skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat related, and mentioned here before, the project to recreate a functional scaled down front panel of the PDP-11 was really impressive.

Image: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ce503a_7fce2e8386554dd1b8...

Project: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
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> the question is the effects of sustained exposure.

There's been tons of studies on this. All (reputable ones[0]) indicate that there is no danger.

[0] I specify reputable because there are some pretty shady studies. Shady because: results can't be reproduced; exposures given are many orders of magnitude above what a person would receive; suspicious funding; non-reputable journals; etc
Death is not peace, stop perpetuating that lie.
I had to do this once, so I just went through my GitHub repos and listed everything in very general terms.

E.g. “A system for processing media data”

Keep it general, the people who gave to sign this off are likely not technically capable to realise how broad your generalisations are, so just list everything
May I respectfully disagree that fried tofu is as good as a steak.
> If I don't do that, then I'm not going to give a shit about this phenomena anyhow.

I fear that any savings in CO2 emissions will be useless, due to an increasing world population.

> Heating accounts probably about half of my carbon footprint

Heating, travel, transportation, industrial production, production of chemicals, production of concrete/cement ( https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844 ), food production, ... all those need to be addressed across the whole spectrum of climate-active gas - not just Co2, but also Methan and others.
Edit: The entire point around these regulations is managing trust. Aircraft manufacturers are trying to build safe aircraft, the question is how much oversight is nessisary. EASA largely trusted the FAA and the FAA largely trusted Boing which they need to do. EASA can’t verify every bolt, they need to trust the manufacturer’s process to some degree.

So, EASA can’t really abandon blame as easily as they abandon responsibility. If they allow a flawed process to continue then that’s on them.

However, in this case these agreements still give EASA veto authority about what aircraft are allowed. Which is why EASA was able to ground these airplanes before the FAA did.
Agree.

People often 'mispronounce' my first name (can't even pronounce last name). Honestly, I don't care. I don't blame them because they pronounce it from English point of view which is obvious as they are native speakers.

Some people ask me how would I say my name (I am Russian, but live in NZ), I tell them. Some people then try to say it that way, sometimes they 'forget' and fallback to English pronunciation. What's the big deal?

I can't even imagine myself being offeneded by that (Is author a child or what?). Same goes the other way: NZ is a diverse country, we have people from all around the globe here, and I bet I mispronounce every second name/last name.
There probably isn't one. Universities love to claim they teach critical thinking but this is a claim they can get away with only because most people don't have critical thinking skills: obvious followup questions may include "how" and "what's your definition of critical thinking".

One problem is that your three requests are somewhat at odds. Collaboration works against creativity and critical thinking in my experience because of pressure to conform to the group, or find ideas acceptable to the group. Being truly creative requires exploring ideas that might not pan out, or which are a bit off the beaten path. Group work also increases the cost of the work which can change the cost/benefit analysis.

When I look at my own life, arguing with people on the internet has been far better for my own critical thinking skills than the humanities lectures I attended at university were. The latter were entirely useless.
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Did Apple just mistakenly put AirPods “upside down” in the case?
> Peaceful death is suicide, if chosen. Period.

Then suicide is preferable.

Stop using the word suicide as if it was an insult.
* Reliability (both servers and client). Everytime I try to a play a uplay game I've had to screw around with getting a fresh installation of the uplay client.

* Client performance

* Similar to Origin, part of the motivation is so the games don't have to compete with the price of games on Steam, so end up being more expensive.
And as a response, the cameras are now tiny, hidden, and multiple.
I am totally fine with the professor doing it. Kinda like I'm okay with cops patrolling for speeders, but I have a distaste for making it automated with cameras and computers. Using a human enforcer at least evens up the odds, but scaling with cheap sensors and CPUs suggests we could build a world where we actually forbid people from making a choice we disagree with. That is such a fundamental freedom, I think the consequences would be devastating.
Is there a good (and short) technical summary of the 5G specifications?

I've seen some (very disturbing) values of 20W/square meter reported. Is this true?
Certifying aircraft is a long and expensive process. So generally speaking, aviation authorities 'share the burden' by relying on each other. By the same token, the FAA will take an EASA certification of an Airbus aircraft as valid without much additional checking.

FAA's reputation alone was good enough for other aviation authorities to accept its certification of Boeing's MAX 8, which is why the FAA matter despite happening way outside its jurisdiction.
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It seems a little strange as well, but maybe it's something like this:

I know I will dominate in an environment where EVs are popular, the only problem is, there isn't enough infrastructure for them to be popular yet. Therefore, I will facilitate an environment where they are popular?
To make my life simple, I always buy - at long intervals - a cheap microwave with those two dials.

To make it simpler, I don't touch the power dial, and just open and close the door to turn the microwave on and off. The time dial is just a safety backup.

Works for me.
In my opinion you don't even need to be an expert.

- if you're a generally competent, learned person

- and the new product feels like a giant leap from anything that exists already

- it's likely not all it claims to be.
Back when prisma was emerging out of graphcool, every google documentation search sent me to graphcool, every graphcool page was full of broken links, and the shiny new prisma docs were unusable (including unviewable on my iPad that I use for researching tech I might use while sitting on the couch). It painted such a clear picture of a company that absolutely does not get the importance of API documentation to the success of an API that I've never been able to get myself to go back and give them a second evaluation.

Does their documentation today feel like the doc team and technical writing team have an actual seat at the table or does it still feel like the place is run by a bunch of architecture astronauts who think docs just happen after the fact?
You’re right - I was a bit unclear. What I mean is that ETF balancing activity ends up being untaxed.

Effectively, you get diversification, gains, reinvestment of dividends, etc but never have to realize the gains unless you sell. The avoidance at large probably induces bubbles of asset prices as collectively, early investors avoid realizing gains.
It is.

Particularly to my Western values of freedom and privacy and individuality. Much of what China does seems like that. Horrible and anti-human.

What concerns me most however, is that this (and similar Orwellian schemes) might actually be truly effective, and our fixation in the West with individual liberties might not be competitive in the long run.
I've heard of this before and it's a nice idea - yet something still feels better about keeping the docs version controlled and with the project itself.

Also, some of these projects have restrictions about publicly releasing documentation (even hosted privately on third party servers).
Also this classic by Maciej Cegłowski: https://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you...
I’ve been hiring people for 10 years, and I still swear by a simple rule
> > It doesn't slow down development

> I don’t know about the rest of the world, but I’ve never once been slowed down by a compiler saying “It won’t work like that. Don’t waste your time”.

I'm right there with you, I really don't understand this train of thought that catching errors faster somehow makes you slower. I like having the compiler there to catch my errors when I make them rather than some number of minutes/hours/days/months later when everything is on fire and I've forgotten the context of what I was doing.

Maybe learning a statically typed language (nearly) first damages your brain irreparably, and there's no longer any hope for me.
With the current two sensor setup, that is true.

This is why the parent poster is arguing for 3 sensors (and the real reason for tripling). If not all sensors agree but 2/3 do, it is more probable that the two sensors are correct than the 1 sensor disagreeing.
Hashtags / labels som that the content becomes curated.

Only sorting by upvotes / comments is too 1 dimensional for me, and it does not favours to the future readers of the site, nor to the goldmine content posted here.
These kind of ageist arguments are pretty annoying. Some people have chronic pain and still want to live as long as they possibly can.
> Is there a percentage pie chart for what was used on the MAX? Like 80% Ada, 15% C++, and 5% C? I wonder if we'll see a move to things like Spark where proof verification becomes more standard? I don't know much about avionics software, so any educated comments are welcome.

It's not about software verification. In this case, the verifier would have given it a pass (with respect to this particular accident).

It's about bad management/bad requirements:

- "minimization of pilot training is the overarching requirement"

- "it's okay to feed only a single sensor into MCAS, even though there are two of them on the plane"

- "it's okay to sell critical safety equipment as options costing extra"

- "it's okay to not tell any pilot about any of this, since we practically didn't change anything".

This particular one is not about C++.
But for personal off-grid system charge and discharge times aren't really concerns- fast charging would only be beneficial if the amount of PV panels was grossly oversized. And fast discharging would only mean that it would be that much easier to drain the system and be out of power.

Smaller batteries would be nice, but his enclosure was already sized for lead acid, so there isn't much advantage (this system was put online in 2008). And while lead-acid may not be as long-lived, neither he nor I was able to find any batteries currently on sale that offered similar warranty without being prohibitively expensive.

He ended up purchasing 8x Trojan SIND-06-920 6V [1] batteries for 735 each ($5880). Add ~$250 for fuel expenses to pick up the batteries (cheaper than trucking) and 300 on new bus-bars (new interconnects would have been needed anyway) for a total of ~6500. There are advantages to lithium, but neither he nor I was able to find any alternatives that were (1) avaliable now (2) at least somewhat price competitive.

I see that Trojan now offers Li-ion batteries, but these were introduced after he made his purchase [2]. No clue on their pricing, but they don't look all that much more attractive.

I challenge you to find any lithium batteries avaliable that match the performance of this bank for 2x the cost or less. They may last 10x longer, but I couldn't find any real-world usage reports to back that up. Off-grid industrial PbA is a very different beast to car batteries. His last system lasted 10 years, and likely would have lasted longer had his charge-controller not failed and cooked the batteries through overcharging (never went into trickle, just provided full panel power for 1 month before the problem was noticed).

[1]
https://www.trojanbattery.com/product/sind_06_920/

[2] https://www.trojanbattery.com/trillium/
Here's my summary from 2 months ago:

https://lobste.rs/s/qz9d82/is_it_time_rewrite_operating_syst...

Overall I was sort of disappointed in this video. I would rather hear about someone writing their OWN code in Rust. I watched one of Cantrill's previous talks about this which I liked, so I watched this one too.

It's not that interesting to hear "well Rust has problems for MY domain (kernels), but OTHER people should write their code in Rust (user services and firmware).

There's an obvious asymmetry there, because you know all about the problems in your own domain, but you're less familiar with the problems of other domains (e.g. ones that require a lot of async code, a lot of text parsing, etc.)

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I just watched this video. I liked the part about failed C++ operating systems from the early 90’s (Apple’s Copland, an effort from Sun, and Taligent).

Overall he’s excited by Rust, but points out some problems with using it for kernel development:

- Multiply-owned data structures are all over Unix kernels, and Rust’s ownership system doesn’t like those. (i.e. the doubly linked list problem)

- Rust doesn’t allow you to handle memory allocation failure. This is being worked on? I didn’t know this about Rust and it seems odd for a low level language.

He says that instead of kernel development, Rust could be used for:

- user-level services like systemd, or

- firmware.

This doesn’t seem like anything more than a wish though. I don’t see that Rust really shines in those areas.

- I think you could probably write systemd in Go. I don’t see that Rust has any advantage there. Whereas a kernel in Go has some obvious downsides (I know it’s been tried).

- Rewriting firmware in Rust sounds nice, but I don’t think vendors will do it. They have enough problems writing decent C, and they don’t write open source code. He is wishing for them to write Rust and release it as open source, but I’m not optimistic about either of those things.

I think the kernel and the browser are where Rust is interesting – when you need both performance and memory safety. I’m not really excited about Rust for other applications like web services, i.e. doing the job that Go, Python, or Ruby can do. So it does seem unfortunate that there are still some open problems with using Rust for the kernel.

He also points out the many nascent Rust OSes kernels, and the fact that they are “from scratch” systems, i.e. not compatible. I agree that you need a compatible kernel to have any hope of adoption.
You don't feel the same way about the """nothingness""" before you were born as you do after you die. You're just weirdly flexing your ego in the most pompous way possible in this thread.
Simply because there is examples of things that we thought to be safe but were in-fact harmful does not award you the right to make bold claims without the proper evidence. That would be a very slippery slope. If you believe something to be harmful, go and prove it.

Because we were wrong in the past about some things, I'm going to make the claim without evidence that visible light kills. Everyone who has ever died of cancer was exposed to visible light for very long periods of time. Don't expose yourself!
I don't ever do this, and none of the teams I've worked on have ever used whiteboarding. Even pair programming is more common.

Morevover, testing a candidate on whiteboard is like expecting all your candidates to be good with Emacs, even though that says zilch about their coding skills. Whiteboarding is just a tool like any other, and you(the interviewer) are limiting your talent pool by expecting everyone to not only be comfortable whiteboarding but to approach whiteboarding just like you do.
So... You used to be vegan but you stopped because of how 'monstrous the self righteous were'? So billions of animals raped and slaughtered every year for taste but but na fk that, some vegans are uppity...?

So it seems to me you are projecting after all. There's nothing wrong with 'virtue signalling' whether we do it by nature or not. It's ALWAYS brought up in the context of trying to shame white men for being supportive towards women and minorities.
Show HN: New Video Game Journal
Hello All,

I've decided to start a video journal to record the progress of a new video game I'm developing.

Basically, I will be uploading videos of my progress to Youtube every couple of days or weeks. I will also make available the latest copy of the game in the Google Play Store.

My main reason for this is that it is really hard for me to release anything to production. I can spend a huge amount of time working on something and then when it comes time to get it ready for release I'm too exhausted and wanting to work on something else.

Which is why I have a lot of unreleased projects.

To fix that I've decided to flip my entire process on its head. I will focus mainly on releasing software. Every time I make some changes to the code I will be releasing it in the Google Play store, even if they are quite minor. I will also be making a video to show the new features.

Hopefully this experiment will work out.

The tentative name of the game is Machina: A game about building machines.

My first journal entry is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7zkEHGTWe0&t=14s

The download link is at: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noatechnol...

If you click on the video like you will notice that it does not do anything yet.

It is only a platform in the middle of nowhere with the player standing on the middle of it. You can pan the camera in any direction and move the player in any direction. By the end of the video the player moves over the edge and falls into the infinite abyss.
Ideally it should be classless and light weight.
Sorry, you're completely imagining it, and no your argument doesn't hold.

Also, I hate to break it to you, but Reddit is making more than a buck on your little "community". Nothing whatsoever is different or special about Reddit vs. this website.

You're not part of anything, you're not building anything, the people you think of as "friends" on Reddit aren't, and you need to realize that. That site isn't for what you think it's for.
A kill file.

Automatic highlighting of not-yet-seen comments.
each time, I sent and email asking "what did I do wrong, and what could I improve?"

There's no upside for the company in giving any substantial answer to questions like this, and significant potential downside.

Among other things it's generally not going to be that you were rejected for the position, it's that someone else was chosen over you. "Rejected" would be "we'd rather leave the position vacant than hire you" and if that's the case there's even more reason to not tell you unless it was for purely technical reasons.
Ask HN: What is the best stack / way to start a newsletter service?
There are some lucrative free-tier models like Mailchip but not sure if those would benefit in the long term. Is there any other method you'd suggest for someone to begin with?
I laugh at all these responses. Im the one who purposely goes slow. AMA
Think preventing the car from starting is worse than it simply being illegal and that is the point.

What about a drunk girl trying to get away from an assailant?
Or any other situation where the risk of getting pulled over is worth it?
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The HTML standard is "things chrome is implementing"
A bunch of the projects described, and the (technical) difficulties encountered, make me wonder if GPT-2-style systems would have better odds. Is anyone looking into applying that to medical/scientific text NLP problems?

I mean, GPT-2 still often produces nonsense more similar to dream imagery than useful reasoning, but I gather most medical residency students are half-asleep most of the time anyway, so... :)
IBM sold Watson as a black box with a magic genie inside.

You could point it at your data and it would tell you the answer before you'd even thought of a question.

No wonder we're disappointed.
That's right. The other reason to not give feedback is the rejectee will inevitably start arguing with you about it, demand more detail, try to reopen negotiations, tell you how unfair/wrong you are, etc.

I've tried it both ways. Not giving feedback works much, much better.
> Rust doesn’t allow you to handle memory allocation failure. This is being worked on? I didn’t know this about Rust and it seems odd for a low level language.

The standard library panics upon allocation failure, but allocation is a library thing, not a language thing. You can handle failure if you do it yourself. Eventually we have a path forward to handling it for those data structures too, but we’re not quite there yet.

This wasn’t a big concern because when you’re doing OS level stuff you’re generally not using the standard library anyway.
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You can’t do a study with three people! Come on.
Who has the weapon: the soldier who holds the gun, the general who gives the orders, the government which staffs the military, or the electorate which elects the government?
In the case of the Final Fantasy games, I agree.

The latest one is just garbage, story-wise despite being absolutely beautiful.
Discussed at length (and eviscerated) here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19596128
He's one of today's lucky 10000. No insults please, Tanabe-san would be disappointed.
Not even a program I use full time that crashed once per week would be acceptable.
Well that was depressing. My wife has sarcoidosis.

However while depressing it's gloriously mind opening and motivating to do some quality stuff.
This is all a ton of pontification without arriving at any sort if logical conclusion. You used to be vegan but stopped because you didn't feel like you could enact change with your diet? Weak .
Would it be OK if your gradma had decided against chemo and the doctor was pushing her really hard to take it?

Doctors bullying patients seems like a problem regardless of the direction they're pushing them.
It is definitely about attitude and if you can convey yourself from the perspective that they'd be lucky to have you, only serious issues needing fixing will do you in.
Gentoo with KDE Plasma. I was intrigued by the idea of a source-based distro and installed it out of curiosity. KDE turns out to be a great desktop and the distro ships with an amazing package manager.
I don't understand that mentality. Couldn't they just leave the things in the apartment? Last time I changed the apartment, I essentially left it with more appliances than there were when I moved in, since they were perfectly fine, but I didn't have any use for them anymore.
How is this legal? Like I can put together a gizmo in my garage, never looking at Toyota, let alone signing a licensing agreement with them, but because I happen to duplicate their design I now am in a legally binding agreement with them? I really should invent something commonplace and then create a funky license for it like that.
Yes, this is not a study. So many problems with this. Measurement of outcomes, what tasks? N 3 ridiculous and should not be published at all, or believed (even if it might be true in an actual study)
I'm sure as the tech evolves, people will find a way to subvert it...at least one can hope

Do you ever question your line of work and what good can come from the facial recognition technology you help develop?
It barely supports Java due to some packages from RedHat.
Does it use the alarms's volume level for playing the podcast or does it use the media volume level?

Strangely it does not seem to support playing media/playlist/radio from google music as alarm.

Even more strangely it all requires to be set up using Google Assistant, I mean is there someway to configure it without using voice commands to the Google Assistant, which is a tedious and cumbersome interface for such a complex functionality.