skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) of the United States demonstrated pretty well what can happen if you shirk safety and that was just manufacturing pesticides.

> There's always that one meteorite.

But we just ignore the meteorite. Nobody has made any attempt to stop either of us being hit by a meteorite. We just let it fall where it may.

We've had safety standards shirked, we've had multiple disasters and the worst case scenario so far appears to be order-of-magnitude equal to a normal year of current practice using fossil fuels. It seems to be well within our tolerance for risk.

The issue here is that progress on one of the most promising sources of energy we have has been blocked and it is hard to find someone who can articulate a reason why, let alone a good reason. Between Germany and Japan we've had countries that appear to be more willing to risk deindustrialisation than just keep on with a perfectly acceptable nuclear status quo. It is madness. It is akin to trying to move civilisation underground to avoid the inevitable meteor strike that is going to wipe out humanity - we can't afford that expensive a risk mitigation and it doesn't seem clear that it would even help.
> Your fear of macros is natural, since they are not typical for a programming language.

Not natural actually, but coming from experience in reading and using. You think it is great for using until you have to use the macros from others or other people your macros and there is a somewhat lack of docs, which is a common thing in real life.
A book is always a good start.
Well, feel free to spend your own time on writing such a tool and releasing it as Open Source. That would be a really cool project! Until then, don't complain that others aren't willing to donate a significant amount of their work to the public.
"Until now"? Do you really think that this is the first time a Lisp has been used to write an application? Is that because this is the first time you're hearing about it?

The first link is ancient, because CL has fallen into relative disuse, but that doesn't mean Common Lisp was without a purpose until quantum computing became a possibility:
https://franz.com/success/
https://common-lisp.net/lisp-companies

You'll notice that most of these aren't user-facing applications or they're extremely specific to a particular industry. Common Lisp itself was standardized largely due to the demand of the US Department of Defense so they would have a single, combined dialect of Lisp for DoD/DARPA projects. That's the sort of language this has always been (entirely out-of-sight, and also for most of its life it was prohibitively expensive). It's similar to Ada, in that sense.

Python obviously does run on those same computers, yes, but most Common Lisp implementations have the benefit of compiling to machine code, while Python is interpreted.
Is it really?

Private healthcare incentive to provide a good health insurance and overtreatement for healthy and no insurance or treatment for sick.

That's shows as 3 year lower life expectancy compared to western Europe and Canada.
Crazy how so many young people are just dying of cancer these days.
But you also run inference orders of magnitudes more times, so it should still amount to more compute than training?
She censored things because of politics. That’s not “lovely.”

YouTube has videos on the dangers of GMO crops, despite the scientific consensus for their safety and utility.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8959534/#cit000...

YouTube has plenty of videos about electromagnetic sensitivity about which the WHO says: “EHS has no clear diagnostic criteria and there is no scientific basis to link EHS symptoms to EMF exposure.”

https://www.who.int/teams/environment-climate-change-and-hea...

And more stupidity: “Eating these foods kills cancer”

https://youtu.be/WGbFnp56csg?si=t54Pcr3uqjrXRx9f

“12 foods that can fight and cure cancer”

https://youtu.be/FdlKCpEzSAE?si=J6rtKs6valWnamBP

Interview with Robert DeNiro 8 years about his concerns about vaccines and autism and his doubts about the vaccine effectiveness statistics.

https://youtu.be/FJ7iPn39i08?si=mRYD3a3y9HdMPMQ8

Covid censorship was political and not from some altruistic “goodness.”

And YouTube experienced very significant growth during the pandemic. So that “lovely” soul was profiting because of the lockdowns. Lockdowns that were possible due to fear and a lack of any permissible public debate — partially thanks to YouTube. Would lockdowns have ended sooner if there was more debate on the topic allowed? Definitely. What about school closures? Absolutely. But videos debating these things weren’t allowed.

So no, the game and the player in this case are one and the same. I’m not going to respect anyone that supported lockdowns or supported suppressing scientific debate. Curating opinion (and facts) while pretending to not to isn’t worthy of respect.

And, YouTube still allows those addictive kid videos where the narrator says “If you love your parents, like and subscribe. If you don’t love your parents, don’t like and subscribe.”
Magit is overhyped
Using .local causes big problems with mDNS/Bonjour/Rendezvous, which also uses that TLD.
If compute is gonna play the role of electricity in coming decades, then having a compute wall similar to Tesla powerwall is a necessity.
Read section 2.1 of the linked https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/security-and-stability-ad... for some motivations.
Isn't the same true for popular cloud services?

One security flaw and thousands are affected.

Maybe back to on prem would be better.
Definitely my favourite perspective on death.
No I haven’t because it’s quite complicated. Databases are very much a solved problem. Unfortunately, this architecture is going to be nigh impossible to hire for and when it goes absolutely sideways recovery will be difficult.
I would be quite happy brain-wise with ChatGPT being able to answer any multiple choice question with 100% accuracy. Such an ability is not creativity as I understand the term, but it is difficult.

Regarding your argument, "the first 3 are essentially different from the 4th", the point is you (and the article) haven't shown why. Your argument is that "Such behaviors are extremely far away from what an AI can do today. They might become possible some day" which is exactly what was said about chess in the 70s.
> Today there are a few non-trivial differences from LLVM, but we are actively working on either upstreaming or reverting those differences

https://github.com/swiftlang/llvm-project
People of course associate her with YouTube, but Susan Wojcicki has had an overall fascinating career.

Page and Brin started Google in her garage. She was employee #16 at the company. She was behind the Google logo, Google Doodles, Image Search, AdSense, then all of advertising, and ultimately YouTube.

Safe to say Google would not be where it is today without her role. RIP.
That would also have been practically correct, avoiding you this bug and the many hours of debugging, being resilient to byzantine/adversarial technologies (NextJS reimplementing prefetching itself and making debugging very difficult)
Smart Technology is great when it is gets over the hump from being dumb, to overly complicated, to being smart and easy to use. I think of my smart lights as an example. They can be dumb (switch operated), they can be overly complex (remove phone, open app, find light, switch on), and they can be just smart (when I am in the room, turn on the lights, use time of day to decide light temperature and brightness).
The single most frustrating thing Tesla did re: Power was not allowing me to plug an appliance in. We lose power somewhat regularly where I live due to storms, and the tesla has 6-10 days of my household power budget sitting in its banks. Just let me plug in a deep freezer and coffee maker, please.

INB4 the 12V terminals: They are hard to access, have limited amps, and are a separate crappy battery.
It does matter because there is a portion that is toxic in about any sizeable community, so following that logic all wells would be easily poisoned
Yes, but it is still very vague. Do c++ smart pointers qualify? If so, what percentage of pointers should be smart pointers?

It's very easy for AAPL to make this rule say whatever they want it to
It isn't equal to g even in SI units except at some very few spots on the surface of the earth.

Change the units to any other system and it's not even roughly true.

Edit: Now that i have read the article i see that it is no coincidence at all that it is close the pi squared. very interesting.
I never understood the need for smart lights for able-bodied people.

You just stand up for a moment and flick the switch, what benefit do smart lights or even a remote for lights provide?
Even if you disregard all the issues these iot/smart devices have and assume they operate perfectly I really don’t see why we should expend any resources to make them.
They will pay for "good enough" while still attempting to extract the maximum.
AWS closes several cloud services to new customers
Agree absolutely with every single point. Especially the last one.
> That’s not true, nasa engaged in studies of its suppliers in the 60s […]

Are these available online anywhere? Curious to know how they calculated (?) such things.
Just because somebody wants to know where you're from, doesn't mean they are entitled to know that. You are under no obligation to say "I'm from California" when buying a house. Your realtor can do all the discussions. "You're a person buying a house".
Interesting re complex projects. Compared to other langs I've used, rust gives me more confidence in maintaining and refactoring complex projects, maintaining state etc. I think this is due to the strict type checks, the helpful compile errors, and the ownership system. Maybe also due to the robustness of what I call struct-and-enum-oriented programming.

I have plenty of my own beefs with rust that I won't go into here, but... it comes out on top for complex projects.
I knew that historically meter was related to the size of the earth somehow, but I had never had about the pendulum definition!
Arguably most humans can't do this either.
This really has nothing to do with "smartness" or even technology. It's the ancient conflict between the urban interdependent elites and the rural self sufficient people, it's just harder to see now that the internet makes the actual physical location less interesting.

This is why FOSS is so important and why I refuse to buy hardware without firmware that I can build myself.
How is that related? What does it have to do with Rust? If anything, I'd say it shows that social media (and microblogging platforms like Twitter and Mastodon in particular) tend to be politically charged, toxic, and dogmatic.
By and large overdose is a result of irrational thinking, or misguided attempts to apply logic. So it doesn’t make sense to make judgements about or apply ration to the drugs someone ODs on.

Also, it doesn’t seem so weird for someone to try and mix uppers and downers. And those are all commonly abused drugs.

For those reasons, I can only assume this comment was a poor attempt at sarcasm and/or humor.
I'm a fan of Supermaven, and speed does make a difference. In our team, most of the devs switched to Supermaven after seeing how quickly and concisely it works. I used to work with Cursor, but after trying Supermaven, which has the largest context among any Copilots, I found it instantly reads the context of my project and suggests code in my project's style.

From what I've found on their blog (https://www.cursor.com/blog/problems-2023), Cursor's context is 500k tokens, which is much better than GitHub Copilot's 8k tokens, but still not a competitor for Supermaven's 1m tokens. So in the end, Supermaven learns from your project. The more you write, the more it actually matches your code style.
I think it's important to understand that every startup goes through three phases: Explore, Expand, Extract. What's simple in one phase isn't simple in the other.

A transactional database is simple in Expand and Extract, but adds additional overhead during the Explore phase, because you're focusing on infrastructure issues rather than product. Data reliability isn't critical in the Explore phase either, because you just don't have customers, so you just don't have data.

Having everything in memory with bknr.datastore (without replication) is simple in the Explore phase, but once you get to Expand phase it adds operational overhead to make sure that data is consistent.

But by the time I've reached the Expand phase, I've already proven my product and I've already written a bunch of code. Rewriting it with a transactional database doesn't make sense, and it's easier to just add replication on top of it with Raft.
Two men jailed for social media posts that stirred up far-right violence
Let me help everyone that doesn’t know the word like me.

“Ultradian rhythms are biological cycles that repeat throughout a 24-hour day, with periods ranging from fractions of a second to several hours. They are different from circadian rhythms, which complete one cycle per day, and infradian rhythms, which have periods longer than a day.”
> the leaders of the Rust community should do something about it.

You should read the reaction of the Rust community leaders to the quoted article, and you'll see that they share your opinion that something must be done.

At the same time when you have people in the community saying politely and cheeringly that “you'll get over it when you've internalized the rules” what are you supposed to do as a mod? It obviously doesn't infringe the code of conduct even though it seems to have offended the author of the article.

Also, when what the people get pissed of about a community is “they don't want to admit it doesn't work” it's had to say that the toxicity is “people are still experiencing toxicity on the level of other communities that don't have a code of conduct”, by any means…

The goal of a CoC is to make sure nobody gets bullied or harassed, not that nobody will ever get annoyed by other people. You can't make sure you don't have idiots in your community, all you can do is making everyone behaving in a civil manner, which is already hard enough.
Relatedly, I recommend reading "The Measure of All Things" by Ken Alder about the origins of the metric system and the first scientific conference ever. It is a surprisingly gripping read.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Measure-of-All-Th...
I get your point and I don’t doubt the project you’re talking about was a mess, but the file system is a database, and can be a very good choice, depending on exactly what you’re doing.
The greatest sin of YouTube's current recommendation algorithm is its optimization for eyeball time (aka more ad capacity).

Any tweaks around the edges will never be able to compete with that.

And unfortunately that central tenet incentivizes creators to make clickbait content that plays on emotions, because that's the most reliable way to deliver what YouTube wants.

(YouTube could decide it was optimizing for something else, but that would put a big dent in ad revenue)
We have been doing this software and hardware thing for a decent amount of time now. If the SSH server in your modem uses bad encryption because of a hardware issue, the company should replace it and not make their own infrastructure less security because of that. It's the issue with IoT in general, there's no maintenance plan. But some countries are enacting regulation to ensure these devices aren't left rot (and eventually become a national security issue).

I'm not saying companies should do this for free, btw.
There is no indecision. There is only deciding not to act.
Elixir strike Force member here. Minor correction, concurrency wasn't invented by elixir, it was just perfected by it ;-D

(That's a joke for the record. Elixir mainly uses erlang's stuff, and it's based on the actor model, which was not invented by elixir or erlang. I do personally love it though, I believe it to be a great implementation.)
Why is it more interesting? Is it just more interesting because we use such bases, or can it be interesting inherently? That is the question that is being asked, and why some say it's merely a coincidence.
Sure they do when you have proper high speed rain. That journey could be 10 relaxing hours at 300kph. No security, no awful plane noise and seats. Quiet comfy and relaxing (or overnight and you can sleep)

It’s also far better for the environment, and should be cheaper if you take plane subsidies and apply them to trains.

Also your math is wrong 5 hours with 1 hour each side (generous) is 7 hours. With 2 hours each side that’s 9 hours.

Either way I would much rather take a comfortable train for 10 hours then suffer in a plane for 5.

(The reason 2000km takes so long for op is its 7+ train changes, if you made 7+ plane changes it would be very long too)
gonna go ahead and cast shade at Google because of how they handled that.

Their original application for .dev was written to "ensure its reserved use for internal projects - since it is a common internal TLD for development" - then once granted a few years later they started selling domains with it.

** WITH HSTS PRELOADING ** ensuring that all those internal dev sites they were aware of would break.
What about the Rust community is not welcoming? Ruby has had its fair share of community controversies, so that's an odd choice for comparison.
Seeing “Do not hallucinate.” included tells us a lot about AI in 2024.
OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall
A while back someone deepfaked the CGI Leia scene with footage of the actual Carrie Fisher as Leia in the original Star Wars.

It looked amazing. So amazing I'm surprised the CGI -> Deepfake technique isn't used more often in movies.
The Perseids Meteor Shower Is Peaking
the README.md seems straightforward enough.
That’s the best part, you don’t realize when things go sideways.
Solution to the logic puzzle from the university quest using Python
That’s because many of the people watching already committed to three trilogies. Without the previous world building, Rogue One wouldn’t be as good.
The criteria in the US is: "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action"[1]

It seems clear that the posts would be unlawful even in the US.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
Right, but if you're in general "manufacturing", there isn't much point of feeling ashamed about some parts of the industry focusing on munitions manufacturing.
Spacelounge!
I recommend setting up code words with people. I haven't gone that far myself yet, but in my mind, there are clear phrases I could say to the people in my life that they would be convinced it was me. Unfortunately, until I have the specific talk with them, I suppose anybody could impersonate me to them.
It shows as available here in Brazil
There's a reason why the world outside of the US and Eritrea sees citizenship-based taxation as a completely bonkers concept.
3,304.9 vs 956.6 per 100,000 are "similar rates"? Are we looking at the same data?
I think you'd have trouble prosecuting this in the US. Lots of people say awful things on X/Twitter. Mostly they are outbursts, or seeking some form of social credit. Just look at what people say about political candidates in the US. If you say something totally outrageous toward a political candidate, you may get a visit from the SS, but rarely, rarely, unless they have materiel or other immediate intent are they prosecuted/jailed. IIRC, Greenday, a few days after an attempted assassination on a presidential candidate held out a mask acting as a severed head. Previous to that we had comedians with severed heads of prominent politicians.

I think we're pretty liberal about these things in the US.

Remember the BLM riots where they set fire to automobiles and government buildings, etc? Those were actual acts of violence but few were jailed.
I love all of these ironic black bar request posts.
New 9/11 Evidence Revives Questions About Hijackers' Saudi Ties
I’d suggest fully reading the article.
The original tweet was essentially complaining about boilerplate, which is all that's involved in managing most "complex object graphs" in Rust. If you think some minor boilerplate makes languages "extremely anti-ergonomic" I sure hope you're not writing Java.
My favorite is 1 mile = phi kilometers with <1% error
Typesense has been a godsend; amazing piece of tech and on top of that fairly easy to operate even in HA mode; if you can fit your dataset in memory I really recommend giving it a try
Yeah, "inside the firewall" declined as a marketing pitch pretty quickly.
Big in 2022 (261 points, 124 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31828615
Where is the repo? Stuck in the landing page loop here and no github link I could find.
I could not comment on paywalled article, but I am wondering if someone finally tried to use AI/ML on the manuscript.
> What we say is, attack the issue, not the neighbor.

> Wood-Lewis said the beauty of careful moderation is that, over time, most users learn to adhere to the site’s norms on their own.

Seems like these principles alone can do a lot of the legwork. People forget how much culture matters. Individuals conform to the culture of civility or they leave. X and Facebook have encouraged toxic cultures to thrive and so no amount of moderation can fix them at this point.

And if FPF isn’t optimizing for engagement, they’re not trying to get more posts for posts sake. So I’d think the volume of posts requiring moderation is probably lower.
That would mix Greek with Latin.
The file system is a database and an API.

Magic!
Yeah all of the page's links just go to the same page, except the "experience live cam" link at the top. That goes to this:

https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam

Took me multiple minutes to find too.
"Working with the artificial intelligence company RAIC Labs, which scanned satellite images of China's entire land border captured by Planet Labs, The Times identified the locations of new villages and checked them against historical images, state media, social media posts and public records.

The mapping reveals that China has put at least one village near every accessible Himalayan pass that borders India, as well as on most of the passes bordering Bhutan and Nepal... "
> In what sense? I think people conflate "big brick building" with "quality". Sure, it's nice, as is some of the labour-intensive finishing work from that era. But nearly every bit of a modern house is "higher quality" than a home built 100+ ago,

Thin walls, poor sound insulation, poor thermal insulation, poor structural durability, poor quality building materials, poor quality flooring— cheap.

> (please don't link me some story of a shoddy builder)

I don't need to link you to anything because I'm talking about places I've lived and as of thus, I've presented exactly as much empirical evidence as you have. And few of the building were brick— almost all of the places I've lived were timber framed. Look up pictures of Southern New England neighborhoods if you want to see what I'm talking about. The television show "This Old House" is entirely based on renovating New England homes from that supposedly poor quality era and it's been on since 1979.

It's clearly different where you live. I know about a half dozen carpenters, including my best friend of thirty years, and every single one of them deliberately sought a house from this era because they are excellent quality.

> thanks mostly to the building code.

The building code will reduce the risk of fires and reduce the risk of dying in them if they occur, it will ensure that people looking to make a quick buck flipping a shoddy will have a harder time doing so, it will ensure your plumbing will probably work for a while— but better building materials were much cheaper, as was skilled labor, and there were quite a number of known good designs for the areas quirks with weather, etc. They were generally just plain-old good?
I don't think that compensates all the bad uses it will probably have.