skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it's more like 150 according to the studies in the second link. Anecdotally vocab acquisition is much faster in Esperanto due to the regularity and afix system, where learning a single new word root tends to give another dozen variants "for free".

By the way the second link is a critique of a single study, and it makes a pretty wild claim: "To see whether previous study of Esperanto would assist children in the subsequent learning of East-Asian languages (particularly Japanese)."

The claim that Eo helps French acquisition is much better supported from the links in the wikipedia article, considering the more similar grammars and vocabulary.
The problem is there's no additional investment into the system to make it attractive to riders. The KC transit system is poorly designed and making it free isn't going to make it good. Better to keep charging the fare and use the revenue to improve service, then reevaluate when ridership is growing.

Transit investment has a LOT of catching up to do to even get close to the types of subsidizing and handouts we give drivers in every corner of this country.
Purolator? Wow - even the name is unbelievably bad - what imagery were they trying to invoke?
1) I ask why this applies to most industries

2) You point out it applies to FAANG

3) I say FAANG isn't most industries

4) You say most industries must only include those better than the S&P 500

5) I point out a flaw in your reasoning

6) You insist you are right, upset that I tried to ask a question

7) I summarize what happened and exit this thread
Including data transmission?
I also think even that 3km can be challenging when you're talking about having to move objects that are the length of a small skyscraper through narrow, twisty streets. I found this picture of such a move [1]. I wonder how often they have to do this!

1: https://airbus-h.assetsadobe2.com/is/image/content/dam/chann...

edit: I found this page [2] where it talks about moving A380 parts to Toulouse. It sounds like it does happen via the Garonne, but not anywhere even remotely close to Toulouse!

> Here, the components are transferred to specially-designed barges, which carry them on the penultimate part of their 95 km. voyage up Garonne River from Pauillac to Langon. ... In Langon, aircraft sections are transferred to outsized-load trucks to complete their journey to Toulouse by road.

That means the wings and other components have to travel more than 200km from Langon to Toulouse by road, which is wild. Good thing a lot of that is relatively empty countryside rather than packed city streets.

2: https://www.airbus.com/aircraft/how-is-an-aircraft-built/tra...
The Jevons Paradox describes not just individual responses to lower prices, but the overall market response. Which at its largest expanse is total global demand.

By way of analogy, the total industrialised world as of 1900 was mostly the US, UK, France, and Germany, with a few odd other millions from Canada, Australia, and bits of Europe.

Not only did those 200 million or so souls see a tremendous personal increase in services (and resources) consumed, but:

- The population of industrialised nations swelled by a factor of about 5, to 1 billion (the G7 + EU).

- Another two billions grew and increased economic activity in China and India.

- The Rest of the World grew to another 5 billions.

The G7 per capita GDP is about $40k. Depending on what figures you look at, China lands somewhere between about $8k - $14k/person. The rest of the world (including India) is lucky to hit an average of $5k, or about 1/8th the G7, whilst being 5 times its population.

Put another way, raising the RoTW to G7 standards would swallow 40x current global economic activity, and that's presuming the G7 + EU hold still, something few economic models allow for.

Or: Jevons has a lot of mileage yet.

Regards Google's "zero carbon" datacentres: if you don't account for the rest of the market's response, this simply lowers costs for other entrants to make claims which Google have effectively abandoned, absent some means of otherwise increasing prices. Fighting resource utilisation by increasing efficiency alone is like fighting for peace or fcking for virginity. It tends to self defeat.

To decrease overall* utilisation, you've got to increase costs or decrease demand. Taxes, sink utlisation charges (e.g., carbon cap-and-trade), or some form of suasion against resource utilisation, might work. Efficiency itself simply lowers costs, which is to say, increases the supply function, and moves total quantity consumed up.
Yeah was about to say - I'm sure I've seen numbers 5x that even on small azure instances.
What part of the Green New Deal is socialism?
No, I contacted them directly after seeing this report and confirmed they did not even use accelerated networking (which is a free, but opt-in service on Azure), much less things like placement proximity groups (which only recently went public). So machines were communicating across availability zones (separated physically by miles and logically by additional networking layers) and a bunch of networking was happening in CPU rather than offloaded to FPGA.

Disclosure: I work for Azure networking.
How can one presume that the multi-national, highly political, very long term ITER program is the definitive source of truth?
We paid a Confederate group to take Silent Sam. It was the best solution
So interesting...I would love to hear the backstory on this!
Startup Capital: Everything You Need to Know
Just quickly tried running the command on T-mobile hotspot and also couldn't connect. I didn't try debugging much, so it could've been another issue, but just adding myself as a data point.
If sea levels rise, the coastline should change. This map isn't really reflecting that.
Software does not physically wear out, mechanical parts do. So theoretically, the reasons why you repair something in the first place is wear and tear or physical breakage.

Fixing software bugs is like redesigning a part that has a design flaw, like the porsche's boxster IMS bearing issue. The fix for it is a redesigned part, which nobody expects mechanics to create, so it is out of the scope of the right to repair (vs the right to modify)
Thanks for the link! Best explanation of Apple Events I’ve ever seen, plus interesting to read a first-hand account of AppleScript’s history.
> Most academic institutions don't have a mechanism for doing something "on credit" and hoping to win a prize that covers the costs and then some.

Some do, actually. It's called an "endowment". Unless by mechanism you meant an internal policy to allow for this - but that's the sort of stuff that can be changed with relative ease.
Well, GF is using a liquid metal liner to compress their plasma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=77&v=k3zcmPmW6dE...

Oddly, I remember a UFO TV show describing the alien powerplant as relying on liquid metal in some way. No idea if that is meaningful.
They really need to get one giant paywall, It doesn't make sense to subscribe to 15 different sources for $300/month
It's getting downvotes because it was posted in bad faith. Many Americans would say we give corporations the freedom to act how they wish, and we give individuals the freedom to do business with the corporations they choose. The argument to be had is how much the government needs to watch out for the citizenship, because every "protective" law they pass is a restriction on the aforementioned freedoms.

The American school of thought (I'm calling it that to differentiate from the European school of thought) is that the amount of government meddling in interactions between two parties not involving the government should be kept to a minimum, and the individual should be responsible for the consequences of their actions. When you frame it this way, you might get less downvotes and more responses.
I'm just happy because 9 times out of 10 USPS would mark my stuff as delivered and then deliver it the next day. I have yet to have an Amazon delivery go bad besides when they try to deliver to my work after 5pm. I recognize people have huge issues with amazon delivery drivers but my experience has been better than USPS.
When buying, if there are contractual strings attached to the use of the asset then it's more of a lease purchase than actual asset purchase. As it is now, farmers that are purchasing the asset are saying they want to use the asset as they deem fit, including repairs.
Will you be getting an Android app any time soon?

Also, without making any changes to the product you could easily put together a consumer page and sell them. Maybe provide different colours... I know so many people who would love these in their personal lives
I’m concerned with how the “noise” is implemented since it not that hard to pick out the fixed set of real preferences given enough samples of the noisy data.

Like as described this seems like it could be defeated by a naive top(3, count(sites)). I guess it helps but the there’s probably more ambient noise from NAT and changing addresses than is being added by the random options.
> ITER has been working on this problem for almost a decade now

ITER has been working on one implementation of magnetic confinement. It's an international effort, bringing to the battle the advantages of scale and disadvantages of multilateral bureaucracy.

Since ITER was formed in 2007 [1], the bleeding edge has advanced beyond Tokomaks. Advanced computational methods birthed the Wendelstein 7-X [2]. Improved superconducting magnets are compacting designs, reducing costs--and thus accessibility to start-ups--through mass reduction.

It's almost likely a start-up beats ITER. And that's fine! I don't know if any of these designs would be where they are if ITER hadn't been funded.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER#Organization_history

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X
yandex has free mail with free custom domain hosting

https://connect.yandex.com/pdd/
David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness
Pretty amazing you can go from being a little tiny online bookstore to owning your own fleet of planes, trucks and vans. Very inspiring story.

Also like when they are close to you, it tells you how many stops away they are in the app. So useful if you ordered something and excited to get it. However it seems when they used UPS packages would get here earlier like noon to 2PM, while Amazon own drivers seem to be a little later... but I guess that depends on where they started their day, maybe I'm closer to a UPS hub or something.
A trick I learned was to not live out of email. It’s been an evolution, not without its pain, but I’ve remained.

Now Slack I’m the other hand... there is somewhat of an expectation to be regularly available.
Don't know where you are, but green energy providers, at least in the UK, either have a relationship with the producer where they buy directly from them, rather than from the grid, or buy specific types of energy from the grid. It IS possible to buy energy from a specific source and energy is traded constantly during the day on the energy exchange.

Bulb for example have more information about where their energy comes from: https://bulb.co.uk/energy/
Humans make a LOT of trash and much of it is discarded food that they can scavenge. I suspect that the variety of animals such as crows and rats and their large population sizes is directly correlated with the growth of humanity.

I don't think they would exist in such large numbers without us, basically.
I’m on the third of the LBJ series after starting them a couple years ago. While they are long they really are absolutely fascinating and hold my attention far beyond what I would have thought.
FWIW there's a video of A380 parts moving through the streets, they had to be scheduled at night and the tolerances (to buildings!) are really low, it's really cool.

A much larger version of the A-12 trips between Burbank and Area-51, which was also super cool.
Fusion reactors should be fairly safe, no chance of an explosion or meltdown or whatever AFAIK.

During testing I suppose things could go wrong, but they’d probably be barking up the wrong tree then.
Documents show Foxconn refuses to renegotiate Wisconsin deal
Vimeo is targeting a specific market, they're not looking for the next Unboxing Therapy or LTT or whoever.
Others, like say, BitChute, become filled with all the nutters who've already been deplatformed by YouTube.
Dailymotion is covered in adds, and I don't think they really want to cater to people posting anything longer than a few minutes.
As someone without cable, I'm happy to try anything, but it might help to get some big names on board.
I know @eevblog Dave Jones will happily post anywhere he can.
> Loads in one request. Seriously, load it in your browser with the network inspector open. One request.

And this matters... why?
You’ll be happy next time you npm import something time sensitive that requires computation, and that you can just use from js for free.

Think about how you would do ML with just python. That’d be insane. And thankfully the packages you need are implemented in c or cuda with python bindings. 99% of ml people never see the insides of np, sklearn or tf. But you’re glad these aren’t implemented in python.

Similarly, you’re glad for webgl if you need to do lots of parallelizable computations (cfd, ml, 3d). But glsl was never bashing at js. Just that using js for these task isnt feasible.

Similarly, now you can use fast code from js. Essentially, you have a bunch of matrices use webgl, otherwise wasm. And orchestrate everything from js. Like ml peeps do with python, c and cuda.

For the better or the worse...
Takeaways from AWS Re:Invent 2019
This is for pensions only, If you want to do stocks on your own, you can do whatever, and even leverage the f out of it.

But I actually think this is fine for pensions.
> a paper written by Mark Weiser (RIP) in 1996, "Designing Calm Technology" (which has unfortunately fallen off the internet)

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rudolph/Teaching/weiser.pdf ?
I don't understand why they need to raise money if it's backed by Bezos?
AMD RDNA2 – Support for Raytracing and Variable Rate Shading
whew, this garbage is starting to make that tesla worth it
First past the post voting distorted British election
Ouch. That seems quite hard to fix.

I've taken to using my revolut card for places that look a little shady. But ACME petrol station probably wouldn't register as shady for most.
Canadian postal codes are of the form a4b 5c6. Most US things that ask for a zip code will accept either 00456 or 45600. Do UK postal codes have numbers in them? Have you tried left- or right padding those numbers with zeros?
I'm not trying to suggest a solution. I think this is an incredibly complex problem and not something I have expertise in. I'm merely pointing out there is some recent evidence to suggest the make up of homeless people may be shifting.
> reviews that only gripe with the shipping time or condition

I was thinking of just this (i.e. who is held responsible nowadays by customers of mishandled deliveries) while I was watching, a few days ago, a UPS worker actually throwing boxes out of the back of his truck onto the concrete ground while it was raining.

Hopefully none of those boxes were electronics, which would not have survived such poor handling unscathed.
I don't think there's much more to it than that it's nice to have people you're fond of count on you and expect things from you since that's an expression of trust on their part. Fulfilling that trust is just satisfying. The symmetry of requests/fulfillment makes it so that you know you're in a balanced relationship.

Or perhaps there's a Ben Franklin Effect[0] sort of thing going on.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect
YouTuber Draws China Fire for Calling Taiwan Leader ‘President’
> The hope among lawmakers and transportation officials is that the city will recoup that expense, and more

A poor goal that's hard to quantify and often not met (especially for social services at smaller community levels). Just consider it a sunk cost up front and be honest about it. Then the debate can at least be about whether it's a worthy cost socially. Putting a monetary recoup hope unhelpfully moves the debate away from the social obligation side.
Past experience shows generally that things like tolling or road pricing only become politically palatable if an alternative with existing capacity already exists. But funding such alternatives is hard and usually road pricing is proposed in part for the funding. So it's a very chicken vs egg situation.
You wouldn’t typically run your databases in a cloud environment on your own VMs - you would use a managed service.
the fact you have to hand your card to a (hopefully) trusted source to swipe the card on a (hopefully) trusted terminal means it shouldn't be scraped there. the outdoor card swipers are just open to the public 24/7 for someone to stealth slip on a device
Nope you can't. And you can't split by buying Class A and Class B stock.
Can't find it on the app store, is it in Canada?
> Which public services do you think SF has that aren’t available in Mississippi?

Medicaid expansion.
> Makes sense. Now I understand why UPS is delivering so late in my area, including having guys hanging out of UHaul trucks.

That's been happening around the holidays since well before Amazon started dominating the shipping industry.
I’ve observed price cuts over time for Azure and AWS but very hard to get good published data.
Again it depends what you're looking for, if you just want to talk to as many speakers as possible and don't care how long it takes, then yes, spend 5 years intensely learning Mandarin, everything else is a waste of time.

But if you want a fast path to learning a foreign language (which plugs you into a meta language learning community), then Esperanto is very interesting.

Research is fairly promising for French, doesn't look like it helps as much with spanish, or at least nobody's done research on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperant...

Anecdotally it works well for french because you're secretly learning French word roots, and it builds confidence in the process of language learning.
Nope. Still borked on OpenDNS.
On my first visit to Seattle, you could ride the bus anywhere downtown for free. It seemed like a great way to provide mobility to those in need, while still having a paid option for those in the outer areas of the city to get home to their suburbs.

The first conversation I had with someone on the bus there was with someone going to an employment counselling office. Not sure why that struck me, but it always stuck with me.

No I see that the free ride zone has been gone since 2012. Too bad!
I second this. I rarely see injuries like OP described at my academy.
Dont worry, there is a decent enough firewall built in to the ISP modem. And my ISP is more than slow enough that the speed of the router doesnt matter much. And when all my computers are off, so are the router, the modem, the TV and all the other stuff.
I don't know if Austin is considered a "coastal metro area" or a "Kansas City suburb," but it's certainly happening here. Largely due to tech.
Confused - why not use CloudFront Origin Groups? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...

Full disclosure, I've never used, but pretty sure this feature was created for the scenario you are trying to solve.
Librem phones can't come soon enough.
Were you given a /48 for your residential IP, or is that for a business? Residential AT&T in Georgia assigned a /64 for me.
> How would you know? You have never used such a system because it doesn't exist

I have, it does, it's called Oberon, it was glorious.

Copying text from UI elements was also never an issue for me in GTK2 (can't speak for 3, haven't used it much), it was great (although I admit I don't know if there were a few places in the system where I couldn't copy text, it may not have been 100% the case).

When I'm working in terminal apps (more often than you can likely imagine) on Linux I can also expect to copy text everywhere, it's great.

I'd encourage you to use a diversity of computing systems, it'll broaden your perspective and imagination and sense of possibilities :)
people that can't trade with conviction should not be in the market, whoever derives confidence in a company based on the founder's holdings deserves to get taken to the cleaners

and yes, that includes employees who are also married to their consolidated, vested, and liquid positions. they too should be treating it as a trade.
https://webassembly.org/docs/high-level-goals/

> 3. Design to execute within and integrate well with the existing Web platform:

> * execute in the same semantic universe as JavaScript

> * access browser functionality through the same Web APIs that are accessible to JavaScript

Lawyering aside, I would say that this is pretty much the same thing as "enabling the development in web apps in other languages".
Well that's sort of #3, but the thing is trickle down is a lie about how economy works that fools people who have not done any reading on the subject.

I guess a similar lie for repairing products would have to be something like - the possibilities of modern manufacturing have progressed to such a point that it is simpler, cheaper, and easier to make longer lasting products that do not need to be repaired if they, paradoxically, are made in a way that makes it impossible to repair them.

I actually do not know enough about modern manufacturing to know if the above is false but I assume it must be as I have not heard the argument, and I just made it up now, it seems unlikely I would make up an argument that was also true. I would also of course be unlikely to believe the argument given that I would see how it was made to the benefit of the people who would profit from its truth, and at any rate it would make it easier to make built in obsolescence a part of the manufacturing process.

But anyway that would be my example of a similar argument to trickle down in the context of right to repair.
Fascinating read. I lived in Bratislava in 1993-94 but I didn't have the sense of it being all that crime ridden - perhaps there was more organized crime and less street crime? I can say that after first visiting in 1990, the relatively recent change to a completely open border was striking. We drove from VIE, got to the border, and nothing but a sign - welcome to Slovakia.
It is not a mobile app, just a web app.
For General Fusion they have a completely different approach. It's not a Tokamak like ITER. It remains to be seen if it works at scale though.

Commonwealth Fusion also thinks they can move faster than ITER with a Tokamak reactor, by utilising new and better superconductors. I suppose the design of ITER was locked down before those became available in large quantities.
I'm going to second the leangains method just for introducing me to the thermogenic effect of food.

What I got out of that book was to increase the thermogenic effect of food as much as you can, while doing intermittent fasting to control your behavior.

Would love to hear your thoughts.
While there may be more upside to this market, the probability of his fortune being halved are much higher than them being doubled in the next 12-24 months. He could always buy back in now that he's liquid, but when the bottom drops out of the market and there aren't any bids (especially for unprofitable monopoly plays like Uber) he could find himself a lot poorer really fast.
No-one in this case is "blaming" the shelter. Sure, they're free to offer charity under whatever terms they like.

But the shelter's policy can and should limit what the city is allowed to do. Saying "I have a 'choice': to go to your religious shelter or be arrested for sleeping outside" is a problem.