skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eliminate deep sea cables? How are they going to send the lasers in a curve from one base station to the next?

Starlink is already working on a backhaul from satellite to satellite. Interestingly, they claim that they can speed up data transfers by 50% over long distances. Musk said that in a Tweet which I cannot find now. I looked a bit into it and the reason seems to be that light trough a cable can only reach 70% of the speed of light while lasers through the vacuum of space can reach the speed of light.
This is exactly what happens to every Oregonian. For most it's taking a car to college out of state.
The author asks "Is loss of human life really necessary to innovation?" The answer is: yes. In fact the loss of human life is really necessary to the simple continued existence of civilization (at pretty much every level). This may sound trite, but every change introduces new risks and dangers. I think most people would agree those risks should be reasonably minimized. Society can argue about what is "reasonable".
> This could also be considered ...

I agree but you've very appropriately used the word "could" here. The gp bemoaned Google not prioritising this issue as a serious security concern. Whether it could theoretically be classified under security if X, Y & Z were true, due to the to-the-letter definition of access control threat models, doesn't mean that in this specific case of a consumer device, that using a browser from settings is a high severity risk. Even if it were a bypass of something like Nessus/Crowdstrike/et al (and not just consumer parental controls), it still wouldn't represent a significant threat as a simple kiosk escape in isolation.

Any definition that classifies this as the gp is proposing is a theoretical nitpick, not an actual considered threat model.
Sure, I'm reading from my personal notes since I've answered this question so many times online. And keep in mind that I wrote these notes a couple of years ago.

I work with large clients and having a known corporation behind your product is pretty nice, besides that RHEL-compatible distros are still the only ones supported by a lot of proprietary enterprise software.

I'm not only a RHEL-convert, but an SElinux convert, and I think it's pretty neat. It can completely sandbox an application, but it does have a steep learning curve.

Red Hat are behind a lot of innovation within the entire Linux ecosystem.

Dnf have some features that large clients require, like history and rollback.

Debian apt (last I checked) started services on install, which can be very disruptive. It also means they sometimes uninstall similar services because there's a conflict.

Cutting edge podman/oci stuff, signed container images, and more.

And before you reply with "yes but Debian also has X", keep in mind that Red hat has probably been doing it much longer.
Why a browser and mail combination is worth it
The point is that this is a stupid decision. It will turn people off Red Hat, and at the same time it’s incredibly annoying and inconvenient for a large number of Rocky/Alma/etc users.
For those interested in the original Scheme, here's that playlist of SICP lectures by the authors. I read and worked through the second edition book, but found these videos later. They added lots of value and emphasis beyond the written material.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE18841CABEA24090
iPhones have exactly the same feature, activated in almost the same way, except that it requires one fewer interactions with the device to trigger, and yet, there's no reporting about this happening too much with iPhones, nor was there any when the feature came out a few years ago.

Additionally, this doesn't seem to have been a problem when it rolled out on Pixel devices a year and a half ago, Pixels are certainly common enough for that to become a known issue.

Why is Android different? Why are third party Android devices seemingly so different?
Cut public spending or boost taxes to help tackle inflation
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Thanks, this is just what I was looking for.
>Making things out to be anti-semitic when they're not, such as happened to Corbyn, is a popular smear tactic. It's pretty disgusting though, and many Jewish people have pointed out that it's a very harmful and anti-semitic thing to do.

That ship has long sailed in the US. I don't see this behavior stopping in earnest until the greater populace stops giving any credibility to the claims due to repetitional damage. In fact right now they have become emboldened after the 2020 elections. Meanwhile there is a real rise in anti-semitism that is likely occurring among the far-right.

Change is starting to happen online in that every single thread i've been seeing on Reddit/HN that calls out Israel also tends to completely swat away the anti-Semitic claims thrown out when any criticism of Israel typically occurs. Whether this translates into real world changes remains to be seen but we are starting to see it in the voting patterns of Millennials and Gen-Z(them supporting comments made by "the Squad" and electing more reps that don't shy away). It very will likely be a generational shift as Israel continues to damage its reputation in the US due to its tactics.
You know you’re an Oregonian when you’re out-of-state trying to figure out how to put gas in your rental car and the clerk at the gas station starts yelling “What are you doing??” over the P.A.
A simple guide to pessimistic locking in Rails
That is mentioned in the details below the heading you quoted. The difference here is that RTS games don't use deterministic floating-point physics, so Hypersomnia requires a novel solution.
Voice cloning is just crazy good right now
> Although the laser system was not directly tested with an orbiting satellite, they accomplished high-data transmission over a free-space distance of 53km (33 miles).

This is peanuts compared to under sea cables and issues you will find penetrating atmosphere and increasingly, space.

We should keep under sea cables and work on additional connections to make our networks more resilient, both to natural phenomena, equipment failures and sabotage.
In Europe the view is that bigger vehicle = bigger responsibility. In the US the attitude seems to be bigger vehicle = bigger right of way. The party who stands to lose the most is expected to yield the right of way.
Question for the room: what should the West be doing here?
> drivers are growingly frustrated and angry

Good luck making policy changes against the wishes of a majority population that's frustrated and angry as it is. We are in deep, deep trouble. Not only are we not removing lanes and giving space back to people, we're still adding lane miles in every city in America. Even my "urbanist" home town of Portland Oregon is about to spend billions to add a few dozen lane miles to an urban freeway that already destroys the entire East bank of our waterfront and a couple historic neighborhoods, and is used mostly by people and companies that don't live here.
I've heard people on HN say you can't build a huge business off open source. That Red Hat was a one-off.

Maybe this supports the narrative? Assuming it goes poorly I mean.
The source of GPL software can be sold, it just has to be available to users of the software.
> Women have a strong expectation for men to be this way too.

Agreed. Although I would say that mothers tend to be more emotionally available than fathers to their sons. The problem is that "momma's boy" is considered an insult.

(Incidentally, there's been some discussion in the comments to this article about divorce and child custody, i.e., which parent should get custody. But nobody seems to be discussing which parent the child would prefer to live with.)

Regarding women's attitudes toward men's emotional needs, there's likely a crucial distinction between "son" and "sexual partner", where neediness is much more acceptable in the former.

> I think it's a fools errand to try and uproot instinct.

Disagreed. What separates humans from the rest of the animals are civilization, rationality, science. We should aspire to more, not less.
It should be faster, the speed of light in optical fiber is only 2/3 of that in vacuum (and air). I'm more concerned about clouds and storms.
At this point, why not switch to using a real database like mariadb or postgresql? These days you don't even have to run it yourself, every cloud provider offers it as a service and can handle backups, patching, replication for you
Subaru also adds unnecessary prompts, eg for bluetooth:

1. press "Select New Device"

2. press device from the list

3. "This will disconnect the old device, proceed?"

Why on earth would I have done 1 and 2 if I didn't want 3? Why add more steps than absolutely necessary in a system that might be used in motion?
How do you handle text wrapping or otherwise manage long paragraphs? Do you use a newline per sentence or use soft-wrapping to write each paragraph on a single line?
If you don't think DRM is illegitimate security, then what do you think is?
I was sort of curious about whether or not other non-pedestrian motor vehicle fatalities also increased and came across an interesting stat. It looks like overall passenger vehicle occupant fatalities have also increased [1] and, interestingly enough, some of this is probably a result of a lower rate of seat belt usage among those fatally injured [2]. All of this coinciding with Covid.

[1] https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/yearl...
[2] https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/yearl...
Yup, we're already working on an experimental support for Lambda Labs! Ping us if you'd like to test it out. Perhaps we could show something already next week.
It's blaming the victim?

I see this very often as well, but you're not operating a several ton vehicle. At worst you run into some kid and knock his ice cream over.

It's the presence of cars, their prioritization in our infrastructure, and unenforced laws surrounding them that are the problem.
https://xkcd.com/2347/

Redhat charges companies steep prices and pays opensource maintainers nothing at all. Cheeky of them to talk about «making money off others' hard work.»
With current technology the most dangerous part about space isn't being in space, it's getting there (and back). So far, nobody has ever died just sitting in orbit. (Closest was the Soyuz 11[1] and even that was a result of an incident during the re-entry process.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11#Re-entry_and_death
In many states you are required to stop if a pedestrian is crossing the street.

What has happened a lot is I will stop to let a pedestrian cross the street at a legal cross walk and the person behind me will assume I am an idiot, honk, and speed around me.

My intuition is this is the cause of a significant amount of pedestrian deaths: impatient drivers that assume every stopped car is just an obstacle to zip around.

We had an 8 year old boy die in my hometown to this exact scenario and I have witnessed too many near collisions to count. I would support making passing like this automatic jail time, equivalent in severity to drunk driving.
It could also be the pedestrians looking at their phone, not where they’re going.
Or both combined
You said:

> pretty much every compiler since the 90s has support for `#pragma once`

I asked for examples.

Specifically I am asking for examples that are not C compilers, do not compile languages derived from or related to C, and which do not run on Unix-like OSes, because what we are talking about here is what came after Unix. Plan 9 is effectively Unix 2.0: it is what the people who designed and built Unix did next.

Inferno is Unix 3.0. It's what they did after Plan 9.

Tweaks to the project that they had moved on from (or clones thereof, e.g. Linux) are not particularly interesting or relevant in this context, IMHO.
Isn't it obvious? Distracted drivers and distracted pedestrians from cell phones. I was just rear-ended last week by a distracted driver, luckily I wasn't injured.

There needs to be a measure as to how distracting a car's interface is, and there needs to be regulations around this. Tesla's interface for example, takes far too much time and attention to do simply things like change the fan speed or temperature. I think we need a way to quantify this, and enforce regulations so that our 2023 mini-Batmobiles don't cause more problems than they solve.

In terms of pedestrians, that's a harder problem to solve because I've come across so many pedestrians that just walk out onto the street without looking, or even thinking of looking because they're on their phones.
Transition to trail running if you can. Ive stopped taking chances with road running because of the insane drivers. Same with biking. Added benefits of being in nature and getting off pavement helps your joints a bit.
A surprising amount of encryption is optional in EMV (the underlying protocol for contactless and chip cards), because when it was originally developed (way before contactless was a thing), vanks were worried about the price of a chip capable of doing all the encryption. It's a source of all kinds of attacks on the protocol (though I don't know how bad it is now). For example, it's not at all uncommon for the reader to send your PIN to the chip in the clear, whoch makes skimming with a modified reader pretty easy (in general the readers have a lot of anti-tamper mechanisms, but they're designed to protect the operator's cryptographic keys, not the security of the card holder)
Yes! The platform is currently running on a smaller DigitalOcean droplet. I've already upgraded it once and handling some DevOps tasks along the way. The Hackernews traffic is giving the server a serious stress test. As it continues to grow, I'm considering switching to render.com, especially when more expertise is needed to handle the increased demand.
Alex Russell talked about Android's WebView not being Chrome at State of the Browser in 2021

https://2021.stateofthebrowser.com/speakers/alex-russell/
> As a result, even if a community wants to make their road safer, they have no power to do so.

Visions of black-clad infrastructure guerillas working at night to install speed bumps on residential roads.
If they haven’t already, I’m sure you could expect them to. That’s the only way to really police the policy.
> You have no idea what their idea of rehabilitation is, in fact they only shared that our balance is out of whack.

Either their definition is the same as the popularly known definition, or it is a worthless definition.

The popular definition is "whatever defects of personality caused the person to commit criminal acts have been mitigated entirely or reduced to the point that the risk of recidivism is negligible" or something like that.

Is there another definition any sane person should care about?

> What we are doing now, with mass incarceration and barely-humane conditions DOES NOT WORK.

It's doing exactly what it's supposed to do. It's just that the thing it's supposed to do isn't rehabilitation, and never was. And you'd have to be a seriously naive person to have ever swindled yourself into believing anything else.

1. Punishment of the wicked.

2. Sequestration of the dangerous.

3. Deterrence of the tempted.

> In fact, it would be hard to intentionally design the system in a way that does a better job of increasing recidivism

We could just let them out early, so they'll do it again. It would increase recidivism nicely, since given a (more or less) fixed population of criminals in any given time period, they'd be outside prison for longer periods of time where they have the opportunity to do it again. If in a span of 10 years an armed robber spends 8 years in prison, he only has 2 years in which to commit crime.

Let's just let him out after a weekend, so he has 9.9.

We could even call it rehabilitation, because you know, if we don't make him so miserable surely he will magically transform into some excellent citizen.

> Our government spends billions and trillions of dollars on things which have less utility.

This weakens your case, it doesn't make it stronger. "We're already spending trillions on other things" means there's less available to spend on this. Not more.
So we should keep prices inflated and piss our money away on artificially-large mortgages so the people at the bottom don't starve?
Issues like this and a few older ones give me a pause.
https://github.com/MLton/mlton/issues/473

Is there sufficient use of MLTon amd64 backend out there to consider it mature? or Do people prefer the LLVM or C backend instead in general?
It really depends on what you are using it for. There are plenty of high-value use cases where you can free up resources that are spending time inefficiently due to handling tasks that a domain specific LLM could help with. Maybe that allows you to not expand your team by allowing your existing resources to work on things that bring more value.
Yup. I got hung up on that too. I think the article could have better stated it as:

For every natural n, there exists a natural b, such that: n! ≈ b^n

I don't quite know the precise criteria for "≈" here, that's a bit beyond my understanding of the article...
Making software malleable, so that you can iterate & change over time, be responsive to changing needs/wants - is a software superpower.

Regarding AI, I have my doubts buy acknowledge it has remarkable potential for raw output. But how malleable will that output be? Will be make good architectural decisions that allow ongoing adaption & iteration? Will it be able to understand & marshal architecture forward in an intelligent way? I have little evidence yet telling me systems like LLMs are capable of architecting well.
I was thinking the same, if so that is a direct line to how AIX is provisioned, limitations on use and pay more to get more.

I the author of the post says, time stop RHEL support. I wonder if/when the FSF will weigh in.
Fantastic opportunity for someone to found Blue Hat.
I think this is a good concept, and I'd like to offer some feedback.

Things I like:

- I agree that something should be done
- I think having a wall of honor on your site is a good way to promote adoption
- I think you make some good arguments

Things I question:

- .meta - As others have pointed out, it's not metadata about the project, it's part of the project. Also, as others have noted, having this be a dot file will unnecessarily hide the directory in some circumstances.
- There is no org-based namespacing in the .meta approach
- A wall of honor is probably not enough to drive adoption

Recommendations:

- I think another form of adoption driver is to discuss it on the mailing lists of 2-3 large open source projects, get them to buy into you submitting a PR for this as a non-breaking enhancement (if files not found in current dirs, look in .meta; if files not found at all create them in .meta), and then follow through with the PR for each. Some candidates are VS Code, NPM, NetBeans, Maven, and Cargo.
- etc seems a natural project config directory name. /etc is for system config files, ${BASEDIR}/etc is for project config files. There may be some conflicts here with projects already using etc, but the file's should conflict.
- what I think we need is a unified project metadata file, then links in that file could be traversed to the tool specific files and it wouldn't matter where they were - they wouldn't need to be in the root directory. Description of a Project (DOAP) [1] was a good start toward this, but the last time it had more than 1 PR a year was in 2018. There's no JSON format.

[1] https://github.com/ewilderj/doap/wiki
Does that mean that there are no self-service gas stations in Oregon?
Regulators are not thinking of the public when they allow corporate sociopaths to neglect societal best interest while market fixing / mismanaging records / etc., activities that have demonstrably siphoned wealth from the lower class and moved it increasingly to the ivory towers of companies that do not deserve the influence that makes them "too big to fail".

The wealth inequality gap is widening and it's due to pussyfooted enforcement on white collar crime and strategic negligence.
This is a relatively easy fix. Remove zoning regulation and the market should build towards denser towns. It is outright illegal to build dense right now in most of the US. There are other ares that need to be fixed that all exacerbate the issue: The NHSTA recommends large wide roads for moving vehicles faster, CAFE standards makes cars heavier and larger since trucks / suvs don't have the same regulations, FHA loans require developments are built with curvy roads and not grids. We need laws that prioritize pedestrians and bikers, force cars to be smaller through regulation and taxes.
The post COVID era is more stressful for sure..
(pandemic, inflation, war,?)
Sure, turning Houston into Madrid would be very hard. But this is one of the most incrementally solvable problems I've ever seen. There are hundreds of low-cost, low-effort ways to start making things better.
Good. Thirst is uncomfortable.
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These giant popups have taken the fun out of everything on the internet. Shame on Washington Post.
Yeah that's exactly why (I imagine) the first course in programming I was taught at University was Haskell. All of us who had been programming since age 8 had to reset our brains. A fantastic strategy for a curriculum if you ask me.

Lisp/Scheme/Clojure I'm sure are elegant and great for the same reasons as Haskell. They have unique traits that work well for teaching CS concepts.

I have one single issue: the syntax. I'm not getting past it. I'm 45 years old and have coded since age 8. I have tried and failed to manage learning or reading Lisp many times. I have tried picking up clojure, reading SICP I have had to tinker with AutoCad (AutoLisp) stuff for work. I'm just accepting that I'm not going to enjoy doing anything Lisp-related to the point where I'll ever manage to usefully read SICP, or learn one Lisp-y language to the point where I'd choose it for anything. And frankly it doesn't matter. I just accept it and move on. And I also understand that I can gaze at some Typescript monstrosity with sixteen levels of curly brackets, and while it's terrible syntax, my brain accepts it. But I can only imagine that it's 30 years (or just 1, who knows!) of curly bracket coding that makes my brain able to swallow that. But I'm not ready to invest even a week or two of time in teaching my brain to accept Lisp syntax.
Better yet, every law should have an expiration date that must be explicitly renewed.
I doubt it's the sole problem. But it definitely is a big problem.

https://www.valuepenguin.com/top-deadliest-vehicles

Edit: Sorry wrong link here's the one I meant to share.
https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/new-study-suggests-todays-s...
for all practical reasons, the DMCA is global law.

I mean it obvious that it's not, but are you willing to test how far they can reach when you have stories like of Peter Sunde and Kim Dotcom to see what happens?
Sounds like none of my business.
I agree, but with the noted caveat that pedestrians who are completely oblivious to their surroundings are usually only a danger to themselves, whereas drivers who are even somewhat oblivious to their surroundings can be far more dangerous.

When I lived in SF, I saw this constantly btw. I probably saved on guy's life who saw a walk sign turn on at an intersection, proceeded to look at his phone, and stepped into the intersection. Meanwhile a car was running the red light at a fast speed (it was crossing Market somewhere up near 2nd Street), so I had to tug this guy by the back of his shirt to prevent him from getting creamed. And he actually gave me an annoyed look. This was sometime around 2015 though, so just an anecdote that doesn't have much to do with the data in the article.