skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this lunch discussion is akin to a bunch of kids deciding during recess what they want to become - one a doctor and another an astronaut. If a bunch of kids do actually succeed in all their careers then what went right is the schools methods not the creative process in that lunch break.
Rumor is there's a lot that was left on the cutting board. Hours even.
Freedom is slavery. War is peace.
Perhaps I should update the question. I'm not referring to ALL software quality. I'm referring to the quality of codebases that are 1) old, 2) large, and 3) supported by many people.

You make a good point though. Perhaps I just miss the good ol' days of working on small teams with small codebases that were pretty easily maintained.
That's an interesting take. I personally think that where the 'classic' examples of Socialism or Communism failed is with regards to markets.

Starting with the Soviet Union, most of these countries tried to do away with markets. At best they were able to integrate it somewhat haphazardly into official policies (North Korea with their food markets), at worst they drove them underground.

Markets are not perfect, but they are - if controlled, constrained and guided - a pretty efficient tool for resource allocation. Trying to micro-manage the need for and production of every consumer good from toothbrushes to toilet paper is ridiculously inefficient; markets are better for that. Such a shame that only a few countries got to learn that.

That, and democracy. There needs to be some form of democracy to keep the ruling elite in check.
Hydraulic claws will puncture into anything, including reinforced glass IIRC.

Now for sure it could slow down a rescue operation.

The simple specialized sledgehammer for firefighters (i forgot the name) might be hard to use on this glass. Also for non firefighters, rescuing someone trapped inside might be a challenge.
This makes sense to me at first blush - DPRK’s primary defensive strategy seems to be “if you attack us, we’ll obliterate South Korea”.

Why try to seriously threaten the US mainland, when it’s significantly easier to hold millions of US-allied civilians hostage?
Boycott Sonos! I am not a fan of Google, but sometimes I don't get how companies like Sonos get patents on stuff that's not really an invention - it's called "common sense"!
Common clay materials may help curb methane emissions
I didn't know that. Thanks!
Ha! Perhaps the easiest way, but you might have to wait a long time for it.
you're the best kind of conversationalist.
I assume others who claimed medical exemptions aren't prominent antivaxxers whose request for a medical exemption from completing a course of vaccinations (recommended spacing between doses >21 days) on the basis he was unable to because of a COVID infection less than 21 days before his flight is pretty absurd (even assuming the tests are valid and he answered all visa applications questions truthfully).

Just because the public outcry might have prompted politicians to intervene doesn't mean they were wrong to do so
We know how to build safer nuclear now than we did 60 years ago when the current gen were mostly built.

Current generation nuclear plants default to off, they need active operation to stay on. If something goes wrong, they automatically, without any intervention by anyone, go offline.

They are also designed to withstand collisions from aircraft and multiple other attack vectors: https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1159_web.p...
The problem is less that IETF decisions would be user-hostile and more that many entities are not beholden to any standards, least of all IETFs. No matter how well-intentioned pro-user RFCs IETF pushes out, they won't have an iota impact if nobody adopts them. And history has shown that entities tend to flagrantly flout any standards that are not convenient to them.
>Then along came the first hijackers

I don't think most young people know how prevalent hijackings were in the past. There were dozens every year peaking in the late 60s and early 70s. In those days, they were usually done for ransom money or some political cause and the end goal was not to kill anyone. 9/11 obviously changed that as it became clear a hijacking threatened the life of everyone onboard as well as people on the ground. Security changes since then have resulted in hijackings almost completely disappearing from passenger flights in the western world. I would personally attribute this more to changes like reinforced cockpit doors rather than the TSA style screenings, but the security changes have brought a real measurable improvement in reducing hijackings.
An ICBM also comes in on well known great circle paths from suborbital altitudes. Not 30,000 feet or less.

These aren’t secrets. They’re well publicized facts that haven’t changed since the 1950s.
Even outside of "cheating" like this, self-driving would have a pretty significant impact on parking economics. You don't need to have parking spread throughout the city in convenient places, because you can send your car to the central parking depot while you're shopping and recall it when you're done.
Because it was a zero-sum economy and they didn't have things like nursing homes. Back in premodern times mass death was the biggest thing that would always jolt the economy. What happened after the black death and the fall of Constantinople? The Renaissance.
I’d argue this is the same case with tech startups - you decide on some rough idea and riff on that topic there’s probably money to be made. I like to contrast it with biotech, where you’re limited by the laws of nature.
Do you think that living under Capitalism is a good thing or would you maybe prefer other forms of market economies?
Absolutely love the idea of combining regular note taking with the power of an infinite canvas. Congrats on the launch!
Seems like the real and hard truth is that, at anything resembling our current tech levels, human spaceflight just doesn't add much value compared to the massive, overwhelming difficulty.

We've sent hundreds of robots all over the place. To Mars, Jupiter, asteroids, comets, the outer planets, out of the Solar System entirely, as close to the Sun as can be managed, and everywhere else in between. For basically all of these missions, sending humans along would be 1000x more expensive, and the humans would be bored to tears for 99.9% of the time. For most of the rest of the time, they'd be relying on the same instruments as the robotic missions, as the environment is too harsh for anything else. So what's the point?

And who would we be sending? We could send super-smart scientific experts to maybe follow up on things a little faster, but it'd be a waste to have them sit around for years on the voyage back and forth. Or we could send more ordinary folks, who might not be all that much more capable than the robots we're sending now.

Sorry, it might burst some peoples bubbles of romance and sexy space adventures, but it mostly just doesn't make sense to send humans into space for the type of exploration missions we're doing. Maybe if we can send enough resources to actually have a colony on Mars or something, but we're not there yet.
Not right now. I've just filed an issue to track this:

https://github.com/windowjs/windowjs/issues/19

Window.js replicates web APIs where it makes sense, so I'd look into duplicating the Gamepad API:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Gamepad_API

Does that make sense to you?
I definitely factor in the price of parking when deciding whether to shop at X vs Y location. There’s very little reason for me to go 3 miles into Boston to shop when I can go 3 miles in another direction and shop in a suburb with free and plentiful parking.

I don’t see the problem; I get what I need and the people in Boston presumably get what they need. If a shopkeeper wants to cater to traffic that comes by car, they presumably set up shop in a suburb (where rents are cheaper anyway).
I switched after the ~thanksgiving multi-day outage a few years ago. I've been happy with that decision as well
oops, the url is bad :( I have no idea why that happened

https://twitter.com/unioncounsel/status/1480648769305649157
If you're interested in learning about this kind of navigational knowledge, about how Pacific Islander sailors could hop from island to island over the horizon without maps, I recommend reading The Last Navigator. It is also an interesting story told in the first person by the author going to learn the art of navigation and observing a culture being pushed aside.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/707571.The_Last_Navigato...
> I wonder: does this mean I can embed ClickHouse in arbitrary software as a library? I'd be curious to provide that as an option in dsq.

Not sure, but it's Apache licensed, so you likely can make it work if you want to. But realize that clickhouse(-local) is much heavier than sqlite / duckdb based solutions: the compiled binary is around 200mb iirc.
That's the market at work, isn't it. Different businesses make different choices. Get rid of parking regulations and let each business figure out what works best.
I moved to Bitwarden. Solid choice, as well.
A couple of interesting assumptions in that comment.

First is an assumption that the capabilities of the missile being tested are "known" and a follow on assumption that the PRK does not have the capability of flying a missile as far west as Burbank, CA.

Neither of these are very good assumptions to make. To understand why, consider the following;

KP's collaborates with both the Russian Federation and China on weapons development (multiple open sources) and both of those nations have missile technology that can go from anywhere in North Korea to pretty much anywhere in the US.

KP has been telling people they have a working hypersonic ballistic missile (travel time Korea to the west coast at ~ 1hr without going sub-orbital.)

The US and KP are technically still at war (the Korean war stopped with a cease fire, not a treaty) and the US and its allies levy sanctions on them that hurt.

So while in previous tests it was both not widely believed that KP could reach the US and the KP had not said they could reach the US, both of those positions changed. That changed the threat posture from "zero" threat to "some" threat.

Fortunately physics is physics and it's pretty clear after 10 to 15 minutes what a missile is doing and what it might be able to do.

As a result I don't really think this was a "knee jerk" decision, I think it's likely policy going forward until better clarity is available on how rapidly KP's missile technology advances and an effective counter can be put into place.
That's why I never used LastPass and never will. KeePass ftw!
The Day the Routers Died (2007)
This is it. Look at how often this happens, recently in Iran and before that in Ukraine. Anti-missile and anti-air systems are extremely dangerous and reckless machines. Civilian flights get blown up all the time and being extra cautious makes a lot of sense.
> Every single one of those ICBMs could have a nuke on it now

If only there were a central agency tasked providing aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Northern America.

We could call it something like the "North American Aerospace Defense Command". It could have decades of experience of this stuff!

OTOH perhaps the FAA should just make up stuff as they go.
It's probably illegal in most jurisdiction. However, they have lost the case with Sonos and it's more economical/sensical for them to wait for the unlikely event of a class action lawsuit and pay in the more unlikely event of a loss.

In other words, for google to pay damage to Sonos or consumer before having lost to consumer is non-sensical.
The machine should allow people who don’t like doing mental math to select from some pre-calculated numbers, then also give the option of playing a mini game that presents the user with math problems, riddles, visual logic puzzles, and memory tests. This will generate millions of dollars in expected utility, so the taxi companies are morally obligated to do it.
Not to mention ignited hydrogen leaks being invisible in daylight!

You can walk right into one if you are not careful - which is why you might see people walking with brooms in front of them around hydrogen equipment. :)
You call BS on airlines not knowing who is on a flight being a security issue?
It definitely feels like survivorship bias. We only remember the good software of the past while forgetting the hundreds of buggy mess created by companies that are probably defunct by now
>Now, in addition to the guy there, you can get additional opinions/recommendations from across the world on message boards, twitter, blogs, wherever, too.

I 100% agree with your first statements - the access is way better now than it was.

But this sentence is where I absolutely see the problem. Again, I could trust that guy to recommend music because he liked the music. Now, every blog, every tweet, every recommendation just feels gamed. It seems to me that astroturfing is just everywhere. It's impossible to escape, and it ruins the experience of finding new music.

Everything is for sale and it feels awful.
The earliest usage of the idea of "log utility of wealth" I'm aware of is in Daniel Bernoulli's work on the St. Petersburg lottery [0], but it pops up all over mathematical finance stuff.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-stpetersburg/
These are all good points. But most of them also seem like cultural factors too.
What kind of APIs do you have in mind?

Ideally yes, Window.js should make it possible (and easy!) to build fully accessible programs. I don't have much experience in this area though, so I'd have to look for help building this :-)
AFAIK the host in ComputerCraft were the server.

I remember how some people done quarries in the 1.4-1.7 versions of Minecraft (I don't exactly remember which) by simply putting a chunk loader object from other mod and programming the robot to mine it. The robot had a diamond pickaxe and could drop and get items, so when the inventory were full, it could drop all of the objects in a chest or other place.
Microtargeting as Information Warfare [pdf]
Yeah. I'm using it right now. After doing a single-time setup and making sure that I keep a backup of the .gitconfig, etc, I haven't had any problems. I made sure to point Git specifically to the OpenSSH I provided (which I keep in c:\utils\openssh) with the following bit in the .gitconfig file:

[core]
sshCommand = C:/utils/OpenSSH-Win64/ssh.exe

For GPG, the only things I've done is to use gpg-agent and set up a passthrough for gpg-agent to WSL2 for both OpenSSH and GPG via https://github.com/BlackReloaded/wsl2-ssh-pageant/ since I do development both natively on Windows and via WSL2.
My experience of Prometheus is outside of containerised environments and I enjoyed Prometheus to begin with.

Then it starts to grow and everything becomes increasingly more difficult until your patience runs out, or you just can't get it to work any more, and you split it in two, now you have two headaches but at least you can get it to work.

Your now 12 months maybe 2 years in and you realise two things, that stupidly expensive Dynatrace install works out cheaper than all the engineering time you've thrown at rolling your own, the opportunity cost makes it a no brainer, and you'd pay out of your own pocket to be doing something more interesting...

I used think building everything yourself was the way to go, it is more fun (at least until you hit operations). Now I'm older, maybe wiser, if it's not core business, I ship it off to a vendor and let them deal with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation

ofcourse u will need websocket to sync changes.
Not idiots, "useful idiots" who can be and are frequently intelligent. It's not meant to be disrespectful, but as a descriptor like WuMao. Who BTW only operates domestically, within PRC and not abroad. And even then WuMaos don't write analysis, they distract with platitudes.

>In political jargon, a useful idiot is a derogatory term for a person perceived as propagandizing for a cause without fully comprehending the cause's goals, and who is cynically used by the cause's leaders.

Wikipedia mentioning a thing and citing the same propaganda does not make it so. Forced labor in laogai sure. Claiming XJ is a parallel laogai program when it's part of Rural Labour Transfer Program is misinformation. It's a paid work program with contracted terms. It's far removed from Laogai slave labour on the spectrum of slave-voluntary work. It's also one of the interventions that aligns with poverty / development strategies around the world versus actual cultural genocide / security state shenanigans going on. But it gets disproportionately maligned regardless.

E: over comment limit, it's not splitting hairs, it's accepted jargon/term. But apologies if it offends, the same way calling/insinuating POVs from PRC perspectives are wumao. Which you have been doing throughout this entire thread. As for sources, I've dropped the relevant subject matter for those interested to research on their own. The fact people can comfortably allege XJ is slave labour based on western sources and have no passing familiarity with context of transfer programs in PRC for poverty alleviation reflects how staggering gap in understanding is.
Although I understand your point from a psychological point of view, in my experience switching from LP to BW was an easy task.You can create a temporary CSV to export your Lastpass vault and import it in Bitwarden. It takes 2 minutes maybe. The rest is just switching which app you use to fetch your passwords.

Although that was prior to the shenanigans this post's article talks about.
It should add up to 24 hours but I have my doubts. Maybe my timeline leaks.
It's asymmetrical though right, accidentally not shutting down when it's unclear has a small likelihood of a massive loss of life. Accidentally not shutting down results in some eocnomic loss and lots of delays, but in a real way you know there's seriously limited downside. I don't know how the US is doing right now, but in other countries airlines are running way under capacity at the moment anyway, so they can recover from down time much better than usual.
Some cars have keycode entry. Easy to have this attitude when you don't live in a cold climate area.
It's positively painful to try to get people to understand this incredibly simple concept for some reason. People just can't wrap their brains around the idea that this type of work requires focus, and that breaking that focus derails the whole activity for a period of time.
NK does not announce where their missiles are going, and NORAD probably wanted to clear some airspace to better track the missile, especially given that NK has missiles that can reach the west coast. The military also probably wanted to avoid dangerously confusing situations, like a civilian aircraft failing to squawk as expected or even a civilian plane crashing (just imagine what might happen -- NK is launching a missile, and suddenly NORAD is also tracking another object that seems to be an airplane without a transponder heading directly toward the Bay Area or receiving a call that some kind of explosion was just reported in LA following the object rapidly losing altitude...). It is not as if confusion during a tense moment leading to needless death is unprecedented in the history of aviation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
> it's turned into such a shithole". This is always said to imply that it's not as white as it used to be

Well, I live in Portland and they aren't entirely wrong. When I first moved here many decades ago it was a very clean city. Now, every vertical surface (even including highway signs) is entirely covered with graffiti. Nearly every horizontal surface is covered with homeless camps. I would still want to live in Portland over anywhere else I have lived, but I don't know how anyone could argue that the city has not gone way downhill over the past 5-10 years.
Unless you're referring to wage stagnation, inflation should raise the bill and for the same percentage the tip should be higher on higher checks.
... in spite of alienating millions of users in their quixotic quest to purge it. Maybe time to accept that "hate speech" is as an inescapable byproduct of human communication as much as it is undefinable?
China and LATAM are definitely overrepresented. We deal with conglomerates and manufacturers, so it's vaguely industrial + heavy industry, but all these users are corporate folks using standard-issue BigCo laptops (almost certainly loaded with standard "security" layers from a dozen different vendors, making detailed diagnosis nearly impossible for us as a SaaS provider).
Should've switched to TenFourFox, probably would've worked better.
Programmers trained to make everything as efficient as possible but managed by people working hard at the opposite.
Huh, I had noticed that my sonos setup did that and wondered why other systems hadn't gotten around to it.
They described a scenario where someone was born with mutated hands that happened to be useful for swimming after the earth floods. There’s no selection or evolution there.
The jet in question apparently belonging to the Taiwainese Air Force. Both headline and story are vague on this point.
This phrase was not meant to be taken literally and more supposed to be understood as "if peoples do engage in trading that makes wars between those nation states way less likely."

It was a cute phrase but I see how it might lead to missunderstandings. Thanks for pointing that out. As for whether that more elaborate position applies to the Russian-Ukranian situation. Yes it does

The Russians have not declared war on Ukraine. They are engaging in a purely illegal invasion. Ukraine has not declared war on Russia and has not attempt any occupation of Russian territory.
You're thinking in terms of US-centered politics.

North Korean politics are game-of-thrones style medieval kings and queens. Kim Jong un is the supreme-ruler of North Korea. At a relatively young age of 38-years-old, he barely commands respect of his political apparatus.

Kim Jong-un has killed his brother and uncle in a dramatic show of force to consolidate power. It seems like he's decided that annoying the USA is now to his own political gain.

Kim Jong-un's primary motivation is to perpetuate his myth and legend, to continue to prove to his people that he's a god-given King who deserves to rule over the nation. Much like his father. But any of Kim Jong Un's political rivals can capture the "mandate of heaven" if they prove themselves worthy on the public stage.

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From the perspective of "proving that god / the heavens are on Kim Jong Un's side", pissing off the USA unnecessarily does a good job at that.
I’ve only used Reddit’s report function maybe twice. Both times were for shockingly egregious comments. Well beyond even common inflammatory banter, and including vague threats of violence from someone who was clearly not well.

Both times I received the same response that Reddit had reviewed the comments and they were fine.

I’m actually kind of shocked that Reddit gets a free pass for this behavior while heavily moderated sites like Facebook are blamed for social issues. The type of content that thrives on the worst parts of Reddit is easily some of the worst I’ve seen on any major social media website.

They will, however, purge specific subreddits when they become big enough to attract media attention. The users just migrate to some other subreddit and pick up right where they left off, though.
How does inflation influence the tip percentage?
Ah yeah that's pretty large.
Definitely there are practices such as version control and automated testing that are better practiced today then they used to be.