skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it matter? Where else is the US military gonna go to instead? Airbus?
It will be a slow death.
> Don’t make the mistake of believing the default settings of WP come from any kind of informed wisdom instead of historical accident.

I don't, thanks.

To repeat myself, I just say it's better not to assume they are wrong.

Almost every bit of bad WP development out there comes from people who work against the flow of what WP is doing, whether because they don't understand or do understand and feel they know better.

They may, in fact, know better, but it's almost always wasted energy that leads to future unmaintainability when a WP site is handed to a new stakeholder for example.

The WP sites I've had to maintain where someone has subverted the templates, or tried to superimpose some MVC scheme, or whatever, have always been the worst ones.

There are good, official tools to manage most of the idiosyncrasies of WP (WP-CLI, for example) without just arbitrarily moving stuff around. Learning them helps.
Flatpak uses bubblewrap, and you can use that separately (directly or through ex. bubblejail).
One way to address this kind of attack is by vetting the source. If you put some effort into it, you could possibly conclude that for example nytimes.com does not auto generate nonsense stories with AI, so you could then assume their text is written by humans.

Of course this falls apart in this day and age, where many seem to rely on whatever flows thru their social media feeds / reels.

It is certainly a user problem, where we need to counter by educating ourselves to deal with this the new reality of bad actors being common place, educate ourselves and our peers, and permanently solve the social chain of trust-issue in our digital lives with new technical solutions.
You typically need more than the model to actually use it, as you might need to "massage" the data into the right form before and after the model call.
Yeah, too many people just fight bugs and ignore the bots. ;-)
I'd hate to tell you to switch DEs, but I ran into this same issue with my Framework 13. After using GNOME for almost 20 years it got me to try KDE which supports that feature natively. Now none of my applications are blurry or require tweaking.

I hadn't really used KDE much before that, but KDE 6 is a solid release.
Will you also avoid ever getting in a car? Because statistically speaking, you're far more likely to die in a car crash than in a Boeing plane.

Edit: In the last decade, in the US, about 2 people have been killed from aviation, and 365,000 people from car crashes.
For the same reason this happened exactly this easy in the past! This was nothing new! Conspiracy theorists just didn't have the nuance to know about it in the past.

Making a cheap good for many people opens companies up to risk. Even frivolous lawsuits are expensive and if they are getting pennies per customer even a frivolous lawsuit can destroy the profits of millions of successes deployments. Vaccines like the last round had serious issues on the order of 1 in a million cases. Even that low rate is enough to crush profits with medical costs the way they are.
> There was no legal change, the law was applied as written as it has been to many other individuals.

Can you cite a single case before Trump's where this law was applied, as a felony, without actually charging the defendant with the other crime that makes it a felony?

I looked. In the cases I checked, the second crime was charged.

And an honest observer has to wonder why that second crime wasn't charged in this case. Did the prosecution doubt they could prove it?
I share this sentiment.

"Survival rates are averages taken in the past" was a reassuring refrain in the context of terminal illness and risky surgery, with the assumption that survival rates improve over time.

But the same words also apply to air travel, without the same assumption.
I remember a decade and a half ago, a network protocol which was flat , statistically, on internet traffic metrics (bandwidth expensive as even with 0 traffic encrypted blank noise was isochronously transfered).

It was at the time rumors spread about statistical attacks on tor with man-in-the-middle agents and corrupted nodes.

The rumors said the author of the published thesis was asked nicely by "authorities" to un-publish it...
So true. Very good to know which decisions are one-way or two-way doors.
>Angela Tipton was disgusted when she heard that her students were circulating a lewd image around their middle school. What made it far worse was seeing that the picture had her face on someone else’s naked body.

We did the same in 1998 with photoshop ... nothing new under the sun. Yet another moral panic.
You most likely would not have read about the study if that were the outcome because it would have been remained unpublished due to self-censorship or buried.

It would be an interesting experiment indeed. Getting that result isn't hard, that's just a matter of finding the right researchers to do the study just like any other study in this field (including this one). Academia being what it is is will be harder to find the 'right' candidate but that does not make it impossible.

The whole concept of 'fake news' is fraught with error anyway given that it wholly depends on who gets to decide what is 'fake news'. Were and are the many claims that 'we only have X years left' fake news, especially where X has come and gone without the world succumbing to whatever was supposed to ail it? What about all those calls that 'politician Y will become a dictator' which turned out to be untrue, was that fake news? What does that say about similar calls being made about the same person at a later point in time, can those now be labelled 'fake news'?

Fake news and the related 'fact checkers' are just weapons in the arsenal of the propagandists in the battle with other propagandists. In the end it is propaganda all the way down.
If someone refers to Boeing as the sole domestic airplane manufacturer, I would assume they also know that Cessna exists but are referring to the Boeing/Airbus duopoly.
Indeed, null pointer exception, or a segfault in C. In essence an unhandled state error, sometimes largely from inexperience.
Good article. This is why RISC-V International is based in Switzerland.

I imagine the EU wouldn't be too happy about this either given how much they are backing RISC-V.
Ok, seems better than the industry then :)

I have trauma from Aerospike, Redis, and couple of others, so it may have affected my perception.
I think what he meant is he hasn't had to work with other people's code. Other people have to work with his code.
Glider was fantastic for me before the re-write. Since then, my ancient 8 year old phone can't handle it anymore.

I now use Fennec/Firefox. HN is very light from the browser, and it does everything I want.
Azure and IPv6: I think we have critical mass boys
That's the problem. I don't know.

I've made up half a dozen definitions for it before asking, and none of them were a good guide to decide about the software on my machine. Yours seems to focus on the DE components, what is both way too restrictive (why are `ls` or `test` out?) and way too inclusive (my DE installs with an Earth rendering and graphic calculator, my workplace's DE installs with CandyCrush).
Just buy a car and get someone competent to do an EV conversion. That would probably be cheaper than a Bollinger anyway.

"Bollinger says its pickup and SUV will each cost $125,000"
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/bollinger-b1-b2-release-d...

Sounds rather optimistic to me.
Our database is within spitting distance of MySQL's raw performance and getting faster all the time. Certainly there are some applications where that will not be fast enough. That didn't prevent MySQL from becoming the worlds most widely deployed free database.

And yes, postgres is faster and will eventually pass MySQL in deployments, but that's success also has very little to do with its speed.
You lack empathy.
I should clarify that by "optimized" I meant hand optimized, not just compiler optimized. You can easily code yourself into surprisingly poor performance with Go, though usually for the same/similar reasons as C#/Java. Rust makes it a little harder to get into the same situations though it's by no means impossible.

As to the zero/low-cost abstractions, Go has very few abstractions at a language level and that is what I meant by "much less expressive". If you try too hard to write Go as though it were another language, you will shoot yourself in the foot. However the Go compiler, standard library, and broader ecosystem have come a long way and enable very similar performance profiles to most other compiled languages. It has not been my experience, at least in micro-benchmarks, to see any major performance differences in Go vs e.g. C on things like encryption, hashing, RNG, SIMD, etc. You do need to avoid allocations in hot code paths but that's true of any garbage-collected language.

The outstanding performance issues I'm aware of are around deferring, calling methods through an interface, and calling out to cgo. These are pretty minor in most situations but can eat up a lot of CPU cycles if done often in tight loops. They've also been getting better over time and can sometimes be optimized away with PGO.
We're very actively working on improving Unit's UX/DX along those lines. Our official Docker images will pick up and read configuration files from `/docker-entrypoint.d/`, so you can bind mount your config into your container and you should be off to the races. More details at https://unit.nginx.org/installation/#initial-configuration

But that's still kinda rough, so we're also overhauling our tooling, including a new (and very much still-in-development) `unitctl` CLI which you can find at https://github.com/nginx/unit/tree/master/tools/unitctl. With unitctl today, you can manually run something like `unitctl --wait-timeout-seconds=3 --wait-max-tries=4 import /opt/unit/config` to achieve the same thing, but expect further refinements as we get closer to formally releasing it.
Ask HN: How close is too close to live to a large fracking operation?
Auroa, Co. We've been fighting a proposed fracking operation (160 wells on 10 large pads) for a year since it was proposed shortly after our moving into the neighborhood. Ultimately, the application will likely pass and operations will commence. The nearest well will be just over a 1 mile away with most between 1-3 miles and it's likely some wells will drill under us.

My wife is deeply concerned for our family's health - mostly about the VOCs. She's ready to move as soon as the plan is approved. I'm a bit more willing to wait it out a bit and judge the impacts before taking that step. I can accept a dip in home value, a bit of traffic, noise, risks to ground water, etc. However, when all we see is articles about respiratory issues, skin cancer, etc it's harder to justify staying.

The issue is if I search for anything related to health and proximity to fracking operations, it's all very negative. There is one study (https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1307732) I found that compares health effects from <1km with <2km but it's hard to see the baseline since it doesn't really compare <2km with >2km which would better reflect our situation at being 1-2 miles away.

Would anyone be able to share any authoritative information or studies that more directly relate to our proximity regarding health effects?
Are you talking about errors that are not thrown? What language are you using where catching and processing an error are free?
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here. Are you trying to make the point that the Steele dossier was fake? Certainly not censored but it would have been great if it was desensationalized.
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Then to think that I thank the lord (who I don't believe in) every day I grew up when people had no phones/cameras in school, at all.

Then social media added with cameras makes me more grateful!

This seems even a bigger nightmare.
I feel like the API charging should reflect the cost/impact, and solve for this.
And the network ingress/egress costs are higher for cross account/region transfers.
That's pretty cool, I'll try to remember to post a follow up when this makes it into a release.
I don't think we're as rare as you think we are.
> To repeat myself, I just say it's better not to assume they are wrong.

Normally advice I would heed, but my long experience with WP's codebase has flipped that assumption. It's WP's default layout that's the unmaintainable mess, much like every other legacy PHP project that doesn't use composer.
Bedrock isn't "arbitrarily moving stuff around": it's a mature product maintained by people who know what they're doing, which frankly puts them a tier above most of Automattic.

I use wp-cli alongside bedrock, they work nicely together.
So they steal from you, and then you get the privilege of your tax dollars paying for their room and board. I dunno, I can see why some people might not be chuffed to bits by that solution.
> Buy uncut slabs of USDA Prime grade ribeye

Weird start to making flank steak, but okay?
Whoa I totally forgot that Soulseek was a thing, thank you! I used to be able to find rare b-sides and live recordings of my favorite bands on it.
> The USG just needs to choose an authentication scheme that is easily and securely implemented in smartphones

This is a fundamentally terrible idea. It assumes people must have a smartphone.

What does it take to have a smartphone? You have to commit to a monthly expense stream paid to a proprietary private company. A company who also has the power to cancel you.

No, anything that is an official government scheme must be fully implemented as a government service with zero dependencies on private companies.
It feels a bit like the 1999 dot com bubble. The internet was real but valuations got ahead of the reality.
LOL.

If I'm hiring you in a product role, where you're supposed to write our GitLab issues. (let's simplify)

And. Your job application process is: "copy paste instructions into ChatGPT and return result, without even proofreading".

What is the likelihood that your behavior on the job will be anything other than:
"copy paste instructions into ChatGPT and return result, without even proofreading".

?
> Same with Netflix and it's bit starved encodes.

Bitrates are tied to the subscription tier. If you do the 4K plan, it's visibly noticeable that 1080p video bitrates are higher. They don't have much 4K content, but the 1080p difference is worth it for my 4K projector.
Where? The only other option is Airbus. I would never board a Comac aircraft.
I almost made the same post.

In the author's position I'd consider a different name or talking to the Foundation if he hasn't already.
CS gas is 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile [1], not capsacin. "Although [CS gas is] described as a non-lethal weapon for crowd control, studies have raised doubts about this classification. CS can cause severe pulmonary damage and can also significantly damage the heart and liver." [1]

Tear gas is largly bromoacetone, not capsacin [2]. Though, CS gases and tear gases can contain mixtures with capsacin AFAIK.

It's funny, except when the police flood urban areas with this stuff. EG: "Seattle Residents Got Tear Gassed in Their Own Apartments" [3]

A SF school added to that list is sad.

Sure though, we can make jokes whenever you cook that you prepared a weapon of war.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CS_gas

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_gas

[3] https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/06/04/43840246/seattle...
Obviously it's not possible to guarantee but it's definitely possible to reduce your chances of being on a Boeing aircraft.
What Is a Lazy Susan? The History Behind the Tray, and Its Name
It is not perfect, but most airlines will try not to swap plane models as it breaks all the seating assignments.

I think the older Boeing planes through 737-900 are as safe as ever. 737-MAX+ and 787 seem to be where the design process went awry. Even then, there seem to be known workarounds to the bugs.

For what it's worth, I still fly on them all, I just remember to tell my family I love them before takeoff when the safety card has MAX on the label.
Wireguard testsuite comes with a pretty good userland for testing kernel facilities (obviously wireguard itself). It's been integrated in the kernel tree, I can't remember where, but it's great to use for experimentation.
Paramount+ coming out with a two part documentary June 11 based on a book with the same name, How Music Got Free:

https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/paramount-plus/shows/h...
Another one is everyone in the 90's believed shared libraries were a major innovation and therefore to be used everywhere.

They turn out to be bringing fairly little benefit (minuscule disk space saving) and giant drawbacks (the vaunted "your software will be upgraded / bugfixed behing your back" which instead turned out to be a configuration nightmare and an exponential multiplication of the attack surface for would be attackers)

To this day, I dread to try an run an old binary that was linked against shared libraries say 5 years ago on a modern system.

Chances of it working are quasi zero, and good luck trying to reconstitute the tree of shared libraries that are recursively required to get that binary to run, glibc often being the worst offender of the lot.
Wonder if it can be applied to financial markets and make short term options trading profitable.
You also have some control over the car whereas your life is entirely in the hands of some random people you don’t know and some Boeing equipment in the plane.
How costly is it to one's quality of life to avoid being in a car versus having a different departure time and sitting on an Airbus instead?
When Achilles defeats Hector, he's able to do so because he exploits the gap in his armor that leaves the neck exposed. Achilles knows about this because the armor had previously belonged to him, and he's now fighting in new armor gifted to him by a different goddess.

Replace "divine gift" with "innovation" and now we have a story about how exactly this sort of armor was a hot new technology.
> software updates change key features such as how the cruise control functions with little notice

That’s news to me. Did I unintentionally risk my (very non-technical) wife’s safety when I gave her my Y?

The reliance on touchscreen controls is why I didn’t recommend my nearly 80 year old father to get a Tesla, despite how much he loves my CT and Y. Not sure what EV would be good for him though. He needs a 200+ mi range and as “dumb” of a UI as he can get. For now he’s keeping his RAV4.
bit torrent is basically the succesor to all this, and torrenting sites like the pirate bay are still going strong.
Starliner Launch Scrubbed [video]
Why did you compare home size in a city to home size in a country? Average Japan home size is about 1000 square feet, smaller but not that much smaller.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1289345/japan-average-si...
There is a link in the blog to a public gist, it's just a single file you can download and run.
So am I. The median home price rose from 221k in Q4 2011 to 442k in Q4 2022.

That's doubling in 11 years, thus rising 6.5% per year on average over the long term.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS

Over the same time period, the value of existing homes, as measured by the Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index (which measures the price of repeat same home sales) more than doubled.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/csushpinsa
In my area, these types of operations are almost always some mom-n-pop shop. Possibly with a few employees.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the owner felt good about doing this.
Qlock.py – A Python Quine Clock
Not sure that you care, but you are doing an absolutely terrible job representing RP in nearly every comment I’ve seen you make on the topic. You need a coach I guess.
The title made me think this was an article about space, but instead I got an article about Space.
Back around in World of Warcraft around 2009ish, there was a rogue named Napster that someone invited to the guild I was in <Death and Taxes> as a casual/friend.

I never found out if he was actually the founder for real but I always wanted to add "geared up the founder of Napster in Sunwell" to my resume somehow.
The countdown has been stopped. Safing of the Atlas V, Starliner and launch pad
It's been trivial to make images, nude or otherwise, of anyone providing you have a couple of photos of them since roughly August or September of 2022. I know because I made some funny images (for a leaving party) of one of my friends (e.g. friend as Luke Skywalker etc), and this was with open source software running on a few years old GPU.

The fact is this, this particular cat is out of the bag and will never be going back inside. It's only getting easier and more devices (including phones) have the required graphics capability to do this.

I think we just have to accept that (as has always happened), the world has evolved and there are new ways to hurt people. When I was a teen and the internet first appeared, people could get bullied via ICQ and MSN, and also got the shit kicked out of them in person too. Now kids can get bullied on Insta and have porn made of them too.

However, in my final year of high school, someone printed out a bunch of images of one of our teachers heads photoshopped onto a pornstars body. It wasn't a perfect fit but I'm sure the poor teacher didn't care about it not being "perfect."

With content-aware fill, and other more advanced tools, it's been possible to Photoshop porn-a-likes which are pretty damn good for a long time, and I dont think the new tech changes anything really. Human nature stays the same and it's that we should be trying to work on, through education, child-care, etc. "Tools" for abuse or bullying will always exist and keep evolving, and trying to play whack-a-mole with them will never work, rather like trying to ban booze or weed. Trying to create a more caring society, improving schools and budgeting for teachers and teacher training, social workers, etc, is the way forward here.

But, sadly, inevitably, we will go with the easy option, try and legislate our way out of this, which won't work at all, and the cycle of bullshit will continue.
The Muto Method
As if people don’t get hit by other drivers.
That it is just now “in panic mode” is indicative of the root issue.
> Fisker also did not set aside money to cover warranty repairs, according to the employees – marking another departure from a standard industry practice.

Fisker sounds like an amateur operation through and through. On top of the spare parts reserves, one of the things manufacturers often do for a hardware product, especially something as expensive as a car, is find a warranty insurance underwriter. Their underwriter would have easily helped them avoid most of these problems as they've got a lot of experience auditing manufacturing lines and products for serviceability.

> Many were told at the time to tackle the backlog of unprocessed title and registration paperwork, which had left hundreds of customers without permanent license plates.

> The company had already scrambled to perform an internal audit to track down the missing $16 million in customer payments.

Is there a phrase that means the opposite of "attention to detail?" Every little detail is a shitshow
Kind of an awkward scenario as the utility would have nothing to do with insulation.

Option 2 is better, yet both options are still valuable investments for society