skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you please describe a kind of engagement with Asian culture or products that you will not dismiss as orientalism? I fear that everything will fit neatly into Asian hate or orientalism in your taxonomy.

Americans love Asian cars. Tons of Hondas, Toyotas, Hyundais, Kias, etc. Also while some weeby anime fans may be orientalist, not all are, and love for Gangnam style was genuine. It was a great song and people loved it for that, not because traded on Asian stereotypes. The American geopolitical strategy in the Pacific rests heavily on a very deep trust of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, among other partners.
i AM LITERALLY IN TEARS

I finally know what my grandfather was doing.

He was repenting for his role. My other grandfather worked on the Enola Gay...

FUCK - I have a nuclear curse on my family. I am serious - this is a wow to me, as this curse eluded me for all my life
It's almost as if Mother Earth doesn't respect these lines we've drawn on her to keep things separate. Doesn't she know the ones on that side of the line are to be punished, and the ones on my side of the line are to be rewarded? How could she!‽?
I go back and forth on this. Sometimes I'll go backpacking without any stove and without building a fire, and that's nice. Usually I bring a stove and use it just for cooking, rarely do we have a fire outside of established campgrounds/areas. When it is windy and dry I think a fire is an unnecessary risk but seeing the fire warning high sign all summer can wear out one's caution to the point where red flag conditions seem like more of the same. I don't think fire bans are a problem when the weather determines the need. Unfortunately the conditions may exist longer than we'd like each summer/fall.

Recently there were some cases of National Forests closing sections due to excessive heat, that I have more of a problem with. Even though I think the argument was to keep SAR safe by keeping people from needing rescue due to the heat.

Last weekend I was backpacking in the Cascades and saw wisps of smoke just off the road a bit before the trailhead. There was a fire that had just been put out but was built on roots and duff which were smouldering. We watched the smoldering spread between checking and going back to the car for water. In the end we used all out water, got water from other cars driving by, and dug about 2 feet down to put it out. Got cut from hot broken jaeger bottles too. There were plenty of fire ban signs on any route to that point. Some people just don't care.
What makes the west different is that it historically should have been burning, and yet those burns were artificially prevented for a century. In the east, the forests were mostly cut down for agriculture, and have only returned in recent decades because agriculture shifted to the midwest. So while the east will have wildfires, I don't think they'll have the bonus severity of western wildfires because there hasn't been a century of buildup.
My first experience with Debian was though its package format, when I was fed up with constant frustrations from RPM as a way to deliver software to an operations team. (I had spent too many hours searching for format and behavior docs, only to find a couple of outdated text files full of ambiguities and omissions.) Given that Red Hat was widely considered the premier distro for businesses at the time, I didn't have high hopes for something better. Boy, was I in for a pleasant surprise.

Debian's documentation was precise, comprehensive, and easy to find. It was clear from reading it that its authors were dedicated to creating a maintainable, sustainable system, even in the face of weird edge cases and failures. It went so far as to include versioned documentation and policy releases, with each one including clearly worded explanations of what changed since the previous version and (often) how to update existing packaging. Talk about exceeding expectations. This was better than any commercial software docs I had seen in ages.

What a relief. The day or two I spent putting together my first Debian package was more than worth it in the long run. I migrated my servers as soon as I could, and it has served me well ever since. Nowadays, it's running my desktop/gaming systems, too.

Thanks for the excellent work, Debian contributors. I feel fortunate to have found you.
He says, implying that this is the only thing stopping that from happening.

Is SLS even certified to carry people into space yet?
Not my bears... Not my zoo...
Is there actually a reason we cannot have two jet bridges? I have a bias for jet bridges because they generally seem to lead straight to the gate whereas at airports that use stairs it seems like I typically have to get on some bus (FRA, KEF, LAX) first or walk very far (PDX, SEATEC), since stairs are only at the furthest out gates.
More likely is that it was very overvalued before this, and now it's closer to a reasonable valuation given the deteriorating trends. It's still trading at something like 18+ times revenue. For Paypal, this stat is more like 2.3x, (although Paypal's EBITDA margin is a bit less than half of Adyen's, and clearly Paypal is more mature at this point). Still, even adjusting for that, Adyen remains very dramatically more expensive.
It's been a holy grail for a long time to use the same language on the front end and the back end.

Netscape came out with a web server in the 1990s where you could write a <script> tag and do a document.write() on the front end or on the back end.

One obvious case is form validation: people like to do validation on the front end but they need to do validation on the back end. If you are using the same language on the front end and back end you can use the same validation code.

You will hear very different stories from different people. Everywhere I've worked since 2007 or so that had a working interactive web site has been using a Java or .NET based server. I think this is not just me being a Java programmer because one of these places hired me to do Python. It's very possible to use a Node.JS server, the folks I hang with think this is "not ready for prime time", other people will tell you they use Node.JS servers all the time.

Back when I was working on an ASP.NET system our front end was written in Silverlight which also uses .NET so you can share some of the C# code you write for the back end with the front end. Similarly there are frameworks like GWT which compile Java to Javascript, or tools like Clojurescript that would let you share code with a Clojure back end or let you compile Rust to WASM.

I think despite all that most people are still using a different front end and back end language.

Today there is a lot of interest in React-like frameworks that can do rendering either on the front end or the back end and that might be the most popular this idea has ever gotten.
I found that they were a lot of subjects I’d learned a lot about without directly engaging in the thing itself.

Learning about a programming language, vs actually building stuff in it. Learning the grammatical patterns of a language without speaking it etc.

There’s lots of videos, books and apps which first and foremost want you to be engaged moreso than actually teach you how to do the thing. This sort of context can be really useful, but ultimately one claim the book makes is that the best way to learn is to get as close to doing the thing you want to learn how to do as possible.
The Military Industrial Complex has entered the chat...
Safeway lost a ton of money getting tangled up with Theranos 10 years ago, and the following year was bought by Cerberus (then owner of Albertsons).

http://www.wsj.com/articles/safeway-theranos-split-after-350...

Albertsons (including Safeway) was IPO’d in Jun 2020, and now is set to be bought by Kroger.
Soldering is best done with nitrite gloves anyway, so you don't get corrosive finger oils on everything.
Used to, as of when? The good old days of the 1990s? I think it goes back a lot further than that.

For a much more thorough look at how our modern financial systems produce what naive thinkers would consider to be bizarre results, I highly recommend Mariana Mazzucato's "The Value of Everything." It's a challenging read, but it goes into the details of how economic and political thought has shifted over the centuries regarding the concept of wealth and value creation, and how the game really works.
Then I doubt you would approve as a novel game mechanic anything that Nintendo attempts to patent within that claim. An exemplary new mechanic recent decade game is Baba Is You. It isn't obvious. If it was, someone would come up with Baba Is You pretty soon after Sokoban was made 40 years ago.
Twitter hasn't change for me in years, I just follow some accounts and read their posts. I'm not interested in what any social media app thinks I will like, I don't have time to waste on that, so I don't use their "discovery" algorithms, it would be like random blogs showing up in my RSS feeds.
You can see that with so called "Big Data" tools. Those which originated as databases (Mongo), ended up adding "Map-reduce" feature. Those which started as map-reduce tools evolved to support SQL (Hadoop->Spark). Those which started as SQL engines (Spark) added support for streaming, while those who started as steaming platforms (Kafka) added SQL support (KSQLDB). Traditional DB engines evolve to allow document data (Postgres with JSON column type). One more decade until one-tool-to-rule-them-all emerges :)
I think the 64oz assumes you will get more from food and other beverages besides "water" and is probably plenty for an average person with an average level of activity.
Sounds like its teaching valuable life skills to me.
Ask HN: Feel like I'm atrophying from consulting work, how to keep improving?
I've been unemployed for the better part of five months now. Even with (4yrs SWE 1yrs TPM) 5yrs of exp I've been having a really hard time solidifying offers.

I've had three TPM interviews where I've made it to the final round but I've been passed up each time for someone with more product experience.

I've been consulting about 15-20hrs a week for a friend's startup which fortunately has traction and that's been keeping the lights on as I've avoided dipping into savings but I feel like my abilities / stamina are severely atrophying from stress / being embarrassed about not being able to secure a job similar to my prior position (around $140k in my late 20s which is beyond embarrassing).

I'm considering just going back to SWE full-time curious if anyone has dealt with this kind of a situation emotionally or physically. Tracking my time has helped, but I'm afraid I'm just becoming less motivated / able to do work.

Thanks all.
Ask HN: How do you discover new websites?
Over time, my go-to websites (i.e. StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit) have either shifted focus, faded away, or seen a decline in quality. I'm curious – what tools or approaches do you employ to unearth fresh and diverse (non-technical) content?
I accidentally built a kind-of compiler last year.

It started as a few sed commands to merge TeX+code -> TeX for a book project. I ran these sed commands from a makefile. Life was easy.

But then there were complications, and I needed to make slightly more sophisticated substitutions. So the sed commands moved into an awk script, run by the makefile. This was better than maintaining a handful of little commands that were growing on a weekly basis. Life was good.

The transformations I needed kept growing a bunch of little variations, and the awk script became hard to maintain, so I rewrote it in go, with proper parsing and output. (And even unit tests, after the 2nd time I broke some output.) Designing it as almost-a-proper-compiler was 10x better than maintaining an ad hoc script. Life was great, even with the overhead of maintaining a separate processing tool.
Private equity already owns 79% of Suse.
I think one advantage to bouncing around/being self taught (as I have most typically been too) is it lets you draw connections between seemingly unconnected things!

I think this is something lost in the act of being too focussed on learning one thing at a time!
> Is SLS even certified to carry people into space yet?

It better be because Artemis-II will have people aboard Orion.
I climbed Snake Dike[0] a while back, this is the climb up the long gradual face. Relatively easy climb that is a lot of fun and something that doesn't require a huge amount of experience (although I recommend hiring a guide or doing it with experienced people).

The hard part was the hike there, climbing down the cables and the hike back, about 12 hours round trip back to the valley, and we were almost running for some of it.

The day we did it, someone fell off the over crowded cables and died, we were already off the mountain and could hear the screams.

[0] https://www.mountainproject.com/route/105836362/snake-dike
You have to factor the government into your predictions. If the Fed will never allow a massive crash then don't predict one.
Has this guy ever been on any actual planes? His "Status Quo" model is completely unlike any of the planes I've ever been on.

It's easy to improve over a fake strawman
Great read. Another helpful cue I give myself is "The opt-in". Always give your partner the chance to opt-in to the conversation.

Opt-ins can be subtle or explicit relative to the heaviness. Opt-in can be a simple pause allowing the other person to volley back. A chance to follow up with questions, contribute, or change the subject heh. TONS of people don't do this. myself included. Take a beat.

For hard conversations, explicitly ask them if they are are ok talking about X, or if they have time: "hey I wanted to talk about the fight last night, do you have time now?"
YouTube Ads May Have Led to Online Tracking of Children, Research Says
It's refreshing to see that the website has a bunch of tiny CSS stylesheets in the source rather than a bundled mess that is frontend these days. There are also a bunch of JS scripts at the bottom. It's been so long since I've seen modern sites have those. (Seems like they used Drupal as per the generator name.)
4 is the only example of a factual claim. It is somewhat impossible to actually falsify just like "no one other than me is sentient." 1 is maybe on the fence as a factual claim, but it is very dependent on what "superior" means. 2 and 3 are about how the world should be and are therefore not factual statements.
Tor exit nodes are self-identifying. There’s a DNS-based reverse-IP API you can use to ask if an IP address is a Tor exit node.
> A CO2 canister output pressure changes with temperature and volume

Temperature yes, volume, not really. The CO2 is in liquid state, maintaining its vapour pressure. Although if the starting volume is low, then the liquid could substantially cool down during the extraction and lower the vapour pressure that way.

All of this is irrelevant though, as the pressure is regulated down to espresso extraction levels during the extraction. It looks like it's done by hand by eyeballing the pressure gauge, pretty wild.

Also not much CO2 enters into a hot liquid, CO2 solubility is drastically down at this temp, as the article notes.
>Why do you control the fans when the motherboard has a built in temperature sensor that will control them for you?

To turn them off when they turn on when they shouldnt. I thought that was obv.

EDIT : -- but the moboo SHOULD NOT BE GETTING FUCKING SMOKING HOT when browsing FN YOUTUBE (again::: THE SAME FN HARDWARE)
Not sure if it needs to be a tube. Maybe the seats could be on a rail that slides into the airplane. Having to move the nose and tail of the plane up for this also brings us closer to my dream of flushing the entire airplane with Clorox between flights.
There are times and places where people have looked at things like classic cars, bottles of wine, or paintings as an investment and it has worked as such.

The thing is that a Picasso or a '64 Chevy Impala are worth something, an ugly ape isn't.
Indeed, and state governments are possibly more averse to controlled burns precisely because they're more worried about the political repurcussions in the event that one gets out of control.
Yes, because generally speaking if you are not in Education, Employment, or Training, you are spinning your wheels.
Humans got rid of plenty of elephants. "Both" is likely the answer in all of these extinction events.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7548514

> One million years ago, elephants and their cousins roamed the five major continents of the earth. Then humans came along. Today elephants can be found only in portions of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

> The two most argued hypotheses for their decline are climatic changes and over-hunting by humans. A recent archaeological expedition dug up information that may support the latter.

> Exploring 41 sites ranging from 1.8 million to 10,000 years old, Todd Surovell of the University of Wyoming found that interactions between humans and elephants matched up with successive waves of human population expansion. As the human populations in those sites continued to grow, the number of elephants shrank and, in some sites, disappeared.
> Even if the approach I describe is broken because groups board together, it becomes at worst a random boarding order which is still much more efficient than the current nonsense.

I think it can quickly become worse than random.

Imagine you have the perfect sequence for max parallelism, but right in the middle is one 6 person family group who are going to take 10 minutes to get seated while they arrange toys and stuff for each child, blocking the aisle the whole time.

With the perfect sequence, this halts all boarding for those 10 mins, since people need to pass the blockage for the scheme to work. Whereas with random boarding, there will actually be many people who manage to get seated during those 10 mins, because there will be a bunch of people who, by chance, are seated between the door and the blockage and can get to their seats.
The Pac-Man Complete bit is tongue-in-cheek. It's an observation that TC is rarely (if ever) actually needed in practice.

(This might sound strange to people unfamiliar with dependently typed langs, but infinite streams etc., servers that "loop forever" doing request-repsonse can still be modeled without TC.)
This is good advice. :)

I'm not sure how much it helps when the low trust is one sided.
Are there reporting requirements that separate actual revenue, my term for revenue from private parties, and revenue from government grants and contracts? What is the percentage of SpaceX's "revenue" that comes from government grants and contracts?
Exactly. The driving force is there but what is also good is that the industry - for the most part at least - realizes that safety is what keeps them in business. So not only is there a structure of oversight and enforcement, there is also an strongly internalized culture of safety created over decades to build on. An engineer that would propose something obviously unsafe would not get to finish their proposal, let alone implement it.

In 'regular' software circles you can find the marketing department with full access to raw data and front end if you're unlucky.
Plagiarism is already a copyright violation so I’m not sure what your point is, and what you’re alluding to is literally what the post is about…
Don't know about LinkedIn, but aren't the roots of Facebook traced back to scraping pictures of women off of Harvard's website?
- TCP / TLS tunnels

- Custom domain

I would say these two are absolute must haves and I wouldn't use ngrok if they didn't have it. The use case is: I want to test OAuth / 3rd party integrations that require HTTPS and webhooks.

One feature I would love to have is to assign fixed subdomain to each team member effortlessly so they wouldn't need to update 3rd party configurations when they start developing (you can do this with ngrok but it takes time to set it up for each team member). Not sure how exactly this should be solved.
I think you have a very strange definition of censorship. Generally, people use "censorship" to refer to an organization with some kind of power relationship to a speaker preventing speech from being disseminated. Fediblock is not an organization, and the admins who use it do so specifically because they don't have power over the person speaking.

It's the equivalent of sending an e-mail to my neighborhood listserv saying "the guy who lives down the street is a bit of a dick, let's not invite him to the chili cook-off next time."
Work hours was more like 9-5 but I got breakfast at the cafeteria in the morning, and went to the gym after work
And computers are just lots of really fast logic gates.

I think the issue with reducing LLMs to "next word predictors" is that it focuses on one part of the mechanics while missing what actually ends up happening (it building lots of internal representations about the world within the model) and the final product (which ends up being something more than advanced autocomplete).

Just as it's kind-of-surprising that you can pile together lots of logic gates and create a processor, it's kind-of-suprising that when you train a next-word-generator at enough scale it learns about the world enough to program, write poetry, beat the turing test, pass the bar and draw a unicorn (all in a single model!).
>> This seems like just a hunch of yours that does not seem to be reflected by the real world.

What safety-critical systems are written in Rust?

Where can I buy a validated Rust toolchain for safety-critical work?

Ferrocene is an effort to build a safety-critical Rust, but it is not done yet:

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/ferrocene-update/
Lot of posts in this thread are being un-fairly 'flagged'.

50% of the replies on this thread are jokes about vampires, or past 'controversies', jokes about the rich, etc...etc...

It is all jokes.

Some are flagged, some are not. It seems arbitrary. Is there a way to challenge this?
Microsoft AI suggests food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot in Canada
No, the logic for the optimization is:

- a correct program does not access table[4]

- therefore the loop must always exit early

- the only way to exit early is to return true
> Or maybe, a few millions is like only a thousand hours of flying in jet fuel costs alone, not a big deal...

Pretty much tbh. For example, the development of the Saab JAS 39 Gripen (JAS-projektet) is the most expensive industrial project in modern Swedish history at a cost of 120+ billion SEK (11+ billion USD).

It was also almost cancelled after a very public crash in central Stockholm at the 1993 Stockholm Water Festival [1]. A crash that should not have happened because the flight should not have been approved in the first place, because they weren't yet confident that they'd completely solved the Pilot-Induced Oscillation (PIO) related issues that wrecked the first prototype 4 years prior (with the same test pilot) [2].

It was basically a miracle that no one was killed or seriously hurt in the Stockholm crash, had the plane hit the nearby bridge or any of the other densely crowded areas then it would've been a very different story.

[1] https://youtu.be/mkgShfxTzmo?t=122

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6yVU_yYtEc
I call this survivorship bias. No matter what you make, only few care enough. Find this few is hardest part. Because there are millions others doing the same damn thing.

Everyone has a kick for the survivorship bias. At the end it is just that.

How about other who made similar apps? How about all those aspiring game devs who actually put games, web developers who launched products or even some guys who made something apple would want?

The OP managed to get lucky.
I read GP as speaking about ChatGPTs successors. Unless you privelege human consciousness beyond reason, we should be talking about AI rights.