skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't buy Apple products. Problem solved.
Or a hill lock feature (?) that won't let it roll back until you accelerate. My Subara Forester has something like that
> Consumers get shafted on these deals. We pay for products with no agreement over what we're actually going to get. It gets tiring :/

Consumers greatly benefit from these deals, because they pay a fraction of what it would cost to get service with an SLA. (Put another way, it costs a fraction as much to build a network with over-subscription than it costs to build a network where each user has guaranteed bandwidth.)

Where I work, we pay Cogent almost $1,000 for sub-gigabit, and that's in a building with several competing providers to choose from. I pay a tenth that for consumer gigabit from Verizon. That's because I'm sharing a 2.4 gigabit PON node with 16-32 other users, and Verizon can assume that nobody will be using the full gigabit more than a small fraction of the time. If Verizon was only allowed to sell guaranteed bandwidth, they could only sell a 75 mbps service. Which would suck for the consumer when they went to go download an iTunes movie or a game on Steam.
Behavioral economics would like to disagree. Supply and demand are a function of what buyers want; somebody wanting something _right now_ has been a force that markets cater to since markets have existed.
The "hello world" demo app appears to require ~1.3MB of transfer, nearly all of it critical-path: https://blazor-demo.github.io/

This future isn't better.
This is really interesting. Have results tended to be relatively uniform across customers or do you end up having to break a lot of hearts when you ultimately prioritize features on your roadmap? Do you have them rank UX-driven changes (i.e. reframing existing features) in addition to entirely new features?
But his speeds aren’t any better than cable. And yes I am dying a little inside for actually recommending Comcast....
That's very interesting, especially considering that patents were originally created to incentivize people to publish details of inventions so they could be publicly known and accessible in perpetuity.

To better uphold their original purpose, perhaps the patent rights period should be shortened to 6 years or thereabouts.
a friend asked me to write a TSR to put an Atari 800-style key click out the speaker.

IIRC, on some PC clones? you could press a key combination to toggle an audible “click” that would be emitted from the built-in PC speaker on key down. (Or it might have been a feature of the keyboard?)

Does anyone else remember this?

So, the topic of this submission is a (probably unknowing) software recreation of something that existed in ROM 30-some years ago!
on Linux CLI or any its cousins :$ "wttr.in/<your city>"
Gives a 3 day forecast that I have found to be quite accurate
I would even understand a higher automatic take rate for the Miata, as it has a broader appeal (based on my guess that more people are willing to drive such a small car if it's also a convertible).

But the 86 siblings are really pretty focused. I love my car, but wonder how those who aren't _really_ into spiriting driving justify it over other excellent options (e.g., GTI) in its price range.
This argument comes up frequently though. As computing power increases, the complexity of applications (no matter what machine they're running on) will increase. What's the point of having faster hardware if the experience is only the same but faster? People want more capabilities, and JavaScript provides that.
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VR / AR? Or just a better business model that caters customers' needs better...
OK, European here, maybe it's just the title wording, but the article left me somewhat confused. For as long as I can remember ('80s child) I was convinced that the US car market (and consumer preferences) were almost exclusively automatic. Even popular culture reinforced this (I don't remember ever seeing a manual transmission car in American movies and TV shows). Now this article suggests that even recently there was an actual competition between the two, that America even had love, no less, for stick shift. I don't know what to believe anymore, is there a reality even...
Ctrl-F "traffic" shows up nothing in the article - there's not much discussion of "why" other than the technology is better.

Truth is that when you are stuck in bumper to bumper traffic, stopping and starting, manuals are tedious and not a good experience.
International education study highlights UK strength
That is excellent to hear. We experienced several different types of people within utilities, with everything from "we've always done it this way" to "you are the experts, tell us what to do".

The younger employees were always excited for us to work with them to make their work easier. Many advocates within the companies had excellent suggestions which were unfortunately sidelined by their managers.
WebAssembly could make things worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
T-Mobile only enforces their soft cap when the tower you're hitting is at capacity. Basically their soft cap deprioritizes your traffic rather than throttling it.
Certainly, there are lots of problems with interviews.

That said, the interview should be designed to specifically weed out the ones who hope to pass by regurgitation. The answer can't be just a pattern match for a particular algorithm. The emphasis shouldn't be on dazzling recall of something obscure. The purpose should be to look for actual experience implementing something.
I would love to see Apple embark on an OEM program similar to the old clone license of yore.

As an OEM partner (Clevo, Asrock or the like), I can purchase T3 chips (or whatever they'll be called) or whatever silicon IP it takes to bless OEMs to help the Mac platform flourish.

The whole widget philosophy has arguably worked well for macOS, but not so much for the user.

Keep the standards high, but jeez Tim, enable partners to serve the market if you don't care to.

Enthusiasm helps sustain platforms. Ask any Windows user whether they have 'voided their warranty'.

These customers don't buy Apple Care and they don't need the slick retail experience. What they will do is breathe fresh life into a fading platform and bring more people under the tent.
Everything that can be automated, must be automated
Honestly, I didn't read the entire article. By the sixth paragraph, I already identified that the author was blaming the use of a tool for bad product management and software development practices.

All of the problems blamed on "javascript" in this article aren't a problem with javascript itself, but the improper usage of certain frameworks in certain circumstances. Using a big bulky framework for an internal application where you know the user is constrained to machines that can perform well with that stack is fine. Using that same framework on a public web application that will also be hit by mobile applications is not. The problem isn't the framework, it is that the product team did not properly vet the performance impacts of the development team's choice of framework or did not properly specify the performance requirements for the product. One other option would be that the governance structure for ensuring that those requirements are met before release was insufficient. Either way, the problem isn't "javascript", but the SDLC processes used to build the software.
Michael Pollan's "How To Change Your Mind" delves into this in some depth.

As someone who has found some actual relief from previously crippling anxiety using cannabidiol, I'm really hoping to see progress on this front. It's all upwards from here for me.
Anybody planning on renting a car in Europe is going to have trouble if they don't know how to drive with manual transmission.
Military-industrial complex heart-strings propaganda... ra-ra "hero" militarism. Shame on you WaPo for manufacturing consent for "support our troops flag-waving (but we really mean the conflation of spending trillions on defense)."
If you're interested in election tech, also check out this post: https://medium.com/@jennycohn1/georgia-6-and-the-voting-mach...

I've yet to hear a good argument for why election tech should be closed-source.
Yet spidermonkey is slower.
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_powder
Ok, stupid question time... can you turn it back into regular water, and how? "Just add water?"
This article completely misses what I have observed as a major factor in nearly everyone switching to automatics:

Drunk driving became illegal, then agressively enforced.

This created a powerful incentive for having a vehicle anyone can drive.

All my friends growing up were gearheads of some kind, and drove manual cars. Now they have automatics, so they can continue to get drunk when out and have someone sober (their wives, generally) drive them home.

Don't forget letting the female half of the population drive in the US is a relatively new development as well...
Just a note on that, most premium manual models come with hill assist these days. Automatically applies the brake while you accelerate from a stop.
Whatever, bro. I'll take a manual over anything else forever and always. Maybe change my mind when someone other than Tesla produces something mainstream.

The 8spd auto in my BMW is very decent, however. It's the first auto I've ever had that I would say that about and really it is too many gears.
Building a Hackathon vote tabulation form on the cheap (Google Forms and Kotlin)
Imagine you could press it through a filter of appropriate size to block the silicate but permit the water ?
Most images on the modern Web are bigger than that and pages are full of them.

Also that is still WIP and doesn't yet make use of .NET linker.
if you use base e logarithms, you can measure information in natural units aka nats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_(unit)
Or, we can go the tried-and-true European route of making higher education free instead of all this stupid experimentation for the sake of a 'free market' which results in disaster for some of our most vulnerable citizens.
>Smalltalk VM (which is the ancestor of V8)

In that both utilize JIT compilation or in other ways too?
I currently use my phone provider's tethering plan (10GB at 4G, then throttled to .6MBPS after but with no additional charges) because there is only one ISP where I live and unless I signed a 12 month contract, I was looking at ~$80-90/month in amortized fees since I'm only living here for four or five months. It's not ideal, but other than watching fewer videos and in lower quality I've been able to manage without too many issues.
Healthcare in America is one of the least free markets in the country.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/31/17629526/m...
Yup. It serves an agenda that has nothing to do with patriotism, remembrance or public service... it's all about selling cost-overrun planes in the ostensible names of "support our heroic troops (by spending more than the next 6 powers combined, more even than on healthcare)" and "we can't let 9/11 happen again (so buy these planes that our patriotic MIC are galantly making for us)." I'm not against "if you want peace, prepare for war" but being too prepared are partly how the Soviet Union and Rome collapsed.. there's a sane military and then there's white elephant ridiculousness.
The other side is renting -- where the landlord can raise rents to almost any arbitrary level (well to the market rate, but if you're not making bank it might as well be arbitrary). My understanding is 5-year ARMs where also subject to the whims of the bond market (LIBOR or whatever), so really the difference between renting and mortgaging in this case are just semantics.
My WRX has hill start assist and I love it. If you're stopped on an incline and let off the brakes it will keep them applied automatically for a moment while you give it some gas.
I'm American and I learned to drive in a stick shift. My first 13 years of driving was with a stick. But it got to a point where it was just too difficult to find a stick version of the cars I wanted to get, so now I drive automatics.

I get the reason why some people insist driving sticks. You feel more "in tune" and "in control" with your car. But for the vast majority, this is completely unnecessary. Most people just want to get from point A to point B in one piece. For these people, feeling more in control of your car is as unnecessary as feeling more in control of a hand-cranked window over a power window.

Eventually we'll all be in self-driving cars and this whole debate will seem silly and trivial. "Automatics" will eventually include automatic turning and automatic braking and all things automatic.
At risk of proposing a generalization, I think that this comes from the same place that other gatekeeping behaviors come from: you see yourself as the in-group's bouncer.

That puts you in a mindset to run the interviewee through a gauntlet, partly as a ritual to show their desire to get in, and partly through a sense of duty to hire "only the best".

But hiring is not a filtering problem. It's a matching problem. And the more interviewers embrace that they're there to find the right people and to recruit them, not to filter people out, I think the more humane the interviews will be.
Dick Fuld significantly misrepresented the actual financial health and leverage of Lehman on public financial documents. Pretty clear Sarbox infraction. Nothing happened to him.
Manuals have been selected out of the marketplace by dealer sales managers. I would love to own at least one manual transmission vehicle. Most that Ive considered in recent history were available with a manual, and the ones that are available as a manual are impossible to find or special order only.
Study: Decentralized microgridding can provide 90% of neighborhood's energy need
Are you sure that last one isn't the newspaper website itself? They're notorious for that and it would be surprising if you could actually push enough traffic (maybe ~1Gbps sustained?) through a Tor circuit to max out even one core on Tor itself.
I love the self-serving one - 'Admire Oracles'. Heh, and add 'deposit your wallet in the bin on your way out!'
Which restaurants?
You're not supposed to eat a whole American pizza.

That's why you can get different toppings on either side of the pizza- so two people don't have to buy two separate pizzas.
100% agree. The only fun transmissions are manual or none at all. Automatics -- even the newest ones -- are good for driving minivans in traffic and nothing else, IMHO.
Thanks!

- Factory plant inspections is on our roadmap. We have technical proof of concept on this, especially on generating flight plans for arbitrary complex 3D structures, and detecting defects on images. It will be more of a commercial effort than a technical effort for us.

- Pipeline inspection is an interesting application, a bit less in our scope right now because there is not so much of a "3D" aspect to the flight, it is mostly linear assets, which can be dealt with existing mission planning software and drones. But we see where we could add value to this, and will do this if we have more time and resources one day!
I believe that koolba's point was about rising wages in relation to immigration policy. That is, wages rise further if we let fewer immigrants in. But that's a problem for the left, which wants rising wages, but also wants a liberal immigration policy.
My experience has actually been the opposite. Most of the FPV pilots I've met are running their video TX at a power output that should require them to be an amature radio operator, whereas most of the guys controlling stuff on long range UHF actually know what they're doing and do so within spec.
In my experience, it's not only a problem with javascript. Developers putting themselves above their users and non-developer teammates seems fairly widespread.
How stable is it?
But doesn't that just mean "It weighs less when you carry less"? That sounds like a truism.
Middle Earth Map Style
This is why you were asking me about Chipotle?
probably by heating or crushing the powder.
And this is where the MX-5 and other suitably configured cars excel. They give you a sense of motion and acceleration at legal and safe speeds that a typical car won't. Even some that are supposed to be sporty, but define sporty as "more power."

Most cars are designed to make you feel nothing and hear nothing. Nothing from the road and nothing from the engine.
I’ve driven standard transmission for upwards of 15 years and see no need to change. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d be convinced that this trend was part of a country-wide conspiracy to take all the fun and excitement out of driving. It seems like every automotive engineering decision since the 80s has been dominated by occupant safety and comfort, and fuel efficiency, to the detriment of everything else.

It’s why nearly every new car looks like the same identical boring bar of soap, and has the same vanilla handling as a Camry. Everything about driving a modern car is sedate and passive, like you’re just an observer. And there’s so little variety, the most aggressive option on some models is “18 inch wheels.” Some manufacturers are even playing fake “vroom vroom” sounds over the speaker system because their engines are so docile. It’s hard to even find a color that’s not black, white, gray, beige, or navy blue.

Rant over. As a car enthusiast, modern trends make me sad.
I think https://www.soci.org/chemistry-and-industry/cni-data/2010/22... answers that:

Kept at -20°C, methane hydrate stores about as much methane per liter at room pressure as LNG in a compressed cylinder.

So, instead of a heavy LNG cylinder, I guess you can do with a Dewar flask.

Also, it seems it requires less energy and less time to create methane hydrate using dry ice.

It likely also is advantageous that this gives you a ‘fluid’ that you can easily pump around.
It's not a cap. Once you exceed 50 GB in a month your speed is throttled if and only if the cell is congested.
I would love to drive a manual, but I think automatics are just better "UX" for city commuting, especially if you often need to inch forward.
Now if majority of new websites exhibit that problem, how do you classify it? Can you really blame the whole world for misusing a tool, without taking a critical look at the tool itself?
So, kinda going back to what I initially said, an ideal anarchistic state would require the hindsight of government gone awry, which means that enforcing government at some point would be a necessary step towards ideal anarchy? I wonder how long the lessons of past mistakes would stick before they start being forgotten and start to be made once more. Maybe something like Roberto Unger's "religion of the future" (which also relies on automation to enable 'deep freedom') would have to spring up to soft-enforce a global set of values that would quell the rise of any oppressive government thinkers. Not sure, just spitballing.
"Better" is a tricky word.

I have no doubt PDK (and even far less sophisticated (semi-)automated transmissions) is _faster_ and less likely to make a mistake, but what if outright performance isn't the ultimate goal?

I had the pleasure of driving a 991.1 GT3 with PDK, and it was blisteringly fast (both the car and the transmission). But I was definitely more of a passenger than in my 2004 6-speed manual Miata, and the fact that I noticed that is pretty telling about my preferences.

In a multi-car garage I certainly wouldn't complain about a great (semi-)automated transmission in a daily driver (PDK, DSG, DCT, or even ZF's lauded 8-speed auto), but next to it would have to be a toy with a good manual.

Here's a fun short video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaUCdAdaaj8
I am not buying their machines. HP laptops are field serviceable for memory and hard drives. That is what we are sticking with for now.
The pattern of "stay silent and look dubious to make the candidate feel dumb" is a really common interview hazing strategy in my experience.

I think the next time I see it, I'm just going to question whether this is how they behave in their job too, even if it means ending the interview right there.
HPE did an excellent technical, no marketing BS writeup on PG11[0]. I highly recommend everyone interested in the new features read this.

[0] https://h50146.www5.hpe.com/products/software/oe/linux/mains...
In my experience, most facilities that have oxigen flow also have compressed air flow with cheap controllable fluxometers, but a blender is often lacking or too expensive.

In those cases we use a Y piece connecting air and oxigen flows to the inspirarory limb.

The role of the blender is to control the percentage of oxigen offered. With the Y piece we can control that by the equation:

%O2 = (O2flow + Airflow * 0.21) / Total flow

If you can use Total flow of 8L/min (reasonable in most cases) the approximations table below is of easy memorization and precise enough:

O2 flow - Air flow - %O2

8 - 0 - 100%
7 - 1 - 90%
6 - 2 - 80%
5 - 3 - 70%
4 - 4 - 60%
3 - 5 - 50%
2 - 6 - 40%
1 - 7 - 30%
0 - 8 - 21%

Edited:formatting
Are manuals not cheaper to manufacture and repair? Definitely in the UK since 90% of cars are still manual.
Amazon to sell Christmas trees
There is this myth that only bytecodes are fully reversible to source code and ASM is safe.

It is only a matter of having the right tools at hand.

https://www.hopperapp.com/

https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/

Code might not be 1:1 mappable to original source code, but it is in any case reversible to an higher level description, specially nowadays that re-writable code is no longer allowed due to security exploits.

https://webassembly.studio/
I don't see a statistic or actual citation there other than an issue with potentially out of date laws.

How are you quantifying American Healthcare as being one of the least free markets? And how does it compare to other countries? I don't see anyone ever actually quantify how 'free' a market is; people only ever argue that if a market is not working therefore it's not free enough, which means we must make it free.

At what point are we going to stop and realize sometimes it just doesn't work? Especially for issues that result in the death of Americans?