skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really sad. They are some of the most beautiful trees in my subjective opinion - I love the way their roots branch out a bit above the ground.

I went to see the largest / one of the oldest beeches a couple years back and it had died presumably of this disease. I visited another old growth forest in Pennsylvania too and all the old growth beeches there were dead. In fact, in that forest, though it had never been logged the only large old growth trees I could find more than one or two of, were hemlocks. The chestnut, elm, ash, and now beech all having been taken by newly introduced diseases.
Yeah? Is that why this list went from 400+ to 10?

https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-estate-services/real-pr...

Are these the journalists you have an issue with for reporting on it?

https://apnews.com/article/gsa-federal-buildings-doge-fbi-do...
Be careful. You’re on HN. Someone will steal that unicorn startup idea and VCs will invest in it.
o7 buddy

Damn I honestly feel for the lander even though it’s just a machine lol
I’m not sure if you intended BCE people to have a dual meaning there, but if you did, well played. That’s a term I wouldn’t mind using.
GP clarifies "the bullet never rises above the boreline of the gun" which tells me he might have thought that Chuck was saying the bullet literally goes up after coming out then comes down, instead of the boreline being pointed up relative to the pointed-down sightline.
I’m wondering if I could get vc funding to use ai to generate popover video ads specifically to do training injection attacks against LLMs.

I have this imagine of Claude suddenly randomly asking if I want to go buy a coke.
China demonstrated 'satellite dogfighting,' Space Force general says
I disagree. Android's model of starting with a strong sandbox and having apps request permission to acces things outside of it has been much more successful in getting apps to be sandboxed.

Defaults are important.
I…uh…just posted that comment.
Everybody knows how to become one. It's just like every "enterprise SaaS" out there. There's no 3 tier pricing plan with lists of features. You need to contact enterprise sales so they can work out how much you can afford to pay, then take all your money.

And you _know_ if you need to become a "verified crawler", you just need to remember the developers you demoted or fired when they brought up the ethical problems of way you've configured your crawlers.
Love the downvote. Here's the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAWE3qfbANU
If the sight is angled down relative to the barrel, the barrel is angled up relative to the sight. But which is angled "straight"?

The shooter aims with the sight, so if the target is level with the shooter's eye, the sights are level and the barrel is pointed (ever so slightly) up.

This means you are basically correct, in that the boreline is always pointed higher than where the bullet actually is (setting aside any lift the bullet generates, but that is a lot of detail to get into). However, the bullet does often move upwards relative to the ground (for some distance) since people are often aiming almost level to the ground. So in that sense, the trajectories are not "all drop". That is why I think you are being downvoted.
jessica chastain lookalike no?
California has many extraordinarily beautiful large trees besides redwoods. Madrone, bay laurel, and tanoak come to mind.

Still, I find something exquisite in the eastern hardwoods, beech in particular. The turning of color and dropping all the leaves is really gorgeous.
Imagine an American defrauded a bunch of Italians remotely from America and then when Italy tried to extradite him he claimed that he had never been to Italy so their laws couldn't possibly apply to him. That would obviously be absurd. And similarly since Cloudflare engages in business transactions (albeit remotely) in Italy they must follow Italian law regulating such transactions.
None of those actions require the use of dna sequencing to happen.
US trained advisors working over seas
> Except they skipped magsafe on the current 16e, which is kinda baffling, but they could still bring it back on portless models.

For anyone reading who may be confused, the 16e does support Qi-based wireless charging at 7.5W, so it’s very possible that a future portless non-Pro iPhone might not have MagSafe either.
Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs
nextjs is in a class of software that should not exists (backend-for-frontend). You can have an SPA and an API in any backend language/framework.
The post from the reporters is much more useful for this: https://zhero-web-sec.github.io/research-and-things/nextjs-a...
I thought at 0°F you're supposed to bring the cows inside! Also at 100°F

I guess it depends on the cows
The aerodynamic effects you mention are real, but they are subtleties. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a high quality, open-source ballistic calculator that actually breaks out all those details. Apparently, "Modern Exterior Ballistics: The Launch and Flight Dynamics of Symmetric Projectiles" is the book to read if you want to know more.

Although considerable basic research is funded by the DoD, and considerable open-source has been generated by them, and of course the DoD has done a tremendous amount of research on ballistics, I suppose it makes sense that they have not actively encouraged the publication of an open-source artillery targeting program.
Agreed, I certainly wasn't trying to imply this nuance was present throughout the game. Just feels like a glaring omission for the piece to not at least mention existing attempts to translate these subtleties into engaging gameplay.

(though to be fair, it's been at least a decade since I experienced this one and memory is hazy)
The main reason for the non-JS solution is because a lot of people in communities around me, me included, generally block JS in their browsers, and I thought it'd be cool to have a non-JS PoW solution.

To be honest I would prefer if this could be computed with a simple shell script, but calling sha256sum in a loop is ridiculously slow. I might consider other methods of doing proof of work in the future (IIRC it's possible with argon2).
The first two years of my degree where I learned most of my university-level math/physics were online-only. There are likely millions of students who learned entirely from videos and PDFs.
What is the full sequence of prompts when using agent mode?

It just continues to do things... That's the value prop.
This happened to me once. I caught my breath, found an identical server and copied the files over using uuencode and cat, until I had enough working to create a second terminal window and could use better tools to verify everything.

5 minutes that felt a lot longer.
Rest Easy
California is also home to the oldest known tree, Methuselah, a bristlecone pine.
I think that isn't good enough either (but at least they tried).

My operating system design is: programs start with nothing other than the ability to perform deterministic computation and to send/receive messages with the capabilities it receives in the initial message. It is not allowed to know what these capabilities refer to; they may be proxies set up by the user, network resources, or something else, and is not necessarily what it asked for. All I/O including the ability to determine the current date/time or how much time has passed, requires the use of capabilities. (Due to this, a program with no capabilities left can be terminated automatically by the operating system (unless a debugger is attached; it is also necessary that the program cannot notice the debugger attached to it), since it is no longer capable of any I/O.)
I do not understand the purpose of this alert. There are no explicit warnings, just a premonition. The alert merely says what all users should know that their genetic and survey data can be deleted if they request it to be deleted.

That obligation to delete user data is persistent and will apply to any buyer of 23andMe. Or am I wrong?

What is the AG of California intimating that the data is now at risk of being released into the wild or worse? That is how some will respond to this alert.

What many customers may not know is that they can also download these valuable genotype data and store locally if they wish. Using these data is not easy, but it is possible with a but of research and help.

Those who have used 23andMe should and can expect the security of their data to be maintained by the company, and that obligation would apply to any purchaser.
In the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, a number of members of the current administration proposed eliminating NOAA completely.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/25/second-trump-term-0...

Based on the way things have been going, that seems to be the goal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA_under_the_second_presiden...
What is “the alienation of your labor's fruits.”?

I haven’t heard of any way for objectively measuring the value of anything, or whether that is even a logically coherent concept.
I mean sure. Anger (revenge) is purely destructive in one isolated interaction, but its possibility may prevent actions against you next time (or at all). Its "irrationality" makes such a response more likely even if you might rationally (or out of timidity etc) decide against it, which increases its scope of protection. It all makes a lot of sense.
"financial incentives"

This is the most ignorant response I've seen yet. We don't expect monetary gain from publishing a book. We expect our costs to be covered.

This is about the consumer, not the publisher. If we lived in a socialist system, they would still pirate our publications and we will still be in debt over it.
Nice. This was one of the main shortcomings in Falcon that pushed me to switch some projects to FastAPI. That said FastAPI had many other benefits that went far beyond API specs.
We're contemplating protocols that don't evaluate or run code; that rules out serializing functions or lambdas (i.e., code).

Custom objects in Python don't have "order" unless they're using `__slots__` - in which case the application already knows what they are from its own class definition. Similarly, methods don't need to be serialized.

A general graph is isomorphic to a sequence of nodes plus a sequence of vertex definitions. You only need your own lightweight protocol on top.
> Not if you make any kind of music with an iOS device. AirPods reportedly come in at ~160ms, which is way too high for playing anything live.

That latency is why Apple’s been preparing to switch to UWB for wireless audio, which is one of the reasons they’ve shipped UWB on nearly all iPhones since the iPhone 11.

UWB audio latency will be far under 50ms for uncompressed/losslessly-compresssed audio.
it's right there in first paragraph:

> authorities have acknowledged that they are investigating possible involvement by the police

If it's true, or even if there is a non-zero probability of this, I would not expect official organization like "Oaxaca Prosecutor’s Office" to admit this easily.
And from what I've seen is some top insiders are shifting from. Consistent buys to sells. Which will just tank the stock slower than instant due to regulations.

Regardless, it's not like the current administration would enforce much on the matter even if they all dropped.
if "competition is for losers" is the axiom, "confectionary roboticist" literally takes the cake. very cool. very inspirational
i have a vectrex on the shelf, and one of these guys in a box on the desk:
https://www.ombertech.com/pitrex.php

holds the vectrex cpu in halt and drives the peripherals (including display) from a pi zero
Behavioral Leverage Points to Improve Your Life
I went the reverse getting a BS in Physics and getting serious experience in aerospace. Later the computer science skills developed and I did get a MS in Operations Research. My last job before retirement was a serious data science/data engineer position and the US west coast salary was great (1 day job offer, top salary). I thought so much of data science had gotten dumbed down and was easily performed my anyone w basic ML skills. In my role, the physics was a great differentiator in understanding the nuances of more complex problems we were working on. This was issues related to optics, electro magnetics, three dimensional movements, etc. so, I seemed to end up directing a whole bunch of data scientists on various efforts.
With the current situation in the US, I suspect there will be more defense work in the European countries, so I’d embrace something like a physics degree if you could find the opportunity.
Whichever one you like the most.

Hardware is 10x harder, more costlier more expensive mistakes, but also 10x less people tackle that space, so net net is all good, I’d pick whatever interests me the most
Ever heard of chesterton's fence?

If you don't understand what the code is doing, removing it sounds like a recipe for disaster.
I am surprised you have problems with 12M facts and can't process them in a week, looks like bug in software you are using.
Similar situation, I did a number of tests( ancestry, myheritage, 23andme, etc) the information it provided answered many questions, and introduced people I never would have expected to my family tree (half brother/sister, etc).

23andme had little data on my fathers side so it split my mothers side into my family tree at the great grandfather level. I spent awhile tracing people only to discover my father and mother side seemed to be related. After going on Ancestry I was able to figure the mistake.

Myheritage had European links. 23andme North American links. Ancestry had everything. The genetic time period they match against are different. 23andme matches against 100ad while ancestry 1200ad. So if you are Celtic perhaps your people were in Spain in 100ad but in Ireland or Scotland by 1200. Using different services gives you a fuller picture and understanding of human migration and your migration. The difference from 23andme telling you you are broadly northwestern european vs Cornish/Welsh/Scottish is huge but illustrates what you match against really changes your identity.
Beyond a person's life being turned upside down, one also has to wonder how much this investigation and "major hazmat incident" cost taxpayers.
I'm interested in sequencing my genome (I don't consider this data private - really any determined entity can collect it with just a bit of effort). How was your experience with Nebula Genomics?

If you would do it today, would your recommend them or somebody else?
I have created a shortcut link: fshot.org/aaf
Why? They are competing against other companies that are outsourcing the same job and probably paying less.
Is this a useful tool for you?
How do you optimize your prompts?

I had an idea and started building PromptRefiner to help me with optimizing my AI prompts. I wanted to ask you guys if I'm actually building something useful or not?

It works like:

1) You start with your base prompt
2) The AI starts asking you some questions to refine the AI and fill your missing points.
3) You get your perfect prompt

What do you think?
Just spent some time on the website. Actually looks like a really neat product. Biggest downfall is that it doesn’t offer connections _to_ spreadsheets (unless I missed that). I work in FS, we try to make dashboards with excel but it’s difficult to have a template that works across all types of client data. I think equals could be a powerful solution to that
Not some of the effects heavy custom beatsaber maps. Also vivify hasn't been ported to quest beatsaber afaik so they're still missing out on all the crazy new maps with custom unity assets and environments.
What service did you use/would recommend for sequencing?
There is a lot of academic talk about how focusing on democracy rather than constitutionality (rule of law) has done us a great disservice.

It turns out voting is much less important than limits on arbitrary executions of power.

Everything that's good comes out of their being "just" rules for the most powerful members of society, democracy can facilitate it, but does not guarantee Rule of Law.

Richard Fenyman on "cargo cult science": I think the educational and psychological studies I mentioned are examples of what I would like to call Cargo Cult Science. In the South Seas there is a Cargo Cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they’ve arranged to make things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas—he’s the controller—and they wait for the airplanes to land. They’re doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn’t work. No airplanes land. So I call these things Cargo Cult Science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they’re missing something essential, because the planes don’t land.

Democracy without Rule of Law is a cargo cult democracy. It is form without substance. It seems like it should produce good outcomes but doesn't.

The planes aren't landing...
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Claude wrote a Python file earlier to delete/clean up some folders. It was about to run, so I canceled the run. It then tried to write a bash script to delete the files. I canceled it and then tried to write the command to delete them. I was amazed by all the ways it was finding.
Perhaps this is more a statement of the working conditions there than a comment on what people actually want to do.
Does being under "deep sea" pressure also mean greater quantities of oxygen in the blood?
> The challenge is balancing the value of features with their complexity. Even those who prefer Rust's aesthetics to Zig would admit that Zig's novel approach to power/simplicity balance is something we have not seen in programming language design in many years.

I disagree. Minimalism in systems language design has been done over and over: see Go for the most recent example. Comptime is something that C++ was already doing in the form of constexpr since 2011 and a space that D had explored for over a decade before Zig came around in the form of "static if" and so forth (in addition to lots of academic work, of course). Stripping out template metaprogramming in favor of leaning heavily on compile-time function evaluation isn't novel either. I think you find the set of features that Zig has to be personally appealing, which is fine. But the argument that it's anything novel is weak, except in the trivial sense that every language is novel because it includes some features and leaves others out (but if every language is novel, then the word "novel" has no meaning).

From my vantage point, Zig is essentially a skin on a subset of C++, one that is in practice less safe than C++ because of the relative immaturity of tooling.
I like this approach, just a bit too expensive for large datasets and local LLMs not that great and harder to scale, this needs to mature a bit more but gets my thumbs up.
Great article. One classic lesson here is, “Don’t underestimate your opponent.” A powerful opponent is one where they are aware they are being underestimated.

Everyone thought he was a “comical figure”. A lot of people said Trump wouldn’t win. Well, they were a bit surprised.

The scary thing this time is that more women voters and more democrats needed to get out and vote for Harrison. Failed opportunity. The second scary thing is we see everything happening in real-time with all the knowledge of the past and those in power aren’t doing enough. Second failed opportunity.
Co-author here. We are not bots. Just two indie developers who quit their jobs trying to build impactful things.

'Vibe coding' has been great for us to prototype quickly, launch and test. As we kept building the complexity grew so much that we are hitting debugging death loops. Thats when we built this MCP.

My perspective is that MCPs are like browser extensions. There is nonpoint in building another IDE from scratch. IDEs like Cursor unlocked massive distribution channel and MCPs are hreat way to solve specific problems.

As you rightly observed, it's not the tech that is interesting. It's the ability of the tech to meet where users are is what makes it great. From my point of view, there is a specific context in which people vibe code - hobby projects, indie projects to make money, projects on legacy code, etc. They either might not have time or skill to do even simple things like adding an API. And thats where MCPs flourish. And as to why MCPs are making to the top, I think its because there are many of us who are matching the persona I mentioned.
Were you using auth in middleware?
Oil wars.

We are killing for guzzoline.

The world is running out of water.

Now there's the water wars.

Once, I was a cop. A road warrior searching for a righteous cause.

My name is Max. My world is fire and blood.
You lose track of the model the bigger it scales. Each rewrite brings you further away from understanding. Using it in spots rather then huge rewrites makes things much easier.
When the government is acting badly, yeah
Allow me to recommend Andrew Hyatt's tutorials: https://github.com/ahyatt/emacs-calc-tutorials
As usual, the EU deliberately stumbles over its own feet in the name of "innovation". If the goal was reducing electronic waste and proprietary chargers, then why suddenly open a loophole if the chargers don't have plugs?

Also, why would "fully portless" even be a thing consumers want?
Ugh, there is a lot of hype in the short term, probably not enough hype long-term, 5-10 years.
Unlikely, given that hello world takes 20 minutes to run.
They're targeting them, though. I used to use the Rasberry Pi Zero line for embedding into projects, even though it is much, much more difficult to get than the Pi Pico, because the Zero series can run Linux, opening up a lot more software.

I've switched to SBCs based on the Bouffalo Lab BL808 and more recently Sophgo SG2000 SoCs, which are in the same form factor and price range as the Pi Pico, but run full Linux. They're nowhere near as fast or capable as a desktop, laptop, or even phone/tablet processor, but they're much faster than the RP2040 and much easier to port to. I even compile target applications on them, although not the Linux kernel itself.
Co-author here. We found it pretty useful in our personal projects. Would love to hear your feedback on how it went.

If you come across any issues specific to your stack, happy to look into them.
Then I have to ask for printing to always work. Then something else that I haven't even thought of yet. Security is hard because there are so many details that must be right or you compromise useability/usefulness.
> As further proof that they had access to Oracle Cloud servers, the threat actor shared this URL with BleepingComputer, showing an Internet Archive URL that indicates they uploaded a .txt file containing their ProtonMail email address to the login.us2.oraclecloud.com server.
Vertical farming / hydroponics will solve that.
More like, AI will take your job and give you a new one.
macOS doesn't have GNU coreutils at all. It has the utils from FreeBSD.

The gobsmackingly ancient GNU software it does have is bash, because it's the last version under GPL 2. I've used Mac OS X since 10.1, so I remember when the default shell was tcsh and /bin/sh was not bash.

That's (basically) the case again on the last few macOS releases. Today, zsh is my shell of choice, including on Linux.
A less severe moronic decision was pulling in thousands of lines of Tailwind for the world's simplest webpage.
> Cursor often gets into "dead loops" trying to fix code [1][2]. But, Cursor also seems to get out of dead loops when it adds `console.log` statements everywhere.

Hah. That sounds like just... debugging.
Not in those terms, but an autobiography is coming, and bits and pieces are being explained. I expect about 10 people to buy the book, as all of the socialists will want it for free. I am negotiating with a publisher as we speak on the terms.