skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a crisis in the sense that we, the industrialized west, are blowing past all the guard rails and in the name of comfort and profit. The crisis is that somehow we can't really wrap our heads around how bad it can be.

There are quibbles about stuff like precisely what year do we kill the oceans entirely or ho much will melting the artic will really do to raise sea levels. Along the way we appear to be so busy debating the specifics that that we have missed the point That as a planet we need oceans. We are animals who eat and breathe and we can't live if we decimate the biosphere in the name of burning fossil fuels in constantly increasing numbers.
The idea of mind body duality is crazy to me, yet I see so many people kind of stuck on it.

If you take a modern computer controlled car and start changing other parts of it, such as the tires, fuel or even something like a spark plug starting to go bad, the computer in the car has to adjust itself to maintain its performance envelope. Change the system enough and the computer will no longer be able to compensate and likely throw some error codes in your direction.

And the car, compared to the human body, is a much simpler system with much more discrete and well defined parts. The mind/body integration is far more complex. The control systems to maintain homeostasis without ones organs demands killing off the rest of the body are truly something to behold.
There’s a whole bunch of frameworks that are Swift only like SwiftUI, WidgetKit, SwiftData, MusicKit, SharePlay, DeviceActivity and others and can’t be called from ObjC
Some proposed improvements to fq_codel and CAKE
Over here I have been collecting feature requests and bug reports against the fq_codel and CAKE bufferbloat-fighting queuing disciplines, and (especially) seeking input from the field on problems observed and solutions found for things like 5G, Starlink, and WiFi.
Yes, there are multiple problems here that interplay in a really bad way and that's one of them. But the input processing/validation step is the first point of contact with that particular flight plan and it should have never progressed beyond that state.

It all hinges on a whole bunch of assumptions and each and every one of those should be dealt with structurally rather than by patching things over.

Just from reading TFA I see a very long list of things that would need attention. Quick recap:

- validate all input

- ensure the system can never stall on any one record

- the system will occasionally come across malformed input which needs a process

- it won't be immediately clear whether the system or the input is at fault, which needs a process

- testing will need to take these scenarios into account

- negative tests will need to be created (such as: purposefully malformed input)

- attempts should be made to force the system into undefined states using malformed and well formed input

- a supervisor mechanism needs to be built into the system that checks overall system health

And probably many more besides. But this is what I gather from the article is what they'll need at a minimum. Typically once you start digging into what it would take to implement any of these you'll run into new things that also need fixing.

As for the last bit of your comment: I'm quite sure that those standards were in play for this particular piece of software, the question is whether or not they were properly applied and even then there are no guarantees against mistakes, they can and do happen. All that those standards manage to do is to reduce their frequency by catching the bulk of them. But some do slip through, and always will. Perfect software never is.
I don't speak German, could someone clarify this for me: did they publicly admit to that they were planning to commit crimes, or aid others in committing crimes? If they were publicly planning criminal acts I don't see much, if any, issue of physically removing them from the ability to commit the crime, but I would need more context to make a personal judgement.
"and become 30+ days late on all of their bills since you cannot pay bills from jail"

Do Americans have to authorize all their recurring payments every month again and again? I certainly never paid such bills "one by one"; I set up a regular monthly payment and it would be done automatically on the Nth day of a month.
I just finished renting an EV in Italy, and infrastructure was better than expected.

However, oil companies that should be protecting their moat and putting plugs at every freaking station, especially the rest stops and stations that have coffee bars or places where people socialize.
The physical problem is bigger than the mental problem. There is an underlying physical problem, it just isn’t understood. Because brain fog and pain are the defining symptons then emotional regulation (which is super important also ) gets overblown.

A convalescant event effectively transforms you into a really terrible athlete with shameful recovery periods.

Being physically injured like spraining an ankle is so mentally fatiguing because the brains autopilot modes get temporarily disrupted. It can’t use all its gpu bandwidth and has to switch on other processes to move about.

Proprioception is important, head stability is important, not aggravating the thoracic and cervical spine when moving is important. The stronger you are the more you can achieve without getting to the point of exertion.

There is alot of emotional management necessary for sure - your brain used to work and now it doesn’t. And it hurts to move.

There is also a lot of biochemical management needed to minimise inflammation.

But without a certain level of physical strength then emotional and biochemical management alone won’t allow you to recover.

And it takes grit (which is hard in the face of hopelessness) to get that physical strength back plus a smart diet and supplementation combined with effective emotional management.

If I didn’t have follinic acid in my recovery steps I probably wouldn’t have recovered. If someone hadn’t gifted me a decent bed I probably wouldn’t have recovered. The bed was to support the thoracic spine so I could sleep.

There is a definite physical component to recovery from cfs and this is poorly researched.
> The only thing they have managed is accelerated resentment towards pro climate activities.

I'm not so sure about that. I see a fair number of people who got woken up to how serious things are by these protests as well. Before they saw this kind of thing on the news, it didn't strike them as particularly real. It's a "sign of the times" for them.
If they could make money (or otherwise had the will to act) then this law wouldn't be needed at all.
Never had issues with the standard VBA HTTP Interfaces
>You can't be a civil, mechanical, aerospace, marine, chemical, etc. engineer through software..

Civil is the oddball in that list, because of PE certification, but the rest you absolutely can.

Having a Masters in Aerospace Engineering and having switched to software later, 95% of the work that I did over the 10 years in aerospace involved software packages. 60% of it was matlab, either data processing or analysis, and 30% of it was CAD, which is essentially programming.

Knowing what I know now, if I wanted to get into Aerospace through software, I would work on open source projects for autopilot or some aerospace analysis software, teach myself CAD, and with that portfolio I would absolutely get hired entry level into the companies I worked at, and would learn all the same stuff I learned while working, and the total level of effort to do this would be less than going to a 4 year college. And the only cost would be a decent laptop that can run CAD software.
Kids Online Safety Act Would Harm LGBTQ+ Youth
There are several methods of 2FA available that do not require a cell phone. I use KeePassXC for all of my 2FA codes, including GitHub.
> If the stations can make money, they will install as much of them as possible. Capitalism.

Of course. However, if they can make money they'd already be installing them and there would be no need for the legislation. So, perhaps, if they are allowed to charge extra to recoup the cost, or perhaps the government would give out some credit or tax reduction plan, it might work.
I would argue that trying to estimate the value of statistical engines by taking into account only GPT, text is a narrow domain. How about visuals like SD, text like GPT, and music like Audiocraft? Music is still not very advanced but it's coming. Human voice audio as well should get into the mix, for audiobooks n stuff. How about word transcripts from videos etc? I use that all the time.

If 18% of adults have used GPT at least once, that sounds accurate, but how about every other tool?
Other than Minsky, I don’t think others (who are nevertheless scientists in their respective fields) are considered to have made significant contributions to modern machine learning or AI. McCarthy’s work around this topic culminated in LISP, leading to Emacs, a text editor!

From that period, Rosenblatt’s work was instrumental to modern AI.
Orange Pi Zero 2W SBC, Faster Clocks and Eight Times the RAM
Say you want to compute all strings of length 5 that the automaton can generate. Conceptually the nicest way is to create an automaton that matches any five characters and then compute the intersection between that automaton and the regex automaton. Then you can generate all the strings in the intersection automaton. Of course, IRL, you wouldn't actually generate the intersection automaton (you can easily do this on the fly), but you get the idea.

Automata are really a lost art in modern natural language processing. We used to do things like store a large vocabulary in an deterministic acyclic minimized automaton (nice and compact, so-called dictionary automaton). And then to find, say all words within Levenshtein distance 2 of hacker, create a Levenshtein automaton for hacker and then compute (on the fly) the intersection between the Levenshtein automaton and the dictionary automaton. The language of the automaton is then all words within the intersection automaton.

I wrote a Java package a decade ago that implements some of this stuff:

https://github.com/danieldk/dictomaton
The cherry on top of this concerning totalitarian overreach is that even if the imprisoned would be found guilty of what they are accused of intending, it would not be punishable by prison, but fines only (!!). (Source: linked article)
"Most people" is seriously wrong, statistically, but it's a significant number.
True, but what of those who do not have wealthy parents?
This is a pretty good explanation [1].

Let's say you have a test that's 80% accurate in telling you that you have cancer given you have cancer. Let's say the false positive rate is 10%.

- If 100% of the population has cancer, then a positive test means you're 80% likely to have cancer. This makes sense.

- If 10% of the population has cancer, then a positive test means you're only 50% likely to have cancer because of all the false positives in the general population.

- If 1% of the population has cancer, then a positive test means you're only 7% likely to have cancer.

- If 0.1% of the population has cancer, then a positive test means you're only 0.83% likely to have cancer.

Basically, the false positives dominate the results once you start applying the test to a low-incidence population. Which is why we don't.

[1] https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-intuitive-and-short-...
No, it isn't. You have freedom from restraint, but you never have the right to a specific route at a specific time (excepting corner cases where there is only one possible route out of a place, and blocking it would be de facto imprisonment).
That’s incredible
Why forced? Tank and Rast can still install whatever they want as soon as they install enough. Tesla has nowhere near the lobbying power in Europe to turn that law into a monopoly.
Furthermore, there are already XML namespaces for flight plans. These are not, however, used by ATC - only by pilots to load new routes into their aircrafts' navigation computers.

I'm not sure whether there is an existing RDF ontology for flight plans; it would probably be of low to medium complexity considering how powerful RDF is and the kind of global-scale users it already has.
We rarely think of outright textual duplication (though there's plenty of that in Linux too - first file I checked I found multi-line segments of repeated code, though there's nothing wrong with that when it leads to simpler code).

The more insidious duplication is the one that looks reasonable because it involves e.g. different filesystems, or other capabilities where it technically provides additional features, but practically doesn't. Clearing that out from an established project is near impossible because often there is someone out there who cares even though it'd make little practical difference to them.

E.g. the ext2fs driver is still in Linux. "Technically" it offers extra functionality: You can use ext2fs without booting an old kernel in a vm. In practical terms, for a system starting from scratch, on the other hand, it offers no meaningful increase in capabilities.

A not insignificant portion of Linux code is code like that which is there because someone cared at one point, and there's a legacy, and there's little real benefit to do more than not build a given driver by default.

The core, non-driver parts of Linux itself is "cleaner" in that respect, but that too carries along legacy where it becomes a philosophical question whether removing a given thing strips functionality or not (e.g. the system might be able to do the same thing, but not in the exact same way)
See: January 6th. There are still many people in jail who haven't been to trial.
> Germans don't have car payments usually.

There's a lot of leasing.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/8/17/23310771/why-some-spend-ye...

Pretrial detention can often happen for years, it's one of the issues that makes guilty pleas so insidious. Even if you are innocent, wanting to get your day in court can require you to spend months in jail, so a guilty plea can actually be the more economical outcome.
What is LSO/LG ?
The first post is exactly what people see and feel. It is the enshittification of GitHub and needs no lengthy explanations [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1700908879486345622?s=20
Library has every book ever published. – Tom Scott
Free Learning from CISA.gov
Ironicly everything you’ve listed here is an example of companies expressing their rights to control their data. You don’t own music or movies, they aren’t your data.

Data rights are for data about you and your behavior. If you retained copyright over all the data you produce by existing, you would be on the same level as companies today
>It gives no details about why whatever the new feature is bad, or what was good about the prior behavior.

Isn't that the job of the PMs at Github and not the users saying they don't like the new experience?
I'm opposed to gas station chargers because, at least in Canada, gas stations aren't designed for people to just park their cars for however long it takes for their vehicle to charge (longer than filling a gas tank, as I understand it).

I think about the gas stations nearby here, and there's no room on their small footprint for two cars to park for any length of time without everything getting much more difficult for everyone else trying to use the station. If they could remove half the pumps it would free up space to park several cars to charge, but that also seems impractical and overreaching.

I'd love to just eliminate gas stations entirely and replace them with charging stations and a nice little park to sit and eat lunch in, but when you have these cramped situations on these tiny footprints, it just doesn't seem like it's the most optimal place to charge.
You downplay the risk, but don't really address it head on. There is data out there about you and your family. Recall the tendency of human beings to arbitrarily discriminate or even perpetrate genocide. Hopefully, there will never be a legal framework requiring Google nor Meta (nor any of the literally thousands of data tracking companies) to hand over this data to powerful organizations who intend harm to you or your descendents, but if it came to that, hopefully Google, Meta and every one of the thousands of data tracking companies do the right thing and withhold data that could identify you as a suspect political minority and predict your movements.

Maybe there's something more mundane and relatively benign. Employment or benefits withheld because of your tendency to procrastinate and watch 80s action films. Your grand niece is canceled because you held views considered problematic by her generation.

Your only argument against this seems to be that it's unlikely. Perhaps, but that's argument from personal incredulity, not an argument that it won't happen. I would love for you to walk me through a rock solid argument that it cannot possibly happen.

Or, you know, we could establish a legal framework and social convention now whereby you can demand data about you and your dependents be collected only with your informed consent and deleted at will, just to not have to ever need to cross that bridge.
Neither, "preventative detention" means this is not a response to any specific action.
> except for in the rural highway case where gas stations might be all that's easy to find when you're driving between urban areas.

Range is the one thing that is preventing me from looking at EVs at the moment. I own a car but I don't actually drive much in the city since I work from home and use grocery delivery services since I hate grocery shopping. When I tend to drive most it's because I'm going a long distance: 8 to 10 hour road trips up north etc. The idea of adding hours to such a trip, or turning it into an overnight trip, makes it a non-starter for me.

I bring this up because the article specifically talks about about gas stations along the Autobahn. I've never been to Germany, let alone driven on the Autobahn, so maybe it is used quite frequently for shorter trips. But speaking of freeways in general, especially here in North America, I wonder if this is another reason that looking to gas stations along a freeway is a misguided "target." If people are using EVs on freeways, wouldn't they be more inclined to exit the freeway into a city and charge at a motel or a shopping centre while they stop overnight or at least a few hours?
But I didn't buy the OS. It was force installed while I slept after I failed a dark pattern check due to fatigue.
They really don’t care. Source: every airline app ever, every Cordova or most RN apps

As long as they tie into bringing Apple money- it’s fair game
What actually triggered my idea was a recent DNaaS HN post [1] that tells you your expected life expectancy and other cool facts based on your country and birthdate which I was reluctant to input my actual birthday.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37324733&
I remember watching the filming of an episode at the Steveston docks while having dinner at a nearby restaurant.

Can't find the episode name but it was a rainy rainy night (what else). I think the set was the interior of a small fishing boat.

X-Files filming happened all over Vancouver for years. People didn't pay excessive amount of attention to the actors and guest stars when they were at hotels, restaurants etc. Unlike some cities.
It seems that GP has deleted their comment before anyone else could reply.

I'll report it here, verbatim, as i still have it open in another tab:

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Are you talking about US citizens?

I'm unaware of that in any recent decades, and I assume you're talking about recent history.

More complicated cases take longer to prepare for trial, but can you point to a single example of a US citizen jailed for political purposes where their trial has clearly been delayed for political reasons?

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and here is what i wanted to reply:

> I'm unaware of that in any recent decades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuAAPsiD768 - " The secret US prisons you've never heard of before | Will Potter"
Paywalled paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0878-9

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05218

Figure 2 pp. 14 of the preprint shows much more plausible error bounds on the curve fit. That press release "best fit" curve is merely an artist's conception.
The only possible motivation for these dirty corporate pigs to make these foods UNNATURALLY TASTY is, at the least, morally fraught, and, more likely, such an act of villainy as to clearly implicate them as disgusting subhuman monsters.
/s
+1 for nanoid, which matches what I used to implement myself as a lib function in new projects
Very nice to see. Maybe one day we can have a specific recycling section for old grounds in convenience stores for this purpose.
Out of curiosity, why do you think "tens of millions" of people believe that?
In this case every member of the panel is a contributor to the Federalist Society, which is knee deep in dark money with the explicit political goal of reshaping the judiciary in its image. I'm fine with right-leaning decisions, but these judges just should not be involved in something so explicitly political. It taints everything they do.
There were multiple issues, One of them was that they hired aggressive ad sales people who would blackmail businesses into paying for ads in return for removing bad reviews. Yelp claims to have fixed this but the stench lingers.
And it's often the best tool for the job
Visual Basic (both of them) still exist, but their use has dropped dramatically through some big changes:

* "Visual .NET" (aka "Visual Fred" http://catb.org/jargon/html/V/Visual-Fred.html ) was released by Microsoft. This was an incompatible language confusingly also called Visual Basic. I don't think Microsoft realized how angry this made developers and businesses, who were being asked to spend hundreds of billions of dollars (USD) to rewrite code just to keep the same functionality. Before that time, many thought that Visual Basic's wide use gave it a kind of "herd immunity". I don't have numbers with me, but I remember that years later that a study found that some were sticking to the original Visual Basic (even though it was no longer supported), a few had moved to Visual .NET, and many other had abandoned Visual Basic entirely (some to C#, others beyond). In short, the Visual Basic community was split into multiple communities, and anyone using Visual Basic would have to worry about either lack of support or yet another harmful change.

* The rise of the web and of platforms other than Windows (including Android, iOS, MacOS, Linux). Visual Basic is fine when you send files via sneakernet to another Windows user. Now people want to access through their web browser, smartphone, etc. If you have a website, anything can access it (as long as they have the permissions), and you don't have to worry about synchronizing data changes the way you do if people make changes on their local device. Most of the simple "fill in a form" kinds of applications that Visual Basic was used for are more sensibly web applications (server side or client side).

Visual Basic is still used. And yes, I think there could be better tools for developing software. But as best as I recall, that's how we ended up here.
I used to use it often before the covid. Then after the covid, the restaurants hiked the price by a lot. I went out to eat a few times, and each time, the bill made me want to cook for myself.
I'm sure the infrastructure will evolve over time but it currently seems like a good stop-gap. Makes dual use of current infrastructure in a transitionary period. EV adoption is still quite low. But I won't be surprised if when it increases we see the infrastructure change a lot. Like movie theaters offering deals for EV parking or far more charging stations at malls and big stores like wallmart and costco. But what to do on interstate seems like the interesting one. Do we see more casinos pop up? What entertainment or time expending industries will pop up to fill the time for people stopped in the middle of nowhere.