skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not too long ago, I was very close to having a "constant bearing, decreasing range" (CBDR) accident that the article is talking about.

I failed to slow down adequately to a T-junction and almost drove straight in front of a truck, despite having looked in that direction twice before entering the intersection.

I'm pretty sure my vision was (partially) occluded by the corner pillar and/or a snow pile on the side of the road and therefore tricking my brain exactly as the article describes.

All it takes is a change in speed to avoid this accident. I now take extra caution in these situations, especially T-junctions or 4-way intersections without traffic lights.
Like tumbleweeds as air plants[∆], floating around like helium-filled beach balls, living off the humidity and occasional puddle or storm.

One problem with floating plants is that dirt and water are heavy.

[∆]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillandsia
We started using Blue Apron a couple of times a week and an unexpected benefit was that my kids have started cooking and helping in meal prep more. Having the correct ingredients in the needed portion size with clear text and lots of images makes cooking very kid friendly.
Some some post it on the google slack channel
Butterick's Practical Typography – 2nd edition
My home router has the following

/ip firewall filter
add action=accept chain=input connection-state=established
add action=accept chain=input connection-state=related
add action=accept chain=input dst-port=5000 protocol=udp
add action=accept chain=input dst-port=6000 protocol=udp
add action=accept chain=input dst-port=6001 protocol=udp
add action=accept chain=input protocol=icmp
add action=accept chain=input dst-port=22 protocol=tcp src-address-list=Mgmt
add action=accept chain=input dst-port=179 in-interface-list=LAN protocol=tcp
add action=drop chain=input in-interface=btopenreach
add action=drop chain=input

Clearly it's possible that an attacker could come in from the back door (desktop, XSS etc), I could lock down the BGP more, and tighen up Mgmt beyond it's current fairly wide subnets (a /16 owned by work and my wired range), but it becomes a hassle, which leads to more disabling of the "action=drop" while debugging. My backup script emails me when the configuration changes

To check if your proxy is enabled (probably shouldn't be)

/ip proxy print
enabled: no
I think the 12+ hour days is what helps people in the military fall asleep so quickly.
A few decades ago, books were often rather expensive. People didn't buy a book but borrow it from a library and they shared book with others. Or they planned to sell a book later on. In such a situation, it's better to make notes on extra sheets of paper. Since books are cheap now and you hardly get anything for used books (unless they are an antiquity), it probably doesn't matter.

I still think though there is a surplus value in making notes on extra sheets of papers: it's easier to skim through your notes and to find something, and it's easier to archive your notes.
While likely true[1] I think that's a pretty gross diversion of the topic. However fires start, there remain issues of how quickly they spread, how damaging they become, and how hard they are to control. Those all come down to the overall condition of the land. If somebody drops a lit cigarette or fails to bank a cookfire properly, but that doesn't cause a fire of any consequence because the local plant life hasn't all turned to tinder, that doesn't even become part of the statistics. The problem is that conditions have become so bad that previously harmless human activity can now cause a massive conflagration, and we shouldn't distract from that.

[1] https://www.nps.gov/articles/wildfire-causes-and-evaluations...
Think about it as a 1000 independent sometimes redundant embedded systems. 10000 lines of code you can write alone in 2 years for middle complexity project. It’s not single data bank application.
Everyone this cool website gets posted I point them to this - http://blog.notdot.net/tag/damn-cool-algorithms
I want to politely disagree with the comments here telling that this book should be categorized as a "undergrads book". This is a way to neutralize the content of the book for a broader audience, that is, we are doing everything wrong in most software development environments.

Moreover the author commits a big mistake in saying that Google is a good example of clean software design. Talk with people inside the company to get a real picture, it's full of monsters that you have to maintain just with "tactical programming". This book is very well applicable inside Google as well.
Really? In what way?
In addition to every component that has some kind of data bus you also have the fly by wire system which includes all of Airbus’ ‘laws’ for the different flight envelopes. You also have modern navigation gear and the displays and interfaces that come with that. Just look at the cockpit and realize everything in there is software and it becomes clearer.
Clarifying export of 3D entities with Aspose.CAD
Everything?

Modern avionics is insanely complex. This isn't something you throw 1-year self taught JS devs on.

When I worked on next-gen turbofans, we had multiple dozen engineers working on managing the requirements of the software, much less the software itself.

You have the main avionics software managing the flight itself, the engine software managing fuel consumption, and the 3x safety factor required to be certified.
I did a year in Berlin and tend to agree with Peter Thiels assessment - “I always thought Berlin would be a great place for innovation, but now I think it’s a place people in their 20s move to when they want to retire”

Personally I had a lot of good times in Berlin, but it didn't feel like it had the drive of the valley.

Recently moved to Toronto, and loving it here so far. Great scene, smart & friendly people and lots of growth.

Not trying to badmouth Berlin, it's a super cool city. Just didn't hit the mark for me.

https://business.financialpost.com/technology/torontos-tech-...
I don't think you understand what's being discussed here.

Some countries force their car drivers to always have their lights on.

The fact that some idiots think it's the same as driving with the high beams on all the time is absolutely different.
So you think the one hour quoted by the article isn't the time it takes for the system to boot but rather the time it takes for the maintenance to access the device, reset it, and close everything?
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> If all they're good for anyway is bombing 3rd world countries into submission, hey, just buy a mothballed supertanker, pave it over and load it up with cheap turboprop planes carrying bombs. Equally good for bombing people armed with AK-47's and RPG's, and you'd save billions! :)

What parts of a modern aircraft carrier do you think are redundant? They still need to operate far away from bases and friendly ports (after all, that's the point of a carrier), so they still need nuclear power and to carry fuel for their own escorts. They still need all the radar/radio/command-and-control functions. They still need to be able to maintain their air wing, so they still need hangers, elevators, all of that. (I guess you're arguing for loading a carrier with rugged bush planes and assuming that you could reduce maintenance requirements by doing that, maybe getting to the point of just parking the planes on deck? It's an interesting idea but existing bush planes are generally designed to operate in savannah/desert. I don't know how possible it is to build a plane that can stand up to saltwater spray).
In the end, they closed the biggest contract that matters.
The point is to grok the entire system: Hardware, OS, compiler, interpreter...etc.

I think building a FORTH would be educational, but I've never seen a tutorial (including JonesForth) that can take you from zero to Forth. Everyone just says it is easy. Maybe it is more or less obvious with more Assembly background?
Using Multiple Environments to Improve Your Development Workflow
Yes but there's nothing surprising about the Walled Garden Company promoting their own snowflake version of Vulkan and insisting everyone who wants to run software must do things their way. This is the same company who has totally locked down the tooling to create and publish iOS apps to only be possible on their hardware.
Optimisation methods tend to get stuck in local optima. I'm sure nature sqeezed out every ounce of possible performance out of the current photosynthesis but that doesn't mean there can't be vastly superior process doing basically same thing but different enough that it won't spontaneously get discovered by evolution in next billion years.
Kudos to Kapwing for being attentive to their employee's family and emotional lives. However, it's irritating that parents receive perks at the expense of single and childfree employees (who don't get weeks of time off for _their_ families, and who are expected to cover for the parents on leave). IMHO, all employees should get the same amount of time off, regardless of whether or not they have children.
Having seen a similar bug on humble Netscalers, and found a much shorter reboot quite difficult to schedule, I do believe the operational challenge here.
I don't really see anything out-of-the-ordinary here.

The fact that security guys haven't yet managed to organise themselves into a consultancy to be used by insurance companies as security advisors is appalling.
Isn't the problem that one rarely operates under RoE where BVR missiles would be permitted? Particularly in these days of mostly-counterterrorism, hitting the wrong target is worse than not hitting at all.
I've seen this story pop up several times before in different guises based on dubious evidence of only one or two cities.

Most buttons in Australia work - or rather, the lights won't work for pedestrians who think it's always automatic. And on my visit to a couple of places in America last year for the eclipse, I easily found some buttons that also worked - but most crossings had no buttons at all.

The elevators I use definitely have buttons that are responsive - I can and have counted the difference in seconds thanks to articles like the above that seem to echo a certain untested dogma.

I don't think most city councils care enough to install real infrastructure let alone placebo infrastructure.
This report actually sounds a little worse

>the FAA's new rules require operators to reboot the plane's electrical system every now and then because "all three flight control modules on the 787 might simultaneously reset if continuously powered on for 22 days." The effect of this simultaneous reset "could result in flight control surfaces not moving in response to flight crew inputs for a short time and consequent temporary loss of controllability."

Hope they've fixed that one now - also from 2016 https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/airlines/a24151/boin...
I've gotten mean server response times to go down by ~30% in the most extreme case, but the improvement was usually in the ~10-15% range. The real benefits came from shrinking tails that came about when some useless cache junk got rid of ALL the important data.

My use case was also preventing garbage processes from thrashing the cache, so the process using nontemporal stores was not the important process. A proof-of-concept merging of the two showed the same benefits from nontemporal stores, and the same principle applies anyways.
This seems like an ad
It's the same site.
So this lines of code estimate are spread across all the systems on the aircraft. One reason for all of the lines is that everything is done in C.

Then really the more exact reason is that every command on an aircraft is monitored. You have complex control laws to control a surface and then probably 4 or 5 different monitors that make sure the surface isn't oscillating or the actuators are not fighting each other and all kinds of stuff. It is because the mentality that not only do you design something to not go wrong, you monitor for failures when it does and handles them accordingly.

Finally you have maintenance where an technician can run a test to determine any issue on the aircraft. So there has to be tests and monitors built into the software to determine root cause of an issue down to a single box/actuator/sensor/or wiring problem.
Get out with your spam. Your whole profile is just talking about that prediction site
As i said. It's not the breathing that's affecting you. It's the eye movement. You don't even have to try breathing like this. I usually just move my eyes left right.
Sounds plausible - it takes 1h to follow the "reboot checklist", of which only a few seconds is actually the reboot.
There are three carefully crafted posts in new where commenters mention this market, it's clearly some ad attempt.
A Facebook Engineer’s Plea for Political Diversity
Experts have been studying for more than 40 years and found that more vacations
Thousands of Compromised MikroTik Routers Send Traffic to Attackers
Me too! Thanks Alisdair!
> Start removing thoughts from your brain. As you start thinking about something, just stop.

I had a hard time sleeping just last night. I couldn't stop thinking about things - I even had to eventually google the chemical composition of Sodium Bicarbonate, and of course what exactly Bicarbonate was...then of course that led to questions on Sodium Bicarbonate vs Sodium Chloride...it's a never ending process for me sometimes at night.

I will certainly try this though.
It's a creative writing problem. It's fine when creative writing is writing for writing's sake, but when dubious facts and over-generalisations are mixed in, myths start to develop. It reminds me just a tiny bit of the "carrots are good for night vision" myth.
Mandatory for cars type-approved after the 7th of February 2011 [1], not all new cars. Some manufacturers were selling models that were type-approved before that date for years later (the Peugeot 3008 is one example), and therefore weren’t required to have DRLs.

1: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-08-1394_en.htm
What's in the cards?
That seems much more reasonable to me. Mostly because planes are rebooted for maintenance every so often between flights and customers(Airlines) would be not be okay with a 1 hour reboot time.

There are also usually maintenance tests that can be ran to reset a box on the plane. So the technician would have to put the plane in maintenance mode and run through the test to get the box reset or something.
"The growing fear of irrelevance"?

Well duh. First of all, get that out of the way. You are irrelevant, the universe at a greater scale indeed doesn't even hint a proper damn about you. I'm more concerned with all those snowflakes out there losing touch with reality insisting that they are who is relevant when in fact any attention you give them whatsoever is a waste of time, and stolen from you and just not worth it.

I've about had it with this civilization, and phrasings like that... oh look, technology enables a new kind of totalitarianism. Yeah. Well. If that's what you make of it, fine. Of course it doesn't need to be that way, but now that you said it out loud, it'll become more true among your kin.

I'll just stay in my little bubble that thinks technology can help increasing the awesomeness in everyone's life, at least this 300 foot pole away from your orwellian dystopias - far enough for government work.
Hard to say what the actual procedure is. Might need a cold dark airplane for an hour for the GCU to clear memory or you might have to open panels and go back there and physically disconnect power to GCUs to get it done. It seems to me opening panels would probably take more than an hour.
There are some interesting ideas there.

To me, these kinds of things are great mind hacks. If I can find even one useful ideas that I can apply, I've bettered my mental abilities.

I'd gladly read 100 articles of junk for 1 that brings a tiny improvement.
Also change the winbox port if you need it to be enabled.
The trend can not be reversed anymore. The culprit is "The American Dream": by convincing voters that all of them can become millionaires, we have ensured that the small minority of those who actually make it have concentrated all economic and political power. It is now much too late to react. It is in fact impossible to react to this kind of situation: you actually have to forecast it and take preventive steps.

It was forecast long ago, by the theorists of Communism, in another context, in another era. And the preventive steps that humanity took were badly implemented (totalitarianism) and not very effective. The battle was fought against the wrong enemy (personal liberty), and lost against an ideology using the defense of personal liberty as a pawn to advance a completely different, covert agenda: no limits to the accumulation of capital.

That's where we are now, and there is no going back, since we are travelling at fast speed towards the cliff, still completely convinced that we are all going to become millionaires.
The jury is still out on if GDPR will actually be beneficial to consumers and citizens in general or if it’ll rather end up benefiting exactly those companies that don’t respect user privacy it supposedly was targeted at.

The intent behind GDPR certainly is good. I’m worried about the implementation though. In that respect I don’t really consider it a solid effort.
It is a link to the set of all posts in the "Damn Cool Algorithms" series
Yup that's it. Bookmarked, thanks.
Other banks and stuff have outages. Monzo just bothers to tell you about issues.

Also the longest outage I remember was when the third party card processor's server broke and it took them a few days to rebuilt it (which is pretty unnaceptable in this day and age)
Prepping might barely get you into some college or might get you to smoothly sail through the best colllege you can find.

I'd prefer my kid would build games or solder or have fun with math or play with physics or chemistry than do the dishes or cook.

Besides, you asked if college is more important than life skills. And yes, it is. So much that even 'prepping' which at such young age is just getting your kid into anything other than mundane is worth more.

Also, life skills are so easy to acquire at later age by anyone with at least mediocre IQ that they basically come free if you mange to raise your kid's IQ by 10 points.
> As far as alienating people who disagree, GREAT! That's the whole point! Those people who have a problem with gay people should find somewhere else to work.

This is glorious! Thanks for great illustration of problems with politics at work / US* politics in general. You are winning, but at the cost of alienating opposition. You will never convince anyone outside of your social "tribe", and therefore you are just sewing conflict.

And THAT is the biggest problem in politics today.

* of course this tribalism is natural to humans, therefore everywhere. But few "democratic" countries are as polarized as USA.
It needs to be localized. In other languages stars and constellations have more entertaining names, not just latin derivatives. Google translator seems to do just fine, judging by "Otava. Linnunrata. Pohjantähti."
Nope, but I know quite a few who get paid enough not to care about overtime.
VSTS performance degradation in multiple regions
This is what is happening around the World right now
> "Pedestrian council chairman Harold Scruby"...

Any time this so-called "Pedestrian Council of Australia chairman" (Harold Scruby) is covered by an Australian reporter, doubt should be heavily cast on the validity of the entire article or reporter's credibility.

Look up who Harold Scruby really is. I'll say no more.
> Currently, humans risk becoming similar to domesticated animals. We have bred docile cows that produce enormous amounts of milk but are otherwise far inferior to their wild ancestors. They are less agile, less curious, and less resourceful.

I have a problem with this premise. Anyone that knows history knows that humans were as tame, if not tamer, in the past. Plus uneducated.

Most of humanity has never been agile, curious and resourceful. Historically a handful of people were, and they tried to steer everyone around them.

I'd say we are less cow-like than we've ever been. A ton more people have access to education than they ever did. The only thing the new technologies (like the internet) are exposing is the depth of the veneer of education the vast majority of people had, and that depth was very shallow.

I'd say that in some regards this is actually better. Transparency tends to help and now a lot more people can see through the covers. It will just take time to adjust.

Nota bene: I still believe that most people, most of the time, are passive. Being active is a lot of work and truly active people will be always the outliers. It's just that we can increase the percentage of active people by making it easier for them to be active.
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I remember an issue with the Oracle DB client libraries for Linux (RHEL 2 or 3 I think) where if the system had something like a 160 day uptime any software using the library to connect to the DB would just hang. I saw the effects with strace where it would just get stuck in a loop doing some time related syscall. We managed to get an unofficial patch from Oracle that I could wedge into our servers, since reboots were under strict change control. I remember this issue came up when I was being interviewed for a position at the Guardian a couple of months later and they seemed amused by what I had to do to fix it since they also encountered the same issue but fixed it by making sure they reboot more than twice a year.
200 years sounded low to me and so I did the math and it is indeed pretty spot on. 63 bits, i.e. signed integers, will last 292.27 years and you obviously get twice that if you are not interested in negative numbers.