skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it should attempt to make the crash as close as possible to the nearest crash test protocol

You jest but this is what humans and animals do instinctively. When you fall, you try to fall in a way that minimizes damage.

For example, if you trip over something and your hands are occupied so you can't use them to catch yourself, you will instinctively try to roll onto your shoulder instead of faceplanting into the ground.

You see this in freestyle motorcycle and mountain bike riding, and skateboarding etc as well. If you see you aren't going to land the trick, you try to throw the bike or skateboard away from you and land feet first down the ramp. Plenty of videos of pros doing this on youtube.
That's probably because paths aren't properties of the file itself, they're helpers to reference the file.
I've heard that there was some sort of a standard being developed on the EU level, but it basically drowns in bureaucracy, and the API calls are effectively free-for-all key-value objects where everyone can implement them as they see fit.
It looks like to the south of the building is the river. They probably optimized that side for residential units to increase profits.

That being said, they could always use massive lights to keep the trees alive...
disk = an obsolete long-term storage medium, in case anyone was wondering
If you have a username with your full name (plus point if you have special characters in your name), you will get the whole deal with shitty programs. I’m not sure if it’s me, but there were cases I simply could not use a program installed in such a location, to the point where at my previous (admittedly shitty) workplace, we often installed software in a root location…
yes, internalize externalities first, starting with the most dangerous and egregious. most other ‘solutions’ are apologist distractions from this primary mitigation.
That's the beauty of capitalism: no one is at fault! no one can be sued! Its the system's fault and there's nothing we can do; VOTE!
It's more like installing a catalytic converter on your car. Or adding a muffler.

The article says the factory does not have an ethylene oxide scrubber installed.
Without getting too off-topic, I’d argue that the GOP has always been more flexible towards embracing ideological extremism than the Democratic Party has, and this trend has existed since Barry Goldwater at least.

But back to SA culture and its innumerable offshoots and bastards: even if Chapo has comparatively less actual political influence than say Q did (someone posting on a 4chan offshoot), the dirtbag left subculture the podcast spawned is still of internet historical value, in the same way Anonynous (a 4chan hacker collective) is historically significant despite Anon having been dismantled by the security state since the mid-2010s.

Oh, and on that note- perhaps that means 4chan had some influence on the Occupy movement, not as a prime mover but certainly one of the groups participating in it. And while Occupy is long gone, it had its important moment, once.

On the flipside, later on 4chan was one of the major staging grounds for Gamergate.

At some point 4chan’s actions are its members’ own with no connection to SA, but without SA, there would be no 4chan, and the people who acted within it would’ve been redistributed elsewhere.

The hand of Lowtax moves through history like a dumb idiot god, but it does move.
> Instead of thinking bigger, raising money (it would have been so easy, Rich, instead of doing proud conference talk after talk why didn't you talk to a VC??)

In no world would taking VC funding have been easier. They’d want cash returns and hockey stick growth, and soon. So instead of focusing on making the framework as good as it could be, Rich’s attention would be diverted.

When SvelteKit becomes a framework impossible to run on anything that isn’t a Vercel platform, then maybe I’ll be outraged. Until then, subjecting an incredibly talented developer to the day-to-day whims of VCs seems like just about the worst outcome for everyone.

I don’t normally mean to sound uncharitable but your original comment is pretty uncharitable to Rich, so: if you want a stable platform that will live for many years to come, the absolute last thing you want is for it to take VC investment. That you don’t see this speaks volumes to your understanding of how any of this works.
What CX Looks Like in the Metaverse
Every year EU is becoming less and less livable for a middle class engineer.

The writing has been on the wall for some time already but it is time to consider other options.
I could see modern historical reenactments (such as Civil War battles) moving online, with younger, more MMO-steeped players willing to roleplay as Private #12 who dies during the initial volley.
I'm sure he'll see this soon, so congrats Rich! Svelte has been a cool project since the beginning, and I'm excited to see Rich have more time to work on this. As an early contributor I've seen Svelte go through a lot of maturing and it's exciting to see it finally getting the recognition it deserves lately.
Oops, nice catch. Fixed.
I use the touch bar to pick colors for my terminal window. I miss that when touchie is not around.
Cries in nixpkgs

(Anyone who tried to package a program that hardcodes the “usual” binary paths know the pain)
Why is this 'awesome news' for us devs, the market and competition if one vendor now controls all modern SSR frameworks plus significant parts of the tool chain (swc)?
I might be misunderstanding. On all layouts I'm familiar with the underscore key is directly next to one of the shift keys, or left of backspace. Neither layout requires the Vulcan death grip. Shift should always be under your pinky fingers to avoid contortions.
You mean until the pandemic is done?
Could you explain how this news relates to your point? I'm curious.
The greatest lie sold to Americans (as a US citizen) is that we all can be someone. Not only is this not true, but disingenuous to tell lower class people "you can be someone! you have the same opportunities as everyone else!" I'm not saying the opportunity doesn't exist everywhere, but it definitely is glamorized by the media as though it's a very tangible path. It's survivorship bias at the very least.

If you're born of the working class, chances are you will stay there unless you can figure out a way via labor or relationships to get out. More often than not, people don't/can't.
storage medium = what people used before we all ascended to the cloud, in case anyone was wondering
Yeah, I tried to get on this wave of (no|low)-code to enable non-devs to prototype their ideas. Turns out they run into "counter-intuitive" things when modeling your data and ones mental models have to be redeveloped.. and the query languages (like bubble) get pretty abstract fast. Future AI driven prototyping may be interesting. For now lets get back to "medium-code": rails, django, airtable/baserow, canonic, firebase, etc.
I didn't know that.

I actually saw a demo of Unreal in 1997 at Activision. We were thinking about using it for an upcoming game. Even then it seemed like a revolutionary engine. It's funny in retrospect because as I recall the big issue was we didn't trust them to finish because their previous game was like "Jazz Jackrabbit" or something like that.
Ever tried Kontact?

I'm using it as daily driver and wouldn't switch to webmail nor Thunderbird or Evolution.
Thats a cool take!

I'm currently reading 'Remember' by Lisa Genova[0]. She points out that we have 'Temporal' memory for events in our lives, 'Semantic' memory for facts and figures (divorced from when we learned them), and 'muscle' memory for things we do with out body. So yeah, 3 types ;-)

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/54895704-remember
Thanks for the article. I didn’t know the French had a term for it. Did he come from an impoverished background? The raw ingenuity and creativity from locally sourced or owned parts for free material is most commonly found in weed smokers making smoking tools, but I love and use what your roommate did all the time.

I’m pretty biased against the raspberry pi and nearly every project I saw was achievable with old computers that would be free, but there’s not much glory in talking about using a netbook for ad blocking or a server over a shiny SBC that’s a real computer (like the real ones you probably already own, have better specs, negligibly more power usage, and are collecting dust).

My grandfather would collect garbage for building material and build things with it like a bench, a raised platform in the basement because it flooded, and old fan motors to make kitchen ventilation. He loved watching this old house.
Really the entire personal computer industry's early success was due to VisiCalc, followed by Lotus 1-2-3. Likewise for WordStar, then WordPerfect. It was the first thing I ever heard referred to in the press as a "killer app", which I think of every time someone here makes the claim that nobody called applications "apps" before the iOS App Store.
You definitely can't get tension from books that are simply pressed together. I think more likely the books are glued together, and possibly reinforced with a cable or rod threaded through the center.
In other words the Nazis had bad intentions but the Russians meant well...

I see echoes of this kind of thinking everywhere in the present.
Querying AWS at scale across APIs, regions, and accounts
As a heavy contributor to SvelteKit, I can't see a loss in neutrality happening. I personally use other hosting platforms frequently with SvelteKit, both Rich and Vercel have expressed they want to avoid this outcome, and other SvelteKit maintainers work full-time at Vercel competitors and also wouldn't let that happen ;-)
that doesnt seem like a problem with monorepos (or otherwise).

youd just need to tag your releases, right?
That's the most beautiful part! After running this script there are no more conflicts, because it just silently overwrites all but one version of the "cleaned" filename.

(Also—that entire function is super inefficient and could be replaced with a single invocation of "rename".)
Depends - on YouTube, there's definitely a lot of channels that encourage engineering and science of some kind, though not always in a safe way. We had Shitty Robots into just general engineering with Simone Giertz, William Osman and Michael Reeves with their dumb robots.

I would definitely include some of Simone's builds in the super serious club especially now, but Mark Rober and Build Stuff Better definitely have a more engineering focus to their videos.
OT: I had a research project many years ago (it feels strange that I can now call it "many") that was to translate a program into C. The original program was written in "FORCE", which was a macro language extension on top of Fortran that we no longer had a compiler for. It was absolutely fascinating.
The article should have mentioned some of the mega-projects that are already underway, which will improve rail links between European countries.

The Stuttgart 21 project will reconfigure the Stuttgart central station to create a direct line between Paris and Vienna.

Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link will build a new undersea rail tunnel between Denmark and Germany, allowing Sweden to operate night trains to Brussels.

In Switzerland, several new tunnels under the alps beginning operation this year will cut travel time to Italy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_21

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarn_Belt_Fixed_Link

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceneri_Base_Tunnel
Who said at a whim?
We need everyone to be vaccinated. I don't see anything different between requiring vaccination and requiring boosters
Sure, people with $100M+ want more. If they didn't, there's plenty of off ramps before $100M for the people who are willing to be satisfied.

There's really not that much added utility going from say $10M to $100M. And if you didn't see that and stop accumulating, you're more worried about having more than others than having enough. Or you really want to win the America's cup or own a private jet rather than slumming it on charters.
Backblaze Is Now a Public Company
Some cars actually do change their geometry prior to a crash! Things like raise the suspension on the side about to be impacted so the car is higher!
Property rights. If the adjacent property is unsafe due to your actions, you should pay to fix the problem.
Estimating Coinbase's (Nasdaq:Coin) Intrinsic Value After Q3 Results
I love the paper edition, can't get on with the digital edition. I seem to miss the best articles online.
> that we can just dial it up and charge 10x for it?

Maybe you don't get 10x but like cars we can use more expensive materials, more expensive parts (cameras, cpu cores, screen quality).

Materials:

Apple's base model apple watch is aluminum, while the higher tier is stainless steel. They also lock the neutral colors behind the higher price (which i think is annoying because color is not price dependent to make).

Performance:
Think about Apple's $5k monitor - the "Pro display XDR" from a few years ago. Today, apple sells the $1k iPad pro with a "XDR display" based on the same tech. They figured out how to build it, then later figured out how to scale down the price and scale up the process.
Disproportionate $ go to the top because everybody want the hottest girl. Digital media mean that everybody can get her stuff the same, basically as many as will pay. It aint like a strip club where maybe the hottest girl is already giving somebody else a lapdance so you take the next one down.
The engineers have a responsibility to manage toxic byproducts their processes give off.
wondering = what we used to do before the internet, if anyone was curious
Ben, please don't surprise us and tell that you are the next one on Vercel's payroll.
Probably lots of glue and maybe resin, though it doesn’t look like it’s coated in resin… maybe some screws/nails that are artfully places. It doesn’t look free/standing to me though.
No, but they did set out to create processes that fit into an economic envelope with forces (unchecked externalities) that encourage pollution. The engineers aren't evil people, but the incentive system that they participate in allows them to be more myopic than it ought to.
With the release of this 768MB L3 cache, we're __already__ at 1.5GB L3 cache if you go dual-socket.

> What I want to see is a new and innovative way to cool these potential 400 - 700W monster tightly packed in a server.

I mean, air-conditioning, fans, and water cooling are pretty much the only options. And they all work.

These are only 250W CPUs, so dual-socket into 500W or maybe 750W with the motherboard/RAM/SSDs in there. GPUs are harder to cool, as those are 500W behemoths by themselves, and GPU-servers run 8x GPUs (contrasted against your typical 2x CPU dual-socket setups).
The boarding and departure adds a fair chunk of time to that too.

Trains are a lot more convenient in that regard.
Domain driven no-code platforms
I like Apple Mail way more than webmail clients. Thunderbird is okay, but I'd still choose it over a 20MB webjank.
I've been using mine (min-spec 1135 DIY) for ~4 days on Sway+Manjaro; the hardware feels really good and for all the considerations made towards repairability, it feels like a no-compromises premium piece of hardware. It was nice to be able to take hardware that I have laying around (i.e. SSD and RAM) and put it to use.

The biggest disappointment so far is directly related to the processor offering:

- It feels like it warms up pretty quickly doing small things and starts spinning up the fan

- s2 ("deep") sleep works out-of-the-box but drains battery way faster than I'd like

Some of this kind of stuff may be related to the modularity of the laptop (e.g. bigger power draw of the less power-efficient non-soldered components), but I think a lot of the blame lies with Intel's offerings & hopefully things take a turn in this space for the better. I'd love to see e.g. an M1-style ARM offering from someone that runs linux and is offered in a package like Framework's.

The trackpad is probably pretty good for a 'windows laptop', but just doesn't feel as good as the one on even my 2015 Macbook (and I don't think it fundamentally can be as good with a physical 'pivot-based' click approach compared to the simulated haptic approach on the Mac). It really does feel like a compromise on usability when you see how good the basics can be on e.g. the new Macs. I don't think it's Framework's fault and the ecosystem here just needs to improve.

Based on what I've seen so far, I think this really is a game-changer for people who want a first-class linux-compatible laptop with less compromises (both 'ethically' and from a hardware perspective), and I'm really looking forward to how Framework continues to improve the offering and innovate in this space.

I'm giving it a try as a daily driver for a few weeks. I need a linux laptop for some of my hobbies and the Framework still feels like the best choice for me (including some of the Thinkpads I was looking at... hard pass on the 16:9 offerings, the 3:2 on the Framework is really nice), but I think it'll be hard to swap off of the Mac for the day-to-day usability "basics".
Im in the same boat. Love the product but the battery in sleep mode is pretty bad :(
For my use, alpha is what I tend to miss in PPM. There's the PAM extension [0] but it's not nearly as widely supported as basic PPM. Usually at that point, I reach for PNG via stb_image_write [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm#PAM_graphics_format

[1] https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_image_write....
True, true. (Although I'm not sure if Excel and Word are ripoffs except to the degree that word processors and spreadsheets already existed.)
In New Zealand the law and insurance requires that only registered electricians can work on household wiring, with paperwork per house to confirm. Surprisingly enough most people are unwilling to do something illegal, that will also void their house insurance.

Perhaps the laws and insurance rules are less strict where you are?

I also think that very few people feel comfortable working on household wiring, and very few people are comfortable with fixing plumbed in appliances.

I will add that the law is good, because houses get sold, and wiring is invisible, and no future owner wants to find out their wiring is bodged up by some clueless software engineer.

There is some truely terrifyingly dangerous wiring done by amateurs.
I physically click the corner of the touchpad (or 2 finger click).
I disagree. Youtube is about to face huge regulatory pressure along with Facebook. They need to get ahead of it if they want to come out unscathed. Sure, you can say that no one "has to" do anything, but this was absolutely something that will help them avoid regulation, which seems close enough to "has to" for me.
It's happening in the UC system too, I feel...though I don't have data.

Edit: https://capitolweekly.net/tuition-uc-administrators-tripled-...
Well, Stuttgart 21 is not exactly a project you want to dig up when you want to advertise train travel. The reason of course is that most people at least in Germany associate it with the highly controversial rebuilding of Stuttgart main station [0], although the rest of the project is pretty reasonable.

What is also missing from your list is the fact that the main feeder line for the Gotthard base tunnel, and one of the most important railway lines in Europe, the Rhine valley railway [1], is extremely overloaded with over 300 trains per day, and the ongoing extension, which was planned in the 70ies and 80ies and for which construction work started in 1987 will not be finished before 2041 (!) [2]. It was originally planned to be finished in 2002. In 2016, the line was capped for days because the rail company (DB) chopped down some trees which were specifically planted in the 19th century to stabilize the ground (which DB was unaware of), resulting in a massive landslide [3]. In 2017, it was capped again for 2 months because of a collapse of a tunnel under construction by DB and crossing the existing line underground [4, 5]. In 2020, it was capped again because a bridge which DB planned to replace with a longer one crashed onto the rails and into a train, killing the driver [6] and nearly missing a high speed ICE train.

If the embarrasing engineering failures continue at this rate, I doubt they will finish the extension in the 21rst century.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_Hauptbahnhof

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannheim%E2%80%93Karlsruhe%E2%...

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ausbau-_und_Neubaustrecke_Karl...

[3] https://ais.badische-zeitung.de/piece/07/36/42/b1/120996529-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastatt_Tunnel#August_2017_col...

[5] https://bilder3.n-tv.de/img/incoming/origs19996186/831279596...

[6] https://www.schwaebische.de/cms_media/module_img/12646/63233...
If your car is damaging property that’s not yours, then absolutely!
On the bright side, that means that even cooler second or third gen Frameworks will be available when you do end up upgrading!
Yeah but if you want to fly under the radar...
There's work, and then there's work.

A polio vaccine means that I won't get polio. A rubella vaccine means I won't get rubella. A Covid vaccine means that I'm only 10-40% as likely to get Covid. (Chime in with more accurate numbers if you have them.) And it means that I'm less likely to get a severe case.

That's not nothing. It's significant, both to me as an individual, and for society-wide epidemiological reasons. But it's not the same as the other vaccines. "One of these is not like the others."

And, yeah, I might get a one-in-a-million breakthrough case for polio or rubella. One of these things still isn't like the others.

So: The Covid vaccine works, but it doesn't work - not in the same way that other vaccines do. (In the same way, the flu vaccine works, but doesn't work.)
Planet Labs Acquires VanderSat
Next up: Should only allow competitors to use the Edge variant of the Chromium engine to keep users secure.
I don't see the 'no-code' movement as something new, just a new name on the same idea. Developers are expensive, so let's migrate this work to people who cost less, using tools that provide the same or similar value.

Do you know how many people's jobs today are "this person is really good with excel, so we can hold on hiring a dev team and data scientist"? Probably millions. They're everywhere. I met dozens of them hidden away in Amazon warehouses during my career there. And Excel is the ultimate 'no-code' tool, pinnacle of the industry.

And yet the developers, we're all still here. Frankly, there's more of us. Because what really happens when you don't need developers to do the simple stuff is that developers can instead focus on the hard, higher-value problems, that a no-code solution can't do for you. More gets done, more value gets created.

There's always talk that eventually, we'll reach the end of the runway and the no-code will replace are large portion of us. I don't think we're anywhere near that. So bring on your no-code products, I say.
One of my older brothers had that policy -- if at all possible he pushed away from the bike as hard as he could when it was clear an accident was unavoidable. He actually used that strategy twice, believe it or not. Worked swimmingly both times, which could just be chance.
This is all that’s wrong with open source free software. You’re disappointed by how someone chooses to give you free stuff.
Is the full analysis posted somewhere?