skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook tried this, and it did not go well for many good reasons.

But also, inasmuch as people are tied to their real identities on Facebook, your first listed advantage doesn't seem to hold up. On many websites, I see people using their real names for trolling and extremism, saying outlandish things pretty frequently. Any political post on fivethirtyeight.com should serve as but one example.

Not everybody values their online reputation as much as you might. Many people think nothing of using their real name to heap scorn on and revile people they consider "others," like those of a given political party or ethnicity or religion. I know PennyArcade once hypothesized that anonymity was key to greater internet nastiness, but it doesn't seem like anonymity is actually that essential.

On the other hand, many people rely on pseudo-anonymity to avoid harassment, to shield themselves from stalkers such as ex-partners, and so on. Many people lack the sort of legal documentation such a policy would seem to require. Trying to enforce anything like "RealID" results in excluding many voices from the conversation, while not actually doing much to reduce the toxicity.
It's probably not easy to dig with excavators into the canal: they likely won't reach far enough
Do people still use Clojure? For a while I was really hot on Clojure ... but then I haven't had a project in ten years where it even makes sense to introduce it into operations ... generally I've got Python or Go on the server and some mix of JS, Dart, Objective C, or Kotlin on the front end depending on the client platform.

Maybe someday I'll be responsible for writing a system back end from scratch and I can take off on a flight of fancy like this.
This is a really clever technique! I was impressed by sandsifter[1] when it originally came out, and this seems an awful lot faster and less prone to false negatives (since it's purely speculative and doesn't require sandsifter's `#PF` hack).

At the risk of unwarranted self-promotion: the other side of this equation is fidelity in software instruction set decoders. x86's massive size and layers of historical complexity make it among the most difficult instruction formats to accurately decode; I've spent a good part of the last two years working on a fuzzer that's discovered thousands of bugs in various popular x86 decoders[2][3].

[1]: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter

[2]: https://github.com/trailofbits/mishegos

[3]: https://ww.easychair.org/publications/preprint_download/1LHr
A balloon half a kilometer in radius filled with hydrogen should be able to float the ship.
Is this taking longer than expected?
I can stay up working as late as I'd like - when I'm done with my deep focus is entirely up to me. When I get into the office early the end of my deep focus is entirely out of my control. It ends when my coworkers decide to come in and start bothering me.
> All systems worthwhile have been using UTF-8 since the 1990s.

That's irrelevant. You can rest assured that in any larger government system some information must travel through the equivalent of a chimpanzee trained in Baudot code.
Has a version of Java with value types been released?
Ah, ok. No, we weren't saying the same thing, but I now understand what you meant, and I also happen to agree. Current Apple documentation sucks. I think you may be exhibiting some kind of Stockholm syndrome :).
I consider that a pro, no reliance on big-tech proprietary stuff. +1 for the author not going that way
That actually is something that you can do in smaller salvage operations. The technical word for these balloons is lift bag.
I think a homeless person values an empty house way more than a real estate owner.
This is true more generally. When I lived in London and the IRA campaign was going on I never understood why they didn't just set fire to a few stolen vans on Euston road/City road/Waterloo bridge every morning rather than actually killing people. Would have been more effective.
Bingo. It's long, fat, and like the pharaohs ... buried in Egypt.
That was written in a time when slowly reducing emissions seemed a plausible approach. Given that we've pumped way more carbon into the sky since it was written, with no deceleration, and the climate is already undulating dangerously, most of these proposals are outdated. If we want a livable planet we need to phase out carbon immediately. The IPCC said that shooting for 2030 would only give us a 2/3 chance of staying near 1.5°C of heating.
Did you try a manual git clone to rule out any network or FS issues?
I've experienced far more full disks than I'd want to admit, on many different hardware and software configurations, and I've never seen sudo break. Is this something you've experienced recently?

I definitely agree with your advice and will go double check all my servers if /filler is 777 (not in /tmp since it's sometimes mounted tmpfs), but if sudo does break in that situation, that sounds like a pretty severe and most likely fixable bug.
Brilliantly true.

I've found that it is possible to do during the day, but you kind of have to put your phone away, and also clamp down on browser.

HN is unfortunately a distraction!

Make yourself 'feel' like it's a Monday or Friday Holiday, where nobody is in the office, so they can't bother you, but it's not a 'weekend' either. Those days are productive.
Everytime I read what Critical Race Theory is, my mind just goes blank. No idea what it even means. I predict it eventually gets lost in boilerplate language no one really reads.
The author here. :-)

Sorry for my lame English. I really should not write blogs after midnight... Anyways, a lot of you are asking for what command-line options I used for FFMPEG.

So here it is:

ffmpeg -i input1.mov -c:v libx265 -tag:v hvc1 output1.mp4
We have the luxury of just throwing around ideas and not caring about the consequences (because nobody in power will read it). It's just fun to think about how you'd solve a problem like this.

For example I'd try to attach a two Raptor engines to the ship and blow it back to the water :)
Better Cold War option:

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

The ship’s a total loss, but Egypt also gets a new lake!
GNSS and clock comparisons measure different things, one is a based on radio wave travel time between a receiver and the satellites in the constellation, the other is a physical measurement. That's what I was referring to wrt independence: a gravity measurement would avoid any potential error source in the whole chain of the GNSS system (which is quite lengthy).

The geoid has been partially satellite-derived for some time, see the GRAIL, GRACE, and GRACE-FO missions. The US is also running a nationwide airborne gravity program at the moment, too, which an impressive undertaking and should be done soon-ish.

Comparing a measurement of actual local gravity against the geoid-stated gravity should be enough to give the elevation relative to the geoid, which is the same output that you get from GNSS. That's my intuition, anyway.
> Will you remember the file exists at 2am? What about the other admins on your team?

Hopefully if you were doing something like this it would be part of your standard incident response runsheet/checklist.
Where is Elon when you need him?
I've read through some of the comments here, and more of you need to quit your jobs.
Shh! The modern world is based on the fact a few really mad stupid people don't realise how brittle the hacks we built society on are.
Cunningham's Law: "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
That's what Apple likes to say. Luckily they got at least a small fine.
And that's how the world will look like then: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088083/
but did they try turning it off and on again?
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Those two guys on excavators are gonna be RICH!
I was thinking the same thing - that glassed canal would probably be so scenic that you'd cause several future traffic jams from private vessels and romantic cruises charting a path through the already near-capacity canal.
Yeah, from the middle out.
Hi, Oscar! Nice user name :P
I feel like we need a "why don't you just?" safe word, where the intent is to signify "hey I'm not being a smartass, I'm really just curious about why this seemingly simple solution won't actually work".

So much of what happens on the internet is in bad faith that it makes it really hard to just have innocent conversations without being misunderstood. :-(
I actually spent a few weeks of my life driving a JCB commercially...
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I think the interesting part is which organizations condemn RMS and how they do it.

The crown goes to Debian, which wrote a pamphlet that could originate from a real ministry of propaganda.

So it is important to know who to support in the future, which would be an argument for leaving these submissions up.
> There is no need to speak negatively about the behaviour of other players

I don't interpret it as a negative statement about Git or any other version control system. I interpret it as a statement about use of the term "project history" after rebasing. I agree with him, because the phrase "history of the project" implies it's the history of the project, and that's simply not what you have. If you order a cheeseburger and they give you a chicken sandwich, maybe it doesn't bother you since you like both, but it would indeed be lying if someone asks what you're eating and you say it's a cheeseburger.
Crazy idea : Can we roll it into the water by pulling it over high strength rollers of some sort ?
It would be pretty cool to use the same technique that was use to build the pyramids.
Forget it.

Let's just nuke it, them nuclear weapons have to be disposed of somehow, and the channel needs some expansion, it seems.
Yes, especially with the container shortage[1] reported earlier this week, I would be very surprised if empty containers are being sent away from where there already is a shortage.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26574077
Nicely done. I like this approach and rationale. I've taken a similar approach to custom CSS for sites, but have never taking the time to abstract it as is done here.

While I liked the overview on the home page, it took me a bit to find the actual CSS. A kind of 'component library' demo page (like the https://coolcss.dev/kitchen-sink/, but with the CSS class info displayed rather than using the dev-tools to explore) would be nice.

For now, just digging through this dir will give you a good idea of what's here: https://github.com/peruvianidol/coolcss/tree/main/_src/sass

Also, I can't decide if have the "oo" in "cool" stand for "Utility" is genius or madness.
Many years ago I worked with a greybeard AMD hardware designer. He told me that they commissioned a study about whether it made sense to ditch backwards compatibility, and realized that the parts of the CPU needed to support backwards compatibility they were willing to ditch contributed to less than 1% of die area, and of course were all already designed and battle tested.

Unfortunately I don't have a better source for this than an anecdote.
You're joking, right? It's a quarter mile, or 400m long. Ten helicopters in it means ~40m distance. That's less than safe distance between cars in a highway.
Email quotas aren’t just a cost thing. It forces deletion of files/communications that aren’t relevant anymore. The last thing the legal department wants is some executive’s laptop with 10 years of undeleted email to make it’s way to discovery.
out of years of riding it's only happened to me a couple times.

one time i was eastbound on the bay bridge when my bike started to sputter. i'd just reassembled the tank and had left the screw-style reserve fuel valve open, so there was no reserve fuel to be had. a very kind lady put her blinkers on behind me and followed as i coasted the last few hundred yards toward yerba buena island.

i pushed my bike up the ramp and looked in the tank to assess. it's a dirtbike, so the tank has two distinct "lobes" to accomodate the top tube of the frame. I had a few ounces in the tank but they were not in the lobe with the fuel pickup, so i dumped the bike on its side to get the fuel to slosh over to where i wanted it.

i got back on the highway and, going quite slowly and gently, managed to get to the gas station at west oakland bart, the engine leaning out and sputtering right as i rolled into their lot.
The problem in your scenario is that "finishing the job" was always about not letting hospitals be swamped

That's the false premise that we accepted as true when the majority of the electorate agreed to allow this shut downs to happen.

No one justified lockdowns with "we need to eliminate covid" or "we need to vaccinate 50% people". That simply did not happen.

The literal premise used by all govt officials was that all forceful covid mandates were only temporary and only to avoid healthcare collapse and to have time understand the virus.

We are well past that point. The restrictions are still in place.

The only thing being half assed is the job, as ny state aptly showed, and most of the federal vaccine distribution rollout continues to demonstrate.

The truth is reasoned thinking was never part of the equation.

If i am wrong, then please define "the job", and then find quotations from April or May 2020 stating that the "job" did not mean understand the virus and avoid hospital collapse.
The bikes I've had that have had reserve tanks have also been old enough to raise the disconcerting follow-on question, which is: "is the reserve gas also full of sludgey crap that's settled in the tank and hasn't been disturbed really in a year, and am i about to run that through my poor carbs?"
Not saying it can work in this scenario, but I think salvagers have used pneumatic devices to float and or manoeuver derelict ships.
Physically that would work, but this ship has a draught of 14.5 meters. You'd need to build a pretty high dam. It would need to cross the canal twice, as otherwise the water level inside the dam would never be higher than the current water level, and you'd need to pump in the water. Then, once the ship floats, you'd somehow need to move it out of your small artificial lake into the canal, and remove the dam you created in the canal.

It's easier to lighten the ship.
Many deaths in care homes early in the pandemic, that's what skewed their figures. If you took number for the second wave only they would score way better.
Lithuania already surpassed Sweden by number of cases per capita, and is really close to surpass it by number of deaths per capita. Sweden never had lockdowns. Lithuania has been living in strict lockdowns for 6 or 7 months, I am not even sure.
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Yes. That should have been H.264 to H.265 comparison. Sorry.
Just bring in a Bagger 288[1] and use it to excavate a new diversion canal in front of the ship long enough to get it out of the main canal, bada-bing bada-boom. Simple!

[1]Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow
There's rulz.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_death
Yeah because what we really need to fix this situation is several hundred giant blenders exploding in mid air fireball of high velocity steel on top of the jammed ship
Minemagic looks to have broken a few CIs
fair point, but this blog and your comment is about a summary sentence. if you read through to how the underlying log reports are constructed, those are very accurate (and also quite concise).
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If I've done the maths right, you need a force of two billion Newton to lift it, and even if you round up a https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-30_Minuteman to 1MN you still need two thousand of them. ICBMs are not that big.

Use musk's starship and you need >166 of them...
Suez Canal: How are they trying to free the Ever Given?
I had been using Vercel for a Next.js SSR deployment up until this week when I moved it to a basic AWS Lightsail box with no real NGINX optimisations.

I have Lightsail server in Frankfurt and I am in Sydney and the Lightsail box gets a higher Pagespeed score than the Vercel deployment and from my own anecdotal usage, the page load is noticeably faster. I had Vercel region set to Paris (no Frankfurt region yet).

I loved the simplicity of Vercel, especially the per-branch-deployments (which Im still using on the free tier) but it was surprising that for all the serverless boasts, its not actually any faster than a basic server.
Maybe but maybe not.

Like the parent comment said, it’s a way of thinking out loud.

For e.g., when someone says “just dig it out, it just pull it away...”, I give them a benefit of doubt by assuming what they are really saying is “I know it’s not as simple as just pulling it out but can someone explain why we can’t though?”
Great minds think alike:

https://isthesuezcanalblocked.com
I'm not saying the entire canal. Surround the boat, make a dam somehow.

Concrete is dry in 24-48 hours. Sand and wooden poles could be enough.

Some ideas on the how, could be found in this video, on how they created a bridge in the middle ages: https://youtu.be/nJgD6gyi0Wk

I'm pretty sure engineers could find better/faster solutions than what I'm proposing.
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I usually use Google for quick calculations but get annoyed when it only returns large results in scientific notation. WolframAlpha gives results in just about every conceivable way, e.g. "7 trillion" or "7 000 000 000 000" instead of 7e+12. Much nicer for someone like me who isn't used to scientific notation.
Yes it would... I know the suez canal was a once-per-century type infrastructure investment for Egypt. Doing that same investment again probbaly isn't feasible. But doing 0.2% of the work again is starting to sound pretty affordable...
Why is the State of California supporting a philosophy that has the explicit goal of overthrowing it?
The environmental impact has not been measured in a meaningful way. Its hyperbole so far. And its not convenience; its a necessity for many.
The worlds highest capacity heavy lift chopper (M-26, of which there are 20 operational) has a max take off weight of 44k lbs. A standard 40 ft. container can be loaded to a gross weight of 66k lbs.

It takes a purpose built crane a few minutes to unload a container, so I sort of doubt a helicopter could make it happen faster.
Since the late 90s, this was always my solution:

tune2fs -m 2 /dev/hda1

That sets the root reserve on a disk. It's space that only root can use, but also you can change it on the fly. So if you run out of userland space you can make it smaller, and if a process running as root fill your disk, well, you probably did something real bad anyway. :)

But yeah, this is a pretty good hack.
Is the Suez Canal Blocked?
The one true source for all things blocked in the Suez Canal!
I bought a bunch of rice, and all that happened was little rice bugs started living in it, so I had to throw it all away. But if there were a rice shortage, I would probably have eaten it.
Maybe they can fix this one, in the new calc:

https://superuser.com/questions/26193/why-does-windows-calcu...
He just offered to build them a little submarine
> If for any reason a C++ project integrates Rust in a way that is permanently through an FFI, then the development costs to use the unsafe non-ergonomic FFI are worth the effort for this unique situation.

I don't follow this train of thought; could you elaborate? Why would I want more unsafe code in my project because it's going to be there for longer? If anything I'd want the opposite -- longevity of the unsafe code being a reason against wanting more of it sitting around.

FWIW the primary use case of CXX in my work codebase is in long term hybrid-Rust-C++ projects in which dozens of libraries using CXX (in both directions) are going to be around for many years.
Assuming the crane ship can even get into position to offload it.

The ship is stuck because the sides of the canal are quite shallow.

You are quite likely to get two stuck ships instead of one.
I found this satire article insightful: https://medium.com/@ultralux97/stallman-must-be-removed-a306...

He posts hundreds of posts on his personal blog condemning rape, and they cherry-pick the one post where he argued for a different definition of rape.[0]

He is accused of being transphobic despite asking everyone to "honor their preferences about their gender identity" with respect to pronouns.[1]

The letter accused Stallman of sexual harassment. The appendix explains that for thirty years, had an unacceptable way of asking women out on dates. Note that he has never been accused of groping or sexual assault.[2]

The original open letter's Appendix[2] has two true claims (and one false claim I won't address here):

- In 1999, he had a mattress in his office which he slept on. This made some women avoid RMS because they considered it abnormal and creepy.

- In 1985, he told a woman he'd kill himself if he didn't date her.

EDIT: The accusation of sexual harassment may have validity as he was known to hand out pleasure cards.

[0]: Ctrl-F this for "rape": https://web.archive.org/web/20210325013942/https://stallman....

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26584613

[2]: https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
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> The only "embedded database" option (HSQLDB) requires the JRE

Firebase is still available as an experimental option as another embedded database, just confirmed on my installation. Also while I was at it, tested it with Java disabled and HSQLDB predictably did not work, but Firebird did continue to work. Apparently it also opens an pre-existing Firebase odb file even without experimental flag being on.

https://ibb.co/jM6k07w
I hope it never gets unstuck
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Is software reducing our productivity?
Every year it seems software becomes more complex and slower. Is over investment in (bloated) software actually reducing productivity and economic growth potential. For example, Slack, a program I have not personally used but have read about on HN. What is the point. It seems like it is a glorified chat client. Shouldn't employees be working instead of chatting? If collaboration is required is a bloated chat client that consumes hundreds of megabytes of ram at idle really necessary? Is it better than video conference? A phone call? An email? How much time is wasted per day checking slack? Is it possible asynchronous Communication is actually better after a certain point? Do we really need to check our Slack or email every 15 minutes? What are the barriers to entry if Slack is actually a valuable technology. Can we design a chat client that uses less than 20 MB of ram? They did it in the 1990s with similar functionality. What is the point in Git and Docker and Kubernetes? Why do we need all these tools just to manage churn and dependency hell? Maybe less churn and more modularity would be preferable. I believe we could have similar functions with much simpler software...
It's been done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery...
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> Moving everything to ARM will not be cheap

I thought the same thing until I saw how well Apple's Rosetta 2 works. Now that we've seen what's possible, I'm hoping that the x64 emulation in Windows/ARM will rise to the challenge set by Apple.
This sounds like you should, instead, use the "Filespace Reserved for Root" functionality of your filesystem, which exists specifically for this contingency. The default for ext3 is 5%.
A quarter of a mile long is a huge ship. Damn. Never really got that until now.
Yes, that's true. It still might be faster than other options. You wouldn't likely need to unload the whole thing though, just lighten it enough to get it unstuck.