skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's gonna be a sad day when they get bought by a larger company and this writing style is crushed by corporate monotony.
A good deal of my books are not in English.
Those that are mostly not US editions
(to the extent they were ever published in the first place)
Yeah, every place I look people that decided to replace single-use plastic either goes for plastic-coated paper or "reusable" plastic that is thrown away after use.

But are a big net loss for any reason you can have to the ban.

If you make an awareness campaign, people will replace a lot of it with glass, metal, or plastic that actually gets reused. But they keep using a lot of single-use things. If you out-right ban them, people go directly to what can out-right replace them, and it's always those things.
The logs are written as raw HTML. They can be searched by including HTML id's, tags, etc. They are plain text so they are searchable.

The color option really makes things stand out. The formatting possibilities has made debugging so much easier.
As someone who's new to programming and doesn't know Ruby at all, can you (or someone) please explain how it works, what it does, and how would someone use it?

I find it beautiful, tho :)
Fish and Chips has entered the chat.
Pressure is Force / Area.

The materials must resist the net pressure, which is a vector addition, not division of vector's magnitudes one by another.
If something is wrong with the car, the owner of the car gets the fine. The owner of the car is on file.

If somebody uses the car on the owner's behalf and the fine is tied to the driver the fine must be forwarded by the owner to this person.
My ReactJS Code in 2023
They aren't locking themselves in. It just makes sense to support less IDEs than more IDEs. You can move faster if you don't have to duplicate your work between vscode, intellij, android studio, emacs, vim, etc. Nothing is stop developers from using ed, the standard editor, if they wanted to.
Easy trick to eliminate difficulties arising from pi: fix them via legislation [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
"it's my daily driver."

I think you somehow don't have any idea what a "driver" means in a computer hardware context like this.
The waiver was apparently quite thorough in communicating the risk of death. From my reading of coverage of this though it sounds like while the waiver was probably correct from a legal standpoint, the communication of the likelihood and factors contributing to that were not communicated to customers.

Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and Hamish Harding, two of the other victims, were somewhat experienced in this, the former having travelled to the Titanic on other deep sea submersibles with basically flawless track records (Mir? I think, and Alvin), and the latter having travelled to the challenger deep in DSV Limiting Factor which seems much better built.

Should they have known better? Maybe. This makes me wonder if they were actively mislead, rather than being left to make their own mind up.
FWIW they mention this in the article:

> I like this, because it kind of eliminates the need for radians: the x in usin(x) has the unit of “turns”. I think this is conceptually much simpler.
This is my understanding as well. I'm not surprised to see that the titanium piece survived unscathed. IIRC, the companies goal was to provide more cost-effective trips by transitioning from the standard solid titanium hull to a Ti/carbon fiber composite. This decision was controversial. They fired their head of QC after he strongly opposed the change. One key argument he made was that the design prevented ultrasonic inspection, which would mean that they could not monitor the health of the composite over time.
I read the details. It normalized letting corporations scan and police my computer without a search warrant. I didn't like that and I complained. If they want to scan my data on iCloud, then fine, and good luck since there is a layer of heavy encryption there before it's backed up there. Normalizing scanning of local devices is a big no-no in my opinion and the opinions of lots of others. Yeah we read the white papers and know exactly how it works, if not how every bit and byte is juggled.
Unintended Acceleration and Other Embedded Software Bugs (2011)
"The cloud is just someone else's computer" - that ship sailed at least a decade ago.
I’ve been using a Zojirushi thermos as a water bottle and it has been with me for 6 years.

There’s replacement parts on their website to get worn out pieces which is convenient.
After the SVB collapse, hopefully they have the $100MM as $250K in 4000 different bank accounts to duck under those FDIC insurance limits.
True, but the US could learn a thing or two from Canada's immigration policies. As a US citizen, I'm pretty vehemently opposed to our temp worker H1B visas, and would much prefer an easier path to permanent residency like Canada has.

It's shameful that we have 6-700k people here in the US that are effectively treated as second class 'citizens' and a permanent underclass. I knew one guy who had been waiting on a green card for over a decade.
Everything has or might have a risk. For all we know carrots increase the risk of cancer.

If we banned everything that increases the risk of some sort of bad thing we'd probably end up banning everything (or more realistically, everything we'd do studies on).
I would suspect teaching Willow (https://github.com/toverainc/willow#readme) to do that would be much more reasonable in a kitchen setup, for the exact reason guhidalg mentioned: who wants to use oil soaked hands to touch something in the kitchen?
I suppose it depends on where you live but in the USA at least most, if not all, mowers and generators are 4 stroke engines.

2-stroke are awful because they do not have oil sumps - the oil is mixed into the fuel and drawn into the piston through the crank case where some of the oil sticks to the moving parts to lubricate them. The rest is burnt and emitted as that awful blue smoke.

They're kinda clever as they can operate in any orientation thanks to the lack of the oil sump which makes them ideal for portable power tools which have to operate at a variety of angles. They also have no valves so are less complex and easier to maintain and have a pretty good power to weight ratio. They are valued in developing nations because of this so they are hard to get rid of.
> Not sure why this is being downvoted, as there is clear link between the influx of CIA/NSA/FBI/DHS agents in private sector and an increase in turning over of sensitive data to government, at-will. We have laws and constitutional rights for a reason.

Well corporations have more laws and their rights are more numerous and potent than yours.
Four Volunteers Have Locked Themselves in a Simulated Martian Habitat for a Year
With pattern matching it'd look like:

match (response) {
["Ok", { data }] => { ... },
["Error", { error }] => { ...handle known error... }
_ => { ...handle unknown error... },
}

It could also just be auto-generated serialization/deserialization code like in Rust.
> Stockholm syndrome.

Is an intellectually dishonest fantasy invented for the sole purpose of using it to discredit and distract from criticism of the actions of the inventor of the phrase, so should never be ascribed as the source of a position you want to argue against unless your intent is to signal that your own position lacks a reasonable argument and you are just choosing to character-assassinate the opposition to cover for that.
Promoting public transit with modern pricing schemes
Unrelated: anything similar for increasing photo resolution? I frequently encounter cases where users upload low resolution images (transferred using Whatsapp or similar) and need to increase the resolution to get something suitable for printing.
Unpopular sentiment, but: The comments and memes I've been seeing at just about every corner of the internet regarding this disaster is downright shameful and disgusting. I don't care if they had it coming or they were terrible people. It is fundamentally shocking for me to see so many people who I guess were just never brought up or taught to have some minimal value and sanctity for human life?

I always thought it was sort of a joke when people said "eat the rich", especially when they're living in developed countries.

People are the scariest monsters out there.

Celebrating someone's death means you would have killed them yourself if there was no consequence, am I wrong in saying that?

It's not like I am rich or have some sort of billionaire-fetish. But a human being is a human being right? And it's a horrible thing to celebrate a person's death right? Even with bin laden's death, I understood celebrating defeat of an enemy but not death of someone's child/family.

This stuff combined with sentiment/hatred towards people who are politically hostile/disagreeable paints a picture of a bleak future for this society.
Nice. The GitLab caching API is basically saving and restoring a folder, so if you allow pointing to a local folder instead of the GitHub API you should be good!
just a few drive-by comments:

First and most important, the title claims these are safety-critical rules, but the conclusion says that they are only being used on mission-critical projects. I get the feeling that there might have been some late-change copyediting done here, as the content is far too generalizing to be taken seriously in any specific safety critical context, and hopefully the author would have known that.

* Agree that many safety-critical coding standards are a grab-bag of sometimes dubiously-valuable rules.

* Agree with the implication that stylistic guidelines are almost totally worthless, and may distract reviews from their core task of finding functional errors.

* The document states that manual review of large cases may be infeasible, but I have never worked on a project that didn't mandate it. Drudgery goes hand-in-hand with safety-critical, and mindnumbing close review is an accepted element of this.

* Agree that less rules is good, but the author doesn't justify why 10 rules is the best. Unfortunately this is a field where correctness trumps easiness or simplicity, and any class of error with unacceptable risk to life/limb must be prevented. Thus any ruleset cannot justify itself simply because it is small.

* In fact, there are many wordings in this document that are generally-unacceptable because they are admitting incompleteness in the general case (and therefore unsuitability for any safety-critical purpose), such as "Although such a small set of rules cannot be all-encompassing" or "In return, it should be possible to demonstrate more convincingly that critical software will work as intended"

commentaries on specific rules:

* rule 4: "No function should be longer than what can be printed on a single sheet of paper". In my experience, readability is not always improved by limiting function length. The main goal of safety-critical be correct (and hopefully be obviously so). Sometimes splitting up code is harmful to this. (also this is actually a stylistic rule of the kind rejected in the 2nd paragraph of the document.)

* rule 5: In the safety-critical domain, defensive checks and "assertions" are usually considered at low-level-design. It's generally unacceptable for a coder to "just" insert defensive behaviours into the implementation, because all such behaviours must be analyzed for correctness. I don't disagree with the idea behind this rules, but a coding standard is the wrong place for it.
That would work. But it’s a terrifying worldview that citizens should be vassals to the state instead of the other way around.
It's more complicated than that, because the DPC has to give the information to the specific person before it can instruct them not to leak it, though that doesn't completely eliminate the potential for abuse.

The US FTC has the same power, except the instruction must be signed by an in-house judge and the proposed amendment should have a similar safeguard.

If the headline was something like "Irish Gov Proposes Law With Inadequate Safeguards", I'd agree with it, but "Irish Gov Makes Critizising Big Tech and Irish DPC a Crime" is a false statement.
because of a false flag conspiracy reason of some sort of course. probably aliens involved.
Fundamental sounds like a value judgment. Pi is transcendental. 2 isn't. That's really the distinction. Unless there were other finite factors in pi, that is the number that's always going to have to be approximated in computation.
There's actually a guide for migrating to SSM Application Manager but I'm not a fan of that (or Chef at all anyway): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/opsworks/latest/userguide/migrat...

We're just working on containerizing everything and then migrate to ECS or EKS.
> marginal incremental growth

VC's and angels wouldn't be interested in that, either.
Curious how this is recovered. So they send down another submersible that is able to attach a cable to debris that can be pulled up by a winch?
On the one hand, it makes it easy for you to reach customers.

On the other hand, it makes it easy for your competitors to reach customers.

I'd argue that, on the whole, the internet has made starting "just an idea and a garage" businesses harder, because they now face immediate, maximally-funded competition. Whereas pre-Internet they would have been geographically/physically protected for awhile.

True, net win for customers, efficiency, etc. (maybe). But you couldn't start a Starbucks these days.
Razing money or not as a self proclaimed PaaS geek I have always enjoyed reading fly.io blogs. Two of my favorites are How they run containers as VMs [1] and How they outgrew Hashicorp Nomad and wrote their own scheduler [2]

[1] - https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/
[2] - https://fly.io/blog/carving-the-scheduler-out-of-our-orchest...
Which is sort of natural, isn't it? The natural world is set up to exploit everything that does not have a defense against it. You adapt or you get eaten or out-competed. The fact that "the non-rich" have not yet realized that they can, in fact, band together to force more powerful forces to behave better, doesn't mean they can't still do it.

Our biggest advantage is working together as a community, and our biggest flaw is not helping each other when we easily could.
They can't have mine. I store them forever rather than recycle them for a reason.
> What makes you think the crack you apply to your official ISO isn't compromising your OS?

I guess the crack being FOSS with readable source code helps. It's a 9000 line cmd file with insane Windows-y things everywhere that make it hard to read, but being open at all and with that many users gives me quite a bit of confidence in it.

https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
"Unlike our competitors, we're pedantic to the point of rejecting industry-common colloquialisms. Do you think note taking is a game? It is not. This is serious business. Fuck whimsy."
I Tried to Cut Small Talk Out My Life. It Went Badly
MIDI rules. I love that I can hook up an old keyboard from the 80s to my PC running the lastest flashy synth VST in a DAW. When such keyboards were manufactured, personal computers were rare, let alone DAWs. It's just neat to see technology stay relevant and useful over decades, instead of becoming e-waste. Thanks MIDI!
Unrelated to the content but complaining about the website is a popular thing to do here so I'd like to share my experience, as a blind user.

Here is what my screen reader sees for this page:

Recently, I came up with a trick that can get rid of

in many cases. It’s pretty simple, but it has some interesting implications. This is the trick: I just define a new derivative operator, like so:

That’s all. You just take the derivative and then divide by

. I call this derivative operator with the bar on the upper

the reduced derivative.Now, why is this interesting? To start off, we’ll note that the unique function

...
The unfortunate truth is a ton of math content on the web reads like this. It has crippled me as a blind user who would like to appreciate math for over a decade. In university I was forced to pursue a degree other than CS because the math program used software which produced output like this and refused to change.

There has been technical progress, and many sites are starting to work better--Wikimedia most fantastically, but this old bugbear made me want to speak up and beg people to try and review their math content with a screen reader before publishing (I think MathJax has some built-in accessibility now?).
I never said what they are doing isn't "shitty".
We both kick up a fair amount of fines, but there's also a noticeable amount of fairly dirty output from the gas blower.
Synology Introduces DiskStation DS223j
Absolutely, but by normalizing scanning on local computers it takes you one step closer to authoritarianism. Every time politicians get a little more power, it only accelerates their desire for more control and inflates their sense of elitism that much more into thinking they're special and above us peasants.
Thanks for sharing, hope it can be helpful to your son! I think something about Christian schools, groups, even churches makes them tend to be super clique-ish, at least in my experience in the US. I struggled way more in those groups than in others, which is pretty sad and backwards.
>He was a person who wanted to disguise his expertise

He didn't have expertise. Maybe you are thinking of Picasso?
Google Calendar and Apple Notes - the unstoppable duo.
Bitwarden was released years ago though?
If you put the concerns of your children over the rest of the population that's selfish.

Also how about some numbers that aren't swayed by covid
Ironically, America does have a wealth tax if you want to relinquish your citizenship. I don't think Norway does, and many rich Scandinavians change citizenship to Switzerland negotiating their taxes straight with the canton they move to (like the founder of Ikea did). It is easier for a Norwegian to optimize their taxes than an American (since America also taxes worldwide income, and you can't just change your citizenship without paying a penalty).
Rental investors, foreign investors, huge population growth supply cannot keep up. A little bit of mortgage fraud[0].

Highest debt to GDP in G7s, meaning a large portion of people bought recently or HELOC'd are leveraged up to secure their place in the market.

Detached housing is at 40% non owner-occupied in BC, I'm sure it is worse in Vancouver metro area. [1]

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-mortgage-fraud-...

[1] https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=461000...
The hull imploded, not the window, but the shockwave probably pushed the window outward or shattered it, as it was only held strongly against moving inwards.

People make a big deal about the acrylic glass not being rated for the depth, but I think it's almost impossible that it was the window, and think it must have been the hull:

* The properties acrylic are well understood, and the strength of an acrylic disc is trivial to calculate, even if not "rated" you can easily calculate if it's strong enough
* The window should fail visually with a lot of warning before rupture
* If the window failed with the titanium end cap, there would be no reason for implosion of the carbon fiber hull

The hull on the other hand is an irregular/non-homogenous part that is impossible to model accurately. There was no way to know how strong it was without extensive testing on a number of identical hulls- which they never did. The solidworks modeling method they used to give a ~2x margin of safety was nonsense as it ignores the realities of stress cycles, defects, etc.
> there is clear link between the influx of CIA/NSA/FBI/DHS agents in private sector and an increase in turning over of sensitive data to government, at-will.

Yes, that clear link is called 'growth', there's no tabloid conspiracy required.

Social media companies employ vastly more people today than they did years ago, some of those people would have worked for the government in the past. And because of growth in user counts, and awareness of new policing methods, there's a growth in police and secret police interest in the data.

The laws on the books largely permit this sort of thing (Warranted deep searches, warrantless-geofenced-shallow searches, buying anything that's otherwise sold to third-parties), I'm not sure what other outcome one could expect.
Decoding Dark Matter and Energy: Euclid Mission Launching This Weekend
huh... WTF do you have 500 tabs open for?

I usually carry 3 sets of tabs, typically around ~10 each:

Personal info sites, like reddit and its links...

Tech Sites, like HN and its links....

Video Sites, like Nexflix / Prime...

EDIT:

Also - what tab-mgmt extensions do you use? Like Tab Grouping etc...

Also - one of the things I attempted to do, but failed to do so consistently, was to swipe to a different desktop between, work, person, and learning/browsing... instead of tab groups I had "workspaces" but that is a hard habit to build, for me, it seems.
Extracting the gold is only one part, you also need to collect the phones, ship them to the plant where the gold is extracted, probably purify it or something like this, and then ship it back out to sell it.

There is literally no way that it is worth it at $1 of gold per phone. Not even close.
I've seen what US had done to Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and many other countries.

Along with bailing out your country's ass in its hour of greatest need.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ленд-лиз

Just a couple of years after it entered into an alliance with the Wehrmacht, and did you-know-what in the Baltics and the Katyń forest and all.
Just before he passed away, my grandfather spoke with everyone he loved (and who couldn’t be there during his very final moments) from his hospital bed using a Nokia 2600 phone. A few years ago, I realised my mother kept the phone and refused to sell it as it had become the final memory of her father. Inanimate things can often serve as portals into a time that our loved ones were still with us, when we were young or just generally, some fond memory that we can never really live again and yet are loathe to part with.
Journalists regularly use social media to report on any private citizen who can be positively identified. Sometimes they even appear to have privileged access to profiles, posts, and other data. Is it any surprise that intelligence agencies would have an order of magnitude more privilege with any social media that matters?

Don't ever do anything newsworthy while you have a social media profile, unless you are an influencer, because if you are a normal private person, you don't want that kind of publicity.
I heard of someone well off being a part-time Uber driver in SF because he got to interact with interesting people...
Operating System Integrity
Automation is the only thing that will actually work in some situations now.

Semiconductor manufacturing might be like a unicorn in terms of this paper. You can't really put humans into a factory without cratering the yield at 7nm and beyond. You see full-auto rates approaching 100% in the highest-end foundries. It is likely that all of the chips in all of your devices never saw any direct human contact until they arrived at Foxconn or wherever.

Achieving this level of automation requires an unbelievable amount of capital and extra human support. The irony definitely holds in this case. The amount of trouble created by the automation is exponentially beyond what any single human could cause. These factories generate event logs at a rate of 300+ megabytes/hour. No human team on earth could break shit that quickly.
Related ongoing thread:

Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries permits - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505152 - June 2023 (232 comments)