skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does the moderator research the topic to determine I'm wrong and then reject the post?

No, they will rely on their own limited knowledge and their own biases. It’s how things like the lab leak theory got censored heavily on social media by people who had limited knowledge. These types of moderator groups tend to become monocultures who think they’re doing the right thing and can’t see past their own limitations. This article is trying to make it seem like having a monoculture is good. Ironic to see them argue against real diversity.
I wonder if this is related, but imperial measurements with a 5 in the numerator (and a power of two in the denominator) are generally just under a power of two number of millimeters.

The reason is fun, and as far as I know, historically unintentional. To convert from 5/(2^n) inches to mm, we multiply by 25.4 mm/in. So we get 5*25.4/(2^n) mm, or 127/(2^n) mm. This is just under (2^7)/(2^n) mm, which simplifies to 2^(7 - n) mm.

This is actually super handy if you're a maker in North America, and you want to use metric in CAD, but source local hardware. Stock up on 5/16" and 5/8" bolts, and just slap 8 mm and 16 mm holes in your designs, and your bolts will fit with just a little bit of slop.
Indeed, it's just that it's not very feature-complete or stable yet.
This is surely more optimal if you do the statistics right? I mean I'm sure they didn't but the intuition that you can stop once there's sufficient evidence is correct.
Looks good. Would have been nice if they included a way to express type checking of the format_spec. That’s going to be an unnecessary source of runtime errors.
I was 90% convinced the invasion of Afganistan and Iraq was a build up for an invasion of Iran. But it didn't happen.
I really wish multi-dimensional spreadsheets were more popular --- Lotus Improv was _amazing_, but unfortunately, Quantrix Financial is not something I could convince my employer to pay for, let alone justify for my own purchase, and sadly Flexisheet seems moribund.

Pyspread has some interesting features along those lines.
You can easily do this with a dumb mechanical clock switch.

No kubernetes backend architecture and AWS pods required here!
SO basically a quick-icing on one side/unevenly with the potential for pilot error is truly what caused it?
> Captain Sully had the stick full back during his heroic single-pilot landing on the Hudson, just like a panicked student pilot

Ouch!
Thailand can do whatever it wants today regardless of a U.N. treaty. Extradition deals can be made between countries. Additionally, Thailand can issue arrest warrants for whatever it finds on your social media accounts, whether those are enforceable or not is another question. The article doesn't mention anything about making international enforcement mechanisms easier.

My point is: The majority of our data is being tapped by government entities and can be used against you already. This treaty is just saying the quiet part out loud once again. No one seems to care or else we wouldn't have a massive intelligence apparatus controlling parts of our society.
Sounds bad for the planet too, all that wasted momentum.
> "The plane had been cruising at 17,000 feet until 1:21 p.m., when it dropped approximately 250 feet in 10 seconds. It then climbed approximately 400 feet in about eight seconds."

> The last sentence suggests that they were actively trying to get back to their assigned altitude of 17,000′.

I believe the author is implying that if the pilots attempted to maintain speed rather than altitude, the aerodynamic stall wouldn't have occurred - if they descended below 12000', the icing would be reversible.
Even just entertaining the idea, that depression is a response from healthy individuals, cannot be tolerated.
Huge deal for humans moving forward. ~5-8yrs too late for me (2-5yrs for product dev, 3yrs since a hemorrhagic stroke that was likely caused by serious blood pressure).

I was 40 at the time and never measured my blood pressure (and certainly never when exercising). After the event I measured it all the time. During the 8th time of sitting in a chair, rolling up my sleeve, I thought, the Apple Watch has BP sensor, right?

That question sent me on a quest only to find that humans had not yet figured out a way to measure blood pressure on-the-go.

Congratulations on this effort!
For anyone interested in a terminal driven spreadsheet, SC-IM[1] was mentioned on HN recently.

1. https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im
Typically? Falling off a ladder and cracking your head.
But dragons are not good at exploiting that wealth, except for self-advertisement. Smaug quite literally just sits on his wealth.
Makes insightful directives on what to put in as the core value of a product. When you are making stuff that the world really hasn’t seen before, it’s really hard to know what people want, as they often can’t tell you directly.

I’m not familiar with Susan’s work directly, but for example, it’s widely accepted that YT has the best revenue share and payout for its creators compared to competitors like twitch or TikTok.

Someone has to really sit down and figure out how getting paid for making internet videos works. It didn’t exist before.

Also great product leaders give team members principles and tools to work with (like metrics), so they don’t need to micromanage every decision, and the product can still be cohesive.
Are there any relatively well known non-Windows apps written in .NET? I guess Discord? Any others?
If nintendos next hardware effort is a phone with a controller...
> The aspiration seems to be an LCD version of the gauges and dials that were in a B-17 bomber over Germany in World War II. The computers on board the aircraft had all of the information that they needed to warn the crew “you can’t hold altitude at this power setting” long before they came anywhere near stalling.

I feel this way in cars as well - with a full LCD infotainment center why am I still forced to try and interpret inscrutable indicator lights?
The string array is not referentially stable across invocations and cannot be because there is a single argument array containing both the "static" bits and the "dynamic" bits. So you can't use it the way that JS' `static_strings` argument can be used as a key in a `WeakMap`.

Tags can return any kind of value, so there's that.

Deferred evaluations can be evaluated multiple times and is in fact one of the biggest foot-guns in this API (in my opinion).
Add this to the growing list of Apple bs that has developed over the past 10 years.

Used to be in deep in the ecosystem. Now have been winding down significantly, hardware hasn’t been upgraded since 2017. Various iDevices aging out until bust.

Services reduced to bare bones iCloud. Whatever the 200G plan is for keeping basic backups. Otherwise, have self hosted most of their services

- iTunes/Music/TV transitioned to media server accessible via VPN

- no longer use @icloud.com/@me.com email. Have own mail server with unlimited aliases. No more dealing with hide my address bs

- password/credential management migrated to proton pass

- cloud storage migrated to self hosted with other providers as backups to the backups (“3-2-1”)

Am I now paying for these services that were once “free”? Yes, but I also learn more about the protocols, set up processes, and able to customize for my own needs. No more DRM, lawyer bs that takes away your “paid” (licensed) media, no more Apple wall.
That's a fairly silly "don't worry." Any treaty signed has an expectation on Congress to pass corresponding legislation to make it enforceable in domestic courts. The Supremacy Clause is intended to force treaty compliance.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-2/sec...

At this point, there's no good reason to trust people in government as they seem to all have been captured by oligarchy, including here in the U.S. So this isn't a "don't worry" situation, it's something that should actively be contended with at a political level.
I think it has nothing to do with Rust; probably someone first found it who just so happened to be part of the Rust community, and since the Rust community is full of 'the type of person who would be offended by such an interaction' (basically any queer person) there was naturally an explosion about it.
Airline accidents almost always have multiple causes. Only when all the swiss cheese slices line up holes can the accident slip through.

Mentour Pilot four years ago on superstall (deep stall): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg6jV5mkf-8&t=0s

T-tail aircraft (like this one!) are at risk. ATR-72 specifically mentioned.
Thats why I specifically said with potential pilot error (I was going to say mechanical failure, but that is highly less likely given the age of the aircraft.)

>"Right, it was that bolded "400'" climb that clearly is what hes pointing at - as the ice caused the drop, then the pilot sharply climbed, then ice-stall, causes plane to yaw pilot corrects the wrong direction causing spin - all in the course of what seems like ~30 seconds?"

Is what my thoughts are.
Related links from The Seattle Times – easier to skim than the very long Twitter thread:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/after-3-years-seattles... (https://archive.ph/R6xfZ)

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/doj-withdraws-g... (https://archive.ph/BGGe8)

Related HN thread from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34184540
The average is meaningless in F2P. If you look around online, it's well established in the games development industry that 70-90% of players in F2P games never spend anything and, of the small percentage who do, only a few percent of that 10-30% constitute the majority of revenue. It is absolutely all about whales and their gambling addiction.
All this thread tells me is that Amazon (along with Google, Meta, and Apple) need to rightfully be sliced and diced to never again hold as much power as they do now.
I would have loved to see Java introduce something similar to the IntelliJ @Language-annotation in the standard library but maybe they'll figure out the sweet spot in a future String Templating JEP.

@Language("application/sql")
String query = "SELECT 1";

@Language("application/graphql+json")
String query = """
query HeroNameAndFriends {
hero {
name
friends {
name
}
}
}
""";
Now if only they had public transit. Renting buses seems like not much of a plan.
That they do, but perhaps the relevant context is that while porn is globally unregulatable, but the one entity that has proven its ability to regulate it (or at least exercise some control over it) have been payment processors like Visa and Mastercard.

FT had a fantastic podcast on the porn industry and the guy behind Mindgeek. Like many stories about multinational entities, you constantly hear the usual refrains - noone can regulate this, the entities keep changing their name and face, there is no accountability, etc. But when Visa and Mastercard threaten to pull their payments, the companies have to listen.

Visa and mastercard are the de facto regulators of porn today, and mostly do so to prevent nonconsentual and extreme fetish stuff from being displayed on mainstream platform.

From what I gathered from the podcast, they're not super keen on being the regulator - but it's a dirty job and somebody has to do it.
It certainly feels like a crime. It would have been a crime if it took place over state lines or if either the giver or the receiver of the money was a public money. Or if they had used the mail system.

https://www.globalcompliancenews.com/anti-corruption/anti-co...
Thanks for the context!

The thread carried all the hallmarks of crazy-person writing and obviously telling just one side of the story, but I really didn't want to chase down the details myself.
If it had a working, competent desktop environment, yes. But it's not there. Everything else, 100%. But the whole desktop environment thing is a mess with extremely poor quality control. It's much more fun to change the universe 50 times than it is to actually fix all the bugs and problems with it. And that's why for the last 25 years I ended up flipping back and forward between Windows and Mac and Linux lasting a maximum of a day or two.
The Nation-state is basically an informational entity, a centralized bureaucracy that keeps its subjects together. It is natural that it wants to monitor and control communications among its people. But maybe people value their personal freedom more than their trust in the nation-state. I don't know if we are at that point yet. But maybe we will find that our personal freedoms are incompatible with the concept of nation-states
I would say the fault is on the both sides. Defcon being so big knew that someone will pick up their unrealistic budget. But it’s still the contractor’s fault if they took a project with full knowledge of its scope and agreed on the price, and then did not deliver.
Because it turns into a parameterized SQL query.

This already exists in the Javascript ecosystem:

sql`select * from users where id = ${id}`

Turns into:

{ query: 'select * from users where id = $1', values: [id] }

So if you tried an injection like this:

sql`select * from users ${'where id = 3'}`

It turns into an invalid statement since "where id = 3" cannot exist as a parameterized value for the same reason this doesn't work:

{ query: 'select * from users $1', values: ['where id = 3'] }

Where you go from here is to offer a query(statement) function that requires the use of the tag string so that you can't accidentally pass in a normal string-interpolated string.

Examples:

- slonik: https://github.com/gajus/slonik?tab=readme-ov-file#protectin...

- postgres.js: https://github.com/porsager/postgres?tab=readme-ov-file#quer...
Early in my career I was working ops, and we got into a debate about a tool we were building - how much we should let people bypass some safeties we were putting in. A veteran colleague said "the fundamental requirements of my job are to do unsafe things," which stuck with me. For a lot of what we do, you cannot make a fully safe tool that's actually effective and usable. You need to trust your users when they tell you they know what they're doing.
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Check engine light can mean 100s of things. It would be cool to see the actual codes on the infotainment. Why do I need to hook up an OBD scan tool?
It's truly depressing a country rich as the US has left so many of its own people in such a precarious situation.

I sincerely hope things improve, but I know such a deep cultural shift is very unlikely to happen in less than a couple decades.
The Days Are Long but the Years Are Short: OpenStreetMap at 20
But if we make it harder for motor vehicles to go over the speed limit, then we would also reduce the number of pedestrian and cyclist deaths as well. And it would mildly inconvenience those motorists who will gladly risk people outside their vehicle in order to save a few seconds. Is that the sort of tradeoff we want?
in your model of it, we deprecate all misdemeanors and only have violent felonies
A few rules per week sounds like a lot. I think I am not paranoid enough to micromanage my connections like this.
Nope. I give Linux serious shots at least once a year. Never sticks. The desktop environments are always shit. I even built a specific, compatible pc last february to go with linux. It now runs a headless Fedora server in my study.
Rails changed my life. I've yet to have as much fun making applications or tools as those golden RoR days. Such a cool community.
Someone else can figure out if this is sustainable when women have agency, autonomy, and self determination. Humanity can engineer a way out or suck it up.

Are you advocating for quality of life and consumer excess over human suffering?
At 19 I lacked the life skills to succeed at topped ranked EECS program. I eventually transferred to tiny school where I developed the skills I needed in a low pressure environment. I'm currently 16 years into a good career.

I wasn't dealing with addictions, but I had my own share of mental health struggles back then. It sounds like you need to seek help from professionals, rather than internet randos.
This is so cool! I appreciate Debezium for its wide DB support (no part of me wants to know the inner workings of MSSQL's replication protocol) but it's finnicky to run. Great to have an alternative, at least for postgres.
I seriously doubt you could define any system of units that has zero coincidences, even with significant computational effort. Some things in the real world are just going to happen to line up close to round numbers, or important mathematical constants, or powers or roots of mathematical constants, and then you’ll have some coincidences.

There are just too many physical quantities we find significant, and too many ways to mix numbers together to make expressions that look notable.
That sounds like a little judgemental. But,

> What do you mean by “not great” grades? Failing, or not 4.0?

3.0

> especially since this doesn’t even seem like a major crises..

Concern is that is this a symptom of another issue or can it develop into something else. I'm just looking for help/advise/suggestions/...

> you might be a helicopter parent though

Am I concerned, yes. Are we helicopter parents, don't think so.
I am not a gamer, but I discovered Dr. K on a podcast talking about issues with young men. He spoke a lot about incels. Really interesting and smart man. Definitely a voice worth listening to. Especially if you're concerned about the health of young men. Great recommendation.
An entertaining article. It's strange to see cadmium described as something obscure that hardly anyone encounters. NiCad batteries were pretty common as well as CdS photo resistors for anyone doing electronics.
My strongest recommendation:

Do not make this about the game. When you talk to him be sure to focus entirely on your concerns about their performance in school and how that will impact their future. But never directly call out the game itself.

In all likelihood he KNOWS that he's not meeting your expectations and knows exactly why, and knows that you know. What good is there to tell them that they're playing too many video games?

Instead, suggest that they spend more time on school and even use funding as a consequence. If they fail, they get X chances, before funding is pulled.

Lastly, I would implore you to figure out why they're more interested in wasting time on roblox. In all likelihood they just haven't found their "thing" yet. It's not your job per se to find it for them, but I would try hard to support whatever path they want to take even if it isn't the one you saw for them.

Does that mean you need to let them waste away on roblox? Of course not. But chances are they're spending so much time on that game because they're unhappy in whatever pursuit they're in now.
Why the hell would I need a mac laptop for work for which I would need to spend not sure how many hours setting up a development environment while the OS actively fights me? With literally a retrofitted (pun intended) homebrew packaging system that slings binaries compiled by randos on the internet...

Oh Apple software and hardware is so secure... Bruh, your entire dev env unless you're developing in xcode is literally a supply chain attack waiting to happen. And at the same time it is hard to make work and breaks randomly with OS updates or bottle updates or just after a restart with no apparent reason.

Please... Fractional scaling is (allegedly) not working... Big deal, even if it was true (it's not https://i.imgur.com/wm84JxU.png)...
and a couple of years after starving to death 3.5 to 5 million Ukrainians (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor)
This was a large scale operation

It likely started as an accident, but then was really convenient....
I imagine waymo has a government relations team, including traffic control relations.

So do cops receive training on these situations? Its only going to get worse (probably).
US FDA approves nasal spray alternative to EpiPen for allergic reactions
et alia:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=things+i+won%27t+work+with+
It's entirely possible the rules are indeed established and the officer just doesn't know.
Killing civilians to save soldiers
I think this will turn out well. Julia has had this forever as string macros, and it has worked out rather nicely, features like `r"\d+"` for regex, and `raw"strings"` are just string macros. The set of all useful custom literal strings isn't bounded, so a lightweight mechanism to define them and make use of the results is a good thing.

Another kitchen sink to add to Python's world-class kitchen sink collection.
Amazing, thanks for sharing; John will turn 90 on August 22.
When I was about that age I spent a whole afternoon playing Sim City. When I realised how many hours I had lost, I just uninstalled it and never looked back.

You should definitely talk to a psychologist if you can't convince him yourself.

The Epicureans taught that pleasure should be sustainable. He won't be able to sustain his gaming if he keeps neglecting his education. So this argument might reach him. Good luck.
> so a (say) UK hate speech law could not be enforced in the US even after the adoption of this treaty.

I believe the conclusion that it can't happen in the U.S. is incorrect.
I don't know how not a single comment here has mentioned ADHD, but it's possible your kid could be suffering from some form of executive dysfunction that could be linked to ADHD. Internet gaming (and the internet in general) intentionally exploits these types of vulnerabilities, which makes it even worse. Here are some resources on ADHD:

https://invisibleup.com/articles/27/

https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html

https://twitter.com/ErynnBrook/status/1011311249513070594

I am autistic and have ADHD myself so I know a bit about it. If you suspect something it may be worth bringing it up with your kid to see if they care. If they're anything like me they'll care, but if they don't care the situation gets a lot more complicated.

In other words: there's a difference between genuinely wanting to get good grades and not being able to, and blowing it off because you only want to do the bare minimum. I fell into the former bracket. Solutions vary between them.

"Not being able to" doesn't mean not being capable of doing it. It usually means being fully capable of doing it but being unable to actually get your brain to do it because it wants to do something else more. This is a thing and it's called ADHD. It's usually easy to tell when someone has it because they can be incredibly gifted and then barely manage to use that gift (resulting in everyone calling them lazy).
I’ve seen people use an SDR dongle to figure out the frequency and data being transmitted by electricity meter outside their homes.
Why would the child be responsible for "meeting expectations" they didn't choose to have placed on them? A parent's support should be unconditional.
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