skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the fundamental axioms of traffic engineering is you can't have trees too close to the edge of the road, because drunk/speeding drivers might get hurt. It is not just that the neighborhoods are mature enough for trees to have grown in, it's that they predate this science.

https://highways.dot.gov/safety/rwd/provide-safe-recovery/cl...
Your parties must be fun! Unfortunately chiding strangers on the net won't help the global consumption of soda.
Tobacco also loves to collect uranium and thorium in the root. As much as I want to blame the company here, they're already selling poison. What percentage of it is their fault if the poison is even more poisonous?
This interview with one of the founders from Jeff Geerling was quite insightful, definitely check it out if you haven't already! https://youtu.be/-_aL9V0JsQQ
Mmm, it's a dead-end without a philosophical framework powerful enough to contain it.

It's like trying to decide how to build a system/business while also trying to work out what to build/what problem you're solving. At some point, to actually do anything, you have to pinch off the space of all possible problem requirements/business objective/etc.—not permanently, but long enough to start building! You certainly can't coordinate a large team to do it when the goal itself is changing. You have to draw a line around something and saying "we're doing this", and then focus on how to do it.

In ML terms: If you don't commit to a goal for a while, then every time you encounter uncertainty in whether you're accomplishing your current goal, it will "backpropagate" to increase uncertainty in the goal itself. This can easily become unmanageable. To make any progress, you need a series of forward passes (attempting to do things) and backward passes (revising your idea of what you're trying to do.) Balancing these is a skill, and is highly contingent on what you're doing, runway, etc.

Applied to debating with critical theory, this means: if you constantly cast doubt on the entire framework of modernity, you can never come up with a useful answer about any particular thing in the immediate present. Every potential harm or pain backpropagates to indict the entire system. These harms are rightly considered indictments of the system—but in the real world, unlike in a debate, you still have to act.

I haven't done debate myself, but these same problems come up in internet discourse all the time, and it seems clear that you need to some equipment to handle this tendency to make any progress. What's necessary is the ability to designate "responsibility", i.e. leadership.
I was going to say "what a weirdly US-centric" vie, but it's not even that. Most of th US population is nowhere close to that pay grade.

Silicoln Valley is living in a bubble. There are millions upon millions of talented developers out there earning a fraction of that but still enjoying a higher than cost of living wage.
If your kid is smart and you don't challenge them they'll walk through life never trying and that will hurt them in the long run.
> The Act required companies to obtain the maximum possible insurance coverage against accidents, determined to be $60 million

It’s a necessity, and extremely logical and reasonable.
What's the market size for shipwrecked people in 2023?
1c. Plenty of people are poor without life choices. The trap of being poor is real.
I disagree. Citation not needed. Common sense and critical reasoning will suffice here.
RedLock automatically releases a lock after a given timeout. The server can just release it early or refresh it also.
That's not the entire story. People deify Buffet also because he has a comparatively clean image. The grandparent comment is just mentioning the clean image has its dark spots. (For example, the quote and the implied amorality were new to me.)
What about this cop who rescues a 9 year old kidnapped child?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jzHi6Xs0Qc
and still, a hangover is the mildest effect of alcohol. impaired driving will give one a much stronger headache.
Long time ago there was a moment when the best performing stocks in my individual-stock portfolio were PM or maybe MO (cigarettes), DPS (Dr Pepper, it was later acquired), MCD, and AAPL. I joked that it makes sense, the best business is selling good-feeling, harmful crap to the gullible ;)

However, there is another side to this... Who are you (not you personally, but anyone) to decide how others should live their lives? If someone wants to drink soda, smoke and eat fast food, why wouldn't they? If selling what people want is somehow bad, then I guess restricting it should be good, so we should just take all these people we have decided are too stupid to know what's good for them, and regiment their life until we are satisfied? As much as I dislike and disagree with their choices, this line of thinking seems abhorrent to me, at most I'd argue we have some say on what they are doing if they use taxpayer-funded healthcare and such, but for me that is an argument against the latter, not the former. And in any case it has no bearing on the morality of the seller - he didn't ask or force anyone other than the buyer to deal with the 2nd order effects.

Viewed from that perspective, there's nothing wrong with selling cigarettes.
My outside sensors sometimes get contaminated from pieces of spider webs. It can be really hard to distinguish this from otherwise dirty air in a single sensor system, but when you have two you know something is wrong with one of them. A quick clean with the vacuum and both agree again.
>And salt to make you consume more

Milk literally has more sodium.
> You have explicitly said other people in your suburb should not be able to build dense housing on their property.

I have said no such thing. I have said that in a suburb, most people won't want to do that. But that doesn't mean nobody will. In every suburb I've lived in, there has been a mix of single family homes, townhomes, and apartments. Some suburbs are even evolving to the point where they have a core area that is basically urban, with almost all buildings being high rise. I have already said that such things are to be expected over time.

> if there are many people who want urban areas and not enough housing to accommodate, would you support expanding them

If the urban area is already fully built out, and it acquires the additional land legally on the open market, sure.

But much so-called "urban" area is nowhere near fully built out. For example, much of the city of San Francisco is still fairly low density, with little or no high rise and many lots still being single family homes, and is kept that way by restrictive zoning, even though there are multitudes of people clamoring to live there. Before expanding the city out into the suburbs, I would say the city should first allow more people to live in the land that is already part of the city, and adjust its zoning to make that possible.
The title of this submission is incorrect and misleading. The actual article title is "Sex-specific differences in myocardial injury incidence after COVID-19 mRNA-1273 Booster Vaccination".
>Coca Cola is one of the main plastic polluters of our oceans.

In the unlikely event that you're correct about Coca-Cola products being the main polluters, is it their responsibility to make sure customers don't litter?
On it, it’s a beautiful book.
it's more that it's like showing up to a spelling bee and giving a long monologue about how the spelling of words is arbitrary and the entire competition is meaningless. you're not wrong, but you can't expect people to appreciate your derailing the event either. if you so thoroughly reject the premise of the event, why are you even participating?
Are US Catholic schools really that religious?

I went to a Catholic school in Ireland and religion had a very minor role in day to day activities or the curriculum.

Any religious activities that did occur were entirely optional; nobody cared if you participated or not.

They're really called Catholic schools because they used to be run by people from religious orders, but they're all dead now and have been replaced by lay people.
> News don't care because news are owned by businessmen.

I think that could explain why David Petraeus is a valued commentator after the sort of espionage that sends people to jail.

I don't think it explains why journalists quote serially-lying IC agency dirs verbatim, as if they were a trustworthy source. I don't think that's corporate micromanaging. I think it's industry incompetence.

It's as if they're unable to suss out the core duty implied by their extra 1A protections - to hold the powerful accountable.

It's no better at the local level. Reporters consistently parrot LEO spokesbot claims without even doing a 15 second Google search that would disprove cop nonsense. I don't think the local desk is being strongarmed by overlords. I think they're being inept.

That said, in the case of Sinclair media - you'd be right. That local news is directly shaped thru corporate overlording. But there, corporate is dictating the story and providing the reporter scripting. That's a different animal than what I'm referring to.
physical addiction = freedom?
I've been all but shoved aside by cyclists on sidewalks. Don't try that crap with me.
The fact you lead with replacing staff instead of assisting staff with something that isn’t really unique is a massive red flag
In a way, yes, citation is needed for the claim. But citation is not needed for policy. Predicting individual's "value" to society and granting/restricting opportunity based on that is not only hell of a slippery slope, but absolutely anti-thetical to democratic civilization. It's quite literally what both the fascists and the nazis did deliberately.

Every society has both codified and unofficial deviations from the principle of "equal opportunity". For instance, insurance providers that are allowed to discriminate based on age, among other factors. But giving up on the principle explicitly is a different beast.
Over 85% of Australians have an unfavorable view of China, which is greater than the % having an unfavorable view of China in the US. Australia's partnership with the US is largely due to China.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/07/27/views-of-china...
> Let’s quantify it so it’s not ridiculous. Since getting their head start, they have ”lost” about 90% of total market share to American companies who are doing a better job. And this is before the new transfer framework that cane out this month. What is the value prop of OVH without regulatory capture?

This is a different argument to the one originally pitched though. And you cannot just assume the reason OVH hadn’t exploded like AWS did was due to EU regulation.

> But where do their freshly minted phds go? American companies

Again, I work for a European AI tech firm.

> But this clearly isn’t translating into world class tech companies, and we should ask ourselves why.

I think it is. I just think European tech firms are generally happier to grow organically. I think it’s more a case of different cultures. America is all about growth above all else. Whereas Europe is often more about user experience. European firms are often less aggressive at advertising outside of Europe too (maybe that’s a language barrier?)

I do honestly think the European tech market is healthy. It’s just different to the US market. The problem is the American school of capitalism is all about market dominance whereas European companies seem a little less obsessed with that. But that doesn’t mean Europe isn’t doing some exceedingly good work.

As a European, I value the fact that we have such a vibrant ecosystem.
The number of possible victims isn’t the limiting factor here, it’s the number of pedophiles and their ability to prey on children. A substitute teacher may teach tens of thousands of children per year, but they don’t have a position of particular trust nor are they protected by the school system.

The core complaint isn’t that the Church has more perpetrators, but rather that by protecting the perpetrators they increased the number of victims per perpetrator.
Instance A grabs the lock and makes an API call that takes 120 seconds. Instance B sees the lock but considers it expired after the lock times out at 100 seconds. Instance B falsely concludes A died, overwrites A's lock so the system doesn't dead lock waiting for A, and makes its own request. Unfortunately, A's request was still processing and B's accidentally concurrent request cause corruption.
Thx a lot, will definitely check out Kazanjy and Entrepid.
Eleventh Japanese reactor resumes operation
The style he writes with is something I frequently encountered from my more opinionated long haired gray bearded professors. In essence it acknowledges the existence of other options but dispenses with their necessity directly and in a way that makes it seem the obvious decision, as though all tech development not software written by a friend of theirs was clearly a waste of time. No, worse than a waste of time, a vampiric trick that will waste your time.

I love it for being thorough and maintaining this patient attitude of complete dismissal
The funny thing is that a lot of the “crime, drug use, and general anti-social behavior” on transit is overblown in the very minds of people who don’t take transit regularly. Sure, in the US it’s nowhere near as pleasant as it could (or should) be, but it’s really not that bad, nor as slow as people with a car imagine it is.

My realtor said I was the only person she’s worked with who has ever bought a house that doesn’t own a car — in Los Angeles, of all places.

Yet 8 years later, I still get around by a mix of Uber and trains and bus. And the funny part is, I am almost always the first to arrive because I don’t have to worry about parking, and even with 50% of my trips done via Uber to fill in gaps in the network, after gas/insurance/parking I am still spending less!

I do walk a lot too, but that’s one place I would agree LA has absolutely systemically dropped the ball on outside of the historic pockets that the city didn’t demolish. I often feel like I’m the only one who has walked on a given sidewalk in years, and wonder if I’m supposed to be walking there
Xerox PARC: Display Oriented Programmer's Assistant (1977) [video]
I think we are overcorrecting to the extremes. You don't have to be sober or crippling drunk you can have a drink once in a while and it's fine.
Walkable cities have hit a snag I never imagined: People who think that making cities walkable is a front for totalitarian control of citizens, requiring passports to travel in/out of cities or between "walkability zones", and that everyone who advocates for walkability is in on this conspiracy.

I'm starting to believe that we can't have nice things, and wonder how we ever did.
Morality is not just debatable, it's not universal. Look at how many different cultures there are - many of them have very different ideas about what's moral and what isn't. Even what gets categorized as morally judgeable is different, just like how different languages are in their concepts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality
i DO wonder if that sort of mindset is why i see (Arizona) so many 40ish year old moms with huge Escalades or Tahoes (and who are often the ones driving incompetently, distracted).
> Weird. This source[1] claims that the majority of ocean plastic pollution is from fishing equipment

You're right. One is plastic on the beaches in the US, the second is great pacific garbage patch.

> Both of these are methodologically flawed because they only sample litter that can be identified.

They don't mask that (from the first article):

"The annual audit, undertaken by 15,000 volunteers around the world, identifies the largest number of plastic products from global brands found in the highest number of countries. This year they collected 346,494 pieces of plastic waste, 63% of which was marked clearly with a consumer brand."

It's flawed and not complete, but it's data. We don't have better data yet, AFAIK.
Yes :) As someone very familiar with high school debate, this article is exclusively talking about the extracurricular variety.
Thx, will try it.
"We should institutionalize and normalize the inequities that are already present rather than working to reduce them" is a bad idea.
Well, that's one way to hedge.
Universal morality exists. It's called empathy.

Morals are being decided and dictated by those who can get most people to agree on something being moral. It's a purely man-made thing that only distracts from what everyone's born with: Actual empathy.

Morals are for people who need moral guidelines, because they lack the sense that enables them to feel what another person feels.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.
It looks to me like using empty string would not have prevented the bug in the article. If their language had maybes, they might be able to prevent this bug by having a function type signature where uri is concrete. And most langs with maybes will automatically turn external nulls into maybes.
It seems like protobufs are sort of a mixed interior / exterior model? In an organization that uses centralized protobuf schemas and generates serialization code from that, you can assume every protobuf record of that type came from a serializer that obeys some version of the schema.

Why can this guarantee a field's type but not whether it's required? Because fields have a lifecycle. They get added to the schema, used for a while, and later become obsolete and are deleted.

The maintainers of a protobuf schema can guarantee that a field number is always associated with a certain type, and that when the field is deleted, that field number is never reused. This makes (field number, type) tuples timeless. But they can't say whether a field will be needed forever, and they can't control which versions of the schema are still being used.

Effectively, "required" means "possibly required forever." As long as there is some parser out there that treats the field as required, deserialization will break if you leave out the field.

Changing a field's type is easier, because you don't really do it. You add a new field number with a new type and maybe eventually stop emitting the old field.

This suggests a strategy: fields can be required as long as they're not top-level. You can define coordinates(42) to always be (x,y) where both x and y are required. If you change it to be a 3D coordinate, then that will be coordinates(43) = (x,y,z), and you never reuse field number 42 in that schema.
It's exactly something I need to support, because the only reason I am ever diffing two tables is to check that my new and improved sql query worked as expected against a known correct table. I don't want my new code to accidentally duplicate on some silly join and then not pick up on it in automated testing.
I think that's just being wise by broadening your horizons. You've already gotten the Army's take on this matter from your training.

After a decade of both civilian and Army experience, the one thing I can say the US military teaches better than any other organization is how to lead people. It has its share of leaders that fail upwards just like anywhere else, but on average the people in upper levels got there primarily on meritocracy. Your Soldiers are a big part of that, as they can actively prop you up if you do them right or bring you down should you fail them.

My napkin theory is that any profession which has a known risk of serious injury or death requires more competent leadership abilities in order to align an organization in the direction you want or need it to go (everything I've said here probably applies for first-responders as well). The fear and stress that comes with these kinds of jobs requires a certain finesse and connection from leaders with subordinates in order to convince them to put themselves in harms way for the sake of the "mission."
Yeah but what is GPT5?
What purpose does that light serve?
But I’ve heard that birds, when flying, are mostly looking at the ground. Perhaps sound is a better way to alert them?
A battery backed solar powered unit would be ideal for installation where power is not readily available. Scheduled WiFi or the addition of LoRa would also be a benefit. Nice project.
Asp.net Blazor WASM with Code-First gRPC
And just to be clear, the swamp has no party affiliation.
>If you find the universal truth, you’ll find the universal morality

I happen to agree with this one. But there is no universal truth either. So if you combine this, you get that universal morality doesn't exist either.
We need to dramatically shorten copyrights for books. The life of an author plus 70 years is insane. It basically guarantees no modern book will ever be in the public domain.
Although I'm glad it's not reality, the imagery of a massive wind turbine whizzing around at 420 RPM is pretty amusing
The whole point I'm making is that many suburbs are zoned by law to be exclusively single family. That's a problem. Expanding that zoning doesn't mandate density, but it will allow it where it is currently banned.
GCP complies with various industry standards, regulations, and certifications that attest to its security and privacy controls. These certifications can give you added assurance that your data is being handled according to recognized standards. Here are some of the common certifications and standards you might look for:

ISO 27001: An internationally recognized standard for information security management systems (ISMS). GCP's compliance with this standard demonstrates its commitment to information security.

ISO 27017: Specific to cloud security, this certification focuses on the controls specific to cloud service providers.

ISO 27018: This standard is related to the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in public clouds.

SOC 2: GCP's SOC 2 report can provide assurance about the controls they have in place related to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

HIPAA: If you're dealing with healthcare information, you'll want to ensure that GCP is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

GDPR: For operations in Europe or with European citizens' data, compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is crucial.

FedRAMP: For U.S. government customers, GCP's Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) compliance might be essential.

PCI DSS: If you're handling credit card information, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance is crucial.

Ensure that the services you plan to use within GCP are covered by the relevant certifications for your industry or use case. These certifications are typically available on the Google Cloud website and can also be provided by Google's sales or support team if you need official documentation.
Preppers spent about 11 billion dollars last year.
In my opinion github.com/go-git/go-git is a very high-quality project. Just because it doesn't solve some super-specific use-case that you have, doesn't mean the project isn't good. It's open source, have you tried opening a pull request to solve your own issue?
Tangentially related:

I hear a lot about people talking about politics becoming ingrained in certain scientific fields, but it's hard for me to imagine this happening in certain fields. It is amusing to try to think how one might even begin to "ideologically subvert" a field like Condensed Matter Physics or Knot Theory.

Can you find anyone who would be upset about the Quantum Hall Effect or the Călugăreanu Theorem.
Just leave it for the jungle. It doesn't need saving.