skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly that's not true anymore. Very few people are climbing it unaided and it is Sherpas who help that are also killed alongside these climbers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48464030

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/04/14/599417489/...
TFA doesn't mention it, but I've read about other Cannonball attempts where the "contestants" do their best to plan the journey so that they avoid population centers during peak traffic hours and the long stretches of desolate highway driving occur at night so the highways are even more empty.
One suspects they don't live in a state on the route.

In the US, speed limit laws are administered by states, under state jurisdictions.
I never understood the point of hardware tokens. If the machine it's plugged into it's compromised, the attacker can still use it to sign whatever they want. If the attacker has persistence on your machine, it's as good as stealing the key file. You're basically counting that you can discover the infection before the attacker can use it, or the attacker is unsophisticated so all they do is copy your .asc files (although you could also protect against this by putting your key files in a weird location). Depending on how proficient the attacker is and how vigilant you are, it could be a while before it's discovered. When you do discover it, you still have to revoke/rotate your keys since you have no idea what it could have been used for. So you end up not saving any effort at all.
we made a tool that automates that process - https://trustd.dev

it will analyse open-source packages as you install them and tell you of any vulnerabilities before they are even on your system...

meaning it will detect problems in the libraries you aren't thinking about.
Mozilla's mission is to build a better internet. In my opinion, they should totally use legal measures to do that. I would take part in crowdfunding it.
This is a complex topic, and is especially unclear when the person is not on US soil, so saying "judicial rulings since have generally enforced..." is not really accurate.
>>I have acid reflux, and nothing triggers it more consistently and quickly than having an IPA

For me it is to opposite, I have no problem with IPA and want them as hoppy as they get. But some pilsners triggers the reflux consistently. I think for me it is related to how carbonated they are.

I'm glad we now have a good selection and can select what we want, and not having it as it was 10+ years ago where we had 5-10 types of pilsners/light lagers to select from
The C++ ABI
The distributional impacts of major downturns and their effects on the groups donating to any particular charity aren't identical downturn to downtun; the fact that a particular major downturn didn't hurt WMF donations doesn't mean that would be true of the next one.
I think the problem is that their vendors’ applications run like it's the ‘90s. Often the orgs will be waiting on a vendor’s patch to be released which has been qualified for the sec patch. This requirement is kind of dubious but if you patch before they release their patch you’re on your own.
It's easy to accept a small risk of a catastrophic outcome but you'll probably feel rather differently about the wisdom of your choice in hindsight.
"The hardcore fallacy" is such a useful term I had not heard before. Thank you.
That's called manslaughter... You don't get to walk when you rob a place and "accidentally" shoot someone. A sassy judge should ask "Did you accidentally rob the place too?"
Sorry, I phrased myself poorly - in this case, the inputs that give incorrect output aren't very special, as opposed to 0,1,INT_MAX,...

Although including numbers such as 10^N - 1 isn't out of the question either.
> Modern antivirus software, to me, feels like a virus.

Malware can be loosely defined as any software which tries to modify the system to inject capabilities not previously present. With that definition, antivirus is malware that tries to prevent other malware from doing what it did.
> it raises the difficulty barrier to implement outgoing network calls.

Not very much. You just obfuscate your code until this tool doesn't notice anything untoward, and then upload it.
Fuel cells are also built to higher burst standards than "fuel tanks", as they often have less impact protection around them than a fuel tank that was designed to fit into the cars overall structure.
Investors pull back from ‘gig economy’ startups
I don't think optimizations count as magic. It'd be entirely unreasonable for a language to not do them and they don't change the meaning of the program, undefined behavior aside.

"No magic" is meant as shorthand for "the minimal amount of magic we can reasonably expect given the history of the language and requirements for backward compatibility, and the least magic of any high level language with more than 3 users." Please don't make me do this again for the number 3.
Hey there. I absolutely love what you made. It feels super convenient and I'll be using it for my next DnD campaign for sure! The only request that I can think of right now is the ability to make subsections that can hold their own pages. This may be useful when, for example, creating details about a certain area/region and wanting more specific areas to be nested within larger geographic areas. Or alternatively, collapsible headings/lists.
I think he is well aware of this. The current quantum device Google build is however not much different than a sufficiently complex other physics experiment and so far they have not been able to demonstrate that it is capable of fault-tolerant error-corrected computation (which they basically won't be able to do in the foreseeable future).
In insurance context any bombing by military airplanes falls under war exclusion clauses.
I'm amazed it could even be done given the huge amount of gridlock and traffic in US cities today. It takes me 1hr to go 14 miles most of the time where I have to get to.

I don't think there's an "environmental perspective" here. In fact, it's a sad testimonial to the effectiveness that enviro-propaganda is in infecting people's minds and altering behaviors. You believe you must change your behavior and cede individual rights for environmental reasons. I say, that is extremely dangerous. If you have studied how effective German propaganda was, and how effective Soviet propaganda was, and how it was used to enslave people and bludgeon any effective opposition, you might care to give the greenies a bit more scrutiny as far as their totalitarian aims go. Instead you believe that one car racing across the US at high speeds is somehow an environmental issue.
>artificially low interest

Interest rates are driven by the supply and demand of credit. Supply outstrips demand now.

There are two sides to every transaction; low rates are good for borrowers and bad for lenders. What makes you think the lenders are entitled to a greater return on their savings? Do you think we should force people to borrow at higher rates for this purpose?

>wealth flowing from working classes and savers to the bankers and the managerial class.

The working class in America are debtors and have no savings. Outside of low rates contributing to driving housing prices higher in some communities, how are the working class harmed by lower payments on their debt?
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Explains everything.
>but this was not an act of war against Merck, which BTW isn't a country,

Its an insurance policy...an act of war is a limitation on coverage.

No one is saying an act of war was specifically committed against Merck. Merck was damaged, filed a claim with its insurance and the insurer denied coverage because the damage was the result of an act of war (that has nothing to do with Merck being a county or the attack being directed at Merck).
One of the most interesting parts of this excerpt to me is that it presents the idea that "scripture" - sacred, inviolable, and written down - is only one of many possible forms.

That the Aryans considered the sound of the scripture to be more important than its content, and that writing it down was corrupt and even sacrilegious, is fascinating.
It is awesome.

Note that they start in NYC just past midnight, therefore they arrived in LA before 4:30 am. You can't really do better then that for traffic.
LAPD testing device that uses tethers that wrap suspects’ bodies
Placing the burden of responsibility for security on the end user is not the way to go about this - at least, not if you want people to actually use your product / language.

Package managers do not only exist as a convenience. They should also provide guarantees about their packages, or at the very least some level of moderation.
I don't get it. Who would type "pip install jeilyfish" by mistake?
I totally agree, depends on the amount you take, and also your state of mind and how willing you are to "let go".
Apollo missions used hydrogen-fueled fuel cells for primary mission power, 50+ years ago.

The fuel cell is a catalytic converter of chemical to electrical energy. The hydrogen for it comes from what is called -- even in an interplanetary spacecraft -- a tank.
They generally also have baffles to minimize weight transfer from fuel sloshing.
Kotlin has the extremely dubious behavior of not checking exhuastivity when it's a statement. And it doesn't have destructuring, not for principled reasons but because the developers thought it would be too much work.

How is this more powerful than rust match?
This Economist article points out some of the many small academic works that quibble over details with Piketty and Saez. But that's not anything new. The major points of their work, and especially of Piketty's monumental _Capital for the 21st century_ still stand: that capital is a positive feedback loop in a way that labor is not; that mid-20th-century laws that put brakes on this feedback loop have been removed; that a variety of data sources are confirming growing inequality and market capture particularly in the UK and US; and that the only reasonable solution for this is a tax on owned capital (not on income or cap gains) and the political chances of this happening are slim, etc.

And in the end this article is another one in their house style: not particularly informative in the details, they're not arguing openly or forcefully against Piketty, but instead bring up enough different nitpicky papers that it starts sowing doubt in the mind of a reader who hasn't actually read the book.

But then again The Economist has had it out for Piketty (and Saez) for a long time now, they very clearly hate Piketty's Capital and keep sniping at it, but can't stop themselves from bringing it up all the time. :)

At least they are very open about their biases: they promote a view that the solution to all ills is lower taxes and less regulation. However, Piketty's analysis and proposed solution directly contradicts that.
Compliance with privacy law is not a good indicator of respect for users' privacy when you're in a position to nudge privacy legislation to limit its impact on you.
Here's the entire thread compiled into an easier-to-read format in case anyone prefers:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1201956309941116928.html
> To date, no one has been killed or seriously injured doing a Cannonball or setting a cross-country record in the U.S

...but four people died in a (legal!) Cannonball event in Australia in 1994. Two were contestants, two were race officials.

http://www.cannonball.info/other-events/cannonball-run-1994
That %p approach sounds perfect.

If they wanted to make it worse, they could make it so you could call %s on any object, and if it wasn't defined, it would "conveniently" fall back to %p instead.

Then someone could could write an article called "Never Use %s for Behaviour"
On the other hand, often the people reading the answers are expert fishermen, but simply don't want to waste their time on trivial fish. If one wants to learn to fish, there are already many other resources.
I just went down the rabbit hole of Venn diagrams, and emerged with one for 7 sets:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/kImwq.png
The Sherpas who climb professionally have also chosen to climb, and are compensated for it.
Oh please, there are so many bad drivers, it's a drop in a very large bucket. The US imported millions of people who didn't grow up driving and gave them cereal box driver's licenses so spare us all, okay?
From a performance impact standpoint, based on just one test suite, it is the worst on the market. https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/performance-test-octob... (and I linked to the same article in your parents comment...)

Avira and Bitdefender manage to rank in the top tier of performance impact and protection every time I check. Both offer free products, and Bitdefender Free is considerably less annoying, in my past experiences. Free antivirus is actually one of the places where market competition forced a bunch of them to clean up their acts and offer a good non invasive product. Avira still has ads, but if you wanted one product on your pc and one on a home server, it might make sense to use two vendors products.
https://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/free.html https://www.avira.com/en/free-antivirus-windows

For one off system scans, besides the two mentioned above; ESET, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Panda (and Emsisoft which has Avira and Bitdefender built in) all offer great spot check products. ADWCleaner is indispensable.

It's interesting that "anti-virus" has now become the free component in suites. You pay for things like VPN, password management, and home network security. Kaspersky goes a step further and offers VPN and password management in a free tier. https://usa.kaspersky.com/free-antivirus
Accountants in Swords
What i meant was that i believe they try to follow the law around privacy. The law might not be "good enough", but that's in us not them (modulo the lobbying).

I'm not trying to say larger companies are innocent. Saying they don't respect privacy insinuates to me that they intentionally violate the law, and i don't think that that's true.
YouTube was pre alphabet, was a purchased acquisition under the Google umbrella, and didn't "come out of non-google alphabet"
Indeed. Look at Syria. Not long ago a country well enough off. The destruction is total. This with conventional weapons and the superpowers weren't even trying hard..
Malware is not defined by what it does, but whether or not its actions conform to user intent and approval.
They did have spotters along the way:

> In all, they managed to rustle up 18 lookouts along the run. These were people who drove hundreds of miles in many cases just to scout the road ahead of the fast-moving AMG for a stretch and let the team know of any police activity or other hazards ahead.

And, of course, they were familiar with that idea from the classic movie "Smokey and the Bandit" as referenced in the article, so they probably had a good reason for not doing it that way. I'd guess that hiring a caravan of people willing to get jail time, lose their licenses, and having their expensive, fast cars seized would be really, really expensive and would only keep a few officers busy for a few minutes. Plus, in hindsight, they were successful without it.

However, I find the downvotes on your comment interesting having read the "Help me ask 'Why you didn't just'" article posted yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21675717

You met several of the criteria for reducing the insult factor: Your comment is impersonal, forward-looking, and not condescending, without being passive-agressive. But you were still downvoted.
I research fuel cells - the electrochemical ones. These are fuel cells, full stop.

Definitions change according to the topic of the conversation. In this context the "cell" containing fuel is a very highly engineered containment cell to ensure fuel isn't spilled or explodes in case of a high energy collision.
It's okay to be a coward (I used to be one myself), just don't get in the way of those who aren't.
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> Interest rates are driven by the supply and demand of credit. Supply outstrips demand now.

While that's somewhat true, its also largely dictated / controlled / heavily influenced by government. This means the overnight lending rate, U.S. bond rate, etc.
Sherpas are everest climbers, they willingly participate in climbing everest. None of the other road users willingly participated in these idiots' dangerous driving
Highly obfuscated code would raise suspicions, especially in similar cases found in NPM packages.

E.g. in Python, obfuscators I've come across tend to replace characters with non-Latin unicode chars, which should raise flags when found in a predominatenly latin based source code.
> That's a semantic distinction.

No, separating branding and separating management are substantively different ideas, not a matter of semantics.

> All major corporations have highly speculative projects that they aren't certain will succeed. With (relatively) minor investments most don't form an umbrella corporation to distinguish them.

That doesn't support your argument that it's a semantic distinction, it instead seems to be an unrelated argument with some implicit premises that argues that most corporations wouldn't have done what Google did to separate Alphabet in similar circumstances, which may or may not be true but is irrelevant to what the point was of Google doing it.
Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup
I promise I actually like the taste of gin.
PHP: hash collisions for hash values starting with `0e` when compared with `==`
It's definitely factually incorrect that all VHS tapes had macrovision. I know we did not have any kind of stablilizer or special copy machinery used to duplicate VHS tapes.
I'm sure you can, at least on Safari. The default is "ask" but you can change it to "deny". I'd be surprised if other browsers don't allow this.
The summary is that the Wikimedia Foundation asks for and spends increasingly large amounts of money in donations mostly on things that are unrelated to Wikipedia. The writer seems to want the Foundation to use the money instead to build up an endowment (like universities do) so that Wikipedia is not eternally reliant on donations to survive. He also suggests that Wikipedia itself is fairly well-run, but the Foundation is not.
There's a music channel on YouTube that does "Fact or Fiction" with musicians, where they fact-check the person's Wikipedia page with them.

Sometimes they don't even get through the first sentence before the person has to stop them with corrections.
Download and run code written by strangers without understanding what it does — what could possibly go wrong?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-malicious-python-libraries...

Ironic that this was published today. :-)
Millennials should learn to code.
Can you specifically compare Metaflow to DVC and Databricks MLFlow? Those seem to be some popular tools in this space right now?
> Upon hearing that Google was taking millions of books out of libraries, scanning them, and returning them as if nothing had happened, authors and publishers filed suit against the company, alleging, as the authors put it simply in their initial complaint, “massive copyright infringement.”

This is where the project derailed and never quite recovered.
I looked at a couple of pictures from the dataset posted above, and I think for the best effect the holes need to be local (so there's a regular / smooth surface, and only some of it is covered in holes), they need to be large enough to actually see individually and there needs to be some space between them (so meshes etc. don't work at all), and ideally they are also slightly irregular.

You really don't encounter something that satisfies all of these naturally very often. Pretty much never. But it doesn't have to be "biological", it can be bread or plastic or anything else.
I dream of "better C" as something that I wish existed. Not a "alternative to C" like Rust or ADA (that is BETTER, but not C). I think:

- A C developer must find as low friction as possible to use it.

- It will look alike C as much as possible.

- Will not bring a big semantic/syntax departure

- Not bring any novel stuff or Gc. BetterC is C as will be written by the BEST of the developers with the BEST practiques applied, and removed (as much as possible) the most obvious mistakes or ill-advised features.

- BetterC must be/have a transpiler. Even if that break for a while perfect behaviors it provide a way to cleanly upgrade things forward. Because BetterC is well writen C, the user will be encouraged to use it with the confidence of be in the ecosystem.

- BetterC must be incorporated (eventually?) as a front-end in a C compiler (like LLVM). So is like have "strict on" available.

- This mean is better if is backed by the community as a long, step-by-step goal of C. This also mean must be done for people that actually love/like C, just want it to be better.

- Must provide a set of blessed libraries like unicode strings, arrays, numbers, dates, etc. If not in-built at least included so most that use C as all-around lang not get out (similar in this case as Rust)

- Must encourage rewrite of critical pieces of code, despite zero-cost of FFI with C.

- Fix stupid syntax issues like dangling else. This is the "easiest" part I think.

- Find the biggest issues of the langs/common libraries and kill them.

- NOT ALLOW STUPID BY DEFAULT. Bring the "unsafe" keyboard here. No excuses!

- Bring sane macros.

- Bring AGTD, pattern matching, for ... in ..., and hopefully, fast fast compile times.
I don't understand your second point - how would that negate anything?
I'm not saying that hydrogen fuel cells are a new technology, I'm saying that the use of the shorthand "fuel cell" to refer to them by default is a comparatively recent development limited to certain circles.
Less time spent at the gas pump means more time moving.

It was mentioned in an article about Bolian's run that they were able to pull up between two pumps, start them both, and run one into the car's tank and the other into the trunk-mounted fuel cell at the same time. Double the gallons per minute means half the time wasted!

I don't know if Toman/Tabbutt/Chadwick did that, but even at the same old gallons-per-minute, it means less time pulling into and out of a station, and is still valuable. Five more fuel stops at five minutes a piece would account for about half the difference between Bolian and Toman.
Exactly this.

When I was younger, I did a lot of speeding on Interstates (US). I had a fancy radar detector, and I was almost never ticketed. Part of getting away with it, though, is doing it when you're mostly alone on the highway. Driving much, much faster than the cars around you is both reckless and terrifying; the risks are enormous.

(Interestingly, my preferred highway pace back then was 75-80MPH. Now, when I drive on the Interstate, I'm nearly always going this fast or nearly this fast, but in the interim speed limits have risen on these open stretches of highway such that 75 is probably not even "ticketable" anymore; in some places, it's actually legal.

Therefore it's hard for me to say that my middle-aged increased law-abiding nature is due to maturity, or the fact that the speed limits have mostly risen to the speeds I was driving at anyway.)
Interest rates are set by FED, who can print arbitrary amount of money out of thin air, there is no supply/demand mechanism involved in setting them. Basically every rate change is an experiment testing whatever monetary theory is currently popular among FED board members.
Yes, also hydrogen fuel cells are not the only kind (although it is the most common). They can also be fueled by hydrocarbons.