skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who's got a lot of Java experience but almost no Go experience, I worry that I've been coddled with a humongous standard library for pretty much everything, from collections of every sort to handling of time, units, strings, I/O buffers, and pretty much every data structure I might need. Do you find that the Go ecosystem is rich enough that you can find whatever you require?
This is a huge loss in computer science. Everyone interested in computing, no matter if using other languages than Pascal or derivatives, should read his "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" book.
R.I.P.
> Over the last few years, we began using storage servers from Dell and, more recently, Supermicro, as they have proven to be economically and operationally viable in our environment.

Sounds like it was money.
Because I'm not interested killing both performance (connecting to database over open internet), my opex (hello cloud bills!), and violating customer trust (one of the reasons they pay me is because they do not want to trust American cloud vendors), just so I can have slightly smaller complexity.
I love these so I'm really sad to say this: What's missing is an AFR based on deployed time in increments, not total time.

For example: there should be a sliding window (or a histogram) relating to AFR after deployment for a time frame.

IE: AFR between 0-300 days, AFR between 301-600 days, AFR between 601-900 days (etc).

Otherwise we're looking at failures historically for the entire period, which might hide a spat of failures that consistently occur 3 years in, giving a relatively unfair advantage in numbers to newer drives.

That said, I really do love these and I hope they continue.
Repo author here. Sorry–maybe not the best choice of words.

By "no bundler, no build system", it kind of means "no webpack, rollup, gulp, etc".

I tend to think of TypeScript as a non-negotiable for any serious project (hopefully I don't get flamed for saying that), so using the build system that's baked into TypeScript means you don't have to rely on yet another tool to handle this.
Sure, but I'm talking specifically about incentives here. If it wasn't for the inverted incentive structure that benefits them (also from fossil fuels, but that money comes from Alberta), I'm sure they'd be more than willing to extract that resource.
Parking minimums are a nanny-state interference in free markets. It's no wonder Republicans hate them so much /s
A lot of tragedies happen in the world, but you're not going to see a black bar on HN for every one of them. It's not so much about the magnitude of the loss, but the contribution that person made to the history of computing.
> Carrying things home from the hardware store is not conducive activity with my e-bike. Large item purchases, blah blah blah. If I were to rent a car suitable each time, I could just pay the monthly car payment

Do you have on-demand car sharing in your city? Like Zipcar or similar? You could go on a heck of a lot of hardware store trips in one of these cars for the price of a car payment + parking + insurance + taxes + maintenance.
The idea why cabin crew shall check with the flight deck before evacuating is so that a single flight attended might not have the full picture and inadvertently open a door close to a fire or similar.

Which could severely reduce the time the airframe can withstand fire.

The idea is to gain some situational awareness and only open those doors clear of obvious risks. The flight deck has for example access to ATC which can give them additional outside information that the flight attendants don’t have.
Have driven through a roundabout, still dont understand the issue.
I have thumb actuated volume buttons on my steering wheel, and can use them in a turn.

I actually could see the the lever being harder.

If im going through a roundabout with my hands at 12 and 4, a shifter at 9 seems hard to actuate.

Im guessing that roundabouts in Norway are tighter than im used to, and drivers have to reset their hand position away from the button to ergonomically maintain the turn?

I couldnt see how this detail isnt obvious from the article description, especially to someone who doesnt drive.
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I just looked up photos of people pipetting by mouth. They use tubes.
These are not measures of sincerity. They are pop science at best, gut feelings based on nothing at worst.
This would be super useful with Secure Enclave support.
There are plenty of examples of companies that have stayed in business for a very long time while being focused on something other than maximizing profits, whether that be prestige, quality, treating employees and customers reasonably well, promoting particular values. In N' Out, Hobby Lobby, Costco, Ferrari, A24. Not saying they're paragons of virtue, but they have missions other than "get as rich as possible" and this hasn't driven them to extinction. Presumably, over some long enough span of time, you need to at least not lose money to stay in business, but money doesn't need to be your only objective.
So now we're playing a semantics game about what the word "hack" refers to in this context? users gained unauthorized access to 23andMe and used that access to get access to data, and 23andMe had full control of mitigating, monitoring, and preventing this type of attack. Is that better? Doesn't really change my salient point at all.

In your example the site is fully capable of preventing weak passwords or enforcing things like MFA that make this type of attack a lot less effective. It may surprise you to know that most websites already do this!
Why would someone being reminded that death is inevitable be depressing? Honest question. Death isn't a secret. Life is short, and everyone dies. I'm not saying someone needs to be happy about dying one day, but are they actually depressed?
I used to think the same thing until I started riding a motorcycle. I quickly came to the realization that the primary reason I was seeing less insects on my windshield was because of improved aerodynamics.

I am sure that there has also been a major decline in insect population as well though contributing to it.
I still wonder what the tech world would’ve been like today if Wirth had had the marketing sense to call Modula “Pascal 2”
You completely missed my point.

I'm saying that between "you're violating copyright law" and "you're violating copyright law and you supposedly agreed you a license that contractually prevented you from doing this", the second sounds like a stronger claim.
While very out of fashion these days, a black armband used to be a signal of mourning someone's death, whether the death was a "tragedy" (likely meaning unexpected, particularly violent, particularly early, or something similar) or not. The black bar is a digital imitation of that.

Niklaus Wirth contributed quite a bit to our field, and, directly or indirectly, impacted many of the people who frequent this (programming technology oriented) site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_armband
Earth atmosphere terrorism right. Just create a bunch of whizzing space junk to take out all sats.
See, I disagree with that. The computer is an arbitrary command execution machine. It does what you tell it to do. Don't tell the computer to do stupid shit and it won't. There are plenty of valid use cases where you want to use the capability of the computer without some arbitrary OS policy preventing you from doing it "because some programmers are irresponsible."
ohmuhgawd. hangs head in shame. i played with the box in the upper right. i looked at the bottom left to see the inset to locate the radiant. But my eyes glazed over at the information in the top left after reading the title anxious at getting to the glorious imagery.
I’ve done it, too. One quick thing I did to mitigate the problem going forward was write a little GUI SQL workbench tool that connected to the prod database. It wrapped every command in transactions and, as paranoid as I could make it, rolled back. It was the only thing connected to the prod database besides the applications, and the user related to it was disabled unless someone in IT got a request to temporarily unfreeze it.

If you wanted to commit, or it found an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE in the command, it would ask for a password plus a nonce emailed to you that you needed to enter. Sure, I didn’t get the full IDE support of a proper workbench, but that had the side effect of making me write/test commands elsewhere.

Actually, making it require two personal passwords like missile keys on a submarine would have been a cool idea. Anyways, we used it for about 11 years and it saved us a lot of trouble.
Leaving aside that neither groceries or medical services are free, the problem isn't that parking will now cost something. There won't be enough parking to go around and many people will be entirely priced out. People will be unable to park near the services they need and many will have no place to park/charge the cars they still require at the end of the day when they're at home.

That's not a good situation for anyone except for a very small number of people who will make more money than they have been, and small number of already wealthy people who will find lots of available parking they can easily afford now that they don't have to compete with the poors. Everyone else gets screwed and the problem of people needing cars doesn't change at all.
What is special about Costco?
any tips on how to identify what you're coping for?
Thank you for saying this, the half measures currently being implemented most places are indeed woefully inadequate. The “bike lanes” near me are just painted lanes that frequently intersect turning cars. I would LOVE to bike to work, but not if I have to fear serious injury every day.
You're very welcome! The list maintainers and uBlock Origin folks really are amazing people.
Usually, that’s a separate light. Although still a red one.

But it’s quite clearly different, also thanks to us copying the third break light that existed in the US first.
Iridium, Globalstar, and Inmarsat aren’t falling out of the sky because of this, and they don’t even fight over the same spectrum. Not to mention terrestrial cellular deployments still continue to get cheaper, now including self contained remote units with solar+battery becoming reasonably priced.

As to the blowing up LEO stuff yea, at the minimum NATO and China have that capability. China caught a bunch of ire a few years back for demonstrating their capabilities.
NIST SP 800-63B "Digital Identity Guidelines" specifically requires preventing users from setting passwords which are known to be commonly-used, expected, or compromised.
Yes, in the same way you are exposed to every other cell signal that can reach you, every television station that can reach you, every radio that can reach you, every radar used to track planes in the sky, and so on.

A receiver receives. Some receivers emit no emfs (and there used to be a satellite service that worked this way - received by satellite, transmitted over a landline phone.) They are still receiving though. There is literally no escaping the various waves that surround us constantly.

Some people are concerned about this emf exposure, but it requires absolutely ignoring the very many other sources that you are exposed to at every second of the day you aren't hiding in a Faraday cage.
When I first got to play with Turbo Pascal (3.something?), I was more impressed by the concise expression of the language in the EBNF in the manual than by Turbo Pascal itself, and it was what made me interested in parsers and compilers, and both Wirth's approach to them and the work his students undertook in his research group has been an interest of mine for well over 30 years since.
> Do you prefer drilling for oil over ethanol?

This comes off as a rhetorical question, but to me it's not obvious that burning ethanol derived from corn supported by fertilizer made from fossil fuels is less detrimental for the environment than burning fossil fuels directly. I expect there are many sets of criteria that make one or the other worse.

At least, the efficiency of ethanol vs gasoline seems to be a controversial topic, as I can find lots of studies and opinion pieces favoring each position. If anyone could help shed some light I'd appreciate it.
> You're basically saying that sites that allow you to log in with just a password, if you choose, shouldn't be allowed to exist. That seems unreasonable to me.

I'm saying sites that host information of value, such as genetic information, should not be allowed to support login with just a password. That seems reasonable to me, and a regulatory gap to be closed. If you don't want to use MFA or other secure auth systems on Reddit or Twitter, by all means, I'd agree that secure auth for low value systems might be overly burdensome to a user population. There are well worn paths if you lose MFA (remote identity proofing, mailing an OTP to known addresses, dinging a credit card $1, etc) that are all reasonable and affordable to implement.

Is your argument that the data 23andme hosts is not of value or sensitive and it should not matter if their security story is lacking ("just passwords are fine, yolo")?

EDIT: I think we fundamentally disagree on the issue.
A new way to visualize general relativity [video]
There are tons of real-world use cases.

WASM is more or more being used to extend applications with custom functions/plugins, as well as function-as-a-service services. But they usually require writing custom code, specifically for these environments.

The ability to build standard containers, use any languages and tools, run shell scripts, etc. makes WebAssembly far more accessible. Complex applications can be tested natively, and deployed effortlessly later to environments that require WebAssembly.

From a performance perspective, this is not optimal. But from a productivity perspective, this is awesome, and definitely something to have in your toolbox when all you need is get things done.
Don't forget the price of all the extra healthcare you need if you don't walk or bike anywhere.
Maybe. I love the hiking and the terminal. After long vacations, I'm excited to sit back down and code. I don't find it depressing. I think a varied life is a life well lived.

Real success is finding happiness in whatever it is you are doing at this moment.
Taycans have been beating Teslas at drag races since the very beginning.
Or they could just not track people... ;-)
That's a bold claim. Do you have any benchmarks to back it up? Even if it was as fast as OpenBLAS on your machine when you benchmarked it that doesn't mean it will be as fast on others' machines.
Free speech in the U.S. is pretty uniquely libertarian compared with most places. So depending on your politics, the answer could be “every day”. Even in the US, there are restrictions on speech.

And the U.S. wasn’t always as unrestricted. Famously, people have been imprisoned for handing out antiwar pamphlets.
> ... the closer are newly inserted items to being evicted.

That's a good thing because newly inserted items didn't prove yet that they are worth keeping.

They have less time to proove themselves but if they prove themselves they can have a long lifetime because they will remain when the hand loops back to tail.

End of cache is filled with items of proven utility. New ones are unproven. Shrinking distance between head and hand reflect accumulation of proven items which leaves less space for unproven ones. Which is good. Eventually (when the space for fresh ones ends) you want to reconsider the proven ones again and this is achieved by moving hand back from head to tail.

It might be unfair to new items comming in at the times when there are a lot of proven ones accumulated but it is a good strategy from the point of view of the whole process. Good solutions are not necessarily fair.

> If randomization of the distance is beneficial, let that be explicit!

But it's better than random. It's adaptive to how many of the items already stored were visited recently.
I am purely looking at gross salary. As that’s the only measure of interest for the company. How much of that you loose to the state, that’s your problem. /s
They should have worked with haveibeenpwnd to proactively warn their users who are detected to have been using recycled and leaked passwords.
It would be much easier to take out the current mobile carriers than a Starlink sat. The code that runs it is of terrible quality, maintained by incompetent companies with no incentive to deliver a quality service due to their oligopoly and the regulator being asleep at the wheel.

The reason nobody is doing it now is because it's a one-shot weapon. You fire it once and your target will wake up and actually do better (rather, the government will force them to on national security grounds).

However, non-disruptive attacks on mobile carriers are common. I'd wager any competent intelligence agency has a full view of worldwide SMS comms for example. Similarly, non-government bad actors also have insider access via malware or bribery.
Looks like a typo in your URL on the first line
Love this, really well designed. I like how you can combine sounds and customise volumes.
You should add a manifest.json and make it a PWA so people can add to their homescreen with a customised app icon. Ideal for an app like this i’d say.

I have it saved and will use it again.

Also… whatever way I’ve configured it, it sounds like a boards of Canada track :)
in the neat/scruffy divide, which goes beyond ai, wirth was the ultimate neat, and kay is almost the ultimate scruffy, though wall outdoes him

alan kay is equally great, but on some axes he is the opposite extreme from wirth: an apostle of flexibility, tolerance for error, and trying things to see what works instead of planning everything out perfectly. as sicp says

> Pascal is for building pyramids—imposing, breathtaking, static structures built by armies pushing heavy blocks into place. Lisp is for building organisms—imposing, breathtaking, dynamic structures built by squads fitting fluctuating myriads of simpler organisms into place.

kay is an ardent admirer of lisp, and smalltalk is even more of an organism language than lisp is
This is highly misleading. The birds that are killed by windmills aren't the same type of birds killed by feral cats. Windmills kill high-soaring endangered predator species.
Any company following the National Labor Relations Act, which the official in this story is enforcing.
It was in the official docs:

> Often, it may be advantageous to shadowban a troll or spammer rather than ban them - an actual ban simply tells them that it's time to create a new account. With a shadowban, they don't know they've been banned. [1]

They've since renamed that to a "bot ban", but the effect is the same. Anyway, all comment removals on Reddit are shadow banned by default. You can try it yourself by commenting in r/CantSayAnything [2]. Your comment will be removed, you won't receive any notification, and it will still appear to you as if it's not removed.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/wiki/library?v=acf57c...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky
The Life and Times of "The Paris Metro"
Yes, building your own shit is expensive.

Tale as old as time.

Before someone uses Google's servers as an example, I would say that strapping together consumer grade components with zip ties and no case isn't what I'd consider a 'server'; rather, a loose collection of parts.
> Have you been to neighborhoods that don't have parking mandated parking spots?

I have, I've lived in such a place. I walked to work, about half an hour each way. It was quite pleasant.
I've had four great tech jobs since I paroled ... I'm old. You want windows 3.11 for workgroups, or you want server 2019. you want *nix, you want macos, I'm into it all. kubernetes, virtualization, hell I used to run vmware GSX for companies before ESX existed. My resume is very strong, and my skills are good. and.... it isn't enough. not so far. it's going to take someone who knows from the start, somehow.

I've made companies a lot of money in my lifetime. I worked at places like exodus communications, netapp, netcom, @home. Some old names people prolly recognize. I specialize in storage, you want ceph? Ceph and I get along great. My last cluster was over 2 PB and it started out just 150TB.

It's simple in the end, I work for companies, solve their problems, make us all money. Should be simple right?
I have actually had some lovely feedback from people who have said it's helped with their tinnitus (amongst them, unexpectedly, X-Press 2 of 90s dance music fame, as well as lots of other DJs)

It's definitely going to vary from person to person so if anyone else has any suggestions of the types of noise that might help them I'm all ears. I'm also thinking of adding more controls to individual sounds so you might be able to control, for example, the exact pitch of the 'bass rumble' sound, which may help people zero in on the frequency that helps mask their tinnitus
Wirth must have adopted the quote (how could he not), but it actually goes back to a clever line by someone introducing him at a conference.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858993
I do a lot of non profit work with the formerly incarcerated. Here are some resources I hope helps you out:

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In the same spirit:
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
Coming from ZX Spectrum at home and seeing the beauty of Turbo Pascal on an IBM PC-compatible has greatly contributed to my love of programming. R.I.P., Professor Wirth.
They all happen in urban areas though, which are a small fraction of the country (< 1/10 of the uk, whereas farmland is > 7/10. ). Hence, while they might be significant for whether you see any birds in your back garden, the problems on farmland are more likely to be significant for the bird population as a whole.
> Not trying to be crude, but is someone passing away after a long, rich life of 89 years something to mourn? Isn’t that kind of the best case scenario?

It can be "kind of a best case scenario" and yet you still mourn the loss. Mourning doesn't require a tragedy.

My grandmother died in her sleep at 94, pretty healthy all things considered (still had a good head, could putter along, and was in her own home of more than 60 years), after having had a great day. Pretty much the best death she and we could have hoped for. I still wouldn't have minded having her nearby for a few more years.
If you haven't already read it, read A Man's Search for Meaning by Frankl. Even in death/concentration camps, people found meaning in their life and thus happiness.
I'm surprised that there's someone out there seeing it that way, and would be interested in hearing your reasons if you don't mind. Unless I'm hungover from a Saturday evening, Sunday is the day where I can be most creative and most free.