skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really loved this article because it shows that ASI, and the control problem associated with ASI, isn't new at all. It has been around for a long time.

What this essay does is put ASI into historical context and put forth a solution to a problem that has also been around for a long time: republican constitutionalism (which has nothing to do with the GOP or Western right-wing movements).

Republican constitutionalism is a restraint mechanism on centralized power that has been popular -- in a more subtle form<https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691138305/bo...> - since the end of World War II and has always been a part of conversations about restraining power. Cool stuff, all 'round!
Apple’s management and lawyers trying every trick in the book to follow the law by the line but not by spirit.

He!

I’m sad that EU has to make big tech pay.

US antitrust and lawmakers love those sweeeet lobby donations.

Corporations run US.
Unfortunately for many senior folks, using them is just too complicated. I've badgered my parents into using theirs, which is already setup, and it confuses them every time, so they prefer to memorize or write their passwords on a sheet of paper they never lose in their apartment.

It's just easier than fiddling with a buggy mess of auto-fill prompts that only work half the time, and when they do show up, they fail to fill in the password, so then you have to open the app, hunt down the entry, copy it to the clipboard, and go back to the app or site you were signing into.

Multi-tasking on phones is already very difficult for my parents, and they're well aware of it being a feature. Eventually all of these frustrations add up, and the path of least resistance is writing passwords down, as much as it kills me.
I’m old enough to remember the proud, defiant declarations that the internet was just a hype cycle.
Yes, but driving a vehicle is not a steady state problem. When a driver lifts the throttle, the next action is typically an intentional demand for a loss of potential energy (i.e. the driver is moving their foot to the brake)
Your standard for quality food is a gas station?
Offense is easy because defense is a joke. Nobody in the entire world has network connected commercial IT systems that are even minimally adequate. Yes, that includes Google, Amazon, Crowdstrike, any bank, Microsoft, Apple, Mandiant, and whoever else you care to name. All useless against small professional teams with a most a few million dollars of budget; amounts so small many of those companies have their financials denominated in larger units despite most of them spending hundreds of millions to billions of dollars trying to stop such attackers. If you are actually trying to stop a government with any of that garbage you might as well try to use an egg to stop a steamroller.
The trick is to be a great editor, writing's not all that hard if you're interested in and are knowledgeable about the subject.
See http://www.sri.com
That's an interesting idea. I think you might be able to do reflective optics around a single crystal silicon core in near contact to the wafer backside. You'd get another factor of 2.5x, which along with confocal imaging would be 50-65nm and that's almost good enough to image modern cells.
actually, one can argue that bipartisan support is the last thing you want because that's how 90% violate the rights for the 10% (and eventually, to 100% since we all take turns at being part of the 10%).

Case in point: Patriot ACT. SOPA attempts. Asset Forfeiture.

In contrast, see the most unruly place in Europe: Switzerland. Politicians bicker about inane things like updating language spelling, which caused huge uproar in 2006 [0] . 10 years later, you had the Cow Horns debate [1] of 2018, and its own sort of epilogue with the firestorm around cowbells [2]

You also have a weak executive with rotating posts of only 1 year. [3] So, nothing gets done (by design). And when policians work out a small miracle via bipartisanship, they still must jump the hurdle of direct democracy and win over the population. Moreover, anything can be reversed with a very small minority [3,4] calling for a referendum, anytime.

Yet Switzerland its the longest living democracy in the world with insanely high levels of development and prosperity.

[0] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/chaos-fears-loom-over-s...
[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/life-aging/podcast_campaigning-...
[2]https://www.iamexpat.ch/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/cowbell-noi...
[3] https://www.thelocal.ch/20211129/a-foreigners-guide-to-under...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2014_Swiss_immigratio...
Emirates?

Are we talking business or economy? Because emirates hasn’t served nice food on economy for years.
I started writing up a spec and library for such a format, then my ADHD drew me to other projects before I finished it. Hopefully I'll get back to it someday.

Edit: this is what I have so far: https://github.com/tmccombs/ssv
Worse, we’re only given a passenger’s recollection of what a pilot said. Which is of basically zero value.

I’m reminded of another thread on this site a few months back. One commenter talked about an incident where their flight circled in a holding pattern unable to land for whatever reason. The pilot got on the PA and informed the passengers that they might have to divert as they about 30 minutes of fuel. Around half an hour later, the plane made a desperate run for a nearby airport.

As the story was told, all the flight attendants were white as ghosts. The plane’s engines ran out of gas and shut off, but to the commenter’s existential relief they managed to just make it to the runway.

Of course this is ridiculous. The pilot’s announcement was either grossly misunderstood or very poorly chosen. The plane had plenty of fuel, they had thirty minutes before they would be forced to divert, not thirty minutes total. No cockpit crew with functioning self-preservation instincts would patiently circle around a pattern while their plane inevitably runs out of gas. The engines didn’t run out of fuel; they were brought to idle or low for the descent just like every other landing.

If the plane had truly run out of fuel, the cabin crew would have had the passengers brace for landing. There would have been emergency crews with flashing lights all along parallel taxiways. The plane would have come to a halt on the runway and been unable to taxi. An NTSB report would have been filed. The news would have reported on it.

People replied pointing all of this out, but to my (probably faulty, after all, I’m an eyewitness) recollection they remained steadfast in their telling of events.

And very timely, 737 Gear just published a video discussing Tucker Carlson’s retelling of an incident where his plane crashed[1]. By Tucker’s telling, there was an explosion and the wing broke off mid-flight. The plane crashed into the sand. In reality, the plane’s landing gear collapsed during landing. The plane rolled off the runway.

In short, a passenger’s recall of stressful events is generally worse than useless.

[1] https://youtu.be/dG-gXIY-GtA
> I actually prefer to use the bell character for IFS

Heaven help you if you cat the source file in a shell, though!
I assume a foaf expansion of the block graph
3M's mysterious 1980 repulsion field? [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectroBOOM/comments/9jig1l/can_you...
The point there is that processes in Elixir and Erlang are effectively like functions, in that you do not need to "manage" them in any sort of way. They are automatically distributed across all cores, pre-emptively scheduled, killable, have a built-in inbox, etc. One doesn't need to worry about what concurrency library to use nor manually create mailboxes using queues or whatever else. It just works, and you fire them off to do whatever you need. So there is no ceremony. Threads in many other languages and in Python in particular, require a huge amount of ceremony and management.
I am in India and I can see the app on top spot (marked as Ad) when I search for Bitcoin Wallet.

My theory is, they paid for an Ad in a specific region and hence it started showing on top, people started downloading in that region, and that boosted the overall ranking for that app and hence people from other regions are seeing it among top results, even though its not an Ad there.
Irrespective of the rating or freshness of the app, since it is getting downloaded in one region (because it is an Ad there), automatically it goes to top in other regions.

This trick can be used by other apps also, considering it would be cheapter to buy the top Ad spot in India and then it organically rises to the top.
Essentially a

throw new RuntimeException(e)

for rockets?

As a fellow engineer, I sympathize.
From airplanes, you get the lead from their fuel
I'm writing a language by myself so for me at least the days of one person languages are not over. And I have the joy of working with a language no one complains about ;)
If there’s a change of leadership next year, Direct File is the least of our problems.
Eh. Once I start dreaming and thinking in a non-native language, the only things I revert to native on are things like philosophy where extra cognitive load actively hinders my thoughts. Numbers/money aren’t really expensive in the same way.
MDK2 on the Dreamcast did render-to-texture to do mirrors.

https://youtu.be/-nVw_q3yEA4?t=210

The PC version lacked all R2T effects. The developers went with "Chaotic Insane", and replaced the mirrors with a colored noise texture, adding a sign saying, "Your reflection is not available at this time --Management".

https://youtu.be/xuONTSKjfNE?t=259

On a related note, R2T was also used in a cutscene. A video broadcast used R2T on the Dreamcast, and on other versions they just flattened the character placed it inside the monitor, and tweaked the camera work to try to hide it.

Dreamcast version:

https://youtu.be/-nVw_q3yEA4?t=14

PC version:

https://youtu.be/xuONTSKjfNE?t=15
and the change in us tax code
couldn't they just immediately issue a "TRIM" afterwards or am I missing something?
I have ads and pop up blockers already? What are you on about??
Physics of Skiing: The Ideal–Carving Equation and Its Applications [pdf]
No! If you mess with the font size, you make your page hard to read for people who adjust their font size in their browser. They set their font size very carefully, to the smallest size they can comfortably read. Your site had better not change that.

Medium.com is the worst offender. Their font size is small and they disable zooming on mobile!
Yes it was, though.
Instead of using separator-character:

a <comma> b <comma> c <enter> d <comma> e <comma> f

why not using header-character:

<row><cell> a <cell> b <cell> c <row><cell> d <cell> e <cell> f
We're going to need some sort of knowledge graph for all the different vehicle models, imagine how vague dealers will be when your looking on the lot. Wonder how crazy this will be once they start adding in-car ads.
Hardware != Software
You can lend bitcoin on etherium using erc20 defi platforms

https://milkroad.com/lend/btc/#:~:text=In%20DeFi%20BTC%20len....
I'm sure our extremely divided society will benefit greatly from configurable echo chambers.
The same thing happens to ICE vehicles while parked. It usually isn't a big deal because the area most prone to rust is the rotor surface. And modern brake pads don't usually have any issues rubbing surface rust away very quickly.

e.g.: https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.corvetteforum.com-vbulletin...
"blogspam tutorial": What a brilliant phrase. My teammate and I were recently joking about the same for Python blogs. If you Google any "simple" Python programming question, the results are overloaded with "blogspam tutorials". I cannot wait until ChatGPT will replace all of that crap.
Stefan Fatsis also being the author of this article, so if you've read the article you've already gotten a preview of his writing style. (Just mentioning in case someone hadn't put that together.)
I vaguely remember reading about that actually happening some years ago. Control system written in C++, bad data comes in from a sensor causing a floating point exception which was not caught locally, and the outermost catch code was basically, “explode the rocket”.

Might have been in the c++ Users Journal or Dr Dobbs in the late 90s.
Roland Barthes, the great French essayist of the 20th century, once said:

Je ne pense qu’aimant.

Which means roughly: I only think by loving.
The "big crunch" wikipedia says that it's an idea about the end of the universe, where expansion will reverse and everything will collapse back in on itself.

That is not what I'm asking. I'm asking if expansion and contraction could fluctuate in perpetuity, like stress waves through a block of jello.
Keep wondering then because game consoles never have been and never will be required by your insurance company to not get dropped from coverage and they will never be how you pay for things in public or the place to carry your government ID or be useful for anything much besides pure entertainment and we usually don't have the same kinds of concerns with entertainment that we do with tools required for living in society. THis "but game consoles" trope is getting real old now. Maybe it's the first you've raised it, but this discussion has many others and so does pretty much every other discussion going back probably 15 years.
I think cars will stop crashing sooner than rockets stop blowing up.
> If I were to send an illegal demand to someone (like say a threat of blackmail / extortion),

The distinction is that blackmail and extortion are crimes. It's the act of sending them itself that is the crime, not the demand. If you withdraw it, it doesn't matter, because the crime already happened.

There's no criminal statute here. The NYPD asked for something. Someone challenged it as being "not something the NYPD is allowed to ask for". The NYPD said "never mind, you're right". That's the end of the story. If you want the law granting the NYPD the power to issue subpoenas to be withdrawn or modified, the solution is to elect representatives to do that for you. Courts are just the backstop for this process, and an imperfect one.
Funny, because that article says exactly the same.

"Short" distances are calculated by parallax, taking Earth's orbit diameter as the base.

From there, it's a extrapolation of the spectrum of known types of objects. Not triangulation. Moreover, IIRC individual stars can't be discerned in other galaxies, even the nearest ones, except maybe supernovas.

So at the distances that red shift manifests, no triangulation, only red shift.
> Humans seek work that provides satisfaction and meaning in their life.

> we keep destroying what allows humans to seek meaning.

> Our governments and society have made it clear, if you don't produce value, you don't deserve dignity.

Those points are really interesting to me, I think you're right and I've never looked at it that way before.
people notice when you participate in circle jerks like that
Apple acquired DarkSky and sunsetted their API in the past few years. It always seemed more accurate to me than any other weather service. Sad to see it go.
I also stopped there for the afternoon on a train between Florence and Cinque Terra. Was super convenient.

Standing under the leaning tower I legitimately felt like it was going to fall on me. It's a one of a kind experience. Well worth breaking up a train ride to see it and grab a meal.
precious: of great value, not to be wasted.

that rant was not precious.
fwiw i hope yall get approved. thank you & take care.
I can't disagree.

I know we're not supposed to do low-brow dismissal here, but everything about this idea is wrong.

Rationale, solution, representation, everything.
Tire life also depends on where you live. In Atlanta, GA, I specifically haven’t made it more than 20K miles on a set of tires be it wear or road hazard. The issue with nails here is so bad there’s a guy on a bike picking them up with magnets.

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-magnet-man-alex-ben...

That 20K set of tires had a slow leak from a nail that was patched incompletely. On the new set I had to replace two using the hazard insurance I purchased after three months and two thousand miles. I expect to use the insurance again.

I now have an EV with sport summer tires. They’re at 5K miles and have a screw embedded in one tire since about 400 miles. That tire was deemed to be safe and best left alone as it’s presumed to be running through a rubber block only. I’m just running it until it goes flat assuming it doesn’t manage to survive its whole expected life span.

Realistically I’ll end up running something else over this spring once construction gets into full swing.
“Flight control issues” is a passenger’s retelling of what they remember a pilot saying.

I have heard a lot of passengers recount events from incident flights. I have seen vanishingly few where there was much overlap between what actually happened and what they believe happened.
The pilot is managing takeoff at 1000ft
The New York Horse Manure Crisis:

https://www.pbs.org/video/new-york-horse-manure-crisis-ploay...

> New York City was a crowded mess: no one could figure out what to do with all the horse manure, urine, and rotting horse carcasses on the streets spreading disease. New York had over 100,000 horses producing over 2.5 million pounds of manure every day. Fossil fuel powered trains, electric streetcars and internal combustion vehicles were seen as the clean-energy alternative.
This is sort of what Gemini was supposed to solve, but as someone who is has medium level technical skills, I found no easy way into it, and the format was too ascetic for my taste and I only ever got a text-only version working as a consumer.
Then don't distinguish. Both pay the same. The goal here is not to increase the cost of doing non-tourism business in your city. Another idea: Allow people travelling on business to apply for a refund. Example: It seems weird to charge a salesperson going to see their client. Business people use city resources and infrastructure in a vastly different way. For example: They don't use (limited) cultural resources in the same way.
That's great, and I too will give the watch later a try. I've always felt that feature was too ambiguous so never tried it out

A follow up on this - do you also make notes for the videos you watch?
I've been on Emirates A380. Best in-air experience there is. The food is good. But even in First Class you're getting, at best, reheated tray food, just transfered to fine china. It's not even close to eating at a great restaurant.
Anything for MACOS?
Probably the first flight of Ariane 5:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88
The animation lag drives me up a wall. Cannot abide.
This is true about EVs, but it all just depends on how hard you are on your brakes. I routinely go 70k+ miles in ICE cars with the same brake pads. My mom on the other hand had to change hers about every 30k miles. YMMV.
Agreed, and well worded. Never in computing history has a walled garden like Apple's existed until the iPhone. Distributing and finding apps wasn't always simple, but then again, the need for a central browsing experience to find and download apps was never truly a thing before -- maybe outside of Steam for games. The key difference with Steam is that the same games have always been available on other distribution platforms, generally, so it doesn't suffer from the same limitations.

Show of hands, how many people actually spend multiple minutes (or hours) just swiping through their respective App Store just to find something new and interesting?

Aside from the store experiences, the web's powerful (gasp!) ability to find and download content including Computer Applications™ has always been its greatest strength. App stores are a net detriment seeking to protect the lowest common denominator: the uneducated computer user who hasn't bothered to learn everyday security practices to avoid downloading malicious apps or vetting software developers on their popularity and/or security themselves.

This takes a little knowledge and practice, but this isn't much different from shopping for good produce in a grocery store. Avoid the rotten fruit, and use your friends/family to help you judge what's best! That's the beauty of freedom on our devices, as it enables the power users and enthusiasts to enjoy these devices at their fullest, without senseless obstacles offering unsolicited "protection".
Will give eink a try, haven't tried that out yet. Any devices you recommend?
Papers Please and Obra Dinn were outstanding! Hopefully this one makes it onto PC.
What is this third axis of which you speak
Why would you go from the proposal in the article that involved making a confusing expression like "bool > bool" a compiler error, to the absurd example of suggesting that C++'s syntax be changed to be identical to Rust?

How could talking that way possibly be conducive to having a serious discussion about the article, which is trying to eliminate 90% of the safety issues in C++?

If that is the manner in which you think a reasonable discussion can be had on this issue, then no, you are no qualified to discuss it and your participation has done nothing and continues to do nothing but derail the topic which is likely why no one has bothered responding to you.
This is exciting. I hope Intuit gets what it deserves. Their obstruction of simplifying the tax code has gone on long enough.
That doesn't make it automatically right, just, or even legal. Does it hold up against the European Convention on Human Rights, EU directives, regulations and the country constitution? What does the constitutional court, EU court of justice and EU court of human rights think?

These are not hypothetical questions. I'm not Dutch but in my own (EU) country it's a very common occurrence that the higher courts significantly modify or entirely cancel a fully approved law - often retroactively. Sometimes the state has to pay out damages.

IMHO a parliament acting like they can just vote for anything and that's it is exactly the definition of acting above the law.
Indeed, the only day in the last 4 weeks I walked so little was a day I worked for home and didn't venture more than a block from my condo, resulting in a mere 2,107 steps (according to my Garmin watch). On an average workday (where I commute to work via train + walking), it's hard to get below 6k steps..add taking the daughter to the playground or going to the store and my average over the last 4 weeks is 10,021 steps a day without particularly seeking out extra steps...
I found a neat photograph [0] of the process of extracting Tyrian purple from Murex snails. There's a remarkable variety of blue pigments that separate out of that, alongside of the famous purple.

(Murex snails being a different hypothesis for the source of the forgotten tekheret dye, separate from the cuttlefish one).

[0] https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/03/05/multimedia/05SCI-...

photo from https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/science/archaeology-tyria... ("In Israel, a 3,000-Year-Old Purple Factory")
> if there is no weather

And the ship has been towed beyond the environment.

There is nothing out there, all there is is sea, and birds, and fish. And 20,000 tons of crude oil. And a fire.

Less sarcasticaly speaking I think there is always weather. Maybe what you mean is “no significant change in the weather” neither in time, nor in space.
Why does this feel so relatable?
Kind of, but it's almost worse. More like a subsystem that reboots the machine if you run out of disk space or some other such "something is probably really wrong, but I can't prove it" sort of telemetry signal. Given that it seems to have been trigged by the pitchover manouver, likely something went a bit outside guidelines. Who knows how conservative those are? With an unmanned rocket they tend to lean towards pushing the big red button early and often.

A failed launch is bad. Drop a booster on an elementary school, and your nation is probably down attempting to go to space.
IIRC these states don't have certain types of taxes which would complicate things