skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “New control laws were required for this transition maneuver to work seamlessly and efficiently.”

Coooool.

I just saw one of the first tiltwing VTOL prototype planes the other day from the early/mid 60s. It seems it didn’t get any commercial takers as it was too new/untested.

A Canadair CL-84 “Dynavert” is on display at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-84_Dynavert

https://ingenium.ca/aviation/en/collection-highlight/canadai...
My comment did not express any opinion as to whether this was or was not a surveillance van, and this has no bearing on the proposed alternatives being a false dichotomy.
Man, when I thought I couldn't like this dude any more for his writing... What a fabulous drongo.
The linked article does not mention Amazon S3 or AWS

Is there a different source for the "open S3 bucket" in HN title?
If this succeeds, it won't be rare any more.
As a person who don’t work often on python code but occasionally need to run server or tool I find UV blessing.
Before that I would beg people to help me just not to figure out what combination of obscure python tools I need. Now doing “uv run server.py” usually works.
>Now it feels like thanks to Google money they have become fat and lazy. Unable to take risks

I think Google has that problem too.
Could you give some detail on things you've found that still don't work as described?
I am a regular on HN and I disagree. So, do we cancel each other out?
Queued it at my local library and already there is a huge queue. Hopefully will be able to read it this year
i believe there is a type checker branch on ruff git
Pieces of shit. And then they assign you a score for each travel, as if you are really "carpooling" when in reality is a shitty taxi replacement (not that taxis are on a moral high ground, but the point still stands).
frankly the only pain point i have working with uv is that it's too new for the LLMs to know about it
I’ve worked at some very large networks.

In a pinch and when on a call, it’s always Microsoft paint.
>> Will we still have just three operating systems to choose from - of which only two are really suitable for a worker's desktop?

Such an intriguing statement. Firstly there are at least 5 major operating systems in play (windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS and Android. ) Plus a lot of "minor" ones (BSD etc), and any number of tiny ones.

But assuming he meant mainstream desktop machines, let's focus on Windows, Mac and Linux. I can only assume the "not suitable for workers desktop " means Linux. Now lots of techies use Linux for desktop, and there are lots who say it could be used as a general desktop, but it hasn't gained much traction there.

Linux of course reigns on the server, with Windows Server also strong.

Indeed you see this "choice of 2" (with sometimes a distant 3rd) in pretty much all hardware spaces. iOS and Android. Windows and Mac. Windows and Linux. PS5 and Xbox.

Notice how it starts first with the function - what the machine is designed to do. Then the mainstream coaleses around 2 players. But often with other minor alternatives.

This approach works well. We don't need 5 desktop OSs to choose from. Or 5 servers. Or 5 tablets.
In California they were shutting the water off from houses where people had parties during lockdowns. Governments absolutely will abuse their powers and should never be trusted.
Please obtain one of each, and do a teardown to confirm ;-)
Better native standards could mean ant.design updates their components to use less js with the same ux. So everyone still wins.
People with large holdings are required to file with the SEC and you can search those records online going back to the mid 1980s.

Someone could download a dump of the whole thing (the SEC has a link and updates it every night) and assemble all of the various documents in a way to get a decent estimate.

An example Form 4 (which will show cost basis of acquisitions):

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581025...

An example Form 144 (which would give you a pretty good guess as to which shares are being sold; you can then correlate with a known Form 4):

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000192109425...
First not my guy. I'm not left enough to vote for Trump. Second I can both flag and comment as I did here.
For what it's worth, I didn't notice a difference between my distro-provided Python 3.12 and the one I built from source - and enabling profile-guided optimization made only a slight difference. I haven't tested with the precompiled versions uv uses, so they could be slower for some reason, but I doubt it. On the other hand, my hardware is rather old, so maybe newer machines allow for significant optimizations that the system version wouldn't have. But I still kinda doubt it.

If performance is important to you, the ancient advice to profile bottlenecks and implement important parts in C where you can, still applies. Or you can try other implementation like PyPy.
That's not a bad thing. That's probably how it is suppose to work.
Hope they can offer this to robot vacuums with arms. Tidying up right now before vacuuming is a huge chore (kids stuff).

Fuck it, make the arms big enough and it can do laundry, load/unload dishwasher, clean up after cooking/eating.

I can finally see this happening. Probably Tesla first tho.
> Yes, if your country can keep the private interests and capitalists under control.

how come in your scenario, the state can do no wrong then?
HIPAA doesn't care about your POS TOS. It either applies or does not.

That said, it's both less broad and more toothless than I'd like. If FB convinces you to install a tracking pixel (like button) stealing your private medical data, they likely haven't violated any laws. At most you'd be able to file a claim against the person who created the leak.

Not a lawyer and all that, but for TFA I don't think HIPAA would be a valid way to try to limit your losses. It's a bit closer to what would happen if you (a doctor) uploaded patient data to Google Drive and then somehow leaked that information (one of Google's contractors disclosing it, a hack, whatever). Nothing about ESHYFT's offerings requires or would be benefited by the data HIPAA protects, and (ignoring incompetence and other factors) I'd be as surprised to see my health data leaked there as I would to see a YT video going over my last lab reports because of some hospital's actions.

They could still be liable for all sorts of other damages (and maybe somebody can convince a court of a HIPAA violation), but it's not an easy HIPAA win.
Just make a new profile like all chromium based browser
> I don't even know how to debate with them, because we seem to live on entirely different conceptual planets.

Typically the process is to exercise empathy, look into their world, see what it is like and then check for any logical problems or general weaknesses. If you want to debate with someone persuasively you have to meet them where they are.
Always. Always the open bucket.
Is it called Zinc because zinc doesn’t easily corrode ;)?
I guess it's the usual lifecycle most organizations go through, and generous funding has accelerated the process. The only upside is that, in theory, anyone could fork Firefox and continue development within a healthier structure. It's a critical project for the Internet. Hopefully, Ladybird will be viable soon, adding a bit of redundancy. Else, we risk becoming a Chrome monoculture.
Please, it's every 4 years.
> The videos aren’t always historically accurate to the last detail

Boy is that overselling it. And you don't really need to, this is cool even though there's a ton of AI jank.
EV’s catch fire at a far lower rate than gas vehicles.
Love it.

For a different sort of person, but there's some rather old efforts to expose Kubernetes & Etcd under FUSE , which would also be neat direct access. https://github.com/opencredo/KubeFuse https://github.com/cstavr/etcdfs

And since I was curious, there's also a spreadsheet to FUSE too, https://github.com/mk270/xls-fuse

As far as I know, the only 3d representation of Kubernetes is KubeDoom, https://github.com/storax/kubedoom
It really is interesting to see this point of view. Are apologies admissions of guilt in your family/hometown? Do you think it was in the United States' interest to destroy the embassy of a non-belligerent in that war?
intransigent minority

"The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority"

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
I am not calling anyone out - just pointing out this rule exists. I am pretty confused about this rule for what it’s worth. I feel like a lot of content I see on HN is political or ideological at a basic level - like articles about Trump or Ukraine or DOGE or whatever, which are everywhere since January. So if the discussion is “allowed” (like not flagged), I am not sure how to contribute to those discussions without being political or ideological myself. Maybe the rule exists because these discussions can easily become unhealthy - like aggressive comments, downvotes, etc.
> Permissive licenses sometimes allow sublicensing, which allows changing of the license, and does not require source code be made available when changes made.

If I own the code, I can redistribute that code under a non-GPL license any time I want to (or not release changes at all). The GPL license that I grant to you on my code only affects what YOU can do with it. Consider the common practice of dual-licensed GPL code (a very common strategy for FOSS libraries to extort license fees).

And yes, an MIT license permits sub-licensing. Which is a good thing. (So does GPL). Maybe that word doesn't mean what you think it means. Perhaps you meant re-licensing.

> What happens when a company decides to add their own secret sauce

Then you use the old code without the secret sauce.

> what happens tons of slightly incompatible, closed source variants pop-up,

The same thing that happens when tons of slightly incompatible GPL-licensed variants pop up.

> What happens when upstream decides not to release future version's source code.

GPL does't help with that either.

> We have seen it all

To be perfectly honest, coming to Linux world, I find the various creative strategies to extort license fees for GPL code to be extremely distasteful. Off the top of my head: Juce: three dozen dual-GPL- and GPL-incompatible (not-for commercial use without paid license) libraries and tools with no upfront documentation on which libraries and tools are distributed under which license. You have to download them one by one to find out which license they are distributed under. Ubuntu: withholds (currently) 21 security fixes unless you pay for a license! Reaper, which is GPL-licensed, but demands that you purchase a license when you run it; sources are available but are impossible to build. GPL libraries that require use of non-GPL services in the cloud. Seems much more like a dystopia to me.

All I want is for people to be able to use my code. For whatever. And I am grateful to those who have provide code that I use under equally generous terms. And not at all impressed by somebody who added four hundred lines of code to a huge MIT-licensed library, and licensed them under a GPL license. (It took me less time to rewrite from scratch than I spent trying to get a fix pulled into the GPL project).
I love the company's mission statement:

"Replacing YAML with spreadsheets has always been our mission as a company, and we will continue to do so."
Just wanted to say that Gemini 1.5-Pro is still the SOTA foundational model for certain languages (including non-Google models), so it's disappointing to have received the email that it will be removed in September - it will cause our product quality to go backwards when we're forced to replace it by a worse model. Unless a better one appears in that time, but we've extensively tested all big models and for the languages in question, none of them perform on the same level.

Happy to elaborate if there's a way to get in touch, in case the team isn't aware of this.
To offer a non-AI alternative but a similar game concept, I highly recommend TimeGuesser: https://timeguessr.com/.

You are shown historical photos (from the past 100 years, even up to the past year) and need to guess the location on a map and the year of the image. Extremely fun and varied gameplay because of the varied events the photos capture (some mundane while others more recognizable).
Others have mentioned bookshop. Why do you prefer it?
engines are expensive, processors are cheap. and as revamp and degerret pointed out the hardware is a lossleader for the appstore

here's a nickel to buy a real computer, as they say
Setting aside the fact that the leaks you're referring to are over a decade old at this point, they also established that GCHQ buffered the entirety of the UK's internet traffic for 72 hours, bit for bit.

If you think there's no collection on e-mail, rather than just legal shell games being played with terminology and various compartments, then I've got a bridge to sell you.

In fact, the bridge is made of metadata and nothing else.
I dunno, I tried making an example pod definition in a spreadsheet just to see what it looks like. It isn't better or more readable as everything is indented too much.
No, he’s from Malaysia and not from Taiwan
To me, peak usability was 25 years ago, when most applications had a toolbar and a menu that followed a standard pattern. If you're a frequent, non-power-user, you use the toolbar (e.g. "insert row" button). If you're an infrequent non-power-user, you go through the menu (Insert > Row Above). If you're a power user, you remember the shortcuts indicated through underlined letters in menu labels (e.g. Alt, I, A).

If you want to change settings, you open the settings dialog (Tools > Settings), and it as tabs like "General", "Fonts and colors" etc.

Most people were a lot less computer literate back then, but they were able to use most applications with little help. If they really needed help, the help system was built into the application.

The goal back then was to have the user get the work done as efficiently as possible, in effect, minimizing the time the user pends on the application. Modern UX doctrine aims for the opposite goal -- to keep people "engaged" as much as possible. This might be okay for consumer apps, but maddeningly, the same doctrine gets applied to enterprise applications as well. I've literally heard non-techie employees of a Fortune 100 company ask for their legacy green screen terminals back because the new, flashy SPA was slowing them down.
They were expressing their own opinion, that's not an assumption. The relevance of opinion to nonprofit organizations is mediated through donation or other forms of support.
Conversely, makes me think my IT truck with all its network cables and racks, needs a toilet.
Show HN: Making a Minecraft Server with NixOS on EC2
Why? Mostly because I wanted to do something fun, cost effective, and learn a bit about NixOS along the way.

So first of all, the friend group... We like to play boardgames together, and we wanted to take the gaming online, because we cannot meet that often. We agreed on MineCraft as the most accessible for everyone because it requires a single-time purchase and a computer. Hooray, getting them to agree on something is difficult.

Now, no one wanted to pay for the MineCraft monthly fee to get one of the Microsoft MineCraft servers. Somewhat reasonably, as we might spend 8 hours playing one day and then go 3 months without launching the game. So I told them: don't worry, I got it.

That's as far as the friend group is involved, the rest is implementation details.

Now, I needed my solution, and I wanted to use NixOS. Why? Because it is a declarative way of configuring an entire Linux machine, and I like that because I am silly-brained and forget everything that I type into the terminal. Therefore having all the config persisted as code is great, and if I accidentally nuke the machine, it's just a few commands to have an equivalent machine up and running. Am I over-engineering? Most certainly. But hey! This also means that the code may serve as a template so that other people deploy the thing themselves. So, to me, this is the vibes of "Infra-as-Code" combined with the vibes of configuring a Linux machine.

Cool, what's next? The hosting provider, right. So I chose AWS EC2 for no particular reason other than I am familiar with it, and also that AWS has an API to start and stop the EC2 instances. Efficiency! (Apparently other hosting services like Hetzner and Linode do not offer a similar API to reduce costs, but feel free to correct me here). This way, the EC2 server is running only as long as people are actually playing, so my bill can be like 2 dollars for an active month as we don't play that much. By this point you sort of get the idea, if you want all the gritty implementation details you may check the full blog post here:

https://bloggeroo.dev/articles/202402292320

In the end, I added my friends to a Discord server, they run a command like `/turn on server`, a Discord bot answers: `The server is available at IP address 123`, and we go explore some caves for 4 hours just to lose all our gear at the end. Hooray!

One spicy detail is that I did this from my MacOS, which was a bit of a challenge because a local NixOS is required to deploy the NixOS on EC2 (I used Docker). So, if you read the whole thing: thanks and have fun!

If you find this particularly useful, I am keen to know why in order to inform myself for future topics. Thnx:)
The project is super active with lots of contributors as well. This thing is going take over!

(joking in case people didn't look - 2 commits 5 years ago)
I was off by little both in time as in space. But when I was about to drag the map it triggered the go back on my Android phone (gestures). Maybe prevent default to avoid that?
Yea, usually the stack ulimit is only a few KiB for non-root processes by default on linux.

It is easy enough to increase, but it does add friction to using the software as it violates the default stack size limit on most linux installs. Not even sure why stack ulimit is a thing anymore, who cares if the data is on the stack vs the heap?
I have a different approach. I look for a theme on Theme Forrest which has most of the layouts and components I think I'll need and I lean on those VERY heavily. And for logos I use icons from Font Awesome or Bootstrap.

Most of the time the project doesn't take off and when it does I can hire a designer.

Some examples of both a theme based app using an icon as the logo :).

[1] https://getpreppy.app

[2] https://withlattice.com
So glad you pointed this out. people are numb to these sort of news now a days.

Reminds me of George Carlins words, “ It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got.”
At scale, the corner cases don't really matter. In aggregate, if it's decently well correlated and readily available, it's probably going to be used.

I can't find it now, but I believe LexisNexis or another large similar reporting/data agency had a product catalog of dozens of products that spit out values for ability to pay, disposable income monthly, annual income, etc.

It makes you feel awful thinking about the direction things are headed. Corporations approaching omniscient regarding all facts of our lives that are reasonably of value to them.
It's a game, for Dreamcast. Certified classic. Amazing technical demo for the time. Redefined what games could be. The Yakuza games would not exist without it and are generally considered it's spiritual successors.

Shenmue was one of the first 3D games where realistic human characters had details like individually movable fingers. It was a very big deal for the year it came out.
High accuracy is the goal! But the multimodal approach introduces some complexities that can impact real-world performance. We break it down in our review: https://undatas.io/blog/posts/in-depth-review-of-mistral-ocr...
As for use cases, it really depends on how well it handles edge cases…
I called and asked them if they were NSA. Very nice lady explained "No, trust me, we're definitely just NPS" (j/k).

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/national-plant-services-inc_e...
Commercial art? No, can't be art. Illustrations? Only if unpublished during the artist's lifetime. Commissions? Certainly not. Political art? No, just no. Religious art? Are you kidding me?!

Any arbiter of the arts will find that these handy guidelines readily facilitate the elimination and/or downsizing of unnecessary galleries and other non-art collections.
> Mark targeted the EFF, not a news outlet, in contrast.

"Mark not only saw how it works, he had the documents to prove it.
He brought us over a hundred pages of authenticated AT&T schematic diagrams and tables.
Mark also shared this information with major media outlets, numerous Congressional staffers, and at least two senators personally."
> UBI will not increase supply or decrease demand

Actually, I contend that it can increase supply of "housing sufficiently near sufficient income" by improving some marginal (existing or potential) housing.

Many devils in the details, of course.
Are we pretending that there are still functional regulatory agencies that are able to take action over this?
I have had an interest in building a mechanical computer for a long time. It has not ever gotten farther that some research into what route to take. There are lots and lots of simple logic mechanisms (many, many in use in real world applications). It can go as far and be as capable as you have time for.
The first game is set in Yokosuka, Japan, which has its latitude at 35deg north. The second game is set in Hong Kong, which has its latitude at 22deg north. It seems like whoever coded this data into the games may have swapped them.
> I'd not heard of pyenv or uv until this thread (or maybe I've touched pyenv and got it confused with one of the 7 other tools I mentioned)

I must have seen at least a dozen threads here about uv since joining half a year ago. But maybe that's because I actively look for Python discussion (and I'm probably just generally more active here).

I wish I'd paid more attention a few years ago and thought about the packaging problem more intensely - in an alternate universe I might have released Paper before uv came out, but I didn't even really start considering these issues until mid-2023 (and of course I've had plenty of other things to distract me since then).

For what it's worth, my general thesis is that most of the problems really boil down to Pip being what it is, and a lot of the rest boil down to Setuptools being what it is.
I think they're pointing out you need to be cautious assuming a robot can be economically, sustainably deployed to do jobs in environments which are challenging for electro-mechanical systems.

An example: A friend worked on accurate built-in weighing machines for trucks, which could measure axle weight and load balance to meet compliance for bridges and other purposes. He found it almost impossible to make units which could withstand the torrents of chemical and biological wet materials which regularly leak into a truck. You would think "potting" electronics understands this problem but even that turns out to have severe limits. It's just hard to find materials which function well subjected to a range of chemicals. Stuff which is flexible is especially prone to risks here: the way you make things flex is to use softeners, which in turn make the material for other reasons have other properties like porosity, or being subject to attack by some combinations of acid and alkalai.

These units had NO MOVING PARTS because they were force tranducers. They still routinely failed in service.

Rubbish includes bleaches, acids, complex organics, grease, petrochemicals, waxes, catalyst materials, electricity, reactive surfaces, abrasives, sharp edges..

They are not saying "dont try" they are saying "don't be surprised if it doesn't work at scale, over time"
Void*? Int. Char**? Also an Int. I take it back. This is true systems programming - the same type safety that raw assembly is known for.