skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Much like cars in style of marketing, but a whole lot less useful since they take you nowhere, get lost more easily and everyone carries a mobile, it's basically true to say that watches are for two major categories of people: (1) suckers; and (2) people with cultural references from a bygone era fishing for social credit.

Exhibit A: India is obsessed by watches. It's the way to indicate the class you will never achieve because that world died decades ago but nobody's in India's yet noticed. It seems logic is the last untouchable.

Exhibit B: Loads of luxury watch ads I saw in Hong Kong this week associating time with breaking rules (Central), mountain climbing (Wanchai), and other such nonsense. What to say? Awesome, Anson. Far out, Frederick. Happening, Herbert. Rocking, Raymond. Striking, Samson.
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As far as I know, gitbash uses a dumb terminal.
You will have issues with features like readline, UTF8 chars and so on.
Putty is a standard Terminal emulator.
cattle class seats are (or were) about the size of first-class airline seats

This is true, they're FAR better than standard airline seats. On the other hand, if you're going NY to SF you're going to be sitting in them for 3 days, so they better be comfortable.
The comparison is of course only an illustration that suggests the question: It is the right allocation of resources to support incarceration and all that it entails, or should that resource be re-balanced to suffocate the causes of crime? Hint: It is nearly always poverty. That an Ivy league school is utterly out of reach for the average inmate throws in the stark contrast the fact that the State somehow manages to find the same amount of money per head for incarceration.

The question is which cycle to you, as a society, want to feed? That is the one that will grow. Reference to the "Nordic" experience shows what a long-term shift in focus looks like.
That looks really impressive from both technical and also marketing point of view. Especially the latter one keeps nVidia ahead of AMD. As much as I like AMD, they need to step up their game somehow.
While the question of whether capitalism is slavery is perhaps interesting (and quite a large number of people have answered that question in the affirmative), the system where you are committed, without free consent even as that is constructed within a capitalist framework, to an arrangement where a private party rents out exclusive control of you and your labor for a period of time from the government, and compels you to labor for the benefit of that private party is very different from the “you must find a willing party to give you food, and most of them are only willing to do so for money, and most people are not willing to give you money without some exchange of value” feature of capitalism, in ways which make it fit a much less controversial understanding of slavery than any that include capitalism as a whole.
We used to institutionalize people, then we defunded the entire psychiatric infrastructure.
I have been going for years drinking with colleagues in Japan and I have never had a problem to avoid getting drunk by switching very quickly to soft drinks, and this, even in several companies.
Why would anyone pay for email when arguably the best in breed email service is free?

Why pay more for a worse product?
Earth's crust "wants" to move. One thing is triggering an earthquake by fracking, another one is stopping the crust with all the mantle below pushing heat into it. That heat has to go somewhere. I guess the best we'll reasonably do is forecasting quakes.
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All the time. It's default on eBay. I can pay with my credit card, without having to give my card details to anyone but PayPal. Also, I can pay from my bank account directly.
I also buy things from people on different forums, and using PayPal gives me a sense of trust. I can use F&F if I know the seller and save the fees.
Chase runs cash back promotions on PayPal from time to time as well.

At work we even run PayFlow for credit card processing, which is a PayPal company.
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Would like to see "sites" vs "webapps"
"Ad-hominem attach"? They sold logos that were violations of copyright. That service could get you sued. That's not ad-hominem; that's crime. Calling it out is a responsible act, not an "attack on a competitor".
The scientists at Drawdown has measured 100 solutions and modeled them to determine its carbon impact through the year 2050, the total and net cost to society, and the total lifetime savings (or cost).
No you don't, because that is absurd and highly illegal.
---- From the article:

A South Korean government panel has concluded that a magnitude-5.4 earthquake that struck the city of Pohang on 15 November 2017 was probably caused by an experimental geothermal power plant....

Unlike conventional geothermal plants, which extract energy directly from hot underground water or rock, the Pohang power plant injected fluid at high pressure into the ground to fracture the rock and release heat — a technology known as an enhanced geothermal system....

---

This is both horrifying and incredible. They managed to fracture enough rock to generate energy contained in a mag-5.4 earthquake.

That's around 200 KT of TNT [0].
That's a lot of useful energy if contained. I wonder what the efficiency of the plant would be then.

South Korea already has 23 nuclear plants though [1], I wonder why they decided to go this route, perhaps easier setup and lower associated costs ?

[0] https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/energ...

[1] http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pro...
What I find strange about chat is that standards (that people use) have not arisen and that technical progress seems to be glacial.

I first saw chat on VAX/VMS machines in high school in the 1980s. Circa 1990 there were many incompatible email systems, but by 2000 everything was going over SMTP.

In the meantime we've had ICQ, AIM, Skype, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, Paltalk, Slack, IRC and I am sure. The one thing they have in common is that they seem to have almost the same feature set and haven't really improved over time.

There is a standard in the form XMPP which seems to have market penetration into military and law enforcement markets, but almost everybody in the enterprise is using Slack while privately bitching about how it doesn't really integrate well with their systems. (e.g. it looks like it integrates well, getting 80% of the way is easy, 15% is hard, but the last 5% is impossible because of Slack's business model.)

People say that Slack is searchable, but the Startup de jour in 2019 is always complaining that it can't find documents and every week they add some new place to store documents on the hope that they'll be able to find them.

One of these days they will see the irony in this, but at that point you will see platforms move to make federated search and/or indexing infeasible.
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I work in this field.

I am expected to serve clients in a lot of different domains.

When we were doing data science work for an insurance client, I stayed up late for weeks reading about actuarial models and how things currently work as well as learning all the jargon there is in the industry. I could probably pass the highest level actuarial exams at this point (or at least not fail too embarrassingly) [edit: OK I probably couldn't do this, but I could probably pass any/all exams related to the quant side] and also innovate superior premium pricing models using "Machine Learning". Not because I want to become an actuary but that's what's required to do good work.

When I worked in pharma, I learnt from other PhD's/PostDoc's on my team about oncology, a very specific type of oncology in fact, and everything that goes into Pharma companies and their marketing efforts, how doctors operate and behave. Not only that, but I learnt from an industry expert on all the nuances and subtleties that involve analyzing various types of medical claims data. (Hint: It's a total CF)

I could go on and on about the different domains I've had to work in. But the whole point is, being a generalist, in the sense of a dabbler, is utter nonsense. If you want to be a data scientist, you have to be flexible enough to work in any domain, and also have the gumption to become a specialist in the field, do something new in that domain with your shiny "machine learning" knowledge, while making sure your models are not GIGO from spurious statistical assumptions, and making sure you know how to code decently enough that your algorithms/code doesn't shit itself. This probably aligns closer to what the article was actually talking about..

(Edit: Sorry for the confusion, in my world the word generalist has a totally different meaning..)
don't really like when they kill good products, but was hoping dart will soon be on the list
It's interesting to me how the word coding has mostly replaced programming in many contexts. We now hear of efforts to teach kids "coding" when not long ago that would have been teaching "programming". It would be interesting to delve into why that change in language took place.
> Anyone who is not currently a MIPS user (chip maker) in this space is years behind.

RISC-V user?
> Some (not all) people are broken, unfixable, and dangerous.

Yes, in many cases because of their exposure to our prison system.
Is Startpage.com a Google/DuckDuckGo Replacement?
Of course, but my logic is like this:

- Is GDPR crating a new hurdle for websites around the globe? YES

- Will every website follow GDPR? NO

- Is GDPR creating privacy value for the user? I am not sure

Thus, it’s a classical trade-off decision. So far I’m not seeing the benefits. The downside is very clearly demonstrated in the above example.
There is a spectrum here.

On one hand, people at a healthy weight throughout their adolescence who start a slow and gradual weight gain with their 'Freshman 15' that ends with being moderately chubby in middle age - yes, you're correct, that's not only the result of poor life choices, but it can probably be corrected with better ones.

On the other hand, some people have negligent or ignorant parents and are (as a result) overweight or obese from a young age. This dramatically cripples their ability to make healthy food choices at an adult because it bakes in their psychological weight set point at an unhealthily high level very early on, and so normal attempts at intervention make their body think it is being starved. These folks need more than just life advice, they need medical intervention, or they stand a low chance of digging themselves out of their holes. And if they can't do that, it's a detriment not just to them but to society as a whole, which will eventually have to foot the bill for their medical costs later in life.
This does not tell the whole story - there is also a lawsuit against google for “under-leveling” women in engineering. This is when, at the same skill level, a hiring manager would perceive the woman as less competent and place her in a lower compensation band / level.

In fact, if under-leveling were true, you might see exactly this pay effect that google discovered! As more competent women are placed in lower levels, they are relatively better paid than men in the same level as they are more skilled. However overall the salary is less than would be if they had been in a lower range of the next level up.

I can’t say what the truth is, but I think it’s very sloppy journalism not to include that detail.
If you have been in Israel you know that Tel Aviv is as much a warzone as NYC, and much less than Paris.

Though, something has to be added for context: 95% of people in Israel walking around with weapons are soldiers. So of course you feel safer than next to a random hillbilly. This is not relevant to discussion about the 2nd amendment.
I'm sure these are all fine pieces of software, and good on facebook for giving their smart people useful busywork to distract them from asking themselves the hard questions, but did any of these make possible the as of yet impossible and propel them to their current status?

Because as things appear, FB was a myspace for grown-ups at a time when there was a need for such a service, that is, the right time and the right place, and technology-wise there was nothing extraordinary about the service itself.

> It is a fact whether you like their product or not.

I like their product just fine. I just wish more of them held their privacy in higher regard.
I also cannot help but see the dystopian outcome here, especially in a profit-driven system.

"Sir, we see your REM sleep is not being fully entered into most nights. Our system has indicated that you buy caffeine and pizzas multiple days a week. This will be reported."

"Sir, we are denying your life insurance application because our insurance "partners" have determined you are a risk we cannot afford."

Etc., etc.

I will never willingly wear a tracker that reports health data. I will never willingly be chipped. Nothing of that sort. I always tell people to pay cash for their peccadilloes. Never use "loyalty" cards, as the info is sold to all manner of companies, including insurance companies. Banks sell "anonymized" data about your buying habits as well. And no one seems to be anything other than completely and utterly apathetic...
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I did :) all of TNG Season 3-7 .. all of Voyager until DVDs came about
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> evolutionarily beneficial

Hardly convinced by your arguments since among Asian populations there is large genetic propensity not to be able to break down ethanol properly.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1580147/
Hypothetically, if you could cause earthquakes in a controlled way, it may be possible to perform periodic small stress relief quakes rather than allowing one big one to occur naturally. We can't stop it moving, but maybe we can make it move on our terms.
It's worth noting that this article is by Johann Hari, who has a long history of telling compelling but untrue stories. Most recently about depression:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2018/jan/...

EDIT and the backstory:

http://www.jeremy-duns.com/blog/2014/9/7/kdgwxcbsned1rknh0h3...

He mentions Rat Park, which isn't as clear-cut as he makes out:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/25/against-rat-park/

I think it's wise to treat this story as a useful pointer towards an interesting topic, but not as a reliable treatment of that topic.
I didn't read this article because of a payway but I read the NYT article on it, and they covered that. Knowing the Post I can only assume they did too and you didn't read it either?
No one is taking trains in the US. You can take a MegaBus from Atlanta to New York for like $35. It takes less than the amount of time it takes Amtrak to get from Atlanta to DC. Spirit has a flight for $112 from Atlanta to New York which is the same or less expensive than a train that takes over 20 hours!

In the US, Canada, and Mexico trains are for freight. Even if you’re in the Northeast Corridor a bus is usually a better option if you aren’t driving or flying. Europe uses trucks for freight.
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And the pricing for that is open. The NHS pays £3.31 for a Salbutamol inhaler with 200 doses[0]. They are paying private dispensaries (high street chemists, etc) to handle the prescriptions and drugs and whatnot. I still think the prescription price is well worth the cost.

They also get Humalog much cheaper[1]. £29.46 vs $240.18

There's no sane way you can see discrepancies like this and not see something untoward happening.

[0]: https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/salbutamol.html

[1]: https://bnf.nice.org.uk/medicinal-forms/biphasic-insulin-lis...
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I was about to suggest it really needs to at least be tried on people with darker skin tones.
> Does it mean I am forced to work?

Absolutely yes. You told it yourself, if you stop working you're going to die from hunger. In what sense can you argue "you're free not to work"?
UTF-16 allows to quickly index a char in a string covering the most languages that way.

UTF-8 is a different story, as nearly every byte of UTF-8 string is a surrogate for most languages except English/ASCII.

Now, how can a char be indexed then? Only by slow iteration from the beginning of a string?

UTF-8 is a good choice for storage, true. However, it seems to be a not so good choice for string processing from the algorithmic point of view.

Or maybe there is a catch that makes UTF-8 strings well-suited for string processing as well?
It could have been any other country when your whole population is under the ongoing control of opoids.
>So why isn't it a free market in the USA when free markets is clearly seen as the way things should be?

I don't think anyone is really saying that except for the most extreme neoliberals.
Or old white people.
I just wanted to drive home the fact that we don't accept insults, and respectable discourse is always preferred.

I would not accept shit from people just because they have some authority in some place.
What's the difference? WordPress, for example, is arguably a web app.
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That's quite a blurry line, though. How much functionality does a site need to become a web app?
Well, yes and no. Yes, when a single-source strategy is adopted, the spec is written for that supplier, but that does not mean that all cases where the spec is written with a specific supplier in mind are single-source bids. Sometimes it's an end-user trying to manipulate a bid so that only one supplier can answer. That's the distinction I'm trying to make.
Don't forget to also mention https://www.ecosia.org/ ;)
But beware you take on a ton of risk, especially as complexity and size of project grows. Many clients will also divide the price by how many hours they think you’re working and still think in hourly terms...
But security-wise, it is the same.
They did not from my reading.
The advertising industry was not merely or limited to "a small sign on a local business" before the Internet. Not in the last few decades, or even in the last few centuries. Moving the goalposts doesn't help anyone.
Prison is a protection to society from individuals that prove they can't live in society. This is the goal of prison: protect who is outside.

Prison is not punishment.

Prison is not rehabilitation (although this is desirable and we should definitely try it).
Here in the US I pay $700 a month for health insurance for my family, with my employer contributing another $1,200. I have a $3,000 deductible, so the first $3,000 of expenses every year are not covered. Above that I pay 20% of costs.

I also pay 1.45% of all income for Medicare, which I will not be eligible for until I'm 65, a few decades away. My employer pays an additional 1.45% on my behalf and I pay an additional 0.9% surcharge on all household income over $250k.

I'd love to start my own company but health insurance costs are a big impediment. I have young kids, I can't leave my family underinsured. We're healthy now thankfully, but what if one of us gets cancer or is in a car accident and we're hit with $500k+ bills (or worse - if we can't get the right treatment)? I don't know how other people do it.
Even though it had no paramaterized/prepared queries and made injection issues abundant?
Here are the abstracts of the two Science papers. This isn't my area, and although it would be hard to prove causation, they do have good evidence that causation is plausible. That's probably as strong a claim as anyone would be likely to be able to make, given the constraints on what is known.

The moment magnitude (Mw) 5.5 earthquake that struck South Korea in November 2017 was one of the largest and most damaging events in that country over the past century. Its proximity to an enhanced geothermal system site, where high-pressure hydraulic injection had been performed during the previous 2 years, raises the possibility that this earthquake was anthropogenic. We have combined seismological and geodetic analyses to characterize the mainshock and its largest aftershocks, constrain the geometry of this seismic sequence, and shed light on its causal factors. According to our analysis, it seems plausible that the occurrence of this earthquake was influenced by the aforementioned industrial activities. Finally, we found that the earthquake transferred static stress to larger nearby faults, potentially increasing the seismic hazard in the area.

The moment magnitude (Mw) 5.4 Pohang earthquake, the most damaging event in South Korea since instrumental seismic observation began in 1905, occurred beneath the Pohang geothermal power plant in 2017. Geological and geophysical data suggest that the Pohang earthquake was induced by fluid from an enhanced geothermal system (EGS) site, which was injected directly into a near-critically stressed subsurface fault zone. The magnitude of the mainshock makes it the largest known induced earthquake at an EGS site.
A key reason for American trains being bad is that demand is different. (Which to some degree is caused by offer)

The USA has large areas of sparsley populted land where flying for long distance, and car for the the closer area are hard to beat. This is way different from more densly populated Europe and even more densly populated Japan (especially when excluding Japan's motain regions)

If there were drive more more trains this would first require massive investment in infrastructure, to build both: the medium distance lines through populated area (for example along the east and west coast) as well as a network of connecting services fading out in the suburbs of the hub. Hardly anybody wants to go from hub to hub. If they need an car for "the last mile" anyways it's likely they won't take the detour to the train station and then having no way to continue on the other end ... If instead they can drive the complete distance.

Successful railways need a network connecting complete regions providing enough potential for a frequent service.

Building that requires huge support by politics/society.
Ooh, thanks. Been using mintty on Cygwin for ages, this might be what I need to stop looking at WSL and start using it as my default ...
Stepping can be slow if you setup a lot of watches that get evaluated every time
> No, its not really a matter of being old fashioned - it's a matter of being authoritarian.

Interesting line of thought, but how far do you take it? Legalize all drugs, even the ones that may end up killing people, or make them completely dependent?

A society that values Freedom needs to ensure its people remain free, and there are clearly substances out there that can make you a slave. How do you deal with that?
That is mostly because of Wordpress
The same issues we have in the west

No matter how much information , proof and facts you provide about:-

* Almost ALL MSM and Western Society has been taken over by the left

* Companies DO and are censoring people based on supporting democracy (right wing)

* LEFT is about Global Socialism take over of EU+West

* Feminism is SOCIALISM

* Duluth Model exists

* Metoo changes the concept of western LAW at fundamental levels

* Gynoctic system exists

* Feminism and DUTHAL model is designed to remove ALL accountability ad responsibilities for women

* Not everyone wants to live in an
1 story
3 bedroom
1 car park home
and infact more and more increasing single people in society are happy to live in an

- Tiny home

- 1 bedroom unit

- or 1 bedroom tiny home
and be left alone

Yes we can be happy alone
We dont need:-

- No idiots smoking near us

- No idiots with 500% bass from their stereo

We just want to be alone, individuals to live in peace
without dealing with the mainstream "normies"