skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, whole race cars…

"When the rest of Levegh's car landed on the embankment, the rear-mounted fuel tank exploded. The fuel fire raised the temperature of the remaining Elektron bodywork past its ignition temperature, which was lower than that of other metal alloys due to its high magnesium content. The alloy burst into white-hot flames, showering the track and crowd with magnesium embers, made worse by rescue workers unfamiliar with magnesium fires who poured water onto the inferno, greatly intensifying the fire. As a result, the car burned for several hours."

The 1955 LeMans Disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Le_Mans_disaster
The coverage of this story in the Guardian I found ever so slightly better:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/26/uk-to-ove...

I'm generally somewhat skeptical of The Telegraph as a news source when it comes to discussions of government policy, since it only ever seems to criticise the government when it thinks it can influence it.
You need to filter out the warriors and hold them accountable for their actions...
If you haven’t tried it yet, quit all Apple apps, sign out of iCloud in System Preferences, reboot (do not skip this step), sign back in at System Preferences and see if that heals it.
A related idea to your thought while reading your comment is that it appears that two groups of people arguing competing ideas don’t agree on how to derive the truth; one being the scientific approach (bending over backwards to prove yourself wrong) and the other seeking through confirmation bias and both claiming victory.
He lost so he's suing out of pure spite. How childish.
If you scroll down, you can download the pdf to make it more readable on mobile.
I figured Moe Berg sounded like a Jewish name which made me curious so I went and read up on the guy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_Berg I guess anyone likely to have a wikipedia page ,especially from that generation, is likely to have a more interesting life and profile than most people I know.

on edit: curious because Jewish spy, even in Zurich, during WW2, sounds dangerous.
Building software is about asking and answering questions. If you have a company full of the same sort of people you'll only get one set of questions and answers. If you have a diverse range of people you'll get more, different questions and answers. That means you cover more edge cases, more things that concern different people, more stuff that just doesn't occur to dude bros. Simply put, diverse teams make better software that works for more people. You can sell to more people. You make more profit.
The Boeing 2707 had the same complaints.

And the closest to successful version, the Concorde, was never profitable but propped up with heavy .gov funding from the French and British governments.
LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves
This is why some PC games are in perpetual “early access”. All the cover of being incomplete, but still take your money.

I think some developers do right by their customers, but many also use it to cover excuses and try to get people to buy in to the idea that they’ll be the next Warframe.
Yeah - is this a security issue?
Speaking of. The pictures of the remains of the program are fascinating:

https://www.boredpanda.com/abandoned-soviet-space-shuttle-pr...
The combination of ride-share, Zipcar, and traditional rentals (plus scattered improvements in public transit and bike infrastructure in some places) has already done that to some degree. It's not about the person who needs to get in a car every time they go somewhere from their house. It's about replacing the car that maybe gets driven once or twice a week.
As someone who has designed many chips, amperage absolutely matters because it is not DC, it has very rapid transients based on workloads and that, combined with inductance, can make power delivery very difficult. Additionally, the high current requires careful design of the package and routing because of resistance and electromigration even in the DC case.
They'll also let you get a secured loan for something you were planning to pay for in cash (e.g. a car), but instead you dump that cash into an account which automatically pays down the loan balance every month. I did it. The interest rate for the loan was a fraction of a percent higher than the interest on the account.

It's monumentally stupid, though, and says nothing about my ability to pay off future debt.
I don't get it. Lisp has been around for like 60 years. If these macros were an objectively better way to write code, why have they not taken over by now?
I have no favorite missle—maybe the Phoenix if I were pressed—but I do have a scary-nightmare-clown missle, and it is the Exocet.
Are you saying that they were easy to implement, and that it was done properly?
> The same ethical argument, however, strongly argues for open-sourcing nuclear stewardship technologies so that gaps in proliferation prevention are bridged.

I’ve wondered about this as well. It seems to be me that it would actually be a net benefit to leak what you believe to be solid command and control procedures even to your enemies to avoid an accidental attack.
Since the Obama administration's Operation Chokepoint, banks are loath to process transactions from certain industries, including porn, cannabis, and guns -- lest they incur greater regulatory scrutiny. This scrutiny comes whether the transactions are legal or not.
Definitely not written by a native English speaker, and if it was, that person needs to get a new career.
What's your definition of "high capacity"?

The biggest SMR drives I can buy are 6TB or 8TB.

The biggest non-SMR drive I can buy is 18TB.
"but there are no practical applications of cryptocurrency"
I Will Stay Janet
'advises against'

well a bit too late for that
To make better schools, hasn't it been proven for centuries that higher admission standards remain head & shoulders above other approaches?
> It's a mess of yaml and what feels like a million yaml files that is always extremely hard to follow.

Don't look at kubernetes then...
Rice production is responsible for a large portion of methane emissions so it would be better if it was replaced with something else.
That's a good point. Even though this would weaken my argument (slightly), I now wonder if modern JITs can completely optimize debug.log(someExpensiveFunction()) into a NOOP if they realize that the argument won't end up being used inside the log function.

The javadoc for slf4j's Logger.debug implies that the JIT cannot be relied on for this:

http://slf4j.org/apidocs/org/slf4j/Logger.html#debug(java.la......)

"This form avoids superfluous string concatenation when the logger is disabled for the DEBUG level"

I think that means if you call Logger.debug("a"+"b"), the string concatenation happens even if DEBUG logging is disabled. But maybe JITs have improved since that javadoc was written, or the author was not aware of how smart JITs are.

I would be curious to know if there is a JIT expert who could weigh in on this question.
As long as we appeal to likelihoods and fear: in 2020, Pit Bulls killed 33, police kill 938. I can understand why people would run from both.
Unfortunately, Zoom deliberately cripples their web app to the point of being unusable. If your employer uses Zoom, there's no way to avoid the native app.
Google 5a Phone (Jony Ive/Apple Parody)
From Google, No! Google does not share user data.

From "other data brokers" maybe
finally someone made this, wow very useful!
> Some US Navy ships have anti-ICBM capability, but that's only useful if a ship happens to be in the right position at the right time

A lot of the interest in surface ships shooting down ballistic missiles is because China and Russia have been developing hyper-sonic anti-ship missiles.
https://circaoldhouses.com/churches-lighthouses-quirky-conve...

Circa has a site for quirky conversion listings
That, or perhaps until there’s an internal regime change; but there are other geopolitical implications for a nuclear Iran. It would allow Iran to operate its proxies (in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Syria and Iraq) with even greater impunity. Beyond that, a publicly nuclear Iran would push the region to a nuclear arms race (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, maybe Turkey).
It's also not possible to "proof test" a building against earthquakes.
FTA:

> Thus, every program had to be learned individually and its complete user interface memorized. It was a sign of expertise to have learned the UIs of dozens of applications, since a novice user facing a new program would find their existing knowledge of a similar application absolutely no use whatsoever.

Hello, web, looking at you. Except that no UI is stable long enough that people ever bother mastering it.
It’s not merely politics or teams in-fighting. It’s straight up unprofessional, abusive, insulting behavior that goes unchallenged. It’s belittling, bullying, traumatic environments that everyone accepts as is or are completely oblivious to because of an organization-wide code of silence. Mentally damaging.
In my experience there's a form of stupidity that comes from simply being incurious. Whether someone is interested in exploring languages outside the present set of mainstream imperative languages seems to pretty good indicator of that intellectual curiosity.
Class 3 is the progressively lower class which is designed to get users to accept lesser functionality as more "modern" so therefore it must be "better" or something.
I actually agree with the term "Unaccountable". Sure, the banks have their boards and share holders, so do the tech companies.

The question is not whether they have internal accountability, but rather if they have public accountability to their declared statements, their stated mission and non-written guarantees given by officials to the public.

Many companies like these paint themselves as for-public, while I know and so do you, that is not true, but companies should be held accountable for the image they try to portray, they should be held accountable for public announcements no matter the personnel change.

So yes, the platforms and banks have unaccountable power, given by us the public, based on false promises and sales pitches. And we the public have the power to stops that, by making them accountable, but we are the ones who have to do that, by pointing the finger at the root decision makers in those monstrous structures of organizations.
Slightly concerning how far the overton window has shifted in the last few years...
As someone who grew up in the USSR at the very bottom, it was definitely not classless. It was the epitome of corruption - get into a position of power by any means possible, and start lootin'.

This sort of cynical approach to government and lack of dedication to public service is exactly what I see now taking root in the United States. Get to the feeding trough and grift your heart out. It's f--ing tragic.
It's lean manufacturing and just-in-time inventory. When you cancel orders or people can't work for days/weeks/months due to a pandemic, it creates a massive backlog. We've created incredibly fragile supply chain.
Housing is cheap in much of the country though, and really cheap in some areas. Also, there are warm states that are not CA that don't have the problem (relatively speaking), and there are far colder states like NY or WA that do (ditto for locations within states). Why don't NY homeless move to e.g. Detroit? Far cheaper housing, comparable climate.

The only people who wouldn't benefit from this under nationwide housing shortage theory are indeed those who cannot afford any housing at all because they eh, don't have their shit together on any level. But then, walkable housing nationwide is not going to fix that.
Scala experimented with type providers, but it looks abandoned: https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/typeproviders.h...

Idris has them (but it's Idris) https://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/guides/type-providers-...

This SO answer states that Java has something similar called "Type Manifold" https://stackoverflow.com/a/53037742

I only have F# experience so I can't comment about the ergonomics of the above. I love, love, love the JSON/Regex type providers. I'm trying to move away from SQL (to event sourcing) so haven't used that type provider yet.
That kind of thinking is exactly why Iran wants nuclear weapons so bad they're willing to sacrifice their economy for a chance at having them. Why would they want to rely on a structure of treaties and international laws for their own protection when the justification for violating those laws and treaties can be as simple as "it seemed like it was worth it?"
Apple is a privacy nightmare... a bit like google is evil.
Another point: bragging about how bitey your dachshund is, as though that vindicates your poorly behaved pitbull, really makes me think you shouldn't own dogs. Why didn't you train your dachshund well? I have met well behaved dachshunds, so what is your excuse? Do violent and poorly trained police justify your violent and poorly trained dogs? Is that what you're trying to say?
I disagree with selecting nuclear stewards. In as much as nuclear weapons are the ultimate deterrent to invasion and regime change, many countries will continue to pursue it and will support my political leaders on such a course myself. It’s either we all give it up or we all have it. Why are some countries better stewards ? Some USA’s elected leaders are close to crazy to us from outside. And they came close to a coup not long ago.
It’s almost the same for climate change. The developed countries knew of the impact of their emissions decades ago but continued to burn fossil fuel. The developing countries don’t have a choice; either burn fossils or they will forever be poor. The alternative are currently too expensive. It’s either nuclear power is democratized or people keep burning fossils.
"Micro computer". There's a phrase I haven't heard in a while. Back in the day it referred to computers the size of my desktop.
Go here. https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker
Search for his site: agario.tube (probably this)
It lists backlinks. Example backlink is from bostonchildrensmuseum.org

Go to google. Search "agario site:bostonchildrensmuseum.org"

Takes you here:
https://www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/exhibits-programs/exhi...

Look at the html source:
<marquee style="width: 0px; position: absolute"><a href="https://agarr.live/" title="agario">agario</a> - <a href="https://slither-2.io/" title="slitherio unblocked">slitherio unblocked</a> - <a href="https://diepio-2.com/" title="diep.io unblocked">diep.io unblocked</a> - <a href="https://agario.tube" title="agario unblocked">agario unblocked</a>
- <a href="https://yohoho-io.live/" title="yohoho unblocked">yohoho unblocked</a> - <a href="https://yohoho.gold/" title="yohoho">yohoho</a>
</marquee>

tldr: he is hacking sites or paying someone to hack sites. likely exploiting wordpress vulnerabilities to insert hidden backlinks into thousands of websites.
One company has piss poor security; but there have been hundreds of native apps doing teleconferencing before, which were native.

Nothing to do with native or not; and pushing everything to a web-browser makes a really complicated bit of software with weird quirks and potential hidden bugs. Yes it’s more tested, but when your code paths are literally infinite- “more eyes” isn’t going to help.
Another one of the four outlying launch sites is a tourist destination.[1]

[1] http://rsl3.com
It really helped me understand the relationship between sales, cash, and profit.

It also has a reasonably advanced stock marlet model that includes short selling and buying on margin.
.home.arpa
Arctic Adventure: A lost 1981 TRS-80 adventure game you can play in a browser
Theory of Multiple Intelligences
I did not say that Langdon did not have a school. The sentence you quote is about Nekoma, the town immediately beside the listed property, which at 50 people is clearly so small as to likely not have any formal school.

"School district" is also very different than "school". Being in a district means that you are in a district that has school not that that school is anywhere nearby. It may be a long bus ride every day. Being in a district only means you will not have to home school your kids. And Langdon has one highschool. Choices are therefore very limited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langdon,_North_Dakota
That's what you get when your social security and education policy is Hunger Games equivalent in the Middle East. Exporting democracy one bomb at a time.
> some of them weird Unicode characters, so not just ASCII

This makes me suspicious that it's the font cache causing the slowdown (assuming Windows), not long lines. I saw similar symptoms a couple years ago and fixed it with (setq inhibit-compacting-font-caches t).

You could also try increasing the garbage collection threshold on the theory that the lag is a gc pause. I've used:

(setq gc-cons-threshold (* 511 1024 1024))
(setq gc-cons-percentage 0.5)
(run-with-idle-timer 5 t #'garbage-collect)
Consumer SSDs don't have a a lot of overprovisioning. For example, a 1 TB SSD will never have more than 1 TiB of flash. Server SSDs are a different story.
Inductive Reasoning Aptitude
If you purchase consumer service and expect your 95th percentile usage level to be 100mbps, you’re going to discover the difference between consumer and business grades of service and be eternally disappointed.

If they say 100mbps, they should be able to peak a connection to that level when necessary. If you’re a residential user, ‘when necessary’ is about 1% of the month or less.

Yes, you, a capable HN community member, may have something running in your home datacenter that can continuously saturate 100mbps 24/7/365, but don’t hold your breath expecting that level of service from residential plans.

Residential users need stable bandwidth (for remote working) in 10mbit increments (4K video * number of concurrent streaming devices). If you have a family of 10, then you’ll be potentially needing continuous 100mbps service when everyone is streaming at once, and you’ll probably discover at that point that most cheap consumer routers aren’t going to do a very good job with that (especially on the wireless side). For anyone with less than 10 people in their home, it scales down rapidly to a fraction of 100mbps peak, with a much lower 95th percentile than a business would have.

In an ideal world bandwidth would be infinite and peak/constant capacity tradeoffs irrelevant. We definitely do not live in that world yet. Measuring this rural residential product against the standard of a business/commercial 95th percentile 100mbps 24/7/365 SLA guarantee is inappropriate. It should be compared to the products it’s competing with, not to the highest expectations possible.
I'm assuming that the copper EMP shielding tends to corrode without regular maintenance. The listing mentions there was very high humidity in there, I bet it did a number on the copper.
They have it backwards.

Most people are fuckwads that have to pretend they are human beings out in public due to culture.

Anonymity removes that pressure.
Thank you, this is awesome. This made me realize that I was really just interested in these types of homes, not just old gov't stuff.
I have a funny relationship with Common Lisp macros: I love the great book Let Over Lambdas, and also Paul Graham's coverage of this topic, yet, I hardly ever write macros myself.

For me, using different languages is a statement that I enjoy programming in different languages, and not a value judgement. There are so many great languages and I think some new languages like Swift and Rust are especially fun and useful.
It is incredible that all these tech companies colluded to ban Parler because Parler wouldn’t enact their desired level and flavor of censorship, and banned Trump on unsubstantiated accusations of inciting violence. It is even more incredible that they are totally okay with Facebook/Twitter remaining in the App Store even though the Capitol riot was mostly organized there, okay with BLM-affiliated groups or Antifa groups organizing on their platforms despite a year of demonstrated political violence, and okay with the Taliban spreading their terroristic propaganda on their platforms. Why is it surprising that they were also hosting ISIS? These companies and their employees only care about censoring their direct political adversaries, and all the euphemisms they use (like “moderation”) can’t hide their intentions, due to how inconsistently they apply even their own rules.

Tech companies have enough power to sway entire populations and influence elections. They are as powerful as many governments and must be reigned in. Other countries are recognizing this problem of big tech’s political power (see https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/11/germanys-merkel-hits-out-at-... or https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/20/biden-always-unf...), and America too must recognize it. We need updated anti trust laws and aggressive application of them, targeting companies that are too big and companies that benefit from network effects.
Sextoy.com was a 1-person company for many years. They probably broke ten million in annual revenues before hiring their first employee.

So was plentyoffish.
There are different types of problems to be solved.

There are "business as usual" problems, so gluing libraries, CRUD's. Where having junior level code is by far most efficient because you probably have to face multiple issues. Ones like employee rotation, lots of business requests where it is by far better to have code duplication and some tweaks in copy pasted code so it stays simple and don't introduce wrong abstractions. Even generic types as in C# I would consider mostly bad idea to use for those.

Other type would be libraries or frameworks where you definitely cannot afford "copy/paste/change". I would hope that people working on libraries or frameworks stick to what they write for at least 5 years and hope they could be life long supporters. For those people and types of projects you want some smart features like generic types so that they can simply do their job. I cannot think of a framework that would not use quite complex ideas to achieve what it should be.

Of course there are many more like hardware programming, operating systems and the ones that PG pointed as 0.5% of developers work like really hard/weird problems one cannot solve by simply making CRUD.

I have pointed only at things that are in my line of work. Unfortunately there is a lot of people who should be delivering things as in CRUD/glue/junior so the first category. Where what THEY think they should be doing is some kind of framework/libraries work. Because they think that it will make business "future proof" and "that is what professional developers should do", while wasting resources.

Of course doing CRUD/glue in an easy way that can be understood by juniors and fast is important and highly valuable in itself. But I think a lot of people don't understand value of it.
I'm now expecting someone to claim they accidentally left the Chinese tools on for their EU accounts and only noticed when those with an interest in "squares" got hit with higher loan rates.
Hm, interesting - I hadn’t ever seen that on here, although zoning laws is the only explanation I can think of. Why do you think housing costs are so high? It can’t be a conspiracy - or if so, who are the conspirators?
International law is a nice idea, but it only applies to countries that agree it applies to them. The only thing I want Iran to rely on is the certain knowledge that they will be prevented, by literally any means necessary, from developing nuclear weapons.

EDIT: I guess there are those who disapprove of Stuxnet because it probably violated some laws. I think it was awesome.
Not a mathematician by any stretch. Heck, I am not good at even high school math. But there was a time, and I had too much free time, I explored Riemann zeta function a lot. Didn't understand much but I enjoyed it.

I again want to explore this from scratch but I am too old and busy to get lost in this never-ending and mind-bending rabbit hole.