skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that if your application is so sensitive to this level of "weight", you may be either better off using something lower level (like C?), or use direct byte array buffers, and encode your data that way rather than as objects.

Not very many applications would have this sort of requirement tbh. Real-time applications, and perhaps, huge scale data applications.
Yeah, although Java did it first.

"We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." - Guy Steele

I assume Guy Steele knows his stuff when talking about Lisp like languages.
In China any flights that take around an hour (around 700km of land distance) would probably be better traveled via HSR. Flights that around 2-3 hours long usually make more sense compare to HSR, although I know people who would prefer train as long as it is anywhere under 6 hours.

- Even the busiest security lines in a typical HSR station say during holidays would take 10 minutes tops. Regular weekday or weekend the security lines take about 2 minutes. They don't scan you very thoroughly, liquids are allowed, don't ask you to take off shoes belts or scan laptops, lithium batteries etc. They're usually just checking for weapons and explosives.

- HSR gates typically close 4 minutes before departure and the gates open about 12 minutes before departure. If you factor into security you rarely need to arrive more than 20 minutes before your actual time of departure. For flights, most people do well to arrive at least 40 minutes before departure otherwise you would be cutting it close.

- In the case you miss a particular train usually you can wait 30-60 minutes for the next one. If you're desperate there is standing room.

- I have almost never encountered a delayed train but flight departure delays happen nearly 30% of the time, factoring into things like weather. And when you are delayed it can be for hours.

- You can order takeout between stations and it is delivered to your seat.
From European perspective, yes the sick days absolutely can be limited - see Poland or Czechia. When you run out you better have acquaintances among doctors and at the appropriate public offices. Otherwise you're sick, fired, no income.
Yeah, it would be nice if their last train was later. To be fair, SF kind of shuts down around midnight anyway. If 24/7 bars and so on are important to you, there isn't any substitute for NYC.
If we include data race safety in the definition of memory safety (which it ultimately is), then Rust is safer than any commonly used garbage collected language with access to multithreading, including Swift, Java and C#.
I feel like you are supposed to be able to get an injunction against this, but in practice it is probably stupid hard :(.
Yeah, I've come to realize we don't have any "social contracts" on this planet. We have a planetary cancer called "humanity" that barely manages to cooperate even in their common desire for destruction of everything good in the universe.
And now the rich and powerful allow the politicians they own to limit their power by shedding light to their practices?

I kinda doubt the filthy rich will be affected
The statistic you are referring to when people quote % differences is on a protein level (in other words, genes -> proteins).Its not a very good metric and not used any more because it's very hard to quantify differences. See this article https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1286...

Our evolutionary history is complicated because we mated with many hominins and to make things even more complicated there different degrees of mixing throughout different geographical regions.

So as we (homo sapeins) evolved we mixed with these other closely related species. Chunks of our dna mixed with other hominins.

> We find that approximately 7% of the human autosomal genome is human-unique and free of both admixture and ILS. Roughly 50% of the human genome contains regions where one or more humans has archaic ancestry obtained through admixture.

They go on to talk about ~7% of haplotype blocks are uniquely human. The others have signatures of admixing. It doesn't mean the whole block is non-human but only that it has signatures of admixing.
> Yes all of those are issues that don’t even take a second to figure out. But it’s a step forward.

Most of them are dealbreakers. A few even show that your solution won't even properly address the SWATting problem it's ostensibly meant to solve, even ignoring the bad tradeoffs.

I'll grant you it's a step, just not a step forward.
> I also know that swatting deaths are rare enough to get broad news attention, whereas I rarely hear about people saved by rapid police response, though I know they exist.

Swatting destroys peoples house, traumatize people, injures people pretty much on the regular. And no one will pay you back for what was destroyed.

Just because no one died does not mean no damage was done.
Mozilla did great decision for security: develop PDF viewer as pdf.js. It works same as other webapps so no longer considered to attack surface, not like integrated PDF viewer, IIUC.
Some people will complain even in paradise.
We didnt have to, some chose to.

I never voted for any of those clowns in power
Totally agreed, but I’ll bet anyone who’ll take the bet $20 there’s gonna be at least one long-winded comment about how you’re wrong
The title is a question, not an argument. The answer to the question is in the article. It's a very common style of writing.
If it's depressed it's because business owners who hire undocumented immigrants (often knowingly, even assisting with GC/visa fraud to pass I9 verification) are never, ever fined or punished.

Enforcement is a farce.
why? It's basically a poor man's fuzzy search. You do remember some part of the name you are looking for so you filter your data set with what you know for sure and then visually scan the rest.
Venmo has always felt like the best example of how these startups went too far with public sharing in the mid 2010’s. Everyone tried to socialize everything. Who benefits from seeing that a random Facebook friend paid someone you don’t know, 15 bucks for sushi?
> I would say universally that bugs found prior to shipping are lower cost (not just cost to fix) than those found after.

There's a survivorship bias in this comparison, though. All software contains bugs - some are found in the architectural, coding, testing, review, and end-user stages. Bugs found after shipping are more likely to be significant to an actual user, because it's likely they were noticed in the course of someone using the software a particular way.

However, it's entirely possible that there are bugs that never need to be fixed. Perhaps these bugs involve scenarios that never crop up, or are part of a product direction that gets abandoned completely. (Example: Quibi probably didn't need to handle credit card expiry gracefully, that would have been wasted effort).

Those bugs that made it into prod and got prioritized for a fix, and were memorable are likely to be higher effort just by the nature of those filters.
you forgot the part where the socialist government is printing unlimited welfare and handing it by the truck load. it’s hard to compete with free money

but luckily part of it ends in september
Herring approached the police with a gun drawn. That's how things happen in America. In any case, showing a dominant amount of force is imperative for safety in this country where guns are common.

That's just the facts. If we want the police to disarm, we need to first disarm the population. We shouldn't be sending police into armed situations with inferior weapons.
AFAIK the difference is Haiti massacred basically every white colonist in the region resulting in a US enforcement of owing money to france businesses. US colonists on principle were likely not going to support a slave rebellion fearing similar retribution. But i dont know much on the subject.
I hate that macOS got rid of the textfield for the path. You can display it only using Ctrl+Shift+G, and it opens a second popup with the single text field, but it is not working together with the UI…
How many in-the-wild attacks did you see using XUL from extensions that were in the curated addons ecosystem, i.e not downloaded and manually installed via extra steps a novice is unlikely to go through?
Mindfulness is one of the 7 factors of awakening. It's a skill, a pre-requisite to the work of insight and transformation that is the path of Buddhism.

It's literally just the skill to not get distracted by the small waves.

So definitely: Mindfulness is not Buddhism.
> at least the 3D modelling part of its business

Yes in MESH modelling. Blender could eat 3Ds Max. But not in NURBS and BIM. (I guess I am too much pedantic about '3D modelling' here.)
4) Getting all the styles correct

5) Getting all the metadata / header / footers etc. correct
Because the phone system is based on very old protocols with duct tape and patch work applied over the years. Not sure how you want VOIP calls to be de-anonymized. Are you arguing for state surveillance?
Corruption also plays a big part in rising the cost.
> Is this not what you would expect to happen in a so-called armed conflict?

I think the point is to not make it into armed conflict between cops and person.

> The situation was successfully de-escalated.

Which situation was de-escalated?
It very much is, they skip the part of someone's life where they just cost (a lot of) money and get right to the part where they are making money of them.

Expats even get tax breaks to incentivize them to come here. Which is fair IMO. However it sucks big time for the countries they leave behind (brain drain, net negative financial impact).
I suppose that broadly, the takeaway here (and in all of this) that I’ve missed is that fundamentally, this list of phones that were targeted shouldn’t exist, or shouldn’t be leakable in this way, if we want to believe that NSO Group is targeting the most genuine targets.

To frame it differently: NSO Group sells tools to governments that are apparently trustworthy. Its security and system architecture should be decentralized enough that a list of all targets should be extremely difficult to obtain. If the list is obtainable, then what else is? Are their exploit toolkits just as leakable? Are the internal controls not sufficient to stop these leaks?

How can we continue to allow orgs like NSO Group to exist if they surely can’t keep something like their entire target list safe? Even if we assume of the targets are legitimate threats (which, again, requires enough suspension of disbelief to hold a small army at this point), why would we want that list leakable? If they’re all the most legitimate targets, then that list is essentially 50k people who can now discover this fact and change their patterns to hide. It’s pretty bad to tip off “all the people who we find important enough to 0-day” if that assumption holds.

Now the real question? I’m not sure I know what we can do, actionably. Call Congress and ask them to care?
How are the incentives panning out now? Every system has trade offs and the ones we've made seem to get worse and worse.
I know lots of software engineers that don’t even know what a shell is. Sadly.
Inb4 white genocide
Never understood how this "feature" did anything but annoy the user.

Cash App for the win.
just wait till the free welfare handouts stop in september. unless i guess they just keep it going perpetually
I suspect the police used the taser or choked this man.

A man who is active enough to carry a gun and protecting his property, conscious enough to follow the order of police to drop a gun... then suddenly got a heart attack from stress alone? That's too suspicious.
In the UK, it is like this for the vast majority of tax payers. Certain criteria, like earning over £100k, mean you need to file a return. The government will usually send you a letter informing you that you've met the criteria too, as they know how much you earn each month.

At any time, you can log in and easily see how much the government thinks you have earned and from who, and which tax rate (tax code) is being applied to you. You can correct this as well if it is wrong.

Having lived in Australia, the US and UK, I've found the UK system to be the easiest to understand and navigate. Australia isn't too far behind. The US is just a mess.
it’s not failing. it’s the communist government crowding out private business and creating welfare dependent voters
Glen Bell also visited the original McDonald's around the same time as Ray Kroc and the Pizza Hut guys were getting a tour of how that operation worked.

Less well known is Bell's western and railroad theme park near Sonora, CA that he built in the 70's with some of his taco money.
I might be wrong, but this update is addressing a real problem that company is facing. This is not some hypothetical, slippery slope kinda thing.

For instance, in Belarus right now a lot of engineers seek to get out the country due to dictatorship regime. Poland and neighbourhood countries offer emergency visa plans for people in trouble (business harbour visa).

I think what happened is that GitLab started receiving a lot of emergency requests to be relocated immediately that did not comply the existing policy. Hence the update.
It might be a bit of a baity thing for fig, and I've never encountered this problem, but I guess to work as i signed up...
Yeah there is definite a SF hippie/beat woo vibe here at times. Maybe "consciousness" is fundamental and free will is real but so far we haven't see any evidence. I think superdeterminism is more parsiminous than multiple universes.
> The vast majority of the most recent wars have not been UNSC authorized.

Unless those wars are fought in imminent self-defense, then they're illegal. The invasion of Iraq was an especially egregious violation of international law for two reasons:

1. The US knew that the UN Security Council would reject a resolution authorizing war, so it decided in the end not to ask.

2. The war had catastrophic consequences for Iraq. It's not every day a country of 20+ million people is invaded and its government overthrown. Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result.

A third factor making this war particularly egregious is the deliberate campaign of disinformation that was carried out in order to justify it.

> The US was attacked.

Not by Iraq.

> 20-30 years old isnt ancient, they were serviceable, and they had chemical weapons in the quantity for the potential of wmds.

This is how the NY Times described the small number of chemical artillery shells found scattered across Iraq:

> Filthy, rusty or corroded, a large fraction of them could not be readily identified as chemical weapons at all. Some were empty, though many of them still contained potent mustard agent or residual sarin. Most could not have been used as designed, and when they ruptured dispersed the chemical agents over a limited area, according to those who collected the majority of them.

These were the misplaced remnants of the chemical weapons program that Iraq dismantled in the 1990s.

> There was reasonable evidence they had more that the allied force didn't find.

The US occupied Iraq for nearly a decade. It's simply not credible to claim that there was any sort of sizeable stockpile that the US did not find.
Plus, the idea that your level of living expenses is completely immutable is idiotic. Obviously people don't turn over housing at the drop of a hat, but sitting on extra tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars isn't worthless: homeowners do move, and large increases in a leveraged asset mean even minor downsizing in one's home can allow large increases in other expenses.
Sarcopagus: The Dead man's Switch [pdf]
In 2019 I filed my (Dutch) taxes on my phone, while I was on a bus somewhere in the north of Argentina after previously having traveled for 20 something hours. It took me about 15 minutes to check if the numbers from the government were correct (they were) and I was done. Americans are being duped by these predatory companies.
It's not a mystery, it has a testable precise mathematical description - Schrodinger equation.
> America does not have significantly more homicides then other western countries.

The US has 2-5x the murder rate of peer nations.

US 4.96/100k

Canada 1.76

UK 1.20

Germany 0.95

Japan 0.26

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intenti...
That is what happens when a new generation has grown without Ant and then a giant behemoth with endless cash for top hardware gets a deal to push Gradle as the official build tool for their mobile OS.
Also Ctrl+L. And probably Ctrl+K and F6, if it behaves like the browser address bar! https://superuser.com/questions/283956/chromes-omnibar-short...
Reminds me of the movie The Maiden Heist [1] where three museum security guards become attached to the artworks they guard.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1107860/
Okay, sorry, I guess this comment didn't help much. Also the formula is confusing 'F' denoting "force", rather than talking about kinetic energy.

In the transport of hazardous materials of any kind, if a mishap occurs and the shipping containers crash, the energy of the collision is going to go up as the square (second power) of the velocity. Air transport typical speeds are in general 2-4x as fast as ground... So ground transport could involve overall lower risk than air.

This is naïve hand-waving on my part.
I believe we are unfortunately at the “have backups” stage still civilizationally.
Good counterpoint, but your examples are referencing things that we have a strong scientific understanding of. Economists just don’t. If something is out of band of their models I sincerely doubt the claims made beyond that are even quality pseudoscience
Right now Bigelow Aerospace isn't doing anything. They were forced to suspend operations in March 2020, when the State of Nevada determined they weren't an essential business.

Article: https://spacenews.com/bigelow-aerospace-lays-off-entire-work...

There's currently no news when or if BA will resume operations. Even if they do, chances are most of their original talent has made other arrangements by now. From a staffing point of view, they'll be starting from scratch.
These days you see lots of people , even Microsoft , having one line scripts to paste and run as root in your terminal. Often ones which fetch the script via a url. Your typical

# curl foo.com/install.sh | bash -
* linking the dutch language version of the extension page

* just calling the extension "VSCode" and using the official logo (are not both of those against the terms of service?)

What even is this?
> irrational fear that their idea will be stolen.

Hence not to be fixated on idea and instead focus on the problem. If one thinks about the problem, they have less qualms about sharing it and asking 'Hey do you face this problem too?'

I found this the hard way in my previous entrepreneurial tenure by obsessively building high effort products just because 'I can' and not really trying to find out whether it really solves a problem which people want to be solved. Obviously many of it ended in failure.

In order to change this I started a problem validation platform[1] two years ago which has problems as first class citizens.

So now whenever I have a problem which I feel is worth solving I submit it on needgap, If I have an idea to solve it I post in the comments. This way, I either find out existing solutions which I have missed out (or) That there are other people who want it to solved (or) Even better idea to solve the problem.

[1] https://needgap.com
>assumes we haven't already reached a tipping point for a runaway greenhouse effect.

With limitless energy, we could just make some kind of Earth AC unit.
I'm not sure what paradise is to be drawn at billionaires racing each other to space while the planet we all live on is in shambles on so many levels
The alternative options are not without their own shortcomings
The new-menu is the one feature from Windows I wish was present in macOS. Especially for text files. When I’m in a folder, many times I want to open the current folder in some kind of app (terminal, code editor) or I want to create a new text file
And to the extent to which someone doesn't know how paths or shell profiles work, they end up getting burned eventually. Is this a sane complexity? Maybe not. But if so--and to be clear, I would totally be willing to believe it is a sane complexity!--then whose fault is it? I think probably Apple, as I don't think they offer something like /etc/profile.d? We can fix it by education, not by pretending it isn't a problem. We can fix it by changing how shells work (though adding features to shells has no guarantee Apple will bother updating them; maybe they will start now that they moved to zsh?). When we say "developers shouldn't have to know about how X works" and then try to solve that by adding some rickety automation we don't solve the underlying problem: we create a second problem.
So how do we defend the defenseless?
Rules can and absolutely should be encoded in the type system if your language is powerful enough to allow it. Look at Type Driven Development in say Idris or F#.
For network protocol perspective, FTP is weird old protocol from current view. Forget Active mode since it's no luck under NAPT. Even in Passive mode, it requires NAT device to rewrite address in command, won't work with firewall closing unknown external port without dynamic filtering by packet inspection, and server configuration isn't simple depends on network configuration. Modern network environment like NAT64/DNS64 need special support for FTP. There are no reason to continue using ancient protocol forever.
Throw-away account, but this is good. Wish more companies did this kind of thing. I've been mistreated most of my life for my sexuality, even here in Sweden. Can't stand it much longer...

EDIT: To clarify, I'm being bullied, not oppressed by the govt. Swedes are known to not reach out and are truly the worst kind of friends that leave you on a whim if they don't relate to you.
I recall that back when I was still using Windows (which was sometime in the XP days) opening the New menu could result in quite a bit of a pause, if you had lots of programs installed. It was really enfuriating, as the pause could be on the order of a second or more. IIRC I only used the New menu for creating folders, and creating some nested folder structure became an exercise in frustration.

I never understood how this could take so long but it seems the list of possible new filetypes was dynamically generated everytime by querying a dB of installed programs. Maybe it was so slow to encourage people to not use the new menu?
Air traffic control error almost saw planes collide at Paris airport
Also in some underdeveloped nations (e.g. India). The US is truly the third world of the western hemisphere.
PipeWire 0.3.32 Released with Numerous Fixes
This is such a good idea i’ve never seen or heard, but it makes so much sense.
THW: Germany′s army of volunteers for disaster relief
Im Denmark that pretty much how it works. If you have complex scenarios you might need to adjust the numbers a bit, for example if you have stocks abroad or income from gigs.

Many trading platforms in Denmark do automated reporting, and some gig-economy apps do automated reporting too. But if you setup a lemonade stand, well, reporting is in you :)

The tax authorities also have pretty good phone support. It's a bit overloaded around filing season (but getting through is possible), but if come home from an internship abroad and call them, they are happy to tell you where and how to report income and taxes paid in Canada for example.

I bet it's expensive to offer phone support. But if you want people to pay taxes the best way to do it is to make it easy to do the right thing.

This advice goes pretty much everywhere, if you make it easy to do something, people will do it :)
I had assumed a whistleblower until now. The worry with them being hacked is their tools leaking to public domain. If they do I hope Apple et al can plug the vectors