skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very easy to talk about completely automated systems and LOTO and you need these when you have under-skilled staff. The NYSE likely does NOT have under trained staff. If you have LOTO systems etc, what do you do when a sensor fails and you can't figure out why your method for checking whether the other system is running incorrectly thinks it is. Do you allow the stock market to simply not open?

What if multiple sensors fail or it's an ambiguous situation like say you are deciding whether or not to fail over a power circuit and it's a brownout but not a complete power failure? What if there is a systemic problem and it's likely the backup power source is going to brown out too? At some point you need highly skilled individuals, like say trained airline pilots flying a plane who have the authority to override systems immediately without having to jump through hoops.

This is especially true for mission critical systems. Many of the mission critical systems we rely on are NOT built on the cloud, i.e. other people's computers because you want to be really careful about what hardware you are using, precisely how your data center is setup and want to make sure things like a noisy neighbor do not impact you.

Like it or not, these highly trained individuals are going to make mistakes every now and then. A failure like this once every decade or so really isn't so bad. The individual who made this error is likely not a "grunt". I suspect the individual in question will not necessarily suffer any major consequences as a result of this unless it wasn't a mistake but a flagrant disregard for the rules like say bringing a bottle of water into a data center that then spilled or something.

Have you built a mission critical, distributed system that hasn't failed for 10 years? It's a lot harder than it looks. That's how often the NYSE has a problem like this, about once a decade. A lot of things that work in theory, don't work for the edge cases and things that lead to problems once a decade or so are extreme edge cases.

In the grand scheme of things a mucked up opening auction is a minor problem and anyone who did not take the precaution of sending a limit order and sent a market on open order despite it being standard practice to essentially always use limits and go hurt badly will be made whole.
Eyes on Asteroids (NASA interactive visualization)
isn't there another component to the NYSE auction where the DMM has some input into what the closing/opening price actually is?
For the Freenode -> Libera.Chat move the operators seem to have learned this lesson and set up a nonprofit with shared governance to prevent a takeover/sellout by a single person. Perhaps the community that will move out after this takeover will be smart enough to do the same.
"2023BU: Earth is about to get one of its closest ever asteroid encounters (bbc.co.uk)" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530744
I look forward to most tech writing done with AI. Writing documentation and requirements requires a lot of effort to keep consistent and up to date. Having an AI look at your code and config and then write a nice report will easily beat 99% of all tech docs in companies.
I don't eat Chipotle, but the subreddit is my guilty pleasure program. I love reading about all the employees who quit after seeing how terrible that company is run.
Democratize creation and filling the internet with shitty articles are synonymous. Not that this is a problem or a particularly scary prospect, bookstores are already filled to the brink with garbage, it's just a game of numbers at this point.

Searching your internal docs is an interesting one, but it's still unclear what this can do that grep can't. The leap forward would be ability to reason autonomously, but we're as far from that as we've ever been.
I just do what is common in the language. Python is interesting as snake case is supposed to be used for the most part but a lot of code seems to use camel case.
Yes, ShipXplorer.
I'm just mildly annoyed that most languages disallow kebab-case I assume almost entirely so '-' can be used for infix subtraction (and maybe decrement) without having to surround it with spaces... not a good tradeoff imo.
> shaved-head earthtones guy with the cult eyes in their youtube videos does them no favors.

Doesn’t it? It’s the same as scams, selecting against people who recognise cults is a feature, it means you don’t have to weed those out. Means your recruitment process is that much more efficient.
Great, now you have a slave with a broken hand and a new one costs multiple decades of man's wages. If you just paid wages in the first place, you'd pay less upfront and not have a worker with a broken hand.
Briefly mentioned in the article is Erik Demaine (http://erikdemaine.org/).

You can find a lot of resources on his website among which lectures on the topic of Origami folding and algorithms. http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.849/fall20/lectures/
Won’t change a thing as long as it is winner take all.
Sub-base 5 makes the multiplication table actually smaller than decimal. Nice.
I don't post here frequently, does anyone know why this post is flagged? And how that affects my account?
One step closer to the movie Her
Most of these things seem to be hybrids, humans overseeing automation, with varying degrees of human involvement. Guessing they at least have a review queue for non-boilerplate docs about to go out.
Why couldn’t have been Jim’s fault? The world is run by Jims.
I would use Supabase for the database and user auth system, I'd use Elixir/Phoenix for the business logic, and I'd use Phoenix LiveView for the front end, with Tailwind for the CSS.
The article includes an inline embedded version of Eyes on Asteroids (https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/asteroids), which is an amazingly impressive interactive live visualization of asteroids in the solar system. Dragging the time slider at the bottom lets you wind time backward and forward and watch the power-law relationship between orbital speed and radius (v ~ 1/sqrt(r)) in glorious fluid animation of countless asteroids swirling in the prevailing orbital direction of the solar system almost as a fluid. A masterful combination of data, graphics, software engineering, and UX.
It's always a balance between efficiency vs willingness to support their learning efforts.

This reminded me of an article written by an American living in China recounting his early days there. In it he describes the tricks he developed to practice the local language despite the higher interest of the locals to practice their English with him.

https://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2010/05/18/language...
PipeWire 0.3.65 can “create a 5.1 device from 3 stereo soundcards”
We have a community in RadarBox and that we have direct contact with the developers: RadarBox.com/addcoverage
LinkedIn is my resume. It's how recruiters find me. I wouldn't know how else to find work except by having recruiters find me on LinkedIn.

I sometimes notice people using LinkedIn for something else, but I don't get it. It's mostly a resume-hosting site for me.
Why the Model of a Hydrogen-filled Sun is Obsolete(2004) [pdf]
Yep that’s the first great use case I’ve thought of - looking through all the documents in a group and answering a specific question. Also can imagine multi step pipelines driven by answers to previous questions.
3 wordsIsTheLimit, afterThat, its_better_to_use_underscores.
31 really, because a fist is zero. Four also presents a minor difficulty.
So? The article doesn't mention "security against specific memory attacks". It's meant to be generic security, and I was pointing out that your comment was restricting the field too much.
This is excellent. Can someone knowledgeable weigh in on what it would take to make an API out of something like this so one could say integrate this into a document/image/presentation generator. Or for a simpler usecae - personalized greeting card generator.
It's admittedly unlikely, but the 17th Amendment which required direct election of senators was ratified by state legislatures who previously had that power.

In this case, Congress would have the power to do so if state legislatures will not (and for that matter, some states have).
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> do you not see that even if this has the color of law, it is in fact _wildly unjust_?

It's not good, and it's certainly not ideal, but it's much worse for the courts to be usurping powers they don't have.

> Given the FEC's extremely limited budget, the fact that they can only enforce a subset of violations is completely necessary.

> This is true of all agencies, police organizations and the like.

The FEC specifically gave exemptions selectively to certain organisations. Not 'they didn't have the resources to pursue this' but 'they said it was ok for Michael Moore to do this but not Citizens United'.

> In their hearts, they think, "Our evil side will be able to win and win and win forever if we set the rules to 'Cheat Mode'".

I'm so glad you're able to glimpse into my heart of hearts and determine what I think for myself.
I can rewrite every book in existence but what is the point if everyone can do it?
Now try `.well-known/acme-challenge`, or the `google123456789asbcef.html` authentication file!
I'm saying that, like it or not, there's simply no legal basis for SCOTUS to ban gerrymandering if gerrymandering isn't illegal.
Your description is slightly inaccurate:

In February 2021, the Czech Republic sued Poland over the mine at the European Court of Justice, the first time that an EU member state had sued another one over an environmental issue.[10]

In May 2021, Poland defied an injunction by the court that ordered the immediate closure of the mine, claiming it would have an adverse impact the country's energy system and lead to the loss of thousands of jobs.[11]

Because Poland had not ceased lignite extraction activities at the Turów mine, on 20 September 2021, the Vice-President of the Court ordered Poland to pay the European Commission a daily penalty payment of half a million euros,[13] but the Polish government refused to comply.[4]
I’ve gotten food poisoning twice from Chipotle. I’ll never eat their meat again, but I’ll still get sofritas.
Has anyone read "Common Sense Mathematics"? I really liked that book for shortcuts to elementary maths for mathematical analysis of everyday things.
https://archive.ph/gK6jb
AI doesn't need accountability, people who deploy AI do.
We aren’t accepting the word of the anonymous source. We’re accepting Bloomberg’s word that the source is reliable.
Nothing special or insightful, but a few thoughts come to mind...

1) Having a limited vocabulary was one of the more long term challenges. What worked was simply developing a habit of consistently looking up any unknown words overheard or read. Whether jisho.org via Google or Google Translate or a dedicated app doesn't really matter. Either way the meaning should become clear within a few seconds. Don't wait. Just immediately look it up as soon as your hands are free.
Want to speed things up? Read more. Start with manga or light novels. A bit frustrating and slow going at first, but certainly effective.

2) Train your ears with random entertainment. Configure Netflix to play Japanese content as-is without subtitles. Hear something new? Immediately pause, and apply 1) above.

3) For reading kanji the same principle applies, except looking them up can be a bit more cumbersome. There are dedicated apps (phone camera -> OCR) and tools (browser extensions) out there that automatically show furigana, which can be a life saver. (I'm hazy on the details, because I haven't had a need for them for a number of years.)

BTW, I wouldn't consider any of the above to be test preparation. Just day to day habits of living your life in a foreign country. That should get you about 80~90% there.

For the final 10~20% (test prep):
1) Use a spaced repetition program such as Anki to fill any Kanji and vocab gaps remaining.
2) Buy and read a grammar text book for some of the old-fashioned/clunky expressions that you're less likely to encounter in daily life, but nonetheless show up on N1 (and N2 to some extent).

Finally: probably best not to bother learning how to handwrite kanji. Huge effort. Not much reward or need in digital times. And of course, not part of any standardized tests either.
Lots of companies deal with credential stuffing, especially a large targeted attack.
These "issue traced to staffer" stories sound like management cover up for management/system shortcomings to me.

If you're going to move the blame up the food chain, might as well blame the shareholders for giving the company money and choosing to keep the upper management in place.
From the same source (and also featured on the BBC’s Winterwatch last night), the folding of earwig wings: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/earwig-or...
https://archive.ph/uFcdp
That's why I've decided to just blog for myself. It's kind of like notes where if i come across it again, i can remind myself or i can grasp something i once understood more easily but with the added component of holding myself to somewhat of a high standard because it's still going to be public.
Can also be something that helps when looking for a job as the recruiter can look at the blog and see the experience you have.
Not familiar with Philips, but other microscope scanners I used, Aperio, Leica, Zeiss, all have dedicated computer attach to them, with special, sometimes strange looking interface card. They have precision stage, which holds glass slides, move under lens. USB is becoming common especially for transferring image. The software and driver is part of the scanner. Resolution of these scanner is quite high, but generally their lens (microscope objective) have very short work distance to the slide, usually less than 2mm, sometimes less than 1mm. So need to find a way to keep the film flat on the supporting glass slide while the distance between film and objective is still short. The output is limited to the vendor format. Most of the time is 8bits per RGB channel. An annoying character of the microscope scanners is their color is not accurate. One might get notable different color from the same slide with different scanner model. Therefor they may not suitable for scanning film.
lmao fair.
When the internet was but a trickle, blogging was maintrickle
No, the problem is that you need to be licensed to give legal advice. And the chatbot is not a licensed lawyer.
> but there were also other equally, if not more, legally justifiable theories they could have followed to reach the opposite decision.

Only what the law actually says is justifiable in law.

> For example, a theory that would incorporate the idea that a badly acting legislature cannot be the only one to depend on to curb the badly acting legislature when the bad behavior’s goal and effect is to shape the very mechanism that provides the only check on their behavior, ie voting.

On what legal basis is this based on?
Have you not described just another goal to pursue, but in this case one that is very long-term and leaves you so busy you have no time to contemplate anything else? Also, is it that it really eliminated all doubt, or is it that you had no other realistic choice once the children were born?

What happens once your children grow up and leave? You are back in the original situation, except worse - the relationship with your spouse has now likely deteriorated, and you have now likely neglected your hobbies and interests (and often even your health) to the point you don't even know how to live by yourself anymore. Most parents do not seem to deal with that well, trying to hold on, pushing for grandchildren etc.

It does not seem like a solution at all, just a more extreme version of 'we keep grinding, hoping we'll achieve X and then we'll be content forever, only to find merely emptiness on the other side' where you voluntarily choose to intensify your grind dramatically and leave yourself no alternatives.

In fact, just substituting 'by having kids' with another such activity that dramatically intensifies your grind and leaves you no alternatives seems to work just as well. "My answer was found by [going on a trek through the Sinai desert/giving everything to charity and going to live on a homestead away from civilization/circumnavigating the world on a small boat]. For me, one of the absolute best things about it was that it eliminated all doubt: I now had a 100% crystal clear main quest that trivially answers, 'what should I be doing right now?' if I'm ever not sure. Everything else in life is just a side quest"
You can store up to 2KB of data in the URL, so you could actually run this service with zero storage costs, just generate a URL containing the provided code, could be signed if you want the username to be the only one with control of the content
Ha! See, my experience is a bit different.

Most times, it acknowledges its error, and sometimes it successfully corrects it. That is, IF I give it specific enough information (ex: "why do you treat this variable as a string, it's a number?", or "don't you need to unpack the json first?").

Other times, it fixes something, but breaks something else in the process, and no matter of coercing makes it go to where I want.

But, yeah, the "confidently wrong" aspect needs to be kept in check. I tend to treat it as any other source of information... with a grain of salt.

What's neat with code is that you can prove the "truthiness" of its affirmations pretty quickly.
In Internet? Totally. Blogging intended as "reading blog", from 2008 to 2015 (roughly, I don't have hard numbers) was pretty mainstream in the Internet population of that time.
Maybe now it's not mainstream anymore just because the Internet population increased (again) a lot, and the newjoiners are not into reading blogs but rather watching photos or (short) videos.
As far as mindshare goes, I'm not so sure. Plenty of people that still only know "Open Office" even if some of them are actually using LibreOffice.
If you don't use a planar lens it will never really look good.

What I do for my part is just use an enlarger to which I attach my digital camera with various tubes and adapters to get the distances right, and an enlarger lens. These lenses are infinitely cheaper than "regular" planar lenses and they're just made exactly for the job, and the whole assembly is rigid and aligned so it's easy to get the whole negative right.
The dialectic is amazing. To get the best result, it forces one to be constantly skeptical—yet open and creative.
Don't Fall for the Hype: A Data Professional's Perspective on Familiar Concepts
Bank of America's deposits were 1.4 trillion in Feb 2021. FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund was 125 billion in Dec 2022.

You aren't getting your money back if BoA loses it all.

https://newsroom.bankofamerica.com/content/newsroom/press-re...

https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/quarterly-banking-profile/fdic...
I like the notion of discriminating the general kind that names refer to with different separation styles. I think the most common are:

- camelCase

- PascalCase

- snake_case

- kebab-case

- |sentence case|

I think the last one can be used in CL, but not 100% sure.

Some examples:

- Clojure prefers kebab-case mostly, but some types and definitions use PascalCase to imply that there is a more direct mapping to a Java class. Clojure prefers to use namespaces to name things that belong together over long, prefixed names. Single letter names are common for function parameters such as 'm' for maps, 's' for strings and so on.

- Go prefers camelCase for private/local types fields and functions. When PascalCase is used, then the name is exported. Go generally prefers short, often abbreviated names (Unix/C heritage).

- Rust prefers PascalCase for type definitions, snake_case for function names, locals and parameter names.

- Both in Go and Rust, packagas/modules/crates give additional naming structure but also control visibility. So those things have multiple jobs.

So generally the-wayWe_Type/And-NameThings in different languages can give us a bit more structure and meaning without cluttering the syntax with additional keywords. A big side-benefit is that we then don't need to decide which style to use! It's better to have a uniform style than your personally preferred one IMO.
Compare the emissions to driving a car, flying a plane, or launching a rocket... or a volcano
How many really good writers not from colonialist regimes are there? How often do they make to the front page of HN?
Section 230 doesn't apply to CSAM, since SESTA/FOSTA
I could run the actual statistics for my district’s Court and tell you the percentage of reoffending while on bond, but in my experience a number approaching 40%, of people out on felony bonds, are re-arrested for additional felony conduct.
The type of service you're looking for is generally called an "expert network", and as a sibling said, Alphasights is one of the biggest. Others that I have experience with as a consultant are Guidepoint, GLG, and Coleman Research.

Your experience using them will vary; they're incredibly expensive, they don't do a particularly good job of vetting the experts they find, but there is definitely some gold there.
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I don't know how Bloomberg works, but the New York Times has a very clear and public policy about using anonymous sources.

There's usually a link to it in the middle or end of any story it publishes using an anonymous source.

The Times isn't Bloomberg, but it might give you some insight into how these things work.
Let me give a set of references and get a literature review.
I can breathe, but what is the point if everyone can do it?

The point is that what used to be a great achievement becomes a new baseline, and the great achievements become ever greater.
India has double of that - 22 scheduled languages[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_with_official_status...
Special but not special, don't you dare use a non ASCII character or the whole backend explodes.
Apparently I can't read today, sorry for the stupid comment. Can't edit it anymore.
Scientists Made a Liquid Metal Robot That Can Escape a Cage Like a Terminator
>There’s actually disagreement about what the study published this week in Nature Geoscience really shows.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023/01/25/no-earths-i...
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For decades(!) I used CamelCase identifiers, with a convention of using an upper case first letter for constants/types/functions and a lower case first letter for variables.

e.g.
MyType myType;

I'm not quite sure what made me switch, but nowadays I used lower case and underscores for all identifiers other than constants, and use a "_t" suffix to distinguish types.

e.g.
color_t color;
string_list_t list;

I think it's certainly easier on the eyes and more readable.

At the end of the day though it's personal preference, unless you're working on an existing code base where you should adopt the naming and formatting conventions of the code base.
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> The asteroid was discovered by amateur astronomer Gennadiy Borisov, discoverer of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, from his MARGO observatory in Nauchnyi, Crimea, on Saturday, Jan. 21.

Discovered 5 days before its closest approach.

It’s amazing how much “stuff” is out there to learn, and how something can sneak in so “close”.
https://mitraprint.com/hasselblad-flextight-x1-scanner
Show HN: VisualSQL – A visual SQL query builder
This is a tool I built to help people organize and build SQL queries by connecting blocks. Let me know your thoughts.
In that case, I wonder if blogging stayed the same - and it just feels less important because there is so much more internet now. The pond grew and it stayed the same.
I had an idea bouncing around, and now I've got it:

2d6, passed back and forth. First to roll a 7 "wins".

Chances of 1/6 chambers look similar to (2d6) = 7
Ask HN: If you had $1000 to spend on used workstation which one would you choose
HP Z serie? Lenovo? Dell? Supermicro? Something other?
Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation – Article 9 Funds or Dark Green Funds [pdf]