skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the standard conspiracy theory was that they started making them larger to avoid environmental regulation (which is pretty ironic).

Here's the first google result for "large cars regulation loophole", looks like an interesting read: https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-wants-to-close-the-suv-lo... Edit: prior HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35609521
It's obviously not a panacea, but it solves or can solve a specific set of problems.

For anyone that has trouble imagining what I could possibly be talking about, there are some examples discussed here [1], from which I highlight a handful of bullet points, which may not all be mutually exclusive:

- financial stability

- the need to "chase the algorithm"

- sensationalism as a perverse incentive of the market

- a lack of incentivization of quality content

- the perverse disincentivization of long-form content

- the perverse incentivization of cheap editorial content over expensive investigative journalism

- the availability of quality information to people who can't afford to pay for an expensive news subscription or who may simply not have access to news where they are

- editorial independence from commercial or industrial interests

- long-term viability of more local news

- collapsing advertising revenue due to macro, social and tech trends

- parasitic audience capture by social media platforms

[1] https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/issues_developme...
The primary reason I'm using Ubuntu rather than Debian is the LTS. I know the general consensus is that "Debian is as stable as Ubuntu LTS", but we are still working on upgrading our 18.04 boxes a few months ago.

We can't change all of our platforms as quickly as Debian retires old releases. Especially not while also doing our other operations work. In some cases we can just lay down the new OS and run Ansible and we're good, but in other cases porting to new OS releases can take months of effort.
Trying to raise money for something like that! We have exciting preliminary results
Last install of Windows 11 I did (triggering) Perl was installed by default
Falcon Heavy has 27 engines, Starship 33. Its not that different. And if anything Starship has a simpler engine configuration. This is not some unsolvable problem.
Looks like it, it sends out a "glider" once every second.
I typed "pontiac fiero synthwave" and was told "nsfw results are paywalled, please upgrade to premium". I mean I like the car, but I wouldn't call it pornographic :)
Elon Musk Has Broken Disaster-Response Twitter
So, what part of crypto vibes did you want to elaborate on :)
Ruby works great for this, but is unfortuantely not installed on many systems -- but this isn't just bad luck, I think it's a consequence of the fact that ruby code written two years ago has a pretty good chance of not running on the recent version; and code written for the recent version without thinking about backwards compat also has a good chance of not running on ruby of two years ago...

Means as a language it's not suitable for "have it installed on every system and then just throw code at it that will work, and keep working" like Perl. Even if you could convince all the distro maintainers to include it, you'd never have the version you want/need. Which would be different for different scripts, and you'd have to be constantly updating all your routine maintenance scripts you just wanted to put there and have them keep working -- which with Perl you could.

I wish ruby were more about backwards and forwards compat, but it isn't.
Comparing Python to Perl ( assuming equal experience with both ):

If you are a good programmer, you will write good Perl and Python code. If you are a bad programmer, you will likely write terribly horrendous Perl code and slightly less horrible Python code.
Huh? Generated files are written to the build directory which is only the source directory if you choose to make it so...

$ cd /tmp/build

$ ../bash-5.2.15/configure
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Beginning configuration for bash-5.2-release for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

checking for gcc... gcc
... etc ...

$ tree
.
├── builtins
│ └── Makefile
├── config.h
├── config.log
├── config.status
├── doc
│ └── Makefile
├── examples
│ └── loadables
│ ├── Makefile
│ ├── Makefile.inc
│ ├── Makefile.sample
│ └── perl
│ └── Makefile
├── lib
│ ├── glob
│ │ └── Makefile
│ ├── intl
│ │ └── Makefile
│ ├── malloc
│ │ └── Makefile
│ ├── readline
│ │ └── Makefile
│ ├── sh
│ │ └── Makefile
│ ├── termcap
│ │ └── Makefile
│ └── tilde
│ └── Makefile
├── Makefile
├── po
│ ├── Makefile
│ ├── Makefile.in
│ └── POTFILES
├── stamp-h
├── support
│ ├── bashbug.sh
│ ├── bash.pc
│ └── Makefile
└── tests

17 directories, 24 files

The makefiles and any files they generate are in /tmp/build, the source directory remains unmodified.

(Recursive make, eww!) ;)
A friend of mine got infected with prions. Well, it’s what the doctors believe since all other tests came up negative. They aren’t 100% sure but have documented it as that.

It’s amazing how quickly he degenerated. He was feeling weird physically and mentally and went to a doctor. Within a few months he was a different person but could recognize friends. He needed assistance for living. Within a year he was completely mentally gone. Just a different person with no means of communicating or doing anything for himself. Just completely sad.
This is a straw man designed to appeal to people who are distrusting of government. Almost all states which have the death penalty deliver it by jury sentencing, and all but one require it be unanimous. In most cases this issue has nothing to do with the state.
What is "many" here? How many times is it OK for us to execute you for a crime you didn't commit? Is it alright so long as we only kill you once?

It took a matter of minutes to find that Toforest Johnson was successfully convicted of murder based on somebody claiming they overheard him confessing. The prosecution had concealed from the defence the fact that they paid this witness a substantial sum of money. That sort of bullshit shouldn't work to give somebody a traffic ticket, never mind a death sentence and yet sure enough US courts thought that was good enough.
I always ignored Buzzfeed news as well, for the same reason. I had no idea that they weren't the same "quality" as Buzzfeed.
At 199.7 inches, the Maverick is a barely an inch shorter than the shortest Ranger (201.2).
For extremely limited values of 'everywhere' which shake its definition.

I don't think a basic Arch Linux installation includes perl. Windows as you say would surprise me. 'the major Linux distributions' (plus I think macOS, perhaps inherited from BSD, no idea) might be fair, but certainly not 'everywhere'.
Honestly is Demis that big a deal? I always figured it was the researchers a layer or two down (e.g. David Silver) who were doing the real work.
Clang does figure it out. Note that clang has a branch, not a loop. It jumps to returning 0, else it continues to do the same thing gcc does.
I'd say it figured it out, even if the code isn't as pretty.

I tried using `final` to get them to figure out the inheritance case, but devirtualization didn't work when inlining a method defined on a base class.
https://godbolt.org/z/h4GEYnzMo
How to run your own LLM (GPT)
Both DeepMind and Brain use Jax, so they will definitely use Jax. However, they use different high level frameworks: All of DeepMind uses Haiku, while on the Brain side there are competing frameworks, with flax currently being the most often used one AFAIK. I'm not aware of anyone using trax there, and I would not expect it to get more adoption, on the contrary.
I think they mean turning humanity into some sort of collective suicide cult over birds is really stupid. Humanity first.
It sounds like you were either not around or didn't use Google in the early 00s. Back then, there was a very clear, bright color difference between ads and organic search results: a yellow bar at the top with at most two ads, and a side bar. But organic results were easy to identify and took up the majority of screen real estate.

Now, when I search any even slightly remotely commercial search term on mobile, about the entire first page and a half of results are ads. Yes, they're identified with a "Sponsored" message, but as you can see from the "evolution" link the other commenter replied, this was obviously done to make the visual treatment between ads and organic results less clear.

The reason I'm thrilled about Google finally getting competition in their bread-and-butter is not because I want them to fail, but I want them to stop sucking so bad. For about the past 10 or so years Google has gotten so comfy with their monopoly position that the vast majority of their main search updates have been extremely hostile to both end users and their advertisers as Google continually demands more and more of "the Google tax" by pushing organic results down the page.

In the meantime I've switched to Bing, not because I think Microsoft is so much better, because I desperately want multiple search alternatives.

Edit: Great article from a couple years ago about how Google tried to make ads even more indistinguishable from organic results: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/1/23/21078343/google-ad-d...
With the GPT's taking over Google, I wonder when web devs will feel nostalgia about the SEO-days...

> my first exposures to implementing SEO (what I now do for a living), which funny enough was mostly copied tags from The Pirate Bay and modified to be about legal torrents instead

It's already starting to feel nostalgic.
The defendant has been recognized by no less than 15 people. His DNA was found all over the crime scene . The victim's blood was found at his clothes. A video recording made by a surveillance camera depicts the whole murder. He himself confessed.
https://archive.is/ZFPlq
Python isn't actually everywhere by default, but neither is perl (but perl at least is usually named perl, while python may commonly be python or python3). Neither is consistently in the same location and shebang issues are pretty common. If script portability is actually a concern, /bin/sh is still the best way to go.
You really wanna F with people get a spare steering wheel and have the passenger hold it and act confused.
Big Tech is racing to claim its share of the generative AI market
Awesome work, we really don't need Flash anymore :)
there is no going back. once you expose your way of thinking about your customers, its done
Exactly this! It's Sweden, not the US.
The funny thing is the Ford Courier had the Mazda Body but a Toyota engine as I had one in high school.
It definitely wasn't a failure. Have you people even watched the stream? That thing was huge, it barely got off the ground.

Congrats to the SpaceX team and to America really, whole world was watching.
The bigger problem is cost.

The hardware costs alone of running something like GPT 3.5 for real time results is 6-7 figures a year. By the time you scale for user numbers and add redundancy... The infra needs to be doing useful work 24/7 to pay for itself.

It's more than possible Google knows exactly what it can do, but was waiting for it to be financially viable before acting on that. Meanwhile Microsoft has decided to throw money at it like no tomorrow - if they corner the market and it becomes financially viable before they lose that it could pay off. That is a major gamble...
Unfortunately, big business, the seventh day adventist church, the medical training schools and the government have an incestuous, in-bred relationship that isn't based on what's best for humanity. It's more about a combination of religious doctrine (veganism) and industry trends towards maximizing profit more than anything else.

A lot of industrial "food" was started here... Often, the discoveries of good vs. bad in terms of new "food" can take 3-5 generations for the issues to show up in people. For example, Omega 6 fatty acids are 25-40% of fats in American bodies today vs 1900, where it was closer to 2-3%. Likely a factor in a lot of endemic issues with hormone production today. That doesn't account for modern wheat being a multiplier in terms of histamine response (often confused with glucose intolerance).

I'm not strictly anti-gmo, or against processing food... but it's a matter of extent, and what one mixes in to what is natural and what is so refined it no longer resembles real foot. Even then, hyper-palatability is another issue. There's also the half century push for reducing dietary cholesterol and saturated fats that has become ingrained in culture..
Been using 22.04 for ~a year now as my primary workstation. My main pain-point is that I can't do screen sharing or snapshots with Wayland. If I had it to do over again, I'd avoid Wayland. Also, Firefox as a snap has largely pushed me away from Firefox.
Even the defense industry is migrating away from Ada. The F-22 Raptor software was mostly written in Ada. The F-35 Lighting II (JSF) software is mostly written in C++. While the JSF program has had some major software delays, overall the choice of C++ seems to have worked out.
The very website you link has data about exonerations[0]. From a quick look, it looks like this is about people who are still alive, not dead people found innocent after the death penalty was carried through (I'm having a hard time finding that specific datapoint). Given the exoneration data though, I'd have a hard time believing that number is 0.

[0]: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence

EDIT: Oh boy that rabbit hole is deep. So here's some _potentially_ innocent people who have been put to death[1]. None of those are actually proven to be innocent, but there is at least some amount of evidence that spells reasonable doubt on their conviction.

[1]: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence/execute...
It's not just rural Americans. Japanese 4WD vans, SUVs, and trucks are super hot among Portland hipsters looking for city-friendly vehicles for cargo or road tripping. There are some importers here locally that this is all they do now, like https://www.javan-imports.com/ The other highly desirable vehicle among this crowd are the J60 series Land Cruisers from the 80s, for fashion reasons more than functional ones though.
Perl is mostly forwards and backwards compatible (or less generously it has frozen). Python is backwards compatible, but continues to add new features, and some packages are rather enthusiastic about adopting these features quickly, and ending support for older versions of Python. It isn't as bad as other language communities (I'm looking at you Rust), and I would have at least given it an asterisk, but it certainly isn't as stable as Perl.
https://archive.ph/D6Ksl
Python's dependency hell due to changes between versions in both modules and core is so bad there's even a python dependency manager hell of chosing which env wrapper or containerization you're going to use because the system python sure as hell won't work. And if you do have the gall to update a system python package system stuff will break. Whereas with perl the system libraries will work, no need for containers.

Python's popularity hurts it for use when you want compatibility. Containerizations can only mitigate this so much.
A minor update of macOS Monterey[1] removed /usr/bin/python, but /usr/bin/perl still exists. Xcode's Command Line Tools will install Python 3, but I do not count as being bundled by default with macOS. Unfortunately, I can't find any Apple documentation to prove this. You'll just have to check with a fresh install of macOS Ventura yourself (or, at your own risk, uninstall Xcode and/or the Command Line Tools)

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...
Societe Generale, the largest bank in France, issues a stablecoin
You're a contradicting yourself. It is not currently as easy to get high quality trustworthy pirated content as it is to log into Disney Plus or Netflix. If you take away copyright protections, you would quickly see the rise of high trust high quality sources for pirated material. Someone could simply make a trustworthy streaming service that offered the catalogs of both companies and others in full quality and offer it for a fraction of the price because they don't have to pay to license or produce content. They could advertise on billboards and everywhere they want.
This feels more like an indictment of our terrible emergency services infrastructure. When lives are on the line, there ought to be a reliable, non-privatized communication platform that puts the protocol before NFT profile pictures or paranoid bot crusades.
As to why their methodology is important this isn’t the Falcon 9 this is a new launch system which is likely going to have multiple failures before it’s own streak can begin.

So sure, we can reasonably assume that Starship will get to a state of reliability similar to current Falcon rocket, eventually. We can’t assume the first few commercial Starship launches are going to even approach that level of reliability. And in fact the best point of comparison may be the early days of Falcon 9.
The Citroën Berlingo really is one of the best cars they made
The 68k was so much simpler than the 432 that it came out about over a year earlier, despite starting two years later.
The issue according to you is that musk is a hypocrite. But until you show evidence that musk's companies have requested and received significant grants and subsidies specifically for them, then your claim is just FUD.

You are drafting on this narrative that musk's companies are extravagant government leeches, when the truth is that they've gone the opposite direction, taking much less money from the government, avoiding cost plus contracts, and charging significantly less than competitors for services.
I overall agree with the ruling against IA. And to be clear: I'm a pretty staunch open source / libre software advocate.

> The IA maintained that it could, as long as it lent only the same number of copies it owned and locked down the digital copies so that a borrower could not copy or redistribute them.

Let's drop the act and be real here: You cannot lock down digitally distributed files in any way which offers reasonable guarantees that someone remotely sophisticated couldn't copy them.

Considering that, I think its necessary that the publishers and authors have approved and accepted (1) the distribution itself, and (2) the systems which protect the copying of their work. In the digital world, for example: they've generally approved of Kindle as a digital distribution retailer, and they've approved of the Kindle System (DRM, locked down hardware, etc). They clearly did not approve of IA distributing their work, nor I assume did they approve of whatever DRM scheme IA came up to help protect themselves from legal retribution.

(sidenote: the fact that IA put DRM on it at all kind of whispers to me that they knew this lawsuit would be coming, they knew what they were doing had shaky legal foundations, and while I have an immense amount of respect for what they do and their mission, knowingly breaking the law isn't respectable even if you disagree with it).

But step out of the digital world and into the physical one. The same rules apply. Publishers would generally approve of Barns and Noble distributing their books; easy enough. But to the second point, implicitly: Publishers have also accepted the inherent physical laws of our universe which protect, not wholly but significantly, works from being copied at scale. There's no DRM protecting physical books; no swipe of your ID card to unlock them; its just physically hard to copy them, its physically hard to take a book off your shelf and hand it to a friend in-person. When you view those facts relative to how easy it is to copy even DRM-protected eBooks, or how easy it would be to just "send" a digital book to anyone, anywhere on the planet, at any time, instantly; it makes a lot more sense to me why publishers are scared of allowing things like this.

In other words: Applying the metaphor of a physical book to a digital one is a fundamentally misguided action because digital books are fundamentally different in the ways copyright has historically cared about. If a man in Norway messages me and asks to borrow my physical copy of Hunger Games; I'm going to say no. If he asks to borrow my digital copy, all hypothetically handled in Kindle, just enter his email, I can click a button to "get it back" at any time, instantly: I'm going to say Yes.
I am not permitted to name them but there is a large company that is heavily involved in the movie industry that uses perl+Oracle quite heavily in ways I never imagined to give Hollywood execs a lot of real time data.
The issue was stage separation, N1 never got that far.

Also, N1 had many issues, non were really shown in this flight. So I don't know what you are referring to.

Maybe you are referring to the N1 failure where to many engine shut off, N1 used pure thrust vectoring for guidance and the board computer had a overly simple guidance computer where 1 engine getting shut down was automatically leading to a engine on the other side shutting down. This lead to a cascade where all engine shut down.

N1 also suffered from pipe failures because of vibration. Again not something experienced in this flight as far as we can see.

Can you be more concrete of what you are referring to?
That sounds like Google is the the Xerox Parc of AI. Still need to execute.
Ubuntu lts and debian release on pretty comparable cycles, so the newer packages doesn't really hold anymore. Debian installer is pretty straightforward these days imho, but I might be just used to it. Ubuntu has done more customization on the DE compared to pretty much everyone, with Debian you get closer to vanilla gnome experience. This can be seen both as pro and con.
> Sadly Perl has fallen on hard times. I think the Perl 6 debacle is mostly at fault.

I agree hard times. Hubris is at fault.

Perl did too much and reached for the stars. Its happy place was a sane job control language. A niche Python is filling.

I have used both, Perl extensively, Python when I must. Perl is much better, but being better is not enough.

Perl did "everything". Python was "object orientated". People wanted the shiny "object orientated" and, sadly wisely, did not want a language that could do anything and everything.

I blame Larry Wall, the genius, both for Perl's success, and Perl's failure. If only I could fail so brilliantly!
I was on South Padre Island watching the launch, and I was stuck in traffic on South Padre Island for almost an hour afterwards, and I did not observe this.

It’s possible that some of the dust reached South Padre or Port Isabel, but neither seemed to be “covered” in it.
Ildefons Cerdà – urban planner of Barcelona
Curfew during or around full moons would make more sense.

There is no 'dark side of the moon'. During a new moon the dark side is the front side. At a full moon it's the back side. You probably don't want to be doing optical astronomy during the middle of the day on the moon, and you probably don't want to be doing radio astronomy while being pelted by the solar wind. Much of both is taken care of if you're doing it near midnight on the lunar day.
This video filmed near the pad shows the huge chunks of debris from the pad hitting everything nearby (cars, cameras, etc) and is quite spectacular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thA8jlgcJ-8