skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like they should just allow one or two vetted members of the public access to the broker, and then they can re-broadcast it to whoever wants it (with strong disclaimers about reliability)
The Return of Bernie Sanders
rare pic of biter phalanx (circa 32 BC, colorized) :

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/8q5q3c/rare_pic_o...
An Open Letter to Republican Friends of Elijah Cummings: Stop Voter Suppression
A Nobel economics prize goes to pioneers in understanding poverty
Machine Learning with Spreadsheets
Why Aren’t We Curious About the Things We Want to Be Curious About?
There's a bunch of stuff like this:

https://www.macincloud.com

Does that not do what you need?
Yep. PTC is Piece to Camera and VO is Voice Over.
"Second, price discrimination in the "normal world" often points to having monopoly power"

Something I think is underappreciated, or at least I don't notice people mentioning explicitly, is that the state of being a monopoly intensifies the shorter the time horizon for making a deal. If you want something within the next 100 years, nothing is a monopoly. If you have an online shopping basket that you're about to order, even the most abundant commodity has a privileged position relative to the competition.

Companies are increasingly realizing they can utilize discriminatory pricing in proportion to the amount of commitment demonstrated by a customer. For instance, if you are in a store, you will likely pay a significant premium rather than go to another store, even if they were on equal footing when you were at home. If you are checking out, you will likely pay a premium rather than start all over. If you have a membership... and so on.
These timing measurements by nature are going to have a small range of possible values --- the size of the range is going to likely be system specific, and for some systems, there may be only a few possible outcomes.
The Mask of Sanity (1988) [pdf]
It sounds like they have it, ShakeAlert, they just don't give access to the public for some reason.

I found this document that has some interesting technical details https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2018/1155/ofr20181155.pdf
> They turned checklists into an oppressive regime of documenting every conceivable step and path to the tiniest detail.

Isn't this what things like Ansible/Chef/etc are for? You write the minutiae of certain checklists into code, and the human's checklist item becomes "execute playbook/recipe X".
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21293497

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21293550

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21292860
Have you ever seen a verified case of a smartphone operating while off? I have only seen rumors. If you are going to be that paranoid then how do you know removing batteries turns it off? Maybe there is a Secret battery for spying on people.
"Remember to build your business" - so obvious, but I think we're honestly missing that these days, so it's good to hear it. Now it seems fake it till you make VC money, then take the money and run.
I found myself foraging for these bright orange lobster mushrooms off a scenic trailhead in Oregon.

They were quite delicious!
Iirc this was a thing in turn of century london
> I'm not entirely sure you can make this assumption.

I agree with you, but not for the same reason. They could easily get more than 30 performances (aka 3 years using numbers in the example) in my experience. Probably in the hundreds per drone. But over the course of three years, they’ll have vastly improved HW designs so they’ll want to replace their primary fleet. That doesn’t mean the older models are now trash (aka worth $0), just that they won’t likely pull top dollar performances anymore, which is fine as there’s plenty of room for them to be used at less viewed events.
I saw Daniele Procida talk at Commit Porto on this subject and it was very compelling to me. I’ve often lacked for a way to structure my documentation and this really resonated with me. I’ve since refactored and expanded documentation for one of my projects [1] to be in this format and I think it has resulted in something more more coherent.

[1]: https://lightbus.org
I understand your point, but that's why I put immediate in my comment.

Boeing can be directly linked to the deaths of 346 people in this case. VW is at least a few degrees removed and likely a contributor but not the sole actor in any deaths related to climate change.
Is there a database where you can write stored procedures in C or C++?

Most of them. SQL-like languages like Oracle's PL/SQL are preferred, not because of any security problems but simply because it's much easier, specially when working with data sets.
Well I’m not entirely without ambitions for immortality but yes, I assume I’ll never be that immortal and I’m cool with it.

Funny though I bet nobody who didn’t know him personally will remember Hurd in 50 years. Maybe a case study in B-school, but they don’t build monuments to folks who ran other people’s companies. Not that it isn’t crazy hard work, just that I don’t think a Hurd or a Cook is much concerned with their place in history.
No thanks. If I had a dime for every function that's so obviously self-documenting to what it does.. etc. If you tell others what it does and why, concisely and thoughtfully, no one has to try and mentally parse the what of some clever undescriptive block of code.
I went back and added a couple of paragraphs about the opcodes in OP (section 'instructions'). Thanks for the feedback!
Reason Won't Save Us
Tim Dodd is super charming. He's such an antidote to common cynicism. He's approachable and passionate and humble. And cool that he interviewed literally the top 3 rocket CEOs in the US, all accomplished professionals with each having a different perspective (but having sort of a consensus on this topic).
Does Devil's Tower really qualify as a "volcano"?
Notably, Linux had a whole lot of howtos and faqs—not sure about authoritative sources but I guess The Linux Documentation Project is/was the largest. That was how people learned to do stuff without tearing their hair out, in the early–mid-2000s. I probably still have some of them lying around thanks to stockpiling like the apocalypse is nigh.

Of course, sparse or arcane documentation also leads to proliferation of educating books, by people ready to help for a reasonable sum. The existence of which market should say something about the truthfulness of ‘manpages are enough.’
I frequently find the essays on stilldrinking.org entertaining.
My favorite is still the one on why eCigarettes suck.
https://www.stilldrinking.org/seriously-make-a-better-ecigar...
Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash[0] offers some intriguing pointers on how to read Gilgamesh.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
I work in electric aviation, and we're looking at similar hybrid fixed/vtol/distributed designs. You need the VTOL for most practical drone applications including delivery, but you need fixed-wing linear flight for range. It's better to use many small fans for the VTOL part for reliability and stability, and it's more trouble that it's worth to try and re-use the same thrust units for hover and for forward flight (the design points are completely different). The main clever thing that strikes me about this design is the twin boom, which minimizes drag in forward flight and is very frugal with support structure for the lift fans.

On the other hand, this drone doesn't look production-ready to me. Too many exposed wires and servos. I don't rate its chances in a good downpour.
It's pervasive, and nobody's made an effective case that it's illegal outside of basing it on protected classes of people.

For instance, you can detect whether someone browsing your website on their phone is in your physical store and if so, show them the same higher prices that are in the store. But if someone is not in your store, you can show them lower prices to compete online. I've noticed retailers doing this. At least sometimes, they try to defuse it by matching the lower price if a customer notices the game.
The maintainers and pull requesters are very persnickety too, so they usually are ahead of Mozilla's future releases.
You have a point, I should add ‘current evidence point to’ as a more accurate description to the opinion that I’m stating.
I didn't mind it. I don't know if i'll use it regularly, but it loaded quickly over mobile data for me. Lots of times stories I click on from here will take a while to load. It was nice to get a preview of the articles that loaded relatively quickly without having to open a new tab and wait.
I don't really care what you call it. Sure, it's a lot like the sticker on the car window, but it's like business hours or a menu on a website--these are specific things to get me engaged and trivial things to let me kick the tires on a project.

If it's a UI toolkit, I'm not going to download, grab dependencies, and compile it, mock up a basic app just to find out it's the not something I want.
Wing's trial here in Canberra has felt a little unremarkable. People don't really talk about it, apart from the occasional local news piece about someone complaining about the noise.

I'm quite interested to see how much people buy into it in the US. From a consumer point of view it seems they're directly competing with established services (eg. Uber Eats), and the main differentiator is a gimmick.
What devices is it compatible with?
Precisely! If we eliminate all misery we probably lose art in the deal. And then what?

Of course it’s possible to make smaller strides while living a more or less healthy life but I think for some (Tesla, Erdős) it just tips. But then again Erdős was maybe happy with his life...

Sticking with the scientists for a moment, maybe Feinman is exemplary. But are a bunch of Feinmanns enough?
Actually... they have built such a system! It’s long gone now, but some major cities used to have a mail delivery system built on underground pneumatic tubes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Y...
Might need to use normalize or reset to deal with margin collapse, even then I’ve noticed the behavior at random times. The CSS box model is simple yet obtuse all at once.
I'm curious, when I was a kid we were taught about the active/dormant/extinct distinction, but my understanding has been that more modern thinking doesn't really go for the dormant label, because dormant on a human timescale doesn't really mean much on a geologic timescale.
I think this varies significantly depending on drone design. You absolutely can make them quieter, you just have to compromise elsewhere -- for example, using larger props.

This is a large drone to begin with, so that shouldn't be an issue. It's also got wings, so it shouldn't need to spin its engines at full except when it's hovering for a delivery.
Isn't that kind of a shallow argument, though? Scouting changed my life, and changed the lives of hundreds of scouts I know personally. What matters is how it changed it.
You are welcome to figure out a way to allocate society’s resources in a way that results in everyone having access to healthcare without the use insurance companies and actuaries.

As far as I can tell, there does not exist a sufficient quantity of healthcare supply to meet the demand, hence the high prices. Without increasing the supply of healthcare, the conversation is moot.
Acceleration in that era was about 2d drawing, most of the time for desktop env. Completely uninteresting for 3d games like Doom. Probably uninteresting for even 2d games unless the acceleration in question support direct sprite rendering (like video game consoles)
Do you know what killed it?
I'll add another rule: don't ship behavior you can't test. This includes the behavior of a stateful system after an extended period of uptime.

I once spent weekends and late nights fixing a bug which, if it had shipped, would have eventually bricked an embedded product. It caused the software to hang in a way which evaded every watchdog and reset timer. This bug was only barely caught by the edge of a multi-week stress test. As it turned out, the bug itself wasn't in any of the code I had written, but in an open-source dependency.

There are several ways to approach this problem. Besides simply testing your product over an extended period of time, you can build a test harness which simulates time at an accelerated rate. Another method is to periodically reboot your system from scratch after the longest period of uptime you're able or willing to test. It also helps to use software and hardware watchdogs which automatically reset your system, in whole or in part, if it becomes unresponsive (fails to "feed" the watchdog).

However, watchdogs by themselves aren't foolproof - in my case, the program's main I/O loop kept running, but a critical part of the stack no longer functioned correctly.
They could be paired with wireless headphones distributed to attendees, similar to silent discos. You could even pipe music to the masses, along with explosion sfx synced with the drones.
Who runs www.archive.is and are they related?
> While kernel-bypass devices do eliminate the OS kernel from the I/O path, they do not handle the kernel’s most important job: offering higher-level abstractions

Well solarflare/openonload allow you to bypass the kernel and change literally none of your code via LD preload.
Victorian London had the London Pneumatic Despatch Railway for the Post Office.

https://www.newstatesman.com/future-proof/2013/12/londons-vi...

Edit: Oh, and many large late Victorian shops and offices had pneumatic tube systems for passing money away from the shop floor, or exchanging messages. They're still made:

https://www.aerocom.co.uk/air-tubes
Then you just need to define what the terms mean. In the rest of the conversation, let "consciousness" mean "the subjective conscious experience (your qualitative experience of sight, sound, etc)", rather than "awareness", "medical wakefulness", or anything. Then you can talk about this concept instead of getting bogged down in definitions.
We're not talking about a map here, we're talking about the real thing, the Earth, hanging in space.

(But yes, there are many maps that don't have north at the top).
It will be interesting to see the implementation of three dimensional drone traffic.

Who is working on the drone path guidelines, and traffic control policies?
Uber and NASA are working on this.
I was once told that this is due to the library system in the US. I was told that you, as an author, get a bit of money when someone is borrowing your book at a library. If the book has a dedication you get a tiny bit more money and that is the reason. I have not verified this information but always believed it was true. I might be wrong.
I've seen first-hand that it can become a self-reinforcing problem and solution in one. You spend too much time at work and never develop meaningful personal relationships with your spouse and children. Years later, when most people retire to spend time with the spouse and children (and grandchildren), there's something missing, and the solution is to head back to work, where there can be more substantial professional relationships (and room for denial about the personal side).
U.S. Lawmakers Call Apple's Move to Remove HKMap Live App 'Deeply Concerning'
The electricity-based message transmission systems (telegrams, fax, email, etc)
There is a huge amount of work around this, with a huge number of names for what is always pretty similar in conception: parakernels, exokernels, isokernels, now demikernels.

The common thread is that allowing the OS to interpose itself in the data path makes it impossible to operate devices at full speed, so applications need to bypass the OS. At the same time, you need some control over hardware access and permissions, and some degree of hardware abstraction. How to draw the line between application performance, on one side, and OS abstraction and hardware sharing, on the other, is endlessly negotiated.

Those of us actually operating hardware at maximum rates, today, often use proprietary vendor libraries to bypass the kernel. These tend to have an OS module to map hardware resources into user process space, and a library to operate hardware resources without adding overhead, typically involving a ring buffer and the spin-loop polling on isolated cores that we were taught in school indicated primitive system design. The result is that our applications have a hundred or six lines of custom code for each vendor's gadget, that has to be added to as new vendors enter and old ones retire.

eBPF access to devices is one interesting wrinkle on this, holding out a hope of mainstream portability without compromising performance, running user code directly on target hardware.
‘South Park’ Nears $500M Deal for U.S. Streaming Rights
I, too, would rate this a substandard git comment.
Dave basically vomited a bug ticket of information, which is highly contextual and irrelevant ... like the lines he was faced with, which tell us nothing in the future nor anything we could not see in the change. The error is known, from the ticket being addressed. Documenting what error a bundler throws in the application deployment, within git seems...silly, since it will likely not apply to all points in time. That's why we have separate issue tracking.

There was a whitespace encoding issue AND the developer didn't really understand the issue, since they ended with "One hour of my life I won't get back.". Over my 20 years, I've seen this EXACT scenario multiple times across multiple companies. Some jr engineer gets stuck with some troublesome weird error in a corner-case that ends up being a non-standard whitespace. It's a learning opportunity and he lamented it because it was different and nobody told him "we could stop this from happening again, generate a new issue".

There are salient improvements that the git commit would benefit from both comment changes and additional code:

1. Include a (new) feature ticket that is linked to this issue - to create a process that doesn't allow for this again (eg fix a linter)

2. Include the name of the bug ticket (Convert template to US-ASCII to fix error) in the commit title, that was being addressed.

3. Create a test to specifically enforce the us-ascii encoding or add necessary rules to a linter.
Yep. It’s a mess frankly.
My perception is that the general perception is that the Swiss have a reputation for neutrality, especially in regards to the contents of bank accounts and lock boxes.

Before continuing I want to make it super clear that I'm not endorsing the Nazi's stealing art/gold/whatever. With that said, were Swiss banks handing over assets to the Nazis that had been previously held for Jewish families, or were they only holding assets for the Nazis which the Nazis themselves took from Jewish families? (This question is not intending make one option sound more morally acceptable.) My perception is the latter, but I could be ignorant. If I'm not ignorant (in this domain), I don't see why these events would call into question the ability of the Swiss to securely hold assets.
Airbus has a strong team working on this. https://www.airbusutm.com/

You can read more here:
https://www.airbusutm.com/uam-resources-airbus-blueprint
What platforms does Factorio not support that people play games on? According to steam it support windows, mac, and linux.
Taking an Uber into Manhattan 2 nights I was struck by the beauty and grandeur of the city at night.

Then over where we came out of the tunnel and onto the island it turned out to be garbage day. Heaps of trash everywhere. Homeless wandering around. Minimal trees or greenery.

Still glad I moved away, but it is nice to visit, and it is in many ways a great city.
There are lava flows from ancient rifts, dating to the separation of North America from Pangaea, all over the East Coast, for instance the Connecticut River Valley.

For active volcano, see Iceland or Montserrat or Yellowstone.
New study uncovers 'magnetic' memory of European glass eels
"ABET requires that ethics be taught as part of an ABET-accredited engineering degree."

Ok, but presumably you state that to imply those degree holders are more ethical and that leads to more ethical outcomes in the organizations that employ them. What kind of support do you think there is for that?

And you're implying software developers don't take any ethics class(es) in college, which is false.
Classically, on Linux you had /dev/urandom which always gave you something, even if the system hadn't achieved a seeded state, and /dev/random which would block in case the system wasn't seeded and also in case random had been used too much without more input into the entropy.

Neither one of those is usable for key generation. urandom may give you repeatable data if the system hasn't seeded itself yet. random may block on accounting that most experts find problematic.

getrandom() finally provided the right semantics of only blocking when the system isn't seeded, and without a filesystem/device node dependency; however changes in startup software, including filesystem improvements have resulted in shortened boot sequences and less entropy gathered. In some cases, systems were blocked waiting on entropy before any (non human interfaced) entropy sources were enabled.
Discussed in the wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Y...
A Break in Spiral Galaxy Scaling Relations at the Upper Limit of Galaxy Mass
Here's how it works in Rust. You can imagine this working in Java with reified generics: https://gist.github.com/rust-play/214adf5bd15b18ec2d5c63d97f....
I agree with some of what you said, but this is likely to weigh at least 10x as much as the drones I'm talking about when you include a payload of even a few pounds. There is another comment on here from someone in the trial city talking about how the residents complain about the noise. You can't beat physics.
Yes, and as I already mentioned, the existing leverage Medicare has in this regard already puts downward pressure on costs. But it’s insufficient relative to how costs are being driven up further down in the system and quite obviously an orders of magnitude smaller amount of leverage than a universal system and a monopoly on payments.
I see that it's licensed under the GPLv3, but where's the source?

EDIT: Maybe it's this one[1], but it's under a different license, AGPLv3. The repo also hasn't been updated since 2016, but the extension page says last update was in 2018. Are the changes and re-licensed source elsewhere?

[1] https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback-machine-firefox
Animating the book in Return of the Obra Dinn
And Rust (warning self-promotion) https://github.com/bluejekyll/pg-extend-rs
Just strap a bunch of rockets and point them to the horizon... until you realize that the earths crust isn't that deep and your rockets just end up ripping a scab of earth off and flying off into space. I guess that would be one way to make a local volcano.
Not really new.

Scribes, news reporters, telegrams and telephones all throughout history have enjoyed immunity from the content they didnt generate.

Ever hear "Don't kill the messenger?"
> manual data entry and things of this sort can't be redeemed by attitude

Actually, this is false. I've been programming for 30 years straight, except for a brief 1 year stint as a data entry operator. I made it my goal to be the best data entry operator they had ever seen. This was for Robert Half/Accountemps, an employment agency that both acts as a headhunter firm for data entry operators and a contracting company that hires out data entry operators. I was able to continuously focus on getting better in such that I could accomplish as much in 4 hours as they're best high-end "professional" data entry operators could do in a day, with similar accuracy metrics. I did this by programming a series of macros to accelerate what I did, and other tricks such as pre-sorting similar items.

While I do agree with your general sentiment to some extent, the best way to deal with undesirable menial tasks is to dig in and push for excellence.