skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The last total system failure was in 2007, when an 82-year-old pipe at 41st and Lexington exploded, showering Midtown in debris. Heavy rainfall had cooled the pipes, producing large amounts of condensate quickly, and a clogged steam trap meant that the system was unable to expel the water. When this build-up hit a critical level, the internal pressure shot up, causing the explosion. Almost fifty people were injured, and one woman died of a heart attack while fleeing

The photo of this explosion makes it look huge. I wonder how much the pent up infrastructure work to avoid these issues would cost. Are water or gas pipes also vulnerable to this sort of thing?
Aaron Swartz is so young there is really nothing much to say about him. This guy lived basically 3x of Aaron's lifetime.
the problem here isn't football. It's rampant censoreship and net blocks in the EU.
(same problem different methods in other EU countries. In germany theiy raid your home for harmless political satire)
I’m hardly a UI, well, anything.

But I want to point out the application that is used at the Quest Diagnostics lab. The one they use to enter your demographic, lab info, etc. The daily driver for their legion of phlebotomists, at least here in So Cal.

One word. It’s fast. Oh man is it fast. Bunches of fields, bunches of dialog boxes, looks like a Windows back office application. Prints all of the vial tracking labels. These people are trained and know what is coming when.

But, it seems to be in a web browser tab. Perhaps they’re running a RDP tab to a nearby server running some Windows based desktop app, but, again, this app flies. I’ve not seen modern app this fast.

I’d love to know how they are pulling it off.
Is this one of those times?
In my area, it's not uncommon for companies to use short term contracts to scale teams up temporarily. These companies often work with local recruiters, and some of those even specialize primarily in short term contract placement.

In short, they're a quick and easy way to expand your network, so to speak, since they're always willing to take your resume even if they don't have anything immediately available.
Hopefully there were no typos here.
I expect we’ll see a broadening of the legal definition of obscenity soon to include such cases.
Brian Eno on the Loss of Humanity in Modern Music (2023)
Local personal agents are going to be a major app type, and this is a great example - thanks for sharing it!

They run locally on my computer with my full credentials and has access to everything. Once I'm past my trust issues, I'd use these a lot.

PS: Running them locally gives me the false sense of security because I feel like "I can unplug the AI". Maybe someone can explain the psychology behind this :)
If we want to use the internet as a communication network then we need peer-to-peer connectivity. We can't get than on IPv4. Resilience is pointless if everyone needs to connect to the same (few) middlemen before they can establish any kind of connection to a peer. It's no better than the old telephone system that needed an exclusive physical link between correspondents.

We almost had this in the early 2000s, but then we regressed. People were excited about meshnets, when was the last time someone mentioned those? Too many people have forgotten and now many have been raised in this current form of the Internet thinking it's the only way. We need to think bigger. We need to push for IPv6 and basic internet connectivity (meaning ability to connect to any peer in the world) as a human right. Otherwise we build our lives around something that can be taken away on a whim over something as silly as grown men kicking a bladder around a field.
If you're a Chinese expat, they'll reach out to you wherever.
Older Americans Taking Blue-Collar Jobs, White-Collar Hiring Slowdown
All the downvoters and replies: "I don't live in a cage! They give us exercise time in the yard twice a day as long as I'm on good behavior."

Honestly embarrassing reactions from people pretending not to understand the difference between a machine you control and a machine Apple generously (for now) allows you to use in the way you wish.
Starlink doesn't defy local governments except when the US government greenlights it (offering service in Iran.)
No. There's only one wrong here and it's the segregationist revanchism.
Rust is basically what you get if you start with ML and then do enough to avoid having garbage collection.
Question: Why is Intel rehiring people they previously let go?

Pat Gelsinger – ex-Intel, rehired as CEO, ousted.

Lip-Bu Tan – ex board member, ousted due to disagreements on how to turn the company around.

If Intel removed him over disagreements on turnaround, what will be different this time?
this is an interesting trend. email is just a database at this point. do you see this changing to something else?
For the very common case of a file already being in RAM, tools like `sort` are absolutely compute bound. On my M2 mac mini:

$ hyperfine "LC_ALL=C sort < subtitles2018.en" "LC_ALL=C gsort < subtitles2018.en"
Benchmark 1: LC_ALL=C sort < subtitles2018.en
Time (mean ± σ): 2.007 s ± 0.005 s [User: 1.940 s, System: 0.064 s]
Range (min … max): 1.997 s … 2.015 s 10 runs

Benchmark 2: LC_ALL=C gsort < subtitles2018.en
Time (mean ± σ): 898.5 ms ± 9.7 ms [User: 2795.8 ms, System: 93.6 ms]
Range (min … max): 875.0 ms … 906.9 ms 10 runs

Summary
LC_ALL=C gsort < subtitles2018.en ran
2.23 ± 0.02 times faster than LC_ALL=C sort < subtitles2018.en

Info about the tools:

$ which sort
/usr/bin/sort
$ which gsort
/opt/homebrew/bin/gsort
$ brew info coreutils | head -n3
==> coreutils: stable 9.6 (bottled), HEAD
GNU File, Shell, and Text utilities
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

There are other tools in coreutils for which this applies as well.

The GNU tools have overall been pretty heavily optimized. Why do you think they did that if it literally didn't matter? Just for shits & giggles?
You do realize that Reagan was president well over 30 years ago? Many people working in the FAA today were not even born when this happened.
Are you actually fine with white supremacists? Or do you just defend them out of ignorance?
I am intrigued by this. I read everything on your site. It looks great since it apparently allows transfer between devices using different OSes and that is always the sticking point around my place. I have several incarnations of Windows (7-11), a couple of linux distros (PopOS, CentOS7), and iOS on our phones. I see that linux is currently not supported though you would add that if people request it.

That's great.

My question for you is about the security of the data being transferred. You're using TLS according to your docs and this app transfers directly peer to peer. Is this secure FTP using TLS?

You have two tiers for users - Community and Business. Community is free and donations encouraged. Speeds may be slower to prioritize paying customers and support is more crowd-sourced. Business gets fastest speeds and direct support.

I am not a subscription buyer by choice. I would like to help make this profitable for you. Would you consider offering a paid version for personal use that would give faster speeds, security updates, and bug fixes at a price point between Free and Business? $300/year is way too much for something that would be used as a personal tool to quickly and securely send documents and photos to family members.

I realize that the donation model could function like a one-time payment model since you are likely using it intermittently and sending a small donation for each use so that your annual costs are minimized. In that case you always use the most current version. You "own" that version during the period that you use it and you pay a reasonable donation for use of it.

I also don't see the need to establish an account if this is a p2p service since the data transfers should walk from my device to the destination device. Fill me in on why I need an account.

I would pay for a license to use this with the expectation that the license would provide the current version of the app plus all bug fixes and security fixes for that paid version and that upgrades taking the app to the next full version would be discounted to existing users. I could be a long-term customer.

As an example, I use an antique, unsupported version of SnagIt on my machines. I purchased the license years ago, upgraded through a couple of versions until they got to a point where they dicked up the interface and changed the tool availability and so I ditched the newer version and have continued using the old version which work great. I still get the nag screens to update to the new version but the click to close that dialog is now muscle memory for me.

I appreciate the functionality that this app, blip, provides and would like to be a paying customer and use the app but I'm not interested in a subscription model.

EDIT: I forgot to note a slight error in one of your replies to a FAQ.

Under the "Blip vs Aspera" comparison in the FAQ "Why is Blip easy to use?" there is a fat-finger spelling error.

The sentence reads:

> We want you to set up any use it by yourself!

I believe that it should read:

We want you to set up and use it by yourself!
Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11. Neither did Syria, or Iraq.

Vietnam wasn't self-defense. Korean war wasn't self-defense. CIA-instigated Color revolutions and Euromaidan weren't self-defense. Kosovo wasn't self-defense. Launching a cruise missile (a precision weapon that requires the operator to enter precise geographic coordinates prior to launch) at the Chinese embassy in Belgrade wasn't self-defense.

A vast and overwhelming majority of the military operations the post-WW2 USA conducts overseas are not acts of self-defense, they are acts of imperialism.

"I want to grow the imperial empire's influence and footprint" is not justification for murdering unarmed civilians. Never has been, never will be.
But it does use the word "fix" in the sense of "fasten upon, stop moving, make immobile" like a "fixed point" and not in the sense of "repair" or "make breakfast",

And does so in relation to "gaze" in the same sentence. How much more do you need - the rest seems nit-picking. Sentences aren't all fixed forms, they are creative combinations of words. (and as has been established, this form is not actually unique)

If you don't want to engage with the piece, then maybe it's not for you. Not everything is written for everyone, and it's useless to complain about that.
> Seatbelts and OSHA destroy my productivity

D is designed with seatbelts (like array overflow protection), and they work. I regularly show how C could add them with only minor additions.
Can you even use an iPad without an Apple cloud account? Can you install anything on it?
https://guykawasaki.com/what-i-learned-from-steve-jobs/

"The Apple focus group was the right hemisphere of Steve’s brain talking to the left one."

If you don't incorporate data into your product devisions, you're going to have a bad time.

If you only incorporate data into your product decisions, you're going to have a bad time.

If you balance left and right brain thinking, you might come up with a successful product.
That's not true. Except for nuclear and solar collectors, all renewables, especially hydro, have nothing to do with steam.
Broke TrueAnon rule 3: never get in a small airplane or a helicopter.
> What do you expect me to "learn" in this context?

I have now downgraded my expectations, learning is indeed optional.

> But the whole point of language is to communicate with others and this sentence is clearly confusing to many people.

Or - hear me out - maybe you're not in the target audience of this piece in "The Critic: Britain's Most Civilised Magazine". Not everything is written for everyone, and it's useless to complain about that. But you should at least be able to identify that it is a particular literate British tone, and know if that's your thing or not. If it is, then dig into the idioms. If it isn't then don't read it.
Unmarked vans drive around all the time. They don't typically park out front of a whistleblower's house. There is more scrutiny there than driving down any random street. Therefore, a more sufficient cover would be required.
Inside Intel, CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the revival of an American icon
On my circle of friends I was the PC guy, however got to enjoy quite a bit of the Amiga ecosystem, thanks to us being always being around each others, and some incursions into our demoscene attempts.
Valve's "Steam" platform naming makes more sense from this perspective. Literally the pipes transporting games to customers.
> But what she discussed doesn’t feel like it’s very substantive beyond what could already be deduced or observed.

There is still value in having a primary source for it. Even if it's not news to you.

Even on HN when you see an industry open-secret discussed, you'll occasionally have one sub-thread saying "you must be a paranoid conspiracy theorist to even suggest that" while another is the "everyone be knowing that already" sub-thread.
And, given who OP is, "sufficient practice" here translates to "has been writing compilers in C++ for 4 decades".
P-AI-perback Writer
> I don't think rg speed can be attributed to Rust.

I didn't say it was, and this isn't even remotely close to my point. The comment I was replying to wasn't even talking about Rust versus C. Just new tools versus old tools.

> ripgrep gains comes from a ton of brilliant optimizations and strategies done by it's author. They wrote articles about such tricks.

I know. I'm its author!
Two of the glider pilots raise the chicks for months at a time. So when we have something that can not only fly but hand raise chicks to full grown and also nurture that bond while on stops on the journey to teach the ibis the path.
> The number of relatively obvious mistakes should decrease with experience

Yes, and the kind of mistakes I make have changed. Now they are usually a failure to understand the problem correctly, or are simply typos.

> Optional tools with no general enforcement

That's right. The tools don't work unless you use them. With D the idea is to build the tool into the language itself. I once annoyed the Coverity folks by saying D's purpose is to put Coverity out of business.
Huh, so they had fizzbuzz in 1972!
Ask HN: Thoughts on AI Interoperability?
Where I live most electricity is generated from wind. Solar also has a large share of some grids. Your location may be different but it should have a significant renewable share by now.
Templates (without crazy metaprogramming stuff) can be a godsend for basic data structures.
> Fact check: Mostly true

That's not what that link says.

"... the claim that Musk had ordered Starlink coverage in Crimea 'turned off' wasn't entirely accurate. (Both CNN and The Washington Post subsequently corrected their reports.)"
Sounds like you should read the article. :)

Kidding. The idea is that there may be some statistical uncertainty associated with the measurement of 7, and also of 5, and so the "real" value of 7 may actually be less than the "real" value of 5.
> Aaron Swartz is so young there is really nothing much to say about him.

This is absolutely insulting, given how clear he Aaron Swartz was about his beliefs from a young age and how much he accomplished in effecting them before he died.

> This guy lived basically 3x of Aaron's lifetime.

I have no idea what this is supposed to imply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Coonce
Obese men are three times more likely to get married.
It's based on the template for most question forum responses that aren't actually responsive to the question.

If I could figure out how to fix that, I'd be pitching a Quora-like start up that actually works.
Not trying to be smug or blithe, but this is one of the main things I love about living in the suburbs or the country: neighbors can only bother me outside (and they rarely do).
Not my expertise, but my understanding is that district heating is a very very efficient way to store electricity, such that the inefficiencies in transmission are mitigated in part by the storage efficiency. This allows you to more reliably depend on energy sources that don't have 100% uptime.

That said, I think most of this applies to heated water, not steam.
The amount of people rushing to defend the actions of a white supremacist in this thread is deeply disturbing. His past ties to "Keep Sweden Swedish" (a known neonazi organization) are well established.
Yeah, maybe, but it's too easy for me to sit here in a comfy chair, safe in the US, and talk about what an exiled protester in Russia should do. I lack the moral authority to USplain to Snowden that the Russians are just sheltering him for his propaganda value, even though that's obviously what they are doing.

He owes us nothing. Through no fault of his own, he does owe Russia, though. If we didn't want Putin to make a useful puppet out of him, we (a) should not have placed him in a position to make the decisions he did, ideally by following our own laws to avoid inciting his actions in the first place; and (b) we should have been able to assure him of a fair trial without inciting snickers and guffaws.

You hear HRC saying (of Assange) "Can't we just drone him?" And you think Snowden has no cause for concern?! Naive.
I was a TN holder once and had company lawyers prepare my TN dossier so that it was watertight so I was never refused.

A refusal should only result in applicant being turned back and asked to try again after having addressed the shortcomings. There is nothing illegal about that.

Unless she is being held for something else that the story is not telling us about, refusal is no grounds for detention.
Statistics gave him the superpower of predicting the future:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fight-club-57-movie
Why not archive vs. the destructive delete. There is a risk of misclassification to promotion and then 2 days later delete. Seems like a default aggressive stance.
Analyzing CPU usage with the Processor Trace instrument
https://archive.today/rVveI
Skin Cells Turned into Brain Cells (2010)
oh hi burntsushi! Good thing I applauded your skills to... yourself, without realizing. haha

I was replying to this:

> Is performance a frequent rationale for rewriting C applications in Rust?

But I now realize your message was much more specific so I stand corrected with regards to context. Your point was indeed different.
I thought that too (but more New York Christmas Eve movie impressions) until I saw steam coming from manholes in Denver. Blew my mind that it was a real thing haha.

In addition to the heating/cooling uses, the mint in Denver uses it to clean coins!
Behind the tech with Kevin Scott - Interesting conversations generally at a high level.

Maintainable - How to maintain software. Sometimes practical advise.

The Pragmatic Engineer - This one is pretty new

Dev Interrupted - I am subscribed but skip sometimes.

Stack Overflow - Has become an ad. I have listened since
the original we are building a question answer site pod cast.
Yes, but does any implementation actually do that?

AFAIK Ada is typically more flexible, but that has to do with the language actually giving you enough facilities to avoid heap allocations in more cases - e.g. you can not only pass VLAs into a function in Ada, but also return one from a function. So it becomes idiomatic, and compilers then have to support this (usually by maintaining a second "large" stack).
It's going to be fun when all weather forecasting is private, and a hurricane heads for Florida, then they start to charge $100 per day for forecasting.

Flying planes into a hurricanes probably costs like $20M a year, and it will be billed at $80M a year.

Can't imagine we will have multiple competing hurricane hunter planes...
People adopted systemd because it solved their problems.

People adopted Rust because it solved their problems.

Open-source has always been essentially a do-ocracy. Lots of work happens primarily because the people actually doing the work want it to happen, and they decide how to get it done, too. Systemd made maintaining a distribution vastly easier and solved problems that the alternatives weren't addressing, and the maintainers are doing the work, so they made the decision. This is no different.

It's also pretty ironic to call the Rust community culty - in comparison to GNU!
What isn't true?

> Most electricity is generated by using steam to turn turbines

That is true. It is also true that renewables usually do not use steam. But they don't answer for "most electricity". That's natural gas, coal and other types of thermal plants, including nuclear.
Thank you for this. I'm going to play some M.U.L.E. tonight after work.
> He never really managed to distance himself from that. Not that he seemed to try.

Is there any reason to believe he even wanted to distance himself from it? He ran for office just a few years ago on essentially the same platform.
Cheers! I was originally planning on going down that route but since my goals were to simplify workflows, having both a Githhub workflow and PandaCI file didn't sit well me.

I have been experimenting with running Github extensions inside PandaCI which could be a good way to make use of my new syntax without sacrificing the great resources Github workflows have to offer
I'm sure it could and it's wrong everywhere.
What do you see as the problem?
Doesn't the PaperWM extension in Gnome work similarly? Granted, extensions in Gnome tend to break with every version that is released.
If you want to broaden the word "advertising" in such a dramatic way then I suppose it is your right as a human being to make up your own idiosyncratic dialect, but I think most of us see a pretty clear difference between advertising which is pushed on you whether you want it or not, and information which you go seek out when you want to know about it.
Hard to trust someone who takes that perspective on the relationship, too. I'll work for a control freak if I need the money bad enough, but you're not going to get the best I can offer if you don't have the sense to keep a loose rein.
I think you mean "Impossible Mission"!
Love the mission impossible voice
Truly the most effective method to get an answer on the internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#%22Cunningham'...
If you can get whatever you want into a production workflow, then it's not really that locked down, is it...
With GP's clarification, it's still shaped like a false dichotomy but I don't think it's one in spirit. It sounds more like reductio ad absurdum to me, with a sprinkling of hyperbole for effect.
Geothermal plants also use steam (not to be confused with geothermal heating/cooling, which is just a heat pump with the heat exchanger underground rather than in the air).
With intercycle cartridge swapping. Arguably an even crazier technique than subframe resets.
The way these countries treat their citizens is rarely a secret. I'd say a better analogy is that gun stores should not sell guns to known felons.
It may be true for all good managers and leaders but alas that is not the world we live in. Effectively leading a team to some people means walking behind them with a switch and cracking them every time they make a mistake. Managers
Treat them as two draws from possibly different, independent distributions.

The question is whether the distribution that drew 7 “stochastically dominates” the distribution that drew 5. You may or may not be able to conclude that based on the available data and assumptions about the distributions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_dominance

For example, if you assume that the two distributions are approximately normal with very small variances, then you can probably conclude that the distribution that drew 7 stochastically dominates the distribution that drew 5. But if you assume that the variances are large, then you probably can’t conclude that.
Yes. But also, probably just about every language will have a module with these functions. Python's NumPy and SciPy should have all of these built-in.