As a result, we got 10+ years of shitty assistants that couldn't reliably do anything, not even set a goddamn timer, and weren't able to do much either - it's hard to have many complex features when you can't get the few simplest ones right.

This was a bad direction then. Now, for better or worse, all those vendors got their miracle: LLMs are literally plug-and-play boxes that implement the "parse arbitrary natural-language queries and map them to system capabilities" functionality. Thanks to LLMs, voice interfaces could actually start working. If vendors could also get the "having useful functionality" part right.

(Note: this is distinct from "everything is a chat bot". That's a bad idea simply because typing text sucks, specifically typing out your thoughts in prose form is about the least efficient way to interact with a tool. Voice interfaces are an exception here.)

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language

[1] - Perhaps this weird idea that controlled languages are too hard for general population, too much like programming, or such. They're not. More generally, we've always had to "meet in the middle" with our machines, and it was - and remains - always a highly successful approach.
I think the factor which will determine which networks survive is the ability to handle bots driven by modern AI agents. I’m not sure how even the best moderation features can detect and mitigate these.
Solving Boolean satisfiability and integer programming with Python packaging
Why would you load an entire userspace environment just to manage a Python package's Python dependencies? Seems a little heavy.
Man, I wish I could be even a hundredth as effective at pissing people off online. I only piss off boring people I guess.
because providers retain their more penetrating frequencies on the 3G or 4G signal to maintain universal coverage

keeping the close-by phones on 5G to ease congestion and letting the fringe sit on 3G or 4G makes sense
Agreed. At least, languages should not require its own package management system to be used. There should be a way to invoke the compiler or interpreter without involving that language's own package management system, so that something else (like Bazel) can build on top. Fortunately, most common languages are all like that. You can invoke rustc without cargo. You can use python without pip. You can use javac without maven.
Yes that’s valid. For a lot of setups, this approach works really well.

In terms of the big benefit - faster breakdown, better nutrient retention, and fewer emissions. Without extra monitoring, you might still get to a finished product eventually, but analytics can help speed up the process while ensuring the compost is as nutrient-rich and eco-friendly as possible.

This definitely isn’t a one-size fits all solution but many people do find it to be a helpful tool!
2 or 3 generations of being coddled instead of paddled. New moms on their phones.
Story time. In our Data Structures and Algorithms class during my undergrad, we had a similar challenge posed to us by an associate professor who was quite proud of the fact that it had never been beaten.

The sophistication of my compression understanding at the time extended to lempel-ziv and huffman and well... that's about it. So I was like, “Okay, I’m not going to create the world’s best compression method on a whim.” So I started thinking: if I can’t compress the file, maybe I can just fetch it from somewhere else.

The first thing I tried was writing a program that searches online by uploading the file onto a public FTP. From there, I could fetch it. Simple enough, right?

Well, here’s the issue with that: there’s no guarantee I’d even have internet connectivity. That’s probably the first thing he’d block.

So, he gives us the file. I think it was something like 10 MB, and when I looked through it, the entropy was high. Like, really high. Standard compression tools like 7Z or rar wanted NOTHING to do with it.

Then I started thinking again. Maybe this guy’s running all the submissions back-to-back. He’s probably processing them in sequence because he’s got tons of entries coming in. So I thought: if I can’t download the file, maybe there's a chance it's already on the machine from somebody's previous simulation - I can find it somewhere on the hard drive. My program might not be a great decompression system, but you know what it is? A fantastic file search.

So, I threw together a program that tree searched the entire disk with a simple checksum to verify I’d found the exact right file. If it matched, I’d just copy the file into the current directory and say, “I’m done.” - though if it found the file too quickly it would continue idling for a while so as to avoid suspicion. (I was also banking on the fact that someone else’s program might’ve run before mine, leaving the file lying around somewhere for me to grab.)

Of course, I couldn’t make this look too obvious. I mean, imagine submitting a tiny C++ program claiming it could compress a 10 MB file into just a few kilobytes. He’d immediately know it was fake.

So, I padded the compressed binary, adding a bunch of random hexadecimal and binary junk to bulk it up to around 5 MB. It was still phenomenal—better than any other method on the market for this type of file—but at least it seemed somewhat plausible. I mean, maybe I’d "discovered" some revolutionary new compression algorithm or something and smashed the weissman score.

The contest went on for nearly a month, and the guy had a leaderboard tracking scores. Most people were hovering just slightly above standard compression rates—around 9 MB. Nothing groundbreaking, though.

So, it’s a Friday night. I finish the program, pack it all up, and send it off. Then I go to bed. Needless to say, I woke up with a quite an excited response from my professor.
And even then we were segregated by usenet, mailing lists, etc.
I've studied a fair amount theology, it was my original college major. I am aware of this.

The most salient point he made as far as I'm concerned is that there are very specific claims made throughout the Bible and other Christian literature about what exactly prayer does-- and there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that many if not most of those particular claims are false.

I am not opposed to people praying, and in fact wholeheartedly support it in many cases. What I am opposed to is making unreasonable assertions about what is happening when someone prays, and what kinds of results are to be expected.
From experience, it's not actually universal. Visa applications will often ask for name information not encoded in the MRZ.
I would have expected it to be possible to compress a single arbitrary random file with a small program. I would have thought an RNG could generate a file with some weakness that allows you to compress it, although said compressor would be worse at other inputs.

Likewise this challenge would have been stronger if the requirement was to compress two provided arbitrary files :P
Dentist Cybertruck Owner Says Loneliness Drove Him to Buy Truck That Turns Heads
If you mean the ANSI color stuff, yes - I do expect these to disappear :)

I meant the "shape" of the output. It just doesn't follow the principle of least surprise.

edit: you probably meant the columns. I forgot about that, I haven't parsed ls(1) output in ages ;)
A lot of people want to eliminate nuclear weapons, but how many if them have looked at the consequences?

Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons, and as a result hundreds of thousands of people have died.

I am not aware of any significant casualties from the possession of nuclear weapons by any nation that has had operational nukes for more than 2 years.

It seems that if we want to reduce casualties, then we want everyone to keep their nukes.

Please tell me if I am wrong.
Worth noting - this is not a m.2 adapter, you couldn't use it to attach standard drives. This is an adapter for fitting proprietary flash cards with NAND on.
It's pretty easy to get that kind of vitriol if you say that you want people like you to continue existing.
No point in fighting a Russian Propaganda Bot
I tend to have one hand holding a pen on a drawing tablet. I could customise any wm to be controlled with just the left side of the keyboard obviously but I fear I would have arthritis from doing that.

I'm half joking, I did use i3 for a few years, and have tried many others (bspwm comes to mind). But currently it makes no sense to use keyboard centric wms of any kind.
“Thinking in sql” is hard because it’s an awkward syntax for the (much simpler) relational algebra.

Learn to think in terms of the relational algebra, and how to translate that to/from SQL, and it starts making sense.
There are already tree harvesters that start with a standing tree and end on a ready log with waste mulched. It's only a matter of time it's AI controlled.

The future has no jobs.
What's the license for the Bluesky data btw? Is it something free
to mirror and train LLMs on?
Very cool! Taking copy and patch to its natural conclusion
There’s something of a parallel with the last hikers who walked in unmapped territory. We may be the last hikers to walk in unconnected territory.
In some rural areas it used to be pretty common for high school students to bring guns to school so that they could go hunting afterwards. Their families needed the meat.
Usenet, BBSs, mailing lists etc. are social media
Liner: Credible AI Search Engine
Interesting. I had no idea that these sorts of things happen in countries that never went through 70 years of socialism. We have "the" electric utility that services each particular city/area, it's a monopoly. The bill never breaks anything down, it's just "electricity" or "electricity (day)" and "electricity (night)" depending on what kind of meter you have. The power plants, the transmission lines, and the utilities are all owned by the government.

Though I am pretty sure that most of my electricity comes from the nuclear power plant near my city.
Super cool site!
1) I really like that there's a lot more high technical skill videos coming out (I can link a few if others are interested and maybe we could grow a list?)

2) Apple makes a big stink about their carbon footprint and sustainability. It is on every product page. But Apple products are not very sustainable when you consider beyond materials. Remember it is "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" (there's 3 arrows on the recycle symbol for a reason!), and I'm concerned that a lot of the focus for green stuff has shifted to only the last R. They're big fighters against the Right To Repair, meaning, they are against Reduce. They also really lock down the OS (especially on iPhones) meaning it is difficult to Reuse.

I am a bit of a hypocrite, as I'm now mostly on Apple (Air for laptop, switched to iPhone this month, but main machine is Linux). I switched because privacy, but I'm also mad about this loss (I felt that they have won, especially with overcharging...): But my old laptops? They become servers or machines I give to others. My old phones? Same thing. Your old phone is probably more powerful than a raspberry pi and comes with a battery backup, microphone, camera, and other things you might want. This is the __Reuse__ part of all of this.

Here's the thing Apple:

- If you want to "go green" you need the other R's. Reduce and Reuse matter MORE than recycling!
- If you want better products, stop blocking power users

That second point is tied in, and important for the reuse aspect. And you know what? I'm willing to bet that if Apple does this, they would actually make more money (as the video joked about). Because this is a big reason people turned to Apple in the first place. Because the machines lasted longer, people were willing to pay more. Programmers preferred them because they were the most linux like.

You were the first trillion dollar company, the first 2 trillion dollar company, and the first 3 trillion dollar company. But you're losing your place. It's time to think different.
> It’s not totally a wild hypothesis.

No, it's not, I agree. Though, plausible and intuitive do not equate to true and supported by evidence. It is the difference of human knowledge pre-1700s vs post, when science came along and basically said, "yeah, you think that, but how do you know that?" Post-hoc rationalization is quite powerful stuff. That something wound up happening, does not make it a generally true thing. Other factors can be at play.
It does seem natural to happen. But there are loads of "neutral" accounts: gov agencies, businesses, etc that use social media for announcements and simple broadcast communication. Most are on Twitter now. I think I big question is will they add bluesky, or move (probably not, because of inertia), or something else.
Nice article, cool ideas.

I rely on IPv6 for my infrastructure: my home network and servers are all publically routable via IPv6.

I use something similar to OP's IPv6 setup to provide my smartphone with IPv6 connectivity too, so smartphone is able to reach my infra.

It's not clear what OP is getting by exposing public servers using Wireguard internally. Why not just assign servers IPv6 addresses at layer 3 and route as normal?

Given the vast majority of my infra has publically routable IPv6, it would be nice if I could keep/use that addressing layer, but benefit from Wireguard (it's modern crypto, and stateless design) without having to adopt the Wireguard addressing layer.

I guess I'm looking for something like Wireguard-without-addressing, or IPsec-transport-mode-but-stateless.
I'm not an expert but I've designed stuff with batteries for a long time.

A large battery with proper charge and thermal management will last much longer under light service. Which is exactly what you have with longer range EV's. A battery rated at a 1000 full discharge cycles will probably last 5,000 light duty cycles.

However people are mostly used to batteries in consumer products which utterly abuse cheap batteries to save money.
I’m working with Word documents in different languages, and few people take the care to properly tag every piece of text with the correct language. What you’re proposing wouldn’t work very well in practice.

The other historical background is that when Unicode was designed, many national character sets and encodings existed, and Unicode’s purpose was to serve as a common superset of those, as otherwise you’d need markers when switching between encodings. So the existing encodings needed to be easily convertible to Unicode (and back), without markers, for Unicode to have any chance of being adopted. This was the value proposition of Unicode, to get rid of the case distinctions between national character sets as much as possible. As a sibling comment notes, originally there were also optional language markers, which however nobody used.
AI doesn't matter. Moderation should apply to humans and AIs equally.
I think the term "package management system" is a bit over broad a term to talk about.

If we are talking about global shared dependencies, sure it may belong in the OS.

If we are talking about directly shared code, it may as well belong in the language layer.

If we are talking about combining independent opaque libraries, then it might belong in a different "pseudo os" level like NPM.
Coddled wouldn't make you rude. Being exposed to too much internet would make you rude. If you look at the default sidebar in Youtube it's a shitshow.
Sadly it comes down to "Show me the money."

I vote for change, but I don't have the money to buy electric. Even running costs don't make the difference when it comes to multiple tens of thousands of dollars in purchase price.

I'd love to "care for our environment by buying an electric car". I can't afford to.
Saudi Arabia's "The Line" is car-free.
Free speech is the upside of X. People leaving to join the echo chambers of Bluesky or Threads, only serves to turn X into the echo chamber they claim it is.
It's not acquiring the spectrum that's an issue right now. It's it not interfering with terrestrial networks. Euro carriers already pushing back against relaxing emissions restrictions for DTC specifically: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/10930985930353/1
It'd have to be something involving time... maybe have each cell be a delay line? Or a resonant cavity, and store multiple bits at different modes? Not sure how either could be made small enough to be worth it though...
Meta-Powered Military Chatbot Advertised Giving "Worthless" Advice on Airstrikes
Last submission of this didn't survive (2 points, 2 hours ago, 1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42231044
Ten years ago I installed one cam for Surfline and at that time it's was an off-the-shelf but expensive outdoor camera (stock firmware) connected to a locally-based broadband.
Interesting point, and I'm included to agree with your main point. I don't think the OS level is preferable, however:

Point 1: I do not want my program to only run on only one OS, or to require custom code to make it multi-platform.

Point 2: What if there's no OS?
Preemptive cynicism is even worse than regular cynicism.
I've fallen for the Threads-links shown in Instagram. Obviously the instagram connection is what gave them a great start at a user-base. But, everytime I try to use Threads, something seems off (mainly see lame, boring, engagement-bait). Bluesky seems different and better. Also a much better story in-terms of open data, open protocol, etc.
> If the USA did not, I don't see what would prevent China from shooting down Starlink's constellation.

Except China, does any other country have the ability to do this?

With US government permission, Starlink could ignore the radio licensing rules of Iran, South Africa or even the EU.
Specifications for package interchange are absolutely essential, which is distinct from language endorsed package managers.

Python doesn't have a language package manager, you're free to use pip or poetry or uv or whatever, but it does have PEP 517/518, which allow all Python package managers to interact with a common package ecosystem which encompasses polyglot codebases.

C++ is only starting to address this problem with efforts like CPS. We have a plethora of packaging formats, Debian, pkg-config, conan, CMake configs, but they cannot speak fluently to one another so the package ecosystem is fractured, presenting an immense obstacle to any integration effort.
I was wondering if the .java TLD belonged to the Java island, or to Oracle or to someone else.

https://icannwiki.org/.java

It’s Oracle.
They're not going to put up a sign about opting out.

You have to say no.
Not necessarily. There could be different types of content that requires different types of creators, like imagine professional video producers vs your friends posting about their day.
There could also be a different algorithm/network that allows for a few creators to feed a large number of consumers.