skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This take needs more coverage. In fact the current freakout is almost entirely due to the deliberate burn and the big plume it caused, with almost no one taking the time to explain that the combustion products are simply much safer than the products that were leaking.

But everyone wants to cover how it smells in East Palestine and not what the options were.

(And to everyone replying with "But it's ACTUALLY about the train safety issue": no it isn't. This train was sitting in a pile for more than a week and no one cared. People only cared once they could see the plume.)
Well said. It is very on brand for us to be arguing about semantics and labels instead of the actual issue.
'True rule of law' in that sense is impossible unless there is some superior authority that can physically prevent legislators/judiciary/executive from writing, or attempting to enforce, contradictory or unenforceable laws.

Which of course is a paradox as the superior authority cannot be bound by written laws in order to do this.
RATH is now under AGPL license, we are considering move to a less limited license like apache if there are more open-source users and developer in its community.

The related docs will be published soon, we are working on connecting RATH to more infra now, you can join the discord to the latest discussions. https://discord.com/invite/Z4ngFWXz2U
The most important thing I ever heard in terms of building my career and life was "If you want things you never had, you have to do things you've never done."
Why are almost all of exfatloss's comments dead?

Looking at the content of the recent ones, it looks like either someone has a grudge or there's a serious glitch in HN's moderation systems. I vouched a few, but it doesn't seem to have any effect.
Why?/How? (If it's a joke i don't get it)
The class of people in the government doesn’t change.
Can you prove that magic isn't real?
> Google to an AI first company 6 years ago, way before AI was hyped up

AI hype train started back in 2015.
FIS’s Worldpay Spinoff Is Jumbled by Tough Outlook
i guess a hot mess is just a dumpster fire at a lower quantity and temperature
> Given the trajectory of humanity, the alien scenario explaining an unexplained phenomena is not unreasonable, though almost always very unlikely

What bearing does the trajectory of humanity have on the reasonableness of explaining things by alien? I fail to see any connection.

On the other hand, it being extremely unlikely (because in every instance so far the answer has been "no" or "we don't know") seems pretty relevant.
The min network packet size is 64 bytes, so if they are bundling several small packets into one pseudo jumbo packet and handling it that way, something only using the same manufacturer switch could do as this would be propriety networking, then that could explain their calculations on their webpage.

The data is streamed within time slots, which is why cable lengths of Cat<=5 cable can not be longer than 100 metres @ 100Hz. Cat 6 is 55metres at 250Hz.

I dont know what their switch internal workings are, you'll have to ask them why they have quoted that speed, but I know some switches also have built in fibre network connections, as invariably with a network switch with many ports, you could get a queue of packets for one port so there must be some sort of buffering inside a switch to handle and minimise these situations.

It is only "clockwork" electrical pulses at the end of the day.
> The reason people are so upset isn't necessarily because of the environmental impact, it's because the people who work on these trains have been warning things like this could happen for years, and when they tried to strike over it, the federal government stepped in and crushed them into submission.

I've seen a few people say this. I'm sympathetic to the rail workers but, what's the evidence that this derailment had anything to do with the attempted rail workers strike? AFAIK, the primary issue there was sick leave--and, generally, a more humane work schedule. While I'm very much in favor of these things, I don't see what it has to do with this accident, other than that it presents a superficial opportunity to score some points.

Perhaps some mistake was made that would have been more likely if the workers were better rested? But if that's the extent of the connection, without any evidence of a real causal relationship, the argument seems irresponsibly speculative.
> The answer is twofold: China isn't a dictatorship, and you can't reason about all countries using this dictatorship-vs-democracy dichotomy.

Can I complain about the man in charge? If I go to social media and I post that I hate the bear, what happens? :-)

For comparison purposes, on a daily basis, Klaus Iohannis (the Romanian president) can fill his fridge with meat, as we say in Romanian (I'll let you figure out from which body part that meat comes from :-))) ).

* * *

Oh, to note. I hope you're right and those material freedoms cover more non-material freedoms and that China will especially have a friendly policy towards its neighbors. I'm not optimistic at the moment.
It depends on the definition what "first" means.

For example Amazon Kindle was not the first eReader. But its platform-ecosystem was years sooner than Barnes & Nobles Nook and Kindle won out.

Amazon itself is technically a "second mover" because there was an obscure online book shop before, but no one else from the established sales companies or Walmart could compete with them.

Tesla was not the first electric car. But it is arguably the first reaching a production of a million, so it is the first e-car from a "main" manufacturer?
> It is impossible to prove, because "objective reality" refers to a hypothetical reality that exists independently of the perceptions of conscious entities. The problem, of course, is that we are conscious entities and all of our experience of reality comes from our perceptions, and there is no conceivable way for us to experience reality if not through our perceptions.

Are our perceptions and experiences of reality not also a part of reality? If not, then what are they a part of?

> This is a very simple and even tautological conclusion...

This itself is an experience of reality, an objectively incorrect one if you ask me.

> I think that this is because people assume that science assumes materialism, which it doesn't, of course.

Science, having no volition, does not assume anything. Scientists on the other hand, whom I've spoken to hundreds of, very often do assume materialism. I personally believe that humans are unable to not assume most things, and as evidence I would present the content of all internet forums.
> How could you possibly know this?

Polling. How could you possibly know the opposite?

> I'm from an Eastern European country that was under dictatorship

Not every country criticized by Western governments is fungible. Your home country was not China. North Korea is almost nothing like China.
Use SWIG to integrate C++ into Lua: https://www.swig.org/
They've needed a new CEO since Sundar became CEO.
Dumpster fire propoganda. As a meat eater, I'm offended they think they can invent a new word "cultivated meat", then completely ignore wtf cultivated meat is.

I want it to be lab grown tiger cells. Pretty sure it's just hyped up veggie burgers.

They are trying to trick meat eaters into going vegan! The good news, they will go broke.
You might want to look up statistics on the explosive rise of mental illness diagnoses in the last 2 decades or so. (Hint: it's gone up exponentially with unrestricted access to certain things)

Some people are able to overcome child abuse and live a life without any mental health issues, does that mean that child abuse isn't wrong?
We already know that the object over the great lakes was a balloon with metal structural support, different in size and payload than the one we shot down over the Atlantic coast, but a similar object. There was a memo released about it reported on CNN.

What concerns me is that the countermeasures (missiles) we are using to destroy these things likely cost an order of magnitude more than the balloons cost to create. Certainly less than spy satellites that can do the same job. If we are going to defend our airspace from these surveillance platforms, we have to find more cost-effective means of taking them down than $1M missiles.
The record for highest a helicopter has flown is 41,000 ft. The Apache's max is around 21,000 feet, weather depending.
AI.Adventures
Your AI-generated itinerary generator and travel community.
Google leardship was primarily reacting to threats, such as Amazon S3 and the iPhone, rather than proactively innovating. Despite the fact that AI is widely regarded as the future, Google has not made a significant effort to dominate in this field.

I think Google needs a visionary leader who can anticipate the future and make strategic investments. I do not think internal structure will change without visionary leader.
> in the sense that atoms are a direct cause of our perceptions.

I do not believe this is correct in any manner, and reduces the role of cognition.

Jastrow’s work focuses on this departure between one context and higher order cognition.
Isn't the whole "existence of aliens" question functionally religious? If you believe in God as an origin of life, we are the only intelligent life in the universe. If you believe in abiogenesis, we aren't. Obviously that's a big generalization and there's lots of room for fun sci-fi speculation, but that's kind of the big turning point, no?

As for explaining UFO's/UAP's as aliens, that seems to be the least likely explanation, but shutting down all talk of UFO's/UAP's because of the association of the terms with aliens/"I want to believe" people is silly. There's plenty of room for conversation both valuable (what terrestrial technology and motives could be behind these?) and just fun and enjoyable (wild speculation about technology and motives).

I love scifi, this strikes me as a community filled with people who love scifi, I am excited about secrets and technology and a future filled with continued technological advancement. I'll never stop enjoying this type of speculation.
App Store Review continues to delay updates for no reason
I've worked with STB hardware before and they usually suck. The processors that I worked with were all from MIPS and it felt like all useful instructions were removed, except for the bare basics. Forget anything related to vectorization, for example. They were painfully slow.
"Should OpenAI be punished for making people beat a dead horse?"
Laravel v10 Released
You seem to be deliberately confusing natural gas with petroleum.
I don't know about a lot of countries, it doesn't work this way in Germany for sure.
All of that stuff should be handled through standard APIs. Applications shouldn’t be updating themselves at all; that’s the job of the operating system’s package manager.

Really, a video player should be a dumb bit of glue code that wires together file open APIs with video playback APIs, and a few bits and bobs for saving preferences (API) and allowing remote control (another API). There’s no reason whatsoever for a video player to be able to access files arbitrarily or connect to the internet or log keystrokes in the background or anything else! The only reason they can do this is because we haven’t built operating systems with all this in mind, apart from mobile OS’s that is.
I get what GP is implying. The way you program (and think) is entirely different if you are working with immutable data structures and functions versus safe mutability.
Such a good question, the short answer is I don't know why we have Wikipedia or OSM, I could think of reasons for the specific examples but the heart of the question would still not be answered.

Another example you could have added is pro bono or volunteer work, one answer I could come up with is they wanted too. Maybe my response was a bit dramatic since we do have examples of humans being good to each other.

I'm willing to accept that I could be wrong. What do you think?
They collect data because they see a business benefit. The only things which can change that will be regulation or people changing their spending habits. Spending money at their parks isn't going to change anything.
clickable link to my screen capture: https://ibb.co/Zf9SF9H

None of the info in the 2FA matches anything about me, including the employer that I entered. Not even close.
The fixes worked! The BG/FG color changes also make it feel like it's part of HN's built-in functionality.
How far are we from Clippy being able to scaffold out migrations or table schema?

"Clippy, create a table called "users" with the fields: first name, last name, bio."
Did you use an ERV?
Are you sure you're not confusing it with Swift, or perhaps running Rust in unoptimized debug mode (-O0)?

Rust goes as low-level as C (there's literally c2rust source-to-source translator). It gives you full control over all allocations and indirections. It's even more efficient than C++ in a few places, e.g. it has a more efficient ABI for unique_ptr, doesn't call destructors redundantly after a move, doesn't need isa pointer in structs with virtual methods.

Rust generates native code using LLVM, and even has a bit stricter semantics that allow better optimizations (notably immutability and mutable aliasing are stricter than in C and C++).
That's a bit pedantic. HCL is not a language you can ever use to write or distribute a program. It's for configuration files. This is almost like saying "YAML is the fastest growing language" few years ago. It doesn't contribute to a healthy discussion.

MIT can very well use the exact same data, where it shows Rust at the top at 50.5% (excluding config languages like HCL).
Not the way Google did it.
Before, as in 2012, right?
Extraordinary evidence requires extraordinary funding, as Avi Loeb says. We aren't going to get definitive proof if we continue having a knee-jerk reaction to ridicule the subject.

If we don't know what an object is, then we don't know what it isn't either. This much is obvious. The people jumping to the conclusion that it _must_ be mundane are making the same mistake as the people who claim the opposite. We simply need better evidence.
I am wondering when LGBT people will get tired by using them as a cheap marketing object, previously animals rights, being eco-friendly served this purpose. Now, if you want some free publicity, just tell you are gay friendly. Put a rainbow logo on you website (costs 10 min of work), employ someone who is gay and you are done, you are modern and progressive. It helps, even if you are big corp that forces its workers to pee into bottles since you punish going to toilet.

Next, I am wondering when LGBT people will get tired by all of those who pretend to be LGBT people just to earn some discount, conference invitation, being better treated at school or work. Old French movie about a guy pretending to be a gay to avoid being fired will no longer be just a funny movie with 50% people claiming they are LGBT.
I think the main idea is ceding control to a system to make the kill, don't kill decision. This is the "so" part of the article and the comment.

With wmds, there are humans who make the choice at the end of the day. The loss of life scale is not relevant as much since we could make ai powered wmds as well, the fundamental question is "can a computer kill?" And maybe more importantly "who is responsible for it making mistakes? L"
Each team has production access to their own services, access to each services is managed via a custom solution integrated with GitHub. Requesting access to a service will requires the relevant service owners to approve the pr, you can also delegate access via this repo aswell if you want
A leg up in what? In having more mental health problems?

The majority of kids now have pretty much unlimited internet access and mental health issues have risen exponentially. Statistics don't seem to support your stance here.
Way to want your cake and eat it too.

If you want the best possible abstraction and developer-scalability, you won't get the best possible performance. In fact, between the quickest start, largest developer-scalability, and best performance, you can only pick one.
Many/most people here (Germany) know Area 51, because it appears in so much media. My impression: Except a small minority, most people here consider this a big joke (same for UFOs in general) and for us, the current UFO craze in the US it chuckleworthy at best. However, I guess the minority that actually believes this stuff has the same deep distrust of the government and "mainstream media" as people in the US that are actively believing it. Luckily, here it's just a small percentage for now.
This was also my experience in Texas (DFW). Elementary school started and ended about 90 minutes before HS. This allowed the bus drivers to work from 2pm~ until 5pm.

I would have liked it to start a bit later, or at least ramp up with a homeroom for 30-45 minutes. When I started HS in 2008, we didn't have homeroom classes anymore. Some days I would start bright eyed and bushy tailed doing Calculus at 9am. Bleh.

I took some dual credit classes in my later years. I remember a few of them happened _before_ school started. Those sucked too, but they didn't cost me anything and I graduated with an associates degree so I can't complain too much.
> Where would this be important

FAANG interviews?

Knowing that __new__() comes before __init__() is probably useful, as the deeper one gets into a language the more important it is to understand the lifecycle of an object. Otherwise, the only thing I can think of that's special is understanding that and how it works as a singleton.
You speak for all of us :)
When I (the consumer) think of successful Google products, I think of search, email, maps, productivity (docs, sheets, drive), Android, and Chromecast. Which of those launched under the current CEO?

I'm sure I'm missing another success story, but really, when was the last time Google hit a home run?
Going to have to disagree with you on this. AirPods and the Apple Watch both came out under his watch. But the biggest area of expansion for Apple is going to be in software which has seen a ton of innovation in the past decade (Cloud services, payments and a whole slew of improvements to the OS) which all happened under Cook's watch.
History suggests that governments wanting to get away with crap do not need anything remotely resembling "the ultimate boogieman" to do it.

And - my impression is that folks who believe in aliens tend to believe that the aliens are less dangerous (to ordinary people) than the government.

BTW, what if people started believing in near-earth asteroids? Imagine what governments could justify then...
> Starting before my kids were born, I made sure no private companies collected traceable data about them—at least, nothing that could be aggregated across services or platforms to identify them or to target me as a mom. I bought everything—from pregnancy tests to diapers to clothes—in cash. At home, I built up an entire alternative tech ecosystem: privacy-oriented browsers and blockers, firewalled machines and accounts, and multiple concurrent email addresses. I’ve never even swiped a credit card or a discount card for children’s goods at the till. It’s been nine years and counting, and I have yet to see a single ad for diapers, daycare, or summer camp.

I love my privacy and my kids' but I don't understand this extreme behavior... She is worried that companies know she has kids? Can't they just pull public records to see that? Or read this article published under her full name with attached social media profiles?

Personally I don't want to be tracked by Disney in the real world, but wouldn't mind it inside the park. Or, like another commenter pointed, just don't go. Disney will track you with or without a band (isn't every square inch of the place under CCTV?)
Same guy? Not I: i have no website.

Totally agree: i think folks dont realize F# is modernized OCaml and this is approximately a typed Lisp semantically. Very useful.
I have one (DATA), I also have a DSO. tbh, the DSO has been used more:

* I have other modules for envelope generation
* I tend to use a scope when prototyping hardware/software
* the DSO is on the desk, much closer to the stuff being tested than the rack is
Great article. Some curiosities:

> The names on the tickets don’t have to match any government-issued ID, Allison explained.

This probably doesn't extend to hotel bookings, so if you're travelling to Disney (which many families are) and staying on property you're kinda screwed, no? Even if you're not staying on property you still need to give you details to some company.

> Still, there’s simply no way to avoid pulling your mask down for portrait photos at the gate. That’s simply “for your safety,” Allison intoned.

Portrait photos at the gate? Does Disney require children to get a photo attached to their ticket so they can be found if lost?

As a side note: I created https://mousetrack.co.uk to track prices of the tickets and hotels at Disneyworld. Hopefully me gathering this data can be considered a way to fight back against their data gathering.
Canadian RCMP sued for arresting photographer covering protest
> Names
Sun, Sol /ˈsɒl/,[1] Sól, Helios /hiːliəs/[2]

Also el sol (es), o sol (pr), il sole (it), le soleil (fr), etc.

Technically the IAU hasn't sanctioned an official name, but Sol is fairly well understood.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

https://earthsky.org/space/what-is-the-suns-name/
it's best to look at the likelihood of what it is, occam's razor and all that...
I agree in principle, but Watson was a lot of different things, mostly unrelated to any “modern” AI tech.

Edit: the Watson that played Jeopardy was smart (for that time) natural language processing, that backed on to a large fact store, generated from natural language processing of a relatively small set of sources like Wikipedia.

The Watson that was sold to companies was essentially a consulting service. I'm sure they had some re-usable components, but it's possible those components weren't much more than data pipelines, model training, etc. Most of the smarts were people doing a ton of data science specific to each problem. Worthwhile, but only good compared to companies who don't have a data science function.

Conversely, "modern" AI is things like LLMs, which have their own problems of course, but are a huge paradigm shift compared to Watson.
I disagree, politics is changing for the better in Appalachia. See for example Senator J. D. Vance
It's not the fighters you have to worry about.

It's the 24/7 always in the air drone bombers with AI that have zero hesitation to murder civilian targets on demand or by "accident".
The Framework sleeps and wakes just fine. We were discussing battery usage during sleep.

Do your old laptops use 5% of battery after a week of sleep? That's the performance I've observed with Macbooks.
Responsive Nintendo Switch
A CSS drawing of a Nintendo Switch that changes as the window is resized.
Remember the ~ operator?

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/59
I agree that we should not be held hostage to uninformed public opinion, but I feel that we effectively are being held hostage by it.

As you mention, the public can't even tell the difference between an RTG and a reactor and while that doesn't stop flagship missions like Perseverance, it does limit how innovative NASA can be with the use of nuclear technology in space.

NASA and the DoD do have the plan to test a nuclear thermal rocket, but it's in such an early stage that much of the public isn't even aware of it. I'm certain there will be much more backlash from the uninformed masses as the program approaches the point of testing in space, and I'm not at all confident that it won't be cancelled as a result. Hell, with how low the standards are with Congresspeople, I wouldn't be surprised if the program is shut down by them for similar reasons, without much public involvement.
> millions of years ago

much longer than that, if you are using balloons