skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wondered about this for years, crossing off theories like you just did with powerful counterexamples.

All I see left is technophobia.

There's a deep human bias. Things we don't understand seem scarier than things we do.

People get how a dam works, the basics anyway. They understand how a car crashes or why it's bad when the pump in your chest stops beating.

They do not like radiation at all. They do not like strange chemicals. They do not like robots driving cars.

They want dangers they can understand, even if that increases the risk substantially.
"would have" is pretty hard to measure. I do admire the idea to incentivize QA engineers on discovery of niche bugs.
You'll need rational numbers, not just fixed point, since it's a recurring decimal. (Unless it's a non-recurring decimal in base 2, I guess, but even then, the moment you do something with it you'll probably need a rational representation.)
If there are two with these names:

İdata.db
Idata.db

which one should be opened when you ask for "idata.db"?

What about if only the first file exists, and you open for writing a file called "Idata.db"? Should it overwrite the first file, or create the second?

If it should overwrite the first file, unpacking an archive that contains both will result in a missing file.

What about these two, you might feel differently about because they are visually distinct:

ßdata.db
SSDATA.DB

These are not theoretical questions. On some OSes, the answer changes depending on ephemeral language settings that the current program may not be aware of or expecting.

In some environments, the answer doesn't change but doesn't match what happens in other environments. E.g. many systems implement ASCII case-folding only, others implement more characters but not Unicode, others implement all of Unicode.

Inevitably a program somewhere will break because this wasn't anticipated.

A backup using an archiver will not restore what was there before, and something that worked before the backup will behave differently after the restore.

A script (such as a build script) may inadvertantly create both files when run with one language setting, then break when the language setting is changed, even thought the script doesn't have anything to do with languages.

Your carefully written novel, that has chapter files with names you thought were distinct, will have missing chapters when you copy it across to another system. You discover this months later when you start working again on the novel, long after destroying the original system you thought you had copied from.
Just naively, from what I understand, solar farms are liable to produce a lot of toxic waste. The DOE claims nuclear is 2.5 to 3.5 times more reliable than wind and solar energy.
Oh yep, misread it.
You lost me there with the 6 million X coordinates in California. 6 million whats starting from where? It can't be feet from the prime meridian, that's not far enough.

I've been scraping my county assessor's GIS database for property outlines and I noticed that the coordinates are huge, as you mentioned. I assumed it was just some fanciful origin but I'd love to know the story.
Something I’ve never understood about Unix: what’s the point of the shell field in passwd(5), /etc/shells and chsh(1) when one can just “exec /my/shell” in a standard init file?

Is it a hangover from the days when mainframes charged $0.12 per command?
I consider trackpads in general to be 'clunky' (not as easy to use) to use relative to a mouse.
Having done very short and tentative kite jumps, and having done kite buggying, this is terrifying.

If you fuck it up badly, you're potentially looking at broken bones or worse.

This was a massive health and safety failure and one incredibly lucky girl to have escaped so lightly.
I guess we should just give up and leave everything wide open then right? No point in trying to do defense in depth if someone will eventually hack something?
It was a typo, now corrected.
But that lowers the deterrence factor. If you’ve got lethal drones that can target any individual you want then who needs war when you can establish a totalitarian state? Just eliminate all of your enemies with drones and use them to keep the population firmly under your heel.
Fair enough, perhaps that's the point. I was just curious since the last action seems obvious and well documented.
I was exposed to the unfiltered internet starting at around puberty, and, despite being a huge programmer nerd, I turned out mostly okay.

I don’t think ten year olds gibbing opponents with rocket launchers in Quake is quite as harmful as you seem to think.
That’s also not really the defining feature of lisps though. If it was, any language with access to its own parser would be a lisp.
I've been aware of Marpa since about 2010. Every once in a while I read whatever Kegler has written, and I come away from it each time unconvinced that I should put in the effort to use it (which, for the most part, means first porting it to another language). On the plus side, he does acknowledge some of the prior art in the field. But on the flip side, he makes expansive claims, and there has been essentially zero uptake of Marpa or even its ideas, as far as I am aware.

Does Marpa live up to its advertising? Is it more generally useful than GLR or GLL (which, despite having some flurry of effort in the past decade, themselves have not set the parsing world on fire). It's frustrating, because the parsing world has gone around in circles for many years now (PEG being a great example). It would be nice to have algorithms with superior parsing power that are at least as fast as the less powerful ones used by virtually everyone today.
from the very biased "endcoal.org":

"Coal is responsible for over 800,000 premature deaths per year globally and many millions more serious and minor illnesses."

https://endcoal.org/health/#:~:text=Coal%20is%20responsible%....

from the less biased (depending on the metallicity of your hat) World Health Organization:

"Ambient (outdoor) air pollution in both cities and rural areas was estimated to cause 4.2 million premature deaths worldwide per year in 2016; this mortality is due to exposure to small particulate matter of 2.5 microns or less in diameter (PM2.5), which cause cardiovascular and respiratory disease, and cancers.

People living in low- and middle-income countries disproportionately experience the burden of outdoor air pollution with 91% (of the 4.2 million premature deaths) occurring in low- and middle-income countries, and the greatest burden in the WHO South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions. The latest burden estimates reflect the very significant role air pollution plays in cardiovascular illness and death. More and more, evidence demonstrating the linkages between ambient air pollution and the cardiovascular disease risk is becoming available, including studies from highly polluted areas.

WHO estimates that in 2016, some 58% of outdoor air pollution-related premature deaths were due to ischaemic heart disease and strokes, while 18% of deaths were due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and acute lower respiratory infections respectively, and 6% of deaths were due to lung cancer.

Some deaths may be attributed to more than one risk factor at the same time. For example, both smoking and ambient air pollution affect lung cancer. Some lung cancer deaths could have been averted by improving ambient air quality, or by reducing tobacco smoking."

...

"In addition to outdoor air pollution, indoor smoke from household air pollution is a serious health risk for some 3 billion people who cook and heat their homes with biomass fuels and coal. Some 3.8 million premature deaths were attributable to household air pollution in 2016. Almost all of the burden was in low-middle-income countries. Household air pollution is also a major source of outdoor air pollution in both urban and rural areas."

https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ambient-...

a few notes: Coal has two atmospheric externalities: particulates and C02 emissions. As the WHO notes, it can be difficult to attribute deaths to particulate pollution, and it can be even harder to then attribute that death to some source of particulates (they could be released by coal, or diesel engines, or any number of chemical reactions, though coal is particularly dirty when compared to other modern fuels). Climate change will affect lives, but it may be even more difficult to accurately attribute as a cause of death. Did rising temperatures play a role in recent middle eastern conflicts? Probably. Does this mean that climate change has already killed people in Syria and Yemen? That's a difficult question, at least to me.
Love the concept. I have been in need for a tool/service like this for a while. I now resort to creating my own slack workspace and using channels as a way to save links. Using chrome plugins is a crappy alternative. I don’t know if I would pay for it though. I would be amazing if after all the links you add, the system “predicts” or “recommends” what other links would be a good fit in this category, or help you auto organize better.
Neat, but I think this is below the HN quality standard.
Oh for sure, but at the same time queer in the context of the game didn't mean a generic 'odd', divorced from homophobia. At least by middle school, the kids knew that it meant gay and that gay was bad. Hell, we snickered at the world gay singing Christmas carols in 3rd grade. Using it as an excuse to beat my queer ass was a consequence of that, but I'm sure they would have invented another if the game didn't exist.
H.266 VVC vs. H.265 HEVC – 50% More Efficient Than H.265
H.266 VVC is 50% more efficient than H.265 HEVC. VVC has introduced improved coding tools to provide better compression ratio at the same quality with HEVC. What's new in VVC compared to HEVC?
Well, many 30 year old adults are stupid, so it stands to reason that at least some percentage of 10 year old kids are, too.

I’m glad your child is bright and perceptive.
Now imagine someone takes over your Neuralink...

And that's how we get the Zombie Apocalypse, kids!
This made my morning. LoL
Aren't there a lot of people shorting Tesla stock? Some of those would probably stand to receive a significant amount of $$$ if this were to happen.

That kind of incentive has led to underhanded behaviour in the past, so it wouldn't be surprising to see it happen again.
I should have clarified - of course you can be _sued_ for any amount. I meant that you cannot be forced to repay more than what you own - you bankrupt your way out of it, or accept a settlement.

The only debt you cannot discharge via bankruptcy is student loan debt, iirc.
Is it difficult to believe that functions can be "too small"? I've found myself in both code bases with enormous 5kloc functions as well as code bases where I had to juggle 10 1loc functions in my head in order to figure out what the hell was going on. Both are their own forms of torture.

A 5loc/function sweetspot sounds about right.
>There is a huge cost to not adopting new safety measures

That statement doesn't seem meaningful to me in a vacuum, without further qualification. It's not at all guaranteed that safety features have net benefits, either measured financially or in estimated human welfare. Have you noticed there are a lot of high tech safety features in modern cars, but insurance companies are selective about which ones receive discounts?

If self-driving cars are substantially safer, insurance companies will be able to give substantial discounts. I vaguely remember Tesla making noises about providing insurance to their own customers, but I don't know if it came to anything.
A recent thread about a similar product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24004588

Personally, I think just those limits make this a non-starter for me. 30 resources per topic over 250 topics is a total of just 7.5k links, which is nothing. Charging $19.99 a year for that (and that's introductory pricing!) is insanity, especially when there's free bookmarking tools, some of which are even open source or self hosted.

E: Some less similar alternatives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24199419

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19346985

http://pinboard.in/tour/

I'm not affiliated with any of the alternatives I've listed.
It’s clearly marked as in development. What’s impressive to me is just how good the 80% solution they have is, even without the additional FSD package.
Or you could just minimise this part of the discussion, which HN makes trivially easy to do.
I use `ps -p "$$"`
A closer look at Elon Musk’s Neuralink surgical robot
I think you misspelled “retrieval” on your homepage
Having a social structure where everyone is checked up on, and people who seem to be up to no good can be talked about.

Alternatively and additionally, automated, limited, algorithmic surveillance and controls over some technologies. It's certainly difficult, but not completely impossible. There really aren't that many lone wolf nutcases that have the resources and ability to do such damage. It generally turns up warning signs and and/or takes coordinated groups.

The Unabomber also wasn't a completely mad act, he had some method to his madness and his crimes ultimately came from his perception of the modern world as a horrible place to live in and a destruction of the environment.
FWIW, when I upgraded my parents operating system for their iPhone, it bricked the phone and I had to take it to the Apple store to get them to get it to stop freezing after attempting to boot the system following the upgrade.

The Apple tech told me that next time I want to upgrade multiple versions, that I should install fresh instead of upgrading.
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I'm more or less in the same situation. I own a 2013 15" MBP that still works perfectly but I'm afraid of what will happen if / when it stops working. I actually use it often, so it could get stolen / I could drop it / etc.

My client uses Windows and HP computers. I've been able to save an "old" Elitedesk 800 G2 SFF (6th gen i5) from the dumpster and upgraded it with an old ssd I had lying around and 16 GB of ram (instead of 8). I've set up ArchLinux on it with I3 and boy do I love that machine. It's plenty powerful, quiet, and everything just works. It actually replaced my MBP as my "dev" machine during the WFH phase.

I've also had close to no issues running Arch on a Probook 430 G5. Everything except for the fingerprint reader works. But while the desktop is great, I'm less happy with the laptop. It's not so much related to Linux but to the physical machine itself (the touchpad isn't great, the keyboard's texture feels weird, it has coil whine, assembly is half-assed and rubs the wrists while working on it, etc).

As they say, YMMV, but my experience is that depending on what you do day to day with your computer, a Linux PC may actually work surprisingly well compared to a mac, especially on the desktop where the superior materials and assembly of the mac are less of an issue.
This is why I said we would need to colonise other planets. It is all about statistics, such crises must be occurring regularly even on highly advanced societies. So long as these events occur rarely, and doesn’t affect other planets, civilisation will continue and thrive.

Universe is a large place, statistically speaking there must be criminal empires, psychotic species, and all kinds of other madness that exist but I believe these types of societies would be a considerable rarity as it is hard to pass great filter with such social structures.
I don't remember for sure. It is it's own open source project however. I do use lutris as well, but mostly for emulators.

> Personally I had better luck fiddling with Wine than with Proton. (and by fiddling I mean "checking a few dlls in winetricks")

To each their own. Almost all of my Window's only games I have in my steam library and I've just been able to click install and play, so I haven't looked in depth at any of the other options yet.
Wow... I honestly feel better about my work now. That was remarkable reading.
Yeah, it's a little meta. I was afraid that what I was trying to say wouldn't quite come across. It's why I mentioned "the shell I'm currently typing in" so many times.
Can someone correct this if it's just conjecture? I've always been told that they are making you feel small and under pressure specifically to look for reactions that might indicate you are hiding something. I am not condoning this, just wondering if it's true.
50/50 is not at all like Quake.
What happens to the 1-π/4 of land that isn't irrigated?
YAML “won” for some definition because it’s really natural to write. Mix colons and brackets, multiline strings that aren’t weird, type annotations when desired, add your own types, basic but functional-ish DRY support that’s transparent to the reader, dict merging. Throw in some value templating a la Ansible and you have a really solid language to express annoying data shapes.
It wouldn't be nice for sure, but it would drastically slow down and change the magnitude. The thing is.. crime exists in most countries. What makes a big difference here is the amount of drug money coming into the cartels pockets, that type of money changes everything. We're talking of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, that's no pocket change. If money stops flowing in the cartels would have to switch to other types of operations, sadly still vicious and violent, but nothing like what they currently make.
I should have been more careful in wording my original comment.

I know there are statistics classes given in most professions. But those classes generally are graded on a bell curve and many people I've known have passed such classes without really 'getting much'.

Also, my comment should have specified statistics as part of critical thinking and analysis of complex phenomena.
Bans normally come with a reasoning beyond "I do what I want lol". I'm curious what it might be.
Companion app for Fall Guys fruit match
Probably a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Plane_Coordinate_System zone.

Typically designed to have similar error across the whole area and things like that.
Those cheap antennas don't have sufficient power output or precision for that application. Going to be expensive.
Very cool!

First thing I noticed, on mobile this would benefit from a Next Page link.
If I understand correctly what you are saying, you are arguing that we take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. I very much respect that position.

However, I would argue that there is definitely not a consensus. The Mexican people are fighting with their lives against these organizations.

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

Mexico has a central government that is weak in some respects. Their judicial system is not what it needs to be. Certain transnational criminal organizations have taken advantage of this to establish enclaves of power.

That does not mean that they are recognized as legitimate political entities by the Mexican people and should be given some formal recognition of authority by the Mexican government or the country's neighbors.

Say my neighbor is in my front yard waving an AR-15 and screaming at me that trash day was yesterday and I need to bring my garbage cans in. I'm sure as hell not going out there to talk to him, but that doesn't mean I recognize him as the new de-facto mayor of my front yard. He's just the lunatic in my front yard screaming at me who I'm going to do my best to avoid, and hopefully at some point the cops will show up and get him out of my yard.
In a couple decades I suspect getting a license will be as common as people getting motorcycle licenses today. Might happen.
Make sure to install uBlock Origin instead, it is developed by the original uBlock developer. uBlock was hijacked by another person for their own profit (and has seen much less development compared to uBlock Origin while also containing anti-user features).
It depends on how active the person has been in choosing the target and the exploit. If a nation-state actor has pored over the source code for some time before/after approaching a person in a tech company with commit privileges, they might be in a position to give them code to introduce that's as limited as possible and which does exactly what they need it to, while seemingly being entirely in keeping with that person's prior work and the organisation's development practices. For the attacker, the less exposure their insider has to actively thinking about how to subvert the system that they have access to (which they could later confess to if questioned/arrested/jailed) and the fewer opportunities there are for someone to notice that something's amiss and for the person to come under suspicion, the better.
Is serializability desirable in a distributed database?
It's pretty awesome that it serves the Deaf community well! Thanks for giving me another perspective I wasn't aware of before.
That’s true. I wrote that in my other post. It still isn’t a “sniper rifle”. It’s a carbine in an intermediate caliber.
I remember a long time ago reading about the updates to mandated car electronics and thinking I never wanted to own a car newer than...1996 maybe? And now I can't even remember what I was thinking and why. It might have been OBD-II.

Even a hard core luddite gets worn down.
I'm shorting Tesla stock. I consider short Tesla an investment that makes sense over time.

And no, I'm not a hedge fund. Just an investor. Not going to be funding hackers.

lmao... this hack just underscores how exceedingly lame Tesla truly is.
Yes, I'm amazed at how quickly things have changed. My sister who is only five years younger than me has a friend who is gay and went to the same high school that I did. In only half a decade the culture shifted from just clear and open homophobia (including some teachers) to him being able to be out and open in HS without too much of an issue.

The problem isn't really out in the open harassment anymore though. I haven't been in HS for a bit now, but I'm a grad student in a fairly progressive university. Nobody would really think we have homophobes here anymore. But, in reality they exist and just learned how to hide it better.

To give an anecdote, I'm quite straight passing and it came up that I had a boyfriend at a bar with some other students while at a conference. For the rest of the week, this one guy in my cohort would make comments to me once everybody else got out of earshot. Stuff like how "sneaky" I am or how he wondered why they let people like me into the conference. I just ignored him and it eventually stopped.

Are you gay? Because, if you're not, then you might just not be experiencing the homophobia head on any longer since it isn't so much out in the open.
Yeah. That's a great read too.
FYI, dang is the site admin.
Or even just a gas turbine, as RC people already use. 10:1 TWR, relatively cheap. Quite loud, but works at high altitudes.
My comment wasn't, 'doctors don't know math and I'm so smart', but rather the oposite. I was surprise was when I found a doctor who didn't have a firm grasp of basic principals of statistical analysis. And how through my life I've encountered a lot of high level professionals who far exceed me in success, confess to not understanding certain concepts I considered are objectively very basic.
> Specifically for the tech in vehicles example, it seems like a real double standard. Around 37,000 people in the US die in car accidents every year

Depends on the feature you're talking about. With self-driving cars, for example, there is no evidence that they are any safer than human drivers. In fact, it is possible that they are more dangerous than human drivers.
Not that light. It's a set of workers built in c++ and works with libwebrtc over udp. Cloudflare workers is js/v8 only and is specific to HTTP.
Funny enough, I ctrl fed for an optimization problem I've been wondering about and found a couple mentions of it (branch vs conditional move)