skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last commercial plane wreck in the US was in 2009 and was a small commuter crash with only 49 fatalities[1]. This does not even make the Wikipedia list[2] of deadliest crashes which shows none since 2001. Bureaucratic over reaction to rare events can create worse problems overall for society than not changing anything at all. Just see the US response to 9-11. The American people solved the problem in about 90 minutes. Don't let plane hijackers control the plane. Fight back instead of just wait. Thus UA flight 93. The lesson from that should have been a very measured "We need solid, locking, cabin doors on airplanes". That's it. Not the whole TSA department stand up, 20 year war in Afghanistan, invade Iraq????, Patriot Act forever with secret courts bullshit craziness. Instead of "never let a crisis go to waste" we need the State to be more slow to judgement.

[1]https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/13/colgan-air-crash-10-years-ag...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
The best and most memorable advice I've seen on this, unfortunately more memorable than the name of the author:

Entomologists write "bees carry pollen". Botanists write "pollen is carried by bees".
I would use VHDL-2008, but freely admit, it's more difficult and complex than Verilog. My reason for this choice is that you can do physical design in VHDL, since attributes are part of the language, and not grafted into pragmas like Verilog. This lets you do weird shit like designing physically placed ring oscillators and self-timed logic. Verilog can do it too, but only with major limitations. I wrote a recursive VHDL block to multiply a constant real number by a bit_vector, and it synthesizes wonderfully, complete with full pipelining. I used that to make a color space converter from RGB to YUV with full double precision coefficients, with the data path being any width I want. I doubt this can be done in Verilog. SystemVerilog can do it though.
It would help if functional didn’t collect all the people with their heads all the way up their own asses. Functional has more shibboleths than anybody except maybe professional consulting groups like IBM GS.

You can’t have exclusive language and then be surprised when nobody wants to worship at the altar of your obfuscation.

ETA: Look. I was reading 25 year old complaints about why Lisp isn’t popular 25 years ago. You can go on scratching your heads for another 25 years or you can start taking criticism instead of deflecting.
King’s “writing is telepathy” passages were a lightbulb moment for me.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7737518-look--here-s-a-tabl...
I'm sure this was funny in your head, but it was not helpful.
I do worry about that as a general point. We're all guilty of something random, in the future it'll be possible to find out exactly what by running an sql query against some huge govt database. And when we're all guilty of something it gives massive leverage against us.
Sure, but what Estonian carrots can be offered today to make the russian speakers feel welcome and appreciated? I'm a strong believer in two pronged approaches to avoid marginalization. Almost everywhere it occurs, there's hell to pay later, for everyone involved. There are kids born every year who had no say in the matter.
The list is actually much longer. Also the should consider to stop buying things made by prison labor.
What you're describing is a staged PR event rather than an AMA, which I agree that this is exactly what they wanted.

At that point they might as well submit their own questions with sock puppets and go all in on the farce.
https://joinmobilizon.org/en/
Can You Reverse Death? Doctors Are Attempting to Resurrect Humans
I would have loved to tinker with my Steam Deck; it just wouldn't let me.

Most of the time I was staring at some game menu, trying to figure out how to get out of there because none of the buttons/combos did anything. Skyrim wouldn't let me create a character - Steam+X(?) for the onscreen keyboard did not work. It also wouldn't let me quit while it waited for me to type a character name and required a power cycle.
I agree. I hate this. Stop protecting users from themselves. Yeah, it's easily bypassed, but why the change? If someone is going to look for porn, they will find it anyway. What changed to make google resort to such drastic measures? Who or what politician forced Google's hand.

Not to mention, creating a Google account still requires a phone in many cases. So you have to give up your privacy, your phone number. I cannot wait until AI makes Google search at least a little less relevant.
What's the physically intrinsic value of an energy extractor then?
Value orientation reminds me of the old language SETL, where the basic values were immutable sets. It was possible to compile SETL-like programs to efficient code with some interesting representations.

https://cs.nyu.edu/faculty/paige/courses/setl/course.html
Thank you very much, that's precisely what I was looking for!
I'm pretty sure HN users know what torrents mean. Context does the rest.
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I still remember writing something in high school along the lines of:

i=0
while(i<1):
<something with i>
i=i+.1

And spending hours trying to figure out why it ran an extra iteration, and this was early enough it wasn't easily googleable. Whatever I was doing with i needed it to be .1, .2, .3... and thought I was being clever not doing 1...10 and dividing by 10 every iteration within the loop. I think there was also a weird language quirk with whatever I was using that a print(i) rounded to a handful of decimal places so it looked fine while debugging it.

Very frustrating, but in retrospect very eye opening.
Check out the book called: “Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists” [0].

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1466230525/
Unfathomable. People were literally live tweeting "save me" from under the rubble with their locations, and other people were tagging the disaster management account.
The WEF makes this claim openly.
And will be relevant in after a thousand years.
Style has the same advice about structuring sentences so that associated words are close, and it comes with exercises and examples of how to achieve this in practice.
> pop_back would litterally be capacity--.

Minor nit: I think you meant 'size--'
Microsoft Edge will switch to Adobe Acrobat’s PDF rendering engine
"It would appear that the American report leaves some important questions unanswered, some of the evidence is inconclusive, some findings have been questioned, and the figures are open to interpretation and different results might come from a widened, more detailed study over a longer time scale." [1]—words that killed any possibility of science under the umbrella of the political since 1981.

I don't understand why the author needs to qualify: "Yes, Minister is one of the most seminal British political satires", it simply is the most seminal political satires [2], together with the follow-up, Yes, Prime Minister [3].

[1] Around minute 25 of the episode 4, season 2.

[2] Of course, some might say de gustibus, however, even Veep could not succeed in combining wit, humor, and relevancy in such a manner. Not to even mention the unique use of the English language: any of the Humphrey-ian soliloquyial verbiages is up there with any speech from Hamlet and above. The fact that there are so few episodes certainly helps in keeping the essence dense.

[3] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086831/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Do processors accelerate decimal/fixed point? I know some have offered this in the past but I’m not current on instruction sets for accelerated maths. My guess is a lot more energy goes into floating point and integer.
This sounds fantastic - I never understood why LD is so crazily expensive. Thanks for the rec.
Take for example the iMessage feature that lets you see message timestamps. There are no visual affordances to indicate how to do it. My parents couldn’t figure it out (pull the messages left!) it’s about the same as not having the feature. Wanna install an alternate sms app? Good luck, apple won’t let you because this isn’t android.

So sure, people won’t complain — they just accept that this is life, but life could be better if apple didn’t have monopolistic behaviors.
Google, with all its vices, is not the one ripping everyone off by passing content it scrapes around the web as its own without links/attribution. It’s designed to send traffic your way, preserving your ability to interact with your readers. OTOH Microsoft, through OpenAI, is performing the ultimate bait-and-switch, and somehow it seems as if the community is mostly praising them for that.
A caveat here is that a good value for epsilon is dependent on the magnitude of the value you're abs'ing.
> I have seen code that stored versions as floats and the dev was surprised that version 1.1 wasn't always equal to "1.1".

And will break when the version reaches 1.10. While I agree we need a better way to teach this (e.g. inexact-exact distinction as in Scheme or more recently Pyret), that's as problematic as storing a telephone number as an integer (or worse, a FP number).
Yeah even if the rules are in place now. Down the line - trending on twitter @ someone up for reelection - joe blogs did X why are you supporting him by allowing him to continue using digital cash?
Sounds like a “the man show” bit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Show
Unauthenticated http != plain text

Looks like it's encrypted, so it shouldn't really matter: https://keybase.pub/logandark/passwords.kdbx
Simple, they were bought by Zoom in 2020.
Hydrogen for backup storage for the grid would be stored underground. This is a demonstrated working technology.
There's a huge difference between innovating and embracing failure.
Big +1 on this. If you're OK with a broader definition of "programming" and have a bit of money to throw around, I've found tinkering with https://www.home-assistant.io/ to be very satisfying. I got more sense of accomplishment from scripting "text me when I leave the house if I forgot to set the alarm, and turn on the front porch lights when I arrive back if it's after sunset" than I did from months of corporate work, even though the actual _difficulty_ was much lower. I can _see_ the results of my work, and benefit from them most days!
More speed, more content!
Btw. I am banned from posting links for change, in last 12 hours I posted two comments and zero links and when I try post link to ordinary news website I will get message that I'm posting too fast, what a joke, of course at same time this comment will pass, since I am just banned from posting links.

This is the controversial stuff I tried to post:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/public-speaking-c...
I was going to ask how I’d consult without having career experience as a developer, but maybe you’re right with the last line.
What do you think that make companies firing people as a first choice, as opposed to accepting the associated risk as part of the learning process?
All of that makes the money have lower value, and is similar to how central banks manage money supply by making it easier and harder to get.

The rest of it already exists for normal money. Tyrannical control over finance isn't a property of a digital currency, it's a property of the government. Your causality is backwards. A bad government will do that whether they have a digital currency or not, and a digital currency has no moral properties as it's just a tool.

Whether a digital currency makes it easier at the margin to oppress people, I don't think it does. You can imagine how many headaches an imperfect implementation could cause.

If the digital currency is so restricted that people would rather use cash, it will death spiral to zero as merchants who accept it can't trade it for full value to others. The only way around that would be for the govt to backstop it and trade 1:1 with cash, which would defeat the purpose of the restrictions.
One thought that was proposed back in the 80s was that just as line breaks are considered in the paragraph as a whole, page breaks could be considered in the document as a whole (TeX can’t do this—easily—being Turing complete, in theory it can do anything computable, but the speed would be atrocious). This could be managed by doing things like lengthening or shortening pairs of facing pages by a line or trying to tighten or loosen an individual paragraph to change the number of lines in it. A document formatter which comes at page breaks with the right level of abstraction of the data would be able to manage this with minimal or no human intervention (when I was typesetting Serif magazine with TeX in the 90s, I just went through and fixed page breaks manually which is a typical modern workflow as well).
> Not sure how you can say this with such assurance

I'm wondering if you're willing to tell us how many faculty DEI statements you've actually read. I'm very sure that if we forced the posters here to disclose the same, the median across this thread would be 0 or 1 (that one being the first hit that could be found searching Google).

Personally I've read dozens upon dozens in my role as an educator, and thwayunion has been spot on in their assessment. As for this:

> given we can see countless examples of DEI gone wild at the Ivies or Stanford or Wellesley

There's always going to be examples of things going wrong in a chaotic and distributed process. Pointing them out doesn't prove much. That said, a lot of the "gone wild" examples that people can bring up are also based in the same ignorance as people complaining about DEI statement who haven't read a single DEI statement. The recent Stanford word list that you probably have in mind is just one example; in that case, the freakout was over some overzealous members of an IT department publishing their internal content guidelines. It was probably misguided, but the ensuing freakout on the internet was overblown and rooted in a deep ignorance at how organizations like Universities operate.

So as far as this conversation goes, thwayunion's perception is properly calibrated. It seems to come from experience.
How does being underpaid make engineers part of the inequality problem.

You are talking about 2 different things.

1. Productivity benefits not being passed down to the productive people

2. Inequality

I am not talking about 2, only 1.
Since there is no corresponding article to read, could we get a more helpful headline? What does "Private/Deleted Immediately" mean? Did they delete it, or just make it private?
I feel the same way. Godot has made amazing progress ... both in the engine and in the community. But it's still "very early" in terms of adoption for big commercial teams. Having said that, depending on the genre of game your team is making, it could very well be a good choice. Perhaps not for a AAA 3D title ... but for other genres where having cutting edge visuals isn't the most relevant part of the content.

I for one am hoping there's a Rust-based engine on the horizon in the next 5 years (Bevy perhaps?)
No, I'm equating the subjugation of low population density areas of Siberia and such with the conquest of North America from its native peoples.
It says on the front page Mac and Web only

https://github.com/makepad/makepad#prerequisites

(windows and linux are coming )
You’re right, it’s not like it’s a significant cost to complete it at this point.
Innovation isn't valuable or necessary for most businesses. Optimization, refinement, and careful evaluation of legal consequences get you a lot farther.
Damn that was painful to watch. They seem utterly disconnected from how people actually use their phones in real life.

Finding elevators and atms with AR ? Is that the future google is selling ? Who's buying. If google maps was the equivalent of the invention the printing press that would be the invention of scented toilet paper
I'm not in product photography, but the work of Eberhard Schuy is really inspiring. He wrote some books about how he works, concealing nothing or at most a little bit of his tricks.
Thanks for the encouragement to look up lisp's numeric tower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_tower), that was interesting to compare to the languages I'm more familiar with.
I guess I'm misunderstanding what `-frounding-math` for gcc does / does not do.
At any other time this would have been more proof that Erdogan is blatantly authoritarian. However right now there is a lot of insidious fake news and disinfo on Turkish twitter. Many newly created bot accounts are pushing lies about Ukrainian refugees in Turkey, that they were hoarding aid intended for earthquake victims and stealing from the bodies of the dead. Twitter seems to be the only major social media platform that is not removing and banning these insidious lies and bot accounts.

Many Turkish people are instead using Facebook to organize help and aid efforts and it's more effective than twitter because even small towns already have Facebook Groups and Pages.
The purpose is to be able to download the encrypted database onto things like mobile devices that can't do anything like connect to FTP servers. Having a virtual filesystem is convenient because we don't need to do constant shuffling and transferring when updating our database from a computer.

"just put it on a normal web server" ignores the rest of the convenience that keybase.pub provided. It provided a virtual file system that can be accessed over plain HTTP. Sure, SSHFS exists but it's terrible and not fault-tolerant at all. Keybase did it way better.

-Emily
The links are actual pages not just the homepage. "nih.gov" is just the link title.
Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet addiction?
I have noticed that I am getting more and more addicted to consuming information so I am listening to podcasts while working and I watch Youtube videos in my free time. This is all fun and interesting but I feel this makes me want to do things less and less. Instead of working on my own problems I distract myself by listening to ever more information. I get a lot of benefit from this information but somehow it feels shallow.

I think part of it is that my work is quite uninteresting and doesn't really keep my mind engaged. But the work is tedious enough that I am too tried in the evening to do something interesting. After a few years everything feels like it's a repeat.

Does anybody else feel that way? Have you been able to detach yourself from the constant flow of information and focus on your own stuff?
I would make plans to migrate to an alternative service sooner rather than later. Zoom is shedding employees and clearly in a cost cutting mode. It's only a matter of time before someone does the math and realizes shutting down a few of these services will save some more money.
A rapidly growing rocket industry could undo decades of work to save ozone layer
Back in my day ... Those rose tinted glasses are rewriting a lot of history.

“I used to be in the movie business where you made something really because you cared about it,” he told NPR. The very definition of movie, he went on, “is in such transition that it doesn’t mean anything right now.”

But young people these days dont ...
I would have thought this was already the default behavior.
In my experience, you can own your mistakes by buying breakfast for the team the next day. I agree that this is different from a failure. But deleting your own account, or the production database, sending a useless email to the whole company, etc ... can all be redeemed with a breakfast, as long as it means that you own your mistake in good faith, and that you will do your best not to repeat it.
(Disclosure: I'm french, we have a thing for breakfast and pain -bread)
Give it 3 days, and it will populate the myth that purple elephants are responsible for 9/11, because their pink mousy overlords demanded more moon-rock cheese with lizard-flavor.
Sure is lovely when a bunch of non-experts decide to chime in on a nuanced subject. Imagine a bunch of plant biologists congregated on a discussion board to make sweeping claims about SaaS or whatever your area of expertise is. Hilarious.

Even appealing to literature is limited by your knowledge background. Spend a few years in the field and you will realize that some studies are good and some are bad. Some indicate negative effects under incomparable conditions. Some are good. Some are just plain kooky.
I believe that there is a good reason.

Rust is currently in the process of trying to eat some of C++'s cake (as well as that of Java, C# or Go). The usual response from C++ (Java, etc.) devotees is that Rust hasn't been tried on large projects so it cannot be compared. Which absolutely makes sense.

Each large scale project that demonstrates that Rust can be used successfully in a domain where C++ (Java, etc.) traditionally rules is a step forward for the Rust community.

Also, as with every language, there is a hype period. We're currently in the Rust honeymoon. My personal honeymoon has stopped a while ago, but Rust remains my favorite language for the foreseeable future.
Ask HN: Who is working on a new dating app?
I'm sick and tired of the Tinders and Hinges of the world. Whenever this subject comes up, the HN community is quick to pontificate on hypothetical solutions; but is anybody actually working on an alternative?
but enough to refute this type of claim:

"... glyphosate has been considered to be generally safe to animal health .."
yeah I forgot there is Azure NetApp Files as well, Azure has at least 3 NFS implementations :) But no I was talking about Azure Files NFS https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/files-...
As someone who dabbles in writing popular fiction, I follow 2,3,4 pretty religiously. Cut, simplify, active. Also avoiding adjectives and always try to "show don't tell". The rest...not so releavant for me. I guess I do 1 intuitively and "avoid clichees" but I'm not big on metaphors anyways as I write thrillers and try to avoid metaphors in general. I always cringe when I read gems like "he was dangling off the cliff like a sausage on a meethook".

Honestly, I usually don't even care about the sentence level. Figure out overall structure, braindump and get things done, optimize. It's sort of similar to (my) programming now that I think about it. Build MVP, worry about details later. The better you are, the less details you have to worry about because you do things right intuitively.

In talking to other people who write, I have learned that there are very different approaches. I'm a high level first kind of person and will obsess over structure and plot out everything before writing a single word. Others will just write and go with the flow, some are very pendantic and cannot continue until sentences or paragraphs are perfect, I mostly muddle along to fill the structure skeleton with some meat and then finetune after the first pass.
>"This is why I stopped buying anything that comes form China"

This is plain lie. At the very best you could stop buying end consumer products made and shipped from China. Assuming that things mad in the West are free from Chinese components / materials is a delusion