skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "A Single Line of Code Brought Down a Half-Billion Euro Rocket Launch"

Blaming a system failure on a single point like this dooms that system to repeat similar failures (albeit in another element) in the future.

There are numerous testing, quality and risk controls that could've been in place. There are probably even a few people who didn't do their job (besides the one person a decade ago who wrote the 'single line'). The point isn't to pin blame on any one point, but to look at the system (people, processes, technology) and try to understand why the system is fragile enough that a single person's error is able to escalate into a half-billion euro error.

By focusing in on the point of failure, you end up falling victim to survivorship bias [0]. It is how you end up with developer teams swamped with unit-testing requirements and test coverage metrics, but still somehow end up with errors that impact the end-user anyway. It is how you get company surveys that always seem to miss the point, saying that the measures they implemented to improve company culture worked, yet everyone is burning out and miserable.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
I think the path in technology for open technology-based startups no longer looks like it used to for a lot of reasons - financial, maturity of online users, and more. We have really crossed a point where building a startup from scratch - without a strategic VC, ability to share customers with an established player in the market or ability to build on top of another company's technology/platform - is just not possible. The fabled guys in a garage inventing the next thing is gone.

Transparency is a tricky thing. Much information came from tribal knowledge. As rules have changed for private companies in the US, we saw some of the information being provided "as open" became the norm or required so there is less of a need to share it and there is not that "goodwill" factor. Most of what was being shared was available to some extent if you knew/know where to look.
Are the "business" class seats comfortable enough to sleep in?

A sleeper car sounds posh, but 5x the cost, can you travel first class if you're able to nap on a plane typically?
Ask HN: What should I learn as a 42 year old designer looking to build web apps?
I’m a designer who’s long been interested in the dev side, so this year I’ve decided to build a web app from scratch. Problem is, there’s so many different languages and frameworks it’s hard to know what I should focus on first.

What would be your recommendation for something that’s powerful, fairly easy to get started with and hopefully useful career-wise too.

I’m fluent in html/css and know a bit of Python and JavaScript, if that helps.
Games get played by whom and for what purpose?
> The freeze/reboot/fine cycle seems to be a common one for SSDs acting poorly, running out of blocks they want to use internally, or memory or cache or something, or just hanging in their own firmware for whatever other reason.

Given that it's two gen4 drives in a laptop being subjected to a moderately heavy sustained workload, I'd also suspect a thermal problem or maybe even power delivery. Those two slots are probably being fed off the same 3.3V regulator.

Since the firmware bug appears to have caused catastrophic write amplification, what may seem to the user to be only a modest and reasonable workload may be causing the drive that is the backup destination to be running at full tilt doing a ton of writes to the flash and causing the drive to hit its peak power consumption and heat output.
I was an early paying Kagi user but started using !g more and more over the last few month. I am not sure what they changed.
Recently I decided to switch my default search back to Google as basically in 90% of all search queries I found the result I searched for on Google instead of Kagi.
Incidentally, I first learned about Stylometry when reading about people using it to decipher the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, so I'm happy you brought it up. I had my suspicions that bot farms for Reddit (even before 2019) were doing something similar to this to generate massive amounts of fake account activity to make subreddits appear popular. Now it seems like a piece of cake to do this with things like GPT-3.
The other appeal-to-ethics argument is that major advertising networks should not (ever) do business with malware companies, scammers, and bad actors. Their ethical responsibility of doing their business, which they profit from, is at the very least some form of due diligence on who they form business relationships with.

Ethics is a two-way street.
Around 15 seconds. This is on the low end of extraction time, official instructions say between 10-30 seconds, although it's really to your preference, and some people prefer a minute or longer.

With drip coffee or french press, you're looking at steeping times around 3 to 5 minutes.
I am aware of the difference between "urgent" and "emergency". But when "routine" implies "urgent", something has gone wrong.
Heh, 420 comments. Musk’s going to love that.
why?

fungel spores probaly are contaimination by what ever probe we sent there. any life evolving their would not be from any terrestrial evolutionary branch such as fungus
I am old enough to remember when Jupiter only ‘had’ twelve moons. (I could see four of them with my telescope.)
I'm pretty sure ASU [0] is accredited.

0: https://asuonline.asu.edu/online-degree-programs/undergradua...
Seemed to left have out the simplest explanation. Consciousness doesn't exist. Unrelated but it is a bit strange to me that a lot of (most? nearly all?) atheists believe in consciousness.
I would totally pay a +30% add on to any train ticket to add a cool murder mystery to my ride.
I do actually agree with you. The goal for me was just to understand the connection to CT a bit more precisely, not to imply that it isn't useful. I guess I didn't convey that part very clearly, which together with the tongue-in-cheek title might make me sound like quite a pedant. The post is the culmination of me already knowing Haskell, googling category theory one day, and being utterly confused.
It's just politically motivated fear mongering
I wasn’t taking a stance personally, just explaining how the article was already arguing from a framework that viewed all European land acquisition as “original sins” and illegitimate.
Yes, plus a bunch of other retailers. I keep marking them as spam, but Google isn’t getting the hint. This has been going on for months now and I’m strongly considering switching my personal email over to a new service.

I don’t understand how GMail has dropped so severely in quality. These are some of the most obvious spam messages I have ever seen.
Blackberry has thorns and serrated leaves so you can distinguish it fairly easily regardless of season. When there are leaves on the plants there aren't really many plants that are easy to confuse with poison oak around here. Just look for leaves that come in sets of 3 leaflets with rounded/smooth lobes.
I asked it to summarize the transcript for a podcast about an episode of Star Trek. One minor issue in grammar, but otherwise, it does a remarkable job of making a summary:

> In the Star Trek episode "The Cage", Captain Pike is held captive by a race of advanced televisions. He is offered a life of luxury in a cage, but he realizes that this is not the life he wants and manages to escape. The televisions watch everything on TV and have become too voyeuristic and passive. At the end of the episode, Pike makes the right choice and is able to see the difference between the falsehood of the fantasy and the difficult but more acceptable reality. This episode highlights the importance of exploration and being better than oneself, and is a reminder of the dangers of becoming too passive and voyeuristic. It also shows how technology can be used to create illusions and how these illusions can be used to manipulate people.
>I personally find the lack of vaporware from Apple refreshing.

They recently nixed their AR products that had been hinted at for forever, and the 'Apple Car' was 'right around the corner' sitting as a boogey-man juxtaposed to Tesla's efforts for years before being cancelled.

They're more reliable than most groups, but post-Jobs Apple loves to mention fantasy stuff that consumers will never see, it's part of their hype cycle.
"Do X with AI" is obviously going to be something where competition should be expected.

Cloning the UI and the launch tweet was still a bit much, though.
> The fabled guys in a garage inventing the next thing is gone

It’s exactly once people start saying this that it becomes the least true.
Maybe just in time to miraculously stop the malicious AI from taking over the world?
The Centre for Effective Altruism has a turnover in the tens of millions. Surely there are people with greater and lesser decision making abilities within that institution?
Hey, first let me be clear that I think it's great that Google is developing Flutter in the open, publishes it under a permissive license while also trying to get along with other contributors.

However, it's not a community project, by any definition of community, because there is a power imbalance between Google and other contributors. Accepting patches or even allowing non-Google people to accept patches from anyone is not enough.

> There is a CLA, so that folk can attest that contributions are theirs, and that they're free to be used by others, and that everyone who uses Flutter can feel comfortable that there are no patent or IP rights reserved by contributors.

No, there is a CLA so that Google keeps the ability to relicense future Flutter releases however it seems fit.

Of course everybody owns their own contributions, git log clearly shows who owns what. BSD license already assures that they are free to be used by others, and if patents were a concern, AFAIK the Apache license would've been a better option (IANAL). You don't need a CLA for any of that.

Users and contributors are bound by the BSD license. Google however gets special treatment:

"""
Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, You hereby grant to Google and to recipients of software distributed by Google a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works.
"""

I hope the power imbalance is clear this time?

Again, it's great that Google develops open source software under a permissive license. Mad respect. I'd happily sign the CLA were I to send code to Flutter. I'm also not saying that Google shouldn't have a CLA, I fully understand, and maybe I'd do the same (maybe not). But let's call it what it is.

> but the spirit that we work under is that the "Flutter team" is everyone who contributes code.

Sorry but you sound like that boomer SMB owner who keeps saying "we are a family".
It’s the inevitable conclusion of the historical framework the article utilized.

I agree it doesn’t make much sense in a large number of contemporary cases.
Obvious fear mongering from a right-wing "newspaper" but it's interesting to consider how it might be possible to detect if was carrying something radioactive.
EMPs? Why not just drive by a power station and shoot it a few times. That seemed to be pretty effective and much less expensive and complicated.
I think this story about code is to software engineering what the Nokia story is to business
I haven't played much DK, but I do remember the stock joystick because it was annoying. You could move it in one of only four directions and there is a guide slot so you can't go directly from one direction to another -- you must move through zero first. The stick shown, regardless of whether or not it's an eight-way, may not have the same guide slot, the absence of which would provide a game play advantage.
This kind of idea tends to lead to debates on what the self even is: what is "my" consciousness? How would even a hypothetical omniscient determine that my consciousness had been "born" somewhere (and/or somewhen) else? It's a ship of theseus problem: what is the attribute that makes the consciousness "mine"?

This is not to say you're wrong (by any means!). It's just to say that we'd need to have a really long discussion before getting to the part where we discuss plausibility. I actually find the concept of reincarnation fascinating -- especially temporally nonlinear versions, where e.g. a past life might happen in a future year. One's consciousness might read about historical events that it will "later" participate in. Could lead to some interesting fiction if nothing else.

It unfortunately seems to take a while to get to the part that's interesting.
I suspect recruiters used LinkedIn to initiate the conversations. Keep in mind it takes two to tango. The employees opted to talk to the recruiters, go through interviews, and change jobs. The absence/presence of a "Who Works Here" page doesn't change the fact that recruiters will contact employees, and employees may change jobs.
Ask anyone with a circa-2014-ish Macbook Pro about Samsung SSD reliability.

The samsung-made drives lasted about 5-6 years. Everything seemed fine, and then one day you'd get a spinning pizza of death, power down, power it back on...and your SSD was...completely gone. Doesn't even enumerate on the PCIe bus. It's just gone.

Screw the SSD chipset manufacturers for not making sure that their controllers can at least a)still show up on the bus b)be read-only in some sort of recovery mode.
“Battle Royale” Took over Video Games
Short answer: No.

Medium answer: Kinda. The chemical gradients cause a signaling cascade that modifies transcription of DNA (it's really complicated). This transcription change then causes the cell to become a XXX_neuron. However, there are many many waves of this process occurring with a lot of cell death along the way. When those cells are not the 'final' cell of the nervous system, these transcriptions can cause further and more complicated chemical gradients to exist in the fetus. These complicating recursive loops can also self-affect cells and cause them to change yet again.

We're still discovering a lot here.

Also, this is largely how ALL cells in a body work, not just neurons. Be careful though, this is very very complicated stuff and everything I've written has a caveat.
Security Is at the Risk of Someone Else's Weakness
Also don't forget to hide whois on that created .com domain.
I haven't played the game in years (if ever?). What is barrel steering, and why can't you tell that something else is happening while the player is climbing a ladder from looking at footage?
I'm interested in what the opposite might look like. "What would this look like if it were a short book rather than a longform article?"

On a different note, the rise of these types of language models mirrors what I understand to be the rise of human consciousness--a handy heuristic to lean upon that gradually becomes too handy to actually put down. Over time, the user is overshadowed by the tool and loses sight that any other cognitive world existed. It's hard for me not to see Julian Jaynes' idea of bicamerality and "verbal delusions" piloting the brain being repeated with computers.

In fact, I think I'll use this weekend to go read The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind with this idea in mind.
Ez-Clang Python Device Configuration Layer
You maintain the value of openness within internal culture by being open with internal employees. Making the information public is a bonus for the public.
This past summer, I took the Coast Starlight from Seattle to Monterey with my wife and kids. I loved it. It's hard to convey how different it is from flying.

Whenever I fly somewhere, especially these days when flying is such a miserable cramped experience, I always feel like my vacation starts after I endure the entire airport + plane experience. The whole travel part is in the same "chore" bucket as packing, finding a pet sitter, etc.

With a train, the second we reached the train station, it felt like the trip had started. Many train stations are beautiful historical buildings right in the heart of downtown, so you're already experiencing a city and cool architecture. The staff and the whole process is very laid back without all of the security theatre nonsense of the TSA. It's about as formal as going to a play.

Then you get on the train and you get to completely relax. I brought a book to read and some stuff like that, but I spent more than half the time literally just looking out the windows. Train tracks don't need much surrounding infrastructure, unlike freeways, so their routes often go right through little towns, along the coast, etc. You'll be seeing into people's backyards, storage area for businesses, farmland, everything. It's like a perfect cross-section of the entire US experience.

And it's quiet. No constant roar of engines like a jet. You can talk at quiet volumes. The observation car feels like a chill coffee shop with an amazing always-refreshing-itself view.

Time slows down. You watch the sun set and then watch the light leak out of the sky. You go to bed and get rocked to sleep.

Taking a sleeper car train ride isn't cheap in terms of time or money, but I would highly recommend it. I can't wait to do it again.
What's even more important than durability is what the drive does when it runs out of write cycles.

They should just become read-only, but it seems that in the vast majority, the controller just shuts off and bricks the drive.
What does any of this have to do with conservative views being censored?
Let's hope that the prevailing defamation defendant successfully moves for the plaintiff (Billy) to pay for their legal fees.
Thanks.

The thing is that as I usually buy from BD they closed the dispute as unfavorable (for me, at least) which I don't understand as that's all the evidence they have.
Crime is a largest potential customer ofc.
UHC is worse than most, but yes, my experience with insurers isn't awesome. On the other hand, I recently had an accident that required surgery. I was between jobs and thus uninsured. All in, the surgery and related services cost me $35,000. Even UHC would have picked up a good portion of that.

It's a gamble either way.
I'm going to frame this and put it on the wall, I love it so much. A real human would have said 4.
I got 52/55 and I went quickly. Do I spend too much time outside?

People often ask me how to identify poison ivy. And I try to teach them. I think I do a decent job. It’s not as simple as one or two markers. But at some point you just develop an instinct
It could be interpreted as spite, but the real reason is that the EU is not going to make an exception to single market access for the UK. All the EU member states had to agree to the deal negotiated so it becomes very bureaucratic, this can be good and bad.

The goods that the UK has that other EU nations wanted are being replaced by other EU nations. They are now more competitive than UK businesses that have to deal with EU customs checks and other bureaucracy/taxes on a per-country basis. You can say it is "protectionist", which is what certain politicians in the UK like to cast the single market as now, but this is how every economy in the world is run. The US market is protected too.

> As a US citizen, I cannot freely just travel across the EU either.

True, but as a UK citizen i COULD before 2019. As a US citizen you can work/study/retire in any US state. Would you be happy if that was taken away?

The member states of the EU are still independent nations, they are not controlled by a federal government like the US. Getting into EU lawmaking is a rabbit hole, but my feeling is there is a give and take that overall benefits the member states. At the end of they day each country still controls it's own destiny, as the UK felt it needed to prove.
Sure, the people are on Wikipedia, but the account of their controversy was not.

Besides, what do any of these have to do with conservative views being suppressed?
The nice thing about whoops you're wrong this is a Raspberry is that you're never going to make that mistake the one time you want to touch the Raspberry plant.

More generally speaking, plant identification is something I'm terrible at and really want to get better at.
We’ve taken coach for approx 18hrs. Sleeping was bearable with enough pillows and blankets. You have to bring your own though.

Also at the time we traveled coach folks were allowed access to the observation car which was great to switch your environment.
They are doing that for give an small step backward next week, giving the impression that they are hearing the users. Hopefully it’ll give a narrow free api usage…
A bit more detail since I've used Cloudflare Durable objects:

DriftDB's cloudflare implementation uses durable objects, so you need a "workers paid subscription: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/durab.... It's $5/month.

Side note: the durable object API is quite verbose, so it's nice to see something building on-top-of/encapsulate that. I wonder if this would compete with Cloudflare's pub/sub product though. I wonder how Cloudflare will handle situations like this. They don't look so good today after taking down a customer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639212
All this terror about "contaminating" other objects in the solar system with terran life is just misguided. We should all hope to get some terran life established on them.

Heck, we need to build probes full of selected terran extremophiles and spray them into the Martian atmosphere.
Yes; thank you for bringing that up. Sim Swapping would also be a concern.
Fwiw I use AndiSearch and they already have a great summarizer integrated directly into search results that they launched last week.

There is a Summarize button on every result card that can show a summary. The summaries are much faster. And they are clearly much higher quality.

Unlike Kagi, they don't spam every HN post that mentions search with shill comments. And unlike Kagi, it is free and anyone can use it. It does not require login, so you can use it anonymously. This looks like a rushed attempt to copy the AndiSearch summary feature.

I already find that the summaries on AndiSearch are so good that I can use it to filter which articles I need to read. The Reader mode is also very good.

If you like this, I'd recommend comparing it. You can paste in a url and get a summary and reader mode for it. I find searching for the title works better. I haven't seen it posted here yet.

https://andisearch.com/
De-demonising Cain and wondering why? [pdf]
Levelling prices between markets is a useful service. Eventually the amount being skimmed is tiny and regular consumers are much more likely to be getting a fair price without having to shop around.
Intel 8086 VS Polish communist MERA-400 CPU (evolution of Karpiński K-202 arch)
Video from channel of an owner and restoration hobbyist from Poland who owns and runs a working (as far as age and quality of socialist era components allows it) unit of that computer. Mera-400 is a descendant of legendary K-202 architecture designed by Jacek Karpiński (Polish computer systems engineer known for analog and digital computers designs including his 1964 variant of Perceptron - early neural network type of computer).

More detailed article on Jacek Karpiński is available at English language wikipedia.

Mera-400 was notable for running CROOK operating system that was an OS influenced by UNIX.

Video with subtitles, you can use auto-translate to English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7gh1PEqVak