skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're in full agreement.

I'd also add that in contexts where there are hard safety/quality/reliability requirements, having individuals or teams or project team leads responsible for a bunch of conflicting objectives and constraints often produces situations where there will be pressure to make visible short-term progress, at the expense of increasing longer-term risks of issues that are less visible and difficult to measure.

> If however I was working for Nasa on code that was running a rocket launch system, then hopefully it is stated to all programmers working on the system that reliability is priority one.

To avoid this, responsibilities should be structured so there's a different team responsible for QA whose review and approval is necessary to proceed for go / no-go decisions. The QA team responsible for the QA function should be independent from and isolated from the delivery team doing the work, and the pressures and influence of the delivery team's management chain.

In contexts where there's a lot of potential for harm, ideally the QA team shouldn't even be part of the same org (e.g. QA by an external public-sector industry regulator with the power to withhold or retract licenses to do business from companies that cannot demonstrate their products and services are safe), to make the QA team less susceptible to pressure.
You would build a pontoon bridge with that attitude - that's a floating type of a temporary bridge that gets built when it's very important to quickly be able to cross a body of water.
Plus people miss the ship is very small. The payload bay is only 4x7 ft and 225 kg. It looks like a Shuttle and people think it's another Shuttle but it's only 1/4 the size.
His gripe has to do with EDNS ECS (or lack thereof), not takedowns.
Max(A U B) >= Max(A)

Similarly the top x% of both local and international are stronger than the top x% of local candidates, even if local and international have the same distribution of talent.
The best outcome is to have minor fraud (someone tried and failed to open an account in your name, or your name+address appears in a data dump somewhere) occur because then you can register a fraud alert and credit freeze in all the agencies which stops a lot of nonsense (random junk mail, risk of actual fraudulent accounts getting established) for a year or so by enforcing extra authentication steps.

I wish I could put a permanent fraud alert on my credit accounts, but would probably have to hire a lawyer or something.
The Incredible PyTorch
Your users definitely do, but the signal is usually so attenuated that people can pretend that they're mad about something else other than code quality.
There's any number of risk scenarios, assign likelihood as you will :

* owner of account doesn't pay, service sells the debt to collection agency, and they come after you because it matches your email and profile.

* owner of account subscribes to something unsavoury or does something illicit, which is now traceable to you

* given email is a big part of the incredibly ridiculous and overly pervasive tracking economy and profiling of the interwebs, your profile will now be even more annoying then before and be associated with things you don't want them to be.

Etc. Or just, to your point, one day they'll realize their mistake and be mad at YOU (because people aren't generally good at taking responsibility :) and now it's a thing.

I should mention I have a dozen email accounts of various degrees of protectiveness. Thia happens, annoyingly, to my most private address that I have never ever once used for business or signed up for anything, only for friends and family. So among everything else I'm peeved that my pristine email and identity is being polutted by other crap.

And again... The reason this frustrates me, is this should.not.be.and.issue in any sane world. If you're sending verification email it should have a No option. Anything else is grossly neglible or evil or both.
> You can't really reduce housing demand in any way that would be good.

You can, especially locally. For instance, if you normalize remote work in society to the extent that a significant portion of people won't feel any strong need to cram into massive metropolises just to be able to get a job with which to support themselves, you'll reduce the housing demand in those metropolises somewhat and distribute that demand over the nearly endless rural areas and small towns of $YOUR_COUNTRY instead, where the supply of land on which to build on massively overshadows that of metropolises.
Nicotine has notable antipsychotic properties. I'm not aware of any longer term studies on the isolated side effects of nicotine. Longterm effects of anti-psychotics range from bad to terrible. Nicotine (if the mode of consumption is not smoking) is likely the anti-psychotic with the most beneficial side effect profile. Still I wonder whether there are significant cognitive or emotional effects of long time usage.
> The problem with old cars as the solution is that first and foremost, that's obviously not a long term solution

Tell that to Cubans.
I have only ever heard of the language referred to as Farsi in English. We call the language that Mexicans speak, Spanish, not Mexican.
Vertical is the answer. California needs to get over it's aversion to high rise apartments and invest a in flourishing downtown residential system instead of relying on a 1950's mindset of home ownership.

The current system is deliberately exclusionary and self preserving, but it will also fail the state in the long run. That, sadly, seems fine to many people.
10,000 autonomous ships to do it in 9yrs?
Farsi is solely the name of the language. Persian could describe the language or a number of other things, such as the culture, the people, etc.

Farsi and Persian are interchangable in the context of the language, and plenty of Persian Americans prefer using "Persian" to name the language rather than Farsi (this is especially common among persians who refer to themselves as "Persian," and I think a lot of it is because "Farsi" is associated with "Iranian" which has a less ideal connotation associated with it in the West today). But it's not universal, and both are pretty widely accepted.

That's my understanding. I'm not versed in the historical details though. There's probably a Persian culture professor lurking who can offer a more informed answer.
> My favourite: a band named brouillard, with a single member called brouillard, whose every single album is named brouillard, and of course, so is every single track.

I’m glad I scrolled to the bottom.
It can induce bowel movements within minutes of consumption to relieve constipation.
Co-Founder Roles in Startup
Hey folks. I am new into tech startups, I am sure my questions should be common, but I couldn't find any useful material yet. My question is how to define co-founders responsibilities equally (let's say 3 co-founder 33.3% each) so they all contribute equal value. All founders are in different fields: Tech, Marketing, Sales. (they don't know each other's field).
Because of this, our startup have been stuck.
This isn't as crazy an example as you think. People and companies who bought properties before prop tax increases were capped in 1978 are paying almost nothing in property taxes.

I live in California but not in the Bay Area in a house Zillow estimates at $1.2M. I have a neighbor in an admittedly smaller house that Zillow estimates at $740k. In 2022, they paid $482 dollars in property taxes on an assessed value of $34.5k. Whenever they sell, the new owner will pay 20x in taxes. Sites like Zillow show all of this and I can find multiple examples within a couple blocks of my house.
I'd like to see us start measuring the quality of libraries by how difficult it is to trace through them from client code.

I've worked with a few too many instances of code golf where the resulting code requires too many brain cells to comprehend. If I wanted to dedicate 5% of my attention to 50 different libraries, I'd need 3 more brains to do it, but most libraries are written that way. Some seem to think they're entitled to 10%. More.

Show me a library that's a snoozefest to figure out why I put it 5 and got out false when I expected true. That's the one I want to use.
Agree completely. In fact it often takes less time to write code properly because you won’t have accidentally introduced a regression that you need to fix before shipping.
None of that matters if you get swept away at the boarding gate of your layover flight in Hong Kong.
Well I'm saying that it does still line up in a reasonable sense, at least from the perspective of someone that would use a proportional font at all and isn't looking for a grid.

It's important to note that I'm not comparing monospace versus proportional. I'm saying that "formatting 1 with proportional font" isn't really worse than "formatting 2 with proportional font". Both of them are going to have problems from someone that really likes monospacing.
> Experiences like that, seeing human lives wasting on the pavement daily, might seem extreme and definitely foreign to people from, say, San Francisco. Still, if you know about human tragedy directly, you prefer to live somewhere that addresses that.

Not to detract from your other points, with which I agree, but do you mean 'might seem familiar to people from, say, San Francisco'?
The Wikipedia article mentions this part twice but it doesn’t seem to explain why:

> The system has the advantage of being resistant to natural disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, and to deliberate destruction in war.

Like, it’s a tunnel underground; it sure seems like an earthquake might misalign or fill it so that it becomes unusable. Or in wartime I’d dump sewage down one of the shafts to ruin the water supply…what are the protections against this?
I'll do you one further. If buy a game on Steam, I should be able to play it on PlayStation as well.

It's the exact same product - the perceived difference is a mirage. Digital media is the only product that works this way, and it's stupid.

Platforms and stores would have to, I don't know, actually compete then. Who offers the better experience? The better price? The better device? Not "You bought your shit here, so you're stuck. Sorry"

Platform holders should take a cut of anything sold on their platform, but it's because a user chose to buy it from them because they offer a better service, not because it's the only way they can use it.

My reservations about DRM aside, you can still achieve this without dropping DRM. It would have copy protection still.
The worst part of such an experience is that once you've reported a case of fraud on your credit report, if you at a later date want to open a new bank/credit/whatever account somewhere then you have to jump through ridiculous hoops, or will simply be denied outright because they won't believe that you're who you are since your PII was flagged in the past.
China is suspected to have a space plane with similar capabilities.
https://www.space.com/china-space-plane-lands-may-2023
Yup, though if the cop had any sense he’d slap that friend silly before he bought himself all the legal bills from that stunt.
Maybe naive question: if you never create an account on any of the credit bureau websites, would you be less likely to be an identity theft subject?
Although I agree with you, imho the point the parent was making was that:

a) when you are 16-18-20-22 you don't know sh*t about life - you are still a newbie. It doesn't mean that drug-trafficking is excused but when I look back at my 18yo self, I could have died 100 times between 18 and 22. And I could have 'taken some people with me' while doing so.

b) it's in the person. When given a second chance you can either turn your life around (and a Mr. Garcia will never see you again) or you can go back the very next day and maybe a Mr. Garcia will be finding your corpse in a back alley because a trade went sour.

As for Preston Thrope - hang in there. It's a long path to salvation - almost endless. As long as you keep your head up high and give the good fight, good things will (probably?) come. I've watched enough of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight shows to know that you got myriad of forces that want to see you fail so keep walking and dreaming!
> Maxwell's results follow from observations of the behavior of charged phenomena, current, magnets, & electromagnets

I mean, historically yes. But you can define the fields as purely postulates if you like. The theory actually requires very little input to derive.
doesn't it also help with trivial problems?

the goal here is to accelerate productivity, is it not?
Microsoft has a maps app?
Make it work

Make it right

Make it fast
He made an argument for why he found what you do write naive. I think it'd be better to engage with that versus saying that you'd hamstring his career because you don't like that he finds your opinion naive. People can be actually abrasive and rude and I don't think that, that one line reaches that level.

I do find your implication shocking though. Do all Apple managers feel like they should get in the way of someones career progression over a disagreement like the one stated?
I can't imagine supporting preemptive nuclear strikes, under any circumstances. Can you?
Yeah, it feels like we cargo culted too many “principles” like DRY without understanding what they actually mean. I see it all the time at my job (I review 5-10 PRs/day).
You left out

* Stopping illegal immigration and repatriating all illegal residents within the U.S.

which is highly desirable.
I'm so curious what is causing this to launch on a Falcon Heavy!

Previous launches of the X-37B have been on a Falcon 9 with an RTLS landing, and now this one is using one of the largest launchers there is.

What is it doing with all that delta-v!?
A thing people object to in that regime is the tax burden of a median family is pretty high. The California state income taxes of a median household are about zero. Under a high property tax rate, everyone owes an amount that seems significant to them.
They can port GIMP to the QML-based UI framework used by Muse 4.
Well I am from the fraud remuneration department of Brazil and know the person who pays out compensation for these crimes. Simply send me all your personal information and credit card details and I’ll make sure you get your appropriate payout.
Their comment is a completely clear and coherent reply to yours, there is no reason to think this is a mistake.
> Companies pay Experian money to access information about individuals

And your firm pays Experian/Equifax/etc. to GIVE information about you, e.g., automated employment verification.
no way Canvas and Blackboard will be obsolete in a few years. schools can't maintain all this infra system on own
The X-37B is a military vessel, and the US already has a civilian space-exploration agency in NASA, suggesting that the payload is indeed of a military nature.

It is absolutely abhorrent to see that the nation-states of planet Sol III are resuming the misguided attempts to take their petty intra-planetary conflicts into space. I feel like in one of those Star Trek episodes where one alien group is trying to get a leg up on the other by petitioning the Federation ship in orbit to help them against their quite-similar enemies.
The point isn't to puncture the wheel, it's to measure the exact failure modes. They know if they puncture the wheel, it will burst.

A drill, for example, tells you the characteristics of exactly when and how it will lose structural integrity given a partial puncture of a given diameter and depth.
Before Fukushima happened, I'd heard lots of people claim that nuclear power could be completely safe. Chernobyl was a fluke; it was because of the old model, the communist system and the unsafe experiment they did, but a modern reactor in a modern country could be perfectly safe, and Fukushima proved that a lie. People will cut corners, they will cut costs, and anything that can go wrong, will at some point go wrong.

And yes, Fukushima and Deepwater Horizon were absolutely disasters. Trying to paint them as not disasters is ridiculous. There's no winning argument for you there. And we can absolutely do worse than nature.
"De-identified data isn't. Either it's not de-identified, or it's not data anymore."

-- Cynthia Dwork, one of the invertors of Differential Privacy, Knuth Prize and Gödel Prize winner.

https://youtu.be/RWpG0ag6j9c?feature=shared&t=274
Photopea did this, and on web
The ending ruins it for me. The fun mystical journey was actually just a distraction from walled gardens ruining the web.
You could just make criminal background checks unlawful, which is the case in Ireland. There is police vetting for people who work with the vulnerable and certain key jobs, but the average person will never face vetting for a job.
We had the same problem, and in the end failed. The pronunciation of E, R and I, even though similar to my ears, turns out to be quite different to the native speakers of both languages.
These old schools in America were originally founded to train ministers for whom knowing Latin and Greek (and Hebrew) to interpret early versions of the Christian scriptures was important so they could have a clearer understanding of the original meanings of the texts. Later, Greek/latin became about secular classical writings. The secularists took over and split the schools so the ministerial teaching occurred in separate “divinity schools”/seminaries.

For some specific background on Harvard origins: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Harvard_Universit...
I resonate with this comment strongly. I have never been diagnosed, but I strongly suspect I am neurodivergent. My extreme social isolation/anxiety in my college years and twenties led me to dependency on alcohol and cannabis. I never tried hard drugs, but my life back then was just one tiny twist of fate away from me becoming an opioid addict.

I did manage to become sober, and a lot of social challenges have become more manageable now that I have a better framework for understanding my mind.
Ironically I don’t really agree with your list of things that “genuinely matter”. I would pick entirely different things.
I bought a couple of these boards a year ago but never found a use for them. Linux was still a work in progress, and as a plain microcontroller it seemed less appealing than contemporary options like an RP2040. The heterogenous cores feels like a challenge to architect correctly in a real time environment.
Son can you play me a memory
I’m not really sure how it goes
But it’s sad and it’s sweet
And I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man’s clothes”
> hundred thousand CS graduates a year in this country and yet the biggest companies claim they can’t find workers.

I think big tech happy to hire and does hire those CS graduates if they pass interview.
I'm a huge fan of A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry but Bret, please do away with the floating theme-changer button that blocks the bottom paragraph. It's particularly bad for those of us reading in landscape and nobody is changing their theme so often they need the shortcut onscreen at all times.
House prices are definitely not dropping in my city, even though housing supply is going up about 2.5% per year (urban sprawl in outer areas, plus some densification). Christchurch, New Zealand.

I think because immigration grows NZ population fast enough to absorb the new housing.
German has the sound indeed, it's just one swapped symbol (and probably an unusual character combination/sequence), that's why I feel like they ought to be able to easily. Usually it's written ü though (ironically, in IPA /ü/ sounds like the german u without umlaut!), but they tend to forget what the pronunciation was even if we speak somewhat regularly. It's just foreign to them, I can understand ^^. Got one south african colleague who does it perfectly every time, native english speaker so it surprised me a lot (they're the only one so far) but probably due to afrikaans as second language it just clicks for them.

Lyk is an interesting option I should try with germans. It makes the vowel sound a bit too 'short' but it's very close indeed. Let's see what results that gets compared to Lüc :)
the issue is collaboration on software implementation. this is extremely hard to do well, think lkml.

the typical collaborative implementation environment is a disaster. we are baking a cake, slowly over weeks and months. we aren’t sure why or who’s at fault, but we are absolutely sure it looks awful and tastes worse.

the only silver lining is that the solution to this disaster is hiring more collaborators. jobs and ubi all around.

microservices obviously didn’t quite work, but were an idea in the right direction. we need to collaborate at a higher level than code. we need to work in a bakery together, but each bake alone.

then we can easily evaluate the quality and pace of each other. there is no ambiguity of individual responsibility.

when my cake is bad, i should feel bad. i should look around the kitchen for better cakes, and ask their baker what they do that i don’t.

when my cake is bad and i don’t care, my boss should move me to less important cakes, or out of baking all together.
You've answered your own questions and kind of defeated your own point here:

> Meanwhile, somebody looking to harm the user would need to already know quite a lot about that user before they could make any use out of such a thing.

The one thing I see EFF did wrong in this article is, they picked a bad quote to start with. That line from Matt Blaze, it's almost a pure tautology. There's a better line (though I don't know who to credit with it - I picked it up on HN some time ago): there is no such thing as "anonymized data", there's only "anonymized until correlated with enough other datasets".

You say "somebody" would need to already know a lot about the user to make use of your database. But from my perspective - perspective of the user - that "somebody" could just as well be your company. Or your customer buying that data from you... and buying similar data from other companies.
Shaders on PC are still compiled, but to a bytecode format (DXBC or DXIL for DirectX, SpirV for Vulkan). The sources aren't shipped. The graphics drivers still have a step to compile this bytecode into the GPU's architecture low level shader assembly of course.
this is cool! golang definitely seems to make this simpler than c, and less error-prone too

you sure did have to import a lot of libraries, tho
Are you in contact with your family at all?
That's not really what the problem is. The actual code is fine.

The issue is that the definition of `fd_set` has a constant size [1]. If you allocate the memory yourself, the select() system call will work with as many file descriptors as you care to pass to it. You can see that both glibc [2] and the kernel [3] support arbitrarily large arrays (well, in the kernel case you'll run into other limitations... but no memory corruption).

[1] https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/misc/sys/select....

[2] https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/sysdeps/unix/sys...

[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Over on /r/spaceX everyone assumes it's going into a might higher orbit so they can eventually test re-entry with a lot more energy.

It seems the only logical answer... unless for some reason it's really heavy this time.
all that is true, but writing your own terminal emulator is the first step towards fixing it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville...
There's other kinds of Sub collisions as well