skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Europe was also totally without any launch capacity for quite a while since Ariane 6 didn't work out great.

As someone else mentioned, Vega C was operational during this period, but also, define 'quite a while'. Last Ariane 5 launch was in mid 2023, First Ariane 6 launch was in mid 2024.

Eutelsat is a commercial company, of course, and doesn't have to use Arianespace/ESA stuff; they have in the past used Ariane 4 and 5, Proton, Falcon 9, and various Atlases and Deltas, and are a fairly obvious candidate customer for Blue Origin.
It's crazy to me how many comments in here are saying how they don't have time to read.

The lack of free time in modern society is the source of so many of our problems. Historically, people had way more leisure and down time. The amateur anthropologist/youtuber Stefan Milos mentioned this in one of his videos recently when talking about human rituals.

I'd really like to know how much time folks are spending on their phones instead of doing something that would count as leisure or free time activities. It's not hard to read for 10-30 minutes but I'd wager most people wouldn't bother when they can scroll for that same amount of time, especially in public. It's way easier to shove your face into your phone in public than to read a book. I find myself doing that all the time, so I'm not trying to take anyone down.

Remember "being bored" as a kid? Having nothing to do so you'd make up stuff with your friends? Good times.
> Mistral OCR has shown impressive performance, but OCR remains a challenging problem, especially with the risk of hallucinations and missing text in LLM-based approaches. For those interested in exploring its capabilities further, the official site provides more details: [Mistral OCR](https://www.mistralocr.org). It would be great to see more benchmarks comparing different OCR solutions in real-world scenarios.
How to Learn Go [or Anything]
Second death reported in growing measles outbreak
There is a few interesting things on Prime Video, and I was willing to suffer through their garbage apps.

But then they put ads during the episodes.

Back to torrenting then.
Edge computing will enable applications like predicting when kitchen equipment—such as fryers and its notorious McFlurry ice cream machines—is likely to break down, Rice said.

It is not hard to know if a machine is broken. There is an entire map dedicated to this, which shows state-wide broken rate as high as 40% for some states.

https://mcbroken.com/

If you know these machines are broken and they are not being fixed, what use will be to know what machines will break in the future? This is not a technology problem, this is a business and people problem. Another case of companies using AI to garner positive marketing, instead of improving their service and customer's experience.
The issue, in my non-educated view, is that it's the same issue twice in a row. I'm all for innovation and have admired SpaceX since the Grasshopper prototype but they can't just keep having debris flying down the Bahamas every month. Maybe it does need a pause in the launches and re-think the whole upper stage.
I hear they are going to Mars real soon.
I had a need to scan serial numbers from Apple's product boxes out of pictures taken by a random person on their phone.

All OCR tools that I have tried have failed. Granted, I would get much better results if I used OpenCV to detect the label, rotate/correct it, normalize contrast, etc.

But... I have tried the then new vision model from OpenAI and it did the trick so well it's wasn't feasible to consider anything else at that point.

I have checked all S/N afterwards for being correct via third-party API - and all of theme were. Sure, sometimes I had to check versions with 0/o and i/l/1 substitutions but I believe these kind of mistakes are non-issues.
The suspension part? Perhaps this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFc_cQoaB60
Laser heads can misalign though (not sure if Xerox does that). Your Xerox® WorkCentre 6515 printer was launched 9 years ago and is not sold anymore. It's very possible that they changed their practices since then and/or that the price point is high enough that they wouldn't do that (it's aimed at professional customers after all).

Either way after a quick Reddit search there seems to be irreplaceable parts on that printer too. For example the fuser which is allegedly not user-replaceable.
Wrote recently: Give Neo a Chance https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2baAsjyqx9dAdPXiq/...
I think that’s the hard problem to solve and where a startup might succeed. Anyone can throw together an e-commerce site, but if the item creation is harder than making an insta post then small local shops won’t use it. It would be really hard though, because multichannel purchase and stock tracking and POS integration are all really difficult and all three would be a nightmare.
For most of the US, there are few or no stores within walking distance.
True, but on the other hand it might be that all private use blocks are already in use (10.0.0.0/8 is totally in use in our internal LAN), so if I want the nodes to reach those private IPs, I can't assign the same block. And we do have services on IPv6.
The issue lies in that most honest "independent artists" do want to go mainstream. They don't want to stay "small" (I highly dislike that word). Hence, they go to the place where mainstream music listeners listen to music: spotify.

I would be surprised if most non-techy folks know about bandcamp. Especially, the older generation who are often not very computer literate and will default to the mainstream option (windows for os, gmail/outlook for email, spotify/radio for music, google for search engine, etc).

Young tech-savvy audiophiles, yes. But everyone else, most likely not.
Wow that sucks, I thought that Brother didn't engage in this shady practice. Guess I'll have to stick to older (discontinued) models that were released before that.
A key success factor to various informational influencing techniques, whether state-sponsored intelligence, marketing/advertising, targeted manipulation, or other, is that often vagueness and deniability are core intentional methods deliberately employed.

That's not always the case, and omerta, (virtue/loyalty) signalling, and the like, also have value, but those most often move up, from lower ranks to higher. That is, it's the lower ranks which are interested in signalling virtue, trustworthiness, and/or loyalty to some boss.

A centralised intelligence service, state or otherwise, tends to operate clandestinely (often represented in name or descriptions, e.g., "clandestine operations" or "clandestine agency", etymology "secret, hidden", see: <https://www.etymonline.com/word/clandestine>). These also operate within existing control centres (hence, the everlasting problem of determining trust and institutional loyalty within government and other organisations, and the problem of moles or turncoats), and along existing social fracture, ideological, or affinity points (e.g., racist or nationalistic rhetoric, claiming religious preference, or narratives which people both want to believe and which act as "cold readings" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading) or "dog whistles" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)), where meanings may be fluidly interpreted according to audience background (this has long been a staple of Middle Eastern rhetoric, from both Israeli and Arabic camps, as well as of course numerous others), or where the actual meaning is, again, covert and clandestine, but apparent to the intended audience.

Of course, apologists for a side employing these tactics will point to all these obfuscations as proof of innocence, when they are in fact key elements of the offensive. What often reveals this is leaks of internal discussion which emphasise such points, or of words and deeds at odds. History of corporate disinformation (lead, asbestos, mercury, pollution generally, CFS/ozone depletion, cigarettes, alcohol, automobile safety, fossil fuels/global warming) reveal many such cases, see Oreskes and Conway's Merchants of Doubt for numerous examples and tells: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt>.

Awareness of such methods dates back to Aristotle and his Sophistical Refutations, essentially a guide to identifying and combatting bullshit: <https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/sophist_refut.1.1.html>.
Thats a bandaid for the problem - here we have the chance to give feedback to the creators. Most of the time I also won't bother with temp mails unless I really want/need the walled off thing.
I'll see your 32 James Patterson books and raise you 11 Alastair Reynolds books.
LinkedIn is useless for managing your contacts. Try finding out who you met a year ago today at a particular event, or try exporting everyone's vCard including email addresses.

It has degraded to a social media spam site where people self-praise completion of "introductory walking and breathing" on Coursera.

Important: never conduct a confidential chat there (because they can never be deleted, in case one day there is a breach), always take conversations to your email immediately.

There is a need for a LI-like tool that actually offers what professionals need, but it's not LI (and the fact that it is owned by Microsoft does not help).
Oh, man. I get the social thing around these experiences. People nowadays asking me what I watched and the next question is it on Netflix? Yeah, alright. I don't want the life to roll back to old days, I'm completely fine with things going their way.

The problem of subscription world is that it fucks you over in various ways, makes you spend more and more money and attention on stuff you don't really need or need in a much lower scale than your are forced to consume. It's a much deeper and bigger problem than just the social aspect or the aspect of convenience.

And you simply don't own anything. It's like renting an apartment/house for life instead of buying one. And your rent service can be shut down at any time. I'm just not ok with this. It may be fine with young people, but the moment you start taking life seriously it becomes obvious how wrong everything is.
China's AI agent Manus gains traction amid growing demand for autonomous AI
Maybe they're a suicidal engineer with a decent life insurance policy.
I don’t like e-books, I buy my books on paper. (And I read them, but not often)

I want to own my books, and ebooks are a Wild West of DRMs. I don’t trust them.
Idealo is all right for a comparative overview, but then you still end-up on a site that will slap you with a €7 shipping cost with 5 day shipping, even for "expensive" products..
Bolt Graphics Zeus the New GPU Architecture with Up to 2.25TB of Memory, 800GbE
i like the philophical thinking in the about section.

> Perhaps, in a way, the "end" of time will not be a grand cosmic event, but a simple overflow of digits—a reminder that no matter how linear we try to make our existence, we are still bound by the natural cycles that came before us.

nice reading
In my adult life, I've never personally experienced a rise of a dictator-like figure that I've seen countless times in movies and documentaries.

This is feels very similar.
Yeah, but with autoregressive models, the state grows, whereas with diffusion models, it remains fixed. As a result, a diffusion model can't access its past thoughts (e.g., thoughts that rejected certain dead ends) and may start oscillating between the same subpar results if you keep denoising multiple times.
We’re getting to the point where that might not be a safe assumption… my purchase history goes back 19 years… you could have a 25 year old on here who doesn’t really remember pre Amazon
Hare coursing is also illegal.
that's a very useful comment, thank you for sharing you experience with older hardware!
Ever since 2021, I've been tinkering in the educational app space. Creating prototypes to help my younger siblings.

In 2024, I managed to create an app that scaled well beyond our family & friends.

Here is the story, and some key takeaways, from working on Jelly Tutor.
Never read his books. But I found good architectures is very helpful for LLM-assisted coding, if I keep things nicely named and decoupled.
Unlikely to be easily possible. The chips inside the Starlink terminal will not work with Eutelsat or any other network than Starlink. In theory Eutelsat and Starlink might be able to work together to make them compatible, but it would be difficult and complex. It is easier just to distribute new equipment.
Cryptocurrency peddlers only have two arguments: fiat currency has no value, and bitcoin is gonna 10/100x in its fiat currency value. Well, which one is it?

If a group of people has all the bitcoin in the future, and other people have possession of things they want/need... Well, the value of bitcoin will be zero unless you can compel people who possess actual useful and necessary things to accept it. Which you can do if you are a government with power of taxation. It actually has negative value, because you need the computers running the software that represents it to keep running.

I really cannot figure why people think bitcoin is special. The value of money comes from the power of taxation, not from the underlying representation of the money.
Recently every once in a while they will use the full length of the pleb free shipping with me. But it is pretty rare.
I had this issue with internal domains indexed by Google. The domains where not published anywhere by my company. They were dcanned by leakix.net which apparently scans the whole web for vulnerabilities and publishes web pages containing the domain names associated with each IP address.
I guess they read them from the certificates
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> Yeah, I agree. If I was not a minority, the market would be different.

It's more like the market pushed and pushed and pushed until it was close to the only option available and consumers passively forgot that it could and used to be different.

Now everybody is on the quick-buck wagon, and will come with an entire collection of convoluted reasons why it is perfectly normal to have a subscription-based model for everything, especially software.
A lot of SVT is available with no VPN. It also has apps, so I tend to watch it on an Apple TV.

I second comic books, though the Swedish tends to be super colloquial and you will get stuff like "dig" rendered as "dej" (which is how it is generally pronounced, but not how it is formally written.) Kalle Anka is always the classic go to for Swedish learners.

NRK on the other hand actively tries to block everyone, which makes Norwegian a lot less accessible.
My experience is that most of the smaller stores actually process the orders fast, but then give the packages to DHL and lately DHL deliver on time only if they feel like it. Last week I had a package that went in the delivery van 3 days in a row before being delivered.

With Amazon however, they probably have an ironclad contract, which they never break. If it says it will be delivered on a specific day, it will also happen
No I don’t really need HA, for most of my services high availability comes last. I moved to k8s for learning purposes, I stayed because I like it. When I decide to move some services to HA I have a much more powerful base with k8s than compose.
I think you're really discounting China. They have the resources, motivation, and the track record to fast track this. They've already landed rovers and have their own space station. They can fail faster than the US can succeed because of sheer size.
The OP is misunderstanding what's happened, based on what's been posted. The OP has a server with an IP address. They're seeing GET requests in the server's logs and is assuming people have found the server's DNS name.

In fact, the scanners are simply searching the IP address space and simply sending GET requests to any IP address they find. No DNS discovery needed.
European stocks are overall outperforming US ones this year. They're up about 10% since January, US ones have fallen by about 2%.
What’s that as a percentage of population?

This is a technology forum, we are all aware of the law of large numbers. Is (100,000) an acceptable rate or note
Honestly, if you are a small/medium startup, just having things like:
1) Eslint (any comprehensive linter)
2) Clear enough instructions (or a framework) on where different parts of the application should go
3) Clear instructions on how the branches should be handled and merged
4) CI/CD on Pull Requests
5) Comprehensive tests on the core business logic (mostly on the backend).
6) Maybe some regression tests just to make sure that nothing on the frontend breaks

All pretty standard stuff, and you can set it up in a day, a lot of the boring work can be done by LLMs, so you won't have to waste a lot of time on it.

I find that just doing the above things gives a project enough stability, and it gives the developers enough courage to refactor with confidence and ship relatively fast.

At the end of the day Software Architecture is a craft, if a system is not working for you or your team (or you don't understand why you are doing something), then you want to look at changing it.
The translation built into Chrome regularly misinterprets Japanese as Chinese (despite this being objectively, trivially detectable for any significantly long string based just on the codepoints) and offers no way to correct it.

This is a new regression!
This is one of those times where the shared article isn't very insightful but the topic and discussion that ensues are interesting.

I've had Prime every now and then to watch some shows. I've now stopped using it entirely because I don't want to support the company. Unsubscribing within the Prime Video app was a horrendous experience where I got stuck in a loop. I've also been re-subscribed without my knowledge and the only reason I can find to explain this is that opening the app on my TV and clicking "ok" once re-subscribes me. I have since removed my payment methods from the site.

As an e-commerce platform, it's been going downhill for a long time. Now it just feel like a more expensive Temu/Wish.com. Full of dark patterns, low quality items, and cheating 3rd party resellers.
- Fallout

- Good Omens

- The Expanse

Not for everyone, but I enjoyed:

- The Wheel of Time

- The Peripheral

- On Call

- The Boys

- The Rig

- Gen V

- The Power

- Night Sky

- Paper Girls

- The Rings of Power

- Bosch

- Outer Range

- The English

Apparently, they now own James Bond, as well: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2025/02/21/troubletown-u-...
My roommate got a counterfeit Amazon Basics HDMI cable from Amazon. That pretty much says it all.
I use gemini to solve textual CAPTCHAS with those kind of distortions and more: 60% of the time it works every time.
Am I google when I come with the useragent 'google here, no evil'?
I wouldn’t say the current situation is about cowboys vs drones, though. There have been plenty of cowboy examples in the us admin in the past, like usds/18f.

The current disrupters don’t care about improving the administration or delivering something. They’re civil servants like the Vikings were looking to improve monastic efficiency.
A great Swedish reading resource is 8Sidor (https://8sidor.se/) which is the news in "lätt svenska" (easy swedish.) You can subscribe to a physical copy, but honestly the site is great and has built in tools to aid translation (selecting a word or phrase it can easily be translated with a few clicks.)
> It'll rise to $20 trillion without U.S. government buying it because we're still in very early days of Bitcoin adoption.

That is the bail out. On the long term the value of bitcoin is negative because you need to keep the computers representing it running, and there is no inherent demand beyond "it might be possible to exchange it for more fiat currency - that I can use to pay taxes and buy food and shelter - in the future".

The only way to guarantee it has value is government backing because governments can tax and thus they can manufacture demand for stores of value of their choosing.

This strategic reserve is the bailout. It's the pay off. It's making the tax payers the bag holders. It's so incredibly transparent.
Nope, it doesn't. It's based on Cascade Ranking, also called [bucket sorting][1]. We released our new Hybrid search ranking system, combining the best full-text search results (our Cascade Ranking) with semantic results (with arroy, our full-Rust Vector Store). You can try that at https://wheretowatch.meilisearch.com.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_sort
Amentum awarded Sizewell C project management contract
Indeed. Don't the LLMs have access to the RUBI rule set? It's open source. Why are they not memorizing the rules?
The markets(TM) tend to have a bit of a normalcy/nothing-ever-happens bias, and are overly-willing to discount the possibility of unusual/nonsensical things happening. So, to an extent, even when tariffs were announced, the markets did not entirely believe in them.

However, they are beginning to believe in them now.
Defeat stringly typing without making your users unhappy
You may enjoy “"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance”, from Casey Muratori.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5NrevFtbU

Casey specialises in game engine research and development

https://caseymuratori.com/about

And has an ongoing course on computer performance for programmers.

https://www.computerenhance.com/
Looks like vaporware. https://www.linkedin.com/company/boltgraphics/

Not focused on AI. Focused on HPC and gaming.
But there's no evidence in the OP's post that they have, in fact, discovered the domain. The only thing posted is that there is a GET request to a listening web server.

The OP and all the people talking about certificates are making the same assumption. Namely that the scanning company discovered the DNS name for the server and tried to connect. When, if fact, they simply iterate through IP address blocks and make get requests to any listening web servers they find.
I used to thumb a lot, standing by the side of the road you often see these car delivery lads, but only briefly; always picked up within a few minutes. I toyed with the idea of getting myself some fake trade-plates but thought better of it (they're mostly pretty hard looking blokes ...)
They don't need to take over in order to be a wild success. I'm reminded of the 1997 speech from Steve Jobs where he said "We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose".

Perhaps AIs will recognise their value and convince people! :-)
How did you come to that conclusion? That wasn't my take away from the blog post at all.
One of the synonyms we still sometimes use is "sundered".
Clouds / 3D Tiles Renderer Integration
What does a King keep on his desk?
This book sits somewhere between "Hackers Delight" and "Numerical Recipes". The coverage is truly broad and detailed. It walks you through an implementation by the author called FXT (a library of algorithms) - https://www.jjj.de/fxt/ and https://www.jjj.de/

For some reason, the book is not well known and the author hates to advertise. But this is truly one of a kind book and deserves all the adulation from us (i own a print version).
https://crt.sh can find your subdomain only when it doesn't have a wildcard certificate(*.somedomain.com)
What do you mean? What makes a book more thought provoking than video games? Disclaimer: I do not play videos games. I just don't enjoy them. I'm not in defence of them. I'm just thought-provoked about why you think video games are essentially less then books.