skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much every car made since the 1980s has had dual-circuit brakes with usually one front and one rear wheel cylinder on each circuit. Volvo being Volvo took it further with their 2-series cars in the 1970s and 1980s, where the front discs had four-pot calipers configured as two sets of two-pot calipers. Each braking circuit had one half of each front caliper and one rear caliper, so in the event of one half of the brakes failing it would still stop in a straight line.

You can use engine braking in automatic vehicles too, by simply changing to a lower gear.
Yep. And then the user says.. "Oh, that didn't work - I'll just try again... and again..."
I despise yaml as much as the other guy, but it works here well enough for what it does.

> This is the worst abuse of YAML

When was the last time you looked at k8s manifests?
Now proceed to imagine that software being shoehorned into a healthcare system where many aspects of the US healthcare system are impossible to fill out at the care provider side, because they don't exist in the society model. (Let's be honest, you guys have opted for a model which have several very distinctive features in an international comparison).

And I'd be surprised if the Norwegians didn't already have the positive aspect on the patient side in whatever this is now supposed to replace.
The Robodebt scandal in Australia didn't spill over to violence in the streets, but it came close. Robodebt was a debt collection system introduced by the Federal government to recover supposed overpayments of social security. It was flawed at every level, including software design, and resulted in nationwide protests. see https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6037228/robo-debt-cen...
In the world of Crypto, Tether is actually one of the least sketchy players.

Not because Tether is fully solvent, there are just a lot of straight up ponzi schemes and various other scams and frauds that have collapsed first. Tether having any % of actual dollars makes them more resilient to market pressure than schemes with zero real backing.
I think the fear of black swans, that is, unknown risks. I think most people don’t understand that the experts can really rule out something like a meltdown in modern reactors
Been using alpine for a year as my daily driver. Initially switched from Arch to better understand postmarketos, but found alpine very pleasant and stayed with it. With alpine it feels easier to understand how a distro works due to minimality. Also it’s easier to jump into sources of little busybox utils rather than their full-blown util-linux/coreutils/systemd counterparts. And apk is faster than pacman.
I strongly agree. Most of this felt fine, except about testing.

I'm frequently tasked with writing reliable services, and I always 100% of the time start with tests. Are they perfect? Absolutely not, but I am able to write, test, maintain and iterate on at-scale critical services with great confidence; and 90% of that confidence can come from well structured tests. My code is generally also easy to refactor, understand, port to other languages, etc. Testing is such a critical part of that. I only test things "in staging" as a last check; and very rarely am I disappointed with the behavior (sometimes the speed or scale, but not behavior)
> She heavily uses photoshop on her pictures, and then sells beauty products to insecure young women to profit off the insecurities her digital media team helped manufacture.

This describes the whole "beauty" industry. I think this might be a case of "don't hate the player, hate the game". There are also plenty of other celebrities whose success amounts to appearing on some reality TV show and building an empire off of that. Kim Kardashian is not remarkable in this regard, but seems to get more hate than average.
That aside, what about price?

Completely cleaning up and taking apart the plant could take a generation or more, and comes with a hefty price tag. In 2016 the government increased its cost estimate to about $75.7 billion, part of the overall Fukushima disaster price tag of $202.5 billion.

I'm a fan of nuclear, but those are eye-watering numbers.
There’s a number of restaurants in LA that use robots for delivering drinks to your table. I found them strange the first time I saw them but eventually they become invisible.

I’ve never yet seen them misbehave in a notable way, but they seem like nothing more than trays with wheels and basic path finding.
Buses are bad, but I feel trucks are even worse. Or actually vehicles in general. What does a Venn diagram of cars and trucks look like? Are Vespas and trikes motorcycles?
i think 228 pages for K&R 1st edition (1978) which had a long appendix, and 288 for 1988 K&R 2nd edition with draft ANSI standard.

Interestingly, the description from K&R for the 1988 version (I had both btw) said they tried to maintain the succinct clarity of the 1st edition. :)
A lot of geometric results like trig identities come out most elegantly when stated using complex numbers. I always struggled remembering trig identites until I took complex analysis, and after that class they just seemed totally obvious.
Then you'd have people installing "burnedsushi/ripgrep" instead of "burntsushi/ripgrep". It only kicks the problem one step down without fixing it.
>I admire your commitment to this discussion :)

Oh god. I made a fucking spreadsheet! @_@

I had been thinking about aliens, von Neumann probes, and even giant super computers to simulate the universe recently. I've come to the conclusion they're all absurdly dumb like a pulp scifi story.

People always think these shots are one and done, but they’re not. You have to keep hitting the planets with extinction level events, and you have to do it before you detect a civilization simply because of the transit times. If for sake of argument, we assume the dinosaurs were murdered, how did that work out for the trisoleans?

>There's a fun thread on Quora[1] about so-called "relativistic kinetic kill vehicles", with the top comment making the good point that a small projectile moving very fast might just punch a clean hole in the planet and keep going, thus not transferring most of its energy.

I saw something similar about a microblackhole or strange matter or something like that. Basically, you wouldn't even notice unless you standing right under/over it. Then you'd have a bad time.
We had a software system screw up teachers pay for months https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novopay

Before that a massive failure of a Police software system
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/insights-into-incis-de...

They didn't demonstrate against it's adoption but there were demonstrations as a result of the massive waste of funds and impact to people involved.
The coercive power of state for thee, but not for me.
100% in agreement. The largest projects that I've successfully completed have had extensive unit test and test suites in general.
I love the concept. I must try it.

I have thought about long running jobs just being available right away with whole log in very similar manner as here. I never thought much about Arcan, but now I'm much more intrigued.
It wasn't the collection agents who were protesting, though; it was the people being used by the software who protested against it, not the people who used it.
Not all of us have the luxury of having more than 7000 km between us and the next nuclear accident, though. But I can send you some mushrooms from the forests of southern Germany if you would like to explore the health risks further.
I made a mistake, 10% of electricity is gas.

Due to the fact that nuclear is base load and gas plants are mostly used for grid compensation, it would result (according to estimates) in a 1-2% increase in gas usage.
The JDK has a server-as-a-function-ish web server built in (and has done for years):

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/api/jdk.https...

Because HttpHandler is a functional interface, you can write lambdas for it. Here is a little outline of a server:

https://gist.github.com/tomwhoiscontrary/b4888b86057c74a636c...

Sadly, Filter is not a functional interface, so it's much clunkier. It's also not really clear why you would use a filter when you can do function composition; i suspect they added filters because previous Java web frameworks had them.
It happens much more frequently by people with malicious intent to them. All you have to do is say once that misgendering is annoying and them trolls will latch on and do it intentionally to harm you
What's noteworthy is that Kanzler Scholz basically told his ministers that all 3 plants will stay open and the ministers have to organize it. That's very unusual. The coalition was actually still arguing about this, so some people, especially in the Green party are going to be pissed. But at least they now have theoretically more time to deal with other pressing issues instead of bickering about a few months more run time.
There was an outfit that was making these to deliver food to hospital patients a few years ago. Don't know if it ever became a thing in hospitals though.
The online gradebook was the "new thing" that I found to be a nightmare as a parent. The idea was that parents could log in to verify students are turning in their homework or get a heads up before the parent-teacher conferences if their child's grades are suffering.

The reality is that some teachers are good about getting assignments and test results input in a timely manner. Some wait and do weeks worth of assignments in one batch. Others input all of the term's assignments at the beginning and add results as they get turned in/graded, meaning student grades gradually move from failing to the final earned grade once the last exam result is added. The grades shown on the online portal had nearly nothing to do with the reality in the classroom and ended up being counterproductive. I'm glad I no longer have to deal with that system.

Worse yet, many parents of college age students expect their university to offer this same portal, despite the fact that it would be illegal for schools to do so without written permission from the student. It's been eye-opening to see parents on one message board I follow furious that they can't know their student's grades up to the minute. I can't imagine how awful those parent-child relationships must be.
Yeah, UCSF here also uses MyChart, and I agree that it's great from the perspective of the power and flexibility it offers me, even if the UX isn't fantastic (frankly, I think it's fine, though could be better).

But, like you, I've also observed medical staff inputting my data during a visit, and it looks terrible, and I've also noticed significant UI changes on occasion. (I've gone in once a month for the past two years for an allergy immunotherapy injection, so I get to see it regularly, and over time.) I've only heard the nurses complain once or twice, but I can kinda tell how they occasionally stumble with the UI, and it all just seems completely unavoidably bad. A little user research would go a long way, but I imagine the cost of switching to another system (if there even are that many good options) is so high that a hospital might ignore staff complaints anyway, so the company is not incentivized to spend time and money to make things better.
>message any doctor I've seen

Doctors especially hate this part, since they don't get reimbursed for fielding these messages and (unlike scheduled appointments) there's no limit to how many there can be or how quickly they can come.
Double click to copy/highlighting word. Single click to follow link?
Agreed. That bullet point hit me as a very wrong. Returning failures downstream is costly and most likely a terrible user experience.
I don't think that's the case. Look at some of the serious projects:
- https://samouraiwallet.com/
- https://keys.casa/

It's pretty much focused on heavily tech-savvy people.
This is a great point. People become calcified and stuck in their ways as a survival mechanism! Times change and circumstances do too thus the axioms floating around in our heads deviate from "reality" like a lifeboat floating away while we pretend everything is normal. This is not only a lesson for the extreme rich - but everyone.
Heat will increase loss of atmosphere, but vaporized isn't the right word.

The issue would not be losing even 25% of the atmosphere instead of close to 0.00% per year, but that boiling oceans, steam, and air will hit say 1000F on the size of the GRB and then over the next hours/days mix with the rest and end up with a average of 500F.

Even with that, I suspect many but not all species of life would be extinct. Anything that lives in the deep ocean might be mostly unimpacted.
I was suggesting a simpler solution: just merge the two civs into one. This would be equivalent to having only one general.
We can have special arrangements for special circumstances.
My path was: engineer -> consultant -> solutions architect. All at different companies. I think it's more about character/attitude, rathen than only experience.
The "Morse Expert" App available for Android/iOS does a pretty good job of decoding CW 'in the wild'. It can adapt to different sending speeds and does a decent job with non-ideal character/element spacing.

The decoding algorithm uses some amount of Bayesian probabilities to decide what the proper decoding of the incoming signal is: http://ag1le.blogspot.com/2013/01/towards-bayesian-morse-dec...
"This theoretically would ensure that this person is not exposed to only hate and negativity, and will hopefully make a better decision"
....

"and I doubt I'll change my mind on this fact any time soon"

You have high hopes of people changing their mind when presented with new information, except for yourself apparently
Other than the part where you'd have a battery strapped to you, this could be interesting to adapt to firefighting scenarios. If you could walk up to a structure and do a calibration so that instead of telling you which way North was it was calibrated to the direction of the face of the building (the "A-side" in most firefighting vocabs) then you could use the feedback from it when inside to know which side of the building you were facing despite being visually cut off and disoriented.
> Many banks already are denying funding to coal, oil and gas companies.

This is the main thing they're actually concerned about imo, forcing banks to continue to lend to and invest in these industries. The 'social credit score' stuff is all just the culture war cover.
> Do you panic a little bit every time you step outside? Or get into the water?

I wouldn't say panic, but I am aware of those things and do my best to prevent them from happening to me. If they were guaranteed to happen to somebody each Saturday at 8pm I would be a little more nervous around that time.

> The difference between 0 and 0.000000003 is insignificant.

Surely this depends on the unit of measurement? If I told you the train station was only 0.000000003 parsecs away would you be happy to walk?

My point is that the original statement is only true if nobody ever wins the lottery. But line up all the people who have won. What do they have in common? They bought a ticket. Line up all the people who have never bought a ticket. What do they have in common? They've never won.

Nobody's saying the odds are good or that the lottery is a sound investment strategy. But zero in infinite chances seems measurably less than 1 in 292 million.
To be fair, I had everything I wanted, which was food, shelter, access to a powerful personal computer, and a lot of old sci-fi books. If other kids had all been equipped like you describe and I'd asked, my parents probably could have scrounged that stuff up for me.

I just wore my regular clothes to class and gym class, although in winter I'd change into shorts instead of exercising in jeans. I had a coat that I wore on the walk to school and one pair of shoes. Sometimes I'd have boots, but my family could only afford/only knew about cheap crap boots that'd disintegrate pretty quickly.

It blows my mind again and again living in the SF Bay Area nowadays, watching a brand new BMW pull up to Starbucks and unload a bunch of teenagers who proceed to buy $40 worth of coffee and snacks. Those dang kids don't know how good they got it! I grew up near the poverty line in the USA, so I can only imagine what it's like for engineers who grew up in actual poverty in other parts of the world.
https://www.tuxfamily.org/
Are readers clear on whether the author was appointed as a voting member of the board or not?

I read the whole article and I didn't have any sense of the author performing the activities that directors are generally expected to perform and there was some discussion about non-voting members being asked to leave during "administrative" parts of the meeting but not whether that included him.
there was that one time laura loomer chained herself to the twitter building, but that was more a one-person publicity stunt than a protest.

this does seem about par for the course for Epic installs, which suffer a great deal of typical enterprise software disease. i have fond recollections of their user-facing staff training including a dedicated section for "how do i, a new grad with a sociology degree and 3mo of EMR training, convince a bunch of decade-veteran nurses and physicians that i have enough industry knowhow to effectively advise them how to navigate their complicated EMR install?"

if not a in-person protest, this did remind me of an extremely early 2010s meme format on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt1BPvMbNpk
I don't think there's any way NATO can afford not to respond to the offensive use of nuclear weapons in a war of conquest, just outside their borders, against a friendly nation. But as long as it's a small, tactical nuke, I think NATO's response will be conventional, but still big enough to cripple all Russian positions in Ukraine, and possibly more.
Yup, whenever I hear that about fashion, for all the times I think that the GP's statement is accurate, there's also a Vetements story.

Their line, they want to champion a more "pragmatic" approach to fashion, and "down to earth nature", compared to the big fashion houses.

Demna Gvasalia and his friends all worked at LV, Balenciaga, Maison Margiela, etc.

Vetements in reality? "Down to earth" $1200 track pants, $800 t-shirts, $500 baseball caps, $1500 hoodies.

Given a choice between "trying to break down fashion to be more pragmatic, approachable and down to earth" and "we saw how much money the fashion houses made and we decided we wanted a bigger piece", I know which way I lean.

Edit: in a fit of irony, Balenciaga offered him the role of Creative Director and he went there.
This is mostly very silly and is not backed by facts.

1. On "pedophilia in Algeria":
a. You are probably referring to the rumors started by Guy Sorman which mention crimes allegedly taking place in Tunisia, where he lived and taught, rather than Algeria.
b. As described in a report (in French) published in the Obs[1], Foucault was under strict police surveillance when he lived in Tunisia, because of his political activities. The State was desperate to find a reason to convict him. One would think that allegations of rape and pedophilia wouldn't have gone unnoticed.
Moreover, Sorman himself admitted that his allegations were not founded[2].
c. Even if these allegations were true (which they don't seem to be), I failed to see what they would have to do with the argument you are answering to. This would make him a criminal and a despicable person; it would not imply that nothing he wrote was philosophically and historically pertinent.

2. On the age of consent laws in France: your argument is simply dishonest. At the time, the age of consent for heterosexual relations was 15 (and it still is), whereas homosexual relations were forbidden until the age of 18, which was (rightfully) seen as discriminatory. However, some of the people involved in that movement were indeed despicable.
3. "most of his books are extremely anti-historical" That makes absolutely no sense. What does "anti-historical" mean?
a. "filled with literal falsehoods". This is a gross overstatement. The accuracy of some facts described in some of Foucault's books have indeed been disputed, it doesn't make them "filled with falsehoods".
b. "anti-scientific": that's ironic, because, for reasons that I cannot explain in much detail here (do study Foucault and make your own opinion about his work rather that believe what random strangers say on the Internet), it is, to some extent, precisely the point (but it is dealt with in a much more complex manner than what your comment leads one to think).

Think whatever you want about Foucault and his work, but please do your homework and don't spread ridiculous rumors and over-simplifications.

[1] https://www.nouvelobs.com/idees/20210506.OBS43714/michel-fou...
[2] https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/idees-et-debats/michel-fou...
Reverse Engineer’s Perspective on the Boeing 787 ‘51 days’ Directive
This is an impressive accomplishment. Not that we'll get to find out in a timely manner but I am curious how these maps compare to bathymetric surveys in the classified submarine world.
Reddit mods shut down their subreddit after a few bad decisions that they didn’t like.
Yes. And less buggy.

If someone can find a meaningful case where ag is faster than ripgrep, then I'm happy to accept a bug report. I'll do my best at that point to give an analysis of the benchmark, and if it's correct, I'll either try to fix it or say why it's hard to fix.

By "meaningful" I mean "something that is noticeable to humans." So for example, reporting a bug because ripgrep took 9ms and ag took 7ms on a tiny repo is one I would consider not meaningful. :)

(Sorry about the verbose caveats, but just trying to head off responses I've got in the past.)
I have applied to consulting firms, although just sparingly in the past. Didn't put a hard focus on them.

Several months ago, I sent cold applications to two software developer positions at Deloitte, and one at Infosys. They were all rejected as saying I did not meet qualifications for these positions or simply were "not moving forward".
I didn't have the tar, I created it using:

tar --use-compress-program="pigz -0" ...
Ah, yeah! There have been some new features in eBPF over the past few years, without which the bpflsm would be a lot less useful. None of this was done /specifically/ for the LSM, AFAIK, but all of it is relatively new and I think the LSM was among the first places where these things were deployed:

1) The BPF ring buffer. Previously, we had to use the perf ring buffer to get data out of the kernel, which was hard to use efficiently.

2) BTF enabled BPF programs to read kernel data structures without having to have specialized helpers defined for everything.

3) A lot of improvements to BPF itself, more powerful verifier, atomics support, etc. all enabled more useful BPF programs. AFAIK none of this had to do specifically with the LSM, but still gradually built up BPF as a viable option.
I haven't seen literal protest, but at my old job, there were several forums (one public, one pseudo-anonymous). When software rollouts didn't go well, there were loud protestations on those forums. Examples include new video streaming software botching a live event; VPN software that performed inconsistently; and business software that made the front-line business workers' jobs a lot harder.

No one ever staged a walkout. It was at a company serving military members and had many workers from that background... I think "stuff sucks" was part of the life. But after sufficient complaining, some projects were fast-tracked for improvement and frontline buy-in.
The dopamine hit from click the send button can help overcome the ADHD tendency to wander off task. Plus, even if you have half an essay posted to Twitter and still get bored, it's much more difficult to just leave it halfway finished than to leave an unposted blog post in your drafts. And besides that, I'm really not sure why people get so upset at people putting content into the world. Wasn't the point of the internet to make it easier for people to share their knowledge with the world?