skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if they had mentioned a published date, how can you be REALLY sure that actually IS the published date? There is always that dicey nature of internet which makes it untrustworthy.
LA to SF is one of the busiest air routes in the country.
Sometimes I really wonder how cloudflare manages to get away with some of the things that happen on their network? I mean, here and there you have a problem? OK I get that. But like you said, this seems to be almost intentional. It’s just weird.
> It aggressively meddles in them in cultural and political spheres, not allowing such disparate actors to operate in the same peaceful markets. The recent animosity towards China is mind boggling.

As I said... If the leaders of those countries simply kowtowed to american demands, you bet they would. In particula,

China -- institute free market reforms; officially announce the truth, which is that they're not communist (they haven't been for years).

Russia -- not have Putin

Iran -- not have the Ayatollah

Cuba -- not be communist

At the end of the day it is very easy to acquiesce to American demands. You simply have to not try to undo a coup they did and then never ever ever say you're communist. You can go ahead and be a dictator, but America has decided communism bad, so just don't go there and you will be okay with the US. Then let the US operate military bases on your country's soil, and voila, you will be America's friend forever. Recall that Pakistan is still an ally of the United States despite harboring its most wanted terrorist.

in other words, there are very clear paths for all these countries to not feel the full force of American sanctions. And this is what I mean by the US doesn't really care. Even with China, you can say all you want about it, but America's embrace of China has made it what it is today, despite the cold tensions.
I know a welder. He had to quit after 15 years do to physical ailments. If you get a job like that, you must be into fitness. It is easy to work a desk at 55, but being a welder is hard. Personally, I would live modestly for a few years and bank as much as you can. Then go buy or build a small business. That is an easier, more interesting life, and you can learn all the "hard stuff" typical business owners must pay others to do (finance, IT,supply chain,...)
Does this semantically look like a 4-seater with front seats removed?
Should that be the goal of the economy?
“it depends”

but in all seriousness, it depends. adding an index. removing/consolidating indexes. breaking the queries down into individual UoW and forcing intermediate materialization. identifying platform-specific optimization barriers. rearranging sufficiently complex query semantics to force behavior you expect.

99% of the cases i’ve personally had to resolve over the last 15 years have been the result of sql hero queries that try to do everything all at once. this is exacerbated by orms that generated bad sql but was acceptable at low cardinalities. under scaled-up concurrency and data volumes they can’t deliver the necessary performance anymore.
Long term use of nitros causes irreversable neuropathy... it does take a lot over time, though, and B12 treatments can help.

https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp-rj.20...
I really miss the UI/UX of the 90s and I sincerely think that while nostalgia plays a part, they have real merit. We don't really think about what we've lost in the quest for "attractive" and "simple" UIs

In those screenshots, what's clickable is obvious. What things can be interacted with is hinted at. Every element has a generous amount of space to be selected/clicked.

I really do believe that modern UIs generally increase cognitive load and are less enjoyable to use. Things are less discoverable than they used to be.

It amazes me how much early interfaces got right, and saddens me how much we've forgotten.
The funny thing is that the Source Engine code was leaked years ago, so now it's possible to compile an arm64 native version of Half-Life, Portal, and more, without Valve help.

https://www.macsourceports.com has many old gems too.
Hamming's _You and Your Research_ (another HN perennial) has a variant on the theme too:

"Most great scientists know many important problems. They have something between 10 and 20 important problems for which they are looking for an attack. And when they see a new idea come up, one hears them say ``Well that bears on this problem.'' They drop all the other things and get after it. "
The screenshots are 640x480. That's most likely simply a full screen screenshot. The whole style of the write-up looks much more modern than 2001 though. I assume it was first published on a different URL and with a different style (or at least it would very much surprise that someone would write about Winpopup nowadays).
But why would it be http?
It depends on how easy is to make batteries quick to swap. No need for ultra fast charging, they could just use a spare battery pack then the discharged one would go to the next plane after charging. If they find a way to say open a hatch and have the giant battery pack slide out to be replaced by a already fully recharged spare one, the stop could be as quick as changing horses to a carriage.
My heuristic (especially for bigger, better indexed websites) is whenever archive.org first saw it
Have they ended the practice of keeping a Soyuz capsule docked with ISS at all times, in case of an eventuality such as this?
I agree with almost all of your analysis. One has to be an excellent programmer to write secure code, doubly so in C.

I disagree with your conclusion, though. To me, the above means that C FAILS to meet the goal of enabling secure programming. An analogy might be car safety. Yes, if we had perfect drivers we would not even need seatbelts, let alone airbags. But, I would definitely say that a car without these does not meet the goal of "enabling" safe driving merely because it is theoretically possible.

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
Because it's cheaper than paying people.
And probably need to be in pretty mint condition and find the right buyers. Nothing I have is mint and I wouldn't even try to sell it. The minicomputer boards are from a once major minicomputer maker but very few people have probably even heard of them today.
I renewed my ECDSA certificate on June 7th, and got one signed with their new ECDSA intermediate certificate. Awesome!
I will read your links.

But my first reaction to your above comment is that modern commercial/urban/residential builds are intended for longer lifespans, higher use, and lower maintenance than suburban-rural/SFH. Also the tools/technology available to the builders of each are very different. Materials selection is consequently also very different.

And there are stricter zoning and permitting requirements (as well as different risks and goals that drive them) in cities than in rural areas, which definitely increases costs -- but the overarching intent is that a city build becomes part of the fabric and should serve (and be safe for) not only the builder/seller/owner but also the community.

Cost is almost never the limiting factor for building though. So I'm not sure it makes sense to look at it through that lens.
How is it compared to lsd or ketamine?

Is it like suddenly an lsd trip and than suddenly out again?
>> that would dramatically reduce CO2 emissions in air travel

I'm actually more interested in reducing H2O emissions in air travel. The effect on cloud formations can be dramatic depending on conditions. Lower altitude aircraft don't affect this as much either.
I feel like actually getting rich people to behave in ways that benefit the general public is a lot less straightforward

Suppose schools get funded like that. There's several other ways that the rich could ensure that their kids get a better outcome while still maintaining the relative advantage
There have been studies. In the public transit realm, there was a comparison of the Vancouver Canada Line that was built for the Olympics (an elevated train/subway to the airport) and the Eglinton Crosstown in Toronto (mixed underground surface light rail).

The TL;DR is that the Vancouver line was mostly on time, on budget, and is working well, while the Eglinton line is massively over-budget, still not ready (should have opened in 2020) with an "indeterminate opening date".

The big difference between the two? Vancouver's doled out ONE contract to design, build, and operate the line. It was up to the one company to decide how and where to contract out or subdivide, only being held to certain conditions with reasonable flexibility for unexpected issues. Toronto had a (notoriously bureaucratic provincial government organization called Metrolinx) subdivide a bunch of contracts and essentially act as a project manager (of which a lot was also contracted out) with government-level accountability. The results were all over the place. Tracks were installed with slightly bad gauges, signalling software was bought and didn't have interoperability with other components, substandard construction was used, some contractors were probably hired for political reasons, etc.

There's plenty of studies from all over the world that compare cost differences for infrastructure between countries. The French are actually really good at it - they tend to spend a fraction the cost of infrastructure compared to England. https://www.bcg.com/united-kingdom/centre-for-growth/insight...
Humans don't do well concentrating on something for more than about an hour. So fifty minutes seems like a reasonable rule of thumb.

You can improve this if you make it more varied, adding interactions, changing media, multiple speakers taking turns, that sort of thing, but having a rule of thumb helps.

And it fits calendars nicely, fifty minutes per talk, ten minutes break between, one talk per hour.
I think they're right about the interface itself, and agree with you wholeheartedly about the technical problems of the time. NT was a massive leap forward and it amazes me how long it existed before Microsoft could merge the consumer and business spaces in XP.

That said, something to be said for truly feeling in control of your own computer and not worrying at all about what it's doing behind your back (or what might change without you knowing in the next update!)
I haven't added or edited anything but spelling errors. It was another commenter who raised concern about scaling production, my point was that the viability of this as method for methane reduction also needed to determine if the aquaculture needed to produce the seaweed would be a net benefit from a climate change perspective.
And after 30 years Windows 10 and 11 has only limited file protection so any ransomware can be fatal.
I guess we are evolving.
Disingenuous question. It's not a single box. It's not a single park. There's more work involved than simply plopping a "box" in a park.
People's lives were ruined over this. People committed suicide over this.

Those complicit in ruining their lives to cover the blunder of the post office, execs, and third party companies should see jail time. The careers and paychecks of the wealthy and powerful do not trump justice and lives lost.
> So what happens when the Supreme Court steps in and says that delegated authority is no longer valid? The answer is that we become more nonfunctional and the intention is clear, because the court has partisan objectives.

Given that the overwhelming majority of government workers are themselves partisan in one direction (DC is by far majority democrat, and government workers the same), one can easily argue the opposite: that allowing bureaucratic rule making is itself partisan.
Plenty of studies showing Khan Academy is effective.

https://blog.khanacademy.org/multiple-studies-show-khan-acad...
Why not be deeply invested in hiring high quality math tutors?
I'm sorry, I meant actual engineers, not software engineers! :)

A company run by software engineers is one of the most toxic places you can work! There's way too much intellectual navel gazing for my taste. Like you say, they tend to be more concerned with building their CV than building a product and there are all kinds of pointless "discussions" arguing over minutia that doesn't even matter to the end product.
They were referring to the simplicity of the GUI. Not the OS architecture.

Windows NT 4 had memory protection and this GUI, if that helps frame it in your mind.
Full technical write-up here: https://www.daily.co/blog/the-worlds-fastest-voice-bot/
Aluminum smelting, data processing, water treatment and pumping, mining... A lot of industries don't need a 100% duty cycle and would be hally to switch to scheduling if cost incentives are here (and some already do like aluminum smelting in some areas).
Game of the Year (2014, 2022)
CHILL LOL.
I just do `yay -Syu` every week or so. What does `-Qtd` do?
So then why are they so keen to get to the UK from France?

I suspect because it is easier to work illegally here as the authorities have no interest in preventing it - having lots of people working at below minimum wage keeps inflation down.
Interesting that they still discriminate based on religion.
It’s an old engagement trick. The classic advice is to hide publish dates because you might lose some people who don’t want to read old posts.

Which isn’t helpful if you’re a person who doesn’t want to read old posts.
People are spread too thin with their skills already, so it's no wonder they don't want to learn yet another thing (especially if you aren't the one signing their checks). The databases can be forgiving and EXPLAINs are not easy to interpret correctly for people who don't know databases that well.

A proactive solution of hiring a DBA to build things along with the FE/BE developers will likely never get traction due to costs. Businesses regularly put off performance and optimization until later and they still make good money in spite of that.
Like all alternatives to SQL I have seen, this is not as lean and readable as SQL.
With the misery of Word being so dominant, I feel like most people are completely unaware that a WYSISYG document editor could be different. Hell, LibreOffice recreates the same terrible decisions as Word. I stay as far away from Word as possible. PDFs and Pages for Mac make my workflow predictable.
My view of the centrality of language in the process of sustained complex thought is strongly influenced by the memoir of Helen Keller we discussed last month [1].

While it is possible to think about quantities of things without mathematics, you can't engineer systems to get men on the moon without it, nor language.

[1] https://scentofdawn.blogspot.com/2011/07/before-soul-dawn-he...
LLMs can be fed a conversation and understand the intent of its participants, even if no particular keywords are used. Before this, surveillance was limited by how many human agents you could have sifting through recorded data.

Put another way: most people only get charged with a crime if it's worth a law-enforcement officer's time to catch you, but many small violations are ignored in favor of higher priorities. We may have to contemplate a future where AI is clever enough to notice everything that can be construed as a violation of some law and put on a prosecutor's backlog.

Schneier talks about this as well: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-mass-s...
> The idea is to replace TEUs with smaller more manageable standard though.

SO a pallet?

> proposal is like one cubic meter boxes with max of 100kg.

A pallet, the normal shitty wooden ones are rated for 10x that much mass. A cheap pallet jack is rated for 2500kg.

I get what they are proposing. But it is disconnected from the realities of distance and mass... If you need to move 10 pallets of water does it make sense to make 10 trips in your car or 1 trip in a truck? Breaking down goods into smaller units doesn't change the amount of cargo it just creates congestion... It's like a high speed network without jumbo frames.
Ironically, there's a decent chance that they were required to pick an incompetent contractor by regulation. Many places in the US have requirements that public agencies go with the lowest bidder without permitting them to consider things like "is this contractor capable of performing the work" or "has this contractor screwed us over in the past," generally because discretionary choice is seen as a vehicle for corruption.
Consiousness is a emerging feature of our brains complexity.

The way this dude throws around quantum and co is just esotherical.
Government officials are held to a higher ideal than a random businessperson. That seems good and desirable to me.
The fun thing about getting math help from the ai is that okay, sure it can explain how fractions work to a third grader, but it can also explain how fiber bundles work to a graduate student. Maybe it gets the details wrong, but like even if it's wrong sometimes, it's far better than googling or wikipedia or even a text book sometimes, because you can interrogate it interactively and ask for clarifications. Yes, a tutor or a teacher is going to be better, but not everyone has access to a math expert.
Long story short, my Medicare records got screwed up. Some database entry isn't in the correct state that allows their processes to proceed. None of the humans I can get in contact with has the authority (or knows anyone with the authority) to manually correct the record, because that would be outside of their processes. Since the record isn't in a valid state, my access to medications I need to stay alive is being cut off. The retail cost of the just one of the medications is more than 100% of my income.
It's this really important? I assume that the second confidential document is exposed so completely that it's even indexed by Google you already lost.
> I’ve always wanted to use WordPerfect 5.1

I was sorry to move off of WP5.1 for DOS when Windows became "the standard"; WP for Windows just wasn't the same, nor was Microsoft Word for Windows (which we switched to in any case because that's what clients were all using). The WP5.1 macro facility was very nice; among other things, I'd used it to write a simple Emacs keystroke emulator, which speeded up my writing quite a bit.
> laws aren't difficult to read nor understand, its however very tedious to make sure you're not missing something important from some chapter of a book you were unaware of.

Yea, as a non-lawyer, this is what would terrify me away from representing myself in court. Not whether I was guilty or not, but the fact that it's such a procedural gotcha-game: "Haha! You did not say Magical Incantation 1924 in front of a judge in response to the opposing counsel's Magical Incantation 266! You automatically lose!" Or "Haha! You didn't file a form 27B/6 in the right clerk's office before the right deadline! You automatically lose!"
That transformer circuit won't give any clue to those who don't remember hello.jpg (Or was it giver.jpg? I don't remember) but for me it sent me back two decades. I actually found HN during the beta debacle.
> If you were honestly trying to have a conversation, and were genuinely curios of my arguments

I am actually.

> I'd put in the effort to explain them

Thank you!

> I could for instance talk about how I feel like the overuse of analogies is dumbing the audience, like how movie scenes of "hacking" get removed from reality, but the medium develops a language of its own.

Now that is an interesting example. The thing is a real hacker doesn't look like much. Visually they can be anybody. They probably have a computer. They probably type in commands (but not always) to a command line. They probably type into a text editor and save it. Visually me sitting in this chair and writing this comment to you, and a master hacker infiltrating a secure network are almost indistinguishable. We know that the hacking involves mental puzzle solving, subterfuge, probing and discovering systems, the danger of being found, dealing with active and passive defences etc. So they illustrate these elements visually. Because from the storytelling perspective what matters is not how it is done (person typing in commands into the command line) but what action do they represent. The emotional content.

How would you want it handled? Why would that be better? In what sense would it be better? (Would it be better story telling? Or would it be better for society at large?)

I tell you a bigger problem with movie language: corrupt police officers. Certain kind of crime genre requires that the police is either corrupt or incompetent. Because if they were neither the whole premise of the movie would be solved by the hero walking to the police and making a report and the baddies would be caught, end of story. But that is bad story telling. It is not interesting to watch. So in these kind of movies corrupt and/or incompetent police is a requirement. Which over represents police corruption/incompetence in crime movies which has real-world implications. It slowly corrodes society where people expect less from police, less surprised when corruption or incompetence is reported, and makes people less likely to turn to the police with their problems. That's very bad. I'm not sure how stylised "hacker battles" are bad in the same sense, but maybe you thought more about that than me?

> correcting when someone oversimplified concepts.

But what is the oversimplification? We exchanged multiple comments over this and I still don't understand your point. The article doesn't say that "private data" is literally "human organs". It is not recommending that you should do an immunological compatibility test before you hear someone's private data, or that you should transport private data in a chilled container. That would be clear nonsense. Instead it recommends that legislature could ban the trade of private data. Like how we ban the trade of human organs. That is what the article says. Which of this is "oversimplified"?
The real issue is that customers without knowledge are asking explicitly for wordpress instead letting us techs give the best advice.
> problems in his mind constantly, like a monk, is easy said but difficult to do.

You're misunderstanding what's being described - there's nothing monk like about it.

Using myself as an example, you have a couple techniques you're good at (linear programming) and a couple of problems you've tried to solve before but failed (fixed parameter tractable problems). Every time someone tells you about a problem (or you run into one) you try apply the thing you're good at ("will an LP work here"). Every time someone tells you about an approach they took with their problem you try it out on your thing.

It all happens completely automatically/naturally/fluently if you're good at the technique and have actually tried to solve said pet problem. Like I don't need to write code or calculate anything because I know by now exactly where/what my blockers. Conversely I know very quickly when an LP is appropriate because I know the assumptions/requirements very well.
The other thing that has not happened are the necessary changes to legislation and procedures with regard to expert witnesses to prevent this happening again and again.

I wonder how many other people have been wrongfully convicted or otherwise damaged (e.g. financially) because "the computer says so"?
There are five "boxes" costing 185k each. The rest of the cost is to install sewage water and power lines.

https://abc7ny.com/public-restroom-nyc-bathroom-subway/12892...
No, I've got 12+ years of experience in FAANG software engineering. I really believe the end is near
Huh, never really thought about it this way. There really is no carrot to implementing secure solutions, only the stick when there is an incident.
The thing is: I'm fairly confident my subconsciousness is the actual thinking part and my consciousness is kinda dumb if that makes sense. The part of my brain that does think in words is pretty slow and gets a lot of information from the "processor" behind without actually realizing it.
I visualize it as the 2 man start up where there one tech guy and one who sells it outwards.

I'm not sure where the science is in that...