skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does stand to reason that if there was life on Mars there might still be life on Mars. Everywhere we look on Earth, life exists, even in extreme environments and independent of the sun's energy.

I think the first alien we'll find will be an extremophile bacteria or other microorganism.
It's definitely an interesting idea and one I'm not opposed to. Slightly annoyed that when entering $NAMEONLY and hitting enter in a browser it doesn't default to trying https first.
I've typically heard it rumored that populations get overestimated, as corrupt local officials in developing countries want to get more resources/power allocated to their district
IPFS is a technology very helpful for syncing. One way it's being used in a modern context (although only sub-parts of IPFS stack) is how BlueSky engineers, during their design process a few years ago, accepted my proposal that for a new Social Media protocol, each user should have his own "Repository" (Basically a Merkel Tree) of everything he's ever posted. Then there's just a "Sync" up to some master service provider node (decentralized set of nodes/servers) for the rest of the world to consume.

Merkel-Tree based synching is as performant as you can possibly get (used by Git protocol too I believe) because you can tell of a root of a tree-structure is identical to some other remote tree structure just by comparing the Hash Strings. And this can be recursively applied down any "changed branches" of a tree to implement very fast syncing mechanisms.

I think we need a NEW INTERNET (i.e. Web3, and dare I say Semantic Web built in) where everyone's basically got their own personal "Tree of Stuff" they can publish to the world, all naively built into some new kind of tree structure-based killer app. Like imagine having Jupyter Notebooks in Tree form, where everything on it (that you want to be) is published to the web.
Russia has the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Europe and has launched from there before (and is still active), just not via commercial launch provider AFAIK.
> PHP is written in C and an original design decision by those C programmers was to make the APIs consistent with libc.

Old PHP did have some pretty inconsistent naming conventions (or lack of). Which is what I think the GP was referring to.

I’ve not written any PHP in quite a few years but I’ve read that there’s been a concerted effort to address those inconsistencies and the old complaint is now just a relic of a bygone era.

One thing I have learned over the several decades that I’ve been writing software is that literally every language could have a book written about its problems. People often seem to forget that language design is a constant battle of tradeoffs. And because their preferred languages naturally align with their tradeoff preferences, they don’t even realise that their own preferences are deeply flawed for a great many type of scenarios too.

So it really disappoints me when people subscribe to language tribes like it’s their religion.
Tech CEOs will do anything to reach FAANG market caps and revenue except pay FAANG-level salaries.
Because Bluey is for 3-6 year olds or around that range and the most important thing for them to learn at this age is social skills. There is plenty of time after for Bill Nye.
Show HN: Prompt Bank – a browser extension for saving/inserting ChatGPT prompts
This extension allows you to save and organize your ChatGPT prompts in an elegant sidebar, giving you access to your favorite prompts with one click to help streamline your workflow.
I will grant you that there are at least some of us capable of this, where you’ll find no LLM capable.

> average humans understand the limit of their knowledge.

We’ll have to agree to disagree here. I’d call it a minority, not the average.

Which is why we live in a world where huge numbers of people think they know significantly more than they do and why you will find them arguing that they know more than experts in their fields. IT workers are particularly susceptible to this.
Consider that it was >20 years between the start of the F-35 program, and that plane's introduction into service...and don't hold your breath.

As Rumsfeld infamously noted, you always go to war with the armed forces that you actually have.
Yes. And if the police are not allowed to be deceptive about your role in the investigation, then it becomes clear what you should to in response. (STFU, essentially).
They broke the law, Apple and Ireland. Just because Ireland is a country it doesn't mean it can't be subject to laws.

> "Ireland granted Apple unlawful aid which Ireland is required to recover". The European Commission found that corporate tax rates as low as 0.005% paid by the tech giant represented an unlawful subsidy. Specifically because other companies were not permitted to obtain the same tax arrangements. As a consequence Apple must pay €13 billion, excluding interest, to the Irish Treasury.
Right, reasoning was offloaded to Claude. Claude is obviously terrible at Minesweeper. I’d like to see Claude orchestrate both playing the game as well as using another MCP to help it pick the next best move. Otherwise it’s just wasteful getting an LLM to reason about an already solved problem, it just chews up API requests. I followed the Manifold market for a while getting ChatGPT to play Sudoku —- each puzzle cost ~$20 to complete.
https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/1ip6r5c/why_quantum...
It's really quite sad. They did the same thing with Google for a while.
I mind my manners, yes. Please and thank you. It feels right because my work is largely conversational. If I were coding, it might be different.
Just what I want, a C requirement for a Rust project
Scientists break down plastic using a simple, inexpensive catalyst and air
It also feels like a show for kids graduating out of Bluey.
Would someone be so kind as to tell me what IC stands for?
I want to like this, but there are a couple of red flags. One is using SHA-3 to hash and store the passwords.

You shouldn't use such a hashing function for password storage. Calculating password hashes should be computationally expensive, not cheap.

Nuff said, overall it looks like a cool project to toy around with, but not something you should be using to build a product with yet.
Actually I didn't post this on HackerNews. Somebody else did. But I'm glad to hear you got inspiration from my emulator. Yeah I found wasm-bindgen pretty easy to use.
I'll be testing this weekend, but theoretically yes- multi-tone modes like winlink are specifically mentioned and this release was held until it could pass a two-tone test with decent performance.
I think it sets a high bar, which is ok because they also show the parents at low points without making them look pitiful or less worthy of love.
It definitely does not
Money laundering and crypto theft are now approved. Go nuts!
Simply make Google and Apple take it down from their app stores, and it would be de facto banned for 95+% of users.
I don't mind the fake robots as much as the fake charts. In their GPU announcements at CES, they compared performance of previous generation and new generation with the new generation using 4x frame generation so it's only doing 1/4 of the 3D work (claiming the 5070 was 4090 performance for $749).

In their AI announcements they had a similar chart showing performance numbers in TFLOPS of previous and newly announced hardware. In the fine print the new numbers were using 4-bit FP4.

I get the sense that Nvidia thinks they can make anything, say anything, and sell it for whatever they want in the current AI boom.
They don't have one, I ended up just using distill.io to monitor the page for changes.
Individual Contributor- a position that doesn’t have reports
How about chess? https://github.com/alexandreroman/mcp-chess
I think big tech deserves anti trust regulation and action because it is good for a competitive market that actually puts customers first. They’re too big and powerful and abuse their power to hurt fair competition. But I think the type of aggressive action you’re talking about - and the motivation to do it solely to weaken America - will open up a lot of destructive actions back and forth.

America choosing to spend less money on Ukraine, pushing for resolution to a conflict that has resulted in mass deaths for Ukrainian males, and renegotiating tariffs doesn’t deserve the kind of hysterical overreaction I’m seeing from Europeans. In the end, if it escalates to open warfare on each other’s economies rather than a reset of trade agreements, it’ll damage both the EU and US to China’s benefit.
I’ve been using airflow for quite some time. Due to the maturity of where we are at, and while I’ve tested other solutions, I don’t really see changing things.
Index is like your finger, you count from 1, right?
Experimental test of the nonlocal energy alteration between two quantum memories
> Mostly calibrated to decrease American dominance in the sector.

If the EU takes actions specifically designed to hurt the US, do you think the US wouldn't respond in kind? This is ironically similar to Trump imposing tariffs on Canada and acting surprised when they imposed tariffs in response.

The relatively free trade between the US and the EU has been mutually beneficial. The number #1 selling car in the EU is made by an American company [1]. And the US is a huge market for luxury European cars [2].

Everyone is better off by being able to choose between a European or an American car rather than being forced to buy domestic.

[1] https://www.best-selling-cars.com/europe/2023-full-year-euro...

[2] https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/usa/article/detail/T0438942EN...
Default to please do x but trying to train myself out of it as I think it may change the result slightly, I haven’t tested that though.
Yeah, it looks like the article shortened out "to space" from the context (that previous launch intended to but fell short).
US surely can remove TikTok from the mobile stores and can even force Apple/Google to release an OS update disabling TikTok. That will be sufficient.
Is there anything even more lightweight, where you don't have to write your code any differently? For instance, say I have 10 jobs that don't depend on each other, all of them pretty small.

Dagster and even Luigi feel like overkill but I'd still like to plug those into a unified interface where I can view previous runs, mainly logs and exit codes. Being able to do some light job configuration or add retries would be nice but not required. For the moment I just use a logging handler that writes to a database table and that's fine
ScholarlyArticle: "Test of Nonlocal Energy Alteration between Two Quantum Memories" (2025)
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13...
If the paper is accurate and not falling prey to false assumptions or some other error we are talking about billions. If we just generalize the deviations claimed by the paper out to the entire world there are about another 3-5 billion humans. If the paper is accurate but doesn't generalize to other countries we are still talking about a billion people.
Yeah, because the scale is an index (e.gm A=6) but the operations are offsets in that case. Because if you moved from G/5 to B/7 that is clearly 2.
-1 for Hertz is listed as "earth rotation cycle, tide changes, circadian rhythm", but 1e-1 hz is just a cycle time of 10 seconds. More like how often waves crash on the beach.
The AVR architecture puts its registers starting from address 0 of its data memory. As a twist, the program memory also starts at 0 (due to the Harvard architecture).
I agree. Bluey is a great show. As a dad it can either make you feel inadequate or motivate you to to better. You just have to accept no dad can be Bandit all the time, but try to be Bandit as much as possible.
You are right, I forgot about socials, will fix soon
No, they don’t. This story you’re telling is ridiculous. There are not significant numbers of low income people driving to Manhattan below 60th street in carpool groups with monthly parking spaces.

To the extent there’s any truth to this at all people drive to suburban bus and train stations from very far out. That’s definitely a thing.

But even if what you are saying is true the congestion pricing doesn’t change the math much for each person when split four ways.
> Not asking for pity, but being a manager has a heavy emotional toll if you have even the slightest bit of empathy that I don't think most ICs appreciate fully.

I've been a manager, and I've also been a volunteer firefighter for many years. I've seen a lot of things no person should see.

My relatively brief stint in management kept me awake at night more than the shotgun vs face suicide, or fatal motor vehicle accidents that I attended in the same period. I think it was because the fate of those people was well out of my hands, but the livelihood of my direct reports was not.
Did they really break the law? I’m not a fan of Apple and their aggressive walled gardens and general hostility. But I feel like the tax optimization with Ireland is well known to everyone and wasn’t an issue until now. It seems dishonest to go back and demand retroactive taxes afterwards. And I bet they aren’t the only company in this situation so are they being singled out unfairly?
Boeing wins contract for NGAD fighter jet, dubbed F-47
This is really good. I don't have many of the complaints others have, because... it proved that my geography is way worse than I thought. To me this is kind of an ideal learning tool. Thanks very much.
If we come to our senses it should be obvious that everyone needs to be physically active at least a few days per week, we need to condition brain plasticity, have to keep learning new things.

The available work offers the entire spectrum but we have to divide and plan it.
1. Which international tax law?

2. It's not a new tax that was applied retroactively it was an EC ruling about how Apple took advantage of the situation. Which was later affirmed by the highest EU court.
> At least we're not stuck with the Roman "inclusive counting" system that included one extra number in ranges* so that e.g. weeks have "8" days and Sunday is two days before Monday since Monday is itself included in the count.

Yes, we are. C gives pointers one past the end of an array meaningful semantics.
That's in the standard. You can compare them and operate on them but not de-reference them.

Amusingly, you're not allowed to go one off the end at the beginning of a C or C++ array. (Although Numerical Recipes in C did it to mimic FORTRAN indices.) So reverse iterators in C++ are not like forward iterators. They're off by 1.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211112-00/?p=10...
America has a Great Firewall, it's called AppleMobileFileIntegrity.kext[0]. The TikTok ban relied heavily on the fact that a social network practically needs to have a mobile app and thus prohibited them from having it. It was less of a "ban TikTok" bill and more of a "government gets to kick apps off the App Store" bill.

Yes, you could use TikTok on the web; but... have you ever tried using TikTok's web interface? It's an absolute joke. And on the other end, shipping a webapp subjects you to all sorts of consumer-friendly technical interference like ad blockers and de-cluttering that is intended to make the social network serve the user and not itself.

[0] On Android, TikTok did ship an APK to evade being kicked off Google Play; but that's only slightly more effective than telling people to go run AltStore on a Mac or PC to dev-sign a TikTok IPA that will be missing half the features because Apple doesn't allow certain permissions to be provisioned on free dev accounts.
I appreciate that the subtitles, at least on the DVDs we have, often tell you the name of the music.
If the robots really are coming to take every single job, then human nature is gonna change one way or the other.
> Removing fares does not actually move people out of cars into public transport because it is already cheaper than driving in most cases.

Cheaper is relative. If transit costs $130/month and driving a car you already own costs an incremental $150/month but is $50 more convenient then you value the $50 in convenience over the $20 savings. If you eliminate the fares then the difference is $150 which is more than $50.

Collecting the money via taxes rather than fares also allows the transit budget to be increased relative to the same cost burden on the local population because you don't have to pay for the collections infrastructure, which goes to the article's point about increasing service contributing to the solution as another alternative to congestion pricing.

> This has been proven time and time again; where free transit is implemented, car usage does not decline, and surveys of people who switch indicate they mostly come from people walking and cycling.

You're citing a study where the existing mass transit cost was only ~$20/month to begin with. Meanwhile their GDP increased by 50% over the period in question and the area underwent a shift in the location of employment away from the city. Having only a modest increase in car use against that context is evidence that it does work.
fn + E also works on macOS.
'We have to be prepared': Torsten Reil of defence tech company Helsing
Unpaywalled link: https://archive.ph/ZJZBD

Before buying the hype, readers should ask a simple question: has anyone actually received a Helsing drone?

The 4,000 HF-1 drones? Not made by Helsing. The company’s wordplay, legal threats against competitors, and aggressive PR tactics are all red flags.

Articles like this make it seem like Helsing and Anduril are the only players in town. In reality, many credible companies are keeping quiet—for good reason. If you’re shipping to Ukraine, you don’t want to be on Russia’s radar. Helsing, on the other hand, has made being loud part of its brand.

Yes, Helsing’s name might carry weight with the public. But inside the industry—among soldiers, officers, and engineers—the illusion is cracking.

The company was founded in 2021… technically. In truth, it was a rebrand of Hellsicht GmbH, founded back in 2016. It took them until 2024 to announce a hardware product, and even that hasn’t landed. No HX2 orders. Production issues. Not a whisper of praise from the field in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, the employee churn speaks volumes. High-profile exits include:
• Fischbach (Director of Programmes, Germany)
• Borovik (General Counsel)
• Dancer (Deputy CEO UK)
• Elliott (UK CEO)
• Vallance (Assoc. Director, Partnerships)
• Morley (Director Talent Acquisition)
• Kolmel (Director Engineering)
• Wilson (Head of Info Sec)

And that’s not counting the steady drip of resignations and firings further down the ladder.

You can only bluff for so long before people stop buying it.
> The only people negatively affected are those moderately wealthy who are unwilling to pay the charge for improved times and highly dislike using public transport.

The people really negatively affected and the ones screaming their heads off are city employees who scam free parking via dubious placards and parking illegally. It’s a whole NYC subculture which is hard to miss if you live here. That’s what Hochul was scared of, it’s what everyone is scared of since they’re often somewhat connected. But fuck those people.
profit = 1.3 * revenue - 1.1 * cost

and

profit = 1.1 * revenue - 1.3 * cost

are both possible. the first leads to record profits every year, the second doesn't. the exact % change in profits is relevant because it can be positive, negative or zero in an environment with uneven inflation. Reality, at the moment, is an environment with uneven inflation.
Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
For parents, most definitely. I have a hard time sitting through a Caillou episode. Bluey is also way more authentic, in that interactions could really happen exactly like that in real life. Compared directly, Caillou seems synthetic.
Some of those are way off, IMO:

- What CPU makes a thousand cycles per second?

- How is fastest electronic switching slower than fastest computer operation?

- AFAIK, DDR5 access time is -8 or -7, not -6.

- Earth rotation frequency is -5, not -1.

- Infrared frequency is more like 14 or 13, not 12.
> building more housing solves housing affordability just like building more roads solves traffic. It doesn't!

The difference is that using a road is free but having a house very much is not.
I think that Airflow 2 implemented a decorator mode which you can just use on functions.

Honestly, just use airflow, it has its issues but it sucks in well known and predictable ways.
> its type system has historically been an afterthought

This is a rather outdated view. PHPs type system isn't the most expressive thing out there, but it's very achievable to have end-to-end type safety these days. For a start it's possible to delineate between nullable and non-nullable types, something many more "serious" languages don't support.

It has the weakness that, not being compiled, you need an additional static analysis tool to catch these things before runtime. But at least it has the good graces to crash if you tell it you're expecting a Foo and you try to pass a Bar, unlike e.g. Python.

Modern PHP is a completely different thing to the 5.x days. Yeah you still have the inconsistent stdlib, but everything has a few warts after 30 years.
Why do we keep moving toward a system where being ahead is the most viable way to get ahead?
The alternative is to start your own company or start consulting. I've been doing this for over a decade and make great money compared to a salaried employee.

Doing this has also made me realize that development is only a small part of the overall process.

Most developers just want to code.
we need low barrier to entry langs, it affords some a start. Also The php symfony components are very well written; I recommend giving them a look
It would have to be quite a large bias to overcome the bias of the Senate
I wonder if the P-T extinction was due not just to CO2 release from the volcanism (and the other bad effects from the magma intruding into the largest/oldest sedimentary basin in the world), but also due to authigenic clay formation in the ocean.

When clay forms in the ocean, it pulls calcium out of seawater. Calcium is normally balanced by two bicarbonate ions, so its removal causes the bicarbonate to shift back to carbonic acid/CO2. The ocean acidifies and CO2 is released. This has been called "anti-weathering", since it's the opposite of the normal process that draws down CO2 by weathering of silicates.

Sufficient injection of silicic acid and aluminum into the ocean could accelerate this process.
Star Wars is my favorite Ronald Regan franchise. It took a really long time to make the sequel and so far it's no Empire Strikes Back...
I use Sunshine and Moonlight when I'm out away from my Windows laptop in my home office and back near the router in the front room over my Macbook air, it's great when you can get directly on the LAN with it. But then, RDP is also better over the LAN, and casual disconnection is easier.

But if I want to do graphics-intensive work on the headless tower, I'll use Sunshine and Moonlight.
- Yes chatGPT experience is worse. Likely due to censorship.
- When Apple advertised that in keynote, it wasn’t something anticipated and needed by general public and still not, otherwise like with serious delays in the past Apple would have said something.
And after new iOS was released it was said a lot that this is a solution looking for a problem.
This is based on 2024 data. I wonder if it's much better now. The US has had a radical change this year, and as far as I can tell, 77 million Americans are over the moon about it.

Sure, another 74 million are pretty grumpy, but they're the minority. Maybe US happiness has gone up.
every token contributes to the output
Great catch! Super helpful. Thank you
Didn't we have this back in 2001. I seems to remember that we kicked a guy of our project because he installed one of the PHP consoles on our Solaris box, which basically gave it the same rights as the Apache user.