skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should have (2017)

I noticed that when it said at the start:

> five giant F-1 rocket engines—still the most powerful ever built

This is no longer the case. The SpaceX Starship has the Saturn V beat nowdays.

(Edit: I suppose the F-1 rocket engines still have the Raptor 2 engines beat, so the article is still correct. The Starship just has more engines than the Saturn V for more thrust)
Ignoring the massive vtable problem for a moment ...

If tree shaking is so good, show me how to write something like this:

* when targeting browser, use dom

* when targeting node, use process/fs

* typescript should bail out if a mixture of APIs is used. That is, the type-checking must be done twice - once for browser-only, once for node-only.

(nodejs is also rather abominable for implementing APIs that really, really only make sense in browsers, like `navigator`, breaking everybody's runtime detection, but all non-browser environments require evil hacks anyway)
I think it's "I want people to make copies of this"
What small business needs to be started?
What is an idea for a business you think should exist? If you had the money, time, effort, would you try to start it?
Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go
An individual F1 engine outperforms an individual Raptor 2/3.
But sometimes the pilot followed correct procedure, and the correct procedure was to blame. In those instances the procedure is changed.
Critical Apache Struts bug under active exploit
How do you intend to expose the "Editorial OS" to third party developers? What level of depth into the OS would these APIs offer?
This rings verrrry true.

I recall in 2005 in a major west coast city, having 6Mbps DSL service but it was very prone to disruption. The tech they would send out would be just trying different pairs from a big fat cable to see if he could find one that was not too deteriorated from age. Even two decades ago AT&T's infrastructure was falling apart, and again, this was in a major city everyone in the world has heard of. Even then, they didn't care enough to even fix their 50-year old copper (which is now 70 years old) let alone lay fiber. Meanwhile also in 2005 on the other side of the continent, FiOS was launched.
Internally we get grades. fail, low pass, pass, good, excellent. I tend to get high marks (good+), but there are forced percentages of what grades are awarded. Maybe 15% get excellent? Nobody fails unless you are super truant. Kids hunting for investment banking jobs are advised to study for interviews and not go to class (by peer advisors not the school). They all still pass lol

Grades correspond to a GPA internally that may account for scholarship or whatnot. Mean raw score for some classes is like a 90+. Most grade differentiation comes from class participation. We can pull true GPA from the school if we dig, but we are explicitly told not to share GPA with employers. I’ll share my undergrad grades, but they hardly matter. As far as I can tell, no one shares their grades and employers are expected not to ask for them. This is a top 10 MBA program in the USA, I understand that other programs are very similar.
The article is pretty clear to me.

The main complaint is that the Khan FTC by default is against all mergers and acquisitions.

This is different from the previous standard that only mergers that harm consumers are bad. So now even mergers that benefit consumers are blocked.
Hmm, let me try to put this another way: how can I use passkeys such that at no point does my login go through a third party in between me and the service I'm trying to use?
True but these days it's very very hard to know everything actively. There's just so very much.

It's understandable when a pilot forgets about that one obscure button that's only used in some edge case only happening on one in 100.000 flights.

These days being a pilot is a lot like being a system engineer especially since the dedicated flight engineer position is gone. Yet also requiring the spatial awareness and manual skills of flying. I'm often surprised how well it still goes with the complexity of modern aircraft.
Is this like a Passport.js alternative?

https://www.passportjs.org/
What features does Acorn have to keep information confidential?
> To me the article indicates he used a small root partition. Or did I miss something ?

The article explicitly says a single full disk partition was used -- it's right on the quote I used.

In any case, this is a BIOS limitation affecting all bootloaders from all operating systems. It has nothing to do with any particular BSD or OS, and you do not need to care if your computer is less than 20 years old.
Paper and pencil or an air-gapped computer lab. This ain't rocket science.
The new Docs landing page
It certainly takes less that 45 minutes to send registered mail. There are even online services to which you can upload a PDF or document of your message. I have done this on numerous occasions.
I'm hoping the author of FPiLean adds enough to the book to let the language function as a competitor to Haskel.
Cool project!

OAuth-based auth providers are nice, but they can have a weakness. When you have just one app, OAuth can be overkill: protocol is complex, and users suffer jarring redirects¹.

This is not surprising, because OAuth / OIDC is fundamentally designed for (at least) three parties that don't fully trust each other: user, account provider and an app². But in a single app there are only two parties: user and app itself. Auth and app can fully trust each other, protocol can be simpler, and redirects can be avoided.

I'm curious what OpenAUTH authors think about it.

¹ Except for Resource Owner Password Credentials (ROPC) grant type, but it's no longer recommended: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-secur...

² In addition, OAuth is mostly designed for and by account providers, and follows their interests more than interests of app developers.
Cool, says everyone... Have you done it?
I think trades and blue collar work where experience learnt (the moat) is in the physical realm (not math/theory/process but dexerity and hands-on knowledge), where iteration/brute force costs too much money/causes too much risk is the place to be. If I get that building wrong unlike software where I can just "rebuild" it costs a lot of money in the real world and has risk like say "environmental damage". It means rapid iteration and development just doesn't happen which limits the exponential growth of AI in that area compared to the Digital world. Sure - in a lifetime we may have robots, etc but it will be a LOT more expensive to get there, and happen a lot slower and people can adjust. LLM's being 90% right are just not good enough - the cost of failure is too high and accountability in failure needs to occur.

Those industries also more wisely IMO tend to be unionised, own their own business, and so have the incentive to keep their knowledge tight. Even with automation the customer (their business) and the supplier (them and their staff) are the same so the value transfer of AI will make their job easier but they will keep the value. All good things to slow down progress and keep some economic rent for yourself and your family. Slow change is a less stressful life.

The intellectual fields lose in an AI world long term; the strong and the renter class (capital/owners) win. That's what "Intelligence is a commodity" that many AI heads keep saying actually means. This opens up a lot of future dystopian views/risks that probably aren't worth the benefit IMO to the majority of people that aren't in the above classes of people (i.e. most people).

The problem with software in general is that it is quite difficult generally to be a "long term" founder at least in my opinion for most people which means most employment comes from large corps/govt's/etc where the supplier (the SWE) is different than the employer. Most ideas generally don't make it or last only briefly, and the ones that stick around usually benefit from dealing with scale - something generally only larger corps have with their ideas (there are exceptions in new fields, but then they become the next large corp and there isn't enough for everyone to do this).
Or water, or the guts of other animals - these are nematodes being discussed, a broad largely microscopic phylum. Not earthworms.

In the case of the Chernobyl exclusion zone it's the surface and now subsurface soils that pose the greatest risk, especially if ingested, breathed in, etc.

The radioactive plumes spread through the air and settled as dust, now turned into the soil by the activity of animals .. such as the earthworms and nemotodes which can number in the million per square metre (being microscopic and all).

They live fully surrounded by the fallout dust, they eat and pass out the fallout dust.
> "What can we do today to screw our customers even more?" But usually they're just trying to find ways to make more money.

But you repeat yourself.
Yes or the correct procedure was not correctly written up in the flight manual, not trained on, too hard to find in a pinch etc. Or the situation was so complex it was hard to identify which procedure applied.
> At more than $100 million each (equivalent to $750 million today), they departed Earth, then fell in pieces into the ocean.

Could you imagine the unit cost today, if we kept building Saturn V in an iteratively improving process? Even as an expendable rocket, the efficiencies from mass production and weight savings from miniaturizing avionics would have produced a very capable, affordable machine.
Doc resigns after his employer charges $11k for a $8 Covid test (2020)
I just realized that after hitting post. Edited my comment.
This works when you are dealing with an organization that is run by sensible and wise people who are focused on building a better organization by building better people

This does not work in places where you are a number, or a cog, or readily replaceable.
> By your logic I shouldn’t have to pay income tax on sales because my customers already paid income tax.

People often believe that because something has been for a while, it must always be so. Not too long ago we didn't have sales tax (introduced in the 1950's), and things were fine.

You are taxed on your income, and you are taxed on your expenses. If you invest that money or do anything productive with it, it gets taxed again. That's such a ridiculous idea - pick one and stick with it. Make it whatever percentage it needs to be, and that's it.

When someone looks at their bank account - that ought to be the final word on how much purchasing power that individual has. It shouldn't be handwavy minus 7-12%.

Mind you, that's 7-12% in addition to the 20-30% you already paid.
This is geek internet. Suggesting that anything about Japan is less than peak perfection is controversial.
Then that's not a realist, by definition.

> accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly.

or

> representing a person or thing in a way that is accurate and true to life.
Honda is at its core an engine company, so the likely transition to EV has been a looming problem. I wonder if a carbon neutral synthetic fuel would help keep them in the running (since liquid fuel still has a better energy density than batteries and perform better in extreme temperatures).

I do wish Honda was merging with an EV company. Or maybe a company like Mazda that makes good reliable cars. Nissan has been in dire straights since Renault...
>your monthly nut

That means... something different where I come from.

Are you using it to mean "monthly fixed costs"? I haven't come across that meaning before.
I've edited and purged all cache. The title should be:

"Google, the search engine that's forgotten how to search"

Thank you for taking the time to notify me! :)
It's like you're not even reading what he wrote.
So, when? It was bad 20 years ago as far as I can remember. When was the ideal time?
True, but I've never met an ecosystem where building your own tools is required.
Have you actually tried passkeys there? I find the implementation pretty straightforward to use: I enter a username, password (unfortunately no passwordless passkey support yet), and then click "ok" when prompted to use my passkey by my browser.
Are We Remotely Productive? [video]
This looks neat! The on-call use case is particularly compelling for me. Does your recording method work in SSH sessions?
Federal agencies now have oversight from the judicial branch. That's a big check on their power.
If you are interested in shaders, you can look at the source code. https://ciechanow.ski/js/moon.js

Like with all the other articles, it is straight up readable JS, with WebGL graphics, no dependencies.
The key though, is that if he is labelled a terrorist, all that fund raising for a legal defense is going to get frozen with the stroke of a pen. Calling it.
The code is in the code base. Presumably, it still gets run. It doesn't make a difference if new code doesn't look like that.
Yeah. Last time I bought a car, at the last minute, it included "factory installed" extras that included a first aid kit for a car that wasn't built yet. I may or may not have actually walked (a couple of the options were actually useful) but I was "I'm not happy but I'll close the deal NOW if you add it to my trade-in" which they did.
How is getting all of the advantages of high beams without the blinding factor of other drivers a kludge? It’s a huge benefit. Auto high beams already exist.
Seems like a perfect job for Datasette: SQLite plus web api and UI

“Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape, analyze and explore it, and publish it as an interactive website and accompanying API.”

https://datasette.io/

The “Baked Data” style of deploying the data with the app is powerful.
Sure, but back in those days (the 50s, 60s, 70s) two things were true about the company that bore the AT&T name: 1. They invested in research that benefited the whole industry with Bell Labs, and 2. they built out and maintained the infrastructure well.

Today they're just operating with the most cynical approach, where they extract the maximum amount of value out of a network built by our grandfathers' generation, only doing capex in the most targeted areas where the ROI will be instantaneous. (new subdivisions, and specifically ones where they can get the HOA to bake in their services to the HOA fee). I used to live in a large urban tower and AT&T did finally come in with fiber, in 2017, on that condition. They'll be cash flow positive from Day 1 because 100% of the homes in that tower are customers, and they literally can't cancel their service (or more specifically their payment).
Creating Apple Shortcuts with Shortcuts JavaScript
coughs in bicyclist ...
> The only reason why status quo is there because people are less likely to remove items from their online shopping carts once they've added it.

Sure, in a world where the actual sticker price is displayed. Do you believe this will remain true when customers have to add items to the cart to get the “real” price?
If you don't want people to copy and improve your software, don't give them permission to copy and improve your software.

If you don't want people to copy and improve your hardware, don't give them permission to copy and improve your hardware. It works the same as software copyright, AFAIK.

If you don't want people to make their own products that are similar to yours... sorry, that's not possible. Imagine what the world would be like if Elon Musk could claim a monopoly on Twitter-like services - if Mark Zuckerberg didn't first claim a monopoly on all social media - if IBM didn't first claim a monopoly on all computing products. You get to differentiate your product based on price and features, just like everyone else does.
Seikos are extremely underrated. Also most people don't know, but they even make watches as intricate as the most expensive Swiss brands.

Like this one which retails for a cool $365,000 USD: https://www.grand-seiko.com/us-en/collections/slgt005g

Or you can get a nice everyday mechanical watch for as little as a couple hundred.
The reason we like the free market is that there is guaranteed to be competition in a free market and that's guaranteed to lower prices and improve features, which are not things that happened in communism. If those things aren't actually true then why do we like the free market - how's it any better than communism?
I think here's where LLM can shine. Do you think that having LLM to digest and translate the incomprehensible laws will help people to understand them better?
Class action suits may be easier, if only arbitration was opt-in-by-default or easier to opt out of.
Less secure that HttpOnly cookies, which are not accessible by third-party JavaScript. LocalStorage also doesn't have automatic expiration.
I love staring at something for two minutes and having it slowly make sense. Great explanation.
That's the point - the mall doesn't allow shop owners to buy their store. And Google doesn't let you own your phone outright. If they did, they'd have to give up that recurring revenue stream!
I want static types in a higher level assembly language for systems programming. That's because I want to work with machine-level representations, in which there are no spare bits for indicating type at run-time (moreover, using such a language, we can design a type system with such bits, in any way we please).

I don't want static types in a high level language.

It's just counterproductive.

We only have to look at numbers to feel how it sucks. If we divide two integers in Common Lisp, if the division is exact, the object that comes out is an integer. Otherwise we get a ratio object. Or if we take a square root of a real, we get a complex number if the input is negative, otherwise real.

This cannot be modeled effectively in a static system. You can use a sum type, but that's just a greenspunned ad hoc dynamic type.
The UI lookr great, but I have the same question. What is the workflow / use case for this?
it only takes a few hits from lawsuits for the companies to fix the process.
Malicious access to these tokens is malicious access to the service.
That doesn't mean much. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban have supporters too. Terrorism is defined by actions, not support.
yeah no amount of resetting keyboard settings or anything else can change that for me. I've seen others that can swipe 'you.' :/

Maybe Apple would suggest that I take 2-3 days to fully dedicate to re-setting-up from scratch. Or maybe I'd do that and find that some corrupt entry in an iCloud-synced database was responsible and I would also need a fresh Apple ID.
I suspect the answer is instead to establish two tax rate calculations:

One for in-person shopping (like VAT) -- you pay the tax according to local rates, but it's factored in already.

one for online shopping, ("E-VAT") -- you pay a national rate tax and the seller is responsible for paying gross sales based on that percentage to the state and the rest goes to the IRS.

Problem comes with the Sin Taxes that have been established. For instance, in Seattle, sugared drinks MAY incur a tax depending on what kind of store you bought it from (e.g. the normal costco has to tax it but the business costco doesn't), but that doesn't affect some folks and then there's tax-exempt organizations like churches that can have their sales tax waived and then there's states where sales taxes are a majority of the income is from sales tax but only if you're local and

oh god it gets bad.
Thanks anyway :)
Inconsistent style. Once global functions (that's so 2000), once prototypes (that's so 2010). No lazy loading, no modularization, no state management. Mixing variable declarations with initializations, one "var" declaration in the code. He probably haven't heard about TypeScript, transpilation, and doesn't understand static typing. Fells like a show off. That guy is an absolute no-no.
They're completely different! The similarity is at the physical/surface level only.

Physical keys work in one (or rarely in several, but basically unchanging set of) locks, and I carry around about 2-3 of them.

Hardware security keys, by contrast, work in many different places/accounts, potentially even for multiple accounts on the same service, but only after registering them there.

That's not how people experience physical keys: You don't, for example, move apartments or visit a friend, and the landlord/friend "registers/adds your key for their lock". If you lose your physical key, you can't "quickly revoke it from all doors" that it locks (without kicking everybody else out).
Uber and its CEO donate $1M each to Trump's inaugural fund
How does this work? Do you provide the AGO with your name, phone and address? Subscription details?
> if you're eliminating meat why are you trying to mimic meat food

Because it's tasty, convenient, familiar and versatile. Beyond burgers and sausages taste good, are high-protein and can be cooked quickly and easily at home.

The old veggie burgers made from beans,quinoa,carrots,etc were pretty mediocre, but the Beyond burgers have been a game changer.
No, its a stupid word
Sweet mercy it's all shell scripts. What an impressive nightmare.
Blegh. If you want to plant trees, just donate some money to a relevant charity. 215m trees sounds like a lot but it's definitely not 'tangible' in the scope of climate change. It's just a hipster feel good thingy like driving a Prius and thinking that actually changes something. It's like bringing a bottle of water to a city on fire. Sure you're doing something but nothing that matters.

Watching some ads where a slight part of the revenue (ecosia overhead, bing overhead, profit margins are subtracted). is used for some trees is just greenwashing. Besides I block all ads so they'll never see revenue from me anyway.

And either way I run my own SearXNG that grabs the best results from all the big name search engines and doesn't have ads or tracking.
> a 91-kWh battery pack that's compatible with 150-kW fast charging. Although unconfirmed just yet, the vehicle could offer a range of 250 - 275 miles on a single charge – based on calculations made by Tech Radar's Lance Ulanoff

...uff da, I hope that's a 75 mph range estimate, and not an EPA range estimate. I'd guess that Chevy Equinox EV SUV is a much larger, less aerodynamic vehicle, and the 2025 AWD model gets 307 EPA miles with an 85 kWh pack.
I like Dan Milstein's take on this, from "How to Run a 5 Whys (With Humans, Not Robots)"[1]:

> ...when we say "I won't make this mistake again", we're basically saying "Here was the problem: I was stupid once, and I'll never be stupid again, and neither will anyone who runs this business."

(The whole talk is worth watching, it's only 14 minutes long and it's very entertaining.)

1. https://youtu.be/78qzrXIPn5Q?t=559
The latest iPhones can already do stereoscopic image and video capture for viewing in the Vision Pro. It works pretty well.
I've replied more in the other tree, but I'm not even touching NPM yet. The stuff I'm writing is simple enough not to need any dependencies.
I'm a big fan of shisa kanko [1] as practiced by Japanese rail workers. Every time I go to make a change to a critical system I deliberately say out loud what I'm connected to, what I'm about to do, and why I'm doing it as I confirm these assertions before taking action. If at all possible I have somebody else on the call watching. I'm sure it looks goofy to my colleagues but I'd like to think that it helps to avoid these types of mistakes.

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-j...
The product itself is fine. I was part of a startup that was happy to pay for said thing and got a lot of value from it (sdk from OpenAPI spec). So I don’t think product market fit was the problem here.
i can't remember the last time i paid face value for a concert ticket. the scalping is absurd. it's worse than any fees, by far.