skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will likely be cheaper (maybe not initially), but more restrictive in pickup/drop-off and availability (ETA).
An emp would knock out electrical grids.... sure...

But that isn't annihilation...

Say russia installed this in major cities (rural is acceptable loss), then manufactured super sonic nukes that could deliver a strike in under 5 mins... or even a minute... they could strike many of our nuke sites (not all because of subs) but our major military operation bases, then we strike back from subs, but these take them all out, there's some fallout from atmospheric explosions which may be as bad, but maybe they hoist huge fans to blow it south to the Ukraine or another enemy state...

I don't think EMP's really would deter this sort of outcome... MAD is becoming less and less a thing, super-sonic weapons are the real clencher, because with those it's simply whoever strikes first - if they strike hard enough can disable just about any enemy... so the trick will be not getting to the point of first strike... which...I don't think we can really prevent, not w/ water wars/climate resources diminishing, etc....

The worst war ever will come, we thought globalization could keep people sane but threats to supply chains, and resources, and the existence of the earth itself turn people into desperate people. Desperate people don't always do what's considered 'sane'.

What we'd deem an evil dictator might try and nuke 80% of the population to save the climate, and it probably would succeed but most sane people would say the cost is too great for that ...and they'd be right too.... I mean Thanos had good intentions but horrible means towards them...

A madman who gets elected or inherits the button to the nations military arsenal could decide to burn it all down like Nero...
How big is the website?

This was a while ago so maybe there's better libraries for it but I've integrated https://lunrjs.com/ before for searching a few 100 FAQs with lengthy answers. You create a static search index file of your articles at build time that's served to the client (it was ~20KB compressed) to search with using JavaScript.

The indexing file will grow with the number of documents you have but not sure at what stage this approach becomes impractical (does anyone have any benchmarks?). Worth looking into because you can create a completely custom search UI that updates instantly plus there's nothing extra to host or pay for as it's all static.

Edit: This lists similar libraries plus benchmarks: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch
I would think that unless criminal negligence can be shown (e.g. an engineer signed off on plans that he knew or should have known were unsafe) then civil liability would maybe apply to the construction contractor (again, depending on why the bridge failed), for which they should be insured.
More often is people trying to implement solutions without thinking the problem through to the end.

Like trying to ban the sale of combustion engines without having a robust charging infrastructure. Or making parking in a downtown area a nightmare without improving the public transit infrastructure.

Or in this case, trying to implement maximum speeds in cars when the technology (GPS? Accurate speed limit maps? Extra sensors on cars and roads?) isn't good enough or isn't there.
- Engine control - unnecessary, cars ran for 100 years without it.

- Brakes work perfectly well without computers.

- Airbags don't need computers, they work perfectly well by mechanical means.

- Power steering works perfectly without computers or any electrics at all. Every car I've ever owned had mechanical power steering without any fancy electroics including my latest one. Why tamper with something that works perfectly well?

- Engine starter? Cars have starter motors since just after the hand crank ers, computers were still nearly 100 years away when starter motors were introduced.

- Automatic windows are a damn menace, they are reliably unreliable. When one failed - fortunately the driver's side - I had my garage man retrofit a traditional hand windup one. On the three remaining windows I got him to isolate them so they only worked on their individual switches.

- Mechanical intermittent wipers have been around since at least WWII. No computers or electronics to go wrong and complicate matters.

- Central locking on my last two cars has been a disaster. You obviously have never experienced a situation where the locking gets out of sync and some doors remain unlocked - unlock the others and then the unlocked ones lock and vice versa.

- Where I live alarm systems are likely to get you a brick through your windscreen - not from burglars but from annoyed residents who are fed up with car alarm noise.

- Automatic lights are another menace, you often can't control them, they switch off when you want to leave the lights and so on. (It seems to me that the designers of these systems never anticipate what we drivers actually need. Perhaps they only test them in the most tame and predictable environments.)

All this gumph is unnecessary, it makes the car less reliable and more expensive to buy and fix. Moreover, they're impossible to fix when you're in places where there's no service mechanic or garage (out on the open road for instance - I've some excellent instances from long trips 3,000 - 4,000 miles anf of cars in convoy on rough roads. Cars with all these unnecessary gadgets were, without fail, the first to break down. And they were a disaster because none of us techies could improvise in the usual manner that we could do with a more traditional car, often we could be stranded for days whilst waiting a tow truck to come from hundreds of miles away. What's more that's hellishly expensive.

You people are just gadget mad.
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Sphinx [1] the documentation tool from the Python world has just about always supported (at least a decade or more at this point) a very simple keyword search based on a simple JSON file it compiles at generation time and a tiny bit of JS to read the JSON and spit out the results.

It generally works really well and it makes sense that a static site could use a static index. I'm still surprised more documentation tools haven't copied the approach.

[1] https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/
US National Security, and the groups moving within it, are not monolithic. Different groups and agencies have very different policies regarding how to deal with journalists specifically.

DoD has been very up front - it's pay to play, as you noted. Stay in the lines, do what we want, keep your eyes on the narrative we're interested in, and opportunities and access with magically open up for you. Step outside the dotted line and whoops, you're in a warzone buddy and you need to leave now, base commander said so, sorry.

Whereas US foreign correspondents were, and as far as I can tell still are, entirely off limits for intelligence agencies to recruit from, work with, or even really interact with. State has put down as US policy that we respect the institution of (US) journalism, so no co-opting them. It's kind of a point of pride. Now, that doesn't mean avoid lying to them, no selling them, or just doing any of the various government tricks to throw a journalist onto a particular path, it just means none of the very obvious "you're going to drink the Kool aid" that DoD does.

Of course this is in abstract, I'm sure there are exceptions and people who broke the rule, but compared to the British intelligence services, who absolutely co-opted any and all foreign correspondent they could get their hands on, both as intelligence sources and to plant stories, or the Soviet/Russian Fed groups, the US has been relatively principled... relatively being the key word
Or iOS extensions. All browsers should stop calling them “Web Extensions” if they arr never going to be available to the majority of the web users.
Easy - we can define the computer's objective function. Why would it get distracted by things it doesn't care about?

Meanwhile, humans are checking Instagram and Pornhub while driving around.
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If anyone here happens to like both C (C99) and raytracing, I've been working on c-ray[1] for a while now. It's your average pathtracer, but has some nice features such as clustered network rendering, a really fast BVH and an up-and-coming node-based material system.
Scene descriptions are expressed as JSON. I'm looking into building a Blender plugin to be able to use it from there.
Coding style is what I prefer - code should be dumb and simple, using nothing more than basic control flow, structs and functions. C suits this goal very nicely.

[1] https://github.com/vkoskiv/c-ray
The $250,000 SF taxi medallions?
Why not make cars less deadly is what I meant to ask, sorry.
Containers are plumbed throughout Gecko. It's not trivial to add, but it's not intractable either. Somebody has to be willing to put in the effort, more than anything.
Frankly, as a human I also find "during restricted hours" signs frustrating. How do I know which hours those are?

As a human being, you weigh the risks and make a choice. Which has the worse outcome — getting to your destination 18 seconds later, or killing a child?
The average driver is incredibly unsafe. due in part to willingness, ignorance, stress, unperfect road conditions, etc.

The laws say to stop, LEO say to stop, etc. I can't think of a defence to not stop beyond "No one else does it."
We would need to re-think resource allocation. Fewer deaths means smaller healthcare expenditure. Disability claims. Improved road infrastructure doesn't need to be that expensive.
A friend of mine once claimed that the sky wasn't blue. I challenged him, expecting some argument about physics and Rayleigh scattering.

Instead he looked at me and, with a straight face, said "it's the spy satellites which are blue. And there are very many."
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while missiles can be built to have irregular routes, this is more important for missile-based defense.
there, with the distances and speeds involved it will cause the interceptor to need to counter the irregularities, which will make it need to also be much more advanced.
small changes in thrust however (at a later time - and thus higher speed) can cause only so much of a change.

but more importantly - light-based interception can be re-pointed much faster then a missile can change it's own course.
> not very start-up friendl

I'm not sure about that. The startup culture is different but not necessary worse.

The main pain point would be that you must get taxes right

and maybe that the system favors more substainable startups then moonshots which mainly hope to be bought for absurd prices by monopolistic companies.

> FOSS

Isn't sold (normally) so shouldn't be affected (in the common case).

Instead the company using it is responsible. Like using open source without vetting or potentially fixing it, is like using a building blueprint you found on the internet without vetting or fixing it.

This should favor companies using open source more responsible and payed support contacts.

That's is if any law resulting from this is properly done.
Check out http://intelx.io, depending on your risk tolerances, putting your email and phone number in yet another search bar may not be in the cards. If you can swallow it though, depending if (1) anything you care about has been leaked at all and (2) anything you care about being leaked has been indexed by this site...the results may be illuminating. Or nothing at all.

Interesting resource nonetheless that supplements my day-to-day line of Devsecops.

This site and a few other OSINT tools was how I discovered who 'sold out' my CV to some of the questionable 'recruiting agencies'.
A fun thing to do with traceroute implementations is to try to set speed records. The classic traceroute loop is unnecessarily slow, because it waits for the response from probe n before sending probe n+1; you can just send them all at once. You can traceroute with a variety of different protocols (Windows uses TCP, IIRC, because it gets through more firewalls). There are more esoteric tricks, too; for instance, there was a time when you could get the IP Record Route option to work.
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For us, we've decided that we need to be around a fair number of university-educated people (or at least people who are able to think at that level - they don't have to have a degree). So, first, we need at least a town, not to live 40 miles from nowhere. And second, we need that town to be either a college town or the kind of town where people move there after college.

That's just us. You may be different.
> I'm sure I saw cars with an option to read speed limit signs about 10 years back.

To be fair, those systems were just best-effort. I'm pretty sure Teslas can handle far harder sign situations than those.

The problem is the edge case and while Telsa may fair better, the older assistant systems did explicitly warn you that it was best effort.
And in a couple centuries they're going to find this at the bottom of the sea and wonder what went wrong. (In reference to the "greek" computer that tells tides/lunar cycle and planets.) If plastic will last that long, (I think it does?

But still, It is fun and I like these lego projects! I want to buy a few sets and recreate it.
It's an easily solved problem: the state legislature writes a law mandating a statewide database, and schools are required to enter their information.

Like some other commenters pointed out, ad-hoc situations like police directing traffic and one-direction-at-a-time utility work are a much bigger concern.
NodeJS API are traditionally not promised based (although nowadays some do offer a promisified option), so I'm not especially excited to have a promise-based API :)

It's a great news for people doing both front end and backend I guess, but for people doing NodeJS développement it's just one more option to do http request (which I guess is going to be very similar to the module node-fetch that have existed for a while, without special consolidation effect)
I keep the backup codes in an unmarked file with no extension on drop box not tied to my actual email address. It come in handy at least 5 times.
Also, in case anyone was interested, on DB-engines.com, the real ground giving way is for Microsoft SQL Server. While it is still at the #3 spot on the list, its absolute score dropped -73.88 to 949.05 — a year-over-year drop of -7.2% of total.

• MySQL's drop in the index was only 4.5%

• PostgreSQL's rise was 9.5%

• MariaDB's rise was 12.3%
Based on this image:

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They and their VC backers are clearly betting on the concept that radars + lidar + imaging will be the ultimate successful solution in full self driving cars, as a completely opposite design and engineering philosophy from Tesla attempting to do "full self driving" with camera sensors and categorical rejection of lidar.

It is interesting to me that right now this is sitting on the HN homepage directly adjacent to: "Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs (reuters.com)"
Why can't they just nominate non-political lawyers? Allegiance to any political parties should automatically make them ineligible to serve on the supreme court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bu...
I checked the Azure Pricing Calculator just now.

Pricing for services in the EU GDPR "Sovereign" safe-zones (e.g. "Germany Central (Sovereign)") is largely the same as for services in other zones:

Azure App Service in Germany Sovereign: $62/mo

Azure App Service in West US: $54/mo

1TB Azure Storage in Germany Sovereign: $21.00

1TB Azure Storage in West US: $20.80/mo

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As for reliability, I haven't noticed any difference in availability and downtime between my Azure resources in any of the zones I've got services in. YMMV. Lately Azure's actually looking pretty good compared to AWS's spate of outages over the past 6 months.
> Mostly because I'm not that artistic

Same! I actually suck at pixel art, so I absolutely love to just watch what other people come up with and help out filling things in where I can.
Do you have a link to a community thread or any other link on how to implement the hibernation? Right now, anytime I am closing the lid, the battery is draining out.
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> I've "doubled" my salary plenty of times through this policy.

Let say you started at 50k (which is very low) and you doubled your salary 4 times (what is plenty ?). Then you make now 800k. Which is unlikely, so your main argument is probably wrong
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I vividly remember a "small-hands" (smaller all-hands) very early in my career, where the VP basically said "we recognize that oncall is a burden, and we want to compensate you for it. At first we thought we should give you a bonus related to how many times you get paged - but then we realized that that's incentivizing you to build flaky systems. Then we considered giving a bonus in inverse relation to how often you're paged - but then we though, no, they're smart engineers, they'll just turn off the monitoring and collect the bonus. So we're giving you a flat rate".

In the absence of some untamperable objective way to measure service health (the concept of SLAs was a distant dream at that point), can't fault that reasoning, tbh!
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Cars are destroying the planet. Smart, dumb, electric.

So please do not.
Well, let's be honest - when you're just starting out, making $50,000/year, you can probably double your salary in one jump. If you're making $200,000/year, you're not going to double your salary, recruiter or not.
Technically, to black them out, you'd need to recognize them first - which would violate that patent.
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