skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's horrible, if true. Do you have a source for that? A quick Google search didn't get me anywhere.
At least here in Austria the glass bottles are actually cleaned and re-used.
Good point, why is Best Buy even open during a pandemic?
You've turned a parent's very minor point (literally only mentioned in parentheses!) into a mountain bigger than Mount Everest. That says a lot about you, but not much about parenting.
Your whole argument is a straw man. You’re blaming Metallica suing napster for a sony rootkit. It’s nonsense.

I pirated the shit out of music on napster. But Metallica was still right to shut it down. I didn’t have any right to that music. I didn’t have any right to the $10 people paid me to burn CDs of napster content for them either.
When turning into the dead engine, there’s a tendency to overbank as the plane will yaw towards the inoperative engine.
There's work going on in formal verification but it has many limitations.

I'd also point out that in MechE/CivE fields, you're still dependent on materials (and maintenance) working as advertised. It's also often the case that operating conditions just end up being different from what was designed for or certain failure modes weren't considered. See, e.g. the Citibank Building in NYC http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_t...
I'm happy that I'm going to die eventually, I think death provides great opportunity for new morals and ideas to take place.

I'm very happy to live in country where slavery doesn't exist and women have rights, I wouldn't want to live with the people that supported the opposite of those things.
For example, what would've happen if the Nazis won, and Hitler would still be alive?

I also recognize my descendants will look at my decision to eat natural meat (that wasn't grown in a lab) with contempt.
I just want to live my hundred years happily, and then make a room for better ideas and morals (I know I won't feel this way near the end of my life, but this is the right way).
Maybe FreeBSD is an option?

Their packages repo has a “latest” which is very up to date. One can also use ports for more control and custom options etc
That's exactly the problem, turning too heavily into the side of the dead engine can introduce a situation where it's impossible to pull out of that turn.
There have been attempts (the "Keep the Space Shuttle Flying" method): https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/ec2e767e593953...
Yes but what do you want on this topic? Speculating about immortality is also baseless.
You could start smaller. Set aside 15 minutes to think about life. Once they see the benefits, selling them on longer stretches might be easier.
It's also compounded because our Peer groups are doing it too so there's that additional FOMO.

I get the same feelings as you do (we all do). I read that if the price goes up, we get an elated feeling but it's minor. But when we lose money, that negative feeling is twice as strong.
Maintainers come and go over time and these things don't just package themselves.
Grim Dawn is absolutely amazing. I tried playing PoE but it felt so fake. Grim Dawn is raw and dark, the dual class system is awesome, and that’s exactly what I was looking for.
You can get a cheap Chinese radio and run OpenGD77 [1] on it. Not exactly Raspberry Pi with RTL-SDR, but still open source.

[1] https://github.com/rogerclarkmelbourne/OpenGD77
Let n be the number of comments about syntax in this thread and let total be the number of comments: n / total.
But being brought into this world and knowing that one day your life is most likely going to end and that there's almost nothing that you can feasibly do to avoid it can easily balance out the positive aspects of being alive.

Personally, after often experiencing such existential dread and finding that it impacts my life in a pretty negative way, i've largely switched over to the nihilism school of thought. Then, it can be argued that bringing children into this world just to doom them to a similar fate would be pretty immoral.
Questions for Avoiding Exhaustion
Thanks, yeh I think when I want US News I might look at those instead
> I started a project to try to develop language for talking about ideas themselves and to make the kinds of distinctions you are talking about.

Sounds wonderful! An IDE for concepts and definitions. Now it would have to have a visualizer and a bunch of NLP.

And when I say, "the colorless green ideas sleep furiously" it could synthesize an abstract picture of ideas (shapes) being various shades of grey, the ideas a new (green) and growing but the pace at which they stir starts to grow. A colorless idea is one which describes a technique or a capability but without a goal or context. To hammer, a hammer, a specific hammer, a specific hammer to build a house ... join, flatten, temporary, permanent, to move.

I could see a system like this being used in very delicate negotiations. It never occurred to me how difficult bidirectional translation could be with all the semantic nuance, history, idioms, etc. And then have personalities and intellects involved. The translators are the true heros of non-war.

Always enjoy your take.
To be honest I've seen a lot radios a lot more rugged than that. Like what the military uses.

Our ham radios are generally only semi-rugged: Waterproof and can take a bit of a fall but nothing like what the military have. Of course those come with a weight penalty too.
Fcc exists to protect public airwaves. The broadcast spectrum is a limited public resource.
Apparently they also regulate "wire" and "cable" which I don't believe they should be able to. But regulating the airwaves isn't quite the same as censoring free speech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory
Uhhh, there are dozens of phthalates. Each with a different chemical structure. They are not all going to follow the same metabolic pathway.

This article just calls out all phthalates. Would be better to specify which. Also some phthalates do have alternatives, but not all depending on the properties your plastizer is trying to give the plastic.
Yeah, honestly, I hate the truth that this compartment-based system is the best method for security. I never have the access to do my job, and it's a constant frustration to get access. Also, it makes for really uninteresting problems to solve. Instead of using something interesting to secure our systems, like cryptography, the most effective method is just phishing tests, employee training, and web form fuzzing. Cryptographic innovation is part of the solution, but at a certain business level, it's just about training.
Almost identical incident happened 3 years ago - the same type (B777-200), the same engine (PW4077), the same operator (United Airlines), the same side (right engine), the same failure (unconfined engine failure).

https://avherald.com/h?article=4b4e8ca7&opt=0

I would not be surprised if the whole fleet of this type/engine gets grounded for some time.
Did a Comet Wipe Out the Dinosaurs?
I tried it.

I figured out I can make a few dollars a minute sitting in front of a computer screen or I can make 0 dollars a minute sitting in front of a computer screen. Those are my two choices.

The choice is pretty clear.
In the "How CMOS logic is implemented" section, the text about the NMOS transistor says the source and drain are "P+ silicon", but the diagram labels them as "n+ diffusion". Is "P+ silicon" somehow the same thing as "n+ diffusion"?
Your concerns sound more related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_brightener than chlorinated plastics.
Composing Music
Hi, I am learning my way into music theory with http://openmusictheory.com/ and now I am struggling to decide what I should use to generate what I learned.
Code music feels something; how Csound vs. Supercollider discussion goes for some artist trying to compose?
Am I better off with something like LMMS? More I can dig and learn, the better. Since I want to stick with a tool for a long time, being complex at the beginning does not bother me much.

My direction goes into developing a free game and living for some time inside a car. A low power usage when I am not connected to a power outlet feels something but I do not know how far energy usage goes in text code music vs. a daw
APL programming competition with cash in prizes
Not really, they were apps made for museum exhibitions, not apps that you can download
Turning into the live engine is more controllable. When you turn toward the dead engine, the tendency is to turn more. You can do it, but it’s not as stable.
And you can also use the new syntax:

$inc = fn ($number) => $number + 1;

$x = [1, 2, 3, 4];

array_map($inc, $x);
Okay, okay. You insinuated nothing. I stand corrected. Just a little side note: You didn't need root for the exploit, it was also trivial to boot from a CD or another OS to get the passphrase from the page file. Basically it meant that file vault was useless for many years.

Anyway, you're kind of missing my point. There are plenty of other examples of Apple not addressing security issues in time. Be that as it may, if you feel secure about your Mac, who am I to argue with that...
Feynman's Lost Lecture (Ft. 3Blue1Brown)
For the uninformed:

V1: Speed at which the take off attempt should no longer be aborted

Vr: Speed at which the plane should be pitched up (rotated)

V2: Speed at which the plane can safely climb with one engine

If an engine fails after V1 the runway is supposed to have sufficient length that you can hit Vr, rotate, and be 35 feet off the ground and traveling at V2 before you run out of tarmac even with a single engine.
It can, it just doesn't when the 0physical memory is exhausted, but there are other conditions

$ ulimit -v 10240
< printf("%p\n", malloc(1024*1024*128));
> nil
I read it as a strong statement that the author immediately cowered away from.
Cool. I don't have a right to free music either. I pay for music, as I mentioned. But I'm frustrated to see that you rabidly think that any critique of how we enforce anti-piracy means that I don't think artists deserve income.

Here's a twist for you. I work on a team responsible for, among other things, DRM for a major streaming video company. I believe in paying for multimedia. Please stop making assumptions about me that are not at all implied by my comments (that I steal artists' work).

Also, it looks like the majority of HN readers understood what I was saying, and found your argument to be nonsense, so maybe... let's just let it go? I don't care to keep explaining this to you and you don't care to perceive any degree of nuance, whether the fault is mine in explaining or not.
I'm missing something here. Why would hammer use be declining?
And I’m supposed to fly on a 777-200 to Denver operated by United in just a few days. Yay!
I like how people are just standing next to pieces of plane and playing soccer in the background, going like just another day with pieces of plane falling out of sky [0]

[0] https://avherald.com/img/united_b772_n772ua_denver_210220_3....
Burning Man’s Mission in a Post-Covid World
Your story reminds me of the Indian allegory of the man who mistakes a rope for a snake.
If you are the author (and every other contributor signed relevant CLAs) then you can distribute the code however you want. You do not have to include game assets in the code distribution.
The music industry cartel made me pay them for empty cd's and such, no moral issue for me.
It would reduce the demand for landfill space?
Might be an interesting way for students to learn about APL and get some beer money.

Not affiliated at all. I used APL professionally for about ten years back in the early 80's. Now I enjoy messing with the language from time to time as a hobby and watching what's going on in this little corner of the universe.
Electronic schematics are similarly ducktaped copy pasta from previous designs with tons of superfluous and redundant components that nobody understands why they are there. That is the nature of engineering, nothing specific to software engineers.
Not at all. The CEO isn't doing whatever the powerful tell him. Neither are high-level execs. See Locke and Spender's "Confronting Mangerialism" for a good breakdown of the game they're playing.

Its line workers, and maybe first-level managers that are the most minion-like, the ones who most believe that their job is to follow orders make their boss look good, without regard to impact, value, or ethics.
Am I the only one who get really tired of this kind of sarcasm?
Good thing the author didn't know, ;) we now have a TP compiler in JavaScript!

Sometimes it is awesome when the right person doesn't know something.
I have spent time around many young and old people who used and continue using psychedelics. These are absolutely normal people.
In addition, there is ton of research into the effects of these substances on the human brain, just look it up.
It's not just that.. The thing is also that if everyone starts using encryption the community is gone.

Right now at night we turn on the radios and check the local repeaters for activity and whatnot. Hear some interesting QSOs. If everyone is chatting encrypted this won't work.

It also would enable people to use it as a free alternative for a commercial license - after all when it's encrypted we can't check that it's not used for such a purpose anymore. Using locations as you suggest isn't enough as it will need really targeted surveillance. Also, for a warehouse any of the free radio modes are more than sufficient in range.

The ban on encryption isn't really much to do with espionage. Spies don't need a license.
Yep agree absolutely. I probably read 5-10 different global media a day normally online. I rarely watch TV news but it was sort of an experiment I guess. Wow some of the stuff on places like Newsmax made Fox look like The Guardian.
I disagree, since it was spread orally and these texts were widespread in the subcontinent you could measure the similarity in different current renditions. If you looked at enough people's renderings you could even get a sense of how the transmission corrupts over time.
Can you control whether you are lucid or not? I would be annoyed at the prospect of being "locked in" to having lucid dreams every night instead of the typical unconsciousness
Yes, 100 tonnes is nothing at this scale. The company I work for, a small-ish waste paper recycler, deals with about 15000 tonnes a month.
Thanks, I appreciate the recommendation. This makes a lot of sense. I am going to try launching solo to get a better idea of where I'm short (maybe I am not at all), then I'll have a better idea of what help would be worth to me.
Viruses are designed to infect, multiply and spread. Also humans are not viruses. I know that isn't what you meant since you specified "in the sense that...". But this kind of analogy seems to me to lead to bad thinking.
They most definitely could do a lot[1].

There was also overlays[2][3] and extended memory (EMS/XMS) which made it possible to use quite a lot of memory.

[1]: https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/ui-museum-turbo-pascal-...

[2]: http://www.oocities.org/~franzglaser/tpsrc/overlaytxt.html

[3]: https://secondboyet.com/articles/publishedarticles/theslithy...
The same point could be made without sarcasm. Would you object, then?
A Look at the “Risky” Tech in NASA’s Martian Helicopter
> "Accidentally sharing memory" can be solved by language design.

For sure - I am definitely not trying to say that there is "one true approach".
I thought it was 'confined' if the containment ring did its job? If it had failed (like not supposed to) it would have been a whole lot worse.
The immorality of it is irrelevant. People that feel it is moral will have children, people that feel it is immoral will not. Unless you also want to commit an act that I believe is immoral, and prevent others from having children.
I lost $1500 when their main partner exchange executed their scam exit. The coin was still called XRB / RaiBlocks.

The timing of the whole pump and the exchange freezing transactions was very suspicious. Not touching this again with a 50m pole.
Viruses aren't designed to do anything either.
It is not necessary. Malthus was wrong. You'll notice this position was popular among boomer environmentalists, which is why it was parodied just recently by 70s comic villain Thanos.

The birth rate everywhere outside Africa has already collapsed, anyway. It's probably too low.
There's enough precedent that software won't be permanently killed just because piracy and illegal content is one possible use-case (despite the fact that 'they' try, try again).

I think, partially, Tribler are attempting to find more legitimate uses for the software to guard against the perception (that I had / have) that Tribler is an anonymised bittorrent client (using tor-like node structure) rather than, as they're self describing, a bittorrent-compatible alternative to YouTube.
> If you want faster and cheaper transactions, use lightning network, it's functional and growing in adoption.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYHFrf5ci_g
apparently brahmins in different parts of India, speaking different languages, from different schools, separated for generations recite these texts identically. while it doesn't prove anything it's plausible that due to these techniques and processes that have been able to preserve these texts verbatim.
I made no attempt at making a point about parenting. The post I replied to said they wanted to have children for the experience and because their "body was designed to", essentially. The latter is just an appeal to nature. We can choose whether or not to procreate.

Rather, I made the point that I'd love to ask just one parent why they chose to have a child and have the answer not start w/ "Because I wanted..."
World War 2, Darwin bombing
Trijets are cool!
Maybe it’s a style/taste thing.
I bought the iPhone 12 mini so it forces me to use it less due to its small screen size, it's been working pretty well so far.
One might respond to this challenge by developing a tradition for guiding children away from nihilism.
Exactly. Confirmation bias at its best. It plays into views of HN readership so no one here questions the validity, even though there's no way to verify validity. And then you get down votes for critical thinking.
I don't have Google experience, but you can be summarily fired for forwarding to a personal address at many companies with a security or compliance policy. You would have known this in advance, whether through training, a manual, or warnings inside the email client.

I remember an all hands where someone forwarded a relatively innocuous email to her Yahoo, once, and we all received a big reminder.
Twitter's threading can be a bit weird. Sometimes it will only capture part of a thread.

People are in the habit of not relying on it.
As for me, I'm not so in love with myself or the world that the idea of immortality sounds even moderately appealing. Spending eternity in the company of immortal people? Bleah.
To be honest I hear a lot more ragchewing on the local repeaters than on HF. On HF it's just people trading 5/9s and signing off for the next contact (and as I find contesting really boring I stay away from HF for that reason :) ). I also don't understand why HF operators always say 5/9 when the signal is clearly nowhere near that good.
I'm not sure Japan is good at plastic use. Practically everything is wrapped in 3 different layers for style points.

Japan's electricity is also so coal-based that using Japanese factories is starting to violate US companies' clean energy rules.

https://www.ft.com/content/bbd59494-ac64-4dda-8da5-a2990d893...
You seem to be conflating ethics and legality. The two are only hazily related. And yes, of course the executives who hired ethicists to make the company look good disagree with the ethicists on what constitutes good ethics. But your notion that "No one in this scenario reported an ethics breach" is incorrect. We can't of course know the truth of the matter, because Google insists on keeping relevant facts hidden. But unless clear evidence shows otherwise, I'm going to believe the ethics professionals, not the executives whose identity and financial success are strongly bound up with making their company look good.
Without the sarcasm it would just be restating exactly what the parent comment said.

I agree with the OP: if we disapprove of posts that only say “same” or “me too” we should probably also discourage posts that dress exactly that in sarcasm.
Yes. However, Arch Linux means you need to spend time, probably several times per year, to fix stuff that worked yesterday but doesn't work anymore.

Arch Linux is just an entirely different thing compared to Ubuntu. I'd like someone who isn't me to make sure stuff works. Only very rarely will I be bothered to do actual work to upgrade to a new breaking version on my daily driver. Randomly breaking my shit on a Tuesday will make me install something more stable. On the rare occasion that I'd like to try something unstable, I can usually find a PPA or something. I don't like edges that make me bleed on my base OS.
>I'm now trying to decide whether I should attempt a medical degree to become a doctor

Have you reviewed how much sleep deprivation would be involved in the path towards being a doctor? It differs depending on the path, but middle-age and lack of sleep may be very hard (source: have multiple surgeons in my near circle). But it is very specific to the path you pick, of course.

I am currently trying to see if I can find a niche in healthcare, away from my software manager job, but am taking it slowly. For me, the 7 years of school are impossible, so no doctor for me. This comment is not meant to be in any way discouraging, and it may be presumptuous of me, as you have perhaps spoken to multiple doctors in the field interesting to you.

The feeling of tipping the needle towards keeping someone alive is incomparable, best wishes with your path transition, whatever it ends up being.
emule, usenet
Definitely for most cases, yes... but 'data' is still an issue (if you care about the data). NixOS has an interesting mechnanism for separating "package" upgrades from "data" upgrades, tho, so that's a slight advantage. (They basically keep around old binaries to be able to run and back up an old database and restore it on a newer version. Straightforward file system snapshots don't really do that.)

EDIT: Sorry, I feel I didn't explain this very well. The main point is: You can have multiple versions of all the software on your system, including stuff like PostgreSQL. That's actually very powerful.

Another potential problem is the licensing and root-on-ZFS.

Personally, I'm really looking forward to an in-upstream-kernel FS like bcachefs. (I'm actually a fan of ZFS, we use it on our servers, etc. I still feel a bit uneasy about the licensing issues and the fact that it's not in-kernel.)
There definitely is ageism in tech. However, there are ways to minimize impact.

Become an expert in latest tech stack and experience in delivering solutions to clients. These positions are extremely difficult to fill, so recruiters are more open to older software engineers.

Open the door to yourself by expanding opportunities, vendor companies, contracts, freelance, start your own company, etc. There are so many problems in software and so few high performance engineers, globally.

Sometimes, you may be the only person in the world with that specific tech stack and experiences. Demonstrate the solutions and many companies will have to bring you on board, FE or contract at least.

For most companies, the age thing isn’t the issue. It’s that older software engineers have stagnated and won’t be able to keep pace. When you demonstrate high performance and solution delivery, age becomes less of an issue.
I don't feel weighed down all that much. I'm not at the "go on an extended backpacking trip with no internet" stage, but I can go for a solid day or so before I get the urge to do a quick check in on the app.

I picked the most "boring" setup I could for a backend and host everything on Heroku, which costs me more but provides a little more peace of mind relative to other setups I've seen.