skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The oath I swore when I joined the Air Force:

“I [state your full name], Do
solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I will support and defend
the Constitution of the United
States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic; that I
will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same; and
that I will obey the orders of
the President of the United
States and the orders of the
officers appointed over me,
according to regulations and
the Uniform Code of Military
Justice. So help me God
(optional).” [1]

1. https://www.airman.af.mil/Portals/17/002%20All%20Products/00...
What if we shot it in to space? Doesn't Space X think they can get cargo down to $100/kg? That would be a few hundred million in costs for all of the worlds nuclear waste annually.
Somewhere along the line CA's left/progressive ideology picked up a deeply ironic tenet that the world must remain absolutely unchanged by human habitation;

You have it exactly backwards. The areas where the CA fires occur are overwhelmingly conservative.

whatever faceless NIMBY/political force stands in the way of preventative burns says you're not allowed to change the forest by burning it

Some of the areas that are currently burning, including Sonoma County, were burned just 2 years ago. That did literally nothing to stop the severity of the current fires.

Libertarians act like prescribed fires are some sort of cure-all for mega-fires, and they're simply not. The problem is that the plant life is too dry because of a years-long drought. Megafires aren't nearly as mega in years when there's plenty of rain.
Regarding the protection of one’s children, I am not comprehending why you would have such an extensive list but still allow facebook and instagram.
> When I was in high school the state of California told gay couples to go fuck themselves.

Except, they actually wanted them to do exactly the opposite....
I didn't say I have children. It seems like a very extensive list because I went into a lot of detail, but it can be summed up as:

- no IOT devices I can't fully control, and which are known to stop functioning when there's a last mile residential ISP outage.

- no consumer-abusive electronics that I believe will be a waste of my money in the medium to long term
I think so, they understand when writing a sentence you don't start it with lower case character. They know to capitalize names. They recognize every time they see it not done its considered a mistake.

Why is this the exception?
While Google may have less than charitable motives for pushing Signed HTTP Exchanges, the standard could end up being a way to secure web apps against compromised hosting. If you could pin a specific version of a web app, and make sure that it appears in a public transparency log, that would give web apps roughly the same threat model as desktop apps.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yasskin-http-origin-signed...
> that Google will make a tool to create WebBundles

The tool exists: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/tree/master/go/bundle

> that tool will include well-known third-party resources in the bundle as a performance optimization

The tool doesn't do that. You tell gen-bundle what you want included and it builds the bundle.

You could imagine someone writing a easier to use tool that inspects your website and packages up everything it needs to make your website run, but including third-party resources that are cache-control:private (as Google ads scripts are) wouldn't work! For example, many third parties use user-agent sniffing to serve JS optimized for that particular browser.

> the Google Ads script is such a third-party resource?

Imagining for the moment there was a tool like this and a way for scripts to indicate whether they should be includable, I don't think Google Ads scripts would be likely to opt in for the same reasons that Google Ads discourages publishers from rehosting these scripts today.

> I would not be surprised at all if that logic starts getting more and more complex and hard to analyze.

As long as third-party cookies are still a thing, ad requests are still going to go to well known domains, because otherwise they won't get the cookie.

I see the next step in the ad blocking arms race as sites CNAMEing over to an ad network which reverse proxies their site. The network is then in a position to rewrite anything they want as inscrutably as they choose. This is a service you can buy (from others) today. I really hope this doesn't become widespread: even though the particular ad network I work for would likely do very well if the world went this way, it would even further promote centralization in the industry.
>I would love to see someone push for iOS to allow any browser/renderer to run.

Ostensibly, this is a fine position to have. But would this not more than likely not just result in Chrome having near total dominance of both the mobile and desktop rendering engine market. From a completely practical point of view, it seems that Safari on iOS is the only thing stopping Chrome's engine from having total market dominance.

I don't want to say that Webkit's dominance of iOS is a good thing, but it appears to be the lesser of two evils. I'd rather have Webkit dominate iOS, than Google and Chrome dominate everything. Google being the only major player in web standards is good for nobody but Google.
As an American, the Nintendo callcenter and Gay Blade parts were new to me as well, and I lived through most of the time period of the series.

I think Doom made sense to end on. It was really the first modern 3D FPS. Plus, in the mid-90's (when it was released) there was an explosion of gaming. It would be hard to summarize the period after the mid-90's to today (look how much they had to cut out during the comparatively quiet 70s and 80s.
Only for MacOS though
Also imagine they'd combine their codebase with shellshare (live streaming shell)

https://shellshare.net/
Neither Fukushima nor Chernobyl were worst-case-scenario.
I spent my decade bartending. Have the same motivations as yourself (fie on that completely flat wage growth in the service industry)

You're not the first person I've heard recommending talks and events. Just another reason to be frustrated with this pandemic.
And for the first time in history, since the middle of the previous century, we have some capacity of ending the entirety of human life on the planet, with only a few hands involved.
Do you have any resources about /proc you'd recommend?
Ferdi [1], which is a community fork of Franz [2], might suit your use cases.

[1] https://getferdi.com/
[2] https://meetfranz.com/
Strikes me more as pedantry.
but skin color can measure it?
The bit that caught my attention is that 6 of the 8 founding scientists are gone. I bet the former and current heads of AutoPilot are shaking their heads now. Sterling Anderson -> Chris Lattner -> Stuart Bowers -> Milan Kovac. Note how there was a progression from experienced highly respected scientists and engineers until Elon finally put in place someone who owes his career to Elon.
I would like to hear more about "nuclear meltdowns not even possible." You mean on designs that people are actually talking about implenting, or just the state-of-the-art stuff that we are nowhere close to implementing, especially in poorer nations?
The thing about bullshit detectors is, they tend to work well for most people towards things they don't feel strongly about or things they're opposed to. It's when it comes to things that validates a person's already held beliefs that the bullshit detectors tend to get inaccurate as it were. At least from what i've noticed with people anyway.
That's putting your children in grave danger from all manner of criminals online.
Yeah, they've only occupied it on and off for 19 years. So much better.
I guess it depends on your customer model, but surely the keyword there is "begin"?

It all depends on your customer/business model. If you're expecting to get to 1000s of clients quickly (i.e. within 12 months), then this will be an ops nightmare, unless you have really good automation.
That advice about family resonates really hard. Thanks for sharing.
Why Is LinkedIn Such a Cringefest?
What feels rushed about a custom ML chip an order of magnitude better than NVIDIA?
You're at a recommended restaurant that you're assuming won't screw you but you're also not very price sensitive. So, you don't want this if you're optimizing around price.
I do think google innovated a lot but I think htlm5 killed flash not google. Html5 is a web standard. Chrome is very much the new IE, it use to be I was forced to run IE for some b.s. legacy corporate webapp now I am forced to run Chrome. Why? Because devs have to prioritize a browser and the amount of non standard supposed engineering by google means they can't support other browsers.

Google is playing a winner takes all game of dominance. Imagine if Ford became so popular that mechanics can't be bothered to fix other cars because Ford does everything differently.

People are being forced to base browsers on Chromium because no one will use anything else due to sites depending on Chromium only features! This is very anti-innovation.

You came up with a cool new feature in firefox (like containers) and you want to standardize it? Well if uncle google says no you're out of luck. Standards exist for a reason and engineers(even at google) use to have enough professionalism to respect the concept and process of having an internet where everyone participates democratically.

I hate to keep on coming to similar conclusions but Browsers need to be regulated if the browser industry is always being overrun by some monopoly.
In the real world, the people who get stuff done get replaced with Yes Men who go "yes, no problem, we can hit that deadline" and end up delivering trash.

Tesla's self driving division will really have to include a beheading life insurance policy for me to buy their cars after the shit that came out on Twitter about how things are done in their "move fast, break things, kill people" organization.
My (tiny) CS department has a pretty nice compilers course, I thought. You work on a single, ~10k LoC file [0] that is written in a subset of C, compiles that subset to RISC-V, and also has a small VM and even a hypervisor for running the code it generates. The only thing is, the video lectures are 8 years old [1]. Though last semester, all lectures were online and anyone could join. Might be the same next spring/summer. You’d have to check the professor’s Twitter account.

[0]: https://github.com/cksystemsteaching/selfie
[1]: https://vimeopro.com/user12798068/university-of-salzburg-int...
I am a little confused. Is that supposed to be a sarcastic comment? Honest question, because I am a bad judge of sarcasm
Hi mate, just wanted to say thanks for the hard work, it's really appreciated honestly
Are they actually copyrightable? STScI is of course free to assert that they are, but that doesn't make it so.
I agree. I like Safari on iOS and iPadOS, and run Firefox on my MacBook and my Linux laptops.
You're missing some. For example, nuclear is implemented on a wide scale, but it's far too late to mitigate catastrophic climate change, and we are unable to prevent meltdowns in the insuing decline, accelerating the decline.
Obscurity isn't security, its just administrative overhead + additional points of failure.
It makes sense in retrospect, I just wasn't expecting it to suddenly stop when it did (I was paying no attention to number of episodes).

Though every year in the mid-90s was indeed a huge step forward so it'd be tough to cover everything that happened.

It's a bit funny to me they didn't drop the term 'Doom clone' in there before going straight for FPS. That term hung around for years as a testament to its influence.
Good?

Quality, cost, speed; I’d pick quality and speed.
Thought the guy was being sarcastic.
Also a past hardware engineer. Also I've never bought anything Apple. And also never bought anything Microsoft for about 20 years (unless the license came with a computer).

I'm not dogmatic about tech though, I just don't care for companies telling me what I can and cannot do.
There is nothing wrong with the propublica article.

It simply claims that the company received public money years ago to design a low-cost ventilator that it never sold, and instead used that money to also design higher-cost ventilators that it actually started selling...without any inventory issues.

The company claims that the US tried to order the cheapo ventilators for COVID use too late, and they may be true, but that wasn't the point of the article.
I have CS50 bookmarked! I'll have to dust it off. Thanks!
Hydro disasters have been large, but are tangible/sensible, immediate, and resolve relatively quickly (days for rescue, months for recovery, possibly a few years for rebuilding).

Banqiao is now home to 17 million people (after 40 years, largely achieved within a decade or so). Meantime, Chernobyl still hasn't seen complete containment (after 34 years), and Fukushima hasn't begun initial cleanup (after 9 years). The two nuclear sites will be obligatory nature preserves for centuries, containing still-lethal risks.

The specific failings at Banqiao were virtually all managerial and political, not technical; poor engineering, inadequate safety provisions, underestimated environmental and operational risks, poor contingency planning, unforseen perfect storm (literally), severed communications, insufficient warnings, no community disaster preparation, inadequate rescue and recovery. None of these failures are specific to hydro, all apply to nuclear power, and as non-engineering problems there is no technical fix that makes them go away.

In Banqiao, about 25,000 people died in the immediate innundation. Another 150,000 died in the following weeks of starvation and disease. There's no great mystery as to how such deaths are avoided: floodwaters are mitigated by high ground and evacuation centres; starvation and disease by food, water, and medical stocks; and rescue & recovery by trained teams and equipment. Reestablishment of communications, transport, and utilities is critical.

China at the time was desperately poor, politically dysfunctional, and gambled hugely on risk and lost. Other major hydro disasters tend to share these traits.

As do many regions looking to nuclear power for salvation.

(I've mentioned Banqiao several times over the years on HN. It's a terrifying but educational tragedy. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... Wikipedia article recommended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam))
What a very sad story. It's 600 YEARS OLD TREE! The bizzare lies in the man's reason to kill the tree.
Google could simply cache the web pages and strip them naked. Reader mode on browsers do a good job of it on most sites and they can publish guidelines on how to structure your site to make it easier for reader mode to work which wouldn't be that problematic (it would also encourage accessibility).
You can report an issue here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list
Well, it's an important concept to know when something is an ad or not and to, even in general, know or be able to reason about the motivations of the writer of an article. I think that's why it's important. This is especially relevant when it's a submarine ad, as the person to whom you're replying mentioned.

In any case, your comment seems very aggressive.
Absolutely. The entirety of the nuclear waste from US power generation fits in a volume the footprint of an American football field, and 10 meters high: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...

Maybe geothermal creates less waste, since you just need to pipe water into the ground and drive a steam turbine. But most of the world doesn't have access to geothermal power.
Servers need to be manually rebooted multi times per day. It’s getting worse.

Your task is to add a todo calendar to the website by Monday.

What advise do you give?
For those who aren't familiar, Smear the Queer is a playground game in which one person has to keep a ball away from the rest of the group, who tries to tackle them. It's sort of like a cross between "reverse tag" and gridiron/rugby football.

(The gay-bashing element is just a metaphor, you see.)
Collective Healing: Rahmin Sarabi Interview
`man proc' is quite good. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html

/proc is Linux specific, but it's extremely useful. A lot of tools are actually built on top of it, for example ps.

ngarvey@cheapo:~$ strace ps aux |& grep cmdline | head
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/1/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 6
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/2/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 6
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/3/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 6
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/4/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 6
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/9/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 6
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/10/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 6
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/11/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 6
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/12/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 6
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/13/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 6
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/14/cmdline", O_RDONLY) = 6
Photo-Chromeleon: Re-Programmable Multi-Color Textures Using Photochromic Dyes
I think dynamic state makes more sense than package level state for Go. Anything package level need to be either read-only or mutex-locked for thread safety. Removing package level state and having per call dynamic state instead would be better.
All of those existed 9 years ago, there are adults today who grew up with them.
You can connect a PC to a television (or get a device to stream the game from a PC to a television) connect a controller, and crash on a couch.

It's not for everyone, but it can be a heck of a lot less expensive and some games are simply better with the third-party mods.
How do you deal with the domain language? Translating that can be a pain and a source of unclarity too.
Show HN: My recreation of cyberpunk/futuristic UI in rust
E-dust

see Iain M. Banks collection of Culture novels.
Yep, which is why I was disappointed Steam Link never really gain traction.

Since I grew up on FPS with kbm, I hate using a controller for them, so I'll happily sit at my desktop.

But Steam Link lets me play controller based games on the couch in front of the TV. At least until my wife comes home :)
I like this idea. From my limited reading and understanding, the nervous system/brain and body seems to function as a huge number of feedback loops where the nerves are predicting a response in the body to a nerve firing event, doing the event, and then comparing what happened to the prediction. Moving your hand is a huge number feedback loops. Seems like a similar thing probably happens for abstract things like words. Building up all these sub models to a model of the self seems like a natural progression and could be very evolutionary beneficial, although with drawbacks also (paralyzing self doubt, depression, neuroticism, etc)
Pollution from coal power kills about a million per year, and that's not counting accidents. I don't know why you'd want a "completely unmitigated meltdown," but even if terrorists rent a 747, hoist an active reactor, and drop it onto the middle of Manhattan, it will kill less than the non-failure mode of coal plants during the same year.
hmmm not my 10yr old. not my 12 yr old at 10.

I think 12/13 is about the time they start understanding that some limits exist, not just because mom and dad put them in place.
The secret of happiness is low expectations.
- Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first?

No real focus first. I majored in history. I worked for a while doing a lot of number crunching with excel and thought maybe a lot of what I was doing could be automated. That's how I got interested in programming.

- What are you doing at your job? Is it everything you dreamed of and more?

Currently DevOps. I enjoy it because I have a lot of autonomy and am able to work with tech I am interested in like Kubernetes. I have worked at a few companies and I think your enjoyment is very dependent on the company culture and team culture.

- How did you break that first-job barrier?

I made a lateral move the company I was already working for. I was spending a lot of my free time learning and working on small projects. I started talking with some people on the engineering team during company social events and when they were hiring one of them said I should apply.

- What were you doing before this?

Technical account manager doing client implementations. Desperately wanted to do something that didn't involve talking to be people on the phone all day.

- Any tips for the rest of us?

My experience is an anecdote, but I think that making a lateral move by getting as close as you can to the technical work at your current job is a good strategy. I had to be very persistent and there were a lot of times I was brushed off by managers and executives. Making friends with the people on the engineering team was the most important thing I did. They were happy to include me and were great mentors.
I meant with first Aurelius = Aurelian

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelian

> "The ancient sources do not agree on his place of birth, although he was generally accepted as being a native of Illyricum"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illyricum_(Roman_province)
> [...] after the shit that came out on Twitter about how things are done in their "move fast, break things, kill people" organization.

Like what?
The LinkedIn feed has become totally insufferable. All of these life coaches who can't choose a job title "CEO/Dating Coach/Recruiter/Empath Wizard".
My children also learned to type very well at a young age because we did not have consoles.
It's cool that Tesla made an ASIC, I guess.

I think more relevant though, would be Tesla's hype around "Autopilot" when they still can't reliably avoid parked cars.
While I see FS2020 as a monumental achievement and a great version 1, my main gripes with it are mostly related to the 3D elevation data handling, simplification and rendering:

- steep surfaces are both too rounded and textures look like a stretched pixel strip across the whole surface; most mountains look very underwhelming when nearby and flying inside Grand Canyon/Marble Canyon looks weird

- some 3D tiles aren't linked properly, leading to sudden discontinuities in the surface; try to e.g. fly through the Remarkables mountains north to Queenstown, NZ

- some water bodies are upside down, instead of being in a valley they were processed as "aqueducts"; see Victoria Falls in Africa for a very long "aqueduct"

- certain geographic locations have invisible borders one can crash into; try to land in the Badwater basin in Death Valley

- when cities switch from procedural to photogrammetry, the detailed city doesn't match its surroundings color-wise and usually ends up very dark

- many bridges include water underneath as a wall; SF Bay is full of them

- satellite imagery is not consistent (usually corresponds to Bing Maps one) and in many places one can see sharp borders between tiles coming from different satellite scans

- some interesting parts of the world don't have consistently high resolution like Maldives or Kamchatka

- roads are often projected as textures onto a steep terrain and no effort was made to carve them out

- certain type of green is sometimes misidentified as a forest, leading to obscuring some great views like Kalalau lookout on Kauai etc.

- some taller buildings end up looking like pyramids from a distance due to the used shape simplification algorithm; I saw German pyramids near Mannheim that way
Authorities everywhere will harass people they consider troublemakers, but that doesn't suggest at all that they aren't racially biased in who they consider troublemakers.
OK, I have a question that has been bugging me for years. How do these Romans shave? Finely stropped bronze blades that must dull immediately? Did they pluck their whiskers?
Did/do you work there? Is it a worthwhile place to work for a senior eng w/o much corporate experience? (15yr Bootstrap SMB, BSci academia, early stage startups, corporate retail service). (Anyone? Thanks.)