skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social clubs aren't rare. Most people like to discuss current events. And few turn down opportunities to talk about themselves.
You succeeded in teaching me a new word, "bloviation"[0]. Thank you.

- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloviation
> Nine women can't make a baby in a month.
This is my new favorite phrase.
The introspection or lack thereof, might be defined by Nash equilibrium. Nevertheless, the situation depicted in the article is a life hack -- exactly as described. There is no malicious intent/compliance, rather it is about having the foresight and ingenuity to save the day.

https://theconversation.com/a-toilet-paper-run-is-like-a-ban...
that "just" is doing even more work than the guy in the digger.
the stern is stuck already in the other bank
Now I wonder...

Let's assume it was possible. Would the force of lifting that much mass be enough to shift the earth in a measurable way? (I'm assuming it would be a lot stronger lifting it into the air than what floating on the water produces, but have no idea what the math would be)
Helicopters also have limited capacity. So it's not like you could pick up the heaviest first. Which brings back the issue of sheer quantity.
It's not the phones people are overwhelmingly interacting with.

Unless you're watching someone bored in public transport reading the news on the phone or something, phones are just the mean, not the end.

There are people at the other end - colleagues, friends, loved ones. They are talking to each other, sharing experiences, having fun, being in love, agreeing on what's for dinner, planning, coordinating, organizing, updating, ... and a lot more other, maybe banal things.

At least for me, friend is a friend, loved one is a loved one, and it doesn't matter if we communicate via text, photo of a cool thing one of us just saw or in person, I'm going to be happy to hear from them.
It’s such hypocrisy going around. We still have “rape-rape” Whoopi Goldberg on TV but that’s okay.
Random question but I've often heard people refer to computer graphics in movies and television as "CGI" instead of "CG." I've always wondered: is this just a weird conflation of terminology from an era when Common Gateway Interface was a thing, around the same time fancy computer graphics technology was starting to take off in the 90s? Or is there there an alternative, legitimate reason why one would refer to Computer Graph*I"cs as "CGI?"
Also - it's quite possible it'd further beach itself during the unloading unless you replaced the mass in an easily removable manner... To which end I'd like to suggest self-launching lead trebuchets.
This. I'm working on a hobby project that is essentially a web app for personal use. I started with sqlite because it was the simplest to start with, but I'm about to reluctantly migrate to postgres. Why? Constraints, data types, and programmability.

In terms of scale, sqlite is just fine. But I am tired of fiddling with the dates, it's too easy for bugs to sneak into my code, and I want to use table valued functions to essentially parameterize views instead of having to build complex queries in the app layer.

If your web app is mostly reading and writing single rows, yeah, sqlite is just fine. But if there's substantial and complex logic involved, it has its limits.
You read

>I doubt you could have made it faster even writing the entire thing directly in C or C++.

as

> a statement that they implemented a proper and bespoke algorithm, not that the speed of Python is greater than C.

?
Love the armchair engineers who think they're gonna solve this better than billion dollar companies
The Prototype that was Banned from Halfbrick
How about conventional building materials, surely they would be safe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire

I don't want to assume that a wooden building under construction would be less safe than multiple conventional buildings. Grenfell was a particular error in cladding choices, but still. Remember https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/fire-breaks-out-dubai-sky...
Smit are like the Winston Wolf of the shipping business. No problem too big to solve.
Mind you can also use tune2fs. It has an option "-m" that one can tune how much reserved space is dedicated to root user.
California Ethnic Studies Curriculum Accuses Christianity of “Theocide”
Built on Unreal Engine, Core aims to make game development accessible
Certainly not common, but it can be done with specialized vessels.
Military does it all the time with helicopters. Not cheap or easy but probably the most likely outcome
I'm imagining an incredible system of hooks setup so that the fleet of Spruce Gooses pass over at low altitude and speed, snare the hooks, and YOINK pull it right out in one pass.
I can't believe that website is still around. I just got teleported to the 90's.
Because your expectations were far too high.
Apple did something like that... https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936268845/apple-agrees-to-pay...
Just let the air out of the tires, simple.
They know they have a monopoly. There are no viable alternative routes, so they just don't care enough.
Wasn’t this the plot of an Ian Banks novel? Canal dreams. Imagine die hard, with the Bruce Willis part being a middle-aged, female, Japanese cellist.
Well, they fall off of ships all the time, especially in rough weather (all the time is hyperbole, but it absolutely happens). So sure, you can probably push one off with a pretty big lever, but shipping containers are actually designed to "clip" together to an extent, to make the load more solid. Problem is, the canal is only about 24 metres deep, so you're going to end up blocking the canal with containers instead if you just push them off.

The modern shipping world is all about containers, container cranes, and container ships. 99 Percent Invisible hosted some episodes of the Containers podcast [0] that will probably provide some insight.

0: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/containers-ships-tugs...
Recent and related:

Suez canal blocked by a massive ship - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26560319 - March 2021 (419 comments)

Also ongoing:

It 'Might Take Weeks' to Free Ship Stuck in Suez Canal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26585480 - March 2021 (23 comments)

Suez Canal: How are they trying to free the Ever Given? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26586278 - March 2021 (44 comments)
People think I'm joking but we should bomb it to smithereens. The crater would probably just fill up with the water flow.
You are right, good catch.
Does it? Both are implementations and explanations of a well-known algorithm. Most articles on quicksort will also look alike, but there's no reason to assume the author has plagiarized anything.
Using unwraps is often the “proper check”. Trying to come up with error handling in cases where invariants are not met is usually done wrong.
Yes you can. And all of this is on-line.
These were really good reads, especially the third. Thanks.
Frankly, a terse comment. So tell me what am I missing?
Spacemacs has like four different keybinding modes, one of them is regular emacs mode. I thought it was pretty good. I haven't used doom myself but I know people like it.
If I understand [1] properly, the Chinook can lift 13 tons[2].

The Evergiven's maximum weight is 200000 tons. So that would be 15000+ Chinooks lifting it. A sight to behold.

Added: Only about 1200 were ever produced, so that won't fly.

[1] https://www.army.mil/article/137584/ch_47_chinook_helicopter

[2] 26000 pounds
tune2fs -m
You can dance on your head as hard as you can but nine women won't make a baby in one month.
I become a software engineer because I'm lazy, like water, I flow along the easiest path in life.

That I found it "easy" was probably because I live and breathe computers, so when something was hard, it was not hard, it was just interesting.
I was always fascinated by computers, by what was behind, how stuff showed up on screen and how someone could do such magic, so I had to find out.
Why would these containers be empty?
It means Computer-generated imagery.
Could you build a temporary barrier around the ship and the section of the canal, bring in some massive pumps, and temporarily raise the water level around the ship?

Edit: Something like this https://www.hydrologicalsolutions.com/aqua-barrier-cofferdam...
I feel bad for the people who spent 10k on something that will never become reality before the end of life of their car.
Both ends are jammed now.
> Egypt is losing 400million in trade every hour

this seems excessive, if they made 400M in trade per hour that would be 3T per year, but Egypt's GDP is ~1T.
> Actions and comments that constitute harassment

Funny anecdote. Paul Steed (RIP) was notorious for conducting himself in a manner that was akin to RMS x20 in all manner of professional (let alone social) settings. Game developer conferences, company-adjacent deathmatches and lan parties, etc. His lewd comments and actions went far, far beyond any parody you could possibly think of for RMS's offer for "tender embraces".

Thing is, nobody complained - even posthumously. There is a fair argument to be made that this is due to the fact that he looked like Paul Steed.

Actions and comments don't constitute harassment in a vacuum. That is a judgement that is up to the recipient of said actions and comments.
This is interesting, but I'm not sure I'm a fan. One of the core problems in building businesses out of AI is that people pick problems they want to solve and try to get AI to solve them rather than picking problems that AI is likely to be able to solve. AI is unreliable, particularly in the long-tail, and cannot easily be used in domains where the cost of failure is high. Using AI to accelerate humans via human-in-the-loop AI tools is a great example of where things like GPT-3 can have real value.

But good root cause analysis is a matter of establishing facts and building a chain of logic on top of those facts to get to the root cause. You cannot rely on models like GPT-3 to give you reliable baseline facts. Particularly when you are talking about a production issue that needs to be fixed ASAP. The key line that worries me from this blog post is "when results are suboptimal, they are mostly not misleading". 'Mostly not misleading' isn't going to cut it when I'm in the middle of an outage. I think that will prove to be a problem if this tool gets widespread usage.

That being said, I'm a huge fan of applying AI to human-in-the-loop problems and this was a cool idea for how modern language models can be applied.
I thought this was gonna be about the obscenely large sparse file /var/log/last.

I really wish they would move it from a sparse memmap() file to a btree or something.
Besides the entertainment value and communication skills getting to Adam’s level and even beyond is achievable by most people who are willing to put in some time.

Getting to Bottura’s level is not.

If someone wants to get better at cooking they would gain far more value form watching what is essentially a decent home cook rather than a top chef.

The same thing can also be applied to developers most people would gain far more from watching an average developer with good communication skills solving a problem than a top 0.1% talent.
Because quite likely the way and speed you think at and your problem solving skills are far closer to them than to someone who designed a programming language or built an entire framework from scratch.
It's for Computer Generated Imagery, not Computer Graphics. And it was used in the 80s already, before the web-CGI.
The Cargo Ship Drew a Giant Pic in the Ocean Then Got Stuck in the Suez Canal
They said "days to weeks" for how long it will take, so they got plenty of time to film it.
The ship stuck (Ever Given) is build to Suezmax limits. It fits, but barely.

Ever Given (Suezmax limit)

length: 399.94 m (400 m)

tonnage: 199,629 DWT (200,000 DWT)
I think we are saying the same thing; it’s a cheeky remark that to read Apple’s documentation is in it of itself, a learned skill, essential to being productive in Swift.

I read the comment as Woz saying documentation isn’t for the faint of heart ... true

(Mind you, I love Apple’s docs now, and honestly prefer it compared to Stripe-y and Twilio-y documentation... to me S&T docs are a style that tries to smooth over the cluttered calls and returns. Are they APIs that makes sense to accomplish x style or job succinctly, or do I have to read the 8 million other things I don’t care about to do the one thing I need to do?)
It's a way of thinking out loud and providing an opening for someone more knowledgeable to explain what is being overlooked. It makes for interesting threads.
Indeed. For anyone who grew up in the industry after the Internet was widely available, it might be unnatural to visualize how much effort was spent on making sure the code is correct before shipping.

Shipping meant producing that gold master build and sending it off to a floppy replication service and then got distributed to the store shelves. That 1.0 version was frozen until you'd ship a new version a year or more later. There was no second chance for that release, code had to be as close to perfect as possible, first time out.
Put balloons around it to give extra buoyancy. That should work.
Nature loves you!
If you happen to use ext as your default filesystem, check the output of tune2fs; it's possible your distro has conveniently defaulted some 2-5% of disk space as "reserved" for just such an occasion. As the root user, in a pinch, you can set that to 0% and immediately relieve filesystem pressure, buying you a little bit more time to troubleshoot whatever the real problem is that filled the disk in the first place.
Oh what about magnetism? Could we wrap the ship in wire and send so much current through that it repels against the Earth's magnetic field and shoots itself right into the atmosphere? Basically building a giant rail gun. Might need a small nuclear power plant or two to make it feasible.
Apparently, there are no watertight gates anywhere near.

Filling in the entire canal is unrealistic.
We (Lithuania) had a very early and strict shutdow last year and fared wery well during the first wave. We are going into the fifth month of the very strict shutdown during the second wave and we have tons of excess deaths.
In addition to the weight issues, there are up to 20k of them on board.
> Marvin Minksy had sex with the girl

No, you can't claim that! It gets repeated everywhere but so far we only know that [0]:

> Virginia Giuffre testified in a 2015 deposition in her defamation lawsuit against Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell that Maxwell directed her to have sex with Minsky among others. There has been no allegation that sex between them took place nor a lawsuit against Minsky's estate. Minsky's widow, Gloria Rudisch, says that he could not have had sex with any of the women at Epstein's residences, as they were always together during all of the visits to Epstein's residences.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky#Association_with...
That might be the total value of impacted shipping, but nobody is going to get a $40 billion bill for this.
I desperately want someone to photoshop this.
It's hilariously arrogant too.
That's what some scientists said about mRNA research
If this was space engineers I would build a crane drone and offload it unto nearby ships. Or build giant trucks to help the ship get unstuck.

Or just tow it outside the environment...
Let the answers to your question be a caution to all the Musk and Star Trek fans around here: like this ship, not matter how much money you throw at mars terra-forming, FTL drives and climate change reversal or control technology some things have non-negotiable deadlines.
Cities of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures
Egypt could claim the lost fees from the ship owner, maybe?
this comes preinstalled on asus low end netbooks
They did it so old phones wouldn't suddenly hard-shutdown at 30% battery. I appreciate that they did that, it's very annoying.
Even if you could unload a container per minute you could only unload less than 1000 containers per day (assuming it's too dangerous to work at night) so at least 3 weeks of continuous helicopter operations.
Nothing will change, unless you change
Maybe. ~300ms floor isn't terrific for some use cases, and could be higher if you need an ENI, etc.
You described the key issue: "such neighborhoods are illegal to build in the whole rest of North America."

I don't think it's productive to think of the suburbs as "bad" or "wrong," because that just turns into an angry debate about whose lifestyle is better.

What I think is productive is to recognize that we shouldn't be legislating that there can only be one way to live, and we especially shouldn't be prohibiting that the traditional neighborhood development patterns that have worked for thousands of years. If we actually had a free market, there would be both a fair amount of auto-oriented suburban development, and massively more traditional, walkable neighborhood development.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-48994393

I think the end of this is a good way to see it. Sure who cares it's a way to let the UK honor historic people. But don't pretend like it's some big feat or victory for oppressed people. Pardoning and putting a him on a note doesn't undo that.

And besides, why if the case is to show respect is Winston Churchill on a note? A conservative primeminister in power when Alan Turing died. His party and their policies are in part to blame for what happened. Using Churchill as a figure and hero, while at the same time advocating for things his party was against. It makes the whole thing fall apart in my opinion.

You can either use the notes to display historical people, or to display achievments and values. I think it seems like they tried both, and it comes of as contradictory
That's exactly what I am leaning to in my current job. Looking at the load of our servers I can comfortably put all our software on my gaming machine (which is mid-range!) -- with the DB included -- and I bet no request ever will be above 100ms.

IMO a lot of organizations should start re-investing in on-premise as well. Having a mid-range AMD EPYC server can serve most businesses out there without ever having more than 40% CPU usage.

That, plus scaling down Kubernetes clusters. Most companies absolutely didn't need them in the first place.
Job interview question: how many helicopters would it take to lift it?
There is a limited number of people that have the expertise, and equipment to pull it off, and it takes them time even if they had been standing by at the accident site. Money isn't the issue right now. I'm a mariner, but not a salvage law expert, but the ship and the cargo on it are effectively the collateral for whoever removes this thing, so money is likely not an issue.

This is now an engineering and logisitics problem. What is necessary for the ship to be floating again? And what equipment is needed for that to happen? If it isn't already at hand, how can they get the equipment there (there is navigable water nearby, but there may be no way to unload heavy equipment onto the land).
The people who should be desperately trying to pay a lot of money to get the ship unstuck are maritime insurance underwriters. There is a lot of insurance against late delivery. Unless they have managed to figure out how this is an act of god, that is.
I'm very aligned with this. That's why I didn't focus too much on whether I enjoy the task, because every "job" will be drudgery after a point.

A woodworker has a new cabinet or something at the end of the day. It's a real thing that is useful in the world and even if you stopped enjoying woodworking you at least see real tangible results from your work. This is much harder to get from IT/software dev. That's why I try to focus on whether my work makes someone else's drudgery less awful. It gives me the feeling that I did a real thing that accomplished something (however small) in the world.
Ya no. An ICBM like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-65_Atlas has a launch thrust of only 1,300 kN, or about 130 tons. That would lift about 4 of the 20000 containers aboard.
Oh neat, I had no idea!
I read the top link, very good.

It strikes me that RMS writes a lot about sex, rape and minors. Well, we all have interests. If the article is anything to go by, it confirms my hunch that he says a lot of things that are prone to misinterpretation.

While I would think it is his fault (we have a duty to say controversial things in a way that the audience can understand), this still doesn’t seem to be a good reason to cancel him, and of all things, from the FSF. It’s not like he is on the board of the Girl Guides.
Patching until the COWs come home (part 2)
I think you're severely overestimating the depth of the canal. I'm too lazy to look up the depth of the specific section where it's stuck, but some sections are just 20 something meters deep.

In other words, just deep enough for ships to come through with little wiggle room. Not as tight as the Panama Canal, but it's not much bigger.
If you’re looking at an online course I agree the basics will be watched more often (as well as due to people not completing the course). But if you’re looking at something like cooking videos I’d expect the videos of people cooking cool things would get more views. People love food porn and want to watch something exciting about cooking but probably won’t watch a video about knife basics because it’s not as engaging to most people. That’s what I loved so much about Alton Brown and especially Good Eats, he makes so many mundane kitchen things exciting. Compare that to Thomas Keller’s Master Class, which is incredibly informative and I’d recommend it to anyone, but also significantly lower energy and you really have to want to learn the stuff to watch him julienne carrots for 5 minutes.
True, but it will be interesting to see if there is reduction of the excess deaths next year. A. k. a. The harvesting theory.
Multiple Destroyers Were Swarmed by Mysterious 'Drones' Off California
The canal is only 24m deep.... one or two containers would essentially block it for most traffic.
They lack a framework and crystal clear way to start developing apps. Nothing exists that taps their features beyond maybe Flarereact.
You need time.

A full time job and small children for example don't leave much space for extended coding sessions on side projects, unless you're lucky enough to need little sleep.

I've worked around this by learning at my day job : read books/papers at home (this is relaxing), and look for opportunities to apply this knowledge at the office. Unfortunately, it stays at the office though, and can't be shown as proof of your skills outside of the company.
I think you might inadvertently create a few new problems if you did this.
I believe there could be some truth in this. Historically the left was the leading force fighting for workers rights. These days the focus seems totally on racial and sexual identity.
Nah.

You're seeing the raw footage. The final cut, after edits and splices, will be shorter and less detailed.

And there's plenty of great interviews today, and terrible interviews back then. Just pick your forum.
... "and nothing of value was lost" ;-)
Anybody know at what point the backed up ships start taking the long way around? (Around Africa!)
F=ma no matter what, so if things aren't accelerating, the force isn't changing, it's just being transferred to the earth by other means. In this case, it would be through the air rather than the water.