skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me the real crux of the matter is how to turn that caring into any sort of feeling of having choices.

A good start would be actually having a choice. In several markets that are effectively essential products for a lot of people to live a normal life today - including transportation - that choice no longer exists in practice because the whole industry is on board with doing this stuff.

Every time these subjects come up someone says this should make us angry and we should push our political representatives to legislate or regulate in response to these threats. And then someone else reminds us that it's 2023 and most people have slightly higher priorities like being able to afford to keep their homes and feed their kids so even if issues like privacy matter to them a great deal they will rarely swing enough votes to carry any real weight politically. Unfortunately these problems demonstrate a failure of both our commercial and economic systems and our political and democratic ones.
Yes, but sandboxing and fuzzing are insufficient. As pointed out in the article Google had been fuzzing this library and it didn't find the issue. They even tweaked the fuzzing after this issue was found to specifically target the area of the vulnerability and it apparently still didn't trigger the issue.

Google Chrome also implements sandboxing and many areas. It's not feasible everywhere. So for new code / libraries we should default to a memory-safe language.
NASA’s Webb Finds Carbon Source on Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Thanks for posting this. As a beginner, do I need to already know what "sequent-calculus-style trees" are for this to be useful?

I didn't see any broad explanation of what the tree structure means here. I can see that disjunctions split a branch into 2 branches, but I'm still pretty confused overall.
You think the effect of a toxin is a certain curve. A giant initiative to remove it is moderately successful, but the numbers in the population are not coming down as much as you expected.

Is it that the toxin is correlated with another substance that is responsible for part of the harm? Is it corruption and the cleanups have been faked, leading to underreporting of exposure without underreporting of results? Or did you underestimate the harm at lower exposures (maybe because you underestimated the exposure of some of your subjects)?

Science is hard. As is public policy.
True, but there's also the reality that maintenance costs increase over time for software projects as upstream vendors change their pricing models and codebases grow in size and complexity. I can see why a product like Kagi wants to keep their traffic tied to recurring revenue instead of selling a bunch of credits upfront.
Here's Fry & Laurie in 1995 telling the story of Rupert Murdoch's Soaraway Life:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xflqt2

Possibly NSFW
Why do your search links work, but the ones from Kagi's own "Features" page just take me to a login page?
Interesting, thanks for tip.
Unlikely. While selinux is more than 20 years old, it was merged into the mainline kernel a few years after its initial release and it would have taken a while longer for that kernel to trickle down to distros, and then sysadmins installing.
It was used in the checkout flow on our website and the marginal cost of supporting IE6 wasn’t worth a lost sale. That was many years ago, and since then I don’t think we have anyone on less than IE8 due to TLS version issues with CloudFront, but the code already supported IE6 and there aren’t many polyfills extra compared to IE10, so :shrug:
Premium economy prices have gone mad.
Another related aspect is that the VM approach can allow JITing only some of the opcodes, which makes it more feasible and maintainable.
Ah, their backend is in Crystal!
This is pretty close to how steno [https://www.openstenoproject.org/] works in practice and worth learning IMO if you are going to go this far. In fact I have a few emacs-specific chords, but not as many as you might think. The whole experience is a bit like if emacs is now your keyboard, so it happens to go great with emacs.

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I search a lot for programming topics and when I get frustrated I switch to Google and get literally the same results. I’d say it’s pretty good for web search and keeps up to date.

The downside is things like Sports and other knowledge items which shows a widget I’ve never understood in my life.
...in shutting down plants. Investment into lowering power production
People shit on California's Proposition 65, but the notices at Fry's made me aware of the lead content of solder, and the ones at Michael's highlighted the lead in Christmas decorations, lights, and fake trees/garland.

I went most of my life ignorant of all of this. But banning stuff outright seems like it would be counterproductive to either industry (banning soldering would be disruptive) or public image ("Liberals declare war on Christmas!").

(Tangential mention of McDonald's, whose warnings highlighted the acrylamide released in the potato-frying process.)
Former Apple Engineers Say It Can't Figure Out How to Make a Cellular Modem
I have an aftermarket head unit like you describe, but I wouldn't have installed it if my car didn't already have a space for it in the dash and a whole harness wired and ready to connect. I leave it off unless I need to pull up a map.

Your point about being unable to use the features of your car if you replace the factory unit makes sense, but is that type of lock-in a good thing? Again, what if your screen breaks and now you don't know what your AC is set to? What else can't you operate in your car without the screen?

The existence of a screen conditions people to expect and depend on a screen. The manufacturer increasingly requires you to use it to operate the vehicle. There may not be shops advertising flashes yet, but I expect they'll come; that or legislation that prevents anyone from tampering with them.

You could make laws to discourage people from attaching devices to their dashboards and interacting with them, but it gets murky when all the cars come from the factory with a device already in the dashboard that you have no choice but to interact with.
Outer joins are inherently risky because they make it very easy to put conditions in a place that looks correct (read: passes review) but isn't, and the results are disastrous (information leak).
I wouldn’t be surprised if that was happening.
I have no idea if the situation has changed there, but in the early 2010s when I worked for Mozilla there was an ongoing issue where Windows was the less exercised platform internally because almost everyone had a MacBook on their desk.
I really liked the suggestion from somewhere else on this topic of paying a set fee for an amount of credits to be charged against. When the balance gets low, allow them to re-up. Of course, there shouldn't be some BS type of expiration date like food products or airline miles. Pay as you go type of plans. In that way, you are paying for exactly what you use, and not just donating each month like it's a charity.
Optimizing Response Time: A Deep Dive with Lincoln Loop – Lincoln Loop
"viva" in India
Every public company, once they get to a certain size and scope, end up "financializing" some or all parts of their business to keep chasing those quarterly profits and never-ending growth. It's just a lot easier to generate magic coins from thin air to collect & store / earn interest on, than to keep building and innovating new physical products.
Here's something from gov.uk

>New poll finds 7 in 10 adults want social media firms to do more to tackle harmful content
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-poll-finds-7-in-10-ad...

Not really stats on online harm but there's a public demand which is probably what both political parties are reacting to.
> This was not enough though. We were only spending millions and the system wanted billions. So after months/years of intensive lobbying, in 2013 President Barack Obama inaugurated the Housing First model as a one size fits all solution to homelessness. Despite no evidence it would work the administration promised it would end homelessness by 2023.

So I guess, the problem really was Capitalism after all...
I replied to a sister comment to yours but it’s an old library that started off with IE6 support maybe 10 years ago and just kinda never lost it.
I am a plumber and sprinkler tech (nyc) and literally have never seen a broken pipe that could reliably be traced to water hammer damage.

Really would only be concerned if you are building fire safety systems. Now those sudden GPMs need some support.
Cars are the one thing I don't want to buy. It's not an asset. It depreciates.

I'd like to pay a reasonable monthly subscription with a small fee per mile once I go over some minimum for my tier.

Once autonomous vehicles are stable, I'm presuming I'll be able to hail a car in 5 or 10 mins via app. I guess the only question is what to do in full-on emergencies. For example, when the zombie apocalypse begins, or the aliens final attack. How do I get out of town?
That's how Google was when I was a kid
Ah I see it now. Well, I'm afraid you're running against the grain of HN tradition there. HN, since the day pg renamed it from Startup News to Hacker News, has always been for anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity—specifically "anything that good hackers would find interesting". As he wrote way back then (
https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html), "That includes a lot more than hacking and startups", and I'd say it also includes a lot more than "tech and academia". This is important.

More relevant links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
True, but a bit of a moot point if both search engines will indiscriminately route you to those websites anyways. It's not like I'm opting-out of that issue by using DuckDuckGo right now.
I get that that could work and might solve the problem entirely. What I don't get is why you'd ever have to do that every few months.
Ah, when not logged in, it defaults to light mode.

When I logged in with my Google account, it detected the system setting.
Whatever point you were making, it would benefit from being made explicitly.
Doesn't the heat you have to produce increase as you go deeper?
Edit: also would be nice is kagi transcribed videos when there are no transcripts available.

For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlmr9NzxjUA just says

"Sorry, a problem occurred while processing your request. Please try again later."
SQLite doesn't support right joins, which is a virtue in this case?

The article really ought to filter everything through SQLite, for how pervasive it is.
It's not an ad hominem. OP is saying that the person's entire job in writing such an essay is to think and make intelligent arguments about this particular area, and they have failed to do so in an obvious and silly way.

It's just like saying "embarrassing that $person is a firefighter and set their home on fire playing with matches" would not be an ad hominem.

An ad hominem would be: "embarassing that $person is a Harvard grad, making such an argument.", or "of course, we can expect such reasoning from someone writing an article for $publication"
In my view it definitely is worth engaging. In order for people to get vaccinated they need to give informed consent. In order for people to give informed consent they need to understand the risks and rewards of getting a vaccine. Arguably what I just said is my strongly held belief and inconsistent with observed evidence, but I'd still like to talk about it without calling anyone an idiot.

When it comes to training, if someone wanted to argue against my position by questioning the credentials of my scientific education perhaps they could be persuasive.

If someone was more interested in taking part in medical research/sciences and also discussions of policy relating to them I could have quite constructive conversations I expect.
People Who Don’t Like Dogs
Mostly agreed, but still ... I used to fly United/American from PHL to LHR all the time because .. well, its a hub city and I lived there and they were the best deals and had convenient departure times for the transatlantic crossing.

Then I moved to New Mexico, and found that Delta was the obvious choice for getting to London from here. And OMFG ... the difference in the product was just spectacular. Seats. Food. Movies. Uniforms. Air quality (not kidding). Probably will still use them when I do this journey.
A Yale professor offers a nuanced perspective on the unintended consequences of ESG investing on this Freakonomics episode: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/are-e-s-g-investors-actuall...
If he decides he'll need 500 million more for his personal goals he does a dividend amounting to a reduction of 568 million in Blomberg's money on hand, presto!

Huge difference there because it spent some time in his account, if you are his accountant or if you are Bank of America, but for the rest of us the distinction is largely a waste of time.
https://archive.ph/f1Mbi
Agreed; that's why I said gross
I've reflowed a GPU in an oven before, personally. with 5 little balls of aluminum foil as standoffs and monitoring the temp closely. It fixed it. I probably still have that - working - card somewhere.
Has the Commerce Dept gotten any money back?
It's surprising how many commenters point out that the post reads like a joke, but none of them seem to consider the possibility that it is, in fact, a joke. I'm pretty confident that it is. Consider this quote: "if one looks closely, the number of INI dialects actually used in the wild is not infinite". That isn't damning with faint praise, it's just damning.
Being on the wrong side of a moral issue should cause you trauma. So, enjoy.
Would you rather have cartels or prisons?
I actually started learning programming at 21. That was in the early 80s ;)

Thought it might be too late. As a magazine writer I had interviewed Chris Espinosa of Apple, their first documentation person. He started his employment at Apple when he was 14 years old.
"Cities" is quite a broad category for your claims.
Reminds me of Leslie Lamport’s „How to Write a Proof” [1]. I wonder whether there exist tools that aid in manually writing visualisable proofs?

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/lamport-how-to-write....
Right -- they are a bit closer than Webb :D
Rail certainly is preferable in Europe in many cases, but it is still very expensive. Flying is much cheaper for long routes, for example.
>We burned over 200 hours on it with nothing to show for our time.

Can you talk more about this? I'm working in this space now, but not from the "make an LLM give you the right query" perspective, but from the "make the LLM-produced query be safe" perspective[1]

1. https://docs.heimdallm.ai/en/main/blog/posts/safe-sql-execut...
Generally speaking, you should absolutely not judge a stocks performance on such a short time horizon. It's pretty much meaningless.
That being said, I would take the bet that those IPOs mark the beginning of the end of the bubble in tech / ai stocks.

I really wish more people focused just on long term holding - read about Warren Buffett etc. It's boring as hell, but it works.

Speaking of which - is there a Hacker News equivalent for Investing ?
welcome to Canada. That's how it is here. Politics is corrupt in every country. The political class is not equal before the law regardless of their claims.
What's the argument for that?

People have all sorts of reasons for wanting legalization beyond disempowering drug cartels.

Like keeping people out of prison for nonviolent crimes, building a culture of rehab over penalization, and creating legitimate drug markets instead of dangerous black markets, off the top of my head, that have nothing to do with whether cartels having other lucrative enterprises beyond drugs.
I just ditched search altogether for questions like that and use ChatGPT. Has improved my workflow so much.
IIRC the pressure at the bottom of Europa's theorized ocean in similar to at the bottom of earth's ocean. The greater depth is compensated by the lower graviation field.
The thing is, if you get status on airline, it's the only way they actually do stop treating you like cattle (mostly).

That or be rich and always fly first class.
A rapid change in CO2 concentration could be a clue that something such as life is rearranging the molecules on a planet. In fact, I think the aliens have been monitoring us with a spectrometer for a few million years, and have guessed that we're here.
I like the "Blast from the Past" unit in search results. Real sick of Google's neurotic obsession with recency as a stand-in for relevance to the point that you can tell a lot of spammy sites just fake ${CURRENT_YEAR}.
And Niger GDP is in the 20B.

I wasn't talking about density really but more expounding on the fact that given the rates, the GDP by capita should have been much, much higher back then and even today.

Regarding multi-ethnic history, one can easily find literature on the great African Empires such as Kanem-Bornu, Ouaddaï or Bagirmi for instance.

No one is blaming white men, don't make it about skin color. One can blame foreign governments when they are at fault. People really can't seem to be able to accept the faults of their leadership somehow but they are also the firsts to criticize the migratory politics. At some point, one should accept that things are not well coordinated all over.

Re. Capital to double its power grid, should have invested in infrastructure from the get-go hence the comparison to UAE countries which did the right thing. Dubai was literally the middle of the desert so I don't think that it was/is an impossible feat.

Then again, colonialism has had an impact even after these countries were officially independent, as they didn't have full-control regarding what to do with the oil discovered in the 70s for instance.
I used to prefer Dogpile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogpile
It actually felt like one of the better pre-Google engines.
Employer is an ironically sinister way of putting. Given their infamy with brutality, I can't imagine how the "employees" are treated.
Show HN: A Python package to run any code on an EC2 instance
I'm thankful for his work, but I do agree, this polyfill madness has to stop.
But you don't have to.
> I used to use NewRelic APM with Go and it required additional code to instrument.

I'm not surprised, Go's runtime is pretty limited. But for e.g. Java if you're using a well-known/"standard" framework you can just flick the switch and it'll give you a lot of good useful information - additional manual instrumentation usually helps, but the level of instrumentation without it is useful.
It looks like the like the blog post linked to by Features links to plain search page URLs, which only work for logged-in users. I used the Share feature to get a sharable link. I guess that page needs to be updated.
There's a difference between a company volunteering money/employees and a company taking over maintenance of the branch itself.

If Canonical was not willing to do the former, it implies the kernel developers were correct.
What does this mean for people who are currently working for Splunk?

Are acquisitions often followed by layoffs?

In my head, layoffs tend to happen BEFORE acquisitions.
>not picking on it specifically but I just recently saw that flatpak is written in C as well despite the fact that it was released just eight years ago.

You say "just 8 years ago" but another way of phrasing that would be "only 4 months after Rust went 1.0". And that's the first release, which means work probably started before Rust went 1.0

>Red Hat is one of the companies that also has a strange C addiction for almost anything.

This is kinda true and I wish it was different, but most of the examples people bring up are ones like the one you brought up. Rust wasn't a "safe choice" at the time they were started.

There's other factors too, like needing to support POWER and Z architectures. If you have a lot of such products written in C, and you have a GCC toolchain team in-house, that's not so difficult. If you have a lot of such products written in Rust, and your LLVM toolchain team is much smaller and the compiler itself less mature on those platforms, it's a bit more challenging. And then the whole issue of dynamic vs. static linking, where there's a ton of organizational inertia in favor of the former.

All that said I think the list of valid excuses is increasingly small nowadays.
They are a bit more than half of the total drug R&D costs, so they cost more than all the research, experimental synthesis and pre-clinical experiments combined. If you've discovered a drug which works in vitro and on animals, and want to start clinical trials, you're not even halfway done.
Those expenses are on the part of the regulator, which is funded differently. As a society, we may be paying more to say "you must do step C", but as a customer or provider of Foo, there's no change.
Exactly. I for sure would've thought this would be a "20% time" app as lockdowns became common. Wyze figured out how to allow its security cameras to be used as webcams in March 2020! https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/31/21202022/wyze-firmware-up...
what's your take on xMatters?
At last! I live in France and it is still 100LL everywhere, except for ultralights which mostly use automotive gas (mogas) or sometimes UL91.

But do they actually sell it everywhere? My experience with aviation is that change happens incredibly slowly. The simple fact that they still use that abomination that is 100LL is telling. Poisoning thousands of people for decades just because of paperwork essentially. As an amateur pilot, I understand the idea of using only tried and tested solutions, you really want things to be reliable up there, but our representatives can at least make the necessary efforts to make our already environmentally questionable hobby not needlessly poison people.
I don't like the idea of tightening search queries to credit card, however they add option to pay by crypto... That is good approach. But still I refuse to pay subscription model for product that I wouldn't use regularly.
Keen to try it. I would worry that over time, poor people wouldn’t get access as they do with ad-supported services. Maybe search credit donations could be pooled somehow, so I could do $5 for me, $2.50 for students/emerging economies.
This feels like a good time to bring up the lead-crime hypothesis (flaws and all). For those who don't know, there's a strong (if faulty) correlation between lead levels in preschool children and crime rates: https://www.vox.com/2016/1/14/17991876/crime-drop-murder-lea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis

Regardless of what you think about the hypothesis, the growth and crunch in lead levels during the last many decades is astounding and probably still has many bad effects on IQ and related factors, at least in the US
I think some of the reason for the strong reaction is Star Wars is for kids while Aliens is not. There are a lot of people who were in an age of innocence when they watched Star Wars and it gets them upset if the new movies aren't entertaining to them as adults. Even if you did watch Aliens as a kid it's a horror movie in space with a giant bug in the shadows making it a lot less relatable.
They better be in Congress, or else they're gonna be in big trouble.
Yep, I think I’m going to try Kagi. I am so, so tired and exhausted of every search result on Google being “the top X in ${this_month_of_this_year}” with a list of Amazon affiliate links. I append Reddit to the searches for products now, but notice on higher margin items you can click into Reddit user history of people giving their “opinion” and see that every post they make is about that particular product.