skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking that Black Arrow R3, launched 28 Oct, 1971, and successfully placing Prospero (aka X-3) into orbit should count as the UK's first. But that just doesn't sound so cool...

(Yes, from the wording of the first para, I'd bet that The Times' reporter is aware of R3 and Prospero. Though his story omits any mention of those.)

Dear Time: This kinda stuff is how I tell that a supposedly-good news source is barely worth my attention, and certainly not worth my money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow#Launches

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero_X-3

https://www.thetimes.com/article/space-quest-to-retrieve-sat...
It's more like installing adblock in the computers of everyone in a room without asking for permission.
_Evaluate the partnership with Microsoft (the enemy of your enemy...)_
Don't you drive using primarily visual input?

Visual input combined with a lot of mental projection and inference and understanding/experience and good split second decision making.

Examples: How does a FSD vehicle use it's camera to identify "black ice" on an overpass? How does it identify that a heavy truck tire has just exploded in it's lane a few cars ahead on the freeway? Or how about a bumper dropped from a car ahead or a large truck losing it's load?

All these and more have happened to me and I lived to tell about it.
I don't like Jack Dorsey and I don't get why he should be involved in the FOSDEM keynote either but why is Drew incapable of forming any argument anyone could actually agree with?

You dislike Jack because he sold Twitter and it made mastodon popular, and that's a bad thing? And because this also meant that people with cushy FAANG jobs who could easily find another job at the drop of a hat got displaced by Elon as a result? Is that really your argument Drew?

Maybe it's time for a "No Drews DeVault at FOSDEM" blog post.
Commando gaming is a time-honored tradition!
>In my view, billionaires are not welcome at FOSDEM.

I see no reason to discriminate against wealth explicitly.

Rather if someone's actions make them worth leaving out, then yeah that's a reason:

>Dorsey is presumably being platformed in Janson because his blockchain bullshit company is a main sponsor of FOSDEM this year.

That's your problem, not the money. That problem is not solved by drawing the line at personal wealth.
he's not preventing Jack Dorsey from doing anything. Jack Dorsey has enough money to buy FOSDEM, the building FOSDEM takes place in, and give every person who would have attended FOSDEM enough money to retire, and still be a billionaire afterwards. He can carry out a talk anywhere, at any time.
Symbian was the core OS, phone manufacturers build the GUI on top of it.

Series 60 was the dominant Nokia UI at the time, but then that received a shake-up with Belle?

Fun fact: Until Nokia bought them, Symbian devs never got actually see any phones that were being built, unless you worked in a specific team that had access restrictions to even enter.
As a Linux user, it just felt like a locked-down package repository to me.
Sorry. When I look at Musk I see self landing rockets, electric cars , star link etc. Obviously he seems to be quite close to truth since without getting close to reality you can't do any of these since Physics is brutal and does not reward any false assumptions.

So that gives me a sense that Musk is much closer to truth than most people out there. What am I missing?
I think the updated "click" sound present in the trailer indicates that yes they will snap on pretty forcefully with magnets.
I conclude that the title is wrong. Every developer doesn't need to know these things - only kernel developers need to know about TLB invalidation.
I don't think I can see myself ever buying a Nintendo console again. My switch collects dust. They are always substantially under powered and likewise their games are simple - aka quite easy to emulate. I would much prefer a mobile device that can "do it all" like a steamdeck which is able to run native games, run emulators, and also remote to a beefy desktop gaming rig for games with higher demands.

That being said I realize I am not the target market. Nintendo has always been a pretty safe bet for the "just works" department. They are great for kids or casual gamers.
Hergé had a whole studio working on the Tintin albums though.
Another trope that never gets old, it seems.

Many people have stopped going to McDonald's by the way. But not enough for McD to hurt.

Then what? What does our agency change in the world in this situation?

You are using cop-outs as well.
thanks for sharing these are core concept to better understand the coding
>they understand what they were facing

Parts of the deck suggest that they didn't fully understand what they were facing.

For example, the bullet "scaling the user experience to lower HW specs may be challenging. iPhone mini may be closer to iPod UI" comment still suggests they were stuck in the mindset of the time. They thought it was unlikely that Apple could deliver a horizontal platform, rather Apple would be launch a series of individual phones at different prices, each with bespoke interfaces, just like all the players had been doing, over and over.

With that perspective, the choice to keep developing parallel product lines (Maemo, Meltemi, Symbian, etc.) rather than throwing all their eggs into one basket is more understandable I guess, though ultimately completely wrong.
I have a very vague concept for this, with a different implementation.

Some, uh, sites (forums?) have content that the AI crawlers would like to consume, and, from what I have heard, the crawlers can irresponsibly hammer the traffic of said sites into oblivion.

What if, for the sites which are paywalled, the signup, which invariably comes with a long click-through EULA, had a legal trap within it, forbidding ingestion by AI models on pain of, say, owning ten percent of the company should this be violated. Make sure there is some kind of token payment to get to the content.

Then seed the site with a few instances of hapax legomenon. Trace the crawler back and get the resulting model to vomit back the originating info, as proof.

This should result in either crawlers being more respectful or the end of the hated click-through EULA. We win either way.
The iPhone is faster than most PCs
Gets out soapbox

App Store Developer portal is a mess. I manage 10+ accounts and I hate using it so much (Google Play isn’t better, just sucks in different ways). I also have access to an enterprise account and “nerve racking” does not even begin to describe what interacting with the portal is like.

A single click with a badly worded confirmation step is the ONLY thing keeping your released app in the field from shutting down until you get a new version out. Let me say that again: if you delete your signing cert then your app will not open on devices anymore. No way to communicate to users to update or let them know anything at all. Just dead.

Even if you avoid making that mistake, the cert rotation dance is horrible and terrifying, it doesn’t help that Apple’s docs and help text are completely useless. It doesn’t help that most info you find online is for AppStore certs/signing and not Enterprise certs/signing (the _massive_ difference being you can revoke a cert for an App Store app and it keeps working). There is no wording about max certs on their webpage so in most cases you just have to try something in the portal and see if it fails. It’s even more fun because every click in the cert rotation process is a gamble and so after you’ve worked yourself up to finally clicking the button you then run right into an error and you have to rethink your strategy. Again, your entire business potentially hangs in the balance if you pick wrong, have fun!

I understand what Apple is trying to accomplish and that’s fine but they need better messaging. They need to make it clear what the effects of revoking/deleting certs/profiles is. They need to make the connections between certs and profiles more obvious.

The whole UI is horrible and flakey on top of that.
Crazy that even this article is now dated. Many people have now moved on from webpack to vite.
They changed their model a while ago to trying to optimise the assembly time of each item, and produce them as they are ordered. The hot parts are pre-cooked and put into warmers, but not assembled (put into buns with toppings etc.) until you order.

Allows for easier customisation and less food wastage (and you don't have to keep track of when something was made), at the cost of time for 'easy' orders.
No just melatonin
Here is an example of that sort of thing, using gradient descent as a starting point: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611451. It is technically about spherical codes rather than the kissing problem specifically, but they are closely related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_code
I have no opinion on the rest of the article, but it feels a bit disingenuous to say that Twitter burdened Mastodon because it made the latter much more popular.
> Because they didn't have the sharp focus of Android and kept a lot of crap from Linux (like X11 sigh)

X11 let them use existing apps outright and made porting easy. What else would they have used at that time and what advantage would it give them?
I guess being permanently paralyzed because someone rams into you because they were checking their texts or TikTok is not harm, but a video recording of someone not paying attention to the road is harm.
Device uses wind to create ammonia out of air
I think the people who attend open source conferences can spot the equivalent of the timeshare presentation.
> and this was the age of "smaller is cooler" mobile phones, so they tried to keep the screens small.

I, for one, would love a return to "smaller is cooler" with small screens and big numeric keypads. I have an elderly relative whose only use for a smartphone is calls (it's a phone after all) and text messaging (SMS and WhatsApp); these don't need a big screen.
Maybe that will be the next big thing in games. Finally deliver on the promise of living, breathing worlds, instead of breaking the illusion when the character scripts start to repeat and you realize “your choices matter” means you can pick from one of three different endings.
If you think that's bad, wait until you hear about how many unpaid volunteers are running FOSDEM as a "free and non-commercial event"
Obviously, new games are still being regularly released for PS4 4+ years after PS5's release. For this reason, I haven't bought a PS5.
Practically, yes, this is the main differentiator. But still it would be interesting to see some specs. Is the GPU 15% better, 50%, what? The switch came out 7 years ago... there is opportunity for some fairly serious performance improvements even in the mobile form factor.

Clearly it's the same basic platform. And I think that's fine - they've really cornered a pretty big niche of mobile (ish), motion controls, family.

I suspect the larger screen size is because more people are using the mobile aspect in their home, not out on the subway or something.
What inventors are you interested in that aren't billionaires?
What do our brains do that isn't token prediction?

They receive information about photons and air vibrations and control muscles, okay. If a human brain was hooked up the way ChatGPT was, only to text input and output, would that make it not intelligent?
As someone writing C for POSIX and embedded environments, this clarification is a super helpful.
Check if the response time, the length of the "main text", or other indicators are in the lowest few percentile -> send to the heap for manual review.

Does the inferred "topic" of the domain match the topic of the individual pages? If not -> manual review. And there are many more indicators.

Hire a bunch of student jobbers, have them search github for tarpits, and let them write middleware to detect those.

If you are doing broad crawling, you already need to do this kind of thing anyway.
Would you also apply this solution to Russia-Ukraine? Create one state out of both?

Can Trump do the same to Greenland, declare it’s one country with the USA and have a democratic vote on it?
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Unfortunately most people's principals and ethos start and stop with "Does this apply to me or someone I like? then it doesn't apply".

Disappointing but you see it time and again :(
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Nintendo Reveals Its Next-Gen Console, Confirms Switch 2 Name
By that logic there should be launchers of similar capabilities cheaper than F9... which there aren't.

Reason 2: Enables increased launch cadence.
how is view source broken
This is a 5-year-old article, and it's still very pertinent. This past summer I did a lot of bike-riding around Loudon County surveying trails for the Park Service (volunteer) and it's like riding through a cyberpunk future out there. Endless windowless buildings humming loudly, lots of electrical substations, and wires crisscrossing everywhere. The Washington Post reported that Dominion Power is now running electrical lines deep into West Virginia and bringing defunct coal plants back online to meet the energy demands (1), but a recent independent report found that it won't be enough as energy demands are going to double at a minimum (2).

I live in eastern Prince William County and the spread of datacenters is a hot-button topic here. People living on the Western side of the county, near Loudon, are getting rezoned for data centers, which means dramatic increase to their property taxes. The same report that highlighted energy demands also found that the increased tax revenue and jobs created are only really during the construction of the buildings, once completed they don't take many techs to maintain them.

I feel this last point may underestimate the jobs created because it doesn't consider all the folks connecting to these data centers to do work. For example, Amazon is expanding here to be close to the datacenters and my friends who work for Amazon have to be within driving distance of the campus. I could be overestimating this effect though.

(1) Gift WaPo article: Internet data centers are fueling drive to old power source: Coal
https://wapo.st/40A4SBm

(2) 2024 Data Centers in Virginia Report
https://jlarc.virginia.gov/pdfs/reports/Rpt598-2.pdf
>In the article on “Jews,” for example, he removed the “Land of Israel” from a key sentence on the origin of Jewish people. He changed the article’s short description (a condensed summary that appears on Wikipedia’s mobile version and on site search results) from “Ethnoreligious group and nation from the Levant” to “Ethnoreligious group and cultural community.” Though subtle

It's pretty evident that the person who wrote your article is just complaining that wikipedia is at least somewhat resistant to being used as a platform for pushing zionist propaganda.
I think better comparison would be documentaries and reality tv.
Why not just take the money and skip the talk? He can speak to an empty hall as much as he pleases.
It definitely is; but this bureaucracy can be useful when the company has thousands of developers.
It's so sad that the current culture wants to judge peoples life based on the worst they've ever done. Yea, Musk is a troll online, but his success as a business/tech leader is something you can only doubt by donning the proverbial tin foil hat.
I read this a few days ago. I can recall at least three groups of people mentioned: academics; DEI administrators; college students. Did he talk to any of these people? Share his thoughts, ask what they think?

This essay reminds me of when someone comes to me and says they have the perfect idea for an app and wants me to build it, and I ask them if they've done a simple, manual version of whatever the core business idea is, to validate it (similar to how PG advises founders to do things themselves in the early days), and they say no and then continue sharing the vision they've worked out in their head of why people will love it and it will be successful.
> Google won't let me give them money to upgrade my storage

While not explicitly documented anywhere, they automatically increase your storage limits once you approach a certain margin of remaining free space. That happens around Tuesday-Wednesday, they just add extra 5Gb to your limit.
PG responds that he was thinking mainly of conversations with ordinary people not polls.

Then Musk goes unhinged.
Maybe they wanted more battery life without making it thicker? I want to see what the teardown looks like.
Good stuff - thanks for sharing. IaC and containers are great but having the ability to run multiple VMs and create snapshots prior to performing upgrades or security patches is still very helpful from an operational perspective.
*Genocide. It’s not a war.

As a dev, I hate jargon to dress up trivial products or when distressing things are watered down. Usually I keep my feelings to myself but in this case, allowing a genocide to be watered down would make me complicit.

P.S. I understand this will be downvoted. But HN karma is a small price to pay to call out the softening of a literal genocide. Imagine standing by when someone calls Germany’s genocide “punishments”.
It's a nice video but even if it was extremely bad I would have still watched the whole thing lol.
I'm not a big conference goer so my sample rate is not super high, but I've seen zero keynote speakers with something I cared to listen to. Regardless of their ideology ... I'm just not getting much out of those kinds of speakers.

I'll tell a little story:

I worked at a company with like 1k employees. Good company as far as I knew, as much as such a company can be.

I work the night shift (tech support) and I'm young so I go to the company wide meeting in person because I'm curious and honestly don't have much to do. CEO talks, nothing of interest is said. I go back to my desk and get my things and I'm really tired and I'm in the elevator heading home.

CEO steps in. Smiles and introduces himself and says "What did you think?" I'm really tired, so I say something like "It was ok I guess, it's just not my kinda event. Stuff I really want to know I don't think can be said at an event like that..."

Other folks in the elevator (including my boss's boss who I didn't notice) look kinda horrified.

CEO looks at me and pauses for a minute: "Yeah I get it..."

And that was the truth of it ... there's nothing for those folks to say that they can say that I would want to know. I want the nitty gritty, not some pie in the sky stuff.
I really don’t like the old attachment mechanism. It was robust when connected, but it’s annoying to connect and especially disconnect, and it’s especially awkward that are two different retention mechanisms that need to be released depending on what’s connected.

I imagine the new connection will have a mechanical match of some sort and generally work better.
That’s great but all you have done is basically kick the can down the line and killed many innocent people in the process.

It’s not like you haven wiped out Iran permanently (not advocating for this obviously, I’m Iranian!) or achieved anything of significance really, perhaps Iran has been slightly weakened, though even that remains to be seen depending on what happens with Syria, or have lost any major allies permanently.

You are naive if you think the infrastructure wont be rebuild with their allies and networks won’t be established, all it takes is time, funding and support which now they have plenty of thanks to Israelis actions.

This isn’t the same celebration you should be having like Russians have just marched in Berlin in WWII.

I suppose the good news is that bloodshed will stop (hopefully) for a few years and a stable long term solution can be figured out meanwhile.
> If Nokia had paid attention to those design awards then they too could have moved quickly on a similar device.

Nokia had their Maemo project [1]. A Linux-based OS for mobile touchscreen devices. They published their first device already in 2005 [2].

But the Maemo department was small, and the old Symbian department inside Nokia was big. The large number of managers and executives in the Symbian department played corporate politics, and kept the size and resources of the Maemo department small, as they perceived it an internal competitor threatening their position and the dominance of Symbian inside Nokia.

Nokia's CEO at the time (Jorma Ollila) had a background in investment banking and financial engineering. His previous post in Nokia was CFO. He didn't have the kind of passion and insight to software and user experience like Apple's Steve Jobs had. Today, nobody would expect to get visionary tech leadership if recruiting from the corporate's finance department.

At its soul, Apple is a software company that also makes their own hardware. Nokia was a hardware company that also made their own software.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_770_Internet_Tablet
Red Hat Woos VMware Shops with OpenShift Virtualization Engine
My two cents on this: I've done a lot of math, up to graduate courses in weird stuff like operator algebra. I've also read quite a bit of maths pedagogy.

I've come to understand that the key thing that determines success in math is ability to compress concepts.

When young children learn arithmetic, some are able to compress addition such that it takes almost zero effort, and then they can play around with the concept in their minds. For them, taking the next step to multiplication is almost trivial.

When a college math student learns the triangle inequality, >99.99% understand it on a superficial level. But <0.01% compress it and play around with it in their minds, and can subsequently wield it like an elegant tool in surprising contexts. These are the people with "math minds".
So can we finally expect to see first-party Switch 1 games get discounts?
should we expect re-release of all the usual games?
Just a pair of quotes around the title will do.
> In the end I was mainly using mine to listen to podcasts (before they were called that)

I'm interested in understanding what you meant here?

To my understanding, the N800 was released in 2007 according to Wikipedia[1] and the first craze of podcasts was in the first half of the 00's, with the most notable fact being the official support of podcasts in iTunes in 2004[2].
They then lost their fame before knowing a second wave of popularity starting in the second half of the 10's.

Are you talking about something else?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast#History
It uses a variant of the GPL. You can include it in any usage as a font, just modifications of the actual font are normal GPL.
This is the right answer. I've never understood why "designers" feel the need to decide what font looks good to other people. You can specify font size and that should be enough.
I strongly expect they will shut down service to USA IPs; why on earth would they block anyone else?
That fund is currently at 50% stocks. It does get more conservative as you get past the target date, but I was mainly referring to the stock percentage at target date, which the parent poster implied was almost zero.
> I see self landing rockets, electric cars , star link etc

You mean brilliant people were able to achieve this despite him? I don't see why this CEO should be the one taking credit for such achievements.

In fact, I believe we would probably be further into the “Space Age” if it weren't for the lost decade since he appeared on TV.
Me too. Once the 'Burning Platform' memo was released on the intranet everyone stopped giving a fuck, and were hanging around waiting for redundancy payments.

Soon after Jo Harlow came to give a presentation that was held in The Oval cricket ground. I remember a couple of her statements drew subdued laughter from those attending. I felt a little sorry for her.