skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of seems like climbing onto or sending a message to the anchor hoy currently alongside and requesting asylum from the murderous Russians would be the obvious way out of that one.

Margate may not be luxurious, but it's not a Ukrainian front line.

The only evidence that it's anything other than a damaged ship in a shit situation (even shitter than your average Syrian/UAE cargo ship, which is probably saying something) with a very low chance of a very big explosion, trying to find somewhere to put in, is that the word "megabomb" makes good headlines and people want to have exciting things happen, even if "it" is blowing up a town, no matter how dreary, from 12 miles away with what would presumably be the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history.
So the advantage is supposedly that it's extremely simple (just NUL-terminated JSON over a stream socket!) except that, when you look at the spec, it's actually not that simple, so they have only implemented a subset, and then they have also extended it with more features, so in the end it's not simple and not really even Varlink?

And it's now 40% slower at serialization and it can't embed binary data, but that's OK because now "web native folks" can be OS infrastructure developers without learning a new format? Except the interface definition format, which is not JSON, but for some reason the wire format has to be.

And all the D-Bus stuff, with all the problems enumerated in the presentation, will still be kept around, so we'll have D-Bus + systemd's "quite different" D-Bus variant + Varlink + systemd's Varlink variant that "does not bother with" the spec but has "additions", all at the same time.

It doesn't sound "extremely simple" to me.
I don’t think it’s smart to proactively back track without being very careful. One thing that’s needed is for corporate death to be allowed to occur. Right now the downsides of risky behavior is bailed out for large enough risk. Then the companies that fail aren’t robust and the ones that don’t are but bailouts let non robust companies keep going. Otherwise “robustness” is a property without a measure which means that you’ll get robustness theater where actions are being taken in the name of being robust but it’s not actually making a difference at best and could be making things worse.

As for society itself being robust, it’s a much harder property. Being robust is nice but no one actually wants to live in a metered society where there’s insufficient resources - they’d generally rather kill for resources greedily and let others fail without helping them. That’s why socialized healthcare struggles - while it guarantees a minimum of care for everybody, the care provided has longer wait times and most people are not willing to wait their turn.
... and all that would take is for ex-government monopolies to actually pay for the bandwidth they sell to their customers. If that happened, there's nothing content providers could do to change it. It's the telecoms that control all the cabling, and usually have broad protection in law, especially for international communication.

The trade telecoms got is legal protection, guaranteed profit, monopoly-style protection in trade for digging all the communication lines that are needed to connect up the country (including "last mile"). Needless to say, they too the legal protection, monopolist position and profit ... and neglected or outright refused to dig the communication lines.

But this way, they can make 0.01% more money ... that's literally it. That's what the peering wars are about. Forcing others to pay. It's been going on so long there's literally a name for it in the theory of the internet protocols: "hot potato routing". Giving up extremely essential control for a tiny amount of money.

And, frankly, having been part of a few battles in the peering wars, some of it is just ego of higher ups.
“The [Ukrainian] commanders estimated that 50 to 70 per cent of new infantry troops were killed or wounded within days of starting their first rotation.“

https://www.ft.com/content/b9396112-585a-4f7e-9628-13d500c99...

http://archive.today/WKqxz
Anyone who has ever done CAD knows that a picture is worth a thousand words. Describing a 3D object you want in words is much more effort to get right than drawing a simple sketch. Wouldn’t it be better to have image input for an application like this?
Web components are okay
One use cases I like a lot is copy paste the entire error from the console into the chat window. No explanation or preamble. Just raw output. Most of the time I get some useful leads out of it. It’s not always solving it entirely for me but even a hint in the right direction can save you hours of digging in the wrong direction.
The lifeguard spared you the word rescue because he didn't want to hurt the feelings of a child. Are we now extending the same courtesy to corporations? Corporations like Boeing no less, with hundreds of negligent homicides under their belt?
Klinger?
Wouldn’t it be "(...) must a moon rover rove before (...)"? Isn’t the verb to „rover“ „rove“?
Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JavaScript (2018)
Many situations, prefer text to voice. Text: Easier record keeping, manipulation, search, editing, ....

With some irony, the Hacker News
user interface is essentially all
just simple text.

A theme in current computer design seems to be: Assume the user doesn't use a text editor and, instead, needs an 'app' for every computer interaction. Like cars for people who can't drive, and a car app for each use of the car -- find a new BBQ restaurant, need a new car app.

Sorry, Silicon Valley, with text anyone who used a typewriter or pocket calculator can do more and have fewer apps and more flexibility, versatility, generality.
The first link is a poll that’s been taken regularly since 1965. That poll shows that support for increasing immigration has never exceeded 25% since 1965. But since 1965 we have pursued a policy of increasing immigration.

Cato is a libertarian think thank that supports open borders so the Koch brothers can have cheap labor. My point is that even their survey shows that most Americans want a low level of immigration, half that of the current levels. They spin the headlines to point to the fact that few people want to cut immigration to zero, but the data still shows that people’s ideal immigration level is under 500,000 or so annually.
Again, repeating terrorist claims on face value. You choose to believe people who tried to deny killing 12 children in a soccer stadium. People who helped Assad stay in power. People who killed countless Lebanese people, their own fing people... Over Israel. Why?

I get that Israel has a lot it needs to improve on, but it has been remarkably "clean" compared even to American war standards e.g. https://www.newsweek.com/israel-has-created-new-standard-urb...

It didn't bomb civilian areas knowingly, that would constitute a war crime and would immediately trigger the Leahy Law that would block all aid to Israel https://www.state.gov/key-topics-bureau-of-democracy-human-r...

If there was a shred of actual *real* evidence of Israel intentionally targeting civilians it would be in US courts right now trying to enforce that law. The fact is this is all online propaganda where facts don't actually matter and proof isn't necessary... Speaks volumes...

> The difference may be ideological, geopolitical, etc. but it is not that one side follows the rules and the other breaks them.

If your ideology is global Sharia law then sure... If you hate the West then sure. It's just ideology. Their ideology is that Israel should be wiped out. The ideology of Israel is that it's already there and should remain there. I don't think calling this "different ideologies" is a legitimate stance.
150? Thousands? Well, not sure if the hieroglyphics contained cat memes, but at least we get sculptures and images.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/26/in-ancient-egypt-c...

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-cat-statues-mummies...

Maybe I'm stretching the original topic a bit just to post some cat content. Formal dinner: https://i.imgur.com/LBvzu3H.jpeg
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Great. I'm glad you are happy to use 'believe' rather than 'know', if you are trying to convey your meaning clearly.

I think there is a huge value in this, in being clear on what one knows (that I am sitting on a chair) and what one believes (that the earth is a sphere). Belief in a thing indicates that something is a hypothesis to oneself, while knowing conveys whatever-it-is is a fact.

I totally accept that think/believe/know are used interchangeably in conversation etc, but I also hold that there is a (huge) value to oneself in being able to keep these distinctions clear.

Taking a moral angle to it, misusing these terms is actually to lie or mislead others by overstating or understating your certainty.

Do you have a definition for 'know', in a hard/technical/non-colloquial sense?
How many moons must a moon rover rove over before you can call it a rover? Over.
Wider than a mole?
Basecamp blog had a write up about this technique years ago. The idea is each app screen is a standard web view. However, it uses a JavaScript bridge to do native page navigation. This provides native swipe back to navigate, as well as the standard animations.
I like the connection between Goodheart's law and overfitting. However these examples are a reach:

--- Goal: Healthy population Proxy: Access to nutrient-rich food Strong version of Goodhart's law leads to: Obesity epidemic

I'm not sure I believe this one. Exactly who's target is "access to nutrient-rich food" and how would removing that target fix the US obesity epidemic? Is "nutrient-rich" a euphemism for high-calorie? My understanding is that there are plenty of places with high-nutrient food but different norms and much better health (e.g. Japan).

We can and do measure population health across (including obesity), this isn't a proxy for an unmeasurable thing.

--- Goal: Leaders that act in the best interests of the population Proxy: Leaders that have the most support in the population Strong version of Goodhart's law leads to: Leaders whose expertise and passions center narrowly around manipulating public opinion at the expense of social outcomes

Is this really a case of "overfitting from too much data"? Or is this just a case of "some things are hard to predict?" Or even, "it's hard to give politicians incentives." It'd be interesting if we gave presidents huge prizes if the country was better 20 years after they left office.

--- Goal: An informed, thoughtful, and involved populace Proxy: The ease with which people can share and find ideas Strong version of Goodhart's law leads to: Filter bubbles, conspiracy theories, parasitic memes, escalated tribalism

Is "the goal" really a thoughtful populace? Because every individual's goal is pleasure, and the companies goals are selling ads. So I don't know who's working on that goal.
> aspiring citizens that wouldn’t interest a lender

If it was possible the lender doesn't care who you are just your ability and willingness to pay for the loan. The best signals for that is history of repayment combined with cash, salary and collateral.

All other checks are the ones because those signals weren't strong enough and gov requirements for anti AML, good person, etc but those are gov reqs.
Their shills on reddit keep repeating it.
You mean moon pie isn’t made of moon?
I wonder if there were a lot of support calls about people whose keyboards wouldn’t connect, etc.

Unlike a touch screen device, folks may not understand that disabling Bluetooth for no reason has input consequences
He notes in another article[1] that macOS turns on BT on every update, and apparently the behaviour is "functioning as intended" (Apple's own words). What's not answered is why Apple do this. Possibly as trivial as avoiding bug reports or support issues about BT devices or features not working? Apple already control the stack from hardware to software so it's hardly like they would need a nefarious reason to do this.

[1] https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/bluetooth.html

Also is this the same Jeff Johnson of rpm5 "fame"?
Living on the moon works, because we can send supplies frequently like we do with the ISS. Meanwhile mars is so far away that anyone who goes there signs up for a suicide mission.

Every single mars mission proposed by musk relies on a pyramid scheme where every round of launches sends more and more people until one day self sufficiency is achieved and the first guy sent to mars will have a chance of returning to earth.
There is a big difference between efficiency and effectiveness, and all system should focus on the latter rather than the former whether it's AI based or not.

There's a reason why the best-seller of self-help book for several decades now is the book by Stephen Covey entitled "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" not "Efficient People".
And will setting your background to be a picture of a pile of credit cards be the only means of opting out?

(When Microsoft says a feature will be "opt-in", they're usually lying.)
> I can sorta see why some would quibble over "rescue", because it's not like they're in immediate danger, but at the same time they're stranded because their ride malfunctioned and left them somewhere rather inhospitable

In any other context this wouldn't be quibbled. If my car broke down a mile outside town and my friend gave me a lift the rest of the way, I would say he rescued me and nobody would quibble it.

The only reason it's being quibbled is because people have a stick up their ass about Elon Musk personally and that stick extends to the way they feel about SpaceX.
IANAEE, but I think you are mixing potasium nitrare and ammonium nitrate.

Looking in Wikipedia, in the danger warning square, in the yellow part potasium nitrare has a 0 and ammonium nitrate has a 3.

Don't try this at home ...

Potasium nitrate has a lot of oxygens but nothing to burn with it. So it's only explosive when mixed with some fuel.

Ammonium nitrate has the oxygen and also the hidrogens that can be combined and release energy. It has also some spare oxygen, it is probably more dangerous mixed with fuel.
> Apple had a tech day talk where the guy in charge of device encryption dev team talked for an hour about the four layers of encryption on an iPhone.

Did they also talk about all the vulnerabilities that can constantly root a phone with a message on imessage, without any user interaction?

Yes multiple ones… because they don't bother (or don't want?) to fix them properly.
It's a worrying precedent in Godot's community management conduct that is the last thing you want to see from a project that is so promising at improving the health of the gamedev ecosystem.

Saying that, this is a submission with a fairly technical focus, especially when compared to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41391684 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41106977 (both of which are luckily [dead]).
>See also "nobody uses elasticsearch because they like lucene queries; they use it because everyone likes using kibana and tolerate lucene."

there are lots of usecases for ElasticSearch without Kibana. in my area it is >90% ElasticSearch without Kibana (nor Grafana)
> If my car breaks down while I'm at my fully-loaded villa on day 2 of my 30 day vacation, my friend coming to pick me up isn't a rescue mission.

If you chose to say it was, nobody would be doing the "Well ACKSHULLY..." routine with you because that is in fact totally in line with common use of the word rescue and not worth making a stink about even if you think it sounds a little melodramatic.

The ISS situation is more extreme than your example in every way, but you're pulling the ackshully bullshit because you don't like the company that has done it.
The usual cycle for business in a free market is it appears young and fresh, lacking any parasites. It grows rapidly, displacing existing mature businesses. Then, it accumulates bureaucracy and parasites, becoming less and less efficient, strangled by bloat and inability to adapt, and slides into bankruptcy, replaced by the next generation of new businesses. The remains of the business are then reallocated to the next generation of businesses.

(This is quite unlike the common view that businesses inevitably grow to take over the world.)

I.e. business is much like a living organism.

Problems set in when the government bails out failing businesses.

Even worse are government "businesses". They are not allowed to fail, and the inefficiencies, parasites, corruption, grow and grow. When can you remember a government agency being abolished? Eventually, the government will collapse.
Boys, as a group, are actually doing just fine for themselves - STEM programs or no STEM programs. That article does nothing to indicate otherwise.
> If you use a JavaScript framework you should:
>
> be able to justify with evidence, how using JavaScript would benefit users

Steady on, guys.
I wish the whole internet followed this advice.
How often do you think they actually do Cat III out of necessity, at say Heathrow or Schiphol ? My guess would be that having Cat III capability makes them comfortable - because they can land planes anyway if they need to, but it isn't often (maybe 2-3 days per year) actually used "in anger" so to speak. Cat I and II autolandings are common, because they mitigate visibility problems while leaving the final decision to a human pilot, but the pilots don't like Cat III precisely because they get this job to fly and in Cat III you're not flying the plane.

And yes, as I noted, when visibility is marginal you could continue normal operations with Cat III at a reduced pace and Heathrow has been known to do that, but it's extremely disruptive. The problem is that as visibility reduces our options continue to narrow further. At just Cat IIIa where as you say the pilots can just see the signs and drive down a taxiway without problems, Heathrows targets 50% capacity, and as things worsen that falls, to 10% and eventually the airport is closed to normal traffic. Why low capacity at just Cat IIIa? Because of radio protection, the aeroplane is made of metal, so you need to reduce pace so that there's no risk of interference from the plane ahead of you during your autoland approach. If you were visual, even in Cat II, you'd be fine because you can see if there's a problem and abort, but in Cat IIIa you're absolutely reliant on radio beacons so there cannot be any problems.
Please provide some examples, because the few programs I’ve found (enterprise-level and not cheap, example: Dell ProSupport Plus) all end at a max of 5 years after purchase date.
> FTA: This same counterintuitive relationship between efficiency and outcome occurs in machine learning.

The "examples abound, in politics, economics, health, science, and many other fields" isn't a relationship between efficiency and outcome, but rather measuring and efficiency, or measuring and outcome. I think a better analogy is Heissenberg's uncertainty principle – the more you measure the more you (negatively) affect the environment you're measuring.
Elon musk? Isn't he the guy that accuses of paedophilia anyone who dares disagree with him? Yeah I think he's an outstanding guy. Can't understand why anyone would dislike him really.
One of the primary reasons people bail out companies are the knock-on effects. People losing jobs, etc. If society itself is robust enough to cover for people in those situations, we could let companies fail far more.
No. Look at who backs Trump, who is himself of recent immigrant ancestry. His base is heavily composed of Germans in the Midwest, European Catholics, and Latinos. He reversed the trend of Vietnamese and Cuban voters away from the GOP and has been making huge inroads with recent immigrants from Latin America.

The death of the GOP and the rise of MAGA has more than a little to do with immigrants.
Odd, this is not happening here on macOS 15.0.0. Turning bluetooth off either via the system settings app or the menu bar icon shuts off bluetooth immediately with no prompt for me...
Good advice, but

> - users of assistive technology would be unaware of changes in context, for example when moving to a new page

> - it would fail to handle focus when moving between pages

> - the user would be unable to navigate using the back or forward buttons in their browser

> - users would be unable to recover from an error, for example if there is an interruption to their network connection

These aren’t strictly true, are they? You can achieve these things in an SPA, even if many (most?) don’t bother