skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that this type of content of the message usually goes on something like an engraved plaque or a something that would go in a public records office.

In fact, no one would have even clicked on this story and it would not be on HN if the story were "dusty plaque found in lighthouse".

A "message in a bottle", especially at a lighthouse, conjures the romantic idea of a secret easter egg.

I get what you are saying, but try to understand what was being said by the person you were responding to as well!
Definitely an interesting writing style. Wasn't expecting to learn that the internet "weighs" about as much as an apple.

The amount of analogies/comparisons used in this article is incredible. I almost think it would be easier for the average non-tech reader to understand if they compared it to something more directly relatable, like the power lines that deliver electricity to your house.

I wonder how much "weight" of electricity I consume per year.
This was an interesting read. I still don't quite understand the pricing during emergencies or shortages, though.

There is no tolerable scenario where providers could choose not to generate electricity for a grid if it were necessary and they were the only provider available.

I want to assume that in the freest of markets the state could still compel electrical generators to operate in the events of an emergency.

I really need to read up on what happened in Texas in 2021.
> there's probably a fluent transition between symbols and painting and writing and then alphabetic writing

I'm with you until we get to alphabetic writing, which has (to our knowledge) only been invented once. To get from other writing systems to an alphabet requires a few conceptual leaps which are much more challenging and, I would suggest, not fluent.

If it were a smooth path, we ought to have seen alphabetic scripts arise independently multiple times (as we have other forms of writing).
> Do the multi-millionaire soccer players really need that much?

I think that's how they got their millions.
Is this something that people are clamouring for?

How many of y'all would be using this?
> If someone makes you lose money or makes your investment go bad the court will intervene.

Yes, but there's a very important caveat: Only if you still have enough money to pay experienced lawyers at least >$50k to make that happen (and more money, to ensure your own lawyers are at least a little worried about any potential malpractice suit).

However corrupt you think the US legal system is, I guarantee you it's worse. But you're basically 100% correct; money is the most valued thing.

In many circles, of every socioeconomic class, things like honesty and integrity are openly derided - they get in the way of making money. Somehow, protecting people's basic needs falls into that class too. It's shockingly stupid, yet somehow normal - and even spun as a good thing - 'freedom'.
You may have already seen it, but this timely story from Grady/Practical Engineering also goes into these details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42183747
I don't think there is any point in continuing this conversation. You originally posted that someone was being "dishonest" because he wasn't "objective." That is simply incorrect, in the same way that stating the earth is flat is incorrect.

I wasn't party to whatever conversation you had with Linus, so I can't comment on your anecdote or if or how it relates to the argument(s) you are trying to make, other than to point out that nobody is 100% objective. That includes you.

Have a nice day.
Stuff becomes legacy not because of the language, but because of outdated libraries or frameworks or unavailable/uninterested developers. For me PHP is legacy, because I refused to work on PHP codebases, except I find someone who's willing to do the job for me.
I've read an interview with a man who panhandled for a period of his life, and his hourly income was higher than that of an average waiter.

Although I don't have official sources, when I observe panhandlers in my city, it seems plausible (even evident) to me that with enough persistence, a homeless person can earn more than a waiter.

Of course, I presume that such money is readily wasted, but I wouldn't dismiss a homeless' income as nonexistent.
Code Roast – ChibiHash Implementation in Golang
Giving people little money when they're too mentally ill to find gainful employment and financial independence won't help either.
> get something running without errors in the logs, for years at a time

This is something you only begin to appreciate if you've been through a couple of economic recessions. Not everybody has money and manpower to keep their website up to date every other month! A well-built app for a typical business should be able to coast along through the lifetime of, say, an Ubuntu LTS release without much effort.
It's best understood in the context of the story. I highly recommend the movie.

He's being sarcastic about his approval of the mission they're on, but is making the point of not overtly complaining to his unit.
Interesting. An example would be helpful.

Perhaps I should have been clearer that it was a programming error that allowed the cursor to get to a state where it wasn’t visible.
Cities that don't want them ship them to cities that "want" them
many places are not America…

https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/11/18/ranked-choice-voting...
As others have pointed out, the title is misleading. If they gave money directly out, I have zero doubt it'd end up in heroin dealers hands. I live in east London but still pretty central and I would say almost all the homeless here are junkies, almost without exception. I know this because you see them near big supermarkets begging but I happen to live right next to an estate where I see almost every single one of them coming to pick up. The dealing also just happens more or less in plain site as well. The police and everyone around are well aware of it but nothing gets done to prevent it.

Homelessness is a massive issue in the UK and I hope the test outlined in the article gives us some answers as to how to tackle it. However, I'm skeptical that even paying for essentials and housing will work at this point. I think it's almost impossible to detach from the reality that a huge portion, if not the overwhelming majority have also become pretty severe junkies. I'm not saying this as someone totally unsympathetic to the affliction, my best friend also fell down that rabbit hole but addressing the homelessness aspect without addressing the addictions that result from being homeless or lead it feels like a recipe for not solving the problem.

I really hope I'm wrong and this works, it's insane that first world countries like the UK have these massive problems with homelessness, there are enough resources around to solve these problems, they just aren't distributed evenly and the support systems of this country have been in a state of ongoing collapse since 2008 and the austerity and chaos that followed
Why is it unfortunate? Minecraft is a great game when it comes to socializing and problem solving, and it's available to families who can't afford legos.
It's just a lighthouse engineer's form of marking the territory they built/operated like a modern day software easter egg. Their life's work was not a romance or linguistic creation, for better or worse. "Just the facts, m'am"

Actually this actually sounds more like a forgotten formulaic ritual you were supposed to do for good luck whenever building a lighthouse, not even a true attempt to communicate in this instance. If that is your point then I agree.
The default autocomplete behavior of Copilot is such noisy, hot garbage.

The sidebar is a useful tool sometimes, akin to pair programming with a junior programmer who's terminally online and brimming with random ideas.

Where I think they've really hit a sweet spot is with the new Inline Chat feature, I can select a chunk of code, hit CTRL + I, and tell Copilot I want to refactor this code to do XYZ. Suppose you need to extend a function with an extra parameter, the logic to handle that, and some appropriate error handling. You can select your function, type that in one sentence, and Copilot's inline chat will mostly just get it right and propose an amended function for you to accept. This has been a big time saver for me lately.

Notably Copilot is NOT doing much, if any, thinking for me. You really don't have to push it far into unknown territory to turn it into a gibbering lunatic. So in the sidebar it's essentially doing a (mostly) better version of a web search than Google. In CTRL + I it's kind of a macro on steroids. But these are both great tools and very easily justify the subscription fee.
We know how to address homelessness, its just the oligarchs that rule over us don't want to, for capitalism requires a pool of desperate workers to keep functioning. Besides it acts as a good reminder that if workers try to address the situation themselves, they will be annihilated.
Board a train. That's it. What can they do to you for having no ticket? Literally nothing.
I'm ok with all the tech releated stuff, but besides those things i would add:

- reduce (if not eliminate) wild online shopping (eg. Amazon) to reduce carbon
footprint/waste of packaging and not nurturing giants that do not care about employee dignity

- reduce if not eliminate meat consuption or at least buy animal related food that respect animal life and dignity.

Not fully agree with no consuming news, even though most of them are biased or worst fake i think that one can manage try to find the truth in all this chaos.
That’s the horror park version, after they release the horror movie set in the Minecraft theme park.

The whole thing kinda makes me queasy.
It's nice that you believe that people in Gaza are living with rockets in their living rooms. I imagine that must make it easier to come to terms with what Israel has done.
There is no such thing as an SSJ-100 with Russian-made engines, period. Airlines cannot buy them, and you cannot fly them. Even the MC-21 is slightly more realistic, but it is also not available to any airline.

We have been hearing this never-ending story of "aircraft will be available in 2 years" for a very long time. :)
get on a train… 1/2/3 stations later they check your ticket, you ain’t got one, you get kicked off… wait for the next train, 1/2/3 stations later they check your ticket, you ain’t got one, you get kicked off. week or two or three later you made it from Augusta Maine to San Diego :)
Keynes Predicted We Would Be Working 15-Hour Weeks. Why Was He So Wrong? (2015)
There's never any guarantees, of course, but on the basis of current events, there's no reason to expect a big shift on attitudes towards unions.

Certainly the USA isn't going to be a relevant part of the discussion on this, as the only US brand I see enough to even notice here in Berlin is Tesla, and they have an actual factory just outside the city itself.

China is a much more likely threat, as they are increasingly "the factory of the world", and their internal cars prices are wildly lower than even the cheapest (new) cars here[0], and their high-end stuff is also really impressive.

(It may not surprise you to learn the EU has substantial tariffs on imported cars… but it was a big surprise to people in the UK who voted to leave the EU in the hope of boosting UK economic prospects).

Increasing automation is also a bigger threat to unions than US imports, as that allows new firms that may never hire union workers in the first place.

[0] https://electrek.co/2024/03/06/byd-launches-cheaper-seagull-...
I used a similar technique to create glass-like panels with my online timeline maker (https://www.chronoflotimeline.com). You can see an example timeline with glass-like panels here:
https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3118/Home-...
Although due to Poe's law I'm unsure if GP was earnest, I elected to read it with a /s modifier.
This article gives a good advice how to give feedback to anyone without souring relationship.

Everyone can be insecure and if your superior happens to feel insecure about you that day the damage can be severe.
"My voice is my passport" (quote from some action movie). They claim that they do not store biometric data. For now. Wait until the next rug pull where they'll claim that your voice and all conversations belong to them.

Which raises the question: What happens on all the "free" communication platforms like Google Meet and so on? Are the conversations recorded and mined?

The data collection business Salesforce had an "AI" meeting summary feature already years ago.
You can will an envelope containing the contents of your credentials
RFK Jr. weighs major changes to how Medicare pays physicians
If that is the goal of a specific task, be explicit about that. From my personal experience, it's just what old teachers say because they can't deal with the new reality. The teachers who incorporated AI and other tech into their lessons are much more successful and better rated - by parents as well as children, and the final exams too.
The Schoedinger equation is a partial diferential equation. When you solve it, you get the eigenvalues and eigenvectors.

The eigenvalues are the energies. The differences if energies are easy to measure experimentaly looking at the light of discharge lamps. Most of the science of early 20th century is triying to find a theory that explains the colors in that light.

The eigenvectors of the Schoedinger equations are the clouds distributions of the electrons. I'm not sure how difficult is to measure them directly, but they are important to get the size and shape of molecules and the positions of atoms inside crystals and a lot of other stuff.

The same theory that explains the the light of discharge lamps and the electronic clouds also explains the leds in the screen and the transistors in the procesor of yoyr phone.

And dark energy is not used in any of these calcuñations.
https://archive.is/BbZp6
2025 Pixel Tablet 2 cancelled in favor of 2027 Pixel Tablet 3 Pro (dual-USB, external quad-DisplayPort)? Phone-tablet-laptop convergence of ChromeOS & Android via virtualization that Apple refuses to enable on iPad Pros, https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-tablet-3-power...
The exchange rate is now directly controlled by the Central bank. Trade with China is very problematic - sometimes it takes several months to complete a single transaction.
How are vias manufactured, and why tungsten (I suppose it has something to do with high fusion point?).
The only bit I dislike about Haskell's `where` is that it's only in scope for one case of a named function, e.g. in the article only the bottom quicksort had lesser and greater in scope.
How to Make an STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) [video]
I do prefer a robot standing in instead of me to fulfill the little power trip calling attendance. There is little reason the updates cannot be async in text or via the JIRA tickets I already have to do. A robot could add in pull request data too.

But it doesn't need to be my voice. It in fact should be illegal for Microsoft to use my voice for training without my express consent, and even then they must delete all models and data about it when requested. And it should be illegal for an employer to request or expect it.
Generative Agent Simulations of 1k People [pdf]
Swift has assert (removed when compiling w/ optimizations) and precondition (usually kept but can be removed w/ compiler option, and compiler might make assumptions depending on content of precondition).
Hey everyone! After another month of building as a solo dev on nights and weekends, my friend is back with an update !

- Enter your 3 favorites movies or series and get the best list to watch

- Free movies and series categorie integration

- You can clic on each movie or serie to move it in the good list

- Design is simple, content is king for the moment, because we are just 2

The Mimosa9 community has had a huge role in shaping my overall direction and I can't wait to hear what you all think of the updates and where you would like to see things go from here.

As always, Mimosa9 is free, you just need to create an account with your email only. It does not ask payments, and we do nothing with your email.

--Isabelle and Anthony

Sorry for our english, we are from France :)
It looks like wishful thinking. There were reasons why USA for decades was buying Russian nuclear fuel and not building new nuclear power plants. Meanwhile, Russia and China were building them all over the world. Restoring competences and building lots of new stations in just 10 years seems not realistic.
This is a great comment. Apart from a phishing tool, this is an outsourcing tool.

Remember that we need more people to learn how to code (the corporate nonsense that many developers here and elsewhere amplified in 2018)!
Because Denmark is almost entirely cities and farmland?

There’s already a housing crisis…
This is why asylums should not have been closed in the US. An asylum, when carefully and humanely run, is exactly the kind of place where the self can heal, or where the incurable can find respite.
The main reason for the invasion is that Putin believes independent Ukraine shouldn't exist, and that it all belongs to Russia for historical reasons. It's obvious if you actually listen Putin's speeches.

NATO is just an useful scapegoat to justify Russia's imperialistic tendencies. During the period between fall of the Soviet Union and invasion of Crimea Russian businessmen here in Finland kept buying locations and buildings near military bases and strategic infrastructure, even though we had no intention whatsoever of joining NATO. They just like to subjugate their neighbours.
Where's the 'Reject all' option for the data preferences?

> Your personal data will be processed and information from your device (cookies, unique identifiers, and other device data) may be stored by, accessed by and shared with 264 TCF vendor(s) and 413 ad partner(s), or used specifically by this site or app.

That's pretty insane.

> Measure advertising performance

> Legitimate interest (90 vendors)

You're really gonna send my data to 90 organisations to measure advertising performance?

> FCCDCF

Why is the cookie given this obscure name? Is it so it's harder to identify later?
One thing PHP got right is its 'PHP must die' mode of operation where every request spawns a new process (ok, not a process anymore but still an isolated execution environment that lasts until the response is served.

Java, Ruby, C#, etc are application servers and this massively complicates everything.
"Resolution" is used very loosely here. They are very big images of the full Sun (in terms of the number of pixels), but there are also various telescopes that "zoom in" much more on a small part of the Sun, resulting in images with much higher details than the ones from this article.
The quote is from “sneakers” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film) which is actually a fantastic film.
Sounds good. Been thought of , tried, fixed. They call cops on the first train.
> … actively avoid work …

Is your job to be a moral judge?

As long as there are people who want work and don't get any, I really don't care whether there are a (hypothetical) few who actually don't want to work. Besides, we're productive enough by now to not require everyone be gainfully employed to justify their existence.
How is this partitioning implemented?

Local “production-generation” can make sense at some level, but the mental model breaks down when you go back to the “water-in-a-lake” way of considering the grid.

I assume that there is less electricity being moved on one end of a winding of some downstream transformer, but it could also be that we really don’t know.
> You could also use a remote control vehicle or drone with a bomb on it.

Well, yeah, but then you need
to provide, transport, and control those.

The difference here is these are the sorts of robots that are likely to already be present somewhere that could then be abused for nefarious deeds.

I assume the mitigation strategy here is physical sensors and separate out of loop processes that will physically disable the robot in some capacity if it exceeds some bound.
While grey goo is about matter, this appears to be a grey energy scenario: one where machines run amok eating all possible energy in an exponential feedback loop of uselessness, driving civilisations to oblivion.

While the civilisations are long-gone, they build up the Kardashev ladder for the sole purpose of producing more of nothing.

Finally, all cosmic resources being expanded, they shut down. Since nobody remained to observe, it is unknown whether in a brief flash of self-awareness, realising the meaninglessness futility of their existence, the machines commited suicide.
> No, its because far lobbies are an important political block

Wrong. If you try to educate yourself, you will notice that EU's common agricultural policy even went to the extent of paying subsidies to small property owners to preserve their properties as agricultural land. This goes way beyond subsidizing production, or anything remotely related to your conspiracy theory.

Just because someone benefits from subsidy programs that does not mean that any conspiracy theory spun around the inversion of cause and effect suddenly makes sense. I recommend you invest a few minutes to learn about EU's common agricultural policy before trying to fill that void with conspiracies.
Someone up for a tldr?
Because after 10 mins reading I still see no meaningful content except the usual word wasting stories of the Washington post.

Still no idea what the mystery is about exactly?
> "Like all the others, he had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop. Like all the others, he had abandoned any idea of subsistence farming to think exclusively in terms of a cash crop; and he had gone on thinking in those terms, even when the crop no longer gave him any cash. Then, like all the others, he had got into debt with the banks. And finally, like all the others, he had learned that what the experts had been saying for a generation was perfectly true : in a semi-arid country it is grass that holds down the soil; tear up the grass, the soil will go. In due course, it had gone.

The man from Kansas was now a peon and a pariah; and the experience was making a worse man of him."

-- Aldous Huxley, "After Many a Year Dies the Swan" -- 1939

They were warned what would happen. Yes, it was the grasses that keep the soil in place.

However, as the article you referenced says,

> "As part of Roosevelt’s New Deal, Congress established the Soil Erosion Service and the Prairie States Forestry Project in 1935. These programs put local farmers to work planting trees as windbreaks on farms across the Great Plains. The Soil Erosion Service, now called the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) developed and promoted new farming techniques to combat the problem of soil erosion." [2]

A bunch of people didn't understand this in Haiti and now they are severely doomed and suffering. Probably not something you want to be incorrect about on the global scale.

Although, it is the grasses that hold the top soil in place, it can be mitigated by planting trees.
in my experience, people higher up the chain are much more at risk of being let go at any time
I’d much rather have meetings go full Discord. A chat room is easier to deal with when you’re busy and trying to multitask. Having to drop everything and interact in a rigidly structured audiovisual format feels very constraining and counterproductive these days. A properly trained AI could stand in for you as needed.
Docker can be a huge pain I agree. But as a senior dev that’s had half their career before docker and half after docker, it’s totally worth it and lets you avoid much worse pain.