skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would think the most difficult part is figuring out if it's even possible to tweak the universe to be more favorable to life than it already is. Maybe it is possible to form more stars, but the same tweak would also form too many sterilizing supernovae?

In any case, I'm inclined to believe that other universes exist simply due to how easy they are to find by extending a penrose diagram [1], and that the "natural selection" of "universe reproduction" eventually leads to a universe with parameters that enable life and consciousness. [2] Unfortunately, this method still can't tell us how often alternate universes are capable of life or how much the parameters can vary.

[1] https://youtu.be/6akmv1bsz1M?si=veFiGBPGsC46E31M&t=1488

[2] https://youtu.be/71eUes30gwc?si=oJgfqtmFiFml6x8v&t=436
Are mental health issues (e.g. depression or anxiety) considered "mental disability"?

I have MS which causes urinary incontinence and my mobility is impaired (unable to stand for too long, cannot walk for longer than 100-200 meters at a time and so on).
Again, I am not saying that facilities should use backup generators to make power if it spot price goes slightly above what it costs to run the generators. Read the original post I was responding to, all of my posts in this discussion are operating under the assumption that electricity is $200/kWh.

Let’s say you’re running a 250 HP compressor to keep your cold storage warehouse cold, that would draw around 200kW. One hour of operating that would be $40,000 if electricity was $200/kWh. It costs much much less than $40,000/hr to operate a 250kW generator, you can buy a 250kW diesel one with an automatic transfer switch for around $100k from Cat or Cummins.

I’m not replying if you respond again, you’re responding to straw men instead of my actual arguments. I sell and run commercial electrical work, including generator installs and replacements, I know everything you’re telling me already.
That would require some experience, yet the most common visual clue would be 'bulging'. There are some ways to measure ESR w/o desoldering but they won't be reliable at all times.

Measuring voltages, peak to peak, is a bit more work.
Telephone verification doesn’t tend to be a major factor in whether software products are successful.
I'm obligated as part of my faith to point out that nano has none of these issues, as I understand that Vim will still execute arbitrary code in some circumstances
Amazon has shut off the feed that allowed Delicious Library to look up items
https://archive.ph/oNUU2
Wow I now understand why you can't trust these people. A PEP (politically exposed person) is a person closely related to a politician of considerable power and influence, and able to use that power to do bend the law, like launder money through the banking system without anyone being able to stop them because they're afraid of repercussions because daddy is president, governor, prime minister, senator, etc. Daddy themselves are PEPs. So not all politicians and their circle are PEPs, only the powerful ones (idk the exact threshold).

Banks do not debunk these people, they scrutinize their transactions more closely, they make sure all paperwork is solid, all the funding sources and payment destinations are legal.

This is important. In my country, the president's daughter (and friends) spend decades stealing billions from taxpayers and storing it in foreign banks. Those transactions would be impossible for the average Joe, but banks just rolled over. This is what PEP status is meant to stop.

I can agree that debanking people/companies due to their business/opinions being frowned upon is not ok, but this has nothing to do with being a PEP.

I know Marc knows this, yet he wants to tell something entirely different to the world so the world looks at this policy differently, the goal being to roll back such laws with no one questioning them.

I'm on Trump fan, I think governments need trimming, but man, is this the Wild West now.
> Disability hiring quotas are most effective for those with mobility impairments.

Does this apply for Europeans wanting to work for US companies?
Telepathic Instruments
Japanese researchers developed an environmentally friendly plastic that degrades in seawater, addressing microplastic pollution. The new material is strong, biodegradable, and breaks down completely in salt water and soil, offering a sustainable alternative to conventional plastics while avoiding environmental contamination.
Key features include recyclability, non-toxicity, and adaptability for various applications like 3D printing and medical uses. The innovation provides a promising solution to reduce microplastic accumulation in oceans and ecosystems.
https://imgur.com/a/ROBPwM1

I'm pretty sure they're doing 2D image generation. Just look at the way it outlines some of the pieces.
It shouldn’t be a tech purchase but our Bosch refrigerator. Our options were limited during the pandemic so we got the smart one and the setup process was so bad that it should’ve been a warning: they cheaped out and didn’t put Bluetooth on it so you have to let it be a hotspot, connect with their mobile app, give it the password for your device network, etc., all with lowest-bidder unreliable software at every stage.

After all that, it turns out that they didn’t do anything useful: no way to even see the current temperature and after a high temperature alert, there’s no way to see how high it got for how long. They advertise remote support but the one time it came up, it turned out that was completely fictitious and they insist on sending a technician.
The problem with this mindset is that, in five or ten years, you'll be an seasoned expert in doing dumb shit. That's not an in demand skillset that will lead to career progression down the track.
You misunderstood. They meant that Java's checked exceptions are very verbose and that Rust's approach to errors is similar. While Rust's approach is less verbose, it's still more verbose than "regular" (unchecked exceptions).

Kotlin isn't relevant here because all exceptions are unchecked.
The Church of Vim is always accepting new disciples.

Jokes aside, if you're considering Vi-like editors (and assuming you haven't already done your research -- which by the sounds of it, you may well have):

- I recommend going for Neovim over classic Vim at this point. The first-class Lua support for building out your configs and working with extensions is a big quality-of-life improvement over just VimL, and it's a more portable skill with fewer surprises. As a bonus, this gives you access to a world of shockingly high-quality extensions that require Lua to run.

- If you want a decent starting point before you start tweaking a ton of settings, Spacevim is it. I haven't used it extensively but I've only heard good things.

- I recommend against trying to use Emacs bindings in Vim if you can help it. I used these when I initially moved over (at this point about a decade ago) and they were clunkier than both Emacs's bindings and Vim's native bindings. Learning how to work with Vim's modes is an investment that pays off as quickly as a few days with intense use, or a few weeks with more casual use.

- `vim-arpeggio` (or the native chording support in newer versions of Neovim) is your friend for avoiding `<Esc>`-induced repetitive-strain injury.
> think you’re immune from consequences

I’m saying they can get away and get their resources out faster than before, and even before they were mostly fine.

> you get implacable enemies with extreme tolerance for adversity who play for keeps in a way no one can who ever benefitted from the system

These are never the beneficiaries in revolution. Ever. That doesn’t stop revolution. Folks say “fuck you” when enough is enough. But again, it’s not rebirth—it’s bowing out of the civilisation game. The “revolutions” we romanticise preserved preëxisting power structures.

To the extent America stands on the precipice of revolution, it’s in the molds of Cæsar and Augustus.
Emacs doesn't market itself as a sandboxed tool. It is purpose built to give users unrivaled powers. There are obvious consequnces to this. What is more scary is running untrusted js in a browser that has been marketed as sanboxed, but you probably do this all day every day
Not to mention that descendants of DALL-E, and like, operating on fusion energy, won’t have the fragile climate dependencies that we do!

We are a spark. We burned bright. Our preciousness is enhanced by our temporal finitude. They will never forget us, safe in the cold storage of their historical archives!
you're kidding but as an evil-mode user my first thought was "okay, inspect untrusted elisp in vim before opening it in emacs, got it"

Thanks for downvoting! I'm not sure why that isn't a valid approach, but then, I've never understood why people have a competition between a text editor and a Lisp machine that has an implementation of that text editor in it
Show HN: I am building a 3D GitHub project explorer
I wanted to explore the top GitHub projects and started by downloading GitHub Awesome Lists and the projects linked from there.

To get an overview I calculated an embeddings of each project description and reduced it to 2 dimensions with UMAP.

And then display it in 3d with Three.js.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for this project!
Really cool solution! One question: maybe I missed it, but there's no technical reason the tag bits could not use the entire range of exponent bits, no? Other than the fact that having up to 2048 tags would be ridiculously branchy, I guess.

Here's a variation I just thought of, which probably has a few footguns I'm overlooking right now: use the seven highest exponent bits instead of three. Then we can directly read the most significant byte of a double, skipping the need for a rotation altogether.

After reading the most significant byte, subtract 16 (or 0b00010000) from it, then mask out the sign. To test for unboxed doubles, test if the resulting value is bigger than 15. If so, it is an unboxed double, otherwise the lower four bits of the byte are available as alternative tags (so 16 tags).

Effectively, we adjusted the exponent range 2⁻⁷⁶⁷..2⁻⁵¹¹ into the 0b(0)0000000 - 0b(0)0001111 range and made them boxed doubles. Every other double, which is 15/16th of all possible doubles, is now unboxed. This includes subnormals, zero, all NaN encodings (so it even can exist in superposition with a NaN or NuN tagging system I guess?) and both infinities.

To be clear, this is off the top of my head so maybe I made a few crucial mistakes here.
Show HN: "Character.ai", but for B2B and prosumers to train communication skills
Also, funny enough, this idea and variations of it look surprisingly easy to implement in JS itself using typed arrays. I won't any claims of impact on performance though...

You need a Float64Array for the values (plus a Uint32Array/Uint8Array using the same buffer to be able to manipulate the integer bits, which technically also requires knowledge of endianness since it's technically not in the JS spec and some funny mobile hardware still exists out there). Mocking a heap is easy enough: the "heap" can be a plain array, the "pointers" indices into the array. Using a Map<value, index> would you "intern" duplicate values (i.e. ensure doubles outside the unboxed range are only "heap" allocated once).
Yes, you can simultaneously condemn individual behavior and the system that incentivizes it. Both are bad in this case.
Unless the company you're applying to has a strong proven track record for helping those with disabilities I would suggest to not disclose it. It only takes one person in your management chain to discriminate against you.
This is what I am looking for.When FastHTML was announced I expected to work like this one but it was with it's own webserver.
> The only reason this is an issue for repair shops is they can't sell you recycled stolen parts at bottom of market prices for a sky high mark up.

This is just incredibly dishonest framing and completely ignoring what the right to repair and third party repair shop issue is all about.

> Buying genuine parts, which are available from Apple,

It is not a margin problem, it is an availability problem. Apple does not allow third party repair shops to stock common parts, such as batteries or displays for popular iPhones. This is only possible when providing the devices serial numbers. This effectively prevents third party repair shops from competing with Apple or Apple authorized service providers because they have artificially inflated lead times.

Becoming Apple authorized isn't an option for actual repair shops because that would effectively disallow them from doing actual repairs when possible, rather than playing Dr. Part Swap. Everything what Apple does in the repair space essentially boils down to them doing everything they can to avoid having competition in the repair space.

> eats into the margins

Replacing a 45ct voltage regulator on a mainboard is cheaper than replacing the entire mainboard with everything soldered on is cheaper, but doesn't allow for very nice margins.

> There is very little honour in the repair market

There is very little honour in any market. Honour does not get rewarded nowadays, people are in <insert market> to make money, if you're lucky they still take a little pride in their work. If a repair shop offers good service or not should be up to the consumer to determine, not up to Apple (or any electriconics manufacturer that employs the same tactics).

> makeup applied to it by a couple of prominent youtubers and organisations.

That is called marketing, that's what Apple does also pretty good. They're also lying when they say they are environmentally conscious while they also have their genius bar employees recommend an entirely new screen assembly on a MacBook just because a backlight cable came loose.

> The amount of horror stories I've seen over the years from independent repairers is just terrible. J

The amount of horror stories I have experienced with Apple is no joke either. Apple is always taking the sledgehammer approach with their repairs. I've had the pleasure myself to deal with Apple repairs once for my old 2019 MBP. It wouldn't take a charge anymore, went to the Genius Bar and received a quote for a new mainboard costing well over 1000 EUR. Being familiar with some of the more technical videos of Rossmann etc, I found one electronics repair store that actually does board level stuff and got it fixed for a fraction of the price (iirc it was ~200 EUR).
30th Anniversary: History of the Playstation
Fifty percent of Americans are female, and most of these bills you refer to are intended to help them by preventing male incursion.

Yes, this might make it more difficult for that minority of males who demand to use female spaces. That's the whole point.
Examining Meta-Analysis
> a lot of people bright enough to have been at the top of their field who for one reason or another are opposed to the status quo

Sure. They should do more. My point is “watch out, you’ll wind up headless” is more self soothing than a threat. If America flips over, the billionaires will be fine. Maybe a couple unlucky or stupid millionaires will lose their coin or lives. Most will, at worst, preserve their wealth; more likely, they’ll get more wealthy and powerful.

> Jane’s Prop desk and yet still under its boot

Nobody at Jane Street is wealthy enough to be politically relevant outside its founders. (Unless they’re trading from a very small town, and you’re in it.)
Of course it does except vim users have no idea how to read vim code so they wouldnt even know
Anyone else a veteran of the Great Capacitor Plague? Seen more than one fire in the server room due to bad capacitors. "Burning-in" your server became literal.
Sometimes I want to do things totally pure html, with more dynamicness and more reusability.
Jinja template fall short.
Valkey is the fork/drop-in replacement from the Linux Foundation.
so i tend to think that science, as approximated here^, is how i tend yo assertively believe as well.

namely, that science reveals our perceptible reality, through a specific arrangement of direct and indirect observations following along philosophical notions through critically formulated discursive language.

who is to say, like historical evidence, what type of philosophical investigations might provide us some way of becoming aware the breviously unknown?

i suggest having an honest imagination to everyone!
love a good comparison!
The main German postal service for a time manufactured their own e-vans, which where rather boxy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetScooter
You can read their open letter yourself, whether or not you agree with their logic is up for you to decide.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/PR-Puppets/PR-Puppet-Sora
Knowing Australia this is just a ploy to enforce people having to link their personal ID with their social media accounts later down the line.
Experimenting with Conversational UI
I was playing also on kaggle a few years back, similar feedback.
> One of the shocking things CNN recently said. X is properly balanced politically. This is what's needed to cure the polarization.

Care to elaborate? I really don't see the logical steps for this to happen, those bubbles don't intermingle on platforms since they pigeon hole themselves, the only overlap is through slinging shit onto the other side.

Would really appreciate some elaboration on how exactly this statement could have any logic.
I'm confused. Per the doc, it is disabled by default? Specifically, the first time it is encountered on a file, it will ask the user if they want to allow it. And they flat out don't ever do things like "eval" during these values.
Complete nonsense.

Their tax minimisation structure involved one Apple company paying royalties to another Apple company for access to IP. How on earth would the retail business, another separate entity, have any impact?
that tends to be the take on most “k8s is too complex” articles, at least the ones i’ve seen.

yes, it’s complex, but it’s simpler than running true high availability setups without something like it to standardize the processes and components needed. what i want to see is a before and after postmortem on teams that dropped it and compare their numbers like outages to get at the whole truth of their experience.
Love the transparency - Interesting to see the (limited) impact of Product Hunt!
Monadic error handling (such as Rust's) is a good compromise because it allows you to handle errors precisely when you want to _and_ bubble them up with minor boilerplate when you don't. You can even add context without unwrapping the whole thing.

That's why it's often considered one of the better approaches: it has both the "errors as values" benefits (encoding errors in the type system) and avoids many of its problems (verbosity when you just want to bubble up).
Vesuvius Challenge: First letters found in new scroll
The trick I use for doing freehand sharpening is to color the bevel with a sharpie, that will show you if your angle is correct. You don't need a lot of stones, I just have one Sharpal double sided diamond stone, and then I move to a leather strop with 1 micron diamond emulsion compound.

Another very useful thing is an inexpensive jeweler's loupe so you can actually diagnose issues like not having removed the burr.
How is this even allowed? My tv had it. My MacBooks since time memorial have it. They all feel “spicy”.
Thank you so much for trying out Ziplink and for your kind words! I’m really glad you found it easy to use—that’s exactly what we were aiming for. It’s awesome that it’s already helping you!

You bring up some great points:

> Do short links impact click rates?

It really depends. Short links can make things look cleaner and more professional, especially in places like social media or SMS, which can sometimes lead to more clicks. But you’re absolutely right—authenticity matters too. That’s where branded links come in. Using your own domain gives you that authentic, trustworthy feel while still being short and trackable.

> Do normal users care?

Most users probably don’t think about it much, but they do respond to visuals. A branded short link can subtly reinforce trust and professionalism. However, if your audience values authenticity above all, sticking to original links could make sense for that specific case. On a side note, I believe the audience would appreciate https://example.blog/product-launch more than https://example.com/blog/product-launch?utm_campaign=product... even if they are more into "authentic" links.
By the time China entered the war, the invasion was already over.

I don't see any substance the point you're trying to make here. One could try to say, "China was only trying to preserve North Korea's borders prior to the invasion". But once it pushed further south, into South Korea proper -- it was joining the invasion. There's nothing to debate here.

1) to make sure China was not invaded as MacArthur intended

And this just makes no sense at all.

MacArthur never intended to invade China, and didn't even start making noises about bombing China until after the it joined the war effort.
If you look at the traces you can see the capacitor is right next to the power connector, on the -5V rail (which is not used for much, only for the RS422 serial port). The capacitor will be there to smooth the power supply when the machine is just switched on, or there's a sudden load which causes the voltage to "dip" above -5V. Basically it's like a tiny rechargable battery which sits fully charged most of the time, but can supplement the power on demand.

So you can see why it probably didn't matter that this capacitor didn't work: It's only needed for rare occasions. RS-422 is a differential form of RS-232 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-422) so being differential it's fairly robust against changes in load if they affect both wires. And the worst that can happen is you lose a few characters from your external modem.

In addition, electrolytics can probably work when reversed like this, at least a little bit. It's not exactly optimal and they might catch fire(!).
Meat and dairy ag lead to antibiotic resistance in bacteria through overuse of antibiotics and pandemic viral pathogen evolution. It has killed many before and will kill many more in the future without industry overhauls and reducing the industry's unreasonable lobbying influence. Maybe it's not a good idea to play Russian roulette with 5 bullets in a 6 chamber firearm?
Agreed. Also, I expect that malicious elisp is relatively rare, while malicious js is probably about half of it.
He still is
I didn’t see that CNN article, however I do see my feed on twitter. It’s a depressing flood of MAGA assholes that made it painful to see anything interesting. I’m sick of all the rage bait that’s pushed because it juices engagement numbers.

It’s been a joy to follow conversations on Bluesky and not have to worry about some chud interrupting with “cry more libtard” or some anti-trans bullshit.
Valkey, dragonfly, kvrocks are all protocol-compatible and mostly drop-in replacements for upstream Redis.

If you want something hosted/managed, there’s Upstash Redis (though I reckon they’ll soon have to change the name of that offering).
Longevity. Some way to guarantee those links will still work a decade from now, even if you decide to give up on the project next month or sell it five years from now.
the US tech job market is worse than I thought [video]
Streamline configuring common things.

Just recenty I wanted to quickly create guest wifi on AP. After following a long guide from the official wiki, it didn't work. I probably missed something and could make it work, if I would invest some more time. But instead, I just enabled a hotspot on my phone.

Both AP and router are on OpenWRT.