skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was clarifying the sense I was using the term "force field". Not a generic field of electromagnetic forces, but the fantastical one that can contain arbitrary matter.

Like the one described in the article, that a person was leaning against and could not pass through. If this were something that we could reproduce, it would have awesome real-world uses. Like a real hover board! Or the best anti-theft protection for my parked car.
What would be evidence for you?
Unfortunately, no—it's not inherently less of an issue in Rust. It really comes down to the team and their passion for writing maintainable, high-quality code. The language helps, but good practices ultimately rely on the people behind the code.
great work guys! love that it's open source (gave myself a funny call from Steve Wozniak) - excited to see where this'll go
For even longer time we have a REAL proof (not mathematical wordplay) that whenever, without exception, someone takes a swing at free markets it leads to people dying. IT has always been a disaster and people always have been exiting those societies where that happens towards more free societies. You yourself have plenty of options to go somewhere with less free market - Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Russia, even China. Have YOU emigrated to such a country?
Dutch pension funds divest from Tesla
I won't address the cost, but an important point to remember is for many countries energy security is national security, food security is national security.

It is important for them that they can't be held hostage to fossil fuel supplies.

It's been a big issue for western european countries during the ukraine war.
Clearly you should move to google’s analytics product.
There are definitely accounts that do this. I occasionally submit stuff to lobsters, usually it appears in the feed here within a minute or two.
Ah, good point. Then the global warming point applies, but in a much less trivial way.

There is turbulence in any big directed change. Better overall new tech often creates inconveniences, performs less well, than some of the tech it replaces. Sometimes only initially, but sometimes for longer periods of time.

A net gain, but we all remember simpler things whose reliability and convenience we miss.

And some old tech retains lasting benefits in niche areas. Old school, inefficient and cheap light bulbs are ironically, not so inefficient when used where their heat is useful.

And horses fit that pattern. They are still not obsolete in many ways, tied to their intelligence. As companions. As still working and inspiring creatures.

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I suspect the history of evolution is filled with creatures getting that got wiped out by new waves, that were more generally advanced, but less advanced in a few ways.

And we have a small percentage of remarkable ancient creatures still living today, seemingly little changed.
Everything starts with someone pointing at something.
Everything ends with dollars.

That's how I remembered them anyhow
> But also, $ is so important in business that every typewriter has one.

Some of the older Baudot code ones actually had a £ but not a $ symbol. After we'd decided that 5-key chorded keyboards were not the way forwards, and made QWERTY ones, we still had this encoding to deal with: https://hackaday.com/2015/09/27/demonstrating-baudot-code/

The US version then put the $ sign on what we'd today call ^D, which originally was ENQ (a code that still exists in ascii today, and was sort of the pre-TCP version of a SYN).
I actually work with high voltage for a living, and I have high skepticism about this story. While it is technically possible if you work out the math and somehow get an extremely dense e-field flux, from a practical standpoint it might well be impossible. HV like they describe, especially in high humidity, really likes to equalize itself in a big flash.

I strongly suspect instead is that there was a spot where you could really feel the e-field, and people just through rumor and story telling morphed it into "the wall".
FWIW there are a lot of features that are really great on a run, but you might have to switch screens or even manipulate the screen. For instance, zoom in and out on a map. Or instruct your watch to re-route you to the fastest way home, or start guiding you the reverse way you came so you end up doubling your distance when you get back home. You might have other sensors feeding info and the data doesn't all fit on one screen. Maybe you want to control music playback and find playlists subpar (you might want to change based on how you feel in the moment, or pick another podcast because you added time onto your run or the other one ended up being boring, etc.).

Play music and run is fine for lots of people, though, so I'm not surprised it works for you.
This reminds me, out of the one app I *actually want* to be addictive, food tracking apps NEVER are.
I guess one possible fix would be for cloudflare to implement an option to disable the x-cache header for unauthorised users. This way Signal devs could still check their setup by sending authentication headers.

But it would solve the issue completely because you could always check the response time. Probably Signal should disable caching. I guess it's rare for someone to repeatedly download an attachment. Once it's there it's there. For grouped conversations it could be an issue though.
Invariant Agent Stack: A framework-less approach to robust agent development
Every time I look into those I come away thinking that Occam's Razor would suggest a different explanation: the original characterization was, knowingly or not, incorrect. Patents so frequently fail to contain sufficient information to allow a practitioner skilled to in the appropriate arts to reproduce the claims that it seems more plausible that the disappearing polymorph stories should be reclassified as "someone was caught fibbing" stories. In the replication crisis, we don't assume that the problem is that something about the world has changed, we assume that the original was flawed, and we should do the same here.

It would be much more convincing if there were more cases that weren't economically significant. A strange property of chemistry that only comes up when money and lawyers are involved seems inherently suspicious.
> It is based on known physical principles

What exactly does it repel against a human? And why would it repel instead of discharge?
you're right, it's not

but if the cost of doing so is so much less than the in-person experience, then it will become the norm, while the in-person experience becomes relegated to the wealthy like those who can afford private colleges today. And not that many professors will be needed, so good luck!
> "If your website requires Javascript/CSS3 to display the majority of its content or to navigate, it will be rejected."

How much of the return to webrings and blogging is going to be held back by erroneous memories of when the web was "better" and "simpler".
Optimizing your Magento store for SEO
"too political for you" kind of sounds pre-sneerish, like, "can you handle it?". I think most adults naturally respond to "I'm just trying to test you" with "I'm just trying to tell you to go fuck yourself". Maybe that wasn't your intent, I'm just describing how it comes across.

Yesterdays response further confused me as the community discussion in the flagged article seemed to lean more towards unflagging than support for the flag remaining.

What you see in those comments is not necessarily more representative of community sentiment than the flags. I think both the type of controversy and the fact that it generated several meta threads give the misimpression this is some sort of moderation (both user and admin) outlier. But it's not, it's how HN operates all the time, it's a big part of what makes it HN rather than some other forum with different goals and conventions. Most current events stuff is 'moderated' away (by nonvoting, flagging, sometimes mod involvement, etc) as largely offtopic. There are occasional exceptions but in general, it's just not what the place is set up for.
Somehow I had missed that 9.x released at all… we just moved from 5.x to 8.x in October. The migration took almost 6 months.
It is amazing what HN mods choose to step in an unflag. Really speaks to the performative ethos around “intellectual curiosity”. Elon making a nazi salute is not interesting but Graham speaking about wokeness is interesting and should be discussed.
Similar experience for me. Facebook groups, WhatsApp groups and telegram groups. Some years ago somebody tried to move people to signal groups, but it went nowhere… and this is Germany, where there is no sympathy for Meta and in general people are quite privacy aware.
I remember when learning regexes, struggling to remember which of ^ and $ were the beginning or end of the line. I know that my (and many other) shells used $ as the prompt symbol - i.e. at the beginning of what I was to type in the terminal. It being at the beginning of that line made it easy for me to remember that it also marks the beginning of regexes.

Of course I was 100% incorrect as $ is in fact the end-of-line marker so now I just remember that "it's the opposite"!
Mincing words and splitting hairs again.
This guy is obviously unfamiliar with Tay lol.
Essentially the plot of The Inverted World.
Can this be used in a bank vault?
There are a few alternatives out there but nothing which has anything like the network effect of the big players. Spond seems to be popular in some areas (not just for sports teams as advertised).
Think of calm as the opposite of surprised. As in, wow I'm surprised this computer has a proprietary soldered on SSD I can't replace! I am no longer calm!
> if your ball leaves the ground with a putter, something is very very wrong

Ugh, you sound just like the manager of the last seventeen mini-golf places I've been kicked out of. I shall not apologize for my athleticism!

Though I probably should have apologized to the parents of those kids who they had to call an ambulance for.
What does this comment have to do with OP?
> These drugs certainly improve quality of life for some people, but they have legitimate dangers.

This is a good illustration of my point. You express this concern as if we haven't had decades of relentless - and insanely disproportionate - demonization of these meds.

> But have you ever considered that they're addicted?

Of course. My repeated inclusion of responsible use is a strong signal that the risks (which are relentlessly bullhonred at us) have been considered.

> Ambien (Zolpidem) is only prescribed for short term use (around 2 weeks) nowadays because of the risk for addiction and various psychological side effects (aggressiveness, agitation, even minor amnesia). But you said your friend has taken those pills for years

This leaves out every key part of my assertion. It omits that they take the lowest manufactured dosage (a dosage so low, it can be difficult to source). It ignores the med is consistently effective and enables functionality. Omitting those details increases the alarm factor in your presentation and it sacrifices the nuances of our actual reality.

What you did there is important. Altering my point this way completely diminishes our challenges.

Once our challenges are cut from the discussion, you have room to present an anti-med narrative - the same narrative that fuels the harms being done to us.

> But you said your friend has taken those pills for years and plans to move to another state just to get more of them?

At this point you are presenting one surgically altered context after another. The context of my statement said

>a reflection of ever reactive medical laws being added to the books every year. It's the primary reason my loved one is migrating to another state.

Their med issues are a reflection of the ever increasing hostility to effective medical treatment. That is a primary factor in my loved one's migration.

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You keep mischaracterizing my points, severely. This could be reasonably interpreted as bad faith on your part. However, I don't believe you're acting in bad faith.

Instead, I think you rewrite my statements inside your head. Once done, I think what you have doesn't reflect what I wrote.

And then I think you react to that.
> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President

OP didn't give say politics had anything to do with it. Let them nerd up if they want to.

Centralization around specific platforms has plusses and minuses. Having alternatives drives innovation.
IOMMU gives the PCIe device access to whatever range of memory it's assigned. That doesn't prevent it from being assigned memory within the address space of the process, which can even be the common case because it's what allows for zero-copy I/O. Both network cards and GPUs do that.

An even better example might be virtual memory. Some memory page gets swapped out or back in, so the storage controller is going to do DMA to that page. This could be basically any memory page on the machine. And that's just the super common one.

We already have enterprise GPUs with CPU cores attached to them. This is currently using custom interconnects, but as that comes down to consumer systems it's plausibly going to be something like a PCIe GPU with a medium core count CPU on it with unified access to the GPU's VRAM. Meanwhile the system still has the normal CPU with its normal memory, so you now have a NUMA system where one of the nodes goes over the PCIe bus and they both need full access to the other's memory because any given process could be scheduled on either processor.

We haven't even gotten into exotic hardware that wants to do some kind of shared memory clustering between machines, or cache cards (something like Optane) which are PCIe cards that can be used as system memory via DMA, or dedicated security processors intended to scan memory for malware etc.

There are lots of reasons for PCIe devices to have arbitrary physical memory access.
As I wrote elsewhere on this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42783130), the problem is that a lot of busy people treat the "practical notion" that markets produce good, high-quality outcomes as if it were a fundamental law of the universe. It's not. There are no guarantees. Markets can converge to horrific equilibria. Let's be humble, open-minded, willing to rely on markets when they work, willing to try other things when they don't.
I have used Ag Grid extensively for many years in financial sphere. I can tell you it is quite crappy as API, as documentation, support and in general as a product.
The problem is - what is the alternative? I haven't been able to find it and it is absurd you can make it yourself. I have thought about it and I almost made a conclusion that it is worthy doing a new commercial project.
Getting Started in Cryo-EM (2016)
> better labor conditions

hang on there! the industrial revolution brought people into _worse_ labor conditions -- it wasn't technology that created better work environments, it was worker protests that did so, and it took decades
> your phrasing doesn't really convey you've understood the issue you're touching on, honestly.

I've understood it very well, I find it very funny that people which say stuff like Google is a private company and should do what it wants are the same people which say Google should respect net-neutrality (peering agreements, ...) and not do what it wants when it's about core networking and not social media.
I'd suspect the 'free' and 'no ads' would be somewhat mutually exclusive. Perhaps a particular group organizer pays a modest amount - $19/year(?) - to manage/moderate groups up to X000 members.
That is what grants are for. And DARPA when something more specific, like this, is to be investigated.
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In the fine article it is mentioned that the plant manager debated whether to fix it or sell tickets.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/business/hideko-yamashita...
>Two pieces of otherwise anonymous data can, when combined, lead to re-identification.

How are you going to get more anonymous data? Practically speaking if your target has such poor opsec that he's hemorrhaging bits of data, you probably don't need this attack to deanonymize them.
It bothers me as well. I love the focus Alpine has on minimalism and security, it's been my main desktop distro for years. It's easily the best distro I've ever used.
> I read "drop-in remote worker" as AGI. You can give it any task and it performs at-or-exceeding human level. The real question to me then becomes the implications for the rest of the economy, not simply a question of what happens to vertical AI companies.

> ...

> If there are relatively few humans in the white-collar workforce, then we are talking about nothing short of a complete remake of the economy.

Which is why I hope AGI is a chimera. It will be a very bad thing for nearly all people, and very, very, *VERY* lucrative for an elite few. I'm reminded of this quote:

> ...in these pre-modern, agrarian societies the economic divide between regular people and the wealthy elite was vast and functionally unbridgeable...As a result, often the wealthy landholding elite in these societies had access to entire classes of goods that might simply not be available under almost any circumstances to the commons, because they required quantities of money that might be relatively trivial to the elite but which were unobtainable for the masses. (https://acoup.blog/2025/01/03/collections-coinage-and-the-ty...)

A post-AGI world is almost certainly going to be like that, but worse. At best, most people will lose all economic power be allowed to subsist on a UBI that will provide a tiny living space, some cheap manufactured goods, access to an AI therapist running in the cloud, and no future. In a mideaval feudal society, peasants were at least valuable to their lords. In tech feudalism, they won't even be that.
I'm usually on the same main screen with time/distance/heart rate, but when I change screen that would mostly be for:
- Map/routing, useful for trail running or when running in an area you are unfamiliar with
- Elevation, vertical speed (useful for trail running too)
- Workouts (steps/next step/instructions/duration/etc.)
Context? You should be using @tanstack/react-table unless you have a good reason for AG Grid.
Insect-bots are the penultimate search and kill. Also the penultimate mass kill. The ultimate would have to be nanobots if we can ever get to reliable swarms of them.

But it’s not the weapons that interest me so much as what people come up with as countermeasures. It’ll be fascinating to watch the next few years.
I have experience running 130,000 RX470/570/480/580... if you're doing heavy workloads, those things full machine crash if you breathe on them wrong. That said, when they do run, they run extremely well.

There is 1000 reasons why your one GPU could have crashed, what does it say in the logs before it crashed?
Still quite anon. He almost certainly used a VPN, and if he didn't he likely lived in a major city which included thousands if not hundreds of thousands of capable engineers. If it said he was in SF during some messages that would tell us literally nothing.
I have tried a bunch of options and the Rabbit running shorts with a rear phone zipper pocket are the least annoying. They hold a large phone securely without bouncing around but but are still easy to access on the move.

https://www.runinrabbit.com/collections/mens-shorts
Ah, you were trying to do it through Swift/within an actual app, thanks for clarifying.

I think you are right, I couldn’t find a way to directly set status from within Swift, but there is a somewhat janky workaround I thought of. You should be able to have Shortcut hooks within your app (i.e., once the shortcut is triggered, it triggers an action within your app; or, inversed, have your app trigger a shortcut), and then have an official companion Shortcut for your users they can install with a single click. There might be other valid approaches, but they all seem to involve Shortcuts in some way.

However, it is definitely a suboptimal approach, compared to just doing it all within the app (which I couldnt find a way to do either).
> Just setting it up would cost millions of dollars and running it may cost millions more.

You're a couple orders of magnitude too high.

Polypropylene film isn't that expensive. A thousand feet per minute is only 10 miles per hour, which is not that fast at all. Humidity and heat aren't hard to generate in a closed space.

This is the kind of thing that's within the budget of some ambitious YouTubers, not millions of dollars.

It's a fun urban legend. The red flag for anyone who has studied anything related to electromagnetism is the way it's described as a wall, not a force that gradually grows stronger as you get closer. Forces don't work at distance like that.

You also have to suspend disbelief and imagine this force field didn't impact the equipment itself. We're supposed to believe that a grown man can't push up against the field at a distance away from the source, but the plastic film and machinery inside of the field are continuing to operate as usual?

It's a fun urban legend. Leave it be, but don't take it seriously.
How would you even do a study like that? Besides, looking at scientific studies is not how businesses make decisions. They sometimes use studies as justification but there's a difference.
An example of how Strava is geek-compatible (so far! it may get ensh*ttified in the future). I found some old GPS logs from 22 years ago, when I first got a handheld GPS and geeked out with it, logging a whole bunch of rides and hikes.

It took a bit of work to get those converted to a modern format (load into ancient tool, which is still maintained, and write out as GPX files... one at a time). But then these GPX files can be uploaded to Strava and there they are! Activities older than Strava itself, fully integrated.

Also I've more than once had a "whoopsie" - app left recording during the drive home, for example. Download activity from Strava, edit the GPX file, delete the activity and re-upload from the file.

And when you download your stuff from Strava, you get a database dump. That's both good and bad; e.g. users are just numbers and you'd need to use the web Strava to translate them to names, but all your photos and all your traces and all your stats come down in standard formats (jpeg, gpx and csv respectively) and nothing is dumbed down; everything is in the best possible format for re-import to something else.
Let's say they travel between NY and LA, how many sources of data will you need to know who was in NY on a specific date and LA on a second date? Feels like only the government can reasonably locate that.
But of course! Since when are human beings perfectly self-consistent? The part of me who wants to sign up for a gym membership is concerned with long-term planning, and thinks it would be a good idea to remain healthy into older age; the part of me who actually has to go to the gym, here and now, feels far more concerned about the fact that working out sucks, and would very much rather do just about anything else.