skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We can be glad we have cars, trucks and roads that are a bit more resistant to attacks.

Hack traffic light controls and set them to all-green (assuming the safety interlock is done in software), all-red, or just off. Dumbass drivers will do the rest for free.

Alternatively, disrupt Google Maps and Waze. Barely anyone has a dedicated offline navigation system any more - take these two out or "suggest" fake traffic jams to overload side streets [1] will also cause a lot of chaos.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/03/berlin-ar...
I used to fly SWA quite a bit, but the past few years they are often more expensive than American for the same routes out of my area (DFW), or, require connections when I could get a direct flight on American for the same price or less. Unless I'm flying with a lot of bags, its generally cheaper lately on another airline. I did love SWA's open seating and hope this change doesn't stick, but they no longer seem to have the cost advantage over the other carriers going for them. I fear if this change goes through, its only a matter of time before they start charging for checked bags and then they will be no different from any other airline.
Academics can be pragmatic, I've know ones who've sued both Bayesian statistics and MLE
A pleasing aesthetic will not reimburse me for time lost.
And related to this, there's the failure of secondary schools to actually sufficiently educate children. Is it budget cuts, flawed curriculum, or (this is approaching conspiracy theory territory) a particular political party wanting to keep the population stupid, because a better educated population would vote against them?
Ask HN: How do you bypass, eliminate, reduce friction when starting a project
I have a wide variety of projects (hardware, software, robotics, etc.) that seem have high friction levels to get started. By friction I mean things like getting parts together, assembling long tool chains for software, etc.

I feel that I'm out in the yak barn shaving yaks about every time I start these. I have projects "on the books" that I've done the documentation on what I need and after awhile it just gets moved into the too hard pile.

I try to pre-plan and figure out what I need so I don't get to the point that I need a discontinued chip and need to spin up a foundry in my basement. :-) I get parts and file them away by the project. Side effect is I have enough parts to reopen a half dozen Radio Shack stores for staged projects.

I document everything, since task switch could be days / weeks apart. I use a local wiki to make it a little easier since I can cross reference what software/hardware similar projects need. (But one of the projects is updating the wiki software, that will break some of the features I added, so I'll need to fix them as I go)

But there is still so much other software friction going on. My other stumbles come from projects that I'm trying to include that are multi-lingual (lets mash C, Rust, and Python together??). Library gathering has the nuance of make sure everything is on the same level.

None of these are For$ale projects, they are allegedly something that will be fun, but it's like the fun gets sucked out before there is any results.

So hackers, what are your secrets from not getting stuck in the startup friction and staying out of the yak shed? How do you manage having 5-7 inprocess projects and keeping where you are documented. Thanks.
In addition to the overall benefits of not having non-compete agreements, California's software startup ecosystem also benefits from not having to deal with charging sales tax when selling SaaS[1][2]

[1] https://www.taxjar.com/blog/saas-california-sales-tax
[2] https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/lawguides/vol1/sutr/1502.html
I also think you can't really compare them: ZFS more or less says "never use without ECC memory". BTRFS is run on just about any potato there is.

I myself would never run a file server without ECC and a UPS configured for a graceful shutdown. I have also never had any issues, but I only have about 10tb of data.
The entire point of a LWN article like this is to accurately summarize the patch sets and email discussions for casual readers. No need for the snark.
If this is mislabeled, it is mislabeled as a wing.

Boneless wings are not defined by the USDA.

https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/PoultrySt...

§70.231 Boneless poultry breasts, drumsticks, thighs, and legs -- A Quality.
The standards of quality contained in this section are applicable to raw poultry products labeled as ready-to-cook "boneless (kind) breasts," "boneless (kind) drumsticks," "boneless (kind) thighs," "boneless (kind) legs," or with words of similar import. The product shall consist of poultry meat of the kind specified (such as chicken or turkey).

(a) The breasts, drumsticks, thighs, or legs shall be cut as specified in AMS §70.210(f) (1), (2), (4), (5), or (6), respectively.

(b) The bone or bones shall be removed in a neat manner without undue mutilation of adjacent muscle.

You'll note the lack of definition of "boneless wings" and that boneless means removing of the bones rather than creating some amount of meat that lacks bones.

Boneless wings are actually breast meat rather than wing meat ( https://apnews.com/article/super-bowl-boneless-wings-culinar... ).

Words mean things... but there are no words that mean things with the definition of "boneless wing" according to the USDA.
> ... managed to tear out the streetcars (on hindsight a mistake)

Having lived in places with OK (SF) or good streetcar service (Berlin, which is a nice A/B test case with East/West Berlin) I am a huge fan of streetcars.

But my understanding is that in general the streetcars never made money in suburban developments. What I remember reading (on HN first!) was that they were deployed in early (post WWII) suburbs to entice urban people to move to a suburbs, but were operated at a loss. When the town eventually had to take them over they shut them down.

Does the economics really work out when you don't have urban density?
the incredible damage that western media has done to their citizens is this outsized sense of superiority. russia isn’t la côte d’iviore. you can try a 10x response but i doubt you’ll be here to tell us how it went.
Don't worry about it friend =3
They are typically superimposed yes. It's extraordinarily easy with football, the field is essentially a premade green screen with completely standardized index points (the yard markers). What's funny is what happens when it starts snowing on the field, which is not rare with the NFL's schedule.
>It’s become an expensive and completely unnecessary prerequisite for the general public,

This isn't a "problem" per se because that is literally what we drilled into multiple generations of people.

"Go to college if you don't want to flip burgers forever.", as was oft said. We will become a country of white collar service industries, it was oft said.

We demanded everyone go to college, everyone thus went to college regardless if it made any logical or financial sense to do so.

Meanwhile, the trades are seeing fewer and fewer students and apprentices, blue collar jobs are seeing fewer and fewer applicants, and people who actually gave some thought to going to college or not generally have had happier lives.

The problem isn't everyone going to college, it's the notion everyone should go to college.
Or remember you are never gonna get away so better not commit any crime
US society can't seem to even hold the police accountable for misconduct, rights violations, and literal crimes committed on the job. Overtime fraud seems to be pretty low on the priority list.
Hi. I worked quite a lot on the dictionary part when designing the game. What I came up with was to only use common nouns, like "river," verbs, like "dance," or adjectives, like "bright." Also all words are in their base or dictionary forms, like "happy" instead of "happier".
I am confused, Captain Beefheart didn't even play guitar, did he?
The game was designed to be free to play from the beginning, so any design decisions are fundamentally going to be geared towards making that work. The design could never be corrupted, because that implies it wasn't to begin with :)
> What a failure of our western surveillance organizations that the only spies we catch are the ones that are so bad at their jobs that they get drunk and brag about it.

That's the ones we make public. There's been quite the lot of spies quietly yeeted or exchanged for political hostages. And just as often, it's the other way 'round.
>I'm not saying agile has no place, just that many projects would benefit from a little bit more foresight.

There is really a spectrum of choices for how much you plan and tradeoffs with each level.

Success is finding the right balance for you, your team, and your product.
Music is art, and art is fundamentally an emotional experience. You clearly got lost at "If you're guilty of thinking, you're out".
This was documented in 2017 by the wonderfully named "No Country for Coal Gen" report:

https://carbontracker.org/reports/no-country-for-coal-gen-be...

> an outdated regulatory framework is one of the only reasons why uncompetitive coal power continues to operate in the US;

> phasing-out coal power could save US citizens money and make the US economy more competitive.
Epstein and ghislaine were in it together. People with hobbies find like minded people I guess.
A virus definition file isn't very useful unless it can instantly update. The virus doesn't ask before it installs itself.
I'm entirely onboard with "humans are fucking the entire system up in multiple interrelated ways".
> I frankly don't care if short term it costs a bit more,

Indeed. It's an investment in developing local capabilities.
Well said. I have a plethora of personal experience dealing with incompetent chair warmers at big uni's everyone has heard of.

The solution is actually simple. remove all federal student loan aid and grants. Only project grants should be used to onboard students into a higher uni education. If there's no work to be done then no students. There should never be an education program where the professors are not including their students in tangible work.
> Some skeptical teachers, test-prep companies and college administrators see the recent changes as another form of grade inflation, and a way to boost the organization’s business by making AP courses seem more attractive.

Yes. Of course. Some people in the comments will lament letting the dum dums into college but that’s not the problem. The problem is we consistently see this pattern across our society. Profit above all else. Our entire society in the western world now is a big game to extract as many dollars (sorry, value) from each other as possible through any means necessary. And we are not learning our lesson.
That's correct, it's doing a clone into an empty repo rather than using the fork API - code is here:
https://github.com/github-community-projects/private-mirrors...

As it pertains to the post, since that private mirror is disconnected, none of the concerns about accessing deleted data apply.

The downside is that you don't get any of GitHub's performance and UI affordances from the fork network. But for the use case of private iterations on work headed for a public upstream, that's a trade-off that seems worth making.
This would have been a lot better with a “steelman” version of the “scientism credo” rather than the exaggerated form presented. I found it pretty alienating to try to read this, even though I probably agree with the thesis on the whole.
A lot of Americans don't actually value education, as in learning, they value the degrees. Once you understand this, you understand why parents push for backwards things such as grade inflation.
I disagree, Guillermo is a (great) developer at heart and spirit.

He also happens to have found ways to profit from that.
Yeah, I‘d say that 7$/month is maybe even a bit expensive, given the rather simple features.
i like the trap laid here. "But NoMoreNicksLeft, you have to pay for search rankings!" ban that, too. Ban SEO. If i make a page that has my product offerings on it, it should compete on my copy, not SEO or how much i spent at google, bing, FB, etc. This is a solvable problem with specifically search technology, but also as a society we also have access to more people to ask for recommendations, to see other people talking about some new toy (or whatever) they bought.

As far as search engines go, the search provider can wholesale ban everyone who even accidentally games the system. Put your widget catalog on a web page, be honest about your products and/or services, and you should be fine. I will repeat that, because i think this is the part that gets marketing graduates in a tizzy - be honest about your products and/or services. If you gotta lie about what you offer or can do, then i really could not care less if your business survives; there's already enough dishonesty in our society.

edit to add: i actually logged in on my computer to reply to another comment you made (they should just buy a house closer to the job) which was very good.
There's an 150 km radius no-fly zone in effect right now, but in practise most of France has no flights in the air. The couple of tracked aircraft in the air near Paris are airforce tankers.
Kinda short on analysis. This could be grade inflation, it could be better prep or even cheating. Or just a short-term statistical aberration that regresses to the mean in a year or two.
If you go back over 50 years, to 1971, you get Creeper and Reaper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeper_and_Reaper
Software to Make Forms from a Table?
This is the scenario: I need to print like 500 forms with a bunch of data imported from a table. I can use MS office suite. What is the smart way to get this done? The guides I have found are super jank. I have a non-technical team here at the office so I need this to be easy to teach and easy to do. I have an end format that the data needs to be fit into. I cannot imagine that there isn't a form wizard for this exact use case. Further; meta question: how do you increase your discoveries within software that has low discoverability, is abandonware, or is otherwise generally obtuse?
So what, we don't have to send ICBMs on their happy way to Moscow to turn the Kremlin into fine dust.

We can just go and supply Ukraine with a shit ton of Abrams, Taurus or lift the usage restrictions that currently forbid Ukraine to strike targets deep in Moscow.

All of that is certainly better than just accepting Putin's escalations.
Reader wasn't cancelled for business or technical reasons, but it was for a good reason. I can't share it, mostly because I've forgotten too much of the story I was told to repeat it.

I find it unimpressive how much people focus on it. They don't seem to know there are other RSS readers.
Thanks (both)
So Lisp, even with macros, is not that bad. Macros add just one mechanism which you have to know in order to understand a piece of Lisp code from first principles.

The number of other special mechanisms in Lisp is much lower than in Python or C++.

Obviously macros are powerful which is another way to say "footgun". Also it makes the comparison a bit unfair - an out-of-the-box Lisp usually already has many macros which you have to know. They provide some of the stuff which needs to be hard coded into the compilers in languages like C++ and Python.
Gridworld comes to mind. I'd be interested in learning of others

https://store.steampowered.com/app/396890/Gridworld/
That would be interesting! I'd love for someone to tackle that.
Pretty much any public transit is operated at a loss very few exceptions usually make money off real estate, namely stations in prime locations.
Not really. You can transpose a plot and/or create something based on another work with the freedom to do anything you want (see: Throne of Blood, based on MacBeth), and people will be singing your praises generations later. If conversely you take on the original name, script, characters, historical setting, aesthetic, etc collectively as if to approximate high faithfulness to the original work (one that is not genre fantasy), then putting a brazen change front-and-center (like a black Scottish king) sticks out. It will draw more attention than anything else, and maybe that's the point. There are a ton of Macbeth adaptations, they're not super-duper cheap to make, and they often lose money.

It's just an artistic/stylistic judgement, not a complaint (very few readers here are likely to go see another in the pile of Macbeth movies). A modern day adaptation even with all the original names and dialog would still work better. I don't have a horse in the race because I don't care to see yet another Macbeth.
They also tried to kill the CEO of Rheinmetall. The GRU in particular (but also the FSB) occasionally just goes and does some crazy shit.
in space? in a vacuum? being affected by literally 0.0001% of all mass of the rotating body?
The benefit of a Gantt chart isn't meeting deadlines, it is organizing work. You have all of the steps and what each of them depends on and a timeline. If something slips you know how to update your estimates for everything downstream. If several things are at risk you can see which ones have more critical time constraints and allocate resources effectively.
The vast majority of schools and colleges are purportedly not for profit.
Potentially more trustworthy source: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/07/25/the-secr...
I don't think you understand the argument, which is not that the systems component stack for virtualized workloads is entirely memory safe, but rather that the world Theo was describing in 2007 no longer exists. For instance, based on this comment, I'm not sure you understand what Theo was referring to when he described the second operating system implicated in that stack.
> Or hell, even the way Germany does with its emphasis on vocational schooling as an alternative to university?

Increasing emphasis on vocational schooling would probably be a good idea from an economic (when viewed outside the narrow free market lens) and national competitiveness standpoint.

I kind of feel like there may be some ideological factors going on, but I don't know enough about Germany or East Asia to comment. Are those countries more comfortable with certain kinds of inequality or are vocational professions more respected (or a little bit of both)?
How much do Swiss citizens pay for LibreOffice support? My guess is they pay less than they'd pay for an Office subscription.
Yes if we make our universities more dependent on extracting money from students and industry the problem will surely get better.
I think what people are really looking for when they say they want accuracy or realism in media is actually depth and coherent world building.
Huh?

$12 × 0.60 = $7.20

$ 5 × 0.97 = $4.85
This might be difficult to quantify but it feels like Jalopnik has always had a negative editorial slant around EVs. I suspect this is all the legacy ad dollars at work. Does anyone else feel this?
I would recommend give LLMWhisperer a try with the documents pertaining to your use case.

https://unstract.com/llmwhisperer/

Try demo in playground: https://pg.llmwhisperer.unstract.com/

Quick tutorial:
https://unstract.com/blog/extract-table-from-pdf/
> if pedagogical methods are getting better over time, then you should naturally expect grades to rise if standards stay the same

That is literally the opposite of grade inflation.

Words mean actual things, and making up a completely different definition is asinine.
America has a problematic history with the death penalty. Especially with making sure it's actual the perp who gets penalized. Not some convenient scapegoat.

But I might not object to jury members who lost homes or family to the fire, or "999 to life" jail terms.
I think you're being overly dismissive. Does anything excite you?
It sucks to be invaded.

It sucks very slightly less if you're being given support from wealthier countries.

It would be even better if those countries would let you use them to really tear up your invader -- not just their invading forces, but striking their homeland. But when those countries are fearful of that escalating, you take what you can get.
Philosophically, you could make the argument that it really does exist.
Sometimes you can just blame people. All you need to do is hear the stories of parents forcing meetings with teachers to complain about how their child is failing because they didn't submit any assignments. And the school administration pressures the teachers into acquiescing to the parent's demands.
> Using chemical (Novichok) and radiological (Polonium) weapons to conduct assassinations (and causing civilian casualties) was an attack on NATO.

Don't forget the classic assassinations like the Tiergartenmord in Berlin [1].

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordfall_Selimchan_Changoschwi...
The trades are not "struggling". They have the same administrative incompetence issue as uni's. Unions in the long term destroyed your ability to work in a trade by requiring indentured servitude to get your certificate. The one you need to pull any kind of permit or do basic work.

Government and unions have intentionally choked the life out of trades by ensuring very few can get into it. It's a club, and you ain't in it.

The solution is effective - nullify duration requirements, replace with in person testing.
We required them to go to college (employers require the checkbox with no exposure to the cost), didn't pay for it (funds to schools reduced to lower taxes), made them take out loans that aren't dischargeable (what other obligations are not dischargeable in bankruptcy besides tax claims, spousal and child support, etc?), did not provide any guarantee for a job mandating the obligation, and did all of this when folks were too young to understand the trap they were sent into. We should be ashamed of this, but in America, this is a Tuesday.

You must internalize the externality of requiring a college degree to obtain a job, and shift the cost to the demanding parties. Universal access to community college and robust apprenticeship pipelines are also potential solutions. Otherwise, people will just give up [1] [2] [3], as it is the rational course of action. Think in systems. With all due respect, this system is garbage and we can do better if improved outcomes are desired.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/01/neets-and-new-unemployables-...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/05/23/is-coll...

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/03/economy/young-americans-givin...
Same reason every coding tutorial -- no matter the capabilities of the language -- starts with a simple "hello world".

Learn with a simple toy example before moving onto the industrial-grade deconstruction that really shows the power of the tool. These guys have done CT scans of things like real vs. fake airPods and charger bricks to show what really justifies their (probably) 7 or 8-figure price tags.

This one is just content marketing of something anyone can wrap their head around.
When I was optimizing GPU kernels a few years back, Nvidia's own kernels were getting those last few percent of performance by making use of hardware-specific features (I remember operand caches being one) that are not available through PTX.
Probably something like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatures_(1996_video_game)

Many others mentioned here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_simulation_game
The funny thing about Mihoyo's games is that they are one of the most profitable developers, but they could definitely pull more levers to incentivise people to spend even more money. Most gacha games have some sort of pay-to-win PvP and/or leaderboards built in their games, but in Mihoyo's games, having a top-tier team just means you have to oppertunity to get slightly more premium currency.
it would be a cool competition who makes the nicest program using the fax compiler
Reminds me of LLMs, where the weights are the 'seed' that solves standard benchmark suite.