jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have put out even large car fires with a small extinguisher. A lithium fire takes hours and thousands of gallons of water to subside. There is also the possible issue of rapid exit when electrics are dead. While the chance is clearly lower, the risk is higher to you should it occur. Currently there is no good accepted methodology for firefighters and first responders beyond 'more water' or 'let it burn'. That is a real problem.
See https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/13020/umfrage... for a comparison of prices around the world. Germany is at the top.
There are some complex dynamics that take place when mass transfer is happening. In these systems this is via Roche Lobe overflow (1) which depending on the masses of the objects can become unstable after a large mass transfer. But going back to your original point, I guess there may be some configuration that leads to what to you are suggesting. Might be an interesting thing to model to see if it is possible!

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roche_lobe
Use green tea (you can make iced tea with it if you don't like the flavor) to get off coffee. It provides just enough caffeine to prevent withdrawal. Then after three days you can go cold turkey. This method has worked for me several times when I had a massive coffee habit and had to reset for a while. I am older now
I have one or two in the morning and usually tea in the afternoon.
Curious. Am I the only one who can't seem to make it work even in IE9 (Tried Ubuntu/Chromium Beta, Ubuntu/FF3.5~, Windows7/Chrome Canary, Windows7/IE9 (and Compatibility Mode, just for kicks), and Windows7/FF4). Perhaps it's just overwhelmingly more underwhelming than the fanfare? For reference, I get to the part after the video has ended and the background slides away from behind the frame. After that point, the music plays for a little while and everything else is quite frozen and non-interactive.
Generally, the people who entertain these stereotypes are those who aren't affected negatively by any stereotypes. It's part of what is sometimes referred to in sociology as the folk theory of racism, which is built on three tenets:

1) race is a significant biological fact, whereas most sociologists agree that it is entirely a political fact

2) racism only exists where people specifically intend to be racist, i.e. that it is entirely a manifestation of individual belief, and

3) that racism is a natural and unavoidable result of the human condition.

You can see the manifestations of this theory on this thread, especially points 2 and 3. Consider the responses here to the effect that because there was a greater point about certificate authorities being made (and thus no specific racist intent exists) no racism is present.

And also consider the responses to the effect that stereotypes are a necessary part of humor, without which apparently no effective communication would be possible. It's practically a claim to the right to stereotype other races. In another response, a commenter points out that there also exist stereotypes of English and French people, as though all stereotypes are morally equivalent.
From the article:

"Currently, there are countless devices used to record videos and hundreds of different video file formats."

H.264 is by far the most common. I don't know of any video camera or DSLR that records to WebM or Theora.

"certain web browsers that you use to view video online only accept certain ‘codecs’ - or programs used to encode, transmit and playback video files - and others require plug-ins (converters) to integrate the video file with the browser."

"Certain web browsers"? Chrome and Firefox are the only ones that don't support H.264 natively. To view video on those browsers, it needs to be routed through a plug-in like Flash (standard on Chrome) or QuickTime. Browsers like Internet Explorer and Safari support the majority of all web video, right out of the box, no plug-ins needed. On mobile devices, the situation is even more obvious. Android is the only OS with support for WebM, and no mobile devices have hardware acceleration for WebM, draining your device's battery in no-time. However, all modern smartphones and tablets have support for H.264, most of them with hardware acceleration.

I'm all for an open source alternative to H.264. If it's at least as good and free to use, then I hope that it will become the standard; for the web, in desktop operating systems, for mobile devices, for video cameras and DSLRs. I'm just not convinced WebM is that alternative. It's unclear whether WebM is as good as H.264, and it's unclear whether it's free to use.
I can confirm that United does it with their mobile site. You would get a page with an image of the QR code and every other info they need.

(funny thing when I did it was that my screen had a few lines running across the middle of it, so I had to pull down the page and hold so that the QR code fit in the undamaged area)
I see this as a remarkable answer to the problem of needing to view a cached version of the website.

For example, what if a URL were posted to Hacker News, but after the URL was a ?hasifyme=THEHASH, where THEHASH was the Hash of the website linked-to.

This way, if the URL could not be loaded because the server load was to high, you could just forward the URL to Hashify.me and the cache of the plain text from the website would still then be readable.

Boom, instant cache of the website content stored right in the URL!!!!
https://www.ihasapp.com/
Yeah, Lubitz seems to have been quite an extreme case and not typical of the depressed. From the Daily Mail quoting his ex:

>"He never talked much about his illness, only that he was in psychiatric treatment," she told the paper, adding they finally broke up because she was afraid of him.

>"He would suddenly freak out in conversations and yell at me," she recalled. "At night he would wake up screaming 'we are crashing' because he had nightmares. He could be good at hiding what was really going on inside him."

>German authorities said on Friday they had found torn-up sick notes showing that the co-pilot was suffering from an illness that should have grounded him on the day of the tragedy.

I guess in the future they may check up better on the torn-up sick note stuff.
IMO, Protobuf is at same layer as JSON, not JSON API. It's a serialization format.
> The S stands for secure, that's been pounded into people's heads.

The S stands for "this connection is on port 443 and has been negotiated with TLS". That means it's being encrypted and has been authenticated.

> HTTP 1 and 2 are miles apart and get the same protocol marker.

Which was and is a terrible terrible idea and among the many reasons I dislike HTTP2.

> So a secure connection with TLS gets shown as HTTPS, and an insecure connection with TLS gets shown as HTTP.

Which is a terrible terrible idea. The protocol marker should denote the protocol used, not some fluffy stuff that doesn't really mean anything to the user.
As a mature audience who understand the fine tones of life, perhaps we simply phrase our statements as questions?
> Surveys say 21% of citizens claim "they don't pay any taxes", while gross and net pays are different by 30-40%.

I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but depending on the wording of the question, people might assume they're talking about income tax, and 21% not paying income tax isn't really far fetched at all, depending on Poland's tax laws - IIRC here in Canada about a third of people who filed tax returns didn't pay a single cent.
Your balance sheet is either cash, which can evaporate overnight due to rampant inflation which many economists are predicting, or you can convert some or all of that to BTC. As a company, you need to manage your cash. Companies invest their balance sheet in debt, money markets, etc. That doesn’t imply that you are somehow a fund. You have no choice but to manage your cash. I recommend just reading Michael Saylor’s posts or listen to this podcast which provides a good summary of their thinking: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1VwUjvMNeoOeyiQwP3im6G?si=z...
it’s zero interest. but it’s a convertible bond so can be converted to shares
It really has nothing to do with the Russian people, it has to do with the Russian government and its agencies. I don't think anyone but you is conflating the two here.
Is this Craig Wright (FakeToshi) a real Computer Scientist?

He does (as of a couple of years ago) have a PhD from the Computing and Mathematics department of a real University if that's what you mean.
It’s not a firmware issue, it’s n-key rollover with poor matrix choice. There’s no fixing it short of replacing the controller with one that can handle more keys.
Also:

https://opengameart.org (open art collection)

https://www.beepbox.co (music sequencer)

http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Finding_graphical_... (tilesets)

http://grafx2.chez.com/ (pixel art program)

http://www.wings3d.com/ (3d modeler, easy to use)

http://spiralgraphics.biz/packs/ (tiling textures)
This is a solved problem with symbol versions and symbol aliases, which are used extensively by libaries like glibc that care about providing a stable ABI.

For C++, GCC and Clang also provide the abi_tag attribute:

> The abi_tag attribute can be applied to a function, variable, or class declaration. It modifies the mangled name of the entity to incorporate the tag name, in order to distinguish the function or class from an earlier version with a different ABI; perhaps the class has changed size, or the function has a different return type that is not encoded in the mangled name.

This was introduced to allow mixing pre-C++11 and post-C++11 std::string and std::list implementations in one libstdc++.so but is more general.

The other solution is of course a new SOVERSION but that does not allow two different versions to be used in the same process as ELF symbols are a process-global namespace.
Yeah, that'd be cutting it pretty close. I'd be tempted to bring a CHAdeMO in case it looked risky mid-route. I bet there's at least one CHAdeMO along the route.
I am not distorting. I am using unambiguous example of what I have in mind.

> soldiers even in terrible groups, and that they (individuals) should not be judged on their group but on their own qualities of service.

Unless you was forced into that group, which was not case of SS but in some cases could be ISIS, you know what you were joining.

I don't think sacrifice itself is worth respect, if the goal of that sacrifice is destructive and wrong. If you sacrifice yourself in service of group that does genocide or tortures to get power and so on, you did genocide and tortured people so that your group have power. The ideology of "sacrifice is worth respect no matter what" empowers exactly these groups first. Believing this makes people more likely to join these.

The victims, especially those who stood against that group should be celebrated. Those who said "no" deserve respect. Those who were avoiding still deserve more respect.
What is your definition of a virtual machine and what do you think is happening here?
Ahem. Hereabout they use e-rollers, at least sometimes. All so green and clean and shiny, spraying rainbow colored sparkles :)
While it's scummy, I had those on 85, so it's not this release.
Absolutely, my wife and I did basic BSL as a night class. Not only is it fascinating to get to know more of deaf culture but it's also really useful.

You can learn from YouTube, a sign dictionary (online ones have video) ... but yes, conversation is probably the best way.

A night class or MOOC?
Jars, rpms, whls, Microsoft Office, probably a bunch of other stuff I don’t even know about are actually zip files.
Digital Ocean's App Platform can work this way.
I talk to a lot of people and try to find those who need a specific project done. I try not to take on "open ended" jobs.
The thing is that, for businesses and governments, complying with the 1.5ºC goals/projections is already a monumental task. If it does happen, even though it won't be enough, we should at least get an A for effort ... too bad nature is not forgiving.

Anyway, what is still nice is that it should be easier to adapt to 3-5ºC once we're all doing something for 1.5ºC than if we were doing nothing at all, i.e. static friction is always higher than kinetic friction. I think the true covert goal at the moment is to at least get things moving and have everyone jump on it asap.

Source: I build/code software related to sustainability.
There's a long-standing folk wisdom that the rich pay less for things than the poor.

How well that stands up to scrutiny I don't know, though I encountered it recently on an old (probably 1960s / early 1970s) Studs Terkel interview, as a guest comment.

(Guests were Willard Moss, pioneer amateur filmmaker, & John Dubay.)
The article seems to be about "invasive and risky changes" (that's from the article). In this case I expect some level of gate keeping by people familiar with the system. If people doing the gate keeping aren't familiar with whatever they keep, then that's the first thing to work on.

> If you require "full understanding of our system"

I wrote "familiar enough", and "good understanding", not "full understanding". "enough" and "good" will of course depends on the context.

Considering this:

> then chances are pretty good that your system has a bunch of problematic dependencies, no?

In practice you need to understand some level of the context in which your module exist, hopefully not all of it, though of course it would be better to be able to just focus on the module itself. By "system" I don't necessarily mean the whole, complete infrastructure, it can be the module.

My point was that if people are blocking changes because of lack of understanding of something, the solution would be to actually get some level of understanding.

Edit: also, I assume good faith from gate keepers.
This is natural indeed but it should be more frequently said, as I feel too many developers will go to the new shiny language and loose so many times because of what I call software poverty.
(lack of libs, lack of features, lack of stackoverflow, lack of documentation, and even lack of stability)
Indeed new languages have new shiny features but they do not outweigh the poverty cost.
Especially since there are modern languages compatible with big ecosystems like typescript or kotlin, I don't really see how new languages that are not compatible can be competitive.
This definitely already happened 100%, I bet meanwhile the owner(s) of postimages.org dealt with and they still up. So I worry about my images and that's it.
I'm not sure how you've come to this belief that there isn't a population of creative, technical problem-solvers in China. I'm very much certain of the opposite. China is a large nation with a super-size talent pool drawn from a monster labour force, with a strong cultural heritage and long history of state provided education opportunities. The US isn't some sort of exception here. If anything, it wastes much of it's population by asking poor people to jump through a series of hoops before they can even contemplate higher education.

Edit:

I think I should add, this kind of naivete is what caught the western world by surprise in the WWII in the Pacific. I'm sourcing my 'facts' from Dan Carlin here, but essentially the British command in Singapore, as well as the US, vastly underestimated the ingenuity of the Japanese, claiming them to be great at imitation, but not at innovation, and generally a disorganised and an underwhelming military opponent. This thinking led to Pearl Harbour, the dramatic taking of Singapore and the sinking of some very expensive battleships. Their air forces quickly overwhelmed and outclassed by the technically superior Japanese planes, handled with precision by well-trained pilots, and directed with strategy bold and unseen by even well-tested veterans who had seen action in Europe. Large scale military defeats down to foolish racial stereo-typing from the top down. I'd say the US should watch it's six.
I predict that we will see a renaissance of CORBA / COM MIDL in the form of WebAPI IDL as new IPC standard, bringing interoperability back to where it was around 1995.
Unknown safes are like unboxing videos for adults.

I'm surprised there's not a TV show yet.

A couple have been faked for karma but since no one has figured a way to make money yet most seem real.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatsInThisThing/

The catch is, if it has anything the person will not follow up, else someone might claim it or the police might take away their new drug stash and weapons.
I used to think that too, but the problem with gun ownership in the US tends to be more about gun culture than ownership. Other countries with high gun ownership rates don't have nearly the same problems, especially when it comes to accidental shootings.

The problem of law enforcement killing people also has little to do with gun ownership. The frequent (or at least frequent enough to be concerning) shootings of unarmed black men for example are generally excused with police officers saying they were "afraid for their lives". This can only either be explained with terrible training or plain old racism (i.e. black men seem more threatening by default to the extent that an unarmed black man is considered more threatening than an armed white man), or most likely a mixture of both.

There's a lot wrong with how police in the US is trained and held accountable. Gun ownership is the smallest contributor to that problem.
Thank you! Very informative and helpful.
easier advice, get a cloudflare account, then put whatever underpowered blog you'd like behind it.
The only way I can explain myself these numbers is heritage: Many people will at some point in their life have a heritage above typical yearly salaries. That information doesn't help much. We should find a mid-way between income, wealth and earning potential. Maybe "currently-expected-lifetime-earnings"?
If-Modified-Since would already do that. But how does the client know that page B that it never requested has all the same CSS/JS as page A that it recently requested?
> Most importantly when it comes to wealth itself, by most measures there is a very, very long tail of people with no wealth. 'No wealth' ranges from the most poor, to those living from paycheck to paycheck all the way to those who have as much debt as their assets. Many of these people are fine because, for example, their earnings potential over the next 40 years is good. They are wealthy in things like skills, social connections, etc. and they are certainly not comparable to someone with few skills, bad health and no money.

No, they won't get rich later.
Whether someone's called a Pivotal Project Manager, an Apache P.M. Committee Chair, a Codehaus despot, a JSR lead, or whatever, if their skills are managerial rather than technical then they generally end up relying on having the best title and position rather than what they actually do to make the product be the best possible.

As for being happy about something, if Groovy development is being effectively led by its technical people as well as not being dictated to by the applications using it, then I'd be optimistic for its future (the Codehaus-cum-Apache implementation of it anyway).
> removing the ability to run a small app 24/7 on a single free dyno

This is correct. The first step was removing varnish (which happened a few years ago).

Now, Heroku is hoping to get $7/month from many of the freeloaders. I highly doubt this would make sense if Heroku planned to grandfather anyone.
> Then use it as an inexpensive ultrabook. How much does an ultrabook cost? $700, $800, $1000? This costs $500

Once you add the keyboard cover, it approaches the low-end of ultra book prices (especially if you get the model with enough RAM). That said, I think it offers more value than a basic ultrabook anyway, especially if you get the pen.

I will likely end up buying one.

edit: somehow didn't finish my last sentence
Yes, and building up is usually blocked by cities like MV.
I'm sure it was just a few "bad apples", yes?
What is the lie? It is not hard to believe that a man who had his life turned upside down by Mao would not one day question the system he lived in.
My take tends to be not that 'innovation' is bad, but that there are a couple of risks:

- The weaknesses of new tech may not be fully understood. A lot of new tech solves existing problems, while re-surfacing problems that the old tech solved. Everyone thinks it's great until they've used it for a bit longer, and run into those issues.
- New tech runs a higher risk of disappearing/becoming unsupported. If you plan to support your product for a long time, that's a valid risk factor.

For myself, I'm wary of having very new tech as a fundamental underpinning of any piece of work I need to stick around. I'll likely adopt frameworks or database systems cautiously, unless their superiority is overwhelmingly obvious. On the other hand, I'd be a lot more willing to take risks on a simple library.

With a smaller, simpler piece of tech, it's easier to replace if something goes awry, and it's easier to evaluate in its totality prior to taking the risk.
Some scalpers will short sell tickets. They sell tickets they don't have on the assumption that they can purchase tickets later at a lower price. This was a large problem at this year's Superbowl. Tickets normally spike a couple weeks before the game and drop in price as the game approaches. This pattern didn't happen this year and prices actually went up drastically as the game approached. Many of these short sellers that were depending on ticket price dropping ended up having to refund the tickets they short sold at 2x or 3x the original purchase price. That ended up being cheaper than taking the loss on price they sold the tickets at minus the price they would have to buy the tickets at to fulfill their order.
"Are you wor­ried about Google (or Face­book or Twit­ter or your tele­phone com­pa­ny or Mi­crosoft or Ama­zon) mis­us­ing the da­ta they col­lec­t? That’s per­fect­ly rea­son­able. And it’s al­so a pol­i­cy prob­lem, noth­ing to do with tech­nol­o­gy; the so­lu­tions lie in the do­mains of pol­i­tics and law."

Political and legal solutions are effectively intractable; any technological path which leads to a requirement for one ought to be abandoned. The answer is not to make laws forbidding big corporations from doing bad things with our data (like that's going to stop them!) but to make technology such that we can conveniently avoid giving them any data to begin with.
When commenters on MetaFilter started ragging on a recent Wall Street Journal story by Scott Adams, the Dilbert creator and sexist jackass

When you open with an ad-hominem, any credibility you had goes right out the window.
What's stopping Grooveshark from creating an HTML5 webapp compatible with both iOS and android? Is the technology not ready?
Once you control for wealth a lot of the gap disappears.

I haven't looked at it extensively, but I don't believe this is true.

This study shows that SES (Socio Economic Status) doesn't explain much of the gap.

http://www.umich.edu/~rdytolrn/pathwaysconference/presentati...

This study (sorry, can't find a non-paywall version) shows that even holding income constant, blacks do worse than whites at the college level. In particular, low income whites perform as well as high income blacks.

http://www.jstor.org/pss/2963200

Also, even if you could explain the Black/white income gap via wealth, racism or other environmental factors, how would you explain the White/Asian gap?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Personal_income_race.png

And how would you explain that in spite of wildly different environmental factors (compare Singapore to Texas), there is a relatively small gap between Asian Americans and Asians? And similarly, there is only a small gap between white Americans and white Europeans?

(By the way, I'm not trying to claim there are no other factors at play. I'm just pointing out that race does seem to be a biggie.)
How much is the Fedex discount?