skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at only the last 7 years is a poor standard, and Oklahoma is a known active seismic zone with dedicated USGS risk models. Severe earthquakes occur much less frequently, often less than once per century. US Geological Survey seismic risk maps paint a different picture of actual risk than you are presenting.

For example, you've deemed the New Madrid seismic zone[0] as "safe", despite multiple M7-8+ earthquakes in the 19th century. The Cascadia subduction zone hasn't had a major event in 300+ years but no one considers that seismically safe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Madrid_seismic_zone
We accidentally didn't release the right types for LLMClient :/ However, if you set the version in package.json to "alpha", it will install what's on the main branch on GitHub, which should have the typing fix there
I don't agree with everything but it's a nice post overall.
Show HN: Building a DePIN-powered uptime manager and announcing $5000 grant
Checkmate is an open source infrastructure monitoring and uptime manager platform. In collaboration with Uprock, we are adding distributed uptime monitoring feature powered by DePIN, and granting $5000 to developers who will contribute to building the future of distributed monitoring.
The "fat pipe" didn't look so fat at that stage! (I don't remember when you could first easily interact with the Internet.)
My favourite are the wee free men.

They’re not pixies, but pictsies. Their accent is a bit Scottish. They seem to have blue colored skin, but actually those are tattoos and they believe they’re currently in the afterlife (and must have been really nice persons in their previous actual life because they’re convinced they’re currently in heaven)

I always found that a bit lame and over the top.

The I learned that in northern england there once lived a keltic clan called the Picts. They were covered in blue tattoos and the kelts famously believed they lived in the afterlife and life was so good they were convinced they lived in heaven.
Okay, this confirms a narrative I’ve been considering: Matt committed a degree of profit to his investors, and they’re not receiving it, so he’s chosen to attack WPE in order to reduce competition for revenue and drive paying users to his own product. (“My name is Matt Mullenweg and this is my favorite blog on the Citadel”, etc.)

This is an obvious next step — until revenue increases or expenses decrease, Mullenweg’s corporation is no longer investing in Wordpress beyond the critical minimum necessary to present as if everything is fine. The “until WPE concedes” bit is just redirecting the underlying cause, which is that Wordpress.com isn’t increasing their growth in revenue year-over-year, which makes VC-style investors uneasy — they want hockey sticks, not dividends.

The important thing when dealing with this sort of scenario is not to take the person’s accusations at face value, and not to let them distract you from discussing their own circumstances. If Mullenweg’s moves were intelligent and calculated, then what motivations would this psyops-style propaganda represent? That is the million dollar question that matters here, not the substance of whatever his latest attack is.

“Are you so strapped for cash that you can’t afford to pay your lawyers?” is probably the simplest example of the kind of question that needs to be asked of this latest post. “How many months of runway do you have left before the lawsuit bankrupts you?” is the sort of question that the tech press should be asking. Dissecting the surface-level statements feels vengeful and just; discussing the obvious implications and making them the focus of press responses is much more impactful.
I am certainly open to the idea that

> Of course we know it didn’t happen. The ancient stories of Hippasus don’t have anything to do with this libel. As is conveniently mentioned in the Wikipedia article you posted.

I reread it BEFORE posting my initial comment.

Can you point me to where ON THE WIKIPEDIA PAGE this story was conclusively debunked?
Newton and the Counterfeiter

https://www.royalmint.com/shop/books/Newton-and-the-Counterf...

Excellent book about Isaac Newton's role in solving the great recoinage crisis.
It has become so easy to live life abstracted from all the manufacturing, farming, and logistics that makes it possible. As technology increases leverage, and allows things to become more complex, it feels like we're constantly getting farther away from understanding how the world works.

Photography like this is necessary to remind us of everything we take for granted. I talked to Chris Payne once. He's a genius. To me he is today's Margaret Bourke-White. It takes more than a good eye to get those photographs. There are so many talents coming together.
Visualizing Joyce's Ulysses: "Sirens" as a Graphic Score
No. They would fax it to you.
> Git is not that complicated. If you can't grok git I am seriously concerned about your ability to be an effective software engineer.

If your hubris is this high, I am seriously concerned about your seniority.
Not sure if applicable and how to get in. Afaik price is around 100k for a personalised vaccine but you have to give them vaccine candidates based based on DNA data. Maybe some local biotech uni could help with that.

https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/data-insights/inno...
I never figured out if the governor was that inept that he was truly convinced the person was a hacker despite every tech professional's opinion, or if he was merely doubling down on the hacking accusations to try to save face.
1) For sites I come back to for reference or frequent utility, I use my Chrome bookmarks bar heavily. I have it synced to my Google account in the cloud, and segmented across different Chrome profiles (work email account for work things, personal for personal things, etc).

- Bookmarks to tools I access really frequently (like AWS dashboard) are top-level, and I remove the "Name" of the bookmark so it appears as just an icon in the bookmarks bar. There's a few of these quick-access icons for any given Chrome Profile setup that I have. For work I have Okta, AWS, and a work Wiki via Notion. For personal I have Youtube, email, my seedbox, and Plex.

- Everything else is split into folders for interests, projects, teams at work, etc.

- For things like recipes and articles I will back them up via Waybackmachine and archive.ph and bookmark that instead of the original site

2) For a form of digital scrapbooking for my various interests, of things that are not quite websites (images, videos, quotes, scraps) I use are.na heavily. I want to stress that this is scrapbooking and not a "notes system" a la Obsidian or Notion.
it licks its paw and then runs it over its fur
I'm familiar with greymaket sellers but these aren't them. Stacksocial brokers software deals as fundraisers for major websites. They've been around a long time.
Yes! These are both phenomenal projects, and kudos to their authors as well. Stagehand is different in that it makes fine-grained control a first-class citizen. Often times, you want to control the exact steps a web agent takes. Our experience using other tools was that the only control you have over these steps in other tools is in the natural language prompt.

However with Stagehand, because it's an extension of Playwright, it allows you to confirm each step of the underlying agent's workflow, making it the most customizable option for engineers who want/need that
Punishing people is easy. Changing process is hard, especially when you're a dysfunctional bureaucracy.
Ask HN: Backup and restore your Gmail account
What's the best way to Backup and restore your Gmail account (including attachments over 20MB in size) ?
Why is the title of the post changed? I thought that's against the guidelines.
> Parents allow or impose consequences to signal to children when their choices could be wiser.

Torture is generally off limits. And then God didn't think through the invention of epidurals for his punishment which didn't say it would expire once they were invented, or only wanted to keep punishing the poorest most downtrodden without access to hospitals?
Yes^ this is what we suggest. Stagehand is meant to execute isolated tasks on browsers; we support using custom contexts (cookies) with the following command:

npx create-browser-app --example persist-context
I don't know what journalista say, I don't read newspapers.

My source on thus is international institutions like IEA and World Bank. The energy transition is going good according to the World Bank https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-rep...
The cause or mutability the attribute has nothing to do with the reasonableness of ascribing a certain prior probability to the attribute.

Also, many hundreds of millions of people in the world are born into families that raise them as vegetarians, is that so dissimilar from being born with a certain skin tone?
Everyone uses Google Docs, everyone, even people who don't use Google Docs have some interaction with Google Docs.

You use Google docs.
This conversation got me looking into the Godoy asset library, where I found a number of examples that wound up being very helpful. There are a few 2d platformer examples made by the Godoy team that emphasize just how many options there are (and for good reason). The ‘thing is a thing’ mentality that comes with learning OOP (or at least the way I have been learning) is probably a good one to get past, because indeed there is are many reasons to do one thing different ways based on the little differences between implementations of said thing.

So the project I just looked at had 3 types of platforms that I could tell:

The level was made up primarily of a tile map. It had its own collision set in the resource per tile and represents the most copy-cut type platforms you’re likely to see

Then there was a static body tile, which had a polygon2d shape, used to create an irregular platform that would have been more painful (maybe near impossible) to make in the tile map.

Finally, there were two moving platforms that were instances in as scenes.

So the big revelation for me today is that I need to not get hung up on doing any one conceptual thing anyone one way. Any (seemingly minor) difference in fundamentals about what that thing is or does may lead to another basic node type being the best thing to use. I need to not be afraid of making use of more varied tools, even if things feel like they should be all just be the same simple thing in the head.
Yeah, I failed, I moved on and have different goals in my life. That's nature of life. Getting people off social media wasn't important enough to me to pursue it in a longer term. Most people I know who were anti social media are in their 30s now, they share stuff on Instagram, are part of school parental school groups of FB and etc. It's kinda hard without it as well, because if you're not part of those groups you just never hear about half of the group-based events.

It is what it is, oh well.
Google Takeout?

https://takeout.google.com/
Is the joke here that if you lie to people (on the Internet or otherwise), they’ll take it at face value for a little bit and then decide you’re either a moron or an asshole once they realize their mistake?
Shaping ligatures in monospace fonts
I wanted to stop using git checkout, so I set up a little .bashrc magic to prevent me from calling 'git checkout' and to suggest which command I should be using instead. Here's the script:

# Paste this snippet into your .bashrc to help you learn `git switch`.
#
# Turn on the extdebug mode so that our `scold_git_checkout` can prevent
# us from running git-checkout by exiting 1; forcing us to re-learn our
# muscle memory.
# If we *really* need to use git checkout for something, we can do that
# by using the full path to the git executable e.g.:
# /usr/bin/git checkout # isn't caught by our scolding
shopt -s extdebug

scold_git_checkout() {
if [ "$1" != "git" ]; then
return 0
fi
if [ "$2" != "checkout" ]; then
return 0
fi
cat >&2 <<EOF
////// DON'T use git checkout! //////
The 'git checkout' command of git has been replaced with two other
commands: 'git switch' and 'git restore'. You used:
$@
EOF
if [ "$3" == "-b" ]; then
PASTESAFE="$(printf "%q " "${@:4}")"
cat >&2 <<EOF
You should use the following:

git switch -c $PASTESAFE

EOF
elif [ "$3" == "--" ]; then
PASTESAFE="$(printf "%q " "${@:4}")"
cat >&2 <<EOF
You should use the following:

git restore $PASTESAFE

EOF
else
PASTESAFE="$(printf "%q " "${@:3}")"
cat >&2 <<EOF
You can try the following:

git switch $PASTESAFE

EOF
fi
return 1
}
trap 'scold_git_checkout $BASH_COMMAND' DEBUG

Gist with this special scold commit hook, should I ever change it more: https://gist.github.com/lelandbatey/b42b527bfa41b761d0aec287...
You have a mistaken perspective on the whole thing. These men were seafaring adventurers, not people who will call their lawyer if there isn't a gluten free option in their restaurant.

Every crew member was fully informed that they were more likely to die than survive the journey – before even sending in their applications.

And Shackleton is dead since long, so you can't cancel him anymore.
What Robotaxis Brought San Francisco
Eh. Debateable. I can control them over the Internet, I am just not delegating Internet access directly to cheap consumer electronics, which simply put, shouldn't be done.

I would argue the crisis of IoT security is caused largely by poor IoT design.
I agree that you'd probably see crashes but it still could be power supply related. Crappy SMPS designs do tend to shovel some noise from the primary into the secondary side as well as adding their own. And there's a lot of noise generally coming from an inverter as specified. It might just be adding noise to the line and crapping on the SnR occasionally. ADSL is quite robust but with noise it does slow down horribly if you bend it hard. I used to be able to slow my line down keying on my amateur radio transmitter back in the day.

About the best thing they did was adding a choke on it.

On top of that, it's a crappy 40MHz analogue scope. You're not going to see anything useful.
Aren't most services demanding multifactor id these days? Ostensibly to defend against fraud, but nicely dovetails into their surveillance databases.
Curious -- To me it just seemed pretty standard (for any industry). Did you think the tech work environment today was somehow more enlightened than previous generations general working environments?
Yes, SRCNET/SERCNET/JANET were great as a physics researcher, despite what people have said about X.25. A potentially interesting point is that TCP/IP on JANET originally ran over X.25 until X.25 was finally phased out.
looks amazing - finally, DL that beats a tuned catboost?
Never have I read Git Pro or have the deep understanding of git’s internals. But I use checkout almost every day, as a shortcut to create a new branch and switch to it, throw away changes that I don’t need and…well, that’s pretty much it.

Now that I have read this article half way, I decided to stop. Because I am learning a few extra things that’s kind of messing up my mental model of what that command does. I think a fair % of git users might be in my boat. Our knowledge, hence our burden is limited.

So community might not be as confused with checkout as the author or those who grok git.
Then that is the basis of our disagreement. I can’t consider the practice ethical given my understanding of economics, human nature, and history.

These two Wikipedia pages show examples of why I don’t think this practice is ethical.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_St...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States)
This is sick! Starred, thanks for sharing :)
So does Germany. They are facing a recession due to over reliance of Russian gas not playing out well.
Hey! I work here. Happy to answer any questions!
While I'm all on board with deleting Facebook accounts - and deleting Facebook itself - the timing of this push is odd. Now that Facebook claims to open up the platform for a wider view than just the desired narrative is the time to get rid of your account? Please explain to me how it was better to be held on a short leash than to be allowed to run out that leash a little bit.

I never had a Facebook account and as such I can not delete it but had I had one the time to delete it would have been when they started censoring anything which went against the desired narrative - probably around the time of the SARS2 unpleasantness - and not now that they claim to have been too censorious and 'promise' to allow more free speech. The same thing happened when Musk turned Twitter into X which makes me wonder why some people are so eager to embrace the censor and shun those places where he was kicked to the curb (even if I don't trust anything Zuckerberg says on this subject, he has shown his true colours a long time ago and they are dark and unpleasant to look at).
Changelog did a great interview with Akon from Hack Club recently: https://changelog.com/podcast/620
Yeah, I've lost two modem/routers to power outage incidents, despite them being on a reasonable quality surge protector.

But that was an all-or-nothing failure mode in which they would power up but never do anything else. Performance changes is a claim that requires much stronger evidence.
> It's making a site that I really like into something that I like a lot less - into just another battleground for a bunch of shouting people.

FWIW I think it's already happened. The site has always been trending in that direction, but I think the Reddit and Twitter exoduses last year just hit the nail in the coffin. My guess is that a lot of the most argumentatively passionate folks from those sites are the ones that left. They saw HN as a last bastion for people who share their "values" and brought their argumentative culture onto this site.

I find most posts here these days that aren't strictly technical (and even then, hot button technical topics too) have comment sections indistinguishable from those on any other big news/social media site like Reddit or The Verge. I'm glad there are old users on the site here who still want to keep HN curious, but I've mostly thrown the towel in.

In all fairness there's nothing wrong with that. The only constant in life is change. Maybe our time has come and it's time to duck out of the Conversation into group chats like many before us.
Nah. I'd read it as there being an expectation that the audience already knew the joke and they were playing the favorites.
The only data I care about on the phone already gets backed up by Google and is then exported regularly via Google Takeout. I don't live on my phone so I tend not to generate much of any value on it other than random pictures of things.

Prior to Google automatically backing up everything, I used Titanium Backup.
> Worse still, as the attack exploits behavior at the system level during the conversion process, no standard library in any programming language can fully stop our attack!

What happens if the standard library updates its shell escaping to also escape things like the Yen character and any other character that has a Best-Fit translation into a quote or backslash? Which is to say, what does Windows do for command-line splitting if it encounters a backslash-escaped nonspecial character in a quoted string? If it behaves like sh and the backslash simply disables special handling of the next character, then backslash-escaping any threat characters should work.
Imagine you're a character in a Lord of the Rings novel. And math is the imaginary landscape that you are going on an adventure through. When a number is irrational, it is not easy to work with compared to natural numbers. So they're marking the map as a hard pass in the mountain ridge that is on your journey, assuming you want to explore that world.
I greatly enjoyed The Leadership Moment by Michael Useem, which covers 9 stories of crises and how leaders approached them.

The Man Who Discovered Quality by Andrea Gabor is an interesting story of W. Edwards Deming, the American who revolutionized post-WWII Japanese manufacturing with statistical approaches to reducing variance.

Issac Newton by James Gleick conveys what it was like for Newton to essentially invent modern physical science in a pre-scientific world.

Dreaming In Code by Scott Rosenberg is a good counterpoint to inspiring tech origin stories: legendary coders coming together to build an amazing product and… basically failing.
There is a really excellent podcast on the history of astronomy called The Song of Urania[0] that goes into a ton of depth about eclipses and how different cultures viewed and recorded the events of the sky.
[0]https://songofurania.com/
Helping your own son in life is not nepotism, nor does it indicate a possible lack of integrity.
Yup. The line about the "non serious usage of 'weird'" is another blatant sign of their true intentions. There's no reason to specify that unless you're upset over it because it was used against conservatives.
How fancy do we really have to get? A Raspberry Pi can detect an inadequate power supply and slow down.

Granted, cheap consumer devices are much simpler than that, but it's still something that can be added to the SoC.
I deleted my Facebook account back in 2015. I was in high school and going through a deep depression/mental break down. I remember feeling so much relief as the days went on. I don't think I was ever designed to handle social media properly. I doubt I'm the only one either.
> The goal with Ladybird is to be "independent" in the sense that nobody influences their decisions. However, they have no desire to be independent from a technology stand-point (other than being Open Source).

Wouldn't a hard fork Blink instead of LibWeb still achieve this goal?
> I'll go out on a limb and just claim they're grey market. Someone can prove me wrong

This seems fairly low effort. I posted stacksocial because they've earned trust and are utilized for fundraising by a number of well known tech sites. I also have my own years of experience with them.

If you have years of different experience with stacksocial, please share that.
But the G in AGI stands for General. I think the hope is that there is some as-yet-undiscovered algorithm for general intelligence. While I agree that deferring to a subsystem that is an expert in that type of problem is the best way to handle problems, I would hope that it is possible that that central coordinator not just be able to delegate but design new subsystems as needed. Otherwise what happens when you run out of types of expert problem solvers to use (and still haven't solved the problem well)?

One might argue maybe a mixture of experts is just the best that can be done - and that it's unlikely the AGI be able to design new experts itself. However where do the limited existing expert problem solvers come from? Well - we invented them. Human intelligences. So to argue that an AGI could NOT come up with its own novel expert problem solvers implies there is something ineffable about human general intelligence that can't be replicated by machine intelligence (which I don't agree with).
I heard this before. (Perhaps even on hacker news.) The way i stored it in my brain is “grapefruit is weird, don’t eat or drink grapefruit juice when on medication. Why? It might make you ill or even kill you.”

Obviously that form is ovesimplified. But since I’m not a pharmacist, nor a doctor I can allow this simplification for myself because it “fails-safe”. That is it might make me refrain from eating grapefruit in a situation where I could safely do so, but it will save me from eating grapefruit in situations where it is not safe. It would be harder if I would need to remember that I must eat grapefruit in some situations and can’t eat in other situations.

The reason why I’m saying this is because this is how I would approach explaining this to someone. By oversimplifying to the point where the safe story is easy to remember. People already understand that they can’t mix alcohol and certain medications. So it is just one more thing you can’t mix with medication.