skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've watched every episode of "Aviation Disasters" on the Smithsonian channel. At the end there's a summary of corrective action taken. I can't recall one that resulted in a criminal prosecution for making a mistake.
For what it's worth, people have tried to use the minimal data we have to make a reasonable estimate of the probability of a nuclear war.

> Keep in mind that the following are annualized probabilities. For a child born today (say 75 year life expectancy) these probabilities (.0117) suggest that the chance of a nuclear war in their lifetime is nearly 60%, (1-(1-.0117)^75). At an annualized probability of .009 which is the probability from accident analysis it’s approximately 50%.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/07/wh...
Hindsight is 2020. There were no major changes to the language between 1997 and 2009. As a developer at the time, JavaScript seemed locked in stone.
I had a stint where I played VRChat every day for 6+ hours during peak covid. I never had a problem finding groups that self-selected for adults. Sure, you would have annoying little kids but if you were just in your corner doing your thing, they would quickly get bored.
> having fun and simply building something because you want it to exist are valid goals in and of themselves.

I agree. Sums up my own thinking when I started my 3D graphics system in Common Lisp a few months ago. Enjoying writing code from scratch, even basic UI widgets on top of OpenGL.
Show HN: I built a chess engine and AI in JavaScript
I saw this post on HN around 3 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31964685) and it fascinated me.

3 months later and I have a fairly decent AI (~ beats the 2200 bot on chess.com) and would like to share it. It's been my favourite project and honestly chess programming is super fulfilling and a huge time sink. hope ya'll enjoy
> Sorry, my perspective is precisely the opposite. Nameplate capacity is a farce --I have said this much-- because it is only valid under ideal laboratory test conditions. Solar zealots are the ones who use nameplate ratings, or worse, solar radiation per square meter, to justify solar fantasies. Building and actually looking at the data from my system (something most solar panel owners don't do) delivered an education I probably could not have gotten any other way. If anything, it made me think and eventually decide I needed to to understand it the way I do any other engineering project I approach.

This sounds like pretty big fixation to me. I'm sorry you had unrealistic expectations for your solar install, but that doesn't change the inviability of nuclear. Also did you think to get a system with bypass diodes or are you also suffering from reduced efficiency of the whole system during partial shade?

> These are not problems.

Then why are they suddenly problems when renewables are involved?

> You'd have to model this in order to understand it. Beyond a certain threshold or concentration of EV's in an area, you eventually get to a situation where you have a massive number of vehicles plugged into the grid 24/7. That's the simplest way I can put it.

Charging things in a stupid way far more than they need it is stupid. News at 11.

Simply charge whichever EVs are stationary and not full, wherever they happen to be, whenever there is surplus power (4 extension cords, 4 transformers and 4 metal boxes per person is hardly a big investment compared to $40-200k of nuclear reactors to meet peak demand so they can all charge at once at 5pm). This is one of the few problems that is actually very simple to solve with markets (put a price on charging outside of the hours with approximately free solar power).

Mean driving distance is about 30 miles. With a reasonably efficient EV this is about 7kWh/d or 350GW if it happens only when solar electrickty is cheap.

Why would you spend $12 trillion on this problem when $1 trillion of solar, wind and storage would solve it (and this will halve or better before your first nuclear plant comes online)?

Additionally you can solve it from the other end. Forcing people to drive monster trucks 30 miles a day is an intentional policy decision. If you stop forcing the issue it will correct itself. If you put some of those $12 trillion into decent infrastructure, driving will halve or better. Even throwing LEVs into the mix for any family's second+ vehicle reduces that 7kWh/day to around 2.

Here's another simple model to play with (only uniform demand unfortunately). https://energy.model

Main caveat for somewhere like the US is it will aggregate weather over the entire country without considering problems like interfacing with texas. Maybe consider a smaller country with similar weather to get a more realistic estimate. Compare US nuclear capital costs ($10-12 per nameplate watt) to the 80c/nameplate watt non tilting or $1.3/nameplate watt tilting of recent US projects, or about half that for projects still in the permiting phase.
Questioning military spending (or anything the military does) is still evidence that you're a traitor who hates America and the troops.
>this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy

What a a crock of BS. How many lawyers do they have? Some rouge intern somehow slipped this in? Liers.
I mean the whole point of workspace is that the admin can set policies that disallow this (or at least require admin approval).

https://support.google.com/a/answer/60781?hl=en
Not for juniors,of course.
Did you run that more than once to ensure uniform cache hits? Otherwise only the first one will pay the price for the actual disk reads.
It has really gotten out of hand. I'm no fan of Ben Bernanke there's a way to have a constructive discussion about his work and waving a wand of preconceived notions is not one of them.
There are some cases like accounting departments that may definitely need the extra features from Excel. I guess I weigh the collaboration features Google provides over the extra features Excel provides. Google is still playing catch-up with Excel and probably always will be
But Microsoft is a decade behind Google in basic mail management.
They really are very good. The only real vendor in the IaaS space innovating once AWS and its ilk stagnated.

Before them, companies like Imperva were charging way more for inferior blocking.

Cloudflare is awesome!
Jails shouldn't be for punishment. They should be for protecting society from people who can't live by the rules. Punitive prison sentences are uncivilized.

Besides, pickpockets used to be hanged. Didn't stop them.
If they run their algos on anything grunts are uploading it’s going to cause some headache. My ex-Marine friends claimed there was crazy stuff on the military share drives that were accessible by anyone on the network.
You can block Google analytics and the fact that your family chose Facebook doesn’t mean you have to anymore than I have to go to a family reunion when the rest of my family chose to go there. Facebook didn’t force your family to use it anymore than they forced them to go to a city you didn’t want to go to for the reunion.

> For example, I could quit my job, leave my entire career behind, and endanger the health and safety of my family to try to find some entry level job in another industry that wouldn't make me use a Microsoft product, but if I'm not willing to do that does that mean I choose to use Windows of my own free will?

There are millions of other people who chose a different career path. There are also developers who never have to use an MS product. I’m sorry you were forced to choose a career where you get to sit in front of a computer everyday probably making a lot more than people in a factory.
I really like what you wrote above. Experts rarely chime in, especially not with numbers and other details.
How would that stop him from being evil?
No, because I connect with people online and I haven’t lived in a metro area for nearly 30 years.

So, I have no real clue what I’m missing. Coding meetups at pubs? I miss conferences but I can drive a couple hours to the metro if I wanted to attend badly enough.
And this isn't even getting into special cases where it can be worse. There are lots of places where a better language can use an 8 bit integer, while if you want to use anything vaguely generic in Java, you have an 8 byte header (plus another 8 bytes for a pointer to it).
The real "market wage" was set prior to COVID - not during COVID with the tons of weekly unemployment checks handed out like candy. How can a small business owner even compete with the unlimited funding of the govt?

Furthermore, why should a business owner profit less simply because able-bodied people were greedy and wanted free govt money over working a job? That is the real crazy talk.
Use VNC/RDP to connect to the guest.
See this issue: https://github.com/vercel/og-image/issues/148
VirtualBox 7.0 Released (beta testers wanted)
We're being softened up for the big reveal of either life on Mars, or fossil remains thereof.
Look at the timeline on the wiki. It’s supposedly closer to midnight now than ever before—-far closer than during the Cold War!

It’s hard to take it seriously.
Netflix vs. Disney: Who's Winning the Video Streaming War?
Exactly.

Without good ad blockers (ie ublock origin) and other nice extensions (ie I dont mind about cookies) it is hard to browse/search the web efficiently.

For this reason alone an ipad pro is limited in scope.
There was that brief period where repeatedly pressing enter on the Lock Screen with an empty password field would eventually let you in as long as you had never seen a `su` password. And if I recall there was also a bug where the password hint would show your password in clear text?
The 8I is not two full length floors. The upper deck is longer, but not the entire length of the plane.
> a percentage.

Not a logit?
Why did I use Tauri to build PrettyClean, a macOS disk cleanup tool
Why should I use Tauri to build PrettyClean, a macOS disk cleanup tool? Why is Rust the best choice? What Tauri features did I use to build PrettyClean?
This reminds me of Francisco de Orellana, the first European to navigate the Amazon. He returned to Spain with tales of a grand, prosperous civilization along the banks, saying that in weeks of sailing they didn't find a single stretch of shoreline unsettled, and that the people and the region were richer than any in all of Europe. Decades passed before there was another expedition, which found mostly rainforest and hunter-gatherers in a much regressed ("primitive") state, leading people to believe he was full of it. Now that the Amazon is being deforested to cultivate fodder for livestock, we are finding the remains of this indeed grand civilization, which Orellano probably destroyed by crop-dusting virulent disease throughout the interior of the continent.
Recent GNU tar versions have a --zstd flag, FWIW.
Don't they already pay more? You don't get to achieve top tier frequent flyer status by paying less.
> If the host is compromised at a privilege level able to read

Multi-user systems exists, compromise may be at user-level. Sure, if you have root/SYSTEM level access then all bets are off, but defense is like an ogre - it has layers.
I saw a large one with eight rotors and two! anti-tank launchers strapped to it.
Novel innovative kitchens are not something people want. They want it to be a kitchen.
start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism

or for something less wordy

https://www.vox.com/2014/10/10/6943461/race-social-construct...
Or your IT team can implement an offboarding process that does something reasonable here, like transfer ownership of any remaining files to the departing employee's manager. Or sequester them somewhere with specified access rules. Some version of this problem is present in any corporation but the right solution varies a lot.
That's just bizarre. It doesn't really contradict my point that they're not providing data integrity to end users.

Personally, I'd be pretty pissed if a tool injected into my sendbox instead of sending an (optional) copy of whatever it generated to my inbox.

On the other hand, I know how to set up filters.

Anyway, it has been a half-decade since I gave up on figuring out what fresh UI hell gmail has shipped each year. (I autoforward whatever must be sent to gmail elsewhere, and set up a logical contradiction email filter to nerf their broken and mandatory spam filter).

I guess if random systems are sent box injecting me, then I'll lose the emails. Oh well.
My personal non scientific thought on tumours (non cancerous fatty tumours)

Is that they are your bodies away of wrapping up something bad that it can't otherwise deal with. In a protective layer to contain. Similar to how a clams makes a pearl layer by layer around a foreign particle.
Are you using a personal domain or one of theirs? If it’s a personal domain, make sure you have all of the DNS records set properly to make spam filters happy.

If it’s one of their domains, not sure, but I’d guess their free accounts originate a bunch of garbage due to the nature of their service.
> MS are profit motivated (by definition) and Wine is functionality motivated (again by definition).

What definitions are you using here?
Of course it is! You'll obviously get better security with Windows, it's always been secure, and designed with the Internet in mind! Privacy is Microsoft's watchword, too.

FOSS is done by amateurs and basement dwellers. They don't know security.
When the Hindu Right Came for Bollywood
How does one think about some article in the software industry touting expectations, while Zen or whatever philosophy eschews such?

https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-release-your-expectati...
Those reasons are largely that the things that are perf critical for a browser engine don't match anything that normal apps do. That's the same reason gecko also isn't using the system allocator, as we see here.

You really don't want the rest of the OS making the performance trade offs people expect from browser engines these days.
It's hard to quantify exactly but Google sheets has nowhere near 85% of the features of MS Excel. Maybe 40%? There's tremendous depth to Excel which most users never touch, but which some of us absolutely need.

The latest release of Excel seems to be fully caught up to Sheets on collaboration features. We can save a file on Teams and then have multiple users editing simultaneously through a mix of desktop, mobile, and web clients it works really well.
The last time I did a test like this, it was way faster to tar first without compression, and then run gzip on the tar file.
Werewolves might ALSO be an assemblage of fungi and cyanobacteria or algae. You don't know. I believe canonically, Orcs are, so there's precedence.
> - It was not being used anyway and was less likely to be used every single day

Once EU countries found themselves paying >5x what they're used to paying to keep their houses warm in a month or so, they might well have decided to pinch their noses and start buying Russian gas again. Russia would very much have liked this, non-European NATO countries would not. Now it's not even a question.

> - The attack happened one day after the opening of the Baltic pipe from Scandinavia to Poland. Could be a way of putting NATO on notice that their infrastructure is vulnerable, without actually attacking it. Like a veiled threat.

Shooting yourself in the foot is a strange way to demonstrate that you have a gun.

> On the other hand the Ukrainians have always hated Nord Stream because it meant a loss of transit fees for them. Somehow I don't think this is their biggest worry right now though. And I doubt they'd want to risk agitating NATO counties which own half of it.

I don't think Ukraine would have been involved in it either, but they stand to benefit in the short-term from anything which would isolate Russia further. In terms of agitating European NATO states, they've already gone through the initial shock of cutting off cheap gas, the damage of permanently losing access to it isn't as politically costly.
Kinda relies on the other parties also not doing it.
Keys do not need to be strings in Java either, you need to properly implement equals and hashCode() methods though for the key type.

Also Java has like ten different implementations of Map<K,V> depending on various use cases.
And this, my friends, explains why so many people murder in the name of Islam.

Thanks for your honesty.
Do you really think the US President would shoot first? Or, are you saying that if someone else launches first, we should just take it and not retaliate?
Human Motion Diffusion Model
Honestly this whole "responsible AI" thing is a sad last attempt to run away from the inevitable. The reality is that our politicians will end up in fake photos/videos/audio recordings, people who can't even draw a straight line will be able to make crazy online memes with any kind of imaginable image in just seconds no matter how offensive it is to some people and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

When these companies and OS projects create "responsible" or restricted AIs they are at the same time creating a demand for AIs that have no limitations and eventually open source or even commercial AIs will respond to this demand.

I hope while they still play this "responsible" game, they are at least using the time to figure out ways how we can live with this kind of advanced AI in a future where everything is fake/false by default.
I call BS on that, chat and payments haven't gone well together in the past. The friction of sending money to another person is very low, I don't think people really care whether it's on the app they're already on, or they have to switch apps.

Venmo tries to push it's messaging features but nobody really cared. People use Venmo because it's free transfers, they don't need a new chatting app that mixes money with memes. Welathsimple Cash tried that here in Canada but hasn't been terribly succesful either, and so has WhatsApp in India.

The reason WeChat become popular because it had first movers advantage and used it's reach to be the first payment service of it's kind. People didn't use it because it integrated with chat, they used it because it was good.
People describe harrowing tales of escape from deadly landslide in Venezuela
It doesn't, at least according to the current documentation.

Not sure why they would need a class for that when they already have a primitive type that does the job. I guess maybe a new OO interface will have its parameters ordered more consistently?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33050855
I prefer this short "What if Wes Anderson directed X-men?"

https://youtu.be/UngE0qn3VRY
Google: Nationalized-lite?
I personally think that this level of academic posturing on the subject is thrown out the window when the people in control of Russia (and by extension Belarus etc) are wholly unpredictable at the moment.

I still think that the chances of Putin using a bomb are low, most academic circles also thought the chance of all out war in Ukraine were also low. A lot of this conflict isn't so much strategic logic as it is ego stroking.
Here's my mental model of FAANG life:

- 1-2 years: Work hard because you feel optimistic and self-assured, working on exciting problems with smartest people in the world, lots of great resources
- 2-3 years: Start to realize things aren't as great as you thought (e.g., a project you felt passionately about was junked for a random political reasons, people you thought were super smart start to just be normal coworkers, more of a premium on playing the game the right way than doing great work) but the salary and lifestyle is still attractive
- 3-4 years: Many people leave to do something else, a bit more experienced but a bit more jaded. Many who stick around have figured out a niche to fill and are mainly in it for the lifestyle rather than the technical challenge

Basically I wish it was more common to sustain and grow the early-days excitement and passion while developing as an engineer. I think with smaller companies there's often more self-determination for junior employees, so that when they "grow up" and start to see more problems they usually caused the problem themself, rather than having to live with someone else's problem, which makes it easier to stay excited. YMMV of course
Considering how his "full-ass" attempts at creating a self driving car or Hyperloop are going, yes?
Ukraine has not taken credit for the bridge attack. We still don’t fully know who did it. It could have been Russia for all we know. They have shown a much greater willingness to indiscriminately kill civilians throughout this conflict, which they started .

Tell me of a single major conflict that didn’t involve civilian casualties. I will wait. It is terrible, but unavoidable, especially given the circumstances that Russia has created in Ukraine, unprovoked.

There are major differences between the participants with regards to intent. Intent of their actions. Russian soldiers have raped, tortured and executed civilians. There have been mass graves found in the liberated territories.

I don’t see how you can equate these with the destruction of a bridge that is vitally important to Russia’s control and supply of Crimea and southern Ukraine. The intent would be to deprive Russia of re-supply and access. The intention of mass killings, torture and rape, is to kill and torture people. There is no legitimate strategic objective for these actions.
>Google never changed its name, it's still Google and calling it that is appropriate. Google introduced a holding company Alphabet to own several companies (Google, Waymo, DeepMind, Verily, etc).

>Facebook changed its name to Meta.

Hey, thanks for that clarification. It was really nice of you t-...

>Comparing the two in the way you did is either incredibly ignorant or incredibly disingenuous.

... oh. Okay then.
The snakes and critters in the U.S. Senate and U.S. Congress diverted attention and funding away from SpaceX's remake vision of propulsive capsule landing on land as if the DC-X.
I (sort of) did this - about 10 years ago or so we ate at Dans Le Noir (https://www.danslenoir.com/en/, we went to the one in Barcelona), a restaurant which serves everything in pitch darkness. The waiters were all blind. It was a really interesting experience in many ways.

Everyone sits at communal tables, so you get to chat to everyone around you. There was a guy at our table who worked in the Spanish wine industry - I can't recall if he was a sommelier or waiter, but his knowledge of wine was clearly much better than anyone else at the table. When they served the wines with the different courses they didn't tell us anything about them. No-one at the table, including him, did better than chance at even just guessing whether the wines were red or white. It's possible they deliberately chose ambiguous wines to make it more difficult, but it was really amazing how hard it was to tell what you were eating or drinking when you couldn't see it.

I didn't draw conclusions about whether anything was a parlour trick, but it was an illuminating illustration of how much we kid ourselves if we think our senses are really communicating accurately with us.
Engineering is crazy and amazing enough
Same. Though the use of 9P protocol in WSL2 to access the host filesystem was interesting
7T is a nice chunk of all the money in the world. What the fuck. Scammed to the sun and back.
If it's open source you can compile and install from Xcode I believe but the 7 day limit still exists.
Why aren't environmental activists more vocal about the potential for nuclear war? Seems like a very real threat to humanity, as much as global warming seems to be, but I've seen and heard almost nothing from them.
>Anytime you perform a sequencing experiment you will get _some_ microbial/fungal contamination.

Can you provide a source for this? There are a lot of cranks right now claiming that there's no such thing as a virus because we've never been able to get a non-contaminated sequence (something I've assumed was due to culturing). If this is true of everything there's no limit to what can and cannot exist per their insane arguments.