skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For an intuitive example of where this is more efficient, consider plane changes. The delta-V for a plane change is 2 * sin(angular_change/2) * speed

The higher an orbit is, the slower you're going at apogee. If you're doing a large plane change, going even slower will save you a *ton* of delta-V, so you can transfer up to a much higher orbit, plane change at apogee, and then transfer down to your desired final orbit.

That's by far the most useful place for bielliptic transfers, not just going from one orbit to another on the same plane.
That seems like a terrible idea for government. “Well actually I meant”, and off went the goalpost into the atmosphere. If a law is so complex that you can’t effectively write it in a locked in medium then the concept of said law is probably flawed.
> very little (if any) of the user data we process today will be relevant to a nation-state actor in, say, 30 years.

30 year old skeletons in people’s closets can be great blackmail to gain leverage with.

edit: As I understand it this is a popular way for state actors to "flip" people. Threaten them with blackmail unless they provide confidential information or do some actions.
The bureaucracy must expand in order to support the expanding bureaucracy.

The biggest failure with scale I have seen in my own personal experience is fragmentation. The business knows they want to grow or diversify or whatever. They know what their desired end state is, and they kind of (at least they think they do) know what needs to happen to get there. This is wildly complicated with too many unknown unknowns so they backwards plan and short circuit until they reach their desired end state.

The end result is a bunch of teams each doing their own things in their own way and each with their own overhead. It is both expensive, high risk, and fragile. As developers we call this tech debt. If you think refactoring technology is hard then you are in for a real treat, because refactoring technology is child's play compared to refactoring people.

Of course the flip side to that is micro-management from the top. Yes, there is a centralized design, but nothing gets done because the micro-management gets stretched too thin to accommodate real world variability that comes with scaling in different directions.

I have never seen anybody solve for this in technology organizations as well as the Army. The Army has a vaguely new (15-20 years old) organizational philosophy called Mission Command. It is complicated, but the summary of it is execute to your leader's intent. The idea is that each subordinate leader knows what the boss wants and they own what constraints are imposed upon them. Just don't violate the constraints imposed upon you, but otherwise do whatever you think best to accomplish the boss's intent. The imposed constraints provide known limitations to prevent unintentional fragmentation but otherwise the subordinate leader is given maximum flexibility to move quickly and make decisions as operations dictate. Then once the initial boss's intentions are accomplished organizational refactoring occurs at lower cost.
Yes: start_chrome(headless=True)
If you do this, your C code will run significantly slower than, say, Java, Go, or C#, because the compiler is unable to apply even the most basic optimizations (which it can do still in all those other languages).

So, at that point why even use C at all? Today, C is used where the overhead of a managed language is unacceptable. If you could just eat the performance cost, you'd probably already be using a managed language. There's not much desire for a variant of C with what would be at least a 10x slowdown in many workloads.
I don't think the full ownership structure is publicly known, but feel free to link me to it if I'm wrong. Capital other than his did come in as part of the acquisition; there's almost 100 shareholders.

https://www.rcfp.org/x-investors-unsealed/
I don't know about bluerays but as for DVDs you just had to buy a player from Switzerland or any other country where players were not region locked.
Hot take, but Japanese civilians (all civilians, not just men) were to fight American soldiers if they invaded Japan. We'll never know what would have happened if America invaded, but Japan certainly was not making civilian evacuation plans. So maybe innocent-ish civilians?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kokumin_Giyutai.jpg
Maybe, but 13% is still well under what I would suspect is the bar for being correlated with negative health outcomes. Most sources seem to suggest that 18-20% is still a healthy level.
Super interesting to me that each localization has a different phrase.

Does this imply that the phrase itself doesn't matter to the story? I've seen people online try to draw subtextual theories from the (English) phrase.
If only.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Wouldn't_Steal_a_Car

That sound this made as well, not conducive to sitting down to be entertained. It was deliberately obnoxious.
Ask HN: If a private company like OpenAI acheives AGI
Do you really think they would make it public or use it to their advantage for as long as possible?
Personal data also covers political and religious opinions, sexual orientation and anything else that can be grounds for discrimination. GDPR certainly gives you the the right to demand deletion of personal data like that.
Hey, this seems like a great tool. Alternatively for 100% secure DR and cross-restore capabilities, you can check out GitProtect.io

You get support for GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket and Jira. Comes in handy when a platform is going through an outage - I simply restore my data to another platform and continue working.
That thread provides a summarization of a dutch lawyer blog post, I wouldn't call it a fairly strong argument, merely someone's opinion.
It's perfectly fair to stop but I did want to highlight one thing:

> It's not a mere technical distinction. The fact that the number is so high essentially guarantees that AJ cannot pay it. A lower amount might have actually been paid. What can we make of this? The intent was not to get restitution, but rather to destroy the business. That seems unethical.

There is actually an important reason to secure an absurdly high judgement - some of the creditors involved in this situation are Jones parents (and I believe some affiliate companies also hold some of the debt). The judgement will be divided proportionally by debt so the size of the judgement will impact how much money from the bankruptcy sale Jones' parents will receive.

I also think it's fair to view this case through the lens of ongoing damages - Jones has received C&Ds about Sandyhook and ignored them - even during the trial he continued to cause additional damages. There was every indication (to me at least) that if the business survived the damages would continue and the only way to reasonably make the other parties whole was to destroy the business.

I understand this may feel like unnecessary censorship but the path to this point was AJ repeatedly ignoring the justice system saying "Stop doing that" and his response to the process up to this point hasn't been to act in good faith.
The Dream of Spotify Car Thing Is Being Kept Alive by Devoted Tinkerers
I haven't noticed any great deterioration in maps.me

But then also... I want to try Organic Maps more, but how do I feed it all my user-supplied info from maps.me ?
It is worth noting that a lot of people DO own DVD and Blu-Ray drives still - they are just stuck inside of gaming consoles.
Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
OMAD works wonders and is easy to do.

Keeping it up for 2 years now.
Maybe OP reacted because a float only looks like it is a way to store decimal numbers, when it's only an approximation of decimal numbers. If you really need decimal numbers you need something like mpmath¹.

As a shorthand to explain what a float is to someone, "a decimal number" is an OK start though.

But sometimes that approximation breaks down even for simple examples, i.e. 0.1 cannot be represented as a float. This can be quite unexpected if your mental model is that "floats are decimal numbers with a certain precision".

1: https://mpmath.org/
Slightly annoying everyone watching a movie in exchange for putting out their little bit of propaganda, doesn’t make it useless but it does make it worse.

Enshitificstion isn’t about companies making products worse because they don’t like their customers it’s just they have different interests. Thus shelf life is generally favored over taste etc.
The actual scientist doing the calculations in proper LCAs do include this and production of the fuel is a notable chunk of the CO2 running cost of an ICE car (about 25%).

Relevant phrases are "well-to-tank" and "tank-to-wheel" which combine to give "well-to-wheel" numbers.
> Federal Bankruptcy Law provides the procedural framework.

Federal bankruptcy law sets the substantive as well as procedural rules for bankruptcy, and its substantive provisions trump any state law, but, OTOH, state law has some role both in determining what the set of claims going in to bankruptcy are and, to the extent permitted in federal bankruptcy law, setting things like allowable personal exemptions, etc.
I don't think so. You might be entitled to get the specific row of a database which contained your information. But why would you be entitled to the entire DB?
Should probably include "Show HN" in the title
One part of effective communication is making things easy to understand and to remove stumbling blocks.

Removing uppercase or dots might still convey the same meaning but making it harder to read.

It may not matter that much but it does matter.
>Or check out a DVD for free from a public library.

Major downsides to that alternative. My 80-year old friend started borrowing DVDs from the local library 6 months ago as a personal protest against Amazon Prime adding ads to their streaming.

So far, made 3 trips to borrow DVDs and all had various issues:

1) checked out White Collar tv seasons but library only had seasons 1 to 3. Library didn't have last 3 seasons at all.

2) then checked out a British tv series with 10 seasons. The 10th season had 3 discs and the middle disc was so scratched up by a previous borrower that it was unplayable. (The library doesn't have a bunch of duplicate DVDs like Blockbuster Video rentals.)

3) then checked out another series that has 8 discs but only got 6 because 2 of them are already checked out by another patron. Now this means repeatedly checking the library if the other 2 finally got returned so she can borrow them.

On top of those problems, the library has a very small selection in comparison to streaming. She estimates she'll exhaust the DVDs sitting on the library's shelves in a few months and have nothing to watch.

Another huge negative to DVDs is that she can't play them (directly) on her iPad. Her exercise bike had a mount for an iPad and she used it to watch video streams from Amazon Prime.

She was spoiled by the conveniences of streaming and does not look back on DVDs with any romantic nostalgia at all. The only reason she doesn't just subscribe to Netflix or HBO streaming to get back that convenience was she didn't think she could afford it on her Social Security income. On the other hand, the Amazon Prime Video streaming (without ads) was already part of her Amazon subscription.
Huh, that's an interesting paradox, I've never thought about this in this way.
And using a string concatenation operator that's distinct from the addition operator is one of PHP's best design choices. Naively everything passed to your script are strings, `"1"+1` evaluating to 11 instead of 2 would lead to so much wasted time.
Nah it's just typical rich people getting away with everything stuff & we'll continue to let it happen because we are hapless.
The book is of course excellent, but this post may be a bit too tautological in itself.
Why should the system accommodate people who refuse to defend themselves?

I understand that in a system like Russia where dissidents face made-up charges and their attorneys are harassed by the state. But Alex Jones isn’t in that kind of position at all. He has no problem getting legal representation.

The default judgment basically means he admitted guilt by his refusal. That was his choice.
Show HN: AppliedTrack – Job Application Manager
Hey guys!

My name is Ryan and I created AppliedTrack to help myself honestly at first to organize jobs and generate cover letters and resumes that were actually fine tuned for an ATS or resume scanner without the work.

I showed it to some of my friends at uni and they loved the idea so I decided to build it out further so that others could benefit from it.

The most powerful features it has is the contextual resume and cover letter generator and internal email finder. It stands apart because when you generate a resume or cover letter, it takes in your personal bio, your resume, the job description, and a search about the company to create a compatible, keyword loaded, ATS layout formatted resume or cover letter that I personally used to land the job I am at now.

The internal email finder is nice because when you don't hear back from a job for a week or so and your application gets lost in the stack, you can find the internal email for the hiring manager or lead tech and personally email them.

Let me know your thoughts!
This isn’t TikTok. You can say kill and murder. Jesus.
Using is testing. The whole point of automated UI tests is to mimic usage.

A random click on a website might not be a great test, but it is a test nonetheless. And if it fails enough times, someone somewhere will be held accountable.
> similar studies on body doubling also showed participants feeling more social pressure to conform to well-established methods rather than branching out and experimenting, and similarly participants felt more judged whenever they ended up taking a risk that either didn't pan out or did so differently than imagined.

Fwiw, when it comes to mobbing, there are several cornerstone rules of engagement that Woody insists on, which in practice alleviate a lot of these concerns.

#1 - Courtesy, Kindness and Respect

Establishing how people want to be treated to feel like they can thrive in the environment is probably the absolute most critical item to success here.

#2 - When opinions differ, try each option and see what works best

You shouldn't be solving disagreements or differences in approach with social pressure or good arguments. Prototype each different idea and figure out as a team what the ideal solution really is. This encourages branching out and experimenting.

Both are really critical to healthy mobs. When those 2 rules are followed, the team typically thrives.
To save you a click. Ben Collins (CEO The Onion):

We are deeply disappointed in today's decision, but The Onion will continue to seek a resolution that helps the Sandy Hook families receive a positive outcome for the horror they endured.

We will also continue to seek a path towards purchasing InfoWars in the coming weeks. It is part of our larger mission to make a better, funnier internet, regardless of the outcome of this case.

We appreciate that the court repeatedly recognized The Onion acted in good faith, but are disappointed that everyone was sent back to the drawing board with no winner, and no clear path forward for any bidder.

And for all of those as upset about this as we are, please know we will continue to seek moments of hope. We are undeterred in our mission to make a funnier world.
Why does the judge care about maximizing the value for a convicted criminal?
First amendment right is against the government; not other companies and individuals.
Tesla will win this, followed by Cruise.

Waymo isn't scalable.
The market is incredibly small & illiquid - the main alpha comes from:

- a better knowledge & understanding of the market. What items are desirable? What will take a long time? How do you price them? etc.

- trust/reputation, which takes form through cash trading (directly buying items from people at a discount).

I also have a few automated trading bots & scripts that save time on buying items, but that's easily replicable.
Keeping Rails cool: the modern front end toolkit
Yep! This is all correct. The point remains, however, that Delaware law does have a substantial amount to do with bankruptcy proceedings in Delaware, which is really the point I was responding to.
What is amazing to me is that this post references an "epidemic of slipping on banana peels", was posted within a day of a wonderful (33 minute long!) video about the history of slipping on banana peels, and neither references the other! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8W5GCnqT_M
a little regular exercise helps with weight loss, at least in anecdotal stuff. not that you can burn away a bad diet with exercise but the cardio and exertion help with the stress of dieting (lots of nice endorphins in a runners high!) and seem to aid metabolism a little.

doing a half hour at the gym 5 nights a week was like half of my weight loss routine basically.
What’s the hackernews parent recommendation for math enrichment these days for bright elementary school kids. I know there’s a lot of criticism for things like kumon, “Russian math” etc. but curious what folks here think of good programs that preserve a kids curiosity
That won't solve this problem. The military and government will do what is necessary to make sure the Guild of Software Engineers is officially completely fine with military applications.

This is something that only individuals can do.

And there will always be individuals willing to write this code, and that's not anything that can be solved by any number of Guilds either. The military will pay anything it takes to make it worth working outside of the Guild's rules.
> exact form of the auction is really really important though

Sure. But nobody uses Vickrey because it's impossible to explain to the public why the highest bid wasn't accepted.

> Without the second price you're trying to bid just enough to outbid the other party/parties which won't maximize bid size

Which is exactly what happens in any single-round first-price format. The only thing an open auction does is facilitate collusion. Let me repeat: for a single-round first-price auction, sealed bids are the only way to go.

> that money may technically come legally from outside the estate

It may but it doesn't. Jones saying the judge "ruled in our favour" (emphasis mine) sort of gives away the game.
> both for example are vocally opposed to the free press

...a free press that is incredibly politically partisan, polarizing/radicalizing, spreads misinformation/disinformation, and doxxes people (e.g. NYT doxxing Scott Alexander, CNN doxxing a minor because they misunderstood his political beliefs and proceeded to spread misinformation about him) is the literal opposite of democracy or decency - supporting them erodes both of those things.

> with Elon having auto-reply poop emoji on press enquiries

Twitter having an auto-reply poop emoji on press inquiries is also irrelevant to, well...anything. No company is required to have a dedicated line to respond to press inquiries.

> but still value the constitution and its principles

Musk, at least, values free speech (I'm not going to defend Thiel, because that story is pretty bad for all parties involved), which is an actual right enumerated by the Constitution, far more than any of the media companies that he dislikes. Before he took over Twitter, Twitter actively colluded with the US Government to censor speech, which absolutely infringes on the spirit, if not the letter, of the first amendment.
Yes and Google has spent 20B to get to a small rollout
I used to have a house that backed up to a county park in Maryland. My shop was out back. I was working carefully at my sawstop (that is what I had back then), standing properly to the left of the kickback path and using a push stick and roller guides. I was just finishing a cut

A hawk decided to throw a dead animal at the window behind me hard enough to shatter it. I was startled and my hand moved enough for my palm to cross the top of the blade.

I would not have lost fingers most likely but it would have been very bad.

To your point accidents are not always foreseeable. Yeah some people work stupidly but plenty of times, It’s just random unexpected events.
im sorry but its just bizarre to think that you need to re-litigate whether checks notes the primary biological purpose of our existence is indeed desirable
Sometimes it's pretty accurate though.
At first I thought this was an app to discover content on YouTube. Nope, it’s a platform.
A bankruptcy trustee was involved during the whole process (3rd party neutral). While the goal of increasing money to creditors here may work due to the free publicity, it harms the creditors interests who already agreed to the settlement. So you have a third party neutral trustee and the creditors who were harmed agreeing.

With that said bankruptcy judges do reject plans quite often and this is a high profile case.
Lol. Hotz said he would fix Twitter search in a weekend, then accidentally made it very racist, then quit.
Not a single button to download the app on the landing page.

A lot of info about the company who made it, a lot of info about how bad other actors are, and a lot about requesting funding, but not a single video, neither how to explore the platform or download anything.

I guess this is not made for users...
I don't know. On one hand, it is true we are the last line of defense. I do wish more of us said no to putting tracking on websites, among other things. But on the other hand, a random software engineer's sense of ethics might be different than you. Do we want activist software engineers?

I mean, field of study changes perspective. Recently, there was that backlash against a release of a 1-mil post dataset of bluesky users by some people on bluesky. https://eugeneyan.com/writing/anti/

I personally didn't think it was a big deal because the API and dataset is already public. And also if your text isn't available to LLMs, then your values are effectively invisible to the future, as society depends more and more on LLMs. To me, I think it's better that you get your thoughts out there into LLMs. As more of society relies on LLMs, culture wars will be fought not just on the internet, but in the embedding space of LLMs. So, given that, would these people want me to decide for them?

I dunno. Just as journalism lost the trust of the public by deliberately taking an activist stance, so too would engineering lose public trust by deliberately taking an activist stance. (You may say tech already lost public trust, but I think of tech as the industry and engineering as the profession).
I don't think they're building them for people like you, yet. Why does everyone think of anything that's announced or shown as if it's a commercial product on a shelf and marketed at them.
Because paying for the art I enjoy is the right thing to do, so I do it.
Beast academy is the short answer. Long answer is it depends on what you / your kid wants. I’ve spent many years thinking about this, so please reach out to my email if you’re interested in chatting :)
It is just around the corner though! We’re not able to make long lived qubits able to survive multiple gate operations necessary for Shor’s algorithm. But the issue here is error rates and decoherence time, and these decreasing at a geometric rate. We are getting very close to the tipping point enabling practical crypto breaks.
How about having people threatening to rape and murder your family because they're convinced your lying and know where you live so you constantly have to move and try to hide your whereabouts.

https://apnews.com/article/shootings-school-connecticut-alex...
Traditional banking is governed by men with guns who depend on votes (for appearances). They always have recourse and motivation to intervene with private transactions. Not so much the case with bitcoin, which is extralegal for the most part and doesn't depend on them.