skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With great power comes great responsibility. :)
These too:

"Until 1974, the state of Oregon had no seismic code...seventy-five per cent of all structures in the state are not designed to withstand a major Cascadia quake..."

"The shaking from the Cascadia quake will set off landslides throughout the region—up to thirty thousand of them in Seattle alone...Fifteen per cent of Seattle is built on liquefiable land, including seventeen day-care centers and the homes of some thirty-four thousand five hundred people..."

"On the coast, those numbers go up. Whoever chooses or has no choice but to stay there will spend three to six months without electricity, one to three years without drinking water and sewage systems, and three or more years without hospitals..."
Project Guardian protects prominent Twitter users from abuse and harassment
As a person, who moved with family (wife and kids) twice (Eastern Europe to Middle East to Western Europe) in the last decade, I don't understand your comment.

If you have to evacuate, you are too late.
> For what the JWST actually accomplishes, it's an engineering marvel

Sure, but so are the Event Horizon Telescope (which cost less than $100 MM) and LIGO (cost about $1 BN). And those were truly revolutionary, and they hold a lot of promise for more scientific results down the road. At any given moment the scientific world has lots of ideas, some are truly ingenious, and some are just bigger-is-better iterations of older ideas. The really ingenious ones tend to be cheaper, if for no other reason than they can't get huge amounts of funding given they are not proven yet. The bigger-is-better ideas get eye popping dollars, and the public opinion is always positive. Just like it happens with Hollywood sequels.
I think the essay is strongly written — never is a strong word — but it resonated with me because of a personal experience.

In that experience part of the problem was that those who disagreed with the group were purged out of the group one way or another, either because they chose to exit out of disgust or because they were driven away, or something in between. So there was a "survivorship bias" in the group, where "surviving" sort of meant staying with the group.

It's interesting to think about how this applies to your WWI examples, where the people in the position of admitting mistake are still alive, and there's a very literal survivorship bias with regard to group membership.

Anyway, when you have an entity that can change in composition, it affects what is involved in admitting to mistakes, because the people making the mistakes might be different from those who would admit to them.
This site ... integrated over Real time Solar Flares:
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-fla...

and random noise form Live Meteor:
https://meteorscan.com/meteor-live.html

runs my Random Number Generator....
Kamikaze drones: A new weapon brings power and peril to the U.S. military
This very topic is covered in Eric Hoffer's book, "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements".

He's talking more about religious and political movements than companies but, with the way many companies today want people to believe in their mission, there are strong parallels.
They're saying that the Rust compiler will reliably enforce these things... and that it's completely trivial to surface any cases where the programmer thinks that they are smarter than the compiler, e.g. for extra code review, outright rejection, etc.
It should be "中文 (繁體)" or "中文 (正體)" for the traditional Chinese, not just "中文". I'm confused a little bit since it has "中文 (简体)" (Chinese (simplified)).
I totally get that people want companies to act with dignity, but the idea that a company, even one as large as Apple, is going to make any sort of difference with respect to China's oddities is wishful thinking.

Apple has a business to run. They abide by all sorts of requests in various countries in which they operate. Of course there has to be a line somewhere, I'm just not sure this is it.
Cloudflare only has access to DNS requests made to their resolvers, not the amount of bandwidth utilized (which would certainly push Netflix and YouTube up) or the number of requests made. They also have some vaguely defined fudge factors to their rankings.

To take a guess at why Apple is so high, I think bundling all of these together might help their rank:

- App store downloads

- iOS updates

- Apple TV+ streaming

- Services that iOS / tvOS / macOS devices utilize

- Apple Music / iTunes downloads

- iCloud (including Private Relay and related traffic)
It has a docking ring for potential service mission.
Twitter suspends account providing Ghislaine Maxwell trial updates
Second-Generation Apple AR Headset to Launch in 2024
even less when you take out Taiwan's revenue from that 249bn
The strangest Nokia phones ever designed
>western media often suggests stuff is 'secret' in china, because they can't read chinese, and all those orientals are awfully mysterious.

this is stupid.

BBC Chinese (https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp) have many Chinese/people who can speak/read/write Chinese.

large Western Media have Chinese staffs just like any large Chinese Media in China, HK or Taiwan with people capable of speak/read/write English.
If anyone from GitHub is listening, being able to exclude test code with a few clicks would be an absolute game-changer. By far the biggest source of noise in my GH code search results, and I use the tool (and similar tools like Searchfox) super super heavily. Either way, stoked to try this out.
Sorry, are you claiming that the French Revolution occurred due to bad labor practices?

Or did trust busting and unionization in the late 19th century US utilize guillotines?

Either of those would certainly be a.. uh.. let's go with "novel" retelling of the history!

Or did you mean Red October? Because I'm pretty sure /that/ revolution didn't actually solve any problems for the worker in the way things actually panned out
You’ll have your perfect data in around 5 years. In the mean time, there is significant evidence that suggests COVID impacts the brain. You can ignore it or argue against it all you want, but it is there.
First thing I do on any windows machine is replace notepad with notepad2 [0], there are installs of it that hides original notepad and uses notepad2 in all the "Edit" context menus etc.

https://notepad2.com
Not all proposed evolutionary mechaniams that turn out to be false, much less merely incomplete, are just-so stories. The fact that the hypothesis was simple makes it more reasonable.
The bathroom hand drier they invented is/was cool. No heat and knocking the water off with a faster jet of air by pushing it through a smaller hole was a decent improvement.
A license of mostly theoretical usefulness, considering what those apes look like.

You could purchase a custom illustration for $5 from Fiverr that would look better than a generated ape, be more suitable for your use case, and also comes with full rights.
Given that most DRM these days is implemented in the apps that license the content, I'm not sure this is remotely true. Maybe in the disc era there was truth to this, but even then I'm not sure that it was a greater concern than lost revenues due to piracy.
I used Dvorak for about 15 years and loved it. There are probably incrementally better layouts now, but Dvorak was available when I switched. I found it very much more comfortable than QWERTY. Perhaps a little faster. But ending the pain in my hands was the big win. I would strongly encourage others to switch to an improved layout.

That said, I switched back to QWERTY about 5 years ago when Parkinson's stopped me from touch typing with my right hand. Now I type with my left hand and one finger on the right. I have to look at the keyboard. I use too many different keyboards to practically relabel the keys. It didn't take more than a few weeks to re-learn QWERTY on the left hand. My hands hurt more now, but at least keyboards are better now than they used to be.
Makes me really glad I started using flatpaks for both Chromium and Firefox on Bullseye. Didn't realize the lack of security patches but it's insane how poor CPU performance and rendering was (especially for video) is in their default packages. Wayland support in those is also terrible.
Thanks! I'm not ready to understand your explanation, but I can clarify the moon example at least.

Suppose the gravitational attraction between the earth and moon is 2e20 Newtons.

Now imagine something forces that attraction to strengthen from 2e20N to 3e20N. E.g. the Earth and moon get closer to each other, or the moon gets more massive somehow.

When we talk about "detecting gravity waves", I understand that to mean that on Earth we've managed to detect that increase from 2e20N to 3e20N.

My point was: perhaps that looks like the rising edge of a wave phenomenon, but it's not actually cyclic like I expect from a traditional "wave". So I couldn't understand why it's called a gravity wave.
Nothing but lack of desire afaik.

Iirc, Godot and Unity can both target WebGL.
However returning errors from failing constructors would not be very clean.

C++ also does not have decent macro system, which is leveraged in Rust error handling (the derive system).
> it's objective will shift to the survival of the organization itself when the original (legitimate) objective is made irrelevant by internal or external factors

Yes, and also the furtherance of the careers of the top people.
The problem when dealing with government or public works is that the provider simply isn't better at estimating that probability, since they aren't empowered to bulldoze ahead.

The contractor can accurately price in (and insure against) technical risks like the risk of accidentally striking a cable while digging, and they can mitigate this as well (looking at the quality of cable mapping data, using detectors etc.)

What the contractor can't factor in is all the (local) government politics and bureaucracy. Where things fall on the financial year calendar, whether they will have to spend the money before or after April, whether they will have to pause works because a resident legally challenges the works, whether the client has even asked for the right thing, or if it will emerge while planning the work that they have made major errors etc.

When dealing with a well-specified, fixed-scope piece of work, you are right - the provider should eat that. When dealing with an uninformed non-expert customer (i.e. most public sector or government contracts), nobody in their right mind would take on that risk, except some of the big government outsourcing contractors, who would all quote insane prices based on past "actual costs" after factoring in all the nonsense from previous work.
I think the hostility you describe only happens on articles that have dedicated maintainers.
Ask HN: Should US firms acting on behalf of state be bound by First Amendment?
Anyone who has worked in mapping/GIS at a company that sells in China has seen this in action. The "display these islands larger" requests, the obfuscated coordinate system for geo-aligning maps, and other map content regulatory issues[1] all need to be dealt with if you want your map product available in the country. Not excusing it, but every company with maps there is required to do this, not just Apple.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat...
You're quite right about the organic nature. The story of how we get together could be better told by our prof, Jan Vitek, I guess. But in a nutshell, one of his older students (Ben, also an author of the paper) was once on a plane with some other student, Jean, from MIT, where Julia was developed, and Ben got interested and told Jan… Then there were occasional meetings with Julia devs (Jeff Bezanson in particular) that turned out to be super nice and inviting people. I should add, we're all from Northeastern University in Boston, and that's close to MIT... All in all, we decided PL academia should learn about this "organic gem".
Damn nothing lasts for ever I guess
There are 11M open jobs as the quitting spree continues
Seems like this depends on what you mean by "large group." If we're only talking about, say, populations of entire large countries, or all adherents to a major world religion, then sure, it would be very unlikely to get them to literally all agree that some error was made. But that's mostly because it would be difficult to coordinate any behavior that specific across that large of a group of people. If, however, we're just talking about the official leadership or representatives of some large group, then there are plenty of cases of them admitting mistakes. Even big companies and governments occasionally admit mistakes.
This comes as no surprise to anyone paying attention to the case. From the appeals court:

Apple has demonstrated, at minimum, that its appeal raises serious questions on the merits of the district court’s determination that Epic Games, Inc. failed to show Apple’s conduct violated any antitrust laws but did show that the same conduct violated California’s Unfair Competition Law. See City of San Jose v. Off. of the Com’r of Baseball, 776 F.3d 686, 691–92 (9th Cir. 2015) (“[U]nder California law ‘[i]f the same conduct is alleged to be both an antitrust violation and an “unfair” business act or practice for the same reason—because it unreasonably restrains competition and harms consumers—the determination that the conduct is not an unreasonable restraint of trade necessarily implies that the conduct is not “unfair” toward consumers.’” (quoting Chavez v. Whirlpool Corp., 113 Cal. Rptr. 2d 175, 184 (Cal. Ct. App. 2001))).

In other words, if the appeals court agrees with the district court that federal antitrust laws were not violated (which is very likely) then they're going to overturn the UCL judgement as well.
There's nothing relevant that I can see in the rules other than "be kind". These people are anti-vaxxers and therefore they are themselves unkind by definition because of their selfishness and danger they place vulnerable people in. They deserve no kindness in return when they spout their bullshit on here and whine when they get downvoted. They are anti-science and cruel.
This is a poor argument and poor reasoning. This way, instead of improving, we continue to regress (“Look there! They’re doing it too!” argument). We should be halving expense on all fronts while demanding the same output - whether it’s military or space spending. Look at ISRO’s budget, high efficiency is key.

Just because DoD budget is $750b, doesn’t mean that we should have a free pass to waste money. I’d like to see DoD spending cut in half while holding vendors accountable. Same with space industry.

Another way to think about this if it helps is for $11b, we should have gotten more done. Imagine James Webb Telescope + 5 more projects for the same $11b. Wouldn’t that be awesome?
The original intent of the US foundation was that state be ran like nations are ran in the EU. That is, for the most part they are independent with a federal government that makes sure everyone plays nice.

That all changed with the civil war and the 14th amendment. After that, the federal government gained a LOT of power that it didn't previously have.

However, it's not something that was universal. In the US, federal still, for the most part, only deals with things that can be conceived to effect more than one state at the same time. There is, for example, no federal murder law.

With that in mind, you have 50 states and for the most part, how the little things are handled are entirely up to each state. What a state will do in regards to regulations and safety nets is simply all over the board.
Read between the lines as to how this similar product from Cisco works.

http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/index.html
We're going to have to agree to disagree on your usage of autonomy there, but your point is taken. We should be looking out for each other, and I think you'd find that a lot of people probably are, even if they disagree with you about various covid/vaccine issues.

Regular testing, distancing, masking, foregoing normal activities are examples of other ways to look out for each other. Maybe I'm crazy, but I think we'll eventually find that folks who just got vaccinated and went about life like normal probably caused more spread than folks who didn't but kept up all the other precautions. I think if you assume everyone thats going about it differently from you is selfish, you're going to be missing chunks of the picture.

> We have more than enough data already...

And this is where we find our difference in beliefs/biases. Same for your opinions on what is and isn't tyranny, which you're welcome to.
"The establishment is arguing for a first-use nuclear attack on Russia"

No it's not, as shown by your own quote.
To say that's a gross oversimplification is putting it mildly.
> A group will never admit they were wrong. A group will never admit, “We made a mistake,” because a group that tries to change its mind falls apart. I’m hard pressed to find examples in history of large groups that said, “We thought A, but the answer’s actually B.”

Germany openly regrets Nazis and Hitler. In the US we admit that letting McCarthy run amok was a huge mistake. Globally billions of people admit that we were wrong to let short term economic interests steam-roll the environment for the last century.

This article feels like a “my logical-to-me sounding hypothesis must be true because I haven’t thought of any counter-examples” rationalization. It doesn’t examine any cases of groups admitting being wrong, and there are lots in history. It doesn’t ask the question why is a group being wrong is a legitimately harder conclusion to come to, even from people external to the group. There usually are debates and individuals causing things to go one way or another.
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FreeBSD is an amazing operating system. I've started to use it with the 13.0 release and it never fails to impress me.

Everything is very well-documented, you get a fairly clean centralization of configuration, non-base OS software is installed by default in /usr/local while giving you the option to move it elsewhere if you so desire. 3rd party software config doesn't get intermixed with the OS.

It's similar on the surface to Linux but you can really feel the totally different DNA it's composed of. Well worth looking over.
CSPM, CIEM, CWPP, and CNAPP: Guess who in cloud security landscape
Ah, I was trying language:!html.

Would still be great to ignore my docs directory.
The poor natives in Peru were doomed once the Spanish discovered all of the silver present. I believe they basically enslaved the local indigenous population.
Counterpoint: GiveWell has a link "Our Mistakes" directly on the main navigation bar!

https://www.givewell.org/about/our-mistakes

It's beautiful to see such behavior <3
Risk of blood clotting / thromosis (VIIT) with adenovirus vector and Peri / Myocarditis with mRNA based are known risks, even if extremely rare overall (but worrying for specific groups; <50 females and <30 males respectively)
Don’t the USGS have seismographs for detecting earthquakes? Does human reporting add resolution or other information to their data?
I wouldn't call that code idiomatic either: it is cleaned up from the automatic translation, but it still a far cry from what Rust written by hand would look like

pub static mut g_color_table: [crate::src::qcommon::q_shared::vec4_t; 8] = [
[0f32, 0f32, 0f32, 1f32],
[1f32, 0f32, 0f32, 1f32],
[0f32, 1f32, 0f32, 1f32],
[1f32, 1f32, 0f32, 1f32],
[0f32, 0f32, 1f32, 1f32],
[0f32, 1f32, 1f32, 1f32],
[1f32, 0f32, 1f32, 1f32],
[1f32, 1f32, 1f32, 1f32],
];

would maybe look like

pub static mut g_color_table: [[f32; 4]; 8] = [
[0, 0, 0, 1],
[1, 0, 0, 1],
[0, 1, 0, 1],
[1, 1, 0, 1],
[0, 0, 1, 1],
[0, 1, 1, 1],
[1, 0, 1, 1],
[1, 1, 1, 1],
];

but it still looks weird to me (a static mut would be uncommon in a design, and not having a new-type to represent these would also be uncommon).

If you are interested in looking what Rust written from the ground up in the same domain looks like, you can maybe look at Bevy[1].

The biggest source of "noise" in Rust is explicit type conversions, FP constructs and longer types (`.into()`/`.as_mut_ref()`/`.map()`/`Result<Option<T>, E>`).

[1]: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/main/crates/bevy_ren...
Why are reviews of terrible meals so funny. I am crying.
Still the segments could be biggearand or heavier, possibly reducing complexity.
> But I would argue that the best businesses are the ones that are for-profit, sustainable and ethical so you can attract the best people. You can sustain it because it’s a mission and it’s not just about the money—because there are diminishing returns to making money. There’s a diminishing marginal utility to the money in your life

This is ideological, in practice, just like non-profit fail to be profitable, for-profit fail to be ethical.
I think these things have a corrupting influence on the principles of the company over time: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html

It's better to figure out an exit (imo) than continue to capitulate on these kinds of things, particularly in a country that is hostile to foreign companies and IP (and particularly if one of your company values is the privacy of your users).

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>>Peter Thiel: Well I think, again those aren’t the only two possibilities, I don’t think they created very much, I think a lot of it was just handed over from the west so it wasn’t even stolen.

You know, I criticized Google a few years ago for refusing to work on its AI technology on Project Maven with the U.S. military, but working with Chinese universities and Chinese researchers. And since everything in China is a civilian- military fusion, Google was effectively working with the Chinese military, not with the American military. And there was sort of this question, “Why Google was doing this?” And one of the things that I was sort of told by some of the insiders at Google was they figured they might as well give the technology out through the front door, because if they didn’t give it – it would get stolen anyway.

>>Peter Thiel: I had a set of conversations with some of the Google people in the deep mind AI technology, “is your AI being used to run the concentration camps in Xinjiang?” and “Well, We don’t know and don’t ask any questions.” You have this almost magical thinking that by pretending that everything is fine, that’s how you engage and have a conversation. And you make the world better. And it’s some combination of wishful thinking. It’s useful idiots, you know, it’s CCP fifth columnist collaborators. So it’s some super position of all these things. But I think if you think of it ideologically or in terms of human rights or something like that, I’m tempted to say it’s just profoundly racist. It’s like saying that because they look different, they’re not white people, they don’t have the same rights. It’s something super wrong. But I don’t quite know how you unlock that.

https://nixonseminar.com/2021/04/the-nixon-seminar-april-6-2...