skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author of this article is an academic fraud who makes unsubstantiated claims in everything she does. Jo Boaler has an agenda without the data to support it, and her lies are used to support structural changes to school programs. Instead of responding to critics with facts and information, she just calls everyone who criticizes her a “bully”.

https://www.nonpartisaneducation.org/Review/Essays/v8n5.htm
This thread has gone off the rails. The point isn't that trains are more comfortable than planes. That's obvious. It's that a train is not currently viable compared to the existing airline routes.

The US and California are not spending > $100B to build this. Even with all that comfort, people want cheap and fast. Talking more about how nice trains are makes no difference to actually getting one built unless you have a plan on how to acquire all the money, real estate and political will to get it done.
Damn it's almost as if there's no such thing as an original idea....
If you don’t plan at all, you’ll have an average wait time of 7 minutes. How bad is that?
As a developer sometimes I end up running an IDE, sometimes not even of my choosing. IDEs like eclipse are famously resource intensive.

Sometimes for testing a VM or container (or three) are needed for testing.

Sometimes something heavy needs to run local for testing, maybe even one that specifically requires an OS you aren't currently running.

Given how dirt cheap ram is, I think it's really silly for all laptops/desktops to not support at least 32GB ram.

Seems like a selfish short term perspective to limit ram to 16GB, although I do expect that it significantly shortens the useful life of a laptop.
that's exactly what happened to the people who requested (and PAID mind you) to have their Ashley Madison accounts deleted. All they did was mark a deleted bit in the database and from what I remember these PAID $70 USD to have their account deleted.
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... and consider the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_For...
Taking more to do less. Can you fathom the ability to read the rest of that comment and all the other comments about it?
Not all non-profits, just 501(c)3. Non-profits organized under other sections of the tax code are allowed to be political. [0] Here's an exhaustive list. Some of the sections are pretty narrow in scope (e.g. 501(c)(21) - black lung benefits trust). [1]

[0] https://www.thebalancesmb.com/can-nonprofits-engage-in-polit...

[1] https://www.thebalancesmb.com/how-the-irs-classifies-nonprof...
London Underground: the dirtiest place in the city
But the people preparing to build a power plant, drawing up plans say, or doing tooling, would be doing "contributory infringement". The bank that funded it would be co-liable, which is great for the patent holder if they want a payday.
This conversation has gone off a tangent. The comparison isn't about trains being more comfortable than planes (that's obvious). It's about planes vs trains as a transportation option.

It's not viable to build a long-distance rail line given the same total time (even if more comfortable since people want cheap and fast), especially not at the cost of $100B+.

If you want to call it inflated prices because of graft then fine, but that means you need to solve that first. Which goes back to my original point that there are many other obstacles that need to be overcome before high-speed rail makes sense here.
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> Does anyone use BtrFS in production?

Ahm, what? SLES provides Btrfs as the default choice.

> With SUSE Linux Enterprise 12, we went the next step of innovation and started using the copy-on-write file system Btrfs as the default for the operating system, to support system snapshots and rollback.

Also Facebook [1].

And yes, I use it everywhere.

Oh, and ZFS is full of bugs as well, it's far from done and being actively fixed and improved by ZoL people, that's why freebsd people are switching to ZoL.

I've never heard much arguments why ZFS is better than Btrfs, I would like to hear some (safe for RAID6).

[1] https://www.linux.com/news/how-facebook-uses-linux-and-btrfs...
Vaping isn't a gateway to teen smoking, study claims
This is what the [flag] link is for. It's on every post and comment. It's both cathartic and helpful!
I wonder if ReactOS is by now more lean and mean then XP_SP4, would be nice to run Office2010 in Parallels as I don't really grok the MacOS Office365
How do industrial secrets, which can safely be reverse-engineered, inhibit progress more than patents, which often intentionally omit important details and can be used to actively prevent reverse-engineering by competitors?

Patents encourage monopolisation by harming smaller companies more than large conglomerates. Small companies either take their chances and risk being sued out of existence or actively avoid patent infringement, wasting resources and limiting innovation.

If anything, patents discourage knowledge sharing because showing your work opens you up to liability for violating patents you may have been unaware of. The only form of "knowledge sharing" patents seem to encourage is filing patents, which only becomes "knowledge sharing" when they expire many years later.

EDIT: The most frequently cited counter-example is historical: guilds keeping trade secrets to prevent outsiders from just copying them. But this is meant to associate all the negative associations we have with that time and its level of technology with the absence of patents without doing the actual work of establishing anything resembling a causal relationship.
Websites you can’t visit? I think this page is being served with an incorrect mimetype as it triggers a download dialog in the browser.
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Infosys lays off mid, senior level executives
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I am always surprised that most American alarm clocks run in mains power. In the 3rd world alarm clocks run on battery power, that saves a lot of complexity of having to deal with preserving the time in case of power disruptions, and they are fully functional even through power disruptions.
UAW Members Ratify Tentative New Deal with General Motors, Ending 40-Day Strike
How much extra time do you have to reimpliment things that work because you disagree with how they are written?
As far as my experience goes, it looks pretty native on Windows. Looking at the documentation [0] it also seems to strive for mac-OS native look and feel.

[0] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/macos-issues.html
I'd like to improve my ability to focus and to gear my life towards optimal performance. This should take care of multiple challenges that I facing today.
>You can send a stablecoin if you have a problem with volatility

Yes, they did. I'm aware that Dai is not well pegged to the dollar, but then I'm not a crypto-fan.
Well, that's one campaign promise Trump is delivering on...

I guess it's because it's a discounted cost into the future whereas building the wall would require funds now.
By bad I meant doing bad things uber has done.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bad+things+uber+has+done
I don't know what's happened in the last 25 years since I last went. But my college started testing the snot out of incoming freshmen. Basically they didn't trust the students GPA or the classes they took in high school to tell whether they were ready for college level classes.
Probably a choice to focus on core competencies.
Listen, you can react like this (trying to provoke me) or you can choose to better yourself. Every second is an opportunity. Good luck.
The flicker would be a challenge but you can use something like DeOldify [1] or super resolution [2] on the frame sequence to improve the colour and resolution... although you may get some weird artifacts between frames using image models rather than models built for video.

Generally video models are quite far behind image models because they're so much higher dimensional (much more computationally expensive and expensive to annotate) but I'm sure it's a matter of time before someone releases a DeOldify type model for video (if one doesn't exist already).

[1] https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify
[2] https://github.com/idealo/image-super-resolution
There's two kind of SM rails that I'm familiar with. The cheaper crappy ones, and the "tool less" ones. They are so nice I can mount rails from a single side of the rack with one hand.
People attesting this are mostly totalitarians themselves. People tend to find out about the patronism and pick their own favorite totalitarian in a most reactionary manner. I doubt there is any further and deeper insight.
> Like most, you could have simply moved to a distribution without systemd. Unlike Linux, the BSDs offer less choice when it comes to both init, service supervision and service management options. It is also evidenced in the comparison table in the OP. If anything the debacle resulted in creating more awareness and leaving people open to more choice.

systemd had the opposite effect of giving people more choice. Before systemd every major distro ran it's own init service. Often they were variants of init.d but sometimes they might vary quite significantly. Debain, Ubuntu, Suse, Arch, Slackware and Gentoo -- they all had different inits. One of the reasons systemd was push so heavily was to standardise things across the different distros. Now the only distros still offering anything different are either those that are also gradually falling out of favour due to the changes in user trend; or newer distros that are only a minor blip in the Linux community anyway and unlikely to ever grow beyond that.

The exception here being dockerised Linux eg Alpine. But they fill a different use case.

> This only scratches the surface. Daemons running under systemd have their PIDs supervised instead of using unreliable hacks like pidfiles. This is one of the reasons why systemd is preferred in large deployments and professional environments.

Honestly, I'd take pidfiles over binary log files any day of the week. However you're right that systemd does bring some good ideas to the table (if it didn't, nobody would have adopted it). My issue with systemd is that it's needlessly hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. I know systemd isn't the monolith people often describe it as...but even so, it sure feels like it's an all or nothing deal at times.
that's one of the most resilient conspiracy theories lasting for years. The drama attracts all kind of Bitcoin haters although factually there is not much to it.
Billionaires also have plenty of ways to influence large numbers of non-billionaires. They can own media empires and think tanks, fund/lobby politicians and political movements with armies of volunteers, or become media personalities themselves.

I would be interested in an analysis of who funds those troll campaigns. I'd wager billionaires rank very far below governments, political parties and corporations.
Depends on the market, where I am with 2% unemployment all sectors, it's impossible to find an applicant, anywhere.

And we have an enormous GDP, are stuck to the biggest country in the world, and currently in a social instability period reducing even more the imported talent pool.

Reality for tech recruiters here is a nightmare, trying to go to other continents to beg people to come get rich...
It's interesting to look at the different sponsor pages posted in this thread.

When I got invited, I basically copied my text over from patreon. But it seems the way to address github sponsors is a bit different in tone.

I also noticed that many start their tiers at $5 instead of just at $1.

Obligatory sponsorship link: https://github.com/sponsors/splitbrain
Strange that Americans have two devices washer and dryer, where as most of the rest of the world use a single washing machine, that does both, without having to switch clothes between the two. Perhaps it is the marketing efforts of the manufacturers that is preventing Americans from realizing that the work could be done by a single appliance.
If you're going to list facts, at least get them right. The version that Europe uses is also called QWERTY. The US uses the ANSI variant of the QWERTY layout while the "European" variant is called ISO. One of the differences between the two versions is indeed the left shift being longer or shorter to accommodate the extra key but it's not the only one.

AZERTY (a variation of the ISO QWERTY, with 105 keys, the big enter, etc) is used in France like you say but nowhere else. The rest of Europe use other layouts within the ISO QWERTY. Here you'll find Spanish, UK, Italian, Norwegian, and many other layouts that move and add the necessary symbols for their languages.

edit: corrected right to left, stupid me.
I didn't express myself correctly when talking about AZERTY. It is used in a few other places besides France. What I meant is to say that is not Europe's standard as the parent comment seemed to indicate.
Oh man, this brings me back. I used to love making those streamlined XP installs where I stripped out as much as posisble. Was insane how fast you could get XP.

Don't even get me started on when Longhorn leaked. OS ended up sucking but the Longhorn leak was amazing.
what are your thoughts on this? https://web.stanford.edu/~joboaler/Jo-Boaler-reveals-attacks...
Waow, nuts/interesting.

Thanks
> “Again and again, the same message,” she tweeted recently. “Listen to the scientists, listen to the scientists. Listen to the scientists!”

And the mainstream media keeps reporting this while completely ignoring the scientists.
I think there should be other, better ways of rectification than firing someone.
This is a brilliant idea that would give consumers at least some idea of whats happening. I wonder if you could great a crowdsourced database of this in a per product way
That some of these courses are only available over iTunes really makes me wonder what the institutions that make this content available only over iTunes are thinking.

Surely they realize that not everyone uses iTunes, and putting the content in a walled garden would not make it as available as putting it in a downloadable, open format on archive.org? Or do they just not care?
It's still one of the highest rates of per capita emissions in the world!
Polystyrene, a Common Plastic, Degrades Much Faster Than Expected in Sunglight
But does it use cfc free refrigerant?
What you're talking about is a utility patent, for an embodiment (a product that embodies an invention)instead of allowing patents for inventions.

If you think it's sensible to require manufacture first, before a patent is granted then I don't think you've thought about this enough.

(fictionalisation) "right I tooled up my new design for a wafer fabrication plant, but someone else came up with the same idea and they got the patent last week, now I'm $20M in the hole and did so much needless duplication; now there's no money for us highly skilled people to make further improvements"

Yay! /s
the competent manager would then offer the kid training and to loan a refrigerated van branded in company color as an one off goodwill token off from the marketing budget, while having lawyers writing a strongly worded letter to the effect that other following up would have to do with following safety and regulations or be barred from the premises.

win win and all that.
I feel apprehensive about some of these things… well, not the specific instance here, more generally:

There's an implication (in this story and others like it) that Apple, Google et cetera should turn away distasteful customers, or if they don't, then A/G/… can be blamed for whatever those customers do. But it's not clear to me that a very big company should even be permitted to choose its customers. That a smallish company with 0.1% worldwide market share is choosy, okay, in that case would-be customers have other suppliers and service providers.

But if a monopolist or oligopolist turns away customers, IMO that encroaches on the legislature, which ought to have the sole right to forbid things. Expecting Apple or Google to ban things that the relevant legislature will not ban is, in a way, to step away from the rule of law. Expecting that is to want a world where we're ruled by corporations rather than by legislatures.

Or…?
Tell me uni won’t be different in 20 years. Why would we push our kids to maximise test scores to get a high score on their last year of secondary school (like internet points) instead of teaching them to learn anything? Food for thought and something I have been struggling with lately
I feel I can trust Google today. What if Larry and Sergey sell the company tomorrow? What if I decide to go into politics and a written record of me saying the sky is blue and 2+2=4 becomes a problem?

As someone who supported a major database in Google some five years ago: the amount of development effort that went into the GDPR compliance (we haven't even heard that name then, only that the EU is brewing a law that requires us to be able to delete data) was very surprising. So at least one corp does actually delete the data correctly.
I was thinking of a system where the content of the nodes is persisted as files, like in static website generators, and then the interactive view is generated from the content read in files when the application starts or is updated.

Wikis work that way, where the payload of each page is a flat text sequence with simple markup.

The structure, relations and metadata could then be stored in a serverless database, like Git does in the .git folder. Not perfect, but I think the benefits for personal information outweight the limitations.
Expanding on that (nice!) idea: could it be an "everything else" symbol? Since a lot of glyphs are missing from the typewriter, this could be some kind of placeholder for missing characters meant to be manually overwritten after typing?
> Another example of technology making the world better.

Fracking isn't without its drawbacks. And since there is essentially no public information on what chemicals they even pump into the ground (which almost certainly leaks to groundwater sometimes, because things go wrong - like oil spills) it's a little hard to assess its environmental impact. At least in the US, the fracking companies don't have to tell anybody (including the government) what chemicals they are using.
Anyone know of a place like stack overflow where short term programming tasks could be posted. Maybe 1-10 hours, with a reputation system. So you could pick a language, technology/lib, and a spec and people would bid against it. Upon completion you could rate the implementation and their skill with whatever technology/lib they used.
Drug research seems more like an infrastructure thing more than a profit thing. Fund the research publicly. Academic competition is enough to ensure research is effective.

Drug manufacture however seems more like a profit thing. Open up the results for companies to make generics. Profit motive will ensure efficient delivery.
Now you just need to patent the process of having an original idea...
If you don't need street-level geocoding, the GeoNames [0] project providers their data free of charge (attribution required). It provides city and district level data, which is suitable for tasks such as displaying the location name of photos or rental listings.

Self plug: I wrote a Node library a few years ago to use this data offline. It builds a SQLite database, which is small enough to be suitable for embedding into applications. [1]

[0] http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/readme.txt

[1] https://github.com/lucaspiller/offline-geocoder
I think it’s always unreasonable to assume bad faith from other people in the absence of evidence, but I guess I’m just old fashioned that way.
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That reduction in CO2 emission might be offset by an increase of methane emissions due to fracking [0].

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/08/frack...
It's all an Uber illusion:

# No money changes hands, so safer for drivers.

Not true in many countries where cash is supported in Uber.

# No payment is made in the vehicle, so faster exit times.

Not true in many countries where cash is supported in Uber.

# Uber uses any credit card, so your boss can pay for your ride without the need for separate expensing.

I wouldn't do that a lot of times - I switched a few cards on my Uber account and had to contact support a lot of times because they froze all my payment options after that. Imagine being in the middle of US as European then getting all of your cards declined by Uber because you added your friend's card.

# Rating - I've been in a LOT of awful, awful cabs.

And I've been in a lot of awful ubers - the rating system doesn't work unless people actually do rate drivers, and people don't rate as much as you think. Also, if you don't want a driver but there isn't many drivers online, you keep getting reconnected to him even after canceling and selecting it's because of the driver multiple times.

# Drivers can work 1 hour and make some money. Try that with any other job.

Not really, the amount they earn in that 1 hour - when you remove Uber's cut, tax cut, gas and vehicle amortisation is terribly low. Some say they barely make ends meet with 8 hours driving.
In general you need resources to go to market. John Doe makes a new widget goes to CompanyA with his invention, CompanyA just copy it. John gets nothing, CompanyA gets the profits.

How is that good?
There's another thing that needs to be said. Uber is receiving a lot of criticism here, but whether they eventually make it as a company or not, Uber is doing one important thing: Showing that a business model and profits matter. This has been neglected in the last decade or so. If bringing back that awareness is Uber's only contribution, then no matter the company's outcome, it will have done a good thing.
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Well, it doesn't match my experience. I have 8 gb of ram and spinning rust disks and performance is bearable. For gaming even.
And never being confronted with tasks that require hard work, during one's formative years, is a curse.
I started with Mountain biking this January and am addicted to it. I think it's a great hobby for 9 hour behind the desk job.I recommend starting with this https://howitzer.co/mountain-biking-a-minimalist-guide-to-ge...
Instead, it will be repurposed for lie detectors and 'terrorist mindset detectors' in airports.
I'm no dryer expert (using an old fashioned clotheslines or a rack), but i gathered from people who use them that separate dryers work much better (larger capacity, better results) than integrated ones.
The amazing template that does nothing (2015)
I don't remember ever having to replace an appliance due to broken buttons or screens. Phones, on the other hand...

The only kind of hardware buttons I seem to be able to regularly break are the microswitches in mice. They used to last forever, and I think I still have an optical mouse from early 2000s that has perfectly working switches (but tracking & malfunction speed aren't comparable to any modern mouse). The switches in modern mice tend to develop problems in a year or two.