skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Everything they can" isn't the same as "everything." "Everything they can" means "everything they can get away with as a long-term-viable business strategy." For an airline, safety is not one of those things.

For OVH, though, the "safety" of their servers (i.e. availability/durability) is one of those things they can skimp on — because unlike for people, for servers, "safety" is just another fungible thing to optimize as part of OpEx.

One of the fundamental tenets of IT operations is that hardware can just fail, datacenters can just catch fire(!), backhoes can just cut cables, etc. — and so businesses that care, architect their stacks to be resilient to these failure modes, using multi-AZ replication and so forth. And if everybody who actually cares is already doing that... then it really doesn't matter if your DC goes up in smoke.

(And also, to these same companies, low cost can have a "safety" all its own. Rather than lowering OpEx, you can instead see the calculus as: for the price of one vertically-scaled AWS instance, you can get four equivalent OVH boxes in different regions, and replicate between them. Which one of those options is "safer"?)

Mind you, if anything got burnt up that had real SLAs on it — for example, if they were offering an DBaaS service out of that datacenter — they'd be in trouble. But some leased bare-metal boxes? Nah.
I sincerely doubt that we're talking about anything more bandwidth intensive than text messaging, but the recent news out of Globalstar tells us they have a new partner who they refuse to disclose who is fronting them a lot of money for expansion.

>Globalstar has signed a term sheet with a “large, global customer” to start deploying some of its spectrum for terrestrial use “in the U.S. and beyond,” the satellite operator said May 5.

The operator said Feb. 24 it picked MDA and Rocket Lab to supply a set of 17 satellites to replenish its constellation after a “potential customer” agreed to fund most of the $327 million project. The agreement includes an option for up to nine additional satellites at $11.4 million each.

https://spacenews.com/globalstar-agrees-terms-with-global-cu...

Requiring secrecy while fronting a large amount of money is certainly in line with Apple's known MO.
More guns than people down south. Open border, basically, with US, leading increased smuggling. Trying to keep the ability to shoot-to-kill down in agreement with the rest of the G-7. There's enough issues with the cultural exports of the US, so it makes sense to head off some of the less desirable features.

Ideally, they'll couple the reduction of gun availability with an increase in mental health treatment, but the different approach to health care helps a little.
Indeed. I've seen bananas at the farmers market, and I don't live in Hawaii.

One local farmers market puts in significant effort verifying that the farmers are indeed local, including visiting the farm. People still show up with trucks full of identical pies, swearing they spent all day baking them.
The best gas generators are (approx) 60% efficient. Gas furnaces are around 90% efficient.

Electric heat pumps can go up to 300% efficient, and they don't care what kind of power source the grid uses.
So many startups these days seem to only have other startups as their customers, and they're almost always due to connections between their investors. Just trading VC money back and forth.
More recently in Canada, and in response to an mass shooting that the police were not equipped to handle (the one in Moncton), the RCMP were issued "carbines" which as I understand are machine guns and better suited to mounting an armed response against an active shooter.
I sometimes play the BSD games (boggle, mille, and others).

There is also ZZT and Free Hero Mesh, but those are engines with different licenses for different game worlds. A few ZZT games which are free cultural works. But for both engines, games can be made with any licensing.
> the difference between a shooting and a mass shooting is a quick and prompt armed response. Basically a good guy with a gun

So, that excludes the cops standing outside for an hour twiddling their thumbs, then?
I still remember sitting in a strategy session where the same argument was made for Facebook 'killing' Snapchat with Poke. And then again for FB Stories, with tech news running headlines "RIP Snapchat."

One of the psych principles I used to lecture about often in my keynotes was on boundaries as freeing, and discussed an experiment where children clustered around the sandbox in a playground with no fence, but used the entire playground area when there was a fence.

Parity isn't simply the availability of identical features - sometimes it's also the lack of the other features, for both the users and the developers working on the product.

That's not to say this particular instance will be a successful company. Just that the ease of copying their differentiating feature may be less of a big deal than people often think.
Capitalism is a wonderful system. But when your mind has become a commodity your economic value will approach zero. I hope you're not expecting our capitalist society to coddle you when that day arrives. Perhaps you will do manual labor for the machines, but I doubt the value of human physical labor will last. So good luck.
In popular road cycling areas, things like 10+ mile descents aren't unusual. Momentarily glances at the map is how you know you need to slow down.

As an example, search YouTube for a video of someone descending a road in the Santa Monica mountains.
Skid Row is literal hell on Earth. I'm sure this has been tried and failed.

There is so much going on when it comes to renting a place, you need to be able to hold a job and prove it, you need to be a good tenant and a good neighbor, etc., and failing at anyone of these might mean problems and then another downward spiral ending on the streets. Unless we're talking about paying the rest of their lives and giving them free housing for life, they will have to learn a bunch of skills everyone else takes for granted.

People need to start admitting the limitations of government when it comes to solving certain problems. Government programs, which are both complicated and ineffective at the same time, don't have the capacity to see homelessness as the human problem that it is, and instead wants to solve it through infrastructure and bureaucracy.
Everything other than Waitrose in the UK is a “budget” brand. That’s why the selection is poor, and why the presence of a Waitrose makes house prices go up around it.
Eons did a great piece on this recently: https://youtu.be/wvfR3XLXPvw

One of the things I love about the way Eons cover topics is how they don't just focus on what we know, but also how we know, who figured things out, and what we got wrong along the way.

Can't endorse their style of science journalism enough.
Even more wild to me is that saber-toothed cat-like predators evolved seven separate times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saber-toothed_predator
Nitpick: Google Search alternative
Address what problem? Mass shootings in the US?

This is exactly what I'm talking about.
Yes caste discrimination exists to various extants. You may not have seen it as most people who come abroad as professionals are "higher" castes who were historically economically and educationally privileged though this is changing slowly - not unlike how the impact of slavery and segregation is still quite obvious in people of color communities in the US.

Surnames and to a much lesser extent skin color/facial features indicate caste quite easily to people who have grown up in India. Often castes / surnames were historically also linked to professions which followed down family.

In fact in early medeival Europe too surnames historically indicated profession (Smith, Wright, Cooper, Ward, Chamberlain, Shoemaker...) but I believe the major labor shortage and dislocations caused by the black death and frequent warfare requiring conscription across all social classes pretty much ended any likelihood of social rigidity coming out of this. It will be interesting to see though how the capital and political power accumulation by the wealthier Americans plays out over the next few centuries.

In India, the way society developed was to restrict warfare largely to be carried out by certain upper castes and for most of the society, it didn't really matter who the ruling king was - at least until late medieval periods when proselytization started with Islamic invasion. So the caste system developed into something deep rooted, pernicious and divisive.

Interestingly in India, while Christianity and Islam don't have castes in theory, in practice it is commonly observed that their adherents too observe such distinctions which tells you how deep rooted the problem is.

Specifically to the community of the activist, the Dalits were actually considered to be "people with no caste" historically and were treated as "untouchables". Very likely they were the people who got the wrong side of the stick during the Aryan invasion ~3000 years ago which forms the basis of much of Hindu culture though there are obvious deep rooted integrations from the pre-existing pre-invasion culture (Shiva, Durga etc..) likely from the people who were integrated into the Aryan society.

You don't really see "untouchability" today especially in urban largely as a result of efforts of freedom movement era social reformers like Gandhi and Ambedkar followed by "vote bank politics" in the nascent democracy. Some communities also stopped using surnames. However i still recall when we were very young, our great grand parents generation still observed some of the discriminatory structures. So it has taken a couple of generations to get rid of untouchability - ie parents who saw discrimination as children but don't practice it raising children who understand it but haven't seen it raising kids who only know of it intellectually). It will probably take a couple more to eliminate caste discrimination but we are half way there
Given the overwhelming majority of these horrible, tragic events happen in so called "gun-free" zones, allowing individuals to defend themselves with proportional means is a rational decision.
How to Deal with Trolls
maybe someone can help me understand this: why does an investor think that a small business can grow to $1mil ARR on a $100k investment?

that would almost certainly mean instant success or a quick death, no? If the author is targeting the "middle class" of startups, why hasn't their expectations adjusted with that? I'm very confused.
Prior to the pandemic most people in cities would eat out more often. Now with the rise of the hobby baker, lockdowns and remote work killing restaurants and commuting, homemade cooks, and inflation tightening budgets more people are cooking at home. Also, British grocery stores are just sad mate. Aldi is lovely for its low prices however.
Deadly secret: Electronic warfare shapes Russia-Ukraine war
> We know the process has occurred multiple times and our current grant is aimed at better understanding the drivers and implications

What can they actually discover? 10 legs good? But how about 12? [1]

> The crab with the longest legs is the Japanese spider crab. It’s not related to spiders, despite its name. When extended, its legs can be as long as 12 feet.

Now there's a nightmare for you.

[1] https://www.reference.com/pets-animals/many-legs-crab-4c30fb...
For most use cases, I agree.

But Rust is a better option when you also need one or more of the following:

a) tight control over allocations

b) deterministic performance

c) strong data race protection

d) zero overhead C interop (e.g., processing audio using ffmpeg)
AHREFS has 2 things going for it: 1. a freaking giant crawled index, 2. a freaking giant pile of metadata on google search rankings.
Most things people call AI nowadays is rubbish techbro hype. Don't hold your breath waiting for "AI" to replace humans.

If anything, we should be against AI being used for important stuff because most AI suck.
Yes. Anyone who finds a comment analogising race in America to caste in India insightful knows nothing about caste.
So how does further restricting legal gun ownership in Canada impact the smuggling of illegal weapons?

The mass shooting in Nova Scotia where 23 people were killed - those were illegal guns, the RCMP had been told about the guy, and yet nothing was done.

Like I said, it's all smoke and mirrors.
It is important here that he wrote LETTERS. Not emails. LETTERS.

Folks are firing off emails all the time. Taking time to write a letter is more likely to get a response, from just about anyone.
We had a Viking stove with an extremely powerful fan. In general, it sucked everything out.

The furnace vented outside.
You will get 100+ out of 200 businesses that are >1X+

This seems implausible.
Yeah I think the like lowest end bread at an Italian grocery store is going to be way better than the lowest end "bread" at an American grocery store, but the difference is at the American store there is literally (I shit you not) 50-100 varieties of bread and a lot of them are decent (actually by a lot I mean like 4-10).
Huh. I’ll see if I can find him on the inside. Hopefully he’s the type to appreciate small supportive cold DMs.
Vulkan takes a lot more effort than OpenGL.
That said, as someone who passes through Breezewood regularly due to living relatively close by, it's been looking increasingly decrepit, well before COVID. A number of the businesses shown in the photo on Wikipedia are shuttered. I expect it's because smartphone apps make it easier to check if there's a restaurant of interest at a more logical stopping point.
The teeth are already there. A few gradually longer ones makes obvious sense to be a better predator, giving them an evolutionary advantage.
Can you cite some examples of lawful concealed handgun carriers that "start fire fights"? Doesn't even have to be in schools - any examples will do.
I've found vscodes js debugging to be really straightforward. You open a their terminal, place some breakpoints, then run any command you want.
This is my favorite random fact about our biosphere: that for some reason it just keeps making crabs.

The interesting part about it is whether they represent a local minima that optimization gets stuck in - i.e. the returns on building yourself an exoskeleton keep increasing the more exoskeleton you add, so once you chance onto that path every other direction then "more exoskeleton" is a net negative for the next generation.
Makes you wonder if we would encounter any familiar-looking life forms on other Goldilocks zone planets…
The architect of AWS and author of Dynamodb has very good thoughts on formal methods. They’re worth a read:

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2014/07/challenges-in-desi...
> As a society we can reject this technology.

The point of this parable is that you explicitly cannot undo this...
As a network operator that runs a number of websites I'm honestly one step away from null routing all of their traffic. I'm constantly seeing their bots and as far as I know it's not helping anything.
Pet peeve:

> the temperature inside them rises to about 15,000 degrees Kelvin (14,727 °C or 26,540 °F) and the pressure within them climbs to over 1,000 bar (14,504 psi)

Those conversions are way too precise. The initial values have 1-2 digits of precision; the converted numbers have 4-5. Should be:

> the temperature inside them rises to about 15,000 degrees Kelvin (14,700 ºC or 26,000 ºF) and the pressure within them climbs to over 1,000 bar (14,500 psi).

and even those are probably too precise.
There was a recent article on here about how species that looked alike were not necessarily related and is was more common to have physically dissimilar but geographically close species that were evolutionary relatives. One of the points was that convergent evolution was more common than people thought. These stories appear to support the convergent evolution assertion
AFAIK UVC doesn't create substantial amounts of ozone like other wavelengths of UV light.
I doubt there's a single person alive who could answer "no" to that question with certainty and still be telling the truth. What is the purpose of a question like that?
I think the point is that if you add a temporary exception to accept the unverified certificate, you shouldn't be left with a permanent requirement that localhost have a certificate in the future because of the HSTS header you got during that time.
Seems like the “ghost flights” were a more recent issue: https://www.wired.com/story/airplanes-empty-slots-covid/

As for the fuel efficiency, this says 58mpg. Business class or first class are much worse, of course. And private jets simply shouldn’t exist…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft
Formal methods will likely not help you - they can only show a _specification_ is sound, but not the _implementation_.

That is, formal methods aren't testing the code you write, just the design concept behind it. For the design concepts you are likely to encounter in your situations, you absolutely do not need a formal proof that your stuff works - unless you are inventing (e.g.) a new cryptography suite from scratch or a large distributed system that must handle a massive amount of concurrency, there is zero advantage you would get over following best practices.
The political commentary on HN makes way more sense when you realize probably half the posters are Indian.
I don't * - Too late to edit.
Yes, significantly so. However you saturate the bus with less effort (lower frequency, less wires), so perhaps the simplicity is due to a lower theoretical performance.
Why do people refuse to face Reality? We are just Biological Animals with a Complex Social Structure called "Civilization" which is but just a veneer.

Reminds me of one of my favourite passages from The Sea-Wolf by Jack London;

“Do you know, I sometimes catch myself wishing that I, too, were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They’re wrong, all wrong, of course, and contrary to reason; but in the face of them my reason tells me, wrong and most wrong, that to dream and live illusions gives greater delight. And after all, delight is the wage for living. Without delight, living is a worthless act. To labour at living and be unpaid is worse than to be dead. He who delights the most lives the most, and your dreams and unrealities are less disturbing to you and more gratifying than are my facts to me.”

He shook his head slowly, pondering.

“I often doubt, I often doubt, the worthwhileness of reason. Dreams must be more substantial and satisfying. Emotional delight is more filling and lasting than intellectual delight; and, besides, you pay for your moments of intellectual delight by having the blues. Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate. I envy you, I envy you.”

He stopped abruptly, and then on his lips formed one of his strange quizzical smiles, as he added:

“It’s from my brain I envy you, take notice, and not from my heart. My reason dictates it. The envy is an intellectual product. I am like a sober man looking upon drunken men, and, greatly weary, wishing he, too, were drunk.”

“Or like a wise man looking upon fools and wishing he, too, were a fool,” I laughed.

“Quite so,” he said. “You are a blessed, bankrupt pair of fools. You have no facts in your pocketbook.”

“Yet we spend as freely as you,” was Maud Brewster’s contribution.

“More freely, because it costs you nothing.”

“And because we draw upon eternity,” she retorted.

“Whether you do or think you do, it’s the same thing. You spend what you haven’t got, and in return you get greater value from spending what you haven’t got than I get from spending what I have got, and what I have sweated to get.”
Fully automated luxury communism awaits?
You're pretending that everyone, or even a large subset of people agree with your central premise. The replies on this thread ought to disabuse you of that notion.

I, for one, can't wait for self-driving cars to replace the average moron driving multi-ton vehicles around.
Ah, yes, printf(), the tool of choice when you have no tests, thousands upon thousands of lines of code, and millions of live wires
From an investor's perspective, why would I invest in the middle when I can put 90% in super conservative securities and the remaining 10% in super speculative startups? I get all nearly all the upside (unicorn) with very little downside (-10% at worst).

(Yes, this is Taleb's barbell strategy.)
I don't think MEATH is a valid word in Wordle.
all of your questions are precisely why this needs to be discussed—interviewers clearly need a better grasp on the subject.
If you are afraid of deploys, you need to lean into CI/CD and the whole DevOps movement more. That is the solution to being able to deploy without stressing about it.
So you agree that there’s the well regulated militia that the 2nd amendment talks about?
Visual artists have already been replaced. It won't be long before we have transformers over token trees containing millions of tokens. We've reached a point where we understand how to make the machine manipulate concepts. It's all just vectors of numbers and dot products. Really.
Home Economics is no longer coursework in high school so you have generations who have made it to adulthood without basic kitchen training.
You're 100% right. But I'm convinced there's realistically nothing we can do to stop it. Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus (and Sapiens to a lesser extent) are about the possible future paths for humanity and computers that increasingly surpass our abilities in more and more ways.

It will absolutely be hugely disruptive to culture, the structure of society, and our perception of ourselves. But I don't see how it can be avoided.
Then why do they pay Apple far more money for the same service?
> I've never seen a cert error in the wild that wasn't an expiration of a valid cert or a misconfiguration.

I have. Usually caused by a captive portal.

> The boogeyman of MITM attacks which PKI certs protect from is used to justify a lot of terrible changes to the web that aren't reflected by reality.

The move to use HTTPS everywhere was started in response to packet sniffing tools like Firesheep. That’s not a boogeyman; it’s a proof of concept that works in realistic scenarios.

> Why MITM Amazon when people will happily treat an order email sent from a Gmail account as legitimate?

So what? How about solving both problems?
The texas and Oklahoma shootings were done with legally-purchased guns that were almost immediately used as designed. As a news article said, it's easier to purchase AR-15's than sudafeds. So, reducing the availability of legal weaponry will have some positive impact on the scale of casualties. It might also reduce the number of accidental or suicide deaths as it's harder with lower-lethality weaponry.

It would not impact the 2nd amendment rights to limit the high-end/military style weaponry to some degree. But nothing will be done until there is a sufficient societal change to even consider such restrictions. Won't see that in my lifetime. Hell, some kind of waiting period or red flag law would help.
I'll also add, you might be riding brakes preparing for a turn on a descent. Under many road conditions, especially a steep descent, a road bike is much more likely to break traction than a car which can literally be fatal (sliding out into an opposing lane, barrier, or off an edge). Anybody who has descended, even at reasonably safe speeds on a road bike with a bike computer knows it is the safe thing to do.
No, I’m saying that if you put a bunch of people in a confined area who aren’t trained to be shot at with automatic weaponry, I hardly expect it to be a one-shot-one-kill scenario.
Except we as a society can't do crap. If we could, we mightve fixed global warming and emissions by your logic.