skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think these are billion dollar mistakes only because they've allowed for trillions in improvements in the first place.

People choose these system with loose conversions over and over again because it's an advantage up to a point. Of course it becomes a liability when expanded too much and used in now critical systems, but IMHO the tradeoff usually ends as a net positive. Which is why, over and over we build more of these systems, and they fare better in the market than the stricter ones.
> 'Republishing' is a bad faith description here

I would have agreed if not for HN. IA is basically used as a paywall workaround here; that’s transparent republishing.
OMG I had one of the 160-in-one kits when I was very young ~(mid 2000's) but never learned what it was called! I remember my mom buying it for me from this mysterious shop which had exotic toys (that I never actually visited myself). It was a second-hand one and most of the resistors/components had already broke, But the radio feature still somehow worked! I thought it was magic, just as magic as that strange, foreign shop. Kinda want to buy one now....
nah, I don't think there are reliable ways to detect it from urine / saliva, which is why they do it with blood tests instead
The tech behind it is the most recent state of the art tech in terms of privacy. Read about zero knowledge and how it works in the Orb.
It's funny reading comments here, Hackernews bros really think they're smarter than the guys who made ffmpeg/x264/x265 etc. Dunning–Kruger effect in action.
Why would slumping or buckling but not-quite-collapsing be a functionally better outcome than complete failure? In both cases, the sheer size of the physical changes is going to lead to forces that humans won't survive, so there's no benefit there. In both cases, the bridge is going to have to be completely demolished before rebuilding, so there's no benefit there.

A bridge that could stand the loss of a single support pier without any significant collapse would obviously be preferable -- but that's a big ask. I'm not a structural engineer, but I am aware of scaling laws [1] and it feels to me that those scaling laws are going to mean that increasing the margin of safety by x is going to increase costs by x^n. For a project like this one, where cost was apparently the deciding factor over a tunnel, that matters.

[1] https://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/609.ral5q.fall04/L...
You could try to avoid collisions with barriers, or make the bridge fail differently (only a few spans), or make it tolerant to a single support failing. But you need a pretty beefy steel beam to survive a direct hit by... Uh... 200,000t(??) traveling even at a slow jogging pace. (And then it transfers the energy into the rest of the bridge, which will very much not like it).

I guess we can be happy failure like this is rare, and that the bridge was not busy: reports indicate 13 cars, and about 7 persons still missing. This could be so much worse.

The best way to think about measures is after we know the full chain of events that have lead to this.
John Waters on Baltimore:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/nov/28/john-waters-b...

John Waters’ Baltimore:

https://baltimore.org/what-to-do/john-waters-baltimore/
You provide important context indeed, but still, banning such a thing has only happened in countries like the above mentioned, that is, at least, something to think about
Because you’re doing something harder and riskier, that AMMs have almost reached parity with feature set wise
With perpetual license, they were getting some money from me for each major release. With subscription, they are going to get exactly 0.
>> Neural nets are known to struggle with tabular data.

Not disagreeing with you, and I'm not a specialist, but it's funny that lot of papers seem to claim exactly the opposite.
That's the GPU parallelization they offer, but if you had a problem where say the objective function itself was really big and cumbersome and benefited from GPU parallelization, then you could put that objective function on the GPU just fine.

I think this use case isn't really discussed in the paper because the solver doesn't need to specialize on that case, it should 'just work' without any intervention needed.
Yes the entire truss section dropped. However the bridge is quite a few times longer than it's trussed section. and none of those spans dropped.
I hope mobile apps can ditch phone number logins altogether.
Maybe it's the extra momentum that took it over the edge, which if it were built in the 70s probably were designed with static loading in mind without the benefit of dynamical simulation?
Why would you want to remove those calculations?

You would change behavior of this program
- Not if you have to edit the code. Try to explain your beginner with notepad++ how to do that.

- Not if you have to deploy the code.

- Not if you have to import the code in your own project.

Basically, not if you want to do anything by running the code. For which I would suggest an installer instead.
That is the point, otherwise companies would just pay them up as the cost of doing business their way, and move on.
At this point there must be enough people in the world relying on that behavior that you can't just change it.

Perhaps having an option somewhere could be done, but it would sit there among the hundreds of other options that so many people have no idea about. I think changing Excel's default behavior is a social challenge in itself, I'd be having a stomach ulcer for decades if I was Excel's prooduct manager.
Affinity (Photo) still doesn't support tablets properly. You can play around with parameters affected by pressure and tilt, but here Adobe (and Krita) are ahead.
Could this be cyber attack? On the video the ship goes normally straight under the bridge, then does sharp turn right and for 20s or so goes directly into the pier.
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The poor performance argument is not true even for Python ecosystem that the author discusses. Try saving geospatial data in GeoPackage, GeoJson, FlatGeobuf. They are saved slower than in plain CSV (the only inconvenience is that you must convert geometries into WKT strings). GeoPackage was "the Format of the Future" 8 years ago, but it's utterly slow when saving, because it's an SQLite database and indexes all the data.

Files in .csv.gz are more compact than anything else, unless you have some very-very specific field of work and a very compressible data. As far as I remember, Parquet files are larger than CSV with the same data.

Working with the same kind of data in Rust, I see everything saved and loaded in CSV is lightning fast. The only thing you may miss is indexing.

Whereas saving to binary is noteably slower. A data in generic binary format becomes LARGER than in CSV. (Maybe if you define your own format and write a driver for it, you'll be faster, but that means no interoperability at all.)
Seems like a security issue too. User could be phished from another user's number, or the user relaying messages can intercept OTP codes?
In the days of global trade wars that friend is no longer the friend it used to be, specially if voters decide Trump is a president worth having after everything that went down.
> you seem strangely only interested to criticize renewables while not accepting any of the problems of the nuclear side

Probably my fault, but I was answering to comments that did sound to me like "we don't need nuclear, renewable is the silver bullet". To which I say "I think it is extremely dangerous to think like this, because we are not in a position where we can make mistakes for another few decades, and nobody has deployed renewables at scale yet".

If I look at Germany for instance, they pushed a lot for renewables, which was great for the fossil business (e.g. coal and NLG) because renewables are apparently not enough on their own (e.g. when there is no wind and no sun). And that's only for their current electricity needs, we're not talking about replacing fossil fuels in any way (rather they seem to have replaced nuclear with renewables + more fossil).

My experience as an engineer is that it's easy to say "yup we made a small prototype, it will most definitely work at scale, just give us the money!". Then you start doing it at scale, and you realize it's a whole new problem. I feel like in HN too many people make a quick calculation ("with a fraction of Earth covered with solar panels, we're good for a thousand years") and forget that in practice, you can't just throw solar panels in the desert and call it a day.

Where I come from, solar farms are used at a fraction of their capacity because the electrical infrastructure cannot get their full production. It was just not built like that. But the people working in solar of course did not say it upfront (or did not even know it, I don't know?).

Of course there are issues with nuclear plants. But there are countries (e.g. France) who did it at a scale that renewables haven't reached yet. Again, I don't mean that renewables don't work at all. I just think that it is very risky to just hope that all the fundamental problems of renewables (e.g. storage) will be solved in the near future because unlike autonomous cars or AGI it's not just meant to convince VCs: in this case it matters.
"It can be done" is a far cry from "it's reasonable to expect scientists to do this".
>Why would slumping or buckling but not-quite-collapsing be a functionally better outcome than complete failure?

Well for starters, there's a better chance of less (or ideally no) people forced to get their feet wet and go missing or die from drowning or hypothermia.
Or at least require things like intel ME to be forbidden on any computer used by the administration, forcing chip makers to provide alternatives.
How would that work? I've only come across recursive function application as a way to implement Peano/Church numerals, similar to how it might be done in Prolog:

natnum(0).
natnum(s(N)) :-
natnum(N).
> It would be extremely ironic if Gimp was the only graphics app left standing I could use without all of the above nonsense

I know successful agencies relying on OSS tools only (such as Gimp and Penpot) so I wouldn't mind that. I hope Gimp will have its Blender moment (I've been using Blender for years, but always kept coming back to Maya, this changed with the new UI)
I went to cookiechimp.com in a fresh private browsing window to see what cookies it set by default

There are three Intercom cookies (prefixed intercom-device-id-, intercom-id- and intercom-session-) that aren't listed in 'Essential cookies' in the consent tool. Is the product not able to detect third-party cookies such as the Intercom ones?

The privacy policy at https://cookiechimp.com/cookie-policy also doesn't list these cookies, as well as others that are listed as essential in the consent tool (such as cc_cookie)
Telegram is worrying, but the Worldcoin connection stretches OP’s credibility.
I’ve long thought that if a company loses a case based on SLAPP or similar rules, it should be required to pay upfront the defence costs of anyone it subsequently sues, with the ability to reclaim if it actually wins. There really needs to be a greater deterrent to this sort of behaviour.
I agree about USV, it creates confusion where none needs to exist. For personal use, though, it is not that bad to receive a USV: it should be postmarked ".usv" and in any case if you suspect shenanigans you can `grep` for the offending (literally!) unicode characters and `tr` them into proper ASCII separators. Now, if there is nesting in the USV, I give up.

I share the lament: the whole table issue was solved before it became a problem. POSIX divides ASCII into portable and non-portable characters; only portable characters are allowed in the fields and separators are non-portable. If you need nesting, use a portable encoding of the inner table. This scheme repeats indefinitely without escaping hell or exceptions, preventing tons of errors and headache.

Visibility is such a bizarre complaint. Text editors already handle control characters: they handle tabs, they handle newlines, it is not a tremendous, earth-shattering feature request to make them handle separators gracefully.
No worries, we can erect the Great Firewall of Europe if need comes to be.

Apple doesn't seem to have any issue with that.
And that structure probably existed because the bridge has fewer longer spans, probably since the seabed below the bridge is deeper (and needs to be deeper to support container ships passing below).

The Öresundsbron (connecting Sweden and Denmark) features both short segments but also with an overhand section in the middle for larger ships to pass through. (1) The great belt bridge (inside Denmark) is slightly higher but has the same kind of profile, one of the largest cruise ships barely making it under it is shown passing in the video below (2).

I think the simple truth is that we're vulnerable to these kinds of accidents unless we build far far sturdier bridges, but at these scales to allow passage of ships of these sizes the cost would just make many bridge projects prohibitably expensive.

1: https://www.norden.org/sites/default/files/styles/content_si...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=j1Cs0C8LkeU
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Spain's High Court upholds temporary ban on Worldcoin iris-scanning venture
Antennas have always been black magic for me, and this article blew my mind with the "capacitor you pull apart". Thank you for posting this article, this is fantastic.
let's see how long will it take to build today
How? Except it would finish sooner. The is no behavior.
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As a person who does research and support researchers, I can't see the gap, sorry.

I understand some people don't know it's possible, and some don't care, but for any competent researcher, it's expected them to master the tools they use. This is esp. true for career researchers.
And that's why it won't be $1 in a few months. But you earned your buck, good job. Tragedy of the commons courtesy of telegram + not_me_ever
It appears to have lost power twice before veering into the foundation of the bridge..
I loved the cellular automata scene in Episode 3. It looked like my Factorio map!
Fransje26 has a point. If this had been during rush hour the numbers would be 20x what they are right now.

Of course it’s still tragic and awful.
otoh it could be instrumental precisely because it is flexible and doesn't require a lot of forethought
Title should have the (2020) suffix
very rough metric

The argument is, fundamentally, that it's not even that. It's not a rough proxy for the thing you want to evaluate, it's not any kind of proxy for it at all - that's a qualitatively different argument from your restatement of it.

If you want a very rough comparative proxy, an obvious one is 'Brave is a much smaller downstream consumer of Chrome, Chrome has a larger security team/infrastructure than Brave has employees'. I think you can draw more meaningful conclusions from that alone than from CVE tallies.
> Why is the "requirements.txt" file a stupid flat listing of all transitive dependencies with pinned versions? It makes it harder to change library versions even if there are no true conflicts.

My friend, here is what you seek: https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools

requirements.txt is flat because it's really the output of `pip freeze`. It's supposed to completely and exactly rebuild the environment. Unfortunately it's far too flexible and people abuse it by putting in only direct dependencies etc.

If you're writing packages, you don't need a requirements.txt at all, by the way. Package dependencies (only direct dependencies) live in pyproject.toml with the rest of the package config. requirements.txt (and pip tools) are only for when you want to freeze the whole environment, like for a server deployment.
from what I can tell it didn't look like vehicles, it looked like road maintenance, so people outside and maybe a vehicle. only difference is not trapped in vehicle, everything else still dire
Things like that often will be, which is why you generally need to use the JMH harness to do microbenchmarking on the JVM. It uses internal APIs to stop the compiler treating results as dead and eliminating them.

In this case it doesn't happen because to see that the entire operation is dead requires the compiler to inline payload into main, but he says he disabled inlining for that method specifically so it wouldn't happen. Recall that the goal is to see the assembly for a block of code in isolation, not demo what the JVM can do when given free reign.
When I had this issue, the path of least resistance was to use Libre Office Calc. Of course, that's exactly the kind of application that my company now wants to remove from all systems for compliance with something called "Cyber Essentials".
There is a side effect like cpu temperature increase

If I put my leg on my desktop tower then I may feel enjoyably warm or if I put some chocolate on my laptop then it may start melting

Also fans will be louder
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That's important context then.

Using Canva for a design assignment is obviously a mis-step by the student, not a flaw of the tool itself

For short-term & quick usage, canva is a perfectly fine tool for editing/formatting stuff
"this hurts you, Shephard"
> ... growth is much easier to come by...

That doesn't seem like an easy position to defend. In the pre-modern era, the baselines are so small that a 5% growth rate was possible to achieve with even primitive tools. And a smart person could found entire fields of science with a decade of study of common phenomenon. The world was rich with growth opportunities.

It'd have been much easier to grow if they'd had social structures that allowed it. The lawmakers at the time just didn't realise how much damage inefficient and poorly organised financial and property systems were doing to the general wellbeing.

If nothing else, well developed structures around loans would make it easier for the early societies to discover that fossil fuel was a huge source of growth.
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Most bridges nowadays (say last century) depend on a careful balance of forces that are transferred through a chain of members in tension and compression.

When any piece in the chain of those forces breaks, the entire structure loses ability to transfer forces and breaks.

This arrangement is what allows us to build these structures in the first place. There is careful calculations of forces and risks and allowance for margin for error and unexpected events. But, unfortunately, in many cases those do not include ramming things with a large container ship...
Linking to the jobs page of a company you don't work for is quite strange, yes.
Two different sources, exact same effect.
Good point. And I should clarify, I’m not a filmmaker and mostly edit screen recordings and home movies. For that, I find that Resolve and Final Cut Pro work equally well and equally poorly. There’s a lot of room in video editing for further innovation, particularly if A.I. or automation can help simplify repetitive tasks. Premiere isn’t the best example of Adobe’s video tools - that title probably belongs to After Effects, an app inexplicably unique in its ease of editing and producing motion video graphics. No need to deal with translating your ideas into Nodes to get it working in Resolve. No need to try to fit within the limitations of titles and effects in FCP, etc. After Effects is Premiere’s killer app.
Hobart learned its lesson. You can't drive over the bridge when heavy ships sail under it.
Check out Brick Immortar (it’s a pun) on YouTube for some in depth videos on past container ship collisions with bridges and how newer bridges are engineered.
People have come up with S-expression syntaxes for C, basically to be able to write C macros in lisp. Here's one:
https://voodoo-slide.blogspot.com/2010/01/amplifying-c.html
On what basis? Is Canva somehow cheating? I don't know, as I'm not a designer in any way.
I wonder if it will work that long without need for patches/updates with the current pace of deprecations in macOS. Using Affinity Photo myself, wondering if I’d better off switching to Windows at this point.
The specific point I'm making (in the sentence following the one you quoted) is that no, there is not a better chance of those things. If a bridge of this size is going to fail in any significant way, it is going to lead to loss of life.

The broader point is that attempts to blame the bridge designers here are misplaced. It really isn't reasonable to have hoped that they could design a structure that could cope with this kind of failure, within the cost constraints that they had. And cost constraints were a real thing for the designers of this particular bridge.
+1 I recently watched the whole series again after I subscribed to HBOMax. I hadn't watched it since 2008, when I watched in SD using DVDs from my original Netflix subscription.

Aside from the new story details I caught and the general great acting, I was struck by how the series captured a the technology transition going on at the time. Payphones and typewriters shift to classic feature phones and PCs with CRTs. Then camera phones enter the picture.
> It is very telling that your first thoughts was "if someone says that in the sector, it's not what they say, then, surely this person is wrong somehow". It shows the level of bias.

I said that I would expect someone working in the sector to believe in the sector. I did not say AT ALL that someone working in the sector is surely wrong.

Of course people in renewables tend to say that nuclear doesn't work, and people in nuclear tend to say that renewables don't work. That's how it works. Asking who is saying what and consider they may have a bias seems reasonable to me.

> "because Jancovici said that only ideological people promotes solar"

I have been following him for years, and that is not AT ALL what I understood. He never says "solar is completely useless". He says "it depends on the situation, but it won't scale to replace fossil fuels". He also says that in many situations nuclear is a better fit (because if you have enough nuclear energy, then you don't need renewables, but when you have renewables, you need a solution for the times where they don't produce enough).

I am absolutely certain that renewables are good in many situations. I just say that people selling solar farms have an interest in believing that solar farms will replace fossil fuels. But they won't.
I'm grappling too much with whether this argument has any meaning to give a cogent response.

It kind of has a, "yeah, but if reality didn't exist" feel to it.

Could humans reason if we somehow lived in a void? I don't know. But, then I guess it really wouldn't matter.
Notably predating the 1980 collapse of the Sunshine Skyway after a ship hit.
I need this for Mac!
> Henry VIII had broken with Rome so that he could get a divorce

As far as I know, Henry VIII never divorced any of his wives, they all ended because of annulment or death.
It seems funny how so many "elites" are mortally offended by the very notion of being able to make some sort of progress through work. Are they truly that afraid of not being to progress by who they know?
Why not use LibreOffice instead?
You can buy premade MIDI faders for about $25 [0], there's no way that the hardware aspect of this project is worth making over that. The software is the only real issue, at a quick glance, [1] appears to be relatively equivalent for generic MIDI fader support, perhaps with a few more bells and whistles available.

[0] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005589381790.html (a chinese clone of the korg nanoControl 2, the original korg aren't that great quality, but they work, the clones are 'just as good', or you can pay more for korg or another brand)

[1] https://www.midi-mixer.com/