skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the links to the books, I'll definitely read them as they seem to perhaps describe the feeling I've been feeling. I think the whole MAGA movement was able to succeed because it was one of the only cohesive (ish) movements focused on ancient strategies of fear and hate.
Even modern film is often not great, particularly theatre prints that aren't explicitly made for archival purposes. There was a fascinating YouTube video recently where the author pushes back on the purported superiority of fan-scanned 4Ks now competing with official, studio-supervised restorations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQwQRFLFDd8

Obviously DNR and bad HDR jobs are kind of their own issue, but he focuses specifically on coloring and the notion that theatre prints are themselves often wildly inconsistent and change over time, so it can be extremely difficult to even establish a baseline for what a film was meant to look like or even what it actually looked like upon release.

As a modest 4K collector myself, it frustrates me when certain films seem to sit in indefinite limbo, but Amadeus (released this week) looks fabulous and was absolutely worth the wait, so I have hopes that the people taking their time to do right by films like Ben Hur and The Sound of Music are doing so for the right reasons.
Are toothpaste and batteries really daily necessities though? I buy toothpaste maybe once every two years in bulk, and batteries basically never, due to pretty much everything being rechargable via USB.
Relevant SMBC:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21
Fck what about
Ukraine borders are recognized by Ruzzia but they invaded Ukraine
then they signed peace and invaded again

I don't give a shit what USA idiots said, if the people of Ukraine want in EU and NATO like their neighbors Poland, Romania, Hungary then why should a failed empire object.

You imply that USA brainwashed the Ukrainians, they instigated this.

Can't you use your brains? Can you see Ruzzians killing, raping, torturing their "brothers" ? It is obvious that for an ethnic Ruzzian genociding Polish, Romanians or Ukrainians is the same , they have no value for what we actually want.

We all want EU and NATO to be free of USSR/Ruzzian empire
the Ruzzians want their empire back,

Ruzzia has nukes so the bullshit that NATO extens because they want to invade Ruzzia and steal their shit is stupid , use your brain

EU bought shit from Ruzzia, EU tried to get peace with the empire by making bussiness relations, EU had not plants to invade and steal Ruzzian lands .

There was ZERO risk for Ruzzia to get invaded, it is the same with the other wars Putin started, it is all geopolitics and many Zeds agree with it and make fun of us smaller country by claiming that this is how the world works, big empires screw the small countries.
Marine powerplants are indeed cool, and yes, I've seen a few prior videos, both in operation and maintenance with workers literally crawling through the engines.
I wonder why the Kinect is still so popular given the many more recent projects that have come to market, eg Realsense, Zed, Orbec.

I’ve recently been using the Realsense for robotics and they are satisfactory (although they have been drastically increasing in price for unclear reasons). I wouldn’t use Kinect because they are no longer being officially manufactured.
Until now, EU countries saw US as alligned with them, so saw no need to wall off US social media and start their own, with their own propaganda, like Russia and China did.
> I don't understand how it is a problem if an employee takes on multiple jobs.

Because that's the execs' privilege. Just like how the old feudal aristocracy was free to engage in as many economic activities as they wanted for self gain but the feudal serfs were supposed to tend to their lords' fields all the time and be loyal and honest and not steal from their lords.

Who are you, the lowly pleb, to think that you can have the same privilege with your modern technolords... Know your place.
Not all pilots have a commercial pilots license, without which you can’t get paid to fly at all.

Early career professional pilots make surprisingly little money flying.

And professional pilots of all sorts often find themselves in a hotel in a city away from home with time to kill.
> why should a failed empire object.

There is a lot to criticize the US for, but it is nowhere close to being a failed empire yet.
Another fun bird fact about bluejays and crows: listening for a bunch of screaming crows and/or jays is a good way of finding owls, as they both seem to have an inherent hatred of owls, and harass them whenever given a chance. In my area, the poor owls rarely seem to get any rest from being swooped and yelled at all day.
Pgpool-II 4.6.0 is now released
Yes, but common wisdom is that in macroscopic systems it all decoheres and it "averages out".

He and some other guy claim microtubles maintain coherence in the brain.
the Kinect One is better in a bunch of ways (field of view, resolution) but a big one for certain use-cases is that it can fully track 6 skeletons.

The 360 Kinect can only track two skeletons (but differentiate 6).
It's also completely reasonable that I don't want a halfway house, with the felons and drug addicts it'll bring even if they aren't throwing loud parties, in my neighborhood. I also don't want trains full of coal to rumble past my house at 1am on their way to the power plant.
Decentralisation and low capital cost, the points made in the article.
Tenstorrent Cloud Instances and Next-Gen AI Accelerators
For Windows 10 : Settings-->Display-->Show animations in Windows (enable)
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/banana-for-scale
HMAC-SHA1 is not broken as a pseudorandom function. SHA1 is only broken for collision-resistance for the moment. That doesn't mean it's great, or that you shouldn't upgrade.
I'd consider that a feature.
I'm so happy to find this here. LLMs seem to have diverted a lot of attention away from this incredibly useful technique.
Yeah. Anyone can get to the bottom of the ocean. Getting back up alive involves more skill.
It adds a very low cost per-package low-package no person required option to their delivery options. A truck with a human will almost always be cheaper, but if you have a single package that will take a 10 minute detour for a driver due to a fluke of purchasing patterns, being able to drone deliver it could reduce the cost of that specific package delivery significantly, thus reducing overall system costs especially if that truck can now spend more time delivering goods in denser areas.
I really don't think this is the actual problem here. A town with multiple high schools is too big for a single central youth woodworking shop.

A town with multiple underfunded schools is not going to have the resources to provide this anyway, or if they do it's because of specific values & policies that are incompatible with providing universal services to citizens.

But once you have decided to do this, and come up with some funding for it somehow: should you use the currently existing infrastructure in place to move children around, and the adults in place with experience working with them, and the bureaucratic apparatus in place to manage them etc etc or should you just build a completely new thing that will totally be better.

Every non-programmer sees the obvious answer immediately. There's no tradeoff here really, these classes belong in middle and high school.

The only reasonable alternative is libraries but they have the same funding issues. The problem is the choice we have made to underfund these institutions. If you're working within these constraints without being able to change the funding, public schools have the most of the apparatus in place already, compared to the alternatives.
Thank you. That's helpful! I find this interesting as well. Some folks like to build with detailed instructions and others prefer to just get the gist and figure it out for themselves. :)
> I think the whole MAGA movement was able to succeed because it was one of the only cohesive (ish) movements focused on ancient strategies of fear and hate.

That and red states having an aversion to education.
I see the difference between the USA's electric usage today and 100 years ago is that barely anyone had electricity 100 years ago and our standard of living has increased dramatically today.

I expect a bump in our usage in the short term due to EV usage but from a household perspective I believe our electric usage will flat line. Heating and cooling are currently the highest usage of power in the domestic setting and large efficiency gains and alternative sources are available.

I look at the power usage as a distributed problem and increasing local generation of power will create efficiencies. I also believe that there is finite amount of power that a USA based family of 4 needs. I think the alternate opinions assumes that the power needs are infinite.
A code may be repeated, but they should not enter a cycle (which would be a real disaster.)

You also need to keep in mind the birthday paradox. Repeated codes will happen with high probability after around sqrt(1,000,000) = 1000 code emissions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
Sovereign debt is not the same as your household budget.
Why would you want to watch TV in your browser in the first place?
> As someone pretty firmly in the anti-AI camp, I'm genuinely glad that you've personally found AI a useful tool to polish text and help you communicate.

> I think that just because someone might be more or less eloquent than someone else, the value of their thoughts and contributions shouldn't be weighed any differently. In a way, AI formatting and grammar assistance could be a step towards a more equitable future, one where ideas are judged on inherent merits rather than superficial junk like spel;ng or idk typos n shi.t

I guess I must come clean that my reply was sarcasm which obviously fell flat and caused you to come to the defense of those who can't spell - I swear I don't have anything against them.

> However, I think what the parent commenter (and I) might be saying is that it seems you're relying on AI for more than just help expressing yourself—it seems you're relying on it to do the thinking too. I'd urge you to consider if that's what you really want from a tool you use. That said, I'm just some random preachy-judgy stranger on the internet, you don't owe me shit, lol

You and presumably the parent commenter have missed the main point of the retort - you are assuming I am relying on AI for my content or its style. It is neither - I like writing point-wise in a systematic manner, always have, always will - AI or no-AI be damned. It is the all-knowing veil-piercing eagle-eyed deduction of random preachy-judgy strangers on the internet about something being AI-generated/aided just because it follows structure, that is annoying.
Here's a simple stylesheet to disable scrolljacking and make browsing the site tolerable:

#sgallery { height: unset; }
#scontent { width: unset; }

It can be applied through the browser developer tools (F12 → Style Editor → + → paste the CSS there), or through one of the many user style extensions.
The GC does marking using the capability pointer, not the pointer's integer value. So, there's no need for a general "hey GC, what object does this point into and where does it start" query.

The capability is the start of the allocation most of the time. It might have a bit in it saying that it's an aligned allocation (indicating alignment greater than 16 bytes), in which case there's an alignment hole between the start of what the GC thinks is the allocation and where the capability starts. Also capabilities might be global, meaning that there is no need to mark them. So, to mark a capability (which the runtime calls an "object"), the algorithm is something like:

if (object->is_global)
return;
void* thing_to_mark;
if (UNLIKELY(object->is_aligned))
thing_to_mark = object & -object->alignment;
else
thing_to_mark = object;
mark(thing_to_mark);
Eh, fundamentally when people game they don't want to move. In the west the culture of leisure, particularly entertainment leisure, is sedentary.
I've probably spent about 25$ on Claude code so far.

I'm tempted to pay someone in Poland or whatever another 500$ to just finish the project. Claude code is like a temp that has a code quota to reach. After they reach it, they're done. You've reached the context limit.

A lot of stuff is just weird. For example I'm basically building a website with Supabase. Claude does not understand the concept of shared style sheets, instead it will just re-implement the same style sheets over and over again on like every single page and subcomponent.

Multiple incorrect implementations of relatively basic concepts. Over engineering all over the place.

A part of this might be on Supabase though. I really want to create a FOSS project, so firebase, while probably being a better fit, is out.

Not wanting to burn out, I took a break after a 4 hour Claude session. It's like reviewing code for a living.

However, I'm optimistic soon a competitor will emerge with better pricing. I would absolutely love to run three coding agents at once, maybe it even a fourth that can run integration tests against the first three.
What an incredible journey it would be if it were possible for a man’s glass brain to yield enough data to reconstruct his consciousness and awaken him in the far future! There must be some sci-fi story like this.
same for me. Neither is working.
Laravel 12 Svelte Starter Kit
Isn't this just because there was nowhere near as much software for 3d scanning made for v2?
I remember my biology teacher telling me of the dangers of being a car crash with a full bladder - yet another reason to go.
> Who in the article seems anti-drone? They all seemed to go out of their way to hedge complaints.

Dunno about them being completely anti-drone, but at least one person was worried about the drones camera:-

> A parent said their teenage daughter feared using the swimming pool because of the drone’s camera. (Amazon says it faces forward, not down).

But Amazon (and to be "fair" to Amazon, pretty much every large tech company) has had issues with data processed by their devices which the users of those devices wouldn't want handled by humans. Pretty much every smart speaker has had incidents with their reviewers being given access to voice recordings not intended for the speaker, in some cases it being recordings of kids. Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars.

So yeah, I too would be wary of what imagery drones flying over my private space would be taking. Sure Amazon says the camera(s) only point forward, but at this point I'm not surprised people trust tech companies as far as they can throw them.

EDIT: My follow up question to Amazon about the camera(s) on the drone would have been "If the camera only points forward, how does the drone determine that the drop off spot for any delivery is safe at the time of drop off without "looking" down?"
> Not all of them are the same

Arent they? If those 'not same's constituted any tangible statistics, the landscape would be different. But it is how it is.

That is like saying "But there were good people among that overwhelmingly vicious bunch too!". Yeah, there may have been a small percentage of good people who never went along with the mainstream even in Nazi Germany, but the majority did and they did what they did. The example is not extreme - you can apply the same logic to every case in which someone tries to acquit an overwhelmingly negative majority by mentioning an insignificant number of positive minority gaming that majority.
I think you overmystify, this kind of research is not exclusive to a handful of folks, and it's all verifiable and clear
Runescript – FOSS for the Writing Community
Natural language processing and customizable features, Runescript identifies characters, their traits, relationships, and even physical descriptions, making it easier to manage complex stories. The tool also includes a dedicated notes editor, allowing writers to jot down ideas, track progress, and refine their work seamlessly. (WIP)
Memory unlocked: the family ViewSonic 17PS-2 had an Access.bus connector on the back.

I couldn’t find any info back in the day beyond that it was I2C-based, but appreciate being able to connect the dots now.
businesses operate on money, and time is money, so speed of opening a factory is very much about the best condition for business. It's not the only one, mind you, but if it costs an extra million dollars in lost revenue to start a business because the permitting process took an extra year, then why would you not start the business somewhere else that didn't cost you that extra million?
And that's the primary reason that Britain lost the war.

The war was much more expensive for the British than for the Colonists, and became even more expensive once France joined. The British didn't lose because they couldn't keep fighting, but because the cost of the war grew to be higher than the expected value of winning.

It was also expensive for the French, and that cost helped bankrupt the state, which led to the French Revolution. One of many causes.
We can make drones quieter. However that involved compromises in efficiency.
Fair enough, but I feel there are more issues which are not being talked about here. How many drones will fail mid flight and become unrecovereable? How many drones will crash mid flight? Will there be teams of people dispatched to clear up this waste or will we just start getting used to big piles of plastic and metal lying on the ground wherever we go?

What about the new industry and all the factories that will need to spring up to build these drones, maintain them, and replace them?

Everyone here is just focussing on the noise, but behind this is a massive industry using loads of power and materials and causing loads more waste, just so people can get cookies on the same day.
>There is a lot to criticize the US for, but it is nowhere close to being a failed empire yet.

At least we can agree Ruzzia is failed empire, no words on that part from KGB
I am happy I found an agent that is not flagging or reporting me then goes to tell his mom how big of a hero he is.
Hi, crypto steelman here. I have two answers:

The first is the reality answer: the CEOs of all these companies (SOL, XRP, and ADA specifically) are directly involved and meeting with Trump officials and senators in order draft upcoming crypto legislation as, as told by ADA's creator[1]. BTC and ETH aren't included here, but they are the two largest and most impactful, recognizable cryptocurrencies already, kind of would be foolish to exclude them.

Secondly, the reason I don't think this is just "pumping insider's bags": from the perspective of a crypto-optimist, these are paradigm shifting technologies that have the potential to revolutionize global financial systems (at minimum). The "strategy" is coming from betting on this being true, and thus these assets will have high(er) value, use, and importance, in the near future.
I also don't think the reserve is going to be as large as people might get the impression. Anything in bllions sounds extremely unrealistic.

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xgGTW_GK9vM
I highly suggest watching this video. He gives a quite sobering and optimistic take of the situation.
one thing thats frustrating about this kind of article is it doesnt reckon with the reality of why were addicted to oil, its about who owns the means of production and which people are enriched by it.
Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Slashdot?
I went there just now and posts have like 20-30 comments on most stories or around 100 on older, popular threads if you click "load more stories". I remember when it used to have hundreds of comments per post.
Thank you, that's exactly the passage I was looking for!
Damn, there's even pixel art from 1986 in there: http://socmus.com/past/ppc/27.jpg
Don’t use technical terms like “exponential distribution” and then say the technical details like what distribution it is does not matter.

Doing so conveys sloppy thinking while pretending to be rigorous only on the surface.
I had some success in soaking gooey rubber parts in a vinegar and water bath overnight. It seemed to cause the gooey stuff to slough off enough that I was able to removed by scrubbing lightly with a dish rag.
1, Source control can get very gnarly when you have multiple editors on a codebase, and 2, good and comprehensive documentation for software is often many times longer than the software it documents. Man pages are a lot longer than -h
> I should point out, it seems daft to me when others suggest using forks with no well-established governance of their own, essentially shifting trust from an organisation at least answerable to certain regulations, to individuals with no proper framework or guidelines.

That just shows that trust in Mozilla has sunk below "random stranger" levels. IMO that shift is entirely deserved.
I think you might have forgotten how immature the field of computer security, especially for network applications, was in the 90s/00s. This was the era of register_globals in PHP, CGI scripts written in C, HTTPS being some fancy luxury for banks and OS login dialogs you could kill with task manager.
> So much so that I impulse-bought the domain gitcraft.com for $2,660.16

...
Seems like it no longer does in the US but it's incredibly frustrating that we wouldn't ban lead based ingredients more generally https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grecian_Formula
Something I find odd about pluralism - and maybe this isn’t strictly left/right but issue dependent.

Is it seems like the left is more sensitive to the paradox of tolerance. Like, well broadly speaking try to include everyone, but at your core, you also have to respect everyone else / abide by certain values.

Whereas as in this case, on the right, you get both a condemnation and a glorification of the nanny state in the same administration.
No, the number of comments indicate git is often an inappropriate tool.

I do agree I’ve often wondered about my career choice after being forced to use git.

Any other VCS system I’ve used bar some old unix tools offer much better usability. For example Perforce and TFS were much better. Even Subversion and Mercurial offer better ergonomics.

Git is probably great for the type of distributed projects that spun it (ie Linux kernel).

Most industrial projects are far more centralized and streamlined. Hence git brings in added complexity that is usually not needed.

Luckily it’s not so b - oh damn I git pulled and now my colleague did something and git says ”fatal: Need to specify how to reconcile divergent branches”. Which is the type of clownshow level of VCS which incites these comments.
> source control is optimally a visual activity

I'm not sure I entirely agree with this. I could see how this could be the case for newcomers to git, but after learning how git works through visual means, I think the mental model of how one should think of git is pretty simple (pleasantly simple, imo). Any complexity that comes from it may be due to how it is used (especially in a team setting).
How would that work? The hardness of the light on the moon is because the moon has no atmosphere. Moonlight at night is still affected by the atmosphere in the same way sunlight is.
To use Whatsapp only, without all the other useless features, try using Beeper.
Also works to use instagram messaging without having the instagram app itself, therefore no doom-scrolling. It's open-source.
Aluminum might be one of the worst metals to use in an application like this.

https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-racing/technical-fa...

>Aluminum does not have a distinct fatigue or endurance limit, so its S-N graph curves down from the upper left to the right and continues to curve down lower and lower toward the lower right corner of the graph. This illustrates that it will eventually fail even from low stress applications, given enough of them.

Steel/titanium, if its fatigue tolerance is in the temperature range, would last much longer if not near indefinably until it came to impacts.