skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're falsely equating two scenarios and saying that since the government lied in one heinous act, that means the government is lying about something entirely different as well.

Your point about the government lying about vaccines for the sake of public health is almost irrelevant, because that standard is applicable to everything the government does. Are our roads actually paved using the bones of children? No one knows, but the government would have a vested interest in lying about it because roads are important for American society.

You could use that logic to question everything and anything, but it doesn't say whether or not your base proposition is actually logically sound.

It doesn't help that the anti-vaxxer movement is a global one, not just an American one. Which means you would again have to consider somehow there's a global conspiracy surrounding vaccines in order to downplay the injuries they do to people.

Now is this to say vaccines don't have potentially harmful side effects? Well no, anyone that has read the research recognizes this fact. Including myself, considering I had an adverse reaction to vaccines as a child that was almost deadly. However the anti-vaxxer movement is not nor had it ever been about discussing the rational and factual effects of vaccines both positive and negative, it's been about perpetuating bunk science or conspiracies for the sake of an illogical set of beliefs.
Everyone is assuming customers are price sensitive, it could be that the losses are designed to achieve monopolies and drive out competition while establishing a large two sided network and once achieved they use monopoly pricing power to extract value from price insensitive customers. It’s a reasonable thesis based on history.

I just personally thing this class of company will never achieve positive unit economics because people are price sensitive, and the service is a commodity with no meaningful network effect
Although it's on Fowler's website, it seems this article was written by someone else.
Only available for US citizens, not GC holders.
But these companies are funded by VCs. The cause is more a function of wealth inequality. The ultra-wealthy have so much money that they only need 1/100 to be a gusher. If there wasn't so much capital consolidated in the hands of so few, this model wouldn't work as you need an ungodly amount of money to sustain 99 failures. Investments should be more constrained by real balance sheets and the needs of real people. There is a ton of waste on this billionaire's roulette wheel.
Someone else replied already along the lines of "you get what you pay for", but I found some web pages with pictures:

- The 4 or 6 person compartments (couchettes) are quite cramped indeed, but the good part is they only cost 10 or 20 euros extra compared to a plain seat. https://www.vagonweb.cz/fotogalerie/SK/WSBA_Bvcmbz.php

- The actual sleeper wagons with 1 to 3-berth compartments cost more, with their prices around a hotel stay, but are quite comfortable in my opinion.
https://www.vagonweb.cz/fotogalerie/A/OeBB_WLABmz-7290.php

Sleeper trains to Scandinavia were a thing not so long ago. When German DB scrapped their CityNightLine system around year 2014, Copenhagen was being served with a sleeper train that had carriages to Basel, Amsterdam and Prague. The carriages were shunted between trains somewhere in Germany. It only takes few hours to reach Copenhagen from most inhabitated parts in Sweden - actually Copenhagen's airport is the main airport for many leisure travellers in Sweden. Nevertheless, a decade or two earlier there was a similar sleeper service that reached Stockholm.

I'm finding it hard to believe that sleeper services are not economically feasible since Europeans think of them quite fondly but of course, if they were feasible they would not have lost to discount airlines and even buses. Maybe sleeper trains could be operated more efficiently or marketed and priced more aggressively? In addition, it's currently a lot easier to buy a plane ticket than to plan a long railway journey and figure out which companies will sell the tickets.
March 28, according to the complaint
I am so happy to see this. I have supported Patagonia as a consumer due to their commitment to corporate responsibility, specifically their (more) ethical clothing manufacturing practices.

When I’m in the Bay Area and see every private equity bro wearing a Patagonia fleece, it makes me wonder if they are supporting the brand for the same reason.

Ultimately it shouldn’t matter. But I’d rather be associated with the responsibly sourced clothing brand than the financial engineering brand.
"scale" meant adoption, not performance. Scaling performance can generally be solved with hardware. Adoption, not so much.
Just create a stub with the possible responses.
If you consider the potential long term demand, the battery market is facing an increadible growth too. The current electric car production is below 1 Million/year, that is about 1% of the total car production, so the market for batteries for electric cars alone can grow about 100x, not counting in that the capacity per car might also grow (perhaps not much over the 100kWh for the top Teslas, but in average probably over 60kWh/car).

On top of that come all the new usages for batteries, especially energy storage, be it for individual houses or on the grid scale.

So potential market capacity is for long time no limitation for batteries. The unique thing of the semiconductor market development was though, that the chips grew in capabilities, but very little in size.
I'm not so sure about that. The left side appears _overwhelmingly_ purple, and the right side looks _very_ blue. Have you tried something like the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test?
No problems! Looks like most all are fixed except "Please choose the country in which you are located." and "Where did you hear about this position?" which are compulsory.
You have to be able to afford to buy trash bags if you want to keep your trash from being in "a pile" and then what do you do with all these bags of trash? If your whole community is too poor to afford a garbage truck then who is coming 'round to pick up the garbage? Of course poor people in underserved communities could just haul their own trash to the "local pile", but who has time to do that when you're working to get food on the table?
I think the plan is to print money via MMT rather than destroying money with taxation but I'm probably wrong.
Lots of finance meme accounts reflect the "Patagucci" culture of finance - check out these - they frequently showcase "sleds" - $300+ (frankly, tasteless) Gucci and Ferragamo shoes that are sort of a "post-intern" status symbol. I follow these accounts to try and have a pulse on when the next recession will hit.

https://www.instagram.com/hoeingforyield/
https://www.instagram.com/finance_god/

I could absolutely see why Patagonia wants to distance itself from these sorts of fratty, money-focused business cultures. Same with Venture Capital.
> Steal 17 million dollars from investors, literally not a day in jail

We saw similar comments following the SEC fining Elizabeth Holmes. Criminal investigations take longer than civil proceedings, and the SEC doesn't have the power to bring the former.
big opportunity for Summit Ice
You probably don't need that hip web framework
"I meant Eastern (members of) European Union (EEU) vs Western (members of) European Union (WEU)"

If so then you made another mistake :-) as Ukraine is not a member state of the European Union.

[EEU vs WEU] You could see it sometimes abbreviated that way."

Please don't read my comment as aggressive but I have NEVER seen such abbreviated form.

"Eurasian union (I thought that one was largely defunct anyway?)"

This entity is very much alive and kicking (usually as much as Vladimir Putin wants it to be). The EEU presidency is held throughout 2019 by Armenia.
> The narrative is that automation will make all of these services cheap, so the "gig economy" jobs get lost regardless to autonomous vehicles and robotic hamburger makers, for example. Only then, do these companies come out on top -- and quite big if they can float until automated solutions exist. At least, that's the story these types of business tell to acquire funding.

This narrative never made sense to me. Buying all those autonomous vehicles and burger flippers is an enormous expense and comes with additional logistics complications such as maintenance. Even if autonomous vehicles were perfected tomorrow, transforming a company with little to no capex like Uber into a capex behemoth would take many years, tons of real-estate negotiations, construction, etc. I'm not convinced Uber could make this transition faster than Amazon could build and app and start parking a fleet of cars at its already-built distribution centres.
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Bravo!

I hope this (and Nike with Kaepernick) is the start of a wave in society calling companies to task over advertising shilling.

Personally, and I've expressed this numerous times, I find advertising to be absolutely devastating on the efficiency of modern society so... let's de-brand everything wee!
It's always been real-time location data. At one point it was pretty low-tech (odometer hooked up to a radio transmitter) but it's now been GPS-based for ~5 years.
> a third party payment processor as "one true source" seems suicidal

for small product/shop/site with no strong core competence in billing it may be wise versa..
As far as I know, that is not the case for Vevo music, and software like YouTube-dl can download it without trouble.
GCP in its current form, though?

In 10 years, will you have to choose between the deprecated version and the version that doesn't work yet?
As a product buyer? AWS customer? Or vendor?

As an S3 customer for web hosting, I couldn’t understand why I was paying 10 cents a month for EC2 charges since I don’t use it. They just refunded me an entire month, but I really wanted to know what was happening!
I'm just paraphrasing Lenin. Even if you are emotionally repelled by the horrors committed in the name of communism, The Communist Manifesto and State and Power are worth a read. Lenin was the best writer of the bunch, direct and explanatory. Marx is wordy and almost writes in an obfuscated fashion.

The problems with democracy that were described _still_ exist today. One can dislike communism and still acknowledge the criticisms of capitalism as valid and in need of address.

Communism was never actually executed true to the image. The state of the proleteriat was supposed to wither away - instead it became a dictatorship with secret police.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withering_away_of_the_state
People interested in block styled editors and new takes on editors should look at hax-the-web, a big effort using web components primarily designed for educational materials at PSU, but usable for so much more. It's quite amazing the flexibility that is possible - here's one recent video, there are many many more on his channel https://t.co/eXM6yBQA7h
The dreaded 66 lining up one after an other
Statistics is about summarising data. It is implicit in the notion of "summarising" that you won't get all the information... but that's the whole point.
The Internet Archive also has some audio books:

https://archive.org/details/audio?and%5B%5D=philip+dick&sin=

I liked this one, read by William Hootkins:

https://archive.org/details/WeCanRememberItForYouWholesaleBy...
The challenge isn't in extracting a dataflow graph from an imperative control flow format. Compilers are already capable of doing this, and every major compiler has an expression DAG at some point. The challenge is in mapping from a generic dataflow graph to the actual dataflow hardware primitives, which have different requirements whose constraints may require non-trivial mappings.
This article is about removing carbon, i.e. mitigating some of the damage that has already been done. We still have to stop actively doing more damage by continuing to burn fossil fuels.
He claimed their dog indicated on our car... but that's a bunch of BS because the dog was already sitting next to them when we pulled up and didn't do anything further(exactly the same thing the dog did for the car in front of us).

He then tried to get us to say we had personal use amounts of drugs on us and he was only looking for massive amounts of narcotics(the "amount cartels have" according to him).

I was with a friend who was not a US citizen but is here legally on a work visa, they took his documents and left me alone while the dog ran through the truck.

And to be honest, do you really think I'm going to put up a fight when I haven't seen a shower in days and have a 7hr drive ahead of me?

We obviously fit a profile of sorts because the first words out of his mouth when we pulled up were to pull to the side because his dog indicated on us and he needed to search our car.
I'm really not sure what the point of your post is but what I can tell is you've completely misunderstood my post (and possibly Kodi too?) because several of the conditions you highlighted (eg "todays", "non-technical") wasn't even in the scope of my monologue.

Besides, non-technical users wouldn't be ripping DVDs to a NFS / SMB share in the first place (or using a home server / NAS for bittorrent / usenet / etc if that's how one prefers to accumulate their video archive). So why would they want a Media Centre that's designed for playing local or networked content?

Maybe what you're referring to is the stuff that has been in press a lot in recent years; the stuff incorrectly named (imo) as "Kodi-boxes" (or similar). I say "incorrectly named" because they used 3rd party plugins for illegal streams but those really have naff all to do with the Kodi media centre itself. It's like calling illegal downloading "Windows-boxes" because someone uses a bittorrent client on Windows 10.

I guess you could argue that Kodi now fills a niche that is dying out - that's certainly the case for me as I tend to use Netflix et al on my smart TV. But for playing local / mountable files, Kodi still leads the pack in terms of ease. Which is hardly surprising when you consider that's what the media centre was built to do.
Since you mentioned CKEditor 5, I'll be bold enough to go a bit into off-topic.

CKEditor 5 is an incredibly impressive endeavour, and I've been following it with great interest. However, one of the things that separates it from the competition is the GPL license, which makes it impossible to use the editor in a permissively-licensed (Apache2/MIT) open source project. Your founder has indicated a readiness[1] to grant a custom license to such projects.

So, I'm wondering whether that is still the policy, and how that's been working out in practice. Have any projects taken you up on the offer? Have there been any unforeseen problems? What are the legal limitations imposed (on distributors/forks of the project, for example)?

[1]https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5/issues/991#issuecommen...
I love the freedom that capitalism enable as clearly seen here. At the same time, I wonder where the lines are between being consistent to your organizational values, virtue signaling.

Now, virtue signaling is nothing new. Humans have expressed their moral values for a very very long time. Governments too, and of course companies as seen here. Where it might get sticky and dangerous is virtue signaling by technology companies that functions as utility company to certain aspects of the internet. At that intersection, one organization's virtue signaling is another's free speech ban.
The layout of the page appears to bunch on mobile Safari on iOS as one long, skinny column for the main text.

Edit: Written on an express bus that doesn't bunch, although yes normal buses bunch, including purposely for peak times where there's lots of passengers.
You could probably have a computer calculate which stop the trailing bus should jump ahead to.

Then you have the trailing bus switch to "out of service" mode (so it doesn't enrage people when it passes a bunch of stops) and skip ahead 4 or 5 stops or whatever the computer decides is optimal.
Another way to look at this is that the more you store, the more difficult it is for people to actually find the valuable parts of what you've stored. One of the fascinating aspects of the internet is that our internet lives diverge so thoroughly from our offline lives - so the data we're leaving for the future is arguably horribly unrepresentative.
>For non-residents, check out Eurail instead.

My cousin (Indian) had toured Europe a lot, cheaply, back in the day, on Eurail, when working for the Indian Tea Board in Brussels for 3 years.

>I've no experience with Eurail but Interrail worked fine back in the days and saved a lot of money, too. As horribly cliché as it may sound, it truly was a great eye-opening experience which made me appreciate Europe (culture, people, cuisine, geography, history, and so on) more than I did before.

Cousin said the same about the experience.
This is a very stupid move by Microsoft, at least they should have arranged a customer/inventory handover with an alternate provider (like Amazon Kindle) to minimize the inconvenience.
==Commuting is considered one of the _most_ negative parts of a person's day==

I think depends on the method of commuting. I do a combination of walking and train each day and it is one of the best parts of my day. I get exercise and free time to read, watch videos, or just space-out. I think people who bike or walk to work have a similarly positive perspective.

If I was driving on a gridlocked highway for 2 hours a day, I would hate it.
Large meteor hits throwing debris into space, some of it landing on other planets.
The ACLU of Northern California says they cannot deny you entry.

https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights/know-your-r...

U.S. Citizens: You only have to answer questions establishing your identity and citizenship (in addition to customs-related questions). Refusal to answer other questions may cause delay, but officials may not deny you entry into the U.S. if you have established your identity and citizenship.
I don't click on links such as reddit/r/funny or something, but torrentfreak I consider on topic enough as an IT security consultant that I click it and will defend its legitimacy if ever questioned. The site reports on internet freedoms in an uncensored and to the point manner that I like a lot.

If you have a fascist firewall, consider using Tor with the FascistFirewall=1 setting (https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en#Fasc...).
They do that in NY. It typically equalizes and returns to bunching within a few stops, especially on busy routes.
My first thought is that this would break a shitload of software around bus time indicators - i.e. on bus stops and presumably whatever API the website talks to. I believe the buses function like trains in that sense - they're numbered not just by route, but by actual bus.

Would be nice though.
The Denmark-Germany ferries on that route are ~150 m long, and fit a train of up to 100 m length (or something in that ballpark).

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:2017-08-22-ICE_TD_Puttga...

Larger ferries on other routes have multiple rails next to each other, and long trains are split up across those.
I'm in a similar borderland, I'm diagnosed ADD, and my daughter ADD with autistic traits.

Doesn't make me the best person to answer, but I also felt the responses to be weird. But I'll relate some of my experiences, if they might be of some use.

I'm not an expert in anxiety by any means, however, one thing that stands out to me is that when my daughter is feeling anxious about something, let's say it would be about the state of geopolitics - or whatever - I could calm her by telling her that it is in fact a rather dire situation. That is, if this is representative, that the uncertainty in/about/through your own interpretation is often more disconcerting than even the worst case scenario. Similarly, I've had friends tell me: Yep, you are being an idiot! Which is accompanied by a figurative, if not literal sigh of relief from me.

While this probably isn't completely alien in anxiety in general, it seems much more pronounced for people close to, or on the spectrum.

For some I also believe a weaker/different perception of time plays a significant role in the difference. Maybe this is more my ADD side, but time can become invisible, everything is a moment which encompasses all of time. Ancient, yet newborn and without temporal roots.

Hence some anxiety might not be as much about the future, but of this current eternal now and all that has been. I rarely get embarrassed even if I done something mind boggling stupid, but I can sometimes get anxious about small things that happened decades ago, of which the outcomes have certainly completely played out. It's as if cause and effect isn't always causally ordered in my subconscious brain, hence the memory evoked doesn't evoke the appropriate emotional state.

Got a real headache, so I'll stop typing now. Quite likely mostly gibberish anyway, tends to become such when I'm in this state, against my best intentions. But hey, practice makes perfect, eh :)
Regarding the Fehmarn link, construction has just started: https://femern.com/en/News-and-press/2019/March/New-activiti...
Yes but with mails, you read... mails. That is what you consume. With readers, you consume content that is most probably there because of potential ad revenue. Yes, RSS is generally used by technical people - but you'd be surprised how many technical people don't use adblocks, sometimes because they don't care and sometimes because they don't think it is ethical to do so. And there always is the possibility that it can evolve into something that is more convenient used by masses. So it is a net negative in terms of revenue.

And I'm not only talking about people that produce readers, but also about content creators. I'm making a site and hoping to turn a profit through ads and my interesting content - why would I want to provide a convenient stripped down version of my website for you to consume - something that is a net negative for my revenue (hosting and transferring data costs money)? Sure, I can provide "excerpts" in RSS, but I'd rather prefer you go to my homepage to see what is new - it is thoroughly AB tested to lure you in, spend some time and see some ads - maybe click one.
Imagine there are ozeans, and they slowly dry away, evaporatintg to space. The water gets more saltier with every season, uvw rays grill what ever is left of your living space.

All you can do is sleep through longer and longer winters in this brine, waiting for the sun to thaw the salty mud.
Or you retreat, using some weak smoker in the depths as a provider of energy, following it ever deeper down, the world freeze drying behind you.

I know its frowned upon by some, but imagine we could create a sort of floating spirondella, and set them free in venus atmosphere. Venus beeing a dead planet, cooled by a floating forrest sounds actually more realistic to me terraformingwise then changing mars.
Or to put it another way, Global Entry is only $15 if you're already buying PreCheck.

Global Entry paid for itself the first time I used it when I made a connection after going through customs that I definitely would have missed if I had to wait in the regular line.
Amazing story, keep it up!
Anybody here buying forest just to leave it to grow? It's not so expensive to buy a few dozen hectares, something I've been wanting to do for a while
> You can simply use ripgrep to search

That assumes that the text in your notes uses the vocabulary you'd expect, and isn't misspelled. Neither of those are guaranteed if your notes are snippets of other documents (a common EN use-case) rather than text you wrote yourself. Especially not guaranteed if the snippets are images where their textual representation is the output of an OCR algorithm.

Is there something like ripgrep for fuzzy search?