skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Four months before the theft, on May 4, 1987, Saura Taniguti, then director of Ipasgo, the institute of insurance for civil servants, used police force to prevent one of the owners of IGR, Carlos Figueiredo Bezerril, from removing the radioactive material that had been left behind.

The Goiania accident was caused by government imposition, stopping the owners from moving it from the abandoned clinic before it was looted. The government was the moron there, just as the government is the moron in this story. So a good example, but not in the way you thought, as it shows government intervention with nuclear materials leading to needless tragedy.
Which is why it makes more sense for driverless cars to not be individually owned. At least for now.

It would be like owning your own bus.
Maybe they are not missing the point? Maybe the making fun is some sort of targeted hostility and opposition?
Black Swan was a big deal, but this article massively overstates the average Dane's faith in the system. The welfare state is certainly not reverred as a religion, and the current state of it is always a hot discussion topic with pulls in either direction.

Unlike what this article suggests, tax fraud is also relatively common (one would have to be rather daft to assume that a country with such absurdly high taxation did not have tax evasion as a key pastime - although probably not as aggressively as in places like the US), and while heavily frowned upon certainly not seen as the highest form of crime as this article suggests. Well, maybe if you ask the tax agency and the political parties pushing for ever more welfare, both of which push heavily for a cashless society where all financial transactions are fully trackable by them, but I think most would place tax evasion quite far down on the list of significant crimes.

I would instead say that the average Dane is carefree about these issues, not because they are trusting or believe their system is worth religious following, but because the issues experienced there feels quite minor compared to what seems to happen elsewhere in the world. When your concept of a significant natural disaster is a flooded basement, you tend to not worry that much about what happens locally.
Why not just... use the product and see if it's useful? What does it matter what it's called, what does it matter if it's hyped or not, what does it matter if investors are or aren't throwing too much money into it.

You, individually, can try out the product and see if it's useful for you. Many people have done so and found it extremely useful for themselves (myself included).
Ask HN: How is Manus doing the Plan and Acting Loop?
Hey,

in their video at 0:43sek (https://manus.im/) you see that they are doing a plan step and creating a todo.md and then acting upon it. Can anyone explain it to me in simple and pracitcal terms how they do it? :)

Thanks.
Maybe I am just feeling rebellious this morning, but the title makes me think to myself, "Oh yeah? I'll show you. I ain't reading it!"
Since I was a child I have been very susceptible to exertion headaches and indeed coughing/sneezing can easily trigger this. They last from a couple of hours to the entire day, being gone when I wake up. The pain is not as bad if I lie down. I'm personally convinced it is directly linked to the pressure of my cerebrospinal fluid.

MRI has of course revealed nothing. Syringomyelia was not supposed to be hereditary (father) and nothing has been detected, but there is a chance that the cavity is so small/narrow that it blocks shut when I lie down: pain subsides, nothing is there to be seen when I'm in the machine. Vertical MRI, anyone?

The "valsalva maneuver" has a 100% success rate of triggering symptoms, and recently (some years) I have begun to observe a high-pitched sucking sound, consistent duration of about a second, originating from somewhere between my right ear lobe and spine. The sound is not uncomfortably loud but could be missed if I was listening to music or having a conversation. I think I have only ever observed the sound when in a sitting position. When detected, the sound might be accompanied with a physical sensation, but it is so minimal that I'm unsure if I'm imagining it.

It's just one of those things at this point.
> rather we ignore the blurry parts unless we specifically try to notice them, and anything we try to focus on becomes sharp.

Unrelated to perspective: Artists often put more detail in places that you're "supposed to" look at, and leave other things more as a blurry sketch, and our eyes naturally don't linger on those parts. What's interesting to me is that I can often recognize AI art by the way it doesn't make use of this, it tends to make everything equally detailed.
Likely because people either move with a purpose (getting retired and living in a retiree community) or are moving to a specific community (an immigrant community, like myself), so there is plenty of other people just like you around.

The community I live is easily 30% Brazilian, my oldest kid pre-school class is 90% kids born to Portuguese speaking households, even the kids that don't speak Portuguese pick a word or two and join in our events.

I think the kids definitely change the equation, it is much easier to find other people in the same life period as you due to the kids being around the same age and being together anyway. Not sure how it would be if we didn't have kids but then again if we didn't have kids we would have stayed in PHL or moved to NJ/NY, we wouldn't come to Florida.
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carceri_d%27invenzione
Looking for a better explanation. I believe making it cheaper would ultimately lead to more profits because more people would use it - maybe even forgo buying a personal car.
That is very much not true, Excel does type coercion, especially around things that happen to look like dates: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...
No serious alternative? Apple could easily make a safe image handling library in Swift.
Whenever they appear they'll suck up all the oxygen in the room.
According to https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2025/p29...

> The original TS landed on reflexpr(...) as the syntax to reflect source constructs and [P1240R0] adopted that syntax as well. As more examples were discussed, it became clear that that syntax was both (a) too “heavy” and (b) insufficiently distinct from a function call. SG7 eventually agreed upon the prefix ^ operator. The “upward arrow” interpretation of the caret matches the “lift” or “raise” verbs that are sometimes used to describe the reflection operation in other contexts.
>Alpha channels in a lossy image?

Why?

>Animated lossy image?

It's called a video
First nuclear waste-powered rechargeable battery unveiled in Japan
Oqtopus Expands Quantum Computer Access with Open Source Stack
I think what they mean is that most not for profit small sites don't have expensive hardware or DDOS blocking mechanisms. A small 256mb ram vps might be enough for 1000 users per month traffic, but not enough for 200,000 users a day traffic.
QC is one of the first things to get cut. In software eventually customers punish you when your software is so bad that they can’t really use it at all. Aircraft used to be regulated, but Boeing somehow carved out “self regulation”. It’s the same problem as how washing machines don’t last as long as they did 20 years ago.
If liked this, you might also like:

https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/06/10/perspective-distortion...

https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/09/09/dvc-multiperspective.h...
> which depends only on about 364 bytes of x86_64 binary
I was able to update to the latest tag of emqtt on GH (1.14.4), which was not previously possible. I don't believe there are any blockers now to a package on hex.pm, so hopefully this is made available soon.
Is crash the best indicator of success?

I know some really bad drivers that have almost no 'accidents', but have caused/nearly caused many. The cut off others, get confused in traffic and make wrong decisions etc...

Waymos, by media attention at least, have a habit of confusion and other behaviour that is highly undesired (one example going around a roundabout constantly) but that doesn't qualify as a 'crash'.
> In particular IT, where new project continually spring up to dethrone others.

The Lindy effect says nothing about popularity, which is how I translate your use of 'dethrone' here. It observes that something's duration of existence correlates with its chances for existence in the future.
No, tailgating would be a significant cause of the crash.

A driver -- legally, logically, practically -- should always maintain a safe following distance from the vehicle in front of them so that they can stop safely. It doesn't matter if the vehicle in front of them suddenly slams on the brakes because a child or plastic bag jumped in front of them, because they suddenly realized they need to make a left turn, or mixed up the pedals.
Someone out there is definitely naming their band "berkolocene" right now.
How about this: US Citizens have the right to expect that the government will respect everybody's rights to free speech and due process in their country, as supposedly guaranteed by the people they employ having sworn allegiance to their Constitution, which they are now treating like toilet paper?
Looking at my latest rekordbox iOS it does apple,soundcloud,beatport and tidal. I guess only one missing (that desktop has) is beatsource?
Claude definitely does know it (I just checked). Plausibly they’re giving that as an example of other things that it actually needs to save, but yeah, it’s a bad example.
> it isn’t possible to construct a camera or a computer program to render a view that does this

Hmmm

> The mathematics of this is quite simple

If so then surely a program could be written
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How is that an incentive? It's a fallback. You're not gonna love comfortably off SS payments alone in this day and age.

Treating this mentality of "taking money out that you put in" as "taking handouts" is the exact reductive mentality being used to try and have the government steal the money you earned from under your nose.
> This assumes the developer sees the output.

That’s why doing the opposite of Postel’s Law is so effective. If your protocol or file format mandates fatal errors instead of being lenient in what you accept, you surface the error immediately during development and stop it from getting into production.

How many HTML or CSS parse errors do you think make it into production?

How many Python, Ruby, Java, Go, or PHP parse errors do you think make it into production?

> It seemed like successful sites had to triangulate what the de facto standards are and code in a way that made testing really tough.

Yes, and this is the consequence of Postel’s Law that the article is arguing against.
I've long entertained the idea of a language feature that allows returning unknown sized objects by value. The calling convention would generate two function calls, one to go get the size which would then be passed to alloca to reserve space for the return value and a second call to get the actual result. Not sure of all the implications but I think it might be an idea worth pursuing to make things like variable length arrays and structs with flexible members near-first class constructs in the language. Pseudocode:

function zero_filled_int_array(length: usize): int[length] {
...
}

The int[length] bit determines the return value of the size call and the main body constitutes the part that actually fills in the value.
1.4 hrs/day lol.

Same survey probably concluded that young men watch porn once a month.
Minor nitpick, it is "Dag Hammarskjöld"
https://github.com/google/wuffs <-- DSL created explicitly for wrangling fileformats safely
Cool that they work in this direction. We need NVIDIA, OS providers to at least have robust updatable blacklists of bad AI models (probably agentic ones) else hackers and rogue states will make a botnet of viruses with agentic components.

We’ll have no time for “AI antiviruses”, agency explosion (grabbing GPUs, compute time, tools) precedes intelligence explosion.

OS providers and NVIDIA must have skin in the game, feel responsible for bad models that run on its GPUs/OSes, fund safety research, same way Apple feels responsible for apps in its App Store and viruses on MacOS
> With an adjustable hole punch, prong fasteners, (optionally) duct tape for the spine, and (optionally) sheet protectors for the front and back covers, you can crank out a survival library of (open-source) books as fast as pages come out your Brother laser.

This is actually one of the few "post apocalyptic" computer ideas that actually makes some sense to me. Though it would probably still make more sense to pre-print that library than wait until conditions are difficult to do the printing.

Unless your plan is assume availability of printer paper, you'd still need to store the same volume of blank paper as your library, and you'd be stuck trying to run a printer when things like electricity are much less available.
ChatGPT Can Now Generate a Full Glass of Wine – Here's Why That's a Big Deal
OpenAI close to finalizing $40B funding round, $300B valuation
They're not losing money. They're taking it from everyone else.

"oh you hit a mailbox during an ice storm that we paid out $50 for after your deductible, that'll be a $400/6mo increase in premiums for the next five years"
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Isn’t that the fate of all satellites?
Strange question, why would you "just" ignore all the information out there? But then why would you pick this specific products among a million of others? You wouldn't even know about it without the hype!
You have a typo in the snippet on README.md: SchlüsselWert should be Schlüsselwert.
> My guess is that image understanding will improve.

The "it will get better" assertion fails on what's known as the "first step fallacy".
The analogy I like to use is the idea of a ladder to the moon.
We can build tall self-supporting ladders,
and ladder technology has advanced considerably since they were first used at least 10,000 years ago.
More recently, in 1862,
John H. Balsley made the step ladder safer by changing the rounded rungs to flat steps.
Henry Quackenbush patented the extension ladder in 1867.
Ladder technology continues to progress,
will we someday build a ladder tall enough to climb to the moon?

Do you see the fallacy?

https://thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-16-the-first-step-fal...
AI Coding Agents: The Self-Driving Cars of Software Development
> Why does it have to be always only English?

Because a lot of people already know English. You can find good candidates anywhere, bring them together, and they will be able to work together. That's the advantage of English today. There are no reasons to build artificial barriers that hurt cooperation in your company and your country's economy in general, other than nationalistic ones.

It is especially silly in countries like Germany, which suffer due to a lack of qualified workers and an aging population. I'm not saying that immigrants shouldn't learn the local language, but there should be other mechanisms and incentives outside of one's workplace.
I used to work for a company that has both US and EU offices. The EU ones have considerably better WLB (but of course less pay) and people take a t least a month of vacation during the summer. Aside from the workaholism issue you talked about, there is a more subtle difference that I felt -- US has a stronger marketing culture while the EU has a stronger engineering culture. However, this is just an isolated case.
The comment I responded to implies a lack of availability of repairable devices. I'm trying to make the point that the market does in fact offer them, but that consumer choice is overwhelmingly in favour of locked-down shiny things -- leading to wild proliferation of the latter. This preference is so strong that even those who complain about the lack of repairability choose locked-down-and-shiny over repairability, perhaps without even consciously realising it.

It's tiring to read again and again about evil external forces wrecking the world, when the choices are our own, and right in front of our faces.
> Then there will be your data, but they will format currency values as prettified strings, for example "34 593,12 USD", instead of producing one column with a number and another with currency.

To be fair, that's not a problem with CSV but with the provider's lack of data literacy.
> This is simply not a problem wired technology ever had.

I had plenty of wired sets where you had to hold the cable just so in order to get audio to play through. Happened a ton with those cheap crappy skullcandy earbuds, but would also eventually happen with the higher quality stuff too.
There are loads of uses for alpha channels. Anything you want layered with other graphics without being surrounded by an ugly black square...

There are loads of uses for lossy images. Pretty much any image is probably best transmitted lossy, because the saved ram, CPU, bandwidth, load time is huge compared to the usually unnoticeable quality degregation.

So it stands to reason there are lots of uses for lossy alpha images.
I wonder if this will impact Denmark's spot at the top of the corruption perceptions index. Last years rankings still has them at first, but it's hard to say when the data was collected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
> ruining the internet with all this damn parasitic crawling

I feel like we may be conflating the performance implications of crawling with the intellectual property ones.
User rvnx brought this to my attention just recently: https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
If they have the capital...
Claude has no problem recalling type advantages, but it has no metacognition and fails terribly at knowing what it knows versus what it needs to write down.
> Presumably one uses the same locale everywhere?

It depends.

> So switching by locale should not be a problem?

Until you get an Excel file written in another locale.
The coolest one i had was one with Japanese formulas.
The fool, he should have gotten 13 gallons of milk
That's okay! Coincidentally, I cover this in the post.

FTA:

>The point isn’t to write articles that appeal to every possible reader but to notice opportunities to reach a larger audience.
I used to ride a motorcycle in the Bay Area and could get to work in less then 20 minutes, where a car would usually take me 60.

Lane splitting, driving 100mph when there’s enough space to do so, and generally being a maniac can get you places pretty quick. It can also pretty quickly make you dead. I survived 8 years of this commuting but I’d never do it again.
I second this review - Piranesi is a fantastic and inventive novel.
Same could be said for Sudoku. How many times has it seen natural numbers 1-9 and Sudoku tutorials and board states crawling the entire public internet. And yet they can’t solve a Sudoku or even a half size board on their own.
It wasn't. You typically bootstrap a compiler by first writing a compiler in an existing language. Then you get a compiler that can sort of compile your langauge, but the bootstrapping language contaminates your assembly. So you iteratively compile the compiler with itself until it's purely in the new language.

The very first compilers were bootstrapped from handwritten assembly. C was famously bootstrapped from B. GCC started in assembly I think and has been compiling itself for decades.
You're imagining something which can't exist. Maybe because you don't know any other human languages, or maybe despite that (which is worse)

"freely translated back and forth between two human languages" isn't a thing. You might as well insist that Pi is rational.

So what you get instead is awkwardly translated back and forth in a way that increases confusion. Nobody actually wants that. You're arguing for much worse outcomes, as a result of an at best naive understanding of what language is.
Surely this introduces some curvature to the diagonals? I can't see how the perpendicular lines can be in correct perspective with the diagonals being parallel unless something is curving. I guess because it's preserving the perpendicular lines and the curvature is subtle, it's not very noticeable in typical architectural pictures.
How to legalize condos
Don't forget "doesn't have to be paid, never complains about working crunch time or overtime, won't unionize, doesn't insist on being treated humanely"
Parts of the UI of Inkscape are very clunky. Like the tabs where live path effects live, thats awful. Also the zoom/pan on the canvas. Corel was very well polished if I remember correctly.
I'm fully aware that Sweden and Denmark are different countries (I lived in Denmark for 3 years), but this reminded me of the reel of Swedes playing every time I visit IKEA, where they talk about how corruption is absolutely unthinkable in Swedish society.

And there's also this tidbit from the article:

> Other Scandinavian nations also reeled upon watching The Black Swan. After the series premiered in Sweden, a criminologist at Lund University warned: “There’s a lot of evidence that it’s probably even worse here.”
For Hammarskjold, the various documents that have been released or otherwise leaked suggest he could have been killed by the US, France, the USSR, or mercenaries hired by African mining interests. Or some combination of the above. As far as I can tell there is no definitive proof of who exactly was behind it, only that a lot of powerful people wanted him gone.

Does the filmmaker have access to some sort of exclusive information that the rest of the world doesn't? Or, like most of these sorts of filmmakers, is he drawing conclusions beyond what can be conclusively reached with the availabile evidence?
Something is up with that green building on the right, too. It's wider in the "true perspective" views, wider even than the ortho view
Perhaps because you've chosen to install a PWA instead of continuing to use the website? The experience is different, if you want a browser like environment, just use the browser.
> Case in point: just the other day, he equated the EU's rulings about Apple's ecosystem to the dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron. Rah, rah, Goliath! Sis boom bah!

That was actually just over a year ago, and was in response to the US DOJ antitrust investigation (and didn't mention the EU at all). But, perhaps the fact that you remember it as "just the other day" is a hint that my suggesting "Harrison Bergeron" as a metaphor was uncomfortable but apt?

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/03/23/harrison-berger...
In US self checkouts the grumpy staff member is mostly there to stop people from stealing and acts annoyed when you try to get them to help you when the machine inevitably doesn’t work.
Of course the comments section is going to be full of war stories about everyone's hardest bug.

This is how humans work, and this is why I am reading the comments.
> But if that was the first attempt at translating keywords, then how is it "really funny"?

Because they didn't really bother to ask native speakers if the translation makes sense in the target language.