skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the designs presented for floating oceanic wind turbine bases shows, that there is a need to have as much stability as possible, while
moving in response to wave action and tides.

By default, all power generating equipment is 100% duty cycle , 24/7/365. For fixed land based machines the various loads and environmental wear
conditions are more or less predictable. Marine instalations on the other hand, are notorious for destroying anything and everything, very especialy
anything with moving parts, due to all of the land based factors, plus operating on an unpredictable moving platform.
Total failure of the entire structure can be initiated by the failure of any one of many bearings/joints where movement between components takes place,deep underwater.
Inspection becomes a challenge and service at sea impossible.
The many failures of underwater tidal generators
bears testimony to the dificulties and challenges.
In France expect at least one year before getting adult disabilities (AAH), and you can only ask after getting a medical diagnostic which can take as long.

But if you get AAH, you are reimbursed for the time between when you asked for it and the first payment. Yet that means probably living without any resources for one year or so.
no ai :) just a vanilla layout manager. I assume the above comment is by somebody building an ai project that could use a layout manager
The skies may be brightening, but it seems the world is turning darker.
If you want to write D, write D.

C is fine without these things
You're exactly right. It seems to work well enough for domains already so I kept the model.
That's a little like saying downloading mp3s isn't music piracy, because it's not encoding the actual music, just some lossy compressed wavelets that sound like it.
> If I really, really care about your product, I’ll contact the 300 people I need on my side to get it approved. This process will take at least a month. Why? Who knows—it just always does. If I work for a Fortune 500 company, it’ll take a minimum of three months, assuming everything goes perfectly.

This pretty much chimes with my experiences getting anything that costs more than my boss can readily expense. Purchase agreements in large companies are pure hell.
Bit misleading title as in the 80'd descision trees were concidered part of the discipline of AI, and you today might be surprised that machine learning was considered a diffetent discipline. This was the result of scientific kerfuffls about funding.

In practice many of us in the 'Nouvelle AI" movement that countered the ruling Symbolic AI paradigm (GOFAI was the commonn slur) had at least one foot in the ML, EA. And alife spaces as once you abandon symbolics straight programming becomes awkward fast.
Very true.

Get backups
Oh yeah? How can I install Clang using Apt without root?
I like vim because the keybindings are familiar everywhere. For small server stuff I use vim, for most coding I use Doom Emacs (vim keybindings), and for Java I use Intellij with vim keybindings.

I mostly use Emacs because of org mode. It's way better than anything else trying to fill this hole. Otherwise I'd probably just use VSCode. But I don't want to add yet another editor to my regular use.
This is kind of true, yet it is not the case that those competently designed speakers dominate the market. It is dominated by awful Bluetooth boxes, terrible headphones and expensive snake oil.

Which means most people can’t tell the difference. This is mildly upsetting to the people who can.
Ok, that explains why babashka wasn't suitable. I still wonder, though, about the requirement to have an executable.

I still remember many years of reading comp.lang.lisp, where the #1 complaint of newcomers was that "common lisp cannot produce a native executable". I remember being somewhat amused by this, because apparently nobody expected the same thing from other languages, like, say, Python. But apparently things have changed over the years and now CL implementations can produce bundled executables while Clojure can't — how the tables have turned :-)
csv? sql?
> the way he went about getting the data was throwing soup at paintings levels of dumb activism.

Throwing soup at paintings doesn’t make the paintings available to the public.

What he did had a direct and practical effect.
Would never happen. I was working for a company which for C++ projects used open source CMake package manager called Hunter. Thousands of packages (ours and third-party) for multiple platforms were causing building and linking problems constantly. Literally every day devops would waste hours on those issues. Many of the problems come from our not-understanding of the build processes and some were Hunter bugs so we were happy to jump to every new release. And one day the Hunter maintainer make announcement that he will abandon the project if someone would not help him financially. I pointed this out to my manager. He said that it's very unfortunate but he would need to talk to his manager who would need to talk to next manager and so on, some finance department would need to allocate funds for that but they would not do that without the approval of some other department and so on. So my manager said we must wait, see what Hunter maintainer would do and if he really abandon the project then we will think what next. Ruslo (Hunter maintaner) abandoned the project so I told my manager that we should simply contact Ruslo and try to hire him as he clearly would be the right person to solve all our building problems. Guess what... My manager would need to contact his manager and so on, and so on, so nothing was done.
Yes, which is discussed several times in the article.
Then you misunderstood because that isn't the case at all. We met where I live and wealth had nothing to do with it. We are both european.
Are those satellites broadcasting while over those areas? I don't see the connection here.

In fact it looks like there's extra effort to let them keep running without causing problems https://public.nrao.edu/news/astronomers-satellite-internet-...
Yes I know about the psychology papers that you're referring to, and wealth can be one of those attributes, but there are many others and it wasn't that in this case. She certainly did not need to escape poverty.
I suspect MAANG + OpenAI will simply pay lobbyists to make it legal. They have huge piles of money and money makes the law in America.
> What you just described (so vividly) is meaning

In line with Victor Frankl’s book “Man’s Search for Meaning”, which explores (among other things) why some Holocaust survivors thrived and some didn’t. Frankl himself was a survivor.
I think you are upset at an opinion that goes contrary to a world view that you have unfortunately made part of your identity, and now you‘re mad about it.
I'm considering getting a masters or PhD (in PL) under a professor I work with now for my undergrad thesis. It has been my observation that the standard path of getting a standard corporate job tends to nullify all impact you could have (with a few rare exceptions). And after that I could get a job, become a professor, turn my research into a startup etc. The pros are

1) I know my professor and he's a solid guy

2) Pays decently well, money isn't too much of a concern

3) I get paid to do research, university provides generous grants if turned into a startup

Cons

1) Hear a lot of bad things about the academic rat race, pressure to public even at masters/PhD level

2) I could probably hack out some paper into journals but whether I could have any real impact "on demand" (versus say spontaneously coming up with something) is a big question mark, especially within the deadlines given in the program

Any thoughts on this? Especially heuristics, methods or ways to increase impact?
Just for context, there is a new post about OpenAI DDoS'ing half the internet every other day on hn

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42660377

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549624
Has the same energy as "President is black therefore talks about racism against blacks is unhelpful"
What other communities do you use apart from HN?
For example: apart from HN, I take part in Reddit and Bluesky. Facebook and Instagram ane inertia. Twitter/X is never more.
This is not weak supply chain auditing. This is direct, blatant, in-your-face foreign interference into the politics of other countries. There's nothing subtle or nuanced about it.

Tesla owners will be perceived as Musk supporters (whether they are or not) because Musk is an attention seeking narcissist. He has made himself synonymous with the Tesla brand so buying Tesla means supporting Musk.

Here is the brand damage Musk has done to Tesla in Australia:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-08-22/tesla-reputat...

Here is Musk farcically calling the Australian government "fascist":

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/elon-musk-doubles-down-o...

There's an election happening this year in Australia. Musk will inject himself into it. He won't be able to help himself, especially not with his new "First Buddy" status:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-03/musk-could-turn-focus...

So I'd guess that Tesla will take another reputational hit this year in Australia.
I have been using Clojure and before that Racket using only vim and vim-surround for almost a decade now.

I am sure I have left some productivity on the table not investing in workflows like cider etc but I have gotten a decent workflow using just vanilla tmux, a repl pane and vim-surround

The % matcher in vim does so much heavy lifting, I've never felt limited by a lack of slurp and barf

I actually wrote my own tiny plugin to send snippets to the repl using nc and I'm still happy enough tearing the clojure repl up and down and copying stuff in by hand because dealing with repl state can be pain. Even though I have at times had repls open for months, there is a freedom in just tearing it all down and up again.

Clojure itself has plenty of functions to load in files or snippets to help as well
What? This makes no sense. Of course you're allowed to own copyrighted material. That's the whole point. I have bookshelves worth of copyrighted material at home at this very minute.

If you're implying that the scraping and storing of the things itself breaks copyright, then maybe, but I don't think so? If you're saying that training on copyrighted material breaks copyright, then yes, that's the whole argument.

But just having copyrighted material on a server somewhere, if obtained legally, is not by itself illegal.
another: https://bulma.io
In our C++ project, we use the nlohmann library for handling JSON data. When sending JSON over MQTT, we leverage a built-in function of nlohmann to serialize our JSON objects into the MessagePack format. You can simply call jsonObj.to_msgpack(). Similarly, the data can be decoded back easily.
And for every additional kilogram or pound of weight, a typical 2000mi / 3200 km flight will consume an equivalent mass of fuel.

Conventional (fuel-powered) aircraft, and to an even greater extent battery-powered aircraft, are absolute marvels of light-weighting engineering, driven by both materials and designs.

As FDR/CVR are used only once, and that in a vanishingly small fraction of aircraft, the cost considerations of carrying additional mass are high. It's not just the aircraft that crash, but all aircraft across the entire global commercial fleet. That's on the order of 32,000 aircraft presently, each with multiple flight cycles per day on average.[1] That's on the order of 50--100 tonnes of fuel consumption per day if the total added weight is limited to 1 kg.

Black boxes must also survive crash conditions. A battery itself might be a fire risk, and would require additional material to protect both itself and the data storage of a black box in the event of an accident.

That said ... one would think that current lightweight battery packs might make short-term battery operation reasonably viable.

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Notes:

1. "Information supplied by aviation data specialists ch-aviation shows that at as of July 7, there were 31,734 civil aircraft in the global fleet being used by more than 750 different airlines. " <https://www.key.aero/article/how-many-commercial-aircraft-ar...> Story appears to be from 2020 per Internet Archive: <https://web.archive.org/web/20200929012536/https://www.key.a...>.
New England Revolution fans forum.
The next (unreleased) version of Make is more strict about tabs too. Specifically this:

> Extra spaces are allowed and ignored at the beginning of the conditional directive line, but a tab is not allowed.

Currently tabs are allowed, but if you use `master` it will behave differently and give you an impossible to debug error (something like "file ended without endif").

In practice quite a lot of makefiles do indent conditionals with tabs.
There is nothing preventing anyone from bringing a lunch box with them to work?
Exactly. It's a SPoF. Depending on ego and whims of a malicious tyrant is stupidity or insanity.
I once was showing the benefits of a new technology to check ISDN lines to an employee. She listened and then said, "Jean-Pierre I can work on whatever you ask me, but don't ask me to think".

In the same service, they worked routinely on a complex technology (SDH), then one day one employee asked me "Jean-Pierre, we are not trained on this technology, what is it really?". The baffling thing is that her colleagues had no problems working for many years on something they didn't understand at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_optical_networking
Yes, because so many contemporary breakthroughs have come from some guy in his garage.
If you really believe something, say it loudly and proudly and sign your name to it.

And then wait for the lynch mob to come round because they disagree that {people shouldn't be property / women should be allowed to own property / etc }.
Does it search the internet for that? I assume so because else claiming how often something is cited does not make sense, but would be interesting to know surely. Even gpt4o mini with kagi gets it right with search enabled (and wrong without search enabled - tried over a few times to make sure).
I don't know why I feel the urge to point this out but you missed an angle bracket :D
And now imagine this as a hypersphere in 10 dimensions. The choice of two dimensions in the post is arbitrary, isn't it?
All the times Google forgot not to be evil
This project aims to list all violations committed by Google all over the globe . While settlements and fines are often presented in an isolated manner, the list provides a complete picture: years of various violations committed by one of the richest companies on the planet.

This list is obviously incomplete, so I warmly welcome your contribution. If you identify any missing fine or settlement, submit a pull request: https://github.com/MarcT0K/ViolatedByGoogle
That certainly would be nice, but the risk to the individual that they are just exploited on a meagre salary for 3-6 years to only benefit their advisor has become so large that I don't recommend doing a PhD to anyone (or at least think very hard and very diligently investigate the prospective advisor and the faculty). Even if this means we as a society are losing out on scientific discoveries.
Yes exactly. If you’re not a plumber are you even really contributing to human progress.
I've not complained about anyone, fictional or otherwise.

If your assertion is that getting someone off of drugs in the short term plays absolutely no role in getting someone off drugs in the long term, then I'm not really sure what to say to you. It's my understanding that people primarily get and stay sober out of fear of losing absolutely everything and dying. The trouble with rehabilitating the homeless is that they've effectively lost everything but their lives, and yet remain addicted. In this sort of situation, involuntary commitment would necessarily have to involve serious attempts at community building to show them they can have things in their life again - if they stay clean.

Respectfully, your glibness and the borderline denial of reality makes it difficult to have this conversation because I don't feel as if I'm typing with someone who legitimately wants to improve the situation. Most seriously, your suggestion that I get myself addicted to drugs (which demonstrates that you've completely neglected to consider that you could be typing with a person who has had substance abuse issues - it hasn't even occured to you) indicates that you're not taking this seriously, but rather attempting to appear virtuous by banging on about freedom and being totally unafraid while preventing any possible consideration of solutions to a major humanitarian crisis.
This comment is the equivalent of people doing their own research on vaccines.
IANAL but it would seem to me that one party consent just means you can record it. It does not automatically mean you can divulge.

And since you agreed to the chatham rules not to (i.e. you entered into a contract) you can still be liable for breach of contract in a civil court, with potential penalties and damages if those were part of the contract.

Of course anything you record can still be used in criminal or civil proceedings (e.g. if your interlocutor admits to a crime or utters illegal or tortuous speech, such as fraud, harassment, or verbal abuse).
It's weird that corporations get to remove liability from people acting on their behalf. The law is only that they remove liability for debts. If you act on behalf of a corporation to commit either a criminal offence or civil wrong, as far as I can tell (I'm not a lawyer) you are guilty of at least conspiracy.

And yet, it's rare for individuals to be prosecuted for such offences, even for criminal offences. We treat the liability shield as absolute. It may seem unfair to prosecute the little guy for "just following orders" but the fact that we don't do it is what allows corporations to offend with impunity.
> You cannot have a democracy and rapid social change to your preferred specs. You can either strip the people who hold reprehensible beliefs of the vote, or you can work diligently over generations to change the culture. But as long as you have a democracy, you will never be able to create change that sticks by simply wielding the power temporarily granted to you.

Voter suppression has repeatedly happened and has been mostly scuff free [0]. Working diligently through generation also means building the means to protect the advancement you achieve, and not just by having them in the rules, but to be able to enforce these rules.

My mental image of this is Tulsa: when you steadily but firmly create a vibrant place for your community for decades, to have it burn in flames within a day, with no significant reparation, no significant support, and just a footnote in some textbooks.

When I say "power" I don't mean in some limited framing, I mean anything that can actually leverage your position in a realistic way. Capital, cultural influence, military or political power come to mind, but whatever form it takes, I think a group needs to be able to stand its ground if it chalenges the status quo, whatever time frame it chooses to do it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_Unite...
I remember reading about some people joining ISIS for economic reasons, I cannot find the article, but this one makes the same point (that among the other reasons, unemployment is also a factor):

https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2014/11/the-ultimate-fat...

My point being: being a religious fundamentalist country doesn't require an almost totality of the population to be religious, but just the people who have power (weapons, money, etc.) to be fundamentalist... and the rest of the country to not violently oppose them.
A 20% reduction of bytes on the wire is not losing.

99.9999999% of the data sent across the network in that Datacenter will never be read by humans directly. Why put it into a textual form?
I know there are local-only git settings, but AFAIK ignore-status won't protect files from being removed/overwritten by all possible git commands, it just means they won't be accidentally staged/committed.
Coparser.com: AI Agent for Generating Web Scraper Parsing Code
Hi HN,
I’m here to shamelessly promote a recent side project. www.coparser.com, Basically, it can generate Python code to parse webpages. The underneath AI agent relies on analyzing 2–3 URLs, and examines both the visual structure and HTML to generate the Python code. I believe this tool could be beneficial for some developers.
1. If you’ve ever written a web crawler before, you know the frustrating and boring part is writing XPath or CSS selectors to extract values. This tool automates that process entirely.
2. While OpenAI/Claude can read images and extract data from screenshots directly, it’s often too expensive and slow, with response times ranging from 3 to 10 seconds. Pre-generated code can help reduce costs and improve speed. For example, processing a 1920x1081 screenshot via OpenAI would cost:
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3. Beyond web scraping, I think there are other scenarios where low-cost and high-speed parsing is needed.

I’ve done a few weeks of coding, but there are still some issues to resolve. The website is open to try ,
www.coparser.com
let me know if it is broken . However, before investing more time and money into buying proxies, adding new features and improving infrastructure, I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Do you think this idea is valuable?
Would you consider paying for a similar service?
Any advice or insights on how to improve the tool ?
I’d be happy to hear your feedback!
What do you think about using a game engine for UI?
A mate is building a UI for an app using a game engine. At first, I was - WTF, but now, a few hours later, I think that there could be some merit in it. Imagine the experience of excel being implemented inside a virtual world. I’m not sure that there will be adoption, but it could be quite original.
By precisely timing them you can measure/check various facts like distance, diameter and so on. In fact, if you time them precisely from different locations on earth you can determine the shape of the occulting body (e.g. an asteroid occulting a star). And on occasion you can get a 'grazing occultation', for example a star goes behind mountains on the moon resulting in it blinking on and off; observe from multiple latitudes and it's possible to recover the profile of the range.
Can the claim about citation frequency be just an answer pattern and not model's exact reasoning?
Depending on coding style you could just do something like this:

^struct whatever
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It's easy for Amazon to artificially use their address space because they can rotate them around customers using dynamic allocations.
The point is that regardless if you're negative, neutral, or positive of others using data for profit, you would hold those who use it altruistically higher.
https://acesphere-launch.web.app/
Yup.
I've said multiple times that Python's superpower is in progressive disclosure of complexity.
If it has better dependency story you could go a long while without being overburdened by complexity because you always learn a little more here and a little more there.
The waking up part is called hypnopompia and the falling asleep part is called hypnagogia. Hallucinations are known to occur during these phases between wakefulneas and sleep (e.g "I have hypnagogic/hypnopompic hallucinations")
)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnopompia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
Someone has to write the makefile.
What if you run these assets through a Stable Diffusion model (img2img) to generate something else?
Stands for "Morons Funding the Fight Against Morons"

They take profits from a flagged subscriber (loosely defined as one they find "repugnant") and donate it to whatever organization they can find which is most anathemic to the offender.