skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see what happens if we were to take online threats seriously.

As far as I can tell, people view threats of violence on the Internet as mere hyperbole. They don't intend to carry them through, and they don't expect you to take them seriously. Law enforcement knows that it's unlikely to result in violence, and that the offenders are likely out of their jurisdiction. The vast majority of threats go unreported, and the few reports result in any action.

But threats are intended as a form of censorship, to keep people from speaking. They are both illegal on the face of it, and dangerous to free speech.

So I'd be interested in seeing what happens if law enforcement actually tried to enforce the existing laws. I'm not so naive as to think it would help all that much, but I hold a tiny glimmer of hope that people might think twice rather than being 100% certain they can get away with what is, quite clearly, a crime.
I don't and I've never worked on ads in any way, but I use them
Romanian court annuls first round of presidential election
Romania cancels election after systems targeted in cyberattacks
Good effort, but tbh the absence of pictures is actually what I like about HN, that's why I could never get into daily.dev
What are the 7?

In my experience, the two that really matter are J1772/CCS1 and NACS (Tesla). There's a scattering of CHADeMO, but I haven't yet seen a Level 3 DC charger that has CHADeMO only - the cabinet also has a CCS1 plug.

Most (all?) manufacturers will be moving to NACS in the next few years. Luckily, J1772/CCS1 and NACS are protocol-level compatible, so adaptors are relatively cheap and easy to make.

The remaining incompatibilities are commercial/business decisions (e.g. Telsa opening up the Supercharger network to other manufacturers).

EDIT to clarify: I'm combining J1772 and CCS1 because there aren't any cars that have one but not the other. CCS1 starts with J1772 and adds a couple extra pins for DC fast charging (Level 3).
This is one of the things that may make me serious consider another Android tablet (especially one with a nice keyboard+touchpad accessory connected via e.g.: Pogo pins). It would definitely be a game changer, and a high-end Android device could completely replace my current hybrid Chromebook.
there's even the endogenous retroviruses that make up 5-8% of our DNA - including bits that just repeat over and over without every doing anything.
Clouded Judgement: Is Software Cheap or Expensive?
Right, my sentiments too. I was expecting type-safe SQL. The manifold-sql[1] project has this down.

1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/blob/master/man...
Last time I checked GenAI it wasn't able to handle multiple people, but giving Midjourney a picture of yourself, and asking it to "draw me as a cowboy in the style of a Dilbert cartoon shooting a gun in the air" is totally a thing it will do. Without a picture of you to test on, we can't debate how well the image looks like you, but here's one of Jackie Chan: https://imgur.com/a/6cBrHWd
Scientists and engineers have created a carbon-14 diamond battery
I think most of these headlines are bait no? I've been reading about incredible discoveries for one decade and they all ended in nothing
>But it remains true that there are large amounts of non-coding junk DNA which is under no selection pressure.

Nope, you cannot ever assert that.

Did you understand the article? What was once thought to be junk turned out not to be. Extrapolate from that.
No, spreading disease:

> In view of their genetic similarity to seals there was a fear that dog distemper might mutate and cross over into the seal population.
How to Modernize a Mainframe COBOL Codebase
I think the parent comment mean "art" as "having fun", like playing a guitar, definitely no fun to see the robot playing it and not letting you even touch it.
Does generated == transmitted and consumed in this case?
Is this a side effect of AT&T using cheaper passive optical networks for their current buildouts?
Harm is when something bad happens to someone, and the someone is aware of it
Distemper. They thought distemper could mutate and infect seals.
One of the host hotels for Dragon Con in Atlanta is the Marriott Marquis, which until several years ago had a very iconic carpet that has been since been replaced with something boring.

Many people who spent many hours staring at the old carpet while in line for panels missed it very much and founded the Cult of the Carpet[0]. It has "priests" that wear robes with the pattern, you can buy bags and t-shirts with the pattern, etc. My favorite is the guy who painted his storm trooper armor with the pattern.

[0] https://www.11alive.com/article/news/weird/dragon-con-cult-o...
keeping it afloat is usually a good step towards limping back to dock! We're still trying to figure out where the dock is, but sinking in the meantime would not necessarily be an improvement.
Which is all completely and utterly useless in the context of hardening an electrical grid. Which is the topic at hand. It would take days to connect one and start it. For all intents and purposes, it's a static installation.

And truck mounted reactors really are science fiction, if for no other reason than they'd be a proliferation nightmare (also for, well, all the other reasons).

But I don't know why I bother since everyone round here seem to have terminal software brain and think you can just scale and deploy energy infrastructure like Kubernetes.
Isn’t this what multicast does?
You seem to be asserting that these people are homeless because of their addiction. Why are you so sure the causality doesn't flow the other way?
This entirely depends on the subscription fee, doesn't it? The amount of ad revenue that the service is getting for you is limited, even accounting for the fact that as a paying user you might push the price of ads up a bit.

If you set the subscription fee above this value, you as a service will be better off regardless of the advertizers.
Secure and low maintenance password management with pass and Git over network
I would imagine 95% of cookies are not selling data but giving your data away in exchange for the other services.

1. Because they are using GA4 feeding info to Google.

2. Because they have some advertising pixel / api set up feeding info to Meta.

I would guess sites like Hubspot, Salesforce, or Github might actually be selling data.
Might've been good, yes. But I think it'd have been outside the scope of his project tbf
Fun read. Silly, of course, but still fun.

Surprised it didn't mention Iron Man. That is almost certainly the most popular of sci-fi body armor at the moment.

I, personally, think the biggest conceit with the armor narrative is that it can work as well as it does, period. This is touched in the article about how they manage to keep melee weapons as focus points. Realistically, no armor is protecting you from modern gun fire. And many hits that are survived by the likes of iron man would kill the person inside, regardless of if the armor survived.
There's only 3 plug formats that matter. J1772 for AC charging, the Tesla plug (called NACS), and CCS, the other main standard. It may look messy but it's trivial in practice, once you can use superchargers.

Once you have access to superchargers you can just drive. I've driven across the country 3 times in a Tesla, now I have a different EV with a CCS plug and access to superchargers with an adapter, I'm free to go where I want.
The central dogma exists and is a thing, everyone in the field understands that.

Also, "debunked" implies something was proven to be false, which is not the case with the central dogma.
The Surface Studio is dead? – Microsoft ends production on Surface Studio 2
The issue is that it has already been broken (read: has allowed arbitrary byte sequences) for a long time, and the debate is about what to restrict it to.
Father of children in Switzerland:

You might want to check out https://www.hoerbert.com. This is a remarkably well-built, low-tech alternative. It is somewhat primitive, but the company seems willing to indulge customers who are technically inclined.

As an adjacent thought on the Hörbert device:

Since we live very far away from family (transatlantic flight), we decided to have our relatives record themselves reading books for our kids. They shared the audio files over Google Drive, and we could load up the audio files onto the Hörbert device so that our kids could listen to their custom audio books whenever they wanted. It provided a nice way to help the kids feel connected with the grandparents and such. With the Hörbert, all that involved was ejecting the SDK card and amending its contents on a normal computer.
I've been having good results having AI "color in" the areas that I might otherwise skimp on like that, at least in a first pass at a project: really robust fixtures and mocks in tests (that I'm no longer concerned will be dead weight as the system changes because they can pretty effectively be automatically updated), graceful error handling and messaging for edgier edge cases, admin views for things that might have only had a cli, etc.
My UPS manual says 3 years. They have a different chemistry than phone batteries. On the other side, they should be quite similar to car batteries which could live much longer that 3 years, but they spend most of their time waiting in a parking slot and then a few starts per day or less. An UPS doesn't work like that.
Leaving aside the “AGI on paper” point a sibling correctly made, your point shares the same basic structure as noting that any VC investment is a terrible deal if you only 2x your valuation. You might get $0 if there is a multiple on the liquidation preference!

OpenAI are clearly going for the BHAG. You may or may not believe in AGI-soon but they do, and are all in on this bet. So they simply don’t care about the failure case (ie no AGI in the timeframe that they can maintain runway).
I'm pretty sure that the Powers That Be didn't want the Fair Labor Act, or the Clean Air Act, or the Pure Food and Drug Act, or a number of other things. They may not care who is president, but on issues that they do care about, they still take some losses.
since you presume to speak for all leftists, this makes things so much easier to discuss; i can just speak to you directly, how convenient!

"As for the center, they're ok with fascism which makes them fascists."

one could argue that since you have espoused such radically leftist policies that you have then alienated and abandoned a huge swath of the (also now apparently "fascist") sensible moderates and centrists. losing what was, until recently, a clear political advantage. you created the conditions necessary for these center-left, center, and right wing fascists to acquire power.

since you are perfectly ok with concretely aiding and abetting fascists, by your style of logic, you're a "fascist" then too.

so perhaps one might suggest, in the alternative, to please first carefully check the definition of words like "fascist" [1] before throwing it around loosely. and if you must use it as a slur, do so correctly and judiciously at something vaguely defensible. if you go around calling everybody and everything you don't like "fascist", it becomes more difficult to understand what you actually mean. and then what name do you call the "real-evil-actual-facsist-fascists"?

simply screaming insults at super-majority swaths of the population isn't really a viable path toward making the world a better place.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism
> If were to bury the equivalent amount of wood, we would be equal.

Burying wood that would have taken decades to decay is not equal to instantly releasing the equivalent amount of carbon. I'm not sure it's physically possible to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at the same rate a plane emits it, which would be the only way to genuinely "offset" the emissions.
I suspect you're right, but I think it'll follow the COBOL engineer salary cycle, engineers that have a deeper understanding of the whole widget will be in demand when companies remember they need them.
>Prototypes haven't included one because engineers simply can't fit one into the body.

That is why I no longer read the BS from AppleInsider anymore.
Exotic New Superconductors Delight and Confound
Don’t worry about human readability. When you have an issue with log size, you are already logging more than a human can read.
Surprisingly, the court (2/3) thinks the law both requires strict scrutiny and satisfies it.

Strict Scrutiny has two tests:
1. Compelling Government Interest
2. Narrowly Tailored (least restrictive means)

Note the court does not say foreign actors don't have First Amendment rights.
What I'm about to say is a big topic that's probably better suited as a blog post, but I'll try anyways.

I think Diataxis is a valuable aid for thinking about documentation strategy but is not always necessarily a literal blueprint. I.e. when determining whether you have completely documented an area, it's very valuable to ask yourself "do we have tutorial content for this area? Explanations? References? Guides?" but it doesn't necessarily mean that the tutorial and explanations need to literally be on different pages.

We tried adopting Diataxis on pigweed.dev [1] as a literal blueprint and it resulted in too much fragmentation. E.g. the explanations for a Pigweed module were on one page, but the tutorial was on another. Users and teammates found it annoying to have to jump back-and-forth so much. In my mind, I still use Diataxis as an internal checklist of sorts, but I don't necessarily require the content to be split across different pages. E.g. sometimes the most natural/effective place to put an explanation is in a tutorial, when the user is getting hands-on experience with that topic. You reinforce the theoretical foundations with the direct experience and vice versa. If you only link to explanations from the tutorial, some (most?) users won't click those links, and therefore may never get exposed to the theoretical foundations. For some areas that's OK; for others it's could be a disservice to the user. It depends strongly on what you're documenting.

I believe I have discussed this with Daniele on the Diataxis channel in Write The Docs Slack [2] and they responded that this is why they call it modes of documentation.

That said, these recently updated docs [3] reflect our general approach to Pigweed module documentation [4]. You can see that we still do often split our docs clearly along the lines of references/guides/explanations/tutorials.

The other big limitation of Diataxis IMO is that I'm not sure if the map [5] really is a comprehensive way to think about documentation. (As I've said in previous HN discussions about Diataxis) How do homepages and READMEs fit into the map, for example?

That said, the world's documentation is much better off thanks to Diataxis. The fact that it gets discussed a few times every year here on HN is a great service because it makes the task of improving documentation much less daunting and much more straightforward, and provides very focused discussion on how to improve documentation strategy in general.

Update: I think [6] is a newer document (published Aug 2023) that has been added to cover the complexities I mentioned in this comment. This page was not on my radar.

[1] https://pigweed.dev/seed/0102.html

[2] https://app.slack.com/client/T0299N2DL/C02149LN2HJ

[3] https://pigweed.dev/pw_rpc/ for on example, https://pigweed.dev/pw_async2/ for another

[4] I'm well aware that some docs on the site are in bad need of an update, so please don't grab some random page from the site and tell me that the pigweed.dev docs suck and therefore everything I say is invalid

[5] https://diataxis.fr/map/

[6] https://diataxis.fr/complex-hierarchies/
SpaceX Dragon Gets Competition from Europe's Nyx
Freewriting
Just an interesting note. Some in the media have suggested the weapon used is a B&T Station Six, a bolt action pistol. I had no idea such a thing existed. Reviewing the footage again I don't know if it is that model. The hand movement appears more chambering that cycling a bolt.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-piece-unitedhealthcare-ceo-...
I guess the idea is that you'd do this with an old phone and already-dying battery. It's like having a small raspberry pi style server + builtin UPS.
There was also a big flop with the 80860 (sometimes referenced as i860) RISC CPU back around 1990 or so. There was a lot of hype about it being a Cray on a chip. On paper, the CPU looked awesome. The problem was that there were no compilers that were good enough to produce the type of executables to leverage its design.
New York: A city full of surveillance
Tinkerer brings this retro-futuristic Mac concept to life
TikTok vs. United States [pdf]
People heard the AI spiel and lost interest.
Maybe there is

https://www.livescience.com/63525-penguin-mummies-antarctica...
Start with the Go Standard Library
Hi folks!

This is Amadeo, a long-time hacker news passive reader.

I wanted to share a little story on how we ended up working on OpenInt. As mentioned, we started at YC as Map3, building unified APIs for Crypto. This was right as FTX blew up, so we couldn't find enough traction! We then pivoted into creating a consumer health app called Ally. After 9 months on it and realizing we weren't solving a meaningful enough problem, we tacked back into open-source dev tools. Initially, we launched Evefan (same area) in September, but after finding our first couple of customers, we stumbled into another OSS project called OpenInt. We acquired it and rebranded it and have decided to build on it :) We're now helping our first customers ship integrations to their end users and have been thrilled by the reception so far!

I'll be lurking through the day! I would love any pointers on how to make it easier for folks to launch and maintain integrations.
Did the model search the internet?

The behavior you're describing sounds like an older model behavior. When I ask for links to references these days, it searches the internet the gives me links to real papers that are often actually relevant and helpful.
Absolutely, this is for hardware reuse. I wouldn't buy a phone specifically for this, there are better options.
Virtually every EV sold today is one of 2 standards.
In addition to the great lighting, the new design also has much improved acoustics. The sound dampening is impressive. I can have conversations without straining to pick up words through the din of echoes, and the ambience has a nice warm sense of quiet.
Leaky yes, but shortish no.

As a mental exercise, try to quantify the amount of context that was necessary for Bernie Madoff to pull off his scam. Every meeting with investors, regulators. All the non-language cues like facial expressions and tone of voice. Every document and email. I'll bet it took a huge amount of mental effort to be Bernie Madoff, and he had to keep it going for years.

All that for a few paltry billion dollars, and it still came crashing down eventually. Converting all of humanity to paperclips is going to require masterful planning and execution.
This is not at all accurate. There have only ever been 3 DC Fast Charging connectors in use in North America. CCS1, Tesla's and Chademo. Chademo was only really used on a couple of cars and most popularly on the Nissan Leaf. Chademo is effectively dead in the US. Which leaves CCS1 and Tesla/NACS/J3400 (which is all the same thing.) All manufacturers are migrating to Tesla's plug. This will take time as it's not a trivial change. Any EV driver is well served to carry an adapter, but it's not totally necessary. My BMW EV does not have accesd to Tesla's supercharging network (so no need for an adapter) and I have driven over 50k miles in the last 18 months on road trips all over the US.

Please stop spreading misinformation.
How could I forget to mention fischertechnik. It was the third member of the three most popular toys in my childhood, next to Playmobil and Lego.

Other than Playmobil and Lego I have not seen toy fischertechnik for years, but I occasionally recognize their non-toy fixings.

Fischer was the most prolific German inventor with 570 patents, who amongst other things invented the plastic wall plug.
I started developing a tracing/span library that does just this: log messages are "global" (to a system/org) hierarchical "paths" + timestamp + a tagged union. The tagged union method allows you to have zero or more internal parameters that can be injected into a printf (or similar style) format string when printing, but the message itself is only a few bytes.

The benefits to this approach is it's dramatically easier to index and cheaper to store at any scale.

One thing I think people don't appreciate about logging efficiency is it enables you to log and store more and I think many don't appreciate how much even modest amounts of text logs can bog down systems. You can't read anything, but you filters easy and powerful and you can't filter something that doesn't exist.
Zooming with your feet and zooming with a lens will give you quite different results regarding "geometric relations between objects". The word you are looking for here is "Parallax" :-)

Cropping in post is identical to digital zoom and will not change parallax and of course reduce resolution (which neither of the above will do)

All three give quite different results and of course are viable methods depending on what your intended outcome is
Agreed. At that point you need specialized tools anyway.
Romanian here. Discussions of cancelling the election happened way before the cyberattack. AFAIK for the first time in a very long time the largest two parties did not win and they started panicking and scrambling to re-do the vote count.
It's not only the plug shape though, it's also the language the plug speaks. Newer Tesla chargers (I think supercharger v3 and up) will be able to talk CCS over the NACS connector for wide compatibility, but the older ones will look the same and only charge a Tesla because they don't communicate with CCS.
Oh! I hadn't heard about this.
Thing is, they don't die. Instead you get the short end of the stick.

You'd have to be pretty darn important for an org to fix their scripts because of your name or the username you created. Of it would need to happen at a larger scale, but then that wouldn't be so controversial in the first place.
New York town doesn't want to be a climate experiment
They'll do it.... if the government subsidizes it.
> US companies tend to have 3-month-long timelines (I have no idea why /s).

I don’t understand this platitude because the largest and most profitable businesses in the world, US tech and pharma companies, have very long timelines.

Amazon took 20+ years to literally build infrastructure, the early investors of Facebook were not looking for a 3 month payday, they invested billions for the 10+ year payday.

See the HN threads for when Zuckerberg paid for Instagram and WhatsApp, with so many wondering how he would recoup the enormous investment.

Apple probably plowed billions into watches AirPods and M processors for years before it saw a return, going so far as to lend money to TSMC for many years with no guarantee of TSMC being able to make the product they wanted.

Tesla, Alphabet’s Waymo bet, Uber, Nvidia, so many publicly listed businesses have a years long timelines

Same for US pharma, it takes decades to get a product to market, with a high chance it never does.
if i dont have an adapter, im either screwed into spending 3 hours at a charging station or im calling a tow truck

Found the commenter that’s never actually owned an EV. 13 years of EV ownership and numerous road trips, and your hypotheticals have never happened to me. Yes, you’re technically correct, said by some to be the worst kind of correct. Because in day-to-day reality, there are basically two kinds of connector types.

Though if your day job, as listed in your profile, is changing brake pads, I could see how you don’t have a lot of contact with EVs. :-)