skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you had told me two months ago that the Russian navy would be so incompetent as to lose their flagship to the bottom of the Black Sea, I would not have believed you. Now it seems that further humiliations are not only possible, but probable.
These are necessarily bash functions, not executables, but here are two tools I'm proud of, which seem similar in spirit to vidir & vipe:

# Launch $EDITOR to let you edit your env vars.

function viset() {
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "USAGE: viset THE_ENV_VAR"
exit 1
else
declare -n ref=$1
f=$(mktemp)
echo ${!1} > $f
$EDITOR $f
ref=`cat $f`
export $1
fi
}

# Like viset, but breaks up the var on : first,
# then puts it back together after you're done editing.
# Defaults to editing PATH.
#
# TODO: Accept a -d/--delimiter option to use something besides :.

function vipath() {
varname="${1:-PATH}"

declare -n ref=$varname
f=$(mktemp)
echo ${!varname} | tr : "\n" > $f
$EDITOR $f
ref=`tr "\n" : < $f`
export $varname
}

Mostly I use vipath because I'm too lazy to figure out why tmux makes rvm so angry. . . .

I guess a cool addition to viset would be to accept more than one envvar, and show them on multiple lines. Maybe even let you edit your entire env if you give it zero args. Having autocomplete-on-tab for viset would be cool too. Maybe even let it interpret globs so you can say `viset AWS*`.

Btw I notice I'm not checking for an empty $EDITOR. That seems like it could be a problem somewhere.
> a few people

That's the problem with turning it into a bike path. Sure, it's nice to have a bike path. But a bike path moves maybe 1% of the commuters that light rail would.

A bike path minimizes utility, rather than maximizes it.
This submission isn't titled correctly despite it being the title of the article. The author has an issue with the JVM, not Clojure, and then chooses a dialect of Clojure (I assume because they like Clojure and it is for them).

It would be nice though to understand what the author believes the issues with the JVM are since they they aren't expounded upon in the article.
Okay. I just went in and double checked.

600+ comments bashing Github for not having prevented this action. Meanwhile, Github:

1) has this action in the "danger zone", literally the only UI element using RED COLOR;
2) has a warning banner on the dialog box that pops up when you click that button;
3) requires you to type in the name of the repository (which everyone copies and pastes anyway because they don’t get the point of this exercise)

So when you have all those things in place and still fly past all the defenses on an autopilot, you're not that bright to begin with and you should only blame yourself.

Meanwhile, there are 600 comments bashing Github for not putting in undo, or somesuch. The problem is, though, that this kind of carelessness that led to the repository losing its social stats doesn't stay with computers. It may very well carry over to other aspects of life, because an attitude is something ingrained way deeper than just using one computer program.

And then we have Youtube brimming with compilations of how cars don't stand a chance with trains. You would think that: 0) unambiguous warning road signs 1) red blinking lights 2) ringing bells 3) the train itself honking its horn for a couple miles before even approaching the crossing should be enough warning for the driver to move his/her ass off the track, and yet here we are.

So, yep, we may need to have better systems here and there, but being careful where it says "danger" should be a part of basic fucking competence at whatever it is you do. There are, shockingly, areas in life where an undo button doesn't exist. No, the fact that the other side didn't put safeguards in is not an excuse.
I'm curious why MacOS allows you to disable the "Quit" function of a program. How does that work? Is this a common thing on other operating systems? Will this app still respond to a Force Quit request?
Are you looking for studies or a discussion?
Sufficient constraints do prevent it, though.

I have some (to me) fascinating and promising ideas about tooling around managing software specifications. I also have strong opinions about version control and some core ideas about how I'd like it to work.

I'm a primary breadwinner husband and father of three children who lives far from any tech hubs.

That makes it rather difficult to spend much time or energy on those problems to realize the ideas I've got.

I strongly agree that constraints help creativity, but you can have enough to weigh it down rather than help it.
> Solaris was running circles around them in the 1990s when Linux was still a toy operating

Thirty years have passed. I was born in the 1990s and I’m old enough to have a house on my name and probably kids in the very near future.
I wonder if these could be Tesla, The Boring Company, and SpaceX?
I don’t think you understand what “absolute” means…
> The securities that the defendants and their co-conspirators sought to manipulate were issued by small companies, were thinly traded, and typically traded at less than $2 per share. These publicly traded shell companies frequently had few, if any, actual assets or actual business operations. While on paper the defendants and their co-conspirators had no connection to these companies, in reality they exercised substantial control, including installing management at the companies, financing the companies’ operations, and funding payments for attorneys in order to prepare public filings with OTC Markets Group, Inc. and the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). In order to attract investor interest, the defendants and their co-conspirators, at times, caused private businesses to be merged or “vended” into the publicly traded shell companies. The private businesses were often in industries likely to attract the investing public’s interest
> The abstract states that people "grossly overestimated their test performance and ability".

I understand that the words D-K used were along those lines; but the actual data shown in their graphs says what I said. Just look at the lines on the graphs. The "actual" lines are 45 degree lines up and to the right--as they must be. But the "perceived" lines are horizontal, or roughly so. That means the two lines are uncorrelated, or nearly so.

Saying that underperformers grossly overestimated their performance is only describing part of that--the part where the "perceived" lines on the left sides of the graphs are above the "actual" lines. It does not describe the other part--the part where the "perceived" lines on the right sides of the graphs are below the "actual" lines.

D-K don't talk about that at all in their paper, which means their paper itself misdescribes the actual data they found. And if this article had said that, it would have been a valid criticism. But this article is not talking about what D-K said in words; it's talking about D-K's actual graph. And the article's claimed criticism of D-K's graph is not valid: the article is in fact just describing the same graph in different words. It's not offering a different "explanation" of why the graph looks that way; in fact, as I said, it offers no explanation of that at all; it doesn't even recognize that as a question.
Marcus Hutchins: Why Destroying Bitcoin Wouldn't Stop Corporate Ransomware:

https://youtu.be/LDIGJRd_PyE
I will hold out for LTSD.
My mother bought a house in which the oven and the microwave were, for some inconceivable reason, one piece. We all hate and despise the microwave. But we can't get rid of it, because it's part of the oven.

I can't understand what anyone involved in the production of this monstrosity was thinking. It's a gigantic failure at the level of product design, product manufacturing, and house furnishing.

There is not even any "convenience" aspect to attaching your oven to a microwave.
>If it's not impacting you, I don't really see the point in passing judgement or criticism.

It affects the behavior of the person, and thus others that had to deal with them - including me, if I'm unlucky enough. Societal criticism of bad personality traits is one of the forces keeping societies functional and habitable.
FreePascal:

procedure x;
var a: integer;
b: pinteger;
begin
b := @a;
b^ := 1;
b^ := 2;
end;

becomes

project1.lpr:15 begin
0000000000401090 50 push %rax
project1.lpr:17 b^ := 1;
0000000000401091 c7042401000000 movl $0x1,(%rsp)
project1.lpr:18 b^ := 2;
0000000000401098 c7042402000000 movl $0x2,(%rsp)
project1.lpr:19 end;
000000000040109F 59 pop %rcx
00000000004010A0 c3 ret

Perhaps Delphi, too

Although I do not know how much is by design and how much comes from bugs in the optimizer. But they said that one reason why they maintain their own optimizer rather than switching to LLVM. LLVM would "break" this function
I don’t need these results but I don’t want to support this behaviour/trend.

Can anyone recommend a decent non-Google alternative.
It used to be true that the manual version of a gas car always had better fuel efficiency than the automatic but it hasn't been true for at least 10 years for many models.

I drive a Honda Fit which has an automatic CVT that gets better MPG than the manual version of the car and that's not unusual.

I remember some terrible CVT in the day like the Dodge Caliber (you see so many reviews of that car from people who struggled to drive it up hills and never figured out you could get OK results... if you used the paddle shifters) The one in the fit is just fine.

Some people think manual is better from a performance standpoint, certainly I get used to the feeling of a fixed relationship between speed and the engine hum but the torque converter in an automatic kicks ass when it comes to acceleration off the line.
And yet their one year high is something like $71 a share. This is absolutely a lowball offer from any reasonably long-term perspective.
I'm always on day 0 so I can't say for sure.
Library Science is what librarians learn. It's a real thing for a real job. Like most credentials and like most jobs, some people try to over-fit experience and knowledge in one field to another.

You see the same with CompSci/tech people treating data like there's no bias in its collection.
Are you going to sell? If not, why not?
I can see how this is handy, but it's also dangerous and likely to bite you in the ass more than not. I think sponge is great, but I think your example is dangerous. If you make a mistake along the way, unless it's a fatal error, you're going to lose your source data. Typo a grep and you're screwed.
Where did you find those §600+ comments bashing Github for not having prevented this action"?
you want to cash out with a 20% bump and be out of the stock during a huge tech equity downturn when the stock was over 60% higher last year?
99% doesn't seem very high. Does that mean that if you do 100 operations, 1 of them will fail?
TIL. Thanks.

One does have to wonder though, why isn't -brief the default and the current default set to -verbose or -long. I look at -brief on either command and it has all the information I am ever looking for.
Quite right! I’m quite “deaf” in the sense that I can’t understand what people are saying - they sound muffled (and I can’t separate two people talking at once anymore).

But, I’m actually quite sensitive to loud noises!

What I need is equalization and compression, so I can hear the soft noises. I don’t need much, if any, overall gain.

Why can’t Apple provide that, they have all the necessary technology at hand?
archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220121153647/http://www.hisutt...
Paint Shop Pro 4 was MS Paint enhanced. Not different (like GIMP or Photoshop), but same workflow only better.
Because depending on how you look at it, Twitter suspending Trump (and Babylon Bee et cetera) was part of the motivation for Musk to buy Twitter in the first place.
I'm not sure those in the PC/software business understand the time scale of pharmaceutical development. The vaccines for Covid represent ideas that have been in development for 10-20 years (since SARS), along with new ways of delivering an effect at a particular site which is of great interest in cancer therapy. They tested everything that was approved for humans, which consumed much of 2020 setting up, running and reviewing clinical trials.

In order to do things faster with novel drug matter, they're going to have to take the idea from blank paper/screen, through research, into development, into process chemistry to be able to at least make what's required to do Phase I trials. There has to be no snags along the way in terms of pharmacokinetics or toxicity (ie, the dog better not die). The biological model must hold, which was straightforward for the spike protein but continually fails for Alzheimers. And there has to be no surprise reactions once Phase I dosing starts.

Unless BillG has a time machine or can sell luck... As I'm sure he's said in the past, the time to develop drugs for the next pandemic was yesterday. This would give us 5-10 years to get ready.
What is with this blogspam?

YouTube-DL comes up just fine in search results (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube-dl&t=h_&ia=web).

So does Pirate Bay (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pirate+bay&t=h_&ia=web).

The headline is outright false.
What if I want to search what sites have mentioned those urls?
> Who really needs a search engine nowadays?

Apparently a lot of people since google processes 6B searches every day?
Not gonna speak to why they're blocking Apple Private Relay, but clearly, no, they're not implying that an IP uniquely identifies an individual. In some cases, it can identify an organization, though. One of my good friends worked for Wikipedia a while back, and he claims one of the bigger problems they had was Congressional staffers edit-warring on pages, so they blocked the IP range of US Congressional offices. They weren't trying to target a single staff. They were targeting all of them.
I enjoy the in-person interactions in the office, and I'll even argue that there's benefits and desirability to it, and office work and centralisation.

But my wife has worked at a company that did offsite kinda vacation/camp things, and gotta say, it ranks up pretty high there on the corporate dystopia cringe scale for us.

I work at a semi distributed organisation atm (several offices in different cities) and we generally used to have once a year offsite. while it was nice to see some faces in person, the experience of leaving my family to do so, and to have to go to locations and accommodation chosen by work, was again just a downer. I know other people looked forward to it, so horses for courses, but I also know there were people working long hours and liking the travel because they had nothing else going on in their lives.

I think the strengths of centralisation stand independent a lot of these practices, that make a lot of us shudder on some level.
clojure on the jvm has much better performance than ruby, but for my small side projects, that doesn’t matter.

I guess I was trying to describe the frustration of switching languages and ecosystems while also trying to ship, thought I could do it, but I couldn’t.

I suppose I would have had a much better time and stayed in C-land (and gotten much better performance) if I had tried golang instead of clojure.
> The filing won’t be posted to SEC’s EDGAR system[0] until Monday morning.

Is this[0] the filing you're referring to? Don't know the first thing about the SEC, filings, or any of that, but Musk shared[1] this link yesterday.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465...
[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1514564966564651008
What about just running Windows 7 instead of Windows 10?
> I couldn't access the original 1999 full article because it's behind a paywall

The article this thread is about links to a PDF of it, I was able to download it just fine:

https://www.avaresearch.com/files/UnskilledAndUnawareOfIt.pd...
Spam, for want of content, is no virtue.
> Yes, they need to look out for their shareholders but they also need to do right by the company, and companies can be formed for any legal purpose and everyone (the company and the shareholders) values things differently

The board has a lot of leeway into how they achieve profit for the shareholders, but all decisions they make must be nominally in the interest of that goal (assuming we're discussing a for-profit company such as Twitter). They can basically claim anything they do is done in the interest of shareholder value and be safe, but if they said "we know the company will lose money on this, but we really like X so we'll spend company money on it", they would pretty clearly be in breach of their fiduciary duty.
> and not be found working against the interest of shareholders.

It depends on what the interests of the shareholders actually is. Monetary only, or are there other considerations they care about?

I assume the boards of such companies have had private discussions with the majority shareholders to find out exactly what their priorities are, and then acted accordingly.
The whole thing reeks of technically illiterate conspiracy theory, so pulling in unrelated public figures wasn't surprising. "Google tracks you even if you're using Incognito Mode, so Chrome is bad!" Google (and any other web company) tracks you in any browser if you're using private browsing, so that isn't an argument against using Chrome.
For me, and I don't even use Twitter, it's clear.

GP means that those resorting to "freedom of speech is not for companies" are hypocrites. They're defending the right of companies to supress opinions on their services, not because they believe that's fair --actually they're anti-business-- but because they can pressure the companies, threatening their advertisers, so only opinions approved by them will show.

If Twitter goes private and stops depending on ads, they won't be able to exert such pressure and will lose that advantage. Even if Musk is totally fair with moderation, they're going to complain he's not censoring enough.
It's a press release, most people with some amount of media literacy understand what they are.

And really, the original press releases tend to be quite a bit better than the 'science blog' articles that regurgitate them, coming from a university url isn't a bad thing.
You’ve posted this several times in this thread and it is not correct.
Seems another Pandora’s chest is lying out in the open.
OK, I have been sufficiently reminded of a mostly-offline build process and punished for my flippant remark which I can no longer edit or delete.

Thank you!
Not really; in that case the stop sign should just be a yield sign. That's the point of this law: the margin where an action is safe enough is vastly different between bikes and cars. A car and a bike travelling at the same speed will cause vastly different amounts of harm on impacting the same object. The absolute time to emergency stop is different, thus the required reaction time. And so on.
The poison pill will apply to "groups" as well, so don't think that would work
Modern automatic transmissions in ICE vehicles are able to achieve better fuel economy than the manual version of the same car. Modern autos have 7+ gears and can spend more time at the optimal throttle and engine load to maximize efficiency. They also lockup in nearly every gear rather than just relying on a fluid coupling.

I'm not surprised Jeep is thinking of releasing an EV with all their legacy mechanical drivetrain, but it's going to get horrific range. The losses from going through the transmission, transfer case, drive shafts, and differentials is pretty high. It also doesn't help Wranglers make bricks look aerodynamic. The PHEV Wrangler uses 428 wh/km in highway range tests and this would likely be a little worse. The manual will have a little less loss than the auto of the PHEV, but the extra weight in batteries would probably more than offset that. For comparison, my Model 3 SR+ consumes about 150 wh/km at highway speeds. That's one of the most efficient EVs available, but even the wave of electric crossovers that have been hitting the market recently are in the low 200s wh/km.
Do people really use copy-on-write filesystems though? I mean it'd be great if that were a default, but I rarely encounter them, and when I do, it's only because someone intentionally set it up that way. In 30+ years of using Unix systems, I can't even definitively recall one of them having a copy-on-write filesystem in place. Which is insane considering I used VAX/VMS systems before that and it was standard there.
Anyone care to speculate what his plan B would look like? Could he make a twitter clone/replacement then offer existing members $50 for their username and password plus x amount of engagement on his new site?
I 100% assumed that's what this would be until I clicked on it. I feel like a large portion of (especially beginner) SSH users don't really understand asymmetric encryption enough to understand the implications there.
the complaint in the article is around the serach engine's "search within site" feature.

Compare the following two:

- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Athepiratebay.org&t=h_&ia=we...

- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aycombinator.com&t=h_&ia=web
Of the 600+ comments here, the vast vast majority is contemplating how github could improve it’s UI and UX so that nobody loses a star ever again.
Apparently it's lower than the current 52 week moving average of the stock price, so I don't think it would be outrageous to claim it's a low offer even without some massive deals in the pipeline.
Re: Yom Kippor in the south is where Egyptian anti tank misses did shocking damage to Israeli tanks which caused a lot of people to predict the imminent death of the MBT 50 years ago.

The Russian active protection system is called Arena [1]

1. http://www.military-today.com/tanks/arena.htm
Good leap forward but much more than 99% is needed, at least 5-6 nines.

Thing is that, as you add more qubits, "operation fidelity" (as they call it) goes down exponentially, maybe even superexponentially (?), so it's very hard to keep it within an acceptable range on larger systems.
People are overlooking the fact that a poison pill will likely increase the price of Musk's final offer, and in doing so will maximize shareholder value.

Put another way, Musk may be willing to pay a lot more than a 25% premium for Twitter (he already said he doesn't care about price). Without this poison pill, Musk can force a takeover by accumulating shares. With this poison pill, the board has leverage to maximize his final offer.
Ah yes I glanced too quickly over the surface here. It does look more like redirection. Will have to look at it more. Appreciate your helpful response vs the downvoters and the one unhelpful/snarky response.
>If "detonate at a distance" does not work I wonder what the function of that kind of add-on armor was, on the sides specifically?

It depends on the shell/threat you expect to come at you. I don't know if "capped" armor piercing shells were still a concept when those tanks were built. In that case, an initial, small amount of spaced armor is designed to "decap" the shell, because the shell under the cap has significantly less armor penetrating capability.
10 1/4 percent fixed-rate mortgage in 1988. 5%, while a tidy sum, is nowhere near they've been.