skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say low intellect but , as also a functioning autist (as most of us are) i know myself that i am something wrong compare to other people who are quite different.
At a certain point, the time gained due to relativistic effects will equal the time lost to fatal accidents. (Or do I have this backwards?)
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Critical in the age of generative AI reliability.
This is framed misleadingly as a risk calculation, but the math is unfairly generous because planes go a long way and carry a lot of people. It is not a valid calculation for "how likely am I to die if I get on a plane".

Imagine if each plane carried a million people, and traveled a million miles in a single flight, and 1 plane in a dozen vaporized all its passengers. By the logic of the post, you would crunch the same safety number - "passenger miles between accidents" - but we would not call such a mode of transport safe because you have a 1-in-a-dozen chance of death.

If you are going to sum up passenger miles, rather than aircraft miles, you need to compare that against passenger-accidents, rather than aircraft-accidents. Each aircraft crash kills about 100 people at a time, so that "2 light years" figure is two orders of magnitude too generous, right from the start.

There are other arguments to be made about "passenger-miles" as an entire concept (air miles are not always fungible with other modes of transport, and a plane which explodes on takeoff 1% of the time is not safer if you fly it farther each flight) but I'll stop here.
Maybe in your state.
A strong recommendation for the excellent "Mr Bates vs The Post Office" to anyone who hasn't followed it, a short (four part) drama about it which is really worth a watch, and a good way to get a rough feel for what went on, and also managed to finally catalyse a real response by the government.
Wi-Fi 8 Specifications New Features Summary
Exactly that. I mean sure, it may visually be up there, and it may have an attention to detail to things like... people shuffling around in line at a cantina or whatever it was I heard about the other day. But that's window dressing. If they can't get the core technical (= stability, performance) and core gameplay (= is it fun) right, it's a flop. Of course, at this point they will never earn as much from sales of the finished product as they have already received and spent on development cost. It won't be the next GTA Online. At best it'll be as popular as games like Elite Dangerous (fishing in the same pond) or Eve Online, which have player bases that are middling at best compared to the games they're competing with budget- and scope-wise, like GTA or Cyberpunk.

I mean Cyberpunk's launch was terrible as well because it too didn't get the basics right - crashes, poorly/slowly loading textures, etc.
as so often, the really preferable solution would be to make it impossible to code the wrong thing from the start:

- a sum type (or some wrapper type) `number | DIVISION_BY_ZERO` forces you to explicitly handle the case of having divided by zero
- alternatively, if the division operator only accepted the set `number - 0` as type for the denominator you'd have to explicitly handle it ahead of the division. Probably better as you don't even try to divide by zero, but not sure how many languages can represent `number - 0` as a type.
As far as I know, none of the tricky Unix details here would be handled by Python. The "async" part isn't the problem, it's the coordination around syscalls.
$48 today, adjusted for inflation.
> personal liability and fines and jail for negligence

Politicians too. And journalists.
Grazie, Moregon, per aver scritto una sinossi così meravigliosa e completa di questi eventi entusiasmanti. Anch’io sono molto entusiasta di questi eventi. Ti andrebbe di scrivermi un messaggio per salutarmi? Ho guardato il tuo profilo, ma non ho trovato informazioni di contatto.
Yep, even the most basic knowledge such as knowing how to do math on a few cells can be useful to build things. It's really good for one off internal tools to do comparisons.

For the first 5 years of selling courses I handled affiliate payouts by sorting and summing rows in a spreadsheet. It only took 5 minutes once a month. I eventually automated what I used to do manually with a script that reads the CSV file because I like coding and it was fun to me, plus I wanted to remove one point of human error.
Free market does not exist.

Especially in semiconductor industry, its history is full of subsidies
That might be true for most and is a reasonable way of looking at it.

But if someone is going on a 10,000km trip and trying to choose between modes of travel, the mode with the fewest incidents per mile will be the safest way.
TBF, Asahi Lina's remarks on Zig weren't exactly a good look either (it essentially boiled down to 'Zig is bad because I don't like it') - that left a much worse taste in my mouth than anything coming out of the Zig community, especially since it came from a respected person who really should know better than to shit on other software projects.
I, for one, would really like a spectre soccer ball.

Seriously, though, I think the implications for mineralogy are interesting.
hey flooooh thanks for your 6502 cycle accurate emulation :-) signed:some emulator author :-)
You know 68k, but 6502 is hard? I always figured it would be the other way around... doesn't the 68k have various MMU/"protected mode"-like stuff? Edit: i could also be confusing it with PPC.
And yet still full of bug in empty space with only boring things to do.
In between when that kickstarter went off and now, another company funded, built and released Elite Dangerous, then added multiple extensions adding planet surfaces, first-person stuff, etc to it. I mean in terms of gameplay it's nowhere near as ambitious and it's got an absence of story, but it actually released and gained success.
Ceph is a bastard to run. Its expensive, slow and just not really ready. Yes I know people use it, but compared to a fully grown up system (ie lustre[don't its raid 0 in prod] or GPFS [great but expensive]) its just a massive time sync.

You are much better off having a bunch of smaller file systems exported over NFS make sure that you have block level replication. Single address space filesystems are ok and convenient, but most of the time are not worth the cost of admin to get reliable at scale. like a DB shard your filesystems, especially as you can easily add mapping logic to kubernetes to make sure you get the right storage to the right image.
The denominator is "passenger mile", those don't have passengers.
Would be interesting to look into whether cargo flights have higher accident rate than passenger flights.
To add it's only Steamboat Willie Mickey that is public domain. The actual character as we think of him isn't. The creator has been dead for nearly 80 years. It's absolutely insane that any of those creations are still privately owned.
I am not sure what does this article achieve except cite other people's opinions on using or not using RAII (and a few other mechanisms).

It even admits that using arena allocator in Rust would address most (if not all) of their reservations towards RAII. And mentioning that there are badly written programs out there that take a while to shut down is, while informative in terms of an anecdote, is at the same time not at all a firm evidence the same will happen in the kernel.

I mean, it's the kernel, and the uttermost attention should be given to any potential performance or stability concerns -- of course!

But it does not seem like the people against it are willing to gather data. Which again puts the Rust devs on the backfoot. Seems like constant impeding akin to a bureaucratic structure that knows that you'll eventually get what you came for but they'll put every obstacle possible on your path first. :(

But overall, the article ended just when I expected it to get a bit more serious and data-oriented. Or at least give little more than opinions / feelings about the contention point.
> where there was a bug in a system designed by Fujitsu

To clarify, there was not _one_ bug, but hundreds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal#Pr...

From my read of the information publicly available, there was a fundamental lack of distributed/transactional system understanding from the developers at Fujitsu.

This[1] article recently posted here[2] reminded me of the Post Office Scandal.

The lack of respect for established CS theory (transactions and distributed systems) and established accounting practices (double entry book keeping or even the idea of a ledger) is mind boggling.

[1] https://news.alvaroduran.com/p/engineers-do-not-get-to-make-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42269227
Why is infinity singular? There's at least positive and negative infinity.

And why do you bring up infinity? In regular math, 1/0 is literally undefined. It's not infinity.
There is only one Photoshop, just like there is only one 2001: A Space Odyssey.

There are lots of other tools, some of which are free, much like there are lots of other forms of culture and entertainment. Absolute masterpieces come into the public domain every year, and become free for a new generation of people to enjoy.

Why are public domain forms of culture and entertainment insufficient? The list of classics in the public domain vastly outnumbers the list of contemporary classics.

FWIW, I disagree entirely. Copyright infringement is a natural consequence of free market dynamics and the marginal costs of replication of IP being near zero, just like spillage and theft is a natural consequence of physical stores. It’s part of the cost of doing business.
Exactly, so when I get in that car, I want to know the probability of dying. How do you compute this? By taking the number of crashes per kilometer, and multiplying by the number of kilometers you'll drive for. A trip of 5000km is less safe than a 5km one. That's just common sense. Similarly, when comparing flying versus driving from Amsterdam to Paris, you are, as you say, interested in which method is most likely to get you to your destination alive. So you take the number of incidents per kilometer for planes and cars, and multiply them by the distance between Amsterdam and Paris. The interesting figure really is incidents / kilometer, that's just basic math.
Hi David,

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Timekeeping is now on the verge of a giant leap forward in accuracy
Return ownership of IP to humans only. You'll solve basically all of the issues currently faced that way.
The reality is that almost no adaptations happen until ten years after a book is published. Virtually never.
Why would you count trips and not distance? The output of "traveling" is distance, and air travel is by far the safest method of generating that distance.

Measures like accidents per hour or per trip skew the numbers, because air travel generates much more distance per hour and per trip than other forms of transportation.
You can set items from the URL, which you usually can't do with most web frameworks. Of course you can enable Session State Protection, but you have to be vigilant.

You can also inadvertently leave a page public.
GoT isn't an edge case - it's actually quite quick for an adaptation.
Ask HN: May one play Windows Minecraft without giving a phone number to MS?
Have you used containers?
The nice thing about standards is there are so many to choose from!
"Non-aggregating statistics" sounds like a fascinating field of research
There were CPUs with whole plethora of optional optimizations. For example Cyrix packed their CPUs with goodies, but had no money to test so made it all optional.

https://www.ardent-tool.com/CPU/Cyrix_Cx486.html#soft

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=45756 Register settings for various CPUs

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=30607 Cyrix 5x86 Register Enhancements Revealed

L1, Branch Target Buffer, LSSER (load/store reordering), Loop Buffer, Memory Type Range Registers (Write Combining, Cacheability), all controlled using client side software.

Cyrix 5x86 testing of Loop Buffer showed 0.2% average boost and 2.7% maximum observable speed boost.
The real problem is who could afford a system that a competent senior engineer would take personal liability for...
Sure they will. As soon as the general public cares and forces the issue.

Nobody cares about privacy so it doesn't matter.
> The main problem is that category theorists keep writing stuff claiming that, if only you get through the math, you'll eventually be able to apply the category theory to typical everyday programming problems.

There is no "typical everyday programming problems." It's an incredibly broad discipline, and one person's typical is another's esoteric.

When you're designing an API, it's useful to know when you're dealing with one of the common structures that occurs in category theory, and there's a somewhat high cost to missing that, since you can end up with a "broken" feeling API where the pieces don't fit together properly, or where the different parts aren't consistent with one another.
> While there's a lot of mechanisms which are adding order and structure to what happens, it's all still just a big concentrated aqueous solution of everything in the cell, diffusion processes and mixing and all.

Global variables, blegh. /s
Because its a technical guarantee. How is a product manager going to able to personally approve code he can't even read?
We don't allow division of apples and oranges, either. So why is excluding 0 weird, but excluding ice cream as an argument is not?
Also all the sites that post scans of old books or magazines but claim various usage restrictions or/and copyrights on the scans.

That effectively keeps public domain works copyrighted, for most purposes, for most of us. Most libraries for instance have some EULA that says you can only use scans you order from them for non-commercial purposes, even if they scan from a public domain book. I do not know if that can be enforced in general, but it would not be fun to have to find out in court.
What are the underlying models are you using for code generation
and yet, nobody talks about elite dangerous on HN, but star citizen gets discussed.

like one of the top level comments observes - the sold product is hope that it gets done, not the deliverable.
voting up because I don't care if the API may be down, it's the idea that matters and the idea is good ! Keep working on it
There were "bugs", yes. There were also fundamental design flaws.

One of the things the Post Office did was sell travel money, but the whole system was never really designed for ForEx operations, so it didn't keep track of exchange rates over time. The result is that reconciliation used the exchange rate at time of reconciliation instead of at the time of trade. So, if the foreign currency had gone up in value, it would show up as GBP missing.
Just look at likelihood you are going to die each mile traveled. Using that method, passenger planes are 750 times safer than cars.
If you want to do all the work at the end, 'exceptions' do exactly that, too.
Show HN: SQL Simulator – Create Subsetted Databases in Docker or K8s
Hi, I'm Weston Goodwin. I originally posted about my project on HN back in June 2023 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36187556) and wanted to share some of the updates I’ve made since then. As a referesher SQL Simulator is a tool that simulates SQL script execution by creating a subsetted database. Below is a list of changes I've made:

1.)It now supports both Docker and Kubernetes.
2.)The database container automatically self-destructs after 15 minutes of inactivity to improve security.
3.)A Data Governor limits the amount of sensitive data that can be retrieved in a day.
4.)The K8s version can be used as a database proxy. Simply remove direct access to the database and force users to go through the K8s cluster/Data governor to view any data.

The tool is available without requiring signup or credit card. I’d appreciate any feedback or suggestions. Thanks for this post reading.

Docker Documentation:
https://ssdocker.tribalknowledge.tech/

K8s Documentation:
https://sql-simulator.tribalknowledge.tech/
A $60 customer genetics test doesn't seem like it's for educational purposes.

https://vgl.ucdavis.edu/test/charcoal-pattern-bengals
I too did that calculation once and came to the same conclusion as you did.

However, it's important to note that flying keeps getting safer, and has gotten safer over the last decades, so as far as I can tell, flying is now indeed much safer per trip than any other means of transportation

This Wikipedia page cites an IATA report from a few years back with a number of 1:18 million trips.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety
I too used to run a large clustered environment (VFX) and now work at a FAANG which has a "borg-like" scheduler.

K8s has a whole kit of parts which sound really grand when you are starting out on a new platform, but quickly become a pain when you actually start to implement it. I think thats the biggest problem, is by the time you've realised that actualy you don't need k8s, you've invested so much time into learning the sodding thing, its difficult to back out.

The other seductive thing is helm provides "AWS-like" features (ie fancy load balancing rules) that are hard to figure out unless you've dabbled with the underlying tech before (varnish/nginx/etc are daunting, so is storage and networking)

this tends to lead to utterly fucking stupid networking systems because unless you know better, that looks normal.
There are things that needs to be salted while cooking but bare minimum yes.
In the diagram/text description it is specifically referring to replication, in the sense of transmitting genetic information to daughter cells. In that sense there is no protein-protein transfer; no means of copying one protein or rebuilding nucleic acids from the amino acid sequence.
> 5) If you want network redundancy you can create a 1G vSwitch (VLAN) on the 1G ports for internal use. Give each server a loopback IP, then use BGP to distribute routes (bird).

Are you willing to share example config for that part?
In runtime. Basically you lose most of the benefits.
SSD volumes are physically on the same node, and afaik not redundant. The cloud vms are ceph clusters behind the scenes, and writes need to commit for 3+ machines. It's both network latency and inherent process latency

Additionally, hetzner has an IOPS limit of 5000 and write limit of some amount that does not scale with the size of database.

50G has the same limits as 5TB.

For this reason, people are sometimes using different table spaces in postgres for example.

Ceph puts another burden on top of already-ceph-based cloud volumes, btw, so don't do that.
I would guess that all people who ever lived on Earth have traveled many light years already on their bare feet.
What use is this "statistics" for?
All Rust's primitive integer types have a corresponding non-zero variant, NonZeroU8, NonZeroI32, NonZeroU64, NonZeroI128 etc. and indeed NonZero<T> is the corresponding type, for any primitive type T if that's useful in your generic code.
Professionally qualified engineers in other fields seem to manage OK?
We have been using openAI for all the code generation.
Short trips are more dangerous per-mile, and per-minute, than long trips. A minute of driving to the corner store is vastly more prone to accident than a minute of driving a stretch of interstate. NYC to LA probably has a higher risk than driving to the corner store, but only because you stop by the corner store every so often on the trip. So it may not be the case that the short trips "dilute" the statistics, especially per-mile.
Yes.

In a language like C or Rust, you can cast your +0.0 and -0.0 to an integer, and print out the bit pattern. They are different.
> All the TRIPS agreement requires is 50 years. That can be from first publication, regardless of when the author dies.

TRIPS requires fifty years for features, but not for various bits of copyright that go into making a feature, where it requires life + 50. There are vanishingly small amounts of films that would be genuinely clear under the TRIPS terms, they'd basically just be performing arts pieces with no script or planning or music.
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Willful ignorance and oppression of others have many causes, none of them anything less than an evil perversion of the life of compassion we should each be choosing to manifest.

Such evil is always worse under the guise of religion, because religion is ONLY supposed to lead us to greater compassion for all our neighbors, especially those who are on different paths. We are to light the way forward for others by our own selfless, loving, generous, and kind compassion for others.

A particularly tricky bit is that the Paradox of Tolerance requires us to "love" the oppressed differently than their oppressors, which may require what Holmes called "vigorous action" in the defense of the innocent. And it doesn't matter what the oppressor calls themself, because the beliefs and claims of the destructively self-deluded hypocrites carries no weight in the universe's court of truth, which is all there is.
Hilbert's Hotel shows nicely that infinity can't be singular.
When the design closely aligns with the real world problem it solves, communication pathways are natural and you don't really have to care much about them.
What matters is the Actor's role and making sure it represent a strong domain concept. The rest follows naturally.

But to be fair, it's never that simple and you always end up with some part of a system that's less "well-designed". In that case,figuring out who talks to who can quickly become a nightmare.

Actors are great on the paper, but to benefit from them, you need great understanding of your domain. I tend to use it later in the development process, on specific part where the domain is rich and understood.
They were charged with misdemeanor trespassing.

The only connection to WMD charges is that it was mentioned in the memo as an example of "minor criminal activity".

The article seems to be deliberately misleading.
> Short trips are more dangerous per-mile, and per-minute, than long trips.

That's possible, but the longer trip is still more dangerous per trip.