skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it really isn't comparable, because the audiophiles--certain of them anyway--are totally mired in defending that their expensive aesthetic changes make a difference. They'll even try to wrap themselves in science and argue that "hospital grade" electrical outlets, fancy plugs, or whatever, make a discernible difference in the "air" or "pace" of the music. Nevermind that these are mostly old guys with tin ears, obsessing over Yes or Steely Dan. Ready to defend to the very end that a $500 toslink (or ethernet!) cable is worse than a $1000 one and so much better than the $10 version. But don't you dare trot out the nasty words "double blind test" unless you'd like to hear semi-religious rants on how they're both useless but also easily passed by the golden ears who know every nuance of Fleetwood Mac's oeuvre.

On the other hand, nobody is claiming that a fancy keyboard makes for a better typist or a finer writer. The aesthetics are what they are.
Current Vue does a great job of separating templates, script and styles in a way that gives it a beautiful developer interface.

This is in contrast to React which squishes the three into one monolithic class in it's .jsx (versus .vue's deeper seperation which leads to easier debugging).

Vue3 will release a monolithic syntax where you can combine script, styles and HTML all into a class - I don't think this is the correct direction for the framework to go.

Developer interface is just as important as internal functionality and performance. Let's not forget that.
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Not to mention that the guy who said that doesn't even live in New York--he commutes in from New Jersey!
You can already buy a GPS tracker for your own car if you're worried about where it ends up. My guess that adoption of that technology is in the single digits. Not really seeing the demand for this.
FBReader is quite nice for reading offline ebooks on Android.

I realize that you are griping about dedicated e-readers, but I want to make clear that its not strictly an Android problem. The more open Android devices work just fine as e-readers.

My flow is basically Calibre -> managed library -> android phone -> offline reading anywhere.
I think the rules of the road everywhere I’ve lived in the US (New Orleans, Los Angeles, Boston, and Seattle) has encouraged cyclists taking a lane rather than riding on the shoulder. I’ve seen more and more bike signs right in the middle of the right lane of traffic, too.

That said once night falls I usually adopt the attitude of “assume cars will try to kill me if they see me” and avoid them as much as possible by keeping to back roads and being extra paranoid when I have to cross major streets, despite having extra lights on my bike.
I have never written code to translate templates. Do you actually build a syntax tree for the template itself? I always assumed you would just store a simpler representation of the template (e.g., just a string of lexemes) and only build syntax trees when the template is instantiated.

Of course you still need to "parse" the template when it is encountered but you have to do it without semantic information (e.g., you don't know what `a` will expand to until instantiation) -- I guess that is the problem.

It is funny that Lisp's defmacro doesn't have this problem because the code itself is a syntax tree.
It might change them if human drivers are outlawed or removed completely.
The Swiss are also quite civilized. Used to be (last I was there) that tickets were rarely checked on buses in Geneva. It was an honor system.

That empty space would get jammed before you could say "this is not Switzerland, Dorothy".
If/when the optimism for metal-organic frameworks is realized, we can finally stop doing this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPSYzLZ7xKU

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/crystalline-nets-har...
For what it's worth, the first keyboard enthusiast I met in college claimed that their code was better as a result of all the clicky noises it made.
Good luck New York with Andy Byford!
I was never impressed with the man and was happy to see him leave Toronto.
The premise of the movie Crash (Academy Award winner) is that these glass and steel objects insulate the various cultures and races from each other... until they crash into each other.
big brain ova here watch out
Could you explain to us how a country's population size and overall diversity has any effect on a city's local transportation system? Because you skipped the part actually explaining how that is in any way relevant.
If you hover your mouse over an ad linking to sketchy-service.com ... then the remote dns host for sketchy-service.com now has your IP address.
The short story 'Car Wars' explores some of the implications here. https://this.deakin.edu.au/self-improvement/car-wars
I don't see a column for age, what are you talking about?
Ask HN: Which Journal?
I'm planning to change the way I consume news and would like some advice. I've restricted a lot the amount of news I'm reading, but it's still too much, especially some dumb political stuff, of which we have plenty now.

I've already experimented with not reading news at all and it's great for focus and mood, but on longer periods, I was feeling like I was a bit out of society on many topics.

My current idea is to stop reading online news and rather read a paper journal once a week to keep myself informed on what's happening in the world, as objectively as possible. I'm currently thinking about 'The Economist'.

Any advice ? Other strategies ?
Oh no, one person wasn't following the laws: no belt. You'll get ticketed for that in CA (where the scenario is set).

That's to illustrate precisely the idea you mentioned. The violation of laws must contribute to the accident for it to count towards fault.

Now that it's clear to me that you agree with that, I'm happy to close the discussion.
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I’ll leave you with some quick thoughts:

— I wasn’t searching for one big reason, and I wasn’t declaring all other reasons irrelevant. I provided several reasons that are exceedingly well documented in Klan-focused histories for the decline of Klan violence (seriously, go read some histories and see how prominently mask laws play in the events).

— Alabama passed the first anti-mask law in the South in 1949—roughly 20 years after the national (2nd) Klan and its violent activities had been exposed and its membership severely dwindled (turning the Klan into a splintered group of uncoordinated and smaller local and state groups).

— The post-WW2 (3rd) Klan had alliances all the way up the local, county, and state-level political and legal ladder. They had direct alliances with governors. Local officials weren’t having to deny anything, because there was rarely anyone to answer to higher up the chain. In the states this occurred, hooded Klansmen weren’t really a thing like the 2nd Klan, and the violence continued without masks. The feds didn’t get involved until way late—FBI and the like cared about chasing communists more than they did Klan violence when it mattered.

— The 3rd Klan became a notable and present force of violence and intimidation throughout the South after the Alabama anti-mask law (and the other state laws that followed)

— The Klan robes and hoods most people envision were a staple of the 2nd Klan, and basically copied the costumes in Birth of a Nation—that is, 20+ years before mask laws (when they might have been helpful; at that time Klan membership numbered 3M-6M).

— The first and second Klan were organized and national. The third Klan was local and state specific, and never reached the membership levels of the former—yet mask laws didn’t stop Klan violence during this period.

— Alabama is a funny example—it passed the first Southern mask law thanks to a Klan-hating governor, and it later had a Klan-allied governor.

By the way, this period and the issues society struggled with was pretty much the focus of my graduate school work, and years of study since.
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If you dig around on Ebay, you'll find a ton of various kinds of Model M buckling spring keyboards for fairly decent prices; usually starting at around $50 USD. You might have to do some cleaning, but that's fairly easy.

You'll also find a ton of "specialized" Model M and other IBM keyboards that were designed for certain tasks - tons of extra function keys and strange layouts.

What you have to avoid (or look for) is to make sure they aren't the "silent rubber dome" kind - there were many Model M keyboards that used cheaper (but quieter) switches. Or that might be what you want. They are still (usually) good keyboards with a lot of life left in 'em - but if you want the real sound and experience, then buckling springs are where it's at. I haven't been able to find another kind of mechanical keyboard outside the Unicomp that comes close (and the Unicomp is a identical beast - I own one and two other original Model M keyboards - they all feel the same).

There are also a lot of different kinds and makes/models of the Model M - and then you have the whole Lexmark series of Model M (and the various different IBM logo labeling).

One of my Model M keyboards is a bit unique from what I understand: It's a Lexmark, with the blue tilted IBM logo in the corner, but it has the flow-thru slots and tray under the keys. From what I understand, Lexmark supposedly didn't make the flow-thru model. I don't know if mine is a unicorn, or if the collector market is confused or what; I suspect the latter.

Oh - one other thing: Connectors. The Model M was made with a variety of cable end connectors, and is another thing you have to look out for. You may have to rewire or buy/build an adapter (and it wouldn't surprise me to find that there were also different controllers in the keyboard itself, not all being able to communicate with a regular PC).
Probably better, hm. But as SirixDB itself is in a kind of pre alpha state I think if we encounter a few bugs it would be okay or even slight API changes.
If I'm reading this right it looks like v-model, v-on, and the like aren't implemented yet. Is there something new that replaces it?
I would very much love to agree with you. But London’s public transportation system, while very good considering its age and the extensiveness of deployment is not perfect; it is not a stretch to call it overburdened.

I lived there for 5 years and absolutely dreaded commuting.

A quick win would be to prevent the morning and evening rush. But that’s another discussion entirely.
> Text templating on structured data is wrong for many reasons, and kustomize is quite inflexible.

Amen! Was exactly my thinking.

> "Eww Javascript" but everybody knows it.

Well I don’t (at least not well) that’s why starlark was such a good choice - everyone on the team already knows this subset of python fairly well. Also because it has this amazing Go interpreter now it was much easier to integrate with native Kubernetes libraries.
It may lower to death toll of avoidable accidents.

The author isn't wrong that tons of metal moving at any speed can be absolutely fatal.
Which is why it is important that somebody you trust on your side reads the rules - the entire thing - and carries the book with the to all meetings. That person might have to be you.
I am being lazy but does anyone know if this will be backward compatible ? We are quite happy with vue 2.x and want to ensure that upgrading to 3.x won't break anything.
Everyone agree that statistics are on the side of nuclear power. The problem is that in the case of a very wrong accident the consequences can be very dire, as in transforming half a continent in nuclear wasteland.

The question is how much we want to trust the risk.
Could have been solved, first time $50 fine, and second time license revoked for a month.

People will learn quickly
Not by itself; but if the high-speed crash rate drops to almost nothing we can make cars much lighter and lower; reverse the SUV arms-race that has made the streets more deadly than ever.
Wireguard isn't even stable yet - it's not even been mainlined by the Kernel which is one of the main selling points that it will eventually be included.

It's alpha level software at this point and should not be relied upon or even trusted.
My co-founder at Midtype, Neel, wrote this article by looking at onboarding flows of a dozen or so successful companies.

We have picked up a few tips on how to improve our own onboarding process.

What is a good onboarding that you experienced recently?
"A 2016 survey of students at Webster University in Washington, D.C., also illustrates limited use of digital resources, finding that just 18 percent of students accessed e-books “frequently” or “very frequently,” compared with 42 percent who never used them."

I have lived in Washington, DC, for forty years, and until this had never heard of Webster University. Given the size of Webster (about 2400, it says), and the number of campuses, I wonder exactly how many students were surveyed.
My point is that what public figures express (in public) should not be conflated with what a random person expresses online, say on Facebook etc. And in practice the two are conflated, and statements by politicians are used to censor the population at large (for example, the case above).

The law you're referring to is - IMO - a violation of freedom of speech.

_Unless_ you're a politician. Because then - in public - you are in your official capacity, so you don't have the same "freedom of speech" in that capacity - your statements carry a different weight (which is why you chose to be a politician supposedly.)

This politician did not tell this to his wife at dinner at home. He made a speech on Remembrance Day in 2010.

>>On Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2010, Pastörs, then a member of the local parliament in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, made a speech in which he claimed the commemorations were “theater” and claimed that “the so-called Holocaust is being used for political and commercial purposes.”
Is it even possible to write such rules?
> mastadon

Mastodon. Don't worry, seeminglyneveryone makes that mistake. Hell, the first version of the Gab fork called it that all over.

> It's like mastadon

Sort of. It started out with a "we want to be just indie enough to not attract mainstream attention" (but as I've heard they switched to wanting to be for everyone now). This is why it might seem less polished to end users.

> It even includes a mastadon front end, called Glitch.

Glitch is an entirely different thing. It's somewhere between a fork and a patchset. They keep up with upstream code and it hasn't been rare to see glitch features merged into the core version.

What you're speaking of is Mastofe, the frontend code. Pleroma uses the one modified by Glitch.

https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/

https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/mastofe
That's in the context of bringing the entire grid back up- a grid black start, not a nuclear plant black start. The 40% number is not nuclear specific- it's all types power plants (and it appears to be based on a 1967 New York blackout.)
It's also not historical in the sense of what's been done, but was a hypothetical asked of plant operators akin to "if you have multiple options, which power source are you bringing online first?"

But to suggest that nuclear is sited near hydro for that purpose is just wrong.
> Mouse models are almost the only indicator for future success.

What do you mean by this? The vast, vast majority of things that work in mice do not work in humans. Even if effectiveness in mice is (approximately) necessary for eventual effectiveness in humans (say, because of our research methods), this does not make it a good indicator. "Drug doesn't immediately melt your brain" is also a necessary property, but it doesn't do a good job of predicting effectiveness.
Paywall: is this perfect being the enemy of good?

Planes, trains, bicycles, people die on all of them. Would she argue airline autopilot was a bad thing? Well, paywall so who knows.

Self-driving tech with convergent evolution will absolutely reduce deaths. Tesla claims a statistical advantage with their speciously tested technology.
>Assuming we don't require physical failsafes though and truly airgap driving systems from any network connectivity (which we won't, I guarantee it) there's definitely a worry on the state level actor front.

I think it's quite plausible that any autonomous vehicle will have something akin to a big red STOP button, just like most other automated machinery.
The police in Philadelphia bombed an entire neighborhood.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing
The article is just simplistic first-order SEO thinking... Of course, long-tail keywords (Programmatic SEO) are going to convert much better. But you need high-quality editorial pages to attract backlinks that help to rank those long-tail location pages.
For sure, and starting from the assumption that we'd only get these things because they improve our typing is kind of like assuming car collectors only do it to improve their driving. Amusing to watch hackernews reverse-engineer the concept of a hobby from first principles.

I understand it can feel embarrassing to acknowledge the price of your hobbies but ultimately this is your money and you should be spending it on something that makes you happy (after you meet your personal obligations to family, those less fortunate, charities depending on your convictions, etc).
Yeah, you're right. That's definitely a better UX. But since OP was talking about GCP UI as a potential value differentiator, I was also focusing on that. Certainly something like an easy VPC setup improves the overall experience within the platform.

But I was referring to things like their documentation, the way they organize resources inside the Web Console and the confusing paths to different functionality within their UI.
It is the same signal, I'm not sure but potentially drivers, microcontrollers, and other things may impact latency though. Not that mechanical keyboard enthusiasts seem to be focused on that.

However, the type of switch you use can have an impact on all kinds of things, the speed at which you can type, the accuracy of your typing, your long term health, etc.

Certain types of switches are also better suited to specific activities. For example, linear switches can usually be pressed faster, which makes them very slightly better for gaming. There are even gaming oriented linear switches that have reduced key travel to further increase speed. The speed impact is going to be near non-noticeable in its impact on game performance for everyone but elite gamers, but anyone is going to be able to tell that certain switches fatigue their hands less than others.
Kenya's Huduma: Data commodification and government tyranny
>Granted I can't read much of the article because it is behind a paywall which seems to be very common on HN.

https://outline.com/nGrnKy
The incinerator and the ski slope tackling waste
Bus rapid transit is a powerful tool to have available for transportation planning. As you mention, it's a relatively simple and cheap proposition to upgrade from a street.

But it's not reasonable to say it's "the right-of-way, plain and simple". Light rail is significantly more energy-efficient than buses, a factor that must be taken into account in an honest evaluation of the options.
And people actually live in the cities.
When you interact with customer service as a paying customer you get to expect courtesy. Some people seem to expect obsequiousness but I digress.

By what chain of reasoning do you derive the existence of the moral obligation to users who have paid exactly nothing let alone the obligation to consider what the broader world thinks of open source developers. It's pretty clear Kovid is a bit of an asshole and sometimes outspokenly incorrect but what right do we have to demand different? Usually such an obligation is transactional. Even if unspoken and devoid of monetary context there is some broader context SOMETHING of value is gained or lost.

So far as I can see the only thing we give Kovid is attention which is cheap and he gives us work which is dear. If you don't agree that the present transaction of putting up with the existence of opinionated posts which you don't have to read for a useful piece of software you don't actually have to use it.

It would even be useful for you to expand on why you think its insecure because that may inform users who can then see to their own interests better for having the benefit of your counsel but don't bore us with talk of his moral obligation unless you can't substantiate such.

The spoiler alert is that you cannot because you have confused the right to control the mores of a particular community with the right to impose those on non-members.
Incidentally, many mushrooms have profound anti-cancer properties. Shiitake is one of them.
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Money as it currently exists isn't personal property, it's an instrument for managing debt incurred by economic activity. Higher taxes on you are just society shifting their priorities away from your interests. Sucks for you, but then, it could just be the rebound from society over-subsidizing your lifestyle.
I have great respect for your work. Do you have ideas or plans how to automatically delete objects in the cluster after they were deleted from the code? Terraform and pulumi are notable for maintaining their own state outside of the cloud provider or kubernetes, and this state can go out of sync, but `kubectl apply --prune` should not need that.
most people who are keyboard enthusiasts justify their enthusiasm because it is faster and more ergonomic, sure they don't say they get better code (although maybe if you're wrists aren't killing you, you do) but they do say they get the code quicker without debilitating physics effects which seems to me to claims that could be falsifiable (given big enough studies) about objective facts.
I'm in Ontario, too, and couldn't get my PD from Laurier Optical. So I left, went on Amazon, and bought a PD Distance Measurer for a couple of hundred bucks. Did my whole family, and now my wife feels better about ordering from Zeni. Saved enough on a single pair of glasses to pay for the meter.
It is not in the Calibre preferences but in the Viewer preferences. Open an ebook in the Viewer and while in the Viewer press ESC to get to the menu, then the option is under Miscellaneous.
The code linked in the article demonstrates this.
> Furthermore, any furniture frequently doubled as people's bed away from home.

Sounds to me like the library was failing to enforce some reasonable rules on the purpose of the furniture.

I get it, it's easier to catch a quick nap in a library than other places because they are generally quieter spaces. But if a library's raison d'etre is to be a repository of reference material and a place of quitet study, then rules prioritizing use of the furniture for study over sleeping strikes me as quite fair.
Agreed with everything you said... which is why I said we need a rating system based on the actual noise dampening, not on materials used.
boggles my mind that people who know the first thing about software can actually think that self driving cars are viable technology
If you want the absolute best possible correction, you also need to make sure the optical center of the lens is in the right spot. With my current frames it's a bit too low, so I need to lift my glasses a bit to make sure I see as sharp as possible, which is annoying.

It's a small effect, but it is noticable.
In my experience, most college students really just want a good space to work and study, with a mix of quiet spaces and areas for group work. Undergraduates rarely needed to access the physical books, since they're told to buy almost all the books they need for each class anyway. In 4 years, I think the only books I ever checked out were novels I was reading for pleasure, and I could have easily gotten them from the city library instead.

From an average undergrad's perspective, the ideal "library" is probably something more like a WeWork.

Grad students and researchers have different needs, though.