skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn’t match my experience. Google requires feeds to be in a specific format [1] but the feed is push from the agency. When I was intimate with the details, agencies were strongly encouraged to publish these feeds at a public url. There were all kinds of things about the format itself that might not have worked for the good folks at local.ch but access to the data is not likely to have been a problem.

[1] https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs
IMO a lot more interesting story around mr beast:

If you have a bit of patience, while very much annoying, the making off video of his squid game blood packs is really interesting from a maker perspective.

> How I Almost Ruined MrBeast Squid Game
https://youtu.be/hdt18p-VMmQ?t=133 or 7:30 if you know what a squib is

They had 3 weeks (yes) to get 500 wifi controlled bloodpacks. And went through all stages of development hell. After technical problems, regulatory problems, supply chain problems, manufacturing problems and last but not least the obvious integration problems it started a day late (+500k$ for MrBeast) because the team with the targeting software had shit latency and drained their batteries prematurely. In the end they still added cgi for a better videoflow and used thin yellow paint to not get demonetized.

Again, worth the pain of watching it. Turn down the sound a bit and stay strong. Skip forward if need be

He also had an interview later once you are through with the video.

> The TRUTH Behind Mr Beast's Squid Game Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePkjsTmi47s
Atomic habits is about exactly this. The given strategy is to identify what triggers your habit and replace the negative habit with a more healthy one. Your brain still gets the trigger reward loop so it's much easier
> I think you're muddling the concepts of tree (a snapshot) and commit somewhat. A commit is not merely a snapshot, it's a tree as well as metadata.

My intention was to approximate definitions to the bare essentials without losing too much fidelity. This criticism feels like a nitpick (apologies if that wasn't your intention) because the metadata was implied as it's well understood.

> If by commit you mean tree, then yes. One can think of B and B~ "introducing" the same changes if the diff between A and B is the same as A~ and B~.

That is the diff model. You are cautioning against treating commits as diffs during rebasing, and yet insist on using that definition to oppose my notion. My stand is a bit more consistent here. Treat commits as snapshots. But rebase and similar operations use diffs on those snapshots.

> Change A-B-C to A-C~-B~ and very often you'll find yourself "introducing" changes from B in C~

I find this claim bizzare. The change works exactly as expected when viewed as diff (3way merge) operations. The diffs introduced by C and (B -> B~) end up in commit B~ (tree snapshot + metadata and whatever else necessary - just to be pedantic).
Packetlife.net – Cheat Sheets
The point I was making was that citing a high selling price as a downside seems implausible.

Edit: pretty sure I’ve misunderstood your initial point. They were going to have to sell the power for a lot.
It wasn’t that the market price rose.
You also have to consider what happens if a 60mph belt breaks/halts while people are on it.
This sounds terrible and pointless, as well as a big privacy leak.

It is simply not possible to "turn a credit card into a debit card," since one represents money you owe and the other money you have.

The attempt to spin it this way sends the exact opposite message from "financial responsibility," which the site says it aims for.
I pretty much agree with this. The aggressive push towards optimisation everywhere in life is causing strain at the margins. I think this has always happened though, including without capitalism – it's basically the definition of growing pains. It's a natural process to some extent, and I'm not sure that corrections ever really happen, we just find new areas, new things that don't have the same limitations and grow into those.
They got push back from the "screeching" minority [1] about their needless and wanton surveillance.

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/746588/apple-discusses-screeching-...
I'd never heard of the mid-level escalators before. Apparently they're on a slope with an elevation gain of 135m over 800m, which is pretty serious for someone who's out to do some shopping: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%E2%80%93Mid-Levels_e...
here too, willpower alone is not enough. you also need good rolemodels and support (pressure?) from their side to help you.
Retro on Viberary
I see just QWERTY. Does the key layout (QWERTY vs Colmak-RH etc) impact the design of the wells at all? I would think not, holding number of keys fixed.

Also I’m very curious if these alternative key layouts are really worth the switching costs, in terms of marginal improvement in RSI ergonomics and/or terminal typing speed.
Why not just get a travel router and be done with all the “hacks”. They are so small these days they take up very little space. With mine I get connected to hotel WiFi then all my family devices just connect to it, just like they are at home. I even tunnel all hectic traffic back home though a Tailscale exit node.
Made in America! And america can't understand why people go elsewhere...
They could. The halting problem is solved (well, worked around) by adding a complete type system, which the compiler is free to implement.

But with respect to this discussion the compiler does not need to solve the halting problem. It can assume the program always halts. It makes no difference if the program actually halts or not.
Will, check it out, thx.
Because everyone thinks frame pointers are cool again and as far as I know the problem was never fixed.
Not compared to flying.
Show HN: A Tool to Play with Timezones
I created this app when I started working with people in 4 different timezones and inviting them to meetings on a suitable time is very inconvenient and time consuming.

The app is also available on Android with the same name.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.vinayjain.m...
That's a beautiful website
The idea that someone who is a good singer would also be a good dancer is a non-starter for someone applying critical thinking, in my opinion.

Do you have any other examples where you think critical thinking abilities cannot be universally applied?
Could be controversial, but I am actually against rape.
Interesting that the exposition map[0] has the Eiffel Tower labeled as "Tour de 300 Métres." I wonder when it became known as the Eiffel Tower in common parlance?

[0]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/P._Binet...
Careful if you care about downvotes: complaints about downvotes often attract more downvotes, both on the complain and the original post.

As for why the downvotes: I assume because, as per the discussions in the thread you linked to, the consensus was that those claims, particularly the CP accusations, were rather overblown, so repeating them may be being seen as pointless, adding nothing useful to the current discussion. I've not seen the images in question, links in the thread require a GitHub account to view, but they are not said to be titillating unless you are _really_ trying to be titillated.
Executives are personally liable for loss of life, regardless of the law it is morally contemptible to hide behind a corporation. Until people go to jail for manslaughter this will not change.
Who doesn't love a fundamentally disastrous system justified by a sometimes possible exception?
Original Age of Empires 2 dev talks about its usage of assembly code
You'll probably enjoy the patience or histogram diff algorithms. See https://luppeng.wordpress.com/2020/10/10/when-to-use-each-of... for more.

[diff]
algorithm = "histogram"

You can also teach git to always show e.g. function names in the diff hunk heading. For example, to always show previous Markdown heading:

~/.config/git/config

[diff "markdown"]
xfuncname = "^(#+\\s*.*)"

~/.config/git/attributes

*.md diff=markdown whitespace=-blank-at-eol
There are still so many basic things that aren't in the JS stdlib, though. A good example is Map - if you need to use a tuple of two values as a key, you're SOL because there's no way to customize key comparisons. Hopefully we'll get https://tc39.es/proposal-record-tuple/ eventually, but meanwhile languages ranging from C++ to Java to Python have had some sensible way to do this for over 20 years now.
Awesome that Sculpt is back. Now I dont have to buy all of them in advance.
Agreed, I fly long haul a lot and the A380 is the best. A350 is pretty good. 787 is fine, and 777 is crap.
NFL accounted for 93 of 100 most-watched TV broadcasts in 2023
Capitalism is not only defined by the accumulation of capital, but also by competition. The interplay between market forces, competition, innovation, and regulation in capitalism works against the formation of monopolies.

The aerospace industry is not a good example of capitalism. What we have with Boeing is basically a government sanctioned monopoly. It’s basically a weak form of nationalization, without the stigma.
See also: (tv) Tidy Viewer. A cross-platform CLI csv pretty printer.

https://github.com/alexhallam/tv
>Monopolies are broken by capitalism just as much as they're created by capitalism.

Source?
I would not call those blurry thumbnail size images as reconstructions of the original image. Sure you can figure out what pose the person was in but you won’t see any detailed content and you won’t be able to identify the person.
Moving walkways have a big power efficiency problem over a distance. While you can make a train track longer without decreasing the efficiency of the train, a moving walkway has to move that whole walkway. Can you imagine the friction on a 10 mile long moving walkway? You would need massive motors just to budge it.
The problem with this argument is that JS also has many horrible API designs. That seem to be replaced by equally horrible API designs, just with a faster churn.

Meanwhile, the horrible C++ and Python API designs at least offer the needed functionality, even if the code looks ugly.
If you are limited to fast forward merging only one of your authors can merge. The second one needs to rebase and their updated MR will go through CI again, now on top of the first author's commit that has already been merged.
How did Xerox (Parc) fail to capitalise on such a technology lead compared all other computer companies at the time is the one of greatest business mysteries of how defeat was barely snatched away from the strong grip of victory.
A similar site I really like is https://everytimezone.com/

But I like how you can configure which timezones you want to see with this one.
> Honestly it’s super depressing and makes me question if we are even a functioning democracy (inverted corporate democracy perhaps?)

By international standards, US ‘democracy’ doesn’t get rated that highly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Inde....
Russia is barely able to keep its planes in the air, and you think they're a competitor?
The thing I see missing is that it’s totally normal and even justified to not want to fly on one of these planes at this point. Regardless of whether there is some period of time on the order of years after which all the bugs will be worked out, in the meantime it makes absolutely no sense to take a gamble flying on one of these, but many, especially those within aviation, insist otherwise.
almost like business insider isn’t just for business info any more.
If we want to ask git to show us a commit, we need to type

git cat-file commit HEAD

`git show` does not "show a commit" as such, its man page is pretty clear about that:

For commits it shows the log message and textual diff.
This problem is a symptom of "move fast, break things" mentality that pervades the JS (and, more broadly, the web) ecosystem. The result is an ecosystem that is specifically optimized for moving fast and breaking things - which is a lot easier when the stable core is tiny.
Genuinely couldn’t give less of a fuck about this storm in a teacup and it’s just as annoying as the repetitive “Oh it’s Google gonna cancel” etc etc LLM level comments. At this point, humans on this site are failing the Turing test.
This is the goal of the RSE field, but it's often still quite rare :(

https://us-rse.org/
I’m not saying add more things and information. I’m saying the opposite - remove things (white space) so I can look at more than three timezones changing (which is my use case as I run a ticketing site with venues around the world).
There is no amount of defensive driving you can do that would make driving safer than flying commercial.
Please, let's keep this at a higher level than Reddit :)
If "some rando" has access to the console keyboard while the system is being booted and some service is timing out... You've got a bigger problems than the fact they can cancel the start-up of that service.
So tell me what are these political reasons preventing the US from attacking Yemen? Saudi Arabia has been waging war with Yemen rebels for years now, and the US has been helping the Saudis. What exactly is preventing the US from getting even more involved? I'll tell you what: nothing, apart from the fact that the US knows that it will be a losing battle, another Afghanistan, never ending war that would cost the US trillions and would have nothing to show for all that wasted money. And why would it be never-ending? Because just like in Afghanistan the US can't fight guerillas for shit, especially now when the Houthis have powerful allies in the region. So it's all not because of some bullshit 'purely political' reasons but for very practical ones: the US military is simply not capable of decisively winning such a conflict. And that's why they are carefully treading now
But it does mean that the kernel ABI is never stable for kernel modules. In RHEL, the ABI is frozen for point releases.
In the LA crash, the crew restored normal trim 25 times, and never thought to turn off the trim. Turning off the trim is a "memory item", meaning the pilots should not need to consult a checklist for it. The switch is right there on the center console within easy reach.

The FAA sent around an Emergency Airworthiness Directive reiterating the two step process before the EA crash:

Boeing Emergency Airworthiness Directive

"Initially, higher control forces may be needed to overcome any
stabilizer nose down trim already applied. Electric stabilizer trim can be
used to neutralize control column pitch forces before moving the STAB
TRIM CUTOUT switches to CUTOUT. Manual stabilizer trim can be
used before and after the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches are moved
to CUTOUT."

https://theaircurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/B737-MA...

They also ignored the overspeed warning horn because they were apparently operating at full throttle. This was a large contributory factor to being unable to move the trim by hand.

So, yeah, it is harsh to the crews. I've also talked with MAX pilots who were quite harsh towards them. I'm amazed that one would not be harsh towards a pilot who did not bother to read/understand/remember and EMERGENCY AIRWORTHINESS DIRECTIVE about how not to crash.

Would you get on an airplane knowing it had such a pilot? Not me.

I assign 50% responsibility to the pilots and 50% to Boeing.
There's a difference between "sheer willpower" and "wanting to change and putting in effort toward habit breaking strategies". There's quite a lot of knowledge about habit forming and breaking, and one of the key strategies is to set up measures so that you don't have to rely on willpower during the key moments when you're being tested.

People need to have the "willpower" and commitment to change themselves, that is different from expecting them to not do drugs when they're in withdrawal and holding the drugs in their hands.

This is why there are things like gambling blacklists, where gambling addicts can register themselves so that they can't relapse in a moment of weakness. They need the willpower to register themselves so that they don't have to rely on the willpower to not go into a casino when they pass by.
The joy of 'cosycore' and hunkering down
As this package clearly demonstrates, it's a broken design.
Stasis Is a Myth
I don't know anything about this topic, but it seems straightforward to me. Why would they split up a company that is protected into something that is not above the law?

It would hurt both the company and the US.
> You can believe that a standard committee of very smart people (technical and regulatory) was thinking about all these problems so saying “what about X” isn’t helpful when X is an obvious concern.

Really? Doesn't HN show on a monthly basis that no, exactly nothing directly follows from that premise? Typically the committee has completely different incentives and directions from, well, half the planet's wants?

At that stage though, mine was just a question. I was curious.

> they will be stopped once they become a known vector of identity theft

Okay. I'll agree to disagree. See US Social Security Numbers, cell phone numbers, credit card system...
thanks, I couldn’t remember where I had heard it
Er, CentOS already rolled over minor versions without user intervention.

Stream is more like Debian Testing
You’re not the only one: https://patrickcollison.com/fast
Not one of these writers filled out their EEOC correctly. I have no sympathy.
How many people died in today’s incident? None.
Microsoft scans to check the website contains malware. IMHO the security blunder is a self-implemented magic link.

> massive amounts of password protected images

Not password protected if the password is part of the URL.

> a clear violation of GDPR

Unclear to me which PII is being stored or used.
For that to be true requires a really long timeline.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/american-spie...

What to believe?
Pilots are already trained to stop runaway trim failures, and received an Emergency Airworthiness Directive explaining trivial procedure to counter MCAS failure.

Of course, the MCAS software was badly designed, and the single path failure, are squarely Boeing's fault.

Pilots must always be ready to deal with runaway stabilizer trim, on any aircraft type. It's a "memory item".
Because there is not two hundred different pundits/grifters who tries to leverage the lack of knowledge of the general public in aerospace to make themselves seem clever.

To me it's the same as people try to sell 'quantum medecine' or 'quantum meditation'. On this website, any grifting article about that would be buried fast and not up voted, right?

And critical theory, as a tool for historians, linguists and archeologists has already been more useful than string theory or the multiverse theory has been for anyone, so I guess the public is incorrect here?

Postmodernism ideas are everywhere in the general public, by the way. Because it's an adequate description of the post-80s world, from the 60s. Each time you think 'he's virtue signaling', you think like a postmodernist. Each time you think of an object as a status symbol, you are a postmodernist.
Retractions can be healthy but in this case it seems to have taken a good deal of effort from another group, which isn't the best sign about the process of the original authors or the journal.

It's true there will probably be an increase in this kind of bad article retraction before we can see a decrease, and that wouldn't necessarily indicate an increase in bad science -- similar to certain crime statistics when reporting starts to be taken seriously. But I still think the article raises quite a few ongoing concerns with the current academic system, which does have capacity pressure/incentive problems to a much greater degree than previous generations.

I do agree retractions in general should be more normalized, as there are also plenty of cases where honest non-reckless mistakes were made, and sometimes even quality work that turns out to have issues in retrospect e.g. new information invalidates a previously common assumption. But I'm not sure any of that applies to this particular paper, and regardless the original authors apparently avoided addressing any of it.
This is a popular site used by various conferences for peer review. Useful for getting expert opinion on papers. Probably too noisy for someone not involved in research.
To be fair, the 717 is a DC-9 subtype if we're being honest with ourselves. If the 717 counts as type without a hull loss, the 747-8 should count as well.
The line from the parent is:

>Smart strategy can make things easier, but there is no strategy that makes it easier to stop heroin than do to keep it.

You then say:

>Want to stop taking heroin? Stop surrounding yourself with people who take heroin. See a medical professional. Get away from wherever you get the heroin. Try to get your life in order so you have other things to look forward to.

Those things are all a complex sequence of tasks that requires a huge amount of planning, logistics, task initiation, etc etc. Not to mention money, uncertainty, fear etc. They are literally orders of magnitude more difficult for a person to do than continuing to take heroin.

It'd be like if I told you, "want to stop being hungry for breakfast in the morning? Just go change your whole life instead of eating a bagel."
To break a habit, you have to replace it with a different habit. Willpower is one of the ways to do that, but others are more successful on more people.

The reason why so many people hire a coach for physical activities, diet or even life decisions isn't so much that these are extremely specialized domains that need high expertise; it's that having someone make the decision, i.e. not relying on willpower, is often more effective and easier. It also leads to accountability: you have to show results to someone else, not just to your brain. And for most people, that's also more effective and easier than willpower.

Telling people to get over themselves and take charge is generally a well-meaning, but often misleading call to action. And after a couple of failures, the lesson they'll learn is that they're weak and ineffective and there's nothing that can be done about it, which compounds the problem instead of solving it.
Aerodynamic stability refers to the desire of an aircraft to return to straight and level flight without any control inputs.

Stability is also commonly understood as the opposite of maneuverability, as a more stable aircraft is less maneuverable.

Combat aircraft such as fighters are designed to be aerodynamically unstable so their maneuverability is unhindered. Likewise stunt planes and other aircraft whose job is to not fly straight and level.

Aircraft such as passenger and cargo airliners are designed to be aerodynamically stable because their job is to fly straight and level with good fuel economy and minimal piloting, they do not need swift and nimble maneuverability.

The safety of an aircraft has no relation to that aircraft's aerodynamic stability.
did you even read my post?

My point is the inverse. Resisting the urge to do heroin is a necessary part of every solution. Necessary but not sufficient

If your strategy is exert no willpower with respect to your cravings, it doesnt matter how much support you have or how many life changes you make.
Why do you think regulatory efforts have been undermined? Karl Marx showed us 150 years ago how a government under capitalism always tends toward domination by capitalists.
I think this is good advice (don't just try to exercise your willpower, change your surroundings), and it holds for making good habits as well. If I want to start doing daily exercise, it's not likely to work if I just wake up at six and try to will myself to do it. Make an appointment to play tennis with somebody the day before--then you're socially obligated to show up. Do it frequently enough, and pretty soon you'll know a bunch of people who also play tennis; they'll start making appointments with you to play. Is this a "habit"? Or is it just a natural outcome of the environment you've surrounded yourself with?