skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given these numbers I find it hard to believe that a zurich station has more traffic than penn station.

This is my best guess for why people keep repeating such blatantly false claims as "Penn Station is the second busiest station in the world"--people just can't imagine that America is that bad at something.

So, there are several factors going on here. First, NYC has two major rail termini (Penn and Grand Central), and a couple of other stations that's going to pull people off the train if they're not working in Downtown or Midtown Manhattan. Zurich has just the one I believe. Granted, Paris also has several termini.

Another factor is the lack of intercity rail travel in the US. There's 3-4 trains an hour (each direction) on the NEC, and at best one an hour to Albany. Zurich has at least 4 lines each delivering 4 trains an hour (each direction). A larger share of the travel to Zurich is happening via rail than to NYC.

The biggest factor, though, is that US commuter rail is just that bad. It is pretty much designed, in the US, to let people from the outlying suburbs drive to the rail station park and take the train to their 9-5 job downtown. If you work different hours, say 4-12, you're screwed. If you don't work downtown, you're screwed--suburb jobs are not reachable from outlying commuter rail stations. European countries run their rail stations less for 9-5 commuters and more as metro systems on larger scale. Consequently, they also see their rail systems get used for more than just 9-5 commuters. These commuters make up ~80% of the LIRR and more like ~50% for the Zurich S-Bahn. Also, more people use transit to commute: in NY metro area, only 30% use transit (of any form!) to commute, whereas it's again closer to 50% in Zurich.
No I replied to the correct comment. I am explaining why I would consider something like Impossible.
I love stuff like this but I am massively put off by any database system that I need to "Load" into.
There are so many amazing file formats now that can be queried directly as files - a 17H load time simply isnt feasible for much of this work.

Does anyone know what format it stores it internally? Is there a way to simply have it query in-place?
You need a way to reconcile the family side of things and the corporate side. It may be sad to lose the personal touch of a single owner single farm (I always say you know it's corporate when the owner doesn't personally sign off each birthday present) but one should also see the value of a business becoming a company.

One important thing is that a healthy business will survive any particular person's death. And this is very important especially for a family business. Imagine a farmer suddenly passing away in his 40s or 50s with 5 children and no other adult that can take over the business. (This actually happened in my family, but luckily his wife was a badass and saved the farm during a difficult period when other farms were going out of business.)

Another advantage of a business as opposed to a single owner is that the rest of the family is afforded a niche. In my case, I can do scientific analysis, mathematics, music and lots of other things and at the same time I don't have the burden that my grandfather had when he had to run the then very poor and tiny farm at the age of 16.

With regards to the loss of character and the loss of the idyllic romantic image of a farm with its owner: It will happen to a smaller or larger extent and it's really a challenge to figure out how to retain the initial pioneer spirit of a farm.

In my case, I decided to prolong the legacy of those before me by focusing on what I can do that they couldn't. I have quite a few useful innovations that I am working on in weather and agricultural analysis. But it's difficult, and maybe I won't achieve much, but I feel the only way to personalise a corporate business is to be a sort of wild man with an orderly style in an orderly society. I think that kind of economic freedom was what those before us worked hard to gain.

Maybe birthdays will be generic, but it's easier to give a profitable business a personal flair than to make a personal business profitable.
Milk pricing is complicated, and I don't really understand it, but I don't think your comment is correct. There exists a "price floor" on a national level that establishes a minimum price that is payed to producers. This price differs based on location, which acts as a proxy for price of production.

But I'm pretty sure there is no mandated federal minimum retail price, although some individual states (Maine, California, Pennsylvania, probably others) have state-specific laws regarding retail pricing. Are you maybe confusing a state law where you live with national policy? Or am I out-of-date?

I am surprised by how inexpensive compared to local brands Walmart's Great Value milk is where I shop in Vermont. My guess was that this is because the local brands pay their producers at the higher North-Eastern rate, whereas Walmart sources their milk from the mid-West and can pay a much lower wholesale price.
I explain how it works first and then ask for an implementation. I look for sane code organization, correctness, and an awareness of Pythonic idioms if it's a Python heavy role.
What cow told you that? Peas care.
Goroutines are scheduled onto system threads via M:N greenthreading. Each "system" thread can steal work from other threads, and there's some stuff so that blocking system calls don't use up your "goroutine system threads" (you can put a limit on the number of goroutines that run concurrently). Channels are fixed size on creation, either 0 (directly handing off items from 1 goroutine to another) or >0 (the channel has space allocated to hold that many items). If the channel is full(buffered, i.e. >0 size channel) or there's nothing waiting to receive the item(unbuffered channel), the sender sleeps until it can send the item. Channels are purely data structure, have as many as you want. You can lock the system fairly trivially, but Go can detect it in many cases and give you stack traces of all the places stuff is waiting to read/write (only if all goroutines deadlock).

edit: And no, there's nothing really special about channels, just they play nice with the goroutine scheduler, so it's perfectly sensible to do lots of "wait on these channels" stuff inside your program, without having to have lots of OS threads and such. (goroutines are a bit more lightweight then OS threads)
... at which point you also get to enjoy your arrival at linguistic metaphysics. If you can identify all material objects that all observers can feasibly see, then you subtract the material objects that one person sees, from the material objects the other person sees in their reference frame, and you end up with... something... that is both a material object, and not a material object at the exact same point in time. So, does that material object actually exist? If so, in what way does that material object exists for the person who cannot feasibly perceive a feasibly perceivable object in any capacity? Kind of like theseus's ship launched into the space-time continuum?
Nice. The SF public library also eliminated overdue fines recently [1] - I found that it made going to the library a little less stressful, knowing that if I missed the return deadline by a day or two I wouldn't be fined.

[1] https://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2001163901
Amd has started uping the thread counts with the ryzen processors only. And now that Ryzen has started being adopted by gamers and streamers newer games are getting better at utilising these cores. with current generation games extra threads won't help but newer titles it is going to
https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/8430

Just to answer my own question - this looks good - I might have to try it out!
Shame on you for not reading the article.

The entire point was that as a small franchise owner he has to work 24/7 on the clock every day of the week due to the company off-loading all of the risk and issues onto the owner. You don't see a problem with a company mandating that their employees work every single hour of every single day?
Could you share the specs for your build, specifically the motherboard and RAM models. Also have you verified that ECC actually works?

I am tempted to build something similar but AMD's wishy-washy ECC guarantees as well as Linux-specific issues make me unsure.
I didn't suggest it was hard. I found CRAN repos to be insecure and unreliable.
The example under "Communicating by sharing memory" isn't correct, despite the author claiming that "it works". It's a very common example in concurrency 101 (updating a value). The fact that the author claims that it's correct is pretty concerning to me.

Adding a print(len(ints)) at the bottom of the function:

$ go run test.go
5
$ go run test.go
8

More on-topic, channels have their own tradeoffs. I often reach for WaitGroups and mutexes instead of channels, because things can get complicated fast when you're routing data around with channels...more complicated than sharing memory. I don't think it's good advice to broadly recommend one over the other--understand their tradeoffs and use the right tool for the job at hand.
> Too much of the "new" stuff is not just a good natural evolution of people solving problems

I guess it depends on what you're lumping in with "new stuff". I've experience the opposite quite a lot of refusal to acknowledge that a new constraint or condition has modified the parameters of what a solution is trying to solve, dismissed as one off events or something to monitor, then 6 months later when the problem was isolated becoming the new norm, and monkey patches being required because of refusal to acknowledge that the environment has become more complex.
That’s because we’re buying server racks for virtualized workstations, not deskside systems. Even from Tier 1 vendors a viable deskside workstation for pro VFX doesn’t approach 35K without shoving dual socket 24-core+ Intel chips that have no realistic purpose being in a workstation unless you’re buying for specificity.

The Mac Pro is a specialty item, not the norm.
A repeating fast radio burst source localized to nearby spiral galaxy
#2 - I never said it was a necessity. I said it has PURPOSE. Which it does. It has value. Whether the value offsets the costs is a separate question. But that's why people are upset about an entirely purpose-less waste of resources

#3 - That's an absolute statement. On a relative scale, there are farmers that raise and slaughter their animals more humanely than dying horrifically in a forest fire. I won't pretend a mass market slaughterhouse is more humane, but I just mean it is a sliding scale

#4 - The death of 1 cow of which there is almost 1 billion worthwhile is not equivalent to the death of 1 koala, of which there are less than 50,000. All the cows we kill around the world do not endanger the cow species. That is not the case with koalas who may never recover from this fire.
It was somewhat snarky
> I get that it's convenient, but working those shifts is miserable (I did it).

Not earning is worse.
Why do vegans/vegetarians have to promote/preach their diet restrictions to everyone else? Can't they just be happy with their lifestyle and shut up about it? I have nothing against vegans/vegetarian, they can eat whatever they like, but I can't stand those that have to impose their diet onto the rest of the world.
The free market can work - if certain safeguards are in place to ensure the race to the bottom doesn't negatively impact either the safety and suitability of the products and services produced, or the wages and benefits paid to workers. Remove those and you end up with misery.
Here's a couple of quick visualisation supporting your point:

- Animals killed for food counted per second (Global) https://thevegancalculator.com/animal-slaughter/

- Animals killed for food in USA in 2020 (so far) https://animalclock.org/

It's January 7th and there's already been over 1 billion animals killed for food in the USA.
A few years ago a bartender friend of mine shared a joke/investment tip with me. He said "if I had money, I'd rent a warehouse and fill it with appliances that aren't internet connected. In 20 years, people will be desperate for them."

I think he may be right.
I am not in Europe but it should cover me, because the personal data (if exists) on the server belong to EU individual.
You significantly overpaid for your fridge.
Tying this to Japan when 7-11 runs a virtually identical model in Thailand seems weird.
My interpretation is that fof+hot might not have immediately obvious utility, so that it's made into myth(heuristics?) when it's particularly valuable. For example, in fof+fot it wouldn't make any sense to allow yourself to be slapped, because you need a complex casual model to justify it.

But echoing others in the thread, I'm not too sure and wish the author had written more on the topic or gave some references.
People who read the article will be exposed to this "bias" anyway. Leaving the title as-is would then be more informative.

Here, the change is okay. Other times, the change rendered the title nonsensical: "XYZ is now closed source" -> "XYZ Changelog".

I would default to a much stronger preference for the original article-the author/editor probably put more thought into the title, and destroying their creative work shouldn't be routine.

And what's with the bias-paranoia? People, including journalists, are allowed to have opinions and emotions. They do not have to equivocate: "The sanitary situation in the camp is becoming dangerous" does not require "...but someone on YouTube believes germ theory is a hoax, so who is to say if sleeping in feces isn't just a good way to stay warm".
The latent shallow male entitlement is gross. However, there is a valid point made that if all the single, unhappy men became cool and attractive, many would statistically still be out of luck. So my suggestion is that in addition to becoming interesting, learning about feminism, etc, they should also recognize the statistical disadvantage as the socioeconomic problem it is, and fight those broader socioeconomic conditions that are causing a massive number of career-obsessed dudes to be dropped into a handful of west coast cities. In the short term that could mean taking your nest egg and moving elsewhere. In the long term we should dismantle the system where a couple of companies collect massive, exploitative digital rents from the rest of the world, thereby necessitating the concentrated labor force within an inherently sexist and exploitative system (capitalism). I also recommend banding together to fight against tech companies' firing disproportionately non-male employees who protest against bad things they do. But that's just my two cents.
13" laptop fits in a handbag (it's A4 sized) and mine weighs 800 grams. I get 8-10 hours of real web development (with Docker, emacs, Firefox) on a single charge (I'm often without power for the entire day). Again... mobile :-) If you just want a luggable, then 4K can be a reasonable option -- especially if work is paying for it. However, for the extremely nomadic work style that I have 1080p, big battery is way better.
Flip your questions around. Might someone who isn't on a team, and doesn't need an audit trail, want something simpler?

Versioned files systems, including Apple's Time Machine and Dropbox's version history, have no extra UI to save versions. A small, short-lived project with at most a few collaborators (eg, working on a small scientific paper) might find those more useful than git or other VCS.
What stops you from backdating a document when you write it?
Was Gamergate the index case, or merely the first time people outside the intel community took notice?
1920x1080 on 14” and you don’t need scaling. That’s the reason why I go with that resolution. Scaling is still not perfect on Windows.
I don't have a single one of the 26M views of Porch Pirate vs. Glitter Bomb Trap 2.0 on youtube. To take your comment personally would be the equivalent of being mad people like Marvel movies.

As for ideas remotely viable in economic sense, that's the only way black swans are born. That's startups. They're remotely viable until they're entirely new engines of economic activity.

I'm not really sure what the rest of your comment is driving at.

I've worked both sides of privacy of both consumer and enterprise products and realized sometimes "good" products made by good people protect and help "bad" guys too. Things are not all one way or another.
To be fair, the Hackintosh community is pretty persistent. They added opcode emulation into the kernel, for example, to handle running on CPUs without the expected instructions (older AMD CPUs back in 10.8 or so). I wouldn't be surprised to see the cat-and-mouse continue.
Reading the symlink isn't racy.

But why is the os package doing a syscall to determine the executable's path in a hello world program?
I speculate that as corporations take over farming, their operations become more efficient providing greater yields per acre and for the amount of fuel consumed.

If true, this is net positive for humanity as a whole as more people can get fed and there are less carbon emissions doing so.

There is the problem that corporations tend to trend toward becoming sociopathic entities unless carefully managed, so it's not all win.
Agreed. The health results have been nothing short of a disaster and we're pressing further into unknown territory.
>The entire point was that as a small franchise owner he has to work 24/7 on the clock every day of the week

That's not the entire point of being a small franchise owner at all. He is allowed to have and has employees. He is supposed to run a schedule of them to keep the business staffed around the clock. That doesn't mean he has to personally be there for every single hour that it's open! How absurd.

>off-loading all of the risk and issues onto the owner.

There is no offloading of all risk and issues to the business owner. All risk and issues are already inherently the owners. That's what it means to be a business owner. It's how they earn their share of the venture. If things work out you can earn a lot more money than as an employee. If things don't then you crash and burn. That's what you signed up for when you created or bought a business.

>You don't see a problem with a company mandating that their employees work every single hour of every single day?

Sure I do. That's in no way what happened here though. He isn't the employee of 7 Eleven. He is a business owner who has leased their brand in exchange for agreeing to certain terms. He gets more customers because people trust that his business, as a 7 Eleven, will be open all of the time and in exchange he has to be open all of the time. And again, they don't want him personally there 24/7. Just his business open.
This is it exactly.

The more specific you get on the circuit the less flexible it is and the more bandwidth you get at a specific task.

The tradeoff is flexibility for application specific performance. CPUs can do hella stuff but they can’t do a specific thing faster than specialty hardware.
What if it automatically populated the list of your "close friends" by some algorithm that ranks your overall interaction with them. So you can't arbitrarily add or remove the friends. You could "game" it but only by actually interacting with the person. If they include sentiment analysis on the interactions, then you couldn't "game" it by spamming or being a cyber bully either. You'd actually have to be friendly towards that person.
Corn and soy isn't good for cows either but the resulting meat is a far cry from eating it directly
Personally I find meat unappealing and lab grown stuff would still be the same, it’s the same reason why I don’t agree with vegan alternatives that look, feel and taste like meat so much so that it mimics blood. Disgusting
Oh I'm sure the law will be written in such a way that it'll be super easy to comply. Barely an inconvenience!

It won't stifle communication on the internet at all. Trust us.
tezos is attempting to solve this by incorporating on-chain governance - its dPoS and has a code deployment mechanism with a long voting process (multimonth). They have done 2? upgrades now and quorum seems to be ok so hopefully they can keep up voting %

i still think the nano (formerly raiblocks) approach is cool - it scales by running parallel blockchains - each wallet is its own chain. tx's between chains are voted on weighted by % stake - dpos without lockups or slashing. this way its not a competition for space in a single ledger, its competition for voting bandwidth on the worst marginal node. a better tradeoff imho. downsides: the ledger also grows larger quicker than btc (because theres no 7tps limit so you can spam it)

no voting rewards or inflation - theres no on chain incentives for voting at all, but exchanges/pos need to run full nodes to validate ledger anyway and voting is trivial bandwidth. its elegant and the security model works but its hard to tell people about without coming across as a fanatic.
woah this is great. Thank you!
I'm not sure what you mean by "linear expansion". If you mean that the rate of change of the scale factor with respect to time never changes at all, that is not possible except in the edge case of a universe containing zero matter or energy and zero cosmological constant. (This edge case is often called the Milne universe.) Which is obviously not the universe we live in.

If you just mean "no dark energy", i.e., the model that most cosmologists used before the 1990s when accelerating expansion was discovered, it wouldn't change the universe's long term fate very much. It would still expand forever and become more and more diluted; the expansion would just slow down forever instead of accelerating forever. There would be some differences as far as our observable universe--we would not eventually become isolated from all other galaxies and unable to see them--but that's about all.
Cultured meat is supposedly getting pretty close, maybe the next few years, though maybe longer. https://www.memphismeats.com/ is one company doing it.

I'm vegetarian and I would definitely eat it, and most of my vegetarian friends would as well (assuming they figure out how to produce it without fetal bovine serum, which isn't vegetarian). But certainly everyone is different. I imagine some people will still have ethical qualms, and I know a number of vegetarians who don't like the impossible burger because they don't like the taste and texture of meat, so presumably they wouldn't like lab-grown meat either.
I'm omnivorous, but have found myself in Ubud eating a lot of vegan food before. You can have an incredible burger that isn't a beef burger, if you're appreciating it on its own merits, rather than comparing it to how close it is to a beef-burger -- love me a tempeh burger, for example. Nut cheese is great _on its own merits_ if you can free yourself from it needing to taste just like cheese, and I've had some great Cauliflower Wings.