skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment. By analyzing the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya, the team showed that they belonged to a long-isolated and now extinct North African human lineage.'
Exploring Program Synthesis [video]
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Excise Duty usually have the non-discriminatory aspect of VAT : they’re also applied on local production.
> there's no geographic inequality to mining it.

Apart from having access to cheap energy which is collocated with... specific geographic features like geothermal / hydro energy which not all countries have access to.
Really raises the question if any of it is fit for purpose in the organisation when someone like that can rise national security adviser
Exactly! What makes history relevant is that we are still living in it.
I bought a Logitech MX Ergo a couple of years back and genuinely love it for many of the reasons other trackballs users cite in this thread - but I have noticed in the last few months that my thumb joint will get 'stuck' and makes a click when I unstick it. Definitely related to the MX Ergo and the thumb navigation like you say. I'm an older gentleman which likely contributes.

So might be tempted by an all finger alternative - at the moment I'm attempting to up my use of a terminal window manager to minimise pointer use
Yep, there will be a lot of promises for factories that should break ground in ~2028.

The White House has already demonstrated repeatedly it can't stick to its guns.
> The idea the pickup trucks are wanted in Europe is hilarious.

While demand is much lower than in the US, it's still not zero.

But I'm talking about US import tariffs, not EU.

"Light trucks" have like 80% market share in the US; if you have 25% tariffs on those (for over 60 years now, too) then there is no room to complain about 10% car tariffs in the EU, full stop.

You could make a strong argument that Fords dominance in the segment was significantly helped by protectionism (without those tariffs Ford etc. would face much stiffer foreign competition).
You could have made your point better without insulting everyone on the forum.
The point of LLM is to enable "ordinary people" to write software. This movement is along with "zero code platform", for example. Creating algorithms by drawing block-schemes, by dragging rectangles and arrows. This is old discussion and there are many successful applications of this nature. LLM is just another attempt to tackle this beast.

Professional developers don't need this ability indeed. Most professional developers, who had to deal with zero code platforms, probably would prefer to just work with ordinary code.
Maybe the long peace within the US changed things, but in most countries and especially in Europe discussing history in a room with more than 2 nationalities is a good recipe to sow dissent.
I wonder how much more evidence American people need to see Trump for being a Russian asset and working against US interests.

We are in treason territory.
This is a gross misunderstanding of what a currency actually is.

A currency is a social construct. It has no inherent value beyond what people who trade in it place on the currency.

As a result people don’t want a currency whose rules of trade are defined once and it’s unable to respond to actual world events.

If you have a currency that is indeed responsive to changes in the world then there needs to be someone who you entrust with making those changes.

At that point it doesn’t matter whether that currency is digital or cash based. I mean, in actuality even the USD digital trade is order of magnitudes greater than its physical trade.

The U.S.’s monetary institutions and its role as a trade promoting superpower is what makes the dollar stronger. Now that those institutions are not as reliable anymore and the U.S. is clearly not a trade promoter anymore, the dollar is definitely at risk.
Yeah go supports AIX. In fact I remember it having bash, and a package manager so it felt like home. AS400 was an interesting platform. I was fascinated with their almost assembly like programs, alien UIs and decades old hardware. Almost got nerd sniped. Unfortunately, I was told to use java. The jar I tested on linux worked perfectly the first time, so I couldn't even learn anything.
The funny thing is that we actually have a quite big commercial market for such utility vehicles, currently met by dropside vans: vehicles built on a van frame with a flatbed or other custom equipment on the back.

This is not really that different from how the F-series works either, providing a frame where the rear can be built up dependent on needs.

It's just that the F-150 is a terrible fit. Our dropside vans are small with a very large footprint-to-bed ratio, is light and have low fuel consumption, is almost always custom, and has zero luxury or otherwise private appeal. There is no demand for e.g. engine performance, as the light vehicle class has load and towing limits that are easily met.

The F-150 is too bulky for casual city use and without a need to optimize have a low footprint-to-bed ratio, is heavy with and thirsty, is often just used "as is" with the stock bed, and is often used privately with a significant "muscle" appeal. In order to be driven with a regular license and not be affected by truck speed limits, tracking requirements and driving/rest time limits, it would still be registered as a light vehicle, making any additional load bearing/towing capacity unusuable.

There's nothing wrong with models being extremely optimized for specific markets and unfit for others. I imagine there aren't many EU-style dropside vans in the US, not to mention EU-style trucks. Japanese Kei cars are an even more extreme case of such market optimization.
I use Authenticator Pro on Android. It offers backup and it's own encryption password --- not the same as the Android phone access key. Every authenticator app should do this in my opinion.

https://github.com/ispwd/AuthenticatorPro

In addition to this app, I keep all my passwords in a text file encrypted with AES256. And yes, my secret tokens used for 2FA are included in this file --- not the best but very convenient as I only have one file to backup.

I wrote my own simple Windows command line utility to decrypt this file in memory, search for an identifying string, retrieve the secret token and generate 2FA time based codes as needed.

As a backup to my phone, I keep this small utility and my password file (along with other crucial documents) on a micro-SD card which is further encrypted by BitLocker. This is attached to my watch strap which goes everywhere with me --- even the shower. The data is as safe as I am, if not safer.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6784665
She claimed that in "85 percent" of police cases law enforcement couldn't access the data it needed.

The proper response would be, [CLOSED][WORKING AS DESIGNED]
> If the people aren't there, wages will rise until they show up. [...] There is not, and never will be, a shortage of cleaners, for example, because anyone can do it, so as long as there are unemployed people and the wages are good enough, someone will do the work.

While this might be in a theoretical and pedantic way true, sometimes you do not have the economic context to provide those larger wages, so there will technically be no "shortage" - but just because the jobs themselves will disappear.

If you look at poor countries or regions, there is garbage, dirt and dilapidation everywhere. Clearly there is - in a practical way - a need for cleaners, but by your definition there is no "shortage" - because they cannot afford to pay anything for those jobs.
People in the US dont want to work 14 hour shifts for 50c a day for some reason.
Orbital space tourism and space manufacturing could potentially make a significant market in terms of launch mass (that is, if you launch 1000-ton facilities instead of 1-ton satellites without necessarily occupying a large number of new orbits). But this is kinda speculative at the moment.

I think the real motivation for Starlink is precisely this -- there is otherwise no near-term market for greatly increased launch capacity. Starlink actually doesn't make too much sense from a purely technical perspective: in wireless point-to-point communications, distance is your enemy squared, both in terms of signal power and density. And it only gets worse when you have to punch through a cloud layer. But it is also the only near-term application that could absorb the launch volume offered by the Starship, so the two kind of feed off each other. This is not unlike the past ISS - Space Shuttle relationship, but at least the public is not paying for it this time.
That is because both were manipulated and ashamed of it. Russia is too sophisticated to play just one side. They have centuries of experience playing various ethnicities within russia against each other to maintain control. In the 2016 US election, Russia would have had a strong plan either way, what the alternative would have been and if would have succeeded, who knows, but it is note worthy how many members of the US administration, including its head, were formerly democrats.
That was the part of Bretton Woods agreement, 1944.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_Conference
My Spanish is more advanced (I was fluent in everyday Spanish, not so much in the more formal use), and I'm reading El Aleph now. It sure takes quite some effort. So many unknown words. And he can turn a phrase quite concisely. But worthwhile.
Obviously it depends.

A room always full of people might not need much decoration.

In a private office, you might want to hang a colorful painting and have some colorful knick-knacks, or a colorful sofa.

You figure out the right amount of color accents for you. But without overwhelming the senses by painting the whole room bright orange, you know?
> I feel there are some recent big own goals

I'm not sure I know what you mean. Do you mind elaborating?
Probably to give Russia concessions in the Ukraine negotiations.

In my opinion Trump is trying to do everything he said he would in his campaign, he is trying to get the war in Ukraine over ASAP and be the peace bringer.

Even in the leaked Vance messages you saw his view on Europe, which I have to agree with in that case. They feel like they are getting screwed in the EU-US relations and they are looking to pull support, ignoring what the OP said about them being the reserve currency/global police. I guess they see that as a bad deal.

I think big picture Trump sees Russia as a regional player and China as US main rival so he doesn't really care about pushing Russia or "winning" in Ukraine. The minerals deal looks like he wants to show he got something for the money spent compared to Biden.
Nice catch.-
Not all humans are driven by the same motivations.
you can just read the methodology where they published it here: https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations
I don’t get your point. Should Americans not want to improve the position of America? Make America Great, so to speak?
I came across erotic films in a Swiss channel, so yes. The catch is that they probably were streaming it at 3 a.m. in the night but i watched it at 7 p.m across the ocean
I have had showdead enabled for years and I think I can count the number of dead comments that didn't deserve the status on one hand.
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That Democrats have held both the white house and congress several times over the last decades, and didn't try to put in place some reasonable voter ID laws is really sick.

Basically the law they would need is "states can do whatever voter ID they want, if it's free and easy to get ID and 9X% of voters not just _can get it, but actually actually have it, otherwise they can't". Or they could have made a federal ID and ensured everyone gets it.

But Democrats always felt that even going ner voter id laws were a bit dangerous. It always rang like "voter suppression" to them (and in many ways it probably was). But they missed the chance to make it impossible for Republicans to abuse it as voter suppression - and here we are now, worrying that there will be voter ID laws despite many lacking ID. It's infuriating.

Why the idea of "we'll just make sure people have ID" is so unimaginable is just completely impossible to understand. It doesn't matter that there is no actual in-person voter fraud. Voter ID laws are a good thing anyway - if everyone actually has ID. It adds trust to the process and god knows the US needs a process where people actually believe it's secure, not just one that IS secure.
Sure, but that doesn't make the original statement correct.

>WWII turned the United States from a relative backwater to a military and industrial superpower.
So is the Yen, Pound and swiss Franc - many currencies are. What's your point?

Pound is about 5% if I remember correctly, which is a higher weighting than the Euro for trade:reserve holding ratio.
Seeing yourself as a victim makes it easy to justify your actions.
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> And to be clear, we pay the same VAT on internal goods

This isn't a fair comparison. Local produces also have VAT reduced by the value of goods they bought locally, so it is not such a burden for a local producer vs importer who doesn't benefit from such VAT reduction at all for his costs.
Yes, extreme reactionaries like the United Auto Workers union who showed up in some quantity at the tariff show last night.

The reality is "left wing" parties have completely abandoned their traditional working class demographic - both through encouraging manufacturing to be offshored and allowing in mass unskilled labor to compete with them. During the Bush era I thought working class folks were voting against their self interest when they voted Republican. That's not the case anymore.

It's convenient to try to play this off as some kind of foreign influence thing, but the Democrats did this to themselves.
Brave of you to assume that comrade muskov understands anything.
My suspicion is that Trump will declare a national emergency and suspend elections at the mid-term if it looks like the Republicans will lose seats in the House.
Using natural language to specify and build an application is not unlike having a game design document before you actually start prototyping your game. But once you have implemented the bulk of what you wanted, the implementation becomes the reference and you usually end up throwing away the GDD since it's now out of sync with the actual game.

Insisting that for every change one should go read the GDD, implement the feature and then sync back the GDD is cumbersome and doesn't work well in practice. I've never seen that happen.

But if there ever comes a time when some AI/LLM can code the next version of Linux or Windows from scratch based on some series of prompts, then all bets are off. Right now it's clearly not there yet, if ever.
In this particular case for me I see a certain kind of artistic beauty in the recital. The fact, that we as a society try to keep something going for 639 years, just a sliver of a thread connecting all those different lives together. Not knowing if it will work, how it will end up, if it will fail spectacularly or just fizzle out into obscurity.

I wouldn't say that people who do not see this as art are wrong, that's the beauty of art isn't it? It's in the eye of the beholder. To me this recital sparks some hope or in any case makes me stop for a second and wonder about greater things than just my day to day.
What you are describing is fairly easy to get, at least in Europe, e.g. from https://www.whittard.com/tea/tea-type/green-tea/dragon-well-...

They also have some of GPs favorite:
https://www.whittard.com/all/ceylon-orange-pekoe-loose-tea-p...
> What still baffles me is how people act like this was some kind of thoughtful decision.

I'm afraid it is. An unholy coalition of capitalist-anarchists and ultra-conservatives is the driving force behind it. They both want to reduce the influence of the government to a level as small as possible. That can only be done by dismantling the current federal government.
Having reviewed the proposal (of course no guarantee that's what discriminated unions (aka product types aka algebraic data types) will look like), and it appears that it very much integrates nicely with the language.

I don't suspect they'll make too many changes (if any) to the existing standard library itself, but rather will put functions into their own sub-namespace moving forward like they did with concurrent containers and the like.

Given their penchant for backwards compatibility, I think old code is safe. Will it create a schism? In some codebases, sure. Folks always want to eat the freshest meat. But if they do it in a non-obtrusive way, it could integrate nicely. It reminds me of tuples, which had a similar expansion of capabilities, but the integration went pretty well.
That requires the user to reach the "small karma threshold". Difficult when the user you replied to has negative karma after several months of HN participation.
No I'm not deducing anything, I'm speaking from my experience in television.

Yes, the type of drama does include the range you're describing. Movies are mixes of genres, tones, categories.

And no, modern comedies are not desaturated "more often than not". I don't know what comedies you're watching, but it's not the case.
A university president makes a case against cowardice
> The future was never really "ours" if American businesses can't afford American labor

This is worth hanging on the wall in big letters. There was a time when in the West governments and even a good number of enterprises big and small cared for their people. This responsibility has by and large been replaced by a view of the world where profit is the only aspect that counts.
We need some better terms for GenAI output – "slop" is too benign
https://archive.ph/a9ie5
The custom keyboard bubble is really deep and filled with many, many different kind of setups which makes research not really easy.

To get you started:

- QMK is probably the most mature firmware for non-wireless devices and widely used. Probably the best starting point to get in touch with all the different concepts of keymap layers, one-shot modifiers, hold-tap-mechanics, ...
- Via/Vial is based on QMK and simply tries to provide a GUI for instant and live configuration of the keyboard, instead of doing it by code.
- ZMK is also very stable and designed for wireless usage (battery consumption) but also REALLY complex because of the toolchain (at least in my opinion)
- RMK, KMK, ... are all different kind of firmwares trying to do something different or better or just in a different language like rust or python. Most of the time these kind of firmware expect some kind of "basic knowledge". So I would start with the classics QMK or ZMK.
Oh wow, I had no idea! I recommend googling "Adolf Hitler" also.
That's interesting, and if true (what one publicly states does not necessarily reflect ones actions) then the mind remains boggled.
People that support him don't care about evidence. It's a cult following.
> It's terrifying to think that robots like this will probably be used in the defense industry at some point

So what? Is keeping us safe a bad thing somehow? I can't get these people who reflexively think anything weapon-shaped is evil. Violence is good sometimes.
That said, I've a MacPro 3.1 in production (also 17 years now – always up), which is from Apple's era of easily (or even hot) swappable parts. Apart from failing 3rd party RAM, no issues ever. – And I'm probably going to upgrade the drives to SSD (still HDD) this year, since you can still get new upgrade parts for its ancient busses.

(And for the failing RAM: open the hood, a LED tells you which strip is failing, swap it, close, go on… The build quality is quite amazing, BTW.)
Calcium may have unlocked the origins of life's molecular asymmetry
'What makes this study especially intriguing is its suggestion that polyesters -- simple polymers formed from molecules like tartaric acid -- could have been among life's earliest homochiral molecules, even before RNA, DNA, or proteins.'
Thermal conductivity?
The Turing Test and our shifting conceptions of intelligence (2024)
It needs to be reflected faster in quarterly results. When the effect takes a year or two, nobody notices and there are too many other variables/externalities to place blame.
There’s been many people opposed to free trade for decades, on both sides like Pat Buchanan and Bernie Sanders. You can think those guys are incorrect in their analysis, but calling it “mindless” is just ridiculous.

This tariff regime is simply a “minimal viable product” aimed at the idea of reducing structural trade deficits.
You don't want to say the word sex? Why?
Anti-coercion instrument: the EU's new weapon to protect trade
An interesting blog post that would probably do well to look into something like Rob Kegan's theories of adult development [0] and looking up some stats on how many people fit into each category. People actually categorise fairly well into a model where ~66% of the population simply don't understand the concept of independent thought and rely heavily on social signalling to work out what is true.

That model explains an absurd number of social dynamics and a big chunk of politics - which is mostly people with a high level of adult development socially signalling to the masses what they are meant to be doing.

The important observation is that it isn't intellectual honesty that is the problem or truth-seeking the solution. It is actually whether someone is capable of identifying that truth != popular opinion. People who form their opinions by social osmosis can still be intellectually honest if they land in the right sort of community, but they fall apart under social pressure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kegan#The_Evolving_Self
Propaganda and lead poisoning did a number here.

It's the perfect storm.

I don't see an end to this
> others are probably too tight inside the American umbrella (for defense for example).

The UK is reconsidering. If the bloody UK is not confident, who else would be? They might be too tight inside for now, but that is a strategic weakness and it will only go one way. Short of the US making it a satellite, it will only loosen.
What's in Space: A realtime 3D map of objects in Earth orbit
Foreign held debt is less than 30% of outstanding, and less than that is sovereign-owned, so I don't think devaluing or attempting to restructure foreign debt via "century bonds" will have much effect on US debt obligations.

I seriously doubt this administration understands any of this. I agree that they don't care, but I don't think they know what's going to happen. No one does.