skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a reality of cinema that when they do a biopic or a film about a real event, they often have to make changes that enhance the drama. Some of these are reasonable, some not so. In Apollo 13, they upped the drama by significantly shortening the time required to get the LEM up and running as a lifeboat. I’m okay with that. Inserting drama where there was none is less justifiable, as it speaks to the character of the persons involved.

That said, as a retired NASA contractor, I can say that Apollo 13 is highly respected at NASA. Hidden Figures has a lot of fans there, too. In spite of the horrible physics, Gravity also has its fans - some astronauts said it really captured the feeling of being in space.
Probably important to know what percentage that fire truck is of the overall fire department's budget. Has that budget increased with inflation at a comparable amount?
we at hacker news work for first principles instead
Ask an employment attorney what it would cost to send a cease and desist letter, documenting this misrepresentation and potential fraud. This starts a paper trail in the event you need to file suit and seek damages. They may cover the cost if their internal legal team is unable or unwilling to send such a document on your behalf.

(not an attorney, not your attorney)
This is pretty much what I was asserting in my original post, my question was if there was some additional mechanism beyond simple market forces.

It's not inconceivable (nor magical in any way) to imagine treaties that would allow an actual conversion from one currency to another, where USD go in one side and Euro come out the other. Situations like this have existed in the past: currencies have been converted when, for example, the former currencies in the Eurozone were converted to Euros.

No such situations exist right now: entities just hold multiple currencies and exchange them for you.
If you started with SAS for statistics like I did, you'd see how absolutely civilized R is in comparison.
I have fond memories associated with OpenSolaris. Oracle ruined it.

I have not tried OpenIndiana, however.
> That uncertainty does not create stable markets.

Stable markets with bad outcomes are not worth defending on stability alone.

> It does not create very accurate business decisions

The business environment is not great. It does seem some part of that is the result of cheap Chinese goods that have displaced labor _and_ environmental costs flooding foreign markets. That China even uses proxy countries to push out even more is instructive.

So, if not tariffs, then what should we use to solve this?
3.7 came out on 24th February. My notes from that release: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/24/claude-37-sonnet-and-c... and https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/llm-anthropic-014/
This type of thinking is what doomed uBlock Origin. I strongly disagree.
I've wrapped a bunch of providers with ellmer: https://ellmer.tidyverse.org
Why did OpenBSD switch to clang? Licensing issues?
You can disable it in content restrictions settings. Yes, many issues, but mostly with apps not being able to open external links. To me it's worth it though.
They’ll pay more if the imported shoe costs the same or more.

The US does massive amounts of injection molding. I just signed off on my molds to be cut and run this month, how much experience do you actually have with this I wonder?
R is beautiful for writing data rich books and websites. I started with rmarkdown but believe that most of the new developments are now in quarto?
And gccrs is not really very widely used and is not the "official" Rust compiler. The Rust project chose to base their compiler on LLVM, for good technical reasons. That's bad news for the GCC project.
lmao, they don't stand a chance. We're talking about a country where the police has a special olive oil tasting department to test if local producers aren't secretly mixing their extra virgin oil with chemically treated oil from last year. Nobody food snobs like the Italians (and I love them for it).
Yes but today I find little to no benefit over python
Came here to say this. Excellent content there if it’s your sort of thing.
We've got past time the era of nodejs, and javascript surrogates running on bare-metal machines.

JSVM language is a distributed computed cluster workflows execution system, which runs programs inside of a new (but compatible with Javascript/Typescript) programming language called "JSVM".

If you know Javascript then you know JSVM.

Please read the attached PDF specification in case you are passioned about distributed computing and news about technology.

This is a teaser, full MIT project repository URL will be revealed depending on audience interest.

Just leave a "+1" in case you like the teaser idea, "0" in case you are indifferent, and "-1" in case you hate the idea presented in the PDF.
Why do we live in a world where a simple docs site is considered too complex to roll your own and requires humongous frameworks?
A jumble. Really one of his least coherent pieces.
That paper describes an experimental diff-focused approach from 2022. It's not clear to me how relevant it is to the way models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet (thinking) and o3-mini work today.
Yeah. If you actually wanted to bring manufacturing back to the US you'd figure out which industries you wanted to develop, probably subsidise them, communicate very clearly what you were going to do and then ratchet up the tariffs on those specific finishes products, whilst being sure to maintain access to raw materials and components you still needed. What you wouldn't do is slap unexpectedly high tariffs on absolutely everything, shout about how you'll do a deal if only they respect you, and then walk them back in as inept and inconsistent a manner as possible. That's what you'd do if you wanted to destroy what's left of your industry. Think there's anyone in the rest of the world relying on US suppliers that hasn't started looking elsewhere? And it might now be cheaper for Americans to import from Japan or South Korea than from US companies dependent on Chinese components in their supply chain...
Eh, if you hadn't found Stumbleupon then you would have experienced the same effect from one of the zillion other competitors in the attention economy.

You're right that this kind of novelty-seeking content has a profound impact on the brain. It's really interesting to see finally see longitudinal research, plus research on screens/novelty on child development (search for $thing + "psychosocial development").

One of the most encouraging thing I've taken away is that neutral pathways are still quite plastic well into adulthood.

For example, here's an experiment to try if you wake up and scroll in bed. After you do your morning routine, jot down a mood score (-1 feeling crummy, 0 meh neutral, +1 feeling good). You can do this for a week or two if you want to collect control data. Then, force yourself to get out of bed without looking at your phone (buy an alarm if you have too). You should see changes in your mood log within a week. Sleep regulates/replenishes dopamine levels, and scrolling through a dopamine wonderland first thing in the AM can result in dopamine dysregulation for the rest of the day. Try it!
Loved stumbleupon! I think when I realized that I was no longer stumbling upon anything interesting was the leading indicator of the long downhill trend of interesting content on the web.
I've worked on allot of pots lines and haven't done that in 20 years as its all fiber back-hauld now.

The only time I'd send power down a copper line is to fuse it back together so I didn't have to dig it up and replace it and that's super rare now as I'd just put in a order to have it replaced with a 12 pair fiber run.
>To evaluate this as your are describing, you must reveal your estimate of the workload of what Tiger Beetle has done to roll their own docs. If it took them 5 minutes, for instance, the calculus is far different than if it took 5 years. Plus you must compare that time estimate to their other priorities to estimate the opportunity cost, something that you simply can not do accurately from the outside looking in.

I don't need them to reveal their numbers to me to offer my critique, as I think few people would argue that the upfront cost of rolling your own docs site could possibly be lower than the cost of deploying an off-the-shelf solution like Hugo.

I think where reasonable people might disagree is about the total cost of ownership of Hugo vs. the home-rolled solution over five years, but I'd find it surprising if home-rolled solution wins.

>To assert that you don't believe Tiger Beetle at their word here is deeply disrespectful imo.

Where did I say that I doubt TigerBeetle's claims? I disagree with the justifications in the blog post, but it's a difference of opinion, not a question of facts.

They published this blog post, and this is HN, so I think it's well within the community standards to offer a respectful critique.
♩ Don't cry, I am just a fish
Case in point: https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/03/04/trump-joint...

But ultimately, this is why America should look towards congress for enacting lasting change.
What is the takeaway of your comment? That no president should undertake projects requiring more than 4 years?
Interesting, I've never heard that before. Do you know of a lay-man's article / book that goes more in-depth into treating mass as a curvature of space-time?
> It took several decades of consistent development.

Well... and massive investments. Where did those come from?

> It is not possible to do that, in US with 4 year election cycle

The great thing about Trump is he has made everyone forget that Congress exists and has these responsibilities.

> Next gov will just roll back all reforms, and redirects all money...

The other great thing is people forget Trump has donors and investors on his side who benefit from all these changes. The next administration will be just as beholden to these interests as this one is. The current US president is just a branded token of the elites. It's meant to keep the population in check not create a policy free for all.
They're not "custom" they're "pick your product, pick how you want it outfitted from these dropdown menus"
I find the dating on this website confusing. It says Jan 27 AND Nov 03, and when I click previous comic, in order it goes: Feb 04 / Jun 14, May 31, Oct 13, Aug 02, Jan 08.....I'm so confused.

A. Why are there 2 comics per day?
B. Why are the dates seemingly random?
Maybe start with smaller tariffs and go from there. But its not even worth defending current administration policies. Its either completely stupid or deliberately malevolent.
Stocks dive again as Wall Street realizes Trump has no idea what he's doing
You are making the mistake to confuse inheritance with class inheritance.

There is also interface inheritance, which Rust allows for with trait bounds composition, now made even easier with trait upcasting.

With some macro help, one can even do COM style of multiple interface implementation with aggregation and delegation, to simulate class inheritance, like ATL allows for with template metaprogramming.
There is no LLM that's as smart as a house cat so no.
It depends on the jurisdiction and law, but a "data breach" is when data is accessed by a party who is not authorized, or who should not be authorized. It's not just hackers. Sending data to the wrong recipient is a form of data breach. Under some definitions, sending data to the intended recipient without appropriate safeguard is a form of data breach.

In this case, health care data covered by HIPAA was sent to a party without a legal contract that extends HIPAA to the receiving party. By law, that's a data breach.

Under some legal definitions, "data breach" includes not just breakdowns of confidentiality, but also of availability and/or integrity. So a company deleting your data by accident would be considered a data breach, even though it's being accessed by fewer parties than intended. This can be important: imagine a bank or credit agency losing some or all of the data about you, this would materially impact your ability to do business in the modern world.
"Blue Shield severed the connection between Google Analytics and Google Ads on its websites in January 2024."

They're lying.

Look at the page source for the announcement of the data breach. Use of both Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.

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<script type="text/javascript" src="/static/js/jquery.cookie.js"></script>
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-KTK4E56VDB"></script>
<script>

...

<script>

(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

var check_site_id = 347;

var social_patterns =
['facebook.com/share','twitter.com/share','linkedin.com/share',
'pinterest.com/share','mailto:?subject'];

...
> At least humans still have access to the sensory data

I don't understand this point - we can obviously collect sensory data and use that for training. Many AI/LLM/robotics projects do this today...

> So it embed how we may use words, but not why we use this word and not others.

Humans learn language by observing other humans use language, not by being taught explicit rules about when to use which word and why.
What would be a better title? "Unifying gravity and electromagnetism in a classical theory"?
Alok Kanojia vs Kok Alonojia (aka Dr.K interviews himself)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXG2h3RWTPE&pp=ygUGI2RrYWl0
Theirs would be metal and cost $2300.
> Farmed animals are a means to an end, not an object of affection.

I've read a few accounts of farmers who didn't feel that way and talked about how sad they were sending the animals for slaughter, but they still did it.

There was a TV show ages ago where this guy decided to film one cow for it's life and then cook the meat. They showed the film and then he was just crying and the chef was starting to cook and be sympathetic.

Or something like https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50986683

I'm not a vegetation but I feel like I am really pushing something out of my mind to eat meat, so it is a cognitive dissonance.
> We're talking about a country where the police has a special olive oil tasting department

The US government operates several special tasting departments.
If I unsubscribe and still get marketing emails --

Or, if when I click the unsubscribe link, I am prompted to log in to an account which I never created, using a password that I do not have --

Then, with apologies to Francis Ford Coppola, my reaction is to mark as spam with extreme prejudice.
I definitely recommend this one, it has greater longevity due to the wider number of schticks the author is able to engage in over the different comics.

E.g. here's a quirky image effect: https://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=13
Yes, it is one of those things that I’d expect your average HN user to know about
[Full disclosure, work @ Firebase]

But try this:

Open up a blank Flutter template in Studio: https://studio.firebase.google.com/new/flutter

After everything initializes and your Android and web previews set up, open chat by clicking the little Gemini spark at the bottom of the workspace and then add your prompt.

YMMV, but I got a very basic, but working chess clock in one shot with "Can you replace this sample Flutter project with a fully-functional chess clock that works on Android and on the web?"
I can't help but feel on-device storage is still safer than cloud storage. Sure, can use cryptomator or similar to encrypt on cloud, but that's same with local. Only with cloud you're opening up a much bigger attack vector space than having it on-device/"at home". Cloud definitely gives better resiliency and redundancy, but data replication is also something to be cautious with if privacy is a concern.
I have a home office and sometimes my wife will come busting in with the kids being silly. It's not a big deal but I would like some sort of indication for outside the room for when I am in a meeting.

This seems more designed for shared working spaces which seem limited these days
Poor visibility is partly regulatory driven partly consumer driven. Gotta have those fat A pillars and high beltline with low seating position to max out that crash test rating.
Neuroscience-Inspired Memory Systems: A Breakthrough in AI Advancements
That's a lot of distracting elements in the design, in something intended to reduce distractions.

They're all saying "This has a lot of things, and we're going to noisily tell you about them."

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=fisher+price+busy+box&ia=imag...

What about instead an unobtrusive software-based timer on your computer?

And the notification to coworkers not to interrupt you being a low-tech "BUSY" Post-It on the back of your laptop. Or your headphones on?

Though their advertising does have some interesting features and use cases. For example, you'd need to figure out a convention equivalent to smacking the Busy Bar button, to make your colleagues slink away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_to_the_hand
I commented that because the author said "dealing with the foibles of CodeWarrior". I guess in the scenario cross-compiling wouldn't be easy, but possibly easier?
It's so strange that StumbleUpon died but TikTok thrives today.

TikTok's algorithm is based entirely on when you click the Like button and when you linger on a video, exactly like StumbleUpon's algorithm. StumbleUpon even had a video product, StumbleVideo, that was basically just TikTok.

But, in 2018, when StumbleUpon shut down and sold their assets to Mix, the prevailing wisdom was that people didn't want to use StumbleUpon because they wanted to use Reddit and Facebook, to follow curated feeds of links, instead of random links that other people like.

If that wisdom were true, TikTok should have failed too, because TikTok just gives you "random stuff that similar people like," just like StumbleUpon.

I guess it just goes to show that there's no accounting for the rise and fall of social media apps/networks.
Cars and pedestrian/bikes are an apple to oranges comparison. Its like comparing how we regulate cars to private planes. They just have completely different potential to hurt other people. Placing such a heavy burden on pedestrians/cyclists is just disproportionate to the threat they pose. There is no reason to expect a level play field relative to cars because they are just so different.

And to be clear people should be careful and look after their own safety. But that does not mean they have some moral obligation to help drivers limit the threat they pose. Nor is it reasonable to expect pedestrians to be perfect 100% of the time. Getting drunk, glancing at your phone, being distracted should not be a death sentance.
On what basis are you making this recommendation? Your personal experience negotiating nation-state level agreements between two hegemons?
Villarreal vs. the City of Laredo, on Remand from the Supreme Court [pdf]
I'm pretty sure there's no legal basis to enforce this, and that any attempt to do so would violate the First Amendment.

Not that the current administration seems very fond of it, if this recently posted (but then deleted) ICE poster is anything to go by: https://perma.cc/2FLY-4S6J
Lovely simple solution!

You should choose dependencies as carefully as you choose your partner.
gh0stcat didn't say any of that: it appears you are framing them. Guidelines:

In Comments: Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Unless you're talking about a compiler built into the kernel, I don't see that anyone is in a position to dictate to each distro what compilers they package.
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if you believe that, i have a bridge to sell you. the us government has a very definite consistent policy trajectory. only culture war issues sort of sometimes wobble. usually republicans shake things up and democrats cement in the changes.
This just seems like a fancy way of describing LoRA? At the end of the day you are still learning weights based on a described set of outputs and then applying them to inference
Given the current direction and pace it's the only sane conclusion, we went from fragile stability to complete chaos in a few decades
A 5-hour movie is long, but not that long for people used to binge-watching TV shows. And I'd argue that watching modern productions without subtitles is a clearer indication of masochism. Too many actors just mumble their lines. If you care about the dialogue, you either have to use subtitles or concentrate and remain alert all the time.
>Do you trust RMS to avoid doing shady things in the later GPL licence? I do, but he is not longer in the FSF.

Yes he is:
https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board
Brilliant novel. I was thinking about it recently. Many years after reading it, I can still remember many of
the battle/combat sequences as if I’d seen them on screen. Maybe someone could do a big Band of Brothers type adaptation, given how far along VFX have come.
That’s a common misconception. The second amendment was always intended as an individual right. District of Columbia vs Heller simply reaffirmed this.

It is the final check and balance against a tyrannical government.
Sadly no, most examples I'm familiar with are within research articles. A typical thing done within such articles is to consider a spacetime geometry, calculate its Einstein tensor and map it to some ansatz like that of a perfect relativistic fluid. It's a neat way to interpret the geometry in question as an energy/matter content.

Hope that helps point you in the correct direction!
I'm so glad you found it useful. Thanks for letting me know.
> Like, is Russia reserving its soliders on the Western front for NATO reasons rather than just using everything against Ukraine?

The Russian government is treading a fine line domestically. For most Russians, the war is a not relevant to them. They do not want to fight, which is why when it became clear Russia wasn't going to have a quick victory, there was one quick and dirty mobilization that mostly sucked up people from the outer regions, in particular ethnic minorities. Russia is also dealing with acute labour shortages because of a variety of factors, including bad demographics, at least a million people leaving the country, and demand from arms manufacturers. This is why you hear about military contracts being as high as 50x the average yearly salary.

This is why there are North Koreans fighting; there was already a program that essentially sends North Koreans to work in parts of Russia as essentially slave labour that the NK govn't gets the money for. This was just an extension of that, with the added bonus for the North Koreans that they will get their first exposure to combat in decades. There are probably a few hundred Chinese soldiers (as well as people from a host of other countries) that are in it for the money, too.
I make the mistake every few years of picking up my battered paperback copy and then end up spending an entire weekend reading the entire thing again. Such a good set of stories. Mike’s reply to the radio operator when they stress test his voice is probably my favorite passage.
I'm not that familiar with nginx config. Does this protect against path traversal? Ex: host=../../../docker.sock
> So, if not tariffs, then what should we use to solve this?

I’d argue that tariffs that increase at a known rate are better than surprise large ones. Even a 1% increase a week every Monday for a year lets everyone’s supply chain adjust gradually. You’ll know within a few weeks how your product is affected and you’ll plan for the increase over the year. That’s probably still too fast though, since factories take time to build and the whole point is to encourage local manufacturing. Given the 4 year term trump could have gone for 3 years of increases with the hope that companies would start building factories and have them running by year 4.