skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah right, the folks that write our intranet tools are the ones not qualified enough to work on a shipping product (I know this is harsh but the few exceptions just prove the rule).

No way in hell we'd expose their stuff directly to the internet, especially since these internal tools deal with things like benefits, paystubs, asset allocations, access control, etc.
I can't think of any time where I have needed the same script to run on multiple systems, because that's not the sort of thing I use shell scripts for. But there are many times where I have needed to write a script for a specific system that was running busybox or dash or ksh, and it is worth knowing what features I can use in those cases.
I totally agree that the take away is construction costs are going up over time! This holds true even if you look at price/foot opposed to total cost.

Like you said, part of this is differences in what you get, building codes, and amenities.

That said, Craftsmen homes are wonderful and in some respects have better build quality than modern homes.
from your source:

> Approximately 60-80% of the large displacement motorcycles operating on our public roadways at any given time in the United States have been illegally modified

you’re missing an important qualifier in your own text (“large displacement”). your source also repeatedly says that noise disruption in and of itself is domestic terrorism, which seems… a little ABSURD to me? really? are people TERRIFIED by loud motorcycles? no: it’s a disturbance, an annoyance, a nuisance, many things. but TERRORISM it is not. i really wouldn’t put a whole lot of stock in this source of yours.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ce2_E1ap9d4

This comes to mind for this thread.
Triple-Screen Raspberry Pi Kid's PC Packs a Lot of Tech into Custom Walnut Case
Hmm, I've told them several times that I'm retired, but I haven't specifically said I'm old - I may have to try that. Or maybe just tell them to call me on my landline.

"Sure I can come in to the office. Just let me print off some MapQuest directions."
For Qt (QML/QtQuick; Widgets are no linger the preferred method afaik) you have qmetaobjects-rs, which is reeally nice.
I agree that this is how the industry works, intentionally delivering garbage to be able to sell more billable hours. But is it the only viable strategy?

What would it take to compete with high quality work instead? Where your repeat business doesn't come from fixing everything you did wrong, but it comes from your reputation of getting it right the first time around?

In a market where there's a surplus of consultants but a shortage of programming problems to solve, it makes sense to milk every client you can find dry, but that's not at all the kind of market we're in. You'd make as much money doing four six-month projects for different clients as you would milking a single one for two years. Or more, since you'd get better at it with each project you complete and may be able to ask for a higher rate, whereas churning out garbage one year after the other teaches you nothing and sets you apart from nobody.
This was actually considered by the Navy. It was the leading plan advocated by the Navy as an alternative to invasion.

The problem is that Japan is not self sufficient in food or much of anything else required for a modern economy.

The policy you advocate would have essentially turned back the clock and made Japan into a feudal kingdom with 1/10 the population. It would have been a mass starvation way beyond any blockade of Germany or other modern starvation's.

At the same time, massive amounts of Allied (mostly Chinese) POW would be die. The Japanese army in China and Korea would likely have continued and intensified their war on the local population. Revenge on local population for supposed help of the allies was something Japan did all the time.

At the same time it would have required the stationing of a gigantic navy and air force all over East Asia for potentially decades. Japan soldiers were still all over East Asia and had to be contained everywhere.

They would have started leaving their bases and attempting to extract food from local populations. Japanese bases all over East Asia would turn into quasi independent military dictatorships trying to insure their own survival.

There were still active soldiers in 1974 who didn't know Japan had fallen. The had to fly the commanding officer who had been 20 years retired in an old uniform to the island to get the guy to stop fighting. Now imagine that sort of thing the whole Japanese army in East Asia.
Totally agreed. While we're at it, let's make Brainfuck the official POSIX shell language.
`apt` can install everything you can find in the graphical Software Center and more, and with the exact same results (like icons to click on).

If it's not available in `apt` repositories there's a pretty good chance you can install it with flatpak, which does roughly the same but is distro-independent. Graphical non-free software like Skype is easy to install with flatpak and "just works" in my experience.
Sure plenty of times growing up. Not sure the point of this question?

Ignoring the environmental aspect I think limited use in suburban settings is reasonable. I'm particularly focused on egregious use in urban settings when we aren't talking fall leaf collection but constant "cleaning". Obviously it's not the workers fault... it's a matter of mis-priced negative externalities. Napkin math say the noise makes 100 people WFH 10% less effective for an hour at say $50hr wage average it certainly makes more sense to just pay workers to work twice as long with brooms (if the work is even necessary in the first place).
Fun counter-intuitive space fact, it actually takes much less energy to send a space probe out of the solar system than it does to send one into the Sun. To fling something into the Sun you basically have to get rid of all the kinetic energy that was given to us from the Earth's orbit.

Even stranger still is the fact that you have more efficiency if you send the probe into the outer solar system first and then try to slow down. The Ulysses probe did this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(spacecraft)

Edit:

> "To fall into the sun a spacecraft would first have to escape the earth's gravity, and then after that slow down almost completely from the earth's orbital speed of about 30 km/s (~70,000 mph) around the sun. A four-stage, 3,000 ton rocket (about Saturn-V size) could only launch about 150 lbs into the sun on a direct trajectory, and it would probably cost a little more than $1 billion."

> "To escape the solar system and fly off into interstellar space, a spacecraft only needs to speed up from earth's orbital velocity by about 40% (instead of reducing it by almost 100% to fall into the sun). The required delta-v would be about 17-18 km/s."

From a simple HTML page with content written by a college professor, my favorite kind of webpage! https://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=43694&t=l...
I have found my life has improved where as soon as I can't find the answer to a "wtf how do I do this trivial in shell" question after a cursory search, it's a good time to stop, and seriously consider Python (or Perl, ok, ok).

Sometimes, it's genuinely better to plug on in shell (e.g. if you are just calling other scripts and chaining stuff), but, especially if you want some less-magical string or list manipulations, often Python/Perl will provide a more readable, more maintainable, more _testable_ script. YMMV with Perl.
His "investors" being in this case the government, and Babbage does not seem to have understood politicians or the constraints that a government operates under.

You can see the timeline in https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57532/57532-h/57532-h.htm#p0... Chapter VI (with the caveat that, though this chapter is written by a third person, this being Chapter VI of Babbage's autobiography/memoirs, clearly it must have been sufficiently sympathetic to him that Babbage included it in his book).

But the short version is that, far from it being a "habit", he seems to have done what you said only once, in 1834, when he started to have ideas for an Analytical Engine, which would have completely superseded the Difference Engine that he had already been building for the government for 11 years at that point (initial estimate had been 2–3 years). The relationship between the government and him were already strained, but he doesn't seem to have understood that and got further entangled, instead of extricating himself. He asked the government what their plan was (in light of this development), and it took them until 1842 to make a decision (just give up on it entirely).

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Slightly longer version of the timeline that I started reconstructing, before abandoning it:

• In around 1812 or 1813, he had the germ of the idea "that all these Tables (pointing to the logarithms) might be calculated by machinery". Between 1820 and 1822, he made his own Difference Engine (two orders of difference, 6 digits).

• In 1823, Babbage started making "a much larger and more perfect engine" for the government, and this is where the trouble starts. The plan was for this machine to have "six orders of differences, each consisting of about twenty places of figures".

• Unfortunately, the conversation was informal and the details of the arrangement were not written down(!), which led to misunderstandings over the years as Babbage came back and asked for more money: work ceased in May 1829, resumed in February 1830, etc. Then in September 1834 that "Analytical Engine" event (idea) happened.

• Just before this, in July 1834, Lardner in The Edinburgh Review wrote "a very elaborate description of this portion of the machine" (took me some searching but I found it! here: https://archive.org/details/edinburghreviewo59macauoft/page/... ), and this inspired Scheutz in Sweden to build a machine as described. As Wikipedia describes, the Swedish machine went up to the third order (not sixth), and had 5-digit numbers (not 20). This was completed in 1843.

• In 1853, a larger (fourth-order, 15 digits) Swedish machine was built, exhibited in 1855 and sold in 1856, delivered in 1857. The British government commissioned a copy of it, which was built in 1859. (Note that this was still smaller than the design which Babbage was close to completing in 1834 or even 1842… oh well.)

• Note the ending of the 1834 article (https://archive.org/details/edinburghreviewo59macauoft/page/...): already in 1834 people were wondering why on earth Babbage and the government don't bring this matter to a quick conclusion.
I think you're thinking about this incident? https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident

In that case, ~9 hours of transaction history were reversed because of a transaction that resulted in an overflow in the main (and I think only at the time) Bitcoin client allowing the creation of unlimited Bitcoin.
The stigma is well deserved and I will enthusiastically spread it.

Bash should be considered an esoteric programming language. Shell Programming Considered Harmful.

It's hard to program, and easy to make mistakes in. It should be left as a tool of last resort.

(that said, I understand the appeal of doing weird things with it, like the Minecraft server, for the same reason other esoteric programming languages have appeal)
groobiest@NH5xAx ~/Code/ytcast [master] ytcast -l
ab5d4550 192.168.1.2 "[LG] webOS TV OLED55C16LA"
groobiest@NH5xAx ~/Code/ytcast [master] ytcast -d lg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZx-rLoV4do

groobiest@NH5xAx ~/Code ~/.local/bin/catt scan
Scanning Chromecasts...
Error: No devices found.
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GTK and Rust works really well on Linux, which I suppose is the pertinent part given the focus of the article. I've yet to work out how to get GTK and Rust to work on macOS or Windows, which makes cross-platform UI difficult.
That implies malicious intent rather than a bug causing a false positive.
Full disclosure: This is my tool that I'm using to generate the insights.

When OpenSearch was announced, I shared some insights into how both Elasticsearch and OpenSearch were evolving, and I'll share some more up to date insights here.

Looking at recent pull request activity, OpenSearch had 52 contributors

https://oss.gitsense.com/insights/github?q=pull-age%3A%3C%3D...

while Elasticsearch had 181

https://oss.gitsense.com/insights/github?q=pull-age%3A%3C%3D...

The metric that I'm most interested in, is knowing how many people committed within the last 14 days compared to those that committed more than 14 days ago. For Elasticsearch, they had 87 contributors which accounts for 68% of all contributors. OpenSearch had 20, which accounts for 67%. With these numbers, I can ball park how many people are working on Elasticsearch and OpenSearch full time and I would say Elasticsearch at the present moment has probably 5 times more people working on it fulltime vs OpenSearch.

An important thing to note is, Amazon has other projects that are related to OpenSearch so these numbers don't necessary give the full picture, but it is pretty obvious that Elasticsearch is evolving at a much faster pace and time will tell if they (OpenSearch) can keep up.
We already make containers that can tolerate being pummeled head on by freight trains without leaking, so I imagine that we could definitely engineer something similar for space travel.
The Remdesivir Riddle
The Soviet had literally zero capability of invading Japan. The only way the could have would be on US and British ships.
I read a comment once (that it will be impossible for me to find again), that suggested that this is actually a baked in assumption and it depends on the audience.

Audiences in Europe were more likely to find it useful to be presented with the working theory first, and examples later, as a specialization of the theory.

American audiences tended to prefer working examples first, and then a generalization to form a theory.
FWIW I didn't know about CATT, and I actually have some use for it. I sometimes want to cast local video files from my PC to a projector on the other side of the room. That already has a Chromecast so CATT should make it easy.
There's big demand for loud cars. You really only need a couple assholes per 100,000 population to buy them and hoon around late at night for it to be a public nuisance. This isn't going away until the government bans gas cars completely or cracks down hard on existing noise regulations.
Would need to know more about the details, but I agree with the intent while being slightly fearful of police/prosecutions being automated.

As many have posted, loud motor vehicles are a quality of life issue for me (live on a busy street, near an intersection, and not far from a freeway). I am frustrated that obnoxiously loud vehicles are not policed. And, yes, I went through the “loud car stereo” phase of my own youth, including one ticket for volume.

My biggest fear is that police/prosecutors will become efficient at automating/scaling their prosecutions. Yes, consistency of prosecution is very important for encouraging compliance. Automated systems are less likely to be corrupted than human-centric systems where officers can choose to use their discretion for their friends/family or just people they are more likely to like.

However, we have soooo many laws, the more they are enforced, the more we will see how big of a burden the totality of law will become increasingly visible and painful to the average person.

That said, I’m not a fan of slippery slope arguments. So long as we continue to evaluate each of these automated systems as they roll out, I’m a fan of increasing quality of life through enforcing laws that are already on the books in a mostly fair way.
>They can ignore it you if they like you, or fine you if they don't

Or ignore everyone if their approval rating is in the toilet, which is what they're doing as much as they can right now.

HN screeches a lot about it but the meatspace people I talk to don't seem to mind.
Ahh, the new Oracle.
how does this compare with the experimental chrome built-in recorder?
I thought I linked the FES budget somewhere around here but apparently I never did. Here it is:

https://science.osti.gov/-/media/budget/pdf/sc-budget-reques...

86 M USD cash, 220 M USD in-kind. The 450 M USD FES budget does not include in-kind contributions. I don't actually understand the accounting here.
Don’t think I trust a single word google announces on the topic of privacy anymore
> I think I always assumed if someone was reading on a smaller screen, an epub would suffice

If it helps to understand why someone would stick to PDFs: I want to both preserve my ebooks over the long term (decades) and annotate them - comments, highlighting, etc. ePub's format is less stable for the long term, but most of all it lacks standardized annotation (afaict, after some detailed research). Also, if I annotate a book on my computer, I want the same copy on my small screen.

I hope that's helpful!
Most people don't really get what trademark defense is -- having Amazon label the trademark in some places as "Elasticsearch is a trademark of <whoever>" is enough to count. Even linking the elasticsearch software repo or elastic.co in conjunction with the trademark name is enough.

Source: I have a best-selling book author friend who has been defending her trademark on a somewhat popular pop-culture term this way for a few decades.
That makes sense. I do sort of wish there were something to take away from this though that might lead to better outcomes for future endeavours, so that people could learn from Elastic's blunder, but if there's anything I don't see it.
SCaml
It would be super easy to turn off all fossil fuels. Just flick the switch and make do with what electricity generation is left. The question is just how much we're willing to pay. Taking most of civilization offline is a bit much to ask, obviously, so flicking the switch is off the table. That said, we could probably do it in less than 5 years of wartime effort.
Like many here, I’ve faced similar challenges in debugging time-dependent code.

What is the best way to set or mock system time during testing?
They don't want this car to succeed because they are simping for the cybertruck that is again delayed while the hummer is done. The hummer also has many features that Elon promised the cybertruck will have but may in the end be missing.
Maybe this should be renamed to "Zig Compiler Internals"
Covered in The Tick
I can't find the stat, but it was in an SF Chronicle article on police not doing anything about a homeless person tearing down a parklet, but in San Francisco, the number of traffic violations ticketed has gone from 10K+ to <1K in the same period... it is really astonishing how lax it has become and it looks like traffic and property crime is the least enforced.
From some brief googling it seems that catalytic systems haven't widely been implemented on motorcycles until fairly recently, so that ratio may be for motorcycles without any emissions equipment, even if left stock. That being said, my '05 BMW for sure had a cat. I haven't been able to find info on whether they're similarly effective compared to catalytics on modern cars.
Oh, that's fine, we'll just limit cars at the speed limit. They all ship with GPS for 20+ years, it's time to use it. Nobody needs to pay, nobody needs to simulate a PID controller.
There are fewer morons and criminals on the free internet? Hmmm ...
What inside knowledge do you have that indicates it's not true? You can't just assume something is false because it contradicts what you want to be true.
Not sure how we got from wishing we could use a language with fewer footguns than bash to… human emitter of YAML whose creativity has been ripped from them, so they will now design overly-clever systems as some sort of creative outlet?
> Instead we have a culture of entirely selfish individualism, so the popular backlash is that damn near everyone is this thread (including myself) applauds the erosion of privacy rights because we're fed up and sick of living in a society with assholes.

I dunno, I find this framing by "Privacy Advocates" to be a bit... hyperbolic. When every little thing is the first step to complete tyranny, nothing is. To me at least these things are tradeoffs, and in this case it seems worth it?
History is not necessarily written by the victors, fwiw. Victors frequently end up too busy running the government to write history books whereas the losers sometimes end up with a lot of free time and motivation.

See: Lots of pro-Confederate "history", lots of history from ancient times
> it is extremely easy to edit a green light to a red light, just partially delay the feed. Data is meaningless.

It is extremely easy to tamper with most evidence, and there are ways to detect tampering.
Well, I'm in exactly this situation right now.

The approach I've taken is to implement my own application gateway using node-http-proxy.

I use npm workspaces to share common functionality between all the node parts of the application, including the api gateway / reverse proxy.

I configure the other services to trust a HTTP header that's injected in the api gateway (and explicitly deleted from incoming requests) that includes details about the user. For example, Apache Superset (and several other services) support the REMOTE_USER header.

Honestly, doing this in a high-level language like NodeJS with node-http-proxy is even simpler to do and easier to read / audit than what I've seen in Rego, plus I get to use all the common utilities for dynamic service access, database access, etc...

This borders on a "NIH" thing, but I think if you saw the actual implementation, it's even less complex than what I'm seeing from these examples. It took me a couple hours to throw together, it's easy to extend, and supports a multitude of authentication scenarios, including shared-session (which would be tough with Rego).
How is AWS stomping all over it? Being able to fork for your own needs is a good thing. You don't make something open source and accept the world's free contributions without acknowledging that.
Idstuff! I remember that.
> Android likely has more options for small size phones.

I wish. The only phones you can get that are of a similar or smaller size to an iPhone Mini are unsupported Chinese gimmick phones or quite old. The smallest Android that still gets support is the Pixel 4a (NOT the Pixel 4a 5g, which is much larger), and that is approaching the end of its support window.
On android use Sync.
On browser, login, save dark theme and ensure it's set to 'classic' view. After a short adjustment period it's very functional. I now find old reddit irritating.
The 9000 lb Hummer EV will do 256x the damage to the roads as a 2000 lb Honda Accord.
Windows 11 Pro to require internet connection and Microsoft Account
[1] states:

> Similar to Windows 11 Home edition, Windows 11 Pro edition now requires internet connectivity. If you choose to setup device for personal use, MSA will be required for setup as well. You can expect Microsoft Account to be required in subsequent WIP flights.

[1]: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2022/02/16/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22557/
> Purely because the first does not have cars.

Not here in my suburb. The bulk of the noise comes almost entirely from katydids, crickets, cicadas, etc. There was plenty of car/truck noise at night in Manhattan, and it was particularly jarring when not among the hum of busier traffic.
I agree red light cameras are problematic for other reasons, but parent's claim specifically was that they were unconstitutional because the evidence can't be inspected.
I remember spending hours and hours reading the manuals from my Apple ][, especially the monitor ROM listing Steve Wozniak wrote.
It has bluetooth support as well! I use the MX master but it's the same system. There's a button on the bottom to switch between up to 3 devices.
> Many trackwheels on are also slow at of you want to flick many pages down.

This is why the Apple Magic Mouse is so great - it's essentially a phone surface instead of physical buttons.