skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parent didn't say you had to stick around. People default to fixing things and need to know that's the wrong thing to do.
> I get what he's saying: the Maginot line was a pretty epic blunder.

What is often forgotten about the Maginot Line is that... it worked, it did exactly what it was supposed to. The failure was in French military leadership, largely for reasons that probably would have played out the same without the Maginot Line (e.g., refusal to believe intelligence reports, slowness in response, etc.).
> You always try to cover an obstacle with fire,

I misread your comment to mean flames/burning stuff (not weapons fire), and wanted to pause for a moment to admire your approach to life.

:)
I'm equating breaking the law with breaking the law.

And as a pedestrian (and bicyclist and motorcyclist and driver) I'd rather take my chances with a Giant-brand mountain bike versus a giant-sized Chevy Tahoe.
This would depend on local laws, however in general, an automobile temporarily crossing a double yellow to give a cyclist more room is entirely predictable.

Automobile drivers who swerve (sudden steering input) in such a situation should give more attention to what lies ahead or, if visibility is poor, reduce speed. A relative speed of 20-30 mph with any hazard or obstacle should not require sudden inputs, but rather should be within the driver's control via smooth application of vehicle controls that are less likely to cause undesired behavior such as brake lock, and which also will not surprise other motorists.

Of course, the proliferation of cell phone use while driving vehicles of all sorts contributes to this sort of unpredictable behavior, since drivers who split time between observing the road and observing a cell phone's display will have reduced reaction time.
I didn’t realize it was possible to do this without a PhD. I want to do research, I’m working as SWE at a startup and finishing MS now, but it is online without advisor or anything. If that’s possible, that’s awesome, how does that work, like to get the position and so on, I’m guessing you would need to publish some work on your own first.
Despite talking about misinformation intensely for the last few years: few people have learned the key lesson. EVERYTHING SHOULD BE CONSIDERED BULLSHIT UNTIL ITS VERIFIED.

Using weaselly language like "reportedly" in a story should be a dead giveaway for a heaping pile of bullshit.
> both cases are always at drivers' expense.

Could you expand on this? And explain why this expense is so great, that it’s more important that the life and safety of someone on a bike?
How do you send D-Bus messages. That's right, via a C ABI.

D-Bus is not about interacting with libraries, it is about inter-process communication.
American intersections are built exclusively for cars, everybody else is an afterthought (when they're even thought of at all)
“No moving cars”. This is exactly a kind of language that makes for ambiguity and misinterpretations of Idaho stop. If I am a car that has just stopped at the all way stop before you reached your stop line, am I a “moving” car or not?
Tim Berners-Lee is building the web’s ‘third layer’–but don’t call it Web3
Marriage has taught me to go even further than that. I now ask "are you telling me to get it off your chest, or you want help solving it?". If the former, I don't offer any solutions whatsoever, in any kind of format.
> Even if FTX has stopped withdrawals, it does not necessarily mean they are insolvent.

Listen to yourself.
I agree to idea of having a mentor to guide throughout. Yes, I intend to find out stepping stones to become X learning Y. Thanks for resources. I will check them out.
That's entirely fair, thanks for giving your perspective on this.

The part about the industry-specific situation is something I legitimately haven't even considered. That upgrade is indeed a very "nice-to-have", but feels pretty moronic if the company finances are strained.

Out of curiosity, did they have any explanation for their reasoning? Is it just due to some accounting magic, where the upgrade budget was allocated a long time ago, and it was more like "use it or lose it" (without a chance to just "save" that upgrade budget money regardless)?
+1 on the opt-in telemetry
Okay?

I think this was implicit in my second sentence: "If you are paying, but at an affordable consumer rate, your likely still not entirely the main customer, especially for anything as complex as search over the entire internet."
I'll submit Rob Lee's opinion, if you'd rather read than watch a video: https://warontherocks.com/2022/09/the-tank-is-not-obsolete-a...
On a similar note, Page and Brin were obviously smart and driven and all, but applying linear algebra to the search problem was arguably one of the things that was "in the air". It is hard to judge, because what seems obvious ex post was (obviously) not obvious ex ante. But, again, eigenvalue decomposition/SVD (and linear algebra more generally) - you throw it at the Netflix problem, you throw it at image compression, you throw it at anything really, something's gonna stick.

It's an interesting counterfactual: without Page, when would Page Rank have come around? The idea that the stationary distribution of a Markov Chain (under certain conditions) is given by the eigenvector to the (largest) eigenvalue 1 is certainly decades old, if not a century.
First off cycling in such a place is utter insanity and is resolved by dedicated cycle lanes and paths. As someone who cycles daily I would never cycle anywhere where the speed limit for cars is above 30mph unless the cycle path is separated by at least a median.

The law for passing cyclists should be to stay behind the cyclist until it is safe to pass. Just because you're in a car doesn't mean you have some immutable right to drive the speed limit regardless of circumstances. Of course when there's frequently cyclists on high speed roads that quickly becomes untenable, but for that situation re-read the first half of my comment.
FAx86: An Open-Source FPGA-Accelerated x86 Full-System Emulator (2011) [pdf]
FTX collapsing is the optimistic case. I hope they take the rest of the crypto "space" with them.
I am not saying it doesn't happen, yet there seems to be this attitude out there that says most (or even all) cyclists do X. I am pointing out that this is both prejudiced and does not reflect the reality that cyclists have to be acutely aware of safety.

Or maybe cyclists are immortal. I've certainly seen a few situations where I've seen a cyclist do something, then was wondering how they managed to survive. That said, I view it as a cyclist with a death with rather than something that cyclists do.
Basically the main point is to get professional opportunities aligned with our interests.
I'm happy to see this! Hopefully Nvidia starts open sourcing a lot more stuff.
UGC: User-Generated Code
> I assume all unarchived content is unarchived because of their established policy for not archiving things, which is the copyright holder refusing archiving. Why would I assume otherwise?

Because of their deliberate policy of secrecy that forces you to assume, instead of know. As this is the 3rd time I repeat this same point, it will also be the last.
Meaningful images, yes.

Meaningless meme images are just noise that make people close their earflaps.

Myself, moving images at the edge of of my visual field are destructive of my ability to concentrate.

If I was working at some place where people shared animated GIFs on Slack I'd have to apply for an accommodation for a disability. If you want everyone to feel included, no m̵e̵m̵e̵s̵.
The government uses a "basket of goods approach" that allows for substitutions and is averaged out over multiple grocery stores.

As someone pointed to in this thread, half of the inflation is attributed to profit increases for the grocer. Thus, it stands to reason that groceries that aren't packing on the profits would see lower price increases. So where you're shopping matters a lot.
I read a sendmail configuration file once.
P2P Liquid Democracy Simulator
With respect, this isn't "ironic" at all, and I don't mean this as some stupid quibbling about the definition because I mean this for all definitions. Those two facts are quite connected; maybe not completely directly, but they are far from independent events that just happen to be occurring in some unexpected manner. At the very least, it means I interpret the rescue as another level of razzle-dazzle rather than a rescue based on solid fundamentals. This doesn't surprise me too much, your mileage may vary.
Actually, marketing to children is a recent innovation in humanity. It really only picked up post-WWII.

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the-history-of-advertisi...

History can be the antidote to anecdata.
There is another way to look at this situation (beyond the use of language and specific words).
The takeaway can be as follows: Ask questions before doling out advice/help.
What this means is, you are getting a better understanding of the current situation, you are being sympathetic and by the time you talk, you do so from a position of knowledge and not shooting from the hips.

For e.g., if a colleague is stuck debugging a slow API call, it would be good to ask them.
"Hey, what all have you tried so far to resolve the issue"
If partitioning keys and adding more CPU cores has already been tried, then you could suggest - what about scanning logs for high-latency calls?

I think the point the author is making is not just using the word "just". It is about being thoughtful and sympathetic before trying to solve the problem.

At least, that was my takeaway.
Completely agreed. There's plenty of existing cyclist behavior that is not scalable and should be discouraged in whatever bike-specific rules of the road are considered.
Ya but probably 4 way stops should be abolished
You clearly haven't written a JNI.

JNI is an API between the JVM and C- or C++-coded plugins that can implement native methods. "Native method" means "written in C (or C++)". There's a) a standard interface that C-coded methods must present (depending on their Java signature) and b) a set of utility C functions provided by the JVM.

Because these plugins are loaded via `dlopen()`/`LoadLibrary_Ex()`/etc. the JNI API has an ABI.

If you don't believe me go look it up. There's a ton of resources on JNI. Here's an example taken from the wikipedia page on JNI:

extern "C"
JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_ClassName_MethodName
(JNIEnv *env, jobject obj, jstring javaString)
{
const char *nativeString = env->GetStringUTFChars(javaString, 0);

//Do something with the nativeString

env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(javaString, nativeString);
}
For the younger crowd, back in the day before Nvidia bought Ageia, you'd have to buy dedicated PhysX accelerator cards and stick them in your PC in order to use this tech in the few available games that supported it. Wild stuff.

After that, PhysX API was accelerated via CUDA and the dedicated PhysX ASICs were discontinued.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/bfg-ageia-physx-card/
That would be rad!

Edit: It is! Look at his email.
I've learned that 9 times out of 10, if someone is telling you about their problems, they really just want some understanding or compassion.

I've found that instead of trying to 'fix' their problem with unsolicited advice, saying something like "Wow, that sucks, I'm sorry you're going through that" leads to a much more positive response.
I don’t know the difference between [difference in] momentum and acceleration?? Says whom?? Δp=mΔv=FΔt
There were many MVPs built on Python that later gained popularity - but many of these (but not all!) have been rewritten in other languages at some point.

If I'd have to chose two reasons to answer your question, I'd pick up lack of static typing and relatively slow performance. Both can be alleviated (by things like MyPy, PyPy etc.) but it's not built in. You can build larger projects in Python, you just need more discipline and be realistic about potential bottlenecks.
> We want you to behave in a way that keeps everyone safe.

What evidence do you have that their behaviour significantly impacts the safety of others?

The statistics clearly show the drivers are largest cause of injury and fatalities on the road, and bikes cause so few injuries and fatalities that the stats are basically just noise.

Additionally if you look at UK police reports of incidents between bikes and cars, the police almost never attribute blame to cyclist behaviour. Only something like 10% of cases are cyclist found to be partially at fault, and never fully at fault.
> I'm almost at the point of getting off HN for several weeks until the hive mind finds something else

Something else will fill the void. There is always hot drama to discuss in the tech world. I do a mental filter without using a program or piece of code. I just don't pay that clownshoe any attention.
> "you know you'd be a lot healthier if you just lost weight"

Not least because weight loss is unlikely to make someone much healthier unless they have type 2 diabetes, severe hypertension, or are way beyond "overweight". There is a substantial population-level association between obesity and morbidity, but it's heavily influenced by those who are extremely obese (which tends to come with a variety of other issues not immediately relevant to the average fat person).
There is also another Interlingua which is also called as Latina-Sine-Flexione.
Spheres would be cubic, we're just talking about cylinders here. And the difference between the 30" and 38" waist will be mostly by better approximating a cylinder at the waistline, the underlying skeletal structure isn't changing much.
My understanding is that the goal is to advance society (not really the sciences) by enabling someone to produce their invention so society can benefit from it. The patent protects someone from having that invention copied as soon as it is put to use, which provides motivation to spend the time inventing it.
> parental income is still the best predictor of educational achievement

Is that controlled for genetic influence though? Suppose smart people 1) have high income, 2) have smart kids.

Disentangling the various causal factors is substantially harder than your quote above suggests.
People can barely keep one set of rules in their head. Having to maintain two set of rules will hardly make anyone safer.
I expect you would want the sound source to be in a static position relative to your ears - if you're trying to determine the distance between you and a wall 3 feet away, moving the sound source by a couple feet would change everything about the echo
This is a lesson I am continually still trying to put in practice. I had the initial ah-ha moment from White Men Can't Jump.

See. if I'm thirsty. I don't want a glass of water, I want you to sympathize. I want you to say, "Gloria, I too know what it feels like to be thirsty. I too have had a dry mouth." I want you to connect with me through sharing and understanding the concept of dry mouthedness.
I never thought of the parallels to git but that is interesting.

So git is to github as (chroot/cgroups/unionfs) is to docker et all?

What is the VC company that is going to spring up around WASM?
Exiting news!
Congratulations to the Rome team!

I hope that Rome will soon support semicolon removal [1] and lint rules such as explicit-module-boundary-types provided by Deno-lint [2].

[1] https://github.com/rome/tools/issues/3535

[2] https://lint.deno.land/?q=&all=on#explicit-module-boundary-t...
Both the BSD layer _and_ the polished interface let me switch to Mac OS X in 2004 as a developer. Trying to get a nice Linux GUI was too much of a time sink for me then.
While Patton's quote is open to interpretation, the Maginot Line is a case where he's dead on. What was the opportunity cost of building these giant and somewhat extravagant fortifications? Hindsight is 20:20 but maybe things could have worked out better for the French if they had used the massive amounts resources in a different way.
This is going to change everything for me. Thank you for this software! Exactly what we need for our in house monitoring and alerting.
Bernie Madoff was also able to totally autist-genius his way out of trouble too.
A free Oracle Cloud VM still costs you your soul, in perpetuity.
Some keywords you might want to try include:

- Replication error: copying DNA, transcribing it into RNA, and translating that into proteins uses processes that make mistakes. There are all sorts of interesting mechanisms for catching these, both in vivo and during sequencing. Try here for error rates: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1805967/

- Spontaneous mutation: A consequence of replication errors is that unwanted genomic changes sometimes arise in engineered organisms: you carefully make bacteria—-or a mouse—-with one mutation, but it develops another. Say “spontaneous mutation” around a large enough group of grad students and one will cry because it can derail experiments in hard-to-control ways https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Everything in biology is full of feedback loops and compensatory mechanisms. Knocking out one gene or brain region may have a direct effect on some output, but may also affect a bunch of other genes/regions (in many ways), which in turn…
PhysX has been source available since 2015 (3 clause BSD since 2018) , so I wouldn’t take this as an indicator in that regard.
There should be much more of that infrastructure
Very interesting project. Looks like you are going in the direction of an open source PopSQL instead of something like dbeaver and I really like it.
The Father of Modern Day Semantic Reasoning–Ian Horrocks, Lovelace Medal Winner
I interviewed Ian Horrocks after he won the most prestigious award in the field of computer science, the Lovelace Medal, for his significant contributions to Reasoning Systems. Horrocks has also been credited with the standardization of OWL and his sweeping contributions to the development of the Semantic Web have been widely acknowledged.
This person wasn't performing an "Idaho stop" if they failed to yield to a pedestrian. They were just riding recklessly.

Are you also against using cars for commuting, since they kill pedestrians all the time?
For those that don't get the subtle reference to Nike's slogan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Do_It
I stopped using the word "just" in the meaning "only" when I took math courses at university.

The lecturers were so good to use that term ("trivially", "evidently", etc.) when it was anything but.

The smartest students were good to follow up.

Everyone else were quiet.
That's a fair point (artifact vs. living thing, a distinction misunderstood by mechanism especially where teleology is concerned). However, artificial does not mean arbitrary. What is artificial follows from human ends, and human ends are ultimately rooted in the ends of human nature (which, strangely enough, we can live in opposition to). Thus, the normative definition of a business would have to be understood in terms of human nature. Of course, financial profit is desirable, but not in itself, but as instrument. Anyone pursuing profit for its own sake is idolizing money as if it were an end in itself.

So the purpose of a business is to create value for others in exchange for profit (profit is money which is a medium of economic exchange) to be used for other valuable ends. That is to say, both of you are partially right, but incomplete.
I'm not sure what you mean, people working for companies can and have been jailed. Or did you mean the legal entitiy of a corporation can't be 'jailed'?
I took all my money, put it into a metal bin, poured petrol on it and set it alight.

Now all I have is a metal bin, how Ironic
No, you pretty much nailed it. You see, people think of Microsoft as an old company, and I guess by the standards of the Web sector of the greater programming field, it is. But there are older, and MS learned this trick from one of the oldest: IBM.
Interesting. What was the target group of these cards? Gamers or engineers and scientists?
What people don't realize about right-of-way laws is that they are there for everyone's safety! This is because predictability is a huge part of traveling safe - for the pedestrians, the bicyclists, the cars. If you can't reasonably predict what someone is going to do, you have an emergency situation that has to be handled.
There are various modern disk interfaces that can be plugged in as alternatives.

BMOW, also has a floppy emulator you plug into the floppy controller which emulates the drive+disk using SD cards.

https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/

I have a fairly old CFFA

https://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFfor...

as well, its a pretty solid HD emulator as well.

There shouldn't be a problem using older floppy disks if you can get ones that actually are for apple ][s and C64's rather than the later higher density ones used by PCs/etc.
Signal does it just fine.
Even after the acquisition, people still used dedicated PhysX cards before multi-monitor screen stitching made SLI graphics visual based. Prior, you’d have a card in SLI to handle the physics for PhysX and the other for the visual rendering.

This is great news. Bullet and others could benefit from this as well.
Yeah, just pop over to a client's warehouse (which may not even be in the same city) to chat with some guys you have never seen before - sounds like a plan! I imagine if it would have been as simple as you suggest they would have just done that ;)
Share knowledge as much as you can, it's lifesaving for folks like me who are from poor countries. It's not as direct as giving money to buy food/shelter, but in the long run it pays. I'm learning computer science, for example. Just from internet and course that people put up on there to be accessible from anywhere, that is still something that blows my mind. What poor people lack is access to "good" education. It's not restricted to tech only, it can be about anything that's worth studying. More knowledge = more open mind = more free to think.
My understanding is that Julius Caesar could have lost that war but there is little chance that Rome wouldn't have submitted Gaul in the end.

Current Spain and Portugal's territory required from Rome no less than 190 years of wars. Romans kept going on submitting a few tribes there every year for two centuries.

A sort of "proof" of this assertion is that Rome, in the end, conquered all territories around the Mediterranean Sea and far beyond. Of course, the course of events are by nature unpredictable but I find it reasonable tosay that the odds for a long term victory of Gaul were slim.

However, but that was much earlier, the two Punic wars against Carthage were much more existential threats to Rome.
I also enjoyed this story:
https://www.robertxiao.ca/hacking/dsctf-2019-cpu-adventure-u...
I find that technology is a lot like magic - delightful and baffling when you're uninitiated, and mundane and boring once you learn the grubby details of how it's done. I believe it was Arthur C. Clarke who said that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, so my insight is hardly a new one.

As far as I can tell, what Docker did was to create a universal software packaging system within the Linux world. Thinking of them as a lightweight VM can be useful, but it's not the full picture.
> MSRs or LFTRs might be

What I'm looking forward to is fast reactors. They can burn U238, and leave very little waste (transuranic elements). We would not need to mine any new uranium, because we have huge stocks of depleted Uranium. Wikipedia has a list [1], and the top 2 countries, the US and Russia, have about half a million tons each, and France has about 200k more.

Two such reactors are in the R&D stage in the US, the Natrium one by Terrapower, and the Molten Chloride Fast Reactor, by Terrapower+Southern Company [2].

Edit: Terrapower is more or less owned by Bill Gates. He's using his own money to advance nuclear reactor design.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Production_an...

[2] https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/infographic-advanced-reac...