skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We haven’t been told the race of the person who ordered the welding, the race of the judge who ordered that the nitrate stay on the port, the race of the people who put fireworks next to thousands of tons of highly explosive material in a dense city, etc...

Someone is trying to make Syrian refugees into Girardian black sheep. This wouldn't be the first time. The irony is that Bashar Al Assad used nitrate-filled barrel bombs to decimate the Syrian people, and he is supported by Hezbollah and Iran, which have a huge influence in Lebanon. Their influence cannot be separated from the incompetence and corruption that led to the blast.

Here's the really crazy part: some people are saying that a lot of the nitrate which was originally stored must have been smuggled out, because otherwise the blast would have been larger. If true, it wouldn't be surprising that the nitrate was smuggled for Assad to use in barrel bombs.

Here's a list of barrel bombs dropped by the Syrian Air Force. That's a lot of nitrate...: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Syrian_Civil_War_barre...
It blows my mind that the torch isn't fed with two hoses: One of propane-or-whatever, and one of CO2. If something goes badly, you literally move one finger and start extinguishing the fire.

Why on earth would you want the problem closer at-hand than the solution?
4G in the US often matches the parent's reference speeds, it depends on where you're at. People often make poor comparisons with the US, they context drop, comparing eg the speed across the entire US or a state versus their experience in one large city in a smaller more densely populated country (and then cherry picking based on a good outcome).

Cleveland, Minneapolis, Detroit, NYC, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Baltimore are the best in the US, averaging at or above 30mbps across the cities in question. SF, Philly, Atlanta, Kansas City were also competitive with what the parent referenced (eg the SF avg was 27mbps, meaning people are routinely seeing the parent's ~40mbps in Birmingham).

https://9to5mac.com/2019/05/31/state-mobile-network-speeds/
The author is complaining about explicit use of 'this' where it's not required. It's hardly incorrect, it's a preference. I'd personally pick explicit use of this if I cared enough be consistent about it. I've specifically been bitten by refactoring a local variable to the same name as a private variable on accident, and shadowing the private variable within the local scope. Using explicit this prevents that from happening.

Now, if you want an example of incorrect C#, I'm sure I can find something I've got running in production much worse than explicit this...

Posting from mobile, so formatting might have issues, but below I'm monkey patching a bug out of the immutable AST Entity Framework generates when using SQL Server's DateDiff function. On the one hand it's truly monstrous. On the other hand, it's saved hundreds of lines of code elsewhere in the application.

public static IQueryable<IGrouping<TKey, TSource>> GroupByDateDiff<TSource, TKey>(this IQueryable<TSource> source, Expression<Func<TSource, TKey>> keySelector) {
var body = (NewExpression)keySelector.Body;
foreach (var arg in body.Arguments) {
if (arg.NodeType == ExpressionType.Call) {
var callNode = (MethodCallExpression)arg;
if (callNode.Method.Name == "DateDiff") {
var dateDiffFirstArg = callNode.Arguments[0];
if (dateDiffFirstArg.NodeType == ExpressionType.Constant) {
//It was already a constant, so we're good.
}
else {
//HACK: This will break if the internal implementation of ReadOnlyCollection changes.
var listInfo = typeof(ReadOnlyCollection<Expression>).GetField("list", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance);
var list = (IList)listInfo.GetValue(callNode.Arguments);
if (dateDiffFirstArg.NodeType == ExpressionType.MemberAccess) {
list[0] = Expression.Constant((string)GetMemberValue((MemberExpression)dateDiffFirstArg));
}
else {
throw new ArgumentException($"{nameof(GroupByDateDiff)} was unable to parse the datePartArg argument to the DateDiff function.");
}
}
}
}
}
return source.GroupBy(keySelector);
}
Presumably it should have a ‘be’ in there before ‘vanity’ and thus mean something like, “in the bike shop business, turnover (number of bikes sold) isn’t as important as profit.” I imagine that profit margins are not exceptionally high when selling bikes.
Not really helpful to anyone looking for a book when many of these are dramatically different. About half of these I loved, and the other half I couldn't turn the first page. The three body problem and ancillary justice were both so hard to get into.
Happy to be downvoted on HN! I agree there is much conjecture and projections in the article but it does provide various facts about the peculiar route the materials took to get to Beirut, lots of other questions about lack of bureaucratic oversight etc etc...

I do feel there is a dangerous trend towards labelling investigative journalism as 'conspiracy theories' and 'insane'. Facts are always interesting, ideas about them often less so.
Yeah but to quote stackoverflow:

> Use $this to refer to the current object. Use self to refer to the current class. In other words, use $this->member for non-static members, use self::$member for static members.

This is a different way of doing things, yes, but it makes sense.
When you say black, do you mean skin color? Because that sounds unbelievable. If true, it would be a great story to elaborate on since that kind of self hate is rare.
Shopify employees can even expense Factorio :-)
Fire these pawns that don’t amount to a bishop or knight.

Workers council if not permitted is against company policy.

If they don’t have faith in management they can leave.

Ridiculous.
There is an anarchistic streak that has run through the US since before it was founded. Partly due to the realities of life on the ever-moving frontier which defined a large portion of the country's history, partly from the political pressures which caused many to emigrate in the first place, partly from fighting a bloody war for independence against an overbearing government. Mistrust of government has always been a defining feature of American politics.
Especially with COVID showing the downsides to living in urban areas.
Yes, and take home pay is post-taxes. Which are not insubstantial, considering both state and federal (and potentially city). 200k is about on par for getting by, if not a bit below market rate.
Give this man a dildo, or a new beer, whatever he needs dudes. Bingo. Good answer.
I can't lie - this was one of the harder ones for me to figure out. I eventually found the speed running community to be quite good at this, as rain9441 would stream his 100% runs (that is, getting all of the achievements in one go), and it gave me a good hint on how exactly LB was supposed to work - I kept on screwing up saving the necessary crafts for oil refineries, since the way the game was setup before you literally couldn't build oil refineries in the machines you had, so you had to save a certain amount of crafts for them.

But yeah, it's just a good balance of "wow how the !#( does this work" to "ohhh I'm so glad it works this way."
It's also tax deductible from the drivers earnings, so it's effectively cheaper.
But there's a procedure enabling you to do it. On iOS, there are procedures preventing you from doing it.
asyncio is meant to be "faster" for IO heavy tasks and low compute. The benchmark tests requests per second which is indeed directly testing what you expect it to test.

It's been discussed before but the outcome of that discussion (in the link you brought up) was divided. Highly highly divided. There was no conclusion and it is not clear whether the benchmark was flawed.

The discussion is also littered with people who don't understand why async is fast for only certain types of things and slow for others. It's also littered with assumptions that the test focused on compute rather than IO which is very very evidently not the case.
Entry-level FAANG engineers make significantly more than $120k in the Bay Area. Other than vacation time and job security, their lifestyle is comparable to any salaried person in Germany, and they save a lot more money.

There are a lot of reasons to live and work in Germany, but money is not one of them.
> over a decade to get fiber internet in the middle of Silicon Valley

This is not a physics problem. This is a local government problem.
>i think massive traumatic events also result in a kind of PTSD at the level of population, and unfortunately there is not much we know what to do with it.

I read The Body Keeps The Score and tried EMDR after that. It changed the memory of finding my dad's body after his suicide. It's a much less intense memory now because I remember it differently in a way that doesn't make me feel so abandoned.

Trauma can be healed.
You are correct about preventative chain replacement (which prolongs the life of the much more expensive cassettes and chain rings).

But, even at that, it's unlikely you need to replace the chain more than annually, unless you're riding many thousands of miles/year. When I was training 10+ hours/week, I would replace chains a few times/year, but now that I'm averaging about 8 hours across 3 bikes, it's pretty much an annual thing.

A simple wipe down of the chain after wet/dirty rides will also help a bunch - just run an old rag along the chain as you wheel it into the garage/shed/whatever.

Brake pads should be annual or less frequent unless you're riding in sand or gritty soil. Same for cables (shifter or brake).

Tires are all over - depends on the type of tire. Mountain bike tires rarely last a season - the knobs start to wear off and the rubber gets harder. I measure their life in hours, not months. Road tires should last a few thousand miles unless damaged. Even longer if you aren't worried about absolute traction.

Edit - you said you do about 8,000 km/year. Most of those maintenance items are probably fine to do annually. What I'd do... take the bike in for a basic service every quarter (clean the chain, adjust the brakes, check for wear). Then annually, do the chain replacement, tire replacement, etc.
> That undercurrent of "government is bad" doesn't come from nowhere. It comes largely from Fox News

It's reinforced by Fox News, but it's got far deeper roots. The current US political strain ascended with people like Barry Goldwater and Milton Friedman in the 60s (but has even older antecedents), culminating in Reagan and the modern Republican party in the 80s/90s. Fox News was founded 1996, and the closely-related right-wing talk radio universe only got its start about a decade earlier, I think.
Plenty of frameworks can spit out a list of all routes and some IDEs have tooling for that.
The history goes farther back than the Civil War, and I don’t see strong evidence that it’s always racial in its origins.

A lot of immigrants, both recent and historical, came to the USA because they didn’t like the government in their home country, Pilgrims as a key example, Falun Gong members leaving China as a more recent example.

The general distrust of a strong government is still part of American culture.
CCP Uses 'Friendship Groups' to Infiltrate and Divide Europe
There's discussion about this on the Microsoft Answers forum but no official response from Microsoft.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window...
Hey maybe this is one those where the encryption part of the code is messed up because some script kiddy copy pasted code and decryption is impossible...
Mostly true, but then -> https://thenextweb.com/shift/2020/08/03/this-chinese-ev-make...

Also, I'm not convinced the reason smaller cars don't come to the US is due to safety issues since they exist in Europe where there are similar safety standards.
Tweek was created in July 2020 and now it’s trending :-)
> Please feel free to add your data. I don't think it will change the estimate dramatically.

An airport trip for me is usually around $15 and 20min. That's in the same ballpark, but even if we get several people from HN to weigh in that doesn't paint a comprehensive picture or account for local variation.

> that assumes drivers are able to drive 100% of the time

> No, it doesn't. Reread my message.

That was my mistake. In my mind I was assuming it would take a car as long to get to me as it would for them to take me where I'm going -- exactly equaling your $30 estimate assuming 0 downtime. Regardless, both the 5min to get to you and 5min of waiting between rides are potential sources of error. Throwing an anecdote into the mix, I've never waited less than 6min for an uber, and I live in a major city. Answering that conclusively needs more data than just the two of us.

> it assumes all times of day are equally viable

> True. I've ignored surge pricing.

And slow periods where drivers wait an hour, late nights where a driver has a higher chance of getting stiffed and needing to clean vomit from their seats, periods just following surge pricing where many drivers have swarmed to an area but the actual available riders have plummeted, and so on.

Again, your ballpark numbers might actually be close, but extrapolating a single experience into an entire industry's unit economics is error-prone and IMO irresponsible.
A lot of words to convey that Zuck has a lot of power due to his ultimate oversight on content presented on Facebook. Interesting concept at least. Kind of scary.
I worked in a factory where some other employees seemed to view safety as something that is in direct opposition to masculinity. So that's another factor that contributes to it.
IDE0009: https://imgur.com/VowVqPI
Not that many decades. For example, I was an undergraduate in 1988-1992. I never had any student loans nor did my parents pay for my tuition. They made it a point of principle that we pay for our education ourselves by working part time, as they themselves had done. But that just isn't possible today. When I went to (public) university, the tuition was under $2000/semester. These days it is over $10000. Wages have gone up since then, but not 5X.
Sure, I'll believe it. I've not heard enough to the contrary to not believe it, and you make a good recommendation. But benevolence is transient and brittle. I don't want to depend on it.
Good point, address bar on the bottom may not even be the default. I think it makes great sense though. Looking forward to the current Firefox Beat replacing the main Firefox app so I can free up a lot of space on my phone... :)
Oddly, we don't hear about the other "monarch": Dorsey.
“The Edge of Chaos” (2017)
So you have per-row or perhaps per-user keys?

Do you back them up?
Untested for Covid-19, Nursing-Home Inspectors Move Through Facilities
https://archive.vn/6LNqf
I'm trying to be intentionally facetious in some sense, because it was claimed to be "trivial" to distinguish "general purpose compute" from not.

Additionally, your argument doesn't really hold water - my Roku TV's value is also almost entirely in end-user applications it runs, like Netflix & other streaming services. My point is that I really don't think distinguishing these two in a legal sense is going to be so easy as posters in this thread are claiming.
> The student debt problem is not really related to the college format. The format existed in earlier decades, exists in other countries

In what OECD countries do students go into crippling debt for their tertiary education? There are only two that I know of, one of which being the USA.
What field are you in?
As a Gecko developer, I would agree with this.
> Oily rags can ignite spontaneously.

That happened to a friend of mine. He was doing some woodworking and threw a linseed-oil soaked rag in the trash, then went to work. He returned home to his apartment on fire and a bunch of firetrucks blocking the driveway. Linseed oil apparently spontaneously combusts at 120 degrees and generates heat as it dries, so it can cause a fire in normal 70-80 degree weather.
Gah - I got so caught up in this thread. Finally something I know a fair bit about.

Yes, there is a baseline. But that's like saying dail-up is a baseline. Everyone might have it but it doesn't give people access to the modern web.

Geo, can be great in some services but it's again not a blanket. They have broad beams but they're moving to spot beams instead and those beams don't move.

This constellation is really going to be the same bandwidth capacity across the globe within a given altitude band. Which is awesome.
Yes, it is an assumption. Unfortunately, this situation is unprecedented, so everything we do has to be an educated guess. I would also note that you followed it up with an assumption of your own ;)

It is well established that physical distancing limits the spread of virus transmitted via respiratory droplets. If you refute that, I would require significant peer-reviewed literature on your side. https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/inf...

It is also irrefutable that contracting COVID-19 carries risk - especially for high-risk individuals with comorbidities (yes, even young people)

Combined, I don't see how you can come up with a hypothesis where getting people together would somehow be equally as safe as keeping people apart.

Again, this is just one aspect that policy makers have to consider. There is also the economy, mental health, etc. I think having those discussions is very interesting - how much should we protect our health vs our way of life? There are very valid arguments against continuing the shut-down.

But acknowledging that social practices directly impact virus transmission is a necessary step to have meaningful discussion.
Astonishingly there is a proposal to store many times more ammonium nitrate next to a population center in Australia and it looks to be going ahead.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/lebanon-blast-alarms-nsw-res...
This is definitely something that should be fixed by the vendor, but as a (Firefox) user if you want a quick fix you can use https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js
They aren't using a full standard brick, just slivers of them with these dimensions:

1 cm × 0.5 cm × 0.28 cm

Does your math change if you're basing it off these 0.25 gram slivers of brick?
Century link quotes me about $5K / mile of copper (I assume). But they will only give me dial tone, not internet, because their equipment is saturated (rural Montana).
Are any of their langauges a good fit for something like Servo? I haven't used C# a huge amount but everytime I do I find myself being more productive than writing C++ but ultimately slightly worried about performance and correctness (the biggest thing that stood out is the absolutely awful immutability in C#)
The St Georges hospital is doing God's work as are you. A wonderful institution that's stood there for 100+ years and will keep standing for 100+ more. Thank you for sharing your story and the links.
excuse my naivete, but do black holes help reduce entropy by capturing/engulfing things around them? Is that the cycle how universe keeps creating and recreating itself?
How to make money online as a teenager
Hydroxychloroquine is safe.

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/resources/pdf/fsp/drugs/Hydroxyc...
Jason Gunthorpe
Nobody can see your 16 core Ryzen
>I don't think this article is saying that COVID is changing anything

?

>Pandemics and plagues have a way of shifting the course of history, and not always in a manner immediately evident to the survivors. In the 14th Century, the Black Death killed close to half of Europe’s population. A scarcity of labor led to increased wages. Rising expectations culminated in the Peasants Revolt of 1381, an inflection point that marked the beginning of the end of the feudal order that had dominated medieval Europe for a thousand years.

>The COVID pandemic will be remembered as such a moment in history, a seminal event whose significance will unfold only in the wake of the crisis. It will mark this era much as the 1914 assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the stock market crash of 1929, and the 1933 ascent of Adolf Hitler became fundamental benchmarks of the last century, all harbingers of greater and more consequential outcomes.
Is anyone concerned about the effect this has on the night sky and astronomical observation?

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/starlink-sa...
Your example of monocrystalline silicon at (almost) 0 Kelvin has actually higher entropy than your example of saltwater.
Just curious about how you technically do the export to MP4. Can you share any details? Do you play it back in real time and record it, or do you have a way of exporting it quicker than real time?? What technical approach do you use if you don't mind me asking? Thanks!
If curious see also

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9788253

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4771987
The problem lies in your last point. Any PHP+Apache app, no matter how bad the programming practices, has the property that every request gets a blank slate except for explicit database connection. In most other stacks it is way too easy to add a singleton class or a global variable and break that guarantee.

That said, I'll gladly take the guarantees of a type checker in exchange for giving up the guarantees of statelessness. It would be nice if there were a stack that could give me both.
To be honest, I perceive the main problems with the present web stack to not be on the consuming developer's end - writing JSX & CSS is honestly a pretty decent representation of what HTML/CSS/JS can actually combine to be. Plus modern JS is a half-decent language, even more so when TypeScript is used.

I perceive the main problem to be how hard it is on the implementing developer's side - only megacorps can make functional web browsers. That's a huge problem.
Honestly no. I really want to like Civ 6 but it's such a departure from earlier installments that I can't see myself pouring much more time into it. It's a fundamental design change where you're almost forced to play the same in a certain way that I just really don't like, combined with lots of nitpicky problems that earlier installments just didn't have due to being better balanced and better designed. (I think my comment on Twitter still stands - it feels like 2K really Sims 4'd this game right up.)

Played Satisfactory and couldn't get into it - it's just worse Factorio, capitalizing on the popularity of that game with good 3D assets but trading it for terrible planning, crafting and perspective.

I've considered using some of my funemployment time to write one of these kinds of games as I think I have a unique angle that hasn't been explored to death as of recently, but haven't committed to it.
Sorry but if you can't teach non technical users new things they shouldn't be 100 meters near a computer.

It will result in even more technical dept and people with over confidence thinking that they know what they are doing.

We don't need to idiot proof the world. We need to educate the idiots.
On satellite right now. I'm getting ~600ms latency :(
Las Vegas, Nevada!

- super cheap cost-of-living

- no state income taxes

- cheapest flights in the US

- no natural disasters

- close to Los Angeles (where all my friends/family live)

- no grafitti or litter in most places

- reasonable traffic

- plenty of things to do (shows, Red Rock, conferences)

- friends from across the US will visit once or twice per year

- lots of open space

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But I guess the REAL reason I moved is because I wanted a chance to reinvent myself. My friends weren't helping me grow, I developed some terrible habits, I felt "trapped", etc.. Changing cities gives me another chance to be intentional about my time, career, and relationships.

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If there are any other current/future Vegas locals out there, I'd love to meet you! Feel free to reach out with an email or DM.