jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As I said, lower fuel costs is quite debatable and heavily depends on the region and what you will use the car for. If you can't charge it at home like many people living in dense city areas, or if you drive long distances, then you'll have to use public chargers which are much more expensive. Initially in Poland when almost nobody had EVs these chargers were free, now they are 2x-6x more expensive than charging at home and in this case ICEs are actually cheaper.

If you drive short distances only and you do have a garage, then charging at home will work for you, but then you might not get high enough mileage to offset the initial price difference.

Additionally the deprecation is higher on EVs (probably due to concerns about the battery durability) so that would be also included in the lease.
Because not caring is the default?
I agree, that was quite an article: heartfelt and thought-provoking.

Thank you, Geoff, for writing about your experience. It made me happy to see how you pulled through the difficult times, and living better than ever.
No, of couse not, that would be a very, very strange claim. I agree with rcxdude's reading of the statement: 'if you reject IQ, you have raised your standards of evidence so high you must logically reject everything else in psychology/psychometry as well'
> You gotta be kidding me. Facebook is a multi-billion dollar corporation. Just make them do it. Their legal departments will figure it out.

And then there's no site that can ever compete with their ability to do the compliance department bullshit.

That's how the world ended up with two banks. Is this how you really want to play it?
You can tear my dumb 50" Panasonic plasma TV from my cold, dead fingers (or when it finally breaks, whichever comes first!)

Also, see my dumb Panasonic projector, again an awesome bit of kit.
Yes I like Signal just like it is. I like that it can only be installed on one phone. It feels safer that way.
This doesn't surprise me at all. For most people (myself included) an iPhone or Android is not a general purpose computer, but a communicator. The vast majority of my communicating happens in email, with the web browser a distant second. Apple's email program in iOS accounts for 70% of my usage, web browser 20% and everything else falls in that last 10%. Other people I know have very different breakdowns, but wether it is Messages or Facebook, or something else, that is their primary communication tool. I've got hundreds of other apps that I use occasionally, but so many phone apps for me are simple single purpose apps, that makes them of limited narrow use.
"I am not trying to argue that we should now give up English for international or scientific communication, or try to replace it with this or that other language (except possibly in a limited way, e.g., see below on Basic English). I am not proposing to use Interlingua, Esperanto, Latin, Italian, Chinese, Russian, or anything else: I am maybe saying that we should have used Interlingua, Esperanto, Latin, Italian, Chinese, Russian, or something of the sort (probably any of the above would have been better than English) "

He really lost me when he suggested that Chinese would be a better scientific language than English. First, he didn't say which Chinese language or dialect. It's truly remarkable how many Chinese people cannot understand each other even though they speak the same language. Second, all Chinese languages are far harder than English to master speaking. Finally, writing is yet another steep learning curve.
Right on spot.

My personal opinion: I don't have nothing against dogs but I hate to hear them barking. I know that you can't completely control that but way many owners do not teach manners to their dogs and they are barking all the time.

Now before someone says "what's up with this guy expecting manners from dogs" I actually adopted two dogs last year and without prior experience I educated them really well. Now I'm pretty sure that a messy dog is absolutely the fault of the owner's behavior.

And you're right about the social contract. The damage that irresponsible owners are doing to society far extends the trivial situation of "that dog is making a lot of noise"; that thing easily becomes a "I hope the owner gets it back" and those collective feelings fuel a more hostile society in general.
While I agree with your general sentiments,

I find that most people who bash the Common Core State Standards don't really understand them.

Why, exactly, do you feel that Common Core is a failure?

Education is one of the few areas that the state has clear, Constitutionally defined authority to manage over the federal government.

Yet, 46 out of 50 states have accepted the Common Core, which seems to me to be a tremendous success.

In my examination of the Common Core State Standards, I have found them to be thoughtfully designed, and a tremendous improvement over the fragmented and rambling state standards of old, at least in Illinois.

I find that most people who bash CCSS think that it's a method of teaching, rather than what it truly is: broad learning standards that give educators some general goal in which they can use any method to achieve.

Now, if I move my family to California, New York, or Wisconsin, these students should be working on roughly the same concepts.

This to me seems like a good thing.

Of course, there must be a reason why you think that they are a failure, and I am certainly willing to hear you out.
Also crypto people have a problem with central banks manipulating currency by printing more etc.

Having stolen coins recovered seems like an OK thing.
I still can't get any of my devices to reliably send a text message, and here's someone saying, again, that we'll have FSD by the end of the year. They aren't worried that some cars won't have the hardware capability because they know they won't have the software capability.
Honestly surprised by this. It's an opinionated framework, but it's consistent and the ecosystem is rich with options. I've been very happy working inside the laravel ecosystem for the last couple of years.
I actually think it would be much more fun if it could accept multiple solutions. You could even have 5 words and a letter bank. That part of it, quickly finding ways to use the letters, is fun. The speed bonus would make a lot more sense then.

> I think that solution lock you experience - it's a little uncomfortable, but once you learn to wriggle your way out of it, you get that "aha" feeling I'm going for.

This is the part that gives me the "ugh" experience.
How'd they manage to get a hold of one?!?
I like to see stuff like this published that gives some hope that a bit of warming in the next century or two is probably not going to lead to a "we're all going to die" situation.
Maybe a table of contents right after the intro would help the impatient readers.
Already happens. My local bike shop stopped accepting cash.
> Using the right tool

"Tooling" can be many things: the IDE, the language, the app design, the framework etc

Investing in the right tooling is the "outcome" though. I would argue the actual skill is to be able to recognize when the current tool is not the right one, and that there is possibly a better tool to get the job done better, easier, faster. A "junior" dev (regardless of "years of experience") is one that gets stuck in the suboptimal tooling
Rust does have some new syntax, but I think most of it is justified for making programming in it nicer.

The `~[u8]` would be written `std::unique_ptr<u8>` in C++. They're used everywhere in Rust, and having to write out unique_ptr would get awfully tiresome.

The `acc` on its own line is a result of "the last statement gets returned" like many functional languages do. If you were writing C++, you'd write `return acc;` instead. This one is more of a convenience, and you could get away without it.
Ok, when I said it is part of culture I did not by any means justify the behavior. Cultural habits have their own downsides and upsides. They also evolve. So, right now that is the state. I wish it got better. If my comment sounded like I supported that behavior, I would like to make it clear that intent of the comment was not that.
If the cars are charged at night, it's not a big deal.

TOU metering should provide some evidence of that.
How is that a ridiculous extreme? People have different persona and personal facets in real life that the prefer to keep separate for various reason. That can be as simple as "Work" and "Home" to political views, lifestyle choices etc. The simplest solution online is to use multiple accounts, Google (and others) desperately want you to use only one and do their best to force it. Yes, this way they can provide/extract "value" by being able to collect every thing about you. The flip side is that they have everything about you all linked, personally I view Google et al or the Government doing it just as creepy.
Mammoth has ears. Fruit don't.
Yes, on Chrome 28.0.1500.71.
It's a system that depends on the next generation buying into the idea of what a company is worth at a higher value. What happens when the next generation has no interest in buying into the idea of what a share of a company is worth? What happens to the last generation that has no one to sell shares to? Why does retirement depend on the young effectively giving the elderly money with wall street taking a percentage?

We used to have pensions in this country before the 401k loophole was exploited. 401k was never intended to be a middle class retirement vehicle. Instead of just pocketing the matched 401k funds, it is required to go to wall street where they take a percentage. Built in customers, even though 75% of managed funds perform worse than index funds. It's a joke.
Syncretic didn't found Hubski, he's just mocked the most for his awkward protest quittings and advertising(Fangolo started it).
seriously... how long does it take to fuck people out of their money...
I'd have to disagree.

I have a STEM education (PhD in Organic Chemistry) and consider myself a bright person (you are free to disagree). The guys that I knew that were good at banking were very skilled and intelligent. There is no way I could spend an afternoon in training and perform at their level.

Could you spend a year and get up to speed? Sure.
How many hours do you expect for $2-3k/month?
The irony in this is highly underappreciated.
I appreciate the post as I haven't read it before. I am confident I'm an introvert I definitely NEED my quiet time - plenty of it. I absolutely suck at small talk. In fact, it's one of the things that causes me the most anxiety about business meetings. I'm cool with the meeting/presentations/etc..., but if we have to go to lunch or dinner, I'm petrified!

Below are a couple of things that help me, and I'm curious if other introverts have adopted any tools to help them:

1. Alcohol! Of course, this isn't always appropriate, but it does seem to work. Hah.

2. Adopt a passion in a subject that is applicable to a large audience that falls outside your primary expertise. For example - Fitness. As the article states, introverts are perfectly capable of engaging in conversations that interest them without the exhaustion that comes with normal small talk. Most people are interested in fitness. Therefore, if the introvert is highly interested in fitness, it stands to reason that he can steer a conversation in that direction and engage with a wide array of personalities. Food/Nutrition, Travel, history are other examples that might work.

How about you?
I downvoted you, because we may assume jemfinch and other readers understand the reference (or will look it up) and concluded this isn't a case of 'cargo-cult'-anything. In response, you merely cite the source where the phrase is coined, without explaining why this would be an instance of it, even though there is obviously disagreement on exactly that.

This is not an example of 'cargo-cult', because we are not dealing with people going through motions without knowing why. Asserting such is just insulting the creators of Haskell/the Prelude/standard Haskell classes, who are obviously making trade offs and perhaps, gasp mistakes. Being wrong, impure or simply making choices some others disagree with does not make one a 'cargo cult' anything. Feynman must be turning in his grave.
Simple lamp stack using codeigniter. Nothing fancy. Runs on MediaTemple's VE Server.
The highest purpose of any technology, whether microblogging or semiconductor fabrication equipment, is to improve human lives.

One can make arguments on both sides about whether Facebook and Twitter are net positives or net negatives on society. However, given the sheer scale of their userbases, and the amount of those users' time they choose to spend on these services, if FB/Twitter usage is even mildly positive in net impact, the total impact dwarfs other more "hardcore" technology products.
This is a thoughtful review of Kevin Kelly's "What Technology Wants." The book itself is very thought-provoking, so much so that I haven't stopped thinking about it since reading it a month or so ago. The criticisms in this review are certainly valid, and this is one of those books I doubt anyone could agree 100% with, but what is missing from this review is an appreciation for Kelly's valiant attempt to grapple with the enormity of what technology has wrought, and the even greater enormity of what technology seems poised to do in the future. That's what kept me thinking since I put the book down and, while I am not sure I'll end up exactly where Kelly is, I have to give him a great deal of credit for a big think that really stimulated my synapses.
The "LCD tablet" market has a lot of space to play in, in terms of price point. I picked up a Cruz Reader from Borders at deep discount for Christmas; its been an awesome eReader / micro-tablet / news reader. The iPad's not necessarily king of that form factor any more and becomes less so as more Android devices roll out at much deeper price points.

That space is only going to get tighter in the next few years.
My only experience with the 6502 is writing ASM for the NES. So I had no concept for how this would work.
This can and does come up when, say, you have a team for 10 year olds and one of the kids looks like they drove themselves to practice. A coach can challenge the other team’s paperwork, in which case the challenged coach digs it out and everyone looks at the evidence. If it seems to be faked and the umpire agrees, the cheating team forfeits, and the kid’s parents (and possibly the coach if they were in on it) can be banned.

No, Little League doesn’t do a top secret clearance check on every player. Individual players may be checked if it’s believed they’re cheating though.
Thanks, and many karma points to you!
DSL is one of those things it pays to spend a bit extra on. Here's a transcript of my last customer support experience:

- dial dial dial, ringle-ringle (one ringle-ringle, that is)
- <irish accent>Hello, Fast.co.uk. How can I help you?</irish accent>
- Something's up with my DNS. I can't resolve google.com.
- Hang on, let me check a few things...

... followed by a discussion with a guy who knew everything he needed to fix my problem (and every problem I've called them about) in a few minutes.

For this privilege, I pay maybe $3/month more than I would with BT or some other terrible provider that you hear horror stories about. I consider it tech-support insurance.

And since this is my livelihood, I consider it money well spent.
Looks like he does: http://www.gigjunkie.net/
I don't make much distinction between board and card games. I'm not as well versed in the standard-deck-of-playing-cards games, but my gaming group frequently convenes for Spades (Bridge's not quite as smart younger sibling).

A lot more of this question might be finding games that chellenge you in the right way, and which go well with your gaming group.

Personally, I dislike most of the Catan games, and most games with dice involved. On the other hand, if Caylus, Brass, Tigris and Euphrates, or Dominion hit the table, I'm set.

All of those games provide multiple avenues to victory and multiple methods of player interaction. Additionally, they require a high amount of intellectual work (not quite so much with Dominion) and a healthy balance between strategy and tactics. Finally, all of those games reward experience, and make for extremely satisfying matches when matched up with someone of equivalent skill, with little to no randomness that can't be balanced out somewhere. Finally, I like that while there are certain modes of thinking which carry over sometimes, by and large each game requires a different type of problem-solving (Caylus's manipulation of resources and linearity; Brass's manipulation of networks and income; Dominion's manipulation of probability and the transitions from opening to mid-game to end-game; and so on).

(Side note: you might enjoy Dominion, as it hits the sweet spot between board and card game, and does not rely on "theme" a single bit).

As a more general note: both card and board games (as broad as those categories are) can provide a lot of enjoyment, or not very much. I think it's a matter of fairly assessing one's motivations for playing (both in general and on a given day) and the tolerances/temperances of the gaming group.
This actually worked for me on a recent quad-core amd with Ubuntu 10.04. My sunspider bench scores on Google chrome 8.x shot up by 30%, IIRC.
This was a couple of weeks ago.

It seemed like the CPU graph seemed to show higher cpu utilization line-trace for the core that was running the benchmarking Chrome process.

That's my layman observation after the patch.
Thanks, I understand somewhat after i read this.
OT, is there an equivalent semi-technical analysis of the Tumblr outage? I've been searching through their status blog and all I can find is “we accidentally brought the db cluster down.” Does anyone know how this happened?
Tap tap tap is a legend in the App Store annals.

Good for them that Apple forgave them for openly flaunting the App Store rules.

http://www.iphoneography.com/journal/2010/8/12/camera-banned...

Their small team has an incredible designer, Wolfgang, who wields Adobe CS like a wand to turn around iterations of designs in near-real time.

http://taptaptap.com/blog/the-design-session/
What does "depend on gov't power" have to do with it? If you monopoly is raking in billions and the cost of a congressional race is millions, then of course you're gonna get the government on your side a bunch of the time.

The question is, is this a problem with "government" or a problem with "bribery".
> i mean are there really any parents in the world who are able to put a filter on their net connection their kids can't get past

No there aren't, which doesn't really give me any confidence that an ISP could do it either. Presumably all it takes is an encrypted connection to a server outside of the ISP's filter and you've bypassed the filter.
Well, if it turned out that you couldn't cash it in, you'd have spent $50 for a piece of plastic and the opportunity to tell a story for the rest of your life about how you got suckered.
At least one protestor claimed he found an unlocked computer. Up to others to verify if that claim is accurate.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/pro-trump-report...

Windows-L is the keyboard command to lock on Windows. I strike it by habit every time I get up from my chair.
Which is exactly why, over the long term bitcoin will continue to go up in value. As more and more countries debase/devalue their currency bitcoin will just keep going up and up.
Wherever Big Tech goes, poverty and civil unrest follows. Name me a single city in which Silicon Valley dominates where there aren't homeless everywhere. Massive income inequality creates populist rage, and populist rage creates either economic reform or fascism. Big Tech has exacerbated inequality and rage for 10 years. The best way to prevent fascism is to break up Google, Facebook, Twitter, and our media conglomerates.
I have a BBC Model B and a BBC Master, both with 5¼" drives. They were used a lot in British schools, and hung around into the early 1990s -- schools had invested in software for them, but didn't have the budget to replace them.

My dad had an IBM 286 clone, which is the oldest computer I can remember using (Captain Comic!). That had both 5¼" and 90mm¹ floppy drives, but we almost always used the latter.

All these machines were very expensive at the time, and not very common for home use. Are there any popular old computers (Commodore, Amiga, Mac etc) that used a 5¼" drive? My impression is everything was on cassette, until 90mm drives became cheap enough for home use. (Even the BBC machines sold for home use usually used cassettes; the disk drive was a separate, expensive purchase -- double the cost of the computer itself!²)

¹ Yes, I'm that much of a metric purist.

² http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/BBCBI3....
It's actually been a long standing trend since the start of the PS3/Xbox360 generation. Iirc Sega had to merge with Sammy to weather the storm. Especially after losing so much money in the previous generation on the Dreamcast.

In that period, the Japanese videogame market shrunk a great deal, and many Japanese developers either went out of business, merged, or courted western publishers.

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/222192/Japans_console_ga...

So I wouldn't have thought a Microsoft takeover attempt would have truly been laughed out the room at that time.

But Nintendo are a very unique company. Much like Ferrari in Italy.

Very few brands in the world like it. They would have found willing backers that cherished their independence.
It's sad that private corporations have to be one who take actions against the president (although way too late), while rest of government continues to hides heads in the sand and keeps on enabling him. Checks and balances?
Does the org selling the paraphernalia incite violence?

Does music with violent or misogynistic lyrics incite violence. Do songs with gunshots in them incite violence?

Do songs that make people think of suicide constitute violence?

Do violent or misogynistic movies or videos incite violence?

So much potential for removal and delisting!! Chomp, chomp.
I'm not so worried about Bitcoin as I am about regular people who lose their life savings trying to time the market.
Note: the project was started during the first lockdown by the staff of Clever Cloud [1], a French PaaS based in Nantes.

[1] https://clever-cloud.com
Yeah, you're definitely not trying hard:

- http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-tells-crowd-to-knock-th... "Knock the crap out of them" complete with video and offers to pay legal fees

- https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-my-fans-were-right-to... - "Maybe he should have been roughed up." on Fox and Friends

- https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-punch-him-in-the-fac... - "He's smiling [a protestor]. I'd like to punch him. Punch him right in the face."

I find it ... 'odd' ... that you can be so well-informed about DNC issues but have "no recollection" (I love that phrase, works so well when people are being hauled in front of Congress) of any specific issue of violence from Trump or the RNC.

In fact, here you go, someone's collated them all, with evidence:

http://mashable.com/2016/03/12/trump-rally-incite-violence/#...

At least nine video captured incidents:

- "I'll beat the crap out of you"

- "Part of the problem... is no-one wants to hurt each other any more."

- "The audience hit back. We need more of that."

and so on. and so on.

The "hilarious" part is I posted this four years ago, and it was a synopsis of less than a year of Trump's public calls for violence.