skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a decision entirely driven by "Sign In" metrics (that's still in place). It's a prime example of Goodhart's Law, which apparently no product owner in the BBC has ever heard of.
There's a limit to the amount, but not to the duration (in theory). It can hold on to something it considers important for an arbitrary amount of time.
> A lot of people believe that life isn't unique to earth in the universe and I personally wouldn't face a reckoning by this being confirmed

I think there is life outside this planet, but we do not know for sure.

If we don't find life in this solar system, we quite possibly might never.

You probably won't live to see this being confirmed.

For these reasons, if we find life, it'll change everything.
Why would a site block automatically generated passwords?
While attempting to help a family member register for an account on this credit/finance company, I noticed that amongst the password requirements was this statemant:

" We do not accept automatically generated passwords from IOS / Android"

What would be the reason for that?

It may be relevant that Creation Finance are known as a bottom-feeder type credit agency preying on people who have bad credit history. I am assuming that anything they require of their customers is somehow a dark pattern but I can't figure out what it might be here.
I guess it counts in minor accident that managed to land successfully and those more serious but crash landed with little or no casualties at all? As far as I know, there were no survivors in recent Boeing crashes. Correct me if I was wrong.
Really enjoyed the interview with Freeman Dyson here on his life story - “someone left some Real Analysis textbooks in the school library but they were in French. It was probably (G. H.) Hardy.”

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzDA6mtmKQEgW...
only a select few of them are actually ever used in my experience. Gaggle of geese, for example. And by reference, calling something else a gaggle would evoke the chaotic waddling and noisiness of geese, for example referring to a gaggle of schoolchildren
>This was a question I used to get all the time. In 2016, we got rid of both of our cars and left the country on a sabbatical. When we returned, we bought a Tesla Model 3.

It's a wild introduction, something I would expect from someone like Lessig.
Easily solvable in the design. Is a robot, it does not need a head and a tail, or to carry people that needs to have their heads up.

Just remove the up and down constrains and make any part able to be the upper part, or design it as a tumbler doll.
This feels stylistically quite like an Atlas Obscura story, making it rather meta.
K.I.S.S

I use git for this. Google: 'git -- bare'

Use that as a 'hub' which you can push and pull your code from. Then using a git hook (post-receive). Run a bash script to install modules, run wp-cli (i.e to change urls on prod) and then reset permission in line with best practices (see their docs).

Simple, 'free' and reliable enough Ive done it on real world prod installs many times via Linode.

Tip: do not include your creds in the bash script - set the machines env or have a file outside the www scope and source/call it instead.

#sorryiammobile
I don't think they care, my Mustang came with a fix-it kit and that's it

No donut or anything. Goop and an air pump made by Honda
I can't read the original article anymore.

The orginal Win311 ran fine for 30 years probably until the HDD failed and they need someone to do a reinstall. Why would they change the operating system?
Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages
It's not really any different to, say, lisp (which is lauded for its intuitive support of macros) and smalltalk (which is what ruby was directly influenced by).

As a dynamic language, Ruby gives you a lot of tools to create fully expressive code. This is just one aspect of it that you can, but don't have to, use.
>As soon as I read “evolutionary perspectives” I noped out. Musicians aren’t competing to spread their genes

...and their study, unsurprisingly, came to the same conclusion.

>But music is something we do to bring us together, not to compete for dominance.

Sure, but the specific genre they looked into is more athletics than music.

Competition for dominance may be a part of music and poetry, too.

Diss tracks have existed since ancient times ("Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo"[1]), and today's Nicki Minaj vs. Megan Thee Stallion feud is very much a performative competition for dominance.

Music brings us together, music also divides us (many subcultures formed around musical genres).

It's a medium of human expression. And as such, it can reflect all of our sides.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16
Among other things, the investigation into the Titanic accident gave us the requirement of having enough life boats for everyone and standards in how to evacuate a vessel.

Captains being pressured by mamagement / organization to do hazardous stuff is a thing still, in aviation as well as in seafaring.
Not the ones with plastic bracelets, thank you very much.

I've clicked around a bit and i could find just one metal bracelet. And zero leather (even fake).

I know you can generally swap bracelets* - if they're standard - but there's enough plastic garbage in the world if you ask me.

* easy with leather, but if you want a metal bracelet that matches the metal body of the watch exactly, hard.
Interesting research, but the future has a nasty tendency to deviate from our expectations. The further out, the riskier the assertions.
Just this month, there was a court case in Switzerland where an ATC was charged and convicted because he gave wrong instructions to a military jet, which then crashed into a rock wall. The case was quite interesting to follow, due to the various implications of a conviction or acquittal. It had quite some media coverage.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-military-jet-crash--publi...

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/air-traffic-controller-blamed-f...

(Note that this was a military court, not a civil court. Proceedings might be different in these cases, even though both civil and military ATCs work for the same company - Skyguide.)
Surely it is not just anyone that a link is shared with, but anyone with the link?

It's link-bearer open access to a partial document (an entire page) an author marks as not having partial access. Circumvention of Google's authentication procedure.

Is that understanding correct?

If so, Google's seemingly OK with users believing something's secure, that isn't. And that could cause information leakage by Google's design that could lead to fraud and/or other crime.
It's the Knights logo†, and yes it's great. :^)

† https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_of_the_Lambda_Calculus
Common for different reasons, remarkably annoying

Buy a Mustang with bigger brakes or wheels, you get the same treatment
I would assume the pilots of those still had control to some extent?
My wife and I loved our fossil wearos watches except one flaw they never fixed - the damn glue to hold charging rings and the back cover on are not human friendly and sweat eats it away. I never figured out why they didn't change it or use screws.
That might be true in some regions but there also many regions in the US with very little health insurance competition.[1][2]

[1] https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/patient-support-adv...

[2] https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/patient-support-adv...
What it has that virtually every speedtest lacks is a packet loss test that floods 1000 packets and checks if it receives a reply. The bad news is sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes the results are incorrect (indicating packet loss when generally there is no loss which might be more of an indicator that something is wrong with CF).
It takes a lot of time and skill to make a good font. Piracy is rampant and tricky to track down (let alone go after) people and businesses who use them without the correct licensing.
He who pays the piper calls the tune. While I find this behavior reprehensible as well (and this is far from the first such incident), the fact that it is happening shouldn't surprise anyone.
That never happened. 54 years. I should know, I watched it happen and I'm 58.
Interesting, do you do the speed reduction per-axis or globally ?
Its very difficult to get into. I liken it most to maths, you simply cannot take something written for someone with a certain higher level of understanding than you currently have and expect to get much from it. You simply must go page by page slowly, deliberately, and humbly, taking the time to completely understand each term you come across (which will often require a several hour diversion, in which you come across more terms branching all the way down, etc). You can't skip over terms like "intervals", "locrian/lydian" and hope to understand them by osmosis.
> It will probably be more normalized to use an avatar and synthesized voice on things like Zoom calls.

Which creates a subsequent issue of it being completely impossible to authenticate the person you're talking to. Which will inevitably lead to companies being completely cored out by exploiters who, on a long term, infiltrate networks and give instructions to subordinates 'as the boss' which lead to companies failing.
Italian Encyclopedia of Science, Letters, and Arts
Anthropic principle or observation selection effect [0]. If you are observing something, then you are in a position that you can observe it.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript
Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary
I made a rule a long time ago not to lend money to friends or family. If I have the money and they need it, I'm usually willing to give them the money, and if they choose to give it back later, I'll be appreciative, but putting that expectation on it seems to be a good way to ruin relationships.

I've also learned the hard way never to hire friends, even for short-term projects like fixing a plumbing problem when the friend works professionally as a handyman. There's always a difference between the expectation of a person hiring someone to do a job, and the person doing the job, and none of it is worth ruining a friendship over.
Maybe, just maybe they can use the rovers to push it over.
This is the sort-of premise of the UK radio/TV panel show, "The Unbelievable Truth". Contestants take turns to give a brief lecture about a subject, the majority of which is untrue, with four facts smuggled in. The others get points if they can identify the facts, and lose points if they incorrectly identify a falsehood as true.
>That kind of provision is usually unenforcable if not illegal.

I can emphatically tell you that I have a mutual non-disparagement clause with [REDACTED]; _and_ that these clauses seem to be routine enough to be included with most "resolution contracts", at least in Europe (<your favorite search engine here> results seem to indicate that these clauses are very popular in Europe).

Most people don't have the equivalent resources (that business have) to fight these clauses; especially, where the resolution - itself - may haven taken so long that the person is essentially "glad" to have some modicum of restitution and sense of resolution.

This means/infers that these clauses (generally) are de facto enforced by "better safe than sorry" scenarios.

(Generally, whether they're legal and enforceable comes down to the clauses first having been breached and, then, being challenged in court. This means/infers effort, time, and money that the people these clauses tend to - generally - target don't have.)
Secret EU plan 'to sabotage Hungarian economy' revealed as anger mounts at Orbán
Payload...
In Germany and Portugal it is still used in some channels, for example for subtitles, although not much.
The YouTube play/pause button shows the action it will do, not the state that it is in.
Ah, my apologies then. My confusion was that I didn't think there was a difference between the current mechanism and the old one.
Harsh reality is that in real world scenario different databases would be in different network segment probably not open to each other. Switching from one db to another will limit the capabilities.
It would be possible to use the LED itself for bidirectional communications (for example reconfiguring it), see https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2003-35 or "Very Low-Cost Sensing and Communication
Using Bidirectional LEDs" by Mitsubishi. You could then reprogram the device.
Even back in 2017, transistors were already smaller[0] and faster[1] than biological synapses to the same ratio by which wolves are smaller and faster than the hills they roam around on.

[0] Human synapse size / 2017-transistor size ≅ 1µm / 11nm ≅ wolf body length / a specific hill I was thinking of ≅ 1.6m / 145m [3]

[1] synaptic pulse rate / transistor transition rate ≅ 200 Hz / 30 GHz [2] ≅ 2 cm/year / 25 km/day ≅ speed of continental drift / average daily range of a wolf as a speed [3]

[2] transistors flip significantly faster than overall clock speed

[3] https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2017/11/26/you-wont-be...
This is very interesting, mine did too, but with an even narrower dark patch.

It is like an attacker-defender equilibrium situation where the vertical guy runs up and down a trench and the attacker tries different paths for orthogonal attacks.
There is such an equilibrium:
type check API functions and do not clutter the rest of the code with type hints/declarations.
It's typically said to everyone at an all-hands meeting or similar, not to a single person.

Delivering such a message personally to an individual is also sending another message.
Same here. The Dutch public broadcaster even switched to a brand new cloud-based Teletext system last November. The old system was breaking down too often and not many people still knew how it worked, so a brand new system was developed to replace the old one.

Not only is Teletext still used very often, the public broadcaster is also legally obligated to have Teletext, and for aviators the law specifies Teletext as one of three legal options for pilots to check the weather on when preparing for a flights.

The Dutch news site tweakers wrote a small piece about this upgrade last week (use your favourite translation tool): https://tweakers.net/reviews/11700/hoe-werkt-het-vernieuwde-...
Capitalism needs the state to function, because the legal pooling of assets and authority that takes place within capitalism needs laws and enforcement. Someone who comes in and says they're an "owner" without that backing just gets their stuff stolen - that is how things tend to play out in cultures that don't have a strong central hierarchy. So, having the state set the rules is a way to have the hierarchy with relatively less overt violence and an emphasis on trade relations as a form of status. The violence instead gets redirected towards market competition, exploitation, legal threats, etc.

From that, the rest of capitalism as a system derives from whatever rules are in play at the moment: the numbers of the financial system, acting as scorekeeping, drive speculative manias and panics, and the laws in the court are weapons to use on whoever opposes you. The system stays stable where it supports the overlapping interests of the elite - so all the formalities of government are just a continuous process of normalization; if a so-and-so wants the country to go in big in a certain direction - to train a kind of workforce or build an industry or invest in developing a technology - they can groom the political system to go their way, provided everyone else at the top agrees. A lot of things go undeveloped because "there is no money in them," and this is just a reflection of lack of political will to make that the thing that someone could have as a job. The technological competition of industrialization did a great deal to wake up the sleepy parts of the world into thinking "we need to change policies if I want to stay in power", and we definitely have more of that ahead.

This is more evidenced when you visit a different country and you look around and ask "why is this part so much better and that part so much worse" and a local will tell you that the law does this and the economy does that, so you get a better thing here and a worse thing there.

And that's all a bit disappointing because it means we really don't have a lot of things figured out and are just reacting like the apes we are as all these new things sweep through society, but it does mean that we could potentially do a lot better by getting the right kinds of conversations started.
Mobile OS's have the worst case of the chicken and egg problem. Nobody will buy a device with your OS unless there's apps for it, and nobody will make apps for it unless there's users.

How do you solve this problem? Mozilla is too small to do it, and even Microsoft has seemingly given up.
Yes and I find the style annoying in this case - for a topic like this I’d prefer a wikipedia/readme style structured list of relevant articles, perhaps with dates and a little context.
Some of my links:

- https://usvgoogle.org/trial-wrap-11-20

- https://tuta.com/blog/google-search-monopoly

- https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-android-massive-track...

- WEI... https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environme...

- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/28/google-ma...

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/09/google-...

- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/judge-finds-goog...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google

- https://otakukart.com/551722/google-is-showing-ads-to-sell-y...

- https://www.npr.org/2020/10/22/926290942/google-paid-apple-b...

- https://gizmodo.com.au/2017/09/yes-google-uses-its-power-to-...
I worked on those systems and the joke was the TT100 really was the homepage of the Netherlands.

It all ran on a couple of SGI Challenge-S servers, these were basically re-packaged Indy's.

If you've been on the net that long you may also remember the original nu.nl which was utterly barebones and blistering fast. No ads, no eye candy, no opinions or comments, just the AP feed.
Sorry, I had been assuming that the HN readership would assume that double checking tertiary sources involves consulting (at least) secondary sources, secondary sources primary, etc.

Just as well-founded loop variants help avoid nontermination, making strictly closer-to-ground double checks helps avoid echo chambers.

(and frankly, "do your own research", to me, is a clear sibboleth translating to "enter our echo chamber")
One of the challenges is that there are always more smart people outside the org than in - so the chances of the same company out innovating the world again and again is slim.

On the other hand, if your management decide to cut R, and just buy in the innovation at the right time to develop it - if you don't have any internal R people trying to do the same sort of things you will find it really difficult to make the right acquisitions at the right time.

So you need both - and treading that line is really tricky.

I also think that having people with an R mindset is important - people who are interested in pushing the envelop, doing things better etc.

Having people like that in the organisation means you are less likely to be blindsided by a shift in technology that could kill the company.
You're right. My bad. I worked on a modernisation project for the DVB version of this in 2018. Internally we used to refer to it as Teletext, hence my confusion.
That's the case for most cars post 2017
college applicants
A butterfly also literally has butter in the name. The point of QM is that certain energy levels are quantized. Or more generally that lots of operators/observables on continuous Hilbert spaces have discrete spectra.
Software could, but hardware probably won't.

These kinds of computers usually have customized ISA boards that aren't even PnP compatible. Software for that kind of hardware doesn't use drivers. Hardware is directly accessed from software, like you would do on a bare-metal microcontroller. Modern OSs like Linux and anything WinNT/2000/+ won't allow this, but Win311 in real mode does.
Meet another worthy candidate for the Ig Noble Prize.
There's still cleanup for Uber eats, unless you want splatters and garbage everywhere. I find unwrapping stuff and setting on the table takes time too.

Looking for good restaurants also takes time, sometimes I start doing an order and find out the Italian restaurant doesn't have the pasta or sauce I want and have to restart my search.

Also, note that you shouldn't heat up ANY kind of plastic components in the microwave. They are not "microwave safe" since they release the plastics into the food anyway. If I have to transfer to another plate and heat it up, there goes the clean-up time argument, I have to wash that dish later
The fact is that you don't have to look at all, because the Tesla touchscreen does not have modalities. (There is a drill-down menu that you NEVER need to open during driving). Everything else is accessible in exactly the same spot at the bottom of the screen and no looking is required.

Additionally, as I said, the steering wheel buttons handle everything that matters, so there is no need to even interact with the touchscreen at all during driving.

Let's look at the interactions in detail:

- Most controls of the car are done using physical controls. This includes left and right blinking, reversing, steering, lights, wipers, honking, the acceleration and break pedals, windows, seats, doors, opening compartments, audio and media controls, autopilot and lane keeping, camera controls.

- The only things where interaction with the touchscreen is preferable are (a) setting a destination in the navigation system - for going home or to work this is literally a swipe gesture on the main screen, usually done before the car is started and (b) adjusting the heating or temperature. For this there are two buttons at the bottom of the screen, always in the same location. However I always have them on auto and there is simply no need to fiddle with this, ever. If it's important to you it can be configured to be on the steering wheel as well.

- I think people who think that constant adjustment of the temperature settings is necessary are used to driving cars where this is not sufficiently automated. I have seat and wheel heating set to auto and that works just fine. I have set my temperature to 20 °C and it feels comfortable in summer and winter. Why would I want to change this while driving?

- Setting a new destination in the navigation system can be done using voice. This is not great but will certainly be improved. A modern system like Whisper should handle this easily. In any case, why would anyone want to do this while driving? And in any case it will be the same issue in any other car, because this simply requires typing out letters which is difficult.

> I would argue worse than "text and drive" smartphones.

Obviously holding a phone and typing out text on a tiny keyboard that certainly has to be looked at takes far more focus than touching a pre-defined spot on a huge fixed screen. But as I said this is never needed.
I'd agree there might have been more before, but even back then I didn't see the same level of excitement for the language. For specific uses, sure.

But most Ruby use is "corporate" as well - its use is dominated by Rails shops. The "joy of programming" aspect of Ruby is partially embedded even in corporate Rails use, but also outside of it. It may well have hampered Ruby growth, but it's also not something I think would disappear if Ruby use increased.
Helm charts... (Yaml). Of course made far worse than necessary because the tooling is awful.