skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of what you're saying (knowing one language in general helps you learn to learn other languages) is true, but Japanese and Chinese are so grammatically different that the way structures in Esperanto map to Japanese just doesn't hold the same for Chinese. Mandarin is a highly analytical language (words don't inflect or conjugate depending on grammatical function or context: "He has one dog" "They has two dog") while Japanese is synthetic ("He has one dog "They have two dogs), meaning the latter is far closer to most European languages grammatically than either is to Chinese.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20786981
I feel I must adapt a saying of Milton Friedman in response to this:

"When you aim for equality over excellence, you will achieve neither equality nor excellence."

This is so wrongheaded one almost doesn't know where to begin. There are so many fronts of error and public policy gone wrong to the tune of populism (ironically).

First of all, you ask what the goal is, for these equality advocates. Is it equality of performance across all students, and none of them shall ever be allowed to have a gifted talented program in the future?

Because if they miraculously are successful, someday all students will be minimally achieving across all demographics, and then what about the gifted ones? Will they reinstitute gifted programs then? Or only if it again samples the racial groups equally?

Or worse (and I hope they think this self-aware), only if the "right" minorities are sampled? Because sometimes I wonder if only certain favored minorities get advocated for in this way.

Anyway, as many have said before, the problems of underachieving students extend far beyond the help of the classroom, and are the product of homes, parents, environment, that no banning of otherwise race-blind programs will do any more to achieve. This move will not somehow make NYC's schools better or in-classroom instruction more effective, you'd better believe that -- and isn't that the point?

2nd point:

NYC will be gutting no small fraction of the people who make its future bright, in the name of trying to remediate the general population (ineffectively I may say).

Why? Because unpopular as it is to say, a city's (or country's) future isn't propelled by the average person. It's driven by outstanding people, rockstars, high performers. The kinds of people who get into (and are educated at) places that get called "elite".

You can see this in your daily life. Most people who do a job are just barely doing it competently. It takes the people with imagination, drive, ideas, talent, who are a cut above the rest to make significant differences and change.

People don't flock to NYC because it's average. They flock there because there's exceptional people, places, companies, and infrastructure to do the things they want to do. NYC would be cutting its exceptionality off at the knees to make the average person only slightly better. That's a mistake.

Finally, a closing thought:

"THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal
before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter
than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. "
I made Road Redemption, and honestly these insane figures that he lists only drive home for me how much he doesn't know what he is talking about here.

He could get an acceptable 2d artist from another country for like 2-3k per month total. Then he could buy a bunch of existing tilesets from the unity asset store, or many other places, and have that person modify them. 1000 terrain icons is not even really very many.

With 120k he could have an entire team of 2d artists if he wanted. He isn't some AAA studio that needs all custom top of the line handmade assets.
>> put enough parts and cash in escrow

How about just putting the CAD data into escrow, and it all becomes public domain whenever (1) the manufacturer no longer makes replacement parts available, or (2) the price to replace all the parts of a vehicle exceeds three times the original purchase price.
For someone who knows how the drug industry works, that LA Times article is pretty ridiculous.

The every 12 hour dosing was approved by the FDA which looked at the clinical trial data and approved 12 hour dosing.

After it was launched, the company kept promoting 12 hours because if they didn't, the FDA would sanction them. As a drug manufacture you can't just change the FDA approved dosing wily nilly.

And if you're Purdue, you have every incentive to lower the dosing interval because you can charge more. You make more money with every 8 hour dosing (which is still better than most drugs) than every 12 hours.
We will experience it soon unfortunately.
It seems that Musk realized that the only sane fate for the cars is to throw them away as far as you can.
Another <sn followed by a number> user agrees with you.

My problem is the only way to retain notes over 8 years or more is plain paper and pen, or plain text. Of late, I've also started using ruled index cards.
> I’ve come to love testing so much that I feel uncomfortable writing code in a codebase without tests.

This person became a good engineer in only one year! :)
This smacks of inventing reasons. Certainly some people are allergic. Of the rest...

> some dogs are unpredictable ; some dogs bite ; some dogs bark ; pull the dog's ears... set the dog off

Well, hello? If my dog did or reacted to any of those, I would heavily restrict the places I thought it was suitable to take it. It's entirely on the owner if those behaviours result, anyway - presuming the dog doesn't have an advanced illness affecting continence. Once again, it's on the owner or handler to judge appropriately.

> some small kids/toddlers don't (and shouldn't)

Shouldn't? I am puzzled by this. Surely it is appropriate for all children to be exposed to safe and predictable animals, and to learn appropriate behaviour with animals? One of the training habits I have with my dogs while they're very young, is to often take them to the local school at home time, and the local town shopping centre at peak times. Puppy learns huge amounts of unpredictable small humans aren't harmful, but are very friendly if rather clumsy. Children and parents learn that puppies can be well behaved and trained too, and don't react at all to having ears pulled...

If there is a parent obviously uncomfortable with the large puppy, well I keep the dog away from those folks. It's not compulsory for everyone to like animals or dogs, or to come over and pat it.

> large number of dog owners are irresponsible

That's the problem, and should be the target of any corrective measures and restrictions.

That all said I am a bit puzzled with taking the dogs everywhere. Some pubs welcome dogs and I might take them there, shops don't, so the dogs don't accompany. As is described in this thread just doesn't happen in the UK. A couple of small employers have welcomed dogs in small amounts - because someone senior had a mutt, nearly all workplaces I've encountered don't.
Technion doesn't count? I thought they were regarded as their national MIT when I visited Haifa some time ago.
What happens when you open new installs of each browser for the first time
Why is the dealer fixing a cracked windshield? Is this somehow under warranty?
I got all the way to the end of the article without noticing who the author was, thinking "what a clearly written piece -- I should keep an eye out for this author in the future".

Then I realized it was an author I knew.
Could you please review the site guidelines and not post unsubstantive comments to HN? We ban accounts that repeatedly do that because we're trying for a bit better than internet default here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Speed up GUI by inject small/fast one
Isn’t less AC used when cloudy, meaning less than full capacity needed? Presumably some industrial uses can adapt with changing supply as well. If the biggest peak usage is in wintertime the AC thing may not apply, but I don’t think that is the case in Australia.
Wait, I'm saying it tastes better. It feels like we can't even agree about what we disagree about.
That is really interesting. I didn't realize that corrosive oxidation would become concentrated and react at a higher rate if the point of exposure was limited.
> What is exactly is it that you believe qualifies as criminal behavior? Opiates are a legal, and medically necessary, component of the healthcare system. Unless you want patients to suffer horrendously, somebody has to manufacture and sell opiates.

The criminal behaviour was aggressively selling something that already sells itself.

> Only 0.19% of opiate-treated chronic pain patients without a prior history develop any form of abuse or addiction.

Your cited meta-analysis looked at nonmalignant chronic pain patients receiving chronic opiate therapy: There is not a strong indication for this therapy in that group.

When they looked at all recipients, the abuse/addiction rate was 3.27%.

" In the urine toxicology grouping, there were five studies (15,442 CPPs exposed). Here, 20.4% of the CPPs had no prescribed opioid in urine and/or a nonprescribed opioid in urine."
In other words, 20% were clearly diverting to non-prescribed users, and/or already supplementing their opioids.

How could the authors suggest that there was only 3% demonstrated abuse/addiction or aberrant behaviour when 20% were diverting their entire RX or supplementing????
Elon has been quite open about the fact that he wants to just try new things. If things work great he gets the shift economy's, otherwise he just keeps going to the next thing. If you can't get with it then hop off
It wouldn't take much. Just having the assets loaded at runtime instead of being hardcoded should be enough to get some people started. Though, I have no idea how his engines work, this may not be feasible but it seems like he could do a minimum of something, offer no support and still get some benefit.
Of course it's relevant. The narrative is that companies like J&J promoted opioids which led to higher levels of addiction (and use of illegal opioids).

This data suggests that for the vast majority of patients, addiction was not an issue and the cause of the opioid epidemic was in fact people that used illegal opioids to begin with.
Ask HN:Opinions on Hashicorp Nomad vs. Kubernetes?
I love Hashicorp products/tools. They are simple and intuitive to use/configure and they do one thing very well. I love the fact that each product is usually a single binary that is the client/server and command line tool. What change are the parameters passed to the binary when executing it.

I have experience with Consul, Vault and Nomad.

Due to security and performance reasons, we need to have most of our services hosted on premises.

I've been using a on-premise Nomad deployment in a bunch of greenfield projects and so far I'm very satisfied on how well it integrates with Consul/Fabio/Vault and how simple is to operate the cluster.

We are not using any fancy feature and we are basically using Nomad to decouple the Software from the hardware where the Software runs. The deployment times are faster than using ansible and we can leave the scheduler to decide where the software should be deployed. Nomad also supports scheduling of raw commands.

Lastly, Nomad, when integrated with Consul/Fabio works in a multi-datacenter/multi-site topology out of box. This is specially important for us.

However due to the buzz around Kubernetes I'm afraid of making the wrong choice in the long term and invest time in something that will eventually die or become irrelevant. There is also much more information available about Kubernetes than Nomad.

On the other hand, I fell that Kubernetes is a bit more complex to operate/maintain than Nomad. I might be wrong.

My questions would be:

- If you have a on-premises Kubernetes deployment, is there a lot of overhead in operating it? Can you tell me a little bit about some specific situations where the cluster required manual intervention?

- Do you use Kubernetes in a multi-data center/multi-site configuration? Any thoughts on that?

- Do you use Nomad, used in the past? What works/worked and what doesn't/didn't?
Ive been enduring a rebuild of I-294 around Chicago. It's around a 40 mile rebuild (ripping everything out down to dirt), IIRC. They're widening the highway in stretches, completely redesigning interchanges as well to remove sharp turns so that semis can keep speed and better merge. Lots of overpasses and other bridges being rebuilt to accommodate the extra lane each way. They completed the stretch around Ohare airport pretty quickly, in about a year, but seeing the materials used, I doubt it will hold up over time. I expect it will need maintenance on the first completed stretch before the 10 year project is complete. They went from concrete to an all asphalt layering from what I saw. Doubt it will hold up.

Edit: designing -> redesigning.
Well, it has. You just said so, it's (ptr+len).

...it's the philosophy of the C language: There's minimal bloat on the upside, but you have to know what you're doing and how to be able get it on the downside.
The doors are almost certainly open. Just like shuttle, there are no external radiators on this plane. They are relatively delicate structures that wouldn't survive reentry.
So they have to be inside the doors somewhere. Shuttle had to open its doors within a fixed time, else abort and return, and keep them open while on orbit. No doubt this spaceplane follows a similar profile.

(Also, solar panels. Shuttle didn't use them but if this thing is spending years in space it is probably using solar panels too. They would be mounted at 90* to the radiators, creating a T-shaped structure with different albedos that should be identifiable in even a blurry picture.)
Yeah, I think this is going to be a long one. Rodney Brooks, AI researcher and Roomba cofounder, says he doesn't expect a real robot taxi service before 2035: https://rodneybrooks.com/my-dated-predictions/

> When Waymo can get rid of the safety drivers [...] they're getting close to something useable.

I suspect that they can cheat this one a little. As long as they're in an area with good connectivity and the cars are smart enough to pull over if they don't get human guidance, I expect they'll move the backup drivers to a central location. Call it SAE level 3.5. It wouldn't be good enough to sell cars, but it would be workable for a ride service, and would allow them to undercut Uber, etc, quite handily.
What I've always found interesting as a Frenchman living in North Americ, is that there's no real equivalent to "black american" or "afro American" or "hispano American" in French. The closest you'll find is "of Tunisian origins", but that's usually left out, and not really the same.

The "official" results[0] don't mention anything about his origins. The local press[1] does say his parents are from Tunisia, but only after introducing him as a Parisian. The right national press[2][3] does mention that he is... a chemist, which seems more relevant to the story than the country in which his parent were born.

Surely this is an anecdote, but it does match the general observation I've made. (although be sure that would he have killed a person rather than cooked a baguette, his origins would be of the utmost importance for the story telling).

[0] https://www.paris.fr/pages/goutez-et-choisissez-la-meilleure...
[1] http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/paris-il-fait-la-meilleure...
[2] https://www.bfmtv.com/societe/la-meilleure-baguette-de-paris...
[3] http://www.lefigaro.fr/sortir-paris/2018/04/13/30004-2018041...
You do realise this is Jeff “Scorched Earth Party” Vogel?

http://www.ironycentral.com/scorchedearth.html

Keep on truckin’, Jeff.
I wonder how this applies in Australia and New Zealand, our privacy laws prevent the use of credit card “Address Verification” for example.
Down playing it how? Can you quote the relevant text?

The author acknowledges it's a crisis, but simply asks questions about the true cause.
>Which makes it useless.

I dunno about that. Maybe it's not immediately valuable in terms of being cheaper than picking up an Uber, but there is still value in getting your sorta-working prototype on the road for data gathering. Your Uber drive isn't going to have a vehicle with dozens of sensors to help your ML bootstrap, that's for sure.

The value is in the data, not the immediate convenience.
Question from a non-Apple watch user, but an interested prospective consumer: if you have to charge your watch at night, how do you use it to wake you up?
I don’t know what is the point here in comparing to a regular watch. Does the Casio allow one to leave the phone behind and pick up a call on watch and AirPods ? Does it slightly nudge if you have sitting too long in an hour?

Clearly Apple Watch is meant more for that.
Mechjeb was far more useful/necessary 3-5 years ago. The stock game has added so many features at this point that I really didn't feel the need for any mods at all when I picked it up again a few weeks ago.
This is the #1 reason I bought the absolute cheapest washer/dryer combo I could find. My last set was purchased at a garage sale and I kept them running for ~10 years by purchasing the necessary replacement parts from eBay, maybe $40 over those 10 years.

I can't do that for everything, but I will for washers and dryers. My "new" dryer has already failed once and I repaired it in 20 minutes with a $4 part.
oh man, I so remember a lot of this. I started my Linux journey with RedHat 4.2 that I bought from Hastings (Music/Video/Book store). I remember minicom and typing ATDT and the number of my ISP to get the modem to dial, then once connected, that was only half the battle, you had to exit minicom and run some 'ppp' script. I also remember the LI.. of LILO not loading .. and yes 'xf86config' helper script.

I'm actually so glad I had all the weird quirks of the 'early' linux days to work with, like compiling your own kernel to get some PCI or ISA card to work .. if I had not been tinkering all those nights I don't know what line of work I would have gone into ..
> They made the striking observation that at station after station, the immediately adjacent land uses are remarkably low-value. Parking lots. Vacant lots. Strip malls, auto body shops...

>> Caltrain stations are subject to these kinds of noise

These trains mean someone has to wear earplugs to get a good night's sleep. No wonder the rich dont want to live near it.
> He’s happy and content. Just wants solitaire.

Would he not be happier without the ads, then?
>You guys it's OK for some guy to make ugly games, and for other people you don't know to buy them, right?

Sure. Nobody thinks otherwise.

>He's happy, his wife is happy, his customers are happy, his rent gets paid.

Good for him.

>So why is everybody trying to sprout off about how they have the solution to a "problem" he doesn't have?

Because he posted an open letter to the general public on the topic. If you don't want responses, don't post. Internet 101.
I too love the Apple Watch and the AirPods combination. Seems like the iPhone is becoming the computer and the watch is the new smart phone.
Maybe so, but please don't post generic ideological flamebait to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There have been people working on spaceplanes continuously since the Nixon administration. Shuttle was a spaceplane but there were/are lots of other programs that fit that title.
It's common knowledge amongst Nazi apologists, internet trolls, and actual Nazis.

The way your comment is phrased is disturbing.

Its not a problem of adoption. It's a problem of normalizing hate. If you don't understand that, I don't want to be associated with you.
Sounds like a manufacturing defect.
citation?
This feels like you swapped google for tesla
(Elon literally said that, i can't find anything that says Google has said it)
Ah right, thanks, wasn't aware of that.
> Amusingly, the DeSol web site has a copyright date of 2023 on it.

It's a Wix website (which probably tells you a bit about the company) - many of them have Copyright 2023 on them[1]. It's a phenomenon I've noticed for a while, but never worked out why. If anyone knows the reason I'd love to know.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&q="copyright+2023"&...
Well, that was considerably ickier than I expected. I was thinking there'd be one or two bad eggs in there instead of dozens.
Most likely if the dealer is replacing it, it's a manufacturing defect. In which case you can't go to a third party if you want OEM glass and/or have Toyota pay for the replacement, not to mention possibly voiding the warranty.
Akismet has always been good for me for WordPress and I see there's a Drupal plugin for it too. It's not free, but I think it's reasonably priced for how well it functions and the headaches it saves me with no frustration for commenting users.
Well, I hope your wandering ends here, at PEP-518 [0], which addresses your wonder directly.

[0] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/#sticking-with-setu...
"Boneless wings" are just pieces of breast shaped vaguely like wings. Or processed meat, like nuggets.
I've got the solar-powered Casio that synchronizes with WWV every night, and it is splendid. However, I have read that WWV is going QRT this year. Is that so? When?
Unless, of course, the technology is painted as circumvention measures under DMCA, and all AI research into speech-to-text becomes illegal overnight.

*cries self to sleep that this is actually a possibility
What company is this?
I am currently learning these too.
"It's such a shame that human beings get some concepts like strings so wrong." - C language

Strings are "unnatural" to the binary system, it's a human concept.
Small Technology Foundation, Site.js, and Tincan
> So far, nobody seems to have full self driving without "safety drivers".

A common saying around here is that we have two seasons: winter and (road) construction.

Construction zones have pretty much every obstacle to automated driving you can think of:

* painted lanes that don't correlate to the temporary lanes marked by cones

* lanes that don't correspond to pre-programmed maps / gps

* irregular and unpredictable vehicle and pedestrian entrances and exits (construction workers and trucks)

* Areas where traffic is reduced to a single lane for both directions, and must take turns coordinated by humans with signs at each end of the lane

* speed limits marked by temporary signs

* rough, temporary transitions between pavement and gravel

Unless we can somehow get every state to compel every road construction company and every autonomous vehicle maker to use a single communication protocol, implement it at every construction site (so autonomous cars are made aware of these dangers) it's not going to happen.

Oh, and said protocol has to be hack-proof so trouble-makers can't start convincing cars that they're in the middle of a construction zone and force them out of their lanes on normal roads.

It's conceivable that the coordinated effort could happen, but I'm not going to hold my breath (due to the sheer increase in cost to the government) nor will I trust that said protocol will have fail-proof security.
Sure, but he doesn't want to pay and doesn't want some other app. So just accepts it.
Bonega! Bonega!
Presumably ISS? Seems unlikely US government would expose a military asset to the Russians willingly like that.

Also life support systems are heavy and that will cut into the delta-v budget of the craft.
This isn't true for most of the built-in apps. You can uninstall with 3rd part tools or via CLI. [0]

[0] https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/uninstall-restore-windows...
Yes! And Python.
Adding More Engineers to a Project
Ah, that makes more sense then.
Apple iPhone 7 radiation test prompts FCC investigation: report
Thanks, I'll look into those.