skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
low key feel opposite - chaos engineering (to an extent obvs) would benefit flight controls...

it's like that old experiment that i cant find source for - wall st traders switched with military guys and wall st outperformed mils because they are used to dealing with uncertain information...
Further to my remark about things being scanned take a look at this from 1909: Modern electrics ... v.1 no.10 1909 Jan. <https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067294929&vi...>
It's bad enough that ethical people find themselves in a situation like this. But when suicide is the result, it's tragic.

Finding out you've thrown your lot in with - and been trapped by - scumbags that you thought you could trust - must be very difficult. But suicide is not a solution ... you lose all. The best choice is to walk away.

Tomorrow will need you.
I had to create a custom package of some C++ header files. I failed. I was shocked at how hard it was.
I used to believe that a properly configured Arch Linux setup is super stable, until one day when I upgraded the Linux kernel and there was multiple GPU hangs and graphics glitches. It's fixed upstream now, but it does make me think again about running close to the bleeding edge.

On the same line, I don't realize that my Bluetooth driver was broken until I checked dmesg. This one wasn't fixed upstream yet, but I don't need Bluetooth on my laptop anyway.
Hey would love to chat :) Pinging you!

We actually also have a couple of questions around throwing error messages back to segment and your retry policies
No sorry it wont. The Vulcan only requires 2 engines and will have very low launch rate. That is nowhere near enough money to finance what Blue is spending.

Blue Origin business model now and for years to come is selling Amazon stock.
I thought I read somewhere that most of the richer people in San Francisco send their children to private schools (to the extent that the public schools were minority-white in a majority-white city.) I wonder how much this happens in the Cupertino.

Normally there is some reasoning that public schools do well because of rich parents who can help fund the school and who generally care about their children’s education, and that’s an guess I might make about Cupertino based on your comment, but it seems to not be the case in SF.
IIRC, Mitsubshi VCRs were the later good ones in the 80's/90's. The rewind speeds were insanely fast. Earlier, Panasonic units were good in the mid 80's.

I recall inheriting a 3-piece Panasonic VHS VTR-type camera (not a camcorder) system that had a separate camera, recorder/player, and control/tuner unit. It was roughly a VHS consumer analog of the Sony SL-F1 Betamax camera system. The tape unit was silver w silver buttons, bulky, and had a shoulder strap. It had a slow rewind speed.

Super VHS (S-VHS) players weren't good enough to justify their costs.
see also, Tux Racer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Racer

Once the Penguin was settled on as the logo, it really went everywhere.
> I would have thought that the most significant form of gaming the system would be discreet student selection.

This is very common in the private, for-profit schools in Sweden. The general procedure goes as follows:

1. Spend heavily on marketing to attract 'good students'
2. Avoid selecting 'bad students'
3. Automatically use the scores that follow from this selection to create a feedback loop that keeps bringing in good students
4. Cut as much spending as you can - you're getting paid a set amount of money per student from the government, after all
5. Pocket the difference

Meanwhile, the public schools are not allowed to engage in the same sort of filtering and are hence required to accept the 'bad students', which constrains their resources and creating the opposite feedback loop to what the private for-profit schools have.

Kind of sickening, to be honest.
There is, at that's exactly how we do it for that last 100 years. Pumped-storage hydroelectricity.

About 80% efficiency, and 95% of electricity is stored this way. Burning fossils is of course stupid.

> Pumped storage is by far the largest-capacity form of grid energy storage available, and, as of 2020, the United States Department of Energy Global Energy Storage Database reports that PSH accounts for around 95% of all active tracked storage installations worldwide, with a total installed throughput capacity of over 181 GW.

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I wish you could have replied to his original comment. Perhaps he would have an answer.
Sites like Hacker News and reddit seem to do a decent enough job of aggregating 'em.

It also helps to be the change you want to see in the world; if you think the world needs more personal websites, ain't much stopping you from pitching in and doing your part to make that happen :)
I can't imagine teachers at my school ever actually cheating by giving results in exams. Teachers Unions in the UK fought very hard to remove exam invigilation from Teachers responsibilities, which makes that much harder.

However, the inspection thing chimes strongly with my experience and the focus on the resistant materials track of design technology as a way that anyone can get a 'good pass'.

All the effort went in to getting border line D kids to borderline C. If you were a borderline 5C candidate (a key metric in the UK at the time) you were on detention every night to try and trip over the line.
indeed. and it's pointless anyway to discuss this from an ideological perspective. FB is only looking out for their financial interests. they just make a bet with the best expected return. in this case it's pretty safe to bet on the side of the US, EU governments who oppose the coup. and they do something rather than nothing maybe to regain some favors with western countries or they feel they need to do it to claim consistency with past actions.
UK state schools absolutely suck. My experience mirrors that of the author in a lot of ways.

I will say though, some of the content of this article appears outdated, and the author doesn't seem to have checked to see if their memory lines up with the reality of how things work today.

For example, about Ofsted inspections:

> Now, you may imagine that these inspections would be unannounced, so as to best get a real image of how a school works. Not the case. They’re scheduled well in advance.

This is absolutely not the case today. Schools have a general idea of when an inspection will be (i.e: what season of the year) based on when their last inspection was, but they're only told that an inspection will happen on the morning of the inspection [0]. Schools don't really have a window of opportunity to game the inspection in the way the author describes.

> Another way the stats were gamed was by not recording bad behavior

This whole section seems a little naive. Teachers in lower sets have an incredibly tough job, and have to try to support those students who genuinely want to learn, but are struggling, while also managing the behaviour of disruptive children. Sometimes, it is the better option to just allow some disruptive behaviour slide (e.g: swearing) rather than interrupting the whole lesson just to deal with one kid. A lot of the time, if behaviour doesn't provoke any response, it won't escalate. As the author says, if a student is actually aggressive towards other students, then obviously action is taken, but I'm not sure they quite appreciate how difficult it is to try to teach a struggling class.

wrt cheating, it definitely happens. I'm not personally aware of any examples quite as extreme as what the author described, but I know my Spanish teacher turned a blind eye while I let my friends copy my work, for example, and I'm sure in the lower sets behaviour such as this was more widespread. I will say though, the exams the author is talking about here are GCSEs. They don't determine your ability to get into university, they're only used by 6th-forms (equivalent of US high school) to determine what subjects you can study. While they absolutely affect parents' perception of schools, they are not quite as serious as if students were receiving A-levels based on cheating. Also, students choose GCSE subjects. If someone only speaks 20 words of French, it's unlikely they would choose to study French.

0: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Even with a single mind having the final say over the design, it is still easy to violate conceptual integrity in software if it directly or indirectly touches the end user or “real world” in general. In this case, requirements or their understanding will inevitably change, and any time that happens in order to maintain conceptual integrity software has (effectively) to be redesigned[0].

If you’re lucky, the result of that redesign might turn out to be close enough to what you currently have[1]. What’s dangerous is skipping that taxing redesign process altogether, or losing sight of the new target while you strive to maintain software built on the now-outdated conceptual model in order to address users’ current needs faster. Keeping in mind the updated model and evolving the whole system towards it while continuing to provide functional software to existing users at all times is probably the most difficult aspect of building software for the end user.

That said, I agree that originating from a single person (or indeed very few “agreeing resonant minds”) might be a pre-requisite for cohesive design, and I think “conceptual integrity” is a very fitting term.

[0] This might sound drastic, but this is my belief so far. Slightly expanded on it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25408650.

[1] I am tempted to say that the “tighter” the design (the more tailored the solution is to the problem), the more likely a small change in requirements is to affect the product in a major way once you rethink it.
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I don’t see how that is a technology problem. The technology to run power grids that are resilient to cold temperatures exists, otherwise Canada, Alaska or any northern country wouldn’t have power. It’s just expensive and any player investing into cold-proofing their grid would have been priced out of the market in Texas long ago.
<3 Thanks for the kind words!
TIL about the ping attribute on tags, which will send a request when clicked
> you are just shifting first in, for biggest wallet

Not shifting because there's no supply. The mosquito fleet of entrepreneurs driving in to make a buck selling gas, water, food, supplies, etc., disappeared.

Which would you rather do in Texas: watch your house slowly freeze and know you'll have 5 figures in freeze damage while waiting several days for the government to restore power, or buy a generator and a can of gas from a redneck who threw his own generator into his pickup with a can of gas and drove in from the next state to sell it to you for 3 figures?

> it really doesn't help more people

It really does help more people. Before the anti-gouge laws, there were always stories in the media about these people driving into disaster zones with supplies. But the media always demonized them, and so now they're against the law and you get to freeze.

Of course, there are good people who will still drive in and give away supplies, but they're a tiny fraction of the crowd that trucks supplies in to make a buck.
> utterly refuse to document anything beyond the absolute basics

I don’t see how that’s any different from PC or ARM world, save for a couple of larger scale exceptions (Dell, Lenovo, Intel, AMD) and a bunch of insignificant players (Raspberry, System76 & al), and even then it’s a fairly recent development in PC history that these players document/support/contribute anything.

The fact that Linux pretty much works+ on any PC out there is mostly due to volunteers hacking stuff around on PCs that are getting increasingly normalised.

And even with the normalisation of hardware architecture, there are still a lot of either unspecified of spec violating special cases. If one is not convinced by that, I encourage one to lurk the Linux kernel tree for quirks, device trees, and other various DSDT hacks. The weird size of payloads for the T2 SSD controller that stumped everyone for some time is only one among many, many other quirks that exist overall.

After 10+ years, dust is only settling on the BIOS to EFI transition, and I’m not the least surprised that it takes a bit of time to adapt to the overall ARM Mac architecture.

+ by “works” I mean boots reasonably well to init 5+VESA, and most of the time something else than VESA. But taking random hardware and having a bulletproof system out of the box down to every nook and cranny is still a tall order. There are systems that fully work optimally out of the box, but they’re a very small minority.
I'm by no means a Google shill, but RAM is meant to be used. What's the point of my RAM if it's just going to sit there...doing nothing, gathering dust, all the time?

I read some comments complaining about slowdowns and I just have to chuckle. You do realise computing technology grows exponentially with time, right? Your hardware is outdated by the time you get your hands on it, and only gets worse performance-wise as time progresses. This has been true in literally every era of personal computers.

You can't seriously expect a CPU from nearly a decade ago and, what I assume, barely 6GB of RAM to sustain your 10+ tabs, YouTube videos in HD/4K/etc, and your heavy workloads outside of the browser at the same time without some slowdown.

I'd agree that modern browsers (and applications in general) have become more resource hungry, but do you think these new and fancy features come without a cost?

If you're so concerned with memory usage, why not use wget instead of a browser?
How about “leaves the industry rather than have to use terrible things at dumb companies”, thus giving a survival bias that selects for shiny. I know I feel that way about a lot of stuff now.
There is absolutely no possibility that the decision to black out a particular neighborhood was made based on the energy plans that individual houses were on. The fact some people on variable price plans had electricity is completely unrelated to that - their neighbours also would have had electricity.
How much does a plastic bag cost where you are? Here in Sweden there's a tax on it and a single bag can cost 7 SEK (USD 0.85).
I found the non surprising names of c16_a.zip and c32_a.zip ... like all crap on the internet it’s a matter of knowing the magical patterns of what you want (lol assuming that you knew what you wanted!)

I almost bought that stupid shirt to just get it off of fleabay but I fear that they have more than one....
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Plot twist: China is just goading the United States into spending another shit ton of money into stupid vanity space projects.

All China has to say, is that they’re going to put the first Chinese woman on the moon by 2029. Then the American politicians will go apeshit and say that they must beat the commies. “How dare these bat-eating orientals try to outdo us? We’re going to show them what capitalism and white privilege means to the world!”

Btw, what the fck is an oriental? Who uses that anymore? Apparently, a lot of racist white people still uses that term. And Senator John McCain kept calling Asian people “gooks” until they day he croaked. What a scumbag.

Then the USA goes and spends another $500 billion on this Artemis and Lunar Gateway missions. Money that they don’t have, so the Fed will just have to print more money to sustain the national credit card.

Whether the project succeeds or not, is irrelevant, as the moon missions really adds no further strategic advantage to the United States. And all the allied partners are just leeching off America’s money printing, to say that they’re also lunar partners with NASA.

Meanwhile, America keeps spending big on their military. They keep sailing warships and aircraft carriers up and down China’s coastline as a big fck you to the Chinese.

Meanwhile, Texas freezes to death. Oregon is starving to death. The national minimum wage is still $8.50, because Joe can’t give the poor people a raise. Infrastructure is crumbling. Young adults have crippling student loan debt. Millennials can’t afford a house, and can’t afford to start a family.

Then 2029 rolls around, and China say: “Naw America, we were just fcking with you. We were just trolling you when we said we were going to put a Chinese woman on the moon. We didn’t think you’d actually believe us. Thanks for the LOLz btw.”

America goes: “Dude, wtf?”
> Your body is also designed to age and die, by the way. What is the reason to follow that design, anyway?

No reason. I must. I am sure tech is here already to rise babies externally. That still doesn't change my design to want them because of feromones, reproductive system etc. When we are able to change that design (via viral patches for example) then we can talk about alternatives.

> So why exactly would you like to die?

I wouldn't like to die. I must die by design. There are many good reasons for it nowdays. When we have access to unlimited resources by becoming type 3 civilization, then we can talk about non dying.

Even then, its unknown what infinite life brings to table. What if it backfires someway like in altered carbon ? Would you like that kind of society ?

Like I said, health span. That is achievable nowdays. Lets be realistic or we can talk about pink elephants on the Mars too.
But the problem is, apart from peer review process, what measures can be used to ensure the quality of the paper being published? And what should be used as the metric for academics?
What's still completely missing is a single player campaign, which at least some people consider a requirement for an non-alpha release.

Also 0ad still has severe performance problems for various reasons. One of them is that nearly all code runs single-threaded. Also the multiplayer code is all but efficient, so in a multiplayer game all players are essentially limited to the FPS of the player with the least capable hardware.
Ooh - do you happen to have a link?
The electricity prices in Germany are growing faster than the cost of electricity. It's a counter productive tax structure at work, not a failure of renewable energy.
Is that the website you visit "everyday"? lol
gatekeeping is used as pejorative in those cases, where no gate ought to be. for example in at least one email Linus claims that forbidding C++ in the kernel was also to exclude C++ developers, whether he was right or wrong that is another case of gatekeeping
On Earth, nuclear reactors are complicated because they must be safe.

But really, reactors are extremely simple. For example, on Voyager missions the it is just a hunk of metal that is constantly hot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHW-RTG

You then do with that energy whatever you want.

You can use part of it to power electronics and actuators, part to melt a piece of asteroid and part of it to convert it to ions and send whichever way you want.
Yes, specially since different people will have different ideas of what is experimental and what not. Python is boring tech at this point for most people, but not everyone maybe using SAS for data analysis or Java for backend. You will need to evaluate case by case if it makes sense or not to change that stack, there is no silver bullet.
The L Programming Language
We recently also had http://avherald.com/h?article=4e2fd449
Yeah for a router you wouldn’t use the M1, it has one Ethernet port and overkill. I use one of the Pc Engines APU2 board’s.

The reference to the router was in regards I used OpenBSD and found OpenBSD a great server OS.

I have multiple vlan’s as have a guest wifi for visitors, all iot devices like tv, soundbars on a private vlan with restricted network access, dns ad blocking, dns over tls, wireguard for remote access etc. I use ubiquiti access points/switches but run my own router for learning purposes plus the flexibility. To be honest, since I’ve set it up I haven’t done any fiddling, it’s been rock solid. I’ve had more issues doing updates on the ubiquiti devices dropping the wireless uplink I have then having to power cycle them to come back up.
I have an also-unpopular third option:

The graph of freedom of speech versus personal liberty looks like the Laffer curve for government income vs tax rate.

One end is zero for obvious reasons; the other end is also zero because it is a power vacuum, one which e.g. charismatic narcissistic Machiavellian sociopaths exploit it to rise to power and they kick away the free speech ladder after they get it.
Conceptual Integrity is hugely important, but a system architect is neither necessary nor sufficient for achieving it.

One person's system designs can lack conceptual integrity as easily as someone can make a plausible logical argument which lacks conceptual integrity.

If a design is to maintain conceptual integrity, the people who maintain it are responsible for it. That means everyone.
Why is anyone still using an unsupported OS
Rationing and anti-gouging laws prevent supplies rushing in. A lot more people suffer as a result.

Rationing is particularly stupid because then the supplies are not going to those who need it, they are wasted on people who don't need it. WW2's gas rationing created a thriving (and very illegal) black market of people selling their gas rations they had no use for to people who did. A whole crime industry grew up around this, complete with drive-by shootings.
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I don't think you understand what I wrote at all, much less read my links.

What the world needs is equity, shared responsibility, genuine good will and humanity. The world needs to NOT be dominated by exploitation and oppression, the amassing of wealth, power and advantage at the expense of other people, cynical politics, and environmental degradation.

A better Facebook is a Facebook that does not exist. The fabric of society should never be run be a profit-seeking firm, especially one whose means of profit is directly detrimental to that very fabric.

The world needs more teachers, and zero people who salary is paid by advertising. How many HN'ers would give up their comfy salaries and instead be teachers? How many would give up many material comforts if that was the best way to protect or planet and better share resources with the world's have-nots?

The world needs everyone to work as if we were a family. What kind of family would give one child steak, asparagus and chocolate cake for dinner while another child is left to beg in the streets? Gives one a wonderful home while the other is abandoned in a slum? Gives one wonderful childcare and schooling and leaves the other to sink or swim (most likely sink)?

The world is the way it is because most everyone is self-centered about #1 and greedy about #3, and only pretends to care about #4.

We'll find a job that maximizes #1 and #4, and never do the deep critical thinking about how that contributes to or undermines #4. We'll lazily and self-servingly claim that it must be what the world needs because the free market is paying top dollar for it.

Viktor Frankl might say that if we focused on #4, we would find deep meaning and shared joy and humanity, which would totally transform what we think #1 is. We might blow our own minds.
> By mid 2020 they posted some screen shots and some graphs showing that they slightly increasesed the speed of map generation.

Fun fact: Map generation was significantly faster before alpha 23. With alpha 23 map generation got reworked to be more procedural, which decreased its generation time, but enabled features like choosing between different biomes per map or the nomad game mode on all random maps.
Not when I looked :-(

:-)

Perhaps you should install UBlock origin.
I for one welcome our Silicon Valley elite overlords who will protect me from dangerous speech.
The penguin was a fairy aka little penguin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_penguin

He was bitten when on Philip Island. You can't get that close to the penguins anymore.

https://www.phillipislandpoint.com.au/attractions/phillip-is...