skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Wikipedia, the Concorde was agreed on in 1962 and had its first test flight in 1969. One usually counts the Baby Boom as starting in 1945. How many 17-year-olds were authorized to sign off on such expensive products in 1962? And how many 24-year-olds were aeronautical engineering leads in 1969?

I'm not so sure about the nationalism--it was a joint British and French project.
This is definitely a real edge use case!
I am not a youtuber or the media. I was seriously thinking about buying a model y late last year so borrowed a model 3 and a y from friends to test it out. I found it distracting TBH.

Not to mention the suspension issues (google "tesla whompy wheels"). After reading that junked the idea of buying it.
I take it this is a rebuttal of:

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...

They bring up Malthus w/o noting that his math was correct --- he just didn't anticipate the Haber process, nor the on-going improvements afforded by foodstuffs from the new world.

The one valid point made is that we are moving ever larger quantities of rock for ever-smaller returns --- when does that reach a point at which it no longer makes sense?
How does unity itself comply with the LGPL if it uses LGPL code?

The blog post also says all games made with Unity depend on LGPL code. How do they comply?

I'm so glad I generally don't have to think about this kind of stuff day to day.
> everyone else would reach for Python, shell or even JavaScript.

The rise of Go as a sysadmin/devops tools language has also probably hurt Perl quite a bit.
If you feel my argument is in bad faith it would be useful if you could provide evidence for OP's opinions. I personally find the comment quite uninsightful, unfounded and specially disrespectful towards those affected by this new wave of layoffs.
"CBE" refers to Commander of the most excellent order of the British Empire [0] which is a title conferred by the monarch on those deemed to have performed especially well in the service of the nation.

So you can see how its value might be diluted by this instance.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire
That's interesting. Did you come up with that yourself or is that a common standard?

I've always wondered why the style of command flags wasn't "more" standardized after 32 years of Linux being around (not that thats the first time flags were introduced, just an easy stop so I don't have to dig into that since it's not super relevant).

So, maybe it is somewhat/completely standardized and I'm just not aware of where that information is?

I think your style would still frustrate me. I'd first type "executable -help" thinking that was probably the - and -- option, and get a command not found error. I wouldn't think that think we're using - and -- differently.
Software business ha never been too polite to competition.
Why can't we apply the same standard of proof that was used to prosecute and sentence innocent people in this scandal?
Growth doesn't have to be exponential to exhaust resources when they are finite.
Electric universe theory confirmed!
You do not need a Hub if you want to use it from inside the house with no internet, it will work by itself.
They definitely are.

Beat cops definitely aren't, but most police forces in India are state level and a couple are federal, and will usually have a Task Force devoted to offensive and defensive security, and if not, will contract out to companies like Appin Security Group (who were able to force Reuters and SentinelOne to remove their report into how the private-public cyber model in India operated [0])

Also, after the 2008 Mumbai Attacks, the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs began working on coordinating and centralizing Metadata Analysis and Monitoring [1][2][3], because they unable to trace the VoIP calls used by LeT [4].

If it was actually National Security related, it would have went through a couple fusion centers that the Indian government formed [5][6]. If it was some local PD asking the platform, they probably wouldn't have the capabilities to DDOS

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-hack...

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Monitoring_System

[2] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATGRID

[3] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRDO_NETRA

[4] - https://www.wired.com/2008/12/mumbai-and-voip/

[5] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cyber_Coordination_...

[6] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Cyber_Crime_Coordinat...
Interesting, thanks! I would have thought that'd be shortened to "COBE".
Right? Capitalism at its core relies on exponential growth, since every investor wants ROI. So acknowledging that exponential growth is a problem would go against the interests of pretty much all financial players.
Just don't try to rebuild Netscape navigator please
It's pretty much what Yanis Varoufakis brings up on "Technofeudalism", Google created a digital feud with YouTube, heavily subsidised it until there was virtually no competition and now just lives by extracting rent from everyone on the platform: ads' buyers, users (we pay either Premium or with our data), content creators, etc.

YT can change the rules of the game and there's nothing anyone can do about it, they will keep extracting rent now that their platform is basically a fiefdom.

Without competition, without alternatives, we all depend on the digital land that Google took control of, just like serfs and peasants.

I miss the Open Web.
There wasn't just one bug, there were many. One of them was due to a "missing payments node", but there were many software faults, including rounding errors, data corruption, and issues with synchronization between local and central databases.

Two bugs are detailed here:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/09/how-the-post...

> One, named the “Dalmellington Bug”, after the village in Scotland where a post office operator first fell prey to it, would see the screen freeze as the user was attempting to confirm receipt of cash. Each time the user pressed “enter” on the frozen screen, it would silently update the record. In Dalmellington, that bug created a £24,000 discrepancy, which the Post Office tried to hold the post office operator responsible for.

> Another bug, called the Callendar Square bug – again named after the first branch found to have been affected by it – created duplicate transactions due to an error in the database underpinning the system: despite being clear duplicates, the post office operator was again held responsible for the errors.

There weren't just bugs, either Fujitsu had the ability of modifying or adding transactional records remotely, but always denied they had the ability to do so, as did the Post Office.
To congratulate your marriage Sam, I've gone and donated €50 to The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales for Dolphins.
Thanks, I will double check. I was basing this off of this doc https://sparkmailapp.com/help/general/email-storage-and-back... . Also using the older v2 client and not using teams or send later.

EDIT: you are correct. Looks like I know what I am doing today. Ugh I just want a local only email client that supports archive/snooze
"Such signal, much wow": Starlink's first texts via "cellphone towers in space"
A record for jet order should provide some job safety over the next few years (and possibly hiring if they increase their output instead of just adding to a longer backlog) for people working on the manufacturing side of Airbus.

But on the development side, the situation is less clear. There is no major development project anymore since A350 is in operation. And there are no signs yet of an upcoming major program based on their research activities for hydrogen-powered of more electric airliners.

So there could still be layoffs or downsizing due to hiring less engineers than the ones that go to retirement.
It's not just my preference, anyone familiar with this area of copyright law recognises copyleft as its standard name. Viral licensing is, as I said, a snarky pejorative. [0][1]

It's also less precise. Proprietary licenses can be 'viral' too. DRM libraries, for instance, may require that application source code not be made publicly available.

> At the risk of seeming pedantic

Parroting others in this way comes across as juvenile and antagonistic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft#Viral_licensing

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_license
It's basically impossible for the developing world to copy the route to replacing coal usage that the developed world has taken though, because that relies heavily on natural gas and there simply isn't enough of it being produced, and of course the wealthier developed world gets first dibs. This has likely been made worse by environmental activists campaigning against new gas production. Countries like Pakistan have had to switch away from gas and launch emergency coal power building programs because they simply cannot keep the lights on otherwise.
I can’t speak for VSC specifically (I don’t like their terminal emulator so don’t have enough experience using it) but I do know some other applications “paste” (for want a better word) commands into the script interactive shell because they purpose of the shell being open is to provide a REPL and the GUI application just provides a few useful graphical hooks to it.

Regarding the history problem, there’s likely a flag VSC can pass to Zsh to disable writing to history for that session.

Edit: looks like there are several ways:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/692913/temporarily-...
Generally, if you have work authorization in a given country, it is unlikely that country cares where you actually do the work. In fact, it is normally considered beneficial for a country to allow domestic work to happen outside of its borders in order to grease international trade.

In a vacuum it may not be surprising that EU member countries have chosen to be more protectionist. However, the EU was created specifically to allow free movement of labour. For it to explicitly deny free movement of labour is... interesting.
Also, they may want to create a habit of January layoffs, as a "stick" to go with the great-TC "carrot".
Typically, binary representations of trinary numbers use a trit that is two bits. So you have four states: -1,0,+1, and uh, something else, which is usually a guard bit of some kind or a NaN. Please, please, don't ask me why I know too much about trinary. But one worries about the representation.

It looks like this one stores trits as strings and numbers are then arrays of trit strings.
yea my bad, just required to be able to use it and respond in english when prompted in english.
no, for changing the mind of the original author of the posted article.
What are /22 and ASN?
I can't tell if you're being intentionally dense.

Lets do a different example. Lets say I go to checkout at a grocery store and I ring up a bar of soap as a bag of ice. Obviously this is wrong. Nobody is debating you can buy soap at the store but to claim it is ice is wrong.

Back to USPS. Nobody is claiming you can't send live animals. The question is what happens when you send a live animal and don't claim it.
Amazing! Have you thought of commercializing this? In the long term as prices come down there’s no reason everyone shouldn’t have this.
No, but the idea of "pursue endless growth, fuck externalities" is.
he's going to add dogecoin to x.com isn't he?
I never understood why businesses accepted this. At least with digital marketing, it is possible to track pretty much everything and connect marketing campaigns with concrete results. It's actually not impossible to gauge the impact of a brand awareness campaign if you run the campaign properly using good principles of experiment design, especially if you associate it with keywords and track those or are using search ads.
Isn’t that the general issue with plea deals? Unless you are wealthy, pleading out is often the better choice.
I imagine that in the US, the actual prosecution is handled by US Attorneys though (the DOJ), and not the Post Office
> when does that reach a point at which it no longer makes sense?

When asteroid mining is viable perhaps.
The documentary "Downfall" [0] touches on this.

[0] https://www.netflix.com/title/81272421
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Yes, this ring could be an example of structure, but what caused the structure?

One explanation is that it is not due to any new physics; it is just that randomness happened to produce that apparent structure.

So my point is, if we go looking for some new physical phenomena that could have produced the structure, then why the unwillingness to probe unknown forces that could have produced life?
That’s fine and all but this is 2024 we don’t need people to like pitch decks we need dollars exchanging hands. A higher bar of validation.
`Ln` isn't a built-in (and is syntax-highlighted as "undefined"), and searching the docs for "Ln" (or looking up the symbol with F12) gives as the first hit "Log: Log[z] gives the natural logarithm of z (logarithm to base e)". Given that in my experience mathematicians use "log" rather than "ln" (who uses base-10 logs in mathematics anyway?), is there any possible way they could have made this less surprising?
I'm enjoying this immensely. Thanks a bunch.
I must say I have no idea if this is actually true, but sure as hell it feels like exactly that's what has happened.

Twitter basically made an example that made layoffs a valid option in the heads of many people I guess.
I'd like it if there was a centralized shared secret system available from the following sources: my credit union, my local & state govt, and the fed govt. I'd like to be able to set an arbitrary K-of-N recovery with an additional S "individual" recoverers. I don't mind it being publicly available (it's encrypted!); maybe 16KB for the whole account?

This is because it'd be a way for people to establish identity: let a third party write to my shared account, and I can prove I own it by decrypting the message.

The govt aspect is to prove who I am & establish residence for things like voting, DL#s, birth certificate recovery, passports...
The blame for the kids dying lies firmly with the IDF/Israeli government. They have agency and they have made a choice to seal borders, cut off food, water and electricity, and bomb the living shit out of a captive population. Hamas have their own crimes they can answer for. I wouldn't mind if the leadership of Israel, IDF and Hamas were dragged before the ICC war crimes. Lock them all up, tbh.

Reporters Without Borders are a widely recognised and reputable organisation. Here's the direct link to the entry on Israel:

https://rsf.org/en/country/israel
It's more shocking than that. It's just one example of a culture of corruption that pervades government and government-adjacent contracting in the UK.

Fujitsu acted like thugs not just to save face, but because important shareholders would lose money if the truth came out.

Also, this kind of thing:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/fujitsu-post-office-scandal...

The PM's father in law is the head of Infosys. The PM's wife still has significant holdings in Infosys. Infosys and Fujitsu have a close partnership.

And so on. It's corrupt from top to bottom. The UK government is effectively the marketing wing of the huge public sector corporates, who invariably seem to have senior Tories and Tory donors on their boards.
In this video he speaks about piano rolls at large: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq3bUFgEcb4

The tl;dw is that piano rolls are intuitive to some degree but are inefficient at presenting information that musicians are interested in.
This was mostly on partisan lines. It took a few Democrats to pass the Senate, the usual suspects with local interests willing to throw the party over for reelection. Especially since it's going to get vetoed and not overridden.

It would definitely be better for Democrats if they could hold party discipline the way Republicans do, but they see themselves as the centrist party with a diversity of views rather than unity.
Yeah. My comment was largely optimistic, in practice people would rather just wait for service.

That being said, I did send a small patch directly by email just for the fun of it.
I think some people are saying exactly that.
My theory is that at a company that has a reputation of "disrupting the business" and being innovators, it's not easy to raise your concerns and tell everyone that maybe not all conventions are stupid, or even if they are, they are still conventions that the end users rely on for being able to interact with the car (change mirror, open the doors, change AC).

You either raise a stink about not following conventions and risk being fired immediately or sidelined forever, or you play along and the company finds out 5-10 years later that these decisions were really bad and it's not only YouTubers who hate the new designs. From a risk-reward point of view, I can see how employees decided that it's not worth it.
As a user of many Google products and an old timer who legit appreciates how Google actually made it possible to search the internet effectively, I am no longer a Google fanboy.

I used to dream about working there while knowing that I'd have to study up for several months (I have a family, full time job + I do some consulting) and still probably get rejected.

I'm not dreaming about that anymore. Google has jumped the shark.
One should rather ask why the UK still hands out orders that have 'British Empire' in their title :)
It's much easier and faster to build greenfield systems that have no historical baggage than it is to retrofit older systems that already support large customer bases and revenues for newer features.

Not just pure tech systems, but businesses and non-tech systems as well. And tech companies have gotten large with a ton of baggage and customers
> I think people should be able to live without internet, if that's what they choose. Just as people can live without a TV.

Would you pass a law to force businesses to maintain a level of service that must include people without internet? It will have to be a law I'm afraid, if left to the profit motive alone then companies will not include these people, as we are seeing happen.

Also, I wouldn't liken living without internet to being without a TV, obviously I understand why you would say that, but when it comes to living in a modern society I'd say it's more like living without pen & paper or a postal service.
1. You teach so your experience is probably very different from us SWE/SREs who only work with other technical staff for the most part.

2. You can add cursor and mouse control to your .nanorc. I'm not sure if bash, etc have that. With that said, I have cursor enabled in my .nanorc along with a bunch of other stuff. The cursor thing.. I'm kind of confused on how you use it, but I rarely use it. It's (to me) weird. I think I just havent used it enough to really know its capabilites.

I think as a teacher it'd be super helpful to you to have a base set of dotfiles that your students just git clone when they start the class. Or even better, have them write their own and just provide them the settings you want them to enable. When I bring new SREs on board, without the base dotfiles for them to grab on day 1 it takes practically a week for someone to get setup and ready to work.

Have each of them commit their dotfiles to their own repos, probably forked from yours. That will get them familiar with github. Then try to get them to actually build out a github portfolio. I spent 6 months interviewing for a few positions last year and I was really surprised how few people had githubs with anything on them. It's not my main criteria but it's nice when someone has put effort into their gh/gitlab/etc profile and projects.

Also please teach them about filesystems. Most of the younger people (20s) I interviewed knew very little linux/containerization/filesystems.. I think the filesystem thing is from them growing up with MacOS and iPhones. They don't need to dig into anything beyond their "folders" if even that.

3. Absolutely one of my CLI annoyances here. I wrote another comment explaining why it frustrates me.

Related to your last sentence- I'd say 99% of the CLI/TUI apps I write are things that give you an easy front end (TUI and simple commands/flags) to perform backend systems tasks. So I have a ton of them as an SRE. The main reason I like to put things in a TUI and not just CLI flags is that ANYONE can hop in and use it because the options are all displayed to you front and center. You just use arrows or numbers to navigate.

I do TUI *AND* command line flags because some people want to do it quick and fast, or make aliases, etc for what they're doing. THen there's the TUI which opens if you don't run a flag, the TUI is so, so helpful to people new to the apps.

This lets me democratize the various apps I've created and let anyone who isn't me use them. It's great.

Here's one example of my TUI+CLI apps. This is super old it's much prettier now.

https://i.imgur.com/dxXwRzD.gifv
Thanks for saying that!

I did write a post with a few of the things I've learned about CLI design here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/30/cli-tools-python/
I am absolutely flabbergasted. At least for American public companies, SOX compliance requirements make it impossible for something like this to ever happen without an explicit authorization in place. The rule is simple: every destructive action (think mutable) needs to have one requester and one approver.

As long as it is logged in some system, you’re golden. This is somewhat enforced through regular publicly disclosed audits. I suppose that’s what Ernst and Young did when they noted in an audit that Fujitsu has unrestricted access to modify accounts without the postmasters knowledge, and this poses risk.

What strikes me as bizarre is that no regulatory body took any action on that report. Maybe the report was private, I’m not sure - I don’t know how things work in the UK. In any case, this really takes your trust away from public institutions. You’re left to wonder, if this was possible, what else might still be possible?
That's irrelevant to the issue of copyright enforcement or handling of the copyright.

I've wanted to know what Pouley Ketchup is talking about for a long time, but we don't know, so hard to use it as evidence for much.

I have my guesses who he's talking about tho.
IP Subnet with IIRC 1024 IPs, and Autonomous System Number respectively.

ASN:s are related to BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol, which is part of how the IP network is organized.
Airbus selling point: The side doesn't fall out
Counterpoint:

1) There are population groups which are exponentially growing

2) There are ones which are declining

This is not taken into account in models. Economic growth shifts bucket 1 into bucket 2, but genetically-speaking, we favor people who want a lot of kids. The exponential growth groups will eventually overtake the exponential-decline or the plateau groups.

For a silly exploration of this phenomenon, see the movie Idiocracy.

Trigger warning: This movie is nearing 20 years old, and has a lot of things which might trigger the types of people who expect trigger warnings.
(I am really really hoping Apple Vision Pro makes this easier, and that someone gets round to keyboard-gloves so that you can type with your arms by your sides! I saw a project for this just today, called "wandering.computer", but seems very early-stage.)
https://archive.is/BTobl
Just block all ads?
Try running MetalLB on it. And use it to deploy load balancers based on BGP.

And then be disappointed at how the Internet is actually so fragile based on a lot of wrong premises and hidden stuffs.
It is interesting to note that just 5 companies dominated the order book: (1223 total)

* 500 to Indigo (India)

* 250 to Air India.

* 220 to Turkish Airlines

* 153 to EasyJet

* 100 to Avolon.