skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extremely well written and fascinating story on a competing theory for the mass extinction. still not convinced that the generally accepted Alavarez Asteroid hypothesis is wrong. Worth a read nonetheless.
The Q400 is actually a 76-person airliner.

Most airliners don't have keys, thus rely on perimeter fences for security.

This single confused airline worker is going to cause massive inconvenience for other airline employees and increased cost to US airports and operators, similar to the suicidal Germanwings co-pilot who deliberately crashed into a mountain in 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

Also, the impotence of F-15 chase planes was demonstrated.

They can follow an airliner over a populated area like Seattle, but then what? If the thief is confused and doesn't issue threats, then what?
China's one child policy is from the 1980's. Mao was out of power and dead by that point.
I missed watching their livestream as it was 3am, and my YouTube search-fu isn't good enough to find the archive link.

Is there an archive link, or is it just gone because I didn't watch right then?
That really misrepresents it - eugenics was popular across much of the globe in the early 20th C, particularly in the USA. It was mainly the actions of Germany through the war that killed the idea off in the democratic nations in the postwar years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States
Tequila is made specifically from blue agave so they can't use other types of agave to produce it and still call it tequila.
> But I'm very skeptical that I could "train" them to start exchanging items for food. In captivity a crow's intelligence can be especially fostered and trained because there's no other source of food to distract it.

What seems not to have been mentioned so far is the difference between the economic rationality of an individual versus what happens when there's a large population of those individuals.

AFAICT, the goal of these projects isn't to train individuals but to train the population, in aggregate, perform the task.
That is too bad. There was more to it than Redwood City.

Working in the broadcast equipment world, you run into old school people from that company. Here's one I used to know.

https://archive.org/details/HollywoodBowl
No Texas, no Florida, no California, no NY, no NJ, no Massachusetts, no Pennsylvania

50%+ of the US population right there?
In the show, Olivia remembers those tones and happens to have an app for that on her smartphone, Walter doesn't make that leap.

I found some applications on the Play Store that can allegedly decode the tones, so it might not be so strange.
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Yup, rural co-ops can do a whole lot of things for their customers, when the big cable companies and telcos aren’t squeezing the sheeple for every red nanopenny.

Funny how that works out.
Agree that we need to lower the population but this is best done gradually. A sharp demographic shift cause a lot of instability and problems.

With too dramatic shift you can’t take care of old people anymore. People will reject essentially murdering old people to save the environment.

I think birt rates around 1.8 - 1.9 is probably a sensible rate. That will cause a gradual decline. 1.2-1.3 is way too low and will cause a lot of problems.
I agree. But I don't see how it has any bearing on the situation: they are affected by the extremely high housing prices as well, to a much greater extent, and real estate taxes, while high, represent only a small fraction of state revenue. Sales and business taxes dominate there. Then there's the issue of the explosion of administrative personnel. As a parent, I'm not even sure what most of those folks do. I'm sure they "have to live somewhere", but I'd rather spend the money on teachers, schools, and supplies, TBH.
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The one child policy was never a strict limitation to one child, policies are almost never perfectly successful at surfing their goals, and it was weakened in a series of steps already, so it's not at all inconsistent with it having existed to be surprised that the actual birthrate on China is below replacement.
Not gonna lie, one of my favorite things about vue is that cli.

Don't even know why since once it's run and the project is setup, it mostly stays out of the way, and I've learned to put all configuration in package.json.

Hmm, maybe that's why.
Your array of NSString example has little to do with generics. Instead think of a class that contains an NSArray, and has methods to do specific things to the array items, for example a sort() method. Using generics you can define the array values to match the type given when the class is created. So the same class could contain NSStrings, UImages, UIControls, etc, etc, and sort accordingly.
Not even close.

Here's one for 77 million. Estimates start at 45 million and go up from there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_by_communist_reg...
We didn't do a livestream since we were concerned about showing credentials in the terminal in case things didn't go according to plan. We did record it and plan to publish it since it went according to plan.
I'm all for anything that can reduce the number of cars in European cities.

That said, whether they're explicitly forbidden in your country, or in a legal grey area, I think anyone riding these scooters is asking for trouble. If you do cause an accident, your personal liability insurance will not cover anything. Even if you aren't at fault, you are on a vehicle that has no legal category, no insurance, and is not supposed to be used on public roads. Given that some models go up to 50 km/h, this kind of risk sounds pretty insane.

We definitely need legislators to work things out before SV startups put them in the hands of unaware people.
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same, please get in touch with me.
I wonder if China will be forced to encourage immigration. Illegal immigration is apparently already growing rapidly.

Companies can’t find workers anymore so they start smuggling in people to do the job

At some point this illegal stream will become so large that one has to consider legalization.
It's controversial because people without ID overwhelmingly vote for one party. If having an ID were uncorrelated with party affiliation, we wouldn't be having this stupid conversation.
Not useful as I’d rather find that mistake when a customer reports the crash, instead of having the compiler tell me?
They're the explicit part of a larger idea.

I grew up Baptist, and remember the preacher explicitly making the same argument. There just were not a lot of people who defined their identity around it; they still internalized the idea though.
Which is a problem for developers who simply want to write code without having to reason about whether it’s safe to dereference something, and without having to worry about a simple oversight resulting in the programmatic equivalent of summoning Cthulhu.
My mistake. The guys following Mao were completely different - not following the same ideology at all.
What would be your platform?
This is what happens when Tesla has competition
That’s not relevant to this problem: if your boss, union, the person who just bought your vote, etc. is in a position to check they can just ask you to show them.

A traditional ballot is immune to this as long as it’s not broadly possible to have someone follow you into the booth.
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I don't understand how come those Germans bought this garbage for billions. worst deal ever!
This is about the supervolcano hypothesis.

Note that this and the Alvarez asteroid hypothesis aren't mutually-exclusive; a significant impact event could in fact trigger vulcanism on a massive scale.

There's plenty of evidence that the K-T impactor was real and slammed into the Earth. It alone might've caused the massive die-offs, or it might've triggered vulcanism and/or venting of poisonous gas deposits from beneath the seabed.
I’ve never understood this opinion, and always wonder if it’s a professional developer espousing it. Because most of your time as a commercial developer is spent debugging, and Swift makes it far easier to write correct code, and to find bugs when you write incorrect code.
I’ve just tinkered with wasm and rust, but it was surprisingly pretty straightforward. It seems there a huge amount of effort being placed in the ecosystem. Great project so far! I’ll have to check out the bom tools.
I've never understood how the concept of a "technocracy" was any different from "government, but more complicated and more reliant on cool heads and intelligent decisions." That just sounds like what republic democracy would be if we elected better people. With the same people, a "technocracy" would just be a more authoritarian version of the government we have now, with way more power to plan centrally but not much more capability to do a good job at anything.
Automation will always be a superior option to immigration. You own the tech you develop, and you don’t have to be comfortable with your nation’s culture changing due to mass immigration.

Japan is starting to crack a bit on this front (allowing immigrants in), but China has the resources to see such a policy succeed. It also behooves them to develop these technologies as part of their China 2025 campaign.
It will be interesting to see how this PEP is handled by the community with Guido off on a permanent vacation, and the mood among Python core devs seemingly "no major changes to syntax for the next little while" .

Personally, some of the examples using the new operators are in fact easier to read, but others border on illegibility, and I don't think the tradeoff is wise.

Then again, I felt the same way about Python's decorator syntax (ie. @) when it was proposed, and I still find it jarring.
Title should read "AWS bucket configuration error by Amazon employee...".

Title makes it seem like AWS system flaw, it's not.
I don't recall. The lead O/S engineer was from Purdue so perhaps he went to XINU right away out of familiarity.
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Great, thank you for clarifying that. I haven't yet had to carry out such a massively involved migration plan, and so I'm always interested in learning from the process of others.

And congratulations to the whole team on the move. I know it must be a relief now that it's behind you.
But if I'd like to support older browsers I am out of luck, no?
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I had no idea that electric scooters were a fad elsewhere, but the tone of this article makes me glad they aren't in the UK. The assumption seems to be that they'd be on the footpath, which just sounds crazy to me. As for the roads, I thought the pedelec compromise of not allowing throttle controls was quite sensible.
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People were freaking out over possible Russian influence in the last election - wait until they find out the voting machine company had the equipment made in China.
> if you start it using the desktop GUI, systemd is not used, so I have to “ps aus | grep redshift“, copy the PID (or process name) and use kill or killall.

Or, since you started it with the GUI, you could just choose "quit" from the menu that appears when you click on it.
If we can trust Politifact (we can) 1 of 10 white citizens and 1 out of 4 black citizens do not have a driving license: https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/jul/11/eric...

There is the additional complication that in some states they'll yank your license for unpaid traffic fines or for uninsured driving. It's fair that you can't drive but it isn't fair that traffic scofflaws can't go to the polls.
China actually is in the process of establishing immigration agency and relevant laws/policies to encourage immigration.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/21...
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I am really looking forward how cities will transform in the next 10 years.
I am hoping for less car space and more bike-lanes.

Also, everything that has an engine does not belong in the pedestrian zone.
I have a PDF of some of my Factor related blog posts here if interested: https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/04/04/collection-of-factor-ar...

It gives an overview of using some Factor libraries and features. Some have bitrot by now but many still work.
The evidence for a massive impact precisely at the K/T boundary is ironclad. Any alternate theory in which the impact was not causal has to explain how this incredible coincidence (the largest impact in the past 100 million years occurring in a layer deposited in just thousands of years, right at the boundary) occurred.
GitLab VPE here. This instinct proved correct. We'll look into editing the video this week after the team gets a breather.
Uh, you're being sarcastic but that is true. Deng Xiaoping is about as close to Mao ideologically as Trump is to Obama.

The revisionists and/or reformers survived the cultural revolution and won the power struggle after Mao's death.
And Swift, which uses automatic reference counting instead of GC. This is not a “zero-overhead” design like what Rust aims for; sometimes it has quite a lot of overhead. But it is free from the phenomenon of GC pauses.
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For those interested, Tonne Software (http://www.tonnesoftware.com/) among some other programs made a software to draw personalized meter scales. Unfortunately not open source but worth a look nonetheless.

I would love a library to implement virtual instruments (VU meters, ammeters, voltmeters, scales etc.) using most common graphic libraries, that is, an instrument "component" with a set of rules for its needle min-max values, speed, ratio, inertia etc, and some nicely drawn needles and background usages/styles to replicate vintage or modern instruments.
I admit having tried ages ago to do something similar in Delphi, a radio virtual scale, but failed badly: In my approach I tried to move the background (a scanned replica of a real radio scale) under a smaller window with fixed needle, but smoothness was terrible. Animating the needle would probably have been easier.
It's a generalization of a technique that was called decaf for doing it with cofactor 4 groups. It's a coffee joke.
> brain structures that we usually associate with it

That's just human (or, more generally, mammalian) exceptionalism/bias.

As a sibling comment helpfully linked, there's now research showing that avian brains create/house intelligence in different parts, with different structures.
Wow, and that makes perfect sense too.
Generally you can get by without photo ID, your Social Security card is much more important to have wrt benefits and employment.
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Python: https://jobs.lever.co/tessian/9046cd4f-1148-450c-baf8-0567df...
Factor used to have ARM support back in the days of Windows Mobile: https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/02/17/factor-on-windows-mobil...

The ARM backend has bitrot now so no longer works.
I'm curious why you don't use Tailwind, which seems basically like Tachyons except with configuration for things like breakpoints?
In practice, “equity” means fair and nuanced, “equality” means totalitarian sameness, regardless of appropriateness or usability. IOW the most sensible goal is called equity, not equality.

SJW’s diversity (hierarchy of victimhood) is itself disingenuous discrimination justified with any number of inconsistent rationalizations.

And for bonus points: “Feminism” even the name blantantly worships one sex over another. (Queue Camille Paglia.)
Took me a few seconds longer to find it than I expected:

https://electronjs.org/releases
I was not allowed to attend an elementary school a block from my house because I had the wrong skin color, and was bused 1.5 hrs each way (3 hrs total) to a gang-infested “magnet” school. Thanks diversity!
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> The software consisted of several routines running concurrently. Both the Data Entry and Keyboard Handler routines shared a single variable, which recorded whether the technician had completed entering commands.

Raise your hand if you've made this type of mistake many times in the past. Most of us have the luxury of not having our software bugs affect human lives.

It's a shame they've removed the hardware safety controls. I don't think I'd even feel comfortable programming such a powerful tool without such circuit breakers.
> united by common descent, history, culture, or language

Are you saying Europeans don't have any descent, history, or culture in common?
No doubt, but the Microsoft acquisition must have pushed the priority of the move through the roof.
> But I'd rather be a well paid and connected idiot than a poorly paid smart person.

As an aside, this is always an interesting thought experiment.

I read an example in John Carreyrou's Bad Blood (Theranos expose) recently:

"Several members of the Frat Pack joined Greg and two of his colleagues from the engineering department for lunch on the big terrace overlooking the parking lot one day. A discussion about the low IQs of some of the world’s top soccer players led them to debate the question, Would you rather be smart and poor or dumb and rich? The three engineers all chose smart and poor, while the Frat Pack voted unanimously for dumb and rich. Greg was struck by how clearly the line was drawn between the two groups. They were all in their mid-to late twenties with good educations, but they valued different things."
Thank you.

It's not quite over though. Monday traffic will be far higher than the weekend. People will need to login, which will put unusual stress on those endpoints.

Also, there is a small chance someone experiences malformed or missing data. There was only a single repo that we know experienced this, which we're already working on. So I'm only talking about unknown unknowns. So we will be on high alert to respond to any such requests and retrieve data from the archives in the previous infrastructure.
The fact everyone knows it shows how safe computing is!

Except how about the program that allocated shifts to doctors somewhere and needless put someone on who was tired.... so someone dies.

Therac-25's biggest bug that kills is the fact it distracts morons from the real issues.
> Stacks are also efficient. The JVM bytecode is actually a stack language, for example.

Being stack-based doesn't help JVM efficiency. Modern JVM's take that bytecode and immediately translate it to some other non-stack-based form and then compile it. JVM bytecode is effectively a serialization format for syntax trees. (Stacks are a nice notation for serializing a tree.)
Some things can't just be put to the vote, they need to be run by career civil servants. Pension plans need to be actuarially sound, you can't contribute more or less, depending on which party is in charge. You'd also like to see architects in charge of town planning. I'm sorry if that's too technocratic.
This article seems to be garnering more attention over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17741592
Great article, but the ending made little sense:

We all chuckled at this prediction—mass extinction, by this point, having become something of a macabre inside joke. Just past the spoil, we reached the end of the road, which was lined with piles of white dirt too tall to see over. Clambering over them in search of outcrops, we were confronted by a strange view on the other side: an enormous field of coal, pockmarked with holes. The black earth had been dug at regular intervals to create thousands of pits, all the size and depth of shallow graves. Each one had its own mound of white earth beside it, as if waiting to be filled. No one could explain what they were.

This has little to do with the rest of the article, raises a whole slew of questions, and the phrase "no one could explain what they were" is uncharactersitically vague.

It feels like I missed the punchline to a joke. I can imagine the kinds of debates about the origins of the pits might resemble the debate about the impact theory, but this indirection seems like an odd way to end an otherwise clearly written article.

What am I missing?
As far as the history shows, China has never been an immigration country, unless the home of immigrates were conquered by China.
More context on the "backtracking" remark: https://theintercept.com/2018/08/08/google-censorship-china-...

They bought a Chinese directory with a "search engine" that just redirects to Baidu, but kept all the juicy search terms to seed the future product.
Interesting, not sure, but appreciate the real world examples section. Nice work
A neat gender balance would be better for the people involved than an insanely skewed gender balance that favours men.

That being said, one could substitute China -> America and, gender -> wealth, unmarried -> jobless, and I think the accusation would be similar. I've had Americans seriously tell me that the country is on the brink of civil war, which seems about as bad as anything that could come from China's gender imbalance. I'd link that to economic problems, it is the explanation that makes the most sense to me.

Basically, there is a real concern; but I'm not sure it is an /unacceptable/ outcome of the One Child Policy. It might just be an outcome. The OCP can easily be cast as a policy of courage and prudence; overpopulation carries a real threat of starvation and collapse if it overshoots what the local resources can support.
Slava is working on Swift at Apple now AFAIK
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This is deeply incorrect - SO is actually a very ineffective medium for answering very niche questions
Redis has authentication.
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"In 1986 and 1996 respectively, California voters passed Propositions 58 and 193, which extended Prop 13 to exclude from reassessment property transfers between parents and children (58) and grandparents and grandchildren (193). As a result, when you inherit a home in California, you inherit its tax assessment as well"