skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who likes 4WDing we appreciate people buying these. A ~10 year old nicely devalued and non-abused SUV is a perfect car for those that want to actually 4WD.

Taking a new and expensive 4WD down a narrow track with branches scraping stripes down the side would be too stressful for most.
When a process dies, OS automatically frees all resources held by the process. You can view it as a form of GC.
Your link claiming China is threatening a nuclear attack on Japan doesn't even mention nuclear weapons, directly or indirectly.

China has a "no first use" policy on it's nuclear weapons, and therefore has publicly committed not to use nuclear weapons against any non-nuclear state like Japan. (The US, in contrast, has a policy of allowing first-use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.) For details on China's policy, you can see e.g.: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25751654.2018.1...
Oh, really? You didn't know how people used Flickr to store terabytes of data in "images"?
I'd argue that the Switch doesn't actually use USB-C, but rather a connector that just happens to be shaped like USB-C, since it violates the USB-IF's standards for USB-C like crazy, and if it conformed to those standards, then it wouldn't have had any user experience problems.
I am pretty sure he does not find a virtual light/view/desk equivalent to the real deal.
The Prius had regenerative braking too, but, like Tesla, only on one axle (or two in the case of Tesla AWD vehicles).
I assume you're describing a degenerate case where a tree structure is unbalanced. When operating at that scale, the overhead from all the function calls alone is going to be significant. It's likely going to be maddeningly slower than an iterative solution, like getting an answer in minutes vs. seconds.

If it's a balanced tree, then consuming 9GB of stack to do a search would imply that the data structure is what, on the order of 2^1000000 in size? Yikes :-)
A developer is analogous to publisher because of the deep publisher/consumer dichotomy. Complexity favors scale, scale requires capital; similarly, complexity favors specialized skills (e.g. developers), which require capital.

Of course, publishers are not actually the same as developers. Few Facebook engineers consider themselves publishers. Heck, Facebook doesn't consider itself a publisher--in the contemporary context a publisher would be a media platform (or "technology" platform). But it's publishers who pay developers, and it's often developers who seek to find themselves in the role of publisher, building their walled gardens, through their startups. Similarly, both publisher and developer are active roles, whereas user and consumer are passive--they exist as largely distinct roles with one primarily existing to enrich the other in exchange for entertainment.

The original promise was in many ways overly simplistic. For one thing, scientists (e.g. CERN scientists) were much better positioned to acquire and utilize certain technical skills as an ancillary part of their job. But the ultimate belief was that by eliding the distinction between publisher and consumer, the erstwhile consumers would be empowered and the erstwhile publishers disempowered. The concern was, as it remains today, about relative control over both the media and the message.

It many important ways it's still relatively simple as an absolute matter to throw up a simple HTML site. But the opportunity costs are different, and so we self-sort ourselves into traditional roles. In that way the original promise was even more naive in believing that roles wouldn't bifurcate in a manner similar to how they historically had been.

Also, suffice it to say that there are still huge markets where developers work building systems not directly related to publishing. But it's the publishers and their ecosystems that are driving most modern software systems, and they drive those systems in directions that are rarely well suited for the needs of everybody else. Rather, those systems are optimized for a network where media platforms push out highly sophisticated content and users are still largely passive consumers notwithstanding the interactive, social aspect.
Anyone in this world has to be able to take a small amount of abuse to survive. I am not trying to eliminate abuse, I am trying to take away the positive feedback loop that amplifies injustice.

It is like emails. People can spam you. But if they know nothing about you, and the spam would never get acknowledged, and each SPAM incur some small delay and inconvenience to them, and they can never reap any gain, eventually they will stop.
Sorry to hear that. Out of curiosity, could you clarify what 'thought that' was, or what contributed to stress? Job hopping or staying?
Proper webapps give notifications.
>> nationalize and seize energy corporations and whip them into shape under planned economic management.

Can you imagine not being able to heat your apartment/home, or your stores being empty because there's no fuel for trucks? Unless you can really picture that and still tell yourself "yup, I really do want that," you shouldn't be excited/confident about what you're proposing.

I suspect you can't really imagine what it's like to lack fuel that powers your necessities, but I grew up in the USSR in 1980s and I can tell you it's not good.
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> you did not explain how the time to obtain visa matters so I don't know what to say

If I hire someone I'd like them to start working sooner rather than later. I don't understand why that needs to be explained.

> it takes about a year to get a EBGC even through AOS,

If you aren't born in India or China. That rules out a good 1/3rd of the world's population. And even a year is a really long time to wait for a new hire to start.

Fair point about the H-1B lottery. A smart company would do both simultaneously for a non-India/China born employee - EB GC and H-1B (in case the GC is delayed for some reason) - they're hiring from abroad.

> Then they should not lie on their application, because they literally affirm that it's immensely useful for them to get an immigration visa for the foreign worker they petitioned for.

Where's the lie? An Indian or Chinese-born worker sponsored for an EB green card today isn't going to get it for years. If they don't have a GC or work visa, they can't work for you.
Dont know what you call need but lots of ppl hunt with semi autos these days. Even if its squirrel youll find them with a mini 14 not a bolt or lever action. Possible exception is kiddie 22 rifles for 8-12 year olds. Bolt, lever, etc to be in the rly pricey hunting rifles like creedmoor.

Also i never met somebody who go hunting with an assault rifle. Good few use ARs though cause theyre super common. Theres a dozen cartridges "better" for hunting but that means a new pricey rifle and pricier ammo. .30-30 will run you a buck a round, .223 like 30 cents. And 3030 is not by a long shot the priciest hunting round.
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People to believe in it/care.
Well-wishes to you and your family.
You don't need to be popular or flattered. If you are linked from anywhere and in search engines, they will find you. And they will reply to every node they can. And they'll create new user accounts to submit more.

I've gradually built my setup to filter based on words, URL fragments, block IPs, honeypots, shadowbanning, etc and they still get through. Take away all content moderation and I would be overrun to the point that my site was useless to my users. Those sort of methods are the easy bits too; dealing with greyarea trolls is the worst.

Good luck. You'll find out.
> Talking to people is a very skewed sample, because anyone you personally talk to from country X is unlikely to be representative of the general population country X.

The argument you present does not match reality. Having traveled to about twenty countries and lived in two continents I can tell you, with nearly 100% certainly that the vast majority of people are fiscally conservative. There are degrees when it comes to social issues, some having to do with the differences in cultures around the world.

If I can claim the hypothesis, I’ll say that fiscal conservatism and social liberalism (or tolerance) are a necessary average normal from an evolutionary perspective.
So, that's correct, but it just means everyone's correct. The original commenter said "like Tesla does" implying that significant number of Teslas have this, or it's their standard, which isn't true. It also makes one think of a touchscreen control rather than a capacitive button on the steering wheel.

Don't get me wrong, it's a stupid design. I have a Model 3, and really wish I had a front instrument cluster, too. But the whole thread seems to be half-truths from various camps trying to mislead each other.
How is Rivian an California startup? The founder is from Michigan. Rivian is headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan outside Detroit. The truck is being built in an old Mitsubishi plant in Normal, Illinois. It's a Delaware corporation. Is it because the original funding came from California?
Those metrics mean nothing about how good each company is at FSD.

By your logic, Toyota beats them both because it has more vehicles on the road with automatic lane assist.

In reality, there are fewer Waymos because they are only an FSD company and because they seem to care about not killing people.
Fukushima failed because power failed, failing the coolant systems. That was an active system and not a passive. Look at MSR test that were done at the Idaho National Research Laboratory. The heat transference of using molten salt shutdown the react even in the absence of power. This is a passive system.
Look at what's happened to Oculus after Facebook bought them.

Optimism is not warranted when dealing with Amazon or Facebook. You are a black box to be experimented on to find out how to extract the largest amount of money from your wallet.

Apple and Microsoft are the only big tech companies with any credibility (very little, but it's >0) in privacy, but look at the photo scanning issue recently. So I'm honestly baffled you can be optimistic about an Alexa on wheels.
It's not just manliness. It's everyone. Ford hasn't made a car in two years. Total insanity.
This is America. Sure you have benefits, you think, if you have a job, but a huge number of the outcomes where you need those benefits result in you losing your job and no longer having them. And if you get too expensive and start showing up on the company's benefits cost, they are strongly incented to find alternative means for removing you from the payroll.

Really, work-provided benefits mainly serve the purpose of preventing people from voting for universal benefits. Of course the percentage of people dealing with the cases where you really need (and they don't want to pay) those benefits is very small, so the number of people that fully understand the situation is very small.

Benefits exist for the benefit of the company: to retain people, keep them bound/disincent them leaving, and to appear "competitive" with other companies. Whether they ACTUALLY will hold up is a gamble, and often up to munificience of your "benefactor".

To emphasize, when you MOST need benefits, you are LEAST valuable to the company providing those benefits.
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> The Biden administration has proposed to deny Tesla consumer tax credits for buying an electric car because they're not unionized.

What possible justification is there for that move? That's just using the power of tax system to reward the administration's political supporters. That's likely to not survive a legal challenge.

(Nor should it survive. If I bought an electric vehicle made by non-union labor, I bought an electric vehicle - and I am entitled to the credit for doing so, even if it was made by fairies who work for free.)
I've been using 1Password for over 10 years and I had no idea that "op" existed until right now.

(( hangs head in shame ))
I hate the half assed ones that are just a QR code link to a menu jpg/pdf, but quite a few of the asian restaurants here link directly to an online order form for dine in that lets everyone at the table order what they want from their own phone, pictures for every item - you don't pay from the phone, you just order from the phone and enter any special instructions etc. The page when scanned already comes up with "Table: 30B-1" or something similar.

I like the latter. I hate the former. Most US restaurants do the former.
Interesting! Virgil looks really cool! I've been looking for something like it since about the time you started working on it, and I'm glad I've finally found it.

For others reading this thread, to clarify the "no builtin functions" claim, although Virgil doesn't have any builtin values which refer to methods, it does have some built-in operations: ==, !=, +, -, *, /, %, <<, >>, >>>, &, |, and ^, as well as data structuring facilities like arrays and tuples and operations to access them.
> One Ohio class sub could legitimately end the world.

Not even close. It carries about 200 low yield warheads. Not even enough for 1 each for 1/3rd of the cities in China if you could spread them out that far. There have been over 500 atmospheric tests, many with vastly higher yield and fallout, the biggest tests had yields equivalent to all 200 warheads combined.

One could strike a huge blow to China's capability to carry on war by destroying many of its large ports.
Thank you! As a boy you inspired me and set me on a great career.
are easterners doing something different?
I have been a premium member for a while and it has helped me so so much. Thank you! However I don't see the new guide feature. Is it yet to launch?
Probably a fake leak. Imagine seeing something like that and taking seven seconds of footage.
it's an incomplete graph problem, no all the edges (and vertices) are available, i guess the best way to describe it is finding missing edges by identifying network "hubs" i.e. most influential nodes (as in PageRank or Katz Centrality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katz_centrality ). The original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07181v2

It's not a database problem but more of a graph search algorithm optimized for particular network topology.
>Finally I realized I was standing when we were testing things.

What clued you in to this possibility?
This is impressive, but I was really hoping for a browser plugin which could do this automatically for me. Identify entity names, and replace the element with an annotation of controlling interests and associations.
They've earned that as default position. They need to work hard for me to view anything they make in a neutral light.

That said is this piece garbage without substance. Yup, but no more than an overly optimistic piece without substance about other tech stuff.
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Isn't there a lot that can be done beyond VPN, to protect VPN?

- Pre-filtering per Geo IP

- 2FA

- VLAN separation, different users and different subnets, once connected

I am using both IPSEC and OpenVPN - they have different application/purpose and I need both.
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My point is that evaluating the relative effectiveness of regenerative braking in off-road contexts requires data and analysis which would not be present in a test drive context. Speculating about the effectiveness or parroting Rivian marketing materials would not require any data or analysis.
Great write up! Curious if you/Mux have ever considered offering content moderation alongside content hosting? Seems like most platforms do one or the other, but I imagine you could charge quite a premium if you offered both in tandem.
It's 3 feet / 1 meter
I totally agree with you. In fact Michigan is now a right to work state. The UAW is losing members and has had some recent high profile cases where leaders stole from their members. But recently they've been bragging that they're gaining members since January.

The Big 3 have to complete against Tesla as well as Japanese and Korean auto makers whose plants are not unionized.
R1T: "Water fording depth is more than three feet—42 inches"

Ford F-150 Raptor: "Do not exceed a maximum depth of 32 in. (810 mm) and no greater than 4 mph (7km/h) to avoid potential vehicle damage."

[1] https://www.adventure-journal.com/2021/09/drive-test-rivian-...

[2] https://www.fordservicecontent.com/Ford_Content/Catalog/owne...
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Dr Dobb's was good too. It never had the magic for me that Byte did, but I remember it being interesting.
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I'm looking for a headless CMS (preferably golang/js based) that's lightweight and secure.

Been working with Ghost for some time but I'm still looking for better options in terms of security and lightweightness.
I've resolved several "celestial body" problems with routers and modems in East/West Africa over the years by pointing USB fans at them – between the sun and the workday generating heat with higher load in lower-end routers or insufficiently-air-conditioned units, can work surprisingly well to improve the network at almost no cost.
Gas prices could go up higher too.
I did say annoying, not impossible. For me it was no car, not the master tenant, no Residency Affidavit in my state, and I don't own a printer. So, an annoying afternoon to pull up my W2 and a paystub and send them to a Kinkos, as opposed to just one afternoon wasted at the DMV.
If I ever see a modern full-size single-cab pickup, I take a picture of it to show my friends. It's that rare.
Ford said that they stop producing cars for US market some time ago meaning that they’ll produce SUVs and trucks only.

As a family person that runs to fruit market every several weeks and brings back a boot load of fruits in boxes it is hard to understand how a sedan can suffice.

Having said that huge SUVs are overkill too, something like Subaru Forester/Outback or RAV-4 seems to be the sweet spot for people with less than 3 children. With 3 children you start looking at something with 3rd row of seats.
That is a relatively big if. It is possible that R&D and the cost of the hardware needed for autonomous driving amortize to a bigger value than just paying some person minimum wage to drive the truck.
Pine Martens are beautiful. I've seen them several times in the US. Squirrels are terrified of them--they are apparently very efficient hunters.
Tax isn't a remedy to everything I guess
PCR cycle threshold was reduced in January, so if anything we should be getting a lot fewer false positives now (and a lot more false negatives), even though testing throughput is 1.5x of what it was in Sep 2020. But again, half the people had the disease, and well over a half had the vaccine. We should not be seeing what we're seeing. Remember - 4 times as many people aren't even on the radar, they have mild cases and never go to the hospital.

We should be asking questions as to whether multi-trillion dollar bullshit we've been doing to "stop covid" (which can't be stopped) is effective or not, yet there's a very notable lack of journalistic inquisitiveness in that regard. It's becoming a religion, basically, where if you challenge the dogma you're branded an apostate and excommunicated instead of anyone trying to persuade you with facts.

FWIW, not a single soul is even asking the obvious question: what scientific justification is there to require vaccination for people with _confirmed_ previous covid infection? Science says they already enjoy immunity superior to any vaccine available on the market. And yet they are considered "unvaccinated", and could lose their livelihood if they live in blue states or work for (or even _with_) the federal government. Especially the medical frontline workers that just last year were "heroes" and had covid in droves: a lot of them have lost their jobs yesterday in NY.

If this was about science, it'd focus on vulnerable populations. During the entire duration of this pandemic, only a little over 400 children have died with covid, and less than 1400 people in the 15-24 age range. Yet where is the public discourse focused now? On vaccinating the children and the young adults. Why? I have a thousand such "why"s and the whole situation, to me at least, stinks of corruption, ineptitude, and science denialism, because nobody has a coherent answer, even the people who should know better. And the less educated folks, while they might not understand the subtleties of this debate, can smell the bullshit too.
This is a well-known phenomenon known as the bullwhip effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect).
Imagine what kind of a gross person put those docs together. Vile.
Right because, how would that work otherwise?

Unless those providers natively supported this functionality (and they're incentivized to not) you'd _need_ an intermediary.
Three meltdowns, up to 1 death total from radiation (acutely and estimated long-term). That's a huge improvement over Chernobyl, which killed ~60 acutely and up to 4000 long term from early cancer deaths.
In rust, unsafe operations can be marked such to silence the compiler when you know better; one could imagine something similar for a stack depth analyzer in zig. Or, for example, zig could use a finite stack depth when it can prove that's feasible, and emit code that will spill to the heap for cases it can't.
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This seems to suggest the only thing that should matter to the website owner is the manner of retrieving data, not the data being retrieved. If it is public data, that makes sense.

I like to use sitemaps to download websites. I only use a single TCP connection and HTTP/1.1 pipelining. This can of take several successive requests depending on the number of URLs and the website's request limit per connection. For example, Akin Gump's sitemap has 9174 URLs and allows at least 2000 requests per connection. OTOH, I have downloaded sites with more URLs than that in a single connection. Pipelining is slower than parallel connections, more akin to downloading a large file. Some websites are faster than others.

According to the original RFCs, this is the proper netiquette. Even though the practice is of using parallel connections is widespread, I have never been able to find an RFC that advocated that. Popular browsers today open dozens of connections. All in the name of advertising.

I take the absence of a sitemap as an indication the website owner may have issues with automated data retrieval. For example, LinkedIn has no sitemap. However, most websites I encounter have sitemaps. Downloading websites without using parallel connections is not difficult. I do not need special software, only a small binary written in C to generate HTTP and a netcat. (Neither curl nor wget nor similar clients can do HTTP/1.1 pipelining.) I do not use a user-agent header. I have a filter I wrote for chunk transfer doecoding from stdin.
The EBR-II tests you're referring to were liquid metal sodium, not molten salt. Molten salt is much different (though it also can be used in reactors and may be able to demonstrate passive safety as well)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Breeder_Reactor_I...

[2] https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-11-23-sodium-vs-salt.htm...