skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last thing I want is for the government to tell me what is ‘excessively large’. Everyone has different lifestyles and needs. I think it is totally fine for me to be happy with a Prius and another person to want a Ford Superduty. Sure that person driving the truck may have some externalities from their choice, but even if I have fewer externalities from my Prius, I have other externalities from choices I make in other parts of my life. It seems unfair to target one but not the other.

I know this is an unpopular take here, but I also feel the search for safety on roads is going too far. Cars give us a benefit - we can get to places fast, on our own schedule unlike public transit, with all the people or cargo we want to take. Life is much better because of it. Chasing zero fatalities just seems illogical - when life inherently comes with risk. I am comfortable having some number of deaths for these benefits, and would like to see an accounting of how much benefit people derive from these targeted vehicles and weigh that against the costs. To me, NHTSA’s claim of saving 67 lives a year though this program isn’t really worth it.

I’ll also note that The Verge is guilty of poor journalism on this topic. For example it makes a claim that vehicle design doesn’t address crash fatalities when all the safety features this article dismisses - like cameras, blind spot detection, and automatic braking - are part of that vehicle’s design in reducing fatalities. They also don’t talk about how cars are incredibly safe today, with only around 1 fatality per 100 million miles driven. We have about the same number of total road deaths as the year 2000 even though the population is 20% higher.
Too late. I already moved on to Hono https://hono.dev/
Its biggest advantage is how easy it is to convince corporate IT that you need Git for Windows, compared to msys2, Cygwin, or WSL.
My wife is a long time Apple user, and I had to tell her to charge her phone sideways, swipe a few times horizontally and a few more vertically to get the night clock face with big numbers she wanted.

Despite boasting to have an intuitive UX, iOS can be very obscure regarding discoverability and exploration of features. Many features give no hints whatsoever of existing.
Related, but no interesting discussion in the other thread and not an exact duplicate.
You're not seeing "pure" FS performance. You're seeing all of the abstractions between you and the file system.

To get more of the abstractions out of the way, you want DevDrive. And don't use Explorer.exe as a test bed which has shims and hooks and god knows what else.
It's a lot of work, but not particularly more work than a scribe would usually do.

People have always been people, we've always been creative and intelligent, and I really think the best explanation is that this is just an odd creative work. We'll never know the exact details.
All sorts of foreigners have been extradited for supposedly violating USC despite never stepping foot in America. They could argue the node operator facilitated money laundering that touched a US bank, that they conspired with a US person, a US CSAM victims likeness went through the node, etc etc.

USC has extraterritorial power about everywhere but NK, Russia, and Iran either formally or through influence.
Would you support more stringent driving licence for such vehicles? So that anyone who needs a truck puts up with the faff of getting one, but regular Joes who just want moar car might not bother?
Fascinating that it's just now that someone got curious about this enough to write a post. I know if you looked for it you'd probably find this stuff but it is definitely scarce IMO. Thing is, not enough developers and designers that worked on this for many years bother to blog about it perhaps for reasonable reasons but still.
> I actually think that Tor should deemphasize exit nodes and trying to provide access to the clearnet, in favor of better hidden services.

Isn't that I2P[1]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P
Ross Douthat is still employed so your assertion falls flat on its face.

Aside from that, right now I see an item claiming Harris has flip-flopped on progressive policies.
yeah! there are a few for the quest, heck, there is even a port of cities skylines!.

But all of them run into the fact that making a good simulation (VR or not) requires time and money, and that's something VR games rarely have in abundance.
> You could have a header that differs from an internal one only on the last character and then you have to read the whole thing

When people talk about BigO they usually talk about average Big-o and worst/best case Big-o is explicitly called out if mentioned, so you can't just think in terms of the worst possible case. Regardless I think they made several mistakes here as you note correctly.

BTreeSet is log(N) in number of nodes compared. But for strings that comparison is O(L) since you at least have to compare it to the string you find. So I believe it's at best O(L log(N)) where L is the average string length and N is the number of nodes which is worse than the hash table which is just O(L). It's tricky though if most strings don't match your string. In that case I believe you end up degrading to an O(L) + O(log(N)).

Similarly, you are correct that they can't be logarithmic in size and must be linear since you have to store the data. Tries can be sublinear depending on the input since it's a form of compression as well.

Similarly you are right about trie complexity not being O(log(L)) for trie misses. I think what they're observing is a massive speedup because mismatches error out on the first character usually. But it wouldn't be logarithmic as there's unlikely to be a logarithmic relation between headers that mismatch and the universe of matching words.
Yeah exactly! The Kafka use case is a great one--specifically writing consumers that perform real-world processing on events from Kafka.

In fact, one of our first customers used DBOS to build an event processing pipeline from Kafka. They hit the "wall of complexity" you described trying to persist events from Kafka to multiple backend data stores and services. DBOS made it much simpler because they could just write (and serverlessly deploy) durable workflows that ran exactly-once per Kafka message.
Yeah, German armed police wrt Internet is kind of known to be a bit like, that. They make excuses, but at the end of the day they're not the most respectful of free speech among G7 or whatever. I wouldn't be sure if Tor exit nodes are something that can lawfully(ignoring backwards ones) ran, though.
> Sidekiq is actually how I think the world should work: its open source, and then they sell Sidekiq Pro. One is Open Source, one isnt. The issue is most people don't operate that way.

I guess this is where I get hung up on this topic. To me, there's no real distinction between Sidekiq's open-source core and proprietary features vs GitLab's. One has their proprietary code closed-source, while the other has it source-available in a monorepo. Functionally though, I don't see the real distinction. If Sidekiq can call itself Open Source by you, then why can't GitLab? They're both doing the same thing in the end, if you really reduce it down to its core (pun intended?).

I think we had a similar discussion before Fair Source launched i.r.t. ELv2 sharing some similarities here. I argued ELv2's license keys are yet another way of accomplishing the same thing, just differently: separating proprietary code from the core (ignoring the non-compete for the sake of this conversation).
it's been a while since I worked in adtech so unsure best where to source/verify those impressions but much of NYT views are by paid subscribers so I'd imagine that funds at least a good chunk of those workers salaries?

further, I also don't know much of of NYT's tech but it doesn't seem especially difficult or cutting edge so 622 tech workers does seem a bit bloated though I guess they might need a little staff for IT in various locations worldwide so that adds up maybe?
Yes an on premise solution is quite important for place in hired in. To add to this I’ve been doing a lot of looking into products like this and explored nocodb as a use case. Here are some limitations I’ve run into.

1) Granular user roles/permissions. Nocodb has this but it’s a little awkward with different bases. For example it’s hard to see which tables that user is limited to as you create new bases.

2) Forms. The form needs to have flexibility in required fields which nocodb (and not just based on schema) does but it’s missing a key feature. That would be “created by” field which doesn’t work on external database with different bases for different permissions. As in if you have a different base per user group (to have different permission on table access) adding a new record does not populate created by correctly.

3) relational data. The goal of these products is for non-technical people to use these and none have the option of clicking into the relation to bring up that record on its table. As in all you see is the description/id of the relational record.

4) at some point you want to possibly use the database for user management. Because you may want to write an internal tooling that scans a qr code or something or the form is client based. But then you have users that may live on a different database interacting with your main database. And then you would need to match the users with what they view and what they can create.

Essentially what I found is that with nocodb is that it is good for viewing data but to add data I need to create forms.
But then nocodb lacks in “dashboard” statistics and graphs

Sorry if this is not clearly explained. I’m on holiday and tired rn.
After killing The Crew, Ubisoft says TC2 and Motorfest will get offline modes
C is basically portable assembly so handwritten C can be as fast as the hardware can allow.

High-level languages like Haskell can and do approach the performance of handwritten C if you encode enough information to get the optimizations for free:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35027952/why-is-haskell-...
So it will immediately be trashed by GenAI bullshit and killedbygoogle within three years, right?
> At times, these roadblocks have been driven by false and misleading reporting, built on bad-faith hysterics from online detractors or special interest groups who have presented poorly constructed science as fact.

People reading this should remember that Flight 1 was preceded by hysterics from online detractors who predicted, correctly, that the launch would make a giant mess. The FAA ignored them and allowed the launch anyway. The Wikipedia article would like to remind us that it wasn’t a toxic mess, but it was still a mess.

Given the lack of any acknowledgement of that incident in this PR piece, I’m a bit disinclined to fully trust it. And I can certainly see why regulators would like to give stakeholders 60 days to comment on what might go wrong, since SpaceX’s history of predicting what will go wrong with Starship launches is a bit tarnished.
I don't really understand your point here. It would make perfect sense to have two separate hives by sectioning off all the stuff users, even power users actually need access to. 'specific ACLs' have no bearing on that.
> Imagine the effect of a TV spot touting a new OS feature on the new iPhone. Do I need the new phone to get that feature? As soon as you've asked the question, you're at the doorstep of "I wasn't thinking about it, but I will need to replace the battery soon ($$) and it's been getting slower …"

I’d say this works exactly once - Apple will get a one time hit out of customers upgrading to an AI enabled phone, which will have a SOC capable of running AI (customers don’t need to know what a SOC is).

For anything beyond that, the media will likely pick up that it’s not strictly necessary and you’ll already have pocketed a lot of the benefit from having your first AI integrated phone.
Figures they were lying through their teeth.
Sorry, in case I wasn't clear, I'm not talking about identifying the site hosting the content. I'm talking about the second-to-last hop in the traffic. My understanding is that Tor obfuscates traffic by sending through several hops, each one decrypting a layer of traffic (hence the "onion" network). So we have:

Host -> Node 1 -> Node 2 -> .... -> Bob -> Charlie.

Charlie doesn't know where the Host is. But Charlie does know that Bob sent him illegal content. Or is that final link, from Bob to Charlie, also obfuscated somehow? If so, how did OP get raided by police if he's supposed to be hidden?
> If we compare the sampled performance of the different versions of clear_internal_headers, we can see that the results from the performance sampling closely match what our benchmarks predicted

Look at the end where they validate that the performance wins show up in production in a similar way that the microbenchmarks predict.
It reminds me of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexler%E2%80%93Smalley_debate...

at the time I thought Drexler's arguments were compelling and that Smalley was out of touch and not taking Drexler's arguments seriously. Almost 25 years later Drexler's research program has gone nowhere, a fact that that the Wikipedia article doesn't mention but that I think is critical for evaluating that debate.

I'm automatically skeptical of people who make arguments that there is one way to interpret things that sound really pat

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/honestly-its-probably-the-phon...

or the Lenzenweger-Claridge "debate" on schizotypy (categorical v dimensional) where Lenzenweger makes a case which is much more vivid and compelling than Claridge does because Lenzenweger wrote a monograph and Claridge edited conference proceedings.

So I am automatically skeptical about positions like the one in the paper above because I've been burned so many times by them.
> What do you mean by that? Due to geopolitics? Or at a technical level of the current law?

Geopolitics, but the technical level of law certainly plays a part. Europe had no idea what the effect of leveling lawsuits against a fortune one company would yield. However the EU has proven rather adept at identifying technological practices harming consumers and a strong capacity for rectifying them. Now that the EU is beginning to find its stride, I expect it to become more assertive in how international commerce is conducted.
> An Audi mid-size SUV has a towing capacity of nearly 8,000lb. Moving your horse from the top paddock to the bottom and back, every six months does not mean you need a dual-wheeled F350 as your daily driver.

If you’ve done any towing, you would know that Audi SUVs are terrible at it in practice, despite the advertised numbers. There’s a lot to the practical experience of towing that trucks get right in their design and features. Many of the SUVs that show high towing numbers are almost never seen towing on the roads for a reason.

Also there are a lot of trucks that are not a dual wheeled F350. I feel like that is a misrepresentation when people are overwhelmingly buying half ton trucks like the F150. Also keep in mind, full size SUVs (like the Yukon) are similar in size to a half ton trucks. People gets lots of use out of them in their daily lives - it’s not just about towing horses or doing farm work, but also just hauling a family and gear around. Like if you’re a family of four going for a day at the beach, you can easily exceed the capacity of mid-size SUVs or small trucks.

I say this as someone who doesn’t own any of these but would certainly get use out of one. I think there is lots of room to improve road safety by simply mandating the usual modern features like sensors, automatic braking, blind spot detection, better mirrors, cameras on all sides, etc.
So Say We All!
It's a tough tradeoff for society, and a lot of harm is concentrated, but in a way that's good thing - there is a way to block tor exit nodes if you need to and the defaults ports do prevent many types of abuse and since the exit nodes are public they can just be blocked for spam, clickfraud, etc. But with any duel use technology, the opposite argument would be investigations also running through TOR, or even a totalitarian state (in this case it seems non technical judicial procedure through proper channels, but that's the concern). The trouble is the routing is outside of the state control and the typical mechanism for takedowns, ultimately for the worse of the worst ultimately has a host somewhere else as tor just does the routing. Since by design the exit node wouldn't necessarily get you any further up the chain to the middle node in the connection, it would be more fruitful to chose a different investigative strategy.
A good argument for GST. With a 10% GST the Italians would have at least seen 10% of the 599.
The same vehicle (same drivetrain etc.) will be rated for two very different towing capacities in the U.S. vs. Europe, with the European one being quite a bit higher.

E.g., Volvo XC40 T5 is 1600 kg in the U.S.
https://www.volvocars.com/en-ca/support/car/xc40/21w22/artic...

but 2100 kg in the UK
https://www.volvocars.com/uk/support/car/xc40/21w46/article/...

As I recall it has to do with standards for stability at speed...

All to say you can probably tow more than you think with a U.S. car that's also sold in Europe, just maybe don't go above 55mph...?
git bash is very cool. It's based on good ol' MSYS2 and MinGW which has always been a nice way to do minimalist Unix-like stuff in Windows.

WSL2 is great these days and can interact fine with Windows files (despite what this article says). But it's a lot more stuff, a full Linux install in a VM.
I'm just waiting for all the tech companies to squeal ..."...its too hard ...."

My observation is this is what they normally do when they do ont want to do "something"
New Website and Math Art
Context: https://x.com/devinjacoviello/status/1833521766146445830
"Never in its 50-plus years in existence has the regulator issued new rules for automakers requiring them to change their vehicle designs to better prevent pedestrian fatalities."

Vehicle designs today, particularly front ends, but also door mirrors and other features, are a direct result of regulatory requirements designed to reduce pedestrian injury and fatality. For coming up on 100 years now, fenders have been required on passenger vehicles, in part because they reduce pedestrian injury and fatality. Perhaps they're claiming that this particular regulator, the NHTSA, is doing this for the first time, but it is very misleading to insinuate that no regulatory requirements have appeared on behalf of pedestrian safety for 50 years.

Regarding "truck bloat": the most outrageous bloat occurring now in production vehicles is electric trucks. The GM Chevrolet Silverado EV GVRW is 10,500 lbs. and has a curb weight of 8532 lbs. That is about 3000 lbs heavier than an ICE equivalent. These things are at the edge of requiring CDLs to drive, and when you get t-boned by something that heavy, even if you're in a large vehicle yourself, you're going to get annihilated.
I suppose my issue stems from my perception of the seemingly lack of serious investigation on their law enforcement side.

If you had visited any of my exit nodes via port 80 or 443, I had a lander on them stating that it was a Tor exit node and to please contact me if you wanted your IP to be blacklisted from it. I also stated that there was no useful information contained on this server (by design) that would be helpful for any evidence gathering or investigations. Seriously, all they had to do was plug my IP into a browser or do a simple scan of it but I suppose that's asking too much from LE lol.

Additionally, Tor exit nodes are public and all they had to do was look into my IP more than 5 seconds after finding it in logs somewhere and firing off a warrant or subpoena for it. The first two were straight up vague templated fishing expeditions. The 3rd subpoena actually came straight from the DOJ and was a lot more detailed and serious.

They should know what Tor is and know that any Tor server contains ZERO info that would be able to assist them in whatever they are attempting to investigate.

Sure, I do think such situations require follow-up but as soon as they are informed it's a Tor ip, they should know to drop any pursuit of getting evidence from it. They do not, they continue to go after you via legal means. Even though I had the EFFs help, this entire process still took months.

It's pretty stressful to be in a situation where its lil ole me VS the entire United States government who has unlimited resources, time, and money to go after you.

I am extremely blessed to have had the EFF lawyers at my defense and will forever be a life long supporter and donor to them. They really do fight for our digital rights and can help defend you in a digital equivalent of a David versus Goliath situation.
And then they'll add them back while people wait for their cars to recharge.
It's weird, I mostly associate git bash with VS Code because it's the terminal I use most often with it.

It doesn't occur to me to use it outside of that context. I use the command shell or Powershell depending on what I need to do.
The danger is that the Government could just make all this up to specifically target nodes they do not control.

The exit nodes have been known to be the weakest part of the tor design. It has been a logical theory for a while that all exit nodes are visible to the U.S. Govt.

This is just one way they can leave a system like Tor up for their uses and also make sure anything domestically is fully visible to them.
Remember Oracle v. Google? How octogenarian Justices struggled to understand what an API was, when they could barely open their email? Imagine that, applied to the entire US code.

It's basically this in a nutshell, except that far-right activists intend to use the same 3 justices in Texas to reinterpret all federal regulations.
The title might be clearer with a hyphen: "Why-Not Comments".
From the outside looking in, the behaviour of the FAA looks corrupt. They’re being influenced by someone (Boeing?) to slow down SpaceX because they’re too hard to compete with fairly on a technological merit alone.

Disagree?

Okay, then explain why the FAA just sits there passively seemingly giggling to themselves every time SpaceX makes a typo? Any excuse to press the multi-month pause button is mercilessly exploited.

If you think that the government is working with industry to achieve supremacy in space, is this what you would expect to see?

Can you imagine if right after signing the CHIPS act the Whitehouse just stood by while some tiny agency just held up a many-billion-dollar fab construction that’s vital to national security!?

Someone in power is out to get Elon Musk and/or SpaceX. They’re most likely a competitor or in the pocket of one.

Everything I’ve seen in the news fits that theory.

The opposite theory of “SpaceX is the world’s best space tech company but also crazy incompetent and deserving endless punishment from every agency” doesn’t hold water. If the agencies cared about the environment or the water or whatever they would be working with SpaceX instead of harming their progress in a way that appears entirely punitive.

Hasn’t anyone here been held up by a paperwork troll in your work? Haven’t any of you had this conversation?

Secops: “Firewall requests take two months to implement.”

Me: “I’m a consultant and this is a one week project. I’m finishing up Friday.”

Secops: “That’s your fault for not submitting the request ahead of time.”

Me: “It’s Monday morning! I just got here. I haven’t even finished my coffee that I got at the airport on the way here.”

Secops: “Your lack of planning is your own fault.”

Me: “Auditors prohibit me from working on any projects until the official start date, which is today. My guess though is that the rules will be: x, y, and z.”

Secops: “You need to use our form 832b and use the specific IP source and destination addresses.”

Me: “Can I have a list of your subnets and their IP ranges?”

Secops: “No, that’s a secret. For security!”

— this is how a one week project blows out to six months.