skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone ever tried to build an airport where the terminals and actual flight ops area was miles away (noise, etc).

Basically I'm picturing something like an urban train station (plus TSA, and customs) that would be located downtown. This is where you'd have check-in, security, baggage claim, etc. After clearing security, you'd get on some sort of rail transit (monorail, maglev, subway, whatever, doesn't matter THAT much as long as it can get out to the flight area in 10-15 minutes.

Basically put the people bits where it's convenient, and the noisy stuff where it isn't.
Going from standing on a surface where you are resisting the force of gravity (like standing on the ground, or in a stable aircraft) to being in free fall definitely has a sensation.

It's a sensation that actually causes a decent percentage of people to feel physically ill for a period after launching to orbit on a rocket.

It's like going over the top of a hill on a roller coaster where you go from being pulled down into your seat to floating up against the restraints.

But once you're falling, or or in orbit (which is also free fall just outside an atmosphere), you don't feel the changes in velocity (acceleration) due to gravity.
I don't think the purpose is to exactly sue for homicide, it may be to sue for homicide in the context of knowing something was worse and falsely advertising/pushing it. The average driver most likely has never done that.
One of the things I improved in my recordMyDesktop fork [0] was an awful tendency for the frame cache writer to accumulate heaps of dirty pages until background writeback would flush them out.

I had 16GiB of RAM which meant quite large swaths of dirty pages would become buffered while the SSD sat idle until writeback began. This would cause high-FPS full-screen recordings in particular to become backlogged and start dropping frames / audio dropouts. Just generally broken behavior for a desktop recorder, especially for a deferred-encode mode that's supposed to be optimized for minimizing system-wide effects/overheads during the recording.

The simple solution I found was to proactively initiate writeback regularly via fdatasync() on the cache fd. [1] I haven't decided yet if more should be done to constrain its buffer cache effects though. The cache files will be read back during encoding in post, so if there's enough RAM it can be desirable to enable reading them back entirely from memory instead of having to hit the disk again... but it would also be nice to let the rest of the system's processes keep their stuff in the page cache. memcg can probably be used to find a balanced solution, but I haven't done any experiments yet. Have any of you handled similar scenarios? What did you do?

[0] https://github.com/recordmydesktop/recordmydesktop

[1] https://github.com/recordmydesktop/recordmydesktop/commit/42...
That must have been an unusual situation, as Narita closes at 23.00.
Google doesn't allow apps on the Play Store that support deprecated API versions.
The constraints fuel creativity, but it also pushed me to start writing a Lua compiler for PicoPico, which shows promise but is also a massive scope creep and mostly the reason I've not worked on PicoPico for a while
The ARG in Rainbows end seems more realistic and somehow even enjoyable than anything ive ever heard pitched by a real company.
Ohio greenlights solar, storage and agrivoltaics project
Terrifying. We're in SoCal, and we've been evacuated for fires that were threatening some of the home in the trac we live in. Our home and auto is insured through Costco with Connect and I'm curious to see what happens this year when we come up for renewal.
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Ex-DoD Official Says Chinese-Made PCBs Plague U.S. Systems
I wonder how hard it would be to keep the S-expression syntax when the new one is implemented. As a C and Lisp programmer I'm intrigued by the possibilities - C-family syntax being IMO more readable, but Lisp providing unparalleled (in my experience) metaprogramming possibilities.
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CNN: Electronic waste has grown to record levels

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39766761

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39786745
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At least for juniors, I'm pretty sure the problem for a lot of them is they remember how much effort went into learning their first programming language and are assuming the second one will be just as much effort. They haven't realized how much of that effort went into general concepts that do translate to other languages, making it easier to learn more.

Programming languages have become ecosystems/biotopes. In this sense, learning another programming languages is about thinking how things are done in (often subtly) different ways in the other programming language, learning about the whole culture surrounding the other programming language, etc. There aren't so many transferable principles.

Because many programmers are not willing to put this effort into transferring into a different language, so much bad code is written by programmers who "never properly learned the way of thinking in this language/framework" and thus write, say, "idiomatic Java code" in C++ or "idiomatic Go code" in JavaScript.
Think of it as a performance review, but with reversed roles.
Did you misunderstand?

One sentence per line doesn't mean your sentence has to be limited in length.
So sad. I love the deep books and have read most of what Vinge has published. I was just looking to see if he had anything new coming out earlier this week. RIP Vinge.
I thought the main counterexample to that argument was the fact that it has never worked anywhere.

From what I've heard, the Olympics have failed to benefit every city that's hosted them except LA, and the reason they were good for LA was specifically that no new infrastructure was built to accommodate them.
Agree. 35 miles was a reasonable buffer for anticipated growth. Mirabel died because immigration patterns shifted from Montréal to Toronto as a result of the FLQ and the 1980 secession referendum.
I think he’s saying you can subscribe to Amazon Prime Video via in-app purchase.
oh interesting, Jeff Hawkin's HTM?
And who knows -- maybe they wouldn't have all left if you didn't regard them as "anglos and jews"
>But at some point it becomes a simple matter of throwing more hardware at the problem.

Insofar as it's simple to throw like six orders of magnitude more hardware at something that has already had a lot of hardware thrown at it.
Yeah, a decent litmus test is if you sign into a service from a new device and without much effort all your chats/messages/history or whatever is there, the security is weak.

I got off WhatsApp years ago so I am not sure what's changed but back then if you signed on from any random browser, it was able to sync everything instantly and you'd see all your messages. This was after they claimed that it was E2E encrypted. What was explained to me at the time was that you share your encryption key with Facebook and hence the syncing.
I love this idea. Hong Kong has something kinda like this with bag check in town, and then a train to the airport. It's extremely convenient
I think it's more that they provide backlinks. If you're a gambling company this is pretty much the only way you can advertise in the US.
No they couldn't. As soon as they add me, they can no longer remove or add people to a group chat.
Honestly I'm doing pretty much the same thing; been through several iterations of AST without yet deciding on a syntax, other than "Easy for C Programmers" and "Doesn't look like someone ate alphabet soup and vomited it all over the screen".
I'm trying to understand bias. I don't think you read the GP comment correctly.
I know the post is sort of a different subject but there may be some relation to the post

2024 Ford Ranger First Drive Review: A Capable Truck I Don't Want to Drive
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39790803
Folks! Just a headsup the Puter.com site is currently appearing a bit broken in that it now:

- Puts a signup gate ahead of the CloudTabs app link: https://puter.com/app/cloudtabs-j7c4amfuq8 ; and

- Does not redirect to the CloudTabs app after signup flow is completed

This is troublesome (and troubling!) and hopefully not a sign of impending doom for Puter x CloudTabs crossover. I've reached out to Nariman and am awaiting his comment.

It's understandable if they want to own the platform and prevent comprehensive apps like browsers being owned by 3rd-parties to Puter. That is ok, we have contingencies to release on other web Desktop platforms and will do so soon.

Hopefully tho the world of Puter returns to creating conditions for success with mutual collaboration with CloudTabs/BrowserBox/Dosyago! :)

For now, if you want to hit up CloudTabs reliably head over to

https://browse.cloudtabs.net/signupless_session
I wasn't complaining about someone else's experience, I was just curious to see why he preferred it that way.

Sometimes I also use stand-by or, if it is to keep the state up until the next day, hibernation. But that's rare. In most cases, I just use Firefox's function to restore my previous browsing session. That would not restore half-filled forms, but I rarely deal with forms, especially long ones. As for reading or editing documents, most software will open the document at the point you where when you last closed it.
> To seek God and expect to find a being who exists in the same manner as a tree or a building is to set oneself up for failure.

But isn’t that the whole point of Christianity, that Jesus was God in human flesh and actually existed like you or I exist while also being fully God?
Laravel Taxify Package
Laravel package provides a set of helper functions and classes to simplify tax (VAT) calculations within Laravel applications.
A Synthetic Err Agonist Alleviates Metabolic Syndrome
> But in 100 machine hours of a typical workload doesn't really show anything about this bug

It does though: it shows it isn't a dire usability problem. A machine with this bug is still able to do meaningful work, it just might eat it's own tail occasionally.

If I ran N servers with this bug and had an automated thing to whack them when they tripped over it, how many would be out of commission at any given time? All signs point to it being a pretty small number. As long as data loss isn't a concern, a sysadmin would probably choose to wait a couple weeks for the fix through the proper channels, rather than going to a lot of trouble to do it immediately themselves (which also carries risk).

This is also why I was curious about kconfig: my test boxes have all the hardening options turned on right now, I could see how that might make it less likely to trigger.

I completely agree the "uniform random bug" model is only so useful, since an artificial reproducer obviously blows it out of the water. But as I said elsewhere, I've seen it be shockingly predictive when applied to large numbers of machines with bugs like this.
As soon as my friends add me, they can no longer remove or add people to a group chat? How is that not consumer harm?
I think both our views are valid within their contexts, with the key difference being the distinction between NFC's base capabilities and the security measures actually implemented in NFC applications (where often upper layer protocols like in credit cards, are doing the heavy lifting for security). Since this discussion centers around real world incidence, you're right to point out that NFC does not inherently mean the application will be secure.

I actually will also correct myself about saying that NFC is shorter range than RFID. Both HF and LF have about the same range. UHF has a range on the order of 10m but is almost never if at all used for high volume applications like hotel door locks. I do however disagree with your rejection of the colloquial usage of RFID to exclude NFC. In everyday conversation, I believe it is understood that NFC is a subset.
I fly into Haneda whenever I can, because even though the train is super convenient, for a train, it’s nicer to just throw your bags in a taxi and head straight to your hotel after 13 hours on a plane.
I've been following this space closely. There's some really interesting advancements happening here... Soundful for example can generate entire dance songs and they don't sound AI generated at all.
In short, it's short-term interests and skewed incentives.

A classic example particular to US airports is why transport links are almost universally terrible. The answer is: parking. Parking is a huge revenue source for airports [1] so airports don't actually want good public transport links and when you do have them (eg the JFK AirTrain) they're unreasonably expensive. Airports are making up for "lost" revenue. This has been a huge problem as Uber and Lyft have cut into airport revenues.

The real reason this is a problem is because airports make almost nothing from the planes using them. Shouldn't the planes be funded the airport?

Another case study springs to mind: Sydney. Sydney has a very central main airport but it's relatively small compared to demand because it was planned for so long ago. It can't expand: the land around it used now. Sydney has been talking about building a second airport for at least 40 years in Western Sydney (originally named Badgerys Creek). This is much further from the city but has had all the usual planning problems eg developers build homes around the proposed site and then residents complain about the proposed airport that was proposed way before those homes were built. IIRC a similar thing happened around LAX.

This was so much of a hot potato that one Australian government just gave planning permission for Sydney airport to build a third runway in the dead of night and then ran. There are funds to noise-proof affected homes and this was wildly controversial.

I believe the Western Sydney airport is finally happening. I haven't looked at the planes but it doesn't include an efficient and relatively cheap high speed rail link to central Sydney, it's going to struggle.

In the Western world we really need to examine how the supremacy of private property rights and utter car dependence mean we can't build anything, let alone have anything nice. It seems like Asia is the only place where non-horrible airports get built.

[1]: https://www.orbility.com/news/64-parking-is-a-huge-money-mak...
Agreed. I primarily work as a sysadmin and the amount of people in my organization that fall for phishing is alarming. It’d be incredibly easy to get someone to turn on the “Allow third party apps” setting and install malicious software. People don’t read warnings, they’ll just click “ok” as many times as they need without reading.

That being said I don’t think that’s necessarily a valid reason to completely lock things down, but it definitely should be prohibitively difficult for a vulnerable-to-phishing person to enable.
It's not snobby. It's a recognition of the ridiculous walls that Apple puts up around their garden.
The inputs are still great for maintaining consistency and a11y. I generally do all my own layouts, and then use Bulma for form elements.
Montreal isn't the only city that failed with a too-far-away airport. Tokyo built Narita against much local opposition (they still check your ID before you're allowed inside the airport, to make sure you're not an angry local resident), and the opposition resulted in not being able to build the transport link they wanted (the Narita Shinkansen). The result is a good hour wasted on conventional rail to get to Tokyo. (Sky Access kind of fixed this, but I think it's limited to 160km/h and still takes 40 minutes.)

Meanwhile, in the 2010s they expanded Haneda and started accepting international flights, and you can get to Tokyo via a variety of normal trains (and buses if your destination is on the Shinjuku side of things) in 15 minutes.

The whole thing is landfill, so no residents to be mad either.

Last time I flew to Haneda they made all the flights from the US arrive and depart at times when public transportation wasn't running, to discourage those flights, but it seems like they stopped doing that. So now it's more convenient for everyone, and Narita is largely pointless for everyone that isn't an extreme budget traveler (but I think Haneda built Terminal 3 for that use case... so... is there any reason for Narita to exist if you aren't visiting Chiba?)
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That is really sad. I am not in a fire area or flooding endangered, I am in the middle of San Francisco on a rocky hill. There are much more dangerous areas than ours.
There is a real, non-negligible cost to dealing with even baseless lawsuits. With that said, essentially any decent insurance company will usually be able to price that risk into a shockingly-low cost policy for you (think <0.1% of at-risk revenue).
I have lived near a freight railway, and I assure you they are not quiet
I'm not sure what you'd really gain. As it is, you can check-in online and I'm mostly just going straight to TSA Pre-check. It's all a trivial part of the airport infrastructure. And there are a bunch of reasons to have gates that you actually board the planes from.
Strong second for Man and Woman He Created Them. If you can get through it without coming to a deeper understanding of yourself (whether in agreement with its ideas or in opposition to them), you'll be the first person I've met who has.
Ask HN: Can someone with enough Karma to downvote confirm the markup?
I'm working on a Hacker News UserStyle that will be a full site redesign but I lack enough karma to downvote. The markup for these is incredibly guess-able but if someone could confirm I'd greatly appreciate it.

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It works for a year or two, then enough of a delta builds up that people get confused at why the version is so old. New docs don’t apply, etc. Similar issue has played out with MongoDB and Docker.

Plus it’s basically unmaintained so the bugs will build up and the security burden is higher since upstream will stop making their security patches under the old license (which they especially state they will do in the FAQ).

Best either retired or migrated to a fork (for Debian)
Lots of complex issues, but the distance one is manageable: put the check in / security part of the terminal in the city or at its edge and then send the passengers straight to the appropriate terminal (and their luggage straight to the baggage management) via HSR. You could have multiple check in terminals to expand the catchment area.
Is 60% of mobile marketshare in the US (over 85% for teens, apparently!) an "arbitrary definition" of a market to you? Plus they're literally the number 1 richest megacorp in the world, surpassing the GDP of most countries.

This should've happened long before Apple made that first trillion, not now so late after the fact.
afaict that was serious
> Author here - happy to answer questions

What's the goal with this? I mean, where are you going with this?

Research language? Scratching an itch? Learning exercise?

All good answers, IMHO.

But ... is there a real gap in the needs of programmers that Cwerg is attempting to address? If there is, can you explain a little more the actual gap being addressed?
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Depends on your definition of "mainstream" I guess, but picoCAD[1] got some attention outside of the PICO-8 world. Edit: Including here on HN[2]!

[1]: https://johanpeitz.itch.io/picocad

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34101251
Good science fiction is often more about the present than about the future: a projection of current problems into an amplified version of reality.

Sometimes that device gets overdone: 2004 Battlestar Galactica felt to me carrying much of 9/11 background.

Silent Running is far from alone in the pessimist outlook. It's funny that, living in a civilization so much indebted to technology, the stories that we keep telling ourselves about it are so negative.

We've accepted that as a given. I recently enjoyed a lot Altered Carbon, that has as a premise a technology that provides immortality for the masses. Well, guess what: that good guys are trying to destroy it. Because reasons.

Also the cities seem like a shithole, not sure why.
Its hit or miss if you can get the flight you need or of there and it always costs more from what I can see.
Being discussed here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39788748

(I don't know which article is more informative)
You need to get in contact with Rob Sitch. They can probably make a whole season of Utopia based around this!
Avoiding the obvious. Wage theft, and ever increasing CoL being driven by excessive corporate profit taking fueled by over-inflated asset prices constantly sent ever higher by the systemic need to endlessly ensure "line always go up".

Complete misslignment of economic institutions with effectively satisfying the demands of the current group of working class.

Institutions having been stripped so far down to the bone human resources-wise such that workloads are constantly maximized; excessive cognitive load all the time with no relief results in worse mental health and animosity toward the institutional core requiring everyone to burn out all the time.

Ya know. Shit that can't be handled by an economic regime of "alpha before all else*.
When drafting a formal letter, does the author write it horizontally and present it vertically? Or, is the author expected to have skill at writing a 90 degree rotated character? Or, is the character not rotated, but just written in columns not rows?
>My insurance premiums (and to a huge degree now, taxes) shouldn't go to pay for people who keep rebuilding in a swamp that is routinely leveled by hurricanes.

I live in Tampa 50ft above sea level which hasn't been hit directly in 100 years and my property value would only go up if sea levels rise. My house is 70 years old and made of concrete block.

There are many more houses not in flood zone than are but everyone is getting hit. So while it's great you are't covering any risk for us down here, risk is still being spread, which is what insurance is for btw.

My father in law has a house on stilts in the woods nowhere near any flooding or water because the guy who built it just wanted a house on stilts, he has a very hard time finding insurance now because of a "if stilts then deny" business rule somewhere in some automated system.

I am not a fan of the political climate down here or its policies, but it wasn't always this way. The current insurance situation is ridiculous whatever the reason similar to health insurance and to me it seems mostly related to profiteering at all levels.
"Better note-taking" misses the point; what matters is "better thinking"
Unexpected bread: loved it.
I'm probably biased, but I liked PD and then SPD better when I first played it, and felt the later updates to be overwhelming.
It's a shame HC doesn't use an LLM to upvote/downvote rather than people. Take the emotion out of technical discussions and rate based on factuality instead.

I suppose whoever downvoted this either hasn't heard of tree-of-thoughts, or doesn't understand what it is and what problem it is addressing. Or, maybe they just didn't like that their "gotcha" question had a simple answer.
Just a guess it was from one of the bot purges and somehow they thought you were on a phoney account.
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Existed like you or I exist, yes, but existed merely as you or I exist, or merely as a tree or building exists, no.
It still exists.
Ask HN: Will you upgrade to an m3 chip for its stronger security?
Only the m3 chip allows software to enable data-independent timing (DIT) for stronger security (but slower execution) during cryptographic operations:

https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/apple-chips/