skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't "need" it in the sense that they need food or water but they "need" it to conform to social norms. It's a class/status thing.

How hard you work your vehicles is inversely correlated with income (generally speaking, exceptions are in abundance when you speak in generalizations like this).

If you hang out with the HN type crowd then you'll rarely if ever see someone fill every seat in a car or use a pickup to its full capacity. We're generally rich enough to afford more vehicle than we "need" in every regard (pickup trucks to haul light loads, three rows of seating for families with <4 kids, high performance German driving machines for a commute that's mostly sitting in traffic, etc, etc). At the other end of the economic spectrum people shoehorn whatever vehicle is available to them into every role it needs to fill.

Every time I'm strapping material to the roof of one of my beater cars at home depot I'm immediately self aware that I am not acting the way people of my income level are expected to by other people of the same income level. Depending your income level pressing a less than ideal vehicle into service to fit all your needs is just not an option you let yourself seriously consider.

So yeah, the people driving newish vehicles are mostly rich enough to not "need" all the capability they have and it's generally not socially acceptable for these people to go all out using their vehicles.

Edit:

You can see this playing out in the comments.

Someone says they "need" a pickup to do something and gets responses like

"No you don't, people in India haul lumber on motorcycles"

or

"But people in France can tow their their boat with a subcompact car"

While that might be true the social norms of the US do not permit middle class and upper middle class people to use the piss out of their vehicles.
> Aren't roads funded from gas tax?

No. Not much at all. Highways, once upon a time, mostly. Local roads not really ever. https://frontiergroup.org/reports/fg/do-roads-pay-themselves
If you sign up for the the Hilton rewards program and book through their site, WiFi is free.

This is common with a lot of chains these days. Free WiFi is a carrot to get you to book through their site so they save agent fees.
Yes, that shows that 'telling patients to go for a run' doesn't work
Seattle didn't lose Amazon, if that is what you are thinking. We have enough Amazon already, it goes a long way.
You could be right, for some definition of politics. Maybe we were thinking of different meanings of it. It's an overloaded word.
It's a better cause than buying a $500m boat.
So we ended up with "Waterfall" being a historic accident, "Agile" turning into a cult, and with everybody knowing that great teams self-organize to top it all.
Even at a much smaller scale than Taylor Swift (though with relatively reasonable internet fame), see Meg Turney

"On January 26, 2018, a fan armed with a handgun broke into Turney's and Free's home, breaking a window to enter and firing one round as he did.[38] Turney and Free hid in a closet and called police. When the man could not find the couple, he left but was confronted by police outside. The suspect fired one shot and police returned fire; when officers approached the suspect's vehicle, they found him dead. Whether the suspect's death was from self-inflicted shots or shots fired by police is under investigation. Turney and Free were unharmed during the incident. It has been assessed the suspect had developed an obsession with Turney, and he was attempting to cause harm to Free, against whom he felt resentment.[39] Turney ceased updating her YouTube channel for nearly half a year following the incident, citing concern for her safety in sharing her life with an audience.[40]"

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Turney#Home_Invasion

Someone also fired Bullets through and broke a window of a fairly popular streamer DrDisrespect while he was streaming.
Windows Whistler Beta circa 2000. Had the simplicity of W2K with a little flair and a new start button menu. Way better than all the noise you see today.
I tracked down a book earlier this year (via inter library loan) called Archaic Bookkeeping about some of the oldest engravings found, mostly pre-cuneiform. This was essentially the invention of arithmetic, accounting, and writing all at once. It’s amazing stuff. The book was written in the early 90s and touched on the earliest attempts to have computer assistance in translation, done throughout the 80s. It would be great to see what today’s techniques could do.
Is there a reason to believe the L-Theanine was a factor there? What you describe sounds exactly like the normal effects of caffeine.
That's exactly the point of the union, isn't it? An individual worker's demands is nothing compared to one demand with all the workers behind it.

Since the value of the entire workforce is higher than the sum of the value of the individual workers, thus convincing the business that raising the wages/improving conditions is in their own interest, compared to something like a strike.
Here is that feature request for the PROXY protocol, https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/4786

Was reported on July 14th and committed on July 19th.
If this is true, it means Agile has no definition, it’s a vacuous term. If “Agile” == whatever works, then Agile’s not a thing, it cannot differentiate between what works and what doesn’t, and it can’t predict in advance what will work.

It reminds me of a great LessWrong quote, “If you can explain every outcome equally well, you have zero knowledge.”
Then it seems like the obvious conclusion would be... to do the exact opposite?

Steep the tea for just 30 seconds and then drink that? Because then you'd get most of the antioxidants and very little caffeine? (And a very decent amount of flavor, even if it's not the full palette -- plus very few tannins.)
America is a big place with tens of thousands of cities. There just aren't enough architects to make everything unique. Expecting her to be as architecturally diverse as Europe is asking too much.

I'm just glad we're moving away from strip malls.
Prevents organization or association other than the party
"Faster" (and "cheaper") are the problems here. I believe Scrum embedded this flaw in its very language by calling the iterative cycle "sprints". You don't run a marathon by breaking it into a bunch of sprints - sprinting in a marathon is foolish. But the language suggests speed.

If the Scrum cycle were called "iterations" rather than "sprints", things would be a lot better. Language matters.
Capex vs Opex? The cost of new/refurbished equipment is an up-front cost and takes longer to depreciate (but refurbished is lower-cost and so has fewer immediate penalties), whereas diesel fuel and other similar costs can be charged immediately as expenses related to customer fees. Same as why businesses might prefer to pay more real-money over the long term to rent servers via AWS than spend money up front for servers and run their own, longer-term-cheaper, server farm.

(Edit: clarification)
Which Model and How Much Data? The Two Questions That Drive Data Scientist Crazy
Hiya Brian!

> Layers are largely an implementation detail in Docker.

You say this, but they are so deeply baked into many tools that there have been many hundreds of talks about how to "reduce the size of your Docker image with this one simple trick!" which reduces down to understanding how layers in Docker images work. Layers definitely leak through a lot of the tooling.

I'm hoping that my OCIv2 proposal will remove the practical need for layers entirely -- and also remove a lot of the cargo-culting which has popped up around "how to get smaller images". Maybe Docker might adopt this in the future (after you guys get OCIv1 support :P).

> Also, a side note, "docker run --init" gets you the init you are looking for, can set it as default in the daemon as well.

This is different to LXC. With LXC, the "init" is actually systemd, not just a zombie reaper -- and when you do an "lxc attach" you are actually put into a new console (getty and all).

Yes, you can run (after some headaches) systemd inside Docker, but LXC definitely handles this much better because that's the usecase it was designed around. It's not really a defect in Docker, it's just not what Docker was designed around.
> I've seen this brought up quite a lot, but to me, a Chinese national, it's confusing how judiciary branch is independent.

I'm an American, but I have a Chinese friend who liked the
近距离看美国 series of books by 林达 as an explanation of the American system for a Chinese audience.
Honestly, long plane rides are my time to read books and watch movies. OK, there are sometimes specific circumstances where you need to work on the Internet while flying to a big meeting or whatever. But I avoid it whenever possible. I don't actually need to be online all the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Grimmie#Death
My experience making tea from random substances suggested to me that there is nothing special about the flavor of tea. Many plants taste similar when you dry and pour hot water over them. I assume the reason it became a popularity beverage is solely due to caffeine content.
People tend to say "Resources don't exist" to mean "I have never bothered to look".
Interesting side note, apparently the darker the roast, the less caffeine it has. Heat denatures the caffeine in the beans. People assume that dark, bitter coffee is "strong", but light roasts actually give the most pick-me-up.
I don’t remember it before Slashdot either, and the founders sometimes talked about it as if it were their own innovation. Not sure if there was any “prior art” they were working from or not.
This - nostalgia is a huge factor. However, I used OSX very little and still think their pre-Yosemite traditional skeuomorphic icons were the best ever. Other elements of their UI weren't good, but the icons were simply beautiful to work with.
I thought Apple stores were staffed with contractors, is that not so?
Zathura can use mupdf as its PDF renderer (it can also use poppler). I like using the mupdf library through Zathura rather than using the mupdf application, because Zathura has plugins for other file formats too, like PostScript and DJVU, and that way I learn a single set of keystrokes to view all sorts of documents.
So, about 5 thousand chemical ammunition that were found there are not WMD?
This is only true because there are always officials in some other state willing to take bribes (in the form of campaign or allied PAC contributions).

It is possible that the bribe-for-tax-breaks exchange actually provides benefit for the community, but that's not necessary for the transaction to take place.
The whole project is about preserving information for current and future generations, so what place does limiting the availability of it have in history? It’s more likely it’ll just be lost due to DRM when no one can figure it out in the future. It’s the digital equivalent of losing the books, though due to someone being more concerned about their pocket book today than for future generations.
Sell on Amazon
I really enjoy this long and insightful discussion. Let’s see how deep we can go (in terms of the thread tree and thought itself).

Declarative constraints driven problem solver was pioneered by

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

and also used in places like Apple’s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Builder

It is interesting that you use "texture description" for byte stream based artifact that we call code, which is runtime independent.

On the other hand, the term "graph" in your second paragraph has double meanings: visual representation for human eye and brain to parse, and mathematical graph that has can be serialized in JSON, XML or whatever byte stream.

I think many people are excited about GUI revolution pioneered by Doug Engelbart, Ivan Sutherland and Alan Kay for different reasons. Some people are excited about the implementations: bitmap display, mouse, etc., some people are excited about the principles and abstraction: MVC, constraints, data flow, messaging, etc, etc.

With Jupyter notebook system, which is based on three state machines: a persistent kernel process, a DOM session in the browser, and a message queue, it is the first time that we might have a nice abstraction to capture a graph in space and time.

That is at least why I am getting excited. The other features are just bells and whistles.
I don't even consider DRM to be "bad" when it's clear that the purchase (or free service?) is rental-only.

I dislike DRM because I don't want to loose access to my content if I switch platforms, or servers go down, or I'm away from internet. If I'm renting something for a couple weeks, none of these problems really apply.

(Yes, you could argue that legally all digital purchases are "rentals", but that's not how most products are portrayed to consumers, and the prices in use are higher than what I expect a rental to cost.)
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How Unix programmers at restaurants search menus for their favorite plate
LXC has worked on many distributions for a very long time, as has LXD. Most of the time, all of the main developers have been Canonical employees (with some exceptions), so this might've impacted people's view on what it supported. Also LXD's recommended distribution is through snaps (which gives it an Ubuntu-only flavour) -- but it's available in many different repositories in many different distributions.
How do custom Hooks look in this world?
Or the guy who, when his engineers say the building design isn't safe, fires them and gets someone else to do it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampoong_Department_Store_co...
It certainly is notable and probably ironic that the Titanic was touted as unsinkable, but in my opinion that doesn't really detract or add to the magnitude of the tragedy.

I see what you mean with the bad safety procedures, but now that much better safety procedures are mandated by law and we have radar and real-time weather reports, you could turn that around and say that a disaster with a comparable death toll is even more tragic, given that it's much more easily preventable.
npm doesn't auto update major versions by default anyway. So you will likely need to spend the same amount of work but during unscheduled time, updating code for features you didn't even need yet. It can be very disruptive to work in progress.
LXD supports orchestration since 3.0. It's actually quite neat -- you can do live-migration between different hosts. The design is very much "fediverse" where you start containers on different hosts (so it doesn't quite fit the Kubernetes "purge and rebuild" orchestration model).
Deep Earth Is Teeming with Mysterious Life
Now I want to know more about your beekeeping father
Green teas have about the same amount of caffeine. If anything, they'd have more since they are less processed. But as prepared, they have a lot less because they are steeped for shorter periods of time and with cooler water.
Yeah official transcripts from my undergrad have (or had, haven't needed one in a while) some sort of authentication thing. Fortunately adobe reader for Linux was still supported when I needed one...
UI in Microservices World – Micro Front Ends Pattern and Web Components
Dumb question:

Why can't we just burn PNGs[0] or lossless JPEGs and just use OCR / other simple machine learning for text selection? Like, I get that there are some unfortunate souls out there that need to edit CAD documents in their PDF but for 99.999% of people PDFs do one thing that websites do not:

Print reliably well given a page format like A4.

I shouldn't have to wince ever time I open a PDF. They're so insecure that a no-click RCE only fetches $10k.

[0] Or ideally SVG, but there are some problems with fonts and licensing that I'm struggling to remember at the moment.
Why is the content only taking up a middle third of the available space on a 20" monitor making the text on the graphs almost unreadable?
Not even an option to zoom/click on the graphs.
Using PostgreSQL Logical Replication to Maintain an Up-To-Date TEST Server
My daughter won me over.
The only reason nowadays to use Google search is verbatim error messages for exotic software products.

There it still seems to outsmart DuckDuckGo. Else than that I haver zero reason to look back. As a matter of fact. That little box, containing basics for questions like "shell date operations" is usually sufficient and if not you have a link to (usually) stackoverflow. I really like the concept.
$20 Red Copper Flipwich Stovetop Panini & Sandwich Maker

https://www.bulbhead.com/products/red-copper-flipwich
Ask HN: How do I get more feedback on my skills/progress
Right now I'm within an organization that seems to value protecting egos over giving quality feedback that may be better to hear in the long-run.

I'm trying to get people to comment on my pull requests to gain more insight into where I can improve, and I can't seem to get feedback that is more than the occasional syntactic problem. The same is true for my 1-on-1s with my manager, and our weekly all-team code review meetings.

Do you have strategies for how to elicit more or higher-quality feedback from your co-workers? I'm wondering if there's maybe a tool that I could use to gather more anonymous feedback to get a tighter loop for improving as a developer.
As cities confront climate change, increasing city density is one key answer
Would you prefer that the Internet Archive not make these books available at all? That was likely the alternative possibility.

I assume that the Internet Archive is holding onto the original, DRM-Free master copies. That's a job I trust the Internet Archive with, even if ideally I wish the data was more distributed.
IBM on what’s coming in AI: more trust, less bias and a quantum boost
Sure, if you resort to tricks like Base64 encoding in strings, that won't do for WebGL textures though.
If you use a language designed from the start not to need exceptions, this problem is solved: The code in fact looks very much like code that uses checked exceptions (in fact, another commenter even mentioned Rust’s type system is isomorphic to checked exceptions).

I have no problem with checked exceptions. Unchecked exceptions is another story, and forces you to “catch all” everywhere (most libraries don’t document every single possible exception of every single method).

In retrospect I don’t even know why everyone responded to my original post about focusing on software error handling as if I was attacking exceptions. I think unchecked exceptions and unchecked null pointers are bad, but that’s about it; and that’s not even what my top post was about.
I'd guess based on the owner of the IP range. Mobile carriers are an easy case, business ISPs will likely have far fewer mobile devices, residential ISPs will be a mix. I'm sure if anyone has an idea of the breakdowns and averages it would be Cloudfront.
LXD is available as a package on many distributions. While they do recommend snaps (because they can push you updates faster than the distribution), that's not the only way of getting it.

Also, while the main development team are Canonical employees, LXC existed long before the lead developer was hired by Canonical -- and predates many projects. It's not going to be going away soon -- I'd bet that the development team would just move to a different employer if Canonical wanted to stop supporting its development.
I realize that this article says the plant in example has no caffeine at all but the headline reminded me of this: https://callingbullshit.org/case_studies/case_study_caffeine...
even strong coffee is 99.9% caffeine free.
Sebastian’s comment (which I linked to throughout the post quite a few times) mentions we will probably do some DEV time validation with similar techniques. I really suggest to read it all — my post wasn’t intended to answer all questions.

https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/pull/68#issuecomment-4393148...
Except these stable coins doesn't solve the core problem cryptocurrencies do: uncensorable transactions. Tether for example has the ability to freeze addresses. They can also freely manipulate the coin supply (a necessary feature for stable coins) which goes against the decentralized idea of cryptocurrencies.
Boom. Marketing Start Up. I'd start with all those ad-network TVs in restaurants and waiting areas. Requires low funding.
> doing blatantly illegal things and blogging about it

What are the legal risks of using (downloading from and uploading to) libgen, or buying from ebook.farm?
A wonderful story, but I've found the sporadic use of German phrases detracted from the experience. Why is any given dialogue in English or in German? There was no discernible pattern. Were the characters themselves bilingual? That seems out of place given the setting.
Another fun one I discovered that on Virgin trains (UK train company) first class get free WiFi. By sitting in the nearest standard class carriage I could manually associate with the access point in first class.

Some hotels have weird setups like free WiFi in the lobby but you have to pay in the room. That trick probably works there, at least for some of the rooms.
modern is terrible
The macchanger idea also works at other free-ish wifi places like Panera Bread: your session is limited to about a half hour. New MAC, new session...
Faster Web
My startup, https://masse.app has it's entire backend running on F# + .NET Core + AWS (Lambda and Fargate). Works great!
The Dirty Secret of Elite College Admissions
I'm reaching back a ways to my college days, but as I remember, two objects can have masses 2x apart (e.g. 3500 pound car, 7000 pound truck) and for all practical purposes it doesn't really change the collision dynamics much. Something about velocity squared, as I recall.

So ... buy a Subaru Forester, I guess. Or another CUV. Taller bumper so you don't get run over by a pickup, but still a smallish vehicle.
Yeah you could do this but this “breaks copy paste” (one of the flaws). We want creating a custom Hook to feel exactly like extracting a function. It should feel easy and you shouldn’t need to mess with maps and symbols.
10 Drivers for Selecting a Billing Solution
> I had no idea you wrote umoci -- thanks for that as well -- it's a super useful tool.

It's always nice to see that more people are using the stuff I've made. I'm currently working on some ideas for OCIv2 images which hopefully will massively improve the current state of things (images are really inefficient and quite problematic). I'm writing a blog post about it at the moment.
Building language models directly from grammars reduces ASR error up to 15%
Add to that: you have to be prepared for sudden changes in functionality and scope.

If you dont then the painful truth mentioned will only apply to utopia (never been there but I hear everyone is rich and thin with infinite throughput).