skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their motivation is not to reduce maintenance but to increase efficiency.

"[...] the company had already pushed the envelope with lubrication, bearings and pulleys about as far as possible — creating a roughly 98% efficient driverain"

“The quest was, how can we get a 99% efficient drivetrain?”
You do your part, other countries try to do the same, and various means and strategies are implemented and shared globally.

This “but we can’t fix it all alone, it’s a global issue” thinking mode has to go. All contributions are important in reducing the speed of warming, whether your neighbour participates or not.

Interestingly, the longer you wait, the more you can expect people with more extreme agendas to pop up around the globe because they will see the point in coercion to save the world. Early investment at a massive scale is worth it.
But yeah, I mostly agree with you. Paid single-use support would be an absolutely transformational addition to the likes of the free Google services, I think. Why doesn't it exist?
We could for example:

1. Incentivise retrofitting of electric transmissions to cars with internal combustion engines

2. Disincentivise the introduction of new models, visual updates etc. to existing cars via taxation

3. Incentivise durability and repairability - force car makers to produce cars that are modular and easily repaired, enforced limits on pricing of spare parts, force open-sourcing of designs etc.

Of course all of above would likely smash the car makers' current business model to pieces - and when you get down to it this is the real problem with the kind of genuine, general change we need to see in order to save the Earth.

Sustainable approaches simply will not deliver the kind of reduction in consumption required. Everyone is going to have to accept a much poorer lifestyle. The main blocker to me is the rich: how are they going to justify their continued opulence when the companies they own (are forced to) produce so little for the average person?
Thank you for giving such a fair overview. I feel there's a lot of chest beating in both countries because of whatever they see in the other. However, I do feel that Kashmir needs peace and as you said, I hope it comes there someday
Yes.
Especially in Germany it seems to be on a high in terms of Web development.

But when it comes to mobile, React-Native seems the way to go.
I used Ada for a few years back when I was working on satellite programs. It's the closest thing to a "If it compiles, it probably works" language that I've ever seen.
People bash Yahoo Mail a lot(with good reasons), but last month I had some problems with my (free) email account and after trying all the options I had to contact the support for help. Almost instantly I was talking on chat with a real human who helped me with my problem. I know their service have problems, but I was impressed with how easy it was to reach a person for help, I thought it would be harder.
Technically if addressing the flaws that deep can be valid. But this was major low hanging fruit - not having proper protection on their cloud servers was what made this breach and that is a config not a language issue on the technical end. On the management end it is an issue of utter user technical incompetence.
I can't help but think of the story of Chesterton's Fence [1].

>There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, 'I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away.' To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: 'If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.'

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fen...
Google to teach South African learners computer science fundamentals
That grey-and-pink color scheme from the screenshots gives me such a wave of nostalgia. It is fascinating how this color scheme is both terribly, terribly ugly and gorgeous at the same time. ;-)
Giant effect sizes are easy to hack in biological sciences. All you have to do is conduct an in vitro study.

Like they did in this paper.
"Writing a hash table from scratch" is a programming 101 problem just slightly harder than FizzBuzz, but not by much.

Though I guess these days I guess 'software development' means downloading Javascript crap from github and copy-pasting CSS.
Here is an article that perfectly addresses your query: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/

Sorry I would like to type an elaborate response, but I'm on phone for the day.
I think they mean 100ms real latency. HK-NY might be 110ms in theory (or if you have your own infrastructure), but a NY resident pinging a HK server will probably often average around at least 150-200ms.
This is just plainly inaccurate. There is a spectrum of desired outcome among protesters, from a China that simply better honors the One Country, Two Systems mantra, to outright Independence, and I'd say that most protesters align with the former, but include true free and fair elections, as opposed to the CCP's version in which they have pick the handful of candidates from which Hong Kongers can freely and fairly choose. Many of those that advocate for Independence seem to be called offs from that camp, who have lost all hope that Beijing might actually honor its agreement.

The problem here is that the CCP has created its own interpretation of vocabulary that is otherwise universally accepted and Britain (and the US) failed to account for that and put in place the protections that would have forestalled such aggressive dismantling of Hong Kong's civic framework pre-handover.
Yes he has put in great efforts for building this awesome tool
one additional would be dropsource.com/platform

(I work at Dropsource)
I am waiting for gearboxes to become competitive with derailleurs. Would totally be up for getting rid of that fragile and expensive part.
I'm surprised Google didn't pull the ability to download an APK and install it from Android Q. They modified the permissions slightly so now you have to click "allow" again every time an app wants to install an APK it has downloaded. Up until Q, once you used an app to e.g. update itself, it maintained the ability to download and install updates forever.

When Fortnite was distributed outside the Play store I thought that would be the catalyst for removing side-loading permissions, only retaining them over ADB so developers would not be totally screwed. Maybe the news of that arrived too late in the Q cycle for it to be implemented. I'm sure that one day on-the-fly side-loading is going away. Maybe not in Android Q, but in R or S definitely. It's too consumer-friendly and useful! Removing it will "help user's security" while at the same time removing the ability to install 3rd party VPN-faking ad-removers or games like Fortnite that don't have to pay Google 30%.
It's great to a point, but when front grows complex enough you sooner or later realize you're repeating a lot of backend logic on the front, and doing a lot of manual labour keeping track of all states, events, etc. What div is visible, which one to hide, which buttons to disable, adding new rows into forms dynamically with pre-populated values... that kind of stuff is way (and I mean waaaay) easier when coded in a declarative reactive way.
We’re actually getting pretty good at gene editing at this point. Predicting what the consequence of those edits is another story. (Although I think that’s what you were getting at).

Plant genes are odd.

From and old article by Michael Polan:

“When I got home from St. Louis, I phoned Richard Lewontin, the Harvard geneticist, to ask him what he thought of the software metaphor. ''From an intellectual-property standpoint, it's exactly right,'' he said. ''But it's a bad one in terms of biology. It implies you feed a program into a machine and get predictable results. But the genome is very noisy. If my computer made as many mistakes as an organism does'' -- in interpreting its DNA, he meant -- ''I'd throw it out.''

I asked him for a better metaphor. ''An ecosystem,'' he offered. ''You can always intervene and change something in it, but there's no way of knowing what all the downstream effects will be or how it might affect the environment. We have such a miserably poor understanding of how the organism develops from its DNA that I would be surprised if we don't get one rude shock after another.''”

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/25/magazine/playing-god-in-t...
Homo Sapiens has evolved to the currently dominant species partly due to its tendency to conquer and subdue - others of the same species, other species or the landscape. If Homo Sapiens were to reach this "mental maturity" it would most likely stagnate and, eventually, make space for another species to rise in its place. War and strife may lead to suffering and loss but they also provide a huge impetus to innovate on all fronts.
Lessons from Leading a Remote Engineering Team
Try building it and see which mons are included. I guess you can always publish your own version on NPM when the details for each new generation are available!

For Necrozma, its extra forms don't have pokédex entries so this tool doesn't scrape them from Bulbapedia.
I think most people would interpret it in this context to mean "the time when smartphones were huge". Smartphones existed before 2008, yes, but they were insignificant compared to what they are today.
Even from that perspective, it has very little to offer because it completely fails to explain how those "organizational and strategic failures" actually had anything to do with the torpedoes.
Just as one example, Wework is at least partially funded by Softbank which is a fund backed by the Saudi Public Investment fund.
The Saudi Public Investment Fund is controlled by the Saudi government using regular Saudi people's retirement money, often without their explicit knowledge.

If you pick any big startup which is losing a lot of money, it will likely be backed in a large part by public money; either through a national public fund or a superannuation or 401K fund.
Money which was invested on behalf of regular people was taken from their retirement accounts which they were often legally obliged to contribute a percentage of their income to. For example, even in a progressive country like Australia, people are forced to contribute 12% of their income to a superannuation fund; the process is intentionally complicated to coerce people into choosing between a small number of large funds.

It's fraud on a massive scale because the responsibility for the crime is highly divided such that any single act on its own is not a crime; they are only criminal when taken together and if you assume that everyone involved knew what they were doing.
It's just the sign it's a terrible place to work at.
Exactly. That should really read "I started using Twitter back in 2008. A decade after Windows CE phones became quite common, and 5 years after the launch of Windows Mobile."
Ensuring Parity Btwn Build and Production Environments Using Jenkins and Docker
I have been `the competent guy` this week. It took me two years to realize how deep the willingness to do nothing is for the IT guys here. I arrived as usual in the morning last week. An employee told me the notification system was broken and wouldn't be fixed before next year. I told her I would implement a fix before the end of the day. I got it done. The IT guy still has his public servant job and I am told to write a note to justify the implementation of the fix (I am not a public servant and not a contractor, I work for a private public LLC that is managed by a regional authority).
People who have good vision in one eye can usually get their drivers licence without problems. So the depth from stereo is not a necessary part of driving for humans.
There is an outstanding case by [redacted] in Collier County Florida,
case number: 11-2019-CA-002689-0001-XX

Here's the pdf: https://uploadfiles.io/791hz3tg

If the link doesn't work, you can access it:

Go to https://cms.collierclerk.com/cmsweb
Click Case Search
In "Case Number" input "11-2019-CA-002689-0001-XX" (no quotes)
Click Search
Click Dockets
Click the paperclip next to Docket Num 2
USAA is great if it you meet the membership qualifications - I've been with them since my Army days (They keep loosening up the requirements, at this point if your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate was ever in the military you might qualify)
It's never going to work.
More developed mostly means ‘newer.’

These places will also have to figure out what it means to keep infrastructure refreshed in 50 years. It is always a struggle..
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As a 100% bike commuter for the last decade.....

I need one of these YESTERDAY.

How get.

Ill trial the fuck out of this thing.
Nothing stopping those smaller companies coming to arrangements to keep those economies of scale.
I would suggest making the light a little less light. Viewing it on my phone the light buttons almost completely blend in with the white background. If there wasn't a gap between the sample buttons I don't know that I would have picked out that a button was there.

This is subjective but I personally would have to quickly leave any site which used the default Ralway font. At least for me it causes eye strain pretty quickly. Looking at the capital W almost makes my eyes cross.
Leaves me very uncomfortable, this combination of honesty as a humblebrag with ethically-dubious practices.

What lesson does this teach me, an unemployed program manager with plenty of experience and principles?
Expo has it for free (for now)
In our current political climate this would basically end with climate change denial winning and continuing to do business as usual until all fossil fuels have been burned.

Eventually we cannot afford to geoengineer the atmosphere any longer and then it is not just "good night" for humans but for all animals on the planet.

I feel this could end up being worse than our current path but it gives us more time for carbon capture to become economical.
You can return back to the previous statements in any decent debugger instead of starting from scratch. And by default they don’t go inside third party libraries unless you specify that it’s what you want. What kind of debuggers were you using?
Irrelevant. The Supreme Court is wrong in its decision in that case, and that interpretation of the First Amendment is equally incorrect.
Yes, and everyone is free to make their purpose and choose that the universe does have meaning...
Put the shaft in a tube that is removable and cleanable.

Jeasus guys - engineering can solve ALL of these issues.
I'm wondering how this even makes sense from a PR prospective.

Workers (?) that are paid for talking good about their employer? What's the interesting bit here?
In many places like bridges, hills, and congested city streets there is literally no road shoulder, no safe place to stop. When existing cars break down in those locations they end up blocking a traffic lane and frequently get hit from the rear by a drunk or distracted driver.
It is, but I meant more in a 'traditional' way, so rendering with some templating engine whose abstractions aren't so far detached from HTML as they are with React. Mostly by mixing some dynamic parts into HTML rather than the other way around.
That's awesome. Combine this with Epic's recent investment and it looks like the modelling community may be mobilising behind Blender as an alternative to Autodesk tools.
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Losing sovreignity is the country scale version of losing face.
> Particularly in France, all those costs are covered (or mostly ignored) by the government.

That's an argument constantly repeated by the anti-nuclear activists, it's of course totally false, there's extensive (100+ pages) reports every few years on all the external and primary costs.

> France still has to import electricity from coal power, so the carbon footprint isn't that great in any case. And you can't claim that slightly raising electricity costs offset the dozens of billions that went into the French nuclear sector in any way.

That's not true in any way but if you are concerned about that, you can check https://www.electricitymap.org for other EU countries (this takes into account import as well). Most of them (except Scandinavia) are doing 6x to 10x worse than France at the moment and have a very long way to catch up.
thanks, I think now I have no excuse not to try it out.
Really? In my experience, blocking GTM almost always breaks some core functionality of the website I'm browsing.
But the US doesn't use that much Saudi oil anymore. Only 16%.
Europe, Africa and Asia do.
In 1990 Saudi was still the Nr. 1 exporter to the US, but not anymore.

https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/import/usa/show...
https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/sitc/import/usa/show...
How is it sexist?
They've effectively won on the extradition bill, which realistically is the most they could get.

Violence, disruption, and foreign flags might be from a minority but they have destroyed any sympathy the mainland opinion may have had towards the movement (and there was sympathy) and I think that they actually help the hardliners in Beijing.
Beneschott sues Toptal for 100M, case number 11-2019-CA-002689-0001-XX
Hindu sages have advocated meditating for thousands of years, they do this in a specific time called Brahmamuhurtha in the morning when its most potent. Its the same sages that promote Yoga and Ayurveda

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

It won't be long before the West I hope catches onto the next phase which is learning about Mudras - kind of an accupressure to target certain nerves.
While you can use vue as a simple lib

<script src="vue.js"></script>

most tutorials do "excalate quickly" and introduce the vue cli within the first few minutes, which is probably what most professional teams use to manage today's frontend build step (drama).
Tell that to the millions who choose to be born in the slums. Then there is also the fact that we are not equally the same upon birth. Everyone has different traits. I suspect that when you really weigh in the factors, a lot of the result we get is caused by a lot simply being at the right time in the right place.
I know someone who uses an electric cargo bike. It has regenerative braking, and perhaps the extra mass of carrying loads is what makes it practical.

I believe it uses the Bionx system, which uses a direct hub drive. The company is lo longer in business, IIRC.
Why Is the Overstock.com CEO Writing Himself into the Trump-Russia Story?
> to reduce the incidence of death/injury

...
Or you know large scale existential crisis. Nanotechnology is freaky man. Could be the easiest way for reality to be rewritten without anyone noticing..
Most likely a moderator intervened to stop it being algorithmically kicked off the front page - we're well over the threshold where the flame war detector normally kicks in and downranks submissions (roughly when it has more replies than upvotes).
> A liberal non-commercial offering from Autodesk would at least help

Granted, my 3D experience is limited to making some custom planes for Flight Simulator 10 years ago; but is that not what Gmax is/was?
I have more miles than you :-) (14,000) ((I have exclusively biked for over a decade))

But you know what might be an interesting design idea:

Make a shaft drive like this which is centrally aligned. But the bike has TWO rear wheels as closely spaced as possible and the shaft drives a single axle for the rear -- but has more gearing up front...

But make the two rear wheels with a camber such that they angle out slightly such that their centerlines are as clos as possible - allowing for turning to be essentially the same as a single-rear-wheel bike...
No bias at all. Should work out great.
To implement dependent types, your type system must go much deeper into the theorem prover territory than is normal in mainstream imperative programming languages (whose type systems are often more or less ad-hoc rather than based on rigorous theory). Furthermore, dependent types break the fundamental property that the relationship between types and terms is one-directional: types constrain terms but not the other way around.

As one example, C++ has had non-type template parameters (types parameterized by values) for a long time, but only for compile-time constants. AFAIK there have been no formal proposals to introduce full-blown dependent types, rather the focus has been on improving the facilities for compile-time term-level computation.
That seems like it would cause problems with screenreaders though.
For a clean chain you can switch from a conventional lube to wax based lube. It’s a relatively involved process (You need to degrease your chain before application) but it keeps the chain relatively dry and clean. (Plus it’s slightly better performing than other lubes).
The author gets this topic utterly backward. Large insurance companies each have essentially no business incentive to do anything except pay claims. Maybe they try to get insureds back to baseline on the cheap, but deny an insured loss entirely? No. Not even investigate them.

And so fraudulent claims and the shadow industry that surrounds them grow in size until something bad happens, like a grandma dies in a commercially-staged motor vehicle accident.[1] And then everyone gets all introspective and tries to figure out how we got to that regrettable point and what we can do to walk things back to a sane place where fraudulent activity is not acceptable.

Unfortunately, the basic incentives in the insurance industry still are, and always will remain, for companies to do as little as possible about fraudulent claims. What I see in the facts reported by the article are companies that have used fraud investigators who are poorly trained or under-resourced and are generating erroneous or weakly-supported evidence of fraud, which the companies then hand off to public authorities who apparently have no better resources. That leads to two observations:

1. If the problem is irrational, counterproductive prosecutions due to poor training and resources, writing a hit-piece about supposed conflicts of interests over supplemental funding being used to patch the resource problems isn't really part of the solution.

2. The insurance companies are paying for the consequences of poor-quality investigations communicated to authorities by their investigators. The article talks about some of the claimants suing the insurers for bad faith practices (and defamation?), which I'd call a "cottage" industry in the U.S., except that the industry is quite large and active. The insurers named in the article most definitely have been incentivized to learn the lesson not to refer marginal fraud prosecutions-- maybe not to refer prosecutions at all-- and so we'll repeat the cycle mentioned above until at a future time a grandmother, aunt or child is killed again in a staged fraudulent insurance claim, and then everyone will get introspective again and muse that at one point we had laws that incentivized insurers to identify and prosecute scam artists but bad press like this article led to changes that made them stop.

[1] https://www.ifb.org/(X(1)S(dzqyttjltzr0pry1l1wmvlxj))/Conten...
I really don't know where you're getting your information. Geographically, most of the world's nations still have a positive population growth rate, including some developed nations such as the US[1]. India may have a lower proportional growth rate than some African nations, but since its population is already very large, it contributes more to the overall world population growth than any country[2]--surely this is "worth mentioning"?

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-growth-rates

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...