skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article uses "robotic mobile probes," which also seems out of order.

I (native english speaker) would order it as "mobile robotic probes". But if I were writing it, I'd say "robotic probe", "surface probe", or "mobile probe". In this case, robotic and mobile mean the same thing, so using both is redundant.

And although I would order it as "private robotic spacecraft", I don't think that's correct. The spacecraft is robotic, but it's not private. It might be privately-operated, privately-owned, or privately-funded (each has a slightly different connotation). But private by itself means that a private company is somehow responsible for the mission.

So if I were writing it, I'd use something like "privately-funded robotic spacecraft" or "robotic spacecraft operated by private company XYZ".
Ah the engineer in charge of the keyboard button shape finally gets to earn his RSUs
How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? (2023)
I think if that's too painful, you can introduce a convention of:
```
from polars import col as c, lit as l
```

For anything production though, I just stick to pl.col and pl.lit as it's widely used.
Wild. The thread is worth reading for the full story of how he did it.

Best quote: "I'm NOT a Javascript developer. I know a little Python..."

If you think about it this means that in the future we will be able to take any executable game/program and port it to pretty much any future computing infrastructure with little effort.

Here's the source code:

https://github.com/KeithTheDev/elite-js
How much of the European capabilities do you think would remain after Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Broadcom, Google, etc drop poisoned updates on to them at the next update/connection, scramble all the data, trigger endless bootloops? Disable Azure, AWS and iCloud for European IPs. Some messing with DNS and Cloudflare, along with using the flying stingrays (Starlink Satellites) to mess with mobile communication. Also pile up all Teslas at important traffic intersections into huge lithium battery fires.

Basically, it would send Europe back into the stone age, I fear. In under a week.
It's been so long that I barely remember the details, but yes, we used a gnomon to calculate several things... the earth's circumference, our local solar noon, latitude and longitude, etc.

I specifically remember that we measured how far the shadow moved over time using chalk. I think this was in lieu of having a second triangle somewhere else, although, for all I know we might have used a second reference distance.

Our campus had this elaborate outdoor "observatory" that had all sorts of interesting features. The gnomon was one of them, but there were other cool things, like IIRC there was a metal sculpture where Polaris would be seen through a central hole (and a guide inscribed in the concrete to figure out where to stand for that to happen -- I think it was based on viewing height).
That should be an official NASA spec. Must not fall over on kerball.
Show HN: I Built Cursor for Docusign
so i've been freelancing for years and always found document workflows painful - either too enterprise-focused or too basic, shit's too tedious to even fill document templates.

so I built Signova, basically the DocuSign alternative that YC is looking for lol.

Key features:
- Smart template generation: Upload any document and the AI extracts variables and creates reusable templates using your voice.
- Auto-population: System learns from your previous contracts to pre-fill new ones.
- Voice-guided explanations: Get plain English explanations of legal clauses.
- Standard e-signature integration.

The main insight was that freelancers don't need enterprise features - they need something that saves time on repetitive contract work and helps understand what they're signing. The AI helps with both.

Looking for feedback from other freelancers/business owners.
What features would make this most useful for you?

Demo: https://x.com/merouanezouaid/status/1891623596423803311
Skimming this and thoroughly enjoying it, back in the mid to late 80s I worked in London's phototypesetting industry mostly serving ad agencies and others who needed high quality, quick turnaround type. I didn't work with Monotype, all Berthold, but it looks like they were all in a similar place.

Check out the Cold Type section on this page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthold_Type_Foundry#Cold_T... . What was fascinating about this is it wasn't laser produced type, it came from a serious of glass grids and prisms. Laser output at the time was awful and nowhere near production quality but this prism-based output could only scale from 4pt to 36pt(? or somewhere thereabouts). That said, because the type was photo perfect it could be put under a camera enlarger and blown up to over 96pt in the hands of a skilled operator.

More notable things, these machines couldn't set type on an angle so as you were composing you had to take into consideration giving the paste up artist enough dance room to work. Spell check? Nope.

The biggest one was it was all markup language and nobody really used visual rendering, you set it all in your head and sometimes you'd even get it right on the first try. There were visual rendering units but they were slow, inaccurate, and would _really_ slow you down in an industry where the faster you were the more money you made. This markup thinking made being creative with HTML tables a natural skill in '92 so it wasn't all for nothing.

The Mac finally got PageMaker, photo paper laser output became good enough, and the last Berthold machines I saw were Sun workstations where I got my first taste of Unix. Fancy expensive kit where the rendering was fast enough to be useful.
We haven't seen any evidence of this happening ever. It would be groundbreaking if true and OAI's pricing would then make sense.
Hah. While I am a native speaker, I am still American.

(Thanks. I was aware of this, but I still mess it up from time to time. Same for media/medium, though not nearly as much anymore.)
It says right there in the article, the DMV employee would go and pick the cars he wanted every so often. Which implies there were more cars that were under appraised and sold to other people, the DMV employee just picked some for himself every so often.

This payment was for looking the other way when the towing company would obviously try to under appraise a car.
I was confused because I saw a picture taken from the private moon lander and it was upright. Turns out two private moon landers recently landed and the first one was successful.
Yep I totally get it and would probably go the same route in Polars' situation. Just sharing how some of the data teams I'm familiar with would likely be thinking about the tradeoffs.
I thought databricks has serverless recently already? Or is it by the notebook, while this is by the job?
> a third party vouches

If the only porn requires this, then the third party has a record of every single person who wants to view porn.
Enhancing Small LMs for Graph Tasks Through Graph Encoder Integration
I saw the movie recently as well.

It’s the first time I’ve encountered any information about how a new pope is selected. Period.

As a not-dumb person, I realize it’s just a movie. But the basic premise of being cordoned off from the outside world, voting until someone is chosen, with the voting going on for days and signaled through smoke by burning the ballets - I assume that basic premise is at least mostly accurate?

Edit: Indeed, after some basic googling, the premise of the movie seems to line up with the basic premise of how a pope was selected centuries ago.
I’d much prefer el[‘show-popover’]()
Isn't Xilinx the origin of "AI NPU" in AMD Ryzen?
> Would you allow an 8 year old to wander New York City unattended?

Yes as long as they know to observe traffic and know how to use the subway.

Almost all child adductions are parental kidnappings. This "will nobody think of the children..." neurosis is just that, a neurosis.
I guess you just have more patience with internet search (I find hunting down a specific product on a variety of 3rd party sites far slower and more frustrating than Amazon's search), expensive and slow shipping, and the frustration of oftentimes entering your various details agaaaain into another retailer's online system.

It's odd to argue that, despite all of this relative challenges being pretty objective, you find this approach "as convenient".

(And I never said Amazon is cheaper, although as noted elsewhere, it's often very competitive.)
Traditional OCR's usually have detection + recognition pipeline. So they will detect every word and then try to predict the text for every word. Errors obviously can happen in both parts, eg some words not detected which will get missed from output. Or word recognized incorrectly which is also common and more comparable to hallucination. However give its trained to work only on a small patch, accuracy is often higher. Comparing this to VLM's, they are looking at entire image/context and auto-regressively generating tokens/text which can also have lot of language bias, hence hallicinations.
Covid-19 speeds up artery plaque growth, raising heart disease risk
> While the change is designed to make your photo library more private, it’s also breaking how digital photo frames — such as those made by Aura and Cozyla — automatically update slideshows on their devices.

> Last month, Google announced that Google Photos slideshows would soon be available as ambient displays or screensavers on more third-party devices. The feature is currently available on Google Nest displays and Google TVs.

Sounds like anti-competitive behavior with privacy as the scape goat, imho. A feature for 3rd parties stops working as Google is rolling out that same feature for their own products?
But this law doesn't stop kids from accessing porn. It just moves the problem?
Masters of None: The Flawed Logic of One-Size-Fits-All Education
I want to know who is spending $600 on a graphics card in 2025 and throwing it in a system old enough to not support UEFI.
> 2. Make sure your robotic lunar lander has a low center of gravity.

Also, make sure your robotic private spacecraft doesn't land on the edge of a crater. Or partly on a big rock. Or where a rock or ledge is high enough between the legs to reach the rest of the craft.
> Non-correlation = reduced volatility

If the volatility of each uncorrelated thing is high you may need to put together many more than 4-5 to bring it down.
Now, stuff like that spoon-feed with honey every conspiracy theorist that says/writes that we (humans) never actually went to the moon blah blah blah.

My thoughts about it is that.. 'hey we got tech to stream live the whole thing... from lift off to landing, with 10 cameras to each direction. I remember watching live the "Red Bull Stratos" and it was soooooooooo cool!!!!!! Why not to the moon???

How come we went to the moon 40-50 years ago, and then silence for decades? If anything technology is better/faster/safer. We should be going to the moon every year just to validate the parking ticket. And now you see we went from "flew there, landed, played golf, came back" to "oops we can't remote control land an box".
How does that third party know my birth year?

And the precision of one year is way too low.
Don't take it too hard. I've seen someone accused of using an LLM to write something because they correctly used an oxford comma. It's definitely the trap.
Coming from R, that introduces a different confusion problem as there, c() has a specific and common purpose. https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/base/versions/3.6.2/...
There is an important difference in the metaphor. Physical spaces don't have a user-agent. Therefore the space itself has to exclude minors because there is nothing else to do it.

The internet does have user agents, and for children the user agents are controlled by adults (and if the child has the cooperation of an adult, you already can't enforce age verification). So now you don't need anyone to prove their age in a way that has privacy implications and chilling effects because you can have the child's user agent notify the site that the user isn't an adult, rather than needing each adult having to prove who is. Which doesn't require any form of identification because it's just a flag the adult sets on the child's device. Therefore anything that does require identification is unnecessary and malicious.
The posting of a bunch of similar comments is the bit that makes it obviously abusive.
The new burning of books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burning
Show HN: VS Code Extension to Automate Copying Project Files for AI Tools
Hey HN,
I spent a lot of time copying and pasting files from my IDE to various AI providers for documentation and code analysis. So, I built an open source tool to make that process more seamless.

It's a simple VS Code extension called Code2Clipboard. It automatically copies your main project files to the clipboard, formatted like this:

// relative/path/to/file/1
{file_1_content}

// relative/path/to/file/2
{file_2_content}

It skips build and dist files, as well as any directories listed in your .gitignore. This helps keep things clean and relevant.

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The point of sitting on a stool is that you have to use your core strength to sit up straight, and using that core strength reduces all sorts of pain in back and neck.

I didn't start doing that (sitting on stools) till I had been meditating for a long time, so it wasn't that different than sitting on the floor in half lotus position, which I had extensive practice doing.

I've been doing it for >10 years now; I will confess that when I have a meeting in a meeting room with proper chairs, I do really enjoy the chair back. It's all about using your body in a variety of ways.
Yeah I don't believe it for a second. Even sama isn't that far up his own ass.
Rust inadequate for text compression codecs?
Peptides and the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance
So kids just memorize their parents' driving license when they don't pay attention, and this is bypassed, just like in the old days.
> Snarky response with no substance designed to prompt further interaction.

You are still displaying the problem behaviour despite having it clearly explained to you.
It is but it's mainly to not bite the hand that feeds. Microsoft doesn't want to keep this stuff around, their enterprise customers do.
Note to self: when doing HN demos, bulletproof your endpoints
A head start is a moat iff you can't move easily from the leader to a competitor that catches up qualitatively; nvidia’s headstart against AMD is a moat to the extent that you can't just take the software written against NVidia GPUs and run it on AMD if AMD catches up. (That is, being currently ahead isn't a moat, but it can impose switching costs which are.)

Taking code that runs against one hosted LLM and running it against a different backend LLM is... not generally a big deal. So OpenAI being ahead—in the core model, at least—is just being ahead, its not a moat.
Reminds me of the old movie Andromeda Strain.
I don't have eye strain but have great difficulty getting glasses that work for me. I have a -6 prescription and two out of my last three glasses have had horrible distortion around the edges.
The arrows in the picture specify the direction of twiddling. And the text says "see illustration".
I seriously do not understand why moon or mars landing structures aren’t some kind of dodecahedron.

It can always correct itself after landing and then “unpack” itself.

Someone tell me why we’re not doing this.
It’s a send up and mockery of American culture around their military. It is parody, quite mean parody (as is typical of Verhoeven), and it wasn’t well received at the time (in the US).

As an Australian, I laughed heartily, and considered it just deserts for that Simpsons episode. ;-)
>reversible computing's "gofrom" and "cometo".

wowza, oops, i mean, wow, sir.

you inspired me to respire more deeply.

from which comes an irreversible desire to learn, deeply, about deep learning.
The World Was Flat. Now It's Flattened
Android phones will run Debian Linux soon (like some Pixels can)
Cost. Those tutors don't come cheap. Moving from university for a tested elite to general access altered the money component and now, we achieve a lower peak for more people.

I was at the tail end of elitist education in the UK (79-82) and we complained about tutorials being two students at a time instead of one on one, and seminars with 10 of us. How little we knew of what was to come.
> Compare to games like Factorio and Helldivers 2. About 1% of the time I think “wait, am I the baddie?

I was really confused there for a second, before I remembered that there are native bug monsters in Factorio. I always play with the monsters disabled so the planet is empty.
Algebraic effects are a functional approach to manage side effects
There's an interesting new treatment, Miebo in the US, Evotears in other areas. It's basically a tear film reinforcer (pure PFAS!)

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

It's really eerie how moist it makes your eyes feel after even a few uses. I have definite reservations about instilling megadoses of PFAS directly into my eyes but there's no doubt that it is amazingly effective.
I don't see how it's possible for the open models to continue to get better without similar levels of extreme money expenditure on training hw. Someone is paying
Playing golf while bantering with your old boys network is going to be hard to automate :)
> we arrest people who have sex in public...

Live sex shows are illegal in most places in the US regardless of whether the audience is exclusively adults, so the motivation for these laws is apparently something other than preventing children from seeing them.
Ctrl+F administration
I was hoping for something more reproducible. Free work, I know.
Spot on. Current models all lack agency. I don't see how something can be AGI but have zero agency. If we can tame it, then it's not AGI.
Creating endless quantities of new accounts isn't a great way to demonstrate how he's the sockpuppet.
This goes back to a complaint in 2022 and as mentioned in the very first sentence of the article similar rulings have already taken effect in several countries. Not everything is about Trump.
goddamn. it was 250 METERS - not miles.
I think the fact that they are stupid is noteworthy. They demonstrated that pretty well just by this absurd flagging system.
Recognizing you have feelings isn't wrong. It's how you learn to control your actions and reason your response.
I assumed they do it for customers who pay them to determine their security profile.
I appreciate this logic might work for Ikea, but it doesn't make sense for most local shops: I'm not visiting them at all unless I'm >90% sure they have something I need.
It's even easier to produce a hobby OS targeting UEFI these days; less direct ASM required (maybe not any?), and the firmware can provide lots of things for you, assuming you're willing to stay in boot services mode. Browsing https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.10/index.html, I see console text mode, loadable modules, compression, networking... the list goes on.
"The cruelty is the point" is such a useful phrase.

When you govern by greed with dumb people instead of even vaguely altruistic if corrupt smart people inevitably dumb ideas float to the top. Tariffs, and seizing Greenland and giving up on western democratic ideals are par for the course: the one time a golfing analogy works is with a president who golfs more than presides.

He probably saw the word "rare" as meaning valuable in some sense other than useful and didn't listen to geologists who said rarity was a concept distinct from their name. What's really rare is sensible longterm strategic investment in rare earth supply chains outside of China. There are heaps of potential mines in the USA, and active projects in Australia but they're non competitive so without strategic impetus, nobody develops them.
> RISC architecture is going to change everything.

:p https://youtube.com/watch?v=yVo9_h3-zwQ
Asset is a weasel word.

You think Trump takes orders from Putin? He's too much an egotist, and he sent the Javalins to Ukreain when lots of the establishment thought it was a bad idea since the experts thought Putin wasn't mad enough to invade again. (Even if he took Kyiv in the time the US took Baghdad, the counterinsurgency to follow would / will break them).

Yeah, IMO Putin does think Trump is incompetent, easily manipulated, corrupt, and easily influenced by actual assets. Elon is similar, but rather than incompetent, he has aligned interests (Russia is a gas station, and Elon sells EVs, both want the price of gas to skyrocket and I suspect both think US global power basically exists to keep gas prices low).

I'm in shock that more people don't realise that Elon / Trump foreign policy is easily explained by Elon wanting higher gas prices, and Trump being easily manipulated.

There's no solid evidence Trump is secretly and knowingly working for Putin, that's just a cooker left-wing conspiracy theory IMO.
You aren't legally allowed to do that.

That's the point of a "copy right". That only one entity holds the legal right to make copies.
You guys across the pond still OK?
It doesn't support Macs yet
Some one needs to be handcuffed to the table to poke it with a stick when needed.
I don’t see anyone taking the position that you can’t cut a single job. Most of what I see is basically saying that should be a legal process and at the program level - like don’t randomly break GSA leases, say that next year you’re closing a particular program so you don’t tell people to go to the office which you closed or have an operating federal courthouse with no building staff (Phoenix, currently).
Okay, so it seems to be currently unavailable, maybe they haven't pushed the update yet. I only see Wifi-scanning and bluetooth
But here’s the problem. With the rise of social media and other apps, corporations are now trying to impose standardization on people.

That means you and me.

Everything we do, from dating via apps to getting a meal from DoorDash to communicating with friends on Facebook, must be handled in a uniform, standardized way. That’s because—yes, you guessed it—it’s more profitable that way.

This is how people get flattened.
Rural fields, like restrooms, are a designated place. If your horse defecates on the sidewalk in the city you're expected to clean it up.
b-b-but ... does Perl support Sanskrit? if not, I hope at least Raku does.

with its grammar feature, it well might, or might as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_(programming_language)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit
My copy of "things fall apart" in middle school had the title, "things fall apart" printed on the spine of the book under where the cover should be.

30 years later, still sticks with me.