skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very happy to find this:

http://fortunes.cat-v.org/

I was looking for a source of good stuff to import into my Bugzilla "quips" database, and a lot of these UNIX'y "fortune" entries would make great grist for that mill.
It's not surprising - I know the points you're making and I agree with them. I'm posing a question I think we should discuss. What should my recourse be?

In reality, the absolute harm done to me (if any) is probably very limited. Maybe my lifelong risk of cancer has gone up by some quite small amount. The greater harm is damage to my trust in the organizations that produce my necessary medications.

So the recourse is probably not giving me anything extravagant, it's probably more about some sort of fix to oversight, regulation, corporate penalties paid for this, etc. None of which is likely to happen as a result of a lawsuit, except maaaybe the last one.
So, no. GM's put out a fair number of stinkers including the Ecotec and the High Feature V6. Chrysler actually recalled their late 00s Hemi engines over timing chain problems. The previous owner of my E39 had to tear the whole engine apart because the timing chain guides failed (as they pretty much all do). BMW's later N20, N47, and N57(N) engines are also well known for timing chain problems. VW/Audi had plenty of timing chain issues with both the 1.8T and 2.0T. Let's not forget Audi's famous rear mounted V8 monstrosity. Jaguar's AJ8 was legendary for timing chain problems in its first few years. Nissan's had trouble over the years with the chains on both the V6 and 4 bangers…

Meanwhile people put hundreds of thousands of miles on Volvo's old four cylinder with a… timing belt which takes all of thirty minutes to replace.

Chains vs gears vs belts has no bearing on longevity. The big difference is that chains are smaller and when you need to work on a chain it's generally far, far more complex than a belt drive. Don't forget that engines like the Ecotec, EcoBoost, M272, N20, and 2.0T are basically the bread and butter of those companies. They are high volume mass market engines.

Mercedes tend to last a long time because they're expensive, people pay to repair and maintain them, and nearly any Mercedes part for any Mercedes car can still be purchased new.
As someone said once, machine dictatorship is very easy—you only need a language model and a critical mass of human accomplices.

The problem is not a Microsoft product being human-like conscious, it’s humans treating it as if it was.

This lowers our defences, so when it suggests suicide to a potentially depressed person (cf. examples in this thread) it might have the same weight as if another person said it. A person who knows everything and knows a lot about you (cf. examples in this thread), which qualities among humans usually indicate wisdom and age and require all the more respect.

On flip side, if following generations succeed at adapting to this, in a world where exhibiting human-like sentience does not warrant treating you as a human by another human, what implications would there be for humanity?

It might just happen that the eventual AIrmageddon would be caused by humans whose worldview was accidentally poison pilled by a corporation in the name of maximising shareholder value.
IMO, anything older than 3 years should be on paid plan. Save the planet, delete your old YouTube videos
Isn't a core goal of most systems to perpetuate their own existence?
Maybe I am an outlier... but I really don't like nested style documents like those founds with SASS, LESS, PostCSS. When the number of nested selectors becomes too great it can become very difficult to reason about. I would never use this without some kind of lint rule enforcing a maximum depth of selector nesting. I agree with the other commenters ITT taking the position flat CSS looks cleaner than nested documents.
If it’s using the terminology to reflect processes in the BEAM then it’s very lightweight.
As someone who spent their formative years primarily interacting with teachers I think I can say that I do. Most teachers underperform, so even if you have a hard time, just assuming that one is not a good one will have you right more often than not.

The few teachers I had that left a lasting impression on me I value greatly, I wish more teachers were like that. And that's a teachers job, isn't it? Without a lasting impression most of what was learned is lost, so then it's not really teaching, just busywork.

I will say that there are probably a good number of teachers with the drive just beaten out of them by the bureaucracy. When you go into your profession to educate and you spend more time dealing with authorities, paperwork and silly requirements, that has a tendency to drag your performance down. The flip side of that though is ofc that that bureaucracy was largely created by teachers, probably the ones who would get fired without it protecting them.
How does a $400,000 missile "miss" it's target? Surely the bulk of that $400,000 is related to targeting and guidance?

If it takes a million dollars of ordnance to pop a balloon how are we not completely fucked in any real conflict?
FYI, here's a 2022 article talking about the US military's budget to build and spy with balloons. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/05/u-s-militarys-newes...
Don’t nuclear subs make their oxygen by electrolyzing seawater? Mars habitat would be a whole different problem from subs.
Yeah, we are not special. Estimation doesn't scale for any other kind engineering either.
Very interesting and exactly what I was curious about! Thanks for the links

Really curious about the reasoning behind that initial quirk
My head didn't have enough space to keep C++ in it. Clojure is on the different end of the spectrum
> Aside from that, people in aggregate just aren't that bright: I don't want them making decisions much more substantial than what they'll have for dinner, much less voting on issues that affect me.

If you evaluate it on a longer timeline, people achieve a greater political intelligence because of increased voter participation and a quicker policy feedback loop.

Yeah, collectively, humans are still idiots. That being said, we do have a decent amount of technological promise and maybe just enough idealism in our blood to sustain the species. It's probably worth a try.
What are the advantages of using this over Contentful [0] or Directus [1]?

[0]: https://www.contentful.com

[1]: https://directus.io
The article tells me they expand from 1 meter to the size of a car (American presumably). They can carry a radar reflector.
What exactly would you propose that I do? I have contacts in Europe who use WhatsApp and they provide that as their contact method. Am I to tell them "nah, I need you to sign up for an account on Signal". My Instagram was for promoting the business - should I have taken a Google AdSense ad out telling the world to switch to Imgur?
Our primary product is backed by sqlite, using BedrockDB to make it client/server and multinode. 10mil users, 2+ TB sqlite database, 6 database nodes.
This is true, but likewise something has the potential to be civilization ending without necessarily being conscious (by whatever definition you like).
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But he human does not understand that 很好 represents an assertion that he is feeling good[1], even though the human has an acute sense of when he feels good or not.

The question being asked about the Chinese room is not whether or not the human/the system 'feels good', the question being asked about it is whether or not the system as a whole 'understands Chinese'. Which is not very relevant to the human's internal emotional state.

There's no philosophical trick to the experiment, other than an observation that while the parts of a system may not 'understand' something, the whole system 'might'. No particular neuron in my head understands English, but the system that is my entire body does.
So are most antihistamines.

Everything will kill you, no need to get worked up about the infinitesimal risk.
Do you really want the thug in power to know you didn't vote for him?
Old Chademo is from 2010, back when CCS didn’t even exist.

CCS didn’t support higher power until around 2017/18
It only took a couple box cutters to take down the World Trade Center.
Amazon to Push Out Europe Middlemen in Latest Cost-Cutting Move
Imagine two columns of water in a single U-shaped pipe, with a selectively permeable membrane at the bottom. One column contains salt water. The columns will have unequal levels, because of the osmotic pressure.

If you had a different type of membrane that had a different pressure, you could swap it out and see the water level change.

Repeatedly swapping the two membranes would allow you to pump water up the column, and you could siphon off this energy to create a perpetual motion machine, with some extra energy to spare.
If we're adjusting the way we speak to AIs, are we training them or are they training us?
> This is the %age of people who buy your product compared to the visitors. If you have 100 visitors, and 3 of them buy your product, your conversion rate is 3%.

You only save 6 characters by using "%age" instead of "percentage". Personally, it doesn't seem worth it. I really like how clean you made the tool.
Most business have daily downtime where the entire business is closed as in not business hours. Being sensitive to downtime is more common for companies that has some kind of online service as their primary product, but most companies are not online companies, or even global companies with offices across all the time zones.

Even for online business some downtime might be acceptable or even preferred. I used to work for a company that made most of it's money through a website and it would take the site offline for 8 hours a few weeks before important events to run a full scale load test on the production infrastructure.

Another place I worked we had to schedule downtime even when updating applications that were designed for zero downtime.

I have never worked a place that didn't allow for downtime or even heard of such a place other than the big tech companies.
Plenty. They’re not worth talking about. There’s nothing pleasant about unreasonable people and learn there were darker deeper plans in motion. The only thing I learned is that HR works for management. If there is any hint of legal action, get your own lawyer. Often times people will help you secretly if you discreetly let known your lawyer’s contact info. Surprisingly I was never fired but work was still hell and I have bitter memories.
Fair enough, but those things are unrelated to SQLite. Any app which uses a Postgres or MySQL PaaS would need to overcome the same hurdles.

It'd be nice if those things were easier, but the SQLite part of it cannot be any simpler or easier than it already is.

Backing up SQLite can be done with a 2 line shell script

ssh vm 'sqlite3 my_database.db ".backup my_database.db.bak"'
scp vm:my_database.db.bak .
if they could buy whatever dosage they needed over the counter, instead of trying to wheedle a prescription out of doctors who are under threat of criminal prosecution, they wouldn't have much of an incentive to switch to different opiates, or to rely on dangerously unstable supply chains operated by organized crime

this would increase the risk of suicide, but it would have to rise a lot to exceed the current usa rate of accidental overdose deaths
You can't drive into Area 51. Spy balloons can loiter and be hard to detect due to a low radar cross section, unlike satellites which fly over on set schedules. Consumer drones cannot fly high, are easy to detect, and have very limited endurance.
This!

Look at the COX-2 inhibitors as well. They were on the market for almost a decade before the increased risk of heart attack popped up in the data.
It's obvious, you need to run:

$ man find

before you can do that.
right, i didn't mean to imply it didn't support acid
> Mostly historic, federal income tax was illegal until the early 1900s.

So what? They followed a due process of getting the amendment ratified, which means there was overwhelming support for it. Seems pretty legit to me. If you don't like it, pass another amendment repealing it. If it is truly bad and people hate it, they will repeal it just like what they did to prohibition.

> an income tax brings a double tax.

And so? Ultimately, we the people want stuff (medicare, social security, defense, national parks...) so we gotta pay for it. If you think you have a better alternative, propose it. If you think the stuff people want is frivolous, propose repealing all that spending and see if people buy into your vision.
Everyone thinks they have big data and 99.99% of the time, their entire DB could be served from a single 100GB SQLite file on a single SSD on a random dev's laptop with better performance than the expensive AWS deployment they've rented. They think they have super-concurrent stuff and locks are important, but modern machines are so fast that data can be added faster than their users can input data.

People don't realize just how big 1MB is if it's not multimedia. If you had 100,000 users consistently writing 1kb to your DB every single day, it would still take a 10,000 days or over 27 YEARS to fill a 1TB harddrive.

Most companies have 1,000 users per day updating mostly existing data or adding small snippets here and there. That 1TB drive would die of old age long before your average company could come close to filling even 10% of the capacity.
> Meanwhile we have a chemical disaster in Ohio that’s killed untold amount of animals, fish, wildlife in a 10 mile + radius…

This has absolutely nothing to do with anything on this topic, and I think the Federal Government which spends trillions a year can do more than 1 thing at a time. Statements like this are like saying Apple can't focus on the new iPhone or Apple Music at the same time. It's a ridiculous political trope.
Death is short term hard, long term easy. Life is all over the place - sometimes hard, sometimes easy, usually misunderstood and massively influenced by whatever happens to be one’s current mood. Some have stable moods, some swing, some are more/less influenced by sleep, exercise & blood sugar level.

Ethics, morality, and philosophical approach in general typically evolve over a lifetime. Maybe your current one is incompatible. Ok. Maybe it’ll be the same forever. Ok.

But then again, maybe it won’t? Are you still young enough to be sure? (I’ve been so sure of so many things...)

Personally I found some semblance of peace when I finally accepted who and what I am, tried less to fit in and more to live & let live, and found a sleep, exercise & eating pattern that worked well.

Maybe you would too?
The feature is distributed message passing (basically an Actor model)
https://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/distributed.html

You can get this in other languages with the help of middleware like RabbitMQ or Kafka, but not many languages have it built in.
‘Perfect explosion’: merger of neutron stars creates spherical cosmic blast
I would take a pay cut to work in a sane language like clojure.

I do python now :(
Robin Hanson and Eliezer Yudkowsky Discuss 19th Century Mass Unemploymemt
https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/byd/atto+3/46635

Thats the EU NCAP rating. Australia, there's a kerfuffle about something, like front seat child restraint mounts, which is being resolved.

TL;DR yes, standards might be laxer in China mainland, but this vehicle meets European safety norms: it has to, to be viable for worldwide import.

This is a pretty rigorous crash test/resiliency/safety test.
Valgrind with --leak-check does include the stack trace of where unfreed memory was originally allocated.
Yeah I agree. Most of my CSS files end up feeling like a big, append-only list of selectors for seemingly random stuff. Its so hard to tell if there are selectors in there that are no longer in use.

I really like the look of nested selectors for this reason - because I can group my selectors by component.
Looks like the catch is that the politicians get an exemption from it all.
A reason other than it being awesome?
Eli5 ordinal nfts?
Does it Speak Lebowski
First, the US isn’t going to shoot down small balloons like this one after possibly shooting 3 civilian ones. They will only react to larger ones.

Second, what kind of useful sensors will they put on small balloon? I guess might be able to fit camera, even long lens, in the 12lb payload of small balloon but doubt get much useful info.

Third, we may see a movement to put transponders in larger balloons. Requiring ADS-B would be reasonable.
Relevant links on this:

https://twitter.com/LeaVerou/status/1580215877705687040, a poll about this specific matter (with links to other relevant polls which on the surface contradict this one).

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7834#issuecomment..., on this exact matter (chosen as a convenient starting point, after matters were already settled, but the whole issue is about it). By the time this poll was done, they had already decided not to consider mandatory-&, though I don’t really understand why (it’s pretty obvious to me that dividing into 3a and 3b would have been much more interesting than a couple of the other options which were straw men that no one was capable of taking seriously even if they tried).

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7961, about doing away with & in all cases for descendant selector (… which would be terrible for complexity and worst-case performance, and is only being considered because they already made things inconsistent by making & optional in every other case).

(I don’t like where it’s ended up, and consider requiring the & in all cases to be obviously materially superior, for both machine and human handling, and that there’s clear concrete advantage in having the requirement as an actual language rule rather than only a linter-enforced choice. People are far too hung up on exactly Sass syntax.)

> it would only make the parser's job easier

Mind you, it’s not a big difference; it’s just “if there’s no & in the selector, insert one and a descendant combinator at the start” in some shape, which could be as little as half a dozen lines of code net.
That seemed like the future ten years ago, but my impression is that the trend has gone the other way. There were a lot of really buzzy courses back then, but the communities don't seem motivated in the same way any more, with a large portion of the students now in pursuit of a certificate rather than intellectually curious. I also think that the reason that many of the popular early courses disappeared, wasn't just that they wee out of date, but that university administrations began to worry that they were giving too much away.

It's also possible that online learning during the pandemic has ended up making online learning in general seem unpleasant.
Which was already more than enough reason to revoke bail.
This and the responses should be required reading for all the folks who claim that the free market requires perfect information. Well done!
Unless you consider it's ability to attract people to interact with it based on its utility a form of self-replication as it gets more and more invocations. Each one of these interactions has the capacity to change the end user in some way, and that is going to add up over time to have certain effects.
> The moment when you will get off the supercharger network with your tesla

There are 21 Tesla charging sites in Finland and 14 of them are now open to all EVs. So you could be making use of two thirds of Tesla's Finnish charging sites with your Skoda Enyaq right now.
Banned for content reasons.... because somebody accessed my account and posted who-knows-what on it. Did you not see the screenshot showing a login attempt from Vietnam?

What other content would you like to find with my name on it? My website, jcforbes.com (which currently has nothing on it)? You could search my name with the NC department of commerce and find my business name easily.

I presented all evidence in form of screenshots... exactly what do you think I'm hiding?
The lack of formal professional organizations is the biggest boon for computing. I'm glad we don't have an artificially low supply of programmers like we do doctors
I’m predicting that the Apple headset will only work with Apple devices, requiring a MacBook or whatever.

If you can’t play Steam games on them, then they’ll be a consumer product dud.

If they don’t work with CAD software that runs on Windows or Linux PCs, then the commercial applicability will be also limited.
The difficulty you mention is definitely an issue, but the insane repetition required for even a modestly complex piece of UI when using "flat" CSS is worse, in my opinion. I suppose there might even be a slight efficiency gain over the wire once Sass outputs nested CSS by default.
Using expensive missiles is a form of power projection. It tells the adversary we are willing to outspend them 1000 to 1. Sometimes there is a logical answer to why we are spending too much money.

Also bullets work just fine, they just cause slow leaks that could take hours to ground the craft, which might not be what you want.
It's a catchy name and the top level domain was available, unlike facebookbannedme.com.
Python, Java, JavaScript, R are all insanely complicated compared to clojure.
Right to repair has nothing to do with how easy it is, only that access to parts, manuals etc isn't restricted and that the repair doesn't require authorisation.
I think the article and the comments are wrong. I prefer things to be a little bit fun, and I suspect most people in the real world do too. It's definitely better than some PR driven corporate speak. Now if you want to say that the errors should be more detailed, then sure. But don't punish me with a drab error message when I'm already annoyed about the thing not working.
Here it is: https://reddit.com/comments/10q0l92/comment/j6obnoq
It was designed to be a practical insert into existing Java codebases and orgs. If it hadn't been, it wouldn't have gained the adoption that it has.
Yeah that's fair and I admit don't actually know anything about the parsing implications. I guess really I'm just looking for an excuse to convince my coworkers to adopt this practice without coming off like I'm bikeshedding haha
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Like a lot of early machines, ICCE was made in part from ex-GPO relays. (ie, it was electromechanical.) Valves were more expensive and relays were flooding the market post-war.

Guess which WW2 activity used a very large number of relays, and was made by the GPO (who used relays heavily in telephony), and was subsequently discontinued by the GPO at wars end as things to do with encoding and decoding scaled back thus flooding the electronics market in the UK with relays...

Tommy Thomas (head of the ERCC in edinburgh where my dad wound up and I therefore lived) worked at Manchester on the Mark 1. He never talked about it and I never asked, subsequently. We both wound up in Australia at the CSIRO, where Radiophysics had been started by people in the radar space, and that bled into their interest in Computing. it's a small world. He was the head of the IT division and I was a lowly researcher, our paths didn't cross much. I wish I'd talked to him more, about this stuff and computer history.
No offense and not here to toot my own horn, but just because you are better on one side of the stack doesn't mean that true full stack developers are unicorns.

Like others upthread, I am one of them, and probably because I've been paid to do this job for 16+ years.

Honestly my challenge is making potential employers understand that yes, I know my way around Elixir or React, as I do around C or Rust, as I do around sysadmin (not only DevOps) or DBA work, as I do around low-level system code. I'm no world expert at any of them, but most companies need a person that can wear many hats when things go crazy and specialisation is for insects anyway.

Sadly, generalist engineers like me have lost against the trend of "full stack developer" to have been stolen from us by recruiters and less skilled devs to now mean "can use Express and React and maybe deploy on Heroku".