skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The black boxes from the American Eagle jet and the black hawk helicopter have been recovered and will be used to figure out what happened, hopefully helping to prevent future tragedies.
Worth mentioning Pekko, the Akka fork.

https://pekko.apache.org/
>> I don't quite trust folk when they say "Oh, that's just there in your body but it doesn't do anything."

If you expand that to "You don't need that" it covers the appendix, spleen, tonsils, wisdom teeth (even incisors can be removed to make room) and probably some other things. I'm in favor of keeping all your parts unless absolutely necessary, as all of these things seem to have at least marginal purpose.
> It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that people who are internally confused about themselves and require/demand extensive specialized medical treatments and care are most likely not suited to serve in the military.

Trans people I know are very sure about themselves. More than some cis people in fact. I will let RAND Corporation rebut the rest of your speculation.[1]

The effect on force readiness is an important consideration in any military
policy change. Many types of medical treatments can lead to lost labor and leave
personnel temporarily unable to deploy. Given the small estimated number of
transgender personnel and the even smaller number who would seek gender
transition–related treatment in a given year, the study found that the readiness
impact of transition-related treatment would lead to a loss of less than
0.0015 percent of total available labor-years in the active component. Even
using the highest estimates, less than 0.1 percent of the force would seek gender
transition–related treatment that would affect their ability to deploy. As a point
of comparison, in the Army alone, approximately 50,000 active-component
personnel were ineligible to deploy in 2015 for various legal, medical, or
administrative reasons—a number amounting to around 14 percent of the
active component.

A key concern in allowing transgender personnel to serve openly is how this
may affect unit cohesion. The underlying assumption is that if service members
discover that a member of their unit is transgender, this could inhibit bonding
within the unit, which, in turn, would reduce operational readiness. Similar
concerns were raised in debates over whether to allow gay and lesbian personnel to
serve openly, as well as over whether to allow women to serve in ground combat
positions. However, evidence from foreign militaries and the U.S. military has
indicated no significant impact on unit cohesion or operational readiness as a
result of allowing transgender and gay and lesbian personnel to serve openly or
allowing women to serve in ground combat positions.

[1] https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/R...
This is incorrect. The effort it took to enable Vulkan was relatively minor. The PR is short and to be honest it doesn't do much, because it doesn't need to.
> net FDI fell off a cliff for years after the vote

I don't know what stats you're looking at. As a percentage of market share the UK is essentially where it was in 2017 and inline with historical trends. Moreover it has been recently increasing largely due to poor conditions in Germany.

https://www.ey.com/en_uk/newsroom/2024/07/foreign-direct-inv...
All 13,000 employees of NOAA are receiving spam emails
That seems like a reasonable middle ground to me. But I didn't have any problem with DEI. If you have inner-city kids underrepresented by 50% then fund according to %population * %underrepresnted -- if 25% population then 12.5% of funding for programs to increase participation (don't think it would be that high). Maybe divide that by N if you have N different groups you would like to be more represented (eg rural kids). Performance is just that. Funding would be more effective. I expect anti-DEI folks would like the funding effort even less than the performance effort. It's obvious they believe diversity itself is part of the problem (whether admitted or not).
> more labour law is not good for the economy

If by economy you mean the richest 0.1% earning more money, I have to agree. But I disagree with that definition of "economy".

For me economy includes the ability of citizens to make ends meet and afford good health care and education. A good economy requires a well regulated labor market.

That definitions of a "good economy" are excluding these considerations it is just an effect of inequality and an increasing focus on the needs of the 0.1% over the economy as a whole. And it is not a real representations of the real economy at all.
I have never had it request any permissions
Nowhere to Hide from Trump's Tariffs
Referring to 'unelected officials' highlights a misunderstanding of how the EU operates and getting really tiring.
They are named like most executive of other countries and confirmed by the EU parliament. The French prime minister is even more an unelected official than a EU commmissioner.
Sure, but every country was affected by Covid. Not always to a similar degree as Britain but the differences in Europe in that regard aren't so big. Most handled it similarly, saw similar infection rates and are seeing similar long-term consequences. Just like we were all affected by cheap Russian gas disappearing.

I think you can safely cancel out Covid and Putin when comparing the way living standards and cost of living have changed over the last decade between the UK and countries like France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, etc.
Shiny from the above commenter is a good example of the dirty / “invalidate” style of algorithm.

https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/blob/main/shiny/reacti...

https://github.com/posit-dev/py-shiny/blob/main/shiny/reacti...
I don't understand what you're saying. Who's hiding the sun through transparent glass?
There is an excellent academic study about the (mis)use of surveillance data in the criminal justice system:

Sarah Brayne (2020) Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing, Oxford University Press

https://www.amazon.com/Predict-Surveil-Discretion-Future-Pol...

Based on field work conducted with officers and IT personnel in the Los Angeles Police Department, the author convincingly shows that law enforcement generally follow an "institutional data imperative," i.e., a mandate to collect as much information as possible, in part by securing routine access to a wide range of data on everyday activities from non-police databases. Data originally collected for one purpose is used for another (p. 53).
>The "correct" answers on a biographical test are to claim to have more experience than your really do.

That's not what happened, and that isn't what the test questions were about at all:

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...

>You're really stretching to turn this into a scandal. Nobody complained that the answers to the previous test had been leaked.

There hadn't been such a test previously, the black ATC union lobbied for it to be created in the first place.
Except that the UK joined the EU before it was even called the EU and long before the Euro existed. The UK also never adopted the Euro or joined the Schengen area, so we never got the full open borders + same currency experience. Being over the water from the EU - with the exception of the Irish border, which is over the water from the rest of the UK anyway - helps add a sense of separation, uniqueness and sheer arrogance which has allowed our newspapers to lie about the EU for the entirety of its existence.

What's hurt us from leaving is the single market. It's now vastly more difficult to trade with the EU, our closest geographical neighbour. Lots of post-referendum talk about amazing trade deals with Australia and the USA and Canada and India came largely to nothing, and they're all so far away and much more difficult to manage the logistics of. Plus the awkward situation where Northern Ireland is still kind of in the single market and kind of not, due to the need to preserve various agreements about trade and movement over the Irish border.

Ultimately, EU membership was what helped us get out of the economic pit we were in in the early 1970s. It's what helped us build the massive services economy which fuelled the 1980s on a wave of consumer credit and London skyscrapers. I'm not saying those are necessarily good things, but the day to day impact of EU membership was actually enormous - just most people weren't consciously aware of it.

Which is why it was possible for a bunch of charlatans to convince a tiny majority to vote to leave it.
Thanks, now I get it! I had completely ignored the "if they think" part of that sentence.
This is a change from your response to the comment that I linked to, where you said it was a good point. Why the difference?

Maybe I should clarify that I'm not saying that the effort to enable a new backend is substantial, I'm saying that my understanding of that comment (the one you acknowledged made a good argument) is that the maintenance burden of having a new backend is substantial.
I have a feeling that somehow your point is going to be proven (or disproven) rather soonish, considering Trump's total turn on renewables and energy output ("Drill, baby, drill"). We might actually find out if the old school American way can indeed make a significant difference on the average guy...
What is the advantage over a private docker registry combined with a public git-repo containing the docker-compose?
Got it. LED bulbs are destroying the social contract. One would call you a luminary but it seems you’d prefer being called predominantly a producer of hot air, like the old incandescents, instead.

Also, the US is down 30% as well since peak MWh/person. If you had invested $1 in the S&P 500 at that peak, in about 1970, you’d have about $300 now. Seems like energy use mightn’t be all that coupled to economic success, but if you want to call the US since 1970 a failed society I’m not going to stop you.
> claims no authority

It should be obvious what authority is implicit in a document from the vatican.
Its basically a way to say "look there's no risk!" because it can never[1] go below the peg point of the currency it's linked to. You'll see that the value rises (because of course its new and sexy, and the pool is small so it doesn't take much to change the market value) but "never" goes below 1:1 or what ever the peg is.

The problem is, because its crypto, its fairly easy to trace who owns what and who trades with whom. so if you're trying to avoid local or international laws, this isnt for you. You're far better off buying assets that are reasonably easy to liquidate.

[1] pegged currencies require 1:1 reserves for it to be "safe". At some point its impossible to protect against runs, if you don't have enough reserve to buy back the coin
This does not hurt the reputation of the US.
>> I can wiggle each ear very visibly (and both). I hardly ever do but as I remember most people can’t. So i always assumed it was a DNA thing.

After reading the article I think its a "use it or lose it" thing where the muscles and ability to control them atrophy in our modern environment. We have more competing sounds and external means to "turn up the volume" so we can hear a particular thing.
> Equality of outcome, in the sense that we should hire unqualified people for research positions, is thankfully an incredibly rare and frankly insane position that almost nobody holds. Also thankfully, that's not what these required plans were. The requirement was that groups applying for grants have a specific and actionable plan for making sure that equality of opportunity was ensured. In fact, advantaging one group over another, such as with quotas, would directly violate DEI policy[1].

I understand that many people say this, but academics routinely understand government DEI initiatives to be racial quotas. See for example https://archive.is/So06G about the NIH FIRST program. I don't think that DEI is secretly aiming to cripple institutions, but I do think that its advocates genuinely feel racial balancing is a good idea and dissemble about this in contexts where it would be illegal.
>So where's the non-sketchy, non-for-profit equivalent?

Serving models is currently expensive. I'd argue that some big cloud providers have conspired to make egress bandwidth expensive.

That, coupled with the increasing scale of the internet, make it harder and harder for smaller groups to do these kinds of things. At least until we get some good content addressed distributed storage system.
Which is not the same model, it's not R1 it's R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B....
You either don't know what you're a talking about or a in bad faith.
The demographic or PhD researchers is, in fact, the problem because the ration of women to men is very high at the beginning of the career but declines as the career progresses and becomes embarrassing at the professorial stage. This is the whole reason why DEI became essential because it aimed at removing those anti-meritocratic barriers that promoted male career at the expenses of females.

This is the case in biological sciences, for instance, the field I am in:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Scissors-Diagram-Showing...
I didn't say it was a good point. I said I disagree, but it's a respectable opinion I could imagine someone having.
Evolutionary pressure also would select for not wasting energy on a useless organ.
Yeah, there's definitely a world where all EU/European businesses centralised in London. Honestly though, short term national interests have stopped that happening for 30 years now, so I don't expect any changes here (even though it's probably the best thing the EU/Europe could do to help more new tech businesses get off the ground).
That book, and the follow up "Pentagon of Power" blew my mind when I read them years ago. I can't even enumerate how many topics it discusses. 100% recommended reading.
I think the OP has a different point. I don’t think they were claiming ICE was created by DACA, but rather their actions were enabled by it.
So everything has to get reviewed, and people are speculating about what that might mean?
DeepSeek database left open, exposing sensitive info
Why don’t you look up the ones you haven’t heard of? Celebrities are more cancel-proof in some ways than the average Joe.
Point of order, the supreme court has changed size 6 times

https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/institution.aspx#:~:text=...
New CVS App Lets Customers Unlock Cabinets to Pick Up Products
Most people have a hard time unplugging from social media, despite widespread distrust of big tech.

Can't unplug from banking, even when literally communists (literally literally, I've met some proud of being communists, they still got a mortgage).

Coal and petroleum-based fuels are slowly getting unplugged, but the issues were known over a century ago, and the transition only became relevant scale when the alternative was already much cheaper — and it's not yet clear how much damage has been done in the intervening years.

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Any AI worth using is so because it's at least one of [cheaper, better] than a human on the same task: any AI which is both more expensive and worse just doesn't have any reason to be used in the first place.

This means that "unplugging" an AI comes with a cost of losing every advantage that made you start using it in the first place.
The tories completely butchered it. They've done the opposite of what should have been done in terms of making brexit pay, and now we're in an absolute mess.
this is great! I think pufferfish is taking PRs to his fork as well.
This seems more like a way to collect email addresses. Why not just post them so they are publicly available for anyone interested?
Okay, now we're playing semantics. "Reasonable argument" were your words. What changed between then and now to where the same argument is now "incorrect"?
https://archive.ph/Ww4wG
Also this guy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Kujau
He became (in)famous for faking Hitler's diaries but also faked paintings, later going legal. There have been cases of others faking his replicas.
all stable coins are risky, because the peg requires reserves to maintain. the peg break just at the point when you need it to most be in place.
Go 1.24's new tool directive
Try Gemini 2.0 Flash in the Gemini app
I remember the pineal gland in the brain as well, that was part of why it got used as a source for psychic powers in older fiction.
And thanks to Biden's final decisions, presidents and their entourage are effectively immune to prosecution. They just need to "pardon" their friends at the end of the administration. So there is really no limit to what Trump can do.
1. Why aren't websites like this posted under Show HN? This is a promotional post, right?

2. How is this different/better than something like https://gamedev.stackexchange.com? More discussion-based vs Q&A?
If your quilt depicts a giant bundle of blood, I'm not going to get upset when the normies decide they don't want to see it.
There's an electric ferry service between Iceland and Vestmannaeyjar - it's very nice. Quiet and doesn't smell of ship diesel.

The charging port and plug are quite something, too.
Here you go: https://github.com/hecrj/icebreaker
> So let me get this right, solar panels on the roof, heat pumps, better fridges, and better insulation among other things are a crisis that will lead, in comparison, to the downfall of Western civilisation?

Well the data does seem to incline in that direction. Particularly the UK, as far as I can tell it is impossible to be both intellectually honest and believe that a 33% (!) reduction in per capita energy is good for people's living standards. Someone'd have to be wilfully ignorant of Jevons' paradox, the only way to get that drop off is some sort of squeeze in their ability to access energy which isn't fun to live through. I feel for the poor who are being forced to live with that and be told that they're better off and shouldn't believe their lying eyes. It also neatly explains a lot of the political trends the UK has undergone in the last decade like the high debt level and general dissatisfaction with the leadership.
I have written what you would likely call "DEI" statements for grants and job applications, and I have reviewed them as well.

The absolutely worst statements are the people who believe that the statement is an ideological litmus test. It never was, and it isn't.

These statements, to a one, are basic HR stuff: discuss your strategies and experiences to not be an asshole and ensure that the diverse people you manage (and they almost certainly are diverse) will be able to get along and work effectively under your management. Boring stuff.

People think its some sort of ideological purity test, write it as such, and get surprised when the statement is evaluated poorly.
A point of order means someone has violated congressional procedure.
It dies when governments make it illegal, and so hard and expensive to use, that the cons far outweigh the pros.

One such scenario would be if crypto suddenly became a real threat to whatever fiat a country uses. If BTC became a legit threat to USD, you can be sure the gov. would do everything in their power to remove BTC.

Maybe a realistic example would be if, say, BRICS countries suddenly colluded to stop using USD, and only use BTC as a currency.
> - No, the supreme court is the same size it's always been.

Stacked in the sense that more members were appointed by one party vs the other (including one by dubious means), and those people apparently are quite partisan.
LFP is no worse then wood and a lot better then an gasoline fire
Accessibility has always been part of DEI. (Certainly it's been a repeated topic of conversation in my campus's Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board.) And yes, any effort that involves spending time or money to make sure that every person gets to "have some quality of life" falls under this same umbrella. That is literally what people are referring to when they call things "woke".
You have to be proactive, but the specifics will vary depending on how you do your hiring. That may look like specifically requesting that employees belonging to underrepresented groups volunteer for recruitment, or best-effort selecting each candidate's panel to represent as many groups as possible. You could do quotas for the panelists, but only if participation wasn't important for career progress. To be clear: these quotas would only apply to members of the panel selected from the pool of eligible employees. Hiring quotas are unfair and harmful.
Casio is phasing out electroluminescent backlighting and going back to a single LED, so I would buy an F105 while you still can. I've heard it said it was to improve battery life and longevity but I've never had a problem with either one.
If that were true then we wouldn't be watching a collection of circus performers get confirmed by congress.
Born in the 1960s, I remember when the UK joined a trade bloc. Decades later, during the Brexit referendum, the "think of the children" argument was heavily pushed by the Remain campaign. Yet, as someone who grew up within the trade bloc and later the EU, I recall that we had no say on the Maastricht Treaty—while other countries did, with some even being told to vote again.

I also remember the Liberal Democrats advocating for a referendum on EU membership from the early 2000s onward. However, when the vote finally happened, the level of vitriol and disdain the party directed at Leave voters completely changed my perception of what "liberal" and "democratic" truly mean. Their stance no longer aligned with those ideals.

Corporate lobbying has a significant impact on EU policy, often overshadowing the interests of its citizens. The EU’s influence is a mix of positives, negatives, and deeply concerning interventions. One striking example was when the entire EU was forced to pay higher prices for imported solar panels to protect a single German company. Another was the rushed adoption of CFL lighting just before LED technology became viable—CFLs contain mercury, posing a serious health hazard if broken, and many have likely ended up polluting landfills.

While I support the idealistic vision of a united Europe, many well-intentioned policies have been poorly thought out, leading to unintended consequences. The depopulation of many towns and villages across Europe due to youth migration is a direct result of EU-driven policies, yet little thought was given to the broader impact.

The UK sought EU reforms, but when those were denied, a referendum became inevitable. Many who voted Leave did so because the trade bloc they originally joined had evolved into something they no longer recognized. For decades, key decisions were made without direct input from the British people. It's no surprise that those who had once voted to join felt compelled to vote to leave. Yet, the mainstream media labeled them as racists, disregarding the complexity of their concerns.

Beyond the UK's experience, France’s actions in African countries when it adopted the Euro are worth investigating—they reveal a shocking side of EU monetary policy. Meanwhile, Germany, whose strong currency transitioned smoothly into the Euro, benefited enormously—often at the expense of struggling nations like Greece and Italy, which found themselves locked into an economic framework that served German interests far more than their own.

Saddest part is, France blocked any reforms until the UK had left the EU, and had they only engaged back then and made some reforms, the UK could have justified a new vote on the EU, with a more informed opinion. That in itself is a tradegy, but then the UK being physically seperated from Europe, has always seen many cultures and approached, not as aligned as the Europe and subsequently the EU as a whole, which beyond cheap holidays, duty free, not many really embraced the EU as a whole and vice versa.