skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price tag is easily $2-3B, it doesn’t make financial sense. I’d bet a significant amount of money it never gets built because nobody will finance it. It’s likely a portfolio design piece for the architect and developer, paid for with someone else’s money (OKC most likely).
The California man who has prevented over 100 murders with his website
To Join or Not Join a Startup? – Notes from the Battlefield
Expert Q&A: space based solar power
Pretty much. This is the way Cerebrus does it: https://web.archive.org/web/20230812020202/https://www.youtu...
>I think it's more that it's declarative that makes it simple

..it's no more or less declarative than other configuration languages?

And yes, I get that it looks simpler. I just think that it applies as long as your file can fit in about half a page. As it grows and becomes deeply nested, IMO, that simplicity disappears.
Okay this is too on-the-nose in terms of metaphor
I don't think I follow - which club are you not getting into, retirement or home ownership? Because if you don't have a home, then you aren't the one paying if the value decreases.
In your example, I’d opt for supernatural over unnatural, and I get your meaning.
The new Match<IN, COND_OUT> is one of my favorite parts of this proposal. It really makes patterns feel like a first-class citizen rather than just a weird amalgamation of a method. Now, it feels like almost anything that we can do with a method, we can do the inverse of with a pattern. Especially the pattern lambdas and pattern references!

What place do getters have in this new world of pattern-matching? The doc points out how methods in general still have value (functions that are not really inverse-able), but getters specifically? It kind of seems like there isn't really any more value in them. How do other languages who have had PM for longer use their getters? Or does PM just not overtake getters there like it looks like it will here?

Maybe getters can be seen as just another unconditional pattern, where it always matches. But in that case, it seems like a PM gives you all the capabilities of getters with a little more safety and flexibility. So in that case, again, why have normal getters? I won't go back and undo all my old code, but I'm starting to think I won't need to write any new getters ever again. (Unless I'm touching legacy code)
Planned cities always seem to get obsessed with far more "green space" than is needed, huge, useless plazas, and very-wide streets, which create miserable, too-spread-out spaces that never stop feeling sterile and wrong. There may be some exceptions, but that's the usual outcome.
Yea, he casually added that term as if people wouldn't notice it. High earning, attractive, middle aged men are often targets for sexual harassment by women but it is not taken seriously at all.
This is the most in-depth analysis of Marsaglia's mental PRNG I've seen.

A question, though. The author writes:

> So what other numbers work? ... if n is a good multiplier, then the period of the orbit starting from 1 should be 10n − 2.

> (2 3 6 11 15 18 23 27 38 39 42 50 51 62 66 71)

> The last interesting number is 18. It has a respectable period of 178 and has every possible digit transition. The downside is that you have to learn the 18 times-table. This isn’t too bad: I internalized it with maybe 10 minutes of practice.

Why is 18 the "last" interesting number? The largest number on the list, 71, has a period of 708 (10n − 2). Given that he is willing to memorize the first 10 multiples of a 2-digit number, why didn't he choose 71 over 18, which has a period of only 178?

The 2-digit transitions for 71 are pretty evenly distributed:

7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
7 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
7 7 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
7 7 7 8 7 7 7 7 7 7
7 7 7 7 8 7 7 7 7 7
7 7 7 7 7 8 7 7 7 7
7 7 7 7 7 7 8 7 7 7
7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 7 7
7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 7
7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
You have a loosely coupled bundle of modules that you need to glue together with some configuration language. So you decide to use X. Now you have two problems.
Indeed, but courts in France have the habit of always firing warning shots. Non-compliance can trigger another court decision with forceful consequences.

So far GDPR has only yielded symbolic amounts. But the legislative cap is at profit-destroying levels.
Metals were very resource and labour intensive to make in those days, I don't think there was much making these for laughs and giggles. That also would would not explain why they are only found in the colder parts of the roman empire.
But then someone put a traffic cone on it.
By that logic, you can disable IPv4 and still access the site via IPv6.

IPv4 is useless.

Also, running dual-stacked servers I can confirm, all scans come via IPv4, so not only it is useless, it’s actually less secure to use it.
Google wants your passwords too.
They won't take the building itself down, but let's just say that whoever owns the local glass shop is going to be a happy camper.
Nobody is proposing to deploy services as IPv6-only today in 2024.

Deploy it dual-stack so that people on IPv6 can reach it natively, and people on IPv4 can reach it natively. More and more people have their IPv4 connections going though CGNAT or NAT64 which can be a bottleneck, so IPv6 is faster and more efficient when available.

45% of people online have working IPv6 today (according to statistics from Google). This number has been continually growing.
No, just "continue reading in the app".

Edit: I do see the button on other articles that are served "on MSN.com". I dunno.
Employers and workers are at odds over work-life balance – here's who is winning
As it has been since 2011, and yet here we are.
> ... and what was your answer?

The correct one, that 30% is less than 1/3.
This is a common mistake until the first incident. Even AWS did it. Static files in their status page were hosted on S3 and when they had a fat-finger issue, their status page went down as well.
It's hard to build a lot of new housing in a labor shortage.
TOML wasn't even invented/specified when git came in to being.
Wayne Gretzky's post-retirement career in semiconductor engineering may not have been expected, but seems to be going well.
We've got photos from the surface of Venus: https://www.planetary.org/articles/every-picture-from-venus-...

It's visibly not covered in moss, fungus, grasses, algae, slime.

On Earth we talk about hot hydrothermal vents underwater: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/survival-at-hydrothermal-vent... - this says "the Pompeii worm [...] is one of the most heat-resistant multicellular animals on the planet, able to withstand temperature spikes of over 80°C. 'Most animals can't cope with anything over 40°C. Very close to the hot fluid, there are typically only microorganisms. These can survive in temperatures up to around 120°C,' explains Maggie."

The surface of Venus averages 462°C.

Okay we won't know for sure unless we collect samples, but we do know any life would have to be heat resistant beyond anything we know of - beyond what our metal space probes could tolerate - and invisible to the naked camera even in 'teeming' quantities, and leaving no trace of waste gasses in the atmosphere which we can detect remotely.

[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvkMwv9EYQQ - Venera: The Incredible Probe that the Soviets Sent to Venus ]
I can't find it at the moment, but in the last year or so there was a really informative "why aren't developers building more affordable housing" article on (I believe) NPR.

There were lots of factors, but basically it comes down to the fact that it's significantly more profitable for builders to build bigger, more expensive houses than smaller, more affordable houses.

AKA, a builder will make much more profit on a single $750K house, than building 3x $250k houses.

So I'm sure the reason houses are getting bigger is some combination of consumers wanting bigger houses, and bigger houses being what's available.
> We're going to have to have a cultural shift towards housing as shelter, not investment.

I've been saying this for years.

Real estate investing is an absolute cancer on society. It is utterly unreal to me that people think their house should go up in value over time higher than the rate of inflation without doing any improvements.

But it's not even just that, but people and corporations buying up houses for the sole purpose of renting them out, which merely furthers wealth inequality. The owners are financial vampires, taking advantage of the fact that a bank will tell someone "We don't think you can afford a $2,000/month mortgage" when their current rent is $2,500/month.

I think what upsets me the most isn't the widening inequality, but that so many of these landlords have a savior complex, thinking they're doing a huge service. No, you took a home off the market for the sole purpose of enriching yourself. The demand for rental properties pushes house prices up, locking more people out of home ownership.

We need severe disincentives for purchasing single family homes for the purpose of renting them out.

I'm sure someone is going to accuse me of being a sour renter, but nope. I've owned my house since 2015. In 2019, I could have bought a second house to rent out, but I chose not to because it's incredibly immoral.
As someone who once rode a unicycle (also in the North East of England), I can say that I received almost exactly the same responses listed here.
DAMAGE CONTROL means protect the stock price, not the passengers.

Contrast "CEO says: Every plane is being completely inspected, every nut and bolt and nothing is more important to United than passenger safety and confidence."
Minting Is the Native Business Model for Web3 (and Maybe AI Too)
Yeah definitely just actual assault, contact or injury are not required to make it assault[1]. If you actually make harmful contact it's _also_ battery (hence 'assault and battery').

[1]https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/assault
What I do is use zsh as my default shell and use oh-my-zsh, but keep a very simple config for my ~/.bashrc, something like:

[ -f ~/.fzf.bash ] && source ~/.fzf.bash

source /Users/wyclif/.config/broot/launcher/bash/br

This gives me the best of both worlds.
Or stole it for the gold and copper...
Recently I've been using more and more the web versions of Microsoft apps. This made me think that I'll be able to switch back to Linux soon, as now almost everything can be done in the browser.
Authoritarianism is commonly discussed as the foundation of each, without which neither can exist. i.e. they are each offshoots stemming from authoritarianism, and cannot exist without it.
No open source project can do it without third party support, the NDAs/etc required for getting access to the SDKs to build against those platforms prohibits it.
Huh. I'm always vaguely inclined to think that the A320 is more pleasant to be in, but the only Boeing planes I've been in in the last decade were Ryanair and United flights, both notably terrible airlines, so I'd assumed this was mostly just a bad-airline thing. I didn't realise the seat widths were actually different!
The Firefox deb in the repos redirected and did a snap install or some weirdness at least at some point.
Evolution is "directed" towards the exploitation of free energy, inevitably producing increasingly complex niche methods of obtaining and dissipating energy.
When I was young in the days of yore, “middle class” was something like “median household income”, maybe a bit more but not double, which got you a 30-year fixed in a part of town that was safe but not swanky, and was easily had by a worker with a college education or trade, or a hard worker, great saver, without.

“Upper middle class” was your doctors and lawyers, but the typical kind (the 100-week partner guy was fucking “RICH”). They had nice houses in desirable parts of town.

“Lower middle class” were workers without differentiated skills or educated folks with really bad money habits / some other issue like that. With my folks it was some college but dropped out to start a family (have me), got in tax trouble young. Lower middle class almost always rented forever.

“Poor” was like, no skills or flat lazy, or conspicuous drug problem, or something like that. They rented in bad parts of town. But rented.

That’s context or color, not numbers. But we were “the poor relations” relative to the spiffy college graduates or the folks with two incomes, and had IRS trouble, and rented in unglamorous but perfectly nice places.

Sounds crazy now.
That's a very long article that beats around the bush whilst simultaneously confirming that he violated the various institutes' policies, which is why he was fired. There is no alternative story presented there other than some background details.

These policies exist and require a zero tolerance application because sexual harassment can be done in a very subtle manner, often purposely, that allows the harasser an escape hatch, but the effects are no less impactful. Further, power dynamics will also very quickly catalyze any personal or working relationship. Thus, as a person in power, it is even more important to not have even the appearance of improper relations.

I can understand how lawyers can be scum and manipulative, but he was the one who let the relationship start the investigation.
> Ansible makes the same mistake, as do countless other tools.

My favorite example of this is chown/chmod taking 4-5 lines, in yaml. Sure you can do it a bunch of different ways, sure it allows for repeatable commands. But, it just sucks.
This is huge for tech nerds like me! Samsung's DIY repair program is like getting a superpower to fix my own stuff
If this happens at Boeing, should we double-check other aviation companies? Is this part of a systemic trend to hollow out engineering industries for maximum profit extraction?

Back to my "trying to buy a toaster" problem... I just found out all commercially available toasters, no matter what price, are made in China. I don't subscribe to the "everything from China is bad" philosophy, but I feel this is pretty absurd. You simply can't buy a toaster that is manufactured in Europe or America anymore. Even companies such as Bosch that still produce the majority of their products in Europe (as far as I know) seem to have thrown in the towel.

Maybe we need to have an engineer revolution instead of silently being part of this hollowing out by that top percentage of business and political "elite".
If they care more about their daughter finding a house, and they have 3, then why don't they give her one?
DNA Origami Folded into Tiny Motor
"Kirby wasn’t specific about what planes the airline could acquire instead of the Max 10, but he noted that there is only one other global manufacturer of such large planes — Boeing’s European rival Airbus."

Is it just me or is every player in the dramatis personae dancing around this and/or burying the lede? If they were ordering regional jets, sure, you could buy Embraer or Bombardier, I guess. But as it stands it's like everyone's saying "we're considering alternatives to turning left"
I can't imagine that this kind of evidence would be admissible in court, right? It might be useful to give you some leads but I would hope that no one is convicted on this tech alone.
I think the reference was to the language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto, which is interesting and strange. (I am not sure to what extent it is unique, but it is probably the best known among the conlangs.)
There are numerous tokens that people hold on to even to this day, especially if it's a token symbolizing 'coming of age'.
Might be cheaper and easier to employ contractors.
It exhausting. It's a sense of continual doom.
> Gas stations...provide many, many jobs to society

However, if they are no longer necessary, then everybody stands to benefit economically because it's an inefficiency that we can eliminate. We can be nostalgic about it and lament tangential benefits that would be lost, but ultimately that's the reality.

> My understanding of EV pricing when you're traveling is that it's significantly more expensive than home charging. If you have a lot of money, paying for that electricity doesn't matter as much. However, lots of people (especially those with kids) take a road trip, paying time to save money. It seems a bit odd to assume that people with EVs will take a road trip to save money, when it's probably worth their time to just fly most/all of the way and get a rental car.

This doesn't apply to the vast majority of car journeys, and the infrastructure we enjoy at low cost is propped up by those. When they disappear, I don't think the economics will work any more to favour ICE journeys. The infrastructure for electricity distribution will continue to exist since it's used for much more, but the gas distribution network will wither, and gas-based road trips will therefore get more expensive.
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The behavior described above seems to me to be exactly soft tabs at 4 in a 2-space tab document with autoindent turned on (often the default).

Vim has no autodetect by default. (I'm sure there's a plugin somewhere.)
Ah, sorry, I looked at a diagram of the Moka bot and it seemed like the same thing.
Have you seen how some of us worship selfies? I don't think you are that far off...
Yeah, me too, waiting for an NVIDIA GPU for Blender (AMD and Intel GPUs perform really badly with Blender)
This past year.

Interest rates went up, and then prices went up. No offset occurred, everything just became dramatically more expensive.

Bam. Theory already busted.
That's great if it's just hitting compute cores.

But when your wafer networking flows through cores (because it's cores-all-the-way-down), a defective core starts to impact network performance. Which cascades into cache, memory, locality, etc. Which starts to make a very unpredictable hardware system for software to reason about.

See also dragontamer's comment down below.
Nice. Which lib did you use ?
It's like a 90min flight and $120 ticket for me. I would absolutely make a trip out there to see the tallest building in the US, especially with how out of place it would look next to the rest of the skyline.
A perfectly reasonable NAT implementation will allocate a router TCP port for an outgoing connection from a private IP, and will send ANY traffic that reaches this port to that private IP.

So, if I send traffic from 192.168.0.78:19990 to 1.1.1.1:443, the NAT may allocate TCP/29099 for this connection and forward traffic from its public IP, 3.56.54.90.

Then, if an attacker sends a SYN packet to 3.56.78.90:29099, the router will forward that packet to 192.168.0.78:19990. The machine may or may not accept that connection, but the attacker has reached it.

Now, many NAT implementions also do firewall-style tracking, and would not accept this packet unless it came from 1.1.1.1:443. But that is not required for NAT to work, and it requires extra memory per connection (storing the destination IP/port as well as the local IP/port), so I'd bet real devices exist that do this.
With email addresses you can use multiple to not be too affected. But phone numbers are less replaceable than email addresses...

And what's annoying is that more and more things now also require phone numbers (like, seriously, in the past an email address was enough but today the simplest thing you want to signup for uses some third party booking platform (which means yet one more party that gets to leak your data) that wants your phone number; even a railway company can't manage its own login anymore. In the mid 2000's I would have thought phone numbers would die and internet would become the new way to communicate but nope, they suddenly became more important instead)
I'll be curious if once the AOT c# hooks are added (hopefully with 4.3) if that will be able to work or not.
Not the most credible theory, but it reminds me of the "Hedgehog in the cage" mechanical puzzle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog_in_the_Cage

So maybe there's a wooden/metal piece that goes inside, and the challenge is to get it out?
De Havilland Dash 8, for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3voCL_CK18&t=14s
Have many architect friends. More stories (especially at common break points of >1, >10) means much more complicated design for elevators, emergency regulations, design against elements etc.
I share your wish that there were materials that more clearly mapped between these concepts. There's several implicated but separate concerns:

- A syntax for expressing data or rules
- A semantics for data
- A semantics for logic (e.g. a logical formalization)
- A specific set of logical axioms & rules
- An algorithm for executing a logic program
- A storage system for facts/data
- A query system for facts/data

Most of the things you mention are a bundling of some or all of the above concepts. This makes sense because it's easier to provide working implementations that way.

Some systems offer a limited amount of pluggability or alternative implementations for the same concept (e.g, different "solvers" for OWL.)

But I find that there's a pronounced lack of shared formalisms (or even shared knowledge) even around things that logically should be pretty convergent. Especially if they come from different domains originally (logic programming vs. theorem proving vs. constraint programming vs. database theory, for example.)
It has around a 1Ghz cpu, you have no idea if their little homebrew games will stress that or need all the assembly tuning.

Kids have programmed games for their calculators. This is like “throw it together to show off your friends,” it doesn’t need to meet Nintendo’s UI standards.
Well, human translations aren't necessarily better. I recently wanted to train an LLM to act as a translator. As my training data, I used crime novels that were written in one language and had been translated into the other. When preparing the dataset, I encountered many places where whole sentences were missing, or the meaning of the original had been clearly changed by the translator. Apparently, nobody had checked.
Naturally, I would prefer to agree to disagree if you’re willing.
I view it as less blue versus red and more class and culture clashes between states. I have blue friends in Texas that will get upset when a blue person from a coastal state says disparaging stuff about the whole state and its people.
Ask HN: Any legal way against forced software upgrades and feature removal
It was reported here earlier today that Apple forced OS upgrades for some users without asking (https://www.macintouch.com/post/37381/macos-sonoma-forced-installs/).

There is also situation when upgrades remove features. For example 1Password deliberately crippled perfectly fine password sync for users because they wanted to force them to new, cloud (and subscription) based version.

Is there any legal way to fight against this ? I am in EU, but I am interested in other legislative as well
now I play a bit with nix and its config language.

i like yaml now.
Lots of people live on the upper floors of skyscrapers without issues. Therefore, it can be presumed that a lot of people don't suffer from your symptoms. Some people having some adverse effects doesn't seem like a good reason to completely abandon the skyscraper business.
Why shouldn't the python script be the discrete workflow step? It could be mounted on some file system which has checked out the git at a particular commit with a particular tag, then runs whatever tasks are required to validate or deploy the project
Amazon France entity doesn’t make make much money, the regulator that issued the fine (la CNIL) says its roughly 3-4% of Amazon’s revenue here.